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Agent Carter
- Sixes and Sevens: When explaining the time she spent in Germany during her youth to Michael, Emily mentions how her host father hoped that having two daughters meant the girls would never have to fight should war come again. She relays this, of course, as a woman in British intelligence who's just been sent to join a highly confidential wartime project.
- A more humorous example comes at the end of Michael's chapter in The Haunting of Villa Layla where Khonshu hopes that a suitable person will come along to be his avatar soon. The events of Moon Knight don't take place until eighty-eight years later.
- Confessions (Amphibia): Sasha is mildly insulted by how all the outfits Andrias chose for her are pink. While she doesn't have a problem with the color, she sees it as an attempt at making her seem pacified, feminine, and harmless. Given that pink is the color of Sasha's calamity gem, the reality of why the color is associated with her is quite the opposite.
- Watching Amphibia: Several of the viewers note during "Wax Museum" that, despite being the roughest and harshest of the Calamity Trio, Sasha is the only one of the group lacking a body count, compared to Anne and Marcy's considerably large body counts.
- Blackbird (Arrow):
- Tommy bitterly notes that Oliver's return coincided with The Reveal that Laurel was kidnapped and has been missing for the past three years, meaning he gets to rejoice in the return of one best friend only to begin mourning the other immediately after.
- Among all the people who have wrong Laurel, Oliver, the ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with her sister, ends up being the only person she reconciles with at the end of the story, to the point that not only would it not be surprising if they started dating again, but it's something that all their loved ones actively want to happennote . Meanwhile, the family that was supposed to love and support Laurel no matter what end up all hurting her in unforgivable ways: her mother Dinah traded Laurel to the League of Assassins in exchange for her sister Sara's freedom, Sara herself ran off with Oliver (the cause of all this) and then let Dinah trade Laurel to the League for freedom, and Quentin spent two years drunkenly verbally and emotionally abusing Laurel because he blamed her for Sara's supposed death. They each end up betraying her so thoroughly that no one would blame Laurel if she never wanted to speak with any of them ever again.
- The Cutting Edge:
- After Team Arrow felt that she was too emotional to be a good vigilante in the original future, Laurel is put out when she overhears Ted and Isaac saying that she isn't emotional enough to be a vigilante in the past (they feel that she doesn't have the necessary drive to do what they do at this time).
- Laurel explicitly notes the irony that she's telling Sara about time travel even if she doesn't explicitly tell Sara about the Legends.
- Laurel turns Oliver down because she's convinced that Felicity is his One True Love. Oliver (rightly) takes her rejection to mean that she thinks he doesn't love her, and decides to prove himself to her. This leads to him dismissing going to Felicity for tech support out of hand, and instead chooses someone there will be no romantic suggestions with: Naomi Singh.
- In "Old Associations
", Diggle more or less forces Oliver and Felicity to attend couples counseling in attempt to save their relationship. A single session completely destroys any chance of them getting back together, and the only one upset by the outcome is Diggle himself. Laurel even notes the irony. - In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Malcolm blackmails Robert and Moira Queen into helping his campaign against the League of Assassins, based on the idea that the League will seek revenge on the Merlyn bloodline for his actions. The irony is that Malcolm anticipates that Green Arrow will be sent to kill them, everyone naturally unaware that Oliver Queen is the Arrow.
- Zuko in lessons in tea making lampshades the irony in accidentally meeting the Avatar by chance after having long given up in his search for him and embracing his banishment.
- In Reluctant Hero:
- Sokka, who's a Nay-Theist extraordinaire and a fervent opponent to the Fire Nation, finds himself forced to work with Fire soldiers to appease a Great Spirit. The soldiers are so impressed by his performance they decide to give him to the Fire Sages for training in spirit-dealings.
- Prince Zuko learns he's the new Avatar whose fate is restore balance by stopping his birth-nation's attempt to world domination. An attempt spearheaded by his own father, no less. Prince Zuko learns this while looking for the Avatar.
- In there is a fire in me, the extremely anti-Fire Nation Jet learns that not only his father was a Fire mercenary from the colonies, the teenager is a tremendously gifted firebender. He takes it... poorly.
- Wikibending: Every ten years, all Air Nomads return to the temples for the Kurultais, meetings where the nation's management is discussed. In 0 AG, the Kurultai coincided with the coming of the Great Comet, which many Air Nomads saw as a good omen. Whoops…
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, after he spent the original timeline pressuring Lee and Zak to follow him into the fleet as they were growing up, Bill is amused that he let all three of his children pursue their own interests in this new timeline and yet Liam, the son he has literally never put pressure on, is the one most keen to follow in his footsteps (Zak joins the fleet as a doctor and Lee’s considering going into politics once he can wrap up his current service).
- Getting It Right involves an Alternate Universe where Ichigo's parents sealed his powers for his entire life as a way to protect him. Ichigo ends up hit and killed by a car before the events of the series have a chance to begin.
- In I Didn't Expect to See You Again, Ichigo ends up with two zanpakuto, both of whom would normally be calm and level-headed, but end up insulting and yelling at each other before coming to blows. Ichigo thinks to himself that it's ironic that the only person not giving him a headache is his hollow.
- In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
- Tug tackles Hobbes in the same manner as Hobbes himself usually does to Calvin. Lampshaded:Calvin: Ah. He's reenacted our wonderful 'Welcome Home' Ritual.
- Also, Socrates is named after one of the most famous philosophers of all time.
- Tug tackles Hobbes in the same manner as Hobbes himself usually does to Calvin. Lampshaded:
- In Shadow of the Dragon, Himiko Satome, Tomoeda's district attorney, is mentioned to have built her entire career around prosecuting sexual predators, while her own son, Ryujin, is a Serial Rapist as a result of putting up with Himiko's constant abuse.
- In Amazing Fantasy, Izuku gets his powers when he's bitten by a spider and has to be saved by Bakugou. Compare this to the original My Hero Academia, where he eats All Might's hair to obtain One For All after trying to save Bakugou.
- In Avenger Goddess, Tony wonders if this applies to Obadiah Stane's final fate, as the man dies after becoming the very power source he tried to steal from Tony.
- Avengers: Infinite Wars;
- After Barriss Offee spending a few chapters struggling with her feelings for fellow Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano and young Avenger Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Chapter 50 sees Barriss suggest to Ahsoka that she's broken the Jedi code in a manner that even Ahsoka's "maverick master" wouldn't, when Anakin Skywalker has outright married Padme (albeit in secret) and all Barriss has done so far is develop strong feelings for Ahsoka and Peter.
- When Wanda Maximoff is reunited with the other Avengers and learns that her brother is dating Senator Riyo Chochi, she observes a certain irony in how Pietro is dating a politician when the Maximoffs essentially started out as terrorists.
