Yeah, I've got one that's been in the back of my head for a dog's age, that (at least in part) always intended to be a deconstruction. But it needs to be done right, if I'm ever going to do it.

Problem is, I try to dodge the bad ones, too, and I feel like I need a broader sense of how this trope works before I'll know how I want to play with it. I mean, other than going through into another world, what is the general pattern of those stories? I can't break it until I know that.