History Main / SuckinessIsPainful

** "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining": The boys go on a camping trip that is apparently so painfully dull that [[TheyKilledKennyAgain it killed Kenny]] (as in, Kenny [[LiteralMetaphor ''literally dies of boredom'']]).

** "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining": The boys go on a camping trip that is apparently so painfully dull that [[TheyKilledKennyAgain it killed Kenny]] (though WordOfGod says this one doesn't count).

* in VideoGame/{{Crusader Kings II}}, characters with the 'Poet' trait can torture their prisoners by declaiming bad poetry. This has a small chance of driving the prisoner insane.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'':

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* In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', Team Chaotix' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWt9dBwEOG4&t=56s Team Blast]]" involves Espio and Charmy playing musical instruments while Vector sings ''extremely badly''. Like all other Team Blasts, this destroys all the enemies in the surrounding area, purely from the awfulness (and possibly the volume) of Vector's singing.

** Another sidequest has you helping [[GeniusDitz Scooter]] compose a love poem. The result (with lines like "You are a diamond in the rough / or a flower surrounded by shrapnel and stuff") is so awful the intended recipient [[spoiler: calmly walks back into her house [[SuicideAsComedy and blows her brains out]].]]

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* Shirogane's singing in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' approaches BrownNote levels and has been compared to having sea cucumber guts shoved in your ears. That's not even getting into his rapping, which caused Fujiwara to collapse and start foaming at the mouth.

* Blink and you'll miss it, but in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Itoshki-sensei's suicide kit, filled with poisons, pills and all manner of lethalities, also contains an Music/{{Enya}} CD (though it might also just be relaxing suicide mood-music).

** Linkara in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', driven mad by a bad pun ("Re-Todd") in ''ComicBook/{{Countdown}}'': "ANTI-LIFE JUSTIFIES MY HATE! Anti-life justifies my haaaaaattteee... [breaks down sobbing]"

* In ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'', the main characters convince Doumeki to be the sound consultant for their anime project by demonstrating how amateurish their current sound effects are. Doumeki, who considers audio and sound design to be SeriousBusiness, is so overwhelmed by their mediocre sound effects that she [[VomitDiscretionShot throws up offscreen]] ''twice''.

Pip Bin:''' Ah, cat! Ah, spleen! Ah, ''trousers!'' Oh, for goodness' sake, that's not how a ''real'' person talks in a medical emergency!

* In ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'', the main characters convince Doumeki to be the sound consultant for their anime project by demonstrating how amateurish their current sound effects are. Doumeki, who considers audio and sound design to be SeriousBusiness, is so overwhelmed by how mediocre their sound effects are that she [[VomitDiscretionShot throws up offscreen]] ''twice''.

** ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'' was so hard on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick that she'd rather go through "seven holocausts" than watch it again.

Something really bad, such as horribly off-tune singing or bad poetry, being almost weaponized, or at least being traumatizing. The horribleness of it can range from giving nightmares, to blowing up cities.

* A sidequest in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has you helping [[GeniusDitz Scooter]] compose a love poem. The result (with lines like "You are a diamond in the rough / or a flower surrounded by shrapnel and stuff") is so awful the intended recipient [[spoiler: calmly walks back into her house [[SuicideAsComedy and blows her brains out]].]]

* In "The Royale" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', an Apollo astronaut is the only survivor of an alien kidnapping, and the aliens tried to create an appropriate environment for him to live out the rest of his days in as an apology because they didn't actually mean to kill his crew-mates. Unfortunately, they base their re-creation on the text of a novel called ''Hotel Royale' that he had taken with him on the journey, and he is forced to live out the rest of his days in a re-creation of a "badly written book, filled with endless cliché and shallow characters." He welcomes the death that eventually comes in his sleep.

* A music critic reviewing the 1978 soundtrack album for the ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' movie (with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton) was quoted as saying that if you play it backwards, you can hear Paul saying "I wish I was dead."[[note]]Serves as a MythologyGag as it refers to the "Paul is dead" conspiracy during the Beatles' twilight years.[[/note]]

* A music critic reviewing the 1978 soundtrack album for the ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' movie (with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton) was quoted as saying that if you play it backwards, you can hear Paul saying "I wish I was dead."[note]Serves as a MythologyGag as it refers to the "Paul is dead" conspiracy during the Beatles' twilight years.[/note]

* A music critics reviewing the 1978 soundtrack album for the ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' movie (with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton) was quoted as saying that if you play it backwards, you can hear Paul saying "I wish I was dead."[note]Serves as a MythologyGag as it refers to the "Paul is dead" conspiracy during the Beatles' twilight years.[/note]

** Squidward's dancing is unbearable to watch that it hurts people's eyes, and make some throw up. His art doesn't fare much better, seeing how it literally burns people's heads off.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "One of Us", this trope is how Jimmy describes ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Happy Show Show]]'' after his hypnotized friends convince him to watch it.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]", Pinkie's sister Maud comes to visit, and the rest of Pinkie's friend find her stoic, anti-social, and only interested in rocks. At one point, Twilight asks Maud about her poetry and Maud provides a sample. Twilight's reaction shows how bad this poetry is, and it's only the tip of the iceberg.

** Squidward's dancing is unbearable to watch that it hurts peoples eye's, and make some throw up. His art doesn't fare much better, seeing how it literally burns people's heads off.