->''"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get any worse."''
-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

->''"The factory was assembled lakeside. There were start up problems. And a fire. Flooding. An explosion. More flooding. And another fire."''
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''

->''"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black."''
-->-- ''Despair, Inc.'' DemotivationalPoster

->''"I'm Deceased Crab, LetsPlay'' VideoGame/{{Eversion}}! ''And I'm starting to realize why the game said, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids 'Not for children or those of a nervous disposition.'"]]''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTxRJSWU0_k "Let's Play Eversion 3"]]

->''"And then, somehow, it got worse."''
-->-- Common Russian Joke, when asked to sum up their country's history.

->''"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."''
-->-- '''Marvin the Paranoid Android''', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978''

->''"If you see God first, tell him shit got worse."''
-->-- '''[[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]]'''

-> ''"Shit just got real."''
-->-- '''Marcus Bennett''', ''Film/BadBoysII''

->''"Here ends'' ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. ''If it has passed from [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas the high and the beautiful]] to [[DownerEnding darkness]] and [[ApocalypseHow ruin]], that was of old the [[YouCantFightFate fate]] of [[CrapsackWorld Arda Marred]]; and if any [[DeusExMachina change]] shall come and [[ResetButton the Marring be amended]], [[GodCouple Manwë and Varda]] may know; but [[ShrugOfGod they have not revealed it]], and it is not declared in the [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom dooms]] of [[{{Psychopomp}} Mandos]]."''
-->-- ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''

->''"No matter what, there is more fucked up shit than what you just saw."''
-->-- [[RulesOfTheInternet Rule 36 of the Internet]]

-> '''Mario:''' Take it easy, Luigi; [[TemptingFate things could be worse.]]\\
'''Luigi:''' We're trapped in a dungeon, about to be executed! [[RockBottom How could things be any worse?]]\\
'''Mario:''' Well for one thing, the roof could fall until it flattens us like a pizza!\\
''([[SpeakOfTheDevil The ceiling actually starts lowering]])''\\
'''Toad:''' Very uncool, dudes; the ceiling ''is'' lowering!\\
'''Mario:''' Or the room could fill with water until we all drown like rats!\\
''(The room starts filling with water)''\\
'''Peach:''' We've gotta get out of here!\\
'''Mario:''' Hey, I could think of another way things could be worse!\\
'''Luigi:''' Mario, pun-leeze! [[YouJustHadToSayIt Don't say another word!]]
-->-- ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''

->'''Cameron Vale:''' What happened to him? Is he better?\\
'''Dr. Ruth:''' Worse.\\
'''Cameron Vale:''' How could he'' possibly ''be worse?\\
'''Dr. Ruth:''' At the age of 22, he was [[AxCrazy highly self-destructive]]. Now, at 35, he is [[DiabolicalMastermind simply destructive]].
-->-- Discussing [[BigBad Darryl Revoke]], in ''Film/{{Scanners}}''

->''"And you know, sometimes you think it really can't get much worse... and then it does."''
-->-- Website/SomethingAwful user '''[=StarkRavingMad=]''', LetsPlay ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress: "Blog/{{Boatmurdered}}"''

->''...soon enough, the tag was made to Miss Jackie...and the wheels fell off the wagon.''\\
''No, scratch that - the wheels fell off, the car caught fire, then crashed into a bus full of nuns holding babies.''
-->-- '''Website/WrestleCrap''', on the July 8, 2002 edition of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''(specifically, "THAT Jackie Gayda Match")

->'''Dana:''' How is he these days?\\
'''Egon:''' Peter? Well, he was borderline for a while... then he crossed the border.
-->--''Film/GhostbustersII''

->''"...as a general rule, when things look bad there's always some dickhead who can make them worse."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''' on history.

->''"It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls, little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''', ''Literature/PetSematary''

->''"Remember when I mentioned the Spy plague being one of the worst things that [=GalCiv=] can throw at you? This is worse."''
-->-- [[http://www.computerandvideogames.com/195920/blog/galactic-civilizations-diary-days-1-26/?site=pcg This]] ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizationsIIDreadLords'' LetsPlay

->''"Two fellows in the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] are walking down the street. One of them said, 'Have we reached full communism? Is this it? Is this true communism?' The other one said, 'Hell no, things are gonna get a lot worse.'"''
-->-- UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, telling [[RussianHumour a joke]] he got from a Soviet official

->''"I'm playing ''[[VideoGame/TopGun Top Gun]]'' with the Power Glove. It's like puking on a pile of shit!"'' (landing sequence begins) ''"[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh my god, what the fuck am I doing?]] I'm trying to land the plane in ''Top Gun'' with the Power Glove? I can't even land it with the regular controller!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''[[note]]Ironically, this was the ONLY time out of his many, many attempts when he was able to successfully land the plane.[[/note]]

