History Main / HarsherInHindSight

** When Kurt Cobain was 15, he made a short film entitled, "Kurt Commits Bloody Suicide". SoYeah.

* During TheAdventuresOfSuperman episode "The Human Bomb", a man attaches dynamite to himself, pulls Lois Lane out on a ledge, and threatens to kill them both unless Superman does what he wants. Given the prevalence of suicide bombers today, I think this counts. Given that in the end, Jimmy's belief that the dynamite was fake was played for laughs, this might also be counted as a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

* In BackToTheFuture 2, a copy of USA Today has this in the top right hand corner: "Washington prepares for Queen Diana's visit". Granted, she would not have been Queen, but ow.

* WoodyAllen's film ''Radio Days'' includes a scene involving a little girl falling down a well, and the nationwide media sensation it causes. The film was released in January 1987; in October of that year, 18-month-old Jessica [=McClure=] fell down a well in Texas, causing - yes - a nationwide media sensation. Only the fact that [=McClure=] was successfully rescued keeps this from being a FunnyAneurysmMoment. (In Allen's film, the little girl dies before rescuers can reach her...which was also the case with three-year-old Kathy Fiscus, whose own 1949 well accident was the basis for the movie incident.)

->You say you should have been a ballerina, babe
->There are songs I should have sung
->But I guess our dreams have come and gone
->You gotta dream when you are young

* The scenes of Grace Kelly's character driving recklessly in order to freak out Cary Grant in Hitchcock's ''ToCatchAThief'' take on a different feel once one realizes that they were filmed in the same vicinity as the site of Grace's fatal 1982 car accident.

* [[XJustX September 11. Just. September 11.]] As you've seen above, the September 11 attacks in 2001 left a lot of ill tastes in a lot of media.

* After the Catholic sexual abuse scandals and a heightened awareness of childhood sexual abuse in general in the aughties, it seems unthinkable that the network censors of the 90s allowed {{Animaniacs}} to portray Pip (a middle-aged man who the Warners didn't like, didn't feel comfortable around, and had only known for a matter of hours) ''taking a bath'' with the apparently 10-year-old Yakko and 7-year-old Wakko.

Compare: FunnyAneurysmMoment; TooSoon.

*When Chris Benoit and his family were found dead the morning of a scheduled episode of Raw, the show was scrapped and dedicated to his past wrestling career. It was found out very soon after the episode aired that he was likely to have murdered his own family, then commited suicide.

*The BBC children's drama ''GrangeHill'' had a nasty and quite personal example of this back in 2000. The character of Judi Jeffreys was (long story short) locked in a storage room that was on fire. She tried to escape by climbing out of the window onto a nearby fire escape, and ended up falling head first to her death. The actress who played her, Laura Sadler, met her own sad and untimely demise in the exact same way about 3 years later.

*"The UncannyValley" episode of ''CriminalMinds'' featured a disturbed unsub who was molested by their father, the head of the local sanitarium. Today I opened the paper and read [[http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hospital-director25-2010feb25,0,5761517.story this real-life occurence]], and now I'm not sure which came first since they only started investigating that guy in September. [[spoiler: I suppose the one thing the real-life bastard has going for him is that it's not mentioned whether he used ''shock therapy'' to give his victims LaserGuidedAmnesia.]]

*The last thing the 2000 film BattlefieldEarth needs is another aspect for people to treat it with derision. But after the real-life tragedy that took place the following year, when one watches the movie (for some unfathomable reason), one may find the hero's journey depicted there as a path to terrorism. (The hero's land is taken by a technologically superior civilization because of its resources; the hero educates himself on the aliens and their technology and formulates plans to take the alien civilization down; the hero attacks, crashing aircraft and sending in suicide bombers.) And seeing the alien Psychlo as Americans casts a very bad light on America.
**To top it all off, the hero is inspired to be a terrorist after reading the Constitution.
***Well, the Declaration of Independence actually. The US Constitution is just basically a legal document saying: "There will be a Congress, a Presidency, and a Supreme Court." The Declaration of Independence is more an outlining of the ideals the constitution is based on and is therefore a bit more inspiring.
**So, what we're saying is resisting a conqueror is automatically 'terrorism'? 'Terrorism' is typically defined as the deliberate targeting of civilians with the aim of scaring the populace into enacting societal change, as opposed to concentrating on military targets which is legitimate resistance.
**You got the idea! It's harsher because THIS is how terrorists see themselves; desperate liberators from their "cruel conquerors." There is the saying, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." In other words, Battlefield Earth can be a terrorist's propaganda material to show to recruits to romanticize their goal, no matter how twisted the view is.... That is, if it wasn't for the godawful quality of the movie. (Maybe they'll treat it as comedy?) And remember, [[spoiler:the heroes in the movie didn't send a suicide bomber to just blow up a building, they sent a suicide bomber to blow up the whole alien planet with the whole alien populace on it! That's "as many as possible" as you could get.]]
*** Dude, are you serious? If a Middle Eastern nationalist is going to lash out at Western cultural and political influence, it's NOT going to be an American b-movie that serves as their inspiration.
*** It probably is worth noting that the two times "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" tends to pop up are when you ask the terrorist (very few people like thinking they're not TheHero) & as justification when somebody wants to [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified not villify them]] when TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized--which only gets ''worse'' when there are actual freedom fighters who would like us to know they're '''not''' those guys.

*Teenagers ''[[HatePlague sometimes]]'' kill people, with objects such as a Hooked Machete, in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' A girl kills her father with an axe, around the middle of the second season? [[NewMediaAreEvil Coincidental]], or not? They censor the opening, for the better actually, and stop an episode for airing for a week.

*''The China Syndrome'', which deals with a near-meltdown at a U.S. nuclear power plant, was released to theaters on March 16, 1979 and was a success. Then, twelve days later, a partial meltdown took place at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. Of course, no one perished in that situation, but it got ''massive'' amounts of news coverage, remained in the forefront of America's mind, and [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity contributed mightily]] to ''The China Syndrome'' being an even bigger hit -- though producer/star Michael Douglas noted that they actually scaled back its release somewhat because of this trope.

*RomanPolanski's film ''Repuslion'', about a woman who has passionate fantasies of being raped every night seems a lot darker after what would happen a few years later.
** When you live through the Holocaust as a boy, lose both your parents, then lose your pregnant wife to one of the most infamous serial killers in history,all in a time period where depression and post traumatic stress was still poorly understood, you're life is tragic. (and even when you factor you're repulsive crimes, you might still qualify as a JerkassWoobie) When there's this one time you applied fake blood on a little girl's body for your version of Macbeth, and ask her name, and she replies "Sharon", the universe is trying to tell you you're a CosmicPlaything/ButtMonkey.

** Yuki take the cake with: "There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does" first we know that started to become true , but later in the manga we learn how he became SO desesperate for it :sniff: