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* In ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comics written by Creator/GrantMorrison, the evil and crazy Psycho-Pirate has become aware of the comic-book-reader audience and is trying to goad his army of resurrected super-villains into attacking them. (Morrison's entire run is about the growing awareness of the characters that they're in a comic book.) The peak of this is probably when the hero has a mind-expanding peyote trip, looks out of the frame at the reader and cries "OH MY GOD! I CAN SEE YOU!" When Animal Man meets Morrinson, he flies into a rage and kills him, shocked at his actions, Buddy freaks out, only to see Morrison standing behind him. Morrison tells Buddy that he can't be killed, and those actions and rage Buddy felt, Morrison wrote. Morrison says that he's not there, it's only an AuthorAvatar, and he can't really interact with Buddy, implying that Psycho Pirate could never leave the comic and get into the real world, all of their actions are driven by the author, even when they think they aren't.
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* In ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comics written by Creator/GrantMorrison, the evil and crazy Psycho-Pirate has become aware of the comic-book-reader audience and is trying to goad his army of resurrected super-villains into attacking them. (Morrison's entire run is about the growing awareness of the characters that they're in a comic book.) The peak of this is probably when the hero has a mind-expanding peyote trip, looks out of the frame at the reader and cries "OH MY GOD! I CAN SEE YOU!" When Animal Man meets Morrinson, Morrison, he flies into a rage and kills him, shocked at his actions, Buddy freaks out, only to see Morrison standing behind him. Morrison tells Buddy that he can't be killed, and those actions and rage Buddy felt, Morrison wrote. Morrison says that he's not there, it's only an AuthorAvatar, and he can't really interact with Buddy, implying that Psycho Pirate could never leave the comic and get into the real world, all of their actions are driven by the author, even when they think they aren't.
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** At one point in the ''Joker's Asylum: Two Face'' special, Joker tells the audience to get a coin and flip it to decide how the story ends. Mr. J is threatening enough towards the reader that most people who read it actually physically flipped a coin and read the ending it indicated.
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** At one point in the ''Joker's Asylum: ''ComicBook/JokersAsylum: Two Face'' special, Joker tells the audience to get a coin and flip it to decide how the story ends. Mr. J is threatening enough towards the reader that most people who read it actually physically flipped a coin and read the ending it indicated.
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* In ''Infinite Crisis' the villain, Alexander Luthor, is smashing realities together in order to create the best one. He notices the reader, our reality, and reaches out for it.
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* In ''Infinite Crisis' Crisis'' the villain, Alexander Luthor, is smashing realities together in order to create the best one. He notices the reader, our reality, and reaches out for it.
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* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' and all tie-in issues released that week had their few last pages as blank white pages as the entropy rifts hits in the stories.
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* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' and all tie-in issues released that week had their few last pages as blank white pages as the entropy rifts hits in the stories.stories.
* In ''Infinite Crisis' the villain, Alexander Luthor, is smashing realities together in order to create the best one. He notices the reader, our reality, and reaches out for it.
* In ''Infinite Crisis' the villain, Alexander Luthor, is smashing realities together in order to create the best one. He notices the reader, our reality, and reaches out for it.
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** In issue #2, [[spoiler:the newly formed Operation Justice Incarnate trace the Gentry's origin to Earth-33, and state they're coming after them. OhCrap...]]
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** In issue #2, [[spoiler:the newly formed Operation Justice Incarnate trace the Gentry's origin to Earth-33, and state they're coming after them. OhCrap...]]]]
* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' and all tie-in issues released that week had their few last pages as blank white pages as the entropy rifts hits in the stories.
* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' and all tie-in issues released that week had their few last pages as blank white pages as the entropy rifts hits in the stories.
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* In the series ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and the Creator/MarvelComics series ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'', both {{Big Bad}}s intentionally endanger the reader.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.
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* In the series ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the Creator/MarvelComics series ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'', both {{Big Bad}}s BigBad intentionally endanger endangers the reader.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.reader.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.
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* In ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comics written by Creator/GrantMorrison, the evil and crazy Psycho-Pirate has become aware of the comic-book-reader audience and is trying to goad his army of resurrected super-villains into attacking them. (Morrison's entire run is about the growing awareness of the characters that they're in a comic book.) The peak of this is probably when the hero has a mind-expanding peyote trip, looks out of the frame at the reader and cries "OH MY GOD! I CAN SEE YOU!" When Animal Man meets Morrinson, he flies into a rage and kills him, shocked at his actions, Buddy freaks out, only to see Morrison standing behind him. Morrison tells Buddy that he can't be killed, and those actions and rage Buddy felt, Morrison wrote. Morrison says that he's not there, it's only an AuthorAvatar, and he can't really interact with Buddy, implying that Psycho Pirate could never leave the comic and get into the real world, all of their actions are driven by the author, even when they think they aren't.
* In the series ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and the Creator/MarvelComics series ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'', both {{Big Bad}}s intentionally endanger the reader.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.
** DC used this on occasion, under the claim that "Earth Prime" was the reader's home dimension, and so any threat to the multiverse was a threat to the reader. This... stopped working. Hey, remember how the universe was destroyed by a wave of antimatter in 1985, and suddenly reappeared in 2006? Me neither.
* A [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic-y]] version occasionally happens with ComicBook/TheJoker. He never outright states he can see you or interact with you, but he ''does'' interact with his own speech balloons and has turned the page for the reader, indicating that he knows you're out there. [[ParanoiaFuel Now, consider what the Joker tends to do to people...]]
