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10	* ''WebVideo/{{TMK}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_O70ChsQ0 Super Star Beta Tester 1// Final Moments]] ends with Beta Tester #1 being run over and shot dead, immediately followed by his murderer's car driving off to the upbeat Milky Way Wishes theme. The whiplash was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_O70ChsQ0&lc=UgztV5RPHnU7_aHWbDx4AaABAg.9bCLqWZdZAf9bCNBwOi70h confirmed to be intentional]] by [[WordOfGod series creator Maple Riot]].
11	* Midway through the episode ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' reviewing ''Film/VaseDeNoces'', Kyle gleefully squees over the baby piglets before things take a dark turn.
12	-->'''Kyle''': Awwww! They die. (''Beat'') They die because [the protagonist] kills them. (''Beat'') He ''hangs'' them. In little pig-sized nooses, in a row like convicts.
13	* WebVideo/DerrickComedy takes this to extreme levels in its "Keyboard Kid" sketch. Jeffrey the 6th grader is performing with his "amazing keyboard" at the 6th grade talent show. He starts out cheerfully dancing to the beats and vocal samples of his sampler keyboard...
14	--> My name is Jeffrey! Cool! Alright! C-c-cool! Alright! Get down! Check it out! Cool! Alright! C-c-cool! Alright! G-g-g-get down! Kick it! '''If I mess up my dad's gonna beat me!''' ''silence''
15	* Waverly Films does this in "Wanna buy a ghost?". The mood changes from serious and concealed to a common reaction.
16	-->'''Shady Guy:''' Hey. WANNA BUY A GHOST?\
17	'''Tourist:''' A GHOST?\
18	'''Shady Guy:''' SHHH. KEEP IT DOWN.\
19	'''Tourist:''' How much?\
20	'''Shady Guy:''' 5,000 DOLLARS.\
21	'''Tourist:''' ...Okay!
22	* [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1746/ This]] ''Cyanide & Happiness'' short does this over the course of 30 Seconds.
23	** [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1944/ This]] one as well. And then it lashes back.
24	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h07OT8p8Oik This]] random ALS ice bucket challenge video, where the first couple of minutes showcase a man doing the challenge in a bikini, [[spoiler:and the rest (now in a Vlog format) kicks off with him [[WhamLine admitting]] that he has ALS.]]
25	* The "Child Molester" clip from ''[[WebVideo/AMVHell AMV Hell 4]]''. It's an hour of silly jokes and you've long come to expect BlackComedy, but this comes completely out of the left field. There's no joke in it. It's just there, making you feel terribly akward. [[YouBastard Possibly intentional]].
26	* WebVideo/DannyGonzalez: Pops up often in his vines:
27	** In one Vine, Danny finds a lucky penny... and then the ensuing text lets us know he ran into the street and was immediately hit by a car.
28	** One features him receiving a "letter" from the mail-man, with both of them laughing over the fact that it's just a paper "A"... only for the "A" to turn out to be a DearJohnLetter.
29	** In "The Horrible Truth About Jake Paul and Team 10", Danny and his friend spend the video talking about how horrifying things are behind the scenes of Jake's vlogs, with Nick Crompton leading everything with an iron fist... before they discovered they were accepted into the team, cheer, and go on to become millionaires.
30	* WebVideo/DrewGooden Vines:
31	** One Vine was about two partying teenagers:
32	---> "I love this generic, shitty music!" \
33	"I love getting fucked up!" \
34	"We're gonna live forever!" \
35	''Logan and Brody were both tragically killed that night after falling out of a hot air balloon.''
36	** One Vine began with him laughing to his own joke about an elevator, and ended with him declaring his intent to talk about abortion.
37	* [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Doctor. ]]'''[[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Flipping. ]]''[[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Horrible.]]''''' Not only does the tone do a complete 180 from lighthearted comedy to straight-up tragedy in the space of 45 minutes, during the most heartbreaking moment of the entire series, [[spoiler:the ReallyDeadMontage shortly after Penny dies, one of the newspaper headlines which flash across the screen says, "COMMUNITY MOURNS DEATH OF WHAT'S-HER-NAME". And this is during ''a dramatic scene.'']]
38	** In that same [[spoiler:ReallyDeadMontage, we have "CAPTAIN HAMMER DEFEATED: Hero 'Unavailable for Comment' For First Time Ever."]]
