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Fan Works that serve as Deconstruction Crossovers.

  • Abigail and the Rats of NIMH brings together characters from The Secret of NIMH, Once Upon a Forest, The Rescuers and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and deconstructs the Mouse World trope, exploring what would really happen if the oblivious humans in these kinds of stories actually started to notice the civilized rodents living among them. Naturally, NIMH becomes very interested.
  • The Fan Verse Altered Destinies deconstructs Henpecked Husband showing that it is the result of Amazon Chaser. Strong men are attracted to strong women, both physically and emotionally. However, while on the outside looking in it appears that this trope is being played straight Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male is averted. Relationships are shown to only work when both parties are equal.
  • As N Approaches Infinity, a crossover between Bleach and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, serves as both a deconstruction and reconstruction to the series' respective worlds and characters.
    • Homura Akemi, no matter how cold-hearted and jaded she became, was a lonely, caring kid stuck between a rock and a hard place. She still cares deeply for not just Madoka, but the other Magical Girls as well, as they were some of her first friends and her first team. Any reminders of their deaths has her shut down emotionally, and when she realizes she finally has the opportunity to save them as well after countless loops spent forced to write them off as expendable, she breaks down in tears. Even the death of Karin and Yuzu causes her despair, in spite of only having known them for a week.
    • The Incubators have operated for thousands of years, secretly gathering the countless souls of all the powerful, spiritually-aware girls they harvested. While they claim to store this energy to oppose entropy, once they learn about the King's Key and its ability to let them alter reality, they switch track and quickly start becoming the biggest threat the Shinigami ever faced. In the one timeline where they realize they'd been exposed, they turn Walpurgisnacht into a Hogyoku, devastating Karakura and killing most of Bleach's cast in one blow.
    • However, with the direct support network and emotional support provided by Ichigo, his family and the Shinigami, the Mitakihara girls are able to stop themselves from losing their sanity and regain their footing, unlike in canon. It doesn't hurt that Orihime is able to not just purify Soul Gems, but revert Grief Seeds back into Soul Gems, and theoretically able to turn Soul Gems back into souls.
    • For Kisuke Urahara, he was always considered a rather shady character, especially with his own tendencies to make long-term counter plans. These tendencies, while generally accepted by the Bleach cast, end up becoming counterproductive when working with Homura, who finds it difficult to work with Kisuke as a result and makes the other characters scrutinize him even more than usual.
    • Mayuri Kurotsutchi, the resident Token Evil Teammate of the Gotei, actually becomes more of a hindrance to the cast than an asset. This is precisely because of his amoral tendencies, which many fear will cause him to experiment on the Magical Girls For Science! instead of actually helping them. His cruel experiments also prove to be a terrible antidote to studying Soul Gems when he's finally given some; he ends up breaking several of them due to their delicate nature.
  • The Beast That I Am, due to having Shinobu gain the power to transform into Jade, does this to both sides. Not only is the tenants’ behaviour Played for Drama, but Shinobu’s new power is played up as something potentially dangerous instead of completely good.
  • Between My Brother and Me: The characters aren't getting along, and are not opening up to each other (Yugi and the others don't tell about Battle City, May and Max can't tell about Atem and his past), Pokemon are being subjected to monsters and power far worse than Team Rocket can do to them, and the characters are dealing with a world that will literally kill them without guilt.
  • Bleach at Youkai Academy and its sequel, Karakura Adventures, shows what would happen if an Experienced Protagonist like Ichigo was given an Unwanted Harem, which is what Rosario + Vampire revolves around. Unlike Tsukunenote , Ichigo is not shallow enough to fall for the first pretty girl he seesnote , Inner Moka's arrogance rubs him the wrong way, and Moka's habit of feeding on his blood serves as a turn-off. Ultimately, he falls for Kurumu, whom—being a succubus—better understands the concept of love than Moka, whose Inner side is in denial that she has feelings for Ichigo and keeps getting more self-entitled and mean-spirited as the story goes on, until Moka finally gets fed up and joins Fairy Tale after Miyabi claims he can give her the power she needs to force Ichigo to marry her.
  • The Boys: Real Justice: The fic explores how corrupt and broken the superheroes of The Boys (2019) world would appear to the likes of the Justice League. The villains from the DC Earth do very well when faced with fake heroes who are, with few exceptions, broken failures who can't back up the marketing behind them because they've never been in a real fight or fought real villains.
    • The fic also explores how out of their depth The Boys would be in a more classical superhero universe, as they simply lack the power, the competencies, or the experience to deal with villains or even competent heroes not helped by Butcher's prejudice being a hindrance. Leading their operations to be a nuisance at best against their target and to the Batfamily where they could have died horribly multiple times. Their stunt at Gotham end with them being hounded by the criminals, the police, and the Batfamily while Butcher is barely able to move.
      Mother's Milk: "Back home, we were the guys going after the bigger assholes in charge. Now we’re just assholes in a world where we don’t belong."
