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* "Webcomic/{{Fathead}}" used to [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/26/ break]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/42/ the]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/53/ fourth]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/71 wall]] frequently.
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* ''Webcomic/TheDailyDerp'': [[http://dailyderp.tumblr.com/post/39066752897/derpy-i-forgot-to-mention-this Hello DerpyHoovesNews people!]]
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* In Okashina Okashi (Strange Candy) Eri-chan does this [[http://www.strangecandy.net/d/20130131.html]] (or maybe this is just part of the multiverse).
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* WebComic/CommanderKitty is usually good about keeping its FourthWall intact, but that didn't stop [[BigBad Zenith]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/07/04/nothing-like-a-good-rant/ from complaining about not getting her own button]] when [[{{Deuteragonist}} Nin Wah]] gets to have one (early in the comic's lifespan, you could purchase buttons with the main characters' faces on them).

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* WebComic/CommanderKitty is usually good about keeping its FourthWall intact, but that didn't stop [[BigBad Zenith]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/07/04/nothing-like-a-good-rant/ from complaining about not getting her own button]] when [[{{Deuteragonist}} Nin Wah]] gets got to have one (early in the comic's lifespan, you could purchase buttons with the main characters' faces on them).
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* WebComic/CommanderKitty is usually good about keeping its FourthWall intact, but that didn't stop [[BigBad Zenith]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/07/04/nothing-like-a-good-rant/ from complaining about not getting her own button]] when [[{{Deuteragonist}} Nin Wah]] gets to have one (early in the comic's lifespan, you could purchase buttons with the main characters' faces on them).
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* In ''DragonMango'', [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-19.htm two characters manage to get through a maze since it's been a month since they entered it. The one trying to keep them out curses the erratic update schedule.]]
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* APTComic has some characters that can see through the fourth wall, and some that have [[AudienceWhatAudience no idea what they're talking about.]]
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* In the sprite comic ''{{Bob and George}}'', the 4th wall never existed, and it was a constant running gag. All the characters knew that they were in a comic, and the author of the comic often made appearances. Once he even came out to fight another author that entered his comic's universe. One of the characters even read ahead to know what was going to happen next. Of course this wasn't exactly a bad thing, as it made the comic what it was.
** [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000421c Megaman, for instance]] pulled ScrewThisImOutOfHere on [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000422c the comic]] within the first month.

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* In the sprite comic ''{{Bob and George}}'', the 4th fourth wall never existed, and it was a constant running gag. All the characters knew that they were in a comic, and the author of the comic often made appearances. Once he even came out to fight another author that entered his comic's universe. One of the characters even read ahead to know what was going to happen next. Of course this wasn't exactly a bad thing, as it made the comic what it was.
** [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000421c Megaman, for instance]] pulled ScrewThisImOutOfHere ScrewThisImOuttaHere on [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000422c the comic]] within the first month.



* In "The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat", where all cartoon characters are actors in Cartoon Land, the 4th Wall is revealed [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]] to be one of the main principles of ToonPhysics.
* The narrator/author [[http://blipcomic.com/49/ gets in trouble]] in {{Blip}}; K is _not_ happy.

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* In "The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat", where all cartoon characters are actors in Cartoon Land, the 4th Fourth Wall is revealed [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]] to be one of the main principles of ToonPhysics.
* The narrator/author [[http://blipcomic.com/49/ gets in trouble]] in {{Blip}}; ''{{Blip}}''; K is _not_ ''not'' happy.



* TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic: http://tropeoverdosed.pcriot.com/?p=38

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* TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic: ''TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic'': http://tropeoverdosed.pcriot.com/?p=38



* In ''TheFuzzyFive'' some of the LivingToys [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/29-voyage-to-the-center-of-sorority-row/ do]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/35-was-it-adam-west/ this]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/71-the-thrilling-conclusion-part-ii/ occasionally]].

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* In ''TheFuzzyFive'' ''TheFuzzyFive'', some of the LivingToys [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/29-voyage-to-the-center-of-sorority-row/ do]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/35-was-it-adam-west/ this]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/71-the-thrilling-conclusion-part-ii/ occasionally]].



* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' there is an actual goddamn physical fourth wall. It's first used as a lame joke and then later by the author as a self-indulgent insert to the comic where he recaps the story. Then the comic introduces [[UpToEleven a fifth wall]] (according to [[WordOfGod Word of Hussie]], it separates multiple omniscient {{narrator}}s) and promptly starts breaking ''that'', too. It's strongly implied that this will be a major plot point. On his formspring page, Andrew Hussie joked that there's also a sixth wall, and that it's what's holding back all the "shitty memes". [[{{Memes/Homestuck}} That wall apparently broke a long time ago.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', there is an actual goddamn physical fourth wall. It's first used as a lame joke and then later by the author as a self-indulgent insert to the comic where he recaps the story. Then the comic introduces [[UpToEleven a fifth wall]] (according to [[WordOfGod Word of Hussie]], it separates multiple omniscient {{narrator}}s) and promptly starts breaking ''that'', too. It's strongly implied that this will be a major plot point. On his formspring page, Andrew Hussie joked that there's also a sixth wall, and that it's what's holding back all the "shitty memes". [[{{Memes/Homestuck}} That wall apparently broke a long time ago.]]



** And then there's [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Lord English]], who invokes TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and RageAgainstTheAuthor.]]

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** And then there's [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Lord English]], who invokes TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and RageAgainstTheAuthor.]]



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* ''GrrlPower'' almost never does this, but the splash page for chapter 2 does it quite deliberately. Sydney sees the ARC building for the first time, and looks up at it, with the 'camera' behind her and panning upward:
-->'''Sydney:''' ...I thought you said ARCswat.

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* ''GrrlPower'' almost never seldom does this, but the splash page for chapter 2 does it quite deliberately. Sydney sees the ARC building for the first time, and looks up at it, with the 'camera' behind her and panning upward:
-->'''Sydney:''' ...I thought you said ARCswat.[=ARCswat=].



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* EATATAU!!! doesn't often do this, but sometimes the Eldar just has to [[http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/comics/810949/that-s-your-fault/ argue with the narrator.]]
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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' also doesn't do this much, but if anyone is going to do it, [[ThoseWilyCoyotes Coyote]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1069 will]].

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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' also doesn't do this much, but if anyone is going to do it, [[ThoseWilyCoyotes Coyote]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1069 will]].
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* ''Webcomic/EndOfInfinity'': The author breaks the fourth wall to tell the characters that THE POWER OF TELEGRAM COMPELS YOU. The Telegrams are direct commands from the readers to the characters.
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* ''GrrlPower'' almost never does this, but the splash page for chapter 2 does it quite deliberately. Sydney sees the ARC building for the first time, and looks up at it, with the 'camera' behind her and panning upward:
-->'''Sydney:''' ...I thought you said ARCswat.
-->'''Maxima:''' I'll explain it on the next page.
-->'''Sydney:''' ...there had better not be anyone photographing my butt.
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* Rarely done in ''ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' ... at least within the panels (characters against the plain background of the website are meant to be "[[AnimatedActor backstage]]"). However, the court of Carbonek starts doing it during the "Lancelot is found by King Pelles's men and recovers from his wild man phase" storyline. Lancelot eventually [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1793.htm calls them on it]].

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* Rarely done in ''ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' ... at least within the panels (characters (there are frequent NoFourthWall strips with the characters against the plain background of the website are website, meant to be "[[AnimatedActor backstage]]"). However, the court of Carbonek starts doing it during the "Lancelot is found by King Pelles's men and recovers from his wild man phase" storyline. Lancelot eventually [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1793.htm calls them on it]].
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* Rarely done in ''ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' ... at least within the panels (characters against the plain background of the website are meant to be "[[AnimatedActor backstage]]"). However, the court of Carbonek starts doing it during the "Lancelot is found by King Pelles's men and recovers from his wild man phase" storyline. Lancelot eventually [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1793.htm calls them on it]].
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* ''GirlsWithSlingshots'' doesn't usually break the FourthWall, but in [[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/GWS471.html this strip]] Hazel takes back a hasty comment by pulling the speech bubble back into her mouth and swallowing it.

