I've Been Expecting You

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The title character observes Bond sneaking into her lair on her CCTV cameras, right up to the moment he opens the door to her boudoir.

was expecting you – to entertain me Ah, Mr Bond. I was expecting you – to entertain me

When he hears the door open he says, without looking, "And the third player in our little drama arrives at last," implying he knew it was Sheridan and that he'd been expecting him to show up eventually. Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles usually plays this role in all incarnations of the show, as he is very wise and skilled. This is perhaps best shown in the Content Deputy videos, which is essentially Ian sitting back and enjoying Leafy and RiceGum displaying the exact character flaws he criticized them for in their attempts to save face.He'll use his abilities to anticipate others sometimes as part of his own greater plans and sometimes just to mess with others. In Vision of the Future, he is casually lingering in the hangar as Han and Lando almost-but-don't escape from the Imperial capital of Bastion unscathed. No matter how hard another character tries, they cannot manage to sneak up on or get past the Anticipator.

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Mericet was in fact hiding as a gargoyle, tells Pteppic where to go next (involving an obstacle course worthy of Assassin's Creed), and somehow shows up there before Pteppic. As stated in multiple real-life interviews, this one-liner has become one of the main reasons that the real life MI6 would consider James Bond to be a terrible spy, because "no matter where he goes, he's expected". Of course, it's not really him, and he didn't really figure out their docking bay the way he said he did, but it's the look of the thing. The Anticipator is a character who (whether villain or hero) can somehow sense the presence, or, without fail, await the supposed-to-be-a-secret arrival of another character.Years of chasing Lupin III, the world's greatest thief and Master of Disguise, has shaped Inspector Zenigata into this.

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What makes a Content Cop so devastating is Ian's ability to know exactly how his subjects will respond. In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond drops into Willard Whyte's penthouse suite and, having been observed by Blofeld, is greeted by Willard Whyte (actually Blofeld with a disguised voice) with the words, 'Howdy. In Dragon Age: Origins, when the party of new Grey Warden initiates comes to her house to retrieve some Binding Ancient Treaties, the hermit witch Flemeth mentions that "she's been expecting them.The current film-makers are wantonly expending emotional capital the vast majority of which was earned by other people. Everything else is subject to change: his appearance, accent, the extent and nature of his misogyny, his choice of gun, his favourite car. She (and the other Merriwicks) have some kind of magical ability to always sense whenever someone's around, and knows when someone is going to open the door—and who it is—before they even knock. Then in their final confrontation Bond and Solitaire (who has defected to Bond's side) enter his underground base to find Kananga waiting for them, as his guards found Bond's wetsuit where he hid it after swimming into the Island Base. Communication has Lynette, Captain of the First Aerial Company, who is able to predict any plan and formation enemy airships take on and appropriately come up with an counter against them.