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* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The Sex Puppets", which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat", which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as {{Gorn}}. But this trope only applies out of universe, where the adults are most definitely the audience for these parodies. ''In''-universe, [[FreeLoveFuture these are perfectly acceptable to market to kids]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The ''The Sex Puppets", Puppets'', which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat", ''Anthrax Cat'', which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' as {{Gorn}}. But this trope only applies out of universe, where the adults are most definitely the audience for these parodies. ''In''-universe, [[FreeLoveFuture these are perfectly acceptable to market to kids]].
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* ''ComicBook/CinemaPurgatorio'': One of the films shown at the theatre is ''The Picture Palace Mystery'', ostensibly a Saturday morning matinee film by the Children's Film Foundation. It begins with a trio of AmateurSleuth kids setting out to solve why their aunt's movie theater appears to have a curse. [[OminousVisualGlitch Skipping issues aside]], it plays out like a normal kids' mystery film... then another skip later, the kids have been horribly maimed and blinded by whatever was inside the theater. The film then skips back to show how the kids met their fates before abruptly ending.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The Sex Puppets," Puppets", which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat," Cat", which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as {{Gorn}}. But this trope only applies out of universe, where the adults are most definitely the audience for these parodies. ''In''-universe, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids [[FreeLoveFuture these are perfectly acceptable to market to kids.]]kids]].
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** There's also make-and-do sections, not all of which are child-friendly. The Max head puppet is mostly okay, but suggests using it to '[[NightmareFuel put on terrifying puppet shows for the neighbourhood kids that will affect them later in life]]'. The paper dress-up dolls include things like a CensorBox for Max, labelled as "crude method of concealing Max's identity in his series of poorly-focused stag films", and are accompanied by creepy instructions like "[[RuleThirtyFour What would be more enjoyable than dressing and stripping everyone's favourite pin-headed cartoon characters]]? Or anyone else, for that matter? Paste these pages onto heavy paper or plywood and cut them out with a hacksaw! '''''NOW!'''''" And then, there's the instructions for [[CalvinBall Fizzball]], a game vaguely baseball-ish but involving raincoats and [[DontTryThisAtHome trying to make tossed beer cans explode by hitting them with axe handles]].
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** There's also make-and-do sections, not all of which are child-friendly. The Max head puppet is mostly okay, but suggests using it to '[[NightmareFuel put on terrifying puppet shows for the neighbourhood neighborhood kids that will affect them later in life]]'. The paper dress-up dolls include things like a CensorBox for Max, labelled as "crude method of concealing Max's identity in his series of poorly-focused stag films", and are accompanied by creepy instructions like "[[RuleThirtyFour What would be more enjoyable than dressing and stripping everyone's favourite pin-headed cartoon characters]]? Or anyone else, for that matter? Paste these pages onto heavy paper or plywood and cut them out with a hacksaw! '''''NOW!'''''" And then, there's the instructions for [[CalvinBall Fizzball]], a game vaguely baseball-ish but involving raincoats and [[DontTryThisAtHome trying to make tossed beer cans explode by hitting them with axe handles]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane -- one of the things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane -- one of the things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, [[DepravedKidsShowHost while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy wrists]]. [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Destiny couldn't can't stop laughing]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' we have it when Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane - -- one of the things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
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* Creator/AlanMoore did this to ComicBook/{{Superman}} in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', in which basically every [[NotSoHarmlessVillain joke villain in his gallery suddenly goes serious.]] To wit: Bizarro attempts the "perfect imperfect duplicate" by massacring citizens and committing suicide ("Superman... ''alive''"), Toyman and Prankster kidnap, torture, and kill one of Clark Kent's childhood friends and expose his secret identity during a news broadcast, an army of Metallos besieges the Daily Planet and forces Superman and his closest allies to withdraw to the Fortress of Solitude, Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body and allies with the Kryptonite Man and the Legion of Supervillains and kills Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, and Krypto the Super Dog. [[spoiler:And [[TheManBehindTheMan the mastermind behind it all]] is Mxyzptlk. "Did you ''honestly'' believe that [[CosmicHorror a fifth-dimensional sorceror would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat?"]] Superman kills him by ripping him apart between his own dimension and the Phantom Zone; then, in penance, walks into a room of [[DePower Gold Kryptonite]] and then [[DrivenToSuicide into the Arctic.]]]] At least [[EarnYourHappyEnding the ending is happy]].
