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** In ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', the competition involves remote-controlled scale models. [[ExpyCoexistence Somehow, there are also characters that look and act like the ones who are otherwise only fictional.]]

* ''Script/{{Powerpuff}}'': The pilot takes place in a world where the girls had a media franchise made out of their heroics, which included the original 1998 cartoon.

* ''ComicBook/SolarManOfTheAtom'' (Valiant Comics reboot): The comic book ''ComicBook/DoctorSolar'' is only a work of fiction. Phil Seleski, a fan of the comic book, gains energy-based superpowers and splits into two beings, one of whom is based on Doctor Solar.

** In ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', the competition involves remote-controlled scale models.

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' is set in a world where the ZombieApocalypse of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' happened, but that movie is a BroadStrokes adaptation of the actual events so Creator/GeorgeARomero wouldn't sue. The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent differences in zombie lore]] between the "actual" events and the "fictionalized" version become a plot point.

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* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'': Played with. While the first game's events are part of the canon timeline, it's mentioned by Alan Probe in ''Amateur Surgeon: Christmas Edition'' and ''Amateur Surgeon 2'' that the game itself was developed and released in-universe at some point afterwards.
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* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': It's revealed in the final trial that within the universe of ''V3'', all the preceding ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games and anime are simply that: games and anime. When [[VictoryIsBoring world peace proved far too boring for humanity to handle]], they turned to ''Danganronpa'' to sate their bloodlust, and the series became extremely popular. Eventually, mere games and anime weren't enough for them, so it was decided that the franchise should be adapted into a real-life reality show where high school students willingly sign up to become brainwashed with the identities of ''Danganronpa'' characters and kill each other on live TV. The actual students who signed up for the season during which the game takes place were quite happy to do so, but the fictional personas who survived to this point are shocked and disgusted that [[TakeThatAudience so many people could be so sick as to think their situation is the least bit entertaining]]. Of course, the possibility is also brought up that the events of the previous series ''were'' real and [[UnreliableExpositor the person doing the exposition was lying her ass off]].

* After Patsy Walker became the superheroine Hellcat, ''Comicbook/TheDefenders'' established that the original ''Comicbook/PatsyWalker'' humour book was written by her mother and based very loosely on her and her friends.

* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' movies generally play fast and loose with the fourth wall anyway, but ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' specifically opens with the reveal that they ''haven't'' reclaimed their popularity and had fans thronging the streets, because ''Film/TheMuppets'' was just a movie, and those were all paid extras.

* In ''Film/Scrooged'', Frank Cross is producing a television version of ''A Christmas Carol'' while also being haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': It's revealed in the final trial that within the universe of ''V3'', all the preceding ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' games and anime are simply that: games and anime. When [[VictoryIsBoring world peace proved far too boring for humanity to handle]], they turned to ''Danganronpa'' to sate their bloodlust, and the series became extremely popular. Eventually, mere games and anime weren't enough for them, so it was decided that the franchise should be adapted into a real-life reality show where high school students willingly sign up to become brainwashed with the identities of ''Danganronpa'' characters and kill each other on live TV. The actual students who signed up for the season during which the game takes place were quite happy to do so, but the fictional personas who survived to this point are shocked and disgusted that [[TakeThatAudience so many people could be so sick as to think their situation is the least bit entertaining]].

* The French horror film ''Arthur: The Curse'' is a live-action spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/ArthurAndTheInvisibles'' where it and the two sequels that never came State-side were movies.