History Main / DeconstructionCrossover

** ''LostGirls'', with art by Melinda Gebbie, crosses the stories of ''{{Alice in Wonderland}}'', ''{{Peter Pan}}'' and ''{{The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. The deconstructive part comes where instead of fantasy tales, they're all converted into similar stories of sexual awakening, often taking place when the girls are quite young [[spoiler:and sometimes with [[ParentalIncest family members]]]].

** ''LostGirls'', with art by Melinda Gebbie, crosses the stories of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz. The deconstructive part comes where instead of fantasy tales, they're all converted into similar stories of sexual awakening, often taking place when the girls are quite young [[spoiler: and sometimes with [[ParentalIncest family members]]]].

* ''BreakfastOfTheGods'' does this with [[BetterThanItSounds breakfast cereal mascots]].

* ''CheshireCrossing''. Three girls believed to be insane are all sent to a new place. A 'boarding school'. But the three girls are [[AliceInWonderland Alice Liddell]], [[PeterPan Wendy Darling]], and [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]]. And the 'teacher' is MaryPoppins. Has to be read, because it's definitely BetterThanItSounds.

A subtrope of MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, {{Deconstruction}} and sometimes {{Reconstruction}}. Also falls under WreckFic territory.

* The {{JLA-Avengers}} miniseries. To some degree it was an ExcusePlot for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny, but the series did have a plot, and it was all about the differences between the MarvelUniverse and TheDCU. Compared to the DCU, Marvel is a CrapsackWorld, and compared to Marvel, DC heroes are just one short, bad day away from BewareTheSuperman.

* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' did this with {{Toon}}s.
** The original novel, ''WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' was even DarkerAndEdgier.
*** It was probably the UrExample of this trope. The film, being much more well-known and popular, was probably the TropeMaker.

* The Novel [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlock Silverlock]] may well be the [[UrExample Oldest]] dating back to 1949. It contians characters and settings from Beowulf, Don Quoite, and countless others.
** Actually, it might be even older than that. Jonathan Swift wrote the satirical tract [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_a_Tub A Tale of a Tub]] in 1694. It does this with {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of different sects of Christianity, deconstructing what Swift saw as the "flaws" in each.

* The point of ''DrawnTogether'' was to be like this, they took [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of {{Superman}} (Captian Hero), [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] (Ling Ling), [[LegendOfZelda Link]] (Xandir), BettyBoop (Toot), JosieAndThePussycats (Foxxy), the {{Disney Princess}}es (Clara), SpongeBobSquarePants (Wooldoor) and vulgar flash cartoons (Spanky) and put them in one house as a Parody of every RealityShow ever made. Unfortunately it [[SeasonalRot quickly devolved]] into [[DeadBabyComedy dead baby humor]].

* The [[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/finalfightingfantasy Final Fighting Fantasy]] Flash series on NewGrounds does a good job at this. For the various FinalFantasy Characters, it starts off as what looks like a simple poorly writen fan fic, but quickly [[GrowingTheBeard grows the beard]] and becomes quite epic.
** Where to begin with this one! It turns out that the [[InfinityPlusOneSword legendary weapons]] of the games where created by the ancients as a way of manipulating the game's protagonists into defeating the forces of evil, and thus restoring balance, however, after evil was defeated, the good guys can't stay around any longer, because they would tip the balance to far towards the light, so, the weapons transport them to another world, where they all meet each other, and (because of the influence the weapons have on their mind) convince them that the characters from the other games are evil, and thus they're forced into a fight to the death. The different characters named "Cid" that appear in every game is actually the same guy, manipulating things from behind the scenes. Unfortunatly, FinalFightingFantasy has [[DeadFic been left unfinished]]

* Most of Bleedman's {{Webcomics}} (e.g., ''PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi'', ''GrimTalesFromDownBelow'') do this with various WesternAnimation cartoons (at the same time changing their drawing styles to an {{Animesque}} one). Though YourMileageMayVary about how much of these comics' goal is really {{Deconstruction}}, and how much is just DarkerAndEdgier and AuthorAppeal.

* ''ChessPiece'' more and more.

-->'''[[GetterRobo Ryoma Nagare]]:''' [[ColonyDrop And dropping a rock]] [[ShutUpHannibal on Earth will]]?

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* SuperRobotWars games can turn into this to some degree, by showing how characters from one anime would react when facing plot and characters from others - friendships ([[GurrenLagann Kamina]] and [[GetterRobo Ryoma]] in [[SuperRobotWarsZ Z2]]) and rivalries ([[GGundam Domon]] and [[{{Daimos}} Kazuya]] in [[SuperRobotWarsMX MX]]) are formed, some characters turns different that in their source material ([[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] and [[GundamSEEDDestiny Shinn]], very often), some events are averted, villains fight one another ([[GaoGaiGar Zonderians]] vs [[TekkamanBlade Radam]] vs [[DetonatorOrgun Evolouders]] vs [[GaoGaiGar Eleven Lords Of Sol]] in [[SuperRobotWarsW W]]) or form alliances ([[{{Mazinkaiser}} Doctor Hell]], [[FullMetalPanic Gauron]] and [[{{Zeorymer}} Hakkeshu]] in [[SuperRobotWarsJ J]]), not to mention characters making comments about events from other series.
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* Most of the humor in ''RobotChicken'' comes from this. For example, there's ''BeavisAndButthead'' join the ''TeenTitans'', and ''MTV Exposed'' on Barbie and Bratz. Of course this is used mostly for [[DeconstructiveParody comedic purposes]].

