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%%* In September 2009, troubled former NHL player Theoren Fleury began a much-publicized attempt at a comeback by signing a tryout contract with the Calgary Flames. On September 25, though making an admirable effort to return to the game after recovering from alcohol and drug addictions, he was released from his contract. Even worse for Fleury? An article about his comeback published by Canada's largest sports network TSN was titled "Snuffed Out." Given Canada's obsession with the game of hockey, this being just an oversight is... well, unlikely.
* Murray Walker signed off the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix coverage by remarking how interesting the season was turning out, and told us to look forward to the next race at Imola where anything could happen. And how it did, as crashes claimed two lives and sent another pilot to the hospital.
** On the Eurosport coverage of the 2nd qualifying session at Imola, the commentators were joined by one of the team mechanics. The subject of Barrichello's accident the day before was brought up, and the mechanic went into a long spiel of how safe Formula One is now and how the cars protect the drivers so well. Before he had the chance to finish what he was saying, Roland Ratzenberger's shattered car, complete with fatally injured driver, popped up onscreen.
** 10 years before, Clive James narrated the official season review tape with his signature wit. After a start line shunt in which Nelson Piquet lost a wheel, narrowly missing Ayrton Senna's head, James remarked: "Luckily, the flying wheel did not kill Senna this time". What was a little remark in 1984 now sounds so different post-1994, as Senna's crash was fatal because his own wheel went flying and hit him head-on.
* A famous boast by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was "I will never have a heart attack. I give them." Come 2010, [[https://i.redd.it/up1ncxnvx4h41.jpg it was time to receive]].
* The development of Nomex firesuits in the 1960s for race car drivers was brought on by the deaths of three drivers due to fire, and the lackluster protection drivers were offered at the time. The first driver to die was a NASCAR driver by the name of Edward Glenn Roberts Jr. His nickname? "Fireball Roberts!" He really should've picked a better nickname...
* At the age of 25, college basketball legend "Pistol" Pete Maravich stated in an interview, "I don't want to play 10 years in the NBA and then die of a heart attack at 40." A leg injury necessitated his retiring from basketball after 10 seasons. And he died of a heart attack, at 40.
* In a 2006 Toronto Star interview, then-Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Wade Belak was asked where he'd be in 5 years, and jokingly replied "Dead". Belak died of suicide 5 years later, in 2011, and the interview was reprinted
* Eugene Robinson was a longtime free safety who joined the Atlanta Falcons in 1998 after having appeared in the previous two Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers. The morning before the 1999 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl (the third consecutive he appeared in), Robinson, who had been outspoken about his Christian faith, received the Athletes in Action Bart Starr Award for outstanding Christian character. That night, Robinson got arrested for soliciting a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover cop. Robinson returned the award.
* French-Canadian UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Gilles Villeneuve called the Belgian Zolder circuit "a good killer" in an interview in early 1982. (meaning it would be extremely tiring in the hard-sprung cars of the time). He was killed in a crash at that track later in the same year.
* Jochen Rindt, upon winning the 1970 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, claimed that his car was so easy to drive that a monkey could have won the race. 2 races later and Rindt was dead, having crashed the very same car. Rindt was advised a year before he died by his manager (one Bernie Ecclestone); "If you want to win, join Lotus. If you want to live, join Brabham". He joined Lotus.
* F1 journeyman Andrea de Cesaris had an unfortunate reputation for crashing often, gaining him the nickname Andrea de ''Crasheris''. Funny at the time, but now takes on a different meaning after he was killed in a motorcycle accident near his home in 2014.
* A columnist writing for the ''San Jose Mercury News'' joked in his October 17, 1989 column that, as the two teams contesting the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]] were from California (San Francisco and Oakland), an "earthquake could rip through the Bay Area before they sing the national anthem for Game 3". The Loma Prieta earthquake, the most intense earthquake in California for 35 years and in San Francisco for 80 years, struck at 5:04 pm that day... during the warm-up for Game 3.
* Declan Sullivan, a Notre Dame student, had a job filming the school's football practice from a hydraulic scissors lift. On an extremely windy day, he tweeted, "Gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Well, today will be fun at work. I guess I've lived long enough." During work that day, the lift collapsed and he died.
* "I probably won't be alive to see it (his record 88-game winning streak broken)" - John Wooden (Died June 2010, the record was broken by The University of Connecticut Women's Basketball in December 2010.)
