History Main / ComedicSociopathy

* Taken to extremes with ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan''. Dokuro honestly thinks she's ''helping'' Sakura in spite of her frequent (and often deadly) physical assaults, constant demands for his attention, and having been (directly and indirectly) responsible for Sakura's social isolation.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': [[BlackComedyRape Sexual harassment]]? Check. Regularly abuses her best friends? Check. Blackmails people with photos of scandalous events ''she'' orchestrated? Check. Abducts people just because she thinks they're interesting? Check. Treats people as objects and is generally incapable of comprehending the fact that other people possess feelings that differ from her own? Check.
** While the series itself treats these actions as comedic, characters ''within'' the series (especially Kyon) see it as incredibly selfish and annoying... so part of the comedy comes from their reactions to Haruhi's antics.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' -- ''especially'' ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''. And, lord, the ''Full Metal Panic: Overload'' manga turns this up thirty notches.

* The relationship between Louise and Saito in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' is distinctly ''unhealthy'' as Louise is, quite frankly, violently abusive towards Saito. She calls him her dog, but if she treated even an ''actual'' dog like that she'd be prosecuted for animal cruelty. At one point in the novels, she beats him with a whip ''after'' viciously beating him the night before. Not a riding crop, an actual ''whip.''
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo is always throwing heavy things ([[MemeticMutation vending machines]], trash cans...) at anyone that made him angry, especially Izaya. However, Izaya doesn't seem to have any damage from it, and gives back as much in the form of fast moving cars, knife assaults, and hits on Shizuo's life. (It's a strange relationship.)

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina Inverse falls somewhere between this and a [[NotInThisForYourRevolution more mercenary attitude]]. While she has a moral code that she abides by, her selfishness frequently causes her to be completely apathetic to issues of those around her (including charging a village to take care of a dragon... that she accidentally released). Her [[HairTriggerTemper multiple berserk buttons]] don't help either, though they are [[PlayedForLaughs done comedically]]
* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': It's one of the most extreme examples out there! The two men, Akihisa Yoshi and Yuuji Sakamoto, are abused by their own admirers in just about every episode over the stupidest stuff! Yuuji's admirer Shouko is particularly nasty as she pokes out his eyeballs frequently so he can't look at other girls, tazes him, makes him go to school without his pants, and even drowns him just so she can give him CPR! What's more is that Yuuji's friends support the relationship and even sometimes encourage Shouko to beat on him!

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': [[AxCrazy Ladd]] [[PsychoForHire Russo]]. He dances like a maniac on the corpses of people he killed, {{Boom Headshot}}s a little kid, freaking ''skips'' when he hears someone getting killed, and shows his love for his fiancee by regularly threatening to kill her (though to be fair, she's a DeathSeeker, and he really does care for her in his own way). His [[PerpetualSmiler huge, shit-eating grin]] doesn't hurt, either.

* This is the premise for a lot of humor in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Touma's bad luck constantly has him [[AccidentalPervert constantly running into naked or partially-undressed girls]] changing in all manner of weird places -- in a park in broad daylight, an unlocked classroom, a large tent (he rushed in after hearing a scream). The results usually involve titular character Index [[UnprovokedPervertPayback biting him on the head]]. He gets [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale slapped and/or punched]] and has objects thrown at him on a regular basis. Some girl gets pissed at him when ''she'' walks in on him changing. The guy just can't win.

* LetsPlay/CallMeKevin indulges in this frequently. Let's put it this way: videos on his Youtube channel include "''School Simulator'' but I made a prison instead", "I made a hospital that treats people with guesswork", "''VideoGame/TheSims 4'' but I trap people in a cult compound', "''Election 2020'' but I pledge to kill all humans", and "''VideoGame/{{Bitlife}}'' but I speedrun killing all my people".

