History Main / HostileShowTakeOver

* Creator/DisneyChannel has a series of videos featuring supporting characters taking over a show's theme song, appropriately titled "Theme Song Takeover":

* Meta example: Dr. Eggman once [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/665236533390118912 took over]] the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' {{Website/Twitter}} account. He then proceeded to jab at [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/665249185931747328 Kel Mitchell]] and [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/665261937513529344 Archie Comics]]. Tails eventually got the account back by [[http://sonicthehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/133160549073/youve-been-lonelybotd-egghead-were-getting hacking into Eggman's system]], and the account is now back to normal. [[https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/670315814516486144 Well, as normal as it usually is.]]

* [[Creator/BradJones Lloyd the cat]] once [[https://twitter.com/#!/OreoAntwiler/status/171805008776531968 took over]] [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Oreo the dog's]] Website/{{Twitter}}.

* The plan of most villains in the Comics forum of ''Website/BZPower'' is to take over the main cast's comic studio, [[ExcusePlot often for very poorly established reasons.]]

* In November 2016, the Website/{{Facebook}} page of Brazilian food processing company [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seara_Foods Seara]] [[https://www.facebook.com/SearaBrasil/videos/1174844749236515/ suffered such a takeover by]] Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}, who said he was hijacking the page until Seara paid a ransom of ten thousand [[TrademarkFavoriteFood lasagnas]]. Thus the feed became downright a CharacterBlog, with Garfield replying to whatever users posted (be it comments to his posts or posts of their own) in his usual DeadpanSnarker self.

* A number of content greators were [[https://www.zdnet.com/article/massive-wave-of-account-hijacks-hits-youtube-creators/ hit hard]] by a phishing attack on Website/YouTube in late 2019, one of them being Estonian ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' machinima artist [=Kev3n=] whose channel was sold on the black market to a scammer hawking malicious mobile apps posing as ports of popular video games or hacked versions of Spotify and such. The perpetrators would pose as a representative for a company or an application developer, and would invite their victims to a supposed "sponsorship" in exchange for account details. While some [=YouTubers=] were able to get their accounts back, [=Kev3n=] wasn't so lucky, much to his dismay and contempt for a platform who didn't appear to care about his plight at all.

** ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has done 4, with the character making their own lyrics to the show's InstrumentalThemeTune. The first stars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0S2mhmacs Gramma Alice]] singing about her terrible childhood when the kids complain about having to do the theme song again, the second stars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2kxhNqn5U Bill]] pitching his own series about farming, the third has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxXZl99PW98 the main stars]] of ''Film/Zombies2018'' roast the main characters, and the fourth onestars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DW5zHpgFps Vasquez]] as he sings how a normal day of being Remy's bodyguard goes.

** ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has done three, with the character making their own lyrics to the show's InstrumentalThemeTune. The first stars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0S2mhmacs Gramma Alice]] singing about her terrible childhood when the kids complain about having to do the theme song again, the second stars [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2kxhNqn5U Bill]] pitching his own series about farming, and third has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxXZl99PW98 the main stars]] of ''Film/Zombies2018'' roast the main characters.

* After being shafted by him [[SigningOffCatchphrase at the end of the show]] for years, Creator/MattDamon took over ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'' for [[MilestoneCelebration its 10th anniversary episode]] as ''Jimmy Kimmel Sucks!''. Kimmel is bound, gagged, and relegated to the background, while Damon interviews various people who all proclaim their hatred for Jimmy. At the end of the show, Damon got to use Kimmel's signing-off catchphrase ''against'' him.

** In a bonus video in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', Raiden decides to go back in time and kill Big Boss [[spoiler:so that Snake would never be cloned]] and therefore Raiden would end up being the main character for the series. However, whenever he time travelled, he always ended up in a sticky situation during the game, ended up getting hurt instead of another character, and ended up creating a time paradox due to changing the future. Eventually, he becomes desperate enough to actually try and kill Snake back in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' game for the [=MSX2=], but is shot by ''Big Boss himself'' in the attempt. In the end, he figures it's just more trouble than it's worth.

