History Main / HostileShowTakeover

''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':

* The opening theme for ''Miyakawa Ke no Kuufuku'' - as seen in the DVD release - starts to show the ''Anime/LuckyStar'' logo before Hikage runs in to cover it up.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2557 SCP-2557]] of the Wiki/SCPFoundation is a paranormal company which allows people to invest in abstract concepts as if they were buying and selling ordinary stocks and bonds. The company bought the concept of the SCP-2557 database entry from a Foundation employee, allowing them to change the database entry from a description of the company and how it's being contained to an ad for the company, complete with glowing testimonials and even a web form for creating an account with the company.

** A more subtle, but far darker example occurs during the [[KillEmAll Genocide path]]. [[spoiler: The further you go, the more and more the First Child starts sneaking control of Frisk from the player, starting with them talking through Frisk in ominous red letters from time to time, to having Frisk blindly advance towards [=NPCs=] they're trying to kill, to eventually making Frisk kill Asgore and Flowey with no input from the player. By the end of the game, the First Child completely controls Frisk and gets ready to erase everything to move on to kill things somewhere else, and if the player tries to stop them, they simply inform them that they were never truly in control before killing them and crashing the game. If you open the game again, the First Child denies you the ability to reset everything and start over until you sell your soul to them, which permanently taints all subsequent playthroughs and ensures that they always win in the end.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MarioParty 6'', the minigame mode "Speak Up" has a tendency to be taken over by Bowser at the half-way point.
* Before [[VideoGame/WarioLand his pair of]] [[VideoGame/WarioWare spinoff series]] rose in popularity, Wario from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series made a habit of trying to claim things that belonged to Mario. In the Super Famicom game ''[[VideoGame/{{Picross}} Mario's Super Picross]]'', he manages to take over the entire game and title screen at one point. This tendency is also referenced in the opening sequence of ''Mario Golf 64'', where he mutters that the game should have been named after him, and ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2'', where he is the first to dispute Mario Land's name.

*** [[HilariousInHindsight "TOO BAD!]] [[Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily WALUIGI TIME!"]]

** Though, during their 2006 run, this trope was deconstructed when the following RAW, they were forced to apologize to the roster on live television as their hostile takeover was ''illegal''. It only got worse, as the RAW they took over had them cost Wrestling/{{Edge}} his last chance to regain the WWE Title, and directly led to the formation of Rated-[[Wrestling/RandyOrton RKO]].

-->-- '''The Female Narrator''', ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''

* Podcast/ComedyDeathRayRadio had a series of episodes taken over by Jerry Minor's character "Cyberthug."

* Old Spice pulled this ''on itself'' with Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike, with one ad introducing a new rivalry between the company's two mascots, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ASb6jf-s74 Isaiah Mustafa and Terry Crews, both of whom perform takeovers of each other's ads.]]

** Joel's case is arguably one of the most infamous in this decable. His channel had been taken over on a Saturday, and Google failed to respond since their employees don't work on weekends. His hijacker caused a tremendous rise out of Vinesauce fans through mocking Joel, privatizing & deleting videos to spite Joel's viewers, and threatening to hack his [=PayPal=] account to financially defraud him. Vinesauce Vinny was forced to [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings call out fans]] for their volatile responses to the incident, and the whole Vinesauce team now chooses to pretend that the incident never happened and urges fans to do the same, believing that giving any kind of attention to the hijacking would fulfil the hijacker's intentions (hence why the perpetrators of these incidents are never referred to by name on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki).

** The 'Regened'' all-ages issues open with an editorial from Tharg's nephew Joko-Jargo declaring that ''he's'' running things now. He sometimes calls it a takeover, while acknowledging that his uncle considers it an authorised and temporary handover.

* In ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', Tharg had to go deal with a crisis, and so the comic was taken over by TheMenInBlack from ''Vector 13'' for about 10 issues.

* The 'Regened'' all-ages issues of ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD'' open with an editorial from Tharg the Mighty's nephew Joko-Jargo declaring that ''he's'' running things now. He sometimes calls it a takeover, while acknowledging that his uncle considers it an authorised and temporary handover.

* During his solo run in WWE, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose has done this twice through his own show, ''[[Main/TalkShowWithFists The Ambrose Asylum]]'': first was during his feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho, where Ambrose hijacked an episode of the latter's ''Highlight Reel''; the second was against Wrestling/TheMiz and his own show ''Miz TV'' (after the latter also hijacked ''The Highlight Reel'' ''[[UpToEleven on the very same night.]]'')

** Theres also the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/RabbitRampage'', where the same thing happens to Bugs, who, to his credit, keeps his cool better than Daffy did. The animator this time is revealed to be Elmer Fudd.

