History Main / GenreBusting

** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is a monster movie/kid flick/invasion movie/sci-fi/family drama/comedy.

* The [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]]'s ''Literature/VitaNuova'' switches between large prose sections that provide background to the poetic sections, which in themselves take on genres like romance sonnet, GriefSong, prayer ballad, and even a [[FeverDreamEpisode visionary]] apocalypse canzone.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a FilmNoir RaygunGothic [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]/[[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]/[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] ScienceFiction {{Cyberpunk}} Political AlternateHistory {{Deconstruction}} of superheroes that invented half the tropes used by modern comics, and quite a few others besides. Phew!

** Mons are analogous to animals: They are manmade in ''Digimon'', and we have seen real animals in that series.

* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': It's equal parts {{romance}}, FilmNoir, [[SpyFiction spy thriller]], [[TheMusical musical]] and war drama, though the romance portion tends to be remembered the most.

* ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' was described by author Creator/DouglasAdams as a "detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". Mind you, of these labels, only four are really accurate--detective, ghost, whodunnit and time travel--and two of those are synonyms.

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. When it launched, it was a SliceOfLife RomanticComedy involving magical beings, having harem antics without being a HaremSeries, and occasionally putting the entire SliceOfLife concept on the shelf to go save the world from fantasy villains. Now, it's recognized as the TropeMaker for the MagicalGirlfriend, but the elements of fantasy adventure are still far more strongly present than in your average MagicalGirlfriend series.

* While ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' is primarily a shonen action series, (albeit with massive DeconstructorFleet overtones,) there are plenty of non-shonen action things going on, like when Gon and Killua spent an entire arc auctioneering, or when they went to Greed Island and the series suddenly became an {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG.

* ''Film/TheBrood'', though unabashedly a horror movie, combines aspects of both the 1800s GothicNovel and the 1970s slasher.

* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' is a comed- well, a bit, maybe, but it's mainly an action... Hang on, there's not much of that either. Okay, so it's a harem... no, not quite. Romance...? Well, the main character has a love interest, but that's not the focus of the story. If there were a genre for it, it would have to be called "Dialogue and {{Mind Screw}}]". The story adds several elements of Japanese folklore and ghost stories, too.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' was the TropeNamer for {{Dramedy}}, a MedicalDrama, and a [[MilitaryAndWarfareWorks war series]] rolled into one.

* Music/{{Slint}} uses creepy, winding riffs, often in [[UncommonTime odd time signatures]], with talking and screaming over them. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MBGwzEhMc Have a listen for yourself]].

** D&D is the TropeMaker or TropeCodifier for so many mechanics in games that its influence in modern games almost can't be exaggerated. However, it also repeatedly busted its own genre in terms of setting. Early D&D was often associated with very Tolkien-esque fantasy, usually by those who neither read their Tolkien to realize he wrote plenty of very dark fantasy with many of the DarkerAndEdgier themes usually credited to more current authors (see Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin for a discussion), nor those who know their D&D history.

*** Want to take SpaceIsAnOcean to its logical extreme and sail pirate ships through space on winds of magic so you can have a PlanetaryRomance fantasy RPG? TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}} did it in 1989.

* ''VideoGame/{{Foxhole}}'' calls itself a "persistent world warfare MMO", where everything is done by the players: logistics, building and supplying the frontlines are part of the game as much of driving tanks and shooting. Every rifle, bullet, truck, sandbag and foxhole is player-made. It takes the social aspects from an sandbox {{MMORPG}}, like ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'', the "massive dynamic war" from VideoGame/PlanetSide, isometric top-down shooting from VideoGame/RunningWithRifles and also has the [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas logistics and supply system]] coming from the {{R|ealTimeStrategy}}TS genre.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'' is a sequel to ''VideoGame/Persona5'', with the dating[=/=]life sim mechanics and Persona fusing system intact, but with one key difference: dungeon exploration and battles no longer play out like a turn-based JRPG, but as a real-time hack-n-slash ala ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''. And even then the game diverges ''heavily'' from ''Dynasty Warriors'' thanks to its emphasis on ambushing enemies through ''platforming'' coupled with ''stealth'' like the original game. Instead of focusing on taking out large nmbers of enemies on the map, players are encouraged more to explore and dungeon crawl, all the while strategizing in how they're going to take out the enemies weaknesses which makes its combat more in line with the ''Raidou Kuzunoha'' games, another sister spin off to ''Megaten'' like Persona.

* ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'' is a FirstPersonShooter minus the shooting, with elements of survival horror and stealth action cobbled together with copious amounts of drug-fuelled MindScrew peppered with cockney British slang and alternate history.

* For its first two chapters, ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' is a musical, superhero {{deconstruction}}, romantic comedy [[VillainProtagonist about a wannabe mad scientist supervillain]] and his attempts at gaining power (frequently detailed, of course, in his video blog). Then the last chapter ends [[spoiler: with elements of classic tragedy, the only remotely sweet and sympathetic character dying in the most gut-wrenching, Whedon-specialty way possible. The montage that follows, however, still includes some brutally funny moments]].