Hilarious in Hindsight examples for Atop the Fourth Wall.
- In The Star Wars #1, Linkara jokes when Anakin and his father are headed home "We need a vacation. Set a course for the Atlantic City planet." Later in The Last Jedi, Finn and Rose spent most of the film at a space casino.
- In his review of the first chapter of Delicious in Dungeon, Linkara jokes that Senshi's name means "poop farmer" in Northern dwarven dialect. Come Chapter 8 and it turns out Senshi really is harvesting poop to make fertilizer for his golem vegetable fields.
- At one point in his Doom's IV review, he said 'IN AMERICA'. In episode 45 of the Abridged Series he provided a guest voice for that show.
- During his Blue Beetle Tribute, he went into an episode of anger induced insanity; claiming he would be the only one to hold the title of Linkara and run the show. Later on after being kidnapped, it was shown he had left in his will that Iron Liz would take his place. Even so much as to have her wear his hat and use his scripts.
- Not two days after his Ultimatum #5 review and his calling DC and Marvel out over rebooting continuity, DC announced they were relaunching their entire comic line. He was stunned enough by this to declare himself the Comic Prophet over Twitter.
- Back in 2008 when the show was just getting started, Spoony mentioned it (not in a negative way) as an example of an internet review show that focuses on the reviews and doesn't have any overarching plot. Since then, Atop the Fourth Wall has become the defining example of a plot-focused web review show.
- Linkara's magic gun looks exactly like the guns from a very popular Sentai. He's going to be very happy when that gets adapted into Power Rangers... especially since he can dual-wield it with the Dragon Dagger and have it be canonical. Unfortunately, this crosses over into Harsher in Hindsight when you see his thoughts on it over on History of the Power Rangers.
- In Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four Brain Drain, he jokes about the frequent Product Placement of OfficeMax, and has a character say that if it had been Office Depot, they would've been screwed. OfficeMax and Office Depot merged in late 2013.
- In his Superman Meets the Quik Bunny review, Linkara considers the idea of a flying treehouse as utterly ridiculous. In the TGWTG special To Boldly Flee, the Critic's house turns into a spaceship.
- Many of the comics Linkara listed on his "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review" would later be featured on the show, to the point he explicitly lampshades it whenever it happens:
- Number eight on the list was the Critic-Proof Spider-Man event Maximum Carnage, which in contrast to most people who read it and requested he tear it a new one, Linkara actually enjoyed. He would eventually review it in 2022 as a Patreon request.
- Number seven on the list was Marvel Versus DC, with Linkara thinking the comic was pretty good and he wanted to focus his show on covering bad comics. He would review it in 2024 as a Patreon-sponsored review, with Linkara admitting that while he still enjoyed the story, it wasn't as good as he remembered.
- Number six on the list was manga, with Linkara mentioning how he lacks enough knowledge on the medium to give it a proper analysis. He would later review The Electric Tale of Pikachu over a year later. Linkara has since covered plenty of manga on the show, either due to being part of a franchise he's a fan of or as a result of a Patreon request.
- Number five on the list were political satire comics, with part of the reasoning being his fear of starting political arguments in his comments. Linkara would later review the infamous Reagan's Raiders in 2017, and has since become a lot more open regarding his political standings during his reviews.
- Number four on the list were superhero movies, cartoons, and motion comics, with Linkara being adamant about his show focusing solely on comics. Once Linkara opened up a slot for Patreon-sponsored reviews, he would end up covering plenty of films and cartoons, some of which aren't even based on comic books at all.
- Number three on the list were webcomics, with Linkara admitting he thought it wasn't fair to cover material that was released for free. Once again, Patreon-sponsored reviews would have Linkara cover plenty of webcomics on the show, such as Homestuck, Unsounded, and The Sword Interval.
- Number two on the list was One More Day, with Linkara feeling there was nothing more to say about the comic and giving a "mini-review" to placate his fans. Come the 200th episode, Linkara would later do a proper review of the story and had so much material that it ended up being the first episode of his show to be released across multiple parts.