* This is about the only way to justify Wrestling/{{Edge}} kidnapping Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s [[Wrestling/PaulBearer father]] and Smackdown not making minimal effort to portray this action as wrong.[[/folder]]

* More or less the premise of the first five seasons of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. Wyoming shooting a captive? Cruel. Caboose blowing Church up with a tank? ''Hilarious''. The Beaver Creek Reds and Blues slaughtering each other in a parody of the video game the show is set in? ''One of the best episodes''. Pelican crushes Donut? ''Lulz ensue''. Donut stuck by Tex? ''Still a meme a decade later''.

* Winry from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' throws a wrench at Ed every time he breaks his automail (that's often) and it's always supposed to be comedy, despite the fact that it could actually be lethal.
** Then there's Barry the Chopper, who, in everything ''except'' [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], is played largely for comedy despite being the soul of a SerialKiller bound inside a suit of armour, who openly fantasises about cutting apart Hawkeye with a cleaver. (2003!FMA opted to play him for NightmareFuel instead.)

* ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'': Let's start with Tomoe, Nanami's [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] familiar. His idea of a fair and proper fight involves ''torture'', with one good example being how he combines BalefulPolymorph with FauxFlame, transforming his opponent into livestock with the intent to cook them alive and eat them. Then we have the main villain of the series, Akura-Ou, a PsychopathicManchild who's smiling, happy-go-lucky and silly while committing war crimes. No, this is not a horror show; it's a RomanticComedy.

** "Those Were The Good Old Days," which reads like something out of Ed Gein's childhood.

* This is ''LetsPlay/GrayStillPlays''' brand of comedy. In simulation games, Gray always attempts to make the worst possible choices, and get people killed whenever possible, and boy, does he make it hilarious.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Applies to Bolt and the other animals in the BlackComedy "The Murder Mystery." They engage in murder, sociopathic behavior, and InsuranceFraud, all PlayedForLaughs.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shizuo is always throwing heavy things ([[MemeticMutation vending machines]], trash cans...) at anyone that made him angry, especially [[BerserkButton Izaya]]. However, Izaya doesn't seem to have any damage from it, and gives back as much in the form of fast moving cars, knife assaults, and hits on Shizuo's life. (It's a strange relationship.)

* Webvideo/{{React}} Gaming has most episodes running on two sides of how it's fun to watch teens\adults suffer: horror games (bonus if UsefulNotes/OculusRift is employed, as the immersion heightens the JumpScare [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl effectiveness]]), or NintendoHard stuff (particular mention to ''Videogame/{{Battletoads}}'' and its FriendlyFire).

* ''LetsPlay/BigMooney06'' excels in this trope. You'd never think an [[VideoGame/Hitman2016 unstoppable assassin]] walking through an area killing everyone, even defenseless innocents, would be so funny.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has an ever growing array of characters representing various countries and territories from around the world. The number of Tsundere and Kuudere characters that result means the show runs on this trope. Most notable with Russia and the other Eastern European countries as they take DysfunctionJunction to levels UpToEleven.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' -- ''especially'' ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''. And, lord, the ''Full Metal Panic: Overload'' manga turns this up [[UpToEleven thirty notches]].

** This particular instance is heavily parodied and sometimes lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', specifically with ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' -- Tom at least ''tries'' to do something to Jerry before getting beat up, but Scratchy is generally minding his own business when Itchy shows up to murder him. ''Itchy And Scratchy'' in fact based itself more on the ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' series, which takes the cat and mouse formula and raises the slapstick violence UpToEleven.

--->'''HK-47:''' ''(after a harmless Jawa asks for the player's help)'' Translation: 98% probability that members of the miniature organic's tribe are being held by Sand People, master. Doubtless he wishes assistance. [[EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas [There is also a] 2% probability]] that the miniature organic is simply looking for trouble and needs to be blasted. That may be wishful thinking on my part, master.

* With ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', we have the Komato, to whom "right to bear arms" is a religious tenet[[note]]as long as you pay for them[[/note]] and "public safety"... is not.
** They play Marco Polo in ''minefields''. {{Rocket Jump}}ing is not only a ''sport'', but they add Rocket '''Juggling'''.

