| 1 | %% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=ybe62x86 |
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| 4 | [[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KissADog_2432.gif]]]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[IAmNotWeasel Actually, she's a wolf]], and she was going to kiss ''him''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Get it right, kid]].]] |
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| 7 | ->[=* p4 has joined #hynes=]\ |
| 8 | <Opius>So i stroke and stroke and stroke, and it does nothing\ |
| 9 | <Opius>then all of a sudden it goes nuts and puts white shit all over my work\ |
| 10 | <p4>i wont ask |
| 11 | -->-- '''qdb.us''' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191225175646/http://qdb.us/33726 #33726]] (abridged) [[labelnote:spoiler]]Opius is talking about the stroke tool in Photoshop.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 13 | Sometimes, when you walk in at the climax of something, it appears disturbingly violent and brutal (or creepy). And then, when you watch it in the proper order, it actually seems less disturbing if possibly still brutal (or creepy). |
| 14 | |
| 15 | What's going on here? |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Answer: The violence is built up to; the villain is shown to be AxCrazy, and the hero is shown to be acting relatively sanely, and the point you walked in was the DarkestHour. |
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| 19 | In other words, it's [[TitleDrop Less Disturbing In Context]]. |
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| 21 | Note: If the film/show you're watching contains only one such scene, then your parents/grandparents/significant other/etc. [[FinaglesLaw will, with 100% certainty, walk in on you just when it happens to be on.]] |
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| 23 | Subtrope of ItMakesSenseInContext. Compare SuperDickery, StabTheSalad, GrossoutFakeout, and StabTheScorpion (for situations that are ''deliberately'' set up to appear disturbing when taken out of context). Contrast FridgeHorror (for situations that get ''more'' disturbing when the implications sink in). Bonus internet points if "It's NotWhatItLooksLike" is uttered. Contrast WorseWithContext where something is ''even more'' disturbing in context. |
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| 26 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 31 | * AxCrazy [[FaceOfAThug heroin addict]] trying to kill classmates because [[HairTriggerTemper they're standing there]]? He's actually a MessianicArchetype picking up garbage from the school grounds. VillainWithGoodPublicity seducing three girls for his demonic rituals? He's actually a ChasteHero who loves them LikeBrotherAndSister. In ''Manga/AngelDensetsu'' the stuff InUniverse is always horror ... but for ''the readers'' it's always [[HilarityEnsues hilarious]] or heartwarming. |
| 32 | * Young man mutating into a monster and ripping a little girl's head off with his teeth? Even those who had read[=/=]watched ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' up to that point probably flinched a little over that scene [[spoiler:(while cheering the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfiring]] of a rather sadistic ShapeShifterGuiltTrip, admittedly)]], seeing it out of context... |
| 33 | ** The key thing that makes this less disturbing in context is that this is one of the main characters doing it and he's done this kind of thing before (albeit usually to those who ''look'' like they could put up a fight). |
| 34 | * ''Manga/FrankenFran'': The ending of one chapter is often described as [[spoiler:"a pedophile's brain is put into the body of a theme park mascot"]]. What usually gets left out is [[spoiler:that the body has no sense of touch and no genitals]]. It's closer to an IronicHell than anything else. |
| 35 | * The short-lived manga ''Gakkyu Hotei: School Judgment'' is completely about this trope: What appears to be TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, ranging from the kids arriving in the classroom only to see their school pet chopped up into a bloody mess to what appears to be a narcotics ring run by an 8-year-old, are proven by the protagonist, a young aspiring attorney, to be completely normal things when placed in their proper contexts.[[note]]The class pet is a fish, and what the kids saw involved a series of unfortunate coincidences involving the caretaker taking the fish home and buying a chopped-up frozen fish from the grocery store. What looked like a narcotics ring was actually a boy sharing a very popular brand of chips coated in fine white powder whose allergies made him look suspicious.[[/note]] This is, in fact, the very theme of the series, which is to avoid jumping to conclusions and to be more trusting of people. |
| 36 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler:Rika's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Ag1TAR-jc suicide]]]] is quite disturbing taken out of context, but in the context of the series, it becomes positive. Disturbing, but ''less''. This is done [[IntendedAudienceReaction intentionally]], because the infamous scene appears at the beginning of the fifth episode, ''before the opening sequence'', with absolutely no context, and it's not until the second half of the season that we see the events leading up to that scene. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has tons of moments like this, but special mention has to go to the entirety of Part 7 (''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]''), which [[MemeticMutation often]] has its plot described as “Jesus told me to kill the president!”. Hard as it is to believe, ItMakesSenseInContext; [[spoiler:the President in question is the BigBad and the MacGuffin of the story is a collection of body parts that are heavily implied to be those of Jesus]]. |
| 39 | * [=S1E11=] of the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' has a scene where it looks like Geordo [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kisses a sleeping and defenseless Catarina while she's in a magic induced coma]]. He's actually trying to get water to her mouth to make sure she stays properly hydrated, but the anime tried to play up the scene as a romantic act. |
| 40 | * The plot of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': A suicidal teacher [[UnwantedHarem wins the love of his students]] by asking them to commit double, or possibly collective, suicide with him. How is it less disturbing in context? 'Cuz it's [[BlackComedy played for laughs]], that's why. |
| 41 | ** The fact that you ''will'' laugh at it is probably the most disturbing thing about it all, you seriously disturbed person, you. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/WaratteSotomuraSan'': A lot of Sotomura's words and actions are pretty disturbing if you don't know the context. Entering the classroom with cuts and a torn uniform is the result of trying to rescue a cat from a tree, while asking someone if they want to get hurt after they bump into her is an attempt to warn them that the floor has just been mopped and it's dangerous for them to race around. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': Crossed with AccidentalPervert -- Hikaru is crawling on all fours in the lingerie department of a store, just underneath the legs of Misa and the [[BridgeBunny Bridge Bunnies]]. They, quite reasonably, suspect he is a creep trying to peek up their skirts. In reality, he had spilled a bag of groceries he was carrying for Minmay and was going to pick up the last can of veggies that had rolled in that direction. |
