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** Twoflower, as first seen in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', thinks he is in a conventional heroic fantasy setting, which Discworld, um... [[Deconstructive Parody|is not]]. Luckily for him, everyone around him is more [[Genre Savvy]].
*** It worked out well for him in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''. At least, if your definition of "well" is [[Kicked Upstairs]] and never heard from again.
** The Palace Guards in ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]]'' also believe they're in a conventional heroic fantasy—two of them refuse to attack Captain Vimes on the grounds that [[Conservation of Ninjitsu|they outnumber him]] and he's unarmed, both indications that he's likely to do something heroic.
** ''[[Discworld/The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]'' features Malicia, who is convinced she is the heroine of a children's adventure story, and [[Crazy Prepared|packs accordingly]]. She's wrong about being the heroine, but [[Chekhov's Gun|everything she packs turns out to be useful]], if not as intended.
** In ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', Glenda objects to her friend Juliet going out with Trev Likely because he's not [[Prince Charming]]. When she gets involved in a romance of her own, she wises up; while she thinks that these events don't happen in romances, she doesn't act as if it ought to be one.
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* 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.
* ''[[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
** 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 fairty tale-like deal with her father. Geral joked that in return he demands from knight something he already has but don't know about it. Then they both found out that princess carry knight's child, which is now promised to Geralt. And when he decided to [[Screw Destiny|break the deal and not take the kid]], [[You Can't Fight Fate|things went down pretty badly]].
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