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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.
* ''[[One Over Zero|1/0]]'' declared "war" on another webcomic on September 11th of 2000.
* 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]], ''[[College Roomies from HellCRFH]]'' is chock full of these. A few examples:
** 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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** 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:
{{quote| "It may be the last night alive for many of those girls you just told to 'chill out'. It might even be the last night for you, or one of your friends."}}
** 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.
** [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130308142248/http://reallifecomics.com/archive/051026.html This] one even more so. Yeah, [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|what kind of idiot would the banks have to be to give a loan to someone who clearly can't pay it back?]] OH SNAP.
* 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]].
* This 2002 issue of [http://www.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20020315 Krapow Original].
* A ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' Silly strips made [http://www.cad-comic.com/sillies/20081215 this] joke at the end of 2008, about Death needing to "break his record" of famous-people deaths in 2009. He managed.
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]] '', [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010121.html2001-01-21 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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** 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, [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130815101042/http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004722 Gamzee's reaction] to the video for ICP's "Miracles" was hilarious. Then it's later revealed {{spoiler|this incident made him doubt his religion and could have easily been the catalyst for him sobering up and realizing his role as a Subjuggulator}}.
*** 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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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' When Susan starts to explain the [[Noodle Incident|long-unknown]] events that occurred in France, she alludes to the {{spoiler|[[Our Vampires Are Different|not-vampire]]}} that's involved, when Grace calls her {{spoiler|[[Shout-Out|"Susan the Vampire Slayer"]]}}. Yeah, {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill|guess how that]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|story ended.]]}}
* 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--
{{quote| '''Thomas Wayne''': And who are you supposed to be, son?<br />
'''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.]]
* The [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[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.
** ''[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 and& Dragons]]'' is portrayed. Halfway through, he utters the line "If [[Gary Gygax]] was dead, he'd be rolling around in his grave right now!" Gary died soon after.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] did a scathing review of ''[[Moonwalker]]'' about two and a half months before [[Michael Jackson]] died. While that in itself was just a coincidence, and the movie was bad, there are some moments that are awkward now:
** 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 by Public Opinion]] before [[Dead Artists Are Better]] took effect.
** "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 (film)|The Neverending Story]] 2'', where his character also seems mentally unstable -- he was interrupted by an elephant in the room so he could comment upon this.
** 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 Thethe Dark]]'' with [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] and [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]], at one point, one of the heroes jumps into the scene and starts shooting some possessed people. The guys point out that he had no idea that they were possessed, so he might as well be shooting innocent bystanders. To illustrate, the next few clips of the hero shooting are interspersed with clips of 90s Kid, Dr. Insano, Chester A. Bum, and Ma-Ti walking in and getting shot. {{spoiler|In ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', the last one gets [[Killed Off for Real]].}}
** 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.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] example: In the NES [[Superman]] review, he makes a big deal about how part of the plot of the game involves Clark being sent to investigate an unexplained drop in stock prices, and how it was a ludicrous element to include in a superhero game. Funny then. Cringe-inducing for anybody with a 401(k) in the wake of the stock market dropping 1,000 points over the course of thirty minutes.
* 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 [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20170525134032/https://encyclopediadramatica.comrs/Goodnight_Sweet_Prince right...]
* [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 [[YoutubeYouTube Poop|Youtube Poops]] have involved [[Billy Mays]] getting killed... well, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_billy_mays guess what?]
** 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.
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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|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. [[Tropers/Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan|Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan]] is almost positive that someone at [[Nintendo]] read Seanbaby's piece and thought, "Hey, that's a great idea!"
* 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,", came out a few months after ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' was released, "Bothering Snape" can seem disturbing if you watch it after having read the scene in the book where James (Harry's father) and his friends bully Snape just for kicks (basically, the exams are done and Sirius is looking for some fun, and they decide to go mess with Snape who is just reading over his test). It makes Harry's "Let's go bother Snape" seem disturbingly like his father's bad side (although Harry in those shorts IS''is'' generally more arrogant and more cruel than he usually is in the books).
* 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''?
{{quote| Delta: I believe that Agent Washington's sanity is well within acceptable deviations, for now.}}
** 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 [[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 [[Un CancelledUncancelled]] 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.
* ''[[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 [[Creator's Pet|Brendon]] to return to the game. After a sudden flip around causing one of the fan favourites to be voted out, a bunch of people on sites begun to think about how the producers would bail out the two remaining veterans, resulting in one user making [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zWvFGg3ck&feature=channel_video_title this video] making fun of how they assumed production worked. This became a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when you consider within a week...almost all the events described to slant the season happened in the most blatantly contrived bailout in ''[[Big Brother]]'' history. Among these...Pandora's Box offering $5,000 to Porsche, restarting the duo twist, conveniently pitting Jordan and Rachel (The remaining veterans) with each other, and a literal ''copy'' of the first Head of Household competition (That Rachel won) for the veto. But with a different prop. One almost wonders if they got the idea for it after watching that video!
* [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.
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* 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 [[wikipedia:2011 British privacy injunctions controversy|2011 Twitter gagging order row]] has happened, and it's definitely uncomfortable to read, particularly as this got quoted around a few football forums too.
* [[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 [[KeshaKe$ha]] on [http://www.key103.co.uk Key 103 Manchester], a British radio station's web site. Bizarrely, she was listed on the regular presenters' list too... although not now!
* Shellyfae's page on modelmayhem.com (possibly [[NSFW]], although [[Your Mileage May Vary]]), and her [[Twitter]] feed, are one entire [[Funny Aneurysm]] moment.
* During the ''[[Riff Trax]]'' commentary of ''[[Terminator]] 3'', either Mike Nelson or Kevin Murphy (I forget which) makes an offhand comment about Heath Ledger dying. Although this was released back in 2006 while he was still alive, anyone who's heard it after the unfortunate events of Jaunary 2008 when Ledger died of a sleeping pill overdose has to just cringe.
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** It's not the only one about him. In ''[[Asdfmovie|THE TWENTY MINUTE ASDFMOVIE]]'', an angry potato tells the "I like trains" kid, "I am an angry potato and I hope you die of cancer!" Edd Gould voiced the "I like trains" kid.
* [[Facebook]] had one which concerned ''the site itself''. The fact that someone registered the domain in March 2002 is one such thing, even though the content was not social networking, it was just domain-parking.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCrh4tUwytQ A] [[The Land Before Time]] [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]] by [[Jittery Dragon]] has one. In a moment when Ducky dies, a title card pops up with a picture of her in black and white which says "Ducky... She died for your sins" which is funny... that is until you realize that her original voice actress, Judith Barsi, was murdered by her father a few months before the first movie was released.
 
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