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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Disney's [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]], downplays this. This version of ''OUAS'' keeps the fun and soul of the original fully intact, but the scenes between Cinderella and Rapunzel as everyone is about to give up on the photo are certainly a little sad, particularly as Raps remarks that a major fault of some kind was pretty much unavoidable.

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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Disney's [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]], downplays this. This version of ''OUAS'' keeps the fun and soul of the original fully intact, but the scenes staircase scene between Cinderella and Rapunzel as everyone is about to give up on the photo are is certainly a little sad, particularly as Raps remarks that a major fault of some kind was pretty much unavoidable.

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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'', a hypothetical extended cut of Disney's [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]], downplays this. This version of ''OUAS'' keeps the fun and soul of the original fully intact, but the scenes between Cinderella and Rapunzel as everyone is about to give up on the photo are certainly a little sad, particularly as Raps remarks that a major fault of some kind was pretty much unavoidable.
** This version also takes the time to show how much pressure everyone is truly under to deliver, thus driving home the inevitability of Goofy's unfortunate accident. While the camera itself was broken, Cinderella, Raps and their respective Princes know that everyone's morale is the one thing that ''truly'' needs fixing.



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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'' downplays this. This version of OUAS keeps the fun and soul of the original fully intact, but the scenes between Cinderella and Rapunzel as everyone is about to give up on the photo are certainly a little sad, particularly as Raps remarks that a major fault of some kind was pretty much unavoidable.
** This version also takes the time to show how much pressure everyone is truly under to deliver, thus driving home the inevitability of Goofy's unfortunate accident. While the camera itself was broken, Cinderella, Raps and their respective Princes know that everyone's morale is the one thing that ''truly'' needs fixing.
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* ''Fanfic/RealityCollidesTheEzekielChronicles'': Compared to the more lighthearted, comedic, and...mature themes of the original cartoon, the fic provides a hefty dose of drama and angst regarding the contestants' backstories that shape their current personalities. This is especially seen and explored in the fic's version of the "Phobia Factor" episode.
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** While the heroes remain the heroes we know and love and the story never veers into GrimDark territory, the story explores the darker side of the natures and of the setting: Natasha's [[DarkAndTroubledPast past is somewhat explored and is quite clearly a very dark place.]] [[ProfessionalKiller Clint used to kill people for a living.]] [[HeelFaceTurn Loki is a hero,]] but underneath the charming sorcerer, coffee maker and indulgent uncle is [[TheSpymaster the most dangerous spymaster]] in the Nine Realms and [[TheAtoner a man who bitterly regrets his past misdeeds.]] Sif frankly acknowledges that yes, she is a warrior god, and yes, she has killed a lot of people, some of whom could be reasonably defined as innocent. So have Thor and the Warriors Three.

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** While the heroes remain the heroes we know and love and the story never veers into GrimDark territory, the story explores the darker side of the natures and of the setting: Natasha's [[DarkAndTroubledPast past is somewhat explored and is quite clearly a very dark place.]] place]], especially when we get to see the Red Room itself and some of its other products, including one of her clearly deranged successors. [[ProfessionalKiller Clint used to kill people for a living.]] [[HeelFaceTurn Loki is a hero,]] but underneath the charming sorcerer, coffee maker and indulgent uncle is [[TheSpymaster the most dangerous spymaster]] in the Nine Realms and Realms, [[TheAtoner a man who bitterly regrets his past misdeeds.]] misdeeds]], and who is nevertheless entirely willing to methodically murder his way through ''the entire Red Room'' when they threaten his family. Sif frankly acknowledges that yes, she is a warrior god, and yes, she has killed a lot of people, some of whom could be reasonably defined as innocent. So have Thor and the Warriors Three.



** Johnny and Susan Storm's backstory. [[spoiler: Their father murdered their mother when Johnny was six years old]] and it is more likely than not that Johnny saw it happen. After that, a relative took them in, then died, after which [[PromotionToParent Sue mostly raised Johnny by herself.]]
** Carol Danvers is YoungerThanSheLooks, being able to pass for a buxom college student at the age of 14 or so. This gains her a ''severe'' amount of unwanted attention.

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** Johnny and Susan Storm's backstory. [[spoiler: Their father murdered their mother when Johnny was six years old]] and it is more likely than not that Johnny saw it happen. After that, a relative took them in, then died, after which [[PromotionToParent Sue mostly raised Johnny by herself.]]
]] Additionally, the incident which gives their powers is not some cosmic storm, but them being caught up in a cosmic scale battle and swept into the Negative Zone a.k.a. [[spoiler: Sakaar]], an EldritchLocation where none of them age for fifteen relative years, Ben Grimm has to fight as a gladiator, Johnny is a mixture of amusement/finger-toy for its nigh-omnipotent EldritchAbomination of a GodEmperor, and Sue and Reed spend all their time trying to find a way out while concealing [[spoiler: Francis Richards, their impossible child]]. Oh, and everyone in the Negative Zone is slowly being devoured from the inside out.
** Carol Danvers is YoungerThanSheLooks, being able to pass for a buxom college student at the age of 14 or so. This gains her a ''severe'' amount of unwanted attention. Then there's the sheer amount of PTSD inducing experiences, second only to Harry and Maddie in the amount of trauma induced.



