History HilariousInHindsight / FIlm

* ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'' has several stars that had or would make their way into Marvel Comics adaptations. Creator/JenniferGarner played Elektra in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', Creator/MarkRuffalo would play Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse starting with ''Film/TheAvengers'', Creator/JudyGreer would play Maggie Lang in ''Film/AntMan'', Creator/AndySerkis would play Ulysses Klaue in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', and Creator/BrieLarson would star as the eponymous ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019''.

* ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'' has several stars that had or would make their way into Marvel Comics adaptations. Creator/JenniferGarner played Elektra in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', Creator/MarkRuffalo would play Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse starting with ''Film/TheAvengers'', Creator/JudyGreer would play Maggie Lang in ''Film/AntMan'', Creator/AndySerkis would play Ulysses Klaue in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', and Creator/BrieLarson would star as the eponymous ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.

* ''Film/13GoingOn30'' has several stars that had or would make their way into Marvel Comics adaptations. Creator/JenniferGarner played Elektra in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' and ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', Creator/MarkRuffalo would play Dr. Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse starting with ''Film/TheAvengers'', Creator/JudyGreer would play Maggie Lang in ''Film/AntMan'', Creator/AndySerkis would play Ulysses Klaue in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', and Creator/BrieLarson would star as the eponymous ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.

* In the 1998 version of the ''Film/TheParentTrap'', Creator/DennisQuaid plays a recently divorced father whose kids want him to get back with his wife. Seven years later, Quaid starred in the 2005 remake of ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'' where he plays a widowed Coast Guard with eight kids, who marries a widowed handbag designer (Rene Russo) with 10 kids. But the kids' goal in that film is the ''total opposite'' of the twins' goal—They want the parents to ''split up!''.

** ''HilariousInHindsight/AvengersInfinityWar''
** ''HilariousInHindsight/AvengersEndgame''

* The premise of the comedy ''Film/HeadOfState'', namely a [[PresidentMinority younger, relatively inexperienced African-American candidate]] running for president vs an older war veteran, has become much funnier after the election of biracial President UsefulNotes/BarackObama. The candidate in the movie is even subject to a smear campaign including the allegation that "He's half white!"

* In ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' Creator/BruceWillis says "All I see are dead people." Four years later we have ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and its [[ISeeDeadPeople famous line]].

** Also: The page image. Pan Am, in 1968, was all but ubiquitous--it was ''the'' international airline for the US, and a cultural icon. Pan Am folded in 1991; its nearest rival for "official airline of the United States", TWA, was bought in all but name by American Airlines in 2001. Obviously, Kubrick had no way of knowing any of this in 1968, and so naturally extended current tendencies in the airline world to space... but that doesn't keep the presence of Pan Am spacecraft from being hilarious {{Zeerust}} to modern audiences.

* A sight gag from ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' showed a movie poster featuring a 90-or-so year old man in boxing trunks and gloves with the caption "Franchise/{{Rocky}} [[RidiculousFutureSequelisation XXXVIII]]" became funnier with the release of the sixth film, ''Film/RockyBalboa'', a full 30 years after the original ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and 16 years after ''Film/RockyV''.

** Irrfan Khan plays Dr Rajit Ratha, who worked with Peter Parker's father Dr Richard Parker prior to the latter's disappearance. Later the same year, Irrfan Khan would appear in ''Literature/LifeOfPi'' as the adult Pi, who as a teenager was stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named...Richard Parker.

* The film version of ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' opens with a scene of a major league baseball game being played on Halloween, something which would have been ludicrous in 1944,[[note]]The two latest endings to the World Series at that time were October 23, 1910 and October 26, 1911; excluding that two-year span, no major league game had ever been played after October 16[[/note]] but has happened several times since the TurnOfTheMillennium.

** A more subtle instance comes with the main actor in the franchise: Mike Myers plays both Austin and ArchEnemy Dr. Evil. Dr. Evil is based off the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain Blofeld, whose original actor, Donald Plesence, played ''Michael'' Myers' ArchEnemy Dr. Loomis in the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films.

* An ''Empire'' magazine article from 2006 on the film that would become ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' (then named ''Project 880'') included descriptions of seven major characters (from a casting notice that had been leaked online). The magazine included casting suggestions for each of them, and were dead on in predicting Creator/MichelleRodriguez as Trudy.

** 80s nostalgia a big thing in 2015? Check (not to mention how much an influence it is). Flying cars? Check (although not in mass production), Self-lacing shoes? Check (although just as a working proto), Endless sequels? Check (tho ''Jaws'' didn't get a 19th movie), Shiny downtown vs. Grimy suburbia? Check (although few suburban areas have become as bad as Hilldale), Interactive glasses? Check (even if Google Glass wasn't a success).
** In 2015, Marty notices the Chicago Cubs winning the series against Miami (depicted by an alligator mascot). A few months later plans were announced for a Miami ballteam, and the Marlins began playing in 1993. The 2015 Marlins didn't really amount to anything, while the Cubs clinched their first-ever NLCS that year (their first chance to a Fall Classic in ''seven decades''), only to be crushed by the underdog New York Mets exactly on October 21. In 2016, the Cubs '''''actually won''''' the damn thing after overcoming a '''3-1''' deficit in the World Series. The filmmakers justified themselves by remarking that in the film's timeline, the 1994 MLB strike never happened in the first place.

* In ''Film/BatmanForever'', Creator/JimCarrey 's Riddler says "if knowledge is power, then AGodAmI!" Several years later, he ends up playing a man endowed with all of God's powers, in ''Film/BruceAlmighty''.

* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Timothy talks about Creator/HermanMelville and ''Literature/MobyDick'' in the beginning of his story. Fast-forward to 2015, ''Film/InTheHeartOfTheSea'' stars Creator/BenWhishaw as Herman Melville.

** The supposedly washed-up Mark Wahlberg has become an Oscar-nominated movie star (involving actual pants-dropping in ''Film/BoogieNights'') while Alicia Silverstone has undergone essentially a whole career arc from nothing, to being the next big thing, to being semi-forgotten. (Although Wahlberg’s music career did indeed end shortly after the film's release.)

** Creator/EddieMurphy's character asks his boss if he saw the New York Giants defeat the Green Bay Packers with a last second field goal on tv the previous night. This ended up being the exact finish to the 2007-08 NFC Championship game played 20 years after the film's release. It's also a FunnyAneurysmMoment if you're a Green Bay fan.

** A fast food restaurant obviously ripping off UsefulNotes/McDonalds, barely staying out of legal trouble with the real deal? It was [=McDowells=] in the film, and [=MaDonal=] in the real world's Kurdistan in the following decade. The founder wanted to bring a real [=McDonalds=] to Kurdistan, but was refused a franchise.

