The Hindsight tropes, Hilarious in Hindsight, Harsher in Hindsight, and Heartwarming in Hindsight, are among the most misused Audience Reaction tropes on this site. Many people don't understand that the tropes require more than just "This happened, so that happened", and end up adding examples which either lack connection or the substance that makes them funny/serious/not-so-funny/heartwarming. Some of them may be suited better for other tropes (ex: Life Imitates Art), while some may not belong on TV Tropes at all (such as ones involving politicians, due to Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment).
Please report any Hindsight example that you feel are questionable, and we'll analyze them to see if they are actually examples or not.
Remember that the Hindsight tropes are Audience Reactions. That means if an example under review discusses significant fan response pointing out the hindsight, the example can't be cut solely for being too tenuous for this thread.
- Creator's character/portrayal dies in work and then creator dies in real life, unless their fictional death is closely similar to their real one (such as Billy Bob Joe portraying a character who dies from pancreatic cancer, then Billy Bob dies from pancreatic cancer himself)
- Mundane word related to something terrible (such as "corona" or "Epstein") unless there's more to the connection (such as someone named "Corona" having the flu)
- Creator appears in work then becomes more controversial later on.
- A common event (such as a typical natural disaster) happens in work, then happens in real life (unless they are closely similar, such as the event happening to the same area in both reality and fiction around the same time) For once, not everything related to disease has to do with COVID-19, not everything related to racism and Police Brutality has to do with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, and not everything related to sexual abuse has to do with #MeToo.
- A common/generic concept was used in this work and then later reused in that work (too loose for a connection, unless the concept is so unique it's identified with the work)
- Two actors appear together then do so in another work
- Hindsight examples involving recent events, due to them often being shoehorns. Specifically:
- COVID-19 examples, before 75% of the population has returned to normal
- George Floyd/2020 Black Lives Matter examples, before protests have declined
- Examples which fall guilty of Older Than They Think, such as "Make X Great Again" slogans. Aside from violating the ROCEJ, this slogan has been in use since the 1940s.
- Characters using slurs which are treated as annoying at worst in the work, but is now harsher due to how severe the slur is made now. Discrimination has always existed with that slur. (May qualify for Values Dissonance if work is at least 20 years old.)
Note: As of January 2022, "Funny Aneurysm" Moment is no longer separate from Harsher in Hindsight.
- The former redirects to the latter and all wicks to the former (with the exception of ones on archive pages and the YMMV Redirects index) must either be moved to the latter (if they're valid) or removed (if they're invalid).
- The subpages for the former are still accessible from this page
. After a subpage for "Funny Aneurysm" Moment has been completely cleaned up, turn it into a redirect to the Harsher in Hindsight subpage for the same medium to preserve inbounds.
Edited by Tabs on Jun 21st 2023 at 11:51:25 AM
My two cents: Foreshadowing should not count for any Hindsight variations. "At the start of the film Alice and Bob, Alice says she will never betray Bob, but in the third act, she betrays Bob"... that's something the writers intentionally put in for Dramatic Irony. It doesn't belong in YMMV.
(Yes, if it's, say, a long-running series, there may be uncertainty as to what's intended and what's not. My point is, we could still avoid obvious examples.)
Ymmv.The Legend Of Korra has a huge amount of examples that need to be cleaned. I put in a few suggestions, and I might edit if I can think of more.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Hiroshi Sato saying to Mako: "So, I understand you're dirt poor." The Brutal Honesty is played for laughs at first, but "The Aftermath" reveals that Sato actually does hate Mako, and not for his social status. It's especially harsh considering that Mako is a Firebender, and Sato lost his wife to a Firebender. Seems like deliberate foreshadowing
- When Bolin at first thought that Tarrlok was a possible suitor for Korra, this moment was played for laughs when he at first offered to protect Korra but then went "oh, I like that better!" after realizing that Tarrlok was just an adult trying to get Korra on his task force. The rape-y overtones of Tarrlok bloodbending Korra, though, indicate that perhaps Bolin really did need to teach him a lesson.
- One of the many puns with Amon's name made is "Amon a boat". Now look at his fate. Probably should clarify, namely that Amon dies of murder suicide on a boat
- The "Laughing Spongebob" meme isn't so funny anymore after Nickelodeon's treatment of the show in seasons 3 and 4 in favor of other shows that included Spongebob Squarepants.