- The Baleful Bureau: A major Running Gag of A Series of Unfortunate Events is that the various relatives the Baudelaires are sent to live with are only very distantly related to them (which in the Netflix adaptation is revealed to be because Olaf tricked Mr. Poe into assume that closest living relative should be taken in terms of distance, not blood relation). Here, the. Auden Aires are sent to live with their actual closest blood relative, their aunt Jesse Faden, who incidentally happens to live the furthest away from their home city.
- In Black Sky, a Dumbledore obsessed by Trelawney's prophecy is the artesan to his own fall, in the purest Greek-tragedy style: the "Dark Lord" spoken about in the prophecy is actually him — as his influence smothered the Wizarding World — and he's murdered by the sworn brother to the girl he believed to be the Child of Prophecy but was unable to control and started to see as a danger to eliminate, meaning he dies for the greater good — the Wizarding World's and the girl's.
- Clash of the Elements: Bowser, the one who once had the Star Spirits imprisoned in cards, is actually the one to free them in Part 2 from Cackletta's spell.
- Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Rivalz flirts with Nyma when he first meets her, unaware that Milly is finally starting to return his affections.
- In Come Together, Dark Wizard Grindelwald was a blood-purist looking down on muggles and wizards associating with them. Not only his biggest opponent is the half-blood Tom Riddle, he's killed by the very unmagical Peggy Carter, by a gun - the muggle weapon by reference.
- In the first chapter/world of The Conversion Bureau: Worlds Where It Wouldn't Work, the Pokemon defeat Equestria through The Power of Friendship.
- After spending years experiencing visions that he hopes won't come true only to be proven wrong, Bruno's vision of Hiccup and Mirabel getting married after they return from Berk in The Dragon and the Butterfly is one vision that he hopes will come true and is left concerned that his usual bad luck will resurface and break his "streak".
- Karla's character arc in The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout seems to be the exact opposite the rest of her family went through in the first installment. While the Madrigals had lived with the creed of With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility to the point of toxic perfectionism and had to learn not to be so hard on themselves and each other, Karla is a Smug Super who believes in With Great Power Comes Great Perks and has to learn how her actions effect other people.
- In The dragons shall dance, the whole realm believes Rhaenyra Targaryen bore only bastards from her first marriage except for her firstborn Aeron, who's silver-haired and violet-eyed as his mother's Velaryon husband... and his great-uncle Daemon, who took Rhaenyra's maidenhood one month before her wedding. Daemon finds very funny the fact no one is suspecting Aeron to be his.
- In Fate Ends, the false persona Shen Yuan desperately wanted to fool the Cang Qiong Mountain Sect into believing he was Shen Qingqiu, only for his attempt to mimic the man's behaviour to make blatantly obvious he wasn't the original goods. After shedding this false persona, Harry couldn't care less about hiding his true identity and promptly does a far better job of emulating the former Qing Jing Peak Lord's mannerisms, something Yue Qingyuan ruefully points.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters
- Aldarn votes for Ludmoore being welcomed into the Rebellion despite not trusting him because he needed an excuse to challenge Caleb (who, by contrast, voted against Ludmoore). So, it's Aldarn's own fault that the person he doesn't trust is now in the Rebellion.
- Constantly internally pats herself on the back for being The Chessmaster. However, Nerissa doesn't even know that Cyrus Ludmoore is one of the members of her small council.
- The Mage freed Nerissa to try and reform her, and had she done so some time sooner it would likely have worked. Unfortunately, she only arrives after Nerissa had gotten over the Heel Realization she had previously had.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: When Chloe enters the Infinity Train, her number (which represents how many issues she has and will allow her to go back home if it drops to 0) is '151'. While she has no idea what it means, those who know their Pokémon will recall that it's the national Pokédex of Mew...the same Pokémon that Goh is obsessed with finding and the one who caused a lot of Chloe's struggles with her Childhood Friend.
- In The Institute Saga, Juggernaut of all people ends up being the one to bring Xavier's vision of mutants and ordinary humans living and working together into reality.
- Kaguya-Sama: Love is War - Queen of Thieves
- Both Spider-Man (Miyuki Shirogane) and Black Cat (Kaguya Shinomiya) have a fierce rivalry with each other, not knowing that they are their respective love interests. What makes the situation even more complicated is when they start falling for their alter egos.
- Miko Iino admires Spider-Man but hates Shirogane. Ishigami and even the Narrator can't help but laugh at this.
- The Man with No Name involves the Serenity crew being hired to find an alien, a job they often bemoan as being idiotic. Their new passenger is the Doctor. Yeah.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Danny was reluctant to try out the dating service and was originally planning to quit at the beginning, only to continue and ends up having the most success with the girls he dates. On the other hand, Tucker was the one who wanted to try it out and convinced Danny to do it to and yet he ends up being the one with the worst dates.
- The Masked Crossover Singer has a completely unintentional example in season 3, where one of the rounds is Disney themed. Who is eliminated? Mickey Mouse, easily the biggest Disney marketing brand and character.
- The Night Unfurls:
- Kyril fights against the Black Dogs, a PMC group that aims to subjugate the current regime to build a Sex Empire, where every man can "live like kings" while the women are enslaved, or metaphorically, "waiting to be used like dolls". Meanwhile, Kyril has a living doll who never strays from his side.
- Kyril, who feels perturbed when anyone refers to him as a lord even though he isn't, eventually gets promoted to Lord Executioner.
- Several characters, Kyril himself included, often note how tired and weary the man is. He is also The Sleepless and a workaholic, not to mention his incredible stamina.
- Chloe's P.O.V. in the remastered version takes note of the orcs ready for battle. The very same orcs who have dwindled the number of dark elf soldiers are currently on the same side as the dark elves. Both Chloe and her liege lady Olga are aware of this, and they are definitely not happy about it.
- Nightmare in Arkham: As Batman noted, the Springwood citizens had done the one thing Batman had sworn he would never do: they killed a person who probably deserved it more than anyone he had ever encountered and it had supposedly led to the same results as the ones that forbade Batman from going to such extreme measures: the creation of an even greater evil.
- A Supe of a Man;
- In a world where superheroes are hedonistic jerks who have slick PR teams protecting their images, the one hero who people openly believe to fit this stereotype is also the one hero who really is a hero.
- Most people expected Superman and Homelander to come to blows, with Homelander enviously desiring to murder a young Clark. When they do meet in person, Clark is one of the few beings Homelander shows genuine friendliness to.
- Shadows over Meridian
- Caleb admits to his father in Chapter 11 that he is sick of all the fighting and wants to lead a peaceful life with Cornelia. Not only in the show's official canon and Kage did Caleb reject life with Cornelia because his duties to Meridian, but Caleb's actions may have left his dream of a peaceful life impossible because of him making an enemy out of Kage by assuming she is a minion of Phobos, to the point of counteracting his Queen's orders and sending her to prison.
