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3	* ''DeconstructedTrope/BatmanBeyond''
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5	* ''DeconstructedTrope/StarTrekLowerDecks''
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11	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' deconstructs WorkingWithTheEx. Wyatt's inability to get over Serena as Spin This leads to conflict at the work place from him snapping at customers, messing up the shelves, and playing heavy metal music loudly through the speakers. It eventually leads to Serena firing him.
12	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' deconstructs several Tropes.
13	** TrappedInTVLand: In video game form in the episode "Guardians of Sunshine". When Finn and Jake transport themselves into a video game through Beemo (Who told them not to), they realize that things are not what they seem. For one thing, they lampshaded the fact that if they lose all of their lives, it would be similar to dying in real life. Also, they can only carry just a few coins in their hands and the pain they feel in the game is real as the pain they feel in real life. The enemies in the game pose a bigger threat than expected. When Finn tries to activate the special weapon Bomba, he realizes that he can't do it without his controller. When Jake tries to pull Bomba from the screen, it causes an error that takes them to their world, along with the enemies they encountered (Note: The coin Jake kept turns into a penny, meaning the game currency is not worth much in the real world). The enemies were hostile towards Beemo for imprisoning them in the video game because [[ItMakesSenseInContext they long for the sunshine]].
14	** CloudCuckooLander: The Ice King's seemingly harmlessly insane behavior [[spoiler: actually stems from having been mentally warped by an ArtifactOfDoom. He used to be a normal, dignified, ''human'' antiquarian named Simon Petrikov, before being exposed to an enchanted crown. The ensuing change was slow and painful, and he was [[AndIMustScream aware]] (and ''[[WhatHaveIBecome terrified]]'') of the degradation the entire time. His insanity destroyed his relationships with his fiancee and surrogate daughter, and much of his strange actions are actually an attempt to replace them. In addition to that, it's implied that the only reason he ''is'' a largely harmless eccentric is that the mental remnants of his old self are restraining him - when this control occasionally slips, he is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain much more]] [[PsychopathicManchild disturbing.]]]]
15	** KidHero: Finn has been fighting and killing monsters and supernatural beings since at least the age of twelve (his age when the series begins). Even though he's quite cheerful and upbeat most of the time, psychologically he's ''really'' messed up. In fact the reason he manages to stay upbeat despite the horrors he's seen is because he's very good at suppressing traumatic memories (he refers to the process as "putting them in the vault"; the fact that he does it so often that he ''has a term for it'' is a bad sign). Because he's spent so much of his life fighting and adventuring, he doesn't know much about making personal connections. His emotional immaturity and BloodKnight nature drove his girlfriend away, and his tendencies toward white knighting are steadily getting creepier as he gets older. All he really knows how to do is punch things; life situations that require a more complex solution are beyond his ability to navigate.
16	** InsecureLoveInterest:. Finn and Princess Bubblegum. Sure, Finn has a PrecociousCrush on PB and he frequently rescues her, but she only thinks of him as a close friend at most. They come ''very'' close to confirming their ship when she is de-aged, but it's thoroughly nixed when she returns to her original age. One episode involved him singing a song about how confusing it was ("What am I to you? Am I a joke, your knight, or your brother?") that also includes his sentiment that it doesn't really matter as long as they are ''at least'' friends and get to hang out. He eventually gets over the romantic aspects when he meets [[SecondLove Flame Princess]], although he makes a few attempts to re-kindle something with PB after ''that'' relationship ends.
17	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' deconstructs UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway in the episode "Day of the Beevil Weevils". Tummi tries to build a device using the Great Book's instructions that attracts bees, hoping they'll pollinate the Gummi Berry crop faster. However, he takes a lot of shortcuts to make the bullroarer-like device (using the wrong type of wood, the wrong number of holes, the wrong ''size'' holes, and the wrong length of rope). Still, the sound it makes resembles bees, so he tries it anyway. It ''does not'' work, and instead of bees, summons a swarm of ravenous Beevil Weevils that destroy the entire crop.
18	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' deconstructs several tropes.
19	** ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E12TheVoid "The Void"]] reveals that Molly and Rob disappeared because [[spoiler:the Void thought they were mistakes, explaining why they stopped appearing]].
20	** DependingOnTheWriter: "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E42TheDecisions The Decisions]]" addresses why Darwin's personality seems to shift every episode depending how much it suits the plot. After getting tired of Gumball's bad advice and approaching Alan as a new mentor, Darwin realizes that he doesn't even ''have'' a personality unless he's following someone else's lead. The episode revolves around Darwin growing out of this and learning to make his own decisions.
21	** InAnotherMansShoes: In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E33TheWorst The Worst]]," the Wattersons all trade places for a day to see who has the worst life; [[spoiler:Nicole as a man, Gumball and Darwin as women, Richard as a child, and Anais as an adult. Inexplicably, not only does everyone else goes along with them, so does reality itself—to the point of Richard developing acne and Anais getting horrible back pain. While it gives them all some appreciation for the others' problems, the shortcoming of such an experience is pointed out: Gumball hastily declares that everyone has things equally bad, which Nicole points out is a terrible conclusion to reach.]]
22	** TheNondescript: [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E36TheNobody "The Nobody"]] has [[spoiler:Rob escape from the Void after being deemed a mistake by it (probably for being so generic), with a loss of identity in the process]].
23	** StatusQuoIsGod: [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E40TheFinale "The Finale"]] has the people of Elmore get revenge on the Wattersons, for them managing to get away with all the damage and chaos they bring to the town.
24	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' not only takes a hammer to WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld, but also gives a rare deconstruction of WhatTheHellHero. After finding out that Jake had his Dragon Chi confiscated on purpose (to enjoy his middle school graduation in peace), Lao Shi rants at him for being irresponsible and not flawlessly rising to the job. The AnnoyingYoungerSibling, who took on Jake's job for a few days and has experienced firsthand that ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne, angrily calls out Lao Shi's [[NoSympathy lack of sympathy]].
25	--> Hey! When's the last time either of ''you'' were the American Dragon? Well, as [[ItMakesSenseInContext the little troll girl]] currently filling the position, let me tell you it's stinkin' hard! I can't imagine doing it two more ''days'', let alone two more years. And to think about everything Jake's gone through; he's had to save magical creatures on a daily basis, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop lie to his own dad about who he is]], say good-bye to the girl he loved, all to protect [[TheMasquerade a mystical world that nobody knows about]]. He may be the American Dragon, but he’s also a 14-year-old kid who just wanted a couple days off. If that makes him immature, fine, but self-serving? With all due respect to both of you, STEP OFF!