* ''VideoGame/SengokuRance'': Rance. The only thing saving him from being a VillainProtagonist PlayedForLaughs is that the BigBad is even ''worse'' (like [[spoiler:raping his daughter and mutilating her at the same time, or having prepubescent Kouhime gang-raped instead of just killing her]]) and, unlike Rance, has no redeeming qualities.

---->Spy: Kill me.\\
Medic: ''Later''. ''(closes fridge door)''\\\
Medic: Can you feel [[GratuitousGerman ze Schadenfreude?]]\\\
Medic: Whoops. Zhat was not medicine. ''Zhat'' was doctor-assisted homicide.

---> Sniper: "Boom, Headshot."

----> '''Administrator''': Oh, I ''love'' this.

*** Saxton Hale, CEO of Mann Corporation (who only appears in the [=TF2=] comics), is a [[TheAce big burly bare-chested boisterous]] Australian who runs around beating people up, fire-bombs hippies, kills endangered wildlife with his bare hands, pushes around his employees, jumps out of flying airplanes (while beating up "evil-doers"), and in general is as self-centered as you can be. Also, he promotes his manly deeds by appearing as the titular character in self-published Saxton Hale comics he sells.
*** Redmond and Blutarch Mann, the insane and scheming twin brothers who ran the corporations that owned RED and BLU team, respectively, never cared for anyone but themselves. After inheriting their father's land together, they tried for 120 years to outlive each other (with the help of MadScience), employing mercenaries to do the dirty work for them, making them true psychopaths who considered other people as mere tools. Even graverobbing wasn't below them. [[spoiler:They finally met their end when they met their third twin-brother, Gray Mann, and his knife.]]

'''Sam:''' Oh yea! ''(pulls out a time bomb)'' Max, where should I put this, so it won't hurt anyone we know or care about?\\

''(Sam throws the bomb outside, it promptly explodes)''\\

'''Sam:''' Geez, I don't know anyone who could firebomb kittens! [[spoiler:''(the kittens are a [[Film/TheThing1982 Thing]]-esque shape-shifting monster)'']]\\

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' derive much of their BlackComedy from this trope.
** The first game makes an extended joke out of Aperture Science and [=GLaDOS=]'s apparent total disregard for the sanity and well-being of their test subjects. It helps that you don't actually see all the other people that died horribly to bring things to their present state.
** The sequel shows that Aperture Science was practically ''built'' on this, with CEO Cave Johnson being a lunatic with an obsession with pointless and dangerous experiments to the point that he nearly ran his company into the ground.

*** This is doubly disturbing [[FridgeHorror when you consider]] several of the lines the turrets utter upon "death" such as "Whyyyyyyyy?!" and "I don't hate you." To say nothing when you start making them get rejected in ''Portal 2'' ("Whee... OH NO!", "I did everything you ASKED...!").

** [=GLaDOS=] even references this trope: She says that Chell's messed up situation of being held captive and asleep for an unknown amount of time is humorous because,
--->'''[=GLaDOS=];''' Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.
* Late-90's early-2000's ''Creator/InsomniacGames'' absolutely ''loved'' this trope. Probably 50% of all the cutscenes in ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage'' and the [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 first]] [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando two]] ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' games involve some poor soul getting eaten, squished, falling into lava or at least smacked around a bit.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has an Orc [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]] member who recounts his murder of a five-year old if you talk to him before your first contract. While this sounds horrible, it's actually quite hilarious in the way that he recounts it:
-->'''Gogron gro-Bolmog:''' ''"The great thing about killing a target up close and personal is you can talk to 'em before you do it! You know, say something scary! For example, this one time I had a contract to kill a little Nord girl at her birthday party. She asked me if I was the jester! So I said to her, "No, I am a messenger of death." You should have seen the look on her face! Ha ha ha ha! Anyway, she won't be seeing age six!"''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dragonborn'' DLC has Master Neloth, a [[TheMagocracy Telvanni]] [[TheArchMage Mage-Lord]] MadScientist and InsufferableGenius. Many of his statements are horrific but also hilarious. To note:
--> ''"This won't hurt. But if it does, don't yell too loudly. I have very sensitive ears."''
--> ''"It was fascinating to watch those tentacles grow out of your eyes."''
* Extremely common in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', but [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] and [[MegaCorp Hyperion]] easily take the cake for sheer [[ForTheEvulz unnecessary]] cruelty delivered dripping with BlackComedy.
-->'''Handsome Jack:''' This is Handsome Jack, thanking you, loyal test subject for helping bring Pandora into the future. The experiments you'll be put through will help us uncover new uses for Eridium, new cures for medicine and -- Seriously? ''(chuckles)'' Why are you having me read this crap? This is freaking hilarious. They know we're gonna [[BodyHorror mutate the hell out of 'em]], why lie to 'em? ''[[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties (static)]]''

