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=== Video Games ===
* Most [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s will make use of this, applied to NPCs. Just [[Shoplift and Die|threw a rock at a merchant]] and are now fleeing the entire, bizarrely powerful legion of town guards? Simply cross the magical loading-screen border between the ''Town of Generica'' and the ''Generican Prarie'' immediately bordering it on the right, and not only will you lose every last pursuer; they'll cease to exist in your reality.
* ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' has one prominent example. On the Starfleet Academy map you are not able to access the waterfront which is only seperated by literal waist-height fence. Under normal circumstances your character would even be able to jump over it. However, when the area was first released there was a bug that transported you on the other side of the fence and let you explore the area beyond it - including the Golden Gate Bridge and the normally inaccessible shuttlebay atop one of the Academy's buildings.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Guybrush in ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]''. On Lucre Island, there's a nice little field which is closed off by nothing more than a very low, wooden fence. Guybrush refuses to cross it, saying, "I could go over there, but... I... really don't WANT to. Yeah..."
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=== Video Games ===
* ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' [[
* Lampshaded in the [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|Vietnam With Zombies]] ''[[Half Life]]'' mod Heart of Evil: our hero [[Running Gag|"sadly lacks the intelligence to operate" any vehicle he comes across,]] and Barney needs to be escorted to the vehicle to operate it. At one point, our hero tries to unlock a door, but it refuses to budge. Our hero "lacks the strength to open the door." Barney pounds it once with his fist, and it swings open.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has a commentary node (on tc_hydro) about how its conspicuous waist-high fences are a major theme of the game.
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=== Webcomics ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100623075724/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0266.html Parodied] in ''[[Adventurers!]]''.
** Another one from the same comic features [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615073612/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0047.html a chair].
* Episode [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-07-17 #172] of the webcomic ''[[Concerned]]'' made fun of this trope as it applies to the game ''[[Half Life]] 2''.
* Parodied in [[Gold Coin Comics]], when [http://www.goldcoincomics.com/?id=56 Lance encounters a log in the road].
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* Referenced in [[The Best Page in The Universe|Maddox's]] [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=signs review of] ''[[Signs]]'':
{{quote|''"I have hind legs powerful enough to jump up 10 feet onto roof tops, the technology to conquer the non-trivial challenge of intergalactic space travel, but I'll be DAMNED if I can kick down this wooden door."''}}
* ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'' Photoplasty advertises two variants in "Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games": [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games/#23 #23] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20141202191626/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p2/#16 #16].
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