- In Kage, Yan Lin was the one who was most willing to give Kage the benefit of the doubt despite never meeting her in person, and became suspicious of Caleb and the Rebellion that they may have mishandled the situation and Caleb may have done something. While everyone else is convinced by "the Mage" that Kage is a loyal servant of Phobos, Yan Lin remains skeptical, and Nerissa realizes that Yan Lin will not be fooled forever. But in this story, when the full story of Kage being framed is revealed, Yan Lin is against making peace with her because of what she thought of the Shadowkhan, in contrast to her previous characteristics of giving Kage the benefit of the doubt.
- Shifters of Flesh and Metal: Part of the reason the Animorphs refused to reveal the Yeerks to the government was fear that the feds would either not believe them or already be infiltrated by the Yeerks. They then find out that the government successfully hid the existence of another group of aliens for thirty years, longer than the Yeerk invasion has been. They are understandably annoyed by this revelation.
- In The Vampire of Steel, Zol-Am, whose power stems from the Sun thanks to his Kryptonian physiology, is turned into a vampire, a creature who is harmed by sunlight.
- In Wednesday and the Weeping Angel, Wednesday is saved from the Weeping Angel by Thornhill who plans to use Wednesday to resurrect her dead ancestor.
- Wolverines, Wendigos and Winchesters:
- Reverend Stryker fanatically believes he's on a divine mission to purge mutants from Earth's surface, with the Lord sending him an angel to bless his crusade. Except that the "angel" is a demon who gleefully manipulates him to destroy innocent lifes.
- Anti-mutant sentiment becomes this when Xavier speculates that mutants are a natural offshot of humanity, created to protect it from supernatural threats rather than destroy it.
- Wonderful Wizard Of Nick is a Nickelodeon The Wizard of Oz parody, with all of the cast replaced with various NickToons. Who plays the Scarecrow, who joins the quest over a desire for a brain? Jimmy Neutron, a Child Prodigy who is probably smarter than the rest of the cast combined in his home series.
- The Ultimate Hope has Makoto suggest to the rest of Class 78 that they should all lose their virginity now to each other in case Monokuma manages to find a supermodel to tempt them with (in response to Motive #374). Ironically enough, Monokuma does know where to find one: His control room, where the real Junko Enoshima has been hidden.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded
- Richard has proven to be a much kinder and more amiable than his wife, Beatrice, who happens to be both a stuck-up elitist and horrible person and a terrible mother/grandmother. Despite being something of a Henpecked Husband and usually knuckling under his domineering wife, Richard was truly DISGUSTED with her behavior, such as her verbal abuse towards both Danny (their granddaughter's boyfriend) and Johnathan (their ex-son-in-law), as well as being neglectful to Star and Stella's feelings. Especially when Beatrice tried to force Star to marry Donovan Loadman, a boy she truly hated and who had no qualms with hitting her or trying to force a kiss on her when denied. He truly loses it when Beatrice sides with Donovan over Star and calls both of them out on their awful behavior.
- However, despite seeing his wife's awful behavior with his own eyes, Richard admits to his daughter, granddaughter, and Danny that despite Beatrice's flaws, he still loves her deep down and decides not to divorce her. He wants to work on their marriage and hopefully make his wife into a better person, despite the protests from those around him.
- Richard does assure them that he is done letting Beatrice order around and plans to be firmer with her from now on, as well as standing up to her more and would no longer be lenient with her behavior. He also explains that his reasons for staying with her, aside from his still lingering feelings for her, is that he does not believe in divorce and wishes to save their relationship. A decision his descendants reluctantly accept, even though they are not happy with it.
- The irony is that he tells this to his daughter Stella, who had relationship problems with Johnathan (her first husband) and, despite loving him in the beginning, chose to leave him and run off with another man because she thought that their marriage couldn't be saved. Despite having every reason to leave Beatrice for her horrendous treatment of others, including their family, Richard chooses to stay with her because he wants to save their marriage and believes that he can redeem her.
- It's implied (and viewed by pretty much everyone) that Richard is just wasting his time and should've just divorced his wife, and he would be better off without her. It is also hinted that had Stella chosen to try to work on her marriage instead of running away from her problems, she would've still been happily married to Jonathan today. Especially since it's been hinted recently that Stella may still have some feelings for her ex deep down, which she is in denial about.
- While Richard was talking with Stella, he revealed that, unlike his wife, he actually liked Johnathan and hated Jean-Luc and Colette, much to his daughter's shock. Richard admits that Johnathan was the only man his daughter was involved with whom he actually liked, partially because he never submitted to his wife, and unlike Beatrice, Richard isn't prejudiced towards people from middle-class backgrounds.
- Richard admits to his daughter that he always thought that Johnathan was a good man, and he could not understand why his daughter left him for a womanizer like Jean-Luc. He even admits that if it had been up to him, she would've never left Jonathan in the first place. Richard clearly despises Jean-Luc and Colette for their arrogance and horrendous treatment of people, only tolerating them out of respect for Stella, but he confesses that they are two of the few people that he truly hates being around. He still genuinely loves his grandson, Pierre, and doesn't let who his father change the love he has for his youngest grandchild.
- Despite his personal feelings, Richard accepts that his daughter is an adult and will support her decisions. Richard confesses that he believes that Stella's marriage to Jean-Luc and gaining Colette as a daughter are the worst mistakes of her life. He admits that he wishes that his daughter had never met them and believes that his daughter is better off without them.
- There is a double irony here because Richard says this to his daughter, despite choosing to stay married to his wife, despite the fact that she is every bit as bad, if not worse, than the Bevier father and daughter. Richard admits that he feels partially responsible for his wife's attitude because he is very lenient with her and believes that she can redeem herself, despite how unlikely that seems to be.
- Also, despite his hatred of Jean-Luc, Richard never tried to interfere with his daughter's life or mistreated his second son-in-law, implying that he tries to stay out of their way or is at least civil with them, despite disliking them so much. This shows how much of a contrast he is to his wife, as Richard at least treats Jean-Luc with some basic respect/courtesy despite his personal feelings, while his wife never bothered to hide her contempt for Johnathan and mistreated him every chance she got.
- Richard has proven to be a much kinder and more amiable than his wife, Beatrice, who happens to be both a stuck-up elitist and horrible person and a terrible mother/grandmother. Despite being something of a Henpecked Husband and usually knuckling under his domineering wife, Richard was truly DISGUSTED with her behavior, such as her verbal abuse towards both Danny (their granddaughter's boyfriend) and Johnathan (their ex-son-in-law), as well as being neglectful to Star and Stella's feelings. Especially when Beatrice tried to force Star to marry Donovan Loadman, a boy she truly hated and who had no qualms with hitting her or trying to force a kiss on her when denied. He truly loses it when Beatrice sides with Donovan over Star and calls both of them out on their awful behavior.
- baby wonder has Dick bitterly reflecting that Bruce's crusade to ensure no kid would ever have to lose their parents again ultimately left his infant son fatherless.
- The Next Best Thing to Normal: Harley Quinn and the Joker were Batman's main enemies. Harley and the Joker's son Jason admires Batman and literally wants to be him when he grows up.
