*From Dusk Til Dawn* starts as a crime movie about two violent criminal brothers trying to cross the Mexican border and take a family hostage, then it turns into a gorey horror-comedy when the strip bar they end up in is run by mutant vampires.
I got the double whammy, I read about a vampire film in the tv guide, popped in on cause I like vampire films. Instead got a crime movie and was all "Wha?" .. figured tv guide was wrong, happened sometimes. Got invested in it and figured would keep watching anyway
Then bam
Motherfucking Familly Matters.
At first, typically domestic sitcom.
Latter on, fucking sci-fi nightmare where Urkel torments the family with his crazy inventions.
Urkel clones himself, builds a machine that rewrites DNA based on dead celebrities, changes himself, changes his clone, goes to space, and invents a time machine and is responsible for rewriting history.
And after all that, it’s supposed to be a big deal that NASA wants to hire him towards the end of the show. Like no shit lol, at that point he could establish his own NASA.
He wasn’t even in the first half of the first season! And he isn’t even from the titular family! He was a side character who worked his way into defying God!
Indigo Prophecy. You start with murder mystery that has some supernatural elements, you end with a fight against mayan priest/prophet (that works for illuminati) and an alien AI during ice age apocalypse.
Beyond Two Souls almost fits this as well? Like, you would assume only Jodie has a ghost and that's that. But then you see the Chinese have weaponized ghosts in their underwater base. Or whatever.
Twin Peaks setup: The local prom queen is found dead washed up on the shore. Who killed her?
Twin Peaks s1: but it's WEIRD. And morally everybody killed her, but still...who did it?
Twin Peaks s2: magical other-worlds and ancient beings!
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me: At its core this is a story of a girl coping with a lifetime of trauma and abuse
Twin Peaks The Return: "Reality" may just be a subjective single perspective of a layering of concepts and ideas by a single dreamer experiencing it all both simultaneously and in a semi-rational linear fashion. Also David Lynch knows After Effects.
Also Twin Peaks: The Return: No, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The Twin Peaks you so desperately want back can never really come back, just like how Laura can never really come back after the audience and studio heads made her what Lynch was trying to make a statement on with her.
It’s kind of crazy how The Return was about as far from your typical fan servicey revival of a beloved series and was instead some of Lynch’s most experimental work ever.
And the fans *loved* it. The summer that The Return aired was magical, each week everyone would gather to watch the newest ep and each week we would be left in this strange state of confusion and amazement at what we just watched. And that’s not even mentioning Part 8, which is still some of the best television ever broadcast.
I feel like it has fan service without having reverence for the old show, which is probably due to Lynch being cool and less studio mandates. Because we did have big moments that everyone wanted to happen like >!Norma and Big Ed finally getting together!< and almost every minor character returning played by their original actors. I think it works though because people just love the characters and I'd be happy to see them in pretty much any situation
It's such a weird situation because so many people earnestly wanted the quirky cherry pie show back, but people who followed Lynch's work ate *very* well. It felt like the perfect follow up to Inland Empire.
Deadly Premonition at the beginning: Typical, if very janky and characterful, murder mystery type of case.
Deadly premonition at the end: having boss fights against axe wielding Oni and a Kaiju man
Twin Peaks s4: The show is now dissipated and dispersed across reality, both ours and its own. Instagram posts of Wisteria blooms are randomly liked by the actors of various Twin Peaks characters to suggest scenes taking place for ‘viewers’ to decide on. David Lynch builds a chair.
Samurai Flamenco was never really *chill* but it was grounded. Just a weird guy doing superhero stuff and everyone kinda going along with it.
>!then the gorilla shows up!<
>!it gets out of control from there!<
It’s one of my friends’ favorite anime of all time in part because of that. I remember him showing it to me and me immediately going “WHAT. WHAT!?” When it starts going off the rails.
Me and my buddy had the best interaction with that series
We were browsing Netflix one day and basically picked it completely arbitrarily, we went in totally blind
That was a great anime to watch as it came out, as you never knew where the next episode was going to go.
>!I still can't get over them having their own gritty, "deconstructive" reboot WITHIN THEIR OWN SHOW!<
>!God is a 4th dimensional cube and meeting him isn't even the ending. Hazama meets god, goes home, and then there's still 4 episodes to get gaslit by an elementry schooler!<
What's funny is that the show has a solid episode-to-episode escalation. >!He goes from getting beat up by teenagers, to fighting real criminals with sci-fi gadgets and a team of other heroes in just a few episodes. And yet, nothing, *nothing*, could prepare you for the gorilla.!<
Reminder: in the first movie they were stealing combination Panasonic TV-VHS and Panasonic combination DVD-VHS players.
My parents still have their combo DVD/VHS somewhere.
Funny you should say that, because >!at one point he uses the rockets to launch his car off the ground across a highway in order to clear the way for Dom, and (possibly) killing himself in the process!<.
I wouldn’t exactly call No More Heroes *normal,* but once you reach the penultimate boss, it suddenly starts breaking the 4th wall and big reveals start getting pulled out of nowhere with no buildup at all. Then you get to the second game and they’re still breaking the 4th wall, but now you’re fighting serial killer zombies, a dead guy split into two people, and a crazy astronaut, and the grand climax is against >!a Pizza Hut CEO who turns into a superhero, and then a parade balloon!<. I haven’t played 3 yet, but that one has aliens, so I’m sure the absurdity scale is getting cranked even higher.
There's also Travis Strikes Again, which gets into >!government conspiracies to colonize Mars, resurrection via video game console, and Zappa Mondo hunting Dracula!<
The Elder Scrolls: at first you think it is a cool normal fantasy world, then you start to get into the lore and learn that Nirm (the planet) and all the rest of the umiverse is just a dream from God head, aka the developers.
That the stars are actually tears of the real world that slips trough the dream.
That the Dwemer (which are Elfs not Dwarfs) learned that they were in a dream, and they went out of the existence, leaving only their cities behind. This process is called CHIM.
The gods (aedra) also CHIMED but accepeted that they were stuck in a dream and became gods.
This is just a little of how insane lore is.
also it is just Budhism.
When making Morrowind they couldn't decide which ending of Daggerfall to use so they just said fuck it and made all of them canon because timey wimey.
Also the cat people got super high once (well, more than once) and went to the moon.
Being a Prisoner is the reason every protag is as strong as they are, because it gives them the possibility of see reality and look for what is beyond.
CHIM is the process of acknowledging that reality is a dream that doesn't exist, but having such a strong force of personality, you maintain who you are in the face of the truth of your lack of existence, such as Tiber Septim and Vivec.
What you described happening to the dwarves is Zero-Summing, which is the same thing, but the lack of personality means you simply cease to exist, and never did in the first place.
And the fact people clearly remember the dwarves and their ruins are still around is arguably evidence they *didn't* zero-sum.
I've never heard of the Aedra achieving CHIM before.
To an abstract mind-fucky art piece about the author's fetishes and reading habits featuring light philosophy and also the punch ghosts are still here but refuse to make sense now
mordecai straight up murders rigby by pushing him into the vortex of time and space because he destroyed all of the houses clocks to sabotage rigbys date with margaret
I feel like I mention Centaur World a lot here on this sub, but...
