History DeconstructedTrope / Film

* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' is noted for deconstructing Kirk's trademark of TakeAThirdOption - sometimes there really ''is'' no alternative, and he's going to have to live with it (and in Star Trek: Into Darkness, which is [[spoiler:basically a remake, to die for it. His death is temporary, true, but nobody knows it at the time]]).

** Also the MightyWhitey is deconstructed as well. Wikus becomes a friend of the aliens, who are supposed to play the poor black folks in alien costumes in this movie, but he becomes everything but mighty or special. He only becomes a friend to the aliens out of self-interest and fear for his life, not sympathy for their struggle against the monstrous mean humans. He dosen't become their charismatic leader or the most badass member of their species but just another bit-player forced to run and hide from the oppressors through the rest of his life.
* Steven Spielberg's ''Film/{{Hook}}'' deconstructs GrowingUpSucks: while it's vital that Peter rediscover his inner child, a big theme of the film is that there ''are'' inherent advantages to adulthood. [[spoiler: Peter grew up in the first place to finally fall in love, get married, and have kids; the memory of becoming a father turns out to be the happy thought that restores his ability to fly.]]
** As in all Spielberg's movies, the relationship between father and son is important and implies [[InvisibleParents bad stuff]] most of time.

* ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' deconstructs RelationshipSabotage and ProtagonistCenteredMorality. ClingyJealousGirl Julianne [[WhatTheHellHero gets completely chewed out for her actions]] to "steal" the guy she loves from his girlfriend, the GayBestFriend constantly tells her her idea is stupid, the NiceGuy is upset when Hell breaks loose, and [[spoiler: when the VillainProtagonist has to confront the other girl on the shit she did to her, ''all'' the women in the scene side with said girl and call the other girl "bitch", "slut" and "couple breaker" in the most hilariously awesome way ever possible.]]

* BruceLee's ''Film/FistOfFury'' shows the hero's RoaringRampageOfRevenge escalating the violence rather than stopping it, to the point that [[spoiler: by the end of the movie, TheHero is a completely broken man who has lost everything in his desire for revenge... including his girlfriend and his family, [[StuffedIntoTheFridge who have been brutally slain by the enemy]]. In the end, he kills the BigBad and soon turns himself in to the police, [[DespairEventHorizon having nothing left to live for]].]]

** ''Scream'' also deconstructs FinalGirl by showing Sydney become increasingly terrified by each encounter. She survives the murder attempts and tells her stories to the world; but now she has to fear the next dumb fuck who wants to be the next Ghostface. She becomes increasingly detached from reality out of fear of her own life.

* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is a deconstruction of classic HollywoodTactics with usually gory results. Trying to out-ZergRush a faction that would make the actual Zerg proud? As in sending in millions of unprotected infantry without any support whatsoever? Or, never asking for space freighters to transport the infantry on the planet around? Placing all your space ships as close as possible to each other so the enemy anti-orbital artillery can conveniently land hit after hit? Yes, all of those are done by the humans and all of those end in utter failure. The bugs on the other hand are incredibly adept when it comes to tactics in this movie series.

* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' is a deconstruction of classic HollywoodTactics with usually gory results. Trying to out-ZergRush a faction that would make the actual Zerg proud? As in sending in millions of unprotected infantry without any support whatsoever? Or, never asking for space freighters to transport the infantry on the planet around? Placing all your space ships as close as possible to each other so the enemy anti-orbital artillery can conveniently land hit after hit? Yes, all of those are done by the humans and all of those end in utter failure. The bugs on the other hand are incredibly DangerouslyGenreSavvy when it comes to tactics in this movie series.

* The WorldOfSnark trope that's been an enjoyable staple of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' is facing its own deconstruction from rival-produced ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' and and the upcoming ''Film/SuicideSquad''. Both films have wise-cracking comic-book characters as their protagonists, but instead of being heroes they're amoral mercenaries with personality disorders. When they take a pause during life-threatening situations with dozens of potential casualties to say or do something funny, it's used to show how sociopathic they are (but is still PlayedForLaughs).

* The WorldofSnark trope that's been an enjoyable staple of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is facing its own deconstruction from upcoming films Film/{{Deadpool}} and Film/SuicideSquad. Both films have wise-cracking comic-book characters as their protagonists, but instead of being heroes they're amoral mercenaries with personality disorders. When they take a pause during life-threatening situations with dozens of potential casualties to say or do something funny, it's used to show how sociopathic they are.

