History Main / NinjaProp

** The traditional way of fighting King Dedede is to wait for him to pound the ground, making star-shaped CirclingBirdies, and then have Kirby suck up those stars and spit them out. Later games keep these star projectiles, but have them generated by basically every attack.

* At one point in the final levels of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', Kirby encounters the game's first boss, Flowery Woods, a third time. However, he has Hypernova, and thus simply begins sucking Flowery Woods up, taking the boss' health bar in the process before inhaling Flowery Woods in its entirety. [[spoiler: He does this again at the end of the final boss fight.]]
** The traditional way of fighting King Dedede is to wait for him to pound the ground, making star-shaped CirclingBirdies, and then have Kirby suck up those stars and spit them out.

* The sun and moon from ''Manga/SoulEater'' being oddly shaped and having faces initially seems like stylization, but in the manga, [[spoiler:the characters go to the moon, which is actually shaped like that (it even has nostril caves!) and turns out to be much smaller than the real-world moon and located in the upper atmosphere (assuming this world even has an atmosphere).]] This was actually shown earlier a couple times, but in an incredibly off-hand manner: the first time we see Maka's father trying to spend time with her [[TalkAboutTheWeather he mentions how the sun setting looks tired, then realizes it's a stupid thing to have a conversation about.]] Crona also comments on the sun sleeping in their MentalWorld. In the anime, Medusa is introduced sitting on the Moon's "chin" as she looks down at Death City.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** Squigley's MushroomSamba-inspired WOW turns into [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-03-25 a dove.]]
** When Percy sleeps on the back of the chair, with Zs -- he rolls off and onto Pooch, and the falling Z turns to an N.

* The French-Belgian comic ''Imbattable'' uses this ability (and having the associated MediumAwareness) as in-universe superpowers. The protagonist is a superhero able to travel and interact across the panels of the comic (other characters, lacking his MediumAwareness, view him as teleporting, time travelling, duplicating himself...). Other characters include an old man whose speech balloons can affect the physical words, an aspiring superhero who can play with perspective (to other characters, it looks like telekinesis), or a villain who can traverse book pages.

* Various modern references made by Wirt and Greg in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall appear to sit fairly happily in the AnachronismStew that makes up part of the charm of the show. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that they're actually normal children from our world somewhere in the 80s-00s and these off-hand jokes were all foreshadowing.]]

* The French-Belgian comic ''Imbattable'' uses this ability (and having the associated MediumAwareness) as in-universe superpowers. The protagonist is a superhero able to travel and interact across the panels of the comic (other characters, lacking his MediumAwareness, view him as teleporting, time travelling, duplicating himself...). Other characters include an old man whose speech balloons can affect the physical words (to other characters, it looks like telekinesis), an aspiring superhero who can play with perspective, or a villain who can traverse book pages.

Compare DiegeticVisualEffect, when the metafictional "prop" or effect is not actually metafictional at all, but an actual part of the in-universe setting that everyone can see and interact with (not just the MediumAwareness character).

Compare ChekhovsGun; this is where MediumAwareness meets ChekhovsGun. PerceptionFilter may be an in-universe related trope. A subtrope of MetafictionalDevice. In video games, InterfaceScrew may qualify as a Ninja Prop, especially when the game simulates effects from external sources/other programs. In Comics, FrameBreak is the most common form of this trope. A HarshWordImpact may also be this.

* The GrandFinale of ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms'' has the crew bemoaning that Vines have replaced them, but a crew member tears the "The End" screen in two, and in an act of revenge, the people behind 5sf swear to destroy the internet. The campaign begins when one of the team members shotguns the Website/YouTube timer.
* In the infamous WebVideo ''Smile HD'' the main character uses subtitles as an improvised weapon to deliver a surprise attack to her opponent.
* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': A casting variation in "El Presidente", the ''Bazar du Grenier'' LetsPlay for ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}} 5''. Since all the web videos work on a limited cast, it's usual for Fred to play several roles. [[spoiler:So it's a genuine surprise when the CIA instructor who narrate the whole story as a FramingDevice, and the CIA spy who got captured by Garavo's regime in the '50s, happen to be actually the same person.]]

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove") appears in two ''Python'' sketches, played by Graham Chapman wearing a very large false nose. In both sketches, Raymond treats it as his real nose, only for the other character to pull it off and point out how ridiculous it is.

* ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' frequently has the adult cast members playing young kids in an elementary school classroom, and does this often enough that viewers don't think twice about it. One sketch starts in the same way, with Trevor as a kid in a classroom talking excessively about his parents messy divorce when asked about what he did that summer. Then the teacher asks Zach about his summer, and he says he proposed to his girlfriend because they're 23 and in law school.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The actors playing the (seemingly cured) villains in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIICured Cured]]" don't really look much like the real historical figures, most notably with Adolf Hitler who has the most screen time. The audience is just accepting this as AbilityOverAppearance casting - until it turns out be a plot point when it's revealed that they're actually reprogrammed android scientists.

* Another ''Star Wars'' parody, ''Thumb Wars'' has the spaceships in the ActionPrologue crashing into the words of the OpeningScroll, which of course are still floating through space ahead of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' seems to take place in a fantasy-laced version of the 19th century, but since the series is both a family cartoon and has many comedic elements already, anachronistic phrases said by the main characters (e.g. references to telephones and high school) can go over the audience's head. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the reason those two sound relatively modern is because they ''are''. The penultimate episode reveals they're from a fairly realistic depiction of the 1980s at the earliest, and although they didn't realize it at the time, they've been TrappedInAnotherWorld since just before the first episode began.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': During the fight with Psycho Mantis, he uses the ''controller'' against the player. You've got to switch it to the second controller slot on the PSX.

** At one point Mettaton traps the player in a room full of bombs disguised as all kinds of innocuous objects (such as a movie script, a glass of water, a basketball and a dog.) As he lists off all the objects that are actually bombs he ends with "Even my words are-" before the text suddenly falls out of his text box and explodes.

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxBeyondTimeAndSpace'' reveals in its final episode that the [[SoundEffectBleep bleeping out of swear words]] that's been happening throughout the season (and a few times in ''Save the World'') is happening in-universe in hell's [[TakeThat FCC department]]. It then plays an important role later on - the duo need to figure out the name of one of the game's villains, but they can't hear it because it keeps getting bleeped out - so Sam [[spoiler: replaces hell's list of swear words with a grocery list]]. Doing so also reveals that the game's HollywoodTourettes character was speaking in [[GoshDangItToHeck much milder language]] than the game initially implied, and that their health started to improve after the constant ringing in their ear stopped.

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxBeyondTimeAndSpace'' reveals in its final episode that the [[SoundEffectBleep bleeping out of swear words]] that's been happening throughout the season (and a few times in ''Save the World'') is happening in-universe in hell's [[TakeThat FCC department]]. It then plays an important role later on - the duo need to figure out the UnfortunateName of one of the game's villains, but they can't hear it because it keeps getting bleeped out - so Sam [[spoiler: replaces hell's list of swear words with a grocery list]]. Doing so also reveals that the game's HollywoodTourettes character was speaking in [[GoshDangItToHeck much milder language]] than the game initially implied, and that their health started to improve after the constant ringing in their ear stopped.

* In ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', the CrazyAwesome space, time, and fate-bending abilities of the Sidereal Exalted are represented by having them actively use the comic format against their enemies. In particular, Nemen Yi leaps between comic panels, abuses perspective to hit people at range with a melee attack (think "I crush your head", except it ''works''), and breaks off a piece of the gutter (the border between panels) to use it as a throwing weapon.

* Every character in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' gets an introductory subtitle in massive, red block capital text. Nui ends up leaning against hers upon her introduction, and then stroking Satsuki's hair through a split-screen divider. In a later episode, Nui's subtitles cast shadows on the ground.

* At one point in the final levels of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', Kirby encounters the game's first boss, Flowery Woods, a second time. However, he has Hypernova, and thus simply begins sucking Flowery Woods up, taking the boss' health bar in the process before inhaling Flowery Woods in its entirety. [[spoiler: He does this again at the end of the final boss fight.]]

* In one episode of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', England is giving Russia a DeathGlare, complete with several arrows. The next time the camera pans back to Russia, ''Russia is eating the arrows.''

** In the climactic duel of ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' between Robin and the Sheriff, at one point Robin misses a thrust and goes through a "tower window", which accidentally skewers a stage-hand's hotdog. He awkwardly apologizes and returns it, and the fight continues as if nothing happened.