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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. it's hard to tell, at times, whether it's an over-the-top parody of the Hollywood action film genre or a straight example with a tendency to occasionally take [[Refuge in Audacity]]. The series seems to swing a bit back and forth depending on the arc in question.
* ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' is also somewhere in between, but often seems closer to a very self-aware [[Shounen]] entry, especially in the second part when the [[Cerebus Syndrome]] sneaks in.
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** Ultimately, it ends up firmly on the side of [[Affectionate Parody]]. ''[[Mystery Men]]'' may [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a few lampshades here and there]], but it's rooted firmly in comic book logic. The only subversion is that the film focuses on superhero [[Fan Boy|Fanboys]] who end up inheriting the real job.
* ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' The "unofficial" [[James Bond]] film can't quite seem to decide if it's a harsh satire of the Eon series or if it's a regular James Bond film. Plainly satirical scenes (such as Bond's discussion with M at the beginning) are side by side with normal Bond-style scenes.
* ''[[Pineapple Express]]'' starts out as mushing a stoner movie into an action movie, showing how poorly this type of thing would go in real life. But then Seth Rogen [[Took a Level
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' is this trope done more or less to artistic perfection.
** More obviously a parody in the book (if only because of Goldman's "analyses" of "S. Morgenstern's" work. See the whole idea is Goldman is pretending it's someone else's... it's a weird setup). Would you believe it ends with a {{spoiler|[[Bolivian Army Ending]]}}?
* ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' is never really sure whether or not it's serious.
* ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' was marketed as a [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Slasher
* ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot
** The fact that Paul Giamatti is in an action movie ''at all'' should have been something of a clue.
** There's a scene were he shoots up an entire room full of bad guys WHILE having sex, and another were he shoots out the umbilical cord of a newborn baby. People took this movie seriously?
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* ''[[Starship Troopers]]'': Your enjoyment of [[The Film of the Book|the film version]] may depend on whether you think it's a parody. The movie started simply as a movie about a war with alien bugs until someone pointed out vague similarities with the book, and [[Executive Meddling|meddlesome executives]] insisted they [[In Name Only|buy the rights to the name to avoid a lawsuit.]] The director claimed that he found the book too slow and depressing to get through, so he decided to make the whole thing a [[Stealth Parody]] of fascist propaganda, which he felt the book was leaning towards.
* ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' A lot of people didn't understand that the "[[Rockumentary]]" film was a parody of the burgeoning heavy metal scene of the time. [[Stealth Parody|People thought it was a documentary of a real band]]. Much of this was probably because of how much [[Truth in Television]] it had (Eddie [[Van Halen]] is quoted as not finding it funny because "everything in that movie had happened to me"... Which just goes to show how [[Serious Business|serious Eddie Van Halen takes himself]]).
** Confusing things further, [[
* ''[[True Lies]]'': Either a 90's action comedy, or a parody thereof.
* ''[[Van Helsing]]'' couldn't decide if it was an [[Affectionate Parody]] of old fashioned horror movies, a straight parody, or a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] of the genre. Although it might be considered "[[Two-Fisted Tales|pulp]]" like ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]''.
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** Also, while it would be entirely possible to either interpret the over-the-top guitar solos as straight over-the-top guitar solos or parodies of over-the-top guitar solos, the lyrics are fairly unambiguously parodic.
* [[Jethro Tull|Jethro Tull's]] 1972 effort ''Thick as a Brick'' was intended to be a parody of [[Progressive Rock]], in response to Ian Anderson's discontent of their previous album consistently being called a [[Concept Album]]. Of course, today the album is deemed one of the essential classics of the genre. So, depending on how you look at it, they either [[Gone Horribly Right|did it right]] or [[Gone Horribly Wrong|terribly, terribly wrong]]. A [[Sequel]] came out 40 years later in 2012.
== Radio ==
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* [[Discordia]]nism. In this case it's largely the point.
* At least one of the above has been described such that "If you don't see the joke, you've missed the point. But if you think it's nothing at all except a joke... you've also missed the point."
== Tabletop Games ==
* The creators of ''[[FATAL]]'' have variously claimed it to be a work of "historically and mythically accurate scholarship" and "controversial humour".
== Theater ==
* Arguably, ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. Particularly the scenes with the Mechanicals, who are performing a self parody of [[Romeo and Juliet]], it's possible those characters are parodies of some of the Lord Chamberlain's Men
* The Broadway version of ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]'', retitled ''Dance of the Vampires''. ''Tanz'' is a serious rock musical, albeit not without humor. ''Dance'' tried to make the show into a straight-up musical comedy, since the producer thought this would go over better with an American audience. Unfortunately, due to an incredibly dysfunctional creative process, many of the songs didn't fit in with the new approach, so the show wound up swinging between [[Camp]] and seriousness, leaving no one satisfied. To quote the [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117919518?refCatId=33 Variety review]{{Dead link}}: "It's not an outright comedy [...] but as a serious musical -- well, it's pretty damn funny."
* The play ''[[Done to Death]]'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the [[Mystery Fiction]] genre. However it combines drastically different styles and the first scene of Act 1 is extremely different from the rest of the show.
== Video Games ==
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** Though the [[A Winner Is You|final message]] seems to support the parody claim.
* It's not always immediately clear whether ''[[Trenched]]'' is supposed to be [[Rated "M" for Manly]] or [[Testosterone Poisoning]]. Some aspects seem to be firmly mocking over-the-top manliness, while others seem to be playing it straight. The [[Word of God]] isn't very helpful either—when citing over-the-top men's magazines like ''Man's Life'' as a source, they both refer to how warped their values are, and how awesome they were.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' and its sequel run on [[Rule of Funny]]—until they get to a particularly serious moment from the books and play it up as heartwrenchingly as possible before settling back into nonsense again.
* Meta example: In ''[[My Little Pony: Camaraderie Is Supernatural]]'', an [[The Abridged Series|abridged]] parody of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Twilight Sparkle explains that a proper parody has to stay close to its source material and cannot just go off the rails with whatever the author thinks would be funny.
== Western Animation ==
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