This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Bluetooth The Pirate: Maybe this one should be a trope, not a stock phrase? The plot device used here is common, but the dismissive phrase used has a lot of variations, it's not always the exact line. I mean, there's "Who would watch a movie like that (looks at camera)," "Why would anyone watch us? (looks at camera)"...
Ununnilium: I agree, actually. It's more the situation than the words.
Licky Lindsay: is Seinfeld the trope maker here; does it pre-date all the other examples?
Scifantasy: The Spider Man example is from the 1960s. So, no.
KJMackley: The ReBoot example was simply a No Fourth Wall moment. I changed it into something from the series much closer to this trope.
- And the play turns out to be little more than Fire Nation propaganda when it ends with Zuko and Aang both going down anticlimactically and Fire Lord Ozai conquering the world.
Lale: Has nothing to do with the trope.
Idler: How exactly were people supposed to go about making a movie about Spider-Man in a world where he actually exists if his identity as Peter Parker is not known? Wouldn't that severely limit the plot?