39	** And the last two seconds of the entire thing go with an instant cut, within a song, from [[spoiler:triumphant Dr. Horrible entering the ELE boardroom to absolutely emotionally '''destroyed''' Billy]]
40	** Not that the earlier parts of the series are immune to this: the Act II song "My Eyes" features Dr. Horrible spying on Penny and Captain Hammer's dates via some extremely transparent disguises (including one use of MobileShrubbery). Pretty funny... and then you [[LyricalDissonance hear what he's singing]]:
41	----> Anyone with half a brain\
42	Could spend their whole life howling in pain\
43	Cause the dark is everywhere\
44	And Penny doesn't seem to care\
45	That [[{{Foreshadowing}} soon the dark in me is all that will remain...]]
46	** Right before the beginning of the end, though, we get a taste of what Doc will become: Captain Hammer is singing [[{{Jerkass}} a great big number about how everyone (but mostly him) is a hero]], only to be cut off right before the big ending note by the Freeze Ray, and Doctor Horrible lets out a ''terrifying'' [[BrickJoke evil]] [[EvilLaugh laugh]]. And that's ''before'' he starts to sing Slipping- and it is '''scary''':
47	----> Look at these people\
48	Amazing how sheep'll\
49	Show up for the '''slaughter'''...\
50	No-one condemning\
51	You lined up like lemmings\
52	You led to the water...
53	** Creator/JossWhedon: your one-stop shop for MoodWhiplash.
54	* ''WebVideo/{{Pizza Time Pizza}}'' has this in the third installment. After two people talk about being friends, one of them mentions that some missing people are nothing to do with Pizza Time Pizza, worrying the other person. They then continue talking about having fun.
55	* ''Roleplay/{{Survival of the Fittest}}'', being an RP board, can have this happen with someone barging in during a dramatic moment.
56	** There's also the character of Milo Taylor. For most of his life (lasting up to the exact halfway point of the game), he was basically RefugeInAudacity personified with a dash of CrazyIsCool for flavor. [[spoiler: Then he got thousands of volts sent through his body and his collar exploded, rendering him unable to even scream because his trachea was torn apart. Then he bled to death very quickly afterwards.]]
57	* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'':
58	** Episode Nine jumps from the Emperor planning the theft of Trazyn's (stolen) possessions to Terra burning and Inquisition mowing down civilians. And then it jumps right back on comedy track again with the arrival of Fabulous Custodes.
59	** First Q&A has the Emperor talking proudly about "nurturing the seed of Mankind" only for it to fall into disrepair, leaving him in despair, complete with grand music, only for it to come to halt when he screams that the questions sent in are the worst thing he's ever seen.
60	** Second Q&A repeats the joke, with Emperor and [[spoiler:Magnus]] talking about making necessarily sacrifices, only for Kitten to point out that the questions weren't ''that'' bad.
61	* ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'' from [[http://www.sambakza.net/ here]]. The first three episodes are pretty light-hearted, but the fourth episode, "Step 4 - Paradise" takes on a darker mood. This shift was likely alluded to at the end of "Step 3 - Doki and Nabi" when [[spoiler: a rock gets thrown through Nabi's window]].
62	** Specifically, in the fourth episode, [[spoiler: Doki and Nabi are subjected to constant persecution because of their, erm, mixed dating.]] Doki gets [[spoiler: injured by an angry mob, and one of her pets is actually ''killed'', though it was probably an accident]].
63	** Then, in this series' second instance of mood whiplash, the fifth and final episode goes back to being cheerful and action-oriented, but is still more serious in tone than the first three. Incidentally, if you've seen the whole series, then the street-punk rabbit [[spoiler:handing Nabi the plane ticket]].
64	* The D&D PHB PSA series on Youtube does this, interspersing the comedic interviews with D&D characters with the lonelymal69 subseries, where VillainProtagonist Malcanthet the Succubus Queen attempts to avoid being executed by [[ChurchMilitant Order of Saint Cuthbert]]. And the lonelymal series itself does this, mixing scenes of drama with ones where the demon lord of the air Pazuzu attempts to prove to Mal that chickens are the deadliest creatures on Earth
65	* Happens in Alexander Leon's [[http://www.alxlen.com/mariobrothers.html Mario Brothers]], especially the last one, where [[spoiler:Mario effectively kills himself by letting a flowing pool of lava burn him to death, after nearly everyone else and their mothers were already dead...]] and then cut to the happy underwater level music for the credits.
