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May also happen at the top end of the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]. Leads to a condition where [[The World Is Always Doomed]]. Related to [[A Million Is a Statistic]].
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* In the [[DC Comics]] series ''52'', the entire population of Biyala (one of [[The DCU]]'s [[Qurac|Quracs]]) is killed in a single issue. Despite the horrified reactions of characters at the time, this had never been mentioned before (since ''52'' was a prequel), and the few times it was brought up again, it was "Dangit! Some people died!" rather than being a horrible, culture-breaking genocide.
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* First, ''[[The Authority]]'' went up against a terrorist organization with the numbers and power to attack three major cities in the course of a few days. Then, they took on an enemy that had conquered an alternate reality Earth and turned an entire country into a rape camp. Then they took on ''God''. Then...
** They jumped the shark
* The season finales of the new ''[[
* Pretty much ditto for [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. Season one: The Master, a vampire lord. Season 2, Angleus, a possibly more vicious vampire, if not powerful, and, of course, a more personal threat, seeing as it was Buffy boyfriend having a [[Face Heel Turn]] that Buffy herself was partly responible for. Season 3, the Mayor, a century old sorcerer who can't be injured or killed, and is a [[Villian With Good Publicity]]. Season four was Adam, a demon/human/cyborg hybrid that was so strong, it took {{spoiler|tapping into the primal forces of the Slayer}} to defeat him. Season five was Glory, a hell-god capable of destroying all reality. To top this, Buffy went with the "personal enemy" again, this time being her best friend, Willow, taking the [[Face Heel Turn]]. In season seven, Buffy fought the personfication of all evil. Now in season eight, she has to deal with Twilight, a powerful... something that can easily beat her physically, and who has a massive cult behind him. Plus the United States military and the [[Hero
* Warhammer40000 has experienced this a fair few times. The relentless doom 'n' gloom of the setting starts getting tricky for Games Workshop to top. They constantly use "most world-shattering event in the history of humanity" type-language in order to make it look like this is really the big one; the gamers just shrug and go "yeah whatever, we've seen it all before". The 5th Edition re-boot attempted to get past this by saying "no seriously guys, everything's screwed". The fans were, by and large, not taken in. [[Status Quo Is God]] after all.
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