History Main / RedundantParody

** [[SpikyHair Spiky hair.]] Cloud's outrageous hair was already occasionally mocked in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (for example one NPC refers to him as "pokey headed") as well as spin-off titles such as ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' (Such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Shantotto]] calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped and parodied as being a typical thing for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really that common outside of FFVII related media.

** [[SpikyHair Spiky hair.]] Cloud's outrageous hair was already occasionally mocked in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (for example one NPC refers to him as "pokey headed") as well as spin-off titles such as ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' (Such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Shantotto]] calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's relative recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped and parodied as being a typical thing for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really that common outside of FFVII related media.

** [[SpikyHair Spiky hair.]] Cloud's outrageous hair was already occasionally mocked in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (for example one NPC refers to him as "pokey headed") as well as spin-off titles such as ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' (Such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Shantotto]] calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's relative recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped as being a typical thing for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really that common outside of FFVII related media.

** [[SpikyHair]] Cloud's outrageous hair was frequently mocked in the original''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' as well as spin-off titles such as ''VideoGame/Dissidia''(Such as Shantotto calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's relative recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped as being a common sight for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really all that common outside of FFVII related media.

** [[SpikyHair]] Cloud's outrageous hair was frequently mocked in the original''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' as well as spin-off titles such as ''VideoGame/Dissidia''(Such as Shantotto calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's relative recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped as being a common sight for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really all that common outside of FFVII related media.

* A common joke made about ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is that it doesn't make sense for Garfield to hate Mondays since he doesn't do anything. This has already [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1988/03/07 been]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1981/10/05 acknowledged]] in the comic strip.

* ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' has a [[http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif parody sequel]] to ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' which been widely circulated, where people admit, sometimes quite proudly, that they found Creator/AynRand's book too long to read. If they had actually read it through, they might have discovered that industrialists such as Dwight Sanders ''do'' take up farming after leaving the world behind for [[MarySuetopia Galt's Gulch]]. Notley later apologized for this and produced another cartoon that spoofed Objectivism directly and more accurately.

* Parodies of Music/AvrilLavigne's "Sk8r Boi" have the relationship not work out for the titular character and his crush, or make whomever are taking their place have similar traits ("[[QueerRomance He was a boy/He was a boy]]", "He was a punk/She was a punk"). The Girl doesn't see anything in the Boy until long after he's moved on and made it big, and he ends the song in a happy relationship with someone more on his wavelength.

* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal,[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]] and the song spoofs this by being a HomoeroticSubtext riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal. It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.

* ''Fanfic/EigaSentaiScanranger'' had [[http://www.oocities.org/tetsuokurata/epi33.html a chapter]] that attempted to parody spy movies, with each of the heroes becoming a pastiche of a well-known character in the genre. The thing is one of them becomes [[Film/AustinPowers Boston Powered, New England Man of Mystery]], and the villain is even outright compared to Dr. Evil. During the big fight at the end "Boston" uses his powers to turn into Fat Bastard, too. It also takes the "don't be a dick" scene from ''Film/XXx'' but doesn't sound any more ironic than the real one [[note]] It's kind of hard for it to be taken as a joke when you argue for more physical activity for kids [[/note]], really just swapping out the word "dick" with "twit" to keep it family-friendly. [[OldShame The chapter was noticeably left out when the story was reposted elsewhere]], with even the chapter numbers and teasers deliberately moved around to exclude it.

** A 2020 episode guest-hosted by Creator/DanielCraig had a digital short, a "deleted scene" from the upcoming ''Film/NoTimeToDie''[[note]]which was initially postponed to November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being pushed to October 2021.[[/note]], with Chloe Fineman as Creator/AnaDeArmas who leads Bond into the casino... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which is actually closer to what Las Vegas casinos are really like]], complete with drunk and rowdy gamblers. However, the Bond film ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' is not only largely set in Vegas, but also makes a point about how Bond's style makes him stand out among Americans when we see him in a casino.

* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]], and the song spoofs this by being a HoYay riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal. It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.

->'''DEADPOOL''': You have a parody to write.\\
'''JOHN K:''' Your movies ARE parodies! I might as well write a “parody” to fucking Film/{{Airplane}} I can’t go down this road again, where are my pills?!

