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* The ''Insane Cafe'' RP trilogy has elements of this. The first was a nonsensical, hilarious and downright [[Narm|Narmy]]. The second was more plot driven and a terrorist attack on a remote laboratory was a key plot point. The 3rd installment features several assassination attempts, [[Hotter and Sexier|a few sex scenes]] and an impending war. Oh yeah, profanities are uttered the second and third installments.
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'':
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** Here's [http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-gritty-reboots-80s-cartoons-girls/ some] [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_139_if-history-got-gritty-reboot/
* Just google "Misery Machine", possibly adding "Scooby Doo." D&E, textbook case.▼
** "[http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-movies-they-dont-make-anymore-but-really-should/ 3 Movies They Don't Make Anymore (But Really Should)]" decries the trend of "taking popular, existing properties and bringing out the darkest and grittiest aspects they can find" seen in ''[[Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters]]'', among other movies.
** In "[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-bizarrely-specific-rules-fairy-tale-adaptations-all-follow/ 4 Bizarrely Specific Rules Fairy Tale Adaptations All Follow]", David Christopher Bell claims that recent film adaptations of fairy tales invoke this to invert [[Disneyfication]].
▲* Just
* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' makes the [[Nintendo]] universe ''so'' grimdark and [[Film Noir]]-esque that it practically becomes a parody of this trope.
** Uh... It is a parody of this trope.
** It's an [[Indecisive Parody]]. A lot of the melodrama may be [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated beyond belief]], but the series still is able to (in complete sincerity) create the kind of drama that [[Darker and Edgier]] revisions [[Tropes Are Not Bad|are supposed to evoke in the first place.]]
* The blog Chocolate Hammer mocked this trend with the game ''Darker and Edgier'', in which familiar franchises were warped beyond recognition and readers had to guess what they originally were. The posts in question can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20180112142700/http://www.chocolatehammer.org/?p=91 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20180112143242/http://www.chocolatehammer.org/?p=400 here].
* "I'm going to ask you one more time! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhodCCUyBs Where the F*** is Carmen Sandiego?!]"
* In [[The Randomverse|Marvel/DC: After Hours]] Season 2, [[The Joker]]'s plan is to make all comic book characters into [[Darker and Edgier]] characters. The Green Goblin however ends up pointing out that all that will lead to is [[Darkness
* While most of the campaigns in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' were standard [[Bronze Age]] fare, the ''Night Life In The Big Easy'' campaign, which featured a solo 1980s-style vigilante facing off against a voodoo-themed criminal empire that had been built on drugs, prostitution, and white slavery, was straight out of the [[Dark Age]].
* College Humour has a video illustrating the gritty reboot process: https://web.archive.org/web/20100527233356/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1935593
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9oa_PiXAk The Brothers Mario] is a GTA Machinima with Mario and Luigi being mobsters involved in a gang war.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4ztJ32iPI&playnext=1&list=PL950DBC7AA9CA1B7E The Waldo Ultimatum]. 'Nuf said.
* ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' compared to ''[[
** In a more meta sense, [[
* When compared to the movies, ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' is ''definitely'' more mature across the board. However, whether or not it beats out [[Star Wars Legacy]] depends on the writer and character.
* The flash series Super Mario Bros was actually much darker than the original games, as the very beginning had Mario trying to escape from something before it proceeds to a flashback: Luigi ended up killed during an ambush on Bowser's forces, Bowser successfully kidnaps Princess Peach because Mario was busy mourning for Luigi (and it is heavily implied that several of the Toads ended up killed in the assault). Bowser's plans with Peach involve using her to create mushrooms so he could effectively be immortal. After a final stand against Bowser, and successfully dethroning him, he ends up ''failing'' to save Princess Peach (resulting in her death by magma alongside Bowser), and the direct result was an eruption, getting to where the series started. Mario then faces the magma flow and essentially dies.
* "Zest Online Riddle" is a game similar to [[Notpron]], and it's... weird. It also has dark, oppressive music and, overall, it's... creepy. Thing is, unlike most online riddles, this actually has some kind of a story to it, and from what this troper knows, it appears to be darkening the ''hell'' out of "The Wizard of OZ", among other things.
* [[Equestria Chronicles]] is [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Twilight of Equestria (roleplay)|Twilight of Equestria]] spins off from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* In [[Funny Or Die]]'s [http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/6h0b The Rugrats ''Live Action'' Movie]{{Dead link}} apparently Angelica is not just a selfish, spoiled child, but a murderous, manipulative sociopath.
* Parodied by [[The Onion]], with [http://www.theonion.com/articles/general-mills-gives-honey-nut-cheerios-bee-intense,28181/ this] ([[
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