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Life Imitates Art

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Life Imitates Art	comment	Leonardo da Vinci didn't invent the helicopter, but he did pioneer a concept for one. Throw enough hypothetical inventions and scenarios out into the world and the chances are that some of them will eventually become reality. Some were ideas waiting to happen: even our stone age ancestors could see from birds that flying was possible. Some ideas required a bit more imagination. Either way, life has imitated art. A Super-Trope to Defictionalization, which is deliberately doing this as part of merchandising. Compare The Red Stapler, which is when art affects the popularity of something. Contrast Truth in Television, Ripped from the Headlines, and Real Life Writes the Plot.. If the art's creator genuinely had no clue what they were talking about, but was proven correct regardless, see Accidentally-Correct Writing. If the idea was portrayed in the original work as an absurd impossibility, see Not So Crazy Anymore. Not to be confused with Art Initiates Life, which describes artistic pieces literally coming to life. Compare Art Imitates Art.
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Life Imitates Art / int_1367b767	comment	A theme in the Wilt novels by Tom Sharpe concerns the office politics and academic infighting among the Faculty staff at the "Fenland Tech" note American readers, think "community college" with all that implies for underfunding, under-resourced, academically unglamorous, and demoralised staff. Fenland Tech lives in the shadow of an ancient, world-renowned and prestigious university; a goodly number of the FT staff, including Henry Wilt, are graduates of that university and live in envy of their better-placed peers, and are hideously aware they inhabit a stagnant backwater of Education. Sharpe wrote the books as a Roman Ã Clef Take That! against his old employer, Cambridge Tech College. Fenland's senior academics have grandiose schemes for offering degree courses, are victims to every fad going, and long for the day when they can rebrand as at least a polytechnic and ideally a fully-fledged University. they get so embroiled in office politics that they fail to realise they can barely teach at a far lower academic level - which is what they are there for. The idea that their pretentions will be realised and the tech can become a University is presented as a monumental act of self-delusion and a collective folly indulged by barely competent mediocre academics. however - Tom Sharpe just about lived to see the day when his old tech college actually did rebrand itself as a University - Anglia Ruskin - under a government with different priorities.note Which was duly accused of dumbing down and hopelessly diluting British academic standards... Although ARU remains in the fourth and lowest tier of British Unis...
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Life Imitates Art / int_14ce9e0	comment	In an August 1998 interview with American Country Countdown, Mark Wills revealed that, when he was listening to the demo for his hit "Don't Laugh at Me", he actually passed by a homeless man holding a cardboard sign right as the demo hit the line "Right now I'm down to holdin' this little cardboard sign".
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Life Imitates Art / int_16a43fa1	comment	Obscure Super Famicom kuso-ge Hong Kong '97's plot involved turning the recently deceased "Tong Shau Ping" (Deng Xiaoping) into a weapon. The game was made in 1995, while Deng actually died in 1997.
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Life Imitates Art / int_1c552432	comment	Inside Job (2021) combines this with Reality Subtext: The first episode deals with the efforts of main character Reagan, a dedicated workaholic, being overshadowed by Brett, who basically does nothing besides be white, male, and likable. Very ironic considering that the show itself was created, written, and helmed by Shion Takeuchi, but most of the praise almost automatically went to executive producer Alex Hirsch due to his high esteem in the animation community for his creation of Gravity Falls.
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Life Imitates Art / int_1f67dad6	comment	The Time Machine proposed that time was the fourth dimension about ten years before Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Einstein based his theory of 4D spacetime on preexisting mathematical theories that were around when Wells wrote his story, though. Incidentally, that part of relativity — the use of 4 dimensional non-euclidean geometries to explain General Relativity — was co-developed by Bernhard Riemann.
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Life Imitates Art / int_1fa37285	comment	John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, written in 1969 and mentioned above, takes place in 2010 when the Earth's population has reached 7 billion. He was only one year short of when that milestone was actually reached.
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Life Imitates Art / int_20b55945	comment	The real life story of Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, an aging mother and daughter who resided in the falling-down mansion of Grey Gardens, is eerily similar to that of Miss Havisham and Estella in Great Expectations, except the daughter was the one who got rejected by her fiancÃ©, and unlike Estella, she never left the house (except when she ran away to New York for a few years). Miss Havisham herself may have been based on the real-life shut-in spurned bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne.
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Life Imitates Art / int_2172e43f	comment	Like the Joker at the start of Batman: Arkham Knight, Abimael GuzmÃ¡n's body was incinerated by the government as a public service, because, to quote the game's novelization, "Even dead, he scared the shit out of them."
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Life Imitates Art / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons examples: "Bart to the Future" presents three ideas for America's political future that have since become more considerable issues: the U.S. has handled its increasing foreign debt like an irresponsible person shrugging off bill collectors, marijuana legalization has been given more actual consideration, and we did indeed get a President Trump.note At the time of the episodeâ€™s airing, Trump had recently run for the Reform Party nomination in the 2000 election before eventually dropping out. In the episode "The Mansion Family", Homer takes Mr. Burns' yacht into international waters to avoid state blue laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday. After mocking the Coast Guard's inability to do anything to stop them the yacht is seized by pirates. When appealing to the Coast Guard for help the crew replies, sarcastically, that "Navy SEALs are on the way". In 2009, when the Maersk Alabama was hijacked by Somali pirates, the first such hijacking of an American flagged vessel since the 19th century, Navy SEALs were dispatched to the scene, shooting three of the pirates from the rear of a Navy destroyer and rescuing the hijacked crew. In "Trash of the Titans", Homer is elected sanitation commissioner of Springfield, but he ends up spending his entire year's budget in one month. Homer recoups the money by having other cities pay him to mash their excess garbage into a nearby mine shaft. But it proves too much, and Springfield ends up so badly trashed that the town has to be moved five miles down the road. In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Toronto City Council had seriously considered turning the abandoned Adams Mine into a dumping site for Toronto's garbage until then-councilors Jack Layton and Olivia Chow showed them this episode, and they immediately changed their minds. In "The Trouble with Trillions", Cuba is facing economic collapse, prompting Fidel Castro to think about reaching out to the United States. They bounce back when they take the 1 trillion dollar bill from Mr. Burns. In December 2014 Cuba was facing economic collapse due to the collapse in Venezuelan oil subsidies so President Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and successor, reached out to US President Obama and and restored diplomatic ties, significantly eroding the 50+ year embargo between the 2 nations. In "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas", Homer gets in trouble at an Easter egg hunt when he tries to steal eggs from kids' baskets to please Maggie. In 2016, a PEZ-sponsored egg hunt descended into chaos with reports of parents stealing eggs from other children. "They Saved Lisa's Brain", Stephen Hawking mentions he may steal the idea of a "donut-shaped universe" that Homer has explained to him off-screen. In modern physics, the Three-torus model is a real theory of the shape of the universe, and makes more sense than you may think.note Basically, the theory proposes that the universe is finite but loops in on itself, and a "donut" shape is a logical result of explaining how that could work. However, the theory was proposed in 1984, long before the episode. A quick Biting-the-Hand Humor gag in â€œWhen You Dish Upon a Starâ€� shows the 20th Century Fox logo with the words â€œA Division of Walt Disney Co.â€� - 21 years later, that sale indeed happened, though Fox was renamed less than a year after the deal was finalized. 1995's "A Star is Burns" has a brief appearance by The Rappin' Rabbis, who wear Hasidic clothing onstage and sing about Judaism. It sure didn't sound plausible at the time, but a decade later, rap and reggae artist Matisyahu would achieve fame doing exactly that. In season 12's "Worst Episode Ever", after Comic Book Guy suffers a heart attack, Bart and Milhouse take his place running his comic book store, where they uncover his secret stash of video tapes, one of which is Godfather III: Good Version. In 2020, Francis Ford Coppola released a recut of The Godfather: Part III, titled The Godfather Coda, which proved to be better-received than the original release.
