History BreakingTheFourthWall / FanWorks

** The second is Cinderella and the Prince gently singing the opening line of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" to the audience, near the end of the rousing rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star".

** The second is Cinderella and the Prince gently singing the opening line of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" directly to the camera during the song's climax.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7382549/1/When-Is-It-a-Contract]]'':

* In ''Fanfic/AmberNight When Is It a Contract]]'':AndTheCurseOfTheDiabolicalPastryThief'', Amber Night is apparently no stranger to the "sadistic hairless chimpanzee pounding away it the keyboard that controls the fate of the pastryless pony" on the other side of the fourth wall, demonstrated in the beginning when she grows inspired by his monologue without having heard it, and again later on when she [[spoiler:convinces him to disable the gym's laser defense systems]].

* In ''Fanfic/AmberNightAndTheCurseOfTheDiabolicalPastryThief'', Amber Night is apparently no stranger to the "sadistic hairless chimpanzee pounding away it the keyboard that controls the fate of the pastryless pony" on the other side of the fourth wall, demonstrated in the beginning when she grows inspired by his monologue without having heard it, and again later on when she [[spoiler:convinces him to disable the gym's laser defense systems]].

** The second is Cinderella and the Prince singing the opening line of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" directly to the camera during the song's climax.

** The first is Cinderella inviting the audience to join in with the final verse of "When You Wish Upon a Star".

* ''Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}}'' (WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}''): Much like the source material, this fic and its sequels take any number of shots at the fourth wall. One reviewer asked whether the fourth wall had killed the author's father, since it gets shattered with so much frequency.

* ''Fanfic/TotalSiblingRivalry'' (''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''): after the author's self-insertion, Chris wonders about buying a new fourth wall.
* ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'': [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]], a character from the source video game, is credited as the editor of the series. The entire series is littered with his notations on the author's work. He frequently addresses her, but he also frequently directs his comments to the reader. Justified since, as he ''is'' the editor, he knows darn well that he has readers and reasons that they will want to know what's going on as the story is being written. The author herself also shows up as a character at certain points.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18786520 What About My Character Development?]]'' (''Anime/MobPsycho100'': Reigen discovers that he's been psychic the whole time, thus nullifying all of his character development.

* In the ''Franchise/StarWars''/''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' crossover ''FanFic/LarryBoyAndTheLittleManOfPurpleness'', the trailer ends with these lines:

* In ''FanFic/AmberNightAndTheCurseOfTheDiabolicalPastryThief'', Amber Night is apparently no stranger to the "sadistic hairless chimpanzee pounding away it the keyboard that controls the fate of the pastryless pony" on the other side of the fourth wall, demonstrated in the beginning when she grows inspired by his monologue without having heard it, and again later on when she [[spoiler:convinces him to disable the gym's laser defense systems]].

* In ''FanFic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan'', Nova Shine appears to be well-aware that he is in a fanfiction, complains that they need to get past "the backstory part of this chapter", and come a couple of chapters later, outright refers to the fact that the fic is being rewritten. By the time of the Interlude, it has spread to other characters, such as Envy, who ''reads every previous short story'' to comment on how everyone seems to be drinking tea.