* The notorious ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'' came under fire for a scene where the player character can [[spoiler:forcibly enslave a mentally ill woman]]. The developers, when called on it, claimed that they were trying to subvert the long-standing Fallout tradition of dialogue options requiring a Speech check being the best option, since blindly going for the Speech check [[spoiler:is how you enslave America]]. The problem is that not only is the dialogue option that ''starts'' the [[spoiler:enslavement]] sequence ''not'' a Speech check, but the game already ''had'' a sequence that did the same thing better - during the Bomber sidequest, choosing the Speech check in one section ''talks someone into blowing themselves up'', failing the sidequest on the spot.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' ran into this a couple of times - Mr. Satan and the Ginyu Force are probably the biggest examples, as they were already comic relief, and had to have a lot of new jokes written for them. Tellingly, while other characters were either hyper-exaggerated or entirely rewritten, Satan and the Ginyus are the exact same people as they were in the originals, with only their context and some minor quirks changing (in Satan's case because everyone's even dumber so [[BlatantLies his lies can get even more ridiculous]]). Averting this trope was also the reason for [[AdaptedOut almost completely cutting out]] Master Roshi from the abridging of ''Broly'', as all his scenes were already comedic.

** A 2020 episode guest-hosted by Creator/DanielCraig had a digital short, a "deleted scene" from the upcoming ''Film/NoTimeToDie''[[note]]which was initially postponed to November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemoc before being pushed to October 2021.[[/note]], with Chloe Fineman as Creator/AnaDeArmas who leads Bond into the casino... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which is actually closer to what Las Vegas casinos are really like]], complete with drunk and rowdy gamblers. However, the Bond film ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' is not only largely set in Vegas, but also makes a point about how Bond's style makes him stand out among Americans when we see him in a casino.

* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded's'' video for ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake has Erin beat Leatherface by just [[GroinAttack kicking him in the balls]]. She does kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and [[BallsOfSteel it barely slows him down]].

** And the hilariously terrible attempts to keep her identity safe were played so straight as to be a StealthParody.
** Parodies that like to play on Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask being Usagi's UselessBoyfriend often forget that this was a major character arc for his manga counterpart, and he already acknowledged that he's weaker than Sailor Moon would ever be, with even some villains mocking him for it. That doesn't stop him from developing his own signature move and arguably becoming one of the most important fighters in that continuity. His reputation for being useless [[AudienceColoringAdaptation largely comes from the anime]], where [[AdaptationalWimp he's weaker]] and his role is more downplayed since two of the anime's directors (Junichi Sato and Creator/KunihikoIkuhara) famously [[CreatorsPest disliked him]].
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' parodies inevitably bring up the fact that the titular character eats people (and pretty much [[ExtremeOmnivore everything else]]). This has, to an extent, been brought up in official media - the [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa anime series]] has some jokes about the idea of him eating other characters, including a scene where he randomly tries to eat Knuckle Joe's hand and an episode where he swallows King Dedede by sucking up one of his dolls.

* One of the StockParodyJokes about Franchise/{{Batman}} is "what if Batman was inspired by something else when he decided to become a superhero?", which usually leads to some kind of jokey theme like "Shards of Glass Man" or "Curtain Man." There was a tongue-in-cheek WhatIf story that delved into the idea as early as 1974 (where various alternate Bruce Waynes take on the monikers of Scorpion, Owl, Shooting Star, Stingray, and Iron Knight), and it was pretty much rendered (sorta) canon in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', where characters going by those identities who are clearly the local Batman equivalents show up.

** The above two strips, plus ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'', have ''all'' done strips with the theme of "wouldn't it be funny if [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] got an x-ray, and we saw the puppeteer's hand?" The Muppets love that joke almost as much as comic strips do.

* At the height of [[Franchise/HarryPotter Pottermania]] were many out-of-touch parodies that focused around the idea of Harry and his friends growing up and becoming teenagers with all the foibles that entails such as sexual attraction and social awkwardness ("[[Series/MockTheWeek Harry Potter and the Onset of Puberty]]"). Of course, this is what much of the series [[ComingOfAgeStory actually concerns itself with]]. Apparently, they [[ShallowParody stopped reading after the first book]] and assumed later entries continued the "kid in a candy store" sense of wonder (perhaps combined with NotAllowedToGrowUp) instead of maturing along with the target audience.

* Though not as bad as the above, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has run into this a couple of times - Mr. Satan and the Ginyu Force are probably the biggest examples, as they were already comic relief, and had to have a lot of new jokes written for them. Tellingly, while other characters were either hyper-exaggerated or entirely rewritten, Satan and the Ginyus are pretty much the exact same people as they were in the originals, with only their context and some minor quirks changing (in Satan's case because everyone's even dumber so [[BlatantLies his lies can get even more ridiculous]]). Averting this trope was also the reason for [[AdaptedOut almost completely cutting out]] Master Roshi from the abridging of ''Broly'', as all his scenes were already comedic.