** [[spoiler: Arthur Weasley]] has his neck snapped by the Winter Soldier. And considering his likely fate at HYDRA's hands, it is made very clear by the narration that this was actually a singular act of mercy.
** The sequel dials up the darkness, with Voldemort putting a horrific spin on the FreakyFridayFlip at the World Cup and very nearly succeeds in telepathically tricking [[spoiler: a panicking Thor into killing Harry and Pepper-in-Carol's-Body]] in the second chapter.

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** [[spoiler: Arthur Weasley]] has his neck snapped by the Winter Soldier. And considering his likely fate at HYDRA's hands, it is made very clear by the narration that [[MercyKill this was actually a singular act of mercy.
mercy.]]
** The sequel dials up the darkness, with Voldemort putting a horrific spin on the FreakyFridayFlip at the World Cup and very nearly succeeds in telepathically tricking [[spoiler: a panicking Thor into killing Harry and Pepper-in-Carol's-Body]] in the second chapter. He later pulls something similar when he effectively feeds Ron and Hermione to a living EldritchLocation simply to distract Harry (and at least partially for his own amusement).
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* ''Webcomic/GumballWarrior'' is a prequel AU about Meta Knight and the Galaxy Soldier Army puffballs from the anime during their childhood on another planet system. But just one look at it, and you would think that ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' looked like the plot of [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Spring Breeze]] in comparison. The webcomic doesn't stray far from violence, and the five puffballs are subject to many trials and tribulations before they can attain the title of Star Warriors. One central element surrounds the graphic deaths of a mother and her newborn children at the hands of the main villain's CoDragons. Even the supplementary material doesn't take the easy route, with mentions of child abuse and Kirby '''''himself''''' suffering from PTSD in his ''adult'' years.
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* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'' downplays this. This version of OUAS keeps the fun and soul of the original fully intact, but the scenes between Cinderella and Rapunzel as everyone is about to give up on the photo are certainly a little sad, particularly as Raps remarks that a major fault of some kind was pretty much unavoidable.
** This version also takes the time to show how much pressure everyone is truly under to deliver, thus driving home the inevitability of Goofy's unfortunate accident. While the camera itself was broken, Cinderella, Raps and their respective Princes know that everyone's morale is the one thing that ''truly'' needs fixing.
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* The ForWantOfANail AU fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGreatAceDetective'' portrays [[spoiler:Klint surviving his duel with Genshin]] as spawning an overall worse timeline. Accordingly the fic is darker than the game's tone despite several instances of levity, featuring more violence and psychological thriller elements rather than courtroom antics. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking To cap it off]], Sholmes wears an all-black outfit rather than his canon classic Holmes garb.[[note]]Which was picked from his concept art of when he was going to be a more serious character.[[/note]]

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* The ForWantOfANail AU fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGreatAceDetective'' portrays [[spoiler:Klint surviving his duel with Genshin]] as spawning an overall worse timeline. Accordingly the fic is darker than the game's tone despite several instances of levity, featuring more violence and psychological thriller elements rather than courtroom antics. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking To cap it off]], Sholmes wears an all-black outfit rather than his canon classic Holmes garb.[[note]]Which was picked from his concept art of when he was going to be a more serious character.[[/note]]



* ''Fanfic/YourMoveInstigatorDrawYourWeaponAndHoldYourTongue'' is a ForWantOfANail where the Third Shinobi War lasted closer to the present day, and Danzo is able to acquire more power from Sarutobi. "Expendables" like Sakura, Kiba, Neji, and Tenten are sent out as ChildSoldiers due to dire and corrupt the situation has become.

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* ''Fanfic/YourMoveInstigatorDrawYourWeaponAndHoldYourTongue'' is a ForWantOfANail WhatIf fic where the Third Shinobi War lasted closer to the present day, and Danzo is able to acquire more power from Sarutobi. "Expendables" like Sakura, Kiba, Neji, and Tenten are sent out as ChildSoldiers due to dire and corrupt the situation has become.
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* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'': Not ''that'' DarkerAndEdgier, but Luna's chapter is much more serious than the previous ones, dealing with Luna investigating Canterlot for racism against non-ponies and facing it herself when she takes the form of a zebra and ends up getting attacked and actually injured by pony supremacists.
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* Thomas Vaccaro's ''[[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries Winx Club]]'' [[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries rewrite series]] was made as this compared to canon for the sake of GrowingWithTheAudience. The first 3 canon seasons of ''Winx'' are often seen by its fanbase, Thomas included, as the series' best for carrying a mature, complex tone. In Season 4 and onward, this was abandoned in favor of making ''Winx'' a LighterAndSofter show in an attempt to appeal more to children, doing things such as rewriting the Winx as teens and keeping them together in Alfea (despite them graduating at the end of Season 3). The rewrite series is meant as an {{Inversion}} of this, keeping the more mature storytelling of the first 3 seasons. Compared to the original, the rewrite also adds in ''additional'' adult themes, including AbusiveParents, racism, discrimination, loss of one's culture, miscarriage, WrittenByTheWinners, LGBT relationships, depression, losing close friends and lovers, undergoing therapy, and so on.

