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Sometimes, when you walk in at the climax of something, it appears disturbingly violent and brutal (or creepy). And then, when you watch it in the proper order, it actually seems less disturbing if possibly still brutal (or creepy). What's going on here? Answer: The violence is built up to; the villain is shown to be Ax-Crazy, and the hero is shown to be acting relatively sanely, and the point you walked in was the Darkest Hour. In other words, it's Less Disturbing In Context. Note: If the film/show you're watching contains only one such scene, then your parents/grandparents/significant other/etc. will, with 100% certainty, walk in on you just when it happens to be on. Subtrope of It Makes Sense in Context. Compare Superdickery, Stab the Salad, Grossout Fakeout, and Stab the Scorpion (for situations that are deliberately set up to appear disturbing when taken out of context). Contrast Fridge Horror (for situations that get more disturbing when the implications sink in). Bonus internet points if "It's Not What It Looks Like" is uttered. Contrast Worse with Context where something is even more disturbing in context. |
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A major plot point of the His Dark Materials trilogy involves the two main characters killing the Christian God. People hearing this without context probably imagine this as quite different from how it was actually portrayed. Technically, he dies of old age, and the two of them just happened to be there when it happens, and while they may have had a role in it, they didn't do it intentionally, in essence making it a Mercy Kill. Also, under one interpretation, God is really the Dust, while the "God" that dies is an impostor. | |
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Many people, gamers and non-gamers, who watched Bioshock Infinite's first concept art and videos full of racist and xenophobic art felt extremely offended about it, and even sent death threats to the creators' studio. Turns out, said art was of things associated with the Big Bad, the extremely xenophobic Zachary Comstock, who created the setting of Columbia to serve as essentially a racist's paradise. The game supports racism about as much as the original supported objectivism, and the game's protagonists are much more open-minded. | |
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In Devil May Cry 4, Nero's special Devil Bringer move against Sanctus: brutally pummeling an old man in the gut with his giant demonic arm, repeatedly. If you know what that old man was up to, it's a bit less unheroic to be doing that, but it's still hard to watch. Similarly, there's Dante blasting the aforementioned old man at point blank range with his gun in the intro, which is quite shocking at first until later on it's revealed to be more of a case of him being pragmatic for once. | |
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Characters in The Addams Family occasionally talk about feeling sad or tired and wanting to drink poison, shoot themselves, etc. This seems disturbing if you don't know that the Addamses are immune to poison and many injuries and doing things that would injure or kill a normal person is their idea of fun. | |
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Franken Fran: The ending of one chapter is often described as "a pedophile's brain is put into the body of a theme park mascot". What usually gets left out is that the body has no sense of touch and no genitals. It's closer to an Ironic Hell than anything else. | |
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It's a running gag with the Crusader Kings fanbase that game advice solicited on its communities will have titles that would be highly disturbing, offensive, or even criminal outside the context of the game, as the cruelty and perversity potentials for this game are huge. Posts asking about how to castrate/murder/seduce one's children are par for the course. Questions and memes on mass murder, genocide, and whether or not one should seduce one's sister-daughter to produce a child who will marry her grandfather-uncle are also common. Such topics are frequent enough that a subreddit in the spirit of /r/nocontext was set up to compile all such occurrences. | |
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Batman: Arkham Knight is quite possibly the only time the Punk in the Trunk trope was or will ever be used in a benign context: the only passenger seats in the Batmobile are in there. Even with that in mind, driving around with a young handicapped girl in the trunk of your car would still need some additional context to not seem like the actions of a Serial Killer. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: In "The Crossing", there's a scene where it looks as though Hoshi and Phlox are beating each other up. In reality, Hoshi was possessed and Phlox was acting in self-defence. Still a little creepy, but not as disturbing as it would be at face value. | |
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In Equestria: A History Revealed, the narrator says genocide sounds all well and good. It Makes Sense in Context; it was just the awkward way she worded her sentence. She seemed to be aware of this however and went out of her way to ask the reader not to quote her on that. | |
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One The Baby-Sitters Club book does this in-universe: Jessi goes to visit Stacey in NYC and overhears two guys discussing their plan to commit a robbery. She and her pseudo-boyfriend then spend the whole book following them around trying to get more concrete evidence, before hearing a repeat of the same scene, except this time with the two men bursting into laughter partway through and one exclaiming "Check your script!" | |
