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* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the 2008 Disney film ''[[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]]''.
* In ''[[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]],
* 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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* The Endymion in Dan Simmons ''Rise of Endymion'' does some pretty bad ass acrobatics on a mountain cliff, all the while thinking that dropping would be such a hassle because somebody would have to retrieve him from the safety line. Just until he sees some fearful friend rush to him with just that safety line he forgot to attach. Considering the circumstances, his lapse of mind is easily forgiven, though.
* In John Dickson Carr's ''The Arabian Nights Murder'', a set of friends putting on an act to trick one of their buddies hires an actor to play a professor in an Arabian museum. They are surprised when a ''real'' professor, a friend of the museum's owner, arrives for a meeting and is treated as an actor who looks just like the real thing. In the meantime, the professor thinks that the actors are real, and attacks one of them in an act of misguided heroics.
* In ''Halting State'' by [[Charles Stross]], the British and Chinese intelligence agencies both run [[Alternate Reality Game
* The Howlers in K.A. Applegate's ''[[Animorphs]]'' books are savage killers. However, their mind has been compared to a dolphin's in playfulness. They only kill because they have no idea that their victims are alive and feel pain and emotions. Seeing an emotional display causes their master to stop using them immediately as they were unwilling to fight.
* Another dramatic example: in the sci-fi novella "Wine of the Dreamers", Raul Kinson is raised in a dwindling [[Human Alien|alien compound]] and believes the devices he periodically sleeps in are advanced virtual reality devices that create three alternate worlds within the dreamers' minds. Killing or humiliating dream characters is a popular sport. Unfortunately, the dream worlds are actually long-lost colony planets, one of which is Earth! Over the course of millennia, the dreamers have destroyed space programs and even triggered nuclear wars due to a misremembered plan that the "dreams" must end when the colony worlds achieve interstellar flight.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Kent from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', who believes he's facing vampire- base [[LARP
* 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.
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* In one episode of ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'', "The World According to LARP", June's brother Dennis is kidnapped by monsters (as opposed to the ''intended'' target, her other brother Ray Ray... the orders given were something to the tone of "the one who can see monsters"), but believes this to be his [[LARP]] (live-action role-play) group's new adventure. Since his "props" are ''real'' magical items that he stole from June's room (which also happen to make him able to see monsters like Ray Ray), he defeats his kidnappers and escapes the dungeon with no idea that any of it was real.
* In ''[[American Dad]]'', Francine mistakes a real vacation for a fake one, after finding out that most family vacations have been fake. Thinking she is hallucinating the whole thing, she {{spoiler|kills people, sinks a boat, and wreaks havoc before finding out that this is all really happening}}.
* The ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Larry's Birthday" featured Professor Dementor kidnapping Kim's [[
** Drakken's plan in "Clean Slate" was to set up a fake engine overload on a train in order to trigger an evacuation. After he and Shego boarded the train, and Kim and Ron showed up to stop them, he realized that he'd forgotten about the "fake" part....
* In one Goofy short, Goofy demonstrates to his son how he would deal with a mountain lion if one should attack, not realising that he has grabbed hold of an actual mountain lion in the process.
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