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Dark Parody

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Dark Parody	label	Dark Parody
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Dark Parody	comment	Lots of works, especially if they're very popular or unpopular, have parodies. Parodies are meant to be a joke, but some people have a dark sense of humour, and that's when the Dark Parody comes in. Quite often, the work being parodied is very upbeat and they make it dark for absurdist humour. There are a lot of typical ways writers could make a parody dark: If the characters do something that would be dangerous in real life, such as climbing on buildings, the parody might have a character get hurt or die as a result of doing it. If two characters are in a romantic relationship, often an official couple, the parody might have them break up or turn one into an abusive partner or adulterer, or both. If a character is very cute and/or virtuous, the creator might kill that character off or rewrite him/her as evil. Stock ways of rewriting characters as evil include turning them into mass murderers, having a pet turn out to be sapient and evil, and making them prejudiced (antisemitism is a common one due to the association with Adolf Hitler). Also, characters who are antagonists but not all bad (such as the Hero Antagonist, Anti-Villain, or Harmless Villain) will be made more evil. Any character who acts high without actually doing drugs will be turned into a real druggie. If a character is eccentric, s/he'll be rewritten as actually insane, sometimes Ax-Crazy. Similarly, if someone is a pessimist or cries easily, the parody might show him with full-blown depression, and if a character scares easily, it might show him/her with an actual anxiety disorder. If there's an unlucky character, the parody might have that character either "snap" and turn evil due to frustration or be even unluckier than in canon. Other things that happen a lot in dark parodies include a character mistakenly thinking nothing bad is happening and goofy characters continuing to act goofy even when serious things happen. See also Dark Fic, which can overlap with this trope if it's a Parody Fic. For dark things that happen in the work itself, see Cerebus Syndrome, Darker and Edgier, and Unexpectedly Dark Episode. Also see Subverted Kids' Show, which is a dark parody of a whole genre, and Corrupted Character Copy for cases where a character darkly parodies another. Compare Fractured Fairy Tale, although do note that the original versions of some fairy tales were pretty dark and not all Fractured Fairy Tales are dark.
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Dark Parody / int_10550610	comment	In the parody of Happy Days, Ralph dies and Fonzie tries to resurrect him but turns him into a zombie instead. Ralph then turns Potsie and Richie into zombies and Richie tells Fonzie to kill him so he doesn't turn into one.
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Dark Parody / int_15d05f51	comment	The titular brothers are this to The Hardy Boys in that they're repeatedly shown as being Too Dumb to Live and very much in over their heads, and in fact have repeatedly died and subsequently cloned by their father.
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Dark Parody / int_16712475	type	Dark Parody
Dark Parody / int_16712475	comment	In their parody of The Jetsons, George is killed, presumably by Rosie, and in another Jetsons parody, Elroy is killed by aliens.
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Dark Parody / int_1b51bb94	comment	In The Addams Family, there's an in-universe example: Wednesday Addams writes a version of Little Red Riding Hood where Red Riding Hood dies.
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Dark Parody / int_1d6480da	comment	Flash-Gitz Animation can be summed up as making everything they touch Bloodier and Gorier —Rudolph's nose being an exploding tumor and Mario being a racist murderer are just some examples.
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Dark Parody / int_2196de57	comment	One opening sequence of the annual Treehouse of Horror episode has the Simpsons standing in for The Munsters... who subsequently are all lynched by the people of Springfield because they are monsters. The only one who survives is Lisa, who is standing in for the Token Human member of the family, Marilyn.
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Dark Parody / int_2350acad	comment	The episode "Fear of Flying" has a scene in which Homer, looking for a new bar to drink, enters Cheers. The whole cast is just a little bit more jerkish, with Norm getting the worst of it, being a hostile and barely-coherent drunk. For bonus points, several actual Cheers cast members provided the voices for their dark analogues!