->''"''Film/{{Waterworld}}''...on Platform/VirtualBoy! It's like puking on a pile of shit!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''

->''"But that wasn't the end of Goliath's troubles. No, not by any means. For one thing, his mother gave him a sound spanking with a stout blade of grass. Oh it hurt a little bit, but not half as much as being scorned by the entire herd of elephants. You see, according to the elephant law, deserting the herd is a major offense, and the deserted is branded a scoundrel, a rogue elephant, a traitor to that high and imperial order of pompous pachyderms. Oh it was terrible, but worst of all, he had disgraced his proud father, Goliath the first."''
-->-- The story record version of ''WesternAnimation/GoliathII''

->''What does he mean, "When things go bad"? What? This doesn't mean qualify as bad?''
-->-- '''Film/{{Riddick}}'''

->'''Sokka:''' Things couldn't get much worse. ''[A sea serpent rises from the water.]'' The universe just loves proving me wrong, doesn't it?\\
'''Toph:''' [[TemptingFate You make it too easy!]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheAwakening The Awakening]]" (subverted as the serpent wrapped itself around the Fire Nation's ship after getting hit with a fireball)

->'''Customer:''' “Yeah, I accidentally spilled some soda into my laptop keyboard.”\\
'''Me:''' “Okay.”\\
'''Customer:''' “So I shut it off immediately, but the keys were all sticky.”\\
'''Me:''' “Okay, so we—”\\
'''Customer:''' “So I decided that I would run it through the dishwasher.”\\
'''Me:''' “You what?”\\
'''Customer:''' “So yeah, I figured it wouldn’t hurt anything if I didn’t turn it on right away, while it was still wet.”\\
'''Me:''' “So, your laptop is—”\\
'''Customer:''' “Well, I didn’t want to wait for it to dry. So I figured I could use a blow dryer on it.”\\
(A blow dryer typically heats up to less than 160 degrees F or about 71 degrees C.)\\
'''Me:''' “So the laptop needs—”\\
'''Customer:''' “But I didn’t actually have a blow dryer, I only had a heat gun.”\\
(Heat guns are shop and industrial tools used to melt plastics, solder, and a host of other things, often generating heat in the 1100 degrees F [about 600 C] range. Keyboards can melt at temperatures as low as 200 degrees F/93 degrees C.)\\
'''Me:''' “So, you need to—”\\
'''[[WalkingTechbane Customer:]]''' “So, the whole middle of the laptop is melted. [[CaptainObvious Do you think I need to send it in?]]”
-->-- Website/NotAlwaysRight, "[[https://notalwaysright.com/laptop-flop-part-6-2/79699/ The Laptop Flop]] ([[HereWeGoAgain Part 10]])"

->All in all, Joanna's scenario would result in virtually all life dying out pretty fast. But then things would get even ''worse''.
-->--Blog/WhatIf [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/ all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared?]]

->''"Looks like things just went from bad to worse."''
-->--'''Leon S. Kennedy''', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''

->'''Sansa:''' It can't be any worse.\\
[[spoiler:'''Theon/Reek''']]: It can. It can always be worse.
-->--''Recap/GameOfThronesS5E7TheGift''

->'''Jim:''' So, the previous Trollhunter, what, retired?\\
'''AAARRRGGHH:''' Was felled\\
'''Jim''' Felled?\\
'''AAARRRGGHH:''' Means killed.\\
'''Blinky:''' Turned to stone and smashed. Kanjigar the Courageous was his name. Brutally slain by a ruthless troll named Bular.\\
'''Tobes:''' Don't worry dude. This Bular guy probably just got lucky. \\
'''Blinky:''' The evidence does not suggest that. Bular is a formidable opponent.\\
'''Jim''' Then the other guy, he was just off his game or something, right?\\
'''Blinky:''' Doubtful. Kanjigar was perhaps the most alert and able of all the Trollhunters.\\
'''Jim:''' But not the best, I'm betting.\\
'''Blinky:''' Oh, the very best. Many songs and sagas have been written about him.
-->--"[[Recap/TrollhuntersS1E2BecomingPart2 Becoming: Part 2]]", ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}''

->''"So listen up, boy, or pornography starring [[YourMom your]] [[IBangedYourMom mother]] will be the '''second''' worst thing that happens to you today."''
--> -- '''The BLU Spy''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' "Meet the Spy" video

->'''Yuri Watanabe''': Okay, [[TemptingFate looks like things are somewhat under control...]]
->(Lightning appears at the Raft)
->'''Spider-Man''': I thought you said the Raft was secure?!
->'''Yuri Watanabe''': It was. Let's go. Maybe it's not as bad it looks.
->'''Spider-Man''': Love the optimism. But in my experience, when it looks bad, it's usually worse.
-->-- ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4''