- At the beginning of Hellsister Trilogy, Clark Kent and Lois Lane get married. Clark makes sure that his cousin catches Lois' bouquet, meaning he hopes she gets married next. She does, but she falls in love with a jerkass whom Clark can hardly stand.
- A Force of Four: Stepping out of Superman's shadow and becoming the world's greatest hero was Power Girl's long-held wish. She was not happy when it came true, though, because the price was her beloved cousin's life.
- Kara of Rokyn: After over fifteen years struggling to become a respected super-hero and fit among Earth people, Kara realizes that isn't what she wanted at all, and she can only feel at home living like a normal woman among her kin in Rokyn.
- In The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1, Bizarro believes all of his ideas have been badly ripped off by Earth people, when it's the other way around.
- Supergirl (2015) fanfic my youth is yours: Lena helped Lex build the Lexosuit in the hopes that giving humans powers equivalent to Kryptonians would mean Kara would never have to become a hero and put herself in danger. Lex of course kept the suit for himself to try to kill Kryptonians.
- Dragon From Ash has more than a few Nords rejecting their prophesied cultural hero-prophet for the good reason that the Dragonborn is everything a true child of Skyrim hates: scrawny, focused on magic, a worshipper of Daedra and a Dark Elf.
- In Never Had a Friend Like Me, Norman rants about his hatred for fairy godparents to Amanda, the little girl whose life he stumbled into. He initially wanted nothing to do with her, until he realised how shitty her parents were, leading him to use his powers to make her happy and introducing her to the magical world - basically becoming Amanda's magical godfather.
- The R-System was built by enslaved innocents under the order of cultists to resurrect Zeref. In Fall of the R-System, the still-alive Zeref comes to ''destroyed the R-System and ends up freeing the slaves there.
- Family Guy Fanon Season 16's "Brian Come Home for Christmas" has Lance Prueher, the boss of a Suicide Hotline (which is supposed to talk people out of killing themselves), commits suicide himself when the Suicide Hotline goes down under when Brian quits his job.
- A Flower's Touch: Sephiroth of all people trying to get Aerith to not throw her life away and trying to keep her from getting herself killed by running off and trying to take care of JENOVA all on her own.
- In Fire Emblem: Awakening fanfic Pretender, Frederick, who trusted Robin the least and believed him to a spy, ends up becoming Robin's confidant and lover.
- "Fix You" opens with Ross having spent four years away from the rest of the group after marrying Emily, returning for Monica and Chandler's wedding to find Rachel engaged to Marco, the heir to a major fashion empire. While Ross doesn't entirely like Marco, he accepts the relationship as Rachel is happy, up until he discovers that Marco is gay and married Rachel so she could be The Beard for the benefit of Marco's disapproving father. Once Rachel learns that her husband is gay, she immediately files for divorce, musing that she can no longer make fun of Ross for his own experience at being married to a lesbian.
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
- Purple Days:
- In early chapters, Joffrey exasperatedly mentions just wanting to pick up his closest allies, drop everything and leave for the Summer Islands, though he never does. The thing is, the Islands have a record of the role of the Purple and the Heralds who are to end the Cycle. Even if it's fragmentary, it's a lot of information Joffrey ignored to hunt for even tinier scraps in places like Yi Ti and Sothoryos. There's even a cult of all things dedicated to people who he discovers are Sansa and himself.
- The Red Comet was named King Joffrey's Comet in the original timeline as a pure sycophantic display of flattery. Long after Joffrey starts looping and rebuilding himself into a good person, it turns out he really does have a very special supernatural connection to the Comet, specifically to its counterpart.
- There is a great deal made in both canon and other ASOIAF fanfic about Gerion Lannister's doomed expedition to Valyria to find the Lannister ancestral sword, Brightroar. In this story, when the man appears in the Summer Isles, he scoffs at the very notion of doing something so dangerous and stupid and tells how he made up that claim to get away from Tywin and Casterly Rock to live his own life, making Joffrey's obsession with getting it back in Arc 3 kind of Hilarious in Hindsight. So imagine Gerion's surprise when his nephew Joffrey shows up out of nowhere, with Brightroar in his possession. And somehow, that's not even the most surprising turn of events to occur on that day.
- Robb Returns: Eddard's and Robert's families' Ancestral Weapons are each other's favored weapon, something Robert lampshades when he gets Stormbreaker looked over by Tobho Mott and learns about the Fist.
- The Wind Done Gone: Played for Drama. Scarlett and her wet nurse Pallas keep their canonical mother-daughter dynamic, tinted darker because of Pallas' neglect of her own daughter Cynara. Meanwhile, Scarlett's mother Ellen and Cynara bond over their shared jealousy of the aforementioned relationship. Furthermore, Ellen would sometimes breastfeed Cynara.
- Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived;
- When Daphne reveals that pure-blood genealogy records are so good that it’s known that no modern pure-bloods are direct descendants of Slytherin, Ron notes the irony that any contemporary Heir of Slytherin is a half-blood (before he knows the identity of said heir).
- Harry criticises Daphne’s willingness to throw herself in danger when he often does the same thing.
- After Harry acquires the Half-Blood Prince's book and Daphne has been taking "lessons" in exploring her potential as a seer from an enchanted text, Ginny points out the irony that her boyfriend and girlfriend benefit from enchanted books while the one she received tried to kill her.
- Harry Potter notes in For Love of Magic that Grindewald did more for equality among magicals in a few years than Dumbledore did his whole life. Of course, he accomplished that by killing most of the old pureblood families in Europe to steal their artifacts and knowledge.
- Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past;
- When Harry leaves the future, Number Four looks exactly the same as the houses either side, which is something the Dursleys were always proud of. Except in this case, all the houses are ashes.
- After Scabbers is exposed as an animagus before second year in the new timeline, Ron ends up becoming Crookshanks’ owner instead.
- Despite his powerful magic and his epic battle with Harry, what ultimately kills Voldemort in Wind Shear is being stabbed with an ordinary knife by Bellatrix, the woman who'd have been his most ardent supporter in another timeline.
- In The Parts We Play, Grata, the District Six tribute in the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games, explicitly ponders the irony that she's so bad at everything than even a girl who isn't right in the head gets picked for gym class over her, and yet she gets picked for the one thing nobody wants to be chosen for.
- The Ultimate Evil
- When Valerie is trying to locate Bai Tza while wearing a black dress and court shoes, she remembers how she used to shout at movie heroines who wore ridiculous outfits in the heat of battle. She also ends up battling Bai Tza while wearing that same outfit.
- Shendu tells his love interest Valerie that when he decided to father a legacy nine centuries earlier, he wanted a human as his mate because any offspring he'd gain through another demon or some other supernatural being could become powerful enough to surpass him. The sequel introduces Shendu's future son Drago who was birthed by Valerie after she and Shendu were bound as Others. Despite being a Half-Human Hybrid, he has an innate balance of light and dark chi that makes him able to bond with his uncles and aunts' chis without being overwhelmed by them. He also has in sights to challenge Shendu's goddess mother Tiamat over her divine place on Earth.
