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- Reality Ensues
deconstructs Shunsui's apparent choice to sacrifice Unohana for the sake of making Zaraki stronger. Unohana is healed (against her wishes) and Shunsui is immensely confused as to why she'd believe he'd let the best healer Soul Society has die just to make the embodiment of Unskilled, but Strong slightly stronger. What he had actually wanted was for her to properly train Zaraki and turn him into Strong and Skilled.
- Dominoes is a deconstruction of both the superhero genre and each of the character's defining characteristics within the series.
- Dominoes deconstructs the characters by placing them in the positions that would most test their moral limits—for example, Yusaku, ever manipulative, is placed in a position of extreme responsibility and influence and ends up heavily abusive to those he has control over; Shinichi, who values truth and justice above all else, is placed in a position where no one will be honest with him and he cannot attain justice through legal means because of Yusaku and thus ends up falling in with Kaitou Kid; Ran, whose defining traits are her love and constant stressful worrying for Shinichi and her faith in her friends, is placed on the sidelines as a superhero-in-training whose trusted boss Yusaku assures her that Shinichi's treatment is justified and necessary and ends up reinforcing this abuse out of a desire to keep Shinichi safe so she doesn't have to worry about him.
- The story acts as a deconstruction of the superhero genre as a whole by using the conflict between Yusaku and Shinichi to explore the implication of secrets when interacting with severe power disparities - contrasting the superheroic trope of "justice" with the equally superheroic trope of widespread inequality of information that, in the real world, often leads to power abuse. So far, the story seems to imply that secrets, when used to dodge accountability, are the enemy of justice, and thus no one who operates under a secret identity while holding so much power over the daily lives of others can stay, or truthfully claim to be, entirely just. This is evident in the change in dynamics in the cast: being put in a position of responsibility, the manipulative Kudo Yusaku ends up abusing his son because he believes it's for the greater good; abuse which others in the system take as an example and replicate out of trust that Yusaku knows better than them and that they collectively know what's best for the kept-ignorant Shinichi, reflecting how this inequality of power creates a mentality of condescension towards those who are deprived of key information - the "normals," whom superheroes claim they protect. Further, the Irregulars—who are basically rough Expies of the Teen Titans—are exactly what you'd really get if you trained teenagers (and younger) to manage incredibly destructive abilities and weapons explicitly for combat with the goal of making them constantly deal with violent crises: despite the International Super-Hero Association's literal mood-altering propaganda department doing their best work, they can't hide from the reader that their teen heroes are literally just glorified Child Soldiers.
- Get A Clue deconstructs Yaoi shippers who ship Kaito and Shinichi as Conan and how, if it was a thing in universe without anybody knowing that "Conan" is actually 17, the ship and its fans would almost be universally derided for being disgusting and amoral due to the obvious implied pedophilia support from those who think Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa is a minor and below even the lowest statute of consent in Japan. Helps that the fic is funny too.
- Code Geass Colourless-Memories Side Stories, influenced by The Sum of Our Choices below, shows how hard a time Zero and the Black Knights would have in rebuilding a free Japan from chapter eight (when the arc in question starts). It also looks into Japanese customs and culture during that arc as well.
- The Sum Of Our Choices deconstructs the idea of a successful Black Rebellion by the fact that a lot of self-declared governments-in-exile want a piece of the new government by Zero, while he also has to deal with vengeful Japanese and social unrests after Britannia withdraws. Also, it deconstructs the Britannian politics, by having the EU taking advantage of the incoming crisis due to the fact that Britannia shifted itself to be a sakuradite-based economy, thanks to the reserves in Japan.
- Many fics deconstruct the "happy ending" Distant Finale of Digimon Adventure 02, such as Zero 2 Housemates, the stories made by Ultra Sonic 007 and xXxThe BeastxXx, the now Dead Fic Diablo Ortus: Rising Sun Chronicles by Guitardude, Darkness Reborn and Empire.