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| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 47 | * In [[Creator/{{JohnMulaney}} John Mulaney's]] special 'The Comeback Kid', he talks about how his friend has a two-year old daughter, who according to her parents "is going through that phase where she says 'penis' and 'vagina' a lot." That led to a pretty awkward moment at a party when the young girl pointed at John and declared "Uncle John has a penis!" [[MistakenForPedophile and the crowd fell deadly silent.]] |
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| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * Any SuperDickery cover image (unless it turns out to be [[CoversAlwaysLie totally unrelated to the story]]). Most of them were deliberately designed to be shocking so that readers would have to buy the comic to figure out what the hell was happening on the cover (and ''why''); when they did, they usually found out that the hero's actions had a perfectly sensible explanation. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 53 | ** ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'' features a scene where a sickly Clayface is talking about giving Batman "his sickness" and Batman kicking Clayface in the leg. It was published in 1989 and the Clayface featured was Preston Payne, this third incarnation who had BodyHorror that he could ease by using his TouchOfDeath, so Batman was defending himself from a villain trying to melt him. |
| 54 | ** There is an infamous and memetic pair of [[https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/ot5zc/why_doesnt_batman_like_chocolate_ice_cream_whats/ out-of-context panels]] depicting Batman [[DisproportionateRetribution assaulting some guy apparently for eating ice cream]]. The context? [[spoiler:To make a long story short, that's Two-Face and Batman is arresting him after his latest scheme.]] |
| 55 | ** ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' features a rather infamous panel showing Batman [[BatmanGrabsAGun aiming a rifle]] from atop a building. While Batman does plenty of morally questionable things in that series, that particular scene is a BaitAndSwitch moment: he was just firing a {{tracking device}} at Two-Face's helicopter. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 59 | * A RunningGag of the Finnish comic strib, ''Fingerpori'', is that the local mayor will do or say do something completely innocuous in a public setting, and the local newspaper will write up a headline about, that while accurate, removes any context and ends up sounding disturbing. Prominent examples includes: |
| 60 | ** The mayor is interviewed and asked about what his favorite Finnish film is. He mentions the seminal war drama ''Projat'' from 1962. Since "Projat" translates to "little boys", the local newspaper's headline the next day reads "[[MistakenForPedophile The Mayor likes Little Boys]]". |
| 61 | ** In another strip, the mayor is attending a form ceremony, and proudly announces that he has brought an expensive 14-year-old champagne along for the occasion. The headline the next day reads "The Mayor Popped a 14-year-old". |
| 62 | ** In yet another strip, the mayor is in the process of redecorating his office and mentions that he is interested in the wallpaper with a baby seal pattern. True to form, the newspaper headline the next day is "Mayor Hangs Baby Seals on His Wall". |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 66 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' has [[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]] [[Anime/SailorMoon Mercury]] test her new [[DemonicPossession possession spell]] on her [[BigRedDevil Horned]] [[HairTriggerTemper Reaper]], switching bodies with him. The creature then proceeds to subdue her in protest, only to be interrupted by her other employees. This sparked Mercury's deviant reputation that would continue to create embarrassing situations for the poor girl. |
| 67 | * In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the narrator says genocide sounds all well and good. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes sense in context]]; it was just the awkward way she worded her sentence. She seemed to be aware of this however and went out of her way to ask the reader not to quote her on that. |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'': Sometimes, a word will crop up that means something gross, but it was actually a typo, like "I want to shit next to her", when it was actually a misspelling of "sit". |
| 69 | * In an episode of ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', Lisa notes that Lynn has recently googled "puppy play" and Lynn blushes. As it turns out, Lynn was interested in the non-sexual version of puppy play, and she was just embarrassed because the idea of acting like a puppy is a guilty pleasure that goes against her usual personality of being a tough jock. |
| 70 | * In ''Fanfic/SundaySkivvies'', you have [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luan Loud]] in her underwear asking her blushing brother Lincoln if she thinks he's cute. The context is that she's showing him how ridiculous he looks reading comics in his undies, he's blushing because he's embarrassed at seeing one of his sisters half-naked, and she's just making an off-colour joke. |
| 71 | * Most human x Pokémon relationships in ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', usually because of a mon becoming human or vice versa. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 75 | * If you haven't seen ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', the scene in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'' where Austin beats up Mini-Me probably looks pretty brutal and unfair. Unnecessary misunderstanding? Yes. But hardly ''unfair''. |
| 76 | * The trailer for ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' shows a scene of Captain Marvel violently attacking an old woman. To people not familiar with the backstory it's quite shocking, but she's actually fighting an alien shapeshifter. |
| 77 | * This trope is played with in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank''. The trained assassin, Blank, kills someone because this person is trying to assassinate him. However, Blank's girlfriend, who witnesses this, treats it like he's a serial killer and would kill anyone for no reason. Luckily, it got better. |
| 78 | * ''Film/ILoveYouPhillipMorris'': About twenty minutes in, the movie suddenly cuts to Stephen having sex with a mustached man, complete with a [[CensorShadow barely covered]], sweaty Creator/JimCarrey (read: it's so graphic, it had a very limited release in American theaters). Granted, it's about a closeted StraightGay conman and the scene is [[MoodWhiplash completely unprecedented]], but failing to have any knowledge on the premise can give the impression that softcore gay pornography is being viewed. |
| 79 | * There are one or two scenes in ''Film/LoveActually'' that '''look like''' porn. In actuality, the characters are lighting doubles and the director needs to make sure "everything" will be visible (while the characters just sit there and chat about the weather and politics). When watching the movie alone, it is practically guaranteed that someone else will enter the room during that scene. (Still, some red-blooded males might actually be less embarrassed about being caught watching porn rather than ''Love Actually''...) |
| 80 | * In the ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'' series, Wong Fei-Hung has a romantic relationship with his own aunt... who is not a blood relative, only a relative through marriage. |
