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* Creator/GrantMorrison inserted themself into ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' as a character called 'the Writer' with the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared in an issue of ''Animal Man'', then they're part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' #58 (a tie-in to ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods''), where they altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. They are [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed]] when they're hit by writer's block in the middle of a firefight and are unable to write a way to save themself.
* In ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', Dave Sim does this. He even has conversations with Cerebus in which he's speaking in Cerebus' thought balloons with nothing to differentiate his words from Cerebus', and yet somehow always manages to make it clear which of them is speaking at any time. He also alters reality around Cerebus in ways that only a completely omnipotent being could, although he makes it clear to Cerebus that, while he ''is'' Cerebus' creator, he isn't the god Tarim that Cerebus normally worships.
* Partway through ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'', Gwen Poole, who supposedly was born in the real world but somehow traveled into the Marvel universe, realizes she can interact with the medium and control it, in addition to having knowledge of everyone's secret identities from reading comics. Her powers include entering the gutter space, breaking panel walls, muffling noises by grabbing the sound effects, and traveling through time and space by moving between pages. However, her powers are also constricted by editorial mandate, so she cannot do anything the higher-ups would never let a minor character like her do, like killing Doctor Doom or becoming an Avenger.

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* Creator/GrantMorrison inserted themself into ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' as a character called 'the Writer' with ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one story, Reggie sends the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander writer on vacation and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared writes a story in an issue which Jughead suffers the worst day of ''Animal Man'', then they're part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' #58 (a tie-in to ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods''), his life. On the last page, Jughead sends the story's artist on vacation and draws his ''own'' ending where they altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. They are [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed]] when they're hit by writer's block in the middle of a firefight and are unable to write a way to save themself.
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* In ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': Dave Sim does this. He even has conversations with Cerebus in which he's speaking in Cerebus' thought balloons with nothing to differentiate his words from Cerebus', and yet somehow always manages to make it clear which of them is speaking at any time. He also alters reality around Cerebus in ways that only a completely omnipotent being could, although he makes it clear to Cerebus that, while he ''is'' Cerebus' creator, he isn't the god Tarim that Cerebus normally worships.
* ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'': Creator [[AuthorAvatar Paul Chadwick]] steps into one story to basically give the character of Concrete some time off: He turns him back into a human, gives him some time alone with Maureen, then [[KissingDiscretionShot tells us the reader to give them some privacy]] while he conjures up some crazy artwork out of thin air and spends some quiet time creating little worlds. He has also spent time away from proper plots to imagine crazy little things like what would happen if Concrete left a trail of himself everywhere he went...
* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': Creator/GrantMorrison inserted themself into ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' as a character called 'the Writer' with the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared in an issue of ''Animal Man'', then they're part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #58 (a tie-in to ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods''), where they altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. They are [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed]] when they're hit by writer's block in the middle of a firefight and are unable to write a way to save themself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': The comic has a variation on this; the various fairy tale characters living in the mundane world are aware of the stories about them right from the start, but are unsure as to the exact relationship between the stories and their own existence. The spin-off "Jack of Fables" introduces the Literals, who are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of literary concepts (such as genres, the DeusExMachina, the idea of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerisation]] etc.) and this includes Kevin Thorn, the actual writer. [[CrisisCrossover The Great Fables Crossover]] has them having to deal with his omnipotent RewritingReality powers and his view that the world (both the fairy tale homelands and the supposedly "real" mundane world) is ''his'' story that has gotten out of hand and needs to be [[RetGone erased]] so he can write a better story in its place.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The page illustration comes from issue #508 from Creator/MarkWaid's run on ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1998'', where the team literally meets God. They're surprised to find that He looks like Creator/JackKirby, co-creator of their comic book. He assures them that it is the most appropriate way for Him to look to them. He then uses a pencil to erase the recent scarring on Reed's face and restore Ben to his Thing form.
* ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'': A one-shot comic that was an extended tribute to Creator/JackKirby featured Donatello meeting [[{{Tuckerization}} cartoonist named Kirby]] who'd found a magic crystal that, when tied to his pen, [[PaintedTunnelRealTrain allowed anything he drew with it to come to life]]. Donatello and Kirby end up being pulled into Kirby's comic book world, and they get caught up in a battle between Kirby's heroic characters and his evil characters. Kirby helps Donatello and the heroic characters defeat the villains by drawing special weapons for Donatello to use and eventually binding all the villains with specially designed shackles. The story ends with Donatello returning to New York, although Kirby [[IChooseToStay chooses to stay]] so that Don can return and gives him a sketch as a parting gift.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'':
Partway through ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'', the series, Gwen Poole, who supposedly was born in the real world but somehow traveled into the Marvel universe, realizes she can interact with the medium and control it, in addition to having knowledge of everyone's secret identities from reading comics. Her powers include entering the gutter space, breaking panel walls, muffling noises by grabbing the sound effects, and traveling through time and space by moving between pages. However, her powers are also constricted by editorial mandate, so she cannot do anything the higher-ups would never let a minor character like her do, like killing Doctor Doom or becoming an Avenger.



