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** Princess Carolyn is a successful agent who dedicates her life to her work and is TheChessmaster and TheFace of the group, which is because she has [[{{Workaholic}} no life or relationship outside work]] and is constantly shown to be [[ChristmasCake deeply resentful of that fact]].
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** Princess Carolyn is a successful agent who dedicates her life to her work and is TheChessmaster and TheFace of the group, which is because she has [[{{Workaholic}} no life or relationship outside work]] and is constantly shown to be [[ChristmasCake [[OldMaid deeply resentful of that fact]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'': Oh boy, where do we even begin... Lots of tropes are deconstructed,
** PretendWereDead: The method of fooling the Crossed by painting a red cross on an uninfected humans' face sounds good on paper... Except, as Oliver from ''Quisling'' states, his group had been utilizing such strategy with extreme caution. Not only do they avoid standing in the Crossed's field of view for too long (because the Crossed would inevitably figure the trick out), but getting the ''uninfected'' blood from dead corpses is pretty risky too because most of these bodies would be infected. It would only be made harder if the corpse is headless or otherwise maimed beyond recognition. Similarly, ''The Fatal Englishman'' opens with Harry's crew rescuing Father Dennis and children he swore to protect, who tried the aforementioned trick with paint. Of course, Crossed did not buy it. Furthermore, Harry himself states that he had never ever seen the face paint trick working during the past five years.
** CelebritySurvivor: In ''Wish You Were Here'' when Shaky reveals his past as the writer when he meets the Gamekeeper the first time, the latter just bursts out laughing and says that having such talent is no longer useful. In his own words, "no one left to be impressed".
** KansasCityShuffle: When Shaky attemps to [[spoiler:sabotage the lottery]] in the first ''Wish You Were Here'' volume, he has Tabitha organise a drawing contest as a distraction [[spoiler:before trying to sneak to the chest with names of the Cava residents chosen for the sortie]]. Unfortunately, having a person organize such contests without much preparations will raise suspicions, and thus Shaky gets confronted by Rab, who realized that something was wrong. As result, Shaky gets a black eye and has to change the approach.
--> '''Rab''': Tabitha just ''decides'' tae ''draw'' us, eh? Ootae the ''blue?'' While youse go caperin' ''off?''. Gimme some ''credit'', lad. I'm no' ''stupid'', y'wee ''fuck!''
** HonorBeforeReason: Related to the above, Shaky gets assigned to the sortie team by Rab who was blackmailed into doing so and kept it a secret. But by the time Shaky returns with his crew, he finds out to his dismay that Rab told others what really happened back then. Did you really expect that Rab would forget the whole incident so easily?
** AmericaSavesTheDay: While the Drift Fleet (which consists of mostly American personnel) is a very large and organized group, it lacks experience in fighting Crossed and is pretty vulnerable in general, a weakness that Rab points out. [[spoiler:This is exactly what leads to its downfall at the end of Volume 3.]]
** OpenHeartDentistry: In the last ''Badlands'' arc [[ClosestThingWeGot the closest thing to a doctor]] the bunker survivors have is Karen the dermatologist, so when she has to perform appendectomy on a man, she fails to save his life exactly ''because'' she is NotThatKindOfDoctor and thus unfamiliar with surgery.
** PretendWereDead: The method of fooling the Crossed by painting a red cross on an uninfected humans' face sounds good on paper... Except, as Oliver from ''Quisling'' states, his group had been utilizing such strategy with extreme caution. Not only do they avoid standing in the Crossed's field of view for too long (because the Crossed would inevitably figure the trick out), but getting the ''uninfected'' blood from dead corpses is pretty risky too because most of these bodies would be infected. It would only be made harder if the corpse is headless or otherwise maimed beyond recognition. Similarly, ''The Fatal Englishman'' opens with Harry's crew rescuing Father Dennis and children he swore to protect, who tried the aforementioned trick with paint. Of course, Crossed did not buy it. Furthermore, Harry himself states that he had never ever seen the face paint trick working during the past five years.
** CelebritySurvivor: In ''Wish You Were Here'' when Shaky reveals his past as the writer when he meets the Gamekeeper the first time, the latter just bursts out laughing and says that having such talent is no longer useful. In his own words, "no one left to be impressed".
** KansasCityShuffle: When Shaky attemps to [[spoiler:sabotage the lottery]] in the first ''Wish You Were Here'' volume, he has Tabitha organise a drawing contest as a distraction [[spoiler:before trying to sneak to the chest with names of the Cava residents chosen for the sortie]]. Unfortunately, having a person organize such contests without much preparations will raise suspicions, and thus Shaky gets confronted by Rab, who realized that something was wrong. As result, Shaky gets a black eye and has to change the approach.
--> '''Rab''': Tabitha just ''decides'' tae ''draw'' us, eh? Ootae the ''blue?'' While youse go caperin' ''off?''. Gimme some ''credit'', lad. I'm no' ''stupid'', y'wee ''fuck!''
** HonorBeforeReason: Related to the above, Shaky gets assigned to the sortie team by Rab who was blackmailed into doing so and kept it a secret. But by the time Shaky returns with his crew, he finds out to his dismay that Rab told others what really happened back then. Did you really expect that Rab would forget the whole incident so easily?
** AmericaSavesTheDay: While the Drift Fleet (which consists of mostly American personnel) is a very large and organized group, it lacks experience in fighting Crossed and is pretty vulnerable in general, a weakness that Rab points out. [[spoiler:This is exactly what leads to its downfall at the end of Volume 3.]]
** OpenHeartDentistry: In the last ''Badlands'' arc [[ClosestThingWeGot the closest thing to a doctor]] the bunker survivors have is Karen the dermatologist, so when she has to perform appendectomy on a man, she fails to save his life exactly ''because'' she is NotThatKindOfDoctor and thus unfamiliar with surgery.
