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* Wrestling/MattRiddle constantly boasts that he can beat up Wrestling/BrockLesnar and Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} and has occasionally threatened to crippple or give them concussions backstage and on social media. Several coworkers ask what in the world is wrong with him and call him out on being unprofessional.

* ''WebVideo/InternetHistorian'' frequently dips into this, when talking about various internet raids and the like. Often [[NotSoAboveItAll he'll admit to finding something pretty funny]] initially, like calling for /b/lackup to block the pool in ''Habbo Hotel'', baiting slacktivists into mistaking Creator/CarlWeathers for Joseph Kony so they can call them racists, using Twitter to put messed up things on large convention screens, or taunting Cracker Barrel for firing Brad's wife, but will cross into this territory when people inevitably take the joke way too far and begin calling actual real-life pools and telling them the water is infected with Aids, doing the Carl Weathers joke on official Kony 2012 forums, attacking the convention hosts directly and hacking their webhost, or just beating the Brad's wife joke into the dirt to the point it just became obnoxious.

* In one ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Weekend Update segment, Creator/NormMacDonald, no stranger to attempting to [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line twice]] regardless of how he thinks the audience will respond, came up with a joke that goes thus: “In gossip news, Creator/WoodyAllen is dating again!” accompanied by the famous [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc napalm girl photo]]. When he tried it out at dress rehearsal the audience was so appalled that it ruined the ''entire show'', to the point even Norm admitted it was too much and didn’t repeat it for the live broadcast. According to David Spade the crowd’s reaction is still used as a stock “horrified audience” sound.

* Website/{{Newgrounds}}.com has a collection for flash submissions called "BASTARDS" that is devoted to this trope.
* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Volume 4, this is {{Subverted|Trope}} when Yang has an argument with her father in the kitchen and Taiyang makes a comment about how she may have "lost some brain cells to go with [[spoiler:that arm]]". Yang jumps back in shock and Oobleck and Port are also lost for words (and presumably so were a lot of viewers), but then she playfully punches him with a "You ''jerk!''" and laughs at it. Quite a sweet moment as it shows she is beginning to recover from the TraumaCongaLine she went through in the last volume.

* An old ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' features a father threatening his daughter at gunpoint. Zach Weiner went back to draw a votey for it years later, after the birth of his own daughter, and [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=315 didn't find it quite so funny.]]

* ''Webcomic/DumbRwby'':
** In one strip, Qrow make [[HurricaneOfPuns a bunch]] of hand-related jokes after [[spoiler: Yang lost a arm]], the others character just wonder what's wrong with him.

* ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/pet-foolery/fly/viewer?title_no=691801&episode_no=72 Pet Foolery]]'': In "Fly", a seagull keeps dismissing a penguin's attempts to be poetic about the way they look while swimming being like flying, eventually to the point of outright mockery. The penguin does not find this funny and eventually loses their temper and shoots back with a crack about seagulls eating garbage. The seagull in turn is genuinely hurt by this, and the final panel has the two calmed down and apologizing to each other for going too far.

* The web-comic ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' featured [[http://www.faans.com/crossover/ a murder investigation involving a crossword puzzle convention.]] When crossword fan Hilda makes a comment about the case while putting on her glasses, Marc shouts "[[MemeticMutation YEEAAAAAHH!]]", a la the Roger Daltrey shriek from "Won't Get Fooled Again" in ''Series/CSIMiami''. He gets roundly chewed out for it.

** '''1989 and 1990''': Angles surrounding Jose Gonzalez, the wrestler accused of murdering Wrestling/BruiserBrody; [[note]]Gonzalez definitely ''did'' stab Brody to death, that is undisputed and Gonzalez has admitted to it. The only question is whether it was murder or self defense[[/note]] pushing him as a babyface in 1989 and partaking in a stabbing angle in 1990.

* From 2005 to 2006, WWE would air a segment called ''Lunchtime Suicide'', where the referee Tim White would attempt suicide, only to [[BungledSuicide botch it]]. This segment was derided for being in poor taste.

* The narrators of ''Podcast/TheLastPodcastOnTheLeft'' have been able to laugh at and crack jokes about a ton of serious, heavy subjects, even when it's incredibly irreverant, but absolutely none of them were able to make light of the case of Junko Furuta, an innocent teenage girl who was abducted at random and tortured to death in an unbelievably gruesome way over 44 days by a group of teenage boys.

