History FunnyAneurysmMoment / WebComics

** [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-1561 This]] one even more so. Yeah, [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough what kind of idiot would the banks have to be to give a loan to someone who clearly can't pay it back?]] OH SNAP.

* A ''ClanOfTheCats'' strip from the very first storyline has Chelsea asking her mother about the "[[InvoluntaryTransformation changes]]" she's going through. Her mother is convinced she's [[ComingOutStory coming out]] to her. Three years later, she realizes her bisexuality (and her crush on her best friend) when she's seduced away from her boyfriend by a child-killing LesbianVampire, complicit in her feeding off a hairdresser and {{Hannibal Lecture}}d into nearly killing an old woman in cold blood, [[ShootTheDog ultimately forced to kill her lover]], and nearly DrivenToSuicide.

* ''LeftoverSoup'': The CrimeOfSelfDefense storyline was ''in progress'' when George Zimmerman slew Trayvon Martin.

* Due to a severe case of CerebusSyndrome, ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' is chock full of these. A few examples:

* [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080226.html This]] ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' strip, which was posted a while before the unfortunately confirmed rumors of TheSarahConnorChronicles's cancellation started circulating.
** [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/051026.html This]] one even more so. Yeah, [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough what kind of idiot would the banks have to be to give a loan to someone who clearly can't pay it back?]] OH SNAP.

** In a "What If?" segment, the question is asked [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/ "What's the worst thing that can happen with a pressure cooker?"]] Within a week, three die when [[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/04/16/glance-pressure-cooker-bombs/MYVLq4WWSAOVsVjCMIiP2N/story.html pressure cooker bombs are used at the Boston Marathon]].

* [[Webcomic/{{Misfile}} "Enjoy all the extra time you've got."]] It took on a whole new meaning once you realize that without the misfile, [[spoiler:Emily would've died in the same car accident that sent Molly to the hospital.]]

* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1423 This]] ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' comic shows Jon trying to stop a bomb by franticly blowing on it. Obviously, he fails and it blows up in his face. Less than a week later, the Boston Marathon was bombed.

** Even "better", the strip in question came out on ''the exact day of Irwin's death'' (although it was composed some three weeks before). This is [[{{Lampshading}} pointed out]] in the annotation.

* [[{{Walkyverse}} Shortpacked!]] had [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-8/05-the-day-that-shortpacked-fell/previously/#comment-12740 this strip]]. The panel with Amber saying she's pregnant suddenly becomes really disturbing due to [[spoiler: Faz possibly being Amber's (half) brother]].

* [[{{Misfile}} "Enjoy all the extra time you've got."]] It took on a whole new meaning once you realize that without the misfile, [[spoiler:Emily would've died in the same car accident that sent Molly to the hospital.]]

