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* In one of the first-season episodes of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', much fun is made of so-called "card crushes", PerverseSexualLust of a duelist towards a Duel Monsters card. Then came Yubel in Season 3.
** Similarly, a series of American commercials for the card game involving duelists playing the game amongst the rubble of an AfterTheEnd nuclear wasteland, implying that their dueling devastated the planet. Creepy, but hey, AmericanKirbyIsHardcore, right? [[Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime Tell that to Paradox]] and the [[WhamEpisode Yliaster Trio]].
* In one chapter of ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'', after Shuichi and Hiro get into a fight at school, Shuichi goes to Yuki's house to get cleaned up so his mom wouldn't see him all bloody. Yuki jokingly asks if Shuichi got gangbanged in gym class. A few chapters later, Shuichi actually does get gang raped.
** Perhaps an even bigger and worse one is much of volume 9 in the manga. Volume 9 is about Shuichi being Shanghaied to New York to perform for a new record label. During one of the last major climaxes, as Shuichi and company flee from his new boss, Reiji, in order to return to Japan, part of New York City gets the ever-loving crap blown out of it. Later, though it's on a plane headed for Japan, hi-jinks once again ensue, including K busting into the cockpit and shooting (with non-lethal rounds) and bounding the pilots and taking control of the plane. Volume 9 was released in Japan on January 2000, over a year before 9/11. This is made even more jarring when the reader is treated to a nice shot of the New York skyline, which includes the World Trade Center, when Shuichi first arrives to New York City.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
** An early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
** In the episode "Go West Young Meowth"", when the heroes and Team Rocket visit Hollywood, it turns out to be quite run down and implied to have a large amount of poverty. Keep in mind that this episode aired about 11 to 12 years before the California Bankruptcy.
** Depending on how you look at it, remember the backwards message slipped in by James' voice actor stating that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlIcJbbm08 "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil"?]] Well, that was a funny TakeThat against the dubbers until 4Kids lost ''Pokémon'' and ''Manga/OnePiece'' and now ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
** The events of the ending of "Battle aboard the St. Anne" and the beginning of "Pokemon Shipwrecked" have the St. Anne sinking, the captain making the morally dubious decision of leaving the passengers on the boat to sink (and this was PlayedForLaughs), as well as the believed deaths of Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, and James. These events end up becoming significantly harsher for Italian fans recently, when the Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy in a very similar manner to the St. Anne, not to mention five confirmed deaths onboard the ship as well as the arrest of the captain for its sinking. It's unknown if this will affect their being reaired by reruns.
** Similar to the above, the Battle Subway two-parter in Best Wishes consisting of "Crisis From The Underground Up" and "Battle for the Underground" will be uncomfortable for Belorussian audiences after the events of the April 2011 Minsk Metro bombing.
** Then there's the dub of "Ghost of Maiden's Peak", which has James (who has a British accent in the dub) whining "I don't want to go!" as he's pulled into Gastly's clutches. Then came [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor's]] [[TearJerker regeneration.]]
** Episode N featured a filler episode about a rescue team that is called in to fight a factory fire that trapped a class of schoolchildren and their teachers, which Team Rocket uses as a distraction to try to steal Pikachu. In April 2013, a factory exploded in Texas and the Boston Marathon was bombed, with one of the victims in the latter case being ''an 8-year-old boy''.
** XY The Series had one in a planned undersea episode centered around Skrelp and Dragalge; which was pulled from its initial airing and replaced with Ash's gym battle with Grant after the sinking of a South Korean ferry.
** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable. This is furthered in episode 49 [[spoiler: which reveals that Faba was responsible for bringing Nihilego from Ultra Space and trying to keep Lillie from rediscovering the truth]], further compounding the desire for Lillie to overcome her fear with the help of her friends.
** One of the longest-running jokes about the series is Ash's Pikachu not wanting to go into his Poké Ball. This becomes much darker after ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' [[spoiler: where Ash successfully got Pikachu into his Poké Ball to save him from being obliterated by attacks of a bunch of BrainwashedAndCrazy Pokémon in a HeroicSacrifice]].
* One episode of the 2003 Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' features a legendary alcohol-fueled DVDCommentary by voice actors Andy [=McAvin=] and Mike Kleinhenz. At one point, the show's constant {{Fanservice}} and [[PantyShot panty shots]] prompt Kleinhenz to jokingly remark, "Oooh, my heart, my heart can't take it!" On July 11th, 2008, Mike Kleinhenz passed away at the age of 56 due to a fatal heart attack.
* Also, in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Mike Kleinhenz plays the villainous Raven, and what is the one thing he desires? A heart.
* During a flashback in the Alabasta arc in ''Manga/{{One Piece}}'', Kohza gets his gang of kids to protect Vivi from kidnappers while shouting, "Fight to the death!" When she gets rescued (in the manga, at least), she responds to all this with [[NeverSayDie "Don't ever say death, leader!"]] This was long before [[{{Macekre}} the English dub by 4Kids]].
** Also in ''One Piece'', Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being ''One Piece'', and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
** Portgas D. Ace's first present appearance is at a restaurant in Alabasta, [[spoiler:supposedly having dropped dead mid-conversation. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments A few minutes later, he yawns and asks if he fell asleep, much to the bewilderment of the people who thought he died]]]]. Cut to Chapter 574; [[spoiler:he didn't fall asleep this time.]]
*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. It gets hard to watch his [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moments]] after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
** Several of the main characters' traits, such as Usopp's lying, Nami's obsession with money, and even Brook's eccentric nature are used for comic effect. However, each crew member eventually gets a flashback, many of which reveal tragic origins for these traits. For the most part, though, this doesn't stop them from being funny afterwards.
** A couple jokes are made by Usopp about people using scrapped ships: once during a filler episode regarding Fullbody, and again as the Skypiea arc begins regarding Mashira. It takes on a darker turn in Water 7 [[spoiler: when the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair and Usopp is unwilling to let it go]].
** While the reveal of Señor Pink (a grown man dressed like a baby, complete with pacifier) is initially hilarious, it becomes far less so when it is revealed that [[spoiler: he wears these clothes in memory of his dead son, and also to make his catatonic wife smile again. '''DAMN'''.]]
** Way back in the Alabasta arc, there's a rather funny scene where Sanji accuses Luffy of having eaten all the crew's food supplies, but Luffy refuses to cop to it. Sanji urges Luffy to fess up, saying that with such an obviously-guilty face like what Luffy's sporting, [[BadLiar he would be terrible at poker]]...then he kicks Luffy across the deck when Luffy accidentally outs himself as the guilty party after all. Now fast-forward several arcs going into the New World... [[spoiler:and we get to Chapter 844 of the manga, where Sanji is [[FightingYourFriend kicking Luffy senseless]] and declaring that he only tolerated them for all the time they were travelling together, [[ShooTheDog to make Luffy and Nami leave so as not to be targeted by Sanji's abusive family]]; this time it's Luffy who's calling Sanji out for being a BadLiar and declaring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he won't eat another bite of food unless Sanji's the one making it]], and that can only happen if Sanji returns to the crew]].
* Japanese television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Iijima was given her own manga series, titled ''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Iijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
* The ending of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory''. A terrorist attack decimates North America due to interference from a militarist faction within the government, who then use the attack as a justification to expand their influence & start another war. And this was made in the early 1990s!
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** One of the {{Running Gag}}s is that, [[FromBadToWorse as the icing on the post-apocalyptic cake]], America's going through a recession. To boot, one of the SEELE boardmembers says off-handedly, with (to Americans) alarming nonchalance in a conversation in the TV series, "The United States seems to be 'allergic' to unemployment, but they'll '''learn'''." Shudder.
** In episode 7, a prototype mech touted as being more reliable than the Evangelions is being extravagantly unveiled for its first ever activation, to which several people, including the press, and two of [=NERV=]'s highest ranking employees (namely Ritsuko and Misato) are invited. Dr. Akagi voices concern that its power-supply is a solid-fueled nuclear reactor, and the dangers that a core meltdown would pose. Of course, that's exactly what happens, and it's up to Misato (with help from Shinji & Unit 1) to prevent the runaway mech from suffering a runaway reactor meltdown. Made for exciting action, '''until''' the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
** Misato joking to Ritsuko in one of the first episodes that she's "not going to put the moves on Shinji". This has been nicknamed the "irony bomb" by parts of the fandom.
** [[spoiler: The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[IncestIsRelative partial clone of his mother]].]] The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.
** At one point, Rei says that all she is, is a pilot; and if she stops piloting Eva, she'll cease to exist.
** [[http://bit.ly/mjNLed Spike Spencer's rant]] on the NGE Platinum DVD. "Uuuhh... Is this how you end a series? I mean, is this... Where we go from here? Okay, the movie better sure as hell make up for this, I'm telling you, 'cause I'm stuck in nowhere land".
** Adam sent Earth off its axis, much like the Sendai earthquake.
** In ''Anime/{{Rebuild|OfEvangelion}} 2.0'', Sahaquiel explodes into a ''tsunami'' of blood. Yes, a tsunami. This is uncomfortable to watch due to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tohoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]].
* When [[Anime/{{Simoun}} Chor Tempest]] gets asked to show a Plumbum priestess around their ship they naturally start off with introductions, with the priestess repeating each name as she's told it. All except [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aer's]]. A funny little snub, right? Not so funny when it's revealed ''why'' she won't [[MeaningfulName say "Aer"]]. Until [[spoiler:she does, anyway.]]
* ''[[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia World Series]]'' is poking fun at everyone in a general area but the episodes set in Greece's land show him [[PerpetualPoverty as apparently living homeless among cats, finding places to sleep among stone ruins, and wishing he were a cat "to not have to think about GDP and trade imbalance."]] With protests in the streets and a nigh-revolution going on over there right now over the economy.
** There are also episodes about Russia. In one of them, he introduces his sister Ukraine and explains his difficult relationship to her, and another one is about the G8, with England expressing that he thinks Russia shouldn't be a member anymore. Now, Russia is suspended from the G8 because of the way the countries politicans behaved during the Crimean crisis, and there's a civil war in Ukraine over the question wether the country should rely more on Russia or more on the EU in terms of economy.
* ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'' has a parody of Michael Jackson as an end-of-series villain, complete with the usual jokes. It isn't really that bad to anyone who isn't that sensitive to the his whole being dead thing, at least until the line "You're right, I DO look like Sammy Davis Jr.! Well, except for the being dead part".
* In episode 6 of ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', Nagakura Shinpachi accuses Vice-captain Yamanami of cheating during a footrace by turning abaci into rollerskates, and demands (jokingly) that he commit {{seppuku}}. [[spoiler: Yamanami is [[DoomedByCanon Doomed by History]] to end his Shinsengumi career by committing seppuku.]]
** Similarly, in an early episode of the anime, Okita walks in on Hijikata making medicine, and jokingly states that no one will have to worry about catching colds. [[spoiler: Okita will later die of tuberculosis. ]]
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** Dio [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
** As an InUniverse example, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] fakes getting his hand cut off when Santana tries to absorb him. [[spoiler: Later on, Kars chops off Joseph's hand for real]].
* In the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' supplementary lessons, Osaka believes she is going to have a good day because she woke up early, only for an earthquake to rock the school moments later. Keep in mind, the school they go to is in Tokyo. [[DudeNotFunny Yeah, joke no longer funny]].
* It's mentioned in ''Manga/ShamanKing'' that American Indian art is popular in Japan. A group of Navajo artists are raising money to help victims of the tsunami.
** And then we have Ishihara's comment about Japanese culture being too materialistic and ''that'' causing the earthquake. ''Shaman King'' makes this a personal hobby horse.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days after the comment made by Hiroe.]]
** Many consider Hiroe's diatribe [[DudeNotFunny completely unfunny]]--Kon's condition was public knowledge (as Kon blogged about his condition until his death), so the remark looked as if Hiroe was speaking ill of Kon.
* Part 6 of Hentai manga ''Secret Plot Deep'' involves the main characters going to a beach north of Tokyo which is deserted due to everyone's worries about the nearby [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster nuclear power plant]]. Gyaa.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku comes off as awfully racist in retrospect.