26	* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' gives us a twofer. On one hand, [[Characters/ArcherSterlingArcher Sterling Archer]] deconstructs the TuxedoAndMartini trope by showing us the kind of person that it would take to make a living out of killing people while [[BondOneLiner cracking one-liners]], bedding [[GirlOfTheWeek a different woman every week]] and obsessing over [[BadassInANiceSuit finding the perfect wardrobe]] in RealLife - namely, a self-centered, spoiled, borderline sociopathic ManChild...and the ultimate UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. Then the show turns around and deconstructs the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist trope by going in-depth in showing us the kind of [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood screwed-up childhood]] that it would take to make someone as much of an asshole as Archer.
27	* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' deconstructs AlternateCharacterInterpretation and RealitySubtext. Ginger writes a poem titled "And She Was Gone" about a girl who is lonely and is implied to commit suicide. Her teachers immediately assume it's a cry for help and force Ginger to see the school psychologist. Her friends and classmates also have similar reactions, which frustrates Ginger because it was just a story and had nothing to do with her life at all. It's pointed out that it's very easy to interpret someone's actions when we know very little about them but that it's almost impossible to know what someone else is truly thinking. Further emphasised by having Lois recognise it as just a good story - who knows Ginger better than her mother afterall?
28	* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender:''
29	** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' deconstructed how a [[FreeRangeChildren group of kids]] are able to travel around the world because, with a few exceptions, their parents are either dead or busy fighting a war. Many episodes discuss and show the toll this takes on them.
30	** Main/SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' eventually deconstructed LoveAtFirstSight. Korra, Bolin, Asami and Mako all fall in love with other Team Avatar members at first sight...and none of those relationships worked out. Bolin's infatuation with Korra was one-sided, Mako and Asami's relationship imploded due to Mako's poor decision-making and lack of social skills, and Mako and Korra ultimately broke up due to their conflicting loyalties and personality clashes, with all of them ultimately being BetterAsFriends. The relationships that last till the end of the series are the ones that grew naturally from a pre-existing, long-time friendship, [[spoiler:like Asami and Korra]], or featuring people actively working to maintain and strengthen the relationship, like [[BetaCouple Bolin and Opal]].
31	** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter and SpinOffspring. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, who have a [[NoHeroToHisValet noticeably lesser opinion of their father]] than the rest of the world, to whom he was a UniversallyBelovedLeader. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both his duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]] and reviving their near-extinct culture. The same also applies, to a lesser degree, to the children of some of the first series' other characters from the first series, such as Toph's.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''
33	** CarnivoreConfusion. In one episode, Dog tries to answer the question of where meat comes from. He explains how there's a guy who plants ''meat plants'' -- meanwhile, Cat just explains slaughter. Dog goes crazy at the idea of eating sapient beings, who he thinks are friends, and turns vegan. Then, Dog starts to become delusional as he imagines that vegetables ''are'' his friends. After all that, Dog then tries to eat Cat, [[InsaneTrollLogic because he's not his ''friend'' but his ''brother'']]. Fortunately, [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight the guy who plants meat plants]] appears and solves the problem. To make things more horrifying, Cat and Dog share bodies. So if Dog eats Cat, he eats his own body. Although they only feel pain in their half, so they have their own bodies, but they meet in the middle. So Dog would have only eaten Cat, which just leaves Dog and his half of the body.
34	** NostalgiaFilter. In the episode "Back to School", Cat is looking forward to attending his high school reunion and dancing with his old crush Sally. He describes himself as popular and having a great time in high school. Even in the beginning of the episode something is fishy, with all of the memorabilia and rewards he claimed were his really belonging to Dog, and their diploma having Dog's name but not Cat's. He tells Dog that they need to correct it by visiting their old high school. The brothers visit Rancid the school principal about the diploma, and it is revealed Cat never attended the last day of school so for him to have the diploma and be able to attend the reunion dance, he must go back to school for one day. Cat is happy to relive his glory days, but wonders why he can't remember his last day at school. But throughout the day things just keep going wrong with him while Dog is popular - three of Cat's new classmates are the relatives of the Greasers who make him miserable, his crush Sally is indifferent to him, and after class when he asks her to dance with him at the reunion, she coldly tells him that she has a boyfriend and makes it clear that she does not like him. At lunch both the cool kids and nerds refuse to let Cat sit with them, and then a food fight break out and Cat gets blamed for it. Finally at gym he is humiliated by Cliff, who is the teacher and Sally's boyfriend, who brings Sally there to watch his humiliation. As the kids laugh at Cat and call him a loser, his repressed memories come back and he realize the truth - Cat was an outcast and all of his positive memories of school were Dog's, and at the last day of school he was humiliated at gym by Cliff's father Coach Feltbottom, the gym teacher at the time, where he and all the other kids call him a loser, which made Cat run away and block out his memory of the day. And because Cat blocked out his memory of that day and chose to remember things differently, he set himself up for more humiliation in this episode.
35	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' deconstructs FreudianExcuse. Vlad Masters starts out with a rather sympathetic backstory and an almost understandable motivation for his villainy: Jack, through sheer idiocy, caused an accident that sent Vlad to the hospital for years, costing Vlad his chance at Maddie, who ended up marrying Jack. However, throughout the series his excuse is torn apart and he ends up becoming less sympathetic as a result.
36	** His attempt to kill Jack and take Danny and Maddie for himself are never treated as sympathetic or right. While Jack did cause the accident that hospitalized Vlad for years, he did feel bad about what happened, and wants to be friends again. Not to mention, Jack still sees him as his best friend and holds him in very high regard, unaware of how much Vlad resents him deep down.
37	** Vlad used the powers he gained from that same accident to rob banks and intimidate people into selling their businesses to him, thus creating his vast fortune and becoming one of the richest men in the world.
38	** Maddie was okay with Vlad until he reveals that he always had a thing for her and hates Jack for "stealing" her. When he asked her to dump Jack and marry him, Maddie rejects him and has treated him with disdain ever since.
39	** Heck, Vlad's so called "love" for Maddie is actually rather shallow and twisted, as it's been proven several times that he's more in love with the idea of having her rather than Maddie herself, and doesn't truly care about her feelings unless they suit him.
