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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[Digimon]]'':
** In episode 30 of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' which aired in 1999, Jou makes references to a supposed terrorist bombing in the street outside where the Chosen Children all once lived, a coverup story for [[Kaiju|the events]] of the [[Pilot Movie]]. To add salt to the wound, in the dub he claims: "It was one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time!"
** In episode 32 of ''Digimon Adventure'', the Chosen Children fought DeathMeramon on [[Tokyo Tower]], whose sheer heat output caused the top of the tower to bend and warp. Twelve years later, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake actually physically bent Tokyo Tower's top spire.
** In episode 48 of ''Digimon Adventure'', Mugendramon ordered a bombing attack on the entirety of a Digital World city, the first scene of which shown was the destruction of a pair of skyscrapers. The city in the Digital World was a pastiche of several cities from around over the world, so a simulacrum of the World Trade Center ''may have been'' the towers in question. That episode hasn't been aired in reruns in some time.
** In ''[[Digimon Tamers]],'' Tokyo's City Hall was damaged by an explosion midway up its length caused by a digimon attack. The building is a twin tower, and the episode was aired on the '''''9th''' of September of 2001''. The dub understandably edited the explosions when it aired in the USA in december of the same year.
** Many [[Monster of the Week]] Digimon in ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' were good Digimon in prior series. Some fans were horrified about old favorites getting creamed by the new heroes.
** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' may well have outdone all of the above: in episode 30, Taiki and Shoutmon have returned to Tokyo only to find that Tactimon is on the rampage, obliterating buildings and even destroying a bridge. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck just ''three days later''.
* In one of the first-season episodes of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', much fun is made of so-called "card crushes", [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] of a duelist towards a Duel Monsters card. Then came Yubel in Season 3...
** Similarly, a series of American commercials for the card game involving duelists playing the game amongst the rubble of an [[After the End]] nuclear wasteland, implying that their dueling devastated the planet. Creepy, but hey, [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]], right? [[Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie|Tell that to Paradox]] and the [[Wham! Episode|Yliaster Trio]]...
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** The best part is that the collision with the Swordfish is said to have knocked off some of the heat tiles, making reentry dangerous. Too bad the people who made the space shuttles didn't watch Cowboy Bebop, eh? Or maybe they just trusted it because of it...
* In one chapter of [[Gravitation]], after Shuichi and Hiro get into a fight at school, Shuichi goes to Yuki's house to get cleaned up so his mom wouldn't see him all bloody. Yuki jokingly asks if Shuichi got gangbanged in gym class. A few chapters later, Shuichi actually does get gang raped.
** Perhaps an even bigger and worse one is much of volume 9 in the manga. Volume 9 is about Shuichi being Shanghaied to New York to perform for a new record label. During one of the last major climaxes, as Shuichi and company flee from his new boss, Reiji, in order to return to Japan, part of New York City gets the ever-loving crap blown out of it. Later, though it's on a plane headed for Japan, hi-jinks once again ensue, including K busting into the cockpit and shooting (with non-lethal rounds) and bounding the pilots and taking control of the plane. Volume 9 was released in Japan on January 2000, over a year before 9/11. This is made even more jarring when the reader is treated to a nice shot of the New York skyline, which includes the World Trade Center, when Shuichi first arrives to New York City.
* An episode of ''[[Rozen Maiden]] Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". {{spoiler|Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode}}.
* The manga ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' started in 2001, before the September 11 attacks, an important part of the backstory is the Ishbal/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Ishval]] rebellion, a war in which the Ishballans are tricked into rebelling against the Amestrian government. This gets eerie when it's stated that the war lasted seven years due to military incompetence, until the Amestrian government got tired of the war and just decided to wipe Ishbal off the map. Years later, the American government got locked into the Iraq War, a war that has lasted several years primarily due to incompetence.
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* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". {{spoiler|Hughes gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed}}.
