This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
prescience: Cut this from the Gundam00 entry:
- To say nothing about what's done to Louise Halevy. She seems to be the Genki Girl and Bratty Teenage Daughter at the beginning, so we'd never ever guess that not only she'd be the only survivor of the wedding, but she'd be horribly crippled through the loss of her left hand. And from then on, It Got Worse: she joins the A-Laws group, is subjected to several treatments that give her an artificial hand but leave her very mentally and physically unstable, becomes a Dark Action Girl prone to Unstoppable Rage fits when she pilots, etc. Who would've thought that the Genki Girl would end up... like that? But she's still a bit luckier than the Trinities, as thanks to her estranged lover and his partner, she ultimately survives her ordeals and starts getting better in the end.
It's just a straightforward case of Break the Cutie, not an exploration of the Genki Girl and Bratty Teenage Daughter tropes.
Meta4: Cutting this, because deconstruction of an entire genre is covered by our Deconstruction article. Which, by the way, already mentions Cloverfield.
- Cloverfield can be considered a deconstruction of the giant monster film genre by showing it from the point of view of ordinary people caught in the events of a giant monster attack. The audience doesn't get the normal explanations of what's happening and where the monster comes from that's common in such films, or even a clear view of the monster itself until the last few minutes.
- South Park deconstructed the Shallow Parody in the "Cartoon Wars" episodes.
Trogga: I thought South Park deconstructed jokes that have nothing to do with the plot.
The Nifty: Cut this;
- Johan Liebert from Monster could be considered a deconstruction of the Magnificent Bastard by demonstrating how terrifying a Real Life Magnificent Bastard Dissonantly Serene because of his fine-tuned control and plans would actually be.
Because there's no way it "could be considered" to be a deconstruction - it plays the Magnificent Bastard trope straight. Just because he's evil doesn't make it a deconstruction.
prescience: Someone put it back. Cut again.
Shotgun Ninja: Okay, I edited the Suzumiya Haruhi example. It was based on something I wrote in the Deconstruction page and the new one is a better version of what I originally had in mind. You can edit it back if you prefer the old one.
Mullon: So what's it called when something is unintentionaly deconstructed?
Studiode Kadent: See Indecisive Deconstruction for that (unintentional deconstructions are a subcategory of indecisive deconstructions). If, however, it happenned before the trope was codified, you have an Unbuilt Trope.