40	** The episode "[[Recap/DannyPhantomS2E16MastersOfAllTime Masters Of All Time]]" is probably the best example and proof of it all and destroys his Freudian excuse. In an alternate timeline where he didn't get the powers but married Maddie, Vlad still grew up to become the same controlling and domineering sociopath seen in the present timeline and that he treated Maddie like a possession, not a person. While at first it seemed like they were HappilyMarried, it's soon showed that Vlad was very controlling and possessive of Maddie, forbidding her from pursuing ghost hunting and forcing her to act as a simple housewife, not to mention, he flat out ''lied'' about Jack (who ended up getting caught in the accident in this timeline) blaming her for the accident and wanting nothing to do with her and it's heavily implied he was emotionally/psychologically abusive towards her and Maddie had to ghost hunt in secret and resented him for it.
41	** Heck, a flashback to the accident shows that Vlad was already was jealous of Maddie's feelings for Jack and her being completely oblivious to his interest in her and being either interested in Jack or dating him. It shows he knew that Maddie already preferred Jack and still wanted her for himself.
42	*** This whole thing shows in the end that Vlad's love for Maddie is truly shallow and one sided and he is just a selfish man who lashes out for not getting what he wants.
43	** InLoveWithLove: Vlad is obsessed with the idea of being with Maddie more than Maddie herself, to the point of not seeming to care that she doesn't want anything to do with him or that killing Jack would make her hate him. He goes as far as to have a stuffed doll of her and bases his holograms on her.
44	** RescueRomance: In the alternate timeline created during "Masters of All Time", Vlad saved Maddie from the malfunctioning portal, earning her affection, eventually marrying. However, Vlad is overly controlling and possessive of Maddie, even having forbidden her from pursuing ghost hunting, and had lied to her, saying that Jack (who had suffered the ecto-acne accident in this timeline), didn't want anything to do with her. Maddie, unwilling to give up her life's work, resorted to ghost-hunting behind his back, clearly resenting him for it. Whether she felt obligated to marry him out of gratitude or simply overestimated his character based on that one seemingly-noble act, rescue was clearly not good enough grounds for a lasting romance.
45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' deconstructs PragmaticHero. [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceViren Viren]] initially had good intentions, wanting what is best for Katolis and all of humanity. However, at some point, his "doing things for the greater good" turns into an excuse to commit actions worse than the ones he is fighting against, eventually turning him into a full-blown villain, and blatantly seizing power in season 3 and reveling in taking it.
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49	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' deconstructs AmusingInjuries in a hard way, in which Eddy receives [[spoiler: a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from his older brother.]] It's deconstructed here because Eddy reacts as if he's seriously hurt and the kids (even Kevin and Sarah) react with fear. [[spoiler: Not to mention the reveal that this is how his brother ''always'' treated him.]]
50	** ''Big Picture Show'' also deconstructs BigBrotherWorship overall, when said worship is of an unworthy role model; Eddy frequently speaks highly of his absent older brother, who he credits as his main source of inspiration, a master of many talents, and is made out to be the epitome of the word "cool". At the same time, however, we're given hints that Eddy's brother isn't the kind of person Eddy makes him out to be (e.g. Kevin, Rolf, and then Eddy himself reacting with pure panic when they're duped into believing Eddy's Brother is returning to the cul-de-sac, Eddy leading his friends on a wild goose chase throughout Peach Creek on Halloween thanks to a fake map to a non-existent town his brother sent him, and Eddy mentioning how his terrible treatment of Jimmy is no different from how his brother treated him). Come the climax of the Movie, and the reveal that Eddy's Brother is nothing more than a black-hearted, sadistic bully who delights in making Eddy suffer, and it becomes tragically apparent that Eddy's entire act of being a smug, obnoxious shyster was because his abusive older sibling was virtually the only role model he had growing up. Eddy himself confesses that he had been lying through his teeth about what his brother was like and trying to emulate him in hopes that it would earn him acceptance from his peers.
51	** CartoonPhysics were also deconstructed in the infamous BizarroEpisode "One + One = Ed", featuring the Eds discovering all sorts of weird things, such as paper-thin trees, eating the sun, messing with their outlines, etc.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': The third season deconstructs FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse. Esteban has spent his life at the beck and call of others, from his grandparents to Shuriki to Elena, and has never been able to accomplish his own dreams. On top of that, he desires more power because he was not listened to when it truly mattered; before his parents departed on a ship ride, he had felt something was wrong and his concerns were dismissed, only to be proven right when a storm at sea took them down. Feeling he wasn't loved or listened to after his parents' deaths, and desperate to be seen and heard, this led him to [[spoiler: assist Shuriki in her takeover of Avalor in exchange for political power, only helping as long as she promised not to hurt his family. Unsurprisingly, Shuriki lied and killed Elena's parents. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Esteban got the power he wanted]], and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted it deeply]]. When the truth comes out in "[[Recap/ElenaOfAvalorS3E6TheMagicWithin The Magic Within]]" and Esteban tries to justify his actions with what the things that had happened to him during his trial, only his grandfather is willing to forgive him. Everyone else, ''especially'' [[ThisIsUnforgivable his grandmother and Elena]], tells him point-blank that there's no excuse for him selling his family out to Shuriki, getting his aunt and uncle killed, and bringing a dark age to Avalor. However, as the season goes on, everybody else starts to realize that yes, Esteban's reasons cannot justify what he did, but they shouldn't be ignored either, as ignoring the bad things that happened to him only leaves the circumstances behind his FreudianExcuse to progressively get worse. In "[[Recap/ElenaOfAvalorS3E24DiaDeLasMadres Dia de las Madres]]", Elena and Aublea Luisa realize that Esteban never properly recovered from the loss of his parents and they never properly helped him cope. In the GrandFinale "[[Recap/ElenaOfAvalorS3E28CoronationDay Coronation Day]]", the spirits of Elena's deceased parents reveal to her that they've known what Esteban had done for a long time, but they forgave him a while ago because they know that staying angry at him won't change what happened and because Raul acknowledged his own mistakes with what happened between him and Esteban that caused him to go to Shuriki. When Esteban confronts his abuelos in the same episode, he tells them he wants to be king because he wants people to listen to him when no one in his life would. Luisa, instead of dismissing his excuses, [[ArmorPiercingResponse tells him that, yes, people will finally listen to him, but they will hate him forever because they will know him as the villain who betrayed his family to get Avalor's Crown]]. This hits Esteban hard because Lusia acknowledged he did have reasons behind his actions but pointed out that they will make him ultimately worse off. It causes him to really think if that's what he wants, and it influences his decision to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] to save Elena from Cahu later on even though he himself believes that he's BeyondRedemption by this point. This, combined with him using his last breath to truly apologize, is what allows Elena to finally forgive Esteban, creating a large WorldHealingWave of her emotion magic to resurrect him, save Avalor, and defeat Cahu. Afterward, Esteban [[TheAtoner promises to spend the rest of his life atoning for his mistakes]], which allows the rest of the family and Avalor to forgive him and welcome him back]].
