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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]''. The American [[Gag Dub]] at the very least.

* ''[[Barefoot Gen]]''. It looks like a Saturday Morning Cartoon in the vein of ''[[Astro Boy (anime)|Astro Boy]]''. [[Tear Jerker|It isn't]].

* Some have said that the contrast between the [[Moe]] art and the bloody psychological horror plot is part of what makes ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' and ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' so creepy. Whether it's intentional or not is debatable, but the contrast is definitely there.

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Madoka Magica]]''. It uses characters done in the cute style of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' to tell a story that can be accurately likened to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

* The anime adaptation of ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]'', originally a parody manga, removes all the humor and plays the [[Dysfunction Junction]] for its full angst value, but keeps the art style.

* Can hit ''[[One Piece]]'' from time to time. The most noted example being {{spoiler|Luffy's reaction to Ace's death}} Oda's art cost it some it's impact for some readers.

 

* ''[[Maus]]''. Holocaust memoirs—with the characters portrayed as [[Funny Animal]]s. "Funny" absolutely not being the operative phrase.

* ''Batman: Black & White'', being all about the artistic experiments, had a few of these. One issue had a very dark, horrifying Two-Face story illustrated by Bruce Timm in the cartoony style he developed for ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]''.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' stories drawn by Jon Gray have this in ''spades'', only the weird thing is, it ''works'' really well. Gray's hyper-exaggerated, hyper-expressive cartoony style makes comical moments ({{spoiler|like Knuckles meeting his baby half-brother}}) all the funnier, but it also lends full emotional weight to more serious moments ({{spoiler|Like Sonic and Sally's breakup argument}}).

* ''[[The Unfunnies]]''. A [[Hanna-Barbera]]-esque comic series with extremely dark subject matter. Eventually the corruption of this once idyllic world is explained, but the shock of seeing [[Funny Animal|FunnyAnimals]] involved in child pornography, murders and drug abuse is hard to forget.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Pokémon]]'', especially ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]'' and ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. With the cutesy look and the bright colors who would expect such a series to be so darn right horrific and depressing? The ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Mystery Dungeon]]'' spinoffs are especially bad, as they center around the incredibly cute Pokemon in an apparently idealistic land but are in a league of their own.

* ''[[Corpse Party]]'' is drawn with cutesy anime characters but the game itself is mostly about people being murdered in a gory, horrible and bloody way. {{spoiler|Lets see, the characters in story can die from suffocated by a malicious ghost, forced to cut out their own tongue, buried alive, cut in half, have their ribs broken and their lungs pierced with them, have their eyes torn out, they can let their best friend drown, accidentally smash her to pieces with the pool drain, get stabbed with scissors, mauled to death, and best of all trapped in a time warp that forces them to relive the nightmare again and again!}}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' uses a slightly-exaggerated but fairly realistic style a la most mainstream comic books. But since the plots are written by a six-year-old, the actual content of the comic is ''completely insane''.

* ''[[Kit N Kay Boodle]]'' is drawn in a cute cartoon style, yet features near constant furry sex. Many readers find this [[Nightmare Fuel|extremely jarring]].

* ''[[Xkcd]]'' is surprisingly smart for its limited art style.

* ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]''. Its art is frighteningly realistic and grim. The actual comic? A hilarious [[Black Comedy]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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