History Main / StealthParody

* Lobo started as DC's over-the-top parody of Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}; then he became successful on his own. Marvel came right back (fifteen years later) with Lunatik, an even over-the-topper parody of Lobo, who in turn found brief success. How can you go over the top anymore when they ''keep moving the top''? Creator/RobLiefeld himself would create Bloodwulf as an even ''further'' exaggerated spoof of Lobo. Being that he is Rob Liefeld and "over the top" is printed on his business card, he certainly succeeded in making a much more ridiculous character if nothing else.

* Creator/PaulVerhoeven's version of ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' was a satirical take both on the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel and jingoistic war movies in general. Not everybody got this when the film was released.

* Many visitors to the [=DinoLand=] USA section of Disney's Animal Kingdom, part of the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World resort]], complain that it looks like a cheap carnival. What they don't realize is that it's ''supposed'' to look like a cheap carnival, set up in the "parking lot" of the Dino Institute (where the DINOSAUR ride is). The Imagineers did ''too'' good a job in bringing their theme to life.

* You like to think that that political pundit you don't like is one of these.

* British series ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' was a tongue-in-cheek spoof of the TotallyRadical anthropomorphic bands of animals such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' or. However, the market in the early Nineties was already overloaded with them, so the biker penguins were soon forgotten and lumped in with the similar but "serious" cartoons of the time.

* British series ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' was a tongue-in-cheek spoof of the TotallyRadical anthropomorphic bands of animals such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' or ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. However, the market in the early Nineties was already overloaded with them, so the biker penguins were soon forgotten and lumped in with the similar but "serious" cartoons of the time.

* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': [[WriterRevolt The director hated being forced to include a ridiculous, borderline racist plot.]] So he wrote everyone in an over-the-top manner, with Domon being a {{Jerkass}} who does things like sucker punching his opponent to announce that he wants to fight and mocks some of the plans Bandai came up with. For example, he hated the ring he has Domon bounce off the damn thing. In the end, it was so ridiculous that it goes from {{Narm}} to NarmCharm. The finale is the most over-the-top use of ThePowerOfLove ever, and has an entry on this site's Awesome page.

** ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator'', a ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' ripoff he was [[MoneyDearBoy doing for commission]].
** "The Hound". According to the editor's notes in the collection ''The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories'', "The Hound" has been criticized for being overwritten, but the [[PurpleProse over-the-top prose]] was intentional as part of an attempt at self-parody.

* According to some sources, the over-the-top macho "big muscles, big guns" [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] comic ''Guy Gardner: Warrior'', in which the titular ComicBook/GreenLantern loses his ring and gains the power to turn into a musclebound tattooed hunk with cannons for hands, was the result of writer Beau Smith writing the pitch as a joke and accidentally having it approved. According to Smith himself, his original intention was to make Gardner a non-powered tough-guy adventurer, but had to give him a super power of some sort due to ExecutiveMeddling.

* Some YouTubePoop movies fall under this, claiming to be a improved version of the godawful UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi cutscenes. Members of the Website/YouChewPoop forums created a joke account [[https://www.youtube.com/supremebros SupremeBros]], which purposely made poops with old, played-out {{meme}}s, to parody bad poopers and see how many subscribers the channel gets.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBestGamersUSA#p/c/A0723D1C2AD56B33/0/FUMERxXQhOo THE BEST GAMERS]], a Youtube channel which parodies and satirizes other video game review channels like IGN and elitists with extremely inaccurate information and biased reviewing (depending on the reviewer.) Information is often so inaccurate that they end up playing the ''incorrect game'', as seen in their [[https://youtu.be/pXW5FT3w7mk&feature=relmfu Epic Mickey review]] [[note]]They also flipflop between calling it ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', Epic Kirby, [[VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn Mickey's Epic Yarn]], etc.[[/note]] and ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' review. Their [[https://youtu.be/-HNmFjusmmM&feature=channel_video_title Minecraft review]] received a 100% concentrated all-natural amounts of hate when it was first revealed as it was a little too subtle, but eventually people got the joke. The amount of bias and inaccurate information [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on who is reviewing]], such as [=ROCKCOCK64=] who reviews ''{{VideoGame/Pilotwings}} Resort'' pretty well because of how easy it is, but fails to understand VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} to [[FridgeBrilliance lack of a tutorial.]] Eventually, they toned down the subtlety since the ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' review, but some people still find it to be real...[[TooDumbToLive until they tear open a ]][[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS 3DS]] [[TooDumbToLive looking for the 3D.]]

