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11->''"What I see here is a dozen people, all trying to make each other miserable. You disgust me, but it's also faintly amusing. Carry on."''
12-->-- '''Quote from an attorney in a Dutch court (translated)'''
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14''{{Schadenfreude}}'' is a German word that means "the joy you get at seeing other people's misfortune" (Schaden = "damage", Freude = "joy"). (This phrase is commonly mistranslated as "shameful joy.") In other words, the "point-and-laugh" school of comedy. The Sadist Show is built on it. In this kind of show, there are no sympathetic characters whatsoever, and nobody will ever PetTheDog. Everybody is both obnoxious and incompetent, beyond even the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. The audience can't really root for them, so the fun is in seeing the characters [[DeusAngstMachina suffer more than they deserve]], more than [[Literature/TheBible Job]], [[TheChewToy more than possibly everybody in the history of the human race combined]]. In short, it's a comedy, but not in the Shakespearean sense.
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16And not just any old misfortune like getting an AnvilOnHead. The agony in a Sadist Show is a very sharp kind, the one that reminds you how totally unfair life is. It isn't a Sadist Show unless the characters suffer the very opposite of poetic justice. For instance, if our UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist has been mugged, that's not enough. If the poor dope runs to report the mugging, and is arrested for jaywalking, and has to sit in jail while the mugger walks past their cell every day, that's the Sadist Show.
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18Sometimes, there will be a character who the audience kind of sort of roots for, but not really. One form is the NoRespectGuy (like Frylock from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'') who tries to act decent but fails. However, the audience doesn't exactly root for them, because they're so ineffective, and they're usually a bit of a stick in the mud too. Another form is a [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic Sociopath]], who is as vile as the rest of the cast but is at least competent (like Brock Sampson from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''). But they're too evil to really cheer for, and how sympathetic can they be if they're stuck with the rest of these losers? ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', with its emphasis on failure, reminds us that Brock may be competent, but he's in a pointless dead-end gig, and one that he is so over-qualified for that it's humiliating.
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20Note that this can be somewhat subjective, depending on how sympathetic and/or interesting one finds a character, a cast, or a situation.
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22This kind of show almost always has NegativeContinuity, so the writers can inflict any kind of torment they like (including [[TheyKilledKenny killing them off over and over again]]) without affecting future episodes.
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24Often overlaps with the GrossoutShow. An ImmoralRealityShow will usually be this in-universe. Maybe the [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil result]], [[HumansAreBastards cause]], or overlap with a CrapsackWorld. Essentially the basic premise of a DarkFic or ComedicSociopathy. Compare KafkaKomedy. Compare and contrast PointAndLaughShow (RealLife {{Jerkass}}es, but dispensing with the torture in favor of just laughing at their existence) and CringeComedy (where we feel at least ''some'' sympathy for the victims, but that sympathy is outweighed by our voyeurism). The natural habitat of the LethalKlutz. Also compare BlackComedy.
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27!!Example subpages:
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29[[index]]
30* SadistShow/LiveActionTV
31* SadistShow/WesternAnimation
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34!!Other examples:
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38[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
39* A common complaint about the second season of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' is that the humor is far more mean-spirited than the first.
40* ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'': Almost all of the women in this comedy are violent bullies-- except Yassan, who is [[SarcasmMode merely]] a crazy threatening stalker.
41* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': It's like ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Anime Style.
42* Pick a harem series. Any. You'll be lucky if it ''isn't'' this trope.
43** ''Manga/LoveHina'', featuring the classic and [[FollowTheLeader pioneering]] example of an endlessly comedically tormented harem protagonist.
44** ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' does this with a protagonist who's literally allergic to women. Heck, the show opens up with him getting beaten up by his friend after walking in on her taking a bath. Typical anime cliche right? Well, the thing is ''it was his own house which she broke into and used without his permission''. [[HilarityEnsues Oh the hilarity.]]
45** The anime of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' is a more full-fledged example; all the main characters are total jackasses, especially the male lead, and most of the appeal of the series comes from [[spoiler:the multi-horrific-murder ending, because by that point you ''want'' everyone to die]].
