History Main / TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou

* ''VideoGame/SuperSurpriseParty'': During the game, you're asked to "share your location" with the narrator. At the end, they boast that you've only given them time to [[spoiler:track you down in real life]]. Of course, the game itself doesn't ''actually'' [[spoiler:track location]] - but the horror is still there all the same.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSurpriseParty'': During the game, you're asked to "share your location" with the narrator. At the end, they boast that you've only given them time to [[spoiler:track you down in real life]]. Of course, the game itself doesn't ''actually'' [[spolier:track location]] - but the horror is still there all the same.

* ''Music/{{Songdrops}}'' has a song "Tarantulas", which tells the audience that tarantulas could be anywhere, even on their ceiling or ''head'' (but they only do bad stuff if you're afraid) and they might eat your hamster (or your dinner, depending on what version you're listening to).

* "The Number One Song in Heaven", by Music/{{Sparks}}, implies that the listener can only hear the song because they're close to heaven (read: death).

* The music video for Creator/WillSmith's "Film/MenInBlack" has him using their neuralizer (which causes people to forget things) on the audience. A commercial for the film also did this:

:: The idea for the ads was so that you could [[ResetButton see the movie "again, for the first time]]." The ''Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack'' ride at Universal ends similarly.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' is much like the ''You and Me and Her'' example below. [[spoiler: The Literature Club president Monika -- the only character the player is unable to romance -- gains MediumAwareness and the ability to rewrite and delete files within the game itself, and becomes a {{Yandere}}, deciding that she loves the player directly (instead of the PlayerCharacter) and will do anything to get them to love her back. Ultimately, she ends up deleting all the other characters (after driving two of them to shocking in-universe deaths that can't be undone by loading or restarting the game - when the first one of them dies, the game crashes and resets to the first day with that character [[RetGone no longer existing]]), forcing the player to choose her by virtue of being literally the only character left in the game. The player can defeat her by going into the game files and deleting her character file, which is an {{inversion}} of this trope (the Fourth Wall doesn't protect the other way either). Monika is a more sympathetic example than Miyuki; much of the poetry she produces (poetry being a huge part of the game) is about her existential dilemma about being a fictional character, and when the player is actually given an option to spend time with her in the first cycle, the game railroads them away from her in favor of one of the love interests. When her character data is deleted she finally accepts defeat and tries to put everything back to normal (minus herself), only to realize that anyone who becomes the Literature Club president in her stead will gain the same self-awareness that she has and become as obsessive and dangerous as she is, and finally deletes all the game's assets to protect you.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperSurpriseParty'': During the game, you're asked to "share your location" with the narrator. At the end, they boast that you've only given them time to track you down in real life. Of course, the game itself doesn't ''actually'' track location- but the horror is still there all the same.

* [[http://i.imgur.com/Tlxzc.jpg The Abimor.]] Before each of his murders, he forces someone to tell the victim his story, from a scribe in Ancient Egypt to a news broadcaster in the modern day [[spoiler:to the creators of the comic you yourself are reading. We're sorry. We had to list this example. He's coming. RUN.]]

* The final chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' reveals that the killing game is [[NoInnerFourthWall the latest entry of a wildly successful media franchise]], and the final opponent the characters have to argue against is the audience of ''Danganronpa'' fans.

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* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'': When Lucas shows the Tres Horny Boys the windows he's managed to open to the various planes of existence, it's revealed that the Plane of Thought is just our modern-day Earth, since it's where all ideas in the universe originate from. [[spoiler:When the Hunger invades in the finale, the Plane of Thought gets invaded alongside everything else, and Taako ends up enlisting the help of Joaquin Terrero, a teenager running a taco truck]].