* In ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'', creator [[AuthorAvatar Paul Chadwick]] steps into one story to basically give the character of Concrete some time off: He turns him back into a human, gives him some time alone with Maureen, then [[KissingDiscretionShot tells us the reader to give them some privacy]] while he conjures up some crazy artwork out of thin air and spends some quiet time creating little worlds. He has also spent time away from proper plots to imagine crazy little things like what would happen if Concrete left a trail of himself everywhere he went...
* A one-shot ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic that was an extended tribute to Creator/JackKirby featured Donatello meeting [[{{Tuckerization}} cartoonist named Kirby]] who'd found a magic crystal that, when tied to his pen, [[PaintedTunnelRealTrain allowed anything he drew with it to come to life]]. Donatello and Kirby end up being pulled into Kirby's comic book world, and they get caught up in a battle between Kirby's heroic characters and his evil characters. Kirby helps Donatello and the heroic characters defeat the villains by drawing special weapons for Donatello to use and eventually binding all the villains with specially designed shackles. The story ends with Donatello returning to New York, although Kirby [[IChooseToStay chooses to stay]] so that Don can return and gives him a sketch as a parting gift.
* In one ComicBook/ArchieComics story, Reggie sends the writer on vacation and writes a story in which Jughead suffers the worst day of his life. On the last page, Jughead sends the story's artist on vacation and draws his ''own'' ending where he gets revenge on Reggie.
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' has a variation on this; the various fairy tale characters living in the mundane world are aware of the stories about them right from the start, but are unsure as to the exact relationship between the stories and their own existence. The spin-off "Jack of Fables" introduces the Literals, who are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of literary concepts (such as genres, the DeusExMachina, the idea of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerisation]] etc.) and this includes Kevin Thorn, the actual writer. [[CrisisCrossover The Great Fables Crossover]] has them having to deal with his omnipotent RewritingReality powers and his view that the world (both the fairy tale homelands and the supposedly "real" mundane world) is ''his'' story that has gotten out of hand and needs to be [[RetGone erased]] so he can write a better story in its place.
* Completely inverted in ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' -- an out-of-continuity strip reprinted in ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel'' depicts [[Creator/AlisonBechdel Bechdel]] as a prisoner ''chained up in a dungeon'' by her characters and ''forced'' to draw the strip!
* The page illustration comes from a ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' story where the team literally meets God. They're surprised to find that He looks like Creator/JackKirby, co-creator of their comic book. He assures them that it is the most appropriate way for Him to look to them. He then uses a pencil to erase the recent scarring on Reed's face and restore Ben to his Thing form.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When Creator/RobertKanigher retooled the book he wrote himself in as a character that called up a bunch of characters from the story to tell them they were being let go and wrote them and their histories out of that universe, while the characters themselves were quite confused about what was happening.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'', creator [[AuthorAvatar Paul Chadwick]] steps into one story to basically give the character of Concrete some time off: He turns him back into a human, gives him some time alone with Maureen, then [[KissingDiscretionShot tells us the reader to give them some privacy]] while he conjures up some crazy artwork out of thin air and spends some quiet time creating little worlds. He has also spent time away from proper plots to imagine crazy little things like what would happen if Concrete left a trail of himself everywhere he went...
* A one-shot ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic that was an extended tribute to Creator/JackKirby featured Donatello meeting [[{{Tuckerization}} cartoonist named Kirby]] who'd found a magic crystal that, when tied to his pen, [[PaintedTunnelRealTrain allowed anything he drew with it to come to life]]. Donatello and Kirby end up being pulled into Kirby's comic book world, and they get caught up in a battle between Kirby's heroic characters and his evil characters. Kirby helps Donatello and the heroic characters defeat the villains by drawing special weapons for Donatello to use and eventually binding all the villains with specially designed shackles. The story ends with Donatello returning to New York, although Kirby [[IChooseToStay chooses to stay]] so that Don can return and gives him a sketch as a parting gift.
* In one ComicBook/ArchieComics story, Reggie sends the writer on vacation and writes a story in which Jughead suffers the worst day of his life. On the last page, Jughead sends the story's artist on vacation and draws his ''own'' ending where he gets revenge on Reggie.
* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' has a variation on this; the various fairy tale characters living in the mundane world are aware of the stories about them right from the start, but are unsure as to the exact relationship between the stories and their own existence. The spin-off "Jack of Fables" introduces the Literals, who are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of literary concepts (such as genres, the DeusExMachina, the idea of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerisation]] etc.) and this includes Kevin Thorn, the actual writer. [[CrisisCrossover The Great Fables Crossover]] has them having to deal with his omnipotent RewritingReality powers and his view that the world (both the fairy tale homelands and the supposedly "real" mundane world) is ''his'' story that has gotten out of hand and needs to be [[RetGone erased]] so he can write a better story in its place.
* Completely inverted in ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' -- an out-of-continuity strip reprinted in ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel'' depicts [[Creator/AlisonBechdel Bechdel]] as a prisoner ''chained up in a dungeon'' by her characters and ''forced'' to draw the strip!
* The page illustration comes from a ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' story where the team literally meets God. They're surprised to find that He looks like Creator/JackKirby, co-creator of their comic book. He assures them that it is the most appropriate way for Him to look to them. He then uses a pencil to erase the recent scarring on Reed's face and restore Ben to his Thing form.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'':
''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': When Creator/RobertKanigher retooled the book ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', he wrote himself in as a character that called up a bunch of characters from the story to tell them they were being let go and wrote them and their histories out of that universe, while the characters themselves were quite confused about what was happening.