    • The DC heroes eventually get deconstruction as well in this story. While the DC heroes are better than The Boy's heroes in every way because The Boy's heroes are only heroes in the name when they are, in fact, broken failures with superpowers, and the DC heroes genuinely want to help the people of The Boys worlds and fix their world. However, the DC heroes come with their own problems that the people of The Boys are unprepared for.
      • For one thing, the DC Universe, while better in some aspects in The Boy's world, is not perfect; for one thing, dangerous super criminals are running around, and because there are no places that can hold them and the heroes are unwilling to kill them, that cause these supervillains to be allowed to run around and cause collateral damage for the civilian population. After seeing how dangerous the supervillains are and the collateral damage to DC universe suffers on a daily basis to the point where cities are destroyed, the people of The Boy's world turn against the Justice League and go back to The Seven, despite becoming aware of The Seven unsavory flaws and actions.
      • Another thing that works against the Justice League is their unwillingness to kill their enemies. There are people on both worlds that want The Seven, especially Homelander, who is the psychotic man-child with the power of a god that can destroy the world, but because the Justice League refuses to kill or refuse to allow him to be killed, that causes people who were willing to work with the Justice League to turn against them like Stan Edgar and Grace Mallory, who previously work with them but turned against because they know that Justice League will not allow Homelander to die and because they know that the Justice League will come after them next because of their high standards.
  • Child of the Storm emerges as this, deconstructing the popular conceits of Harry having different parents and the clichés of Super!Harry, Lord!Harry and Sex God!Harry, in which Harry mysteriously becomes hypercompetent at everything and usually changes his personality for the worse, leading to a classic Gary Stu. Instead, as the story demonstrates, he's very leery of more fame, cautiously happy about new/rediscovered family, and while he does develop new abilities, they tend to be rather difficult to get under control and cause more problems than they solve. In other words, he's still Harry Potter, albeit one who has to grow up rather quickly, though he does learn to assert himself more. He has massive potential, but for now the main issue is staying alive long enough for that potential to be realised. As for the sex god thing, as Word of God frequently points out, while Harry is a thirteen year old boy (the story starts in third year) who is quite cute once he loses the malnourished look and on course to be very good looking, very sweet in a dorky sort of way and has a functioning sex drive that he's just beginning to become aware of, he is still thirteen years old. On top of that, the new family, allies and powers is all very well, but it also leads to lots and lots of new enemies and him being thrust into situations where he is very much out of his depth.
  • Children of Time. The first season deals alternately subtly and heavily with the blood on the Doctor's hands, and the Big Bad deconstructs him thoroughly every chance he gets. Sherlock Holmes as a Companion starts out well... and then his own caring, protective nature is turned against him, his need for control is played like his violin, and what he turns into shows just how far wrong a Companion can go. The Power of Love and The Power of Friendship are played against the heroes in some truly terrifying ways... And then it all gets healed if not quite Reconstructed in the end.
  • Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante deconstructs the idea of a Self-Insert Fic where the main character becomes a Kamen Rider by showing just how the effects of being a rider bare on the mentality of an emotionally unstable teenager. The end result? Constant curbstomp battles against the protagonist, Heroic Fatigue setting in as many people get killed on his watch, and a relapse of his suicidal behavior. This is on top of it being a crossover with another Deconstruction Crossover, Re:CREATORS, where it further builds up on the implications of fictional characters coming to the real world and the consequences of cyberbullying and suicide.
  • The Code Mars Trilogy is this for Sailor Moon in the world of Code Geass. The former is usually stuck with Black-and-White Morality and are screwed up when choosing between the oppressive Brittanians and the Black Knights. Adding to this is how the Black Knights are an exception to the Dark Is Evil and Light Is Good tropes. Moreover, they're in a world of Humongous Mecha instead of normal supernatural monsters. Unless the shots are well-placed, Knightmare Frames No-Sell the Scouts attacks.
    • In the course of the story, the Scouts get over this. They start in episodes 19 and 20 by showing their true selves and joining the Black Knights, accepting the Dark Is Not Evil trope. This is supported with incidents like the SAZ Massacre and when an actual Sailor Moon-like villain comes in to side with Britannia. Bonus points when they get their Ace Custom Knightmares, and encounter phantom-like Mooks, allowing them to fight enemies on the ground and against the Mook Mobiles.
  • Code Prime: Many tropes and character archetypes get shredded in this story.
    • Idealism is commendable, but with Suzaku, it's shown just how dangerous it can be if the idealist works side by side with a Manipulative Bastard. Megatron manipulates Suzaku into becoming the first human Decepticon precisely because Suzaku's idealism prevents him from seeing how monstrous Megatron is, even if the boy is somewhat put-off by the Cybertronnian.
    • Being a Noble Demon is commendable, but as Dreadwing shows, it still makes you complicit in your side's crimes, and can cause other, more noble-hearted individuals to join the wrong team because they think it can be reformed, when it really can't.
    • The Autobots may be able to upgrade the Black Knights' equipment to make fighting Britannia easier, but that only does so much against the Decepticons, who are literally better in every way except morals.
