Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest can fall into this at times, for obvious reasons based on the site's premise (as it is based off of ''Literature/BattleRoyale''). Sometimes the violence can slide into {{Narm}} territory, or even darkly humorous. Other times, though... well, it can get downright disturbing.
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* In many of the SOTF settings in general, it's been established that people tend to gloss over the deaths and [[NightmareFetishist view it as fun entertainment]], or {{Troll}} family members with video clips. Bonus points if it's SOTF-TV, which has the backdrop of an ImmoralRealityShow.
** This has become less true in the main versions over the years; it's now taken very seriously by the US government and people are actively trying to stop it, though with limited success. It's up to you which is worse: a universe where the murder of scores of teenagers is routine and fun, or one where a terrorist organization has been able to abduct innocents and force them to kill each other with only occasional slow downs for over a decade.
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* Sophie Maraschino's death at the hand of Ash Holmes. Ash tries to trick her into trusting him, but Sophie responds by shooting at him. Except ''he doesn't die'' despite being shot. Instead, he kicks her into the tide and keeps her pinned under his foot as she slowly drowns. The entire time he's [[DissonantSerenity casually taking a smoke]]. By the way, Sophie was [[TeenPregnancy pregnant]] at the time of her death. EarlyInstallmentWeirdness aside, that is not a way to go out.
* The death of Ken Mendel has him try to swim for it, only to be incapacitated by gunfire from the terrorists patrol boats. Standard practice up until one of the boats accidentally runs the still alive Ken over and he gets ''sucked into the propellers!'' The resulting mess is so graphic that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the men who killed him are disgusted]].
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[[folder:V2]]
* The death of Damien Carter-Madison, whereupon he is swamped by the ghosts/zombies of all of his deceased classmates and dragged through a door into a realm which is strongly implied to be hell. The knowledge it is the hallucination of a dying teenager does little to comfort the reader.
* Sam Sorensen, a Christian boy whose background consists of his being completely harmless, developing at a startling pace into a deranged [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]] wandering around the island is… a lot.
** He encounters a fellow classmate by a lake while completely naked and, apropos of nothing but his own deviance [[spoiler: ejaculates on her face while she’s asleep]] This is just one example of the kind of things he gets up to in the vast majority of his posts.
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[[folder:V3]]
* Most of [[MalevolentMaskedMan Blood Boy's]] kills are heavy on the TorturePorn side, and prominently feature [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and [[RapeAsDrama sexual assault]]. These sequences are generally lengthy and quite graphic in detail.
* The character deaths of [[spoiler:Guy Rapide and Mary [=McKay=]. Mary, the girl who got pregnant to Guy (who doesn't want anything to do with the kid), snaps, ties an unconscious Guy to a chair, ''saws'' halfway through one ankle and completely through the other, then ''saws through his penis'', and then saws his neck off. ''And then eats the penis''. Meanwhile, local crazy Wade Wilson arrives, and has hallucinations about a chestburster popping out of Mary's stomach. So he stabs her stomach repeatedly, and then wipes the unborn foetus, which ''got stuck to his knife'', onto Guy's bloody torso.]] Read it all in its bloody, horrifying glory [[http://sotfmini.com/SurvivalOfTheFittest/viewtopic.php?f=450&t=3238 here]].
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[[folder:V4]]
* [[MadArtist Sarah Atwell's]] descent into madness begins with her [[spoiler: tying down and torturing Eve-Walker Luther, then stabbing her to death, bleeding out Miranda Merchant and carving the words 'selfish bitch' onto her chest, and rigging up a [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Jigsaw-like]] contraption onto Brock Mason involving pointing a sniper rifle at his own head, making sure that if he even moves he dies. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled He kills himself rather than take part]].]]
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bloodgarden]]. To elaborate, Liam "Brook" Brooks, a sweet, shy boy who likes gardening and has a fear of blood, witnesses his love interest die and gets [[BreakTheCutie broken]] a little [[FreakOut too hard]]. [[spoiler:he sets up a twisted "garden" decorated with the bodies of said love interest and other kids that he brutally murders, inflicts ColdBloodedTorture on a girl who bullied him, and eventually has to be put down by his former best friend.]]
* Alex White's ColdBloodedTorture against [[spoiler:Rosa Fiametta]]. It's a lengthy, graphic sequence, with heavy sexual assault overtones. It was so bad that the post itself received a ContentWarning.
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[[folder:V5]]
* Summer Simms [[spoiler:kills longtime rival Naomi Bell]]. What does she do afterwards? Not for the faint of heart: [[spoiler:she slices open her stomach and begins [[ImAHumanitarian eating her intestines]]]]. It's not pretty.
** Her entrance to the hotel and the destruction she unleashes once she's inside.[[spoiler: Two people dying from a grenade she threw and her leg getting blown off, with Amaranta Montalvo killing her rather than have her bleed out from her wounds.]]
* The death of [[spoiler:Maynard Hurst]]. It starts out seeming like a quick suicide via gunshot to the head, but [[spoiler:Maynard [[BungledSuicide fails to inflict an immediately fatal injury]] and is left conscious and suffering until a friend puts him down.]]
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[[folder:V6]]
* Isabel Ramirez by herself can be a fountain of this. WordOfGod says she was intended to be a V3 style {{Sadist}} done right, and it shows. Almost all of her kills feature some sort of {{Gorn}} and/or ColdBloodedTorture. Some examples:
** Isabel Ramirez's [[spoiler:murder of Conrad Harrod]]. Impalement followed by flaying, accompanied by Isabel's mad yet tranquil mutterings all the while, makes for a rather gruesome scene.
