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* In the first episode of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'', Nyarko gives introductions for Tamae and [[StudentCouncilPresident Yoichi]] for anybody who missed the first season; in the next cut, we see Nyarko is facing the front of the classroom and [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] asks "Who the heck are you talking to?"

* Dr Scott seemingly talk to the viewer during the dinner scene of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. The [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain remake]] has Brad turn and look into the camera as if he's trying to work out who Scott's talking to.

* Sometimes on ''WebVideo/NoPixel'', Diego will break the fourth wall (as befitting [[WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo his source material]]), and it confuses the heck out of other characters. This [[https://clips.twitch.tv/PatientGlutenFreeYakRiPepperonis leads to hilarity]] when he first meets [[RabidCop Jordan Steele]].
-->'''Diego:''' ''[[[BreakingTheFourthWall Faces the fourth wall]]]'' Can you point to the police officer abusing us?\\
'''Jordan:''' I'm not on duty right now!\\
'''Diego:''' ''[Still talking to the fourth wall]'' You ''can?'' Well, where is he?\\
'''Jordan:''' What -- who the fuck are you talking to?\\
'''Diego:''' ''[Still talking to the fourth wall]'' Right ''there?'' Great job!\\
'''Jordan:''' Hello? What the fuck? ''Who are you talking to?''

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-->'''Ja'far:''' ''(pointing from an angle where [[HandOrObjectUnderwear his hands strategically hide the others' crotches]])'' Listen, why don't you hide ''those'' instead?
-->'''Sinbad:''' Hide what?
-->'''Ja'far:''' Those ''things'' that [[MediumAwareness aren't supposed to be seen on-screen]]!
-->'''Mystras:''' What screen?

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-->'''Hulk:''' Who are you talking to?
-->'''She-Hulk:''' The people on the other side of the fourth wall.
-->'''Hulk:''' Uh, Jen? There's no wall there. (waves hand to demonstrate) Just air.

* While Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' has NoFourthWall to the point of PostModernism, their parody of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' had this exchange:
-->-How '''[[ElmuhFuddSyndwome iwonic]]'''! It could only be a '''wwiter's''' idea.\\
-Writer? Who is that?\\
-Oh, just an '''imaginawy figuwe.'''

* In ''Comicbook/SpiderVerse'', the version of Peter Parker from the ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' animated series narrates his adventures, just like in the cartoon. His fellow Spider-Men are bewildered by this.
-->'''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Sixties Peter Parker]]''': Who's he talking to?
-->'''[[Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan Miles Morales]]''': I'm starting to think even ''he'' doesn't know.

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-->'''Rob''': When is this gonna stop?!\\
'''Laura''' (who just walked in): When's what gonna stop?\\
'''Rob''': Uhh, nothing.

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* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'':

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-->'''Edge''': Dude, we totally fooled the player into thinking we weren't going to reunite.\\
'''Christian''': I know, we totally ... wait a minute? Player? What player?\\
'''Edge''': You see that weirdo staring at us through the TV?\\
''(Edge & Christian look right into the camera and for an added bonus, Edge waves hello to the player in question.)''\\
'''Christian''': No, but I'll take your word for it.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}'', when the Doppleganger Gang confronts the [[Webcomic/{{Magellan}} Master Assassin]] - leader of the Character Assassins, a killer cult that believes they can break the fourth wall and [[RageAgainstTheAuthor enslave their creator]] by killing the "Alpha Character" - we can see how his breaking the fourth wall and addressing the reader looks from their perspective.
-->'''Kid Apocalypse:''' And what's with the kooky asides? Who's he thinks he is talking to?
-->'''Syko Suki:''' Dunno.
** Amusingly, Master Assassin is not ''actually'' fourth-wall aware - he just thinks he is. His aside glances are as likely to go away from the reader as towards them.

* The page quote comes from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' where filler strips have NoFourthWall, but story arcs do. When Matt and Rat, two discarded characters, tried to complain to Tedd about not being protagonists, he didn't know what they meant. Matt quickly deducted that it means a story arc started, so Tedd is no longer aware he that is in a comic. And then he [[SubvertedTrope forced him to break the fourth wall]] so they could have an argument.
** Said characters were subsequently treated for their shared psychosis and became productive members of society according to [[http://www.formspring.me/DanShive/q/233324136087167409 Word of God]].

