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* In a case of metafiction meets [[Real Life]], the Disney corporation sued Marvel Comics, stating that the Marvel character [[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]] bore too much of a resemblance to Donald Duck, and violated their trademark. Marvel then redesigned future artwork of Howard, changing his overall appearance. But most importantly, Howard would always be drawn ''wearing pants'', apparently because Donald now owned exclusive rights to all depictions of talking duck nudity! In the Marvel comic, Howard would often complain about being forced to wear pants, because he was personally sued by some undisclosed powerful corporation.
** Though with the Disney/Marvel merger, Howard can presumably go pantsless once again.
*** And he did, in the [[stinger]] for the ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' movie.
* Averted (or arguably lampshaded) in the original ''Worlds Collide'' crossover between the DCU and the [[Milestone Comics|Milestone Universe]]. The Milestone Universe has Superman comics, so when the Milestone heroes get cosmically shunted to the DCU, they know Superman's secret identity (and originally assume he's just some yutz dressed up like Superman). The more recent ''When Worlds Collide'' established that the two universes have since merged, presumably wiping out the Milestone heroes' inappropriate memories.
* Most screen adaptations of Superman's origin—at least those that don't try to incorporate the rest of the DCU as well—act on the assumption that the whole concept of a super-hero does not yet exist in this world, not even in fictional media.
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* Non-actor version: One [[Deadpool]] comic [[Memetic Mutation|famously]] features a scene where he incites [[Wolverine]] to violence by saying to Kitty Pride "Speaking of games, ever played ''[[Street Fighter]]''?" and then [[Shoryuken]]-ing her in the face. Then Udon delivered a [[Shout-Out]] to that scene in their ''[[Street Fighter (comics)|Street Fighter]]'' comic, where Ryu says "Speaking of comics, ever read ''[[Deadpool]]''?" and then Shoryukens Sagat.
* An issue of [[G.I. Joe]]: Special Missions has a child receiving a toy of the [[Transformers]] Jetfire. Strangely, Transformers and GI Joe shared the same continuity, and Jetfire even appeared in the GI Joe vs The Transformers miniseries.
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