History HarsherInHindsight / RealLife

* In summary, anyone famous who jokes about their death a short time before they actually die is going to count for this.

* ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Jerry-Sandusky-Story/dp/1582613575 Touched:]] The [[http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7212054/key-dates-penn-state-nittany-lions-sex-abuse-case Jerry Sandusky]] Story.'' TooSoon?

** Something similar happened on July 20 at midnight: Jessica Gawhi, one of the victims at the Aurora theater shooting in Colorado, had this to say on [[http://twitpic.com/a9vfbk her twitter post]] with her mom: "Get some sleep, mom. I'm really excited for you to come visit. I need my mama" This was posted at 1:04 AM, just moments before she was killed in the theater.

* Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, in which he relates being stabbed in the heart years before, when if he had even sneezed he would have died. He goes on to list all the remarkable things he had done since then, from sit-ins, to freedom rides, to telling the USA about a dream he had, all of which he could not have done or seen had he died. He then goes on to acknowledge the threats that have been made against him, and states that "like anybody, I would like to live a long life", but concludes by telling his audience, "I'm not worried about anything! I'm not fearing any man!" King gave this speech on the night of April 3, 1968. His assassination was on April ''fourth.'' To a point he may have been expecting it or at least anticipated that someone might try to kill him, since he often gave versions of the "Promised Land" speech when violent events were happening, like the riots that had just broken out in Memphis.

** To fully understand the speech, you must remember that Dr. King was a minister, and you need to read [[TheBible Deuteronomy.]]

** Which is six years ''after'' the Germans defeated France and beseiged and conquered Paris in the Franco-Prussian War. It's not like Germany never fought France before WWI or II.

* Once during the 50's, a Japanese girl called [[TheOjou Michiko Shouda]] went through an arranged date with a promising novelist named Kimitake Hiraoka, but they didn't marry. She went on to marry none other but [[ShelteredAristocrat Crown Prince]], [[TheEmperor later emperor]] Akihito...and in TheSeventies, her ex-boyfriend of sorts Hiraoka (now known as YukioMishima) staged a coup to give Akihito's father TheEmperor (Hirohito, properly known since his death as Showa, after the name of his reign) back his powers as the leader of the country, and committed {{seppuku}} when it didn't work.

** To elaborate, the life of his administration, which only lasted one thousand (actually [[http://timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=1&d1=20&y1=1961&m2=11&d2=22&y2=1963 1,036]]) days, was ended along with his own when Kennedy was sadly assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.

* In an interview, a Christian radio host tried to persuade Christopher Hitchens that if God exists, surely Hitchens would feel some indebtedness to him - for everything from the fame he enjoys to his good health. A few years later in 2010, at the not-tremendously-advanced age of 61, Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and lungs; he died the following year and, true to his word, did not make even a last-minute conversion.

* Related to the above note, a blogger had stated that Giffords was, "dead to me", just days before her shooting [[http://twitpic.com/3o7s5c]] It should be noted it was a figure of speech.

* In 2006, Bam and April Margera said that they had Jackass co-star Ryan Dunn [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbhh_fcfl_k "in the death pool" for "death by vehicle".]] On June 20, 2011, Ryan Dunn and his friend died in a fiery car crash after a night of drinking.

* Once during the 50's, a Japanese girl called [[TheOjou Michiko Shouda]] went through an arranged date with a promising novelist named Kimitake Hiraoka, but they didn't marry. She went on to marry none other but [[TheWhitePrince Crown Prince]], [[TheEmperor later emperor]] Akihito...and in TheSeventies, her ex-boyfriend of sorts Hiraoka (now known as YukioMishima) staged a coup to give Akihito's father TheEmperor (Hirohito, properly known since his death as Showa, after the name of his reign) back his powers as the leader of the country, and committed {{seppuku}} when it didn't work.

* For Halloween, Kelly Ripa and Nick Lachey dressed up as wedding Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries on ''Live with Regis and Kelly''. . .an hour later it came out that Kim had filed for divorce.
** Could be considered HilariousInHindsight based on your views of the Kardashians

* The 1928 Republican Party platform stated, "Under this Administration the country has been lifted from the depths of a great depression to a level of prosperity." The very next year, the stock market would crash, plunging the US into the GreatDepression.

* LeonTrotsky wrote in 1936 that "Stalin... seeks to strike not at the ideas of the opponent, but at his skull" Four years later...

* In an interview, a Christian radio host tried to persuade Christopher Hitchens that if God exists, surely Hitchens would feel some indebtedness to him - for everything from the fame he enjoys to his good health. A few years later, Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and lungs at the not-tremendously-advanced age of 61 and has stated he is unlikely to live another five years. Listening to that interview now makes the host seem like an extra naive dunderhead. Hitchens, of course, has vowed he will not make a last-minute conversion, and should not be believed if for some reason he did cave in.

* At the end of his ComedyCentral Roast, WilliamShatner calls out Greg Giraldo, stating that he's a nobody and if life was like an episode of the original ''StarTrek'' from 1966, Giraldo would have been wearing a red shirt and have been killed by now. It would actually be a drug overdose that killed Giraldo years after that special.

