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1->''"[[DissonantLaughter Laughing for no reason]] is a sign of the stupidity."''
2-->-- '''Russish proverb'''
3
4->''"She makes a noise that might be laughter if not for the hitch in their chest or snapshots of that nightmare searing themselves into the back of her eyes; she only laughs out of fear that she'll start screaming."''
5-->-- ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon''
6
7->''"The record will show...that when the verdict was announced, special witness [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]...laughed. A laugh louder than any ever heard before...or since. A laugh that echoed in the halls of justice, lingering for what seemed like hours."''
8-->-- ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''
9
10->''"Haven't you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?"''
11-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}''
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13->''"There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humour."''
14-->-- ''[[Literature/{{Gormenghast}} Boy in Darkness]]''
15
16->''"It's perfectly simple, Feldwebel! We're all raving mad! Mad! Ha ha ha!"''
17-->-- '''Kommandant Fokker''', ''Script/CarryOnEscaping''
18
19->''"Disillusioned and embittered by his parents' words, the child was broken physically, broken mentally. The men in white placed him in the rolling chairs, how he laughed! How he laughed!"''
20-->-- One of the many notes "''VideoGame/CryOfFear''
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22->''"'Heh, hah...'\
23...something alien escaped his lips. Of course, he knew full well what it was, and had done it on numerous occasions in the past. However, it was an absolute first. ''It had never happened before''.\
24'Hehah, hahah, hah...'\
25It was his first time doing it, so it came out blatantly shoddy. He wished to somehow express his emotions, yet what poured forth from his lips sounded akin to astonishment. Indeed, it might have been just that. He couldn't tell, for he had never experienced it, either.\
26Mercurius no longer cared.\
27He only wished to laugh...\
28...and hope to begin grieving.\
29His being was the olden world, worn-out and weary. Thus, the sound leaving his mouth was akin to a dying man's final cry.\
30'Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!'\
31With a roaring laughter that shook the heavens, Mercurius came to know jealousy. It was the very first time he mocked himself in earnest. He watched as the miracle - no, the gem that made it happen - still greatening the distance between them...\
32..while he melted into the foaming curtain of the unknown, robbed of his corporeal form."''
33-->--''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', as Mercurius's plans fall apart.
34
35->''"Laughter drifted up from [[BuriedAlive the mound]]; bright, irrepressible, totally genuine laughter. I felt my flesh lift itself into large, hard lumps. It was the laughter of a man whose [[VillainousBreakdown mind has broken]]. He laughed and he laughed in his hoarse voice. Then he screamed; then he laughed again. Finally he did both together. For a while I laughed with him, or screamed, or whatever, and the wind laughed and screamed at both of us."''
36-->--''[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes Dolan's Cadillac]]''
37
38->''"By the time that I realized that Dream was... [[spoiler:attacking him]], I headed back there to try and stop him immediately, but then... When I got to the main cell, he'd already done it... ''({{Beat}})'' And I was standing... on the other side of the lava, just ''screaming'' at him, and he just ''laughed''..."''
39-->-- '''Sam''', after Dream [[spoiler:beat Tommy to death]] in the prison, ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''
40
41->''"[Dwarf] looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!"''
42-->--''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', right before one of your dwarves is butchered by newly-minted MadArtist
43
44->''"One [email attachment] was a board called ''uwillnotsurvive'' and the other was a ''tips'' thing that was '''twenty-three megabytes long'''. Upon opening up the tips file that was bigger than the board, I noticed it was just '''a hundred and eighty pages''' of "hahahaha". That's when I knew I was dealing with a psychopath, [[ThisIsGoingToSuck here we go]]."''
45-->-- '''WebVideo/GrayStillPlays'''
46
47->''"Horribly, Number One, the last of the dictators, did not go mad again; not exactly, but he laughed, and laughed and laughed...."''
48-->-- The last lines of ''Happy Ending'', by Creator/MackReynolds and Creator/FredricBrown
49
50->''"At the moment when it was most horrible, the laugh of a demon, a laugh which one can only give vent to when one is no longer human, burst forth on the priest's livid face. Quasimodo did not hear that laugh, but he saw it."''
