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| 10 | [[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/TheSmurfs https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ttyz739o15.jpg]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bftmZlpAkPg A rather brutal message from]] [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations UNICEF.]]]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe... It must be scratched."'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''The Blue Meanie''', ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' |
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| 16 | Oh, how beautiful a place is the SugarBowl! As are the {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s that live in it. The best part? Even when menaced by [[HarmlessVillain Mr. Meanie]], nothing bad will ever happen!... [[TemptingFate Right?]] |
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| 18 | Not quite. A popular [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] and [[SatireParodyPastiche parody]] of the SugarBowl {{setting|s}} and its cutesy residents is to have their [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome pwecious wittle]] town get faced with some of the most horrific and [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilariously]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistic]] of tragedies and disasters, basically breaking hell loose upon their land. Whether it's "Mr. Meanie" [[NotSoHarmlessVillain going stir crazy]], [[RapePillageAndBurn invading]] [[TheEmpire armies]], wars, firestorms, or other acts of PowersThatBe, the residents will suffer for their adorableness with ''[[KillTheCutie pain]]'' and ''[[BreakTheCutie despair.]]'' |
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| 20 | The inverse of this parody is when the cute critters decide to take the offensive. Whether they're really a gang of {{Killer Rabbit}}s, or [[BitchInSheepsClothing secretly evil and planning to]] [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer our world]], they mean our heroes harm in lovably cute [[VillainSong musical numbers.]] |
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| 22 | Yet another inverse is when someone throws a GenesisEffect at the CrapsackWorld, possibly changing it into anywhere between AWorldHalfFull or even a full blown SugarBowl. |
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| 24 | It should be noted that this ''can'' be played seriously in the case of a VileVillainSaccharineShow or KnightOfCerebus making themselves known. In this case, it's not for parody and is instead showing the new villain is ''not'' to be taken lightly. Done right, this version is normally [[TearJerker downright heartbreaking]]. |
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| 26 | See also SubvertedKidsShow, SuperweaponSurprise, CrapsaccharineWorld, TroubledBackstoryFlashback, DangerouslyGarishEnvironment, and HorrorComedy. VileVillainSaccharineShow is when the show has a villain that by all rights should cause it, but doesn't... most of the time. ArtStyleDissonance is practically a requirement. |
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| 28 | Contrast NoEndorHolocaust, where, by all rights, the actions of the main characters should have led to massive destruction and death, but didn't, because The WordOfGod says so. |
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| 30 | [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] someone [[HyperDestructiveBouncingBall on a destructive sugar rush]] (though this could conceivably be the outcome) or [[HappyFunBall sugar being used as an accelerant]]. |
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| 36 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 37 | * An infamous animated promo for a 1983 special report entitled “Green Street Reds” for the KGO (San Francisco Creator/{{ABC}} affiliate) local evening news showed a Soviet [=SAM=] shooting Santa Claus and his sleigh out of the sky. This resulted in [[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19831112&id=_UIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bq0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1997,1287641 many angry calls]] from parents with [[NightmareFuel inconsolable children]] and the offending clip was quickly pulled. You can watch the clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3OpRzYOJY here]]. |
| 38 | * The "Let's All Go to the Lobby" promo parody, [[http://vimeo.com/emkaytwelve/followthesun Follow the Sun]]... |
| 39 | * In an old issue of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'', there was a full-page ad for the Nintendo 64 game ''VideoGame/{{Battletanx}}: Global Assault'' which featured tanks blowing up a world of [[LawyerFriendlyCameo absolutely-not-Teletubbies-honest]]. |
| 40 | ** Likewise, TV ads for the game had the so-not-the-Snuggles-fabric-softener-bear chased down and mauled by one of the tanks. |
| 41 | * The initial advertisement for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' was Nintendo's mascots kicking the crap out of each other to [[SoundtrackDissonance the tune of "Happy Together"]]. |
| 42 | --> '''Creator/DonLaFontaine:''' "Something's gone wrong in the happy-go-lucky world of Nintendo!" |
| 43 | * UNICEF: |
| 44 | ** The page picture is part of a campaign in Belgium using ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' to raise awareness of [[TykeBomb child soldiers]] in Africa. The full commercial is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa782wOrUVM here.]] UNICEF had to run the advert late at night to [[NightmareFuel avoid scarring any children for life with it.]] The words at the end are something to the effect of "Don't let war destroy the world of children." |
| 45 | ** If you're familiar with other UNICEF ads, you probably won't be surprised to hear that they seem to have quite a thing for this trope. In particular, their collaborations with other studios/animators often employ this: |
| 46 | *** Creator/{{Cinar}}'s cartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSPnXY2p0lM had a little girl play with her dog and chase butterflies in a field as happy music plays,]] until the girl and dog fall on a landmine that explodes as the music becomes a DroneOfDread, leaving an empty shot of the field that's succeeded by a drawing of several heavily bandaged, realistically drawn children (including some that have prosthetic body parts). |
| 47 | *** Another good example is Frank Saperstein's contribution, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skw9FQcPkfY&t=1m2s where storks drop several babies over a city]], they slowly land with their bundles as parachutes, smiling while looking down on the city or up at the sky with those big eyes. However, a squadron of evil looking airplanes show up, carpet bombing the entire city (with emphasis given to a church, school and hospital) with bombs that have [[NightmareFace psychotic grins painted on them]]. The ad ends with the babies landing on the smoking ruins of the city, looking frightened and hopeless. |
| 48 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxZ-uvyog0 This ad]] for 13eme rue, a French action and thriller network. The statement translates to "This is how we'll do a children's show if we have to do one". |
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| 51 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 52 | * ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' has the cute little Puchuus, who are actually violent and imperialistic. When they get injured or killed they shift from cute to plain ol' [[{{Gonk}} hideous]], resembling ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}''. There is also a sudden shift from their tiny, adorable cries of "Puuchuu!" to overly dramatic broken English. "Ow that hurt! You make-a me bleeeeeed!". The protagonists seem to enjoy blowing them up and kicking them around. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/HibikisMagic'' features extremely cute character designs, some of them very {{Moe}}. But the subject matter and overall tone of the series is dark, considering it's a {{Deconstruction}} of the magical school genre. |
