Gallows Humor

What is Gallows Humor?

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Sense of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations where death seems to be an inevitability. Different from black humor in that comments of this sort are made by the person/persons affected (i.e. about to die).

Emissary: We will block out the sun with our arrows.

Spartan (gallows humor here): Then we will fight in the shade.

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