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{{quote|''"Just listen to the music, Marge! He's evil!"''|'''Homer Simpson''', ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
 
Photoshop Filter Of Evil is a trope about when a news program and/or documentary shows a photo of a criminal/victim in color, then shows a eerie black and white negative of the photo to emphasize something malevolent about the person. You'll also hear a sound effect as the photo switches filters, like someone is throwing the giant "make negative" lever. Usually something like a giant clunk, followed by the sound of rusty nails on a blackboard.
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* Martin Bryant, perpetrator of the Port Arthur Massacre, was represented in the media with a picture that had been digitally altered to look like an [[Evil Albino]]. One would think the fact he murdered 35 people would be enough to turn the public against him...
* People that [[Stephen Colbert]] has decided are "destroying America" often get this treatment.
* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Visual Novel)|Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'', the developers apparently just got Photoshop and were playing with it while making the game. The result: Tons of filtered photos in ridiculously random places.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode of [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]], when Strong Bad is watching a marathon of rockumentaries, he stated "Uh-oh, they're using that negative photo effect; somebody's going to rehab."
* Parodied in ''[[Dave Barry]] Hits Below the Beltway'', where two political candidates running against each other each show their opponent in hideous and increasingly libelous grainy black-and-white photographs.
* An early episode of ''[[The Chaser]]'s War On Everything'' has the group lampshading and spoofing this trope by using the same technique on the Australian PM. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* A popular variant on Australian tabloid television is to slow footage to ~6 frames/second.
* Parodied by ''[[The Non -Adventures of Wonderella]]'' [http://nonadventures.com/2008/09/06/electoral-dysfunction/ here].
* Used on Original Bubs in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in the sbemail [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail177.html original]. It goes greyscale, too.
* Used for horror in film in ''[[The Ring|Ringu]]'', as it happens every time somebody dies by {{spoiler|a stare-down with Sadako.}}
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* The [[Wii]] has this filter in the Photo Channel.
* A minor [[Easter Egg]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'' features a wacky (mildly crude) sound clip of [[Nic Cage]] from ''[[Snake Eyes]]'' with transformations making it into something a bit... disturbing. The visual accompaniment uses an effect much like this, except it's not a photonegative (rather, the image's color is distorted and JPEG artifacts become exaggerated). {{spoiler|1=[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=darkcage "boner!"]}}
* The ''[[Yarudora (Visual Novel)|Yarudora]]'' series uses this trope a few times in several of its games.
** ''[[Double Cast (Visual Novel)|Double Cast]]'', the 1st game, uses it during a sequence of the [[Kill Them All|Genocide]] [[Bad End|Route]], when {{spoiler|the protagonist and Haruka discover [[Blood Is Squicker in Water|Shoko's body in her bathtub]], and confirm, to their horror, her death}};
** ''[[Sampaguita (Visual Novel)|Sampaguita]]'', the 3rd game, uses it on two occasions:
*** On the game's [[media:sampaguita_cover_1118.png|box cover]], although it's done to symbolize the mystery behind Maria and her memories, as she's not evil.
*** And during the game, when {{spoiler|the protagonist [[The Hero Dies|gets fatally shot]] [[Taking the Bullet|while protecting his lover Maria with his body]], in Good End 3 and Normal End 2}}.
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