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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Possibly the ultimate example of a well-done Dark Fic is the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' story ''[
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209052621/http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/imbs.html Ill Met By Starlight]'' is the other great ''Ranma'' Dark Fic.
** Another example of a popular ''Ranma ½'' Dark Fic is ''[http://ffmlsearch.inklesspen.com/results?sort=relevance&page_nr=22&query=jed Can't Let Go]''.{{Dead link}}
* Take any story where females [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|regularly beat up the male leads,]] such as ''[[Ranma ½]], [[
* This seems to be a popular trend in ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfiction, though in a world with [[Olympus Mons|god-like beings fighting each other]] a certain amount of dark is expected when [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|humans]] control them. The multiple-novel-sized ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120626101741/http://members.iinet.net.au/~aceywacey/pokemon.htm Pokemon Master]'' claims to be "the first major '''Dark''' ''[[Pokémon]]'' Fanfiction released on the Internet", while ''[[Latias' Journey]]'' is a standout example. It often seems as if the authors are trying to out-angst ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
** There's an urban legend of a hacked Pokemon game dubbed "Pokemon: Lost Silver" that is pretty macabre, nightmareish and [[Mind Screw]]-y. It's unknown whether the game was real, or the guy who wrote about it just made it up, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnCBwsa-bU but it exists now].
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv8mCt046sk Real Anpanman]'' is a tongue-in-cheek darkfic that tells the story of the kid-friendly superhero being betrayed and nearly killed by all his friends, sending him on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fandom might be collectively the crowning champion of this trope. The series was pretty dark to begin with, but amongst fans known for [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|analysing everything down to the smallest detail]] the ability to tease out the smallest aspect and expand upon every twisted meaning or interpretation is phenomenal. A far from comprehensive list:
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/819499/Adam_Kadmon Adam Kadmon] has written some of the darkest fics you're likely to encounter. ''[http://www.darkscribes.org/story/765 Witness]''{{Dead link}} is [[Crosses the Line Twice|particularly]] [[Despair Event Horizon|hard-hitting]].
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/64284/Random1377 Random1377] is another prolific ''NGE'' darkfic author, with entries such as ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1259313/1/The_Lifespan_of_a_Love_Affair The Lifespan of a Love Affair]'' (a brutal deconstruction of the [[May–December Romance|Misato/Shinji pairing]]), ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1747319/1/Let_She_Who_is_Without_Sin Let She Who is Without Sin]'' (about a [[Serial Killer]]), and ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/483402/1/Aoi Aoi]'' (includes Shinji being killed in the first chapter, and falls apart from there).
** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4018747/1/bAlive_b Alive]'' takes the verse's base darkness several steps further by introducing one more factor: {{spoiler|the real reason why Rei is so subservient to Gendo is that he's sexually abusing (and by abusing I mean '''''brutally raping''''') her on a constant basis and [[Expendable Clone|she's too scared for her life]] to do anything about it}}. Even worse, {{spoiler|the last chapter implies that Ritsuko is well aware of it}}. It's also sadly a [[Dead Fic]] which means the darkness won't get resolved.
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* Being a [[Reality Warper]] whose powers can manifest subconsciously, it's easy to write Wiccan of the ''[[Young Avengers]]'' in the most [[Fridge Horror|creepy light imaginable]] without making him OOC. [http://archiveofourown.org/works/189471 This fanfic] takes the cake.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fandom has plenty of these, many involving Elves and [[Ho Yay]]. However, one fan fic stands out as being extremely disturbing: ''And These Pearls That Were Her Eyes''. A story based on the ''Silmarillion'' segment about the last king and queen of Numenor, it's a dark tragedy about spousal violence and rape.
** Not that ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' isn't pretty dark to begin with.
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* Speaking of ''[[Star Trek]]'', [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/125463/Djinn1 Djinn1] is particularly good at this trope. See: the Original Series stories ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1228353/1/Dream_Until_Your_Dream_Comes_True Dream Until Your Dream Comes True]'', ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1673933/1/Banshee Banshee]'', and ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2290262/1/Witness Witness]''. There are many more; those are just the exceptionally good (and exceptionally dark) ones.
