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Line 2: [[File:UnicefSmurfs.jpg\|link=The Smurfs\|frame\|[[Darker and Edgier\|Don't mess with UNICEF.]]]] {{quote\|''"Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe... It must be scratched."''\|'''The Blue Meanie''', \|''[[Yellow Submarine]]''}}▼ Oh, how beautiful a place is the [[Sugar Bowl]]! As are the [[Ridiculously Cute Critter~~\|Ridiculously Cute Critters~~]]s that live in it. The best part? Even when menaced by [[Harmless Villain\|Mr. Meanie]], nothing bad will ever happen!... [[Tempting Fate\|Right?]]▼ ▲{{quote\|''"Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe... It must be scratched."''\|'''The Blue Meanie''', ''[[Yellow Submarine]]''}} ▲Oh, how beautiful a place is the [[Sugar Bowl]]! As are the [[Ridiculously Cute Critter\|Ridiculously Cute Critters]] that live in it. The best part? Even when menaced by [[Harmless Villain\|Mr. Meanie]], nothing bad will ever happen!... [[Tempting Fate\|Right?]] Not quite. A popular [[Subverted Trope\|subversion]] and [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche\|parody]] of the [[Sugar Bowl]] [[Settings\|setting]] and its [[Tastes Like Diabetes\|overly cute residents]] is to have them get [[Crosses the Line Twice\|hilariously and painfully]] massacred. Whether it's "Mr. Meanie" [[Not So Harmless\|going stir crazy]], [[Rape, Pillage and Burn\|invading armies]], firestorms, disasters, or other acts of [[Powers That Be]], the residents will suffer for their adorableness with ''pain.'' The inverse of this parody is when the cute critters decide to take the offensive. Whether they're really a [[Gang of Critters\|gang of]] [[Killer Rabbit~~\|Killer Rabbits~~]]s, or [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing\|secretly evil and planning to]] [[Take Over the World\|conquer our world]], they mean our heroes harm in lovably cute [[Villain Song\|musical numbers.]] Yet another inverse is when someone throws a [[Genesis Effect]] at the [[Crapsack World]], possibly changing it into anywhere between a [[World Half Full]] or even a full blown [[Sugar Bowl]]. Line 17 ⟶ 16: Contrast [[No Endor Holocaust]], where, by all rights, the actions of the main characters should have led to massive destruction and death, but didn't, because The [[Word of God]] says so. See also [[Subverted Kids Show]], [[Superweapon Surprise]], [[Crap Saccharine World]], [[Surprise Creepy]], [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]], and [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]. [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]] is when the show has a villain that by all rights should cause it, but doesn't... most of the time. {{examples}} == Advertising == * The page picture is part of a UNICEF campaign in Belgium using ''[[The Smurfs]]'' to raise awareness of [[Tyke Bomb\|child soldiers]] in Africa. The full commercial is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa782wOrUVM here.] UNICEF had to run the advert late at night to [[Nightmare Fuel\|avoid scarring any children for life with it.]] The words at the end are something to the effect of "Don't let war destroy the world of children." It's effective, heartbreaking, and [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped\|had to be done]]. If you're ~~fammiliar~~familiar with other ~~Unicef~~UNICEF ads, you probably won't be surprised to hear that they seem to have thing for this trope. Among other things, they had a little girl play with her dog and step on a landmine (all done in what appears to be crayon drawings), followed by a picture of several heavily bandaged, realistically drawn children. Or the other one where storks drop several babies over a city, they slowly land with parachutes, smiling while looking down on the city or up at the sky with those big eyes, then a squadron of evil looking airplanes show up, carpet bombing the entire city, using bombs with psychotic grins painted on them. The ad ends with the babies landing on the smoking ruins of the city, looking frightened and hopeless. You can tell something like this leaves a big impact if someone can recall it after 12 years with great detail, after seeing it exactly once. * In an old issue of ''Nintendo Power'', there was a full-page ad for the Nintendo 64 game ''[[Battle Tanx]]: Global Assault'' which featured tanks blowing up a world of [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo\|absolutely-not-Teletubbies-honest]]. ** Likewise, TV ads for the game had the so-totally-not-the-Snuggles-fabric-softener-bear chased down and mauled by one of the tanks. * The initial advertisement for ''[[Super Smash Brothers]]'' was Nintendo's mascots kicking the crap out of each other [[Soundtrack Dissonance\|the tune of "Happy Together"]]. {{quote\| '''[[Don LaFontaine]]:''' "Something has gone wrong in the happy-go-lucky world of Nintendo."