| 54 | * Arguably the entire plot of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. |
| 55 | ** ''Higurashi'''s story [[spoiler: is a time loop wherein several characters always start out as schoolyard best friends in a sleepy little rural Japanese town called Hinamizawa. Each cycle of the loop starts out sickeningly cutesy - playground hijinks, characters making nonsense noises ("nipaa") and other characters gushing over how adorable it is, and typical [[MundaneMadeAwesome melodramatization of the mundane]]. Baseball and hide-and-seek, in particular, are seen as SeriousBusiness with the former regarded as an epic battle and the latter subjected to a child's idea of in-depth military strategy. An episode or two into the cycle, though, characters begin to die in horrifically violent, painful and gruesome ways and one character - Rika - is conscious of the cycle of reincarnation and the futility of fighting it. If you've seen the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Mysterion/"Coon And Friends"/Cthulhu episodes, you get the idea. She's Kenny. Only rather than being played for dark laughs, it's played just plain dark. Then, when everyone you care about has been reduced to ashes, wet meat, or a comatose vegetable, the plot reset button gets hit and it's time to watch them suffer all over again.]] |
| 56 | * ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' appears to be a whimsical PuniPlush adventure story about [[ABoyAndHisX a girl and her robo-boy]] and, later, an [[FunnyAnimal adorable bunny-person]]. And that's essentially accurate, but along the way they must cope with ruthless man-eating monsters, and a "curse" built into the [[EldritchLocation abyss]] with effects ranging from those of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness the bends]] to [[BodyHorror horrific mutations]] and death. The curse created the bunny-person through unique circumstances; normally it turns people into [[AndIMustScream deformed mutants]]. The main character manages to escape several encounters with dangerous beasts unscathed, but when her luck inevitably runs out, the aftermath plays out in excruciating detail. [[spoiler:She survives, barely, with a massive scar from an [[AmputationStopsSpread attempted amputation]].]] |
| 57 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', another MagicalGirl show, takes this trope to [[NightmareFuel horrific]] and [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] levels. The fact that those cutesy little magic critter Familiars all want to kill the Magical Girls and any poor {{Muggle}} who happens to fall prey to a Witch's Kiss is bad enough, but that is but a scratch on the surface of how disturbing and terrifying the world of Magical Girls really is... |
| 58 | * This is seen in the latter half of ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'', as the formerly tranquil island and ocean begin to be corrupted. |
| 59 | * The book and film versions of ''Anime/RingingBell'' are kind of like this. Watch the first few minutes/pages and you think it is a sweet little story [[SweetSheep about a lamb]] that has to learn on how to be careful in the big world, breathing the idea of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/LambertTheSheepishLion''. Jump to the second half to realize why the movie instead is often compared to ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith''. Doesn't help that the original book [[ArtStyleDissonance had a beautifully watercolored art style even as it quickly enters darker territory.]] |
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| 62 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': [[spoiler: We get a chilling vision of what ''could'' have happened to Equestria in the form of what the Changelings do to a peaceful land of cute kitty people they just so happened to land in after "A Canterlot Wedding".]] |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' once had a ZombieApocalypse complete with TheVirus. Only seen by day. And ''all the Smurfs get bitten'', before the cure is spread by accident. And it has lingering effects even after being cured: Grouchy Smurf, the first infected and the one who stayed under its effects the longest, used to not be grouchy before that. Oh, and it predates ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' by ''nine years''.[[note]] Grouchy's behavioral change ''only'' applies to the original comic book story "The Black Smurfs". The AnimatedAdaptation version "The Purple Smurfs" takes place after "The Smurfette", so Grouchy's behavior there is simply natural.[[/note]] |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'' is about a young girl who wound up stuck in the eponymous Fairyland and sent forth on a quest to unlock her way home... 27 years ago. While she hasn't aged physically, mentally she is now 33 years old and has been driven murderously insane after nearly three decades of failure and now goes around causing all sorts of chaos and carnage. |
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| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 69 | * The ''Fanfic/DayOfTheBarneyTrilogy'' is a story in which [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]] commands his young viewers to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill their parents]] and any other adults they come across. He then takes over using his armies of hooded, mutant "Loved Ones" and enforces a children-only world by [[spoiler:having a ceremony occur whenever a child turns 13-years-old: the boys are decapitated, and the girls are brainwashed, locked into ''rape camps'', and forced to give birth to more half-human "Beloved Ones"]]. The premise is taken entirely seriously, rather than being a parody. In the sequel story, it's revealed that Barney is actually an EldritchAbomination. |
| 70 | * In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Days Of Future Smurfed", the Smurf Village is destroyed in an earthquake in Empath's advanced years. The last Smurf in his generation that he sees dying when this happens is his half-brother Brainy. In "The New Shop In The Village", Empath in a dream sees the village in a decayed state after most of the Smurfs and Smurfettes in it have succumbed to doing all sorts of drugs, which was after Empath as its new leader has legalized the use of smurfnip once a new strain has been developed that produces only the high but not the MarijuanaIsLSD-type hallucinations. |
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| 72 | %%* Likewise, ''Fanfic/TheEndOfPonies''. |
| 73 | * The premise of ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' and [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaPinkEyes its]] [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons various]] [[Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaMurkyNumberSeven spinoffs]]. The post-Littlehorn pre-apocalypse Equestria glimpsed through [[TransferableMemory Memory Orbs]] and journals also qualifies, as the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic idyllic fantasy land of Equestria]] becomes a [[CrapsackWorld war-torn, genocidal Orwellian police state.]] |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/LostTalesOfFantasia'' Has various Creator/{{Disney}} characters getting involved in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Neverland]] gets bombed to ashes by the Nazis. Later on, the island where both ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' take place meets the same fate. |
| 75 | * Unicornicopia being destroyed by Discord in ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic''. |
| 76 | * The ''MLP:FIM'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/253045/i-am-going-to-save-and-or-destroy-equestria I Am Going To Save And/Or Destroy Equestria]]'' is about a world where Nightmare Moon and Celestia destroyed each other, rather than Celestia sealing her sister away. This causes the Fiends, the majority of whom are G1 villains, to be released from Tartarus, and without alicorns to defeat them, the results are not pretty. The entire Equestrian army is more or less annihilated in six minutes, and one of the interlude chapters features a survivor's story of the end of Baltimare, which plays as a combination of ''Franchise/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/TheSmurfetteVillage'''s titular location is destroyed by a volcano in the second story, while the Smurf Village itself falls to a SyntheticPlague in the third story, leaving only ten surviving Smurfs who destroy the village with a fire to prevent the disease from spreading. |
