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* The ''Franchise/FightingFantasy'' book, ''Literature/AppointmentWithFear'', is one of the few installments set in modern times, and in one scenario you can buy a copy of ''Literature/TheWarlockOfFiretopMountain'' (the franchise's first book) for your boss.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' opens with Jotaro in prison...reading a copy of ''Shonen Jump'', the manga that publishes ''Jojo's Bizarre Adventure'', though it's not made explicit if JJBA itself exists as a manga in-universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' features automobile versions of past Pixar films, including ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 Toy Car Story]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monster Trucks Inc.]]'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' ([[{{Pun}} with all the characters as Volkswagens]]). But what would their equivalent of ''Cars'' be?

** All Marvels Comics published before 2001 carry the UsefulNotes/ComicsCode Authority seal. The CCA is a federal agency in the Marvel universe, making all these comics legal, federal documents. [[MythologyGag Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway]], the law firm She-Hulk works for, specializes in superhuman, metahuman and mutant law, keeps a complete archive of Marvels Comics from the 1930s forward as legal reference.

* Later editions of ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' mention the [[WesternAnimation/BattleTech cartoon series]] as an in-universe propaganda holo-vid that's VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.

* As part of a ViralMarketing campaign for the first film, Creator/MichaelBay's ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' is referred to in the Sector Seven Alternate Reality Game as a counter-information campaign by the titular organization, to cover up leaks and real events involving the existence of Cybertronians by presenting them as fictional. It even goes so far as to say Hugo Weaving is secretly a Sector Seven agent, who doubles as an actor and was put into the film (as Megatron's voice) to ensure the cover up went smoothly. It also suggests that the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers original G1 TV series]] was another such campaign.

* The episode of the ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers cartoon]] "Make Tracks" has a brief shot of a movie theater playing ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. The events of which movie happened 20 years after the episode in question! Would have spared them a lot of losses if the Autobots bothered to check it out.

* The backglass for Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'' shows several people playing pool in a rec room, which has a ''Breakshot'' pinball machine in the corner.

* Creator/HideoKojima's ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' is referenced in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' in a poster in Otacon's lab, where it is implied in one scene that it was one of the animes that inspired Otacon to get into mechanical engineering. Nobody seems to bring up the fact that Meryl Silverburgh has the same name, likeness, and occupation of a character in ''Policenauts''. In the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube remake, ''The Twin Snakes'', the ''Policenauts'' poster is replaced with a ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: The 2nd Runner'' poster; ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', during the return to Shadow Moses, features the ''ZOE 2'' poster, with one corner having come off to reveal the original ''Policenauts'' poster underneath.

* The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' [[RecursiveAdaptation fighting game based on the movie]] has a stage where production stills from the movie are displayed on a large monitor.

* In ''[[VideoGame/StarSoldier Star Parodier]]'', not only is the UsefulNotes/PCEngine a player character, it has ''Super Star Soldier'' in its [=HuCard=] slot during the opening FighterLaunchingSequence.

** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', it was possible to obtain the UsefulNotes/Playstation2 version of ''The Sims''. The penultimate expansion pack has [[CreatorCameo Rod Humble]] gift every household a computer with ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' preinstalled.

** Nathan and Elena can be seen playing ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' in ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd''. In the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]] version of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'', Coco can be seen watching Nathan and Elena playing Crash at the start of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack''. Try wrapping your head around that.

* In ''Anime/LuckyStar'', magazine covers with the series' characters were often reproduced in-story. Also, in one case, the characters discussed the series' (RealLife) promotion event in Akibahara--[[OtakuSurrogate Konata]] recommends {{cosplay}}, [[{{muggles}} Kagami]] disliked it was much too PanderingToTheBase, and Konata answer that Kagami should accept the fact that {{muggles}} won't read that anyway. Furthermore, when the trio visit a shrine near the end of the series, Konata reads a prayer that says 'Konata is mai waifu'. The joke being that after the manga was published, some otaku hung such prayers at the shrine featured in the book. So in the anime Konata picks one of them up, undoubtedly to the delight of the fan who wrote it.
** The opening theme, ''Motteke! Sailor Fuku'', exists within the show itself. Not only was it the song of choice for the girls' cheerleading number for their school festival, but Tsukasa was also shown humming part of it at one point in episode 6.

* ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' have a strip where the three protagonists, Master Q, Big Potato and Mr. Chin, buys tickets for their own (then-upcoming) movie, ''Older Master Cute'' (1981). Prompting the surprised ticket seller to perform a DoubleTake.

* In the third episode of ''Series/BlackLightning'', Grace tells Anissa about a comic book series called ''ComicBook/TheOutsiders'', and even shows her an issue. In real life, ''The Outsiders'' has featured Black Lightning, Anissa and Grace as major characters at various points in its publication history. In the same episode, Anissa dresses as ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} (or possibly an {{Expy}}) for a costume party, and Grace mentions ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} as another potential costume choice, implying those heroines are also fictional in this universe. In the real comics, Catwoman and Supergirl have actually interacted with Grace on a few occasions.

* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' is an Alternate Continuity from the movies. The movie actually exists in this universe and is the story of the MIB leaked by the Worms using a human suit and the name of Creator/LowellCunningham. The series even mentions Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TommyLeeJones as the actors playing J and K and shows them (in very accurate cartoon versions) on camera.

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' and the Creator/PrimeVideo series ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry [=McCaleb=], the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]; Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, ''The Lincoln Lawyer'' and the ''Bosch'' Amazon series is mentioned as being loosely based on several of Harry's past cases.

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' and the Creator/PrimeVideo series ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry [=McCaleb=], the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]; Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, ''The Lincoln Lawyer"; and the ''Bosch'' Amazon series is mentioned as being loosely based on several of Harry's past cases.

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' and the Creator/PrimeVideo series Series/Bosch exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry [=McCaleb=], the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]; Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, ''The Lincoln Lawyer"; and the ''Bosch'' Amazon series is mentioned as being loosely based on several of Harry's past cases.

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' and the Creator/PrimeVideo series Series/Bosch exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry [=McCaleb=], the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]; Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, 'The Lincoln Lawyer"; and the ''Bosch'' Amazon series is mentioned as being loosely based on several of Harry's past cases.

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry [=McCaleb=], the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]. Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, 'The Lincoln Lawyer."

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'' exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry McCaleb, the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]. Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, 'The Lincoln Lawyer."

* In [[Creator/MichaelConnelly Michael Connelly's]] ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'', exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry McCaleb, the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]. Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, 'The Lincoln Lawyer."

* In Michael Connelly's ''Literature/HarryBosch'' and ''Literature/MickeyHaller'' series, the films of Connelly's novels ''Literature/BloodWork'' and ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'', exist as adaptations of the actual events that took place in the fictional Los Angeles where the books are set. Bosch remarks at one point that Terry McCaleb, the protagonist of ''Blood Work'', doesn't really look much like Creator/ClintEastwood, and Terry's neighbor Buddy Lockridge complains about [[AdaptationalVillainy the way he was portrayed in the film]]. Haller, a born Angeleno raised in a bilingual household by an Irish-American father and Mexican mother, begins affecting a Texan accent in imitation of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey in the books published after the 2011 film of his debut novel, 'The Lincoln Lawyer."