* "This is gonna be a spectacle. This is a great way to go out." - Dan Wheldon to ABC during pace laps of the final race of the 2011 UsefulNotes/IndyCar Series, commenting on the scale of the event and his shot at a $5,000,000 prize in Las Vegas. He would be killed from injuries sustained in a mass accident 11 laps into the race.
** "You're on board with him, and one thing he was worried about going into this race was all the dirty air..." - the ABC commentator explaining to viewers that Dan Wheldon had expressed concerns about Usefulnotes/IndyCar's controversial decision to put 34 cars on a track designed for stock cars rather than open-wheelers, Wheldon specifically worrying about the high number of cars dirtying the air, making passing harder, bunching all those cars up and making a big crash more likely. The announcer is interrupted, however, when from Dan Wheldon's on-board camera we do indeed see a crowd of cars begin crashing ahead of him in the distance, just after Wheldon crosses the line to begin Lap 11. Cut to the wide overhead shot...
* Greg Moore, injured in the paddock following an accident on his scooter the day before the final race of the 1999 CART season at Fontana, gave an interview to ESPN before getting into his car. The reporter handed back to the commentators with the words: "Greg's ready to fly today". Just under an hour later, Greg's car became airborne and hit a barrier. He was killed instantly.
* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball: In 2013, Essendon's slogan was "Whatever it takes". Then news of the doping scandal broke.
* In 2020, when the NBA announced new procedures for interviews with the media in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert [[https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/03/11/rudy-gobert-touches-every-reporters-recorder-questionable-for-jazz-game-illness/ jokingly touched every reporters microphone and recorders.]] Just two days later, Gobert ended up being diagnosed with COVID-19, and the rest of the NBA season was postponed.
* Kyle Beach was drafted 11th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2008, but never managed to get into the Usefulnotes/NationalHockeyLeague. It just seemed like he was temperamental and not good enough, and [[https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-kyle-beach-blackhawks-haugh-spt-0622-20170621-column.html a 2017 piece on him had Beach saying "It didn't work out but that's no reason (for me) to hate them."]]. But then four years later Beach sued the Blackhawks because in 2010, a video coach sexually assaulted him, and suddenly there was a DarkSecret [[https://kencampbell.substack.com/p/how-good-could-kyle-beach-have-been behind what seemed to be]] [[https://twitter.com/M_Nichol/status/1453504092869959690 simply a draft bust]].
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%%* In September 2009, troubled former NHL player Theoren Fleury began a much-publicized attempt at a comeback by signing a tryout contract with the Calgary Flames. On September 25, though making an admirable effort to return to the game after recovering from alcohol and drug addictions, he was released from his contract. Even worse for Fleury? An article about his comeback published by Canada's largest sports network TSN was titled "Snuffed Out." Given Canada's obsession with the game of hockey, this being just an oversight is... well, unlikely.
* Murray Walker signed off the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix coverage by remarking how interesting the season was turning out, and told us to look forward to the next race at Imola where anything could happen. And how it did, as crashes claimed two lives and sent another pilot to the hospital.
** On the Eurosport coverage of the 2nd qualifying session at Imola, the commentators were joined by one of the team mechanics. The subject of Barrichello's accident the day before was brought up, and the mechanic went into a long spiel of how safe Formula One is now and how the cars protect the drivers so well. Before he had the chance to finish what he was saying, Roland Ratzenberger's shattered car, complete with fatally injured driver, popped up onscreen.
** 10 years before, Clive James narrated the official season review tape with his signature wit. After a start line shunt in which Nelson Piquet lost a wheel, narrowly missing Ayrton Senna's head, James remarked: "Luckily, the flying wheel did not kill Senna this time". What was a little remark in 1984 now sounds so different post-1994, as Senna's crash was fatal because his own wheel went flying and hit him head-on.
* A famous boast by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was "I will never have a heart attack. I give them." Come 2010, [[https://i.redd.it/up1ncxnvx4h41.jpg it was time to receive]].
* The development of Nomex firesuits in the 1960s for race car drivers was brought on by the deaths of three drivers due to fire, and the lackluster protection drivers were offered at the time. The first driver to die was a NASCAR driver by the name of Edward Glenn Roberts Jr. His nickname? "Fireball Roberts!" He really should've picked a better nickname...