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* Creator/AlanMoore did this to ComicBook/{{Superman}} in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', in which basically every [[NotSoHarmlessVillain joke villain in his gallery suddenly goes serious.]] To wit: Bizarro attempts to become the "perfect imperfect duplicate" by massacring citizens and committing suicide ("Superman... ''alive''"), Toyman and Prankster kidnap, torture, and kill one of Clark Kent's childhood friends and expose his secret identity during a news broadcast, an army of Metallos besieges the Daily Planet and forces Superman and his closest allies to withdraw to the Fortress of Solitude, Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body and allies with the Kryptonite Man and the Legion of Supervillains and kills Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, and Krypto the Super Dog. [[spoiler:And [[TheManBehindTheMan the mastermind behind it all]] is Mxyzptlk. "Did you ''honestly'' believe that [[CosmicHorror a fifth-dimensional sorceror would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat?"]] Superman kills him by ripping him apart between his own dimension and the Phantom Zone; then, in penance, walks into a room of [[DePower Gold Kryptonite]] and then [[DrivenToSuicide into the Arctic.]]]] At least [[EarnYourHappyEnding the ending is happy]].
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* Creator/AlanMoore did this to ComicBook/{{Superman}} in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', in which basically every [[NotSoHarmlessVillain joke villain in his gallery suddenly goes serious.]] To wit: Bizarro attempts the "perfect imperfect duplicate" by massacring citizens and committing suicide ("Superman... ''alive''"), Toyman and Prankster kidnap, torture, and kill one of Clark Kent's coworkers childhood friends and expose his secret identity during a news broadcast, an army of Metallos besieges the Daily Planet and forces Superman and his closest allies to withdraw to the Fortress of Solitude, Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body and allies with the Kryptonite Man and the Legion of Supervillains and kills Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, and Krypto the Super Dog. [[spoiler:And [[TheManBehindTheMan the mastermind behind it all]] is Mxyzptlk. "Did you ''honestly'' believe that [[CosmicHorror a fifth-dimensional sorceror would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat?"]] Superman kills him by ripping him apart between his own dimension and the Phantom Zone; then, in penance, walks into a room of [[DePower Gold Kryptonite]] and then [[DrivenToSuicide into the Arctic.]]]] At least [[EarnYourHappyEnding the ending is happy]].
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* The 2016 annual issue of ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' had a story called "Deadpool and His Insufferable Pals", a fictional pilot episode for a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' where Deadpool tried to take Spider-Man's place after burying him alive, the Merc with the Mouth doing such things as hitting on Aunt May and manipulating Iceman and Firestar into helping him graphically murder the Sinister Six by falsely accusing them of killing Spider-Man.
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* The 2016 annual issue of ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' had a story called "Deadpool and His Insufferable Pals", a fictional pilot episode for a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' where Deadpool tried to take Spider-Man's place after burying him alive, the Merc with the Mouth doing such things as hitting on Aunt May and manipulating Iceman and Firestar into helping him graphically murder the Sinister Six by falsely accusing them of killing Spider-Man.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The Sex Puppets," which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat," which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as {{Gorn}}. But tis trope only applies out of universe. ''In''-universe, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids these are perfectly acceptable to market to kids.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' we have it when Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane - one of things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' we have it when Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane - one of the things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
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* Simon Hanselmann's comic ''Megahex'' (not to be confused with the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villain of the same name) features the characters from the British picture book series and TV cartoon ''Meg and Mog'', about a kindly WitchClassic and her cat, as drugged-up, screwed-up slackers.
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* Simon Hanselmann's comic ''Megahex'' (not to be confused with the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villain of the same name) features ''ComicBook/MeggMoggAndOwl'' comics feature the characters from the British picture book series and TV cartoon ''Meg and Mog'', ''WesternAnimation/MegAndMog'', about a kindly WitchClassic and her cat, as drugged-up, screwed-up slackers.
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* The 2016 annual issue of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' had a story called "Deadpool and His Insufferable Pals", a fictional pilot episode for a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' where Deadpool tried to take Spider-Man's place after burying him alive, the Merc with the Mouth doing such things as hitting on Aunt May and manipulating Iceman and Firestar into helping him graphically murder the Sinister Six by falsely accusing them of killing Spider-Man.
