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Audiences are good at figuring out which elements of a work are on which side of the Fourth Wall. No explanation is necessary for why our hero can hear his Inner Monologue but not his perspective's Background Music, or why the space ship is menaced by the Negative Space Wedgie, but not by the opening credits drifting by outside the ship: it's something we accept as part of our Willing Suspension of Disbelief. It's also a wonderful thing to play with, and that is what Medium Awareness does; the characters acknowledge and interact with elements and conventions of the medium that shouldn't technically "exist" in-universe. Suddenly a character can tell how another character is feeling just from the Background Music and reply to the disembodied narration, they can read the subtitles at the bottom of your screen, and they can tell when it's almost time for a commercial break. Generally, this awareness is brief; it's used for a joke or two and then never mentioned again. Used this way, it's Lampshade Hanging as applied to Paratext. May involve Breaking the Fourth Wall. Compare with other metafictional devices, particularly Painting the Medium, which uses Paratext and artifacts to tell the story, and Reading Ahead in the Script which is exactly what it sounds like. Left the Background Music On is a specific inversion. Fourth-Wall Observer is what happens when a particular character has this on full-time and the rest do not. See also Genre Savvy (which doesn't involve the Fourth Wall) and No Fourth Wall. See also End-of-Series Awareness and Screen Tap; specific subtropes. |
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Fight Club. Durden points out the "cigarette burn" marks indicating when film reels should be changed in a movie. There also his interesting... habit of splicing single frames of pornography into family-friendly films (and the film itself). In the original theater release reels that particular reel was actually cut about 5 minutes short so the mark he pointed out (which was actually extended by a few frames for effect) was actually marking a real reel change. There are the splices of Tyler himself throughout the movie whenever the narrator has insomnia. The Brick Joke exchange at the end of the movie, which repeats the scene from the opening (Tyler: "Do you want to say something?"; Narrator: "I can't think of anything") but changes a line - "I still can't think of anything." "Ah, Flashback humor." |
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In The Elements of Friendship, Pinkie Pie seems at least mildly aware that she is in a novel. As does Discord when he appears, even helping the reader with the cipher code for the cryptogram at the end of his debut chapter. | |
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The main characters of The Adventures Of Ledo And Ix can hear it when the other accesses the party inventory, and know to expect monsters in a dangerous location "unless that music is very misleading." | |
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The Thursday Next books have the books footnotes heard by characters, and used as a contact network. The characters from the BookWorld are very impressed by Thursday's ability to know who's talking even when there's no character tags. This is merely the tip of a iceberg of metatextual fun. | |
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Funny Games: The entire film is a direct attack on the audience, solidified by the fact that a character talks to the camera, addressing the audience and even so much as changing the entire outcome of the film by literally grabbing a remote control and rewinding a particular scene in order to avoid it. | |
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In the third novel of Noob, which is set in a Fictional Video Game, the protagonists have to sneak into the enemy capital for the purpose of an investigation. Mission Control gives them a serum that will make them blend into the capital's population. The only thing the serum does is change the cursor over their heads that marks them as Empire players in the game's interface and has their Online Alias written on it: the color changes from the Empire's yellow to the Coalition red and gives them a Sdrawkcab Alias. | |
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On the Finding Nemo DVD, there is a short documentary film by Jean-Michel Cousteau (It's called "Exploring the Reef"). In the beginning, he introduces himself and a trumpet fanfare (presumably the main theme) plays. Every time he says his name after that, the trumpets blare, and Nemo, Marlin, and Dory look around wondering where the trumpets are coming from. | |
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One production had the characters frozen while Man in Chair talks to the Superintendent. He mentions one of his favorite musicals is Miss Saigon: "They landed a helicopter on stage in that one!" The two then look at Trix's plane and Trix winks at them. | |
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Metallica have a song titled after H. P. Lovecraft's most famous short story, "The Call of Cthulhu", but it's spelt "The Call of Ktulu". However, the misspelling is intentional. Lovecraft wrote that saying, or even spelling out, Cthulhu's name would draw his attention. Since Cthulhu is the Trope Codifier for Eldritch Abomination, this is not something you want to happen. Doubles as The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You. | |
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Hi and Lois: This is one possible interpretation of the November 10th, 2018 strip, where Ditto refers to Beetle Bailey as a "cartoon character". Not only is Hi and Lois a Spin-Off of Beetle Bailey, but Ditto is Beetle's nephew. Given the lack of context, it is also possible that there is a cartoon in the strip's universe based on the real Beetle, which would be Recursive Canon instead. | |
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National Lampoon's action film parody Loaded Weapon 1 features a scene where the protagonist hurts his leg on the subtitles and kicks them away. Another scene has Whoopi Goldberg's character aware of the clock subtitle when she leaves her message on her cop friend's answering machine. She even updates the time she mentions when she notices the clock change by 1 minute. When Whoopi feigns ignorance of the microfiche Mr. Jigsaw questions her about, he replies "Don't be coy with me, Ms York. This is too important...and it's also the plot." | |
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Doctor Horrible's Commentary! The Musical! has several songs about the song. Most notably "Ten dollar solo." | |
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After the first chapter and a half of the All Guardsmen Party, the origin of the series as a Dark Heresy campaign is generally ignored. But an occasional line is thrown in. For example, the narrator points out that fighting in vacuum and zero-G felt like the party had lost exactly 10% of their ballistic skills, and capitalizes the word "Obsession" (also a gaming term) while describing Aimy and Twitch. | |
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The Star Munchkin RPG based on the Munchkin card game has one class called "Farce K'n'gits". Their power is awareness of the great Farce - that they're in a comedic RPG - and thus gaining the ability to manipulate the game and its players directly, as well as ignore things like those laws of physics and common sense not actually covered by the game's rules. Non-K'n'gits can dabble in Farce powers as well. | |
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Puck's closing monologue reveals his Medium Awareness to any audience members who haven't picked up on it yet (which, depending on the production, can be quite obvious or completely hidden). | |
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The Gamers (the 2002 Dead Gentlemen video, not the 2006 film) ends with the player characters killing their own players, thinking that they're evil wizards, then commenting on/editing their own character sheets. | |
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Ridiculous spoof comedy Fatal Instinct has several such moments, including this interaction: "You speak Yiddish?" "No, but I can read the subtitles." - at which point, the two characters discussing the murder/insurance fraud plot look down at their subtitles and Face Palm. | |
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Likewise, in a USA Network promo for Psych, Shawn and Gus notice small versions of themselves at the bottom of the screen advertising the upcoming episode. Shawn laments that "mini-us" sold out and Gus walks off at the end to call an exterminator for their "rat problem." | |
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The Lamput episode "The Split" is a Feud Episode, with the feuding characters being Fat Doc and Slim Doc; they had hurt each other earlier trying to catch Lamput, who makes multiple attempts to get them to reunite and work together again. Several of these attempts take place on a split screen, and Lamput gets rid of the line dividing the screen a couple of times so that the docs are right next to each other. | |
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In Skylanders: Return to the Ruins, Flynn demonstrates awareness of the series' "Toys to Life" nature, and is able to predict when a Skylander will appear. | |
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Rock of Ages has several instances of this, including one character asking the on-stage band "Have you been here the whole time?" and the show's narrator handing the hero a program to motivate him. | |
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Urinetown lives and breathes this trope, especially in the case of Officer Lockstock and Little Sally, who hang lampshades all over the place. Probably the most notable example is the Act One Finale, which Officer Lockstock explicitly refers to as such twice and tells the audience to enjoy intermission. | |
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In John Barnes's One for the Morning Glory, the characters are aware that they are in a Fairy Tale. They are also aware that they do not know what their role in said fairy tale is, which inspires due caution. | |