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* Thomas Vaccaro's ''[[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries Winx Club]]'' [[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries rewrite series]] was made as this compared to canon for the sake of GrowingWithTheAudience. The first 3 canon seasons of ''Winx'' are often seen by its fanbase, Thomas included, as the series' best for carrying a mature, complex tone. In Season 4 and onward, this was abandoned in favor of making ''Winx'' a LighterAndSofter show in an attempt to appeal more to children, doing things such as rewriting the Winx as teens and keeping them together in Alfea (despite them graduating at the end of Season 3). The rewrite series is meant as an {{Inversion}} of this, keeping the more mature storytelling of the first 3 seasons. Compared to the original, the rewrite also adds in ''additional'' adult themes, including AbusiveParents, racism, discrimination, loss of one's culture, miscarriage, WrittenByTheWinners, LGBT relationships, depression, losing close friends and lovers, undergoing therapy, and so on. \n Basically, the rewrite can be seen as being for ''Winx Club'' what ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' was for ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender.]]''
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* Thomas Vaccaro's ''[[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries Winx Club]]'' [[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries rewrite series]] was made as this compared to canon for the sake of GrowingWithTheAudience. The first 3 canon seasons of ''Winx'' are often seen by its fanbase, Thomas included, as the series' best for carrying a mature, complex tone. In Season 4 and onward, this was abandoned in favor of making ''Winx'' a LighterAndSofter show in an attempt to appeal more to children, doing things such as rewriting the Winx as teens and keeping them together in Alfea (despite graduating at the end of Season 3). The rewrite series is meant as an {{Inversion}} of this, keeping the more mature storytelling of the first 3 seasons.

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* Thomas Vaccaro's ''[[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries Winx Club]]'' [[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries rewrite series]] was made as this compared to canon for the sake of GrowingWithTheAudience. The first 3 canon seasons of ''Winx'' are often seen by its fanbase, Thomas included, as the series' best for carrying a mature, complex tone. In Season 4 and onward, this was abandoned in favor of making ''Winx'' a LighterAndSofter show in an attempt to appeal more to children, doing things such as rewriting the Winx as teens and keeping them together in Alfea (despite them graduating at the end of Season 3). The rewrite series is meant as an {{Inversion}} of this, keeping the more mature storytelling of the first 3 seasons.
seasons. Compared to the original, the rewrite also adds in ''additional'' adult themes, including AbusiveParents, racism, discrimination, loss of one's culture, miscarriage, WrittenByTheWinners, LGBT relationships, depression, losing close friends and lovers, undergoing therapy, and so on.
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* Thomas Vaccaro's ''[[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries Winx Club]]'' [[WebVideo/UnicornOfWarWinxClubRewriteSeries rewrite series]] was made as this compared to canon for the sake of GrowingWithTheAudience. The first 3 canon seasons of ''Winx'' are often seen by its fanbase, Thomas included, as the series' best for carrying a mature, complex tone. In Season 4 and onward, this was abandoned in favor of making ''Winx'' a LighterAndSofter show in an attempt to appeal more to children, doing things such as rewriting the Winx as teens and keeping them together in Alfea (despite graduating at the end of Season 3). The rewrite series is meant as an {{Inversion}} of this, keeping the more mature storytelling of the first 3 seasons.
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* While it's true that the Website/ChannelAwesome fanficcers love their smut, fluff and crack beyond reason, they've also spawned several DarkerAndEdgier fics, including ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'', ''Fanfic/ThatGuyWithTheGlassesInSpace'' and several other AU's that '''will''' make you lose your sleep.
** Special mention should go to the "Rotten Dirty Bastard" fics. The special was BlackComedy dedicated to going to extreme lengths describing how much WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic makes everyone's lives suck. The fics will either point out the flaws in these "happier lives" (like Iron Liz never meeting Linkara as one example) or have this heartbreaking sense of loss that makes you want to [[TearJerker cry]].




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* While it's true that the Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses fanficcers love their smut, fluff and crack beyond reason, they've also spawned several DarkerAndEdgier fics, including ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'', ''Fanfic/ThatGuyWithTheGlassesInSpace'' and several other AU's that '''will''' make you lose your sleep.
** Special mention should go to the "Rotten Dirty Bastard" fics. The special was BlackComedy dedicated to going to extreme lengths describing how much WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic makes everyone's lives suck. The fics will either point out the flaws in these "happier lives" (like Iron Liz never meeting Linkara as one example) or have this heartbreaking sense of loss that makes you want to [[TearJerker cry]].

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