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* ''[[The Witcher]] Saga'' is full of people who think the world works like in more conventional fantasy or fairy tale—and they are proven to be very wrong. Some of the early stories for example featured a party gathered to hunt a dragon, which included a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] acting pretty much as though he were in classic fairy tales where pure heart and honor always prevail and the world is defined by [[Black and White]] morality but people like wizards and witches can always abandon their vile ways, a wizard who [[Animal Wrongs Group|wanted to protect monsters because they are rare, dying species]] and a shoemaker who thought this is classic Polish fairy tale of shoemaker killing a dragon with poisoned stuffed lamb, and he is the main character. The story ended badly or at least humiliating for all of them. One of later novels has a young, idealistic boy who enlists because he believed in propaganda proclaiming upcoming war to be "Great War to End All Wars" (compare with [[Real Life]] example about [[World War I]] below). Before he even started to learn that [[War Is Hell]], he got mocked pretty hard by everybody. Someone even showed him a fat prostitute and said that yes, this is a whore, and yes, she is big, maybe even great, but she certainly is not Great Whore to End All Whores.
** Dandelion. In one story he summoned a [[Genie in a Bottle]] and immediately started saying his wishes, only to find out that he does not meet the requirements necessary to have a genie grant you a wish, and that genies hate to be bossed around and try to kill anybody who tries to make a wish, even if he cannot force them to grant it. In another he heard about a prince and mermaid who had fallen in love and expected things to turn out like in a poem he wanted to write, that was exactly like [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s ''The Little Mermaid''. When the mermaid in question objected upon being turned into a human because if prince really loved her then why he won't change into a triton, Dandelion decided to [[I Reject Your Reality|ignore this and write that his version happened]] and when she changed her mind and turned into human a her first words were to call Dandelion an idiot for thinking she lost her voice.
** Geralt himself has his moments. In the first novel he is advocating keeping [[True Neutral]] stance in a conflict between humans and elves only to get shown how wrong he is and admitting it himself. In fact, this is how he bonded his destiny with Ciri's - he helped a cursed knight to undo his curse and marry the princess he was promised to on the basis of
* In ''[[Avalon High]]'', Ellie thinks she's The Lady of Shalott (since the kid's names seemed to mirror their Arthurian counterparts), but she's actually the Lady of the Lake.
* In the [[Light Novel]] ''My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!'', the protagonist awakens to discover that she died and has reincarnated in the world of the last [[Romance Game]] she played... as Katarina, the ''villain'' of said game. And a nasty villain that has very grisly endings, at that! So, to avoid those terrible fates, our protagonist decide that, since she awakened some years before the canonical beginning to the plot, she has to prepare herself by learning several things that counter those endings (like learning farming, for the ending where she is
* Similarly, in the Chinese ''[[Yaoi|danmei]]'' web novel "The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System", [[Caustic Critic]] Shen Yuan reincarnates as Shen Quinquiu, the villain of the [[Bile Fascination|awesomely terrible]] [[Harem Genre|stallion novel]] he read before his death (a villain that received a [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] on the hands of said novel protagonist due to being a [[Evil Mentor]] —to put it mildly— that literally pushed him into his [[Start of Darkness]]) with the mission of filling the [[Plot Hole]]s and de-stupidize the story. On one hand, Shen Yuan is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to weaponize the protagonist's [[Plot Armor]] and use the lore so save his own skin several times, and his plan of avoiding his/Shen Quinquiu death by stopping being an asshole to the protagonist and earning his good graces did work in the sense that the protagonist doesn't want to kill him anymore despite having pushed him to his doom, indirectly solving a lot of the plot holes from the original story as a bonus. On the other side, Shen Yuan as Shen Quinquiu ''severely'' underestimates his own impact on the plot, not realizing until too late that he completely send the whole thing [[Off the Rails]] and inadvertently changed the genre of the novel from "Harem" to "[[Boys Love Genre|Boys Love]]" (with himself as the love interest!) due to the [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|extremely heterosexual glasses]] he interpreted everything the protagonist did from day one and his belief that because the story was going through the same beats of the original despite the changes he made it mean that the story and the characters' motivations remained the same.
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