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We've all seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But what if these stories weren't false, but rather, made to distract people from the real aliens, government conspiracy and vampires? This trope describes the use of stories to serve as a psychological smoke screen. If someone came up and said that small grey aliens with big eyes just abducted him, you'd probably dismiss him as watching too much TV. It's used in media to show how big the conspiracy is. The people in charge know that they can't keep a lid on it all the time, so they start to release fictional accounts of their exploits, so if they ever do get seen, people will not believe the witnesses. Such a show is always popular, which isn't exactly reassuring about how much power the Conspiracy must have... There are two main variations: A specific show (or work) exists, which obscures the fact that the events in it are real. A large number of works exist, which obscures the fact that the outlandish type of events they depict are, in fact, plausible, though they may or may not depict actual events. Subtrope of Cassandra Gambit. See also Plausible Deniability, Literary Agent Hypothesis, Direct Line to the Author, and All Part of the Show. When the "fake fake show" is a direct part of the main plot, it's a Show Within a Show. |
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In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, we are told that the Orson Welles The War of the Worlds broadcast and the ensuing hysteria were to distract attention from the REAL arrival of the Lectroids. | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe In Steven Moffat's first foray into Doctor Who lit, Continuity Errors, the Doctor himself is said to insert himself into the narratives of the worlds he helps. As a result it is impossible to convince the people of these worlds that a dangerous alien is among them (the guy explaining this has some issues) when they're too busy laughing at how cheap the effects are. In the unofficial book I am the Doctor presented as the Doctor's autobiography, the last chapter is about how Ian and Barbara were involved in hushing up the Shoreditch Incident by helping to make two films about the Daleks, starring Peter Cushing. |
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Many Shin Megami Tensei fans take Persona 4's mention of a Raidou Kuzunoha movie as this. It would make it the only indication of any games in the series (beyond the direct sequels and Persona sub-series) to take place in the same (exact) universe. Ironically, the Raidou Kuzunoha reference was solely a product of the localization; in the original Japanese version, it was actually a reference to both the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novels and the The Kindaichi Case Files manga/anime/live-action adaptations. |
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In the Harry Potter fic Who Needs Obliviators?, this is played with a bit: American Sentinels (Aurors) pass off any public magic use as filmshoots, instead of mind-wiping the Muggles. | |
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The twist of round one of Airlocked, now considered a Late-Arrival Spoiler, is that the Deadly Game the characters are put in is filmed, edited, and shown to aliens as fiction. | |
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A documentary in 2014, titled Mirage Men, alleges that the US government was actively involved in spreading conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. The logic was that, if people (and hopefully the Soviets too) believed that the strange lights in the Nevada desert were visitors from outer space, then they'd pay less attention to the top-secret experimental aircraft that the Air Force was actually testing at Area 51, along with other black projects that the military was engaged in. (The cattle mutilations of the '70s, for instance, were likely connected to an ill-advised experiment in "nuclear fracking".) Of course, this film could be just another layer of the cover-up... | |
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The SCP Foundation universe has a breakfast cereal parodying Cocoa Puffs called "Super Coco Pows". The Sonny the Cuckoo Bird parody, Bradbury Buzzard is based on SCP-1160. A giant bird that gets weaker the more people who know about it. Given that the Foundation's entire purpose is to preserve the Masquerade, the best way to keep it known but secret at the same time was to turn it into a cereal mascot. | |
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In Halt Evil Doer!, the James Bond franchise is strongly implied to exist as a coverup of the setting's Bond Expy, Jacob Hunter. The current Jacob Hunter, who is a Composite Character of the Daniel Craig Bond and Jason Bourne finds it really tiresome. | |
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Slightly different take on the subject in the Whateley Universe. Famous horror writer Michael Waite's best known book, "Incongruity", was a huge success. Michael Waite died. Sort of. He became 'Carmilla' who is prophesied to evolve into The Kellith and sweep humanity off the planet and replace humanity with its spawn. It turns out that "Incongruity" is really The First Book of The Kellith. | |
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In the original Men in Black comic, Kay lets slip that The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) was a documentary about Earth's first treaty with extraterrestrials, and Space Invaders was made as a simulator in the event of interplanetary war. note This was years after The Last Starfighter, incidentally. | |
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This is revealed to be the "truth" of James Bond, with a touch of Recursive Canon, in the novel You Only Live Twice: the obituary of Commander James Bond, RNVR, states that a series of popular novels have been implicitly approved (or tolerated) by Her Majesty's Secret Service to obfuscate the truth of his missions, although they've hewed dangerously close to "actual events" once or twice. | |
