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** In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #423 and #424, everyone dies and is revived - except for ''Angelo''! * sob* Poor Angelo, we hardly knew ye. No, really, we hardly knew ye. We knew John Proudstar better than you.
*** A perfect example of how subjective this trope is, since readers familiar with ''Generation X'' didn't find anything funny about Angelo's death. Narm for some, [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] for others.
** Also from [[X Men]], there's the [[Religion of Evil|Church Of Humanity]], which convinces Nightcrawler that he's a priest; it plans to install him as Pope and then fake a Rapture ([[You Fail Religious Studies Forever|which is not part of Catholicism]]) by having people eat Communion wafers that contain a disintegrator. Then Kurt's holoprojector was to fail at a convenient time to convince the world that an openly mutant Pope is the Antichrist. [[Xanatos Roulette|This will bring down the Catholic Church, and so people will be forced to join the Church of Humanity and hate mutants]]; [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|clearly, there are only two religions, and atheism isn't an option, and the destruction of the Church and mutants will bring down Western civilization.]] All this because the main villain...was a nun who was raped by a priest. The plan failed because poor Kurt couldn't control his [[All Men Are Perverts|sexual urges]], which is remarked upon [[Fan Disservice|several times]]. Oh, and there are [[As the Good Book Says...|Bible quotes]]<ref>out of context, of course</ref> scattered throughout the book along with dialogue like "healing thingie".
*** There is a real life Church of Humanity, started by Auguste Comte or Richard Congreve.
* Even ''[[Batman|The Dark Knight Returns]]'' isn't immune. While Bruce Wayne [[Contemplate Our Navels|muses]] in a manly, Milleresque fashion over how he hates himself and not being Batman again, he walks out onto the street... past a pair of badly drawn doomsayers that could best be described as reject snow goons from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', clutching clumps of cardboard with "WE ARE DAMNED" scrawled upon them.
*** Doesn't help that Calvin made said snow goons do the exact same thing to illustrate how they would "die" or melt at the end of winter.
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* "[[All Star Batman and Robin|I'M THE GODDAMN BATMAN.]]"
* Yes, being repeatedly [[Brainwashed]] and manipulated by military conspiracies kind of sucks, but Wolverine may be overreacting just a little bit in ''[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox6/ The Pulse #9]'':
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* Jim Shooter's tenure as writer of ''The Avengers'' was good on the whole, but his constant indulgence in [[Purple Prose]] resulted in several ventures into narm territory. His habit of introducing villains off-screen while the heroes stared out of the page and cried, "OH, GOD, NO! NOT YOU! ANYONE BUT YOU!" Fine when genuinely dangerous villains like Ultron were involved, but less effective when it was lesser threats (like the Grim Reaper) or silly, forgotten opponents (like Tyrak, who looked like an Atlantean member of [[The Village People]]).
* One early [[Spider-Man]] story arc saw him getting captured and chained up by gangsters. When he breaks free, his narration doesn't attribute it to his super-strength, but to a far sillier sounding ability:
{{quote| '''Spider-Man''': Fortunately, they didn't count on my power of ''[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|chest expansion]]''!}}
* Arguably the end of Flashpoint #2. There's a lot of graphically intensive build up to Barry getting his powers back by recreating the accident that gave them to him in the first place. {{spoiler|And then the final page is him looking just like anyone else who got hit by lightning.}} Batman's WTF expression is priceless.
* Volume 2 of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' includes an enormously disturbing scene in which [[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Mr. Hyde]] {{spoiler|violently tortures and kills the treacherous Griffin (The Invisible Man)}}. As gruesome as this scene is, when Nemo discovers {{spoiler|Griffin's}} remains, his dialogue may well make it kind of narmy.
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