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* There's the wacky but surprisingly good ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''/ZombieApocalypse[[Zombie Apocalypse]] fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3582047/1/The_Rampant_Disease The Rampant Disease]'', in which House and Co. invoke every trope in the book -- [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality|only some of which end up being true.]]
* Nili's ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3128022/1/A_Taste_of_Disaster A Taste of Disaster]'' shows how genre savvy Legolas, Aragorn, Elrond and company get after Aragorn and Legolas have been through a few action/adventure fics. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Often present in ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' forums, especially in the Fan Adventures. A sample suggestion, explaining what's going on to a new character, is [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=809544#p809544 clearly very genre-savvy]{{Dead link}}.
* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4942679/1/The_Long_Walk The Long Walk]'', Michelangelo is pleading with OC Breech Loader to do something for him.
{{quote|'''Mikey:''' "Then you can be my escort tonight before it's too late! You'll do it, right! It's important! I need it! And you love me, so you'll do it! Right!"
'''Breech:''' "I never agree to do anything without knowing what it is first. How do I know you're the real Mikey, and not some Dai-Oni possessing his body with the intent of making me promise to do something awful?" }}
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' [[Self-Insert Fic]] ''[[Troper Works/Mass Vexations|Mass Vexations]]'', [[Author Avatar]] Art goes through pretty much the entire fic noting the events of the game as they go on. He ends up lampshading just about everything he notices, including making an offhand comment about one of the game's [[Playing with Syringes]] examples.
* Several characters in ''[[Total Drama Battlegrounds]],'', though [[The Atoner|Heather]] deserves special mention after seeing [[Cheerful Child|Rodney]] die in one of the virtual reality challenges:
{{quote|"But see, in every movie that's science-fiction or fantasy or the like, [[Infant Immortality|the kid always makes it]]. This time [[Subverted Trope|he didn't]], and thus, this queen has broken the unwritten rule for such movies. Even an [[I Know Karate|Asian martial artist cliché]] or the [[America Saves the Day|American commando cliché]] cannot defeat someone who is breaking the unwritten rules. But as I said, I didn't want to say this out loud, or [[Closet Geek|I'd look weird]]."}}
* ''[[Luminosity]]'': Bella realizes that her life is a [[Romance Novel]]. Relying on her status as the protagonist may be part of why she makes some risky decisions.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Methods of Rationality]]'', Harry is a [[Child Prodigy|prodigy]] who spent his childhood a) reading fantasy and sci-fi and b) analyzing everything in sight. He constantly uses his knowledge of literature and archetypes to [[Moment of Awesome|figure out things that his canon counterpart didn't figure out for years]] -- for instance, {{spoiler|that he's destined to fight Voldemort}}.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''"A Rising Light"'', this is one of main character Mike's defining traits, often crossing over with [[Deadpan Snarker]] and occasionally bordering on [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]].
{{quote|'''Mike''': "Ponies don't start randomly thinking about this kind of thing unless it's about to become some important plot point [[Self-Deprecation|in a corny story they're in!]]"}}
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' has the titular duo, though in different ways: Calvin knows a lot about sci-fi movies, while Hobbes knows the outcome of pretty much ''any'' adventure Calvin drags him along on.
* One of the hallmarks of being a resident of Angel Grove in ''[[Of Love and Bunnies]]'' is that, living amongst [[Power Rangers]] for so long, they're used to the weirdness and can predict when strange things will happen and what effects they will have.
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Switzerland]] in the ''[[Nineteen Eighty Three1983 Doomsday Stories]]'' is shown as rather familiar with [[World War III]] conventions. And is arguably the first to figure out that Austria's decades-long [[Hope Spot]] that Hungary may have survived would not end well. {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|He was right.]]}}
* Arcanus in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130813213433/http://www.fimfiction.net/story/16112/Whisperswhispers Whispers]'' is stated in-universe to have become this by reading a lot. He demonstrates it by [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] a case of [[Innocent Innuendo]].
** On the flip-side, he also demonstrates [[Genre Blindness]] by claiming love and friendship have little merit... in a series [[The Power of Friendship|built on them]].
* To some degree, [[Spice Girls| Emma]] in ''[[Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'' is like this as she does address the readers, not only as the narrator but seek in some play-by-play.
 
* Basically, most of the characters including Fusion Gundam in ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/173566505-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]'', is aware of what's going on ranging from their time on ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', fan-fic is based on, to wanting to see the end.
* Michael McCole, the protagonist of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] [[Self-Insert Fic]] ''[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-twelve-step-program-to-omnipotence-mcu-si.645007/threadmarks A Twelve Step Program to Omnipotence]''. He may be stealing tech (and other things) from every source he can so he can survive being a background character in a world that's going to be devastated by Thanos in just a few years, but he's determined that he's not going to fall into the trap of becoming a villain:
{{quote|Sure I could use my tech and powers (when I get them) to steal money, hell, with what I had right here I could just walk into a bank and punch the vault door straight off its hinges, but that would suck me into a villain narrative.
Before you know it, like clock work I'll be running around in spandex with some ridiculous scheme to steal all the gold in Fort Knox using the cunning power of goldfish, only to be defeated just in time for dinner and locked away yet again, all the while screaming things like 'damn you Spiderman!'.
No, instant ramen will have to do. For now.}}
:[[He Who Fights Monsters|Sadly]], [[Slowly Slipping Into Evil|it doesn't work as he expected]].
* One of the mercenaries in Coil's employ in the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover fic ''[[Taylor Varga]]'' is black, and for that reason refuses to go first into a dark room from which creepy sounds have emanated: "I've ''seen'' this movie, [[Black Dude Dies First|I ''know'' what happens to the black guy.]] Fuck ''that''. Someone else can take point. ''I'll'' cover ''them''."
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