    • Suzaku's plans to try and be an Internal Reformist for both Britannia and the Decepticons is commendable, but ultimately for naught. While he might have success with Britannia since he can work with Euphemia, the Decepticons are by and large totally uncaring about mankind and their enemies, especially since their ranks included Airachnid for a time, and currently include Megatron and Knockout. Ultimately, Suzaku is deluding himself into believing that his allies can be changed for the better.
    • All conflicts have shades of grey, and Suzaku's belief otherwise is unhealthy at best.
    • That being said, associating with the Autobots has made the Black Knights more heroic than they were in canon, while the Britannians have steadily become worse due to their alliance with the Decepticons. Suzaku also refuses to acknowledge this, which is only making him even more unhinged.
    • Trying to Take a Third Option in a conflict is stupid and dangerous if one side is stepped in the black part of the morality spectrum. Suzaku and Dreadwing, having grown tired of Megatron's atrocities but still being unwilling to join the Autobots and Black Knights, instead align with Euphemia to reform Britannia and then work with Zero and Optimus to oppose the Decepticons. Megatron promptly exploits Euphemia's plan for the SAZ to discredit her and Britannia, which combines with other factors to allow him to kill Charles, conquer Pendragon, and crush the Black Rebellion.
  • A Different Kind of Truth: Deconstructs elements from both JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run and Persona 4:
    • Johnny's misgivings about the Social Link system have primarily to do with the fact that he feels as if he's not in control of his social life. He feels as if the system itself is more or less forcing him into having relationships with people and he's not in control of his own decisions. The implication that his relationships are all pre-determined and even have labels for them do not sit right within Johnny and he spends plenty of chapters mentally hating the system itself. It, along with Gyro's encouragements, forces Johnny to simply inform the other members of the team about the system.
    • What happens when you take Spaghetti Western-like Seinen characters out of their natural environment and place them into a setting like Persona 4? The darker sides of their characters shock, horrify, and anger the Lighter and Softer residents of Inaba. Johnny, who has a Darker and Edgier backstory, turns out to be suicidally depressed and his Unscrupulous Hero tendencies only make Chie completely livid at him. His and Gyro's less than stellar childhoods also tend to shock anyone who hears them and remain in the back of their friends minds, but they do not excuse their behavior in any way, shape, or form.
  • Doofenshmirtz Hero Incorporated!:
    • Heinz is persuaded to try his hand at being a teacher. While he has no actual degree in education, he compensates by studying his students' dossiers and actively trying to engage with them and understanding how to best help them understand his classes. Even this minimal effort along with bits of general history makes him immensely successful, leading him to poke how this is possible. To his horror, the MHA Earth has lost knowledge of its history to the point all information on World War II and before is lost, all of U.A.'s teachers, including the physical education teacher, are oblivious to the plight of one of his students to the point of ignoring she has been cutting herself on her entire arm up to her shoulder even during class, and most absurdly, science has been ignored and sidelined to the point that all forms of general science education are considered an elective. Ectoplasm helps frame it by explaining the wars that preceded the current society, which resulted in a society that nurtured a catastrophic favoritism for powerful, flashy Quirks and terminal dependence on heroes, that is no longer able or interested in leaving its current form. Even scientific thinktanks like I-Island help more to corral and restrain true scientists like Doof than to truly help anyone.
    • Doofenshmirtz's bouts of Cartoonish Supervillainy are also deconstructed: in the world of MHA, where supervillains are guilty of outright crimes against humanity, Heinz's "villainy" makes him nothing more than a harmless eccentric in the eyes of the heroes. And ultimately, he proves to be better at good than bad.
  • Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship
    • The fic explores how a benign group of people would react to Timmy's life. Namely, they would pity him for all the suffering he goes through while be alarmed at his wielding of powerful magic. They get so worried about him, they feel the need to give him a bodyguard.
    • The fic explores how Timmy would be increasingly unhinged by all the torment and abuse in his life: he begins crying and lashing out at the pain in his life. When Sunset first comes to his door, he's afraid that she'll be a mean bully to him like Vicky. This is why he so easily believes Adagio's lie that Sunset is an evil villain: because he's been hurt and betrayed by so many other people in his life.
      Flash: (sad) Man, Timmy...has had to deal with a lot. It's like...everyone in his life is out to get him. I mean, how can he live with that and not go crazy!
    • Crocker's obsession with world domination, meanness, lack of care for his charges, and sheer lunacy earns him the distrust and hatred of the Rainbooms, which goes into outright contempt when they see how far he'll go to get what he wants. Principal Waxelplax also becomes increasingly exasperated with his schemes and finally demotes him when he crosses a serious line.
  • Fallout: Equestria: Quite a few parts of the Fallout series are picked apart.
    • In the games, you can wear any kind of armor you want, from any faction, with no penalty (unless it is explicitly faction armor, which only shows up in Fallout: New Vegas). When Littlepip wears some raider armor because she wanted some basic protection, she is immediately mistaken for a raider and shot.
    • Addiction in the games is barely more than an annoyance; the penalty for withdrawal is minor, it can be relieved with another dose, and if it ever gets too bad, any doctor can remove the addiction for cheap. Littlepip, on the other hand, becomes more and more dependent on the Mint-als, to the point she can barely function without them, and the drugs cause a major schism between her and Velvet Remedy. And while a magical addiction cure does exist, it's pointed out that this does nothing for the psychological addiction, and Littlepip will always crave the drug for the rest of her life.