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| 80 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'': The land of Zinnia is a magical land full of fairies, unicorns, and mermaids, and its entire color palette is very bright and almost like candy. It doesn't stay that way when Malucia drains the entire land of magic. |
| 82 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': The destruction of [[spoiler: Cloud Cuckoo Land]]. |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' runs a lot on this; In it we see cute, cartoony, living AnthropomorphicFood getting cut, cooked and gruesomely killed. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': The Storm King immediately conquers Canterlot and enslaves its residents, and plans redecorate to be less cute in order to better fit his brand. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'': An evil wizard unleashes his hellish forces on an ugly little hippy-dippy land populated by cutesy elves and fairies. Then there's the big battle scene in which little Rice Krispies mascot look-a-likes get mercilessly slaughtered. |
| 86 | * ''WesternAnimation/UnicornWars'' is a war movie where a nation of militaristic, religious fanatic teddy bears are at war with some Eco terrorist unicorns, the main protagonists are a pair of teddy brothers who got recruited in the army and their company is unwittingly sent on what is implied to be a suicide mission into the unicorn forest, WarIsHell ensues. |
| 87 | * ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown''. Played straight, then inverted when you find out what the [[KillerRabbit rabbits]] are capable of doing to ''each other''. |
| 88 | -->'''Fiver:''' The field... the field... it's '''covered with blood!''' |
| 89 | -->'''Hazel:''' Blood? Don't be ridiculous... Why don't you go fetch me a cowslip? There's some fine grass over here. |
| 90 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': [[spoiler:[[TheSwarm The Cy-Bugs completely overrun]] Sugar Rush, forcing an evacuation of all of its residents (except for Vanellope, who is a glitch and cannot physically leave) and almost annihilating their world. Fortunately, after permanently stopping the Cy-Bugs, everything in Sugar Rush is reset by having Princess Vanellope cross the finish line.]] |
| 91 | * ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'': One of these gets the plot moving. The heroes must resort to ThePowerOfRock to save Pepperland. |
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| 94 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 95 | * ''Film/PrinceCaspian'', being a DarkerAndEdgier adaptation, takes the book's implied holocaust and dials it up as far as the PG-13 rating will allow - which is, as these things go, surprisingly far. The Narnians are assumed to be extinct, Cair Paravel - last seen as a magnificent fortress, an archetypal noble castle - is now an overgrown ruin littered with the catapult ammunition that destroyed it, a number of the talking animals have gone feral, and a deleted scene has the Pevensies encountering a dryad who's dying beside her cut-down tree. As Trumpkin puts it: "You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember." |
| 96 | * In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' there's Oz as a whole, and the land of Teacups and porcelain people in particular. Though there are dangers in Oz most of it highly colorful, whimsical and safe, especially those parts under the good witch [[spoiler:Glinda]]'s protection. The "apocalypse" comes in from the wicked witch besieging it with flying monkeys; the land of Teacups is ''shattered'' and its denizens massacred. Main character China Girl is actually introduced after having had both of her legs broken to bits. The rest of the movie could be seen as an attempt to undo this trope and save Oz. |
| 97 | * ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' runs on this. The setting is a [[EverytownAmerica small American town]] straight out of a Creator/NormanRockwell painting, and the first act feels like a lighthearted family comedy about a father who adopts a magical, cuddly pet for his son. Even when Gizmo gets water spilled on him and spawns several evil mogwai, the film doesn't feel like it's going to be any edgier than, say, ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', with Stripe and his gang's antics being mostly harmless. Then the evil mogwai get fed after midnight, turn into the titular, [[NightmareFuel genuinely scary-looking]] gremlins, and wreak havoc on the town, including murdering multiple characters on screen. It's an '80s Creator/{{Amblin|Entertainment}} family adventure film that suddenly drops its characters into a monster movie (albeit still a HorrorComedy) halfway through, at which point you realize why this is considered one of the films that led a horrified [[MediaWatchdog MPAA]] to create the PG-13 rating. |
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| 100 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 101 | * ''Jag Lever Pappa'' ("I live, daddy") by Siri Marie Seim Sønstelie describes the Utøya massacre, where on July 22, 2011 a gunman Andreas Breivik killed 69 people on the Norwegian island Utøya, most of them teenagers, and wounded many others. Siri Sønstelie, a survivor, recounts how Utøya seemed a paradise for her before the attack, a carefree place of peace and harmony with a special atmosphere where you had fun and could feel completely safe, and how the attacker turned it into hell. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/TheLookingGlassWars'' depicts Wonderland as a SugarBowl with a capital named Wondertropolis and food items called things like "tarty tarts", where imagination makes things real and a beautiful queen rules the land with love. Then the villain, who's big on things like mass graves and execution of prisoners and torture and so on, takes over, and [[CrapsackWorld everything goes straight to hell]]. |
| 103 | * The fate of the land of the Truffula Trees after the Once-ler and his family take to hacking down all the trees in it in ''Literature/TheLorax'', leaving it a nearly deserted polluted mess. |
| 104 | * ''Literature/OurDumbCentury'' features the an article about atomic testing in the Pacific Ocean: "US Army Finds Last Place On Earth Untouched By War, Blows It To Hell" |
| 105 | * ''Literature/SweetStory'' is about a cutesy children's-story world descending into carnage, savagery and ultimately the end of all life on the planet. Since the reason for it all is that [[ItMakesSenseInContext it's started raining candy instead of water,]] it is also literally about an apocalypse caused by sugar. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': |
| 107 | ** Turns out that wickedness and evil are needed in the world, otherwise a cosmos of nothing but virtue and innocence will be wiped out in a great blinding light, essentially this trope. |
| 108 | ** On a smaller scale, the protagonists at one point find a village of Gnifty Gnomes; tiny, disgustingly cute little critters who only want to play games and sing songs. After our villains narrowly escape their proposed party, Blackmail gallantly chops down a tree that crushes their village, wiping them out. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 112 | * In ''Series/IkMikLoreland'' no one is physically hurt, but all the letters disappear from the main character's colorful homeland, everyone forgets how to read and write, everyone's clothes become plainer, and the place just generally looks like it's been sent back to the dark ages. |
| 113 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJb0XQAUFLI first teaser]] for ''Series/{{Scream Queens|2015}}'' features a perky college girl blowing a bubble while an obnoxiously catchy teen pop song plays. At first glance, it looks like a promo for ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (both shows were created by Creator/RyanMurphy)... until the girl is stabbed and the bubble explodes with blood, splattering the screen red. |
