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** Also, [[spoiler: King Gangrel of Plegia]] is revealed to be a deconstruction of TheCaligula and AristocratsAreEvil. How so? [[spoiler: His cruel and tyrannical actions quickly turn around to bite him in the ass. After Chrom's sister Emmerynn commits a HeroicSacrifice, his own army starts defecting en masse, and the next chapter you fight a group of Plegian soldiers who honestly do not want anything to do with this war Gangrel started ''and'' were traumatized by Emmeryn's death. By the time the Shepherds confront Gangrel, all but a small group of loyalists have abandoned him, and Emmeryn has become a folk heroine among the people of Plegia.]] Not to mention, [[spoiler: he ''can'' be [[HeelFaceTurn recruited into your army]] in the first SpotPass chapter; his supporrts also reveal that he did ''not'' start as a tyrant, but fell into MotiveDecay and well... ended up as the madman the group met and fought.]]
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* FireEmblemTheSacredStones deconstrucrs TheAce with Ephraim. For the first part of the story, it seems he can get through anything. However, when he gets back to Renais, Seth tells him that the citizens are not cheering for his return. [[spoiler: They're only happy because Orson's reign of terror is over.]] Ephraim takes this as the sign that his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies haven't been great for his people and begins to mature from then on.
** Not to mention, Ephraim's seeming perfection is the reason why Innes and [[spoiler: Lyon]] show quite the degree of inferiority complexes and covert/not-so-covert envy. In the first case, Ephraim only sees it as normal FriendlyRivalry, but Innes takes it more seriously to the point of [[spoiler: telling Eirika that he'll only propose to her after defeating Ephraim]]; in the latter, it's massively PlayedForDrama since [[spoiler: Ephraim adores Lyon and never ever sees him as inferior, so is struck ''hard'' (read: [[CryCute he's driven to tears]]) when he learns about Lyon's psychological troubles and how a part of them can be linked to seeing himself as inferior to Ephraim.]]
** Not to mention, Ephraim's seeming perfection is the reason why Innes and [[spoiler: Lyon]] show quite the degree of inferiority complexes and covert/not-so-covert envy. In the first case, Ephraim only sees it as normal FriendlyRivalry, but Innes takes it more seriously to the point of [[spoiler: telling Eirika that he'll only propose to her after defeating Ephraim]]; in the latter, it's massively PlayedForDrama since [[spoiler: Ephraim adores Lyon and never ever sees him as inferior, so is struck ''hard'' (read: [[CryCute he's driven to tears]]) when he learns about Lyon's psychological troubles and how a part of them can be linked to seeing himself as inferior to Ephraim.]]
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* FireEmblemAwakening deconstructs ThePerfectionist with Cordelia/Tiamo. Her perfectionist nature make her quite disliked by the rest of the Ylisse Pegasus Knights [[JerkAss for seemingly looking down upon the others]], even though she only becomes that way [[WelldoneSonGuy because she seeks her seniors' approval]]. And then her A support with Avatar reveals [[spoiler: that despite their teasing, the other pegasus knights [[OneeSama really did admire her]], to the point that [[HeroicSacrifice they were willing to give up their lives for her.]] Being called a genius reminds her of their sacrifice, which is why she dislikes being called one.]]
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* FireEmblemAwakening deconstructs ThePerfectionist with Cordelia/Tiamo. Her perfectionist nature make her quite disliked by the rest of the Ylisse Pegasus Knights [[JerkAss for seemingly looking down upon the others]], even though she only becomes that way [[WelldoneSonGuy because she seeks her seniors' approval]]. And then her A support with Avatar reveals [[spoiler: that despite their teasing, the other pegasus knights [[OneeSama really did admire her]], to the point that [[HeroicSacrifice they were willing to give up their lives for her.]] Being called a genius reminds her of their sacrifice, which is why she dislikes being called one.]] And not to mention, her "perfect" and "genius" [[spoiler: post-mortem]] fame will cause her daughter Severa/Selena to have quite the inferiority complex...
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* FireEmblemAwakening deconstructs ThePerfectionist with Cordelia/Tiamo. Her perfectionist nature make her quite disliked by the rest of the Ylisse Pegasus Knights [[JerkAss for seemingly looking down upon the others]], even though she only becomes that way [[WelldoneSonGuy because she seeks her seniors' approval]]. And then her A support with Avatar reveals [[spoiler: that despite their teasing, the other pegasus knights [[OneeSama really did admire her]], to the point that [[HeroicSacrifice they were willing to give up their lives for her.]] Being called a genius reminds her of their sacrifice, which is why she dislikes being called one.]]
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWillProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, so she would be able to kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to murder ''killed her in self-defense''.]]
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWillProtectHer DeclarationOfProtection and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, so she would be able to kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to murder ''killed her in self-defense''.]]
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** At another point, it uses Riki, who is narcoleptic, to deconstruct the {{Sleepyhead}} trope and show how randomly falling asleep and being unable to control it can ''seriously'' limit one's options, with Riki trying to help out on a farm [[spoiler:to provide for Rin after they run away]], losing a whole day's work due to falling asleep, and being driven to tears over the fact that he could only ever become an office worker in life since his narcolepsy would prevent him from being able to put an honest day's work in for anything else.
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** At another point, it uses Riki, who is narcoleptic, to deconstruct the {{Sleepyhead}} trope and show how randomly falling asleep and being unable to control it can ''seriously'' limit one's options, with Riki trying to help out on a farm [[spoiler:to provide for Rin after they run away]], losing a whole day's work due to falling asleep, and being driven to tears over the fact that he could only ever become an office worker in life since his narcolepsy would prevent him from being able to put an honest day's work in for anything else.else.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'' deconstructs the KleptomaniacHero as an aspect of Rufus's [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered personality]]; his tendency to take whatever isn't nailed down to further his own schemes is a major part of why he's generally disliked, not to mention that [[spoiler:he gets thrown in jail at one point for, you know, ''theft.'']]
* ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'' deconstructs the KleptomaniacHero as an aspect of Rufus's [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered personality]]; his tendency to take whatever isn't nailed down to further his own schemes is a major part of why he's generally disliked, not to mention that [[spoiler:he gets thrown in jail at one point for, you know, ''theft.'']]
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, enter WitnessProtection, settle down and raise a family using his earnings, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime, since it's [[ChronicVillainy the only thing he really enjoys and knows how to do]]. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games through liberal application of YouBastard, showing [[CompleteMonster exactly what sort of person]] would run around causing death, destruction, and mayhem [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]].
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, enter WitnessProtection, settle down and raise a family using his earnings, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime, since it's [[ChronicVillainy the only thing he really enjoys and knows how to do]]. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games through liberal application of YouBastard, showing [[CompleteMonster exactly what sort of person]] person would run around causing death, destruction, and mayhem [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]].
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*** In an interesting subversion, Urdnot Wrex (one of the first named Krogan we meet) not only starts out as [[GeniusBruiser much more mellow]] than his brethren but goes on to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] the ProudWarriorRaceGuys culture of his kind almost singlehandedly, much to the annoyance of more two-dimensional Krogan.
