Genre Savvy/Tabletop Games
- Norin the Wary from Magic: The Gathering is convinced that everything in the world wants to hurt him. Except lemures. This is more or less accurate.
- "The DM wouldn't send a monster that powerful against us! It has to be an illusion!"
- Changeling: The Lost pulls this like no one's business. It's common knowledge in game, for instance, that the Wyrd likes to play Literal Genie, and the Autumn Court essentially specializes in this Trope. And then there are the Talecrafting rules in the sourcebook Swords at Dawn: characters can purposely force Tropes to occur at will because they realize their own lives work by the rules of stories. The book actually suggests TV Tropes as a good place to find examples of patterns to use!