'''Rat:''' Pipe down, fatty. I'm eating the ''ComicStrip/FamilyCircus'' kids.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E14ShrinkingStarsFitzPatrick FitzPatrick]]", Patrick's titular EvilTwin locks Patrick away in a TimeMachine and decides to hold the show himself to ruin Patrick's reputation. Rather than Patrick's brand of innocent, wacky hijinks, Fitz directly insults the audience and gets them injured.

* Shown on the cover of one issue of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''. It was an anthology issue, so in a way it was being "taken over," but ...

* In one episode of the Israeli sitcom ''[=HaPijamot=]'', Roni, a teenage girl character, uses the [[NoFourthWall absence of the Fourth Wall]] and writes the episode around herself, including a point in which she turns down a popular teen heartthrob from the time and [[DeityOfHumanOrigin makes herself God]]. At the end of the episode, another character (who’s also one of the writers in RealLife) thanks he for helping him finish the episode, but is obviously displeased with her changes. He reverts most of them... but then decides to make ''himself'' {{God}} instead.

* Way back in the early days of Creator/{{YTV}}, PJ Phil shared his host segment with a crew of puppets called Grogs. Warren, the surly green Grog, broadcast "pirate" transmissions declaring to the audience his intent to take over the network and turn it into "WTV." When it actually happened, it was short-lived (I think it lasted all of one segment before Phil restored order).
** Actually, the whole WTV thing was a whole day. It took place on New Years Day, when YTV would suspend its regular daily programming and show their most popular shows, one after another. The WTV segment was the framing sequence for these shows, which showcased Warren's takeover of the network and the eventual efforts by Phil and his costars to stop him.

* Count Vile does this in the April Fool's episode of ''Film/PressStart Adventures''.

* Savio Vega did this twice in The World Wrestling League. The first time by turning face on company founder Richard Negrin and The Gentleman's Club after they failed to read his contract throughly and started transparently screwing baby faces out of title matches and taking their belts(and even without loopholes, Negrin had unjustly terminated Vega, so legal action was coming one way or another. The second time Vega, who by then had made peace with and operated beside Negrin, decided he wanted to {{reviv|al}}e his IWA Puerto Rico promotion and was going to use WWL's time and resources to do it.[[labelnote:*]]An InJoke. IWA PR suffered a massive blow that eventually forced it out of business when a man stole truckloads from it with intent to start his own promotion, among other acts of [[TroubledProduction internal sabotage]][[/labelnote]] Eventually Negrin and Vega again came to compromising coexistence, only this time with WWL and IWA PR as two separate promotions with separate shows, and offices.

* Posts announcing updates in ''VideoGame/SpookysHouseOfJumpScares'' are sometimes written in-universe as Spooky. This goes all the way back to the Greenlight release.

[[MusicalisInterruptus OW!]] Ow, okay, the tree fell on me. The tree fell, on me. ... A little help?
** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' got two. The first, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44zty2sEbI Launchpad McQuack]], has significantly more references to airplanes. The second, starring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpn8JFO1ZM Flintheart Glomgold]], consists mostly of pot-shots at Scrooge, has him run out of budget, and ends with Glomgold getting visited by Scrooge's lawyers (who charge him with copyright infringement). This intro, minus the ending with the lawyers, was actually used for the episode "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S2E22GlomTales GlomTales!]]"

** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' got two. The first, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44zty2sEbI Launchpad McQuack]], has significantly more references to airplane. The second, starring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpn8JFO1ZM Flintheart Glomgold]], consists mostly of pot-shots at Scrooge, has him run out of budget, ends with Glomgold getting visited by Scrooge's lawyers (who charge him with copyright infringement). This intro, minus the ending with the lawyers, was actually used for the episode "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S2E22GlomTales GlomTales!]]"