History HilariousInHindsight / ComicBooks

* ''{{Asterix}}'' : In "Asterix in Britain" (1966) Asterix, Obelix and their British friend Anticlimax cross the English Channel and arrive while it rains. Obelix remarks that building a tunnel between the French and British coast might be a good idea. Anticlimax answers: "We've been thinking of a tunnel ourselves. We've even started digging one but it seems to be taking a jolly long time, what." When the story was first published in 1966 people had thought of building a tunnel between Great Britain and France for centuries, but it didn't seem likely that this plan would ever come to fruition.

* ''{{Asterix}}'' : In "Asterix in Britain" (1966) Asterix, Obelix and their British friend Anticlimax cross the English Channel and arrive while it rains. Obelix remarks that building a tunnel between the French and British coast might be a good idea. Anticlimax answers: "We've been thinking of a tunnel ourselves. We've even started digging one but it seems to take a jolly long time, what." When the story was first published in 1966 people had thought of building a tunnel between Great Britain and France for centuries, but it didn't seem likely that this plan would ever come to fruition.

** There was one 1981 strip where Garfield said that [[{{u2}} Monday moves in a mysterious way]].

* When ''MadMagazine'' did their parody of ''BatmanReturns'' in 1992, one of the background sight gags was that the newsboys reporting on the Penguin's good publicity were the dancing ones of ''{{Newsies}}'', which arrived a few months prior to the Batman sequel and was a notorious flop. That Disney musical [[CultClassic ultimately found a cult following]], but what makes the joke funnier now is that [[Main/DarkKnightTrilogy Christian Bale]] played the youthful hero in it.

* An old ''MadMagazine'' which was "concerned" with the population explosion suggested that, to prevent "young folks" from having children, people should give them a robotic dummy baby in order to convince them they can't be parents. Which is exactly what they're handing to teenage girls (and sometimes boys) in high schools across the nation today.

* A ''MadMagazine'' article during the original ''StarWars'' trilogy (it must have been just after ''Return of the Jedi'' as it was mocking the fact the first movie was now 'Episode IV') made mock predictions regarding the plots of the future movies. It predicted that the final movie would reveal that Luke's father was actually the Force. Years later, ''The Phantom Menance'' comes out and who is Anakin's daddy?

* ''MadMagazine'' had [[http://calicoll.com/?p=214 this]] parody ad for Cadillac back in 1960, showing a woman wearing an emblem of the car like a necklace to show off her status symbol. Who knew rappers would adopt the same style decades later?

*** PennyArcade: [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ Gears Of Conflict Resolution]].

** Any pre-2006 strip involving Liz is especially funny to read nowadays, considering Jon and Liz are a couple now.

* ''{{Asterix}}'' : In "Asterix in Britain" (1966) Asterix, Obelix and their British friend Notax cross the English Channel and arrive while it rains. Obelix remarks that "building a tunnel between the French and British coast might be a good idea". Notax answers: "Yes, but it seems to take a jolly long time." When the story was first published in 1966 people had thought of building a tunnel between Great Britain and France for centuries, but it didn't seem likely that this plan would ever come to fruition.

* An April 2010 story arc of ''{{Doonesbury}}'' beginning [[http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/04/26 here]] that heavily involved a CaptainErsatz of [[MyLittlePony Pinkie Pie]], considring how [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic a certain installment]] of MLP took over the world.

* In issue #41 of ''{{Generation X}}'', Skin went to rent a bunch of horror movies, the titles of which were parodies of classic horror movies (like Yell! intead of {{Scream}}. But among these horror flicks was a film called Sicko, which nowadays makes readers think more of MichaelMoore and less of {{Psycho}}.

** British author HarryThompson noted in his biography "Tintin and Hergé: a double biography" that in "The Mysterious Star" (1940) mushrooms grow to enormous size before they explode. Five years later, he wrote, the first atomic bomb would explode and produce large mushroom clouds...

* A ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip showed Rat writing about a fake interview with Saddam Hussein who was found in a spider hole, playing a Game Boy. As Stephan Pastis wrote in commentary, Saddam Hussein was found in a spider hole, but not playing a Game Boy.

* [[http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/ILLUSTRATION/batman+and+robin/Robin+front.jpg.html This]] rejected Robin design from the [[YourMilageMayVary camptastic]] BatmanAndRobin looks very similar to the DC Reboot Nightwing suit, minus the belt and the nipples.

** [[{{FunnyAnimals}} Animal Teams]], which ironically ''made'' the meme of Animal Teams.

* In the "World's Finest" where Robin (Tim Drake) and Superboy (Kon-El) first meet, Superboy wisecracks that even with the costume, he knew it wasn't one of the legendary Flying Graysons. Guess which Robin is in the latest ''Series/YoungJustice'' cartoon?

* In the ''XMen'' continuity, Magneto once took on the alias Michael Xavier and pretended to be Charles's cousin. Then, in ''[[Film/XMen X-Men First Class]]'', Magneto is played by Michael Fassbender!

* In issue #41 of ''{{Generation X}}'', Skin went to rent a bunch of horror movies, the titles of which were parodies of classic horror movies (like Yell! intead of {{Scream}}. But among these horror flicks was a film called Sicko, which nowadays makes readers think more of Moore and less of {{Psycho}}.

* [[http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/ILLUSTRATION/batman+and+robin/Robin+front.jpg.html This]] rejected Robin design from the [[YMMV camptastic]] BatmanAndRobin looks very similar to the DC Reboot Nightwing suit, minus the belt and the nipples.

* ''TheFarSide'' once showed a strip of [[CowboysVsAliens cowboys being chased by UFOs]].