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{{trope|wppage=Droste effect}}
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{{quote|''I can see '''forever'''!''|[[Memetic Mutation|Various people, upon seeing a droste image]]}}
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See also [[Nested Stories]] and [[Dream Within a Dream]], which has the layering but not the self-similarity. Also see [[Recursive Reality]] which is this trope on a cosmic level.
Named for the [[media:Droste cocoa.jpg|food company that was famous for using this trope]] in their packaging and their ads. See also the [[wikipedia:Droste effect|Wikipedia article]].
{{examples|page=Droste Images}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* Seen on several cereal packages. You know, the type that feature a picture of somebody having breakfast. Said breakfast of course centers on the cereal, with a package proudly displayed. On that package, we see somebody having said cereals for breakfast. And so on...
* [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/CarlotaCores/Doces-1.jpg Royal Baking Powder.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213230755/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Land_O%27Lakes_logo.png Land O'Lakes Butter.]
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]] 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' had a scene where Ataru is in a room in the school building, looks through the doorway, and sees on the other side of the door the same room that he's in, complete with himself and the doorway, and past that doorway is the same room again, etc. (It seems that space itself is forming loops; earlier there was a scene where we see Mendo run up the stairs past the "camera", only to reappear coming up the same stair and go past the camera again.)
== [[Art]] ==
* [[M. C. Escher]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103221800/http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW410.jpg "Print Gallery"] is a very unusual take on this concept: It only shows one copy of the picture, but implies an infinite recursion all the same, using uneven magnification to make the contents of the picture merge with their real-world analogues.
== [[
* In comics, it's called an [http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42041&zoom=4 infinity] [http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=66581&zoom=4 cover].
* An issue of ''[[Runaways (comics)|Runaways]]'' has Victor, a cyborg who was (unknowingly) being used to spy on the team, discover the TV screen where the camera in his eyes feeds back to. The result is himself, watching himself watching himself, watching himself watching himself watching himself, watching himself watching himself watching...
* The cover of the ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' comic "[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1401203426/ref=dp_image_text_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books The Painting that ate Paris]" also has such a shot.
* Used in ''[[The Beano]]'' back
* The cover of the one-shot ''[[
* The cover of ''[[Superman|Action Comics]] #500'' (published in 1979) depicts Lois Lane and Supergirl showing Superman an oversized copy of that very issue, whose cover shows them holding up an oversized copy of the the issue, whose cover.... you get the idea.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', the titular bad guys [[Medium Awareness|watch the Spaceballs video tape]] to find out where the heroes are. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they get to the exact point in the tape that they are watching, although the Droste effect is too small to see much of.
* Happens in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'' with the architect: The room's wall is filled with monitors depicting Neo in the room (and his various anticipated reactions), which in turn are rooms with monitors across all walls. There are several transitions where the scene zooms in on whichever monitor corresponds to Neo's actual reaction.
* While not in the film itself, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141011220213/http://chasenchamberlain.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/memento.jpg box art] for ''[[Memento]].''
* ''[[Airplane!]]'' uses this when the air traffic controller, McCroskey, adopts a thoughtful pose in front of a framed photograph of himself holding the same pose. ''[[Airplane 2 The Sequel]]'' then cranks this [[Up to Eleven]] by posing McCroskey in front of a framed photo of himself posing in front of the framed photograph of himself.
* In ''[[Planet of the Apes|Escape from the Planet of the Apes]]'', the President's Science Advisor uses one during a TV interview as an illustration for his "[[Handwaved|explanation]]" of '''possibly''' how Cornelius and Zira wound up [[Time Travel|traveling back in time]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* "Jack's Story" from ''[[The Stinky Cheese Man]]'' could be considered a print version of this, as it features an infinite regression of the same story [[Nested Story|nested]] inside itself.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that he's (Jack, that is,) telling this story to a ''[[Scheherazade Gambit|giant who intends to eat him after he finishes his story]].'' So he tells a story that can be continued for an infinite amount of time, or at least until the giant falls asleep. Which he does. [[Brick Joke|On a later page,]] we see Jack making a break for it.
* In ''[[The Mouse and His Child]]'', much is made of a particular dog food label depicting a
* The cover of the Little Golden Book ''My Christmas Treasury'' features a little boy and girl, and a cat and dog, sitting on a rug, reading a copy of the same book which features a little boy and girl, and a cat and dog, sitting on a rug...
* The ''[[Ramona Quimby]]'' book ''Ramona Forever'' gets its title from a scene where Ramona does this with the angled mirrors in a dressing room.
* The cover of the paperback edition of ''[[The Big U]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]] depicts a coed reading a copy of ''The Big U'', whose cover depicts the coed reading a copy of ''The Big U''.
== [[Live
* The first episode of ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' opens with one of these: A shot of [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Mr. Raynholm]] at his desk, with an identical scene on a picture hung on the wall. The camera then [[The Reveal|pans out to reveal]] another identical scene. When he starts talking, we see that we were actually looking at the picture on the real Mr. Raynholm's wall.
** ''[[Square One TV]]'' did something similar to teach viewers the concept of infinity.
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* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', Decade's [[Transformation Sequence]] into his [[Super Mode|Complete Form]] invokes elements of this. Decade has a card of himself in Complete Form located on his forehead. Which has a card of that on its forehead, and so on. The sequence [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjxr3-b7_4 repeatedly zooms in on Decade's forehead of infinity] until he's suited up.