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In A Time to Kill, the Doctor tells Donna that this is a fairly common practice. James Bond (who they've just met) and SGC both use it, and even he had a TV show once. Unfortunately, it got cancelled in the late '80s... | |
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In the case of the science fiction story "Deadline", which featured a fairly accurate description of the atomic bomb — in 1944. Astounding editor John Campbell convinced the FBI agents who showed up at his office that attempting to pull the issue from distribution would only call attention to it. | |
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The X-Files: The "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" episode features a government conspiracy to fake alien encounters so that people won't take the real alien encounters seriously. To make things even harder to believe, they even employ Men In Black who heavily resemble celebrities, like Alex Trebek. This also happened in one of the tie-in comics produced by Topps. A man going on the talk show circuit claiming to be John Lawrence, one of the pilots of the famous Flight 19 that got lost in The Bermuda Triangle is eventually revealed to be an actor playing an elaborate hoax. However, Mulder correctly deduces that the real reason behind the hoax is that the aliens really have sent Flight 19 back to Earth and The Conspiracy set the whole thing up so if any more of them turned up nobody would believe them. |
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Stargate SG-1: The "Wormhole X-Treme!" show was written by a guy who had knowledge of the real Stargate program. The Pentagon acknowledged that it would prevent any future leaks of information about the program from ever being taken seriously. Subverting the popularity part, the show was apparently canceled after something like two episodes. But got a movie. Based on its DVD sales. Apparently, this was a defictionalization of a fan theory claiming that the Stargate-verse itself is an example of this trope, with the shows being used to cover up a real-life Stargate program. There was actually a real (and now-declassified) "Stargate" program, only it involved research into remote viewing, and was ended in 1995 due to a failure to produce results. (Or so they say...) It was the inspiration for the book and film The Men Who Stare at Goats. There's also apparently a door in the real life Cheyenne Mountain labeled "Stargate Command". It leads to a broom closet. |
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WarpZone Project runs with the idea of all fiction not being only cover-up, but the true stories of super-powered individuals. They contribute to an exploited Weirdness Censor in such a way that if someone actually runs into super-heroes or super-villains doing their usual super-hero and super-villain activities, the memories change into the impression of remembering a scene from a comic book or movie featuring the characters. | |
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In Kim Possible it turns out that Area 51 really is filled with aliens and captured spacecraft that the government is experimenting on, and the government deliberately leaked all the rumors and conspiracy theories to the public because they knew nobody would really believe it if "the truth" ever got out. Kim and Ron are understandably perturbed that they are being asked to help keep a secret that everybody already knows. | |
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CollegeHumor: The conspiracy theory spoof video "Deceptive Deceptions" claims that Close Encounters of the Third Kind was made on the orders of Dick Cheney (at the time Congressman of Wyoming, where the movie was filmed) and his co-conspirators to cover up previous UFO landings. | |
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In Wanted, when The Fraternity altered reality turned the superheroes into actors who played them in movies and TV shows. Superhero comics and movies are still being made by people who subconsciously remember the heroes. | |
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In Mage: The Ascension, Mages can alter reality, but it can cause serious consequences due to humanity's collective (un)belief in anything unusual or supernatural. Pretending something is fiction or performance is one way to handle the strain on reality. This is made explicit with Sons of Ether (essentially mad scientists following science more based on passion and wild imagination than established rules of modern science), who are active and have followers, among others, in the sci-fi fandom. | |
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Zigzagged in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. On one hand, the titular league (and its predecessors and successors) are covered up as fiction by biographers, who are then passed off as fiction writers, e.g. William Shakespeare and H. G. Wells. On the other, many events (the Martian invasion), places (the nation of Qumar), and people (British government official Malcolm Tucker) are all presented as real to the public, nor is there any attempt to argue otherwise. | |
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In Paul, the alien Paul explains that the government commissioned movies about aliens not to make people skeptical about their existence, but in order to prepare society for First Contact. Paul himself was responsible for, among other works, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The X-Files. | |
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War of the Worlds (1988) is based on the premise that the invasion depicted in the 1953 film actually took place, but most people don't remember it due to a Weirdness Censor effect. In one episode, the characters visit Grover's Mill, New Jersey, where the 50th anniversary of the 1938 radio drama by Orson Welles is being celebrated. They learn that the 1938 invasion was also real (although it was defeated by the local militia, not by terrestrial microbes), and the government hired Welles to produce his broadcast as part of a cover-up. | |
