Editing Grimdark (section)

===Animation and Comics===
* '''[[Black Tokyo]]'''.
* '''Garth Ennis''' half the time or whenever he does an original work.  It often goes so far around the bend it either becomes too bleak to care or becomes compelling or hilarious.  His original stories are notorious for drowning in grimderp and pushing his views hard enough to make Ayn Rand blush.  Prime examples include:
** '''The Boys''': Almost every superhero is an irredeemable sexual deviant and loose cannon whose only crime fighting accomplishments come from corporate PR lies.  The story's protagonists are little better, including the deuteragonist and author avatar Billy Butcher, and both sides trample anyone in their way for their agendas. Also Butcher's dog rapes other animals (and people) on command.
*** Surprisingly averted for the most part with its Amazon Prime adaptation. By actually making most of the heroes less unambiguously rotten, cutting down the childish silliness, making the violence less gratuitous and more justified (superheroes actually fight crime and even kill terrorists), and making the Boys themselves more human, the series actually manages to be WAY darker than the comics while staying far more logical and well-written. Hell, Billy Butcher actually contemplates MURDERING A CHILD in the series, which is something the way more psychotic Butcher of the comics never did until the end.  On the other hand, Homelander's worst atrocities from the comics were actually done by Black Noir to gaslight Homelander, whilein the series Homelander really did those things and Black Noir was someone else.
** '''Preacher''': An edgelord power fantasy against all Christianity, including/especially God.  It revolves around a former priest with a [[Mary Sue|reality-warping voice given by the offspring of an angel and a demon]], his criminal ex and a heroin addicted Irish vampire with no fangs (yep he has to use normal teeth).  It culminates in everybody suffering outrageously and/or dying, every negative religious stereotype under the sun and the author avatar being a ghost cowboy who escapes Hell and kills nearly everyone there and in Heaven, including Satan and finally God Himself before sitting on the heavenly throne for some rest.
*** Even worse in the Amazon Prime adaptation.  The salvageable parts of the plot were swapped out for even more edgelordery, a prime example is dinosaurs being extinct because God killed them all when one ate a turd.
** '''Crossed''': Most of the world is dead or turned into [[Slaanesh|murder-raping sadists]] á la the Reavers from Firefly due to a virus with a visible symptom being boils forming a cross pattern on the infectee's face ([[Religion|wonder why he chose that symptom]]).  Showing any courage will get you killed or turned into one of the aforementioned murder-rapists, and there are survivors that are just as fucked up as the infectees.  Supposedly a dig at arm chair survivalists, it's now mostly remembered for being edgy for the sake of edginess and being overall boring as hell.  
*** Unlike Jeph below, Garth doesn't even have an excuse for his Grimderp.  He has said of his life "I have no horror stories to tell".  By his own admission, there are no bad experiences with Christians - his most targeted religious group by far - let alone any religious people as an excuse for anti-religion content like Preacher, nor arm chair survivalists for Crossed.  His reason for writing The Boys?  He thought Captain America glorified war itself and didn't like that (ignoring that Captain America was a product of WWII... the war against THE [[Nazi|NAZIS]], something Garth himself should know considering how often his stories have Nazis as gore-filled punching bags.  Even a beef with American patriotism is somewhat hypocritical given Garth's equal fervor for ''Irish patriotism''... although the "Kitchen Irish" arc he wrote for ''The Punisher MAX'' seems to undercut that some).  He's just a man who grew his writing skills but didn't grow past the edgy 13-year-old phase of his life. (Or worse, he's resigned to the idea that this is the shit that sells, so he might as well drop his pants and squat.)
* Jeph Loeb's run on '''[[/co/|Ultimate Marvel]]''': people dying brutally (most well known being Wasp getting eaten by the Blob) and completely gratuitously (Dr. Strange is killed the one page he shows up on and is completely forgotten afterwards), lore rape worst than anything Ward ever did (the heroic Pyro is now a rapist version of the mainline Marvel Pyro with no explanation; Thor going from new age hippie to mainline-style viking with no explanation... at least that last one is kinda cool). Overall it was so bad it effectively made the Ultimate Marvel universe (with the exception of Spider-Man and his cast) completely unusable. Small wonder that years later, Marvel thought smashing it and the main Marvel universe together would be a good idea.
** Jeph had lost his 17-year-old son to cancer not long before and apparently was taking his sorrow and anger out on the Ultiverse. It's no excuse, I suppose, but it ''is'' actually kind of sad and explains his mindset at the time.
* '''Koutetsujou no Kabaneri''', an anime with a similar premise to the already-grimdark ''Attack on Titan'': It's set in (presumably feudal) Japan, where people are hiding behind walls and communicate with each others using trains to travel from town to town, and trades the giants and horses for guns and [[zombie]]s. Several of the characters have moments of team-killing ineptitude that end up prolonging the conflict far longer than it should:
**The [[samurai]] don't bother with armor and generally aren't very combat-savvy when it comes to zombies, and their [[Lawful Stupid]] tendencies turn any defense against a wall breach into an utter clusterfuck. The antagonist is [[Abaddon|an absolute failure AND wanted for crimes against humanity]], being a [[Edgy|pretentious Che Guevara wannabe]] [[Chaos Pretty Marines|with pink hair]] and wielder of an ugly-yet-somewhat effective [[Sword|sabre]]. He also has a devoted following despite being thoroughly unable to grasp the basics of warfare and its ethics (he thinks children are cowards for not being able to fight monsters that ambush and run through trained adult fighters with ease, and [[What|considers destroying one's own resources and castles to be a viable strategy]]). Meanwhile, the main protagonist has found not one, but TWO miracle solutions that would allow mankind to fight back against the zombie plague, but no one will listen to him, especially not the main antagonist, both because of the above and because ''of course they wouldn't'', it's <s>grimderp</s> GRIMDARK.
**Ironically, Ancient Shintoism (a main religion of that period) has the only known anti-[[Nurgle|zombie]] deities: ''Kukuri hime no kami'', a goddess of purification ([[Reasonable Daemonette|''despite'' being rather sado-masochist]]) whose followers would bind a corpse with ropes, place a big stone on the chest and bury it (coffins are optional). [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|Insane as it was]], it was the most common form of burial in the Jomon period, and never went completely out of date through all the medieval period. Despite the rites being a perfect defense against [[Dark Souls|an undead invasion]], apparently they didn't take in this setting. Three guesses why.
*Most dark fantasy/"Ryona" hentai like '''Redo of a Healer''' (see [[Edgy]] for details), '''Kuroinu''', '''Maggot Baits''' and whatever bargain basement hentai game developer puts the heroines through horrifying rapes, tortures and debauchery with no way to escape, all for little more purposes than to degrade, humiliate and mind-break them.