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* Part of ''Battle for the Cowl'' starts with Damian taking a Batmobile on a joyride with a goth/punk girl he picked up, before Oracle takes over the controls and ejects the girl from the passenger seat in a panel played for laughs. Then, about two pages later, Killer Croc tackles the Batmobile and belches up the girl's shoe, thanking Damian for the "[[I'm a Humanitarian|snack]]".
* One of the better known issues of ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' featured Sue Storm having complications during her pregnancy. They decide to engage Doc Ock, appealing to his intelligence and so forth, and have a typical superhero-on-supervillain battle at one point, only to return to find that they were too late, and Susan already miscarried.
* [[Watchmen (comics)|Nite Owl]]'s snow suit. The story in general is [[Crapsack World|depressing as hell]], but....when he puts on that ridiculous fluffy white coat, it's hard to take it seriously.
** The best part? It's (of course) an owl-suit.
* ''[[Double Happiness|Double]] freakin' [[Double Happiness|Happiness]]''. Starts off as a light [[Fish Out of Water]] [[Slice of Life]] story. Then, just as the protagonist starts to fit in and gets a date with a cute girl, {{spoiler|he gets cornered in an alley and gets beaten to a bloody pulp by hoodlums. Worse, he realizes why this happened: ''all his new friends are [[The Triads and the Tongs|Tongs]]''--rivals of the gang that beat him up.}}
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* In issue #5 of ''[[The Sandman]]'', a relatively light story involving the Justice League, Silver Age villain Dr. Dee escapes from Arkham Asylum and gets a ride with a passing motorist. She's initially terrified, but Dee looks harmless and frail, and soon the mood relaxes and they are chatting amiably. At the end of the story she lets him out at his destination, telling him sincerely to take care of himself...and he casually kills her. The next issue, "24 Hours", is one of the most nightmarish stories in the entire ''Sandman'' run.
* ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'' wanders from Fanservice to [[Fan Disservice]] to [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] to [[Author Filibuster]] and back.
* [[Sin City]] had a short story featuring [[Those Two Bad Guys|Shlubb and Klump]]. The story involved the mafia getting [[You Have Failed Me...|tired of their goofiness]] and tricking them in blowing themselves up. Normally, what humor the series elicits is along the lines of [[Bloody Hilarious]]. This time around, it was a [[Non-Fatal Explosions|cartoonish bomb hidden inside of a dummy]] with a more family-friendly effect. When the bomb goes off, it's enough to blast a dock to splinters but it simply gave the characters [[Ash Face]] and [[Amusing Injuries]]. The slapstick was a major departure from the grittiness found in most stories.
* Whedon's run on the Astonishing X Men saw Kitty put on a ten mile long bullet shaped bus, effectively dead, but Beast was told by the half-alien head of Sentient World Observation and Response that she needed him to check her judgement on the job, and wanted to break him like a pony off the job, and that his blue furry monsterdom was not a turn off to her. Also that she was half alien.
* The ''[[Spider-Man]]'' comics and sagas lives in this trope....
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