** Not much better than that is a parody of ''Film/{{Borat}}'' -- and by "parody", the film means "direct lift of an entire exchange, almost word for word, acted out by a man imitating Borat." And needless to say, ''Borat'' is [[SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously already a comedy]].

** And, while we're on the subject of ''Doctor Who'', jokes involving presenting the title as an actual question or similar gags on its odd name have been part of the actual show since the second episode of the original series. That's '''episode''', not ''serial''. It is also, in fact, the intended ''MEANING'' of the title.

* The ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' episode "Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!" parodies ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' by having Titus audition for the role of "Spider-Man #12" in its nonexistent sequel ''Spider-Man 2: Too Many Spider-Men!'', a plodding trainwreck that features multiple Spider-Men onstage at once. The actual ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' comics have actually done just that: it was called ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', and it's also widely remembered as a plodding trainwreck. Later continuities would also make jokes about the saga in the same fashion. Spider-clones have been a staple of the ''Spider-Man'' mythos for years, and there actually ''are'' several other characters in the comics [[LegacyCharacter who have also assumed the role of Spider-Man]]; and yes, they ''have'' [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse all teamed up before]]. And on top of that, the original musical being spoofed had up to sixteen actors, dancers, stuntmen, and acrobats playing Spider-Man at various points, and yes, there were a few moments when all of them were on stage. (to be fair, the parody was more about the actors colliding on stage multiple times, but still...)

* Any parody of ''Series/TheWestWing'' is pretty much [[ObligatoryJoke contractually obligated]] to make fun of the series for [[WalkAndTalk having the characters constantly carry on conversations while walking through hallways for no reason]]. But the show regularly [[LampshadeHanging made fun of itself]] for doing that; as early as the fourth episode, Josh and Sam admitted that they had no idea where they were actually walking.

* There's a parody out there of "The Blue Tail Fly" in which the chorus is changed to "Jimmy drinks corn, and I don't care", meaning that Jimmy is drinking corn whiskey. Apparently, the would-be parodists were unaware that the most common interpretation of the lyric "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" is that of "cracking corn", which is to say, ''making'' corn whiskey. They not only failed to parody it, they arguably watered it down a notch...

* Though Creator/MontyPython is a household name in comedy, their "Lumberjack Song" is regularly singled out for song parodies that take the refrain ''"I'm a(n) _________, and I'm okay!"'' and run with it, turning it into a straightforward IAmSong about one's chosen vocation or esoteric subculture. Though the catchy beat of the song is quite well-known, many people seem to forget its later verses, where the supposedly wholesome lumberjack proudly confesses to [[spoiler: being a crossdresser]], which surprises his backup singers so much that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they stop singing the song in disgust]]. Not to mention its original set-up in [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus the TV show]], where it's sung by a deranged barber who inexplicably bursts into song and sings about how he's actually always wanted to be a lumberjack.[[note]] Many of the Pythons' albums and live shows feature some variation on that set-up when they do the song--introducing it into the middle of a seemingly unrelated sketch, with some unhappy worker proclaiming that being a lumberjack is actually his dream job.[[/note]] It's not just a catchy tune about chopping down trees; it's very much an example of the Pythons' trademark SurrealHumor.

* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is basically about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]], and the song spoofs this by being a HoYay riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal. It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' has inspired many parodies that joke about it representing "the evils of capitalism", along with an entire game called "Anti-Monopoly" that depicts the monopolists as the bad guys. This is, in fact, ''the entire point of the original game''. Anyone who has played by the rules as written (i.e. no HouseRules) knows that once any single player has a noticeable advantage, [[UnstableEquilibrium that player is virtually guaranteed to multiply that advantage and bankrupt everybody else in a relatively short time]]. That's deliberate. Of course, the vast majority of modern versions of the game play the idea straight.

* The PurpleProse in Shakespeare has been the subject of many, ''many'' parodies over the years, but some of the most parodied examples were already intended to be [[StylisticSuck overwrought and narmy-y]] in-universe. Examples include Hamlet's "Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move...", which he writes as a letter as part of an ObfuscatingStupidity ploy, most of the things said by Polonius, who is intended to be a pretentious OldWindbag and UpperClassTwit, and [[HormoneAddledTeenager pretty much everything Romeo says]]. Most parodies forget that even Shakespeare's tragedies tended to have a high joke count. Parodies of the crossdressing also fall into this, given that ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' is an entire play lampshading this.

** Similarly, comparisons between Pokémon battles and cockfighting also fall into this category: the plot of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' outright ''revolves around'' the questionable ethics of catching the eponymous creatures and having them battle each other. Most blatantly, PETA made this the focus of one of their parody games... while specifically parodying the exact game which already examined the topic... and [[MisaimedFandom praising and comparing themselves to]] the villainous AnimalWrongsGroup from said game.