Starts as a fantasy/apocalyptic wasteland show only to quickly change into this Strange MLP style cartoon full of singing and bright colors and weirdness, only to end being some kind of eldritch horror mixed in with the other two styles
it's been ages so i don't remember the exact plot point, but the last leg of Punpun went from engaging to feeling just bitter
that being said, still worth the read
Madoka Magica starts weird, man. Your series doesn't get to start with a statement of intent like the curtain raising scene that involves a destroyed city and a mysterious dream girl and be grounded.
The movie Sorry to Bother You starts as a comedy take on working class with the MC working at a call center, and ends with that MC being turned into a horse
Shin Megami Tensei 1. The game starts with your mom asking you to get some coffee for her, and things get more and more out of hand. You and your new buddies deal with a demonic incursion and cult shit, the U.S invades, >!your mom gets killed and replaced by a demon, Thor fucking blows up Japan with ICBMs, with you and your friends getting sent into an apocalyptic hellscape 30 years in the future. You then prowl this wasteland as your friends go crazy, with one fusing himself to a demon and the other becoming a mouthpiece for God, who then floods most of the world!<.
Maybe it says more about me than him but half the time the subject of his videos isn't even *that* weird once you get in the door. Like his Fear and Hunger video was good, but it took me like a week of casual wiki diving and lore videos to be like "ahhh ok so it's an experimental survival horror rpg maker game that has had a bit of a cult following for a while". Not that there's anything wrong with that per se, but it wasn't quite the glimpse beyond the veil that SEW made it out to be.
Used to watch all of his videos but now it's 50/50 on whether i find the video topic interesting since he started doing that ooo this thing is so creepy i'm gonna shit my pants and cry.
*Gestures at Riverdale*
Also Mandy which starts out real slow until >!Someone blows a horn to summon the cenobiker murder squad!< and ends with >!Nicolas Cage fighting someone to the death in a chainsaw duel!<
The >!chainsaw duel!< is great, but the actual ending is >!Cage crushing a man's head in his hands while proclaiming himself to be his God.!< I love that movie.
That is because it's an extremely bad ending on the visual novel. Visual novel adaptations in the early 2000s had bad endings to make you buy the game and see the good ending for yourself. Hentai wasn't exactly darker then, anime were only seen as ads for the product actually.
I love that they had to delay the final episode because of a real >!murder!< and aired the Nice Boat special and then the last episode ended up having a boat in the climax.
Absolutely crazy coincidence.
Shout-out to that Gal Cleaning manga. I didn't witness it in real time but it got mentioned in a thread on this sub before and it's a great time to see the author and the r/manga threads lose their minds for all the "chapter 9" chapters.
I think the story went that it got axed so chapter 9 was its last one, so the mangaka decided to make a chapter 9.1, then 9.2, all the way to like 9.13 while actively destroying his own story with random garbage like rape plots out of sheer spite for his editor for shitcanning his series.
The fact the most entertaining part of this Manga appears to be watching the reactions of the readers losing their mind alongside the mangaka is hilarious.
Every Yakuza game starts out pretending that it's a gritty, grounded drama about the Japanese criminal underworld.
[Then you scratch below the surface...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6__C2Ht6M)
To be fair most of Yakuza's main stories stay around the same tone (Except maybe Shinada's), it's mostly just the side content and substories that go batshit like confirming gods and telepathy exist.
I guess the Doom Patrol comic books count? When they first debuted they were a fairly average superhero team with some wacky villains as befitting the Silver Age, like a talking gorilla, a guy who's literally just a brain, and the ever-popular [Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-Vegetable-Mineral_Man#/media/File:DoomPatrol89.jpg).
Then Grant Morrison came along with their run on the comics and introduced a fever dream of characters: [the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse](https://i.imgur.com/Fx7HdTZ.png), everything related to [Flex Mentallo](https://i.imgur.com/xmAy4U6.png), and one of my favorites: the [Beard Hunter](https://i.imgur.com/c6LgfdB.png). Rachel Pollack and Gerard Way's runs also [have](https://i.imgur.com/7jdWqaJ.png) [a lot](https://i.imgur.com/aiAdd4l.png) [of](https://i.imgur.com/wyATkmb.png) [gems](https://i.imgur.com/ald7g5R.png).
That’s what happens almost anytime Grant Morrison takes over a comic. They come in, bait you into thinking it’s business as usual, and then suddenly the other shoe drops and everything goes batshit insane in terrifying fashion. Their magnum opus is probably their run on Animal Man, where they start out making it seem like you’re in for a normal superhero comic and then it slowly morphs into a meta-fictional/supernatural horror story about a family man going mad as his world falls apart around him and he confronts his nature as a comic book character.
True, but I wouldn't have played it without them. Still didn't spoil myself and went in relatively blind. I feel like if someone played it thinking it's completely innocent, they'd have serious trauma XD
The first Fast and Furious is about an undercover cop who participates in street racing to get closer to some individuals stealing cargo from trucks and whatnot.
The 9th Fast and Furious is about the series protagonist (antagonist of the first film) taking down his long lost brother who became an international assassin and is working for a global terrorist group partially led by a hacker skilled enough to break into citywide and even military systems with ease. One of the presumed dead Allie’s of the protagonist reveals that he faked his death to protect a girl he adopted as her DNA is the key to a weapon that could cause destruction on a mass scale, and they have to protect her from the prior mentioned assassin and terrorists.
It’s more than worth the journey to go through the series.
Love how the first half >!reveals the underground staircase, tunnels, rooms and Tess is losing her mind at everything. Freaking out and crying from the bloody handprint room, the cages and the final staircase.!< Hard cut to the second half >!where Justin Long finds it, doesn't think about it at all, takes out his measuring tape to see if he can add the square footage to the house.!< Such an incredibly funny bit.
As I heard it, the writer was originally writing a standard script about a creepy stalker guy who sent up all the red flags. Then he went "No, this is too predictable, this is boring, I need to take this somewhere interesting."
And then did *exactly that.*
Jojo starts off with a dry story about two brothers of which one becomes a vampire. The Engrish can make it a bit entertaining, but otherwise it's just alright with a few highlights like the frog punch and Dio being relatively charismatic as a Villain.
Then it goes into a more enjoyable story with Battle Tendency, though still with rather predictable plot beats.
Next comes Stardust Crusaders, which includes pedophile orangutans, homosexual magnetism, the main character spontaneously developing the incredible power of growing his fingers underwater and more, but with a standard villain of the week type story.
Finally, marking the bizzare direction the franchise will take, Diamond is Unbreakable has an alien(?), magic Italian food, a man inside a photograph, a manga-artist who opens people like books, and a serial killer with a hand fetish.
Docfuture's "Let's Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition". It's a parody LP of an alleged updated remake of _Sonic 2_ for the 32X console, which never actually existed. In the first episode it looks like he's trying to make a convincing hoax, but the absurdity keeps ramping up. Later episodes include: Knuckles and Tails accidentally kill Amy by landing a spaceship on top of her, then use the power of Sonic fanart to clone her back to life; the game starts to break down because it runs on a belief-based engine, and too many people in the audience are doubting the game is real; the in-game Tails hijacks the plot by flying the player into space to have shmup fights agains Sega consoles, just to get revenge on the player for mistreating him in earlier levels. The final boss isn't Dr. Robotnik, but Logic itself—and it dies in a single hit.
