Comic Books Are Real: Difference between revisions

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In some works of fiction, the characters have their own favorite Television shows or favorite comic books. Usually, most of the cast reads these comics and they are generally favored. One day, the characters are minding their own business and then out of the blue, it's revealed to them that their favorite comic book hero is real! This usually results in a superpowered team-up from time to time.

 

Also see [[I Wish It Was Real]] and [[Refugee From TV Land]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[The Authority]]'' themselves, in an abortive [[Grant Morrison]] series, [[Up the Real Rabbit Hole|found themselves on our Earth]], where [[Meta Fiction|they encountered the comics in which they had made their first appearances.]]

 

* There's a very, very [[Fan Fic Recommendations|good]] ''[[Power Rangers]]'' [[Fanfic]] that did this inspired by the crossover between ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' and ''[[Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation|Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation]]'', where [[Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either|each team thought the other was just an urban legend]].

 

* In ''[[Condorman]]'', the creator of the titular comic book hero is so obsessed with being realistic that he refuses to write anything that he can't do himself in real life. Sure enough, when the CIA ends up sponsoring his antics in order to rescue a major Soviet defector, they build all of the gadgets he's invented, leading to a hilarious [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]] speech from the [[Big Bad]].

* In the ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' film, Hellboy is only known to the outside world as an urban myth and the star of a series of comicbooks. When John Meyers meets the real HB, he complains that the comics never get his eyes right.

* In ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' Steve Rogers is being dressed up and paraded as the mascot "Captain America" as a way to boost the morale of the troops. They not only make films about the fictional character, they also make a Captain America comic-book series.

 

* In Lev Grossman's ''[[The Magicians]]'' the world described in a popular fantasy series titled ''Fillory and Further'' turns out to really exist and is visited by the novel's protagonists.

** In its sequel ''The Magician King'', the world of ''The Teletubbies'' turns out to really exist as well.

* The ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series starts off with two boys, George and Harold, being punished by Principal Krupp, for drawing comic books starring their hero, Captain Underpants. In retaliation, they hypnotize Mr. Krupp into thinking he's actually Captain Underpants. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when the boys can't un-hypnotize him...

 

* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', in the clairvoyant's comic book some of the Heroes (like Hiro and Ando) are depicted as characters in it. Most people outside the main cast would assume that it is a work of fiction.

* This is the premise of ''[[Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'', though the main characters become the comic book heroes, instead of them showing up as separate characters.

 

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