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Dark Parody / int_23945975	comment	The "After Ever After" series, which pokes dark fun at Disney Animated Canon, as the characters sing about what happened "after" their films ended. The jokes often mirror modern-day issues, such as Simba's pride going extinct, and they're all sung to the tune of an actual Disney song: like, in The Lion King (1994)'s case, "I Just Can't Wait to Be King". Some of them instead discuss what happened during the time period the film is set.
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Dark Parody / int_250e58f6	comment	Lasagna Cat is a Garfield parody with a lot of Surreal Horror and dark mockery of the source material, which is acted out with a creepy-looking Garfield costume, and then mocked further in a weird skit. "Sex Survey Results" took it even farther, with the ending consisting of nightmarish imagery and the suffering of an older Jon Arbuckle/Jim Davis.
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Dark Parody / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: One TV show the children watch is called The Itchy & Scratchy Show, which is a parody of Tom and Jerry and Herman and Katnip that turns the cartoonish violence into actual violence, with Scratchy the cat dying gruesomely in every episode. The episode "Fear of Flying" has a scene in which Homer, looking for a new bar to drink, enters Cheers. The whole cast is just a little bit more jerkish, with Norm getting the worst of it, being a hostile and barely-coherent drunk. For bonus points, several actual Cheers cast members provided the voices for their dark analogues! Combined with Expy Coexistence, in the episode "Brother's Little Helper" a Facial Composite Failure of Bart's description instead creates a drawing of Dennis the Menace (US). Chief Quimby then mentions that the Dennis Mitchell drawing reminds him of "the kid who roughed up the Wilson widow". One opening sequence of the annual Treehouse of Horror episode has the Simpsons standing in for The Munsters... who subsequently are all lynched by the people of Springfield because they are monsters. The only one who survives is Lisa, who is standing in for the Token Human member of the family, Marilyn.
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Dark Parody / int_294f9022	comment	Day of the Barney Trilogy, a genocide-themed parody of a lighthearted series.
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Dark Parody / int_2b727723	comment	The Reddit page /r/2meirl4meirl takes common memes and makes them extremely bitter and self-deprecating.
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Dark Parody / int_2b82b95f	comment	Their skit parodying iCarly starts with Carly getting her nudes leaked online and ends with her father having a Heroic BSoD and nuking Iran.
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Dark Parody / int_2ec27115	comment	Teen Titans Go! is a Denser and Wackier spin-off of Teen Titans (2003) with a heavy reliance on Black Comedy and the main cast frequently depicted as far meaner and crueler than they were in the original show.
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Dark Parody / int_2f6b4063	comment	Cinema Purgatorio has a retelling of It's a Wonderful Life in which George Bailey is nearly killed by a series of accidents - only to find himself unharmed, the fatal experiences being endured by people who look only somewhat like him. Eventually, he's approached by a stuntman in place of Clarence; he explains that they're in a movie and that for every fatal incident he experiences, a stunt double has to endure it for the sake of the scene. Unfortunately, far from teaching him to respect the rights of the poor stunt doubles who suffer in his stead, this lecture teaches Bailey that he is effectively immortal, and he uses this new power to turn the tables on Mr Potter, kill him and take over the town - at the cost of yet another stuntman being shot down by Potter's bodyguards. At the end, George is keeping Mr Potter's severed head impaled on a paper spike as a memento.
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Dark Parody / int_36cea77f	comment	"Hatsune Miku created X", a meme where a controvertial figure who created a popular property is Unpersoned and replaced by the much more beloved character, has two common dark parodies: either Miku is credited for heinous acts as well (ex: Jack the Ripper was controversial, so it was really Miku who killed all those prostitutes) or Miku develops a Cult of Personality that credits her with everything.
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Dark Parody / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019) plays up the Black Comedy side of the original comic book (a Deconstructor Fleet for superheroes and the comic book industry) to prevent it from turning too grim, and becomes this in the process.
