History HilariousInHindsight / LiveActionFilms

** Or, indeed, another [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc blue CGI hero called Sully...]]

* Even though unintentional, Website/SomethingAwful predicted that a ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' {{prequel}} would be made. In one of their Photoshop Phriday contests [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/unlikely-movie-prequels.php?page=2 back in 2004,]] one of the submissions for "[[{{Irony}} Unlikely]] Movie Prequels" was a poster for "Monsters, LLP." Nine years later, we are treated with the release of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity''.

* In ''Film/BoogieNights'', Dirk Diggler mangles "The Touch" from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' when he embarks on a singing career. 17 years later, Mark Wahlberg, who played Diggler, would take the lead role in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''.

* Creator/LucyLiu played O-Ren Ishii in ''Film/KillBill'', an assassin who is incredibly talented in kung fu and is codenamed "Cottonmouth" after the snake. "Cottonmouth" is translated into Chinese as ''Hundred-Step-Snake'' or ''Bai-Bu-She'', which is the term used for "viper". Four years later, that becomes the ''name'' of the character she voices in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''.

* ''Film/CarryOnSergeant'': The film's two main authority figures (Sergeant Grimshawe and Corporal Copping) are played by Creator/WilliamHartnell and Creator/BillOwen, who were ironically later known for playing [[Series/DoctorWho an endless source of disruption and a frequent speaker-out against corrupt authority]] and [[Series/LastOfTheSummerWine the scruffiest man in Yorkshire]].

* In ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'', Creator/SethRogen and Creator/ElizabethBanks' characters are the [[PairTheSpares spares paired]]. They would later play the leads of ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno''.

* ''Film/USMarshals'', where Creator/WesleySnipes is wrongfully accused, becomes slightly silly now that Snipes has been convicted of numerous crimes. Really most of his movies outside maybe the ''Blade'' series falls under this since he's usually typecast as a cop or other authority figure.

