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== [[Comics]] ==
* ''[[Maus]]''. Holocaust
* ''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]]''.
* Much of [[Jason Shiga]]'s comics have a serious tone that contrasts with his cartoony artwork. His characters are big-eyed and usually have [[Generic Cuteness]]; his plots involve [[Bus Stop|searches for missing parents]], [[Double Happiness|gang wars]], [[Fleep|terrorism]], [[Bookhunter|over-the-top police action]], or [[Meanwhile|the death of every human on Earth]].
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** In addition, ''Harvest Moon 64'' and ''Harvest Moon: Back to Nature'' qualify. They have simplistic, childlike character models and cutesy anime character portraits... which appear in games dealing with alcoholism, implied abuse, stagnating marriages, abandonment (parent abandoning child, in particular), and death.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''. Oh, look at the graphics! They're so cute! * Cue genocide, [[Fantastic Racism]], [[Black and Grey Morality]], and a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]].*
* Similarly, ''[[Chrono Cross]]''. Brightly-colored, often hand-painted visuals, and come on, ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' was so fun! *cue [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Mind Screw]] storyline featuring copious [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] and [[Fantastic Racism]], which also [[
* ''[[Cave Story]]'' features mentions of war (with implications that the protagonist was one of the "killer robots" involved), a [[Big Bad]] whose experiments are somewhat reminiscent of [[Complete Monster|Mengele]], and {{spoiler|a boss fight that forces you to ''kill'' one of the cutest characters in the game}}. But just look at the [[Badass Adorable|robots!]] The [[Graphics Induced Super Deformed|in-game graphics]] just make it even more jarring.
* ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day]]'' could best be described as the video game equivalent to ''[[South Park]]''. Death, sex, drunkeness, scatalogical humor, swearing...not a kids game. But [[Rare]] made it with the same adorable art style that characterized their family friendly fare like ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]''.
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* ''[[Mother 3]]'' is a prime example. For the first 15 minutes, it's averted, but after that it takes a swan dive into the depths. Compared to the art style, the story gets so dark, you would need the light of a thousand suns to be able to see three feet ahead. Though, admittedly, there are comic relief sections, it's still one hell of a contrast.
* Intentionally done in ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', where Kiyuduki Satoko's [[Puni Plush]] art style helps to conceal the dark nature of the game until [[Wham! Episode|the player gets whacked in the face with it]].
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' introduced a cartoony and very brightly colored art style very different from the ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' era's more realistic art. However, it is arguably even darker than ''Ocarina of Time''; central to the plot is {{spoiler|a [[Great Flood]] that reduced the world to a handful of islands that were once mountaintops}}
* ''Raze's Hell'' features mostly cutesy art... since you play as a monster bent on fighting the [[Cute Is Evil|cuddly]] [[Evil Army]] bent on [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|destroying ugly creatures]].
* ''[[Bastion]]'' looks like a [[Sugar Apocalypse]] at first, but it eventually becomes clear that the world (or at least the main character's nation) was pretty messed up even before the Calamity.
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