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** [[http://www.cracked.com/article/138_6-magical-movie-items-they-wasted-bullshit/ "6 Magical Movie Items They Wasted on Bullshit"]].

* SarcasmFailure: In the Mister Rogers tribute article, the author repeatedly looks like he's gearing up for a joke, only to clarify that no, ''he really means'' the cheesy stuff he's saying, because that's what Mister Rogers does to people.

* UnfortunateImplications: {{Invoked}} - [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20562_6-spectacularly-failed-attempts-to-be-politically-correct.html 6 Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Be Politically Correct]] gives a bunch of examples of how attempts to avert MonochromeCasting by including Black people in promotion campaigns ended up tripping over stereotypes about fried chicken, watermelon, and wanting to be white.

* QuoteMine: "[[UnfortunateImplications HITLER = MLK]]" - [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18577_the-horrifying-truth-about-life-inside-movie-musicals.html Daniel O'Brien, 2013]]

** In [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-5-most-insulting-defenses-nerd-racism/ "The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism"]], J.F. Sargent defends the casting of black actor Michael B. Jordan as the normally white Johnny Storm in the 2015 Comicbook/FantasticFour remake.

-->"[S]omehow [[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Spider-Man]] was pregnant with Peter Parker, in human form, fully aged, and then died giving birth to himself. Of all the sentences we thought we'd never get to write, that was easily in our top twenty."

* TheScream: Photoplasty [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_581_17-famous-images-as-seen-from-different-angle/?view=article Famous Images, As Seen From a Different Angle]] shows what the figure in Creator/EdvardMunch's "Art/TheScream" {{painting|s}} was screaming at Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism/ 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]] shows what would happen to the [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] if his pants were not [[MagicPants magic]].

* ShoutOut: In page 3 of "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-batshit-crazy-ways-superman-tried-to-protect-his-identity_p3/ 6 Batshit Crazy Ways Superman Tried to Protect His Identity]]", Seanbaby says that Franchise/{{Superman}} mistakenly sending his own song to Pat Boone, only to discover too late that the first letter in each line spells out "Clark Kent", is like the police discovering that Music/BonJovi was secretly "Star-Guradian Ieaiii Wstsba" (which is actually the first letters of the lyrics to their song "Wanted Dead or Alive").

* SmallReferencePools: When Cracked says "5 Greatest ___ in Films", those films will inevitably be limited to sci-fi fare and other products related to the geek subculture, e.g. ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', or Franchise/{{Batman}}. "Greatest Trilogies" must mean ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' or ''Film/TheMatrix'', never, say, Creator/ParkChanWook's Vengeance Trilogy. {{Justified|Trope}} because of their base of readership. After all, if they do cover all media, unfamiliarity will make the articles far less interesting.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: {{Invoked}} - In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-aggressively-crazy-websites-internet/ The 5 Most Aggressively Crazy Websites on the Internet]], Mark Hill compares ''Series/{{Boohbah}}'' to "the findings of a scientist adding LSD to baby food."

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19369_the-6-most-mind-blowing-ways-your-brain-can-malfunction.html The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction]] mentions the "Fregoli delusion" that several distinct people that someone meets are one person who quickly changes clothes, named after a stage actor famous for quickly changing into different costumes.

* NoPlotNoProblem: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eto3TevXmAs Escort Mission segment]] for the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Kombat franchise]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX most recent game]], where [=l33t=] tries to explain the long, convoluted story the games have gotten, which comes as a surprise to [=n00b=], who hasn't played ''Mortal Kombat'' since [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the original arcade game]] and misses when it just had an ExcusePlot for brutal-looking characters fighting and killing each other in [[{{Gorn}} violent, cartoonish ways]]. [=l33t=] suggests that the change happened because the arcade games were just meant to be played a few minutes at a time while the newer games are played at home for hours at a time.

* {{Permadeath}}: Parodied in a Photoplasty. Inability to start a new game after having lost all lives is the [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_381_22-terrible-ideas-that-would-have-ruined-great-video-games/ #22 terrible idea that would have ruined]] ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.

** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21480_7-famous-artists-you-didnt-know-were-horrible-sellouts.html 7 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Were Horrible Sellouts]] discusses how Creator/ArtSpiegelman created the Garbage Pail Kids ([[OldShame and keeps it far away from his resume]]) described as "a [[{{Understatement}} somewhat less dignified artistic endeavor]] that would have probably won him the opposite of the Pulitzer if such a thing existed." [--The [[Literature/AtlasShrugged Rand]]? The [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Meyer]]? The [name of the [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey 50 Shades]] lady [[SomeoneElsesProblem we don't want to look up]]]?--]

''(image collage of movie posters for ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'', ''Film/BridesMaids'', ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', and ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'')''\\

* UnacceptableTargets: {{Invoked}} - One of the [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-no-one-laughed-at-your-joke/ reasons no one laughed at your joke]] is "It Was About Something They Won't Laugh About, Ever".

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Robert Brockway mentions killing an old woman for her eyeglasses in VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, having taken the Four-Eyes trait and didn't find glasses anywhere else; however, [[spoiler:the woman sold a pregnant woman into slavery and would have been killed in a quest anyway]].

* SurpriseCreepy: Pops up in quite a few articles, such as [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-people-who-will-ruin-your-attempt-to-lose-weight/ "The 8 People Who Will Ruin Your Attempt to Lose Weight"]].

* NonstandardGameOver: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20657_the-6-most-bizarre-ways-to-lose-popular-video-games.html The 6 Most Bizarre Ways to Lose in Popular Video Games]] details such [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bizarre ways to lose]] like [[VideoGame/SonicCD Sonic the Hedgehog]] jumping to his death if you forget to pause the game, having your dog maul the Mayor to death at the start of VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS, or watch Commander Shepard [[DeathBySex go out with a "bang"]] in VideoGame/MassEffect2.