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* ''[[Film/The Asphalt Jungle|The Asphalt Jungle]]'' (1950) deconstructs [[The Caper]]. In a normal heist movie, the thieves combine good luck with great skill, have no difficulty working together, and escape from the police to spend their stolen wealth without too much trouble. In the Asphalt Jungle, on the other hand, the thieves aren't quite skilled enough to avoid alerting the cops during the heist, have a run of bad luck starting even before they're done planning the heist, squeal on each other, and eventually every single participant is either dead or in prison, brought down by a combination of their own flaws and misfortunes. Plus, the [[Da Chief|police chief]] (normally a corrupt or unlikeable person in films where he appears at all) gives a nice speech about the importance of good law enforcement towards the end of the film.
* ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' (at least the 1998 version) deconstructs ''[[King Kong]]'', which is rather ironic because it originally inspired King Kong. The ape isn't an island-dwelling monster, but an otherwise normal African gorilla with extreme giantism. The female lead has more in common with Dian Fossey then the screaming damsel in distress of ''Kong''. And when Joe finally does go on his "rampage" it's because he's confronted with the poacher that killed his mother.
* ''[[Scanners]]'' sets up a fairly standard [[
* The 1991 film ''[[The Dark Backward]]'' contains an animated sequence that deconstructs the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons: Tom's [[Captain Ersatz]] gleefully pursues Jerry's, hatchet in hand, and then cuts him in half with it (guts spill); then Spike's [[Captain Ersatz]] appears and blows the cat's brains out (literally) with a shotgun. The main character's mother laughs out loudly at this scene.
* A scene from ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'' shows Streisand's character deconstructing "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", saying that she drove the prince nuts with her obsessive cleaning.
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* While it's easy to mistake it for another run-of-the-mill teen melodrama, ''[[Glee]]'' could very well be called "Deconstruction: The Show." A lot of the criticism of the show arises from people thinking the tropes are being played straight.
** For example, musicals themselves are deconstructed. Most of the musical numbers in the show take place either as a stage performance or in somebody's imagination. When characters actually do decide to randomly burst into song? It never goes too well.
* The B plot of ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1
* ''[[Ultraman Nexus]]'' is a deconstruction of the usual Kaiju and ''[[Ultraman]]'' shows. It shows what will happen if giant alien and monsters actually appear in real life and no, it isn't pleasant. This is why Nexus is considered [[Darker and Edgier]] than most Tokusatsu.
* Since its reboot in 2005, ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has been gradually deconstructing itself. The Doctor is, as always, an eccentric man with a saviour complex whose mystique both entices and frightens people, and these traits have increasingly tended towards tragedy for him. It started with realistic problems finding their way into the story, like a companion's family assuming her dead and the emotional fallout that resulted, and got worse. [[Russell T. Davies]] made a huge jab at the Doctor's character in "Midnight", when all of the Doctor's normal methods of controlling a situation backfire entirely, and he is almost killed because of it. Soon after, in "Journey's End", he is shown his "true colours" when his companions are prepared to destroy themselves and the Earth if need be to stop the Daleks' plan. Since [[Steven Moffat]] took over the show, things have only gotten bleaker at an increasing rate, and by the end of series 6, the Doctor has practically lost all faith in himself and is basically a [[Death Seeker]]. The last episode of Series 6, however, suggests that a process of [[Reconstruction]] might be underway.
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* ''[[VG Cats]]'' deconstructs the cartoon violence of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=207 this strip].
* ''Misfile'' deconstructs every [[Gender Bender]] trope.
* ''[[Goblins]]: Life Through Their Eyes'' takes a good hard look at the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of labeling whole races [[
* ''[[Tales of the Questor|Quentin Quinn Space Ranger]]'', an offshoot of ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', is Deconstructing ''[[Star Trek]]'' right now. So far the design of the starship Enterprise, the habit of using force field airlocks without wearing space suits and the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] have already been hit. Hard. Up next is engineering.
* The entire premise behind ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' is that the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe is the result of a group of [[Tabletop Games|Tabletop Gamers]] (including a 7 year old girl) making it up as they go along. It lends a whole new perspective to the storyline of the prequel trilogy. The entire mess on Naboo was the result of the Player Characters epically ruining a delicate, carefully constructed plan by going [[Off the Rails]], and engaging in all the sins of [[The Real Man]], [[The Munchkin]], and [[The Loonie]]. Palpatine is actually a good guy overthrowing a corrupt regime, and trying to bring a semblance of stability to the republic. Darth Maul was just a [[Chaotic Neutral]] [[Hired Guns|Hired Gun]] who was only trying to work ''with'' the player characters, before they attacked him. To top it all off, some of the most bizarre and unrealistic plot points, such as Naboo being governed by a ''14 year old Queen'', exist because [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|Jar Jar Binks]] is being played by a little girl.
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