History DeconstructiveParody / RobotChicken

** In one sketch, Shaggy and Scooby are trying to escape from [[Franchise/FridayThe13Th Jason Voorhees]]. After he kills the former via stabbing him repeatedly through one of the random barrels he was hiding in to play a wild goose chase similarly to a whack-a-mole game, the latter is caught and killed offscreen due to grabbing him by the tail whilst he was doing that goofy scramble hop done in many Hanna-Barbera cartoons before he actually takes off. Both of them failed to realize that instead of their usual run-of-the-mill shyster trying to scare them away, they've encountered a sophisticated SerialKiller who isn't fooled for one second by their usual antics.

* In one sketch, a woman wants her husband to ravish her like [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]]. She asks him to be realistic... and he proceeds to, in his smarmiest Jack Sparrow voice, "romantically" talk about the disgustingly bad hygiene practices that pirates in the time of the Black Pearl would commit. Needless to say, the wife finds herself extremely turned off soon after.

* ''Franchise/HomeAlone'' sketches:

** Another segment of the same sketch also has the nerd take the place of Franchise/TheFlash in [[Series/TheFlash2014 the 2014 series]], where he responds to a robbery in progress at a bank. He ends up taking a wrong turn, then only getting there after the robbers have killed everyone and left, since even though he has super speed, he has ''no idea'' how to navigate through the fictional Central City.

* One sketch features [[Series/TheShield Vic Mackey]] accidentally swapping universes with [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Thing]] and teaming up with the rest of the Fantastic Four, who just assume he's Ben after being cured of his condition.

** A sketch has Super Grover tackle [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Doomsday]]. Since Doomsday is an actual supervillain and Super Grover only dealt with minor situations that don't tackle how dangerous it is to be a superhero, he gets [[CurbStompBattle brutally beaten to death]].

* One sketch is about is about [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]] heading to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]] (due to a closed bridge) and getting a pimped-out ride. They do several SMB things that don't work out the way you see them: Mario painfully hits his head trying to get coins from a supposed question block; Luigi accidentally stomps a kid's pet turtle to death thinking it's a Koopa, so a cop tries to arrest them; Mario and Luigi pick up some random woman (implied to be a hooker) thinking she's "Princess [Peach]", so her partner (implied to be a pimp) fires at Mario; when Luigi inquires about mushrooms to heal Mario, the "princess" takes them to a shady drug dealer who gives Mario a very different kind of mushroom, which makes Mario run over several people since he's now seeing humans as coins. Both of them end up being gunned down by the cops. Meanwhile, Yoshi takes a different detour and ends up in [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Raccoon City]]; he's immediately swarmed and devoured by zombies.

* Franchise/GIJoe is recruited by the US government to train forces in Afghanistan in counter-terrorism tactics. It turns out that their cartoonish anti-Cobra tactics (intentionally using ATeamFiring, only for a suicide bomber to be completely undeterred and blow them up, and attempts to pull DressingAsTheEnemy gets them slaughtered by their own side) are completely useless in real-world combat and all of the Joes are quickly massacred. On the other hand, a group of [=SEALs=], using their real-world training, is successfully able to defeat Cobra with [[MundaneSolution just bullets]].

* [[https://youtu.be/0HV26p2FVh4 One sketch]] starts out with the ending of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' and Skippy, the little bunny, demands to know what happened after Robin and Marian wed. Allen-a-Dale, the rooster, quickly rattled off the historical afterfacts, such as King Richard leaving John back in charge so he could continue to fight in wars, specifically his war against Philip the Second of France, where he was shot by a young soldier, the wound turning gangrenous, pardoning said shooter only for the archer to then be flayed and strung up after Richard succumbed to the then-fatal infection, then John himself dying later due to dysentery.

