History GenreDeconstruction / WebOriginal

*** To wit, it shows exactly what kind of person would be a HaremSeeker, the lack of emotional maturity it entails, and how unhealthy a dynamic it would be if they ''did'' gain a harem. Jayce treats his harem not as equal partners but as a means for sexual gratification, and the emotional depth of their relationships is shallow at best. Alexis, when trying to recall a time where she and Jayce had anything close to a conversation, comes up short.
*** TopWife also takes a hit as it shows how much unrequited emotional labor it takes to reach that position, and how it’s simply a hollow title at best as you can quickly be demoted at a mere whim. Alexis, the protagonist and former TopWife of Jayce, compares it to being treated like a favorite toy rather than equal and outright calls it a pyramid scheme. The infighting and jockeying for this position is also depicted as a means to distract the women from realizing how abusive their mutual lover is.

*** TopWife also takes a hit as it shows how much unrequited emotional labor it takes to reach that position, and how it’s simply a hollow title at best as you can quickly be demoted at a mere whim. Alexis, the protagonist and former TopWife of Jayce, compares it to being treated as a favorite toy rather than an equal and compares it to a pyramid scheme. The infighting and jockeying for this position is also depicted as a means to distract the women from realizing how abusive their mutual lover is.

*** The worst part? They can’t even leave Jayce without either facing social ruin or worse. Jayce is likened to a parasite who infests your internal organs to the point where removal would mean the death of the host. When Alexis escapes in the beginning, she has to face obstacles such as ostracization, slander, and [[spoiler: outright attempts on her life in the Faedra Arc]] while she’s trying to rebuild her life.

''The Witch of the Invalides'' tears every common power fantasy SelfInsertFic and Isekai trope a new one and then some by showing it from the perspective of the former love interest of the protagonist.

*** To wit, it shows exactly what kind of person would be a HaremSeeker, the lack of emotional maturity it entails, and how unhealthy a dynamic it would be if they ''did'' gain a harem. Jayce treats his harem not as equal partners but as a means for sexual gratification, and the emotional depth of their relationships are shallow at best as most bonding outside of sexual activities involve extravagant gifts and acting as arm candy. Alexis, when trying to recall a time where she and Jayce had anything close to a conversation, comes up short.

*** To wit, it shows exactly what kind of person would be a HaremSeeker, the lack of emotional maturity it entails, and how unhealthy a dynamic it would be if they ''did'' gain a harem. Jayce treats his harem not as equal partners but as a means for sexual gratification, and the emotional depth of their relationships are shallow at best as most bonding outside of sexual activities involve extravagant gifts and acting as arm candy.

** And by humanity's own good meaning that the fantastical creatures that roam the earth are not only nightmare inducing but can bring fourth the end of the world as we know it. Yet no matter how much effort the organization put in containing such creatures/artifacts the end result is tragically inevitable.

* The Flash games [[http://tinysubversions.com/game/ywhtwt/ "You Were Hallucinating the Whole Time"]] and [[http://tinysubversions.com/videogamemoralityplay/ "Video Game Morality Play"]] attempt to deconstruct games that make heavy usage of YouBastard, such as VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine, by showing how such games often get their points across by [[BlamedForBeingRailroaded removing the player's sense of agency]], making use of [[ShockingSwerve Shocking Swerves]], or equating virtual violence with real violence.

* The Flash games [[http://tinysubversions.com/game/ywhtwt/ "You Were Hallucinating the Whole Time"]] and [[http://tinysubversions.com/videogamemoralityplay/ "Video Game Morality Play"]] attempt to deconstruct games that make heavy usage of YouBastard, such as VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine, by showing how such games often get their points across by [[BlamedForBeingRailroaded removing the player's sense of agency]], making use of [[ShockingSwerve ShockingSwerves]], or equating virtual violence with real violence.

* [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine Moralizing "art" games]] [[YouBastard that blame the player for virtual violence]] are [[http://tinysubversions.com/game/ywhtwt/ mocked by applying the same logic to classic video games]] to show how absolutely ridiculous blaming a player for computer-generated, unrealistic violence is.
** [[http://tinysubversions.com/videogamemoralityplay/ Video Game Morality Play]] shows how absolutely simplistic this is by turning the player into either an actual human being who actually has a life outside video games, or [[StrawCharacter a strawman who is forced to spout the developer's viewpoints until the game "wins".]]