| 81 | * There's a scene in ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' where Lina says that she "can't make love to a bush". She's actually talking about the [[HaveAGayOldTime older meaning]] of "make love to", meaning "to flirt with", and the context is that she's an actress and the director is telling her to speak her dialogue, which happens to be romantic, towards a bush prop because that's where the microphone is. |
| 82 | * If you watched ''Film/{{Timecop}}'' in the VHS days, you might have thought someone had taped over it halfway through when it suddenly switched to porn. If you get into an awkward situation, just explain to your grandma that the movie is actually about an agency that polices time travel and the scene in question is a virtual reality sex simulation that has no bearing on the plot. |
| 83 | * A lot of reviews of ''Film/Venom2018'' brought up a scene where [[HoYay Eddie makes out with Venom]], causing people to [[WatchItForTheMeme see the movie just to witness that insanity firsthand]] and be disappointed when the context makes it perfectly sensible; [[spoiler:he isn’t literally kissing Venom, he’s kissing his LoveInterest who just happens to be wearing the symbiote at the time.]] |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 87 | * Discussed in ''Literature/AppointmentWithDeath''. Literature/HerculePoirot overhears someone say "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?'. He then thinks of the story about a similar thing happening to Creator/AnthonyTrollope but decides it's not as innocent as that. |
| 88 | * One ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book does this in-universe: Jessi goes to visit Stacey in NYC and overhears two guys discussing their plan to commit a robbery. She and her pseudo-boyfriend then spend the whole book following them around trying to get more concrete evidence, before hearing a repeat of the same scene, except this time with the two men bursting into laughter partway through and one exclaiming "Check your script!" |
| 89 | * A lot of things in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' sound less disturbing in context. One of those is the word "child brides" which sounds horrible, considering the RealLife thing. However, as the novel is SpeculativeFiction, the ExoticExtendedMarriage is such that the "child brides" are the younger sisters of the adult wives in a sororal polygyny marriage, and the husband has his own bedroom, where his wives visit him if they wish to. It is made very obvious that wives don't start visiting the husband's quarters at night until they come of age (and "interested in men", as one character puts it), and it is implied that they can choose to sleep alone for the rest of their lives. (If they're lucky, they might even be able to get a husband of more appropriate age later, though that would require to split the family.) |
| 90 | * A major plot point of the ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' trilogy involves the two main characters killing the Christian God. People hearing this without context probably imagine this as quite different from how it was actually portrayed. Technically, he dies of old age, and the two of them just happened to be there when it happens, and while they may have had a role in it, they didn't do it intentionally, in essence making it a MercyKill. Also, under one interpretation, God is really the Dust, while the "God" that dies is an impostor. |
| 91 | * ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'': Despite the fact that "There are no slaves in Hurog" (slavery is so thoroughly abolished that every slave who sets foot on Hurog land becomes free), the protagonist Ward owns a slave. Disturbing, isn't it? But the context is such that [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Oreg]] was MadeASlave by a distant ancestor of Ward, and is now bound to a ring, that apparently is magically compelled to be inherited by the son of the prior owner. Oreg cannot be freed. Neither can the magic ring be taken off. [[AWizardDidIt An evil sorcerer did it.]] At the end of the book, Ward kills his friend and ally [[spoiler:Oreg]], and also, castle Hurog collapses. Sounds bad? Fortunately, the castle was evacuated at the time, and [[spoiler:Oreg asked Ward to kill him in order to bring that about. And he comes back]]. |
| 92 | * ''Literature/NinaTanleven'': In-universe example in ''The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed'' - Jimmy's confession that he "hung" Cornelius Fletcher, and later that he "hung him every day", makes considerably more sense to the characters when they find out the truth: [[spoiler:Cornelius was placed into a set of harnesses and "hung" in the air via ropes and pulleys so he could work on the mural that became his last and greatest painting.]] |
| 93 | * "Nothing Like Murder", one of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/BlackWidowers'' stories, has a Russian guest with sketchy English lament how violent America is since he heard two men calmly discussing tying someone up in the dark, presumably planning to kidnap and murder them. Eventually, Henry, the urbane English butler works out the complainant has overheard the men [[spoiler:reciting the "One ring" prophecy from Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." (For one thing, 'Mordor' sounds like 'murder'.)]] |
| 94 | * ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' pretty much begins with a man [[{{Squick}} having sex with a red-skinned woman who has a beetle for a head]]. It ''sounds'' like some kind of Lovecraftian horror scene, but in context it's actually a rather sweet and heartwarming moment; the woman is his girlfriend, just happens to be part of a fantasy race of sapient bug people, the sex is totally consensual, and he's basically making up with her after they had an argument about the seriousness of their relationship. The book ''does'' have a lot of horror scenes, this just isn't one of them. |
| 95 | * In ''Relentless'' by Creator/DeanKoontz, Penny is furious about a man who's threatening her family. She says that she wants to blow up a hotel or other large building and how relaxing and satisfying it is to do this. It turns out that Penny's parents used to own a demolition company, so she grew up watching controlled implosions and always found them exciting. |
| 96 | * In ''Literature/SevenMenOfGascony'' the sixteen-year-old CampFollower Nicheolette took turns marrying several members of TheSquad until they died in combat or otherwise. Not brutal but kind of squicky. It is less disturbing when it is understood that this was to announce to other soldiers that she had the squad's protection in a camp full of young men who were accustomed to violence and seldom saw a woman. |
| 97 | * A lot of the demerits listed in ''Literature/SkippysList'' are real US Military regulations, taken out of context and quoted in such a way as to imply a NoodleIncident had taken place. For example... |
| 98 | --> 112. Radioactive material [[CaptainObvious should not be stored]] [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough in the barracks]]. |
| 99 | * In ''Literature/TheWasteLands'', the third installment in the ''[[Literature/TheDarkTower Dark Tower]]'' series, some of the dialogue concerns "the tribe of Pubes". No, their name doesn't have anything to do with pubic hair: it refers to the fact that their earliest members were teenagers who had just hit puberty. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 103 | * Characters in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' occasionally talk about feeling sad or tired and wanting to drink poison, shoot themselves, etc. This seems disturbing if you don't know that the Addamses are immune to poison and many injuries and doing things that would injure or kill a normal person is their idea of fun. |
