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Trailer Spoof
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So you're in the movie theatre, the house lights are coming down, and the screen lights up with the previews of coming attractions. After the standard green MPAA Trailer Approved To Accompany This Feature slate, the screen shows a dark city full of foreboding, while the announcer intones about heady topics like crime running rampant or a city crying out for help. On a rooftop, a shadowy figure emerges. It could only be a certain Dark Knight... and then the figure is revealed to be... Scooby-Doo? Congratulations. You've just been had by a Trailer Spoof. A Trailer Spoof is when a trailer will try to hook your attention by pretending to be a trailer for a well known movie franchise, or a highly-anticipated blockbuster film. Then anywhere from half-way to three quarters through comes The Reveal: it's actually a trailer for a perhaps not-so-anticipated comedy movie. (It's almost always some form of comedy; dramas and straight action/adventure films take themselves too seriously to try this sort of thing.) Virtually all Trailer Spoofs are teaser trailers, whose purpose is to "build awareness" for the film, although it's still a long way off from release. Expect actual footage from the real film to be limited to 30 seconds or less, since usually teaser trailers are made when the film is still being worked on. If they had more footage to show, the studio would likely not bother with a spoof, and just release a trailer cut from the footage instead. Compare Real Trailer, Fake Movie, which is when the trick to the trailer is that it's for a movie that doesn't exist. Yet. Examples |
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Commercials for Battlefield: Bad Company spoofed Rainbow Six, Gears of War, and Metal Gear franchises. Usually they led the viewer on for a few moments before switching to the more "goofy" Bad Company style. | |
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One television commercial for Notting Hill tried the same device against Austin Powers by focusing on a wacky supporting character. It didn't quite work. | |
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The trailer for Monsters University is the kind of Trailer Spoof that doesn't hide the movie, but parodies commercials for real colleges. | |
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One trailer from the year 2001 made it seem like it was hyping the next James Bond movie, and concluding with a big title screen reading "007." But then the "007" flipped upside down, and zoomed out to reveal that the 7 was actually a "Z." And that the rest of the word spelled out "Zoolander". | |
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A teaser trailer for Ali G Indahouse pretended to be for the biopic Ali. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's initial trailer was a recreation of the original Splatoon reveal trailer, before it suddenly goes dark. As the female Inkling stops in confusion, she looks over her shoulder and is stunned; the viewer can see the Smash logo reflected in her eye, before we see that she looking at a giant flaming Smash logo with a number of veteran characters standing in front of it. | |
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The first teaser trailer for Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare initially presents the game as a gritty, realistic Battlefield-esque military shooter, but after the Title Drop, it shows the game for the outlandish, cartoony shooter that it really is. | |
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The trailer for the 2002 film adaptation of Teacher's Pet appears to start as another trailer for Disney's classic Pinocchio, not minding the fact that it is animated in the former's style, until it is revealed that the figure the Blue Fairy has just transformed is Spot. | |
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A TV spot for Saving Silverman used the same typeface as Hannibal's ads to spell out "Get rid of the fava beans. Hide the Chianti. He's coming" before cutting to Jack Black's "Beer bong for the lady?". | |
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Even a commercial for the DVD started off looking like The Hunger Games. | |
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A later Simpsons trailer used the Spider-Man font before revealing... Spider-Pig. | |
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Austin Powers: The second movie, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me came out the same year as The Phantom Menace and had a trailer that started by going through the Death Star with Vader Breath in the background while closing in on a chair... until the Chair Reveal has Dr. Evil sitting in it. After that, the trailer goes in more typical Austin Powers style, including the narrator saying "If you see only one movie this summer, see... Star Wars. But if you see two movies, see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me!" A trailer for Austin Powers in Goldmember began in a manner similar to the opening credits of Goldfinger. Which in turn led MGM to sue New Line for copyright infringement. The suit was settled and in exchange, the trailer to Die Another Day was attached to all prints of Goldmember. As for commercials, some opened with a disclaimer screen similar to those used by Jackass: The Movie, except reading "So for the sake of you and your dumb little clone..." |
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An early trailer for Underdog started out spoofing Superman, in keeping with the superhero film theme. Didn't work. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series had some TV spots, attempting to follow suit of the aforementioned movie trailers, which started as ads for other cartoons Disney Channel aired at the time. | |
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A TV spot for Kung Fu Panda 4 starts out shot like Dune: Part Two, until a figure, standing on the dunes of Arrakis, who at first appears to be Paul Atreides and or a Fremen, is given more clarity, and is revealed in actuality to be Po; Who then pulls out a bowl full of dumplings and some chopsticks, says they have just the right amount of spice, and begins to chow down on them. Shortly after that, a spoof poster for The Garfield Movie came out, doing the same sort of thing, showing Garfield buried in the sand with the title for the movie in the same text font style as Dune. See it here: |