53	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' deconstructs SubbingForSanta in episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E7RoadToTheNorthPole Road to the North Pole]]". How? Well, Stewie and Brian are the ones doing the subbing, and their first and only job [[EpicFail becomes a home invasion]].
54	** That same episode also features a truly heart-wrenching deconstruction of HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys: trying to keep up with the increasing demands of a constantly growing and increasingly greedy world population has turned Santa's workshop into an ecosystem-killing NightmarishFactory staffed with horribly inbred elves, the reindeer have mutated into vicious carnivores and Santa himself... well,"failing health" doesn't even ''begin'' to describe his condition.
55	** [[DarkerAndEdgier "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q."]] is a VerySpecialEpisode that deconstructs DomesticAbuse in a way very different from the usually comedic way the show handles it. Here, Quagmire's sister gets abused by her boyfriend and she's depicted as having StockholmSyndrome, making up flimsy excuses for staying with him. Quagmire also fears for her condition, even considering the boyfriend a threat to her life.
56	** Meg is a deconstruction of the ButtMonkey[=/=]TheChewToy, as all the abuse she's forced to put up with has made her a complete and utter psychological wreck.
57	** Quagmire could be seen as a deconstruction of AtLeastIAdmitIt. He considers himself better than Brian because he actually admits to his vices, but not only does he commit far worse offenses than Brian has, he also lacks any of the emotional baggage that affects Brian, often doing such things out of sheer callousness. Rather than giving himself a moral high ground through his honesty about his actions, he comes across as above judgement because of it. To add to it, he truthfully ''doesn't'' as he is later revealed to blame all his shortcomings on his mother, something Brian is quite willing to throw back at him.
58	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' deconstructions AdultsAreUseless. Leo during ''Masterstroke of Malevolence'', as he's a security guard who's nothing except helpful to Fillmore and Ingrid's investigation, [[spoiler:which is made suspect by how he's not doing anything on his own to find the vandal in spite of it being his job.]]
59	* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': deconstructions DisproportionateRetribution. Clarence Polkawitz made a holiday for people to lavish praise upon him, and breaks down when his adoptive children praise the other members of Team Squad before him. Because of that he decides to betray Team Squad by stealing the dimensional keys for Sheryl to win her over, betraying everyone he knew just because he felt he was not being given enough attention. However, Sheryl ends up coldly rejecting him even after he helps her, and when Gary, Little Cato and Nightfall catch up to Clarence and he tells them where Sheryl went, they leave him behind. So, because Clarence overreacted to feeling like he wasn't being given enough attention, he loses his ship, his membership with the team and his adoptive children, leaving him with nothing and nobody.
60	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' deconstructs something that your typical VacationEpisode usually doesn't even touch on: The whole "packing up and getting to the airport" part. Try telling that, however, to those [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot who were expecting]] a regular VacationEpisode.
61	* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' does this with DatingCatwoman by showing how shitty it can be when the girl you're in love with works for the BigBad. Even when [[spoiler:she decides to quit working for said BigBad, Rex still doesn't win her in the end]].
62	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
63	** Deconstructs AesopAmnesia.
64	*** In "Dipper and Mabel Vs. The Future", [[spoiler:despite Mabel acknowledging the two Aesops of "if I love it set it free" ("Boyz Crazy"), or that she shouldn't always expect Dipper to give up everything he cares about for her sake ("Sock Opera"), neither of the two seem to have stuck in Mabel's head. Mabel becomes distraught after learning how hard growing up is going to be and can only take solace in knowing Dipper is going to be there for her, so she flips out when learning he might pursue his dreams away from her--while also not understanding that her often [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive treatment]] is what drove him away to Ford to start with, which she had briefly acknowledged in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons".]] This ends up actively causing those she loves more problems because she shows no awareness for the very applicable lessons she'd previously learned that could have helped her avoid contributing to them.
65	*** It also gets deconstructed in the comic story "Don't Dimension It". [[spoiler:The story deals with Ford, Dipper and Stan sealing some remaining rifts, and they find out Mabel helped Bill cause the apocalypse out of misguided selfishness. They don't blame her, apart from Dipper jokingly calling one of the rifts "Mabel's Fault," but they tell her to be careful. Mabel's ItsAllAboutMe attitude comes to the forefront just a few days after defeating Bill where she brings Waddles on the mission to seal the rifts, against Dipper's protests. Sure enough, Mabel chasing Waddles causes her to get sucked into the Multiverse...where she counters millions of her parallel selves stuck on a barren planet due to making a similar decision. Mabel starts getting horrified on realizing most of her cutesy flaws are annoying in a dire situation and that each Mabel is too self-centered to focus on returning to their dimensions]]. At the end of this story at least, [[spoiler:she vows to work on that so time will tell if that sticks]].
66	** Deconstructs DudeWheresMyRespect. One of Dipper’s reoccurring flaws is that he constantly seeks validation and acceptance, usually to the detriment of himself and others. A lot of his mistakes stem from his fear that he's actually unwanted or useless to the people around him, which Stan and Mabel's frequent InnocentlyInsensitive comments don't exactly help with. As shown in "Society of the Blind Eye", he sees his intelligence as his only worthwhile quality and doesn't know who he is without it, and thus takes being disregarded as not smart enough [[BerserkButton very badly]]. Unfortunately for him, his attempts to prove he's worthy of the acceptance and appreciation he desires are [[NiceJobBreakingItHero usually what causes the episode's conflict]]. [[spoiler:Everything he's learned ultimately pays off in the end, and he's recognized as the hero of Gravity Falls]].
67	** Deconstructs ToughLove with Filbrick. His rough treatment of Stanley and Stanford did make them stronger, but it also left emotional scars that were so deep they carried them into their sixties, and damaged their relationships with each other and other people. That and the fact that he [[AbusiveParents didn't actually care for either of them]].
68	** Deconstructs FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling. Stanley and Stanford were this dynamic growing up and it was fine when they were kids, but by the time of the portal incident, it caused self esteem issues for Stan and a desire to be great above all else for Ford. ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' takes it further by showing that while Ford cares about Stan, he can’t see him as anything beyond a dumber and criminal version of him, despite both Stan’s skills at running the Mystery Shack and essentially teaching himself physics to get the Portal running and Ford’s own lack of common sense, leading to projecting his issues with Stan onto Dipper and Mabel. It gets better for the brothers once Stan shows that he’s smart in his own way and Ford acknowledges that his intelligence doesn’t stop him from making mistakes.