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* If there is a trope from any stories in ''FanFic/TheConversionBureau'' sub-genre that has pissed you off and/or confused you, ''FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' and its various canon side-stories have probably skewered through it. Newfoals as defined by [[MisanthropeSupreme Chatoyance]]? They're played up as perpetually smiling {{Extreme Doormat}}s living smack-dab in the UncannyValley. The xenocidal tendencies of the TCB ponies being played as a good thing? Here, they're [[ANaziByAnyOtherName portrayed almost like Nazis]]. The global effects of Equestria appearing in the ocean? Not actually present in the story, but given a long, ''incredibly'' {{Troperiffic}} monologue about the scientific impossibilities, faithfully reproduced on the fanfic's page and the NoEndorHolocaust page. Why are the Equestrians, including Celestia, so misanthropic? [[spoiler:They've been corrupted by an ArtifactOfDoom that seeks to enslave every living being under its maker's will, and is targeting the humans first because [[DisproportionateRetribution one single human]] defeated said creator in the distant past]]. How would the presence of the Barrier affect food production and standards of living in the world due to the massive displacement of refugees? Most cities on earth, or at least Rio de Janeiro, turn into {{Wretched Hive}}s where food has become so hard to come by that [[spoiler:some [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty have resorted to eating newfoals]]]]. How was a successful version of the potion created? That's difficult to explain without ruining the WhamEpisode, but it's really, really messed up.
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* If there is a trope from any stories in ''FanFic/TheConversionBureau'' sub-genre that has pissed you off and/or confused you, ''FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' and its various canon side-stories have probably skewered through it. Newfoals as defined by [[MisanthropeSupreme Chatoyance]]? They're played up as perpetually smiling {{Extreme Doormat}}s living smack-dab in the UncannyValley.Doormat}}s. The xenocidal tendencies of the TCB ponies being played as a good thing? Here, they're [[ANaziByAnyOtherName portrayed almost like Nazis]]. The global effects of Equestria appearing in the ocean? Not actually present in the story, but given a long, ''incredibly'' {{Troperiffic}} monologue about the scientific impossibilities, faithfully reproduced on the fanfic's page and the NoEndorHolocaust page. Why are the Equestrians, including Celestia, so misanthropic? [[spoiler:They've been corrupted by an ArtifactOfDoom that seeks to enslave every living being under its maker's will, and is targeting the humans first because [[DisproportionateRetribution one single human]] defeated said creator in the distant past]]. How would the presence of the Barrier affect food production and standards of living in the world due to the massive displacement of refugees? Most cities on earth, or at least Rio de Janeiro, turn into {{Wretched Hive}}s where food has become so hard to come by that [[spoiler:some [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty have resorted to eating newfoals]]]]. How was a successful version of the potion created? That's difficult to explain without ruining the WhamEpisode, but it's really, really messed up.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The whole Santa mythos takes ''quite'' a beating in episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole Road to the North Pole]]". With no magic aiding Brian, Stewie, or Santa; Santa is sick and dying, and conditions at the North Pole are completely '''atrocious''' due to the world's growing population and growing demand for gifts. Santa's workshop has become a toxin-spewing factory, the elves are overworked, mutated, and inbred, and the reindeer have devolved into bloodthirsty monsters that devour the elves after they wander out to die.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The whole Santa SantaClaus mythos takes ''quite'' a beating in episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole Road to the North Pole]]". With no magic aiding Brian, Stewie, or Santa; Santa is sick and dying, and conditions at the North Pole are completely '''atrocious''' due to the world's growing population and growing demand for gifts. Santa's workshop has become a toxin-spewing factory, the elves are overworked, mutated, and inbred, and the reindeer have devolved into bloodthirsty monsters that devour the elves after they wander out to die.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The whole Santa mythos takes ''quite'' a beating in episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole Road to the North Pole]]". With no magic aiding Brian, Stewie, or Santa; Santa is sick and dying, and conditions at the North Pole are completely '''atrocious''' due to the world's growing population and growing demand for gifts. Santa's workshop has become a toxin-spewing factory, the elves are overworked, mutated, and inbred, and the reindeer have devolved into bloodthirsty monsters that devour the elves after they wander out to die.
** After Santa's health takes a turn for the worse, Brian and Stewie agree to deliver presents for him, and this episode takes the typical "Santa slides down the chimney to leave presents for families" trope and kicks in its teeth, turning it into what it really is: a home invasion, in this case mixed with [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown an assault (and possibly even a murder or two) just to keep the witnesses from ratting them out to the police]].
### When they land the sleigh at their first house, they accidentally fly through a tree in the process and the reindeer get stuck in it.
### They then go down the chimney but forget to bring the presents with them. Fortunately, the sleigh slides off the roof and lands in the yard.
### When they go outside to retrieve the presents, they forget to unlock the front door, locking themselves out and forcing Brian to break a window to get back inside.
### They're soon found by the man living there, who heard them break the window and nearly calls the police before Stewie knocks him out with a baseball bat, getting blood everywhere in the process. They then hide him in a closet and Brian ties him up while Stewie makes it look like a burglary.
### The man's daughter then wakes up and comes downstairs for some water. They try to get her to go back to bed, but then the man's wife comes down looking for him, and he falls out of the closet. This forces Stewie to knock her out too when she tries to run.
### They then tie the daughter up with her unconscious parents and start cleaning up all the blood, which, added to the time they've already blown so far, takes them ''an hour and a half''.
### When Brian goes to check on the boy who's getting the baseball bat and discovers the family only has one bedroom, Stewie asks the daughter if she has a brother. When she responds no, it suddenly dawns on Stewie that '''they're in the wrong house'''. Stewie then hears the cops coming since they tripped a silent alarm at some point, likely when Brian broke the window.
### Brian and Stewie are forced to leave, and to add insult to injury, the reindeer are all eating each other at this point. [[CrazyPrepared If it hadn't been for Stewie modifying Santa's sleigh to fly on its own]], they would have been arrested.
*** End result: Two people are in the hospital (hopefully, if the dad didn't die from his injuries), [[BreakTheCutie a little girl will require years of therapy]] [[TheScrooge and probably hate Christmas for the rest of her life]], nobody gets any presents, and Christmas is ruined. Stewie even points out just how impossible delivering presents to the entire world in one night actually is.