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Several trailers for The Simpsons Movie did this. An early trailer pretended to be for Superman Returns, but it was just Homer wearing a Superman shirt. A later Simpsons trailer used the Spider-Man font before revealing... Spider-Pig. Yet another spoofed the first teaser for The Da Vinci Code, with Homer's face in place of the Mona Lisa. One trailer does it a bit differently by not being based on any particular movie: |
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The teaser for 2015's The Peanuts Movie starts like the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it turns out the "planet" is Charlie Brown's bald head. | |
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One trailer appeared to be for the next James Bond movie, showing 007 onscreen. Then it turned upside down and pulled back, revealing Looney Tunes: Back in Action. | |
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The trailer for Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival is perhaps an unintentional case of this. Fans saw it and believed that it was the trailer for the eagerly-awaited Wii U installment in the series, until the screen pans to reveal board game tiles. That's right, it's a Party Game spin-off. Reaction to this was mixed. | |
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The teaser trailer for Birds of Prey (2020) was exclusively released before screenings of It: Chapter Two and was made to look like the opening credits of that film, with red balloons floating in front of a shadowy figure who is then revealed to be Harley Quinn. | |
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Yet another spoofed the first teaser for The Da Vinci Code, with Homer's face in place of the Mona Lisa. | |
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The trailer for Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III initially made it look like it was for a movie based on the legend of King Arthur. | |
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A trailer for South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut opened with what appeared to be a man drawing on his desk. Also, the teaser appeared to be advertising a film that would revolutionize animation and special effects, with a computer drawing an elaborate wireframe figure. That figure turned out to be Cartman. |
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The start of the trailer for Red vs. Blue: Recreation starts off looking identical to the trailer for Reconstruction, right up until Caboose causes an explosion. | |
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Virtually every genre parody movie does this by pretending to be dramatic and serious at first. For example: Scary Movie ([1]) Epic Movie ([2]) and Disaster Movie ([3]). | |
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Some TV spots in 2005 opened with images of swirling chocolate or "Bad to the Bone" playing—It's a Wedding Crashers ad. | |
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The trailer for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters went so far to identify itself as Spider-Man 2 in the text crawl while the narrator reads the correct name. | |
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A trailer for The Hustle imitated an Avengers: Endgame trailer by starting out very dark, with black-and-white footage similar to that of the Endgame flashbacks, and using the infamous dust effect. | |
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One trailer for The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie appeared to spoof Pirates of the Caribbean, but then Eloise says "The heroes! They're here!" as we cut to clips from the movie. | |
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The initial E3 reveal trailer for the upcoming No More Heroes III started off looking like a trailer for a mecha game, one where you had to stop an extraterrestrial threat. Then the man in the armor does the famous pose from the first game and reveals himself to be Travis Touchdown. The Game Awards trailer started off seemingly to announce a cute game about a boy named Damon meeting and trying to bring back to its home planet an alien named FU. Cut to fifteen years later, where the two reunite... only for the alien and his friends to destroy the world around him, revealing "Goddamn Superhero" to the world... only for a motorcycle to be heard after the logo and the screen shattering revealing Travis again on his bike, revealing the trailer to actually be an announcement that No More Heroes III would be coming next year. |
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One teaser for the 2009 remake of Fame makes it look like a Harry Potter trailer (or another movie about a wizarding school) using stock footage of a steam train and a castle at the beginning, and even using lines like "Practice your craft" and "Cast a spell" in between clips. | |
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The teaser for the third Alvin and the Chipmunks film baited us with the possibility of a Titanic (1997) remake or sequel (or even the then-upcoming 3D rerelease), with an instrumental of "My Heart Will Go On" playing over footage of an ocean liner. Then Alvin appears over the ship's bow, claiming, "I'm king of the world!" | |
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Winnie the Pooh (2011) came out the same weekend as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and thus some Pooh ads started out with lightning text on a cloudy sky (like the Harry Potter movies) with taglines such as "Get ready for the final battle" and "How do you spell adventure?"... with cuts to Pooh running from bees and inverting a set of blocks from "POTR" to "POOH". Once the film's logo appears, there's a clip of Pooh saying, "Were you expecting someone else?" (a nod to the teaser for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, which famously tricked audiences into thinking they were watching a trailer for the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace). However, in some cases, they have already shown the Walt Disney logo, which somewhat ruins the effect. | |
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In a teaser trailer for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, it shows the Paramount logo (which the Nickelodeon movie was distributed by), then cuts to several live-action men in a submarine, using footage from The Hunt for Red October - making the movie look like a sea epic. But then we hear the trademark laugh, and see the silhouette on a radar-tracker... and it turns out that the "submarine" is a toy that SpongeBob is playing with in the bathtub. Another trailer included a documentary-style opening with the narrator asking the audience "Where did we come from?" and "Is there life after death?" He concludes by asking "the ultimate question", which turns out to be "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?", as we see SpongeBob's pineapple, with his signature laugh playing after a few seconds. |
