History Main / SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom

* This has to be the only reason [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] ordered monsters from ''Holy'' Nightmare in ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' (the dub doesn't have this, of course...making Dedede look like more of an idiot in the process, if that were possible). It doesn't help that a few of the soon-to-be-gigantic enemies ''are'' [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter pretty cute]] [[KillerRabbit at first]].

* In 1974, India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi joined the [[TheRestoftheNuclearClub the nuclear club]], with a test dubbed ''Smiling Buddha''.

* In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) decides whether or not a drug should be provided by the NHS -- so NICE can be responsible for denying life-prolonging treatments for reasons of expense... although sometimes they do this to avoid having to shut down care in areas that affect more people. Let's [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement leave it there.]]

* The YA novel ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'' features Treehouse, a preschool with a sterling reputation, which has been in operation for nearly twenty years. There, kids play wholesome-sounding games like "TV-star" and "hide-and-seek." [[spoiker:Treehouse is actually a toddler sex ring. "TV-star" is where the kids are forced to perform sex acts on camera, and for this version of hide and seek, the kids have to take off their clothes.]]

* ''Manga/EurekaSeven'':

* The [[ImplacableMan Satchi]], cyber law-enforcers in ''Manga/DennouCoil''. They look like giant brown standing peanuts with smiley-faces painted on. [[NightmareFuel Yeah]].

* The "Merry-Go-Round" in the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkies'', an immense techno-organic tower to which the prisoners of [[LegionOfDoom Dead End]] are not bound, but ''grafted''. [[spoiler:Its purpose is to use the unending agony of the hundreds of captive magical girls to cause an [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Omniversal Metaphysical Negation]].]]

* The ''[[VideoGamme/ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]]'' mission "Exodus" takes place in an upper class suburb known as Arcadia. Arcadia was the ancient Greek kingdom that was supposed be in a peaceful wilderness. Here, it's hotly contested war-zone between the U.S. and Ultranationalist Russian armies.

'''Shanks:''' {{Rambo}}.

** [[TownWithADarkSecret Harfang]] is said to be the home of the only "[[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]]" of the far north. [[ToServeMan Don't believe it]] [[ImAHumanitarian for one second]].
** The "Island Where Dreams Come True." [[NightmareFuel Night]][[NightmareSequence mares]] ''[[FromACertainPointOfView are]]'' [[RealDreamsAreWeirder dreams]].

** Technically speaking the Department of War became the Department of the Army (and arguably the Department of the Air Force). The Department of Defense took the War Department and the Navy Department's Cabinet seats (there was no department that ran all the military branches at the same time after the creation of the Navy Department in 1798[[note The War Department was created eight years earlier as one of the three original Cabinet Departments. The others were State and Treasury. The Attorney General was in the original Cabinet, but he didn't get a Justice Department to run until 1870[[/note]] until 1947) and became their boss.

** Technically speaking the Department of War became the Department of the Army (and arguably the Department of the Air Force). The Department of Defense took the War Department and the Navy Department's Cabinet seats (there was no department that ran all the military branches at the same time prior to 1947) and became their boss.

** Stalin's USSR had "the ultimate act of social security." Guess what that means? [[spoiler:Death penalty]]. Later, they realized how stupid it sounds and changed the legal formula to the much more appropriate-sounding "ultimate act of punishment." More infamously, ThoseWackyNazis similarly referred to UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust as the "final solution" (to the "Jewish problem").

* The "Merry-Go-Round" in the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkies'', an immense techno-organic tower to which the prisoners of [[LegionOfDoom Dead End]] are not bound, but ''grafted''. Its true purpose is unknown as of yet.

* [[ImperialJapan Imperial Japan's]] department of biological and chemical warfare research is called the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has the nice sounding Island of Paradis [[spoiler:which is the place where the three Walls are situated]], in reality [[spoiler:it's infested with possibly thousands of mindless man-eating Titans]], thus the phrase "Being sent to Paradise" means [[spoiler:[[DeadlyEuphemism being transformed into a mindless human-devouring monster to roam the island for all eternity]]]].

* [[TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} Alpha Complex]] practices this trope heavily, with flowery euphemisms for mind-control drugs and a brutal bloodsport called FunBall. At the same time, though, the most dangerous things in Alpha Complex tend to have absolutely honest and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast deeply intimidating]] names.

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-->--''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''

* FluffyTheTerrible: Also a trope where something fearsome has a harmless name; generally, though, FluffyTheTerrible tends to be silly or goofy, whereas SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom tends to be a lot darker.

* Wrestling/{{Raven}} has invented his own variation on the [[GarbageWrestler hardcore match]], which he's dubbed the "[[Literature/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]] House of Fun", which he's challenged several opponents to in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and {{TNA}}.