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* ''Webcomic/BattleKreaturez'' has a recurring Cast QnA segment that supplements the main comic, where the characters answer questions submitted by readers. The framing device is non-canonical but the answers themselves are true.

* ''WebAnimation/AngelHare'' has bonus videos twice per season in which Francis (filling in for Gabby, who is apparently supposed to be the one reading them, but is always unavailable whenever it comes up) reads questions from the Youtube comments section as if they’re letters being sent to the show by fans. In the second such episode of season 2, the spot was instead filled by Zag's secretary Francine.

* ''WebVideo/AngelHare'' has bonus videos twice per season in which Francis (filling in for Gabby, who is apparently supposed to be the one reading them, but is always unavailable whenever it comes up) reads questions from the Youtube comments section as if they’re letters being sent to the show by fans. In the second such episode of season 2, the spot was instead filled by Zag's secretary Francine.

** ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' vol. 4 took this to the next level. Its occasional attempts to bring back the lettercol are done in comic book format, with the Legionnaires reading out the letters and discussing them.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Cerebus}}'' letters pages, a regular correspondent mentioned Cerebus [[spoiler:throwing a baby off a roof]]. In a later issue, Astoria berates Cerebus for that action. He replies to her (and to the letter writer), pointing out that he [[spoiler:threw the baby from the front steps; he threw an old man off the roof]]. Next issue had a letter from the original correspondent feeling crunchy for having been corrected by Cerebus himself.

* Most British humour comics of the seventies and eighties had the lettercolumn run by the "flagship" character (usually but not always the one whose strip was on the front cover). These included ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK for ''Comicbook/TheBeano'', Desperate Dan for ''Comicbook/TheDandy'', Little Mo for ''Comicbook/TheBeezer'', Buster for ''Comicbook/{{Buster}}'', Sid and Shiner for both halves of ''Comicbook/WhizzerAndChips'' and so on. For a while ''The Beano'' also had a half-page feature called "Roger's Dodge Clinic", where readers could send their problems to Roger the Dodger, and he could advise them how to scam their way out of it.
* The girls' anthology comics ''Comicbook/{{Mandy}}'', ''Comicbook/{{Bunty}}'', ''Comicbook/{{Jinty}}'', ''Comicbook/{{Misty}}'' etc. generally had the letters answered by the character the comic was named after.

-->'''Creator/ChristopherJudge:''' So the first question, of the Internet. "Is Christopher... ''(pause)'' Is Creator/ChristopherJudge really White?"
-->'''Joe Flannigan:''' "When are we going to hear [[TheCastShowOff Teyla sing?]]"
-->'''David Hewlett:''' [[HilariousInHindsight When Hell freezes over.]]

-->'''Belkar:''' Here's an idea: Let's never do this again.\\

-->'''Pig''': Hey folks, viewer mail time again! Oh, here's one from Sally, age 14. "Dear Pig, aren't you interrupting the story at the most suspenseful part?" Well, the answer is yes, Sally, yes I am. Keep those cards and letters coming!

-->-- ''"Help Me, Professor Kokonoe"'', ''VideoGame/BlazBlue: [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]''

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' has unlockable comedy scenes in Story Mode called "Teach Me! Ms. Litchi!" where Litchi teaches Taokaka how to be a vigilante. This segment is unrelated to the storyline, and it doesn't give gameplay tips, but it does explain how the world of ''Blazblue'' works.

** The British comic based on [[Film/{{Transformers}} the film series]] does this as well. At first, it was run by Starscream (who wasn't pleased when readers sent him mail about how much they liked the Autobots). It was later taken over by [[OddCouple Ironhide and Barricade]], who had a lot of fun with continuity issues and Barricade's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse unexplained disappearance]]. Near the end of 2011, when the comic was retooled to focus on ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', the letters page came to be run by that show's incarnations of Arcee and Megatron.

