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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/GrittyReboots?feature=watch Gritty Reboots]] is a series of videos where various stories are re-imagined in the style of DarkerAndEdgier movie trailers.

So far, Gritty Reboots has done:
* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' (more specifically ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'')
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap''
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
* ''Literature/GoodnightMoon''
* ''Creator/{{PBS}}'' (AKA ''Creator/{{PBS}}'' Meets ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'')
* ''Platform/XboxOne'': A Space Odyssey
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
* ''Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie''
* ''VideoGame/DontStarve''

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!! These videos provide examples of:

* ActionizedSequel:
** More like an Actionized Adaptation, if the ''Pokémon Snap'' trailer was actually the movie of the game as the trailer implies, it is a ''lot'' more action-filled than ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'' was.
** ''Adventure Time'' and ''Calvin and Hobbes'' play this straighter.
* AdaptationalCurves: The ''Harvest Moon'' trailer features Ann played by a well-endowed actress ([[ActingForTwo who also plays the other female characters]]). In the actual game, Ann is notably petite.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Karen in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer is a lot more rude than in the actual game. She [[CompositeCharacter acts more]] like her ''Harvest Moon 64'' character than her ''Back to Nature''/''Friends of Mineral Town'' version.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Invoked and PlayedForLaughs in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer by making the Mayor the protagonist's GayOption, complete with his name being listed along with the protagonist's canonical {{Love Interest}}s.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In ''Goodnight Moon'', the Old Woman is a creepy humanoid, rather than a bunny.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Invoked to Mary in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer. In the actual game, she's a ShrinkingViolet and genuine NiceGirl. Here, she's heavily implied to be a {{Yandere}} and is ''clearly'' a StalkerWithACrush.
** The Old Woman in "Goodnight Moon" is depicted as a creepy, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire-esque]] [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange humanoid]] figure of mystery who menaces the protagonist.
* AdaptationNameChange: Inverted in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer where Mayor Thomas is actually addressed/called/named [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Mayor]].
* AgeLift: The 10-17 year old Finn is an adult in the ''Adventure Time'' trailer.
* AlienGeometries: In ''Goodnight Moon'', the protagonist looks out the window of the room he's trapped in, and sees... himself, looking out the window, from the POV of the dollhouse which is in the room with him.
* AnyoneCanDie: Given the series' premise, this isn't surprising, but ''Adventure Time'' is especially noteworthy; Lady Rainicorn, Lumpy Space Princess and Peppermint Butler are DeadToBeginWith, Princess Bubblegum is slowly dying and Lemongrab is killed onscreen by Finn.
* AscendedMeme: The ''PBS'' trailer focuses on some of their central TV personalities teaming up to combat reality TV and give kids some real education. Shortly afterwards, PBS station Thirteen put up a [[http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/ads-pbs-station-invent-ludicrous-fake-reality-shows-youd-still-probably-watch-149888 series of subway ads]] deriding reality television and telling viewers to support quality TV. [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Coincidence? We think NOT!]]
* CanonForeigner: The ''Harvest Moon'' trailer features a [[TheRival rival character]] for the protagonist who is not present in the actual game.
* CrapsackWorld:
** The Land of Ooo in ''Adventure Time'' has become this, with the residents suffering and dying as a result of rapidly diminishing magic.
** The heroes in ''PBS'' are prompted to assemble after seeing the world become less and less intelligent and willing to learn.
* CrisisCrossover: ''PBS'' is one for... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin PBS]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: The central premise.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Karen from ''Harvest Moon'' hates eggs and milk enough to smash them against the ground when she gets both as gifts.
* EldritchLocation: The room in ''Goodnight Moon'' is this. It's full of bizarre objects such as toy phones and dead cats, the pictures on the walls move, and when the protagonist looks out the window, he sees that it's a room in a dollhouse... a dollhouse which is ''[[AlienGeometries inside]]'' the room, so when he looks out the window, [[MindScrew he can see himself looking out the window...]]
