History DeconstructedTrope / WesternAnimation

* ''DeconstructedTrope/BatmanBeyond''

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019''
** Deconstructs AllGirlsWantBadBoys. Harley Quinn's initially attracted to the Joker because of his dangerous and unique aesthetic, but she eventually finds out that his violent and uncaring nature extends to her as well.
** Deconstructs ButForMeItWasTuesday. The Penguin kills employees so often that when a transformed Clayface replaces the real waiter, he instantly believes the story that he killed Jeffery despite knowing the guy by name and Clayface's nervous hesitation. His casual dismissal that it " Does sound like [me]" shows how he can't fact check something that should be important.
** Deconstructs CardCarryingVillain. Queen of Fables (Tsaritsa) uses being a bad guy as an excuse to do ''horrible'' actions and, thanks to her "villains don't give a fuck" mentality, feels absolutely ''no'' remorse for any of it. What's worse, she seems to feel that this level of extremism is ''the only way'' to make it as a villain.
** Deconstructs ChaoticStupid. Having [[spoiler:taken down the Joker]] and Gotham being left in ruins, Harley Quinn has the perfect chance to rise up as the top villain and completely take control of the city. Instead, she chooses to indulge in the ApocalypseAnarchy and outright refuses to bring back organized crime because she loathes any form of order. The result is that the Injustice League traps her in ice when she refuses to share rulership over Gotham with them and Harley ends up regretting not taking the city for herself sooner. [[spoiler: It's also part of the reasoning why Ivy rejects Harley's advances; she loves being friends with Harley, but Harley's too wild and short-sighted for a long term relationship.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'':
** Black Canary rarely uses her [[SuperScream Canary Cry]] in this show, and the few times she attempts a sustained Cry, it leaves her exhausted and out of breath. Screaming puts a lot of stress on a person's lungs and vocal cords. It is for this reason that Canary FightsLikeANormal, instead.
** The final season deconstructs HiddenAgendaVillain with Gorilla Grodd, who assembles the supervillains of the DCAU into an effective coalition and gathers resources for his EvilPlan, [[spoiler:which is to turn all people on Earth into gorillas]]. Lex Luthor points out the silliness in such plan, and no one in the Secret Society bats an eyelash when Lex shoots Grodd in the face and usurps leadership.

* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': deconstructs BecauseYouWereNiceToMe. Eddie Felson met Daisy Watkins at science summer camp. He developed a crush on her because she was the only person at the camp that was kind to him. However his crush on her become an unhealthy obsession, with him stalking her and stealing luxury items to give to her. What made it worse was it was implied from Daisy's reaction to seeing him again and from the way she talked about him is that she did not like him even as a friend and whatever kindness she ever showed him was out of pity.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''
** "Apprentice: Part 1" deconstructs JustBetweenYouAndMe. It looks like Slade suffers a bad case of BondVillainStupidity when he randomly announces to the Titans his plans of detonating a Chronotron bomb, even giving them time to save the day. It turns out Slade is fully aware of Robin's paranoiac obsession with catching him and the Titans' ChronicHeroSyndrome. Unfortunately the heroes bite the bait and the time bomb turns out to be a fake, leading to them being infected with deadly nanobots, while Robin is forced to become his apprentice if he doesn't want to watch his teammates suffer a gruesome death.
** "The Beast Within" deconstructs DudeWheresMyRespect. It's clearly shown during the fight against Adonis that Beast Boy has deep anger issues because of the lack of appreciation from the other Titans, and during the fight all of his repressed anger goes out and he totally curb stomps Adonis, much to the shock of the other Titans. His anger only gets worse until he (apparantly) puts Raven into a coma.
** "Troq" deconstructs NobleBigot. Barring Starfire, Val-Yor genuinely liked the other Titans and is trying to stop an evil alien race, but that doesn't stop them from losing respect for him once they realize his racism. Unlike in every other VerySpecialEpisode where the racist's life is saved by a member of the group they are prejudiced against, learns the error of their ways and changes for the better, Starfire saving his life didn't make Val-Yor any less of a racist than he was at the start of the episode.
** "Stranded" deconstructs SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. Starfire is so upset at Robin's mixed signals that she is unable to use her powers (which are driven in part by emotional clarity). He first chalks it up to her not understanding what a girlfriend is, but she demonstrates that she understands perfectly.
** "Lightspeed" deconstructs BadPowersBadPeople. Jinx explains to Kid Flash that when you're walking bad luck, it's a lot easier to be a villain than a hero because others will think you're a villain anyway.

