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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]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Since the beginning of the manga, Yamamoto has apparently believed that everyone is playing a very elaborate mafia role-playing game. He assumes it's just [[Serious Business]] for everyone and has given no indication of realizing it's all for real, even through [[Time Travel]], supernatural weapons and people getting seriously injured and dying. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Either he's just that stupid, or he's been]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] [[Alternate Character Interpretation|all the while, or he's desperately clinging to denial to keep from freaking out.]]
** The Later, he admits somewhere in the Future Arc (I'd look for the chapter refrence but that thing is looooong), that he kew it wasn't a game all along but didn't want to admit it.
* The protagonists in ''[[Bokurano]]'' are told they're going to pilot giant robots as part of a game. This is a massive, ''[[It Got Worse|massive]]'' [[Kill
** At least from their point of view. For whoever's ''behind'' it, however...
* Played straight by the ''[[Beelzebub (Manga)|Beelzebub]]'' delinquents through the entire premise of the FPS/online video gaming chapters. Furuichi and Lamia convince the Ishiyama gang to join in the search for Lord En by challenging him at online games. They agree to [[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now|skip school]] and look for him - all under the impression that Lord En and his retainers are from a rival school that simply want to to beat the crap out of the Ishiyama students. Little do the thugs know that, while playing with En and his maids [[Serious Business|non-stop for three straight days]], {{spoiler|Behemoth's 34th Pillar Squads are assembling to annihilate humanity in Lord En's name}}.
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* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the 2008 Disney film ''[[Bolt (Disney)|Bolt]]''. The title character is the canine hero of a sci-fi/action show who, [[Enforced Method Acting|in the interests of verisimilitude]] [[Captain Obvious|(and because he's a dog)]], is kept in the dark about the fictional nature of his show . When one episode ends on a cliffhanger and Bolt accidentally escapes from the set in his efforts to save his human co-star Penny, things get complicated...
* Also inverted in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]''.
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]'', Willie spends her first proper night in the jungle jumping and panicking at every sound and critter that appears, a tendency not helped by a tamed elephant's over-friendly tendency to lay its trunk on her shoulder. Then, after a particularly exhausting scream-a-thon and subsequent argument with Indy that wears her out, a deadly snake slithers down from a tree onto her shoulder. Whilst Indy himself is [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|paralyzed with fear]], Willie -- fed-up and assuming it's just the elephant -- yells "''Quit it''!", grabs the snake and hurls it very far away without even looking.
* In ''[[My Name Is Bruce]]'' Bruce Campbell (playing himself) is kidnapped by a fan who wants his help fighting a monster that's killing the townsfolk. Bruce believes that he is there to star in an unscripted movie. Bruce realizes that the monster is real when he leads an attack on it, and he promptly turns around and flees.
* Happens with Commandant Lassard in the fifth [[Police Academy]].
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* 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 ''[[War Games]]'', David Lightman hacks into a government mainframe and innocently fires up the "game" Global Thermonuclear War, only for all of the computers connected to think that the Russians have started a first strike.
* In ''[[A
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In the ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' episode "Bye Bye Kenan: Part 2", Kenan comes up with a [[Zany Scheme]] to force his father to quit his new job as a park ranger by having one of his new friends dress up as a bear and frighten his father into quitting. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when <s>a slightly more realistic bear costume</s> a ''real'' bear shows up first.
* In "Rose", the first episode of the revived ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', Rose encounters a crowd of Autons, plastic mannequins animated by the Nestene Consciousness, and is saved from certain death by the Doctor. She guesses that the Autons are in fact students dressed up as a prank. She is wrong.
* In one episode of ''[[
** Which is what many real-world heroes do, including a large percentage of Medal of Honor winners.
* In ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "The Picture Frame", the Monkees are hired to play bank robbers in a movie holdup scene, not knowing they will actually be robbing the bank.
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