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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 they did]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 [[https://ponybooru.org/images/868093?sd=desc&sf=id&q=pinkamena%2C+fourth+wall and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 that they did]].
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** In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' crossover "Of Ponies and Plumbers", at the end of chapter 13 Discord tries to brainwash the ''author'' into giving up on the story and therefore [[TheBadGuyWins let him win]]. As a result, the author marked the story as "cancelled" on Website/FimfictionDotNet for some time, and the author even [[{{Kayfabe}} pretended to be "discorded" in the comments section of the story]].
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** In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' crossover "Of Ponies and Plumbers", at the end of chapter 13 Discord tries to brainwash the ''author'' into giving up on the story and therefore [[TheBadGuyWins let him win]]. As a result, the author marked the story as "cancelled" on Website/FimfictionDotNet Platform/FimfictionDotNet for some time, and the author even [[{{Kayfabe}} pretended to be "discorded" in the comments section of the story]].
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* Weaponised in the 'Yandere X Reader' fanfictions, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fittingly enough]], where ''you yourself'' have to confront a {{Yandere}} version of a fictional character.
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* Weaponised in the 'Yandere X Reader' fanfictions, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fittingly enough]], where ''you yourself'' have to confront a {{Yandere}} version of a fictional character.character.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13738262/1/Fairy-Tail-Watches-DBZA Fairy Tail Watches DBZA]]'' has an InUniverse example with the Manga/FairyTail wizards and their friends watching ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' and affected by many in-series events. They get hit by the Solar Flare (at one point [[BrainBleach they see Lucy's landlady naked]]), the Dragon Slayers [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne can sense Cell off-screen]] even before he announces himself, and even get affected by Goten's RetGone in "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedM9 Super Android 13]]". The most notable example is that when they are watching "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedE44 Cell Reception]]", Goku's "Ninja-and-Pirate" dream is replaced with a "Wizard-and-Firefighter Dream", having Goku dressed as both Natsu and [[Manga/FireForce Shinra Kusakabe]][[note]]As both ''Fairy Tail'' and ''Fire Force'' were published in Magazine/ShonenMagazine[[/note]] and Piccolo dressed as Gray, making the wizards feel that Goku might be aware of them. This gets compounded when they watch "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedE45 Hyperbolic Plot Device]]" and Goku says his dream ended because he felt he was being watched.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13738262/1/Fairy-Tail-Watches-DBZA Fairy Tail Watches DBZA]]'' has an InUniverse example with the Manga/FairyTail wizards and their friends watching ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' and affected by many in-series events. They get hit by the Solar Flare (at one point [[BrainBleach they see Lucy's landlady naked]]), the Dragon Slayers [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne can sense Cell off-screen]] even before he announces himself, and even get affected by Goten's RetGone in "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedM9 Super Android 13]]". The most notable example is that when they are watching "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedE44 Cell Reception]]", Goku's "Ninja-and-Pirate" dream is replaced with a "Wizard-and-Firefighter Dream", having Goku dressed as both Natsu and [[Manga/FireForce Shinra Kusakabe]][[note]]As both ''Fairy Tail'' and ''Fire Force'' were published in Magazine/ShonenMagazine[[/note]] and Piccolo dressed as Gray, making the wizards feel that Goku might be aware of them. This gets compounded when they watch "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedE45 Hyperbolic Plot Device]]" and Goku says his dream ended because he felt he was being watched.
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* The 'Yandere X Reader' fanfictions, where you yourself have to confront the yandere version of a fictional character, was built on this trope.
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* The Weaponised in the 'Yandere X Reader' fanfictions, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fittingly enough]], where you yourself ''you yourself'' have to confront the yandere a {{Yandere}} version of a fictional character, was built on this trope.character.
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* An unusual one in the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' ''Fanfic/TaylorVarga'' where one of the characters with the username Void Cowboy posted ''in the story thread itself''! This was quickly followed by several other characters such as Tin Mother (an in-story secret AI), Armsmaster, and a couple of others including the story-specific Ianthe. Several of these characters have since posted on other threads, thus spreading the meta.
