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What you are aiming for here is a form of meta humor. Humor that is interesting because the work is self-referential. It is totally OK to do this, and if done correctly, it can be very clever. I honestly went into "There Will Be Blood" thinking they were going to do something like that and found the reality to be kind of disappointing. It would have been better if they had reversed it in my opinion, since there really wasn't much blood in that movie.
The tone is important with meta-humor. You have to frame things such that the reader feels in on the joke. If done properly, the self-referential nature can be refreshing and can elevate a work, just don't over use it.

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