History Main / DistancedFromCurrentEvents

* UK channel BBC One's Christmas branding package for Christmas 2022 was based on the Charlie Mackesy book "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse". Three idents were made, but one of them showed the characters walking along a river on a snowy evening. The ident in question, used before news bulletins and other serious programmes, was withdrawn from use on 12th December, after an incident in Solihull, West Midlands in which four boys fell into an icy lake and died from drowning. The offending ident was reinstated a week later and was used less often.

* On her Website/{{Tumblr}} blog, Creator/GailSimone mentioned that she had to rewrite an issue of ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2011}} Batgirl]]'' (which featured a Latino youth being brutalized by bigoted security officers) due to some similarities it bore to the death of Trayvon Martin.
* Issue #3 of ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'' was pushed back a month due to the tragic shooting spree that occurred at a Colorado screening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. The issue, which saw a female Leviathan agent [[MuggedForDisguise chloroforming and replacing a teacher]] and then pointing a gun at her students, was deemed insensitive in light of the shootings.
* For a brief period in TheSeventies, Comicbook/BlackPanther was renamed "Black Leopard" in order to avoid being associated with the Black Panther revolutionary organization.

* On September 6, 2012, [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/china-earthquake-2012_n_1863922.html a devastating earthquake struck China]]. The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' webcomic of the day when it occurred, which was part of an arc about sneezing jokes, [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1988/09/06 had Orson receiving]] '''a phone call from China''' in it. Luckily, unlike the "National Stupid Day" Garfield comic, nobody noticed this because the comic changed 30 minutes after said earthquake happened because the earthquake happened at 11:30PMEST, 30 minutes before both the Garfield and U.S. Acres comics changed.

-->'''One Ponyo character''': Hey, that is quite a boat you've got there.\\

** ''Baby With A Gun 2'' features a tower building exploding at the end, but it's represented with a very simplistic, superimposed, obviously fake stock explosion. Tom initially went for a much more realistic explosion and destruction sequence, but the video released very close (as in, ''less than three days close'') to the very real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing Manchester Arena bombing]]), so it was heavily toned down at the last minute into a deliberate SpecialEffectsFailure.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Squidgygate&oldid=974418540 The British Sunday papers were caught badly on the wrong foot about reporting the death of Princess Diana,]] because it occurred very late on a Saturday night. The most the tabloids could do was to replace their original front pages hastily with respectful coverage of what was known about the tragedy. The inside pages, including opinion pieces written earlier in the week, reflected the previous orthodoxy about Diana: that she was a dumb blonde who intended to bring down the Royal Family with the maximum embarrassment and was most likely going to present them with a half-Arab sibling for William and Harry. The complaints caused much embarrassment among hacks, but the [[HeelFaceTurn Stalinist revision]] made by the papers after her death was probably the most noteworthy thing.

* Topps got a lot of flack in 2021 for their ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' set ''Shammy Awards'', where the theme was making fun of musicians, featuring a card named BTS Brusiers[=/=]Bopping K-Pop that depicted the members of Music/{{BTS}} getting beaten with a Grammy a la a game of whack-a-mole at a time where anti-Asian hate crimes were surging. The backlash persuaded Topps to withdraw the card.

* Topps got a lot of flack in 2021 for their ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' set ''Shammy Awards'', where the theme was making fun of musicians, featuring a card named BTS Brusiers[=/=]Bopping K-Pop that depicted the members of Music/{{BTS}} at a time where anti-Asian hate crimes were surging. The backlash persuaded Topps to withdraw the card.

* Creator/TomSka had intended his sketch "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAtkMuyVPS0 Shoot all your problems away]]" to be a simple CrossesTheLineTwice sketch with no deeper meaning. Unfortunately, every time he planned on releasing it, "[[AxesAtSchool America]] [[GoingPostal happened]]", and he had to delay it. Ultimately, he decided to edit it slightly to include a TakeThat against American gun safety (or lack thereof) and upload it anyway.

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* In 1994, the restaurant chain Jack in the Box released the first commercials with the "Jack" character. In the commercials, he referenced the 1980 commercials where they blew up the jack-in-the-box head that was their trademark, saying they had "fired" him. He then claimed that due to plastic surgery, he was back and would change Jack in the Box. Immediately after this announcement, the commercial showed Jack getting revenge by blowing up the building's boardroom behind him. The commercial drew [[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-28-fi-13834-story.html criticism]] for appearing at a time when several real-life bombings were in the news.

* Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, did a Weight Watchers commercial in which she said she got most of her exercise running from the paparazzi. It was released the same week as the death of Princess Diana of Wales and was immediately pulled.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jms2zOU2MZE A commercial]] for ''VideoGame/Vigilante8'' featuring a heavily damaged school bus was supposedly pulled after the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre.
* When WE tv began airing ''Series/McLeodsDaughters'', they ran a humorous promo where a mother BoundAndGagged her family with duct tape so they wouldn't interrupt her while she was watching the show. The ad was pulled in response to a news story about a child who had died after having their mouth taped.
* Walmart pulled a commercial featuring a Black father saying "I can't breathe!" after the grand jury failed to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the choking death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man. In particular, the issue was that "I can't breathe" were the last words Garner said while dying on-camera, and subsequently became the rallying cry of those seeking to end race-based police brutality. (It is still available on t-shirts, jackets, hats, etc., and his daughter famously wore one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FReJcgTIoB4 a promo for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign]].)

* The [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oSgAcT_g2w "Bombshell Bunny"]] commercial only aired a few times before being pulled after the Oklahoma City bombing.
* In 2017, the automaker Dodge sponsored a drag racing event in UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} called [[http://www.roadkill.com/events/roadkill-nights-powered-by-dodge-returns-to-woodward-avenue-for-a-second-year/ Roadkill Nights]], with their new Challenger SRT Demon muscle car featured there. The event was held on August 12... which was, unfortunately, also the day when a neo-Nazi at a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia [[CarFu drove a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counter-protesters]], killing one and injuring nineteen others. Dodge very quickly [[https://jalopnik.com/dodge-deletes-roadkill-nights-posts-after-charlottesvil-1797895666 removed the banner and tweets]] on its Website/{{Twitter}} page promoting Roadkill Nights (the former complete with a picture of the Demon), though not before they got hit with no shortage of jokes and remarks about the unfortunate timing.
* Kraft Heinz suspended Planters' Super Bowl LIV ad campaign, which centered around the HeroicSacrifice of their longtime mascot Mr. Peanut, in the wake of Kobe Bryant's tragic death. Both the incident and the first ad in question involved vehicles crashing, with the Planters ad involving a car crash and Kobe dying in a helicopter crash, and the campaign would've continued in the week of Kobe's death with new material leading up to Mr. Peanut's funeral, which was to air during the game itself. Despite the cancellation, the ad slated for the game, [[spoiler:which ended with Mr. Peanut being reborn as [[SpinoffBabies Baby Nut]]]], aired as scheduled.

* [[MissingEpisode One issue]] of the Creator/VertigoComics title ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', containing a story entitled ''Shoot'' (written by Creator/WarrenEllis) was never released due to its resemblance to the Columbine shootings - it would have come out only weeks after the shootings occurred. As with the above example, the issue had been in the works for several months, the timing was merely coincidental. The issue was eventually released as a standalone story in 2010.
* Issue #3 of ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'' was pushed back a month due to the tragic shooting spree that occurred at a Colorado screening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. The issue, which saw a female Leviathan agent [[MuggedForDisguise chloroforming and replacing a teacher]] and then pointing a gun at her students, was deemed insensitive in light of the shootings.
* On her Website/{{Tumblr}} blog, Creator/GailSimone mentioned that she had to rewrite an issue of ''[[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2011}} Batgirl]]'' (which featured a Latino youth being brutalized by bigoted security officers) due to some similarities it bore to the death of Trayvon Martin.

* Usefulnotes/FormulaOne racer Ayrton Senna inspired in his native Brazil the comic book Senninha. Four issues in, Senna tragically dies during a race, so Senninha had to go through some changes - none more significant than ditching [[https://p2.trrsf.com/image/fget/cf/940/0/images.terra.com/2014/04/15/portifolio3-031.jpg the blue overalls]] the pilot wore during the fatal crash in a Williams, to start wearing [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cw4f7rPpkaE/UG_a4ijLqQI/AAAAAAAAAec/TruZCFA7TG8/s1600/calp17.jpg the red ones]] of his GoldenYears, where Senna won three championships with [=McLaren=].

