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{{trope}}Examples of [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] characters in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* [[Older Than Steam]]: [[Don Quixote]]'s madness is a version of this. Because of his insanity, Don Quixote believes that he is a [[Knight Errant|errant knight]] and that the tropes of [[Chivalric Romance]] and [[Courtly Love]] apply to him and his environment. Unfortunately for him, he lives in early XVII Century countryside Spain, a place and time that, if thinking on terms of genres, worked more on the side of [[Picaresque]]. So, hilarity (and, at times, heartbreaking drama) ensues due to the clash.
* Sansa Stark begins ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' thinking of heroic ballads as the way of the world in a [[World Half Empty|world where it's a wonder they came up with a concept of heroism to write the ballads about]]. Yeah, [[Break the Cutie|the results weren't pretty]].
** [[I Just Want to Be Special|Quentyn]] [[The Everyman|Martell]] similarly believes that he's in a straight [[Heroic Fantasy]] story, with the added bonus that he thinks he's [[The Protagonist]] as well. {{spoiler|Viserion and Rhaegal disabuse him of the notion when he tries to heroically tame them and gets burned to death for his trouble}}.
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* In the [[Agatha Christie]] novel ''Easy to Kill'', one of the female characters, Brigit, wanders off on her own. When Luke, the main character, finds her, he warns her to be more careful because he doesn't want her to get killed. Brigit says that it's okay, because the heroine is never killed in these types of stories. Luke objects, not because [[This Is Reality]], but because he doesn't believe that Brigit is the heroine. {{spoiler|She is. Luke is the one who was Wrong Genre Savvy.}}.
** A similar example occurs in another Christie mystery, {{spoiler|''Crooked House''}}, where a young girl tries to fake a near death experience {{spoiler|by setting up a statue to fall on her head when she walked through a certain door.}} When one of the other characters says that she could have easily been killed for real, the detective points out that it probably didn't occur to her because she thought she was the heroine, [[Plot Armor|and the heroine never dies]].
** Another [[Agatha Christie]] novel ''The ABC Murders'' features characters who fail to solve the mystery because they believe they're in a serial killer novel. {{spoiler|They're not. The killer is a regular killer who killed his brother for the inheritance... and then killed a few more people to make it look like a serial killer.}}
* A [[Ruth Rendell]] short story featured an old woman who thought she was in a [[Little Old Lady Investigates]] story. She was right in that she was in a crime story, wrong in that Ruth Rendell does not write ''that'' sort of crime story.
* In ''[[Three Bags Full]]'', a detective story which features a flock of anthropomorphic Irish sheep out to solve the murder of their shepherd, Heidi and other sheep are convicted that they are in a romance novel. Of course, the only thing they know about humans is the novels that their shepherd used to read them, so it's not quite surprising from them.
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* 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 exiled, and magic and sword-fighting, for the ones she was killed) and, more importantly, by befriending every named character of the game. The problem is that she keeps thinking of herself as the ''antagonist'' of the game all the way, not realizing that, unlike the original Katarina, who was a petty [[Rich Bitch]] who deserved what came to her, she as Katarina is more of a [[Blithe Spirit]] that has [[Devoted to You|captured the hearts of every love interest of the game]], [[Even the Girls Want Her|of several of the game rivals]], and even [[Beyond the Impossible|the one of the original protagonist]], while being completely [[Oblivious to Love|oblivious of her own harem all the way]] and who frustrates her suitors with [[Master of the Mixed Message|her mastery of the Mixed Message]] and her [[Cloudcuckoolander]]y, totally unaware that she has hijacked the plot to be about herself.
* 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]]
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