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* AsideGlance/[[AsideComment Comment]]: If a character briefly looks at the screen, or even makes a brief remark towards the camera, this usually qualifies as Visible Foruth Wall. The reason is because it was directed at the audience out-of-universe, but in-universe, it can be written off as coincidence or thinking aloud.

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* AsideGlance/[[AsideComment Comment]]: If a character briefly looks at the screen, or even makes a brief remark towards the camera, this usually qualifies as Visible Foruth Fourth Wall. The reason is because it was directed at the audience out-of-universe, but in-universe, it can be written off as coincidence or thinking aloud.
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* InteractiveNarrator: The characters and the narrator can have conversations. (Because this is very much a case of RuleOfFunny unless we're deep in Metafiction territory, and such scenes are frequently either removable from the plot, this trope falls ''just'' this side of Nonexistant.)

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* InteractiveNarrator: The characters and the narrator can have conversations. (Because this is very much a case of RuleOfFunny unless we're deep in Metafiction territory, and such scenes are frequently either removable from the plot, this trope falls ''just'' this side of Nonexistant.)
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


!! [[UpToEleven Beyond]] NoFourthWall

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!! [[UpToEleven Beyond]] Beyond NoFourthWall

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!!Semipermeable Fourth Wall
* A {{Narrator}} (but not a [[AudienceSurrogate Viewpoint Character]]) who speaks directly to the audience, but whom the characters do not know about; but only if the narrator's announcements amount to more than "Meanwhile", "see Issue #7", or other scene setting.

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!!Semipermeable !!Gaps In The Fourth Wall
* A {{Narrator}} (but not a [[AudienceSurrogate Viewpoint Character]]) who speaks directly to the audience, but whom the characters do not know about; but only if the narrator's announcements amount to more than "Meanwhile", "see Issue #7", or other scene setting.
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!!Semipermeable Fourth Wall
* A {{Narrator}} who speaks directly to the audience, but whom the characters do not know about or interact with; but only if the narrator's announcements amount to more than "Meanwhile", "see Issue #7", or other scene setting.




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* InteractiveNarrator: The characters and the narrator can have conversations. (Because this is very much a case of RuleOfFunny unless we're deep in Metafiction territory, and such scenes are frequently either removable from the plot, this trope falls ''just'' this side of Nonexistant.)



* FakeInteractivity: The characters not only address the audience, but act like we replied.
* InteractiveNarrator: The characters and the narrator can have conversations.

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* FakeInteractivity: The characters not only address the audience, but act like we replied.
* InteractiveNarrator: The characters and the narrator can have conversations.


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!! Special cases
* FakeInteractivity: The characters not only address the audience, but act like we replied. Mainly a special case because most shows using this device engage in full ThisIsReality (and thus Completely Solid Fourth Wall), it's just that the audience is implied to be a character InUniverse, which makes its position somewhat weird.

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