---->'''Brian''': We're just leaving like this? What about not wanting to ruin Christmas?\\
'''Stewie''': It's already ruined! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This was ONE! HOUSE!]] We've been here for an hour and a half! ''An hour and a''-- First of all, we're not even Santa anymore. This has been a home invasion. But an '''HOUR AND A HALF''', Brian! It's gonna be light in six hours, and we have to deliver to the whole rest of the ''world''! There's TWO apartment buildings on this block alone!\\
'''Brian''': No wonder Santa lost his mind! This is ridiculous! We can't do this!\\
'''Stewie''': '''NOBODY''' CAN! IT'S INHUMAN!
** After Santa's health takes a turn for the worse, Brian and Stewie agree to deliver presents for him, and this episode takes the typical "Santa slides down the chimney to leave presents for families" trope and kicks in its teeth, turning it into what it really is: a home invasion, in this case mixed with [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown an assault (and possibly even a murder or two) just to keep the witnesses from ratting them out to the police]].
### When they land the sleigh at their first house, they accidentally fly through a tree in the process and the reindeer get stuck in it.
### They then go down the chimney but forget to bring the presents with them. Fortunately, the sleigh slides off the roof and lands in the yard.
### When they go outside to retrieve the presents, they forget to unlock the front door, locking themselves out and forcing Brian to break a window to get back inside.
### They're soon found by the man living there, who heard them break the window and nearly calls the police before Stewie knocks him out with a baseball bat, getting blood everywhere in the process. They then hide him in a closet and Brian ties him up while Stewie makes it look like a burglary.
### The man's daughter then wakes up and comes downstairs for some water. They try to get her to go back to bed, but then the man's wife comes down looking for him, and he falls out of the closet. This forces Stewie to knock her out too when she tries to run.
### They then tie the daughter up with her unconscious parents and start cleaning up all the blood, which, added to the time they've already blown so far, takes them ''an hour and a half''.
### When Brian goes to check on the boy who's getting the baseball bat and discovers the family only has one bedroom, Stewie asks the daughter if she has a brother. When she responds no, it suddenly dawns on Stewie that '''they're in the wrong house'''. Stewie then hears the cops coming since they tripped a silent alarm at some point, likely when Brian broke the window.
### Brian and Stewie are forced to leave, and to add insult to injury, the reindeer are all eating each other at this point. [[CrazyPrepared If it hadn't been for Stewie modifying Santa's sleigh to fly on its own]], they would have been arrested.
*** End result: Two people are in the hospital (hopefully, if the dad didn't die from his injuries), [[BreakTheCutie a little girl will require years of therapy]] [[TheScrooge and probably hate Christmas for the rest of her life]], nobody gets any presents, and Christmas is ruined. Stewie even points out just how impossible delivering presents to the entire world in one night actually is.
---->'''Brian''': We're just leaving like this? What about not wanting to ruin Christmas?\\
'''Stewie''': It's already ruined! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This was ONE! HOUSE!]] We've been here for an hour and a half! ''An hour and a''-- First of all, we're not even Santa anymore. This has been a home invasion. But an '''HOUR AND A HALF''', Brian! It's gonna be light in six hours, and we have to deliver to the whole rest of the ''world''! There's TWO apartment buildings on this block alone!\\
'''Brian''': No wonder Santa lost his mind! This is ridiculous! We can't do this!\\
'''Stewie''': '''NOBODY''' CAN! IT'S INHUMAN!
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* The Jennifer Holofcener film, [[Film/EnoughSaid]], ''Film/EnoughSaid'', heavily deconstructs most romantic comedies and "chick flicks". It ultimately ruins any RomanticComedy that contains TheUnfairSex.
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* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'':
** NinetiesAntiHero: What happens when a bunch of “superheroes” with a darker and grittier attitude to crime than Batman starts targeting villains. They of course, over ten years wipe out a significant amount of super villains. But what happens when there is no one to fight? They fight each other and everyone nearby feels the full effect of their battles.
** TheCape: Superman is easily one of the greatest superheroes if not the greatest. He’s a pedestal-mounted archetype of the superhero age, and many people look up to him. So what he happens when a great figure many look up for guidance just leaves? Who do people seeking advice or needing help go to? When the public support went to the anti-heroes everyone looked to Magog, but his actions helped little and ushered a dark age.
** UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Killing dozens of villains for peace may have eliminated a good chunk of crime, but that does not mean the crime is gone for good. Also after years of HeWhoFightsMonsters battles, the “heroes” are no longer fighting villains but fighting each other. Sometimes out of dislike, most of them out of boredom and everyone suffers in the long run.
** IdealHero: On the other end of the spectrum, having a set of uncompromisingly moral superheroes may look good in paper, but the very inflexibility of their moral compasses lead to a constant tug of war between good and evil, which in turn made people look up to "heroes" that would have less qualms to end things once and for all. This is most noticeable with Superman, who elected to exile himself from the world as public opinion swung in favour of Magog after he killed the Joker instead of confronting him and the possibility that his ideals might have limits.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' deconstructs the entirety of fiction and its relation to reality.
** NinetiesAntiHero: What happens when a bunch of “superheroes” with a darker and grittier attitude to crime than Batman starts targeting villains. They of course, over ten years wipe out a significant amount of super villains. But what happens when there is no one to fight? They fight each other and everyone nearby feels the full effect of their battles.
** TheCape: Superman is easily one of the greatest superheroes if not the greatest. He’s a pedestal-mounted archetype of the superhero age, and many people look up to him. So what he happens when a great figure many look up for guidance just leaves? Who do people seeking advice or needing help go to? When the public support went to the anti-heroes everyone looked to Magog, but his actions helped little and ushered a dark age.
** UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Killing dozens of villains for peace may have eliminated a good chunk of crime, but that does not mean the crime is gone for good. Also after years of HeWhoFightsMonsters battles, the “heroes” are no longer fighting villains but fighting each other. Sometimes out of dislike, most of them out of boredom and everyone suffers in the long run.
