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** The above story wasn't even the ''only'' Archie comic to feature [[ImMelting face-melting action]]. From 1972 to 1974, Archie published a ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' spinoff, ''Chilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told By Sabrina''. It had the odd combination of [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics284.html straight-up horror stories]] with art in the familiar Archie house style. One story in particular stands out, featuring a boy who teases a stutterer at school. The kindly teacher happens to be a witch, and gives him an enchanted book that ''melts his face off'', and possibly kills him! The story probably violated several rules under UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode, but somehow gained the CCA seal of approval (perhaps because Archie ''ran'' the CCA?)
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** The above story wasn't even the ''only'' Archie comic to feature [[ImMelting face-melting action]]. From 1972 to 1974, Archie published a ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' spinoff, ''Chilling Adventures in Sorcery as Told By Sabrina''. It had the odd combination of [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics284.html straight-up horror stories]] with art in the familiar Archie house style. One story in particular stands out, featuring a boy who teases a stutterer at school. The kindly teacher happens to be a witch, and gives him an enchanted book that ''melts his face off'', and possibly kills him! The story probably violated several rules under UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode, MediaNotes/TheComicsCode, but somehow gained the CCA seal of approval (perhaps because Archie ''ran'' the CCA?)
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* Parodied in an ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' one-shot with the conceit that they were [[RunningTheAsylum fulfilling reader's suggestions]], one of which (pictured) was to add SteamPunk elements, give them all guns, draw them in a less childish style, and have them talk in a more naturalistic way rather than just punning all the time. The characters are shown drawn in a hyperdetailed [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] style (Asterix's feathered helmet wings are replaced with bat wings) with GrossUpCloseUp-type details on the normally cuddly characters; Obelix is wearing a BadassBandolier {{Pistol Whip}}ping Romans with a {{BFG}} in a missile stockpile (Asterix is phoning Getafix to tell him these new gadgets don't work), and everyone is engaging in dreadfully-written ''Film/PulpFiction''-esque BuffySpeak, rendered in the UK English translation as [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Geordie]] (and still making a wholly unnaturalistic HurricaneOfPuns).
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* Parodied in an ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' one-shot with the conceit that they were [[RunningTheAsylum fulfilling reader's suggestions]], one of which (pictured) was to add SteamPunk elements, give them all guns, draw them in a less childish style, and have them talk in a more naturalistic way rather than just punning all the time. The characters are shown drawn in a hyperdetailed [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] style (Asterix's feathered helmet wings are replaced with bat wings) with GrossUpCloseUp-type details on the normally cuddly characters; Obelix is wearing a BadassBandolier {{Pistol Whip}}ping Romans with a {{BFG}} in a missile stockpile (Asterix is phoning Getafix to tell him these new gadgets don't work), and everyone is engaging in dreadfully-written ''Film/PulpFiction''-esque BuffySpeak, rendered in the UK English translation as [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Geordie]] (and still making a wholly unnaturalistic HurricaneOfPuns).
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** It's also revealed in TheStinger that the survivor is planning to do something similar to "Chippy Chipmunk", a old-timey cutesy comic that CreepyGood protagonist Vlad is fond of. Thankfully, he later turns out to enjoy "Chippy the Slasher Slayer" as well.
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* Parodied by Creator/AlanMoore, at about the same time as he was getting a rep for it, in ''[[http://swords-and-veeblefetzers.blogspot.com/2010/06/anything-goes-2-in-pictopia.html In Pictopia]]'', set in an absurdly darker and edgier version of a CaptainErsatz comic strip setting, with things like not-ComicStrip/{{Blondie}} as a prostitute, who gets raided by not-ComicBook/JudgeDredd. The main character, Nocturno the Necromancer (ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician) is horrified by what's happening to the place, especially when his goofy buddy Flexible Flynn (Comicbook/PlasticMan) is replaced by a snarling NinetiesAntiHero.
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* Parodied by Creator/AlanMoore, at about the same time as he was getting a rep for it, in ''[[http://swords-and-veeblefetzers.blogspot.com/2010/06/anything-goes-2-in-pictopia.html In Pictopia]]'', set in an absurdly darker and edgier version of a CaptainErsatz comic strip setting, with things like not-ComicStrip/{{Blondie}} not-ComicStrip/Blondie1930 as a prostitute, who gets raided by not-ComicBook/JudgeDredd. The main character, Nocturno the Necromancer (ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician) is horrified by what's happening to the place, especially when his goofy buddy Flexible Flynn (Comicbook/PlasticMan) is replaced by a snarling NinetiesAntiHero.
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** Creator/{{Disney}} Italy does this as an habit. Aside for publishing some 'normal' stories with classic characters and settings with darker themes and complete rejection of FamilyFriendlyFirearms (to the point Scrooge mentioned having at least a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obice_da_149/19_modello_37 149mm artillery piece]] and threatened to fire Donald from it), once in a while they bring back Doctor Vultur (a ''[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi in everything but the name]]'' orango trying to TakeOverTheWorld) and a truer to the origins version of the Phantom Blot, and, in chronological order, they created the following: Paperinik himself (theorically Franchise/DonaldDuck's superhero alter ego. In practice even his lighter stories show the sadistic streak that in two occasions prompted him to ''set off [[TorchesAndPitchforks lynching mobs]]''), ''Paperinik New Adventures'', ''Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine'' (where Mickey is forced to temporarily move in [[CrapsackWorld a city more corrupted than]] ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham]]'' and survive in spite of his very existence being a danger to the men who control the city), ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' (where the heroes have no qualms in trying and killing their enemies), ''ComicBook/MonsterAllergy'' (explicitely a ''horror'', and as scary as the authors could get away with) and ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''.