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Life Imitates Art / int_28c6afce	comment	In the Thomas & Friends episode "James and the Red Balloon," (which first aired in October 2002), James collides into a hot air balloon. Almost two decades after the episode's original airdate, a similar incident would happen in real life when a hot air balloon collided with a Canadian National train in Burlington, Wisconsin on June 1, 2022.
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Life Imitates Art / int_2b132158	comment	Similarly, a character in Philip Francis Nowlan's 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D. uses what is essentially a cellular flip-phone. The story also features flying robotic drones.
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Life Imitates Art / int_2c354efd	comment	The game Iron Lung presents the idea of being bolted into a barely functioning ramshackle submarine and sent deeper than it was ever intended to, all the while having no idea what's outside. The developer noted he had mostly relied on Rule of Scary, and couldn't have imagined it happening in real life. But many fans were quick to point out the eerie resemblance in 2023, when Oceangate sent a poorly-built submarine (allegedly operated by a Logitech controller) full of rich tourists down to the Titanic only to lose contact with the sub and kill all of its passengers. As a result, the developer noted that sales of the game during that period skyrocketed.
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Life Imitates Art / int_2cdc606f	comment	Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe marked the final Mortal Kombat game marketed under the Midway Games banner. Who would gain control of the franchise in the aftermath? WB Games. And who owns DC Comics? Warner Bros. (Scorpion even showed up in Netherrealm Studios' first non-Mortal Kombat fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, a DC Comics fighting game).
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Life Imitates Art / int_2dff3808	comment	A dark, tragic version occurs in The Return (2003). Father is given a Disney Villain Death. One of the film's other actors, 15-year-old Vladimir Garin, had one in Real Life just one month after shooting had completed; he never even lived to see the premiere.
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Life Imitates Art / int_2f3eb71f	comment	In Command & Conquer: Generals, the Chinese field aircraft generically known as Mikoyan-Gurevich fighters (MiGs). Visually they're based on the MiG MFI, 1.44, and 1.42 series, which never saw production and only got a maiden flight long after the projects had been canceled. However, in the real world China is developing the Chengdu J-20, which looks very similar to the MiG 1.44 family and is slated to enter service during the years Generals takes place.
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Life Imitates Art / int_32066b8e	comment	The success of V for Vendetta helped popularize the Guy Fawkes mask, which are now widely available for purchase. What's different is the purpose they're used for: by Anonymous and various supporting groups as a symbol of protest. Just like in the movie.
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Life Imitates Art / int_33dd1d90	comment	Since the game Half-Life 2 was set in a dystopian future Ukraine, some footage of the country's wreckage strewn roads in 2022 during the Russian Invasion, shares an uncanny resemblance. As a bonus, this scene from Russia's Putin matches the "Breen cast" broadcasts throughought the game.
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Life Imitates Art / int_352c7503	comment	In Airheads, the main characters find out that the rock station KPPX "Rebel Radio" is about to switch formats to easy listening and the existing staff is going to be laid off, and the station manager wasn't going to tell the staff anything about this till the last minute (the fact that they inadvertently find the new promotional materials forces him to reveal this). In 2020, the rock station WAAF in Boston was celebrating its 50th anniversary only for the staff to suddenly be informed that the station was switching to Christian rock and they'd all be laid off. And much like the DJ in the film, they decided to throw an impromptu farewell party in the station's parking lot.
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Life Imitates Art / int_36065097	comment	The three finger salute (thumb and little finger held down by each other, middle three fingers raised together) first used as a symbol of defiance in The Hunger Games, was consciously adopted from the movie by the pro-democracy protests in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Myanmar. Additionally, graffiti reading "If we burn, you burn with us" appeared during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri regarding the shooting of Michael Brown.
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Life Imitates Art / int_3a09ed23	comment	In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage and Ascended Fanboy Javi Gutierrez write a movie about their budding friendship, which earns a standing ovation at the premiere. When the actual movie premiered at the 2022 South By Southwest Film Festival, it also earned widespread praise, temporarily resulting in a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
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Life Imitates Art / int_3c08531b	comment	Avengers Assemble would see Roger Craig Smith, Travis Willingham, and Laura Bailey cast in the respective roles of Captain America, The Mighty Thor, and Black Widow. Hell, during Halloween circa the first season, they dressed up as their respective characters.
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Life Imitates Art / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: Rick dismisses a group of hecklers with the line "Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer!". In a discussion about women's health issues, Pennsylvania Democratic State Representative Brian Sims was being booed by his Republican colleagues, to which he responded "Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for."
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Life Imitates Art / int_3f633fb4	comment	In Cracked: The tendency of SF authors to prophesy future inventions is one of 4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction for You. 5 Important Things You Won't Believe Comic Books Invented shows how Elvis Presley's appearance, Minecraft, and even ankle bracelets for monitoring criminals came from old comic books. It's Cracked at it again with 6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Sci Fi. 7 Completely Unrealistic Movie Plots That Came True. Such offenders include Office Space, The Shawshank Redemption, Three Kings, and others.
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Life Imitates Art / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Near the end of a recent story arc, some robots are discussing the implications of their status as citizens. One robot wonders if that means representation. Another wonders if representation will lead to taxation. In early 2017, Microsoft creator Bill Gates proposed taxing robots or the profits derived from them.
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Life Imitates Art / int_41c887f7	comment	The Truman Show delusion. While fear of reality not being "real" is at least as old as Plato, cases of people who believed that they were living inside a reality TV show had a massive spike after this film mainstreamed the idea.
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Life Imitates Art / int_42bb8b78	comment	In one episode of Ã†on Flux, a woman who had a chunk of her spine shot out by a gun turret was able to have screaming orgasms by having the remaining nerves dangling from the gap stimulated with surgical tools. In what must be the absolute weirdest example of this, a few years later some doctors tried this in Real Life & found it actually works.
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Life Imitates Art / int_43052465	comment	In the episode "The Mansion Family", Homer takes Mr. Burns' yacht into international waters to avoid state blue laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday. After mocking the Coast Guard's inability to do anything to stop them the yacht is seized by pirates. When appealing to the Coast Guard for help the crew replies, sarcastically, that "Navy SEALs are on the way". In 2009, when the Maersk Alabama was hijacked by Somali pirates, the first such hijacking of an American flagged vessel since the 19th century, Navy SEALs were dispatched to the scene, shooting three of the pirates from the rear of a Navy destroyer and rescuing the hijacked crew.