* [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/080226.html This]] ''RealLifeComics'' strip, which was posted a while before the unfortunately confirmed rumors of TheSarahConnorChronicles's cancellation started circulating.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is so full of these, it's getting to the point that laughing at ''anything'' is a dicey proposition. [[BlackComedy Not that that will stop us.]]
** One of the best examples of this is Tavros Nitram. Prior to act 5, he was only ever drawn from the waist up, leading to an in-joke in the community that he was in a wheel chair. Well, act 5 comes around, and guess what...
*** Made even more painful by the fact that his first appearances in act five shows him [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003837 leaping around Prospit.]]
** Everyone who thought that Gamzee's background honks were hilarious are currently regretting every giggle.
*** [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004121 This]] strip in particular.
**** Gamzee's Hero Mode shot. A [=CMoA=] until it was remade into [[spoiler:Murder Mode]]. The original is just as disturbing by association now.
**** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piaQUbYZOD4 This video]] ''used'' to be cute and funny. Now just try and watch it without wincing, now that we know what the "double rainbow" actually refers to.
*** At first, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004722 Gamzee's reaction]] to the video for ICP's "Miracles" was hilarious. Then it's later revealed [[spoiler:this incident made him doubt his religion and could have easily been the catalyst for him sobering up and realizing his role as a Subjuggulator]].
*** Lets Just say that pretty much any joke relating to Gamzee before he [[spoiler: went crazy and started killing everyone]] a funny aneurysm moment.
** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004943 This]] strip made Rose's "empty suicide attempt" in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002288 this]] flash seem much less funny. The strip immediately following it mitigated this somewhat.
*** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005948 Speaking of empty suicide threats...]] Not to mention, pretty much any interaction Doc Scratch has ever had with any of the kids or trolls just got a billion times creepier in retrospect.
** At first it is merely said that "You [Sollux] [[ItMakesSenseInContext do not under any circumstance eat the MIND HONEY]]. The consequences are highly unpleasant." At this point, you [the reader] might even get a little chuckle out of it; at that point in the narrative, we have seen many characters dislike things for weird reasons that don't seem so bad. [[spoiler:Then Sollux accidentally ingests a bit and destroys his hive (home) with EyeBeams, because those are the aforementioned "consequences". You might find this pretty funny, really. Though it might be horrifying, because of the EyeBeams. That depends on your interpretation--at this point. But ultimately we find out that at one point in the past, he was ''forced'' to do this and it killed his beloved Aradia]]. The benign, understated, almost wry way the topic was introduced contrasts heavily with its sobering actual meaning.
** In a meta sense, there's a rather cute illustrated fanfic out there about AlternateUniverse versions of the trolls where everyone's blood colour and personality is mixed up. The protagonist is Kanaya, who here has Karkat's blood. She is presented as hemophiliac and gets blood all over her a ''lot''. The title is ''FanFic/RedDeadVirgo''. Anyone who's been following recent events in the comic should know what's wrong here...
** One of the ongoing jokes, [[spoiler: the flammability of shaving cream]], takes a considerably dark turn in the 10/25/11 updates, when [[spoiler: CD uses Dad's shaving cream hooked up to a bomb to kill Jade's realself. However, in the following flash, it's revealed that Jade can still go God Tier with her dream self turned into a sprite, so she comes back to life.]]
** John's [[SitcomArchNemesis enmity]] towards Betty Crocker seems silly at first. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that Betty Crocker is an evil alien empress who has massacred hundreds of planets, working for a HumanoidAbomination, and in an alternate timeline her corporation has branched into virtually everything, and is brainwashing humanity. "The heinous batterwitch has her gnarled claws in everything", indeed.]]
** Dave's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood at the hands of Bro (including but not limited to unnervingly sexual puppets left everywhere, swords that regularly fall out of the fridge or cabinets, and regular fights with Dave that send him falling down the stairs) may have become this now that [[spoiler:we've met Bro's Beta universe counterpart Dirk and not only is he a really nice guy deep down, if every bit as weird as Bro always was, but he's very wary at even the idea of having children because he's convinced he would be a terrible parent.]]
** Hell, even [[JokeItem Can Town]] counts. Wayward Vagabond pretending to be adored by a bunch of citizen cans becomes a lot less funny once we learn [[spoiler:that he once led a rebel army only to see it wiped out by [[BigBad Jack Noir]], with him being the only survivor.]] The hints that it is [[spoiler:his way of dealing with the trauma]] only make it worse.

* ''[[http://xkcd.com/527/ XKCD]]'' pulls a joke about Steve Jobs losing weight. It turns out his weight loss was due to cancer which proved fatal.

->'''Xykon''': If you had to smoke her, you had to smoke her. Hell knows I've had occasion to off an uppity minion in my day.

* A demon hunter in ''SluggyFreelance'' named Steve Uozin was an obvious CaptainErsatz of Steve Irwin... until he was [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050219 stabbed through the torso]] in February of 2005. (By a demon rather than a stingray, but still...)

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* The MegaCrossover [[FanFic fan]][[{{Webcomic}} comic]] ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' has/had a RunningGag about [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]] failing to do good despite his intentions and efforts... after the [[WhamEpisode Dark!Jareth arc]] that got some pretty heavy subtext. [[spoiler: As a fictional character he can't defy the story and his role in it, doesn't matter how desperately he may try.]]

** ... nope. Still funny.

* The ''{{Dilbert}}'' comic published on [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-09-11/ September 11, 1997]].