Trivialisation

Trivialization is the act ​of making something seem less important, serious, or difficult than it really is.
Though many topics can be deemed too serious to trivialize, including topics the series has satirized itself, the general consensus is largely to avoid trivializing or deriving humor from sexual assault, Incest, or historical atrocities. There is considerable debate over whether fanfiction writers sometimes trivialize, for example, depression and suicide, domestic abuse or childhood trauma. Depicting these things for humor or using them for shock value but not taking them seriously can be seen as harmfully trivializing them as real issues.
Some humor fics actively choose to ignore some things in order to make a joke funny. For example, Saddam Hussein trying to yell at tech support or order a pizza is hilarious in good execution -- but may appear to dismiss the fact that he's killed hundreds in real life, just as the South Park version of the character does. In tons of Loony Tunes cartoons, dropping an anvil on a character does nothing more than squish them like an accordion, after which they flop around making funny noises for a while. The intention is that the joke is either funny enough to justify the deviation or
Some settings actually have some amount of trivialization built-in. Settings that involve some kind of mass glamour, weirdness censor, or masquerade have magical or scientific reasons for why people don't question the assistance of talking poo walking around, and inexplicably every time something destroys the town of South Park it somehow gets rebuilt without any economic or social strains. These 'trivializations' are built into the rules of the Canon they take place in, and perfectly acceptable.
The term is occasionally used to describe minimizing or ignoring canonical events, such as 'trivializing' Stan's canonical use of alcohol in "Ass Burgers".
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