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* The anime ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' bases much of its comedy on brutal and over-the-top violence.
* Similarly to ''Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan'', ''[[Dai Mahou Touge]]'' relishes in the protagonist's sheer brutality in applying wrestling submission maneuvers for much of its comedy. This is contrasted with the fact that she usually acts like the typical sweet Magical Girl (whose spells cause just about as much havoc...)
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei
** While we are at it, the previous manga, Katteni Kaizo, from the same author Kōji Kumeta, is a lot about it too, especially during the later chapters.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'':
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* The ludicrous exposition in ''[[Speed Racer]]'' does this often and unintentionally.
* ''[[Gintama]]'' stomps and poops all over the line.
* ''[[Mai-Chan's
* Hiruma's creative and liberal use of his [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] on his teammates (and everyone else) in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* Making fun of the saddest scene in ''[[AIR
* ''Let's Bible'' may be the most blasphemous thing to ever come from Japan. And it's only 2 chapters long. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130907231155/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/yrt/readright/21419-lets-bible Details here].
* ''[[Ghost Stories]]'', the [[Gag Dub]] version oh so much. "I know now that it could never work between us! As much as we wanted to it could never be! Not because you're {{spoiler|a rabbit}}, but because you're {{spoiler|black}}..." It can be seen (legally) on youtube by Americans [http://www.youtube.com/show/ghoststories here] for those who need to see it to believe it.
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** When X kills a bunch of neighborhood dogs, grinds up their bodies, and places them in boxes, it's horrible and twisted. When a guy holds up a tiny box crying about his chihuahua that he had to borrow lots of money to buy, it's sad, but kind of funny at the same time. When the people he bought it from come and ask him which body he wants to give up to cover the sale, it's morbidly hilarious.
* ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' is about one man's descent into the mentality of a sociopath by merging with his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. It's played for laughs. ''And it works''.
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with
* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' makes only what concessions to [[Rule of Cool|the laws of physics]] that it needs to in order to prevent itself crossing the line ''thrice''. Bonus points in this case for doing the same with [[Anachronism Stew|history]].
* ''[[Spy × Family]]'': Normal person having homicidal thoughts? Worrying. Yor [[Running Gag|repeatedly]] thinking that the solution to nearly any awkward situation is to start killing those responsible, followed by frantically backpedalling and scolding herself for it? Hilarious.
== Comic Books ==
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** It's more like it's ''more common'' to see {{spoiler|Mami and Charlotte}} to be together in a completely happy situation. To the point that it's one of the more common [[Crack Pairing|pairings]] in the show's [[Shipping]] fandom.
* ''[[Latias' Journey]]'' crosses the line a ''billion'' times. It is ''unimaginably'' [[Gorn|gory]] but it is so over the top that it starts getting funny.
* Arguably, the later{{when}}
* ''[[The Last War]]'' goes so over the top in its [[Ron the Death Eater|portrayal of Ron]] as the Potterverse's answer to [[Eastenders|Trevor Morgan]] that it becomes a total farce very quickly.
* The entire premise of ''[[Tamers Forever Series|Theory of Chaos]]'' is this trope taken [[Up to Eleven]].
** Basically what happens is {{spoiler|a Doumon¬ bewitches all the tamers except for Takato into becoming the embodiment of each of the seven deadly sins so we now have Rika Nonaka as a ''frieking avatar of lust!''.}} The whole thing is just so WRONG it's hilarious, and Ruki and {{spoiler|Chaos'}} comments make it that much better.
* Virtually any story by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/975122/the_6ft_dick the 6 foot dick].{{context}}
== Film ==
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* ''[[The Wayfarer Redemption|Pilgrim]]'' has a bit that has achieved a fair bit of infamy in fantasy circles. In brief: a woman is used by her grandfather to channel the soul of his long-dead wife (her grandmother), so that she basically possesses their granddaughter and they have hot, passionate sex while the granddaughter [[And I Must Scream|is still conscious and powerless to do anything about it.]] She gets pregnant, and over the course of the pregnancy manages to regain control of her body, forcing grandma's soul into the unborn fetus instead. She then ''beats herself into miscarrying in front of her grandfather's eyes'', expels the aborted fetus, and crushes it's already-dead skull with her foot. All very macabre, twisted and [[Squick]]y. But when she smacks grandpa in the face repeatedly with the dead fetus while berating him, it becomes a stellar example of this trope.
== Live
* ''[[Strangers with Candy]]''. The episode involving syphilis crossed it '''three''' times and wrapped back around to genuinely disturbing when a teenage boy suffered brain damage from the disease and became little more than a lurching zombie.
* ''[[Bottom]]'' has more than its fair share of these - sometimes feeling like a live-action Tom and Jerry. One episode has Richie chainsawing Eddie's lower legs off...twice.
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** Jingle BOMBS
*** Speaking of Santa going off the deep end, The Killers' song "Don't Shoot Me Santa" talks about Santa coming to shoot a boy who "couldn't let [the people who bullied him] off that easy" and has been "killin' just for fun" Of course, it is [[Played for Laughs]].
* The musical piece Ya(c)kety Sax, better known as the theme for ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', [[Soundtrack Dissonance
** [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=3698 It does.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7IHNnyJ00 Damn right!]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpM2Y5Wq8C8 This video] combines a disturbing scene from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' with the song "What Is Love" by Haddaway. The scene was utterly fucked up in the original; it's gut-bustingly hilarious with the musical accompaniment.
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has a rampage by [[Ax Crazy|Wade Wilson]], along with [[The Scrappy|Carson Baye's]] [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|death]].
** And now we can add... pretty much everything [[Small Name, Big Ego|Jimmy Brennan]] does. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522014951/http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7283191/1/ His first thread] (possibly NSFW due to [[Cluster F-Bomb]]) is a prime example of it; he starts out by [[Bring Me My Brown Pants|peeing himself]] and running around screaming and crying. And then... well, let's just say according to him ''[[Gentle Giant|Craig Hoyle]]'' will rape everyone and wear their skins as a coat (which reached [[Memetic Mutation]] territory). One could also make a case for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130522022531/http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7317305/1/#new Richard Han's death] as well, in which he falls off a cliff, and [[Not the Fall That Kills You|apparently has enough time to think out what his last words were going to be]] ("YOU WIN THIS TIME, GRAAAVIIIIITYYYYYYYYY-"). And then if that weren't enough, he falls ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130522005104/http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7315953/1/#new into another thread]'', still screaming.
* The somewhat popular G-Mod [[Christian Brutal Sniper]] series (viewable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczmIosE4z4 here]), crosses the line so many times with it's joyously-nonchalant killer of a protagonist, it's freaking hilarious.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTVkiXxDUo This video] of Euphemia from ''[[Code Geass]]'' {{spoiler|killing "Elevens"}} to [[Memetic Mutation|Caramelldansen]].
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* The cartoons in ''The Rejection Collection'' crossed the line once when they were rejected by ''The New Yorker,'' but crossed it a second time when they were funny enough to be published in this book.
* Bringing guns into an NBA locker room and threatening a teammate with them? Crossing the line. At a game, pantomiming shooting his teammates as a joke? This trope. Nice job, Gilbert Arenas.
* The funnier jokes on [https://
* [[Mel Brooks]] on what he does for a living: "If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. If a man walks into an open sewer and dies, that's comedy!"
* Any tragic event will lead to jokes. When [[Too Soon]] doesn't qualify, this trope usually kicks in.
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