* One episode of the ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' ''Nyaruani'' shorts series had Nyarko and Mahiro hosting such a show. Their first (and only) letter comes from someone with the pen name "Demon Vending Machine" (which Nyarko declares an AwesomeMcCoolname); however, he loses her good will by asking an extremely nitpicky SeriesContinuityError question, which annoys Nyarko so much that she rips the letter into confetti. Then she cheerfully says "To be continued!", to which Mahiro replies "No it won't!"

* The girls' anthology comics ''Comicbook/{{Mandy}}'', ''Comicbook/{{Bunty}}'', Comicbook/{{Jinty}}, Comicbook/{{Misty}} etc. generally had the letters answered by the character the comic was named after.

* Most British humour comics of the seventies and eighties had the lettercolumn run by the "flagship" character (usually but not always the one whose strip was on the front cover). These included ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK for ''Comicbook/TheBeano'', Desperate Dan for ''Comicbook/TheDandy'', Little Mo for ''Comicbook/TheBeezer'', Buster for ''Comicbook/{{Buster}}'', Sid and Shiner for both halves of ''Comicbook/WhizzerAndChips'' and so on. For a while the Beano also had a half-page feature called "Roger's Dodge Clinic", where readers could send their problems to Roger the Dodger, and he could advise them how to scam their way out of it.

* When playing ''VideoGame/NetHack'' on some Unix systems, if the player happened to receive a new email while playing, a [[IncrediblyLamePun mail daemon]] would appear in-game and deliver a "scroll of mail" to the player's character with the email.

* ''WebAnimation/ArbyNTheChief'' has one that was introduced in the fourth season. Now it has become its own series as a spin-off to Arby 'n' the Chief.

* Parodied in the machinima ''Machinima/{{Smashtasm}}''.

* ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' has one that was introduced in the fourth season. Now it has become it's own series as a spin-off to Arby 'n' the Chief.

** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' has unlockable comedy scenes in Story Mode called "Teach Me! Ms. Litchi!" where Litchi teaches Taokaka how to be a vigilante. This segment is unrelated to the storyline, and it doesn't give gameplay tips, but it does explain how the world of Blazblue works.

* [[VideoGame/PaydayTheHeist Payday 2]] has Bain, the mastermind and the [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection coordinator of the heists]], who has a Steam account and has even lended his voice for a Source Filmmaker short involving the Payday robbers in [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 2fort stealing the intelligence.]]

* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the author has taken questions from the readers for two anniversary events. The answers to these were made into Q&A strips, with either the characters or the AuthorAvatar [[LettersToTheEditor giving the answers]].

->''"Greetings, lost children. I am Professor Kokonoe, genius scientist and ruler of the Sector Seven laboratory. Well, OK, we aren't in the lab at the moment. ''This'' place can sort of be temporarily moved into the Boundary. Well, simply put, it's a mysterious room, a room where you can do anything you want. To be honest, it's a paradise for all those sad, little lost children who couldn't make it to the true ending. A sort of Avalon. If you're one of those nutbars who's all like "I don't need help", or "I just want to unlock hidden stuff" or "I'll just look for a flowchart online", then you can '''''PISS OFF!'''''"''

->''Greetings, lost children. I am Professor Kokonoe, genius scientist and ruler of the Sector Seven laboratory. Well, OK, we aren't in the lab at the moment. ''This'' place can sort of be temporarily moved into the Boundary. Well, simply put, it's a mysterious room, a room where you can do anything you want. To be honest, it's a paradise for all those sad, little lost children who couldn't make it to the true ending. A sort of Avalon. If you're one of those nutbars who's all like "I don't need help", or "I just want to unlock hidden stuff" or "I'll just look for a flowchart online", then you can'' '''PISS OFF!'''

** The British version of the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers comics]] has a letters column run by Soundwave, and later Grimlock. (Who would often angrily try to explain away his [[TheWorfEffect defeats]] from previous issues.)
*** This was quite common across Marvel UK titles in the 80s.

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