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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Say, Tommy, curious about your use of the term womp womp moments. You wrote "The first ten minutes had two or three womp womp-moments and the rest was silly and goofy." I googled womp womp moments, and various sources say it's from the long time famous "awww, you lose" trombone sound, and means something sad, or bad happened. Are you using it in a different way? Like the way you used it in that sentence sounds like you mean in the first 10mins there were some "good things" that happened. I know things change. I saw it has a used in the online game Fortnite too -- looking at the video, might be used after fragging a guy, which would work with the "aww, you lose" traditional usage. thanks!
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Well, the way I understood it up until now is some form of lameness/failure. In this case, a foreshadowing line so on the nose and obvious that it becomes lame. Example: Terminator 3. A few minutes in, Clare Danes' character has the line "I hate machines". Womp womp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrln8zrAlVI
In the case of Hellraiser III, the main character/reporter being frustrated about a boring job and then hearing something like "the story of your life may be closer than you think".