* A whole episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' is dedicated to deconstruct SuperStrength. The puny guy who steals Juggernaut's powers... [[TheChewToy promptly ruins his own life]] by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor becoming an unintentionally-destructive human demolition crew]]. He doesn't get better until losing said powers and having them restored to their owner... who, by the way, needs these powers to actually ''survive''.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' deconstructs the KidHero into ChildSoldiers by showing just how brutal trying to fight the same battles that the big league heroes could be. In one episode the team was left so traumatized that they had to get counseling just to deal with the ordeal they have went through during a botched training simulation. Then come the timeskip we see the majority of the group being reduced to nothing more than shell shocked veterans and unlike the comics death is played very straight as several members of the team actually die in field missions. Greg sends the message loud and clear that saving the world and fighting bad guys isn't all fun and games.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPicture'' deconstructs AmusingInjuries in a hard way, in which Eddy receives [[spoiler: a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from his older brother.]] It's deconstructed here because Eddy reacts as if he's seriously hurt and the kids (even Kevin and Sarah) react with fear. [[spoiler: Not to mention the reveal that this is how his brother ''always'' treated him.]]

* The WesternAnimation/{{Ed Edd N Eddy|s Big Picture Show}} finale movie deconstructs AmusingInjuries in a hard way, in which Eddy receives [[spoiler: a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from his older brother.]] It's deconstructed here because Eddy reacts as if he's seriously hurt and the kids (even Kevin and Sarah) react with fear. [[spoiler: Not to mention the reveal that this is how his brother ''always'' treated him.]]

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter and SpinOffspring. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both his duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]] and reviving their near-extinct culture. The same also applies, to a lesser degree, to the children of some of the first series' other characters from the first series, such as Toph's.

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both his duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]] and reviving their near-extinct culture. The same also applies, to a lesser degree, to the children of some of the first series' other characters from the first series, such as Toph's.

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both his duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]]. The same also applies, to a lesser degree, to the children of some of the first series' other characters from the first series, such as Toph's.

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both his duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]]. The same also applies, to a lesser degree, to some the children of some of other characters from the first series, such as Toph's.

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with being TheChosenOne and the LastOfHisKind, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of both is duties as the Avatar and their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]].

** ''Korra'' also deconstructs BabiesEverAfter. The show features the three children of TheHero from the prior show as major characters, and [[NoHeroToHisValet their opinion of their father is a lot less rosy than the rest of the world's]]. It turns out it's tough to balance parenting with protecting the world and reviving your near-extinct culture, meaning that Aang's elder two children felt that he neglected them in favor of their air-bending younger brother, who in turn carries [[StuckInTheirShadow the impossible burden of carrying on his father's legacy]].