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* The main quest of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' deconstructs TheBattleDidntCount, a trope ever-so-present in video games. [[spoiler:When you first defeat the BigBad, Alduin, he just throws a few taunts at you and makes a VillainExitStageLeft. However, this causes many of the [[ProudWarriorRace dragons]] serving under him to see him as a DirtyCoward unfit to rule them. Eventually, due to this act of cowardice, Alduin's [[TheDragon right-hand dragon]] makes a HeelFaceTurn and helps you reach the place where you can kill Alduin for good.]]
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* The main quest of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' deconstructs TheBattleDidntCount, a trope ever-so-present in video games. [[spoiler:When you first defeat the BigBad, Alduin, he just throws a few taunts at you and makes a VillainExitStageLeft. However, this causes many of the [[ProudWarriorRace dragons]] serving under him to see him as a DirtyCoward unfit to rule them. Eventually, due to this act of cowardice, Alduin's [[TheDragon right-hand dragon]] makes a HeelFaceTurn and helps you reach the place where you can kill Alduin for good.]]]]
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' deconstructs a couple of tropes:
** Kud's route deconstructs {{Funny Foreigner}}s and other characters whose entire appeal is that they're ButNotTooForeign by having her feel extremely isolated by the fact that, in her true home, she's still treated as though she isn't ''really'' Japanese and that all her attempts to be so are hilarious.
** At another point, it uses Riki, who is narcoleptic, to deconstruct the {{Sleepyhead}} trope and show how randomly falling asleep and being unable to control it can ''seriously'' limit one's options, with Riki trying to help out on a farm [[spoiler:to provide for Rin after they run away]], losing a whole day's work due to falling asleep, and being driven to tears over the fact that he could only ever become an office worker in life since his narcolepsy would prevent him from being able to put an honest day's work in for anything else.
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' deconstructs a couple of tropes:
** Kud's route deconstructs {{Funny Foreigner}}s and other characters whose entire appeal is that they're ButNotTooForeign by having her feel extremely isolated by the fact that, in her true home, she's still treated as though she isn't ''really'' Japanese and that all her attempts to be so are hilarious.
** At another point, it uses Riki, who is narcoleptic, to deconstruct the {{Sleepyhead}} trope and show how randomly falling asleep and being unable to control it can ''seriously'' limit one's options, with Riki trying to help out on a farm [[spoiler:to provide for Rin after they run away]], losing a whole day's work due to falling asleep, and being driven to tears over the fact that he could only ever become an office worker in life since his narcolepsy would prevent him from being able to put an honest day's work in for anything else.
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* ''MetalGearSolid'' has several deconstructions of various cliches and tropes. For example it shows just how much of a tragedy the FakeDefector would be in real life, what would happen to a {{Tykebomb}} when they reached adulthood (one is a bitter man almost incapable of making emotional attachments, another spent a good portion of his adulthood being controlled and manipulated), just how mentally unstable or fairly screwed up a real life QuirkyMinibossSquad would probably be (FOX-HOUND, Dead Cell, Cobra Unit) and just how disturbing and yet fairly tragic a real life CloningBlues plot would actually be.
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* ''MetalGearSolid'' ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has several deconstructions of various cliches and tropes. For example it shows just how much of a tragedy the FakeDefector would be in real life, what would happen to a {{Tykebomb}} when they reached adulthood (one is a bitter man almost incapable of making emotional attachments, another spent a good portion of his adulthood being controlled and manipulated), just how mentally unstable or fairly screwed up a real life QuirkyMinibossSquad would probably be (FOX-HOUND, Dead Cell, Cobra Unit) and just how disturbing and yet fairly tragic a real life CloningBlues plot would actually be.
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** At a more meta level, MetalGearSolid2 deconstructs a lot of the tropes of video gaming itself.
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** Lilly: [[spoiler: OneeSama and YamatoNadeshiko: Represses her emotions to the point of utter neglecting them, and it's not easy to know what she needs and wants.]]
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** Lilly: [[spoiler: OneeSama and YamatoNadeshiko: TheStoic: Represses her emotions to the point of utter neglecting them, and it's not easy to know what she needs and wants.]]
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* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
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* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''FateStayNight'' ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
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* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''VisualNove/FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
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* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''VisualNove/FateStayNight'' ''FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series deconstructs GodOfEvil by showing what exactly could make a god evil in the first place. Neither of the two evil gods started out evil. They were even two of the ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes nicest]]'' gods before their fall. Their villainy is entirely due to the callous actions of the other supposedly good gods.
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series deconstructs GodOfEvil by showing what exactly could make a god evil in the first place. Neither of the two evil gods started out evil. They were even two of the ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes nicest]]'' gods before their fall. Their villainy is entirely due to the callous actions of the other supposedly good gods.gods.
* The main quest of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' deconstructs TheBattleDidntCount, a trope ever-so-present in video games. [[spoiler:When you first defeat the BigBad, Alduin, he just throws a few taunts at you and makes a VillainExitStageLeft. However, this causes many of the [[ProudWarriorRace dragons]] serving under him to see him as a DirtyCoward unfit to rule them. Eventually, due to this act of cowardice, Alduin's [[TheDragon right-hand dragon]] makes a HeelFaceTurn and helps you reach the place where you can kill Alduin for good.]]
* The main quest of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' deconstructs TheBattleDidntCount, a trope ever-so-present in video games. [[spoiler:When you first defeat the BigBad, Alduin, he just throws a few taunts at you and makes a VillainExitStageLeft. However, this causes many of the [[ProudWarriorRace dragons]] serving under him to see him as a DirtyCoward unfit to rule them. Eventually, due to this act of cowardice, Alduin's [[TheDragon right-hand dragon]] makes a HeelFaceTurn and helps you reach the place where you can kill Alduin for good.]]
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* ''{{Bioshock}}'' is a deconstruction of linear gameplay and ButThouMust, once [[spoiler: it is revealed you've been being mentally controlled throughout the game]].
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* ''{{Bioshock}}'' ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' is a deconstruction of linear gameplay and ButThouMust, once [[spoiler: it is revealed you've been being mentally controlled throughout the game]].
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** Rin: [[spoiler: CloudCuckooLander: Feels dissonant with the rest of the world, and falls into depression due to nobody being able to understand her or her art. Becomes self-destructive and compulsive in an attempt to keep up with her art and gain inspiration. One of her Bad Endings implies that she's liable to ''kill herself'' due to these emotional problems.]]
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** Rin: [[spoiler: CloudCuckooLander: Feels dissonant with the rest of the world, and falls into depression due to nobody being able to understand her or her art. Becomes self-destructive and compulsive in an attempt to keep up with her art and gain inspiration. One of her Bad Endings implies that she's liable to ''kill herself'' due to these emotional problems. Hisao tries to be the CloudCuckooLandersMinder but it ''seriously'' affects his own mental stability.]]
