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{{quote|''"Ouch, that was painful. So very, very lame."''
|'''Momoko''', ''[[Wedding Peach Abridged]]''}}
Something really bad, such as horribly off-tune singing or bad poetry, being almost weaponized, or at least being traumatizing. The horribleness of it can range from giving nightmares, to blowing up cities.
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Compare/Contrast [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' Marik being forced to watched ''[[Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]'' was so horrible it drove him to evil.
* Blink and you'll miss it, but in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', Itoshki-sensei's suicide kit, filled with poisons, pills and all manner of lethalities, also contains an Enya CD (though it might also just be relaxing suicide mood-music).
* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' Kotomi Ichinose specializes in this trope with her violin of doom.
{{quote|And her weapon is the violin it only takes 0.2 before sound waves come out from the moment she takes position. The number of people she's felled is countless.|'''Tomoya to students, after interrupting Kotomi's introduction.'''}}
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* Pictured above: in ''[[Asterix]]'', [[Meaningful Name|Cacofonix's]] music is so bad, it's the only thing that can teach the meaning of fear to the Normans. In fact short exposure to it mentally scars them. It also summons thunderstorms and drives the wildlife away.
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== Web Comics ==
* Astos in ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' was taken down by a combination of Red Mage and Black Mage's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|attempts at a]] [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' suggests [[Celine Dion]] as a [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0258.html weapon of torture]. Never used, [[Even Evil Has Standards|since Nale is still civilized]].
* In ''[[Minion Comics]]'' one of the torture options is a Comedy Central special: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130320152541/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1045 George Lopez: It's Funny Because He's Hispanic].
* ''[[Evil Inc.]]'' reminds the clients: [http://evil-inc.com/comic/hostile-takeover-6/ their torture device] has settings less severe than "Clay Aiken".
** Also, [http://evil-inc.com/comic/title-68/ Gary] with his allergic reaction to design clichés.
== Web Original ==
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** A lot of the reviewers on his site, actually. For example Linkara in ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', driven mad by a bad comic: "ANTI-LIFE JUSTIFIES MY HATE! Anti-life justifies my haaaaaattteee... [breaks down sobbing]"
** [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] accuses ''[[Sonic Free Riders]]'' of "Assault In The First Degree to knowingly inflict bodily harm."
** ''[[Beauty and
** The [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids version]] of the ''[[One Piece]]'' theme song reduces [[Marz Gurl]] to [[Angrish]] and crying.
** [[Todd in the Shadows]] writhes in pain at a musical number of ''[[Hannah Montana]]: [[The Movie]]'' ("I've seen ''[[Grease]] 2''. I saw that [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Peppers movie with the BeeGees]]. I've seen two ''[[High School Musical]]s'' But this ought to be the worst musical number ever.")
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** [[The Cinema Snob]] experienced this in the aftermath of watching ''Video Violence''—about three years later, as he was reviewing its sequel, he had just recovered from the debilitating effects.
* [[Brows Held High|Oancitizen]] shouts out "OW!" after [[The Reveal]] in ''[[Zardoz]]'' that Zed's religion is based on ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* Observing the effects of bad writing on a 'verse can cause Agents of the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]] to [[Eye Scream|spork their eyes out]], [[Go Mad
* This is the reason ''[[The Agony Booth]]'' named itself after the pain device from ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''.
* Pretty much the central theme of the [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/166521 Banana Phone flash animation].
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