History Main / RedundantParody

** An [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] episode wherein Usagi has trouble transforming when in her house, to the point where the angelic wings are long enough to knock dishes over when she turned around, and in general [[AwesomeButImpractical would have been more effective had she not transformed to begin with.]]

** In the magazine proper, in an article about the comics section of the Vatican newspaper, they make a joke in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' parody about Jason pointing out that George Lucas could sue God for stealing the plot of ''Franchise/StarWars''. The actual strip had done the same joke in reverse(in that Jason suggested God sue George Lucas) years before.

* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal,[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]] and the song spoofs this by being a HomoeroticSubtext-riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal ("Number 47 said to Number 3, 'you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see'"). It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.

* The creators of ''Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman'' decided not to include ComicBook/TheJoker for this reason, since there's very little jokes to be made about the character that haven't already been done, either by other parodies or by the source material. Instead, they used little-known DC villain Sweet Tooth, giving him a PracticallyJoker makeover that split the difference; they got the fun of the Joker-Batman rivalry, complete with a ComicBook/HarleyQuinn {{expy}}, but using a different character with a different schtick (candy instead of practical jokes) gave them the freedom to do their own thing with it.

** Stupidly big swords. Cloud's sword in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was deliberately designed to look ridiculous (if in a {{Camp}}ily cool way), to reflect that Cloud is a [[AttentionWhore cocky showoff]] and [[CompensatingForSomething overcompensating]]. The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake remake]] further parodies its impractical size when Cloud tries to pull it out when standing under a door frame. He hits the frame and has to back out of it to get enough room to draw his sword.

*** Played straight when one of the fairy godmothers says they have to turn in their wands when coming to the test for the same reasons that cowboys in the old west had to turn in their guns when coming into town, especially in Dodge City, "that's why nobody got plugged." Then, the NC says that's like asking NRA members to turn in their rifles before a meeting, and expecting everyone to comply safely. But people did get shot in town at times in [[http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/lawmen.html Dodge City]] and the rest of the old west (though nowhere near the extent portrayed in fiction), some of the most famous old west shootings, including the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, took place specifically to enforce these laws, so if you know anything about the Old West, he just repeated her joke in an NRA context. Furthermore, NRA conferences ''are'' gun-free.
** In his review of ''Film/LastActionHero'', while he devotes one rant to how Danny points out all the clichés and plot holes that he could be commenting on, he also cracks a joke about F. Murray Abraham's character's betrayal being unsurprising because [[NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize he's never played a good guy in a movie yet]]. A trait that's brought up repeatedly in the film, usually focusing on how his character killed Mozart in ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. In fact, there's nothing in the entire review that suggests he's remotely aware it's a comedy; half his comments amount to pointing out one of the absurd background jokes and announcing that they make no sense.

* DC's Redtool, from the ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' solo series, is a parody of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. The problem is that Deadpool is already a parody himself (his original inspiration being DC's own ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}), and his personality and humor style are very similar to Redtool's, making the latter come off less as a parody and more as a pure CaptainErsatz. Making this more redundant is that Harley (especially around the New 52 and Rebirth eras) is already treated as an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Deadpool anyway in some of her solo books thanks to her MetaGuy attitude.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' ran into this a couple of times - Mr. Satan and the Ginyu Force are probably the biggest examples, as they were already comic relief, and had to have a lot of new jokes written for them. Tellingly, while other characters were either hyper-exaggerated or entirely rewritten, Satan and the Ginyus are extremely similar to how they were in the originals, with only their context and some minor quirks changing (in Satan's case because [[AdaptationalDumbass everyone's even dumber]] so [[BlatantLies his lies can get even more ridiculous]]). Averting this trope was also the reason for [[AdaptedOut almost completely cutting out]] Master Roshi from the abridging of ''Broly'', as all his scenes were already comedic.

