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{{trope}}
Jumping between [[Alternate Universe|worlds]] is nothing new in [[Speculative Fiction]]. Each week, the characters may face [[Evil Twin|evil versions]] of themselves, worlds where the [[Big Bad]] [[Villain World|has]] [[The Bad Guy Wins|won]], and even worlds in which [[Villain Protagonist|they themselves are the villains]]. However, no amount of dimension hopping can prepare them for the subject of this
In short, this trope is when fictional characters cross over into (a representation of) [[Real Life]]. At some point, they often meet their author. If they wander into a fan convention, they will be told [[Your Costume Needs Work]].
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Sounds like [[This Is Reality]], but it's very different.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Ed and Hohenheim towards the end of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''; they never meet Hiromu Arakawa, but [[Word of God|she has confirmed]] that {{spoiler|they really did end up in our London, and [[World War
** This turns into the entire plot for [[The Movie]], ''Conqueror of Shamballa''. They end up in [[Weimar Germany]] in that
* ''[[Sonic X]]'' would probably count. At the very beginning of the series, Sonic, Robotnik and a whole menagerie of characters from their world are pulled into the explosion of Chaos Control (in the English dub) and end up in what is, for all intents and purposes, the real world. It gets progressively less "real" as the show goes on, however (for example, it turns out that the city Sonic and most of friends emerged in was Station Square from the ''[[Sonic Adventure Series]]'', and later episodes had the two worlds merge in order to adapt both ''Sonic Adventure'' and ''Sonic Adventure 2'').
* Played fairly straight in most ''[[Digimon]]''
== Comic Books ==
* The whole premise of ''[[Fables]]'', in which [[Public Domain Character
* [[The DCU]], prior to ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', had Earth Prime, a world that is in fact ''our'' world, with no superpowers or anything. [[Superman]] and The [[Flash]] occasionally ended up here. Earth Prime got its own version of Superboy shortly before being destroyed in the Crisis.
** Recently, {{spoiler|Earth Prime was recreated, and the aforementioned Superboy wound up being dumped there after he [[Never the Selves Shall Meet|punched himself.]] He seemingly lost his powers and did nothing there other than [[Meta Fiction|reading the very issues you were reading]], [[
** He's stuck as a [[Basement Dweller]] because people read about [[Complete Monster|what kind of a person he was]] while trapped in the DC Universe.
* An early issue of [[Grant Morrison]]'s deservedly famous run on ''[[Animal Man]]'' builds to a climax in which the title character (a.k.a. Buddy Baker) freaks out because he can see the reader(s). At the conclusion of a long [[Mind Screw]] [[Story Arc]] (which involves one of the few characters who can remember ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', as well as the [[Silver Age]] version of DC continuity), Buddy has a long metaphysical conversation with Grant Morrison in person, who says that, at this point, he can't think of anything else to do with the comic than hand it over to somebody else.
** It is heavily implied that the last issue of Morrison's run on ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' also takes place in the same world as his last Animal Man issue, i.e. the real world. Aside from the fact that the world seen in the Doom Patrol issue apparently has no superheroes, it also shares the same colour scheme with the final issue of Animal Man. And if we take into consideration Morrison's later DC comics, it seems the final issues of Doom Patrol and Animal Man both take place {{spoiler|inside the infant universe Qwewq, which is revealed to be our universe}} in [[All Star DC Comics|All Star Superman]]. This also means that {{spoiler|the final fate of our universe is to get speared by Frankenstein}} in Morrison's [[Seven Soldiers]]!
* A borderline example would be a [[Crossover]] comic, where the characters from ''[[The Simpsons (Comic Book)|The Simpsons]]'' end up in the world of ''[[
* The comics of Marc-Anthonie Mathieu explore the (two-dimensional, black-and-white) protagonists occasionally becoming aware of such things as "three-dimensionality" or "four-colour offset". These are implied to be dreams of the protagonists.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' had a story entitled "TV Action!", where the Eighth Doctor and Izzy travelled to our reality. [[The Mad Hatter|Tom Baker]], who had played the Fourth Doctor, defeats that month's alien by merely ''[[Talking the Monster to Death|talking]]'' to him and rambling endlessly.
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* Flirted with in ''[[The Sandman]]''. Dream's normal home is, of course, the Dreaming, but he can visit the waking world (the "real" world) whenever he wants. The last book in the series is titled "The Wake" and it's narrated in the [[Second Person Narration|second person]], implying you (the reader) are watching current events.
== Fan
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070127074626/http://rec.horus.at/trek/fun/Weird.Planet.txt Visit to a Weird Planet]'' had Kirk, Spock, and McCoy accidentally being beamed onto the set of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. A sequel had the actors beamed onto the real Enterprise. Indeed, this is a common plot for fanfiction.
* Notably used in a ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' [http://www.kristensheley.com/bttf/interactiveII.html fanfic], where accidental interaction with the creators and actors changes them to earlier drafts. Interference with Michael J. Fox's audition causes Marty's appearance to change to that of [[The Other Marty|Eric Stoltz]], flying past Bob Gale causes the DeLorean [[Time Machine]] to revert to a refrigerator, and tearing off a page establishing the [[MacGuffin|almanac]] from the sequel's screenplay wipes out all the events stemming from Marty buying it in 2015.