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* ''GirlsWithSlingshots'' doesn't usually break the FourthWall, but in [[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/GWS471.html girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws471/ this strip]] Hazel takes back a hasty comment by pulling the speech bubble back into her mouth and swallowing it.
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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' also doesn't do this much, but if anyone is going to do it, [[ThoseWilyCoyotes Coyote]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1069 will]].
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** [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000421c Megaman, for instance]] pulled ScrewThisImOutOfHere on [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000422c the comic]] within the first month.
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* In the sprite comic ''{{Bob and George}}'', the 4th wall never existed, and it was a constant running gag. All the characters knew that they were in a comic, and the author of the comic often made appearances. Once he even came out to fight another author that entered his comic's universe. One of the characters even read ahead to know what was going to happen next. Of course [[BetterThanItSounds this wasn't exactly a bad thing]], as it made the comic what it was.

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* In the sprite comic ''{{Bob and George}}'', the 4th wall never existed, and it was a constant running gag. All the characters knew that they were in a comic, and the author of the comic often made appearances. Once he even came out to fight another author that entered his comic's universe. One of the characters even read ahead to know what was going to happen next. Of course [[BetterThanItSounds this wasn't exactly a bad thing]], thing, as it made the comic what it was.
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* In [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=99 the hundredth strip]] of ''{{Loserz}}'', protagonist Ben remarks: "I just got the strangest feeling, like I'm being watched. -- What's even weirder is that I'm somehow sure this has happened exactly 100 times..."

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* In [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=99 [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/99 the hundredth strip]] of ''{{Loserz}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'', protagonist Ben remarks: "I just got the strangest feeling, like I'm being watched. -- What's even weirder is that I'm somehow sure this has happened exactly 100 times..."



* ''SexyLosers'' did this in a [[http://sexylosers.com/special20.html crossover]] (barely SFW) and a [[http://sexylosers.com/g015.html guest strip]] ({{NSFW}}) did the same joke to, er, completion.

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* ''SexyLosers'' did this in a [[http://sexylosers.com/special20.html crossover]] (barely SFW) and a [[http://sexylosers.com/g015.html guest strip]] ({{NSFW}}) did the same joke to, er, completion.



* In "The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat", where all cartoon characters are actors in Cartoon Land, the 4th Wall is revealed [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]] to be one of the main principles of ToonPhysics.

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* In "The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat", where all cartoon characters are actors in Cartoon Land, the 4th Wall is revealed [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]] to be one of the main principles of ToonPhysics.



* Early on in ''GameDestroyers'', [[http://www.gamedestroyers.net/104 Spiffy breaks the fourth wall]] by pointing out a PlotHole.

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* Early on in ''GameDestroyers'', [[http://www.gamedestroyers.net/104 Spiffy breaks the fourth wall]] by pointing out a PlotHole.



** And then there's [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Lord English]], who invokes TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and RageAgainstTheAuthor.]]

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* ''{{Webcomic/Fathead}}'' often [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/26/ breaks]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/42/ the]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/53/ fourth]] [[http://fatheadcomic.com/comics/71 wall]] when the author can't think of a worthwhile punchline...
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* {{DMFA}}:Uses it [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_306.php here]] to have a go at the readers.

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* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2077 played with: Slick announces it, and has Squidly break down a wall]] -- but since he narrates it for the audience, he really is breaking the fourth wall.
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* {{DMFA}:Uses it [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_306.php here]] to have a go at the readers.

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-->'''Igor''': Use this convenient plot element!

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* {{DMFA}:Uses it [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_306.php here]] to have a go at the readers.
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* In the ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' strip [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm 405]], the character says, "I know a day is 24 hours, but [[ThatNightFeltLikeMonths that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through]]". It took the author that amount of time to post the strips dealing with that one day.

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* In the ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' strip [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm 405]], the character says, "I know a day is 24 hours, but [[ThatNightFeltLikeMonths [[WebcomicTime that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through]]". It through]]" - the exact amount of time it took the author that amount of time to finish and post the strips dealing with that one day.those strips.
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** And then there's [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Lord English]], who invokes TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and RageAgainstTheAuthor.]]
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* ''{{Megatokyo}}'' - [[http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=111 - A seriously frightening example]] (in retrospect) where the character is reflecting the symptoms of her real-life namesake's autoimmune disorder which later turned into cancer. Note the knee brace on Seraphim then read [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1290#rant1042 Rant 1042]] for details.