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Dark Parody / int_400469e	comment	In their parody of Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin is dangerously delusional, as he kills his parents and blames it on Hobbes, eventually ending up in an insane asylum.
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Dark Parody / int_4aeea402	comment	Rusty's father, Dr. Jonas Venture, is one to Doc Savage, an uber-macho world-traveling crimefighter and super-scientist, but Jonas was also an Abusive Parent and Manipulative Bastard.
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Dark Parody / int_510001db	comment	The Addicted Animals book series is an adult-themed parody of the If You Give... series of children's books meant to teach readers the dangers of addictive substances like alcohol, cannabis, and meth in the same style and with a similar formula as those books.
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Dark Parody / int_581c0896	comment	A spoof of Curious George has George turn out to be a carrier for a lethal virus (with the first person infected by him being The Man in the Yellow Hat) and the city he's in being nuked to prevent the infection from spreading anywhere else.
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Dark Parody / int_5ce62699	comment	Revolting Rhymes is a collection of fairy tale parodies. As the title suggests, most of them are dark: In the one for Cinderella, the prince decapitates the stepsisters, so Cinderella marries a jam maker instead. In the one about Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack's mother is abusive and the giant eats her. In the parody of The Three Little Pigs, the pigs get killed by Red Riding Hood, who turns out to be even more evil than the wolf.
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Dark Parody / int_5ef4267	comment	Paint: The "After Ever After" series, which pokes dark fun at Disney Animated Canon, as the characters sing about what happened "after" their films ended. The jokes often mirror modern-day issues, such as Simba's pride going extinct, and they're all sung to the tune of an actual Disney song: like, in The Lion King (1994)'s case, "I Just Can't Wait to Be King". Some of them instead discuss what happened during the time period the film is set. In a collab with Peter Hollens, they created a "Boy Band" parody, poking fun at *NSYNC, One Direction, The Jonas Brothers and Backstreet Boys, changing the lyrics of their songs to make fun of what the bands went or were going through in real-life...ending on the light note of The Backstreet Boys' continuation as a band.
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Dark Parody / int_618fb605	comment	The Migraine Boy animations made by MTV were parodied by a Chilean Adobe Flash, that used the MTV version as base and made it Bloodier and Gorier and with a lot of Vulgar Humor and local Cluster F-Bomb, becoming a success in Chile at the point of overpassing the original animation and becoming a Cult Classic years later.
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Dark Parody / int_625dd161	comment	Almost everything created by MeatCanyon. Really. Whether it's Pinocchio eating his creator to become a real boy, or Thomas the Tank Engine being a lovecraftian horror, or Dream being a bug-human hybrid kept secret by his father, MeatCanyon has a talent for making horror out of the least expected things.
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Dark Parody / int_6adc3554	comment	Songdrops: "The Wheels on the Bus are Falling Off" is a parody of "The Wheels on the Bus", where the bus's wheels are falling off, there are zombies and "kind-of-mad" snakes on the bus, the engine is on fire, the children are all screaming, and nobody knows where the first aid kit is. Several parodies in "The (Not Exactly) Nursery Rhyme Song": In "Hickory Dickory Dock", the mouse puts the cat into a headlock. In "Jack and Jill", Jill's father says, "Step away from my daughter!" to Jack. In "Old Mother Hubbard", Mother Hubbard breaks three of her bones after slipping on a crack. "The 13 Nights of Halloween" is a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" that involves witches sending the protagonist spooky things such as creepy dolls and ghosts.
