History MoodWhiplash / Webcomics

* ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' is a story about a young girl with godlike power. What makes it so creepy is how often her (ab)use of it switches between whimsical, mischievous, [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant accidentally creepy]], and flat-out evil. For instance, [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus3.html early on]] she pops all the balloons a vendor was selling, and when he yells at her for it she casually ''[[DisproportionateRetribution kills him]]''.
** And then there's [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus14.html this]] one.

** After a bad run in with her creepy professor, Elios offers to help Emma with her assignment. It's cute, and ends with a SleepCute moment. But then Elios looks at the time with a dark look in his eyes...and later on in the episode, it's revealed that her professor seemingly hanged himself.

** Similarly, chapter 19 gets intensely creepy, which makes the sudden SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} all the more effective. Which in turn makes Annie getting the rug yanked out from under her--on the very next page--all the more shocking.

*** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0759.html 759]] ''seems'' like a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, with Tarquin making Elan's name appear in lights on the mountain, causing them to share a tender moment and hug each other. [[MoralEventHorizon And then you find out what those lights are...]]

--> '''Nina:''' ''(completely normal)'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Also, she had a kitty. Its name was Mr. Boodles.]]

* ''WebComic/{{Hexane}}'': The final battle was going to happen between [[spoiler: Viy]] and the protagonists. They strike an epic TeamShot before heading into the fight, when... [[https://mspfa.com/?s=1032&p=4150 they start playing a very pretty song]]. Doubles as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

** ''WebComic/{{Hexane}}'': The final battle was going to happen between [[spoiler: Viy]] and the protagonists. They strike an epic TeamShot before heading into the fight, when... [[https://mspfa.com/?s=1032&p=4150 they start playing a very pretty song]]. Doubles as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

* ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' may be a lighthearted story, it is still a lighthearted story set in a monster-ridden ForbiddenZone AfterTheEnd. The tone can easily move from a humorous verbal exchange to people running for their lives or finding the remains of a losing struggle against a disease that was certain death for a majority of victims and horribly mutating into monsters for a minority of them.

** Similarly, chapter 19 gets intensely creepy, which makes the sudden CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming all the more effective. Which in turn makes Annie getting the rug yanked out from under her--on the very next page--all the more shocking.

*** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0759.html 759]] ''seems'' like a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, with Tarquin making Elan's name appear in lights on the mountain, causing them to share a tender moment and hug each other. [[MoralEventHorizon And then you find out what those lights are...]]

--> '''Nina:''' ''(completely normal)'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Also, she had a kitty. Its name was Mr. Boodles.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has so many it was given [[MoodWhiplash/{{Homestuck}} its own page]].

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** [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/09/29/191-triloigi/ This]] ''Brawl in the Family'' page has a bunch of traditional Waluigi nonsense. Until you get to the last strip, that is...

* ''Webcomic/NuzlockeComics'' frequently do this, courtesy of the subject matter: ''{{Pokemon}}'' adventures in a world where defeat means getting KilledOffForReal. Silly antics can swing into [[TearJerker tearful losses]] in a heartbeat, ''especially'' whenever [[TemptingFate battles seem to be going really well]]...

* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', while Jane is cleaning, she comes across an [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=111611 old photo.]]

* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': ''And now:'' '''HUMOR!'''

* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' regularly switches between SurrealHumor and SurrealHorror on a dime.

* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel''. The abortion comics. A ConvenientMiscarriage that follows a previously untragic story and is followed by more gag comics.

* Webcomic/KillLaKillAU is a mostly lighthearted fan webcomic series, up until Comic 25, the ''Forbidden Room'' Arc, which involves [[spoiler: Nui being dragged into a basement or room by something and Ragyo almost dying from her injuries as result of going to rescue her]]. Later, series mostly dips into CerebusRollercoaster, particularly with the Fanfics.

* [[http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG20.jpg&var2=2 This]] ''{{DDG}}'' strip features the [[GenderBender standard]] ManIFeelLikeAWoman moment and moves swiftly on to Zip's reaction to finding out his funeral wasn't well attended. To be honest the comic itself does tend to swing between the wacky hi-jinks in the afterlife and sudden angst filled strips which are slowly revealing how Zip got there.

* ''{{Minus}}'' is a story about a young girl with godlike power. What makes it so creepy is how often her (ab)use of it switches between whimsical, mischievous, [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant accidentally creepy]], and flat-out evil. For instance, [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus3.html early on]] she pops all the balloons a vendor was selling, and when he yells at her for it she casually ''[[DisproportionateRetribution kills him]]''.

* ''[[SlightlyDamned Slightly Damned]]'' does this a lot, contrasting character driven humour with a plot that starts with the main character going to hell and arguably gets ''worse'' from there.

* ''NuzlockeComics'' frequently do this, courtesy of the subject matter: ''{{Pokemon}}'' adventures in a world where defeat means getting KilledOffForReal. Silly antics can swing into [[TearJerker tearful losses]] in a heartbeat, ''especially'' whenever [[TemptingFate battles seem to be going really well]]...

* ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'': '''Every. Last. Storyline.''' The other 'Webcomic/WalkyVerse'' comics tend toward this as well, but ''Walky'' is indisputably the gold standard. One week - tortured angst. The next - week long ToiletHumor!