** IdealHero: On the other end of the spectrum, having a set of uncompromisingly moral superheroes may look good in paper, but the very inflexibility of their moral compasses lead to a constant tug of war between good and evil, which in turn made people look up to "heroes" that would have less qualms to end things once and for all. This is most noticeable with Superman, who elected to exile himself from the world as public opinion swung in favour of Magog after he killed the Joker instead of confronting him and the possibility that his ideals might have limits.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' deconstructs the entirety of fiction and its relation to reality.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a deconstruction of the comics that preceded it. It examines the implications of superheroes existing in a real setting -- specifically, what just one person with superpowers might mean for the world, and what it really takes to be a masked vigilante with no powers capable of making a difference. It was one of the comic books that brought in the DarkAgeofComics. It also uses superheroes as a vehicle to deconstruct American culture and Cold War international politics.
* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''
** NinetiesAntiHero: What happens when a bunch of “superheroes” with a darker and grittier attitude to crime than Batman starts targeting villains. They of course, over ten years wipe out a significant amount of super villains. But what happens when there is no one to fight? They fight each other and everyone nearby feels the full-effect of their battles.
** TheCape: Superman is easily one of the greatest superheroes if not the greatest. He’s a pedestal of the superhero age, and many people look up to him. So what he happens when a great figure many look up for guidance just leaves, who do people go to ask for advice or need help go to? When the public support went to the anti-heroes everyone looked to Magog, but his actions helped little and ushered a dark age.
** UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Killing dozens of villains for peace may have eliminated a good chunk of crime, but that does not mean the crime is gone for good. Also after years of HeWhoFightsMonsters battles, the “heroes” are no longer fighting villains but fighting each other. Sometimes out of dislike, most of them out of boredom and everyone suffers in the long run.
** IdealHero: On the other end of the spectrum, having a set of uncompromisingly moral superheroes may look good in paper, but the very inflexibility of their moral compasses lead to a constant tug of war between good and evil, which in turn made people look up to "heroes" that would have less qualms to end things once and for all. This is most noticeable with Superman, who elected to exile himself from the world as public opinion swung in favour of Magog after he killed the Joker instead of confronting him and the possibility that his ideals might have limits.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' deconstructs the entirety of fiction and its relation to reality.
* ''ComicBook/PeterCannonThunderbolt2019'' deconstructs a bunch of superhero tropes, such as CaptainPatriotic (in the form of Supreme Justice) or the NinetiesAntiHero (in the form of The Test), in passing while on its way to deconstruct deconstruction in general and ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' (see above) in particular.
* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome''
** NinetiesAntiHero: What happens when a bunch of “superheroes” with a darker and grittier attitude to crime than Batman starts targeting villains. They of course, over ten years wipe out a significant amount of super villains. But what happens when there is no one to fight? They fight each other and everyone nearby feels the full-effect of their battles.
** TheCape: Superman is easily one of the greatest superheroes if not the greatest. He’s a pedestal of the superhero age, and many people look up to him. So what he happens when a great figure many look up for guidance just leaves, who do people go to ask for advice or need help go to? When the public support went to the anti-heroes everyone looked to Magog, but his actions helped little and ushered a dark age.
** UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Killing dozens of villains for peace may have eliminated a good chunk of crime, but that does not mean the crime is gone for good. Also after years of HeWhoFightsMonsters battles, the “heroes” are no longer fighting villains but fighting each other. Sometimes out of dislike, most of them out of boredom and everyone suffers in the long run.
** IdealHero: On the other end of the spectrum, having a set of uncompromisingly moral superheroes may look good in paper, but the very inflexibility of their moral compasses lead to a constant tug of war between good and evil, which in turn made people look up to "heroes" that would have less qualms to end things once and for all. This is most noticeable with Superman, who elected to exile himself from the world as public opinion swung in favour of Magog after he killed the Joker instead of confronting him and the possibility that his ideals might have limits.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' deconstructs the entirety of fiction and its relation to reality.
* ''ComicBook/PeterCannonThunderbolt2019'' deconstructs a bunch of superhero tropes, such as CaptainPatriotic (in the form of Supreme Justice) or the NinetiesAntiHero (in the form of The Test), in passing while on its way to deconstruct deconstruction in general and ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' (see above) in particular.
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* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' effectively tears apart TheCape, BigGood, LegacyCharacter, TeethClenchedTeamwork and LetsYouAndHimFight. Many of Marvel's recent events -- ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' -- has essentially been nothing but heroes fighting heroes because someone stepped on their precious ideology and when the event ends, someone's nursing a bruised ego and the other thinks they're morally superior and everyone's fuming at each other. When they turn to someone for advice, they turn to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. However, since [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] is Captain America alongside Steve Rogers, Sam finds himself overwhelmed and looked down on because he's "not my Captain America". Thus, when Sam Wilson pulls a RageQuit and everyone gets Steve Rogers back full time, Steve's actually TheMole for ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} and he succeeds in taking over the United States, imprisoning many superpowered characters or keeping them out of the fight and leaving the fight to save the day to a bunch of B-Listers who are prone to wanting to strangle everyone.
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* ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' effectively tears apart TheCape, BigGood, LegacyCharacter, TeethClenchedTeamwork and LetsYouAndHimFight. Many of Marvel's recent events -- ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' and ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' -- has have essentially been nothing but heroes fighting heroes because someone stepped on their precious ideology and when the event ends, someone's nursing a bruised ego and the other thinks they're morally superior and everyone's fuming at each other. When they turn to someone for advice, they turn to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. However, since [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] is Captain America alongside Steve Rogers, Sam finds himself overwhelmed and looked down on because he's "not my Captain America". Thus, when Sam Wilson pulls a RageQuit and everyone gets Steve Rogers back full time, Steve's actually TheMole for ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} and he succeeds in taking over the United States, imprisoning many superpowered characters or keeping them out of the fight and leaving the fight to save the day to a bunch of B-Listers who are prone to wanting to strangle everyone.everyone.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a deconstruction of the comics that preceded it. It examines the implications of superheroes existing in a real setting -- specifically, what just one person with superpowers might mean for the world, and what it really takes to be a masked vigilante with no powers capable of making a difference. It was one of the comic books that brought in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. It also uses superheroes as a vehicle to deconstruct American culture and Cold War international politics.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a deconstruction of the comics that preceded it. It examines the implications of superheroes existing in a real setting -- specifically, what just one person with superpowers might mean for the world, and what it really takes to be a masked vigilante with no powers capable of making a difference. It was one of the comic books that brought in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. It also uses superheroes as a vehicle to deconstruct American culture and Cold War international politics.
