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{{trope}}
{{quote|''[[In a World]] where trailers are made for movies that will never exist...''}}
The show's great. You've seen every episode and bought the DVD collection. And there, tucked away in the extras, is the Holy Grail: the trailer for the movie.
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Compare [[Trailer Spoof]], which is for a real movie, just not the one you thought it was.
{{examples}}
==Intentional spoofs==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ckFAdY3s4 Scarlet] looked like ads for a slick, spy-fi [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''Alias.'' It ''was'' an ad for a TV series, as in a series of TV's made by LG. Note a lot of the dialogue, such as "Putting her in every home on the planet," and saying "She's gonna change TV."
* Geico made a trailer for a fake reality show titled ''Tiny House'', about a couple living in a house that was built too small.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsaq1XTsrxY Son of Dundee], a 2018 [[Super Bowl Special]] ad, appears to be a trailer for a sequel to ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]''... until they get to the point where they admit that it's actually an ad for Australian tourism.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
▲=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* ''Elf Princess Rane'' is a two-episode OAV that ends with trailers for the completely nonexistent third and fourth episodes.
** A similar fate had befallen a number of short OAV series, especially during the 80s and 90s: The material produced was intended to be a pilot for a longer work, but the series was canned before it ever got off the ground. While not all of them necessarily had trailers produced advertising the dead-in-the-water series, see also the "in the next episode" bit advertising "Knight of Lemon" at the end of [[NG Knight Lamune & 40|"Knights of Ramune"]] (which is promptly followed by a note that the series had been cancelled).
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lFJC0ywHQk Magical Girl Pretty Sammy The Motion Picture: The God Boys VS. Magical Girls]'' was included as one of the extras on the final ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' [[
* ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' had a fake trailer on the DVDs for the ''[[
* The last page of second volume of the hentai doujinshi ''Take on Me'' is intended to look like an advertisement for a anime adaptation. Far, far too many people have asked where they can find this movie, when it is coming out, etc. It's not, it's just the artist [[Mind Screw|mind screwing]] the audience.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn8PPgfPNnU seventh DVD special] (NSFW) of ''[[Rumbling Hearts]]'' was a trailer of series' [[Remake]] <small>[[In Space]] WITH [[Gundam|GUNDAMS]]!</small>
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* Subverted with [[Gintama]], with the trailer for the Benizakura arc movie. It first shows up in the third season, when the characters admit that the trailer is fake. During the next season, the trailer is played again and the characters say it is actually coming out. Played straight with the second trailer, where the trailer is played and Gin follows up by telling us it is all a lie.
=== Fan
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs fanmade trailer] for ''[[Green Lantern]]''.
* It's really more of a case of "Real Movie, Fake Trailer" but there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfiU-Q0YerE this] trailer for ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie]]...''
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** There was also at least one trailer for a ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbIUHBz1LY movie].
** Then there's the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3q5o55BJYw Star Trek: Emergency]'' opening, which is what ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' would probably be like from the Doctor's point of view.
* [
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* ''Kentucky Fried Movie'' includes trailers for parodies of other films, including ''Catholic High School Girls In Trouble'', ''That's Armageddon!'' and ''Cleopatra Schwartz'' (a parody of a [[Blaxploitation]] film called 'Cleopatra Jones'').
* This is how [[Trey Parker]]'s ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'' began. He made a fake trailer for film class and was told to make the movie by his teacher.
* Ben Stein's movie ''Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'' was criticized for, amongst other things, lying to the interviewees about the nature of the film and cutting up interviews to change the meaning of what they said. [[Richard Dawkins]], one of the scientists who claims to have been misquoted, produced his own [
* ''Kill Buljo'', a spoof trailer of "Kill Bill" set in a Scandinavian indigenous people's setting, [[Defictionalization|actually ''was'' filmed later]]. Supposedly, [[Quentin Tarantino]] quite liked it (the director eventually made [[Dead Snow|a movie about a buried treasure guarded by Nazi zombies]]).
* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' featured not one but ''four'' of these before the movie even starts. The first is a fake commercial for the [[Defictionalization|now-real]] "Booty Sweat" drink, the second for the sixth installment in fictional action star Tugg Speedman's blockbuster ''Scorcher'' franchise, the third for an [[Eddie Murphy]]-style comedy called ''The Fatties: Fart 2'', and the fourth for ''Satan's Alley'', an [[Oscar Bait]] art film about gay medieval monks starring (the fake) Kirk Lazarus and (the real) Tobey Maguire.
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* The movie ''Movie Movie'' had, in between its two main segments, a trailer for a fictitious [[World War II]] air battle movie called ''Zero Hour''.
{{quote|Fight with them! Laugh with them! Love with them! And even die with them the [[Heroic Sacrifice|death of heroes]] who will [[Famed in Story|live forever]]!}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NwB9PLxss Movie: The Movie] from [[Jimmy Kimmel]] is a massive [[Genre Busting]] fake trailer starring a serious number of A-list Hollywood talent.
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=== Video games ===
* IGN's 2008 April Fool's joke was this surprisingly impressive [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511165315/http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html
** And for 2010, they did a ''[[Halo]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4DHllroiqM movie trailer...] {{spoiler|[[Bollywood]] style}}.
** For 2011, they did a [[Harry Potter]] [http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/04/01/harry-potter-the-aurors-tv-show-trailer TV show].
