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Does not relate to the monster that can be utlized to bite your opponents or self.
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Advertising
National Organization for Marriage's "Gathering Storm" ad has gathered quite a bit of this. Just try searching for it on YouTube. Almost every result is a parody of some kind. This is not unexpected of course, given that it's melodramatic enough to be a Stealth Parody to begin with.
An Italian spot with Manuela Arcuri promoting a book entitled Il labirinto femminile inspired countless Youtube parodies due to its amateurish direction, poor acting, creepy Soundtrack Dissonance and the overall bad quality of the book itself.
It Got Worse. The most recent version of that spot featured Karima El Marthoug, a.k.a. Ruby, the girl (under age at the time) Prime Minister Berlusconi has been accused of having had mercenary sex with. During the spot, she gets undressed by a guy with a Phantom of the Opera mask. Oh, and the direction is still amateurish, the (rest of the) acting is still poor, the soundtrack is still creepy and the book is still bad, thanks for asking.
Not to mention the one starring Lele Mora, the TV agent with Fascist sympathies involved in the Corona scandal.
"America's Navy: A Global Force for Good". Whether you disagree or just think it's NarmfullyHammy, it's hard to deny this slogan's Snark Bait quotient.
Many ads, posters, and articles from the 1940's and 50's weren't considered Snark Bait in their own time, but contain Values Dissonance that people enjoy laughing at decades later. Adding naughty captions to prim-and-perfect media of the period is also popular.
Rick Perry's "Strong" ad has launched a meme based on making fun of it.
Political ads in general are prone to this, since they seldom have the slightest hint of subtlety. Attack ads in particular have a tendency to be so melodramatic in their negativity that it leads to Narm.
Code Geass had a "trainwreck" following, especially during the run of its second season but also during the later stages of the first. Most of those people only watched it to see the show top its own over-the-top-ness, to pick apart the increasingly bizarre plot, and to laugh at the Narm.
Bleach is considered to have Jumped the Shark and has become Snark Bait even among the fandom. Kubo is considered a troll so much that "Tite Kubo trolled my fandom" has sadly become a meme among bleach fans.
Pretty much the same thing can be said about Naruto.
And the shipping fandoms for both of the above. The Ship-to-Ship Combat and the fans involved have become pure jokes to those not involved.
In xxxHoLic Watanuki is an in-universe example due to his Keet behavior.
Kämpfer can be considered as this due to the fact that no matter how much dense Natsuru is to the point it's already irritating, viewers still couldn't stop watching the show week after week.
Comic Books
All Star Batman And Robin. Comic book fans may argue over anything from Wolverine's degree of badassery to Supergirl's skirt, but the only argument about ASBAR (aka "ASSBATS") is whether or not its suck was intentional.
Comics by Jack Chick. Here, look◊ (possibly NSFW). Those, sadly, become much less funny when a ten-year-old girl, with fervent earnestness, gives you one.
In the interests of full disclosure, we should note the excerpt in that link is a Gag Dub.
Many online communities are devoted to the sporking and mocking of bad fanfics (especially Mary Sue fics).
Celebrian, a Lord of the Rings fanfic consisting of lots of torture porn and little else, continues to get circulated in spite of being both squicky and dull because of the hilarity many people find in both it and the reactions it generates. It's sort of similar to The Eye of Argon in that regard.
Once people realize how much cash Uwe Boll makes off of snarkers coming to his movie to make fun of them, the films'll probably start seeming a lot less funny.
This is probably what Boll would like to believe, but his hatedom really isn't big enough to put his profits into the positive. Not that he's motivated by the revenue at the box office end, so his works have become an Acceptable Target for piracy — people less often pay to trash them, they (allegedly) simply steal them to trash them.
Asteroid movie. Probably worth watching - if you have bile deficiency and readily available can of brain bleach... or properly perverted sense of humor.
Night Watch. Sergey Lukyanenko suffers this in general, in part for the same reasons as Dan Brown, in part for his behaviour when he doesn't like something. But The Movie took a cake. In the face. It was hooted at both for parts that are faithful to the original—by his critics— and parts that aren't—since even his fans consider it a terminal case of Adaptation Decay.
The So Bad, It's GoodCult Classic, Troll2. It almost a tradition at this point to say, with Arnold, "They're eating her! And now they're gonna eat me! OH MY GOOOOOOOOD!" More cynical snarkers enjoy the incredibly vague popcorn scene and the protagonist urinating on the family dinner for no apparent reason.
John Ringo's Paladin Of Shadows series]], although it seems to be something of a Stealth Parody. Proven by the fact that he links to most of these reviews and will usually write letters not only supporting many of their accusations, but pointing out inconsistencies and logical failures they missed. Such as the main character would have died about 6 pages into the first book. He called it his Dark Fic. People liked it so he published it and made a shit load of money. Here is a review, which gave us the "Oh John Ringo No" meme.
The Eye of Argon is possibly the worst fantasy short story ever written ever. Terrible in the extreme, only readable with the help of the MST3K crew heckling it... yet somehow, impossible not to read (at least once). In places, it has become tradition to stage competitions of how much people could read with a straight face and expressive voice. Three quarters of a page is considered doing extremely well.