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* An unusual one in the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TaylorVarga'' where one of the characters with the username Void Cowboy posted ''in the story thread itself''! This was quickly followed by several other characters such as Tin Mother (an in-story secret AI), Armsmaster, and a couple of others including the story-specific Ianthe. Several of these characters have since posted on other threads, thus spreading the meta.
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* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''Fanfic/Persona4SilverBlue''. In one chapter, it’s revealed that [[spoiler: Izanami’s status as a deity grants her some kind of cosmic awareness, and she seems to have some degree of MediumAwareness. She decides to directly address the reader, but she doesn’t try to attack them or anything like that. Instead, she warns the reader that they too can fall into their own fog of lies in real-life and deceive themselves if they aren’t careful. She also explains that she’s been aware of the reader since they first ''started reading the prologue''. And lastly, she ominously foreshadows some future things to come in the story before departing to pay Labrys a visit]].
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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has Creator/KaiserNeko wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue horrified scream.
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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has Creator/KaiserNeko (who was the Creator/TeamFourStar director/editor of ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged''), wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue the horrified scream.
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* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes.Website/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
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* The 'X Reader' fanfictions, where you yourself have a relationship with a fictional character, was built on this trope.
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* The 'X 'Yandere X Reader' fanfictions, where you yourself have a relationship with to confront the yandere version of a fictional character, was built on this trope.
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* A slightly harmful example in ''[[https://thunderstore.io/package/RZOK/BSODOnDeath/ this mod]]'' for ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' which crashes your PC if you die.
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* A slightly harmful example in ''[[https://thunderstore.io/package/RZOK/BSODOnDeath/ this mod]]'' for ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' which crashes your PC if you die.die.
* The 'X Reader' fanfictions, where you yourself have a relationship with a fictional character, was built on this trope.
* The 'X Reader' fanfictions, where you yourself have a relationship with a fictional character, was built on this trope.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[FanFic/{{Cupcakes}} One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 they did]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[FanFic/{{Cupcakes}} [[Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 they did]].
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* No, not even {{fanfic}} authors are protected by the fourth wall, as proven in episode 13 of ''FanFic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal'' when Zero escaped from the author's computer and assaulted him after he said JustForFun/CandleJack's name in the [[InterruptingMeme nar]] [[spoiler:You guys never learn, do you?]] Three episodes later, the author made a similar mistake: say TheHypnotoad's na- [[InterruptingMeme ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD]].
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* No, not even {{fanfic}} authors are protected by the fourth wall, as proven in episode 13 of ''FanFic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal'' ''Fanfic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal'' when Zero escaped from the author's computer and assaulted him after he said JustForFun/CandleJack's name in the [[InterruptingMeme nar]] [[spoiler:You guys never learn, do you?]] Three episodes later, the author made a similar mistake: say TheHypnotoad's na- [[InterruptingMeme ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD]].saying the name of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} the Hypnotoad]], after which he was quickly hypnotized by the creature.
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* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has [=KaiserNeko=] wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue horrified scream.
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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has [=KaiserNeko=] Creator/KaiserNeko wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue horrified scream.
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** The same series also invokes the trope in-universe in the installment ''Bug Princess and the Seven Months''. By this point, the entire cast has more or less given up and accepted that the plot is a SentientCosmicBeing which is amusing itself at their expense.
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** The same series also invokes the trope in-universe in the installment ''Bug Princess and the Seven Months''. By this point, the entire cast has more or less given up and accepted that the plot is a SentientCosmicBeing SentientCosmicForce which is amusing itself at their expense.
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** The same series also invokes the trope in-universe in the installment ''Bug Princess and the Seven Months''. By this point, the entire cast has more or less given up and accepted that the plot is a CosmicSentientBeing which is amusing itself at their expense.
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** The same series also invokes the trope in-universe in the installment ''Bug Princess and the Seven Months''. By this point, the entire cast has more or less given up and accepted that the plot is a CosmicSentientBeing which is amusing itself at their expense.