* At the age of 25, college basketball legend "Pistol" Pete Maravich stated in an interview, "I don't want to play 10 years in the NBA and then die of a heart attack at 40." A leg injury necessitated his retiring from basketball after 10 seasons. And he died of a heart attack, at 40.
* In a 2006 Toronto Star interview, then-Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Wade Belak was asked where he'd be in 5 years, and jokingly replied "Dead". Belak died of suicide 5 years later, in 2011, and the interview was reprinted
* Eugene Robinson was a longtime free safety who joined the Atlanta Falcons in 1998 after having appeared in the previous two Super Bowls with the Green Bay Packers. The morning before the 1999 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl (the third consecutive he appeared in), Robinson, who had been outspoken about his Christian faith, received the Athletes in Action Bart Starr Award for outstanding Christian character. That night, Robinson got arrested for soliciting a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover cop. Robinson returned the award.
* French-Canadian UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Gilles Villeneuve called the Belgian Zolder circuit "a good killer" in an interview in early 1982. (meaning it would be extremely tiring in the hard-sprung cars of the time). He was killed in a crash at that track later in the same year.
* Jochen Rindt, upon winning the 1970 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, claimed that his car was so easy to drive that a monkey could have won the race. 2 races later and Rindt was dead, having crashed the very same car. Rindt was advised a year before he died by his manager (one Bernie Ecclestone); "If you want to win, join Lotus. If you want to live, join Brabham". He joined Lotus.
* F1 journeyman Andrea de Cesaris had an unfortunate reputation for crashing often, gaining him the nickname Andrea de ''Crasheris''. Funny at the time, but now takes on a different meaning after he was killed in a motorcycle accident near his home in 2014.
* A columnist writing for the ''San Jose Mercury News'' joked in his October 17, 1989 column that, as the two teams contesting the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} World Series]] were from California (San Francisco and Oakland), an "earthquake could rip through the Bay Area before they sing the national anthem for Game 3". The Loma Prieta earthquake, the most intense earthquake in California for 35 years and in San Francisco for 80 years, struck at 5:04 pm that day... during the warm-up for Game 3.
* Declan Sullivan, a Notre Dame student, had a job filming the school's football practice from a hydraulic scissors lift. On an extremely windy day, he tweeted, "Gusts of wind up to 60 mph. Well, today will be fun at work. I guess I've lived long enough." During work that day, the lift collapsed and he died.
* "I probably won't be alive to see it (his record 88-game winning streak broken)" - John Wooden (Died June 2010, the record was broken by The University of Connecticut Women's Basketball in December 2010.)
* "This is gonna be a spectacle. This is a great way to go out." - Dan Wheldon to ABC during pace laps of the final race of the 2011 UsefulNotes/IndyCar Series, commenting on the scale of the event and his shot at a $5,000,000 prize in Las Vegas. He would be killed from injuries sustained in a mass accident 11 laps into the race.
** "You're on board with him, and one thing he was worried about going into this race was all the dirty air..." - the ABC commentator explaining to viewers that Dan Wheldon had expressed concerns about Usefulnotes/IndyCar's controversial decision to put 34 cars on a track designed for stock cars rather than open-wheelers, Wheldon specifically worrying about the high number of cars dirtying the air, making passing harder, bunching all those cars up and making a big crash more likely. The announcer is interrupted, however, when from Dan Wheldon's on-board camera we do indeed see a crowd of cars begin crashing ahead of him in the distance, just after Wheldon crosses the line to begin Lap 11. Cut to the wide overhead shot...
* Greg Moore, injured in the paddock following an accident on his scooter the day before the final race of the 1999 CART season at Fontana, gave an interview to ESPN before getting into his car. The reporter handed back to the commentators with the words: "Greg's ready to fly today". Just under an hour later, Greg's car became airborne and hit a barrier. He was killed instantly.
* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball: In 2013, Essendon's slogan was "Whatever it takes". Then news of the doping scandal broke.
* In 2020, when the NBA announced new procedures for interviews with the media in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert [[https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/03/11/rudy-gobert-touches-every-reporters-recorder-questionable-for-jazz-game-illness/ jokingly touched every reporters microphone and recorders.]] Just two days later, Gobert ended up being diagnosed with COVID-19, and the rest of the NBA season was postponed.