    • Killing, even in self-defense, is intensely deconstructed as well. Both Littlepip and Velvet have extreme difficulty coming to terms with the fact they have to kill to survive, even in self defense, to the point that Littlepip goes into an extended period of self loathing after wiping out a cannibal clan, and Velvet has a nasty BSOD after gunning down a tribe of Raiders, despite the fact they were both threatening innocents and desecrating her idol's home.
    • Remember the shooting range James sets up in the Vault 101 reactor chamber in Fallout 3? The same story happens in Stable 29, but with a tragic ending: one stallion did the same thing for his son, who accidentally shot the water talisman (the heart of the water purifying system), which doomed the complex to being murdered by the artificial intelligence programmed to control population levels by any means necessary so that they remain proportional to the amount of resources.
    • On the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic side, one of the themes is "corrupted virtues". The Elements of Harmony that the show espoused are great in theory, but can quickly become destructive without the key context of friendship. Corrupted Magic is obsessed with power, corrupted Kindness will help people without considering the consequences, corrupted Generosity with try to "gift" people something they really don't want, corrupted Honesty will tell the truth even if it gets people killed, corrupted Loyalty will follow the letter of a contract without care for the people, and corrupted Laughter can lead to trying to suppress all emotions and become a Stepford Smiler.
  • For The Familiar of Zero, an easy crossover is to have Louise summon someone from another franchise. A one-shot story in The Beasts of Zero collection deconstructs the "a more competent character becomes Louise's Familiar instead" Fandom-Specific Plot. Louise manages to summon a powerful familiar, Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon, and She gets the EXTREME misfortune of summoning her when she was sealed away and not reformed yet. The familiar slowly but surely creates chaos as she attacks anyone that continuously mocks her and Louise (Kirche, Guiche, etc.) that the idea she has such a powerful-looking familiar is a silly joke. No one is laughing when the familiar finally gets fed up playing the game of slave and spreads eternal night over Halkeginia and rules over them as an Evil Overlord. No one can stop her, and Louise is forced to hide in shame for being the one that summoned her in the first place.
  • Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness can be considered a deconstruction of the Fandom-Specific Plot of Yukari sending an outsider to Gensokyonote . When said outsider is Coop with his giant robot car in tow, Reimu and the others can't wait for him to leave.
  • Fatherhood Platon: The fic shows how an outsider, in this case Greg Universe, would react to Molly’s situation with her moron father: horror at how she’s forced to fend for herself at a young age functionally.
  • 5 Years Later takes a swing at The Earth-Prime Theory by having Eon, a resident of a timeline that isn't the Prime Ben 10 timeline, declare that such a way of thinking basically assumes that all other timelines don't really matter.
  • Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters is a deconstruction of the Black-and-White Morality of Jackie Chan Adventures and W.I.T.C.H.. War Is Hell is in full effect, and the characters' black-and-white view of morality gets challenged almost constantly.
  • The Heroic Adventures of Zeus plays around with Everybody Loves Zeus in the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. During the events of The Lightning Thief, the Zeus of the Percy Jackson world is somehow replaced with the iteration from Disney's Hercules. But since the Percy Jackson Zeus is Truer to the Text regarding the Greek Myths (being crueler, iller-tempered, lecherous, unfaithful to Hera, and an absolute dick to his children), compared to the Sadly Mythtaken Disney Zeus (who's much more jovial, kinder, faithful and loving to Hera, and a proud father to Hercules), the other Greek Gods think this "new" Zeus has gone insane from losing his Master Bolt. By contrast, Disney's Zeus is wondering why the Pantheon is suddenly reacting this way towards him, considering he's never gone down the path of his mythological counterpart (and indeed, he's horrified when he finds out what this other Zeus did). On the other hand, this Zeus winds up reconstructing the very trope he created by taking over as Camp Half Blood's new director, forcing the gods to reclaim their lost children, and expanding the Greek Pantheon to better include minor gods, which foils Kronos' plans.
  • Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail deconstructs what happens if characters from one world get drawn into the Infinity Train. The Pokémon: The Series world has no idea what to make of it since the Train isn't connected to any legends regarding Pokémon. Those who actually have Pokémon are just as equally able to be attacked or harmed in some way whether they be hostile denizens, the Train itself or the Apex. And since the Train can pick up people from all types of worlds — we have Zack and Satou briefly spare with one another — then that ends up with the terrifying possibility of what type of mentally challenged people one can encounter on the Train itself. Meanwhile further related stories deconstruct the deconstruction, different from a reconstruction, by pointing out that while the Infinity Train is not related to Pokémon, the Pokémon world has the fantastic science to study and comprehend the Infinity Train if given the direction, reason, and incentive to look for it.
  • Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger is a crossover between RWBY and Star Wars, specifically Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and deconstructs elements from both franchises.