** There are also some ''very'' dark ''[[Star Trek]]'' fics and fanart depicting the [[Alternate Universe|MirrorUniverse]].
* The [[Marissa Picard]] storys [sic] are light-hearted ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' fanfiction centering on one [[Mary Sue]] character. These fanfic stories have attracted some of ''their own fanfics'', including some that are very dark indeed (such as ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120512141840/http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mblackwl/darkm_1.txt Dark Marrissa #1: The Master Builders]'' and ''Marrissa Pays Off Karma'').
* Many ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' fics focus on Hawkeye Pierce struggling to adjust to life after the war and often end with him being [[Driven to Suicide]]. Arguably justifiable, as he always was a little bipolar and {{spoiler|had a complete psychological breakdown in the series finale that caused him to be committed to a mental hospital.}} Fanfic writer Meredith Bronwen Mallory has some disturbingly well-written darkfics on Fanfiction.net. Mostly [[Slash Fic]], but all haunting and brilliant.
* ''[[iCarly]]'' can get some pretty bleak fic. It's usually based on Sam's potentially abusive mother, or the potential for a Sam/Freddie relationship to go horrifically off the rails and end up with Sam physically abusing Freddie (often including rape).
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* Although ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is pretty dark to start with, some fanfics manage to make it [[Beyond the Impossible|worse]], usually through a lot of torture and rape. One fic springs instantly to mind when Evil!Sam decides to make Dean his sex slave, mostly through raping the living daylights out of him, all in a world where [[Hell on Earth|Hell had taken over]] just in case the rape and [[Tear Jerker|Dean clinging to the idea that his brother is still in there somewhere didn't depress you forever.]]
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Vocaloid]] has some pretty dark fanfics, such as ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7757302/1/From_Concert_to_Chaos From Concert to Chaos]'' which involves Miku and Rin's [[Evil Counterpart]]s attacking them on stage '' during a concert'' and in front of over 16,000 fans.
* [[Wattpad]] has a fair share of dark fanfics, such as ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/132307011-in-the-dark In The Dark]'', a [[
* ''[[Just Taken]]'', mainly a [[Spice Girls]]/[[Ace of Base]] [[Alternate Universe Fic]], has Melanie being taken to an isolated location against her will after her eating disorder was discovered, cutting her off from the rest of the group, who had wanted to help. Melanie is forced to relive some of her childhood traumas, and she only tells a select few people as a show of trust, asking that they respect her request to explain it when she was ready. Emma ended up being a [[Secret Keeper]] as a result.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* There are quite a few ''[[Peanuts]]'' darkfics out there, but [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3174346/1/High_School this] one probably takes the cake. {{spoiler|In it, all the characters are teenagers. Pig-pen gets Violet pregnant
** ''[[Dog Sees God]]'' is something like this, {{spoiler|though it gives Charlie Brown
* It probably won't take long for someone to find a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' dark fic, such as [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7130563/1/Camp_Nightmare this one called "Camp Nightmare"]. Calvin is signed up for a day camp which has a really cheery atmosphere and people dressed like clowns... {{spoiler|then Calvin and Hobbes discover a room full of the corpses of partially eaten children and it goes all downhill from there}}.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Somehow, someone managed to write darkfic for ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the God-tier of [[Crapsack World]]s. In ''[[The Shape of the Nightmare to Come]]'', the [[Blood Knight|Orks]] and [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranids]] fuse to become an unimaginably powerful new organism, the Astronomicon collapses, resulting in humanity [[Vestigial Empire|fracturing into innumerable fiefdoms]], the [[The Legions of Hell|hordes of Chaos]] spew from the [[Negative Space Wedgie|Eye of Terror]] to carve a colossal region of the galaxy as their dominion, and [[Eldritch Abomination|the Void Dragon]] awakens to lead its legions of impossibly advanced machines. And then, in true ''40K'' style, '''''[[From Bad to Worse|it gets worse]]'''''.
