History Main / OutOfGenreExperience

* Music/Deadmau5 released "Where's the Drop?", which is an album of orchestral arrangements of his biggest hits. He later commissioned remixes of these orchestral renditions by up-and-coming electronic producers, and released it as "Here's the Drop!".

** ''Aquaman #54'' is a moody horror story that has Aquaman trapped inside his own mind when some gangsters capture and experiment on him, resulting in a mash-up of genres--including horror, a standard action story, a detective story as the real-world police worked out what was going on, and a Western. The incident resulted in the birth of his evil mirror-self, Thanatos.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E24TheSimpsonsSpinOffShowcase The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase]]" transplants characters into new genres - Chief Wiggum and Seymour Skinner are a pair of street-smart private investigators ([[HyperCompetentSidekick well, at least Skinner is]]), the eponymous family performs a song-and-dance skit, etc.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': [[InUniverse Ultimate]] [[CompositeCharacter Draco]] uses the time scepter to send the turtles to different times and places. Michaelangelo was sent to an alternate universe where the turtles are more traditionally cartoonish superheroes. Raphael was sent to a motorcycle race on an alien world. Donatello was sent to a dystopian future where Shredder had conquered the world. Leonardo was sent to an alternate universe similar to a samurai movie which was populated by humanoid animals.

* ''Aquaman #54'' is a moody horror story that has Aquaman trapped inside his own mind when some gangsters capture and experiment on him, resulting in a mash-up of genres--including horror, a standard action story, a detective story as the real-world police worked out what was going on, and a Western. The incident resulted in the birth of his evil mirror-self, Thanatos.

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} #54'' is a moody horror story that has Aquaman trapped inside his own mind when some gangsters capture and experiment on him, resulting in a mash-up of genres--including horror, a standard action story, a detective story as the real-world police worked out what was going on, and a Western. The incident resulted in the birth of his evil mirror-self, Thanatos.

* Chapter 94 of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' has Anya watching [[ShowWithinAShow Bondman]] skiing and wants the family to do that, so they head off to a mountain for some lighthearted fun. An approaching blizzard leads to the roads being shut down, meaning the Forgers have to head to a nearby hotel to spend the night, and that's where the chapter devolves into what feels like a friendly parody of ''Manga/CaseClosed'': several characters are introduced; mention of a rumored, blood-thirsty monster known as The Red Snowman occurs; a character gets stabbed [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a frozen carrot]]; and the telephone lines are cut. But since Anya can [[TheTelepath read minds]], she quickly figures out who the assailant is because of her ability, and Loid is TheAce capable of fixing telephone lines and treating wounds, so the assailant gets stopped before anything can happen and the trip ends the next morning with no further harm to anyone.

** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' eschews space opera and political intrigue in favor of a half-hour diversion into a sports film, which is only tangentially connected to what came before.

* Invoked with ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier''. After composing ''Salome'' and ''Elektra'', two extremely dark tragedies that pushed a lot of boundaries both in terms of story and music and were very popular with the approximately ten people who could see what he was trying to do, Richard Strauss decided that his next opera was going to be a light, fun crowd-pleaser that would appeal to a broad audience and bring in some much-needed money.

* Music/{{Lovebites}} plays heavy metal... but metalheads might be surprised to see Miyako play Music/FryderykChopin's "Revolutionary Etude" as the lead-in to "Swan Song". For the members themselves, vocalist Asami came from a Soul and R&B background (as well as being a trained ballerina) and had no experience with heavy metal before she auditioned for the band.

* Creator/LuisBunuel and Creator/SalvadorDali's {{surrealis|m}}t art film ''L'Âge d'Or'' starts as a brief NatureDocumentary on scorpions before transitioning into... [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible whatever the hell the rest of the film is about]].

* ''Anime/{{REDLINE}}'' plays out mostly as a [[WidgetSeries Widget Movie]] about an illegal street race, presented in a bizarre ''Anime/DeadLeaves''-esque tone. It's only during the third act that [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination a top-secret bio-weapon]] known as Funky Boy]] is released from containment by LaResistance, and then all of a sudden, the latter third of the movie has [[spoiler:a Kaiju movie]] going on in the background.

* The normal hack-and-slash experience of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'' is turned into a turn-based RPG for the first part of the fight with Sonic Juice. Travis isn't really fond of it, but goes through for gameplay's sake. [[spoiler:Needless to say, it's not really efficient for taking Sonic Juice down, and Travis will take plenty of damage before he decides enough is enough. Of course, an experimental player might find that Sonic Juice [[BreakingTheFourthWall isn't the only thing they can attack]]...]]

* I Only Say Morning is a Fishing Game parody with unusually obtuse mechanics and increasingly bizarre and [[ShoutOut referential]] "fish".

* Halfway through ''Anime/MayoiNekoOverrun'', the viewer gets an entire episode about {{mecha}} and later about a simple game that was made so [[SeriousBusiness dramatic]] it goes on par with [[Manga/{{Saki}} a certain mahjong anime]].

** The story ''Hell and Back'' features genetic tampering, espionage, a guild of assassins with high tech weapons, and a [[http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/s/schab9.jpg villainess]] who could easily be mistaken as a straight-up supervillain due to her costume and gadgets. It seemed like a Creator/TomClancy novel, mixed with VideoGame/MetalGear.

* In the 1980s, a story arc in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' dealt with Batman fighting a villain called Doctor Fang who was an ex-boxer who was trying to take over boxing in Gotham City. One issue (''Batman'' #372) turned into a full-on boxing detail concerning a minor prizefighter getting a shot at the title and hardly had the Dark Knight in the issue at all.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': The start of Jon Lewis's run had Tim get mixed up in a Lovecraftian plot with weird cults and an EldritchAbomination in the woods far from Gotham, not even using the "Robin" name in order to keep a low profile and with the threat left to run its course and never fully researched or understood, in a book that normally focused on street-level crime, detective work, and high school drama.