** Creator/SamuelLJackson plays someone who is suspicious of White people on the whole, and it's played for laughs. Over a decade later, in ''Film/LakeviewTerrace'', Jackson plays [[NobleBigotWithABadge a cop who is just plain racist]] and is really upset that his new neighbours are a mixed Caucasian and African-American couple.
** Also related to the film is when Jeremy Irons' character, the villainous Simon Gruber, exclaims "I love this country!" in reference to America. Several years earlier, Jeremy sung the part of Henry Higgins in a concert of ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', where he claims "in America they haven't used it (the proper English language) for years".

** The first movie and ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' were released in the same year (2014, though ''Divergent'' came out first), were both based on {{young adult|Literature}} novels, and both starred Creator/ShaileneWoodley and Creator/AnselElgort, who play brother and sister in ''Divergent'' and love interests in ''The Fault in Our Stars''. What's more is that Shailene Woodley had been offered the title role in ''Film/{{Carrie|2013}}'', which also featured Ansel Elgort - where their characters would have been JustFriends.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[Film/{{Doom}} movie]], Creator/KarlUrban plays a marine who said "They're Marines, Sam, not poets." Very close to Dr. [=McCoy=]'s classic ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder. Later, in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', Urban plays Dr. [=McCoy=].
* The 1946 drama ''Dragonwyck'' has Creator/VincentPrice as the sinister Nicholas Van Ryn. At one point he sardonically asks the heroine if she expected to find in his room velvet drapes, pagan idols, and altars to human sacrifice. The movies he appeared in afterwards tended to have elements like those in them regularly. It was like Price had looked into his future...

** The screenwriter-wannabe in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'', among other cockamamie ideas for movies, comes up with a "star mummy". Fast-forward three more movies, and the frozen-and-desiccated corpse of Jason [[Film/JasonX goes into space]]....
** In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'', Jason (played by Creator/KaneHodder) chases the protagonists to a diner, where a huge chef tries stop him and gets thrown across the room for his trouble. Actor playing that huge chef? Ken Kirzinger, the stuntman who would later '''replace''' Kane Hodder as Jason in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''.

-->Have you ever confused a dream with life? '''Or stolen something when you have the cash?''' Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the '60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

* In the 1991 film ''Homicide'', [[Series/CriminalMinds Joe Mantegna's]] character moans about how the FBI are bunch of incompetent morons. It's also ironic Joe Mantegna's character would say that, considering that one of his more memorable roles is as Fat Tony (Springfield's premiere mobster and career criminal) on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Creator/SarahJessicaParker plays a witch who was hung in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2010, Sarah Jessica Parker found out that an ancestor of hers was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Similarly, Creator/EmmaWatson plays Hermione Granger, a witch, in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. In 2009, it was discovered that a 16th century ancestor of Watson's was tried and convicted of witchcraft in England.

** In the scene parodying the Denver Broncos' game-winning drive in an AFC Championship game, Mark Jackson drops a pass due to a squirrel distracting him. In the 2011 National League Division series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals, play was temporarily halted because a squirrel ran onto the field. Cardinals fans gave it the nickname "Rally Squirrel" as their team went onto win the World Series that year.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'' also featured [[spoiler:a horrifying murder cult]] explaining their mission to "make Sandford great again," which became a whole lot more horrifying following the 2016 United States elections.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'': "That's not very scary. More like a six foot turkey!" Years later, fossil evidence confirmed that ''Velociraptor'' had feathers, and people complained that it was no longer scary because it looked like, well, a ''turkey''. Its image is not helped by the fact that it was actually considerably smaller than portrayed in the films; in fact, it ''was'' about the size of a turkey[[note]]The "velociraptors" in the film are actually more on par with the size of the related but significantly larger utahraptor[[/note]].

** In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.

* In ''Film/LeanOnMe'', Creator/MorganFreeman's character Joe Clark holds a baseball bat in his hand and proclaims "They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!" Freeman would go on to play Batman's gadget guy and technical advisor, Lucius Fox, in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Fellowship of the Ring'': Bilbo complains "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread." In the 2010s, his story, ''Film/TheHobbit'', was stretched into an 8-hour three-movie saga, with many criticising the attempt to drag out a short children's novel into an epic saga by packing in bits from the Tolkien apocrypha, an interspecies love triangle and overlong action sequences.

** One scene involving a conversation between [[WhenTreesAttack Treebeard]] and the Hobbits Merry and Pippin. "There was a time when [[TheDragon Saruman]] would walk in my woods. Now he has a mind of metal...". Fast forward to year 2010, when Creator/ChristopherLee, Saruman's actor, released his first studio album "Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross". [[HeavyMetal Guess what genre it is]].

** More to the point, in the first ''Major League'' movie, the bitchy owner of the Indians plots to put together a team that's so bad, that she could justify moving them to Miami (which didn't have a Major League Baseball team in real life in 1989). Eight years after ''Major League'' was released, the real life Cleveland Indians lost the World Series in seven games to the Florida Marlins.

** The story begins with [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents the President of the United States]] and [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem the Speaker of the House]] both being killed at a summit in Frankfurt, UsefulNotes/WestGermany when the building holding the summit collapses. With the Vice-President terminally ill, the Secretary of State explains that due to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 the Senate President pro Tempore is next-in-line for the Presidency[[note]]though Arthur Eaton, the Secretary of State in the movie, later tries to position himself as TheManBehindTheMan[[/note]]. The Senate President pro Tempore happens to be a black Senator named Douglass Dilman[[note]]played by a then-little known Creator/JamesEarlJones[[/note]]. Keep in mind this is 1972; 36 years before UsefulNotes/BarackObama was first elected President.
** In addition to Dilman becoming the first black President in the story; this also made him the first President not elected as either President or Vice-President. Just over two years after the movie's release date (July 19, 1972); on August 9, 1974 UsefulNotes/GeraldFord would become the first President in real life to ascend to the office without being elected President or Vice-President thanks to the aftermath of the [[{{Scandalgate}} Watergate scandal]] forcing incumbent President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon to resign[[note]]Additionally; Ford's ascension to the Vice-Presidency was due to Spiro Agnew's resignation on separate corruption charges[[/note]].

** Creator/HenryCavill was previously cast as Clark in [=McG=]'s 2004 Superman film, before it was cancelled and became ''Superman Returns''.

** ''Moneyball'' is a 2011 film starring Creator/BradPitt about the successful rebuilding of the 2002 Oakland A's baseball team. The following year in 2012, the Oakland A's would be a surprising good team - after years of having a losing record - and make it to the playoffs again.
** Billy's line about the A's financial situation--"There are rich teams, and there are poor teams...then there's fifty feet of crap...and then there's us"--became disturbingly literal in 2013 when a stadium plumbing backup filled the Oakland locker rooms with raw sewage.