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There are one or two scenes in Love Actually that look like porn. In actuality, the characters are lighting doubles and the director needs to make sure "everything" will be visible (while the characters just sit there and chat about the weather and politics). When watching the movie alone, it is practically guaranteed that someone else will enter the room during that scene. (Still, some red-blooded males might actually be less embarrassed about being caught watching porn rather than Love Actually...) | |
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The Simpsons: "Missionary: Impossible" features Homer declaring "Oh great, now my testicle's got ants on it!" note To top that, both Spanish dubs make it slightly worse, as the phrasing comes off more as "ants in it". The context behind that line is actually (reasonably) innocent: Homer was drinking from an ox's testicle (mistaking it for an exotic local delicacy) and accidentally dropped it on an anthill. "Lady Bouvier's Lover" features Homer agonizing about the possibility of him and Marge being brother and sister, which would make Bart and Lisa deformed inbred freaks. Mercifully, the episode features no actual incest: it's about Homer's divorced father Abe dating Marge's widowed mother Jacqueline; Homer was just weirded out by the possibility of Abe and Jacqueline getting married, which would technically make him and Marge step-siblings. |
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In the cartoon version of Milly, Molly, the episode "Alf" has the eponymous new student shouting, "Pussies!". If you watch the episode, it becomes clear that he's talking about the girls' cats. | |
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A number of supposedly true short stories about Soviet border guard sergeant "Allur" have been circulating Russian websites since the late 1990s. In one story an inspecting major enters a weapon storeroom, then a gunshot is heard. The sergeant and a private rush in and see the major and another private covered head to toes in white goo and holding a Playboy issuenote porn was illegal in the USSR, but merely possessing it was usually punished with confiscation, especially by 1990, when the story is set. As it turned out, the major was checking if all rifles were properly unloaded, one rifle shot, the bullet flew through a can of wallpaper glue atop the weapon locker, splattering the glue all over the room, then the falling can knocked somebody's Porn Stash off the locker. In the end, all blame was assigned to the last private who used the gun. | |
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Reddit's r/nocontext is a repository of these moments. A number of subreddits about particular works, video games in particular, listed elsewhere on this page have also been soft-banned (technically permitted but usually downvoted) from r/nocontext for producing too many such lines too easily; Dwarf Fortress, Crusader Kings II, and The Binding of Isaac are among those who hold this dubious honor. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Some of the Encyclopedia Exposita pages are written from the point of view of in-story characters that have a low opinion of Finland, which in real life is where the comic's author lives. People who have run into those pages out of context have mistaken them for the works of an actual person with a low opinion of Finland. | |
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Young man mutating into a monster and ripping a little girl's head off with his teeth? Even those who had read/watched Dance in the Vampire Bund up to that point probably flinched a little over that scene (while cheering the backfiring of a rather sadistic Shape Shifter Guilt Trip, admittedly), seeing it out of context... The key thing that makes this less disturbing in context is that this is one of the main characters doing it and he's done this kind of thing before (albeit usually to those who look like they could put up a fight). |
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A lot of reviews of Venom (2018) brought up a scene where Eddie makes out with Venom, causing people to see the movie just to witness that insanity firsthand and be disappointed when the context makes it perfectly sensible; he isn’t literally kissing Venom, he’s kissing his Love Interest who just happens to be wearing the symbiote at the time. | |
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If you don't know the story, it can be jarring to see images from "Der Fuehrer's Face" showing Donald Duck in full Nazi uniform with a Swastika armband saluting, "Heil Hitler!" Of course, the cartoon itself is a Propaganda Wartime Cartoon: Donald is having a Dream Sequence in which he is a factory worker in 'Nutzi Land', and part of the ridiculous standards forced on him (along with a 48 hour workday and constantly changing shells) is that he must salute pictures of Hitler whenever they appear on the line, or else. He eventually wakes up, glad to be a citizen of Eagleland instead of one of Those Wacky Nazis. Still, Disney itself doesn't circulate the cartoon these days without a very full disclaimer about the context (delivered by Leonard Maltin, no less). | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami has Keeper Mercury test her new possession spell on her Horned Reaper, switching bodies with him. The creature then proceeds to subdue her in protest, only to be interrupted by her other employees. This sparked Mercury's deviant reputation that would continue to create embarrassing situations for the poor girl. | |
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Ninja Sex Party's "Danny Don't You Know?" features the singer (a grown man) telling a teenager that he's "hot as fuck". It's not as creepy as it sounds: said teenager is the singer himself in his younger days; the singer is assuring his teenage self that he'll eventually grow out of his awkward phase and be loved by others. | |
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Scrubs: The following conversation between Dr. Kelso and Carla: | |