- May overlap with Harsher in Hindsight, during his JLA: Act of God review, he complains that how in Elseworld miniseries, Superman is often paired up with Wonder Woman with little to no build up. Cue New 52, where they were an official couple with the same amount of chemistry as those Elseworlds stories (which was before DC Rebirth happened and had Supes back with Lois Lane).
- In his 100th review, he does a joke regarding how Sonic has super speed and can thus save everyone, while screwing around with Robotnik. Sonic Lost World has a very similar joke in the end where Eggman tries to make a getaway, but the exhaust hose for his jetpack was removed by Sonic, who most likely did that in the few seconds he tried to get away.
- 90's Kid gushing over a Nirvana reunion in "KISS Comics" came true (not counting digging up and puppeteering Kurt) in a way a year later with "Cut Me Some Slack"
from Sound City: Real To Reel, only with Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, and Paul McCartney! - In the Ultimatum #3-4 review, after hearing Doctor Doom's ridiculous plan to take over the world, he says that it must be a doombot. In the Ultimate FF series, that was revealed to be the case (more specifically an impostor).
- Back in November 2011 in his Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu review, Linkara wished for a Pokémon fighting game where you actually control the Pokémon (akin to the Super Smash Bros. series). Jump to 2014 where Pokkén Tournament is announced. (He's still a little disappointed that you can't play as every Pokémon, but that's to be expected.)
- In the same review, he mentioned wanting a sandbox-style Pokémon game as well. Come 2021, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus was revealed
- In his review of Captain Electron #1 from 2012, he comments that if he ever changes his outfit, he's going to find a way to include a top hat. In 2014, he did change his outfit... though it doesn't have a top hat; he still wears his trademark trilby. Though, he does briefly wear one, in his review of Power Man and Iron Fist #79.
- Linkara joked about that he loved the new Star Wars film, when referring to his thoughts on Star Trek (2009). J. J. Abrams, the director of this movie and Star Trek Into Darkness, would later direct two of the three Sequel Trilogy films for Star Wars!
- Linkara once quipped that "Star Wars: Episode VII makes the bold move of being yet another prequel" long before the movie came out. It turns out that the movie immediately following SWE7 would indeed be a prequel.
- In his Live Show, for the Fantastic Four Manga, Reed Richards objects to experiments, on the Moon, that would "Write Cheat Codes In To The Universe". Linkara insists that; "If (he) wants to play Pokémon Moon Edition, with Gen One Starters, (he) should be allowed to!". This is now more amusing, since Nintendo announce in 2016 that not only shall Gen Seven be called Sun & Moon, but you can also trade up from Gen One with the Virtual Console ports!
- In one of his Live Shows, he jokes about being more forgiving of One More Day, if it was to bring back the Spider Signal, When Spider-Man appeared in Captain America: Civil War (whose source material directly led into One More Day), the post-credits scene feature Peter discovering that the costume Tony made for him includes the Spider Signal.
- In the Doctor Doom's Revenge review, Linkara makes a joke about Spider-Man believing that Captain America is going to invite him to the homecoming dance. Not only did 2017 give us Spider-Man: Homecoming, but it also happened to include multiple cameo appearances from Captain America.
- In his review of the Doom comic, he read the Doom Guy as a single-minded rage filled curbstomping kill obsessed one-track mind character who cares nothing about anything other than destroying demons. Then came the 2016 Doom game starring... the exact same character who despite being a Heroic Mime expresses violent contempt at any form of narrative railroading or tutorial guidance.
- Even more hilarious since the memorable "Rip and Tear" line has become an Ascended Meme.
- Oh, but it gets better. It's extremely heavily implied that the comic actually happened in Doom: Eternal's backstory.
- In his review of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie comic, he says that he doesn't think about things like who'd win in a fight between characters from different franchises. A few years later in a PO Unboxing, Lewis revealed that the guys at DEATH BATTLE! actually contacted him to voice Superman in Goku vs Superman, but he declined due to schedule problems.