46** ''Manga/NyanKoi'': The main character, Junpei Kousaka, is deathly allergic to cats and does everything he can to keep away from them, but both his mother and sister love cats so much that they keep one around the house constantly, even letting the cat on the dining table, and treat his cat allergies as petty whining. Junpei also suffers abuse from everyone else around him, is surrounded by people who love cats, is mocked by his own classmates, occasionally gets treated like a pervert and beaten up for it, and not helping the accusations are smarter than average cats who seem to enjoy making his life hell. That's not even mentioning the Guardian Deity of Cats who cursed Junpei into doing 100 good deeds for cats, or he will be turned into one himself and possibly die from the full-body allergic reaction.
47* ''Ultimate Girls''. UFO Man has revived three girls by sacrificing much of his own life force, so now they're in charge of protecting Tokyo. Oh, but growing 50 feet tall is only half of this show. While most fellow fanservice shows just feature embarrassment as a natural emotion of being seen naked, this show actively goes out of its way to utterly humiliate the protagonists. It's not enough that embarrassment becomes the girls' power source as their magical spandex wears out (''very'' quickly). Oh no. When they revert back to their normal size, they don't even get their clothes back, even though said embarrassment has already served its purpose.
48* ''Grrl Power!'' One half-hour OAV which focuses on convincing this one guy to go to school. How do the girls do it? [[spoiler:Set him up for all kinds of miserable tasks, and when he asks for payment, explain that it's not a part-time job. The girls are saving up to set up a new country on some island.]] Oh, and there's also this one man who the girls refuse to do a damn thing for, for no explained reason, even though they make a point of helping everyone else who can pay up.
49* ''Anime/BloodC'' chances are if you're not an ally of the BigBad or Saya prepare to die ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly]]''.
50* All characters in the movie version of ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' die either in the first 5 minutes after they're introduced or at least before the end of the movie.
51* ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Everything Il Palazzo assigns to his henchgirls ends up in failure]], Hyatt is so ill that she continually dies and comes back to life, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption all of Menchi's attempts to escape Excel's ownership end in failure]], [[ButtMonkey Mr. Pedro]] lost ties with his family to Gomez, Nabeshin is prone to lose loved ones only moments after he reunites with them, and Excel's neighbors are led by one hell of an iron-fisted bitch.
52* ''Amazing Nurse Nanako''. One of the few shows starring a female ButtMonkey. And it's played for laughs, too.
53* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'', about a socially inept {{Otaku}} girl whose attempts to be popular usually backfire on her.
54* ''Manga/SgtFrog''. Being a space frog with an inferiority complex, while trying to take over Earth, only to be at the mercy of the pink-haired Natsumi Hinata, who you live under and forces you to do chores can suck big time.
55* ''Anime/DGrayMan'': Allen Walker is the universe's chew toy whose rather depressing life is played off for laughs.
56* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. The main characters frequently fight and/or scheme against each other (largely in [[LoveMakesYouCrazy the name of love]]), and Ranma is constantly smacked around by his fiance for [[NotWhatItLooksLike things]] that [[AccidentalPervert aren't his fault]]. This is all mostly played [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], especially in the anime.
57* ''Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka''. It's a semi-documentary manga about the lives of typical down-on-their-luck mangaka, and it's darkly hilarious: between dysfunctional workplace, overbearing editor, and the general sad state of the manga industry in Japan, it comes out as something that is genuinely funny. For example, [[spoiler:one of the mangaka just lost his position in a prestigious magazine and is forced to draw for no-name hentai publication for a shitty amount of money. To avoid unwanted children he can't afford to raise, he forces his wife to only do oral. This in turn makes the wife sick of him, and she abandoned her. The mangaka is now jobless and gets no sex at all.]] Hahaha.
58* ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'', with a ThisLoserIsYou protagonist, his loser {{otaku}} friend who tries to help him but unwittingly makes his life even worse, and the girl who also tries to help him [[spoiler:(surprise surprise, she's just as much of a socially inept dork as he is, and suicidal to boot)]]. Played half for comedy, half for drama.
59* ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'', which is about an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and the insane MagicalGirl who kills him repeatedly. Removing her halo causes massive bouts of diarrhea. Another angel shows up and tries to kill protagonist-boy with a cattle prod because he's going to invent immortality in the future...but only for women, and it makes them all look twelve, so everyone decides he's a pedophile. Very much a CrossesTheLineTwice sort of show.
