Violence Is Disturbing when, rather than awesome, violence is shown or perceived to be frightening, disgusting, perhaps even nauseating, i.e. when it denotes brutality, sociopathy, sadism, and other socially undesirable traits, rather the socially desirable traits that are power, capacity for leadership, and effectiveness, staples of The Hero, especially the Bad Ass, and the reason why The Big [...] [tvtropes.org]