Delicious Fruit Pies: Difference between revisions

** The tie-in game for the third movie had the Apocalypse gang stealing these at every frakking opportunity, with everyone openly referring to them with the full trope name. Spidey would actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this, by asking "without fruit pies, what'll I use to distract supervillains?" In addition, there'd occasionally be a truck driver with a dodgy Indian accent who would protest that he couldn't deliver '''Delicious Fruit Pies''' on time because the truck had broken down.

* Parodied in ''[[Green Lantern]] Secret Files And Origins'', which featured "the tastiest Green Lantern / [[Flash]] team-ups ever!" First the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] GL and Flash defeat Nazi saboteurs with the aid of Secret Files candy bars, and their secret ingredient. Then the [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] incarnations use the "space age taste" of Secret Files bars to expose alien criminals disguised as alien policemen (the real policemen absorb energy). Finally the [[The Modern Age of Comic Books|Modern Age]] versions (Kyle Rayner and Walter West<ref>Not Wallace "Wally" West - it's complicated but involves parallel universes and Abra Kadabra</ref>) are halfway through an ad for Secret Files Powerbars, before Kyle starts complaining it doesn't make sense. "We defeat the bad guy by giving him ''food''? And why is he standing at ground zero of his own weapon anyway? [[Who Writes This Crap?|Who wrote this]]?" While Kyle argues with the director of what now turns out to be a TV ad, and learns they're still working off Alan and Jay's contracts, Walter learns that the "secret ingredient" is ''sugar''.

* Appears oddly enough in the second season of ''[[Darker than Black]]''—a character who carries around a bag of hamburgers from which he has to eat after using his powers tells another Contractor that he will share his burgers if she cooperates with him. Given that this is a [[Darker and Edgier]] superhero series, this doesn't really work.

* Parodied by Marvel Comics in the issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' released as part of the infamous mid-80's "Assistant Editor's Month", entitled "Aunt May and Franklin Richards vs. Galactus". In this particular story Galactus took [[Spider-Man|Aunt May]] as his new herald (under the name "Golden Oldie") after which she halted his latest attempt to devour the Earth by serving him "Grosstest Twinkles".

* ''[[RPG World]]'' parodied this as well. It does actually work, turns out robots are [[Weaksauce Weakness|strangely vulnerable to fruit pies.]]

* A collection of ''[[Watchmen]]'' [http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/2009/03/collection-of-watchmenhostess-parodies.html Delicious Fruit Pies] parodies.

* Dan Slott's ''Spider-Man/Human Torch'' mini-series had a scene in one issue where Spider-Man distracted the Red Ghost's Super Apes (who had stolen the infamous [[Thememobile|Spider-Mobile]]) by snagging a store display of fruit pies with his webbing and yanking the display into the street. The apes immediately attacked the fruit pies and forgot about Spider-Man and the Torch. Spidey immediately calls the ad agency that gave him the car and tells them that the deal's off, [[Historical In-Joke|but he's got an idea for an ad campaign they can use...]]

* ''[[Welcome to Tranquility]]'' gives us an ad for Minxy Millions Mini-Pies. In "Maxi Man vs. the Vampire," Maxi-Man helps some disco-loving teens escape a vampire's bite by giving the vampire Minxy Fruit Mini-Pies (oh, and also by knocking out the vampire's fangs.) "It tastes similar to real fruit!"<ref>''[[Welcome to Tranquility]]: One Foot in the Grave'' #3</ref>

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' once parodied this, with Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy advertising the "New Krusty Kids Meal" at the Krusty Krab.