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* ReachingThroughTheFourthWall: The characters, objects, or concepts in non-physical realities move across the story-device boundary and become physical non-animated characters or objects to apply.

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* ReachingThroughTheFourthWall: The characters, objects, or concepts in non-physical realities move across the story-device boundary and become physical non-animated characters or objects to apply.objects.
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* EndsWithASmile: Doesn't always break the fourth wall, but often does.
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* TitleReadingGag: A joke centred around characters reading the title.
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* AssumingTheAudiencesAge: {{Fourth Wall Observer}}s and characters in works with NoFourthWall assume the viewer/reader/player's age.
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This separation between the characters' world and the audience is the Fourth Wall -- named for the imaginary wall at the front of a stage play beyond which the actors are (usually) not supposed to cross. It's an [[OmnipresentTropes Omnipresent Trope]], because the separation of fiction and audience helps preserve the latter's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The fictional characters treat their story as RealLife, and audience interprets it the same way. See ThreeWallSet for the production implications of this concept; for example, TheCouch often directly faces the Fourth Wall. The exploration and subversion of the Fourth Wall is a common trait of Post Modernism.

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This separation between the characters' world and the audience is the Fourth Wall -- named for the imaginary wall at the front of a stage play beyond which the actors are (usually) not supposed to cross. It's an [[OmnipresentTropes Omnipresent Trope]], because the separation of fiction and audience helps preserve the latter's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The fictional characters treat their story as RealLife, and the audience interprets it the same way. See ThreeWallSet for the production implications of this concept; for example, TheCouch often directly faces the Fourth Wall. The exploration and subversion of the Fourth Wall is a common trait of Post Modernism.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Characters acknowledging that they are performers in a fiction, especially talking directly to the audience.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Characters acknowledging that they are performers in a fiction, especially talking directly to the audience.audience through the wall of the set that's missing because the audience or camera are there, but is still assumed to exist. Also used more broadly to mean acknowledging that their world is a fiction and they are performers within it.
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* AsideGlance: Someone looks in the direction of the screen, doesn't say anything, and doesn't get acknowledged.

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* AsideGlance: Someone looks casts a look in the direction of the screen, audience or screen (usually as reaction to what's happening), doesn't say anything, and doesn't get acknowledged.



* BreakingTheFourthWall: Talking to the audience.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Talking Characters acknowledging that they are performers in a fiction, especially talking directly to the audience.



* FourthWallMailSlot: Fictional characters answer questions from the viewers/readers/etc.

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* FourthWallMailSlot: Fictional characters answer questions from the real viewers/readers/etc.



* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The villain acts like they're going to hurt/kill/etc the viewers.

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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The Implications that the fictional danger will affect the audience, such as the villain acts acting like they're going to hurt/kill/etc the viewers.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Implying the fourth wall or saying things like "If this were a movie".

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Implying Acknowledging aspects of the fourth wall or fiction without quite being aware of it, such as saying things like "If this were a movie".



* MediumAwareness: Being aware you're fictional.

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* MediumAwareness: Being Beyond being aware you're fictional.of being fictional, characters know their story's format; marking time in "episodes" or "issues", knowing that everything happens over length of a TV show, etc.



* ThisIsReality: Characters think they're real people.

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* ThisIsReality: Characters think they're real people."That only works in a movie" say the characters in a movie.
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* {{Prop}}: Something an actor holds or physically interacts with in a production.

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