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Life Imitates Art / int_452b3ec2	comment	In 1984, Drew Barrymore starred in Irreconcilable Differences, about a girl who becomes emancipated from her parents. Barrymore herself became an emancipated minor at age 14. As in Irreconcilable Differences, even her mother admitted it was for the better.
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Life Imitates Art / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: In what might be the most startling example of this, in 2007, a former Laotian general allegedly trained a paramilitary group in America to retake Laos from the communists. Two years earlier in the episode "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?", a former Laotian general trained a paramilitary group in America to retake Laos from the communists.
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Life Imitates Art / int_475ac452	comment	The second series of 1983's Meme Iroiro Yume no Tabi is set in a future world a few decades ahead. It looks much the same, but everyone's using a new technology called the "Information Network System" to communicate, watch videos and listen to music, order stuff, and get information about almost anything.
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Life Imitates Art / int_483044b3	comment	In Gundam Build Fighters Try, it's revealed that the Build Burning Gundam Gunpla was hidden inside a Dom. Then, people revealed that, with a bit of work, you can actually fit an actual Build Burning Gunpla inside a Dom Gunpla! It got to the point where Gunpla stores had to put signs by their Dom/Rick-Dom Gunpla specifically stating that the models do not come with a free Build Burning Gundam!
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Life Imitates Art / int_4878f099	comment	Early in his career, he had a hit with "I Lost on Jeopardy". He competed on Rock & Roll Jeopardy! nearly two decades later... and lost.
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Life Imitates Art / int_49a0a477	comment	Snow Crash also anticipates Google Earth, though that may be a case of Art Imitates Art.
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Life Imitates Art / int_49aa2aa4	comment	A weapon that has turned up in multiple entries in the Ace Combat series is the TLS, Tactical Laser System - essentially a weapon pod that projects a high-energy laser beam across long distances towards a target. Come 2020, and it's revealed that Lockheed-Martin is working on a very similar design meant to be mounted on fighter jets.
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Life Imitates Art / int_519cdec5	comment	The T-Minus countdown system (10, 9, 8, etc.) was first used in Woman in the Moon before being adopted by NASA. Wernher von Braun was known to be a fan of the film and used a countdown in every launch he participated in, possibly as an homage.
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Life Imitates Art / int_58c7b20a	comment	Go reference-spotting in Idoru. Okay, so it's made in 1995 when the internet was actually invented, but many things are just now becoming possible - and done. Notably, Japan now has at least one virtual pop singer. Yes, idoru are real. RAH's Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) had CGI of Adam Selene appearing on vidscreens.
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Life Imitates Art / int_58d46786	comment	The Janie series of novels centers on the titular Janie, who finds out that her parents aren't her real parents and she was actually kidnapped as a child by their daughter from her real family. In 2016, South Carolina teen Alexis Manigo found out that her mother actually kidnapped her from the hospital as a baby from her real mother and her birth name is Kamiyah Mobley. Alexis stated that nothing was ever out of the ordinary, other than the fact that she had no Social Security number or driver's license.
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Life Imitates Art / int_58f9634	comment	This is Spın̈al Tap: The band talks about how a previous drummer died in a "bizarre gardening accident" that was "best left unsolved." In 1992, Jeff Porcaro, drummer for Toto, died when he allegedly inhaled a lethal dose of insecticide he had just sprayed around his greenhouse. However, coroners later put his death down to a heart attack due to cocaine abuse. Family and friends disputed this, claiming that he had a family history of heart conditions and was not a heavy cocaine user.
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Life Imitates Art / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond is canonically a Royal Navy Commander. In September 2021, some weeks before the release of No Time to Die, Daniel Craig was made a Honorary Commander of the Royal Navy.
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Life Imitates Art / int_5e42de8e	comment	The word "grok", now a widely-used term, originated in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land as a word from the Martian Language spoken by the protagonist.
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Life Imitates Art / int_600b92c1	comment	During the original broadcast of Episode 43 of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, Japan's Pacific coast was hit by a tsunami after an underwater volcano eruption, showing this map throughout the episode◊ alongside others. Incidentally enough, an apocalypse was involved, which in the following episode, featured heavy rain and hurricanes throughout the planet.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6059ad6b	comment	There are doubtless a couple of people keeping lists of the number of times life has imitated xkcd. To wit: Cory Doctorow has worn a cape and goggles to an event. Richard Stallman has a katana. I repeat: Richard Stallman, one of the fathers of GNU/Linux, has a freaking katana. ...which was given to him by XKCD fans. Though he has joked that the only use he can think of for it is to "keep it by my bed". People playing chess (and checkers, Jenga, Go, and a house of cards) on roller coasters. Geohashing. A strip involved that guy with the black hat's girlfriend writing a virus that would cause a YouTube comment to read itself aloud to the poster before being posted. YouTube responded by adding an "Audio Preview" feature to their comment boxes (but not making it mandatory). A protester holding up a "[citation needed]" banner◊. In this comic Stephenie Meyer beats 4chan at its own game. Moot (4chan's owner) replied by temporarily replacing /b/'s title by "Twilight appreciation zone".
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Life Imitates Art / int_60e46926	comment	MAD has done this on many occasions: A number of Al Jaffee's wacky inventions have actually managed to become a reality in spite of the intended silliness of them: In MAD Devices for Safer Smoking one of his inventions is the Smoke Simulator, a water-containing tube that is inserted into a cigarette that blocks the smoke from the cigarette and instead you inhale the steam from the Smoke Simulator instead. While it's different in design it nevertheless is basically an E-Cigarette. Not bad for a comic drawn in 1964 and, while vape devices were patented as early as 1927, the first commercially-available device wasn't sold until 2003 in China. He does it again in Some MAD Auto Safety Devices with both the Radar Slowdowner and the Automatic Pick-Me-Upper, both of which exist today and function almost identically to his devices: The radar slows down a car when it nears a car in front of it just like dynamic radar cruise control, and the latter detects if a driver has been drinking and won't allow the car to move if he has like modern-day breathalyzer ignition interlocks. The comic is from 1963, while the first successful publicly used interlock didn't appear until the early 1990 (though again a design was tinkered with as early as 1969) and radar active cruise control didn't appear until 2000. The show's spoof of Wheel of Fortune, "We'll Make a Fortune", ran in a 1986 issue. Said parody features a contestant earning a number of undesirable prizes and then bemoaning the heavy tax burden placed upon him. A year later, the show itself switched from awarding prize showcases to awarding mostly cash for this very reason.
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Life Imitates Art / int_625102fd	comment	American Animals is a dramatization of a real robbery. The robbers watch a bunch of heist movies for inspiration and institute the color-themed aliases from Reservoir Dogs. The leader gives one member the alias "Mr. Pink," and they have an argument about it that mirrors the film.