- And it's not easy (along with other fics by the author) deconstructs Slash Fic by placing it in a world full of Heteronormative Crusaders.
- Caring Hearts deconstructs Hikari Yagami's The Heart and All-Loving Hero status.
- Davis's Tears deconstructs True Companions and the Kid Hero. If it isn't united then it's only a matter of time before they'll be crushed by the enemy, and the kid hero is just a Child Soldier with some special powers. Without them he'll end up just like any soldier on the frontlines.
- Davis's Pain deconstructs The Power of Friendship, Gennai's mentor status and Mummymon's Harmless Villain status. The power of friendship is sometimes not enough to defeat extremely strong and totally ruthless enemies, especially if the True Companions are in a semi-civil war, and Mummymon is only "harmless" because he lacks self-confidence, but once Oikawa let him take charge for a while, he gains enough self-confidence to show off what a dangerous, sadistic psychopath he actually is.
- Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told deconstructs the whole Changing of the Guard and the establishment of a new generation of Digidestined by showing much distrust and internal conflicts between the Digidestined to the point of even being detrimental towards their goals. Ultimately, their inability to reconcile within one another and dramas indirectly caused the true death of a Digidestined.
- The Teacher of All Things deconstructs the Experienced Protagonist. Tai's experience from Digimon V-Tamer 01 means that he's an expert at handling the digital world, but also that he has a plethora of issues and preconceptions. Such as problems trusting others, the belief that he needs to do everything himself like before, and what's all but outright stated to be PTSD and depression from both his battles and losing his previous partner. This leads to him having serious problems bonding with Agumon, keeping the group in the dark about his past even after it becomes relevant, and leaving his friends unprepared for when he's not around to handle everything. While he is a major factor in the group's survival, Tai's attitude creates a lot of problems for the Digidestined, even after he starts working past it.
- Walkabout deconstructs Daisuke Motomiya's Butt-Monkey and Idiot Hero status.
- Yolei: Rise, Learn, Grow deconstructs the Thou Shalt Not Kill rule the Digidestined had in 02.
- Zero 2: A Revision deconstructs the whole Digimon Adventure 02 series, as well as the
Marty Stu Original Character. - Zero 2 Battle of the Shinobi deconstructs the Proud Warrior Race Guys.
- Disgruntled deconstructs Chi Chi's marriage to Goku, detailing the kind of psychological toll being married to someone like Goku would take on a person.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged deconstructs the nature of an Actual Pacifist. During the Cell Saga, Gohan's disdain with the idea of fighting continues to grow to the point where, despite having trained in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber with Goku for a year, Gohan refuses to lay a hand on Mr. Perfect Cell. At first, he tells Cell that he doesn't want to because he's scared of the power he has dormant, but that backfires when Cell unleashes the Cell Jr.s on the Z Warriors. At that, Gohan quickly begs Cell to call them off, that he doesn't want to fight him and that this was Goku's fight from the start. Both Perfect Cell and Android 16 call out Gohan for this attitude as it only makes him a Holier Than Thou Dirty Coward who'd rather let the world be destroyed than abandon his morals.
- No More Forgiveness attempts to deconstruct Goku's behavior, specifically his parenting decisions, by showing just how badly repeated Parental Abandonment and being forced to fight monsters from a young age could have affected Gohan if he wasn't so forgiving. Gohan grows angry and disowns his father. While Goku does realize the error of his ways and tries to improve, he fails to patch things up with Gohan and by end, have now lived their own separate lives with no signs of reconcilement between the two.
- A Simple Wish deconstructs Overshadowed by Awesome since Chi-Chi feels unappreciated and wishes that she never existed.
- The fic Enslaved is The Familiar of Zero with 'For The Laughs' removed. The summoning ritual does Exactly What It Says on the Tin, summoning a creature to be branded and then enslaved by the influence of the mark. There is nothing happy about it. Saito is fully aware of how wrong the situation is and responds as rationally as he can, Louise is not the classic violent tsundere and the plot advances in a more realistic—and admittedly darker—serious way.
