| 1 | [[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/{{Bone}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1bone.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:These {{Cartoon Creature}}s have found a land of HighFantasy. They don't exactly fit, do they?]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"Wait, I wasn't briefed on this being {{Romcom}}!"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Sōsuke Sagara''', ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' |
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| 7 | A Genre Refugee is a StockCharacter from some {{genre|s}} who appears in a story that is in no other way part of that genre. The character is probably WrongGenreSavvy, or may be the cause of wrong genre savviness in others. Since genres often have different tones, the character may be a KnightOfCerebus or the [[PluckyComicRelief inverse]]. This can occur with crossovers between two properties of different genres as crossovers are usually about one character visiting the setting of another. |
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| 9 | SuperTrope to OutsideGenreFoe. See also FishOutOfWater. |
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| 12 | !!Examples: |
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| 14 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 16 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 17 | * ''Anime/BangBraveBangBravern'' is essentially what happens when an Anime/BraveSeries-styled sentient SuperRobot plops himself down into a more grounded RealRobot show. |
| 18 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' |
| 19 | ** Isidro thinks himself a KidHero from a shonen manga. [[DarkFantasy He is]] ''[[CrapsackWorld very much]]'' WrongGenreSavvy. |
| 20 | ** Puck, the PluckyComicRelief elf, feels like a character that belongs to a completely different series, making cultural references and SuperDeformed faces which wouldn't be out of place in a Shonen series, but causes a major MoodWhiplash in a grimdark setting like ''Berserk''. |
| 21 | ** Adon Corbolwitz is a [[LargeHam larger-than-life]] yet [[HarmlessVillain thoroughly incompetent]] Tudor general who eventually became a [[ClingyComedyVillain persistent annoyance]] to the Band of the Hawk, more so in the [[Anime/Berserk1997 first anime]] where his role was expanded. He would be at home in a fantasy comedy series like ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''. In a gritty DarkFantasy work such as this one, he sticks out like a sore thumb. |
| 22 | * Makoto Kyogoku from ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is a [[FightingSeries Fighting Genre]] [[{{Superhero}} Superhuman]] stuck in a DetectiveDrama. |
| 23 | * The basic premise of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' is to lean fully into the [[Literature/FullMetalPanic main series]]' FishOutOfWater elements by taking its [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] mech pilot protagonist, Sōsuke Sagara, and throwing him into a full-on ScrewballComedy (as the anime is based on ''Full Metal Panic'''s comedic side stories rather than following the novels' more serious main plot). Kaname even has to explain to him OnTheNext episode preview that he's no longer in a [[RealRobotGenre Real Robot Show]], a turn of events which he has no idea how to handle. |
| 24 | * ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'': Retsu Akagi would be right at home as a SuperRobot protagonist, or in any sufficiently HotBlooded shonen series... but he's a character in a little girls' magical fantasy. |
| 25 | * ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke'' has three such characters, [[OneOfTheBoys Chi]][[ActionGirl zuru]], [[TheStoic Ryu]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Kazuichi]] "Pin" [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Arai]]. Who seem to have got transplanted from a fiery {{shonen}} sport series to a lighthearted {{shoujo}} romance. |
| 26 | * Goemon Ishikawa XIII in ''Franchise/LupinIII'' is a traditionally-minded samurai who lives and dies by the way of the sword, so he'd fit right in a JidaiGeki drama. The problem is, he's from a [[TheCaper caper series]] set in modern times. Fortunately, he and the rest of the Lupin gang occasionally come up against rivals that also share his mindset of old-time Edo values, so it's justified a bit. |
| 27 | * The world of ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'' is a raw Spy Fiction setting in which people are routinely killed in secret for threatening the peace, so Lycoris agents are surrounded by death. Chisato Nishigiki, on the other hand, is basically a Slice of Life heroine; she's a constant ray of sunshine in what should be a dreary world and all her means of stopping terrorists are non-lethal, and the only reason DA hasn't kicked her out of Lycoris is because she's just that good. She also has several elements of a Magical Girl protagonist, namely her kindhearted demeanor and willingness to spare her enemies and even reach out to them if possible. Almost every character in the story, friend or foe, really wishes she'd get with the program. Ironically, the sole exception to this is [[PracticallyJoker Majima]], who sympathizes with her even as he tries to kill her. |
| 28 | * Gai Daigouji from ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' is the inverse: A HotBlooded SuperRobot hero stuck in a RealRobot setting. [[spoiler:Sadly, that gets him killed barely four episodes in and traumatizes Akito Tenkawa]]. |
| 29 | * Suletta Mercury of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' acts like a normal SliceOfLife protagonist despite the fact that she's in a real robot anime series. [[spoiler:This ends up getting {{Deconstructed}} starting with episode 12 with the DissonantSerenity that was smiling after ''crushing a terrorist under Gundam Aerial's hand'']]. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 31 | ** During the especially hyper-saccharine (yet very much CrapsaccharineWorld) Whole Cake Island, which has a lot of weirdness even by One Piece standards, we get Charlotte Katakuri, who looks like he would be at home in ''Fist of the North Star'' or ''Berserk'' and doesn't quite mesh with the demented wonderland feel of the rest of the arc, which features mirror worlds, biscuit soldiers, and talking cannonballs. [[spoiler:He does eventually display the quirkiness mandatory for ''One Piece'' characters but it's a side of him he keeps deeply private.]] |
| 32 | ** The Hito-Hito/Human Human Fruit: Model Nika grants the user the powers and properties of a classical cartoon character. Even by ''One Piece'' standards, the fruit's user can inflict ToonPhysics on enemies to BodyHorror levels, a power set that can even wreck the peak powerhouses of the ''One Piece'' world. [[spoiler: This power is the true power of Luffy's Devil Fruit, with his rubber abilities only being the unawakened powers. Kaido finds this out the hard way when he triggers the full power awakening during his final battle with Luffy]]. |
| 33 | * Half the cast of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' are stranded from typical shoujo reverse harem, but it's an AffectionateParody GagSeries [[IndecisiveParody most of the time]]. |
| 34 | * In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', Red's non-magical abilities baffle and bewilder Idola, and Red still acts like he's on a {{Toku}} show, completely lacking any kind of subtlety and approaching everything with his HotBlooded candor. This has its ups and downs, as while his perpetual optimism and ChronicHeroSyndrome brings out the best in others, his lack of decorum and his overly destructive powers can create as many problems as he solves if Idola doesn't rein him in. |
| 35 | * The title character of ''Manga/TakopisOriginalSin'' is a tiny octopus alien that wouldn't be out of place in a {{Kodomomuke}} series, supplying ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''-style gadgets to kids to help them be happy. The world he landed in, however, is a cynical drama where the children's problems extend far beyond what Takopi can assist with his gadgets. |
| 36 | * Rossiu from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is essentially a character in the RealRobotGenre stuck in a universe in the SuperRobotGenre. He's cool-headed, pragmatic and smart, which makes him stand-out from his hot-blooded comrades. He's still capable of piloting Gunmen powered by willpower as good as the rest of them though and they all respect him well enough, if not just lightly tease him every now and then. This is explored a fair bit in the second half of the show. On the one hand, this makes him one of the few competent members in actually ruling and managing their new civilization and he is pretty much TheReliableOne to Simon. On the other hand, [[spoiler: his pragmatic choices lead him to oust Simon from power to quell a riot (which he is beating himself over) and his tactics are predicted by the Anti-Spiral and only stopped by Simon and the others' own style. Furthermore, they all don't blame him and understand his reasoning (including Simon), meaning the only person that blames him...is himself. Simon eventually snaps sense back into him after stopping him from suicide.]] |
| 37 | * ''Manga/YandereKanojo'' has a few characters who would not be out of place in {{Shoujo|Demographic}} romance. Shiratori, [[UnknownRival who tries so hard to be Manabu's rival]], is explicitly [[CaptainErsatz based on]] the rival character in ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial 3'' and retains some of his tropes. Given that the general tone of the series is AffectionateParody of shounen romance stories, these contrasting genre elements are [[HilarityEnsues milked for all their comedic worth]]. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'' is filled with them. Naruko looks like he came from a standard battle shounen manga, while people like Midosuji look like the villains in a more physically involved story. They're in a cycling-themed Sports manga. |
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| 41 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 42 | * ''AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray'' is an UrbanFantasy and GothicHorror series of audios following the same character from ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'', meaning that meeting other supernatural creatures isn’t that unreasonable. However in one audio he encounters a goddess from Norse mythology and in another the actual kraken, and with the latter he points out that there’s nothing to suggest the beast is actually supernatural like him. He also encounters Literature/SherlockHolmes who is WrongGenreSavvy about what story he’s in, and [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Henry Jekyll and his alter ego]] who while from a similar genre as Dorian aren’t supernatural themselves. Dorian was this himself since he first appeared in a BackdoorPilot in a ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' spin-off, and some audios lack any supernatural elements except him with one example being a drama where he swaps places with an IdenticalStranger. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 46 | * The page image provider is ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', which features three {{Cartoon Creature}}s stumbling into a HighFantasy story. It wouldn't be inaccurate to compare it to WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy being in ''Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 47 | * The premise of the ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' imprint is that characters are placed in random stories or settings. As a result many of these superhero characters can be considered Genre Refugees due to the rest of their world being in a different genre. |
