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== Anime/Manga ==
* Fairly early in the ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' manga, Ako tells an aged up version of Negi that she envies Negi because she feels like she's just a supporting character and he's the main character. She is, of course, absolutely right. Negi counters that even if she's a minor character in someone else's story, she's still the main character of her own. As she was the main character of [[A Day in The Limelight|that particular mini-arc]], he was right, too.
** In an especially tongue-in-cheek moment, Natsumi refers to herself as a side character right before making a casual observation that turns the chapter (#257) into a [[Wham! Episode]].
** It also has a more [[Fourth Wall|fourth-wall]]-[[Buffy-Speak|breaky]] one when Negi sees {{spoiler|what his father was like}}: he exclaims, "It's like he's a character from a totally different manga!"
*** Asuna says something similar when Kotaro first breaks out his demon form. Also a [[Lampshade Hanging]], as said demon form is a [[Homage]] to [[Inuyasha]].
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'''Paige:''' Okay, so there's a TINY chance that you didn't like it. }}
* ''[[Y the Last Man]]'': When Agent 355 asks Yorick why he has "Fuck Communism" engraved on his lighter, he explains it's truly from a [[Preacher (Comic Book)|comic]]. "They can say 'fuck' in comic books?"
* There's a truly hilarious scene in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' in which the title character lampshades many of the common trends in his life and how difficult it makes things for him. It fits the character since he just broke up with MJ due to [[
{{quote| "What else was I supposed to do? [[
* In one ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' album, Rantanplan (after having eaten [[Extreme Omnivore|a piece of soap]]) wonders whether he's the only one making [[Speech Bubbles|bubbles]].
* Done in ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'' when Woody reads the "Dark Kitty" comic book, an [[Expy]] of [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Black Panther]] (also written by Christopher Priest at the time). Woody [[Who Writes This Crap?|badmouths the book]] [[Self-Deprecation|with criticisms that are entirely applicable]] to ''[[Quantum and Woody]]''...
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== Fan Works ==
* 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
* In ''[[Oh God Not Again (Fanfic)|Oh God Not Again]]'', when presented with a headline reading "Harry Potter and the Pentawizard Playoffs", Harry muses that it sounds like [[Character Name and The Noun Phrase|the title of a book]]...
* In the ''[[Bleach]]'' fic ''[[Hogyoku Ex Machina (Fanfic)|Hogyoku Ex Machina]]'', Orihime comments on Ichigo's adventures with "We could serialize them, maybe! [[Shonen Jump]] would take the manga!"
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* [[Jane Austen]]'s first novel ''[[Northanger Abbey (Literature)|Northanger Abbey]]'' is full of this, thanks to the main trio being [[Bookworm|Bookworms]].
* in [[Robert Jordan]]'s ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' series, Thom Merrilin often says that one day people will read about their adventures in books. and that there is no way of knowing who the main character will be.
* The ''[[
** On p229 (of 280) in the deeply [[Mind Screw]]-y ''The Infinity Doctors'', the Doctor, confronted with a book of infinite pages, says:
{{quote| "The best thing about a book is that you can always tell when you're getting to the end. No matter how tricky the situation the hero's in, you hold the book in your hand and say 'Hang on, I'm two hundred and twenty-nine pages in, with only another fifty-one to go. It started slow, but it's building to a climax.'"}}
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** Yet another episode combined this with [[Take That]] when J.D. discusses [[Greys Anatomy]]. "It's like they saw our lives and put it on TV."
** On the episode "My ABCs" where ''[[Sesame Street]]'' characters appeared in the fantasy segments, Oscar the Grouch was appointed as the new chief of medicine and tells J.D. that he'll be watching him, and that "his eyes never close". Of course, seeing as he's a [[Muppet]] with immovable eyes...
* ''[[
** In the fifth season of the new series, the Eleventh Doctor quietly laments: "We're all stories, in the end."
*** This is the same season where the most significant date in the universe turns out to be the 26th of June 2010, because that's the date of Amy's wedding (and the date of the season finale).
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* When [[Stephen Colbert]] [[Intoxication Ensues|accidentally dropped acid]], the ensuing existential crisis could be taken two ways -- either the character worrying about his insecurities and whether he's lying to himself, or the character briefly [[Tomato in The Mirror|realizing that he ''is'' just a character.]] This was mostly to clue in new viewers to the [[Alter Ego Acting]] thing, since the show had just gone global.
{{quote| "Where does this Stephen end and that Stephen begin?"}}
* ''[[
** The [[Arc Words]] "All of this has happened before, and will happen again" seem awfully appropriate for a remake.
* In the second episode of the fifth season of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Lorne says this about [[Love Triangle|Angel and Spike's mutual love for Buffy]]:
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** In the comics, Xander refers to "every month, every Wednesday".
** "Normal Again" has numerous examples of this, as Buffy is hallucinating she's in a mental institution and her reality is actually a fiction.
** Another example from the comics season 8: when the [http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight talking dog] is trying to recruit him and tells him that he's been chosen for the plan, Angel says he is "definitely twitchy about [
* In Season 1 of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', the Barney is telling Ted that the Universe doesn't care about Ted's love life. Marshall interjects jokingly, "Unless Ted's love life is the glue binding the entire Universe together!" Everyone laughs, of course. If only they knew...
