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{{examples|Examples}}

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

* [[Grant Morrison (Creator)|Grant Morrison]] inserted himself into ''[[Animal Man (Comic Book)|Animal Man]]'' as a character called 'the Writer' with the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared in an issue of ''Animal Man'', then he's part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' #58, where he altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. He is killed when he gets writer's block in the middle of firefight and is unable to write a way to save himself.

* A one-shot ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' comic that was an extended tribute to [[Jack Kirby]] featured Donatello meeting [[Tuckerization|cartoonist named Kirby]] who'd found a magic crystal that, when tied to his pen, allowed anything he drew with it to come to life. Donatello and Kirby end up being pulled into Kirby's comic book world, and they get caught up in a battle between Kirby's heroic characters and his evil characters. Kirby helps Donatello and the heroic characters defeat the villains by drawing special weapons for Donatello to use and eventually binding all the villains with specially designed shackles. The story ends with Donatello returning to New York, although Kirby [[I Choose to Stay|chooses to stay]] so that Don can return and gives him a sketch as a parting gift.

* Christof in ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]'' is an interesting example. Truman is not a fictional character, but every aspect of his life, including the people around him, is controlled by Christof. In the film's climax {{spoiler|Christof ''[[Cue the Sun|makes the sun rise]]'' in order to stop Truman's escape.}}

* The Black Beast in ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]'' vanishes when the animator has a fatal heart attack, implying some combination of this trope with [[No Ontological Inertia]] and a good dose of [[Beyond the Fourth Wall]].

* In ''Delirious'', a soap opera writer gets hit on the head and [[Trapped in TV Land|wakes up as a character inside his own show]]. His typewriter comes with him, and he can use it to alter and plan out events in the show, even affecting other characters' behavior. However, a rival author has been hired to write show scripts as well, leading to a rare case of someone with [[Author Powers]] being in a [[Rage Against the Author]] situation.

* [[Kurt Vonnegut]] makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Breakfast of Champions]]'', and demonstrates his [[Author Powers]] a bit. However, he also finds out that his creations have a habit of slipping out of his control.

* [[Robert Rankin]] sometimes appears in his own [[Far Fetched Fiction]] with [[Author Powers]], usually leading to the characters complaining about the outrageous [[Deus Ex Machina]] endings they cause.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S6 E2/E02 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]": The Doctor discovers that they are in the Land of Fiction, a realm of a different dimension presided over by The Master of the Land, an English writer from the 1920s who has been yanked out of his own time and is being controlled by the Master Brain computer. The Master wants the Doctor to take the writer's place and the two enter a battle of wills using fictional characters.

* ''[[Young Blades (TV)|Young Blades]]'', which is very loosely based on [[Alexandre Dumas]]' ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'', features Dumas as a character in the series finale who explains to the main characters that he is writing their story.

* Taken to [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious]] extremes in the song [http://www.lyricstime.com/breckman-andy-railroad-bill-lyrics.html "Railroad Bill"]{{Dead link}}

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]''

** Adventure WG7 ''Castle Greyhawk''. One of the dungeon levels has the author of that level being [[The Omnipotent|omnipotent]] and interacting with the [[PC|PCs]]s as they explore the level.

* The play ''[[Six Characters in Search of Anan Author]]'' explores what happens when the author of an unfinished play dies before its completion. Two of the characters are doomed to die, over and over again because the play into which they were written never made it to the stage.

* In ''[[Books Don't Work Here (Webcomic)|Books Don't Work Here]]''. the Author is the narrator and takes an active hand in directing the characters. Not that it does him a lot of good most of the time.

* Some of the ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' filler strips feature Dan Shive interacting with the characters and warping reality, usually dishing out [[Gender Bender|Gender Benders]]s and other transformations to anyone who annoys him.

* Played with in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''; while Andrew Hussie does exist in universe (and is even shown physically drawing the strip), he has stated that the extent of his interference in the story proper will be limited to "[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005558 exactly one yard]." {{spoiler|Turns out to be the length between [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|two fourth walls.]]}}

* Subverted in ''[[One Over Zero1/0]]'' where characters succesfully rebel against the author and get him to swear off direct intervention.

* The two authors in ''[[LsL's Empire (Webcomic)|Ls Empire]]'' have all the powers that gods have and can also freeze time, create portals to anywhere, see the future, and manipulate the fabric of reality as they see fit. They have also written one character out of the comic multiple times. {{spoiler|This becomes problematic when [[God of Evil|Dark Star]] turns himself into an author.}}

* Christian Weston Chandler, creator of the infamous ''[[Sonichu]]'' webcomics, writes himself as the Mayor of the city the series is set in, gives himself all sorts of super-powers and eventually displaces the title character as the real star of the comic.

* Animators from ''[[The Cleveland Show (Animation)|The Cleveland Show]]'' fit this trope. They live in Cleveland's basement and can draw or erase anything. First they used it to mess with Cleveland, erasing the box he carries, and then another drew a sexy [[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Na'Vi]] woman for himself.

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''. Homer spots a panel from ''[[Life in Hell]]'' in an Art Museum and insults Matt Groening's work. A giant pencil descends eraser first onto his forehead. {{spoiler|It was actually two movers bringing in a modern art exhibit.}}

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