** At one point in the ''Joker's Asylum: Two Face'' special, Joker tells the audience to get a coin and flip it to decide how the story ends. Mr. J is threatening enough towards the reader that most people who read it actually physically flipped a coin and read the ending it indicated.
* The character Superboy Prime is supposed to come from Earth Prime, ''our'' world, and has even posted on the real-life DC message board. The trope comes in effect when you remember that Superboy Prime is a PsychopathicManchild with no compulsions against killing everything and everyone, with the [[FlyingBrick same powers of Superman]] only [[PhysicalGod much stronger]]. [[OhCrap You can start screaming in horror]].
* Creator/AlanMoore wasn't safe from one of his creations. John Constantine from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' visited him... and talked to him... in {{real life}}... not once... but TWICE! It scared the hell out of him.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** A lot of the captions in issue #1 are threatening warnings along the lines of "You think this is just a comic, but it's '''bait'''. You're bait for '''THEM'''." In his human identity Nix Uotan is reading the same comic, including [[MindScrew scenes from his own life]], and that's how he's pulled into the pan-dimensional crisis.
** Thunderer claims that The Gentry are "pitiless ones from behind the Invisible Rainbow". Given how he uses rainbows to refer to other universes, there's the implication that the fourth wall is incapable of protecting the comic book characters from The Gentry.
** Several pages in ''Pax Americana #1'' seem designed to resemble an eye. The implication is... not promising.
** ''Ultra Comics #1'', the RealWorldEpisode of the series, has its hero warning potential readers that their universe will be endangered if this magazine is read. [[spoiler:At the end, you get infected by The Gentry.]]
** In issue #2, [[spoiler:the newly formed Operation Justice Incarnate trace the Gentry's origin to Earth-33, and state they're coming after them. OhCrap...]]
* In ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comics written by Creator/GrantMorrison, the evil and crazy Psycho-Pirate has become aware of the comic-book-reader audience and is trying to goad his army of resurrected super-villains into attacking them. (Morrison's entire run is about the growing awareness of the characters that they're in a comic book.) The peak of this is probably when the hero has a mind-expanding peyote trip, looks out of the frame at the reader and cries "OH MY GOD! I CAN SEE YOU!" When Animal Man meets Morrinson, he flies into a rage and kills him, shocked at his actions, Buddy freaks out, only to see Morrison standing behind him. Morrison tells Buddy that he can't be killed, and those actions and rage Buddy felt, Morrison wrote. Morrison says that he's not there, it's only an AuthorAvatar, and he can't really interact with Buddy, implying that Psycho Pirate could never leave the comic and get into the real world, all of their actions are driven by the author, even when they think they aren't.
* In the series ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and the Creator/MarvelComics series ''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'', both {{Big Bad}}s intentionally endanger the reader.
** In the ''Infinity Crusade'' storyline the heroes tricked all of reality, including the reader, into thinking they were burning alive, in order to fool the villain. The villain wanted to fry everyone for real. Everyone brushed it off as a moment of realistic daydreaming. Nice going, heroes.
** DC used this on occasion, under the claim that "Earth Prime" was the reader's home dimension, and so any threat to the multiverse was a threat to the reader. This... stopped working. Hey, remember how the universe was destroyed by a wave of antimatter in 1985, and suddenly reappeared in 2006? Me neither.
* A [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic-y]] version occasionally happens with ComicBook/TheJoker. He never outright states he can see you or interact with you, but he ''does'' interact with his own speech balloons and has turned the page for the reader, indicating that he knows you're out there. [[ParanoiaFuel Now, consider what the Joker tends to do to people...]]
** At one point in the ''Joker's Asylum: Two Face'' special, Joker tells the audience to get a coin and flip it to decide how the story ends. Mr. J is threatening enough towards the reader that most people who read it actually physically flipped a coin and read the ending it indicated.
* The character Superboy Prime is supposed to come from Earth Prime, ''our'' world, and has even posted on the real-life DC message board. The trope comes in effect when you remember that Superboy Prime is a PsychopathicManchild with no compulsions against killing everything and everyone, with the [[FlyingBrick same powers of Superman]] only [[PhysicalGod much stronger]]. [[OhCrap You can start screaming in horror]].
* Creator/AlanMoore wasn't safe from one of his creations. John Constantine from ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' visited him... and talked to him... in {{real life}}... not once... but TWICE! It scared the hell out of him.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** A lot of the captions in issue #1 are threatening warnings along the lines of "You think this is just a comic, but it's '''bait'''. You're bait for '''THEM'''." In his human identity Nix Uotan is reading the same comic, including [[MindScrew scenes from his own life]], and that's how he's pulled into the pan-dimensional crisis.
** Thunderer claims that The Gentry are "pitiless ones from behind the Invisible Rainbow". Given how he uses rainbows to refer to other universes, there's the implication that the fourth wall is incapable of protecting the comic book characters from The Gentry.
** Several pages in ''Pax Americana #1'' seem designed to resemble an eye. The implication is... not promising.
** ''Ultra Comics #1'', the RealWorldEpisode of the series, has its hero warning potential readers that their universe will be endangered if this magazine is read. [[spoiler:At the end, you get infected by The Gentry.]]
** In issue #2, [[spoiler:the newly formed Operation Justice Incarnate trace the Gentry's origin to Earth-33, and state they're coming after them. OhCrap...]]