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** As we explore [[spoiler: Sayaka]]'s reason to do what was described above, we see that [[spoiler: she]] is a deconstruction of other tropes. More exactly, [[spoiler: {{I Just Want To Be Loved}} and AttentionWhore]] How so? [[spoiler: Her desire for attention has a rather sad background, as she was raised by a single father who also was very {{workaholic}} and left her alone all the time. Young Sayaka spent several hours on her own in front of the TV and fell in love with the IdolSinger way of life, thinking that if she became one of these she would be given the affection and love she lacked; thus she worked hard, became a part of an idol group, and was so good at it that she became the Super High School Level IdolSinger, loved and admired by everyone in Japan. Then Monobear exploited Sayaka's massive terror at the idea of being forgotten, showing her a video of what would happen if she didn't leave Hope's Peak: that her group would be disbanded and she'd be totally abandoned by her fans... which ultimately made her snap hard enough to plan killing someone and use Naegi as a scapegoat -- and finished when she actually TRIED to kill someone [[TheCanKickedHim and ended up dead for it.]] All because Sayaka felt that, if she lost her fans's love and support, she would be literally '''worth NOTHING'''.]]
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, enter WitnessProtection, settle down and raise a family using his earnings, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime, since it's the only thing he really enjoys and knows how to do. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games by showing exactly what sort of person would engage in such behavior -- [[YouBastard a vicious psychopath.]]
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, enter WitnessProtection, settle down and raise a family using his earnings, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime, since it's [[ChronicVillainy the only thing he really enjoys and knows how to do. do]]. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games by through liberal application of YouBastard, showing [[CompleteMonster exactly what sort of person person]] would engage in such behavior -- [[YouBastard a vicious psychopath.]]run around causing death, destruction, and mayhem [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]].
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* ActionRPG ''MetalWalker'' deconstructs the empty overworld found in many [=RPGs=]. Besides your character and a select few [=NPCs=] with {{Mons}}, no one is outside, even in towns--because [[KillerRobot killer robots]] populate the landscape, even right outside buildings. Since you yourself are attacked very frequently, you can imagine why defenseless humans don't go out...
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* ActionRPG ''MetalWalker'' ''VideoGame/MetalWalker'' deconstructs the empty overworld found in many [=RPGs=]. Besides your character and a select few [=NPCs=] with {{Mons}}, no one is outside, even in towns--because [[KillerRobot killer robots]] populate the landscape, even right outside buildings. Since you yourself are attacked very frequently, you can imagine why defenseless humans don't go out...
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** For example, ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' starts out as a ClicheStorm, but it quickly begins deconstructing tropes. The most ripped-apart trope being TheChosenOne; it shows what a shitty life a person would have if they were expected to save the world, and the psychological effects such a title and life would have on them. In this case, ''both'' of the chosen's become [[StepfordSmiler stepford smilers]], with [[ThePollyanna Colette]] always covering up her problems because she doesn't want to worry people, and [[HandsomeLech Zelos]] covers up his [[SadClown suicidal tendencies]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity with his apparent stupidity.]]
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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' starts out as a ClicheStorm, but it quickly begins deconstructing tropes, with the most ripped-apart trope being TheChosenOne; it shows what a shitty life a person would have if they were expected to save the world, and the psychological effects such a title and life would have on them. In this case, ''both'' of the chosen's become [[StepfordSmiler stepford smilers]], with [[ThePollyanna Colette]] always covering up her problems because she doesn't want to worry people, and [[HandsomeLech Zelos]] covers up his [[SadClown suicidal tendencies]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity with his apparent stupidity.]]
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWillProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, so she would be able to kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to murder ''killed her in self-defense''.]]
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWillProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, so she would be able to kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to murder ''killed her in self-defense''.]]]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series deconstructs GodOfEvil by showing what exactly could make a god evil in the first place. Neither of the two evil gods started out evil. They were even two of the ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes nicest]]'' gods before their fall. Their villainy is entirely due to the callous actions of the other supposedly good gods.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' series deconstructs GodOfEvil by showing what exactly could make a god evil in the first place. Neither of the two evil gods started out evil. They were even two of the ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes nicest]]'' gods before their fall. Their villainy is entirely due to the callous actions of the other supposedly good gods.
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, settle down and raise a family, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games by showing exactly what sort of person would engage in such behavior -- [[YouBastard a vicious psychopath.]]
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** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' deconstructs the "traditional" ''GTA'' protagonists with Michael and Trevor. Michael is this character after he's already won. Having "beaten the game," so to speak, he's decided to get out of the game, enter WitnessProtection, settle down and raise a family, family using his earnings, but he finds "normal" life to be boring. It's implied that his wife burning through his cash is only part of the reason why he returned to a life of crime.crime, since it's the only thing he really enjoys and knows how to do. [[AxCrazy Trevor]], meanwhile, deconstructs the VideoGameCrueltyPotential inherent in many open-world games by showing exactly what sort of person would engage in such behavior -- [[YouBastard a vicious psychopath.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' deconstructs DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and the SociopathHero by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the Boss is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as "Heroic" anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' deconstructs DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and the SociopathHero SociopathicHero by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the Boss is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as "Heroic" anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' deconstructs DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and HeroicSociopath by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the Boss is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as "Heroic" anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' deconstructs DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and HeroicSociopath the SociopathHero by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the Boss is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as "Heroic" anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
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* ''SaintsRow2'' deconstructs it in the opposite direction, along with HeroicSociopath, by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the PC is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as 'Heroic' anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
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* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' deconstructs DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and HeroicSociopath by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWilProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, to then kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to kill ''snapped on her and killed her in self-defense''.]]
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* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWilProtectHer IWillProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, so she would be able to then kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to kill ''snapped on her and killed murder ''killed her in self-defense''.]]
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* ''CommandAndConquer [[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]'' deconstructed EnhanceButton. The processing power the {{AI}} CABAL requires in general and for this operation in particular comes from [[spoiler:human brains]] and the resulting picture looks exactly like one would expect: grainy, except in the parts made up which are very smooth and Oxanna also does not know who the woman on it is, only she's a mutant.
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* ''CommandAndConquer [[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]'' deconstructed EnhanceButton. The processing power the {{AI}} CABAL requires in general and for this operation in particular comes from [[spoiler:human brains]] and the resulting picture looks exactly like one would expect: grainy, except in the parts made up which are very smooth and Oxanna also does not know who the woman on it is, only she's a mutant.mutant.
* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWilProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, to then kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to kill ''snapped on her and killed her in self-defense''.]]
* DanganRonpa deconstructs IWilProtectHer and TheDulcineaEffect: [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono recogonised whiffs of these tropes in her childhood classmate Makoto Naegi and exploited them to her benefit -- planning to first worm her way in his affections and make him swear to help her, to then kill another student and ''pin the blame on Naegi himself''. She would've possibly gotten away with this, had not the guy whom she wanted to kill ''snapped on her and killed her in self-defense''.]]
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*** In an interesting subversion, Urdnot Wrex (one of the first named Krogan we meet) not only starts out as [[GeniusBruiser much more mellow]] then his brethren but goes on to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] the ProudWarriorRaceGuys culture of his kind almost singlehandedly, much to the annoyance of more two-dimensional Krogan.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.
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*** In an interesting subversion, Urdnot Wrex (one of the first named Krogan we meet) not only starts out as [[GeniusBruiser much more mellow]] then than his brethren but goes on to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] the ProudWarriorRaceGuys culture of his kind almost singlehandedly, much to the annoyance of more two-dimensional Krogan.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.Krogan.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.
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** Rin: [[spoiler: CloudCuckooLander: Becomes self-destructive and compulsive in an attempt to keep up with her art and gain inspiration. One of her Bad Endings implies that she's liable to ''kill herself'' due to these emotional problems.]]
