Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in the fanmovie ''[[Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy|Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy]]''. Pierre teases Snake by saying that he's so cool he'd "make a good video game character, no shit - [[Completely Missing the Point|a Nintendo platformer, I'd say!]]"

* The ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''A Different Lesson'' has a brilliant send-up of this trope via a bookseller the heroes visit, where a scroll is for sale which tells the story of the movie. Thanks to [[Gossip Evolution]], willful misinterpretation, and a certain amount of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to [[Fanon]], Po is turned into a [[Fake Ultimate Hero]] who took out Tai Lung all by himself while the Furious Five did next to nothing (the fight at the bridge becomes a "footnote"); Viper [[Flanderization|only cares about makeup and pretty clothes]], [[Mandatory Line|Monkey is mute]], while Shifu's [[Cynical Mentor]] and [[Jerkass]] tendencies are [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]; the filmmakers' ploy with making Tai Lung ''appear'' to be a mindless beast before [[The Reveal]] of Ian McShane's voice is also referenced by making the snow leopard a drooling savage with [[Hulk Speak]], and...[[Viewer Gender Confusion|Tigress is a man]].

* In the ''[[Bleach]]'' fic ''[[Hogyoku Ex Machina]]'', Orihime comments on Ichigo's adventures with "We could serialize them, maybe! [[Shonen Jump]] would take the manga!"

* Another ''[[Bleach]]'' fic, ''[[Winter War]]'', has one character musing that "sometimes the princess had to save the dragon, and sometimes she had to save the prince as well, and sometimes the princess and the dragon and the knight all teamed up together and [[Take That|went to argue with the person who’d written the story and complain about how they never got anything interesting and new to do.]]" Of course, it's also from [[Cloudcuckoolander|Orihime's POV.]]

 

== Video Games ==

** "I'm a whole different game from Liquid!" yells Solidus. Later, immediately after the penultimate boss battle, he warns the player that there's going to be a lot of cutscenes coming up by promising Raiden, "No more games".

** Arguably, the entire point of the game was to lean on the [[Fourth Wall]]. Raiden, like the player, wants to [[I Wanna Be the Guy|be the guy]], Snake, despite never having met him, although he has "simulated" his other missions. When the opportunity comes to prove himself, {{spoiler|however, he constantly fails. Unlike Snake, he wants to go home instead of feeling at home on the battlefield. At the end, none of the bosses (with the possible exception of Fatman) are actually confirmed dead.}} Raiden is essentially a [[Deconstruction]] of a generic video game character, with the [[This Loser Is You|player]] sharing his role of [[Butt Monkey]]. For more information, read [http://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM_TOC.htm this].

** "We've gotta shake off that MGS! We've got an MGS on our asses!"

* ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Anniversary'', a remake of the original game, begins with Lara being hired to find an artifact she previously spent years searching for. Or as Natla puts it, "This is a game you've played before".