** In ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', Rizzo the Rat and friends are working at a GreasySpoon, decades before ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. For more fun, that was a Creator/{{Disney}} / Creator/{{Pixar}} movie, and Disney now owns The Muppets.

* Creator/IchiroNagai (Better known as the voice of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Happosai]]) caused this ''twice'': The first time as voicing [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] and the second time as voicing [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]]. And anyone who watched the Franchise/StarWars films, the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films and ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' already known there's a world of difference between Happosai, Yoda and Dumbledore (other than being the mentor figure in the three cases and being a miniature mentor between Yoda and Happosai). This is even more hilarious between Happosai and Dumbledore: The former is an DirtyOldMan who likes beautiful girls and the latter is ''[[WordOfGay gay]]''.

* The two major villains of the neorealism classic ''Open City'' are named Major Bergman and Ingrid. The film's director Roberto Rosselini later married actress Ingrid Bergman. Did she know about this?

* If you read the comments from the trailers of ''Film/PrettyInPink'', you'll find out that the character Iona is compared to Music/LadyGaga due to her outrageous outfits and hairdos. This comments get even funnier now considering Iona's first lines in the movie: "Applause, applause, applause".

* ''Film/ReignOverMe'' has a scene where Creator/DonCheadle's character expresses pleasant surprise after reading over an old ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comic and seeing that the character has a [[BlackBestFriend black partner]], ComicBook/TheFalcon. Cheadle would of course go on to play the [[Comicbook/WarMachine black partner]] of another famous [[Film/IronMan2 Marvel superhero]].

* ''Romulus, My Father'' stars Eric Bana (as Romulus). Few years later, Bana was cast in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' as Nero, a Romulan, [[DontExplainTheJoke like ''from Romulus''.]]

* Creator/MelGibson's character in ''Film/{{Signs}}'' has issues swearing to scare off invaders. Pretty funny the first time around, becomes absolutely hysterical after his widely publicized, coarsely worded behavior.

-->'''Gene Autry''': It's the same old story. The broadcasting companies say there's not enough color in the cowboy orchestra to appeal to the audience any more.\\

* In the 1982 action movie ''Film/TheSoldier'', a war game is mentioned involving a simulated attack on Iraqi oil fields by US troops, which predicts that the Iraqis would kick the ass of the attacking US forces. The movie was made after the failed attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages, when faith in US military strength was at an all time low.

*** It was also before the Iran-Iraq war had ground the Iraqi military into a bloody pulp. Certainly the US military of 1991 would have been likely to prevail against the Iraqi military at its peak, but the cost in American lives would have been exponentially higher.
*** Actually entirely backwards. The Iraq army before the war with Iran was rather tiny, about 200,000 men. The war was what pushed it's massive growth and military spending and by the time it ended the Iraq army was bloated to well over a million men and stocks of all weapons and equipment were far above pre-war levels even after attrition. It also provided huge numbers of nominally combat tested troops and officers. Indeed a fairly big deal was made of how the Iraqi army was "battle hardened" in the lead up to the war. Without both of those the Iraq army would have been a joke even on paper, but of course the conflict wouldn't have happened anyway as Iraq wouldn't have been looking to weasel out of war debt via the expediency of just invading the people it owed it too.

** The joke about the sequel, ''Spaceballs II: the Search for More Money'', is much funnier now that the prequels were made.

** Before the project was cancelled, Creator/AnneHathaway nearly played [[Comicbook/BlackCat Felicia Hardy]] in ''Spider-Man 4''. She later wound up playing Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, the character Felicia is frequently accused of being a rip-off of, in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.

** There's a bizarre sequence where Silken Floss (played by Creator/ScarlettJohansson) wears a kimono and uses a Japanese-style umbrella while ordering a henchman to commit {{Seppuku}}. Johansson would of course go on to play the lead in ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'', where she was heavily criticized [[spoiler: for playing a Japanese woman]].

** Near the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', C-3PO remarks as he pilots Padme's ship "that [he] may be getting the hang of this flying." It's a reference to ''Film/ANewHope'', when Threepio said "Oh my, I've forgotten how much I hate space travel!". But then, Disney's ''Ride/StarTours'' ride was revamped, and look who now pilots your Starspeeder 1000!

* The Farelly Brothers comedy ''Film/StuckOnYou'', starring Creator/MattDamon and Creator/GregKinnear as a pair on conjoined twins, becomes even funnier after ''Film/GreenZone'', where Damon plays a soldier who is pitted against Kinnear's unethical bureaucrat.

* In ''Film/TrueLies'', Ahnuld's character, in the name of ObfuscatingStupidity, calls a nuclear warhead a "sno-cone maker". Hang on a minute, this reminds us of [[Film/BatmanAndRobin a later Ahnold role]], in which his character's gimmick is snow, ice and bad puns.

* ''Film/USMarshals'', where Creator/WesleySnipes is wrongfully accused, becomes slightly silly now that Snipes has been convicted of numerous crimes. Really most of his movies outside maybe the ''Blade'' series falls under this, since he's usually typecast as a cop or other authority figure.

* ''Film/WagTheDog'', about creating a (fictional) war with Albania to cover up a presidential sex scandal, was released less than a month before the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and subsequent attacks against Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, which is directly to the north of Albania.

* The 1954 Bing Crosby film ''White Christmas'' has a line about it being "impossible to find a Democrat in Vermont". Back in the 40's-late 50's, Vermont was ''very'' Republican, to the point where it was one of only two states (the other being Maine) that UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt never won in his four presidential elections. Sixty years later, it's the only state UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush never visited as President, probably out of fear for his life.

-->'''John Wilson (As [[Film/TheAfricanQueen John Huston expy)]]:''' Oh Bill! I'll die broke in a downtown Los Angeles flop house; And I won't be bitter! I'll have contributed maybe five-ten damn good pictures. They'll name a Special Academy Award after me. And you know something? All the wrong Guys will get it. And I will be in Hell laughing my ass off!

** In the beginning of the film, one of the brothers changes the channel from a sports game to ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}''. In the ''Series/{{Parenthood}}'' episode "Solace", the TV changes to ''[=SpongeBob=]'' during the middle of a sporting event some of the characters were watching.

%%** Before voicing [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Kira Yamato]], Creator/SoichiroHoshi already has a previous experience with another annoying teen in a Japanese dub of an horror film. The name of that film? '''[[Film/ChildsPlay The SEED of Chucky]]'''.

