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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* Legato's introduction in ''[[Trigun]]'' pulls this off in a single ''frame''. It's a bright and sunny day, the kids are playing with Vash. Then out of nowhere, Legato. He killed and ate the friendly shopkeeper Vash was just speaking to, and feels it would be a downright shame if the little girl Vash just bought an ice cream for would have to be next. The entire scene is completely horrific, but what cements it as this is the opening shot of the usually lighthearted and goofy Vash looking legitimately terrified for the first time in the series that clearly indicates exactly how bad things are about to get.

** It's also implied (and stated in the manga) that the hot dog he gave the little girl was ''made from the remains of the aforementioned shopkeeper.'' Yikes.

* ''[[Gantz]]'' was already a pretty dark series, but it still manages to give us this somewhere around the end of volume 9 with the death of {{spoiler|[[Everybody's Dead, Dave|THE ENTIRE TEAM]] except for Kurono.}} The fact that {{spoiler|Kurono}} [[Took a Level In Badass|takes a level in badass]] afterwards does nothing to mitigate the new knowledge that [[Plot Armor]] has ceased to exist.

* The original ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' gets two back to back in the same sequence. First we get something that looks like this, specifically the deaths of {{spoiler|Tom and Judy}}. In any other horror movie made at the time, that sequence alone would have been enough to qualify as this trope. It doesn't, but only because the '''real''' punch comes immediately afterward when we see an extremely graphic (for its day) image of the zombies chowing down on the recently charred corpses. [[Roger Ebert]]'s reaction provides the page quote.

** Adding to it was the fact there were ''children'' in the audience because this was ''before'' the MPAA rating. From his [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19670105/REVIEWS/701050301/1023 review]:

** It can be argued that ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' was one of these for the entire horror genre.

* This is a major part of the reason for the fame of ''[[Psycho]]'''s iconic [[Shower Scene]].