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Serac (Troper Knight)
2021-01-25 10:58:38

So, to start with, I should probably point out that Deconstruction, as it's used on this wiki, refers to when a trope or genre is played very straight to show its illogical or unrealistic nature. It's often confused for Dark Fic, as the line between "realistic" and "edgy" can be kind of hazy sometimes. The main questions to ask are "Is this based on something in the canon work, or is the author taking some creative liberties to seem darker?" and "Does this seem more realistic, or is it just being dark for its own sake?" See Not a Deconstruction for more info.

  • Kazuto at level 90: I have no idea who Kazuto is, why he needs to outlevel the other players, or how the others can "take time out of their real-life matters to level grind"; I thought the whole premise of SAO is that the players were trapped in VR. So it's lacking some important context and I can't analyze it.
  • Ryotaro and Grandis: First off, are those two the same person or something? The example doesn't say anything about it, and I've never watched this anime, so I don't know what the connection here is. But anyway, this isn't a deconstruction, it's just a one-off snarky quip.
  • Code Lyoko and Ascended Fridge Horror: As you said, the example outright admits that it wants to be AFH instead. Except that fanfics can only ascend fridge horror from other parts of the same fanfic series. Cerebus Retcon is a more applicable trope here, as that trope has a lot of examples of "fanfic reveals the dark origin behind a not-particularly-dark canon thing".
  • Harvesting legendary Pokémon: This is a perfect example of what I said earlier about taking creative liberties to be darker. Nowhere in Pokémon canon does it state that legendaries can be harvested like that, nor is it stated that anyone is interested in making armor out of Pokémon parts.
  • Lady Sigma: What exactly is being deconstructed here? I have no idea what kind of antagonist Lady Sigma is, and averting a trope is Not a Deconstruction of it. I guess I could maybe see how it's a deconstruction of something like Ax-Crazy if that's applicable to her, but there just isn't enough info here.

By the way, you should take questions like this to the Is this an example? thread next time.

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