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* Creator/AlanMoore did this to ComicBook/{{Superman}} in ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', in which basically every [[NotSoHarmlessVillain joke villain in his gallery suddenly goes serious.]] To wit: Bizarro attempts the "perfect imperfect duplicate" by massacring citizens and committing suicide ("Superman... ''alive''"), Toyman and Prankster kidnap, torture, and kill one of Clark Kent's coworkers and expose his secret identity during a news broadcast, an army of Metallos besieges the Daily Planet and forces Superman and his closest allies to withdraw to the Fortress of Solitude, Brainiac takes over Lex Luthor's body and allies with the Kryptonite Man and the Legion of Supervillains and kills Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, and Krypto the Super Dog. [[spoiler:And [[TheManBehindTheMan the mastermind behind it all]] is Mxyzptlk. "Did you ''honestly'' believe that [[CosmicHorror a fifth-dimensional sorceror would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat?"]] Superman kills him by ripping him apart between his own dimension and the Phantom Zone; then, in penance, walks into a room of [[DePower Gold Kryptonite]] and then [[DrivenToSuicide into the Arctic.]]]] At least [[EarnYourHappyEnding the ending is happy]].
* Moore also plays with this in a parody children's comic section in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' by solving a maze so a character can get a narcotic hit. The second volume of ''League'' had an extended section devoted to this, which depicted the characters from various well-known British FunnyAnimal comics (in particular ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'') as horrific mutations created by [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Doctor Moreau]].
* Creator/RobertCrumb was influenced by the FunnyAnimal comics he read as a child, but he twisted this in his own work by including topics such as sex, drugs, bloody violence, vulgar language and politics. It inspired the UndergroundComics movement where the innocence of comics as a children's medium was further subverted.
* The British comic ComicBook/{{Viz}} follows the format and style of popular kids comics from the UK, such as ComicBook/TheBeano, but with swearing, gag penises and toilet humor.
* Steph Cherrywell's ''ComicBook/WidgeyQButterfluff'' pokes fun at [[SugarBowl syrupy children's cartoons]] such as ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The Sex Puppets," which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat," which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as {{Gorn}}.
* ''ComicBook/SamAndMax'' is a series based on the comics drawn by the creator and his little brother when they were children, about a [[FunnyAnimal cuddly dog]] and an [[CartoonCreature adorable rabbit-creature]] solving crimes in a [[TheWonderland bright, psychedelic and fantastical world]]. It's also a [[GrotesqueCute violent]], [[NauseaFuel deeply twisted]], [[{{Satire}} satirical]] BlackComedy.
** One story is set up like a nauseatingly cute children's story, with Sam tucking Max into bed and reading him bedtime stories. Sweetly, Max asks, 'What happens when we die?'. Sam answers by [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath cheerfully smothering Max with his pillow]].
** There's also make-and-do sections, not all of which are child-friendly. The Max head puppet is mostly okay, but suggests using it to '[[NightmareFuel put on terrifying puppet shows for the neighbourhood kids that will affect them later in life]]'. The paper dress-up dolls include things like a CensorBox for Max, labelled as "crude method of concealing Max's identity in his series of poorly-focused stag films", and are accompanied by creepy instructions like "[[RuleThirtyFour What would be more enjoyable than dressing and stripping everyone's favourite pin-headed cartoon characters]]? Or anyone else, for that matter? Paste these pages onto heavy paper or plywood and cut them out with a hacksaw! '''''NOW!'''''" And then, there's the instructions for [[CalvinBall Fizzball]], a game vaguely baseball-ish but involving raincoats and [[DontTryThisAtHome trying to make tossed beer cans explode by hitting them with axe handles]].
** There's a whole story arc about pirates keeping manatee sex slaves (a play on the theory that the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]] myth was inspired by sailors seeing manatees). It's played in as silly a tone as possible (complete with the pirates singing terrible love songs to them), but it's still really child-inappropriate.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' we have it when Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane - one of things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
* There's a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comic in which a kid's show host finds out that his wife (who played another onscreen character) is cheating with one of his assistants. He proceeds to teach the kids how to throttle someone to death on live air, before Dredd bursts into the studio and arrests everyone.
* Simon Hanselmann's comic ''Megahex'' (not to be confused with the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villain of the same name) features the characters from the British picture book series and TV cartoon ''Meg and Mog'', about a kindly WitchClassic and her cat, as drugged-up, screwed-up slackers.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'' takes place in a universe of FunnyAnimal characters that at first seems peaceful and saccharine, but takes a turn for the worse when the universe's creator, an incarcerated child murderer named Troy Hicks, takes over and causes horrible things to happen to the characters. There is also a side story revolving around a character being manipulated into having his testicles amputated by an unscrupulous doctor and being manipulated by his adulterous wife into allowing her to cheat on him due to his guilt of not being able to give her a child.
* The 2016 annual issue of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' had a story called "Deadpool and His Insufferable Pals", a fictional pilot episode for a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' where Deadpool tried to take Spider-Man's place after burying him alive, the Merc with the Mouth doing such things as hitting on Aunt May and manipulating Iceman and Firestar into helping him graphically murder the Sinister Six by falsely accusing them of killing Spider-Man.