* Gretchen from ''Film/MeanGirls'' deconstructs SatelliteCharacter with the film developing Gretchen more than [[AlphaBitch Regina]] herself. She confesses to Cady that she's secretly miserable being Regina's friend and has to pretend to like or not like certain things to get Regina's approval. She is such an insecure mess that she is willing to put up with any amount of crap just to follow Regina (while bitterly seething throughout the whole time). At the end of the film, we learn that [[spoiler: she has learned Cantonese to join another clique]].

* ''Film/TheRunaways'' deconstructs FaceOfTheBand by showing how much the rest of the band resents the endless focus on Cherie Curie and how Cherie herself hates all the excessive spotlight, especially since she's still a teenager. And of course in this case the person being pushed as the FaceOfTheBand is only just the singer, while Joan Jett is the true Face hence why she kept her music career going. Bonus points for being based on fact too.

* ''Film/SkyHigh'' deconstructs the SideKick trope by showing how frustrating it is to be one.
** In fact, it deconstructs TheHero and SideKick dichotomy or in otherwise labels. It shows the insecurity of young high school students today and can lead to serious consequences like [[spoiler: Gwen Grayson or in otherwise known as Royal Pain.]]

* ''Film/MeanGirls'' deconstructed MistakenForGay in the story of why Janis and Regina became enemies. Regina became more popular and Janis felt she was being pushed out. Regina got tired of what she saw as Janis' clinginess and accused her of having a crush. This caused their friendship to unravel. Janis' "coming out" sounds so sarcastic it's hard to take serious.

* The third ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' film deconstructs the FreudianExcuse. Sidney's ShutUpHannibal to [[spoiler:Roman]] implies that the {{Freudian Excuse}}s of all the killers throughout the series are just that, excuses they use to cover for themselves and try to get sympathy when, in truth, they just enjoy killing people.
** Scream also deconstructs FinalGirl by showing Sydney become increasingly terrified by each encounter. She survives the murder attempts and tells her stories to the world; but now she has to fear the next dumb fuck who wants to be the next Ghostface. She becomes increasingly detached from reality out of fear of her own life.

* ''A Thin Line Between Love and Hate'' deconstructs TheCasanova trope. Martin Lawrence plays Darnell, a male chauvinist ladies man who has a habit of pursuing women and then throwing them to the side when he's done with them. He actively pursues a socialite named Brandi, who ''has'' suffered this treatment from men in the past before. After managing to [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrost the Ice Queen]], Darnell manages to start dating her....up until he's no longer interested because he'd rather hook up with his childhood friend. Although the movie starts off as a typically Romcom, it [[CerebusSyndrome it goes dark from this point.]]

* The Disney film ''Max Keeble's Big Move'' deconstructs RoaringRampageOfRevenge when he goes on this on his enemies after he finds out his family is moving. Its only later that he finds out that its his friends who will pay for what he did.

* ''The Runaways'' deconstructs FaceOfTheBand by showing how much the rest of the band resents the endless focus on Cherie Curie and how Cherie herself hates all the excessive spotlight, especially since she's still a teenager. And of course in this case the person being pushed as the FaceOfTheBand is only just the singer, while Joan Jett is the true Face hence why she kept her music career going. Bonus points for being based on fact too.

* ''WhipIt'' deconstructs the SatelliteLoveInterest. Oliver seems like he's 100% the trope, as his character seems tailor-made to fall for Bliss and [[RomanticPlotTumor not do much else]]. In the end, though, it turns out he was just trying to get into Bliss' pants (he even gives away her old t-shirt to a groupie), and she later chides herself for falling for the act.

* ''TheShopAroundTheCorner'' and its remake, ''YouveGotMail'', deconstructed TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in that saying this to the one you hate didn't make the lead female star feel better.

* BruceLee's ''Fist Of Fury'' shows the hero's RoaringRampageOfRevenge escalating the violence rather than stopping it, to the point that [[spoiler: by the end of the movie, TheHero is a completely broken man who has lost everything in his desire for revenge... including his girlfriend and his family, [[StuffedIntoTheFridge who have been brutally slain by the enemy]]. In the end, he kills the BigBad and soon turns himself in to the police, [[DespairEventHorizon having nothing left to live for]].]]
* ''Big Bully'' deconstructs BullyHunter. Davy has his bully Rosco arrested for stealing a moon rock... and years later finds out this ruined Rosco's life, when his family abandoned him to a reform school and grew up a pathetic milquetoast.