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At one point in A Profile, Masayuki questions his mother's use of a tilde in her sentence. | |
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In addition to knowing that they're going through a Harry Potter world, the main four children in the Cool Kids Table Harry Potter-themed game Hogwarts: The New Class also know that they're main characters. Matt in particular has Knowledge of Narrative Structure and can determine where the story is going. | |
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The fanfiction Human is essentially built on this trope - the titular character claims to be an Elder God in possession of eldritch knowledge (which turns out to be that Equestria is fictional). | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: 99% of the video game characters know they are video game characters. The plot hinges upon this, and the 1% who don't know. | |
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Man in Chair, the narrator of The Drowsy Chaperone, lives and breathes this trope. He frequently pauses the Show Within a Show (which he is playing on a record) to give (fake) behind-the-scenes facts and remark on the action. He is also fully aware that he is in a theater addressing an audience, and spends all of what should be the intermission chatting and eating a Powerbar. This mostly only applies to him, but at the very end, the show's characters console him after a blackout and an appearance by his building's superintendent ruins the finale and bring him onto Trix's plane. One production had the characters frozen while Man in Chair talks to the Superintendent. He mentions one of his favorite musicals is Miss Saigon: "They landed a helicopter on stage in that one!" The two then look at Trix's plane and Trix winks at them. |
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Tamaki, in The Bank Called, Your Reality Check Bounced, subverts the trope by being perfectly well convinced that they are in an anime; he addresses the audience directly (leading other characters to wonder who he's talking to) and mentions having enough time in "this episode" for something. Kyoya, however, eventually explains that they are actually in a fan fiction, and he's apparently been aware of it the entire time. | |
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Used at one point in Mass Vexations as a gag on plot-induced stupidity. | |
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Muppet Treasure Island also uses this to amusing effect. At one point the rats—who have been treating the boat as a cruise ship—are touring the titular island. The tour guide comments that this is an actual shooting location of the film Muppet Treasure Island. There are also several moments where the cast does acknowledge that they're singing, especially during "Professional Pirate" when Long John Silver mentions that it's his only number and tells the pirates to show that they've been practicing. Also when Billy Bones dies, Rizzo says, "He died?! But this is supposed to be a kids' movie!" The Swedish Chef's intro in the movie - as the cook for the island's natives. The cast justifies this by saying, "Well, how else do you think we were gonna get him in this movie?" Makes sense when one considers that the obvious job for him - chef on the ship - was filled by Long John Silver. This is played with after the song "Cabin Fever". Clueless Morgan asks "What was that song that just happened?" The other prisoners think he's lost it. And of course, when Captain Smollett and Benjamina Gunn fall off of a cliff, they're caught by Statler and Waldorf, who are the ship's mastheads. |
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Spamalot features The Lady of the Lake, who co-sings "The Song That Goes Like This" with Galahad and has "Diva's Lament" as a solo. Her awareness of the fouth wall actually leads to the plot resolution: The Grail is under an audience member's seat. (Sir Robin, on the other hand, is Genre Savvy about musicals, but doesn't realize he's in one.) | |
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In the epilogue to The Tempest, Prospero asks the audience for applause and cheers to provide the wind that will blow his ship home. | |
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Jump Start's male characters were discussing women they considered attractive. One suggested Pocahontas. The others jeered because she is a cartoon character, only to be reminded.... so are they. | |
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Yo-Jin-Bo likes to go around Breaking the Fourth Wall. The guys like to tease Mon-Mon about "not being one of the characters you can get at the end of the game", and his response is that he has an Image Song and has spent too much time reading his lines to not be a "capturable character". | |
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During the newsprint shortage of the 1970s, several characters in Conchy made reference to the crisis and what a threat it posed to their existence. | |
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In another scene, a camera slowly zooms in to a closed window of the castle where Marion is bathing. In the next scene, Marion is in the bath, when the camera comes crashing through the window (a similar window-crash gag shows up in High Anxiety as well). | |
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In the Dream SMP Fan Game Tales from the SMP: The Haunted Mansion, Connor is well aware that he's inside a visual novel. | |
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Whether Galileo is aware of being in a Musical or not during We Will Rock You remains open for debate, that his band knows that they're in a musical is established when they tell the Big Bad that they've in fact been in the wings for the whole show. | |
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The narrator of Pokémon Strangled Red demonstrates this, even going so far as to point out some of the cliches written into the story. | |
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A scene in Austin Powers in Goldmember features Austin talking to a Japanese executive, with his speech subtitled. However, portions of the text blend in against parts of the scene that are the same color as the subtitles, causing the sentence to be altered to inappropriate comments (e.g., "Please eat some shitake mushrooms"), and Austin looks outraged until Foxy moves the objects causing the disturbance. Eventually, the executive says, "Why don't I just speak in English?" Austin replies, "Yeah, you should! Then I wouldn't have to read the subtitles and it wouldn't look like you were saying things that are dirty!", followed by smiling at the viewer. | |
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Rabbit Games: In "Dressing Rabbit", Percy notices the black pixelated void coming from the edges of the screen and says "wait, that's not right..." | |
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The movie The Truman Show is all about this trope. In a more realistic way than most other examples; Truman's world really is a stage that he's being filmed on. | |
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In one production of Oliver! in London, the orchestration uses a violin soloist during "Reviewing the Situation". Since a violin is one of the items that Fagin has in his box of treasures, there were several Played for Laughs moments where Fagin, apparently hearing the violin solo, would stop and stare at the violin, and pick it up to examine it. The same part also featured a long monologue by Fagin where he seemed perfectly aware that he was on stage in a theatre (see the entry in Breaking the Fourth Wall for details). | |
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In the musical episode of The Legend of Neil the fairy, when asked to sing with him by another fairy comments "I don't like online musicals'' Which is made even funnier by the fact that the fairy who refuses to sing is played by Felicia Day of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog! |
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A player character option for Die Laughing is "The Person Who Knows They're In A Movie", which also gives them the option to make them a Genre Savvy horror movie buff. | |
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Deconstructed in-universe in the SCP Foundation's description of SCP-085, a sapient animated drawing who learned that she is only a drawing and became depressed. Furthermore, S Andrew Swann's Proposal for SCP-001 is that higher level staff are becoming aware that their universe is a work of fiction, going by the messed up, often contradictory backstory of the foundation and the SCPs therein. |
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The titular character of Baddy harasses the conductor and steals his baton during the title song. | |
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Garfield is fond of this as well. In one early strip, he is hit by a shoe which makes the Written Sound Effect "SPLUT!" over his head. He then looks off-panel and says, "Wait a minute! Shoes don't go 'splut'!" Another time, he had a cold and pointed to his speech bubble, saying "Loog, eben my thoughts are stuffed ub." On other occasions, he's slept through most of the day's strip only to wake up just in time to acknowledge nearly missing today's strip, and even been caught picking his nose only to remark, "I'm on, aren't I?" His creator Jim Davis has used this trope in U.S. Acres: Orson told Sheldon their days were "not only numbered, but signed and dated" and he lived each moment as if it was his last panel. |
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The Monkey King has godlike powers in the Whateley Universe, and this is apparently one of them. In the only story in which he narrates, he not only demonstrates medium awareness, he stops and makes comments at a couple regular posters on the website forums. | |
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In Monty Python's Life of Brian, a subtler example (which could reasonably be a well-crafted Leaning on the Fourth Wall — it's left ambiguous) has Eric Idle's character saying, "You'll see it's all a show… Keep 'em laughing as you go!" in the last musical number Always look at the bright side of life (sung by Idle, Brian and all the other characters who have been sentenced to death). | |