--->'''Lady Delphine:''' And if there’s one other thing I know, it’s that the fourth wall does not protect you, me, or anyone else. BJ himself is pretty certain that the plot is up to something, and he doesn’t trust the [[SelfDeprecation hack writer]] as far as he can throw them.
--->'''Lady Delphine:''' And if there’s one other thing I know, it’s that the fourth wall does not protect you, me, or anyone else. BJ himself is pretty certain that the plot is up to something, and he doesn’t trust the [[SelfDeprecation hack writer]] as far as he can throw them.
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* No, not even {{fanfic}} authors are protected by the fourth wall, as proven in episode 13 of ''FanFic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal'' when Zero escaped from the author's computer and assaulted him after he said JustForFun/CandleJack's name in the [[InterruptingMeme nar]] [[spoiler:You guys never learn, do you?]] Three episodes later, the author made a similar mistake: say TheHypnotoad's na- [[InterruptingMeme ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD]].
* In the third entry of the ''FanFic/GintamaChromaticChronicles'', [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] zaps herself from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe into the ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' universe and starts turning everybody into goffs. The story starts with the ''author'' already having caught the "goffik virus", resulting in the narration, spelling and grammar getting crazier and crazier the worse her condition gets.
* Inverted in the fic ''Fanfic/ItsASmallWorldAfterAll''. The characters are scared of what might happen if the fangirls come IN.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[FanFic/{{Cupcakes}} One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 they did]].
** In [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-pinkie-pies-incredible.html Pinkie Pie's Incredible Interplanetary Super Prank]], [[spoiler: she plays an April Fools' prank on ''the reader'']].
** The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' chapter "Teacher Teacher" begins with [[spoiler:the reader talking to [[BigBad Princess Gaia]], who hypnotises them into her LotusEaterMachine. She's also replied to quite a few readers comments and tried to do the same...]]
---> '''Princess [[spoiler:Gaia]]:''' [[spoiler:"And why would you want to be 'protected' from mama sweetheart? I just want you to be happy and safe. Just listen to mama's singing and you'll understand." ]]
** Hell, not even the author was protected. By the end of the next chapter Princess [[spoiler: Gaia has put him into the LotusEaterMachine too. In his absence she took over the author's note that directs people to what music is recommended for listing while reading the chapter as well as the note that promises that the next chapter is on its way.]]
** In "Applejack vs Nyarlathotrot", [[spoiler:Nyarlathotrot turns away from the heroes and suddenly gives a HUGE rant to the reader, claiming it is the readers and writers' faults that all of this is happening because they created him with their desire for {{Dark Fic}}s. He then threatens and insults the reader for a while as the heroes stare at him confused, [[AudienceWhatAudience since they can't see the fourth wall like he can]].]]
** In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' crossover "Of Ponies and Plumbers", at the end of chapter 13 Discord tries to brainwash the ''author'' into giving up on the story and therefore [[TheBadGuyWins let him win]]. As a result, the author marked the story as "cancelled" on Website/FimfictionDotNet for some time, and the author even [[{{Kayfabe}} pretended to be "discorded" in the comments section of the story]].
** Someone went and [[https://youtu.be/6wsk5XhqfuI combined this with]] [[https://youtu.be/TSMfGcXX9Ek the movie version]] of a [[https://youtu.be/FzEnvfUp7A4 certain entry from Comics up above]]...
** Whatever the hell [[http://derpibooru.org/10635?scope=scpe4dfac543dcfedf0feca0b398c7fa7d84446553f7 this is]]. [[spoiler: Distorted Applejack appears like she died with a dumb expression on her face before she gets up, faces and then leaps at the audience with that same face, and the screen goes black.]]
** In the grimdark fanfic ''Fanfic/PagesOfHarmony'', Twilight expresses her desire to eliminate chaos from everywhere in the multiverse. A comment on the fanfic summed up a FridgeHorror that turns Twilight's ambition to be ParanoiaFuel toward ''the readers''...