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Men in Black reveals that tabloids serve a double purpose: they do this while acting as a legitimate source of news for those in the know. Agents J and K read one of these tabloids to search for an alien who had crashed on Earth, killed a farmer, and stole his skin as a disguise. | |
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Something similar is hinted at in Deus Ex. The conspiracy makes artifical life-forms called Grays that resemble the popular idea of aliens (round heads, gray skin) and is implied to let rumours about them circulate as a smokescreen for what they are really up to in the Area 51 facility. Some sources also claim that the Grays are clones grown from genetic material from the Roswell UFO, but nothing conclusive is given. This is actually the purpose of the Midnight Sun tabloid. Joe Greene, agent of Majestic 12, writes sensational articles about the gray death virus that aren't quite the truth, but just close enough to discredit anyone trying to tell the public the real story. |
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Inverted in Little Green Men, in which Majestic 12, rather than covering up abductions, actually stages them to drum up a belief in alien life, in order to justify maintaining spending for NASA. It turns out that the real truth that the Government is trying to conceal is that outer space is really, really boring. | |
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Some conspiracy theorists believe that films (especially ET) and other media featuring aliens are secretly meant to acclimate the public with extraterrestrials to ensure they will be welcomed enthusiastically when the government reveals their existence. Results thus far have been mixed. | |
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The Faculty provides the page quote, in which two characters speculate on the possibility of Alien Invasion movies serving this purpose. Never confirmed either way, although the Puppeteer Parasites apparently just arrived recently, so more likely not. | |
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The Trails Series features in-universe novels that are usually obtained as collectibles, chapter-by-chapter. Most if not all of these novels are based on real events, with the "characters" playing a big role in later games. For example, the Carnelia series, featured in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, is loosely based on the adventures of a high-ranked Bracer named Toval ("Toby" in the book), who appears in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. The character "Carnelia" dies at the end of the book, but her real self is not only very much alive, she's the leader of a Church Militant order and even more badass than her fictional counterpart. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dracula got Stoker to write his book to pump up his street cred. Other vampires thought it was a really dick move, because it let the normal humans in on a lot of their secrets. | |
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The Return of the Living Dead starts with the premise that Night of the Living Dead (1968) was a fictionalized account of actual events, with certain elements changed for security reasons (unfortunately, one of those changes is that the "fictional" zombies are easier to kill than the "real" ones...) | |
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In GURPS Illuminati, the Conspiracy encourages the Weekly World News and similar publications to write up stories about conspiracy so that the Serious Press won't believe them. In one of their other games, Black Ops, this is the justification given for why the rulebook has things statted up and advice on running games despite being framed as an in-universe document- if its leaked, it can be passed off as simply an RPG supplement. |
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A particularly sinister one in Coco: One of Ernesto de la Cruz's films has a villain attempt to poison his character when he wants out of their partnership. The entire scene plays out exactly the way it did when he killed his former partner Hector, right down to the lines the villain says. If anyone tried to accuse de la Cruz of doing the same to Hector, then it could be reasonably stated they got the idea from fiction. It's further strengthened by the fact that Hector didn't realize he'd been poisoned until decades after his death when he saw the scene from the movie play out for the first time—he thought that he'd died of food poisoning. | |
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Men in Black: The Series, completing the trifecta started under Film and Comics, reveals that the MIB run a covert talent agency in LA that helps alien actors with getting roles in Hollywood movies. They saved cash for the make-up department by simply taking their human disguises off and playing themselves. Sort of subverted; although the aliens in movies are real, the events of the movies aren't necessarily (J meets a Xenomorph Xerox who's bitter at being out of work, but is not actually a bad guy). In the same episode, there's a subplot about the Worms trying to pitch a film about the MIB, starring the actors Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith; apparently, the Men in Black movie is an in-universe example of this trope! |
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The basic premise of The Dracula Dossier (a campaign setting for Night's Black Agents) is that British Intelligence tried to recruit Dracula in the 1890s, he double-crossed them, and the novel Dracula is actually a heavily edited version of the after-action report, released as disinformation. Pelgrane has published Dracula Unredacted, which in-game is Stoker's original manuscript with notes made by three prior Intelligence analysts, which the PCs can read for clues. | |
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Several The Sentinel fanfics have Blair writing up his Sentinel thesis as a novel or series of novels. | |
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