| 48 | * ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': |
| 49 | ** Volume I looks a lot like a superhero story [[note]] (in fact, the "master spy recruits a band of misfit heroes and monsters to save day" formula makes it sound suspiciously like ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''... which it predates by over a decade) [[/note]]... but with the twist that the heroes are all public domain characters from Victorian-era GothicHorror and adventure fiction. This is mostly done to show how these characters influenced more modern fiction. |
| 50 | ** What's more, since ''all'' fiction is true in this universe, you can't count out meeting someone from children's fiction or parody porno. |
| 51 | * The superhero genre is an eclectic mix of various genres like science-fiction, detective fiction, mythology etc., but there are some characters that stick out. In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse for instance, heroes may encounter: |
| 52 | ** ComicBook/PatsyWalker, the heroine of a girl comedy series from the 1950s and 1960s, who eventually became the superheroine ComicBook/{{Hellcat}}. |
| 53 | ** ComicBook/MillieTheModel, the heroine of a girl comedy series that lasted from the 1950s to the 1970s, who never became a superhero like Patsy. |
| 54 | ** ComicBook/NickFury, a superspy in the mold of Film/JamesBond and ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', who is also one of the few surviving characters from Marvel's long-defunct war comics. |
| 55 | ** Characters from Marvel's take on classic horror stories like ComicBook/{{Dracula|MarvelComics}} and the related cast (ComicBook/{{Blade}}, Lilith, the Harkers). |
| 56 | ** ComicBook/ThePunisher, {{expy}} of Mack Bolan, the main character from the LongRunningBookSeries ''Literature/TheExecutioner'', who at the outset was so out of tune with the rest of the Marvel Universe that he appeared primarily as an antagonist to people like ComicBook/SpiderMan before coming into his own during MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks. |
| 57 | ** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, who would feel right at home in an AnimatedShockComedy type series. |
| 58 | ** ComicBook/ShangChi, Master of Kung Fu, a character created to cash in on the success of the martial arts films of the 1970s who also happens to be related to old YellowPeril villain Literature/FuManchu. |
| 59 | ** ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/IronFist, who were inspired by two big film crazes of the 70s: Blaxploitation and Wuxia/Eastern martial arts. In the end they (fittingly?) became good friends and partners. |
| 60 | ** ComicBook/{{Howard|TheDuck}}, a walking, talking anthropomorphic duck "Trapped in a World He Never Made". |
| 61 | ** ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': The Prince of Power, an alien warrior bonded to the Power Stone who could easily be mistaken for an early draft character from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'', especially once it turns out his home planet ''is'' a parody of ''He-Man''. |
| 62 | ** ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015:'' The Maker is from the Ultimate Universe, which was more {{Capepunk}} and slightly harder sci-fi than the regular Marvel Universe. As a result, he's repeatedly blindsided by the setting being more bizarre than he's used to. |
| 63 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has been this from the very beginning. They don't quite belong in gritty martial arts or campy bizarre sci-fi, but often step into both. And meet still more characters in other genres, like the Silver Age superhero team Justice Force, or the funny-animal-samurai-action-drama character [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]]. |
| 64 | * Speaking of Usagi, his own series, ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is...[[GenreMashup hard to pin down]], but in simplest terms, it can be described as a LowFantasy {{Jidaigeki}}. Then you have [[KnightTemplar Jei]], a [[ImplacableMan nigh-invincible]] SerialKiller expy of [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason]] [[note]]With the Japanese honorific, he would be addressed as Jei-san, which is virtually homophonous with Jason [[/note]] who seems to have stepped out of a SlasherMovie. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/AKnightsTaleAsInquisitor'' has [[Franchise/FateSeries Arturia]], a HighFantasy character, find herself in the DarkFantasy Franchise/DragonAge universe after the Fourth Holy Grail War, becoming an OutsideGenreFoe in the latter as a result. |
| 69 | * Felsi Rollo in ''Fanfic/TheMorrigan'' originally appeared in the much more comedic fic ''Put Up Your Dukes'', which is set in the same universe as ''The Morrigan''. As a result, she seems to operate on the logic of a romantic comedy with AmusingInjuries rather than the gritty war drama she's actually in. Not to say [[BewareTheSillyOnes she's not capable]], but she has a tendency to pop out of thin air whenever it's funny, treats both her allies and enemies with playful irreverence, and some of her subordinates have even coined the term "Comedian's Luck" to explain how the hell she can get caught up in so many dangerous situations and make it out fine every single time. |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' |
| 71 | ** [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]] ends up from her [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction usual universe]] to a version of her own timeline that operates under ''SoulmateAUFic'' rules, rendering her a stranger in a world who follows and operates under different rules than she's used to even among familiar faces. Her navigation of a setting where she has to handle being magically married to Mami and Madoka in a world where only she sees it as odd makes up part of the story and she slowly embraces the new world as a result. |
| 72 | ** [[VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory Magius member Sute Kaneko]] wished to have the abilities of a [[ShonenDemographic Shonen Manga character]], not only granting her the ability to mimic the powers of her favorite mangas, but it outright warps her mind to have her operate like the Madoka universe operates on shonen tropes and logic. [[CaptainObvious It doesn't]], and a lot of her behaviors and quirks as a result are very strange to those around her and her power set baffles those around her. |
| 73 | * [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/14053481/1/Ankoku-Kishi-Monogatari-Cross-Z Ankoku Kishi Monogatari:Cross-Z]] has the titular character being [[TrappedInAnotherWorld summoned to another world]] which was a fantasy but unlike the original story where the main character is an ordinary boy, here it was Cross-Z Post Build New World, meaning he was an ExperiencedProtagonist with years of battles in his belt. |
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| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 78 | * Oogie-Boogie from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. The other spooks are frightening and with a bit of a skewed morality code, but are ultimately good-natured creatures that scare folks for fun. Enter Oogie-Boogie, the one spook who is genuinely malicious and evil-natured, who even the other spooks seem to dislike. According to a supplementary material he's also this in a completely literal sense, being a refugee from a different bug-themed holiday that's no longer celebrated. |
| 79 | * Bill Sykes from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' is a particularly [[MoodWhiplash jarring example]]. He's a scarily realistic portrayal of a mafia loan shark who seems like he'd fit better in a Creator/MartinScorsese gangster film than a Disney movie with cute talking animals. |
| 80 | * The titular protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' is a goofy HalfDressedCartoonAnimal who finds himself unexpectedly thrust into a Western (that just so happens to be populated by other cartoon animals). Unlike most examples of this trope, Rango quickly becomes aware of what kind of story he's in and uses his {{Genre Savv|y}}iness to start blending in and give everyone an impression that he's a larger-than-life cowboy hero. |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': The first few Spider-Men (and -Woman) introduced all still belong to the traditional superhero comics genre; this, however, stops being the case with the last three: |
| 82 | ** Spider-Man Noir is a FilmNoir escapee fighting Nazis in the Late '30s/'40s. |
| 83 | ** Peni Parker and SP//dr are {{Animesque}} and from a distant CyberPunk future. |
| 84 | ** Peter Porker a.k.a. Spider-Ham is proudly a {{Toon}} -- even though all the characters are animated, he is the only one who is treated as such within the movie itself. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Ralph, a cartoony BigGuy in overalls, fits well enough into the LevelAte world of Sugar Rush when he enters it. However, he brings with him a ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''-esque creature known as a Cy-bug, which becomes an invasive species as soon as it enters. It collects power by eating, and Sugar Rush is made entirely of food. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 89 | * ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein'' draws most of its humour from dropping [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello a pair of comedians]] into what is otherwise a fairly straight Franchise/UniversalHorror movie. It was such a success that the studio started dropping the duo into other genres, with ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKillerBorisKarloff'' (a whodunnit), ''Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd'' (a pirate movie), and more horror movies like ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'', ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', and ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheMummy''. A key part of these movies was that they would usually try to get the actors who had played the "real" versions of the other characters in the past[[note]]For example, ''Meet Captain Kidd'' got Creator/CharlesLaughton to reprise the role from his earlier ''Captain Kidd''[[/note]], so that, aside from the presence of Bud and Lou, everything else would feel as serious and true-to-the-genre as possible. |