| 114 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_AIyP67eY Later]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq7RgvFIYfE promos]] have two of the show's cast members, Creator/EmmaRoberts and Creator/KekePalmer, stepping outside of a sorority house and blowing bubbles to the camera... and a demonic face shows up in them before they pop. |
| 115 | [[/folder]] |
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| 117 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 118 | * Dirty Paws by Music/OfMonstersAndMen recounts a story in a fairy-tale forest which is ravaged by a war between the birds and bees. The titular character Dirty Paws leads a group of ground creatures allied with the birds to defeat the Queen Bee. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 122 | * Played for laughs in the music video for ''Music/{{Mastodon}}'s'' ''Deathbound'', a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot solar eclipse]] ends up driving the inhabitants of [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Magicland]] into a homicidal frenzy and much puppet violence ensues. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 126 | * ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' first Plot Point campaign, Evernight starts out as a pretty idyllic Dungeon Crawl StandardFantasySetting. And then the monsters that suck out people's innards invade. |
| 127 | * Fittingly, this is the origin story of the Skaven (AlwaysChaoticEvil RatMen) from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' recorded in the ''[[https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doom_of_Kavzar Doom of Kavzar]]''. OnceUponATime there was a city called Kavzar, by all acounts a peaceful and prosperous town, where [[OurHumansAreDifferent humans]] and [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] lived in harmony. They decided to build a giant tower to thank the gods for their well being, but the tower took too long to build, but thankfully a hooded stranger promised to help them. The stranger was able to complete the tower and put a giant bell to his god. Then he left, and the bell rang [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteen times]]. The rats of Kavzar started growing in size, eating all of the food and causing a famine. The humans aske the dwarves for food, but the dwarves had the same problem. Then the rats grew to the size of men and started ''eating'' the inhabitants of Kavzar. Then the giant rats (dubbed Skaven) wiped out the city's population... and this is the tale of Kavzar. |
| 128 | * ''Metaplot/YuGiOhHiddenArsenal'': The Naturia Valley is a small valley full of cutesy living plants and plant-animals, generally isolated from the ForeverWar of the rest of the setting... until the Shaddolls turn up. They burn the valley to the ground to get at the Naturia Sacred Tree, which contains a SealedEvilInACan. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
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| 131 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 132 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} and [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]] ''[[VideoGame/TwelveThirteen 1213]]'' with the [[spoiler: Golden Ticket ending where the world ended because everything turned into sweets and everyone died from diabetes.]] |
| 133 | * ''VideoGame/AgentUSA'' is a kid's edutainment game about stopping a ZombieApocalypse brought on by a [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever berserk television set]]. |
| 134 | * The little known shareware game ''Blip & Blop: Balls of Steel'' by defunct software house Loaded Studio is all about this: the titular balls start by killing a village of Smurfs (which, incidentally, killed the "great scientist" Gargamel), then destroy (very) thinly-veiled expies of Franchise/CareBears, Snorks, VideoGame/{{Lemmings}} and various other videogame and cartoon characters. Which are almost all equally evil and murderous. |
| 135 | * In ''VideoGame/BurritoBison'', the Gummies bring this upon themselves by kidnapping Bison to wrestle Jawbreaker. ''Burrito Bison Revenge'' shows just how bad he left it once he escaped: the Arena is ''not'' pretty. |
| 136 | * The Creator/AdultSwim game ''VideoGame/CandyMountainMassacre'' is the essence of this trope. You go play as a badass character with a gun in a sweets-themed LevelAte land killing everything in sight. |
| 137 | ** The sequel turns things into an out-and-out CrapsaccharineWorld, with one level having you going through what is in all intents and purposes a ''torture chamber'' on your way to off the BigBad. |
| 138 | * ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has [[spoiler:[[BonusLevel Whimsyshire]], a bright and happy land filled with teddy bears, flowers and unicorns that are all trying to kill you, and which explode with [[BloodyHilarious comical gouts of blood]] upon their demise.]] |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/DinoRun''. Cutesy, sometimes hat-wearing pixel dinosaurs, colorful 8-bit GhibliHills... and the premise of the game is that all this is about to be ''destroyed.'' |
| 140 | * The end of ''VideoGame/DoshinTheGiant'': The final monument is the Tower of Babel, which blocks out the sun. Since Doshin is an embodiments of the sun, that's bad news. Barudo Island begins to collapse, and the villagers flee in terror while Sudoru ponders the nature of life and death. Doshin holds up the tower to let them escape, but since we've never seen any other land mass, we never see anyone actually get to safety, and it's possible for Doshin to walk off the edge of the world, the only conclusion is that [[InferredHolocaust everyone drowns]]. Finally, with the island sunk beneath the waves, Doshin collapses and becomes a new island. |
| 141 | * Both main games in the ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'' revolve around slowly undoing one of these. [[spoiler:An unpreventable one happens in the second game's BittersweetEnding]]. |
| 142 | * ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' takes place in a slightly-less-cheerful version of [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] that has been made even ''less'' cheerful after being ravaged by a flood of corruptive paint thinner. |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/EquestriaAtWar'', a ''[[VideoGame/HeartsOfIron Hearts of Iron IV]]'' mod in keeping with the grand tradition of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{Dark Fic}}s, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a RomanAClef of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in Equestria, with violence and war crimes aplenty. As dark as ''Friendship is Magic'' itself occasionally gets, this take on the lore goes that much further. |
| 144 | * The happy, pious, God-loving populace in ''VideoGame/GrandiaII'' is the first stop for the apocalypse. When we first visit it everybody is smiling, thanking the lord and hugging miniature sheep while the most upbeat music in the world plays; when we revisit death and slaughter greets us and shortly after that the land is covered by oozing darkness. |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue'' has evil aliens invading Earth with the intention of turning everyone on the planet into a cube, complete with a DownerEnding if you fail to defeat the final boss. |
| 146 | * The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series is mostly set in the peaceful kingdom of Dream Land on the planet Pop Star, filled with painfully cute little creatures. This sleepy little SugarBowl is menaced on a seemingly regular basis by beings ranging from a nightmare demon out to torment the population with horrible, painful dreams to [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entities]] of pure darkness that possess and corrupt all they touch. There's a reason Kirby has a reputation for facing [[VileVillainSaccharineShow jarringly nasty villains]]. |