| 104 | * Parodied in ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' when [[Creator/HughLaurie Hugh]]'s character begins talking about his first kiss - which happened when happened when he was sitting on the lap of his uncle, who was just out of prison on parole. |
| 105 | * A common trope is to introduce a character who initially seems friendly, then have them do something shocking that appears to be an out of character moment. Then their back story starts getting revealed and it becomes clear why these things have been done. An example being Gus in ''Series/BreakingBad'' who seems friendly considering his position as a drug dealer. But then we see him brutally murder Victor for the sole reason of scaring Walt and Jesse. Soon we see a flashback where Gus's friend Max is killed in a similar manner. |
| 106 | * Everything Larry David does in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', due to the other characters misinterpreting what Larry has done. An example being the episode in which Larry puts a water bottle down his pants to sneak it into a theatre, and a little girl hugs him. She feels the water bottle, then runs into the lobby screaming, "MOMMY! MOMMY! That bald man's in the bathroom and there's something hard in his pants!" Larry has no choice but to escape through the window. |
| 107 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B3oC6yWY0A You can watch the entire scene here.]] |
| 108 | * This happens on any number of occasions in ''Series/{{Frasier}},'' and is usually [[LampshadeHanging effective in-universe.]] Some of the better examples: |
| 109 | -->"Niles was getting on my nerves, so I had to go in and steal his ovaries."\ |
| 110 | "I tell ya, I'd be happy if Niles traded in a couple of teeth for his cojones!"[[labelnote: Bonus]]These are both from the same episode.[[/labelnote]] |
| 111 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': When Phoebe goes to the hospital in labor, she tells the receptionist that "The father is my brother." She's acting as a surrogate for her brother and his wife, but the receptionist doesn't know that and gives her a very strange look. |
| 112 | -->'''Rachel''': I am ''so'' going to miss watching you freak people out like that! [[note]] As the quote indicates, the writers got a ''lot'' of mileage out of this gag.[[/note]] |
| 113 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': The following conversation between Dr. Kelso and Carla: |
| 114 | -->'''Kelso:''' ''...And yet, for some reason, I'm not wearing a party hat sitting bare-ass on the hospital's copier machine. You know why? It's not because I have "Johnny" tattooed on my butt. He was an old navy buddy and if you went through what we did you'd understand... It's because your little theory is way off.'' |
| 115 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 116 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': |
| 117 | *** "Hide And Q" has a scene where Picard praises Riker for letting a little girl die. The scene is actually referring to a SecretTestOfCharacter in that episode where Riker was given [[PhysicalGod Q powers]] and yes Riker letting the girl[[note]]Who, as it turned out, never existed anyway[[/note]] die ''was'' an ultimately good thing. Out of context though it sounds like Picard is a total sociopath who hates children to murderous degrees. |
| 118 | *** "Phantasms" has a scene where Data stabs Troi on the shoulder. The context is that she had an invisible space parasite on her shoulder and he was not right in the head but instinctively trying to kill the parasite. |
| 119 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 120 | *** Towards the end of season 4 and the start of season 5, Major Kira is carrying Chief O'Brien's baby, and O'Brien's wife Keiko is completely OK with it. They even invite her to live in their quarters. Kinda strange unless you saw the episode in which the baby had an emergency transplant from Keiko to Kira. Played with in the season 5 premiere episode "Apocalypse Rising", when Kira informs Gul Dukat that she's carrying O'Brien's child ''without'' letting him in on the context, and he reacts about the same as anyone else would. |
| 121 | *** In "You Are Cordially Invited...", there's a scene in ''Deep Space Nine'' where Bashir and O'Brien are chanting, "Kill Worf!". The context is that they were mad at Worf for having them participate in a painful ritual and were speaking hyperbolically. |
| 122 | ** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "Latent Image", Janeway [[{{Unperson}} Unpersons]] a dead crew member, forcing the rest of the crew to act like she never existed in an almost ''1984''-esque scene. Except it's only really scary out of context; the rule was actually only that they do so when the Doctor might be listening, and the reason for this was that the Doctor had gone into a HeroicBSOD over her death, so they had altered the Doctor's memories so he wouldn't remember her. It was ultimately a bit misguided, but the intention was understandable. In the end, they restore the Doctor's memories, allowing him to find closure since [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming his breakdown happened due to having grown beyond his original programming]]. |
| 123 | ** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In "The Crossing", there's a scene where it looks as though Hoshi and Phlox are beating each other up. In reality, Hoshi was possessed and Phlox was acting in self-defence. Still a little creepy, but not as disturbing as it would be at face value. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 127 | * "Baby, it's Cold Outside" is commonly mistaken for being about DateRape due to the lines like "I really can't stay", coupled with the line "Say, what's in this drink?" which some people took as a reference to SlippingAMickey. In actuality, the woman in the song ''wanted'' to stay; the only reason she felt she couldn't was because her family and the neighbours would scorn her due to SlutShaming, and there was nothing in the drink (not even alcohol); she was just using it as an excuse. |
| 128 | * Music/DirEnGrey's "mazohyst of decadence" is another lyrical example, which, ripped from its context of abortion being a primary method of birth control in Japan, seems like a very extreme anti-abortion rant and UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming, when it's actually lashing out at a society that refuses to acknowledge the need for birth control and sex education and uses the most painful and traumatizing last-ditch procedure as a substitute for preventing pregnancy in the first place. |
| 129 | * A lot of the time, when people find out what the lyrics of "Elouette" translate to, they think it's a horrible, or even "mean" song, since the lyrics are the singer telling a lark that they want to pluck it. In actuality, the lark being spoken to was meant to be already dead, and being prepared for being cooked. |
| 130 | * Pink's [[ANaziByAnyOtherName violent racism]] in the final portion of Music/TheWall is less disturbing when you realize it [[UnreliableNarrator may or may not really be happening]]. Either way, Music/PinkFloyd is definitely not endorsing Pink's views, just showing the eventual effects of his isolation and mental instability (and he does get a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment at the end of the album). |