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* Moore also plays with this in a parody children's comic section in ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' by solving a maze so a character can get a narcotic hit. The second volume of ''League'' had an extended section devoted to this, which depicted the characters from various well-known British FunnyAnimal comics (in particular ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'') as horrific mutations created by [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau Doctor Moreau]].
* Creator/RobertCrumb was influenced by the FunnyAnimal comics he read as a child, but he twisted this in his own work by including topics such as sex, drugs, bloody violence, vulgar language and politics. It inspired the UndergroundComics movement where the innocence of comics as a children's medium was further subverted.
* The British comic ComicBook/{{Viz}} follows the format and style of popular kids comics from the UK, such as ComicBook/TheBeano, but with swearing, gag penises and toilet humor.
* Steph Cherrywell's ''ComicBook/WidgeyQButterfluff'' pokes fun at [[SugarBowl syrupy children's cartoons]] such as ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has the kid's shows "The Sex Puppets," which is ''Series/SesameStreet'' as hardcore porn, and "Anthrax Cat," which is WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as {{Gorn}}.
* ''ComicBook/SamAndMax'' is a series based on the comics drawn by the creator and his little brother when they were children, about a [[FunnyAnimal cuddly dog]] and an [[CartoonCreature adorable rabbit-creature]] solving crimes in a [[TheWonderland bright, psychedelic and fantastical world]]. It's also a [[GrotesqueCute violent]], [[NauseaFuel deeply twisted]], [[{{Satire}} satirical]] BlackComedy.
** One story is set up like a nauseatingly cute children's story, with Sam tucking Max into bed and reading him bedtime stories. Sweetly, Max asks, 'What happens when we die?'. Sam answers by [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath cheerfully smothering Max with his pillow]].
** There's also make-and-do sections, not all of which are child-friendly. The Max head puppet is mostly okay, but suggests using it to '[[NightmareFuel put on terrifying puppet shows for the neighbourhood kids that will affect them later in life]]'. The paper dress-up dolls include things like a CensorBox for Max, labelled as "crude method of concealing Max's identity in his series of poorly-focused stag films", and are accompanied by creepy instructions like "[[RuleThirtyFour What would be more enjoyable than dressing and stripping everyone's favourite pin-headed cartoon characters]]? Or anyone else, for that matter? Paste these pages onto heavy paper or plywood and cut them out with a hacksaw! '''''NOW!'''''" And then, there's the instructions for [[CalvinBall Fizzball]], a game vaguely baseball-ish but involving raincoats and [[DontTryThisAtHome trying to make tossed beer cans explode by hitting them with axe handles]].
** There's a whole story arc about pirates keeping manatee sex slaves (a play on the theory that the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]] myth was inspired by sailors seeing manatees). It's played in as silly a tone as possible (complete with the pirates singing terrible love songs to them), but it's still really child-inappropriate.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' we have it when Doctor Destiny watches TV, as he drives the world insane - one of things he watches is a kids show in which the host suddenly decides there is no hope in the world and commits suicide, while teaching children how to effectively slit your wrists. [[BlackComedy Destiny couldn't stop laughing]].
* There's a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comic in which a kid's show host finds out that his wife (who played another onscreen character) is cheating with one of his assistants. He proceeds to teach the kids how to throttle someone to death on live air, before Dredd bursts into the studio and arrests everyone.
* Simon Hanselmann's comic ''Megahex'' (not to be confused with the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villain of the same name) features the characters from the British picture book series and TV cartoon ''Meg and Mog'', about a kindly WitchClassic and her cat, as drugged-up, screwed-up slackers.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'' takes place in a universe of FunnyAnimal characters that at first seems peaceful and saccharine, but takes a turn for the worse when the universe's creator, an incarcerated child murderer named Troy Hicks, takes over and causes horrible things to happen to the characters. There is also a side story revolving around a character being manipulated into having his testicles amputated by an unscrupulous doctor and being manipulated by his adulterous wife into allowing her to cheat on him due to his guilt of not being able to give her a child.
* The 2016 annual issue of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' had a story called "Deadpool and His Insufferable Pals", a fictional pilot episode for a spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' where Deadpool tried to take Spider-Man's place after burying him alive, the Merc with the Mouth doing such things as hitting on Aunt May and manipulating Iceman and Firestar into helping him graphically murder the Sinister Six by falsely accusing them of killing Spider-Man.
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