* In the [[http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2203/grab02554vg5.png opening shot]] of ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'' episode 2 one of the headlines in the (German language) newspaper reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_%28polar_bear%29 Knut the polar bear]] becomes daddy". It was a fun little background detail at the time, but unfortunately Knut died in 2011. And to make things really tragically ironic, he was castrated about a year after ''Blassreiter'' came out.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Episode 15 has some townspeople afflicted with "swine flu" after coming in contact with lettuce pigs. This lost all humor after the [=H1N1=] outbreak in 2009. Also qualifies as HarsherInHindsight due to many cases of the disease being contracted from underprocessed pork products.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' has a couple of examples:
** In episode 3, Usagi talks about how much fun it must be to never wake up again, because you get to stay in your dreams forever. It wasn't so much fun in episode 69, when she almost died because she couldn't wake up. Or in Super S: TheMovie , where [[spoiler: she forcefully wakes herself up from what could've been an eternal slumber, despite the fact that she was having wonderful dreams involving Momoru]]
** In episode 145, Fisheye attacks and tries to kill a young ballet master simply because he wouldn't give him the role of Theatre/{{Giselle}}. While this is one of the more light-hearted examples of DisproportionateRetribution (this being ''[=SuperS=]''), it suddenly became one of the darkest moments in the most lighthearted season of the anime after Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin got splashed in the face with acid on January 17, 2013, in one of the most horrific incidents in the history of the Bolshoi Ballet, particularly as far as the infamous in-fighting and rivalries are concerned.
* In the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' manga, Saki's female bodyguards were a lighthearted nod to Gaddafi's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonian_Guard Amazonian Guard]]. The arrangement seems a lot less sexy now that members of the real-life Amazonian Guard have accused Gaddafi and his sons of [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/gaddafis-female-bodyguards-say-they-were-raped-abused-by-the-libyan-leader/2011/08/29/gIQA8TOKnJ_blog.html sexually assaulting them]].
* Koichi Shidou from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', being a Charles Manson-esque leader of a cult made of high school students who encourages free love, was already creepy enough without [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-10/penguindrum-voice-actor-illich-guardiola-arrested-in-texas his English voice actor Illich Guardiola getting arrested for getting too familiar with one of his students at the Houston Family Arts Center in 2014]].
* Creator/ScottFreeman's conviction in 2015 has made light-hearted moments in anime less so:
** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping some of Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
** In ''Manga/MakenKi'', Freeman voiced the perverse Kengo Usui, who often targets students like Kodama Himegami.
** ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has Sariel creeping up on younger women.
* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' examples:
** The backstory of Jinmenken/ Manjimutt in episode 3 is that his freak accident that led to him becoming a yokai stemmed from being let go from his job as a salaryman due to budget cuts. Two years after the episode first aired in the US, the exact same thing happened to the cast of the English dub.
** On a related note, the dub of episode 76 ends on Nate saying that "things will be back to normal" after the Pandle end the day with a fireworks show. Later that year, [[TheOtherDarrin the actors of the English dub would be recast]].
Anime/SgtFrog: “Keroro Killed the Radio Star” had one character worriedly comment that their radio show ratings were “dropping faster than an Music/AmyWinehouse song”. Funny TakeThat then, not so much since July 2011.
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!! InUniverse examples
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', members of [[TheMafia the Martillo family]] find much amusement in the fact that Firo manages to remain a virgin into his ''nineties'' ([[spoiler:especially since he's been ''married'' for over twenty years]]). Then ''Another Junk Railroad'' featured a conversation between Firo and a concerned Berga that heavily implies that [[spoiler:Firo has a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality because he was ''[[AttemptedRape almost raped]]'' when he was younger.]]
* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by turning it into flower petals". Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens [[spoiler:to ''a person''.]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal.]]
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon|AndShotacon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* One of the running gags in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' involves Megumi getting ignored often by the other girls except Yuki during conversations, especially in episode 2 when they make remarks about how they're still young and don't notice her discomfort with the subject. [[spoiler: Later in episode 6, it's revealed in a flashback that Megumi was killed while protecting the other girls from zombies. Hence, the reason why the other girls except Yuki ignore her is because she isn't there.]]
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** [[spoiler: Ukitake's "funeral" (with him buried in a sand casket)]] in the BeachEpisode becomes outright depressing to watch after the second-to-last chapter of the manga.
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In episode 8, Kirito accidentally grabs Asuna's breast when she falls on him. Cue Kirito being smacked in the face for humor effect assuming he did so intentionally. The scene wasn't so funny 16 episodes later when [[spoiler: Asuna ends up being nearly raped. In front of Kirito.]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Natsu pretends to be the Great Demon Lord at the end of the Edolas arc to help Mystogan retain peace, and it's honestly one of the funniest moments in the manga. Much later, the final chapter of the Tartarus arc reveals [[spoiler: Natsu is actually E.N.D., the first and most powerful of Zeref's demons, and whose full awakening will spell tragedy for everyone around him]].
* Part of the reason why ''Anime/PlasticMemories''' use of comic relief is being critiqued by some viewers is because ''Isla is near the end of her life''. As Episode 2 revealed, she only has [[spoiler:2000 hours]] left to live, meaning her antics of confused speech, diminished dexterity, and bizarre decision-making are the result of her functions slowly deteriorating. This makes some of her comical scenes from Episode 1 to be... not so funny in hindsight.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': One of the anime's {{omake}} makes a joke about Armin [[AttractiveBentGender looking better in a bunnygirl suit]] than any of the girls. In a later manga chapter, [[spoiler:Armin is captured while DisguisedInDrag, and while tied up is molested by an old man who didn't know he was male.]]
** It's a RunningGag for Krista/Historia to be referred to as a "goddess" by other characters. [[spoiler:Then her father tries to force her to inherit the power of the Founding Titan and eat Eren, which would make her a literal goddess at the expense of her humanity.]]
* ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'': In Episode 2, Yuki Yuna tries to cheer up her best friend with some dried flowers. (The attempt fails hilariously.) Pressing flowers is her hobby. [[spoiler:All the girls and their magic are represented with floral imagery and flower-inspired costumes. As they use their magic, they are afflicted with disabilities.]]
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Any scene where someone goes after Ranma's pigtail, after it's revealed that he absolutely ''must'' wear his hair that way to avoid going bald (it's a long story). Thankfully, the curse wears off eventually.
* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'': At the end of each episode, Reigen gives a sales pitch for the next one, in line with his personality as a con man. [[spoiler: When Reigen is presumed dead at the end of Episode 11,]] Mob voices the post-credits scene instead.
-->'''Mob:''' [[spoiler:Next time on Mob Psycho 100 Episode 12: 'Mob and Reigen.' This was in Master's will: Watching the finale in real time is an excellent decision.]]
* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
** Similarly, a series of American commercials for the card game involving duelists playing the game amongst the rubble of an AfterTheEnd nuclear wasteland, implying that their dueling devastated the planet. Creepy, but hey, AmericanKirbyIsHardcore, right? [[Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime Tell that to Paradox]] and the [[WhamEpisode Yliaster Trio]].
* In one chapter of ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'', after Shuichi and Hiro get into a fight at school, Shuichi goes to Yuki's house to get cleaned up so his mom wouldn't see him all bloody. Yuki jokingly asks if Shuichi got gangbanged in gym class. A few chapters later, Shuichi actually does get gang raped.
** Perhaps an even bigger and worse one is much of volume 9 in the manga. Volume 9 is about Shuichi being Shanghaied to New York to perform for a new record label. During one of the last major climaxes, as Shuichi and company flee from his new boss, Reiji, in order to return to Japan, part of New York City gets the ever-loving crap blown out of it. Later, though it's on a plane headed for Japan, hi-jinks once again ensue, including K busting into the cockpit and shooting (with non-lethal rounds) and bounding the pilots and taking control of the plane. Volume 9 was released in Japan on January 2000, over a year before 9/11. This is made even more jarring when the reader is treated to a nice shot of the New York skyline, which includes the World Trade Center, when Shuichi first arrives to New York City.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
** An early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
** In the episode "Go West Young Meowth"", when the heroes and Team Rocket visit Hollywood, it turns out to be quite run down and implied to have a large amount of poverty. Keep in mind that this episode aired about 11 to 12 years before the California Bankruptcy.
** Depending on how you look at it, remember the backwards message slipped in by James' voice actor stating that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlIcJbbm08 "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil"?]] Well, that was a funny TakeThat against the dubbers until 4Kids lost ''Pokémon'' and ''Manga/OnePiece'' and now ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
** The events of the ending of "Battle aboard the St. Anne" and the beginning of "Pokemon Shipwrecked" have the St. Anne sinking, the captain making the morally dubious decision of leaving the passengers on the boat to sink (and this was PlayedForLaughs), as well as the believed deaths of Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, and James. These events end up becoming significantly harsher for Italian fans recently, when the Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy in a very similar manner to the St. Anne, not to mention five confirmed deaths onboard the ship as well as the arrest of the captain for its sinking. It's unknown if this will affect their being reaired by reruns.
** Similar to the above, the Battle Subway two-parter in Best Wishes consisting of "Crisis From The Underground Up" and "Battle for the Underground" will be uncomfortable for Belorussian audiences after the events of the April 2011 Minsk Metro bombing.
** Then there's the dub of "Ghost of Maiden's Peak", which has James (who has a British accent in the dub) whining "I don't want to go!" as he's pulled into Gastly's clutches. Then came [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor's]] [[TearJerker regeneration.]]
** Episode N featured a filler episode about a rescue team that is called in to fight a factory fire that trapped a class of schoolchildren and their teachers, which Team Rocket uses as a distraction to try to steal Pikachu. In April 2013, a factory exploded in Texas and the Boston Marathon was bombed, with one of the victims in the latter case being ''an 8-year-old boy''.
** XY The Series had one in a planned undersea episode centered around Skrelp and Dragalge; which was pulled from its initial airing and replaced with Ash's gym battle with Grant after the sinking of a South Korean ferry.
** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable. This is furthered in episode 49 [[spoiler: which reveals that Faba was responsible for bringing Nihilego from Ultra Space and trying to keep Lillie from rediscovering the truth]], further compounding the desire for Lillie to overcome her fear with the help of her friends.
** One of the longest-running jokes about the series is Ash's Pikachu not wanting to go into his Poké Ball. This becomes much darker after ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' [[spoiler: where Ash successfully got Pikachu into his Poké Ball to save him from being obliterated by attacks of a bunch of BrainwashedAndCrazy Pokémon in a HeroicSacrifice]].
* One episode of the 2003 Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' features a legendary alcohol-fueled DVDCommentary by voice actors Andy [=McAvin=] and Mike Kleinhenz. At one point, the show's constant {{Fanservice}} and [[PantyShot panty shots]] prompt Kleinhenz to jokingly remark, "Oooh, my heart, my heart can't take it!" On July 11th, 2008, Mike Kleinhenz passed away at the age of 56 due to a fatal heart attack.
* Also, in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Mike Kleinhenz plays the villainous Raven, and what is the one thing he desires? A heart.
* During a flashback in the Alabasta arc in ''Manga/{{One Piece}}'', Kohza gets his gang of kids to protect Vivi from kidnappers while shouting, "Fight to the death!" When she gets rescued (in the manga, at least), she responds to all this with [[NeverSayDie "Don't ever say death, leader!"]] This was long before [[{{Macekre}} the English dub by 4Kids]].
** Also in ''One Piece'', Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being ''One Piece'', and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
** Portgas D. Ace's first present appearance is at a restaurant in Alabasta, [[spoiler:supposedly having dropped dead mid-conversation. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments A few minutes later, he yawns and asks if he fell asleep, much to the bewilderment of the people who thought he died]]]]. Cut to Chapter 574; [[spoiler:he didn't fall asleep this time.]]
*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. It gets hard to watch his [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moments]] after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
** Several of the main characters' traits, such as Usopp's lying, Nami's obsession with money, and even Brook's eccentric nature are used for comic effect. However, each crew member eventually gets a flashback, many of which reveal tragic origins for these traits. For the most part, though, this doesn't stop them from being funny afterwards.
** A couple jokes are made by Usopp about people using scrapped ships: once during a filler episode regarding Fullbody, and again as the Skypiea arc begins regarding Mashira. It takes on a darker turn in Water 7 [[spoiler: when the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair and Usopp is unwilling to let it go]].
** While the reveal of Señor Pink (a grown man dressed like a baby, complete with pacifier) is initially hilarious, it becomes far less so when it is revealed that [[spoiler: he wears these clothes in memory of his dead son, and also to make his catatonic wife smile again. '''DAMN'''.]]