** A [[Running Gag]] in the series is [[Playing with Fire|Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. {{spoiler|In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[Sand in My Eyes|"It's raining..."]]}}
** An [[In-Universe]] example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his [[Shapeshifting]]; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected [[One-Winged Angel]], he {{spoiler|looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the [[Big Bad]] Dante.}}
*** Note: That last example is anime-only. The manga vs. of Envy's true form might be an FAM compared to the anime, though.
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the [[Genre Savvy|soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home]] [[Fatal Family Photo|always end up dying]]. {{spoiler|You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.}}
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' had a whole movie about a pair of twin towers being destroyed... that hit cinemas in April 2001. The conspiracy theorists make this one worse: in the movie, the towers were destroyed by a controlled explosion by an undercover organisation - which happens to include evil politicians - that pretty much get away clean.
** One case in the late '90s involved a girl meeting people in an online group, arranging to meet up with them in person, not knowing any of them except online, finding out that some of the 'men' in the group were actually female and vice versa, then becoming trapped overnight with these strangers. :::shudder:::
** Detective Conan has a massive Funny Aneurysm with the fifteenth movie. First, they released a trailer that showed a massive amount of water bearing down on a helpless village and violently tearing away a bridge. Then, a few days later, the 2011 earthquake happened. [[Too Soon|The version on the official website and promotional images were quickly edited.]] Then a month after the earthquake the movie was released, and it turned out that no one actually died due to the heroic actions of Conan, giving the whole thing a feel of tragic irony.
* Throughout ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[Wind Up Key|wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[The Immodest Orgasm|she screams in pleasure]])... Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, {{spoiler|Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.}} This sounds funny until you realize that {{spoiler|this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[Squick|distant descendant]]''.}}
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** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna menages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[Human Popsicle|frozen solid]] in [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c182/13.html return], and then in chapter 284 we see {{spoiler|that in her past she was sealed in some kind of [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/7.html crystal]. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)}}
** The Negi/Fate [[Serious Business]] between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see {{spoiler|Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[Tear Jerker|its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[Tragic Keepsake|"I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]}}
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. {{spoiler|A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.}}
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[Genre Savvy|how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. {{spoiler|In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate}}.
* In ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Gekiganger 3]]'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while {{spoiler|going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack}}, and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
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** The events of the ending of "Battle aboard the St. Anne" and the beginning of "Pokemon Shipwrecked" have the St. Anne sinking, the captain making the morally dubious decision of leaving the passengers on the boat to sink, as well as the believed deaths of Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, and James. These events end up becoming significantly harsher for Italian fans recently, when the Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy in a very similar manner to the St. Anne, not to mention five confirmed deaths onboard the ship as well as the arrest of the captain for its sinking. It's unknown if this will affect their being reaired by reruns.
** Similar to the above, the Battle Subway two-parter in Best Wishes consisting of "Crisis From The Underground Up" and "Battle for the Underground" will be uncomfortable for Russian audiences after the events of the April 2011 Minsk Metro bombing.
* An early chapter of the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - {{spoiler|her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi Vid]]'', four years later.}}
* In the [[Freaky Friday Flip]] episode of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that {{spoiler|the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that}}.
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*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking [[Moment of Awesome]]. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earth quakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. Kind of hard to watch his [[Awesome Moments]] now....
** Several of the main characters' traits, such as Usopp's lying, Nami's obsession with money, and even Brook's eccentric nature are used for comic effect. However, each crew member eventually gets a flashback, many of which reveal tragic origins for these traits. For the most part, though, this doesn't stop them from being funny afterwards.
* Early on in the ''[[
** Also, a critic commented that {{spoiler|Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set}}. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' {{spoiler|dead}} at the time.
* Japanese television-personality (and [[Bleached Underpants|ex-pornstar)]] Ai Ijima was given her own manga series, titled ''[[Time Traveller Ai]]''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''[[Waterworld]]''-type future, where [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|she met a descendant of hers.]] Ai Ijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
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* The ending of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]''... good Lord. A terrorist attack decimates North America due to interference from a militarist faction within the government, who then use the attack as a justification to expand their influence & start another war. And this was made in the early 1990s!