* Creator/DeanKoontz set up his ''Frankenstein'' trilogy to involve artificially-created monsters rampaging through UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during a hurricane. Due to the destruction caused in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the third book was delayed, finally being released in July 2009.
* This was also the reason why ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' was made into an allegory involving animals. George Orwell originally intended for it to directly expose some of the horrific crimes committed by the Soviet Union since Stalin came to power, but because the Soviets under Stalin were part of the Allied Forces during World War II, the book publishers could not release the book without risking Stalin either abandoning their alliance, or worse, attacking them.

* Late in its run, the braintrust at Wrestling/{{WCW}} decided to repackage [[JokeCharacter goofy German dancer]] Wrestling/AlexWright into the {{Goth}}-like ForeignWrestlingHeel Berlyn. Trouble was, Berlyn debuted shortly around the time of Columbine, and his attire (specifically his ring jacket) apparently drew too many comparisons to the killers. WCW was then forced to drop the character after a handful of appearances, and Wright went back to being himself and partnered with [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]] as the Boogie Knights.

* In 2014, [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev and his manager Lana]] (actually American born Catherine Perry) began a Foreign Heel gimmick where they were Russian sympathizers degrading America at every opportunity, all to draw heat. The "Russian who hates America" gimmick dated to the height of the Cold War, but the WWE, Rusev and Lana took this a step farther when, at the 2014 Battleground pay-per-view event, Lana delivered a heel promo prior to Rusev's "United States vs. Russia" match with Jack Swagger blaming the United States for "recent current" world events and praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Some in the media viewed the promo as a veiled reference to the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 three days earlier.[[note]]A reported 283 people died in the airliner shootdown, near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.[[/note]]The WWE was forced into damage control, making a statement to TMZ.com and various professional wrestling websites that Lana's scripted promo "was in no way referring to the Malaysia Airlines tragedy," but both the mainstream media and professional wrestling journalists strongly disagreed, with at least one writer saying that a reasonably intelligent viewer could conclude that Lana's promo was making reference to the plane crash.
* In June 2021, Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling announced a Coffin Match between Wrestling/DarbyAllin and Ethan Page to take place at the special ''Road Rager'' show in Miami on the 7th July, but this was quietly pushed back to ''Fyter Fest'' in Cedar Park, Texas the week after. The {{Kayfabe}} reason for the change was Darby attacking Ethan during a promo, and Ethan stipulating in response that he wouldn't do the match unless Darby left him alone for the full week prior to it. The real reason for the rescheduling isn't officially known, but is almost certainly a response to a fatal Miami condominium collapse that occurred in the week after the match's announcement; having a Coffin Match with the aim of burying your opponent in the city when the event was still recent would've been in very poor taste.
* In the build to AEW's ''Full Gear 2021'', Jon Moxley took a hiatus from wrestling in order to attend a treatment program for alcoholism. Prior to this, [[Wrestling/AdamPage "Hangman" Adam Page]] (AEW's top star who was due to win the World Championship at ''Full Gear'') was a FunctionalAddict as a major part of his gimmick, as he would often be seen drinking beer whenever not in the ring. Out of respect to Moxley, Page's love of drinking was dropped almost right away, and he explicitly rejected a beer as part of his World Championship win celebrations to embrace his friends.
* In 2021, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling signed their newest Knockout, the Russian-born Masha Slamovich, after her impressive victory against then-reigning Knockouts World Champion Deonna Purrazzo in ''Knockouts Knockdown'', and her country was mentioned by both the announcer and commentary team. However, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Impact officially retired any mention of Masha's country of origin, even on their official website.

* The ''Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths'' set ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' set to release in spring 2020, features a few ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''-themed reskins of some of the cards in it. Among them, the reskin for Void Beckoner was [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/statement-spacegodzilla-2020-04-02 Spacegodzilla, "Death Corona"]], named after Spacegodzilla's BreathWeapon, the Corona Beam. While it was too late to remove it from the set's initial printing, future printings will not include the variant due to the coronavirus pandemic.

* After a performer in Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's Las Vegas production ''Theatre/{{KA}}'' [[FatalMethodActing died from a fall during the late show]] on June 29, 2013, the show went on hiatus until July 16 as the company and authorities began investigating the disaster. Beyond the logistical reasons for the hiatus, much of the show's {{Spectacle}} involves characters falling, sometimes to their doom, so going on with it in the immediate wake of the company's first onstage death would come off as poor taste. When the show reopened, the Battlefield sequence that the death occurred in was gone -- even though it was the climax. Luckily the scene preceding it was TheCenterpieceSpectacular and worked as a substitute; the original climax was finally reinstated in late 2014. Also, this disaster happened to take place '''the same night''' as the world premiere of another Vegas Cirque production, ''Theatre/MichaelJacksonONE''. So as not to conflict with company-wide mourning for the performer's death, Cirque's official website, [=YouTube=] channel, Facebook pages, etc. did not feature any coverage of the ''[=ONE=]'' premiere and afterparty.

* For the 2016 Tony Awards, ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' performed the song "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)," which takes place during the final battle of the Revolutionary War. In response to the Pulse nightclub shooting that had occurred less than 24 hours earlier, however, musket props were removed from the performance.
* For a few weeks after the Parkland shooting, Jared's line in ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen'' that describes a classmate's haircut was changed from “school shooter chic” to “troubled teen chic”.

* The 2019 Chicago pre-Broadway tryout of the Music/MichaelJackson JukeboxMusical ''Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough'' was ''supposedly'' [[https://deadline.com/2019/02/michael-jackson-broadway-musical-cancel-chicago-run-1202557656/ scrapped due to an Actors' Equity strike]], but given the announcement of the cancellation came in the wake of the Sundance premiere of the documentary ''Leaving Neverland'' -- which went into gruesome detail about alleged child sexual abuse committed by the singer -- many people suspected it was really this trope in action. The show instead went straight to Broadway as ''MJ -- TheMusical'' after further delays caused by the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusPandemic.
* The 2018-20 U.S. touring production of ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' changed a lyric in "I Put My Hand In" from "My aplomb at cosmetic art / Turned a frump to a ''trump'' lady fair" to "My aplomb at cosmetic art / Turned a frump to a ''great'' lady fair" to avoid association with the controversial then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
* Due to the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's presidential administration, many productions of ''Theatre/InTheHeights'' replaced his name in the lyrics of "96,000" ("Donald Trump and I on the links and he's my caddy!") with other figures, most commonly Tiger Woods. Creator/LinManuelMiranda carried this change over to the 2021 film adaptation.

* Ride/EuropaPark cut off its association with Russian majority state-owned gas and oil company Gazprom and its sister firm Nord Stream 2 due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. They sponsored several rides, most notably "Blue Fire", which prominently advertised the company and featured wall and video presentations of its activities in the queue area.
* The Wheel at ICON Park Orlando had announced a laser gun game called Bullseye Blast in July of 2022 where riders would shoot at targets from the Ferris wheel. However, the announcement was met with mixed reception as some felt like it was the wrong time to introduce this game, considering that there had been several high profile mass shooting incidents that year. There was also a concern that people outside the wheel would be alarmed to see people inside pointing guns below. ICON Park quickly announced that the ride would be redesigned to address these concerns.

* Following a case of a 17-year old girl killing and dismembering an 8-year old girl in South Korea, who later was revealed to have been a regular participant of roleplaying communities, ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' ended up being [[BannedInChina banned in said country]], after she was thought to have copied the game, despite not specifically participating in ''Danganronpa'' roleplaying.

* The Website/PlatypusComix story "Vess [=MacMeal=] Starring in: The More You Know!", which has a LuddWasRight ending, experienced a two-week delay. Otherwise, it would have appeared a few days after Creator/SteveJobs' death.

* Website/{{Cracked}}.com's list of [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20384_the-5-major-cities-most-likely-to-be-spectacularly-destroyed.html "The 5 Major Cities Most Likely to Be Spectacularly Destroyed"]], putting a few possible natural disasters (volcanoes in Italy, mudslides in Seattle, earthquakes in San Francisco and basically everything in Wellington) came out [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombings the same day of a tragedy]]. They took it down in respect temporarily (and banned all the users who complained). It was put back up the following day with the title of the article changed to "5 Major Cities Most Likely to Be Wiped Away by Natural Disasters".
* In light of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] delayed his ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' Bad Movie Beatdown review from its intended March release, removed a couple of lines which he felt were callous and put up a disclaimer at the front of the review when it was released in May.
* On WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou, Nash covered a news story involving extraordinary {{Jerkass}}ery, it was accompanied by a Douchequake. This was temporarily retired after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan.
* Yahtzee's WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review of ''Yakuza 4'' also coincided with the aforementioned earthquake and tsunami, prompting this to appear onscreen.
--> ''The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan was an unqualified tragedy, and Yahtzee offers his deepest sympathies to a country that has long held his admiration and respect. This Statement was given to karmically balance out the following one.''
-->'''Yahtzee:''' Boy the Japanese are into some weird shit, aren't they?