66	* ''FanFic/TiberiumWars''. Annual [[ChurchMilitant Black Hand]] Taco Fiesta.
67	* Monstro_draw brings us "[[http://monstro-draw.livejournal.com/9779.html Cat Rackham and the Comforts of Life]]", a lighthearted, [=NSF56K=] story about a cat who wants some coffee and AHH! AHHHH!
68	* In ''WebVideo/HumanCentipedeTheMusical'', Heiter interrupts Steve’s cheerful music number by drugging him and dragging him offstage.
69	* ''[[VideoGame/ColourMySeries Colour My Dreams]]'' starts you off in a bright, sunny area with stuff to do. Then you pick up the phone and... things change.
70	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI4Ojgz5Qo4 Mr. Literal]]'' by Egoraptor. Whips so hard you'd risk breaking your neck.
71	* [[WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun Desert Bus for Hope 2010]] saw a very sad story told about a young girl being treated for cancer. The whole cast was beside themselves with emotion and sorrow. Then, in the silence...
72	--> ''Graham'': So, who wants to sing [[Theatre/AvenueQ The Internet is for Porn]]?
73	* Website/ThisVeryWiki in general. The pages here vary from lighthearted and silly to [[SadnessTropes dark and depressing]]. It's easy to click a potholed link, and end up on a page where the tone is the complete opposite from the one you were previously at.
74	** The So Bad Its Horrible page. At one moment, you'll be giggling at the snarky descriptions of hilariously bad attempts at entertainment or truly pathetic fanfiction, and at the next moment reading about the dangers of hazardous toys and rides, and the harm those things have induced on innocent kids. [[invoked]]
75	%%* This picture: [[http://i.imgur.com/Fk7k1.jpg]]
76	* A good number of screamers are like this. One moment, you're looking at peaceful, beautiful scenery as calm music plays, the next... '''''[[JumpScare RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!]]'''''
77	* ''Podcast/NitroGameInjection'' is usually a fun, lighthearted video game music podcast, but during a segment of the eight anniversary episode, that was put on hold as former show co-host Akumu returned to pay tribute to Fumapero, a {{doujin}} music arranger who had been missing and displaced after the devastating earthquake in Sendai, Japan. Luckily, she announced a few days later that she was okay and had returned home.
78	** Happened again when Akumu, who was a close friend of recently deceased (as of 2011) game composer RyuUmemoto, was brought back to discuss Umemoto-san's life and career as a tribute to him.
79	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkCqm8VyFg4&feature=feedu You're Entering Puberty Charlie Brown]]'' starts off as a funny {{lampshade\|Hanging}} on the Peanuts universe then goes into TearJerker mode [[spoiler:with snoopy dying all alone]].
80	* Entry #46 of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' contains a) two of the [[BlackComedy funniest]] lines in the series and b) the most effective JumpScare yet.
81	* Brought up in cautionary fashion at the opening to Chapter 4 of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1451/The-Monster-Mash The Monster Mash]]; given that Chapter 3 has [[LeeroyJenkins Rainbow Dash]] end up as a {{Kaiju}} and chapter 4 is about [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] ghost interacting with her grieving friends, it's hard to call it unjustified.
82	-->''Author's Note: each chapter of the Monster Mash has its own tone, and while none of them are truly grim, some are darker than others. If you're reading this chapter right after 'The Big Battle', consider yourself warned.''
83	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg DYE's Fantasy]] is ''great'' on this trope. The beginning is so innocent... Oh, just a bunch of teenagers doing some mischief at a school swimming pool at night and discovering love and fighting their insecurities and..WAIT, WTF IS THIS!!?!? [[spoiler: Couple making out at the pool become a pair of disgusting alien-zombie like things. Boy hitting on the shy girl gets killed with the most ''painful'' oral sex ever thought. Shy girl desperately tries to escape, while the previous boy's dying body merges with the monster girl, and ''keeps squirming like an insect at her mouth''. Shy girls avoid the same fate by the monster boy by jumping on the pool, which, by the way, is a door to another dimension. There, her mind is fried and she ''burns from the inside'' upon seeing a gargantuan Cthulhu-like beast who is probably the cause of all this. Video ends.]] and it all started like an ordinary High School story...
