Breaking the Reviewer's Wall: Difference between revisions

There are a lot of reviewers of video games, movies, cartoons and other media. Some of the comedic reviewers have unique gimmicks that go beyond simply reviewing the work in question, but instead take it a step further, coming up with unique ways to show off the work or interact with it. One of these ways it to actually enter the work in question, or interact with its characters! This is [[Breaking the ReviewersReviewer's Wall]]. Instead of [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] and talking to the audience, which they're already doing, they break another wall - the wall separating the reviewer from the work reviewed.

* Harry Hill in ''[[Harry HillsHill's TV Burp]]'' in some way manipulates the TV shows he reviews frequently. Often, he even has access to the sets and actors used.

* An episode of ''[[Reading Rainbow]]'' in the early 90s had LeVar Burton visit the set of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', on which he was playing Geordi LaForge at the time. The episode showed some behind the scenes stuff, and a few bloopers. At the end of the episode, he gave his typical sign off, "I'll see you next time." and disappeared with the transporter animation, as if he had been beamed away.

* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'': This is done in [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mc28 an article] by Matt Carvotta on the Izzet guild in the Ravnica block, written as an interview of Izzet mages Trivaz and Quizl.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] once started off a review of ''Street Fighter 2010'' by showing himself exiting his house and seeing the aliens and other creatures from the game having taken over the world. After all, isn't that what's supposed to happen in 2010?

* From [[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With theThe Glasses]]:

** [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] sometimes uses his gun to shoot characters inside the movie or cartoon he's reviewing. He's also called characters from movies on the phone and had direct conversations. Usually the phone voice is either from the actor who played the Critic or his brother, but the Critic once conversed with stock footage of [[Christian Bale]]'s rant on the set of ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', used in a way to imply he was hating on the newer Batman movies.

*** Once, he interacted with a clip show of himself and Ma-Ti from ''[[Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]]''.

*** He conversed on screen with Terl from ''[[Battlefield Earth (Filmfilm)|Battlefield Earth]]'' (portrayed by Spoony, complete with [[Dutch Angle]]).

** [[That Dude in Thethe Suede]] was killed by [[Benzaie]] using his ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''.

** [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] has occasionally encountered characters from the works he's reviewed. In fact, in the conclusion of his ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review, Dr. Insano hired Squall to kill Spoony.

** [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]'s review of [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Anastasia]]'' was repeatedly interrupted by phone calls from the characters (and [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Yakov Smirnov]]) to complain. Rasputin in particular wouldn't leave her alone. Although Rasputin was later revealed to have [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|Chicago caller ID]], so it may have been an in-character joke.

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] has also occasionally faced off against characters from the comic books he's reviewed. Neutro was one of the first.

*** Along with characters from the franchise fighting him as above, a ''[[Silent Hill]]'' fog started engulfing [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]]'s <s>ruhm</s> room while he was reviewing [[In Name Only]] comics written by Scott Ciencin.

** In a vlog by JesuOtaku of the [[Desu Des Brigade]], she reveals her [[Schedule Slip]] of "''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' Month" was apparently due to being consumed by ''[[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|Digimon Tamers]]''' D-Reaper.

* While [[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Yahtzee]] doesn't necessarily enter the games he's reviewing, his [[Author Avatar]] almost always interacts with characters from the game, like getting sliced in half by [[God of War (Video Gameseries)|Kratos]], having a drink with [[Ryu ga Gotoku|Akiyama]], or giving Batman a [[It Makes Sense in Context|playful tousle]].

* [[Ghoulardi]] used to enter the movies he presented.

* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20131230173938/http://encyclopedia-obscura.com/ Encyclopedia Obscura]'s Per Arne Sandvik did this a [https://web.archive.org/web/20141130221145/http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gameskqf.html few] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130901124705/http://encyclopedia-obscura.com/gamesripoff.html times].

{{quote| ''To shed light on some subjects, I approached [[The Hero|Scott O'Conner]] for an interview. To do this, I hooked up to my NES console using a fork, a coaxial cable and a colander (illustration below). Thus, I was able to upload my thoughts into the Kabuki cartridge. '''Warning!''' Since a NES cartridge has the storage capacity of 32 kilobytes, the sheer amount of raw data your brain contains could easily exceed the max limit. Never try this yourself, as your personality could be scattered all around limbo if the cartridge circuitry is scorched. [[Super Mario Bros.]]. 3 is impossible to enter, as the game already fills up the entire 32Kb limit.''}}

* One [[YouTube]] review of the ''[[Silent Hill (Filmfilm)|Silent Hill]]'' movie had Silent Hill's infamous "curse" affect the reviewer, showing his house changing between its normal self, and a [[Dark World]] self.

* [[Lenny and ShinkosShinko's Disney See (Web Video)|Lenny and Shinkos Disney -See]] house was blown up after Lenny called out the Blue Fairy for being the TRUE villain of Pinocchio

* [[Slowbeef (Let's Play)|Slowbeef]] is taken over by a Snatcher during his screenshot [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Snatcher]]''.

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