| 147 | ** ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' opens with Dark Matter taking over Ripple Star, a place so saccharine that the planet itself is shaped like a love heart with a smiley face. |
| 148 | ** ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' stands out for having the effects of the Sugar Apocalypse be prevalent throughout the entire game. No matter where you look, every part of Dream Land has been mechanized and industrialized by [[MegaCorp the Haltmann Works Company]], with even poor [[WhenTreesAttack Whispy]] [[WarmUpBoss Woods]] being transformed into a rampaging, smoke-belching mechanical beast. |
| 149 | * ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' is either this or the inversion of this: it's a ZombieApocalypse where the protagonist is a hyper-cheerful, bubbly cheerleader whose attacks create rainbows and sparkles. |
| 150 | * Several levels in ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' have this taking place at some point or another: |
| 151 | ** [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Follow The LEGO Brick Road]] has a secret area right behind the starting area which involves Munchkin Land being attacked by a group of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Micromanagers]]. |
| 152 | ** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Meltdown at Sector 7-G]] revolves around [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Lord Business]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Joker]] tearing apart Springfield in search of the [[MacGuffin Foundation Element]]. |
| 153 | ** [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Once Upon A Time Machine In The West]] has the game's BigBad show up in 1885-era Hill Valley and drop several objects from different universes onto it, leaving it completely destroyed. |
| 154 | * Many of the RPG spinoffs in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise have made use of this: |
| 155 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'' sees the Mushroom Kingdom become the victim of an AlienInvasion at the hands of the Shroobs, who kidnap Toads en masse and use their life source for fuel, among other atrocities. |
| 156 | ** This is the BigBad Smithy's ultimate goal in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': |
| 157 | -->"Then we could get rid of all wishes, and create a world filled with...WEAPONS!!!" |
| 158 | ** One of the most disturbing moments in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is when you arrive at Sammer's Kingdom just before the world is wiped out. You try to retrieve the MacGuffin in order to stop it... but you can't make it in time and barely escape. When you return, all that's left is an [[WhiteVoidRoom endless white void]]. |
| 159 | * ''VideoGame/TheMaw'': Your world is a brightly-colored land full of cutesy, silly critters. You're going to ''eat them all.'' |
| 160 | * ''VideoGame/Mother3'' opens with a bright and cheery forest being set ablaze and the woodland creatures being transformed into [[UnwillingRoboticisation bizarre monstrosities,]] and it only gets worse from there. |
| 161 | * The whole idea behind ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'' is playing the role of a serial killer amongst a group of teddy bears. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}} Extreme'' is a promotional crossover puzzle game whose ExcusePlot involves creatures from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' attacking the peaceful ''Peggle'' universe. |
| 163 | * One of the core aspects of ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is the DemographicDissonantCrossover between cuter franchises with more mature ones; the stages represent this with events such as a [[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} MAWLR]] terrorizing [[VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper Parappa Town]] or a [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Desperado RAY]] tearing up [[VideoGame/LocoRoco Franzea]]. Other stages feature a bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in which the cutesy universes are the ones doing the invading, such as [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Hades]] getting swarmed by an army of VideoGame/{{Patapon}} or [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Specter]] interrupting a battle between the [[VideoGame/{{Killzone}} Helghan and the ISA]]. Such MoodWhiplash is stated by WordOfGod to be, partially, the point of the game. |
| 164 | * In ''VideoGame/RazesHell'', you play an alien who goes on a violent RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Kewletts, a band of adorable aliens who [[FantasticRacism want to destroy anything that isn't as cute as they are]]. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/SomaSpirits'': The World of Joy seems like a happy world while the World of Sorrow is dreary in a comical way, with both worlds being populated by cute anthropomorphic beings. [[spoiler:All routes end up being a battle to save one or both worlds from destruction, and two of these routes end with one of these worlds destroyed by [[EldritchAbomination Absolution]]]]. |
| 166 | * The ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series is [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure no]] [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 stranger]] [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog to]] [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 apocalyptic]] [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed scenarios]], but ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' is the first to cross into this territory by featuring a city with an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation of FunnyAnimals that gets mercilessly decimated by Dr. Eggman's robots and, particularly, his new [[TheDragon Dragon]], Infinite. Infinite's presence makes this a ZigzaggedTrope, since while he himself is also a Funny Animal, he is a threatening, menacing character with immense power who's a lot crueler and more violent than the other Funny Animal characters in the Sonic series, even the antiheroes like Shadow or Rouge. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders'' takes place in a version of Alefgard rendered in blocky voxels ala ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', which has been [[AfterTheEnd utterly devastated]] by the Dragonlord. |
| 168 | * The player's job in ''VideoGame/{{Thwaite}}'' is to prevent this from happening to a village. |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' Galactic Adventures has two missions made by the cast of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. |
| 170 | ** One of them, [[SugarBowl "Litterbox Gulch"]] is a battle between a variety of adorable creatures and bears. The Cute Creatures inhabit a cutesy land and the bears inhabit a disgusting one filled with lakes of what appears to be poop. |
| 171 | ** Another one, entitled "That's My Lunch", is about a little girl named Suzy Woozy leading [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter her pets]] to a place called "Hugz Valley". On the way, you encounter [[spoiler:two monsters called "Blood Beasts", who make you lure Suzy away from her pets so they can lure in a pet to eat. After you have helped them kill them all]], Suzy says [[spoiler: "Death, Murdah, Scweams of the Dyin'! Bwifday Parties are best when they're paid for in souls!" And reveals to you that the Blood Beasts have killed her pets every year and she simply buys new ones.]] |
| 172 | ** Many fan-created adventures consist of cute creatures fighting evil creatures, or the other way around. The "Creepy and Cute" parts pack almost encouraged this. Due to the game's cartoony nature, almost all of the violence can be considered this. |
| 173 | * The World of Light story mode for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example: It opens with the BigBad obliterating the worlds of just about every Creator/{{Nintendo}} franchise in existence (and [[GuestFighter quite a few others]]), leaving nothing but the spirits of their inhabitants, but the most we see of this is a quick AstronomicZoom as light engulfs the entire universe. So while cutesy worlds like [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Dream Land]] and VideoGame/YoshisIsland do indeed get destroyed, we don't really get to see it happen. |
