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* An in-universe example with ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. Most sourcebooks set between 3052 and 3067 paint the Word of Blake as "pseudo-religious fanatics but otherwise no worse than the rest", and the [=WoB=] is regarded as a legitimate, if somewhat odd, business partner and mercenary employer. Then in late 3067... apparently 'fanatic' was not nearly a strong enough word for the Blakists, especially when their holy vision was interfered with in a big way. Cue the Word of Blake Jihad: massed terror attacks with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, indiscriminate genocide of civilians, mind-controlling people to be surgically implanted suicide bombers, and some of the worst fighting since the Second Succession War in the Inner Sphere. It got to the point that ''everyone else'' banded together to wipe them out due to the Blakists' genocidal tendencies, culminating in the destruction of Circinus to ensure the death of the Word's infamous leader, the Master [[spoiler:Thomas Marik.]]
** During the 3060s a lot of Clans showed a greater willingness to interact with the Inner Sphere, with the Cloud Cobras even hosting a conclave for fellow religious types. It seemed for a time that the two cultures could coexist. Then the Wars of Reaving erupted and the surviving Clans in the Homeworlds cut themselves off totally from 'tainted' outsiders.
* Elsewhere in the Chronicles of Darkness, the creepy, abusive subtext some people picked up in ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'' got a ''lot'' more uncomfortable when credible allegations surfaced that head writer Matt [=McFarland=] had a history of abuse and sexual misconduct, leading to [[http://theonyxpath.com/about-matt-mcfarland/ Onyx Path stopping working with him in 2017 and formally cutting all ties in 2019]].
* Flying Buffalo thought it would be funny to pretend that one volume of their ''TabletopGame/GrimtoothsTraps'' series had been confiscated in a government raid (presumably so the carefully-unidentified agency could use those traps). Four years later, Steve Jackson Games was raided by the US Secret Service and ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Cyberpunk'' confiscated. Sorta killed the joke, there (and Flying Buffalo's publisher apologized in the next reprinting of the ''Traps'' volume that had the fake raid story).
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''
** The supplement ''Super Scum'' featured a supervillain who'd turned to crime after being drummed out of college football for being a metahuman. He has the quirk "Idolizes O.J. Simpson". In the 1980s, of course, that could only be interpreted as a reference to Simpson's ''athletic'' career...
** A RunningGag in the ''TabletopGame/GURPSIlluminatiUniversity'' setting involves the crushing amounts of debt racked up by students (to the point where the university often has claim to all future earnings from the student, assuming they let them graduate). Not nearly so funny since 2012, where such debts were downright being considered a crisis.
* Two cards from ''Illuminati: New World Order'' are very creepy after the 9/11 attacks. The Pentagon shows a mushroom cloud coming from the eponymous building (the building was attacked at 9/11, but its strong construction means it didn't crumble like the Twin Towers). Terrorist Nuke shows a two-tower building that looks like the World Trade Center with an explosion near where the first plane hit.
** Then there's one card for Princess Diana, which mentions she's immune to attacks from an enemies "Peaceful" and "Liberal" aligned groups... but not from ''"Media."''
* In 1972, British Petroleum released a board game titled ''Offshore Oil Strike''. Set in Western Europe, four players explore for oil, build platforms and construct pipelines. The first player to earn $120 million wins. Players must deal with hazard cards, one of which reads "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1 million."
* One of the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplements from the 90s describes a volcanic eruption in Japan that triggers nuclear accidents at a cluster of fusion power plants, irradiating large areas of the island nation's densely-populated coastline. At the time, it read like [=WizKids=] backpedaling on the game-line's previous JapanTakesOverTheWorld slant, but it's a lot darker of a TakeThat now...
* ''Unknown Armies'' has a published adventure titled "Fly to Heaven," in which an airplane is hijacked by a madman who plans to broadcast himself crashing the plane into the Sears Tower in order to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the Invisible Clergy]] as the archetype of The Terrorist. This was published in 1998. The second edition, published after 9/11, comments on how exeptionally poorly that particular adventure aged.
* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' book "City of the Damned: New Orleans" has a sidebar that mentions if you ''really'' want to shake up the political structure of New Orleans, then much of the city is below the water line. Given the CrapsackWorld nature, odds are those levees would go down with one strong hurricane, no doubt raining destruction on the city and wiping out many of the elder vampires. The book was published in 2005, three months before Hurricane Katrina made landfall and did basically ''exactly'' what the writer of that sidebar predicted it would do, sans the vampire chaos.
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