* Creator/BobChipman, who has (among other projects) a series called ''Really That Good'' about dissecting great movies to see why they work, was planning on doing a special ''Really That Bad'' episode on ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', but [[https://moviebobcentral.com/2017/06/13/state-of-the-moviebob-central-june-2017/ put it on hold]] after the suicide of Creator/ZackSnyder's daughter and his resulting departure from the reshoots on ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. While he still intends to do the episode, as he especially hated that film and saw it as a portent of all the problems he had with the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse and with modern Hollywood moviemaking in general, he felt that the analytical approach to directors and writers that he does in ''Really That Good'', which he'd have to apply to Snyder here, would've just felt like kicking the man while he was down had he released it as planned. As such, he delayed the episode in order to put some distance between its release and Snyder's personal tragedy, a decision that he felt was vindicated when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBb0kCp-w4 his own father died]] in the course of making the episode. It also afforded him more time to work on it.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': Due to the unstable political climate in the United States, Nice Peter and [=EpicLLOYD=] decided to omit the "Hitler vs. Vader Trilogy" from their touring repertoire since 2017.

* Rapeman, a translator known for his ''very'' off-color scanlation bonus pages, released a chapter of ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}'' with a RemixComic showing a character telling the audience to subscribe to LetsPlay/PewDiePie. He got a warning from Mangadex about it (the phrase was used during the Christchurch mosque shootings), but it was let through since the chapter was released the same day and so may have been poorly timed. Two days later, another remix comic had a much more explicit reference (getting into a taxi with an assault rifle, asking the driver to take her to the nearest mosque, playing the same music in the video), and after asking him to remove only the remix from the release several times, the chapter was taken down.
* Following the George Floyd murder and the subsequent resurrection of the Black Lives Matter movement that encouraged many nonblack content creators to listen more urgently to black issues, WebVideo/MusicalHell removed her reviews of ''Film/TheWiz'' and ''Film/TheKingAndI.'' She [[https://musicalhell.tumblr.com/post/620038593009926144 explained]] that [[SacredCow black viewers had informed her on how important ''The Wiz'' was for its representation]] and Christi believed she was not qualified to talk about the movie as a white woman, and she removed ''The King and I'' review due to jokes mangling Prince Chulalongkorn's name, which she believed was hurtful to Thai people. She later reinstated "The Wiz" review, deciding that her review was only her opinion and was not meant to dissuade people from liking the film.
* A Twitter account dedicated to cataloguing Toys/BeanieBabies [[https://twitter.com/beaniebabybot/status/1272309322706382848 decided]] to no longer post Beanies themed around American patriotism following the murder of George Floyd and increased tension surrounding the American justice system.
* After Craig "Mini Ladd" Thompson, a former and frequent collaborators of [[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Vanoss and his crew]], admitted of sending inappropriate messages to underage fans in June 2020, various members of the group began distancing themselves from him. Furthermore, his editor Ty Widdas removed his mention of Mini Ladd from his Twitter bio, and had confirmed that he no longer works for him, his first single on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_BQVpeCV4ZKXpq7Ihdxcg his music channel]] was shelved, his [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] and Discord server were permanently locked, he has lost all, present and future, deals and sponsorships, his Website/{{Twitch}} account was indefinitely banned in February 2021, and he went through a large loss of subscribers on his developing [=YouTube=] channels. When he made his return to [=YouTube=] in June of that year on his second channel, Craig Thompson, he proceeded to abandon and tear down all of the videos from the main channel altogether, most notably all of the videos made after the allegations, besides "clearing the air" and his apology, not to mention all of the tweets have been deleted. Another member of the crew, Lui Calibre, also went through this.
* WebAnimation/JaidenAnimations removed the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' video she did with WebVideo/CallMeCarson after the latter was accused of inappropriate behavior with underage fans.
* Several WebVideo/GameGrumps videos featuring racist humor and slurs were removed in the summer of 2020 following the George Floyd protests, with Arin issuing an apology for making such jokes in the past. There was also no Game Grumps video uploaded on June 2, 2020 in order to observe "Blackout Tuesday," a day where artists would cease posting content and instead use their platform to boost the Black Lives Matter Movement.

