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* In ''Webcomic/{{Horndog}}'', the fourth wall breaks Bob's nose.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Horndog}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Horndog}}'', the fourth wall breaks Bob's nose.



* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' broke the fourth wall quite literally in this strip: [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20070720 One-Thousand]].

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* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' broke the fourth wall quite literally in this strip: [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20070720 [[https://cad-comic.com/comic/one-thousand/ One-Thousand]].



* In ''Webcomic/SurvivorFanCharacters'', there is a character named Eli in SFC11 that constantly broke the fourth wall! The reason for that is because he knows how the editing tricks on Survivor worked.

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* In ''Webcomic/SurvivorFanCharacters'', there is a character named Eli in SFC11 [=SFC11=] that constantly broke the fourth wall! The reason for that is wall, because he knows how the editing tricks on Survivor worked.


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* ''Webcomic/CarryOn'': Lieutenant Krueger has been known to [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/co1024/d/20170913.html bribe their author so a rope bridge won't break.]]
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** Played for laughs in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-09-29 this strip]].

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* "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)

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* "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)veracity). In one of these comics, he points out that during the "Final Thoughts" he knows things he doesn't otherwise (presumably including that there's an audience, but also in-universe facts). In another one, someone who's been spying on his office says he's observed he comes in and talks to the wall occasionally; the AltText goes "Which wall? The first wall? The second wall? The third wall? Which wall?"

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* ''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 the sprite comic ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', the 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 ScrewThisImOuttaHere on [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000422c the comic]] within the first month.

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* ''Webcomic/{{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 the sprite comic ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', the ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': The 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.
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was. [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000421c Megaman, for instance]] pulled ScrewThisImOuttaHere on [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000422c the comic]] within the first month.


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* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'': This is an in-universe side-effect of having too much Ballyhoo energy, as characters will begin to hear the voices of those watching them -- i.e., their in-universe viewers and the comic's readers alike -- and reflexively addressing them.
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* ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'' : When King Parfait asks Erika why she wishes to find his son, she tells him to just read the comic from the beginning again. The same gag is present in the audio adaptation, where she instead tells him to listen to the previous episodes again.
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* ''Webcomic/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.

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* ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation'' ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation2005'' 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.
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* Done (incredibly skillfully) every now and then in ''Webcomic/DragonTails''.

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* In one strip of ''Webcomic/PeterParkerForeignExchangeStudent,'' Peter and Izuku try to [[https://alexdrawsagain.tumblr.com/post/183267547023/peter-parker-foreign-exchange-student-tsu-breaks strategize behind the cover of rubble]], inadvertently recreating the [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ezeQ8SVo--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/gvyyzmql47x1eyvsbtnx.jpg memetic shot]] of Miles watching a thinking Peter intently in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse''. Tsu calls them out for "recreating memes" to their confusion.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03260.htm This page]]. Complete with [[Webcomic/TheWhiteboard Doc]] complaining about the repairs he needs to make.
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* Sometimes, Thaddeus and Bob from ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'' talk to the viewer. One case is when they discuss what happens "behind the scenes".
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* One strip of ''Webcomic/RaeTheDoe'' has a doctor tell Rae to read a webcomic called ''Rae the Doe'' to be in better spirits.
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* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': Richard is always a bit of a MetaGuy, but outright [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1245/ breaks]] the fourth wall when, twelve years into the comic's run, [[spoiler:a young MentalWorld version of him]] offers him information about his [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget long-forgotten]] MysteriousPast:
-->'''[[spoiler:Young Richard]]:''' Do you want to find out who you are?\\
'''Richard:''' [[LittleNo Not really]]. ''[Points at the fourth wall]'' But they do.
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** Tsukiko has broken the '''third wall''', by literally blasting Haley out of the panel.
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* 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.

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* Rich Burlew's ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is pretty random with the fourth wall.wall, and indeed ''arguably has a lack of a fourth wall built into the setting itself''. 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.
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* In ''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]].

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'', FinalBoss Khrima uses an attack spell with an animation [[http://www.adventurers-comic.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20160702162528/http://adventurers.keenspot.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.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20150524164548/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050503.html how to replace the disc with a backup copy]].
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* The fourth wall is given a loving fracture every now and then in ''Webcomic/AMomentOfPeace''. At one point, it's opened up so that [[http://www.amomentofpeace.net/index.php?num=2 stars can pour through]].

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* The fourth wall is given a loving fracture every now and then in ''Webcomic/AMomentOfPeace''. At one point, it's opened up so that [[http://www.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20150510121850/http://www.amomentofpeace.net/index.php?num=2 stars can pour through]].
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* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' did it in [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19980811.html these]] [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19991020.html early]] [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20030326.html strips]].

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* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' did it in [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19980811.com/d/19991020.html these]] [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19991020.html early]] [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20030326.html strips]].early]] strips.
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nothing of this is happening in those strips. pasting mistake?


* In ''Webcomic/FauxPas'', [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp1.cgi?1564 a comic with the classic character telling the audience that there is a delay]] means the next one [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp1.cgi?1565 shows another character scolding the first while taping up the fourth wall to repair the damage.]]
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* In ''WebComic/OkashinaOkashi'' (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/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]]
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* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' also broke the wall several times, like [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/375/ this one]].
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** And subverted [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1401/ here]].
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* In [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/99 the hundredth strip]] of ''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..."

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* In [[http://the-qlc.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20130626052641/http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/99 the hundredth strip]] of ''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..."
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* ''[[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.
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* ''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]].

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* ''Calamities of Nature'' breaks the fourth wall [[http://www.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20100209061100/http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=165 here]] and [[http://www.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20100209061100/http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=276 here]], and even [[http://calamitiesofnature.[[http://web.archive.org/web/20100129052438/http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=143 discusses the fourth wall while breaking it at the same time]].
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* 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.
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* The narrator/author [[http://blip.rampagenetwork.com/49/ gets in trouble]] in ''{{Blip}}''; K is ''not'' happy.

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* The narrator/author [[http://blip.rampagenetwork.com/49/ gets in trouble]] in ''{{Blip}}''; ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}''; K is ''not'' happy.

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* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' breaks it occasionally, like [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/981016 here]].
** It's also a yearly occurrance. As in 'X years of nifty darn comics'-style.

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* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' breaks it occasionally, like occasionally.
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[[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/981016 here]].
** When Torg is being ''very'' slow on the uptake: [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980521 "He'll figure it out any moment now folks!"]] (Unless you count "folks" as a direct acknowledgement of the fourth wall. It seems to refer to the audience, but it's left vague.)
** It's also a yearly occurrance.occurrence. As in 'X years of nifty darn comics'-style.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' doesn't usually break the FourthWall, but in [[http://www.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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