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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' did this with [[Toon|Toons]]. The original novel, ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]'' was even [[Darker and Edgier]] and did it with newspaper comic strip characters instead.
* ''[[Murder By Death]]'' did this with mysteries.
* ''[[Across the Universe (Film)|Across the Universe]]'' with the Sixties mythology.
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* 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.
* As previously stated, ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]?'' by [[Gary Wolf]].
* ''[[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?"
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== [[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 ([[Gao Gai Gar|Zonderians]] vs [[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Radam]] vs [[Detonator Orgun|Evolouders]] vs [[Gao Gai Gar|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.
{{quote| '''[[Chars Counterattack|Char Aznable]]:''' Your way will never bring true peace.<br />
'''[[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.
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* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' does this with [[Nintendo]] [[Video Games|games]]. It uses a pre-existing Massive Multiplayer Crossover established by the [[Super Smash Bros]] franchise, and makes references to a number of movies, such as [[Silence of the Lambs]].
** It's not so much a true Deconstruction as a [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Parody]].
* The [http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/finalfightingfantasy Final Fighting Fantasy] Flash series on [[Newgrounds]] does a good job at this. For the various [[Final Fantasy]] Characters, it starts off as what looks like a simple poorly writen fan fic, but quickly [[Growing the Beard|grows the beard]] and becomes quite epic.<br />It turns out that the [[Infinity
* ''[[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 (Literature)|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]].
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* ''[http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/hybridtheory.htm Hybrid Theory]'' by Blade and Epsilon does this for the classic anime [[Mega Crossover]] and [[Self
* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' explores the similarities and differences between the two comic franchises.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers (Fanfic)|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.
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