The Da Vinci Code. It looks like a less-than-shiny book assembled from moldy pieces of cryptohistory is not going to be less of a target if advertised as a daring innovative idea and (whispering) maybe even really relevant theory.
Tyra Banks is writing a fantasy novel about models. No, really.
The book trilogy in question is titled Modelland, and ends up practically snarking itself. For example SM-ize is an actual word. Really.
Though not remotely popular, the Maradonia Saga has become famous for being made of 100% pure fail. It's not just derivative, it literally plagiarizes from the Bible, has Random words Capitalized for no Reason, random italics, and 'quotes' where none should 'be'. Impishidea.com has sporkings and a drinking game, though it would be better to avoid the game if you don't want to die of alcohol poisoning and/or acute liver failure. The enormous ego of the author is the subject of as much, if not more, snark than the books themselves. SwankiVY sums the whole thing up nicely.
In the UK, few annual events are more fun than gathering around a TV with your friends and/or family to watch and make jokes about the Eurovision Song Contest. Try it; a great time will be had by all.
American Idol has the "Vote for the Worst", er.., party.
I Hate Your Blog by MC FrontALot is this trope's unofficial theme song. The tale of a man who repeatedly posts flame comments on an "incredibly terrible" blog telling the blogger to get off the Internet, then complains with equal volume when the blog isn't updated for a while.
Lest one carp, Hilton has been quick to point out that singing is a vocation for which she is eminently skilled. "I know music," she reassured the Sunday Times children's section. "I hear it every single day." [...] While this obviously gives Hilton a massive advantage over those who have never heard any music and thus believe it to be a variety of cheese, there remains the nagging suspicion that this might not represent sufficient qualification for a career as a singer, in much the same way as knowing what a child is does not fully equip you for a career as a consultant paediatrician.
R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet. It was so over the top Narmy that it became the source of so much parody and a result more and more people watched it so they could join in on the mocking.
Justin Bieber is major Snark Bait for his Periphery Hatedom. It isn't possible to go onto any metal video on Youtube without comments saying that the only people who dislike the video are Bieber fans.
The Church of Happyology has its own trope about specific examples for that particular Cu.. ool religion, whose real name we cannot print because doing so in this page would constitute slander.
Newspaper Comics
Erasing Garfield's thought bubbles in Garfield strips shows exactly how much of a loser Jon Arbuckle is.
There is probably no one left anywhere who likes Marmaduke unironically...except perhaps Monk.
Family Circus, thanks to Tastes Like Diabetes and the fact that it ran out of jokes sometime in the '70s. It's spawned several mutations, such as "Dysfunctional Family Circus" and "The Nietzsche Family Circus".
Armond White's movie reviews, as can be found on The New York Press Website and Rotten Tomatoes, constantly bring vitriol upon those who read them. Seriously, just look at the individual moviepages at Rotten Tomatoes - his will, almost without fail, rack up the most comments. He's gained a reputation for being a completely predictable contrarian, and many suspect he's only looking to gain controversy and thus gain attention for himself (Roger Ebert even called him a Troll). Ironically, his reviews have actually become arguably the most reliable prediction of how good or bad a movie is; if he slams it, it's a good movie, and if he kisses up to it, it's a bad movie.
Remember that Roger Ebert initially defended White, pointing out that not only is there nothing wrong with challenging consensus position, but White even agrees with the Tomatometer 50% of the time which he considered to be ideal. The biggest problem most people have with White is that the reasons he gives often go above and beyond Epic Fail - to the point that people question whether or not he actually saw the movies he reviewed. For example, he complained about the length of Rapunzel's hair in Tangled and comments that her hair never becomes a problem for her, which is flat out wrong.
Microsoft's Zune player gets thisall the time. Despite having almost the same features as the iPod, it is viewed upon as a lesser device and is the butt of all Microsoft-related jokes. This is mostly because it's made by Microsoft and it isn't an iPod.
This trope most likely accounts for the entirety of Philips CD-i systems that were purchased at any time during the past ten years.
Resident Evil 1, the script moreso than the actual gameplay. "You were almost a Jill Sandwich" anyone? What about a gun that's "good against living things"? or "master of unlocking". Don't forget "Wow! What a mansion!", especially with the Fridge Brilliance of Wesker's role later in the game.
A general rule amongst regulars of Image Boards is that nearly any Ctrl+Alt+Del comic ever made can be made up to 500% funnier by removing the second and third panels. Likewise, this is often done in reverse to other comics by padding the dialogue out into enormous balloons by meticulously explaining every single detail, including the joke, and manipulating all the characters' faces into the same bland expression used by Buckley in his comics.
Quite possibly the only reason why anyone would willingly read Sonichu.
Fun part is "Furry" being applied even after Dan said some characters ended up so human-like specifically because he (unlike Tedd) does not find the fur attractive. Not that this was an enigma in first place.
Many people only read Jack for this reason. A site that collects rewrites of the various arcs can be found here.
