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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The main character of ''[[Dokkoida?!]]'' agrees to put on the costume and fight supervillains because the costume contains a special component which boosts his fighting ability, all while playing dramatic music... except that the end of the first episode reveals that the suit manufacturer forgot to put that specific component in, leaving only the music. The other characters don't bother to mention this fact to him until the ''last'' episode.
** 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]].
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* 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?}}
* The first two victims in ''Westworld'' assume the androids will let them win their duels as they have been programmed to do, not realizing that [[
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[
* In ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', Flick mistakes circus performers for real warriors, and they think he's looking for performers.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* When the holodeck in ''[[Star Trek: The
* In one ''[[Star Trek:
** 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.
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