History Main / HarsherInHindsight

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* The back of the bag for the starter pack of the Panini [[UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague Premier League]] 2024 sticker album sees a collage of various stickers from inside. Two of the players featured are Tom Lockyer of Luton Town and Philip Billing of AFC Bournemouth, next to each other. In December 2023, their two teams were playing each other when Lockyer suddenly collapsed. Billing was the first person to notice that he hadn't got back up.

* [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Bradford City FC's]] nearly century-old home ground, Valley Parade, had become quite dilapidated by the middle part of TheEighties, with creaky wooden stands and an accumulation of rubbish beneath the seats. While the club owners had promised to renovate the stadium, they'd dragged their feet, and the local county council sent them several pointed letters about the situation. One warned "A carelessly discarded cigarette could give rise to a fire risk." On the 11th of May in 1985, a massive, quick-moving blaze erupted in the stands at a match, killing 56 people. The investigation did indeed ultimately trace the start of the fire to a fan trying to stamp out a discarded cigarette in the stands.

* In ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'', a Ride/{{Disneyland}} nighttime spectacular celebrating Walt Disney Animation Studios' 100th anniversary, the last line of spoken dialogue has the narrator of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''-inspired segment predict, "I, for one, think what comes next will be wondrous." From the perspective of the January 2023 premiere, what would come next for WDAS was the release of ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'', which even received a brief plug in ''Wondrous Journeys''. Unfortunately, the movie ended up receiving underwhelming critical and audience reception.

* In ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'', a Ride/{{Disneyland}} nighttime spectacular celebrating Walt Disney Animation Studios' 100th anniversary, the last line of spoken dialogue has the narrator of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''-inspired segment predict, "I, for one, think what comes next will be wondrous." From the perspective of the January 2023 premiere, what would come next for WDAS was the release of ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' (which even received a brief plug in ''Wondrous Journeys''). Unfortunately, the movie ended up receiving underwhelming critical and audience reception.

* In ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'', Ride/{{Disneyland}}'s nighttime spectacular for Disney's 100 Years of Wonder celebration, the last line of spoken dialogue has the narrator of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''-inspired segment predict, "I, for one, think what comes next will be wondrous." From the perspective of the January 2023 premiere, what came next was underwhelming critical/audience reception for nearly every tentpole movie or TV show Disney released as part of the celebration, including the briefly-plugged ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023''.

* In ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'', Ride/{{Disneyland}}'s nighttime spectacular for Disney's 100 Years of Wonder celebration, the last line of spoken dialogue has the narrator of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''-inspired segment muse, "I, for one, predict that what comes next will be wondrous." From the perspective of the January 2023 premiere, what came next was underwhelming critical/audience reception for nearly every tentpole movie or TV show Disney released as part of the celebration, including the briefly-plugged ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023''.

* In ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'', Ride/{{Disneyland}}'s nighttime spectacular for Disney's 100 Years of Wonder celebration, the last line of spoken dialogue has the narrator of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''-inspired segment muse, "I, for one, predict that what comes next will be wondrous." From the perspective of the January 2023 premiere, what came next was underwhelming critical/audience reception for nearly every tentpole movie or TV show Disney released as part of the celebration.

Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as an actor dying after having played [[CharacterDeath a character who was killed off]], 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, or if they died so shortly after the work is released. It is also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal. And if a work references something that already was an issue back then, but "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent recently]]" became more relevant, such as [[BigotWithABadge police racism]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutality]], [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic contagious illnesses]], or natural disasters, there needs to be specific details in common with the real life event for it to be worth listing here.

Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as an actor dying after having played [[CharacterDeath a character who was killed off]], 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, or if they died so shortly after the work is released. It is also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal. And if a work references something that already was an issue back then, but "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent recently]]" became more relevant, such as [[BigotWithABadge police racism]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutality]],[[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic contagious illnesses]], or natural disasters, there needs to be specific details in common with the real life event for it to be worth listing here.

Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as an actor dying after having played [[CharacterDeath a character who was killed off]], 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, or if they died so shortly after the work is released. It is also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal.

* 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]].

* Ride/LunaParkSydney's now-defunct Ghost Train had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izbOPvugIbM tape]] that played prior to the ride that said "yes, there are lots of ghosts in here, you'll shiver and quake in the Ghost Train, hahahahaha"! The phrase became much less lighthearted and darker and grim after the ride burned down on June 9, 1979, and took 7 lives in the process.
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Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as an actor dying after having played [[CharacterDeath a character who was killed off]], 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 also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal.

* The July 2020 issue of ''Empire'' magazine had a list of "50 Greatest Movie Heroes" which included ''Film/BlackPanther'', ending the entry with "long may he reign." Three months later, ''Empire'' was doing a massive tribute issue following the shocking passing of ''Creator/ChadwickBoseman''.

Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as actors 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 also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal.

* The July 2022 issue of ''Total Film'' had a brief interview with Creator/JamesCaan on the famous "hobbling" scene from ''Film/{{Misery}}''. Caan passed away two weeks after the issue was published.

* "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.)

* Luna Park Sydney's now-defunct Ghost Train had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izbOPvugIbM tape]] that played prior to the ride that said "yes, there are lots of ghosts in here, you'll shiver and quake in the Ghost Train, hahahahaha"! The phrase became much less lighthearted and darker and grim after the ride burned down on June 9, 1979, and took 7 lives in the process.

* [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Bradford City FC's]] nearly century-old home ground, Valley Parade, had become quite dilapidated by the middle part of TheEighties, with creaky wooden stands and an accumulation of rubbish beneath the seats. While the club owners had promised to renovate the stadium, they'd dragged their feet, and the local county council sent them several pointed letters about the situation. One warned "A carelessly discarded cigarette could give rise to a fire risk." On the 11th of May in 1985, a massive, quick-moving blaze erupted in the stands at halftime of a match, killing 56 people. The investigation did indeed ultimately trace the start of the fire to a fan trying to stamp out a discarded cigarette in the stands.

* [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Bradford City FC's]] nearly century-old home ground, Valley Parade, had become quite dilapidated by 1985, with creaky wooden stands and an accumulation of rubbish beneath the seats. While the club owners had promised to renovate the stadium, they'd dragged their feet, and the local county council sent them several pointed letters about the situation. One warned "A carelessly discarded cigarette could give rise to a fire risk." On the 11th of May, a fan attempting to stamp out a cigarette on the grandstand during halftime of a match did in fact ignite a quick-moving blaze that ended up killing 56 people.