Make for and Prevent

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Make for verb - Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

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Prevent is an antonym for make for in cause topic.

Prevent verb - To keep from happening by taking action in advance.

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Make for is an antonym for prevent.

This however doesn't prevent them from falling victim to Genre Tropes (or that they fall into the tropes as part of a fourth wall bending realisation that they have to do so to have a story), but does make for some great Lampshade Hanging afterwards.

Source: Genre Savvy / Western Animation

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