84	* The third year of ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'' begins with the heroes still celebrating last year's victory over the BigBad. And then, out of nowhere, [[spoiler:a sorcerer [[WhamEpisode destroys Questport]]. The story picks up again with the [[TheRemnant few survivors]] searching for a new home]].
85	* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' seems to start off as an AffectionateParody of various preschool puppet shows. Then the puppets finally start thinking "creatively"... by making a cake out of raw organs and smearing blood on the wall.
86	* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': "Ghost" starts out as a lighthearted AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. It quickly shifts to tragedy when the ghost is revealed to have previously been a member of the team, who was murdered by another member that was possessed and forced to watch himself kill a friend before having his arm torn off. The ghost came back to kill his murderer and shows no signs of being aware of the possession.
87	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOPhNMl-4TQ This video]] takes the original DownerEnding of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'''s "The Sacrifice" campaign and, in the last seconds, makes it hilarious.
88	* The WebVideo/{{BriTANick}} video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQWjsqW6Ts "The Kiss"]], is a rather extreme case of this trope. [[spoiler:It goes from a good, wholesome silent film style romp to an incredibly dark and twisted take on A Clockwork Orange]] -- All in a spine-shatteringly quick 5 seconds.
89	* Former Website/ChannelAwesome contributor [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] has a video series known as 'Counter Monkey,' involving tales from various roleplaying game situations he has experienced. In an upload concerning the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' game setting ([[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/03/04/counter-monkey-thieves-world-part-2-the-chicago-way/ part two]], currently titled [[Film/TheUntouchables "The Chicago Way"]]), his discussion of the game's events involve the immortal and severely upset Tempus Thales going over the MoralEventHorizon in a severely [[{{Squick}} Squicktastic]] fashion... and right in the middle of that topic, Spoony suddenly comments on [[PreciousPuppies his dog Oreo]] having a dream on the bed and how cute she looks when she's confused.
90	* Dei-Sama's ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/461635 Shinukoto!]]'' starts out as a cute and comedic anime short about a girl trying and hilariously failing to off herself with various means, including trying to shoot herself, throwing a toaster into the tub, trying to hang herself, trying to drown herself, and finally sticking her head into an oven. [[spoiler:It ends with a heartbreaking hospital scene, with sad piano playing and a card from some kid saying "please return," as the girl closes her eyes and the heart monitor flatlines]].
91	* ''WebVideo/PoniesTheAnthology'' has things such as a creepy montage using the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' theme to Pinkie Pie laughing like WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker.
92	* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' has one rather jarring WholeEpisodeFlashback, wherein the first 9/10 of it have nothing to do with the framing story, being a humorous standard lighthearted internet review of a wholesome, innocent Archie christmas issue. When the person telling the story is finally asked where ''he'' was during all this, we find out his son had died, his wife left him, and he'd spent the past half year standing outside the cemetary and doing little else, and shortly after the review we saw Linkara had found him lying in a gutter and helped him get back on his feet and get his life back together.
93	** Also happens in "The Next 15 Screw-Ups", less intentionally. Linkara, in a quiet and regretful voice, apologises for being insensitive about depression in a previous review. Except the various items in screw-ups videos are separated by a specific comedy song running over WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy clips.
94	-->'''Linkara''': I sincerely apologise.\
95	'''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''': ''Eeeeeverything you know is wrong...''
96	** [=AT4W=] in general has this ''very'' heavily, since the (often very dark) plot segments happen at the beginnings and ends of humorous comic book reviews. So, during any arc involving a serious villain, you'll have episodes going straight from funny to SanitySlippage, murder, and fights with [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]]. For example, one episode goes from a review of a Vanilla Ice biography to [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Holokara phasing his hand into 90s kid's chest]] and threatening to [[AxeCrazy crush his heart]] if he [[DisproportionateRetribution ever interrupts the review again]], while being [[DissonantSerenity frighteningly calm]] the whole time.]]
97	* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': all videos of Lydia's spinoff vlog end with an upbeat "duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh, nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh YEAH!" by her. This becomes more and more jarring as CerebusSyndrome sets in with the plotline revolving around George Wickham emotionally abusing and manipulating Lydia.
98	** In the original videos, Lizzie and Fitz were making an adorable care package for Jane when [[spoiler: Fitz unknowingly revealed that it was Darcy who broke up Jane and Bing.]]
