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So, you wanted to be a [[Princess Classic]]? Well, [[Rose of Versailles|your husband is Louis XVI]].

 

 

In short, your previous fantasy has been shown to be badly thought out, and it turns out to lead to (or even derive from) things that are... not nice.

* ''[[Cross Game]]'' seems out to do this with [[Replacement Goldfish]]..

* ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]'' managed to give us all the Evangelion-esc action, without the Evangelion-esc drama and [[Mind Screw]].

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is a reconstruction of the entire history of mecha, starting with [[The Seventies]] era of [[Super Robot]] anime with Kamina as the voice of the seventies, then came Nia and [[The Eighties]] "''[[Real Robot]]''" style storyline of [[The Empire]] vs the Rebels and [[The Nineties]] with the whole Evangelion deconstruction type era with Rossiu leading the way. TTGL is a trip through the Mecha Genre.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Gundam ZZ]]'' can be seen as a Reconstruction in the Gundam franchise, where [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] put forth the original concept layout of Gundam, and [[Zeta Gundam]] became a Deconstruction of those concepts, such as [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]. Though not everyone [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|saw it as such.]]

* ''[http://alaxr274.deviantart.com/gallery/33810717 Super Milestone Wars] and it's sequel is a reconstruction of the [[Deconstruction Crossover]] trope itself.

* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' is a shining example of this trope, if not THE defining example within fanfiction.

* ''[[Power Rangers GPX]]'' does this with ''[[Super Sentai]]''/''[[Power Rangers]]''. What makes this different is that it starts out parodying/lampshading/just plain making fun of [[Power Rangers]] tropes, begins playing it straight, then drifting towards deconstruction before veering right into Reconstruction in the penultimate chapter.

* While ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]'' is largely a [[Deconstruction Fic]], it is indirectly ''re''constructive since it portrays Blaine as a believable character rather than a [[Relationship Sue]]. In-story, it's starting to reconstruct how damaged he is by showing how Kurt and Blaine genuinely care about each other, averting [[There Are No Therapists]], and using a healthy dose of [[The Power of Friendship]] / [[The Power of Love|Love]].

* The Darkness, with their five minute guitar solos and soaring falsettos is either a reconstruction or brilliant parody of Glam Metal.

** A reconstruction basically. Sadly for them, they got pigeon holed rather unfairly into being a novelty parody, and faded away after the misguided fans got bored of the 'parody' and started ignoring the music.

** Similarly rap group [[Dead Prez]] tried to reconstruct rebellious, hardcore, socio-political rap.

*** Would Flipsyde count as something related?

* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' pretty much deconstructs every single Western genre trope, then reconstructs every single one throughout the game into a massive [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] by the end.

* ''[[Disgaea]]'' was this to the Strategy RPG genre, mostly by being very comedic, not taking itself seriously, and dropping most of the long winded political stuff that the genre had favored since Ogre Tactics.

* ''[[Half-Life]] 2'' reconstructs the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] in a few areas, specifically the near-totally infested town of Ravenholm. Said zombies are created by a huge [[Puppeteer Parasite]] that latches onto the head (the headcrab), but it's surprising how many zombie tropes are played with and how many work.

** The Addon ''Episode 2'' leads out of the ruined and mostly abandoned cities and turns to the wilderness, which is the more post-apocalyptic version of the ...well, [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. Many of the best scenes consist of exploring seemingly abandoned buildings next to the road.

* ''[[Sonic Colors]]'' is SEGA's attempt at reconstructing the light-hearted feel of the classic ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' era, having decided the series has gotten ''way'' too serious as of lately. General consensus is that they succeeded. [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel|Spectacularly so]].

* [[Fire Emblem Jugdral]] is a [[Deconstruction]] ''and'' a reconstruction at the same time. The first part of the game ends up with {{spoiler|Sigurd and several of his fighters killed, the others are either prisioners or on the run, and they're all labeled as traitors}}, in the second, however, {{spoiler|Celice picks up the pieces, ultimately is succesful in his quest, is crowned as Emperor of Grandbell, and both he and his army meet a much happier ending.}}

* [[Skies of Arcadia]] rebuilt the heroric, swashbuckling fantasty RPG hero and world after [[Final Fantasy VII]]'s deconstruction and fleet of imitators.

* When viewed from the perspective that it's essentially a sequel to [[Deconstructor Fleet|Knights of the Old Republic 2]], ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic|Star Wars the Old Republic]]'' is an attempt bring Star Wars back to its space fantasy roots.

*** Not to mention that Colonel Gathers is now back as head of the OSI because he complained about how thing were going. Its basically been revealed the the Secret Peace between heroes and villains is really just a front the even more Secret War between heroes and villains which is far far stranger and multi-leveled than any other kind of politics.

** In some ways, The Monarch is slowly becoming a reconstruction of the Supervillain, as, through a combination of [[Genre Savvy|Genre Savviness]], [[Not So Harmless]], and [[Dark Mistress]], he's climbed the ranks from lame nemesis to a truly dangerous foe.

* The jury may be out, but this seems to be the entire purpose to the newest ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' series, ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc]]''. The series takes a comically cynical approach to the Scooby Doo mythos, but it doesn't outright [[Affectionate Parody|parody]] or [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruct]] the elements. While the kids are, realistically, treated as a nuisance by the law and their parents constantly question why they're obsessed with solving mysteries, the kids still get the job done and solve mysteries because they love it and love hanging around with each other.

** Case in point, at the end of Episode 11, the gang breaks up under the weight of the group's relationship issues. A straight deconstruction would probably end there - Mystery Inc. is a group of teenagers in high school investigating crimes in their home town, so eventually they have to grow up and find real jobs. However, Mystery Inc. gets back together by the end of the next episode, realizing that solving these mysteries really is what they were meant to do, and the team begins repairing their bonds - the reconstruction is that the Scooby Gang would have personality clashes, just like any group of friends, but acknowledging these clashes and finding ways to cope with them strengthens the group. (A straight parody, on the other hand, probably wouldn't even bring up these issues in the first place.)

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