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{{quote|I think it's a testament to [[[Pixar]]] that they went there, and they said "what is the story of the toys?" The authentic story is "well, what happens when your owner grows up?" That's a cycle-of-life thing and it's cool that they went there and tackled it.|Joan Cusack, on ''[[Toy Story 3]]'', from [http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45519 this] interview.}}

This trope is also frequently used in [[Deconstruction|Deconstructions]]s, where the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of genre conventions and tropes tend to be explored in [[Brutal Honesty|unsparing detail]].

** Alternatively, but still in keeping with this trope, it's about the whole concept of placing the responsibility for the future of the world on one person, when that person is not at all cut out for that kind of responsibility, and what that kind of responsibility would do to a person, and what kind of person would put that kind of responsibility on them in the first place.

* ''[[Pokémon Special (Manga)|Pokémon Special]]'' acknowledges and occasionally shows that the eponymous creatures are indeed capable of harming or killing others outside of sanctioned matches, humans included.

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' takes [[Magical Girl]] tropes and ''harshly'' deconstructs them, highlighting that said magical girls are essentially [[Child Soldiers]]. And then things [[It Got Worse|get far, far worse]] {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending|and]] [[Reconstruction|better]].}}

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' similarly takes the [[Magical Girl]], [[The White Prince|prince]] and [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|princess]] tropes from the first half and ''severely'' deconstructs them in the second. This is especially the case with Anthy, who demonstrates exactly what someone treated as a prize to be won [[Broken Bird|would actually be like]].

* Ryan Matthews, a noted ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' fanfic writer back in the USEnet[[UseNet]] days, took some of the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of Adam Warren's version of the series (for [[Dark Horse Comics]]) to their logical, horrifying conclusions. A few years later, "Fatal, But Not Serious" officially confirmed several of those.

* ''[[Popotan (Anime)|Popotan]]'' is about a trio of sisters who travel through time along with their maid. The catch is that when they are given the signal to leave, they have to, otherwise {{spoiler|they will be unable to age normally}}; as such, they are forced to leave any friends they make behind over and over. It's understood quite early that Mai, one of the sisters, is not all that happy about their situation, but it takes episode 9 to show just how it can mess with the lives of both them and their friends: {{spoiler|Konami, one such friend of Mai, died hoping she would eventually return to her}}, putting Mai into a serious depression.

* The ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' series starts out taking the concept of sentient toys pretty lightly, but as the series goes on, it explores the [[Fridge Horror]] of the concept more and more thoroughly; and eventually, to a further extent than most people would probably expect from a children's movie series.

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' does this with some of the [[Fridge Horror]] of the series. They introduced Team Plasma, an organization based on the idea that it's morally wrong for Trainers to even have Pokémon and that the interactions between them can never turn out well. The organization has two conflicting leaders -- Nleaders—N, who honestly believes in the organization's mantra, and {{spoiler|Ghetsis, who only preaches this to try and convince everyone else in the world to release their Pokémon so that he'll be the most powerful Trainer around}}. Guess which one has a [[Heel Face Turn]], and which one's {{spoiler|the final boss. N and Ghetsis, respectively}}.

** On the same note as ''[[Pokémon Special (Manga)|Pokémon Special]]'' listed above, ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'' and ''XD'' let the [[Elephant in Thethe Living Room|Donphan]] out to play with Cipher attacking trainers that try to obstruct their operations. The ''[[Saharan Shipwreck|S.S. Libra]]'' is the biggest case, with its human crew lost at sea after XD001 takes their ship away.

* When Marle is temporarily removed from the timestream early in ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', she's still alive and conscious in some sort of void. ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' explores the implications of changing the timestream and condemning people to that void.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Link goes to the future and saves the almost post-apocalyptic world, then goes back in time to prevent the world from ever needing to be saved. Some fans theorized that that future world didn't cease to exist, it just continued on. Then came Wind Waker, which confirmed that theory, and revealed that the whole world was flooded because Link doesn't exist in that timeline.

* ''[[Sonic theSat Hedgehog (TV)AM|Sonic SatAM]]'' did this with the concept of [[Big Bad|Robotnik]] [[Unwilling Roboticization|turning innocent creatures into evil robots]]. The prior video games did not explore the process of roboticization in much depth, other than implying that the robots were more like mecha being piloted by a brainwashed animal (hence why a random critter pops out of one and runs away when a Badnik is smashed) while ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' -- the—the other animated series, broadcast at the same time as ''SatAM'' -- sidesteps—sidesteps the issue by having Robotnik build the robots from scratch. ''[[Sonic theSat Hedgehog (TV)AM|Sonic SatAM]]'', on the other hand, thoroughly explores the [[Body Horror]] and loss of identity implicit in the robotic transformations; Uncle Chuck stated that roboticized people [[And I Must Scream|actually know what they are doing, but cannot do anything about it]].

* [[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]] liked to play around with some of the implications of various Hanna Barbera cartoons, the one most following this trope being that the Jetsons really do live above a post-apocalyptic wasteland (as well as the fact that commuting everywhere on moving sidewalks instead of walking means that even moving across a room under their own power is a monumental feat.)

* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 /E10 Secret of My Excess|"Secret Of My Excess"]] applies ascended fridge horror to the implications of a dragon living in a pony community, even though most other episodes before it stepped around it.

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