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* The final Act of ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'', [[Joss Whedon]]'s 2008 [[Web Original]] supervillain musical. {{spoiler|Dr. Horrible, attempting to kill Captain Hammer to both gain entry to the Evil League of Evil and win Penny's heart, indirectly causes Penny's death and Captain Hammer's humiliation. The final scenes show him living the high life of an A-List villain...but the final shot shows Billy, heart-broken and traumatized. The final song contrasts the reality of this to the lyrics where he describes that he has achieved everything he ever wanted.}}
** Listen to that song one more time. Its lyrics are dripping with double meanings. {{spoiler|"The world I wanted at my feet": the world is my oyster, or Penny - the "world I wanted" - lying dead at his feet?}} Also, "Everything you ever..." drifts off every time they sing it, leading the audience to fill in the last word with whatever they're expecting - wanted? feared?
* [[Bennett the Sage]] and [[Jesu Otaku]] have done several crossover videos, with the idea in mind being Bennett attempting to [[Break the Cutie|Break]] or [[Corrupt the Cutie]] with [[Squick|terrible and sexually shocking or exploitative anime]]. The third time around, during Jesu's review of ''[[Master of Martial Hearts]]'', she agrees that Sage has won and shown her something so gratuitously cruel and horrific that she just can't laugh it off or remain unaffected by it. However, after a relatively short spell of being horrified, she remembers that it was just fiction and all the good things about life, and goes outside to enjoy herself and play with her roommate's dog. Sage is left in a depressive funk with his "victory", pondering where [[Humans Are
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