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* ''Literature/LittleMushroom'' starts in a CrapsackWorld AfterTheEnd where mutated animals roam the land and the remaining humans scrape on by in two human bases where anyone suspected of having mutated into a xenogenic gets shot dead on the spot, and things just keep on getting worse and worse for the humans for the vast majority of the story. First, the Northern Base's Outer City gets invaded by the mutated animals and the survivors have to flee to the Main City, only for the artificial magnetic poles that were keeping the Earth somewhat stable to temporarily shut down after the other human base gets invaded by the mutated animals, forcing the characters to hole up in an even smaller portion of the Main City with dwindling resources. Then it's discovered that not only are the human mutations capable of occurring without any physical contact, but the mutations are happening with ''inorganic materials'' too all over the world. Surprisingly, the story still manages to pull off an ending that, while [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], is still more optimistic than pessimistic about the fate of humanity.
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* Some of the more dystopic and CrapsackWorld settings hosted in Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom may count. And then there's ''Literature/AWorldOfLaughterAWorldOfTears.''
** Such as the worst of them all, ''Literature/ForAllTime''. This series delights in dragging things downward every five minutes. D-Day fails, Stalinists take over most of Eurasia, nuclear weapons are used like hand grenades, and the USSR-PRC war kills over 600 million people. When ''Canada'' is sufficiently militaristic and paranoid to have its own H-bomb program and the 1980 US Presidential Election is between [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones Jim Jones]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson]], you know the world isn't doing so well.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' starts off with a severely-bullied and lonely [[SociallyAwkwardHero young girl]] who has a power over bugs and seeks to escape from her horrible life by becoming one of the city's many superheroes. Somewhat fittingly, she shows interest in "[[LampshadeHanging turning negatives into positives]]" when she heads out on her first-ever costumed excursion and single-handedly defeats a well-armed gang and one of the strongest supervillains in the city, then infiltrates another gang of supervillains intending to be TheMole. Good start, right? Well, then [[spoiler:she starts BecomingTheMask, a {{Kaiju}} attacks her city, a superhero, a group of serial killers, her own boss, and an EldritchAbomination all try to kill her (and, in some cases, more or less everyone around), new Kaijus start to appear and accelerate the [[ApocalypseHow world's progressive destruction]], and finally [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the being responsible for superpowers]] decides that helping humanity is boring and starts [[OmnicidalManiac killing everyone in the multiverse]]]]. So...yeah, things go pretty downhill [[EarnYourHappyEnding before getting back to "not so bad"]].
** [[spoiler:In the words of one of the comments on the second-to-last chapter: "Honestly though this series has to be tied with ''When They Cry'' for the title of 'It Got Worse--The Series'."]]
** Such as the worst of them all, ''Literature/ForAllTime''. This series delights in dragging things downward every five minutes. D-Day fails, Stalinists take over most of Eurasia, nuclear weapons are used like hand grenades, and the USSR-PRC war kills over 600 million people. When ''Canada'' is sufficiently militaristic and paranoid to have its own H-bomb program and the 1980 US Presidential Election is between [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones Jim Jones]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson]], you know the world isn't doing so well.
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' starts off with a severely-bullied and lonely [[SociallyAwkwardHero young girl]] who has a power over bugs and seeks to escape from her horrible life by becoming one of the city's many superheroes. Somewhat fittingly, she shows interest in "[[LampshadeHanging turning negatives into positives]]" when she heads out on her first-ever costumed excursion and single-handedly defeats a well-armed gang and one of the strongest supervillains in the city, then infiltrates another gang of supervillains intending to be TheMole. Good start, right? Well, then [[spoiler:she starts BecomingTheMask, a {{Kaiju}} attacks her city, a superhero, a group of serial killers, her own boss, and an EldritchAbomination all try to kill her (and, in some cases, more or less everyone around), new Kaijus start to appear and accelerate the [[ApocalypseHow world's progressive destruction]], and finally [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the being responsible for superpowers]] decides that helping humanity is boring and starts [[OmnicidalManiac killing everyone in the multiverse]]]]. So...yeah, things go pretty downhill [[EarnYourHappyEnding before getting back to "not so bad"]].
** [[spoiler:In the words of one of the comments on the second-to-last chapter: "Honestly though this series has to be tied with ''When They Cry'' for the title of 'It Got Worse--The Series'."]]
