#hilarious in hindsight

[ultraericthered]

Something of a companion piece to this post. Credit to @themattress​

Yeah, I’m sorry, but a whole month later and I’m still not over this. In all my life, time, and involvement in Pokemon fandom, I don’t think I’ve ever been so unironically happy and welcoming of Atsuhiro Tomioka being a self-plaguarizing hack like I am regarding this here.

I now fully understand what those two episodes and the story told within them were originally intended to stand as by the PokeAni staff, but they ended up never broadcasting those episodes so that we never got that exact story with all that exact set-up in it, so what we were left with now actually stands in the BW series narrative as the Boomerang Cornerstone of the Unova Saga. And I use “Boomerang” because the event canonically occurs within the saga’s narrative, and then every little goddamn thing that happened there comes back to happen again later on in the two important narrative points for Team Rocket and Team Plasma respectively - the pre-League Undella / Meloetta arc and the post-League White Ruins / N arc (Episode N).

And I’ve such a good grasp on how Tomioka’s writing tends to work for his Big, Action-Packed Epic Event Episodes, even the imagined Reshiram VS Zekrom two-parter in the extended post-League final arc of the Unova Saga we should’ve been given would have this going on, with many striking parallels to Team Rocket’s earlier finale.

Team Rocket VS Team Plasma / Operation Tempest 2-Parter

> Giovanni’s VTOL arrives at his set destination in the Unova region > Giovanni steps out of the VTOL, some grunts there at his side > Team Rocket stands in soldier formation to greet their Boss > Giovanni declares that the main phase of Team Rocket’s mission to take over the Unova region shall now commence. > There are Rocket Grunts present > Jessie and James have tech with uses very specific for this mission > Ash comforts his Pokemon friend as they’re held captive inside the hangar of Dr. Zager’s helicopter > Righteous male character speaks seriously with female authority figure as the two of them join forces to pursue Team Rocket > Team Rocket enters ruins and sets up some ritual to break the seal on the ancient prize they seek > A spiral staircase rises from the ruins > At the top of the stairs, on a pillar, is the coveted ancient artifact > Giovanni raises up his hands as he makes an excited declaration > Meowth suddenly starts talking again in Part 2, having been uncharacteristically silent all throughout Part 1 > Righteous male character, female authority figure, Iris, and Cilan race to the site of crisis in a vehicle > History of anicent civilization that had an artifact which caused the civilization’s demise is explained along the way > A nearby city is directly endangered by the effects of the big battle and there’s mass panic in the streets about it > Pikachu makes a big jump and launches a humongous Electro Ball attack right at the source of the crisis > TRio physically supports Giovanni when there’s danger to him > TRio remarks on how they knew Ash’s Pikachu was a special one > Inside his VTOL, Giovanni orders a retreat back to HQ in Kanto

Team Rocket VS Team Plasma / White Ruins/N/Team Plasma Arc

> Pokemon are driven into a frenzy and attack humans in the streets > Looker appears and flashes his International Police badge > The enigmatic Team Plasma is introduced to us > Team Rocket (TRio) meddles in Team Plasma’s operations > Team Plasma has their own aircrafts and use an old, abandoned runway in the Desert Resort as one of their bases of operation > Lord Ghetsis keeps in touch with his grunts from within his lair > Team Plasma has a Pokemon fire a Hyper Beam into a skyscraper > Team Plasma’s Liepard fights with Team Rocket’s Woobat > There are five main Team Plasma members working for Ghetsis > Ancient Unovan ruins that appear to have some connection to the Hero’s Legend > A powerful, shiny rock is buried within these ruins > A Professor named Juniper is a key player in events > The Hero’s Legend, Black and White Chapters, factor in heavily > Looker physically manhandles an eliteTeam Plasma grunt > Krokorok (or Krookodile) digs a tunnel to help Ash and Pikachu > Pikachu makes a big jump and launches an Electro Ball attack right at the source of the crisis > TRio wears undercover guises and uses jet packs > TRio remarks on how they knew Ash’s Pikachu was a special one > Giovanni, dressed in full Stalin garb, wants to conquer Unova and hopes to see Team Plasma eliminated as competition to that goal > Some big Team Rocket and Team Plasma related action goes down in Castelia City, with the city being threatened with destruction

