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"Kayfabe" is a carny term thought to have originated from the Pig Latin for "be fake", possibly originally by pronouncing it backward ("kay-feeb"). Professional Wrestling adopted the term as a reference to the standard Fourth Wall features of separating the audience from the action. It is meant to convey the idea that pro wrestling is a genuine sport, and this is how these people are really acting. In all cases of kayfabe being used, the fact that what's being shown isn't really what's going on is obvious to anyone who looks at it. But the Willing Suspension of Disbelief is understood by everyone involved for the sake of enjoying the media. Telling the average fan that wrestling is "fake", or that The Muppets aren't real actors, or that their favorite Virtual Youtuber is not a cute anime character but a person using motion-capture software, will just make you sound stupid – you're not the first person to say that, and everyone's well-aware by now. But no matter what you say, the fan still likes it. They're participating in the fiction because they want to enjoy it or believe in it. In short: Kayfabe is when a work is presenting itself as real, and we all play along. Not because we think it's real, but because we know it's fake and we want to enjoy it regardless. See also Flynning, which serves many of the same purposes for depictions of swordplay. For another kind of fiction pretending to be real, see Direct Line to the Author. When actors themselves choose not to break kayfabe in order to better stay in-character, see Method Acting. When fans jokingly play along with the work as a meme, it's a Play-Along Meme. Compare Pro Wrestling Is Real, where wrestling isn't fake within the context of a video game or fictional work. |
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The Crypt Keeper is always regarded as real when he appears with human actors (which admittedly isn't often). This was most pronounced when he "directed" the movie Demon Knight; the rest of the cast wasn't all-too impressed by his humor, however. | |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The late Carroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, was asked to appear on the show (at Fred Rogers' request) in his Big Bird costume before taking it off on-camera and explaining the costume's workings and that the character was fictional. Spinney refused, but as a compromise (which Rogers agreed to), would appear in character only in the show's "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments, and in the regular segments Spinney would talk about puppetry in general. Rogers did get in a few remarks, however, about one of the things about growing up is eventually discerning the difference between reality and make-believe characters. (Indeed, Rogers openly stated that the characters of the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" are pretend.) | |
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GLOW (2017), being a fictionalized version of the real G.L.O.W., naturally illustrates the contrast between the wrestlers' lives and personalities and the characters they play. | |
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Arlo's commenters generally treat him like an actual person, and not a Henson-style puppet who looks like Cookie Monster's younger cousin. Even this wiki's page on him downplays the 'puppet' thing. | |
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The various Iron Chef series have varying degrees of kayfabe, although one thing all of them have in common is that no, the Eccentric Millionaire hosting the show is really just an actor playing the part. Doesn't stop everyone from regarding him as such. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest: Not an especially extreme example, but the performer who plays the titular character is always credited as "Unwanted Houseguest," even in the writing credits for the comic book. Aside from that, guest performers in the music videos are always credited to aliases that don't appear to be used for any other work, indicating that they may also be using a different persona than the name associated with other work they've done. | |
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Youtube vlogger Ami Yamato is a completely real British-Japanese woman who lives in London, and totally not a 3D animated character skillfully composited into real footage. That's why her face reveal was her without makeup, and the comments act confused whenever someone talks about animation. Because she's a completely real person. | |
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Counter-Strike games generally pit two opposing factions in a staged map per event, with them basing off some real-life organizations and even having realistically-modelled guns. Despite being a First-Person Shooter example of this trope, their outcome is in the players' hands. In some matches, one of the Counter-Terrorists team quotes lampshade this. | |
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The Mechanisms present themselves as distinct characters, each with their own quirks, and ended the band by 'dying' in creative ways. | |