** With good reason. About half of [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the reason you suck speeches]] in the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' could just as easily be directed at the player as they are at Raiden. [[NoFourthWall That's if they're directed at Raiden at all.]]

* Back when ''[[http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/ Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad]]'' was considered a big deal, Eli Parker (author of ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'') created a fictional persona named Sonty Mick. The Mickster wrote his own webcomic review blog, ''Website/TheseWebComicsAreSoBad''; his reviews were equal parts CausticCritic, ComicallyMissingThePoint, and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. (And many of the comics that Sonty railed against were actually some of Parker's favorites.) At times it bordered on outright trolling, as he would occasionally post -- in-character as Sonty -- on webcomic messageboards or the comments section of John Solomon's blog. Though people who mistook Sonty for a real person were more likely to feel sorry for the poor fool than to be angry at him.

* Two Australian poets frustrated with the impenetrability of modernist poetry created the character of Ern Malley, to whom they attributed 17 poems built around random cut-and-pasted snippets — from Shakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Pericles}}'' to the American Armed Forces Guide to Mosquito Infestation. Their target, celebrated editor Max Harris, was so taken with the work that he rushed out a special Ern Malley edition of his journal ''Angry Penguins.'' In something of a backfire, the Malley oeuvre has eclipsed the hoaxers' own work to this day, with many calling it a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible genuine (if accidental) achievement]].

* Physics professor [[http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/ Alan Sokal]] set out to prove that the postmodernist cultural studies journal ''Social Text'' would publish [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible absolute nonsense so long as "(a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."]] He wrote a paper attacking the "dogma" that cultural criticism has nothing to contribute to physics, [[InsaneTrollLogic arguing]] that quantum gravity proves ''the universe'' to be a social/linguistic construct and that math must be amended to incorporate "the insights of the feminist, queer, multiculturalist and ecological critiques." (He also invokes a [[BackgroundMagicField "morphogenetic field" that pervades all things]], links set theory's ''axiom of choice'' to the ''pro-choice movement'', and flat-out denies that the "(so-called) scientific method" can ever lead to "reliable knowledge.") The piece was published unaltered and immediately denounced as a "pastiche of left-wing cant" by its author, leaving ''Social Text'' to admit that "the idea did not even occur to us that we had to check [the] physics [of a] credentialed physicist." Sokal later published a book about this, [[https://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861970749/ref=sr_1_3/153-1532677-9955468?ie=UTF8&qid=1487458416&sr=8-3&keywords=alan+sokal Intellectual Impostures]].

* ''Series/TheWomanInTheHouseAcrossTheStreetFromTheGirlInTheWindow'' is an AffectionateParody of a PsychologicalThriller movies like ''Literature/TheGirlOnTheTrain'' or ''Literature/GoneGirl'' that is shot and acted so seriously that most of the jokes are BackgroundGags or characters acting unbelievably dumb. Unfortunately it got mixed reviews because half the critics thought it was just a particularly bad thriller.

** One reason that ''Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry'' is often found on the "Travel" shelves in bookstores is that people who know it's a parody think it's amusing to put it there.

* The conspiracy theory y text ''Report from Iron Mountain'' is probably one of these. At least, that's what '''THEY''' ''[[KansasCityShuffle want you to think]]''. From the Author's own afterword (on page 119) "The book is, of course, a satirical hoax-" Apparently in the 1980's right wing groups were taking the report seriously, and the author had to take legal action to stop them from copying and distributing it. Left-wingers also took it seriously, insisting it HAD to be genuine. Its own introduction said so!

* In ''VideoGame/BarkleysShutUpAndJamGaiden'' basketball is SeriousBusiness.

