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== [[Film]] ==
* In the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movies, Dr. Evil's son, Scott, is the Meta Guy. He's [[Trope Namer|the source]] of the trope name [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]?
* In ''[[Top Secret (film)|Top Secret]]'' there wasn't a character consistently the Meta Guy—which was exceedingly odd giving some of the surrealistic jokes (such as Nick and his girlfriend making out while parachuting and the camera panning to...a parachuting fireplace, which itself is [[Running Gag|a callback to an earlier gag]] where the camera pans away to a fireplace, and then has to pan away ''again'' to a ''second'' fireplace because Nick and his girlfriend roll back into frame). However, at one point Nick [[Expospeak|sarcastically summarizes his girlfriend's life as he knows it as being a little too weird even for a one-man pastiche of Elvis, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys]]. This leads into a [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall gag]].
* In the ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' movies, Randy was a horror movie buff pointing out various horror movie tropes, including going over the rules for surviving a horror movie -- [[Death by Sex|never have sex]], [[The Scourge of God|never drink or use drugs]], and [[Tempting Fate|never say "I'll be right back."]] Naturally, [[Too Dumb to Live|the characters break all three in record time]]. He expands the rules to sequels and trilogies in the second and third films. Given the 4th film is an assassin "remaking" the original, two [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]s to Randy deliver the rules of remakes/reboots. {{spoiler|One of them is part of the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]].}}
* Riley in ''[[National Treasure]]''.
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