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* ''MetalGearSolid'' has several deconstructions of various cliches and tropes. For example it shows just how much of a tragedy the FakeDefector would be in real life, what would happen to a {{Tykebomb}} when they reached adulthood (one is a bitter man almost incapable of making emotional attachments, another spent a good portion of his adulthood being controlled and manipulated), just how mentally unstable or fairly screwed up a real life QuirkyMinibossSquad would probably be (FOX-HOUND, Dead Cell, Cobra Unit) and just how disturbing and yet fairly tragic a real life CloningBlues plot would actually be.
** The issues of the QuirkyMinibossSquad is further deconstructed in a {{Webcomic}} based on the first ''Metal Gear Solid'': ''TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. As are some of the cloning woes and the other issues the game explores, though usually to humorous effect because when it comes to genetics, the author gleefully exploits Hideo Kojima's research mistakes.
** At a more meta level, MetalGearSolid2 deconstructs a lot of the tropes of video gaming itself.
* ''MassEffect'' makes it a point to deconstruct the PlanetOfHats ''and'' the ProudWarriorRaceGuy in the form of the krogan, who are universally bad-tempered, violent, brutal, and selfish... and have exactly the interspecies relations this should earn them. They got themselves slapped with a nice, unpleasant DepopulationBomb for being an entire species of {{jerkass}}es.
*** In an interesting subversion, Urdnot Wrex (one of the first named Krogan we meet) not only starts out as [[GeniusBruiser much more mellow]] then his brethren but goes on to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] the ProudWarriorRaceGuys culture of his kind almost singlehandedly, much to the annoyance of more two-dimensional Krogan.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.
* Amongst many tropes it skewered, ''PlanescapeTorment'' deconstructed the standard [[ItsUpToYou RPG trope of your character always being the center of the story]] by turning the story into a personal quest for identity rather than a standard 'save the setting from EvilOverlord X while most people sit by and watch'. Furthermore, The Nameless One leads the outfit because all the joinable [=NPCs=] [[spoiler: are bound to you by the Mark of Torment, interlocking their destinies with your own; they]] could not leave you even if they wanted.
* E-102 Gamma's storyline in ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Adventure]]'' was an unexpected deconstruction of Eggman's robotic {{Mook}}s...or more specifically, the fact that Eggman's robots are powered by animals. (Well, technically, Gamma was an EliteMook, but whatever.) After seeing Amy's flicky in the Egg Carrier's prison chamber, his power source's memories and emotions began to conflict with his programming, eventually leading to his seeking out and destroying the other E-100 models (and himself) to free the animals inside.
* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''VisualNove/FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
* ''KillZone'' deconstructs the glorious D-Day style liberation in a hideous situation as it becomes obvious that with a corrupt military brass whom sold out your forces twice, that going in after recovering from a devastating attack on your planet and how putting down the leader will not make things better at all.
* Deconstruction, along with subversion, is a prominent focus in the plots of the ''TalesSeries'' games.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' deconstructs the whole idea of DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster, which, until then, had been a staple of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series. The main character, Niko Bellic, is a bitter and cynical ShellShockedVeteran who hopes that a new life in America will offer some alternatives to his old in Eastern Europe, where he committed various crimes for a living. Of course, being an illegal immigrant, his only option for getting some quick money is working as hired muscle for gangster bosses, and he is quickly pulled back into the business of robbing, blackmailing and assassinating, and it only serves to make him feel more miserable.
** In ''[[GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]'', Johnny is a [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] member who just wanted a relatively stable criminal life and not get into trouble. The resulting gang wars do the opposite of what normally happens in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', with Johnny's gang getting destroyed by them.
* ''SaintsRow2'' deconstructs it in the opposite direction, along with HeroicSociopath, by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the PC is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as 'Heroic' anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
* ''{{Bioshock}}'' is a deconstruction of linear gameplay and ButThouMust, once [[spoiler: it is revealed you've been being mentally controlled throughout the game]].
* ''HalfLife 2'' and Episodes is another said type of gameplay, ironically LampShaded with the ArcWords: "The one Free Man!"
* While ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' was always a darker version of {{Mons}} (despite [[OlderThanTheyThink preceding]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} by several years), ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' took it to ''{{Narutaru}}'' levels of brutality by showing exactly what kind of world would result in people gaining control of extremely powerful creatures that would follow any order.
* Cody from the StreetFighter games deconstructs BloodKnight. He went to jail for always starting brawls under the slightest provocation despite his connections with Mayor Mike Haggar and he looks obviously bored everytime he fights, presumibly because he doesn't get any satisfaction out of fighting anymore and continues to do so only because he is simply addicted to it.
* Two different types of MarySue are deconstructed ''harshly'' during the course of the ''KingdomHearts'' series. Namine starts out as a RelationshipSue, but it's also shown exactly ''how'' one would have to go about supplanting a love interest, and how harmful - possibly permanently damaging - to the hero's psyche ''and'' to Namine's own it would be. (Not to mention, [[spoiler: also she does it because she's forced into it by others, not juuuuuust because she fancies this dude and wants him for herself]]). Xion, the so-called 14th member of Organization XIII, [[spoiler:is actually not a Nobody at all, but an imperfect Replica]], and was never a real member, just a tool. By the end, [[spoiler:it's as though she never existed, which is actually quite similar to the fate of many fanfic Sues in her position]], but so many of the harmful side-effects are shown that [[DoomedByCanon it's impossible]] [[TearJerker not to cry]] [[DownerEnding at the end]].
* ''SuikodenIII'' deconstructs the MayflyDecemberRomance of many characters, most notably the Flame Champion as he gave up his immortality by retracting the True Fire Rune in his body so he can age with his loved one, but the act caused his body to break down and eventually die.
* ActionRPG ''MetalWalker'' deconstructs the empty overworld found in many [=RPGs=]. Besides your character and a select few [=NPCs=] with {{Mons}}, no one is outside, even in towns--because [[KillerRobot killer robots]] populate the landscape, even right outside buildings. Since you yourself are attacked very frequently, you can imagine why defenseless humans don't go out...
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series heavily deconstructs the IrrelevantSideQuest. Nearly every single sidequest in each game affects the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in believeable, realistic ways depending on how they were completed.
** Too may deconstructions to list here, but [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a particularly important one]] is the motivation for the antagonist in the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC, ''Lonesome Road''. For the Courier, it was an ordinary package like any they'd normally deliver. [[spoiler:For Ulysses, it was the package that detonated the nukes stored beneath the Divide, destroying the place he saw as his home, teaching him the power of a single person to reshape the world and sparking off a dangerous obsession.]]
*** And if you want the dialog options allow you to play out this trope entirely when speaking with [[spoiler:Ulysses.]]
** This also deconstructs the DarkMysteriousPast by showing you most of what it is, and how [[ButForMeItWasTuesday such a dark and destructive past]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain effects others and can shape the world]].
* ''[[FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu]]'' deconstructs GenkiGirl and PluckyGirl, since the characters who fitted the archetype in the first generation [[spoiler: (Tiltyu and Sylvia)]] end up meeting really tragic life experiences and are unable to keep their cheeriness in the end.
** At the same time, FE also ''reconstructs'' the same archetype in the second generation, since the pegasus knight Phee and the thief Patty (and their expies Femina and Daisy) ''do'' manage to keep their optimism until the end and earn their happy endings. Yes, they can be sad and/or angry (specially Phee, if [[CallingTheOldManOut her father is]] [[spoiler: Levin]]), but they don't let it get to them too much.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' is known for its deconstruction of WhiteAndGreyMorality and RousseauWasRight in the first two games by showing the tragedy that ensues from such an event.
** When you factor in Zero's origin as [[spoiler:the last creation of Dr. Wily]] the series is also a deconstruction of JokerImmunity, ThouShallNotKill, and probably a few other related tropes as well. Because [[spoiler:Dr. Wily was ''not'' executed after ''VideoGame/MegaMan6'', or killed in the next game because of Mega Man's ThreeLawsCompliant nature, he lived on to build Zero]], the latter being the ''cause'' of the wars in from the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series all the way to his own. Then we have Dr. Wiel, the main villain of the Zero series, who was also not killed when captured in the Zero series back story, and came back to wreak havoc.
* ''DragonAge'' deconstructs two major fantasy concepts:
** The WizardingSchool is more of a prison and re-education camp than a school, as it seems to be the only way to avoid devolving the world into a bunch of mage-controlled city states.
** OurElvesAreBetter is deconstructed, as any race that avoids use of more modern technology is going to get boned -- even if they live in the forests.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' could be said to deconstruct the use of the [[spoiler: BigBad in fiction. While it seems like either Meredith or Orsino could fit the bill and there is an ArtifactOfDoom involved, the social, religious and personal conflicts are what drive Thedas into war over human rights versus the safety of the masses-and since the story is being told in the past tense, there's very little the player can do about it. Even the creators have stated the circumstances are the true villains of the game]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}'' series does a good job deconstructing the ViceCity setting of most crime games. By placing it in a SurvivalHorror context, it shows just how terrifying the concept of a rotting, crime-filled metropolis with a [[PoliceAreUseless demoralized and incompetent police force]] could be in real life.
* ''YggdraUnion'' deconstructs the tropes surrounding TheEmpire by portraying the forces of Bronquia as just soldiers doing their job instead of gleefully evil {{mooks}}.
** It arguably deconstructs {{Tsundere}}s with Kylier by giving a realistic reason to her constant bitchiness towards Yggdra instead of a simple LoveTriangle. [[spoiler:She resents Fantasinia and its royal family as a whole for their FantasticRacism towards her people, displaying a little FantasticRacism herself.]]
*** Not to mention the deconstruction of the resistance, how in spite of Yggdra being not vilified, her weapon has caused more pain and suffering to the empire than what the empire does. And the SadisticChoice(s) she must make.
*** ''And'' the game takes a good hard look at would happen if you abuse TheMessiah and make too much of a scapegoat of him with [[spoiler:Nessiah]]. ''YggdraUnion'' has a lot of fun with deconstructionism.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' mercilessly deconstructs TimeTravel, specifically the TimeTravel used in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', by asking a simple question: "If you make it so a certain event never happened, what happens to the world, and the people in it, that came to being ''because'' of that event?"
* The online game ''You Only Live Once'' (found [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/raitendo/you-only-live-once here]]) deconstructs every meta-trope of your average Mario-style platformer (mainly extra lives). Just keep hitting continue...then when it runs out, refresh.
* ''ViewtifulJoe'', while in homage to lots of things, has a particularly interesting Deconstruction of TrappedInTVLand, Joe doesn't demonstrate it, but [[spoiler: Captain Blue certainly does, the game shows that he got caught up in his fantasy in Movie Land, showing he went insane because he couldn't visit his wife or daughter, and eventually tried to destroy everything]], it shows that being TrappedInTVLand sucks, and isn't really something to take lightly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' manages to deconstruct the OneManArmy trope... [[spoiler: By making the protagonist slowly go insane from all of the slaughter, while the few enemies she tries to talk to refuse to listen to her and label her as a mass murderer.]] [[PacifistRun Though it's completely possible to avoid killing anyone at all.]]
** It also deconstructs the typical "save the world" plotline. [[spoiler: Iji first tries to save the world on her own and fails. She can only do it by calling in the Komato, a warmongering race whose arrival seems to have [[NiceJobBreakingItHero made matters even worse]]. Then you reach the end of the game and realise the Komato's arrival on the planet did what Iji could not -- saved humanity after all.]]
* ''FarCry 2'' deconstructs {{Badass}} with the player character. The enemies attack you on sight, no one bothers to check if you're enemy or not...solution? You kill everything on sight, becoming just like them and racking up hundreds of kills, and by doing that, become the epitome of badassitude with enemies running from you in fear if your reputation is high enough. Of course, this reputation doesn't just affect enemies, it affects friendly people as well, which you need for malaria medicine...
* ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' deconstructs video game objectives as inherently good. Every time you kill a colossus, you see it fall peacefully to its death while sad music plays. Some players stopped playing after a few because they felt they were doing something wrong. You can't help but feel like the invasive villain at times. [[spoiler:Especially after you become the final boss.]]
* One could argue that the first ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' is a deconstruction of the concept of dungeon crawling/looting. [[spoiler:In their quest for fame and fortune, the "heroes" murder an entire tribe of forest creatures who were acting purely in self defense, murder a man whose only "crime" was trying to develop a way to heal the ravaged world, and putting the ''entire world'' at risk by destroying an artifact that was helping the aforementioned world healing. All this, just to complete the Labyrinth and get the treasure at the end of it.]] This shows that blind, mindless dungeon delving and looting of said dungeons can indeed, and often do, have severe consequences, and the adventurers' sense of adventure and inherent greed make them completely oblivious to such consequences.
* ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' deconstructs several video-game RPG tropes such as how the main character seems to gain power by slaughtering others and how upon meeting you, the other members of your party become entirely dependent on your continued existence. It also deconstructs the StarWars universe itself, including notions of good and evil and ideas about The Force.
* ''{{X-COM}}'' deconstruct the monster and alien-fighting cartoons popular during the 90's. where you have an elite team of heroes able to travel anywhere in the world to fight cheesy villains and win despite having inferior technology and numbers. Then look at X-COM, who travel the world in a Cool Plane to fight goofy-looking aliens... and suffer a high fatality rate, have barely enough funding, and have to desperately struggle just to get good enough weapons to fight 3/4 of the things that keep coming down.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' starts out as a ClicheStorm, but it quickly begins deconstructing tropes, with the most ripped-apart trope being TheChosenOne; it shows what a shitty life a person would have if they were expected to save the world, and the psychological effects such a title and life would have on them. In this case, ''both'' of the chosen's become [[StepfordSmiler stepford smilers]], with [[ThePollyanna Colette]] always covering up her problems because she doesn't want to worry people, and [[HandsomeLech Zelos]] covers up his [[SadClown suicidal tendencies]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity with his apparent stupidity.]]
* The ''MobileSuitGundam'' game ''Gundam Senki 0081'' deconstructs the young vs the old generation. If you are playing as the Federation, the male lead is at a rather old age for Gundam leads (32 years old! That is just screaming for a death wish) while all of the cast on the Federation side are pretty much adults. The Zeonic side consists of young adults who attempt to cause trouble, for a series that usually favors the younger side. The older generation defeats the younger generation in battle.
