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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An inversion is seen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25 E2/E02 The Happiness Patrol|The Happiness Patrol]]" from 1988. The titular patrol used their "fun guns" and pink uniforms to suppress anyone seeming miserable or unhappy, whom they labelled "Killjoys". Some were executed by means of deadly sweets...
** Played straight in in "The Beast Below", where England {{smallcaps| [[In Space]]}} is turned into one of this. The government is keeping a secret and any dissidents who try to find out what happened are fed to the titular Beast Below. The Doctor figures this out pretty quickly since nobody is visibly reacting to his usual weirdness and nobody stops to inquire why a child is crying. They are too afraid.
 
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