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* During the filming of ''Film/TheCrow'', the crews of other films shooting nearby had a joke that the production was cursed due to the high number of accidents, punishing production schedule (permitted because it was filmed in Wilmington, in "right-to-work" North Carolina), cocaine use among the crew, and too-low budget. This became HarsherInHindsight ''twice''; firstly when a fire destroyed part of the other films' sets (and most of ''The Crow'''s), and secondly, with the tragic, accidental, and easily-preventable fatal shooting of [=Brandon Lee=].

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* During the filming of ''Film/TheCrow'', ''Film/TheCrow1994'', the crews of other films shooting nearby had a joke that the production was cursed due to the high number of accidents, punishing production schedule (permitted because it was filmed in Wilmington, in "right-to-work" North Carolina), cocaine use among the crew, and too-low budget. This became HarsherInHindsight ''twice''; firstly when a fire destroyed part of the other films' sets (and most of ''The Crow'''s), and secondly, with the tragic, accidental, and easily-preventable fatal shooting of [=Brandon Lee=].
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* The fact that Creator/DemiLovato has been criticized for being 'larger' than the average Disney star when in reality they actually has an eating disorder. The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat UsefulNotes/McDonalds" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on their 2011 comeback tour, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI they're very definitely]] both [[LampshadeHanging throwing a lampshade on it]] and using it notationally, all at the same time. [[EarnYourHappyEnding All to rapturous applause, too]].

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* The fact that Creator/DemiLovato has been criticized for being 'larger' than the average Disney star when in reality they actually has have an eating disorder. The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat UsefulNotes/McDonalds" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on their 2011 comeback tour, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI they're very definitely]] both [[LampshadeHanging throwing a lampshade on it]] and using it notationally, all at the same time. [[EarnYourHappyEnding All to rapturous applause, too]].
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACAlbpgsio an interview]] before the 2001 Daytona 500, UsefulNotes/DaleEarnhardt said, "You're gonna see something you've prolly hadn't never seen on Fox." These words took new meanings after Earnhardt was killed in a crash on the last lap.

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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACAlbpgsio an interview]] before the 2001 Daytona 500, UsefulNotes/DaleEarnhardt Dale Earnhardt said, "You're gonna see something you've prolly hadn't never seen on Fox." These words took new meanings after Earnhardt was killed in a crash on the last lap.
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* Music/AmyWinehouse [[http://www.inquisitr.com/13488/stating-the-obvious-amy-winehouse-fears-early-death/ once said]] that one of her fears was joining the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club 27 Club]] (the name that's given to musicians who have died at age 27). On July 23rd, 2011, Amy's fears came true. Alicia Quarles, a report for the AssociatedPress at the time, explains that if Winehouse didn’t get her act together, she’ll die at 27. Quarles was on "Doomed to die? 13 Most Shocking Hollywood Curses" where she made that remark back in 2008 when the E! News special aired. What makes this eerier, Quarles was right.

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* Music/AmyWinehouse [[http://www.inquisitr.com/13488/stating-the-obvious-amy-winehouse-fears-early-death/ once said]] that one of her fears was joining the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club 27 Club]] (the name that's given to musicians who have died at age 27). On July 23rd, 2011, Amy's fears came true. Alicia Quarles, a report for the AssociatedPress Associated Press at the time, explains that if Winehouse didn’t get her act together, she’ll die at 27. Quarles was on "Doomed to die? 13 Most Shocking Hollywood Curses" where she made that remark back in 2008 when the E! News special aired. What makes this eerier, Quarles was right.
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* [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chadwick-boseman-thurgood-marshall_n_59de15d0e4b01df09b779dfd An interview with]] Creator/ChadwickBoseman around the time of ''Film/BlackPanther'' questioned how [[DyeingForYourArt he bulked up, lost weight, and returned to being buff]], and the response ("[Nods his head, looking exhausted] Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you don’t even know [laughs]. You have no idea. One day I’ll live to tell the story.") seemed just about the tolls of getting in shape. Then Boseman's death by a cancer [[SecretlyDying he had hidden for four years]] makes one realize he had to be tired from getting an HeroicBuild while suffering from both the disease and its aggressive treatment.

