Cross
Short
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The Looney Tunes short Porky's Duck Hunt features a cross-eyed hunter whose gun barrels are also crooked.
Source: Comically Cross-Eyed -
In one Looney Tunes short, Daffy Duck goes on a Candid Camera-type show where he tries to help an old lady cross the street.
Source: Helping Granny Cross the Street - Garth Nix wrote a short story called "The Hope Chest" that manages to cross the Magical Girl trope with Nineteen Eighty-Four and the first book of The Dark Tower.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Literature
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