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* 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.)

* ''[[Archer]]'' does this to a whole lot of [[Spy Fiction]] tropes;

** Its [[Jerkass]] [[James Bond]] [[Expy]] protagonist is self-centred, [[Really Gets Around|can't keep it in his pants]], [[Overt Operative|can't maintain a cover identity to save his life]], all his colleagues hate him and he displays [[Ping-Pong Naivete|at times profound stupidity]]... but he's incredibly competent in certain areas of his job.