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* In ''[[Erfworld]]'', Parson Gotti is [[Trapped in Another World]] in forced servitude as Chief Warlord to Lord Stanley the <s>Plaid</s>Tool, who summoned him as a last resort to repel an invading coalition composed of pretty much every other nation in existence. They're outnumbered more than 10 to 1, and Parson attempts a desperate plan to use their dwagons ([[Our Dragons Are Different|yes, dwagons, with a "w"]]) to target the enemy's siege engines, hoping to buy a little time. {{spoiler|He manages to take out about half of the enemy siege units... but then about half of his dwagons and warlords are lost in the counterattack. Their best spellcaster is rendered catatonic, another is driven mad, and another is killed outright; only two remain unscathed. Stanley, suspecting betrayal, takes their remaining dwagons and one of the casters and goes off to create a new kingdom elsewhere, leaving Parson behind to face the assault.}}
* The climax of the webcomic ''[[Its Walky|It's Walky]]'' mainly consisted of several months of this.
* Most of [http://www.goblinscomic.com/ Goblins] seems to be [[
** To the point that the few plot twists that aren't
* The [[Order of the Stick]] seem to spend their time watching things get worse. [[Cerebus Syndrome|Blame Cerebus]]. Holes torn in reality. {{spoiler|Roy}} dying. {{spoiler|Shojo}} dying. The team is split up. {{spoiler|Roy's body is used as a bone golem. Haley is even DEEPER in debt to the Thieves' Guild. Vaarsuvius makes a [[Deal with the Devil]], then crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] within five strips... but comes back enough to feel guilt for killing 60 people accidentally.}} Rich Burlew is an awesome writer, but seriously -- is the moon going to slam into the planet next?
** No, but Belkar approved of V's decision. When ''[[Token Evil Teammate|Belkar]]'' [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame|approves of what you did...]]
* ''[[
** Mike's mother Hazel gets engaged to a [[Tuxedo and Martini]] supervillain who, not realizing the connection, kidnaps the male Roomies; this leads to Roger going berserk and tearing a room of his [[Mook|Mooks]] to pieces, in the first ([[It Gets Easier|and angstiest]]) of many "[[Schlock Mercenary|full-court]]" fights against them.
** [[Tsundere]] [[Crazy Survivalist]] Margaret realizes she's killed someone for the first time (something even the cast page had explicitly pointed out she hadn't done "yet") when {{spoiler|the shotgunned body of ''Roger's mother'', who had tried to eat her, [[Dying as Yourself|turns human in front of her]]}}.
** When Marsha finds out that April is carrying Mike's child, her [[Clingy Jealous Girl|chronic jealousy]] leads to a knife fight, that ends with {{spoiler|April accidentally killing ''Mike'', on the same day Dave gives Mike's biological father a fatal heart attack in front of Mike's sister -- and Dave's beta love interest -- Blue}}.
** Finally, {{spoiler|Marsha tries to kill April only to be interrupted by Hazel...who kills ''Marsha'', turns her into a cyborg, and puts April into a coma -- making sure she can still feel pain -- until Mike's son is born}}.
** Then there's something of an [[Anticlimax]], after which things get a little better, but they've still got [[
* ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''. Lets see, ''artificially created'' without genitalia, [[Freudian Excuse|had a terrible life,]] ''[[Death Tropes|died,]]'' stuck in [[Ironic Hell]] paying for [[Seven Deadly Sins|your sins by]] [[Anthropomorphic Personification|personifying]] [[Seven Deadly Sins|your major one]] and [[Grim Reaper|doing the worst job in the universe]] with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|no memory of why?]] Well it could be worse, at least you've [[With Friends Like These...|got friends,]] are in a [[Reasonable Authority Figure|reasonable position of power]] [[Papa Wolf|to protect them]], [[The Cavalry|have occasional angelic support,]] and aren?t fighting both your [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] and [[Fighting From the Inside|trying to control]] a [[Complete Monster]] you are [[Split Personality Takeover|sharing a body with]] [[Enemy Within|after you destroyed his]] to keep him from ressurecting. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]?
** Everything, of course! The said monster has apparantly found a way to escape his "prison" and another complete monster, who earlier served mainly as a [[Butt Monkey]], [[Took a Level
* In ''[[Zebra Girl]]'' it always gets worse. The comic ''starts'' with a young woman getting turned into a demon by accident.
* Pretty much the entire first book of ''[[Cwynhild's Loom]]'' consists of things getting worse.
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** Guess what? That's right, it's time to make things even worse. Vriska {{spoiler|Is backstabbed because her fighting Noir would get everyone but herself killed,}} and is arguably {{spoiler|permadead because of future!Slick's hatred of clocks}}. Rose {{spoiler|leaves Dave behind to deliver the Tumor herself, and is confronted by Diamonds Droog in the process}}. Bec Noir, {{spoiler|in addition to possibly blowing up the universe as the Critical Event, could have been entirely avoided if Karkat was more careful,}} and Lord English is {{spoiler|ALREADY HERE}}.
** I'm not even going to preface this with a comment. Jade {{spoiler|is blown up by a mountain of shaving cream (she gets better)}}, Noir {{spoiler|destroys two universes, which ends up fueling the tumor}}, all of the exiles save for PM {{spoiler|and WV (who is healed later) are murdered, with two beheadings, a classic chest stabbing, and getting uranium ripped out of one's stomach (it was healed)}}, and Doc Scratch {{spoiler|has been fooling everyone all along. The tumor doesn't destroy the Green Sun, it creates it.}}
* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'': Had an incentive chapter called "Disaster Dominoes". The title was rather apt.
* ''[[Freefall]]'' has this mostly in background. Some factory troubles were up and running ''before'' colonists arrived on Jean - started [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fv01406.htm back when the beachhead team was underway] and [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fv01410.htm merrily rolled down the hill] from there. And after they fixed the problems, there was a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01193.htm "post scriptum"].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has its share of crisis-on-top-of-another-crisis "cluster-fluffles". To avoid spoilers, one from prologue (of Book 19):
{{quote|(Eina-Oafa infosphere, ten million years ago)
'''purple Oafa''': Yaeyoefui, we need your help. We think Eina-Mnelalae<ref>the one who have started the Oafan hidden habitat project</ref> has begun secretly forcing people to abandon [[Heart Drive|foil]] and flesh, and [[Brain Uploading|cross over to us]]. She means to exterminate those who breathe.
(one mindframe crossload later)
'''Yaeyoefui''': I've taken the station from Eina-Mnelalae, but there's a problem. She had ''very'' compelling reasons to kill and upload those who remain.
'''Yaeyoefui''': And the problem? She wasn't doing it quickly enough…
(a large cloud of fresh uploads pops in) }}
** The Pa'anuri first were a hidden threat that crushed anything with gravitics which wandered into a wrong place. Then it turned out they had a working plan to destroy Milky Way galaxy and a real war started, in which they all were routed or destroyed, if expensively. Then it turned out they got minions and used them to build a Galactic Core Generator in Andromeda (more powerful than what could be done in Milky Way). Then they began to using it for potshots with wormholes. And then they came back with ''warships'' (Pa'anuri themselves are the size of a planet).
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