- The fic The Fall is a deconstruction of Reverse Summon plots of sending Louise to another world to become a Badass, namely focusing on how hard it would be on her biologically, no No Biochemical Barriers here as the background radiation in the Fallout world, even in a place relatively untouched as the Mojave, and due to her not having the centuries to adapt to it, causes her to slowly absorb radiation while she's on earth. Consequently, Louise is going to be sinking a lot of time into paying for medicine to keep it at bay, and avoids all combat for as long as she can, unlike jumping right into the action as in most other fics.
- Stupid Devil Dog features Japanese-American Military Brat Saito getting so fed up with Louise's brattiness, he outright leaves her. The humiliation makes her a bigger failure in front of her peers.
- Unfamiliar closely examines the dark implications of the abuse that Louise would often inflict on Saito. Louise and her group all travel to Mott's palace to rescue Siesta, and find that she wasn't the only commoner that was in his clutches. There were others that suffered so much abuse that many of them have been broken both physically and mentally. Mott doesn't even consider the commoners, outright calling them "dogs" and "bitches", showing that he went off the deep end long ago. Louise ends up being so horrified and disgusted with everything she's seen that she particularly sics her familiar, in this case being Alex Mercer, on him.
- I Put On My Robe And Wizard Hat is another of those Deconstructive Affectionate Parody fics that go through periods of popularity. Re-imagining Shirou as a child of the chan boards is only the beginning. Apostles In Leather Pants, the sequel, does Tsukihime.
- Forgive Us Our Trespasses deconstructs the notion of an eighth homunculus, where the main character is shown actually hating her current state, and generally being treated like crap by the other homunculi. It also touches upon the effects of the red stones on one's psych, and plays Envy's character fairly straight.
- Mistakes deconstructs the Ron the Death Eater trope as commonly applied to Japan, and the canon characters' blase attitude to war.
- No Regrets deconstructs both the relaxed attitude to war mentioned above and the idea that the Nation-tans aren't human.
- An Alternate Keitaro Urashima decided he wasn't bound by a Childhood Marriage Promise he made when he was five. So instead of spending years trying to get into Tokyo University, he picked another college and has moved on with his life. Granny Hina's attempts to manipulate him into taking over the Inn create massive rifts in their family, and the various issues of her tenants start blowing up in their faces. This is only amplified by their refusal to admit any responsibility for their actions.
- For His Own Sake has Keitaro deciding to stop managing the Inn after three years of abuse. In addition to the girls having to face serious consequences for their actions, Keitaro is taken to task for helping enable their bad behavior by being an Extreme Doormat.
- Not that Keitaro is the only vector for a good deconstruction; Last Dance with Shinobu-chan deconstructs not just the many relationships within the Inn, but also many archetypical romantic ideals, all while giving Shinobu a rather bittersweet coming of age story.
- Similarly, Love Hina: Like It Could Have Been deals with Haruka taking over the Inn after the girls drive Keitaro away right from the start. Outraged by how they treated her relative, she gives them a hard dose of reality by informing them they'll all have to split the duties he would have handled.
- Weight takes the show's recurring gag of Kagami's complaints about her weight, and presents it instead as full-blown anorexia nervosa.
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Game Theory deconstructs the anime by showing just what would happen if Fate's loyalty was from Precia actually treating her well (though she won't be winning any prizes for model parent) and just how easily the TSAB could have seriously botched things up by unintentionally driving Nanoha to work with Precia. It also deconstructs a number of tropes, such as Crazy Enough to Work, and the Kid Hero elements of the original work get savaged particularly hard. But in the end, things turn out happier than in canon.