}} * An infamous animated promo for a 1983 special report entitled “Green Street Reds” for the KGO (San Francisco [[American Broadcasting Company\|ABC]] affiliate) local evening news showed Soviet ICBMs shooting Santa Claus and his sleigh out of the sky. This resulted in many angry calls from parents with [[Nightmare Fuel\|inconsolable children]] and the offending clip was quickly pulled. You can watch the clip [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3OpRzYOJY here]. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0w79cxZReU&NR=1 This ad] for 13eme rue, a French action and thriller network. The statement translates to "This is how we'll do a children's show if we have to do one". ** [[Captain Obvious\|They don't want to do a children's show.]] * The "Let's All Go to the Lobby" promo parody, [http://vimeo.com/emkaytwelve/followthesun Follow the Sun]... == Anime and Manga == * ''[[Excel Saga (anime)\|Excel Saga]]'' has the cute little Puchuus, who are actually violent and imperialistic. When they get injured or killed they shift from cute to plain ol' [[Gonk\|hideous]], resembling ''[[Golgo 13]]''. There is also a sudden shift from their tiny, adorable cries of "Puuchuu!" to overly dramatic broken English. "Ow that hurt! You make-a me bleeeeeed!". The protagonists seem to enjoy blowing them up and kicking them around. * Arguably the entire plot of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. * ''[[Hibiki no Mahou]]'' It features extremely cute character designs, some of them very [[Moe]]. But the subject matter and overall tone of the series is dark, considering it's a [[Deconstruction]] of the magical school genre. ** ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', another [[Magical Girl]] deconstruction, takes this trope to [[Nightmare Fuel\|horrific]] and [[Tear Jerker\|heartbreaking]] levels. Do NOT be fooled by [[Ume Aoki]]'s [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair\|colorful hair]] and [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] character design. == Video Games == * ~~Occured~~Occurred in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]'' where the Shroob conducted an [[Alien Invasion]] and left some parts of the Mushroom Kingdom in ruins. ** This is the objective of Smithy in [[Super Mario RPG]]. {{quote\| -- I'll rid this world of Wishes and fill it with Weapons.}} * The entire point of ''[[Eversion]]''. * The [[Adult Swim]] game Candy Mountain Massacer is the essence of this trope. You go play as a [[Badass]] character with a gun in a [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] land killing everything in sight. Line 58 ⟶ 55: == Web Comics == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130104123156/http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/08/19/ This strip] of ''Chainsawsuit'' shows what happens if you don't play ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' for too long. This is [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Animal%20Crossing/ worse]. [[You Have Been Warned]]. * ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' pulls this one all the time. The strip plays it inverted when mocking content filters in ''[[Gears of War\|Gears of War 2]]'' ~~-- the~~—the blood and gore is replaced by rainbows and [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ confetti.] * ''[[VG Cats]]'', frequently and crossing even more lines than Penny Arcade. * Invoked several times in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' with the [[Killer Rabbit\|Ob'Enn]], a race of cute and fuzzy [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens\|koalaliens]], and played with in [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040913.html this strip] Also, the diamond beetles. At least from [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20011022.html their point of view]. * ''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10960 Breakfast Of The Gods]'' is a webcomic about breakfast cereal mascots in a very grim and serious war. It's surprisingly bloody. The third book is called "Apocalypse Yum". * An early ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0091.html strip] spoofed the classic "Hostess Supervillain" strips, in which [[Marvel