** During the ITTL 1970s, the two party system slowly shatters. But rather than leading to more efficient, responsive government, it leads to political chaos, as the political system has not been reformed to deal with the change. Due to a third party run by George [=McGovern=] and George Wallace, the 1972 election results in there being no winner in the Electoral College, leading to a political clusterfuck [[spoiler: that allows Spiro Agnew to slither into office.]] As the political and economic problems of the 1970s persist, new political parties form, but they create further confusion, since the winner take all system turns them into spoilers that result in unexpected and unwanted results: [[spoiler: Spiro Agnew, for example, becomes Mayor of New York because of the divisions between left wing parties]], and Harvey Johnson, a liberal black man, is able to become a Mississippi Senator due to a division between right wing forces. [[spoiler: In 1980, Donald Rumsfeld, without winning the most popular votes, manages to win the Electoral College due to this same political division between Democrats and the left-wing We The People. In 1984, he is able use this same division to get away with rigging the election and drive the Democrats into the ground]].

** During the ITTL 1970s, the two party system slowly shatters. But rather than leading to more efficient, responsive government, it leads to political chaos, as the political system has not been reformed to deal with the change. Due to a third party runs by George [=McGovern=] and George Wallace, the 1972 election results in there being no winner in the Electoral College, leading to a political clusterfuck [[spoiler: that allows Spiro Agnew to slither into office.]] As the political and economic problems of the 1970s persist, new political parties form, but they create further confusion, since the winner take all system turns them into spoilers that result in unexpected and unwanted results: [[spoiler: Spiro Agnew, for example, becomes Mayor of New York because of the divisions between left wing parties]], and Harvey Johnson, a liberal black man, is able to become a Mississippi Senator due to a division between right wing forces. [[spoiler: In 1980, Donald Rumsfeld, without winning the most popular votes, manages to win the Electoral College due to this same political division between Democrats and the left-wing We The People. In 1984, he is able use this same division to get away with rigging the election and drive the Democrats into the ground]].

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': A destruction of Biblical apocalypse. The apocalypse is resisted by most of humanity, with only a minority choosing to accept the end. The unstoppable Demon hoards, while individually physically more powerful than the average human, are '''[[CurbstompBattle annihilated]]''' by modern weapons, and their extreme evil and backwardness means cooperation and experimentation hamper them constantly. Angels are hardly better off, their only major advantage being their ability to keep humanity out of Heaven. [[spoiler: But they soon lose that advantage, and God is brought down by an angel himself]]. The seven bowls are damaging at a societal scale, but not enough to completely annihilate civilization. Heaven itself is not-so-wonderful, due to the medieval mindset of most angels meaning it only provides what was considered plentiful in a ''medieval'' society: crops, shelter, and protection from bandits, but it contains none of the technologies or political ideals that modern people enjoy.

* [[http://www.digital-brilliance.com/necron/necron.htm This website]] deconstructs the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, specifically the Necronomicon. In essense it asks "what if it was a real book?" and builds from there, by looking for paralels between Judeo-Christian tradition and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos (The Old Ones = The Giants from Genesis), it creates the content of the book, it then asks "what kind of person would write about such things in 730 AD?", thus Abdul Alhazred is what the Koran calls a "Sabian" and what western biblical scholars call a "Gnostic" a person with religous views related too, but radically different from mainstream Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It then builds a comprehesive history of how it got from the middle east and into the hands of western Occultists, and finally makes the assumption that while, yes Lovecraft wrote about it, he got only the name and the the author correct, having never read the book itself.

* ''Literature/FunnyBusiness'' deconstructs both the trope of [[GooGooGodlike a small child having godlike power]] ''and'' [[EnfantTerrible the most common way of doing so]]. The main character [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler is quickly revealed]] to be a RealityWarper, but she seems nice enough and doesn't appear to abuse her power all that much. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:when she was a child, she acted more or less like [[Literature/ItsAGoodLife Anthony Fremont]], causing people who annoyed her to disappear. However, this is only because a toddler doesn't have the mental or moral development to act unselfishly, and when she grows older [[note]]we're talking three years old, here[[/note]] she is disgusted with herself for having been an EnfantTerrible and develops a major GuiltComplex over anything.]]

** The [[HeroAntagonist hero is the antagonist]], a SmugSuper, JerkJock womanizer who believes that, because he is superpowerful, he's better than everyone else and is only too happy to display it. He further believes that only people who are like him can be heroic, and anyone who's nerdy or unpopular is a potential supervillain. It's strongly implied that this behavior is what drives people like the villain to become evil in the first place.

