And You Thought It Was a Game: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Real After All]], [[Mistaken for An Impostor]] and [[All Part of the Show]]. Contrast [[The Game Never Stopped]] and [[You Just Ruined the Shot]], where the character thinks events ''are'' real, but they aren't. See also [[Mistaken for Badass]], [[Not a Game]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** Suzuo also put on the suit because he didn't take the claims about fighting supervillains seriously, since the suits makers were a toy company. He realizes too late that toy companies can make weapons too.

* ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'': Ken Ichijoji has no problem with enslaving, torturing and killing Digimon because he [[More Than Mind Control|thinks]] he's just playing a [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|virtual MMORPG]]. When he is finally proven wrong with [[Dead Sidekick|Wormmon's death]] he suffers a BSOD, triggering his eventual [[Heel Face Turn]].

* The entire premise of ''[[The Game (film)|The Game]]'' is the millionaire protagonist working out whether he is taking part in a Live-Action Role-Playing adventure game, or are there actually people trying to kill him?

** Or {{spoiler|is he really just going insane and having paranoid delusions?}}

* This is the entire plot of the classic sci-fi film ''The Last Starfighter''.

** The main character is a teenager who is the best in his town at a video game. You can guess what happens next.

* At the end of ''What About Bob?'' Bob thinks he is undergoing "Death Therapy" although Dr. Leo Marvin is actually {{spoiler|trying to kill him.}}

* Played with in the original ''[[Tron]]''. Flynn's been zapped into the computer system and captured by Master Control's forces. They take him to the Game Grid where Ram informs what he thinks is just another captive Program about the situation, and that he'll be forced to play video games. Flynn laughs it off, saying he plays games better than anyone...and then the poor bastard finds out just how differently things work on the other side of the screen.

* In ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', Flick mistakes circus performers for real warriors, and they think he's looking for performers.

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** In the episode "Move Along Home", Quark begins playing a game with some mysterious new visitors using four pieces, when he discovers that four crew members have been whisked off to the game world. {{spoiler|Subverted when he loses, and they all materialize back at Quark's. After all, it's just a game!}}

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has the main characters attend a convention about the series of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' books, which exist in the universe. When they get there, they find a LARP going on in which an old urban myth is the basis of a 'hunt'. They team up with a [[Ho Yay|gay couple]] [[Bromance|who are LARPing]] [[Lampshade Hanging|as Sam & Dean]], and when they realise that the events of the book are real, they choose to team up (unknowingly) with the real Sam and Dean to help take down the [[Big Bad]], because "It's what Sam and Dean would do." The real Sam and Dean choose to play along, claiming to just be fans who are so into the books that they took up monster-hunting for real.

* In ''[http://clanofthecats.com/ Clan of the Cats]'', the main character is a [[Shape Shifter|shape-shifting witch]], who can transform into a black panther. After an incident during a vacation with her [[The Ditz|ditzy half-sister]], she runs off into the woods in a distressed state. Shortly after, a black panther is found hiding in a crawlspace under the house they're staying in, and The Ditz crawls in there to comfort her half-sister. After spending most of the night trying to cheer up her half-sister, she finally finds out that it's a REAL black panther, who has just escaped from a private zoo...

** Similarly, in one of the books by Laura Ingalls-Wilder, her mother goes out in the dark to see to the cows, and finds instead a bear. But, believing it to be her cow, she swats it on the rump. This leads to her ordering Laura to "go back inside--now" in an effective lesson on quick obedience.

* ''[[The Wotch]]'': Anne [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2006-01-30 mistakes an actual attack] for a training exercise.

* ''[[Captain SNES]]'' did this in the 2008 Halloween series, with Alex refusing to believe that the murders around him were real initially (they were in a "murder mystery" simulation) but even then, {{spoiler|it wasn't REALLY real as it was [[All Just a Dream]].}}

* ''[[Homestuck]]''. Where to begin... Not only is SBURB's true purpose to {{spoiler|create universes by sacrificing the host planet, Earth is not the first planet this has happened on...}}

* In the ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' chapter "From The Forest She Came", Annie is trying to convince Kat to talk to her by staging contrived situations in which they must work together to defeat a threat, and Kat isn't buying it. When an [[Eldritch Abomination]] emerges from the water tank, she's quite impressed and wonders how Annie created it. Then she notices that Annie is terrified. {{spoiler|Luckily, it turns out to be Lindsey, their new guidance counsellor}}.

 

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