* During Cartoon Network's old Cartoon Cartoon Fridays bumpers, whenever [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Mojo Jojo]] had hosting duties he would certainly try to invoke the feeling of this by abusing the limited powers he's given over the network as host (he plays around with the logo in the corner of the screen declaring himself to be in complete control of the viewers' television as a result). Of course, it's not exactly the case given that he was scheduled to take control of the block that night.

-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' ''Look at that sun, look at that sky,\\

-->'''Launchpad:''' ''Life is like an aeroplane, here in, Duckburg.\\

-->'''Glomgold:''' ''Life is like an evil scheme, here on, [=GlomTales=]\\

-->'''Gramma:''' ''I never complained as I was-\\

-->'''Shorty:''' ''I've got the wind in my beard,\\

-->'''Sasha:''' ''I showed up here in the swamp,\\

Because Grime made me lieutenant with this dope armor!''
-->'''Marcy''':''Woke up in Newtopia,\\

* In "Lightspeed", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', the opening sequence is abruptly cut 3/4 of the way through by the H.I.V.E. Five, who say something along the lines of how it's their show now. Indeed, [[VillainEpisode the focus is on them]], and their conflict is with Kid Flash, who isn't one of the regular Teen Titans.

* On one ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' video, Archibald Asparagus took over the show. He presented the segments from a ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre''-style armchair in front of a fireplace. The two halves were ''[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Omelet]]'' and Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's "lost musical", "Lyle The Kindly Viking", separated in the middle by "[[strike:Silly]] ''Classy'' Songs With Larry".

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Simian Says" (and the earlier comic book story "See You Later, Narrator") has Mojo Jojo kidnapping the narrator of the show and making him alter the story that has the girls unavailable while Mojo commits his crimes.

** Then, during the 2008 election, the revelation that Obama was now TheMan led black correspondents Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac to briefly take over the ''The Daily Show'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport''. Normal service was resumed by the commercial break.

->''Name: Wilma. I'm what's known as a "takeover artist", wanted in 30 states for hijacking fiction. [You've] probably seen my face at the post office for terrorizing those book-of-the-month-club romance novels. Now, if this is the first time you've had a story hijacked, well '''buckle up''', 'cause I'm. In. Charge.''

* HostileShowTakeover: In a meta example, Megatron took over the Hub Network (before it became Creator/DiscoveryFamily) and hosted a ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Season 2 marathon, teasing that the premiere episode at the end, its season finale, will ''change the Transformers universe forever''. The appropriately named episode "DarkestHour" has the Decepticons pull a major win against the Autobots [[spoiler: by finally destroying their hidden base]].

** The two documentary filmmakers fighting over the microphone and trying to finish their report. The documentaries start [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TOTQW0-DxM going to war]] to get the screen time.

* In the ''2003 Kids' Choice Awards'', there was a plan to get Tony Hawk to do a stunt that will get him all filled with slime. But the BigBad the Sliminator took over the show, and the only way to defeat him was to play through a series of video games and find the right switch that will enable the slime again.

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* [[ComicBook/{{New 52}} The New 52]]: September 2013 marks "Villains Month"; which focuses on the villains of each hero's respective comics. The covers feature the villains front and center, the heroes defeated in the background, and the villain's name written on top of the normal title.

* ''The Batman Adventures'' #30 is an issue built around a caper by trio of largely humorous CanonForeigner villains and a few other frustrated individuals, where Batman is absent from the main action [[spoiler:until the last panel]]. The cover depicts an attempt to put their names over the title (Mr. Nice's placard lying in the back, being bossed into putting "Mastermind Adventures" up top, the Perfesser propped on his elbow off to one side like he doesn't care) while Batman stands in the foreground looking like he's got a headache or something.
* This once happened to the letters page of the UK ''ComicBook/TheTransformers''. Letters were answered in-character by an individual character. During the reign of the Decepticon Soundwave he was once said to be out of action and replaced for one issue by the Autobot Ratchet, who basically used his replies to say that the Decepticons were evil.

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%%* The ending of 'Naruto Veangance Revelaitons''. Basically, the fic is about the adventures of an AuthorAvatar named Ronan, his sexual exploits among the female cast of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' ([[BastardBoyfriend and his abuses toward them]]), and his [[AuthorFilibuster rambling about various subjects that he hates]], among them the author's stepbrother Benji. Just when the author finished the fic, Benji hijacked his stepbrother's Fanfiction.net account in order to get back at him, then wrote up his own ending involving a MarySueHunter coming in to save the day and the Naruto cast rejecting and killing Ronan. The original author is now permanently locked out of his account, so the takeover ending is now final.

* In Act 3 of ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'', the Mycologist can be encountered as an OptionalBoss. He hijacks [=P03=]'s body for the fight and institutes his own special battle setup and music; after the fight, the Scrybe has no memory of what happened.