* Kyle Beach was drafted 11th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2008, but never managed to get into the Usefulnotes/NationalHockeyLeague. It just seemed like he was temperamental and not good enough, and [[https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-kyle-beach-blackhawks-haugh-spt-0622-20170621-column.html a 2017 piece on him had Beach saying "It didn't work out but that's no reason (for me) to hate them."]]. But then four years later Beach sued the Blackhawks because in 2010, a video coach sexually assaulted him, and suddenly there was a DarkSecret [[https://kencampbell.substack.com/p/how-good-could-kyle-beach-have-been behind what seemed to be]] [[https://twitter.com/M_Nichol/status/1453504092869959690 simply a draft bust]].
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* The June 1993 ''Disney Adventures'' cover featured Music/MichaelJackson carrying a delighted WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} (his favorite Disney character, according to the magazine) on his shoulders. Two months later, Jackson was first accused of child molestation and in the years to come his Neverland Ranch would be compared to Pleasure Island, where young boys were free to play but had to pay a horrific price for their fun -- including at his 2004-05 trial on a second set of charges. Similarly, all the "Pied Piper of Pop" accolades that flew around him in TheEighties turned sour in the wake of the accusations, as people remembered [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what happened to the kids he enchanted]]. (A ''Cracked'' back cover in '93 spoofed this with Jackson as "The Pied Piper of Encino".)
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* The June 1993 ''Disney Adventures'' ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' cover featured Music/MichaelJackson carrying a delighted WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} (his favorite Disney character, according to the magazine) on his shoulders. Two months later, Jackson was first accused of child molestation and in the years to come his Neverland Ranch would be compared to Pleasure Island, where young boys were free to play but had to pay a horrific price for their fun -- including at his 2004-05 trial on a second set of charges. Similarly, all the "Pied Piper of Pop" accolades that flew around him in TheEighties turned sour in the wake of the accusations, as people remembered [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what happened to the kids he enchanted]]. (A ''Cracked'' back cover in '93 spoofed this with Jackson as "The Pied Piper of Encino".)
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* Charb, cartoonist and editor in chief of the French satirical magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'', published a drawing on January 7th, 2015 on the magazine's Twitter, titled "Still no terrorist attack in France", in which a terrorist said "[they] had until the end of January for the wishes." [[http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/07/shooting-paris-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo A few hours later]], two Al-Qaeda members attacked the magazine's offices, with Charb being one of the 12 killed in the process.
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* Charb, cartoonist and editor in chief of the French satirical magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'', published a drawing on January 7th, 2015 on the magazine's Twitter, Twitter feed, titled "Still no terrorist attack in France", in which a terrorist said "[they] had until the end of January for the wishes." [[http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/07/shooting-paris-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo A few hours later]], two Al-Qaeda members attacked the magazine's offices, with Charb being one of the 12 killed in the process.
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Harsher in Hindsight is a certain event, plotline or saying where a later event (in the story or {{real life}}) comes up and only serves to make it worse. It can lead to [[BannedEpisode episodes or issues being pulled or held from re-running]] if executives want it to be DistancedFromCurrentEvents.
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Harsher in Hindsight is a certain event, plotline plotline, joke or saying where a later event (in the story or {{real life}}) comes up and only serves to make it worse. It can lead to [[BannedEpisode episodes or issues being pulled or held from re-running]] if executives want it to be DistancedFromCurrentEvents.
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Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as people dying, that's not necessarily this. We all have to go at some point. It would only be this trope if the death was somehow similar to how they died onscreen. It is possible that [[NiceCharacterMeanActor the portrayer of a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person]], but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must come from something already dramatic and then felt worse because of the scandal.
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Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as people dying, that's not necessarily this. We all have to go at some point. It would only be this trope if the death was somehow similar to how they died onscreen. It is possible that [[NiceCharacterMeanActor the portrayer of actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person]], person, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must come from something already dramatic and be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal.
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%%* One ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip sets up the punchline by saying that the local newspaper reported on a "heterosexual AIDS epidemic" that turned out to be a false alarm. ...Yeah.
* A Father's Day ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' strip in 1989 showed Lizzie telling John, "You're the best daddy in the whole wide world!! Next to Creator/BillCosby, that is." By the time the strip came up for reprinting in 2018, Cosby had been convicted of sexual assault. As a result, the reprinted strip replaced Lizzie's second sentence with "Mom said you'd be happy if I said that!"
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%%* One ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip sets up the punchline by saying that the local newspaper reported on a "heterosexual AIDS epidemic" that turned out to be a false alarm. ...Yeah.
