All Part of the Show: Difference between revisions

* During the ''[[Batman]]: Hush'' storyline, Batman and Catwoman wind up fighting Harley Quinn in the middle of a crowded opera house. The opera-goers seem to think this is part of the show, even applauding after Batman manages to catch Catwoman in mid-air.

** The final fight of the first ''[[Batman]]/JudgeDredd'' crossover takes place at a [[Heavy Metal]] concert, on stage. The audience is not shown having any particular reaction to Batman appearing on stage, or a cop from another dimension, or for that matter a zombie cop from a third dimension who had killed half the band (Well, since Judge Death ''was'' singing while he killed them, there was some justification for assuming that it was staged).

* Played with in ''Astérix and the Cauldron''. [[Asterix]] and Obélix get hired in a Roman theater company whose avant-garde director proclaims [[True Art]] is "spontaneity", improvisation and offending the public. (Ironically, as is shown during the play rehearsal, basically everything is in fact minutely staged.) When the actual play is performed in public, the Roman city prefect does enjoy the controversial show, until the point where Obelix improvises the play's final line: "These Romans are crazy!" Now that pushes the prefect's [[Berserk Button]]: he is not amused and sends the troops on stage to arrest the actors. The military intervention is not part of the show, but the public does believe so:

{{quote|'''Spectator #1:''' Very well staged, that show!