Operation Tempest 2-Parter / Reshiram VS Zekrom

> Dark clouds gather and a hole in the sky opens up that Legendary Pokemon of Unova comes through > The Boss starts acting more unhinged than he normally is > Legendary Pokemon is taken control of by Boss, who orders them to turn their power against all of Unova so that he may conquer it > Green haired, black-and-white-color-schemed empath companion is reeling from an overload of anguish and pain > Iris’ Dragonite features heavily in the big epic battle > Pokemon under evil team’s control unleash barrage of attacks > Disturbances and destruction from this battle can be felt nearby, as the entire Unova region’s fate is soon to hang in the balance > Boss cranks up the power on what’s currently being weaponized > Pikachu unleashes a huge amount of power, with extra energy having been granted it by an electric type Legendary Pokemon > Thanks to this, a humongous ball of electrical power is formed > Electric attack is launched right at the enemy and their weapon > BOOOM! It’s a direct hit! > Explosion passes, smoke clears, the enemy has gone down > Green-haired, black-and-white-color-schemed empath companion soothes the savage beast(s), averting a crisis upon Unova > Boss is displeased at their mission outcome, but can accept failure and look forward to what future work might hold > Our heroes say goodbye to green-haired, black-and-white-color-schemed empath companion and friend(s) in a final scene at sunset

#Pokemon #anime #Best Wishes #Black and White #Unova #funny #Team Rocket VS Team Plasma #lost episodes #recycled script #operation tempest #Episode N #Team Rocket #Team Plasma #trivia #hilarious in hindsight #oh the irony #what could have been

[bebe-benzenheimer]

"No, not necessarily. You could've been a...country fan."

#cowboy carter #beyonce #carmen: a hip hopera #hilarious in hindsight

[bread-tab]

saw this meme today

and i was all instinctively ready to scoff like "how silly, that's not *really* how it works"

but then

i thought back to when *i* was 5—aka, most of my earliest memories (i don't remember being 4 so well lol i was still vibing)—and some of those memories are:

just thinking about life and realized i was gnc/nonbinary (didn't have the terminology obviously, so i basically had to make up my own Baby's First Gender Theory based on observation)

just thinking about life and realized i could imagine literally anything and started making up a utopian sci-fi/fantasy world that i continued playing pretend and worldbuilding in for the entire next decade

just thinking about life and got into a spiral over how i couldn't read yet even though i had almost reached the very wizened age of six, envisioning the entire rest of my life (aka... being a Big Kid and then Old) stretching out before me where i *never* learned how to read, a dreadful vision, and going to my mom in tears with the exact same kind of overthinking-themed anxiety breakdown i have battled repeatedly as an adult

... in conclusion, the framework of the future adult already exists in the toddler, and the personality of the toddler is observable in the adult, and kids just have these enormous, profound inner lives in those tiny little heads, dude, and the meme is right... 4-year-olds are HELLA existential. it's kinda mind-blowing. you should definitely ask a 4-year-old some deep questions about the meaning of life.

(also, as someone who has spent a bunch of time with small children... the Thinking begins way, wayyy earlier than 4. you can see them working up to it as soon as there's long enough breaks between crying as a newborn. that's the magic of it all)

#children #human development #i should study this stuff more formally it makes me such a joyous nerd #'what would you tell your child self?' #'... don't worry bro you definitely learn how to read. in fact you're going to have outstanding reading comprehension' #hilarious in hindsight

[jbtbfdig-blog]

i once tweeted anything about a cookie run: kingdom dating sim

but this april fools day, it suddenly became a reality

huh

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #dark choco cookie #madeleine cookie #herb cookie #sea fairy cookie #raspberry cookie #hilarious in hindsight #it's real

[chthonicathenean]

Further adventures in re-reading the October Daye series by @seananmcguire

"Oberon doesn't claim most of his descendants, leaving him to the mercy of their mothers. Those few that he does claim... those are Oberon's children. And Oberon's children are heroes."