* A Father's Day ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' strip in 1989 showed Lizzie telling John, "You're the best daddy in the whole wide world!! Next to Creator/BillCosby, that is." By the time the strip came up for reprinting in 2018, Cosby had been convicted of sexual assault. As a result, the reprinted strip replaced Lizzie's second sentence with "Mom said you'd be happy if I said that!"
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* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
* Like most podcasts produced through a network, ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' ends some episodes with promos for the network (Creator/GimletMedia in this case) and their other shows. Starlee gushing about her employers and their other projects can be uncomfortable considering their somewhat bitter separation after the first season.
* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
* Like most podcasts produced through a network, ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' ends some episodes with promos for the network (Creator/GimletMedia in this case) and their other shows. Starlee gushing about her employers and their other projects can be uncomfortable considering their somewhat bitter separation after the first season.
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* While the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated_cover_jinx Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx]] is often the source of laughs, it can also go the other way.
** It can't be counted how many times ''SI'' features a cover of an athlete with talk of having a great season only for them to suffer a season (if not career) ending injury (sometimes when that very issue is still on the stands).
** Obviously, any cover featuring O.J. Simpson as everything right about football has a much different meaning today.
** The 1998 "Sportsman of the Year" issue featured Mark [=McGwire=] and Sammy Sosa, whose home run race had invigorated baseball, dressed like classic Greek Olympians. Today, both men are known to have been taking performance-enhancing drugs during their careers, tarnishing their legacy.
** In late 2012, ''SI'' did a cover story on Notre Dame player [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te%27o#Girlfriend_hoax Manti Te'o]] losing both his beloved grandmother and his long-time girlfriend in the same week. It led to a huge outpouring of support to Te'o and pushed his fame. Months later, it would be revealed Te'o's girlfriend never existed with him claiming he'd been "catfished," others believing he had made the whole thing up and the magazine among many with egg on their face.
** In a 2014 60th anniversary issue, ''SI'' noted they had devoted nearly a dozen covers to Lance Armstrong, hailing his heroic recovery from cancer to win seven Tour de France races. This included naming him Sportsman of the Year 2002 Sportsman of the Year and how he was a great ambassador to sports. Thus, they were as rocked as everyone when in 2012, Armstrong confessed to having been taking PED's through his entire career, leading to him being stripped of all those victories, banned from cycling, and destroying his heroic image.
** The 2020 Baseball Preview special hit newsstands and subscribers on the weekend of March 13...the same weekend the Usefulnotes/Covid19Pandemic caused mass shutdowns of the United States and curtailed the MLB season to a 60-game schedule.
** The 2021 Olympic preview issue featured Simone Biles on the cover and speculating how many gold medals she'd win. While the issue was on the stands, Biles had to pull out of several events due to various health and mental issues (including her aunt dying) as well as intense public pressure.
* The June 1993 ''Disney Adventures'' cover featured Music/MichaelJackson carrying a delighted WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} (his favorite Disney character, according to the magazine) on his shoulders. Two months later, Jackson was first accused of child molestation and in the years to come his Neverland Ranch would be compared to Pleasure Island, where young boys were free to play but had to pay a horrific price for their fun -- including at his 2004-05 trial on a second set of charges. Similarly, all the "Pied Piper of Pop" accolades that flew around him in TheEighties turned sour in the wake of the accusations, as people remembered [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what happened to the kids he enchanted]]. (A ''Cracked'' back cover in '93 spoofed this with Jackson as "The Pied Piper of Encino".)
* Charb, cartoonist and editor in chief of the French satirical magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'', published a drawing on January 7th, 2015 on the magazine's Twitter, titled "Still no terrorist attack in France", in which a terrorist said "[they] had until the end of January for the wishes." [[http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/07/shooting-paris-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo A few hours later]], two Al-Qaeda members attacked the magazine's offices, with Charb being one of the 12 killed in the process.
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': In the "20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things" for 2008, Amy Winehouse's destructive behavior was listed at number 11. The end of the entry stated: "''It makes us wonder if her next full-house appearance will be at a funeral home.''" About two-and-a-half years later, Winehouse was found dead in her London flat at age 27.
** In 2019, the “Dumbest thing” of the year was the assumption that Mad would stop publishing new material completely after firing most of their staff. They insisted new issues would be a mix of first runs and reprints. Which was true...at a 20-80 split. And only [[DownerEnding for a few more months.]]