* The Majin Buu arc of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is more humorous than the preceding arcs had been, but it also has the makings of someone lampooning how overblown the series had become at that point — except that someone was Creator/AkiraToriyama himself. [[note]]Keep in mind that Toriyama was originally (and to an extent, still is) a gag-manga author and that ''Dragon Ball'' itself started out as a gag-manga.[[/note]] Two characters make up ridiculously over-the-top names for ineffective attacks in a nod to the CallingYourAttacks nature of the series. One of those characters irreverently [[GenreSavvy invokes more of the series' clichés for drama]] while fighting the BigBad (long powers-ups, holding back his true power, trash talking, HeroicSecondWind, and NewPowersAsThePlotDemands), turning a long-awaited battle with the fate of the universe at stake into an outright farce. Another character gets an enormous power up just by sitting still for a long time as opposed to [[TrainingFromHell a grueling training session]]; while the character providing said power up is introduced in a series of jokes that take the piss out of some of the series' oldest clichés. The characters have become so ridiculously powerful that they can ''open holes between dimensions'' just by screaming. The BigBad initially appears as a fat, pink, childlike demon that kills people by turning them into sweets and eating them; with one character noting that [[FluffyTheTerrible his name sounds like a fart]]. He is so ridiculously overpowered that he's nigh-unkillable (at one point he recovers from being ''reduced to smoke''), has an insane amount of transformations (8 in total), and causes so much destruction that at one point almost the entire cast (along with Earth's population) is dead and the Earth itself is destroyed. The JokeCharacter ends up saving the world (momentarily) simply by telling the BigBad that killing people is wrong. The revered Super Saiyan transformation, which once required extreme circumstances to reach, is easily obtained by a couple of young bratty kids that have no clue of its importance; while the new Super Saiyan form has a very exaggerated appearance and ends up only being useful for stalling the BigBad due to failing at two critical moments, resulting in the BigBad being defeated through a collaborative effort instead of one guy's game-changing power up. Finally, at one point, the BigBad gets [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] by ''a fighting piece of candy''.

'''Doomguy:''' Gaah! Radioactive waste! BURNS! STINKS! Get off scum! Who do you suppose let all that radioactive waste down there? And why? '''[[LampshadeHanging Why?]]''' Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good! Why can't we find a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste and protect the environment? Even if I personally stop this alien invasion, [[AuthorFilibuster what kind of planet will we be leaving to our children? And our children's children?]] And... Oh the humanity! My big gun is out of bullets!

* Upon first glance, Comicbook/ThePunisher2099 appears to be a generic NinetiesAntiHero with a cyberpunk theme. Upon second glance you find [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/Robos_A_Go_Go/PunishmentDay.jpg scenes like this.]] Considering it was mostly written by the creator of ComicBook/JudgeDredd, this shouldn't be too surprising.

** Likewise, the TropeNamer for "Mary Sue" was the ''Star Trek'' fic ''Fanfic/ATrekkiesTale'', parodying what would eventually come to be known as its title character.

* The mighty works of Peter Chimera.

* M. Night Shyamalan attempted to downplay ''Film/TheHappening's'' critical curb-stomping by claiming he intended it as a parody of bad B movies. No one believed him.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel (see its entry under Literature), since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman), whereas the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan. Roger Ebert in his review notes that the director, Rob Reiner, seems to be taking the same approach as in his earlier film ''This is Spinal Tap'', where he stays true to the form of the genre he's parodying so that it can be appreciated on either level.

* An accidental one happens in [[Creator/JohnMilius John Milius']] own ''Film/RedDawn1984''. Once the town of Columet, Co. is taken over, we see a close-up of a Soviet paratrooper crouching down and taking a semi-automatic pistol from a gunned-down civilian, while a bumper sticker that reads, "You can have my gun from when you pry it from my cold dead fingers" appears on the background. This was meant to be seen as a BadassBoast from someone who was DefiantToTheEnd; instead, it came out as [[DeathByIrony someone who fell victim to his own bravado.]]

* Occasionally, ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' celebrity impersonators will have quotes so ubiquitous, they're incorrectly attributed to the original celebrity. Especially common when the celebrities are political, rather than media figures. Sarah Palin never actually claimed that she could see Russia from her house, that was Creator/TinaFey in character as Palin.

* ''Series/ComradeDetective'' seems like a communist ''Series/MiamiVice'' [[TheMoralSubstitute clone]] shown in 1980s UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}, with the PBS-like intro segments once every few episodes further confusing the non-Romanian viewer into believing so. The slick cinematography is the only giveaway that it's a Creator/PrimeVideo original filmed in TheNewTens.

