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

* In ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', Sam's ghost gets Oda Mae to cooperate with him by singing (excruciatingly badly) "I Am Henry the Eighth, I Am" over and over till she can't stand it anymore. When told of this, Molly reveals that Sam did the same thing to get her to go on their first date.

* The "plot" of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' involves a MadScientist attempting to find a movie so bad it could be weaponized.
** And they've come close a few times. ''Film/MonsterAGoGo'' is generally agreed to be one of, if not the worst movie ever featured on the show. ''Film/TheCastleOfFuManchu'' is, if anything, ''worse.'' ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' was so god-awful that Dr. Forrester and Frank were actually ''apologizing'' to Joel for making him watch it. And ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen'' was such an ordeal that Mike and the 'bots had to take turns stepping out of the theater for a few moments, and were only cheered up afterward by a surprise visit from [[Film/PrinceOfSpace Krankor]].
** Once Pearl took over, she used ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'' as a ''punishment'' - mentioning "the movie" made Bobo scream, she kept it in the Ark of the Covenant, the 'Bots took turns trying to flee ''during the opening credits'', and eventually they put up cardboard cutouts and tried to sneak away.
** Also used for particularly dull, monotonous sequences in the movies, such as the "rock climbing" segment of ''Film/LostContinent'' and the sandstorm section of ''Film/HerculesAgainstTheMoonMen'', the latter of which was presaged by the mads saying, "DEEP HURTING. DEEEEEEP HUUUUURRRRRTING!"
** ''[[Film/FugitiveAlien Star Force Fugitive Alien II]]'' was so terrible Tom Servo's head exploded less than ''thirty minutes in.''
** ''Film/RedZoneCuba'' was so bad not only did it drive Mike and eventually the 'bots insane, it drove the ''Mads'' insane.
* Averted in SpiritualSuccessor ''The Film Crew'', where Mike, Kevin and Bill work for a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} CEO who thinks the bad movies are just ''awesome''. The guys themselves never despair -- at worst, they suffer BrainBleach moments with a giggle.

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' and ''Film/AirplaneII'' has Ted Striker deliver long, rambling stories about his life to various people. These stories are so excruciatingly boring that people keep killing themselves just to stop listening, while one woman literally ''dies'' of boredom and is reduced to a skeleton by the time Ted's done.

* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. After about an hour and twenty minutes into "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwhzqepj2PM Buying Hot Dogs Instead of Gift Cards (For Scammers)]]," Kitboga can't help but note that the scammers still having managed to pretend to send any money to his bank account and can't figure out the screen-sharing software they're using and are trying to install another. He points out that while he's trying to waste their time, the whole thing is just getting a bit ridiculous that they're so incompetent they're wasting their own time.

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

* 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.

'''Result:''' Tomato number one "twitched", [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but did not displace from its original location]].\\

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'': Vogon poetry, which is used in-universe as a torture device, and the poetry of the Azgoths of Kria, which has literally killed several listeners. There's a poet on Earth, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, who's worse than both of them, but we are mercifully spared its effects (the poet named after Paul Neil Milne Jennings, [[BlackComedy a friend of Douglas Adams]]).

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', one of the ways you can [[CriticalExistenceFailure potentially die]] is by reading "Sixteen Days in Coldest April", a book of depressing, wordy, incredibly worthy literature that deals you health damage over and over as you read it. (At high levels, your Pain Threshold skill, who encourages you into suicidal masochism, will ''love'' it and beg for more.)

* Astos in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' was taken down by a combination of Red Mage and Black Mage's [[IncrediblyLamePun attempts at a]] PreMortemOneLiner.

** ''Film/StarForceFugitiveAlien2'' was so terrible Tom Servo's head exploded less than ''thirty minutes in.''

Can overlap with AnythingButThat, FauxHorrific, ComicalOverreacting, DreadfulMusician, EvenEvilHasStandards (if a villain decides a work would be too horrible to inflict). A CriticBreakdown will often to invoke this regarding the offending piece.

*** Also, ''Film/{{Nukie}}''. The entire episode.

'''Subject:''' After the introduction to the following news item, Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue, the three following jokes were made.\\

** In the review of action 52, he starts this trope and expanded on it more and more as the review went on. He started out self-confident, trying to find a decent game in the compilation. As the review went on, he started praying to find a decent game. At the very end of the review you can see him literally faint.