** The above is merely the ''first part'' of the fanfiction. The sequel, ''[[The Age of Dusk]]'', is in some ways ''worse''. Although it [[A World Half Full|does get better in places]]...
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* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' is somewhat dark at times on its own, but somewhere on [[Deviant ART]], some fanfics are, instead of a surreal musical romantic comedy from the 80's based off of a dark comedy from the 60's, quite dark and dramatic, such as [http://mjsmoothcriminal999.deviantart.com/art/Seymour-s-Nightmare-155889912 Seymour's Nightmare].
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* Go to a ''[[Daria]]'' fan site and look for fanfics written by the "Angst Lords" - a number of Dariafic writers who really turn the screws to the characters in the show. What makes the majority of these fics really dark is that they're also really well-written.
* The ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6238177/1/Most_Wanted Most Wanted]'' includes {{spoiler|1=Mr. Krabs dying (implied), some mysterious knocking and a wolf kidnapping SpongeBob and throwing him in the back of a truck in chapter 5 (including Mr. Krabs almost being killed in chapter 2), hints of [[Ho Yay]] which turn into some sort of "master" being in charge of this whole operation, glass getting pushed onto SpongeBob in chapter 6 leading up to when his arm almost gets sliced off, SpongeBob kicking the wolf in the face causing him to fall down with blood, and who knows what else!}} And the story's not even over yet! [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|More outrageous, it's rated T.]]
** There's also [
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
** The notorious, infamous little number called ''[[Cupcakes]]'', in which Pinkie Pie [[Gorn|gleefully tortures and mutilates Rainbow Dash to death]], all while retaining her [[Genki Girl]] spirit.
*** In its [[Spiritual Successor]], ''Sweet Apple Massacre'', the Cutie Mark Crusaders get on [[Gentle Giant|Big Mac's]] nerves, so he takes them into the basement to rape and torture to death in brutally graphic fashion. Worse, the story ends with him planning to do the same to [[Brother-Sister Incest|his sister Applejack]]. Basically, someone thought ''Cupcakes'' wasn't brutal enough.
** ''[[Chaos Is Very Good]]'' is not only dark, but [[Mind Screw]] at it's finest.
** ''[[Bittersweet (
** The ''[[Pony Psychology Series]]'' series features the cast struggling with mental breakdowns, [[UST]] and other issues after the Grand Galloping Gala.
** ''[[Memories of Days Long Past]]'' has Twilight discovering, through magical means, that life before Celestia's rise to power was quite brutal.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110923152523/http://abchihuahua98.deviantart.com/#/d3hktgm Prince Charming]'', in which Rarity gets so pissed at [[Prince Charmless|Prince Blueblood]], that she decides to [[Frankenstein's Monster|create her own boyfriend in her shop]]. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|Gosh, what could go wrong?]]
*** The two-part sequel, which can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130208053440/http://ficklemetal.deviantart.com/art/Mirrors-Part-1-243928369 here] and [
** ''Pattycakes'', which is by [[Word of God]] intended as parody, stars Fluttershy, except with a twisted infantilism fetish and a drug that ''[[Mind Rape|can forcibly regress a pony's mind to a childlike state]]''. And some 'vintages' are permanent in large enough doses, {{spoiler|such as the one used on Scootaloo in one of the [[Multiple Endings]], leading to some fairly black comedy when her cutie mark is a baby's dummy}}.
** The much-loved flash game ''[[Story of the Blanks]]'' is somewhat unusual among dark fics, as despite being significantly darker and more gruesome than the show, it sticks pretty close to its themes and tone.
** Several [[Ask a Pony]] blogs depict a rather horrifying alternate Equestria, where among other things, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814080744/http://ask-sadistic-rarity.tumblr.com/ Rarity] is a [[Complete Monster]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130805174648/http://ask-berry-punch.tumblr.com/ Berry Punch] is a pathetic, drunken, incestuous single mother (and her daughter has a porn addiction), and [http://askpinkaminadianepie.tumblr.com/ Pinkamina] is even more psychotic than usual, with Scootaloo as her cheerful sidekick.