| 131 | * Music/TimMinchin has a song all about this, called "Cont[[spoiler:ext]]". It's all about how he hates Jews [[spoiler:who make and distribute kiddie porn]], black people [[spoiler:who risk billions of other people's money gambling on future derivatives]], the rich [[spoiler:who use their wealth as an excuse for bigotry]], the poor [[spoiler:who use their poverty as an excuse for bigotry]], [[SlutShaming whores]] [[spoiler:[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking who don't accept Visa]]]], and more. But [[OhCrap he only remembers the spoilered parts after he's run through it once]]... |
| 132 | * Music/NinjaSexParty's "Danny Don't You Know?" features the singer (a grown man) telling a teenager that he's "hot as fuck". It's not as creepy as it sounds: [[spoiler:said teenager is [[MyFutureSelfAndMe the singer himself in his younger days]]; the singer is assuring his teenage self that he'll eventually grow out of his awkward phase and be loved by others]]. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Mythology and Religion]] |
| 136 | * Literature/TheBible has many instances of this, considering it was written [[ValuesDissonance by and for people who lived thousands of years ago]]. In most cases, knowing the cultural and historical context of the Bible makes its more "disturbing" moments considerably less disturbing (although in others, it just makes for additional FridgeHorror). |
| 137 | ** The moment in the Gospels where the Roman soldiers give Jesus vinegar to drink while he's hanging from the cross? It wasn't [[KickTheDog additional torture]]. Romans used vinegar to disinfect water and make it more refreshing as a beverage. |
| 138 | ** In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Onan is killed by God for refusing to impregnate his brother's wife. This can seem ''incredibly'' creepy to a modern reader, but contemporary readers would have recognized that he was violating a marriage law: if a married Hebrew man died before having children, his brother was supposed to marry his widow to keep her in the family and ensure that his line would continue; by refusing to impregnate his brother's widow, Onan was denying his brother an heir. |
| 139 | ** One of Jesus' parables features a man being thrown out of a wedding (a metaphor for being sent to Hell) because he isn't dressed in a wedding robe and and can't give a good excuse why. He's not being punished for sloppy dressing: wedding robes were traditionally provided by the host of a wedding, so refusing to wear one was a deliberate insult (it was either a sign that you weren't taking the wedding seriously, or trying to upstage the bride and groom by wearing something fancier), and the host had every right to be mad at him for spitting on hospitality. The moral of the story is that God's mercy is a privilege; he'll give it to anyone, but abuse it and lose it. |
| 140 | ** The Literature/BooksOfKings feature a rather infamous moment where a group of boys are mauled by bears for mocking the prophet Elisha's bald head--but there are several contextual clues suggesting that this moment wasn't ''quite'' as disturbing or [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment inexplicable]] as some modern readers might think. Firstly: the Hebrew word for "boys" in this passage refers to anyone under the age of 25, likely meaning that they were actually young men (children wouldn't be roaming freely on a dangerous highway, after all). There were also ''42'' of them, and they were specifically shouting ''"Go up, baldhead!"'', telling Elisha to "go up" to Heaven like Elijah before him--which was almost certainly an ImpliedDeathThreat. So instead of a few boys mocking Elijah's bald head, it would be more accurate to picture a crowd of adult thugs surrounding him and threatening to kill him. And while having them '''mauled by bears''' was undeniably pretty harsh, it isn't entirely clear in the text whether they were killed; the Hebrew word for "maul" in that passage literally translates to "break open", and could refer to anything from killing someone to merely ripping their clothes.[[note]] Also the bears in question would have been Syrian brown bears, which are considerably smaller and more docile than their European and North American counterparts, putting them in a slightly less menacing light than the grizzly bears that most modern readers might picture.[[/note]] |
| 141 | ** In Numbers 31, God instructs the Hebrews to slaughter the entire population of an enemy city but "save the virgins for [themselves]". Despite how it might sound, this isn't an instruction to take sex slaves: they were being instructed to integrate the city's girls into Hebrew society in order to recoup their population, which had crashed due to the war. Modern readers are also likely to be creeped out by the implication that they physically examined the city's young women to root out the virgins, but this also likely isn't what happened; at that time, all girls would have been married off as soon as they hit puberty, so "virgins" would have referred to all girls who were too young to be married (who would have been identifiable by their age and dress). Killing all of the city's civilian males (including young boys) probably seems even worse, but even that was likely motivated by pragmatism, since it ensured that they wouldn't try to take revenge when they were old enough. |
| 142 | ** God's instruction to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac is a ''very'' infamous moment that strikes many modern readers as disturbing, but several details in the text strongly suggest that both of them knew that God wouldn't ''actually'' force Abraham to kill his son--likely meaning that it was a test to see whether Abraham truly trusted God (a "trust fall", in other words). Prior to that point, God had stated several times that Isaac would be Abraham's heir, which obviously couldn't be the case if he were dead. Abraham was also in his 80s at the time, while Isaac was spry enough to gather the wood for the "sacrifice", likely meaning that he was perfectly capable of running away if he truly feared for his life. |
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| 145 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' is quite possibly the only time the PunkInTheTrunk trope was or will ever be used in a benign context: the only passenger seats in the Batmobile are in there. Even with that in mind, [[spoiler:driving around with a young handicapped girl in the trunk of your car]] would still need some additional context to not seem like the actions of a SerialKiller. |
| 147 | * Many people, gamers and non-gamers, who watched ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'''s first concept art and videos full of racist and xenophobic art felt extremely offended about it, and even sent death threats to the creators' studio. Turns out, said art was of things associated with the BigBad, the extremely xenophobic Zachary Comstock, who created the setting of Columbia to serve as essentially a racist's paradise. The game supports racism about as much as [[VideoGame/BioShock the original]] supported objectivism, and the game's protagonists are much more open-minded. |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' contains a scene in which a fake psychiatrist [[WouldHurtAChild decapitates a prepubescent child abuse survivor]]. Said prepubescent was an EnfantTerrible who had shown no remorse for killing 7 people over extremely flimsy reasons, one of which was [[ItsPersonal said "psychiatrist"'s brother]]. |
