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{{quote|''"This is not happening. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination" ''|'''Sue Sylvester''', ''Glee''}}
The inversion of [[Laughing Mad]] - a character's humiliation is depicted with a pan around a group of people laughing at them, often in slow motion. May be more or less fancifully depicted, ranging from a simple shot of a bunch of people pointing and laughing, to a [[Fish Eye Lens]] [[
Can occur in [[Bad Dreams]], or can just be an [[Imagine Spot]]. Every now and again it might even happen for real.
Can be used in [[
{{examples}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Captain Boomerang experiences a hallucinatory one when Mindboggler unleashes his greatest fear in an early issue of ''[[Suicide Squad]]''. He hallucinates that he surrounded by the superheroes who have defeated him the past; all laughing at him.
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* ''[[Austin Powers]] Goldmember'' - happens twice to Austin as the crowd reacts to his father not being there at a royal award and, in flashback, winning an award at spy academy - and there's a toothless old gardener laughing at him both times.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', Graystripe has a nightmare that StarClan cats are surrounding him and screaming that it's all his fault that bad things happened to ThunderClan.
== [[Live
* Lampshaded on ''[[Glee]]'' - "This is not happening. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination"
* [[The Vicar]] in ''[[Rev]]'' has a [[Bad Dreams]] featuring one of these, as all his friends and family point and jeer at him that he'd make a terrible father.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Lady in the Dark]]'', the Circus Dream ends with Charley's voice rising in accusation and the chorus laughing at Liza. As they leave her and the dream fades, they chant, "Make up your mind! Make up your mind!"
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