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* An ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' strip involved a character who is [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|obviously not Steve Irwin]] not dying from a fatal snakebite because [[Death Takes a Holiday|Death was on strike]]. It had the annotation, "Oh come on. You all knew Steve wouldn't die."
** Even "better", the strip in question came out on ''the exact day of Irwin's death'' (although it was composed some three weeks before). This is [[Lampshading|pointed out]] in the annotation.
* A demon hunter in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' named Steve Uozin was an obvious [[Captain Ersatz]] of Steve Irwin... until he was [https://web.archive.org/web/20141231051710/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050219 stabbed through the torso] in February of 2005. (By a demon rather than a stingray, but still...)
** Five years before that, during a Halloween special, he had been [https://web.archive.org/web/20141231052300/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001031 stabbed in the heart] by a demon's spear. A demon spear that was referred to as a 'squid-on-a-stick', no less...
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' has [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/51 this] fairly early strip depicting what would happen if Fred worked without Rodney, or vice-versa. Two years later, Rodney stopped contributing to the comic; the old joke strip turned out to be, in many ways, pretty accurate.
* ''[[1/0]]'' declared "war" on another webcomic on September 11th of 2000.
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** A rare case of averting this trope: In the print edition of the first run of comics, there's a previously-omitted comic during the battle with Xykon in which Vaarsuvius, paralyzed by a ghasts' touch, sits helplessly while a trio of demon roaches sits on his/her head and crack wise. Why was it omitted from the online comic? Because the morning that it was scheduled to be posted, Christopher Reeve died. The author (wisely) pulled it, only letting it see the light of day as a "bonus strip" over a year later.
* A ''[[Clan of the Cats]]'' strip from the very first storyline has Chelsea asking her mother about the "[[Involuntary Transformation|changes]]" she's going through. Her mother is convinced she's [[Coming Out Story|coming out]] to her. Three years later, she realizes her bisexuality (and her crush on her best friend) when she's seduced away from her boyfriend by a child-killing [[Lesbian Vampire]], complicit in her feeding off a hairdresser and [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectured]] into nearly killing an old woman in cold blood, [[Shoot the Dog|ultimately forced to kill her lover]], and nearly [[Driven to Suicide]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171012133328/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-06-07 This] ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' strip features Greg ''complaining'' about his magic being called a "super power". A few years later, there would be some agreement on that point.
* [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080226.html This] ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' strip, which was posted a while before the unfortunately confirmed rumors of [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'s cancellation started circulating.
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* Back in 1999, ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' published a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/03/ strip] about ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'', which [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm|became funnier]] with each year of the game's [[Vaporware|famously long]] development (which, back then, had only been over two years.) Almost a decade later, its developer [http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=58519 shut down]{{Dead link}}.
** Especially good because the strip more-or-less illustrated ''why'' ''[[Duke Nukem]] Forever'' didn't come out when it was supposed to, long before anyone outside the production company knew. The company just kept playing around instead of delivering the ''promised'' game to a distributor (the distributor changed midway); by the time they took the deadline seriously (Take-Two was less patient than the previous distributor), they were no longer able to get the money to complete it.
*** Of course, now that the game is ''actually'' coming out ([http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/duke-nukem-pax/ and debuted at PAX no less!]), the strip has changed to a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
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* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]] '', [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-01-21 this strip] became less funny when Brad failed to survive a similar incident because of his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to prevent civilian casualties on the ground.
* ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'': An exorcist mentions going to a horrible alternate dimension -- "[[In a World|a world]] where George Bush is reelected in 2004." [[Your Mileage May Vary|Probably less unfunny-in-hindsight if you like George Bush]]-- [[Flame Bait|and we'll say no more about it]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090303221113/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=20&issue=11 This] strip of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' revealing the "real Michael Jackson" to be in {{spoiler|Dracula's moon base}} has different connotations now that the 'fake' MJ is dead.
* [[Girly]]. {{spoiler|Literally ''everything'' the two heroines go through becomes one big moment when its revealed that it was all pre-set up by the villains to prepare one of the heroines to lead their uprising.}}
* Most readers of ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'' play ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. After the recent WAR! propaganda contest on the [http://www.teamfortress.com/ official TF2 blog], the [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3391 runner-ups] were announced, and many of them were hilarious, including [http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/runners-up/sticky_bomb_tragedies.jpg this one.] {{spoiler|1=Although, the bottom-left poster isn't quite as funny after reading [http://tf2.skyscrapersoup.com/?p=202 page 86]}} ...Yeah.
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**** Gamzee's Hero Mode shot. A CMoA until it was remade into {{spoiler|Murder Mode}}. The original is just as disturbing by association now.
**** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piaQUbYZOD4 This video] ''used'' to be cute and funny. Now just try and watch it without wincing, now that we know what the "double rainbow" actually refers to.
*** At first, [
*** Lets Just say that pretty much any joke relating to Gamzee before he {{spoiler|went crazy and started killing everyone}} a funny aneurysm moment.
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004943 This] strip made Rose's "empty suicide attempt" in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002288 this] flash seem much less funny. The strip immediately following it mitigated this somewhat.