- There were (and are) fans who believe Asami is associated with the Equalists. Then in Episode 8, Tarrlok tragically exploits her Non-Bender status (and her father's Equalist status) to accuse and arrest her.
- Due to Episodes 8 and 9, many saw Tarrlok as worse than Amon and cheered for Amon to Pay Evil Unto and take Tarrlok's bending away. Then in Episode 11 we learn that the two are brothers, and that Amon/Noatok is probably the worse of the two.
- "And the Winner Is..." premiered in Canada on Saturday, July 21, the day after the Colorado Batman shootings. Watching a place of public entertainment for the masses getting assaulted, hearing people screaming in terror, becomes much more jarring than it simply happening on a Saturday morning cartoon in light of what just happened. It also feels uncomfortable to watch just after the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Attacked in public is not enough of a connection, terrorist attack on sports game is not that similar to movie theater shooting
- Remember back in "The Spirit of Competition", the love story that Jinora told Korra about ended with the main character committing suicide by jumping into a volcano. Now look at "Endgame", Korra is looking out at the edge of a tundra, dangerously close to jumping and committing suicide. Granted, she doesn't go through with it, but still.
- Hiroshi Sato's Fantastic Racism driven by a firebender's murder of his wife is a lot more cringing when in March 2021 Sato's voice actor Daniel Dae Kim's sister was hit by a car due to racism against Asians
. Maybe a connection, but their is no proof Hiroshi's wife's death was a hate crime
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In "Welcome to Republic City" Chief Beifong's "Eye Am Watching You gesture" is already funny. But instead of using her index finger and middle finger as most people do, she makes the gesture with her index finger and pinkie finger extended, and her middle fingers pressed against her palm - they same hand position Spider-Man uses to activate his web-shooters. Guess whose line-swinging acrobatics Lin goes on to emulate in "And The Winner Is..."?
- The popular fan idea that the family-killing firebender is actually a waterbender named A. Firebender. Now think about the reveals in the Book One finale.
- Another fan idea was that Bolin would learn metalbending and become a cop. Mako is a cop in Book 2, and Bolin joins him in Turf Wars. Bolin never did learn metalbending - he picked up lavabending instead in Book 3
- All the "Korra is Batman" jokes became a bit funnier when The Dark Knight Rises came out and the obvious similarities with the plot of Korra season 1 became apparent
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- A really minor one. In "And The Winner Is", the sponsor on the radio says that they were provided by Cabbage Corp and called them "The most trusted technological company in Republic City". Once the next episode rolls around on Sato's true alignment and the statement is true.
- When Tarrlok demonstrates bloodbending to Amon in "Out of the Past", he says he's "never faced bending like mine". Well, he has; in fact, he is one of those benders! 'Probably foreshadowing
- Back when nothing of this show was known outside of the single piece of promotion it was given, people on this very site speculated that the series was going to go back to the time of spirit-bending and feature the first Avatar. While not exactly correct on the spirit-bending part, it was revealed in San Diego Comic-con 2013 that Book 2: Spirits will feature a secondary story following a young man named Wan, the first Avatar, whose goal is to reconcile the world of the living and the world of the spirits.
- Mako's various screw ups with Korra and Asami take on a whole new light when in Book 4, the two girls generated enough Les Yay to power Republic City, and the show's final couple minutes make it abundantly clear that the only reason they're not explicitly stated to be lovers is the network's content restrictions.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Bolin's comment in episode 3 that Korra had better watch out for "heart-breaker" Mako seems harsh when they break up in episode 5. Foreshadowing
- Bolin giving Ginger an unscripted kiss during the Nuktuk scenes - against her will, mind you - became a lot harder to watch in late 2017, when the entertainment industry was rocked by a wave of sexual abuse and assault allegations. Sexual abuse in entertainment has existed as was a known problem before 2017
- The reveal that early humanity only survived the spirit invasion of the mortal realm due to being allowed to build cities on the backs of lion turtles makes the fact that humanity hunted lion turtles into near-extinction a lot harsher than it already was, making humanity one hell of a bunch of Ungrateful Bastards.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The festival shown in the first episode of season two used to be a day for fasting and meditation. This episode premiered on the eve of Yom Kippur.