| 90 | * Tommy Frigo in ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'' has wandered in from a raunchy teen movie as opposed to the much more realistic, grounded film he's in. |
| 91 | * ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' has what might well be an inversion of this trope with Johnny, who is the only character in the film aware that he's in a wacky comedy: he spends most of his scenes goofing off, capering around, and cracking bad jokes. Meanwhile, every other character treats the events of the film as if it's a serious disaster flick, refusing to crack a smile while saying lines like "You ever seen a grown man naked?" or "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Reportedly, Johnny's meant to come across as the PluckyComicRelief and how, especially in disaster films, they could often feel bizarrely out-of-place. |
| 92 | * ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is a comedy version of TheWestern, and one of its many jokes is having the local hangman look and dress like he just wandered out of a medieval fantasy movie. For that matter, Bart himself is a SoulBrotha straight out of TheSeventies (which is when the movie was made), and some members of the posse that show up near the climax include Arabs (complete with a camel), [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels bikers]], and ThoseWackyNazis. And that's ''before'' the GainaxEnding when [[NoFourthWall the characters break into a different movie and then into Hollywood itself]]. |
| 93 | * ''Film/BlueVelvet'' sets itself up as a GenreThrowback to the {{badbutt}} crime and mystery fiction of the 1950s and earlier: movies like ''Film/DaddyO'' or the ''Literature/HardyBoys'' novels, and most of the characters in the movie are appropriately clean-cut and wholesome. The big exception is the villain, Frank Booth, who is the sort of [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] and genuinely psychotic character that would only appear in later crime fiction. He's so (deliberately) out-of-place that the hero, Jeffrey, has a [[HeroicBSOD complete emotional breakdown]] over Frank's existence. |
| 94 | -->Why are there people like Frank? |
| 95 | * Most of the characters in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' appear to have stumbled into a skewed FilmNoir setting from different genres and thus aren't quite sure what movie they're in: |
| 96 | ** The Dude's walked right out of a stoner comedy or a 1960s MediaNotes/NewHollywood-style counterculture flick. |
| 97 | ** Walter acts like he's in a Vietnam drama that chronicles the veteran's [[ShellShockedVeteran harrowing struggle]] to re-acclimatize back into civilian society after everything he's seen and done. |
| 98 | ** The Big Lebowksi, Maude, Jackie Treehorn and Da Fino seem to think and act like they're playing a FilmNoir straight (and even manage to convince Walter of this for a time). |
| 99 | ** The nihilists believe they're in a quirky-but-dark Creator/QuentinTarantino-inspired crime thriller about a gang of eccentric {{Villain Protagonist}}s, and that they're the protagonists in question. |
| 100 | ** From what we see, Bunny apparently thinks she's in a porno. |
| 101 | ** The Jesus is practically OpposingSportsTeam personified. |
| 102 | ** Creator/SamElliott's cowboy character gives the movie a serious-sounding FauxlosophicNarration under the impression that he's in TheWestern. |
| 103 | ** Donny is just an [[TheEveryman ordinary guy]] who thinks he's in a slightly eccentric bowling team but has an otherwise normal life. He's probably the most wrong out of all of them. |
| 104 | * The entire ensemble of characters in ''Film/CocaineBear'' are a quirky, ragtag bunch who wouldn't be out of place in a Creator/CoenBrothers movie, inserted into a HorrorComedy about a bear going on a cocaine-fueled rampage after ingesting several tons of the drug. |
| 105 | * Zelda in ''Film/TheDeadDontDie'' feels more like a quirky character from a campy martial arts flick who inadvertently wandered into a more down-to-earth ZombieApocalypse film, and demonstrates a remarkable ability to kill zombies by the score in ridiculously over-the-top ways. [[spoiler:The ending reveals she's actually an ''alien'' who inadvertently wandered into a zombie film.]] |
| 106 | * ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' has ComicBook/XMen member [[GentleGiant Colossus]] show up and act like a traditional superhero, delivering uplifting speeches and morals and suggest that Deadpool is better than he thinks he is. In, say, a ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' or ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''-style movie, he would probably be TheHero, but since he is trapped in a ''Deadpool'' movie, he is forced to merely act as a foil to all the insanity around him. |
| 107 | %%* Steve the Pirate in ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory''. |
| 108 | * Williams from ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' is a {{Blaxploitation}} character in a MartialArtsFilm. This became a StarMakingRole for his actor, Creator/JimKelly, who went on to do a number of movies that were both blaxploitation ''and'' martial arts. |
| 109 | * Xenk from ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'' is a completely sincere example of ThePaladin: kind, dignified, a powerful fighter, and a wise source of inspiration. However, ''Honor Among Thieves'' — while not a parody — is much more breezy, lighthearted, and sardonic of a fantasy film than whatever serious one Xenk fell out of, consequently turning him into a ParodySue where he's tonally at complete odds with our [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag heroes]], who quickly get annoyed by his straightforward holiness. |
| 110 | * ''Film/FasterPussycatKillKill'': Linda and Tommy are like the lead couple of any beach party movie, thrown into a far grittier genre than what they're used to. Eventually circumstances force Linda to become a proto-FinalGirl. |
| 111 | * The Gecko brothers in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' are characters from a gangster movie who suddenly find themselves in a vampire splatterhouse. Another way to put it is saying they're Creator/QuentinTarantino characters in a Creator/RobertRodriguez film; perhaps not surprisingly, those two filmmakers collaborated on this film. |
| 112 | * ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' has a more serious rendering of this trope. The main character is the half-Indian sidekick of [[TheWestern a Western film]], but he's in ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' (without the war). While this does lead to some [[HilarityEnsues funny moments]], it's mostly used to set up the protagonist as the underdog. |
| 113 | * ''Franchise/JamesBond'': |
| 114 | ** The films ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' and ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' feature Sheriff J.W. Pepper, who feels like he wandered in from a Creator/BurtReynolds comedy. |
| 115 | ** For that matter, ''Live and Let Die'' gave us Mr. Big, who not only feels like he belonged in a Blaxploitation action movie, but has subordinates with hinted-at supernatural powers, which is pretty atypical for a Bond film. |
| 116 | ** Dario from ''Film/LicenceToKill'' looks like he's wandered in off the set of ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. |
| 117 | * The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise is normally a dinosaur-based DisasterMovie franchise. |
| 118 | ** This makes it all the more surprising when the ''[[FlawedPrototype Indoraptor]]'' from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' turns out to be the dinosaur equivalent of a ''GothicHorror monster'', complete with a scene in the film's climax where he howls on a rooftop against the Moon like a werewolf and his tragic origin story as an abused genetic experiment calling to mind mind SciFiHorror stories in the vein of Creator/MaryShelley's ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. He's also stated by the designers to be based on Nosferatu, with the prominent fangs, gangly proportions and red eyes, and overall is basically a slasher-film villain in dinosaur form. |
| 119 | ** Most of the black market characters in the Malta sequence of ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' would fit in a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie (just with the addition of dinosaurs), especially their leader, Soyona Santos, who's a perfect match for your average ''James Bond'' villain and/or FemmeFatale. |
| 120 | * In ''Film/LastActionHero'', one of the ways Danny tries to convince Slater that he's living in a movie universe is pointing out that one of his coworkers is a ''talking cartoon cat''. |
| 121 | * The bumbling comic relief cops from ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'', who clearly belong in a comedy rather than a horror film. |
| 122 | * ''Film/TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob'': Slimane, an AntiHero revolutionary searching for an end to the corruption and instability of his country, and Farès, the leader of a group of agents sent to stop him, would make for a great hero and villain in any action thriller, and act with the seriousness that requires. Unfortunately, they're in a wacky comedy, so Slimane is relegated to being the {{Deuteragonist}} and StraightMan to the far more bumbling and comedic Pivert while Farès is repeatedly humiliated as he ends up in increasingly farcical situations. |
| 123 | * ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'': The characters of Three-Fingered Jack and Captain Harrison Love belong more in a SpaghettiWestern than in a Spanish California {{swashbuckler}} story, although the setting and time of the film (1841) are kind of closer to the era of TheWildWest (1860s-1900). |
| 124 | * The ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series: The plot of the [[Film/{{Predator}} first one]] is "the soldiers from ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' find themselves up against an alien invader". The plot of the [[Film/Predator2 second one]] is "the cops from your favorite action-packed BuddyCopShow go up against an alien from the same species". The effect actually works rather well: watching musclebound, macho action stars [[OutsideGenreFoe confronted with something beyond their comprehension]] really helps sell the horror. The third and fourth movies move away from this concept and lean more heavily on the science fiction aspect, but [[Film/Prey2022 the fifth]] returns to this setup, dropping a Predator into the DawnOfTheWildWest. |
| 125 | * In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' Eddie Brock and Venom count as a downplayed example of this, since while both are based on comic book characters from the superhero genre, their own film series was a SuperheroHorror which is not a genre the MCU had explored at the time the film was released. |
| 126 | * ''Film/{{Stripes}}'' is a ScrewballComedy set in a US Army training camp. However, Sergeant Hulka is a DrillSergeantNasty in the vein of [[Film/FullMetalJacket Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]], and so makes him the only character who's played completely seriously. [[OutOfGenreExperience His scene where he privately chews out Winger feels pretty of place among the slapstick humor]]. Mind you, he's still a DeadpanSnarker like the rest of the film's characters. |
