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** ''Discworld'' and [[Discussed Trope|Discussed Tropes]] go together like dwarves and gold. In ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', an [[Evil Chancellor]] actually SAYS of some evil action he is undertaking, "I am the Vizier after all. It is rather expected of me."

* 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 accord -- ifaccord—if they had gone down the stairs, they would have been trapped. Later in the book, the (gay) male main character remarks to the female main character that this is the point in the story where they're supposed to have sex. They look at each other for a moment, and then the woman says, "So what do you want to do in the five minutes that would have taken?"

* ''[[Animorphs]]'' used these more than average. Especially common are references to the tropes of ''[[Star Trek]]'' -- things—things like [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]] (not used in Animorphs), or [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] (which is used).

* [[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.