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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the [[Archie Comics]] story "See You in the Funny Papers" (no longer online?), Veronica says to Betty when the latter shows [[Medium Awareness]], "We live in the real world, girl! Not comic books!"

* In ''[[Watchmen (Comic Book)|Watchmen]],'' the [[Big Bad]] dismisses the idea that the plan he's describing can be stopped by stating that he isn't some "Republic serial villain." Of course not... he's the ''villain of a superhero comic.''

** [[Watchmen (Film)|The movie]] changes the line to "[[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|I'm not a comic book villain.]]"

 

== Fanfiction ==

* [[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]] has Dumbledore compare the war against Voldemort {{spoiler|(which he thinks has restarted, thanks to a badly calculated action on Harry's part) }} to [[The Lord of the Rings]], and then state that Tolkien has no idea how a wizarding war would really go, and that {{spoiler|Gandalf should have taken Frodo and the Ring to Rivendell immediately, as soon as he suspected Frodo might have the Ring, as even if Gandalf was wrong, the magnitude of the danger he suspected Frodo and Middle-Earth were in outweighed the inconvenience to Frodo, and the potential massive embarrassment to Gandalf.}} He also states that that wasn't Gandalf's only mistake, just his worst.

* There's a ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfic where someone, upon hearing a song from [[Megumi Hayashibara]], notes that for [[Voice Actor|some reason]], she sounds like Rei.

* Used several times in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'':

** Right at the beginning, when John and Paul [[Nobody Poops|have to pee]], Paul mentions that it seems “a bit crass” to have to pee when they never do in [[Star Wars]] or whatever. To which John replies: “Maybe they don't [[Incredibly Lame Pun|water the crass]] in fiction, but they do in real life.”

* A Tumblr user who participated in a roleplaying game based on ''Watchmen'' once posted a cap of the aforementioned quote by the [[Big Bad]] as adjusted for the game: "I'm not the villain of some over-hyped action film."

* In ''[[Connecting the Dots (Fanfic)|Connecting the Dots]]'', Beast Boy, while showing the internet to Kiba, explains to him the concept of fanfiction. Beast Boy is shocked when Kiba asks him if there's fanfiction about HIM, because obviously, fanfiction doesn't deal with reality.

'''Peter:''' Bullshit. <br />

'''Paul:''' Why? }}

{{quote| '''Greg:''' Can't he just... beam up?<br />

'''Elliott:''' This is ''reality'', Greg. }}

* A favorite line of the main character in ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (Film)|In the Mouth of Madness]]'' is that "This is reality." He is, of course, wrong {{spoiler|on more levels than you can count as he is not only a character in a movie where a book is controlling reality but a character in a movie who is part of a mind warping movie which is revealed to be the movie that you are watching. With a small chance that he's just hallucinating and it's still not real.}}

* In ''Silver Streak'', Gene Wilder is surprised at how quickly his gun runs out of bullets. Richard Pryor comments "What do you think this is, a western?" Of course, since the movie itself is not a western, this could also be a genuine fourth wall breaking comment.

*** Especially when you consider that Pryor cowrote the movie.

* Inverted in the movie [[eXistenZ]], which has several 'nested' realities thanks to people playing a virtual reality game that uses all of one's senses. Hence, the characters might be playing the game, then in the game start playing the game, then in that game start playing the game to further something in the 'earlier' level of the game. When finally all the strangeness 'resolves' in [[The Reveal]], the shock causes one minor character to comment, "Wait, we're still in the game, right?" So maybe this is not reality.

** Said by the Trickster/{{spoiler|Gabriel}} in 5.08 "Changing Channels":

{{quote| Guys, I wish this ''were'' a TV show. Easy answers, endings wrapped up in a bow. But this is real. And it's gonna end bloody for all of us. That's just how it's gotta be.}}

{{quote| '''Mickey:''' I've seen it in comics. People go hopping from one alternative world to another -- it's easy.<br />

'''Doctor:''' Not in the real world. }}

{{quote| '''Tiffany:''' In the movies, they just break the door down.<br />

'''Dirk''': In the movies the door is pieced together by the prop men so all you have to do is blow on it! }}

* In ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]'', Mrs. Partridge introduces herself to the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]] as an actress who used to play in ''Ah, Wilderness!''. One of them asks her, "You're not acting in a play now?" "No, I'm not," she says.

 

* Near the end of ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'', Lord Saddler tells Leon via radio he'll never defeat Los Illuminatos because life isn't, "one of your Hollywood movies."

** Well, he was right, it wasn't a [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Hollywood movie.]] Leon kicks his ass anyways though.

* Inverted in ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]''. When the [[Big Bad]] gives him a drug overdose, Max hallucinates that he finds a letter that tells him that he is in a graphic novel. This then repeats, with him hallucinating that the letter tells him that he is in a computer game. Both are true. And both times, Max muses: "Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."

** He also starts noticing things he didn't before. In the first case, he begins to see speech bubbles. In the second case, he sees the inventory menu, the health bar, and the bullet-time mode.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* It is.

* Usually inverted, with people crying: [[This Cannot Be!|"I can't believe this is happening to me!"]] or "This is like some bad dream!" (Of course, [[Art Imitates Life|both are said in fiction, too]].)

 

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