    • The whole "dark anti-hero that uses evil powers for good" ubiquitous in nearly every fandom gets deconstructed. Whereas a lot of these fanfics are just about power fantasies, here it's shown how this type of character would realistically turn out. Rather than appearing cool, Jaune comes across to the reader as a sociopathic Jerkass who regularly straddles over the Moral Event Horizon. However, all Jaune does is create more conflict and he does nothing to change the outcomes of canon events. Eventually, he ends up becoming a bigger threat than the original villains ever were.
    • The Fandom-Specific Plot of turning Jaune into a Darker and Edgier Anti-Hero is deconstructed by pointing out how canon!Jaune is anything but a "dark, edgy badass". The story explores the actual process of making Jaune undergo such a drastic change and the end result is someone who is the mirror opposite of everything Jaune once was. Jaune's friends even lampshade how completely out-of-character Jaune is behaving with his new darker persona. Rather than being treated as cool, it's depicted as tragic because it's an indicator of how much Jaune has been corrupted by the Dark Side.
    • I Just Want to Be Badass gets deconstructed as the whole reason Jaune continues to rely on the Mask of Nihilus is that he doesn't want to go back to being The Team Normal. The powers he gained from Nihilus's mask finally made him feel special, hence why he refuses to get rid of the mask despite knowing that the being trapped inside the mask is manipulating him in order to break free. Even when everything around him falls apart because of his powers, he still hangs onto the mask to the bitter end.
    • The idea of someone using the Dark Side for good gets deconstructed. It's established that the Dark Side runs off the Power Of Hate and is ineffective when used with restraint. It's basically required to embrace emotions like anger and hate in order to use the Dark Side to its fullest potential.
    • The famous Jedi Mind Trick typically used by the good guys to outwit dumb mooks? It accidentally gets used on Weiss by Jaune when he asks her out on a date. Unlike in the Star Wars movies, this is played for absolute drama as Jaune has essentially mind raped his friend into doing something that she doesn't want to. We are also shown what it's like for those being mind tricked afterwards. Weiss describes feeling as though her own thoughts and emotions were being controlled by an outside force, all while she is consciously aware of what's happening and helpless to do anything about it.
    • Sealed Evil in a Can gets deconstructed by showing what happens when the "Can" is already inhabited. The whole reason that Darth Nihilus's mask is on Remnant in the first place was because some snarky droid thought that the planet would make the perfect prison for Nihilus's soul with little consideration given to the natives. It's also shown that this is a short-sighted move as it almost guarantees whatever's being trapped will be freed by the next generation. Every time Nihilus's mask was "contained", it was only a matter of time before some unwitting victim found the mask and freed him.
  • Kings of Revolution breaks down the idealistic world of Lyrical Nanoha by mixing it with Code Geass. Which then proceeds to take what Nanoha lost to rebuild its world.
  • Kimi No Na Iowa:
    • Your Name canon doesn't really dive into Mitsuha's mental scars. Here, though, more is done to show how having lost her mother as a child and subsequently being groomed to be the replacement heiress to the family shrine, as well as her father becoming a functional depressive and walking out on his daughters - something they admittedly weren't entirely innocent in - has left mental scars that still hurt even after more than 10 years, reconciliation and therapy.
    • The shipgirl works' Fandom-Specific Plot of "Natural Borns", shipgirls whose spirits reincarnated into being born of human women and only coming into their true nature later, rather than being summoned from the afterlife either out of their own effort or through deliberate action, takes a few jabs. Ayaka finds her true nature and its muted reaction to things she thinks normal humans should be more concerned about worrying and wonders more than a few times about her own humanity. She also takes getting hurt on her first proper mission quite badly as her new nature hasn't completely overridden her once-human instinctual reactions.
    • William D Porter usually gets depicted in shipgirl works, official and fanmade alike, as The Jinx or The Klutz as derived from the ship's accident-prone history. It is usually Played for Laughs. Here, though, the impact of being so butterfingered you cause harm to allies and infamous for it has more serious consequences. She is fully aware that she is a burden who only brings harm to those around her and has developed suicidal ideation as a result.
  • Kwami Magi Homura Magica takes a few whacks at the fanon idea of Future Bunnyx being a Time-Traveling Jerkass who doesn't try to fix things even they clearly go wrong despite knowing everything. Bunnyx fully admits that she doesn't get why the events of Cat Blanc, which didn't originally happen in time happened, and thus the trauma Marinette got from it changed the future, didn't break the future, nor did the related opening up to Alya and having her become her Secret-Keeper break the future despite that also being a divergence from history, and that she doesn't know why some things can be changed and others can't for both good and ill. She hates the idea that she doesn't know what can change and what can't, because she is terrified of the idea that trying to fix problems like Rose's death end up being the opposite and the idea of having to 'fix' such a thing back to how it used to be mortifies her. Her own future is a pretty good one by most accounts: the ice caps got fixed, the worst of the looming extinction crisis in biota was averted, space travel is developing well, and she's seen how easy it is to screw that up, so she's protecting not her own interests, but protecting a genuinely good future and, having seen more than a few takes on a Bad Future and how easy it is to get that and how rare a good future is, wants to keep it safe as much as possible.