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On another, more recent note, the 2017 revival of The Gong Show has Mike Myers hosting under the persona of fictional British TV presenter "Tommy Maitland" (Myers with a bit of makeup and a Scottish accent). On the show itself, everyone refers to Myers as Maitland, and references to Myers himself are nonexistent. Outside the show, it varies; some articles about the show run with the idea of Maitland being "real"—complete with his own fictional backstory—while others explicitly state he's Myers. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne is a notable aversion. Though his "Prince Of Darkness" image is a huge part of his act, he has no problem acknowledging that it's just an act and even has a couple songs (such as "You Can't Kill Rock And Roll" and "Gets Me Through") openly admitting it. | |
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In Superman: Truth, Superman comes across an underground wrestling ring where "gods" maintain their "followers" and thus their existence by reenacting their "legends" in wrestling matches. The matches are very real, with any injuries from the legend being incurred, but the promoter Scheherazade can heal them by recounting their stories behind the scenes. | |
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Disney had a policy of not explicitly publicizing the actors behind Mickey and the Gang, so as to not shatter the illusion of the characters. It's not that they pretend they don't exist, but when they are brought up by the company, it's at events and in media meant for animation and Disney enthusiasts. Ditto with Adriana Caselotti, whose sole feature film role was the titular princess in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. While she did made cameo appearances in a number of films (notably singing "wherfore art thou Romeo" in The Wizard of Oz), Caselotti was said to have been contractually forbidden to appear elsewhere in a starring role—Jack Benny recalled that he asked Walt Disney for permission to hire Adriana for his radio program, only for Disney to flat-out decline, saying "I'm sorry, but that voice can't be used anywhere. I don't want to spoil the illusion of Snow White." |
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Stuart Daniel Baker is (in)famous for never breaking his Unknown Hinson persona in public, whether he's interacting with fans or partaking in official interviews. | |
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Alluded to in Rocky III. Thunderlips acts like a jerk and goes berserk during his charity match with Rocky, but afterwards is cordial and friendly. Rocky is baffled by the change and Thunderlips cryptically says that "that's the name of the game." Note that the movie was made at a time when kayfabe was still tightly enforced, so it stops just short of saying that wrestling is predetermined (since doing so would've certainly killed Hogan's career), instead implying that Thunderlips was acting up to give the audience a good show. | |
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Cracked compiled a couple of lists of various times wrestlers took Kayfabe to nigh-insane levels, including fans accusing a woman of being a murderer because her opponent died in the ring. | |
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One segment in Animaniacs featured the titular Warner Brothers (and Sister) attending a wrestling match with Dr. Scratchansniff, who is an avid wrestling fan. After Warners Troll him by continually remaining skeptical and heckling him about the authenticity of wrestling (or lack thereof), the fed-up doctor shouts, "It's! Not! FAKE!" Unfortunately for the good doctor, the wrestlers in the ring only hear the last part of that exclamation, which results in Scratchansniff getting a firsthand look at how "fake" it is after all. Which just goes to show you that yes, Kayfabe exists, but the wrestlers are still 300lb masses of muscle and adrenaline who can, must, and will beat the tar out of anyone who breaks the illusion, intentionally or not. | |
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The world of Flonyard in Dog Days seems to run on Kayfabe. Battles are non-lethal, thanks to the locations in which they are held, and the various warriors and important characters are treated like idols, getting interviews and giving concerts on television. No ill-will tends to arise between nations who hold battles. The daring (and quite real) kidnapping of the Biscotti Princess is candidly televised and presented as though it were a story event similar to those seen in wrestling. |
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The Wrestler explores this and other aspects of wrestling, and goes into the fact that while it's "staged", it's still extremely demanding as wrestlers are essentially doing rough stunt work. They're True Companions as well, when not doing kayfabe. | |
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The cast of one of the original modern reality shows, The Osbournes, prided themselves on the fact their show was not scripted like most of the ones that followed. However, The Osbournes is a large reason why most of them are now scripted, since filming in the unscripted style took a lot more time (and money) to get enough usable footage. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: No-one involved will ever openly acknowledge that scorekeeper (and focus of elaborate double entendres) Samantha doesn't exist (Humph once explained to a fan that Samantha was real, but pianist Colin Sell wasn't, and this was happily accepted), there is no "laser-display board" and, above all, that Mornington Crescent is anything other than a well-known game with a storied history and clearly defined rules. Two episodes of ISIHAC are recorded in a row. However the chair and teams will act as if the second episode is a week after the first as this is how it sounds to the radio audience. Similarly, panelists on The Unbelievable Truth have called back to jokes or topics from 'an earlier recording' or 'some time ago' instead of half an hour earlier that afternoon. |