* The [http://shifti.org/wiki/Xanadu_(setting) Xanadu storyverse], in which at a fairly large convention called "[[Title Drop|Xanadu]]" all of the [[Becoming the Costume|costumes become real]]. While most stories focus on weirdness and some on [[Furry Fandom|furries]], naturally a number of cosplayers were featured, with varying levels of mental change, from "Whoa, suddenly my costume is perfect!" to "Where is this place? Where did my [[True Companions]] go?" Two stories have [[Refugee From TV Land|characters and such from fictional fiction]]; [http://shifti.org/wiki/Slinx Slinx], a [[Pokémon]] [[Expy]], and [http://shifti.org/wiki/The_Perils_of_Voice_Acting The Perils Of Voice Acting], a pastiche of He-Man, She-Ra, and other cartoons from that period.
* Way back in 2002, someone wrote a story called the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130917203449/http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=339 Fanfic Lounge.] It took place in a lounge made for fictional characters so they could relax between fanfics. While I'm not sure how many spin offs were made, this one was about the [[The Lord of the Rings]] cast, along with Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom, being gathered in the lounge in order to find a solution to the problems plaguing LOTR fanfiction. IIRC, this is where the LOTR cast discovers their fictional status, and Orlando Bloom and Elijah Wood are just as weirded out at meeting their fictional counterparts. The story featured the culture shock scenario for the LOTR cast was, and contained such gems as: {{spoiler|Boromir trying to open a can of Mountain Dew with a dagger, the cast becoming confused at references to future events in the books/movies (the cast was taken some time before the splitting of the Fellowship), and perhaps the best part, the cast being informed of the existence of Yaoi slash fiction, and being informed of who is frequently paired with who.}} The two [[Real Life]] actors also experience their own variant, when {{spoiler|Elijah Wood is nearly torn apart when he accidentally walks into a room used to hold [[Mary Sue
* Appears in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4413991/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Soul_of_the_Hero Harry Potter and the Soul of the Hero], where the author and Harry have a conversation for the sake of heroic [[Deus Ex Machina]].
* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NwdIJMALxxi6egHz832IuNIHy1J7JAqulJFoGeLM5tY/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 My Little Dashie]. An [[Inversion]] of the fandom's usual [[Self-Insert Fic|Self Insert Fics]], the story involves Rainbow Dash arriving into the real world (as a filly), and becoming essentially the narrator's adopted daughter. [[Better Than It Sounds]], apparently.
* The ''[[Emergence]]'' series starts off with the lead cast of ''[[RWBY]]'' finding themselves in the real world, which has substantial consequences. Among other things, they even find out that [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|they're the stars of the titular series]].
* The [[Mega Crossover]] [[Shared World]] project ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' is what happens when hundreds of works simultaneously get Real World Episodes -- all in the same Real World.
== Film ==
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* And the Woody Allen movie ''[[The Purple Rose of Cairo]]''.
* ''[[Enchanted]]'' as well, also doubling as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the Disney Princess films.
* An early (and fortunately rejected) [https://web.archive.org/web/20081229070626/http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/wtchmn.txt Sam Hamm script] for a film version of ''[[Watchmen]]'' written in 1989, ended with Dan, Laurie and Rorschach inadvertently finding themselves in real-life New York City, where a young kid recognizes them as characters from the comic book. Of course, in the ''real'' 1989, children [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|generally didn't read]] ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* Inverted and lampshaded in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', wherein the cast of the titular [[Show Within a Show]] is transported to the spaceship of a race of aliens who believe the show is real and have based all their technology off of it. Naturally, they expect the hapless actors to save them from a genuine alien threat.
* The Arnold Schwarzenegger film ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' is chock-full of both [[Refugee From TV Land]] and [[This Is Reality]].
* The movie ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' uses this trope straight, but turns the [[Antagonist]] into the one doing the world-
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'s Apocalypse''.
* This also occurs at the end of the short film ''[[The Gamers]]''.
* The premise for the movie ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]''. The main character, Harold, is a real person and hears a narrator narrating his life.
* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] for ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]'' have the titular creatures finding the spell needed to go home in a ''Smurfs'' comic book which depicts them more as historical legends than just fictional creations.
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** Then in ''The Science of Discworld'' spin-off, the wizards at Unseen University manage to create a planet called Roundworld, a world free from magic and [[Theory of Narrative Causality|narrativium]]; it is, of course, Earth. In the second and third ''SoD'' books, the wizards discover that [[The Fair Folk|the elves]] and the Auditors respectively have interfered with human history, requiring them to set things right by influencing the writing of ''A Midsummer's Night's Dream'' and ''The Origin of Species''.
** The early [[Terry Pratchett]] short story "Final Reward" has a barbarian hero, following his death, arriving in the hall of his "creator"; that is, the fantasy writer who invented him.
