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With nonfictional works, expect criticism to generate a response of [[ButThe ItTasteless But ReallyTrue Happened!Story]]

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[DC Comics]]' current [[Dork Age]] appears to support this belief, as several villains have been reinvented in disgusting ways to increase their popularity. [[The Joker]] went from the joke-themed villain he'd been in the [[Silver Age]] back to his originallyoriginal characterization as a murderous psycho, getting away with things like crippling [[Batgirl]] or killing Robin because of his [[Joker Immunity]]; Doctor Light, once one of DC's dorkiest villains, was reinvented as a rapist in ''[[Identity Crisis]]''; Killer Moth was turned from a garish masked villain into a cannibalistic moth-man by a [[Deal with the Devil]]; the list goes on and on.

== [[Live-Action TelevisionTV]] ==

* ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''{{context}}

* ''[[Profiler]]''{{context}}

* ''[[The Inside]]''{{context}}

* ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''{{context}}

* ''[[Dateline NBC]]''<nowiki>{{'</nowiki>}}s "To Catch a Predator" series, in which grown men are lured via the Internet to theoretically have sex with minors, is perhaps the shining example of this trope.