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* ''[http://flatwoodcomic.com/index.php Flatwood]''. The light has long gone from the world, and bad things happen to good people. Oh, and you're dead. (Webcomic strongly based on Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy'' and biblical lore, with [[Body Horror]] monsters. Graphic [[Nightmare Fuel]].)

* ''[[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!

* Pharaoh City in ''[[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]].

* 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.

* ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' exists in a pretty bleak world. Humanity has been fighting constant low intensity wars for the last six centuries, and are quickly approaching the point that humanities survival is a low probability. Colonialism has ravaged most if not all of the old world, and the new world is hinted at being worse off. And on top of all that, a monstrous race of werewolves has been brought back from extinction. (an extinction that required a decades long war, and the loss of over two thirds of Europe's population to enact)

* [[Concession]]: Joel randomly shoots up the crowd in the lobby and his boss's only comment is "How long are you going to keep this up? It's making a mess." They kidnap and torture the health inspector and are never punished. {{spoiler|Kate keeps a harem of small children and nobody arrests her,}} and shady corporations seem to run everything.

** 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.]]

** And there are places in the world of [[Weapon Brown]] that are even worse than that: "Shoulda done a tour in the Wastes, kid. After watching a man and a woman come to blows over which of them will get to eat their baby, nothing much surprises you."

* John Kossler, author of ''[[The Word Weary]]'', states in the comments section of [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/11/19-november-2011.html this issue] that the philosophy of his comic is "when it rains, it pours and also you get struck by lightning and one of the paramedics who revives you steals your shoes."

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

** [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1817 Monique muses about how everyone is heart-broken.]