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'''Young Bruce Wayne''': I'm Death! And you're a dead man, Daddy! }}
* [http://xkcd.com/527/ XKCD] pulls a joke about Steve Jobs losing weight. It turns out his weight loss was due to cancer which proved fatal.
* A relatively minor example, which could become major, in ''[[Wondermark]]'': [http://wondermark.com/775/ this strip] made fun of an internet overuser, and joked about what she would do if the Internet vanished. Less than two months later, the strip's website and several of the sites listed in the comic joined [https://web.archive.org/web/20120519120222/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stop_sopa_what_a_blacked_out_internet_looks_like.php a large-scale Internet blackout in protest of SOPA], a bill that could cause many sites to be [[Banned in China|blacked out permanently.]]
* ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' has/had a [[Running Gag]] about [[Labyrinth|Jareth]] failing to do good despite his intentions and efforts... after the [[Wham! Episode|Dark!Jareth arc]] that got some pretty heavy subtext. {{spoiler|As a fictional character he can't defy the story and his role in it, doesn't matter how desperately he may try.}}
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'', by [[Black Comedy|its very nature]], has this possibility open half of the time. But some strips only become better with time - like [http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-02-16 this].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In September of 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140602030828/http://cdn-www.cracked.com/phpimages/photoshop/1/8/8/3188.jpg?v=1 This image], by [http://www.cracked.com/ Cracked.com] member nicknosh, came 25th in a Photoshop contest based on the theme "If Video Games Were Realistic". Less than a year later, Rock Band 3's "Pro Mode" was revealed, which uses a controller that has many buttons lined up with all the complexity implied by the image, and one that also works as a real guitar.
* In the third edition of "Things I Am not Allowed to Do at the ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]''" was the line "I will not unleash [[Star Trek: Voyager|macroviruses]] in HQ". Three guesses (and the first two don't count) what the League of Mary Sue Factories unleashed in Headquarters over a year later, with massive loss of life.
* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/212859 Cancer's Passion]'', a short cartoon on [[Newgrounds]], features a hotdog vendor whose mother is in a cancer clinic, with her death at the end serving as part of the punchline. The hotdog vendor's voice actor lost his real life mother to leukemia less than two years after the cartoon was made.
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*** Particularly awkward is the SGC 2010 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2gLG_b9zOI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Q&A Panel] where he informs the crowd that "there would be no website without Scarlett", joking that he needs to keep her happy because "if she gets mad, everything's goin' down!" After the breakup (despite there being no deliberate sabotage on Scarlett's part), the site nearly ''did'' go down: Noah fell into a bout of deep depression, and announced that he wasn't in the frame of mind to produce any new videos in the foreseeable future; there was no new content on the site for nearly three months afterwards, during which he contemplated leaving internet reviewing to focus on a career in acting.
** Spoony's review of ''The Lords of Magick'' ends with [[Randy Savage|Macho Man Randy Savage]] bursting into his room ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and getting blown up by the land mines Spoony set. A week after the review was released, Randy Savage died. Unfortunate timing.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100225051244/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30940 This] article at [[The Onion]], posted four years before the fact, is about the ''real'' Michael Jackson whom everyone loved in [[The Eighties]] -- as opposed to the [[Uncanny Valley]] resident the world knew for so long -- being found dead in his home. Interestingly, that came true in more ways than one -- not only was MJ found dead in his home, but it was ''at that moment'' that people started thinking of him as the MJ everyone loved again.
** Another Onion article dated [http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/ January 17, 2001] featured the headline "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'". The article itself only goes downhill from there.
** Also, check the date on this one: [http://www.theonion.com/articles/stunned-nation-mourns-as-french-stewart-survives-p,3367/ Stunned Nation Mourns As French Stewart Survives Plane Crash], especially harsh as several celebrities actually did die in the attacks.
** Maybe not as harsh as these other ''Onion'' examples, but [http://www.theonion.com/articles/top-halloween-costumes-women-1834,7171/ this old Stat Shot] is becoming less and less funny and more prescient now that we live in a world where the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111229234434/http://www.buycostumes.com/Sesame-Street-Cookie-Monster-Sexy-Female-Adult-Costume/69931/ProductDetail.aspx "Sexy Cookie Monster Costume"] exists.
** This [http://www.theonion.com/articles/earthquake-sets-japan-back-to-2147,2240/ Onion article] isn't quite as funny in the wake of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
* A meme on 4chan is to post a picture of a living star, pretending them to be dead with the text "Goodnight, sweet prince". The most famous is the one on the [
* [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/jokes-with-realistic.php This] [[Anti-Humor]] article is unpleasant, especially since the current Pope has been (as of this writing) alive and Pope-ing for over half a decade.
* Several [[YouTube Poop|Youtube Poops]] have involved [[Billy Mays]] getting killed... well, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays guess what?]
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** One website ran some Billy Mays videos as its "Link of the Day"... about twelve hours before he died. The administrator was freaked out when he heard the news.
