History Main / DiegeticVisualEffects

Related to MetafictionalDevice and NinjaProp, which allows characters with MediumAwareness to interact with the story's visual elements, but the elements are usually not treated as a "genuine" part of the setting. Compare BackgroundHalo and SpreadWingsFrameShot, in which the characters standing in front of a backdrop or other objects that makes them appear to have a HolyHalo or wings for symbolic reasons.

Related to MetafictionalDevice and NinjaProp, which allows characters with MediumAwareness to interact with the story's visual elements, but the elements are usually not treated a "genuine" part of the setting. Compare BackgroundHalo and SpreadWingsFrameShot, in which the characters standing in front of a backdrop or other objects that makes them appear to have a HolyHalo or wings for symbolic reasons.

* One chapter of ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting'' has Dearia warn Pip about not following suspicious strangers while showing a group of [[GoldfishPoopGang so-called "Heroes"]] with their eyes covered with {{censor box}}es as an illustration. The "Heroes" complain about being blinded while trying to pry the {{censor box}}es off their faces.

Related to MetafictionalDevice and NinjaProp, which allows characters with MediumAwareness to interact with the story's visual elements, but the elements are usually not treated a "real" part of the in-universe setting. Compare BackgroundHalo and SpreadWingsFrameShot, in which the characters standing in front of a backdrop or other objects that makes them appear to have a HolyHalo or wings for symbolic reasons.

Related to MetafictionalDevice and NinjaProp, which turns other visual elements from its medium as an interactable part of the setting. Compare BackgroundHalo and SpreadWingsFrameShot, in which the characters standing in front of a backdrop or other objects that makes them appear to have a HolyHalo or wings for symbolic reasons.

** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E10WetPaintersKrustyKrabTrainingVideo Wet Painters]]": [=SpongeBob=] is taking a ridiculously long time starting to paint Mr. Krabs' living room, indicated by title cards saying "Two hours later", "Six hours later", and so on. The last one is revealed to be held by Patrick, who complains that he's out of time cards, implying that he held up the other cards as well.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kuzco and Pacha running to the palace is shown as a TravelMontage, with a red dotted line to indicate their progress. Cut to Yzma and Kronk following him, where they suddenly notice the red line on the ground. Then they look behind them and see that a blue dotted line is forming behind them. They just shrug it off and continue the chase.

* During the opening sequence of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Roger gets CirclingBirdies after having a refrigerator fall on his head, and is immediately berated by the director because the script calls for stars, not birds. While ranting, the director grabs one of the birds and throws it on the floor, before yelling at the remaining, chirping birds to shut up. As the director storms off, Roger is seen catching the birds and stuffing them back into his pants, suggesting that the birds are stage props for the filming.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]", an in-universe advertisement featuring business owner Max Capricorn has a TwinkleSmile with AudibleGleam when he gives the tagline "My name is Max". The Doctor is rather bemused when he meets him in person and finds out it really does that.

* A common gag in ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''.

* In ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld,'' Iceland is constantly accompanied by BishieSparkle. In one strip, it turns out that this is a physical substance, and other characters can borrow it to look more bishie themselves.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Now and Gwen", an argument between Francine and Hayley is punctuated by a lightning strike, which turns out to be Roger flicking the lights off and on while shaking a metal sheet for the sound of thunder. When Roger gets busy with his own subplot, Klaus tries to continue the gag in later scenes but always gets the timing wrong.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'': The Flibber Flabber Diet episode has Chowder leading Truffles in a random route around the town to get her out of the house [[ItMakesSenseInContext so that Schnitzel and Mung can work on making the house bigger]]. We get an aerial map view with red dots following behind icons of the duo, which end up being actual red dots physically following them.

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E16ALeelaOfHerOwn A Leela of Her Own]]", several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censored by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!")
** When Bender first sees Anglelyne in "Bendless Love", she first appears as a GaussianGirl. Then the workers remove the dirty glass they had placed in front of her.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': when the town celebrates Pioneer Day in "Irrational Treasure" its redecorated downtown is shown in sepia at first, but then the men selling "dirty glass" move out of the way of the camera and color returns.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]" segment "Homer³", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

** The page image is from "New Student Starfish". After Mrs. Puff sentences [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to detention, she is lit from below as she says "May Neptune have mercy on your souls!" Camera pulls back to show that Mrs. Puff is [[ScaryFlashlightFace holding a flashlight under her chin]].
** In "Wet Painters", [=SpongeBob=] is taking a ridiculously long time starting to paint Mr. Krabs' living room, indicated by title cards saying "Two hours later", "Six hours later", and so on. The last one is revealed to be held by Patrick, who complains that he's out of time cards, implying that he held up the other cards as well.

