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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Violence Jack]]'' has dark, twisted versions of many a [[Go Nagai]] character. Considering what most of Go Nagai's characters are like to ''begin'' with...

 

** The original script for ''[[Watchmen]]'' was this: a crossover of several Charlton Comics characters intended for deconstructing the superhero genre from a modern viewpoint. The final work uses [[Captain Ersatz]]es of the Charlton characters instead.

** ''[[Lost Girls (comics)|Lost Girls]]'', with art by Melinda Gebbie, crosses the stories of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''[[Peter Pan]]'' and ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''. The deconstructive part comes where instead of fantasy tales, they're all converted into similar stories of sexual awakening, often taking place when the girls are quite young {{spoiler|and sometimes with [[Parental Incest|family members]]}}.

* ''[[Sandman]]'' does this with every comics, mythological or historical figure Neil Gaiman could work into the story.

* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'': To some extent, it actually fulfilled the idea of ''Twilight of the Superheroes''.

** Basically, it starts with the idea "everything ever produced for [[DC Comics]] was canon". All of it, [[Watchmen]], [[Vertigo Comics]], the [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|experimental comics of]] [[The Seventies]], One shot characters from anthology comics, the [[Superfriends]] Cartoon, all of it. Then, it took all the [[The Dark Age of Comic Books|contemporary trends in comics]], morally questionable storylines, [[Badass]] [[Nineties Anti-Hero|Nineties Anti Heroes]], heroes and villains being [[Anti-Hero Substitute|replaced]] with [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Legacy Character]]s, and extrapolate them to their logical extremes. Then it took the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Generation of superheroes, and brought their powers to logical extremes, added biblical themes, and gave it to us in a photo-realistic "painted" style to make it more realistic, and disturbing. It certainly counts.

* ''[[Planetary]]'' did this with various fiction characters and genres. Most of the characters there are pastiches or [[Captain Ersatz]]s, and most genres are deconstructed in self-containing stories, regardless of the series' [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] premise.

* ''[[Fables]]'' does this with fairy-tales and nursery rhymes.

* ''[[Twilight (Comic Book)|Twilight]]'', by Howard Chaykin, did this with [[DC Comics]]' [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] science fiction characters. No relation to ''Twilight of the Superheroes''. Or [[Twilight (novel)|that book with sparkling vampires.]]

* The [[JLA-Avengers]] miniseries. The plot of the series was all about the differences between the [[Marvel Universe]] and [[The DCU]]. Compared to the DCU, Marvel is a [[Crapsack World]], and compared to Marvel, DC heroes are just one short, bad day away from [[Beware the Superman]].

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' explores the similarities and differences between the two comic franchises.

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers]]'' is a [[Deconstructive Parody]] crossover between lots onf mecha anime (pretty much in the style of [[Super Robot Wars]]), where the own tag says "This was either an awesome or a really bad idea!" the city that they supposedly have to protect clearly gets the second option.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Murder By Death]]'' did this with mysteries.

* ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' with the Sixties mythology.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* This trope, combined with the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], is the main premise of many works taking place in [[Philip Jose Farmer|Philip José Farmer's]] Wold Newton Universe.

* The ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' series by [[Kim Newman]] is a massive hodgepodge of characters vampire and non-vampire, fictional and non-fictional, Victorian and modern, running around in a world where Dracula killed Van Helsing and took over Britain.

* ''[[Nursery Crime]]'' by [[Jasper Fforde]] does this with nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters, to the point of postulating an entire murder mystery story around the age-old question of, "Why are the Three Bears' bowls of porridge different temperatures if clearly they were poured at the same time?"

 

* ''[[Into the Woods]]'', containing characters from multiple fairy tales and weaving their stories together. The whole thing is deconstructed in the second act.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* There are some surprisingly convincing [[Epileptic Trees]] that interpret ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' as this. One theory states that Master Hand represents the forces of video game order (the rules by which video games function), Crazy Hand represents the forces of video game chaos (the unpredictability that makes video games fun), and {{spoiler|Tabuu represents the forces of [[Serious Business]] and [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]], what with his efforts to imprison Master Hand and destroy the world of video games}}.

* [[Super Robot Wars]] games can turn into this to some degree, by showing how characters from one anime would react when facing plot and characters from others - friendships ([[Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] and [[Getter Robo|Ryoma]] in [[Super Robot Wars Z|Z2]]) and rivalries ([[G Gundam|Domon]] and [[Daimos|Kazuya]] in [[Super Robot Wars MX|MX]]) are formed, some characters turns different that in their source material ([[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]] and [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Shinn]], very often), some events are averted, villains fight one another ([[GaoGaiGar|Zonderians]] vs [[Tekkaman Blade|Radam]] vs [[Detonator Orgun|Evolouders]] vs [[GaoGaiGar|Eleven Lords Of Sol]] in [[Super Robot Wars W|W]]) or form alliances ([[Mazinkaiser|Doctor Hell]], [[Full Metal Panic!|Gauron]] and [[Zeorymer|Hakkeshu]] in [[Super Robot Wars J|J]]), not to mention characters making comments about events from other series.

'''[[Getter Robo|Ryoma Nagare]]:''' [[Colony Drop|And dropping a rock]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|on Earth will]]? }}

** [[Super Robot Wars Z]] goes one step further by actually having some characters show in multiple versions of their animated continuities, in order to contrast the differences between them. For example, Classic Ryoma witnesses Armageddon Ryoma and is horrified by his much more violent nature.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]'' does this with breakfast cereal mascots.

* Most of Bleedman's [[Web Comics]] (e.g., ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'', ''[[Grim Tales from Down Below]]'') do this with various [[Western Animation]] cartoons (at the same time changing their drawing styles to an [[Animesque]] one).

* ''[[Kid Radd]]'' seems to do this, but featuring [[Captain Ersatz]]es and pastiches rather than actual trandemarked [[Video Game]] characters.

* ''[[Chess Piece]]'' more and more.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Cheshire Crossing]]''. Three girls believed to be insane are all sent to a new place. A 'boarding school'. But the three girls are [[Alice in Wonderland|Alice Liddell]], [[Peter Pan|Wendy Darling]], and [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Dorothy Gale]]. And the 'teacher' is [[Mary Poppins]]. Has to be read, because it's definitely better than it sounds.

* [[Marvel DC After Hours]] does this. Season 1 questions the validity of [[Superman]], Season 2 deals with what the heroes would be like if they all went through what [[Batman]] did, and Season 3 revolves around the concept of the [[Continuity Reboot]], and what it would be like to go through one. Of course, by the end, it is always [[Reconstructed]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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