Extreme
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Zaboo enters a relationship with Riley, who has some rather extreme BDSM fetishes that Zaboo obviously does not share, and their relationship is abusive verging on Black Comedy Rape. Hilarious!
Source: Web Video / The Guild - One of the more extreme examples is when Rayne finds a homeless orphan and starts using him as an ill-defined personal assistant/slave/plaything, often verging on abuse at the very least.
Source: Protagonist-Centered Morality - In (beat 'em up) videogames, Germans are often depicted as stoic and serious, verging on melancholic — good examples from the Soul Series include Siegfried Schtauffen, whose back-story is angsty in the extreme and Hildegard von Krone, who typifies the efficient, serious German.
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Verging and Extreme. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extreme/verging
Extreme & Verging. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/extreme/verging>.
Verging or Extreme. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/extreme/verging.
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