* The ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' 200th episode special "Borderline Forever" featured a cavalcade of guest appearances of gaming content creators. Among them is [=YouTuber=] Alex Carducci ([=RelaxAlax=]), reprising his role as the Supreme Leader from the 2018 season finale "It's Awesome Baby!"; this provoked a backlash from some fans, especially in light of sexual abuse allegations against him that surfaced in 2019. The backlash caused Scott to quietly remove Alex's cameo from "Borderline Forever" on July 1, 2021, and unfollow him on Twitter and Instagram around the same time. Alax's apprence in "It's Awesome Baby" remains as his part in that is too large and important to easily remove
* ''The WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' used to have Jim's character be a caricature of a fascist dictator with heavy [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi-inspired imagery]], but they felt a little creepy doing that after the 2016 wave of neo-fascism. They instead changed their character to be a sleazy RepulsiveRingmaster.
* Since 2017, ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' had been doing yearly reviews of ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''. However, after artist/writer Neal Adams had passed away in 2022, Linkara opted to move the review for issue #5 to 2023 in respect for the creator.

* ''Website/TheOnion'':
** "UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Jocks Safely Resume Bullying" was published in every market except UsefulNotes/{{Denver}}.
** On November 10, 2018, ''The Onion'' ran a (presumably) scheduled tweet reposting its 2013 [[https://local.theonion.com/fallen-firefighter-remembered-as-idiot-who-sucked-at-hi-1819574741 "Fallen Firefighter Remembered As Idiot Who Sucked At His Job"]] article before pulling it minutes later due to the massive wildfires around California at that time, which had already claimed lives.
* After the Virginia Tech shooting, many colleges cracked down on the game ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' for this reason, either banning it outright or banning the use of [[Toys/NerfBrand Nerf guns]]. Even today, several years later, some schools are still squeamish about the game.

* Vaughn Meader's blockbuster comedy album ''The First Family'' and its sequel were yanked from shelves after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy. The producers even destroyed all the unsold copies, as they didn't want to be seen as "cashing in" on such a horrific tragedy. Because of this, original copies of the sequel are now highly valued collector's items.

* Toys/{{Lego}}:
** [[https://brickset.com/sets/21038-1 A LEGO Architecture set]] depicting Las Vegas went unreleased as it featured the Mandalay Bay hotel, due to the 2017 Vegas shooting as the shooter fired from inside the hotel, and was replaced by [[https://brickset.com/sets/21047-1 a similar set]] that swapped Mandalay Bay for the Bellagio.
** [[https://toybook.com/lego-pulling-back-potentially-sensitive-product-amid-george-floyd-protests/ LEGO asked stores]] to remove any marketing for products that feature police, as well as a donut shop and the White House, after the George Floyd protests in 2020.
* The initial release of ''[=MacPaint=]'' for the original Macintosh had to change the Aids menu seen in prerelease builds to Goodies as a result of the then ongoing HIV epidemic.
* The Twitter account for the Duke Center for Firearms Law tweets out a historical gun law every day, scheduled months in advance. For Christmas Day in 2020, the Center's chosen law for the day was an exemption on firing guns and fireworks on Christmas in Nashville, Tennessee. However, just hours before the tweet was published, a bomb went off in Downtown Nashville, and many saw the tweet in poor taste. Soon afterwards, [[https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/read-the-fcking-room-duke-gun-law-center-criticized-for-tweet-about-nashville-after-christmas-day-explosion/ The Center deleted the tweet.]]
* After the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY on May 14, 2022, the History Regents exams scheduled to be held on June 1, 2022 were cancelled for that year, as it was feared that the exams could have caused trauma in some of the children who took the exams as a result of recent events.

* From October 2017 until the show closed in January 2018, the Broadway production of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' replaced the line "Daddy, buy me North Korea" in "When Veruca Says" to "Daddy, buy me Warner Brothers," likely in response to the 2017-18 North Korea crisis. The original line was reinstated in subsequent productions.