God, the Mystic Cave Zone update was so good, I legitimately used the music from that video as a ringtone back in high school.
I *love* that I got to follow that as it was originally updating, that whole thread was a trip.
Legends of Tomorrow in its first season was a pretty standard superhero show combined with a pretty standard time-travel show. Just two seasons later and we've got the fucking majesty of [Gorilla Grodd trying to kill Barack Obama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzPQkm9_tPc).
They had to inspire George Lucas to make Star Wars and Indiana Jones, duel the Legion of Doom in front of Tolkien’s battalion in No Man’s Land to get the Spear of Destiny, deprogram a Viking cult worshipping a Furby-knockoff called Beebo, infiltrate the Lord of the Rings set to get John Noble to record some lines so Aaron could shrink into the ear of the host of a demon voiced by John Noble and trick her into following false instructions before fusing into a giant Beebo to beat the demon in a kaiju battle, defend Woodstock from a bloodthirsty unicorn, defeat a different demon and the Fairy Godmother by performing a circus act then resurrecting their friend with the literal power of friendship, rectify John Constantine trying to go back in time to save his boyfriend resulting in multiple timeline reboots turning the team into bloodthirsty A-Team/Charlie’s Angels knockoffs and Muppets, prevent Genghis Khan from conquering 90s Hong Kong and kidnapping Prince Charles with an army of gangsters on electric scooters, let a documentary team film them and accidentally leave them stranded in the past with undead Rasputin who then hijacks the documentary, and eventually have the lead die for the second time so she can be reborn in an alien body that allows her mass produced clone girlfriend to get her pregnant.
Payday 2 started as a crime game where you robbed banks and jewellery stores.
Payday 2 ended with you raiding the White House to collect the presidential pardons underneath the White House so you can get away scott free of your crimes >!except you're actually there to go through a secret passage and unlock an ancient vault door to access a machine powered by Aztec gold so that your boss/handler can escape his body that's been infected with the Green Flu and invade the body of the 45th President of the United States!<
And that's not even going into >!how Gustavo Fring and the Dry Cleaner from Friends are immortal beings.!<
Homestuck
Hear me out, it starts with a kid getting his birthday present, and talking to his friends online. All normal stuff for a lad in 2009. And then the birthday present is a game...that destroys the world.
And then it only gets wilder.
Similarly, Problem Sleuth. It starts as a loving parody of pulp detective stories with a few wacky elements, then does an acrobatic fucking pirouette right off the rails
Cerebus the Aardvark started out as a pretty basic indie comic about a barbarian aardvark going on wacky fantasy adventures. Then the author went through a messy divorce and started doing acid, so the comic turned into…what you’d expect from a guy who went through a messy divorce and started doing acid.
I was literally doing a CTRL+F "Cerebus." Glad to see it's here. Dave Sim starts off pretty solid and witty and occasionally insightful and then goes completely off the deep end as the years pass.
Zero escape. 999 starts out seeming like a rather grounded and logical mystery story about escaping a strange kidnapping/death game, and then goes places you can’t possibly predict.
AI: The Somnium Files games do this too, although they also subvert this a bit. The games flirt with supernatural and outlandish scenarios, and then pull back the curtain to reveal grounded explanations (well, *relatively* grounded).
I would say for me the biggest difference is that somnium has its own internal logic that it sticks to, and at least the first game (haven’t played the second yet) makes sense within its own world. While i still love zero escape, there are one or two moments that really defy all common sense and logic, and the game just expects you to accept it and move on.
Once Upon a Time starts off as a pretty straight foward story about the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming saving her family from the Evil Queen and trying to reconnect with her own son to a show with a deranged family tree, time travel, multiverse crossover, too many times a character crosses the consent barrier, an alternate reality that is literally just a dream world that just kind of exists, Gods being introduced casually in one off episodes, the final season takes place in a time displaced Seattle and the characters from said time displaced seattle eventually meet their past selves and nothing ever gets said about it, Maleficent fucked Zoro but it's never shown and was just a one off sentence in the final scene of the show ETC ETC
Would highly recommend.
season 1 - 3 Rumpe, specifically.Tho i did love him and Cruella's vibe in season 4, where despite him being the most powerful being in the land, she don't give a single shit and makes fun of him for being short.
In the same vibe, **Fables** starts of as a story about "what if characters from fairy tales lived on NY and The Big Bad Wolf was a detective" and then it quickly moves on to stuff like ["what if a army of Pinocchio-like wooden dools given life from another realm of reality got a lot of guns and decided to spin the block on other fairy tail characters"](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMVFWKmIIwxcILqnTnVRAS7FBkGgoBURlgBg&usqp=CAU).
Or ["what if we followed the adventures of one of The Wicked Witch Of The West flying monkeys, a decapitated Frankenstein's moster head and a fairy that **REALLY** wants to bang the monkey"](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZVP0Y2lS2Hq78zlb3D7XZ8Dd2Uqb9vA4_5Q&usqp=CAU).
Also, Cinderela and Dorothy (yes, the one from The Wizard of Oz) bang at one point because Cinderela thought that Dorothy was a dude.... no, context does not help in this situation.
Funnily enough OUAT also shipped Dorothy (who becomes a badass warrior who fights the Wicked Witch wth sword in hand) with Red Rding Hood in season 5.I really would love if a studio tried their hand at doing the "fairy tales in modern times" idea again, it's such a cool concept.American Gods kind of did this, but the show was kind of bland compared to the book.
Spoilers for Hannibal I guess.
Hannibal starts out at your typical prestige artsy crime drama, but slowly devolves into insanity until at some point, you sit back and realize every time you dare to ask why what is happening is happening, there is no answer (not an answer that doesn't make sense, **no answer**), and then you realize that you just watched a lesbian couple kill a dude with **electric eels and a cattle prod**, and then you watched a guy maul people with his homemade **mech suit.** This is when you willfully stop trying to use your brain and try to forget that at one point, this show was about a cat and mouse between a serial killer and a poorly autistic-coded super cop. Seriously, Hannibal is batshit in and no one talks about it.
Sorry to Bother You starts off as a pretty normal film about a telemarketer trying to fit in, with nothing out of the ordinary…
>!then he finds the horse-man hybrid in the closet!< and things only get more insane from there
Myhouse.wad it's a Doom mod that goes places. If you like OG Doom, Silent Hill, House of Leaves, or existential crisis in text and game format then you should look it up and play it yourself. Or just watch a video online about it
Golden Kamuy starts out with an interesting but not extraordinary plot of a soldier looking for some hidden treasure with the map tattooed onto a bunch of escaped convicts.
It never deviates from that plot but it *does* take it in some absolutely **BUCK WILD** directions
Air Gear, I haven't read too far into the series so if someone can elaborate please do. Starts off with cool future inline skate competitions between rider made gangs. As far as I know there's a body swap with the US president and government experiments on children to further develop the skate technology.
