Genre Buster Bombs

A workable definition of a genre buster bomb would be a work in a genre that destroys or significantly changes said genre, often by some form of often violent deconstruction.

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Watchmen (1986)

Any others I'm missing? And did Watchmen really bust a genre? I'm really not much up on the comic scene. Pretty sure there was a deconstruction, but maybe not so much the oh it's the end of a genre as we know it.

Idiomdrottning claims "Watchmen, The Longbow Hunters, and The Dark Knight Returns together destroyed light-hearted superhero comics." So this might be a genre cluster buster bomb.

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Evangelion deconstructs the mecha genre, but probably the mecha genre is still going on?

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