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Ahem.
[["Previously On..."|A Hostile Show Takeover is an episode where a (lead) character is some]]how indisposed, and the rest of the cast scrambles to oust that character, taking over the role or pitching [[Executive Meddling|their own concept]] in a quickly created audition.
This probably requires the characters to actually be [[Medium Awareness|aware they're in a show]], at least for that episode, but comes up in [[Animated Actors|cartoons]] frequently.
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* The supporting cast of ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo]]'', Don Patch in particular, attempt this frequently, though considering Bo Bobo is an [[Invincible Hero]] and they are collectively [[The Chew Toy]] their attempts don't exactly succeed.
* In Part 3 of ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', after ZZ thinks he killed Jotaro, he proclaims the end of the 3rd JoJo series and tries to declare himself the new main character. Jotaro pops out of the ground unharmed and needless to say, quite pissed.
* In ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' Captain Ginyu does this in one of the [["On the Next..."]] segments after body swapping with Goku. He says the show will now be Ginyu Force Kai and that he will do the narration from now on.
** ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' does a similar joke, with the Ginyu Force taking over the opening for the duration of their appearance on the show.
* The ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' preview for "Jupiter Jazz part II" (following the cliffhanger ending for "Jupiter Jazz part I") contains Ed proclaiming that the rest of the crew all died and that the show will now be called "Cowgirl Ed" before the other [[Not Quite Dead]] crew members butt inn and silence her. The voiceover, of course, does not match the actual pictures of the preview at all.
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** In addition, [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]], the main character of the first game, complains that he only loses to the player characters (as an optional boss) because he wasn't the main character anymore. His whining is...whiny enough that Adell (The current main character) takes pity on him and allows [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]] to resume being the main character...for one minute. [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Laharl]] decides to use that minute in an anime sequence. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensues.]]
*** This returns in #3.
** On the other side, Etna hates having her [["On the Next..."]] sequences interrupted, and tends to react violently when it does happen.
*** [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)/Characters|Flonne]]'s preview for Episode 7 (Drop Dead, Etna) is a [[Magical Girl]] parody that gets her shot.
{{quote| '''Etna''': Flonne, whatcha doin'...?<br />
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*** Finally, Flonne's Q&A Time starts off with a letter about some bully stealing the writer's fun. Flonne gives a (surprisingly) violent suggestion on how to fix the problem, and Etna pops on stage to agree with her. Guess who wrote the letter?
* In ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', defeating an early [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] causes Asagi, a recurring character in Nippon Ichi games, to enter the gameworld, fresh from her apprenticeship under Zetta in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. Asagi demands the protagonist and Gig hand over their spot as main character to her, and since neither are meta-savvy and have no comprehension of what she's talking about, [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity]] (as well as a [[Bonus Boss]] fight) [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensues]].
** This is pretty much Asagi's schtick in the games she appears in. She'll often try and fail to take the role of Protagonist via [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]. She first appeared in [[Makai Kingdom]] as "The Protagonist from the next Game". Sadly, her game (supposedly ''Makai Wars'') was never released, so she goes from game to game bemoaning her fate and trying to take the lead role. Taken to hilarious extremes in ''Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?'' where she tries to emulate the Prinnies and repeatedly challenges them.
*** This culminates in a boss battle with her in a Prinny costume, which she apparently put a bomb in for no reason, that explodes, killing her. She comes back as a Black Prinny with a white scarf wondering if now she can get her own game. Which she sorta does. The sequel gives us Asagi Wars, where Prinny Asagi is the playable charcter and all the bosses are alternate versions of Asagi. So she apparently succeeded, Sorta.
** She appears in ''[[Disgaea 3]]'' and accuses Mao of stealing her game from her and fights him. When she loses she bursts into tears thinking her game is lost forever until Mao recruits her. Its is later revealed Baal apperntly was the real culprit. He escapes before giving it or anything else he took back however.
** She also shows up in the secret ending to ''[[Disgaea Infinite]]'' {{spoiler|where she complains to Amazombie for losing her package (Ticktock) which is apparently the key to getting her own game. She then randomly hops on a dragon and shouts that ''Makai Wars'' will one day get it's epic release}}
* Speaking of ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', the [[Bonus Boss]] battle against Etna opens with one of her [["On the Next..."]] segments from ''[[Disgaea]]'' in which she goes on to narrate about how she'll steal Zetta's title and become the main character. Naturally, winning the battle allows Zetta to throw this right back at her as he goes on to narrate his own [["On the Next..."]] segment which is a several-minute long rant about how awesome he is.
{{quote| '''Zetta:''' [[Evil Laugh|HYAA HA HA HA!]] [[Chewing the Scenery|I'M MORE MAIN CHARACTER THAN THIS GAME CAN HANDLE!]]}}
* In a bonus video in ''[[Metal Gear|Metal Gear Solid 3]]'', Raiden decides to go back in time and kill Big Boss {{spoiler|so that Snake would never be cloned}} and therefore Raiden would end up being the main character for the series. However, whenever he time travelled, he always ended up in a sticky situation during the game, ended up getting hurt instead of another character, and ended up creating a time paradox due to changing the future (to which the Colonel keeps telling him not to mess with the future over his com - despite the communication coming from 30 years in the future). Eventually, he becomes desperate enough to actually try and kill Snake back in the original Metal Gear 2 game for the MSX2, but is shot by ''Big Boss himself'' in the attempt. In the end, he figures it's just more trouble than it's worth.
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** Then {{spoiler|Doc Scratch returns as Lord English, and promptly shoots Andrew down.}}
* Happens in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' in [http://www.homestarrunner.com/answer16.html this] episode of ''Marzipan's Answering Machine''; Strong Sad decides to exercise one of his favorite perks of house-sitting and records over Marzipan's outgoing message no less than 3 times.
* In the web-[[Manhwa]] ''[[Tower of God (Webcomic)|Tower of God]]'', {{spoiler|Rachel}} does this at [[Wham! Episode|the end of the first season]].
== Western Animation ==
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