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*** Try clicking on a unit you select in ''Warcraft III'' multiple times after hearing the whole speech. For example, you can hear the Human Sorceress saying "Click me baby, one more time.".
*** The biggest one is probably the Crypt Lord, a big-ass spider: "And they say Blizzard games don't have bugs!"
** Nearly all Blizzard games use this trope in pretty much the same way. In the ''Warcraft'' games, clicking on certain unit types repeatedly results in the unit ordering the player to "[[Stop Poking Me]]!". In the ''Starcraft'' series, each unit type and character has a short dialog that is triggered by repeated clicking. Most of them stay in character, talking about themselves and their missions; while others break the fourth wall to talk to the character, usually expressing frustration at being constantly harassed by the player, or opinions about how bored the player must be to keep wasting his time like that. A few use [[Shout
*** "This isn't ''Warcraft'' in space!"
* In ''[[Lost Souls MUD]]'', some NPCs are aware that some of the people found in their world are the puppets of beings from an entirely different order of reality — that is, [[Player Character|Player Characters]]. One has written a book about it.
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'''Sparx:''' *after the above* Gee, Hunter, how do you know Spyro's ok?<br />
'''Hunter:''' Well, if he wasn't, we'd have gone back to a previous save point by now. }}
* After obtaining the Ancient Sword in ''[[Three D Dot Game Heroes]]'', the king asks you if you'll accept his quest. [[But Thou Must!|If you pick no, he'll tell you that you can't pick that because that answer doesn't advance the story.]]
* ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'' does a pretty good job of smashing that wall, too. The guys like to tease Mon-Mon about "not being one of the characters you can get at the end of the game", and his response is that he has an [[Image Song]] and has spent too much time reading his lines to ''not'' be a "captureable character".
* ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' is just layers of this. {{spoiler|At the finale of the game, God asks you for his guide book back, which then zooms out to Ralph Wiggum playing on his TV. Ralph then turns and just STARES at you.}}
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