History Main / IronicEcho

'''Bolt:''' Well, [[MovingTheGoalposts the deal just expired]].\\

'''Bolt:''' Well, the deal just expired.\\

* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin was very upset that Wrestling/OwenHart never called him to find out his condition after Hart broke his neck with a botched Tombstone piledriver. This only becomes Ironic because Austin never bothered to check up on Wrestling/MasahiroChono after breaking ''his'' neck in an almost identical fashion, during an Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA World Heavyweight Championship match, in September 1992. Only avoids crossing over into hypocrisy because Austin, at the time, had no idea that Chono was actually injured.

* For years, fans of opposing teams (especially the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils) could and would taunt the New York Rangers and their fans with chants of "19-40!", referring to the last time the Rangers had won the Stanley Cup. Soon after the Rangers finally broke the Curse of 1940 in 1994, one Ranger player does a mocking "19-40!" chant at a television camera as the team celebrated on the ice.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney''

* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lw6HypJBso In this story]], [[spoiler:Kairi asks Ram's former parents if they regretted abandoning her. The mother says they didn't know what they were doing back then, but he orders his men to take the couple and Momo away to pay off the debt. When they protest, Kairi replies that he doesn't know what he's doing either.]]
* ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'': {{Invoked}} in the episode "That's So Gay!". After hearing two rude guys say "That's so gay" in a homophobic way towards Todd, Chris and Ian say "That's so gay" after complimenting Todd's actions in hopes that people use the phrase in a more positive light.

* Doubles as a PreMortemOneLiner in WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie

* ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': In the final battle of the tournament, Tiff and Shelby discuss tactics to use against the Coven, one of which being a pincer maneuver to "attack from all sides". Not long after, [[spoiler:Tiff is taken out by Scott's horde of demons, who repeats her own tactic back to her while she's dying.]]

* In 2019, Donald Trump mocked Greta Thunberg after she was named as Time Person of the Year. Fast forward to the 2020 Presidential election, wherein Greta trolls Trump by quoting his tweet nearly word for word in response to a call from Trump to stop the vote counting: "So ridiculous. Donald needs to work on his anger management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend! Chill, Donald, Chill!"
** Moreover, after Trump actually lost to Joe Biden, his dissenters celebrated his loss by carrying signs that read, among other things, "YOU'RE FIRED!", Trump's EliminationCatchphrase from ''Series/TheApprentice''.

* Doubles as a PreMortemOneLiner in WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie

* On his very first speech as Conservative leader in 2005, UsefulNotes/DavidCameron addressed the slow decline of the political fortunes UsefulNotes/TonyBlair with 'He was the future. Once.' A decade later, after the disaster of the Brexit referendum, he gave his final speech at Prime Minister's Questions, including the line: '[[LampshadeHanging As I once said]], I was the future. Once.'

* On his very first speech as Conservative leader in 2005, UsefulNotes/DavidCameron addressed the slow decline of the political fortunes UsefulNotes/TonyBlair with 'he was the future. once.' A decade later, after the disaster of the Brexit referendum, he gave his final speech at Prime Minister's Questions, including the line: '[[LampshadeHanging As I once said]], I was the future. Once.'

* At ''[[Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}} Wrestlemania 24]]'', Wrestling/ShawnMichaels would tearfully apologize to Wrestling/RicFlair, "I'm sorry, I love you." before hitting him with a [[FinishingMove Superkick]] to retire Flair. This angered Wrestling/{{Batista}}, who went after Michaels for revenge. This would lead to a Stretcher Match which would have Batista say to Michaels "I don't love you, and I'm not sorry."

* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': In the final battle of the tournament, Tiff and Shelby discuss tactics to use against the Coven, one of which being a pincer maneuver to "attack from all sides". Not long after, [[spoiler:Tiff is taken out by Scott's horde of demons, who repeats her own tactic back to her while she's dying.]]