* ''Comicbook/{{Twilight}}'', by Howard Chaykin, did this with DCComics' [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] science fiction characters. No relation to ''Twilight of the Superheroes''. Or [[{{Twilight}} that book with sparkling vampires.]]

** It has it's own in universe versions of games like ''SuperMarioBros'', ''{{EarthBound}}'', ''FinalFantasy'', and even ''[[SoBadItsHorrible Deadly Towers]]'' and cheesy flash games. It really does well at showing what a character from one genre of games would look like if he was forced into a completely different genre but his character still followed the rules of his original game. For example, how would a platformer character for whom everything does equal damage, and only has four slots in his health bar deal with being put in an RPG where every character has thousands of HP? How would a fighting game character, who needs to take advantage of a character being temporarily stunned after being hit in order to perform combos deal with a platformer character who becomes temporarily invincible after being hit?

** ''LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Vols. 1 & 2'' did this with Victorian literature.
*** It's very likely that it was this graphic novel that influenced this trope's popularity in the last decade (especially in comics), so it's probably the TropeCodifier.
*** Note that in [[AdaptationDecay the movie version]] a similar Massive Multiplayer Crossover is made mostly for RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool, rather than {{Deconstruction}}. Thus, it's not an example of Deconstruction Crossover.

** It's been complained that the 1980 Turtles seem more cowardly. Of course they are; they're in a different world where they are not the main characters. Goodbye, PlotArmor.

* ''ThereWillBeBrawl'' does this with {{Nintendo}} [[VideoGames games]]. It uses a pre-existing Massive Multiplayer Crossover established by the SuperSmashBros franchise.

Basically, when you throw many characters belonging to a specific genre (or sometimes a distinct division of this genre -- e.g., the works of a certain author) into a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, for the purpose of exploring and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] -- and sometimes [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructing]] -- said genre from a modern viewpoint (which may or may not be DarkerAndEdgier). It could use the actual characters and settings from said works, or it could limit itself to using [[{{Expy}} Expies]] if said work isn't quite in the public domain (less common online, because [[FairUse copyrights matter somewhat less when no money changes hands]])

** The ''Judgement Day'' crossover Moore wrote for Awesome was this in spades, creating an enormous history for the Awesome universe apparently populated entirely by the CaptainErsatz novelty assortment.

* The ''Anno Dracula'' series by KimNewman is a massive hodgepodge of characters vampire and non-vampire, fictional and non-fictional, Victorian and modern, running around in a world where Dracula killed Van Helsing and took over Britain.

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* The point of ''DrawnTogether'' was to be like this, they took [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of {{Superman}} (Captian Hero), [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] (Ling Ling), [[LegendOfZelda Link]] (Xandir), BettyBoop (Toot), JosieAndThePussycats (Foxxy), the {{Disney Princess}}es (Clara), SpongeBobSquarePants (Wooldoor) and an original character (Spanky) and put them in one house as a Parody of every RealityShow ever made. Unfortunately it [[SeasonalRot quickly devolved]] into [[DeadBabyComedy dead baby humor]].

** ''LostGirls'', with art by Melinda Gebbie, crosses the stories of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz. The deconstructive part comes where instead of fantasy tales, they're all converted into similar stories of sexual awakening, often taking place when the girls are quite young [[spoiler: and sometimes with [[ParentalIncest family members]]]]. OrSoIHeard.

A subtrope of MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, {{Deconstruction}} and sometimes {{Reconstruction}}.

** The ''Judgement Day'' crossover Moore wrote for Awesome was this in spades, creating an enormous history for the Awesome universe apparently populated entirely by the CaptainErsatz nolvety assortment.

** Basically, it starts with the idea "everything ever produced for {{DC Comics}} was canon". All of it, {{Watchmen}}, VertigoComics, the [[BronzeAge experimental comics of]] TheSeventies, One shot characters from anthology comics, the SuperFriends Cartoon, all of it. Then, it took all the [[DarkAge contemporary trends in comics]], morally questionable storylines, BadAss [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]], heroes and villains being [[AntiHeroSubstitute replaced]] with DarkerAndEdgier [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Characters]], and extrapolate them to their logical extremes. Then it took the GoldenAge Generation of superheroes, and brought their powers to logical extremes, added biblical themes, and gave it to us in a photo-realistic "painted" style to make it more realistic, and disturbing. It certainly counts.

*''Comicbook/{{Twilight}}'', by Howard Chaykin, did this with DCComics' SilverAge science fiction characters. No relation to ''Twilight of the Superheroes''. Or [[{{Twilight}} that book with sparkling vampires.]]

* The point of ''DrawnTogether'' was to be like this, they took [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of {{Superman}} (Captian Hero), [[{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] (Ling Ling), [[LegendOfZelda Link]] (Xandir), BettyBoop (Toot), JosieAndThePussycats (Foxxy), the {{Disney Princess}}es (Clara) [[strike: [[TheScrappy Bonzi Buddy]]]] Nobody (Spanky is the only original character) and SpongeBobSquarePants (Wooldoor) and put them in one house as a Parody of every RealityShow ever made. Unfortunately it [[SeasonalRot quickly devolved]] into [[DeadBabyComedy dead baby humor]].