| 149 | * In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', Nero's special Devil Bringer move against [[spoiler:Sanctus]]: brutally pummeling an old man in the gut with his giant demonic arm, ''repeatedly.'' If you know what that old man was up to, it's a bit less unheroic to be doing that, but it's still hard to watch. Similarly, there's [[spoiler:Dante [[SuperDickery blasting the aforementioned old man]] at point blank range with his gun in the intro]], which is quite shocking at first until later on it's revealed to be more of a case of him being pragmatic for once. |
| 150 | * In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' DLC ''Overlord,'' a Paragon Shepard has the option to PistolWhip Dr. Archer for [[spoiler:what he did to his autistic younger brother, essentially turning him into a living computer, the titular Overlord]]. In any other context this might come off as a JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope moment since Shepard, who's fully armored and makes a habit of taking out [[EldritchAbomination species destroying monsters]] is attacking an unarmed man, and as a Paragon isn't supposed to ''do'' stuff like that, but in context you'll probably be ''cheering'' instead. |
| 151 | * Not violent, but there are some scenes in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' that are... questionable. When Lucas gains PSI powers, it involves another character (that just so happens to look like a transvestite) holding his head under the water of a hot spring. Out of context, it could easily be mistaken for some kind of weird rape scene. The [[WordOfGod creator]] didn't clarify things when he was [[http://mother3.fobby.net/interview/m3int_04.html asked about it]] either. |
| 152 | * The way ''VideoGame/Persona3'''s Evokers (handgun-shaped devices needed for summoning Personas) are used - by putting it to your head and pulling the trigger - can be disturbing even to those who know that they don't shoot bullets. This is especially jarring during the opening cutscene (when you aren't supposed to know about it yet), where one of the characters seemingly tries to kill herself. It's even acknowledged InUniverse, with Junpei himself [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] about it. Strangely enough, a lot of people find Evokers one of the coolest things in the franchise. |
| 153 | * Due to foreign [=MMOs=] sometimes having been through BlindIdiotTranslation, we get some weird terms that most bystanders would be freaked out by. Namely in ''VideoGame/RFOnline'', you could get someone saying something like "I'm killing hobos for money!". Hobo is actually a type of enemy that is good farming material for lower levels. |
| 154 | * To some, Vincent's "Monsters? [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness They looked like monsters to you]]?" quote is ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'''s WhamLine, but skeptics of the "monsters are actually people" interpretation point out his next line is "[[JustJokingJustification Don't worry, it's just a joke]]." Vincent is a ManipulativeBastard who enjoys making people squirm, but the game at least offers the possibility that the monsters are just that, monsters. On top of that, the rules of [[GeniusLoci Silent Hill]] change from game to game, so even if Vincent were telling the truth, that doesn't mean the monsters in every game are also people. |
| 155 | * Not only is ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' about an OmnicidalManiac trying to destroy the ''multi-verse'', [[spoiler: but an entire chapter of the story is also dedicated to the heroes' murder and their descent into the underworld]], right? This is not the case, as it is actually presented in a humorous tone, [[spoiler:and the characters actually make it to heaven before continuing on with their quest]]. This also doubles as CommonKnowledge since [[spoiler: Dimentio didn't kill them, only teleported them]]. |
| 156 | * While playing ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', you may get some weird looks if people overhear a woman moaning and groaning, followed by the question "What did you do to me?" It is then necessary to explain that she was in fact in a hospital dying of injuries, and you were saving her life by feeding her some of your vampire blood. ([[VampiresAreSexGods The subtext may be intentional.]]) |
| 157 | * It's a running gag with the ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' fanbase that game advice solicited on its communities will have titles that would be highly disturbing, offensive, or even criminal outside the context of the game, as the [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruelty]] and [[VideoGamePerversityPotential perversity]] potentials for this game are huge. Posts asking about how to [[CripplingCastration castrate]]/[[OffingTheOffspring murder]]/[[ParentalIncest seduce]] one's children are par for the course. Questions and memes on [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill mass murder]], [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar genocide]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and whether or not one should]] seduce one's [[TangledFamilyTree sister-daughter to produce a child who will marry her grandfather-uncle]] are also common. Such topics are frequent enough that a [[http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitCrusaderKingsSay subreddit]] in the spirit of /r/nocontext was set up to compile all such occurrences. |
| 158 | * ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'''s fanbase has similar jokes about similarly brutal gameplay questions, like "How do I get my blood-powered kitten crusher to work" or "How to kill children efficiently" being the tip of the iceberg on the Bay 12/Steam/Reddit forums. And this doesn't count the various situations in-game that can occur by accident, like mothers using their babies as shields or occasionally weapons, since mothers carry their babies everywhere and dwarves like improvising weapons out of whatever they happen to be carrying. |
| 159 | * ''VideoGame/YiikAPostModernRPG'' has the notorious line "Nobody cares about your dead sister", said by main character Alex to new party member Rory. Two things make this less horrific: one, the line [[BeamMeUpScotty is actually]] "No one cares about your sister, we almost just died ourselves!" Secondly, the context of the line is that Alex is furious with Rory for having lied about his sister still being alive and dragging the group to find her, only to reveal ''after'' they're all nearly killed that she died years ago. Alex could have phrased it with more tact, but he's not exactly wrong that Rory's angst over his sister nearly cost them all their lives. |
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| 162 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 163 | * Many of the deaths in ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' can be seen as disturbing to an outsider who hasn't watched the actual show, and thus doesn't know that recovery exists. |
| 164 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBcbfMzSro This]] Toys/MonsterHigh episode has Frankie acting like a terrifying MadScientist...and it's revealed that she's doing this to make [[MundaneMadeAwesome gingerbread cookies]]. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 168 | * ''Webcomic/ButImACatPerson'': "[[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-nine-page-23/ I got this list of the names of a bunch of impressionable teenagers]]! It has all their contact information!" |
| 169 | * ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' (pictured) features a [[InterspeciesRomance romantic subplot]] between [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect a veterinarian and his patient]]. [[UpliftedAnimal Said patient is smart enough]] to handle ''fusion reactors'', so legal informed consent goes without saying. |
