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* ''[[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 [[Super Friends]] 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
* ''[[Planetary]]'' did this with various fiction characters and genres. Most of the characters there are pastiches or [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzs]], and most genres are deconstructed in self-containing stories, regardless of the series' [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] premise.
* J.Michael Straszynski's unfinished series ''[[The Twelve]]'' did this with [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|twelve]] various WWII-era Timely Comics superheroes, exploring the differences between modern and 1940s culture.
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== [[Literature]] ==
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* Jonathan Swift wrote the satirical tract [
* The [[Neil Gaiman]] novel ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'' does this, along with a healthy dose of [[All Myths Are True]].
* 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.
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