** Just for the record, defenders of Palin's map claimed that they were surveyor's symbols, a common element of maps. Compare [[http://bigjournalism.com/files/2011/01/Picture-910.png surveyor's symbols]] with actual [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reticles_vector.svg crosshairs]]. YourMileageMayVary on which side is more truthful, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment notwithstanding that this has nothing to do with the man who shot Representative Giffords]].

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her." The reference made was to Tennis player [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]]; the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer, makes the 1994 book a lot more acute.

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her." The reference made was to Tennis player [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]]; the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer, makes the 1994 book a lot more acute.

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her." The reference made was to Tennis player [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]]; the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer, making the 1994 book a lot more acute.

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her. [[SupressedMammaries If her breasts were invisible]], maybe the disease would pass over them. Maybe she'd survive. I even shielded Barbie, permitting her to show her legs but armoring her chest. Only Ken was allowed the luxury of feminine display; he had no breasts to make him vulnerable." The reference made was to Tennis player [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]]; the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer and reading this passage from 1994 makes this troper take pause.
** This same troper would like to remind you that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped no one is completely safe from Breast Cancer, Man or Woman. Get your regular mammograms]].

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her. [[SupressedMammaries If her breasts were invisible]], maybe the disease would pass over them. Maybe she'd survive. I even shielded Barbie, permitting her to [[She'sGotLegs show her legs but armoring her chest]]. Only Ken was allowed the luxury of feminine display; he had no breasts to make him vulnerable." The reference made was to Tennis rivals [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]] and [[TomboyishNickname Chris Evert]], the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer and reading this passage from 1994 makes this troper take pause.

* In her book, "Forever Barbie", author M.G. Lord remembers cross-dressing her Ken and Barbie dolls in order to cope with her [[TearJerker mother's Breast Cancer treatment and later death]]. When she took her old dolls out again, she found Ken dressed as [[WholesomeCrossdresser Marlene Dietrich, Midge as a preppy male,]] and Barbie dressed as more "[[TomboyAndGirly-Girl Martina than Chrissy]]. (Barbie wore a tiny tennis skirt, but it was under Ken's sweatshirt)." Her logic being "Femaleness, in my eight-year-old cosmos, equaled disease; I disguised Midge in men's clothes to protect her. [[SupressedMammaries If her breasts were invisible]], maybe the disease would pass over them. Maybe she'd survive. I even shielded Barbie, permitting her to [[She'sGotLegs show her legs but armoring her chest]]. Only Ken was allowed the luxury of feminine display; he had no breasts to make him vulnerable." The reference made was to Tennis rivals [[LesbianJock Martina Navratilova]] and [[TomboyishNickname Chris Evert]], the fact that in 2010, Martina Navratilova announced that she was fighting a treatable form of breast cancer and reading this passage from 1994 makes this troper take pause.

* Ivan the Terrible received his nickname for being a fierce and admirable leader. Then he started living up to his name in a [[TheCaligula whole different fashion]].

*** Catholic Church never opposed the theory of evolution, on the contrary, it accepted it 500 years before Darwin. Furthermore, excommunication is usually applied to people who are opposing Church as an organization, not the sinners, even extreme ones. State interference has [[CompletelyMissingThePoint little to do with actual Darwinism]] as it is more a planned husbandry than natural evolution.

* The Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame inducted the BeastieBoys in April 2012; the concert premiered on HBO a few days after Adam Yauch's death in May. Yauch had been too sick to attend.

** The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat [=McDonald's=]" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on her 2011 comeback tour, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI she's very definitely]] both [[LampshadeHanging throwing a lampshade on it]] and [[GirlsNeedRoleModels using it motivationally]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome all at the same time]]. [[EarnYourHappyEnding All to rapturous applause, too]].
* The "ChurchOfHappyology[='s=]" introduction film ends with "If you leave this room after seeing this film and walk out and never mention [Happyology] again, you are perfectly free to do so. It would be stupid. But you can do it. You can also dive off a bridge or blow your brains out. That is your choice." Would [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversies#Noah_Lottick jumping out of a building]] and [[http://www.9news.com/news/article/183072/188/Murder-trial-begins-for-office-shooting- blowing someone else's brains out]] (three times!) suffice? [[HilariousInHindsight On a lighter note]], the film's host [[http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1067720.ece has since quit the church and wants his money back]].

* The New Orleans Saints 2009 SuperBowl run looks a lot worse when you find out that they were running a bounty program and [[MoralEventHorizon paying guys to deliberately hurt opposing players]]

* There's a now-[[MemeticMutation memetic]] video of a large man dancing like a lunatic while playing DDR, only to fall off once he gets down, funny at first, but he was asked about the video and it turns out the fall was because the stress of his weight and the movement actually made his ankle break clean in half.

* At the end of his ComedyCentral Roast, WilliamShatner calls out Greg Giraldo, stating that he's a nobody and if life was like an episode of the original ''StarTrek'' from 1966, Giraldo would have been wearing a red shirt and have been killed by now. It would actually be a drug overdose that killed Giraldo years after that special.

* During WorldWarOne, the Entente frequently propagated that Germany and its allies were committing genocide in its occupied territories. They were, but nowhere near the level that they were accused of being, which ironically led to most dismissing the entire issue out of hand, and thus [[CryingWolf when the same accusation was made two decades later, not a lot of people believed it.]]