* After completing the first loop of ''DonPachi'', it's revealed that the events of the game have thus far been a deconstruction of the OneManArmy present in many shmup {{Excuse Plot}}s. [[spoiler:The player character, as part of his training, has been fighting against his own army, with his comrades willingly giving up their lives in order to help him become the ultimate SuperSoldier. And when you start the second loop, the player character has been doing this same training for ''the past seven years.'' Only when he's pretty much slaughtered the entirety of his allied forces is he finally admitted into the elite [=DonPachi=] Squadron.]]
** Its second-degree sequel ''DoDonPachi dai ou jou'' is a deconstuction of {{Robot Girl}}s. Set in a future crawling with Element Dolls, robot girls used as little more than slaves (of both the standard variety and...not-so-standard variety), the protagonist embarks on a mission against the forces of Hibachi with the assistance of one of three dolls. Depending on which doll you use, the ending has her [[spoiler:choking the protagonist to death and going back in time to cause shit in DOJ's sequel ''[=DoDonPachi=] [=DaiFukkatsu=]'', falling for him despite him not reciprocating her feelings, or becoming so protective of the pilot that she has to be forcibly removed from the ship. Regardless of which doll, it's clear that your doll has gone batshit insane.]]
*** Finally, in ''[=DaiFukkatsu=]'', the enemy is a series of giant robot girls, manipulated by [[spoiler:Colonel Longhena]] into destroying humanity.
* Each of the romantic routes in ''KatawaShoujo'' features a deconstruction, depending on the girl you pick for Hisao. Not all of them are intentional, but it still counts due to the effects on each relationships:
** Rin: [[spoiler: CloudCuckooLander: Becomes self-destructive and compulsive in an attempt to keep up with her art and gain inspiration. One of her Bad Endings implies that she's liable to ''kill herself'' due to these emotional problems.]]
** Emi: [[spoiler: PluckyGirl: Tries to deal with her issues as much as she can, but this means she can't bring herself to get close to others.]]
** Lilly: [[spoiler: OneeSama and YamatoNadeshiko: Represses her emotions to the point of utter neglecting them, and it's not easy to know what she needs and wants.]]
** Hanako: [[spoiler: IWillProtectHer: Eventually gets fed up with Hisao and Lilly coddling her, and the more you try to protect her, the more resentful she is.]]
** Shizune: [[spoiler: SpiritedCompetitor: Is so competitive that she drives away almost all of her friends except for Hisao and Misha. And in her Bad Ending she breaks up with Hisao since she thinks she's driving him and Misha away too.]]
* ''CommandAndConquer [[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]'' deconstructed EnhanceButton. The processing power the {{AI}} CABAL requires in general and for this operation in particular comes from [[spoiler:human brains]] and the resulting picture looks exactly like one would expect: grainy, except in the parts made up which are very smooth and Oxanna also does not know who the woman on it is, only she's a mutant.
** The issues of the QuirkyMinibossSquad is further deconstructed in a {{Webcomic}} based on the first ''Metal Gear Solid'': ''TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. As are some of the cloning woes and the other issues the game explores, though usually to humorous effect because when it comes to genetics, the author gleefully exploits Hideo Kojima's research mistakes.
** At a more meta level, MetalGearSolid2 deconstructs a lot of the tropes of video gaming itself.
* ''MassEffect'' makes it a point to deconstruct the PlanetOfHats ''and'' the ProudWarriorRaceGuy in the form of the krogan, who are universally bad-tempered, violent, brutal, and selfish... and have exactly the interspecies relations this should earn them. They got themselves slapped with a nice, unpleasant DepopulationBomb for being an entire species of {{jerkass}}es.
*** In an interesting subversion, Urdnot Wrex (one of the first named Krogan we meet) not only starts out as [[GeniusBruiser much more mellow]] then his brethren but goes on to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] the ProudWarriorRaceGuys culture of his kind almost singlehandedly, much to the annoyance of more two-dimensional Krogan.
** It also deconstructs this with the asari, who are well known about the universe for being excellent diplomats and dealers... and having the best commandos and the largest population of biotic (superpower) users in the entire galaxy.
*** As both the {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s ''and'' the DiscountLesbians of the universe, it is also mentioned in passing on a few occasions that the Asari are often collectively looked down upon as being flighty and promiscuous.
** And finally the Geth, in which the RobotWar they had fought with the Quarians was that they are not mindless killbots (well the true geth) but rather a confused race of robots which questions their own existence in this world and that they really didn't want this conflict in the first place. While heretic Geth believed in the Reapers and played the trope straight and even then, it was more of a need of a proverbial god.
** In [[MassEffect2 the sequel]], Miranda is a deconstruction of the MarySue. She is [[MsFanservice incredibly beautiful]], highly intelligent, fast-healing, skilled in combat, and bioticly gifted... because her egotistical prick of a father [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke designed her that way in a lab]] so that he could have the "perfect" daughter. She is tortured by all of her "gifts", seeing in them constant evidence of her father's influence.
** On top of all that, As her Shadow Broker file reveals, for all her "perfection", she has a lot of trouble with being social with "normal" people, and she's badly affected by her inability to have children of her own.
* Amongst many tropes it skewered, ''PlanescapeTorment'' deconstructed the standard [[ItsUpToYou RPG trope of your character always being the center of the story]] by turning the story into a personal quest for identity rather than a standard 'save the setting from EvilOverlord X while most people sit by and watch'. Furthermore, The Nameless One leads the outfit because all the joinable [=NPCs=] [[spoiler: are bound to you by the Mark of Torment, interlocking their destinies with your own; they]] could not leave you even if they wanted.
* E-102 Gamma's storyline in ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Adventure]]'' was an unexpected deconstruction of Eggman's robotic {{Mook}}s...or more specifically, the fact that Eggman's robots are powered by animals. (Well, technically, Gamma was an EliteMook, but whatever.) After seeing Amy's flicky in the Egg Carrier's prison chamber, his power source's memories and emotions began to conflict with his programming, eventually leading to his seeking out and destroying the other E-100 models (and himself) to free the animals inside.
* TheMessiah is semi-deconstructed in stages across all three routes in ''VisualNove/FateStayNight'' as being impossibly idealistic but not necessarily a bad thing if you can keep your sense of perspective. A handful of other tropes are touched upon in this - such as TheDulcineaEffect - but are generally props for the main point that there is something basically ''wrong'' with Shirou.
* ''KillZone'' deconstructs the glorious D-Day style liberation in a hideous situation as it becomes obvious that with a corrupt military brass whom sold out your forces twice, that going in after recovering from a devastating attack on your planet and how putting down the leader will not make things better at all.
* Deconstruction, along with subversion, is a prominent focus in the plots of the ''TalesSeries'' games.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' deconstructs the whole idea of DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster, which, until then, had been a staple of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series. The main character, Niko Bellic, is a bitter and cynical ShellShockedVeteran who hopes that a new life in America will offer some alternatives to his old in Eastern Europe, where he committed various crimes for a living. Of course, being an illegal immigrant, his only option for getting some quick money is working as hired muscle for gangster bosses, and he is quickly pulled back into the business of robbing, blackmailing and assassinating, and it only serves to make him feel more miserable.