* Nintendo Power's Player Pulse section in volume 72 (May 1995) featured a list of "Top 10 Crime Games". #10 was "Super Bomber Man 3: The World Trade Center". Let that sink in for a moment...
* The July 20, 2012 issue of ''Entertainment Weekly'' had a [[http://cdn.batman-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/EntertainmentWeeklyJuly20cover.jpg cover]] about ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', calling it "Batman's Killer Finale". This became very unfortunate when a midnight screening for the movie [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora,_Colorado_shooting was targeted by a shooter]] who killed 12 and injured many others.
* The last 2021 issue of ''People'' Magazine, released on December 30th, had a cover story celebrating the 100th birthday of Creator/BettyWhite, who would be celebrating it on January 17th, 2022. White died on New Year's Eve, 2021 at the age of 99.
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* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
* Like most podcasts produced through a network, ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' ends some episodes with promos for the network (Creator/GimletMedia in this case) and their other shows. Starlee gushing about her employers and their other projects can be uncomfortable considering their somewhat bitter separation after the first season.
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* While the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated_cover_jinx Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx]] is often the source of laughs, it can also go the other way.
** It can't be counted how many times ''SI'' features a cover of an athlete with talk of having a great season only for them to suffer a season (if not career) ending injury (sometimes when that very issue is still on the stands).
** Obviously, any cover featuring O.J. Simpson as everything right about football has a much different meaning today.
** The 1998 "Sportsman of the Year" issue featured Mark [=McGwire=] and Sammy Sosa, whose home run race had invigorated baseball, dressed like classic Greek Olympians. Today, both men are known to have been taking performance-enhancing drugs during their careers, tarnishing their legacy.
** In late 2012, ''SI'' did a cover story on Notre Dame player [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te%27o#Girlfriend_hoax Manti Te'o]] losing both his beloved grandmother and his long-time girlfriend in the same week. It led to a huge outpouring of support to Te'o and pushed his fame. Months later, it would be revealed Te'o's girlfriend never existed with him claiming he'd been "catfished," others believing he had made the whole thing up and the magazine among many with egg on their face.
** In a 2014 60th anniversary issue, ''SI'' noted they had devoted nearly a dozen covers to Lance Armstrong, hailing his heroic recovery from cancer to win seven Tour de France races. This included naming him Sportsman of the Year 2002 Sportsman of the Year and how he was a great ambassador to sports. Thus, they were as rocked as everyone when in 2012, Armstrong confessed to having been taking PED's through his entire career, leading to him being stripped of all those victories, banned from cycling, and destroying his heroic image.
** The 2020 Baseball Preview special hit newsstands and subscribers on the weekend of March 13...the same weekend the Usefulnotes/Covid19Pandemic caused mass shutdowns of the United States and curtailed the MLB season to a 60-game schedule.
** The 2021 Olympic preview issue featured Simone Biles on the cover and speculating how many gold medals she'd win. While the issue was on the stands, Biles had to pull out of several events due to various health and mental issues (including her aunt dying) as well as intense public pressure.
* The June 1993 ''Disney Adventures'' cover featured Music/MichaelJackson carrying a delighted WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} (his favorite Disney character, according to the magazine) on his shoulders. Two months later, Jackson was first accused of child molestation and in the years to come his Neverland Ranch would be compared to Pleasure Island, where young boys were free to play but had to pay a horrific price for their fun -- including at his 2004-05 trial on a second set of charges. Similarly, all the "Pied Piper of Pop" accolades that flew around him in TheEighties turned sour in the wake of the accusations, as people remembered [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers what happened to the kids he enchanted]]. (A ''Cracked'' back cover in '93 spoofed this with Jackson as "The Pied Piper of Encino".)
* Charb, cartoonist and editor in chief of the French satirical magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'', published a drawing on January 7th, 2015 on the magazine's Twitter, titled "Still no terrorist attack in France", in which a terrorist said "[they] had until the end of January for the wishes." [[http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/07/shooting-paris-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo A few hours later]], two Al-Qaeda members attacked the magazine's offices, with Charb being one of the 12 killed in the process.
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': In the "20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things" for 2008, Amy Winehouse's destructive behavior was listed at number 11. The end of the entry stated: "''It makes us wonder if her next full-house appearance will be at a funeral home.''" About two-and-a-half years later, Winehouse was found dead in her London flat at age 27.