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Bugsy Malone: Fat Sam says something in Italian. But his henchman, Knuckles, is Jewish and doesn't understand Italian. He is told to read the translation as the subtitle appears onscreen. | |
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The Far Side has several gags where characters can hear the background music: One featured a shot of Tonto knocking on an outhouse door, whispering, "Kemosabe, hurry up, the music's starting!" A group of cowboys at camp looking around: "There it goes again — whenever we settle in for the night, that harmonica starts up!" A gal standing in the aftermath of a huge bar brawl recounts it to the police: "So this little sailor dude whips out a can of spinach, this crazy music starts playin', and... well, just look at the place!" |
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In Krazy Kat, Ignatz and Krazy are both aware that they're drawings who exist in a newspaper, though Krazy sometimes needs to be reminded. Ignatz even takes advantage of his position by asking the "boss" for extra ink when he needs it. | |
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Guise in Sentinels of the Multiverse is simultaneously aware that he's a comic book character and a game character. His deck is based around screwing with perception, tropes and genres, to the point where one of his most powerful combos relies upon him parodying Conan the Barbarian and Pulp Fiction simultaneously, and one of his damage-dealing one-shots involves hitting an opponent with that card's type line. In the digital version, he also comments on his archnemesis's deck gimmick of instant win or lose conditions in preprogrammed banter, gets actual voice acting for his fourth-wall-breaking comments (only one other hero, the Argent Adept, has recorded sound effects, and most of those are musical instruments), and his on-turn background picture will occasionally point into your hand and say "PLAY THAT ONE". | |
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Hamish And Dougal play with this a lot. In one episode, the Laird turns over an explanation of everything strange that's been happening in that episode...in letter form. We hear Hamish and Dougal mutter as they read it, before exclaiming "Well, that all makes perfect sense!" Then there's the Running Gag that pops up whenever they get to a new location... | |
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The Planescape fansite mimir.net has a subfaction of the Guvners who reckon reality is a game, with people and even gods no more in control of their destiny than a chess pawn, but that if they understand the rules they'll be able to play better. So far, they've discovered that people have six attributes which can be expressed as whole numbers and that it is somehow completely impossible for a warrior to successfully strike his foe more than 95% of the time. | |
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In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the prince of Swamp Castle is about to start a musical number, and the background music begins playing, but he is immediately interrupted by his father, who demands that there shall be no singing. This gag is repeated several times, until the king is unable to interrupt and the singing number actually begins, complete with spontaneously forming supporting chorus. (As you can imagine, the prince's father has even more trouble stopping the singing in Spamalot, the musical based on the movie.) "It's the old man from Scene 24!" When they reach Camelot, Patsy is well aware that the castle itself is "only a model". The entire "Get On With It" bit during the Castle Anthrax scene. In the middle of repeating what a terrible person Zoot is, Dingo suddenly stops, faces the camera, and asks if this scene should have been cut. Two characters from previous scenes insist that theirs were better before characters from previous and later scenes demand that they GET ON WITH IT! The movie ends with cops arresting everyone, and one of them covers the camera with his hand. |
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Sheldon and Leonard are also puzzled about the TBS logo. | |
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In the stage show Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play, Elephant & Piggie realize towards the end that they are in a play, hence the title. This is a concept borrowed from one of the books on which the show is based, We Are in a Book!. They then realize that if they are in a play, then can, in Piggie's word, manipulate the audience by making them do things like saying what they say, or dancing. | |
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A gal standing in the aftermath of a huge bar brawl recounts it to the police: "So this little sailor dude whips out a can of spinach, this crazy music starts playin', and... well, just look at the place!" | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is all about this trope, with the Toons knowing that they're cartoons made of ink and paint. Then again though they don't know they're in a movie about Toons that know they're cartoons, so it may not count. At least until the very end. |
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Monokuma in Despair's Last Resort is aware that he's in a fanfiction and comments on how they need to keep the story rated T. | |
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In Suburban Knights they can read Nostalgia Chick's subtitles. She instructs them to when they keep commenting on the fact they can't understand her. | |
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The News Boys song "Your Love Is Better Than Life" has this line near the end: "I don't know how I can wrap it in a four-minute song." | |
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At least two characters not from the real world seem aware of The Simpsons Movie. | |
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Disney's direct-to-DVD film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers does this when Captain Pete finishes his Villain Song - as he sings the final triumphant note, the orchestral accompaniment disappears. He looks around bewildered and asks, "Why'd the music stop?" Also, whenever he mentions the Opera where he plans to kidnap Princess Minnie and arrange for an impostor to abdicate the throne to him, an operatic fanfare is heard as the camera cuts to a poster of the opera. Pete seems to be aware of the fanfare, and says the third time, "That little ditty's starting to grow on me." |
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A possibly unintentional one in Melody. In both the Good Ending and the Family Ending, Hank Sharp eventually terminates Melody’s contract with Sharp Records due to a lack of continued interest in her work. Melody then asks the protagonist if things would have been different if they’d both made different decisions. This is absolutely true in the story, but in reality, a lot more is up to chance. | |
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Neil Pye from The Young Ones once committed his hippie musings to record with Neil's Heavy Concept Album. The final track of side A is "Cosmic Jam" in which Neil is aware he's on a vinyl LP - including pointing out the upcoming blob of peanut butter someone dropped on the record (at which point the song becomes incredibly muffled), and that he's about to get dragged away by "the skatey bit" at the end of the side. That is, except, on the cassette version of the album, where "Cosmic Jam" plays out at usual... but is immediately followed by Neil pointing out that NONE of the jokes in the song would apply to cassette users. He attempts to rectify this by rewording the jokes for the format, but gives up and leaves the studio, opting instead to join some sidewalk musicians in a rendition of "Brown Sugar" — which he doesn't recognize and is immediately offended by. | |
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A the 2009 TNA Victory Road, Kurt Angle promised that the match he and Mick Foley were soon to have would not be pay per view quality, suggesting he was just going to uneventfully squash Foley the way jobbers are on "free" TV. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei leans on the letters of the title causing them to collapse. | |
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During the opening titles of Jetsons: The Movie, the characters are introduced with the caption of "[Actor] as [Character]". When the text introducing Rosie appears ("Jean Vander Pyl as Rosie the Robot"), Rosie wipes away the text with a cloth. | |
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The Mystery of Irma Vep has several roles played by two actors. At one point, the maid (played by Actor 1) tells the Stable Boy (played by Actor 2) to go get their Master (played by Actor 1). The Stable Boy explains that he can't, for "obvious reasons." Followed by an Aside Glance by both actors. | |
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The novelization of the Labyrinth movie says that Sarah can hear the background music in-universe. | |
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Deconstructed in Scott The Woz with, of all things, the blue border that serves as the watermark for every single one of his videos. In the 200th episode, Borderline Forever, it's revealed that not only is the border a tangible In-Universe thing, but it acts like a parasite, obstructing Scott's vision for as long as he can remember. | |
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A promo for Law & Order: Criminal Intent on the USA Network featured the lead detectives puzzling over the network logo they just now noticed in the corner of the screen. Likewise, in a USA Network promo for Psych, Shawn and Gus notice small versions of themselves at the bottom of the screen advertising the upcoming episode. Shawn laments that "mini-us" sold out and Gus walks off at the end to call an exterminator for their "rat problem." Sheldon and Leonard are also puzzled about the TBS logo. |