| 174 | * The Genocide or "No Mercy" route in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' essentially has you ''causing'' this by completely emptying the Underground of all its quirky and colorful inhabitants one by one. If you actually manage to do so (a difficult task for both [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment gameplay-related]] and [[YouBastard emotional]] reasons), your reward is [[spoiler:a chilling TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from the Fallen Child to you, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the player]], followed by the Fallen Child ''killing the game itself'' (the Steam version even has the game automatically close after this). If you try to play the game again, all you'll see is a featureless void...but wait a few minutes, and the Fallen Child will offer to restore everything and let you play all over again, in exchange for your SOUL.]] |
| 175 | * In the ''VideoGame/WildStar'' mission "Shiphand: Space Madness," inhaling too much of a hallucinogenic gas will turn the research station into this, with bright green interiors and rainbows, deer in party hats, and angry sentient lamps trying to kill you. |
| 176 | * This is basically the premise of ''VisualNovel/PurrfectApawcalypse'', a game series set in a world full of adorable cat and dog creatures with sunny personalities... who are being killed off in gory and brutal ways by other cats and dogs with [[CuteAndPsycho decidedly less sunny personalities]]. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 180 | * ''WebAnimation/IsabelleRuinsEverything'': Without the Mayor, the cheery town of ''Animal Crossing'' devolved into a communist hellhole. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 184 | * ''Webcomic/BreakfastOfTheGods'' is a webcomic about breakfast cereal mascots in a very grim and serious war. It's surprisingly bloody. The third book is called "Apocalypse Yum". |
| 185 | * [[http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/08/19/strip-44/ This strip]] of ''Chainsawsuit'' shows what happens if you don't play ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' for too long. |
| 186 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 187 | ** An early [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0091.html strip]] spoofed the classic "Hostess Supervillain" strips, in which [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] and [[Creator/DCComics DC]] characters were able to DeusExMachina their way out of trouble with the use of [[Advertising/HostessFruitPies delicious fruit pies]]. How does Rich Burlew spoof these? The goblins ''kill'' "Fruit Pie the Sorcerer". |
| 188 | ** An intermission strip gives us [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html The Battle of Movie Confections]] Where "let's all go to the lobby" takes a turn for the macabre. |
| 189 | ** A ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' strip featured a sinister cult of ''breakfast cereal'' mascots, with the title "Cereal Killers". |
| 190 | * ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' pulls this one all the time. The strip plays it inverted when mocking content filters in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'' -- the blood and gore is replaced by rainbows and [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ confetti.]] |
| 191 | * A recurring motif in ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strips. Some examples are [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF152-Scorpy_the_Forest_Friend.gif here]] and [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF231-Baby.jpg here]]. |
| 192 | * ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'': Cute anthropomorphic animals right out of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''... in a setting that's Creator/HPLovecraft meets ''Franchise/SilentHill''. |
| 193 | * Invoked several times in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' with the [[KillerRabbit Ob'Enn]], a race of cute and fuzzy [[ScaryDogmaticAliens koalaliens]], and played with in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040913.html this strip]] Also, the diamond beetles. At least from [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20011022.html their point of view]]. |
| 194 | * Happens to the Dimension of Lame in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' [[spoiler:when the demons from the Dimension of Pain finally invade]]. |
| 195 | %%* Randy Milholland's ''Webcomic/SuperStupor'' spoofed the classic "Hostess Supervillain" strips in a, well, [[http://superstupor.com/sust01042008.shtml Milholland-esque]] manner... |
| 196 | * ''Webcomic/VGCats'', frequently and crossing even more lines than Penny Arcade. |
| 197 | * ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': What happened to Sam's world. |
| 198 | * ''Webcomic/HoovesOfDeath'' trots away with this trope. Readers joke that the story feels like [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]] amidst a ZombieApocalypse, and they're honestly not that far off. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 202 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' enjoys both repeatedly massacring the cutesy characters and causing wholesale destruction of their wooded homeland, along with ''setting fire to the Earth itself'' on occasion. |
| 203 | * In ''[[http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=19297.0 Hatchling]]'', [[spoiler:the player has to induce this in the Sugar Bowl region of the Sacchari Range in order to reach the true ending]]. |
| 204 | * ''[[http://onastick.net/sitz/images/ Hello Kitty 40000]]''. "In the grim future of Hello Kitty there is only war" -- [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost4244-motivator1377526vc8%2Ejpg "In the grim future of Hello Vader..."]] |
| 205 | * [[http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=64 This]] legend from ''Literature/HitherbyDragons''. And it's certainly not the only one; many, many other stories having coming apocalypses and slaughters happening to a variety of SugarBowl worlds. The entire "Unclean Legacy" story is a bleak landscape that occurs after Gargamel has captured the Smurfs, and [[http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=123 one stretch]] of the story of Ink Catherly is in a corrupted, putrefying version of Candyland. |
| 206 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZtJdaN_l4 If Balloons Could Talk]]'' by Neil Cicierega poses the titular question. The first few seconds of the hypothetical world involves everyone happily skipping around with their talking balloons, and then... |
| 207 | * The WebAnimation/{{Cyriak}} Flash cartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwCojCJ3-Q "Meow."]] A Sugar ZombieApocalypse made worse because [[spoiler: headshots and suicide ''don't work.'']] |
| 208 | * Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures Fan Adventures has [[http://mspafa.wikia.com/wiki/You_Know,_For_Kids! a trope]] dedicated to this. |
| 209 | * ''Creator/PaulRobertson'' work is all about this. For example, [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=908674814285543652 Pirate Babys Cabana Battle Street Fight]] emulates a ZombieApocalypse BeatEmUp with {{chibi}} characters. |
| 210 | * ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl'': This is what happens when the psychopathic serial killer Kirby pays the Mushroom Kingdom a visit. This is also what he did to his homeland Dreamland. |
| 211 | * ''Podcast/{{Treknologic}}'': The Mike-pocalypse manifested itself as this, forcing the crew to review ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. |
| 212 | * A ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' episode has a giant Garfield accidentally, but rather violently destroying an idyllic and peaceful village that is [[LevelAte build from and habited by creatures made of breakfast products]] by sneezing on it. |
