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* ''[[Dr.
* Some of the more dystopic and [[Crapsack World]] settings hosted in [[Alternate History Dot Com]] may count. And then there's ''[[A World of Laughter,
** Such as the worst of them all, [http://www.alternatehistory.com/foralltime/ ''For All Time''.] This series delights in punching the [[It Got Worse]] button every five minutes. D-Day fails, Stalinists take over most of Eurasia, nuclear weapons are used like hand grenades, and the USSR-PRC war kills over 600 million people. When ''Canada'' is sufficiently militaristic and paranoid to have its own H-bomb program and the 1980 US Presidential Election is between [[wikipedia:Jim Jones|Jim Jones]] and [[wikipedia:Charles Manson|Charles Manson]], you know the world isn't doing so well.
* [[Marble Hornets]] shows this quite well. Basic story is a guy named Jay (or possibly J) decides to help a friend, Alex Kralie, by watching types of a movie Alex was making but scrapped. Ok so far. J soon notices...let's just say odd things in the tapes. Kinda bad but not horrible. Next thing J knows, he's being stalked by the same thing Alex was stalked by, and being attacked by a mysterious masked man( who turns out to be {{spoiler|his friend Tim}}). J decides to put this all behind him, but he receives a tape from someone in which he finds Alex has started a new life...only for the very thing chasing him to appear right at his house just because his girlfriend found a camera with a tape from the movie on it. J rushes to his friend's rescue, only to wake up in a strange town {{spoiler|"with no memory of the past 7 months."}} Oh and also shortly after finding someone who has had similar things happening to her, she disappears and J is attacked by the Masked Man again, forcing him to flee his hotel. So pretty much J's entire life has been ruined [[For Want of a Nail|just because he wanted to help a friend out.]] Friendship can kinda suck that way, can't it?
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