* ''VideoGame/Prototype2'' takes place in a CrapsackWorld where New York is run by {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s on one hand and [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] on the other. So naturally most of the humor comes from this.
-->'''Blackwatch Soldier:''' "Dude, I shot this guy yesterday, I swear to god he looked ''just'' like Creator/JimmyFallon! I mean, it wasn't Fallon but he looked ''just'' like him!"

* ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'': Let's start with Tomoe, Nanami's {{Kitsune}} familiar. His idea of a fair and proper fight involves ''torture'', with one good example being how he combines BalefulPolymorph with FauxFlame, transforming his opponent into livestock with the intent to cook them alive and eat them. Then we have the main villain of the series, Akura-Ou, a PsychopathicManchild who's smiling, happy-go-lucky and silly while committing war crimes. No, this is not a horror show; it's a RomanticComedy.

* The Black Hat Guy of ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' exemplifies this, as shown [[http://xkcd.com/356/ here]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-08-08 Squigley explains humor is tragedy -- bad things happening to others -- and Slick demonstrates on him]].
* The eponymous main character of ''[[http://www.interrobangstudios.com/comics-display.php?strip_id=31 A Girl Named Bob]]''.
* Neko from ''[[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/ Neko the Kitty]]''. So very much.

* ''Film/{{AddamsFamily}}'' - it's easy to forget that for all their otherwise harmless [[NightmareFetishist Nightmare Fetishism]], Addamses do ''kill people'', guilty or not, in gruesome ways (although mostly offscreen or not [[UncertainDoom 100%-confirmed]]), all of it played for laughs.

What's amazing about the way this plays out is not that there will be characters who are mean, snarky, sarcastic, and uncaring, but the behavior of the characters who are ''not''. In order for the appropriate level of hilarious misery to occur, other characters — even kind, loving characters — must temporarily lose their ability to sense, understand, or care about the emotional discomfort, pain, and suffering that the current Butt Monkey is experiencing. They may regain it when the plot calls for it, but for that critical moment of "gag," the character is essentially a sociopath. In the worst cases, when there's a WriterOnBoard, Comedic Sociopathy can cause characterization to break down completely, allowing close friends to deliver cutting remarks like casually thrown knives.

* Played with in ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi''. Mukrezar's actions during his war with the Avatar left an entire continent devastated and populated by nothing but the undead. If the ''number'' of undead is any indication, casualties numbered in the millions easily. He tortures for pleasure and is inventive when doing so. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He is also a terrible cook]]. Yet the only person who seems to actually find this funny is Mukrezar himself and his Butler. Everyone else hates and/or fears him. Despite all this, he is a genuinely funny and charismatic character and largely liked by those that follow the story.

* The LemonyNarrator of ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'' seems to relish in this trope, though it's all PlayedForLaughs. [[BlackComedy But some of the things she chooses to make fun of even had the author admit they felt terrible for writing it]].
* None of the characters from the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'' ever seem to mind it when the author is being strangled during the stingers. Probably because they [[WhoWritesThisCrap have to read what he puts them through]].

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''--''especially'' ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''. And, lord, the ''Full Metal Panic: Overload'' manga turns this up [[UpToEleven thirty notches]].