Comics\|Marvel]] and [[DC Comics\|DC]] characters were able to [[Deus Ex Machina]] their way out of trouble with the use of [[Delicious Fruit Pies]]. How does Rich "One Long [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]" Burlew spoof these? The goblins ''kill'' "Fruit Pie the Sorcerer". Randy Milholland spoofed them in a completely different and, well, more [http://superstupor.com/sust01042008.shtml Milholland-esque] manner... Another [[Order of the Stick]] gives us [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html The Battle of Movie Confections] Where "let's all go to the lobby" takes a turn for the macabre. ** And a ''[[Dragon (magazine)]]'' strip featured a sinister cult of ''breakfast cereal'' mascots, with the title "Cereal Killers". * A recurring motif in ~~the~~ ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' strips. Some examples are [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF152-Scorpy_the_Forest_Friend.gif here] and [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF231-Baby.jpg here]. * Happens to the Dimension of Lame in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when {{spoiler\|~~when~~ the demons from the Dimension of Pain finally invade}}. == [[Web Original]] == * ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZtJdaN_l4 If Balloons Could Talk]'' by Neil Cicierega poses the titular question. The first few seconds of the hypothetical world involves everyone happily skipping around with their talking balloons, and then... * ''[http://probertson.livejournal.com/ Paul Robertson's]'' work is all about this. For example, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120505024128/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=908674814285543652 Pirate Babys Cabana Battle Street Fight] emulates a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] [[Beat'Em Up]] with [[Chibi]] characters. * There is a story called [http://www.jihad.net/nonjihad.html Day of the Barney] in which the purple dinosaur commands his young viewers to kill all the adults. He then takes over using his armies of hooded, mutant "Beloved Ones" and enforces a children-only world by {{spoiler\|having a ceremony occur whenever a child turns 13-years-old: the boys are decapitated, and the girls are brainwashed, locked into ''rape camps'', and forced to give birth to more half-human "Beloved Ones."}} The memorable thing about the story? It was played ''totally straight'' (and was surprisingly well-written). In the sequel story, it's revealed Barney is actually an [[Eldritch Abomination\|Elder God]]. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730160231/http://onastick.net/sitz/images/ Hello Kitty 40000]. "In the grim future of Hello Kitty there is only war" -- "[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost4244-motivator1377526vc8%2Ejpg In the grim future of Hello Vader...]" * [http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=64 This] legend from ''[[Hitherby Dragons]]''. And it's certainly not the only one; many, many other stories having coming apocalypses and slaughters happening to a variety of [[Sugar Bowl]] worlds. The entire "Unclean Legacy" story is a bleak landscape that occurs after Gargamel has captured the Smurfs, and [http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=123 one stretch] of the story of Ink Catherly is in a corrupted, putrefying version of Candyland. * ''[[Ruby Quest]]''. Cute anthropomorphic animals right out of ''[[Animal Crossing]]''... in a setting that's [[H.P. Lovecraft]] meets ''[[Silent Hill]]''. * The Cyriak Harris Flash cartoon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwCojCJ3-Q "Meow."] A Sugar [[Zombie Apocalypse]] made worse because {{spoiler\|headshots and suicide ''don't work.''}} * [[MS Paint Adventures\|MS Paint Adventures']] Fan Adventures has [http://mspafa.wikia.com/wiki/You_Know,_For_Kids! an entire trope] dedicated to this. * Happend twice in the [[Fallout Equestria]] universe. First with the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|idyllic fantasy land of Equestria]] becoming a [[Crapsack World\|war-torn Orwellian police state]], and then with Equestria being destroyed by [[Fantastic Nuke\|necromantic megaspells.]] == [[Western Animation]] == * There's an episode of ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~OddParents]]'' involving "the Giggle Pies", which are adorable, cuddly, [[Rhymes on a Dime\|rhyming]] puffballs of cuteness. They actually are evil, though, and plan to take over the world by subjugating the populace to their