- Perfection Is Overrated uses a Parody Sue pileup to show what would happen if they did not have preferential treatment by the author. As a result, the horde engages in reckless and amoral behavior (as a result of not understanding what they're doing is wrong, or because they think they can get away with it) that ends in their defeats to the Himes, and their attempts to do away with the canon protagonists to change the world as they see fit quickly establish them as antagonists, especially given the nature of the changes they want to see happen. Various other tropes get deconstructed, such as Shipper on Deck (Two characters not only have strong opinions on who is right for each other, but the ability to alter people's personalities to make their desired relationships reality).
- The famous Shinji And Warhammer 40 K manages to be a Fix Fic and a Deconstruction Fic simultaneously. On one hand Shinji fixes a lot of problems, both literal and mental, and has resulted in the heroes escalating themselves to unprecedented levels. On the other hand, it deconstructs the fanon idea that Shinji being badass is going to fix the whole series; the enemies have also escalated, and while the firepower thrown around in the original series is nothing to scoff at it can't compare to one Angel killing tens of millions of people by bombing cities across the planet, another Angel used to unleash a Zombie Apocalypse on steroids, or rendering most of Europe completely barren within days
- Taking Sights by Lavanya Six deconstructs many of the Peggy Sue standbys of Evangelion Fix Fics; it's Gendo Ikari who goes back to fix his mistakes. In the process he manages to make things worse for himself, both through not understanding why things originally broke down, resulting in his fixes just blowing everything to hell, and through the butterfly effect pissing on his plans. Going crazy probably doesn't help much, either.
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One Piece
- Marie D Suesse And The Mystery New Pirate Age! deliberately invokes as many One Piece fanfiction cliches as possible, then breaks down and explores what would happen in those cases if surpringly realistic outcome happened. As a lot of those fics involve girls falling into the One Piece world and new generations of OC pirates after the deaths of the original crew, the results could be considered quite a Genre Shift if not for the reconstruction efforts that start emerging in the later chapters.
- Mellorine! Mellorine! deconstructs Sanji's treatment of women by saddling him with three Gender-Bent crewmates. Luffy immediately starts exploiting his 'must please pretty girls' mentality to wreck havoc on their food supply, Zoro is enfuriated by his fawning, and Usopp's insecurities are severely worsened by Sanji gushing over how delicate and slender his new body is. Sanji is increasingly forced to recognize that his habits are hurting everyone much more than they're helping.
- This Bites! not only takes apart aspects of the original series but also certain Fandom Specific Plots and the Self-Insert genre.
- Cross himself deconstructs the idea of someone from the real world being thrown into a fictional universe. While Cross did get his wish for some god-like force to send him to the world of one of his favorite mangas, the force that did is a sadistic bastard who did it for his own amusement and didn't even give him a choice. Additionally, other than his foreknowledge, Cross has no special abilities and is actually extremely fragile due to Made of Iron being the baseline for the universe. Case in point, Nami was able to knock him out for several minutes with one punch. B.R.O.B. even admits they threw Cross into the One Piece world expecting them to die quickly, mentioning that the earliest would have been back at Loguetown, by saying the wrong thing to Smoker and having his Made of Plasticine status cause one punch to be a fatal blow. They also wholeheartedly admit they've been doing this countless times over before Cross, "throwing ants into a giant pond to watch them drown".
- Cross' foreknowledge is also deconstructed. While it gives him an advantage in planning, he has to be careful with what he reveals and when, lest it blow up in his face. And the further in the story he goes, the more his actions divert events away from his knowledge of the baseline events, meaning more and more unexpected outcomes happen as a result. This puts pressure on Cross, making him feel like he has to always know how to deal with a situation where losing basically equates to dying terribly or worse.
- Another deconstruction is how Cross's opinion of the characters changes now that he's meeting them in person, particularly with Aokiji. At first, Cross saw him as a potential ally that just needed convincing, and although he didn't like his methods, he still hoped he could convince him to be part of the World Masons. But after Aokiji brutally breaks the will of Robin, whom Cross had come to develop a sibling-like relation with, Cross's attitude towards him nosedives to the point of outright hating him, refusing to want anything more to do with the admiral.
