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** [[The Movie]] unfortunately, destroys this by ending with a [[Happily Ever After]] and World Peace for everyone through [[Instrumentality]], including the [[Easily Forgiven|aliens who killed countless human soldiers]]. It preaches that war is the product of misunderstandings and everyone would get along as long as we didn't miscommunicate. No previous Gundam series ended ''that'' unrealistically optimistic.
* The crew of Naehl Argama in ''[[Gundam Unicorn]]'' might be seen as a deconstrucion of Bright Noa's Ra Cailum crew in ''[[Chars Counterattack]]''.
* ''Mobile Suit Gundam: [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in
* The first generation of ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' presents itself as a deconstruction of a warrior [[The Messiah|Messiah]].
* ''[[Now and Then Here and There]]'' is a deconstruction of the [[Trapped in Another World]] story. The "other world" is a barren wasteland filled with genuinely fucked-up people in power, child soldiering and exploitation, no magic to speak of (except for Lala-Ru's power), and almost devoid of ''water''. Granted, {{spoiler|protagonist Shu ''does'' defeat the [[Big Bad]] against all odds and return home by the end, but the last scene is barely hopeful or uplifting.}}
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* The ''[[Second Apocalypse]]'' series by R. Scott Bakker was an attempted deconstruction of what Bakker considers the crux of fantasy -- a ''meaningful'' universe with metaphysical purpose. One of the premises of the series is "What if you had a fantasy world where Old Testament-style morality, with all of its arbitrary taboos and cruelties (like damnation), was as true in the same way that gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared?". Whether he successfully accomplishes this is [[Love It or Hate It|heavily debated]].
* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''. To many, the famous opening line ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...") seems [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|cliche]], but one needs to look at it in the context of the [[French Revolution]]. In the years following it, revisionists on both sides relied heavily on propaganda, romanticizing their own side as undeniably good, and demonizing the other side as undeniably bad. ''A Tale of Two Cities'' makes the assumption that each side was absolutely right and runs with it, and so both the aristocrats and the revolutionaries have, among their ranks, noble, honorable people fighting for what they believe is right, and sadists who just want some bloodshed.
* Agnes Nutter from ''[[Good Omens]]'' is a deconstruction of the Seer. On the one hand, we see that she is always right, but sometimes her predictions are oddly specific (don't buye Betamacks), too ahead of their time (jogging helps people to live longer), centered on her relatives in the future (she predicted for 11/22/1963 that a house in a small English city would break down, but doesn't mention the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] on the same day - one of her relatives might be in this city at that day, but apparently, none of them wanted to go to Dallas), and she didn't bother to order her predictions or explain them in detail. On the other hand, she uses her power to successfully [[Write Back to the Future]] (and also to avoid people responsible for delivering said message to snoop), and since she can predict EVERYTHING, this includes knowing when Anathema will read a specific prophecy - so it always fits.
* ''[[Count and Countess]]'' is perhaps a deconstruction of the vampire romance genre--specifically, why it would [[Incredibly Lame Pun|just plain suck]] to fall in love with someone predisposed to bloodlust.
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