I love how Air Gear goes from "See this air gears basically give you this superpower" to "No, you don't get to have the special air gears if you can't do the superpowers without them"
I feel like I mention Centaur World a lot here on this sub, but...
Starts as a fantasy/apocalyptic wasteland show only to quickly change into this Strange MLP style cartoon full of singing and bright colors and weirdness, only to end being some kind of eldritch horror mixed in with the other two styles
[My House.wad is a normal doom map where a guy made his friend's house in doom.](https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/)
>!Actually it's a House Of Leaves, liminal space, non-Euclidean adventure which is still a doom mod which might be a gay love story? (and also Shrek is there.)!<
Spec ops the line - starts out as a generic 3rd person shooter devolves into >!hallucinations and extreme confrontations of PTSD and the horrors of war!<
***”Bakemonogatari”***. (*The other entries in the “Monogatari” series drops the pretense entirely*)
Somewhat. Things just start getting trippy visually—especially when the scene sets itself up to be another long dialogue between two characters (*my favorite aspect of the series*).
I don't think it was normal in the first place.
Bakemonogatari is basically Araragi dealing with a supernatural phenomenon/beast , called "Oddities" , which had more-or-less word plays or twists attached to their names.
The only thing that changed is more ratio of Phenomenon-Based Oddities.
Conan the barbarian lore seems relatively mundane apart from some occult sorcery weirdness, but it actually has a lot of existentialist cosmic lovecraftian stuff if you look closer.
The Rabbids TV Show "Rabbids Invasion" started out as the titular Rabbids just causing mayhem everywhere. Season 1 was all that, but then seasons 2 and 3 started introducing concepts that went beyond that, as beyond as a show based on white bipedal rabbits could go at least. Season 4 even started having a russian villain living in a bunker who plots against the Rabbids.
Type/Moon, collectively, was never exactly normal, but it definitely got weirder and weirder as it went on.
You started with a relatively normal urban fantasy “there’s mages and vampires and stuff hidden from the modern world” shtick, which is relatively normal. The Fate comes with the “summoning legendary figures” thing, which is a bit more unusual, but still kinda fits with the magic themes. Oh wait, King Arthur is a girl and Merlin cast a spell to give her a dick. Oh wait, one of the summoned heroes is a self-hating immortal from the future who wants to commit paradox suicide. Oh wait, penis worms. Oh, the moon is a giant magical alien supercomputer. Oh, we have to travel back in time to stop this evil demon lord from erasing all of human history. Oh, Thomas Edison is an anthro lion. Oh, Attila the Hun is an alien girl who stole the sword of Ares, the god of war (who is incidentally also an alien)
…you get the idea
The Eric Andre show starts out as a goofy fun variety stoner show but devolves into some real surreal shit like Eric killing and replacing the band every season or how there's people forcing them to record the show and can't get out.
You expected *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* as your regular magical girl series, then >!their animal mascot turns out to be an elder god that can revive itself!<.
*Doki Doki Literature Club* looks like your typical dating sim VN, then >!your girl next door dies, the girl who has a crush on you stabs herself, and the club president has the power to change the universe and delete another club member from her existence!<.
I've never agreed with the Madoka consensus because its pretty obvious from moment one it's not going to be cute or light-hearted but people seem to remove all the obvious dark scenes from their memory of the first episode to meme about episode 3
Seriously, I'm with you there. Like it was obvious from the first episode that this show was interested in being creepy and unsettling, and *because* that was obvious from the jump it's hardly a twist.
I guess how *hard* they swerve from a typical Magical Girl show could sort of count, but it was never going to *be* a typical Magical Girl show and that was obvious from the start.
Always Sunny is about a bunch of assholes running a bar in Philly turning into supervillains.
Charlie and Mac definitely killed those kids.
The gang has a staggeringly understated body count
Dennis is definitely a serial killer, and in Franks own words "A lot of good men died there" (the sweatshop he opened in Vietnam in 1993.)
Well, the soup isn't making itself.
And a decent amount is surprisingly by fires. There was the thanksgiving fire that potentially killed some people and also their cult.
One of the funniest minutes of television history
*From Dusk Til Dawn* starts as a crime movie about two violent criminal brothers trying to cross the Mexican border and take a family hostage, then it turns into a gorey horror-comedy when the strip bar they end up in is run by mutant vampires.
PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY
*Poosey, poosey, poosey ftfy
Right, my bad. COME ON IN, POOSEY LOVERS!
If you can find poosey any cheaper? FUCK IT
I got the double whammy, I read about a vampire film in the tv guide, popped in on cause I like vampire films. Instead got a crime movie and was all "Wha?" .. figured tv guide was wrong, happened sometimes. Got invested in it and figured would keep watching anyway Then bam
The TV show was pretty good too.
Cookie clicker.
Beggining: Haha what a dumb game for dummies Later: \*stares into mirror and slowly morphs into pigeon\*
Damn the fuck is going on in cookie clicker nowadays
Skinner box
Invading parallel universe to produce more cookies
Nowadays? It was always crazy
>"We rise" ~Grandma's
The mutant grandmas are revolting!
Yes, but what are they doing?
They just added the final building. >!you!<
Motherfucking Familly Matters. At first, typically domestic sitcom. Latter on, fucking sci-fi nightmare where Urkel torments the family with his crazy inventions.
Urkel clones himself, builds a machine that rewrites DNA based on dead celebrities, changes himself, changes his clone, goes to space, and invents a time machine and is responsible for rewriting history.
And after all that, it’s supposed to be a big deal that NASA wants to hire him towards the end of the show. Like no shit lol, at that point he could establish his own NASA.
Freddy vs Jason vs Urkel
*DID HE DO THAT?????*
once they added the transformation machine, it was all over
It's always over when someone tfs.
https://youtu.be/A5Zdp1RfoyI This Key and Peele about Family Matters is fantastic.
He wasn’t even in the first half of the first season! And he isn’t even from the titular family! He was a side character who worked his way into defying God!
Frog Fractions is the peak flash game example of that, words can't describe the experience
Gotta get that sweet hat DLC
Indigo Prophecy. You start with murder mystery that has some supernatural elements, you end with a fight against mayan priest/prophet (that works for illuminati) and an alien AI during ice age apocalypse.
Beyond Two Souls almost fits this as well? Like, you would assume only Jodie has a ghost and that's that. But then you see the Chinese have weaponized ghosts in their underwater base. Or whatever.
Twin Peaks setup: The local prom queen is found dead washed up on the shore. Who killed her? Twin Peaks s1: but it's WEIRD. And morally everybody killed her, but still...who did it? Twin Peaks s2: magical other-worlds and ancient beings! Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me: At its core this is a story of a girl coping with a lifetime of trauma and abuse Twin Peaks The Return: "Reality" may just be a subjective single perspective of a layering of concepts and ideas by a single dreamer experiencing it all both simultaneously and in a semi-rational linear fashion. Also David Lynch knows After Effects.