-->'''Coyote:''' But what was the dark secret he promised to tell her? Now we shall find out...
-->'''Antimony:''' Who are you even talking to?
-->'''Coyote:''' HAHAHA!

-->'''Davan''': Silas, how many times have I told you not to sit on my porch and narrate gossip to your imaginary cowpoke friends?
-->'''Silas''': I'm so lonely.

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* In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', where there is NoFourthWall, [[spoiler:{{ComicBook/Darkseid}} does not know he is a fictional character and gets very mad when ComicBook/TheJoker tries to tell him what he really is]].

-->'''Sage:''' It's ridiculous to think that ''Ninja Resurrection'' is so bad that it rendered me catatonic for two whole days... (*AsideGlance*) isn't it?\\

'''Sage:''' (still looking at the camera) Just get in the chair, Gabe.

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-->'''Brandy:''' Lola, I must have seen that same thing happen in like a dozen TV shows, and it never worked once!
-->'''Lola:''' But Brandy, [[ThisIsReality this isn't a TV show! This is real life!]]
-->'''Brandy:''' (AsideGlance) I haven't had the heart to tell her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "It's A Jersey Thing", Shiela admits via a ''Series/JerseyShore''-style ConfessionCam that she's from Jersey. Which leads to this moment...
-->'''Sharon:''' Um, Sheila, who are you talking to?
-->'''Shiela:''' You wouldn't understand. It's a Jersey thing.

-->'''Sammy Fishboy:''' Oh my god I can see you! Yeah, yeah, yeah you out there! A-am I still asleep? Why does it feel like I'm trapped in a TV show?! Why have you trapped me here while you watch, you ugly pink fleshy things with your sofas and chairs and ugly pictures on your walls! What's going on here! How did this happen! STOP WATCHING ME YOU UGLY PEOPLE! Why are you out there watching meee!
-->'''[[MyBrainIsBig Brian Brain]]:''' Who is Sammy conversing with?

-->'''Gossamer:''' PEOPLE!!!!! (''runs off through the wall screaming'')
* This happens frequently on ''DangerMouse''. Notably when Mac The Spoon asks who "are all these viewers?" Penfold names four.

* On ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir,'' Will [[AsideGlance stares]] at the audience in horror after his date starts bossing him around. She finishes her rant with "And ''what'' are you looking at?!"

* The page quote comes from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' where filler strips have NoFourthWall, but story arcs do. When Matt and Rat, two discarded characters, tried to complain to Tedd about not being protagonists, he didn't know what they meant. Matt quickly deducted that it means a story arc started, so Tedd is no longer aware he that is in a comic. And then he [[SubvertedTrope forced him to break the fourth wall]] so they could have an argument.
** Said characters were subsequently treated for their shared psychosis and became productive members of society according to [[http://www.formspring.me/DanShive/q/233324136087167409 Word of God]].
* Every time ''Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}}'' meets medium-aware characters, she tries to explain why it's impossible for them to be comics characters. It never works.

* The sprite comic ''WebComic/KidRadd'' uses this trope - it's about video game characters being rescued from their games and living in the internet. Sometimes it takes a while for them to adjust.

* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' has this as a major plot point as characters start developing "personal Fourth Walls".
* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/001018c Megaman is paranoid, and Protoman disbelieving.]]

* One episode from the very short lived stop-motion {{Black Comedy}} Canadian TV series, ''What It's Like Being Alone'', had one of the mutated orphans, [[FishPeople Sammy Fishboy]], suddenly becomes aware than an unseen audience is watching him and freaks out that they (us) won't leave him alone and the idea that he may cease to exist if the show ends or we change the channel. Whenever he tries to point out to the others where he's being watched, the camera pans to show him pointing at random objects and locations. The other orphans and their caretaker [[TheEeyore Aldous]] think he is insane and use different methods to cure his madness, including medications, being catapulted into a nearby tree, shock treatment, and dumping him in a bath filled with hundreds of leeches. Eventually, the resident [[GentlemanandaScholar sea monster]] patches things up by stating that Sammy's "delusions" are his imagination and that everyone else has one.

