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* Happened in a few ''[[Megatokyo]]'' strips, some ''[[Real Life Comics|Real Life]]'' strips too.
* Happens a lot in ''[[PvP]]''.
** Which sets us up nicely for a subversion in [
* The IM program in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. The author actually [[Lampshaded]] this trope the second time it was used.
** Also the semi-canonical game of [[Black and White]] in the NP strips.
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* In ''[[Something*Positive]]'', all game characters qualify.
* ''[[Chainmail Bikini]]'' neatly fits this description, as the scene shifts back and forth between chararacters-in-gameworld and players-at-table views. Recently, a newcomer took over one of the characters in the RPG, and that character's face changed to represent the new player.
* ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' are based entirely around this concept with the images taken from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'' respectively, but with all the speech being comments made by the players of a tabletop RPG following that story.
* The Fantasy and Space themes of ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' are this. Space tends to go a lot deeper, to the point where it's a major surprise when Paris drops out of character after being so disgusted by [[A Wizard Did It]]. {{spoiler|And it's even more of a surprise when she gets no response, possibly because Me had been killed some strips earlier. There's been no follow-up in the Space theme about this. (Though it had once been declared that DMM from the Me theme isn't the same as DMM as the GM, the fact remains that neither GM has been seen since.)}}
* Several strips of ''[[Loserz]]'', starting with [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213220440/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/339 this one].
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''Marge Gamer'', all characters in an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] Bart and Marge played were clearly fantasy versions of other Springfield residents. Apparently, ''everyone in town'' plays on the same server, by some [[Contrived Coincidence]]. They all managed to create characters who look exactly like themselves, except for minor details (Marge's character is basically her with elf ears, for example.)
* The most ridiculous example by far would be ''Everlot'' in the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Virt-u-ron". Ron recognizes the villain in-game (it's an MMORPG, and the villain's been capturing all the other players) from his voice and mannerisms in the real world. The villain then reveals himself by removing the helmet of his in-game avatar. And the Tunnellord actually {{spoiler|has Rufus' face under his helmet.}}
* ''[[South Park]]'' did this with the actual game of ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. As they used machinima footage from the real game, they couldn't put the character's heads on the in-game characters, but the characters still looked similar: Stan and Kyle wore clothing the same color as their hats, Cartman was a short, fat Dwarf in red, and Kenny wore orange.
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* Happened in an episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]''; played straight with Danny and Tucker, but [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] with Sam, whose online Avatar looked nothing like her real-world appearance.
** Until she disabled a holographic mask to reveal her real face. Her size and build was still completely different though. Plus, you could see her ponytail...thing...even before the big reveal.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' literally invents a machine to go inside any video game.
** ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' do almost the same thing in an episode.
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* The entire point of ''[[Captain N: The Game Master]]''.
* The ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "MMORPD (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Duck)" does this too. [[Justified]] as being a [[Virtual Reality]] game in the future.
* This is the entire plot of ''[[Chaotic]]'', where the cast does this ''literally''.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* [[The Onion]] uses this in their report on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ World Of World Of Warcraft], a fictional game which itself is an aversion.
* "I was all in the role!" occasionally pops up in LARP circles. Usually it boils down to coy "[[Attention Whore|Look at me]], I'm su-uch a good roleplayer and I'm so-o cray-zee!" and as such irritates everyone else (except perhaps tabloid journalists).
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