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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Ponyville Confidential", the Cutie Mark Crusaders' first attempt at journalism for the ''Foal Free Press'' ends with them falling into a mud puddle while trying to take a picture of a bird. Later on, it's revealed that Featherweight secretly took a photograph of this embarrassing moment, and Diamond Tiara blackmails them for trying to back out of writing hurtful gossip by threatening to publish it in the paper if they do.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Ponyville Confidential", the Cutie Mark Crusaders' first attempt at journalism for the ''Foal Free Press'' ends with them falling into a mud puddle while trying to take a picture of a bird. Later on, it's revealed that Featherweight secretly took a picture of this embarrassing scene, and Diamond Tiara blackmails them for trying to back out of writing hurtful gossip by threatening to publish it in the paper if they do.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Ponyville Confidential", the Cutie Mark Crusaders' first attempt at journalism for the ''Foal Free Press'' involves them falling into a mud puddle while trying to take a picture of a bird. Later on, it's revealed that Featherweight secretly took a picture of this embarrassing scene, and Diamond Tiara blackmails them by threatening to publish it in the paper if they back out of writing slanderous gossip for the paper.

* Tony Stark managed to shrug off his very-nearly-HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Film/TheAvengers''. However, in ''Film/IronMan3'', it is shown that the incident has given him a very bad case of post-traumatic stress and paranoia which drives him to create more and more inventions in an attempt to safeguard humanity, neglecting food, sleep and Pepper.

* In BreakingBad, Walter laughs about a furniture store [[EarWorm jingle]] with a person he kidnapped. The furniture store is called Tampico, and as he eventually ends up [[spoiler: killing the person he kidnapped in self defence just as he about to let him go]] the next time they show the Tampico brand, it is quite a dark moment.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', each of the wonders that the Other Mother made become this. She gets terrorized by the birds and plants in the garden, the theater ends up being filled with dog bats with the Miriam and April turning into taffy monsters, and in Bobinski's circus she is attacked by everything in the room (including the cotton candy cannons) with the mice turning into rats

** Happens in ''Spider-Man: Reign'' as well.

* In ''SuburbanKnights'', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic gives Ma-Ti the "important mission" of getting him a coffee to keep him out of the way. [[spoiler:In the end, after Ma-Ti sacrifices his life to defeat Malachite, the Critic goes back home to find Ma-Ti got him the coffee after all.]] Cue tears.

* WelcomeToNightVale An early episode has the throw-away line, "As my mother always told me, ''One day someone is going to kill you, Cecil. And it will involve a mirror''." Objectively a disturbing statement, but (like most things on the show) funny because of the delivery. And then a few episodes later we get to hear recordings he apparently made when he was a teenager (but now has no memory of), and the tape seems to end with 15-year-old Cecil being killed by some supernatural entity that came out of his mirror. Present-day Cecil is understandably freaked out and destroys the tape.

** In BreakingBad, Walter laughs about a furniture store [[EarWorm jingle]] with a person he kidnapped. The furniture store is called Tampico, and as he eventually ends up [[spoiler: killing the person he kidnapped in self defence just as he about to let him go]] the next time they show the Tampico brand, it is quite a dark moment.

* Tony Stark managed to shrug off his very-nearly-HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Film/TheAvengers''. However, in ''IronMan3'', it is shown that the incident has given him a very bad case of post-traumatic stress and paranoia which drives him to create more and more inventions in an attempt to safeguard humanity, neglecting food, sleep and Pepper.

* ''AKnightsTale'' has a scene where William first arrives in London, he imagines that a young boy cheering him on is himself as a child. Later on [[spoiler: as he sits in the stocks]] the same boy runs up to him and slaps him in the face.
* ''TheHole'' has a really dark example. In Liz's version of events the group make up a fake scenario to fool Martyn. The scene is done comically but then [[spoiler: when we see the real story the same things they used appear again such as Frankie getting sick (and eventually dying), the water going off and everyone ganging up on Liz]].
* ''TheBreakfastClub'' has Brian talking about how he failed shop because he couldn't make a ceramic elephant, which leads into a bit of joking on the part of the others. A few minutes later when the entire discussion has gone a bit more dramatic, Brian reveals [[spoiler: he brought a gun to school because he couldn't get the elephant to work, implying he wanted to kill himself]]. It gets subverted when they all end up laughing about it anyway, [[spoiler:as it was a) a flare gun, and b) he further implies he was going to use it to destroy the elephant]].

* In ''ThelmaAndLouise'', Thelma and Louise take a polaroid photo of themselves at the start of their trip and stick it to the rear view mirror in the car. The photo flies off the mirror [[spoiler: just as the car goes plunging into the Grand Canyon]].

Compare CerebusRetcon when a comedy plot element is deconstructed and played straight and DarkReprise when it's a song. See also FunnyAneurysmMoment for an unintentional version of this. Note that it only counts when the previous moment is actually referenced. When it's a form of dialogue reversal, see IronicEcho. When the thing being called back to seemed like more of a throwaway than anything, that's MeaningfulEcho.

!!'''Examples:'''

* More of a Cerebus MythologyGag, but in ''SpiderManNoir'', after [[AsYouKnow skinny Peter Parker gets his amazing abilities and decides to become a vigilante]], we cut to him on a rooftop in costume, shouting [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 "Here comes the Spider-Man!"]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', Mr Bobinski's circus is one of the things that wows Coraline on her second visit and is the sight of some amusing moments. When she looks for the second ghost child's eyes she ends up getting attacked by everything in the circus. And the cute jumping mice turn out to be rats in disguise.