Genre Adultery: Difference between revisions

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So you've just bought a new novel from your favorite author. You've read every book thus far, and are outright giddy about this new book. You pop onto your couch and open it up, and... hey! This doesn't look like anything before it from this author, or, as you will learn later, after it. You've discovered the outlier; the author has committed '''Genre Adultery'''. Perhaps the sausage machine producer of crime novels has shifted from a light hearted [[Great Detective]] to a hard boiled [[Dirty Cop]] or even as extreme as writing in a completely different genre, but not often. Keep in mind that just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad.

This trope doesn't just exclusively apply to literature, but it's certainly an obvious way to phrase it. Music albums, movie sequels, even tv shows can be a radical departure from the creator's norm. The only thing that matters is that the new style is never return to again in such a manner which is what distinguished it from [[He Also Did]], its Supertrope.

 

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* ''[[Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman]]'' was quite a departure from Kaimu Tachibana's [[Boys Love|usual work]].

* The mangaka who did ''[[The Electric Tale of Pikachu]]'' typically wrote hentai.

* The author of ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'', a very [[Genre Savvy]] humorous story is also the author of the bleak and gorey fantasy series ''[[Claymore]]''. Oddly, the two do have a bit of a connection, as some characters are visual expies of each other.

 

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1747252/superstarultra superstarultra] is an author well-known in the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' fandom for his [[Crack Fic]]s. He is also in the process of writing a horror-story collection. Then again, [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror|perhaps this is to be expected.]]

 

* [[Mel Brooks]] produced ''[[The Elephant Man]]'' but had his name removed so that nobody thought it was a comedy.

** He also produced David Cronenberg's remake of ''[[The Fly]]''.

* Bob Clark directed several notable horror films in the early '70s, including ''Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things'', ''Deathdream'', and the groundbreaking ''[[Black Christmas]]''. Then he abandoned horror, directed the teen sex comedy [[Porky's]], and spent the last 20 years of his career making more family-friendly films such as ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' and ''[[Baby Geniuses]]''.

 

* "[[The Monkey's Paw]]" was the one and only horror story by a fellow who mostly wrote about sailors.

* While it's in the sci-fi genre like most of his stories, ''Good Night, Mr. James'' by Clifford D. Simak has been described by the author himself as unique ? it's much darker in tone than most of his work, and has a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] ending.

* Steve Martini started off writing courtroom dramas with twist endings. His series character suddenly found himself thrust into the world of international assassins and intrigue and has stopped a few weapons of mass destruction.

 

* [[Lights]], a Canadian [[Synth Pop]] artist, released an acoustic EP with re-workings of some of her previous songs, as well as a brand new song and a light re-imagining of an old punk song.

* ''Remain in Light'' by [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]].

* This is what launched Ludwig von Beethoven's fame, for when got deaf, he moved out of his classical style and shifted music towards the romantic period.

 

 

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