- A convergence involving portals and alignment of worlds was also the plot of Thor: The Dark World, which premiered during the middle of the book.
- Possibly overlapping with Harsher in Hindsight. A good deal of Bolin's storyline has him trying to stop a plot by Varrick, the Corrupt Corporate Executive of the season. Not long after, The Wolf of Wall Street comes out, with P.J. Byrne (Bolin) featuring as Rugrat, who works for the sleazy protagonist. Seems like a weak connection, the fact that Bolin originally worked for Varrick before turning on him might be a connection
- J. K. Simmons would later voice The Author, who also directly opposes the true antagonist of his series and helps play a pivotal role in his defeat. He would later also voice Kai, who is the antithesis of Tenzin: an evil master whose initial primary goal is to enter the mortal, not spirit realm after years of trying. Trying to enter the Spirit Realm is hardly the sum of Tenzin's character
- The episode Rebel Spirit sounds an awful lot like Rebel Genius, a novel that Michael Dante DiMartino would write after Legend of Korra. Rebel is a common word
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Meelo's comments in the first two episodes bout wanting the new airbenders to be his army and bow to him becomes less funny after the end of the third episode, where the Dai Li are kidnapping the new airbenders in order to force them to serve as the Earth Queen's new airbender army.
- When Mako originally doesn't plan to join Team Avatar in rebuilding the Air Nation, Bolin attempts to convince him to come along by suggesting the possibility they may meet their long-lost grandmother, who would be so heartbroken by Mako's absence that she would weep big grandma tears and then die. In episode three, they do meet their long-lost family, including their grandmother, who is heartbroken when she discovers Mako and Bolin's parents are dead.
- The riots and the descent into chaos in Ba Sing Se became more jarring to watch after almost two weeks of violent clashes between heavily armed local police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, when Michael Brown was killed by police in August 2014. Riots existed before 2014
- The presence of both Henry Rollins and Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin) in the season was quite uncomfortable when the week of the finale saw Rollins write an editorial where he viciously attacks suicide, calling anyone who does it worthless in his eyes.
- Frequent comparisons between Book 3 and The Dark Knight Rises, after the finale revealed that Korra, much like Batman in said film, is heavily traumatised, depressed, and disabled after her last battle. Incidentally, LOK also shares this similarity with Iron Man 3.
- Heartwarming in Hindsight: The season opens with Asami and Korra shooting the breeze while the former is giving the latter a driving lesson, and yelling at her to use the clutch as Korra stalls. They tease each other about what happened with Mako, with Korra admitting it's nice to have a "girl friend". It's one of the few times Korra doesn't have to be the Avatar and can be comfortable around someone who sees her as a friend and not a paragon or threat. The series proper ends with Korra and Asami realizing they have feelings for each other, and they decide to take a proper vacation into the spirit world.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- It was commonly predicted that Book Three would air in June. Come early June, four episodes from Nick's Mexican affiliate were leaked, and in what may or may not be a coincidence, Nick quickly threw out a preview trailer then announced a June 27 airdate a little more than a week after that.
- Season one had a Street Urchin by the name of Skoochy who was often shipped with Jinora, though the two never met. Come season three and now Jinora is getting actual Ship Tease with a new Street Urchin.
- In the original show, Toph once suggested doing acupuncture on Aang to relieve his stress about facing the Firelord. Her own daughter ends up getting it done on her due to her own stress.
- In their TV spots for Book 3, Nick went out of their way to emphasize that the episodes were only available on their channel and that you could not watch them onlineNote (no doubt a nod to the four leaked episodes). Then they abruptly pulled the show from the air and moved it to a weekly release on their website.
- In the original series, Azula complained in a fit of paranoia that an assassin could have easily taken her out before her Dai Li agents could come to her aid. Looks like she had legitimate concerns, after all, seeing what happened to the Earth Queen.
- This season does not buck the trend of being compared to superhero movies, as Book 3, like Book 1, has drawn comparisons to The Dark Knight Rises. Come Episode 10, and you have parallels between Zaheer and Bane after Zaheer announces to the entire city of Ba Sing Se for people to take it back, like how Bane did the same for Gotham. They also both happen to be Bald of Evil anarchist revolutionaries.
