I may come across as dense, but I really don't understand the Iron Man example from "The Big Bang Theory". Does anyone care to shed light?
There are a lot of examples that are just 'This show made a reference to this actor. This actor is now dead.' Unless they predicted the circumstances of the actor's death in the show, it's not an example. Keep in mind that the original reference and the later event have to be very similar or it doesn't count. Otherwise you could list thousands of examples.
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Crazyrabbits: I'm going to try and subdivide this into major series and in-universe examples. Some examples are duplicated, and others don't seem to fit the guidelines of the trope.
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Speaking of subdivision: should this trope be subdivided into examples which do vs. don't break the fourth wall? E.g. "A joke about a character's death is darkly ironic after the character dies" feels very different from "A joke about a character's death is darkly ironic after the actor dies"
Cut this and put it here for now. Can we really have this skit both ways?
- The infamous "Don't Look Back in Anger" short film that showed an elderly John Belushi as the last living member of the original "Not Ready for Primetime" cast who ends up dancing on his cast mates' graves. (What's more disturbing is that the short film "predicted" that Gilda Radner would be one of the dead cast members).[1]
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- Uh, it's disturbing that someone who really died did not fictionally die, or it's disturbing that someone who really died did fictionally die?
- The infamous "Don't Look Back in Anger" short film that showed an elderly John Belushi as the last living member of the original "Not Ready for Primetime" cast who ends up dancing on his cast mates' graves. (What's more disturbing is that the short film "predicted" that Gilda Radner would be one of the dead cast members).[1]
Speaking of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there is already a section for that show on the other index page. Can we take it off the main "Live-Action TV" page then?