* Bill Watterson barely dodged this with a few ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strips in which Calvin tries to get Hobbes interested in the magazine ''Chewing'', which is completely devoted to bubble gum. All the various gums are profiled like baseball stars, with "stats" and attributes. All Hobbes could say was, "What kind of nut would care about all this?" But Watterson later admitted that at the time he had drawn those strips, there were already a huge number of [[TheMagazineRule absurdly detailed magazines]] about [[SingleIssueWonk freakishly specific topics]], and so a magazine about bubble gum documenting "flavor retention" and such (which is itself just one of a number of such magazines aimed at varying demographics) was only a slight exaggeration of reality. ("It's hardly satire.") To Watterson's credit, there's no known example of a magazine focused on chewing gum specifically.

** Most non-satirical attempts to make the franchise DarkerAndEdgier fall kind of flat, considering that even the main series installments (to say nothing of spin-offs and other official adaptations) have had everything from terrorist bombings, to child abuse, to multiple accounts of attempted genocide. Even the old {{creepypasta}} canard of a human being forced into the battle interface against a dangerous Pokémon eventually showed up in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' during a key moment in the storyline. In most cases, these ideas could be the plots of actual ''Pokémon'' games if you removed the added sexual content, violence, and [[ObligatorySwearing profanity of questionable necessity]].

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' criticizes the VideoGameAdaptation of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' for its inane plot of having them time travel to set things right simply so their band won't break up, and for them killing {{Mook}}s in the game because of how killing ancestors could [[ForWantOfANail mess up the future]]. Both of these aspects are noted and made fun of in the film, with the ludicrous nature of them time-travelling to keep their band together PlayedForLaughs since their band will eventually unite humanity in a utopia of world peace.

** Most non-satirical attempts to make the franchise DarkerAndEdgier fall kind of flat, considering that even the main series installments (to say nothing of spin-offs and other official adaptations) have had everything from terrorist bombings, to child abuse, to multiple accounts of attempted genocide. In most cases, these ideas could be the plots of actual Pokémon games if you removed the added sexual content, violence, and [[ObligatorySwearing profanity of questionable necessity]].

* While recut trailers on Website/YouTube try their best to avoid being as close to the original film they're riffing, many can fall victim to redundant parody if done incorrectly. For instance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2O8JwFWIIw this re-cut trailer]] for Film/TheBurbs tries to make it appear as a horror movie. The problem is the fact that the film is a HorrorComedy.

* Many different [[BlackComedy bloody and grotesque]] [[SongParody parodies]] of the popular children's song "On Top of Spaghetti" have circulated among children at least since the 1970s, most them beginning with some variation of the line, ''"On top of Old Smoky all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug..."'' (parodying ''"On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed..."''). As noted by [[http://playgroundjungle.com/2009/12/on-top-of-old-smokey-parodies.html Playground Jungle]], many of those children don't seem to be aware that "On Top of Spaghetti" is itself a parody of the American folk song "On Top of Old Smoky", which begins with the line ''"On top of Old Smoky all covered with snow, I lost my true lover for courting too slow..."''. This seems to be largely dependent on age: "On Top of Old Smoky" was once a legitimately popular song that played frequently on American radio stations, but many younger children now [[ParodyDisplacement seem to know the parodies much better]], likely because they grew up with them.

* ''Film/TheComebacks'' is a spoof movie that parodies sports movies as a whole; and it features a particularly egregious example. The film has a scene that directly parodies the "dodge a wrench" scene from ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory''. Except, ''[[Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory DodgeBall]]'' was ''already'' a comedy film that makes fun of various sports tropes & cliches, and its "dodge a wrench" scene was played for laughs to begin with.

* ''Film/TheComebacks'' is a spoof movie that parodies sports movies as a whole; and it features a particularly egregious example. The film has a scene that directly parodies the "dodge a wrench'' scene from ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory''. Except, ''[[Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory DodgeBall]]'' was ''already'' a comedy film that makes fun of various sports tropes & cliches, and its "dodge a wrench" scene was played for laughs to begin with.