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* ''{{Megatokyo}}'' ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'' - [[http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=111 - A seriously frightening example]] (in retrospect) where the character is reflecting the symptoms of her real-life namesake's autoimmune disorder which later turned into cancer. Note the knee brace on Seraphim then read [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1290#rant1042 Rant 1042]] for details.



* In ''{{Adventurers}}'', FinalBoss Khrima uses an attack spell with an animation [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20050423.html so over-the-top]], it doesn't just include an EarthShatteringKaboom, it actually ''cracks the Adventurers game disc'', requiring Karn to tell the "player" [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050503.html how to replace the disc with a backup copy]].

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* In ''{{Adventurers}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'', FinalBoss Khrima uses an attack spell with an animation [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20050423.html so over-the-top]], it doesn't just include an EarthShatteringKaboom, it actually ''cracks the Adventurers game disc'', requiring Karn to tell the "player" [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050503.html how to replace the disc with a backup copy]].



* ''DarthsAndDroids''' 468th strip says "''Puny Comic-Reading Humans, Bow Before My Magnificence!''".

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* ''Luci Phurr's Imps'' does it in [[http://luciphurrsimps.com/2012/02/26/myths-and-legends-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12872 This strip.]]

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* ''Luci Phurr's Imps'' does it in [[http://luciphurrsimps.com/2012/02/26/myths-and-legends-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12872 This strip.]]
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* Every chapter of ''TalesOfGnosisCollege'' ends with a "Women of Gnosis" pin-up that depicts one of the series's female characters and contains a brief caption. One of these characters -- Iris Brockman -- uses her caption to complain to the reader about how she got neither a name nor a dialog line in the preceding chapter.