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My Ridonculous Race. In India, the 5 contestants who have yet to reach the chillzone run for it in a slow-mo sequence inspired by the end of The Darjeeling Limited. For the Ice Dancers who incurred a time penatly however, their clock counts down as would normally. Meaning they place and Tom and Jen get eliminated. | |
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Sonic mentions the reader and the fact he's in the book several times, with the added bonus that he knows he's normally a videogame character too, commenting that the Mystic Cave Zone had great background music. | |
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An ad for the McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in with Lightyear, showing Buzz and the others discovering a Happy Meal within a deep cavern, ends with Mo getting startled by the McDonald's jingle. | |
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The Monster at the End of This Book relies on this. Grover will use ropes, boards and nails, and even build a brick wall to keep you from turning the pages (which break them that easily) and coming closer to the titular "monster" at the end of the book. ...Which just turns out to be Grover himself. | |
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In some productions of The Lion King, Zazu not only breaks the fourth wall, but occasionally expresses awareness that his character is a puppet. | |
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The star of the Fantasy Heroine series knows she's a character in a fantasy novel. But the author who talks to her doesn't know she's in a TikTok series. | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 2013 musical), this trope applies to Willy Wonka (figures), who is aware of the audience and the theatre itself. Besides serving as the narrator of the "Creation Overture" animated prologue and Breaking the Fourth Wall to address the audience on more than one occasion, at the top of Act Two, he's revealed to be "conducting" the entr'acte and then sits on the lap of someone in the front row for a moment! (Note that the Golden Ticket tour group rushes through the aisles when he calls for them after this, but they do not seem to share his awareness of where they are, so he's also a Fourth-Wall Observer!) At the end of the show, he reveals that he's embarking upon a new adventure — in the audience's world. And during the first curtain call, as Charlie himself takes his bow, Mr. Wonka is revealed to be in one of the theatre's box seats, cheering him on. He was serious! | |
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In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, Oprah is aware that she and the rest of the Mobile Unit are in a fanfic, as she's reading it on her own computer. What's more, she also has active communication with the author himself. Makes sense considering that in the show proper, she's one of the characters that knows Odd Squad is a fictitious TV show. The Mobile Unit themselves zig-zag this trope. They seem to be aware that they're on a fictitious TV show and that there's established canon in place, but Chapter 15 implies that they don't know they're on a fictitious TV show at all, while Chapter 16 implies that they do know, and Chapter 17 implies that they're actively avoiding playing the trope straight. |
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Bring Me All Your Elderly! has the original (ie. animated) Gaang, after seeing the live-action adaptation, travel to the movie world and fix all the problems. Hilarity ensues, up to and including the fourth wall itself, full of holes, shows up in one chapter. And later: |
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Straighter example: A Mutants & Masterminds fansite introduced Foxbat II, who rejected his mentor's ludicrous view of the world, and instead believes himself to be an NPC in a superhero RPG. | |
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The joke Dungeons & Dragons supplement Portable Hole Full of Beer contains a Prestige Class that slowly causes the character to become aware of the fact that they are in a roleplaying game. At the final level the character becomes a real person and moves in with you. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors: Sonic mentions the reader and the fact he's in the book several times, with the added bonus that he knows he's normally a videogame character too, commenting that the Mystic Cave Zone had great background music. Later when the inhabitants of Green Hill Zone are infected by a virus we get this gem: |
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In Full Circle, Olympia is aware that she's in a fanfiction and takes potshots at the author while also trying to convince her fellow agents that they too are in a fanfiction that's terribly written. Of course, since Odd Squad as a show is full of Medium Awareness, it makes perfect sense, but the most hilarious thing about Olympia taking up this role is that there has actually been one instance where she directly speaks to the audience and everyone else has an Audience? What Audience? reaction. | |
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The Great Muppet Caper also has many Medium Awareness moments, beginning with the main characters watching and commenting on the opening credits, and continuing with numerous self-aware comments: | |
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Myth Adventures M.Y.T.H. Inc in Action. A section written in Robert Asprin's own "voice" is followed by Guido's First-Person Perspective complaining about being interrupted, and when a returning villain says that what happened to him after his last appearance is "another story, if you know what I mean", Guido knows that what he means is this is a side-story which Asprin will probably sell to a magazine or something. Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections has a minor character who drives a cab. At one point he mentions being at an auction where an author was auctioning off a cameo in his next book, and flat-out tells Skeeve that if he'd lost, Skeeve would be taking to someone else at this point. |
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Love Without Stockings a parody play by Norwegian author Johan Hermann Wessel, has the characters constantly discussing the premises of the play they are in. At the end of the play, Mercury (being the psychopomp from Classical Mythology), wakes up all the dead characters, and is immidiately called out on his presence in a Christian society. "Why, that his how a Tragedy works", he explains, and all the other characters end up in a fit of laughter. In one production, an aria was sung by the main character, while he became more and more impatient with the orchestra and frequently signalled for a cue to leave the stage. |
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The German 2004 comedy Der Wixxer and its 2007 sequel: It parodies a number of popular (also German) crime movies from the 1950s and -60s based on novels by Edgar Wallace. In recognition of the age of the source material, one prominent location is Blackwhite Castle, "one of the last black and white castles in the United Kingdom", where the action is filmed almost completely in black and white with the characters commenting on the palette change. (It's only 'almost' because one renovated wing of the castle is in fact in color, to the visitors' initial surprise.) In the 2007 sequel, they even used a black-white to color switch to defuse a bomb. While the detective inspects a crime scene ominous music plays. When he turns and exasperatedly says, "Oh cut it out boys!" the camera moves to some police men with music instruments who now stop playing and apologetically scamper off. In the second movie, a fake commercial break is inserted into the movie which at first looks perfectly real until it turns out the commercials (for dating hotlines and handy downloads) are parodies, too. |
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In CLANNAD, Tomoyo, Tomoya, and Sunohara hold a brief conversation with Sunohara's upside-down sprite suspended in front of the screen (he had just been kicked in the air), ending with Tomoya telling him "Hurry up and fall, this screen looks unnatural." | |
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Link can apparently hear the narrator in Super Paper Mario X, as when he was insulted by said narrator, he claimed that he could hear the narration. | |
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Blixemi: "What You Can't See" features Jaypaw not only complaining about the fact that everyone is singing, but about how annoying the background music is and how the audience not leaving only means he's stuck hearing it longer. It ends with him frustratedly demanding the music stop. | |
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In George of the Jungle characters interact with the narrator more than once. For example: The sequel played with it as well. |
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An early scene in Equilibrium is shot from overhead and has a (vertically ejected) shell casing bounce off the camera lens. The filmmakers deemed it important enough to modify the pistol at significant expense, then have it animated in when they couldn't get the trick to work right mechanically. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Occurs in a rare Breaking the Fourth Wall moment in the episode "Traffic Court". Miss Brooks is sitting on her landlady Mrs. Davis' porch along with Mr. Conklin, Conklin's daughter Harriet, and Walter Denton. A young man drives up to the house, lost and asking for directions: This segment was meant to introduct Steve Allen, whose show aired in same timeslot during the summer of 1950. Three years late, the episode was remade for television as "Trial by Jury", albeit that episode closed with Miss Brooks' appeal to the skeptical jurors. |
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Feste, on the other hand, has his Medium Awareness vary drastically by production. | |
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Played straight for one character and subverted for another in an early Bloom County strip, Opus runs into Pac-Man in a bar, who is complaining about the pointlessness of all this eatin' and runnin' while being chased by one's ghosts in this crazy maze-like world. At the end, he violently shakes Opus, asking for him to put it in context as a metaphor; when Opus says, "A video game?", Pac-Man stops, thinks about it, then says, "Naw, it's not that." | |