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Two episodes of ISIHAC are recorded in a row. However the chair and teams will act as if the second episode is a week after the first as this is how it sounds to the radio audience. Similarly, panelists on The Unbelievable Truth have called back to jokes or topics from 'an earlier recording' or 'some time ago' instead of half an hour earlier that afternoon. | |
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Jelle's Marble Runs features marbles taking part in competitive sports, with these marbles apparently having personalities and the like. The results are not predetermined, but of course, they aren't actual living things. The fandom took this and ran with it anyway, and will frequently contribute to it with memes and jokes on the JMR subreddit. | |
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The Prestige: Alfred Borden and his assistant Fallon take kayfabe to great extremes to hide the fact that they're actually a pair of identical twins. In one scene, Cutter sends Angier and Borden to watch a Chinese magician and figure out exactly how the man makes a heavy goldfish bowl (filled with water and goldfish) appear from under a cloth. Borden immediately deduces that the old magician is doing kayfabe: he's holding the bowl between his legs under his skirt, hiding the strength required to accomplish the trick by always appearing frail in public. Borden admires the way the Chinese magician goes to such an extreme that he "lives" his performance at home, especially since that's what he himself does with his twin brother. |
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Tag Dream, despite otherwise lovingly playing with all sorts of wrestling tropes, largely avoids use of in-universe kayfabe. Kaguya is the only exception, having converted into an enthusiastic wrestling fan, which actually causes problems midway through the comic when the staged event used to bring Mokou on her team fools the audience, unfamiliar with kayfabe, into thinking Reisen had actually betrayed the fan favorite Hourai team, to they point they actually try to attack her. | |
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In a similar vein, Basil Brush is always depicted as himself. | |
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The characters portrayed in The Jack Benny Program mostly used their real names (Eddie Anderson as Rochester being an exception, and Sadie Marks would eventually adopt Mary Livingstone as her actual name), and their personas were extremely well known and usually who they "played" in everything, i.e. Jack was always a cheapskate, Phil always a boozer, etc. It was so convincing that the show got letters from a real lawyer who thought Rochester actually was Benny's mistreated valet and offered to represent him, and Benny had to break the fourth wall and admit that the real Anderson was a wealthy man with his own mansion and servants. On another occasion, the performers briefly dropped character to comically complain about how hard it was to play so stupid/drunk/fat/cheap all the time. | |
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In Ménage à 3, DiDi has her first experience with professional wrestling and, being The Ditz, takes it completely seriously. Her behaviour after the match confused the hell out of Roxie, the wrestler she had befriended earlier, until Roxie realized that DiDi was legitimately angry at her for the Face–Heel Turn she pulled in the ring. She tried to run with it and play up her character... for all of 10 seconds until DiDi started crying, then she decided that she had to come clean or risk getting fired. | |
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It's an open secret that a lot of The Jerry Springer Show is staged and many of the guests are actors playing roles (some come back several times as different people!), but it doesn't stop people from watching it. | |
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Steven Universe: One of the recurring subplots involves an underground wrestling arena that very much follows the kayfabe nature of boxing. Amethyst plays the role of "Purple Puma" a heel wrestler who loves it when the crowd boos her. Thanks to Amethyst's non-human body and inhuman strength, other wrestlers fail to defeat her even in the most simple of combat. Steven plays the character "Tiger Millionaire", another heel wrestler who uses his immense "jungle bucks" wealth to openly cheat by buying off wrestlers mid match or use various underhanded tricks. There are also numerous other face and heel wrestlers who take them on. During the episode "Tiger Millionaire", Garnet and Pearl find out about the wrestling and interrupt a match, demanding Steven and Amethyst come home. Thanks to pent-up frustrations with the two, Amethyst starts fighting Garnet as Purple Puma, but with actual intent to hurt Garnet in a real fight (Garnet, being much stronger, bats her around the arena). Ultimately, Steven stops the fight reveals Purple Puma's "backstory", which is a fictionalized account of Amethyst's in-universe backstory. Realizing that this wrestling gig is not a problem and they've butted into something Amethyst uses as an outlet, both Garnet and Pearl then turn on the kayfabe and pretend to be "The