69	*** Dipper and Mabel also deconstruct it, but in a different way. Instead of their differences pulling them apart, it makes them stronger: Mabel’s social skills and quick thinking help them out as much as Dipper’s smarts and planning do.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' deconstructs CruelMercy. While Charlie is willing to give anyone a chance at redemption, and this extends to a few members of the staff, there are some folks who really are irredeemable because they refuse change for whatever reason. Those around her apply this ethic, but some are more than savvy about blind faith and naivete. [[spoiler:In ''The Show Must Go On'', both Adam and Lute are spared despite their genocidal rhetoric because, as top-ranking Exorcists, neutralizing them might convince the rest of the rabble to give up and "GO HOME!!". The problem? Neither Adam nor Lute care about anything other than killing demons, so the cruelty of their survival never registers to them; Lute, in particular, would rather [[AnArmAndALeg tear her own arm off]] than admit she was wrong, and Adam spends his last moments ranting about his predicament before Niffty stabs him in the back.]]
71	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''
72	** It deconstructs the PuritySue trope with Olga Pataki, Helga's sister. In order to keep your [[ProperLady "pretty, intelligent, sweet, absolutely beloved young girl"]] image, you're likely to end up as a perfectionist, weepy, [[StepfordSmiler perpetually smily]], ''dangerously'' out-of-reality mess who [[HeroicBSOD will break down to melodramatic levels]] the very moment something doesn't seem to fit in such a bubble of perfection, while being almost completely unable to connect with people far more "flawed" than yourself.
73	** The show also deconstructs the ParentalFavoritism trope with Olga. It shows the bad effects it can have on children who are favored a lot in their families. Because Olga's parents dote on her too much, they have set a lot of unrealistic expectations for Olga, causing her to become the neurotic perfectionist she is. Olga outright said that she wished that she was TheUnfavourite out of the two. She and her sister see each other as getting the "better deal". This shows that being the "favorite" child isn't all that cracked up to be and that parents should favor their children equally.
74	** It also gives us Helga Pataki herself as a deconstruction of the {{Tsundere}} trope. She's got a relationship with Arnold that looks on the surface like the typical foundations of a SlapSlapKiss romance, but as we delve a bit farther into her family life we see that, along with her traumatized PuritySue sister, she has an abusive {{Jerkass}} dad and a LadyDrunk mother, neither of which can provide much support in her daily life - if she's lucky. Looking at the show with slightly more jaded eyes, her volatile relationship with Arnold and her few friends become an increasingly obvious cry for help and an awkwardness with dealing with people nonviolently.
75	*** It even went so far that a psychologist was sent to deal with Helga's anger problems. A clear aversion of ThereAreNoTherapists.
76	** In the deceptively named episode “Deconstructing Arnold”, they seem to deconstruct AllLovingHero: When Helga points out that Arnold is always giving unsolicited advice to other kids, spoiling their fun, every other kid (included best friend Gerald) agrees. Arnold decides to stop helping others as a result. Then we discover… that Arnold is still the same good, happy kid. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor However, as expected, the kids' plans backfire and they need help in resolving them, only for Arnold to remind them that they didn't want his advice.]] They then go to Helga, whom she initially doesn't see the big deal and decides to give them advice. Helga being a JerkassWoobie only manages to make things worse for everybody, including herself, because everyone blames her for her ill advice. We discover that the kids' problems would be relatively easy to solve… if they had the character to be able to do the right thing, instead of the doing the easy thing. Arnold wasn't AllLovingHero because he gave advice, he gave advice because he was an AllLovingHero, truly loving and caring for others and encouraging the kids to do the obvious, right thing no matter how painful, while Helga's solutions were not the best; most involved shifting the blame, while one was just poorly, thought out [[AnAesop and that never solves any problem.]] The tropes HumansAreFlawed and AllLovingHero was deconstructed and [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]]. It results with Helga asking Arnold to be an AllLovingHero again. She even Lampsahdes that she's no good at giving advice and that they need him. The episode concludes with Arnold telling his friends the true advice they needed while Helga looked from afar, happy things we back to normal.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': deconstructions VideoGameCrueltyPotential. Vanessa knowing that it was all a game made her nasty, manipulative and backstabbing towards the other team because she knew they wouldn't suffer physical injuries for real. Hurting Kai was the worst part of it since he saved her from being a permanent block of ice. Unfortunately, you're more likely to get an edge in the edge if you're kind; Adam gets healed by the mutant spider when Kai repairs the king's legs, and the Benjamin brothers help Kai discover his powers when they stay to have fun rather than rushing through the theme park. It's implied that the real Adam, Mira and Kai are scarred from the experience and Vanessa's duplicate regrets her past behavior when she realizes her cheating created digital clones of the teams.
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81	* In many ways, ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' acts as a deconstructions of [[ComingOfAgeStory Coming-of-Age]] adventure stories where kids travel to a magical world and overcome their problems, ala ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster''. The train defies the YearInsideHourOutside and AllJustADream tropes that usually accompany these stories, the magical and quirky companions that become loyal friends to our heroes are [[spoiler:created solely to be avenues for their character development, regardless of the lives they live outside of that]], and [[spoiler:[[RefusalOfTheCall refusing]] to accept any sort of growth means you're trapped for years, maybe even decades, until you do]].
82	* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Red Rush explains that as a [[TheSpeedster speedster]], he has RequiredSecondaryPowers of superhumanly fast perception and enhanced durability, which enable him to [[SuperSpeed run at relativistic speeds]] without killing himself or causing an immense amount of collateral damage. During his brutal fight with Omni-Man, they make his death a great deal more painful than it could have been without them.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE59FlightToCloudCastle2 Flight to Cloud Castle, Part 2]]" deconstructs the fairytale classic where a hero braves a perilous castle and magical guardians to wake a fair maiden with TrueLovesKiss and live with her happily forever after. The sequence mostly goes as planned, but hits a snag when it turns out that the fair maiden hadn't been in the market for a relationship when she went to sleep, has not had any chance to change her mind due to having effectively experienced no time since, and while grateful for being freed doesn't really feel like getting together with a complete stranger.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has a habit of deconstructing tropes in the process of teaching its [[AnAesop aesops]]:
85	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" deconstructs TheReliableOne, when Applejack tries to harvest all the apples in Sweet Apple Acres by herself, because Big Macintosh injured himself, and be there for her friends at the same time. She ends up with severe sleep deprivation, and creates several issues such as flinging Rainbow Dash into Twilight's balcony, and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal practically poisoning plenty of ponies]]. The trope is deconstructed again in "The Last Roundup". Everypony expects Applejack to win enough prize money to pay for the city hall's repairs. When she only places second or lower (but still high enough to have LOTS of ribbons) in all of the events, she is so ashamed of letting down Ponyville that she decides not to return until she's earned enough money to pay for the repairs by working on a farm in Dodge Junction.
