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Sometimes, when you walk in at the climax of something, it appears disturbingly violent and brutal. And then, when you watch it in the proper order, it actually seems less disturbing, if possibly still brutal.
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Contrast [[Fridge Horror]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[Castle (TV)|Castle]]'': "There are two kinds of people who sit up all night dreaming of ways to kill people: Psychopaths and mystery writers."
* ''[[Friends]]'': When Phoebe goes to the hospital in labor, she tells the receptionist that "The father is my brother." She's acting as a surrogate for her brother and his wife, but the receptionist doesn't know that, and gives her a very strange look.
{{quote|'''Rachel''': I am ''so'' going to miss watching you freak people out like that!}}
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B3oC6yWY0A You can watch the entire scene here.]
* A common trope is to introduce a character who initially seems friendly, then have them do something shocking that appears to be an out of character moment. Then their back story starts getting revealed and it becomes clear why these things have been done. An example being Gus in ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' who seems friendly considering his position as a drug dealer. But then we see him brutally murder Victor for the sole reason of scaring Walt and Jesse. Soon we see a flashback where Gus's friend Max is killed in a similar manner.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space 9]]'', Kira is shown openly walking around pregnant with Chief O'Brien's child and yet O'Brien's wife, Keiko, is curiously friendly with her. A viewer who has not seen previous episodes might be perplexed. In fact, Keiko had almost had a miscarriage and the baby had been transported to Kira's womb. The whole thing is a bit [[Squick|squicky]] but pretty much innocent once explained.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* It's rather amazing how many people will quote one line from ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'': "Monsters? They looked like monsters to you?" Check this wiki's [[Fridge Horror]] page for the usual reaction. What they leave out is the follow-up: "...kidding! Just kidding." In the context of the series, the monsters of Silent Hill really ''are'' monsters. Although, arguably, it'd just be like Konami to not be kidding.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', Nero's special Devil Bringer move against {{spoiler|Sanctus}}: brutally pummeling an old man in the gut with his giant demonic arm, ''repeatedly.'' If you know what that old man was up to it's a bit less unheroic to be doing that, but it's still hard to watch.
* Due to foreign [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMOs]] sometimes having been through [[Blind Idiot Translation]], we get some weird terms that most bystanders would be freaked out by. Namely in [[RF Online]], you could get someone saying something like "I'm killing hobos for money!". Hobo is actually a type of enemy that is good farming material for lower levels.
* The way [[Persona 3|Evokers]] (handgun-shaped devices needed for summoning Personas) are used - by putting it to your head and pulling the trigger - can be disturbing even to those who know that they don't shoot bullets. This is especially jarring during the opening cutscene (when you aren't supposed to know about it yet), where one of the characters seemingly tries to kill herself. Strangely enough, a lot of people find Evokers one of the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|coolest things in the franchise]].
* Not only is ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' about an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] trying to destroy the the ''multi-verse'', an entire chapter of the story is dedicated to the heroes' murder and their descent into the underworld. It's actually presented in a humorous tone, and the characters actually make it to heaven before continuing on with their quest.
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* If you study typesetting, you will learn how to [[wikipedia:Widows and orphans|eliminate widows and orphans]].
* In his famous collection of dispatches ''The Desert War'' Alan Moorehead describes Vichy prisoners as being sent to British "Concentration Camps". At the time of writing the word simply meant prison camp in this case for POWs. Rather then the [[Those Wacky Nazis|associations]] it came to have.
**The original concentration camps were places where civilians were concentrated to keep them from supporting Boer Partisans. They were more then brutal enough especially as they often did not have the most competent of bureaucrats. But it was the word British invented, for a rather nasty practice but a common enough one in guerilla warfare and not the thing we now remember as concentration camps. The Nazi camps were for exterminating or working to death (rather then confining) people who had not even considered resisting before they found themselves on cattle cars, and were not by any stretch of the imagination a military or political threat. It was one of those words that becomes [[Darker and Edgier]] with time like "stormtrooper" (originally "assault infantry"), or
* When Muslims slaughter a sheep they say, "In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate" which sounds both paradoxical and bloodthirsty, However what they really mean is, "Thank you for this food."
* The infamous photo of Nguyen Ngoc Loan [[Vigilante Execution|blowing the brains out of]] a [[Vietnam War|VC]] prisoner is less disturbing in context though more than [[War Is Hell|disturbing enough.]] The victim had been [[The Laws and Customs of War|engaging in hostilities without uniform or similar ID]] and was in a group [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilised|targeting civilians.]] The real import of the photo when seen in context is less about the particular horror of that event as it is about how easy it is for the veneer of civilization to be stripped away in a [[Cycle of Revenge]].
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