- The latter half of Book 3 could be compared to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, featuring a splinter faction of a group originally dedicated to peace and order trying to throw the world into chaos (the "natural order"). The ends of both also point out that aside from the prior immediate threat, there are still operatives and cells around the world to continue posing a threat. Comparing the Red Lotus and HYRDA seems like a weak comparison, given the latter wants to cause chaos to create order
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trollfic written way back in the Book 3 spoiler period shows P'li's head exploding. Flash forward to "Enter The Void" and, well... Also features Zaheer asphyxiating to death, something that he does to other characters in the final episodes.
- Turns out Toph wasn't being out of turn comparing Aang to a girl: his granddaughter Jinora ends up with a striking resemblance to Aang after she shaves her head and gets her Airbending Master tattoos. And, no, not as a gender-bent version of Aang—she actually does look exactly like Aang. It's even funnier when you realize how much Aang complained about being played by a girl by the Ember Island Players. The universe just wouldn't let him live it down. Kind weak connection
- In the original series, a four-person group led by an airbender enters the Earth King's palace and offers its assistance. The Evil Chancellor states that they're part of an anarchist cell that aims to destroy the Earth Kingdom government. 70 years later, another four-person group led by an airbender enters the Earth Queen's palace and offers its assistance. This time, they really are part of an anarchist cell. Maybe
- The way people started to realize how the defining moments of the season 2 and 3 finales are paralleling the defining scenes from the original series finales. In The Last Airbender, Book 1 has Aang become a large water creature that forces the Fire Nation to retreat. In the next Book, Ba Sing Se is taken over by Azula and Aang is badly wounded in the Avatar State when Azula shoots him in the back with lightning. In The Legend of Korra, Book 2 ends with Korra pulling a similar trick to beat Unalaq. In Book 3, the Red Lotus kills the Earth Queen late in the season, throwing Ba Sing Se into chaos, then nearly kill Korra in the Avatar State by poisoning her. At least if Book 4 plays out in the same pattern, Korra will finally get a happy ending. She does - and in line with this, it directly parallels Aang and Katara's.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Baatar Jr. realises he made a terrible mistake in choosing Kuvira over his family when the former tries blowing him up rather than negotiating for his freedom in a hostage situation. He apologizes to his mother while recuperating from his injuries, and says that no one in his family will forgive him. (Baatar Jr. forgets Huan while summarizing.) Suyin admits it will be hard but they're a family and will pull through. Ruins of the Empire confirms that while Suyin had enough sway to change the sentence Baatar Jr.'s charges of treason, sedition, war crimes, and terrorism to house arrest in Zaofu, he ended up being right. No one beside his own mother has forgiven him, with Opal having turned into a Deadpan Snarker and his father being continually disappointed in him. They all have long memories of the wooden cage in the pit and Baatar Jr. nearly firing on his little sister by accident. Oh, and Korra tells him he has to work with Kuvira to break General Guan's brainwashing methods, with Kuvira being oblivious as to why Baatar Jr. doesn't want to accept her apologies or attempts at reconciliation. This ends up turning what would be a Karma Houdini into Karma Houdini Warranty. (It is somewhat satisfying that he doesn't get a slap on the wrist for his actions, and Baatar Jr. seems to accept this is a fair punishment for all the terrible things he did.) Seems deliberate
- Heartwarming in Hindsight: With the finale making Korra and Asami the Official Couple, rewatching the show now makes their slow-burn relationship and its development quite heartwarming to watch. It is even more heartwarming that six months after Korra and Asami became canon that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage was legal nationwide. Maybe
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The three year Time Skip is made even more jarring by having just two months between seasons. How is this hindsight?
- At the height of Mako's hatedom during the gap between Books 1 and 2, some jokingly wished that there would be a "Mako Alone" episode in order to get him as far away from Team Avatar as possible. Come episode 2, and there was such an episode, just with a different member of the Krew!
- Many fans predicted that Aang would still be proudly doing his marble trick as an adult. Then in "Korra Alone", a proud seafood-seller shows off his photo of Aang performing this trick with two sushi rolls, with the same manic smile that he had when he was 12, looking even goofier doing it with an adult face.