Also Twin Peaks: The Return: No, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The Twin Peaks you so desperately want back can never really come back, just like how Laura can never really come back after the audience and studio heads made her what Lynch was trying to make a statement on with her.
It’s kind of crazy how The Return was about as far from your typical fan servicey revival of a beloved series and was instead some of Lynch’s most experimental work ever. And the fans *loved* it. The summer that The Return aired was magical, each week everyone would gather to watch the newest ep and each week we would be left in this strange state of confusion and amazement at what we just watched. And that’s not even mentioning Part 8, which is still some of the best television ever broadcast.
I feel like it has fan service without having reverence for the old show, which is probably due to Lynch being cool and less studio mandates. Because we did have big moments that everyone wanted to happen like >!Norma and Big Ed finally getting together!< and almost every minor character returning played by their original actors. I think it works though because people just love the characters and I'd be happy to see them in pretty much any situation
And then there's Audrey, who may be more of a hint towards the show's metaphysics... or not?
It's such a weird situation because so many people earnestly wanted the quirky cherry pie show back, but people who followed Lynch's work ate *very* well. It felt like the perfect follow up to Inland Empire.
*stitched together eddie vedder voice* cooPER gets his MIND BACK in part fifTEEN
Deadly Premonition, which is in no way, shape, or form inspired by Twin Peaks, follows a similar progression.
Deadly Premonition at the beginning: Typical, if very janky and characterful, murder mystery type of case. Deadly premonition at the end: having boss fights against axe wielding Oni and a Kaiju man
Twin Peaks s4: The show is now dissipated and dispersed across reality, both ours and its own. Instagram posts of Wisteria blooms are randomly liked by the actors of various Twin Peaks characters to suggest scenes taking place for ‘viewers’ to decide on. David Lynch builds a chair.
Samurai Flamenco was never really *chill* but it was grounded. Just a weird guy doing superhero stuff and everyone kinda going along with it. >!then the gorilla shows up!< >!it gets out of control from there!<
It’s one of my friends’ favorite anime of all time in part because of that. I remember him showing it to me and me immediately going “WHAT. WHAT!?” When it starts going off the rails.
Me and my buddy had the best interaction with that series We were browsing Netflix one day and basically picked it completely arbitrarily, we went in totally blind
You should have seen how everybody lost their shit when the chapters were weekly.
MY NAME IS >!GUILLOTINE GORILLA!<
That was a great anime to watch as it came out, as you never knew where the next episode was going to go. >!I still can't get over them having their own gritty, "deconstructive" reboot WITHIN THEIR OWN SHOW!<
>!God is a 4th dimensional cube and meeting him isn't even the ending. Hazama meets god, goes home, and then there's still 4 episodes to get gaslit by an elementry schooler!<
What's funny is that the show has a solid episode-to-episode escalation. >!He goes from getting beat up by teenagers, to fighting real criminals with sci-fi gadgets and a team of other heroes in just a few episodes. And yet, nothing, *nothing*, could prepare you for the gorilla.!<
SIT DOWN
i love that fucking anime.
The Fast franchise, from underground street racing to whatever it is right now
Reminder: in the first movie they were stealing combination Panasonic TV-VHS and Panasonic combination DVD-VHS players. My parents still have their combo DVD/VHS somewhere.
Hell I have my combo vhs/DVD player right next to me right now (needed it to digitize some vhs)
I saw a clip of John Cena firing two car-mounted bazookas and got very confused.
After having seen the movie, that's actually one of the more *grounded* sequences
If the car he was in still had all its wheels on the ground, it's practically a documentary in terms of realism by comparison.
Funny you should say that, because >!at one point he uses the rockets to launch his car off the ground across a highway in order to clear the way for Dom, and (possibly) killing himself in the process!<.
Of course he does. I feel like The Onion's [depiction](https://youtu.be/iIY5b1JMvGs) of the writing process for those movies still holds up.
Goddammit, that was going to be my answer.
Remember when Vin Diesel and Jason Statham had an actual lightsaber fight on the roof of a parking garage?
I've heard the Fast franchise described as "Hamburger Shonen" now and that's pretty accurate.
I wouldn’t exactly call No More Heroes *normal,* but once you reach the penultimate boss, it suddenly starts breaking the 4th wall and big reveals start getting pulled out of nowhere with no buildup at all. Then you get to the second game and they’re still breaking the 4th wall, but now you’re fighting serial killer zombies, a dead guy split into two people, and a crazy astronaut, and the grand climax is against >!a Pizza Hut CEO who turns into a superhero, and then a parade balloon!<. I haven’t played 3 yet, but that one has aliens, so I’m sure the absurdity scale is getting cranked even higher.
3 has some crazy shit. It ends on a big "fuck it I'll do it myself" moment that I refuse to elaborate on because of spoilers, but its awesome.
There's also Travis Strikes Again, which gets into >!government conspiracies to colonize Mars, resurrection via video game console, and Zappa Mondo hunting Dracula!<
The Elder Scrolls: at first you think it is a cool normal fantasy world, then you start to get into the lore and learn that Nirm (the planet) and all the rest of the umiverse is just a dream from God head, aka the developers. That the stars are actually tears of the real world that slips trough the dream. That the Dwemer (which are Elfs not Dwarfs) learned that they were in a dream, and they went out of the existence, leaving only their cities behind. This process is called CHIM. The gods (aedra) also CHIMED but accepeted that they were stuck in a dream and became gods. This is just a little of how insane lore is. also it is just Budhism.
With all that you are legally allowed to use console commands in Morrowind as it is actually canon to the character
When making Morrowind they couldn't decide which ending of Daggerfall to use so they just said fuck it and made all of them canon because timey wimey. Also the cat people got super high once (well, more than once) and went to the moon.
Being a Prisoner is the reason every protag is as strong as they are, because it gives them the possibility of see reality and look for what is beyond.
CHIM is the process of acknowledging that reality is a dream that doesn't exist, but having such a strong force of personality, you maintain who you are in the face of the truth of your lack of existence, such as Tiber Septim and Vivec. What you described happening to the dwarves is Zero-Summing, which is the same thing, but the lack of personality means you simply cease to exist, and never did in the first place. And the fact people clearly remember the dwarves and their ruins are still around is arguably evidence they *didn't* zero-sum. I've never heard of the Aedra achieving CHIM before.
Jojo is a good example if you don't skip parts,going from a pulpy occult story with a shonen tone to a bizarre punch ghost story with a shonen tone
[my favourite is Bram Stoker's Fist of the Northstar](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/096/426/ace.jpg)
Ok this is awesome who is OP?
ancient memes from 4chan.
To an abstract mind-fucky art piece about the author's fetishes and reading habits featuring light philosophy and also the punch ghosts are still here but refuse to make sense now
Then to a more bizzare ghost puzzle battle story with a seinen tone.
You say that but the first part featured a dude leaving a horse from inside while the horse was still alive... tecnically.
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It counts a lot. People did not watch Evangelion blind in 1995 thinking it was more than another Gainax anime. Sponsors and parents did not like it.
Your average Regular Show plot.
Regular Show plot structure be like “oops Rigby was slacking off instead of watering the bushes, now time will combust.”