cuteness. They are said to taste like manure, which is how the Yugopotamians beat them: Yugopotamians find manure ''[[Eat the Dog\|delicious]]''. * ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' enjoys both repeatedly massacring the cutesy [[Gang of Critters]] and causing wholesale destruction of their wooded homeland. * ''[[South Park]]'' Line 89 ⟶ 85: "Woodland Critter Christmas". The sickeningly cute, (yet devil-worshiping) Woodland Critters are subject to a Sugar Apocalypse. In "Dances with Smurfs", the Smurf village is destroyed by bulldozers. It wouldn't have been so funny if UNICEF had not already been there. ** The Amazon is commonly a victim of the [[Sugar Apocalypse]] in [[Green Aesop~~\|Green Aesops~~]]s. To prevent this, the kids are forced by their parents to [[Manatee Gag\|join a choir to travel to the Amazon]]. The choir is even more sugary. By the end of the episode, [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|nature abhors a vegan]], and they all want to destroy the Amazon. * ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' ~~-- Uses~~—Uses the trope to exhaustion. Serial-killing [[Smurfs]], genocidal [[Care Bears]], bitter [[Strawberry Shortcake]], etc. And the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] in the form of ''[[My Little Pony]]''. See the page for a picture. {{quote\| '''Death Pony''': "''And I am DEATH PONY!''"~~<br />~~ '''Woman''': "Oh, how sad! The poor thing can't hear."~~<br />~~ '''Boy''': "''No mom, I think he said-''"~~<br />~~ '''Death Pony''': "''RAAAAAAAH!''" }} {{spoiler\|They die, by the way.}} Line 102 ⟶ 98: Clara lures in cute forest animals so they could get eaten. * In ''[[Yellow Submarine]],'' quoted above, one of these gets the plot moving. The heroes must resort to the [[Power of Rock]] to save Pepperland. * ''[[Wizards]]''. An evil wizard unleashes his hellish forces on an ugly little hippy-dippy land populated by cutesy elves and fairies. Then there's the big battle scene in which little Rice Krispies mascot look-a-likes get mercilessly slaughtered. * ''[[Watership Down]]''. Played straight, then inverted when you find out what the [[Killer Rabbit\|rabbits]] are capable of doing to ''each other''. {{quote\| '''Fiver:''' The field... the field... it's '''covered with blood!'''~~<br />~~ '''Hazel:''' Blood? Don't be ridiculous... Why don't you go fetch me a cowslip? There's some fine grass over here. }} * ''[[Rainbow Brite]]'': Inverted in ''The Beginning of Rainbow Land'' when you find out that [[Sugar Bowl\|Rainbow Land]] was originally a lifeless wasteland. Line 110 ⟶ 106: ** The Cute King and his army of Cuties accidentally do this to ''themselves''. They always fall apart or explode if they work themselves too much. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AlcnJc3sdM "Five Fat Sausages"] is a disturbing take on the nursery rhyme about [[Let's Meet the Meat\|apparently sentient sausages]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death\|slowly burning to death in a heated pan]]. * In [[Trollz]], this happened in the backstory, with the old Trollzopolis being destroyed by Simon, as well as a lot of their magic being corrupted and taken. The world almost bit it, too. * The [[My Little Pony TV Specials\|pilot special]] for the ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' series. It starts off with the cutesy sweetness usually associated with the franchise, then reptilian monsters come out of the sky and snatch up ponies to be turned into the dragon-like servants of a demon-centaur named Tirac. ''[[My Little Pony: The Movie\|My Little Pony the Movie]]'' had some evil witches unleash [[Blob Monster\|The Smooze]] on Dream Valley, and several episodes of ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' had Ponyland being threatened with danger, such as the [[A Nazi by Any Other Name\|chauvinistic penguins]] from "Baby It's Cold Outside" and the magic-stealing Lavan from "Quest of the Princess Ponies". * The season 2 premier of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' gives us the cloud city of Cloudsdale crumbling apart in a vision caused by [[Big Bad\|Discord]]. What's worse is that there's ''nothing to imply this '''isn't''' actually happening!'' {{spoiler\|Then Discord [[Reality Is Out to Lunch\|unleashes chaos on all of Equestria]].}} Line 120 ⟶ 116: [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Beginning Tropes]] [[Category:Subverted Innocence Tropes]] [[Category:~~Sugar~~Apocalyptic ~~Apocalypse~~Index]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]