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* In [[Albert Camus]]' ''[[The Plague (Literature)|The Plague]]'', Tarrou says, "In fact one might go farther; have you ever heard of a man with cancer being killed in an auto smash?" Camus had a life-long struggle with Tuberculosis. He died in a car crash.

* An [[In Universe]] one in the original ''[[Starship Troopers (Literature)|Starship Troopers]]'' novel: Johnnie Rico and his campmates had been joking about the 31 capital offenses in the Terran military, which they called "crash landings". When it came out that one of his comrades was facing a possible crash landing, he finds the jokes of old a lot less funny.

* In a case of either this or [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], depending on how you handle your childhood memories being perverted): In 1971, Roger Hargreaves started the ''Mr. Men'' book series, the third of which was titled "Mr. Happy". The titular character was a very happy little yellow man. Ten years later, guess what [[Robin Williams]] decided to nickname his penis? (And his action [[I Call Him Mister Happy|became a]] [[Trope Namer]].)

* In a case of either this or [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], depending on how you handle your childhood memories being perverted): In 1971, Roger Hargreaves started the ''Mr. Men'' book series, the third of which was titled "Mr. Happy". The titular character was a very happy little yellow man. Ten years later, guess what [[Robin Williams]] decided to nickname his penis? (And his action [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"|became a]] [[Trope Namer]].)

* The last word that Will Rogers wrote before he died was the word "death".

* At the end of Emily Neville's ''It's Like This, Cat'', troubled college drop-out Tom decides to enlist in the Army for three years as a way of getting his life back on track, finding stability and, with some luck, making money to continue his education and marry his girlfriend. He even speculates that he'd be drafted in a year or two, anyway, but seems very convinced, and no one contradicts this, that he can be stationed in New York throughout his three years of service. Well, the book was published in 1963, and guess what happened in 1965...

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* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', the entire world ends up socialist by the novel's end. Two of the first countries to elect socialist leaders are Guatemala and Chile. The US government completely supports this. Much fun is had at the expense of the Chilean ambassador and his wife, who are referred to as a pimp and a prostitute and given filthy habits. Over a decade after the book's publication, Salvador Allende became president of Chile, and appointed the poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda as an ambassador. Neruda died an agonizing death from cancer a few days after Allende's US-backed murder and replacement by the fascist Augusto Pinochet. Thousands would be killed, and Rand's teachings would shape Pinochet's economic policy for years.

* ''[[Operation Chaos]]'' opens in the midst of [[World War II]], in which the "Moslems" invaded America.

** Moslems is more a case of [[Spell My Name With an S]], unless you're talking about the [[Hurricane of Puns|Nation of Islam, who claim the "O...E" stands for "Old English"]].

** Moslems is more a case of [[Spell My Name With an "S"]], unless you're talking about the [[Hurricane of Puns|Nation of Islam, who claim the "O...E" stands for "Old English"]].

* One edition of ''Uncle John's Bathroom Reader'' includes an article with a list of strange unofficial holidays. One of them is "No News Is Good News Day". Date: September 11. At first you might think it's just a bit of tasteless [[Black Comedy]]. But the copyright date is 2000.

** In another edition, published in 2003, there's an article on humourous church bulletins. One of them is "Visitors are asked to stay seated until the end of the recession." Depending on your point of view, that's either this or [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].

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* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': In one of Bran's chapters in the first book, he remarks that "Theon Greyjoy had once commented that [[Dumb Muscle|Hodor did not know much]], but no one could doubt [[Verbal Tic Name|he knew his name]]." The line appears to just be using Theon's [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]] to launch a humorous tidbit from Old Nan that his real name isn't even Hodor, it's Walder. In the fifth book, {{spoiler|after Theon is tortured into insanity, he's forced to take on the name Reek. He can't even bear to think the name Theon until well into the novel, and doesn't say it aloud until his very last line.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|Theon}}: [[Madness Mantra|You have to know your]] ''[[Madness Mantra|name.]]''}}

* ''[[Someone ~~Elses~~ War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]'': [[Friend to All Children|Lieutenant Panga]] asks the [[Five Man Band]] what they would like to be when they grow up. {{spoiler|[[The Heart|Otto's]] reply is, "Not dead." He dies in the very next chapter.}}

* ''[[Someone Else's War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]'': [[Friend to All Children|Lieutenant Panga]] asks the [[Five-Man Band]] what they would like to be when they grow up. {{spoiler|[[The Heart|Otto's]] reply is, "Not dead." He dies in the very next chapter.}}