* ''HilariousInHindsight/AnimatedFilms''
* ''HilariousInHindsight/TheEmojiMovie''

** 80s nostalgia a big thing in 2015? Check (not to mention how much an influence it is). Flying cars? Check (although mass production may take some time), Self-lacing shoes? Check (although just as a working proto), Endless sequels? Check (tho ''Jaws'' didn't get a 19th movie).
** In 2015, Marty notices the Chicago Cubs winning the series against Miami (depicted by an alligator mascot). A few months later plans were announced for a Miami ballteam, and the Marlins began playing in 1993. The 2015 Marlins didn't really amount to anything, while the Cubs clinched their first-ever NLCS that year (their first chance to a Fall Classic in ''seven decades''), only to be crushed by the underdog New York Mets exactly on October 21. In 2016, the Cubs '''''actually won''''' the damn thing after overcoming a '''3-1''' deficit in the World Series.

** Oh, there's more. By 2015, Statler Toyota has become Statler Pontiac. GM cut its Pontiac line in 2009.

* The animated flick ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' had this happen to it: in the movie, Elsa has the ability to conjure ice and snow. Shortly after the movie came out, a "polar vortex" caused large swaths of the United States and Canada to be blasted with subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall. A lot of fans therefore jokingly blamed the polar vortex on Elsa's powers. That, or telling Mother Nature that when Elsa said "the cold never bothered me anyway," it wasn't supposed to be taken as a challenge. Never mind that it was mostly the United States and eastern Canada where 2014's winter was exceptionally cold, whereas it was nothing out of the ordinary in Elsa's native Norway.

** In a subplot, evil foreigners from the future change history and create King Ghidorah to prevent Japan from economically taking over the world. Around the time the movie came out, the Japanese economy collapsed; almost twenty years later, it has yet to completely recover.

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* In the [[WesternAnimation/AstroBoy 2009 Astro Boy film]], Donald Sutherland plays a character called President Stone. Sounds a lot like the name of a [[Film/TheHungerGames certain future Sutherland role]], right?

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_Eag_NbVU Cutting Edge]]'', a song in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' where The Master's new appliances gloat about how technologically advanced they are is amusing to watch now that [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Has Marched On]]. Said "cutting edge" appliances are now all hilariously and amazingly obsolete (good luck even finding some of them in a thrift store), while the "outdated" toaster, lamp, vacuum, and electric blanket are all still popular and commonly used in homes.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', one of the heroine's evil stepsisters is named "Anastasia". Fast-forward about fifty years, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' becomes something of an evil stepsister to the Disney canon princesses, considering she was Creator/DonBluth's answer to them, and Don Bluth used to work for Disney before leaving and establishing himself as a competitor. Even better, both Anastasias are/eventually become redheaded heroines with love interests with humble backgrounds.

* One of the songs used in [[https://youtu.be/tasYiVI0iz0 this]] WebAnimation/YouTubePoop of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' is "What A Wonderful World" by Music/LouisArmstrong. In 2016, the film's sequel, ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', would use this song [[spoiler: when Hank the septopus crashes a truck into the ocean to free all the fish inside of it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' a character trying (in vain) to seem racially aware hilariously remarked "Why does a great actor like Creator/JamesEarlJones always have to play black characters?" Five years later ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'' hit theaters, with James Earl Jones portraying the presumed, and eventually confirmed White guy Darth Vader.
** Even funnier now, with the controversy over white characters being made black in comic book movies, i.e. Creator/SamuelLJackson as ComicBook/NickFury, Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Perry White in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.

* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'':
** Long before this movie, Creator/BenedictCumberbatch narrated a documentary in which he had trouble [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GnLDJAgrws pronouncing]] the word "penguin" as he does in this film (he pronounces the word as "pengwing" especially when he has to rattle of lines rapid fire).
** In the movie, [[spoiler:the fate of Dave the Octopus is that he gets trapped inside a snow globe]]. In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', [[spoiler:the fate of DJ Octavio, also an octopus, is that he gets trapped in a snow globe]].
** An Octopus pretending to be a human? [[VideoGame/{{Octodad}} Someone should make a game about that...]]

* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'':
** In [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} the first movie]], after Fiona realizes Shrek is an ogre, he remarks "You were expecting maybe Prince Charming?" We learn in the next movie that she really ''was'' expecting Prince Charming, and her not being rescued by said Prince Charming drives part of the plot.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', there is a poster of "Sir Justin" in Fiona's room who looks like Music/JustinTimberlake. Timberlake played the role of Arthur in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', there is a scene in which several princesses, including spoofs of Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, have a superhero-style battle against Prince Charming, all of whom are included in the Franchise/DisneyPrincess line-up (though Rapunzel jointed the Disney lineup four years after ''Shrek The Third'' was made). In an actual Disney film, ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', [[spoiler: the Disney Princesses help fight an army of Ralph clones with their own special abilities]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart imitates WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse by wearing a black bra on his head and saying "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation". In 2017, it was announced that Creator/{{Disney}} is looking to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, whose assets include ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'':
** Gregory complains about [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice America policing the world]].
** The "censored version" of ''Asses of Fire'' is only one minute long because of all the raunchy content. In 2001, the DVD of ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' has a three-minute "PG" version of the film as a bonus feature.

* The ShoutOut to ''Film/MadMax'' in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water]]'' with the denizens of Bikini Bottom transformed into Apunkalypse after the disappearance of the Krabby Patty recipe became more hilarious three months later with the release of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.

* In ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'', Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks' characters are the [[PairTheSpares spares paired]]. They would later play the leads of ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno''.
* During Chadwick Boseman's StarMakingRole in ''Film/FortyTwo'', one of Jackie Robinson's teammates tries to console him by saying that the racist fans in the crowd are "Crackpots still fighting the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar The Civil War]]". Boseman's big [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] debut a few years later? Playing the ComicBook/BlackPanther in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

** In particular, there's the line "Clearly, Madame, genius has turned to madness" in ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' (which featured Gerard Butler in the title role). The line is already unintentional hilarity incarnate, but the ''300'' connection adds a whole new level of hilarity.

* At the end of ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' (1948), [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello Bud and Lou]], having survived {{Dracula}} (played by the original screen Dracula, Creator/BelaLugosi), the [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 Wolf Man]] (played by Lon Chaney, jr, the one and only Wolf Man), and Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'s Monster (played by Glenn Strange, who'd played the Monster in two previous films, after Boris Karloff passed on the project), run into the Invisible Man in the film's closing gag, who is unmistakably voiced by horror film star Creator/VincentPrice. But at the time this film was made Price was not known as a horror film star (although he did play the title role in ''Film/TheInvisibleManReturns'' in 1940). It would not be for another five years before Price did his first real horror movie (''[[Film/HouseOfWax1953 House of Wax]]''), and not for another ten years that he began doing them regularly (with Creator/RogerCorman's Creator/EdgarAllanPoe adaptations beginning in 1958). Today, that closing gag with Abbott & Costello is both a hilarious and touching passing of the torch from one generation of horror film stars to the next.