60* A common complaint about ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' was how mean-spirited it was towards the protagonist. The first half of the series had Renton being humiliated and abused by the rest of the Gekkostate (especially from [[{{Jerkass}} Holland]] and [[BrattyHalfPint Eureka's children]]). Most of the time, it was PlayedForLaughs, but many saw it as tasteless.
61* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan''. Think about it: Shin spends most of the episodes during weird antics, his mother Misae mostly whacks his son's head whenever he misbehaves and of course, his father Hiroshi gets beaten up by his wife after wandering into random ladies or over small things. However, most of it is played for laughs.
62* The main plot of ''Manga/SamonTheSummoner'' involves the titular character harassing Teshigawara with demons because [[EvilIsPetty he finds her kind attitude annoying.]] Many chapters involve humor at the expense of other characters as well, Samon himself is actually a frequent victim as well.
63* ''Cool Devices'', about various women who get raped and killed for the viewers' sexual pleasure.
64* The original ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' shorts were like this. Good things almost never happen to Retsuko and most of the other characters are either jerks or just annoying to Retsuko and never face any consequences for their behavior. The Netflix series is much less sadistic, as although good things still rarely happen to her, the series shows her learning and maturing from her experiences. [[spoiler: Although the first season ends with her continuing to take abuse from her coworkers and bosses, she is a lot more positive about it than at the beginning of the series.]]
65* ''Anime/WonderEggPriority'' is a {{Reconstruction}} of this trope in regards to MagicalGirl anime: [[DysfunctionJunction the heroines all have emotional baggage]] and deep feelings of guilt over [[ILetGwenStacyDie the suicides of their friends]], the [[VictimOfTheWeek Victims of the Week]] are all women who have committed suicide, and their trauma is PlayedForDrama rather than comedy as the show deals with the dark subject matter, including (but not limited to) suicide, self-harm, and sexual abuse. As the series progresses, however, the heroines gradually overcome their traumas and strive to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn Their Happy Ending]].
66* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': The LoserProtagonist fails at everything and gets a humiliating DownerEnding in most episodes (and it's usually [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist his own fault]]), bullying and violence are regularly played for laughs, since ''three'' of the five main characters are usually jerks who cruelly bully each other and other people. One of these kids also gets beaten up by his mother, which is supposed to be funny LaserGuidedKarma because the kid is a bully. Averted in the movies where the characters described here suddenly turn into good-natured TrueCompanions who go on adventures together.
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70* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is another example. Poor Emp is stuck with a suit that is only good at full power and when she's at her most confident...of which she rarely is and the suit is very fragile to boot. What's more, she can't wear any clothing under it, so she often finds herself humiliated because of it. Add to the fact that her so-called teammates are largely jerkasses to her and you'll start wondering exactly how these people can even be considered superheroes.
71* A big part of the Comicbook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse exists to make WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck suffer. Some merely highlight his BornUnlucky problem, others like [[http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=H+89025 "Drie Konigen"]] harass him to the end... to the point that the comics where he does win feel like ThrowTheDogABone.
72* Comicbook/MonicasGang used to be this trope, but thanks to years of fans (and MoralGuardians, since the comic is for children AND starred [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood by children]]) complaining about how the characters suffer ungodly amounts of name-calling and [[ButtMonkey slapstick]] for no justifiable reason([[VitriolicBestBuds specially amongst themselves]]), all [[AllForNothing their efforts]] [[ShaggyDogStory to accomplish a goal]] [[CruelTwistEnding be in vain]], as well as their abusers constantly getting away [[KarmaHoudini scot-free]], it resulted in the franchise becoming LighterAndSofter. Thought it still ventures to its sadist roots from time to time, and they are more [[LaserGuidedKarma karmic]] than just unnecessarily cruel.
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75[[folder:Comic Strips]]
76* The comics in ''Magazine/{{Mad}} Magazine'' featuring Monroe, a whiny, ugly teenage loser. His stories often end with something nasty and painful being done to him.
77* Also Mad's ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', originally by Antonio Prohias. Unlike in the golden age cartoons such as WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, one or the other of the two spies suffers a gruesome and usually fatal injury.
78* ''ComicStrip/{{Ziggy}}'', the eponymous character is always getting the short end of the stick, and the other human characters he comes across are sarcastic and indifferent towards him at best, and cruel to him at worst. No wonder he only has animals as friends-- but then again his pet parrot Josh isn't all that nice to him either.
79* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' started as a standard humor comic strip, and eventually morphed into a treatise on existential despair and the futility of life.
80* ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
81* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''. Lots of the humor revolves around Garfield, Jon, and Odie (usually the latter two) being injured. In [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1998/ga980111.gif one strip]], Garfield [[RunningGag kicks Odie off the table,]] ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice then drops a freaking vase on him.]]'' Even worse was the time he [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute smooshed a spider with his thumb]]...then, after remembering that the spider had dropped a contact lens, reached over and [[EvilIsPetty smooshed that too]].
82* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'', particularly when the eponymous character deals with his wife Helga.
83* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'', mainly for the parents.
84* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Everything that happens to [[ChewToy Charlie]] [[ButtMonkey Brown]]. Linus is not much better off, having such a big sister as [[BigBrotherBully Lucy]].
85* ''ComicStrip/TheLockhorns''. [[MeaningfulName Their last name says it all:]] They argue and berate each other about ''everything''.
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88[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
89* The ''Film/FinalDestination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as TheGrimReaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result, the series mostly revolves around figuring out in what horrific ways the protagonists end up dying.
90* ''Film/BigBully''. So, if you've tattled on your childhood bully, he gets sent away to reform school, and you get to move away and live a happy life where you can be a successful novelist, right? Nope. People are more interested in the new Creator/StephenKing book, you're divorced, your son hates you because of that, and that childhood bully is back, and he can get away with messing with your life again, as good things happen to ''him''.
91* ''Film/MeetTheParents'' and its sequels have one thing after another going wrong for Creator/BenStiller's character. Even after his [[EarnYourHappyEnding happy ending]] in the first movie, he is embarrassed once more during the credits.
92* ''Film/Drive2011'' is the story of an amiable getaway driver who finds love with his pretty neighbor and her young son... and then has that love cruelly snatched away when the neighbor's ex-con husband comes back from jail, and he decides to do what he thinks is right by helping the husband get out of a jam. Naturally, his attempt to do the right thing goes horribly wrong...
93* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'' arguably takes this trope ''literally'', considering that the fascists are all sadistic nutjobs who brutally torture young teens for their own pleasure.
94* The humor of ''Film/MouseHunt'' primarily comes from everything going wrong for the Smuntz brothers, to their string magnate father's body being lost at his funeral over a petty argument, Lars' GoldDigger wife kicking him out when he refuses to sell the string company as he promised his dad, and Ernie's culinary career being destroyed when the Mayor dies of a cockroach in his soup, to say nothing of the titular mouse getting in the way of the brothers' plan to renovate their old man's old house to sell it.
95* The humor in ''Film/TheHitmansWifesBodyguard'' comes from two main sources: Sonia (the titular wife) being CrazyIsCool (with an emphasis on crazy) and Bryce (the titular bodyguard) enduring all kinds of physical and psychological abuse (half of them because of Sonia's antics). He starts the film with a HappyEndingOverride from [[Film/TheHitmansBodyguard the previous film]], receives zero respect from anyone (including [[spoiler:his father]]), gets run over by cars and boats, drugged, stuffed in the trunk of a car, mistaken for dead, and that only covers half of the movie. The film ends with him [[spoiler:[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere jumping out of a small boat]] where he had been stuck for a month in the company of the Kincaids, now his adoptive parents, who spend their time having loud sex.]]
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99* Creator/DanielPinkwater's story ''Literature/YoungAdultNovel'' has the StoryWithinAStory "Kevin Shapiro, Boy Orphan," the lugubriously sad tale of a thirteen-year-old boy straight out of DysfunctionJunction, whose problems have included everything from [[OrphansOrdeal orphanhood]] to drug addiction to homosexuality to [[MisterSeahorse becoming pregnant]]. Kevin fails so completely to fix his messed-up life that he often gets killed off in frustration; of course, NegativeContinuity lets him always come back to life in the next chapter.
100* In the first few pages of ''Literature/DeclineAndFall'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, Paul Pennyfeather gets debagged, expelled from Oxford, fined five and sixpence for two cigarette burns in his room, cheated out of his inheritance by his guardian, and sent to work in the worst school in England. No wonder he's upset. ('God damn and blast them all to hell,' said Paul meekly to himself as he drove to the station, and then he felt rather ashamed because he rarely swore.')