Cross: You saw the debt you owed to Saul fulfilled, you saw Robin in her place. For a minute, I thought that I may have underestimated how decent of a Marine you are, I thought I could give you a chance. And then you said it. You said that parting shot, which we both know was taken how you intended it to be read. You were aiming to shatter what little happiness she had found, and you saw just what kind of a hell it took to get it back for her. Do you have any idea what that bastard did to her? How many bones he broke, how close she came to dying? - The Fandom-Specific Plot of Vivi permanently joining the Straw Hats is given a tragic twist. Vivi's love for her country and how serious she takes her royal responsibilities make it impossible for it to happen, no matter how close friends the Straw Hats are. Here, the World Nobles learn about her infiltration of Baroque Works and use it to frame her for treason, forcing her to flee Alabasta to save herself and her countrymen.
- Cross himself deconstructs the idea of someone from the real world being thrown into a fictional universe. While Cross did get his wish for some god-like force to send him to the world of one of his favorite mangas, the force that did is a sadistic bastard who did it for his own amusement and didn't even give him a choice. Additionally, other than his foreknowledge, Cross has no special abilities and is actually extremely fragile due to Made of Iron being the baseline for the universe. Case in point, Nami was able to knock him out for several minutes with one punch. B.R.O.B. even admits they threw Cross into the One Piece world expecting them to die quickly, mentioning that the earliest would have been back at Loguetown, by saying the wrong thing to Smoker and having his Made of Plasticine status cause one punch to be a fatal blow. They also wholeheartedly admit they've been doing this countless times over before Cross, "throwing ants into a giant pond to watch them drown".
- 'Til You Feel It All Around You picks apart the De-Aging Fic by hitting Zoro, Usopp and Robin with one that rewinds them to the point where they experienced a great personal trauma. The other Straw Hats find themselves with mixed feelings about the situation, noting that while they could grow up surrounded by a new family, they wouldn't turn out the same as the friends they're already familiar with... and that's not even taking into account all the dangers of the Grand Line.
- Magica Madoka Veneficus Puella deconstructs the typical Fix Fic expected for this fandom, though it swings back and forth between this and Fix Fic.
- At first, Puella Magi Mary Sue Magica seems like a typical Parody Sue Fic, but as the story progresses and the titular character starts going through a major Sanity Slippage it shows that this is still Madoka Magica. And all things in the series have tragic consequences no matter how powerful a Magical Girl might appear to be.
- It should be mentioned that Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion has been interpreted as a deconstruction of the series' Fan Works. The beginning of the movie comes straight from fan works, but it's portrayed as silly and fake. The ending of the movie comes straight from Fix Fic, but like everything in the series, it comes at a price.
- The Soulmate Timeline is one of the Soulmate AU Fic variety of Madoka fics.
- First of all, Madoka itself doesn't have soulmates in canon. This is reflected in Homura, who ends up in a timeline with one during a timeloop and immediately gets confused and disturbed as common tropes of the genre hit her without warning. To Homura, strange marks appearing on her hand, becoming cold to the touch until she finds certain people, and feeling others emotions isn't romantic, but incredibly disturbing and horrifying.
- Next is the part is that the Madoka series doesn't just have soulmate tropes put in, they are combined into the world itself. Society and history has changed for it, and Kyubey is still baffled by them even after thousands of years as something magical that he isn't responsible for. They are strange and mysterious things that no one seems to truly know the rules of. They are often seen as divine blessings, which can and does have affects on a person's mindset: Kyoko's parents were Soulmates and that drove Pastor Sakura to certainty about his actions as a result.