* For ''Star Wars'', three years after ''Film/ANewHope'' debuts in theaters, flybys reveal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mimas_moon.jpg this]] closeup of Mimas, one of the Moons of Saturn.[[note]]Mimas has a grey, cratered appearance, along with a gigantic crater, Herschel, [[DontExplainTheJoke that gives it the appearance of the Death Star]].[[/note]]
** ThatsNoMoon, that's a... oh, wait, no. You were right, it's a moon. Sorry.
*** The header for Mimas in the page for UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn reads "[[InvertedTrope That's No Space Station]]".
** "These blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise." Fair or not, PopCulturalOsmosis has given the stormtroopers [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the opposite reputation]], making it difficult to take Obi-Wan's declaration seriously.
*** Although, [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith the last time Obi-Wan saw Stormtroopers in action]], they kicked serious ass, [[FridgeBrilliance which helps show how long Obi-Wan's been in hiding]].
** In 1996, when the [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion Special Editions]] were in the making, a digitally remastered edition was released on both formats (4:3 and widescreen). A Dutch poster campaign for the videos announced them as "The original version, for the last time". It's as if [[FanonDiscontinuity they knew]].
*** The ads were similar to those released in the United States in 1995. The ads there touted: "The Original ''Star Wars'' Trilogy on video...One Last Time." And depending on what you think, it was not the last time the originals were released on video if you count the 2006 Limited Edition DVD sets (which were presented in rather dated-looking masters from the early 1990s).
** Speaking of Dutch, we all know [[LukeIAmYourFather the greatest twist in the saga]]. Then we find out that Vader happens to be Dutch for "father". [[note]] It is pronounced differently. [[/note]] Perhaps a complete coincidence, considering George Lucas had probably never heard about the language and, as early drafts hint, likely had the word "invader" in mind for the character's name anyway. But considering Anakin's wife was already pregnant with Luke and [[spoiler:Leia]] and he wanted to save her from dying in childbirth, this would make Sidious dubbing him "Darth Vader" in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' doubly appropriate, because it's shorthand for "invader" (which would follow Sith naming conventions quite nicely, if the old EU is anything to go by) ''and'' another word for father, which the newly-minted Darth Vader would soon become.
** Han's dismissive statement about Obi-Wan, "Where did you dig up that old fossil?" has gotten funnier on two counts: first, Creator/HarrisonFord would go on to play AdventureArchaeologist Franchise/IndianaJones, and second, in Episode VII, Ford will be older than Creator/AlecGuinness was during the OT.
** Near the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', C-3PO remarks as he pilots Padme's ship "that [he] may be getting the hang of this flying." It's a reference to ''Film/ANewHope'' when Threepio said: "Oh my, I've forgotten how much I hate space travel!". But then, Disney's ''Ride/StarTours'' ride was revamped, and look who now pilots your Starspeeder 1000!
** Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/MarkHamill did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8czqAf5qek&hl=en-GB&gl=SG an interview]] promoting ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' on the morning show ''Today'' back in 1980. At the end of the interview, the host asks if they know which one of them will end up with Princess Leia. Hamill says that they want to keep as many surprises as possible, otherwise it would be like "your sister telling you what you're getting for Christmas". It's not clear if Hamill knew that Luke and Leia were twin siblings at that point, but it's very funny to watch that today nonetheless.
*** In a similar vein, there was a TV special called "The Making of 'Franchise/StarWars'", produced just after the original film was made. When the question of who Leia will end up is addressed, Creator/MarkHamill quips, "She's a real chump if she goes with Han."
** Yoda messing around with Luke and R2-D2 in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' takes on a new context after the prequels and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' reveal that Yoda and Artoo both know each other very well.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' retroactively makes the opening of ''A New Hope'' a hilarious example of RefugeInAudacity: Princess Leia [[BlatantLies tells Darth Vader that she and her ship were on a diplomatic mission]], despite Vader having ''personally'' witnessed the ship hightailing it from the Battle of Scarif with the stolen data on board.
** At one point during his duel with Vader in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi,'' Luke Force-jumps onto a catwalk, and Vader throws his lightsaber to knock him down. After ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' came out, with its (in)famous "I have the high ground" scene, one can imagine that Vader's learned from his previous mistake.

* ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990'': Both Captain America and his arch-enemy, Red Skull are voiced by Creator/KenyuHoriuchi and Creator/AkioOtsuka respectively. Years later, they end [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2 working alongside, this time voicing the heroes, who happen to be also super-soldiers too]].

* One of the characters in ''[[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes Return Of The Killer Tomatoes]]'' is trying to con women into dating him via a phony competition offering a date with a movie star. The character is played by future movie star Creator/GeorgeClooney.

** Officer Morgenstern is frequently told that she will "make detective in no time." Morgenstern was played by Stana Katic, who would later go on to play Detective Kate Beckett in ''Series/{{Castle}}''.

*** Here, among the villains Benedict threatens to release is Franchise/KingKong. Come ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and Kong is the only Film/MonsterVerse kaiju ''not'' on the loose because of the Charles Dance-played Jonah Allen.

* The 1954 Bing Crosby film ''White Christmas'' has a line about it being "impossible to find a Democrat in Vermont". Back in the '40s-late '50s, Vermont was ''very'' Republican, to the point where it was one of only two states (the other being Maine) that UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt never won in his four presidential elections. Sixty years later, it's the only state UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush never visited as President, probably out of fear for his life.

[[caption-width-right:331:...and by the time 2001 rolled around, they had been out of business for 10 years.]]

** Although the name of the character in ''JASBSB'' was because Smith and Ferrell were both ''[=LotL=] fans, not surprising that Ferrell would end up in the re-make.

* ''Film/OnTheBuses'': The casting of Creator/PatCoombs as Vera, one of the new female bus drivers hired by Blakey, becomes a lot funnier once she was cast as Blakey's sister in ''Series/OnTheBuses''' short-lived SpinOff, ''Don't Drink the Water''.