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** ComicBook/ThePunisher, {{expy}} of Mack Bolan, the main character from the LongRunningBookSeries ''Literature/TheExecutioner'', who at the outset was so out of tune with the rest of the Marvel Universe that he appeared primarily as an antagonist to people like ComicBook/SpiderMan before coming into his own during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.

** The Dude's walked right out of a stoner comedy or a 1960s UsefulNotes/NewHollywood-style counterculture flick.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': In a series filled with [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing cartoony]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry animals]], [[Franchise/FireEmblem anime-like]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII swordsmen]], [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} oddball]] [[Franchise/StarFox aliens]], [[Franchise/StreetFighter martial]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury artists]] and [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} vampire hunters]] with exaggerated designs, [[VideoGame/KidIcarus supernatural]] [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} forces]], [[Franchise/MegaMan futuristic]] [[VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy robots]], [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} squid-human hybrids]], and a [[UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch two-dimensional pixel man]], [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]] stands out as being the only "realistic" humanoid to be featured within the games as a playable fighter (though his home franchise was never shy about being both [[{{Bathos}} serious and silly]]). This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in his Codecs, where he often finds himself bewildered by the opponents he's facing.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is a comedy version of TheWestern, and one of its many jokes is having the local hangman look and dress like he just wandered out of a medieval fantasy movie. For that matter, Bart himself is a SoulBrotha straight out of TheSeventies (which is when the movie was made), and some members of the posse that show up near the climax include Arabs (complete with a camel), [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels bikers]], and ThoseWackyNazis.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is a comedy version of TheWestern, and one of its many jokes is having the local hangman look and dress like he just wandered out of a medieval fantasy movie. For that matter, Bart himself is a SoulBrotha straight out of TheSeventies (which is when the movie was made), and some members of the posse that show up near the climax include Bedouins, [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels bikers]], and ThoseWackyNazis.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' is a comedy version of TheWestern, and one of its many jokes is having the local hangman look and dress like he just wandered out of a medieval fantasy movie.

** [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]] ends up from her [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction usual universe]] to a version of her own timeline that operates under ''SoulmateAUFic'', rendering her a stranger in a world who follows and operates under different rules than she's used to even among familiar faces. Her navigation of a setting where she has to handle being magically married to Mami and Madoka in a world where only she sees it as odd makes up part of the story and she slowly embraces the new world as a result.

** Characters from Marvel's take on classic horror stories like [[ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]] and the related cast (ComicBook/{{Blade}}, Lilith, the Harkers).

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' gives us House Stark, who are basically a family of HighFantasy archetypes: stern and honorable patriarch, his strong and devoted MamaBear wife, handsome and passionate WarriorPrince older son, PrincessClassic older daughter, precocious and sensitive younger son, TomboyPrincess younger daughter. They'd be purely the virtuous heroes in a traditional Fantasy story. Unfortunately they're in a {{Realpolitik}}-driven Deconstruction of a traditional Fantasy story, where all their virtues can oftentimes be ''liabilities'': [[spoiler: Eddard's sense of honor compels him to give Cersei time to wrap up her affairs before he reports her infidelities to her husband, and she uses that time to arrange Robert's death and Ned's imprisonment. Catelyn's strong protective instinct causes her to act rashly in defense of her children, almost triggering an already-simmering civil war in the process. Robb's passion and strong will leads him to make major political missteps that contribute to his downfall. Sansa's guilelessness causes her to trust the wrong people. Arya's tomboyish tendencies in a society that will not accept them compel her to flee Westeros entirely. And Bran's precocious nature leads to his near-fatal "accident" that kickstarts the domino effect of many of the events in the first place.]]

** [[OmnicidalManiac With a high death toll exceeding at least septillions]] and being an EldritchAbomination, [[spoiler: THE END]] would fit better in more mature/seinen-geared games like ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' or ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. Unfortunately it's stuck in the optimistic ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers''.