* The film ''RealSteel'' provides a deconstruction of the FinishingMove trope. During an underground fight, Charlie gains the upper hand with his new robot Noisy Boy, putting his opponent on the ropes. Confident that he's gained the advantage, Charlie has Noisy Boy wind up for a big finishing move... giving his opponent enough time to strike Noisy Boy in the chest, knocking him to the ground and turning the tide of the match.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys is brutally deconstructed with Solange from ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', who is married to Dimitrios and suffers through a loveless, unhappy marriage. Out of spite, she hooks up with Bond and laments to him that she had "so many chances to be happy" with "nice guys" but keeps being drawn towards bad men instead. Later in the film, her association with the man who helped orchestrate the bomb plot (Dimitrios) and the man who foiled it (Bond) is what got her tortured and killed.

** Scream also deconstructs FinalGirl by showing Sydney become increasingly terrified by each encounter. She survives the murder attempts and did tell her story to the world; and now she has to fear the next dumb fuck who wants to be the next Ghostface.

* A segment ''A is for Amateur'' from Film/ABCsOfDeath2 deconstruct AirVentPassageway trope from every action movies you ever saw in your life.

* The Icelandic film ''[[TheNightShift Bjarnfreðarson]]'' deconstructs the PointyHairedBoss trope by taking a comedy one from a comedy series and revealing him to be a RoundedCharacter with realistic and [[AbusiveParents deeply disturbing]] reasons for being the way he is to his underlings.

* ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding deconstructs RelationshipSabotage and ProtagonistCenteredMorality. ClingyJealousGirl Julianne [[WhatTheHellHero gets completely chewed out for her actions]] to "steal" the guy she loves from his girlfriend, the GayBestFriend constantly tells her her idea is stupid, the NiceGuy is upset when Hell breaks loose, and [[spoiler: when the VillainProtagonist has to confront the other girl on the shit she did to her, ''all'' the women in the scene side with said girl and call the other girl "bitch", "slut" and "couple breaker" in the most hilariously awesome way ever possible.]]

* ''SkyHigh'' deconstructs the SideKick trope by showing how frustrating it is to be one.

* ''TheresSomethingAboutMary'' shows how disruptive an UnwantedHarem can be on someone.

* ''KingRalph'' deconstructed RagsToRoyalty by showing how unprepared he is in running government, and how impossible it is for someone like him to change the traditions of the royal court.

* The [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] film "Anak ng Cabron" answers the question "What kind of man would possess the typical Filipino action hero qualities (masculine virility, master of his home, has no problem with violence)? The answer: a VillainProtagonist.

* ''ProjectX'' deconstructs the WildTeenParty trope. High school seniors Thomas, Costa, and J.B. (with their other friend Dax filming everything) throw a birthday party with the intent of finally becoming popular and getting laid. It ends with Thomas being indicted on 6 different charges, Costa awaiting the results of 3 paternity tests, J.B. being declared unfit to stand trial due to being special needs, and Dax under investigation for the disappearance of his parents.
* ''CantHardlyWait'' deconstructed several high school tropes like Amanda the popular girl [[note]]Never wanted to be popular and has spent the last 4 years without any real friends[[/note]] and Mike the FutureLoser [[note]]Realized he had ruined his life but messes up his chance to make things right with Amanda and William. He forgets his moment of clarity the next day and continues with his path to mediocrity. William gets his revenge on him years later but by then it no longer seems deserved, just cruel and unnecessary[[/note]].
* Gretchen from ''MeanGirls'' deconstructs SatelliteCharacter with the film developing Gretchen more than [[AlphaBitch Regina]] herself. She confesses to Cady that she's secretly miserable being Regina's friend and has to pretend to like or not like certain things to get Regina's approval. She is such an insecure mess that she is willing to put up with any amount of crap just to follow Regina (while bitterly seething throughout the whole time). At the end of the film, we learn that [[spoiler: she has learned Cantonese to join another clique]].

* ''PrivateBenjamin'' deconstructed BootCampEpisode by showing that while she overcame boot camp, we also see how the army changed her life.

* MyBestFriendsWedding deconstructs RelationshipSabotage and ProtagonistCenteredMorality. ClingyJealousGirl Julianne [[WhatTheHellHero gets completely chewed out for her actions]] to "steal" the guy she loves from his girlfriend, the GayBestFriend constantly tells her her idea is stupid, the NiceGuy is upset when Hell breaks loose, and [[spoiler: when the VillainProtagonist has to confront the other girl on the shit she did to her, ''all'' the women in the scene side with said girl and call the other girl "bitch", "slut" and "couple breaker" in the most hilariously awesome way ever possible.]]