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Freefall (pictured) features a romantic subplot between a veterinarian and his patient. Said patient is smart enough to handle fusion reactors, so legal informed consent goes without saying. | |
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Not only is Super Paper Mario about an Omnicidal Maniac trying to destroy the multi-verse, but an entire chapter of the story is also dedicated to the heroes' murder and their descent into the underworld, right? This is not the case, as it is actually presented in a humorous tone, and the characters actually make it to heaven before continuing on with their quest. This also doubles as Common Knowledge since Dimentio didn't kill them, only teleported them. | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Crossed with Accidental Pervert — Hikaru is crawling on all fours in the lingerie department of a store, just underneath the legs of Misa and the Bridge Bunnies. They, quite reasonably, suspect he is a creep trying to peek up their skirts. In reality, he had spilled a bag of groceries he was carrying for Minmay and was going to pick up the last can of veggies that had rolled in that direction. | |
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I Love You Phillip Morris: About twenty minutes in, the movie suddenly cuts to Stephen having sex with a mustached man, complete with a barely covered, sweaty Jim Carrey (read: it's so graphic, it had a very limited release in American theaters). Granted, it's about a closeted Straight Gay conman and the scene is completely unprecedented, but failing to have any knowledge on the premise can give the impression that softcore gay pornography is being viewed. | |
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The Black Heart contains a scene in which a fake psychiatrist decapitates a prepubescent child abuse survivor. Said prepubescent was an Enfant Terrible who had shown no remorse for killing 7 people over extremely flimsy reasons, one of which was said "psychiatrist"'s brother. | |
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Homestuck: In terms of Squick rather than brutal violence: in the epilogue to Act 4, Jade's grandfather stuffs and preserves the corpse of her dead dream self. Also, later on this part, showing an angry glowing vampire chainsawing a clearly terrified guy in half. If you read the events leading up to that point, you would be cheering on the vampire with the chainsaw. (click the ==> button a few times) Also, the semi-frequent kissing of corpses is a lot less disturbing (although still somewhat squicky) when you understand it's a way of resurrecting someone who's recently died. The first view of Kanaya we have, before she's introduced or even named, is an anachronistic shot of her doing something to a sleeping Tavros involving a chainsaw and a Gory Discretion Shot, which also freaks out Karkat when he sees it out of context. When we reach that point in the timeline... she's amputating Tavros's ruined legs to give him mecha prostheses. |
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Everything Larry David does in Curb Your Enthusiasm, due to the other characters misinterpreting what Larry has done. An example being the episode in which Larry puts a water bottle down his pants to sneak it into a theatre, and a little girl hugs him. She feels the water bottle, then runs into the lobby screaming, "MOMMY! MOMMY! That bald man's in the bathroom and there's something hard in his pants!" Larry has no choice but to escape through the window. You can watch the entire scene here. |
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The trailer for Captain Marvel shows a scene of Captain Marvel violently attacking an old woman. To people not familiar with the backstory it's quite shocking, but she's actually fighting an alien shapeshifter. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: Rika's suicide is quite disturbing taken out of context, but in the context of the series, it becomes positive. Disturbing, but less. This is done intentionally, because the infamous scene appears at the beginning of the fifth episode, before the opening sequence, with absolutely no context, and it's not until the second half of the season that we see the events leading up to that scene. |
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Hurog: Despite the fact that "There are no slaves in Hurog" (slavery is so thoroughly abolished that every slave who sets foot on Hurog land becomes free), the protagonist Ward owns a slave. Disturbing, isn't it? But the context is such that Oreg was Made a Slave by a distant ancestor of Ward, and is now bound to a ring, that apparently is magically compelled to be inherited by the son of the prior owner. Oreg cannot be freed. Neither can the magic ring be taken off. An evil sorcerer did it. At the end of the book, Ward kills his friend and ally Oreg, and also, castle Hurog collapses. Sounds bad? Fortunately, the castle was evacuated at the time, and Oreg asked Ward to kill him in order to bring that about. And he comes back. | |
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The way Persona 3's Evokers (handgun-shaped devices needed for summoning Personas) are used - by putting it to your head and pulling the trigger - can be disturbing even to those who know that they don't shoot bullets. This is especially jarring during the opening cutscene (when you aren't supposed to know about it yet), where one of the characters seemingly tries to kill herself. It's even acknowledged In-Universe, with Junpei himself Lampshading about it. Strangely enough, a lot of people find Evokers one of the coolest things in the franchise. | |
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In The Petri Dish, there's a panel that has Betty telling Thaddeus, her son, that she will "take [him] over [her] knee". In context, you know she's just making a joke because he's an adult and too big to fit on her knee. | |