** Way back in the Alabasta arc, there's a rather funny scene where Sanji accuses Luffy of having eaten all the crew's food supplies, but Luffy refuses to cop to it. Sanji urges Luffy to fess up, saying that with such an obviously-guilty face like what Luffy's sporting, [[BadLiar he would be terrible at poker]]...then he kicks Luffy across the deck when Luffy accidentally outs himself as the guilty party after all. Now fast-forward several arcs going into the New World... [[spoiler:and we get to Chapter 844 of the manga, where Sanji is [[FightingYourFriend kicking Luffy senseless]] and declaring that he only tolerated them for all the time they were travelling together, [[ShooTheDog to make Luffy and Nami leave so as not to be targeted by Sanji's abusive family]]; this time it's Luffy who's calling Sanji out for being a BadLiar and declaring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he won't eat another bite of food unless Sanji's the one making it]], and that can only happen if Sanji returns to the crew]].
* Japanese television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Iijima was given her own manga series, titled ''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Iijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
* The ending of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory''. A terrorist attack decimates North America due to interference from a militarist faction within the government, who then use the attack as a justification to expand their influence & start another war. And this was made in the early 1990s!
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** One of the {{Running Gag}}s is that, [[FromBadToWorse as the icing on the post-apocalyptic cake]], America's going through a recession. To boot, one of the SEELE boardmembers says off-handedly, with (to Americans) alarming nonchalance in a conversation in the TV series, "The United States seems to be 'allergic' to unemployment, but they'll '''learn'''." Shudder.
** In episode 7, a prototype mech touted as being more reliable than the Evangelions is being extravagantly unveiled for its first ever activation, to which several people, including the press, and two of [=NERV=]'s highest ranking employees (namely Ritsuko and Misato) are invited. Dr. Akagi voices concern that its power-supply is a solid-fueled nuclear reactor, and the dangers that a core meltdown would pose. Of course, that's exactly what happens, and it's up to Misato (with help from Shinji & Unit 1) to prevent the runaway mech from suffering a runaway reactor meltdown. Made for exciting action, '''until''' the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
** Misato joking to Ritsuko in one of the first episodes that she's "not going to put the moves on Shinji". This has been nicknamed the "irony bomb" by parts of the fandom.
** [[spoiler: The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[IncestIsRelative partial clone of his mother]].]] The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.
** At one point, Rei says that all she is, is a pilot; and if she stops piloting Eva, she'll cease to exist.
** [[http://bit.ly/mjNLed Spike Spencer's rant]] on the NGE Platinum DVD. "Uuuhh... Is this how you end a series? I mean, is this... Where we go from here? Okay, the movie better sure as hell make up for this, I'm telling you, 'cause I'm stuck in nowhere land".
** Adam sent Earth off its axis, much like the Sendai earthquake.
** In ''Anime/{{Rebuild|OfEvangelion}} 2.0'', Sahaquiel explodes into a ''tsunami'' of blood. Yes, a tsunami. This is uncomfortable to watch due to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tohoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]].
* When [[Anime/{{Simoun}} Chor Tempest]] gets asked to show a Plumbum priestess around their ship they naturally start off with introductions, with the priestess repeating each name as she's told it. All except [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aer's]]. A funny little snub, right? Not so funny when it's revealed ''why'' she won't [[MeaningfulName say "Aer"]]. Until [[spoiler:she does, anyway.]]
* ''[[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia World Series]]'' is poking fun at everyone in a general area but the episodes set in Greece's land show him [[PerpetualPoverty as apparently living homeless among cats, finding places to sleep among stone ruins, and wishing he were a cat "to not have to think about GDP and trade imbalance."]] With protests in the streets and a nigh-revolution going on over there right now over the economy.
** There are also episodes about Russia. In one of them, he introduces his sister Ukraine and explains his difficult relationship to her, and another one is about the G8, with England expressing that he thinks Russia shouldn't be a member anymore. Now, Russia is suspended from the G8 because of the way the countries politicans behaved during the Crimean crisis, and there's a civil war in Ukraine over the question wether the country should rely more on Russia or more on the EU in terms of economy.
* ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'' has a parody of Michael Jackson as an end-of-series villain, complete with the usual jokes. It isn't really that bad to anyone who isn't that sensitive to the his whole being dead thing, at least until the line "You're right, I DO look like Sammy Davis Jr.! Well, except for the being dead part".
* In episode 6 of ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', Nagakura Shinpachi accuses Vice-captain Yamanami of cheating during a footrace by turning abaci into rollerskates, and demands (jokingly) that he commit {{seppuku}}. [[spoiler: Yamanami is [[DoomedByCanon Doomed by History]] to end his Shinsengumi career by committing seppuku.]]
** Similarly, in an early episode of the anime, Okita walks in on Hijikata making medicine, and jokingly states that no one will have to worry about catching colds. [[spoiler: Okita will later die of tuberculosis. ]]
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** Dio [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
** As an InUniverse example, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] fakes getting his hand cut off when Santana tries to absorb him. [[spoiler: Later on, Kars chops off Joseph's hand for real]].
* In the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' supplementary lessons, Osaka believes she is going to have a good day because she woke up early, only for an earthquake to rock the school moments later. Keep in mind, the school they go to is in Tokyo. [[DudeNotFunny Yeah, joke no longer funny]].
* It's mentioned in ''Manga/ShamanKing'' that American Indian art is popular in Japan. A group of Navajo artists are raising money to help victims of the tsunami.
** And then we have Ishihara's comment about Japanese culture being too materialistic and ''that'' causing the earthquake. ''Shaman King'' makes this a personal hobby horse.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days after the comment made by Hiroe.]]
** Many consider Hiroe's diatribe [[DudeNotFunny completely unfunny]]--Kon's condition was public knowledge (as Kon blogged about his condition until his death), so the remark looked as if Hiroe was speaking ill of Kon.
* Part 6 of Hentai manga ''Secret Plot Deep'' involves the main characters going to a beach north of Tokyo which is deserted due to everyone's worries about the nearby [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster nuclear power plant]]. Gyaa.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku comes off as awfully racist in retrospect.
* In the [[http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2203/grab02554vg5.png opening shot]] of ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'' episode 2 one of the headlines in the (German language) newspaper reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_%28polar_bear%29 Knut the polar bear]] becomes daddy". It was a fun little background detail at the time, but unfortunately Knut died in 2011. And to make things really tragically ironic, he was castrated about a year after ''Blassreiter'' came out.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Episode 15 has some townspeople afflicted with "swine flu" after coming in contact with lettuce pigs. This lost all humor after the [=H1N1=] outbreak in 2009. Also qualifies as HarsherInHindsight due to many cases of the disease being contracted from underprocessed pork products.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' has a couple of examples:
** In episode 3, Usagi talks about how much fun it must be to never wake up again, because you get to stay in your dreams forever. It wasn't so much fun in episode 69, when she almost died because she couldn't wake up. Or in Super S: TheMovie , where [[spoiler: she forcefully wakes herself up from what could've been an eternal slumber, despite the fact that she was having wonderful dreams involving Momoru]]
** In episode 145, Fisheye attacks and tries to kill a young ballet master simply because he wouldn't give him the role of Theatre/{{Giselle}}. While this is one of the more light-hearted examples of DisproportionateRetribution (this being ''[=SuperS=]''), it suddenly became one of the darkest moments in the most lighthearted season of the anime after Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin got splashed in the face with acid on January 17, 2013, in one of the most horrific incidents in the history of the Bolshoi Ballet, particularly as far as the infamous in-fighting and rivalries are concerned.
* In the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' manga, Saki's female bodyguards were a lighthearted nod to Gaddafi's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonian_Guard Amazonian Guard]]. The arrangement seems a lot less sexy now that members of the real-life Amazonian Guard have accused Gaddafi and his sons of [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/gaddafis-female-bodyguards-say-they-were-raped-abused-by-the-libyan-leader/2011/08/29/gIQA8TOKnJ_blog.html sexually assaulting them]].
* Koichi Shidou from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', being a Charles Manson-esque leader of a cult made of high school students who encourages free love, was already creepy enough without [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-10/penguindrum-voice-actor-illich-guardiola-arrested-in-texas his English voice actor Illich Guardiola getting arrested for getting too familiar with one of his students at the Houston Family Arts Center in 2014]].
* Creator/ScottFreeman's conviction in 2015 has made light-hearted moments in anime less so:
** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping some of Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
** In ''Manga/MakenKi'', Freeman voiced the perverse Kengo Usui, who often targets students like Kodama Himegami.
** ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has Sariel creeping up on younger women.
* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' examples:
** The backstory of Jinmenken/ Manjimutt in episode 3 is that his freak accident that led to him becoming a yokai stemmed from being let go from his job as a salaryman due to budget cuts. Two years after the episode first aired in the US, the exact same thing happened to the cast of the English dub.
** On a related note, the dub of episode 76 ends on Nate saying that "things will be back to normal" after the Pandle end the day with a fireworks show. Later that year, [[TheOtherDarrin the actors of the English dub would be recast]].
Anime/SgtFrog: “Keroro Killed the Radio Star” had one character worriedly comment that their radio show ratings were “dropping faster than an Music/AmyWinehouse song”. Funny TakeThat then, not so much since July 2011.
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!! InUniverse examples
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', members of [[TheMafia the Martillo family]] find much amusement in the fact that Firo manages to remain a virgin into his ''nineties'' ([[spoiler:especially since he's been ''married'' for over twenty years]]). Then ''Another Junk Railroad'' featured a conversation between Firo and a concerned Berga that heavily implies that [[spoiler:Firo has a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality because he was ''[[AttemptedRape almost raped]]'' when he was younger.]]
* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by turning it into flower petals". Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens [[spoiler:to ''a person''.]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal.]]
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon|AndShotacon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* One of the running gags in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' involves Megumi getting ignored often by the other girls except Yuki during conversations, especially in episode 2 when they make remarks about how they're still young and don't notice her discomfort with the subject. [[spoiler: Later in episode 6, it's revealed in a flashback that Megumi was killed while protecting the other girls from zombies. Hence, the reason why the other girls except Yuki ignore her is because she isn't there.]]
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** [[spoiler: Ukitake's "funeral" (with him buried in a sand casket)]] in the BeachEpisode becomes outright depressing to watch after the second-to-last chapter of the manga.
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In episode 8, Kirito accidentally grabs Asuna's breast when she falls on him. Cue Kirito being smacked in the face for humor effect assuming he did so intentionally. The scene wasn't so funny 16 episodes later when [[spoiler: Asuna ends up being nearly raped. In front of Kirito.]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Natsu pretends to be the Great Demon Lord at the end of the Edolas arc to help Mystogan retain peace, and it's honestly one of the funniest moments in the manga. Much later, the final chapter of the Tartarus arc reveals [[spoiler: Natsu is actually E.N.D., the first and most powerful of Zeref's demons, and whose full awakening will spell tragedy for everyone around him]].
* Part of the reason why ''Anime/PlasticMemories''' use of comic relief is being critiqued by some viewers is because ''Isla is near the end of her life''. As Episode 2 revealed, she only has [[spoiler:2000 hours]] left to live, meaning her antics of confused speech, diminished dexterity, and bizarre decision-making are the result of her functions slowly deteriorating. This makes some of her comical scenes from Episode 1 to be... not so funny in hindsight.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': One of the anime's {{omake}} makes a joke about Armin [[AttractiveBentGender looking better in a bunnygirl suit]] than any of the girls. In a later manga chapter, [[spoiler:Armin is captured while DisguisedInDrag, and while tied up is molested by an old man who didn't know he was male.]]
** It's a RunningGag for Krista/Historia to be referred to as a "goddess" by other characters. [[spoiler:Then her father tries to force her to inherit the power of the Founding Titan and eat Eren, which would make her a literal goddess at the expense of her humanity.]]
* ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'': In Episode 2, Yuki Yuna tries to cheer up her best friend with some dried flowers. (The attempt fails hilariously.) Pressing flowers is her hobby. [[spoiler:All the girls and their magic are represented with floral imagery and flower-inspired costumes. As they use their magic, they are afflicted with disabilities.]]
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Any scene where someone goes after Ranma's pigtail, after it's revealed that he absolutely ''must'' wear his hair that way to avoid going bald (it's a long story). Thankfully, the curse wears off eventually.
* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'': At the end of each episode, Reigen gives a sales pitch for the next one, in line with his personality as a con man. [[spoiler: When Reigen is presumed dead at the end of Episode 11,]] Mob voices the post-credits scene instead.
-->'''Mob:''' [[spoiler:Next time on Mob Psycho 100 Episode 12: 'Mob and Reigen.' This was in Master's will: Watching the finale in real time is an excellent decision.]]
* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
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** Similarly, a series of American commercials for the card game involving duelists playing the game amongst the rubble of an AfterTheEnd nuclear wasteland, implying that their dueling devastated the planet. Creepy, but hey, AmericanKirbyIsHardcore, right? [[Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime Tell that to Paradox]] and the [[WhamEpisode Yliaster Trio]].
* In one chapter of ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'', after Shuichi and Hiro get into a fight at school, Shuichi goes to Yuki's house to get cleaned up so his mom wouldn't see him all bloody. Yuki jokingly asks if Shuichi got gangbanged in gym class. A few chapters later, Shuichi actually does get gang raped.
** Perhaps an even bigger and worse one is much of volume 9 in the manga. Volume 9 is about Shuichi being Shanghaied to New York to perform for a new record label. During one of the last major climaxes, as Shuichi and company flee from his new boss, Reiji, in order to return to Japan, part of New York City gets the ever-loving crap blown out of it. Later, though it's on a plane headed for Japan, hi-jinks once again ensue, including K busting into the cockpit and shooting (with non-lethal rounds) and bounding the pilots and taking control of the plane. Volume 9 was released in Japan on January 2000, over a year before 9/11. This is made even more jarring when the reader is treated to a nice shot of the New York skyline, which includes the World Trade Center, when Shuichi first arrives to New York City.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''
** An early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
** In the episode "Go West Young Meowth"", when the heroes and Team Rocket visit Hollywood, it turns out to be quite run down and implied to have a large amount of poverty. Keep in mind that this episode aired about 11 to 12 years before the California Bankruptcy.
** Depending on how you look at it, remember the backwards message slipped in by James' voice actor stating that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlIcJbbm08 "Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the devil"?]] Well, that was a funny TakeThat against the dubbers until 4Kids lost ''Pokémon'' and ''Manga/OnePiece'' and now ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
** The events of the ending of "Battle aboard the St. Anne" and the beginning of "Pokemon Shipwrecked" have the St. Anne sinking, the captain making the morally dubious decision of leaving the passengers on the boat to sink (and this was PlayedForLaughs), as well as the believed deaths of Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, and James. These events end up becoming significantly harsher for Italian fans recently, when the Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy in a very similar manner to the St. Anne, not to mention five confirmed deaths onboard the ship as well as the arrest of the captain for its sinking. It's unknown if this will affect their being reaired by reruns.
** Similar to the above, the Battle Subway two-parter in Best Wishes consisting of "Crisis From The Underground Up" and "Battle for the Underground" will be uncomfortable for Belorussian audiences after the events of the April 2011 Minsk Metro bombing.
** Then there's the dub of "Ghost of Maiden's Peak", which has James (who has a British accent in the dub) whining "I don't want to go!" as he's pulled into Gastly's clutches. Then came [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor's]] [[TearJerker regeneration.]]
** Episode N featured a filler episode about a rescue team that is called in to fight a factory fire that trapped a class of schoolchildren and their teachers, which Team Rocket uses as a distraction to try to steal Pikachu. In April 2013, a factory exploded in Texas and the Boston Marathon was bombed, with one of the victims in the latter case being ''an 8-year-old boy''.
** XY The Series had one in a planned undersea episode centered around Skrelp and Dragalge; which was pulled from its initial airing and replaced with Ash's gym battle with Grant after the sinking of a South Korean ferry.
** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable. This is furthered in episode 49 [[spoiler: which reveals that Faba was responsible for bringing Nihilego from Ultra Space and trying to keep Lillie from rediscovering the truth]], further compounding the desire for Lillie to overcome her fear with the help of her friends.
** One of the longest-running jokes about the series is Ash's Pikachu not wanting to go into his Poké Ball. This becomes much darker after ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' [[spoiler: where Ash successfully got Pikachu into his Poké Ball to save him from being obliterated by attacks of a bunch of BrainwashedAndCrazy Pokémon in a HeroicSacrifice]].
* One episode of the 2003 Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' features a legendary alcohol-fueled DVDCommentary by voice actors Andy [=McAvin=] and Mike Kleinhenz. At one point, the show's constant {{Fanservice}} and [[PantyShot panty shots]] prompt Kleinhenz to jokingly remark, "Oooh, my heart, my heart can't take it!" On July 11th, 2008, Mike Kleinhenz passed away at the age of 56 due to a fatal heart attack.
* Also, in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', Mike Kleinhenz plays the villainous Raven, and what is the one thing he desires? A heart.
* During a flashback in the Alabasta arc in ''Manga/{{One Piece}}'', Kohza gets his gang of kids to protect Vivi from kidnappers while shouting, "Fight to the death!" When she gets rescued (in the manga, at least), she responds to all this with [[NeverSayDie "Don't ever say death, leader!"]] This was long before [[{{Macekre}} the English dub by 4Kids]].
** Also in ''One Piece'', Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being ''One Piece'', and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
** Portgas D. Ace's first present appearance is at a restaurant in Alabasta, [[spoiler:supposedly having dropped dead mid-conversation. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments A few minutes later, he yawns and asks if he fell asleep, much to the bewilderment of the people who thought he died]]]]. Cut to Chapter 574; [[spoiler:he didn't fall asleep this time.]]
*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. It gets hard to watch his [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moments]] after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
** Several of the main characters' traits, such as Usopp's lying, Nami's obsession with money, and even Brook's eccentric nature are used for comic effect. However, each crew member eventually gets a flashback, many of which reveal tragic origins for these traits. For the most part, though, this doesn't stop them from being funny afterwards.
** A couple jokes are made by Usopp about people using scrapped ships: once during a filler episode regarding Fullbody, and again as the Skypiea arc begins regarding Mashira. It takes on a darker turn in Water 7 [[spoiler: when the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair and Usopp is unwilling to let it go]].
** While the reveal of Señor Pink (a grown man dressed like a baby, complete with pacifier) is initially hilarious, it becomes far less so when it is revealed that [[spoiler: he wears these clothes in memory of his dead son, and also to make his catatonic wife smile again. '''DAMN'''.]]
** Way back in the Alabasta arc, there's a rather funny scene where Sanji accuses Luffy of having eaten all the crew's food supplies, but Luffy refuses to cop to it. Sanji urges Luffy to fess up, saying that with such an obviously-guilty face like what Luffy's sporting, [[BadLiar he would be terrible at poker]]...then he kicks Luffy across the deck when Luffy accidentally outs himself as the guilty party after all. Now fast-forward several arcs going into the New World... [[spoiler:and we get to Chapter 844 of the manga, where Sanji is [[FightingYourFriend kicking Luffy senseless]] and declaring that he only tolerated them for all the time they were travelling together, [[ShooTheDog to make Luffy and Nami leave so as not to be targeted by Sanji's abusive family]]; this time it's Luffy who's calling Sanji out for being a BadLiar and declaring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he won't eat another bite of food unless Sanji's the one making it]], and that can only happen if Sanji returns to the crew]].
* Japanese television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Iijima was given her own manga series, titled ''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Iijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
* The ending of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory''. A terrorist attack decimates North America due to interference from a militarist faction within the government, who then use the attack as a justification to expand their influence & start another war. And this was made in the early 1990s!
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** One of the {{Running Gag}}s is that, [[FromBadToWorse as the icing on the post-apocalyptic cake]], America's going through a recession. To boot, one of the SEELE boardmembers says off-handedly, with (to Americans) alarming nonchalance in a conversation in the TV series, "The United States seems to be 'allergic' to unemployment, but they'll '''learn'''." Shudder.
** In episode 7, a prototype mech touted as being more reliable than the Evangelions is being extravagantly unveiled for its first ever activation, to which several people, including the press, and two of [=NERV=]'s highest ranking employees (namely Ritsuko and Misato) are invited. Dr. Akagi voices concern that its power-supply is a solid-fueled nuclear reactor, and the dangers that a core meltdown would pose. Of course, that's exactly what happens, and it's up to Misato (with help from Shinji & Unit 1) to prevent the runaway mech from suffering a runaway reactor meltdown. Made for exciting action, '''until''' the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
** Misato joking to Ritsuko in one of the first episodes that she's "not going to put the moves on Shinji". This has been nicknamed the "irony bomb" by parts of the fandom.
** [[spoiler: The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[IncestIsRelative partial clone of his mother]].]] The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.
** At one point, Rei says that all she is, is a pilot; and if she stops piloting Eva, she'll cease to exist.
** [[http://bit.ly/mjNLed Spike Spencer's rant]] on the NGE Platinum DVD. "Uuuhh... Is this how you end a series? I mean, is this... Where we go from here? Okay, the movie better sure as hell make up for this, I'm telling you, 'cause I'm stuck in nowhere land".
** Adam sent Earth off its axis, much like the Sendai earthquake.
** In ''Anime/{{Rebuild|OfEvangelion}} 2.0'', Sahaquiel explodes into a ''tsunami'' of blood. Yes, a tsunami. This is uncomfortable to watch due to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tohoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]].
* When [[Anime/{{Simoun}} Chor Tempest]] gets asked to show a Plumbum priestess around their ship they naturally start off with introductions, with the priestess repeating each name as she's told it. All except [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Aer's]]. A funny little snub, right? Not so funny when it's revealed ''why'' she won't [[MeaningfulName say "Aer"]]. Until [[spoiler:she does, anyway.]]
* ''[[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia World Series]]'' is poking fun at everyone in a general area but the episodes set in Greece's land show him [[PerpetualPoverty as apparently living homeless among cats, finding places to sleep among stone ruins, and wishing he were a cat "to not have to think about GDP and trade imbalance."]] With protests in the streets and a nigh-revolution going on over there right now over the economy.
** There are also episodes about Russia. In one of them, he introduces his sister Ukraine and explains his difficult relationship to her, and another one is about the G8, with England expressing that he thinks Russia shouldn't be a member anymore. Now, Russia is suspended from the G8 because of the way the countries politicans behaved during the Crimean crisis, and there's a civil war in Ukraine over the question wether the country should rely more on Russia or more on the EU in terms of economy.
* ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'' has a parody of Michael Jackson as an end-of-series villain, complete with the usual jokes. It isn't really that bad to anyone who isn't that sensitive to the his whole being dead thing, at least until the line "You're right, I DO look like Sammy Davis Jr.! Well, except for the being dead part".
* In episode 6 of ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'', Nagakura Shinpachi accuses Vice-captain Yamanami of cheating during a footrace by turning abaci into rollerskates, and demands (jokingly) that he commit {{seppuku}}. [[spoiler: Yamanami is [[DoomedByCanon Doomed by History]] to end his Shinsengumi career by committing seppuku.]]
** Similarly, in an early episode of the anime, Okita walks in on Hijikata making medicine, and jokingly states that no one will have to worry about catching colds. [[spoiler: Okita will later die of tuberculosis. ]]
* ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** Dio [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
** As an InUniverse example, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] fakes getting his hand cut off when Santana tries to absorb him. [[spoiler: Later on, Kars chops off Joseph's hand for real]].
* In the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' supplementary lessons, Osaka believes she is going to have a good day because she woke up early, only for an earthquake to rock the school moments later. Keep in mind, the school they go to is in Tokyo. [[DudeNotFunny Yeah, joke no longer funny]].
* It's mentioned in ''Manga/ShamanKing'' that American Indian art is popular in Japan. A group of Navajo artists are raising money to help victims of the tsunami.
** And then we have Ishihara's comment about Japanese culture being too materialistic and ''that'' causing the earthquake. ''Shaman King'' makes this a personal hobby horse.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days after the comment made by Hiroe.]]
** Many consider Hiroe's diatribe [[DudeNotFunny completely unfunny]]--Kon's condition was public knowledge (as Kon blogged about his condition until his death), so the remark looked as if Hiroe was speaking ill of Kon.
* Part 6 of Hentai manga ''Secret Plot Deep'' involves the main characters going to a beach north of Tokyo which is deserted due to everyone's worries about the nearby [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster nuclear power plant]]. Gyaa.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku comes off as awfully racist in retrospect.
