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* The music video of Music/{{Skrillex}}'s "First of the Year" has a child kidnapper very surprised when his victim [[SummonMagic summons a demon]] to kill him.
* The video for "Bun Dem" has a similar plot: a corrupt police officer fraudulently evicting low-income households is thwarted by a MagicalNativeAmerican boy who summons a Thunder Bird made of lasers when the cop tries to pull a gun on him.

->''The end of the Mesozoic era... A herd of Chasmosaurs is unusually jittery! They now know they have more to fear than Tyrannosaurs! Now they face an even greater danger... Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!''

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'': Compared to the likes of the other villains of the [[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries film series]], all of whom are either terrorists, rogue agents, or arms dealers, The Entity feels more like a villain you'd see in either the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'', ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron the MCU]] or ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' due to it being a [[AIIsACrapshoot sentient, rogue A.I.]]

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'': Compared to the likes of the other villains, all of whom are either terrorists, rogue agents, or arms dealers, The Entity feels more like a villain you'd see in either the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise or ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' due to it being a [[AIIsACrapshoot sentient, rogue A.I.]]

* The Wolf in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish is a supremely capable bounty hunter who easily trounces Puss the first time they meet, even drawing actual blood. He relentlessly stalks Puss, relishing in the feline's fear, and [[KnightOfCerebus is played so deadly serious]] the whole movie turns into [[SlasherMovie Slasher genre]] whenever he shows up. The reveal of his identity and motivation changes little, given he is [[spoiler:unambiguously, literally, '''''[[TheGrimReaper Death]]'''''' itself.]]

* In the Netflix adaptation of ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', in ''The Miserable Mill'', Olaf's crumbling alliance with a local villain sees him openly dismissing Dr. Orwell's "high-concept science fiction gimmicks".

** In Season 4 Oliver has to fight against Damien Darhk whose powers are mystical/magical in nature. Darhk can siphon a person's life force with his touch and he can stop bullets (and arrows) in midair with a simple gesture.
** In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', a young Barry Allen watches his mother being murdered by what appears to be a fast-moving man shrouded in lightning. Barry's unbelievable story results in his father being imprisoned for the murder. Fourteen years later, a particle accelerator explodes, [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent creating other "metahumans" with similar powers.]] However, that doesn't explain how a metahuman could exist ''before'' the particle accelerator explosion. Fans of the comics know that the murderer's origin is even more bizarre: [[spoiler:He's a time-traveller.]] Later on, the show adds alternate dimensions and aliens into the mix. Season 4 adds an honest-to-God vampire to the show.

** The yearly crossover events run on this. The second one, ''[[Series/Invasion2016 Invasion!]]'', had an antagonistic race of aliens known as the Dominators invading Earth to eliminate metahumans, causing Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends and [[Series/Supergirl2015 Supergirl]] to team up and take them down. ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' has an [[ThoseWackyNazis army of actual Nazis]] (from an alternate Earth, Earth-X, where they won World War II) crashing Barry and Iris' wedding, backed up by evil versions of Arrow and Supergirl and the Reverse-Flash. The third, ''Series/Elseworlds2018'', has the heroes (minus the Legends, but including Superman) against both a rogue android designed to copy superhuman abilities, as well as a mad doctor with access to a reality-altering book. ''Elseworlds'' served as a prelude to the latest event, ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', where every hero possible is called in to combat the threat of the Anti-Monitor and his antimatter wave from wiping out the multiverse.

* In the Series/{{Community}} episode 'Epidemiology', Greendale deals with a ZombieApocalypse. Unlike every other GenreShift in the show, this isn't just people playing pretend or taking things too seriously; it's a real effect of eating meat infected by an expirimental virus. In the end, the plot is resolved by the MenInBlack, who never appeared before and never appeared again.

* On ''Series/GameOfThrones'', the Night King and his army of the dead are this to any character that's not either a member of the Night's Watch or a wildling. The White Walkers are just considered children's stories, since they haven't been a threat for thousands of years. Much of the characters spend time fighting amongst each other over who will sit on the Iron Throne, unaware of anything supernatural. [[spoiler:Much of season 7's plot deals with Jon Snow trying to convince others that the threat is very real.]]

->''The end of the Mesozoic era... A herd of Chasmosaurs is unusually jittery! They now know they have more to fear than Tyrannosaurs! Now they face an even greater danger...Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!''

* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' has a habit of introducing these:

* The [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-covered ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain'' appears to be a standard Western, with an American rancher trying to deal with disappearing cattle, his love for a local Mexican woman, and his rivalry with another rancher in his Mexican village. Then, later in the film - probably much too late for some - it turns out his cattle are vanishing because [[spoiler: there's a T. rex running around]].

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' is a drug themed crime drama, but one of the final villains is a ruthless gang of Neo-Nazi mercenaries who routinely deal with problems with extreme force and heavy fire power. They're so dangerous that no one even tries to fight them outside of [[spoiler: two DEA agents and a small band of much smaller time crooks.]] Both efforts fail because they're unbelievably outgunned by a death squad straight out of an action movie.

* Throughout the history of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', there's been very little variance on the types of enemies you face -- other criminals, gangs, DirtyCops, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive evil executives]], etc. ''The Doomsday Heist'' update brings in several foes on a scale never seen before: [[spoiler: a CorruptCorporateExecutive...'s [[AIIsACrapshoot murderous AI]] and his army of ''cyborg clones'', some of which have the capability to turn ''invisible''.]]