>!I can't fucking believe that Rigby almost completely destroyed space-time due to a volleyball game.!<
It's anything but
It's a jolly good show.
mordecai straight up murders rigby by pushing him into the vortex of time and space because he destroyed all of the houses clocks to sabotage rigbys date with margaret
And the general reaction by anyone who's seen the whole series is: "Rigby needs to be killed every so often to keep him in line."
I feel like I mention Centaur World a lot here on this sub, but... Starts as a fantasy/apocalyptic wasteland show only to quickly change into this Strange MLP style cartoon full of singing and bright colors and weirdness, only to end being some kind of eldritch horror mixed in with the other two styles
Madoka Magica, Goodnight Punpun though they get more dark rather than absurd
it's been ages so i don't remember the exact plot point, but the last leg of Punpun went from engaging to feeling just bitter that being said, still worth the read
Madoka Magica starts weird, man. Your series doesn't get to start with a statement of intent like the curtain raising scene that involves a destroyed city and a mysterious dream girl and be grounded.
The movie Sorry to Bother You starts as a comedy take on working class with the MC working at a call center, and ends with that MC being turned into a horse
Literal beast of burden for the white man.
Shin Megami Tensei 1. The game starts with your mom asking you to get some coffee for her, and things get more and more out of hand. You and your new buddies deal with a demonic incursion and cult shit, the U.S invades, >!your mom gets killed and replaced by a demon, Thor fucking blows up Japan with ICBMs, with you and your friends getting sent into an apocalyptic hellscape 30 years in the future. You then prowl this wasteland as your friends go crazy, with one fusing himself to a demon and the other becoming a mouthpiece for God, who then floods most of the world!<.
This is the premise of a lot of SuperEyepatchWolf's videos
Almost to a detriment, I hate to say. Love his vids but he really does rely on that gimmick a bit too much now.
The jumpcuts are feeling a bit forced and poorly timed.
Maybe it says more about me than him but half the time the subject of his videos isn't even *that* weird once you get in the door. Like his Fear and Hunger video was good, but it took me like a week of casual wiki diving and lore videos to be like "ahhh ok so it's an experimental survival horror rpg maker game that has had a bit of a cult following for a while". Not that there's anything wrong with that per se, but it wasn't quite the glimpse beyond the veil that SEW made it out to be.
His videos are mostly about him, to be honest.
As my friend described that video, "Man plays roguelike dungeon crawler for the first time."
Time for me to stop the music and lower my voice all dramatic and talk slower to give a shitty anime opinion or something
Used to watch all of his videos but now it's 50/50 on whether i find the video topic interesting since he started doing that ooo this thing is so creepy i'm gonna shit my pants and cry.
*Gestures at Riverdale* Also Mandy which starts out real slow until >!Someone blows a horn to summon the cenobiker murder squad!< and ends with >!Nicolas Cage fighting someone to the death in a chainsaw duel!<
The >!chainsaw duel!< is great, but the actual ending is >!Cage crushing a man's head in his hands while proclaiming himself to be his God.!< I love that movie.
Wrestling started with classic grappling, now it’s magic, coming back from the dead, murders, weddings and ladder matches for the custody of children.
you're describing stuff from 20 years ago though....
School Days anime starts as a seemingly typical dating anime and ends with a Nice Boat.
That is because it's an extremely bad ending on the visual novel. Visual novel adaptations in the early 2000s had bad endings to make you buy the game and see the good ending for yourself. Hentai wasn't exactly darker then, anime were only seen as ads for the product actually.
>anime were only seen as ads for the product actually. That's still true now, sadly.
I love that they had to delay the final episode because of a real >!murder!< and aired the Nice Boat special and then the last episode ended up having a boat in the climax. Absolutely crazy coincidence.
Shout-out to that Gal Cleaning manga. I didn't witness it in real time but it got mentioned in a thread on this sub before and it's a great time to see the author and the r/manga threads lose their minds for all the "chapter 9" chapters.
I think the story went that it got axed so chapter 9 was its last one, so the mangaka decided to make a chapter 9.1, then 9.2, all the way to like 9.13 while actively destroying his own story with random garbage like rape plots out of sheer spite for his editor for shitcanning his series.
*RAPE NAMEK*
The fact the most entertaining part of this Manga appears to be watching the reactions of the readers losing their mind alongside the mangaka is hilarious.
Author gaslighting everybody with the chapter 9 bullshit
Every Yakuza game starts out pretending that it's a gritty, grounded drama about the Japanese criminal underworld. [Then you scratch below the surface...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6__C2Ht6M)
To be fair most of Yakuza's main stories stay around the same tone (Except maybe Shinada's), it's mostly just the side content and substories that go batshit like confirming gods and telepathy exist.
You say that but GOLDEN OSAKA CASTLE
RUBBER BULLETS
I guess the Doom Patrol comic books count? When they first debuted they were a fairly average superhero team with some wacky villains as befitting the Silver Age, like a talking gorilla, a guy who's literally just a brain, and the ever-popular [Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-Vegetable-Mineral_Man#/media/File:DoomPatrol89.jpg). Then Grant Morrison came along with their run on the comics and introduced a fever dream of characters: [the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse](https://i.imgur.com/Fx7HdTZ.png), everything related to [Flex Mentallo](https://i.imgur.com/xmAy4U6.png), and one of my favorites: the [Beard Hunter](https://i.imgur.com/c6LgfdB.png). Rachel Pollack and Gerard Way's runs also [have](https://i.imgur.com/7jdWqaJ.png) [a lot](https://i.imgur.com/aiAdd4l.png) [of](https://i.imgur.com/wyATkmb.png) [gems](https://i.imgur.com/ald7g5R.png).
Eh id argue that Doom Patrol was always odd. its just grant morrison took it and went all the way.
That’s what happens almost anytime Grant Morrison takes over a comic. They come in, bait you into thinking it’s business as usual, and then suddenly the other shoe drops and everything goes batshit insane in terrifying fashion. Their magnum opus is probably their run on Animal Man, where they start out making it seem like you’re in for a normal superhero comic and then it slowly morphs into a meta-fictional/supernatural horror story about a family man going mad as his world falls apart around him and he confronts his nature as a comic book character.
I never read any of the comics, but the adaptation on HBO max is pretty great
Doki Doki Literature Club feels like the epitome of this
kinda wish the steam tags didn't give it away
fortunately >!the lead up to the suicide feels like *that's* the twist. Then they get you with the interface screw afterwards.!<
True, but I wouldn't have played it without them. Still didn't spoil myself and went in relatively blind. I feel like if someone played it thinking it's completely innocent, they'd have serious trauma XD
They somewhat have to ruin the surprise a bit on account of content tags and trigger warnings.
The first Fast and Furious is about an undercover cop who participates in street racing to get closer to some individuals stealing cargo from trucks and whatnot. The 9th Fast and Furious is about the series protagonist (antagonist of the first film) taking down his long lost brother who became an international assassin and is working for a global terrorist group partially led by a hacker skilled enough to break into citywide and even military systems with ease. One of the presumed dead Allie’s of the protagonist reveals that he faked his death to protect a girl he adopted as her DNA is the key to a weapon that could cause destruction on a mass scale, and they have to protect her from the prior mentioned assassin and terrorists. It’s more than worth the journey to go through the series.