* Many an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] will do this on a regular basis. To the point that Ishizu mentions she can break the fourth wall in ''her first appearance'', and this is unimpressive because everyone else has already broken it.
** This is an actual plot point in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''. [[spoiler:According to Ishizu, if the fourth wall collapses completely, then Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged will be cancelled. Sure enough, Melvin defeating Florence is enough to bring the fourth wall down (for some reason), and 4kids (as run by Noah and the Big Five) cancel the show... And then Creator/LittleKuriboh announces Season 3.]] Yeah. [[MindScrew Trippy, much?]]
** [[spoiler: And now we have season 3. First off Serenity tries to talk to Joey about the fact that she's frightened she'll get written out of the show because her character doesn't serve any significant point... And then all the main characters are told their show has been cancelled. Their reaction? "What the ''fuck?!''"]] Just... There's no fourth wall any more. There's a ''fifth'' wall, but the fourth wall is just broken. And no, it is not going to be revived from the shadow realm.
** In ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'', Iroh actually ''teaches Zuko how to break the Fourth Wall''. He ends up using it to re-write the episode to make Sokka's life hell.
* ''FanFic/ANewOrder'': Helios does this when speaking with the ghost of Queen Serenity. He and she both know the secret of the Time Gates (him because he read her mind) but he asks her to explain it anyway because the people on the fourth wall don't know.
* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'' occasionally does this, with characters being aware of when flashbacks are occurring and/or that they're in a flashback.
* In the ''Literature/CastawaysOfTheFlyingDutchman'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4900100/1/A_Spoof_from_the_Castaways_of_the_Flying_Dutchman A Spoof from the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman]]'', the author spoofs the story in an entertaining way using SelfInsert and brutally honest--sometimes exaggerated or downright made up--ways of depicting the events occurring, all the while beating the shit out of the fourth wall as they move the story along.
-->'''Ben:''' Oh look, a note! (Reads note) Oh fun, I get to sneak out tomorrow. Maybe something interesting will happen in this story.\\
'''Me:''' You mean like a faster update? Like that will ever happen.
* Utilized by ''FanFic/AdventCrossoverCrisis''; the author gets [[Creator/MarvelComics SheHulk and DeadPool]], two renowned fourth wall breakers, to address the audience directly in the opening to explain the fic in greater detail.
* In ''FanFic/AgeofDragons'', Kieran/Urthemiel takes a moment to yell at the author for railroading the party into the deep roads. He also figured out where the party needed to go by noting where the quest marker was, and can find his friends by looking at the locations of their character icons.
* In ''Blog/AskKingSombra'': Being that it's an ask blog, naturally, the characters respond to fan comments. It's a bit zigzaggy on whether other characters realize that that's what they're doing though.
** Sombra is actually able to physically interact with the question boxes; at one point he tries to hide behind them, only to realize they aren't actually real.
** At one point the author tries to derail the comic into a shipping fic, so Sombra and Coffee Talk open a portal and give his AuthorAvatar a DeathGlare to make him get back on track.
* In ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' parody ''[[FanFic/BringMeAllYourElderly Bring Me All Your Elderly]]'', the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Animated!Characters]] not only are aware that they are animated (and discuss it very casually), they also leave the Animated!Universe to enter the Movie!Universe, generally blame all unexplained events either on the [[WhoWritesThisCrap fanfic author]] or Creator/MNightShyamalan, read their own fanfic and comments straight off the internet, and basically suffer severe existential crises as a result. The fourth wall itself actually makes a brief appearance at one point in the story, along with a sign that says "fragile."
-->'''Mai:''' But for future reference, guys - try to be careful about breaking the fourth wall around Zuko, okay? He doesn't know, and it tends to freak him out a little.\\
'''Zuko:''' Fourth wall? What wall? Someone broke a wall?\\
'''Mai:''' Nothing, Zuko. Just don't worry about it.
* Happens often in the ''FanFic/CalvinAtCamp'' series, especially when [[Franchise/TheHauntedMansion the Hitchhiking Ghosts]] are involved.
* Much like [[WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} the cartoon]] on which they're based, ''FanFic/{{Cinderjuice}}'' and its sequels take any number of shots at the fourth wall. One reviewer asked whether the fourth wall had killed the author's father, since it gets shattered with so much frequency.
* In Chapter 13 of Part 2 in ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'', after giving a eulogy to [[spoiler:Smithy, Dimentio mentions to the audience about how he will "satisfy their desire for entertainment.]] Of course, [[FridgeHorror when one takes into consideration his powers]] and that beyond the computer screen [[FridgeBrilliance would probably qualify]] [[OhCrap as another dimension for him...]]
* The original Fanfic/DantesNightAtFreddys was no slouch when it came to LeaningOnTheFourthWall, but its sequel, ''Animatronic Boogaloo'' went so insane that, around chapter 8 and especially in chapter 9, the author describes the events as, "Dante and [[spoiler:MJTR]] destroy the fourth wall, take it around back, and beat it with its own body."
* The video "Deadpool - A Blurred Lines Parody", along with several other ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} cosplay videos by WebVideo/DPiddy, make use of this. (It's downplayed compared to the original Deadpool.)
* ''Fanfic/EverybodysGottaLeaveSometime'': Charlie Brown gathers his friends to discuss their creator's retirement and the final of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Lucy complains that Charles Schulz wouldn't even let them negotiate for an extension. Shermie grieves because he'll never be in a story again. Linus is kind of angry because Schulz never let him see the Great Pumpkin. To sum up, the fourth wall is well and truly shattered.