* This is the premise for a lot of humor in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Touma's bad luck constantly has him [[AccidentalPervert constantly running into naked or partially-undressed girls]] changing in all manner of weird places - in a park in broad daylight, an unlocked classroom, a large tent (he rushed in after hearing a scream). The results usually involve titular character Index [[UnprovokedPervertPayback biting him on the head]]. He gets [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale slapped and/or punched]] and has objects thrown at him on a regular basis. Some girl gets pissed at him when ''she'' walks in on him changing. The guy just can't win.
* One of the main reasons for people dropping ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' (as pointed out on one [[http://randomc.net/2014/11/07/shigatsu-wa-kimi-uso-05/ anime review site]] that skipped reviewing between episodes 6-11) is because its [[HeroicBSOD traumatized]] main character, Kousei, is prone to being abused, such as being kicked, slapped, or having stuff thrown at him by [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale the girls, Tsubaki and Kaori]]. [[spoiler: In the end, one of them (Kaori) apologizes to him via her [[DeadManWriting posthumous letter]] for being mean and hitting him all this time.]]

* Bad guy Schlich from one Creator/WilhelmBusch story is made of this. [[RunningGag Several times]], he comments "That's fatal - heh, heh, but not for me!"

-->'''Magic watering can''': If you say “Turbo” twice, I catch fire!
-->'''Wesley''': (beat) And what is the practical use of that?

** This trope is Michael's entire motivation for [[spoiler: creating Neighborhood 12358W, a.k.a 'the Good Place', so that Architects can watch the torture within the Neighborhood without having to do all the work]].
** An even more literal example in season two: [[spoiler: apparently, it's common for demons to enjoy a 'Comedy Roast', an art form supposedly invented in the Bad Place that consists of insulting humans in cruel and humiliating ways, up to and including calling Jason dumb, saying Tahani's life was pointless and empty, mocking Chidi and Eleanor's complicated romantic situation, and hammering down her throat once again that Eleanor is a terrible person who deserves eternal torture]].
** Probably the most hilariously sociopathic example of this on the show is when [[spoiler: Michael]] tries to figure out human morals by using his powers to create the trolley problem in real life: That is, he puts several of the characters on an actual trolley and makes them choose whether to run over multiple people, or steer the trolley so that it only runs over one person. Needless to say, body parts are flying all over, and the characters he puts through this fun moral choice are traumatized, but [[CrossesTheLineTwice it's so over-the-top, it's hilarious.]] Fortunately, since he used his powers to create the people they killed, they probably weren't completely real.

* Pretty much all of Creator/MichelleGomez's comedy roles: Isobel Pickwell in ''Series/BadEducation'', Sue White in ''Series/GreenWing'', and Sally Bobbins in ''Series/FeelTheForce''. It carries over into her role in ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[spoiler: as the Mistress, a female incarnation of long-time villain the Master]].

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': This trope makes up most of [[MonsterClown Jerome Valeska's]] screen time, unsurprisingly, since he's one of the [[DecompositeCharacter show's two main takes on the Joker.]] His brother, [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah]], also is prone to this after [[spoiler: being exposed to [[AppliedPhlebotinum two separate types of chemicals]] that drive people insane and]] undergoing serious {{sanity slippage}}. For instance, there's this gem in the finale while he's kidnapping another character's daughter:

* "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic has the singer/narrator sing the titular chorus in an aggrieved fashion because horrific tragedies cause him to be slightly inconvenienced. [[http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/why-does-this-always-happen-to-me-lyrics-weird-al-yankovic/665687cae0a2f73048256d2e000ab017 Lyrics here]].
** This is true of nearly all Weird Al's original songs; the narrator is almost always some kind of sociopath or weirdo. See also "Those Were The Good Old Days," which reads like something out of Ed Gein's childhood; and "Albuquerque", the surreal journey of a strange violent man to the titular New Mexico city.
*** "I Remember Larry" - both Larry (whose pranks often cross the line into criminal territory) and the narrator (who gets back at Larry by [[spoiler: breaking into his house late at night and murdering him]]). The narrator believes Larry would consider this a "pretty good gag."