--->'''[=DarthSonic66:=]''' For anyone [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for Twilight]] here, I have to ask: y'all do realize [[ParanoiaFuel she wants to murder a good many of you?]] Considering her [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans multiversal ambitions.]]
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Fanfic/FanficIsCrapsack'', in which Pinkie Pie is traumatized by the [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs horrible fanfiction]] she was exposed to. [[spoiler: Played straight when Pinkamena brutally defeats the Trollfic.]]
* ''FanFic/PaperMarioX 2'': The author gets shot by [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] at the end of Chapter 52.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': In an omake, Asuka kicks the author in the groin after hearing him mutter that she was angry because it was her time of the month.
* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': In the third chapter's omake Asuka gets mad and fed up with the author's antics and chases him angrily to beat him.
* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' crossover [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/wholestory.php?no=16127 ''Lacking and Anchor'']] offers an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for the Joker. The accident that turned him into the Joker let him see past the fourth wall. Realizing that his and his world's existence was reliant on having readers, he devoted himself to keeping Batman's story as interesting as possible.
-->'''Joker:''' “How do you expect to keep your readers if your villains fall flat? With a lack of readers our world fades from existence, I couldn't let that happen – better to die in a blaze of glory than to never have existed at all … so I painted the town red in blood, pain and screams like the labor pains of existence to make our world live!”
* From ''WebVideo/PrincessTutuAbridged'' we have Fakir writing to control the ''narrator of the abridged series'' into helping save Duck. And then makes the other abridgers sign a contract to only write non-canon endings for minor characters.
* This is more a background threat to the reader than an actual event in ''Fanfic/{{Pokeumans}}'': because of a mix of clone replacements, memory erasure and secret bases, there is no way to disprove that the series is actually happening in real life. So anyone could be a Pokeuman - even ''you''.
* This happens to the author, or a version of him in the multiverse, during the events of [[FanFic/BondBreaker Bond Breaker]].
* An in-universe example occurs in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3759007/1/Turn-Me-Loose-A-Harry-Potter-Adventure Turn Me Loose: A Harry Potter Adventure]]''. Harry and Fleur use a pensieve to view Harry's memories of him, Bill, and Chen fighting a powerful demon when partway through the demon starts addressing them directly.
* [[http://jusenkyo.wikia.com/wiki/Revenge-fic The Revenge Wars]]--A series of fanfics wherein the Ranma cast discover the existence of FourthWall and [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs are extremely unhappy]] that a bunch of strangers are playing god over their lives.
* The premise of ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-26389-14/TheDivineDemon+Divine+Ideas+From+A+Demonic+Mind.htm Lies of Our Lives]]'' is a fanfiction [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] seeing past the fourth wall and wanting revenge on fanfic writers for the pain they put him and his friends through.
-->'''Xander:''' You watch us, manipulate us, you change our lives and make us suffer and for what? Petty entertainment? Because you're bored? Because you have nothing better to do with your lives!? You fragment and distort our very beings with every word your type, with every image you make, and I say no more. I've seen you, staring at us like the bunch of perverts that you are, and I will not stand for it any longer. All of this will end! Because I'm going to end this. Because I'm coming for you. All of you.
* While actually an April Fool's gag for [[Creator/AuroVee Undermon]], the part where [[spoiler:Chara hijacks the thread, and even proceeds to attack it after Her name was said, giving her control over the Protagonist]], it actually hints at what could happen should She actually gain control for real...
* In-universe, [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Peorth]] is watching a porn video starring Urd in ''[[http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600055428&chapter=2 The Vain Rose's Garden]]'' when Urd turns to the camera and says, "Having fun, Peorth?" She then approaches the camera, and comes out of the television.
* Played with in the [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series, when Prince Vince harasses the author into writing an extra installment. The actual exchange takes place on ''Website/{{Tumblr}}'', and is only mentioned in the author's notes, but [[http://ladynorbert.tumblr.com/post/141398374109/dear-lady-norbert it's true]]. Other characters occasionally make snarky remarks about the plot, and WhoWritesThisCrap, but none have ever conversed with the author outside of the narrative. Yet, anyway.
