Gruesome Reality

When you look at something a bit too well, you can see how it'd play out horribly in reality. For a good example, slapstick. If most of the heavy slapstick gags that go on in the movie or TV shows actually happened in real life, the person being subjected to them would be seriously injured or maybe even sent to their grave.

This is a well-played instance of Comparing Real Life To Fiction where you take something that happens in fiction, look at it from a realistic point, and see how miserable it'd be to have occur in reality.

This also applies to when something is censored for The Audience's sake, like in a cartoon show for children. For instance, Guy might say they want to "get rid" of Hugo, but what he means is that he wants to murder Hugo.

Examples of Gruesome Reality
SpongeBob SquarePants - Demolition Doofus [Reinforced]: Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob get into yet another terrible accident, this time it hospitalizes Poppy. She's been sent to the hospital because her body cannot inflate anymore. Days later, Purple Doctorfish introduces Poppy and SpingeBill to a hospital derby, where patients can risk their lives for the entertainment of others. Poppy then gets the idea of having SpongeBoob enter a derby and get brutally murdered by the other participants. At the end of this idea, the sponge is seen resting in his grave. Poppy then speaks this exact line: "I could finally be rid of SpongeBob... forever! (weak laughter) And I mean that in the worst possible way! (bigger laughter)" Note that she says this out loud with the sponge man right next to her. This is where Poppy's much more child-unfriendly, sinister side is put blatantly on display. Later, Poppy gets SpongeBob entered into the derby. But when no one succeeds at carrying out her maniacal plan, she enters herself in the derby and makes an effort to kill SpongeBoy by driving him out of the arena. However, this leads to her driving him towards her driving school, through the obstacle course, and into her school that then collapses into the ground. Cue Credits. This instance of Gruesome Reality is Reinforced mainly due to how Mrs. Puff actively expressed her wanting SpongeBob dead throughout the episode.