** This could also describe his maker, [[spoiler: Darth Revan]], since he must have had a pretty [[BlackHumor twisted sense of humor]] to create a droid like that in the first place. According to HK-47, [[spoiler: Revan]] thought it was so funny when HK started calling [[spoiler: his apprentice, Malak]] a meatbag, that he programmed him to refer to all 'organics' that way, but especially [[spoiler: Malak]] [[{{Troll}} since it annoyed him so much]].

* HK-47 has a spiritual successor in Shale, from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''--after [[AndIMustScream thirty years frozen in the middle of a village square]], she's arrived at the [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy logical conclusion of the phrase "familiarity breeds contempt."]] And her first act after being recruited into your party? Stomping on a chicken.

-->'''Handsome Jack:''' This is Handsome Jack, thanking you, loyal test subject for helping bring Pandora into the future. The experiments you'll be put through will help us uncover new uses for Eridium, new cures for medicine and- Seriously? ''(chuckles)'' Why are you having me read this crap? This is freaking hilarious. They know we're gonna [[BodyHorror mutate the hell out of 'em]], why lie to 'em? ''[[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties (static)]]''

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': Nearly every character is either on the giving or receiving end. The four main characters have all been on the giving end at some point (well, except [[TokenGoodTeammate Fighter]]--he's a casualty).

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-08-08 Squigley explains humor is tragedy--bad things happening to others--and Slick demonstrates on him]].

* Wonderella in ''WebComic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'', despite nominally being a superhero, only really cares about her own needs and desires and doesn't particularly about collateral damage if it gets the job done quickly. Just to hammer the point home, when she and Wonderita encounter the MirrorUniverse Wonderella, she was ''the exact same'' as Wonderella Prime.
* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'': Humour is frequently derived from someone acting like an asshole, but Gax - an alien with a particular loathing for 1) the planet Earth and 2) everybody on it - is a particularly reliable source, since he's one of the comic's few actual recurring characters.

* Neville gets treated ''horribly'' by everyone in ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals''--especially Ron, Hermione and Harry, three of his best friends in canon. It gets to the point where [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide he decides]] [[RuleOfFunny he'll just explode]]]].

** This particular instance is heavily parodied and sometimes lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', specifically with ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' - Tom at least ''tried'' to do something to Jerry before getting beat up, but Scratchy was generally minding his own business when Itchy shows up to murder him. ''Itchy And Scratchy'' in fact based itself more on the ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' series, which takes the cat and mouse formula and rises the slapstick violence UpToEleven.

** This particular instance is heavily parodied and sometimes lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', specifically with ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' - Tom at least ''tried'' to do something to Jerry before getting beat up, but Scratchy was generally minding his own business when Itchy shows up to murder him. ''Itchy And Scratchy'' in fact based itself more on the ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' series, which takes the cat and mouse formula and rises the slapstick violence UpToEleven.

* Almost everything that the Blue Beetle AI says in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' is an insanely violent overreaction to the current situation. It was just as bad when Jaime and the Scarab first appeared in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. Thankfully, it got majorly toned down as the two hit CharacterDevelopment strides.

See also HeroicComedicSociopath, a character who does this all the time and loves it. This trope is what the SadistShow and BlackComedy live off of. This may result in NoSympathy in situations where the character is clearly deserving of it. TooFunnyToBeEvil coupled with RuleOfFunny is the basic principle that allows this trope to work. Compare to LaughWithMe or CringeComedy. When this trope gets taken to extreme, over-the-top levels, it's CrossesTheLineTwice. See also DisproportionateRetribution, because in comedy this is usually okay. If the example falls short on the "comedic" aspect and just comes off as cruel, it may get the reaction "DudeNotFunny" Conversely, if the butt of the joke is a good sport, they may agree it's ActuallyPrettyFunny.