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* ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'': Completely inverted in an out-of-continuity strip reprinted in ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel'' that depicts [[Creator/AlisonBechdel Bechdel]] as a prisoner ''chained up in a dungeon'' by her characters and ''forced'' to draw the strip!
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* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'' features a battle between a stick figure and his off-screen animator in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': In "The Giant And The Knee Nibblers", Wilf was transported into a story he'd just been telling, and ends up with a limited version of these- he can add new elements to the story by narrating, but cannot delete anything he'd already created (including elements he'd introduced before being transported there) or radically change the scenario. The only way for him to leave was to give the story (which he'd stopped telling in the middle) a satisfying ending.
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*Depending on how you look at it, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu, the author of "Mixed Blood," a ShowWithinAShow, is the one who is actually controlling everything in the world of "Mixed Blood." In the end, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu speculates that he is in a novel (Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove) so he isn't really the one in control.
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* The first-season final episode of ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' reveals that [[spoiler:the AI overseer K.E.V.I.N.]] is responsible for writing all of the stories in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. [[spoiler:When Jen complains that the finale is [[StrictlyFormula too formulaic]] -- with villains stealing powers via a blood transfusion, a [[FinalBattle big CGI-overdosed fight,]] and the [[BackForTheFinale gratuitous return of forgotten characters]] -- [[spoiler:K.E.V.I.N.]] agrees and rewrites the ending to address her complaints.

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* The first-season final episode of ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' reveals that [[spoiler:the AI overseer K.E.V.I.N.]] is responsible for writing all of the stories in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. [[spoiler:When Jen complains that the finale is [[StrictlyFormula too formulaic]] -- with villains stealing powers via a blood transfusion, a [[FinalBattle big CGI-overdosed fight,]] and the [[BackForTheFinale gratuitous return of forgotten characters]] -- [[spoiler:K.K.E.V.I.N.]] agrees and rewrites the ending to address her complaints.

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* Completely inverted in ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' -- an out-of-continuity strip reprinted in ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel'' depicts Bechdel as a prisoner ''chained up in a dungeon'' by her characters and ''forced'' to draw the strip!

