Expected
Expected adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.
Something else is an antonym for expected.
Something else
Both terms in one sentence
- Cage apparently expected him to say something else, so this is Played for Laughs, but also Mood Whiplash.
Source: Dying Declaration of Hate -
Compare Last-Second Word Swap, in which the expected curse is avoided by saying something else, rather than being cut off.
Source: Curse Cut Short -
The only expected reason that an EAN would be issued would involve either nuclear weapons, alien attack, or something else that would count as Apocalypse How.
Source: Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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