Has elements in common with HarsherInHindsight. If a work had its airing or release delayed due to a tragic event, but the work's content wasn't related, that would be considered a ReleaseDateChange. Can overlap with RenamedToAvoidAssociation, where characters or elements in a work are renamed because another work has already become more popular using the same name.

* WWE stumbled into such a moment during the airing of a live broadcast. On the day it was discovered that Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and his family were dead, WWE replaced a scheduled three-hour ''RAW'' episode with a tribute to Benoit's career. During the airing of the tribute, it became clear that the deaths were a murder-suicide, ''as the show was airing''. WWE just has rotten luck when it comes to tragedies -- so much so that they instantly turned a 180 -- not only did Wrestling/VinceMcMahon apologize for the tribute show, but ever since, Benoit has never been mentioned by name on any new WWE programming that has aired since his death, his name is almost completely wiped from their website (save for some minor mentions in title histories and whatnot), and footage containing Benoit in which he was a major part of has not been seen on WWE programming. Hooray for {{Hand Wav|e}}ing. Classic Benoit footage is available on the WWE Network (with a "does not reflect the views of the WWE or the personal lives of the wrestlers" {{content warning|s}}), several passing mentions of Benoit have come up on recent DVD releases, and -- starting with Shawn Michaels a few months after Benoit's death -- several WWE wrestlers have used the Benoit's signature submission hold, the Crippler Crossface (including the man who tapped to it at Wrestling/WrestleMania 20 -- Triple H -- and, on the same night, Trips busted it out for the first time, so did The Great Khali.) What makes this even worse? The ''Raw'' that was replaced was intended to be one of the major turning points in the "Who killed Mr. [=McMahon=]?" angle. A few weeks prior to Benoit's death, Vince had been ({{kayfabe}}) blown up after stepping into a limo, and the three-hour ''Raw'' was intended to reveal who the perpetrator was. Following the Benoit murder-suicide, the angle was dropped completely, with Vince reappearing on ''Raw'' a month later to explain that he'd faked the explosion in an attempt to see what people really thought of him.
* Late in its run, the braintrust at Wrestling/{{WCW}} decided to repackage [[JokeCharacter goofy German dancer]] Wrestling/AlexWright into the {{Goth}}-like ForeignWrestlingHeel Berlyn. Trouble was, Berlyn debuted shortly around the time of Columbine, and his attire (specifically, his ring jacket), apparently drew too many comparisons to the killers. WCW was then forced to drop the character after a handful of appearances, and Wright went back to being himself and partnered with [[Wrestling/GlennGilbertti Disco Inferno]] as the Boogie Knights.

* In 2014, [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev and his manager, Lana]] (actually, American born Catherine Perry) began a Foreign Heel gimmick where they were Russian sympathizers while degrading America at every opportunity, all to draw heat. The "Russian who hates America" gimmick dated to the height of the Cold War, but the WWE, Rusev and Lana took this a step farther when, at the 2014 Battleground pay-per-view event, Lana delivered a heel promo prior to Rusev's "United States vs. Russia" match with Jack Swagger blaming the United States for "recent current" world events and praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Some in the media viewed the promo as a veiled reference to the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 three days earlier.[[note]]A reported 283 people died in the airliner shootdown, near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.[[/note]]The WWE was forced into damage control, making a statement to TMZ.com and various professional wrestling websites that Lana's scripted promo "was in no way referring to the Malaysia Airlines tragedy," but both the mainstream media and professional wrestling journalists strongly disagreed, with at least one writer saying that a reasonably intelligent viewer could conclude that Lana's promo was making reference to the plane crash.

* In 2021, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling signed their newest Knockout, the Russian-born Masha Slamovich after her impressive victory against then-reigning Knockouts World Champion Deonna Purrazzo in ''Knockouts Knockdown'', and her country was mentioned by both the announcer and commentary team, however, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Impact officially retires any single mention of Masha's country of origin itself, even in the official website.

A kind of self-censorship born out of sensitivity to current issues. One frequent situation is when a new episode (or possibly an old one) is edited, [[ReleaseDateChange has its release date changed]], or not broadcast because it coincides with some recent tragic event. Can be taken to ridiculous extremes, especially if ExecutiveMeddling is involved; for example, after President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's assassination attempt in 1981, ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' had the surname of its main character changed for the final 2 episodes of the first season to Hanley, due to having the same as Reagan's would-be assassin, but would later revert to his original surname starting with the second season. Sometimes it goes so far that any fictional depiction of someone or something upon which tragedy has been visited cannot be shown at all for fear of "trivialization" - even if the depiction is respectful.

