History DramaticIrony / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': In chapter 2 Asuka ponders about her life’s several ironies: she had missed terribly her mother, but her mother had been always there and she had been unable to find her, open up and feel her love because Kyoko’s death had driven her to shut her heart; and she owed her family and her current happiness to two women she hardly considered as friends.

** [[DoomedByCanon Elia]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Martell]] writing to [[DeathByChildbirth Lyanna]] [[TheLostLenore Stark]] and saying that their names will enter into history. Needless to say, everyone in the Seven Kingdoms know who they were now, but for much more ugly, painful reasons that both women ever imagined.

** There are two references to David in chapter 2 of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''. First, Tom recalls Saddler miraculously recovering from his coma then suddenly disappearing two days later, and assumes aliens must have been involved. Then, the man in the cell next to him turns out to be David's father, who hopes to see his son again. Tom doesn't know that David was responsible for Saddler's disappearance, nor that he's most likely dead.

** After Natalie is defeated as Mayura and knowing the heroes will be coming after him, Gabriel's sole hope is that his son will find out about Emille's comatose state and will become the second Hawkmoth mentioned in the episode "Timetagger" and get revenge on Ladybug and Chat Noir. Adrien ''is'' Chat Noir, and when he finds out that his father has kept her a secret and been terrorizing Paris to bring her back, he is enraged and would’ve Cataclysm’d his own father if Ladybug didn't stop him.

** After Natalie is defeated as Mayura and knowing the heroes will be coming after him, Gabriel's sole hope is that his son will find out about Emille's comatose state and will become the second Hawkmoth mentioned in the episode "Timetagger" and get revenge on Ladybug and Chat Noir. Adrien ''is'' Chat Noir, and when he finds out that his father has kept her a secret and been terrorizing Paris to bring her back, he is enraged and almost Cataclysm his own father if Ladybug didn't stop him.

* At one point in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/440296/8/Trunks-and-Goten-s-Excellent-Adventure Trunks and Goten's Excellent Adventure]]'', Vegeta claims that he highly doubts Trunks's "pathetic" father could be a threat to the Ginyu Force, an assertion Goten finds hilarious.

* At one point in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/440296/8/Trunks-and-Goten-s-Excellent-Adventure Trunks and Goten's Excellent Adventure]]'', Vegeta claims that he highly doubts Trunk's "pathetic" father could be a threat to the Ginyu Force, an assertion Goten finds hilarious.

** At the end of the Enies Lobby arc, Cross is warned by Aokiji to beware the Blackbeard Pirates, and rushes to check the Vivre Card that Ace gave Luffy to see if Ace was captured like in canon despite Cross's efforts to warn him. To his relief, the Vivre Card is still intact, and Cross spends a few more arcs thinking that Ace was safe and that the War of the Best was prevented. [[spoiler:In actuallity, while Ace and his allies were about to defeat Blackbeard, Aokiji had froze the battlefield and allowed Blackbeard to win. The marines are currently keeping Ace in a coma to make sure any Vivre Cards doesn't reveal the truth]].

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', the SelfInsert Cross only has knowledge of the series up to the end of Dressrosa, which was the latest arc when he was sent to the One Piece world. This means that any information revealed afterwards is completely unknown, especially in regards for Sanji. Cross believes that the embarrassing past that Sanji was worried of him knowing was that he used to be a picky eater before meeting Zeff, instead of [[spoiler:being abused by his father and brothers before running away to the East Blue]]. He also unknowingly upsets Sanji by saying [[spoiler:that the Germa 66 might not be as bad as the Marine Propaganda describes them as, with Sanji knowing first-hand that they are ''that cruel'']].

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* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7831829/1/Looming_Darkness Looming Darkness]]'' has [[spoiler:Link temporarily working with Dark Link.]][[spoiler:[[labelnote:*]]really Vanitas[[/labelnote]]]] The reader is shown all sides of the conflict, Zelda and Ciara believing that [[spoiler: Link]] has gone through a FaceHeelTurn when the reader knows [[spoiler: Link is suffering just as much as they are.]]

* In ''Fanfic/PastSins'', Twilight was afraid that [[spoiler:Celestia would [[AdultFear take her daughter away]]]]. Celestia was afraid that an EldritchAbomination was loose in her kingdom, plotting to overthrow her and her sister, and bring about nighttime eternal. [[spoiler:Celestia's knee-jerk reaction to ''her'' fear resulted in ''both'' their fears coming true.]]

** [[DoomedByCanon Elia]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Martell]] writing to [[DeathByChildbirth Lyanna]] [[TheLostLenore Stark]] their names will enter into history. Needless to say, everyone in the Seven Kingdoms know who they were now, but for much more ugly, painful reasons that both women ever imagined.

* In ''Fanfic/SchneeHeroOrHuntress'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademiaAizawa]] tells [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY]] Weiss]] she needs to use her 'quirk' to its fullest extent, otherwise she'll end up bleeding out in an alley somewhere... which is exactly where Weiss wound up when she first came to the world, after using her semblance so much that her aura broke.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5362219/1/Ginny-Weasley-and-the-Heir-of-Slytherin Ginny Weasley and the Heir of Slytherin]]'', which tells ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' from [[POVSequel Ginny's perspective]], has several ironic {{Call Forward}}s. For example, Percy scolds Ginny for using the word "bitch", saying "Ginny, language! What d'you think your mother would think if she were here? Do you think ''she'' would ever [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows use a word like "bitch"]]?"

** In the PeggySue fic Fanfic/RelicOfTheFuture a time displaced Jaune Arc decides to avoid large alterations to the past so that he won't invalidate his knowledge of future event. The reader however knows that by the time he's decided this he's [[spoiler: already prevented Summer Rose's death.]]

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31237946 The Outbreak]]'', after Oliver kills Ra's and is saved by Felicity, he reflects "with any luck the others were rounding up his four men and disseminating the cure to the Alpha-Omega. He had defied the will of the Demon Head and managed to save his city." In truth, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to Felicity's actions]], the Alpha-Omega virus has been released and people are dying. [[spoiler:Quentin Lance is already dead.]]

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31237946 The Outbreak]]'', after Oliver kills Ra's and is saved by Felicity, he reflects "with any luck the others were rounding up his four men and disseminating the cure to the Alpha-Omega. He had defied the will of the Demon Head and managed to save his city." In truth, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to Felicity's actions]], the Alpha and Omega virus has been released and people are dying. [[spoiler:Quentin Lance is already dead.]]

** Yang and Ruby are determined to protect their sisters from knowing the truth about their activities, completely unaware that the other is working the same problem from a different angle.

* ''Fanfic/SparkToSparkDustToDust'' is filled to the brim with this trope. Both of the story's author have admitted that this was intentional, as Dramatic Irony is [[AuthorAppeal one of their favorite tropes]].

* In the series proper, Ser Barristan Selmy intensely dislikes Jaime Lannister for breaking his oaths to the mad monarch Aerys III, though it's made clear to the observer if not to Barristan that had he not done so, the entire capital would have been wiped off the map by a burst of wildfire. Near the end of ''FanFic/PurpleDays''' [[GroundhogDayLoop Oxcross Loop]], Sansa uses a glass candle to see into the Red Keep and sees Ser Barristan, having hit the DespairEventHorizon, killing Daenerys, his queen, in an ultimately futile attempt to stop her dragons from wiping out Flea Bottom.