Genre Savvy/Fan Works: Difference between revisions

Line 4:

* 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].

* 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!"~~<br />~~

{{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]]."}}

{{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 The 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!]]"}}

{{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.