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** In ''Twilight of the Superheroes'', a script submitted by Alan Moore to DC, he wanted to do the same with the DC Universe.
** The original script for ''[[Watchmen]]'' was this: a crossover of several Charlton Comics characters intended for deconstructing the superhero genre from a modern viewpoint. The final work uses [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] of the Charlton characters instead.
** ''[[Lost Girls (
** The [[Youngblood Judgment Day|''Judgement Day'']] crossover Moore wrote for Awesome was this in spades, creating an enormous history for the Awesome universe apparently populated entirely by the [[Captain Ersatz]] novelty assortment.
* ''[[Sandman]]'' does this with every comics, mythological or historical figure Neil Gaiman could work into the story.
* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'': To some extent, it actually fulfilled the idea of ''Twilight of the Superheroes''.
** Basically, it starts with the idea "everything ever produced for [[DC Comics]] was canon". All of it, [[Watchmen]], [[Vertigo Comics]], the [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|experimental comics of]] [[The Seventies]], One shot characters from anthology comics, the [[
* ''[[Planetary]]'' did this with various fiction characters and genres. Most of the characters there are pastiches or [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzs]], and most genres are deconstructed in self-containing stories, regardless of the series' [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] premise.
* J.Michael Straszynski's unfinished series ''[[The Twelve]]'' did this with [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'' does this with fairy-tales and nursery rhymes.
* ''[[Twilight (Comic Book)|Twilight]]'', by Howard Chaykin, did this with [[DC Comics]]' [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] science fiction characters. No relation to ''Twilight of the Superheroes''. Or [[Twilight (
* The [[JLA-Avengers]] miniseries. The plot of the series was all about the differences between the [[Marvel Universe]] and [[The DCU]]. Compared to the DCU, Marvel is a [[Crapsack World]], and compared to Marvel, DC heroes are just one short, bad day away from [[Beware the Superman]].
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' did this with [[Toon|Toons]]. The original novel, ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]'' was even [[Darker and Edgier]] and did it with newspaper comic strip characters instead.
* ''[[Murder By Death]]'' did this with mysteries.
* ''[[Across the Universe (
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* The novel [[wikipedia:Silverlock|Silverlock]] contains characters and settings from Beowulf, Don Quixote, and countless others.
* Jonathan Swift wrote the satirical tract [[wikipedia:Tale of a Tub|A Tale of a Tub]] in 1694. It does this with [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of different sects of Christianity, deconstructing what Swift saw as the "flaws" in each.
* The [[Neil Gaiman]] novel ''[[
* This trope, combined with the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], is the main premise of many works taking place in [[Philip Jose Farmer|Philip José Farmer's]] Wold Newton Universe.
* The ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' series by [[Kim Newman]] is a massive hodgepodge of characters vampire and non-vampire, fictional and non-fictional, Victorian and modern, running around in a world where Dracula killed Van Helsing and took over Britain.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* There are some surprisingly convincing [[Epileptic Trees]] that interpret ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' as this. One theory states that Master Hand represents the forces of video game order (the rules by which video games function), Crazy Hand represents the forces of video game chaos (the unpredictability that makes video games fun), and {{spoiler|Tabuu represents the forces of [[Serious Business]] and [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]], what with his efforts to imprison Master Hand and destroy the world of video games}}.
* [[Super Robot Wars]] games can turn into this to some degree, by showing how characters from one anime would react when facing plot and characters from others - friendships ([[Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] and [[Getter Robo|Ryoma]] in [[Super Robot Wars Z|Z2]]) and rivalries ([[G Gundam|Domon]] and [[Daimos|Kazuya]] in [[Super Robot Wars MX|MX]]) are formed, some characters turns different that in their source material ([[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]] and [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Shinn]], very often), some events are averted, villains fight one another ([[
{{quote| '''[[Chars Counterattack|Char Aznable]]:''' Your way will never bring true peace.<br />
'''[[Getter Robo|Ryoma Nagare]]:''' [[Colony Drop|And dropping a rock]] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|on Earth will]]? }}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]'' does this with breakfast cereal mascots.
* Most of Bleedman's [[Web Comics]] (e.g., ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'', ''[[Grim Tales
** And then ''[[Fusion Fall]]'' used that concept aswell, retaining the Massive Multiplayer Crossover and the change to an [[Animesque]] style, but dropping any hints to [[Deconstruction]].
* ''[[Kid Radd]]'' seems to do this, but featuring [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] and pastiches rather than actual trandemarked [[Video Game]] characters.
** It has it's own in universe versions of games like ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Earthbound]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', and even ''Deadly Towers'' and cheesy flash games. It really does well at showing what a character from one genre of games would look like if he was forced into a completely different genre but his character still followed the rules of his original game. For example, how would a platformer character for whom everything does equal damage, and only has four slots in his health bar deal with being put in an RPG where every character has thousands of HP? How would a fighting game character, who needs to take advantage of a character being temporarily stunned after being hit in order to perform combos deal with a platformer character who becomes temporarily invincible after being hit?
* ''[[Captain SNES]]'' fits into this category fairly well. Not only are many of the villains aware that they are merely video game characters (which is, in at least one case, [[Go Mad From the Revelation|why they became villains to begin with]]), but characters who travel from one video game world to another are not always prepared for the different rules. (The [http://www.captainsnes.com/2002/10/26/219-the-ways-of-the-mushroom/ comic] where [[Chrono Trigger
* ''[[
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** It's not so much a true Deconstruction as a [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Parody]].
* The [http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/finalfightingfantasy Final Fighting Fantasy] Flash series on [[Newgrounds]] does a good job at this. For the various [[Final Fantasy]] Characters, it starts off as what looks like a simple poorly writen fan fic, but quickly [[Growing the Beard|grows the beard]] and becomes quite epic.<br />It turns out that the [[Infinity+1 Sword|legendary weapons]] of the games where created by the ancients as a way of manipulating the game's protagonists into defeating the forces of evil, and thus restoring balance, however, after evil was defeated, the good guys can't stay around any longer, because they would tip the balance to far towards the light, so, the weapons transport them to another world, where they all meet each other, and (because of the influence the weapons have on their mind) convince them that the characters from the other games are evil, and thus they're forced into a fight to the death. The different characters named "Cid" that appear in every game is actually the same guy, manipulating things from behind the scenes. Unfortunatly, [[Final Fighting Fantasy]] has [[Dead Fic|been left unfinished]]
* ''[[Cheshire Crossing]]''. Three girls believed to be insane are all sent to a new place. A 'boarding school'. But the three girls are [[Alice in Wonderland
* [[Marvel DC After Hours]] does this. Season 1 questions the validity of [[Superman]], Season 2 deals with what the heroes would be like if they all went through what [[Batman]] did, and Season 3 revolves around the concept of the [[Continuity Reboot]], and what it would be like to go through one. Of course, by the end, it is always [[Reconstructed]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Most of the humor in ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' comes from this. For example, there's ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' join the ''[[Teen Titans (
* The point of ''[[Drawn Together]]'' was to be like this, they took [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] of [[Superman]] (Captain Hero), [[Pokémon
* [[
** Don't forget their rather interesting take on [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]
* [[Turtles Forever]] Has the ninja turtles from the 1980 cartoon, the turtles from the 2000s cartoon, and the turtles from the comic meet.
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* ''[http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/hybridtheory.htm Hybrid Theory]'' by Blade and Epsilon does this for the classic anime [[Mega Crossover]] and [[Self-Insert Fic]].
* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' explores the similarities and differences between the two comic franchises.
* ''[[
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