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* Completely inverted in ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' -- an out-of-continuity strip reprinted in ''The Indelible Alison Bechdel'' depicts Bechdel [[Creator/AlisonBechdel Bechdel]] as a prisoner ''chained up in a dungeon'' by her characters and ''forced'' to draw the strip!
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* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Played with. TheMultiverse is made up of 777,777 different creations/universes/settings, each of whom is a story told by a now-dead god. The gods are dead precisely because of this trope: They realised their creations needed to grow and evolve without them, just as they themselves had come into being because of [[TheCreator YISUN]] [[HeroicSuicide deciding that something Not YISUN should exist]]. Therefore, the gods poured all of themselves into their own stories and then died, leaving the Multiverse to their creations. What the gods did not predict was that those very same creations would eventually leave their homes, enter heaven, and pluck the dead gods' voices and names from their corpses. This is the origins of the Magus Keys, the artifacts that power [[DemiurgeArchetype the Demiurges]], and it is implied that holding a Magus Key [[DomainHolder is akin to holding author power over the creation it was used to speak into being]].
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* Creator/GrantMorrison inserted themself into ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' as a character called 'the Writer' with the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared in an issue of ''Animal Man'', then they're part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' #58, where they altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. They are killed when they're hit by writer's block in the middle of a firefight and are unable to write a way to save themself.

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* Creator/GrantMorrison inserted themself into ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' as a character called 'the Writer' with the ability to alter reality. Later, John Ostrander and Yale figured, hell, if Morrison appeared in an issue of ''Animal Man'', then they're part of mainstream DC continuity, right? Fair game, right? They featured 'the Writer' in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'' #58, #58 (a tie-in to ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods''), where they altered reality by typing a comic book style script into a computer. They are killed [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed]] when they're hit by writer's block in the middle of a firefight and are unable to write a way to save themself.
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* The main character of "WebOriginal/NothingLikeTheSun" eventually [[spoiler:finds out that she is a fictional character, and brings her authors in to her world in an attempt to force them to use their author powers to get rid of her glowing eyes. However, this doesn't work because the authors only have author powers in their own world, not hers]].

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* The main character of "WebOriginal/NothingLikeTheSun" "Literature/NothingLikeTheSun" eventually [[spoiler:finds out that she is a fictional character, and brings her authors in to her world in an attempt to force them to use their author powers to get rid of her glowing eyes. However, this doesn't work because the authors only have author powers in their own world, not hers]].
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** It should be noted that multiple ''[=DnD=]'' media, as well as other TabletopGame media is general, ''greatly'' discourages a DM of pulling this trope, both because the players aren't there to watch the DM go on a power trip with a [[SelfInsertFic self insert]], but also because it enforces bad habits when it comes to story crafting.
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* In a rom hack of VideoGame/PaperMario64, ''Videogame/PaperMarioDarkStarEdition'', [[spoiler:the final BossFight of the added Dark Temple is a [[MyNameIsQuestionMarks mysterious]] dark sword. A [[AuthorAvatar ShadeBlade,]] even. It has the power of disabling your ability to use items, or press the B button, and the reward you get for beating it is access to the mod's source code.]]
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* Taken to [[HilarityEnsues hilarious]] extremes in the song [[http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiRRBILLKT;ttRRBILLKT.html "Railroad Bill and the Kitten"]]

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* ''Theatre/{{Fairview}}'': The play is about an upper-class black family having a dinner party. In the last act, four white people from the audience enter the play and start changing the story. Jimbo enters as Tyrone, and plays Tyrone, previously described as an attorney, as a rapping gangsta draped in gold chains. Dayton the responsible husband and father is suddenly said to have gambled away all the family's savings. Then the white people, continuing to improvise, change the story to say that actually Beverly spent all the family's money on drugs and Dayton has syphillis. Keisha, who was earlier said to be a lesbian, is now pregnant.

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* ''Theatre/{{Fairview}}'': ''Theatre/{{Fairview|2018}}'': The play is about an upper-class black family having a dinner party. In the last act, four white people from the audience enter the play and start changing the story. Jimbo enters as Tyrone, and plays Tyrone, previously described as an attorney, as a rapping gangsta draped in gold chains. Dayton the responsible husband and father is suddenly said to have gambled away all the family's savings. Then the white people, continuing to improvise, change the story to say that actually Beverly spent all the family's money on drugs and Dayton has syphillis. Keisha, who was earlier said to be a lesbian, is now pregnant.

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* [[spoiler:K.E.V.I.N.]] in the finale of ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw''.


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* [[spoiler:K.E.V.I.N.]] in the finale of ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw''.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'', The Simpsons [[RageAgainstTheAuthor fight]] Creator/MattGroening who creates an army of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender and Zoidbergs]] from [[ArtInitiatesLife sketches on paper.]]
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': When Creator/RobertKanigher retooled the book he wrote himself in as a character that called up a bunch of characters from the story to tell them they were being let go and wrote them and their histories out of that universe, while the characters themselves were quite confused about what was happening.
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