- In the previous season there were many fan theories on Suyin being secretly evil and either in league with the Red Lotus or secretly plotting to seize power herself, many of said theories usually with the intent to paint her as Ron the Death Eater and claiming that there were many hints making it "obvious." This season has Kuvira claiming that one of the reasons that spurred her takeover was Suyin's refusal to take control of the fractured Earth Kingdom after the Earth Queen's fall, making the claimed "obvious" hints of Suyin being a dictator in waiting amusing in hindsight.
- In Season 1, Steve Blum played a guy who lied about having his family killed by a firebender. In this season, he is a firebender.
- Kuvira and Bataar Jr. planning to harvest a vital energy source clean off from the big tree of an all-natural territory, which will no doubt piss off its badass population. Sound familiar?
- Back in Books 1 and 2, Korrasami was a Slash Pairing, if not a borderline Crack Pairing, with many a fan deriding it as "never gonna happen". By the time Book 4 rolled around the majority of fans were practically DEMANDING that it be official.
- Before the series was aired Korra was often shipped with Yue from the last series. What makes this Hilarious in Hindsight is that Asami is voiced by Seychelle Gabriel who played Yue in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. So in a meta way Korra is still being shipped with Yue. Really forced
- Speaking about the Shyamalan movie, Seychelle Gabriel originally auditioned for the role of the movie's Katara, who is Korra's previous reincarnation love interest.
- And now as of the Grand Finale Korrasami is canon, what with the very unambiguous amounts of Les Yay flying around from the final scene, and Bryke explicitly confirmed Korrasami is true on their social media accounts. Bryke sure threw the shippers a bone with this one.
- Rewatching first season episodes can be quite hilarious once you find out Korrasami is canon, since Korra is at first cold but then ultimately falls for "the prissy rich girl" Asami.
- In many ways the recap in "Spirit of Competition" is hilarious in hindsight. Korra has only eyes for one fellow? Still technically true. Out of context it might sound as though Korra has a crush on the girl Mako brought in.
- Similarly, the scene in "Turning the Tides" back in season one when Asami says "I like Korra" which is why she wasn't mad at Korra for liking Mako. She must have really liked Korra.
- When Korra told Asami at the start of Book 3 that she had "never had a girlfriend" to just talk with before (besides Naga), the term's platonic context was obvious but it felt like characteristic Bryke shipper trolling. It turned out to be the first step on the Ship Tease trail ending well beyond platonic territory.
- Back in the first series, Roku's line that being the Avatar "doesn't hurt your chances with the ladies" is funnier when at the end of Legend of Korra Korrasami ends up being canon. The problems the term "bender" caused in the UK become unintentionally funny for the same reason.
- Korra's actress Janet Varney had previously played a lesbian who ends up rejecting a man and hooking up with a woman in the web series Burning Love. Not only that, but in an interview/commentary for Book 1, Varney made several suggestive comments about how pretty Asami is. Fanvids have
taken advantage of this.
- Similarly, Seychelle Gabriel played a lesbian Stalker with a Crush on Revenge.
- A memetic Tumblr post declared "We popping the biggest bottles when Makorra happens tomorrow" on the day before the series finale.
- Asami's desire to see the spirit world becomes pretty funny when one realizes she is one of the few main characters, and the only member of Team Avatar to not have entered the spirit world at some point.
- After Mako and Asami's extremely subtle breakup in Book 1, several fans mocked it using an exchange from The Ember Island Players: "Did Mako and Asami just break up?" "You know, it really wasn't clear." The show's own self-parody recap gives it exactly this treatment.
- Prince Wu's suggestion that they take down Kuvira with a team of highly-trained badgermoles seems less stupid come "Day of the Colossus". It may not be feasible due to a lack of available highly-trained badgermoles on such short notice, but definitely not stupid.
- It's revealed in the Grand Finale that Zhu Li's last name is Moon. Zhu Li is voiced by Stephanie Sheh, who also voices a character with a moon themed name, at least in the VIZ Media dub.
Edited by randomtroper89 on Aug 28th 2024 at 11:51:36 AM
I found this on YMMV.Fantastic Four Duology:
- Harsher in Hindsight: Deadpool & Wolverine would reveal that the TVA seemingly pruned and destroyed this universe, with Johnny being the Sole Survivor until he's killed by Cassandra Nova while Reed suffers an Uncertain Doom.