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Life Imitates Art / int_66394ca4	comment	There's a theory going around that cyberpunk (and especially Neuromancer) drastically influenced the development of the internet. It doesn't hurt that William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace". But wait, it gets weirder- Some followers of the genre suspect the recent lack of literature is due to this defictionalization, combined with a general perception that since 9/11 things have been looking a little more dystopian.
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Life Imitates Art / int_691297e9	comment	In L. Frank Baum's 1914 Oz sequel Tik-Tok of Oz, the character Shaggy Man suddenly contacts Princess Ozma through a magic "wireless telephone" he takes out of his pocket, late in the story. While likely invented as just a last minute fantasy plot device, inserted because two distant characters needed to contact one another at that moment in the story, Baum accurately describes what is essentially a cell phone, about a hundred years before they became common-place and portable enough to fit in one's pocket.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6af83614	comment	In Chapter 147 of A Thing of Vikings, the Jorgenson clan is holding elections for a new clanheir after the previous one died. Nobody can agree on a candidate, with one of them being on the fifth round of votes and no closer to a majority. The chapter was written years before, but published a few months after, a similar thing happened in the US House of Representatives, where Kevin McCarthy only became Speaker after 15 rounds of voting. In the fic, things don't end so cleanly, with the clan splintering into new clans to get out of the clanhead's control.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6c1234ed	comment	In Dwarf Fortress, there was a point at which carp accidentally became the most monstrous beasts in the world, dragging a dwarf into water and tearing him to shreds while they drowned. The dwarven "leaders" tackle this problem the same way they tackle any other problem: doing nothing. In real life, a invasive species of Asian Carp has appeared in the Great Lakes. It has a tendency to jump, and while it doesn't exactly tear people apart, they have been known to knock people out of small boats. In true Dwarf Fortress form, what has the government decided to do about this invasive species? Nothing.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6cf01689	comment	The 1969 film Marooned is about a spaceship malfunctioning and leaving the three astronauts unable to deorbit with dwindling oxygen and other resources. The movie was seen in the theatre by Jim and Marilyn Lovell. Marilyn then had a nightmare where her husband was in that exact situation. Three months later, Jim Lovell captained Apollo 13.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6d31710b	comment	Similarly, CM Punk and A.J. Lee were involved in a storyline which saw the latter taken an interest in Punk and months of flirting and a few kisses between them. They started legitimately dating in 2013 and got married the following year.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (1999) feature a maglev train running between Goldenrod City, the PokÃ©mon world equivalent of Osaka, and Saffron City, the equivalent of Tokyo. Construction of the ChÅ«Å� Shinkansen began in 2014, a maglev connecting Tokyo to Nagoya, with an extension to Osaka to follow.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6e657b27	comment	Kevin Sullivan, a wrestler and writer in the creative team of WCW, basically booked his own divorce by have Chris Benoit start having an on-screen affair with Kevin's wife "Women". Eventually the two would leave both of their spouses, have a child, marry in real life, and Chris would brutally murder her, their son, and committ suicide.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6fb218d7	comment	The 1995 Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel Time of Your Life is a satire on the TV industry. One gag is that MBS's flagship soap opera is set in the studio building itself, to save costs. The following year, absurdist tabloid cable station L!VE TV did precisely that with their soap Canary Wharf.
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Life Imitates Art / int_6ff9f104	comment	Madden NFL: Madden NFL 15 predicted in a simulation of Super Bowl XLIX that the New England Patriots would win against the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 after being down 14-24 in the third quarter. They did just that, although it took Seattle to make a huge mistake on their final play to make it happen, not a Hail Mary pass by quarterback Tom Brady. Bonus points for having Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman on the cover. Some unorthodox football strategies gained acceptance in the real NFL in part because Madden made them common knowledge amongst football fans. These include going for it on 4th down in your own territory, running parallel to the goal line to burn off extra seconds, and deliberately stopping at the one yard line to burn off more time rather than scoring. (Hilariously, the Jets tried the Madden counter-strategy of allowing the opponent to score, but the Jaguars refused.) The "running parallel to the goal line" is an interesting twist. In reality, this play has occurred at least as far back as Buccaneers safety Neal Colzie's interception return in the 1981 season opener, showing that it existed before Madden. However, the modern generation of football players (and even a good number of coaches) are going to recognize the strategy much more from playing Madden. This makes Colzie's return something of an Unbuilt Trope for the strategy.
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Life Imitates Art / int_71495571	comment	One scene in Wonder Woman 1984 features the streets of Washington, D.C. being overrun by angry mobs as society falls apart thanks to a Trumplica. Just under two weeks after the film came out, angry pro-Trump mobs stormed the Capitol on his instigation, in a way that rather disturbingly resembles what was depicted in the film.
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Life Imitates Art / int_73c286a0	comment	The documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which chronicles the Troubled Production of Apocalypse Now, points out several parallels between the events of Apocalypse Now and its production, including the Descent Into Madness.
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Life Imitates Art / int_75149ccd	comment	The main plot of 1999's X-Wing: Isard's Revenge has a number of strange similarities to the US invasion of Iraq four years later. The New Republic invades a technically neutral state to depose a dictator largely for political reasons,note In-Universe, it's basically saber-rattling to keep Imperial Remnant warlords from getting any ideas about the Republic having been weakened by the recently ended invasion of Grand Admiral Thrawn. spurred on by faked evidence of a bogus enemy superweapon.note Which turns out to have been deliberately planted by a third party rather than merely misconstrued.
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Life Imitates Art / int_76376304	comment	The logo of the Spartan Rangers used in Metro 2033 was eventually adopted as the emblem of the pro-Russian Sparta Batalion fighting in the Eastern Ukraine since 2014. note Much to the dismay of Dmitry Glukhovsky, the creator of the series.
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Life Imitates Art / int_78db2b3b	comment	In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift describes the two moons of Mars as discovered by the Laputan astronomers. 150 years later, the two moons of Mars were actually discovered. (Contrary to some reports, their orbital period and diameter do not match what is described in the book.) Actually, as soon as it was discovered Jupiter has four (apparently) moons, people started speculating Mars has two.
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Life Imitates Art / int_79416f79	comment	In the 1999 film Bowfinger, the production of the fictional Chubby Rain has some aspects in common with the later production of the real life cult movie The Room (2003). These include the director financing the film with his own money, gratuitous nudity being used as a selling point, filming without a permit, the actors thinking the film may never see the light of day and a Hollywood-style premiere that ends with huge applause (though perhaps not for the reason the filmmakers intended).
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Life Imitates Art / int_7d810972	comment	In The Natural, an ailing Roy Hobbs hits a dramatic and unlikely home run to send the New York Knights to the World Series. Four years later, an ailing Kirk Gibson would hit a dramatic and unlikely home run to win game one of the 1988 World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers. To hammer the point home, one of Gibson's team mates during the post game interviews wrote on a piece of tape and stuck to the nameplate over his locker Roy Hobbs.