99	** In Episode 84, Lizzie was gleefully showing off her new phone and Darcy was on the verge of asking her out on a date when [[spoiler: Lizzie learns from Charlotte that Wickham intended to publish a sex tape featuring himself and Lydia.]]
100	* "To This Day" starts with a humorous anecdote about pork chops, but suddenly takes a left turn as it veers into highly depressing subject matter.
101	* "Blue Patches" from WebVideo/DemoReel. At first it starts off fairly easy with Rebecca and Tacoma finding out that Donnie's DarkSecret was that he was a ridiculously bad child actor, and Donnie being "looked after" by a kooky family. You start to relax, thinking the depressing "Lost In Translation" and "The Blair Witch Hangover" were just leading up to a comedic reveal... but then everyone finds out that [[spoiler: Donnie's mom committed suicide when he was young]].
102	** Not only that, but the "kooky" family turn out to be [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not So Harmless Villains]].
103	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfUJkYqMOU Nyan Caxx]]. [[spoiler: Twice.]]
104	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5bqtqe2F-E One Girl, One Sandwich]]. It starts off with a pleasant atmosphere: a girl wakes up, craving a sandwich. She gets bathed and dressed before hopping in her car and driving to a [[BlandNameProduct WubWay]]. She orders a sandwich, sits down to eat it... [[spoiler: and then the sandwich comes to life and bites her head off before attacking the camera.]]
105	* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' has [[spoiler:PMD-B!Gamer die,]] only for him to come back briefly as a Gastly so he can finish watching Lost.
106	* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' plays this for laughs. The theme music is a brief clip from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'''s opening music. The series likes to play the theme after a ColdOpen involving the characters being the opposite of friendly.
107	-->'''Twilight:''' Rainbow Dash, apologize!\
108	'''Rainbow Dash:''' No!\
109	'''Twilight:''' Dammit!\
110	'''Theme music:''' ''Frieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeends!''
111	* In WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug's ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' season 5 retrospective, he goes back and forth between yelling about the more exciting episodes' plots, to describing the slice-of-life ones in a calm tone of voice.
112	* ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' is normally very dark and depressing, which makes the occasional lighter moment really stand out. The mood can swing from civilians being massacred by [[KnightTemplar Steel Rangers]] to a ponified version of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Alex Louis Armstrong]] trying to woo [[RogueDrone Lacunae]].
113	* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has a few such moments, but a particularly vivid (and [[WhamEpisode spoilerish]]) example comes [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ here]]: the chapter goes from lighthearted drama ([[spoiler:Weaver making an emergency phone call to Glenn]]) to comedy ([[spoiler:the Chicago Wards -- Weaver's superhero team -- appearing on a stupid morning talk show]]) to horror ([[spoiler:an ''entirely new Endbringer'' -- city-killing abomination -- attacking]]).
114	* Season 3 finale of ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has several in a row. [[spoiler:Sparadrap's pets, the thing he cares the most about in the game get killed by enemy players, obviously shattering him. His usually selfish teammate Gaea calls the perpetrators "monsters"... because she was intending to steal said pets and sell them for lots of money (which suits her much better). Other usually selfish teammate Omega Zell reacts along the lines of "You're ''really'' a horrible person, Gaea". Then Sparadrap starts going berserk in radical contrast to his usually foolish attitude. But the enemy players are much stronger than them and quickly get the upper hand back. Then The Cavalry arrives just in the nick of time! Next thing we see is a calmed down Sparadrap, still mourning his pets while his brother cheers him up.]]
115	* Season 2 of ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' opens with Cinder's CoDragons browsing a book store. It seems like they're just casually looking for some books until they ask the owner for "Third Crusade." Moments later they reveal they know the owner defected from the White Fang and they're here to kill him.
116	** Season 3, Chapter 6 "Fall". [[WhamEpisode Oh so]] [[DownerEnding very much]].
117	* Near the end of ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', a tense, serious scene abruptly gives way to a wacky, slapstick cartoon battle scene. [[spoiler:Then, when a non-cartoonified character is seriously injured, the scene suddenly becomes even more serious than before.]]
118	* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [[http://youtu.be/fyKxp5e9Lf4?t=2m53s this]] (expletive-filled,[[note]]although censored[[/note]] ranting) entry of WebVideo/JacksFilms' "Your Grammar Sucks" series. [[spoiler: It inexplicably ends with the words "I like that", and Jack reads it accordingly.]]