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My Little Pony Tales: In the episode Ponies in Paradise, there’s a scene of a pony being thrown into a volcano as a sacrifice. This is just an Imagine Spot, and the episode actually has a Prejudice Aesop. | |
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Occasionally, CinemaSins will remove the video of a scene and say, "This is only a sin if you listen to just the audio." | |
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A lot of things in A Brother's Price sound less disturbing in context. One of those is the word "child brides" which sounds horrible, considering the Real Life thing. However, as the novel is Speculative Fiction, the Exotic Extended Marriage is such that the "child brides" are the younger sisters of the adult wives in a sororal polygyny marriage, and the husband has his own bedroom, where his wives visit him if they wish to. It is made very obvious that wives don't start visiting the husband's quarters at night until they come of age (and "interested in men", as one character puts it), and it is implied that they can choose to sleep alone for the rest of their lives. (If they're lucky, they might even be able to get a husband of more appropriate age later, though that would require to split the family.) | |
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Dwarf Fortress's fanbase has similar jokes about similarly brutal gameplay questions, like "How do I get my blood-powered kitten crusher to work" or "How to kill children efficiently" being the tip of the iceberg on the Bay 12/Steam/Reddit forums. And this doesn't count the various situations in-game that can occur by accident, like mothers using their babies as shields or occasionally weapons, since mothers carry their babies everywhere and dwarves like improvising weapons out of whatever they happen to be carrying. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Towards the end of season 4 and the start of season 5, Major Kira is carrying Chief O'Brien's baby, and O'Brien's wife Keiko is completely OK with it. They even invite her to live in their quarters. Kinda strange unless you saw the episode in which the baby had an emergency transplant from Keiko to Kira. Played with in the season 5 premiere episode "Apocalypse Rising", when Kira informs Gul Dukat that she's carrying O'Brien's child without letting him in on the context, and he reacts about the same as anyone else would. In "You Are Cordially Invited...", there's a scene in Deep Space Nine where Bashir and O'Brien are chanting, "Kill Worf!". The context is that they were mad at Worf for having them participate in a painful ritual and were speaking hyperbolically. |
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There's a scene in Arthur, with the line, "The dog's got my wiener!". If you actually watch the scene, it becomes clear that it's just a little girl (D.W. Read) complaining that her dog (Pal) stole her hot dog. | |
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In the Mass Effect 2 DLC Overlord, a Paragon Shepard has the option to Pistol Whip Dr. Archer for what he did to his autistic younger brother, essentially turning him into a living computer, the titular Overlord. In any other context this might come off as a Jumping Off the Slippery Slope moment since Shepard, who's fully armored and makes a habit of taking out species destroying monsters is attacking an unarmed man, and as a Paragon isn't supposed to do stuff like that, but in context you'll probably be cheering instead. | |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth features a scene where a sickly Clayface is talking about giving Batman "his sickness" and Batman kicking Clayface in the leg. It was published in 1989 and the Clayface featured was Preston Payne, this third incarnation who had Body Horror that he could ease by using his Touch of Death, so Batman was defending himself from a villain trying to melt him. There is an infamous and memetic pair of out-of-context panels depicting Batman assaulting some guy apparently for eating ice cream. The context? To make a long story short, that's Two-Face and Batman is arresting him after his latest scheme. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns features a rather infamous panel showing Batman aiming a rifle from atop a building. While Batman does plenty of morally questionable things in that series, that particular scene is a Bait-and-Switch moment: he was just firing a tracking device at Two-Face's helicopter. |
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The Books of Kings feature a rather infamous moment where a group of boys are mauled by bears for mocking the prophet Elisha's bald head—but there are several contextual clues suggesting that this moment wasn't quite as disturbing or inexplicable as some modern readers might think. Firstly: the Hebrew word for "boys" in this passage refers to anyone under the age of 25, likely meaning that they were actually young men (children wouldn't be roaming freely on a dangerous highway, after all). There were also 42 of them, and they were specifically shouting "Go up, baldhead!", telling Elisha to "go up" to Heaven like Elijah before him—which was almost certainly an Implied Death Threat. So instead of a few boys mocking Elijah's bald head, it would be more accurate to picture a crowd of adult thugs surrounding him and threatening to kill him. And while having them mauled by bears was undeniably pretty harsh, it isn't entirely clear in the text whether they were killed; the Hebrew word for "maul" in that passage literally translates to "break open", and could refer to anything from killing someone to merely ripping their clothes.note Also the bears in question would have been Syrian brown bears, which are considerably smaller and more docile than their European and North American counterparts, putting them in a slightly less menacing light than the grizzly bears that most modern readers might picture. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Hide And Q" has a scene where Picard praises Riker for letting a little girl die. The scene is actually referring to a Secret Test of Character in that episode where Riker was given Q powers and yes Riker letting the girlnote Who, as it turned out, never existed anyway die was an ultimately good thing. Out of context though it sounds like Picard is a total sociopath who hates children to murderous degrees. "Phantasms" has a scene where Data stabs Troi on the shoulder. The context is that she had an invisible space parasite on her shoulder and he was not right in the head but instinctively trying to kill the parasite. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Towards the end of season 4 and the start of season 5, Major Kira is carrying Chief O'Brien's baby, and O'Brien's wife Keiko is completely OK with it. They even invite her to live in their quarters. Kinda strange unless you saw the episode in which the baby had an emergency transplant from Keiko to Kira. Played with in the season 5 premiere episode "Apocalypse Rising", when Kira informs Gul Dukat that she's carrying O'Brien's child without letting him in on the context, and he reacts about the same as anyone else would. In "You Are Cordially Invited...", there's a scene in Deep Space Nine where Bashir and O'Brien are chanting, "Kill Worf!". The context is that they were mad at Worf for having them participate in a painful ritual and were speaking hyperbolically. Star Trek: Voyager: In "Latent Image", Janeway Unpersons a dead crew member, forcing the rest of the crew to act like she never existed in an almost 1984-esque scene. Except it's only really scary out of context; the rule was actually only that they do so when the Doctor might be listening, and the reason for this was that the Doctor had gone into a Heroic BSoD over her death, so they had altered the Doctor's memories so he wouldn't remember her. It was ultimately a bit misguided, but the intention was understandable. In the end, they restore the Doctor's memories, allowing him to find closure since his breakdown happened due to having grown beyond his original programming. Star Trek: Enterprise: In "The Crossing", there's a scene where it looks as though Hoshi and Phlox are beating each other up. In reality, Hoshi was possessed and Phlox was acting in self-defence. Still a little creepy, but not as disturbing as it would be at face value. |
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Parodied in A Bit of Fry and Laurie when Hugh's character begins talking about his first kiss - which happened when happened when he was sitting on the lap of his uncle, who was just out of prison on parole. | |
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In The Waste Lands, the third installment in the Dark Tower series, some of the dialogue concerns "the tribe of Pubes". No, their name doesn't have anything to do with pubic hair: it refers to the fact that their earliest members were teenagers who had just hit puberty. | |
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In an episode of Peeking Through the Fourth Wall, Lisa notes that Lynn has recently googled "puppy play" and Lynn blushes. As it turns out, Lynn was interested in the non-sexual version of puppy play, and she was just embarrassed because the idea of acting like a puppy is a guilty pleasure that goes against her usual personality of being a tough jock. | |
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The Loud House: In several episodes, characters are seen covered in red liquid, but it's not actually blood (like in "Back in Black", characters get covered in fake blood, and in "Friends in Dry Places", Clyde gets jam all over his foot). In "Missed Connection", Lana says she likes "eating butt". She means that she thinks it's funny that the pizza was shaped like a butt (it was meant to be a heart). Lucy sometimes claims she needs a corpse, when she means she needs someone to play the corpse in her practice funerals. |
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A lot of the demerits listed in Skippy's List are real US Military regulations, taken out of context and quoted in such a way as to imply a Noodle Incident had taken place. For example... | |
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Wapsi Square tends towards this rather frequently. For example, this strip is much less frightening if you know that the woman on the beach is essentially indestructible. | |
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This trope is played with in Grosse Pointe Blank. The trained assassin, Blank, kills someone because this person is trying to assassinate him. However, Blank's girlfriend, who witnesses this, treats it like he's a serial killer and would kill anyone for no reason. Luckily, it got better. | |
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Not violent, but there are some scenes in Mother 3 that are... questionable. When Lucas gains PSI powers, it involves another character (that just so happens to look like a transvestite) holding his head under the water of a hot spring. Out of context, it could easily be mistaken for some kind of weird rape scene. The creator didn't clarify things when he was asked about it either. | |
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The plot of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: A suicidal teacher wins the love of his students by asking them to commit double, or possibly collective, suicide with him. How is it less disturbing in context? 'Cuz it's played for laughs, that's why. The fact that you will laugh at it is probably the most disturbing thing about it all, you seriously disturbed person, you. |
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But I'm a Cat Person: "I got this list of the names of a bunch of impressionable teenagers! It has all their contact information!" | |