** In ''[[GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]'', Johnny is a [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker gang]] member who just wanted a relatively stable criminal life and not get into trouble. The resulting gang wars do the opposite of what normally happens in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', with Johnny's gang getting destroyed by them.
* ''SaintsRow2'' deconstructs it in the opposite direction, along with HeroicSociopath, by escalating [[PlayerCharacter the Boss']] ShootTheDog moments until he/she has finally crossed the MoralEventHorizon for most of the playerbase. By the end of the game, the PC is out of [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] and can hardly be defined as 'Heroic' anymore. Most AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the BigBad sympathetically recasts him/her as a DesignatedVillain.
* ''{{Bioshock}}'' is a deconstruction of linear gameplay and ButThouMust, once [[spoiler: it is revealed you've been being mentally controlled throughout the game]].
* ''HalfLife 2'' and Episodes is another said type of gameplay, ironically LampShaded with the ArcWords: "The one Free Man!"
* While ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' was always a darker version of {{Mons}} (despite [[OlderThanTheyThink preceding]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} by several years), ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' took it to ''{{Narutaru}}'' levels of brutality by showing exactly what kind of world would result in people gaining control of extremely powerful creatures that would follow any order.
* Cody from the StreetFighter games deconstructs BloodKnight. He went to jail for always starting brawls under the slightest provocation despite his connections with Mayor Mike Haggar and he looks obviously bored everytime he fights, presumibly because he doesn't get any satisfaction out of fighting anymore and continues to do so only because he is simply addicted to it.
* Two different types of MarySue are deconstructed ''harshly'' during the course of the ''KingdomHearts'' series. Namine starts out as a RelationshipSue, but it's also shown exactly ''how'' one would have to go about supplanting a love interest, and how harmful - possibly permanently damaging - to the hero's psyche ''and'' to Namine's own it would be. (Not to mention, [[spoiler: also she does it because she's forced into it by others, not juuuuuust because she fancies this dude and wants him for herself]]). Xion, the so-called 14th member of Organization XIII, [[spoiler:is actually not a Nobody at all, but an imperfect Replica]], and was never a real member, just a tool. By the end, [[spoiler:it's as though she never existed, which is actually quite similar to the fate of many fanfic Sues in her position]], but so many of the harmful side-effects are shown that [[DoomedByCanon it's impossible]] [[TearJerker not to cry]] [[DownerEnding at the end]].
* ''SuikodenIII'' deconstructs the MayflyDecemberRomance of many characters, most notably the Flame Champion as he gave up his immortality by retracting the True Fire Rune in his body so he can age with his loved one, but the act caused his body to break down and eventually die.
* ActionRPG ''MetalWalker'' deconstructs the empty overworld found in many [=RPGs=]. Besides your character and a select few [=NPCs=] with {{Mons}}, no one is outside, even in towns--because [[KillerRobot killer robots]] populate the landscape, even right outside buildings. Since you yourself are attacked very frequently, you can imagine why defenseless humans don't go out...
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series heavily deconstructs the IrrelevantSideQuest. Nearly every single sidequest in each game affects the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue in believeable, realistic ways depending on how they were completed.
** Too may deconstructions to list here, but [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a particularly important one]] is the motivation for the antagonist in the ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC, ''Lonesome Road''. For the Courier, it was an ordinary package like any they'd normally deliver. [[spoiler:For Ulysses, it was the package that detonated the nukes stored beneath the Divide, destroying the place he saw as his home, teaching him the power of a single person to reshape the world and sparking off a dangerous obsession.]]
*** And if you want the dialog options allow you to play out this trope entirely when speaking with [[spoiler:Ulysses.]]
** This also deconstructs the DarkMysteriousPast by showing you most of what it is, and how [[ButForMeItWasTuesday such a dark and destructive past]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain effects others and can shape the world]].
* ''[[FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu]]'' deconstructs GenkiGirl and PluckyGirl, since the characters who fitted the archetype in the first generation [[spoiler: (Tiltyu and Sylvia)]] end up meeting really tragic life experiences and are unable to keep their cheeriness in the end.
** At the same time, FE also ''reconstructs'' the same archetype in the second generation, since the pegasus knight Phee and the thief Patty (and their expies Femina and Daisy) ''do'' manage to keep their optimism until the end and earn their happy endings. Yes, they can be sad and/or angry (specially Phee, if [[CallingTheOldManOut her father is]] [[spoiler: Levin]]), but they don't let it get to them too much.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' is known for its deconstruction of WhiteAndGreyMorality and RousseauWasRight in the first two games by showing the tragedy that ensues from such an event.
** When you factor in Zero's origin as [[spoiler:the last creation of Dr. Wily]] the series is also a deconstruction of JokerImmunity, ThouShallNotKill, and probably a few other related tropes as well. Because [[spoiler:Dr. Wily was ''not'' executed after ''VideoGame/MegaMan6'', or killed in the next game because of Mega Man's ThreeLawsCompliant nature, he lived on to build Zero]], the latter being the ''cause'' of the wars in from the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series all the way to his own. Then we have Dr. Wiel, the main villain of the Zero series, who was also not killed when captured in the Zero series back story, and came back to wreak havoc.
* ''DragonAge'' deconstructs two major fantasy concepts:
** The WizardingSchool is more of a prison and re-education camp than a school, as it seems to be the only way to avoid devolving the world into a bunch of mage-controlled city states.
** OurElvesAreBetter is deconstructed, as any race that avoids use of more modern technology is going to get boned -- even if they live in the forests.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' could be said to deconstruct the use of the [[spoiler: BigBad in fiction. While it seems like either Meredith or Orsino could fit the bill and there is an ArtifactOfDoom involved, the social, religious and personal conflicts are what drive Thedas into war over human rights versus the safety of the masses-and since the story is being told in the past tense, there's very little the player can do about it. Even the creators have stated the circumstances are the true villains of the game]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}'' series does a good job deconstructing the ViceCity setting of most crime games. By placing it in a SurvivalHorror context, it shows just how terrifying the concept of a rotting, crime-filled metropolis with a [[PoliceAreUseless demoralized and incompetent police force]] could be in real life.
* ''YggdraUnion'' deconstructs the tropes surrounding TheEmpire by portraying the forces of Bronquia as just soldiers doing their job instead of gleefully evil {{mooks}}.
** It arguably deconstructs {{Tsundere}}s with Kylier by giving a realistic reason to her constant bitchiness towards Yggdra instead of a simple LoveTriangle. [[spoiler:She resents Fantasinia and its royal family as a whole for their FantasticRacism towards her people, displaying a little FantasticRacism herself.]]
*** Not to mention the deconstruction of the resistance, how in spite of Yggdra being not vilified, her weapon has caused more pain and suffering to the empire than what the empire does. And the SadisticChoice(s) she must make.
*** ''And'' the game takes a good hard look at would happen if you abuse TheMessiah and make too much of a scapegoat of him with [[spoiler:Nessiah]]. ''YggdraUnion'' has a lot of fun with deconstructionism.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' mercilessly deconstructs TimeTravel, specifically the TimeTravel used in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', by asking a simple question: "If you make it so a certain event never happened, what happens to the world, and the people in it, that came to being ''because'' of that event?"
