History Main / GenreRoulette

* Music/DollyParton has famously recorded multiple hit albums in Country, Pop, Bluegrass, and Gospel. When she was nominated for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, she protested at first that she had never technically recorded any Rock albums... then proceeded to release 2023's ''Rockstar'', which went to no.1 on both the Rock and Country charts, making it official.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}: The comic switches genres often depending on which characters are the subject. Tarot, King or the Celestials will be a SupernaturalSoapOpera, the [=K9PD=] will be a PoliceProcedural or ParanormalInvestigation, Tarot and Peanut or King and Bailey will be a RomanticComedy, the forest will contain WoodlandCreatures stories, Imaginates will be adaptations of classic fiction, and Spot (Superdog) will be StylisticSuck comic book parodies.

* This is the central concept of Creator/TheBBC radio comedy-drama ''The Attendent''. Each episode has late night petrol station attendent Alex have to deal with ''something'' weird that interferes with his attempts to get to know regular customer Ella, and the episodes are all titled after the genre of said weirdness: "Frankenstein", "The Western", "Zombies", "Sci-Fi" and "The Action".

* Music/{{Beck}} almost always, although he sometimes mixes them. Country, hip-hop, jazz, anti-folk, rock, experimental, tropicalia, electronic...

** The Near Future is an amalgamation of {{Cyberpunk}} and Mecha anime tropes.

* ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'', with only three albums, have managed to present genres like Alternative, dub, hip hop, rock and electronic, and the last song ("M1 A1") features sounds and clips from ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' in [[Music/GorillazAlbum the first album]]. ''Music/DemonDays'', the following album, followed a similar pattern, but with a darker and somber sound, along some dance/synth (DARE), some acoustic dark tunes (El Mañana), and even a choral ("Demon Days"), along with another horror film sample, from the film ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' (Intro). The third album, ''Music/PlasticBeach'', can only be described as "crazy", what with mixing in one song the Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music with hip hop, and all the album has all over sounds of soul, electro, rock, pop, and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking seagulls and sea sounds and a breakfast commercial]]. Of course, Damon Albarn is clearly doing a good job, so it's not risky business.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': War movie, hospital drama, gumshoe noir, political thriller, gothic romance, wacky comedy. This franchise has done it all, and that's not even counting the holodeck episodes.

** "Zima Blue" is a deconstruction of TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. A journalist is invited to the private island of a secretive robot artist about to complete and unveil his final work, but she is shocked to discover the true story of his past...

* Music/AphexTwin ''loves'' this trope, and he's known for having possibly the most inhumanely diverse discography in electronic music history. He's done ambient pieces (''Selected Ambient Works Volume II'', "Fingerbib"), piano pieces (most of which are on ''Drukqs''), generic dance music (''SAW 85-92'', which only sounds generic since it's been copied and mirrored the world over), straightforward IDM (his main forte), extremely aggressive, beat-sliced techno ("Come to Daddy", "Ventolin"), and even ''cartoony''-sounding music ("Goon Gumpas", "Logan Rock Witch"). For the most pristine example of this trope on one of his albums, check out the ''Richard D. James Album''.

* The band Music/DogPolice had an album of mostly [[WidgetSeries very weird]] pop songs with unconventional topics such as discovering your date is a dog, mail order products and butch women, only to indulge into other genres - a bossa nova about middle-class people! A church-like tune about burgers! A prog rock about [[HeavyMeta recording music]]!

When applied to video game genres (i.e., the style of gameplay), it's GameplayRoulette. When you are changing genres despite having worked exclusively with only one before, it becomes a GenreShift. Compare/Contrast with GenreBusting, which has its story genres established from the very beginning, whereas Genre Roulette will continuously switch between genres as the story progresses.

** The minute the Protoss enter the picture, it's HighFantasy ([[RecycledInSpace In Space]]), with visions, [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight ancient prophecies]], psychic links and the like.

* All of ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' is made of this, dependent on which races are shown interacting.

When applied to video game genres (i.e., the style of gameplay), it's GameplayRoulette. When you are changing genres despite having worked exclusively with only one before, it is GenreAdultery. Compare/Contrast with GenreBusting, which has its story genres established from the very beginning, whereas Genre Roulette will continuously switch between genres as the story progresses.

* Conor Oberst ([[TheFaceOfTheBand face]] of Music/BrightEyes) exhibits this tendency with his {{Side Project}}s.

* The Indiana Jones series has pivoted quite a bit over the course of just four movies. The first is an action-love story, the second is an occult thriller, the third is a buddy comedy with a father and son, and the fourth has supernatural and alien overtones reminiscent of ''Film/CloseEncountersofaThirdKind''

* ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'' is a collection of multiple visual novels that all have rather different genres, themes, settings and tones.

* The ''Deadly Sins of Evil'' {{Light Novel|s}} series all have different kinds of stories for the respective arcs they detail in Music/{{mothy}}'s ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' franchise. ''LightNovel/TheLunacyofDukeVenomania'' is a twisted romance, ''LightNovel/EvilFoodEaterConchita'' is a tragic horror story, ''LightNovel/GiftFromThePrincessWhoBroughtSleep'' is a mystery novel, etc.

** ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay'' is another PoliceProcedural set in a [[BeachEpisode coastal city]] and with a DarkerAndEdgier approach, as a good chunk of the main characters are either {{Hardboiled Detective}}s, {{Anti Hero}}es, or both.

** ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseTravelInTime'' is a TimeTravel story focused on the SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong category. In addition, the different eras and time periods visited during the journey basically makes the main characters {{Tour Guide Detective}}s

** ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay'' is another PoliceProcedural set in a [[BeachEpisode coastal city]] and with a DarkerAndEdgier premise, as a good chunk of the main characters are either {{Hardboiled Detective}}s, {{Anti Hero}}es, or both.