Notorious Order of Wrestling Haters". No longer fighting for real, Garnet lets herself be dropped to the mat, and both she and Amethyst apologize to one another as the crowd cheers. In "Tiger Philanthropist", Amethyst cold-turkey quits wrestling as she no longer feels she needs it in her life. Steven, who loved doing this with Amethyst, is left to wrestle by himself. He uses his immense strength to still win matches, but dubs himself "Tiger Philanthropist" and becomes a face. Eventually, during a conversation in which Steven decides he will quit wrestling, Amethyst realizes how much doing this together meant to Steven. That night in the ring, Steven, as Tiger, offers the belt to anyone who can grab it and will do nothing to stop the other wrestlers. Amethyst shows up as Purple Puma and, through the kayfabe dialogue, apologizes to Steven for jumping ship without him. The two then summarily get defeated on purpose and decide to quit for good, but with the intention that while Tiger and Puma are done, Steven and Amethyst will find new hobbies together. |
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Jara from Kara of Rokyn is a heel wrestler that plays the hero-beating villain act. Her real person is pretty mean-spirited, but not evil. | |
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Requiem for a Heavyweight: Discussed Trope. Mountain Rivera, a washed-up boxer, has to start a new career in wrestling. It's explained to him that all he has to do is make it look real and learn how to fall without getting hurt. At the end, when he's entering the wrestling ring, he's told again that it's fake and that he, being a former boxer, shouldn't get carried away and hurt someone. | |
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When the casts of the Musical Touken Ranbu series go on music shows, they always stay in character and answer interview questions in character — and their characters are time-traveling personifications of historical artifacts. | |
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No Straight Roads: Sayu is Vinyl City's top virtual idol, and most of the cast are socially required to treat her like a person, to the point that the word "real" is considered a slur in her district. Mayday calls them out for taking political correctness to a fantasy level - then spends the rest of the level gushing over Sayu. | |
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In Other People's Heroes, the superhero/supervillain business is an elaborate charade with choreographed battles according to storylines, controlled damage, and mind wipes to ensure that no one catches on for long. | |
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Sporadic Phantoms presents itself as real, to the point that the website has no information about the creators and the characters encourage listeners to talk to them on their social media accounts. The only indication that this is an Animorphs fanwork is K. A. Applegate being mentioned in the "special thanks" at the end of each episode. | |
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The members of Deagle Nation went several years without ever breaking character in public, even when people called them on the phone, to the point where up until a fluke accident gave it away it was commonly believed to be real. Even after it became known that the videos were staged, Jace and Tyce continued to post on forums and blogs and make videos in-character, and several communities continued to play along as though nothing had happened. | |
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Weekly World News never once ran a disclaimer or otherwise indicated they were a parody, even though some articles they printed were potential grounds for libel lawsuits. | |
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Kayfabe: A Fake Real Movie About A Fake Real Sport is a mockumentary about the professional wrestling business. The wrestlers know that no one believes what they're doing is real, but they nonetheless do their best to put on a good show, never breaking character even in the most ridiculous moments. | |
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That Gosh Darn Hippie Show makes frequent use of scripted phone conversations Played for Laughs between DJ Hippie and various "callers", though DJ Hippie always behaves as if they were real and their scripted nature is never acknowledged on-air. | |
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Attempted, but ultimately subverted by American Gladiators. The first half of the first season played up the Gladiators as outright villains (the pilot apparently had fake backstories for the Gladiators, but that element was discarded) and attempted to portray the Gladiator Arena as an almost-otherworldly place. By the second half, this stuff was tossed out and things were made much more like an actual sporting event, which stuck around for the rest of the show. Nothing was staged, and all the athletics were real. Conversely, the multitude of shows that attempted to Follow the Leader on AG's success — Knights and Warriors, Wild West Showdown, and Battle Dome — all had this trope firmly in place. |
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As depicted in Man on the Moon, Andy Kaufman was fascinated with wrestling and decided he wanted to be the Heel wrestling women. He and Jerry Lawler collaborated, and the two fooled everyone, and we mean everyone, with some hardcore Kay Fabe. Even if you knew Andy was faking it, he was uncomfortably realistic in his sexist persona. | |
