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1	* HarsherInHindsight:
2	** Unfortunately, some of the children recovered as a result of "Runaway Train" had run away for [[AbusiveParents perfectly good reasons]], and the video forced them back into bad homes.
3	** Some of the missing children were ultimately found dead. One was [[TakingTheKids the subject of a bitter custody battle]], and was actually murdered and buried in their mother's backyard.
4	** One child from the U.K. video was located living at a boarding house with an unknown man. But when police were notified, both had disappeared again.
5	** Of the children profiled in all versions of the video, nine remain missing as of 2023 (not including those never found but officially presumed dead, like the last child seen in all U.S. versions of the video, Thomas Dean Gibson).
6	* HilariousInHindsight: "Never Really Been," a song off their 1986 album ''Made To Be Broken,'' contained the line "And where will you be in 1993?" In 1993 Soul Asylum finally received national fame after years of scuffling on the indie scene, including an invitation to perform at the White House. They played the song the following year on MTV Unplugged, and the quoted line got a huge round of applause.
7	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: "Runaway Train" was instrumental in reuniting twenty-six children with their families.
8	* ParodyDisplacement: Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy", made for his 1996 album ''Music/BadHairDay'', was based on the band's minor hit "Black Gold". The comedy song has certainly outlived its influencer when it comes to popularity. Oddly enough, there was a straight parody of another Soul Asylum song "Misery" on that same album, titled "Syndicated Inc.", that does not count as an example, as it is one of Al's less popular parodies.
9	* SignatureSong: "Runaway Train" is easily their most well-known song.
10	* TearJerker: Some of the children featured in the "Runaway Train" video were later found to have been murdered, at least two by a parent.

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