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* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' deconstructs not just many of the implications of a [[Crap Saccharine World]] in the series that are hinted at through the Pokédex entries, but also deconstructs the idea that everyone in the world of Pokémon thinks that it's a good idea to send kids and teenagers out into the wild to capture pokemon, with Bianca's father feeling immensely concerned for her. Another part of it is the idea that no one bats an eyelash at Pokémon battles or no one thinks it's too violent with Team Plasma and N. It also provides a [[Take That|fairly brutal]] deconstruction of the concept of [[Moral Guardians]] in the form of Team Plasma's claims to be concerned for the welfare of Pokémon.

* ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' viciously deconstructs [[All of the Other Reindeer]]. The power of a Chroma (which is what Marona is) is, for all intents and purposes, necromancy, and as such it is widely regarded as a dark, unholy power, and people react accordingly to her. This isn't simply general disdain or mocking of her, this is real, genuine fear and hatred. Listen to that woman who scolds her son for wanting to be friends with Marona in the opening chapter. You can feel the pure, unbridled barely contained ''rage'' she has at the mere ''mention'' of her name.

* The Fable series does this to fantasy and magic. While the first game was more of an affectionate parody of medieval fantasy, the sequel takes this to its logical conclusion: with no real threat facing Albion, the Guild of Heroes became egocentric power bullies, and with the advent of the firearm, the Muggle commonfolk struck back and wiped out the Guild. When the Fable 2 hero comes around, it's only natural that the public would view someone as powerful as you to be worthy of becoming king/queen.

* [[Earthbound|The]] ''[[MOTHER]]'' [[Mother 3|trilogy]] is a relatively early deconstruction of the conventions of the [[Eastern RPG]] genre, from the outside perspective of [[Shigesato Itoi|one]] who's a professional writer as opposed to a game designer.

* [[New Game+|The Demon Path]] in [[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]] could be seen as a deconstruction of [[Stupid Evil]] choices in video games (where the game's [[Karma Meter]] consists of "Help this woman find her lost puppy, or kill her and eat her family,") taken to its ultimate conclusion. Once the protagonist gets the power of an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] god of death, he/she decides to {{spoiler|go on a world-wide killing spree for no reason other than it sounds like fun. What follows is a massacre of the entire cast of the game, anyone who isn't lucky enough to be killed immediately being either horribly broken or driven insane and ''then'' killed. By the end of the game, the protagonist and the god of death are the only living things left on the planet, at which point the protagonist turns on the god of death and ''eats him'', gaining his powers fully, before turning his/her newfound powers on the gods themselves and finally erasing all of existence, along with him/herself.}}

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', the "save the world from the world-eating [[Big Bad]] dragon Alduin" quest is deconstructed in a conversation with Paarthunax, leader of the Greybeards and {{spoiler|a good dragon, possibly the only one in existence.}} He asks if it isn't foolish to stop the apocalypse {{spoiler|if it's being done by someone whose job it is to do exactly that and thereby bring about the next world.}} Arngeir also poses these questions, but less in-depth. The story is, however, reconstructed later.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* The [[Pixel Art Comic]] ''[[Kid Radd]]'', while largely light in tone, presents a "video game characters living in videoland" scenario where it's a very real problem that many inhabitants are innately armed and know nothing but killing. They know why they were created, and they don't like it. The player character Radd goes from slacker to [[Determinator]] because he always had the latter's mindset, but started his days in a game under the player's control, so he had to learn initiative completely from the ground up. Upon being freed, Radd needed instructions to walk independently.

* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]'' could arguably be seen as a deconstruction of the goofy 1980s cartoons creator David Willis is a fan of (mostly ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Transformers]]''). Sure it features a unique special forces group, SEMME (who were initially based on GI Joe) with an eccentric line up of operatives, who routinely foil the insane schemes of a [[Harmless Villain]], but the eccentric operatives are soon revealed to be a bunch of dysfunctional screw-ups, and the Villain is in fact a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]].

* ''[http://www.mighthavebeen.net/ My Name Is Might Have Been]'' deconstructs ''[[Rock Band]]''. Yeah, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|the video game]].