  • Lelouch of the Shinigami Path, a crossover with Bleach from Karndragon of For His Own Sake fame (see below), splits off from canon at the betrayal with Lelouch getting executed by the Black Knights. The ongoing Britannian world subplot serves as a deconstruction of said betrayal by showing the immediate aftermath had it happened in canon, with Kallen defecting in disgust and facing the Emperor instead, Rolo outing the Black Knights' betrayal as payback, and the UFN falling apart. And without Lelouch to erase Charles and Marianne from existence, they completely succeed in their goal to recreate the world without anyone to oppose them.
  • The Many Dates of Danny Fenton, while showing Danny Fenton going on many dates, showcases many of the flaws of several of the characters Danny interacts with, based on how a (relatively) normal person would react to them.
    • Some chapters often deconstruct the flaws several characters have through their interactions with Danny. Vicky and Cree show how someone would react to a child-hating villain.
    • Tucker's Casanova Wannabe behavior also gets dragged through the mud, since it leads to dates that are almost always terrible.
    • Katie Kaboom's transformations, which were meant to be comedic, are treated as horrifying to someone not from Animaniacs.
  • Mass Effect The Equestrian Equation deconstructs the My Little Pony side in its efforts to explain some of the Fridge Logic behind the setting- mainly, The Reveal is that "Equestria" is actually a Matrix-style computer simulation, and some of the weirder happenings are either due to the programs running the simulation coming up with new challenges for the main heroes and just reusing their assets, or one of the heroes breaking the code and twisting the simulation to better fit their needs. Why did Twilight never tell her friends about Shining Armor? Because Shining Armor didn't even exist until Celestia decided to program him in. Additionally, the Black-and-White Morality of My Little Pony gets put through the filter of the more morally grey Mass Effect universe, and the ponies' trusting and idealistic nature is ultimately what caused them to lose the war against the Reapers during their cycle (despite their technology allowing them to take the Reapers in a head-on fight with a good chance of winning), as they proved to be exceptionally vulnerable to Indoctrination and infiltration efforts.
  • Metal Gear: Green:
    • The first world nations are heavily over reliant on heroes, to a point where police, army and emergency services have their fundings cut to the bone. With many of these being viewed as dead-end jobs, neglect and rampant corruption is seen, with soldiers selling guns to criminals for money, tanks being stripped of parts or shipped to another nation, up to and including naval ships being stolen from naval bases and sold on the black market. It makes Night Owl and the MSF's acquirement of these materials very easy as no one keeps track of the stolen materials, anyway.
    • While civilians in the first world view heroes with respect and admiration, in some parts of the second world and the third world, heroes are viewed extremely negatively due to them being heavily discriminated, living under tyrannical rule, or being abandoned because they are practically unheard of or have a 'villainous' quirk. When the heroes involved in the Nigerian Hero attack tell the refugees the MSF were helping to go home, the refugees attack the heroes in a blind rage, viewing their ignorance as being told to go fuck off and die.
    • Aizawa's Sink or Swim Mentor status is deconstructed by using Ocelot as a pseudo teacher. The result is that with Ocelot teaching, Aizawa's class has fewer injuries then when Aizawa is teaching, as Fudaki's death ends up being a major Rage Breaking Point for Ocelot. It's later revealed to Ocelot that Aizawa was a good teacher, but due to an unspecified incident, he ended up being the teacher he is now.
  • A Fandom-Specific Plot for Miraculous Ladybug is to tackle and deconstruct Superman Stays Out of Gotham by crossing it over with The DCU, the Marvel Universe, or any other superhero series.
    • More cynical takes (e.g. You Had Your Chance To Help Years Ago And You Blew It) show Paris' heroes or citizens trying to contact more experienced heroes for help, but getting brushed off (usually due to Ladybug's World-Healing Wave making it so that there's a lack of evidence); by the time they do get wind of what's happening, the Miraculous heroes are embittered by their experiences and hesitant to trust the other heroes.
    • Other takes (e.g. What the Cat Dragged In) do have the more experienced heroes look into it, only to realize that — between their own lack of knowledge on the situation and the fact that Hawk Moth could easily akumatize them — the best thing they can do for Paris' heroes is to invoke this trope, though usually they offer to provide Ladybug and Chat Noir with more indirect assistance as well.
  • Miraculous Ladybug vs. the Forces of Evil is a crossover between Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Miraculous Ladybug. While also something of a Fix Fic, it's also a deconstruction of both franchises in different ways. It's overarching view is a Monster of the Week plot of Ladybug, but contextualizes it using Star's more arc based plotting. Compared to the akumas Marinette and Adrian fight regularly, Ludo and his monsters lack gimmicks and just use straight forward brutality tactics to overwhelm foes who aren't Star and Marco. It shows that even if Jackie and Marco had broken up in a different context that wouldn't mean Star and Marco would automatically get together. It laughs at Hawkmoth's egotism and how that's a direct contradiction to his supposedly noble intentions. And of course it's big deconstruction is on what would happen the day Ladybug and Cat Noir lost. Answer? Feelings of betrayal, secrets revealed, and the end of them being secret heroes.