Seanan AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

#october daye #iykyk #hilarious in hindsight #it's been right there all along

[kahran042]

Keep in mind that this is from a book written in 1984, 31 years before Dear Evan Hansen existed. As an added bonus, the main characters of said book kind of remind me of younger and slightly less-dysfunctional versions of the Murphy siblings.

#zoe murphy #hilarious in hindsight #who put that hair in my toothbrush #jerry spinelli #and a bit of les yay to boot

[silvereyedowl]

wild rumours from the future

I’m just going to leave this io9 article link here, because it might just be the most hilarious-in-hindsight article they’ve ever posted. (It’s true, all of it.)

Happy 59th anniversary of Doctor Who!

#doctor who #io9 #hilarious in hindsight #the rumours were true

[oifaaa]

As someone who went to university over in England I know not all English people are dicks with that said I will never forget that while I was in uni I had 3 separate English people try to tell me that the Irish famine wasn't actually "that bad"

#or that one of my friends boyfriends told me that i was wrong it wasn’t the English's fault the Irish were dying #it was just one English man to blame #honestly strong stance to take #the fact that my friend group at the time stopped talking to me bc i called him stupid is actually hilarious in hindsight

[deva-arts]

ELLIOTTOPALOOZA

Some of the most iconic snippets of Elliott from these past comics, in (kinda) chronological order ^^

...When will I learn to draw this man

Start the comics here!

#elliott stardew valley #stardew valley #sdv elliott #stardew elliott #stardew valley elliott #sdv #stardew valley comics #sdv comic #Poor Elliott #He's a hilarious character in hindsight. So normal but so dramatic #I like to poke him with a stick. Poor lad doesn't even know what to do about our farmer here #crazy to see my older comics. I cringe. I crie #farmer deva

[mixelation]

maybe i should just lean into the shinigami thing wholesale for reborn au

orochimaru @ smol tori: if you keep playing with the marked kunai, one day the yellow flash will come investigate. and he's a killer who would not make an exception even for little oto girls : )

tori: he'd kill me.....?

tori: i mean. he can try :)

#conversations that become hilarious in hindsight #oh btw i decided in plasticity/reborn au #that orochimaru is obsessed with cheating death because he saw the shinigami #he summoned him for something and upon seeing it knew #with absolute certainty #that one day he would die and ultimately become a meaningless memory #and becoming so acutely aware of his own mortality freaked him tf out #reborn au

[macdenlover]

watching this play out over the last couple of years has been incredible

#they really are just. weird kids friend group. #it’s all very poetic #and a little bit hilarious like okayy mr phd sit down😭 #maybe they’ll confirm/go more in depth about the gang’s neuroses next season #canon autistic charlie u will be mine.. #but fr nothing has made me feel as seen as finding out they’re just like me :( #and ofc it makes so much sense in hindsight that the show would attract a neurodivergent audience #but i didnt know that when i first started getting into this show as a way to cope with my late diagnoses #like what do u mean i wasn’t just projecting? #sorry for using tags as a diary it will happen again

[ultraericthered]

#When They Cry #Higurashi #higurashi no naku koro ni #manga #Rena Ryugu #Satoko Houjo #Meguri #funny #harsh in hindsight #hilarious in hindsight #oh the irony

[not-so-rosyyy]

i remember this time last year when them not spending christmas with each other and choosing to do so with their respective families was such a ~controversial topic~ for some blogs and anons and then we find out days later it's because they planned to have the whole month of january just gallivanting by themselves on the caribbean

#lmao it's so hilarious in hindsight

[moongothic]

I do kinda wonder, considdering how much Luffy hates being alone... On those first levels of Impel Down, did Luffy stick to Buggy as if they had been glued together, not because he trusted the clown (let alone liked him), but because Luffy hates being alone and being with Buggy meant he wouldn't be alone?

