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'''{{color|purple|''[[Home Page|What is this about?]]'' This website used to be a page about the [[Hostile Show Takeover]] trope, but Waluigi didn't like the stupid guy who wrote the page, so now ''it's ALL WALUIGI, ALL THE TIME!''}}'''

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This probably requires the characters to actually be [[Medium Awareness|aware they're in a show]], at least for that episode, but comes up in [[Animated Actors|cartoons]] frequently.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In one chapter of ''[[Mirumo De Pon]]!'', Murumo is quick to declare the manga's end after his older brother gets konked on the head and the start of a new manga ("Lovely Fairy Murumo de Pon!"), despite Mirumo's protests that he isn't dead.

* The supporting cast of ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo]]'', Don Patch in particular, attempt this frequently, though considering Bo Bobo is an [[Invincible Hero]] and they are collectively [[The Chew Toy]] their attempts don't exactly succeed.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' Captain Ginyu does this in one of the [[On the Next]] segments after body swapping with Goku. He says the show will now be Ginyu Force Kai and that he will do the narration from now on.

** ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' does a similar joke, with the Ginyu Force taking over the opening for the duration of their appearance on the show.

*** [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Flonne]]'s preview for Episode 7 (Drop Dead, Etna) is a [[Magical Girl]] parody that gets her shot.

{{quote| '''Etna''': Flonne, whatcha doin'...?<br />

*** Gordon regularly interrupts Etna's preview for Episode 10, and each of her lines is cut off with fewer words before he starts talking.

{{quote| '''Gordon''': Look forward to my adventures! *hearty laugh*<br />

* In ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Visual Novel)|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.

* [[Internet Personality Vangelus|The Subtitles]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgVe2iJx80 took over the Teletraan3 channel], abusing everybody in its path. Poor Cobra Commander TFW was even [[Driven to Suicide]].

* [[Demyx Time]] Episode <s> Eight</s> Axel had this. {{spoiler|And then Marluxia and Larxene come in and take the show from Axel}}.

* The Game AntiThinker, Bob's boorish, hyper-masculine douchebag [[Evil Twin]], has taken over [[The Game Overthinker]] as of episode 43.

* When [[Bum Reviews (Web Video)|Chester A. Bum]] was about to review ''[[Rango]]'', he was called offscreen and punched by [[Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas|Raoul Puke]], who said he should review the movie as "he was in it" (referencing [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|a brief cameo by]] "[[Hunter S Thompson]]").

* In the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "Baffler Meal", a prototypical version of the [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] try to take over Space Ghost's talk show. It truly gets out of hand once they start running the "hunger imagery". Space Ghost does manage to reassert himself in the end, at the cost of changing classic rock forever (imagine Thomas Jefferson and his backing band singing a reworded version of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" and you'll get the picture...[[Gainax Ending|maybe]]).

* In the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode, "Change of Mind", it plays out like a "Garfield's Tales of Scary Stuff", except Nermal is the central focus and does the narration. In the end, things return to normal for Nermal, but now Jon is doing the narration and is the focus. Of course, Garfield himself doesn't take kindly to any of this.

* In "Lightspeed", an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', the opening sequence is abruptly cut 3/4 of the way through by the H.I.V.E. Five, who say something along the lines of how it's their show now. Indeed, the focus is on them and the Titans don't appear at all, save for Kid Flash, who has no direct connection with them.

** No connection is explicitly mentioned, anyway. Why do you THINK he was hanging out in the city while the Titans were gone?

* This is the entire premise of ''Disney's House of Villains'', a Halloween special edition of ''[[House of Mouse]]'' in which [[Aladdin (Disney)|Jafar]], [[Peter Pan|Captain Hook]], [[The Little Mermaid|Ursula]], [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Maleficent]], and other famous Disney villains conduct a hostile takeover of the titular House of Mouse. (Surprisingly, this is in no way connected to ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', although the game may have been the inspiration.)

* In the episode "A Pig's Story" of [[Dave the Barbarian]], '''The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy''' does this by capturing the narrator with magical handcuffs.

* ''[[Dexters 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.}}