** Another scene involving Isabel is [[spoiler:Astrid Tate's]] death. [[spoiler:Astrid]] is already blind in one eye due to a childhood accident, and Isabel accidentally puts out the other one with a sloppy attack. [[spoiler:Astrid's]] horror at realizing that she is now completely blind and is as good as dead due to an accident is palpable.
** Her murder of [[spoiler:Lucilly Peterson]] takes this one step beyond. Originally intending to let her go, a surprise attempt at her life by [[spoiler:Lucilly]] causes Isabel to lose her temper and she then proceeds to disembowel her, even dragging her guts out with her bare hands just to make her last moments even more painful.
** Even her own death manages to be a mixture of this and a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. [[spoiler:Several people with vendettas against her [[RasputinianDeath shoot, stab, tase, and generally mutilate her]], until she's left screaming for mercy. Then Dorothy Shelley removes her head at the jaw, just to be absolutely certain she's dead.]] It makes one wonder...
* [[spoiler:Tara Behzad's]] drawn-out, gruesome death. She spends several days starving herself and then attempts to crush her facial features flat in order to get her collar off. Upon realizing this is a doomed endeavor, she ''continues'' to bash her own head in, before immolating herself via a combination of flashbang grenades and a makeshift funeral pyre.
* [[spoiler:The murder of Bridgette Sommerfield.]] A simple robbery by [[spoiler:Caedyn Miller]] goes awry when her victim suffers a seizure after a suprise attack, which freaks her out to a point that she proceeds to bludgeon and stab at her with a bottle til she bleeds to death from her injuries. The worst part is that [[spoiler:Bridgette]] could still feel every cut and stab, [[AndIMustScream but not move or do anything about it.]]
* [[spoiler:Penelope Fitzgerald's]] death, which goes into the full, awful details of what it's like to bleed out extremely slowly with your senses failing one by one. [[spoiler:By the end of it, Penelope is deaf, blind, and begging her friends not to abandon her, unable to realize that they are trying to comfort her even though they're right there.]]
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[[folder:V7]]
* Quinn Abert functions as this volumes primary psycho killer {{Sadist}}, which produces the requisite amount of horrible violence you may expect. Where she differs from previous examples, however, is that she’s not suffering from some kind of psychotic break or delusion. She is completely in control of herself while hurting others, which she is completely apathetic about because she’s a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who doesn’t even see others as people.
** [[NothingIsScarier (Quinn Abert continued from One Final Embrace.)]] Dropped without context into the middle of an otherwise active thread of people, and off a thread where Quinn had just killed two people.
*** Her murder and desecration of [[spoiler: Stepeny Cruz]] is like something from a horror film with how it’s describe. It ends with her ''crucifying '' the spoilered person to the side of a boat after [[{{Gorn}} tearing out all of their internal organs by hand.]]
* The death of [[spoiler: Amber Yates]] is a drawn out, painful affair that qualifies as this and as a TearJerker. It starts after they get shot in the head and somehow '' survive '', leaving them disoriented and confused while the two people who were just trying to kill them try to figure out what to do. It gets to a point where they end up pulling a knife out of their own chest in their dazed state before finally being finished off.
* Nathan Coleman being on the island '' at all '' is this for the simple fact that he has Down syndrome, leaving him both physically and mentally handicapped in a scenario where everyone is expected to kill each other. [[spoiler: His death is as tragic as it is gruesome.]]
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[[folder: V8]]
* The change in environment for this volume takes a class of teenagers and forces them to kill each other in a [[SnowMeansDeath a frozen wasteland.]] The environment is a constant hazard for everyone, whether it’s from rolling an ankle on the uneven terrain, a sudden snow storm, or from a fall into a frozen lake, the last of which has already been the cause of someones death.
* Przemyslaw Ziemak gets his eyes put out with a nail studded baseball bat and things somehow only get ''worse '' for him from then on as he continually wanders into high risk situations, eventually being reduced to Shu Hawthornes “pet” before he gets [[spoiler: brutally murdered with a rock as he futilely tries to save himself.]] It’s like the universe was conspiring to make his time on the island hell.
* Shu Hawthorne and his pursuit of his “light,” which is essentially just him trying to find some kind of happiness on the island. It starts with him [[DisproportionateRetribution garrotting his girlfriend with barbed wire over a petty argument]] and doesn’t improve from there.
** He later goes on to cart the above mentioned Prezemyslaw around like some kind of pet, as well as pushing an [[HeroicBSOD emotionally devastated]] Amos Flanagan into [[spoiler: hanging himself]].
*** His interactions with Josh James are incredibly eerie, with Shu being portrayed more like some otherworldly being than the deranged human he actually is, like Josh finds him to be an object of worship.
* Joshua James is this in a different way, as, after a lifetime of being generally ignored, he decides he’s going to [[IJustWantToBeSpecial stand out]]. He starts by holding one of his classmates at gunpoint and '' licking her face. '' It just keeps [[DepravedBisexual escalating]] from there, with all of his good sense eroding until he’s declaring [[spoiler: his own death]] a victory because he got to [[spoiler: kill and kiss the girl who murdered him.]] The quote below summarizes his [[FromNobodyToNightmare trajectory]] beautifully:

--> ''A vile, sharp toothed version of himself appeared in his minds eye. ''

* The death of [[spoiler: Shawn Bellamy]] is both [[AssholeVictim richly deserved]] and gruesome enough to warrant a content warning. The spoilered character, after getting shot, falls [[spoiler: face first into a spike trap that sends several wooden stakes into his neck and face]]. It is not pretty, especially because that isn’t actually what kills them.
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