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This trope covers that third category, where a trope is brought up by the characters, and is directly relevant to the situation at hand, but is not taken necessarily as [[Truth in Television]].
This kind of conversation is used to set up either a [[Justified Trope|justification]] (Invoked Tropes normally just sort of assume the trope is Truth in Television), a [[Averted Trope|fully noted aversion]], some variety of [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] or a way of [[Lampshade Hanging|hanging a lampshade]]. In some cases, it leads to [[Death
This trope is extremely common when [[Our Vampires Are Different]] is invoked in a contemporary setting. Most authors just can't resist [[Your Vampires Suck|having their characters point out how 'real' vampires differ from all those laughably inaccurate Hollywood representations.]]
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See also [[This Is Reality]], which this trope generally invokes.
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== Anime
* Tropes are often discussed in ''[[Lucky Star]]''. This is understandable since one of the main characters is an [[Otaku Surrogate]].
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. Since the eponymous character is {{spoiler|a [[Genre Savvy]] [[Reality Warper]]}} without her knowledge, [[This Is Reality]] [[Skepticism Failure|never occurs.]]
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* [[Defiled Forever]] is discussed in ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', as a consequence of {{spoiler|Aoshika (a woman who had ''already'' been sexually abused in her past) being kidnapped and gangraped by Haguro and his goons.}}
== Comic Books ==
* Used brutally in ''[[
== Comics ==▼
▲* Used brutally in ''[[Black Orchid (Comic Book)|Black Orchid]]'': the title character is captured by a [[Mook]], who discusses [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him]]. He [[Decoy Protagonist|shoots her in the head]], then [[Kill It With Fire|sets her on fire]] to make absolutely sure she's [[Deader Than Dead]]. Good thing [[Mes a Crowd]].
== Fan Works ==
* As a ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''/
** Later, Haruhi, Mikuru, and Koizumi discuss [[Oblivious to Love]] in front of Kyon. He ''still'' doesn't get it.
* In the [[The Teraverse|"Teraverse"]] story ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31699-1/CaptainBoulanger+It+s+Just+A+Habit.htm It's Just A Habit]'' by "Captain Boulanger", the [[Narrator|POV character]] Marie O'Neill is a Catholic eucharistic minister -- a variety of Catholic lay-clergy with a very limited remit -- and in one chapter, she remarks on the difference between the movies and reality when it comes to the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick (which, as she explains, the movies often get wrong as being the entirety of the "[[Last Rites (trope)|Last Rites]]" rather than only one component of them, and also is not ''only'' used in that context).
* ''[[
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▲* ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'' does this frequently, mainly using the character of Guy, an actor who never quite got over how he played a [[Red Shirt]] in the series:
▲{{quote| "I'm not even supposed to be here; I'm just '[[Nominal Importance|Crewman Number Six]].' I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is!"}}
* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]'' features a [[Played for Laughs]] discussion of [[Bolivian Army Ending]], during the final shootout with the [[Big Bad]]'s goons. Of course, the scene doesn't actually end this way, making it a parody as well.
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'''Taggart:''' Billy, I'm gonna make you pay for this.
* [[The Boondock Saints]] pull this measure during a shopping scene where one character impedes himself with a large length of rope, because people in the movies always have it and always need it. Lampshaded later on.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey]]'' stories tends to feature dialogue in which somebody discussing "If this were a mystery story..."
** Particulalry common when his [[Love Interest]] Harriet Vane is present, as she ''is'' a writer of mystery stories.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Sam Vimes' Genre Savvy discussion of Clues in various ''[[Discworld]]'' books is another good literary example.
** ''Discworld'' and
*** This is taken to its logical extreme in ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'' with Dr Hix, Professor of Postmortem Communications, who is ''contractually obligated'' to be mildly evil on a day-to-day basis, not to exceed aforementioned contractual standards.
* The ''[[Black Jewels]]'' book ''Tangled Webs'' by Anne Bishop has a couple of examples, mainly because the villain is a hack author. Two characters who had been making fun of the author's cliché-ridden writing are trapped in a house that's trying to kill them while the author watches from inside the walls and records it all as fodder for his next book. At one point, the characters comment that in a horror story, this is exactly when one of them would be stupid enough to go into the cellar. As they're saying this, the cellar door slams shut of its own
* ''[[
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] was particularly fond of having his characters do this, particularly ones who are established authors in-universe and who proceed to comment on the narrative structure of their own stories. ''[[
* ''[[Otherland]]'', by [[Tad Williams]], contains an elaborately drawn out discussion of the [[Shaggy Dog Story]] trope throughout the novels, triggered initially by the presence of a Bushman character whose tribal mythology is largely based on the concept, and later getting folded into the main plot by means of [[
* In [[The Shattering Prelude to Cataclysm]], Thrall realizes that the Horde is suffering from the [[What Measure Is a Non
* Early in ''The Council of Shadows'' by [[
* An episode of ''[[Get Smart]]'' opens with Max receiving the name of a KAOS spy from a midget in an otherwise vacant warehouse. Max immediately tells the informant that he was surprised that he wasn't shot dead right before revealing the name. Because of the surprise, Max forgets the name and asks the informant to repeat it. The informant is then killed by a sniper before repeating the name.▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The titular character of ''[[Castle]]'' does this
▲* An episode of ''Get Smart'' opens with Max receiving the name of a KAOS spy from a midget in an otherwise vacant warehouse. Max immediately tells the informant that he was surprised that he wasn't shot dead right before revealing the name. Because of the surprise, Max forgets the name and asks the informant to repeat it. The informant is then killed by a sniper before repeating the name.
▲* The titular character of ''[[Castle]]'' does this CONSTANTLY. He's a big fan of CIA/NSA conspiracies, alien abductions, time travel and in an episode where a murder victim has a butler, he would dearly love to say "[[The Butler Did It]]."
* Host segments on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' were frequently dedicated to discussions that would deconstruct themes and tropes found in the movies the main characters were watching. The episode ''[[Eegah]]'', for example, has one relating to the [[Missing Mom]] of the film, and how it was a plot setup commonly used in television of the period. The Bots also [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade]] the whole thing by pointing out they don't technically have a mom either.
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: In ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', when the titular character is approached by Ishtar, who asks him to marry her. He then proceeds to list the examples of fictional characters<ref>
▲* [[Older Than Dirt]]: In ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', when the titular character is approached by Ishtar, who asks him to marry her. He then proceeds to list the examples of fictional characters<ref> Yes, there WERE lots of mythologies and whatnots back then, it's just that TEOG was the first ''written'' story.</ref> who ended up in a bad fate because of sleeping with divine beings.
== Web Comics ==
* [http://buttersafe.com/2008/11/06/at-school-no-clothes/ This episode] of ''[[Buttersafe]]'', in which a boy without pants struggles to work out if the [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]] trope is being [[Subverted]], [[Double Subverted]] or played straight.
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons (
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