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Some '''Deadly Pranks''' are ''meant'' to end in the other person getting hurt or killed, like the variety of the [[Prank Date]] that ends in the victim getting robbed, raped or killed, and such pranks signify that their perpetrators are utter scum who get their amusement from making other people suffer.
If the prankster puts his/her ''own'' life at obvious risk by pulling the prank, this is a subtrope of [[Too Dumb To Live]].
Contrast [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]].
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* On ''[[Cheers]]'' the most elaborate prank between Gary and Sam {{spoiler|involved Gary getting most of the city of Boston including everyone at Cheers to convince Sam that Gary had been}} killed by a hologram machine.
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Barney spends a month perfecting an exploding meatball sandwich. It took so long because it had the nasty side effect of decapitating the test dummies.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''; in the episode "Beer Bad", a bartender gives a group of snobbish upperclassmen (and Buffy) cursed beer that physically, mentally, and psychologically changes them into Neanderthals. His intent was to teach them a lesson, telling Xander it only lasts a day; although as Xander himself realizes, a day is more than enough time for them to hurt someone, or themselves. And he's right - while nobody dies, they are almost killed when their antics set a campus building on fire.
== [[Short Film]] ==
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* ''[[Everyman HYBRID]]'' was started as a parody of ''[[Marble Hornets]]'', disguised by having the health/exercise regimen appear to be what is being hijacked by Slender Man; in reality, the in-universe characters are using a prop Slendy placed in rather obvious places. Then the ''real'' [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slender Man]] finds out about it, and it seems he is not happy in the slightest. {{spoiler|After recent events, the characters are starting to wonder if he would have showed up at some point anyway.}}
* In the [[Furry Basketball Association]], a prank on a player who is addicted to cocaine results in him snorting caffeine instead; the pranksters had no idea it would result in the addict screaming in pain. This trope is ultimately inverted as the player is sent to the hospital, where he's convinced to enter rehab.
* From ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', SCP-344 is a magical can opener; if used to open a can containing food, it might create a living example of whatever is in the can. For instance, a can of dried apples might cause it to create a living apple tree, while a can of beef might create a living heifer. The file states that a practical joker switched the ordinary can opener in a break room with SCP-334, and a researcher was killed when he tried to open a can of pork. The higher-ups did an investigation, but never found the culprit; afterwards they moved SCP-334 to a vault with better security.
* In one episode of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'', Weiss responds to being the victim of a classic bucket-on-the-door prank with her own, only using a frozen bucket. Ruby wasn't killed, but she was knocked out, and the potential for a worse outcome was acknowledged by all but Weiss.
* In one ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' story, Nina falls victim to a cursed mirror that holds a demon as prisoner - the demon steals her body while trapping her soul in the mirror, and proceeds to play juvenile pranks on the other students, like loosening tops of salt shakers in the cafeteria, tricking a student with a jar or peanut brittle loaded with springy snakes, taking a female student’s bra while she is in the locker room showers and placing it in a freezer, then returning it. Eventually, she ties Tiffany's shoelaces together, an act that results in poor Tiffany impaling herself with her own sword; she survives due to the magical nature of the sword, but spends the rest of the story thinking she's dead, and most of the ''next'' story thinking she's been converted into a vampire. It's all pretty traumatic for Tiffany.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* A 10 year old boy was at a park playground and when he went down the slide, he felt something sting his rear end. Turns out that an 11 year old boy deliberately planted a razor blade in a hole on the slide and it wound up slicing the victim's bottom. The victim got 30 stiches and is doing fine. The other boy is in trouble obviously.
** Then there are the [[Urban Legends]] of kids finding razors and other unpleasant objects inside their candy. Though [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp no poison] and [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp very few razor blades] have been found in Halloween candy. Although, it is interesting to note that of the few cases where they have found such foreign objects in candy and apples, it's almost always been traced back to either the supposed victim inserting it (for attention for having "found" the booby-trapped item) or a friend or sibling having done it, thinking it to be more or less harmless, akin to a prank call. So, if it weren't that the cases generally have not been deadly (only requiring minor medical attention), this would qualify under a Deadly Prank.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100912065223/http://guyism.com/2010/05/man-dies-after-a-prank-involving-an-eel-in-his-butt.html This.] A man got drunk and passed out, and his friends stuck a 20-inch eel in his anus. Apparently, it was hungry.
* Putting a tack on someone's seat is already pushing the limit of "harmless", but it's not enough for some. They go with crayons and other long, pointy things. While usually not deadly, it can cause irreparable damage to the anus, or the victim could even bleed to death.
* In 1999, an Brazilian student by the name of Edison Tsung Chi Hsueh died during a freshmen prank. Seniors hazing the new guys is kind of a tradition, usually with nothing further than giving the wrong information if someone asks where's the bathroom, but other times... Well, Edison was found dead in the university's swimming pool.
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