- What is a Person Worth?: Rita and Lynn Sr. explain they don't truly favor the sisters over Lincoln, but they'reworking hard not to play favorites, causing them to make several questionable decisions like kicking Lincoln out of the house. Meaning that trying not to play favorites with their children has caused them to favor their daughters over Lincoln, and their unintentional abuse of Lincoln can destroy their family.
- In born of hell('s kitchen), both Jessica and Matt agree to keep the fact that both of them have powers a secret from their six-year-old son Peter Parker (conceived in a one-night-stand and taken from Jessica by Kilgrave) until he is older, afraid that it would overwhelm him, unaware that Peter is hiding his own powers from them for the same reason.
- In A Colder War, Steve has nightmares where the man who killed Howard Stark shoots Bucky from the train before he learns that the assassin is a brainwashed Bucky.
- Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has this. The Special Edition of Episode 1 has Wily applying for a job at Vick-Tek. In episode 7, Wily tricks Vick-Tek into funding him to make Bass.
Merlin (2008)
- The Perfect Scry has a moment where Arthur is reading about the prophecy of the Once and Future King.When [the King] did show up, he was going to be appalled at how much was expected of him. Unite Albion? If Arthur was in his shoes, the first thing he’d do would be jump in the sea and swim for France as fast as he could. Poor dumb bastard.
- All's Fair in Love and War (And Turnabout's Fair Play): For all of Lila's belief that everyone else is Secretly Selfish and as manipulative as she is, she thinks that Adrien is a naïve and easily trusting boy. This backfires as Adrien shows how ruthless he can be in defense of his friends by exposing Lila through Tabloid Melodrama.
- In Which the Fox Flees: As with the canon episode, Lila claimed to be friends with Ladybug. Throughout the fic, she not only becomes friends with Ladybug’s alter ego but also her girlfriend.
- Lies We Tell (Ourselves)
- In the first chapter, Marinette has been unable to tell Adrien how she has been for a while. The one thing that finally compels her to act is dealing with a liar like Lila.
- Following having to turn Marinette down, Adrien chooses to stop his flirting and wooing of Ladybug. Of course, this act plus being one of the few people Marinette can entrust her issues with means the two get closer than when he actively pursuing her. He even lampshades the irony after the story's version of "Oblivio": that their amnesiac selves got close enough to kiss but his normal self's resolve to remain Just Friends means he nips that possibly in the bud.
- Miraculous Alliance: During the events of Heroes' Day, Lila, as Pipistrello, calls out Brie Masterson, as the second Volpina for putting all of Paris in danger over a grudge and wonders why anyone would do that. Of course, Canon!Lila tends to do just that all the time...
- In The Murder of Lila Rossi, it's mentioned that the fact that Rose was actually friends with Prince Ali, rather than working to disprove Lila's lie of being his friend, ended up making it easier to believe. After all, if a regular girl from Paris could be his friend, why not the daughter of a diplomat? Doesn't help that when Rose and Juleka did confront Lila over this, she either played the victim or came up with an excuse.
- Truth and Consequences contains a dramatic and somewhat sad example; Master Fu admits at the end he chose Marinette to train as his successor because the role of Guardian is incredibly lonely, and he felt that Lonely Rich Kid Adrien was isolated enough as it is, while the All-Loving Hero Marinette had enough of a support network of friends and family to offset it. The thing is, Marinette was the one of the pair who suffered the most Heroic Fatigue for the role and wanted to retire from being Ladybug, while Adrien loved being Chat Noir explicitly because it allowed him freedom from his civilian life, and wanted to keep doing it forever. Of the pair, Adrien probably would've been happier in the role, and the tragic events of the story might not have happened.
- In Announcer AU, seeing Izuku's in-depth analysis of the competitors' Quirks at the Sports Festival and further interacting with the boy makes Sir Nighteye decide that Izuku should be the one to inherit One For All from All Might (who a later phone call revealed had independently made the same decision). In canon, he looked down on Izuku, viewing him as an Inadequate Inheritor.
- In the original series, All Might's Secret Identity, Toshinori Yagi, is a closely guarded secret known only to U.A.'s staff and Izuku, his successor. In Juxtapose, Izuku remains the only one out of his circle of friends who is Locked Out of the Loop despite Toshinori's desire to name Izuku his successor in the future.
- In Hammerverse, Izuku is an outright genius when it comes to analyzing Quirks and made his own seemingly useless Quirk into a versatile weapon. He fails the U.A. entrance exam despite getting the highest practical score in history because he didn't analyze his own Quirk enough and left himself too mentally exhausted to pass the written exam.
- Conversations with a Cryptid:
- Izuku and Inko are led to believe that Hisashi Midoriya may be an alias for the man who married Inko, which made Inko terrified of confronting him because that would mean their marriage is null and void and the Midoriyas would be left destitute. Ironically, All For One used his actual name for the marriage.
- Of all the people to kidnap his child Izuku, All For One had not prepared for it to be someone completely unrelated to him or the criminal underworld.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- A Brief History of Equestria: Princess Platinum spends her whole life trying to break the power of the nobility, and eventually kills herself to ensure there will be no more monarchy ever again. Then, decades or centuries down the line Princess Celestia and Princess Luna come along and Equestria becomes a Diarchism.
- The Ending of the End - Love and Tolerance Edition After using her talents for manipulation to help drive a wedge between the ponies of Equestria, Cozy Glow used those very same talents, along with her newly acquired powers from The Bewitching Bell, to travel Equestria and do probably more than anypony else individually was able to do to undue that very damage in lead up to the confrontation with Grogar.
- In The Irony Of Applejack, the irony is that Applejack, the Element of Honesty, is actually a Changeling.
- Loved and Lost:
- Jewelius helped Chrysalis sneak past Shining Armor's magic barrier by showing her the entrance of the crystal caverns. Later on, the fugitive heroes escape from Canterlot by using those same caverns, and this seems to never cross Jewelius' mind.
- Jewelius tries to have Celestia hanged and remembered forever with hatred. However, she dispels the animosity Canterlot's ponies direct towards her by giving them and Twilight a highly remorseful and apologetic final speech and submitting to being hanged without resistance. Even if Luna hadn't saved her, Jewelius would have made her a martyr by executing her despite the objections of Twilight and Canterlot's citizens. Celestia's admission of guilt ensured that even if she had died, she wouldn't have been remembered with hatred anymore.
- After betraying the Changelings, Jewelius treats them as if they're just savage beasts, even calling Chrysalis a "despicable animal" in the 11th chapter. They end up killing him like a pack of hungry animals would.