  • My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator is a crossover between Doom (2016), My Hero Academia and Darksiders, and it deconstructs the actions of the Doom Slayer's methods and a couple things about Hero Society.
    • The Doom Slayer's vicious handling of Shigaraki, the Steel Sabers, Wolfram's group and a random street gang ending with the latter three viciously slaughtered and the former with a re-attached arm with severe inability to use his Quirk in that hand is considered normal to him. To everyone else, from civilians, heroes and even villains? Disturbing, traumatic and horrifying, as despite him not killing any civilians or harming them, he is branded as an extremely dangerous serial killer by cops and heroes that has to be stopped.
    • Thou Shall Not Kill is also brutally deconstructed by using the Steel Sabers. As Nine explains to Wolfram in Chapter nine, the Steel Sabers engage in Flaw Exploitation on heroes 'no-killing' code, killing 246 heroes in their entire career. When Izuku says that the Slayer cannot keep killing like this, VEGA gently reminds him that A: The Steel Sabers were mercenaries that engaged in war crimes, not average thugs robbing a convenience store. And B: Killing them was the only option there was available, unless Izuku is saying that they should be allowed to kill more heroes and civilians, shutting down the kid upon him likely realizing that he was essentially arguing for more heroes to die.
  • New Stars is a crossover between The Orville and Star Wars: The Clone Wars where an OC (a Republic clone named Maxx) ends up trapped in another universe. The fic shows exactly how wrong the treatment of the Republic's clones is (outright calling it slavery).
  • No Chance for Fate is a serious deconstruction of not only the Fuku Fic but also of the source material Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon. The standard plots for this kind of crossover are either outright averted or subverted, often mixed with lampshade hanging or snarky mocking. The absurd plot points of the source material are dissolved in Surprisingly Realistic Outcome and of course add more snarking. Yet, all this manages to show the true strength of the heroes, who still fight for the right cause.
  • Peace of Mind, Piece of Heart is a deconstruction of Tough Love. Catra attempts this with a cat girl named Marmalade she meets in her second car, forcibly pushing the scared child down a large slide. The kid gets hurt in the process, with Marmalade's friends and the child herself, calling out Catra for her unnecessary violence, causing Catra to run away out of guilt.
  • Practicing Medicine is this for Medic/Mercy shipping and crossovers between Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch in general, showing just how badly it would turn out if the two universes ever actually did meet. Mercy gets captured from her own time by the Medic, who becomes enamored by her. Unfortunately, being the Medic, his way of showing his "love" for Mercy is medical experimentation on her without anesthesia Meet the Medic style and repeatedly regrowing and harvesting her organs, because he and the rest of the RED Team are too comically violent and/or insane to care.
  • A Red Rose in the Blue Wind: Akin to Samurai Jack's "Jack vs Aku", Sonic points out to Eggman in the first chapter about how formulaic their encounters have become with The Good Guys Always Win and Eggman's tendency to lose control over whatever Sealed Evil in a Can he unleashes before asking if they can skip the Final Boss phase and just have him surrender for once. In this instance, Eggman agrees as his motivation for the entire scheme is to move to Remnant and start the Eggman Empire there so he doesn't have to do the same song and dance with Sonic.
  • Remnant Inferis: DOOM, which crosses over the visceral and bloody Doom (2016) with the much tamer and softer RWBY, has many aspects of both sides looked at and dissected.
    • Battle Aura is the Soul enveloping the body to protect it from harm. As the Slayer points out, a body should be protecting the soul, not the other way around. So, what happens when Aura comes into contact with anything that can cause the soul immense pain like Demonic Possession or Argent Energy? It hurts like Hell.
    • The Soulless characteristic of the Creatures of Grimm effectively makes them free real estate for the demons, as with a soul, a being can resist possession, however weakly. Since Grimm lack this, they just end up being power ups for demons.
    • Bloodless Carnage gets put through the ringer by having this trope completely averted to Hell and back for battles against the Slaves Of Doom. The RWBY characters, especially at the Volume 1 mark, have never been in such grueling circumstances due to Grimm simply disappearing and never bleeding, coupled with the students having never seen blood in such disturbing ways before. So, when the blood spills in such ways that even Mortal Kombat would cringe at, cue the many instances of Break the Cutie.
    • Ruby's attitude as a Wide-Eyed Idealist makes her incredible naive and unprepared for such a situation as fighting the literal forces of Hell. When the demons start their invasion and the corpses start piling up, she does everything she can to maintain a positive attitude, but it becomes clear that it's all a front to hide how horrified she is by the bloodshed. Worse still, all of this leads to her beginning to develop sadistic rage and blood-lust toward the Slaves of Doom.
    • The Slayer himself is a ruthless, aggressive, wrathful, foul-mouthed One-Man Army. All of these traits just make everyone afraid of him at best and hateful of him at worst.
  • Sleeping with the Girls brutally deconstructs the Self-Insert Fic by demonstrating just what would happen if a person from the real world got sent to various anime worlds, but the rules of the real world applied to that person. It also demonstrates why having a Genre Savvy person from the real world in an anime world may not be the best thing for said anime world.