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* [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chadwick-boseman-thurgood-marshall_n_59de15d0e4b01df09b779dfd An interview with]] Creator/ChadwickBoseman around the time of ''Film/BlackPanther'' ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' questioned how [[DyeingForYourArt he bulked up, lost weight, and returned to being buff]], and the response ("[Nods his head, looking exhausted] Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you don’t even know [laughs]. You have no idea. One day I’ll live to tell the story.") seemed just about the tolls of getting in shape. Then Boseman's death by a cancer [[SecretlyDying he had hidden for four years]] makes one realize he had to be tired from getting an HeroicBuild while suffering from both the disease and its aggressive treatment.
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* In February 1959, Music/WaylonJennings lost a coin-flip to Music/BuddyHolly and was forced to take a bus to Minnesota whereas Buddy took a plane. Before leaving, Holly joked "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up.", to which Jennings joked, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes." Tragically, the plane did crash, killing Holly and everybody else aboard. [[PartingWordsRegret Jennings was haunted by those words for the rest of his life]].
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* The fact that Creator/DemiLovato has been criticized for being 'larger' than the average Disney star when in reality she actually has an eating disorder. The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat UsefulNotes/McDonalds" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on her 2011 comeback tour, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI she's very definitely]] both [[LampshadeHanging throwing a lampshade on it]] and using it notationally, all at the same time. [[EarnYourHappyEnding All to rapturous applause, too]].