*** His attempt to kill Jack and take Danny and Maddie for himself are never treated as sympathetic or right. While Jack did cause the accident that hospitalized Vlad for years, he did feel bad about what happened, and wants to be friends again. Not to mention, Jack still sees him as his best friend and holds him in very high regard, unaware of how much Vlad resents him deep down.
*** Vlad used the powers he gained from that same accident to rob banks and intimidate people into selling their businesses to him, thus creating his vast fortune and becoming one of the richest men in the world.
*** Maddie was okay with Vlad until he reveals that he always had a thing for her and hates Jack for "stealing" her. When he asked her to dump Jack and marry him, Maddie rejects him and has treated him with disdain ever since.
*** Heck, Vlad's so called "love" for Maddie is actually rather shallow and twisted, as it's been proven several times that he's more in love with the idea of having her rather than Maddie herself, and doesn't truly care about her feelings unless they suit him.
*** The episode "[[Recap/DannyPhantomS2E16MastersOfAllTime Masters Of All Time]]" is probably the best example and proof of it all and destroys his Freudian excuse. In an alternate timeline where he didn't get the powers but married Maddie, Vlad still grew up to become the same controlling and domineering sociopath seen in the present timeline and that he treated Maddie like a possession, not a person. While at first it seemed like they were HappilyMarried, it's soon showed that Vlad was very controlling and possessive of Maddie, forbidding her from pursuing ghost hunting and forcing her to act as a simple housewife, not to mention, he flat out ''lied'' about Jack (who ended up getting caught in the accident in this timeline) blaming her for the accident and wanting nothing to do with her and it's heavily implied he was emotionally/psychologically abusive towards her and Maddie had to ghost hunt in secret and resented him for it.
*** Heck, a flashback to the accident shows that Vlad was already was jealous of Maddie's feelings for Jack and her being completely oblivious to his interest in her and being either interested in Jack or dating him. It shows he knew that Maddie already preferred Jack and still wanted her for himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Red Rush explains that as a SuperSpeedster he has RequiredSecondaryPowers of superhumanly fast perception and enahanced durability, which enable him to run at relativistic speeds without killing himself or causing an immense amount of collateral damage. During his brutal fight with Omni-Man, they make his death a great deal more painful than it could have been without them.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': The final season deconstructs HiddenAgendaVillain with Gorilla Grodd, who assembles the supervillains of the DCAU into an effective coalition and gathers resources for his EvilPlan, [[spoiler:which is to turn all people on Earth into gorillas.]] ComicBook/LexLuthor points out the silliness in such plan, and no one in the Secret Society bats an eyelash when Lex shoots Grodd in the face and usurps leadership.

** Black Canary rarely uses her [[MakeMeWannaShout Canary Cry]] in this show, and the few times she attempts a sustained Cry, it leaves her exhausted and out of breath. Screaming puts a lot of stress on a person's lungs and vocal cords. It is for this reason that Canary FightsLikeANormal, instead.

** Courtney and Duncan's relationship deconstructs everything about OppositesAttract. Courtney is a high-strung AcademicAlphaBitch and Duncan is a roguish {{Delinquent}} with a HiddenHeartOfGold. The BelligerentSexualTension between them only comes to fruition when Courtney sees the "heart of gold" part of Duncan, but after ''Island'', cracks in the relationship start to show. Courtney has not loosened up by dating Duncan and has entered a pushy state of ICanChangeMyBeloved, both from her high standards for boyfriends and fear that Duncan is destined for jail sooner or later. Meanwhile, Duncan does not dial down his delinquent habits by dating Courtney, and insists on pushing her buttons for laughs, which sparks frequent arguments between them. By ''World Tour'', BelligerentSexualTension is the only thing holding them together, and that fails when Duncan decides to cheat on Courtney with Gwen. When ''All Stars'' rolls around, Duncan tries to rekindle their old relationship (killing his current one with Gwen in the process) but Courtney wants nothing to do with him anymore. Duncan assumes AllGirlsWantBadBoys is in play, and thinks Courtney and Gwen are no longer interested in him because he's no longer bad enough, when in reality, both largely preferred his nice side.

* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': The third season deconstructs FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse. Esteban has spent his life at the beck and call of others, from his grandparents to Shuriki to Elena, and has never been able to accomplish his own dreams. On top of that, he desires more power because he was not listened to when it truly mattered; before his parents departed on a ship ride, he had felt something was wrong and his concerns were dismissed, only to be proven right when a storm at sea took them down. Feeling he wasn't loved or listened to after his parents' deaths, and desperate to be seen and heard, this led him to [[spoiler: assist Shuriki in her takeover of Avalor in exchange for political power, only helping as long as she promised not to hurt his family. Unsurprisingly, Shuriki lied and killed Elena's parents. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Esteban got the power he wanted]], and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted it deeply]]. When the truth comes out in "The Magic Within" and Esteban tries to justify his actions with what the things that had happened to him during his trial, only his grandfather is willing to forgive him. Everyone else, ''especially'' [[ThisIsUnforgivable his grandmother and Elena]], tells him point-blank that there's no excuse for him selling his family out to Shuriki, getting his aunt and uncle killed, and bringing a dark age to Avalor. However, as the season goes on, everybody else starts to realize that yes, Esteban's reasons cannot justify what he did, but they shouldn't be ignored either, as ignoring the bad things that happened to him only leaves the circumstances behind his FreudianExcuse to progressively get worse. In “Día de Los Madres”, Elena and Aublea Luisa realize that Esteban never properly recovered from the loss of his parents and they never properly helped him cope. In "[[GrandFinale Coronation Day]]", the spirits of Elena's deceased parents reveal to her that they've known what Esteban had done for a long time, but they forgave him a while ago because they know that staying angry at him won't change what happened and because Raul acknowledged his own mistakes with what happened between him and Esteban that caused him to go to Shuriki. When Esteban confronts his abuelos in the same episode, he tells them he wants to be king because he wants people to listen to him when no one in his life would. Luisa, instead of dismissing his excuses, [[ArmorPiercingResponse tells him that, yes, people will finally listen to him, but they will hate him forever because they will know him as the villain who betrayed his family to get Avalor's Crown]]. This hits Esteban hard because Lusia acknowledged he did have reasons behind his actions but pointed out that they will make him ultimately worse off. It causes him to really think if that's what he wants, and it influences his decision to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]] to save Elena from Cahu later on even though he himself believes that he's BeyondRedemption by this point. This, combined with him using his last breath to truly apologize, is what allows Elena to finally forgive Esteban, creating a large WorldHealingWave of her emotion magic to resurrect him, save Avalor, and defeat Cahu. Afterward, Esteban [[TheAtoner promises to spend the rest of his life atoning for his mistakes]], which allows the rest of the family and Avalor to forgive him and welcome him back]].

*** The episode "Masters of All Time" is probably the best example and proof of it all and destroys his Freudian excuse. In an alternate timeline where he didn't get the powers but married Maddie, Vlad still grew up to become the same controlling and domineering sociopath seen in the present timeline and that he treated Maddie like a possession, not a person. While at first it seemed like they were HappilyMarried, it's soon showed that Vlad was very controlling and possessive of Maddie, forbidding her from pursuing ghost hunting and forcing her to act as a simple housewife, not to mention, he flat out ''lied'' about Jack (who ended up getting caught in the accident in this timeline) blaming her for the accident and wanting nothing to do with her and it's heavily implied he was emotionally/psychologically abusive towards her and Maddie had to ghost hunt in secret and resented him for it.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' deconstructs SubbingForSanta. How? Well, Stewie and Brian are the ones doing the subbing, and their first and only job [[EpicFail becomes a home invasion]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "Town and Out" deconstructs DestructiveSavior; the girls move to a more realistic city than Townsville in that episode, and end up getting a tongue-lashing from the Mayor of that city after they stop two bank robbers by blowing up a bridge:

** Deconstructs AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther. Throughout the first two seasons, [[Characters/RickAndMortyBethSmith Beth]] and Jerry show moments where they care for each other despite their toxic, dysfunction marriage. But those moments, unfortunately, are just moments that don't last, and their toxic dysfunction remains an ongoing problem that they don't work to resolve. In Season 3, when Jerry put his foot down and made Beth choose between him and Rick, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she chose Rick]].

*** "Rick Potion #9" deconstructs LovePotion. Morty requests one from Rick to give to Jessica so she will go to a school dance with him. Unfortunately Jessica has the flu so the effect piggybacks on the virus and soon all of humanity barring Morty's immediate family is infected. [[spoiler:Rick's incompetent attempts to cure the effect result in the entire human race being turned into [[BodyHorror "Cronenbergs"]] and Rick and Morty end up abandoning it to live in another universe where they died]]. Naturally when things go wrong, they start arguing and Rick [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tears into Morty]] and points out how the potion is little different from a ''date rape drug, [[JerkassHasAPoint and he's right]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''
** deconstructs FreudianExcuse. Vlad Masters starts out with a rather sympathetic backstory and an almost understandable motivation for his villainy: Jack, through sheer idiocy, caused an accident that sent Vlad to the hospital for years, costing Vlad his chance at Maddie, who ended up marrying Jack. However, throughout the series his excuse is torn apart and he ends up becoming less sympathetic as a result.