* Often occurs in ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'' comics that depend on BlackComedy, with the twist being surprisingly darker than its buildup. An example would be [[http://imgur.com/a/EiMtK Let me live that fantasy]], a pointless and (relatively) harmless adaptation of [[Music/{{Lorde}}'Royals']]. And then comes Ukraine's turn to sing, in which he bloodily reenacts the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia Volhynia massacre]] with great enthuasiam.

* ''{{Penny and Aggie}}''. One strip has the GirlPosse being [[SmugSnake farcically evaile]] as they plan to use a target's unannounced homosexuality against her. In the next strip the psychotic one is making a false ''lesbian rape accusation'' when the worst the posse had done before was a PartySchedulingGambit. In the next strip she turns out to have no idea of how people speak as she gives her assailant lines that would be at home in a 1950s ScareEmStraight flick. In the ''next'' strip the accusation snaps back into plausibility, and she implies [[FreudianExcuse body parts that women don't have]] before starting to tear up...
* ''ItsWalky'': '''Every. Last. Storyline.''' The other WalkyVerse comics tend toward this as well, but ''Walky'' is indisputably the gold standard. One week - tortured angst. The next - week long ToiletHumor!

* In ''LookingForGroup'', some characters occasionally sing in battles, particularly against large mobs. These battles tend to get particularly bloody, but the songs chosen are generally happy themes, such as ''Lean on Me'' and ''[[RefrainFromAssuming The Rose]]''.

* ''SomethingPositive'' has a very evil tendency to do this. It's quite possible that no long-run storyline has ever quite gone without banging up the readers' emotions at least to ''some'' extent.

* ''RPGWorld'' both used this straight and parodied this. The dramatic death of one character was followed in-comic by Jim (the player) reacting and posting about the game on a message board. While within the game itself, the death is followed by a butterfly-catching minigame, prompting the characters to [[LampshadeHanging complain about not getting sufficient time to mourn]].

-->'''Sand Person:''' Ow!! [[IrregularWebcomic My]] [[ShoutOut splanch!]]

* Often occurs in Webcomic/{{Polandball}} comics that depend on BlackComedy, with the twist being surprisingly darker than its buildup. An example would be [[http://imgur.com/a/EiMtK Let me live that fantasy]], a pointless and (relatively) harmless adaptation of [[Music/{{Lorde}}'Royals']]. And then comes Ukraine's turn to sing, in which he bloodily reenacts the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia Volhynia massacre]] with great enthuasiam.
* In ''EverydayHeroes'', while Jane is cleaning, she comes across an [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=111611 old photo.]]
* ''CtrlAltDel''. The abortion comics. A ConvenientMiscarriage that follows a previously untragic story and is followed by more gag comics.

* Much of the dark humour in ''{{Lackadaisy}}'' comes from this. Notable example is the strip [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=54 Houdini]], where a quite sweet scene between Ivy and Viktor pans out to reveal the dangling tail of the man he's just brutally murdered.

* ''[[KeychainofCreation Keychain of Creation]]'' sometimes falls into this. Compare [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0063.html this]] [[TearJerker tear jerker]] to [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0071.html how they get Misho to cope with it]]

* Immelmann (the author) admits to using this trope by name in [[http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20100907 this]] ''{{Concession}}'' comic's alt text. The comic takes an abrupt turn from ridiculous and comedic to gravely serious.
* ''NerfNow'', a webcomic with cartoonish characters that often has a very light hearted tone, has done this with three story arcs.

* In ''ErfWorld'', Parson provides what could be the page quote for the entire concept while first adjusting to Erf World, "Everything is cute. Like it's been made safe for children. The people even look like children. Except then they die."
* ''{{Goblins}}'' has a tendency to go from funny strips to horrific death.
* ''DemonEater'' switches its approach as time goes on, depending on the circumstances. Since it's narrated in an almost-first-person point of view, it certainly reflects the main character's view of the world.
* ''WapsiSquare'' went from a week of goofy strips about Monica being an audiophile to an incredibly dark and graphic sequence about the creation of the chimera.

* ''EerieCuties'' has its moments. Ace and Nina have to do a report on an ancient vampire queen.

* QuestionableContent demonstrates and lampshades it in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2033 this strip]].

* Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily

* [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0312.html This]] strip of ''{{Darths and Droids}}'' shows the scene of Shmi dies and Annie as Anakin makes her character filled with rage and go on killing Sand People...the punchline?

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', chapter 44. One page: Sara and Anjin are needling Nau about his romantic prospects. It is revealed that Nau's sister Chrys [[spoiler:is together with Sara's brother]]. Nau is trying to evade, and almost harem comedy antics ensue. Next page: Chrys [[spoiler: is having a miscarriage and bleeding profusely.]]

* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' has the tendency of throwing away gags whenever things get too serious, but there are attempts of this in which this is the end result: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1335/ this strip]] is a small example, and a bigger one came a few strips later when [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1424/ Zach broke up with Hazel]].

* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' has the tendency of throwing away gags whenever things get too serious, but there are attempts of this in which this is the end result: [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1335/ this strip]] is a mild example, and a straighter one came a few strips later when [[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1424/ Zach broke up with Hazel]].

* [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/probably-from-clogged-farteries/ This]] ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' strip goes from sad to toilet humor in the space of one panel.

** [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=42 "The most emotionally unbalanced comic ever."]]