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* ''ComicBook/PeterCannonThunderbolt2019'' deconstructs a bunch of superhero tropes, such as CaptainPatriotic (in the form of Supreme Justice, who is a nationalistic, violent thug) or the NinetiesAntiHero (in the form of The Test, a deranged short-lived oddball with guns instead of hands), as well as elements from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (see below). All this is while it's on its way to deconstructing deconstruction, by showing how repetitive, unimaginative, and plain mean-spirited it can get: if you're deconstructing something without making a point, repeating old cliches instead of finding new innovations, or just out of spite, are you actually ''deconstructing'' it?
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a deconstruction of the comics that preceded it. It examines the implications of superheroes existing in a real setting -- specifically, what just one person with superpowers might mean for the world, and what it really takes to be a masked vigilante with no powers capable of making a difference. It was one of the comicbook books that brought in the Dark Age of Comics.DarkAgeofComics. It also uses superheroes as a vehicle to deconstruct American culture and Cold War international politics.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is a deconstruction of the comics that preceded it. It examines the implications of superheroes existing in a real setting -- specifically, what just one person with superpowers might mean for the world, and what it really takes to be a masked vigilante with no powers capable of making a difference. It was one of the comic
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* ''Literature/TheLongPriceQuartet'' is one for heroic fantasy. The first novel starts with TheHero ''succeeding'' in [[RefusalOfTheCall his refusal]] to join the elite order of magic-users who hold the fate of the world in their hands, and ends with him [[spoiler: [[TheVillainWins helping the villains win]] because it's necessary for the greater good.]] People frequently embark on [[MillionToOneChance desperate plans that are the last best hope to avert catastrophe]] only to fail dismally, making the catastrophe worse in the process. [[OldMaster Wise old teachers]] turn out to be petty and driven by bitterness over how their lives have turned out. [[FeministFantasy The feisty princess who dares to defy her gender-defined role]] does so by means of fratricide. The list goes on.
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* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Midnights}} deconstructs the public persona and imagery she used several times in her past music.
** Her ''1989'' and ''Lover'' persona is about her finding friendship and loves. This album brutally revealed that many of the relationships she made during that time are FairWeatherFriend and uncaring people who still left her isolated and alone. ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Dear Reader", "Bejeweled", "Question...?", "Sweet Nothing")
** Her ''1989'' and ''Lover'' persona is about her finding friendship and loves. This album brutally revealed that many of the relationships she made during that time are FairWeatherFriend and uncaring people who still left her isolated and alone. ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Dear Reader", "Bejeweled", "Question...?", "Sweet Nothing")
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* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Midnights}} ''Music/{{Midnights}}'' deconstructs the public persona and imagery she used several times in her past music.
** Her''1989'' ''[[Music/NineteenEightyNine 1989]]'' and ''Lover'' ''Music/{{Lover}}'' persona is about her finding friendship and loves. This album brutally revealed that many of the relationships she made during that time are FairWeatherFriend and uncaring people who still left her isolated and alone. ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Dear Reader", "Bejeweled", "Question...?", "Sweet Nothing")
** Her
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*** The song also deconstructs her GirlNextDoor religious image for her first two albums, [[Music/TaylorSwift2006 two]] [[Music/{{Fearless}} albums]], showing her fractured relationship with God due to the predatory man and her naivety that led to her current trauma.
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* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Midnights}} deconstructs the public persona and imagery she used several times in her past music.
** Her ''1989'' and ''Lover'' persona is about her finding friendship and loves. This album brutally revealed that many of the relationships she made during that time are FairWeatherFriend and uncaring people who still left her isolated and alone. ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Dear Reader", "Bejeweled", "Question...?", "Sweet Nothing")
*** Furthermore, one of the theme in ''1989'' is finding her self-confidence and image. This album reveals the downside of finding said self-confidence: [[InsufferableGenius Her lack of self-reflection]] and lingering insecurity that made her exhausting to be around ("Anti-Hero", "The Great War", "Bejeweled")
*** "Afterglow" from ''Lover'' referencing a nonspecific arguments between Taylor and her boyfriend that is her fault but she doesn't understand why. "The Great War" acts as unofficial sequel to the song and gave us the reason: It is because of her paranoia and defense mechanism due to traumas from past romantic relationships.
** "Maroon" deconstruct the [[ColorMotif red]] imagery she frequently used during ''Music/{{Red|2012}}'' by showing that the red love she sang about (most likely from the same person) has darkened into a maroon color - signaling the end of the relationship due to lack of communication but still left her with unresolved issues.
** "Would've, Could've, Should've" show the relationship she sang from ''Music/SpeakNow'' (especially "Dear John"), when she was nineteen, was extremely predatory and left her with permanent anger, regret and shame.
*** The song also deconstructs her GirlNextDoor religious image for her first two albums, showing her fractured relationship with God due to the predatory man and her naivety that led to her current trauma.
** "Midnight Rain" deconstruct the [[RomanticRain rain]] and sun romantic imageries she used on her past albums: instead of these imagery used to set the mood or show how in love she is, they are used in this song to show how ''incompatible'' she and her ex was because "He was sunshine and I was midnight (rain)" and list out all the reasons why. The song chorus is also sung by a distorted deeper voice, implying that he agrees with her too.
*** The song is about her pre-fame love life - a topic she hasn't touched on since ''Music/{{Fearless}}''. This song showed that her pursuit of fame and "that pain" has led to her breakup with a perfectly nice hometown boy who just wants to marry her and led an ordinary life. This breakup ultimately led him to move on and forget about her but cause her insomnia about what could have been.