86	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" deconstructs Pinkie Pie's role as the GenkiGirl. When people start making up excuses to avoid a party, and discovers them trying to do something without her, she extrapolates that everyone has gotten tired of her and gets clinically depressed as a result.
87	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" deconstructs the OnceAnEpisode formula a lot of shows, including this one, use. Twilight freaks out because she doesn't have a letter to send to the Princess, as there wasn't much conflict in anyone's life lately. She goes crazy and tries to create a problem for her to solve, [[GoneHorriblyRight but things get horribly out of hand.]]
88	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]" deconstructs multiple [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing]] tropes, particularly LargeHam, MilkingTheGiantCow, and NoIndoorVoice; Princess Luna has undergone a HeelFaceTurn and is trying to improve her public image, but she keeps scaring everyone away with her "[[FloweryElizabethanEnglish Traditional]] [[RoyalWe Royal]] [[GaleForceSound Canterlot]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WDNnxInFM Voice]]," which she (and presumably her sister) used [[FishOutOfTemporalWater back when she ruled before her]] FaceHeelTurn, and practically ''required'' her to be a LargeHam.
89	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]" deconstructs TheLoad and ButtMonkey tropes that were otherwise PlayedForLaughs in previous seasons, by showing that Spike has ''very'' low self-esteem due to always feeling like he's only there for comic relief.
90	** "The Cutie Re-Mark [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 Parts 1]] and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 and 2]]" deconstructs DudeWheresMyRespect heavily: Starlight Glimmer thinks the Mane Six is nothing more than a bunch of ponies who were brought together thanks to one Sonic Rainboom. When Twilight drags Starlight into one of the many changed timelines, she's shown that, without that Rainboom, they weren't brought together and ''bad shit'' happened. Starlight just can't get it wrapped around her head that the Mane Six are essentially the only thing standing between peaceful Equestria and a barren wasteland that she suffers a VillainousBreakdown.
91	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances No Second Prances]]" ends up deconstructing DesignatedVillain - Twilight is more than willing to give Starlight Glimmer the benefit of the doubt and help her reform, but she is less than willing to accept The Great and Powerful Trixie as Starlight's first friend. Twilight tails and pretty much antagonizes Trixie, finally getting her to admit that she was Starlight's friend because she wanted to one up Twilight, but by that time, Trixie had ''genuinely'' came to accept Starlight as her friend and Twilight's demeanor nearly broke that friendship up.
92	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E25SchoolRazePart1 School Raze]]" actually ends up deconstructing ThePowerOfFriendship, of all things. Specifically, it deconstructs it being a tangible thing that can be weaponized. The ArcVillain [[spoiler:Cozy Glow]] acknowledges that ThePowerOfFriendship is a very powerful force and doesn't underestimate it; however, her sociopathy leads her to interpret it as [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "make as many friends as possible in order to gain ultimate power"]], [[FalseFriend meaning that she makes friends simply for her own personal benefit]]. [[spoiler:This eventually leads her to drain the magic out of her fellow ponies so she's the only magical being in Equestria left, and maintain her "friendships" with the ones she had fooled]].
93	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E2TownAndOutChildFearing Town and Out]]" deconstructs DestructiveSavior; the girls move to a more realistic city than Townsville in that episode, and end up getting a tongue-lashing from the Mayor of that city after they stop two bank robbers by blowing up a bridge:
94	-->'''Mayor:''' [[TranquilFury Let me tell you some words]]. [[WhatTheHellHero At what point did it seem like a good idea to blow up the Citiesville Bridge?]]\
95	'''Blossom:''' Uh...\
96	'''Mayor:''' NO! Do you realize the two crooks that you caught stole approximately four hundred dollars? Do you realize that you did '''OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS IN PROPERTY DAMAGE TO THAT BRIDGE?! IT'S NOT REPLACEABLE!'''
97	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has an episode of a new boy in their school who turns out to be insanely smart. He's a nice kid but the others want to challenge him so he ends up doing his best but that leads to the others seeing how he's better at everything they can do. They end up hating him for it and he's sad to have to deal with the fact that to be himself he can't have friends. He tells them this, which makes them more understanding, and leaves the school.
98	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':
99	** Deconstructs AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther. Throughout the first two seasons, [[Characters/RickAndMortyBethSmith Beth]] and [[Characters/RickAndMortyJerrySmith Jerry]] show moments where they care for each other despite their toxic, dysfunction marriage. But those moments, unfortunately, are just moments that don't last, and their toxic dysfunction remains an ongoing problem that they don't work to resolve. In the first Season 3 episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption The Rickshank Redemption]]", when Jerry put his foot down and made Beth choose between him and Rick, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she chose Rick]].
100	** Deconstructs ComedicSociopathy. [[Characters/RickAndMortyRickSanchez Rick]] certainly comes across as one, but it's implied to be a defense mechanism fostered over decades -- if he ever stopped to empathize with those he's wronged over the years or consider the full consequences of his actions, he just might go completely insane.
101	** [[Characters/RickAndMortyMortySmith Morty Smith]]
102	*** Deconstructs DumbassNoMore. Morty constant adventures and near-death situations turned him from naive, slow in the mind kid to one of the more competent and self-aware characters of the show, they also took a serious toll on him, resulting in his constant sense of disillusionment and insecurity.
103	*** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]" deconstructs LovePotion. Morty requests one from Rick to give to Jessica so she will go to a school dance with him. Unfortunately Jessica has the flu so the effect piggybacks on the virus and soon all of humanity barring Morty's immediate family is infected. [[spoiler:Rick's incompetent attempts to cure the effect result in the entire human race being turned into [[BodyHorror "Cronenbergs"]] and Rick and Morty end up abandoning it to live in another universe where they died]]. Naturally when things go wrong, they start arguing and Rick [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tears into Morty]] and points out how the potion is little different from a ''date rape drug, [[JerkassHasAPoint and he's right]]''.