- My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic:
- The author wrote this story partly because he thinks ''FiM'' is too girly, childish, and does not appeal to boys that much. His story contains effeminate characters with girlish interests, fairies, songs from children's shows like Strawberry Shortcake and Barney & Friends, and fights with choreography that's inspired by Sailor Moon.
- Also ironic is how Titan, a character portrayed as a spiteful villain who hates friendship and happiness, shares multiple personality traits with the author himself.
- In City of Guilds Twilight Sparkle, who has a purple dragon assistant, becomes the assistant of Niv Mizzet a purple dragon.
- In Chrono Reflect, Standard Fluttershy is jealous of her brother Zephyr Breeze, saying how everyone just goes on and on about him, how he's so smart and so talented. This is the exact opposite of what we get in the show; Zephyr's canon counterpart feels like he's stuck in her shadow, leading to him feeling insecure.
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Often Played for Drama throughout Through The Looking Glass:
- Game!Keith decides that after Katarina's engagement to Gerald is broken, he's going to ask his parents for more authority over Katarina so he can make her act like a proper noble lady, including planning to rip up her farm. While he does this with the best of intentions, he fails to realize that he's becoming to Isekai!Katarina the same thing that Game!Katarina was to him: a controlling and manipulative influence.
- Isekai!Katarina had been preparing for the possibility of death by either Gerald or Keith because of the game's bad end. The moment that Geord attempts to kill her, she is completely caught off guard, always thinking deep down that her childhood friend would never consider it.
- Game!Keith sabotages the transition rune in an attempt to stay in the Isekai world, with a family that loves him. It's only later that he finds out that activating the rune properly makes a stable portal rather than swapping counterparts, meaning that they didn't need to send him back to get Isekai!Keith and it's entirely possible that if he hadn't sabotaged the rune the Isekai!Claes family would have taken him in.
- Game!Katarina spent much of her life trying her best to live up to noble manners and standards of behaviour, in an attempt to win her fiancé's favor. It's only after the whole incident with the transition rune that she comes to understand that the third prince fell in love with Maria (in the game world) and Isekai!Katarina (in the isekai world) in large part because neither girl cares a whit for noble manners or proper etiquette.
- Played for Laughs in one instance. Once the Isekai!Keith and Gerald learned there is a harem in the other world with a different girl, they realized there is no justice in the world when there is no escaping a harem.
- In The Eyes Have It, Sakura has to give up any romantic plans for Sasuke after developing a doujutsu as they're almost never compatible. Her doctor describes the usual results as being between horrific and deadly. In the sequel, Sasuke is interested in Sakura because of her doujutsu.
- Lampshaded in I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again! when the narration points out that a scholar of literature could have written an entire essay on the irony of Kakashi being annoyed that his own student copied his only original technique.
- The Last Prayer: The scientists running "The Monster Study" refused to switch the Hot and Cold groups* because their son Atsui was in the Hot group and they couldn't bear to ruin his confidence (never mind their daughter Samui was in the Cold group). After the study was defunded, Atsui struggled as a shinobi due to his overinflated ego while Samui excelled due to her drive to succeed.
- Obito-Sensei:
- In canon, Sakura was the member of Team 7 whom Obito/Tobi cared about the least: he had a complicated history with Kakashi, he was responsible for a lot of misery in Naruto's life and deliberately singled the latter out as being similar to his past self, and he acted as The Corrupter to Sasuke plus used him as a weapon; but he never showed any interest in Sakura. In this timeline, Obito identifies with Sakura the most out of his students, seeing her as being akin to himself at that age, someone not starting with a lot of raw power skill and being overshadowed by her teammates. So he connects with her and encourages her development as a shinobi.
- In canon, Danzo acted for what he saw as the good of the Leaf. Said actions were often self-serving and overly ruthless, but he honestly believed the Leaf would prosper as a result of what he did. Danzo also looked down on ninja who acted out of emotion or revenge, condemning Sasuke for ignoring Itachi's service to the Leaf by attacking it. Here, after his death to Jiraiya, the remnants of ROOT have become consumed with revenge to the point of actively wanting to destroy the Leaf.
- Naruto, upon encountering Fuu, is uncharacteristically upset-angered upon being exposed to her view that, as a jinchuriki, she is not a person but a tool for her village's prosperity and safety, with Naruto claiming such a perspective is wholly wrong and wishing she would come to the Hidden Leaf because such a viewpoint would not be tolerated there. As the very next arc shows, Naruto's own mother Kushina, wife of the Hokage and jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, has more or less the exact same view of herself that Fuu does.
- In Sakura's Glasses, while Sakura enjoyed helping the Uchiha Clan elders, she laments being their Replacement Goldfish for Obito, who did the same when he was alive. After the elders are killed, she tries to cope with their death by helping Sasuke the same way she helped them... in essence, making him her Replacement Goldfish. When her Inner self calls her out on it, she is quickly horrified.
- True Potential: For all his talk of doing everything for the sake of Konoha's safety, Danzō's actions ended up bringing more harm than good in the long run: in addition to being responsible for Kabuto's Start of Darkness, which is something Kabuto himself acknowledges, and an implication that he is responsible for the creation of the current Akatsuki, Tanuki Shigaraki and Kido Tsumiki managed to join the Akatsuki so that they can get revenge on Konoha for Danzō's death. Kabuto briefly reanimates Danzō just so he can gleefully rub in how badly Danzō's efforts backfired in the end.
- HERZ:
- In Chapter 2, Misato notes how ironic is they are using the MP-Evas as instruments of salvation when they were created to be their destruction's tools.
- In that same chapter Asuka ponders about her life's several ironies: she had missed terribly her mother, but her mother had been always there and she had been unable to find her, open up and feel her love because Kyoko's death had driven her to shut her heart; and she owed her family and her current happiness to two women she hardly considered as friends.Asuka leaned into the kiss. She had lost much and suffered terribly, but from the ashes, she had risen anew. She had also gained so much. Things she had not dared to hope for in the past, a past that seemed like a lifetime ago. The irony of it all. Owing so much to two women she hardly considered as friends.
- In chapter 11 of Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, Asuka feels distraught because she almost killed Keiko accidentally. She bitterly remembers having frequently lost her patience with Shinji when he was depressed due to being forced to kill Kaworu, and notes the irony.
- In chapter 10 of Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88), Shinji finds ironic that Touji and Kensuke cannot stand Asuka and mock her fanclub... when they'll spend more time with her than any of her fans.
- Advice and Trust:
- Asuka and Shinji got together due to miscommunication, the very same thing that kept them from getting together in canon.
- Misato had been a Shipper on Deck for Shinji and Asuka since day one, but they viewed her as the greatest threat to their relationship.
- Part of the reason that Rei starts off so hostile to Kaworu is due to their opposing natures from being the hosts of Lilith and Adam's souls. A flashback later on reveals that the entire reason both Adam and Lilith ended up on Earth is because Lilith was in love with Adam and subconsciously followed him.
