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Breaking the fourth wall is when a character acknowledges their fictionality, by either indirectly or directly addressing the audience. Alternatively, they may interact with their creator (the author of the book, the director of the movie, the artist of the comic book, etc.).
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Wife and Wife goes three chapters with the fourth wall...
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The fourth wall is then again broken later, when the Abbot...
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Naturally, the studio audience laughs uproariously....
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A page for describing Laconic: Breaking the Fourth Wall....
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Many tropes originated in literary works. Literature being...
- Scolding The Fourth-Wall Breaker
Pokémon fanfiction Child of Mew has Ash and Mew sometimes...
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The characters break the fourth wall in a way that makes no...
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Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: where, outside of the plot, the...
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After finding a projector showing pictures of the real...
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Preschool shows such as Blue's Clues and Dora the Explorer popularized this as a way to teach skills such as math, language, and problem solving to their child audience. The main characters will en...
Tex Avery was the master of this. His characters would often do things like running off the edge of the film. One of his best involved a wiggling hair stuck on the film(which often happened in old...
Old Filmation cartoons (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), She-Ra: Princess of Power, Ghostbusters) always ended with a character breaking the fourth wall and teaching a worthy lesson t...
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Characters talking directly to the audience through the wall of the set that's missing because the audience or camera are there, but is still assumed to exist. Also used more broadly to mean acknowledging that their world is a fiction and they are performers within it.
Dec 2, 2011 · The most famous example of fourth-wall breaking in any medium is when its used in Annie Hall, in the scene where Woody Allen gets into an argument with someone while waiting in line to see...
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Double Fourth Wall smashed--by Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In "Hog Tide", to keep the Planeteers' minds off the hurricane that's doing a number on Hope Island, Gaia tells a tall tale about fictional heroes based on the Planeteers.
In a rare horror version, John Carpenter's movie In the Mouth of Madness has the premise that breaking the fourth wall lets the Eldritch Abominations hiding behind it in.
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