119	* Creator/RachelBloom's comedy music video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucmsunDs3jE I Steal Pets]] seems nonsensical and frivolous until the protagonist reveals midway through that [[spoiler:[[MyParentsAreDead both her parents are dead]],]] providing the most likely explanation for her bizarre reaction to getting bullied at school.
120	* Pointed out in [[http://occupyrichierich.tumblr.com/post/46534545542/ok-this-is-issue-10-of-richie-rich-and-jackie this]] ''Blog/OccupyRichieRich'' post:
121	--> "ok this is issue 10 of richie rich and jackie jokers and the previous 9 issues had covers that were typical money-based [[VisualPun visual gags]], and then suddenly this motherfucker comes along and not only are richie and jackie going to fucking die but so are billions in a forthcoming atomic war??? jesus fuck that is some tonal whiplash"
122	* The [[https://twitter.com/coffee_dad Coffee Dad]] twitter is normally very repetitive, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a dad talking about coffee]]. Then, sometimes, [[spoiler: he'll randomly make a tear-jerking post about missing his deceased son.]]
123	* Taking a WikiWalk through the files of the Website/SCPFoundation can induce Mood Whiplash. One minute you're reading an article about an average guy named Fred who travels through books and inserts himself into them, the next you're reading about a heart-monster with CombatTentacles and a stinger that [[WordSaladHorror babbles nonsensically]] as it kills people, or some eldritch artifact that could cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if it fell into the wrong hands. Sometimes a reader can suffer whiplash in the same article: the lists of attempts to kill the Hard-To-Destroy Reptile alternate between horrifying and hilariously bizarre, and [[BlackComedy sometimes dabble in a bit of both]].
124	* ''Website/SFDebris'': episodes swing between jokes and tragedy, discussing traumatic experiences or heartbreaking events on-screen with jokes about Captain Janeway being a MadScientist; see "Jetrel", for example, where a soliloquy on the horror of war is followed up by describing the result of an onscreen experiment as "this jar full of gas becomes a jar full of snot". Then there's the week-to-week whiplash, with "The Inner Light", which received rave reviews and a discussion of how brilliant and haunting it is... followed by "Twisted", which is compared to watching tarantulas have sex.
125	* A common event in FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum. Spoilers abound for just ''what'' ends up happening, but the fic (and its [[FanVerse related fanfics]]) have a tendency to dramatically switch between hilarious, surreal, ReferenceOverdosed comedy and BodyHorror-filled NightmareFuel.
126	* The January 30, 2015 episode of Creator/RoosterTeeth's ''The Know-It-All'', a recap of big news articles within major gaming entertainment, hit this when the episode began with a red-eyed and barely-keeping-her-composure Ashley Jenkins telling viewers about the hospitalization of Creator/MontyOum and Rooster Teeth's plans for that week concerning content before going into the show proper where it seemed that nothing bad had happened. Granted, the main episode was filmed ''before'' the incident, but it's still a little jarring.
127	* The point of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' "Misleading Compliment" Platform/{{Vine}} series, saying something ominous or even threatening and then transitioning it into something very sweet and charming.
128	-->I'm going to ''crush'' you... with a big ol' hug for being such a dear friend! Hahaha, juicy!
129	* From [[WebVideo/VinesauceTomodachiLife Vinny's streams of Tomodachi Life]]:
130	** In ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', islanders can be assigned a CatchPhrase that they'll say at certain moments. [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Kenny]] has [[TearJerker "Duck, I miss you"]], and it catches Vinny off-guard every time he says it.
131	** Episode 37 goes from [[spoiler:a sad Walrus remembering the good times he had with Two-Faced]] to [[spoiler:a happy Walrus dancing because he was given [[TrademarkFavoriteFood a sausage]] by his former worst enemy]].
132	** Episode 48 and 49 intersperse the regular antics with [[spoiler:[[SurrealHorror the advancing Jahn invasion subplot]]]].
133	* Happens frequently in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', usually PlayedForLaughs, but sometimes it's [[PlayedForDrama more serious]].
134	** Cecil often switches abruptly from talking about something terrifying to an unrelated and much more cheerful story, or at least one he seems to feel cheerful about at any rate.
135	** The "Word from our Sponsor" segments, which usually consist of an unsettling story followed by name-dropping a RealLife product or company.
