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'''Night Thrasher''': "Spikes, huh?" [Walks away, looking contemplative]
'''Speedball''': "Uh, that's a joke, Thrash..."" }}
* As a tie-in to the second ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'', in the [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate Universe]] Peter saves a stunt double for the Movie!Spider-Man from Doctor Octopus. When the stunt double took off his mask and revealed he was black, Peter worried he got [[Token Minority|Revamped]] for a moment.
** Cut to the present time, and we have Miles Morales, a black kid who because Ultimate Marvel's new Spider-Man. Subverted in that his reception has been overall positive.
* In one ''Batman'' comic, Scarecrow sprays Batman with fear-removing gas and kidnaps Robin. At the end of the comic, Batman reveals that he managed to combat his fearlessness-induced recklessness by thinking of a new fear to motivate him - and it's further revealed to the audience that his fear was that the Scarecrow would murder Robin. The Robin at the time? [[Dead Sidekick|Jason Todd.]]
* A conversation between Roy Harper and his daughter, which... [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1944496.html?#cutid1 The title speaks for itself, almost.]
{{quote|'''Lian''': [[Death Is Cheap|Dead? Donna's not really dead, daddy. She'll come back like Uncle Ollie Did. You'll see.]]<br />
'''Roy''': [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness|Sometimes we're lucky that way]], [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|Lian.]] }}
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{{quote|'''Kyle''': "I just want you to be extra careful. That's all I'm saying. Alex was '''murdered''' and so was Donna and I think you--
'''Jade''': "Kyle-- '''Kyle'''. I'll be fine. I promise." }}
* Another X-Men example: In the 1990s, longtime couple Cyclops and Jean Grey finally tied the knot. Marvel released a one-shot special, The Wedding Album, and included random autolog messages from the reception. One message comes from [[Refugee From TV Land|Shatterstar]], who predicts the marriage won't last. Fast-forward about a decade, and Marvel [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|dropping a bridge]] on Jean in favor of Cyclops leaving his wife for her old rival, Emma Frost.
{{quote|Shatterstar: Personally, I cannot think of anything less appealing than committing the rest of your air time to a single individual. I give the marriage three seasons, max. Look for early strong ratings, but an early cancellation. I do, of course, wish you two the best of luck, however. May you have many spinoffs. }}
* In the editorial for a 2005 issue of the 2000AD stablemate ''[[Judge Dredd]] Megazine'' detailed the difficulty the editor (then Alan Barnes) had on deciding whether or not to run a reprint of a 1970s strip
* In ''[[All-Star Batman and Robin]]'', we overheard Jim Gordon complaining that he's afraid his son might end up an earring-wearing hippie. Given that his son is a [[Complete Monster]] sociopath now, that really should have been the least of his worries. Might be [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] depending on your outlook.
* There's a small example in a late-80s issue of ''[[The Flash]]'' in which Captain Cold has finished his term in the Suicide Squad and the Rogues are attending a party in his honor. Cold brings along a cheery letter from Dr. Light which he reads aloud to laughter and comments like "Arthur's always a card!" Wally and his girlfriend "crash" the party later, and they end up getting along pretty well despite the initial resentment of him [[Antagonist in Mourning|for replacing Barry Allen]]. Some fifteen years later, it turns out that these [[Friendly Enemy|Friendly Enemies]] were "chums" with a rapist.
* Inevitable when reading back issues of [[Mad Magazine]]
* In a flashback issue of ''[[Martian Manhunter]]'', Maxwell Lord is one of the members of Justice League International briefly possessed by the manifestation of J'onn's Choco addiction:
{{quote|I want... I want everyone to just ''do as I say... all the time!'' I want [[Mind Manipulation|Superman to do my errands]] and Batman to respect me and Wonder Woman to... I want Wonder Woman to... ''oh, how I want Wonder Woman [[Neck Snap|to]]!''}}
* An issue of [[X-Men]], written by Matt Fraction, [[Writer on Board|went on a tangent about how perfect and more accepting California]] was to mutants compared to the rest of the Country. At this point it's clear that Fraction was using
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* One ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' strip featured one of the crocs being disappointed that Steve Irwin's head has never been bitten off. This was published mere months before his death from a stingray attack.
** There was an entire series of strips about Rat running for city council against a dead guy that got spiked because they were due to be published right when Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash (even though they were written more than a year in advance).
* Similar to [[Funny Aneurysm Moment/Film|the Desmond Llewellyn incident]], Charles Schulz's last ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip - which consisted of his announcement of his retirement and an amiable, grateful farewell to his fans - was written four weeks in advance (like most comic strips)
* One late 90s ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip has Roger and Andy sitting on the couch. When Andy asks what they're listening to, Roger informs her that some guy went into the wild and recorded the ambient sounds of different environments. "So far, it's pretty relaxing." The third panel has them both looking up as the 'guy' says "Hey, get away from that equipmen-" followed by growls, ripping noises, and screaming. The final panel of the strip has Andy reading the title of the CD over the sound of a burp and birdsong; "In the Midst of Grizzlies". Guess what documentary filmmaker Timothy Treadwell, immortalized in the film ''[[Grizzly Man]]'', was doing with his girlfriend when he died. Go on, guess. What's more, his camera captured an audio recoding of his death, but it has never been made public.
** {{spoiler|Treadwell is moaning at the beginning, but his girlfriend is still alive and shrieking in pain and horror, which one commentator compared to a recording of wounded game used by hunters to attract predators. Considering that the bears returned to finish eating her and Treadwell...}}
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* Speaking of those pirates... it should be noted first of all that due to newspaper comics being written weeks in advance of publication, sometimes they'll wind up pulling a Funny Aneurysm ''after'' the event in question. Such as [http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8796/bizarroi.gif April 13, 2008]'s ''[[Bizarro]]'' panel.
* In a series of [[Doonesbury]] strips from the early 70s, Duke Harris, who's based on [[Hunter S. Thompson]], accidentally shoots his assistant. Nearly thirty years later, Thompson accidentally shot his assistant.
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* [[Bloom County]] featured several comics making jokes about the marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles (specifically, an arc depicting them spending their honeymoon in New York). This isn't quite as funny after you consider their divorce and her death...
* Several Italian Disney comics featured [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Uncle Scrooge]] as the owner of a newspaper that [[Perpetual Poverty|always seemed to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.]] This was always played for laughs. It doesn't become so funny once you consider the present situation of print media. It gets even worse by the fact that [[Depending on the Writer|some writers]] portray the paper as a normal
** While we're on Scrooge: a [[Don Rosa]] [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+96203 story] has a floating money bin ([[It's a Long Story]], involving alien phlebotinum) [http://www.portallos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cld1403.jpg flying through twin towers]... as you can see in the image (one of the balloons has an asterisk), a recent reprint has a footnote saying the comic was made before 9/11 (1997, to be precise).
* A literal example occurred in ''[[The Far Side]]'': a strip involving [[Dick Clark]] aging 200 years in 30 seconds on national TV. That's a pretty accurate description of what has happened to him since his stroke back in 2004. And now that he's dead at 82, it's even worse.
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