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In Elisabeth, Tsukishiro Kanato (2018, Takarazuka)'s Lucheni asks the audience if they've noticed a camera today, says he too has noticed a camera, and then asks the cameraperson to come closer and make sure he looks handsome. | |
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At SHIMMER's 3/17/2012 show, Cheerleader Melissa assured everyone that Nicole Matthews would not take the singles title from her after only one DVD. | |
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A Strange Loop: Usher and the Thoughts (his thoughts, personified) are aware that they are in a play called A Strange Loop. Near the end, Thought 4 urges Usher to make a decision about his life and wrap things up, because the white people in the audience want to go home. | |
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Several of the porn parodies of Star Trek poke fun at Star Trek and porn movies by doing this. | |
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Dr. Dolittle: It's explicitly stated that the animals can hear the movie's translation when an owl tells Dr. Dolittle "You're the one who can hear us, aren't you?" instead of the predictable "You're the one who understands us, aren't you?". | |
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In A Man of Iron's sequel A Crack of Thunder, a disfigured immortal mercenary named Wilson appears - and, as the local equivalent to Deadpool, he naturally not only knows he's in a fanfic, he also comments on how many chapters the Daenerys plot line has gone unmentioned and drops pop cultural references that of course no one understands. | |
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Foxbat, in the Champions superhero RPG has Wrong Medium Awareness, being firmly convinced he's a comic book villain. He retains this in Champions Online, where he begs for a "GM to port me to a different spawn point" Straighter example: A Mutants & Masterminds fansite introduced Foxbat II, who rejected his mentor's ludicrous view of the world, and instead believes himself to be an NPC in a superhero RPG. |
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Journey to Chaos: Tasio the Trickster is aware that he is a character in a fantasy novel. He can even get his hands on a copy of Looming Shadow (it was full of blank pages, but otherwise correct). | |
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Leap Year (1921): The first title card says "The opening scene of the trouble is a shot of Piper Hall, with a doctor approaching the house." Then the film actually does start with such a shot. Other scene transitions are similarly announced. At the end the characters are self aware as well. After Phyllis accepts Fatty's proposal of marriage, he shakes her hand and says "Thanks! Let's have a fade out without the usual clinch!" And that's what happens as the movie ends. | |
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Hsu and Chan show medium awareness in both the Slave Labor Graphics comics and the old strips that were featured in EGM. At one point Hsu prepared for a disaster because "that little text-box guy is acting all smug again." Another issue opened with the brothers trying to find a way to get the episode's title out of their house, before finally deciding to leave it there as a table or coat rack. | |
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One skit in The Kentucky Fried Movie has a reporter interviewing a band of terrorists. The leader starts explaining why they hate America, then stops and starts yelling in outrage because he noticed that, despite his perfect English, he's being subtitled. The skit devolves into him proving how good his English is by yelling out tongue twisters, and complaining that his compatriots are not being subtitled. | |
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In Must Love Ned Flanders, a fanfic of The Simpsons: Naomi informs the Simpsons and Ned that they're in a cartoon. Ned doesn't believe this, even after watching it, until he temporarily ends up in our world. Naomi's aware she's in a "book" when she mentions her frequent fainting and one instance of being knocked out that she's probably "been unconscious for at least half this book." Even though nobody told Edna she's in a cartoon, she's aware that America voted for her and Ned to stay together. At least two characters not from the real world seem aware of The Simpsons Movie. |
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It parodies a number of popular (also German) crime movies from the 1950s and -60s based on novels by Edgar Wallace. In recognition of the age of the source material, one prominent location is Blackwhite Castle, "one of the last black and white castles in the United Kingdom", where the action is filmed almost completely in black and white with the characters commenting on the palette change. (It's only 'almost' because one renovated wing of the castle is in fact in color, to the visitors' initial surprise.) In the 2007 sequel, they even used a black-white to color switch to defuse a bomb. | |
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Chaos Effect: Due to his self-insert status, Edwin is able to notice the sudden shift in things when Filler Arcs happen, even as everyone else just goes along with it. Those who have close relationships with Edwin slowly become cognizant of it themselves, starting with Mai (his girlfriend), then Téa (adopted siblings), and later Renard and Yuri (bodyguards). | |
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In Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell is a fictional character who becomes aware that he's in a novel when he hears a female voice narrating his life. As such, he gets a nasty shock when he hears her narrate about his "imminent death", and tries to convince her that he's a "real" person who doesn't want to die. | |
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Cat City: Several exchanges show the characters aware of being cartoon characters in a movie: | |
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In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, characters generally refer to past events by chapter. They are all fully aware that they are in a book, and occasionally argue or bargain with the narrator. | |
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A CollegeHumor parody skit of Sesame Street had the cookie monster replaced by a "pot cookie monster". By the end of the video the drug's effects cause him to realize that he's just a puppet. | |
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At the end of Shrek, the heroic ogre palms the camera's lens for privacy before kissing ogre-Fiona. | |
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In CROSS†CHANNEL, at one point Taichi flips Touko's skirt up expecting a Megaton Punch. When he doesn't get one, he decides to go one step further by pulling her panties down and quickly requesting that someone throw up a mosaic. And, of course, as per Japanese laws on H-Games, it's already there. | |
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A Very Potter Musical uses this quite a bit, ranging from characters talking about things they did while offstage, to Ron accepting a package of Twizzlers from a member of the band, to Voldemort, during the final battle, yelling at the band to change the tone of the background music. | |
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In the later books of Alice, Girl from the Future, it happens to many characters. The Genre Savvy ones are careful to arrange everything as it should happen in a novel, and the recurring villains know that they are recurring villains and can’t kill Alice because she’s the series’ protagonist. | |
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When TNA Impact moved to Monday Nights and went live in 2010, Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky's first order of business was attracting enough viewers to make these changes sustainable, settling on their own poker show, noting they had been taking off. | |
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At the end of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, Mike and the 'bots riff on their own credits. "Puppet wranglers? There weren't any puppets in this movie." | |
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Farce of the Penguins implies that all of the characters are aware that they're in a documentary, featuring scenes such as Marcus telling the sound track director to change from stock music to hip-hop because if he's gonna be walking 70 miles, "the track best be bumpin'," and a few characters talking to or full-blown arguing with Samuel L. Jackson, the narrator. | |
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Sparks' song "My Other Voice" is about the vocoder being used in the song. | |
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The aptly named Code: Omake to Aeon Natum Engel has Rei having this. It gets messy when in the Nobody Dies crossover she meets Terrifying!Rei while footmarking. | |
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If you "screw up" at a certain decision, you hit the dead end pathway and are forced to start again. From this point on, Stefan and Colin are aware of the actions they performed and the choices you made on the last run. Sometimes, they're very aware, for others they just think they have Déjà Vu. | |
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In Les Misérables the characters bring in and sometimes conduct the pit orchestra during "Beggars at the Feast". | |
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The Pony POV Series explains that Pinkie has this because she is G3 Pinkie Pie and the Sole Survivor of an apocalypse that universe, during which she became this trope. After a Split-Personality Merge, she becomes somewhat more sane and is capable of weaponizing this trope. | |
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The Who: Gettin' in Tune begins with "I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well/With the chords I'm playing" New Song is essentially this trope from start to finish: |