| 213 | * PlayedForDrama, this is a constant threat for the characters of Hasbro’s ''WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures''. The species of Moonflowers exist in order to fend off an EldritchAbomination known as the Big Bad, that takes moons and sucks all life out of them. The only way to protect the moons is for Moonflowers to grow colorful Treasure Trees, which a couple have failed to do, and thus live on nearly desolate moons. [[spoiler: Down to Maroshi’s moon full-on exploding.]] |
| 214 | * The Infestation Invasion in ''WebAnimation/{{CRiTORA}}''. [=ViRUSES=] swarmed [=CRiTOPiA=] and nearly won until [[{{BigGood}} OS]] saved [=CRiTOPiA=] by creating the [=GUARDiANs=]. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 218 | * People in the Candy Kingdom on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' explode when they're scared. So Princess Bubblegum has to resurrect the dead. This results in zombies. So she has a huge slumber party with everyone, with Finn guarding the castle, and he can't tell anyone about the zombies. It's actually a subversion. |
| 219 | ** The Cute King and his army of Cuties accidentally do this to ''themselves''. They always fall apart or explode if they work themselves too much. |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': |
| 221 | ** The Strawberry Shortcake parody people launch a genocidal campaign of dehumanization and consumption of the Sockbat race. |
| 222 | ** The Smurf village is destroyed by a lawnmower. |
| 223 | ** Clara (tricked by Spanky) lures in cute forest animals so they could get eaten. She is horrified after finding out. |
| 224 | * There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' involving "the Gigglepies", which are adorable, cuddly, [[RhymesOnADime rhyming]] puffballs of cuteness. Underneath that however, they're actually evil, and their main goal is to sell like there's no tomorrow. First, the Gigglepies take over a world by subjugating the populace to their cuteness. Second, they suck their customers dry of their freedom. Finally, when the planet is sucked dry, the Gigglepies [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the planet]] and move on to the next. They are said to taste like manure, which is how the Yugopotamians, who hate anything cute or sweet, beat them: Yugopotamians find manure ''[[BizarreTasteInFood delicious]]''. |
| 225 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AlcnJc3sdM "Five Fat Sausages"]] is a disturbing take on the nursery rhyme about [[LetsMeetTheMeat apparently sentient sausages]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath slowly burning to death in a heated pan]]. |
| 226 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a sleepy, eccentric town populated by kooky and (for the most part) well-intentioned citizens…[[spoiler:destined to be the site of the apocalypse.]] The darkness begins to set in at the beginning of Season 2, culminating in [[spoiler:WhamEpisode "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future", which ends with the sky opening up and demons pouring out]]. |
| 227 | ** "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality", the second part of the show's finale. [[spoiler: Bill traps Mabel in a [[LotusEaterMachine world of all the things she likes,]] which makes it sickeningly bright and cutesy with the same 80s song looping over and over. When Mabel agrees to go back to the real world, it transforms into a [[CrapsaccharineWorld hellscape worthy of Bill.]] ]] |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': The {{Unicorn}} OmnicidalManiac Twinkles the Terrible causes planets to explode in a cloud of pink dust, which settles in a heart-shape. |
| 229 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': In the second part of the pilot episode, we get an ImagineSpot with the pets running in a flower field into Littlest Pet Shop. Then it turns out "Mrs. Twombly" was actually the Biskits in disguise, and the Largest Ever Pet Shop takes over Littlest Pet Shop. |
| 230 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'' episode "Fozzie's Family Tree", Gonzo's TroubledBackstoryFlashback, parodying the origin story of ComicBook/{{Superman}}, depicts his homeworld of Crouton "becoming normal", which begins with the Weirdos' space-age {{Bizarrchitecture}} buildings progressively transforming into Earth-style high-rise boxes, and ends with the planet itself transforming into a giant 8-ball after [[HomeworldEvacuation the infant Gonzo's parents send him away]]. |
| 231 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': Some animated incarnations of the franchise are not immune to attempts of destruction upon lands filled with pastel-colored little horses. |
| 232 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'', the pilot special for the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' series. It starts off with the cutesy sweetness usually associated with the franchise, then reptilian monsters come out of the sky and snatch up ponies to be turned into the dragon-like servants of a demon-centaur named Tirek. ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'' had some evil witches unleash [[BlobMonster The Smooze]] on Dream Valley, and several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' had Ponyland being threatened with danger, such as the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName chauvinistic penguins]] from "Baby It's Cold Outside" and the magic-stealing Lavan from "Quest of the Princess Ponies". |
| 233 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 234 | *** The series premiere ends on a cliffhanger as a MadGod, [[FallenAngel Nightmare]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Moon]], is freed from [[SealedEvilInACan her thousand-year imprisonment]], captures [[GodEmperor the resident sky-goddess]], and [[OmnicidalManiac threatens the world with extinction]] by triumphantly plunging it into TheNightThatNeverEnds. |
| 235 | *** The premiere for the second season gives us the cloud city of Cloudsdale crumbling apart in a vision caused by Discord as he presents Rainbow Dash with a SadisticChoice. What's worse is that there's ''nothing to imply this '''isn't''' actually happening!'' [[spoiler: Then Discord [[RealityIsOutToLunch unleashes chaos on all of Equestria]] after having [[CorruptTheCutie corrupted the mane cast]] to [[WeUsedToBeFriends break the bonds of their friendship]], which pushes Twilight to the edge of the DespairEventHorizon. [[WorldGoneMad Amidst all the destruction]], the vision of Cloudsdale comes true.]] |
| 236 | *** In the two-part Season 2 finale, the glorious capital city of Equestria, Canterlot, is invaded by [[spoiler:changelings, an [[TheSwarm insect-like]] race of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] that [[EmotionEater feed on love]] and in their natural form resemble black [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie insect ponies]] with fangs]]. By the thousands. [[NightmareFuel It's actually pretty creepy.]] |
| 237 | *** A flashback sequence near the beginning of the Season 3 premiere displays this happening to the Crystal Empire one thousand years ago after [[EvilOverlord King Sombra]] [[SorcerousOverlord used his immensely powerful]] BlackMagic to [[TheDarkTimes impose an oppressive reign]] and [[SlaveRace enslave the local population of crystal ponies]], [[MoralEventHorizon who are shown bound in chains]]. [[spoiler: His return at the climax of the second episode very nearly causes the same thing to reoccur, with his very presence converting the surrounding landscape into {{Mordor}} again, but the successful return of [[AmplifierArtifact the Crystal Heart]] results in him apparently being KilledOffForReal.]] |
| 238 | *** In "Magic Duel", another [[spoiler: Ponyville-localized]] instance of this trope is enacted by [[spoiler: [[TheMagnificent the]] [[SmallNameBigEgo Great]] [[ItsAllAboutMe and]] [[AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter Powerful]] [[ThirdPersonPerson Trixie]], who has acquired a relic called the Alicorn Amulet, which enhances her magic to [[PhysicalGod godlike]] levels. She quickly defeats Twilight in a WizardDuel, banishes her from town, and converts Ponyville into her own private fascist state. The reason she takes her quest for revenge so far is because, unbeknownst to her, the Amulet also an ArtifactOfDoom that is corrupting her the more she keeps using it.]] |