* A sight gag from ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' showed a movie poster featuring a 90-or-so year old man in boxing trunks and gloves with the caption "Franchise/{{Rocky}} XXXVIII" became funnier with the release of the sixth film, ''Film/RockyBalboa'', a full 30 years after the original ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and 16 years after ''Film/RockyV''.
* The movie ''Film/{{Alaska}}'' features a poacher is played by Creator/CharltonHeston. He would go on to become president of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association NRA]] from 1998 to 2003.

** Sticking with ''Life of Pi'', the author was [[TheOtherMarty going to be played by]] Tobey Maguire, who portrayed Spider-Man in the Creator/SamRaimi-directed films. He was replaced due to director Lee Ang's concerns that he was too well-known and would be distracting for the audience.

** Garfield has also said that if Sony ever made Peter Parker gay and gave Mary Jane a GenderFlip, the only actor he'd want in the role was Michael B. Jordan. Jordan has since been cast in the ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] as the Human Torch, a character well known for his HoYay interactions with Spidey in the comics.

* In ''FIlm/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', David runs in public and shouts various obscenities in attempt to get arrested and locked up before the next full moon, one of them being "Prince Charles is a faggot!". Charles would announce his engagement to Diana Spencer a few months after the scene was shot, and the film was released a month after their wedding; to save face, the filmmakers included a congratulatory message to them in the credits.
** Said message has since become a FunnyAneurysmMoment or HarsherInHindsight, given how their marriage turned out...

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_Eag_NbVU Cutting Edge]]'', a song in ''Film/TheBraveLittleToaster'' where The Master's new appliances gloat about how technologically advanced they are is amusing to watch now that [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Has Marched On]]. Said "cutting edge" appliances are now all hilariously and amazingly obsolete (good luck even finding some of them in a thrift store), while the "outdated" toaster, lamp, vacuum, and electric blanket are all still popular and commonly used in homes.

* In ''Film/BullDurham'', "Crash" Davis, played by Kevin Costner, gives a [[https://youtu.be/A8W8GGdD6pc?t=30s well-known speech]] (video NSFW) in which he declares "I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone!" A few years later, Kevin Costner was playing Jim Garrison in ''Film/{{JFK}}''.

* Bruce Jenner's character in the (mostly fictional) Village People biopic ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' is little more than masculine FanService. In real life, Jenner identifies as female and underwent a highly-publicized sex change in 2015.

* In the Japanese dub of the ''Film/{{Carrie|2013}}'s'' 2013 remake, both Creator/KeikoHan and Creator/MegumiHan voice Margaret and Carrie respectively, who are also mother and daughter respectively both in film and in real life. The hilarious part is Keiko (Margaret) dubbed ''Carrie'' in the Japanese dub of the [[Film/Carrie1976 original 1976 film]]. Even more ''hilarious'' is the fact Mrs. Han voiced ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Lalah Sun]]''. [[spoiler:And everyone knows how Lalah and Carrie died in their respective series]].

* Creator/StacyKeach played a narcotics officer in the Creator/CheechAndChong films, Film/UpInSmoke and Film/NiceDreams. In 1984, he was arrested in England and served six months in prison for cocaine smuggling.

* In ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'' (2000) when a band of boat-dwelling gypsies arrives in the town, heroine Vianne's feisty, imaginative daughter sees the sight and runs home to tell her mother that "Pirates!" have arrived. Vianne embarks on a romance with one of the gypsies...''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean who's played by Johnny Depp!]]'' (For that matter, this wouldn't be Depp's [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory only encounter with chocolate confections...]])

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', one of the heroine's evil stepsisters is named "Anastasia". Fast-forward about fifty years, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' becomes something of an evil stepsister to the Disney canon princesses, considering she was Creator/DonBluth's answer to them, and Don Bluth used to work for Disney before leaving and establishing himself as a competitor.
** Even better, both Anastasias are/eventually become redheaded heroines with love interests with humble backgrounds.

* The 1990 film ''Crazy People'', starring [[{{Creator/DudleyMoore}} Dudley Moore]], had the premise of someone in advertising being sent to a mental institution because they accidentally let print a set of really "honest" ads, such as saying Volvo's are "boxy, but they're good". Amusingly, most of the ads shown in the film are similar to the tongue-in-cheek advertising around today.

* ''Franchise/TheDarkKnightSaga'':

*** Alfred tells Bruce "Some men just want to watch the world burn.". The very next day audiences got to see [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Fire Lord Ozai]] trying to burn the entire Earth Kingdom to the ground. It was like they knew the movie would be premiering on the same weekend! It gets better! Fire Lord Ozai is voiced by Mark Hamill, who voiced the Joker in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries.

*** The line ''"you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"'' is this now that Creator/MichaelKeaton, who played the Caped Crusader in [[Film/Batman1989 the Tim]] [[Film/Batmanreturns Burton films]], plays the Marvel villain The Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

* ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''

* In ''{{Film/Elysium}}'', Alice Braga plays a character named Frey. To anyone who follows either [[{{Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire}} the books]] or [[Series/GameOfThrones the series]], you'd know that she [[NamesTheSame shares her name]] with the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder less than trustworthy]] allies of the Lannisters.

* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' stars Creator/ChristianBale as an expert at GunKata and a ruthless and efficient marksman/martial artist - then Bale goes on to play [[Franchise/{{Batman}} one of the]] [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga most famously]] [[DoesntLikeGuns anti-gun]] characters ever.

* Before being cast as Mister Fantastic and the Human Torch in the ''Film/FantasticFour'' reboot, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan starred as best friends in ''Film/ThatAwkwardMoment''. Jordan basically went from being Teller's buddy to his future brother-in-law!

* Watching ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' knowing that Jeffrey Jones, the actor who plays Ed Rooney, is a sex offender who took pictures of a 14-year-old boy makes that movie simultaneously more [[FunnyAneurysmMoment disturbing]] and more hilarious.

* One of the songs used in [[https://youtu.be/tasYiVI0iz0 this]] WebAnimation/YouTubePoop of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' is "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. In 2016, the film's sequel, ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', would use this song [[spoiler: when Hank the septopus crashes a truck into the ocean to free all the fish inside of it]].

* In ''Film/TheFlintstones'', Creator/HalleBerry plays a character named [[PunnyName Sharon Stone]]. In ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'', she fights Sharon Stone (not her character, the actress).

** Shavar Ross, who plays soon-to-be-orphaned Reggie in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', went to play an orphan called Reggie in the pilot episode of ''Series/MacGyver''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' a character trying (in vain) to seem racially aware hilariously remarked "Why does a great actor like Creator/JamesEarlJones always have to play black characters?" Five years later ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'' hit theaters, with James Earl Jones portraying the the presumed, and eventually confirmed White guy Darth Vader.
** Even funnier now, with the controversy over white characters being made black in comic book movies, ie. Creator/SamuelLJackson as ComicBook/NickFury, Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Perry White in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
* While obviously meant to be a satire of news media, Billy Wilder's 1974 remake of ''Film/TheFrontPage'' becomes ''a lot'' funnier when you remember that just seven years after the film's release, Carol Burnett sued the ''National Enquirer'' for libel.

** Fred's first comment about the alien ship is, "The floors are so ''clean!''" Fred is played by Tony Shaloub, who went on to play the title character (who has OCD) on ''Series/{{Monk}}''.

* In {{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}}, the doorman says to Peter Venkman, "Someone brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk." When the film was made in 1984, this line was probably not meant to be a joke. But since the late 1990s, the word "cougar" has become slang for older women dating younger men.
* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' Christopher Eccleston's character designed the bunker under the White House. Did you know that as [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] he operated the bunker-like office in 10 Downing Street (the Prime Minister's place)?
* In ''Film/GirlInterrupted'', Winona Ryder's opening monologue becomes rather funny after Ryder shoplifted US$5,500 of stuff on December 12, 2001.

** [[http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/203/6/3/godzilla_have_a_snickers__by_saintnick14-d6en4ew.jpg This]] image making fun of the 1998 film with Snickers' "You're not you when you're hungry" campaign is funnier now that there is an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkNeGDNhYZo official Snickers commercial]] made to promote this film.

* [[http://www.sphere.com/article/sex-scandal-captivates-northern-ireland/19310116 This real-life scandal]] involves a MrsRobinson having an affair with a 19-year-old boy, i.e. the premise of ''Film/TheGraduate''. And yes, they're aware of the irony.

* In ''Film/GroundhogDay'', among the people Phil ends up helping is a young couple who are supposed to be getting married that day. The bride is played by Creator/HyndenWalch, who'll later go on to voice Starfire in ''WesternAmimation/TeenTitans'' while the groom is played by Michael Shannon who'll later go to play General Zod in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', two superstrong aliens in the Franchise/DCUniverse. Perhaps their wedding is a political alliance between Krypton and Tamaraan?

* ''Hamlet II'' was actually predated by [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=8#comic this]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' comic.
** Which in turn is predated by ''Film/LastActionHero'' doing a gag trailer.

* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfbloodPrince,'' Bellatrix's actress, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, was trying to HideYourPregnancy in a few early scenes and not really succeeding. [[spoiler:According to ''Theater/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild,'' Bellatrix actually ''was'' [[MySecretPregnancy pregnant around this time]], which fans decried as an AssPull since it's not hinted at all in the books]].

* In Creator/BarbraStreisand's classic starring roles in ''Film/HelloDolly'' and ''Film/FunnyGirl,'' the overbearing narcissism of her characters is played for laughs. While it's true that Streisand was developing her reputation even then, it's only gotten progressively funnier...

* The film adaptation of ''Film/TheHelp'' stars Emma Stone as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, the main protagonist, alongside Bryce-Dallas Howard as Hilly Holbrook, the main antagonist -- pitting the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan new Gwen Stacy]] against the [[Film/SpiderMan3 old Gwen Stacy]].

* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Creator/SarahJessicaParker plays a witch who was hung in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2010, Sarah Jessica Parker found out that an ancestor of hers was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
** Similarly, Creator/EmmaWatson plays Hermione Granger, a witch, in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. In 2009, it was discovered that a 16th century ancestor of Watson's was tried and convicted of witchcraft in England.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''

* In the film adaptation of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Chris Pine plays Prince Charming. In ''[[Film/ThePrincessDiaries The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement]]'', Pine played a prince and was referred to as an "almost-Prince Charming''.

* The werewolf almost killing one of the kids in the direct-to-tv adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/It1990'' is not as scary when you realize said kid is played by Creator/SethGreen... famous for [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer playing a werewolf years later]]. And Seth joins up with other kids to stop the horrible monster.
** Additionally, do you know who one of the other kids was? Brigitte from ''Film/GingerSnaps''!

* ''Film/JamesBond''

* In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' (2001), Will Ferrell plays Marshal Willenholly, whose name is a reference to the three main characters in the TV series ''Series/LandOfTheLost''. Flash forward to 2009, where it's announced that a movie remake of ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' is in production -- starring Will Ferrell as Rick Marshall.
** Although the name of the character in JASBSB was because Smith and Ferrell were both LotL fans, not surprising that Ferrell would end up in the re-make.

* When first entering the gates of Jurassic Park, Malcolm quips "What do they got in there, King Kong"? 23 years later, ''Ride/SkullIslandReignofKong'' would open right next to the Jurassic Park section of Universal's Islands of Adventure.

* Creator/ChloeMoretz biting someone in the neck in ''Film/KickAss'' becomes hilarious now that she play the vampire gal in ''Film/LetMeIn''.
** [[Creator/AaronJohnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson]] and Evan Peters both starred together in ''Film/KickAss'', and a few years later, were both cast as the Creator/MarvelComics hero ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}. Peters portrays the character in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', while Taylor-Johnson portrays him in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. Taylor-Johnson says he and Peters have even joked about this, and that it's a "bizarre connection".
* This one could be either hilarious or HarsherInHindsight, in 'The Kid' Spencer Breslin utters the line "Let me get this straight, I grow up to be a loser!". Now that Spencer is grown up, no one's heard from him in a while and his career has been eclipsed by his sister, Abigail.

** In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.

* ''Film/{{Krull}}'': Liam Neeson's character's FinalSpeech resembles [[Film/ThePhantomMenace another movie]] a little too closely. "Promise me you will train the boy. He is the chosen one. He will bring balance. Train him."

* In ''Film/LeanOnMe'', Creator/MorganFreeman's character Joe Clark holds a baseball bat in his hand and proclaims "They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!" Freeman would go on to play Batman's gadget guy and technical advisor, Lucius Fox, in ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga''.

* {{Creator/Leslie Nielsen}}'s role in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' has made most of his previous roles much [[LeslieNielsenSyndrome funnier]] in hindsight. Examples include Nielsen captaining the S.S. Poseidon in ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' and ''Project Kill'', wherein he plays a rogue, drug-addicted CIA assassin who has a climactic martial arts battle with ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'''s Gary Lockwood. Indeed, ''Airplane'' was deliberately casting with actors like like Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, etc., to send up their earlier roles in "straight" disaster films.

* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Shaggy and Scooby tear Matthew Lillard a new one for his performance as Shaggy in [[Film/ScoobyDoo the 2002 film adaptation]]. Several years later, Lillard became the official voice of Shaggy, a role he continues to this day.

* Fans of Lost and Person Of Interest must get a chuckle if they've ever seen ''Film/TheLostBoys'' which has one of the main characters named Michael Emerson...

