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  • The Amazing Digital Circus, by the creator's own description, is essentially a darkly comedic take on the premise of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: a group of humans, whose bodies have been altered, trapped as the eternal playthings of an artificial intelligence (albeit one more benevolent than AM).
  • The Nekci Menij Show, which asks you to laugh at women angling to kill each other over album sales and awards.
  • FilmCow is an animation studio (of Charlie the Unicorn fame) that focuses mostly on... interesting characters, who either end up dead or do the killing themselves. As you can imagine, it is hilarious.
  • DEATH BATTLE! is a web video series about two characters fighting to the death. Would have had a hard time avoiding this one. Co-host Boomstick is a notable fountain of this, no matter how the fight ends, he always has a bad pun for the fallen. Or one for the victor or how the fight ended.
  • Dora No More mostly features Dora the Explorer dying is dark and comedic ways.
  • Eddsworld is full of black comedy, especially in the horror Eddisodes.
  • Japanese flash animator Rareko is known for this in his works. One example includes Push Puku Chan, which is about an android who was trying to make friends using her trumpet, but often ends up killing people, whom fear her.
  • Tomorrow's Nobodies regularly plays violence, death, and child abuse for laughs.
  • Flash-Gitz Animation is pretty much a bunch of web videos built around the idea of black comedy. Whether it's Mario comitting violent hate-crimes against other racers of Mario Kart, or a furry molesting a Black Templar in a gladiator battle, or a Harry Potter fan going to Hogwarts only to be classified as a special needs kid, or Pokémon GO being compared to the Holocaust - yeah, hopefully you get the idea.
  • Lobo (Webseries): Based on the DC character of the same name, a majority of the graphic violence is played for laughs.
  • Many of the Dorkly Originals videos often play violence and death for laughs.
    • The Pokémon Rusty spin-off also features this. Rusty tries to teach a Zubat Surf and rides on top of it, shoves multiple Bidoofs into one Pokeball, and washes a Grimer down the drain. And that's not even half of all the horrid things Rusty has done at the hands of his complete and utter stupidity. Special mention goes to one of his Pokemon (that being "Pikachu", his Beedrill) abandoning him to become a ruthless mafia boss.
    • Bodybuilders Go runs on mych the same formula as Rusty but with stupidity replaced by outright cruelty and moved to Victorian London. Also, with a dash of Body Horror for good measure.
  • Prostitute Mickey, a flash-animated series of short films where Mickey Mouse has been forced to become a prostitute to make ends meet and is subjected to many horrifically embarrassing events.
  • The Most Popular Girls in School, as well as Dr. Havoc's Diary. The former regularly pokes fun at abortion, sexual harassment, and drug usage (for starters); the latter is a satiric take on some of the more sensitive topics in modern society such as white cops shooting a black man for no reason!
  • RWBY Chibi: "Evil Class" has Cinder in a Beacon classroom, teaching other villains about booby traps. On the blackboard behind her are various cartoon summaries of evil plots. Obvious comedic images, such as a 'no entry' sign crossing out a picture of Zwei the corgi, are joined by another image: Pyrrha, with a hint of angel wings on her back, kneels helplessly on the ground as a volley of arrows fly at her, turning her traumatic death in the main show into a source of mockery that fits Chibi Cinder's overly dramatic, cartoon evil.
  • Shed 17 is a Thomas & Friends Dark Fic where the beloved engines are a result of Nazi science fusing humans and machines, with Body Horror galore. That said, it’s not devoid of black comedy. For example: in a deleted scene of "Thomas & Friends", Edward was supposed to whistle when he came into the station. He does... only to three actors in a shower of blood.
    • In its sequel, Project G-1, the infamous Jimmy Savile makes his appearance in a commercial to advertise Sodor railways. Savile is shown with a child who has a look of terror on his face.
  • The Misadventures of R2 and Miku often invokes sensitive topics for laughs. A good example comes in one episode where the titular pair are trapped in a treehouse for several days - when Miku's mother happens by, Miku threatens her for food:
    "If you don't give us food, I'm gonna tell dad and he's going to hit you again!"
  • Many of MeatCanyon's videos falls into this catergory.
    • "JIMMY NEUTRON CANT BREATHE": Involves Jimmy Neutron panicking over the rainforest which has been on fire for six months, going on that there's no more oxygen left in the planet and how everyone's going to die.
    • "James Corden Take The Ellien Show" ends with Ellien grinding up the car window and tearing James Corden off his top half and flying away with him, while all this is happening Justin Beiber continuies to sing karoake. Even when the car starts to drive onto the pavement and run someone over.
    • "Oh Stu Tommy's not your kid, (gun clicks) he's mine! (BANG!)"
  • Unbiased History is an account of Roman history (if you can really call it that) that can best be described as Deliberate Values Dissonance Played for Laughs. Rome's empire is depicted as good, it's enemies as Always Chaotic Evil barbarian hordes, and it's war crimes against other civilizations as acts of morally flawless heroism (followed by them literally dabbing on their graves).
  • Queer Duck has a fair number of jokes poking fun at dark subject matter.
  • TheParryGod: This absolute gem from Spikewall in Patient Zero, as he searches for the remaining rebels after brutally slaughtering most of their squad:

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