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* ''VideoGame/DefJamSeries'': Rappers from the Def Jam label (and a few [[Creator/DannyTrejo actors]] in a fighting video game.

* ''Series/{{Transparent}}:'' It's about a [[{{Transgender}} Trans]] Parent.

* ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'': What if, instead of ''Dragon Quest''-style RPGs being Japanese writers inaccurately romanticizing Western knights-and-dragons mythology, it was Western writers inaccurately romanticizing Japanese mythology?

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' proposes the perfect action movie: "[[{{Series/Firefly}} River Tam]] Beats Up Everyone".

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' proposes the perfect action movie: "[[{{Series/Firefly}} River Tam]] Beats Up Everyone".
** A similar concept to this is Sam Hughes's [[http://qntm.org/screenplays "One Hour Fight scene"]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': What if Superman got genocidal? As for it's second part, ''Incorruptible'', what if Zod was the only one who could stand against him?

* Parodied in ''Film/{{Network}}'', where a scene demonstrates what happens the word "''unique''" isn't taken seriously:
--> "These are those four outlines submitted by Universal for an hour series. You needn't bother to read them; I'll tell them to you. The first one is set at a large Eastern law school, [[IvyLeagueForEveryone presumably Harvard]]. The series is irresistibly entitled "The New Lawyers." The running characters are a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold crusty-but-benign]] ex-Supreme Court justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba; there's a beautiful girl graduate student; and the local district attorney [[BunnyEarsLawyer who is brilliant and sometimes cuts corners]]. The second one is called "The Amazon Squad." [[RunningGag The running characters include a crusty-but-benign]] police lieutenant [[CowboyCop who's always getting heat from the commissioner]]; a hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective who thinks [[StayInTheKitchen women belong in the kitchen]]; and the [[FairCop brilliant and beautiful young girl cop]] who's fighting the feminist battle on the force. Up next is another one of those [[IntrepidReporter investigative reporter]] shows. [[RuleOfThree A crusty-but-benign]] managing editor who's always gett..."

* ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'': Supervillains are forced to be a high-risk, deniable black-ops group for the government [[BoxedCrook in exchange for reduced sentences]].

* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'': ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', only in a CryoPrison [[RecycledInSpace In Space]]. It still borrowed so much from the original that Creator/JohnCarpenter sued for plagiarism ''and won''.

!!Dialog examples:

** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': What could justify ridiculously large anime [[{{BFS}} BFSs]]? This one gets poked fun at the most, as ''Stormlight'' is by far his most ambitious series, clocking in at ten books of at least a thousand pages each. So he's writing over ten thousand pages to justify really big swords.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Sixteen students are trapped in a prestigious school and forced into a DeadlyGame.
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': New students, new killing game, now on an island with a good mascot too.
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': New students, new killing game, back to a school, the first mascot has kids.
** ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': Two teenage girls are targets in TheMostDangerousGame run by tweens. One has an anti-robot gun, the other has a SuperPoweredEvilSide that’s gone through a HeelFaceTurn.

* ''Film/OlympusHasFallen'': ''Under Siege'' in the White House.

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* FOrceOfWill: MagicTheGathering without the mana screw.

* ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'': [[Franchise/StarTrek ''These are the voyages..'']] or at least Japan's version.

** MassiveMultiplayerCrossover variants: choose characters you love from different series and beat up charactters from other series.

* ''Film/DaveMadeAMaze'': As the title says, but it's BiggerOntheInside.