* In one episode, the nerd has a dream and starts entering various shows on Creator/TheCW. When he's on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', he attempts to non-fatally wound a couple of mooks. He accidentally kills the first two [[EyeScream by shooting them in the eye]] while trying to shoot them in the leg because he's never used a bow and arrow before, and finally succeeds in hitting the third in the leg... and severs the guy's femoral artery, causing him to go into shock and die from blood loss very quickly. Turns out that in real life arrows don't have pinpoint accuracy, and that OnlyAFleshWound is usually a load of crap. The trope is also lampshaded and called out in the conversation he has with Green Arrow before trying to shoot the mooks.
-->'''Green Arrow:''' We need to take out those guards if we're going to rescue Felicity!\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' skit "Dexter Goes to College," Dexter tries applying to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (more commonly called "MIT" for short) but is denied due to not having any extracurricular activities. [[HardWorkHardlyWorks As it turns out, with or without a genius-level IQ, colleges do care about more than just grades and test scores]]--they want to know about any potential extracurriculars because they'd like to know how social you are.

** Ironically, the original series touched on this too. The episode "Sports a Poppin'" involves Dexter's dad trying to get him into sports for this exact reasoning.
* One sketch features [[Series/TheShield Vic Mackey]] accidentally swapping universes with [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Thing]] and teaming up with the rest of the Fantastic Four, who just assume he's Ben after being cured of his condition. When they head out to fight Dr. Doom, Mr. Fantastic apprehends him and Vic just shoots Doom in the head while he's monologuing because he was resisting arrest. We also have a realistic approach to Invisible Woman's [[{{Invisibility}} namesake power]]: much like [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sandy Cheeks as Miss Appear]], she's hit by a car immediately upon turning invisible, only she instantly dies from the collision and the driver unknowingly drags her still-invisible corpse when he pulls out.

* In an ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' sketch, Alvin seemingly collapses and dies on stage, only to be fine for the next show. It turns out Dave has several boxes worth of spare chipmunks in the back of his truck. When confronted about this during a press conference, Dave points out that ''they're chipmunks'' meaning that they only live a few years under the best of circumstances and have no human rights such as having death certificates or getting autopsies. He also admits that his car smells awful due to keeping so many chipmunks in there for the run of the act, and that at least one of the "Simon" chipmunks died because Dave didn't see them behind the car and he ran it over.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'' sketch, where Handy Manny is caught to be deported, shows Bob the Builder's iconic "Can we fix it?" catchphrase doesn't always guarantee the usual "Yes we can" answer, especially when it comes to political issues like illegal immigration.
** Subverted somewhat with the implication that Bob is racist and got Manny wrongly deported so he'll have less competition, given that his team is building a holding center for illegal immigrants and their half-hearted replies.

* A ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' sketch has Shredder's face burn from a pizza launched at him and he suffers a quick death because metal (which his armor and mask are made of) is a heat and electricity conductor.

--> '''Lexxcorp Scientist:''' Tyler, I told you not to play ball in here! I'm so sorry Mr. Luthor, i-it's my day to watch him.\\

* In one ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' sketch, Shaggy and Scooby are trying to escape from [[Franchise/FridayThe13Th Jason Voorhees]]. After he kills the former via stabbing him repeatedly through one of the random barrels he was hiding in to play a wild goose chase similarly to a whack-a-mole game, the latter is caught and killed offscreen due to grabbing him by the tail whilst he was doing that goofy scramble hop done in many Hanna-Barbera cartoons before he actually takes off. Both of them failed to realize that instead of their usual run-of-the-mill shyster trying to scare them away, they've encountered a sophisticated SerialKiller who isn't fooled for one second by their usual antics.

* A sketch based on ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' has Michael sprinkle Nana with pixie dust, causing her to fly. Unfortunately, because she was still tied to her leash at the time, she ends up getting choked to death.

* A ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch has Super Grover tackle [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Doomsday]]. Since Doomsday is an actual supervillain and Super Grover only dealt with minor situations that don't tackle how dangerous it is to be a superhero, he gets [[CurbStompBattle brutally beaten to death]].

* A ''Franchise/HomeAlone'' sketch has Kevin finish setting up his traps, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which end up doing him in]] when he accidentally causes a house fire and triggers several of the traps himself in his state of panic, ultimately ending with him caving his head in with a clothing iron that he hid in the basement ceiling.

