Black Comedy / Animated Films

• Delivered in spades in Boogie, suitably enough, being an R-Rated adult cartoon. Old people and young children are graphically beaten up and slaughtered for laughs, including a Mushroom Samba moment from the titular "hero" (we're using this term somewhat loosely) where a little girl gets blown up by a Tinkerbell Expy wielding a grenade launcher. Hilarious!
• Coco: Inevitable in an animated comedy where half of the main character are the living dead. Moments range from Ernesto de la Cruz dying a ridiculous death (a giant bell falling on him) to skeletons falling apart and putting themselves together again.
• Frozen (2013): Multiple, with Olaf:
  • Olaf introduces himself with the cheery song "In Summer", where he sings about how fun the first summer of his life will be. Except Olaf is a snowman who's only a day old and doesn't know yet that the arrival of summer will cause him to melt and die.
    Olaf: Winter's a great time to stay home and cuddle, but put me in summer and I'll be a... happy snowman!
  • Being made of snow also makes him Nigh-Invulnerable to any form of injury.
    Olaf: (after accidentally walking his upper half into an icicle) Oh, look at that. I've been impaled.
• The scene in The Incredibles when it was described that many superheroes who had capes died because of their capes was Played for Laughs.
• Elastigirl suffering hypoxia while fighting the Screenslaver on the plane in Incredibles 2. She sounds drunk and loopy, but her dialogue conveys a Primal Fear - "I don't wanna die".
• The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water:
  • At one point Plankton and SpongeBob sneak back into Bikini Bottom to rescue Plankton's computer wife Karen, who was being tortured by the denizens of the town because they thought she had the Krabby Patty secret formula. Plankton and SpongeBob need Karen to operate the time machine they had built, and remove her monitor from her robotic body. SpongeBob acts like he's squicked out about it, saying "I've never carried a head before". Plankton responds "Don't worry, you'll get used to it," implying he's cut off and carried actual heads around before. Since Karen is a computer, this doesn't harm her, but she does state that powering the time machine is going to take up all her processing power.
  • The scene with a fish in hospital eating a patty. Dr. Gilliam declares that he'll be gone in a week, and his wife mourns the imminent loss while eating a patty herself.
• Mary and Max, when it isn't being depressing, is actually really darkly comedic. The Narrator always compares Max's process of foreign concepts to his weight (i.e. He's fat), Max himself had to attend Jury Duty for a trail that involved a man who killed his family and friends... at his own surprise birthday party, and when Max's air conditioner falls and kills a mime, instead of the mime running away, he pretends to open an umbrella, which kills him.
• In Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the titular Titans want their own movie so they go back in time to stop the origins of the more popular heroes. When they get back to the present, the villains have taken over so they have to go back in time and restore the heroes. They cause Krypton's explosion but the bleakest thing they do is to Batman. They get the Waynes coming out of the movie theater, put the sting of pearls around Martha Wayne's neck, and then shove them down the alley to their deaths. You even hear her scream and the gunshots.
• Offscreen variation in Wreck-It Ralph. The owner of the arcade notices the Fix-It Felix Jr. machine acting up and says it's gone cuckoo (like his nana). Then he comments that if they can't fix it, they're gonna have to put the game out to pasture... like his nana.
• Igor is filled to the brim with this. This is a kids' movie where one of the characters is a suicidal rabbit who's been made immortal and where brainwashing people is treated just like a carwash.
  "It's like I'm sending my kid to school for the first time... to learn how to kill."
• The scene in Madagascar where Marty, Melman and Gloria come across a cute duckling after they have just seen a mouse get attacked by a snake and then carried off by a hawk. They decide to take the duckling over to the lake, only for a huge crocodile to burst out of the water and swallow him whole.
• The Hill Farm: The wife casually snaps the neck of a chicken right after one of the tourists takes her picture. The tourist faints.
