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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-07-31 17:53:21

Dude, Not Funny! would be the correct one for a character not finding something funny because of Unfortunate Implications or outright general wrongness. It does not collect YMMV examples because that attracted complaining.

There's also Bathos, which is a closely related concept to Narm that can also be its inverse in certain senses- a good Dramedy, for instance, can hit firmly in that zone of "I don't know whether that's funny or depressing". Certain other works like Garth Ennis's Preacher and The Boys also get a ton of mileage out of a hyper-cynical, Refuge in Audacity style of Bathos built at the intersection of Surreal Horror, Mood Dissonance, and World Gone Mad, playing with the ways that things can be so wrong they're funny, and how when things are pushed far enough they rapidly become not funny at all.

Edited by Scorpion451
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