History Main / TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is an odd example. The story clearly ''tries'' to take itself seriously, as an epic tale of a hero torn between their birth and adoptive families and forced to make a SadisticChoice between them that leads to many deaths on the side they didn't choose. But its actual execution fell head-first into {{Narm}} territory and its support conversations are fairly lighthearted, leaving it on the lighter end of the series by accident. Its fanbase tends to make its story darker and more serious, but their motivation is [[FixFic restoring it to the tone it was aiming for]].

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' is regarded as one of the best gritty crime dramas of all time, but you wouldn't know it from the fans, who are obsessed with making dadaistic shitposts that barely connect to the show at all, such as the famous "kid named Finger" meme which despite using a picture of Mike Ehrmantraut is entirely divorced from anything which happens in the show. This wasn't quite odd during the first season as the show ''did'' start out as having plenty of BlackComedy elements, but as the series went on and got more serious, the fandom's hilarity only grew.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' is a bleak game about a scientist stuck in a {{Dystopia}} where aliens have taken over Earth and are squeezing every resource they can out of it. But ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' and the torrent of animations it's created would have you believe it's about funny faces and wacky flailing ragdolls.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is perhaps one of the most (in)famous examples of this; the show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple animated sitcom that has grown increasingly DenserAndWackier with each passing season, where the premise focuses on a young boy dealing with his ten sisters. Despite that, a good chunk of the fanworks are incredibly mature if not outright dark, either by tackling more serious topics and settings, incorporating BlackComedy (at least far more than what the show has allowed), or [[DemographicDissonantCrossover crossing over with more explicitly adult works]]. For just one example, ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'', one of the most popular fanfics among the fanbase, focuses on Lincoln dying from a terminal illness and the heartbreaking reactions of his friends and family.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is perhaps one of the most (in)famous examples of this; the show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple show, that has grown increasingly DenserAndWackier with each passing season, where the premise focuses on a young boy dealing with his ten sisters. Despite that, a good chunk of the fanworks are incredibly mature if not outright dark, either by tackling more serious topics and settings, incorporating BlackComedy (at least far more than what the show has allowed), or [[DemographicDissonantCrossover crossing over with more explicitly adult works]]. For just one example, ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'', one of the most popular fanfics among the fanbase, focuses on Lincoln dying from a terminal illness and the heartbreaking reactions of his friends and family.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is perhaps one of the most (in)famous examples of this; the show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple show, where the premise focuses on a young boy dealing with his eleven sisters. Despite that, a good chunk of the fanworks are incredibly mature if not outright dark, either by tackling more serious topics and settings, incorporating BlackComedy (at least far more than what the show has allowed), or [[DemographicDissonantCrossover crossing over with more explicitly adult works]]. For just one example, ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'', one of the most popular fanfics among the fanbase, focuses on Lincoln dying from a terminal illness and the heartbreaking reactions of his friends and family.

* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' is just as grim of a biopic as you would expect a film about the man who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb to be and features many a complex, nuanced character who makes decisions that can be immediately concluded to be good or bad. It also had the providence of not only being released in the age of the internet but also was caught up in the "[[Film/Barbie2023 Barbenheimer]]" meme fad, which resulted in fans of the film spawning a ton of ludicrous jokes (such as the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VgSyKl9vg0 Oppenheimer style]]" trailer as well as the common fandom characterization of Oppenheimer as [[MemeticLoser a brooding and ridiculously naive loser]]) and the word "Oppenheimer" entering into the internet's greater lexicon of InherentlyFunnyWords.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is a SubvertedKidsShow, where cute woodland animals are subjected to some of the [[{{Gorn}} goriest deaths]] ever imagined. It's all entirely PlayedForLaughs and there's admittedly not much else much to this concept, but the fandom still like to create their own spins on the characters (it helps that the cast is a DysfunctionJunction). For the most part, fans prefer ignoring the gore aspects completely in favor of treating the series as a SliceOfLife SugarBowl, albeit with some added lore every now and then, but there are others who take the gore and twist the show into a full-on horror-drama.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple show, yet the fandom has created multiple {{Dark Fic}}s and fanarts centered around darker and more serious topics and settings.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'' is both a violent shooter and a brooding meditation about politics and the nature of Utopia. It's Fandom is incredibly nonsensical; making memes that forget what the punchline was suppose to be halfway through, misunderstanding literally the most surface level elements of the game (like wondering why Andrew Ryan is obsessed with sweat), and laughing that the villain of the third game has name that kinda sounds like "cum sock."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple show, yet the fandom has created multiple {{Dark Fic}}s and fanarts centered around darker and more serious topics and settings.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is a very lighthearted and family-friendly franchise about a goofy plumber and his brother saving the princess from a fire-breathing turtle, and yet the fanbase has created various darker fangames and fanfics related to the franchise (enough to gain [[DarkFic/SuperMarioBros its own page on This Very Wiki]]). Also worthy of mention adult parodies such as ''[[WebAnimation/FlashGitzAnimation Racist Mario]]''.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' is a very lighthearted and family-friendly franchise about a goofy plumber and his brother saving the princess from a fire-breathing turtle, and yet the fanbase has created various creepypastas and darker fangames related to the franchise (enough to gain [[DarkFic/SuperMarioBros its own page on This Very Wiki]]). Also worthy of mention adult parodies such as ''[[WebAnimation/FlashGitzAnimation Racist Mario]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The show itself is a fairly lighthearted and simple show, yet the fandom has created multiple {{Dark Fic}}s centered around darker and more serious topics and settings.

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