History Main / ParodyOfEvolution

* [[http://dotchan.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d16edss The Descent of Nintendo]].

* One of the posters for ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', [[http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/File:544991-rise_of_the_planet_of_the_apes_poster_05.jpg "Evolution Becomes Revolution"]], which has the ''homo sapiens'' held on a leash by a brutish gun-toting ape.

* Used in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1697 this]] ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' strip (and [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=SMBC-WOOH&Category_Code=SMBC-SHIRTS shirt]].)
** [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2306#comic Again here]].

* [[http://www.portallos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/toki.jpg This picture]] about the HD remake of arcade classic ''VideoGame/{{Toki}}''.

* A caricature parodying evolution in the different parts of the world, depicts Evolution in Korea using the original sequence, but including a [[Franchise/{{Starcraft}} Hydralisk]] at the end.

* A FunTShirt (worn by one of the sign-holders in MitchBenn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM Proud of the BBC]]" video - appropriately enough the one holding the sign for ''TheAscentOfMan'') has the line of protohumans [[AbbeyRoadCrossing on the Abbey Road zebra crossing]].

* One of the images shown when you complete the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee'' single-player mode with Franchise/DonkeyKong is four [=DKs=] and one [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] arranged like this.

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* An advertising billboard depicted, after ''Homo sapiens'', a silhouette of a brutish, ogre-like humanoid holding a rifle in one hand, and holding the ''Homo sapiens'' on a leash.

* One of the glitched creatures you can catch in the original ''Franchise{{Pokemon}}'' will result in a [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/Update%2003/index.html series of impossible evolutions]].

** GaryLarson also presented us with the evolution of the stickman.

* [[http://www.portallos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/toki.jpg This picture]] about the HD remake of arcade classic ''Toki''.
* A caricature parodying evolution in the different parts of the world, depicts Evolution in Korea using the original sequence, but including a [[{{Starcraft}} Hydralisk]] at the end.

* One of the glitched creatures you can catch in the original ''{{Pokemon}}'' will result in a [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/Update%2003/index.html series of impossible evolutions]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it]] on the season 18 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E16Homerazzi Homerazzi]]" [[note]]The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella[[/note]] parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" [[note]]On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"[[/note]]) in what is now considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) CouchGag to date.

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* The Music/{{Supertramp}} album cover for ''Brother Where You Bound'' is a multi-colored straight example, but the inside artwork shows an AbbeyRoadCrossing pose by the members of the band, all not too dissimilar to how the "man" figure is walking.
* The the album [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Robin_Thicke The Evolution of Robin Thicke]] features this in both its cover and name.

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* Used very, very strangely in WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches: TheMovie. In the intro, Oggy evolves from a microbe into a cat. The problem? He evolved straight from [[YouFailBiologyForever a fish into a cat]]. However, the earlier segments are somewhat more accurate, which he evolved into a ''[[FridgeBrilliance Pikaia]]'' [[ShownTheirWork (?) and then an early fish]].

!"March of Progress" rehashes

* One of the images shown when you complete the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee'' single-player mode with Franchise/DonkeyKong is four [=DKs=] and one [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] arranged like this.
* Most covers for Website/DarwinAwards books have spoofs on this concept, usually with the "evolved" man suffering a comically fatal injury like being [[AnvilOnHead crushed under a safe]] or falling off a cliff.
* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', with Sid the Sloth as the apex.
* [[{{Transhuman}} Transhumanists]], fans of the famous futurist Ray Kurzweil and other supporters of [[TheSingularity the technological singularity]] are often seen wearing shirts with a cyborg or robot coming after the upright human as the next logical step in evolution of mankind will be likely deliberate and a result of humans augmenting themselves with artificial biological and technological components.
* A common piece of graffiti in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' shows the usual, three part progression; but a fourth part shows a human-turned-combine that looks much like the second part.

