History YMMV / TalesFromTheCrypt

** In "Confession," Creator/EddieIzzard's character talks about his new story idea about Satan being reincarnated as a serial killer. The twist? [[Series/{{Dexter}} He's a serial killer that only kills other serial killers.]]

** "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS5E6TwoForTheShow Two for the Show]]": Officer Fine centers in on the ostensible protagonist when he murders his unfaithful wife Emma and places the pieces of her body in a suitcase. Fine manipulates him, making him panic while promising that teams of agents will arrive to search the bags. After he disposes of the suitcase and switches tags, it turns out that Fine left an identical bag on the train with the corpse of his own wife, who was having the affair with Emma, framing someone else for his crime and escaping scott-free.

* NightmareRetardant: The ending of ''Three's A Crowd'' loses a lot of it's sting when you realize that aside from the by-comparision miniscule inconvenience of ruining the surpise, there was absolutely zero reason for the wife and guy's best friend to NOT spill the beans to the homicidal husband while he was trying to kill him while thinking they were having an affair, especially when the wife found the best friend freshly murdered and herself next on the list. This trope could have been averted if she ''did'' tell him [[spoiler: she is pregnant]] and he didn't believe her, thinking she was just lying to save her ass and then found out the hard way she was telling the truth.

** ''The Man Who Was Death'': Even if the verdict isn't what you like, circumventing the law and playing judge, jury, and executioner is not okay.
** ''The Thing From the Grave'': Domestic abuse is vile and will come back to bite you.
** ''Top Billing'': Getting the spotlight isn't worth it if you sacrifice your morals.

{{Anvilicious}}: A pretty intentional and self-aware version of it. Many of the episodes are morality plays whose protagonists are bad people brought down by their selfishness and hubris.

%%Zero Context Example* {{Anvilicious}}: A pretty intentional and self-aware version of it.

** "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E8 TheAssassin The Assassin]]": Janet is a somewhat ditzy housewife held hostage in her home by three murderous government agents who believe her husband is Ronald Wald, a CIA assassin gone rogue who disappeared before the agency could "retire" him. They attempt to kill Janet, who accidentally kills two of them, before gleefully revealing to the third agent (a woman, and Ronald's former lover), that ''Janet herself'' is the assassin after a sex change. She easily murders her ex-lover, resumes her quiet suburban life... and disposes of the corpses by serving them up at a dinner party with no one the wiser.

** "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E8 TheAssassin]]": Janet is a somewhat ditzy housewife held hostage in her home by three murderous government agents who believe her husband is Ronald Wald, a CIA assassin gone rogue who disappeared before the agency could "retire" him. They attempt to kill Janet, who accidentally kills two of them, before gleefully revealing to the third agent (a woman, and Ronald's former lover), that ''Janet herself'' is the assassin after a sex change. She easily murders her ex-lover, resumes her quiet suburban life... and disposes of the corpses by serving them up at a dinner party with no one the wiser.

* TheWoobie: Arthur Grimsdyke, a kindly old garbageman and widower who loves to entertain children with toys he made himself out of trash and and takes care of a bunch of stray dogs, who has his life systematically ruined by two rich [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] because they thought he looked scruffy, to the point of driving him to suicide.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Or at least as bad, since Maitland suffers the same fate as the other individuals, despite the fact that his actions (having an adulterous affair with a young woman and abandoning his family) are sleazy rather than illegal, whereas most of the other characters are either outright murderers or took actions that caused another person's death. When his actions are contrasted with a first-degree murderer like Joanna, Maitland's fate seems like a case of KarmicOverkill.