51-->-- ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''
52
53->''"He stood in the middle of it all in a puddle of blood as more poured down his front and it was almost ironic that a few heartbeats later [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]] was hit by another stray curse. Clark had joined the fray with his mother and luckily his jinx was almost harmless. It only banished the top part of his clothes away and that was when Harry started shaking. In the end it wasn't the teachers that stopped the chaos building inside the ballroom…it was the sound of sharp cold laughter.\
54It pulled everyone's attention as they turned their eyes to Harry who stood bleeding with a star burst wound on his chest blood flowing from him steadily as he laughed. Harry laughed harshly with no humor as he raised a shaking hand to his face inspecting the blood painted on it before he fisted his hair with both hands and cackled brokenly. Blood was smeared across his face; he was covered in spatters of blood giving him a ghastly image. The cool rush of the air reminded him that now most of his worst scars were on display and made him cackle harder."''
55-->--''FanFic/TheJadedEyesSeries''
56
57-> ''"[[DramaticDeadpan HA.]]\
58HA HA HA.\
59FFNK.\
60AHOO.\
61AHOO HOO\
62HOO HOO\
63HOO\
64HOO."''
65-->-- '' '''[[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a142/kogure/comiics/Batman-TheKillingJoke33.jpg EHRRR]]''' ''
66-> '''''"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
67'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
68'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
69'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
70'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
71'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA'''\
72'''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"'''''
73-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''' on [[GoMadFromTheRevelation seeing the chemical damage to his face]], ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''
74
75->''"Is this a good laugh or a bad laugh?... Well, the longer it goes on, the more I think it's a bad laugh."''
76-->-- '''Adora''', ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''
77
78->'''Alan:''' He made out it spoke to him... and [[EldritchAbomination then the Others came]].
79->'''Jill:''' Can I meet him?
80->'''Alan:''' What for? He don't remember. They took him up the County, you know. They put him right. They can do that. He don't care a button he just ''la-a-a-ughs all the time!''
81-->-- ''Film/TheStoneTape''
82
83->''"You laugh, and keep laughing. It's SO funny, you can't stop. Tears run down your face. [[UnreliableNarrator ...what? You didn't do that?]]"''
84-->-- '''FlavorText''', ''Videogame/{{Undertale}}''
85
86->''"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."''
87-->--''Literature/{{VALIS}}.''
88
89->''"This is the part where you're supposed to '''LAUGH!''' Laugh, you stupid motherfucker!"''
90-->-- '''Goro Majima''' while beating a mook senseless, ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''
91
92-> ''"'Ha, I'm no masochist, my friend!' Twilight was shaking her head in response to the other pony's inquiry, gasping for breath from her half-shrieks. "Heheh, haven't you heard that, hahaha, laughter a way to trick your body into, haha, not feeling pain?!" Her smile widened as she managed to dodge [[spoiler: Fluttershy]]'s frenzied attacks, angling herself to more easily control the blood flow from her wound. 'Heheheh, that's why I laugh, [[spoiler: Fluttershy]]! It enhances me! I sill feel pain, but, heheheh, it's not enough to kill me!' Her eyes were bright despite the obvious pain in her body, practically drunk with the imagined extent of her plan and the laughter which accompanied it. 'Imagining helps too, just as I'm doing now, ha, thinking of just how existence will be when I've helped purify it under my guidance as a good friend and teacher! [=HahahahaHA=]!'"''
93-->-- '''Twilight Sparkle''', ''Fanfic/PagesOfHarmony''
94
95->''"They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa\
96They're coming to take me away\
97Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha!\
98To the [[BedlamHouse funny farm]]\
99Where life is beautiful all the time\
100And I'll be happy to see\
101Those nice young men\
102In their clean white coats\
103And they're coming to take me away\
104HA-HAAAAA!"''
105-->-- '''Music/NapoleonXIV''', ''"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa"''
106
107->''"Result: FANTASTIC CLEAR! Rank SS HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"''
108-->-- "[=QZKago=] Requiem" by t+pazolite, ''VideoGame/{{maimai}} [=FiNALE=]''
109
110->''And the music goes round my head''\
111''And I can't hear a thing you said''\
112''And my laughing goes through my brain''\
113''It's so comical I'm insane!''
114-->-- '''Music/TheEasybeats''', "The Music Goes Round My Head" (later covered by Music/TheSaints for the ''Film/YoungEinstein'' soundtrack)

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