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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* 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.
* ''[[
* The [http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/361/ 21 November 2008 Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people)] subverted this trope by undercutting the punchline ''the day it was posted''.
* Due to a severe case of [[Cerebus Syndrome]], ''[[
** An early running gag has Roger vehemently deny being a werecoyote, despite the fact that nobody accused him of being one. By the time he reveals that he is one, the strip's taken a dark enough turn that a terrible bloodlust, to which his mother has already succumbed, is a major plot point.
** Another early story has April and Roger get possessed by ghosts inhabiting a television set and a hairdryer, respectively, to do battle. Later stories show that Roger is particularly vulnerable to possession by Satan in his werecoyote form, and April's gradual progression to [[Yandere]] and eventually [[Manipulative Bastard]] is implied to be at least partially due to Satanic influence.
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* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' manages to create an Aneurysm Moment ''retroactively'' with the punch line of [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0548.html this] strip. The aneurysm doesn't come until you remember (or read, if you hadn't already) the [[Start of Darkness]] prequel in which you realize just [[Moral Event Horizon|how low]] Xykon can go (and how painfully aware Redcloak is of it).
** There's also the Cliffport police chief talking about how the mayor was going to have his head on a pike because of the ruckus Nale caused. A couple of strips later, {{spoiler|Nale cuts off the Chief's head and impales it on his sword.}} [[Squick|Mmm...shishkabobs.]]
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0417.html O-Chul's attempt to give Haley a sobering moment] simply leads to an excuse to end the comic on a cuddle with Elan. But the big [[Wham! Episode]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0443.html to follow] puts his words in an uglier perspective:
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** Then there's [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0290.html this strip], in which [[The Reveal]] is that Shojo's advisor is the ghost of Roy's father, who remarks, "You were maybe expecting Patrick Swayze?" Of course, now that Patrick Swayze is ''actually dead''...
** Elan picturing Roy as a surrogate older brother becomes less funny when you realize that {{spoiler|Roy really did have a younger brother who might have become a bard, had he not died in an accident at a young age.}}
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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.
** [
* Back in 1999, ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' published a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/03/ strip] about ''[[
** 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]].
* This 2002 issue of [http://www.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20020315 Krapow Original].
* A ''[[Ctrl
* In ''[[
* ''[[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 ''[[
* [[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 ''[[
** Oh, yeah, and... a few pages later, {{spoiler|the upper-right poster}} would also apply.
** And now, it seems that {{spoiler|the upper-left poster}} also applies. {{spoiler|Jeez, will Rojo take the BLU demoman's spleen next?}}
* [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12042006 This] ''[[Achewood]]'' strip suddenly got a lot less amusing when news of a [http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/09/meg-white-sex-t.html sex tape] (link SFW), falsely attributed to be of the real [[The White Stripes|Meg White]], was released almost a year afterward.
** ... nope. Still funny.
* In ''[[
** It has been confirmed by [[Word of God]] that this was intended as a tribute.
* [http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=483 This strip] of ''[[A Softer World]]'' illustrates what seems like a rather improbable idea of what causes terrorists to be terrorists. But a later sociological study discovered that many of them don't really care about their cause, and if their mission is actually accomplished they just move on to another extremist group. It concluded that a large proportion really ''are'' {{spoiler|social rejects who can't find friends anywhere else, and are willing to kill for the sake of that bond.}}
* ''[[
** One of the best examples of this is Tavros Nitram. Prior to act 5, he was only ever drawn from the waist up, leading to an in-joke in the community that he was in a wheel chair. Well, act 5 comes around, and guess what...
*** Made even more painful by the fact that his first appearances in act five shows him [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003837 leaping around Prospit.]
** Everyone who thought that Gamzee's background honks were hilarious are currently regretting every giggle.
*** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004121 This] strip in particular.
**** 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.
*** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005948 Speaking of empty suicide threats...] Not to mention, pretty much any interaction Doc Scratch has ever had with any of the kids or trolls just got a billion times creepier in retrospect.
** At first it is merely said that "You [Sollux] [[It Makes Sense in Context|do not under any circumstance eat the MIND HONEY]]. The consequences are highly unpleasant." At this point, you [the reader] might even get a little chuckle out of it; at that point in the narrative, we have seen many characters dislike things for weird reasons that don't seem so bad. {{spoiler|Then Sollux accidentally ingests a bit and destroys his hive (home) with [[Eye Beams]], because those are the aforementioned "consequences". You might find this pretty funny, really. Though it might be horrifying, because of the [[Eye Beams]]. That depends on your interpretation--at this point. But ultimately we find out that at one point in the past, he was ''forced'' to do this and it killed his beloved Aradia}}. The benign, understated, almost wry way the topic was introduced contrasts heavily with its sobering actual meaning.