Like think about it, Luffy didn't give a damn when he ran into Buggy, it wasn't a Happy Reunion like it was with Bon-chan

"Oh, it's Buggy" vs "You're alive!!"

And while we know Luffy is at least A Little Stupid, Luffy does have pretty good instincts when it comes to making judgements about people, and he has emotional intelligence when needed So between Luffy not really liking Buggy when they reunited in Impel Down, and Luffy even currently thinking Buggy is a loser, it seems unlikely to me Luffy like, wanted to team up with Buggy when they ran into each other. But Luffy did understand he'd have a hard time getting to the bottom of Impel Down by himself, and he knew Buggy would be mostly harmless in this situation. If anything, the clown could maybe help him along the way, even if only a little. And yeah, at least he wouldn't have to be alone if Buggy came along.

I think that might be why Luffy decided to give the treasure map to Buggy

Like yes, Luffy may have been naïve to think Buggy wouldn't ditch him as soon as he got the map instead of keeping his end of the deal, but also. Maybe for Luffy the risk of getting ditched was a better option than not trying and being alone anyways.

Maybe Luffy chose to give the map to Buggy because of that, so he wouldn't be stuck alone.

#Moon posting #OP Meta #God this has been in my drafts since... Christmas? Jeez #The absolute lenghts Luffy is willing to go to so he doesn't have to be alone though just... Uogh my heart #Darling baby boy #It really is interesting though how Luffy's fear of being alone can reframe so much of his actions through out the story #Even something like this. Like I remember the map scene being a hilarious gag when I first read it as a kid in like what 2009 #And it's still fucking funny as hell don't get me wrong #But with Improved Media Literacy Skills and the hindsight of knowing more about Luffy's backstory #Yeah. It just adds interesting depth to even funny little gag scenes like this. It's great #I fucking love this series so much

[sexynetra]

You all moved on but I stayed here

#I know people were genuinely mad about this post but I still think it’s one of the funniest things ever made #like no credit to the person who made it bc they seem v rude but #unintentionally so fucking hilarious #also blatantly incorrect on so many points but I digress #I can’t believe this is over a year old I still think about it so much #do y’all remember when this was like a real scandal and everyone was all up in arms about it #that was so funny #drag race #rpdr #rpdr 15 #drag race 15 #rupaul’s drag race #RuPaul’s drag race 15 #anetra #marcia #marcia x3 #Marcia Marcia Marcia #also you all know I’m an Anetra Stan and don’t agree with this but can we all agree in hindsight that this was such a funny scandal #I like to think they send it to each other and laugh about it #also once again daily reminder that Marcia is both taller and older than Anetra :)

[fandom-geek]

mild spoilers for the latest episode but

we have so much potential for extended family shenanigans now. occam is d's almost-ex-husband and remold's beloved nephew??? how long were they married? were they all banished because of the divorce?? who is remold's grandchild, and is it somehow through slackjaw?

and that's not even touching on the millennia-long family rivalry, which makes the whole occam-d marriage even funnier. occam and slackjaw are somehow cousins, which means that technically slackjaw and marckus were step-cousins while occam and d were married???

i'll be honest, just thinking of the wedding cracks me up. remold presumably trying not to beat up his beloved nephew's new husband, while slackjaw and marckus were either horrified that they were now related and/or actively trying to murder each other via words and drinking during all of this.

#hunter the parenting #in hindsight no surprise d went for occam btwn the magic and irish martial arts lol #also like. is occam half belgian or is remold his uncle by marriage #is slackjaw's mum irish bc how on earth did she end up having him. does slackjaw also know irish??? #tbh it's hilarious either way bc i can see the resemblance (vaguely) btwn remold and occam #but there is *nothing* for occam or remold w slackjaw which just raises so many questions for me lol