Editing Grimdark (section)

===Films and TV===
* '''''Alien''''' (as in the biomechanical, parasitic, acid-blooded brainchild of Ridley Scott and the late H.R. Giger). Bonus points when you realize it's pretty much an allegory of the human fear of unwanted pregnancy, with sexual role reversal thrown in.
* The aftermath of '''''Avengers: Infinity War'''''. After the [[Rubric Marines|battledust]] settles, no one really wins at the end of the movie. Even the villain, who got what he wanted, was badly injured and the victory was very costly.
* '''''Children of Men''''': A future where humans are no longer fertile and going extinct, and then someone finds a pregnant woman and nearly everyone in the world fights over her.
* '''''Come and See''''' A World War II movie which instead of focusing on big battles focuses on Nazi death squads in the Byelorussian SSR. Do we even need to say more?
* '''''Eastenders''''', Especially at Christmas.
* '''''End of War'''''
* '''''Event Horizon''''': Humans accidentally punch a hole into hell while inventing FTL travel and immediately get mindfucked into committing an [[Slaanesh|orgy of torturerapemurder]]. 40K fans have embraced it as an unofficial prequel to the series because you don't need to change a damn thing about it to make it fit into the grimdarkness of the far future.  
* The first two '''''Hellraiser''''' movies
* '''''The Day After''''', and its much worse British counterpart, '''''Threads'''''.
* '''''Lord Of War'''''. The worst is that it's based on real events.
* '''''The Matrix'''''
* '''''Power Rangers RPM''''' plays with this trope, being what is effectively ''Terminator'' meets ''Mad Max'' "for kids." It is still Power Rangers, and does still have its fair share of comic relief, but this is also the season where a young girl is brainwashed into becoming a child soldier for Skynet and HAL 9000's demented love child, while also having her humanity stripped away and replaced with cold metal. That's not even starting to mention the fact that most of the planet is wiped out, with billions dying over the course of what seems like a few weeks.
* ''''' Requiem for a Dream'''''
* '''''Romero's "Dead" series''''', especially the later entries. ''Night'' is grim for the heroes, even if the overall story ends somewhat happily with the zombies taken care of. On the other hand, ''Dawn'' and ''Day'' are much darker, with zombies overrunning society, and though both end on positive notes, the journey there is a grim fight for survival. Most of the heroes die in ''Dawn'' (all of them if you count the depressing alternate cut), and in ''Day'' most of the characters, even the heroes, are hateful, unhinged, and/or just plain crazy.
* Saw: [[Cegorach|I just wanna play a game.]]
* '''''Shisha no Teikoku''''', the Empire of Corpses. Steampunk, Grimdark, Zombies, Cross-References and Conspiracies everywhere. It has even become possible to resurrect the dead, giving them their soul and intelligence back, but only 2 characters profit from it in the end, while everyone else stays a slave.
* '''''Soylent Green''''': Inspiration for 40K’s Soylens Viridiens. Humanity's running out of food due to overpopulation and catastrophic environmental collapse and someone decides to solve the problem by mulching the poor into corpse-starch.  And it gets even darker when it is revealed that this is only delaying the inevitable extinction of humanity as the environmental collapse is irreversible.
* '''''Tetsuo: The Iron Man''''' A cult Japanese horror film about an ordinary man who accidently kills and becomes possessed by a man with a fetish for sticking pieces of metal into his body and slowly and painfully transforms into a horrifying scrap metal monster, ending with the two of them decide to turn the entire world into metal.