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The Lord of the Rings parody Bored of the Rings has several instances of this, one of the most notable being when one of the party members asks how much further to their destination and another "looks across the vast expanse of pages to the right" and replies they have a long way to go yet. | |
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Elbow Room: "Elbow Room", the last story in the collection, is filled throughout with comments, mostly critical, from an "editor" who doesn't like the narrator's disregard for order and form in the story. That is then followed by dialogue exchanges between the narrator and the editor, in which the editor further criticizes the narrator's lack of clarity and recommends that some pieces be deleted, while the narrator defends his choices. | |
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In Riders Radio Theater, all the characters at one point or another seem to be aware of the audience, the narrator, the existence of the show's script, sometimes even interacting with them. Ranger Doug and Slocum both have explicitly taken actions because of something they heard the narrator just say. | |
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In both Wayne's World movies, Wayne is constantly talking to and interacting with the camera. Even Ed O'Neill did for a moment, before being reminded by Wayne that "only me and Garth get to talk to the camera". In the scene where Wayne is speaking with Cassandra in Cantonese, Wayne appears to be reading the subtitles while speaking, until he stops talking and the subtitles continue the dialogue. In another he speaks to her father in (subtitled) Cantonese and is challenged to a fight. He accepts, but asks that the fight be dubbed rather than subtitled. The gas station scene from the sequel. When the station attendant proves to be a horrible actor, he is replaced on screen by Charlton Heston. For added bonus, the crew member doing the switch is the actual director. "It's like, people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad". That scene broke the fourth wall because the movie actually had to do that Product Placement in order to stay afloat. Wayne pointing out the Exposition given by Chris Farley's character. |
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The RPG Tales from the Floating Vagabond has a number of "schticks", powers that can help (and occasionally harm) your character. One of these is the 'Rogers and Hammerstein Schtick', which gives your character his own theme music that he and everyone around him is aware of. This means that if someone is sneaking up on him, the music will shift to sneaky music (makes it really hard for him to sneak up on anyone not deaf, though). Sudden shifts to dramatic battle music can predict an ambush, etc. | |
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At the beginning of the movie Johnny Dangerously, the year 1935 is laid over a busy street scene to set the flashback. Within a few seconds, a car crashes into the number. | |
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At one point in Hatoful Boyfriend, our heroine shows up late to school... only for the teacher to point out the date in the upper-left corner of the screen (it's a vacation day). In the tie-in manga, Hiyoko explains that this is the reason she can't be seen directly— it's from her point of view, like an FPS. In Holiday Star, Ryouta explains that the storyline of this game doesn't directly follow any route from the previous game, to avoid Cutting Off the Branches. |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights has many examples of this trope, including the opening scene. A village is attacked with flaming arrows, and the flames on the buildings form the names of the actors, producers, etc. At the end of the scene, however, the irate villagers curse Mel Brooks (the director of the film) for including this scene. "Every time they make a Robin Hood movie they burn our village down!" A line from the end of that sequence: "LEAVE US ALONE, MEL BROOKS!" During the film, they also mention the fact that most Robin Hoods have been played by Americans by having actual British actor Cary Elwes saying that, unlike some other actors, he can do an English accent. In another scene, a camera slowly zooms in to a closed window of the castle where Marion is bathing. In the next scene, Marion is in the bath, when the camera comes crashing through the window (a similar window-crash gag shows up in High Anxiety as well). From the same film, the characters consult the script to confirm that Robin does, in fact, get another shot. |
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The Man with Two Brains had an incident where Steve Martin's character, while driving in Europe, is stopped by a policeman who speaks to him in French with subtitles. When the policeman realizes that Martin's character can speak English, he has the subtitles turned off, happily remarking "Now we have much more room down there!" | |
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CrÃa Cuervos: The Spanish pop song that features prominently on the soundtrack is playing quite loudly. Ana, our protagonist, looks straight into the camera and says "Could you turn that music down?" Afterwards the music does in fact quiet down quite a bit. | |
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Little Nemo in Slumberland: In one installment, Nemo, Flip and Imp are so hungry that they begin tearing off lines from their comic panels and knocking down letters from the Little Nemo In Slumberland logo, eating them. Nemo worries that this will upset the artist but Flip maintains that it will teach the person who draws them a lesson. When Flip asks what's in the letters they're eating nemo replies that it's printer's ink as far as he knows. A later strip involves all the scenery and objects in the comic suddenly and gradually disappearing including the floor. Nemo is left struggling to keep his footing on the panel borders before getting tangled up in them. |
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Schroeder considers putting in a transfer to a new comic strip in a Peanuts strip from 1952, after Charlie Brown thinks he's talking about baseball when he comments that he has perfect pitch. | |
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The lettering of the Zombieland opening credits is sent flying when hit by debris, people fleeing zombies or swinging weapons and so on. "The Rules" appear hanging from ceilings, painted on the ground, getting splattered with blood and so on, but aren't "really" there. | |
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References to how this site is a wiki are constantly referenced. | |
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The second side of Something/Anything? by Todd Rundgren opens with a spoken word piece in which Rundgren invites the listeners to search the record for mastering gaffes — bad editing, popping P's, hiss, hum. Whoever finds the most, wins! | |
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Over the Edge involves a metaplot which could result in the PCs becoming aware of what they are. | |
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Near the end of Crank. Chev is riding an elevator with a Chinese guy. The guy turns to him and starts speaking to him in Chinese, with subtitles. The camera angle changes a couple times, but the subtitles keep the orientation they had in the original shot (directly in front of the Chinese man at chest level), and Chev starts reading them. Looking bewildered. Then it turns out that he was just hallucinating the whole thing. | |
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During a sung debate in Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton tells his faltering opponent "Don't modulate the key, then not debate with me!" During the song "The Reynolds Pamphlet," Thomas Jefferson gives a copy of the titular pamphlet to the director of the pit orchestra. |
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In A Clone Apart, the following exchange is the first dialogue we hear: "Did you see that? It's a bunch of floating text out in the middle of space!" "No no no, that was a midichlorian cluster." "There aren't any midiclorians in space." "Of course there are! How else do we hear sound in space?" |
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The Neverending Story: The Childlike Empress uses her power as ruler of Fantastica to turn to the beginning of the book YOU are reading, creating a loop only Bastian can break, being effectively part of the loop at that point. Having read the book The Neverending Story himself, after finding himself in Fantastica Bastian theorizes that his current experiences may be recorded in the book, and that "maybe someone was reading it at that very moment". |
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And in Blazing Saddles, Hedley goes to the opening of Blazing Saddles and finds out Bart and Jim have tracked him down when the movie screen shows them outside the theater... and they then go into the theatre to find out how things end... | |
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The entire movie of Last Action Hero is essentially this to a T. The main character (and sidekick of Arnold) continually points out that he and Arnold's character of Jack Slater are in a movie. Perhaps ironically, the trope is also subverted and applied at the same time when Jack Slater finds himself in a real world and keeps acting like he's in a movie — making references and so forth without being in a movie... making the trope's execution decidedly meta at that point. The whole thing is one big Lampshade Hanging of the concept of an action movie. And then we have the ending of the film, where Jack Slater returns to the movie world with full knowledge of being a movie character and begins to refer to everything around him much like the main once did. |
