Breaking the Fourth Wall: Difference between revisions

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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Advertising|Advertising]]

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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Film|Film]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Literature|Literature]]

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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Newspaper Comics|Newspaper Comics]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Theatre|Theatre]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Video Games|Video Games]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Web Original|Web Original]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall/Western Animation|Western Animation]]

== Opera ==

* In Sergei Prokofiev's ''Love For Three Oranges'' the action is frequently interrupted by a [[Greek Chorus]] (or rather, four or five separate Greek Choruses) of opera fans and stagehands. This on its own doesn't ''quite'' break the fourth wall. But when the stagehands decide to intervene in the plot by kidnapping the main villain, you've got to feel like some kind of line has been crossed. Relatively rare in that the fourth wall is broken from the OUTSIDE: rather than one of the characters in the play turning to address the audience, characters from the "audience" reach in and start mucking about in the play.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

*** In that initial promo, he even explicitly mentions that he's breaking the fourth wall.

* [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] does this a lot. For example, in reference to the brief [[John Cena]] / [[Zack Ryder]] / [[Eve Torres]] love triangle in early 2012, Rock pointed out that Cena is married in real life.

 

== Puppet Shows ==

* The Cashore Marionettes do this occasionally; one of the most significant instances is the skit "The Quest", in which a puppet scales his own puppeteer like a mountain, accompanied by triumphant music.

 

== Radio ==

* [[Firesign Theatre]]: There's a fourth wall?

 

== Real Life ==