Cerebus Rollercoaster: Difference between revisions

** Well you shouldn't expect a series to be all giggles when it kicks off with the [[Death by Origin Story|genocide of an entire race]]. Also, most of the major characters are basically [[Child Soldiers]].

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', especially in later seasons (season 1 was fairly tonally constant) was pretty much the king of this, bouncing back and forth from lighthearted action-comedy, to [[A Day at the Bizarro|utter random goofiness]], to some surprisingly intense darkness. Honestly, when you've got an episode centered around ''sentient [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal]] [[Aliens Steal Cattle|cow abducting]] space tofu'' that comes shortly after an episode where the local [[Woobie]] gets tortured by being shown a vision of the apocalypse at her hands in a scene strongly choreographed to suggest ''rape'', your show is officially schizophrenic.

* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]'' alternates between its largely-humorous episode stories and its [[Angst|very]] [[Darker and Edgier|different]] story arc.

** Season 1 started with Nightmare Moon, who represented the pinnacle of real danger the mane six faced for the entire season; almost all other conflicts were social or moral in nature - dealing with petty jerkasses, learning lessons about friendship, and the like. While occasionally dealing with creatures like dragons, hydras, and cockatrice.

** And now, with the beginning of season 2, we've come full circle - Discord is a ''much'' nastier monster than Nightmare Moon ever was. And notably for a show like this, he ''isn't'' shamed into defeat or forgiven and redeemed (until season 3, that is) - he gets put right back in the [[Fate Worse Than Death]] he crawled out of. Then you're into stories like "Pinkie Pie Babysits", "Rainbow Dash finds out that reading is fun", "Love potions cause [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity to ensue]]" and "Twilight Sparkle struggles so hard to find [[An Aesop]] [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|that her]] [[Sanity Slippage]] [[Madness Makeover|sinks into]] [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare-inducing depths]]".