** Russell Crowe once had a song called "I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando". Now he's playing Brando's role as Jor-El.
** There's brief footage of a polar bear, calling to mind producer Jon Peters' rabid insistence that Kevin Smith include a polar bear fight scene in his 90s Superman script.
*** When Tim Burton worked on the script for ''Superman Lives!'', part of the plot involved Lex Luthor and Brainiac merging together. Come [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''...]]

** Henry Cavill was previously cast as Clark in [=McG=]'s 2004 Superman film, before it was cancelled and became ''Superman Returns''.

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Morpheus takes Neo out of the Matrix by covering him in a mercury-like substance (due to the reality-warping abilities of the hackers). Laurence Fishburne, in a different role, would later do the same thing in ''Film/FantasticFour: Rise of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer''.

* In ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'', one of Charlie's genius sons says "Man how the hell can they call Pluto a planet? No motherfucking planet has an elliptical orbit. This shit don't make no sense." (''All'' planets have elliptical orbits, just not as markedly elliptical as Pluto's.) Fast forward six years to 2006; after ongoing debates stretching as far back to 1992, Pluto finally got demoted to a dwarf planet.

* The AlphaBitch in ''Film/MeanGirls'' informs her new best friend (Creator/LindsayLohan) that she dumped her original best friend because she couldn't afford the stigma of being seen to be friends with a lesbian (the friend was not in fact gay). Four years later and with Samantha Ronson in the picture, the line takes on new meaning.
** From the same movie, the mean girls are dubbed the Plastics. Come the film's tenth anniversary, and out of heroine Cady (Lindsay Lohan) and the Plastics (Rachel [=McAdams=], Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert) guess whose actress is the only one of the four to have had plastic surgery?
* ''{{Film/Moneyball}}'' is a 2011 film starring Creator/BradPitt about the successful rebuilding of the 2002 Oakland A's baseball team. The following year in 2012, the Oakland A's would be a surprising good team - after years of having a losing record - and make it to the playoffs again.

* In ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', Kermit and Fozzie pick up Gonzo and Camilla. Gonzo states that he's always wanted to move to Bombay, India, to become a movie star. Fozzie retorts "You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we're going: Hollywood!". Thirty years later, when the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film industry is outputting more movies than Hollywood is, Gonzo doesn't look so crazy.
** Bollywood was well-known as a global movie capital even then, so Gonzo really wasn't all that prophetic.
** Speaking of The Muppets, in ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', Rizzo the Rat and friends are working at a GreasySpoon, decades before ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. For more fun, that was a Creator/{{Disney}} / Creator/{{Pixar}} movie, and Disney now owns The Muppets.

* In ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Rex Harrison played Professor Henry Higgins, who made a project out of coaching and grooming flower girl Eliza Doolittle to the point where he could pass her off as high society. A few years later, he then played the title role in ''Film/DoctorDolittle''.
** Creator/JulieAndrews originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in ''My Fair Lady''. In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Andrews winds up playing Henry Higgins to Creator/AnneHathaway's Eliza.
* In ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheMovie'', they riff on the movie ''Film/ThisIslandEarth''. During a scene where Brack communicates via interocitor, Tom sings a fictional theme song that goes, "It's the Brack show, starring me - and Brack! It's the Brack show, and I've got lots of good guests..." Four years later, WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow would come into existence (which was preceded by two specials, both entitled [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]], the second of which was a variety show that - indeed - had guests).

* Creator/IchiroNagai (Better known as the voice of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Happosai]]) caused this ''twice'': The first time as voicing [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] and the second time as voicing [[Film/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]]. And anyone who watched the Franchise/StarWars films, the Film/HarryPotter films and Manga/RanmaOneHalf already known there's a world of difference between Happosai, Yoda and Dumbledore (other than being the mentor figure in the three cases and being a miniature mentor between Yoda and Happosai). This is even more hilarious between Happosai and Dumbledore: The former is an DirtyOldMan who likes beautiful girls and the latter is ''[[WordOfGay gay]]''.

*** Also in the ''What's Your Number?'' with Evans and Mackie? Chris Pratt, the future Star-Lord and star of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''!
* Creator/RobertAltman's 1975 film ''Film/{{Nashville}}'' revolved around the campaign of an [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] third-party presidential candidate who had unexpectedly become a serious contender. Throughout the movie he can be heard giving speeches in a thick Southern accent, criticizing the Washington elite. In 1992 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot a third-party candidate from the South]] unexpectedly became a serious contender in the presidential race.
** This was actually RippedFromTheHeadlines ... from the then relatively recent 1968 election, when third-party ("American Independent") candidate George Wallace was not only a serious contender but actually won several states in ... you guessed it ... the Deep South, which is also where he was from.

* The 1998 Version of the ''Film/TheParentTrap'', Dennis Quaid plays a recently divorced father whose kids want him to get back with his wife. Seven years later, Quaid starred in the 2005 remake of ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'' where he plays a widowed Coast Guard with eight kids, who marries a widowed handbag designer (Rene Russo) with 10 kids. But the kids' goal in that film is the ''total opposite'' of the twins' goal—They want the parents to ''split up!''.

** Long before this movie, Benedict Cumberbatch narrated a documentary in which he had trouble [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GnLDJAgrws pronouncing]] the word "penguin" as he does in this film (he pronounces the word as "pengwing" especially when he has to rattle of lines rapid fire).

* One of the characters in ''[[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes Return Of The Killer Tomatoes]]'' is trying to con women into dating him via a phoney competition offering a date with a movie star. The character is played by future movie star George Clooney.

* In ''Film/{{RV}}'', Robin Williams tells his son played by a young Josh Hutcherson that he bet him $1000 that he'd grow up to be bigger than him. While Williams was not very tall at 5'7", Hutcherson only reached 5'5".

* Fans have jokingly noted that ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' features both the future Film/{{Captain America|The First Avenger}} (Creator/ChrisEvans) and the future Film/CaptainMarvel (Creator/BrieLarson).

* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}''
** In [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} the first movie]], after Fiona realizes Shrek is an ogre, he remarks "You were expecting maybe Prince Charming?" We learn in the second movie that she really ''was'' expecting Prince Charming, and her not being rescued by said Prince Charming drives part of the plot.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart imitates WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse by wearing a black bra on his head and saying "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation". In 2017, it was announced that Cretaor/{{Disney}} is looking to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, whose assets include ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', Gregory complains about [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice America policing the world]].

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''

** Bill Pullman plays a parody of Creator/HarrisonFord's character in ''Franchise/StarWars'', Han Solo. Eventually, both end up playing [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Actions]], in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/AirForceOne'', at about the same time too.