  • The The Boys (2019)/Superman crossover A Supe of a Man shreds apart elements of both franchises.
    • The Kent family comes from the relatively Lighter and Softer DC Universe, and through them, one can see how relatively normal people would be disturbed and exhausted by the corruption and opportunism of The Boys universe. Jonathan and Martha are annoyed with their son being used as a tool and Clark himself is exhausted at being used by others as a show pony.
    • When Clark is an adult, he's subject to countless rumors describing him as a hedonistic monster who has a great PR team working to keep his positive reputation intact because people (especially those at Vought) have difficulty comprehending the idea of someone as powerful as Superman not abusing his powers.
    • The subplot with Lois Lane shows how dangerous it is to be an honest reporter in the world of The Boys: Vought is rich enough to buy up any independent media outlet and clamp down on dissent. And if financial security isn't enough to silence you, a Supe could straight up assassinate you and cover up your death.
  • Even ignoring the infamous The Bitter End, the Tenchi Solution of A Very Scary Thought was almost averted due to the fiancées' Taking Advantage of Generosity and Ranma himself has been called out for being so passive. Failure Is the Only Option for Nabiki and Ranma of Quantum Destinies due to her gaining the memories and experiences of her pre Character Development AVST counterpart and tries to get a Ranma who did the same thing with his canon counterpart to toe the line. Even Genma and Soun have been shown to put their foot down from time to time.
  • The Wedding Crashers is a crossover between Supernatural and The Twilight Saga that introduces the Winchesters and Castiel into the Twilght universe as friends of Leah just in time to attend Jacob and Renesmee's wedding, showing how the more-normal Sam and Dean react to a lot of things in the Twilight universe (imprinting, sparkling, the attitudes of the Cullens and their allies, the Cullens' spending habits, how little most characters in the series care about humanity) and finally blows up in the best possible way.
  • When Life Gives You Lemons (Worm/Portal) specifically deconstructs the Portal side of the crossover, more specifically the history of Aperture Science. In-game, Cave's description of his company's many experiments and failed products comes across as amusing due to just how insane the ideas are and how insane Cave himself is to believe in them. The fanfic shows that not only are many of the experiments such as Mantis-Men real, they're also incredibly dangerous. And then Osiris makes Taylor hallucinate to show her the history of Aperture Science. Narration by Cave lifted directly from the game about voluntary experimental human surgery is a lot less amusing when it's playing over a shrieking test subject begging the laughing scientists to stop their Meatgrinder Surgery.
  • White Devil of the Moon makes Nanoha Takamachi the reincarnation of Princess Serenity instead of Usagi and proceeds to poke holes at all the reincarnation plot points in Sailor Moon.
    • The spell that was supposed to reincarnate Serenity and the Sailor Senshi was supposed to allow them to be reborn at arround the same time in the same location. Due to a mistake, Serenity is born as Nanoha earlier than the others and far away from them. As a result, she ends up going through her first two adventures as normal, which leads to her picking up a career off-planet. Thus, the Senshi are unable to find her, and without her power, they are stuck in a stalemate with the Dark Kingdom for a year-and-a-half, which they would eventually lose to attrition without anything to tip the scales.
    • When Nanoha's memories as Serenity start coming to her during a visit to the ruined Moon Kingdom, Nanoha has a scathing assessment of her past-life, pointing out how all of her actions involving her romance with Endymion could have led to one incident or another. Serenity's perceived irresponsibility clashes with Nanoha's own extreme sense of responsibility so much that Nanoha absoulutely rejects the idea of being anything like her past self.
    • The Reincarnation Romance between Serenity and Endymion's reincarnations does not work out. Nanoha does feel some attraction to Mamoru at first due to resonance with her past life, but once they actually go out on a date, they find that they have absolutely no chemistry with each other, and Mamoru only really knows about Serenity, whose likes and personality are vastly different from Nanoha's. And as the final nail in the coffin, she already has such a relationship with Fate that all their friends were betting on when it would happen rather than if. Learning about this makes Mamoru realize that he had no chance with Nanoha.
  • The fic Zulu Squad no Tsukaima is another deconstruction of "crossover character X" becoming Louise's familiar, in that the Zulu Squad sergeant from Spec Ops: The Line ended up in Halkeginia because Louise performed the summon familiar rite twice. He ends up being more of a bodyguard than a familiar/slave/romantic interest. Being a Spec Ops: The Line crossover, it also deconstructs crossover fics by subverting the War Is Glorious aspect by showing the real horrors of fighting a medieval war with modern weapons.
  • This short comic deconstructs the Abusive Parents in both The Simpsons and Family Guy by showing Bart and Chris as adults in couples' therapy. Bart getting picked on for being stupid and Homer choking him out all the time have caused Bart to have low self-esteem, so he act outs to try and push people away. On the flip side, Chris is traumatized from watching his parents abuse his sister so harshly, causing her to leave home at age 18 and break all contact with her family, something that makes Chris feel guilty. As a result, he freezes up during conflict with Bart because Bart's insults remind Chris of his dad. Their counselor is none other than Bobby Hill, who calls his dad after the session to show appreciation for him being a Good Parent.

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