| 127 | * ''Film/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1990}}'' is fairly family-friendly, but Casey Jones wouldn't look out of place in an R-rated vigilante action movie. |
| 128 | * Sam Witwicky from ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' wouldn't look out of place in a high school-based drama or TV show rather then a movie about giant robots fighting each other. |
| 129 | * ''Film/WayOutWest'': Creator/LaurelAndHardy are their normal 1930s selves; all the other characters match the period Western setting. |
| 130 | * ''Film/WrathOfMan'' sees a pissed-off LondonGangster enter and disrupt a heist film. |
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| 133 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 134 | * In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Gunha Sogiita thinks and behaves like a goofy, stereotypical superhero from a Saturday morning cartoon or a {{Sentai}} series. He has the superpowers to match and is pretty good at dealing with mundane crime, but this series is a GambitRoulette of MagicVersusScience, and he's completely oblivious to the conflicts and struggles the real main characters have to deal with. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': In ''Literature/ClublandHeroes'', characters seem to unconsciously realize that [[SuperTeam the Splendid Six]] don't really... "fit". All their missions play out like very badly-written comic stories (Clever Dick only appears intelligent because every non-Cat person around him misses incredibly obvious clues) and somehow they're publicly fighting massive supernatural threats in the same world as the Diogenes Club... which is keeping the existence of supernatural threats secret from the public. |
| 136 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' dares to set its stories in a StandardFantasySetting but focus on characters like cynical, coping-with-addiction policeman Sam Vimes, IntrepidReporter William de Worde, and aspiring film star Victor Tugelbend. It's not uncommon for them to drop lines associated with their home genre, only to wonder where they got that from. |
| 137 | * In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', the first damned soul Dante meets[[note]] besides the benevolent residents of Limbo[[/note]] is a woman who casts herself as the protagonist of a tragic, romantic ballad where her only flaw was loving too much in an unloving world. A poet himself, Dante is moved with sympathy, but context makes it clear our romantic protagonist is just making excuses for cheating on her husband with his brother. |
| 138 | * Quincey P. Morris from ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. Nothing like the presence of an American cowboy in a GothicHorror story set in ''Britain'' to make you go "Say again?" |
| 139 | * [[WackyWaysideTribe Tom Bombadil]] is a BlitheSpirit who migrated into ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' from a series of poems that Creator/JRRTolkien wrote for his children. The characters are completely stumped by it in-universe too. |
| 140 | * The heroine of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/MansfieldPark'' -- Fanny Price, an ExtremeDoormat and ShrinkingViolet modeled from years of unceasing emotional and psychological abuse instead of a SpiritedYoungLady DeadpanSnarker -- has been frequently described (by Creator/CSLewis and others) as "[[UnbuiltTrope a Bronte sisters heroine]] lost in a Jane Austen novel." |
| 141 | * ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' has the personal quirks and erudition of a typical Creator/AgathaChristie detective. However, all the other characters, especially Archie, belong in a tough-talking streetwise Creator/DashiellHammett mystery. |
| 142 | * The ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' is a dingy, morally grey, deeply cynical place. KnightInSourArmor John Tyler and mercenary-with-a-dark-past Suzie fit in fine. But then there's: |
| 143 | ** General Condor, an idealistic and principled starship captain who accidentally got zapped back to our own time. Everyone knows just how out of place he is [[spoiler: and his attempts at reforming the locals get him killed]]. |
| 144 | ** Ms. Fate, a superhero(ine; crossdresser) in a world where even the good guys can't really be called especially heroic. |
| 145 | ** Julien Advent, a heroic gentleman from the Victorian age. |
| 146 | ** John hints that Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (or [[{{Kaiju}} someone similar]]) has rampaged through town once or twice. |
| 147 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' gives us House Stark, who are basically a family of HighFantasy archetypes: stern and honorable patriarch, his strong and devoted MamaBear wife, handsome and passionate WarriorPrince older son, PrincessClassic older daughter, precocious and sensitive younger son, TomboyPrincess younger daughter. They'd be purely the virtuous heroes in a traditional Fantasy story. Unfortunately for them, they're in a {{Realpolitik}}-driven Deconstruction of a traditional Fantasy story, where all their virtues can oftentimes be ''liabilities'': [[spoiler: Eddard's sense of honor compels him to give Cersei time to wrap up her affairs before he reports her infidelities to her husband, and she uses that time to arrange Robert's death and Ned's imprisonment. Catelyn's strong protective instinct causes her to act rashly in defense of her children, almost triggering an already-simmering civil war in the process. Robb's passion and strong will leads him to make major political missteps that contribute to his downfall. Sansa's guilelessness causes her to trust the wrong people. Arya's tomboyish tendencies in a society that will not accept them compel her to flee Westeros entirely. And Bran's precocious nature leads to his near-fatal "accident" that kickstarts the domino effect of many of the events in the first place.]] |
| 148 | * Wakatake of ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'' is a StockShonenHero in a {{Shoujo}} MiddleGradeLiterature series. As an result, he is portrayed as a MoodSwinger, GlorySeeker, and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and his friends' opinion of him is more on the WartsAndAll side. |
| 149 | * Brightlord Sadeas, a character in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', is a Machiavellian schemer who seems to think he's in a LowFantasy story where his plots are the most important thing going on. He'd excel in [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Westeros]] and would do well in other [[Literature/TheCosmere Cosmere]] worlds like [[{{Literature/Mistborn}} Scadrial]]... but he's living on [[EpicFantasy Honor's world]]. |
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| 152 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 153 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Downplayed with Pimento, who does belong in a cop show. However with his dark backstory of having been undercover after twelve years and struggle to adapt to being a normal person again, he seems like a character from a more serious drama who has ended up in a sitcom. |
| 154 | * ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': |
| 155 | ** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 156 | *** The trio of MadScientist wannabe upervillains. After they disable the museum guards with an ice ray and steal a precious diamond, our heroes start searching the ancient tomes for a "frost monster that eats diamonds". |
| 157 | *** Also [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E11Ted Ted]], a seemingly nice guy dating Buffy's mom who reveals a disturbing verbally abusive side. Compared to the demons and vampires he comes off almost like an after-school-special villain. And then we learn he's [[spoiler:a serial killer. And a malfunctioning robot]]. |
| 158 | ** ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 159 | *** Gwen [[MeaningfulName Raiden]]. A character with electrical powers out of a super hero show, in a VampireDetective series. She was completely unaware of the existence of magic, vampires, and demons before she met Angel, thinking Angel was a Mutant like her at first. |
| 160 | *** In Season 5, we met Numero Cinco, who worked in the mailroom at Wolfram and Hart. A retired luchador, he was clearly a pastiche of Wrestling/ElSanto. His sheer incongruity was both unabashed and, since mostly all he did was sort mail, downright hilarious... until his ADayInTheLimelight episode, when it was played more like very dreary drama, in a SpaceWhaleAesop sense. |
| 161 | * A frequent theme in ''Series/DoctorWho'', as a stock premise of stories right from the early days is "just drop the Doctor into [Genre] and see how they respond". A handful of examples: |
| 162 | ** The Doctor themself is often this, due to their slipping-between-worlds nature. They tend to fit in quite well in most sorts of stories, but it's not rare (especially in the Classic series) for them to be the only Mohs/ScienceInGenreOnly element in a hard SF, a GothicHorror, a FairyTale, a WholePlotReference or even a PeriodDrama. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders The Highlanders]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]" are three stories about what happens when you drop a ridiculous fantasy alien into a normal-world setting. |
| 163 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]]" features Astrid and Fariah, both of whom are obviously "''[[Film/JamesBond Bond]]'' girls", and Salamander, who is a ''Bond''-style DiabolicalMastermind. The Doctor is charmed by Astrid but does not seem to enjoy being in the company of this setting at all — he constantly tries to dodge espionage and only agrees to go undercover when absolutely forced. Young, handsome and resourceful Jamie is a bit more at home. |
| 164 | ** TheBrigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is a {{pastiche}} of the StiffUpperLip OfficerAndAGentleman StockCharacter who appeared in every classic British war movie the children watching would have grown up with. |
| 165 | ** Milo Clancey in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E6TheSpacePirates The Space Pirates]]" is a Gold Rush {{prospector}} [[SpaceWestern in a hard sci-fi story]]. This was done mostly for TwilightOfTheOldWest symbolism. |
| 166 | ** Harry Sullivan, according to his creator Creator/TerranceDicks, was supposed to be a ridiculous, over-the-top ''Boy's Own'' adventure hero who had somehow found himself in a ''Doctor Who'' story, being narratively upstaged by the Doctor and not quite able to realise why this is happening to him. He doesn't really scan as this after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]", due to [[DependingOnTheWriter other writers taking his genre quirks more seriously]]. |