* ''[[{{WebOriginal/Takotsubo}} Takotsubo: The story of a superhero]]'' is a massive deconstruction of the superhero genre's [[MonochromeCasting lack of racial diversity]]. It follows the Chinese-American Cord Cai, [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang a gangster]] who'd be a stereotypical villain in much of American media. While he goes through the classic SuperheroOrigin story by losing his fiance Roland Fujii in a botched carjacking, it's played as Cord's DespairEventHorizon after a long list of family hardships, racism, and homophobia, and he shoots the murderer in revenge [[PoliceAreUseless after the police fuck up on Roland's case]]. Cord knows perfectly well that he's feeding Asian-American stereotypes, but [[TragicVillain he thinks he's not good enough for anything else.]] However, while he views himself as a failure and a stereotype, his gang [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters works with the police to clean up Oakland's street crime]] and numerous people ask him for help as they would a superhero.

* [[http://www.digital-brilliance.com/necron/necron.htm This website]] deconstructs the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, specifically the Necronomicon. In essense it asks "what if it was a real book?" and builds from there, by looking for paralels between Judeo-Christian tradition and the CthulhuMythos (The Old Ones = The Giants from Genesis), it creates the content of the book, it then asks "what kind of person would write about such things in 730 AD?", thus Abdul Alhazred is what the Koran calls a "Sabian" and what western biblical scholars call a "Gnostic" a person with religous views related too, but radically different from mainstream Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It then builds a comprehesive history of how it got from the middle east and into the hands of western Occultists, and finally makes the assumption that while, yes Lovecraft wrote about it, he got only the name and the the author correct, having never read the book itself.

* ''Literature/FunnyBusiness'' deconstructs both the trope of [[GooGooGodlike a small child having godlike power]] ''and'' [[EnfantTerrible the most common way of doing so]]. The main character [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler is quickly revealed]] to be a RealityWarper, but she seems nice enough and doesn't appear to abuse her power all that much. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:when she was a child, she acted more or less like [[ItsAGoodLife Anthony Fremont]], causing people who annoyed her to disappear. However, this is only because a toddler doesn't have the mental or moral development to act unselfishly, and when she grows older [[note]]we're talking three years old, here[[/note]] she is disgusted with herself for having been an EnfantTerrible and develops a major GuiltComplex over anything.]]

* ''SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition'' takes apart the very concept of LetsPlay. It starts by creating a game that [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs gradually gets more insane and bizarre as time goes on]], adds a narrator who spits out random nonsequiturs, all while parodying 90s pop culture. [[{{Postmodernism}} Then it starts playing with the]] FourthWall [[{{Postmodernism}} by having the narrator get in a conversation with an in game character, and making it unclear whether it's the narrator or the player character itself who's talking.]] The final boss fight consists of the player jumping on the word "logic" while the narrator says "Check it out! It's the last piece of logic left! ...Screw that noise."

** Per WordOfGod, the sequel is largely a Deconstruction of Tea Party conservative social and economic ideas being put into place, vs. what the kind of president Ronald Reagan. During the 1980s, these policies [[spoiler: turn America into a corporatist-authoritarian hellhole under the presidency of Donald Rumsfeld. By the tail end of his term, his deregulation of the economy is so severe, the corporate figures that backed him support his impeachment]].

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation Wiki, although beginning as a creepypasta site, has largely evolved into a deconstruction on the UrbanFantasy genre, depicting a shadowy organization entirely devoted to capturing and imprisoning all of those magicians, psychics, and mystic artifacts that populate said settings, to maintain the status quo. It is made abundantly clear that this is for humanity's own good.

* The WhateleyUniverse is a deceonstruction of the classic superhero/supervillain tropes, with mutants who have to obey real physical laws, some supervillains like Dr. Diabolik who are pretty far from the classic villain, and even some supers who are far from the classic hero.

* Who could forget [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY this]] remarkable deconstruction of ''SuperMarioBros''?