* The online game ''You Only Live Once'' (found [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/raitendo/you-only-live-once here]]) deconstructs every meta-trope of your average Mario-style platformer (mainly extra lives). Just keep hitting continue...then when it runs out, refresh.
* ''ViewtifulJoe'', while in homage to lots of things, has a particularly interesting Deconstruction of TrappedInTVLand, Joe doesn't demonstrate it, but [[spoiler: Captain Blue certainly does, the game shows that he got caught up in his fantasy in Movie Land, showing he went insane because he couldn't visit his wife or daughter, and eventually tried to destroy everything]], it shows that being TrappedInTVLand sucks, and isn't really something to take lightly.
* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' manages to deconstruct the OneManArmy trope... [[spoiler: By making the protagonist slowly go insane from all of the slaughter, while the few enemies she tries to talk to refuse to listen to her and label her as a mass murderer.]] [[PacifistRun Though it's completely possible to avoid killing anyone at all.]]
** It also deconstructs the typical "save the world" plotline. [[spoiler: Iji first tries to save the world on her own and fails. She can only do it by calling in the Komato, a warmongering race whose arrival seems to have [[NiceJobBreakingItHero made matters even worse]]. Then you reach the end of the game and realise the Komato's arrival on the planet did what Iji could not -- saved humanity after all.]]
* ''FarCry 2'' deconstructs {{Badass}} with the player character. The enemies attack you on sight, no one bothers to check if you're enemy or not...solution? You kill everything on sight, becoming just like them and racking up hundreds of kills, and by doing that, become the epitome of badassitude with enemies running from you in fear if your reputation is high enough. Of course, this reputation doesn't just affect enemies, it affects friendly people as well, which you need for malaria medicine...
* ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' deconstructs video game objectives as inherently good. Every time you kill a colossus, you see it fall peacefully to its death while sad music plays. Some players stopped playing after a few because they felt they were doing something wrong. You can't help but feel like the invasive villain at times. [[spoiler:Especially after you become the final boss.]]
* One could argue that the first ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' is a deconstruction of the concept of dungeon crawling/looting. [[spoiler:In their quest for fame and fortune, the "heroes" murder an entire tribe of forest creatures who were acting purely in self defense, murder a man whose only "crime" was trying to develop a way to heal the ravaged world, and putting the ''entire world'' at risk by destroying an artifact that was helping the aforementioned world healing. All this, just to complete the Labyrinth and get the treasure at the end of it.]] This shows that blind, mindless dungeon delving and looting of said dungeons can indeed, and often do, have severe consequences, and the adventurers' sense of adventure and inherent greed make them completely oblivious to such consequences.
* ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' deconstructs several video-game RPG tropes such as how the main character seems to gain power by slaughtering others and how upon meeting you, the other members of your party become entirely dependent on your continued existence. It also deconstructs the StarWars universe itself, including notions of good and evil and ideas about The Force.
* ''{{X-COM}}'' deconstruct the monster and alien-fighting cartoons popular during the 90's. where you have an elite team of heroes able to travel anywhere in the world to fight cheesy villains and win despite having inferior technology and numbers. Then look at X-COM, who travel the world in a Cool Plane to fight goofy-looking aliens... and suffer a high fatality rate, have barely enough funding, and have to desperately struggle just to get good enough weapons to fight 3/4 of the things that keep coming down.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' starts out as a ClicheStorm, but it quickly begins deconstructing tropes, with the most ripped-apart trope being TheChosenOne; it shows what a shitty life a person would have if they were expected to save the world, and the psychological effects such a title and life would have on them. In this case, ''both'' of the chosen's become [[StepfordSmiler stepford smilers]], with [[ThePollyanna Colette]] always covering up her problems because she doesn't want to worry people, and [[HandsomeLech Zelos]] covers up his [[SadClown suicidal tendencies]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity with his apparent stupidity.]]
* The ''MobileSuitGundam'' game ''Gundam Senki 0081'' deconstructs the young vs the old generation. If you are playing as the Federation, the male lead is at a rather old age for Gundam leads (32 years old! That is just screaming for a death wish) while all of the cast on the Federation side are pretty much adults. The Zeonic side consists of young adults who attempt to cause trouble, for a series that usually favors the younger side. The older generation defeats the younger generation in battle.
* After completing the first loop of ''DonPachi'', it's revealed that the events of the game have thus far been a deconstruction of the OneManArmy present in many shmup {{Excuse Plot}}s. [[spoiler:The player character, as part of his training, has been fighting against his own army, with his comrades willingly giving up their lives in order to help him become the ultimate SuperSoldier. And when you start the second loop, the player character has been doing this same training for ''the past seven years.'' Only when he's pretty much slaughtered the entirety of his allied forces is he finally admitted into the elite [=DonPachi=] Squadron.]]
** Its second-degree sequel ''DoDonPachi dai ou jou'' is a deconstuction of {{Robot Girl}}s. Set in a future crawling with Element Dolls, robot girls used as little more than slaves (of both the standard variety and...not-so-standard variety), the protagonist embarks on a mission against the forces of Hibachi with the assistance of one of three dolls. Depending on which doll you use, the ending has her [[spoiler:choking the protagonist to death and going back in time to cause shit in DOJ's sequel ''[=DoDonPachi=] [=DaiFukkatsu=]'', falling for him despite him not reciprocating her feelings, or becoming so protective of the pilot that she has to be forcibly removed from the ship. Regardless of which doll, it's clear that your doll has gone batshit insane.]]
*** Finally, in ''[=DaiFukkatsu=]'', the enemy is a series of giant robot girls, manipulated by [[spoiler:Colonel Longhena]] into destroying humanity.
* Each of the romantic routes in ''KatawaShoujo'' features a deconstruction, depending on the girl you pick for Hisao. Not all of them are intentional, but it still counts due to the effects on each relationships:
** Rin: [[spoiler: CloudCuckooLander: Becomes self-destructive and compulsive in an attempt to keep up with her art and gain inspiration. One of her Bad Endings implies that she's liable to ''kill herself'' due to these emotional problems.]]
** Emi: [[spoiler: PluckyGirl: Tries to deal with her issues as much as she can, but this means she can't bring herself to get close to others.]]
** Lilly: [[spoiler: OneeSama and YamatoNadeshiko: Represses her emotions to the point of utter neglecting them, and it's not easy to know what she needs and wants.]]
** Hanako: [[spoiler: IWillProtectHer: Eventually gets fed up with Hisao and Lilly coddling her, and the more you try to protect her, the more resentful she is.]]
** Shizune: [[spoiler: SpiritedCompetitor: Is so competitive that she drives away almost all of her friends except for Hisao and Misha. And in her Bad Ending she breaks up with Hisao since she thinks she's driving him and Misha away too.]]
* ''CommandAndConquer [[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]'' deconstructed EnhanceButton. The processing power the {{AI}} CABAL requires in general and for this operation in particular comes from [[spoiler:human brains]] and the resulting picture looks exactly like one would expect: grainy, except in the parts made up which are very smooth and Oxanna also does not know who the woman on it is, only she's a mutant.
