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* Marvel's parody comic ''Not Brand Ecch'' portrayed the [[Doom Patrol]] as shameless rip-offs of the more popular [[X-Men]] when in reality the Patrol came first.
** Though only by a few months at a time when comic book scripts were written longer in advance than that. Not to mention that the creator of Doom Patrol used to work for Marvel.
* ''[[Cracked]]'', when it still was a magazine [[Follow the Leader|along the lines of]] ''Mad'', had an issue (#248 or #249 or thereabouts) covering [[Batman (film)|the 1989 ''Batman'' film]] wherein a [[Batman (TV series)|Burt Ward-style]] Robin complains that not only is he absent from the film, but he's dead in the comics. Never mind that it was Jason Todd who died and Dick Grayson was currently Nightwing. (To be fair, in the eyes of most casual ''Batman'' fans that is basically nit-picking.)
** Pretty much any ''Cracked'' magazine parody, for that matter. They did little more than re-tell the movie or TV show straight up, with [[Parody Name|parody namesNames]].
* The [[Lucas Arts]] ''[[Sam and Max]]'' strips frequently fell into this, possibly deliberately. Being produced for the [[Lucas Arts]]LucasArts company newsletter and ''Sam And Max'' not starting out as [[Lucas Arts]]LucasArts characters, Steve Purcell was allowed to draw them only if he parodied whatever games were coming out at the time. Because of this, he preferred to take the basic setting of the game he was parodying, dress Sam up as the main character of that game, and then just have the characters do their own thing - being more like one-off, themed adventures about fighting monsters or being bikers instead of parodies of ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' and ''[[Full Throttle]]''. Notably, the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' parody had Sam and Max in pirate costumes going to a desert island... full of monkeys. The strips are probably [[Tropes Are Not Bad|To be fair, the strips are probably more hilarious for not being true parody]].
* In a glaring example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], ''[[Rat-Man]]'''s first story was a parody of Tim Burton's ''Batman'', which the author had never seen. Despite this, it won the [[wikipedia:Lucca Comics and Games|Lucca Comics]] award for the best script and set the foundation for what in Italy is considered one of the funniest comics ever published.
* It's very amusing indeed to read old comics and magazines from the early/mid-1960s and come across a Shallow Parody of [[The Beatles]]. One can just imagine a stodgy, middle-aged writer writing one in hope of [[Take That|shaming those silly kids]] for falling for [[It Will Never Catch On|this ridiculous fad.]] Shallow Parodies of the Beatles usually have them all dressing, looking and speaking identically (hilariously, this usually means that they all look and talk like Ringo Starr), and have them endlessly singing "Yeah Yeah Yeah" (far from the Beatles' best or most notable song, but likely a victim of [[Popcultural Osmosis]]). Later parodies would have them playing concerts in their "Sgt. Pepper" uniforms (which they never did) and occasionally would depict John Lennon in his iconic 1969-era look while the rest of them still looked like they did on the Ed Sullivan Show. Nowadays, of course, parodies like this have effectively died out.
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** Truth Media usually tries really hard to get everything ''wrong'' so they can post and mock the inevitable replies from [[Troll|Trolls]] and [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|so-called-experts.]] The [[Grand Theft Auto|GTA]] San Andreas review was quite noticeable for getting the main character's name wrong despite knowing his initials.
* As an [[April Fools' Day]] joke, Maddox of ''[[The Best Page in The Universe]]'' did a trailer for a fictional film, ''[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af08 Vague Genre Movie]'', mocking shallow parodies such as the [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] ones mentioned above.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_15665_7-least-faithful-comic-book-movies.html This]7 ''[[Cracked]]''Least articleFaithful thatComic Book Movies] talks about Ang Lee's ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' movie and how it differed from the comics, saying that [[The Incredible Hulk]] ''didn't'' delve into psychological themes and that it spent an odd amount of time focusing on Bruce Banner's father. The thing is, though, Bruce Banner's multiple personality disorder and abusive childhood became a huge part of his mythos starting as far back as the 80s with Joe Fixit (and maybe even earlier than ''that'') and continued during the 90s. Assuming this is still canon then that accounts for ''over half of the The Hulk's canon.''
 
 
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