| 170 | * ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': |
| 171 | ** "I'm ''nine years old'' and I'm ''still a virgin!"''. Goblins, in the comic, only live thirty years, and therefore age much faster than humans. |
| 172 | ** And an in-universe example: Minmax ends up on the receiving end of an angry mob since he appears to be commenting on the attractiveness of underage girls (along the lines of "she's thirteen, but still pretty hot"). Except that the numbers he lists are their charisma stats, not their age. The townspeople don't make the connection and HilarityEnsues. |
| 173 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 174 | ** In terms of {{Squick}} rather than brutal violence: in the epilogue to Act 4, [[spoiler: Jade's grandfather stuffs and preserves the corpse of her dead dream self]]. |
| 175 | ** Also, later on [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005433 this part]], showing an angry glowing vampire chainsawing a clearly terrified guy in half. If you read the events leading up to that point, you would be cheering on the vampire with the chainsaw. (click the ==> button a few times) |
| 176 | ** Also, the semi-frequent [[spoiler:kissing of corpses]] is a lot less disturbing (although still somewhat squicky) when you understand [[spoiler: it's a way of resurrecting someone who's recently died.]] |
| 177 | ** The first view of Kanaya we have, before she's introduced or even named, is an anachronistic shot of her doing ''something'' to a sleeping Tavros involving a chainsaw and a GoryDiscretionShot, which also freaks out Karkat when ''he'' sees it out of context. When we reach that point in the timeline... she's amputating Tavros's ruined legs to give him mecha prostheses. |
| 178 | * ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'': |
| 179 | ** More "Less Poignant in Context", but this [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html strip.]] Once you know who that little girl is, it goes from a desperate last stand to [[spoiler:minus playing another one of her games.]] |
| 180 | ** A straight example is the last arc. [[spoiler:The title character kills ''every human being on Earth'' -- accidentally.]] The reason it isn't a full-on DownerEnding is that [[spoiler:everyone chooses to live on in the spirit world instead, and "life" there is essentially just like life on Earth.]] It's still pretty gloomy, though. |
| 181 | * [[http://www.misfile.com/misfile/2012-08-15 This gem]] from ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Commented on InUniverse, no less. ([[GenderBender He]]'s actually talking about a burn he got from spilled hot chocolate on his butt, and how racing would probably aggravate it.) |
| 182 | -->'''Recording of Ash:''' ''My ass is still sore from last night. I don't know if it could take the kind of friction that would entail.''\ |
| 183 | '''Rumisiel:''' Keep going. This is great stuff.\ |
| 184 | '''Ash (highly alarmed):''' Don't you dare play that out of context... Ever...\ |
| 185 | '''Rumisiel:''' My, my. You dirty girl. What would JAMES say? |
| 186 | * In ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'', there's a panel that has Betty telling Thaddeus, her son, that she will "take [him] over [her] knee". In context, you know she's just making a joke because he's an adult and too big to fit on her knee. |
| 187 | * [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021204 This]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip. It's amazing how quickly you become desensitized to kittens slaughtering half-naked people. |
| 188 | * ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Some of the EncyclopediaExposita pages are written from the point of view of in-story characters that have a low opinion of Finland, which in real life is where the comic's author lives. People who have run into those pages out of context have mistaken them for the works of an actual person with a low opinion of Finland. |
| 189 | * ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' tends towards this rather frequently. For example, [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/spot-of-heaven/ this]] strip is much less frightening if you know that the woman on the beach is essentially indestructible. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 193 | * The first line of [[http://www.bash.org/?352172 this]] bash.org quote. |
| 194 | -->'''NH Boy''' I broke my G-string while fingering a minor :(\ |
| 195 | '''rycool''' ...\ |
| 196 | '''NH Boy''' [[InnocentInnuendo I was trying to play Knocking on Heaven's Door.]]\ |
| 197 | '''NH Boy''' Oh well, time to buy new strings. |
| 198 | * ''Website/{{Buzzfeed}}'' has a video of Zach saying, "Oh, your penis!" to Justin, and then later, Zach preparing to show Justin his own penis. The context is that Zach walked in on Justin changing, and both of them [[EmbarrassmentPlot felt very embarrassed]], so Zach decided to show Justin his own penis to make it equal. |
| 199 | * [[https://soulsphere.org/mirrors/www.rome.ro/lee_killough/humor/doomed-airline.shtml This short story]] from rec.humor.funny has this happening to two people playing multiplayer ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' on a plane. |
| 200 | * Just try talking about ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' without people giving you strange looks. Just... ''try''. This includes talking about the premise of teenagers being kidnapped by terrorists and forced to fight to the death. And specific scenes can fall into this as well; to most people, a scene where a teenager pins another teenager to a tree with a sword and carves words into his chest would be disturbing, for example, but once you know the context it's much more positive. |
| 201 | * A number of supposedly true short stories about Soviet border guard sergeant "Allur" have been circulating Russian websites since the late 1990s. In one story an inspecting major enters a weapon storeroom, then a gunshot is heard. The sergeant and a private rush in and see the major and another private ''covered head to toes in white goo'' and holding a ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' issue[[note]]porn was illegal in the USSR, but merely possessing it was usually punished with confiscation, especially by 1990, when the story is set[[/note]]. As it turned out, the major was checking if all rifles were properly unloaded, one rifle shot, the bullet flew through a can of wallpaper glue atop the weapon locker, splattering the glue all over the room, then the falling can knocked somebody's PornStash off the locker. In the end, all blame was assigned to the last private who used the gun. |
| 202 | * Occasionally, ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' will remove the video of a scene and say, "This is only a sin if you listen to just the audio." |
| 203 | * ''WebVideo/{{Dollightful}}'': She frequently cuts up and rearranges parts of her dolls, especially ones receiving heavy modifications. Some of her voiceover descriptions make it sound like she's a serial killer dismembering and then reassembling her victims if you aren't watching the accompanying footage. This is acknowledged in the "Doll Customizing Out of Context" video, a compilation a bunch of offputting clips from her videos. |
| 204 | * In one of Creator/TomSka's videos, he describes the time he showed a kid footage from WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda, after which he was banned from playing with that kid. After telling the story, Tom's editor has to point out to him that he forgot to clarify that he was also a child at this time. |
