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* ''[[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 Movies|Slasher]] genre, but for all it did to point out as many traits as it could, it just ended up being a straight entry of the genre with [[Death By Genre Savviness|genre savvy characters that still fall into all the same traps]].
* ''[[Shoot Em Up (Film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' is arguably at least partly a metahumor-touched [[Affectionate Parody]] of the more over-the-top entries in the genre from which it takes its name (for goodness sake, the eagle-eyed hero's even a carrot-chomper!), and thus includes ridiculously over-the-top gunplay action ''and'' ridiculously over-the-top scenes involving sex and/or nudity on top of that. It's pretty entertaining... ''if'' you noticed the parody elements for what they were, which a ''hell'' of a lot of people (including a good two-thirds of the people this troper went to see the film with) apparently didn't, thus leading quite quickly to the film being dismissed as "another dumb, pointless action movie with unrealistic plot and characters" instead of being recognized as the fourth-wall-flirting action-comedy it really is at heart.
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* High Voltage Software claimed that ''[[Conduit 2]]'' is supposed to be "tongue-in-cheek". Some portions the game are clearly taking the piss (half of Ford's dialogue, for instance), but other parts of the game are done completely seriously (like the conspiracy objects), and still others are ambiguous (the ending).
** 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.
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