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Many of the deaths in Battle for Dream Island can be seen as disturbing to an outsider who hasn't watched the actual show, and thus doesn't know that recovery exists. | |
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The Bible has many instances of this, considering it was written by and for people who lived thousands of years ago. In most cases, knowing the cultural and historical context of the Bible makes its more "disturbing" moments considerably less disturbing (although in others, it just makes for additional Fridge Horror). The moment in the Gospels where the Roman soldiers give Jesus vinegar to drink while he's hanging from the cross? It wasn't additional torture. Romans used vinegar to disinfect water and make it more refreshing as a beverage. In the Book of Genesis, Onan is killed by God for refusing to impregnate his brother's wife. This can seem incredibly creepy to a modern reader, but contemporary readers would have recognized that he was violating a marriage law: if a married Hebrew man died before having children, his brother was supposed to marry his widow to keep her in the family and ensure that his line would continue; by refusing to impregnate his brother's widow, Onan was denying his brother an heir. One of Jesus' parables features a man being thrown out of a wedding (a metaphor for being sent to Hell) because he isn't dressed in a wedding robe and and can't give a good excuse why. He's not being punished for sloppy dressing: wedding robes were traditionally provided by the host of a wedding, so refusing to wear one was a deliberate insult (it was either a sign that you weren't taking the wedding seriously, or trying to upstage the bride and groom by wearing something fancier), and the host had every right to be mad at him for spitting on hospitality. The moral of the story is that God's mercy is a privilege; he'll give it to anyone, but abuse it and lose it. The Books of Kings feature a rather infamous moment where a group of boys are mauled by bears for mocking the prophet Elisha's bald head—but there are several contextual clues suggesting that this moment wasn't quite as disturbing or inexplicable as some modern readers might think. Firstly: the Hebrew word for "boys" in this passage refers to anyone under the age of 25, likely meaning that they were actually young men (children wouldn't be roaming freely on a dangerous highway, after all). There were also 42 of them, and they were specifically shouting "Go up, baldhead!", telling Elisha to "go up" to Heaven like Elijah before him—which was almost certainly an Implied Death Threat. So instead of a few boys mocking Elijah's bald head, it would be more accurate to picture a crowd of adult thugs surrounding him and threatening to kill him. And while having them mauled by bears was undeniably pretty harsh, it isn't entirely clear in the text whether they were killed; the Hebrew word for "maul" in that passage literally translates to "break open", and could refer to anything from killing someone to merely ripping their clothes.note Also the bears in question would have been Syrian brown bears, which are considerably smaller and more docile than their European and North American counterparts, putting them in a slightly less menacing light than the grizzly bears that most modern readers might picture. In Numbers 31, God instructs the Hebrews to slaughter the entire population of an enemy city but "save the virgins for [themselves]". Despite how it might sound, this isn't an instruction to take sex slaves: they were being instructed to integrate the city's girls into Hebrew society in order to recoup their population, which had crashed due to the war. Modern readers are also likely to be creeped out by the implication that they physically examined the city's young women to root out the virgins, but this also likely isn't what happened; at that time, all girls would have been married off as soon as they hit puberty, so "virgins" would have referred to all girls who were too young to be married (who would have been identifiable by their age and dress). Killing all of the city's civilian males (including young boys) probably seems even worse, but even that was likely motivated by pragmatism, since it ensured that they wouldn't try to take revenge when they were old enough. God's instruction to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac is a very infamous moment that strikes many modern readers as disturbing, but several details in the text strongly suggest that both of them knew that God wouldn't actually force Abraham to kill his son—likely meaning that it was a test to see whether Abraham truly trusted God (a "trust fall", in other words). Prior to that point, God had stated several times that Isaac would be Abraham's heir, which obviously couldn't be the case if he were dead. Abraham was also in his 80s at the time, while Isaac was spry enough to gather the wood for the "sacrifice", likely meaning that he was perfectly capable of running away if he truly feared for his life. |
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minus.: More "Less Poignant in Context", but this strip. Once you know who that little girl is, it goes from a desperate last stand to minus playing another one of her games. A straight example is the last arc. The title character kills every human being on Earth — accidentally. The reason it isn't a full-on Downer Ending is that everyone chooses to live on in the spirit world instead, and "life" there is essentially just like life on Earth. It's still pretty gloomy, though. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has tons of moments like this, but special mention has to go to the entirety of Part 7 (Steel Ball Run), which often has its plot described as “Jesus told me to kill the president!�. Hard as it is to believe, It Makes Sense in Context; the President in question is the Big Bad and the MacGuffin of the story is a collection of body parts that are heavily implied to be those of Jesus. | |
