History Main / HarsherInHindsight

This leads to a rather heart-wrenching moment and makes anyone feel uneasy about it when they view the event in the original work.

* ''Looney Tunes'': "Look! It's the towers! THEY'RE FALLING!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"

* The 2009 movie [[{{ptitlek4mkmm79}} 2012]] features the world going down the toilet with a major earthquake, huge floods, and volcanic eruptions. Months after the movie's release... Cue the Iceland Volcano eruption, the Haiti Earthquake, floods with dozens of deaths in three major U.S. cities and two countries, Brazil and China. Then add in the extremely rare Chilean Mega-thrust earthquake which scientists predict tilted our planet's axis enough to cause a split-second of time to be missing from each day, and just recently, an extremely rare 5.6 earthquake in Canada. And [[{{OhCrap}} that's just in the half-year since the movie came out.]]

* The first FinalDestination film has a scene in a morgue when someone comments on how a dead guy looks in make-up - "worse than MichaelJackson". Already not a great joke to begin with, it becomes cringeworthy since Michael died.

* ScissorSister's song 'Mary'. "Mary" is about Jake Shears' platonic love for his friend Mary. The song itself sounds a bit mournful, though it was released in 2004. It was two years before she died of an aneursym.

** In the final episode of the 2005-2006 season, The Secret, [[spoiler: Stefan]] kills himself as a result of disturbing events that happened in his childhood. As if that wasn't heart-wrenching enough, the actress who played Linda (Johanna Sällström) committed suicide the next year.

* When NostalgiaCritic was doing his take on the truly atrocious 1998 ''Godzilla'' movie, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing bombing]] of the World Trade Center is mentioned in the film's dialogue. NC is about to comment on it, but good taste prevailed and the joke was aborted.

** You think so? To me it just means the game was well-researched.

* Go play ''KingdomHearts: 358/2 Days.'' Now go play ''KingdomHearts II'''s prologue. [[TearJerker And have tissues handy.]]

* SonicTheHedgehog2: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1Kmss7UJo Oil ocean zone.]] (Example within that particular video, since as some of the commenters pointed out the uploader's username has "bp" in it.)

* SonicTheHedgehog2: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih8c6I1zH7I Oil ocean zone.]] (As one commenter on the linked video put it, "The new theme music of the Gulf of Mexico.")

* It's sobering seeing Heath Ledger's character hanging from a bridge in TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus. In his last film.

* In ''{{Heathers}}'', the idea of "normal" high school students killing each other was also considered to be comedy in and of itself.Also:"Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?"

* In Paprika, Detective Konakawa is tormented in his dreams by the cry of "what about the rest of it?" in regards to a film he started with a friend in school that was left incomplete after he walked away from the project and the friend dies. Satoshi Kon, director of Paprika, died in August 2010 with his next movie incomplete.

** The Miracle was so called as it was "a miracle" it was finished as Freddie was so ill.
** Also "I'm Going Slightly Mad" is not so funny when you know it was all his fears about dementia brought on by AIDS
* The video for Eminem's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5WvQrfDPQY Like Toy Soldiers]] featured D12 member Proof being gunned down and then dying from his wounds in the hospital. Proof was shot and killed for real only a year later.

* On The Who's "Tommy," the song "Sally Simpson" tells the story of a girl who sneaks out of her house to see Tommy speak, only to be injured when the audience's passionate reaction to Tommy causes them to riot. It is very chilling to hear after the infamous Who concert riot.
* Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" is a song about the unpredictability of life and death, and the last song John Lennon worked on. He was shot to death the day he finished recording it, and died clutching the completed mix of the song in his hands.

* In [[TheBeatles the Beatles]] song, "Come Together," John Lennon says the phrase "shoot me" numerous times. Unfortunately...
* One of Britney Spears' early singles, "Lucky" talks about an actress who has fame, beauty, awards...and soul-crushing loneliness. Given the singers later break-downs, the song takes on a creepy air of foretelling.

* Billy Joel's "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway. Is about New York being shut down amd blown up even Joel himself said "I wrote that song 25 years ago. I thought it was going to be a science fiction song; I never thought it would happen. But unlike the end of that song, we ain't going anywhere!"

* In 2004, Phil Anselmo, a former bandmate of Dimebag Darrell's, had said, “I could kill [Darrell] like a fuckin' piece of vapor. The world should know that. He deserves to be beaten severely.” Weeks later, Darrell was shot to death onstage.

** It was a [[incrediblyLamePun great]] war. They were bound to make a sequel!