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* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'': Jessie and James expressed this in the early seasons, alongside some [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

'''Jessie''': [[Spoiled by the Format|We had to fill up the half-hour!]] }}

* The main cast in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' literally fall under this trope because they're trying to maintain the [[Masquerade]] when they know that {{spoiler|Haruhi is a very [[Genre Savvy]] [[A God Am I|godlike being]], and if she expects a trope, that trope will manifest; however, if she knows this, there's a very real risk of...''[[The End of the World as We Know It|consequences]]''.}}

* ''[[Narbonic]]'': Every [[Mad Scientist]] acts in a given manner, even though they know it's going to bite them in the tush, precisely because of the insanity.

* ''[[Terror Island]]'': The Green Grocers henchmen give said [[Card-Carrying Villain]] advice in how to be a villain.

* ''[[Jump Leads]]'': General Gray, the villain of [http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/129 Issue 5]. [http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/144 He already ''has'' taken over the world once], but found [http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/145 actually running the world pretty boring], so he abdicated. But he still loves ''trying'' to take over the world. So for the past thirty years he's been coming up with outlandish, easily thwartable (and increasing ill-defined) world domination plans.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19991001 Dr. Steve], though some of that may just be him being completely, batshit insane.