101* When Creator/PhilipKDick was going through his darkest days of depression and insanity, he wrote some ''very'' painful stories, most of which consist of him bashing down his protagonists so that even suicide seems like a happy option.
102* Literature/TheGapCycle. Hooooo, boy, ''and HOW''. It's even represented by an ''actual'' sadist show in which a large-breasted woman ''cuts off her breasts'' with a rusty knife, then guts herself. [[FridgeHorror On a nightly basis, thanks to future technology - but she still feels everything.]]
103* ''Justine'' by the Creator/MarquisDeSade is nothing but a Sadist Show (written by the guy who gave rise to the very ''word'' "sadism", no less!) punctuated by philosophical monologues. The world is not just indifferent, but actively malevolent. Justine is [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished consistently punished for her decent behavior]] while her persecutors experience nothing but boons for their cruelty and selfishness.
104* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' is all about an AttentionWhore LoserProtagonist having an HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood. The movies do try to make him more sympathetic.
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108* ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'' is this, being set in Hell and all.
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112* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'':
113** The game has one of the most consistently and gleefully sadistic rule sets imaginable, as everything and everyone is stacked against the players, including each other. The backup clones each player receives does less to mitigate the cruel dooms than it does to encourage the GM and players to heap even more on each other. Players participate with the guarantee that they will get to spread their share of sadism around and enjoy the suffering of their friends.
114** The second rule for the GM is "Kill the bastards". An extended part of the rules the players are allowed to see (yes, most of the rules are technically ''illegal'' for players to see[[note]]The rules themselves mention that it's treasonous for players to see them and that they should report themselves right away for looking ... then goes on to say something like "Now that we've got the suckers out, yes, viewing these rules is treasonous, which means as a proper ''Paranoia'' character you should definitely do it, but don't let your GM know you did." The one exception is the introductory adventure included in the rulebook, which instead says "Don't read this section. We really mean it this time; you'll spoil the fun for yourself if you do."[[/note]]) discusses how to make the other bastards kill one another.
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118* ''VideoGame/{{Whacked}}'' No matter what the specifics are for any given round, it will ''always'' involve slaughtering your opponents with baseball bats, meat cleavers, exploding rubber duckies, oversized shish kabobs, cacti, missiles, and plenty more! [[DeathIsCheap Again, and again, and again!]]
119* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' is about the title character going through several situations that involve very dark humor, and occasionally very dark trauma. The only non-indicative word of the title is "fur" since very little has anything to do with his fur so much as his acid-trippy trials and tribulations, which are ultimately topped off with his life being ruined.
120* ''VideoGame/TheDoomsdayCrisisLine'': The purpose of the game is to watch just how bad things go and how much damage your choices do. You are encouraged to pick the bad choices, and if you pick the "good choices" too many times, you are forced to pick the bad ones. It doesn't matter anyway, as the good choices are just as horrible.
121* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'' isn't entirely like this, but there are a good bunch of jerks who get what they deserve at Randal's hands.
122* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series runs on this trope. The games are all set in [[{{Eagleland}} a warped parody of America]] as filtered through its very cynical British developers, with everything from the political system to pop culture to the criminal underworld to the very fabric of society portrayed as utterly, irredeemably broken. All the better to make you want to fully embrace the VideoGameCrueltyPotential that is a series trademark.
123* ''VideoGame/{{Hatred}}'' makes ''you'' the sadist, shooting up innocent civilians for no good reason and eventually [[spoiler: blowing up a power plant and destroying everything around it]].
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127* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' may look like a lighthearted {{Object Show|s}}, but [[CrapSaccharineWorld can be quite mean-spirited]] as each contestant gets eliminated one by one (until the final 3), you get to see them get locked in a metal box FOR MONTHS! This is also justified due to the fact that when a character dies, they don't just die, but are perfectly fine in the next shot, but actually dead, and need to be revived.
