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* ''[[Cloverfield]]'' does this to [[Kaiju]] movies. Ironically, people believed it to be a [[Deconstruction]], forgetting [[Unbuilt Trope|what a horrific anti-atomic weapons allegory]] the [[Trope Codifier]] ''[[Godzilla|Gojira]]'' really is. It started out horrific, got light and fluffy, and returned to being horrific. The film performs this recontruction by showing the events of the film through the perspective of normal civilions. It's a surprisingly effective way to show just how gut-wrenchingly brutal and terrifying a giant monster attack would be in real life.

* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' could be seen as a Reconstruction not only of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise, but also the [[Space Opera]] genre as a whole. While the franchise had been heavily deconstructed to begin with, the later series ''had'' moved away from many aspects of [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original series]]. The genre as a whole had suffered from certain works (including ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' and the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels, though, as always, [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]) becoming notorious for generating a [[Hatedom]] and [[Broken Base]], and undergone [[Deconstruction]] with the remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' in 2000.

* The ''[[Joshuu Sasori]]'' films are a reconstruction of the [[Girls Behind Bars|Women In Prison]] genre. While the genre normally consists of deeply mysogenist, red-hot-lesbian flicks created purely for men's tittilation and possessed of virtually no artistic merit, Shunya Itou made the ''[[Joshuu Sasori]]'' films thoughtful, vicious, artful and surreal works with an overtly feminist message, without even changing the basic common plotline.

 

** ''[[Summerland]]'' reconstructs adolescent [[High Fantasy]] like ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' by giving it a fresh setting—in this case, a fantasy-world based on American culture and folklore.

** ''Literature/Gentlemen Of The Road'' reconstructs [[Two-Fisted Tales]] and pulp adventure stories.

* [[Harry Potter]] takes the idea of the inherent corruption that comes from magic, but thanks to a little something called [[The Power of Friendship|humanity]] and [[The Power of Love|pure hearts]], it turns from a [[Crap Saccharine World]] to [[A World Half Full]].

* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' seems to do this with the courtly love genre in the ''Franklin's Tale''. Chaucer had parodied the genre in both the ''Miller's Tale'' and the [[Stylistic Suck|deliberately sucky]] ''Tale of Sir Topas'' (which Chaucer [[The Danza|assigned to himself]]). The ''Franklin's Tale'' Reconstructs it by keeping the postive genre element of celebrating honorable conduct, but jettison's the genre's stance that love only exists outside of marriage.

* [[Sufjan Stevens]]' yearly ''Songs For Christmas'' EP's were a personal reconstruction of Christmas Music for Sufjan: his attempt to capture the sublime melancholy of Christmas music at its best, and to come to terms with the [[Glurge]] of the holiday season. (Sufjan had previously dismissed Christmas itself as a social construct.)

* [[Tenacious D]]'s music seems to be a reconstruction of classic rock. Though they don't take themselves or their lyrics very seriously, they certainly take the ''music'' seriously. As they wrote in "The Metal":

* Monster Magnet is another reconstruction of classic rock, as are the Hellacopters. (especially on their early albums)

* 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?

** [[Indecisive Deconstruction|If you see the original as a deconstruction]] of ''Doom'' and [[A Space Marine Is You]], ''Half-Life 2'' reconstructs the idea by showing how one man and his [[Power Armor]] [[Right Man in the Wrong Place|really could save the world]].

* ''[[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]].

* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' reconstructs many old RPG cliches, from [[An Adventurer Is You]] to [[You All Meet in An Inn]] to [[Warrior Therapist]] to [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to [[Magnetic Hero]] to [[City of Adventure]] to [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]. It even reconstructs many of the concepts of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' which ''[[Planescape]]'' specifically deconstructed, reconstructed, or parodied ([[Offscreen Afterlife]], [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]], [[Exclusively Evil]], [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]], [[Planet of Hats]], etc.) Players who pick up this game today are often surprised to see this take on all the old [[Role-Playing Game]] tropes in a game released in 1999.

* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' reconstructs the arcade-style action games and mythology-styled games in a similar vein to [[Gurren Lagann]]. While the game is aware of the darker implications that games like [[Bayonetta]] and [[God of War]] have brought up (ie; [[Black and Grey Morality]], [[Light Is Not Good]], [[God Is Flawed]], [[Crap Saccharine World]], [[Eldritch Abominations]] etc.) it still manages to maintain a light-hearted tone while keeping with the tropes that those other games brought up.