** Her hometown was used in her first four albums as a source of romance and a symbol of safety and comfort. Here it is revealed to be filled with Hypocrite, judgmental pretenders, and SmallTownBoredom, and become a direct or indirect source of conflicts in several songs in the album ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Midnight Rain", "Mastermind", "Would've, Could've, Should've").
** On a more positive Deconstruction, ''Music/{{Reputation}}'' has Taylor obsessed with bringing bad Karma to her enemies. "Karma" instead has her focus on good Karma in her life instead.
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* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Midnights}} deconstructs the public persona and imagery she used several times in her past music.
** Her ''1989'' and ''Lover'' persona is about her finding friendship and loves. This album brutally revealed that many of the relationships she made during that time are FairWeatherFriend and uncaring people who still left her isolated and alone. ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Dear Reader", "Bejeweled", "Question...?", "Sweet Nothing")
*** Furthermore, one of the theme in ''1989'' is finding her self-confidence and image. This album reveals the downside of finding said self-confidence: [[InsufferableGenius Her lack of self-reflection]] and lingering insecurity that made her exhausting to be around ("Anti-Hero", "The Great War", "Bejeweled")
*** "Afterglow" from ''Lover'' referencing a nonspecific arguments between Taylor and her boyfriend that is her fault but she doesn't understand why. "The Great War" acts as unofficial sequel to the song and gave us the reason: It is because of her paranoia and defense mechanism due to traumas from past romantic relationships.
** "Maroon" deconstruct the [[ColorMotif red]] imagery she frequently used during ''Music/{{Red|2012}}'' by showing that the red love she sang about (most likely from the same person) has darkened into a maroon color - signaling the end of the relationship due to lack of communication but still left her with unresolved issues.
** "Would've, Could've, Should've" show the relationship she sang from ''Music/SpeakNow'' (especially "Dear John"), when she was nineteen, was extremely predatory and left her with permanent anger, regret and shame.
*** The song also deconstructs her GirlNextDoor religious image for her first two albums, showing her fractured relationship with God due to the predatory man and her naivety that led to her current trauma.
** "Midnight Rain" deconstruct the [[RomanticRain rain]] and sun romantic imageries she used on her past albums: instead of these imagery used to set the mood or show how in love she is, they are used in this song to show how ''incompatible'' she and her ex was because "He was sunshine and I was midnight (rain)" and list out all the reasons why. The song chorus is also sung by a distorted deeper voice, implying that he agrees with her too.
*** The song is about her pre-fame love life - a topic she hasn't touched on since ''Music/{{Fearless}}''. This song showed that her pursuit of fame and "that pain" has led to her breakup with a perfectly nice hometown boy who just wants to marry her and led an ordinary life. This breakup ultimately led him to move on and forget about her but cause her insomnia about what could have been.
** Her hometown was used in her first four albums as a source of romance and a symbol of safety and comfort. Here it is revealed to be filled with Hypocrite, judgmental pretenders, and SmallTownBoredom, and become a direct or indirect source of conflicts in several songs in the album ("You're On Your Own, Kid", "Midnight Rain", "Mastermind", "Would've, Could've, Should've").
** On a more positive Deconstruction, ''Music/{{Reputation}}'' has Taylor obsessed with bringing bad Karma to her enemies. "Karma" instead has her focus on good Karma in her life instead.
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** The CentralTheme is a deconstruction of VigilanteMan series like Literature/TheExecutioner or Literature/TheDestroyer; the The Player's backers actually have authority ''over'' the system any other vigilante would see himself as superior to, and Alex would much rather [[LawfulGood work within the system]] as he has [[DarkAndTroubledPast personal experience]] of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters what working outside the law will do to his psyche]]. However, his resources are under the control of an AncientConspiracy of [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney absurdly rich sociopaths]] who can't be considered civic-minded by any definition of the term -- they're only supporting him to [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing watch him kill people/blow stuff up]] and roughly half the funding comes from fat cats who hope he'll either ''fail'' or '''die.''' Mr. Johnson agrees that it would be much better if [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the technology]] the Player uses to "[[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]" was part of [[CutLexLuthorACheck legitimate law enforcement]], but the Gamblers wouldn't find that to be [[ForTheLulz as much fun]], and they're the PowersThatBe and things would be a lot worse if the Game didn't exist for the Gamblers' amusement. He's able to do so many things because PoliceAreUseless, but only because they're forcibly LockedOutOfTheLoop by the House.
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** The CentralTheme is a deconstruction of VigilanteMan series like Literature/TheExecutioner or Literature/TheDestroyer; the The Player's backers actually have authority ''over'' the system any other vigilante would see himself as superior to, and Alex would much rather [[LawfulGood work within the system]] as he has [[DarkAndTroubledPast personal experience]] of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters what working outside the law will do to his psyche]]. However, his resources are under the control of an AncientConspiracy of [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney absurdly rich sociopaths]] who can't be considered civic-minded by any definition of the term -- they're only supporting him to [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing watch him kill people/blow stuff up]] and roughly half the funding comes from fat cats who hope he'll either ''fail'' or '''die.''' Mr. Johnson agrees that it would be much better if [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the technology]] the Player uses to "[[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]" "fight crime" was part of [[CutLexLuthorACheck legitimate law enforcement]], but the Gamblers wouldn't find that to be [[ForTheLulz as much fun]], and they're the PowersThatBe and things would be a lot worse if the Game didn't exist for the Gamblers' amusement. He's able to do so many things because PoliceAreUseless, but only because they're forcibly LockedOutOfTheLoop by the House.
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*** Yaz's arc in Revolution of the Daleks deconstructs a companion being on TheSlowPath, like Amy before her. Yaz and the fam haven't seen the Doctor since they left Gallifrey, and Ryan and Graham presume her gone. Yaz however, doesn't lose hope. When the Doctor returns [[spoiler: from her decades long prison stint]], she reacts with her usual flippancy. However, Yaz freaks out and berates the Doctor for not addressing her absence seriously. Yaz seriously believes she was never going to see the Doctor again, leaving their relationship moot.