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Beetle Bailey has all kinds of weird gags involving the characters interacting with comic strips elements that are supposed to be only symbolic — such as Sarge eating a "Z" produced by a sleeping Beetle in an effort to get to sleep himself, or characters managing to produce empty speech bubbles. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: When Monokuma arrives and transforms Usami into Monomi, she keeps insisting he stop calling her that, until he forcefully overwrites her name, and she is both shocked and annoyed to notice that the game's text boxes have changed to reflect her new name. | |
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In Redshirts, one character realizes that the starship Intrepid is part of a mediocre sci-fi show, which kills off ensigns regularly to heighten the drama. The only way to survive is to "avoid the Narrative". At the end of the novel, Dahl realizes that he's the hero of this very book. | |
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Pinkie Pie of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic often takes this role in fanfiction. Antics include but are not limited to directly referencing previous (or future!) chapters, taking shots at slow update schedules, responding directly to the omniscient narration, knowledge of scenes she wasn't present for, and every once in a whiHEY EVERYPONY! Oh wow, this wiki is so much more fun than that last one I went to! They were all grumpy-pants "rawr citation needed >=[" and it was like wow you guys need to have a good party because parties always make people not robots unless they're actually robots which would be AWESOME except for all the clanking but I bet we could make some dance music out of that... *ahem* The strange part is that this is a deviation from the canon. Pinkie does have the ability to abuse cartoon physics to her advantage (such as messing with an Iris Out for a punchline), but she is explicitly shown at least once to not possess Medium Awarenessnote Iron Will gives the viewer a thumbs-up; Pinkie Pie looks in the direction he's looking, and is completely confused. That role falls to Spike instead. In The Elements of Friendship, Pinkie Pie seems at least mildly aware that she is in a novel. As does Discord when he appears, even helping the reader with the cipher code for the cryptogram at the end of his debut chapter. The Pony POV Series explains that Pinkie has this because she is G3 Pinkie Pie and the Sole Survivor of an apocalypse that universe, during which she became this trope. After a Split-Personality Merge, she becomes somewhat more sane and is capable of weaponizing this trope. Deconstructed in one non-canon Bad Ending to Turnabout Storm—in it, Phoenix Wright failed to get Rainbow Dash acquitted for murder and she fled to avoid banishment. Later, after Phoenix has been sent back to his world, Discord took over in Equestria because the Elements of Harmony were no longer complete in Rainbow Dash's absence. Pinkie Pie, with Luna and Twilight's help, contacts him by channeling Maya and informs him that he can save the day by "turning off the power and starting from a proper save point" and adding that if he's confused "the person sitting in front of the screen will know what she's talking about" - in short, showing awareness that Phoenix is a video game character and that they're both in an online fanfiction. Unfortunately, Phoenix himself isn't medium aware and thus has no clue what Pinkie's talking about...and then Discord himself hijacks their channeling session... |
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Played with in Akatsuki Kitten: Phoenix Corporation Overhaul, where literally every major character is aware that they are in a fanfiction, though only two of the canon characters can actually hear through the fourth wall. Of the thirteen OCs introduced so far, eleven work directly for the author, and one showed up for only a single chapter. The last is the girl that should be the main character, and is functionally the Only Sane Man for the entire story. | |
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Although Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series flip-flops over the presence of a fourth wall, Shadi reveals he is tasked with protecting it. In fact, the abridged Noah arc is subtitled as 'The Cancelled Series' because the show has been cancelled from within by an organisation claiming to be 4KidsEntertainment, and the protagonists are fighting to bring it back. Yeah. The meta joke being that said arc is the one that follows the point where 4Kids ended the American dub of the original show. |
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The Further Adventures of Nick Danger is full of this. Nick is aware of his own narration, and asks "how do I make my voice do this?", and when the characters get stuck in a flashback, the butler explains that to escape, he just has to fade his voice out and cue the organist. There are also references to foley effects, like the cellophane used to create the sound of a crackling fire: | |
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Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show: "PILOT NO JUTSU!" gives us this exchange: Later in the same episode... |
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Ace Attorney occasionally hints it's aware of its interactive nature. For once, you may get Trilo to call Phoenix an "8-bit excuse for an attorney". When you get to play as Edgeworth in case 3-5 upon presenting Iris with a demon-warding hood she says she gave it to Wright, because she had a premonition something might happen and didn't want Wright to "fall into its grip". Edgeworth notes to himself (in a blue text used for inner monologue) that the guy wound up falling into something much deeper and colder instead, followed by "I probably shouldn't say that out loud though. Thank god for inner monologue." Also in Justice for All upon examining some part of the interior in Hotti Clinic Phoenix makes an inner comment about it, in blue text as usual. Surprisingly, that comment gets answered to by Director Hotti. Phoenix is all but pleased with someone interfering with his inner monologue. The series in general is all too aware of the trope and will exploit it whenever possible, which gets characters to react with predictable results. Likewise, whenever you have to take a risk in a trial that could carry a stiff penalty or someone proposes to give you a bigger penalty than usual, they'll "show" you via your Life Meter appearing on screen and showing how much it'll cost you if you make a mistake. |
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The characters in Pearls Before Swine frequently make reference to the fact that they're in a comic strip, often interacting with creator Stephen Pastis's cartoon self, and other "visiting" comic strip characters. At one point, Rat even preemptively attacks the cartoonist when he sees one of the cartoon's signature terrible puns coming on. |
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch: If you "screw up" at a certain decision, you hit the dead end pathway and are forced to start again. From this point on, Stefan and Colin are aware of the actions they performed and the choices you made on the last run. Sometimes, they're very aware, for others they just think they have Déjà Vu. Throughout the story, Stefan notices certain actions that the viewer makes on his behalf. He even begins to defy actions that would otherwise derail the story. It even gets to the point where Netflix itself is heavily involved in two of the routes. |
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In Doki Doki Literature Club!, Monika becomes aware that she is a character in a visual novel. She really doesn't take this well, and starts going about haphazardly deleting the other girls from the game so she can be with the player. This in and of itself has its own problems, since the way she approaches it causes numerous glitches and technical errors. Towards the end of the game, Sayori also gains awareness due to succeeding Monika as club president, but Monika shuts her down, and the rest of the game for that matter, so what happened previously won't repeat itself. Deconstructed Trope: This trope is often played as a joke, but how would you seriously feel about being a side character in a short video game? | |
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Julie from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has a black censor bar flash over her mouth whenever she swears. Scott blatantly asks her "How are you doing that with your mouth?" | |
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Aladdin begins with a narrator telling the viewer to come closer, prompting the camera to come in and hit him in the nose. "Too close, a little too close!" | |
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Deadpool (2016) adapts Deadpool's comic book trait to acknowledge movie tropes, including one scene in which he breaks the fourth wall during a flashback scene in which he broke the fourth wall, then informs the audience, "...that's like sixteen walls!" In another scene, he provides a Gory Discretion Shot by physically pushing the camera aside, which suggests an even deeper level of interaction than all the other comments — he's not just aware he's being watched, he can reach out and touch the camera! | |
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CliffSide: After Jo reminds Waylon that the town is surrounded by monsters, he claims: After Cordie's Training Montage leads to her terrorizing and robbing a bank: |
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes has lines like "Excuse me, miss, has there been a Car Chase in this movie yet?" and "Notice how everything we set up in the first reel pays off in the last? Pretty slick, huh?" When a character needs something to write on, he uses a copy of the movie's own script. However, the crowning point is when the movie runs out of budget halfway through and restarts loaded with incredibly blatant (and acknowledged) Product Placement. | |
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An in-universe/possibly deconstructive take on this occurs in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase. In it, the gang is beamed into a video game based on their adventures and run into the player character versions of themselves. Their digital doubles are not only aware of their lives as game characters, but also aware of the repetitious nature of their existence. They know it'll all start over again once the game is beaten. As such, when they got to the last level - a reconstruction of their hometown of Coolsville - they found where the monsters lived, where the goal was and stayed away to build a life for themselves there. This may be why the game's creator stated he was unable to finish the game. The virtual characters may have sabotaged him to keep the game from starting over. Ultimately, they do end up helping the originals finish the game in order to get out. | |