| 167 | ** Leela is a character from an Edwardian JungleOpera novel, to go with her GothicLiterature-themed Doctor. She's from a CargoCult worshipping AncientAstronauts (albeit with a twist), uses all of the NobleSavage and NubileSavage tropes and her name is a play on "Leila", the stereotypical name of foreign FemmeFatale characters of TwoFistedTales of this era. She also takes influence from the PygmalionPlot, to the point where she was originally conceived as a Victorian Cockney flower girl. |
| 168 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" is about putting the Doctor and Leela into the roles of Franchise/SherlockHolmes and Dr. Watson and pitting them against characters lifted from Literature/FuManchu stories. |
| 169 | ** Rose Tyler is clearly a character from a '00s SoapOpera who gets sucked into the Doctor's universe. This helped the revival serve as a GatewaySeries to TV family science fiction at a time when the genre was said to be [[DeadHorseGenre dead]] — and had something of a meta concept to it, seeing as the popular family viewing of that era was Soap Opera, {{Game Show}}s and {{Reality Show}}s (which later Ninth Doctor episodes also explore). |
| 170 | ** Martha seems to belong in a MedicalDrama, with her coworkers also being the sort of characters you would expect in that type of show such as a best friend and a mean boss. |
| 171 | ** Donna is the kind of shouty comic grotesque who'd be played in a sketch show by Creator/CatherineTate, although with plenty of HiddenDepths and [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct much better acted than you'd expect]]. |
| 172 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]" drops the Doctor into a Silver Age superhero story, complete with milquetoast Clark Kent pastiche who doubles as a dashing SupermanSubstitute, an IntrepidReporter Lois Lane knockoff, and a group of body-snatching aliens who [[GenreBlind don't seem prepared]] to find themselves in either a superhero story ''or'' an episode of ''Doctor Who''. |
| 173 | * Cyborg in ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'' is basically a conventional superhero who wants to run out and fight crime, in a dark postmodern MindScrew where most of the cast are unstable and dysfunctional. |
| 174 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': |
| 175 | ** Recurring villain Maldis is an EvilSorcerer straight out of a GothicHorror tale in the middle of a SpaceOpera. Other characters even acknowledge that he makes no sense by the series's rules, and Maldis himself finds himself to be intrigued at how armed spaceships like Peacekeeper Command Carriers can advance his power and allow him to just wipe out any opponents with the press of a button. |
| 176 | ** Zhaan herself felt like part of the main cast of an idealistic, ''Franchise/StarTrek''-esque sci-fi show, and tends to believe the best in people and that all conflicts can be resolved at least somewhat peacefully. Of course, in ''Farscape'', ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer. |
| 177 | ** Crichton himself held a similar attitude in the first few episodes of Season One, acting like a Captain Kirk-esque figure who lived in an idealistic universe where most aliens were essentially good, and that the ethical option was always the correct one. After many learning experiences, including a bout of torture by the Peacekeepers, he dropped this attitude and quickly became far more pragmatic (and mentally unstable). |
| 178 | * Signalman is basically a ''Series/MetalHeroes'' protagonist who instead wound up in ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', an AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. Accordingly he's mostly serious despite the goofiness around him, though this doesn't make him any less effective. |
| 179 | %%* The Captain of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. |
| 180 | * ''Series/Halo2022'': The Insurrection is a factional example of this - they're LaResistance mixed with YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters in a series focused upon mankind fighting ScaryDogmaticAliens. While they've always been present in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'''s lore, they're given more focus in Season 1 where the threat of the Covenant is downplayed compared to the equivalent point in the main timeline. Season 2 hammers this in, as all the fighting the Insurrection did on Madrigal is [[spoiler:rendered AllForNothing when the Covenant [[SaltTheEarth glass Madrigal]], [[KillAllHumans killing everyone on planet]]]]. |
| 181 | * In ''Series/TheITCrowd'', the concept is that Douglas Reynholm is a character from a ([[StylisticSuck apparently, shitty]]) {{telenovela}} who happens to have ended up in a {{Britcom}} somehow. Lots of jokes are had at the expense of his [[LargeHam overwrought personality]], which derives from the [[WorldOfHam standard acting style]] of telenovela, but turns him into a batshit insane MoodSwinger amongst the characters doing sitcom-acting. |
| 182 | * InUniverse in ''Series/LifesTooShort'', when Creator/LiamNeeson tries to move from drama to improv comedy, but keeps breaking the flow of the jokes, bringing in topics too dark to be funny, failing to understand how a joke is supposed to work, and generally acting like he's improvising a serious drama. |
| 183 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' usually hews very close to {{Fairy Tale}}s and HeroicFantasy, but season 2 includes Literature/{{Frankenstein}} (and his monster) and season 6 includes [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde]]. They were both dragged out of their ScienceFiction universes by Rumplestiltskin's magic. Dr. Whale, Frankenstein's Storybrooke persona, is very confused and conflicted when the curse breaks and he realizes who he actually is, but ends up integrating happily into Storybrooke. Hyde ([[spoiler: as well as Jekyll]]) on the other hand acts as an OutsideGenreFoe, being able to make plots that people aren't prepared for. |
| 184 | * This is the point of Creator/TheBBC TV film ''Reichenbach Falls'' -- the central character is a DefectiveDetective placed into a much less noir-ish setting. A MindScrew plot with much LeaningOnTheFourthWall ensues in which he gradually escapes from his WrongGenreSavvy. |
| 185 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': One sketch has Creator/NormMacdonald as a typical 1950s [[GreaserDelinquents greaser]] who finds himself in a ''Theatre/WestSideStory''-esque musical and is baffled by his gang members breaking out into songs and dance routines when they're about to deal with a rival gang. |
| 186 | * The second season ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Statue" features a twofer: Rava, a nihilist who hasn't realized she's not in LeFilmArtistique anymore, and her boyfriend, Ray, who won't drop the Shakespearean act -- at least not until Kramer threatens him. |
| 187 | * One episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' showed Sam and Dean encountering Dorothy and the Wicked Witch from ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz''. However it's a downplayed example as Dorothy and the Witch are reimagined to match the tone and style of the show with Dorothy having been part of the Men of Letter, though Oz is shown to be a real place and matches the description in the book. |
| 188 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E26Execution Execution]]" mixes two of the series' most frequently-used genres. In it, an outlaw from a [[TheWestern Western]]-themed ''Twilight Zone'' episode is saved from his own hanging by getting [[FishOutOfTemporalWater pulled into]] a ScienceFiction-themed ''Twilight Zone'' episode by a scientist with a time machine. [[spoiler:He's murdered by a crook planning on robbing the scientist's lab, only to bungle the time machine and be put in the noose the outlaw narrowly escaped.]] |
| 189 | * An episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' has [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra a mailman who acts like he's in a Shakespeare play]]. |
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| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 193 | * ''Manhua/CultivatorAgainstHeroSociety'': The main character, Yan-Sen, is a [[SpiritCultivationGenre Xianxia]] hero trapped in a world where Western Superhero exists, [[spoiler:and he's not the only one]]. |
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| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 197 | * Teenaged cowboy Tex Barton in a few radio episodes of ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 201 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 202 | ** The game features knights, elves, dwarves, dragons, quests, castles... and cowboys? Yes, as it happens. The quasi-deity Murlynd and his paladins are based on TheDrifter from Western movies. |
| 203 | ** The Tarrasque, who feels like something out of a {{Kaiju}} movie. |
| 204 | ** ''Tome of Battle'' helps you build a character who does {{Wuxia}} martial arts. This has also been a historic issue with the Monk class in all versions of the game, being clearly modeled on the [[AllMonksKnowKungFu kung fu monks]] of Creator/ShawBrothers movies in a game that is mostly derived from MedievalEuropeanFantasy tropes. |
| 205 | ** ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'' features a crashed alien spaceship full of robots and such, as do several Blackmoor adventures. |
| 206 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'''s main selling point is GothicHorror, but it dabbles in all horror genres. You can therefore encounter monsters that seemingly do not fit alongside vampires and werewolves, such as the Doppelganger Plant, a plant that abducts people and replaces them with pod people, or Mind Flayers. ''Ravenloft'' also absorbs people from multiple planes, either for temporary adventures or as part of the Dark Powers' habit of absorbing anyone who's crossed the MoralEventHorizon and also every innocent party within half a mile, which can lead to HighFantasy warriors from ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' finding themselves on a {{Magitek}} train from [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} Cyre]]. |
| 207 | * The Jovian Republic in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' are a traditional military sci-fi faction in an anarcho-transhumanist PostCyberpunk setting. They take this about as well as can be expected, to the point where they refuse to associate with the rest of the setting if at all possible because they believe everyone else is a soulless thing using the memories of a dead person. [[StrawmanHasAPoint They may be right.]] |
| 208 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': |
| 209 | ** The Gunslinger, Vigilante, and Investigator classes. Most of ''Pathfinder'' is an amalgamation of traditional vaguely Tolkienesque HighFantasy and pulpier 20th century HeroicFantasy, but the Gunslinger is a refugee from westerns, the Vigilante is a superhero, and the Investigator is a blatant SherlockHomage. |
| 210 | ** The adventure paths also go some pretty strange places. In ''Iron Gods'' the [=NPCs=] include extraterrestrials and absurdly powerful A.I., in ''Strange Aeons'' the players can find themselves visiting a fragment of 18th-19th century Paris that got absorbed into [[EldritchLocation Carcosa]] (yes, [[Literature/TheKingInYellow that one]]), and in ''Reign of Winter'' the player characters ''fight Rasputin in WWI Russia'', none of which are exactly standard environments for fantasy adventurers. ([[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one piece of art in ''Strange Aeons'', which shows BlindSeer Alahazra, clad in her distinctive white-cloak-and-elaborate-underwear fantasy getup, sticking out like a sore thumb at a party where all the other guests are wearing late 19th or early 20th century outfits.) |
| 211 | * ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'': While all of the characters are based on different kinds of comics, some of them are a little weird, generally because they were dug out of older comics in the {{Metafiction}} and given an in-universe ReTool to patch them into the superhero milieu. Chrono-Ranger is the most obvious example; until his cybernetic arm comes out from under the poncho, he is, in appearance and mannerisms, a bounty-hunting Wild West ex-sheriff who happens to be showing up in superhero stories... because he ''was'' a Wild West sheriff until Western comics stopped selling, and he disappeared into publishing limbo until much later writers dug up his back issues and made him a time traveller. |
| 212 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has the Tau Empire, a young, dynamic, and technologically adept alien race on the rise in a universe where every other faction, [[HumanitysWake humanity included]], is sharply on the decline, no longer understands their best technology, and is currently fighting all the others bitterly in an endless HopelessWar. This difference is also reflected in military doctrine. For most factions, warfare has regressed heavily and so close combat and "historical" ways of war are the order of the day; the Tau eschew close combat in favour of laser-precise firepower at extreme range and lots of well-equipped mechanized infantry, i.e. the modern day UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks. In early iterations, they were even an actually "good"-aligned faction in the extremely {{Grimdark}} setting. The Imperium of Man and the Eldar, probably the two most "good" factions previously, are still very xenophobic and awful, while the Tau were willing to incorporate other alien species and generally work together towards the "Greater Good". Eventually it was decided this wasn't [[BlackAndGrayMorality nearly dark enough]], and their lore was expanded to include mind control, brainwashing, forced sterilization, and genocide to put them more in line with other factions, taking them from the idealistic United Federation of Planets from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' to something more like the imperialistic Union of Allied Planets from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 216 | * ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': |
| 217 | ** In any other game, [[HotBlooded Bang]] [[HighlyVisibleNinja Shishigami]] might have been TheHero (and DoggedNiceGuy to Litchi). Here he's [[ButtMonkey treated with no respect]], with his only canon "victory" to date being [[spoiler:using his ''SuperMode'' to flee from [[BigBad Terumi]]]].[[note]]Admittedly, he was escaping with [[CatGirl Taokaka]] and [[KidHero Carl Clover]] after they'd both been beaten to near death rather than showing any cowardice.[[/note]] Things do get better for him in ''Chronophantasma'', [[spoiler:where he manages to [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] and derail the villains' plot in that game, if only temporarily]]. |
| 218 | ** Platinum the Trinity is a MagicalGirl in a DysfunctionJunction of a cast in a CrapsackWorld. If it wasn't for the fact one of the [[MindHive three people]] inhibiting the body was one of the Six Heroes, they would have no plot relevance. Outside appearances, though, none of their personalities plays the trope straight. |
| 219 | * Maria Renard, from the original PC-Engine version of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', looks and acts like an {{Animesque}} CuteWitch in a setting that's ostensibly GothicHorror, with a moveset more akin to a CuteEmUp than anything related to Castlevania. Later games backtrack on this, with ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaTheDraculaXChronicles'' giving her more grounded redesigns. |
| 220 | * Starky from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' is an alien straight out of a fifties B-Movie, whose spaceship inexplicably crashed in an JRPG. |
| 221 | * Nagisa's father Akio in ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' is a HotBlooded SuperRobot protagonist who grew old and had a kid in a SliceOfLife DatingSim setting. He's even a ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' fan. |
| 222 | * ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' has LoveFreak Flonne, who's a hopeless optimist and firm believer in ThePowerOfLove, while in a PowerTrio with two scheming {{Villain Protagonist}}s who revel in their own villainy in the middle of a Netherworld power struggle [[spoiler: though she can eventually teach Laharl mercy and compassion.]] Also, partway through the story, the anachronistic fantasy setting full of angels and demons collides with a sci-fi pastiche setting led by ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' {{Expy}} '''[[CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF THE EARTH!]]'''. |
| 223 | * You can find one or two unexpected people in the post-apocalyptic, radioactive, WeirdScience ScavengerWorld of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 224 | ** The Mechanist and Antagonizer in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' (superheroes, to the embarrassment of the people of Canterbury Commons) |
| 225 | ** Desmond Lockhart, a TuxedoAndMartini superspy from Pre-War days, who has kept up his last assignment (killing DiabolicalMastermind Dr. Calvert) despite becoming an immortal mutated ghoul (and his government no longer existing). |
| 226 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' had Nick Valentine (a robot programmed with the personality of a pre-war HardboiledDetective). |
| 227 | ** Cito, a TarzanBoy [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Mutated Animals]] in the petting zoo of an amusement park currently being taken over by [[TheApunkalypse Raiders]]. |
| 228 | * ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' is set in a DarkFantasy medieval european world heavily inspired by Greek and Norse mythology, and most of the worlds and characters look the part - except for a few characters that come from the 'Land of Reeds', a not-so-subtle nod at Sengoku-era Japan with straw hats, o-yoroi style samurai armor and all kinds of Katanas, and even one of the starting classes is Samurai. |
| 229 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 230 | ** Most of the cast of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' are traditional JRPG cast members, although fairly original and [[{{Deconstruction}} dysfunctional]] takes on each archetype -- with the exception of Vincent Valentine, a walking homage to horror films. He's encountered in a coffin in the basement of a stereotypical Film/HammerHorror-style mansion, he has a [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] (Lucretia), his rival is a MadScientist, and he's able to transform into four monsters, each based on a different horror genre (Galian Beast is dark fantasy, Death Gigas is a gothic FrankensteinsMonster, Hellmasker is a SlasherMovie villain and Chaos is a CosmicHorror character). In earlier drafts he was supposed to be a FilmNoir-style detective, and following that, an {{Expy}} of Agent Mulder from ''Series/TheXFiles'', and the elements of those which remain in his eventual character make him stand out as even odder in the cast. |
| 231 | ** As the franchise has developed significantly in terms of its themes and complexity over the years, the games often play with RevisitingTheRoots: |
| 232 | *** Laguna, Kiros and Ward in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', whose storyline takes place in the past, are intended as homages to the casts of SNES ''FF'' games, with minimal backstory and simpler characterisation that is largely PlayedForLaughs. In a meta example of IHatePastMe, the modern-day timeline characters, with significantly more psychologically complex writing, are shocked and embarrassed by how childish Laguna is. |
| 233 | *** Ardyn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' is an InternalHomage to Creator/YoshinoriKitase's villains in a setting otherwise plastered with Creator/TetsuyaNomura's {{Creator Thumbprint}}s, and feels quite out of place. |
| 234 | *** Much of the humour of ''VideoGame/MobiusFinalFantasy'' is based on the idea of a stereotypical Creator/KazushigeNojima-style hero (a moody, adolescent DeadpanSnarker with NinetiesAntiHero elements) being recruited to save a world mostly based on the setting of the original NES ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy''. He reacts to things like Moogles and Faeries with pessimism and sarcasm. |
| 235 | * Arthur from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is effectively an American comic-book superhero in a medieval-fantasy setting. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': In a series all about mythology and gods, Mimir stands out as he's heavily implied to be [[spoiler:Puck from ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', a Shakespeare play.]] |
| 237 | ** The Travellers, large and tough enemies who each constitute a MiniBoss, armored in medival steel armor, who are never explained and come across as mid-level enemies from a [[Creator/FromSoftware Soulsborne]] game. |
| 238 | ** Kratos himself is a refugee from a classic Greek Tragedy who wandered into a Norse Saga. There are even a few moments of culture shock, such as when he's [[spoiler: In Helheim to find something to help heal Atreus]] and reacts with confusion when he learns that Nordic culture considers it dishonorable for someone die of old age. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/{{Mafia|TheCityOfLostHeaven}}'': |
| 240 | ** ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' is like a gangster film done by Creator/MartinScorsese, showing a gritty ex-soldier in a sordid neighborhood being lured into a life of crime by the promise of wealth, status, and glamor. Then in Act II, Vito and Joe meet some GreaserDelinquents straight out of 50s Teensploitation. To underscore it, Joe seems baffled upon meeting them, and they in turn clearly [[WrongGenreSavvy did not understand how far out of their league they were]] when they damaged Joe's car. |
| 241 | ** Vito also doesn't quite seem to fit in ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'', which is more about 1960s stick-it-to-the-man Blaxploitation. Justified in that case; he's not only significantly older than most of the main cast, he's a FishOutOfWater who refuses to tone down his Big Apple mannerisms to match the Deep South environment. |