** The Chicago Tribune ran an article about the FCC discussing a law that would limit the volume of television commercials. The author of the article stated that "THAT OXICLEAN GUY SHOULD PUT A SOCK IN IT." This article was published just hours before the world learned that Billy Mays truly had put a sock in it the night before.
** [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=haThyjEnkuA This YTP] is no longer as funny after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting this shooting], which had a similar motivation to Billy's in the video (complaints about Youtube censorship).
* A few hours after the ''Columbia'' disaster, the Associated Press website had an article on its return. The article described the events of the Columbia's safe landing and the happy comments of the crew in detail. It is unknown whether the false details were placeholders meant to be replaced after real details were learned or outright fabrication. Either way, the article was pulled so fast that its head spun.
* A What Would Tyler Durden Do thread [https://web.archive.org/web/20071006021156/http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=2268 published in 2007] simply stated, "I predict Jett Travolta will die in the bath and be found by his caretaker at the end of 2008 due to Scientology. So sayeth the crystal ball." Yuck!
* [http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/archives/002023.html This] Overheard Everywhere quote, posted in December of 2007.
** And now [http://www.overheardeverywhere.com/archives/000630.html this one] too.
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* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Little Kuriboh]] followed a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] (the proposal video) with a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] (Tristan's jab at said video)...and sent them both into [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when he announced he and Safty would be getting an annulment.
** Could someone post a link mentioning their annulment?
** There's not much out there (understandably), but he talks about it [https://web.archive.org/web/20110930033048/http://littlekuriboh.livejournal.com/112889.html here] on his livejournal account.
* When [[SF Debris]] was commenting on the episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' "Meld", there is a scene where, after mind-melding with a sociopath, Tuvok needs to test his self-control. He does this by spending a few moments with a holographic Nelix. SF Debris comments on this, "Doesn't this say a lot? What will be most likely to drive myself into a homicidal rage? Seeing my children get killed? Watching my wife get raped? [[Star Trek (film)|The destruction of my home planet?]]" We know now that {{spoiler|Vulcan getting blown up does tend to drive Vulcans mad with rage.}}
* One of the pieces Seanbaby did for the Cracked.com website was an explanation of [[World of Warcraft]] in terms of [[Super Mario Brothers]]. Specifically, he suggested that ''World of Warcraft'' is like a version of [[Super Mario Brothers]] in which there are multiple players, but they don't do as well as a single player would because they collectively aren't as smart and they get in each other's way. Anyhow, the most recent installment of SMB, [[Super Mario Brothers]] [[Wii]], includes multi-player and is advertised as a family game -- and yes, the characters can get in each other's way.
* For a time, the [[Tourettes Guy]] videos were considered a Funny Aneurysm ''series'' after news about its star's death appeared in August of 2007. About 2 years later, it was then revealed that the Tourettes Guy was [[He's Just Hiding|in prison the whole time]], and a new video was released in late 2009 following his release from prison.
* While the first ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]'' short, "Bothering Snape
* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Recreation'', when Simmons and Lopez are "discussing" whether or not Donut is the real Donut or not, Lopez says they should shoot him anyway. {{spoiler|Donut is [[Killed Off for Real]] three episodes later.}}
** Even worse, in episode 12 or so, Donut laments to himself that he's focused on his career too much and it may be too late for him to start a family.
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* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] did a [[Sarcasm Mode|completely fake]] joke review of [[Duke Nukem Forever]] a while after said game was cancelled. Fast forward a few months, and the review has been voted the #1 fan-favorite. A few days afterward, [[Duke Nukem Forever]] was announced to be [[Uncancelled]] at PAX 2010.
** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Then again]] some people find this [[Hilarious in Hindsight|hilarious and fitting.]]
* [[Charlie Brooker]]'s old 2001 Zeppotron site [https://web.archive.org/web/20130326214328/http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/archive.html Unnovations] has proved eerily prescient (please note these were not serious in any way):
** It's only a matter of time before someone uses [[wikipedia:Augmented reality|augmented reality]] to create a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130523005748/http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/scumbgone.html Scum-B-Gone Poverty Concealment Helmet]. Today [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105074600/http://unlogo.org/ logos], tomorrow, anything you want!
** This is the really scary one. We now ''have'' a [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828030002/http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/factoid_blaster.html Celebrity Factoid Blaster] - it's called "Twitter on your mobile phone".
* In the [http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff04 Final Fantasy IV] article of The Rise And Fall Of Final Fantasy, Pitchfork explains, in a very sardonic manner, why a number of aspects of the game wouldn't fly had it been released as a new game (as opposed to an [[Updated Rerelease]]) in 2007. When he got to Golbez, he said "[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Man_in_Black.jpg No flowing white locks. Doesn't show enough skin.]{{Dead link}}"
* In the wake of the Arizona shooting, the "Slipping" scene in Dr. Horrible is very uncomfortable.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROMCPCBgsU0&feature=related This] [[Super Smash Bros Brawl]] [[Bowser's Kingdom|Parody video]] from Dec 22, 2007 has one [[Super Mario RPG|character]] comment at 1:15 "If I'm somehow not in this game, I'm blowing up Japan." kinda awkward considering the earthquake they had recently.
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