* In the ''House'' fanfic "Iggy Pop Go The Zombies" a literal piece of wall collapses when another character tells House, "Quit making that face, you look like Bertie Wooster."
* ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'': In a rare totally serious example, [[PhysicalGod Yukari]] inadvertently weaponizes this against [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Yuuka]]]] when she reaches into her soul and generally rips things apart. [[spoiler: This leads to Yuuka periodically taking over the narration and speaking directly to the reader, as well as adjusting her myriad plans to manipulate the established narrative.]]
** The first hint towards this comes in a memorable MadnessMantra ("It can't be. Just words on a page. It's all paper. And not even real paper.") which [[spoiler: Yuuka]] keeps muttering to herself while ignoring being pummelled into the dust by Yukari.
* In the Hetalia fanfic ''Fanfic/ItsASmallWorldAfterAll'', the characters warn each other not to break the Fourth Wall often so that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the fangirls reading the story (including the author) can't get in]]. However, a lot of the characters (usually Japan) end up breaking the Fourth Wall in the middle of the story (via looking up at the ceiling and [[WhoWritesThisCrap complaining to the author]]) and cause a war in the author's note over 'keeping the Fourth Wall up'. Fangirls [[NoKillLikeOverkill obliterate]] the Fourth Wall and take over the fanfic for a chapter, after which everyone agrees on inserting a [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness Fourth Wall with a door.]]
* In Fanfic/NewReality, Mithos jumps into the real world to kidnap the heroine, making it an In-Universe example.
* After [[spoiler:the DC and Marvel universe's have been combined]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11604728/1/Nocturnal Nocturnal]]'', Deadpool shows up and complains that he has "One cameo, in this entire one hundred chapter story".
* When [[CrossoverCameo Deadpool appears out of nowhere]] in Chapter 29 of ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Alex asks him what he's doing there and if he intends to try and fight her. After hastily denying that he has a fight in mind, he openly admits that he's just there to provide a little WolverinePublicity.
-->"What are you doing here, then?" Alex huffed. The man was a pain in the ass.\\
"Nothing much. This is just a pointless cameo! It's all the rage in comic books! Alexi Vandeberg, one of the writer's best friends in the world, bet the writer fifty bucks that there was no way in hell that he – the writer, I mean – would just drop me into the story at random, in the same way that all those comics back in the 90s would include Wolverine just to say he was in their title once." Deadpool shrugged. "Back when they were doing it with Wolverine, it was basically just a cheap grab for better sales, but it worked. TV Tropes even has a name for it: 'WolverinePublicity.' Pretty neato, right? Of course, it sort of breaks the flow of the story, but fifty buck is fifty bucks, right?"
* A brief gag in the ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'' has Pinkie Pie conversing with the narrator, as a side effect of her magic becoming stronger.
* At the end of ''Fanfic/PaperMarioX 2: The Thousand Year Door'', [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] puts out a velvet box out of his bag. Inside includes a ring which he uses to propose to Zelda. The very last line is Link addressing to the audience: "Can you guess what I'm going to do?"

