History HilariousInHindsight / WebComics

* [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2004/10/18/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'' strip will never be the same again after Music/RebeccaBlack's ''Music/{{Friday}}''.

* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': [[http://ozyandmillie.org/2002/11/05/ozy-and-millie-1023/ the punchline to this strip]]. Now reflect on [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux who else]] has [[Film/TheDarkKnight said that.]] Let the WildMassGuessing begin!

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' and [[spoiler:"I kissed a squirrel (and I liked it)"]]. Or vice versa, really.

* [[http://www.bucketfillers101.com/ "Bucket Filling"]]. Any ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fan will be able to tell you why this is hilarious. Unless they're sick of the joke.

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Doc really had no idea just how 2020 was going to go, [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autofiller20.html did he]]? "One of ''those'' kinds of years", indeed.

** In a 1998 cartoon where Irwin ended up in the computer system of the space station Mir, he said at one point "I can barely believe this thing stays up." Two years later, the station was decommissioned, deorbited, and burned up in the atmosphere. Now, if anybody had been onboard at the time, this would be a FunnyAneurysmMoment, but as nobody was...

* Depending on your opinion, this may also qualify as a FunnyAneurysmMoment too: the endless promotion for a then-unknown Music/{{Kesha}} on [[http://www.key103.co.uk Key 103 Manchester]], a British radio station's website. Bizarrely, she was listed on the regular presenters' list too... although not now!

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In a complete reversal of a FunnyAneurysmMoment: On the 20th floor, Ja Wangnan has been loaning money from a LoanShark to take the tests to ascend to the next floor, never succeeding. He's desperate enough to take up a final offer of a loan where, if he fails and can't pay it back this time, he's to go on a "skeleton diet", meaning the Loan Shark is going to harvest and sell his organs. In spite of the BlackComedy involved, this is still quite serious... Except if you reflect back on it later when it has turned out Wangnan has a HealingFactor he didn't even know about that would probably have allowed him to survive it, which would surely have been incredibly confusing to everyone involved. In principle, he could even have made that deal and paid the price with his organs multiple times!

** A RunningGag in the script is Psycho Mantis' utter refusal to believe in the supernatural [[FlatEarthAtheist despite ample evidence to the contrary]], up to and including the spirit of the Sorrow showing him the spirit world. In ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear 4]]'' [[spoiler:Psycho Mantis' spirit was forcibly implanted into Screaming Mantis and when Snake defeats the latter, the former's spirit manifests and is eventually banished back into the grave by the Sorrow's spirit.]]

* Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} mentioned that he had a dream of seeing his creator, Christian Weston Chandler, with long hair in the mirror in one issue. Needless to say, [[https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Transgender this ended up coming true.]] Also, an author's note in Episode 20 says "I would rather suffer a painful gender-change operation than ever be a homo," and in Episode 21, [[https://sonichu.com/cwcki/File:SchuComic10P39.jpg Chris punches a guy for calling him "Madam Chrissy"]] while shouting "I am a man!"

** Also, in the ''Sonichu'' sub-episodes (a series of LifeEmbellished stories about Chris' life), true love is supposedly illegal in Virginia because "Virginia is for virgins". In 2013, [[https://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/18/ken_cuccinelli_the_republican_candidate_for_governor_in_virginia_wants_to.html Virginia Republican gubernational candidate Ken Cuccinelli's platform included making oral and anal sex illegal]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' had a 2006 plotline where [[LargeHam Galasso]] tries to convince his employees to sire a child with his daughter, so that he can have an heir to his "empire" of toy stores. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=275 At one point]], he goes to Robin- a woman, mind you. After hearing Galasso's request to notify him "the instant you have achieved impregnation", Robin responds by saying she's "fairly confident that's impossible." Seven years later, thanks to Rosenthal's tech skills, [[spoiler: Leslie impregnated Robin.]]

** [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/02 Their somewhat out-of-left-field reaction]] to ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' is way funnier now that Bubsy is not only getting a new game, but Sonic's own official Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/872946127296897024 reacted to]] [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/872989607394025472 the news]]. On top of that, the new Bubsy game was announced while ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' was upcoming, and the latter game also features Modern and Classic Sonic-- so the comic could've plausibly taken place ''there'' instead.

** An additional instance of this happens [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-2276 far more recently]], when Walt Disney is described as FanFic writer. The date of that comic: August 12, 2009. Less than a month later, [[Creator/{{Disney}} guess who's announced their plans to purchase]] [[MarvelUniverse half of the comic book industry...]]