* Creator/AndrewHussie's ''Humanimals'' is a parody of that particular species of Furry comic that has superficially innocuous content but is really just a vehicle for the author's [[AuthorAppeal fetishes]]. In his universe, the furry stand-ins are freakish BodyHorror monsters and the fetishistic content is so disturbing and random as to be unignorable.

* ''[[WebSite/{{Snopes}} Snopes.com]]'', a site that talks about urban legends and reveals their research into which ones are false and which ones are true, has a page ("The Repository Of Lost Legends", or "[[FunWithAcronyms T.R.O.L.L.]]"), which has a list of made-up (and largely absurd) urban legends. It then says they're all true (or if the "urban legend" is mundane, false). One such page talks about how Series/MrEd was a zebra, rather than a horse, because it was better-looking on camera and no one could tell in black-and-white video anyway. For laughs, on the site's forum, the site's proprietors post a ''lot'' of allegedly genuine responses to this, either accepting that Mr. Ed is a zebra or talking about all the ways in which it can be proved that Mr. Ed is ''not'' a zebra -- ''none'' of which mention that the thought of a ''black-and-white'' zebra looking like a horse in ''black-and-white'' video is ridiculous. (It's part of their [[AnAesop Aesop]] about trusting anybody too much, whether it's a chain mail from your grandma or a trusted authority figure, don't use anyone as a crutch.)
** The article actually has an explanation for the whole black-and-white thing now, albeit a purposefully utterly absurd VoodooShark, describing how black and white too close together are rendered invisible on black and white television, and describing how this led to players being unable to spot referees in football and prisoners effortlessly sneaking past guards in Johnny Cash prison concerts. Despite the fact that, this logic followed to its (internally) logical thread would mean Mr Ed would too be invisible. Also the fact that since THE WORLD wasn’t black and white when TV was, it makes zero sense for the people standing right there to be affected.

* This is the entire point of the online novel ''Literature/AtlantaNights'', which is a collaborative attempt of various sci-fi writers to discredit [[http://www.publishamerica.com/ PublishAmerica]], a famed [[VanityPublishing vanity publisher]] who infamously denigrated both science fiction and fantasy genres. [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Grammar is nonstandard]], a chapter is missing (but there are two different Chapter 12's to make up for it), character descriptions change frequently, the ResetButton is used frequently, and one chapter is generated entirely by a random string generator... the faults are endless. Despite that, [=PublishAmerica=] did originally agree to publish the novel. They backed out after the hoax was revealed. You can hear a dramatic reading of ''Atlanta Nights'' right [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BAFF14D77F09FFD1 here]]. Its working title was "Naked Came the Badfic", in honor of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger Naked Came the Stranger]],'' a similar collaborative hoax from TheSixties that set out to -- and eventually did -- prove that you can make a book a #1 bestseller if you load it with enough sex, regardless of the actual literary quality.

* In ''Barkley's Shut Up And Jam Gaiden'' basketball is SeriousBusiness.

* Aversion: Conservapedia is often accused of this, but, sadly, the founder is serious: he works for a conservative interest group headed by his mother and founded it when a student cited that Wikipedia used CE along with AD, which inspired him to create a wiki without "liberal bias". It's used to teach in his classes, in fact. How many of the ''contributors'' are serious is another matter. It is fairly widely believed that he banned [[FlockOfWolves everyone but the trolls]] when he tried to crack down on the parody edits. Rational Wiki has described this as a "[[PoesLaw Poe Paradox]]", in which people who are too far to the left of his own position (which is most of the genuinely well-intentioned editors who otherwise broadly align with his political views) are banned as being potential parodists, while the ones extreme enough to make the grade are the most likely to be trolls upholding their {{Kayfabe}}.

* The [[http://thepeoplescube.com/ People's Cube]] makes fun of politically correct media, or rather provides "Correct Opinions for Progressive Liberals". The "People's Cube" is actually a Rubik's Cube in which every segment is red, so nobody can ever have their feelings hurt when they fail to solve it -- because it's impossible to fail to solve it.

* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob, who is a parody of {{Caustic Critic}}s who hate anything that isn't TrueArt. Of course, most of the movies he reviews are sleazy, poorly edited, tasteless gorefests, have plots with the integrity of [[PlotHole swiss cheese]], or some combination of the above, so many new viewers tend to genuinely believe that he's being serious with his criticisms. A few episodes make the parody clear, such as his reviews of ''Caligula'' and ''Pieces'' (where Brad appears AsHimself to explain the whole thing up front), his review of ''Maniac'' (where he combines actual criticisms by noted critics with blatant HypocriticalHumor), and the increase in jokes about how the Snob sometimes hates movies only because [[SlaveToPR he thinks he needs to hate]] [[ReviewsAreTheGospel anything that other critics hate.]]\\
Watching the Snob praise ''Salo'' (an incredibly filthy Italian film which Brad despises but critics enjoy) is one of the most incredible parody moments ever put to film. The Snob spends the entire review sitting on the floor in his bathroom; most of his "serious" criticism of the film is punctuated by regular breaks to throw up violently into the toilet next to him.
* Similarly, [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen]] mocks high-brow art film reviewers. His review of ''Film/ASerbianFilm'', for instance, sees him praise the film while containing his rage until he can't take it anymore and his nose starts bleeding (similar to the ''Salo'' review above). Then he [[CrossesTheLineTwice tries to nuke Serbia.]] Somewhat averted in that he really ''is'' that obsessed with Creator/WilliamShakespeare.

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' character was not meant to be taken seriously. Though his criticisms are generally valid the whole joke is he's an overly fanatic nerd who gets ''way'' too angry and upset about games that are decades old. The man behind the pocket protector, Creator/JamesRolfe, has explained that his ''VideoGame/FridayThe13th'' review was a sneaky parody of this, with Jason Voorhees representing the people who take him completely seriously at face value: fans who realize this can have a laugh at the expense of those it's poking fun at, while fans who don't realize this can enjoy that it's otherwise a straightforward Nerd episode.

** Calling up dog shelters and pretending to be a Korean restauranteur asking for [[http://www.joeyskaggs.com/html/dog.html dog meat]];

* At least [[http://elhombredejota.livejournal.com/16734.html one blogger]] has theorized that Amanda Bynes's freaky Website/{{Twitter}} behavior was a Stealth Parody of the site, of its users, and of the news media's obsession with it.
* Some claim that Andy Warhol's entire life and public behavior is just such a parody.

* It's commonly thought that the expression "Luck of the Irish" refers to how lucky the Irish are. It's actually a joke among the Irish about how unlucky they are. Their country's had a very long history of violence and occupation, and then they faced huge amounts of discrimination as immigrants in America.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel (see its entry under Literature), since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman); the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan. Roger Ebert in his review notes that the director, Rob Reiner, seems to be taking the same approach as in his earlier film ''This is Spinal Tap'', where he stays true to the form of the genre he's parodying so that it can be appreciated on either level.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel (see its entry under Literature), since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman); the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman); the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than from broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman; the biggest role arguably in this category is Wallace Shawn as Vizzini); the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side; in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes, rather than broader satirical comments on the genre. The film works on the most basic level as straight adventure, with the elements of comic sendup found somewhat between the lines. There are a few actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]], but most of them are confined to [[OneSceneWonder single scenes]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; Peter Cook as a wedding clergyman; the biggest role arguably in this category is Wallace Shawn as Vizzini); the bulk of the performances in the film are fairly straight and deadpan.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide, GenreSavvy remarks on the side (in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the film's [[FramingDevice frame story]] comes from the boy's discomfort at the "kissing" scenes), and the story can be experienced as a straightforward adventure, as the elements of comic sendup are somewhat between the lines. Most of the performances are pretty straight and deadpan; only a few scenes feature actors blatantly [[LargeHam hamming it up]] (Mel Smith as the Albino; Billy Crystal and Carol Kane as Miracle Max and his wife; and Peter Cook as the wedding clergyman).

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide remarks on the side (in his place is simply an unnamed preadolescent boy, and most of the humor in the frame story comes from his discomfort at the "kissing" parts), and the story is told more or less straight, so that it can be experienced either as a straightforward swashbuckler or as a comic sendup of the genre.

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is even more of a Stealth Parody than the novel, since it doesn't contain the fictionalized version of Creator/WilliamGoldman making snide remarks on the side, and the story is told more or less straight, so that it can be experienced either as a straightforward swashbuckler or as a comic sendup of the genre.