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* Every chapter of ''TalesOfGnosisCollege'' ends with a "Women of Gnosis" pin-up that depicts one of the series's female characters and contains a brief caption. One of these characters -- Iris Brockman -- uses her caption to complain to the reader about how she got neither a name nor a dialog line in the preceding chapter.chapter.
* In ''{{Vinigortonio}}'':
-->'''Igor''': Use this convenient plot element!
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* ''{{Megatokyo}}'' - [[http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=111 - A seriously frightening example]] (in retrospect) where the character is reflecting the symptoms of her real-life namesake's autoimmune disorder which later turned into cancer. Note the knee brace on Seraphim then read [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1290#rant1042 Rant 1042]] for details.
* In the sprite comic ''{{Bob and George}}'', the 4th wall never existed, and it was a constant running gag. All the characters knew that they were in a comic, and the author of the comic often made appearances. Once he even came out to fight another author that entered his comic's universe. One of the characters even read ahead to know what was going to happen next. Of course [[BetterThanItSounds this wasn't exactly a bad thing]], as it made the comic what it was.
* Xawu, in most (if not all) the [[http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/comics/ comics that have Hori in them.]]
* The fourth wall is given a loving fracture every now and then in ''AMomentOfPeace''. At one point, it's opened up so that [[http://www.amomentofpeace.net/index.php?num=2 stars can pour through]].
* In ''{{Horndog}}'', the fourth wall breaks Bob's nose.
* In ''[[http://www.pvponline.com PvP]]'', now and then, the characters break the fourth wall, usually for some movie impersonation. Nearly every time, someone dies horribly, but as it's fourth wall breaking, it gives an excuse for a SnapBack.
* ''CtrlAltDel'' broke the fourth wall quite literally in this strip: [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20070720 One-Thousand]].
** Handily combined with YouBastard!
** ''CtrlAltDel'' really had NoFourthWall at first, but then abandoned that and switched to only occasionally BreakingTheFourthWall.
* ''Scandinavia and the World'' occasionally breaks this, but without referencing it. Whenever the Netherlands and Denmark, (and sometimes Germany) surprise Japan by making out, they call it Yaoi, with is never real people; meaning that they, even if it wasn't intentional, know that they know that they are drawn.
* In ''Acorn Grove'', after a long break, the creators of the strip write themselves in to apologize for the last strip being there for so long. [[http://acorngrove.comicgenesis.com/d/20051201.html]]. In another strip the resident redshirt get killed when he notices the fourth wall [[http://acorngrove.comicgenesis.com/d/20090406.html]].
* "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" breaks the fourth wall at the end of each chapter in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' (usually used to deliver a humorous 'lesson' from the story or a moral of questionable veracity)
* The ''{{Insecticomics}}'' wavers between breaking the fourth wall and not having one altogether. The Insecticons themselves don't really seem to bother with it.
* Done (incredibly skillfully) every now and then in ''DragonTails''.
--> '''Corlis''': That's it, I'm finding a new comic, this one's stupid!
* Calamities of Nature breaks the fourth wall [[http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=165 here]] and [[http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=276 here]], and even [[http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=143 discusses the fourth wall while breaking it at the same time]].
* Jason, the author of the ''MagicTheGathering'' webcomic ''UGMadness'', has vowed never to break the fourth wall...except when [[http://www.ugmadness.net/index.php?date=2006-05-26 making fun of his own vow]].
* In ''{{Adventurers}}'', FinalBoss Khrima uses an attack spell with an animation [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20050423.html so over-the-top]], it doesn't just include an EarthShatteringKaboom, it actually ''cracks the Adventurers game disc'', requiring Karn to tell the "player" [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050503.html how to replace the disc with a backup copy]].
* Rich Burlew's ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is pretty random with the fourth wall. The worst is probably the Oracle constantly addressing the audience and referring to books or in-comic years. Also the 100th and 600th strip had lampshading referring to the anticlimax in each. And V once referred to how many strips would be necessary to get another dumb trial done. Belkar also once referred to himself as the only funny thing left in the comic strip.
** ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0649.html Strip #649]]'' memorably includes Haley stealing a diamond from [[ImpossibleThief the site's cast page]] (which is not part of the comic's continuity) in order to power a Ressurection spell. Ever since then, the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootscast.html actual cast page]] has shown Haley holding an "I owe me" note instead of the actual diamond.
* ''TheCyantianChronicles'': Broken and played for laughs in the bonus comic at the back of the printed collection "Akealae 5". (Available by purchase only.)
** Arguably, a CensorBox with "We have a Shivae 13 rating to maintain" to cover up a certain naked anthro fox's naughty bits should qualify.
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Jean periodically scolds Bob for breaking the Fourth Wall, calling it "one of his worst habits." [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070414.html Although she herself indulges in it on rare occasions.]]
* ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' only broke the fourth wall once, in an early strip, but did so [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=6 very definitively]]