** Lone Starr and Dark Helmet's confrontation is a lighter version of Han Solo and Kylo Ren's confrontation in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.
*** The similarities between Dark Helmet and Kylo Ren don’t end there. They both wear voice-changing masks not because they need them but because they think it looks cool, talk to inanimate objects in their rooms about their evil plans (Kylo Ren to Darth Vader’s helmet, Dark Helmet to his action figures) and throw hissy fits when they don’t get their own way. The scene with Kylo interrogating Rey whilst she’s strapped to a metal frame is also reminiscent of the scene in ''Spaceballs'' where Dark Helmet has Vespa tied up in the same way.
* In ''Film/{{Spawn}}'', Martin Sheen plays the evil and corrupt CIA Director Jason Wynn. Then Sheen was cast in another comic book film: ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' as... Uncle Ben, quite possibly the nicest and kindest comic book character ever.

* The ShoutOut to ''Film/MadMax'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' with the denizens of Bikini Bottom transformed into Apunkalypse after the disappearance of Krabby Patty recipe became more hilarious three months later with the release of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
* One of the most remembered aspects of ''Film/SpyKids 3D'' was Elijah Wood's appearance as "The Guy", the UltimateGamer386 of the video game who ends up [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome getting killed less than a minute after he appears]]. Everyone say it with me: [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy GAME OVER - PRESS R TO TRY AGAIN]].

** Near the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', C-3PO remarks as he pilots Padme's ship "that [he] may be getting the hang of this flying." It's a reference to ''Film/ANewHope'', when Threepio said "Oh my, I've forgotten how much I hate space travel!". But then, Disney's ''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Star Tours]]'' ride was revamped, and look who now pilots your Starspeeder 1000!

* The Farelly Brothers comedy ''Film/StuckOnYou'', starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as a pair on conjoined twins, becomes even funnier after ''Film/GreenZone'', where Damon plays a soldier who is pitted against Kinnear's unethical bureaucrat.

* More of an in-film thing, but one of Creator/ZoeSaldana's early roles was as a TSA agent in ''Film/TheTerminal''. Who happened to be a die-hard Trekkie. Five years later, she lands the role of Lt. Uhura in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. And ''then'', spinning on a few more years, Creator/DiegoLuna - the actor so adorkably geeking about discovering the sci-fi nerdom of the girl of his dreams - would be cast as the male lead in ''Film/RogueOne'', the first "anthology film" other Mega Sci-Fi franchise, ''Franchise/StarWars'' (and being a shameless Star Wars PromotedFanboy about it too).
* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', Michelangelo exclaims upon first seeing April O'Neil on TV "She's a fox!" In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' 24 years later, April O'Neil is played by none other than ''Creator/MeganFox''.

** In hindsight, the backdraft for the whole "the Turtles is aliens" twist after the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 recent cartoon]] (also produced by Nickelodeon) revealed that [[spoiler: ''April'' is essentially an alien in that series.]]
** To a lesser and more meta extent is the fact that the turtles look very similiar to popular "realistic fanart". Another meta example is that the trailers have [[CrackShip somehow caused people to ship Raph and April]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 again.]]

** "Ooh, look, he's doing his Batman voice." becomes funny when it was announced that [[http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2015/07/10/the-dark-knight-meets-the-heroes-in-a-half-shell the Ninja Turtles will have a crossover with Batman in the Fall of 2015]]. Adding to this is that Vernon's actor, Will Arnett, previously voiced Batman in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie.''

* In ''[[Series/TheIncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk Returns]]'', [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is introduced as a being entirely separate from Donald Blake, who in the comics was his [[SecretIdentity Alter Ego]]. Flash forward a few decades to Marvel's ''[[Film/{{Thor}} Thor]]'' where a Donald Blake exists entirely separate from Thor, although he is only mentioned several times as a MythologyGag and [[TheGhost never shown onscreen]].

** Taking it UpToEleven, the character delivers the infamous one-liner "You're fired" to the villain [[spoiler:before killing him]]. Two decades later, he was selected as the replacement host for Creator/DonaldTrump in ''Series/TheApprentice'', a series known for using that one-liner.

* Once upon a time, the premise of ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' and ''Ed TV'' were considered fictional. These days, we know them as "webcams" and "reality TV."

* ''Film/USMarshals'', where Wesley Snipes is wrongfully accused, becomes slightly silly now that Snipes has been convicted of numerous crimes.
** Really most of his movies outside maybe the ''Blade'' series falls under this, since he's usually typecast as a cop or other authority figure.

* Chris Pratt had a small but memorable role in ''Film/{{Wanted}}'', where [[Creator/JamesMcavoy James McAvoy]] beat him across the face with a keyboard. Years later, both men would become Marvel superheroes. [=McAvoy=] went on to play Professor X in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', while Pratt went on to play Star-Lord in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* From the 1990 Creator/ClintEastwood directed/produced ''White Hunter, Black Heart'': ([[http://youtu.be/nc0MIJ6QJEw?t=59s The clip]] was actually used in full for the montage that was made for his "Lifetime Achiements Awards")

* In the original 1941 film ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', Sir Talbot (Claude Rains) makes an offhand remark about destiny and the werewolf legend. Lon Chaney's character, recalling something the old gypsy woman told him earlier, replies in all sincerity, "ThatsWhatSheSaid."

* According to ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'', one of the GovernmentConspiracy's most powerful weapons is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fema FEMA]]. After the New Orleans debacle...um...no.
** The video game ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' also made use of FEMA in this manner, claiming it had the power to 'suspend the Constitution in case of an emergency' thus allowing the conspiracy to take over. They probably lifted it directly from the X-Files film, since a member of the conspiracy uses literally that exact line. In reality, FEMA has no such powers whatsoever outside of the imaginings of conspiracy theorists.

** In the beginning of the film, one of the brothers changes the channel from a sports game to WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}. In the Parenthood episode "Solace", the TV changes to Spongebob during the middle of a sporting event some of the characters were watching.

** Between ''The Social Network'' and ContinuityReboot ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', Eduardo Saverin/Peter Parker (Creator/AndrewGarfield) created an internet sensation with [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Colombus and hooked up with Wichita]].

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* In ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'', Will Poulter's character misses out on [[spoiler:getting lost in the wilderness after his death]]. In ''Film/TheRevenant'' he's finally included in a trek across the wilderness.

** Thanks to [[Creator/KurtwoodSmith certain]] [[Creator/RayWise casting]] in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'', respectively [[CopKiller Clarence Boddicker and Leon Nash]] were both Commissioner Gordon. Adding to this, [[Creator/PeterWeller Muprhy himself]] went on to be [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns the Dark Knight]].

*** The line ''"you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"'' is this now that Creator/MichaelKeaton, who played the Caped Crusader in [[Film/{{Batman}} the Tim Burton films]], plays the Marvel villain The Vulture in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

** Thanks to [[Creator/KurtwoodSmith certain]] [[Creator/RayWise casting]] in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'', respectively [[CopKiller Clarence Boddicker and Leon Nash]] were both Commissioner Gordon.