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And You Thought It Was Real

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And You Thought It Was Real	comment	Something that is a work of fiction or some people practicing for the real thing gets mistaken for the real thing. Poor Communication Kills comes into play and most the rest of the episode is based on this one misunderstanding. May lead to You Just Ruined the Shot. While this trope often pops up because of a simple miscommunication it also can turn up in works where there are aliens involved. No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture, right? Well, Law of Conservation of Detail might explain that, but in this case the aliens literally do not have pop culture. Or any other form of entertainment, because in their culture there is no such thing as fiction. And therefore, when they watch something like Star Trek they think we actually have laser weapons and photon cannons. This trope does not have anything to do with an ultra-realistic costume or anything of the sort. Inverse of And You Thought It Was a Game, where something that's real gets mistaken for pretend. Related to Out-of-Context Eavesdropping, This Is a Work of Fiction, Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality, You Watch Too Much X. Similar to Red Herring.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_261c8d3f	comment	One episode of The Simpsons had the family go on a cruise. When Bart realizes that the cruise is going to end soon and he'll never have fun like that again, he tries to extend the cruise by passing off a movie about a viral outbreak as a news report. It fools everyone, including celebrity passenger Treat Williams who starred in the movie.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_2ba48a26	comment	One episode of Castle seems to involve a dead secret agent. Then Castle realizes that the victim was just playing a deeply immersive spy game, along with a few of their witnesses who didn't realize they were dealing with the real police.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_546876cb	comment	In the Sonic Boom episode "Eggman The Auteur", Sonic stops one of Eggman's robots that is attacking the village early on in the episode, only to find out that it was actually for a film that Eggman is making. Subverted in that it is later revealed by Orbot and Cubot that Eggman was actually using the film as a cover to mine for rare metal in order to make stronger robots. Only for it to be Double Subverted when Eggman reveals that was a ruse too and he was actually tricking Sonic into filming the last part of his movie.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_56fa0ea4	comment	The Ellimist's species was destroyed due to a misunderstanding: one of their favorite pastimes was playing extremely detailed Civilization-like games, which were part of the data they broadcasted into space. Another species picked up the signal and saw a race of Manipulative Bastards who played god with other sentient beings, and destroyed nearly all the Ketrans. Ironically, the Ellimist eventually did play games with other sentients when he had attained godlike power.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale, Undyne believes that anime is human history. When Alphys confesses to her that it isn't, she initially laughs it off, but then begins to undergo an existential crisis. You have the option to either reassure her that it is real, or confirm that it isn't.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad! episode "An Apocalypse to Remember": Stan mistakes a nuclear drill as real and thinks nuclear war is happening, evacuating his family to the woods. He then spends most the rest of the episode hiding the truth from them so his family doesn't think he's an idiot.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_70814599	comment	The Stargate SG-1 episode "Rules of Engagement" manages to combine this with And You Thought It Was a Game. In the episode, SG-1 stumbles across what appears to be a missing SG team in a firefight with some Jaffa. When they move in to assist, they get shot by their would-be allies, who turn out to be Goa'uld infiltration trainees participating in war games using weapons modified to be non-lethal. The opposite trope comes into play when SG-1's very real weapons are unknowingly mixed into circulation with the fakes, leading to both camps believing their Deadly Graduation has begun.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_7385bc4d	comment	Doraemon: One episode involves the cast getting ready to fight a bunch of Mole Men after one of them had a premonition that they were invading the surface. Turns out, it was just shooting for a movie. The 2015 movie Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes has the roles flipped: this time, the cast is shooting for a movie and an alien comes to them for help thinking they are superheroes.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_7fd403f8	comment	Galaxy Quest: A group of aliens who have no concept of fiction believe that a Star Trek-like TV show from Earth is real and abduct the (retired) actors to help them fight a war.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_81692f99	comment	When the Yeerks first came to Earth, they were horrified to discover that humans not only had variable-setting laser weapons, but were capable of multiples-of-lightspeed travel in realspace (with recording devices capable of such impossible speeds). They quickly figured out it wasn't real, but thought it was for intimidation purposes. It wasn't until they started infesting them that they understood the human need for entertainment.