History Main / GenreRefugee

* This is done in ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E26Execution Execution]]", which mixed two of the series' most frequently-used genres: in it, an outlaw from a [[TheWestern Western]]-themed ''Twilight Zone'' episode is saved from his own hanging by getting [[FishOutOfTemporalWater pulled into]] a ScienceFiction-themed ''Twilight Zone'' episode by a scientist with a time machine. [[spoiler:He's murdered by a crook planning on robbing the scientist's lab, only to bungle the time machine and be put in the noose the outlaw narrowly escaped.]]
* An episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' had [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra a mailman who acted like he was in a Shakespeare play.]]

* ''WebAnimation/AngelHare'': [[spoiler: Angel Zag]] is a character from a kid's CrimeNoir series, with all of the baggage and skill that entails. When his friend Gabby goes missing, he's forced to take over her job; host of a kid's EdutainmentShow. Every scene he's working this job (up until he clues in that he's BeingWatched), he's clearly bored to tears.

* The page image provider is ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', which features three {{Cartoon Creature}}s (think along the lines as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his friends) stumbling into a HighFantasy story.

* Speaking of Usagi, his own series, ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is...[[GenreMashup hard to pin down]], but in simplest terms, it can be described as a LowFantasy {{Jidaigeki}}. Then you have [[KnightTemplar Jei]], a [[ImplacableMan nigh-invincible]] SerialKiller who seems to have stepped out of a SlasherMovie.

** The Tarasque, who feels like something out of a {{Kaiju}} movie.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'''s main selling point is GothicHorror, but it dabbles in all horror genres. You can therefore encounter monsters that seemingly do not fit alongside vampires and werewolves, such as the Doppelganger Plant, a plant that abducts people and replaces them with pod people, or Mind Flayers.

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Charlie is basically a Franchise/DisneyPrincess in Hell. She's idealistic, she's perky, she treats her day-to-day life like she's in a musical. The problem is instead of being the ruler of an idyllic medieval kingdom, she's the ruler of an urban cesspool of crime and sin. Not helping is how the denizens of Hell only give her the bare minimum of respect and attention at best.

* Captain Black in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' belongs in a typical spy thriller, but when the poor guy calls in his old AdventurerArchaeologist friend from school to help track down some art smugglers, he's swept up in a martial arts fantasy full of wizards and demons. Jackie gets the tables turned on him when he has to sub for Black's best agent, "Tag Stone".

* ''Manhua/CultivatorAgainstHeroSociety'': The main character, Yan-Sen, is a [[SpiritCultivationGenre Xianxia]] hero trapped in a world where Western Superhero exists.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': General James Ironwood act like a character that would be at home in ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' or ''Series/BattlestarGalactica'', where BlackAndGreyMorality are in play and it's sometimes necessary to ShootTheDog; in such a setting, he would probably be the BigGood he thinks he is, but in the {{Animesques}} world of Remnant, where ThePowerOfFriendship is the dominant narrative force, his actions make him an AntiHero at best, and [[spoiler: ultimately turn him into a LawfulEvil villain in the end]].

** The Hito-Hito/Human Human Fruit: Model Nika grants the user the powers and properties of a classical cartoon character. Even by One Piece standards, the fruit's user can inflict ToonPhysics on enemies to BodyHorror levels, a power set that can even wreck the peak powerhouses of the One Piece world. [[spoiler: This power is the true power of Luffy's Devil Fruit, with his rubber abilities only being the unawakened powers. Kaido finds this out the hard way when he triggers the full power awakening during his final battle with Luffy]].

** ComicBook/ThePunisher, {{expy}} of Mack Bolan, the main character from the LongRunningBookSeries ''Literature/TheExecutioner'', who at the outset was so out of tune with the rest of the Marvel Universe that he appeared primarily as an antagonist to people like Franchise/SpiderMan before coming into his own during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.

** Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu, a character created to cash in on the success of the martial arts films of the 1970s who also happens to be related to old YellowPeril villain Literature/FuManchu.

** The Prince of Power, an alien warrior bonded to the Power Stone who could easily be mistaken for an early draft character from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'', especially once it turns out his home planet ''is'' a parody of ''He-Man''.

** The Prince of Power, an alien warrior bonded to the Power Stone who could easily be mistaken for an early draft character from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''.

*** The trio of MadScientist supervillains. After they disable the museum guards with an ice ray and steal a precious diamond, our heroes start searching the ancient tomes for a "frost monster that eats diamonds".

