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 of Gruesome Reality, slapstick. If most of the heavy slapstick gags that happen in movies or TV shows actually happened in real life, the person being subjected to them would be sent to an emergency room or maybe even 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 be running with a bomb so he can throw it over a cliff as it won't be able to hurt anyone, only to have it explode in his hands. The only thing that happens to him, thanks to Kill Armor, is that he's Reduced To Ash, blinks at the audience twice with his seemingly blast-resistant eyeballs and Erodes Away With Time. In real life, Guy's body would've been blasted in a shocking display of organs, blood, tissue, and bones with no chance of being able to comically blink at the audience.