* An unusual one in the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' ''Fanfic/TaylorVarga'' where one of the characters with the username Void Cowboy posted ''in the story thread itself''! This was quickly followed by several other characters such as Tin Mother (an in-story secret AI), Armsmaster, and a couple of others including the story-specific Ianthe. Several of these characters have since posted on other threads, thus spreading the meta.
* In ''Webcomic/DoctorWhoRegenerated,'' Daisy makes a drawing of a [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angel]]. Then, in blissful ignorance, she [[spoiler: uploads it into the Internet, where it apparently takes on a life of its own, as images of the Angels are wont to do]]. [[NightmareFuel Sleep tight]].
* InUniverse example with ''VideoGame/TheJoyOfCreationReborn'' which features Scott Cawthon, the creator of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise, and his family being attacked by the animatronics from his own series.
* [[Franchise/DragonAge Varric Tethras]] is credited as the editor on the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series of fanfics. Throughout the main story, there are [[NoteFromEd editor's notes]] in which he converses with the author (whom he has [[TheNicknamer nicknamed]] "Scholar"), criticizes her choice of words, and otherwise makes a lovable pest of himself. According to the notes on the side volume ''Agents Acquired'', he basically insisted that the author add it to the series.
-->'''Author's note:''' I maintain that this was not my idea. I mean, it was a little bit, but in a passing fancy, 'oh hm' sort of fashion. No, my beloved editor was the one who seized this particular plot bunny and ran away with it.\\
'''Editor's note:''' Don't worry about Scholar. [[EasilyForgiven She'll forgive me.]] She always does.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has [=KaiserNeko=] wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue horrified scream.
* ''Fanfic/CatRa'': Aroda takes over the author's notes during the alternate reality at the end of Season 3.
* A slightly harmful example in ''[[https://thunderstore.io/package/RZOK/BSODOnDeath/ this mod]]'' for ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' which crashes your PC if you die.
* In the third entry of the ''FanFic/GintamaChromaticChronicles'', [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] zaps herself from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe into the ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' universe and starts turning everybody into goffs. The story starts with the ''author'' already having caught the "goffik virus", resulting in the narration, spelling and grammar getting crazier and crazier the worse her condition gets.
* Inverted in the fic ''Fanfic/ItsASmallWorldAfterAll''. The characters are scared of what might happen if the fangirls come IN.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the character Pinkie Pie (who formerly provided the page image) occasionally appears to acknowledge the audience. [[FanFic/{{Cupcakes}} One early fanfic]] depicted her as a serial killer. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Episode 25 of the actual show]] had her temporarily go (more) insane. Given the above points, it was only a matter of time until some fan combined them into this trope, [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/10409 and that]] [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12066 they did]].
** In [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-pinkie-pies-incredible.html Pinkie Pie's Incredible Interplanetary Super Prank]], [[spoiler: she plays an April Fools' prank on ''the reader'']].
** The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' chapter "Teacher Teacher" begins with [[spoiler:the reader talking to [[BigBad Princess Gaia]], who hypnotises them into her LotusEaterMachine. She's also replied to quite a few readers comments and tried to do the same...]]
---> '''Princess [[spoiler:Gaia]]:''' [[spoiler:"And why would you want to be 'protected' from mama sweetheart? I just want you to be happy and safe. Just listen to mama's singing and you'll understand." ]]
** Hell, not even the author was protected. By the end of the next chapter Princess [[spoiler: Gaia has put him into the LotusEaterMachine too. In his absence she took over the author's note that directs people to what music is recommended for listing while reading the chapter as well as the note that promises that the next chapter is on its way.]]
** In "Applejack vs Nyarlathotrot", [[spoiler:Nyarlathotrot turns away from the heroes and suddenly gives a HUGE rant to the reader, claiming it is the readers and writers' faults that all of this is happening because they created him with their desire for {{Dark Fic}}s. He then threatens and insults the reader for a while as the heroes stare at him confused, [[AudienceWhatAudience since they can't see the fourth wall like he can]].]]
