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* Phoebe of ''Phoebe and Her Unicorn'' once told another little girl that she'd changed her hair style because, "It's a different day. It's not like I'm a cartoon character."

 

* {{spoiler|Tsuruya}} dismisses using their prodigious anime collection as a basis for a confession, reasoning that real life is more complicated than that in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''.

* ''[[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.

* A Tumblr user who participated in a roleplaying game based on ''[[Watchmen (comics)|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]]'', 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.

 

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