History GenreDeconstruction / OtherMedia

* Music/GreenDay's seminal rock opera ''Music/AmericanIdiot'' is a deconstruction of the punk movement as a whole. The protagonist, Jimmy (styling himself Jesus of Suburbia and later St. Jimmy) starts out as a drugged-up slacker who just gets bored with his life and decides to run away to the city to become a punk. But because he's a rebel without a cause or goal, he just sinks even deeper into drugs and becomes lonely and depressed, eventually leading to him returning to his old life.

* When it opened in 1967, the ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' boat ride at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] was intended to be a deconstruction of the romanticized, swashbuckling {{Pirate}} that was popular during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood. While still pretty lighthearted as far as deconstructions go, it does feature a pirate ship attacking a small Caribbean town, pirates dunking the mayor in the well in order to get information out of him, pirates auctioning off women, pirates chasing women, and pirates getting drunk and burning down the town... all of which is PlayedForLaughs. The final show scene in the attraction shows a few pirates in an armory drunkenly firing at gunpowder barrels, which they mistake for rum barrels. "Dead men tell no tales", indeed. Conversely, the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies (which were loosely based on the ride) serve as a {{Reconstruction}} to the romanticized, swashbuckling Pirate trope that the original attraction had denounced.

* The trope of the BumblingDad came about as a deconstruction/inversion of the StandardFiftiesFather. The DysfunctionalFamily, of which BD is usually the head, was itself a deconstruction/inversion of all those "perfect" (or semi-perfect) DomCom families of early television.

* ''[[Music/BiS Brand New Idol Society]]'', or ''Music/BiS'' for short, was an IdolSinger group built from the ground up by leader Pour Lui, who then proceeded to mercilessly deconstruct the manufactured IncorruptiblePurePureness image associated with the genre with violent, hypersexualized, and often disturbing imagery and lyrics. This was most obvious with their album, ''IDOL is DEAD''. Aside from the self-explanatory title, they also pulled a BaitAndSwitch with their single, ''IDOL'', advertising it as a typical idol song while encouraging fans to buy the same single over and over again. The actual song turned out to be hard rock, with its music video featuring [[{{Otaku}} wota]] being enslaved and tortured while the group was paraded as martyrs on crosses. Another song, ''MURA-MURA'', references the infamous head-shaving punishment one of Music/{{AKB48}}'s members inflicted on herself for being caught dating. Even the LighterAndSofter revival has its first music video show Pour Lui [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness alone in an abandoned factory]], scared for her life as it explodes. While idol music continues to live on and thrive, the group is credited for expanding the boundaries of what an IdolSinger can be, and it became the TropeCodifier for the [[DarkerAndEdgier alt-idol]] genre that which mixes IdolSinger tropes with metal music in various ways. Even traditional IdolSinger groups (several who were friends of ''Music/BiS'') have paid homage to the group.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOavH-Eivw Girl In A Country Song]]" by Maddie & Tae deconstruct the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro-country bro-country]] subgenre of the 2010s using melody, beat and even quote from the biggest hit songs from the subgenre by singing from the perspective of the women who are sick of being treated like sex objects and have their agency or decisions taken from them that is commonly presented in the subgenre.

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* The well-known {{Aesop}} "BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor" operates in this way. Person X makes wish Y. Wish Y is granted to person X. Wish Y then manages to have sufficiently negative unintended consequences on person X's life that wish Y now looks like a ridiculous thing to wish for. Thus, Wish Y is deconstructed.
* ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' deconstructs the concept of fairy tales' endings. The characters are the children of fairy tale characters, and they are destined for the same endings as their parents are. Apple White is the daughter of Snow White hence she is sure to get a happily ever after, while Briar Beauty will also sleep for a hundred years, this means she will out live her friends when she wakes up. Meanwhile Raven Queen who is destined to be Apple's Evil Queen doesn't ''want'' to be evil and chooses to defy her destiny.

