History HilariousInHindsight / Literature

* Creator/MindyKaling's 2011 memoir ''Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'' includes a short, hypothetical list of remakes/reboots she's come up with: One is a [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 version of Ghostbusters with women as the main characters]], and she even speculates on how it [[AudienceAlienatingPremise might be a hard sell]] to the mostly-male fan base of [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 the original film]]. Another is an ''Film/Oceans11'' prequel she dubs ''Ocean's 5'', reasoning that the sequels' trend of adding more to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters was getting out of hand and they needed to scale back a bit. In 2018, she was announced as being part of the main cast of ''Ocean's 8'', a spinoff of the original franchise (with at least a ''few'' less main characters than the original).

* Creator/MindyKaling's 2011 memoir ''Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'' includes a short, hypothetical list of remakes/reboots she's come up with: One is a [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 version of Ghostbusters with women as the main characters]], and she even speculates on how it [[AudienceAlienatingPremise might be a hard sell]] to the mostly-male fan base of [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 the original film]]. Another is an ''Film/Oceans11'' prequel she dubs ''Ocean's 5'', reasoning that the sequels' trend of adding more to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters was getting out of hand and they needed to scale back a bit. In 2018, she was announced as being part of the main cast of ''Film/Oceans8'', a spinoff of the original franchise (with at least a ''few'' less main characters than the original).

* Creator/MindyKaling's 2011 memoir ''Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'' includes a short, hypothetical list of remakes/reboots she's come up with: One is a [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 version of Ghostbusters with women as the main characters]], and she even speculates on how it [[AudienceAlienatingPremise might be a hard sell]] to the mostly-male fan base of [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 the original film]]. Another is an ''Film/Oceans11'' prequel she dubs ''Ocean's 5'', reasoning that the sequels' trend of adding more to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters was getting out of hand and they needed to scale back a bit. In 2018, she was announced as being part of the main cast of ''Ocean's 8'', a spinoff of the original franchise.

* In the novel ''[[SilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'' they have an early scene where Mason Verger pumps Paul Krendel on info about Clarice Starling. They come to the point where he mentions that Clarice has a female roommate, and Krendel casually speculates that the pair's relationship is sexual in nature. At the time the book was written it was a quick EstablishingCharacterMoment to show us that Krendel is a creep, but then [[Creator/JodieFoster a certain someone]] decided to ''[[TransparentCloset finally]]'' [[http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/12/jodiefoster come out of the closet]], and it [[ActorAllusion reads quite differently.]]

* [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaac Asimov]], as a prolific SF author, made many predictions. [[http://www.images-booknode.com/book_cover/86/full/cher-jupiter-85720.jpg This one]] is merely a translation "accident". (The original title is "Buy Jupiter.")

* In ''Literature/{{BraveNewWorld}}'', the future society's current fashion trend is an overabundance of zippers on everything, demonstrating how needlessly over-engineered everything is. It's evocative of the costume design stylings that TetsuyaNomura has become notorious for.

*** The deceptively pretty and sweet Green Lady, who bewitches people with her music, is very similar to the media's image of Music/TaylorSwift during TheNewTens, to the point where her {{hatedom}} started calling her a snake after her spat with Music/KanyeWest in 2016. Moreover, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

*** A few notes about the villainous Green Lady. Nowadays, a deceptively pretty and sweet snake-woman who bewitches people with music is likely to remind readers of the "Music/TaylorSwift is a snake" memes that started circulating in 2016. And the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is likewise eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke.

** ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' has a few aspects reminiscent of UrbanLegends you may have heard on TheInternet. First, the notion of a [[TheReptilians shapeshifting reptilian invader]], lurking within an ElaborateUndergroundBase and subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control, is eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke. Second, Puddleglum's climactic faith-affirming AuthorFilibuster, directed at an apparent HollywoodAtheist, rings of chain messages about good Christian students trouncing smug secular professors in arguments (though it should be noted that Lewis pulls it off a lot better than the authors of those copypastas do, seeing how he was such a talented wordsmith in general).

* Julie Kenner's 2000 novel ''The Cat's Fancy'' is about a cat who becomes human in order to marry her owner. She shows up in her owner's house seemingly with amnesia, and he and others try to find out who she is, in a plot already reminiscent of [[MulhollandDrive a movie that would come out a year later]]... but then we get this line:

* The book ''LAConfidential'' features the death of a down and out prostitute named Kathy Janeway. The creators of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ''probably'' didn't have this in mind when naming their show's captain, but the name was removed from TheFilmOfTheBook nonetheless.