136	** A non-Cecil example comes in Episode 65, "Voicemail." The second to last voicemail is an excited, happy message from Carlos to Cecil, telling him that [[spoiler:the desert Carlos is trapped in is actually the Dog Park]], and so Cecil can (theoretically) come visit at any time. This is followed immediately by the last voicemail, a dreadfully happy, yet ominous message from [[spoiler:Kevin, who was last seen during the [=StrexCorp=] takeover]].
137	* [[Creator/{{Dropout}} CollegeHumor]]'s video "Stop Saying It Ruined My Childhood" revolves around a group of millennial at a restaurant complaining about various remakes/reboots of movies and TV shows and saying their childhoods are ruined. Their complaints are alternated with the lamentations an older group of people at a different table whose childhoods/youths really ''were'' ruined, like a child abuse victim, a regretful Vietnam veteran, and a Holocaust survivor.
138	* ''Website/LegendsOfLocalization'''s livestream of ''[[http://legendsoflocalization.com/funky-fantasy-iv/ Funky Fantasy IV]]'', a deliberate TranslationTrainWreck of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', is pretty goofy and light-hearted for the most part... until the King of Fabul seems to voice his concern that the BigBad might ''rape'' the protagonist's abducted girlfriend. The romhack's creator is left completely speechless by this, and has to point out that while Nintendo may have {{bowdlerize}}d the heck out of the game's U.S. release, that line was definitely ''not'' in the Japanese original.
139	* On the 82nd episode of ''Filthy Casuals'', a discussion about the need to archive games descends into a bleak look at the crumbling, pointless future humanity will face when everything the species has built will becomes dust in the wind, followed by an upbeat advertisement for a clothing company that funded the episode.
140	* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'':
141	** When Paul catches Toneth in video 6, the same fun, colorful animation that played in video 1 whenever he caught a pet appears, clashing with the dark ambience that's been shown ever since Paul entered the Newmaker Plane.
142	** The pause screen remains the same as it was from the beginning, bright and pink.
143	** A small part of episode 9 involves "Paul" going back to the original beginning of the game, before he entered the Newmaker Plane.
144	* Not unsurprising, considering the subject matter of true crime/comedy podcast ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous''. Explicitly discussed during episode 13 on the Phantom of Heilbronn after the topic segues directly from a discussion of pronunciation differences between English and German into the double shooting of two police officers.
145	* Changes between every section of Website/TalesFromDevNull's story [[https://www.4eye-labs.net/devnulltales/content/late/ Late (A Writing Exercise)]], especially between the 4th and the 5th.
146	* Immediately after Scrooge says he'd never love anyone or anything as much as Belle in ''WebVideo/TwelveHundredGhosts'', it goes to him yelling at her for snuggling too close, which is followed by her breaking up with him.
147	* Common in blind reaction videos, ''especially'' when favorite characters are the butt of jokes. Case in point: [=FlamingShark's=] review of the ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' episode "Reunion" had him go from chuckling [[IKnewIt "Called It"]] over favorite character Pidge being called a nerd by [[KidsAreCruel her]] [[TeensAreMonsters classmates]] to immediate sympathy when she starts silently crying.
148	* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': [[OnceAnEpisode Every episode]] ends with a transition from the terrible events of a global war in which millions of people will die to a chipper request to PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel and a thanks to those that already have done so.
149	* ''WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}}'': One of the ''VideoGame/SonicExe'' fan-games played started off with a relatively creepy and interesting atmosphere, being a first-person adventure game... until a 3-D rendering of [=Sonic.Exe=] appeared in a flash, leaving Christian stunned and laughing.
150	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvO9Xk3bheuxEemvknCj72g What Culture Gaming]]:'' Every video narrated by Jules Gill includes an IBangedYourMom joke ("And that's my one per list"). Every video narrated by Jules Gill ends with him telling the audience that they are awesome, and to seek professional or personal help if they are having mental health problems, because people care more than you know. Some of the commenters think that these two things do not sit well together.
151	* In the ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'' parody of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1qdT7mj-s&t=3m34s the first boss battle between Tails and Dr. Eggman]] in the Hero Story, Eggman morosely tells Tails that he misses his wife before leaving. Just moments before, during the fight itself, Eggman had screamed and shouted animatedly as Tails dealt damage to his machine.