- The Second Try: Asuka spent most of her time demanding to be treated as an adult when she was thirteen. Now she's an adult woman stuck in the body of her past self and forced to behave as she used to... and she realizes her behaviour was childish.
- Spooky: Echo tells Tombstones they're using Lightmites instead of open flames to light their jack-o-lanterns because the Petpetpets are safer. When Tombstones puts one in his gourd, the Lightmite promptly flies out, knocks over a candle, and sets him on fire. As the Mynci runs around screaming in the background, Echo decides to use glowsticks instead.
- Alador Blight in Little Light finds it absolutely hilarious that despite his wife trying to forcibly find a good match for Amity, the one person their daughter falls in love with of her own free will (Luz Noceda, Emperor Belos' daughter) is the best possible choice to satisfy her Social Climber tendencies.
- In Dear Old Dad, Akechi lampshades this after saying for all the time he saw Joker as his rival actually should have been Ryuji, the "idiotic brute" he often overlooked. The reason is that while Akechi was one of Shido's bastard children (which is a huge chip on his shoulder), Ryuji was the only one born legitimately.
- Hours 'Verse: Akechi's Heel–Face Turn is born from the choice to abandon his desire to kill Shido in favor of making him pay for his crimes the right way. When all is said and done, Shido gets the death penalty anyway.
- Pokémon Master: Feeling hurt and depressed, Misty wants to hug her evolved Starmie in order to lessen her pain... but she can't touch her sharp-edged Pokemon without hurting herself. Misty dejectedly notes the irony.
- Power Rangers Mythos;
- The Mythos Rangers' morphing call is "Mythos Rangers, all for one!" when the team are initially divided due to Avanth's brainwashing two of the originally ‘chosen’ five (Tommy Oliver, Z Delgado and Flynn McAllister against the brainwashed Adam Park and Shelby Watkins).
- Z's swift bond with Tommy and Flynn prompts her to privately hope that she might form a similar bond with A-Squad if they ever return to Earth, when viewers know that Z and her team will have to actually fight A-Squad when they come back.
- Arc Royale: After all she's learned about the various Jaunes and Blakes, the "main" version of Blake despairingly considers it a foregone conclusion that Revolutionary, the Jaune who reformed the White Fang and regularly interacts with Team RWBY, is yet another example of a Jaune being romantically involved with his own Blake. When she preemptively calls it, listing out all the reasons why it would make sense for them to be dating or perhaps even engaged with a child on the way, his befuddled response is that his version of Blake actually despises him.
- Children of Remnant: Yang notes how funny it is that, even though her father and uncle are bi and gay respectively, it was her straight mother Summer that was happiest for her when she came out.
- My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute!:
- Blake is the most recently-turned of the Grimm hybrids, having apparently been captured during the events of the "Black" trailer (whereas Weiss, Ruby and Yang were all abducted and turned as children), yet she's even more warped and twisted than the "older" hybrids, in both body and mind.
- Yang in this continuity hates Raven even more passionately than in canon, because she blames Raven for her and Ruby getting captured by the Grimm at the infested cottage when Yang set out with Ruby to find her. Ironically, Grimm Yang shares even more personality traits in common with her birth mother than her canon self.
- Raven generally doesn't like alcohol because of Qrow's habits. After the truth about Ruby and Yang's fates comes to light, Qrow has been steadily losing his drinking habit while Raven has started drinking more.
- Relic Of The Future:
- Ozpin spends years trying to track down the mysterious blonde-haired, blue-eyed man who saved Summer's life in Vacuo. He only learns that it's the Atlesian Specialist he recently shook hands with just a few hours after Jaune Ashari has handed in his resignation and gone to ground.
- In Volume 3 of the show, Emerald covertly used her illusion Semblance under Cinder's orders to dupe fighters in a major tournament. In the new timeline, Emerald on Jaune's orders covertly uses her Semblance to dupe Cinder when the latter is in a major tournament. The irony isn't lost on Jaune.
- Weiss Reacts:
- Blake is the quietest member of Team RWBY and also the most troubled character in canon. In Weiss Reacts, she is a Large Ham who takes notes from Kamina himself and is absolutely obsessed with the idea of manliness.
- Weiss claims to hate pranks and antics, but she ends the Antic War with one: specifically, she uses the exact same cheating tactic Yang used on her during the Tournament Arc — throwing an adorable animal at someone to distract them.
- Yona Arc, a Yoko expy, has absolutely no idea who Yoko Litner is. This is despite the fact her husband is literally Kamina, she's implied to be Yoko's Reincarnation, AND half her colleagues and most of her students are familiar with it and have compared her to Yoko to her face.
- White Sheep (RWBY):
- When Jaune buys Yang flowers, Yang freaks out and drags Blake aside for romantic advice. She says there's no one else she can ask—her little sister Ruby certainly won't be helpful. We later find out that Ruby is the only person in their group of friends who has been on a real date.
- Cinder's original plan for the Vytal Festival was to have one competitor seriously injure another on accident in order to increase negativity and attract Grimm. After she puts that plan on hold, she herself ends up seriously injuring Jaune on accident (when she throws him into the ocean arena, forgetting he can't swim), but the negativity is neutralized when she immediately jumps into the water and saves his life.
- Light Illuminates Darkness: ‘’In the My Sister Is Jealous Because I Am Prettier Than Her’’, the breaking point that causes Sara to give up helping her sister Selena with her drug addiction is when her sister sells Sarah’s phone just as she gets the number of a cute boy she liked. It is the boy, Jasper, who ends up providing the information that helps the two sisters reconcile.
- In A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script, Finrod's loyal soldiers are given one choice: revealing their mission's goal or becoming wolf's dinner. Every single one of them chooses death over betraying Finrod and Beren's identities, until Beren suggests maybe Sauron will release Finrod if he gives himself in. Finrod unthinkingly points out Sauron will never let the King of Nargothrond and the Lord of Dorthonion go, effectively betraying himself and wasting his men's sacrifice.Finrod: [with increasing effort] Do you know — what he said to me, when — when we were waiting for the end? He begged me to let him turn himself in — to the foe he'd spent six of the last seven years taunting and thwarting most egregiously, until the bounty on him was as great as Fingon's — to give up his name and submit to what punishment would follow that revelation, because he said no debt could possibly require such a price, and he should give in to save my life, at least.
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Finarfin: What refusal madst thou?
Finrod: [brittle] Exactly what 'Feiniel said — I mocked him for a naive fool, too young to have learned that the Dark are all liars, not clever enough to realize that what he was thinking of doing would only have made our situation worse. And then — I proceeded to do far worse than that, by pointing out that not only would Sauron not honour his own "offer" and spare my life if he surrendered, that far from setting us free, we would both be interrogated and punished far more savagely, if the Terrible knew it was the Lord of Dorthonion and the King of Nargothrond he had happened to snag in his sweep. [with a narrow, uneven grin] You all see the irony, I'm sure — even my most pacific lady.