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Citizens kept yelling "It's a bird!", "It's a plane!", but Bullwinkle said it looked like a flying squirrel in the Superman-themed teaser trailer for The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. The trailer even concluded on the tag line "You will believe a squirrel can fly!" | |
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An early trailer pretended to be for Superman Returns, but it was just Homer wearing a Superman shirt. | |
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The E3 2021 trailer for Bayonetta 3 had JGSDF soldiers opening fire upon some misshapen abominations, which is usually par for the course for their games, but the bait-and-switch comes into play when one of those abominations is shot at by... Lappy. The creature retaliates in kind, only to be cock-blocked at the point of entry by sudden invocation of Witch Time as Bayo herself arrives "fashionably late" by her own admission. | |
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Shortly after that, a spoof poster for The Garfield Movie came out, doing the same sort of thing, showing Garfield buried in the sand with the title for the movie in the same text font style as Dune. See it here: | |
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Due to it coming out around the same time as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the teaser for UHF made it look like it was for the next Indiana Jones movie before switching around to reveal the face of "Weird Al" Yankovic. | |
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The 2011 movie The Muppets went crazy with this: "Green With Envy" is seemingly a cliché romantic comedy starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams. Then halfway through, both the narrator and Segel are baffled that the actual film featured in the trailer is The Muppets. Two more trailers were also spoofs of the ones for The Hangover Part II & Green Lantern (2011). After releasing a proper trailer, they did it again, this time masquerading as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Even a commercial for the DVD started off looking like The Hunger Games. Mere weeks before the film was to be released, they then went recursive by completely inverting the "Green With Envy" trailer (complete with Jason Segel billed as "Jason the Segel"◊), before doing rapid-fire parodies of Paranormal Activity 3, Puss in Boots, Happy Feet Two, and Breaking Dawn Part 1. |
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Some TV spots for Eight Legged Freaks initially made it look like it was for Spider-Man. | |
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The trailer for Chicken Little opened with the exact same sequence used in the teaser trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), another Disney production. | |
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Nearly every trailer for the first Lilo & Stitch appeared to be a trailer for some other Disney movie at first, only to be interrupted by Stitch, partly to make it clear it was a lighter, wackier film than the company's usual output. Which was kind of misleading, really; this movie has some pretty heart-rending moments. | |
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Trailers for Garfield: The Movie and Stuart Little 2 imitated moments from the first Spider-Man movie. | |
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Super Smash Bros. loves doing this trope, mostly for character reveals. Fans of the source series immediately know it's Smash Bros., but it doesn't stop these from being fun: The reveal trailer for the Wii Fit Trainer first starts as what appears to be a trailer for a new Wii Fit game, before pulling out to reveal Mario, Link, and Kirby holding the pose shown on screen, where upon the Trainer gets their attention before attacking them. Rosalina's trailer starts out with Kirby flying in space along with Kirby Air Ride music before coming upon Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, causing the viewer to expect an Air Ride game, then an Air Ride/Mario Kart crossover. Then something shoots off a Launch Star, causing Kirby to crash. Luma splits off from the something and lands. Rosalina appears shortly after, and title card "Rosalina and Luma Launch Into Battle!" appears. Funnily enough, the presenter of that particular Nintendo Direct (Satoru Iwata) jokes that this ended up being a happy coincidence, as he's can use it to segue into a new trailer for an actual Mario Kart game (Mario Kart 8, to be precise). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's initial trailer was a recreation of the original Splatoon reveal trailer, before it suddenly goes dark. As the female Inkling stops in confusion, she looks over her shoulder and is stunned; the viewer can see the Smash logo reflected in her eye, before we see that she looking at a giant flaming Smash logo with a number of veteran characters standing in front of it. The reveal trailer for Isabelle was placed near the end of a Nintendo Direct, looking very much like a trailer for a new Animal Crossing game. Isabelle starts to give away the game when she mentions the mayor (Villager) being in Smash, but it's still a bit before it officially confirms itself as a Smash trailer. Then trailer then becomes a Double Subversion, as it ends with Tom Nook in his office watching the Nintendo Direct himself, before addressing the audience and revealing an actual Animal Crossing game will be releasing next year (though the game in question would end up getting delayed a few months). The reveal trailer for Banjo-Kazooie's inclusion in Ultimate is a parody of King K. Rool's own reveal trailer, complete with Duck Hunt in King Dedede's role of the double fake-out. The reveal trailer for Pyra and Mythra opens with Rex searching for her in what could easily be mistaken as a trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC, until he manages to find her on a foggy version of Smash Bros.'s Battlefield stage, where she admits she's been hiding that she had been invited to Smash. |
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A commercial for the episode of The Goldbergs that aired October 21, 2015 started off spoofing Back to the Future, the airdate being the day that Marty went into the future in the second film. However, it showed the series' title in the form of a hashtag in the lower left corner, which somewhat ruined the effect. | |
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