-->--''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

* This is how the aliens are viewed in ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''. As a result, they're initially referred to as "demons", something the cowboys ''do'' know about. Ironically, while the aliens and their technology are inexplicable to the Wild West, their motives are not: [[spoiler:they’re here to mine gold.]]

** The Others are shaping up to be this, too: a race of unearthly {{humanoid abomination}}s from the uttermost north, capable of bringing snowstorms and raising the dead, and who blanketed the world in TheNightThatNeverEnds the last time they took power… against a LowFantasy continent primarily concerned with the civil war and associated political maneuvering that’s ravaged the land. Magic has been in decline so long that most people don’t even know it existed, and Westeros has forgotten the gigantic Wall it has up north was built specifically to guard against the Others.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The team was used to dealing with normal threats, like mad mutant terrorists, shapeshifting alien Nazis, and super-soldiers gone wrong. They're completely blindsided by an actual, factual god like Loki. Not to mention The Colonel, the first fully successful super-soldier since Captain America himself, or the entire army of super-soldiers they brought with them.

* In ''Fanfic/DangerousTenant'', the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series, which is basically a shooting game as characters fight their way through hordes of zombies, finds a new hero in the form of the Tenth Doctor (''Series/DoctorWho'') after he arrives in their world by accident; where his allies could only shoot down the attacking zombies and try to stop the virus being released to create more, the Doctor is able to scientifically analyze the available information about the T-virus and devise a new version that will be perfectly harmless to humanity but render them all immune to the mutative effects of the T-virus from then on.

* First ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' game is ostensibly a game taking place in medieval-fantasy setting. So who's its TrueFinalBoss? [[spoiler:A space travelling, time distorting EldritchAbomination named Grotesquerie Queen of course! And this applies in more ways than one: not only you fight her in ''modern-day Tokyo'', but while the rest of the game is Hack and Slash with RPG elements, the said boss fight is a Rhytm Game (and fiendishly hard at that).]]

** While he's never a foe ''to'' Homer (if anything, he's the best BenevolentBoss he's ever had), Hank Scorpio from the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" stands out because he's a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain in a series that doesn't usually has people trying to TakeOverTheWorld (C. Montgomery Burns [[{{Flanderization}} would eventually demonstrate]] he has the resources and drive to pretend to be a Bond villain, but his aims are [[EvilIsPetty much more petty in scope]], like [[GreenAesop dumping toxic waste in places he doesn't likes]] or force the town to pay bigger electricity bills).

* The head writer of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' decided that the final boss would be neither Digimon nor human, something that neither the heroes or the audience could ever expect. The [[EldritchAbomination D-Reaper]] more than qualified; an [[BlobMonster ever-growing mass of red goo]] that aims to [[OmnicidalManiac delete]] ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]''. Originally [[FromNobodyToNightmare a mere data-management program]], it absorbed so much data that it threatens to destroy both the Digital World and the human world. Even the strongest of Digimon can be wounded merely by coming into contact with the thing, and it takes the heroes multiple episodes to figure out how to even fight it. [[MediumBlending The D-Reaper is also rendered in 3D CGI, in contrast to the rest of the series being in 2D animation]], just to further emphasize how ''wrong'' the thing is.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has [[spoiler:Scion, after he discovers he enjoys killing people]] as an unusual example; this enemy didn't appear suddenly, he'd been around for a while and everybody knew who he was, but the discovery of ''what'' he actually is serves as the CosmicHorrorReveal in what was previously a superhero setting (albeit a ''very'' dark one). However, even though the set-up was unusual, once he starts attacking the trope then gets played straight, as the protagonists have no idea what the hell they're going to do, and all their previous experience and strategies only postpone the inevitable.

** In IDW's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers]]'' works, neither side is expecting the forces of the Dead Universe to appear, as shown by their curb-stomping any Autobot and Decepticon they encounter in the process of gathering up [[MadScientist Jhiaxus']] stuff for their own ends. The fact that they have been missing, presumed dead for several million years, helps.

* ''Videogame/SuperMarioRPG:'' PlayedForLaughs and for a [[Creator/SquareEnix company]] joke with [[BonusBoss Culex]], who looks like he belongs in a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''-style JRPG, complete with being pixellated 2D sprite in a game composed mostly of prerendered 3D enviroments. He's even aware of it himself; he just came to your dimension as a scout and is about to return because he found it inhospitable to his kind, but is willing to stick around [[BloodKnight for a good fight]] before leaving.

* The MST3K-covered ''Film/TheBeastOfHollowMountain'' appears to be a standard Western, with an American rancher trying to deal with disappearing cattle, his love for a local Mexican woman, and his rivalry with another rancher in his Mexican village. Then, later in the film - probably much too late for some - it turns out his cattle are vanishing because [[spoiler: there's a T. rex running around]].

** The Zendikar sets were a standard ''Indiana Jones''-style adventure setting, with the added caveat that half the ancient ruins are floating. Then Nissa accidentally frees the Eldrazi, and the setting becomes a scramble for survival as the plane is overrun by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
** Pretty much anytime [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Phyrexia]] shows up. Most notable are HighFantasy Capenna (forced to rebrand itself as a sole ArtDeco-like city to survive) and Myth/NorseMythology-esque Kaldheim, which could not possibly prepare for biomechanical horrors more at home in a sci-fi setting.

* The classic real-time strategy game ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' is about a war between the Allies and the Soviets in an alternate universe where Hitler was killed before he could rise to power. It is a classic military game where you fight infantry, tanks, etc... but the ''Counterstrike'' expansion pack features some bonus missions where you fight ''giant ants''. For no particular reason.