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* There's a joke obituary with a few variants that usually goes something like "Pilot Bob Smith died peacefully in his sleep at age 84 last Thursday. [[BlackComedy His passengers weren't so lucky.]]

[[folder: Jokes]]

* An advertisement shows an apparent JerkAss and his random acts of anti-social behavior toward strangers--pulling up a woman's dress, ruffling another woman's hairdo, throwing sand in a child's face, flipping an elderly man's umbrella inside out. Although it's obvious to the viewer, the man seems oblivious to why nobody likes him. TheEndingChangesEverything when it is revealed that the man is actually a personification of the wind. What's being advertised is the idea of harnessing the wind for power.

* In ''Enigma'', a story about a superhuman who patterns his life after a comic book superhero in an attempt to give his life meaning, the hilarious yet bitterly sardonic narrator is revealed in the end to be a lizard whom Enigma grants sentience to, trying to explain the whole story to a bunch of ordinary lizards. Enigma was making a point about how he felt, living as a superhuman in a world of ordinary humans.
* ''Creator/ECComics''

** A famous fight over censorship erupted around ''Judgment Day'', a story in EC's ''Weird Science'' title. In the story, an astronaut from Earth visits an alien planet populated by robots to judge whether it was ready to be accepted into the wonders and greatness of Earth. He rejects this the world when he realizes that the Orange robots live in a place of comfort and superiority, while Blue Robots live in inferior conditions, are basically kept as slave labor, and have no rights, though they supposedly 'are equal'. The astronaut promises to return when the robots learn to abolish this method. In the final panel, the astronaut removes his helmet for the first time, with the shocking reveal that ''he was black''.

* A ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5353458/1/Blast_to_the_Past Blast to the Past]] makes this interesting. Taken as a reference from [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic the Fleetway comics]], Sonic and Eggman were once friends. But then a terrible accident happens to one of then-benevolent Eggman's machines. Sonic tried to stop it but clumsily pulled out the plug by tripping, and things got worse from there. The good doctor tried to see if his young ward was alright, but trips on his foot and crashes into the machine, causing a devastating explosion. When the flames subsided, the now evil MadScientist we all love to hate was born and immediately blamed Sonic for his transformation. Sonic also blames himself for his friend's FaceHeelTurn, say that it was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone his fault]] that Eggman is trying to rule the world. But as the story progressed, it turns out that the real culprit was [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Princess Elise,]] along with Silver and Blaze, who had gone back in time to turn Eggman evil on purpose. It's NotWhatItLooksLike, though...

* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': The beginning of chapter 9 let us know that none of the adventures are "real"--it's an extremely advanced experiment in virtual simulation for the online Game [[BlandNameProduct "Kingdoms of Arkerra"]], with the main ad)venturing party having forgotten their original identities entirely. HR's comments pose a philosophical question of "what is real?" when he implies Arkerra is indeed a real place, one that he 'found' through the game. He likened it to a sculptor, revealing a statue that was always in the block of marble. It turns out Arkerra is a copy of another, pre-existing world, altered by HR through magic until that world fit what he'd need both to open Kingdoms of Arkerra and access the Realm of Being, [[GodhoodSeeker which would make him as powerful as a god]].