** In a meta sense, there's a rather cute illustrated fanfic out there about [[Alternate Universe]] versions of the trolls where everyone's blood colour and personality is mixed up. The protagonist is Kanaya, who here has Karkat's blood. She is presented as hemophiliac and gets blood all over her a ''lot''. The title is ''[[
** One of the ongoing jokes, {{spoiler|the flammability of shaving cream}}, takes a considerably dark turn in the 10/25/11 updates, when {{spoiler|CD uses Dad's shaving cream hooked up to a bomb to kill Jade's realself. However, in the following flash, it's revealed that Jade can still go God Tier with her dream self turned into a sprite, so she comes back to life.}}
** John's [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|enmity]] towards Betty Crocker seems silly at first. {{spoiler|Then it turns out that Betty Crocker is an evil alien empress who has massacred hundreds of planets, working for a [[Humanoid Abomination]], and in an alternate timeline her corporation has branched into virtually everything, and is brainwashing humanity. "The heinous batterwitch has her gnarled claws in everything", indeed.}}
** Dave's [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] at the hands of Bro (including but not limited to unnervingly sexual puppets left everywhere, swords that regularly fall out of the fridge or cabinets, and regular fights with Dave that send him falling down the stairs) may have become this now that {{spoiler|we've met Bro's Beta universe counterpart Dirk and not only is he a really nice guy deep down, if every bit as weird as Bro always was, but he's very wary at even the idea of having children because he's convinced he would be a terrible parent.}}
* In [[
* [[Misfile|"Enjoy all the extra time you've got."]] It took on a whole new meaning once you realize that without the misfile, {{spoiler|Emily would've died in the same car accident that sent Molly to the hospital.}}
* [[Walkyverse|Shortpacked!]] had [http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-8/05-the-day-that-shortpacked-fell/previously/#comment-12740 this strip]. The panel with Amber saying she's pregnant suddenly becomes really disturbing due to {{spoiler|Faz possibly being Amber's (half) brother}}.
* In ''[[
* A super-compressed in-universe example in ''[[Batman and Sons]]'': In the first strip of the Loeb tribute, Batman suffers a BSOD when he recalls his last Halloween costume before his parents' deaths--
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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.]]
*
* ''[[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
* ''[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.
** ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/136826 Fun With Suicide]'' by the author Livecorpse is much darker in retrospect as he committed suicide several months later. Even moreso by the fact that one of the options is "Suicide by Cop", considering that he was on the run from the police when he died.
* The fan-fiction writers for the site Ghostbusters West Coast have a particularly bad record for this. One story had [[Michael Jackson]] as a werewolf who got savagely beaten up by the main characters and then arrested for murder, and another had a character explaining that he almost ran over an old man because "I thought you were Ted Kennedy."
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB53He_pTpo This] in-character video response to a Youtube cartoon features one of the characters complaining about the inaccuracies of how ''[[Dungeons
* [[
** The villain in "Smooth Criminal" wants to get all of the kids of the world addicted to drugs. As it turned out, a small pharmacy worth of drugs was found at Neverland Ranch. And while Jackson was legally cleared of child molestation, he was [[Convicted
** "And I have to say this is easily the best part of the movie because it starts out with Michael Jackson's best scene. People trying to kill him." His death was reported as a homicide; his physician was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Later, in his commentary for this review, half of the jokes Doug cracks are about how awkward some of his jokes have become since Michael's death. But the joke about how the best scene has people trying to kill him is not mentioned.
** There was also the example in the ''TMNT'' review where NC made fun of Master Splinter's voice. NC was instantly showered with insulting messages from fans of his voice actor, [[Mako]]. NC addressed this later, acting surprised by the backlash [[Oh, Wait!|since it wasn't like the guy died or any- oh come on!]]. It's even worse when he said that it was like [[The Karate Kid|Mr. Miyagi]] had smoked a million cigarettes. Mako's cause of death? Esophageal cancer. (It may not count since Mako died after NC's review, but NC didn't know until after the review). At least he was able to get an amusing segue out of it.
** And it happened again during the review of ''Sidekicks'', where Jonathan Brandis's character has frequent daydreams about fighting alongside Chuck Norris. The Critic comments that the kid seems more mentally ill than daydreaming, and he was right. He found out later that Brandis committed suicide in 2003. The next time Brandis popped up in a review -- ''[[The Neverending Story (
** His review of ''[[The Room]]'' ends with {{spoiler|the seahorses chasing him down because all viewings of the movie have been outlawed.}} For a while, the review was inaccessible because the movie's creator filed a copyright claim and had it taken down.
** In his collab review of ''[[Alone in
** Possibly the fastest onset of a funny aneurysm-much of the jokes in the review of ''Dunston Checks In'' are derived from insisting "Monkeys Aren't Funny!" The Monkees' lead singer Davy Jones died of heart failure the following day of the review's posting on Blip.