* In the first book of L.J. Smith's ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'' the character Damon utters the phrase: "Winter is coming." This was a good five years before the saying became the most ubiquitous passage in George R.R. Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfFireAndIce'' and the tagline of the subsequent television adaptation.

* In the novel ''[[SilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'' they have an early scene where Mason Verger pumps Paul Krendel on info about Clarice Starling. They come to the point where he mentions that Clarice has a female roommate, and Krendel casually speculates that the pair's relationship is sexual in nature. At the time the book was written it was a quick EstablishingCharacterMoment to show us that Krendel is a creep, but then [[JodieFoster a certain someone]] decided to ''[[TransparentCloset finally]]'' [[http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/12/jodiefoster come out of the closet]], and it [[ActorAllusion reads quite differently.]]

** It came out over a decade before the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series became popular. Reading it today, the inclusion of a [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid genetically enhanced super ninja]] named [[HideoKojima "Hideo"]] is pretty funny.

* In The Glass Key, by Dashiell Hammett, two characters meet in a restaurant named Tom & Jerry's, which is presumably not owned by a cartoon cat and mouse. However, this is likely ''not'' a true example, as the names Tom and Jerry (in the form, specifically, of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq. and Corinthian Tom) have been associated with each other since the early 19th century, and most later combinations are either coincidence (neither is an uncommon name) or deliberate callbacks to ''LifeInLondon''.

** Similarly, Liu Biao has an advisor named Kuai Liang. That won't be too significant for most readers, but any ''MortalKombat'' fans are sure to get a chuckle out of it since ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' revealed ([[VideoGame/MortalKombat2 the younger]]) Sub-Zero's [[CanonName real name to be just that.]]

** ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' has a few aspects reminiscent of UrbanLegends you may have heard on TheInternet. First, the notion of a shapeshifting reptilian invader subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control is eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke. Second, Puddleglum's climactic faith-affirming AuthorFilibuster, directed at an apparent HollywoodAtheist, rings of chain messages about good Christian students trouncing smug secular professors in arguments (though it should be noted that Lewis pulls it off a lot better than the authors of those copypastas do, seeing how he was such a talented wordsmith in general).

** ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' has a few aspects reminiscent of UrbanLegends you may have heard on TheInternet. First, the notion of a shapeshifting reptilian invader subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control is eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke. Second, Puddleglum's climactic faith-affirming AuthorFilibuster, directed at an apparent HollywoodAtheist, rings of recent chain messages about good Christian students trouncing smug secular professors in arguments (though it should be noted that Lewis pulls it off a lot better than the authors of those copypastas do, seeing how he was such a talented wordsmith in general).

** ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' has a few aspects reminiscent of UrbanLegends you may have heard on TheInternet. First, the notion of a shapeshifting reptilian invader subtly acquiring power through governmental infiltration and mind control is eerily similar to UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories propounded by the likes of Creator/DavidIcke. Second, Puddleglum's climactic faith-affirming AuthorFilibuster, directed at an apparent HollywoodAtheist, rings of more recent chain messages about good Christian students trouncing smug secular professors in arguments (though it should be noted that Lewis pulls it off a lot better than the authors of those copypastas do, seeing how he was such a talented wordsmith in general).

** The {{prequel}} ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' reveals Jadis the White Witch to be the [[LastOfHisKind last surviving member]] of an ancient, decadent species of {{Sufficiently Advanced|Aliens}} HumanAliens, the rest of whom she wiped from existence to prevent a war from ending unfavorably. Fast-forward about half a century, and a similar revelation was made about [[Series/DoctorWho another iconic British children's character]]. This parallel makes the scene in London, where Jadis is unfamiliar with our world and ends up causing a commotion, all the funnier, since that kind of situation happens to the Doctor ''all the freaking time'' - and usually in London too! And in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', the Witch's tactic of charming Edmund with sugary jelly candies becomes funny because it's essentially the Fourth Doctor's ''modus operandi'' for making new friends.

** The {{prequel}} ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' reveals Jadis the White Witch to be the [[LastOfHisKind last surviving member]] of an ancient, decadent species of {{Sufficiently Advanced|Aliens}} HumanAliens, the rest of whom she wiped from existence to prevent a war from ending unfavorably. Fast-forward about half a century, and a similar revelation was made about [[Series/DoctorWho another iconic British children's character]]. This parallel makes the scene in London, where Jadis is unfamiliar with our world and ends up causing a commotion, all the funnier, since that kind of situation happens to the Doctor ''all the freaking time'' - and usually in London too! And in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', the Witch's tactic of charming Edmund with sugary jelly candies becomes funny because it's essentially the Fourth Doctor's ''modus operandi'' for making new friends.