** In the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' crossover "Of Ponies and Plumbers", at the end of chapter 13 Discord tries to brainwash the ''author'' into giving up on the story and therefore [[TheBadGuyWins let him win]]. As a result, the author marked the story as "cancelled" on Website/FimfictionDotNet for some time, and the author even [[{{Kayfabe}} pretended to be "discorded" in the comments section of the story]].
** Someone went and [[https://youtu.be/6wsk5XhqfuI combined this with]] [[https://youtu.be/TSMfGcXX9Ek the movie version]] of a [[https://youtu.be/FzEnvfUp7A4 certain entry from Comics up above]]...
** Whatever the hell [[http://derpibooru.org/10635?scope=scpe4dfac543dcfedf0feca0b398c7fa7d84446553f7 this is]]. [[spoiler: Distorted Applejack appears like she died with a dumb expression on her face before she gets up, faces and then leaps at the audience with that same face, and the screen goes black.]]
** In the grimdark fanfic ''Fanfic/PagesOfHarmony'', Twilight expresses her desire to eliminate chaos from everywhere in the multiverse. A comment on the fanfic summed up a FridgeHorror that turns Twilight's ambition to be ParanoiaFuel toward ''the readers''...
--->'''[=DarthSonic66:=]''' For anyone [[RootingForTheEmpire rooting for Twilight]] here, I have to ask: y'all do realize [[ParanoiaFuel she wants to murder a good many of you?]] Considering her [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans multiversal ambitions.]]
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Fanfic/FanficIsCrapsack'', in which Pinkie Pie is traumatized by the [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs horrible fanfiction]] she was exposed to. [[spoiler: Played straight when Pinkamena brutally defeats the Trollfic.]]
* ''FanFic/PaperMarioX 2'': The author gets shot by [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] at the end of Chapter 52.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': In an omake, Asuka kicks the author in the groin after hearing him mutter that she was angry because it was her time of the month.
* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': In the third chapter's omake Asuka gets mad and fed up with the author's antics and chases him angrily to beat him.
* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is an AlternateUniverse ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' FanFic. A much-hyped and foreshadowed climatic battle occurred between Yukari Yakumo and Yuuka Kazami. At the end, [[spoiler:Yukari merged her soul with Yuuka's, in the attempt to effectively destroy her. It failed, but because Yukari is connected at a deep level with reality's veil, Yuuka saw every single reality that exists or that we created with our imagination for just about everything. She knows about us. She knows about Wiki/TVTropes. And she made that fact '''known'''.]]
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' crossover [[http://www.tthfanfic.org/wholestory.php?no=16127 ''Lacking and Anchor'']] offers an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for the Joker. The accident that turned him into the Joker let him see past the fourth wall. Realizing that his and his world's existence was reliant on having readers, he devoted himself to keeping Batman's story as interesting as possible.
-->'''Joker:''' “How do you expect to keep your readers if your villains fall flat? With a lack of readers our world fades from existence, I couldn't let that happen – better to die in a blaze of glory than to never have existed at all … so I painted the town red in blood, pain and screams like the labor pains of existence to make our world live!”
* From ''WebVideo/PrincessTutuAbridged'' we have Fakir writing to control the ''narrator of the abridged series'' into helping save Duck. And then makes the other abridgers sign a contract to only write non-canon endings for minor characters.
* This is more a background threat to the reader than an actual event in ''Fanfic/{{Pokeumans}}'': because of a mix of clone replacements, memory erasure and secret bases, there is no way to disprove that the series is actually happening in real life. So anyone could be a Pokeuman - even ''you''.
* This happens to the author, or a version of him in the multiverse, during the events of [[FanFic/BondBreaker Bond Breaker]].
* An in-universe example occurs in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3759007/1/Turn-Me-Loose-A-Harry-Potter-Adventure Turn Me Loose: A Harry Potter Adventure]]''. Harry and Fleur use a pensieve to view Harry's memories of him, Bill, and Chen fighting a powerful demon when partway through the demon starts addressing them directly.