* In the [[http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2203/grab02554vg5.png opening shot]] of ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'' episode 2 one of the headlines in the (German language) newspaper reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_%28polar_bear%29 Knut the polar bear]] becomes daddy". It was a fun little background detail at the time, but unfortunately Knut died in 2011. And to make things really tragically ironic, he was castrated about a year after ''Blassreiter'' came out.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Episode 15 has some townspeople afflicted with "swine flu" after coming in contact with lettuce pigs. This lost all humor after the [=H1N1=] outbreak in 2009. Also qualifies as HarsherInHindsight due to many cases of the disease being contracted from underprocessed pork products.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' has a couple of examples:
** In episode 3, Usagi talks about how much fun it must be to never wake up again, because you get to stay in your dreams forever. It wasn't so much fun in episode 69, when she almost died because she couldn't wake up. Or in Super S: TheMovie , where [[spoiler: she forcefully wakes herself up from what could've been an eternal slumber, despite the fact that she was having wonderful dreams involving Momoru]]
** In episode 145, Fisheye attacks and tries to kill a young ballet master simply because he wouldn't give him the role of Theatre/{{Giselle}}. While this is one of the more light-hearted examples of DisproportionateRetribution (this being ''[=SuperS=]''), it suddenly became one of the darkest moments in the most lighthearted season of the anime after Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin got splashed in the face with acid on January 17, 2013, in one of the most horrific incidents in the history of the Bolshoi Ballet, particularly as far as the infamous in-fighting and rivalries are concerned.
* In the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' manga, Saki's female bodyguards were a lighthearted nod to Gaddafi's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonian_Guard Amazonian Guard]]. The arrangement seems a lot less sexy now that members of the real-life Amazonian Guard have accused Gaddafi and his sons of [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/gaddafis-female-bodyguards-say-they-were-raped-abused-by-the-libyan-leader/2011/08/29/gIQA8TOKnJ_blog.html sexually assaulting them]].
* Koichi Shidou from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', being a Charles Manson-esque leader of a cult made of high school students who encourages free love, was already creepy enough without [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-10/penguindrum-voice-actor-illich-guardiola-arrested-in-texas his English voice actor Illich Guardiola getting arrested for getting too familiar with one of his students at the Houston Family Arts Center in 2014]].
* Creator/ScottFreeman's conviction in 2015 has made light-hearted moments in anime less so:
** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping some of Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
** In ''Manga/MakenKi'', Freeman voiced the perverse Kengo Usui, who often targets students like Kodama Himegami.
** ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has Sariel creeping up on younger women.
* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' examples:
** The backstory of Jinmenken/ Manjimutt in episode 3 is that his freak accident that led to him becoming a yokai stemmed from being let go from his job as a salaryman due to budget cuts. Two years after the episode first aired in the US, the exact same thing happened to the cast of the English dub.
** On a related note, the dub of episode 76 ends on Nate saying that "things will be back to normal" after the Pandle end the day with a fireworks show. Later that year, [[TheOtherDarrin the actors of the English dub would be recast]].
Anime/SgtFrog: “Keroro Killed the Radio Star” had one character worriedly comment that their radio show ratings were “dropping faster than an Music/AmyWinehouse song”. Funny TakeThat then, not so much since July 2011.
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!! InUniverse examples
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', members of [[TheMafia the Martillo family]] find much amusement in the fact that Firo manages to remain a virgin into his ''nineties'' ([[spoiler:especially since he's been ''married'' for over twenty years]]). Then ''Another Junk Railroad'' featured a conversation between Firo and a concerned Berga that heavily implies that [[spoiler:Firo has a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality because he was ''[[AttemptedRape almost raped]]'' when he was younger.]]
* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by turning it into flower petals". Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens [[spoiler:to ''a person''.]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal.]]
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon|AndShotacon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* One of the running gags in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' involves Megumi getting ignored often by the other girls except Yuki during conversations, especially in episode 2 when they make remarks about how they're still young and don't notice her discomfort with the subject. [[spoiler: Later in episode 6, it's revealed in a flashback that Megumi was killed while protecting the other girls from zombies. Hence, the reason why the other girls except Yuki ignore her is because she isn't there.]]
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** [[spoiler: Ukitake's "funeral" (with him buried in a sand casket)]] in the BeachEpisode becomes outright depressing to watch after the second-to-last chapter of the manga.
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In episode 8, Kirito accidentally grabs Asuna's breast when she falls on him. Cue Kirito being smacked in the face for humor effect assuming he did so intentionally. The scene wasn't so funny 16 episodes later when [[spoiler: Asuna ends up being nearly raped. In front of Kirito.]]
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Natsu pretends to be the Great Demon Lord at the end of the Edolas arc to help Mystogan retain peace, and it's honestly one of the funniest moments in the manga. Much later, the final chapter of the Tartarus arc reveals [[spoiler: Natsu is actually E.N.D., the first and most powerful of Zeref's demons, and whose full awakening will spell tragedy for everyone around him]].
* Part of the reason why ''Anime/PlasticMemories''' use of comic relief is being critiqued by some viewers is because ''Isla is near the end of her life''. As Episode 2 revealed, she only has [[spoiler:2000 hours]] left to live, meaning her antics of confused speech, diminished dexterity, and bizarre decision-making are the result of her functions slowly deteriorating. This makes some of her comical scenes from Episode 1 to be... not so funny in hindsight.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': One of the anime's {{omake}} makes a joke about Armin [[AttractiveBentGender looking better in a bunnygirl suit]] than any of the girls. In a later manga chapter, [[spoiler:Armin is captured while DisguisedInDrag, and while tied up is molested by an old man who didn't know he was male.]]
** It's a RunningGag for Krista/Historia to be referred to as a "goddess" by other characters. [[spoiler:Then her father tries to force her to inherit the power of the Founding Titan and eat Eren, which would make her a literal goddess at the expense of her humanity.]]
* ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'': In Episode 2, Yuki Yuna tries to cheer up her best friend with some dried flowers. (The attempt fails hilariously.) Pressing flowers is her hobby. [[spoiler:All the girls and their magic are represented with floral imagery and flower-inspired costumes. As they use their magic, they are afflicted with disabilities.]]
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Any scene where someone goes after Ranma's pigtail, after it's revealed that he absolutely ''must'' wear his hair that way to avoid going bald (it's a long story). Thankfully, the curse wears off eventually.
* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'': At the end of each episode, Reigen gives a sales pitch for the next one, in line with his personality as a con man. [[spoiler: When Reigen is presumed dead at the end of Episode 11,]] Mob voices the post-credits scene instead.
-->'''Mob:''' [[spoiler:Next time on Mob Psycho 100 Episode 12: 'Mob and Reigen.' This was in Master's will: Watching the finale in real time is an excellent decision.]]
* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
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** Actually, that one would be considered more as dated humor, rather than this trope. On the other hand, what James said does basically speak for the people who know of Creator/FourKidsEntertainment's [[{{Bowdlerise}} notoriety.]]
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** The nineteenth episode was banned after 9/11 because it featured a giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers. It was not shown again until July 2005; then Hurricane Katrina happened, whereupon it was banned again because of the flooded city.
** It should be noted that a sample of footage of said giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers was used in the original opening theme across the first eighty episodes, and was never edited or removed from any instance of the opening credits after episode was banned.
** Another episode from that same season, called "Tower of Terror", was banned after 9/11 for the title alone. It's been unbanned, though.
** As far as not being banned goes, an early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
** It should be noted that a sample of footage of said giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers was used in the original opening theme across the first eighty episodes, and was never edited or removed from any instance of the opening credits after episode was banned.
** Another episode from that same season, called "Tower of Terror", was banned after 9/11 for the title alone. It's been unbanned, though.
** As far as not being banned goes, an early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
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** The nineteenth episode was banned after 9/11 because it featured a giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers. It was not shown again until July 2005; then Hurricane Katrina happened, whereupon it was banned again because of the flooded city.
** It should be noted that a sample of footage of said giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers was used in the original opening theme across the first eighty episodes, and was never edited or removed from any instance of the opening credits after episode was banned.
** Another episode from that same season, called "Tower of Terror", was banned after 9/11 for the title alone. It's been unbanned, though.
** As far as not being banned goes, anAn early episode features a wild Tarzan-type boy who, as we see in a flashback, was lost when he was dangled out of a helicopter and then dropped. This was ''{{played for laughs}}''.
** It should be noted that a sample of footage of said giant Tentacruel smashing through skyscrapers was used in the original opening theme across the first eighty episodes, and was never edited or removed from any instance of the opening credits after episode was banned.
** Another episode from that same season, called "Tower of Terror", was banned after 9/11 for the title alone. It's been unbanned, though.
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Anime/SgtFrog: “Keroro Killed the Radio Star” had one character worriedly comment that their radio show ratings were “dropping faster than an Music/AmyWinehouse song”. Funny TakeThat then, not so much since July 2011.
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** [[spoiler: Ukitake's "funeral", with him buried in a sand casket]] in the BeachEpisode becomes outright depressing to watch after the second-to-last chapter of the manga.
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* One of the running gags in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' is Megumi getting ignored often by the other girls except Yuki during conversations, especially in episode 2 when they make remarks about how they're still young and don't notice her discomfort with the subject. [[spoiler: Later in episode 6, it's revealed in a flashback that Megumi was killed while protecting the other girls from zombies. Hence, the reason why the other girls except Yuki ignore her is because she isn't there.]]
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*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. It gets hard to watch his AwesomeMoments after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking MomentOfAwesome.SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. It gets hard to watch his AwesomeMoments [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moments]] after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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** Although it could be said that that scene was his {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
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** Portgas D. Ace's first present appearance is at a restaurant in Alabasta, [[spoiler:supposedly having dropped dead mid-conversation. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny A few minutes later, he yawns and asks if he fell asleep, much to the bewilderment of the people who thought he died]]]]. Cut to Chapter 574; [[spoiler:he didn't fall asleep this time.]]
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** Portgas D. Ace's first present appearance is at a restaurant in Alabasta, [[spoiler:supposedly having dropped dead mid-conversation. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments A few minutes later, he yawns and asks if he fell asleep, much to the bewilderment of the people who thought he died]]]]. Cut to Chapter 574; [[spoiler:he didn't fall asleep this time.]]
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* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
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* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
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* For an in-show example, in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
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* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
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* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]]]
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', Molly states that she would rather fall into a bottomless pit than listen to him (the 'him' being Don Wei). [[spoiler: In the race directly after she and her father have a long-overdue discussion when Don reveals that he now realizes she's his daughter, Eva, the Whizzing Arrow is badly damaged and plummets down the almost bottomless canyon.]] Oops.
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* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
* In ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'', Ozen tells the heroes that Bondrewd is not "kind" like she is. This after she pummeled both of them to unconsciousness (supposedly to prove they weren't ready to tackle the Abyss) and then put them through a half-assed "survival training" lesson where they had to camp out for several days in the territory of an aggressive hippo-like creature. Reg incredulously asks if she's joking, and she hits him. Later on, though, you find out exactly what Bondrewd gets up to, and Ozen looks like a saint by comparison. [[spoiler:He's a MadScientist who performs horrific experiments on orphaned children, turning most of them into mutated blobs. One of the blobs also becomes immortal, so he kills her repeatedly.]]
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* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'' examples:
** The backstory of Jinmenken/ Manjimutt in episode 3 is that his freak accident that led to him becoming a yokai stemmed from being let go from his job as a salaryman due to budget cuts. Two years after the episode first aired in the US, the exact same thing happened to the cast of the English dub.
** On a related note, the dub of episode 76 ends on Nate saying that "things will be back to normal" after the Pandle end the day with a fireworks show. Later that year, [[TheOtherDarrin the actors of the English dub would be recast]].
** The backstory of Jinmenken/ Manjimutt in episode 3 is that his freak accident that led to him becoming a yokai stemmed from being let go from his job as a salaryman due to budget cuts. Two years after the episode first aired in the US, the exact same thing happened to the cast of the English dub.
** On a related note, the dub of episode 76 ends on Nate saying that "things will be back to normal" after the Pandle end the day with a fireworks show. Later that year, [[TheOtherDarrin the actors of the English dub would be recast]].
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** One of the longest-running jokes about the series is Ash's Pikachu not wanting to go into his Poké Ball. This becomes much darker after ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' [[spoiler: where Ash successfully got Pikachu into his Poké Ball to save him from being obliterated by attacks of a bunch of BrainwashedAndCrazy Pokémon in a HeroicSacrifice]].
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** A couple jokes are made by Usopp about people using scrapped ships: once during a filler episode, and again as the Skypiea arc begins regarding Mashira. It takes on a darker turn in Water 7 [[spoiler: when the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair and Usopp is unwilling to let it go]].
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** A couple jokes are made by Usopp about people using scrapped ships: once during a filler episode, episode regarding Fullbody, and again as the Skypiea arc begins regarding Mashira. It takes on a darker turn in Water 7 [[spoiler: when the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair and Usopp is unwilling to let it go]].
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** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable.