** In the second ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' game, Justine Courtney, a judge who is opposed to Edgeworth for much of the game, has "OVERRULED!" as her CatchPhrase, her counterpart to the signature yell of "OBJECTION!". At one point, Edgeworth throws her catchphrase back in her face when issuing a rebuttal to her.

* Former power-broker in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Andrea Neves was cozy with newspaper owners there and would often make none-too-subtle threats to editors by asking, rhetorically, "Is the agenda good?", thus getting them to change the focus, hide it, fire journalists and so on. And then she was arrested for charges of corruption. Journalists that covered said arrest gleefully asked her, as she was walked into prison: "Is the agenda good, Andrea?" and "Did you like the agenda, Andrea?" in reference to her CatchPhrase when dealing with/blocking news that displeased her.

* For years, fans of opposing teams (especially the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils) could and would taunt the New York Rangers and their fans with chants of "19-40!", referring to the last time the Rangers had won the Stanley Cup. Soon after the Rangers finally broke the Curse of 1940 in 1994 (the 53 season drought still stands as a record in hockey), one Ranger player does a mocking "19-40!" chant at a television camera as the team celebrated on the ice.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' features an extremely well-deserved one in the prologue to the Followers of Set clanbook. At the start of this particular story, Maria Kenyon is a meth-addicted SexSlave working for [[SmugSnake "Doc" Hayes]], who provides her with her daily fix in exchange for an increasingly disgusting series of sex acts, and always begins each session with "Want your medicine, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]?" However, by the end of the story, Maria has been Embraced into the Followers of Set, and as a graduation present, she's been given her own ghoul -- none other than Doc Hayes himself; finding herself with full authority over her former boss, and [[HourglassPlot knowing that Hayes is now just as hopelessly addicted to vampire blood as she was to meth]], Maria has only one thing to say to her terrified slave: ''"[[KickTheSonOfABitch Want your medicine?]]"''

* In the leadup to a 2020 playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, Steelers receiver [=JuJu=] Smith-Schuster shrugged off the idea that the Browns team he was facing (the most successful Browns team in decades) was different or something to be concerned about, saying, "They're still the same Browns teams I play every year...at the end of the day, I don't know, the Browns is the Browns." After the Browns [[DarkHorseVictory shocked the Steelers with a 48-37 victory]], quarterback Baker Mayfield came through the tunnel saying, "The Browns is the Browns!" as he high-fived someone.

* At ''[[Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}} Wrestlemania 24]], Wrestling/ShawnMichaels would tearfully apologize to Wrestling/RicFlair, "I'm sorry, I love you." before hitting him with a [[FinishingMove Superkick]] to retire Flair This angered Wrestling/{{Batista}}, who went after Michaels for revenge. This would lead to a Stretcher Match which would have Batista say to Michaels "I don't love you, and I'm not sorry."

** Phoenix Wright's DreamIntro from the first case of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll Justice For All]]'' comes back in the second trial for the fourth case, after Phoenix learns that [[spoiler: he has to defend a guilty person in court.]]

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles'', Doc gives the following reason for not wanting to be associated with Grif in Episode 23: "Sorry, man, but it's pretty obvious that you're really unpopular, and if I'm gonna make any progress around here at all I can't really be directly associated with you. I'm sure you understand." In Episode 25, when the Blues hand Doc off to the Reds as part of a deal, the Reds abandon Doc, and Doc looks to Grif for help and Grif throws Doc's earlier reasoning right back in his face, almost word for word.
** At the climax of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 13, [[FauxAffablyEvil Felix]] tells [[ConsummateProfessional Locus]] that he's gonna kill the Reds and Blues "not because of [[BigBad Hargrove]], but for [[RevengeBeforeReason me]]" and yells at him to "for once in your life, forget about following your goddamn orders!" [[spoiler:After Locus learns about how Felix [[UnwittingPawn has been intentionally using him and encouraging his PTSD for his own benefit and survival]], he turns on Felix by telling him he's "not doing this for the reward or because someone told me too. I'm doing this for me," and thus lets him [[KarmicDeath get his just desserts]]]].

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