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*** However, played intentionally straight in ''RoboCop 2'', in a scene that is even more disturbing (and hilarious), where two RoboCop 2 prototypes are rolled out. OCP is trying to make new RoboCops. Out of the two prototypes that were taken all the way to a final showcasing, one went berserk and shot the scientists in the room before committing suicide, and one pulled off its own helmet, showing little more than a skull and some electronics before collapsing with an unearthly wail. The higher-up viewing videos of the aforementioned facepalms and mutters about the tremendous loss that the two failures represent: "Ninety million [dollars]". Video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDztqCG91g here].
*** ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' has an homage to the above scene--complete with [[Crossing the Line Twice]] humor--when Stark leaks footage of Justin Hammer's failed armor prototypes.
* The Black Knight scene in ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]''. One severed limb is appalling; four severed limbs is hilarious (the second line in this case probably falls at [[Rule of Three|three]]). In the Monty Python HBO interview special, they say that's exactly what they were going for. [[John Cleese]] said the scene would be heartless and sadistic if not for the fact that the knight [[Major Injury Underreaction|shows no pain and doesn't really care what happens]].
** They also used humorously gratuitous violence in their sketch "Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days" (from the TV series), which brought fountains of [[High-Pressure Blood]] to a picnic scene.
** And of course, a row of increasingly tasteless sketches with cannibalistic sketches which culminate in The Undertaker Sketch which is written for no other purpose than to offend.
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** ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]''
** ''[[God of Cookery]]''
** ''[[They Live!]]''
* ''[[Funny Games]]'', both of them, are really sadistic. These movies are a satire of this trope, as well as a commentary on "torture-porn" violence.
* ''[[The Muppet Christmas Carol]]'' has [[Statler and Waldorf]] laughing about the time they shut down an orphanage on Christmas. They remember all the little tykes in the snow with their frostbitten teddy bears.
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* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' has a couple examples, but the Ron/Hermione kiss must be seen to be believed. It's... funny, but mostly just... ''wrong''.
** ''A Very Potter Sequel'' does this with Umbridge and all her plot.
* ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]''. The Musical has Jesus show up to tell the main character to stop smoking pot...and that's at the halfway point.
* ''[[The Book of Mormon (theatre)|The Book of Mormon]]''. Just... well, it does starts as a black comedy ''mocking'' religious organizations in general, and then we have ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. It's a song about how the Africans resolve to endure with famine, poverty, and AIDS; they just throw their hands to the sky and say a seemingly innocent phrase: ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. What does it mean? {{spoiler|Fuck you, God}}. How does it crosses the line a second time? With the following sentence sung out loud by women and men alike: {{spoiler|Fuck you God in the ass, mouth and cunt!}}. And that is just the fourth song in the story. Later you will find someone intending to {{spoiler|fuck a baby [[Played for Laughs]]. And then someone else tries to do it, being none other than the most important prophet for a whole religion!}}. [[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]] indeed.
* ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' is Shakespeare's bloodiest play. The Rape of Philomela is used as the basis for a secondary plot line, lampshaded in the dialouge, and [[It Got Worse]]. There is even a very blatant "[[Your Mom]]" joke.
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** EVERYTHING ABOUT the GTA series crosses the line twice!
* The ability to have the likenesses of the late [[Kurt Cobain]] and [[Johnny Cash]] sing '''any''' song in ''[[Guitar Hero]] 5'' is one gigantic, disrespectful disgrace to those two people's legacies. Still, put either of them as the singer and then just try keeping a straight face as they ''rap, do big gay dances, and cover [[Bon Jovi]] and [[Rammstein]] songs'', among other things.
* ''[[ConkersConker's Bad Fur Day]]'' was one of the earliest games to do this. You think climbing up the side of a giant mountain of literal shit was bad enough? Wait until you go inside and fight [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Great Mighty Poo]] in a showdown of musical proportions. This game does everything offensive and rolls with it to absurdity.
** The intro cutscene is unforgettable: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5neFPat1w I~ am, the Great Mighty Poo, and I'm going throw my shit. At. You.] (Obviously NSFW)
*** Quite fittingly, [[Nintendo Capri Sun]] had a field day with that particular boss. [[Catch Phrase|You know, IN THE BATHROOM!]]
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** For that matter, pretty much everything [http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Mike_Warner Mike] does in ''Shortpacked!'', and most of what he does in ''Roomies!'' and ''It's Walky!'' too. [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010828.html This] is a sterling example.
*** And speaking of Mike and this trope, [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-9/10-faz-gets-his-comeuppance/hatefuck/ this strip] inspired Kumata's first post (look for, ironically, the [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels|drunk!Mike]] avatar) in [http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=10808&start=0 this thread], which eventually leads to Kumata's third post [http://www.blanklabelcomics.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=10808&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25 on the second page].
* Pretty much anything involving Black Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', like [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ how his Hadoken spell works].
** Not to mention his repeated orphaning and traumatizing of Onion Kid, and his repeat murders of his companions. Hell, he more or less defines it.
** Some of the things other characters do qualify as well, like [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/03/23/episode-676-supernatural-selection/ how Red Mage plans to get a ride off an island].
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