** [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html Another]] strip parodied the "progression" from Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and Anakin's dual wielding of lightsabers in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' with having characters draw quadruple, quintuple and septuple lightsabers...
--->'''David Morgan-Mar''': This comic was published over 2 years before ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]]'' was released in May, 2005. Need I say anything more than "General Grievous"? I'm ready for those royalties, George.

** Even more hilarious is how the comic's fictional Bernanke is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ79Pt2GNJo in such contrast to his real life counterpart]].

** In a 1998 cartoon where Irwin ended up in the computer system of the space station Mir, he said at one point "I can barely believe this thing stays up." Two years later, the station was decommissioned, deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere. Now, if anybody had been onboard at the time, this would be a FunnyAneurysmMoment, but as nobody was...

** And this [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/010917 2001 strip]] wherein Torg and Riff need [[NoodleImplements leiderhosen and pliers]] to party with Charlie Sheen, but Sasha tells them he's been sober for months, so they try to find Robert Downey Jr., a belt sander, and a Portuguese man-of-war. Over the next decade, guess which got his career back on track and which became a walking punchline?

* Depending on your opinion, this may also qualify as a FunnyAneurysmMoment too: the endless promotion for a then-unknown Music/{{Kesha}} on [[http://www.key103.co.uk Key 103 Manchester]], a British radio station's web site. Bizarrely, she was listed on the regular presenters' list too... although not now!

** [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2262 This comic]] where Martin, Angus, and Faye discus Martin's comfort with his ex Dora dating Tai is a bit funnier now than it was at the time. Angus said to Faye, "I'm just saying, if you have to break up with me, at least [[GirlOnGirlIsHot leave me for a girl.]]" Pintsize followed with "Leave him for a robot. A [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs girl robot!]]" After Faye and Angus broke up, Faye's next romantic partner was Bubbles, who is in fact a girl robot.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' had a 2006 plotline where [[LargeHam Galasso]] tries to convince his employees to sire a child with his daughter, so that he can have a heir to his "empire" of toy stores. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=275 At one point]], he goes to Robin- a woman, mind you. After hearing Galasso's request to notify him "the instant you have achieved impregnation", Robin responds by saying she's "fairly confident that's impossible." Seven years later, thanks to Rosenthal's tech skills, [[spoiler: Leslie impregnated Robin.]]

** Landon's mom, Harriet, believed Larisa to actually be "a succubus that'll give birth to the antichrist". Fastforward to the Divine Comedy arc: Larisa makes a deal with the devil to save Sandra, and will become a succubus if she succeeds because it'll be a waste of her talents to be anything lesser than that. Jury's still out on the antichrist bit, though.

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In a complete reversal of a FunnyAneurysmMoment: On the 20th floor, Ja Wangnan has been loaning money from a LoanShark to take the tests to ascend to the next floor, never succeeding. He's desperate enough to take up a final offer of a loan where, if he fails and can't pay it back this time, he's to go on a "skeleton diet", meaning the Loan Shark is going to harvest and sell his organs. In spite of the BlackComedy involved, this is still quite serious... Except if you reflect back on it later when it has turned out Wangnan has a HealingFactor he didin't even know about that would probably have allowed him to survive it, which would surely have been incredibly confusing to everyone involved. In principle, he could even have made that deal and paid the price with his organs multiple times!

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In a complete reversal of a FunnyAneurysmMoment: On the 20th floor, Ja Wangnan has been loaning money from a LoanShark to take the tests to ascend to the next floor, never succeeding. He's desperate enough to take up a final offer of a loan where, if he fails and can't pay it back this time, he's to go on a "skeleton diet", meaning the Loan Shark is going to harvest and sell his organs. In spite of the BlackComedy involved, this is still quite serious... Except if you reflect back on it later when it has turned out Wangnan has a HealingFactor he didin't even know about that would probably have allowed him to survive it, which would surely have been incredibly confusing to everyone involved. In principle, he could even have made that deal and paid the price multiple times!

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In a complete reversal of a FunnyAneurysmMoment: On the 20th floor, Ja Wangnan has been loaning money from a LoanShark to take the tests to ascend to the next floor, never succeeding. He's desperate enough to take up a final offer of a loan where, if he fails and can't pay it back this time, he's to go on a "skeleton diet", meaning the Loan Shark is going to harvest and sell his organs. In spite of the BlackComedy involved, this is still quite serious... Except if you reflect back on it later when it has turned out Wangnan has a HealingFactor he didin't even know about that would probably have allowed him to survive it, which would surely have been incredibly confusing to everyone involved. In principle, he could even have made that deal and paid the price multiple times.

* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In a complete reversal of a FunnyAneurysmMoment: On the 20th floor, Ja Wangnan has been loaning money from a LoanShark to take the tests to ascend to the next floor, never succeeding. He's desperate enough to take up a final offer of a loan where, if he fails and can't pay it back this time, he's to go on a "skeleton diet", meaning the Loan Shark is going to harvest and sell his organs. In spite of the BlackComedy involved, this is still quite serious... Except if you reflect back on it later when it has turned out Wangnan has a HealingFactor that would probably have allowed him to survive it, which would surely have been incredibly confusing to everyone involved. In principle, he could even have made that deal and paid the price multiple times.

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': Fighter first came up with the concept of "sword-chucks" [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/08/15/episode-068-it-sounds-like-a-good-idea-to-me/ on August 15, 2001]]. Almost four years later, guess what Captain Ukitake of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s [[http://www.mangachapter.me/1193/bleach/156-11.html shikai resembles]]?

* When the characters from ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' go to the future, [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-533 Greg Dean from 2001 asks Greg Dean from 2006 what the most important thing to happen in the following five years]]. Funny in 2001 because his response, that he'll hit his shin on an open drawer, [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver is ridiculous]]. Gets funnier [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-974 in 2003]], when he ''does'' hit his shin on the drawer. Becomes hilarious [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-1405 in 2005]] when he gets ''married''...

** Greg Dean, the man who used to spend his entire food budget on ramen and thought "butter dipped butter" was a meal, has since graduated from a cooking academy.
** Greg Dean also [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-1001 was listening to]] ''Literature/TheHobbit'' on CD in 2003 because "[t]he way I figure it, having it read to me by an old British man is about the closest to [[Film/TheHobbit a Pete Jackson movie]] we're ever going to see of it."

* ''Webcomic/PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi'' preceded ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ''. Better yet, because the former is Filipino-made [[{{Animesque}} Manga-esque]] instead of actual Japanese anime, it is 100% {{Macekre}}-proof (ShesAManInJapan ''does not work'' when the anime in question has an American source material).

* Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} mentioned that he had a dream of seeing his creator, Christian Weston Chandler, with long hair in the mirror in one issue. Needless to say, [[http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Tomgirl_Saga this ended up coming true.]] Also, an author's note in Episode 20 says "I would rather suffer a painful gender-change operation than ever be a homo," and in Episode 21, [[https://sonichu.com/cwcki/File:SchuComic10P39.jpg Chris punches a guy for calling him "Madam Chrissy"]] while shouting "I am a man!"

** Also, in the ''Sonichu'' sub-episodes (a series of LifeEmbellished stories about Chris' life), true love is supposedly illegal in Virginia because "Virginia is for virgins". In 2013, [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/07/18/ken_cuccinelli_the_republican_candidate_for_governor_in_virginia_wants_to.html Virginia Republican gubernational candidate Ken Cuccinelli's platform included making oral and anal sex illegal]].

* ''HilariousInHindsight/BrawlinTheFamily''

* ''HilariousInHindsight/BrawlintheFamily''

* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080511.html This strip]] points out that Creator/MarvelComics has already made movies about their most iconic characters, and that now they'll have to make movies about "third-tier characters" like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and ComicBook/AntMan. Since this strip was published, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger there have indeed]] [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 been movies released]] [[Film/AntMan about those characters]].

* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'': Landon's mom, Harriet, believed Larisa to actually be "a succubus that'll give birth to the antichrist". Fastforward to the Divine Comedy: Larisa makes a deal with the devil to save Sandra, and will become a succubus if she succeeds because it'll be a waste of her talents to be anything lesser than that.

* Somewhere in December, FPS Russia releases a video showing him wrecking havoc with an [=L85A2=] rifle. A couple days later, ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}: [[ExpansionPack Back to Karkand]]'' is released. Guess what is the name of the Assignment needed to unlock the [=L85A2=]?

* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080511.html This strip]] points out that Creator/MarvelComics has already made movies about their most iconic characters, and that now they'll have to make movies about "third-tier characters" like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and ComicStrip/AntMan. Since this strip was published, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger there have indeed]] [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 been movies released]] [[Film/AntMan about those characters]].

-->DAVE: i think...
-->DAVE: there is a SLIGHT chance...
-->DAVE: i may be the biggest idiot in the world
-->DAVE: when it comes to understanding some things about my bro
-->DAVE: some pieces i never really put together
-->DAVE: about him
-->DAVE: until maybe literally right now

* ''Webcomic/Sheldon'': [[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080511.html This strip]] points out that Creator/MarvelComics has already made movies about their most iconic characters, and that now they'll have to make movies about "third-tier characters" like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and ComicStrip/AntMan. Since this strip was published, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger there have indeed]] [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 been movies released]] [[Film/AntMan about those characters]].