* In the end of an episode of ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbK4N445WBk one of the announcers] is reading the credits for the show. The credits in the script he's reading stop around a certain point, however, so he runs up to a television monitor showing the show so he can read the credits on the ''screen'' out loud instead. The monitor, behind the credits, shows him reading from the screen which, behind the credits, shows him reading from the screen...however, he doesn't read quickly enough. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Stephen Colbert's portrait on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' is slowly becoming one of these, as every season{{when}} he has a new portrait painted... where he's posing in front of the previous portrait.
* In an episode of ''[[Mad Men]]'', Sally and Glen (kids) have a [[Seinfeldian Conversation]] where she points out this is the case with the Land o' Lakes butter label, and says it scares her.
* In one episode of the live show ''[[wikipedia:MTV's Most Wanted|MTV's Most Wanted]]'' in the mid 1990s, the camera followed presenter Ray Cokes through the lobby of the [[MTV]] Europe studios, where there was a video wall showing the current program on MTV Europe. Pointing the camera straight at it, this produced a
== [[Music]] ==
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* The video for [[The White Stripes]]' ''Seven Nation Army''.
* The video feedback method referenced below is one of the special effects used in the music video for Queen's ''Bohemian Rhapsody''.
* Every year, ''[[ESPN]] The Magazine'' has an issue called "Revenge of the Jocks" where a famous athlete takes over as editor for that issue. The front cover features the athlete in question tearing up last year's magazine, which features last year's cover athlete tearing up the previous year's magazine, etc. etc.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* The first-person "tunnel" effect in the final levels of ''[[Super Star Wars]]: Return Of The Jedi'' were rendered using an analogous method, in which as one tile increased in size, another, smaller (and usually identical) tile appeared inside it, and so on. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuH4HZn52FM See it here.]
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' art includes images of "historical events", which includes artifacts, and since the object is created before art is added to it, the content maker sometimes depicts an artifact on itself.
** Moreover, a glitch/repeatable [[Good Bad Bugs|exploit]] adding more art and law of large numbers ''make'' it happen. The first reported was the statue aptly named "Planepacked", among "an ungodly amount of items built into it" including 73 images of itself (in 5 out of 14 materials used). [
** This was even [//funnyjunk.com/channel/dwarf-fortress/Stellaris/yYkqLlL/ noted] in the ''[[Stellaris (video game)|Stellaris]]'' [[Random Event]] with Dwarf Fortress [[Shout-Out]]:
{{quote|…also turned to fine arts, creating objects intricately decorated with fractal images of themselves and other beautiful yet weird creations.}}
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* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'': [http://www.pbfcomics.com/94/ "Freaking vortex"].
* [[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]] [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=193 here]
* [[
** As well as [http://xkcd.com/244/ this] example in roleplaying games.{{context|reason=How is this a Droste Image and not just Recursion?}}
** It later proposes the issues with [http://xkcd.com/878/ a Droste model train set.]
*** And used [http://xkcd.com/555/ here] to abuse a certain [[Urban Legend]].
** [https://xkcd.com/1055/ As an illustration].
* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2006-02-17/comic/non-storyline/out-of-continuity-comics/what-does-the-scouter-say-about-his-power-level/ presents] the plot of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
* ''[[Hipster Hitler]]'' wears himself as a shirt.
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** Referenced in another Web Original: ''[[Echo Chamber]]''. Tom attempts to explain the [[Show Within a Show]] trope by comparing it to the Hasselhoff Recursion.
{{quote|'''Tom''': Okay, so, you guys have seen the internet video where it's [[David Hasselhoff]], and they zoom in on his crotch and there's another David Hasselhoff and they zoom in on ''his'' crotch...}}
* [http://a.imagehost.org/0158/1250826090189.gif This]{{Dead link}}.
* [http://www.infinitecat.com/ The Infinite Cat Project]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_MmlTxMXA A webcast] goes horribly, horribly [[Funny Moments|wrong.]]
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* The page image for [[Temporal Paradox]] is an example.
* [[The Other Wiki]]'s [[wikipedia:Web page|webpage article]]. Note the article picture.
* A ''[[My Little Pony:
* As one commenter explained this image: [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/190469 "ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v..."]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used in ''[[The Venture
* The ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "A Brush With Oblivion" had one of these as Honker Muddlefoot's art project.
* In the ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' episode "Wildcards", one shot has the Joker showing his [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|successful takeover of TV channels]] by appearing at a TV screen, which shows him on television in the same shot, and so on.
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* [[wikipedia:Coat of arms of Russia|Coat of arms of Russia]] is rumored to be fractal, as illustrated [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FsQf_x04Q here]. The eagle holds a scepter tipped with an eagle, that holds a scepter tipped with an eagle...
* On a related note, Virtual Machines. You can run a "virtualized" operating system inside that very same operating system, recursively ad infinitum in theory, hardware resources notwithstanding.<ref>And some virtual machines prohibit virtualizing themselves.</ref> This is getting more and more common these days to prevent the headache of having to craft policies for many, many users that share single administrative space. Having an OS emulating the very same OS also cuts down the hassle of having to provide different updates.
▲* Every year, ''[[ESPN]] The Magazine'' has an issue called "Revenge of the Jocks" where a famous athlete takes over as editor for that issue. The front cover features the athlete in question tearing up last year's magazine, which features last year's cover of an athlete tearing up the previous year's magazine, etc. etc.
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