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Life Imitates Art / int_7e1563ba	comment	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut kicks off with the main characters sneaking into an R-rated movie starring their favorite cartoon characters. During the movie's release, there were several reports of underage teenage fans of the show sneaking into the theaters showing the film after purchasing tickets to Wild Wild West. Matt and Trey were not happy about this because they hated that film and were mad that they inadvertently helped it make money at the box office.
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Life Imitates Art / int_80e85df4	comment	Electronic tagging such as ankle bracelets used to track prisoners. Developed by a judge in 1979 based on a Spider-Man newspaper strip from the same year, involving the Kingpin.
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Life Imitates Art / int_81706932	comment	In The Running Man, released in 1987 and set in 2019, the ICS televison network digitally creates a fight between Ben Richards and Captain Freedom, using what would become known around that time in real life as "deepfake" technology.
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Life Imitates Art / int_86904ab8	comment	A fan of Iron Man built his own personal digital life assistant and named him JARVIS.
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Life Imitates Art / int_86e041e3	comment	Second Life is definitely a case of Art Imitates Art; its creators specifically reference Snow Crash and its Metaverse. Snow Crash also codified the Digital Avatar.
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Life Imitates Art / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion has had a few prophetic articles. In 1999, it ran a piece attributed to Stephen King titled "I Don't Even Remember Writing The Tommyknockers ", claiming that the sheer number of books he'd written had caused him to forget about that and a number of his other books. The following year, the real King admitted he didn't remember writing Cujo, but attributed it to the fact that he was addicted to drugs and alcohol at the time and was usually under the influence when he wrote. Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
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Life Imitates Art / int_88a1c151	comment	In the Jim Belushi film K-9, Detective Dooley's K-9 partner Jerry Lee, played by real police dog Koton, was shot while apprehending a suspect in the attempted murder of a police officer. Two years after the film's release, Koton, who had returned to real police work after the movie, was shot and killed while apprehending a suspect in the attempted murder of a police officer.
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Life Imitates Art / int_8dd462a9	comment	Less than a year after the publishing of Detective Comics #859, the issue that detailed Kate Kane's dismissal from West Point under DADT for being lesbian, a real-life USMA cadet, also named Katherine, also with similar impressive academic, military, and physical achievements, resigned from the Academy for similar reasons.
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Life Imitates Art / int_8f58ab76	comment	The film Liar Liar was released in 1997. In 2022, when Amber Heard's lawyer objected to his own question in Johnny Depp's lawsuit against her and quickly got overruled by a confused judge ("You asked the question..."), viewers were quick to quote parts of the scene where attorney Fletcher Reed and the judge did almost exactly the same.
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Life Imitates Art / int_8fc090bc	comment	Skippy of Skippy's List joked about Chem-Light batteries existing, before they actually did.
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Life Imitates Art / int_909f9c39	comment	Between Get Shorty and Be Cool, Chili Palmer's movie, eventually released as Get Leo, was a hit. Then the studio forced Chili to make a sequel, which flopped badly enough to make him want out of the movie biz. Be Cool lampshaded the fact that it was a sequel and that sequels are often worse than the original. Rather bizarrely, audiences agreed.
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Life Imitates Art / int_90f18253	comment	In Battletech, Vehicles are equipped with ferroglass cockpits. Now we have transparent aluminum. We're getting pretty close. (Sort of... The aluminum we now have is only transparent to certain types of radiation. And to create this material one electron has to be shot out of each of it's atoms with a soft x-ray laser, one by one. But it's a start. A slow, limping, crawl of a start.) A more prominent example is the C-Bill, the setting's main form of currency (between the collapse of the Star League and the Dark Age era). The C-Bill is backed by Hyper Pulse transmission time, making them essentially futuristic cell phone minutes. In the real world, not only do people in many developing countries, particularly in Africa, actually use cellphone minutes as a form of Practical Currency, they do it for exactly the same reasons as the peoples of the Inner Sphere do in Battletech (traditional currencies being unreliable or outright nonexistent due to widespread economic and political instability in the aftermath of oppressive colonial governance, one or more major civil wars and intermittent border conflicts).
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Life Imitates Art / int_910d714b	comment	Heisting simulator PAYDAY 2's publisher, Starbreeze Studios, was raided by police (on suspicions of one or more employees committing insider trading following the company facing financial restructuring following the poor sales of several of its ventures after the release of Payday 2) mere weeks after the game's story was concluded.
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Life Imitates Art / int_96a2c8f0	comment	Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities is sometimes criticised for being a thinly-veiled Roman Ã Clef dealing with events that happened in New York City in the late '80s and early '90s. This ignores the fact that the book was published in 1987, and all of the writing happened before that, meaning that most of the events upon which is was supposedly "based" actually didn't happen until after the novel was published.
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Life Imitates Art / int_96f1ceb4	comment	In Police Academy, the cadets are told the city-wide riot has become too out of control for them to handle, and all police personnel are pulling out of the area, which causes the riot to intensify. LAPD doing just that - withdrawing from a liquor store looting that turned to assaulting passing motorists at Florence Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in South Central LA, following the acquittal of the officers involved in the Rodney King beating, led to the six day LA riots.
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Life Imitates Art / int_98286bc7	comment	In Audition, a guy tries to help his friend get over the loss of his wife by holding a fake audition to find him a new girlfriend. It doesn't work out too well for his friend. According to Vanity Fair, and confirmed by Paul Haggis, the Church of Happyology did just that, minus the murderous girlfriend part, for Tom Cruise, allegedly interviewing the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Lindsay Lohan, Sofia Vergara, and Kate Bosworth before picking Katie Holmes. It was going quite well, actually, until Holmes plotted her escape/divorce and now it's all in the news.
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Life Imitates Art / int_9a354d0e	comment	The fancy map on the windshield in Starman? Take a smartphone or tablet connected to the Internet, a few parts, hook up to a car, and the result is a GPS heads-up display.
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Life Imitates Art / int_9c2dce7b	comment	Louisa May Alcott based Little Women on her family, with a few changes. In reality, Elizabeth Alcott (Beth's real life counterpart) died before Anna (Meg's real life counterpart) married, and May (Amy's real life counterpart) wasn't yet married when the second part of Little Women was published. Years later, however, May married the man who had comforted her when her mother Abba Alcott died, just as Amy married Laurie who had comforted her after Beth March died.
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Life Imitates Art / int_9db31bab	comment	In 1920s Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs a con man sold tickets to access the Proval lake (literally "gap", "collapse", "fall-through"). "For repairs. So that it wouldn't fall any further." In the 1980s the local authorities really started selling tickets. And then closed the access for a while to clear away the debris and reinforce walls. And in 2008 a statue of the con man with tickets was installed by the tunnel entrance.
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Life Imitates Art / int_9e6c9adb	comment	In Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), one of the police cars, 1 Baker 11, has a camera mounted in the center of the back seats facing forward, presumably to record the chase for police records.note Actually the only way some POV shots could be filmed. Dash cams in police cars weren't common for another decade and a half.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin already travelled to the moon in "Tintin: Destination Moon" and "Tintin: Explorers on the Moon" (1950-1953, in publication). This was almost fifteen years before the Americans actually landed on the moon. Tintin's moon exploration was also scientifically very accurate without any typical science fiction clichÃ©s of aliens and such, and while the the use of a single, non-modular rocket might seem simplistic compared to the Apollo-Saturn multi-stage booster rockets and separate lunar and command/service modules, it was actually one ("Direct Ascent"note It would have used a multi-stage booster, though, the Tintin propulsion method being unavailable.) of three flight profiles studied (the others being "Earth Orbit Rendezvous" and the eventually implemented "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous").
