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* 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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