Reciprocal Fiction Paradox: Difference between revisions

 

A related paradox is the [[Celebrity Paradox]] which involves actors shared between works and an awareness of the other works.

 

* A [[Show Within a Show]] example: Many characters in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' are fans of ''Gekiganger 3''. The [[Recap Episode]] showed that, in turn, the main characters of ''Gekiganger 3'' are fans of ''Nadesico''.

** [[Mind Screw|To make it even stranger]], each [[Defictionalization|defictionalized]] something from the other in-verse. Done mutually with {{spoiler|the Gekigan flare}}.

* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' featured a kid who drew forged key frames from the show ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]''. The show was [[Defictionalized]], and in ''Puni Puni Poemi'', a math problem in school involves the number of cels used in each episode of ''Excel Saga''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Terra Obscura]]. Their science heroes are the stars of comic books in [[Tom Strong]]'s world, and vice versa.

* Jimmy Olsen in ''Superman'' comics is a fan of the Spin Doctors, a band with a ''Superman''-inspired album and a song about Jimmy Olsen.

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', characters make several references to ''[[Lucky Star]]''—which, in turn, contains many references to ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''.

** It has been [[Wild Mass Guessing|theorised]] that in the fanfic's universe, ''[[Lucky Star]]'' references "the [[Trope-tan]] [[Show Within a Show|anime]]" instead of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''.

 

== Film ==

** In the first ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' is seen on a TV, a [[Shout-Out]] to a poster for [[Wes Craven|Wes Craven's]] earlier film ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]'' appearing in ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' (which was itself a [[Shout-Out]] to a poster for ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' appearing in ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]''). Then in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]'', Freddy Kreuger's glove is seen in the shed where Ash creates his chainsaw-hand. Confused yet?

* In ''[[Independence Day]]'' a character makes a passing reference to the [[X Files]], conversely, in the first [[X Files]] movie we see Mulder urinating in front of an ''[[Independence Day]]'' movie poster.

 

== Literature ==

* Scots author Quintin Jardine has written two long-running series: ''Skinner'', about a high-ranking Edinburgh police detective, and ''Oz Blackstone'', a private detective and part-time actor. In at least one Blackstone novel he is involved in making a film based on the Skinner books, while the Blackstone novels themselves appear in Skinner's world.

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is fictional in ''[[Eastenders]]'', they have a character who is a fan (Bradley) who even goes to a Doctor Who convention at one point. ''EastEnders'' is also fictional in ''Doctor Who'' wherein Jackie Tyler is a fan, and ''EastEnders'' appears [[Show Within a Show]] style in "Army of Ghosts". The Doctor also references it in "The Satan Pit". There was a crossover between them in 1993 for ''[[Children in Need]]''. In "Dimensions In Time", neither show acknowledges the other's fictionality in it and it isn't considered in continuity for either (one explanation touted by ''Doctor Who'' Spin Off Media is that it was [[All Just a Dream]] of the Seventh Doctor).

** ''EastEnders'' and ''Doctor Who'' are so popular and iconic, though, that any program predominantly set in 21st century Britain is bound to reference one or the other eventually.

* In ''[[Community]]'' Abeds favorite TV show is ''[[Cougar Town]]'' and in one episode he talks about guest starring on it. In one episode of ''[[Cougar Town]]'' Laurie and Travis watch the first season of ''[[Community]]'' on dvd. This eventually came full circle with Laurie and Travis as bit characters in the season finale of ''[[Community]]'' and Abed as a bit character on the season finale of ''[[Cougar Town]]''. A later episode of ''Community'' had Abed, [[Meta Guy]] that he is, explaining the [[Mind Screw]] the whole thing had been for him.

 

* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' and ''The Way Of The Metagamer 2: [[In Name Only]]''. ''In Name Only'' makes the occasional cameo in the original, and it's [[Word of God|been stated that]] the original exists within the world of ''In Name Only''. Interesting in that ''In Name Only'' does not exist.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' takes this trope to its [[Mind Screw|Mind-Screw extreme]] with the events of the main story and the Midnight Crew. In the world of the main characters of ''[[Homestuck]]'' the Midnight Crew are from the latest ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' series, and the reverse is true for the actual members of the Midnight Crew in ''their'' world. However, [[Word of God]] along with recent events in the story claim that the the Midnight Crew ''exist within the same canon as [[Homestuck]]!'' In other words, it's not a [[Show Within a Show]], it's a [[Your Head Asplode|Show Within]] ''[[Your Head Asplode|Itself!]]''

** The paradox is explained by the [[Author Avatar]], who is likely sending different comics to different universes.

* A really subtle one with [[Questionable Content]] and [[Xkcd]]. Marigold wears an xkcd shirt [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1625 here], and [http://xkcd.com/574/ this] xkcd comic shows one of Hannelore's Twitter posts.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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