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Fighting with My Family addresses this at several times, being a biographical film about Paige and her wrestling family. Vince Vaughn's trainer character outlines clearly to the audience that wrestling is an elaborate play presented to the audience, "Soap opera in spandex," and that wrestlers may come from different backgrounds depending on how well they fit a particular look for the company. When in-laws came to visit the Knight family the mother-in-law asks if wrestling is fake, to which the dad clarifies it is not fake but fixed. This movie is still presented like any other Sports Stories, an underdog going through training and overcoming obstacles in order to reach the "championship." | |
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Mr. Boop: Part of the appeal of the comic is Alec Robbins constant public commitment to the idea that the comic is based on his "actual real life" being married to Betty Boop. Finally broken in strip #166 when Alec publicly confesses that he was misleading the audience and was never married to Betty Boop. |
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When Darby O'Gill and the Little People came out, the film's leprechauns were presented as being the real thing with Jimmy O'Dea not being directly credited as King Brian. Besides a "Special Thanks to King Brian for his participation" credit, a special episode of Walt Disney's television show to promote the film had him go directly to Ireland to recruit the actual King Brian and Darby to participate in the film. | |
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Splatoon 3 features a song titled "Big Betrayal", where Big Man, a member of the idol group Deep Cut, gets berated by his bandmates for collaborating with the Squid Sisters under the name Ian BGM behind their backs. However, there are signs that indicate it's all kayfabe: one is that Deep Cut actually works for the Squid Sisters (which is not public knowledge), and the other is that "Big Betrayal" was composed and written by Big Man himself. | |
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In Shadow of the Thin Man, Nick and Nora attend a wrestling match. When the man running it says that they are in for a great match, Nick quips "How do you know? Were you at the rehearsal?". Later on they leave while the fight is still going on, with one wrestler in a painful looking hold and groaning with discomfort. As she passes the ring, Nora tells him that she hopes he gets out of it okay. The wrestler stops groaning and thanks her for her concern in a perfectly normal tone of voice. | |
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The actors on Trailer Park Boys would always appear in public in-character during the show's original run; they didn't appear as "themselves" until the original cancellation. Now with the show back, they appear as exaggerated versions of themselves alongside their characters. While it wasn't that difficult to determine that it was a mockumentary (it after all has credits listing the actor's real names and the writing staff), it did lead some people to believe it was a real documentary show. They still only very rarely make scheduled appearances as themselves, and typically only in things directly connected to their Swearnet online channel. |
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Max Headroom made multiple talk-show appearances during the 1980s, in-character and presented as a real computer generated television personality. (This is not to be confused with that one incident in Chicago.) | |
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When visitors travel to the Arcadia Dome, the setting of the hit TV show American Arcadia, they are required to dress in appropriately wholesome 70s fashions, and anachronistic technology is not allowed on the premises. However, it serves a darker purpose than usual — Arcadia's natural citizens really think they're living in the era surrounding them, and any evidence to the contrary, as well as means of Arcadians contacting the outside world, would throw a wrench into Walton Media's business operations. | |
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Deus Ex Equine Revolution. According to Rainbow Dash, the supposed rivalry between the Wonderbolts (who don't use augments) and the Shadowbolts (who do) is just an act. | |
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Freedom Planet 2: Captain Kalaw is the hammy, superhero-esque champion of the Battlesphere who puts on a show for the people of Shang Mu with a smile on his beak. Behind the mask, he is sick and tired of it all, wanting to do actual good in the world. To this end, he sided with Merga and her revenge against Shang Tu, including leading the heroines into a trap at the Globe Opera. And yet, he breaks the act to vent his frustrations after being defeated at the Sky Bridge, forgetting his camera was still recording the whole time. At least he takes his community service sentence in stride at story's end. | |
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Several of the performers from hololive are beloved specifically because they stream as "themselves", despite the anime rig. Mori Calliope is notable among this group in that she never breaks character, trying her able best to present herself as her online persona of The Grim Reaper in training and nothing else. When Calliope spoke of experiences at school and her job at a restaurant (which was implied to be the American chain Applebee's), she insisted that they were the underworld versions of those things, and that her dream was to go to Japan in the overworld. When appearing as a guest on the Trash Taste podcast, Calliope appeared as her V-Tuber rig next to three flesh-and-blood hosts in the studio. Once again, she never broke character. | |