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** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable. This is furthered in episode 49 [[spoiler: which reveals that Faba was responsible for bringing Nihilego from Ultra Space and trying to keep Lillie from rediscovering the truth]], further compounding the desire for Lillie to overcome her fear with the help of her friends.
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** The Sun and Moon series has a RunningGag involving the character of Lillie being afraid of touching Pokémon, which she is attending the Pokémon Academy to help overcome; and gets better with over the course of the series. Episode 47 reveals what led to this fear: [[spoiler: an accident when she was younger involving the Ultra Beast Nihilego, which she has repressed memories of]]. As a result, the gag becomes much less funny and Lillie's fear; as well as her desire to overcome it are much more understandable.
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* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
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* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon}} {{lolicon|AndShotacon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
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* Dio in ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
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** Dioin ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].people]].
** As an InUniverse example, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] fakes getting his hand cut off when Santana tries to absorb him. [[spoiler: Later on, Kars chops off Joseph's hand for real]].
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** As an InUniverse example, [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph]] fakes getting his hand cut off when Santana tries to absorb him. [[spoiler: Later on, Kars chops off Joseph's hand for real]].
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** It's a RunningGag for Krista/Historia to be referred to as a "goddess" by other characters. [[spoiler:Then her father tries to force her to inherit the power of the Founding Titan and eat Eren, which would make her a literal goddess at the expense of her humanity.]]
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** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)
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** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)]]
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* One episode of the 2003 Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' features a legendary alcohol-fueled DVDCommentary by voice actors Andy Mcavin and Mike Kleinhenz. At one point, the show's constant {{Fanservice}} and [[PantyShot panty shots]] prompt Kleinhenz to jokingly remark, "Oooh, my heart, my heart can't take it!" On July 11th, 2008, Mike Kleinhenz passed away at the age of 56 due to a fatal heart attack.
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* One episode of the 2003 Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'' features a legendary alcohol-fueled DVDCommentary by voice actors Andy Mcavin [=McAvin=] and Mike Kleinhenz. At one point, the show's constant {{Fanservice}} and [[PantyShot panty shots]] prompt Kleinhenz to jokingly remark, "Oooh, my heart, my heart can't take it!" On July 11th, 2008, Mike Kleinhenz passed away at the age of 56 due to a fatal heart attack.
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* During a flashback in the Alabasta arc in ''Manga/{{One Piece}}'', Kohza gets his gang of kids to protect Vivi from kidnappers while shouting, "Fight to the death!" When she gets rescued (in the manga, at least), she responds to all this with [[NeverSayDie "Don't ever say death, leader!"]] This was long before [[{{Macekre}} the English dub]].
** Also in One Piece, Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being One Piece, and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
** Also in One Piece, Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being One Piece, and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
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* During a flashback in the Alabasta arc in ''Manga/{{One Piece}}'', Kohza gets his gang of kids to protect Vivi from kidnappers while shouting, "Fight to the death!" When she gets rescued (in the manga, at least), she responds to all this with [[NeverSayDie "Don't ever say death, leader!"]] This was long before [[{{Macekre}} the English dub]].
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** Also inOne Piece, ''One Piece'', Luffy finds Bon Clay in Impel Down, and is overjoyed to find him alive after the last time he saw him getting blown up luring marines off the Strawhat's trail. Bon-chan laughs at him, and says [[spoiler:"Okamas can never die!" And then of course, he repeats his self sacrifice with someone a little more sinister than Hina.]] Though of course, this being One Piece, ''One Piece'', and the act happening off screen, [[spoiler: he's later revealed to have survived]].
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*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. Kind of hard to watch his AwesomeMoments now.
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*** Ace's boss, Whitebeard, is a walking MomentOfAwesome. His Devil Fruit ability? The power to make earthquakes. Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't also use this ability to flood an island with a tsunami. Kind of It gets hard to watch his AwesomeMoments now.after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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** While the reveal of Senor Pink (a grown man dressed like a baby, complete with pacifier) is initially hilarious, it becomes far less so when it is revealed that [[spoiler: he wears these clothes in memory of his dead son, and also to make his catatonic wife smile again. '''DAMN'''.]]
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** While the reveal of Senor Señor Pink (a grown man dressed like a baby, complete with pacifier) is initially hilarious, it becomes far less so when it is revealed that [[spoiler: he wears these clothes in memory of his dead son, and also to make his catatonic wife smile again. '''DAMN'''.]]
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* Japanese television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Ijima was given her own manga series, titled ''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Ai Ijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
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* Japanese television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Ijima Iijima was given her own manga series, titled ''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Ai Ijima Iijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', members of [[TheMafia the Martillo family]] find much amusement in the fact that Firo manages to remain a virgin into his ''nineties'' ([[spoiler:especially since he's been ''married'' for over twenty years]]). Then ''Another Junk Railroad'' featured a conversation between Firo and a concerned Berga that heavily implies that [[spoiler:Firo has a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality because he was ''[[AttemptedRape almost raped]]'' when he was younger.]]
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* Koichi Shidou from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', being a Charles Manson-esque leader of a cult made of high school students who encourages free love, was already creepy enough without [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-10/penguindrum-voice-actor-illich-guardiola-arrested-in-texas his English voice actor getting arrested for getting too familiar with one of his students at the Houston Family Arts Center]].
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* Koichi Shidou from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', being a Charles Manson-esque leader of a cult made of high school students who encourages free love, was already creepy enough without [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-10/penguindrum-voice-actor-illich-guardiola-arrested-in-texas his English voice actor Illich Guardiola getting arrested for getting too familiar with one of his students at the Houston Family Arts Center]].Center in 2014]].
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** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', members of [[TheMafia the Martillo family]] find much amusement in the fact that Firo manages to remain a virgin into his ''nineties'' ([[spoiler:especially since he's been ''married'' for over twenty years]]). Then ''Another Junk Railroad'' featured a conversation between Firo and a concerned Berga that heavily implies that [[spoiler:Firo has a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality because he was ''[[AttemptedRape almost raped]]'' when he was younger.]]
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* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by "[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v02/c012/21.html turning it into flower petals]]" (NSFW). Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens[[spoiler: to ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v30/c276/17.html a person]]''. (spoilers, obviously)]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c182/13.html return]], and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/7.html crystal]]. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)]]
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by "[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v02/c012/21.html turning it into flower petals]]" (NSFW). Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens[[spoiler: to ''[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v30/c276/17.html a person]]''. (spoilers, obviously)]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c182/13.html return]], and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c284/7.html crystal]]. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)]]
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
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* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
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* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
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* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
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* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
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* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
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* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
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* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
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* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
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* If you haven't watched either of the two shows, best watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote''. If you watch ''Ouran'' first, the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. If you watch ''Death Note'' first, you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days after the comment made by Hiroe.]] Ooops.
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days after the comment made by Hiroe.]] Ooops.
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** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
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* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
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* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
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* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
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* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
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* Creator/ScottFreeman's conviction in 2015 has made light-hearted moments in anime less so:
** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
** In ''Manga/MakenKi'', Freeman voiced the perverse Kengo Usui, who often targets students like Kodama Himegami.
** ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has Sariel creeping up on younger women.
* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
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!! InUniverse examples
* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by turning it into flower petals". Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens [[spoiler:to ''a person''.]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
** Issei Hyodo in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' stripping Riser's peerage of their clothes and living together with Asia, who is younger than he is.
** In ''Manga/MakenKi'', Freeman voiced the perverse Kengo Usui, who often targets students like Kodama Himegami.
** ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has Sariel creeping up on younger women.
* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': The cast find a statue of Colonel Sanders when cleaning up the campus, and joke about how "they've angered the Colonel". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel Then, you find out that "The Curse of the Colonel" is a real thing.]] Then [[spoiler:Komaba's future is ruined after the school baseball team fail to make it to the finals.]]
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!! InUniverse examples
* An episode of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Traumend'' has Kanaria refer to the doll Barasuishou as "Bara-Bara". In Japanese, the word "barabara" means "dismemberment/breaking apart". [[spoiler: Barasuishou's body collapses horrifyingly in the last episode]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', it's pretty hilarious whenever Hughes shoves pictures of Elysia and Gracia in other people's faces and rants about how adorable/beautiful they are. [[spoiler: The aneurysm comes when Hughes can't bring himself to shoot Envy due to the homunculus pulling off a ShapeshifterGuiltTrip via turning into Gracia and murdering him, still looking like his beloved wife, having copied her appearance from a picture he dropped]].
* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime, Hughes tells Mustang to hurry up and become a brigadier general, to which Mustang replies, "that's easy for you to say". [[spoiler: Hughes, formerly ranked below Mustang so that he could support his friend from below, gains two ranks and becomes a brigadier general after he is killed]].
** A RunningGag in the series is [[PlayingWithFire Mustang]] being rendered useless by rain (or getting wet in general) since he can't create flames with wet gloves. Hawkeye doesn't hesitate to remind him of that he is "useless when it's raining" whenever it happens. [[spoiler:In the aftermath of Hughes' funeral, he bitterly comments, [[SandInMyEyes "It's raining..."]]]]
** An InUniverse example: when Ed first fought Envy, he complained about his ShapeShifting; then Envy taunts him by asking if he would prefer him to look like a taller version of Ed. During the penultimate episode, Envy finally revealed his true form; instead of being the expected OneWingedAngel, he [[spoiler: looks like a taller version of Ed. He's Ed's half-brother, the son of Ed's father Hohenheim and the BigBad Dante.]]
** Also, during a flashback of the Ishval conflict, Mustang jokingly tells Hughes that the soldiers who never stop talking about their girlfriends back home [[FatalFamilyPhoto always end up dying]]. [[spoiler: You've probably figured out what happens to Hughes by now.]]
* An early chapter of the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] had a scene of a {{sweatdrop}}ping Chrono asking Yuuno, "Won't it be too much for (Nanoha) if she continues like this?" in regards to Nanoha's TrainingFromHell, a cute LampshadeHanging of the main character's completely over-the-top training method that became hauntingly prophetic in the following season when Nanoha [[spoiler: almost got killed and became hospitalized for nearly a year mostly because she overextended herself]].
** Not the only time Nanoha's pushed herself way too hard - [[spoiler: her overuse of massively boosted magical energy at the end of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' damaged her actual magic potential, specified directly in the Sound Stages. It's why she's off combat duty in ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', four years later.]]
* In the FreakyFridayFlip episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Utena jokes about wanting to get out of Anthy's body before she gets caught up in some weird ritual sacrifice. Neither she nor the audience knows then that [[spoiler: the whole Rose Bride thing works a lot like that]].
* Throughout ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', vampire-witch Evangeline threatens to "[[WindUpKey wind up]]" her robotic partner. Given that she has a giant key sticking out of the back of her head, it comes off as a sight gag. Later, it's revealed that the act of winding gives her a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather pleasurable feeling]]. (When we see it done, [[TheImmodestOrgasm she screams in pleasure]]). Evangeline has been threatening to ''rape'' her the whole time.
** Another example: near the end of both anime series, [[spoiler:Negi forms a Pactio with all the members of his class.]] This sounds funny until you realize that [[spoiler:this includes Chao Lingshen, who is revealed later in the manga to be Negi's ''[[{{Squick}} distant descendant]]''.]]
** Another InUniverse example, Chao Lingshen's Real Identity [[spoiler:[[SarcasticConfession IS AN ALIEN FROM MARS]]!!]] Jump to the Magical World arc: [[spoiler:The Layout of the Magical World is similar to the planet Mars. That "joke" that Chao made earlier really IS a CassandraTruth AND you later find out about Chao's future timeline and [[WarIsHell HOW BAD IT REALLY IS]] yet as a student she still tries to always keep a smile on her face.]]
** In a similar vein, there is an ''enormous'' amount of ShipTease between [[spoiler:Negi and Asuna]] over the course of the entire series. Then we get to chapter 252 and the apparent confirmation that [[spoiler: [[IncestIsRelative she's his aunt]].]]
*** This particular aneurysm has proven potentially survivable with Chapter 284, [[spoiler:which reveals that Asuna is an ArtificialHuman and ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - two things that make her being his aunt impossible.]]
** A rather more disturbing one: early on, Negi accidentally [[ClothingDamage erasing Chisame's]] PlayboyBunny suit from existence by turning it into flower petals". Then, much later on, the exact same thing happens [[spoiler:to ''a person''.]]
