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Fantasy Comedy

Speculative and Fantastic Fiction

Fantasy comedy, also called comic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone. Typically set in imaginary worlds, it often works through puns on, and parodies of, other fantasy works.

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Notable Example
Discworld 1
Defining Trait
Primarily humorous in intent and tone 1
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Mood and Effect 1
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Subgenre Of

Fantasy, Genres
Source Fantasy comedy - Wikipedia
Sources
1. Fantasy comedy - Wikipedia
  • Literature
    Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
  • Intro, sentence 1
    primarily humorous in intent and tone
  • Lead paragraph, defining sentence
    Fantasy comedy, also called comic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone.
  • Subgenre Of: Fantasy, Lead paragraph
    is a subgenre of fantasy
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