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* ''Ugly Hill'' takes place in a world where everyone is literally a monster, and quite a few of them are monsters in the figurative sense. The main characters include Eli Kilgore, a likable but shiftless [[Unlucky Everydude]]; Snug, Eli's even-more-shiftless and much-less-likeable friend; and Hastings, Eli's overbearing workaholic brother with high blood pressure and a string of failed marriages.

* In ''[[8-Bit Theater]],'' the characters are all stupid and/or evil, kingdoms are completely obliterated on a daily basis, and even the man who controls the universe will wipe out cities in the process of tormenting Black Mage.

** [[Word of God]] also said that if any faction wins, the villains win.

*** {{spoiler|[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/03/20/episode-1224-a-legend-is-born/ And so they have.]}}

* The ''Oceans Unmoving'' sci-fi storyline of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' featured a universe so bleak that individuals on their own could hardly survive. Not to mention that the leader of the pirates is Bun-Bun the rabbit, a sadistic psychopathic knife-wielding [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Jerkass]]. Any world where Bun-Bun thrives must be a sad desolate hate-filled place.

** If you think that's bad, there's 4U City. A dystopia founded by Hereti Corp in an alternate universe, where people are constantly drugged to keep them happy, and anyone deemed even slightly threatening to the order, is "judged" (i.e. sent to a pocket dimension). But wait, there's more! The person responsible for all this turns out to be {{spoiler|Doctor Shlock AND Riff}}, who used an AI to run the city and periodically push a [[Reset Button]], while they {{spoiler|work on repairing the fabric of reality that was damaged in a destructive war}}. But that's still not all. The AI is going rogue and threatens to take over the entire city with machines. The AI also happens to be running the city's defences - should it be disabled, the whole place is overrun by a huge army of mutants gathering outside the city walls. {{spoiler|It's a surprise Riff prime managed to fix everything single-handed}}.

* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]''. A couple of goth friends, Hunter Ravenwood (The fox and hedonist) and Arcturus Winrock (The mouse, and only one with morals), sick of the moronic world they live in, and the idiotic populace that inhabits it, decide to open up a business, in which they assist the moronic teen populace with their demise in creative and gruesome ways, and profit from this "business". In this world, guns are sold by indifferent clerks, shanking hobos is a sport, Pizza deliverymen sell [[Black Market]] weapons, and a rash of teen deaths is unheralded and unreported by the news. Watch out for the Happy Gun Dance!

* [[Gone With the Blastwave]], where an [[Endless War]] is fought for no discernible reason, with its effects having reduced a city of huge size to ruins. Also, the militaries are apparently mostly filled-with incompetents and actually receiving support, or even knowing where you are in the damned city, is seen as a miracle.

* Pharaoh City in ''[[Lightbringer (web comic)|Lightbringer]]'' was under sole control of Slavers gang - powerful criminal organization that could kidnap anyone from anywhere and sold him on an auction to any pervert, pimp or madman who has enough cash. Even police couldn't do anything about it - Slavers were so powerful their lesser rank members could walk down the street with kidnapped gil [[Slave Collar|chained like a dog]] and everybody was too scared to do anything about it. Then [[The Cape (trope)|Lighbringer]] [[Subverted Trope|come and took them down]].

** Oh, and did we mention that the local ''slave trader'' is ''the nicest guy in the setting''? Granted, he is pretty affable and does treat his charges as a second family instead of replaceable property like most do, but still...

*** He still uses spells that force his slaves to do anything he tells them too (and it's very heavy hinted he has sex with all his female slaves, as one of his slave who got some [[Gender Bender]] was ''terrified'' at the thought of his master finding out). Of course it doesn't seem like the writer had this in mind...

* In ''[[The Snail Factory]]'' nearly everyone is physically monstrous and at least somewhat psychologically deranged. It ranges from selfishly or ignorantly apathetic, to sadistic and murderous. The workplace itself is also hazardous on many levels and the employees are regularly repressed by extremely harsh (and often incompetent) managerial policies.

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'',

 

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