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  • The entire point of Electric Retard. Killing small children and a giant angry naked Hitler are just the tip of the iceberg.
  • In El Goonish Shive, the comically over-the-top thief concocts a plan to burn down an orphanage as a distraction while he robs an ATM, use the money to buy a shotgun and ammo, use that to rob the gun shop he buys it from, and then steal puppies, but specifically puppies loved and owned by children to create a personal army of attack dogs.
  • Genocide Man:
    • Given its subject matter, the moments of Gallows Humor tend to be this.
      Girii: Are you seriously playing golf with children's skulls?!
      Jacob: Don't be silly. I'm just practicing my drives. It's not like I could putt with them, their little teeth would be hell on the green.
    • Joey, being the hilariously Sociopathic Soldier he is, is quite a source of moments like these. One of the best is during a flashback to a mission in India, where the team landed on a field full of sacred cows... and Joey decides the best thing he could do at that moment was punch the shit out of them.
      Jacob: [speaking to his Indian supersoldier jailer] But boy, dinner that night was great. You ever eat so much brisket that you just start to sweat?
  • It's subtle, but in one comic of Grrl Power, Sydney goes into a Thai diner, and orders something really spicy. Declaring it to be not spicy enough (to general astonishment) she goes and get some spicy sauce off the shelf. One of the sauces she grabs is called "Ring of Fire", with the caption "Guaranteed to make you feel like the prettiest boy in prison."
  • Looking for Group:
    • The undead, firewielding warlock Richard unlives this trope; see his big musical number "Slaughter Your World".
    • In his first encounter with the allegiance-conflicted elf Cale, he tries to make Cale realize and give in to the Always Chaotic Evil nature that his race are notorious for by defining evil as not "helping an aged dwarf woman across the road" but instead "shooting her in the face with arrows until it stops being funny".
    • Shortly after Cale and Richard's initial meeting, they walk into a village that Richard apparently has visited once before. According to the guards, he burned down an orphanage during his last visit. According to Richard, that was an act of self-defense; the orphanage attacked him first.
    • Burning the head off a gnome guard because he just denied you the authority to pass any further: Not very funny. Painting eyes and lips on your hand, placing it slightly above what remains of said Gnome's charred neck and making good use of your ventriloquism skills to have the gnome give you authority to pass, and apologize for his earlier rudeness, on the other hand...
    • Or having his minions do a musical dance number when the group finds the bodies of allies. Then using the bones to make a throne.
    • And yet, despite all of this, he's become Lawful Good (sometimes Chaotic Good) Cale's best friend. Richard even killed a smurf and made Cale a wallet from its hide.
  • In this and the following Loserz strips, the line is crossed twice.
  • The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella's home planet having blown up? Quasi-tragic. Finding out that it is actually still around? Heartwarming. Finding out that it's actually a hallucination caused by your mum so she can arrange a surprise party? Priceless.
  • Oglaf: "How to hide a body" features several "fun" techniques for hiding a dead body, so that's about what you'd expect. The first one is to have sex with someone while wearing a weird outfit, then leave the body in his bed in that same outfit so he'll think it was you who died. (Okay, so maybe you didn't expect that — if you haven't read this comic before.)
  • The Order of the Stick:
    • Xykon; what he did to the Sapphire Guard (drove them insane with a magical symbol inscribed on a superball, leading them to slaughter one another) crosses the line so many times that the end result is hilarious.
    • The same goes for the various tortures he's inflicted on O-Chul.
      Redcloak: And again when I found out about the Basilisk Staring Contest.
      Xykon: Technically, the paladin won that one.
      Jirix: He never blinked.
    • That's tame compared to what Xykon does in Start of Darkness. Rich Burlew has stated that he wanted to make a villain that has no sympathy from his audience.
  • This Rooster Teeth comic features this — draw your own conclusions on whether it crosses the line, or is telling people to start stepping back.
  • Any given strip of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal crosses the line at least twice.
    • This one probably crosses the line about fifteen times.
    • This one may have set the record for most line-crossing in a comic ever. And it did it in ONE PANEL. [1]
    • The double punchline in this strip is a particularly good example.
  • Schlock Mercenary: In-universe, a popular body-part cloner boasts an operation speed five times greater than other brands, leading to this name and advertising slogan:
    "Hand Me Down will give you a hand in the time it takes our competitors to give you the finger."
  • Sexy Losers pretty much runs on a combination of this, Squick, NSFW, and Fan Disservice.
  • Shortpacked!:
    • This strip. Anything with the words "rape therapy" in it, in fact.
    • For that matter, pretty much everything Mike does in Shortpacked!, and most of what he does in Roomies! and It's Walky! too. This is a sterling example.
    • And speaking of Mike and this trope, this strip inspired Kumata's first post (look for, ironically, the drunk!Mike avatar) in this thread, which eventually leads to Kumata's third post on the second page.
  • Sluggy Freelance:
    • Much of the demonic rampage shown during "That Which Redeems" is played this way.
      Sweral: You did kill and eat Reakk's cat.
      Tryka: It looked like my mom!
    • This strip is probably the best example, though. Demons invading Canada and eating a young boy alive? Horrific. The American news media digitally inserting "eh?" at the end of boy's screams so he sounds more Canadian? Hilarious.
  • Fireman Comics from Something Awful were the epitome of this. (Archived here) In one comic, a man approaches a fireman to lead his son's cub troop camping trip. The fireman agrees, then buries all the children alive and starts a forest fire. When the man comes back to the fire station concerned about his missing child, another fireman refuses to help unless the worried father helps him cheat on his taxes. He then goes back on his word and instead of helping, uses the fire truck to deliver his tax forms. The fireman also steals the poor man's wallet, then seduces his wife using flowers bought with the victim's own money.
  • Something*Positive:
    • Randy Milholland often goes here. When you start out like this, you're only going to go further and soon you're writing strange super-powers. And that's without looking for the storyline where Kim rapes Davan (Found here).
    • An in-universe example also appears when Davan and Jason create the 'anti-play': A play that is intentionally written to be as offensive as humanly possible. Davan even lampshades the trope:
      Davan: Y'know, Jason, there's a fine line between parody and basically wearing a sign that says, "please lynch me".
      Jason: And it's our job to spread our posterior cheeks and empty our bowels upon that line — in a literary sense, of course. Now, we need a dance number. How's this for a song — "God Wants More Animal Testing"?
    • Not to mention Jason's musical about the crucifixion, "Nailed!"
  • Tomoyo42's Room: A story about Sakura and Tomoyo. This has everything, from baseball practice with aborted fetuses to a girl taking her recently decapitated dog and squeezing it to squirt her friend with blood. It's heartwarming.
  • Van Von Hunter has this example.
  • VG Cats ran a strip in which Aeris is being annoyed by Leo's tasteless jokes, so she goes back in time to abort him on the day he was conceived. The artist got a bit of backlash for this, so his next strip had Pantsman introduce a toe-tapping dance routine... the Fetal Five. Consisting of four bloodied fetuses.
    Pantsman: Well that was good, but where's the fifth member?
    [next panel shows a cat with a bloodstained mouth]
    Pantsman: Bugsy!...

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