152	* The lyrics of ''WebVideo/{{Rathergood}}'''s "Communist Christmas" keep alternating between standard {{Christmas Song\|s}} fare and talking about communism.
153	--> ''Good will to all men, let's celebrate\
154	By purging the enemies of the state''
155	* The short story [[https://crayshack.com/2021/04/30/first-time/#more-82 First Time]] uses this trope deliberately by rapidly switching from a coming of age story to horror with a single sentence.
156	* In the first part of the Flash series ''Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom'', it switches from [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] pleasantly walking along to [[spoiler:him getting pelted by Bullet Bills and a Banzai Bill, rendering him dead. No, not temporary DeathThrows, but actually being KilledOfForReal. His death is portrayed seriously, and a solemn funeral scene comes afterwards, complete with music from ''Film/Titanic1997''.]]
157	* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'':
158	** The duo takes ''great'' joy in completely ruining emotional or epic scenes by narrating the lines but injecting fart or sex jokes into them, or by naming their character something ludicrously stupid. It's difficult to not feel this when they add complaints about everything smelling like cat pee to the end of the Old Man's tale of the fall of Hyrule in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' or when threats of the end of the world are issued to a man named "Spoompls" in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''.
159	** Dan always laughs when a video game abruptly goes from InUniverse talk to meta instructions on how to play the game because of this, comparing it to the [[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when Fry dates a robotic clone of Creator/LucyLiu.
160	---> '''Dan (On [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]):''' I always love when they go from mystical speak to how-to-play-the-game speak. "''May the four seasons of the winds always bring your safe return'' [[RoboSpeak PRESS Z TO TARGET]]."
161	** Not to be undone, the ''entire'' ''WebVideo/SteamTrain'' playthrough of ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' constantly careens between the game's dark and gray serious story... and Ross's liberal usage of mods to turn shouts into [[PottyHumor farts]] and all dragons into ''Wrestling/MachoManRandySavage''.
162	* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's'' review of ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}'' when he's giving a rather heartfelt explanation of his theory of what the game is about, and Ness's Dad calls in the middle of it to [[AntiPoopSocking hassle Ness for playing too long]].
163	--> '''Nerd:''' ...and I like to think the tomb belongs to a player who gave up on this spot in the game, and now you must go on. Then, so you go deeper into your subconscious '''OH SHUT UP DAD COME ON!!!''' you go deeper into your subconscious to a place where you touch the truth of the universe...
164	* ''WebAnimation/StoryBooth'': This can result from watching several videos in a row due to the wide range of subject matter covered on the channel. One minute the viewer could be watching a silly story about a supposedly possessed doll and the next minute be reeling in horror at a tale of extreme child abuse. All of the stories are submitted by real people recounting a past part of their lives after all, so this trope is pretty much unavoidable.
165	* WebVideo/StephenVlog: The first three minutes of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQsFYukfY4 "Chugga's Ark"]] has Stephen quietly discussing the Hurricane Florence situation to the viewers, assuring them that their situation will improve. Then there's a cut to Stephen in a shopping market wearing a giant {{WesternAnimation/Rocko\|sModernLife}} mask.
166	--->'''Stephen:''' I'm still run off of adrenaline from the past few days so... that'll fade. And that'll be good because I really need to relax little bit.\
167	''(cut)''\
168	'''Stephen:''' "''Gah''-bage Day is a very dangerous day!"
169	* In WebAnimation/BlackRhinoRanger's short "Franchise/{{Spyro\|TheDragon}}: Master of All Elements", when showcasing Spyro's Undead talents, Spyro weeping over Ignitus's grave is immediately followed by him wearing a wolf costume with an extremely silly facial expression.
170	* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGpzhcnA64 Fuwa Fuwa Foof OP]]'' video starts off as a rapid, cutesy montage involving an adorable bunny doing random harmless things. When the "show title" pops up with Foof in front of it, the background whiplashes into a heavy metal-like aesthetic as Foof melts into a human skull with rabbit ears, which conforms part of Foof's look that appears immediately after (where we're shown [[CuteIsEvil who she used to be]]). Bonus points for the song that plays in the video ("[=ChuChu=] Lovely [=MuniMuni=] [=MuraMura=] [=PrinPrin=] Boron Nururu [=ReroRero=]" by Music/MaximumTheHormone) changing from pop rock to death metal at that moment.

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