* The narrator from Fanfic/PokemonJohtoQuest constantly does this at the beginning and ending of nearly every episode.
* Fan game ''VideoGame/RakenzarnTales'' has two primary offenders: Axel Akamura, an OC who's implied to be from outside of Rakenzarn like Kyros and Kyuu, and Deadpool himself, who even does his own special skill descriptions.
* The ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse'' has as its central concept the idea that various ponies are commenting on comics and answering questions. That's not this trope. What is this trope is when a reader pointed out to Gilda her blog had been hijacked by a mysterious "mod" person, resulting in the two having a bit of a tussle.
* Being a ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}} fanfiction, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13326907/1/Sociopath-With-a-Spellblade Sociopath With a Spellblade]]'' isn't exactly shy about abusing the fourth wall, whether it's referencing the title as SelfInsert Koei Tech's official title, Neptune herself yelling about her lack of limelight over nine chapters and thirty thousand words into the story, or most blatant of all, revealing that the entire story is being told as a flashback and deliberately talking to the audience.
--->'''Koei:''' What? Guy can't get a drink while regaling his story, revealing the framing device for this entire fanfiction?
* At the end of every ''WebAnimation/StarTrekLogicalThinking'' video, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] reminds the audience not to use logical fallacies.
* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': The characters frequently break the fourth wall in the omakes: the author and Asuka talk about his discarded ideas, Asuka complains of a thug breaking the fourth wall when he accused her of doing blatant shout-outs, Shinji gets a present of the author, or the author decides to address the characters.
* ''Fanfic/SweetiesMansion'': Pinkie Pie still has this ability even as a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] ghost that is out to kill Sweetie Belle. [[spoiler:Upon catching her, Sweetie gains this ability as well and unintentionally calls the author out for the direction the story is going when she's in LotusEaterMachine.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfAResetMind'', the characters ''disintegrate'' the fourth wall by speaking directly to the reader on multiple occasions.
-->'''Fear:''' Dear Reader, hey look, there's a spider on your back. A big one.
* A common source of humour in the ''FanFic/TamersForeverSeries''; often it's the author doing the fourth wall breaking with random comments.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fanfiction ''FanFic/TenRandomCharacters'' suffers varied degrees of abuse from the characters, and often, the author. It is broken so frequently that the wall is given a codename, the Norfair Alley. Sometimes, this trope is quite literal. In [[spoiler:Chapter 11, a mob of fangirls invades after the fourth wall quite literally falls down dead]].

* In ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'', Deadpool talks to the readers a couple of times. He even manages to (briefly) hijack an Author's Afternote before being restrained.
* The narrator of this ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13105443/1/The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Wind-Waker The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'' novelization does this a lot. Examples of this include him assuring the viewers that they did not accidentally open the Cornish edition of the story upon the reader hearing Granny's snoring, him wondering if he had just accidentally popped in a copy of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Castle_(1896_film) The Haunted Castle]]'' by mistake upon seeing Hyrule with its colour drained and him [[ThankingTheViewer thanking the readers for reading his story at the end]].
* Team Rocket occasionally pulls this off in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/ThePowerThatsInside''.

* In the CrackFic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9500873/1/There-s-Someone-Else There's Someone Else]]'', Tira remarks that she's been taunting Patroklos "throughout the whole [[VideoGame/SoulSeries game]]".
* A minor case shows up in Chapter 25 of ''FanFic/ThisBites'' when Cross says that he couldn't make up the events that he was reporting if he tried. Soundbite, or perhaps B.R.O.B. possessing him again, noted the irony.
* In the [=MST=] treatment of ''FanFic/TomSwiftAndHisWarTank,'' Joel and the bots become so frustrated at Ned's stupidity that they run out of ways to riff him and are forced to ask the readers for help.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''FanFic/TotalSiblingRivalry'', after the author's self-insertion, Chris wonders about buying a new fourth wall.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18786520 What About My Character Development?]]'' is a Mob Psycho 100 fanfic in which Reigen discovers that he's been psychic the whole time, thus nullifying all of his character development.
* The fourth wall of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' SelfInsertFic ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'' is finally breached with the introduction of '''Ambush Bug''' in the Fool's Canon arc. HilarityEnsues.
* In the ''Manga/MedakaBox'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WorldAsMyth'', Misogi Kumagawa recognizes when bold font and italics are used in dialogue.
** Anshin'in seems to be aware of the events of the original manga.
* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]] is credited as the editor of the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series. The entire series is littered with his notations on the author's work. He frequently addresses her, but he also frequently directs his comments to the reader. Justified since, as he ''is'' the editor, he knows darn well that he has readers and reasons that they will want to know what's going on as the story is being written. The author herself also shows up as a character at certain points.
* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'':
** In Pinkie's chapter, the first thing Princess Pinkie Pie does is ''take over the narration and make the author fill in for her at Sugarcube Corner!!'' Don't worry, she exchanges back at the end of the chapter.
** In Trixie's chapter, like Pinkie Pie, the alicornified Trixie takes over the narrative. She steals the author's USB drive and [[{{Blackmail}} threaten to reveal publicly]] all his [[Rule34 clopfics]].