* One ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' sketch shows Roger and Anita horrified at having so many puppies because they probably mated with each other and possibly the parents if the vet is to be believed.[[note]] This is disturbingly TruthInTelevision. Kennel clubs refuse to have “purebred” dogs like Dalmatians mating outside their breed and often breed within their own genetic line which causes all sorts of genetic diseases.[[/note]] Later on in the sketch, Roger is unhappy with giving up music for a day job and getting hounded by the pups when he comes home and in the end, both he and Anita willingly hand the whole dog family over to Cruella.

** Meanwhile, in the universe of ''The Shield'', Ben takes Vic's place and the mundane crooks of that universe are no match for him, with the ending gag of the sketch being Ben smashing their heads together into bloody pulps with his SuperStrength.

Nearly every ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode has at least one instance of a cartoon's characters coming face to face with a problem that would be faced by ordinary people, and having no idea of what to do.

* [[https://youtu.be/l5L45l9E17Y One skit]] shows the aftermath of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''. Their car crashes down into the canyon and by some miracle they survive but badly injured. They then complain that in retrospect they’d have been better off going to prison and through the trail. As they wait for the cops to rescue them, the coyotes show up and finish them off.

** At the start of [[https://youtu.be/qDWp7XSDw1c another Scooby Doo sketch]], the villain realizes that the whole ScoobyDooHoax gimmick is rather stupid and childish and decides to do the simpler crime of committing insurance fraud by burning down the property he was going to haunt and bilk his partner out of.

** [[https://youtu.be/5SoQ8CJuIgI A third sketch]] has the chipmunks at the Coachella festival wherein Alvin decides to indulge in every rockstar’s fan stays of, as he puts it, tearing through a metric ton of freaky music festival trim, only to be told by the festival doctor that he has contracted three kinds of gonorrhea, which is fatal to chipmunks.

** ComicBook/LexLuthor brags about the "flawless design" of his PoweredArmor... only to get hit in his completely unprotected head multiple times.[[note]]In the original comics, there is a forcefield protecting his head.[[/note]]

** During the battle against Starro, Penguin utilizes a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]] umbrella against the gigantic starfish alien. Seconds later, a strong breeze pushes the open umbrella in the opposite direction, incinerating Penguin's own teammates.

* Double subverted once when the ComicBook/BlackPanther is challenged by WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther. At first, the Pink Panther gets impaled and beat up, but then turns the tide by beating the Black Panther, then showing him defeating ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and saving the Universe... [[spoiler: and only then it's revealed it's just his DyingDream and the Black Panther really did easily pummel him.]]

** The "Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles" skit has Michelangelo deciding to hop on a skateboard Leonardo found as he gets up from his wheelchair, takes one step on it...and promptly suffers a fall that launches his body 360 degrees in the air and hits his head on said wheelchair which winds up ''killing'' him as the next scene shows his funeral. Falls at any age can cause serious injuries, but for an elderly person, especially one that awful, it can be fatal.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' sketch is about Flik's sleep being interrupted by the life of a mayfly and his wife. ''Three hours.'' After both mayflies die, Flik has a sigh of relief [[HereWeGoAgain until a mayfly egg hatches.]]

** {{Double Subver|sion}}ted and overlapping with BaitAndSwitch in the third special: during a parody of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the [[Series/Batman1966 60s version of Batman]] battles the [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham series]] versions of The Joker, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, and The Penguin. Despite the DarkerAndEdgier Arkham villains being more dangerous and far less campy than the villains from the 60s series, Batman defeats the first three as easily as he does the villains on his own show, but then Penguin [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just kills him by spraying him with]] [[DeadlyGas anthrax]].

** Another sketch crossing over with ''Film/Halloween2018'' has Kevin and Laurie swapping adversaries. Laurie easily kills Harry and Marv while Michael effortlessly makes it past Kevin's traps and ends the sketch {{Neck Lift}}ing him.