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Better Than It Sounds, where people describe a work to make it sound terrible, has a lot of this Played for Laughs. | |
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In Invader Zim... Also AMV of the Halloween Episode would count as well. The episode is actually much more lighthearted. |
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Waratte! Sotomura-san: A lot of Sotomura's words and actions are pretty disturbing if you don't know the context. Entering the classroom with cuts and a torn uniform is the result of trying to rescue a cat from a tree, while asking someone if they want to get hurt after they bump into her is an attempt to warn them that the floor has just been mopped and it's dangerous for them to race around. | |
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My Immortal: Sometimes, a word will crop up that means something gross, but it was actually a typo, like "I want to shit next to her", when it was actually a misspelling of "sit". | |
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There's a scene in Singin' in the Rain where Lina says that she "can't make love to a bush". She's actually talking about the older meaning of "make love to", meaning "to flirt with", and the context is that she's an actress and the director is telling her to speak her dialogue, which happens to be romantic, towards a bush prop because that's where the microphone is. | |
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Most human x Pokémon relationships in We Are All Pokémon Trainers, usually because of a mon becoming human or vice versa. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: It has Patrick's line "Wait, Jeffery! I have to touch you!" He was obsessed with touching everything at a jellyfishing museum, and Jeffery was a mascot they were featuring there. In "Sponge Guard on Duty", Larry says, "What's that on your nose?" and Spongebob replies, "White stuff." It was ice cream, and Larry had mistaken it for sunscreen. |
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If you watched Timecop in the VHS days, you might have thought someone had taped over it halfway through when it suddenly switched to porn. If you get into an awkward situation, just explain to your grandma that the movie is actually about an agency that polices time travel and the scene in question is a virtual reality sex simulation that has no bearing on the plot. | |
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Betty Boop: There's a scene that's become infamous on the internet in "Betty Boop's Ker-choo" where it looks like Betty is flashing her boss. While Betty Boop does have some deliberate Parent Service, in that particular scene, she was just taking off her shirt and putting it back on to demonstrate buttoning up a coat. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Lesson Zero" has a twofer: Twilight come across what appears to be Fluttershy beating a bear severely and then breaking its neck. She was actually performing chiropractic therapy on it. That same episode has a driven-to-insanity Twilight approach three VERY young girls and saying "Hi, girls..." slowly and with a really creepy face. Anyone who sees this without realizing what it is may just scream "RUN, CHILDREN! RUN!"note mind you, someone who does know the context may scream that as well, but for a way different reason than what probably comes to mind if you don't. "The Return of Harmony, Part 2" features a scene where Discorded Rainbow Dash is tied up and pleading "Lemme go! I don't need you guys! Leave me alone!" as Twilight Sparkle walks up to her. Twilight is, in fact, trying to save her from being Brainwashed and Crazy. |
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Just try talking about Survival of the Fittest without people giving you strange looks. Just... try. This includes talking about the premise of teenagers being kidnapped by terrorists and forced to fight to the death. And specific scenes can fall into this as well; to most people, a scene where a teenager pins another teenager to a tree with a sword and carves words into his chest would be disturbing, for example, but once you know the context it's much more positive. | |
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns features a rather infamous panel showing Batman aiming a rifle from atop a building. While Batman does plenty of morally questionable things in that series, that particular scene is a Bait-and-Switch moment: he was just firing a tracking device at Two-Face's helicopter. | |
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In Seven Men of Gascony the sixteen-year-old Camp Follower Nicheolette took turns marrying several members of The Squad until they died in combat or otherwise. Not brutal but kind of squicky. It is less disturbing when it is understood that this was to announce to other soldiers that she had the squad's protection in a camp full of young men who were accustomed to violence and seldom saw a woman. | |
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Nina Tanleven: In-universe example in The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed - Jimmy's confession that he "hung" Cornelius Fletcher, and later that he "hung him every day", makes considerably more sense to the characters when they find out the truth: Cornelius was placed into a set of harnesses and "hung" in the air via ropes and pulleys so he could work on the mural that became his last and greatest painting. | |
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Perdido Street Station pretty much begins with a man having sex with a red-skinned woman who has a beetle for a head. It sounds like some kind of Lovecraftian horror scene, but in context it's actually a rather sweet and heartwarming moment; the woman is his girlfriend, just happens to be part of a fantasy race of sapient bug people, the sex is totally consensual, and he's basically making up with her after they had an argument about the seriousness of their relationship. The book does have a lot of horror scenes, this just isn't one of them. | |
