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--->'''PeterUstinov''': What are ''you'' doing here?
--->'''Oscar the Grouch''': A very brief cameo.
--->'''Peter Ustinov''': Me too.

* [[{{Homestuck}} Davesprite]] from NamcoHigh is fully aware that he's in a DatingSim, which offers him plenty of opportunities to [[MetaGuy crack wise about the genre]] [[spoiler: and unfortunately means that he's fully aware that if Cousin tries to romance him, s/he'll just forget all about him once the NewGamePlus starts.]]

* The cast of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' displays this a number of times: in chapter 69, Fuyuki responds to [[CharacterFilibuster a lecture from Keroro]] with "We've just been made into an anime, and we're already going to lose fans." The anime adaptation also shows this a few times: one episode opens with a "Happy New Years'" greeting from the cast, including [[TheFaceless a masked fellow]] who turns out to be the {{narrator}}.

-->'''George2''': Me new George! [[BitingTheHandHumor Studio too cheap]] to pay Brendan Fraser.

-->'''Shiwah Khan''' (''Pinball/TheShadow''): "You still think you can control the game with brute force?"

---> '''Bud:''' "I can [[CreatorThumbprint feel the power!]]"
---> '''Buzz:''' "That's all those wires down there!"

---> '''Bud:''' "Hey, this game is violent enough!"

* While playing {{Sidekick}} to [[{{Captain Mar-Vell}} Captain Marvel]], who possessed "[[PsychicPowers Cosmic Awareness]]," Rick Jones came to develop "[[{{Pun}} Comics Awareness]]," in addition to his usual GenreSavvy.

* A scene in ''AustinPowers: Goldmember'' featured Austin talking to a Japanese executive, with his speech subtitled. However, several objects hid parts of the subtitles, causing the sentence to be altered to inappropriate comments (e.g., Please eat some shit[[color:white:ake mushrooms]]), and Austin would look outraged until Foxy moved the objects causing the disturbance. Eventually the executive says, "Why don't I just speak in English?" Austin replies, [[DontExplainTheJoke "Yeah, you should! Then I wouldn't have to read the subtitles and it wouldn't look like you were saying things that are dirty!"]] followed by smiling at the viewer.

** ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}}'' takes a sledgehammer to the [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall]] in general. In ''Disgaea 2'', Laharl declares that the reason he lost to the player characters is because he's not the main character, and then tries to beat them again, so he can take over the story.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea}} 2'', one of the motions you can vote on in the Dark Assembly has one of the guest characters wanting to be the main character. If it passes, it's a NonstandardGameOver.

* Arnie Becker, finding himself in a thorny situation in TheTeaser in one episode of ''LALaw'', shouts, "Close the trunk!" This leads to the opening credits, which always began with a shot of a car's trunk being closed.

* ''OverTheEdge'' involves a metaplot [[spoiler: which could result in the [=PCs=] becoming aware of what they are.]]
* The joke ''DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Portable Hole Full of Beer'' contains a PrestigeClass that slowly causes the character to become aware of the fact that they are in a roleplaying game. At the final level the character becomes a real person and moves in with you.
* Foxbat, in the ''{{Champions}}'' superhero RPG has ''Wrong'' Medium Awareness, being firmly convinced he's a comic book villain. He retains this in ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'', where he begs for a "GM to port me to a different spawn point"
** Straighter example: A ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' fansite introduced Foxbat II, who rejected his mentor's ludicrous view of the world, and instead believes himself to be an NPC in a superhero RPG.
* The RPG ''TalesFromTheFloatingVagabond'' has a number of "schticks", powers that can help (and occasionally harm) your character. One of these is the 'Rogers and Hammerstein Schtick', which gives your character his own theme music that he and everyone around him is aware of. This means that if someone is sneaking up on him, the music will shift to sneaky music (makes it really hard for him to sneak up on anyone not deaf, though). Sudden shifts to dramatic battle music can predict an ambush, etc.

* From one of the ''{{Spyro}}'' games:
--> How do you know Spyro is still alive?
--> If he wasn't, we'd've gone back to the last save point by now.

** The manga stories use many more FourthWall jokes than the anime stories do. In ''"Impression Impossible"'', Lupin has paid someone to roll a panel aside and declare that Lupin III is handsome.

* Characters in ''Anime/SonicX'' frequently make reference to being in an anime (though only in the original Japanese version) - usually Sonic, but Dr. Eggman occasionally does it too. In one memorable episode, Eggman actually took over the show, changing the name of it to "Eggman X" (complete with new title card). Sonic eventually defeated Eggman by sending him down a maze where the right path was marked by the correct answer to a Yes/No question. The last question was "Who's the main character of this show?" with one path marked with a picture of Sonic and the other with a picture of Eggman. Eggman, naturally, went down the "Eggman" path (even though his robots actually admitted the right answer was Sonic), which naturally led to a trap. (The ''Creator/FourKidsEntertainment'' dub changed the last question to "Who's the coolest guy around?".) In another episode, Team Chaotix learned what had happened while they were away by watching ''Sonic X'' on DVD, even arguing about whether to skip the opening song or not.

* ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'' is an interesting example. Every champion is well aware they're being controlled by someone, because it's how the League works according to lore. They even talk to you, and one of them, [[HeroicMime Sona]] can talk ONLY with you. There's also couple of fourth-wall-breaking jokes, like Akali's complaining about matchmaking system.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the Strong Bad Email "flashback", Strong Bad doesn't see Homestar standing about a foot to his right because Homestar is BehindTheBlack. In "virus", [[PaintingTheMedium the computer virus-induced breakdown of reality]] strands Strong Bad in the cold, black space outside the cartoon window, and allows Homestar to notice the navigation links below the cartoon. In one of the Halloween cartoons, Homsar walks along the entire perimeter of the cartoon window.

* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''

** At the end of "Agent Doof", after her mom and several of the Fireside Girls get turned into infants by the Baby-inator, Candace quips "I hope this wears off [[SnapBack by the next episode...]]"