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A '''Hostile Show Takeover''' is an episode where a (lead) character is some

 

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the Brazilian ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' comic ''[[Novas Aventuras de Mega Man]]'', one writer introducted an [[Original Character]] [[Villain Sue]] named Princess, whom he ultimately intended to kill off the rest of the cast (yes, including the canonical cast of the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series) and become the new main character. When the people making the comic learned of his plans, the writer was promptly fired and Princess was [[Put on a Bus|shoved through a dimensional portal]], never to be seen again.

* In ''[[2000 AD]]'', Tharg had to go deal with a crisis, and so the comic was taken over by [[The Men in Black]] from ''Vector 13'' for about 10 issues.

* [[The Joker]], due to his [[Medium Awareness]], has on occasion directly addressed the reader and announced that he's taking over the narration.

 

* In the [[Bleach]] [[Fanfic]] [[Uninvited Guests]], Aizen uses a machine to steal Ichigo's [[Plot Armor]] and give it to his side. And he endlessly lampshades everything he's doing.

* The ending of ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''. Basically, the fic is about the adventures of an [[Author Avatar]] named Ronan, his sexual exploits among the female cast of [[Naruto]] ([[Bastard Boyfriend|and his abuses toward them]]), and his [[Author Filibuster|rambling about various subjects that he hates]], among them the author's stepbrother Benji. Just when the author finished the fic, Benji hijacked his stepbrother's Fanfiction.net account in order to get back at him, then wrote up his own ending involving a [[Mary Sue Hunter]] coming in to save the day and the Naruto cast rejecting and killing Ronan. The original author is now permanently locked out of his account, so the takeover ending is now final.

 

== Literature ==

* In "Jack's Bean Problem" from ''[[The Stinky Cheese Man]]'', the Giant decides not to follow the original [[Jack and the Beanstalk]] story. He kidnaps the narrator and insists on reading a story he wrote instead.

 

* Whenever Jon Stewart is temporarily unable to host ''[[The Daily Show]]'', correspondents [[Guest Host|sit in for him]]. Once, [[Steve Carell]] got rather too attached to the job and Jon's first episode back was spent trying to keep Steve away from his desk.

** Then, during the 2008 election, the revelation that Obama was now [[The Man]] led black correspondents Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac to briefly take over the ''The Daily Show'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. Normal service was resumed by the commercial break.

 

== Music ==

* The band Second Coming was originally an industrial rock band fronted and managed by Jesse Holt that released an album called ''L.O.V.E.vil''. When Holt fired bassist Yanni Bacolas, the drummer and rhythm guitarist left and went with Bacolas, who then registered "Second Coming" under his own name, hijacking the band name from Holt. They changed their sound to [[Post-Grunge]] and [[Canon Discontinuity|rarely, if ever spoke about ''L.O.V.E.vil'']]. To add insult to injury, [[Orwellian Editor|they changed the credits on the album to exclude any of Holt's contributions and remove him from the band's history]].

 

== Magazines ==

** - which is also the name of their online "magazine".

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

{{quote|'''Boy''': What right to we have to take away his happiness?

'''Cow''': I hated our comic anyway. }}

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* WCW was notorious for this during the [[New World Order|nWo]] storyline. The nWo took over ''WCW Monday Nitro'' several times (once with an elaborate new set and new CGI opening sequence), had their own Pay-Per-View (''nWo Souled Out'') where the WCW wrestlers' entrance music was replaced with taunts of "loser", and had a regular 10-minute segment on ''WCW Saturday Night'' that was almost a parody of pro wrestling.

** At one point [[Hulk Hogan]] and Eric Bischoff took over ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', leading to a Tag Team match on Pay Per View between Hogan and Bischoff vs Diamond Dallas Page and '''Jay Leno'''. The more insane pairing won.

 

== Video Games, Visual Novels ==

* In ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', various secondary characters will propose to the Dark Assembly that they should be the main character. Actually passing one of these proposals results in a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].

