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From most solid/hardest, to least solid/softest (Note that promos and the like do not count for this scale):
* [[This Is Reality]] holds sway; within the four walls of the series, there is no direct acknowledgment of the viewer. ([[Lampshade Hanging
* [[Mockumentary|Mockumentaries]] and the like: There are cameramen who the actors acknowledge, but [[This Is Reality]] still holds sway.
* Soliloquies, Asides, and the like, as long as the audience is not directly acknowledged. The characters behave as if they were characters in a story, but they don't know who might be watching. (You talk to the audience in a soliloquy, yes, but only because the conventions of the theater say that doing so means that you're actually just thinking out loud at the audience.)
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]
* [[Aside Glance]]/[[Aside Comment|Comment]]
* A [[Narrator]] (but not a [[Audience Surrogate|Viewpoint Character]]) who speaks directly to the audience, but whom the characters do not know about; but only if the narrator's announcements amount to more than "Meanwhile", "see Issue #7", or other scene setting.
* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: where, outside of the plot, the characters respond, in character, to reader mail or reader
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: a segment of the show where characters often lecture directly to the audience, sometimes acknowledging the unrealism of that episode's events.
* [[From Beyond the Fourth Wall]]: The creator of a work, the audience, or you, personally, interact with characters (in a way that isn't [[Audience Participation]]). Such as by lending the characters a boat, or money. Can happen in reverse too.
* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]: One character has full [[Medium Awareness]], and the others write it off has him being insane.
* In a video game, the characters are aware of the context of the game just enough to explain a concept of the game to the player, but do so within the context of the story. Common in [[Justified Tutorial
* Clear [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] happens, but at other times, everything works as if the characters are not aware of being fictional; the breakages are basically implied not to be [[Canon]], even though they may happen in the middle of the normal action.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: the characters may directly acknowledge the mechanics of their medium and/or that this is just a show, but these acknowledgments don't actually affect the plot and/or the characters never acknowledge their fictionality.
* Full [[No Fourth Wall]]: The characters acknowledge their fictionality directly.
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: Things inside the story, we are warned, can attack the reader.
* ''[[Mind Screw
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