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** [[Characters/SheHulkTitleCharacter She-Hulk]]

** [[Characters/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]]

* ''Fanfic/PonyPalsDirkStriderEdition'' heads in this direction once [[AuthorAvatar Dirk and Jane Betancourt]] show up. Topics played with include the girls' acknowledging and hating NoFourthWall being forced on them, lampshading Dirk's pretensiousness, and Betancourt getting into a lengthy conversation with Dirk over how their talking is just another excuse to for him to argue with himself. All of which is is supposed to obstenibly be Jane Crocker's birthday present.

** ComicBook/SheHulk
** Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}

** [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]

** Giffen and [=DeMatteis'=]

** Creator/ChristopherPriestComics

%%* The later ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games use lampshading as a frequent source of humor, most prominently Sonic's snarky comments towards Dr Eggman's plans past and present.

* LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}, in his LetsPlay videos will lampshade anything and everything that happens. Usually done with regards to tropes within the game itself, either the story or gameplay, but often will point out how [[CatchPhrase cliche something]] [[VerbalTic he says is]], or how badly he's playing due to the [[PerformanceAnxiety Let's Play Curse]].

'''Phineas:''' [[CatchPhrase Hey, Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!]]\\

'''Phineas:''' [[CatchPhrase Hey, where's Perry?]]

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is filled with moments where Bella comments on the series' much-maligned flaws like [[IdiotBall how inexplicably stupid her own decisions are]], [[StalkingIsLove the disturbingly unhealthy nature of her relationship with Edward]] and [[VanillaProtagonist her lack of any discernible personality traits.]]

* ''Film/TheresNothingOutThere'', in which a group of teenagers stay at a cottage in the woods and then get attacked by an alien. The twist is the GenreSavvy protagonist, who points out the absurdities of the CatScare, predicts DeathBySex, and eventually figures out that [[spoiler: [[TrappedInTVLand they're all literally trapped inside a horror movie]]]].

** ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}!'' does much the same, except every RPG trope [[ClicheStorm in existence]] gets lampshaded by ''everyone''. But especially [[OnlySaneMan Ardem.]]

* In the anime version of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', and in the novels, the SOS Brigade create a film for the Cultural Festival. Kyon becomes narrator, as usual, and proceeds to act as a LemonyNarrator, threatening to beat up Koizumi should he kiss Mikuru, and pointing out that some scenes just don't make sense for instance.

This can also be a bad thing. Sometimes this is a problem because [[DontExplainTheJoke they explained the bulb too much.]] In addition, if the goal was [[PlayedForDrama drama]], excessive lampshading can draw away from the tone of the scene. Lampshading a badly written plot point or [[IdiotPlot stupid character decision]] can also have a negative effect as it can make the characters look dumb for not realising their stupid idea earlier, which in turn makes the writers look stupid for allowing themselves to write their plot and characters in an idiotic manner.

* ''Film/BurnAfterReading'': Without the CIA scenes, the plot would look like a [[IdiotPlot ridiculous, disconnected mess]]. Just having an omniscient observer ''acknowledge'' that the plot is a ridiculous, disconnected mess somehow manages to absolve this.

* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' spends almost all of its time lampshading just about everything nonsensical about ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

* ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'' is made of lampshades. Even directly referencing [[Wiki/TVTropes This Very Wiki]].

* ''VideoGame/ClarencesBigChance'': Due to the game's parodic and humourous nature, Pseudolonewolf is able to [[UpToEleven hang even more lampshades than he usually does]].

* '''Webcomic/{{Comc}}'': While [[TheRant the commentary]] says (lampshades?) that "semi-frequent" LampshadeHanging might still be an exaggeration, [[https://sites.google.com/site/comccomic/archive/comc40 this str'p]] [[SpeechBubblesInterruption nearly]] lampshades lampshading lampshading using a [[LampshadeWearing lampshade]] to lampshade lampshade hanging. No wonder Block got a headache.

* There are two dungeons in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' which feature countless billboards lampshading almost every known dungeon cliché, including the overdose on billboards itself.

** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}
** ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}
** ComicBook/SquirrelGirl
** Franchise/SpiderMan
** ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}
** ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2009}} III

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': Yahtzee has a habit of pointing out how cliche something he's about to do is, and in [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1632-Just-Cause-2 one case]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment lampshaded lampshading]].

* The ''ComicStrip/{{Garlfield}}'' parody ''Gurlfeel'' is about a struggling cartoonist who decides to do anthropomorphic pet comics because he's certain the audience won't pay attention to the humor so long as [[SexSells the personified pet is cute]] -- as he explains to his attractive, pet-like catgirl roommate. Many of the strips make similar self-deprecating jabs at its premise.