** Ted's daughter complains in the season 2 premiere that it feels like he's been talking for a whole year.
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** Possible example in the making: when Shawn's girlfriend told him she was {{spoiler|going to Uganda}}, she told him she'd be back briefly on February 24. What do you bet that's the date of the next episode she appears in?
*** Nope, it was a [[Red Herring]].
* In the first season of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', Hiro and Ando make a ''lot'' of jokes about ''[[Star Trek]]''. All of them seem to be leaning pretty heavily on the [[Fourth Wall]] when [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Mr. Sulu]] shows up as Hiro's father.
** Not to mention [[Star Trek (Film)|Spock]] being Sylar and President Whorfbama.
* Abed on ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' leans on the [[Fourth Wall]] quite a bit, even warning others in the conversation about upcoming "spoilers". The entire cast is pretty [[Genre Savvy]], but stop just short of [[Medium Awareness]], so they're all prone to it.
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* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', Steven makes a remark along the lines of, "Have we met...before? That's not possible. All the Trainers I have battled seem to have the same look, anyway. Especially the ones who gave me tough battles..." referring to the main character of this or really any Pokémon game.
** In the post-game portions of ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', {{spoiler|Cynthia}} explicitly compares the hero/ine's determined expression to that of the hero/ine of ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokemon Platinum]]''.
* In ''[[Drawn to Life]]'', at one point, Marie asks Jowie how the Creator can see the Raposa; Jowie comes up with a theory that involves the Raposa living in [[Nintendo DS|a white box with two windows and a magic wand, and the Creator looking into the white box to perform experiments on them]]. Marie dismisses it as the [[Stupidest Thing
* This was done in ''[[Kane and Lynch]]: Dead Men'' while they were riding in an elevator. Kane [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|dismisses the idea that anyone would play a game based on two washed up thugs like themselves]].
* In ''[[War Craft]] III: The Frozen Throne'', during the briefing before the final mission, Arthas exclaims something along the lines of: "It's time to end the game ... once and for all."
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** Have ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' as an [[Old Save Bonus]] and you get a cutscene of Heather attempting to retrieve something from a toilet, before deciding it's too gross.
{{quote| (While looking directly at the camera) Who can even ''think'' about doing something so disgusting?}}
** At the end of the credits for [[Silent Hill Shattered Memories]], Kaufman's analysis notes on the patient are directly referring to what he's deduced about ''you'' during the therapy sessions. Not the first game that's done this, until he ends the notes with "Lots of ground uncovered. Might be best to go back to the start and reexamine everything with the knowledge we have now. [[Macrogame|Think patient]] [[New Game
* In ''[[Scratches]]'', Arthate's working notes contain his musings over whether the threat in his latest horror novel should turn out to be natural, supernatural, or [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]. {{spoiler|This corresponds to the original ending of the game itself, and to each of the multiple endings of the Director's Cut version.}}
* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' occasionally breaks the fourth wall, but more often makes passing comments in throwaway puns that give translators headaches that lean pretty heavily on the fourth wall. A good example is Marisa's comment in ''Imperishable Night'' where, when asked what she was doing out at night early on in the game, Marisa replies, "It's my annual [[Youkai]] Extermination Month. I'll go wherever youkai live." - ''Imperishable Night'' and the other Windows ''Touhou'' games before it were all released in the same month of consecutive years. It's worth noting that even though the game came out in the same month in real life, the games take place during different seasons in-game (with the seasons being important basic elements to several of those games, like ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' being about someone stealing the season of Spring, keeping Winter from passing), meaning the joke only makes sense when it is referencing the fourth wall.
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** The 201st episode had the boys saying that it was silly people would care more about knowing who Cartman's father is than showing Muhammad. He is in fact referring to the show's fanbase.
* In the [[Ultimate Spider Man]] TV show, when [[Stan Lee]]'s resident [[Author Avatar]] for the show hears Spidey's comment on how catchy ''Amazing Spider-Man'' (the original title for the comics in their earliest incarnation) sounds, he promptly writes it down, saying that it could be big. Then Spidey says that it would be less than [[The Spectacular Spider Man (Animation)|spectacular.]]
* In ''[[The Boondocks]],'' Bushido Brown tells Huey, "Man, you come straight out of a comic strip." (A [[Shout
* ''[[Futurama]]'' pushes this as far as it can go in ''Bender's Big Score'' with the Fox...er, [[Fictional Counterpart|"Box Network"]]. After being told that ''Futur--''... Planet Express has been uncancelled, Leela stands in front of a pile of ventilation machines and asks "but what does this mean for our many fans?".
** "It means we're back on the air! ... Yes! Flying on the air in our mighty spaceship!"
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** How about this exchange between Squidward and Patrick:
{{quote| '''Squidward:''' Patrick, just how dumb are you?<br />
'''Patrick:''' [[Ping
** And in "Not Normal", when Spongebob visits Squidward's house, he tells Squidward that he doesn't wear pants.
** In one episode, Spongebob hums a snatch of one of the show's stock [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|background tunes]].
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