Non-coincidental entries also often fail to seem hilarious, if they boil down to something like, "This creator used this trope again later," or, "This actor cashed-in on their acclaim for this role by signing on to a similar one later."
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused
, started by keyblade333 on Jan 13th 2017 at 11:18:47 PM
Does this page really need to reference both "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and Harsher in Hindsight twice to get the meaning across? Seems like those first 2 paragraphs could use a rewrite (Life Imitates Art also seems to me to be a very specific example of this, it is presented here as almost general)
Osamu Sato Fanatic
I also posted this on the discussion page for Shout-Out but it bears repeating since it harshly effects this trope too.
Can we get a repair shop thread going to make it so vaguely related things aren't fully hilarious in hindsight? Like, seriously.
Go to a fictional work where a character asks another to build a snowman, and it's not Disney's Frozen. Any of them. ALL of them. In the YMMV page, no matter what, it'll be listed as an example of Hilarious in Hindsight, and a link to Frozen will be why it's such a thing for that to be said.
I'm sorry. But no. No it's not hilarious in hindsight. It's a simple question. People build snowmen in real life. Do you see the Real Life page have every last example listed of people asking others if they want to build snowmen under Hilarious in Hindsight? No. No you don't.
Even worse is that with this trope in particular, just the MENTION of snowmen can get it to become this. Bobsheaux somehow got a variation with a Splatfest from Splatoon caught up in there as well. Yes, I know a Splatfest with snowmen and sandcastles existed, but did you really think it was "hilarious in hindsight" that these three things all happen to exist?
Seriously. Someone fix this. Stop it with the snowmen questions being instantly classed as this trope. No more snowmen questions. No more snowmen. No more snow. No more snow...
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Yes please! In so many edits Undertale gets brought up on the vaguest of terms and it's getting annoying.
Muramasa got.
Does this only apply to events outside the series making something funny, or events inside the series? The description seems to be saying that only outside influences apply. If that is the case, where do the in-universe examples go? I'm asking this question because I'd rather not end up in an edit war with somebody over whether or not Fred and George's prank in the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone counts.
I'm removing My Little Pony from this page. It's Western Animation, it doesn't need it's own separate category.
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I've added back the link. It is indeed Western Animation, but the MLP subpage has been made, so it has to be listed here (or on that page, but I think it's easier to put it here) to index it. Many large tropes have subpages for a single work.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Hilarious at hindsight is not different to Fridge Brilliance so it is really necessary?.
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It seems very different to me. Fridge Brilliance is about a viewer working something out in his own mind. This trope is about the interplay between events the series.
'Crisis or no, nothing should interfere with tea!'
Is this trope really for things that become funnier because of events within or outside the series? Shouldn't those be two separate tropes?
'Crisis or no, nothing should interfere with tea!'
Should this entire entry be deleted? Theoretically, it's occasions where something that wasn't meant to be funny was made funny/funnier by the passage of time. I've seen it correctly used maybe 5 times, ever. What it's become is "List coincidences", particularly "List 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon". Is it hilarious that an actor who is in something later co-starred with an actor who once appeared in an earlier installment of that same franchise? To hear the users of this site, yes, that's laugh-out-loud funny.
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