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A sister trope to the Deconstruction Crossover, this is what happens where a parody or deconstruction uses an official character from an earlier work with permission from the original creator. Often, but not always, this will be The Film of the Series.
Examples of Official Parody include:
Films — Live-Action[]
- The Casino Royale film of the 1960s as well as Never Say Never Again, although neither are canon in the sense that they were not made by Eon Films.
- The Dragnet movie.
- The Starsky and Hutch movie
- A Very Brady Movie in respect to The Brady Bunch
- OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies is a James Bond / Tuxedo and Martini parody movie based upon a series of French spy novels. It definitely gets into Deconstruction territory, as the protagonist is a jingoistic jerk and the movie shows him and his superiors as completely clueless of the public opinion in Europe's colonies.
- According to Word of God, the film version of Kiss Me Deadly is this for the original Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane.
- Starship Troopers is a Deconstruction version, although it's more like Heinlein's novel was chosen as an outlet to satirize Patriotic Fervor and militarism, than that it was an attack on the novel itself.
- The 1930s series of Bulldog Drummond movies had one where Drummond is injured in a car crash and Jack Pennington (played by comedian Jack Hulbert) is forced to stand in for him. It is considered part of the official series.
- To an extent Wild Wild West, the Will Smith vehicle.
- Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and the subsequent A&C monster movies, are considered to be in-continuity with the classic Universal Horror films.
Live-Action TV[]
- Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, while the very title notes that it is an unofficial Super Sentai, includes cameos from previous Sentai characters... though they're only in AkibaRed's mind.