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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A scene, joke, or offhand line that was originally meant to be funny or light-hearted but which, due to traumatic events in future episodes of a show or in real life, now makes the viewer cringe when it is seen in reruns.
* HarsherInHindsight: A serious event or plotline where a later event (in the story or real life) comes up and only serves to amplify the effects of the already bitter-tasting effect.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: A scene, joke, or offhand line that was originally meant to be funny line, or light-hearted but which, plotline that, due to traumatic events in future episodes of a show or in real life, now makes the viewer cringe when it is seen in reruns.
* HarsherInHindsight: A serious event or plotline where a later event (in the story or real life) comes up and only serves to amplify the effects of the already bitter-tasting effect.
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* FailedFutureForecast: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news.

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* FailedFutureForecast: When an event a story makes a prediction about the future that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. proven incorrect.

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* FailedFutureForecast: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.

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* FailedFutureForecast: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.



* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Originally, used to be just the sudden end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, pre-empting many Cold War themed plots set in the then future year of 1991 and beyond. Now it is that, and any unforeseen major political event that occurred in real life but is absent in a work set either during the year the event happened or after.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.

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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: FailedFutureForecast: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.

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Society Marches On has been renamed; cleaning out misuse and moving examples


* FutureSocietyPresentValues: Stories written in the past but roughly set in what is now the present or in the future incorrectly assume that their values will persist through time.



* SocietyMarchesOn: Stories written in the past but roughly set in what is now the present or in the future incorrectly assume that their values will persist through time.
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I guess Tvtropes marches on too, eh?

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I guess Tvtropes TV Tropes marches on too, eh?
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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are rendered inaccurate by new historical discoveries and insights.

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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are rendered inaccurate by new ''new'' historical discoveries and insights.
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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are pre-empted by new historical discoveries and insights.

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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are pre-empted rendered inaccurate by new historical discoveries and insights.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A work that makes so many references to current trends and events that it becomes prematurely dated within a short time period.
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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are pre-empted by historical development.

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* DatedHistory: When a story's elements are pre-empted by new historical development.discoveries and insights.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Inaccuracies in history in general.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Inaccuracies in history in general.general by creators because of plot demands or simple gaffes.
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It may refer to one of the following:

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Due to the ambiguity of the term "history", this former trope has been disambiguated. It may refer to one of the following:following:
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* {{Zeerust}}: When the technological aesthetics of a story set in the future become dated due to intervening advances in technology.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: Stories written in the past but roughly set in what is now the present or in the future incorrectly assume that their values will persist through time.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Originally, used to be just the sudden end of the ColdWar pre-empting many ColdWar themed plots set in the then future year of 1991 and beyond. Now it is that, and any unforeseen major political event that occurred in real life but is absent in a work set either during the year the event happened or after.

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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Originally, used to be just the sudden end of the ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar, pre-empting many ColdWar Cold War themed plots set in the then future year of 1991 and beyond. Now it is that, and any unforeseen major political event that occurred in real life but is absent in a work set either during the year the event happened or after.
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I guess Tvtropes marches on too, eh?
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The sudden end of the ColdWar pre-empting many ColdWar themed plots.

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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Originally, used to be just the sudden end of the ColdWar pre-empting many ColdWar themed plots.plots set in the then future year of 1991 and beyond. Now it is that, and any unforeseen major political event that occurred in real life but is absent in a work set either during the year the event happened or after.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarressment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.

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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Can be a source of embarressment embarrassment for the early worm predicting the news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Usually a source of embarressment for the early worm predicting the news.

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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: When an event that is ''soon to be'' history gets published and quickly becomes factually incorrect. Usually Can be a source of embarressment for the early worm predicting the news.news. SuperTrope to TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.

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