** ''[[Rainbow Factory]]'' gives us a bunch of crazy, sadistic ponies and a gruesome explanation of how rainbows are made.
** ''[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1766/Cheerilee%27s-Garden Cheerilee's Garden]''. If the other stories left you with nary a twinge, ''this'' story may make you more than a bit sick.
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* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'' has ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5065029/1/Eddward# Eddward]'' - Edd has enough of it and decides to murder all his tormentors. [[You Have Been Warned|Rated M for all right reasons]]. Its sequel ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5085379/1/Johnny Johnny]'' is even more terrifing, {{spoiler|going straight into [[Cosmic Horror Story]] territory.}}
** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6920956/1/Forfeit Forefit]'', which shows what would happen if Ed, Edd and Eddy still maintained their childhood problems four years after the show's end. Gets even darker as the chapters progress.
* Two fanfictions in form of webcomics by [[Bleedman]] are this for various cartoons. ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'' is this mostly for ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' and ''[[Atomic Betty]]'', {{spoiler|having Dee Dee, Mandark and Sparky being killed off}}. ''[[Grim Tales from Down Below]]'' is this for ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Vindictive Hand of Vengeance]]'' is a ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'' Fanfic in which Gwen Tennyson is framed for murder and thrown into the Null Void for 16 years. She escapes and sets out on an elaborate [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] while trying to piece her life back together.
* Jeftoon01 has drawn a series called [http://jeftoon01.deviantart.com/gallery/11344500 Twisted Princess] wherein various [[Disney Princess]]es are portrayed in macabre styles, ranging from creepy to plain horrific. Each drawing has an accompanying short story that details how the princesses came to share such dark fates.
** He is also working on a similiar set, Twisted Fairies, with describtions connecting fates of each disney Fairy to larger [[Myth Arc]]. [http://jeftoon01.deviantart.com/gallery/26266974#/d2wnkqp Here's] the first (and, at this moment, only) one.
* The ''[[Blinky Bill|Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'' fanfic ''[
* Try taking a crack at one ''[[Yin Yang Yo!]]'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5626292/1/ story].
* Among the increasing amount of ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' dark fics, there's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7892013/1/The_Amazing_World_of_Gumball_Rise_of_Darkness Rise Of Darkness]'' and ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7890944/1/Gumball_and_The_Orb_of_Corruption The Orb Of Corruption]'' both of which are very dark, but especially the latter.<ref>By the end of Chapter 5, hundreds of innocent tourists at a theme park have been massacred and/or corrupted and turned "horribly evil", Gumball's family have almost been killed repeatedly, and poor Larry has died in a fire at a convenience store.</ref>
* Overlapping with [[Lost Episode]] is ''[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Uncle_Walt_(1964_Unofficial_Disney_Short) Uncle Walt]''. This was an unauthorized [[Disney]] short produced in 1964 by then-student Robert Swarthe as part of The UCLA Animation Workshop. It starts with live action scenes of [[Walt Disney]] himself at various points in his life, then a swath across a [[Grave Humor|graveyard with headstones]] of [https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Perri Perri the Squirrel] and her family, and then footage of some [[The Golden Age of Animation|very old black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons]]. Then it shifts to some of the [[Unfortunate Implications|more inappropriate]] parts of Fantasia (with the black slave centaurs attending the white female ones) and then to a scene with the female centaurs [[The Oldest Profession|working in a red light district]] (with [[Goofy]] as their pimp, no less) and then it shifts to some of the darker scenes from Disney movies, like [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs| Queen Grimhilde]] turning herself into the hag, the scene in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' where Candlewick turns into a donkey, and the “Night on Bald Mountain” scene in, again, ''Fantasia'', all of this while the bunnies from ''[[Bambi (Disney film)|Bambi]]'' watch with horrified looks. The final scene is from Snow White where the Dwarves are mourning at the protagonist’s funeral, but with Mickey superimposed over Snow White. This short had only one public screening, at the American Film Institute, as part of a presentation titled "50 Years of American Animation", and it is not known if anyone (other than Swarthe, possibly) has a copy.
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