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Dark Parody / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers Their take on Hanna-Barbera classics like Jonny Quest and Scooby-Doo is absolutely merciless, the former by way of constantly deconstructing how living a life like Jonny's is highly traumatizing (even showing a grown-up Jonny at one point, who had turned into a nerve-wrecked drug addict) and the latter by having an Expy group show up who were quite visibly supposed to be the Scooby gang but also were composites with well-known scumbags of the Seventies like Patty Hearst (a kidnapped "Daphne" suffering from Stockholm syndrome), Valerie Solanas (a violent misandrist radical feminist lesbian "Velma"), David "the Son of Sam" Berkowitz (a "Shaggy" who is the only one who can "hear" what "Scooby" said) and Ted Bundy ("Freddy"). Rusty's father, Dr. Jonas Venture, is one to Doc Savage, an uber-macho world-traveling crimefighter and super-scientist, but Jonas was also an Abusive Parent and Manipulative Bastard. The titular brothers are this to The Hardy Boys in that they're repeatedly shown as being Too Dumb to Live and very much in over their heads, and in fact have repeatedly died and subsequently cloned by their father. The Impossibles are this to the Fantastic Four. Professor Richard Impossible (Mister Fantastic) is an abusive sexist who ultimately becomes a villain, Sally's (Invisible Woman) skin becomes invisible whenever she's not actively concentrating to keep it visible, Cody (Human Torch) flames on in contact from oxygen but can't turn them off and can feel the burns despite being impervious to them, and Ned (The Thing) is more like a giant callous than a giant rock. "The Terminus Mandate" features Blind Rage, an egotistical jerkass Daredevil knockoff.
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Dark Parody / int_6c97d515	comment	In the parody of The Three Little Pigs, the pigs get killed by Red Riding Hood, who turns out to be even more evil than the wolf.
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Dark Parody / int_74cdc7b	comment	In their parody of Wonder Pets!, the Wonder Pets accidentally take a calf to the slaughterhouse due to thinking it was a comedy club because the "S" was missing, so it read "laughterhouse".
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Dark Parody / int_955b43a6	comment	A sketch parodying Gullah Gullah Island has Binyah Binyah turn out to be a fugitive criminal who was wearing a tadpole costume and living with the Gullah family to hide from the cops, who end up forcing him to blow his cover when they find and threaten to shoot him.
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Dark Parody / int_97ce01ba	comment	In Bee Movie, when the bees are locking up the bears because bears kill bees, one of them is Winnie the Pooh.
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Dark Parody / int_98a7c132	comment	Two separate sketches showcase G.I. Joe as so utterly useless (Awesome, but Impractical at best) that they are utterly massacred by a single sniper and Taliban insurgents, respectively. The latter sketch also sees Cobra Commander and his inner circle completely slaughtered by SEAL Team Six, because the SEALs are, comparatively, a No-Nonsense Nemesis.
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Dark Parody / int_9c9ca99b	comment	50% OFF is a parody of Free!. While the original anime does occasionally tackle dark topics, it remains a relatively optimistic anime about four friends forming a swimming club. Notable changes in the parody include giving the main character Split Personalities, turning the optimistic and cheerful Cloudcuckoolander onto a trash-talking Gayngster, and characterizing the Comically Serious new recruit as a Serial Killer.
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Dark Parody / int_9f5e799	comment	Bambi Meets Godzilla. At least if you take it as a parody of Bambi, rather than of Godzilla.
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Dark Parody / int_a0ae471	comment	Their attempt at a Toy Story 4 trailer (released long before the real one was starting production at Disney) followed the same idea of Andy being grown up... the difference being that he became a junkie and used Buzz as a makeshift bong, causing so much damage to him that Woody is forced to give him a Mercy Kill.
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Dark Parody / int_a4616794	comment	Friendship is Witchcraft is a parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic where, among other changes, Twilight is a narcissistic sociopath who has a crush on her step-brother, Spike is a universally-hated Butt-Monkey, Fluttershy not-so-secretly leads an apocalyptic cult that worships "the Smooze", Pinkie Pie is a Stepford Smiler who was raised by "gypsies" after her parents died in a fire and who dabbles in the dark arts and sings upbeat songs with dark lyrics, and Sweetie Belle is a robot who doesn't know she's a robot and runs the risk of going crazy if she ever finds out.