- The language of being Soulmates isn't just flowery: they literally are connected. They feel each others pain, emotions, and are connected and are all but legally married the moment they meet. Homura does love Madoka, but being randomly married to her doesn't sit comfortably with Homura, let alone Mami (to whom having her life tied to is not something Homura likes at all). It also essentially has made this the last timeline, as Homura can't leave the timeline without killing herself by being separated from her Soulmates. Their magic being connected also means that Madoka and Mami are now immune to Homura's time powers, meaning that before meeting her they had to deal with time randomly stopping for no reason.
- That being said, the story also has a reconstruction tag. Yes, Homura is very, very, very confused and disturbed at first, but she adapts. Having people who instinctively trust her, care for her, and can understand her intent despite her No Social Skills is an invaluable asset, and the built in trust she gets from Madoka's loved ones by default lets her make more progress in a week than in most timelines in their entirety in keeping them all alive. She comes to love Mami as much as Madoka in a short while, not only just because of the genre rules, but because Homura is genuinely someone who can love anyone who treats her well and is genuinely touched by Mami's sure trust in her even in places they differ.
- Truth and Illusion also does this, though much more decisively and dealing with the much-loved "Sayaka comes back" plot exclusively.
- These tend to deconstruct the whole Gender Bender/Shapeshifting, by overplaying the mental stress these put on the characters straight, and not for fun. Their over the top flaws from the manga (Ryoga and orientation, Ranma and socializing etc.) are used too. Usually this ends with a massive downer.
- The Bitter End is a Deconstruction of Belligerent Sexual Tension. Ranma and Akane’s Love Epiphany happens after a yearlong Time Skip. During that year, Ranma goes through massive Character Development, not only eliminating the Jerkass part of his Jerk with a Heart of Gold personality but getting rid of his Unwanted Harem.
- Tsundere: Instead of Belligerent Sexual Tension, Zen treats Akane’s actions as a serious mental disorder. While Ranma undergoes Character Development, she still has the deep-rooted trust issues regarding him: he just didn’t do anything to set her off. So when they get married and finally become intimate, that is her Rage Breaking Point.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Akane cannot mentally adjust to the idea of a mature and stable Ranma as a husband. While he made a serious effort to reform his behavior, it is so unlike the norm for Ranma that it has the opposite effect on Akane, making her Improperly Paranoid. She would feel both inadequate and suspicious over imagined slights and the deep suspicion that Ranma was still being unfaithful, since the only reason he would be so nice is that he’d done something for which he was feeling guilty.
- The Unfair Sex: Akane’s behavior and Ranma’s passive acceptance of it is reinforced by Soun, Genma and Nodoka, who opt to Ignore the Disability and instead chastise Ranma for making her angry in the first place.
- Unprovoked Pervert Payback: The work shows the dangers of hitting someone with a randomly grabbed object. Instead of a table or mallet, this time Akane grabs the Saotome Honor Blade.
- Dutiful Child by Luan Mao takes the "give the characters exactly what they want, in all its suck" route. There's an element of Fix Fic, but it's also a bitter breakdown of what kind of manliest man would result from Ranma's childhood. To explain:
- Ranma finally takes Akane seriously in training? He puts her through the same training he went through at age 6 that she gives up on within a week while simultaneously breaking off their engagement for good.
- Happosai gets defeated and Ranma becomes Grand Master? He ends up being The Dreaded that even his dad and Suon are terrified of and become too afraid to face him head on or through stealth, taking away their control over him.
- Ranma's childhood and life itself? He hates his parents for trying to turn him into a Meal Ticket. In fact, the Fix Fic aspect of the story comes from him exacting poetic revenge on them both by putting Gemna through a harsh training regiment for several years forces the man to abandon his unsavory tactics to survive while Nodoka is tricked into signing a contract to train into becoming a geisha or commit sepakku for the shame. All while acting as a "man upon men" in Japan would act...
- The Ends by Twoflower is meant to be "my farewell to Ranma ½, and my condemnation of it". It rips the very things needed to maintain the madcap comedy of the series to shreds, particularly the idea that it could result in a concrete, satisfying ending.
