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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Boy, [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] got really dark, didn't it? I mean it's like 'You've got a friend in m- [[Kill It
A [[Tone Shift]] that seeks to make a work of fiction "more adult". Usually, this is practically interpreted as "add more [[Sex Is Cool]], [[Cluster F
This trope usually means that a show will attempt to shift towards [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|seriousness]], [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynicism]] and [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty|grit]]. In theory, archetypes which we are usually accustomed to acting in a more noble setting will have to act in one where they must think and act grimly in order to make progress, [[Deconstruction|thus forcing re-examination of the tropes involved]] and making a different sort of character. In practice, though, writers often are too lazy to make use of what most of those words mean, and ending up randomly "spicing up" a work with gratuitous gore, cursing, and sex. See '''''[[All The Tropes:Not a Deconstruction|Not a Deconstruction]]'''''.
When a show uses this trope as a tagline, expect [[
As we can expect, this is fairly easy to screw up and poor use of these tropes can just result in [[Darkness
This trope became popular in [[Comic Books]] as a rebellion against the [[Silver Age]] led to more than a decade of clumsy attempts to show that comics are Darker And Edgier, and thus "[[Maturity Is Serious Business|not kid stuff anymore]]." See [[Bronze Age]], [[Dark Age]], and [[Nineties Anti
Also mocked as "Grimdark" (one word), derived from the tagline of ''[[Warhammer
Darker And Edgier is rapidly joining [[Hilarity Ensues]] as one of the most [[Dead Horse Trope|beaten-to-death]] marketing slogans. If a pre-existing show undergoes a [[Retool]] under the guise of making things Darker And Edgier, expect [[Jumping the Shark]], especially if there was [[Executive Meddling]] involved. This tends to go better if the change was planned in storyboarding stages to keep the tone from shifting too abruptly.
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Note that this is not the same as a [[Deconstruction]]. A Deconstruction plays out the genre's conventions to their logical conclusions in order to criticize the initial genre conventions. This does not have to be dark (see for instance [[Deconstructive Parody]]) and it doesn't prevent things from turning out well. Darker And Edgier just adds "dark" elements to try and get the same effect. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Often times, though, a Deconstruction CAN cause a work to seem to be getting darker, simply because it's calling attention to dark aspects already implied but previously glossed over; see also [[Ascended Fridge Horror]].
Parallel to [[Lighter and Softer]], [[Bloodier and Gorier]], [[Hotter and Sexier]], [[Younger and Hipper]], and [[Denser and Wackier]].
Compare [[Grimmification]], [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]], [[Obligatory Swearing]], [[Real Is Brown]], [[Fractured Fairy Tale]], [[Sugar Apocalypse]], and [[Cerebus Syndrome]].
Note that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], even one misused as often as this one. Please refrain from [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|Complaining About]] [[Tone Shift
{{noreallife|The world getting Darker and Edgier is called puberty, and it happens to everyone.}} Unless the divine has decided to change the world to make it more interesting, this trope can't really apply to the real world as a whole.
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