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Dark Parody / int_a59597f2	comment	In the one for Cinderella, the prince decapitates the stepsisters, so Cinderella marries a jam maker instead.
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Dark Parody / int_a98099b9	comment	Garfield Minus Garfield is a webcomic where Garfield strips are edited to remove the eponymous character, leaving Jon Arbuckle imagining he has the cat and making the same dialogs and reactions but alone. A dark and depressed version of the original one but Played for Laughs and even approved by Jim Davis, Garfield's creator nonetheless. And this gets exaggerated with Square Root of Minus Garfield.
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Dark Parody / int_adf4e69	comment	Strangers with Candy parodies 1970s Afterschool Specials and anti-drug PSAs. Its protagonist, Jerri Blank, was inspired by Florrie Fisher, a former socialite turned motivational speaker that visited high schools in the 1960s and early 1970s to talk about her fall from socialite to heroin-addled prostitute in the 1940s. Many lines from the show are taken directly from a talk Fisher gave at a New York high school, including "I was a boozer, a user and a loser.".
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Dark Parody / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: The "You're A Champion, Charlie Brown" sketch from the Season 24 episode hosted by Brendan Fraser gives a realistic and depressing spin on the old "Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown" gag, in that Charlie Brown's typical fall on his back causes a fatal head injury and all that Lucy, Linus, and Franklin can do is despair and yell at Lucy that this is her fault. The "Clark Kent" sketch from Season 25 hosted by Dwayne Johnson presented Superman as someone so incompetent in general, but more specifically at doing his signature Clark Kenting that everybody else in the Daily Planet was utterly sick of having him around and ended up convincing him to kill a person (by accident in Superman's case, but still) by pretending that said person was a super-villain, so Superman would end up in jail and they wouldn't have to deal with him ever again. A classic Chris Farley sketch parodies the "switcheroo" advertisement used in brands like Folger's. Normally, the people who get told that they had their order switched would either be delighted or would be angry and would ask to not be used in the ad. Farley's character instead has a meltdown and beats up the waiter who informed him about the switched order before he starts escalating his rage to attacking everyone else at the restaurant, prompting other people there to restrain him before anyone gets killed by his wrath.
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Dark Parody / int_b2ac2311	comment	The "You're A Champion, Charlie Brown" sketch from the Season 24 episode hosted by Brendan Fraser gives a realistic and depressing spin on the old "Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown" gag, in that Charlie Brown's typical fall on his back causes a fatal head injury and all that Lucy, Linus, and Franklin can do is despair and yell at Lucy that this is her fault.
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Dark Parody / int_b5a087d7	comment	Many of the parodies on Robot Chicken are dark: In their parody of Wonder Pets!, the Wonder Pets accidentally take a calf to the slaughterhouse due to thinking it was a comedy club because the "S" was missing, so it read "laughterhouse". In their parody of The Jetsons, George is killed, presumably by Rosie, and in another Jetsons parody, Elroy is killed by aliens. In their parody of Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin is dangerously delusional, as he kills his parents and blames it on Hobbes, eventually ending up in an insane asylum. In the parody of Happy Days, Ralph dies and Fonzie tries to resurrect him but turns him into a zombie instead. Ralph then turns Potsie and Richie into zombies and Richie tells Fonzie to kill him so he doesn't turn into one. Their attempt at a Toy Story 4 trailer (released long before the real one was starting production at Disney) followed the same idea of Andy being grown up... the difference being that he became a junkie and used Buzz as a makeshift bong, causing so much damage to him that Woody is forced to give him a Mercy Kill. They showcase a "realistic" epilogue to Revenge of the Nerds that has the whole cast of nerds arrested, sentenced for multiple crimes including sexual harassment and rape, and slaughtered in jail. Two separate sketches showcase G.I. Joe as so utterly useless (Awesome, but Impractical at best) that