History DeconstructedTrope / WesternAnimation

** The infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer" is a brutal deconstruction of DisproportionateRetribution. The plot revolves around the stock plot about everyone in Springfield getting angry at Bart over something very minor, this case being losing a simple softball game. However, it turns Bart into an emotional and psychological wreck and ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to near-suicide]]. It's often seen as one of the darkest, meanest and saddest episodes of the series.

** The there's "At Long Last Leave" which shows that everyone in Springfield has had enough of the Simpsons. The town is bankrupt by Homer and Bart's destructive antics, and are annoyed with Lisa shoving her ideas into everyone's faces, and boot them out of town.

* YoungJustice deconstructs the KidHero 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 resorted to nothing more than shell shocked veterans and unlike the comics death is played very straight as you actually have members of the team 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.

** "Conjoined Fetus Lady" deconstructs InspirationallyDisadvantaged as all the special treatment the titular lady gets just makes her feel like even more of a freak.

** In the deceptively named episode “Deconstructing Arnold”, they seem to deconstruct TheMessiah: When {{Tsundere}} Helga points out that Arnold is [[MoralGuardian always giving unsolicited advice to other kids]], [[StopHavingFunGuy spoiling their fun]], AndThatsTerrible. After every other kid (included best friend Gerald) agrees, Arnold decides to stop helping others. Then we discover… that Arnold is still the same good, happy kid. He’s not a BrokenMessiah or a MessiahCreep. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor However, the kids still have problems and since they cannot go to Arnold]]. [[LetsSeeYOUDoBetter So they go to the genius that suggested Arnold to stop in the first place]]. 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 [[BeingGoodSucks they would have the humility and strength of character to face the pain to their ego that involves to do the right thing]], [[HumansAreBastards instead of the doing the easy thing,]] and Arnold wasn’t TheMessiah because he gave advice, he gave advice because he was TheMessiah, truly loving and caring for others and encouraging the kids to do the obvious, painful right thing, while Helga solution’s always involve being a JerkAss [[AnAesop and that never solves any problem.]] The trope deconstructed was HumansAreFlawed and TheMessiah was [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and [[ReconstructedTrope reconstructed]]. [[VetinariJobSecurity The episode ends with Helga asking Arnold to be TheMessiah again]].

* ''TheSwanPrincess'' deconstructed ShesAllGrownUp. The Prince and the Princess were reluctant to have their marriage arranged since they were kids. They meet each other again as young adults and the Prince immediately consents to the marriage after seeing how beautiful the Princess had become. She is instead offended because of how quickly his mind changed.

* ''SouthPark'': "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" deconstructs TeacherStudentRomance (especially examples with younger children) by portraying the teacher in the relationship as incredibly delusional and manipulative.

** The infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer" is a brutal deconstruction of DisproportionateRetribution. The plot revolves around the stock plot about everyone in Springfield getting angry at Bart over something very minor, this case being a simple softball game. Howaver, it turns Bart into an emotional and psychological wreck and ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to near-suicide]]. It's often seen as one of the darkest, meanest and saddest episodes of the series.

** The infamous episode "The Boys of Bummer" is a brutal deconstruction of DisproportionateRetribution. The plot revolves around the stock plot about everyone in Springfield getting angry at Bart over something very minor, this case being a simple softball game. Howaver, it turns Bart into an emotional and psychological wreck and ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to near-suicide]]. It's often seen as one of the darkest, meanest and saddest episodes in the series.

* ''SouthPark'': "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" deconstructs HotForStudent[=/=]TeacherStudentRomance by portraying the teacher as delusional and manipulative.

* 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]].

* ''TheSwanPrincess'' deconstructed ShesAllGrownUp. The Prince and the Princess were reluctant to have their marriage arranged since they were kids. They meet each other again as young adults and the Prince immediately consents to the marriage after seeing how beautiful the Princess had become. She is instead offended because of how quickly his mind changed.

* The EdEddNEddy finale movie deconstructs AmusingInjuries in a hard way, in which Eddy recieves [[spoiler: a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from his older brother.]] It's deconstriucted 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.]]

* ''HeyArnold'' deconstructs PuritySue and with Olga Pataki, Helga's sister. In order to keep your [[ProperLady "pretty, intelligent, sweet, absolutely beloved young girl"]] image, you're likely to end up as a perfectionist, weepy, [[StepfordSmiler perpetually smily]], ''dangerously'' out-of-reality mess who [[HeroicBSOD will break down to melodramatic levels]] the very moment something doesn't seem to fit in such a bubble of perfection, while being almost completely unable to connect with people far more "flawed" than yourself.

** The season one finale, "The Best Night Ever" does this to Fluttershy's FriendToAllLivingThings nature. When she encounters cute little animals that ''don't'' immediately want to be her friends, she quickly becomes unhinged and aggressive; chasing them, screaming at them to come out, trying to trap them in a net with an EvilLaugh...it peaks when she chases all of them into the ballroom while demanding that they love her.

** "Over A Barrel" deconstructs ThatRemindsMeOfASong, when Pinkie's song actually makes things worse, twice, and nearly results in the destruction of Appleoosa, by the buffalo who wanted the town gone.

* 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.

* The KidHero trope is deconstructed in ''ReturnOfTheJoker''. Being a youngster who fights evil won't spare you from [[spoiler: the torture and brainwashing MindRape you'll receive once you end up in the claws of a sadistic, murderous, amorally psychopath. If you ''do'' survive it, you'll completly lose your sanity, it will take years of therapy to cure you, and you've to live with [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] through the rest of your life]].

** "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 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.

* ''{{Recess}}'' has an episode of a new boy in their school who turns out to be a MarySue. He's a nice kid but the others want to challenge him so he ends up doing his best but that leads to the others seeing how he's better at everything they can do. They end up hating him for it and he's sad to have to deal with the fact that to be himself he can't have friends. He tells them this, which makes them more understanding, and leaves the school.

** "Party Of One" did the same to Pinkie Pie with her role as the GenkiGirl. Parties are her way of self-validation and she immediately goes to "[[{{Wangst}} they don't like me anymore"]] when everypony lies to avoid her and her parties.

** The episode where a graveyard was built next the Simpson home deconstructed WiseBeyondTheirYears. Lisa is scared out of her mind because she never learnt to handle her childish fears.

* 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 AdultChild...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.

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic has a habit of deconstructing tropes in the process of teaching its [[AnAesop aesops]]: