History Main / PaperPeople

** Mr. Game & Watch takes the original UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch style and goes with it. He's a completely 2-dimensional character, though he's actually a 3D model made to look 2D.

* The protagonist of ''Thin Pig'' makes better use of this than most, folding himself like origami into whatever form is necessary at the moment.

** On certain stages, all characters have the same flattening effect applied to them, those being: all incarnations of [[VideoGame/GameAndWatch Flat Zone]], [[VideoGame/{{Electroplankton}} Hanenbow]], [[VideoGame/{{FZERO}} Mute City SNES]], [[VideoGame/PacMan PAC-LAND]], VideoGame/DuckHunt[[note]]Only in ''For Wii U/3DS''; its reappearance in ''Ultimate'' changes this to just having the illusion described following[[/note]], and VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker. The same applies to their Omega and Battlefield forms, which unfortunately means those specific ones are not allowed in tournaments because the 2D effect [[HitboxDissonance makes hit boxes work differently]]. Some other stages, such as [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand Dream Land GB]], use the camera angle to imitate this effect without actually having it.

* From a show within a show on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Father! The kidnappers cut off one of my dimensions!"
** During ''The Beast With A Billion Backs'', Fry and his date went on a 2D Tunnel of Love ride.

* On ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'', a wizard rival of Leonard's is trapped between dimensions, manifesting himself as a paper cutout.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', 2-D Man is almost completely flat and has the ability [[RubberMan to stretch to incredible lengths]] after a FreakLabAccident. Unfortunately, [[BlessedWithSuck he and his compatriots can't pass as normal humans anymore]] and are confined to their headquarters when they aren't superheroing.

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaj8SYXMLA8 The Infamous Paper Doll Man]]'''

* ''Trichoplax adhaerens'', sole member of the phylum Placozoa. These organisms are completely flat, composed of about three layers of cells.

* Cheat codes will let you do this to VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon in the [=PS1=] games ''Ripto's Rage'' and ''Year of the Dragon''.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''' Mr. Game & Watch takes the original UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch style and goes with it. He's a completely 2-dimensional character, though he's actually a 3D model made to look 2D.

* One of the comical diseases in ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'', "Flat Packed", has patients arrive looking like they're made out of a flat sheet of corrugated cardboard. They will occasionally fold themselves up into a ball and float around like paper.
* ''Book of Demons'' is an ARPG heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. Set in Paperverse, the world and all of its inhabitants are paper cutouts because it all take place inside a book.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Profiles in Courage" has a silhouette maker make life size paper versions of Eustace and Muriel who steal their counterparts [[LifeEnergy life force]] [[PinocchioSyndrome to become more human,]] but they change their mind when Courage shows them all the fun things they can do from being made out of paper, like being a paper airplane.

* Edge Shot, a Pro Hero in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', is able to do this thanks to his Quirk, allowing him to pass through tight spaces and compress himself so tightly that he can attack faster than the speed of sound.

* Several strangers from ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'' have flat bodies. The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/zeroworld/s_satsumon.html satsumon]] appear to be a living ChalkOutline and the [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/s_socioponzy.html socioponzy]] appears to be a giant sheet of paper cut into the vague shape of a stranger. There is enough of them for "Flat" to be one of the types in the ''Pokémon''-like ''Zeroworld'' game.

* Several strangers from ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'' have flat bodies. The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/zeroworld/s_satsumon.html satsumon]] appear to be a living ChalkOutline and the [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/elist/s_socioponzy.html socioponzy]] appears to be a giant sheet of paper cut into the vague shape of a stranger.

* The second edition of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has the ''duo-dimension'' spell, which lets a character use this trope. The follow-up spell ''duo-dimensional blade'' gives you a blade that has been SharpenedToASingleAtom. The latter power appeared in later editions as well.

* ''Book of Demons'' is an ARPG heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. Set in Paperverse, the world and all of its inhabitants are paper cutouts because they live inside a book.

* ''Book of Demons'' is an ARPG heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. The world and all of its inhabitants and creatures are paper cutouts.

* A new Spider-Man villain introduced after One More Day, named Piper Dali, got caught in her father's experiment with dimensions and ended up flattened. Becoming the villainess called Paper Doll, she's capable of camouflaging herself as she stalks an actor she developed an obsessive crush on and kills any critics by flattening them to death. Because she's flat she's also razor sharp, and thus can easily slash away Spidey's webbing. She notably has to take careful breaths.

* Turned UpToEleven... eh... one dimension in the animation ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin One D]]'' by Mike Grimshaw, where all characters and props are lines.

* Judge Doom towards the end of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', after being flattened by a steamroller.