* ''IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'' has been known to break the fourth wall and even had a intermission that was called [[http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/index.php?p=349235 The Search For The Fourth Wall]].
* In ''{{Keychain of Creation}}'', a comic based on the ''{{Exalted}}'' tabletop RPG, the characters frequently talk as if the rules of the game were the solid rules of their reality, and they knew their own stats. However, they don't actively break the fourth wall; that's left to a band of [[TheFairFolk the Fae]], especially their leader, who says quite frankly that he only led his band back to fight the main characters ''because there'd be no story otherwise.'' The main characters all act like he's a jabbering mental patient when he says as much.
* ''[[http://www.shapequest.net/ Shape Quest]]'', an RPG video game parody comic, does this during the first strip, where Lance acknowledges that he is poorly drawn and tries to think of something clever to say so people will continue reading past the first strip.
* ''{{The KAMics}}'' does this occasionally.
* ''TheCallOfWhatever'' did it in a storyline starting [[http://tcow.comicgenesis.com/d/20011224.html here]].
* In the ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' strip [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm 405]], the character says, "I know a day is 24 hours, but [[ThatNightFeltLikeMonths that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through]]". It took the author that amount of time to post the strips dealing with that one day.
* ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'' does it in the Intermission strips.
* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', Kiel can tell that the readers are there and talks to them when she's bored. Others consider her weird for still having an imaginary friend.
** In a rare twist of breaking the fourth wall in a tragic rather than comedic manner, Kiel grows furious at the audience watching her and [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7178 throws a belt at them]]. According the forum fandom, it broke many screens and hit many eyes.
* ''DarthsAndDroids''' 468th strip says "''Puny Comic-Reading Humans, Bow Before My Magnificence!''".
* In an early ''Faulty Logic'' page, [[AuthorAvatar Fox and Jalyss]] break through the fourth wall of the author-comments section (with a hammer) to make sure there are actually people reading their strip.
** More recently, a [[http://faultylogic.comicgenesis.com/d/20090131.html spacial vortex]] reverses fourth-wall positions. Notably, readers can actually ''see'' the Fourth Wall in the background.
* The ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' blag features "Federal Reserve Skateboard: A Short Story," which includes the following:
** ''Bernanke, trying not to slip in the patches of blood on the floor, struggled with Greenspan. The older man moved like a snake that moved like a former Fed Chairman who moved like a ninja. At last, Bernanke got a solid grip on Greenspan?s collar and hurled him through the fourth wall, knocking you to the ground.''
* Penny from [[http://www.out-at-home.com/ Out at Home]] pretty much exists to break the fourth wall, to the confusion of the other characters, who don't have her {{Medium Awareness}}.
** "Why are you talking to that wall?"
* TheCyantianChronicles: Mostly averted in the canon comics. Only NOT averted when "We Have a Shivae-13 Rating To Maintain", which only happened once so far.
** Played for laughs in a fan scripted bonus comic contained in the print version of Akaelae 5.
* In [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=99 the hundredth strip]] of ''{{Loserz}}'', protagonist Ben remarks: "I just got the strangest feeling, like I'm being watched. -- What's even weirder is that I'm somehow sure this has happened exactly 100 times..."
* ''GirlsWithSlingshots'' doesn't usually break the FourthWall, but in [[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/GWS471.html this strip]] Hazel takes back a hasty comment by pulling the speech bubble back into her mouth and swallowing it.
* You want literal breaking the fourth wall? Check out [[http://www.neomonsterisland.com/tktarkv/vol3/027/1320/1.html this]] episode of ''TwistedKaijuTheater''.
* [[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]] does this frequently, especially at the end of the first chapter, where Lance urges the readers to continue reading.
* ''CyanideAndHappiness'' also broke the wall several times, like [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/375/ this one]].
** And subverted [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1401/ here]].
* ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' toyed with it once. "I'm Ozymandias. You may know me from strips such as this one."
* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' breaks it occasionally, like [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/981016 here]].
* ''TooMuchInformation'' has a solid FourthWall, with one exception. There's an auxiliary webcomic called ''Maddie's Monster'', in which one of the regular characters (Maddie Cartman) meets an EldritchAbomination named G'Nar The Insignificant. G'Nar, being non-human, can see through the fourth wall, and tries to point it out. Maddie is unable to figure out what the heck he's talking about.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' regularly breaks the fourth wall, but it isn't often that [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020407.html the author breaks ''in'' through the fourth wall.]]
** In many, many panels a main character uses the edge of the panel, literally, as a wall to brace themselves against.
* ''SexyLosers'' did this in a [[http://sexylosers.com/special20.html crossover]] (barely SFW) and a [[http://sexylosers.com/g015.html guest strip]] ({{NSFW}}) did the same joke to, er, completion.
* [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends]] does this on a regular basis, with characters addressing or reacting to readers. In [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=260 this strip]], there was even an actual wall underneath the comic, which was peeled away to reveal it.
