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* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' trilogy is loaded with these moments- they'll take you from heartwarming happiness, or seeing the characters laugh for the first time in weeks directly to horrific death and much despair.
* ''[[The Kalevala]]'' is Finland's national epic, compiled in the mid-19th century from oral traditions that in turn date all over the previous centuries/millennia. At one point, it features the Eternal Sage, in search of words of power, descending into the Netherworld until he stands before its black river and meets the daughter of Death itself. She's short and fat, and washing clothes in Finnish!Styx. Yeah, that's right. At least to a modern audience, the prehistoric sagas subvert themselves when they start getting too serious.
** An [[Epileptic Tree]]: this was the inspiration for the ''[[Discworld]]'' character of Ysabell, Death's adoptive daughter, who, yes, is short and fat.
* Done deliberately in the novel ''Nuklear Age'' by Brian Clevinger of ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Many of the short stories of Sholom Aleichem have a weird combination of humor and depressing reality. For example, in the short story ''Two Dead Men'', we leave two of the main characters, one of which is so drunk he can't even remember the holiday it is, clumsily trying to get themselves out of the mud and look at his wife, who is worried her alcoholic husband's going to be found dead in a ditch.
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' series is usually billed as 'uproariously hilarious' or the like, and in many places it is. However, there are many parts that range from dramatic and moving to outright [[Nightmare Fuel]]--for instance, the torture rooms of the Particulars in ''Night Watch''.
** Pratchett also manages to do utterly hilarious and tear-jerkingly dramatic at the exact same moment. I'll only say: "THAT! IS! NOT! MY! COW!"
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** That was ''not'' [[Played for Laughs]]. One of the worst scenes in the book up to that point, in light of the [[Foreshadowing]].
* ''Fools Crow'' by Richard Welch has a very strange ending: in the penultimate chapter, the main character Fools Crow (A Pikuni Blackfoot) finds a village of another band of Pikunis that had been slaughtered by white men. He reflects on the essential hopelessness of the Pikunis' situation with the white men. Previous chapters dealt with the ravaging of the Pikunis by smallpox. In the last chapter, Fools Crow and his tribe celebrate joyously a Blackfoot ceremony, the buffalo return, and everything is put back in equilibrium. Huh?
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* One of [[Jim Butcher]]'s [[Dresden Files|signature]] [[Codex Alera|tropes.]]
** In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', this is usually because of [[Sad Clown|Harry's sense of humor]]. Once, the [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] Nicodemus had him in a totally inescapable position, giving him the opportunity to join him-- and if he refuses, Nick will just cut his throat after he finishes his breakfast. Harry promptly cracks a [[Spider-Man]] joke, and when Nicodemus is a bit nonplussed, says, "Must be a [[DC Comics]] fan."
*** Chapter 20 of ''Storm Front'' ends in a rather dark tone. Chapter 21 starts with a rather up beat description.
** The ''[[Codex Alera]]'' often manages this by juxtaposing a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] with a serious scene. The most spectacular example was at the beginning of ''Princeps' Fury'', when we're treated to some hilarious bickering between a couple of soldiers. Then {{spoiler|they're attacked by [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|the Vord]], and one is [[Cruel and Unusual Death|ripped into little bits]] while the other has to be [[Mercy Kill|Mercy Killed]] by Ehren}}.
* ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'': The book (and by extension, the movie) starts out relatively lighthearted and without drastic conflict...{{spoiler|and ends up becoming completely tragic and melancholic following the revealing of Leslie's death.}}
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