->'''Pikalov''': It's not three roentgen; it's 15,000.\\
'''Bryukhanov''': [[OhCrap Comrade Shcherbina...]]\\
'''Shcherbina''': (to Legasov) What does that number mean?\\
'''Legasov''': It means the core is open. It means the fire we're watching with our own eyes is giving off nearly twice the radiation [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure released by the bomb in Hiroshima]]. And that's every single hour; hour after hour, 20 hours since the explosion, so 40 bombs' worth by now, 48 more tomorrow. And it ''will not stop''. Not in a week, not in a month. It will burn and spread its poison until the entire ''continent'' is dead.
-->-- ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}''

->''"Well, [[NightmareFuel that]] [[SarcasmMode wasn't traumatic or anything]]. [[GenreSavvy It's going to get worse isn't it?]]"''
-->-- Commenter '''Faithful Person''' on [[WhamEpisode Chapter 14]] of ''Webcomic/AvasDemon''[[note]]Yes, and it get's '''much''' worse.[[/note]]

->''"IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE WHY DOES IT KEEP GETTING WORSE"''
-->-- Another commenter a short while later, Ava's Demon

->''"If there's one thing 2020 taught me, it could be worse."''
-->-- Website/YouTube commenter regarding how 2020 went.

->"So... THAT'S the foundational study of the anti-vaccine movement! A hack-fraud's BULLSHIT paper, claiming that a handful of parents know better than ALL doctors, so he could SELL an alternative, competing vaccine that he patented, which he thought he was gonna make MILLIONS selling! The evidence against the movement can't get much worse than that, can it?! ''({{Beat}}; grabs the boom mic and brings it close to his mouth)'' THAT WAS A JOKE!"\\
\\
'''Part 5: It Gets Much Worse'''
-->-- '''WebVideo/HBomberguy''', ''[[https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc Vaccines: A Measured Response]]''

->'''Theseus:''' Albus, forgive me, but aren't we back where we started?\\
'''Dumbledore:''' Actually, I would argue that things are... a great deal worse.
-->-- ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore''

->''Even children in the hinterlands know that more is lost than gained in [[DealWithTheDevil a deal with devils]]. But all that remained to her was a weeping mother, a sleeping sister, and her own young life. She believed that [[RockBottom she had nothing left to lose]]. So she went to bargain. And that was the beginning of all her troubles.''
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Necropolis}}'', reminding us that even for a pre-teen girl whose village was just raided by bandits, her father killed, and her home burned, things can always get worse.

->'''[[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Saaya Yakushiji]]''': Has anyone seen Hugtan? She's disappeared and we can't find her.\\
'''[[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Nodoka Hanadera]]''': Asumi has been looking for Latte all morning.\\
'''[[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana Aida]]''': We can't find Ai-chan!\\
'''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Honoka Yukishiro]]''': Hikari lost Hikaru!\\
'''Saaya''': It's worse than I thought.
-->-- ''Fanfic/AnythingForFamily''

->'''Harold''': Gosh, in one day we’ve gotten a detention, a suspension, ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking we’ve created an army of evil talking toilets who want to take over the world.]]\\
'''George''': That’s a pretty bad day, even by ''our'' standards.\\
'''Harold''': [[TemptingFate Oh well, I just hope things don’t get any worse.]]\\
'''[[GilliganCut CHAPTER 12: THINGS GET WORSE]]'''
-->-- ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets''

->''Postwar, Japan had lost everything.\\
From "zero" to "minus".''
-->-- ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'' trailer

->''Everyone was really, ''really'' happy about the baby... but not Dad.''
->''He started shouting and shouting. He shouted at Louise, saying really mean things -- that the baby would cry and ruin our holiday, just like Barney had ruined last year's holiday. He said that Louise was ''stupid'' for having another baby, when she couldn't manage the ones she had already...''
->''He started shouting at Lily and Barney... And he ''[[KickTheDog kicked]]'' Buster...''
->''[[WhatTheHellHero Jason told Dad he was right out of order]] and pushed Dad. Then Dad pushed him back. Grandpa Fred told Jason to just calm down and Jason told him to keep out of it.''
->''Buster was howling, Lily and Barney were screaming, and Louise started to cry...''
->''And then, Dad just... ''lost it''. He just shouted and shouted and didn't stop. I've never, ever heard him shout so much. I was really frightened. He told everyone to {{get out}} of his house.''
->''Me and Daniel took Lily, Barney, and Buster upstairs, out of the way. But they started fighting and broke my new ''My School Musical'' karaoke CD...''
-->-- ''Something Different About Dad: How to Live With Your Asperger's Parent'', Chapter 4
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