** deconstructs InLoveWithLove. Vlad is obsessed with the idea of being with Maddie more than Maddie herself, to the point of not seeming to care that she doesn't want anything to do with him or that killing Jack would make her hate him. He goes as far as to have a stuffed doll of her and bases his holograms on her.
** deconstructs RescueRomance. In the alternate timeline created during "Masters of All Time", Vlad saved Maddie from the malfunctioning portal, earning her affection, eventually marrying. However, Vlad is overly controlling and possessive of Maddie, even having forbidden her from pursuing ghost hunting, and had lied to her, saying that Jack (who had suffered the ecto-acne accident in this timeline), didn't want anything to do with her. Maddie, unwilling to give up her life's work, resorted to ghost-hunting behind his back, clearly resenting him for it. Whether she felt obligated to marry him out of gratitude or simply overestimated his character based on that one seemingly-noble act, rescue was clearly not good enough grounds for a lasting romance.

** In the deceptively named episode “Deconstructing Arnold”, they seem to deconstruct AllLovingHero: When Helga points out that Arnold is always giving unsolicited advice to other kids, spoiling their fun, every other kid (included best friend Gerald) agrees. Arnold decides to stop helping others as a result. Then we discover… that Arnold is still the same good, happy kid. He’s not a BrokenMessiah from it. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor However, as expected, the kids' plans backfire and they need help in resolving them, only for Arnold to remind them that they didn't want his advice.]] They then go to Helga, whom she initially doesn't see the big deal and decides to give them advice. Helga being a JerkassWoobie only manages to make things worse for everybody, including herself, because everyone blames her for her ill advice. We discover that the kids' problems would be relatively easy to solve… if they had the character to be able to do the right thing, instead of the doing the easy thing. Arnold wasn't AllLovingHero because he gave advice, he gave advice because he was an AllLovingHero, truly loving and caring for others and encouraging the kids to do the obvious, right thing no matter how painful, while Helga's solutions were not the best; most involved shifting the blame, while one was just poorly, thought out [[AnAesop and that never solves any problem.]] The tropes HumansAreFlawed and AllLovingHero was deconstructed and [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]]. It results with Helga asking Arnold to be an AllLovingHero again. She even Lampsahdes that she's no good at giving advice and that they need him. The episode concludes with Arnold telling his friends the true advice they needed while Helga looked from afar, happy things we back to normal.

** Season 5 also decimated Season 3's "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS3E6JackAndTheTravelingCreatures Jack and the Traveling Creatures]]". By not returning Jack then and there to the past BecauseDestinySaysSo, the Guardian doomed Jack, the future, and himself. The Guardian is killed by Aku and the portal destroyed, Jack finds the last portal only to also be destroyed by Aku, which led to a HeroicRROD from Jack which led to Jack losing his sword after killing three innocent sheep in his blind rage and without armed with the one thing that can kill Aku once and for all, the future became more bleak and hellish with evil forces increasing with more power in the following half-century and leaving Jack with HeroicBSOD.