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In the Book of Genesis, Onan is killed by God for refusing to impregnate his brother's wife. This can seem incredibly creepy to a modern reader, but contemporary readers would have recognized that he was violating a marriage law: if a married Hebrew man died before having children, his brother was supposed to marry his widow to keep her in the family and ensure that his line would continue; by refusing to impregnate his brother's widow, Onan was denying his brother an heir. | |
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In the Once Upon a Time in China series, Wong Fei-Hung has a romantic relationship with his own aunt... who is not a blood relative, only a relative through marriage. | |
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Discussed in Appointment with Death. Hercule Poirot overhears someone say "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?'. He then thinks of the story about a similar thing happening to Anthony Trollope but decides it's not as innocent as that. | |
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Goblins: "I'm nine years old and I'm still a virgin!". Goblins, in the comic, only live thirty years, and therefore age much faster than humans. And an in-universe example: Minmax ends up on the receiving end of an angry mob since he appears to be commenting on the attractiveness of underage girls (along the lines of "she's thirteen, but still pretty hot"). Except that the numbers he lists are their charisma stats, not their age. The townspeople don't make the connection and Hilarity Ensues. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Latent Image", Janeway Unpersons a dead crew member, forcing the rest of the crew to act like she never existed in an almost 1984-esque scene. Except it's only really scary out of context; the rule was actually only that they do so when the Doctor might be listening, and the reason for this was that the Doctor had gone into a Heroic BSoD over her death, so they had altered the Doctor's memories so he wouldn't remember her. It was ultimately a bit misguided, but the intention was understandable. In the end, they restore the Doctor's memories, allowing him to find closure since his breakdown happened due to having grown beyond his original programming. | |
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A common trope is to introduce a character who initially seems friendly, then have them do something shocking that appears to be an out of character moment. Then their back story starts getting revealed and it becomes clear why these things have been done. An example being Gus in Breaking Bad who seems friendly considering his position as a drug dealer. But then we see him brutally murder Victor for the sole reason of scaring Walt and Jesse. Soon we see a flashback where Gus's friend Max is killed in a similar manner. | |
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This happens on any number of occasions in Frasier, and is usually effective in-universe. Some of the better examples: | |
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Friends: When Phoebe goes to the hospital in labor, she tells the receptionist that "The father is my brother." She's acting as a surrogate for her brother and his wife, but the receptionist doesn't know that and gives her a very strange look. | |
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Dollightful: She frequently cuts up and rearranges parts of her dolls, especially ones receiving heavy modifications. Some of her voiceover descriptions make it sound like she's a serial killer dismembering and then reassembling her victims if you aren't watching the accompanying footage. This is acknowledged in the "Doll Customizing Out of Context" video, a compilation a bunch of offputting clips from her videos. | |
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While playing Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, you may get some weird looks if people overhear a woman moaning and groaning, followed by the question "What did you do to me?" It is then necessary to explain that she was in fact in a hospital dying of injuries, and you were saving her life by feeding her some of your vampire blood. (The subtext may be intentional.) | |
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Buzzfeed has a video of Zach saying, "Oh, your penis!" to Justin, and then later, Zach preparing to show Justin his own penis. The context is that Zach walked in on Justin changing, and both of them felt very embarrassed, so Zach decided to show Justin his own penis to make it equal. | |
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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth features a scene where a sickly Clayface is talking about giving Batman "his sickness" and Batman kicking Clayface in the leg. It was published in 1989 and the Clayface featured was Preston Payne, this third incarnation who had Body Horror that he could ease by using his Touch of Death, so Batman was defending himself from a villain trying to melt him. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Hide And Q" has a scene where Picard praises Riker for letting a little girl die. The scene is actually referring to a Secret Test of Character in that episode where Riker was given Q powers and yes Riker letting the girlnote Who, as it turned out, never existed anyway die was an ultimately good thing. Out of context though it sounds like Picard is a total sociopath who hates children to murderous degrees. "Phantasms" has a scene where Data stabs Troi on the shoulder. The context is that she had an invisible space parasite on her shoulder and he was not right in the head but instinctively trying to kill the parasite. |
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