| 242 | * The whole premise of ''VideoGame/MarioTheMusicBox'' is putting the famously cheerful and lighthearted [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Bros.]] into an ExplorerHorror setting that WordOfGod confirmed was inspired by ''VideoGame/CorpseParty''. Needless to say, considering that such setting lacks powerful Fire Flowers and relatively comical Boos, neither of them take it well. |
| 243 | * While ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' has its share of [[FantasyKitchenSink bizarre characters from all over the place]], the one playable character that sticks out is [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], an unpowered (but very determined) lawyer who would otherwise have no business in a cast full of superheroes, supervillains, superpowered martial artists, gods, demons, mutants, monsters, eldritch abominations and more. What's more, [[WrongGenreSavvy Phoenix seems to think he's in court, confused as to why fireballs are being slung at him]]. |
| 244 | * The Coven from ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm''. They're in the background constantly saving the day, fighting villains and retrieving [=MacGuffins=], acting very much like they're in an UrbanFantasy teen drama like ''Series/Charmed1998'' or ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Every other character is more interested in the absurdist black comedy dating sim already in progress. |
| 245 | ** Aaravi/The Slayer as well, only ''she's'' in the middle of an old-school, hack-and-slash, RPG, trying to min-max her stats and equipment. |
| 246 | * [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} John Rambo]] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' sticks out among the [[GuestFighter Guest Fighters]] in the series in that he's from an ordinary Earth from a series with no supernatural or sci-fi elements to speak of, rendering him a pure BadassNormal. A lot of his quotes express how visibly confused he is at the MK world. |
| 247 | * The [[DualBoss Brothers]], who have cartoonish features and talk and dress like stereotypical outlaws from the Old West, would've been far more fitting for ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'' than a futuristic {{Cyberpunk}} setting like ''VideoGame/PerfectDarkZero''. |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'': While the [=PvZ=] franchise (a light-hearted HorrorComedy for the most part) had explored various settings through TimeTravel (TheWildWest, the Dark Ages, TheFuture, etc.) a few characters stick out by not being from any previously established setting: |
| 249 | ** Agent Pea, who's a TuxedoAndMartini spy in the form of a Peashooter. |
| 250 | ** [[PlantAliens Alien Flower]], who is the first alien seen in the franchise. While the series had delved into light sci-fi before, aliens and outer space were rarely a factor. |
| 251 | ** [[SupermanSubstitute Super Brainz]], who was an oddity as the only costumed superhero in his debut game, ''Garden Warfare 2'', but fits like a glove in ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes Heroes]]'', a SpinOff dedicated to the superhero genre. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/ShoujoKidan'': The omake stars the SwordAndSorcerer duo of AAAAAA, a stock JRPG hero, and BBBBBB, his snarky witch sidekick. Their [[ClusterFBomb profanity-riddled reactions]] to the ExplorerHorror genre they ended up in help with [[SillinessSwitch setting the more comedic tone their scenario has]]. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': The bulk of the playable cast are entities from real world ancient mythologies and religions. Then the developers added the Great Old Ones of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos to the game, which originated from a bunch of horror books written in the early 20th century. |
| 254 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 255 | ** Cream the Rabbit is a cute character in a series based on aggressively racing to the end of the stage in the best time possible. She would be less out of place in an UltraSuperHappyCuteBabyFestFarmer3000. |
| 256 | ** Princess Elise from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' looks much more like a character from a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game than a ''Sonic'' one. Her overly realistic character design, reminiscent of the former's female leads, looks ''incredibly'' jarring next to the heavily stylized FunnyAnimal Sonic in one of the starkest examples of RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies. |
| 257 | ** [[OmnicidalManiac With a high death toll exceeding at least septillions]] and being an EldritchAbomination, [[spoiler: THE END]] would fit better in more mature/seinen-geared games like ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' or ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. Instead it's stuck in the optimistic ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''. |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': |
| 259 | ** The games have a pretty eclectic roster to begin with, but among the knights, demons, ninjas, and samurai that make up the rest of the cast, Voldo comes across like the antagonist of some bizarre SlasherMovie, as his design is explicitly meant to be unsettling. |
| 260 | ** Z.W.E.I from ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'' is basically a shonen anime character stuck in the Soulcalibur universe. He visually looks like he came from a modern JRPG, while his fighting style is based heavily around his use of a ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''-style assist character. Viola from the same game counts to a lesser extent, as her fighting style is based entirely around magic, making her much more of a straight up HighFantasy character in comparison to the more subdued magic use of the other cast members. |
| 261 | ** Groh from ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI'' reads like if a party member from a contemporary ''Final Fantasy'' game somehow got stuck in a ''Soulcalibur'' game. Not only does he work for a secret society that inexplicably uses extremely futuristic technology in the 16th century, he looks like an anime character and uses extremely flashy combos that wouldn't look out of place in ''Final Fantasy XV''. |
| 262 | * Captain Martin Walker from ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' starts off as a standard issue ActionGenreHeroGuy who seems to think he's in a ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' or ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' style straightforward military shooter, when he's actually in a DarkerAndEdgier WarIsHell deconstruction of such. [[spoiler: This results in him making numerous stupid decisions due to assuming ItsUpToYou is in play and getting everyone in the story killed.]] |
| 263 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': In a series filled with [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing cartoony]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry animals]], [[Franchise/FireEmblem anime-like]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII swordsmen]], [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} oddball]] [[Franchise/StarFox aliens]], [[Franchise/StreetFighter martial]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury artists]] and [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} vampire hunters]] with exaggerated designs, [[VideoGame/KidIcarus supernatural]] [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} forces]], [[Franchise/MegaMan futuristic]] [[VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy robots]], [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} squid-human hybrids]], and a [[Platform/GameAndWatch two-dimensional pixel man]], [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]] stands out as being the only "realistic" humanoid to be featured within the games as a playable fighter (though his home franchise was never shy about being both [[{{Bathos}} serious and silly]]). This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in his Codecs, where he often finds himself bewildered by the opponents he's facing. |
| 264 | * ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'': [[TagalongKid Rhin]] is a protagonist from a children's adventure book that has wandered into a {{HeroicFantasy}} world. A runaway from another world, she breaks several of the game's rules. Her [[FantasyCharacterClasses Type]] is listed as child, giving her abysmal stats and no real combat abilities. If she leaves the party she can't be found again, and presumably dies. And at higher levels she enters {{GameBreaker}} territory, since she can spam [[AppliedPhlebotinum Cyphers]] , incredibly powerful {{LostTechnology}} that is single use for everyone else in the setting. |
| 265 | * Towards the end of ''VideoGame/WelcomeToBummertown'', as if the game weren't broken enough already, you run into a monster from a violent fantasy video game who got glitched into this one by accident. |
| 266 | -->'''Workman:''' You're not a local, are you?\ |
| 267 | '''Buramog:''' Is it that obvious? |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Sir Guillaume de Launfal from the ''Blood And Wine''-DLC seems to have missed the memo about this being a gritty LowFantasy with BlackAndGrayMorality, and plays the KnightInShiningArmor awe-inspiringly straight. [[spoiler: Play your cards right, and Guillaume can make it work, and be one of few characters in the franchise to get an uncomplicatedly happy ending.]] |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Out of all the characters in the game, [[FallenHero Jin]] sticks out the most because he's effectively a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' protagonist in the role of [[BigBad a villain]], in terms of his physical design (by Creator/TetsuyaNomura, no less), temperament, backstory, and personality. Simply put, he wouldn't look out of place next to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], [[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus Vincent]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]], or even [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]]. This shouldn't be surprising, however, given that Creator/TetsuyaNomura handled the character designs. |
| 270 | * Kazuma Kiryu from ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''. Kiryu is essentially the poster boy for the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster romantic ideal of a Yakuza]]; basically a modern-day rogue samurai who "keeps crime clean" and stands outside the law in order to protect the innocent from those who would use their power to prey on them. Unfortunately for Kiryu, the Yakuza games have a far more realistic and cynical take on the Yakuza. It's actually this clash between Kiryu's ideals and the harsh reality of what a Yakuza is that fuels a lot of the conflict in the franchise, and also the reason that Kiryu spends the vast majority of the games not in the Yakuza. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 274 | * ''WebAnimation/AngelHare'': [[spoiler: Angel Zag]] is a PrivateDetective character from a kid's animated FilmNoir series, with all of the baggage and skill that entails. When his friend Gabby goes missing, he's forced to take over her job; host of a kid's EdutainmentShow. Every scene he's working this job (up until he clues in that he's BeingWatched), he's clearly bored to tears. |