they are utterly massacred by a single sniper and Taliban insurgents, respectively. The latter sketch also sees Cobra Commander and his inner circle completely slaughtered by SEAL Team Six, because the SEALs are, comparatively, a No-Nonsense Nemesis. Another sketch poked fun at both their Hollywood Tactics and the franchise's gimmick of "all of the Joes have a code-name" by having the Joes giving a rookie an Embarrassing Nickname ("Fumbles"), and this rookie finding it so annoying that he quits the Joes and slaughtering them all in a sniper rampage, which the Joes cannot do anything about because they don't do the typical things the military would do if there's a sniper around, like ducking for cover. Their skit parodying iCarly starts with Carly getting her nudes leaked online and ends with her father having a Heroic BSoD and nuking Iran. The obligatory SpongeBob SquarePants short involves the Krusty Krab using fish meat as the secret ingredient, essentially turning everyone in Bikini Bottom into cannibals. Their Homestar Runner parody had the government raid Free Country, USA due to mistaking Strong Badia as a separatist enclave. Several characters die in the ensuing chaos. A sketch parodying Gullah Gullah Island has Binyah Binyah turn out to be a fugitive criminal who was wearing a tadpole costume and living with the Gullah family to hide from the cops, who end up forcing him to blow his cover when they find and threaten to shoot him. A spoof of Curious George has George turn out to be a carrier for a lethal virus (with the first person infected by him being The Man in the Yellow Hat) and the city he's in being nuked to prevent the infection from spreading anywhere else.
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Dark Parody / int_b616e08a	comment	Koit did a dark parody of "Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" by revealing at the end that the body parts were severed and kept in jars by a deranged Serial Killer collecting them.
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Dark Parody / int_b70fcc8	comment	Planet Dolan's nursery rhyme parodies are often dark: Their parody for "Hickory Dickory Dock" involves spooky things such as green goo and ten thousand Krakens. Their parody for "I'm a Little Teapot" involves the teapot turning its water corrosive unintentionally and accidentally injuring a dog and killing another teapot.
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Dark Parody / int_bc848d30	comment	The obligatory SpongeBob SquarePants short involves the Krusty Krab using fish meat as the secret ingredient, essentially turning everyone in Bikini Bottom into cannibals.
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Dark Parody / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: One of the Ciaphas Cain novels mentions a children's song called "The Tracks on the Land Raider". Fans figure it is based on "The Wheels on the Bus", and some have supplied lyrics.
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Dark Parody / int_bd886ad	comment	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law usually plays with this trope, showing classic Hanna-Barbera characters in a dark and twisted tone but Played for Laughs. One example is an episode where The Flintstones (and especially Fred) are shown as The Sopranos.
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Dark Parody / int_c0539539	comment	Anger Management: Lucy says, "Cross my heart and hope to die, as crimson tears flow from my eyes" (downplayed though, since the original poem still involves injuries and hoping to die).
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Dark Parody / int_c6400483	comment	A majority of parodies made by Dorkly tend to rely heavily on Black Comedy. Among a few notable examples include one with Bowser shooting the guy who makes his guns to rant about the guns being big and slow, the Wall-Nut turning into a zombie after being bitten, and Princess Peach getting kidnapped by realistic kidnappers. That's not even getting started on their parodies that are series in and of themselves.
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Dark Parody / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	"The Terminus Mandate" features Blind Rage, an egotistical jerkass Daredevil knockoff.
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Dark Parody / int_cf1846e	comment	In a collab with Peter Hollens, they created a "Boy Band" parody, poking fun at *NSYNC, One Direction, The Jonas Brothers and Backstreet Boys, changing the lyrics of their songs to make fun of what the bands went or were going through in real-life...ending on the light note of The Backstreet Boys' continuation as a band.
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Dark Parody / int_d0f124da	comment	Their take on Hanna-Barbera classics like Jonny Quest and Scooby-Doo is absolutely merciless, the former by way of constantly deconstructing how living a life like Jonny's is highly traumatizing (even showing a grown-up Jonny at one point, who had turned into a nerve-wrecked drug addict) and the latter by having an Expy group show up who were quite visibly supposed to be the Scooby gang but also were composites with well-known scumbags of the Seventies like Patty Hearst (a kidnapped "Daphne" suffering from Stockholm syndrome), Valerie Solanas (a violent misandrist radical feminist lesbian "Velma"), David "the Son of Sam" Berkowitz (a "Shaggy" who is the only one who can "hear" what "Scooby" said) and Ted Bundy ("Freddy").
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Dark Parody / int_d8189523	comment	With a heavy emphasis on dark, the first segment of Where the Dead Go to Die, "Tainted Milk", was intended to be a Black Comedy parody of Lassie, with the Lassie parody being...outright demonic in nature. However, when it turned out to actually terrify viewers, the rest of the film was made as a straight horror flick.
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Dark Parody / int_daa14449	comment	Eggs For Bart is a fanmade horror game based around The Simpsons that was inspired by and used lines said on Game Grumps.
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Dark Parody / int_df0f7a54	comment	The New Adventures of the Wonder Twins consists of a send-up of Superfriends where the Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna, thanks to being completely incompetent as well as the series sharply averting Talking Is a Free Action, horribly screw up their attempts at rescuing people and the teens they try to save end up dying as a result.
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Dark Parody / int_e25322af	comment	Their Homestar Runner parody had the government raid Free Country, USA due to mistaking Strong Badia as a separatist enclave. Several characters die in the ensuing chaos.
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Dark Parody / int_e3a1067	comment	Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The show is very vulgar and a lot of the jokes are made to cross as many lines as possible while referencing a lot of Western media which include high school movies, Transformers, Ghostbusters (1984), MTV songs, Saving Private Ryan, Romeo and Juliet with the artsyle looking like The Powerpuff Girls.
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Dark Parody / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy frequently makes dark parodies of movies, TV shows, etc., particularly during their cutaway gags. For example, "Meet the Quagmires" has a parody of the intro to The Jetsons where George and Jane end up arguing because she took too much money.
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Dark Parody / int_ebe11b52	comment	PETA has made a few parodies of popular video game franchises, taking an innocuous, family-friendly work and turning it into a gory story about animal abuse. Examples include PokÃ©mon Black and Blue, where the PokÃ©mon are abused and trying to escape from their cruel owners, Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals, where you play as Mama slaughtering a dead turkey, or Super Tanooki Skin 2D, where you play as the skinned Tanooki trying to get their pelt back from the evil Mario.
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Dark Parody / int_ef076a36	comment	An in-universe example in Star Trek: Voyager. The doctor sings a version of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" and changes it from the baby's cradle falling out of a tree (already kind of dark) to a shuttle the baby was on exploding.
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Dark Parody / int_ef0952e9	comment	In the one about Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack's mother is abusive and the giant eats her.
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Dark Parody / int_ef7b3325	comment	The Impossibles are this to the Fantastic Four. Professor Richard Impossible (Mister Fantastic) is an abusive sexist who ultimately becomes a villain, Sally's (Invisible Woman) skin becomes invisible whenever she's not actively concentrating to keep it visible, Cody (Human Torch) flames on in contact from oxygen but can't turn them off and can feel the burns despite being impervious to them, and Ned (The Thing) is more like a giant callous than a giant rock.
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Dark Parody / int_f079b358	comment	Brat Pack is a vicious Take That! towards Young Allies and the Silver Age Teen Titans in which the Robin analogue is molested by the Batman Parody, the Wonder Girl analogue is a promiscuous airhead, the Speedy analogue is a drug addict, and the Bucky Barnes analogue is a racist steroid-abuser. And their mentors are all horrible degenerates who regularly abuse them and intend to kill them just so they won't have to share royalties once they turn 18.
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