Ascended Fridge Horror: Difference between revisions

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

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

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* ''[[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 [[~~Everythings~~ Better With 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]].

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' similarly takes the [[Magical Girl]], [[The White Prince|prince]] and [[Everything's Better With 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 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.

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* [[Harvey Birdman Attorney At 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 Venture Brothers]] explore the dark idea of how messed up a boy adventurer would grow up to be and verbally expresses it through Rusty's despair of the gloomy future that awaits his boys only because they were born with the Venture name.

* 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.

* 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.

* It's a different canon, but ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' lives on following through with its parody subjects' gruesome implications.

* Some of [[Family Guy|Family Guy's]] jokes are based around Ascended Fridge Horror. Two notable examples involving Looney Toons characters: