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* Valerie of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who thinks she's [[The Hero]], thinks [[The Hero]] is the villain, and thinks the [[Big Bad]] is her [[Mentor Archetype|Mentor]]. When she discovers the truth, she is ''not'' pleased by the way she's been manipulated.

* ''[[My Little Pony]]'': Paradise is well-versed in the tropes of fairy tales and legends, and yet she, a winged pony living in a [[Magical Land]] with unicorns and dragons, wonders why her life can't be more like a storybook. Uh...

* One episode of ''[[Bonkers]]'' featured a [[Screwy Squirrel]]-type character who goes on a crime spree. At first Bonkers thinks he's unstoppable, because the character always wins in his cartoons. Then Bonkers comes to the realization that ''this'' is '''his''' cartoon, and so is able to defeat him.

{{quote|'''Fry''': "Fear not, for I shall assist ye!"

'''Fry''': "I'll show ye..." }}

* ''[[South Park]]'' examples:

*** The opposing team was a professional hockey team and Stanley's team were pee-wee players about five years old. There was no other protagonist, just a parody of the cliched sports movie ending with what threatened to be a [[Shocking Swerve]] if it didn't [[Crosses the Line Twice|cross the line twice]]. The pee-wee players are crushed brutally, deconstructing [[Underdogs Never Lose]] by showing pro players simply mauling tykes. After the underdogs do lose, the [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] dies from losing hope. It's [[Played for Laughs]].

** A three-parter has the gang playing as super heroes; however, when Cartman starts acting very villainous and the others try to call him out on it, he mistakenly believes he's still a superhero and it's the other boys who are the bad guys.

** In the episode "Homer Goes to College", Homer is convinced that Dean Peterson of Springfield University is a [[Dean Bitterman]] type and spends most of the episode pulling ill-conceived pranks on him, even going as far as to try and run him over with a car at one point. The irony is that Peterson is actually a good-natured younger guy who gets on well with the other students. Homer also reacts to the rest of the college environment as though it were some kind of raunchy teen college movie when it quite patently isn't.

** In "Brother From Another Series", Bart suspects that his archnemesis Sideshow Bob is up to no good when he's released from prison to work for his brother. While scouting around for clues, the following dialogue ensues:

'''Bart:''' [[Scooby Doo|The haunted mine.]] }}

** In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" Bart becomes paranoid of bizarre conspiracies, believes the adults are spend most of their time indoors by day because of some hair brained conspiracy he cooks up. But the reason was they were into Grampa's special tonic which gets them really horny.

* On ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'', Judy Ken Sebben aka Birdgirl seems to think she's in a typical superhero cartoon, much to Harvey's chagrin.

* On an episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', as Beezy is being dragged to the altar for his [[Shotgun Wedding]], he remains confident that [[Big Damn Heroes]] will save him. Of course, being on a [[Sadist Show]], the trope gets subverted, and the wedding goes through {{spoiler|though it still gets annulled}}.

* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob becomes convinced that Mr. Krabs is a robot thanks to having seen a movie where robots take over the Earth (and some coincidentally odd behavior on Mr. Krabs' part). After he and Squidward have ruthlessly interrogated the "robot", Squidward thinks to ask SpongeBob how the movie ended, to which he replies that it turned out there weren't any robots after all; it was a misunderstanding. Oops.

** Mr. Krabs in the episode ''Born Again Krabs'' thought that the Flying Dutchman's visit is [[All Just a Dream]], turns out it's actually real. It also turns out that by screwing around like everything is a dream Krabs has driven the Krusty Krab into bankruptcy.

* ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' - Gaston ([[Big Bad]]) thinks he's the hero, and that Beast ([[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]) is a monster who wants to [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|get his claws on Belle]].

* In the [[Animated Music Video]] for DyE's "Fantasy", the [[Final Girl]] does absolutely everything right to survive if she were in a [[Slasher Movie]]. Unfortunately for her, she's actually in a [[Cosmic Horror Story]], and makes the mistake of [[Brown Note|looking directly at]] the [[Big Bad]].

* In the first season of ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' Diana thinks that most of the paranormal monsters were [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]], when in fact they really are paranormal monster/aliens.

 

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