* The Animaniacs in ''FanFic/MyLittleAnimaniacs'' do it the entire story.

* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': In the second chapter, in the panel where Sakura and Ino are doing their BigWhat, Kiba asks Shino "Why are we over here?", only for the latter to reply "I wanted to be in the picture."

-->'''Ben:''' Oh look, a note! (Reads note) Oh fun, I get to sneak out tomorrow. Maybe something interesting will happen in this story.
-->'''Me:''' You mean like a faster update? Like that will ever happen.

-->'''Mai:''' But for future reference, guys - try to be careful about breaking the fourth wall around Zuko, okay? He doesn't know, and it tends to freak him out a little.
-->'''Zuko:''' Fourth wall? What wall? Someone broke a wall?
-->'''Mai:''' Nothing, Zuko. Just don't worry about it.

* In Chapter 13 of Part 2 in ''FanFic/ClashOfTheElements'', after giving a eulogy to [[spoiler: Smithy, Dimentio mentions to the audience about how he will "satisfy their desire for entertainment.]] Of course, [[FridgeHorror when one takes into consideration his powers]] and that beyond the computer screen [[FridgeBrilliance would probably qualify]] [[OhCrap as another dimension for him...]]

-->“What are you doing here, then?” Alex huffed. The man was a pain in the ass.
-->“Nothing much. This is just a pointless cameo! It’s all the rage in comic books! Alexi Vandeberg, one of the writer’s best friends in the world, bet the writer fifty bucks that there was no way in hell that he – the writer, I mean – would just drop me into the story at random, in the same way that all those comics back in the 90s would include Wolverine just to say he was in their title once.” Deadpool shrugged. “Back when they were doing it with Wolverine, it was basically just a cheap grab for better sales, but it worked. TV Tropes even has a name for it: ‘WolverinePublicity.’ Pretty neato, right? Of course, it sort of breaks the flow of the story, but fifty buck is fifty bucks, right?”

* Like the source material, the ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' fanfics ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6902577/1/Phases-of-the-Moon Phases of the Moon]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8222340/1/Chasing-the-Moon Chasing the Moon]]'' have [[{{Omake}} Omakes]] at the end of each chapter. These omakes leave the FourthWall fairly intact. However, in the companion fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10332014/1/The-Trials-of-Kurosaki-Karin The Trials of Kurosaki Karin]]'', the omakes involve [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] [[ThoseTwoGuys Masaryu and]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Kohaku]] breaking the Fourth Wall with impunity as they discuss the events of the story and interact with the audience ''Arrancar Encyclopedia'' style.

---> '''Koei:''' What? Guy can't get a drink while regaling his story, revealing the framing device for this entire fanfiction?

--> '''Fear''': Dear Reader, hey look, there’s a spider on your back. A big one.

* Super Smash Bros fanfiction ''FanFic/TenRandomCharacters'' suffers varied degrees of abuse from the characters, and often, the author. It is broken so frequently that the wall is given a codename, the Norfair Alley. Sometimes, this trope is quite literal. In [[spoiler:Chapter 11, a mob of fangirls invades after the fourth wall quite literally falls down dead]].

* The fourth wall of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' SelfInsertFic ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'' is finally breached with the introduction of '''Ambush Bug''' in the Fool's Canon arc. HilarityEnsues.

* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]] is credited as the editor of the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series. The entire series is littered with his notations on the author's work. He frequently addresses her, but he also frequently directs his comments to the reader. Justified since, as he ''is'' the editor, he knows darn well that he has readers and reasons that they will want to know what's going on as the story is being written. The author herself also shows up as a character at certain points.

* When [[TheCameo Deadpool appears out of nowhere]] in Chapter 29 of ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Alex asks him what he's doing there and if he intends to try and fight her. After hastily denying that he has a fight in mind, he openly admits that he's just there to provide a little WolverinePublicity.

--->'''Pinkie Pie/Discord''': It’s canon to the comics, don’t worry about it.

* Fan game ''VideoGame/RakenzarnTales'' has two primary offenders: Axel Akamura, an OC who's implied to be from outside of Rakenzarn like Kyuu, and Deadpool himself, who even does his own special skill descriptions.