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Tropes related to this include [[Writer on Board]], [[Executive Meddling]] may be invoked to imply that the "true" story was changed. Compare and contrast [[I Should Write a Book About This]]. Compare [[Unreliable Narrator]] or [[Fictional Document]]. See also [[Daydream Believer]], which is what you get whenever a fan takes the hypothesis too seriously, or [[Rashomon Style]] when the characters in the story themselves are used to recount it.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The DVD commentary of ''Walk Hard'' is done in this vein, with famous rock and roll stars talking about their experiences with Dewey Cox.
* [[Peter Jackson]] invoked this for the production team of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'', saying something along the lines of "I don't want you to think of this as a fantasy movie. I want you to imagine it's a historical war movie, and we've been lucky enough to be able to shoot in the actual locations where these events took place." The resulting attention to detail has a similar effect on the film's believability to the immense [[Backstory]] on which the book was based.
* The [[DVD Commentary]] for ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]'' takes this stand about the film, with screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch taking on the role of one of Buckaroo's men and pointing out where the movie differs from "the way it actually happened". Similarly, the film's novelization describes itself as a novelization of actual events (and the latest volume in a long series of similar books about Buckaroo).
== Literature ==
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** But note that Dr. Watson himself claims this to be the case—and who are you going to believe: a real-life doctor and veteran of The War in Afghanistan (three thousand years and counting!), or some obscure literary agent?
* Likewise it's been suggested several times that [[Nero Wolfe]] was a real person and Archie Goodwin was making cash on the side by selling their case records to Rex Stout (and the reason why [[Always Murder|Wolfe only seems to solve murders]] is because they sell better than plain old theft or corruption). This is especially appropriate since Wolfe was allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes and has been accused of being related to him in some way (either his actual son by Irene Adler or as his nephew by his brother Mycroft, who Wolfe greatly resembles).
* George MacDonald Fraser's ''[[Flashman]]'' series blurs a number of lines. The title character is lifted from a Victorian novel (along with at least two supporting characters), and occasional supporting characters are lifted from other works of fiction (notably Colonel Sebastian Jack Moran and [[Sherlock Holmes]] himself), but most characters are from actual recorded history (minor characters are often invented by Fraser). Despite Flashman's life story being preposterous, the conceit worked well enough that (according to a 1969 article in [[Time (magazine)
* While the books themselves do not invoke [[Direct Line to the Author]], Garth Nix [http://www.scholastic.com/titles/seventhtower/qa.htm has said] regarding ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'', "Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it."
* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' features what would seem to be a mistake when the narrator talks about "the events of two years ago" when he's meant to be relating the story of only one year ago. However, some hypothesize that the extra year was deliberately written in to give the impression that the character spent that time writing and publishing the book.
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* ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'' posits the story as Darren's diary. At the end of the series, {{spoiler|when Darren returns as a Little Person he goes back in time and scares the younger him away from seeing Steve reveal that Mr. Crepsley is a vampire, allowing for them to avoid becoming involved in the war and letting others take their place in this timeline. He then gives Mr. Tall the diary and asks him to change the names and publish it as a fictional book so the world will know what really happened.}}
* Alan Dean Foster's novel ''Quozl'', has one of the characters meet the titular aliens, while a teenager. Her brother later finds himself watching a Quozl cartoon, and confronts her. She admits having stolen the ideas, but notes that it paves the way for the Quozl to come to be a part of earth. It works.
* [[C. S.
* Played with in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s short story "Waterspider". The protagonists decide to fix a technological problem of their era by time-travelling into the past, the golden age of precognatives, and consulting with the precog whose paper "Night Flight" foresaw their very predicament: [[Poul Anderson]]. The reader eventually realizes that the "precog society meeting" is actually a [[Science Fiction]] convention—it turns out that all the major SF authors were precogs without realizing it, and were accurately predicting the future in their writings.
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg, Biff in the frame story is selling copies of ''Who Cut the Cheese?'' out of his car.
* The ''[[Amelia Peabody]]'' books by Elizabeth Peters are explicitly framed as being extracted from the journals Amelia kept during her many adventures and prepared for publication by Peters as editor. Amusingly, it's also clear that Amelia intended for them to be published, and there is considerable "evidence" that she went back over them and "cleaned them up" after the fact, mostly to make herself look better.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== Music ==
* [http://www.xocmusic.com/ XOC], who covers videogame music, invented [https://web.archive.org/web/20130507084925/http://www.xocmusic.com/vgtmtg/ Videogame: The Movie: The Game], including a full background involving a really bad movie, as an excuse to write chiptunes for such levels as [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|"Crystal Frozen Cold Chilly Ice World"]] and [[First Town|"Hometownton USA"]]. Which he then covered.
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** Several scenes throughout the series note that soldiers are increasingly being trained to fight in Virtual Reality without any real battlefield experience. MGS2's [[Mind Screw]] finale explicitly associates the non-canon game ''Metal Gear: Ghost Babel'' with this practice, implying that it exists within the MGS world as a VR scenario.
*** This is also another explanation for ''The Twin Snakes;'' it's not a movie adaptation of ''In the Darkness of Shadow Moses,'' it's the VR training of the Shadow Moses incident Raiden mentions having gone through during his training before ''Sons of Liberty.''
* ''[[Splinter Cell]]'': An "interview" on the first game's disk and [
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' plays with this trope a bit, at times feeling like a real story that
* ''[[Touhou]]'' fandom often postulate the idea (jokingly or not) that ZUN acquires all the necessary information to make the games and [[All There in the Manual|supplementary material]] from [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/267420/ conversations with his drinking buddy], [[Reality Warper|Yukari]]. Any contradictions are therefore Yukari being deliberately misleading or ZUN forgetting a detail.
** The various official ''[[Touhou]]'' fanbooks are in-universe documents, complete with bias, apocryphal information and outright speculation. ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bohemian_Archive_in_Japanese_Red Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]'' was written by [[Intrepid Reporter|Aya]] for her newspaper, ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento_in_Strict_Sense Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]'' is the latest edition of the Gensoukyou Chronicle as written by [[Photographic Memory|Hieda no Akyu]], and the ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/The_Grimoire_of_Marisa The Grimoire of Marisa]'' is a spellcard encyclopedia [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|written by Marisa]].
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* Based on the opening and ending videos, it's implied that entirety of ''[[Mechwarrior]] 4: Mercenaries'' is a story or series of stories told by an older Spectre some time after the Word of Blake Jihad.
* [[Dragon Age II]] is told by Varric to Cassandra when she comes to him looking for the Champion sometime after the events of the game. How much of an [[Unreliable Narrator]] he is has yet to be determined, although he does admit to blatantly making things up, such as the beginning of the game and {{spoiler|the first telling of their raid on Bartrand's house.}} Cassandra calls him out on it.
== Visual Novels ==
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** Humorously enough, there is ''some'' truth to this. The Foglios work/worked as professors at the real-life TPU (Teikyo Post University, later renamed Teikyo University).
* ''[[Sailor Sun]]'' is a webcomic ostensibly about the "real lives" of the actors and actresses who portray web comic and fan fiction characters. [[Recursive Canon]] abounds, since the actors all seem to be playing themselves.
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