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* The fact that Creator/DemiLovato has been criticized for being 'larger' than the average Disney star when in reality she they actually has an eating disorder. The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat UsefulNotes/McDonalds" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on her their 2011 comeback tour, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI she's they're very definitely]] both [[LampshadeHanging throwing a lampshade on it]] and using it notationally, all at the same time. [[EarnYourHappyEnding All to rapturous applause, too]].
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* A video created for the 5th anniversary of the Spirit rover's landing on Mars used a song with the lyric "She's run aground, she's run aground." Shortly thereafter, Spirit got stuck in a sand dune and can no longer, um... rove.
* In the 1970s [[https://kotaku.com/bps-official-oil-spill-board-game-5580291 there was a board game supported by BP, all about managing an offshore oil rig]]. Complete with hazard cards, such as ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged'.) Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’ Come [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill 2010]], and the whole thing is too real, and those indenization fees ''really'' low.
* Canadian model Tanya Melissa Makse (whose profile can be found on a certain model website), mentioned on her official Facebook page in 2010 about Wigan/Bolton/Bury council's planned budget cuts for 2011, speculating about them. And how prophetic she was, as [[https://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/whitehallwatch/2011/12/cuts-in-the-city-how-manchester-fared-in-2011/ by the actual end of 2011]], the cuts were estimated at over a million pounds for each of the following, [[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-30478822 and things]] [[https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-council-still-proposing-50m-19636049 never improved]].
* Google's Chrome browser's Incognito mode is designed to leave no local trace of your web activity once you exit it. One of the warnings about traces it cannot cover is "surveillance by secret agents". [[Film/CitizenFour Edward Snowden]] and others turned that fluffy bit of absurdist humor into rather [[BlackComedy dark commentary]] of how the government can (and maybe ''will'') collect your data. Later updates don't include secret agents in the warnings.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h5yPJ8s8IM this]] video, a man is frequently heard calling the coaster he's on a "Togo Death Machine" (TOGO was the name of the manufacturer). In mid-2007, a woman was killed on that very exact ride when the trains derailed, and the park ended up closing later that year.
* Creator/AnthonyBourdain's wife once went on a vegan diet and dragged him into a vegan restaurant. He announced that the food was so bad it would break up their marriage and he would commit suicide. They divorced a few years later and he died of suicide in 2018.
* Around 2018 and 2019, there was [[https://i.imgur.com/BGrvYZw.jpg a popular drawing shown in meme pages]] of a plane falling towards the ground, before hitting the ground and bouncing up with a "Boeing!" noise. Months later, 2 Boeing 737 MAX planes suddenly dived into the ground and crashed, killing hundreds and forcing Boeing to ground its entire 737 MAX fleet.
* In March 17, 2018, a Creator/CirqueDuSoleil performer by the name of Yann Arnaud posted an Instagram photo with the caption, "After so much work and training and staging, our straps duo is finally in the show tonight. It's time to go for it." Hours later, he lost his grip and plummeted several feet to the ground, dying of his injuries in a hospital that same night.
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* When Creator/SandraBullock appeared on Creator/DavidLetterman to promote ''Film/TheBlindSide'', she was played out with "Jessie's Girl", presumably as a joke to how she was married to [[Series/MonsterGarage Jesse James]]. One year later, both were having an acrimonious divorce.
* According to his childhood friend Asher Wright, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale Nathan Hale]] had a mole on his neck and as a boy, he was teased about by other boys who said it meant he would be hanged. One day he and Asher were out sailing and a storm blew up. Nathan laughed and said cheerfully, "Don't worry, I know I won't be drowned today. I'm going to be hanged, you know." And indeed, he died by what spies received back then, the gallows.
* [[Music/TheMonkees Davy Jones]] quipped "You know I used to be a heartthrob, now I’m a coronary" in [[http://nj.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Interviews-Hey-Hey-Its-The-Monkees-Davy-Jones-20110825 an interview]] in August 2011. Less than a year later, a heart attack had taken him.
* ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Guardian]]'' published a letter from a reader wishing she could be out of the country to avoid the inevitable frenzy come the demise of the Queen Mother, but realizing it wasn't the kind of thing one could plan in advance. It was published in the exact day the Queen Mother died, March 30, 2002.
* The city of Brussels started a campaign named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHYK1eMs2E #callbrussels]] in January 2016, to reassure potential tourists of how safe and welcoming the city was and to downplay the then-recently issued terrorist threat alert. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings It took two months to not be only a threat]].
* Helen Keller, who lived during the first half of the 20th century, owned a dog named Kamikaze. That was a pretty beautiful name for a dog back then, as it's Japanese for "Divine Wind"... except, thanks to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, most people who hear "kamikaze" think of suicide bombers.
* In February 1959, Music/WaylonJennings lost a coin-flip to Music/BuddyHolly and was forced to take a bus to Minnesota whereas Buddy took a plane. Before leaving, Holly joked "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up.", to which Jennings joked, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes." Tragically, the plane did crash, killing Holly and everybody else aboard. [[PartingWordsRegret Jennings was haunted by those words for the rest of his life]].
* Gregory [=McDonald=], most famous for the Fletch novels, started out as a reporter in Boston who grew up in Massachusetts and went to school with the Kennedys. He mentioned in one of his articles that there was a time when they were going out for the drive, and Jack got into the backseat of the car (which was a convertible) but slid over to the passenger's side so that [=McDonald=] could have the driver's side seat. For some reason the image always stuck in his mind, until years later when he saw the Zapruder film, and says that JFK's movements as he was shot were almost identical to what he remembered on that day.
* When Creator/WilliamShatner made his journey to space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket in October 2021, numerous jokes made the rounds on the internet, including [[https://2w6kxc22rrr9mabqt1mglgait6-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Star-Trek-red-shirt-william-shatner-1-1024x538.jpg a photoshopped image of him and his three crewmates]] showing Shatner wearing a gold shirt and the others wearing {{red|Shirt}}. This became a lot less funny when, just one month after the original picture was taken, Glen de Vries -- the one on the right side of the photo -- [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/glen-de-vries-dies-plane-crash-blue-origin-flight/ was killed in a plane crash]].
* [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chadwick-boseman-thurgood-marshall_n_59de15d0e4b01df09b779dfd An interview with]] Creator/ChadwickBoseman around the time of ''Film/BlackPanther'' questioned how [[DyeingForYourArt he bulked up, lost weight, and returned to being buff]], and the response ("[Nods his head, looking exhausted] Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you don’t even know [laughs]. You have no idea. One day I’ll live to tell the story.") seemed just about the tolls of getting in shape. Then Boseman's death by a cancer [[SecretlyDying he had hidden for four years]] makes one realize he had to be tired from getting an HeroicBuild while suffering from both the disease and its aggressive treatment.
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* One [[http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1952/nixon-on-corruption#3953 1952 campaign ad]] features Senator Usefulnotes/RichardNixon (shortly after being named UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower's running mate) hammering away at the corruption that had plagued the administration of outgoing President UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman. "And I say that the best thing that can be done for them is to kick out the crooks and the others that have besmirched their reputations in Washington D.C. and that's what we're going to do." 21 years later, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Contemporary_Resort#Richard_Nixon%27s_1973_press_conference he was denying being one of those crooks]]. One year later, he was renouncing for being a proven one.
* UsefulNotes/BillClinton's campaign song was [[Music/FleetwoodMac "Don't Stop"]] from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'', which was, as Creator/JohnMulaney pointed out (subtly referring to the affair with Monica Lewinsky that would get Clinton impeached), "an album written by and for people cheating on each other. He let us knew who he was right away."
* Andrew Cuomo, the 56th governor of New York, had fans and supporters in 2020 who humorously identified as [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-28/andrew-cuomo-sexual-ellen-degeneres-youtube "Cuomosexual"]], including Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/TrevorNoah, and Creator/StephenColbert. Comedian WebVideo/RandyRainbow wrote a satirical love ballad about the governor titled "Andy" that name-dropped the term. The following year, Cuomo resigned after being faced with allegations of sexual harassment.
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* Former [[{{UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover}} President Herbert Hoover]] said in a radioed speech on June 29, 1941, one week into [[{{UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo}} Operation Barbarossa]]: "If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of communism on Russia... Again I say, if we join the war and Stalin wins, we have aided him to impose more communism on Europe and the world. War alongside Stalin to impose freedom is more than a travesty. It is a tragedy". By 1944-1945, [[SarcasmMode people could say he had seen the future into a]] CrystalBall.

