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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of [[The War On Straw|defending it deliberately with faulty arguments]]."''
|'''[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]'''}}
Parodies that pretend to be serious works, no matter how absurd or mocking their contents are, often with the purpose of getting [[Misaimed Fandom]] to generate hilarious feedback. The Internet Age has made it particularly easy to do this. You can never be sure the person on the other computer ''isn't'' that obtuse. In the more general sense, standard internet discourse in highly exclusive internet communities can be very difficult to decipher by outsiders, which is commonly known as "[[troll]]ing".
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Compare [[Indecisive Parody]] which is when someone involved in an otherwise-serious project take the piss out of it. See also [[Parody Retcon]], when a creator tries to claim a badly-received work was one of these.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Some people claim ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' is this, which completely goes against the [[Word of God]] as the creators are very open about being gigantic mecha fans and the show being a tribute to the genre.
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** Ohba comes off as a living super computer who [[Trope Overdosed|knows every single manga trope inside and out]]. And he loves mindgames. The Stealth Parody interpretation makes a lot of sense.
** He especially shows this with his new series, [[Bakuman｡]].
== Comic Books ==
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* German comic ''[[Nick Knatterton]]'' started as this. The fans took it straight and liked it. The author not so much.
* Some of the earliest [[Fanfic]] Stealth Parodies come from the ''[[Star Trek]]'' fandom. For example, the writer known as Fred, Lover of Wesley's Ass was the creation of three or four of the most influential ''DS9'' fanfic writers of the 1990s. "Fred"'s stories parodied everything from [[Song Fic|songfics]] to [[Die for Our Ship]] to the tendency to turn strong characters into [[Woobie]]s. Naturally, [[Misaimed Fandom|fans loved his stories]]. They even thought Fred was real, which in fact he was - he was one of the parodists' ''dogs''.▼
▲== Fan Fic ==
** Likewise, the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Mary Sue]] was ''[[A Trekkie's Tale]]'', a ''[[Star Trek]]'' fic parodying what would eventually come to be known as, well, [[Mary Sue]]s.▼
▲* Some of the earliest [[Fanfic]] Stealth Parodies come from the [[Star Trek]] fandom. For example, the writer known as Fred, Lover of Wesley's Ass was the creation of three or four of the most influential DS9 fanfic writers of the 1990s. "Fred"'s stories parodied everything from [[Song Fic|songfics]] to [[Die for Our Ship]] to the tendency to turn strong characters into [[Woobie]]s. Naturally, [[Misaimed Fandom|fans loved his stories]]. They even thought Fred was real, which in fact he was - he was one of the parodists' ''dogs''.
▲** Likewise, the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Mary Sue]] was a [[Star Trek]] fic parodying what would eventually come to be known as, well, [[Mary Sue]]s.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, ''[[My Immortal]]'' is a possible example. The author has never slipped up and has a friend, Raven, who doesn't have the troll qualities the author has. However, her name (Tara Gilesbie) may have been borrowed from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and the fic itself is so over the top it's hard to believe it was serious.
** Harry Potter fandom is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2062945/1/Lassi_the_amazing_Enchantress full] of this kind of thing.
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