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*** Yaz's arc in Revolution of the Daleks deconstructs a companion being on TheSlowPath, like Amy before her. Yaz and the fam haven't seen the Doctor since they left Gallifrey, and Ryan and Graham presume her gone. Yaz however, doesn't lose hope. When the Doctor returns [[spoiler: from her decades long prison stint]], she reacts with her usual flippancy. However, Yaz freaks out and berates the Doctor for not addressing her absence seriously. Yaz seriously believes she was never going to see the Doctor again, leaving their relationship moot. Yasmin's growing attraction to the Doctor is also deconstructed. Thirteen is a very secretive Doctor compared to her predecessors, and she refuses to confide in Yaz, which upsets her greatly. Thirteen hiding her past becomes detrimental to their relationship because Yaz feels she never explains things.
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* It’s Just A Scratch takes this and runs with it. The ace wizard? [[spoiler: She suffers severe psychological trauma from the pressure of needing to stay at the top.]] The wizard who uses magic as a crutch? [[spoiler: Well, his use of magic has rendered him completely unable to cope when he loses use of it and his mental state goes south fast.]] The human investigator? [[spoiler: He ultimately isn’t able to change much and most of his actions do nothing to change the outcome.]] Even the secondary characters are hit with this. That vaguely racist old woman who’s a veteran of the Department? [[spoiler:Yeah, the little hints she drops are hints towards her true nature, which is a whole lot worse than it seems.]]
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* It’s Just A Scratch ''Literature/ItsJustAScratch'' takes this and runs with it. The ace wizard? [[spoiler: She suffers severe psychological trauma from the pressure of needing to stay at the top.]] The wizard who uses magic as a crutch? [[spoiler: Well, his use of magic has rendered him completely unable to cope when he loses use of it and his mental state goes south fast.]] The human investigator? [[spoiler: He ultimately isn’t able to change much and most of his actions do nothing to change the outcome.]] Even the secondary characters are hit with this. That vaguely racist old woman who’s a veteran of the Department? [[spoiler:Yeah, the little hints she drops are hints towards her true nature, which is a whole lot worse than it seems.]]
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** The second instalment, ''Ghosts of the Past'', completely tears apart the KidHero concept by showcasing just how heavy a burden Harry's life has become. The neverending threats that continue to target him just because he's the son of Thor [[spoiler: and a host of the Phoenix]] and the mental trauma he endures from his previous adventures starts taking a serious toll on his psyche. This also deconstructs ThereAreNoTherapists - namely, Harry's stability ''rapidly'' improves after he starts getting therapy.
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** The second instalment, installment, ''Ghosts of the Past'', completely tears apart the KidHero concept by showcasing just how heavy a burden Harry's life has become. The neverending threats that continue to target him just because he's the son of Thor [[spoiler: and a host of the Phoenix]] and the mental trauma he endures from his previous adventures starts taking a serious toll on his psyche. This also deconstructs ThereAreNoTherapists - namely, Harry's stability ''rapidly'' improves after he starts getting therapy.
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** Combining these two aspects is the relationship between both sisters. Before Arcane straight up said it, it was only vaguely implied that Vi and Jinx were sisters, but then...Where does that leave their relationship? Jinx causing trouble and Vi punching her into submission is the basis of said relationship. It was fine in the beginning because they were rivals and didn't really know each other, but since the show works with the idea that they are sisters, it paints their interactions in a far more tragic light. Indeed it is this very aspect of how they interact rearing its ugly head in the worst possible moment that tears the sisters apart and creates Jinx.
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** Combining these two aspects is the relationship between both sisters. Before Arcane ''Arcane'' straight up said confirmed it, it was only vaguely implied that Vi and Jinx were sisters, but then...Where where does that leave their relationship? Jinx causing trouble and Vi punching her into submission is the basis of said relationship. It was fine in the beginning because they were rivals and didn't really know each other, but since the show works with the idea that they are sisters, it paints their interactions in a far more tragic light. Indeed it is this very aspect of how they interact rearing its ugly head in the worst possible moment that tears the sisters apart and creates Jinx.
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** Finally, there's the violence itself. Violence is at the core of ''League of Legends''; it is, after all, a game about killing your competition, but the fights there are both comical and awesome. Not so in ''Arcane''. Nearly every fight here is played relatively realistically, and people get seriously hurt. Whenever the series starts getting too into the fights, something will inevitably make it stop to show the bloody consequences of their actions. [[spoiler:Just ask Jayce, Ekko, Jinx and Vi]].
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** Finally, there's the violence itself. Violence is at the core of ''League of Legends''; it is, after all, a game about killing your competition, but the fights there are both comical and awesome. Not so in ''Arcane''.''Arcane'', which is a good deal BloodierAndGorier. Nearly every fight here is played relatively realistically, and people get seriously hurt. Whenever the series starts getting too into the fights, something will inevitably make it stop to show the bloody consequences of their actions. [[spoiler:Just ask Jayce, Ekko, Jinx and Vi]].
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** A key point in Jinx's popularity is her MadBomber personality. She's a funny and exciting character who merely annoys everyone around her. Except here, her violence is more realistic, and it suddenly becomes ''horrifying''. She's dangerous, unpredictable, can't be trusted by her own associates, and her enemies are absolutely terrified of her. And her funny madness? Not so funny when we see it from her perspective.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' has started to show signs of this in its second season -- parodying movies like ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'', the look-after-a-baby subplot, teen musicals and more.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' has started to show signs of this in its second season -- parodying movies like ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'', ''Film/Armageddon1998'', the look-after-a-baby subplot, teen musicals and more.
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* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' deconstructs the first-person shooter genre, particularly SilentProtagonist, {{Determinator}}, and OneManArmy by showing the inner thoughts of someone with these characteristics: a ProperlyParanoid {{Sociopath}} undergoing gradual SanitySlippage. As if that's not enough, Freeman takes it upon himself to point out the issues with various things that come to his mind, from ILoveNuclearPower to the TinfoilHat.