- How I Learned to Love the Wild Horse (a Porn with Plot crossover with Totally Spies!) deconstructs the relationships with Ranma and the other characters, pointing out how they were basically one toxic relationship after another, to the point where Ranma (with help from Britney) ended up leaving Nerima to start a new life in Beverly Hills, spending the earlier parts of the fic in a near constant panic, partly from a conditioned response from the various abuses (to the point that the idea of a girl talking to him makes him fear a reprisal from Akane), and partly from the fear of his father, Akane, or the other members of the Nerima Wrecking Crew finding him. Meanwhile, WHOOP initially thinks the Wrecking Crew is some sort of terrorist group, everyone is equal parts skeptical and incredulous when Ranma talks about parts of his life (his Training from Hell, his various misadventures, etc.), and even Mandy is horrified when the extent of Ranma's abuse becomes apparent.
- The Key to a Successful Interview, with additional Troll Fic and Revenge Fic elements. Notably, it also gives Ranma and Akane a much better first impression.
- Mamono Hunter Ukyou (crossover with Devil Hunter Yohko), being a Dark Fic, rips apart the Sadist Show and Dysfunction Junction elements when the stakes are raised. It's mostly done with the usual angst mentioned above, with special note going to Kuno (his ego and Casanova Wannabe traits combine into sexual harassment), Principal Kuno (his sadistic eccentricity is not played for laughs at all), and the Tendos (they fall apart when their problems become too much to ignore). Most importantly, this fic shows that the Love Dodecahedron is not solved by Ranma and Ukyou becoming an Official Couple; they aren't completely out of the drama, and the other characters end up making the dodecahedron worse and worse now that the status quo has shifted.
- He Who Fights Monsters deconstructs the wacky hijinks of canon by removing the comedy and fanservice via Tsukune missing his fateful meeting with Moka. Without a powerful vampire friend to handle any threats, Tsukune is first tries to keep his head down but soon has to use lethal force against those who attack him. Afterwards, Tsukune takes to brutally killing anyone who fights him and semi-deliberately building up a reputation as The Dreaded. After only a single semester, Tsukune is made blatantly aware of the toll this is taking on his physical and mental health, to the point of brutally maiming a former bully and not recognizing a photo of himself from just before the semester. Furthermore, Headmaster Mikogami's Trickster Mentor plan phenomenally blows up in his face. Rather than Tsukune acting as a bridge between humans and monsters, he becomes a worse monster than the actual monsters. When Mikogami finally approves Tsukune's transfer request, Tsukune instead rips up the paperwork and declares the headmaster won't get rid of him that easily.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act III provides a deconstruction of Selective Enforcement. Headmaster Mikogami repeatedly does next to nothing about the various bullies and Jerkasses who deliberately go out of their way to torment and harass Tsukune and his friends, but punishes Tsukune and co. for simply acting in legitimate self-defense against said bullies and Jerkasses, to the extent that he threatens to separate them if they get into another fight. The deconstruction comes into play when the other students find out and take advantage of it to actively harass the gang even more without fear of any retribution, and when Kano uses it to his advantage as well to blackmail the girls into letting him take dirty pictures of them and nearly rape them; Mikogami wises up after the Kano incident and reinstates their right to defend themselves so it doesn't happen again.
- Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon goes the Satire/Parody/Pastiche shock value route, but somehow manages to do it in a mostly upbeat feel-good manner. Basically, if your eyes have scars from assorted unpleasant things you've come across online, this might actually help.
- Celestial Warrior Moon: The police get involved with the attacks, the monsters leave bodies, there is property damage, and the stress is showing signs of taking its toll on Usagi.
- The author has also made great use of news broadcasts to keep readers updated on how much the general public has figured out for itself.