* In episode 11 of ''[[AIR]]'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to literally build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, {{spoiler|Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[Mercy Kill]].}} This line may also offer a bit of [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], no pun intended, given [[Ho Yay|Tsume and Toboe's later interactions...]] {{spoiler|Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.}}
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', one of the [[Running Gag|Running Gags]] is that, [[It Got Worse|as the icing on the post-apocalyptic cake]], America's going through a recession.
** Then there's Misato joking to Ritsuko in one of the first episodes that she's "not going to put the moves on Shinji". {{spoiler|Considering her "adult kiss" to him in ''End of Evangelion'', right before she dies, well...}} This has been nicknamed the "irony bomb" by parts of the fandom.
** {{spoiler|The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[Incest Is Relative|partial clone of his mother]].}}
*** {{spoiler|The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.}}
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** In Rebuild 2.0, Sahaquiel explodes into a ''tsunami'' of blood. Yes, a tsunami. This is uncomfortable to watch due to the [[wikipedia:2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami|2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]].
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]] occurs later on in the answer arc, where {{spoiler|she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates}}.
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an [[Imagine Spot]] with a [[Super-Deformed|chibi]] Shion beating a [[Super-Deformed|chibi]] Mion with a whip. {{spoiler|The [[Imagine Spot]] wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother}} with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" {{spoiler|becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.}}
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* In episode 6 of ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'', Nagakura Shinpachi accuses Vice-captain Yamanami of cheating during a footrace by turning abaci into rollerskates, and demands (jokingly) that he commit [[seppuku]]. {{spoiler|Yamanami is [[Doomed by Canon|Doomed by History]] to end his Shinsengumi career by committing seppuku.}}
** Similarly, in an early episode of the anime, Okita walks in on Hijikata making medicine, and jokingly states that no one will have to worry about catching colds. {{spoiler|Okita will later die of tuberculosis. }}
* Dio in ''[[
* In the early episodes of [[Nana]], Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, {{spoiler|cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,}} complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. {{spoiler|Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.}}
* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
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* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that {{spoiler|Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin}} would be the first to die. [[Deadly Closing Credits|Then episode 11 rolled around]]...{{spoiler|[[Subverted|Which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch] of a [[Cliff Hanger]]}}.
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that {{spoiler|it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.}}
* In [[
* ''[[Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer|Gundam 00 a Wakening of The Trailblazer]]'' has the ELS, [[Starfish Aliens]] whose biology is based on metal compounds rather than carbon. In 2011 [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-lifelike-cells-are-made-of-metal.html it was proven that metal oxides can function as basis for life].
* ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'s'' ED, in which {{spoiler|Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily}} becomes a lot harder to watch after {{spoiler|Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.}}
** Also, seeing the beautiful {{spoiler|Yuri}} in a {{spoiler|princess-like pose and garb}} in the first OP is harsher when {{spoiler|you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful"... via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. }}
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When {{spoiler|little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler}}, it's really freaking sad.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, creator of [[Black Butler]], [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* Part 6 of Hentai manga [[Secret Deep Plot]] involves the main characters going to a beach north of Tokyo which is deserted due to everyone's worries about the nearby [[wikipedia:Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|nuclear power plant]]. Gyaa.
* During episode 4 of [[Lucky Star]], there's a scene where Kagami, Tsukasa, and Konata are talking about kidnappings that had been going on. At the end of the scene, Kagami tells her friends that if they ever did anything horrible, she'd tell anyone who asked that she knew all along that they'd do something like that. Come the horror fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5246822/1/Ahoge Ahoge], in which Tsukasa kills Konata with an ax. Kagami then spends the next few days holed up in her room (obviously speaking to no one), before [[Driven to Suicide|hanging herself with the garden hose]].
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* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku sounds awfully racist in retrospect.
** As befitting his [[Laughably Evil|goofy nature]], Murasaki of the Red Ribbon Army got an undignified death when Goku accidentally threw a bomb on his face. Japanese fans might not find it as funny anymore with [[Takeshi Aono|his voice actor]] now passed away...
* In the [http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2203/grab02554vg5.png opening shot] of ''[[Blassreiter]]'' episode 2 one of the headlines in the (German language) newspaper reads "[[wikipedia:Knut
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