** Right before going to Magic World, during a sparing between Evangeline and Negi/Asuna team, Asuna manages to cut Eva's cheek, and gets [[HumanPopsicle frozen solid]] in return, and then in chapter 284 we see [[spoiler: that in her past she was sealed in some kind of crystal. (It wasn't explained yet, if it was by The Lifemaker to use her power, or by the heroes to stop it)
** The Negi/Fate SeriousBusiness between tea and coffee is very funny when introduced, many chapters later we see [[spoiler:Fate and Shiroi's backstory about Fate first meeting the sisters, how his love of coffee came to be, and [[TearJerker its tragic conclusion with Fate saying]] [[TragicKeepsake "I guess I won't be drinking that coffee again."]]]]
** Asuna wakes up early for her job, but whenever she can, she sleeps well into the day and is quite a heavy sleeper. [[spoiler: A hundred chapters or so later, she is put to sleep for another hundred years for Negis plan to save the world, meaning she won't see everyone for a hundred years. Not many people survive to live until they are 115, but Ayaka did. And then Asuna oversleeps by 30 years.]]
** Back in chapter 249, Rakan made an off-hand remark [[GenreSavvy how little Negi resembles a main character]], telling him he's more akin to the side character that dies 3 chapters before the ending. [[spoiler:In the timeline Asuna slept 130 years through, set in chapter 352 of a 355-chapter series, this is accurate]].
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', the ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' has an awesome, catchy theme song. Then you hear Admiral Munetake singing it while [[spoiler:going insane and heading out on a pointless suicide attack]], and it just kind of sucks all the fun out of the song for a while.
** Although it could be said that that scene was his {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}. Hey, he's a {{Jerkass}} anyway.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had Lelouch's ornate ceremonial sword, which [[{{Narm}} made people laugh when he brandished it]] because it happened to look like a ''plastic toy''. Less people laughed during the GrandFinale, when [[spoiler:Zero ''stabbed Lelouch with it'', pushing it into his chest and out through his back]]. It then looked less like a children's toy and more like a ''sharp thing that kills people''.
** One of the penultimate festival episodes had Viletta being forced to participate in a swimsuit competition; to which she jokingly retorts that she'll "kill Shirley 100 times over" for making her do it. [[spoiler: Much less amusing later on in the series when Shirley is KilledOffForReal.]]
* In ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', Haruto has several AccidentalPervert moments with Takahi - accidentally getting part of his monster costume under her skirt, for instance. Then his HorrorHunger starts to take over when he's in an elevator with her, but Saki - who knows about his curse - shows up to stop him just in time. And then, well... [[spoiler: he needs [[LifeEnergy Runes]], "the building blocks of information", and apparently human pain is a good source of them. So RapeAsDrama ensues, with Saki as the victim, just after the elevator incident.]]
** All of the silly almost-confession and NotWhatItLooksLike moments at the shrine near the school - [[spoiler: which is where the aforementioned HorrorHunger attack takes place.]] Lampshaded when [[spoiler: they finally return to the module in the end of season 2, when Haruto is being interviewed there by a TV reporter, and he looks back at all of the horrific incidents that the people idolizing them know nothing about. And then things go FromBadToWorse...]]
* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* Early on in the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' manga, Yuuko dramatically [[http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/53/02/ pretends to be dead]] from the heat, and Maru and Moro even set up a fake crime scene investigation. This becomes much less funny when it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's been {{Dead All Along}}]].
** Also, a critic commented that [[spoiler: Yuuko looked like "a sexy zombie" when she appeared on the covers of one of the DVD box set]]. This, likewise, is not as funny as it once was when one takes into consideration that she ''was'' [[spoiler: dead]] at the time.
* In ''Challengers'', Souichi is violently homophobic after an incident several years before where a professor tried to rape him, only to be narrowly saved by Morinaga. When Morinaga finally comes out of the closet to Souichi and confesses his own love, Souichi manages to get over his homophobia enough to keep Morinaga around as a friend and lab assistant, and Morinaga proudly tells another friend later that he's "proven that not all homosexuals are Satan's rape demons." Cue spin-off manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', where the overarching conflict is set up by Morinaga taking advantage of a drugged but very aware Souichi.
* The opening theme to ''Manga/DearS'' is, essentially, a love song entitled "Love Slave," and one of the repeating lines in it is, in {{Gratuitous English}}, "I'm Your Slave". Then you get a good portion of the way into the series, and you find out that [[spoiler:the aliens of the title are a purpose-made slave race]].
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has one in episode 5.5 (a special OVA bundled with any preorders of the Nintendo DS game). In one scene, Kamina is hurled off a cliff only to be shown immediately holding on for dear life. He then remarks "whew, I almost died." If you've seen the whole series, you know the problem.
* In episode 12 of the first season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Louise Halevy is disturbed by the fact that her mother says how Saji [[spoiler:reminds her of her husband (describing how Saji looks like her 'husband reborn'), with Louise citing that he is still alive. It is a lot harder to watch after episode 18, when her entire family is killed by Nena Trinity during a wedding]].
* In episode 11 of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', Haruko makes up for not spending time with Misuzu and they agree to start over. The next day, Misuzu loses her memories (as per the prophecy Yukito was told) and Haruko has to build their relationship back up from the beginning.
* In-universe example: In ''Manga/WolfsRain'', the boys get stuck in a storm and Hige and Toboe start complaining about the lack of food. [[JerkWithAHeartOFGold Tsume]] jokes that they "can start with the runt, since he's weak, and then eat porky." Then, in the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Tsume has to use his teeth to tear out Hige's throat in a [[MercyKill mercy kill]].]] This line may also offer a bit of HilariousInHindsight, no pun intended, given [[HoYay Tsume and Toboe's later interactions.]] [[spoiler:Which takes it right back into Funny Aneurysm territory with Tsume's reaction to Toboe's death.]]
* Halfway thought the first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' freelance photographer Tomitake asks Keiichi what his friend, Rena, is doing in the garbage dump. Keiichi makes a crack about her "going to check a body that she killed". While it was barely received as a joke at first, it eventually gets even more awkward and disturbing.
** FridgeBrilliance occurs later on in the answer arc, where [[spoiler:she does kill two people, keep them in the dump, and goes to check on them often as her mental status deteriorates]].
** In a more light-hearted scene we watch Mion joke about her "evil" twin sister and are shown an ImagineSpot with a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Shion beating a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] Mion with a whip. [[spoiler: The ImagineSpot wasn't so funny when we see Shion beating her own grandmother]] with a whip later on.
** "I like using poison to kill because it's a gentle death" [[spoiler:becomes a lot less funny when (in Meakashi-hen) Rika is injected with the cure for the Hinamizawa disease that she'd intended to use on someone else, which gave her an allergic reaction since she is the carrier, leading to her being weakened and committing suicide so she wouldnt be tortured to death.]]
* When [[{{Anime/Monster}} Nina]] first receives the romantic-sounding email from the man "born to smother her with flowers," she laughs at it as a perceived attempt of her ButtMonkey friend to seduce her. When, in retrospect, it is revealed that the sender is her own brother, the romantic subtext initially seen becomes truly cringe-worthy.
* In the manga of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' (volume 2), Miaka regains consciousness after stabbing herself to save her warriors from the Evil Miaka demon-thing. Nuriko teases her by saying, "I never thought for a second that a stupid, overly optimistic food monger like you would die!" Miaka counters with, "Oh, shrivel and die, Nuriko!" It's actually quite amusing [[spoiler:[[TearJerker until you read volume 8/watch episode 33, when Nuriko does indeed die.]]]]
* In the early episodes of Manga/{{Nana}}, Nana Komatsu gets paranoid about her boyfriend, Shouji, [[spoiler:cheating on her for a girl named Sachiko,]] complete with exaggeration that makes it hard to take her seriously. [[spoiler:Guess what happens a few episodes later for real.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the strain of working on manga while in school is not portrayed completely seriously at first, with the characters falling asleep in class to catch up on sleep. Later on, though, Mashiro gets hospitalized for pushing himself too far.
** Fukuda once notes that Nakai "looks like a stalker" when drawing outside Aoki's house so they can team up again, but the scene is played as proof of his {{Determinator}} nature. Later on, [[spoiler:Nakai essentially tells Aoki that she can only work with him if she becomes his girlfriend, thus suggesting that he was selfish and emotionally manipulative back then]].
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': the scene in Justin's debut where both Spirit and Yumi kick him in the back for having his earphones in when Shinigami is talking (his lip-reading is useless when Shinigami has no visible mouth). We later discover where Justin's [[spoiler: allegiance (apparently) truly lies, and that he was, therefore, never listening to Shinigami.]] Come to think of it, that also casts the scene where Shinigami gets Spirit to 'translate' - "Repeat after me!" - in a different light. Although it could easily be Shinigami being [[CloudCuckoolander Shinigami]].
** Death The Kid's SuperOCD is PlayedForLaughs usually and his freak-outs are pretty funny. That is, until the ''Book Of Eibon'' arc in the manga in which [[spoiler:he goes mad and wants to destroy all of existence to create perfect symmetry via nothingness.]] Luckily, Black Star snaps him out of it, but his obsessive nature isn't quite as funny since then.
** Meme's main schtick in ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' is her tendency to forget things, including ''her own name''. This gets a little bit darker when she loses track of a whole day, and then a ''lot'' darker when [[spoiler:she turns out to be one of Shaula's PeoplePuppets. The memory loss is discussed as a possible side effect of the drugs and magic that Shaula uses in her mind control spell]]. Suddenly, seeing Meme tie her hair the wrong way isn't quite as funny anymore.
* In ''[[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} Nisemonogatari]]'', Kanbaru makes an offhand comment about how Sengoku Nadeko is the "Final Last Boss" due to her Moe traits and the hook she's planted into {{lolicon}} Araragi's mind. Five novels later in ''Otorimonogatari'', [[spoiler:Nadeko has awakened her SuperpoweredEvilSide due to her repressed {{Yandere}} tendencies for Araragi and as of that novel is an enemy of Araragi, Shinobu and Senjougahara. Aptly, the story is entitled "Nadeko Medusa", for her oddity's form is of a medusa.]]
** Interestingly, this plot thread may have been born when Nadeko's voice actress, Creator/KanaHanazawa said in an interview with Nisio Isin that she had always wanted to voice [[spoiler:an evil character.]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's'' opening features a shot in which Madoka is crying. After [[spoiler:Mami is killed]] in [[WhamEpisode episode 3]], it's suddenly not so funny. [[FromBadToWorse And it just keeps getting less funny as the series goes on]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler:(in the third timeline)]], Sayaka asks if Homura can use any weapons other than bombs [[spoiler:because she's afraid of getting caught in one. Homura ends up defeating Sayaka's witch form with bombs]].
** Kazuko's inserting rants about her failures to get a boyfriend and [[ChristmasCake the difficulties associated with her age]] into her lessons is meant to come off as funny at first, but once you consider [[spoiler:Sayaka crossing the DespairEventHorizon primarily due to being unable to get together with Kyosuke]], what Kazuko is going through comes across as a potentially very emotionally damaging experience, and one has to wonder about her well-being. Her raving in ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' about the Mayan apocalypse and wanting the world to end because she can't get a stable boyfriend is an even cringier example, after [[spoiler:Homura resets and heavily modifies the universe to satisfy her obsessive love for Madoka.]]
** Sayaka teases Madoka about her Homura-related dream in the first episode, saying she must have known Homura in a previous life, and destiny has transcended spacetime to bring them together. In the manga, she jokes that they must be [[LesYay star-crossed lovers]]. [[spoiler:All of this is essentially true, thanks to Homura's relentless time-travelling, and the details are [[TearJerker horrendously traumatic]].]]
** The [[MemeticMutation meme "Lonely Mami is Lonely"]]. It's mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'', while [[spoiler:you CAN save Mami from her [[WhamEpisode Episode 3 death]], you CAN enforce this meme, and it results Mami continually growing miserable until she ends up a witch.]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer What the hell, meme?]]
** Similarly, Homura is often depicted as a [[{{Yandere}} crazed]] MemeticMolester in fanart, as a joking contrast to her normally stoic demeanor and as an elevation of her devotion to Madoka into SingleTargetSexuality. Then ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'' came along, [[spoiler: and Homura turned out to be willing to steal Madoka's power and remake the world into a prison for her.]] Suddenly, the fanart depiction seems pretty kind.
* If you watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote'', the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. If you watch ''Death Note'' before ''Ouran'', you will [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
** Though it ''could'' be seen [[BlackComedy as darkly funny]], for some.
*** For those who don't get the reference, Tamaki and Haruhi have the same seiyuus as Light and Takada.
* In one of the specials for ''Anime/MaiOtome'', Shiho, after being left with the wrong straw and being told to hold down the fort while her fellow Trias members Akane and Chie relax during the survival exam, uses her "spiraling" to cause a massive tidal wave that washes away all the people on the beach. Naturally, this scene comes off as quite disturbing in light of the recent aforementioned tsunami.
