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* [http://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.
** [http://www.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].
** 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.
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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, [http://www.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}}.
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* ''[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.
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** 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....
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* [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 [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.
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* 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.]"
* 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 [[
* 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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