* [[http://jusenkyo.wikia.com/wiki/Revenge-fic The Revenge Wars]]--A series of fanfics wherein the Ranma cast discover the existence of FourthWall and [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs are extremely unhappy]] that a bunch of strangers are playing god over their lives.
* The premise of ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-26389-14/TheDivineDemon+Divine+Ideas+From+A+Demonic+Mind.htm Lies of Our Lives]]'' is a fanfiction [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] seeing past the fourth wall and wanting revenge on fanfic writers for the pain they put him and his friends through.
-->'''Xander:''' You watch us, manipulate us, you change our lives and make us suffer and for what? Petty entertainment? Because you're bored? Because you have nothing better to do with your lives!? You fragment and distort our very beings with every word your type, with every image you make, and I say no more. I've seen you, staring at us like the bunch of perverts that you are, and I will not stand for it any longer. All of this will end! Because I'm going to end this. Because I'm coming for you. All of you.
* While actually an April Fool's gag for [[Creator/AuroVee Undermon]], the part where [[spoiler:Chara hijacks the thread, and even proceeds to attack it after Her name was said, giving her control over the Protagonist]], it actually hints at what could happen should She actually gain control for real...
* In-universe, [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Peorth]] is watching a porn video starring Urd in ''[[http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600055428&chapter=2 The Vain Rose's Garden]]'' when Urd turns to the camera and says, "Having fun, Peorth?" She then approaches the camera, and comes out of the television.
* Played with in the [[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} Contractually Obligated Chaos]] series, when Prince Vince harasses the author into writing an extra installment. The actual exchange takes place on ''Website/{{Tumblr}}'', and is only mentioned in the author's notes, but [[http://ladynorbert.tumblr.com/post/141398374109/dear-lady-norbert it's true]]. Other characters occasionally make snarky remarks about the plot, and WhoWritesThisCrap, but none have ever conversed with the author outside of the narrative. Yet, anyway.
* An unusual one in the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' ''Fanfic/TaylorVarga'' where one of the characters with the username Void Cowboy posted ''in the story thread itself''! This was quickly followed by several other characters such as Tin Mother (an in-story secret AI), Armsmaster, and a couple of others including the story-specific Ianthe. Several of these characters have since posted on other threads, thus spreading the meta.
* In ''Webcomic/DoctorWhoRegenerated,'' Daisy makes a drawing of a [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angel]]. Then, in blissful ignorance, she [[spoiler: uploads it into the Internet, where it apparently takes on a life of its own, as images of the Angels are wont to do]]. [[NightmareFuel Sleep tight]].
* InUniverse example with ''VideoGame/TheJoyOfCreationReborn'' which features Scott Cawthon, the creator of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise, and his family being attacked by the animatronics from his own series.
* [[Franchise/DragonAge Varric Tethras]] is credited as the editor on the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series of fanfics. Throughout the main story, there are [[NoteFromEd editor's notes]] in which he converses with the author (whom he has [[TheNicknamer nicknamed]] "Scholar"), criticizes her choice of words, and otherwise makes a lovable pest of himself. According to the notes on the side volume ''Agents Acquired'', he basically insisted that the author add it to the series.
-->'''Author's note:''' I maintain that this was not my idea. I mean, it was a little bit, but in a passing fancy, 'oh hm' sort of fashion. No, my beloved editor was the one who seized this particular plot bunny and ran away with it.\\
'''Editor's note:''' Don't worry about Scholar. [[EasilyForgiven She'll forgive me.]] She always does.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has a touch of this at the very end of episode 12. They've already established Mr. Popo as the most frightening and creepy thing in existence. Then the end of the episode has [=KaiserNeko=] wake up from a nightmare related to the show and declare that he has to stop editing so late at night. Suddenly Mr. Popo takes over his computer and starts talking to him ''in the real world''. Cue horrified scream.
* ''Fanfic/CatRa'': Aroda takes over the author's notes during the alternate reality at the end of Season 3.
* A slightly harmful example in ''[[https://thunderstore.io/package/RZOK/BSODOnDeath/ this mod]]'' for ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain2'' which crashes your PC if you die.