** Subverted in Uncanny X-Force #34. After saving Wolverine, Deadpool tells him that he wasn't worried about him dying because apparently "everyone knew he wasn't going to die". When Wolverine asks who are everyone, Deadpool points out to the reader, but in the next panel we find out he was actually pointing to a security camera. It turns into MindScrew when you start wondering why the guys watching the footage of the security camera would think Wolverine was safe from dying.

* This happens to SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} a lot. Every time he breaks the fourth wall or indicates he knows he's a comic book character in the presence of someone else, they have absolutely no idea what he means. Most commonly the other character will respond with a FlatWhat and an assumption that he's crazy. This being Deadpool, they're probably not that far off.

->'''Tedd:''' Comic? What comic?
->'''Rat:''' Oh, I'm sorry; you're in the middle of some over-hyped, overly complex storyline and couldn't possibly acknowledge the fact that this is a comic!
-->-- ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-31 here]]

* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': "Time for a Frown" is basically an essay about [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the play's source material]] sung by a gatering of several characters. A few mentions of "[[Creator/GeorgeRRMartin George]]", the author of the books, leave Sansa clearly bemused.

* Mr. Nobody, the villain in ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'', is aware that he's a character in a show on a streaming platform, discusses the series' critical reception and its narrative structure, and even pauses playback of the app at one point. The other characters treat this as a delusion on the part of Mr. Nobody, though they do acknowledge that Mr. Nobody's narration has real power.
There's also Flex Mentallo, who may or may not be a fictional character, who can hear and understand the Negative Spirit speaking even when no other character can.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': When Dexter gets fed up with Dee Dee's antics, he "fires" her and seeks a replacement. He settles on a buxom woman, and after trying to coach her on Dee Dee's mannerisms, she starts complaining that there are no cameras or people watching. Dexter is utterly confused what she's talking about.
-->'''Buxom woman:''' This is ''Dexter's Lab'', right?\\
'''Dexter:''' Yes?\\
'''Buxom woman:''' The TV show?\\
'''Dexter:''' TV show? This is not a TV show. I'm a real little boy and this is my lab! I built it.\\
'''Buxom woman:''' ''(suddenly angry)'' Ooh, my agent is so fired! ''(storms off)''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episode 69, a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [[ParodyEpisode parody]], Kaeloo tries to teach the audience to speak foreign languages by saying a word in a different language and staring at the screen [[FakeInteravticity waiting for the audience to repeat after her.]] In the middle of one such session, Stumpy walks in, sees Kaeloo standing there staring into space since he can't see the audience, and is highly confused.

* Mr. Nobody, the villain in ''Series/DoomPatrol'', is aware that he's a character in a show on a streaming platform, discusses the series' critical reception and its narrative structure, and even pauses playback of the app at one point. The other characters treat this as a delusion on the part of Mr. Nobody, though they do acknowledge that Mr. Nobody's narration has real power.

* Jonny 2x4 from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is the only character in a series where every other character has MediumAwareness to not know of their fictional nature. At the end of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'', Jonny is confused when [[CompanionCube Plank]] tells him they haven't got time to get revenge on the other kids for an earlier slight because the movie is over.

* One episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'' had Maya meeting an insane man who thought he was Woody Allen. Near the end, he breaks the fourth wall and starts talking to the camera, to Maya's great confusion.

Most of the time this trope is played in the same way medium awareness is in said work of fiction. If it's PlayedForLaughs, so is everybody's ignorance. If medium awareness is PlayedForDrama, this trope may add a little to it--our hero has to deal with being a fictional character ''and'' everybody else thinking he's crazy.

* Jonny 2x4 from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is the only character in a series where every other character has MediumAwareness to not know about the fourth wall. At the end of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'', Johnny is baffled when [[CompanionCube Plank]] tells him they haven't got time to get revenge on the other kids for an earlier slight because the movie is over.
-->'''Johnny:''' There's no time left? It's the end of the movie? ''What'' movie?!

* The page image is from a fan comic for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', where the character Pinkie Pie frequently leans on the fourth wall, with the occasional breaking. Surprisingly enough, this trope does ''not'' apply to this character. It does apply to Iron Will though, who gives the fourth wall a thumbs-up whenever he says one of his catchphrases, to the confusion of other characters.