** In addition, [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]], the main character of the first game, complains that he only loses to the player characters (as an optional boss) because he wasn't the main character anymore. His whining is...whiny enough that Adell (The current main character) takes pity on him and allows [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] to resume being the main character...for one minute. [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] decides to use that minute in an anime sequence. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensues.]]

* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'', a [[Straw Feminist]] martial artist shows up, beats up the narrator, and declares that she is taking over, dissatisfied with the sexism and poor production values (but [[You Bastard|just as displeased with the player's choices]]), and is apparently wanted in several states for doing this. Later, the narrator returns and guns her down, regaining control.

* In the ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' series, [[Yggdra Union|Yggdra]] first appeared in ''[[Knights in The Nightmare]]'' as a [[Continuity Porn]] gag, narrating the tutorials and [[Rule of Funny|making loads of disparaging remarks about how she makes a better protagonist than Maria]]. As of the rerelease of the game, she has become its third heroine; she's even appeared in the concept art for the next game. Amusingly, Yggdra's own protagonist status in the [[Yggdra Union|Ancardia]] [[Yggdra Unison|games]] is [[Blaze Union|slowly but surely being usurped by]] ''[[Yggdra Union]]'''s [[Hero Antagonist]], [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Gulcasa]].

 

== Web Original ==

{{quote|''♪ The blood of the innocent shall flow without end / His name is Zorc and he's destroying the world! ♫''}}

** Tea, Tristan and Bakura's ill fated attempts to get some screen time in episode 16: Fanservice. They seem to have accepted their roles as ineffectual minor characters now though.

* [[The Cinema Snob|Lloyd the cat]] once [https://twitter.com/#!/OreoAntwiler/status/171805008776531968 took over] [[The Spoony Experiment|Oreo the dog]]'s [[Twitter]].

 

* '''{{color|purple|Waluigi is back! [http://brawlinthefamily.com/comic151.html The page is funny again.]}}{{broken link}}'''

* In ''[[Errant Story]]'', Sara and Bani's [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Errant Commentary]] section has twice been taken over by Poe's other filler characters, Naga and Fran. Both occasions ended with Naga and Fran being killed (and Sara made Naga into a pair of snakeskin shoes).

* ''[[Femmegasm]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20121028000139/http://www.aorange.com/?p=192 "Okay you feebs, move over! Fizzy's here from now on!"]

* Variation in ''[[Homestuck]]''. Doc Scratch suddenly takes over narration duties ''twice'', the second time [[Interface Screw|even changing the website to a pool theme]]. This counts because the narrator is [[Author Avatar|author Andrew Hussie]], who literally [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|bursts through the fifth wall]] to take the story back, knocking out Scratch in the process. {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit|Sucker.]]}}

* In the web-[[Manhwa]] ''[[Tower of God]]'', {{spoiler|Rachel}} does this at [[Wham! Episode|the end of the first season]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* In ''Jim Henson's [[Dog City]]'', a [[The Muppets|Muppet]] series about the creation of an animated series, one episode involved Eliot Shag, the artist, coming down with flu. The other Muppet characters decided to finish the story for him, each coming up with a version starring the secondary character Shag had modeled on them.

** In ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', the pigs forcibly take over the show in one episode. Instead, they put on their own programming, complete with Kermit the ''Pig''.

* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' the first clue to something being up is Joker appearing instead of Batman in the teaser. Followed by [[The Bad Guy Wins|Bad Guys winning]] and ending with an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]. The intro then starts, Joker has now taken over the episode and renamed the show Joker: The Vile and the Villainous! Complete with HAHAHAs sprayed over everything. The main episode even plays up Batman as the villain, while Joker [[Villain Team-Up|teams up]] with his idol The Weeper to get him back in the game.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' has Mandark electrocuting Dexter instead of Dee Dee in the intro with the title sign reading ''Mandark's Laboratory'' complete with [[Villain Episode|all the shorts centered around Mandark.]] {{spoiler|However, Dexter does get back at him near the end of the show when ''he'' electrocutes Mandark much like the intro.}}

 

== Real Life ==