This doesn't really sound like an example to me. Thoughts?
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadDoes this proposed example of mine count as an example of Hilarious in Hindsight?
- Sunny Skies All Day Long popularized Princess Celestia going by "Sunny Skies" as her incognito name. Years later, a pony going by that name is introduced in My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip, although he's a completely separate character.
It could either by Hilarious in Hindsight or Ascended Fanon.
Edited by Nen_desharu on Aug 31st 2024 at 7:59:49 AM
Kirby is awesome.![]()
Doesn't sound like Ascended Fanon, since the name is used for a different character. Guess it could be Hilarious.
I feel like Harsher in Hindsight example in Pokemon Gold And Silver YMMV page is rather weak one.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The backstory with the two towers, one of which burned to the ground and changed the world forever, and the other of which was literally called the Tin Tower, certainly became uncomfortable to say the least after the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City on 9/11. The storyline was retained in the remakes, but the Tin Tower's name was changed to the Bell Tower, perhaps in response to this.
This entry claims the destruction of a tower and its consequence in Pokémon Gold and Silver is similar to 9/11 in real life, but I think the context is quite different. Most importantly, the game says the fire that destroyed the tower was caused by a lightning, so no terrorists or airplanes are involved. The claim that "Tin Tower" sounds similar to "Twin Towers" is also far-fetched, and the name change in remakes presumably happened just because the original name was a less accurate translation (source)
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Should I cut this entry?
I added this Harsher in Hindsight example to the Chuggaaconroy page yesterday but I’m wondering if I jumped the gun:
- During the Let’s Play of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Chugga expresses distaste over the Romance Sidequest with Peatrice, because he stated it made him feel like he was cheating on Zelda. In 2024, AntDude would reveal that a few years prior he ended his friendship with Emile, one that predates either of their YouTube careers, because AntDude and his girlfriend, Miss Fushi, suspected Emile was trying to start an affair with the latter (though Emile and Tim insist the situation is a big misunderstanding and Emile had no ill-intentions).
Edited by Mariofan99 on Sep 3rd 2024 at 7:38:55 AM
I found this on YMMV.Mario And Luigi Brothership, which I'm unsure of:
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Or Harsher depending on your view. On September 3, Nintendo revealed that the kingdom the game would be set in is named Concordia. That same day, Sony announced that their recently released online game titled Concord for the PlayStation 5 would be shut down and delisted after a disastrous launch. The coincidence in the two names of Concordia and Concord didn’t go unnoticed by publications.
Suggested addition to YMMV.Shang Chi And The Legend Ofthe Ten Rings:
- Harsher in Hindsight: Despite the teases for further adventures of Shang-Chi and Katy, they don't reappear in any Phase Five movies, and Destin Daniel Cretton stepped down from directing the fifth and sixth Avengers movies. At the 2024 D23 Expo, the only Shang-Chi reappearances announced included episodes of What If…? (2021) and Marvel Zombies, neither of which are canon to the Sacred Timeline.
Edited by dsneybuf on Sep 6th 2024 at 5:21:24 AM
I don’t think it counts. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has infamously been playing the long game with all its IPs. Look at Shang-Chi's movie's villain, Xu Wenwu/The Mandarin, who was teased seven years beforehand. And there's also The Abomination, who took fifteen. Just because there's nothing been planned in this phase for the characters doesn’t mean they’re gonna be sat on, even if the current plans have been scuttled. Especially since, unlike recent Marvel movies it was a moderate success.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Sep 5th 2024 at 10:10:26 AM
Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.

RE: Heartwarming in Hindsight
The bottom of the page has this note:
IMPORTANT: Do not include examples that are Foreshadowing, nor moments that came just a handful of episodes later. Those are clearly intended heartwarming moments later in the same work.
However, some users have bluntly disregarded this, the vast majority of the anime folder examples consist of stuff that is obviously foreshadowed.
Should it all be removed? I mean, disregarding the entries about voice actors, the blind photographer and the ones relating to Real Life people. I wanted to manually remove it myself but I fear it would start an edit war.