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' gives us House Stark, who are basically a family of HighFantasy archetypes: stern and honorable patriarch, his strong and devoted MamaBear wife, handsome and passionate WarriorPrince older son, PrincessClassic older daughter, precocious and sensitive younger son, TomboyPrincess younger daughter. They'd be the virtuous heroes in a traditional Fantasy story. Unfortunately they're in a {{Realpolitik}}-driven Deconstruction of a traditional Fantasy story, where all their virtues are actually ''liabilities'': [[spoiler: Eddard's sense of honor compels him to give Cersei time to wrap up her affairs before he reports her infidelities to her husband, and she uses that time to arrange Robert's death and Ned's imprisonment. Catelyn's strong protective instinct causes her to act rashly in defense of her children, almost triggering a civil war in the process. Robb's passion and strong will leads him to make major political missteps that bring about his downfall. Sansa's guilelessness causes her to trust the wrong people and gets her father killed. Arya's tomboyish tendencies in a society that will not accept them compel her to flee Westeros entirely. And Bran's precocious nature leads to his near-fatal "accident" that starts the whole damn mess in the first place.]]

** Kratos himself is a refugee from a classic Greek Tragedy who wandered into a Norse Saga.

* The heroine of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/MansfieldPark'' (a textbook case of GenreAdultery) -- Fanny Price, an ExtremeDoormat and ShrinkingViolet modeled from years of unceasing emotional and psychological abuse instead of a SpiritedYoungLady DeadpanSnarker -- has been frequently described (by Creator/CSLewis and others) as "[[UnbuiltTrope a Bronte sisters heroine]] lost in a Jane Austen novel."

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' usually hews very close to {{Fairy Tale}}s and HeroicFantasy, but season 2 includes Literature/{{Frankenstein}} (and his monster) and season 6 includes [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde]]. They were both dragged out of their ScienceFiction universes by Rumplestiltskin's magic. Dr. Whale, Frankenstein's Storybrooke persona, is very confused and conflicted when the curse breaks and he realizes who he actually is, but ends up integrating happily into Storybrooke. Hyde ([[spoiler: as well as Jekyll]]) on the other hand acts as an OutsideContextVillain, being able to make plots that people aren't prepared for.

* The ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series: The plot of the [[Film/{{Predator}} first one]] is "the soldiers from ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' find themselves up against an alien invader". The plot of the [[Film/Predator2 second one]] is "the cops from your favorite action-packed BuddyCopShow go up against an alien from the same species". The effect actually works rather well: watching musclebound, macho action stars [[OutsideCOntextVillain confronted with something beyond their comprehension]] really helps sell the horror. The third and fourth movies move away from this concept and lean more heavily on the science fiction aspect, but [[Film/Prey2022 the fifth]] returns to this setup, dropping a Predator into the DawnOfTheWildWest.

* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' draws most of its humour from dropping [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello a pair of comedians]] into what is otherwise a fairly straight Franchise/UniversalHorror movie. It was such a success that the studio started dropping the duo into other genres, with ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKillerBorisKarloff'' (a whodunnit), ''Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd'' (a pirate movie), and more horror movies like ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'', ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', and ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheMummy''. A key part of these movies was that they would usually try to get the actors who had played the "real" versions of the other characters in the past[[note]]For example, ''Meet Captain Kidd'' got Creator/CharlesLoughton to reprise the role from his earlier ''Captain Kidd''[[/note]], so that, aside from the presence of Bud and Lou, everything else would feel as serious and true-to-the-genre as possible.

* Williams from ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' is a {{Blaxploitation}} character in a martial arts film.

* The ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series: The plot of the [[Film/{{Predator}} first one]] is "the soldiers from ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' find themselves up against an alien invader". The plot of the [[Film/Predator2 second one]] is "the cops from your favorite action-packed BuddyCopShow go up against an alien from the same species". The effect actually works rather well: watching musclebound, macho action stars [[OutsideCOntextVillain confronted with something beyond their comprehension]] really helps sell the horror.

* ''Film/{{Stripes}}'' is a ScrewballComedy set in a US Army training camp. However, Sergeant Hulka is a DrillSergeantNasty (in the vein of [[Film/FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]], and so makes him the only character who's played completely seriously. [[OutOfGenreExperience His scene where he privately chews out Winger feels pretty of place among the slapstick humor]]. Mind you, he's still a DeadpanSnarker like the rest of the film's characters.

** ''Tome of Battle'' helps you build a character who does {{Wuxia}} martial arts.

** The adventure paths also go some pretty strange places. In ''Iron Gods'' the [=NPCs=] include extraterrestrials and absurdly powerful A.I., in ''Strange Aeons'' the players can find themselves visiting a fragment of 18th-19th century Paris that got absorbed into [[EldritchLocation Carcosa]] (yes, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos that one]]), and in ''Reign of Winter'' the player characters ''fight Rasputin in WWI Russia'', none of which are exactly standard environments for fantasy adventurers. ([[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one piece of art in ''Strange Aeons'', which shows BlindSeer Alahazra, clad in her distinctive white-cloak-and-elaborate-underwear fantasy getup, sticking out like a sore thumb at a party where all the other guests are wearing late 19th or early 20th century outfits.)