* ''[[Music/BiS Brand New Idol Society]]'', or ''Music/BiS'' for short, was an IdolSinger group built from the ground up by leader Pour Lui, who then proceeded to mercilessly deconstruct the manufactured IncorruptiblePurePureness image associated with the genre with violent, hypersexualized, and often disturbing imagery and lyrics. This was most obvious with their album, ''IDOL is DEAD''. Aside from the self-explanatory title, they also pulled a BaitAndSwitch with their single, ''IDOL'', advertising it as a typical idol song while encouraging fans to buy the same single over and over again. The actual song turned out to be hard rock, with its music video featuring [[{{Otaku}} wota]] being enslaved and tortured while the group was paraded as martyrs on crosses. Another song, ''MURA-MURA'', references the infamous head-shaving punishment one of Music/{{AKB48}}'s members inflicted on herself for being caught dating. Even the LighterAndSofter revival has its first music video show Pour Lui [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness alone in an abandoned factory]], scared for her life as it explodes. While idol music continues to live on and thrive, the group is credited for expanding the boundaries of what an IdolSinger can be, and it became the TropeCodifier for the [[DarkerAndEdgier alt-idol]] genre that which mixes IdolSinger tropes with metal music in various ways. Even traditional IdolSinger groups (several who were friends of ''Music/BiS'') have paid homage to the group.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOavH-Eivw Girl In A Country Song]]" by Maddie & Tae deconstruct the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro-country bro-country]] subgenre of the 2010s using melody, beat and even quote from the biggest hit songs from the subgenre by singing from the perspective of the women who are sick of being treated like sex objects and have their agency or decisions taken from them that is commonly presented in the subgenre.

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Chandelier", which topped charts the year it came out, is a deconstruction of a typical pop party song (such as those sung by celebrities like Music/BritneySpears and Music/{{Kesha}}). The singer stays up all night drinking, partying, and sexing it up, which has serious consequences on her life. The song also states that partying only worsens the singer's existing issues of loneliness and makes her ashamed of her actions.
* Music/MirandaLambert's entire career is built between this and subversion of stereotypes about the image of a good, docile [[TheIngenue woman]] in country music and shows that women who abide by this tradition are miserable. Best shown in "Mama's Broken Heart".

* Music/KendrickLamar's 2nd album ''good kid m.A.A.d City'' could be considered a deconstruction of 90's {{Gangsta Rap}} made popular by bands like ''NWA''. This album contains many of the normal elements of west coast hip-hop at the time (heavy gang violence, drug use, working with the homies), but changed it by having the character change with the events of the story [[spoiler:(getting paranoid about violence during "m.A.A.d City", stopping after his brother dies in "Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst",). and the story ends with him becoming the Kendrick Lamar he is today.]]

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Chandelier", which topped charts the year it came out, is a deconstruction of a typical pop party song (such as those sung by celebrities like Music/BritneySpears and Music/{{Kesha}}). The singer stays up all night drinking, partying, and sexing it up, which has serious consequences on her life. The song also states that partying only worsen the singer's existing issues of loneliness and is ashamed of her action.
* Music/MirandaLambert's entire career is built between this and subversion of stereotypes about the image of a good, docile [[TheIngenue woman]] in country music and shows that women who abides by this tradition are miserable. Best shown in "Mama's Broken Heart".

* Music/{{Sia}}'s ''Chandelier'', which topped charts the year it came out, is a deconstruction of a typical pop party song (such as those sung by celebrities like Music/BritneySpears and Music/{{Kesha}}). The singer stays up all night drinking, partying, and sexing it up, which has serious consequences on her life. The song also states that partying only worsen the singer's existing issues of loneliness and is ashamed of her action.
* Music/MirandaLambert's entire career is built between this and subversion of stereotypes about the image of a good, docile [[TheIngenue woman]] in country music and shows that women who abides by this tradition are miserable. Best shown in ''Mama's Broken Heart''.