| 239 | *** The Season 5 finale puts all of these to shame. [[ArcVillain Starlight]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Glimmer's]] TimeTravel plan to [[EvilIsPetty ruin the Mane Six's friendship]] results in [[ButterflyOfDoom increasing worse]] {{Bad Future}}s with the various previous {{Big Bad}}s ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the Flim Flam Brothers]]) conquering Equestria since the Mane Six weren't there to stop them. This eventually culminates into Equestria becoming [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a barren wasteland of rock, dirt, and dead trees]] that wouldn't look out of place in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. This, plus [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Twilight telling Starlight]] [[FromBadToWorse things could become even]] ''worse'' [[FromBadToWorse if she continued]], convinces [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Starlight]] to put things back to normal. |
| 240 | *** The endless polar storms that threaten to engulf the Crystal Empire when the Crystal Heart is shattered in the Season 6 premier seem almost quaint compared to some of the previous catastrophes, but are still plenty dire on their own merits. |
| 241 | *** Then, in the season 6 finale, every pony in any position of power has been kidnapped and replaced with a changeling. While this is more of a stealth sugar apocalypse, all leadership being replaced with bug ponies would throw Equestria into chaos. |
| 242 | *** Season 7 has such a thing narrowly avoided, as the heroes redeem the Pony of Shadows before he can plunge the world into darkness. |
| 243 | *** In the season 8 finale, all of the magic goes away. It is very nearly banished to a dimension of nothingness. Considering how much Equestria relies on magic, the implications are disastrous. Worse yet implications arise when you realize that the only thing keeping the Crystal Empire from freezing is magic... |
| 244 | *** Then we have the Season 9 opener. Woo boy, the season 9 opener... For starters, the Crystal Empire gets conquered at the very beginning of the two-parter. Then, after King Sombra is defeated, he [[spoiler: returns and destroys the [[CareBearStare Elements of Harmony]]]] He then controls the mind of everyone in Ponyville, and conquers Canterlot. To make matters worse, the Everfree Forest starts invading. |
| 245 | *** To close this all off, we have the series finale. Here, the Legion of Doom takes over Equestria, defeat the mane six, and trick the ponies into fighting, summoning the windigoes which start to freeze the place. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'': Inverted in ''The Beginning of Rainbow Land'' when you find out that [[SugarBowl Rainbow Land]] was originally a lifeless wasteland. Rainbow’s goal is to turn it into a better world. |
| 247 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' -- Uses the trope to exhaustion. Serial-killing [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]], genocidal Franchise/CareBears, bitter WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake, etc. And the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse in the form of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''. |
| 248 | --> '''Death Pony''': "And I am '''[[AC:Death Pony!]]'''" |
| 249 | --> '''Mother''': "Oh, how sad! The poor thing can't hear." |
| 250 | --> '''Son''': "No, mom. I think he said—" |
| 251 | --> '''Death Pony''': "[[AC:Raaaaarrrrgh]]!" |
| 252 | ** [[spoiler: They die, by the way.]] |
| 253 | ** The gummy bear gnawing her foot off. |
| 254 | ** Or ''Literature/WatershipDown'' as done by ''Series/FraggleRock''. |
| 255 | ** In one segment, the Franchise/CareBears [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything decide to purify their land]] by massacring the Care Bear Cousins. The Great Cloudkeeper in the Sky, incensed by their barbarity, punishes them by turning Care-a-Lot into a Hell on Earth: [[TakeThat New Jersey]]. |
| 256 | --> '''Jon Corzine''': Hello, I'm New Jersey's governor Jon Corzine. I hope you've enjoyed this re-enactment of our state's proud history. The Garden State. Come get in on some of this rainbow! |
| 257 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScaredShrekless'': Duloc was already a CrapsaccharineWorld at best in the [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 original film]], but the ''Scared Shrekless'' special revisits it after everyone's cleared out and it's a run-down, creepy mess. To underline the point, that LyricalDissonance singing booth is now openly threatening. |
| 258 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' |
| 259 | ** The three-parter, "Imaginationland", in which the land of good thoughts is being slaughtered by the land of bad thoughts. |
| 260 | ** This also cued the return of [[spoiler: the Woodland Critters that Cartman had thought up]]. They're a level of nasty so bad that even ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]]'' didn't want to meet the person that imagined them! |
| 261 | ** "Woodland Critter Christmas". The sickeningly cute, [[spoiler: (yet devil-worshiping)]] Woodland Critters are subject to a Sugar Apocalypse. [[spoiler: To be fair, they DID deserve it.]] |
| 262 | ** In "Dances with Smurfs", the Smurf village is destroyed by bulldozers. It wouldn't have been so funny if UNICEF had not already been there. |
| 263 | ** The Amazon is commonly a victim of the Sugar Apocalypse in {{Green Aesop}}s. To prevent this, the kids are forced by their parents to [[CutawayGag join a choir to travel to the Amazon]]. The choir is even more sugary. By the end of the episode, [[{{Pun}} nature abhors a vegan]], and they all want to destroy the Amazon. |
| 264 | * WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake's world has been targeted with this in parodies (see above), but years before those the first of the 1980s animated specials actually played the trope straight. In ''The World of Strawberry Shortcake'', the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak manages to magically flood the valley of Strawberryland by tricking the kids into using a never-runs-dry watering can that only he can ''stop'', and once they've given him what he wants (all of its strawberries) and the waters recede, it's reduced to a muddy wallow. It isn't even restored to its SugarBowl self until the next special. |
| 265 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'', this happened in the backstory, with the old Trollzopolis being destroyed by Simon, as well as a lot of their magic being corrupted and taken. The world almost bit it, too. |
| 266 | * The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Greatest" opens with a race of {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s called Binglebops in the middle of their sickeningly cutesy Bingleberry Festival when Lord Hater shows up and ruthlessly conquers their home planet Bingleborp. And by the final episode of second season of the series, the BigBad [[KnightOfCerebus Lord Dominator]] [[spoiler: has destroyed all the colorful planets in the galaxy seen in the series except for one, leaving them completely devoid of life. [[BookEnds Guess which is the one planet left?]]]] |
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| 270 | * [[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/26/sylvanian-families-isis-freedom-of-expression-exhibition This]] series of art pieces showing the Franchise/SylvanianFamilies being invaded by [[PunnyName MICE-IS]] terrorists, which was forbidden from being displayed at London Mall Galleries' Freedom of Speech exhibition in 2015 for "potentially inflammatory content". |
| 271 | * The internet meme about an amusement park named "Glaggleland" has one always impending, courtesy of the vile smiley-like beast named Enphoso. While at first it seems like the park deserves it due to its mysteriously obvious HappinessIsMandatory appearance, it really turns out to be a case of SheepInSheepsClothing as Glaggleland is presented as really being just a wacky and zany theme park without ulterior motives if a little off putting. |
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