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Life Imitates Art / int_a0d9dcd7	comment	An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn had such a Troubled Production (a Sylvester Stallone movie in which the film is recut without the director's permission into an incoherent mess that the director then tries to disown and finally sabotage) that it almost turns into a documentary about itself. Most notably, the director was so dissatisfied with the film that he got his name removed, meaning that a film where the main character is named "Alan Smithee" had an actual director credit for Alan Smithee (because at the time, it was the only name directors could use to distance themselves from their projects. This led to the Director's Guild discontinuing the practice of using that name as a pseudonym; aliases are now selected on a case by case basis.)
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Life Imitates Art / int_a1e7c57	comment	There must have been a few Battlezone fans at BAE Systems and Polish Defence Holding. Their tank concept PL-01, which they unveiled at the 2013 MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition, is suspiciously similar in shape to the tanks of that game.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a54f06e2	comment	Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow, an anime series about a British family that immigrates to Australia, has inspired at least four Iranians to immigrate to Australia.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a599305d	comment	The plot of Mega Man Zero 4 was that refugees from Neo Arcadia were fleeing to the crash site of the Eurasia Space Colony, which had naturally regrown the whole century since the crash due to environmental conditioning equipment in the wreckage that remained functional. Real-life nature said "fuck that" and reclaimed the Fukushima Daiichi area in seven years.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a5a0dd85	comment	Aldous Huxley kinda made up embryonic stem cell research in his dystopian novel Brave New World. For that matter, the characters' ideas about "family" are slowly becoming more and more realistic. At the time the book was written, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was not known to exist. Huxley made up a condition that later turned out to be real, and even managed to get the symptoms right.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a812c87	comment	In Naked Came the Stranger, the mob boss Mario Vella is the co-founder of the League to Preserve Italian-American Dignity, supposedly to combat pejorative stereotypes about Italians, which hassles newspapers and television producers who try to draw attention to the Mafia. The year after Naked Came the Stranger came out, Joseph Colombo, the boss of the Colombo crime family, created the Italian-American Civil Rights League. Among other things, the IACRL forced the United States Justice Department to stop using the word "Mafia" and The Godfather to remove the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the dialogue. Colombo was shot in the head at his own rally a year after the IACRL was founded.
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Life Imitates Art / int_a88418fd	comment	When the original production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music opened on Broadway, Len Cariou (Frederik) and Victoria Mallory (Anne) were dating. In the musical, Frederik is a middle-aged lawyer and Anne is his teenage trophy wife. However, Anne ends up running away with her stepson, Henrik. After the production closed, Victoria Mallory and Henrik's actor, Mark Lambert, ran away together without telling anyone, just as their characters did. Their daughter, Ramona Mallory, debuted on Broadway in the latest revival as... Anne.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ad283518	comment	During a high-profile "name and shame" public naming of suspected paedophiles in the United Kingdom in 2000, Private Eye featured a cartoon of a paediatrician being chased by a hate mob who had misunderstood his job title. During the shelf life of the magazine, a hate mob vandalised a paediatrician's house in South Wales.
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Life Imitates Art / int_aee8ba38	comment	A deliberate one, after the movie Project X (2012) came out, several teens tried to replicate the movie's Wild Teen Party, with bad results. Two of them ended in violent shootings, and another ended with a riot and cars being set on fire.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b083eee0	comment	A giant sign in the shape of a bull was built for the movie Bull Durham. Placed over the outfield fence, if hit by a home run ball it would light up and make noise, and the person who hit it would win a free steak. The real life Durham Bulls baseball team kept it.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b0b22636	comment	The show's spoof of Wheel of Fortune, "We'll Make a Fortune", ran in a 1986 issue. Said parody features a contestant earning a number of undesirable prizes and then bemoaning the heavy tax burden placed upon him. A year later, the show itself switched from awarding prize showcases to awarding mostly cash for this very reason.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b368a22a	comment	In the 1997 Bean movie, Bean destroys a priceless painting, and attempts to fix it by drawing a new face over the top, and eventually replacing the original with a poster. In 2012, a 100-year-old painting of Christ was "restored" by an amateur who essentially painted a new face over the top. An official was quoted as saying, "If we can't fix it, we will probably cover the wall with a photo of the painting." In an incredibly bizarre coincidence, the Theme Song of the Mr. Bean show is "Ecce Homo", the same name as the painting.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b36b99c6	comment	Hulk had a type of medicine known as nanomeds. Over a decade since the movie, nanomeds were quite useful and reliable.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b3e0e2e0	comment	In The Sum of All Fears, it's mentioned that local wags near the Strategic Air Command HQ joked that the relatively new (at the time) Command Center was made so that the actual place matched up with the common Hollywood depictions of the facility, which were better than the original structure.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b5d50b45	comment	At one point in Urban Legend, Alicia Witt's character goes to the university's Spooky Silent Library to do some research and finds The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. No book with that title ever existed until after the movie was made and released (this isn't a case of Defictionalization or The Red Stapler; folklore professor and author Jan Harold Brunvand says in his introduction to the real Encyclopedia that it had been in development for quite some time before the film was even being made).
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Life Imitates Art / int_b78ae0b5	comment	In The Blues Brothers, the Signature Scene where the Brothers go on a car chase through a shopping mall depicts a Toys "R" Us as one of the mall's tenants. While standalone Toys "R" Us stores were always the norm, the chain did open its first location with a traditional enclosed shopping mall in 1985 — five years after the movie's release.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b87de35b	comment	F.L.U.D.D.'s Hover Nozzle feature in Super Mario Sunshine is eerily similar to the real-life water-propelled jetpacks◊ that would eventually come into being well after the game's conception.
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Life Imitates Art / int_b9127ba7	comment	Alt★Hero: "The War in Paris" is about a French nationalist uprising in the capital. One prominent nationalist protester, Chantelâ€”she's in the foreground of the front coverâ€”sports a striking, bright yellow jacket. The volume was published in September 2018, two months before the Yellow Vest movement arose in France. The first printed volume, "Crackdown", sees the Global Justice Initiative apprehending online "hate speech" posters in Berlin and turning them over to the federal police. In 2022 the German federal police began raiding homes and arresting citizens for posting "hateful remarks" and "insults" against politicians online.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ba366aa8	comment	Remember the Air Taser that you could use to light enemies on fire in Syphon Filter? Several real life accidents have occured where people were lit on fire by police tasers, usually involving flammable liquids.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ba666650	comment	One of the subplots in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater involves ADAM, an NSA code breaker who fled to Russia. Edward Snowden, anyone?
