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You know the [[Animated Actors]] conceit, that your favourite cartoon characters have a life beyond the flickering cels? The
In a
Not to be confused with [[Meta Fiction]] or [[Recursive Fanfiction]].
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* Frequently seen in the sillier or more surreal ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'' fanfic of the late 1990s, especially those written as part of, or in the orbit of, the fanfic cycle known as "[http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/superhighway/Bet/bet.html The Bet]", where the characters were portrayed as being "hired" by fanfic writers to recreate the roles they created for Rumiko Takahashi, and were sometimes ''very'' different when "off-camera".
** Neither silly nor surreal, Deborah Goldsmith's excellent ''Ranma'' fanfic ''[http://homepage.mac.com/dgoldsmith/gd/daughter.html Genma's Daughter]'' inspired its author to play with the same idea in her ''[http://homepage.mac.com/dgoldsmith/gd/gdouttakes.html Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor].''
** Metroanime's ''[http://www.asynjor.com/fanfic/sharp.html Second Labor: Reluctant Bet]'' includes numerous scenes of several of the ''Ranma 1/2'' characters having the opportunity to watch videotapes of ''other'' universes' versions of the ''Ranma''
** Angus MacSpon's ''[http://shell.ihug.co.nz/%7Emacspon/fanfic/ The Replacement Ranmas]'' goes for ''very'' silly, as the cast of ''Ranma 1/2'' is missing on the first day of shooting for a new fic, and the "director" must scramble to replace them with characters from ''other'' anime series...
* Eyrie Productions Unlimited's ''[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/NXE/ Neon Exodus Evangelion]'' has "outtakes" and "Making of" sequences at the ends of some of its chapters. These feature, among other things, a very chirpy Rei Ayanami, and an interview with Sir Alistair Warden-Penn, the [[Classically-Trained Extra|classically-trained Shakespearean penguin]] who portrays Pen-pen.
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== [[Comic Book]] ==
* ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]'' has the characters referencing their own movies and writers, even after the series takes a more serious turn.
* It's apparently quite common for [[The Joker|Joker]] [[Batman|Fans]] to have the Joker starring in a
== Fan Fiction ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Played straight and very dark by [[Stephen King]] in the ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series. Roland and his ka-tet find themselves in a world that's realer than theirs, where time never runs backward, and which is critical to saving the
* The ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels have something like this (in-story) called the Bookworld. It's fiction, viewed from the inside. The one caveat is that when characters die or are changed outside of their narratives, it's permanent. For example, all the main characters of ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' are forced to attend group counseling meetings, including the ones that die in the course of the story. Yet one character is assigned a protection detail, because of all the people trying to kill him outside of the story, and if he died, the main narrative would fall apart.
* Clell65619's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4070610/8/Thrilling_Tales_of_the_Downright_Unusual Harry Potter and the Read Through]'' mixes this and [[Animated Actors]], as the cast of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' novels critique the new fanfic script they've just been handed.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfiction ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'', while ostensibly self-contained, mercilessly skewers the dark side of every aspect of fanfiction, including High School [[Alternate Universe]], [[Yaoi]] fanfiction, the [[Flanderization]] of all the "hot" characters (Xaldin, Vexen, and Lexaeus are the heroes of this fic because they are unaffected by [[The Virus]] that turns their comrades into shadows of their former selves), poorly done crossovers, [[Crack Fic|random]] and [[Wangst]] fanfiction, and [[Mary Sue
* ''How to Write a Sprite Comic in 8 Easy Bits'' takes all the old Nintendo game characters that nobody ever writes into web comics and casts them as out of work actors that happen to live in the same general area as the comic's author. Included in this nonsense are the blocks from ''[[Tetris]]'', Prince Myer from ''Deadly Towers'', and that chick from ''The Guardian Legend''.
* [[BOTVGH]]
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