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{{trope}}{{Needs Image}}Examples of [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] characters in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Rodrigo of ''[[Othello]]'' fits this on two levels. He thinks he's the rake protagonist who seduces the [[May–December Romance|pretty young wife of an old man]], but he's actually more like a [[Casanova Wannabe]]-type who gets conned by the conniving servant. Making things worse is that he's in a tragedy, not a comedy, and the conniving servant is [[The Chessmaster|Iago]].
* [[Lampshaded]] in [[Stephen Sondheim]]'s ''[[Into the Woods]]''
** The Narrator suffers from this worse. He thought he was in a classic fairy tale and his job was to tell the story from the safe side of a thick fourth wall.
* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', Anthony thinks that he's the hero who rescues the beautiful maiden who's been locked in a tower by an evil old man. Unfortunately, he's in a [[Stephen Sondheim]] musical ...
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