Timeline for What is the non-funny equivalent of a spoof? Such as a dark, gritty, alternative re-telling of a story

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May 13, 2021 at 14:43	comment	added	ColleenV		Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. The Boys isn't a mimicry of the style of a superhero story, it's a superhero story where the "supers" aren't heroic. The style is different, the genre is the same. I would argue Kill Bill (actually most of Tarantino's movies) is a better example of pastiche--it's a mashup of various styles of story telling from "exploitation" type movies. That movie where Batman is trying to kill Superman is not pastiche; it's a "dark re-imagining" or something.
May 13, 2021 at 14:06	comment	added	dbmag9		I think it fits some of the cases the OP wants to describe but not others, which is inevitable with these sorts of questions. For example, I'd describe The Boys (I've only seen the TV show, not the comics) as a dark pastiche of superhero stories.
May 13, 2021 at 13:47	comment	added	ColleenV		I don't think this fits exactly. Creating something original that mimics some other well-known work isn't quite the same thing as taking a theme and dramatically changing the tone. All the single maties is pastiche. I think this is asking for a word to describe something like Itsy Bitsy Spider (Intense Creepy Child Vocal) but for an original work, not a cover.
May 13, 2021 at 7:34	history	answered	dbmag9	CC BY-SA 4.0