Lampshades hung in animated film.
- In Blue's Big Musical Movie, the first Blue's Clues movie, Steve finally says "why don't I ever find the clues first?"
- In what was probably the earliest example of Disney lampshading a plot point from one of the fairy tales that they adapted, Cinderella has the Duke privately criticizing Prince Charming's plan of marrying the girl whose foot fits the glass slipper, as there could be numerous girls in the kingdom who could fit into it. The King, however, having been obsessed with marrying his bachelor son off and getting grandchildren, claims that those details are the Prince's problem and that he should have been more specific. Luckily for the Prince, it works out in the end.
- In Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, the King has apparently changed his mind, and personally questions his son over that particular declaration.
"You think there's only one woman in the whole kingdom who wears a size four-and-a-half?!" - Numerous times in The Emperor's New Groove:
- Early on, Kronk pulls the wrong one of two levers at the entrance to Yzma's lair, dropping Yzma into the crocodile pool below and prompting her to remark "Why do we even HAVE that lever?" as she walks back to the entrance dripping wet and with a crocodile trailing by her clothing. Later, the same fate befalls Kuzco when he and Pacha are trying to get into the lab, with the line "Why does she even HAVE that lever?"
- When Kuzco and Pacha do get into Yzma's lair inside the mountaintop palace, they find that she's already there with the potion they were looking for, despite her and Kronk having been struck by lightning and falling into a chasm. Kuzco wonders how she arrived before them; unable to answer, she asks Kronk the same question. Kronk pulls down the map that was previously shown to the audience to indicate the delay and declares "Ya got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense."
- Even more later, as Yzma falls hundreds of feet from the palace, a royal guard tells a delivery guy who has inexplicably brought a soon-to-be-salvational trampoline to that exact spot, "For the last time, we did not order a giant trampoline!" The deliverer responds "You know, pal, you could have told me that before I set it up."
- "What are the odds of that trap door leading me here?"
- And then in the sequel:
Rudy: The others! I almost forgot! Th-They're about to elect Yzma emperor!Kronk: I never knew that was an elective office. - In Frozen Fever, Elsa states "I don't get colds" in a preemptive lampshade for the fact that she's unaware that her sneezes spawn snowgies.
- With The Incredibles being a Deconstruction of the superhero genre, there is a lot of attention drawn to popular story elements such as: how villains love to monologue, that The Cape-style heroes don't like killing, or evil people won't hesitate to kill children... among others.
- In Justice League: Doom, Superman suggests a way to protect the Earth from destruction.Superman: Maybe I can move the Earth out of the way?Batman: If we had a week, I couldn't list all the reasons that won't work.
- Koati: Nachi can't help but acknowledge that Cocopa's prophecy seems vague and unhelpful. Nachi comments that he is told to find a "lake of fire" and "the mouth that does not speak", but isn't told where. He follows the prophecy anyway.
- In The LEGO Movie, Princess Unikitty lists a long number of unpleasant things that won't be found in Cloud Cuckoo-land, capping it off with "no negativity of any kind!"Wyldstyle: You just said "no" like a thousand times.
Unikitty: There's also no consistency!- In the sequel, Benny cheerfully lampshades being a Flat Character during Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's musical number.
Queen Watevra: Benny, do you like spaceships? 'Cause I think they are great!Benny: How'd you know that? Loving spaceships is my one defining trait! - Looney Tunes: Back in Action attempts to shrug off Product Placement by lampshading it. The heroes, lost in a desert, find a Wal-Mart, after which Daffy Duck proceeds to spout out half a dozen product names which he wants to buy, even remarking that he gets free drinks every time he says "Wal-Mart". One of the human characters remarks that "I think that at this point the viewers won't even notice anything abnormal in the scene."Bugs Bunny: Nice of Wal-Mart to give us these Wal-Mart beverages in exchange for saying "Wal-Mart" so many times.
- In Ratatouille, Remy the Rat finds out that he can control Linguini's actions by pulling on his hair like a puppeteer. When Remy experiments with this unlikely technique, Linguini notes with amusement, "That's strangely involuntary."
- In Resident Evil: Degeneration, Claire uses an umbrella that bears the exact same red-and-white alternating pattern as the Umbrella Corporation logo as a makeshift weapon, and states, "Huh. Never saw this coming."
- The Road to El Dorado: After Tulio, Miguel, and Altivo the horse end up stranded in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean, Miguel tries to stay optimistic, leading to a lampshade hanging on Rock Bottom/Tempting Fate.Miguel: Look on the positive side, at least things can't get— (cue heavy thunderstorm)
Tulio: I'm sorry, were you about to say "worse"?!
Miguel: Um, no. - A lot of the humor in Storks comes from this trope. Given that this was the same studio as The LEGO Movie, this is to be expected:
- When Hunter takes Junior through the visions of how Junior will be boss, they show the usual footage of the two going through the hoops of being higher up on the corporate chain... and Hunter even says "Point at things together".
- "You could be... BOOOOOOOOOSSSS" followed by a bombshell as it zooms in on Hunter's mouth. When Hunter tries this in the final act, it doesn't zoom in at all - and Hunter even says "Hmm, didn't work that time".
- The film's plot is basically a Random Events Plot - and sure enough, they make fun of it.
- In Superman vs. the Elite, there's a scene where Supes is apparently blown up with the force of (according to Coldcast) fifteen supernovas, leaving nothing behind but a piece of his cape. This leads Manchester to state "How is that no matter how badly you massacre one of these thong-and-blanket types, some shred of their unmentionables still survives the blast?"
- In Turning Red, Ming lampshades 4*Town's Non-Indicative Name by asking why they're named that if there are 5 members.
- Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo: Near the end, after an Easter version of Yet Another Christmas Carol, Tigger observes Rabbit's change of heart and asks "What the dickens — (Aside Glance) and I mean Dickens — is going on here?"