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107	* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'''s [[DarkerAndEdgier fifth season]] tears apart the notion of StatusQuoIsGod that dominated the previous seasons. After 50 long years, both the hero and the villain have grown sick of their never-ending conflict; with Jack becoming a ShellShockedVeteran and Aku falling into depression, after years of mutual failure to kill one another.
108	** Season 5 also decimated Season 3's "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS3E6JackAndTheTravelingCreatures Jack and the Traveling Creatures]]". By not returning Jack then and there to the past BecauseDestinySaysSo, the Guardian doomed Jack, the future, and himself. The Guardian is killed by Aku and the portal destroyed, Jack finds the last portal only to also be destroyed by Aku, which led to a HeroicRROD from Jack which led to Jack losing his sword after killing three innocent sheep in his blind rage and without armed with the one thing that can kill Aku once and for all, the future became more bleak and hellish with evil forces increasing with more power in the following half-century and leaving Jack with HeroicBSOD. Were it not for the serendipity of Ashi's birth and her meeting, fighting, and finally getting to know Jack for real, things would've been much worse....
109	** Aku in general is a deconstruction of MadeOfEvil: He's completely incapable of doing anything good, even when it would benefit him. There's multiple times in the series where he probably would have succeeded in killing Jack if he didn't have ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
110	** AttackAttackAttack and TrainingFromHell are deconstructed with the Daughters of Aku. Trained since birth to be remorseless assassins, they are skilled and relentless combatants. Despite their training however they are still decades behind Jack in terms of skill and experience, and were taught only to attack. They also spent most of their lives in a cavern fortress leaving them ill-prepared to adapt to new environments. Never trying protect or aid one another, which they see as weakness. Once Jack recovers from their initial ambush and stops holding back, they are swiftly killed save one who would bring Jack out of his funk.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' pretty much thrives on deconstructing every one of the Scooby-Doo franchise's most iconic tropes.
112	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' deconstructed ScareEmStraight. Marge was away and Bart & Homer weren't doing their chores, so Lisa made them think they had leprosy to scare them into cleaning up their filth. Instead, they both immediately panic and run over to Flanders, who promptly shipped them off to a Hawaiian leper colony.
113	** The episode where a graveyard was built next the Simpson home deconstructed WiseBeyondTheirYears. Lisa is scared out of her mind because she never learned to handle her childish fears.
114	** OlderThanTheyLook is deconstructed in that episode where people find out Ned Flanders is a senior citizen. His wholesome living made him look younger than he really is but it also made him boring and predictable.
115	** The infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer" is a deconstruction of DisproportionateRetribution. The stock plot is about everyone in Springfield getting angry at Bart over something very minor, which has happened before on "Bart's Girlfriend," "The Telltale Head," and "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" - all of which were played straight and for laughs. This time around, Bart loses a simple softball game and is bullied and harassed for it so much and so badly that he attempts suicide. He lives, but ends up on life support... and the townspeople ''still'' rag on him for losing outside the hospital until Marge steps in to yell at them. It's about as dark and depressing as you'd imagine and the reason why this episode is disliked among the few people who still watch modern-day ''Simpsons'' episodes or the former fan who foolishly decided to rewatch the show after years of ignoring it.
116	** Then there's "At Long Last Leave" which shows that everyone in Springfield has had enough of the Simpsons. The town is bankrupt by Homer and Bart's destructive antics, and are annoyed with Lisa shoving her ideas into everyone's faces, not even Marge or Ned's preaching could change their minds and they boot them out of town; Mayor Quimby even goes so far as to point out Marge's enabling of her family's destructive actions [[UnwittingInstigatorofDoom would technically make her the worse of them all]].
117	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" deconstructs TeacherStudentRomance (especially examples with younger children) by portraying the teacher in the relationship as incredibly delusional and manipulative.
118	** "Conjoined Fetus Lady" deconstructs InspirationallyDisadvantaged as all the special treatment the titular lady gets just makes her feel like even more of a freak.
119	** "A Very Crappy Christmas" deconstructs TrueMeaningOfChristmas by having the town view Christmas as what most cartoons teach Christmas is all about (family, love, and kindness to others) which causes the townspeople to stop buying Christmas presents altogether and as a result the town's economy plummets.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' deconstructs MalcolmXerox. Toffee was the first real threat Star went against, and his role revealed Mewni's dark history as xenophobic warmongers who conquered a new country and annexed its original inhabitants. Toffee was a militant who wanted revenge for the Mewmans waging war on the monsters, and he made a statement by killing Comet, Moon's mother. Toffee was extreme in his methods. He was willing to sacrifice his own people, he was prepared to kill Marco to lure out Star, and he's just as extreme and bigoted as the Mewmans. And the Mewman Queen he murdered, Comet, was actually pro monster and was working to improve the life of his people. Her murder causes Comet's daughter Moon to rise to the throne at an early age and distrust the monsters, meaning Toffee is the reason things did not improve for the monsters.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' gives a DeconReconSwitch of ThereIsNoTry. At the beginning of Episode 5, Ezra is struggling with his training and says "I'm trying!", so Kanan naturally responds that "there is no try". Ezra points out that it's physically impossible to do something without trying to do it, and Kanan sheepishly admits that he never understood that either and is mindlessly parroting Master Yoda. They come back to it at the end, when Kanan figures out what that phrase really means. "Trying" to do something implies that you're only half-assing it because you don't believe you can do it, so Kanan isn't going to ''try'' to teach Ezra - he's going to ''teach'' Ezra, and if one or both of them fail, oh well.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
123	** Similar to the Korra example above, LoveAtFirstSight is taken apart, with the possibility of LovingAShadow brought up. As shown in "We Need To Talk", Greg and Rose hooking up within hours of meeting at the end of "Story For Steven" causes some problems due to the speed of the relationship, which isn't helped by the fact that it's an InterspeciesRomance and the fact that humans and Gems have different understandings of relationships. In "Love Letters", not only does Garnet shoot down Jamie's one sided crush on her (which also shows that a crush is under no obligation to reciprocate feelings) she explicitly says that love at first sight doesn't exist. Even Steven and Connie's burgeoning relationship, with them developing a mutual crush quickly, is taking its time to get to a full RelationshipUpgrade as they become closer gradually.