** For 2012, they did a [[Mass Effect]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqHUa2LfNY cartoon].
* The ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nznm3R66ds Battle] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDbZtu7Kls0&feature=related Fantasia]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCOo3fC5k3M&feature=related series], a set of trailers for a conceptual game franchise that's basically [[Super Robot Wars]], only instead of a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] of [[Humongous Mecha]], it's a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] of cute girls from [[Moe]] and series such as ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'', ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', ''[[Pretty Cure]]'', and ''[[
** And since ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' -is- ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' with cute girls, it got its own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yONDMeMv0HA trailer for a nonexistent game].
* The ''[[Tsukihime]]'' spin-off Kagetsu Tohya included a preview for ''Tsukihime 2''. No ''Tsukihime 2'' exists or will likely ever exist.
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* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has done this a few times, most famously making a fake trailer for a movie based on their game ''[[Peasant's Quest]]''. According to their website, there already is a full-length ''Peasant's Quest'' movie: "its 'full length' is three minutes" (the length of the trailer).
** See also the SBEmail "Narration", where Strong Bad narrates the lives of the residents of Free Country, USA as though they were movie trailers: Homestar and Marzipan are a couple torn apart by a novelty chef's hat, an argument between Coach Z and Bubs over napkins apparently [[Serious Business|leads to the fall of an empire]], and Strong Sad gets a dead goose thrown at him.
* [[Puffin Forest]]'s ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUazW0xIObw What it's like to give your players an overpowered NPC friendo]'' is a movie trailer called ''Free Melly''.
=== Web Original ===
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* Used, but then turned into a subversion, by ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'': There was a trailer made for an Abridged version of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]: [[The Movie]]'', that was never intended to be made into a full movie. Eventually, however, after a lot of people asked for it, Little Kuriboh did make a half-hour version of the movie, but with ''none'' of the lines from the original trailer (except one reference).
* On [[YouTube]], there are many trailers for movies that will never be made. Some are intentionally funny while others are not.
* ''[[Minesweeper]] [[The Movie]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131215174111/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138 trailer].
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=QQyfQ7RMOXsn_id=annotation_594699&feature=iv Grayson], a trailer for a film where a retired Robin once again takes up the mantle to solve the mystery of [[Batman]]'s death. A script was even produced for a full feature and is available to read online.
** In that spirit is also [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2izoh_batman-arkham-asylum-fan-trailer-en_shortfilms Batman: Arkham Asylum], a Spanish-language adaptation of [[Grant Morrison]]'s influential and mindtwisting ''[[Arkham Asylum a Serious House On Serious Ground|Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth]]''.
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** I see that and raise you ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEYyrpvvWo The Fugitive's Day Off]'', (Mashup of ''[[The Fugitive (film)|The Fugitive]]'' and ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'').
* Not only is there a live-action [[My Little Pony]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoYK4b_q24 movie], but they go behind the scenes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgqgAExJMyw&feature=channel too].
* Another version of mash-ups uses the sound from one trailer and the footage from another trailer/movie/TV show. An excellent example would be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qihwMN0JM Toy Story Requiem]: footage from [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] and [[Toy Story 2]] with the sound from ''Requiem of a Dream''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AyizzX1Xis Cock and Load] a [[Grindhouse]] style preview about a man who has his penis replaced with a shotgun and uses it to fight the mob. Must be seen to be believed.
* A trailer for the Nicholas Cage ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' has been made as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo though it was a comedy]. It is hilarious.
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=== Film ===
* The movie ''[[Scary Movie]] 2'' has a trailer for ''[[Amistad]] 2'', which some people believe is the funniest part of the whole movie.
* ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'' features, among its mock commercials, ads for fake TV shows, including the ''[[
* The [[Weird Al]] movie ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' had trailers for ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan the Librarian]]'' and ''[[Gandhi]] 2''.
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* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' advertises several fake products on a regular basis, including ''Jon'' magazine and the Daily Show Home Game. In 2003, they started airing joke trailers for a new spinoff called ''The Colbert Réport'' that had "already been cancelled". ''[[The Colbert Report|The Report]]'' premiered in 2005, and has been described as "the only show that [[Defictionalization|started as a promo for itself]]".
* A [[Bill Nye the Science Guy]] episode on the Earth's Crust had a trailer for a kid cop show called "Johnny Crust."
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had one of these where a trailer for ''[[The Wedding Bride]]'' was mentioned on the show and the full trailer was released online [https://web.archive.org/web/20121214015335/http://www.weddingbridemovie.com/ here]. The movie describes {{spoiler|Ted's failed relationship with Stella however from the somewhat skewed mind of her ex-husband Tony. Ted in one episode goes to see this movie more than once and, at one point, acts out something similar to it to is date while he is in the movie theatre.}}
* In the two-hundredth episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'', titled "200," the team is giving advice on the production of ''Wormhole X-Treme!'', a show based on their adventures. The opening to act four, which airs immediately after a commercial break and was intended to be mistaken for another commercial, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RWM65ZjL4 is a trailer for] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RWM65ZjL4 Teal'c, P.I.]''. Bonus points for ''actually getting [[Shaft|Isaac Hayes]]'' to do the narration.
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=== Web Original ===
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040923015819/http://www.leastlikely.com/ The Least Likely]'', Kelly Hu's project for CAUSE, made in an effort to get Asian-Americans to become more politically active and less apathetic (the name comes from the fact that Asians are the racial group that is least likely to vote each year, with only about one-third doing so). Rumors of an actual movie to go with the trailer still circulate.
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