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Life Imitates Art / int_bba8c6fa	comment	The 2002 Mexican film El Crimen del Padre Amaro shows a Catholic Priest receiving money from a drug lord which he then uses to build a new hospital; He justifies it by saying that although it's "bad money", it becomes "good money" through good works and intentions. 3 years after the film was released, the Bishop of Aguascalientes used pretty much the same justification when questioned if his Diocese had received money from drug traffickers.
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Life Imitates Art / int_bd84c013	comment	1934 film Flirtation Walk opens with a carrier-based air attack on Pearl Harbor. (It's an Army/Navy drill.)
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Life Imitates Art / int_becc7f75	comment	While the Atlantidean technology shown in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is clearly Schizo Tech bought about by Ancient Astronauts, they are started by Orichalcum — pearl white beads that seem to be a power source. Interestingly, in Real Life, research and development into making safer nuclear power plants has led to the creation of specialized ceramics that can contain fissile material, rendering it safe for handling and use, all in the form of pearl white pellets.
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Life Imitates Art / int_bf661555	comment	The Parent Trap was a Disney movie about two identical twin sisters being separated by their divorced parents and living a continent away from each other without knowing of the other's existence. They run into each other in an American summer camp and conspire to get their parents back together. Minus the "get the parents back together" part, a similar story occurred with the case of two originally South Korean twins who had been put up for adoption in 1987 and separated. They had been raised in the United States and Europe and rediscovered each other through social networking in 2013. They're even aware of the parallels.
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Life Imitates Art / int_c06c3e0d	comment	LoadingReadyRun's Feed Dump segment, where they talk about strange news stories, has one episode where they are aggrieved to discover the existence of an app for hiring people to beat someone up, pointing out that was literally a sketch they did.
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Life Imitates Art / int_c0d295c4	comment	The Team Fortress 2 Medic uses a special device called the Medigun to heal his allies. There is now a spray gun that applies stem cells extracted from the patient's skin to treat second-degree burns.
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Life Imitates Art / int_c9726108	comment	His music video for "White and Nerdy" featured a throwaway joke about vandalizing the Wikipedia page about Atlantic Records after they stopped him from releasing his James Blunt parody, "You're Pitiful". That page has since been vandalized enough times in that manner by angry fans that the page has been semi-protected or edit-protected for most of its life since, meaning that only registered Wikipedians are allowed to edit it.
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Life Imitates Art / int_cac82d00	comment	Fanboys deals with a Secretly Dying Star Wars fan who gets to watch The Phantom Menace as a dying wish before it's even released; In November 2015, a Star Wars fan suffering from terminal cancer would get to watch an unedited print of The Force Awakens before passing away shortly after.
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Life Imitates Art / int_cd866b61	comment	Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work had the Hard Disk Cafe, a parody of Hard Rock Cafe, but there later appeared a real Hard Disk Cafe in Calgary, AB, Canada. Maybe coincidence.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ce04e57b	comment	Playtime (1967) is a satirical take on the artificiality and homogeneity of modern culture. One scene demonstrated this by showing the hero looking down into an office area where the workers are each sitting in odd boxes—cubicles. The cubicle as a feature of office culture, which would have looked very weird to 1967 audiences, soon became standard all over the world.
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Life Imitates Art / int_d7765410	comment	One anecdote long known to fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tells of a terminally ill fan who, inspired by the books' running joke about one being secure in the knowledge that he's prepared for anything so long as he "knows where his towel is," made sure to keep his own towel with him in his final days. When Douglas Adams died of cardiac arrest in 2001, he was at a gym, so he actually did have a towel with him at his time of death. Modern smartphones and tablet computers with access to Wikipedia (or, possibly more accurately, TV Tropes) bear much more than a passing resemblance to the features of the titular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One can even update Wikipedia's entry on Earth to say Harmless or Mostly Harmless, but it's been done to death already.
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Life Imitates Art / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Season 10 featured a two-parter entitled "Cartoon Wars," which focuses on Fox's dilemma over what to do about broadcasting an uncensored image of Muhammad on Family Guy. Cartman argues that they're putting themselves in danger by agreeing to show the character (though he's really only doing this because he hates the show, as Trey Parker and Matt Stone do in real life), while Kyle's argument, that eventually wins the executives over, is that they're just giving in to demands. In-story, the network agrees to let it go uncensored, but viewers don't see this; the "censored" message was real, as Comedy Central refused to show Muhammad on television. note The episode ends with a terrorist-produced retaliation featuring cardboard cut-outs of Tom Cruise, George Bush, various Americans and Jesus defecating all over each other and onto the US flag, which went completely uncensored. Four years later, Comedy Central wussed out about showing Muhammad (as Kyle had warned Fox not to), also censoring the customary ending speech (which didn't mention Muhammad at all and was about giving in to fear and intimidation). Parker and Stone were not pleased; Trey even threatened to quit the show afterward. "Free Hat" had an example that saw events play out the reverse way in real life. Said episode portrays Steven Spielberg as the mastermind behind all the alterations being made, with George Lucas weakly following along; in real life, Spielberg came to regret changing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and made sure all future theatrical and home releases of the film were the original version, while Lucas continued to alter the Star Wars films up until Disney bought the rights.
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Life Imitates Art / int_dad73e07	comment	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had a rather embarrassing incident for Denise Nickerson, who played Violet Beauregarde. For the most part, the factory scenes were shot in chronological order, with the child actors leaving right after filming their downfalls. However, a broken shoe from Nickerson's wardrobe forced them to switch the filming of Violet and Veruca's respective scenes. After wrapping her infamous transformation into a blueberry, Nickerson flew home to New York. Two days later, she was sitting in math class when all the students started staring at her: her face was turning blue! As it turned out, the makeup had seeped into her pores and was resurfacing. Fortunately, it wasn't permanent and soon cleared up.note And the movie wasn't out yet.
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Life Imitates Art / int_dc656a9a	comment	In his 1907 novel The Marvels of the Year 2,000, Emilio Salgari (better known as the author of Sandokan) described a world eerily similar to the current one, including high-speed electric trains, television, off-shore platforms, and, less happily, nuclear weapons and the fear of them forcing the world to peace (he described a powerful chemical explosive capable of shattering mountains that somehow ended in the hands of pretty much all countries, forcing them to redraw the borders as the first measure to prevent the last war).
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Life Imitates Art / int_e05a2543	comment	From Hajime no Ippo, Ichiro Miyata's Jolt Counter was actually used in a real boxing title match by Juan Manuel Marquez to defeat Manny Pacquiao in six rounds.
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Life Imitates Art / int_e0c93337	comment	Also, the description in The War of the Worlds of the Heat-Ray (the original book, not the Hollywood versions which turn it into a flamethrower or generic Energy Weapon) sounds suspiciously like the yet-to-be-invented microwave laser or maser.
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Life Imitates Art / int_e3349241	comment	Once in a while, one of Diabolik's gadgets is produced in Real Life. For example, the 1967 story "The Heart of Fire" features an automotive navigation system, beating the Electro Gyrocator by fourteen years.