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* Former [[{{UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover}} President Herbert Hoover]] said in a radioed speech on June 29, 1941, one week into [[{{UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo}} Operation Barbarossa]]: "If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of communism on Russia... Again I say, if we join the war and Stalin wins, we have aided him to impose more communism on Europe and the world. War alongside Stalin to impose freedom is more than a travesty. It is a tragedy". By 1944-1945, [[SarcasmMode people could say he had seen the future into a]] a CrystalBall.
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* A [[http://www.monbiot.com/2009/11/23/the-knights-carbonic/ 2009 column]] by George Monbiot satirically refers to the possibility of Czech President Václav Klaus being the victim of an [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident engineered tragedy]]. In 2013, the plane crash that killed Klaus spawned more than a few conspiracy theories.

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* Scientology's introduction film ends with "If you leave this room after seeing this film and walk out and never mention Scientology again, you are perfectly free to do so. It would be stupid. But you can do it. You can also dive off a bridge or blow your brains out. That is your choice." Would [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversies#Noah_Lottick jumping out of a building]] and [[http://www.9news.com/news/article/183072/188/Murder-trial-begins-for-office-shooting- blowing someone else's brains out]] (three times!) suffice? [[HilariousInHindsight On a lighter note]], the film's host [[http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1067720.ece has since quit the church and wants his money back]].



* A New Hampshire Christian teenage girl was forced to repent in front of her church for sexual misconduct leading to pregnancy. [[http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/05/christina_anderson_15_raped_by.php She had been raped by a deacon of that church.]] The ''pastor'' allegedly had even told her that "she was lucky not to have been born during Old Testament times when she would have been stoned to death".

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* A New Hampshire Christian teenage girl was forced to repent in front of her church for sexual misconduct leading to pregnancy. [[http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/05/christina_anderson_15_raped_by.php She had been raped by a deacon of that church.]] church. The ''pastor'' allegedly had even told her that "she was lucky not to have been born during Old Testament times when she would have been stoned to death".
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* During the 1976 Olympics, American swimmer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Babashoff Shirley Babashoff]] made a rather bad joke about the gold-winning East German swimming team and their members's records, commenting on their almost manly voices: [[SoreLoser she was accused of baselessly saying they were taking steroids]]. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, however, it was revealed that [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010122090000/http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37631,00.html East German female athletes of all kinds were unknowingly doped with steroids, which had among their side-effects the development of more irreversible traits that amount to "masculinization"]]. That had [[BreakTheCutie TERRIBLE physical and emotional effects]] on the ladies... and [[TheOneGuy on]] [[{{Transgender}} one]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Krieger gentleman]].

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* During the 1976 Olympics, American swimmer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Babashoff Shirley Babashoff]] made a rather bad joke about the gold-winning East German swimming team and their members's records, commenting on their almost manly voices: [[SoreLoser she was accused of baselessly saying they were taking steroids]]. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, however, it was revealed that [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010122090000/http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37631,00.html East German female athletes of all kinds were unknowingly doped with steroids, which had among their side-effects the development of more irreversible traits that amount to "masculinization"]]. That had [[BreakTheCutie TERRIBLE physical and emotional effects]] on the ladies... and [[TheOneGuy on]] [[{{Transgender}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} one]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Krieger gentleman]].
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* The 2017 Hurricane season brought an intense hurricane called Hurricane '''Harvey''', which caused over $200 billion in damages. A little more than a month after it ended, numerous sexual assault and rape allegations were made against '''Harvey''' Weinstein.
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A COVID shoehorn, a Trump example and it was literally announced yesterday. According to the cleanup thread, it wasn't worth keeping.
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* During the 2020 United States Presidential Debates, Donald Trump once again mocked his opponent Joe Biden for wearing a mask and taking precautions against COVID-19 infection. Two days later, Trump tested positive for COVID-19, making it likely that he was already infected when he made those statements.

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