* Near the beginning of the Jinchuu Arc of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Enishi tells Kenshin that he has ten large battleships (of the type deployed by Shishio in the previous arc) and threatens to use them to burn Tokyo to the ground if Kenshin backs out of their upcoming confrontation. Now compare this with the infamous [[FantasticNuke Buster Call]] from ''Manga/OnePiece'', which is virtually the same thing. It's also entirely possible that [[ShoutOut this was intentional]] since Creator/EiichiroOda, author of ''Manga/OnePiece'', used to be Watsuki's assistant before starting his own series.
** Another one happens in the anime near the beginning of the Kyoto arc when Misao and Kenshin meet for the first time. Upon seeing the state of him, Misao asks if Kenshin's wife ran away from him, setting off several more funny moments. [[spoiler: Tomoe didn't run away, [[HeroicSacrifice but maybe what]] [[AccidentalMurder she did do still counts...]] ]] That's a little less funny.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' episode 6, after Ranka starts singing, Nanase encourages her with: "Become the next pop idol! Overthrow Sheryl!". First time this was funny, but during rewatch, this is very cringeworthy since in episode 18 said "Overthrow Sheryl!" [[BreakTheHaughty turns out to be a total]] TearJerker for Sheryl. It doesn't turn out well for Ranka either.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans on /a/ regularly joked that [[spoiler:Origami Cyclone/Ivan Karelin]] would be the first to die. [[DeadlyClosingCredits Then episode 11 rolled around]] in [[spoiler:[[{{Subverted}} which he survives, but '''barely''']]. Because ''that'' was to throw the fans off before delivering [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0fouXhZa1qededy.png this gut punch]] of a CliffHanger]].
** When fighting Lunatic, Kotetsu jokes about the palm-like design on his mask. Episode 16 informs us that [[spoiler: it is because Yuri Petrov has a hand-shaped burn mark on his face from when he killed his father.]]
* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Reito once jokes that he decided to make Shizuru come to the student council meeting instead of tending to the sick Natsuki because he "thought leaving Shizuru-san alone with Natsuki-san would be too dangerous". Later on, it turns out that Shizuru has been keeping her feelings to Natsuki to herself because many people, including Haruka and herself, find them improper, and while Natsuki is asleep, kisses her (and may have gone even further earlier). One fan comic notes that Shizuru's casual attitude and joking that she and Natsuki were "just getting to the good part" when Reito and Yuuichi walked into the student council room is a bit of a TearJerker considering the later revelations about how Shizuru feels about her love for Natsuki.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum's'' ED, in which [[spoiler: Himari and the Double H girls get dolled up and dance around happily]] becomes a lot harder to watch after [[spoiler: Episode 9 reveals that the Double H girls used to be Himari's friends and that the ED is a wistful reminder of something that can't happen for her.]]
** Also, seeing the beautiful [[spoiler: Yuri]] in a [[spoiler: princess-like pose and garb]] in the first OP is harsher when [[spoiler: you learn how her father wanted "to make her beautiful" via ''using his chisel to carve up her body''. ]]
** When the Princess of the Crystal refers to Shouma and Kanba as "lowlifes that never will accomplish to anything", it's really freaking funny. When [[spoiler: little Himari refers to herself as "someone who never accomplished to anything" as she's in the Child Broiler]], it's really freaking sad.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** A RunningGag is that the YamatoNadeshiko [[CombatMedic Captain]] [[TeamMom Unohana]] is absolutely [[TheDreaded terrifying]] when she smiles. Even the BloodKnight 11th Division backs down when she smiles. Even captains get nervous. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed she used to be the legendary [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Yachiru]], the MartialMedic First Kenpachi and AxeCrazy founder of the 11th Division. Not only does the RunningGag make sense with hindsight, it becomes downright scary.]]
** Early in the manga, flashbacks reveal a very young Uryuu asking Souken if the old-fashioned Quincy wardrobe will ever be updated because the uniform is totally uncool. In the Arrancar Arc, Uryuu announces to the Arrancar, in a very hammy scene, that Aizen should fear Quincies, not Shinigami. The [[DarkerAndEdgier final arc]] reveals the Quincies aren't extinct, they've conquered Hueco Mundo, are performing ethnic cleansing on the Arrancar and their uniform has changed to reflect the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi overtones]]. The Quincies then invade Soul Society, trash the city and decimate the Gotei 13 by half in only a few minutes of fighting - including wrecking several captains and lieutenants. [[spoiler:Then Uryuu betrays his friends by joining the Quincies, PuttingOnTheReich himself, and no-one knows why.]]
* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Yuuki, after losing a game of mahjong in the training camp, accuses Nodoka of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding mahjong tiles between her breasts]]. In the prefectural tournament arc, one of the members of the Ryuumonbuchi team, Hajime, is revealed to have cheated at mahjong in elementary school (via sleight of hand), and as a result, feels guilt and a desire to regain the trust of others, resulting in her wearing the chains on her wrists.
* In a gag strip of one of the early volumes of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Shigure tells the audience that [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yuki]] [[RunningGag is actually a girl]]. Then you discover that [[spoiler:Akito really ''is'' a girl pretending to be a boy]], and ''Shigure knew about it''. Still funny, but it comes across as pretty cruel.
* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko repeatedly attempts to get her LoveInterest Mahiro's attention by giving him custom-made "Nyarko goods", like body pillows or a "Yes[=/=]No cushion" that depicts her wearing slinky black lingerie. She does finally wear that lingerie in the second season, but it's during a very painful emotional breakdown caused by Mahiro playing TheBeard for another girl, in which Nyarko sobs that his CanNotSpitItOut attitude -- quite literally, being unwilling or unable to give a definite "Yes" or "No" answer to "Do you like me?" -- is driving her crazy.
** This might have been foreshadowing. Komba's dog is named "Bass".
* When Rundelhaus in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' was first introduced, he was depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo with LeeroyJenkins tendencies, frustrating his party members greatly even though his LargeHam made him hilarious to viewers. However, when he was later revealed to be a Person of the Land[[note]]who, unlike player characters (Adventurers), cannot be revived upon death[[/note]] after being fatally wounded while protecting his comrades at arms, his past antics suddenly became much more poignant; his boasting can now be interpreted as his inability to fully comprehend the vast skill disparities between People of the Land and Adventurers and his habit of [[AttackAttackAttack charging forward without coordinating with his party properly]] represents his desperateness in "becoming" an Adventurer.
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* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine {{Badass}}. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
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* A RunningGag of Tsutomu Tanaka of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is that he'll often pause in the course of the action to speak to his wife on the phone. Coming across as a HenpeckedHusband despite being a genuine {{Badass}}.badass. As of an arc in which he challenges the man who killed his master, we learn that all this time [[spoiler:he's been calling an automated Test Call every time and his family has been DeadAllAlong]].
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* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
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* In episode 7 of ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'', [[NorseMythology [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] tells Yui that because of the vow his mother made with all of nature, nothing can hurt him... "But I can hurt myself, if I trip and fall." [[spoiler: In the end of episode 11, he jumps off a cliff in a suicide attempt so that Loki, who loves him, won't have to kill him to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
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* Japanese television-personality (and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar)]] Ai Ijima was given her own manga series, titled ''TimeTravellerAi''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Ai Ijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
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* Japanese television-personality (and television personality [[note]](and [[BleachedUnderpants ex-pornstar)]] ex-pornstar]])[[/note]] Ai Ijima was given her own manga series, titled ''TimeTravellerAi''.''Time Traveller Ai''. One arc of the three-volume manga had Ai visiting a dystopic ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''-type future, where [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave she met a descendant of hers.]] Ai Ijima was found dead of pneumonia on December 24th, 2008. She had died alone, and unmarried.
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** [[spoiler: The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[IncestIsRelative partial clone of his mother]].]] The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.]]
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** [[spoiler: The scene where Shinji compliments Rei by saying she would make a good mother definitely qualifies, once you find out that Rei is a [[IncestIsRelative partial clone of his mother]].]] The scene isn't helped by Rei's nervous expression and blush in response to the compliment. On the first viewing, it looks like she's just being cutely awkward. Once you know the whole truth about Rei, it seems more like she's nervous because Shinji is getting way too close to the truth.]]
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* When mangaka Yana Toboso, creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days later after the comment made by Hiroe.]] Ooops.
** Many consider Hiroe's diatribe DudeNotFunny Kon's condition was public knowledge (as Kon blogged about his condition until his death), so the remark looked as if Hiroe was speaking ill of Kon.
** Many consider Hiroe's diatribe DudeNotFunny Kon's condition was public knowledge (as Kon blogged about his condition until his death), so the remark looked as if Hiroe was speaking ill of Kon.
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* When mangaka Yana Toboso, the creator of ''Manga/BlackButler'', [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-16/black-butler-author-decries-illegal-videos-downloads went on a rant]] about how her "fans" were illegally downloading her manga and anime, fellow mangaka Rei Hiroe of (of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' fame fame) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-08-22/black-lagoon-hellsing-creators-discuss-illegal-uploads joked]] that all illegal downloaders should "get pancreatic cancer." Director and mangaka Creator/SatoshiKon (''Anime/PerfectBlue'' (of ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' fame) would later [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-24/award-winning-director-satoshi-kon-passes-away die of pancreatic cancer a couple of days later after the comment made by Hiroe.]] Ooops.
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* ''Manga/DragonBall'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku sounds awfully racist in retrospect.
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* ''Manga/DragonBall'' had Goku being nicknamed by his friends as "monkey-boy" in reference to his monkey-like tail. With ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', however, and the frequent use of the term "Monkey" towards Goku and the other Saiyans by Frieza and his men, his friend's nickname for Goku sounds comes off as awfully racist in retrospect.
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* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Episode 15 has some townspeople afflicted with "swine flu" after coming in contact with lettuce pigs. This lost all humor after the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. Also qualifies as HarsherInHindsight due to many cases of the disease being contracted from underprocessed pork products.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by [[GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
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* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': Episode 15 has some townspeople afflicted with "swine flu" after coming in contact with lettuce pigs. This lost all humor after the H1N1 [=H1N1=] outbreak in 2009. Also qualifies as HarsherInHindsight due to many cases of the disease being contracted from underprocessed pork products.
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'' was written by[[GenUrobuchi [[Creator/GenUrobuchi the same guy]] as ''Madoka'' above, and also doesn't skimp on the cynical darkness. Episode 10 features [[spoiler:a man hunting humans for sport to relieve his boredom]]. Much like how ''Madoka'''s pivotal Episode 10 (see above) aired the night before the Tohoku earthquake, this one aired in Japan the day before a horrific school shooting in America. The themes of mental illness and criminality in the anime do ''not'' help. That's two in a row for [[FanNickname Urobutcher]].
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** Way back in the Alabasta arc, there's a rather funny scene where Sanji accuses Luffy of having eaten all the crew's food supplies, but Luffy refuses to cop to it. Sanji urges Luffy to fess up, saying that with such an obviously-guilty face like what Luffy's sporting, [[BadLiar he would be terrible at poker]]...then he kicks Luffy across the deck when Luffy accidentally outs himself as the guilty party after all. Now fast-forward several arcs going into the New World... [[spoiler:and we get to Chapter 844 of the manga, where Sanji is [[FightingYourFriend kicking Luffy senseless]] and declaring that he only tolerated them for all the time they were travelling together, [[ShooTheDog to make Luffy and Nami leave so as not to be targeted by Sanji's abusive family]]; this time it's Luffy who's calling Sanji out for being a BadLiar and declaring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he won't eat another bite of food unless Sanji's the one making it]], and that can only happen if Sanji returns to the crew]].
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* Dio in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
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* Dio in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoLKlxtgqQ orders a guy to drive on the sidewalk]], plowing through pedestrians. January 28, 2011, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWOK0Lfh7w&feature=player_embedded&skipcontrinter=1 a diplomatic car rams at least 20 to 30 people]].
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* If you haven't watched either of the two shows, best watch ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' before you watch ''Manga/DeathNote''. If you watch ''Ouran'' first, the scene with Tamaki in the thunderstorm is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. If you watch ''Death Note'' first, you will [[EdgarAllanPoe hear the loud alarum bells]] that cry "DON'T TRUST HIM HARUHI GOD WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T TRUST HIM!"
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