** "Party Of One" did the same to Pinkie Pie with her role as the GenkiGirl. When people start making up excuses to avoid a party, and discovers them trying to do something without her, she extrapolates that everyone has gotten tired of her and gets clinically depressed as a result.
** "Lesson Zero" deconstructs the OnceAnEpisode formula a lot of shows, including this one, use. Twilight freaks out because she doesn't have a letter to send to the Princess, as there wasn't much conflict in anyone's life lately. She goes crazy and tries to create a problem for her to solve, [[GoneHorriblyRight but things get horribly out of hand.]]
** "Luna Eclipsed" deconstructs multiple [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing]] tropes, particularly LargeHam, MilkingTheGiantCow, and NoIndoorVoice; Princess Luna has undergone a HeelFaceTurn and is trying to improve her public image, but she keeps scaring everyone away with her "[[FloweryElizabethanEnglish Traditional]] [[RoyalWe Royal]] [[GaleForceSound Canterlot]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WDNnxInFM Voice]]," which she (and presumably her sister) used [[FishOutOfTemporalWater back when she ruled before her]] FaceHeelTurn, and practically ''required'' her to be a LargeHam.
** "Applebuck Season" deconstructs TheReliableOne, when Applejack tries to harvest all the apples in Sweet Apple Acres by herself, because Big Macintosh injured himself, and be there for her friends at the same time. She ends up with severe sleep deprivation, and creates several issues such as flinging Rainbow Dash into Twilight's balcony, and [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal practically poisoning plenty of ponies]]. The trope is deconstructed again in "The Last Roundup". Everypony expects Applejack to win enough prize money to pay for the city hall's repairs. When she only places second or lower (but still high enough to have LOTS of ribbons) in all of the events, she is so ashamed of letting down Ponyville that she decides not to return until she's earned enough money to pay for the repairs by working on a farm in Dodge Junction.
** "Power Ponies" deconstructs TheLoad and ButtMonkey tropes that were otherwise PlayedForLaughs in previous seasons, by showing that Spike has ''very'' low self-esteem due to always feeling like he's only there for comic relief.
** "The Cutie Remark Parts 1 and 2" deconstructs DudeWheresMyRespect heavily: Starlight Glimmer thinks the Mane Six is nothing more than a bunch of ponies who were brought together thanks to one Sonic Rainboom. When Twilight drags Starlight into one of the many changed timelines, she's shown that, without that Rainboom, they weren't brought together and ''bad shit'' happened. Starlight just can't get it wrapped around her head that the Mane Six are essentially the only thing standing between peaceful Equestria and a barren wasteland that she suffers a VillainousBreakdown.
** "No Second Prances" ends up deconstructing DesignatedVillain - Twilight is more than willing to give Starlight Glimmer the benefit of the doubt and help her reform, but she is less than willing to accept The Great and Powerful Trixie as Starlight's first friend. Twilight tails and pretty much antagonizes Trixie, finally getting her to admit that she was Starlight's friend because she wanted to one up Twilight, but by that time, Trixie had ''genuinely'' came to accept Starlight as her friend and Twilight's demeanor nearly broke that friendship up.
** “School Raze” actually ends up deconstructing ThePowerOfFriendship, of all things. Specifically, it deconstructs it being a tangible thing that can be weaponized. The ArcVillain [[spoiler: Cozy Glow]] acknowledges that ThePowerOfFriendship is a very powerful force and doesn’t underestimate it; however, her sociopathy leads her to interpret it as [[EvilCannotComprehendGood “make as many friends as possible in order to gain ultimate power”]], [[FalseFriend meaning that she makes friends simply for her own personal benefit]]. [[spoiler: This eventually leads her to drain the magic out of her fellow ponies so she’s the only magical being in Equestria left, and maintain her “friendships” with the ones she had fooled]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The episode "Town and Out" deconstructs DestructiveSavior; the girls move to a more realistic city than Townsville in that episode, and end up getting a tongue-lashing from the Mayor of that city after they stop two bank robbers by blowing up a bridge:

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' gives us a twofer. On one hand, he deconstructs the TuxedoAndMartini trope by showing us the kind of person that it would take to make a living out of killing people while [[BondOneLiner cracking one-liners]], bedding [[GirlOfTheWeek a different woman every week]] and obsessing over [[BadassInANiceSuit finding the perfect wardrobe]] in RealLife - namely, a self-centered, spoiled, borderline sociopathic ManChild...and the ultimate UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. Then the show turns around and deconstructs the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist trope by going in-depth in showing us the kind of [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood screwed-up childhood]] that it would take to make someone as much of an asshole as Archer.