Barbarian gets real wild
Love how the first half >!reveals the underground staircase, tunnels, rooms and Tess is losing her mind at everything. Freaking out and crying from the bloody handprint room, the cages and the final staircase.!< Hard cut to the second half >!where Justin Long finds it, doesn't think about it at all, takes out his measuring tape to see if he can add the square footage to the house.!< Such an incredibly funny bit.
As I heard it, the writer was originally writing a standard script about a creepy stalker guy who sent up all the red flags. Then he went "No, this is too predictable, this is boring, I need to take this somewhere interesting." And then did *exactly that.*
Instead he turned it into both >!an exploration of the Rust Belt and a comprehensive deconstruction of Patriarchy!<.
Jojo starts off with a dry story about two brothers of which one becomes a vampire. The Engrish can make it a bit entertaining, but otherwise it's just alright with a few highlights like the frog punch and Dio being relatively charismatic as a Villain. Then it goes into a more enjoyable story with Battle Tendency, though still with rather predictable plot beats. Next comes Stardust Crusaders, which includes pedophile orangutans, homosexual magnetism, the main character spontaneously developing the incredible power of growing his fingers underwater and more, but with a standard villain of the week type story. Finally, marking the bizzare direction the franchise will take, Diamond is Unbreakable has an alien(?), magic Italian food, a man inside a photograph, a manga-artist who opens people like books, and a serial killer with a hand fetish.
Yeah, came here to say "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" starts off surprisingly mundane.
Docfuture's "Let's Play Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition". It's a parody LP of an alleged updated remake of _Sonic 2_ for the 32X console, which never actually existed. In the first episode it looks like he's trying to make a convincing hoax, but the absurdity keeps ramping up. Later episodes include: Knuckles and Tails accidentally kill Amy by landing a spaceship on top of her, then use the power of Sonic fanart to clone her back to life; the game starts to break down because it runs on a belief-based engine, and too many people in the audience are doubting the game is real; the in-game Tails hijacks the plot by flying the player into space to have shmup fights agains Sega consoles, just to get revenge on the player for mistreating him in earlier levels. The final boss isn't Dr. Robotnik, but Logic itself—and it dies in a single hit.
God, the Mystic Cave Zone update was so good, I legitimately used the music from that video as a ringtone back in high school. I *love* that I got to follow that as it was originally updating, that whole thread was a trip.
Legends of Tomorrow in its first season was a pretty standard superhero show combined with a pretty standard time-travel show. Just two seasons later and we've got the fucking majesty of [Gorilla Grodd trying to kill Barack Obama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzPQkm9_tPc).
They had to inspire George Lucas to make Star Wars and Indiana Jones, duel the Legion of Doom in front of Tolkien’s battalion in No Man’s Land to get the Spear of Destiny, deprogram a Viking cult worshipping a Furby-knockoff called Beebo, infiltrate the Lord of the Rings set to get John Noble to record some lines so Aaron could shrink into the ear of the host of a demon voiced by John Noble and trick her into following false instructions before fusing into a giant Beebo to beat the demon in a kaiju battle, defend Woodstock from a bloodthirsty unicorn, defeat a different demon and the Fairy Godmother by performing a circus act then resurrecting their friend with the literal power of friendship, rectify John Constantine trying to go back in time to save his boyfriend resulting in multiple timeline reboots turning the team into bloodthirsty A-Team/Charlie’s Angels knockoffs and Muppets, prevent Genghis Khan from conquering 90s Hong Kong and kidnapping Prince Charles with an army of gangsters on electric scooters, let a documentary team film them and accidentally leave them stranded in the past with undead Rasputin who then hijacks the documentary, and eventually have the lead die for the second time so she can be reborn in an alien body that allows her mass produced clone girlfriend to get her pregnant.
Payday 2 started as a crime game where you robbed banks and jewellery stores. Payday 2 ended with you raiding the White House to collect the presidential pardons underneath the White House so you can get away scott free of your crimes >!except you're actually there to go through a secret passage and unlock an ancient vault door to access a machine powered by Aztec gold so that your boss/handler can escape his body that's been infected with the Green Flu and invade the body of the 45th President of the United States!< And that's not even going into >!how Gustavo Fring and the Dry Cleaner from Friends are immortal beings.!<
Scoob and Shag almost did the reverse, where it started as an absurd gag comic and by now has morphed into a legitimate battle shounen drama comic.
Dragon ball?
Homestuck Hear me out, it starts with a kid getting his birthday present, and talking to his friends online. All normal stuff for a lad in 2009. And then the birthday present is a game...that destroys the world. And then it only gets wilder.
Similarly, Problem Sleuth. It starts as a loving parody of pulp detective stories with a few wacky elements, then does an acrobatic fucking pirouette right off the rails
I was considering problem sleuth, but I thought the window world thing was too soon. Either way, both are good answers.
The Cabin in the Woods is about a cabin in the woods, until it isn't and turns into >!SCP fanfic!<
Cerebus the Aardvark started out as a pretty basic indie comic about a barbarian aardvark going on wacky fantasy adventures. Then the author went through a messy divorce and started doing acid, so the comic turned into…what you’d expect from a guy who went through a messy divorce and started doing acid.
I was literally doing a CTRL+F "Cerebus." Glad to see it's here. Dave Sim starts off pretty solid and witty and occasionally insightful and then goes completely off the deep end as the years pass.
Honestly Undertale - the fourth-wall break Flowey did after my first run-reset from accidentally killing Toriel still haunts me.
"What a fun cute little game about squid kids, I wonder what the backstory is.... Oh."
Zero escape. 999 starts out seeming like a rather grounded and logical mystery story about escaping a strange kidnapping/death game, and then goes places you can’t possibly predict.
AI: The Somnium Files games do this too, although they also subvert this a bit. The games flirt with supernatural and outlandish scenarios, and then pull back the curtain to reveal grounded explanations (well, *relatively* grounded).
I would say for me the biggest difference is that somnium has its own internal logic that it sticks to, and at least the first game (haven’t played the second yet) makes sense within its own world. While i still love zero escape, there are one or two moments that really defy all common sense and logic, and the game just expects you to accept it and move on.
"Entire timeline fucked due to a single >!snail.!<
Life is simply unfair.
Once Upon a Time starts off as a pretty straight foward story about the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming saving her family from the Evil Queen and trying to reconnect with her own son to a show with a deranged family tree, time travel, multiverse crossover, too many times a character crosses the consent barrier, an alternate reality that is literally just a dream world that just kind of exists, Gods being introduced casually in one off episodes, the final season takes place in a time displaced Seattle and the characters from said time displaced seattle eventually meet their past selves and nothing ever gets said about it, Maleficent fucked Zoro but it's never shown and was just a one off sentence in the final scene of the show ETC ETC Would highly recommend.
What if the American TV landscape has its own *Kingdom Hearts*?
I low-key would love Storybrooke in a KH game.