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The Needle Drop has Anthony Fantano and Cal Chuchesta. The fact that they're the same person in a Paper-Thin Disguise is acknowledged absolutely nowhere in Anthony's online presence. | |
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Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger goes out of its way not to treat the non-humanoid supporting cast any differently than if they were human actors. Events featuring cast interviews during the show's lifetime had either the interviews conducted in-character or by having the suit actors mime to pre-recorded answers by the VAs. | |
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Projekt Melody of VShojo has a career both as a typical Vtuber, and as an adult entertainer using the same character, but with a 3D rig. In interviews or conversations about herself, she refuses to identify as anything other than Projekt Melody, a character who, according to the wiki, is "a futuristic AI program that was initially made to scan and cleanse files until she was infected with a porn-based virus, causing her to be obsessed with any variety of sexual topics and actions". Her refusal to break character and her use a 3D model in the adult entertainment industry initially earned her a lot of criticism from other members of the sites she used, and was also attacked by magazine Wired for refusing to break character with the interviewer. Over time as Vtubers became more normalized, this hatred eventually subsided. | |
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This Bites!: On the SBS, Soundbite's Music Corner is frequently hijacked by Scratchman Apoo, who compete on who has the best taste in music. In reality, the whole thing is a DJ feud act staged by the two of them and Cross. There's actually a Side Bet among the other Supernovas if it's even real, with X Drake pointing out that the transceiver Cross uses was built by Dr. Vegapunk, and thus wouldn't be so easily hijacked. | |
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The Hooded Fang in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang is a demonstration of wrestlers keeping kayfabe even when outside of the ring. A former heel wrestler who left the business after a kid found his masked gimmick to be funny rather than scary, his infamy in the ring resulted in him getting hired as the warden of a prison for children. However, whereas everyone else working in the prison are Child Haters, he, on the other hand, is actually a decent person with a lot of childlike qualities, with his cruel actions just being him maintaining his wrestling persona while on the job. While most of the child prisoners don't really see him as a scary person, they still act like that as a means of entertaining him, allowing him to keep up the persona. | |
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Contrary to popular belief, Ferne McCann's persona on The Only Way Is Essex is NOT kayfabe - she really is a Nice Girl, despite the media portraying her as such and as a Rich Bitch, although she's middle-class. | |
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In their early days, Fozzy did the same. At the very beginning (back when the band was called Fozzy Osbourne), Chris Jericho used the name Moongoose McQueen for his singer persona, and "McQueen" and Jericho would talk each other up but deny being the same person. | |
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It's actually quite admirable just how seriously the humans involved take the Puppy Bowl, like it is a genuine football game, just with puppies. | |
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Vinesauce: Vinny's character V-Dub, a Tony Clifton-style parody of loutish and egotistical gamers (particularly the kind that littered the Call of Duty player base at the height of the franchise's popularity), is posited as a completely different individual than Vinny even though his costume is nothing more than a different baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses. Vinny constantly refers to V-Dub on stream as a real person rather than a character, and has staged both an on-camera argument between the two (via pre-recorded footage and visual effects) and a public appearance by V-Dub where he hijacks a convention spot before leaving just before Vinny shows up out of character. Vinny's viewers consequently maintain the bit as a Play-Along Meme by pretending as if Vinny and V-Dub are separate people whose resemblance is pure coincidence. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon: Incineroar, the final evolution of the Alolan Fire starter, Litten. It's a Dark-Type, based on a professional Heel wrestler and fights extremely dirty in battle, even attacking the opponents' trainer. However, true to its "pro wrestler" theme, it's not deliberately malicious and is all an act. Out of battle, it maintains its act, but actually enjoys the admiration it gets, especially from children. Professor Burnet in the same game may well be in on the act whenever she says the Masked Royal and her husband Kukui aren't the same person. |