* EverythingIsTryingToKillYou: Over the course of the ''Calvin and Hobbes'' trailer, Calvin is attacked or menaced a collapsing floor in his bedroom, monsters under the bed, oatmeal, dinosaurs, a mirror, killer snow goons, out-of-control plane and trains, and his own imagination.
* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: [[spoiler:Charizard smashes through the Pokémon Snap logo in its trailer, as it flies.]]
* {{Grimmification}}: Done with children's books like ''Goodnight Moon'' and ''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie''.
* HeroicSacrifice: What Finn intends to do in the "Adventure Time" trailer--detonating the Mushroom Bomb to bring the magic back, knowing full well that it will kill him and everyone else in the process.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Hobbes tells Calvin this when they wonder if the Devil is real.
* HumanPopsicle: Marceline is frozen in the Ice King's fortress in the ''Adventure Time'' trailer, with the implication that Ice King put her there himself for some reason.
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Calvin's imagination has gotten so powerful over the years that it can manifest itself in real life, which is not a good thing as it is angry at Calvin for outgrowing it.
* ItCanThink: Calvin's imagination in ''Calvin and Hobbes''. It has gotten so powerful that it's basically alive--not only that, but it ''knows'' Calvin's growing out of it...and it's ''[[VillainousBreakdown mad]]''.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: What Calvin and Susie have to do to get Hobbes back in the "Calvin and Hobbes" trailer.
* LogoJoke: Sometimes the trailers will feature parodies of famous {{Vanity Plate}}s:
** In the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer, the Gritty Reboots logo parodies the logo of Creator/FocusFeatures, complete with a blurred "R" in "Gritty" replacing the blurred "O" in "Focus".
** The ''Pokémon Snap'' trailer has a Gritty Reboots parody of the Creator/{{Universal}} logo.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The main conflict of the ''Adventure Time'' adaptation--the magic is fading from Ooo and in the process all the magical people are dying.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: ''PBS'' brings together Creator/CarlSagan, [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]], Creator/BobRoss, and [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]].
* MindScrew: The ''Goodnight Moon'' trailer is made of this.
* MilestoneCelebration: [[invoked]] Parodied in the ''Pokémon Snap'' trailer with "Celebrate the 14th anniversary"!
* MythologyGag: The ''Harvest Moon'' trailer has Karen and the protagonist Pete name-drop as many titles in the game as they can.
-->'''Karen:''' You're that city boy trying to get [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature back to nature]]? It's [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife a wonderful life]] out here.\\
'''Pete:''' Just trying to [[VideoGame/HarvestMoonSaveTheHomeland save the homeland]].
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: In ''Calvin and Hobbes'', Calvin makes good on [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/25 his promise to torch the monsters.]]
-->'''Monster''': [[TemptingFate You have a flamethrower?]]\\
'''Calvin''': (Summons a green [[KamehameHadouken fireball]]) [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Close enough.]] ([[KillItWithFire Torches the monsters.]])
* TheOner: ''If You Give A Mouse A Cookie''.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Old Woman who shushes the protagonist in ''Goodnight Moon'' looks very much like a vampire.
* OutOfFocus: Elli and Ann are rarely shown in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer despite being prominent {{Love Interest}}s in the game. They, along with Mary, also do not have any lines, but at least Mary [[StalkerWithACrush appears prominently]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mineral Town's Mayor seems to be this in the ''Harvest Moon'' trailer.
* SkepticNoLonger: Possibly Princess Bubblegum in the ''Adventure Time'' trailer--at the time at least, Princess Bubblegum's canon counterpart didn't believe in magic. Here, the world slowly coming to a creeping end as the magic fades clearly changed her tune.
* UnnamedParent: Pete is outright introduced to the town as "Grandpa's Grandson". Grandpa's ''gravestone'' says "Here Lies Grandpa".
* VisualPun: "What do they got in there? A Rhydon?" [[spoiler: The protagonist of Pokémon Snap says this as he rides into the Pokelogical Reserve.]]
* WholePlotReference:
** ''Xbox One'' is this for ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
** ''PBS'' takes its cues from ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.
** The main premise of ''Pokémon Snap'' and several scenes from it reference ''Film/JurassicPark''.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Calvin has trouble with this, in the ''Calvin and Hobbes'' trailer. But as Suzy points out, maybe he wants what he imagines to be real...
* YouWakeUpInARoom: This happens to the protagonist in ''Goodnight Moon''.