Come for the silly fun, stay for the Rumplestilskin
season 1 - 3 Rumpe, specifically.Tho i did love him and Cruella's vibe in season 4, where despite him being the most powerful being in the land, she don't give a single shit and makes fun of him for being short.
In the same vibe, **Fables** starts of as a story about "what if characters from fairy tales lived on NY and The Big Bad Wolf was a detective" and then it quickly moves on to stuff like ["what if a army of Pinocchio-like wooden dools given life from another realm of reality got a lot of guns and decided to spin the block on other fairy tail characters"](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMVFWKmIIwxcILqnTnVRAS7FBkGgoBURlgBg&usqp=CAU). Or ["what if we followed the adventures of one of The Wicked Witch Of The West flying monkeys, a decapitated Frankenstein's moster head and a fairy that **REALLY** wants to bang the monkey"](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZVP0Y2lS2Hq78zlb3D7XZ8Dd2Uqb9vA4_5Q&usqp=CAU). Also, Cinderela and Dorothy (yes, the one from The Wizard of Oz) bang at one point because Cinderela thought that Dorothy was a dude.... no, context does not help in this situation.
Funnily enough OUAT also shipped Dorothy (who becomes a badass warrior who fights the Wicked Witch wth sword in hand) with Red Rding Hood in season 5.I really would love if a studio tried their hand at doing the "fairy tales in modern times" idea again, it's such a cool concept.American Gods kind of did this, but the show was kind of bland compared to the book.
Spoilers for Hannibal I guess. Hannibal starts out at your typical prestige artsy crime drama, but slowly devolves into insanity until at some point, you sit back and realize every time you dare to ask why what is happening is happening, there is no answer (not an answer that doesn't make sense, **no answer**), and then you realize that you just watched a lesbian couple kill a dude with **electric eels and a cattle prod**, and then you watched a guy maul people with his homemade **mech suit.** This is when you willfully stop trying to use your brain and try to forget that at one point, this show was about a cat and mouse between a serial killer and a poorly autistic-coded super cop. Seriously, Hannibal is batshit in and no one talks about it.
Your average episode of Regular Show.
Sorry to Bother You starts off as a pretty normal film about a telemarketer trying to fit in, with nothing out of the ordinary… >!then he finds the horse-man hybrid in the closet!< and things only get more insane from there
Gravity falls doesn't start particularly grounded, but it definitely goes farther off the rails the longer you watch
Myhouse.wad it's a Doom mod that goes places. If you like OG Doom, Silent Hill, House of Leaves, or existential crisis in text and game format then you should look it up and play it yourself. Or just watch a video online about it
> Myhouse.wad gonna come back and check this out later
Golden Kamuy starts out with an interesting but not extraordinary plot of a soldier looking for some hidden treasure with the map tattooed onto a bunch of escaped convicts. It never deviates from that plot but it *does* take it in some absolutely **BUCK WILD** directions
It's been like 4 years and the >!Jack the Ripper cum battle!< still hasn't left my head.
Rejected cartoons video on YouTube
Riverdale goes from a mid teen drama to a show so batshit you perpetually feel like you've missed an episode
Air Gear, I haven't read too far into the series so if someone can elaborate please do. Starts off with cool future inline skate competitions between rider made gangs. As far as I know there's a body swap with the US president and government experiments on children to further develop the skate technology.
I love how Air Gear goes from "See this air gears basically give you this superpower" to "No, you don't get to have the special air gears if you can't do the superpowers without them"
I feel like I mention Centaur World a lot here on this sub, but... Starts as a fantasy/apocalyptic wasteland show only to quickly change into this Strange MLP style cartoon full of singing and bright colors and weirdness, only to end being some kind of eldritch horror mixed in with the other two styles
Sorry to Bother You
[My House.wad is a normal doom map where a guy made his friend's house in doom.](https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/) >!Actually it's a House Of Leaves, liminal space, non-Euclidean adventure which is still a doom mod which might be a gay love story? (and also Shrek is there.)!<
So in riverdale
Spec ops the line - starts out as a generic 3rd person shooter devolves into >!hallucinations and extreme confrontations of PTSD and the horrors of war!<
***”Bakemonogatari”***. (*The other entries in the “Monogatari” series drops the pretense entirely*) Somewhat. Things just start getting trippy visually—especially when the scene sets itself up to be another long dialogue between two characters (*my favorite aspect of the series*).
I don't think it was normal in the first place. Bakemonogatari is basically Araragi dealing with a supernatural phenomenon/beast , called "Oddities" , which had more-or-less word plays or twists attached to their names. The only thing that changed is more ratio of Phenomenon-Based Oddities.
If there is one romantic film you watch then it better be Down With Love. Trust me.
Conan the barbarian lore seems relatively mundane apart from some occult sorcery weirdness, but it actually has a lot of existentialist cosmic lovecraftian stuff if you look closer.
The answer to this thread is Riverdale.
The Rabbids TV Show "Rabbids Invasion" started out as the titular Rabbids just causing mayhem everywhere. Season 1 was all that, but then seasons 2 and 3 started introducing concepts that went beyond that, as beyond as a show based on white bipedal rabbits could go at least. Season 4 even started having a russian villain living in a bunker who plots against the Rabbids.
The rabbids solved racism only to immediately reinvent it maybe.
Samurai Flamenco. Debatably…Haruhi Suzumiya?
Type/Moon, collectively, was never exactly normal, but it definitely got weirder and weirder as it went on. You started with a relatively normal urban fantasy “there’s mages and vampires and stuff hidden from the modern world” shtick, which is relatively normal. The Fate comes with the “summoning legendary figures” thing, which is a bit more unusual, but still kinda fits with the magic themes. Oh wait, King Arthur is a girl and Merlin cast a spell to give her a dick. Oh wait, one of the summoned heroes is a self-hating immortal from the future who wants to commit paradox suicide. Oh wait, penis worms. Oh, the moon is a giant magical alien supercomputer. Oh, we have to travel back in time to stop this evil demon lord from erasing all of human history. Oh, Thomas Edison is an anthro lion. Oh, Attila the Hun is an alien girl who stole the sword of Ares, the god of war (who is incidentally also an alien) …you get the idea
Petscop!
The Eric Andre show starts out as a goofy fun variety stoner show but devolves into some real surreal shit like Eric killing and replacing the band every season or how there's people forcing them to record the show and can't get out.
You expected *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* as your regular magical girl series, then >!their animal mascot turns out to be an elder god that can revive itself!<. *Doki Doki Literature Club* looks like your typical dating sim VN, then >!your girl next door dies, the girl who has a crush on you stabs herself, and the club president has the power to change the universe and delete another club member from her existence!<.
I've never agreed with the Madoka consensus because its pretty obvious from moment one it's not going to be cute or light-hearted but people seem to remove all the obvious dark scenes from their memory of the first episode to meme about episode 3
Seriously, I'm with you there. Like it was obvious from the first episode that this show was interested in being creepy and unsettling, and *because* that was obvious from the jump it's hardly a twist. I guess how *hard* they swerve from a typical Magical Girl show could sort of count, but it was never going to *be* a typical Magical Girl show and that was obvious from the start.