* ''Manga/SkipBeat'' has the Kyoko Apparitions (or Kyoko's demons/Grudge Kyokos, depending on the translations), which initially seems to just be an exaggerated expression of Kyoko's thirst for vengeance, but turns out to be actual spirit manifestation that can affect other characters and their surroundings. In several instances, Kyoko uses the apparitions to [[HeroStoleMyBike steal a random stranger's bike]], and to haunt/curse Sawara so that he'd let her into the LME talent division. Later on, Reino -- who claims to be have psychic powers -- actually takes one of the apparitions hostage to threaten Kyoko.

* One episode of the 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime has Breda dress up like [[LargeHam Alex Louis Armstrong]] as a prank. The costume includes Armstrong's signature {{Bishie Sparkle}}s as little pink diamond shapes attached to wires, which seems to imply that Armstrong's sparkles are also diegetic (though we never get an explanation as to how).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E16ALeelaOfHerOwn A Leela of Her Own]]", several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censored by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!")
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': We see a red dotted line on the map that's supposedly just there to show where the pirates have traveled... only for the scene to shift into reality and we find out that the albino pirate is creating the dotted line by throwing red items out the back.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]" segment "Homer³", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

* ''ComicBook/StevenUniverse'': In ''Camp Pining Play'', when Peridot gets an idea for how to get props, an IdeaBulb
appears next to her head. Next panel, it turns out to be an actual light bulb being dangled by Sour Cream.

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* ''ComicBook/StevenUniverse'': In ''Camp Pining Play'', when Peridot gets an idea for how to get props, an IdeaBulb appears next to her head. Next panel, it turns out to be an actual light bulb being dangled by Sour Cream.

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--> '''Truffles:''' Why do these strange dots keep following us? Run Chowder!

--> "Why do these strange dots keep following us? Run Chowder!" --Truffles

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' has a story arc where Paige is struggling both to write a school report about Thomas Edison, and to fend off UnwantedAssistance on the subject from her dad, Roger. In one strip, an IdeaBulb suddenly appears above her head as she's writing. Then it turns out Roger was just standing behind her, holding a real lightbulb up, as a pretext to rattle off a list of Edison's inventions.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E16ALeelaOfHerOwn A Leela of Her Own]]", several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censorsed by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!")

* During the opening sequence of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Roger gets CirclingBirdies after having a refridgerator fall on his head, and is immediately berated by the director because the script calls for stars--not birds. While ranting, the director grabs one of the birds and throws it on the floor, before yelling at the remaining, chirping birds to shut up. As the director storms off, Roger is seen catching the birds and stuffing them back into his pants, suggesting that the birds are stage props for the filming.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]" segment "Homer3", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E16ALeelaOfTheirOwn A Leela of Her Own]]", several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censorsed by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!")

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "A Leela of Her Own," several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censorsed by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!")

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7ETreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]" segment "Homer3", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]] an in-universe advertisement featuring business owner Max Capricorn has a TwinkleSmile with AudibleGleam when he gives the tagline "My name is Max". The Doctor is rather bemused when he meets him in person and finds out it really does that.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Halloween Special VI'' segment "Homer^3", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

--> "Why do these strange dots keep following us? Run Chowder!" --Truffles

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': We see a red dotted line on the map that's supposedly just there to show where the pirates have travelled... only for the scene to shift into reality and we find out that the albino pirate is creating the dotted line by throwing red items out the back.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Halloween Special VI'' segment "Homer^3", Frink announces Homer has fallen into "The Third Dimension!" and the room goes dark. We then see that Lisa accidentally leaned on the light switch.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': We see a red dotted line on the map that's supposedly just there to show where the pirates have travelled... only for the scene to shift into reality and we find out that the albino pirate is creating the dotted line by throwing red items out the back.