* In 2021, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling signed their newest Knockout, the Russian-born Masha Slamovich after her impressive victory against then-reigning Knockouts World Champion Deonna Purrazzo in ''Knockouts Knockdown'', and she was mentioned by both the announcer and commentary team, however, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Impact officially retires any single mention of Masha's country of origin itself, even in the official website.

* Weber Grills wound up apologizing after sending out it's recipe-of-the-week email on BBQ Meat Loaf the same day news broke that Music/MeatLoaf had passed away.

* Due to an ongoing decline in mental health leading up to very personal deaths happening in his family, in addition to the stresses of having to cope with UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, that Creator/MF217 [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/journal/An-Important-Digimon-Re-Tamers-Announcement-879509125 decided to]] discontinue updating ''[[Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart Digimon Re: Tamers]]'' in it's original form, and has announced a soft reboot titled ''Digimon Re: Tamers [=7D6=]''. Another reason was that [=MF217=]'s writing skills had changed significantly between the last time the original fic was updated and by the time the first page of the reboot will be posted, and he wanted to demonstrate that by a ContinuityReboot to allow him the freedom to do so much more than he originally did.

* The 2019 Chicago pre-Broadway tryout of the Music/MichaelJackson JukeboxMusical ''Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough'' was ''supposedly'' [[https://deadline.com/2019/02/michael-jackson-broadway-musical-cancel-chicago-run-1202557656/ scrapped due to an Actors' Equity strike]], but given the announcement of the cancellation came in the wake of the Sundance premiere of the documentary ''Leaving Neverland'' -- which went into gruesome detail about alleged child sexual abuse committed by the singer -- many people suspected it was really this trope in action. The show instead intends to go straight to Broadway, though ''MJ -- TheMusical'' has since been delayed by the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusPandemic.
* The touring production of the 2018-2020 ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' tour changed a lyric in "I Put My Hand In" from "My aplomb at cosmetic art / Turned a frump to a ''trump'' lady fair" to "My aplomb at cosmetic art / Turned a frump to a ''great'' lady fair" to avoid association with the controversial then-president UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

*** Press junkets for the re-opening of Epcot's popular attraction ''Soarin''' as well as the park's new ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Ever After'' ride were also cancelled, due to both this and the Orlando nightclub shooting that had occurred just ''days'' before the alligator attack leaving no one in a particularly celebratory mood. None of this stopped the latter ride from being a huge hit from the get-go, largely due to ''Frozen''’s overwhelming popularity.

** ''Ride/TwisterRideItOut'' was slated to open in March 1998, but ended up being pushed back several months out of respect, because in the February of that same year there had been an outbreak of tornadoes in Central Florida that claimed 42 lives and injured 260 others, the deadliest outbreak in Florida history.

** After a scareactor was crushed by a tram on the first Halloween event (then called Fright Nights) at Universal Hollywood in 1986, Universal put its Halloween celebration on hold until 1992.

** After Michael Jackson's death, Doug and Rob released a commentary for their review of ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', explaining they'd had a brief discussion about whether or not to remove it from the site after his death. They had decided to keep it up, feeling they never went too far with the jokes.

* The blockbuster comedy album ''The First Family'' and its sequel were yanked from shelves after the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy. The producers even destroyed all the unsold copies, as they didn't want to be seen as "cashing in" on such a horrific tragedy. Because of this, original copies of the sequel are now highly valued collector's items.

* The ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' 200th episode special "Borderline Forever" featured a cavalcade of guest appearances of gaming content creators. Among them is [=YouTuber=] Alex Carducci ([=RelaxAlax=]), reprising his role as the Supreme Leader from the 2018 season finale "It's Awesome Baby!"; this provoked a backlash from some fans, especially in light of sexual abuse allegations against him that surfaced in 2019. The backlash caused Scott to quietly remove Alex's cameo from "Borderline Forever" on July 1, 2021, and unfollow him on Twitter and Instagram around the same time.

* Ride/EuropaPark cut off its association with Russian gas and oil company Gazprom and its sister firm Nord Stream 2 due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. They sponsored several rides, most notably "Blue Fire", which prominently advertised the company and featured wall and video presentations of its activities in the queue area.