* ''NowhereUniversity'' has the characters make references to plot twists & their author, then again the teachers at that school come from literary classics so...
* In the "Little Diddle" comic [[http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww349/democomic/IMG0001.jpg Lucky Day]] little diddle finds a lucky penny and lucky ducky says there is no such thing as luck. little diddle then says that they are in a comic so it does exist, then lucky says that the fourth wall just broke.
* Done with interesting results in [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0304.html this]] ''KevinAndKell'' sunday strip.
* ''[[http://www.eyebeam.com Eyebeam]]'' features [[http://www.eyebeam.com/toons/index.php?num=86 this brilliant three part comic]], combining elements of the FourthWall and ItWasAllJustADream.
* ''Untitled!'' had elements of this early on, with, for example, a character who was introduced as "living in the gaps between frames," complete with a character grabbing the frame and leaning her upper body out of the frame and looking into the afore-mentioned gap. What makes this case interesting is that the comic later caught a bad case of CerebusSyndrome, and as a symptom, acquired a fourth wall. Some of the fourth-wall-breaking elements where explained away (e.g. as the actions of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens or psychic planeswalkers): I don't recall an explanation ever being provided for what was happening when the protagonist leaned her upper torso out of the frame.
* ''{{Enjuhneer}}'' does this on occasion.
* Hilariously toyed with in [[http://pungirls.net/strip/index.php?strip_id=40 this ''Pungirls'' strip.]]
* Most obviously in ''BittersweetCandyBowl'' during the chapter [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38.3/p1.html Out Of The Frame]], when all of the minor and background characters form a "Neglected Club" to campaign for more screentime.
* In this ''Random Chaos'' [[http://randomchaos.smackjeeves.com/comics/810994/the-dark-master-pt-3/ strip]] the '''reader''' is killed. Complete with blood splattered on the "screen".
* In ''{{Bibliography}}''.
-->'''Ben:''' Why am I so off-panel?
* The {{SpriteComic}} [[http://f4e.anarchicq.com FRIENDS 4 EVER!!!!]] has engaged in breaking the fourth wall a few times.
* In [[http://girlyyy.com/go/760 this]] ''Girly'' episode Otra comes real close to BTFW but does a nice save in the next panel.
* Several characters of ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' have already broken the fourth wall, for example [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/11/09/0110-pie/ Sandra]], [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/11/16/0112-the-physical-impossibility-of-falling-in-the-mind-of-someone-walking/ Woo]] and [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/09/02/0196-no-night-in-spiderman/ Cloud's father David]].
* In "The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat", where all cartoon characters are actors in Cartoon Land, the 4th Wall is revealed [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]] to be one of the main principles of ToonPhysics.
* The narrator/author [[http://blipcomic.com/49/ gets in trouble]] in {{Blip}}; K is _not_ happy.
* ''Dungeons and Denizens'' breaks the wall [[http://dungeond.com/2010/10/28/10282010/ from both directions]]. Skip back two pages and read the comments to get the whole story.
* Often happens in ''ComicStrip/CaptnCrazy''.
* TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic: http://tropeoverdosed.pcriot.com/?p=38
* Early on in ''GameDestroyers'', [[http://www.gamedestroyers.net/104 Spiffy breaks the fourth wall]] by pointing out a PlotHole.
* ''Webcomic/TheCartoonChroniclesOfConroyCat'' even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it [[http://dtoons.com/conroy/2010/09/the-4th-wall/ here]]
* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]]'s fourth wall is usually only broken by Erin and she often gets in trouble with her mom for it. Most of her other family members try to avoid it.
* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix Jix]] generally tries to avoid it, but sometimes one or two of the characters slip. The first time it happened, Jix was trying to stop Lauren from doing it. It all went downhill from there.
* In ''TheFuzzyFive'' some of the LivingToys [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/29-voyage-to-the-center-of-sorority-row/ do]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/35-was-it-adam-west/ this]] [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/71-the-thrilling-conclusion-part-ii/ occasionally]].
* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2203 This]] SMBC comic has the entire human race break the fourth wall ''of the universe'' after figuring out that it is just a simulation.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' there is an actual goddamn physical fourth wall. It's first used as a lame joke and then later by the author as a self-indulgent insert to the comic where he recaps the story. Then the comic introduces [[UpToEleven a fifth wall]] (according to [[WordOfGod Word of Hussie]], it separates multiple omniscient {{narrator}}s) and promptly starts breaking ''that'', too. It's strongly implied that this will be a major plot point. On his formspring page, Andrew Hussie joked that there's also a sixth wall, and that it's what's holding back all the "shitty memes". [[{{Memes/Homestuck}} That wall apparently broke a long time ago.]]
** And in [[WhamEpisode [S] Cascade]], [[spoiler: it's revealed that Jade's plan to save them all is to actually fly through the fourth wall, traveling through our universe for about three nanoseconds ([[YearInsideHourOutside from our perspective]]). The destination is ''another'' fourth wall leading to an AlternateUniverse. The real world is apparently a VoidBetweenTheWorlds.]]
* Every chapter of ''TalesOfGnosisCollege'' ends with a "Women of Gnosis" pin-up that depicts one of the series's female characters and contains a brief caption. One of these characters -- Iris Brockman -- uses her caption to complain to the reader about how she got neither a name nor a dialog line in the preceding chapter.

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