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* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' deconstructs the first-person shooter genre, particularly SilentProtagonist, {{Determinator}}, and OneManArmy by showing the inner thoughts of someone with these characteristics: a ProperlyParanoid {{Sociopath}} undergoing gradual SanitySlippage. As if that's not enough, Freeman takes it upon himself to point out the issues with various things that come to his mind, from ILoveNuclearPower to the TinfoilHat.such as [[TinfoilHat Tinfoil Hats]].
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* ''Literature/WaywardChildren'' deconstructs the {{Isekai}} genre and associated tropes like SummonEverymanHero, with the entire first book, ''Literature/EveryHeartADoorway'', being about kids who went to other worlds on portal fantasy adventures dealing with the trauma of ''coming back'' — to parents who can't understand them or their experiences, to bodies that they outgrew (Kade gets a double whammy on that one, because not only does he end up in a younger body, it means that he needs to go through the [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} wrong puberty]] ''twice''), to a world that just doesn't follow the rules they've gotten used to, and/or to a world without the people they've come to love. For a lot of them, after being trapped in another world, now they feel trapped in ''this'' one.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11669575/1/For-Love-of-Magic For Love of Magic]]'' deconstructs a lot of [[FandomSpecificPlot Fandom Specific Plots]] for ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Someone writing fictional tales about Harry's childhood? A kind woman who wrote them on a fit of whimsy, later published them at a friend's urging, and upon being confronted by Harry's barrister, agrees to pay Harry far more than he'd expected. Harry's abandoned by the Dursleys? His frequent tantrums and resulting accidental magic drove them to their wits end so they dropped him off at an orphanage. Dumbledore never checking up on Harry? It honestly never occurred to him that family would ever not love family. Dumbledore never got Sirius a trial? He was extremely overworked and naive enough to believe Crouch's insistence that Sirius had confessed. Molly encouraging Ginny to marry Harry? She was simply encouraging her daughter's crush and when Harry turns out to be a typical teenage boy instead of TheParagon Ginny thought he was, Molly advises Ginny to give up on him. Snape hates Harry for who his father is? After knowing the boy a bit better, Snape decide Harry is more like Lily and treats him the same as every other student.
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* ''[[https://www.''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20210819032422/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11669575/1/For-Love-of-Magic For Love of Magic]]'' deconstructs a lot of [[FandomSpecificPlot Fandom Specific Plots]] for ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Someone writing fictional tales about Harry's childhood? A kind woman who wrote them on a fit of whimsy, later published them at a friend's urging, and upon being confronted by Harry's barrister, agrees to pay Harry far more than he'd expected. Harry's abandoned by the Dursleys? His frequent tantrums and resulting accidental magic drove them to their wits end so they dropped him off at an orphanage. Dumbledore never checking up on Harry? It honestly never occurred to him that family would ever not love family. Dumbledore never got Sirius a trial? He was extremely overworked and naive enough to believe Crouch's insistence that Sirius had confessed. Molly encouraging Ginny to marry Harry? She was simply encouraging her daughter's crush and when Harry turns out to be a typical teenage boy instead of TheParagon Ginny thought he was, Molly advises Ginny to give up on him. Snape hates Harry for who his father is? After knowing the boy a bit better, Snape decide Harry is more like Lily and treats him the same as every other student.
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** Instead, it takes a look at how all those happenings and tropes, indeed, that much power, would actually affect the canon Harry, a fame averse, emotionally repressed trouble magnet with something of a temper. On the upside, he gets a bit more assertive and self-confident, and more open. On the downside, he's got a ''lot'' of repressed rage to work through, an intimate understanding cruelty to those who are different via the Dursleys and after several {{Trauma Conga Line}}s, outright PTSD. This leads to a proclivity for {{Revenge}} that has more than one person worried he could snap and turn into the next ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (or ''worse'') if he doesn't have a MoralityChain or two.
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* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' deconstructs the first-person shooter genre, particularly SilentProtagonist, {{Determinator}}, and OneManArmy by showing the inner thoughts of someone with these characteristics: a ProperlyParanoid {{Sociopath}} undergoing gradual SanitySlippage. As if that's not enough, Freeman takes it upon himself to point out the issues with various things that come to his mind, from ILoveNuclearPower to the TinfoilHat.
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* ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl'' deconstructs Nintendo characters, {{Pastiche}}s a number of classic movies, and Parodies the concept of DarkerAndEdgier.
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** Tim's father was absent most of Tim's life, being more involved with his work and Pokemon, and this affected Tim greatly and his more jaded outlook towards Pokemon, something that the games rarely explored where the protagonists' fathers are rarely present.
** Most people aren't professional pokemon trainers. For society to work, 99% of the pokemon world's populace has normal jobs, like police officer, insurance clerk, or journalism intern.
** Most people aren't professional pokemon trainers. For society to work, 99% of the pokemon world's populace has normal jobs, like police officer, insurance clerk, or journalism intern.
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** Tim's father was absent most of Tim's life, being more involved with his work and Pokemon, Pokémon, and this affected Tim greatly and his more jaded outlook towards Pokemon, Pokémon, something that the games rarely explored where the protagonists' fathers are rarely present.
** Most people aren't professionalpokemon Pokémon trainers. For society to work, 99% of the pokemon Pokémon world's populace has normal jobs, like police officer, insurance clerk, or journalism intern.
** Most people aren't professional
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13600419/1/Rewrite-FateGrand-Order-New-Order Fate Grand Order New Order]]'' Deconstructs many concepts of [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]] more specifically the ChosenOne and the TricksterMentor trope by showing the negative traits with the OC Charles Potter being a SpoiledBrat and Dumbledore being a ManipulativeBastard who tries to used Chaldea for his own ends.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13600419/1/Rewrite-FateGrand-Order-New-Order Fate Grand Order New Order]]'' Deconstructs many concepts of [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]] more specifically the ChosenOne and ChosenOne, the TricksterMentor and the VigilanteMilitia trope by showing the negative traits with the OC Charles Potter being a SpoiledBrat and Dumbledore being a ManipulativeBastard who tries to used Chaldea for his own ends.ends. And most of the Order Of The Phoenix acting very Jerkish and callous towards Harry/Ritsuka.