** In 2019, the “Dumbest thing” of the year was the assumption that Mad would stop publishing new material completely after firing most of their staff. They insisted new issues would be a mix of first runs and reprints. Which was true...at a 20-80 split. And only [[DownerEnding for a few more months.]]
* Nintendo Power's Player Pulse section in volume 72 (May 1995) featured a list of "Top 10 Crime Games". #10 was "Super Bomber Man 3: The World Trade Center". Let that sink in for a moment...
* The July 20, 2012 issue of ''Entertainment Weekly'' had a [[http://cdn.batman-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/EntertainmentWeeklyJuly20cover.jpg cover]] about ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', calling it "Batman's Killer Finale". This became very unfortunate when a midnight screening for the movie [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora,_Colorado_shooting was targeted by a shooter]] who killed 12 and injured many others.
* The last 2021 issue of ''People'' Magazine, released on December 30th, had a cover story celebrating the 100th birthday of Creator/BettyWhite, who would be celebrating it on January 17th, 2022. White died on New Year's Eve, 2021 at the age of 99.
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* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
* Like most podcasts produced through a network, ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' ends some episodes with promos for the network (Creator/GimletMedia in this case) and their other shows. Starlee gushing about her employers and their other projects can be uncomfortable considering their somewhat bitter separation after the first season.
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* A popular joke on the ''Ride/JungleCruise'' has the skippers advising parents "Watch your children, or the crocodiles will". In June 2016, a two-year-old boy was dragged into a lagoon and drowned by an alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, and the cruise skippers were told to never use the joke again.
* At Ride/{{Disneyland}}, the BlackComedy ending of "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" has the riders, in the role of Toad, collide with an oncoming train and go to FireAndBrimstoneHell. This ending has no basis in the film the ride is based on, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', or in its source, ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''. The ride's designers presumably (hopefully!) didn't know that Alastair Grahame, the son of ''Wind in the Willows'' author Kenneth Grahame, [[WrittenForMyKids for whom he wrote the stories]] and of whom the character of Mr. Toad is an affectionately comic caricature, was struck and killed by a train at age 19 in what was most likely a suicide.
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* A popular joke on the ''Ride/JungleCruise'' has the skippers advising parents "Watch your children, or the crocodiles will". In June 2016, a two-year-old boy was dragged into a lagoon and drowned by an alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, and the cruise skippers were told to never use the joke again.
* At Ride/{{Disneyland}}, the BlackComedy ending of "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" has the riders, in the role of Toad, collide with an oncoming train and go to FireAndBrimstoneHell. This ending has no basis in the film the ride is based on, ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', or in its source, ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''. The ride's designers presumably (hopefully!) didn't know that Alastair Grahame, the son of ''Wind in the Willows'' author Kenneth Grahame, [[WrittenForMyKids for whom he wrote the stories]] and of whom the character of Mr. Toad is an affectionately comic caricature, was struck and killed by a train at age 19 in what was most likely a suicide.
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* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* In-story example from ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* In-story example from ''Hello From the Hallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* In-story example from ''Hello From the Hallowoods.''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* In-story example from''Hello From the Hallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* In-story example from''Hello from ''Hello From the Hallowoods.'' Watching Little Mikey get bullied is hard enough on its own, but then we find out two of the bullies picking on him for his "boyfriend" are together as adults, and at least one of them is still dealing deep-seated internalized homophobia. Relistening to the bullying scene becomes darker knowing it's not only coming from a place of self-hatred, but one that hasn't gone away after more than a decade.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': If you mean season 1 episode 8 that's dealing with the flu or season 10 episode 20 where [[spoiler:Kalo's friend Aci get vaccinated by doctors once arrived on Planet Xing due to galactic virus]], it is now the sensitive subject to you because of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Joys of Season'' episode 96, where almost everyone else (except Wolffy) in the Green Green Grasslands got sick of a pandemic. 10 years later after the original airing of the episode in China, COVID-19 Pandemic happened...
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': If you mean season 1 episode 8 that's dealing with the flu or season 10 episode 20 where [[spoiler:Kalo's friend Aci get vaccinated by doctors once arrived on Planet Xing due to galactic virus]], it is now the sensitive subject to you because of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.
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* Like most podcasts produced through a network, ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' ends some episodes with promos for the network (Creator/GimletMedia in this case) and their other shows. Starlee gushing about her employers and their other projects can be uncomfortable considering their somewhat bitter separation after the first season.
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