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Life Imitates Art / int_e3ce3877	comment	Ric Flair is infamous in smark circles for basically being everything he touted about himself in the ring in real life (living large and spending big), which came back to bite him when you've got nothing to fall back on in retirement (or rather what should be one's retirement).
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Life Imitates Art / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure: Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure is a series about medicine and staying healthy where the villains use disease-related powers. It wound up being released on the heels of the Coronavirus outbreak. Even worse, a news report on said outbreak preceded the original airing of the second episode. Another main theme in this show involves saving the Earth from danger. When episode 5 premiered, most affiliates displayed a superimposed earthquake warning regarding the occurrence of a minor earthquake in Nambu when the villains showed up to use their powers to steal one of the element spirits. Another warning of this sort played on a re-run of the first episode during the scene in which the Flower Element is captured,note Unlike the first time this happened, only Me-Tele in Nagoya showed this banner. which later turned out to be the foreshock to a larger than usual earthquake (ironically, the warning banner for that earthquake showed up on fellow Nichi Asa Kids Time series Mashin Sentai Kiramager). And then an earthquake warning regarding the Tokai region showed up on episode 14. During the original broadcast of Episode 43 of Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure, Japan's Pacific coast was hit by a tsunami after an underwater volcano eruption, showing this map throughout the episode◊ alongside others. Incidentally enough, an apocalypse was involved, which in the following episode, featured heavy rain and hurricanes throughout the planet.
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Life Imitates Art / int_e7a99c6f	comment	Demon: The Descent has an in-universe example, via special ability called "Like the Movies" that allows a character to turn certain situations into fiction-like coincidences. Using it too much attracts the attention of the God-Machine, that apparently has enough time on its hands to watch human media and know if someone's using tropes to make things easier for themselves.
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Life Imitates Art / int_e89f120b	comment	The first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam aired on 7th April 1979. In one of the opening scenes, an artificial space colony was shifted out of orbit, fell to Earth and destroyed the city of Sydney in Australia. On 11th July 1979, scarcely three months later, the American space station Skylab left orbit and reentered Earth's atmosphere; it was scheduled to land in the South Atlantic, but instead the majority of the station's debris struck Australia.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ea11b11e	comment	In the original installment of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, the first few missions of the game center on a U.S.-led armed intervention in the Republic of Georgia in the wake of a Russian invasion amidst the impending restoration of the Soviet Union. Oddly enough, the Russians did invade Georgia after the latter's attempt to restore government control over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the latter being a major setting in the game. (Also, this brief conflict took place in 2008, the same year in which the game takes place.) A lesser example exists in Island Thunder, where the Ghosts are tasked with safeguarding democratic elections on Cuba after the death of Fidel Castro in 2006. Castro did concede power to his brother Raul Castro in the wake of ill health that year and eventually passed in 2016.
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Life Imitates Art / int_ea9ae80e	comment	In 1950, All About Eve depicted a fictional theatrical award called the Sarah Siddons Award (named for a real-life 18th century actress). The film inspired a group of theatergoers in Chicago to create a real-life Sarah Siddons Award two years later, which continues to be given to honor distinguished actresses and actors.
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Life Imitates Art / int_eb4ec2c0	comment	Unknown Armies in an early edition had a spell called Laff Riot, which allowed the user to locally suspend the rules of the game and have everything play out according to situational comedy tropes. No one could die, anything too dangerous wound up a funny pratfall, and so on. More generally, Videomancers (older editions) and Cinemancers (current) both cause TV and movie tropes to rewrite "reality." That's right; this site could help you be a munchkin in Unknown Armies.
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Life Imitates Art / int_eef69f10	comment	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous detective in history. Not content with writing about a detective, Doyle actually ended up becoming something of a detective himself, proving the innocence of two men who had been wrongfully convicted in separate cases.
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Life Imitates Art / int_f27f8d07	comment	Dark Water is a horror movie about a girl discovered dead in a water tank after complaints are made about the water, and it features a malfunctioning elevator. This is frighteningly mirrored in real life with the mysterious death of Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel. Security footage showed her displaying erratic behavior in an elevator that wouldn't close, and days after she disappeared, people complained about the water, and she was found dead in one of the rooftop tanks, with no explanation as to how she got there.
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Life Imitates Art / int_f510a5c1	comment	Around the World in Eighty Days led to the creation of the Jules Verne trophy.
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Life Imitates Art / int_f5b58f88	comment	An Australian Instagram cosplayer known for dressing up as Catwoman was sentenced to two years in jail for participating in a series of masked burglaries. Sadly, she didn't actually dress as a Classy Cat-Burglar during the act.
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Life Imitates Art / int_f6bc4364	comment	In Mario Strikers Charged Football, if you score a goal against Bowser Jr. there might be a sequence of him kicking a goal post in anger, only to hurt his foot. A year later, Campino of Die Toten Hosen made the news when one of his favorite clubs, Liverpool F.C., lost the UEFA Champions League semi-final and he picked the wrong garbage can to kick.
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Life Imitates Art / int_f6da3cd1	comment	Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure is a series about medicine and staying healthy where the villains use disease-related powers. It wound up being released on the heels of the Coronavirus outbreak. Even worse, a news report on said outbreak preceded the original airing of the second episode. Another main theme in this show involves saving the Earth from danger. When episode 5 premiered, most affiliates displayed a superimposed earthquake warning regarding the occurrence of a minor earthquake in Nambu when the villains showed up to use their powers to steal one of the element spirits. Another warning of this sort played on a re-run of the first episode during the scene in which the Flower Element is captured,note Unlike the first time this happened, only Me-Tele in Nagoya showed this banner. which later turned out to be the foreshock to a larger than usual earthquake (ironically, the warning banner for that earthquake showed up on fellow Nichi Asa Kids Time series Mashin Sentai Kiramager). And then an earthquake warning regarding the Tokai region showed up on episode 14.
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Life Imitates Art / int_fb7a5509	comment	In 1898 Morgan Robertson wrote a novella named Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan about an ocean liner named Titan which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. In the novella, Titan was one of the largest passenger ships of the time and considered indestructible, and had way too few lifeboats for its 2500 passengers, over half of which died in the accident. 14 years later... (The Real Life incident didn't have a battle with a polar bear, however)
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Life Imitates Art / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	In 1999, Triple H "married" Vince McMahon's daughter, Stephanie, in a Vegas drive-thru ceremony.note In which Stephanie was either drunk or drugged. While it initially was a stick-it to Vince, it eventually turned into a power brokering that consolidated Vince and Triple H's ambitions into the "McMahon-Helmsley Faction". In 2003, Triple H and Stephanie really did tie the knot and started a family. This in turn likely helped Triple H move from working the ring to working the front office of WWE as the VP of Talent and Live Events (and indeed, he will likely become Vince's successor as it now seems since his retirement on July 22, 2022).
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Life Imitates Art / int_fd5d7b47	comment	Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Hot Pursuit 2, Hot Pursuit 2010, and Rivals showed sports cars being used as police units. Although unbelievable, there is a Lamborghini Gallardo (550-4) in Italy being used as an interceptor◊ unit.
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