124	** "Sworn to the Sword" deconstructs Pearl's UndyingLoyalty to Rose Quartz, which led to Pearl jumping into battle to protect Rose without any concern for her safety, and despite her Gem regeneration meaning she could heal from that, she was implied to have frequently argued with Rose about doing so, especially when there was no reason to. She then tries to instill this way of thinking into Connie, who cannot regenerate like she can, even telling her that she doesn't matter as long as Steven is safe. Steven himself has a opposition to this similar to what Rose was implied to have, and in the end the two are able to find a balance by protecting each other.
125	** Lapis Lazuli's situation deconstructs SentientPhlebotinum pretty harshly, having spent millennia in an AndIMustScream type fate, only interacting with others when they want something, which has left her a BrokenBird.
126	** ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' deconstructs the concept of both the KidHero and ChosenOne archetype, by showing that Steven's previous adventures have left him with significant trauma and emotional baggage. A large amount of the narrative focuses on Steven's inability to relate to humans (due to spending so much time saving the world), inability to manage his own anxiety (as he never had the time to properly address it), and difference in growth as a child (Steven grew up in a van before moving in with the gems, never went to the doctor or school, and didn't meet any of his human family). Now that the adventure is over and the world is saved, Steven struggles to find a place for himself in it, and eventually this results in destructive behaviors that worry all of his friends and family. By the end of the show, his powers cause him to physically manifest into a monstrous beast (representative of his own self image), and even after they calm him down and he turns back, he spends another month in a time skip apparently meeting with a therapist and helping manage his trauma.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' deconstructs several tropes.
128	** AlwaysChaoticEvil. Changelings were created by the GreaterScopeVillain Morgana to serve the BigBad Gunmar on his genocidal mission to conquer both the troll and human worlds, so trolls aligned against them possess [[FantasticRacism a knee-jerk reaction towards them]], "impure" being a common slur for changelings. Because the closest thing they have to gaining acceptance is from the Gumm-gumms (and even then [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect they don't have much respect for them either]]), they don't really have much choice but to serve them. Their code of ethics promote PragmaticVillainy and various members of the Janus Order seem to possess a certain distaste towards humans, but everything they do is done not out of a drive to do evil or reverence towards the Underlord and their creator, but rather a need to survive. Because of this, various changelings like Strickler, Nomura and [=NotEnrique=] end up switching sides either because develop alternative loyalties through emotional attachment (Strickler to Barbara, [=NotEnrique=] to Claire) or abuse from their masters (Gunmar taking out his rage over Bular's death on Nomura).
129	** CasanovaWannabe. While trying to get a date to the Spring Fling, Toby Domzalski attempts to be a smooth flirt to any girl he comes across. All of them say "no", including Darci, who ''wanted'' to be asked out by him but was put off when she heard he asked out every girl in their school.
130	** DotingGrandparent. Nana Domzalski is quite doting towards Toby, but this often embarrasses him.
131	** LivingADoubleLife. Being the newly chosen Trollhunter (and the first human one at that) has proven to be incredibly stressful for Jim Lake. And because of his new and dangerous responsibilities, his academics are in dire straits and his relationship with his mother is strained at times.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
133	** Courtney and Duncan's relationship deconstructs everything about OppositesAttract. Courtney is a high-strung AcademicAlphaBitch and Duncan is a roguish {{Delinquent}} with a HiddenHeartOfGold. The BelligerentSexualTension between them only comes to fruition when Courtney sees the "heart of gold" part of Duncan, but after ''Island'', cracks in the relationship start to show. Courtney has failed to loosen up by dating Duncan and has entered a pushy state of ICanChangeMyBeloved, both from her high standards for boyfriends and fear that Duncan is destined for jail sooner or later. These lists of demands, coupled with Courtney's DomesticAbuse, causes Duncan to lose interest in her. By ''World Tour'', BelligerentSexualTension is the only thing holding them together, and that fails when Duncan decides to cheat on Courtney with Gwen. When ''All Stars'' rolls around, Duncan tries to rekindle their old relationship (killing his current one with Gwen in the process) but Courtney wants nothing to do with him anymore. Duncan assumes AllGirlsWantBadBoys is in play, and thinks Courtney and Gwen are no longer interested in him because he's no longer bad enough, when in reality, both largely preferred his nice side.
134	** ''Pahkitew Island'' deconstructs PoorCommunicationKills. Part of the reason things between Sky and Dave get so bad is the fact that Dave won't listen to what Sky is trying to tell him, and Sky does not directly tell him the reasons she does not want to date him. Sky and Dave both genuinely like each other, the problem is that Dave is coming on to her a little strong; while Sky does like Dave, she has a boyfriend at home she plans to break up with, and she wants to focus on the game and feels dating Dave would distract her. Their lack of communication therefore causes their relationship to deteriorate. To Sky's credit, when she and Dave were talking, she tried to explain that she does like him, but Dave interrupts her, saying they should just see where things go, and before Sky can tell Dave she has a boyfriend, Chris announce the challenge. The next few episodes, Sky foolishly thinks that Dave knows that she does not want to date someone while they're in the game, while Dave tries to do different things to get closer to her and impress her. Another problem is that Sky is receptive to Dave's advances, but still tries to turn him down, unintentionally sending Dave mixed messages. In episode "Hurl And Go Seek", angry that she lost the challenge and Dave is trying to impress her by beating her in the game and bragging to her, Sky tells Dave he has no chance of beating her or dating her, breaking Dave's heart. Later in the challenge, Sky calls him out on not listening to her, but without explaining that she has a boyfriend or that she wants to focus on the game. Both glare at each other, but calm down, and then Dave asks to be her boyfriend, and Sky angrily tells him no, leading to Dave voting himself off. This comes to a head in the final episode, where Dave is brought back in the final challenge as a helper for Sky. Sky kisses Dave to motivate him, telling him that she does really like him, and she just wants to focus on the challenges, because it's hard to team up with someone she wants to date. At first that works, and Dave is determined to win the challenge for her, but then Chris shows a clip from home that reveals Sky has a boyfriend named Keith. Sky, heartbroken, reveals in the confessional she plans to break up with Keith and she really likes Dave, admitting she messed up. But before she can tell him this, Dave refuse to listen to her, their relationship destroyed and Dave becoming bitter to her and determined to do anything to make Sky lose.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
136	** The episode "The Nice Guy" deconstructs Wander's role as a NiceGuy giving him an inability to experience apathy that affects him being able to accomplish certain basic tasks.
137	** "The Helper" shows that not only is Wander incapable of finishing a task of his own before helping someone else, his ChronicHeroSyndrome is so bad that a day where there isn't ''any'' problem he can help with drives him bonkers.
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