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== [[Film]] ==
* In the ''[[Once Upon a Time in China]]'' series, Wong Fei-Hung has a romantic relationship with his own aunt... who is not a blood relative, only a relative through marriage.
* There are one or two scenes in ''[[Love Actually]]'' that '''look like''' porn. In actuality the characters are lighting doubles and the director needs to make sure "everything" will be visible (while the characters just sit there and chat about the weather and politics). When watching the movie alone, it is practically guaranteed that someone else will enter the room during that scene.
* If you haven't seen ''[[Austin Powers|Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'', the scene in ''[[Austin Powers|Austin Powers in Goldmember]]'' where Austin beats up Mini-Me probably looks pretty brutal and unfair. Unnecessary misunderstanding? Yes. But hardly ''unfair''.
* This trope is played with in ''[[Grosse Pointe Blank]]''. The trained assassin, Blank, kills someone because this person is trying to assassinate him. However, Blank's girlfriend, who witnesses this, treats it like he's a serial killer and would kill anyone for no reason. Luckily, [[It Got Better]].
* ''[[I Love You Phillip Morris]]'': About twenty minutes in, the movie suddenly cuts to Stephen having sex with a mustached man, complete with a [[Censor Shadow|barely covered]], sweaty [[Jim Carrey]] (read: it's so graphic, it had a very limited release in American theaters). Granted, it's about a closeted [[
== [[Literature]] ==
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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 [[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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* More 'Less Poignant In Context', but this ''[[Minus]]'' [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html strip.] It becomes less hopeful and more reasonable with the knowledge that {{spoiler|the girl with the baseball bat is basically God.}}
** A straight example is the last arc. {{spoiler|The title character kills ''[[Kill'Em All|every human being on Earth]]'' -- accidentally.}} The reason it isn't a full-on [[Downer Ending]] is because {{spoiler|everyone chooses to live on in the spirit world instead, and "life" there is essentially just like life on Earth.}} It's still pretty gloomy, though.
* In terms of [[Squick]] rather than brutal violence: in the epilogue to Act 4 of ''[[Homestuck]]'', {{spoiler|Jade's grandfather stuffs and preserves the corpse of her dead dream self}}.
** Also, later on [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005433 this part], showing an an angry glowing vampire chainsawing a clearly terrified guy in half. If you read the events leading up to that point, you would be cheering on the vampire with the chainsaw. (click the ==> button a few times)
* ''[[Freefall]]'' (pictured) features a [[Interspecies Romance|romantic subplot]] between a veterinarian and [[Florence Nightingale Effect|his]] [[But You Screw One Goat!|patient]]. [[Uplifted Animal|She is smart enough]] to handle '''fusion reactors''', legal informed consent goes without saying.
* ''[[Goblins]]'': "I'm ''nine years old'' and I'm ''still a virgin!"''' Goblins, in the comic, only live thirty years, and therefore age much faster than humans.
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'''NH Boy''' [[Innocent Innuendo|I was trying to play Knocking on Heaven's Door.]]<br />
'''NH Boy''' Oh well, time to buy new strings. }}
* [http://rome.ro/lee_killough/humor/doomed-airline.shtml This short story] from rec.humor.funny has this happening to two people playing multiplayer ''[[Doom]]'' on a plane.
* Just try talking about ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' without people giving you strange looks. Just... ''try''. This includes talking about the premise of teenagers being kidnapped by terrorists and forced to fight to the death. And specific scenes can fall into this as well; to most people a scene where a teenager pins another teenager to a tree with a sword and carves words into his chest would be disturbing, for example, but once you know the context it's a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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