128* Many of the Platform/GoAnimate "[[YouAreGrounded Grounded]]" videos are this. Most of them involve one or more troublesome kids (often ones from preschool shows, particularly ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'') getting grounded (said word being usually repeated over and over) for absurdly long periods of time for the slightest offenses. Many of these videos are [[SoBadItsGood just so over-the-top that they're funny]], but when the video maker decides to get cruel with the characters' punishments, ''hoo boy'' does it get cruel. The parent characters become utterly sociopathic (if not outright AxCrazy) compared to their kids and often come out on top [[DesignatedHero even when they clearly don't deserve it]], the kids [[DisproportionateRetribution don't do enough to warrant the long groundings]], and the preschool show characters are hated and frequently humiliated/grounded/arrested/''killed'' by everyone else [[DesignatedVillain when they don't deserve it at all]], or even just for being from preschool shows.
129* All of the main characters in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' are relentlessly abused [[TheChewToy chew toys]], sometimes getting to the level of CosmicPlaything. At least one of them gets killed horribly in nearly every episode, and if it isn't, injuries of any kind are still to be expected.
130* ''WebAnimation/MariKari'': It’s like the paranormal ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' meets the vulgar, blood and guts & mayhem of WesternAnimation/SouthPark.
131--> "MARI, MARI! Sweeter than a cherry. Head is kinda airy. SHE LOVES YOU!!! KARI, KARI! Horrible and Scary! If you mess with Mari; SHE'LL KILL YOU!!"
132--> -- The Theme Song of Mari-Kari.
133* Much of the humor in ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' comes from the characters being total assholes to each other and getting screwed over repeatedly. The only reason death usually happens to the villains and one-shot characters is because watching the constant misfortunes of the main characters is [[RefugeInAudacity significantly more funnier]].
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137* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' is a form of Sadist Webcomic that is more about characters surviving their lives while the world continues to spit at them. (Of course, how sympathetic you think the characters are depends on how you view the [[TheEeyore passive-aggressiveness]] and sadism they react with.)
138* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' has an entire cast of [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs idiots, sadists, and idiotic sadists]]. The main characters are Fighter, a nimrod who manages to be TooDumbToLive and [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat too stupid to die]] at the same time ([[ObfuscatingStupidity or maybe not]]); Black Mage, a psychotic murderer who kills any- and everyone that gets in his way (and a few others just for the hell of it); Red Mage, a {{Munchkin}} powergamer blissfully unaware of his own idiocy with no regard for anyone else's well-being; and Thief, a duplicitous, greedy elf supremacist with no conscience. All their opponents are of matching idiocy, and the king of the local kingdom wears the literal interpretation of BlackComedy for shoes. In fact, the most sympathetic main character other than White Mage, the voice of reason, is Black Mage, as he's at least tried to change. Well, before it was revealed that in order to obtain his doomsday attack, he sacrificed orphans to a dark god. Said doomsday attack is also powered by love; i.e. it siphons love out of the universe, and the divorce rate goes up by a few percentages every time he uses it. Even White Mage is becoming more of a {{Jerkass}}, with her refusing to heal Black Mage when he has a spear through his head. Also, to add insult to injury, Thief almost never gets his comeuppance, whereas Black Belt (an actually slightly sympathetic character) is the only character yet to have been KilledOffForReal (even the [[BigBad Big Bads]] turn up in Hell occasionally).
139* The webcomic ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', which tells the tale of a sadistic {{Creator/FOX}} reality show.
140* [[http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ Garfield minus Garfield]] forces this trope into being, but that's somewhat the point.
141* ''Webcomic/NanasEverydayLife'' is basically about how long you can keep a character alive without putting her out of her misery...
142* Every protagonist in ''Webcomic/ContemplatingReiko'' is a sadistic demon girl.
143* ''Webcomic/TheSnailFactory'' features characters that eat each other on a fairly regular basis.
144* ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}'' takes ''extreme'' pleasure in torturing its main character, Katia. Its subtitle is "Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure".
145* ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'' is mostly based around Wayne, a more ordinary loser jerk, being tormented by his two sociopathic [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]]: Frank, who's largely indifferent in his attitude (though he's repeatedly implied to be a serial killer off-screen) but uses him as a guinea pig in his experiments, and Guy, who's actively malicious towards him and everybody else and hurts him both for fun and out of anger.
146* Pretty much anything by Creator/GiseleLagace: ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'', ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'', ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe''. If there's a decent character in the story, expect them to get short changed and humiliated by the more {{Jerkass}} characters.
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151* "Hello, I'm the WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, I remember it so ''you'' don't have to!" He's even said once that he can't stop torturing himself. Also, he's [[YouBastard cursed the audience]] for [[TheChewToy just wanting to see him suffer]].
