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[[I Thought It Meant|Nothing to do with]] trying to kill anyone from ''[[30 Rock]]''.
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== Anime
* ''[[Zombie Loan]]''
* ''[[Detective Academy Q]]''
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* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' includes an absolutely ''sickening'' variant later on. {{spoiler|More of a Gangrape.com though.}}
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* A ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' story set during the "Democracy" arc had a perp kidnap a neighbour and broadcast himself to all of Mega-City One, inviting the viewers to phone in and decide which of two increasingly painful and gory torture methods should be applied, culminating in the viewers choosing how the guy should die. There was always the option to vote to free him, but [[Crapsack World|naturally]], [[Humans Are
* The first storyline in the 2011 relaunch of ''[[Green Arrow]]'' has Rush stream his gang hunting a captured Green Arrow live onto the internet.
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* In ''[[Virtuosity]]'', Sid 2.0, a serial killer personalty construct originally in a virtual reality system has figured a way to escape into the real world, takes over a TV studio and announces "Death TV" where the viewers get to vote by telephone on which member(s) of the studio audience dies.
* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'', Frank D'Amico plans to stream the execution of {{spoiler|Kick-Ass and Big Daddy}} live on the internet.
* Subverted in ''[[Death Race]]''. The death race is mandatory, but users don't control the deaths. Also, the entire event is a pay-per-view tv show.
== Literature ==
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* In ''[[The Subject Steve]]'', there is a variant of this near the end. It is described as "a revolutionary media space that binds together the most innovative aspects of gaming, spectacle, democracy and commerce."
* For a while it seemed that every second (young)adult horror in the library was one of these.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Homicide: Life
** ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' "The Mikado" came about a year before the "Homicide" episode. They may be sibling [[Trope
* ''[[Without a Trace]]'' "Party Girl"
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' "Revelations"
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* An episode of season 8 of ''[[Spooks]]'' had a group of eco-terrorists kidnap a load of high-powered buisness man and host a live trial on the internet whether the businesses were unethical. If the internet voted them guilty, their execution would be streamed live.
* ''[[Tracker]]'' had an episode that involved a kidnapped girl in a tank of water that was slowly filling up. Possibly a subversion in that the kidnap turned out to be a setup by the girl to get money from her father.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'', [[Meaningful Name|Nicaea]] shows videos of death... BEFORE they happen. {{spoiler|It's so you can prevent it.}}
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Achewood]]'' had resident murderous psychopath Nice Pete take the concept one further by having the murder be tied to an automatic device controlled by web poll.
== Real Life ==
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