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** Creator/{{Disney}} Italy does this as an habit. Aside for publishing some 'normal' stories with classic characters and settings with darker themes and complete rejection of FamilyFriendlyFirearms (to the point Scrooge mentioned having at least a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obice_da_149/19_modello_37 149mm artillery piece]] and threatened to fire Donald from it), once in a while they bring back Doctor Vultur (a ''[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi in everything but the name]]'' orango trying to TakeOverTheWorld) and a truer to the origins version of the Phantom Blot, and, in chronological order, they created the following: Paperinik himself (theorically Franchise/DonaldDuck's WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's superhero alter ego. In practice even his lighter stories show the sadistic streak that in two occasions prompted him to ''set off [[TorchesAndPitchforks lynching mobs]]''), ''Paperinik New Adventures'', ''Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine'' (where Mickey is forced to temporarily move in [[CrapsackWorld a city more corrupted than]] ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham]]'' and survive in spite of his very existence being a danger to the men who control the city), ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' (where the heroes have no qualms in trying and killing their enemies), ''ComicBook/MonsterAllergy'' (explicitely a ''horror'', and as scary as the authors could get away with) and ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck''.
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
** Possibly justified in "The Dark Age" story arc, as an extradimensional dark energy enters people's minds as they revel in sadistic behavior. Lampshaded when some characters wonder if the energy turned people darker... or if it was simply ''attracted'' to them because of it.
*** One character specifically notes the phenomenon when he sees Street Angel beat up a bar full of bad guys and thinks about how he used to be all smiley, telling jokes all the time and using gimmicky (but non-lethal) throwing halos. When he sees that the halos he uses now are "high-impact ceramics with a steel core", he thinks it's a perfect metaphor for Astro City in TheSeventies.
*** Another character mentions that while he didn't appreciate the previous generation of heroes, "at least they seemed to mostly care about helping people."
** Jack-In-The-Box II's two bad-future possible sons are perfect examples of the absolute worst kind of "heroic" characters from the Dark Age of Comics -- one is a Sabertooth {{Expy}}, the other is a cyborg killer (with a spring-loaded ''head'', no less), and both are absolutely convinced that they are entitled to kill anyone they want because [[SociopathicHero they are the good guys]]. Jack spends the rest of the story arc moving heaven and earth to make sure they never come into existence.
** Possibly justified in "The Dark Age" story arc, as an extradimensional dark energy enters people's minds as they revel in sadistic behavior. Lampshaded when some characters wonder if the energy turned people darker... or if it was simply ''attracted'' to them because of it.
*** One character specifically notes the phenomenon when he sees Street Angel beat up a bar full of bad guys and thinks about how he used to be all smiley, telling jokes all the time and using gimmicky (but non-lethal) throwing halos. When he sees that the halos he uses now are "high-impact ceramics with a steel core", he thinks it's a perfect metaphor for Astro City in TheSeventies.
*** Another character mentions that while he didn't appreciate the previous generation of heroes, "at least they seemed to mostly care about helping people."
** Jack-In-The-Box II's two bad-future possible sons are perfect examples of the absolute worst kind of "heroic" characters from the Dark Age of Comics -- one is a Sabertooth {{Expy}}, the other is a cyborg killer (with a spring-loaded ''head'', no less), and both are absolutely convinced that they are entitled to kill anyone they want because [[SociopathicHero they are the good guys]]. Jack spends the rest of the story arc moving heaven and earth to make sure they never come into existence.
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-->''"It all started in the Seventies with the appearance of "heroes" like ComicBook/ThePunisher and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. Instead of being hurled through a swirling dimensional vortex to seeming oblivion, a super-villain was now more likely to take a bullet to the brain, or a claw through the heart! Committing crimes and fighting super-heroes became ''dangerous!''
-->''No wonder the bad guys starting acting a little rowdier -- can you blame 'em? Suddenly, villains like ComicBook/DoctorDoom -- who'd up till now pranced around with an air of menace but never actually '''did''' anything to anybody -- started bumping off people left and right -- some of 'em just for snoring too loudly!''
-->-- ''Marvel Year in Review 1993''
-->''No wonder the bad guys starting acting a little rowdier -- can you blame 'em? Suddenly, villains like ComicBook/DoctorDoom -- who'd up till now pranced around with an air of menace but never actually '''did''' anything to anybody -- started bumping off people left and right -- some of 'em just for snoring too loudly!''
-->-- ''Marvel Year in Review 1993''
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*** The ''Tangle & Whisper'' miniseries pits Sonic's new friends [[PluckyComicRelief Tangle the Lemur]] and [[TheQuietOne Whisper the Wolf]] against an AxCrazy {{Shapeshifting}} mercenary with a NightmareFace. Previously, this mercenary helped Eggman [[KillEmAll wipe out]] Whisper's old team, leaving her traumatized. The same mercenary tries several times to murder her and Tangle, almost succeeding at one point, and Whisper initially [[NeverBeHurtAgain shies away from Tangle for fear of losing her]]. It takes quite the effort by Tangle to get Whisper to brighten up.
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*** The ''Tangle & Whisper'' miniseries pits Sonic's new friends [[PluckyComicRelief Tangle the Lemur]] and [[TheQuietOne Whisper the Wolf]] against an AxCrazy {{Shapeshifting}} mercenary with a NightmareFace. Previously, this mercenary helped Eggman [[KillEmAll wipe out]] out Whisper's old team, leaving her traumatized. The same mercenary tries several times to murder her and Tangle, almost succeeding at one point, and Whisper initially [[NeverBeHurtAgain shies away from Tangle for fear of losing her]]. It takes quite the effort by Tangle to get Whisper to brighten up.