152** Like WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, it's not just a case of being [[SuckinessIsPainful hurt with a bad movie]] anymore. He's a frequently unhappy, lonely man who only reviews because he has nothing else and that's the only thing he can be proud of.
153%%* WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall sometime dips into this.
154* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd is all about watching the eponymous Nerd play through craptastic games just to show us everything that's wrong with them. Doing so must cost him his sanity and self-respect.
155** In the Nightmare on Elm Street game review, he's being stalked by Freddy Krueger throughout the episode. When confronted face to face he finds out that Freddy IS him, Freddy states that since he chooses to play the crappy games of his own free will, he is his own nightmare.
156* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick will dip into this, especially when she reviewed the {{Interquel}} to her all-time favorite Disney movie, ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. She didn't have fun.
157** Increasingly so as the character develops, really taking off with her [[AllTakeAndNoGive casual abuse of her best friend]]. The Chick has coalesced into a geeky shut-in [[ClosetGeek in denial about her nerdy nature]], and an insecure KnowNothingKnowItAll who [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex needs to beat down her friends to boost her]] own [[BrokenBird broken self-esteem]]. The "Dark Nella Saga" tried breaking her down instead, but she was too oblivious for it to work.
158* Most ''WebOriginal/FluffyPony'' works feature the titular creatures being [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], maimed, or killed either at the hands of abusive humans or the ravages of nature.
159* ''Blog/BeochanPaiseanAgustAifeala'' doesn't torture its characters all the time but when they do, it can get pretty violent.
160* ''WebVideo/YouSuckAtPhotoshop'' is about an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist going through a complete mental, emotional, and life breakdown, while making faux-snarky Photoshop tutorial videos because being able to Photoshop is all he has.
161* Several Creator/HarryPartridge shorts have characters suffering in BloodyHilarious and occasionally [[NightmareFuel disturbing]] ways.
162* Website/TheOnion's RealityTV parody ''Sex House'' starts out as, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a parody of reality TV]]. However, with its gradual GenreShift and its increasingly indistinct SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror, it plays this trope out pretty fully in later episodes.
163* ''WebAnimation/TheNekciMenijShow'' is a cattier version of this. [[spoiler:Complete with murder and kidnapping!]]
164* ''[[Creator/StuartAshen Ashens]]'' is the story of one man's struggle with constantly disappointing products. Unlike most examples, his suffering is ''genuine'', as he often suffers from food poisoning, SensoryAbuse and lacerations on camera, to our amusement.
165* ''WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange'': Possibly the only series ever to make cutting guest characters in half a OncePerEpisode gag.
166* While the protagonists aren't particularly unlikable, the ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' series otherwise fits this; the question in each episode isn't ''whether'' the teacher will horrifically torture the puppets, but ''how''.
167* Everything about ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' is built around the very concept of merging suffering with comedy so much they blur together. When a frequent addition to the broadcasts is a Ruin-A-Life Drawing, you know this trope is in effect.
168* ''WebVideo/BreakingTrail'': The episodes in which Coyote demonstrates why and how certain animals can be dangerous or at least unpleasant by subjecting himself to their stings/bites/pinches/other sorts of abuse can dive into this, complete with fairly detailed descriptions of what's happening and how punctuated by screams of horrible pain. Ones that involve the ''unintentional'' sort of pain, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIW0N6AZ4wg a tumble off a large rock]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJzTse9Dsaw the time he fell into a cactus field]], most definitely qualify.
169* WebVideo/DiceCameraAction functions as a torturous horror gauntlet that heartless-yet-creative [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameMaster DM]] Chris Perkins runs his players through every week.
170* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan''. Everyone's an idiot, an asshole, a FailureHero or some combination of all three, the characters almost ''always'' fail at achieving even the simplest of goals (i.e. just wanting peace and quiet), several videos conclude on a DownerEnding or [[NoEnding the characters being in the same place were they started with no resolution]], and ''nobody'' ever grows or learns from their mistakes -- and even in the cases where that happens, AesopAmnesia and StatusQuoIsGod will make sure to rear their ugly heads.
171* ''WebVideo/DarkSimpsons'': Basically taking clips from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and throwing the characters from the show into BlackComedy situations which more often than not result in trauma or death ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or both]]).
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