- One of his few complaints about the Deadpool movie was that Deadpool didn't acknowledge Stan Lee during his gratuitous cameo. Come the Deadpool: No Good Deed teaser...
- In his 100th episode, Linkara had several other members of TGWTG sing individual lines of his theme, and edited them together for the episodes' end. The line that JesuOtaku sang was "He is a man. PUNCH!". 6 years later, JesuOtaku came out as a transgender man.
- On May 30, 2017, as the finale of Event Comic month, Linkara posted a review of Flashpoint, which came out a day later than scheduled due to editing issues. The very same day, CinemaSins posted a video of its Animated Adaptation, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
- At the beginning of his review of James Bond Jr. #1, he mentioned how there doesn't seem to be that many cartoons for children based on movies for adults being made these days and suggested, among other ideas, a The Fast and the Furious cartoon. Three months later, said cartoon was announced to be in development for Netflix.
- In his Superman: At Earth's End review all the way back in 2008, Linkara joked that the characters talk like gangsters from the 1920s ("I fight for trooth, justice, and da American way, ya mook!"). Ten years later, Young Justice Abridged saw fit to portray Superman's Evil Counterpart Ultraman as a stereotypical New Jersey mafioso.
- In his "Top 15 Worst Heroes becoming Villains", he jokes that comics teach him to "Love no one ever". Eight years later, he's Happily Married to Viga Gadson.
- In his review of ASBAR, he treats the comic's incarnation of Batman as an In Name Only character (who he dubs as Crazy Steve). Wonder how he'd feel about the Red Death from Dark Nights: Metal, who's basically Crazy Steve with The Flash's powers.
- Also related to Linkara's Alternate Character Interpretation of "Crazy Steve", Jason Momoa revealed what landed him the role of Aquaman was that he'd originally auditioned for Batman and played it like a thug who stole Batman's costume—like Crazy Steve.
- Honestly the Millerverse being located in the Dark Multiverse would make too much sense.
- Also related to Linkara's Alternate Character Interpretation of "Crazy Steve", Jason Momoa revealed
- In "My Top 15 Favorite Episodes of AT4W", Linkara jokingly considers uploading episodes to PornHub in the event of other non-YouTube video services going down. In 2019, his former colleague Brad Jones did actually begin uploading older, YouTube-inappropriate episodes of The Cinema Snob to PornHub (though in fairness, the episodes in question were about porn films).
- In his review of Holy Terror, Linkara unleashes a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech against its writer Frank Miller for writing such a cartoonishly blatant revenge fantasy and caps it off saying, "Frank, you must be so proud." Well, come 2018, Frank Miller isn't so proud of having written that book anymore.
- In "The Next 15 Screw Ups of Atop the Fourth Wall", Linkara admits that one of the reasons why he was never able to get into the X-Men was that he found it nonsensical that the mutants are hated and feared whereas other meta-humans such as Captain America and the Fantastic Four are loved by the general public. In Jonathan Hickman's X-Men series, this issue is actually addressed and discussed: when the mutant race withdraws to Krakoa and forbids all non-mutants from entering, Sue Storm calls them out for their policies — only for Cyclops to retort that she's enjoyed the privilege of being beloved and accepted for not being a born mutant, while his species has been subject to discrimination at best and genocide at worst for decades.
- In "Marville #1", he stated that making a comic where Ted Turner and Jane Fonda are still a couple despite having since divorced in real life would be like commenting on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's relationship in 2010. The two got back together in 2021 and then got married a year later, amusingly making that relationship a more recent talking point.
- When talking about Sins' Past, one of Linkara's ideas about how to improve the story would be to reveal the children were failed clones of some sort. Later on, Sinister War would retcon that to be the case.
- While reviewing Godzilla vs Barkley, Linkara lists The Angry Video Game Nerd as one of the few men who could defeat Godzilla. Years later, James Rolfe would be offered a role in Godzilla (2014) but turn it down.