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', in addition to the hiimdaisy examples listed below, has a few other cases of this.

*** Played straight when one of the fairy godmothers says they have to turn in their wands when coming to the test for the same reasons that cowboys in the old west had to turn in their guns when coming into town, especially in Dodge City, "that's why nobody got plugged." Then, the NC says that's like asking NRA members to turn in their rifles before a meeting, and expecting everyone to comply safely. But people did get shot in town at times in [[http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/lawmen.html Dodge City]] and the rest of the old west (though nowhere near the extent portrayed in fiction), some of the most famous old west shootings, including the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, took place specifically to enforce these laws, so if you know anything about the Old West, he basically just repeated her joke in an NRA context. Furthermore, NRA conferences ''are'' gun-free.

** His ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' review has similar problems with ''Film/LastActionHero'' one. While he brings up the possibility of it being satire (which it is), he still [[SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously makes jokes about the intentionally ridiculous elements and (intentionally) fascistic elements]].

** Similarly, snarky blogs will tend to sarcastically point out perceived flaws and confounding variables when they see articles on scientific papers with conclusions they don't like, but more often than not, if you read the original journal article (rather the news summary the blog linked to), you will notice the issues have already been accounted for in the study design itself, or otherwise acknowledged as something that must be addressed in any future studies.
* As mentioned above, Podcast/RiffTrax rarely does comedies precisely to avoid this Trope. They still ran into this problem with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', thanks to Joss Whedon's typically witty script. At one point Bill makes a joke only to have Tony Stark repeat it, and Mike responds, "I keep telling you, you have to make better jokes than Robert Downey Jr. or this whole thing collapses on itself!" Notably, it was years before they tried to tackle another Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse title with ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (and even then they note that the film's "riffing itself" when Tony Stark refers to the rundown Thor as [[Film/TheBigLebowski "Lebowski"]]).

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has been subjected to its fair share of parodies since its heyday in the 1980s--as befitting one of the most popular multimedia franchises of the 20th century. Of course, as any fan will tell you, the cartoon was pretty damn tongue-in-cheek to begin with, essentially being a buddy comedy with action and sci-fi thrown in. Even the original DarkerAndEdgier [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage comic book]] was just as much an AffectionateParody of superhero comics as it was a superhero comic in its own right. The central premise (temperamental young mutants fight crime in New York City) was something of a take-off on ''ComicBook/XMen'', while their origin story (a runaway truck full of radioactive waste gives birth to superheroes with martial arts training) was a clear parody of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Even the Turtles' wise mentor "Splinter" was a parody of Daredevil's mentor "Stick", while their enemies "The Foot Clan" were based on Daredevil's "The Hand".

** The [[OffToSeeTheWizard parody]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' in "Anthology of Interest II" ends with the Wizard (portrayed by the Professor) giving Dorothy and her companions a handgun for self-defense (''"Who needs courage when you have...a gun!"''), as if the idea of a character in ''The Wizard of Oz'' carrying a gun is inherently absurd. Except the actual film features exactly that: the Scarecrow carries a revolver while traveling to the Witch's castle to kill her. Hell, it's even implied that the Wizard gave him the gun, just like in the parody.[[note]] Keep in mind: ''The Wizard of Oz'' was made in 1939, when [[ValuesDissonance it wasn't considered taboo to depict firearms in family films]].[[/note]]

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' did a parody of ''Anime/DeathNote''. The joke is that the guy with the Death Note gets DrunkWithPower, develops a god complex, and becomes a KnightTemplar murdering anyone he doesn't like... which is the whole point of the original story.

* To capitalize on the release of ''Film/MortalKombat2021'', the [[{{Eroge}} erotic]] [[AllegedlyFreeGame gacha game]] ''Crystal Maidens'' featured an event introducing several new maidens who were [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] parodies of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' characters, including Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Their female version of Sub-Zero was called "Frost"... [[https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Frost who has been an actual character]] in ''Mortal Kombat'' ever since ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]].''

* ''A Samba For Sherlock'' features a scene where the straight-laced detective ''tries drugs''. Except he did this in the books too: it's quite well-established that Holmes uses cocaine and morphine to balance his emotional state.

** A 2020 episode guest-hosted by Creator/DanielCraig had a digital short, a "deleted scene" from the upcoming ''Film/NoTimeToDie''[[note]]which was initially postponed to November 2020 due to health concerns over the Coronavirus before being pushed to October 2021.[[/note]], with Chloe Fineman as Creator/AnaDeArmas who leads Bond into the casino... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which is actually closer to what Las Vegas casinos are really like,]] complete with drunk and rowdy gamblers. However, the Bond film ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' is not only largely set in Vegas, but also makes a point about how Bond's style makes him stand out among Americans when we see him in a casino.