| 275 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Psycho Man ''thinks'' he is in a serious action series, but soon realizes that he's part of a comedy series with NoFourthWall. |
| 276 | * ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Charlie is basically a Franchise/DisneyPrincess in Hell. She's idealistic, she's perky, she treats her day-to-day life like she's in a musical. The problem is instead of being the ruler of an idyllic medieval kingdom, she's the ruler of an urban cesspool of crime and sin. Not helping is how the denizens of Hell only give her the bare minimum of respect and attention at best. |
| 277 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': General James Ironwood act like a character that would be at home in ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' or ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'', where BlackAndGreyMorality are in play and it's sometimes necessary to ShootTheDog; in such a setting, he would probably be the BigGood he thinks he is, but in the {{Animesque}} world of Remnant, where ThePowerOfFriendship is the dominant narrative force, his actions make him an AntiHero at best, and [[spoiler: ultimately turn him into a LawfulEvil villain in the end]]. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 281 | * ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', a comedic retelling of ''Star Wars'' where the characters are being played by some rather zany tabletop gamers, throws a few curveballs into the space fantasy setting: |
| 282 | ** Darth Maul gets reimagined as a FilmNoir HardboiledDetective type. |
| 283 | ** The Polis Massans who assist Padmé in childbirth talk like overblown "General Hospital"-style soap opera characters. |
| 284 | ** Dex, the amiable owner of an inexplicably '50s-Americana Diner, was already this in the films, but it's heavily lampshaded here. |
| 285 | * ''Webcomic/ComicBookSNAFU'' is a superhero story that is also a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. Many of the characters involved are out of place in this setting, including: |
| 286 | ** [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Aki Izayoi]], a telekinetic from a card game-themed show. |
| 287 | ** [[Manga/FairyTail Gajeel Redfox]], a BloodKnight KungFuWizard from a shounen series. |
| 288 | * ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'': Most of the characters fit the Medieval Fantasy setting (whether western or eastern-inspired), but Street Samurai is clearly from a much more {{Cyberpunk}} universe. |
| 289 | * The people of Cliffport in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. It's a very steampunk/modern setting in a world that otherwise ''tries'' to be aesthetically medieval. There are even airships and thinly-veiled ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' characters, who keep shooting our heroes dirty looks. There's also some wacky PoliceProcedural cliché cops. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 293 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': |
| 294 | ** "The Sweaters" has Darwin and Gumball meet [[OpposingSportsTeam the bully antagonists from a typical sports movie]], who [[SelectiveObliviousness refuse to accept]] that the brothers are not trying to compete with them in any way (and also [[NonStandardCharacterDesign look terribly out of place]] with [[OutdatedOutfit stereotypical '80s clothing]] and ''Speed Racer''-esque character designs). However, ''nearly everyone else'' suddenly starts acting like they're in a sports movie as well, so [[OnlySaneMan Gumball and Darwin]] [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand are the ones who end up feeling like strangers]]. |
| 295 | ** "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E4TheOthers The Others]]" is about a student at Elmore Junior High named Clare trying to live her life as if it's an angsty teen drama. [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Her attempts at drama are always foiled]], if not by [[HostileShowTakeover Darwin and Gumball trying to make themselves the center of attention]], then by the omnipresent weirdness and silliness that she is oblivious to. She even insists that she does not "live in some amazing magic wonderland" which is exactly what [[WorldOfWeirdness Elmore]] ''is''. |
| 296 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', newspaper reporters Paige Sinclair and Maximilian Banks dress and act as though they're from the classic [[ScrewballComedy Screwball Comedies]] of the 1930s and 1940s. Paige takes it even further by acting as though she really ''is'' [[BornInTheWrongCentury from the 1930s or 1940s]], despite the series being set in the 2010s. |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': Horse is quite literally a refugee from a grim DarkFantasy world who [[TrappedInAnotherWorld ends up stuck in Centaurworld]], a much sillier, more colorful and more optimistic SugarBowl (though this world [[CrapsaccharineWorld still has its darker side]]). One promotional poster shows Horse as a knight piece from a chess game on a ''TabletopGame/CandyLand'' board, emphasizing how out of place she is in Centaurworld. |
| 298 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': |
| 299 | ** Eliza Maza had her hands rather full with being a typical CopShow NYPD detective before she stumbled onto the Clan's UrbanFantasy world. Some episodes still revolve around her solving ordinary crimes, though; these often involves Broadway taking her place as the refugee, trying to play FilmNoir detective. |
| 300 | ** ConspiracyTheorist Matt Bluestone has it worse, since he belongs in ''Series/TheXFiles''. |
| 301 | ** Nokkar is an alien. From a big ol' SpaceOpera setting featuring an epic war between two starfaring races, and an AncientAstronauts reveal. He was intended to set up a spin-off, but as it never came to be, he stands out as the only part of the series to even have a connection to space travel. |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': |
| 303 | ** Captain Black belongs in a typical spy thriller, but when the poor guy calls in his old AdventurerArchaeologist friend from school to help track down some art smugglers, he's swept up in a martial arts fantasy full of wizards and demons. Jackie gets the tables turned on him when he has to sub for Black's best agent, "Tag Stone". |
| 304 | ** Hak Foo is essentially a ''Franchise/DragonBall'' character in the wrong show, with gigantic muscles, [[AnimeHair spiky hair]], and frequent CallingYourAttacks. He's a fierce fighter, but otherwise pretty ridiculous and PlayedForLaughs -- his CallingYourAttacks is excessive ''even by anime standards''. |
| 305 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' involving all sorts of Halloween creatures also has a random gnome (of the lawn variety) mingling with them. |
| 306 | * Coop and Jamie in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. The entire show seems to be building up to a dramatic anime-inspired show about an idealistic Mecha pilot fighting evil aliens... until a time warp puts a giant robot in the hands of two suburban BuddyPicture misfits. |
| 307 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 308 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" gives us Hank Scorpio, a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' villain who happens to be a BenevolentBoss instead of the typical BadBoss of said franchise. His attempt at an evil plan that appears onscreen never meddles with Homer's own plot, and if anything Homer actually [[NiceJobBreakingItHero helps him accomplish his goal]]. |
| 309 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E18HomerVsTheEighteenthAmendment Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment]]" gives us Rex Banner, the federal agent who's sent in to enforce Springfield's dry law when Wiggum can't. He's a copycat of Robert Stack's interpretation of Elliot Ness from the old ''Series/TheUntouchables'' TV series, and definitely would have had a better chance of thriving in a production done during the days of the Hays Code rather than the super-corrupt and incompetent CrapsackWorld that is Springfield. |
| 310 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E13SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaAnnoyedGruntcious Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious]]" has Sherry Bobbins, who is a full-blown {{Expy}} of ''Film/MaryPoppins'' with the numbers filed off (which is actually lampshaded). She is perfectly capable of doing the typical stunts of a MagicalNanny and even manages to convert the Simpsons (and, hell, even ''Mr. Burns'') into acting incredibly nice for a while, like any other plot with this kind of character... and then the third-act twist happens and the Simpsons' dysfunctions override everything she's taught them, driving her to alcoholism because they are just ''that'' horrible. |
| 311 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 312 | ** The recurring Creepy Old Guy acts like the MrExposition from a ''Creator/StephenKing''-esque macabre story. |
| 313 | ** Many episodes were basically "drag the boys into a (insert movie genre) movie and make the characters from it as cliché as possible". Creator/RolandEmmerich-esque {{Disaster Movie}}s are a frequent template. |
| 314 | ** The entire supporting cast of the A-Plot of "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E2Asspen Asspen]]" is straight out of an Eighties "[[SavingTheOrphanage Save the Orphanage]] ExtremeSportsPlot" film, and the main RunningGag is that Stan (who's not a good skier) insists he doesn't wants anything to do with their plot but none of them want to hear it. |
| 315 | --->'''Stan:''' Who are you people? |
| 316 | * Every villain from ''WesternAnimation/SpyGroove'' relies on cartoonish {{Zany Scheme}}s, has an outlandish motive and ridiculous FreudianExcuse, and acts comically over the top. That is except for hired goon Rock Debris, who does ''none'' of these things and is instead a fairly mundane villain who would be right at home in ''Franchise/DieHard'' or ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries the Bourne series]]'', being an unremarkable gaunt man in a suit who sets explosives for money. The closest thing he has to a FreudianExcuse is he's good at what he does and enjoys his job, and the closest thing he has to a quirk is being TheComicallySerious in an insane world. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' introduced Bishop (and he's since become semi-regular in other TMNT media). One of TheMenInBlack, his sci-fi elements were dramatically darker and more conspiratorial than the campy stuff usually featured on the series. |
| 318 | * Nanosec, the Angry Archer, Professor Princess, and Slo-Mo are all supervillains who wouldn't be out of place of a lighthearted superhero cartoon, and they are indeed in one... except their series is ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', where they play supporting roles to the giant robotic Cybertronians once they show up. |
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