* The hosts of ''Podcast/TheLastPodcastOnTheLeft'' regularly discuss dark topics like serial killers and cults and treat them with all the respect they feel the people involved deserve: [[BlackComedy None]]. That changes when the discussion goes to the ''victims'' of these people. For example, in their Children of God series, jokes about the cult's founder being a DirtyOldMan pedophile fly freely, but in the final part, when the main topic is a man raised in the Children of God's sexually abusive environment who went on to murder one of his abusers then kill himself, the number of jokes drops sharply and they express sympathy as they refer to statements he made before the act showing he knew what he was going to be doing.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Xander, shortly after [[spoiler: having an [[EyeScream eye gouged]] out by [[TheDragon Caleb]]]] quotes Giles:

-->'''Yondu:''' That was bein' funny!\\

* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', after Hannah runs away into the woods out of embarrassment, only Sam and Beth show concern for her while some of the others accuse Hannah of overreacting and says she can't take a joke. Said "joke" was playing with Hannah's feelings, getting her to be almost naked in front of the guy she had a crush on and taping it. While Hannah knew Mike was already taken and was willing to cheat, it was still dangerous that she ran out into a storm, which would lead to her death.

* While some of the celebrities that were portrayed on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny found their appearances funny]] (such as Tommy Lee and Weird Al Yankovic), other celebrities weren't as kind:
** Creator/JaneaneGarofalo flat-out said she hated the show. This was likely due to her appearance in an episode in which [[spoiler: she ended up in a draw against Cindy Crawford and, because of a pre-fight bet, lost 50 pounds.]]
** Kathy Lee Gifford was not of fan of her portrayal on the show ([[spoiler: she lost to Howard Stern]]), and reportedly called the creators "sick puppies."
** The father of rapper The Game wasn't too pleased with his son's appearance in an episode ([[spoiler: The Game had lost to 50 Cent, after 50 Cent shoots and kills him using the bullets that were in his body]]).

The reaction can also come from using humor against unacceptable targets. The saying goes that comedy should "Punch up, not down": mocking powerful authority figures may be bold and edgy but mocking marginalized or oppressed people just makes you look like TheBully.

** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Pym stopped Captain America by squashing him with his giant hand and said "the situation's well in-hand". Banner and Stark were horrified at the idea that he may have killed Cap right after his return.

* In ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty: Decode'', after Tsutomu makes a crass crack about [[spoiler:Birdy doing whatever she wants after the death of her guardian Tuto]], she balls up her fist, swings at her own face, and switches places with Tsutomu, so he's the one getting socked.

* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Alias}} The Pulse]]'', the ComicBook/NewAvengers end up taking Jessica Jones to ComicBook/DoctorStrange so she can have a baby (thanks to the person in charge of a hospital freaking out and thinking Jessica was going to give birth to a mutant). When he mentions that he helped give birth to the Scarlet Witch's children, Spider-Man replies that it has to go better than that did. Strange and the Avengers side-eye Spidey before he realizes he just put his foot in his mouth, stating that it was so much clever in his head before he actually said it.

* In the “Moving Targets” story of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'', Wolverine makes an inappropriate comment about Mary Jane. Spider-Man responds by punching the mutant through a window made of indestructible glass. After recovering, Logan grumbles that Parker can’t take a joke.

'''Willingham''': Oh, who the fuck am I offending?! The ''[[AcceptableTargets Nazis]]''?!

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the OriginStory "The Last Son of Krypton", Clark tells Lana that [[PubertySuperpower weird things have been happening to him]], such as being able to see through walls. Lana asks him if he's been using this ability to [[PowerPerversionPotential peek into the girls' locker room]]. Clark is genuinely freaked out and in no mood for jokes; Lana apologizes when she realizes that he's trying to deal with a serious issue.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the {{origin story}} "The Last Son of Krypton", Clark tells Lana that [[PubertySuperpower weird things have been happening to him]], such as being able to see through walls. Lana asks him if he's been using this ability to [[PowerPerversionPotential peek into the girls' locker room]]. Clark is genuinely freaked out and in no mood for jokes; Lana apologizes when she realizes that he's trying to deal with a serious issue.

** In "Ripped Pants", one of [=SpongeBob=]'s many, many stunts involving comically ripping his pants involves [[ItMakesSenseInContext pretending to drown at the beach]]. The beachgoers, who were [[JokeExhaustion already getting sick of his "ripped pants" schtick]] all desert him in disgust.

** One playing of "Let's Make a Date" ended before it could begin due to Drew making a crack about how Greg Proops would be unlikely to be chosen as the "bachelor" if it wasn't for the stage directions. Greg brings the game to a halt by asking Drew what the point would be if he was not likely to be chosen. The other performers and the audience then begin to pile on Drew until the directer steps on-stage and kills the segment. Drew subsequently apologizes (and hugs) Greg, at which point the jokes resume.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E7KingSizeHomer King Size Homer]]", Ralph's jokes about Homer's weight get this response from Lisa, who insists that Homer's not a gluttonous monster because he's obese. [[NotHelpingYourCase Cue Homer driving past in a stolen ice cream van stuffing down a popsicle]].