-->"The hardest part about inventing ''GI Joe'' guys is that they all exist already. No matter how dumb of a name you come up with--a compound word or a pun of any kind that involves any kind of military thing or sport or weapon--you'll find that there's already a ''GI Joe'' guy with that name."

* One episode of ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' has Arin mocking ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' for the concept of the Endoraptor, pointing out the silliousness of how the creature works -- where you aim a gun at a target and hit the trigger and it "tags" the target with a laser that makes the Endoraptor attacks it -- by StatingTheSimpleSolution of "why not just have a gun that shoots ''bullets''" and laughing about how it's just an overcomplicated solution to a problem that was solved a hundred years ago. The movie actually ''does'' address this, with the Endoraptor being nothing more than an experimental proof of concept just to test the practicality of using a dinosaur as a controlled bioweapon, and wasn't meant to actually be sold or used for combat. Dr. Wu fiercely insists as such while his boss decides to just sell it anyways once the bidders start bidding on the Endoraptor in the ''millions''.

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** The Deadpool short film ''Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed'' has Deadpool struggling to put on his suit inside a phone booth while Music/JohnWilliams' ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' theme plays. But, even the 1978 movie poked fun at Superman using a phone booth to change, as he glanced briefly at one before deciding to change in a revolving door.

* We've all heard the lame {{Pun}} about playing [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-and-Seek"]], right? That joke, in fact, was made in the original book.

* One of the very last Creator/BobHope specials on NBC lampooned the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, and had Hope done up as Jack Nicholson's Joker. Both Batman and Superman were in the skit, and Hope refers to them by derisive names like "Bat-Brain" and "Super-Stupe", and getting laughs from his equally aging studio audience. Hope and his writers must have thought that villains do not talk like that to heroes, but especially since Denny O'Neil, this is almost exactly the way the Joker trash-talks his opponents in the comics. Even "Super-Stupe" is something that Superman was called at least once during the Silver Age, implying that Hope's writers were in fact doing their research when it came to that nickname.

* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is basically about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making Black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated Blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about Black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]], and the song spoofs this by being a HoYay riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal. It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.

* Most non-satirical attempts to make ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' DarkerAndEdgier fall kind of flat, considering that even the main series installments (to say nothing of spin-offs and other official adaptations) have had everything from terrorist bombings, to child abuse, to multiple accounts of attempted genocide. In most cases, these ideas could be the plots of actual Pokémon games if you removed the added sexual content, violence, and [[ObligatorySwearing profanity of questionable necessity]].

* To capitalise on the release of ''Film/MortalKombat2021'', the [[{{Eroge}} erotic]] [[AllegedlyFreeGame gacha game]] ''Crystal Maidens'' featured an event introducing several new maidens who were [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] parodies of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' characters, including Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Their female version of Sub-Zero was called "Frost"... [[https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Frost who has been an actual character]] in ''Mortal Kombat'' ever since ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]].''

* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded's'' video for ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake has Erin beat Leatherface by just kicking him in the balls. She does kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and it barely slows him down.

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%%* [[http://chuckleaduck.com/comic/no-i-get-it/ This]] comic becomes significantly less funny if one realizes that beating other proto-humans over the head with the bone is actually what the proto-human did immediately ''after'' the iconic monolith scene in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

** In his Top 11 Drug [=PSAs=], he makes a joke about R2-D2 from ''Franchise/StarWars'' smoking a cigarette when robots don't have lungs to damage... which C-3PO himself comments in the PSA. He says he wants R2-D2 to stop so he can set a good example for humans.

* There are numerous [[https://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/ irreverent parodies]] of the works of Thomas Kinkade that insert various characters from pop culture ([[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty and Doc Brown]], [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Nazghul]], etc.) into his paintings. In fact, Thomas Kinkade Studios actually ''does'' sell paintings of characters and scenes from popular culture, including paintings of Creator/DCComics superheroes and various Creator/{{Disney}} characters. Amusingly: [[https://www.boredpanda.com/star-wars-kinkade-jeff-bennett-painting-mashup/ one of the most popular]] subgenres of parody features characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' "invading" Kinkade's [[TastesLikeDiabetes famously saccharine]] nature scenes. As of 2021, there's a whole selection of ''Star Wars'' paintings available for purchase on Kinkade's website, many of which aren't ''that'' different from the parodies.