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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 (Webcomic)|~~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.

* 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.

** On the plus side, every single problem in the above list can be solved through ''vigorous'' usage of [[Squick|animal husbandry.]]

** For another good description of that webcomic's world, see [http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpost.php?p=885102&postcount=2 this post] from the website's forum.

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* ''[[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|Lighbringer]] [[Subverted Trope|come and took them down]].

* 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]].

* The world of ''[[Two Kinds]]'' is a currently immutable example where racism is prevalent across the land, the guys standing against the [[Evil Empire]] are an [[Evil Empire]] themselves, slavery is an acceptable institution, the "gods" are playing a game with the nations, the only people who could affect a change in the war are isolationists {{spoiler|and have recently lost most of their major civilian and military leaders}}, and one of the protagonists is starting to have aspects of his murderous alter-ego become more and more prevalent. The one bright spot here is that this is ''not'' the state of the entire planet, just the state of one of the regions on it, the reader really doesn't know what the rest of the world is like . . . so far.

** 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...

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* [[Homestuck|Alternia]] is basically what happens when you have [[Bee People]] without a [[Hive Mind]]. A [[Teenage Wasteland]] because all adults are off-world in wars of conquests, a legal system where merely saying the world "defense" is an offense, negative healthcare (the weak and crippled are simply culled), and a weird reproductive cycle enforced on pain of death. {{spoiler|And all of it intentionally made by Lord English, working through Doc Scratch and the Handmaid.}}

** Don't forget the zombies. And the [[Eldritch Abomination]] that must be fed daily.

** [[It Gets Worse]] after the trolls beat Sgrub. They're living on an asteroid in a laboratory in the middle of the universe, everyone on their planet has died, there's a planet-destroying monster trying to find them, some of the trolls have gone batshit insane and started to kill other ones, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|they have to talk to humans.]]

** Then there's the Alpha session, which is under the tyranny of [[Crocker Corp]].

* [[Demon Eater]]. It's literally a dog-eat-dog world, for there is nothing else to eat.