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* The issue of ''Saga of the [[Swamp Thing]]'' that resulted in the title no longer carrying the Comic Code Authority seal features a truly [[Nightmare Fuel]] instance of this trope, after Abby [[Go Mad from the Revelation|realizes]] the [[Awful Truth]] behind why her husband [[Deal with the Devil|has]] [[Demonic Possession|been]] [[Creepy Uncle|acting]] [[Rape as Drama|differently]]:

{{quote|She ripped all of her clothes off, tearing them up. They were dirty. They'd touched her skin. She tried to burn them, but her hands were shaking and the matches kept going out. In truth, she was a little crazy by this time. It was the smell. She couldn't get rid of the smell. In the shower she used up all of the soap, the shampoo, the bubblebath, the perfume... the smell was still there. Have you ever burned an insect with a magnifying glass? Just once, long ago, when you were a kid and didn't know any better? There. You know it. You know the smell. When the soap wouldn't get rid of it, she went to the kitchen and fetched the wire brush that she used for scraping the potatoes... twenty minutes later she passed out. Twenty whole minutes. Even then she could still smell it. She could smell it in her dreams.}}

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'' {{spoiler|after mercy killing his son Orpheus (who has spent millennia as a disembodied head)}} Morpheus is seen washing the blood from his hands in a bowl of water looking sadder than he ever has in the series.

 

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