• Ernest et Célestine has a number of black comedy moments, especially the one scene where Celestine waxes about the diseases that Ernest might get if he keeps eating out of garbage.
• The classic 1936 two-reel Popeye short Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor had a rather dark running gag. Wimpy spent most of the story chasing a duck with a meat grinder, with the intention of turning it into a burger. Fortunately, the duck ends up getting away, swiping Wimpy's last hamburger in retaliation after he gives up.
• Welcome to Hell is a Buddy Picture about an intensely friendly murderer-turned-demon whose job it is to drive an apathetic high-schooler to suicide, under the orders of Mephistopheles. And he's absolutely terrible at his job.
• In Wolfwalkers, Robyn has just been turned into a wolf, and her father, not recognizing her, attempts to shoot her. When she goes to confront Mebh for biting her, the following exchange occurs:
  Mebh: I thought I'd fixed the bite! I thought you'd be fine! Mammy's gonna kill me...
  Robyn: Well, my father will kill me.
• World of Tomorrow is mostly just gloomy, but a large part of its humor is this. It's especially common in young Emily's blithe reactions to horrible news, like the pretty shiny stars that are actually dead bodies being burned up in space through failed time travel.
• The Goofy short How to Be a Detective is a lot Darker and Edgier in its comedy. It opens with a guy getting thrown off a bridge, followed by a pan over silhouettes in an apartment building, each of which is displaying a scene of comically over-the-top violence. Later, there's a gag where Goofy is kicked out of the city morgue after falling down an elevator shaft, and is told, "Beat it, and don't come back 'til you're ready!"
• In Hulk Vs. Wolverine, after a shot showing a bunch of fetuses-in-tubes at Weapon X HQ, the following exchange takes place:
  Deadpool: What do you say after the mission we kill all those floating babies?
  Omega Red: ...do you ever shut up, Wilson?
  Deadpool: What? Babies creep me out! Rock-a-bye—BANG!
• The 1978 animated short Special Delivery is a whimsical, cheerful little cartoon about a mailman who slips and dies on an icy porch, followed by the husband's panicky disposal of the body.
• Quiet Please! (1989) (not to be confused with the Tom and Jerry cartoon), featured in the Spike and Mike animation festival, features every tasteless joke you could think of, including a man kicking a baby, urinating on the corpse, shoving it up its distraught mother's uterus, and then blowing a priest's head off. The cartoon is extremely NSFW, as you can imagine.
  • The sequel, Sittin' Pretty, isn't any better. The same man and baby return, with the baby being shot in the head, chopped up, and baked into a meatloaf because the man was hungry.
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Pinocchio rewrites one of Count Volpe's propaganda pieces to be filled with Toilet Humour at Il Duce's expense. Mussolini responds to this by ordering Pinocchio's summary execution in a tone that's morbidly funny in its casualness.
  Mussolini: These-a puppets I do not like. Shoot him! And burn it all down...
  (Mussolini's guard fires his gun, followed by a Smash Cut to Pinocchio cheerfully popping out of his coffin in the afterlife)
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has a surprising amount of on-screen death, from the montage of Puss losing his previous lives to the many ways the Bakers' Dozen meet their ends. All of it is Played for Laughs. Except when Death himself enters the fray...
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie:
  • When a Koopa Troopa questions Bowser's plan to marry Peach, Bowser burns his skin using his fire breath, turning him into a Dry Bones. It's done in a very cartoonish manner, with the Koopa not actually being killed.
  • This is the entire point of Lumalee, since he's been in Bowser's prison for so long that he has absolutely no hope for himself and others in the prison and legitimately wishes to die. He's excited when he's about to be pushed into lava along with Bowser's other prisoners, and disappointed when he's saved by Donkey Kong.
• The War to End All Wars – The Movie: The entire "Unkillable Soldier" sequence is played for slapstick humor as Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart strolls calmly and very Britishly across no-man's-land armed with only a walking cane, while effortlessly beating the living daylights out of any German who comes anywhere near him.

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