- Crystal Tokyo, the Crystal Spires and Togas utopian Future, is frequently deconstructed into a Knight Templar dystopia — famously, in I'm Here To Help. Neo-Queen Serenity, Sailor Moon's future self, is described as "cleansing the Earth's people of evil". That would be enough to plant Epileptic Trees, but then in the second season, the Black Moon Clan showed up, time-travelling antagonists who refused to be "purified" and left Crystal Tokyo forever. That just made removing people's "evil" sound even more like a euphemism for mass Brainwashing.
- Ambitious Love deconstructs Kumiko and Reina's personalities. Neither are able to cope with loss well and both react in overly emotional ways to issues. Reina's desire to be special is depicted as self-destructive. It leads to her staying in an abusive relationship because her husband has connections in the music industry. The fic also deconstructs Taki. His emotional issues over his first wife's death cause him to abuse drugs and alcohol. It gets to the point where he refuses to let his wife Reina leave him despite his Domestic Abuse.
- Nice Guys are Boring gives the actual realistic outcome of the Fan-Preferred Couple trope between Ichigo/Kish and Ichigo/Ryou and the Masaya-bashing that has been going in the fandom in order to give way to the aforementioned pairings. Here, Ichigo breaks up with Masaya not because he's unfaithful to her (a common device used in the fandom to separate them), but because she's bored with his nice-guy attitude of never trying anything risque with her. Kish is far from the Lovable Rogue the fandom often portrays him to be, and instead, although it was taken a bit to the extreme, is truer to his in-show personality: a deranged Yandere who only lusts after Ichigo's body and never really cared about her feelings at all. Ryou himself didn't get the better end of the stick either. His emotional scar of losing his mother prevented him from truly loving anyone else, including Ichigo. After knocking her up, instead of proposing to her and taking the responsibility, he simply gave her some money and an address to an abortion clinic. After everything had been said and done, Ichigo finds out that even though Masaya moved on and dated her best friend Lettuce, he still loves Ichigo all the same, even with her being pregnant with Ryou's child.
- Shatterheart deconstructs the concept of Loving a Shadow and CLAMP's concept of destined love. After the events of Acid Tokyo Clone!Sakura never warms up to Real!Syaoran. Both Clone!Sakura and Real!Syaoran know that the other is similar to their lover, but have too many differences to be them. Neither of them love each other because they don't want love a shadow. Syaoran hasn't seen Real!Sakura in years and he realizes it's unhealthy for him to devote his entire life to someone that he hasn't seen or not even sure that she's alive. Despite literally being destined for Sakura, Syaoran moves on, falls in love and marries Kurogane.
- Hecate: The fic somewhat deconstructs the numerous incidents of people getting hurt during the Battle City tournament, with Kaiba Corp falling under public scrutiny for (alleged) human endangerment.
- While the Rivals Series ultimately stays true to the original anime and does come to the same conclusion regarding the story, it does take a closer look at some aspects of the anime and examines them in-depth:
- Yuuri's insecurity about his weight: while in the original anime this aspect of Yuuri's character was mostly Played for Laughs, in the fic Viktor's offhand jab at Yuuri's weight is ultimately what led to Yuuri's resentment of him. Especially since an impressionable twelve-year old is being insulted by their idol, Yuuri's esteem is crushed.
- Viktor's Brutal Honesty, in the same manner as the above, is shown to have realistic (and horrible) consequences. Viktor's attempts at advice and criticism end up annoying at best and cruel at worst. Viktor's honesty unintentionally undermines Viktor's attempts to get Yuuri to like him and cause him to loathe him even more.
- Yuuri's low self esteem and its manifestation as callousness towards Viktor is carefully examined as well. Since Yuuri doesn't realize that Viktor is in love with him, he ends up leading Viktor into an emotionally-unfulfilling fuck-buddy relationship.
- Yuuri and Viktor's communication problems, while present in the anime, take a front row in this fic and are explored to the greatest extent possible through the one-sided narratives.
