unintentional anticlimax, i.e. an unintentional abrupt lapse from growing intensity [of importance or dramatic tension in the narrative], with the effect of disappointed expectation or deflated suspense [for the audience]. (Baldick, 2001, p. 13) Also see anticlimax
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