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When characters breach internal fourth walls to go on adventures in books, films and so on. Generally they travel into one or more books or films to become part of the plot, or, at least, to observe the plot first hand. This often forms part of an allegory or metaphor for escapism, the idea that the imagination allows a reader to 'enter' a work and subconsciously cast themselves as an observer or a main character. This is one reason why the lead characters of books are often [[Audience Surrogate|very vaguely or loosely described]], allowing the reader to assume their identity as a form of role-play.
Compare and contrast [[Trapped in TV Land]]. See also [["Reading Is Cool" Aesop]]. Not to be confused with [[From Beyond the Fourth Wall]], when the fourth wall is the one between us and them.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', starring [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. A young boy gets sucked into the latest instalment of a fictional action movie franchise using a magic ticket and try to stop the villain of the movie from using the ticket to wreak havoc in the real world.
* ''[[The Neverending Story (
* In ''[[The Pagemaster]]'' Richard travels through a mash-up storybook world based around tightly and neatly divided Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror, genres and is, essentially, travelling from one book to another trying to find his way out.
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* [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next]]'' books are the trope namer and codifier here. Thursday finds out that fiction has a 'behind the scenes' and that all books are intrinsically linked, with characters actors in the work. Thursday goes on to travel from book world to book world. Incidentally, Fictioneer is a derogatory term meaning a writer of large amounts of tatty pulp fiction.
* ''[[Only You Can Save Mankind]]'', Johnny and other characters travel into the titular computer game and rebuild large parts of it with their imaginations. Their actions alter the game in real time and actually {{spoiler|affect sales}}.
* ''[[The Neverending Story (
* ''[[Harold Shea]]''.
* ''[[
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== Web Original ==
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* [[Gumby]]'s theme song points out that "he can walk into any book," and he does so frequently.
* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]: Channel Chasers'', this happens to Timmy, also the episode "Shelf Life" has Timmy chasing [[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|Tom Sawyer]] through different books after he stole Cosmo's wand.
* The ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[
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