* The two "Myth Evolution" episodes of Series/MythBusters used a cartoon of this on the initial blueprint shot.
* A common parody has the last man sitting down at a computer, hunched over his keyboard. Variations also include being fatter and slightly smaller, but carrying a coke can instead of a spear.
* Another common parody is to show a man slumped and wearing a backward cap, with the "evolved" human saying that humanity screwed up and that it's going backward
* As shown in [[http://www.lab-initio.com/screen_res/nz003.jpg this]] ''Lab Initio''.
* The title card of an episode of ''FairlyOddParents'' has this, with the last person as Mr. Crocker.
* [[http://dotchan.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d16edss The Descent of Nintendo]].
* The cover of ''[[DumbAndDumber Dumb and Dumberer]]''.
* The inside front cover of ''TheNowShow Book Of Records'' shows Jon Holmes as hunched ape-man, Steve Punt as neanderthal and Hugh Dennis as modern man. The inside back cover shows them in reverse (obviously, Dennis has to hunch a lot more than Holmes does).
** On an episode of ''MockTheWeek'', while the players were standing around waiting for "Scenes We'd Like To See" to start, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis and Greg Davies reenacted the picture. Frankie (the shortest) was completely hunched over at the back, while the incredibly tall Greg was at the front.
* A caricature parodying evolution in the different parts of the world, depicts Evolution in Korea using the original sequence, but including a [[{{Starcraft}} Hydralisk]] at the end.
** The same is done for Japan, but the Hydralisk is replaced with a Franchise/{{Gundam}}
* [[http://www.portallos.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/toki.jpg This picture]] about the HD remake of arcade classic ''Toki''.
* Used in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1697 this]] ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' strip (and [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=SMBC-WOOH&Category_Code=SMBC-SHIRTS shirt]].)
** [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2306#comic Again here]].
* The {{Supertramp}} album cover for ''Brother Where You Bound'' is a multi-colored straight example, but the inside artwork shows an AbbeyRoadCrossing pose by the members of the band, all not too dissimilar to how the "man" figure is walking.

* The "[[http://pool.theinfosphere.org/images/6/6d/Ascent_of_Bot.jpg Ascent of Bot]]" from the {{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} episode "A Clockwork Origin".
* The cover of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' #238. The most short and simian version of Alfred E. Neuman has a thought bubble saying, "What... me furry?"

* An advertising billboard depicted, after ''Homo sapiens'', a silhouette of a brutish, ogre-like humanoid holding a rifle in one hand, and holding the ''Homo sapiens'' on a leash.
* A [[http://www.threadless.com/themuppets/evolution-28/ T-shirt design]] for a Threadless competition to create a Franchise/TheMuppets shirt shows the evolution of Kermit - starting with a green coat and a couple of ping-pong balls.

!Morphing

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY did it]] on the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" [[note]]The one where Homer becomes a paparazzo after one of the staged family pictures Marge takes has Duffman cheating on his gay lover with Boobarella[[/note]] parodies this (showing Homer as a single-celled organism and progressing through many pre-historic and historic eras until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him, "What took you so long?" [[note]]On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?"[[/note]]) in what is now considered the longest (and, in some viewers' eyes, the most epic) CouchGag to date.
* The WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}} television [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpivIYJFjd4 intro.]]
* ''{{Garfield}}: His Nine Lives'' used this in the first chapter.
* The MusicVideo for Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now".
* In ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'', Phil Blumburtt presents a series of still images of the evolution of sapient ducks as a theory of Howard's origin; [[YouFailBiologyForever the first image is an egg]].

* An animation short mixed the two, showing primates evolving into men in the exact position as the March of Progress image, only to revert to a hunched-over Three-point Football stance.
* One version of [[http://tasvideos.org/879M.html Humans]] had an intro scene that animated evolution among the various pre-human periods. The penultimate was a tall, large creature wearing sneakers, pants, and a shirt, and took a bite from an apple in a tree. This form then morphs into a human.
%%* Seen in credit roll for ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''.
* One of the glitched creatures you can catch in the original ''{{Pokemon}}'' will result in a [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/BreakingBlue/Update%2003/index.html series of impossible evolutions]].

* Used very, very strangely in OggyAndTheCockroaches: TheMovie. In the intro, Oggy evolves from a microbe into a cat. The problem? He evolved straight from [[YouFailBiologyForever a fish into a cat]]. However, the earlier segments are somewhat more accurate, which he evolved into a ''[[FridgeBrilliance Pikaia]]'' [[ShownTheirWork (?) and then an early fish]].

* The "[[http://pool.theinfosphere.org/images/6/6d/Ascent_of_Bot.jpg Ascent of Bot]]" from the {{Futurama}} episode "A Clockwork Origin".

* One of the images shown when you complete the ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' single-player mode with Franchise/DonkeyKong is four [=DKs=] and one [[{{Metroid}} Samus]] arranged like this.

[[Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/explosm-evolution-t-shirt.jpg]]
[[caption-width:350:And it took you thousands of years to notice?]]

* Seen in credit roll for ''{{Warcraft}} 3''.

Considering what we now know of ''Ardipithecus ramidus'', this trope is an example of ScienceMarchesOn.

Considering what we now know of ''[[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Ardipithecus ramidus]]'', this trope is an example of ScienceMarchesOn.

* The two "Myth Evolution" episodes of MythBusters used a cartoon of this on the initial blueprint shot.

* Most covers for DarwinAwards books have spoofs on this concept, usually with the "evolved" man suffering a comically fatal injury like being [[AnvilOnHead crushed under a safe]] or falling off a cliff.
* Seen in ''IceAge'', with Sid the Sloth as the apex.

* A [[http://www.threadless.com/themuppets/evolution-28/ T-shirt design]] for a Threadless competition shows the evolution of Kermit - starting with a green coat and a couple of ping-pong balls.