** The fan film ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131121055139/http://www.snowgumfilms.com/runrincewindrun/ Run Rincewind Run!]'' - created for the opening of Nullus Anxietas (the 2007 Australian Discworld convention) - features Rincewind being hit by a spell that sends him to "meet his maker." (Which he does, at the convention.)
*** For a fan film, they should have done more research. Rincewind ''never'' looks behind him while running (it slows you down).
* The end of the novel ''[[Sophie's World]]'' involves the characters realizing that they are characters in a book and deciding to escape to the real world. {{spoiler|which is still within the book and therefore not ''our'' real world.}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Marshall in an episode of ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]'', in which everyone starts calling him Omri Katz, the name of his actor.
* An episode of ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'' had Amanda Bentley, played by Victoria Rowell, win a trip to the set of ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'', in which Victoria Rowell also starred. Other regular characters from within the show and real actors from ''The Young and the Restless'' playing themselves, plus actors playing fictional ''The Young and the Restless'' crew, commented on [[Actor Allusion|how much Amanda Bentley looked like Victoria Rowell]].
* The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Far Beyond the Stars", where Sisko wakes up as a [[Science Fiction]] writer in the 1950's, and Deep Space Nine is just a story he's been writing. Of course no one wants to read a story where a black man commands a space station...
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* The "[[Game Over]]" scene of the Sega Genesis game ''[[Comix Zone]]'' shows a comic book villain, having successfully traded places with his author, go on to do comic book villainy in the real world. (The game itself follows the adventures of the author, who is [[Trapped in TV Land]] and has to be the comic book hero.)
* Late in ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'', {{spoiler|the protagonists discover that the creators of their world are going to destroy it, so they go up a level in reality to 4D space, and find out their world is a video game, and their creators are the company that developed it. Inverted in that the world where this game company exists isn't the world of our Earth- the game world is.}}
* In Morrigan's ending in ''[[
* In ''[[Drakengard]]'s'' fifth ending, Caim and Angelus follow the Queen Grotesquerie to Japan 2004, and end up causing a [[Apocalypse How|Class 3-4 cataclysm]] that is followed by ''[[
* Used in rather bizarre fashion in the good ending to ''[[Chrono Cross]]'': after discussing the fact that the Chronoverse consists of infinite parallel realities, {{spoiler|Schala (or some alternate-dimension variant of her) is seen wandering the streets of a real-world city in her search for the amnesiac Serge - the implication being that our world is one more of the infinite potential realities, and that the player himself might be an alternate-world version of Serge}}.
* This is where ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 3'' and ''[[Space Quest]] 3'' ends.
== Webcomics ==
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== Web Original ==
* [[PPC
== Western Animation ==
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** Speaking of Marvel, the title Earth-1218 was recently used to designate ''our'' world.
* In ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode 'Twitching Channels', Megavolt invents a device that allows him to travel through electrical wires, appliances, and broadcast signals. He proceeds to use television sets as warp gates to enable easy theft and getaway on a crime spree, which Darkwing must of course put a stop to. In hot pursuit, the two go on [[Trapped in TV Land|a chase scene across the channels of TV Land]], and ultimately stumble out of a television set into a world where St. Canard is merely the setting of a popular TV show, and the locals are <s>weird beakless mutants</s> human beings. It seems a corrupt animation executive has a device that lets him see alternate universes, from which he steals plots for his own shows. Darkwing is (after a little comical blackmail) welcomed with open arms and made a star of the stage, but he ultimately grows bored and wants to go back to where he has real villains to fight. Eventually he goes home, but the device gets damaged. When the animated executive inspects it, it is now fixed to the world of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
* A ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons Halloween Special]]'' had Homer being sucked into The Third Dimension ([[Sting (music)||dun-dun-dun]]!). He eventually destroyed that universe and wound up in our world.
** Specifically the erotic cake store at 13567 Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles.
* The third season finale of ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'' had [[Cosmic Horror|The Dark One]] opening a wormhole that lead to his next meal: Earth. Neither him nor the Hyperforce actually land on the planet though.
** In fact, one of the glimpses we get of the planet shows a billboard advertising the show.
* In ''[[Chaotic]]'', the episode ''Chaotic Crisis'' involves the Underworlders reverse-engineering human technology to create portals linking Perim, Chaotic, and Earth. ({{spoiler|It was [[All Just a Dream]], however.}})
* About half of the episodes of [[
* The tv series (blending CG I with live action) [[Ace Lightning]] featured a group of videogame characters trying to exist in the real world.
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' Peter does Acid in an episode which results in a live-action hallucination.
** In the episode the Road to the Multi-Verse, Stewie and Brian get transformed into Live Action versions of themselves in one episode.
* An episode of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Superjail]]'' ends with the Warden waking up as a homeless man wearing the same purple suit after the [[Creepy Twins|twins]] overload his dream machine.
* An episode of ''[[The Smurfs]]'' has the in-universe fictional character Don Smurfo (a Smurf [[Zorro]] expy) enter into the real universe of the Smurfs.
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