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Similar to [[Becoming the Mask]], but with entities. For cases where the goal was to make something real, but have it fail, see [[Springtime for Hitler]]. If it's a person being faked it becomes [[Invented Individual]]. See also [[Secret Identity Identity]]. Compare [[Defictionalization]]. For examples where this is prevented from happening by [[Idiot Ball]], [[Status Quo Is God]] etc, see [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]. Not to be confused with [[Face Heel Turn]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** Because on the rare occasions that Ash and friends aren't holding an [[Idiot Ball]] and figure out the lame disguises, they immediately shout that the seemingly nice people are Team Rocket, and they have to run away or be arrested. This only happens when they ''are'' trying to make a legitimate business, which they did a lot in ''Diamond And Pearl''.
*** Most often this happens with the tournaments that naturally require the main cast to stay in one place for more than a couple episodes, and having Team Rocket continually escape and attack the same place 7 times in a row would stretch disbelief too much.
* This is pretty much the origin of the Dollars in ''[[Durarara!!]]''. Initially, people got e-mailed to join an online group called the Dollars, which was presented as a secret society of sorts, but had no membership obligations, and it was pretty much a joke. Over time, rumors got started about their power and because they acquired a reputation for violence, people started committed crimes in the name of the group. Eventually, their founder realizes things have gone horribly wrong, and starts spreading counter-rumors about them being a heroic group in order to stop this.
** {{spoiler|The fun part is that ''this also works'', or at least it does until Izaya arrives.}}
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* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga]] novel ''The Warrior's Apprentice'', Miles invents the "Dendarii Free Mercenaries" out of whole cloth as a quick cover story. Then the new "provisonal members" start to inadvertently [[Pull the Thread]] , so he adds more detail. The sound doctrine means they win battles, which leads to people joining. By the end of the novel there actually IS a Dendarii Free Mercenaries, uniform, field manual, hidden government backing, and all. The majority of what defined the Dendarii was essentially made up on the spot by 3 terribly overworked people.
* In the beginning of ''[[The Saga of the Noble Dead|Dhampir]]'', Magiere and Leesil [[The Con|had a good scam going]] in staging Vampire Slayings and taking peasant hamlets for everything they can get, but them Magiere gets tired of it, buys a bar in a seaside town to retire to... and ends up at odds with the real vampires haunting the place (not to mention learning the hated whispers of her childhood had basis in fact).
* In ''[[The Godfather]]'' this is explained as the ultimate objective of the old-line Mafia
== Live Action TV ==
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* The ''[[Community]]'' study group was originally completely fake, created as a means for Jeff to try and hook up with Britta.
* In one episode of ''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]'', "White Elephant", a team of crooks moves into a diner next door to a bank with the intention of tunneling through ... but the two officers of Car 54 continually interrupt them by trying to help the diner succeed.
* When GOB on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' mockingly pretends to be a waiter at the restaurant his mother is eating at, it backfires. Actual members of the staff begin to give him instructions and his mother fails to notice him since she doesn't look at waiters. Not knowing how to end the joke, he finishes the day out actually waiting tables, earning tips in the process, and inadvertently doing an honest day's work.
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* In ''[[The Replacements]]'' Series Finale {{spoiler|Todd and Riley learns that the Fleemco replacement program was made by their long lost uncle because he was bad at parenting. A short time later, The Replacement Program becomes real.}}
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Brian Griffin's mocking self-help book, ''Wish it, Want it, Do it'' becomes a best-seller, eventually leading Brian to buy into his own hype.
* In an episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' Fenton Crackshell creates an advertisement for a product that doesn't exists and it becomes so popular everyone wants it. He then takes an untested bubblegum product from Gyro Gearloose and sells it. Of course, being an untested product [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]].
== Web Original ==
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* ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' seems to have resonated so well with the actuality of the music world that the fictional band has released actual albums and done multiple "reunion" performances and appearances. Whether fans of the band are in it for the tongue-in-cheek charm of the [[Mockumentary]] or legitimately appreciate the band's unoriginal-original music sort of blurs the line between fiction and reality.
* In 1969 Greil Marcus, a critic for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, penned a spoof "review" of a pending release from the Masked Marauders, a purported supergroup consisting of [[The Beatles (band)|John Lennon, Paul McCartney]], [[The Rolling Stones|Mick Jagger]], and [[Bob Dylan]]. So many readers bought into the hoax, inundating the magazine as well as the various artists and their managers with requests for information on how to get the album, that Marcus decided to take things a step further by recruiting a London-based skiffle group to record an album in the guise of the fictional Marauders. Even after the hoax was revealed, said album actually made it onto the lower reaches of the ''Billboard'' charts.
* [[Subverted]] In [[Marvel Comics]], in [[Retcon]], the person who pointed out a problem in continuity and at the same time provided a plausible explanation was awarded a [
* According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20110101070906/http://www.avclub.com/denver/articles/this-is-witch-house,49199/ this interview], the term "witch house music" was invented as a joke and has now taken on a life of its own.
** This happens more often than you'd think with music genres. "Chillwave" was invented the same way.
* More or less as a joke, one hockey fan in upstate New York began an online campaign in 2006 to use the National Hockey League's "[[Tempting Fate|vote online as often as you like]]" policy to get fringe defenseman [[The Woobie|Rory Fitzpatrick]] voted as a starter in the 2007 NHL All-Star Game. The "Vote for Rory" campaign gathered such steam, and garnered so many votes, that Fitzpatrick was vaulted to the top of the race with only weeks remaining before the game. This led to [[Hype Backlash]] among some NHL pundits who thought the All-Star Game was, somehow, [[Serious Business]]. In response, the Vote for Rory campaign became less about having fun with a wonky system and more about using that system to grant recognition to a hard-working, "aw shucks" nice guy who would never get that kind of attention otherwise. Ultimately, the only reason Fitzpatrick did not get voted in was poorly-engineered [[Executive Meddling]] by the National Hockey League, as revealed in [http://www.slate.com/id/2157741/ this Slate article].
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