* Another story on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', was written as an attempt to make a more realistic version of Creator/SMStirling's [[Literature/TheDraka Draka]] series, which the author saw as wildly implausible in how its evil, mass-enslaving [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South African]] empire is able to conquer the world while everybody else clings tight to the IdiotBall until it is too late. In this version, instead of South Africa, it's the United States that becomes TheEmpire after a disastrous loss in the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 that sees New England and New York secede and British Canada claim a large swath of the Midwest, leaving a rump nation that is dominated by the planter aristocrats of the DeepSouth. This national humiliation leads to the rise of a proto-fascist, white supremacist ideology that justifies conquering 'lesser' peoples in Latin America as putting them in their 'rightful place', with a string of highly competent leaders able to put this plan into practice. UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire tries to check their expansion spree, though [[TheBadGuyWins it does little good in the end]]. By 1933, the US is the master of the Western Hemisphere and starting to extend its tendrils into Africa, the only independent nations left in the Americas having all been hopelessly Finlandized. ''Everybody'' in the world is fully aware of how evil they are, and the fact that they couldn't put aside their petty differences in order to stop this monstrosity, instead letting the Americans consolidate their brutal rule in South America while they were distracted slugging it out in the Great War, is regarded as a tragedy of biblical proportions.* The Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom story, ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo'', viciously deconstructs several themes in alternate history.
** During the ITTL 1970s, the two party system slowly shatters. But rather than leading to more efficient, responsive government, it leads to political chaos, as the political system has not been reformed to deal with the change. Due to a third party runs by George [=McGovern=] and George Wallace, the 1972 election results in there being no winner in the Electoral College, leading to a political clusterfuck [[spoiler: that allows Spiro Agnew to slither into office.]] As the political and economic problems of the 1970s persist, new political parties form, but they create further confusion, since the winner take all system turns them into spoilers that result in unexpected and unwanted results: [[spoiler: Spiro Agnew, for example, becomes Mayor of New York because of the divisions between left wing parties]], and Harvey Johnson, a liberal black man, is able to become a Senator due to a division. [[spoiler: In 1980, Donald Rumsfeld, without winning the most popular votes, manages to win the Electoral College due to this same political division between Democrats and the left-wing We The People. In 1984, he is able use this same division to get away with rigging the election and drive the Democrats into the ground]].
** ITTL, the US is able to win the Vietnam War, that is to say, secure South Vietnam's independence. While this does to lead to celebration, it results in the US adopting a more bellicose and interventionist foreign policy. [[spoiler: By the 1980s, the US is expending resources and lives invading and propping up anti-communist regimes, and Donald Rumsfeld's anticommunist drive is so lunatic, he alienates Western Europeans who want peace with the USSR, leading to the collapse of NATO]].

* Another story on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', was written as an attempt to make a more realistic version of Creator/SMStirling's [[Literature/TheDraka Draka]] series, which the author saw as wildly implausible in how its evil, mass-enslaving [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra South African]] empire is able to conquer the world while everybody else clings tight to the IdiotBall until it is too late. In this version, instead of South Africa, it's the United States that becomes TheEmpire after a disastrous loss in the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 that sees New England and New York secede and British Canada claim a large swath of the Midwest, leaving a rump nation that is dominated by the planter aristocrats of the DeepSouth. This national humiliation leads to the rise of a proto-fascist, white supremacist ideology that justifies conquering 'lesser' peoples in Latin America as putting them in their 'rightful place', with a string of highly competent leaders able to put this plan into practice. UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire tries to check their expansion spree, though [[TheBadGuyWins it does little good in the end]]. By 1933, the US is the master of the Western Hemisphere and starting to extend its tendrils into Africa, the only independent nations left in the Americas having all been hopelessly Finlandized. ''Everybody'' in the world is fully aware of how evil they are, and the fact that they couldn't put aside their petty differences in order to stop this monstrosity, instead letting the Americans consolidate their brutal rule in South America while they were distracted slugging it out in the Great War, is regarded as a tragedy of biblical proportions.

* ''SailorNothing'' loves showing just how jarringly, horrifically, nightmarishly different the characters' lives are from MagicalGirl anime. Several of them even watch an exaggerated, stereotypical version of such shows; the main character actually watches it to escape her life.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' deconstructs the idea of BlackAndWhiteMorality in what originally seems to be a generic fight between superheroes and supervillains. The reality is that, while a good percentage of supervillains are jerks, most of them aren't actually evil. Likewise, the heroes often aren't as good as the world sees them. The main character, a girl who wants to be a superhero, is quickly disillusioned with the heroes and decides that she'd rather have villains watching her back, and being seen as a villain herself is an easy price to pay for actually doing the right thing.
** It also deconstructs TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening by examining what it's like to live in a world where that is the ''only'' way people have superpowers. Superpowers only awaken from trauma bad enough to leave people with major, long-term emotional scars, like PTSD, a loss of ability to feel emotion, or being unable to relate to other humans, and it's later explicitly confirmed that the powers themselves are deliberately made to constantly remind and press on that trauma.
** PersonalityPowers are heavily deconstructed by looking at what it actually means for someone to have the type of personality that is reflected in less standard powers. The character with dog-focused powers can no longer relate to humans, as her mind has been rewired with dog social structures, the FlyingBrick with EmotionBomb powers that cause everyone to love or fear her is one of the most arrogant people in the setting, the bug controller main character becomes increasingly good at commanding others at the cost of seeing the world as tools to be used, and a woman who was a ChildSoldier has the power of an [[ClingyMacGuffin always on-hand]] SituationalSword and stuck on permanent high alert completely unable to dream, and unable to sleep without significant effort.