History Main / HarsherInHindSight

* After speedy wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, one piece of merchandise that hit the shelves was a shirt with a picture of Ruggs and the slogan "Speed Kills", a quote from late Raiders owner Al Davis. In November 2021, Ruggs, got into a horrifying drunk driving accident in which he was driving at more than ''150 MPH''[[note]]in metric units, that's over 240 KPH[[/note]] on a city street before he rear-ended another vehicle (he tried to brake at the last second but it was far too late; he was still traveling in excess of 100 MPH just before the impact), killing a 23-year-old woman and her dog. Needless to say, the shirt was pulled from stores pretty quickly after that.

* After speedy wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, one piece of merchandise that hit the shelves was a shirt with a picture of Ruggs and the slogan "Speed Kills", a quote from late Raiders owner Al Davis. In November 2021, Ruggs, drunk at the time, got into a horrifying car accident which began with him driving driving at more than ''150 MPH''[[note]]in metric units, that's over 240 KPH[[/note]] on a city street before he rear-ended another vehicle (he tried to brake at the last second but it was far too late; he was still traveling in excess of 100 MPH just before the impact), killing a 23-year-old woman and her dog. Needless to say, the shirt was pulled from stores pretty quickly after that.

* After speedy wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, one piece of merchandise that hit the shelves was a shirt with a picture of Ruggs and the slogan "Speed Kills", a quote from late Raiders owner Al Davis. In November 2021, Ruggs, drunk at the time, was clocked driving at more than ''150 MPH''[[note]]in metric units, that's over 240 KPH[[/note]] on a city street before he struck another vehicle, killing a 23-year-old woman and her dog. Needless to say, the shirt was pulled from stores pretty quickly after that.

Note that if the event in question is something inevitable, such as an actor dying after having played [[CharacterDeath a character who was killed off]], that's not necessarily this. We all have to go at some point. It would only be this trope if the death was somehow similar to how they died onscreen. It is also possible that an actor portraying a sympathetic character turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal. And if a work references something that already was an issue back then, but "[[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent recently]]" became more relevant, such as [[BigotWithABadge police racism]] and [[PoliceBrutality brutality]], [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic contagious illnesses]], or natural disasters, there needs to be specific details in common with the real life event for it to be worth listing here.

* After speedy wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020, one piece of merchandise that hit the shelves was a shirt with a picture of Ruggs and the slogan "Speed Kills", referencing a quote from late Raiders owner Al Davis. In November 2021, Ruggs, drunk at the time, was clocked driving at more than ''150 MPH''[[note]]in metric units, that's over 240 KPH[[/note]] on a city street before he struck another vehicle, killing a 23-year-old woman and her dog. Needless to say, the shirt was pulled from stores pretty quickly after that.

Contrast HilariousInHindsight, HeartwarmingInHindsight.