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The AlDub segments in Eat Bulaga!—a spinoff of the "Problem Solving" segment involving a Kayfabe relationship between Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza—went to the point that any interviews with Mendoza had to be conducted in written form or with someone else speaking on her behalf as her real voice was not supposed to be revealed until September 2015 when Maine, then known in character as Yaya Dub, met Alden in person for the first time; Mendoza, in her Yaya Dub persona, communicated mainly through audio samples taken from various popular songs and media. | |
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Discussed in M.F.D.. Holly hated this aspect of the Roller Derby circuit. | |
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South Park: In one episode the kids take a field trip to a pioneer-themed living museum set in 1864, where the actors are under no circumstances allowed to break character until the second their work day ends at 5:00, even if they are held at gunpoint by a group of robbers demanding the code to the mine shaft tunnel so they can use it to escape from the police (a door locked by a keypad doesn't exist in 1864, you see). At one point, they killed an actor who dared to break character. It took Stan getting into a character of his own and rephrasing the question in a way the actors were allowed to answer it to defuse the situation. Another episode featured actual professional wrestling and a real wrestler getting angry that they were getting more publicity. He eventually outdoes them when people think he's creating his own narrative. |
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The web radio show True Capitalist is an odd case in that it's not entirely clear how much of the host's persona is an act (to say nothing of the show's more eccentric callers), but few listeners actually care to find out because hearing the short-tempered and very bigoted host be mercilessly trolled by prank callers is fun regardless of how real it is. | |
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For a long time, the band Ghost operated under a strict kayfabe, never taking off their outfits or even presenting their real names during interviews. This was finally broken when a lawsuit forced lead singer Tobias Forge to finally break character and expose his real life identity (which had been largely suspected for quite a while). | |
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One of the longest-running cases of a fandom doing this is with Sherlock Holmes, where scholars operate under the conceit that Holmes and Watson were real people. The oldest recorded case of this is from 1902, but it really got going in 1928 and is standard practice among many of the most prominent scholars. | |
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Downplayed in Street Fighter: in its world of Professional Wrestling (as shown through Zangief, Hugo, Rainbow Mika, etc.), the wrestlers are supposed to maintain over-the-top personas and selling moves is a concept... but the outcomes are not predetermined. | |
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The producers of the original TV series The Fugitive forbade stars David Janssen and Barry Morse from appearing in public together; they were good friends in real life, but antagonists on the show — and the production company and network wanted to keep up that appearance. They and their wives would often have dinner at each other's homes, instead. | |
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No-one sees The Muppets unless they're in action - they do their own press conferences and when they cameo in other works, they're treated like regular people. This is much stricter than it used to be. Back when Jim Henson was alive, this was usually the case, but he wasn't afraid to break kayfabe on occasion; talk shows with Kermit clearly on the end of his arm while he explained how he did the voices, or The Jim Henson Hour episode "Secrets of the Muppets" (with the joke being that the Muppets know they're real, and have no idea what this strange bearded man is talking about). It didn't matter; many people who've worked with them have said seeing a Muppeteer doesn't stop the Muppets from seeming real. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The late Carroll Spinney, who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, was asked to appear on the show (at Fred Rogers' request) in his Big Bird costume before taking it off on-camera and explaining the costume's workings and that the character was fictional. Spinney refused, but as a compromise (which Rogers agreed to), would appear in character only in the show's "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments, and in the regular segments Spinney would talk about puppetry in general. Rogers did get in a few remarks, however, about one of the things about growing up is eventually discerning the difference between reality and make-believe characters. (Indeed, Rogers openly stated that the characters of the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" are pretend.) In a blog on The BBC Radio 4 website, the producer of More or Less, the Radio 4 show about numbers in the news, says that when the show interviewed Count von Count, they were sent a guidance document called "Interviewing Muppets" which stated "Muppets always stay in character". He hadn't realised that this extended beyond the actual recording, and that he would be explaining the technical details to the Count, rather than Jerry Nelson. |
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