* [[
* During a late night chat on [[Lord Kat]]'s livestream (circa September 2010), a conversation between [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]], Sean Fausz, and Skitch was interrupted by a sudden ''THUD'', after which Spoony's line went quiet.<ref> (He later explained that he dropped his laptop and ran out of the room because his dinner had caught fire on the stove.)</ref> After many unanswered queries of "Spoony, you okay?" and about five minutes of silence, Skitch jokingly speculated that Spoony had "dropped dead from a heart attack"; Sean replied, "Oh, well. [[Sibling Team|Miles]] will find him and give him a eulogy." A little over a month later, Spoony began suffering from fainting spells and making frequent trips to the hospital...because of an unknown heart condition. Ouch.
** Also in Spoony's Deadly Premonition LP he gives the line "I think my heart's about to explode!"
** And again involving Spoony: anything involving his now ex-girlfriend Scarlett. Poor guy has had a rough time of it recently....
*** 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
* Several [[
** Speaking of Billy Mays YTP's, "Mark3611's" video, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGT6S1NzTc Billy Mays Sells Zorbees in a Bad Mood]", throws in a final joke by overlaying Billy saying "A year's supply of powder!" with an image of cocaine and a razor. Well, given the results of a [http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/07/florida.mays.cocaine/ certain autopsy...]
** 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.
* Woot.com's deal of the day for April 4, 2009, was for a set of four solar-powered lights; the product description began "What if the end of the world was tomorrow? Well, it probably wouldn't matter, because there would be no one left to notice." Their product descriptions are usually odd snarky things like that...but late on April 4, 2009, North Korea launches a rocket over Japan, an action which many nations are condemning as long-range missile testing and "provocative." Not quite [[The End of the World
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** 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
* 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.
** Remember this line from ''Reconstruction''?
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** Well, by the end of ''Recreation'', {{spoiler|"now" is officially [[Face Heel Turn|over.]]}}
** In ''Revelation'', Tucker tells Tex and Church not to come and ask the other Blues or the Reds for help if they die again, as they usually do, when they go to arctic Freelancer Base. {{spoiler|A couple episodes later, The Meta stabs a two-foot spike into Tex's helmet.}}
* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] did a [[Sarcasm Mode|completely fake]] joke review of [[
** [[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 [
** 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]] [[
* ''[[Big Brother]] 13'' US is probably the most slanted season in ''[[Big Brother]]'' history, with twists that obviously benefit the veterans (All fan favourites) and safeguards in the form of competitions they've already played in left and right, as well as the most ''obviously'' slanted challenge for [[
* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2875010 A SomethingAwful thread] entitled "tim russert is the most handsome man on television" was posted on June 13th, 2008 as a joke topic. ''Barely'' three hours later the news broke that Tim Russert had passed away. Needless to say it surprised everyone, and it's become a minor [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] that if someone dies, the topic will have a title similar to "[Person] is the most handsome man on television".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYromrN7OI This College Humor video] after Steve Jobs' recent passing.
* [[Sonichu
* Even on [[This Very Wiki]], there's one. The fact that one of our tropes is called [[Macekre]] seems very irreverent now that Carl Macek is dead.
* On radio sites [[Digital Spy]] and elsewhere, people were speculating that Dave Berry would be the future breakfast show presenter on 95.8 Capital Radio London and that there would be 100% national Capital Radio. The first one came true, and an [[Internet Backdraft]] occurred. It's safe to say people would rather have a presenter who was "in touch" with their audience, like Simon Nicks, aka [[Known Only By Their Nickname|Nicksy]], Darren Spence, Wayne Tunnicliffe, Jacqui Blay or Rick Vaughn, '''not''' a celebrity who they can't relate to (and the fact Jacqui provides [[Ms. Fanservice]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|for everyone]] too, helps).
* Also, in December 2010, someone ([[No Name Given|whose name was never revealed]]) wrote on [[Twitter]]: "predictions for 2011... Twitter will be super-regulated #ladygaga". This may have been considered funny/highly speculative at the time, but not now that the [
* [[Dick Figures]] has the episode "Pleasure Cruise", where Red and Blue are having a vacation on a cruise ship and they end up trying to save it and the passengers from a terrorist who plans to blow it up after being mistakened for secret agents. Although they defeat the terrorist, the bomb blew up before they could act, causing the ship to sink. On Jan. 13, 2012, the ship Costa Concordia has been grounded with several dead and missing. [[Too Soon|The episode was uploaded on Youtube at Jan. 12]].
* Depending on your opinion, this may also qualify as [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] too: the endless promotion for a then-unknown [[
* Shellyfae's page on modelmayhem.com (possibly [[NSFW]], although [[Your Mileage May Vary]]), and her [[Twitter]] feed, are one entire [[Funny Aneurysm]] moment.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCrh4tUwytQ A] [[The Land Before Time]] [[
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