| 205 | * Website/{{Reddit}}'s [[http://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/ r/nocontext]] is a repository of these moments. A number of subreddits about particular works, video games in particular, listed elsewhere on this page have also been soft-banned (technically permitted but usually downvoted) from r/nocontext for producing ''too many'' such lines too easily; ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'', and ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' are among those who hold this dubious honor. |
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| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 210 | * There's a scene in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', with the line, "The dog's got my wiener!". If you actually ''watch'' the scene, it becomes clear that it's just a little girl (D.W. Read) complaining that her dog (Pal) stole her hot dog. |
| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'': There's a scene that's become infamous on the internet in "Betty Boop's Ker-choo" where it looks like Betty is flashing her boss. While ''Betty Boop'' does have some deliberate ParentService, in that particular scene, she was just taking off her shirt and putting it back on to demonstrate buttoning up a coat. |
| 212 | * If you don't know the story, it can be jarring to see images from "WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace" showing WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck in full Nazi uniform with a Swastika armband saluting, "Heil Hitler!" Of course, the cartoon itself is a {{Propaganda|Piece}} WartimeCartoon: Donald is having a DreamSequence in which he is a factory worker in 'Nutzi Land', and part of the ridiculous standards forced on him (along with a 48 hour workday and constantly changing shells) is that he must salute pictures of Hitler whenever they appear on the line, or else. He eventually wakes up, glad to be a citizen of {{Eagleland}} instead of one of ThoseWackyNazis. Still, Disney itself doesn't circulate the cartoon these days without a very full disclaimer about the context (delivered by Creator/LeonardMaltin, no less). |
| 213 | * In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''... |
| 214 | --> '''Zim:''' "The Dib! THE DIB! I don't ''care'' how [[HoYay delicious he is,]] he's ''evil!'' |
| 215 | ** Also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67X-fO3cvU8 AMV]] of the [[NightmareFuel/InvaderZim Halloween Episode]] would count as well. The episode is actually much more lighthearted. |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': |
| 217 | ** In several episodes, characters are seen covered in red liquid, but it's not actually blood (like in "Back in Black", characters get covered in fake blood, and in "Friends in Dry Places", Clyde gets jam all over his foot). |
| 218 | ** In "Missed Connection", Lana says she likes "eating butt". She means that she thinks it's funny that the pizza was shaped like a butt (it was meant to be a heart). |
| 219 | ** Lucy sometimes claims she needs a corpse, when she means she needs someone to play the corpse in her practice funerals. |
| 220 | * In the cartoon version of ''Literature/MillyMolly'', the episode "Alf" has the eponymous new student shouting, "Pussies!". If you watch the episode, it becomes clear that he's talking about the girls' cats. |
| 221 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 222 | ** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" has a twofer: |
| 223 | *** Twilight come across what appears to be [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] beating a bear severely and then breaking its neck. [[spoiler:She was actually performing chiropractic therapy on it.]] |
| 224 | *** That same episode has a [[SanitySlippage driven-to-insanity]] Twilight approach three VERY young girls and saying "Hi, girls..." slowly and with a [[NightmareFace really creepy face]]. Anyone who sees this without realizing what it is may just scream "RUN, CHILDREN! RUN!"[[note]]mind you, someone who ''does'' know the context may scream that as well, but for a way different reason than what probably comes to mind if you don't[[/note]]. |
| 225 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return of Harmony, Part 2]]" features a scene where Discorded Rainbow Dash is tied up and pleading "Lemme go! I don't need you guys! Leave me alone!" as Twilight Sparkle walks up to her. Twilight is, in fact, trying to save her from being BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 226 | * WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales: In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyTalesS1E25PoniesInParadise Ponies in Paradise]], there’s a scene of a pony being [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod thrown into a volcano as a sacrifice]]. This is just an ImagineSpot, and the episode actually has a PrejudiceAesop. |
| 227 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 228 | ** "Missionary: Impossible" features Homer declaring ''"Oh great, now my testicle's got ants on it!"'' [[note]] To top that, both Spanish dubs make it slightly worse, as the phrasing comes off more as "ants '''in''' it".[[/note]] The context behind that line is actually (reasonably) innocent: Homer was drinking from an ox's testicle (mistaking it for an exotic local delicacy) and accidentally dropped it on an anthill. |
| 229 | ** "Lady Bouvier's Lover" features Homer agonizing about the possibility of him and Marge being [[BrotherSisterIncest brother and sister]], which would make Bart and Lisa deformed inbred freaks. Mercifully, the episode features no ''actual'' incest: it's about Homer's divorced father Abe dating Marge's widowed mother Jacqueline; Homer was just weirded out by the possibility of Abe and Jacqueline getting married, which would technically make him and Marge ''step''-siblings. |
| 230 | * For an example that is only ''[[DownplayedTrope marginally]]'' less disturbing in context, whenever fans of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' discuss the scene in which [[VillainProtagonist Cartman]] [[spoiler:arranges the deaths of Scott Tenorman's parents and [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies feeds them to him]]]], it is phrased in such a way as to imply that he pulled the trigger himself. In reality, he tricked them into [[spoiler:trespassing on a paranoid farmer's property, who is the one to have actually shot them]]. That said, considering that Cartman ''[[spoiler:orchestrates the deaths of [[RevengeByProxy two innocents]]]]'' because [[DisproportionateRetribution his nemesis cheated him out of sixteen dollars]], and [[KarmaHoudini he gets away with it]], it is understandable why fans would find that to be mere semantics. |
| 231 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 232 | ** It has Patrick's line "Wait, Jeffery! I have to touch you!" [[spoiler:He was obsessed with touching everything at a jellyfishing museum, and Jeffery was a mascot they were featuring there.]] |
| 233 | ** In "Sponge Guard on Duty", Larry says, "What's that on your nose?" and Spongebob replies, "[[AccidentalInnuendo White stuff.]]" [[spoiler:It was ice cream, and Larry had mistaken it for sunscreen.]] |
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| 237 | * SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds, where people describe a work to make it sound terrible, has a lot of this PlayedForLaughs. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
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