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: When the Yeerks first came to Earth, they were horrified to discover that humans not only had variable-setting laser weapons, but were capable of multiples-of-lightspeed travel in realspace (with recording devices capable of such impossible speeds). They quickly figured out it wasn't real, but thought it was for intimidation purposes. It wasn't until they started infesting them that they understood the human need for entertainment. The Ellimist's species was destroyed due to a misunderstanding: one of their favorite pastimes was playing extremely detailed Civilization-like games, which were part of the data they broadcasted into space. Another species picked up the signal and saw a race of Manipulative Bastards who played god with other sentient beings, and destroyed nearly all the Ketrans. Ironically, the Ellimist eventually did play games with other sentients when he had attained godlike power.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_90feccf9	comment	Latchkey Kingdom: "Team Awesome - Gala" sees the team hired as security for a gala event. The gala is attacked by masked cultists seeking an ancient artifact, tying up the team and dumping them in the coat room, only for CB and Classy Cat-Burglar Ms. Tery to escape and try to foil the scheme. It turns out to be an elaborate dinner theatre, complete with a dashing swashbuckler come to save the day. The other staff try to explain it, but CB runs off before they finish.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_914ba844	comment	In 2017, a thief named Terry Jon Martin stole a pair of prop ruby slippers, as worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, from the Judy Garland Museum, believing them to be studded with real rubies which he could sell for a lot of money. After learning the "rubies" were simply red glass, Martin simply got rid of the shoes, though they were subsequently recovered. (In fairness, Martin had never seen the film and didn't realize the shoes were being kept for their cultural, rather than financial, value.)
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_93572752	comment	The 2015 movie Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes has the roles flipped: this time, the cast is shooting for a movie and an alien comes to them for help thinking they are superheroes.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond: The Chigs often mutilate human dead out of a mistaken belief that humans can come Back from the Dead. Having no concept of an afterlife themselves, they misunderstood The Four Gospels after stealing cable.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: In "Sense and Senility", the two actors trying to coach Prince George take a break to rehearse their own play, "The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife" (a philosophical piece). Baldrick overhears them during a scene planning to torture the prince and his servant, thinks it's for real, and the panic spreads to Prince George. Blackadder returns, and immediately realizes the truth, but chooses to get rid of the actors by confirming that they were traitors, having made the classic mistake of planning their deed by writing it in play format.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_d22a9a66	comment	Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Flying Island: The Sky Adventure episode 14, Weslie and Paddi see Tibbie kidnapped in a building and at the mercy of two bird people about to beat her up. Not only is it not her, but the situation is a film being recorded rather than an actual violent run-in; Weslie and Paddi don't realize this until after they've crashed the filming.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power episode "Roll With It", Scorpia uses a spy-bot to spy on the Alliance's planning session. However, unknown to her, the session has devolved into the Princesses trying to one-up each other with crazy stories about how they'd use made-up powers to single-handily capture the fortress Scorpia is guarding. Scorpia believes everything she hears and is terrified.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_e098e5ef	comment	Home Alone: Kevin tricks a pizza delivery boy and the Wet Bandits into believing that they overheard a murder occur by playing a gangster movie.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_e0c93337	comment	On October 30, 1938 the book The War of the Worlds about an alien invasion was adapted into a series of fake news broadcasts for The Mercury Theatre on the Air, which fooled many people into thinking an actual invasion was happening and causing mass panic.note Although whether the "mass panic" actually happened is disputed.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_ea4f62db	comment	In one episode of Family Guy, Mayor Adam West watches Romancing the Stone and sends the entire Quahog police force to rescue the film's heroes, but by the end of the episode, the rescue is called off.
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And You Thought It Was Real / int_f74b5f80	comment	Diplomatic Act is a 1998 novel by Peter Jurasik, who played Londo on Babylon 5 and clearly used the role in the plot: An actor who plays an alien diplomat on a popular TV show is abducted into space, not for a war, but to take part in negotiations to prevent one as the aliens think he is his noble, wise alien character. Meanwhile, one of the aliens takes his place on Earth to quickly realize he is merely an actor (it's indicated the very idea of fiction may be a purely human concept) and tries to get back to warn his people about the mistake.
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