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Homestar Runner: Much of the site's content is a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot segment, in which most of the characters are aware they're on some kind of show. In the Strong Bad Email "flashback", Strong Bad doesn't see Homestar standing about a foot to his right because Homestar is Behind the Black. In "virus", the computer virus-induced breakdown of reality strands Strong Bad in the cold, black space outside the cartoon window, and allows Homestar to notice and mess around with the navigation links below the cartoon. In "Halloween Fairstival", Homsar walks along the entire perimeter of the cartoon window. After Adobe Flash Player was officially deprecated by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome due to security concerns, the Brothers Chaps did a cartoon where Strong Bad freaks out about the end of Flash causing The End of the World as We Know It for Free Country, USA. |
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What The Duck has an early one where one character get's bored after the first panel. | |
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At the end of the first act of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Miles Gloriosus is threatening to put Pseudolus to death. Pseudolus asks if he can have a word first, and Miles agrees. The word? "Intermission!" | |
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One featured a shot of Tonto knocking on an outhouse door, whispering, "Kemosabe, hurry up, the music's starting!" | |
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In The Three Stooges in Orbit, the Stooges are able to eavesdrop on a pair of Martians because they read the subtitles. | |
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Spaceballs: When Lone Starr talks about how they won't get too far with the blazing sun of the desert planet overhead, the screen dissolves into the fading sun... and Barf says, "Nice dissolve." Also, when searching for Lone Starr, the villains watch a video tape of the movie itself to find him. Even though (as Dark Helmet points out) the movie isn't finished yet. The entire movie has meta-references to itself being a commercial property, with the Spaceballs store, the Spaceballs Lunchbox, and the Spaceballs Flame Thrower. And... "You've captured their stunt doubles!!!" Or Dark Helmet banging his head against a camera... Or killing a cameraman with his Schwartz in the final fight. | |
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In one illustrated Winnie the Pooh book, when the title character finds himself stranded on a branch too high to safely jump off, he climbs down the block of text on the page. This idea is also used in the animated adaptation... in which the characters are also in a book. | |
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Over the Hedge ends with Hammy running smack into the camera. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "flashback", Strong Bad doesn't see Homestar standing about a foot to his right because Homestar is Behind the Black. | |
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In Mass Effect The Equestrian Equation, this occurs in-universe, with Pinkie Pie being the only pony aware that Equestria is a simulation. | |
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In The Muppet Movie, Kermit has Fozzie explain their situation to the Electric Mayhem by giving them a copy of the script, which comes in handy later. | |
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The Music Video Show does this in the 100th episode. | |
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The characters of You Got HaruhiRolled! are well aware that they are in a fanfic, and often measure time in terms of chapters or paragraphs. The best example is during the court case arc, where Kyon lampshades the fic's lack of continuity between arcs, by expressing surprise that Yuki was able to pull off a Chekhov's Gun from an earlier chapter. | |
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In The Stinky Cheese Man, not only are all the fairy tale characters perfectly aware they're in a book that's going wrong, to the point of complaining to the narrator about their stories, but they comment on the front matter, table of contents, typography, endpapers, and even the UPC and ISBN on the cover. | |
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In Smashtasm, Princess H introduces herself to Super 64. As soon as she does, a caption appears stating her name. She complains to The Narrator that this is redundant, and she and The Narrator start arguing. | |
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Quarantine (2008) features an infected individual being beaten to death with the camera. The cameraman then spends the next minute or so wiping the lens clean of blood. | |
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In the former translation of Superego, the shadow names were given underneith the panel of their first appearance. Vivian's command was at one point 'Why don't you introduce me then?', and in the translation, her runic name◊ was there to answer it. | |
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In the Contractually Obligated Chaos series, Prince Vince is not only aware that they're all in a bunch of stories, he's following the author on Tumblr and reads each chapter as it's released. It's actually a plot point - he keeps tabs on the heroes by monitoring the story and sends help when he can. In the installment Bug Princess and the Seven Months, he interrupts the conversation at one point to politely inquire which of those present is the POV character for the chapter. | |
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During 'Untitled Opening Number' in [title of show], the cast calls attention to tropes common in musical theatre as they illustrate them, "We'll softly start the coda from a very tiny point. And then we'll get a little louder to further emphasize the point. And then we'll cross downstage towards you! And now we're yelling fortissimo!" In general, this trope is a large part of the play's structure and story, and as such comes up on a fairly regular basis throughout the show. |
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On the title page of The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!, the Pigeon urges readers "WAIT! Don't read that title!" and is seen dropping his head and stating "Too late. Rats..." at the start of the story. | |
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In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Nova Shine shows that he is aware of both the fact that he is in a story (he outright refers to the "backstory part of the chapter" at one point), and the fact that the first several chapters are undergoing a rewrite (On Twilight mentioning that mastering a spell will take time and effort, he notes that he mastered it in a day in the original version of the chapter). | |
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Solid jj: Deadpool naturally does this when he appears in "The One with Deadpool in it", telling Spider-Man that they are fictional and exist in a video with various formulaic jokes and he can tell when the art style is going to change. | |
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In Happy Heroes, there are a few characters who break the fourth wall enough times to make it clear they're aware they're in a cartoon, with Big M. and Little M. seemingly the most medium-aware of the cast. Little M. casually mentions the viewers and explicitly refers to their previous adventures and mishaps as "previous episodes" while Big M. directly lampshades how the characters have limited mouth movements in an episode of Season 8 when Little M. tries Reading Lips to understand what Happy S. and Smart S. are saying through their Crystal Ball when they mess up the sound on it. Strangely enough, this character trait is completely thrown out the window in episode 36 of Season 8, where Big M. meets the show's production crew and seems genuinely surprised to learn he's a cartoon and Little M. thinks he's insane when he wakes up from that dream and explains it to him. | |
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The Muppets: In The Muppet Movie, Kermit has Fozzie explain their situation to the Electric Mayhem by giving them a copy of the script, which comes in handy later. The Great Muppet Caper also has many Medium Awareness moments, beginning with the main characters watching and commenting on the opening credits, and continuing with numerous self-aware comments: Muppet Treasure Island also uses this to amusing effect. At one point the rats—who have been treating the boat as a cruise ship—are touring the titular island. The tour guide comments that this is an actual shooting location of the film Muppet Treasure Island. There are also several moments where the cast does acknowledge that they're singing, especially during "Professional Pirate" when Long John Silver mentions that it's his only number and tells the pirates to show that they've been practicing. Also when Billy Bones dies, Rizzo says, "He died?! But this is supposed to be a kids' movie!" The Swedish Chef's intro in the movie - as the cook for the island's natives. The cast justifies this by saying, "Well, how else do you think we were gonna get him in this movie?" Makes sense when one considers that the obvious job for him - chef on the ship - was filled by Long John Silver. This is played with after the song "Cabin Fever". Clueless Morgan asks "What was that song that just happened?" The other prisoners think he's lost it. And of course, when Captain Smollett and Benjamina Gunn fall off of a cliff, they're caught by Statler and Waldorf, who are the ship's mastheads. |
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