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== Fan Works ==

** 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).

 

* ''[[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.

{{quote|'''Rosewood:''' You know what I keep thinking about? You know the end of Butch Cassidy? Redford and Newman are almost out of ammunition, and the whole Bolivian army is out- out in front of this little hut?

* [[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.

* 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—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?"

* [[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. ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]'' is a prime example.

* ''[[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 [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|the Other's]] manipulations and the hidden agenda of [[Mysterious Informant|Mr. Sellars]].

* In [[The Shattering Prelude to Cataclysm]], Thrall realizes that the Horde is suffering from the [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] trope, as many of the young warriors started out killing undead in the war against the Scourge, and thus are somewhat desensitized to killing living opponents, making them more keen on going to war with the Alliance.

* Early in ''The Council of Shadows'' by [[S.M. Stirling]] Ellen says "I'm supposed to [[Took a Level in Badass|take a level in badasser]]y, right?" in reference to her training for self-defense against [[Our Vampires Are Different|Shadowspawn]].

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* 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.

* 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.

 

* [[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 ==

 

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