- The whole idea of Kirk/Spock, in that it's the ultimate Ladykiller in Love, and he's in love with a man.
- In Doctor Ghemor, I Presume?:
- When Bashir's parents come to Deep Space Nine, the station's staff immediately arranges free time for them to spend together. That's actually the last thing Julian wants.
- General context for the story is that the Human Federation is good, while the Cardassian Union is bad. Yet the story completely reverses the roles, with a Cardassian showing himself a much better parent to the protagonist than his own human parents.
- Julian muses that Garak's ability to snark is still intact, right after the tailor told him how beautiful he was. As Garak is blatantly, hopelessly Distracted by the Sexy and barely able to prevent himself from jumping the good doctor's bones on the spot, he likely was utterly sincere.
- Ruby Stars:
- Lapis fled the Earth to escape the Diamonds' wrath, only to get captured and used by White Diamond's Dragon.
- Buck, one of the most chill and levelheaded people in Beach City, tells Sadie that if she needs to scream or let out her anger, she should do it.
- SAO: The Eroge:
- Like in canon, Sachi's insecurity of holding her friends/guild members back are apparent in her conversation with Kirito. After cutting down all the enemies that were conjured from the Floor Trap which killed them in canon and gaining more confidence in herself, it's now her guild that felt they would hold her back.
- Klein and Eiji becoming good friends/guildmates due to being unlucky about getting a girl, in comparison to the movie where Eiji HATED Klein and the Fuurinkazan guild, blaming them for Yuuna's death, and going out of his way to beat them down until they needed to be hospitalized.
- More Fragging Paperwork: After struggling to write letters about the passing of Ratchet and Ironhide, Optimus Prime decides to try writing about Prowl instead because he can think of more to say about him. Optimus then realizes writing a letter to Prowl's significant other about his passing is pointless because said significant other is Jazz; not only is the sub-commander already aware that Prowl is dead, but Optimus has been helping him with the grieving process. The narration even notes the irony present in the only letter Prime having an easy time writing also being completely unnecessary.
- you are my sweetest downfall: Henry gets rid of Anne because he believes she's unable to give him a son. When Anne turns out to be pregnant, he spares her life but nonetheless annuls their marriage. Anne then gives birth to four sons, who are quite obviously his. As one person puts it, she made him look like "the biggest fool in all of Christendom".
- "Luminescence" opens with Victoria meeting and becoming attached to Bella before she even moves to Forks. When Edward first meets Bella and is driven into a frenzy by her scent, Victoria appears just in time to save her, and once Edward has calmed he acknowledges the irony of a human-drinker saving a human from a “vegetarian”.
- There Something Wrong With Us: Fred notes the irony that Norville, an unpopular kid he never acknowledged, has shown him more humanity than any of his nominal friends and family.
- Yugioh The Abridged Series has a Running Gag of the heroes being Disappointed by the Motive of various villains. Valen averts this, as he was unjustly sent to a harsh juvenile prison for years on end, and had to repeatedly fight with his life on the line. The heroes applaud this backstory for making sense that it would turn a man evil, but Valen himself denies that it made him evil and asserts he's just a bad person by nature.
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- In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fanfic At Gate's Edge, despite Edward being the ghost it's his life that is shaken up by Roy while he acts as a stabilizing influence. Also, Roy notes the irony of someone sexually active like himself falling in love with Edward, who has no body that he can touch. Roy notes how the Universe always gets the last laugh.
- Dirty Sympathy has Lamiroir threaten Apollo with a gun to get Machi off his murder charge or else. Lamiroir is Apollo's biological mother and she is threatening her biological son for the sake of her surrogate son. Also ironic is that Klavier Gavin, the only prosecutor in Ace Attorney to avert Amoral Attorney plays the trope quite straight here.
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest Rewrite: The Star Fems are servants of the Oyeresu, allegories for traditionalist interpretations of angels and God from The Bible, who wear stripperiffic spandex and are in an open bisexual group marriage.
- In the Total Drama story, Legacy, Heather is planning to name her baby after her late colleague, whom she couldn't stand when the latter was alive. Heather appreciates the irony of her decision, and comments on it.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- In Act III chapters 23 and 24, Apoch and Astreal pick a fight with Yukari and try to kill her, insisting that she not take Ahakon away from them. Their attempts to stop Yukari from doing so end up being the very reason that Ahakon breaks up with them in favor of Yukari, as well as the fact that he got caught in the crossfire and would have been killed by the Ezranas if Luna hadn't intervened.
- In Act VI chapter 20, it's revealed that Ran only fell in love with Ahakon because she was affected by a charming aura around him. The irony and embarrassment of a siren being the one charmed for a change is not lost on Ran.
- In the One Piece story Nine Minutes, Vivi joins the crew permanently after Luffy kills Crocodile. Before she leaves, her father gives her a devil fruit to protect her. After eating it, Vivi learns it's the Sand-Sand fruit, Crocodile's power.
- Davina's House Party - Episode 5 ends with Sophie Dahl, granddaughter of Roald Dahl, taking the Trip Around the Great House, part one involving her going into a recreation of the sweets garden from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, including Alexander Burke singing a parody of 'Pure Imagination', the song that plays when Charile and co. go down the river. Only problem is that Roald hated the film version for various reasons, like several heavy rewrites to the script.
- Enslaved contains a bit of historical irony when Germania (the Halkagenia version of Germany) is taken over in what people come to call the "Lightning War" aka Blitzkrieg.
- The four are very, very attuned to irony in With Strings Attached and The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. A good example is in the latter book, when they find themselves under frequent and annoying attack on their first day back on C'hou. Keep in mind that they had been rendered extraordinarily powerful in Strings, so take that into advisement when Ringo (yes, it's The Beatles, or the ex-Beatles, anyway) angrily says, “This is idiotic. One of the things I actually liked about here was we didn't need bodyguards or anythin' like that, and now I'm startin' to think we do!” He dashed his hand across his beard, wiping away leftover water. “It's ridiculous! Us! And yeah, I know how ironic that sounds!”
- Intrepid:
- In the early chapters, Taylor often thinks Emma, Sophia and Madison must be delighted with bullying her into a coma. At the same time, Emma, Madison and even Sophia are feeling absolutely miserable and guilt-ridden with the result of their actions.
- As she was being bullied, Taylor wanted an apology and her friend back. When Emma finally apologizes, Taylor finds she can't get her friend back, because even though Emma has stopped being a terrible person, her old self is gone forever.Throughout most of the time that the bullying had been going on, I'd told myself that the thing I wanted most in the world was an apology. I'd wanted my friend back. Now I had an apology, and an explanation. But I didn't have my friend back. Even if I'd stayed with Emma, even if I ever actually spent time with her, I still wouldn't have my friend back. Not the friend I'd known, the one that I'd felt so much for. That friend, that person, was gone. Emma may have apologized, but she'd never be the same person. I could never trust her the way that I had trusted her at one point. That was gone forever.
