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** Chapter 34 is made of this.

** Chapter 36 is one of the most lighthearted in the comic, consisting almost entirely of Antimony's wacky shenanigans with Red's class. The very last page of the chapter has {{spoiler|Antimony getting a call from her long-absent father}}.

* Doubling as a [[Wham! Episode]], the wedding of Brent and Jade in the webcomic ''PvP'', which featured Jade's [[Rich Bitch]] mother nearly ruining the entire occasion on a whim (by cancelling all their reservations because she hadn't been consulted on any of it), Skull's abrupt departure from the cast (complete with Brent nearly getting murdered by one of the Gods sent to fetch Skull), and {{spoiler|Francis and Marcie losing their virginity to each other}}.

** March 1st 2010 has an especially good example finishing an arc of goofy recaps with only a little seriousness in the middle and total ridiculousness at the end, with Torg channeling his That Which Redeems self in the last panel {{spoiler|"Starting tomorrow our next mission is to burn Hereti Corp to the ground."}}.

** June-July 2011, the last week and a half of 4U City Red {{spoiler|and the question over the fate of Zoe}}.

** And then there's [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/230 Richard...]

*** The singing is done by the team's [[Boisterous Bruiser]], so singing inappropriately is hardly out of character. Richard, however, appears to be waging a lone crusade against [[Cerebus Syndrome|Cerebus]] by inserting cheap jokes wherever he can.

** Three words, the catgirl arc... * shudder*

** The comic where Fred and Monette discussed the comic-book "incident" ... * roflm--sob*

* [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0312.html This] strip of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' shows the scene of Shmi dies and Annie as Anakin makes her character filled with rage and go on killing Sand People...the punchline?

{{quote|'''Sand Person:''' Ow!! [[Irregular Webcomic|My]] [[Shout-Out|splanch!]]}}

* In ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', while Jane is cleaning, she comes across an [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=111611 old photo.]

* ''Ctrl+ Alt+ Del''. The abortion comics. A [[Convenient Miscarriage]] that follows a previously untragic story and is followed by more gag comics.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has so many it was given [[Mood Whiplash/Homestuck|its own page]].

* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' sometimes falls into this. Compare [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0063.html this] [[Tear Jerker]] to [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0071.html how they get Misho to cope with it]

* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' does this a lot, contrasting character driven humour with a plot that starts with the main character going to hell and arguably gets ''worse'' from there.

* Immelmann (the author) admits to using this trope by name in [http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20100907 this] ''[[Concession]]'' comic's alt text. The comic takes an abrupt turn from ridiculous and comedic to gravely serious.

* ''[[Nerf Now]]'', a webcomic with cartoonish characters that often has a very light hearted tone, has done this with three story arcs.

** The second went into the author's own Team Fortress 2 story, which had up until this point only gotten as dark as the Heavy quitting the team to go join a [[Memetic Mutation|team of babies]]. This particular one however went much, much darker than that. {{spoiler|After a new update nerfs the Pyro, he gets into a fight with his wife, a female Sniper, where things were said that shouldn't have been. She ends up "making a mistake" with the Spy out of rage. When the Heavy and the Medic find out, the confront the Spy, only for him to show his own photographs of the Pyro and the female Engineer, whom the Pyro first had a crush on in the intial arc and who in turn had a crush on the Pyro when he disguised himself as the Engineer in order for to help her learn how to successfully play when she was feeling down for not being able to accomplish anything that round. The Spy leaves the photographs in the hands of the two after announcing that he's already leaving the team, so the only person who will suffer if they decide to reveal both sets will be Pyro, Sniper, and their child. The two decide to hide the truth from the family. The scene ends with a shot of the Spy staring sadly at a picture of the family, only for the camera to zoom suspiciously in on the child between the couple. Word of God has it that the story arc is over, he won't answer any questions, and that they all lived "happily ever after," but the reader probably won't be so willing to leave the topic.}}

** There's also the episode where we get to see through Splash Woman's eyes for Megaman 9. It begins out with her life being all she could ever want, until she's to be recycled. Right before she's crushed, the machine stops, and we see a [[Alternate Character Interpretation|heroic Dr. Wily reaching down to offer her a second chance.]] We flash forward where we seen her stage in ruins and a soulless Megaman facing her. She soon finds herself no match and prays on the ground where Megaman places his gun to her head and BLOWS A HOLE THROUGH HER HEAD. The scene flashes to Dr. Light at the controls, smug with his victory. The camera rotates revealing a half completed Megaman X along with a computer screen with a similar symbol on it that condemned Splash Woman to recycling next to Megaman's name.

* ''[[Demon Eater]]'' switches its approach as time goes on, depending on the circumstances. Since it's narrated in an almost-first-person point of view, it certainly reflects the main character's view of the world.

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' went from a week of goofy strips about Monica being an audiophile to an incredibly dark and graphic sequence about the creation of the chimera.

{{quote|'''Ace:''' So, what did she do?

'''Nina:''' ''(completely normal)'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Also, she had a kitty. Its name was Mr. Boodles.]] }}

* ''[[Drive (webcomic)|Drive]]'':

{{quote|'''Narration''': Evolution is funny. Generation after generation of Fillipods were naturally selected for stalks capable of ever-stronger van der waals forces. Basically, for reasons of diet. The Winter Tilla fruit has an amazing combination of proteins, carbs, and vitamins... but has a tree bark that's glass-smooth, and impossible to climb. Hence the natural selection towards van der waals forces: the Fillipods who could climb... could live to breed. It's an ability that's kept them alive for thousands of years. And, oddly enough, did so again when {{spoiler|their planet was cracked in half... and every Tesskan alive was flung 30 meters in the air.}}}}

* Done quite deliberately in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p50/ here.]

 

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