History GenreSavvy / WebOriginal

* The ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQMZ6twGCY&list=PL0u5ZHidq4X6jSaHpNDIZfnO1rTwI9KZx&index=5 Predictable]] is all about this. [[{{Eagleland}} Johnny America]] follows so many America action hero cliches that [[HuskyRussian Jegor]] can predict his every move.

* Every single character in ''{{Literature/TOT}}'', regardless of their age, is fully aware that they're in a horror novel and do the exact opposite of what a protagonist in a horror story ''shouldn't'' do. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Maximus Slade]] is also genre savvy and makes it hard for the protagonists to survive regardless.

* WebVideo/HeroHouse has Red Hood, who seems acutely aware of how comic books work. This gives him something of an attitude.

* The RealTrailerFakeMovie for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEbwhWDYwM Hell No: The Sensible Horror Movie]]''.
-->'''Person A:''' Hey, look what I got! [[Film/TheRing It's that video tape that if you watch it, you die in five days!]]\\
'''Person B:''' Really? Let me see that.\\
''Breaks the tape over his leg, and then proceeds to go outside and smash the remains of the tape with a baseball bat.''

* Every single character in ''{{Literature/TOT}}'', regardless of their age, is fully aware that they're in a horror novel and do the exact opposite of what a protagonist in a horror story ''shouldn't'' do. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Maximus Slade]] is also genre savvy and makes it hard for the protagonists to survive regardless.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': By 'Store Story', [[OnlySaneMan Koden]] has accepted the fact that things will eventually go downhill for the group. Surprisingly, that episode is an instance where it doesn't happen to him. [[spoiler: Well, other than being temporarilly hypnotized by Stephanie]]

* Every single character in ''{{Literature/TOT}}'', regardless of their age, is fully aware that they're in a horror novel and do the exact opposite of what a protagonist in a horror story ''shouldn't'' do. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Maximus Slade]] is also genre savvy and makes it hard for the protagonists to survive regardless.

''Breaks the tape over his leg, and then proceeds to go outside and smash the remains of the tape with a baseball bat.''

->'''Person A:''' Hey, look what I got! [[Film/TheRing It's that video tape that if you watch it, you die in five days!]]\\

* The hosts of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture.

* Zeke Strahm of ''Blog/SeekingTruth'' is very familiar with TheSlenderManMythos, and it shows.

* Most of the protagonists in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse grew up reading {{Marvel}} Comics and DC Comics, and watching lots of anime, so they're pretty well suited to be growing up as mutants in a superhero universe.

* In the Machinima, ''Machinima/BrawlUniverse'', all of the characters in the show tend to be this to a degree. This might also be attributed to how they seem to watch many real life movies in their own time, like X-Men Origins and the Dark Knight.

* The hosts of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture.
* In ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'', Hitler's arch-nemesis Hermann Fegelein possesses a form of cartoonish immortality. No matter what plan Hitler uses to get rid of Fegelein, he never permanently dies. Multiple of the other characters are genre savvy enough to have noticed this and sometimes point this out to Hitler whenever he tries to plan Fegelein's demise.

* The hosts of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture.

* The EvilOverlordList is all about an aspiring villain who, noting every villain they've seen or read about [[VillainBall always lose by making the same mistakes]], makes a handy guide to being a savvy villain.

* When Fritz von Baugh sowed seeds of dissent in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', planting evidence that WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic was planning to blow everyone up with dynamite, WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob saw right through that plan, noting that those with brains prey on the brainless. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Then it turns out that]] [[WrongGenreSavvy Critic]] ''[[WrongGenreSavvy did]]'' [[WrongGenreSavvy order the dynamite.]]]]

* The hosts of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture.
* Darcy in ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries''. He's savvy enough to ask if he's being recorded when his sister calls him. He knows she's doing a series of demo recordings of their new story-telling application. He promptly ends the conversation when the answer is yes.
* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Jane is genre-savvy from the start. She seems to know that she is in a dangerous situation and tries to deal with it as best as she can. However, she's lonely and doesn't have a good family or any close friends, so she must go with living at Mr Rochester's house. She uploads her video because she wants advice and feedback from her viewers (in-universe, her viewership is much smaller than in reality). She mostly expects people to be abusive to her, and some of her videos are meant as a piece of evidence if anything serious should happen.
* Gaea has shown signs of this a couple times in ''Series/{{Noob}}''.
** When she has a [[DirtyCoward rare fight]] against someone towards whom she has a personal grudge, two of her guildmates offer to help and she refuses. However, when one of them says "Well, we might as well leave" Gaea has them stay in case she ends up needing help after all.
** She later says that she would never let a rematch happen after winning a duel.
* The Cracked video [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18615_if-characters-knew-they-were-in-90s-kids-movie.html If Characters Knew They Were In a 90s Kids Movie]] is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin built on this trope.]] Really, Cracked does this a lot.
%%* LetsPlay/PewDiePie is probably one of the most savvy gamers on Youtube, considering the games he plays.
* Creator/AchievementHunter's [[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterGrandTheftAutoSeries Let's Play GTA Series]]: The players regularly orchestrate elaborate heists on convenience stores, which in itself is an AffectionateParody of the heist genre, complete with a run of half the BetrayalTropes index in the vein of "no honour among thieves."
--> '''Geoff:''' [[FamousLastWords Why did you stop the boat?]]
* LetsPlay/SeaNanners is ''very'' good at both working out who the traitor or murderer is in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod''[=/=]''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown'', and also at picking off innocents when it's his turn to be evil. He, in turn, gets hit by this a lot in those games, owing to his devious behaviour and the "Never Trust Nanners" meme that spawned as a result.
* LetsPlay/DaithiDeNogla has a few examples, including the aforementioned "Never Trust Nanners" meme. Upon running into LetsPlay/SeaNanners in ''Murder'', he's immediately suspicious.
-->'''Daithi:''' You look fucking crazy.
-->'''Nanners:''' Good. ''([[ProperlyParanoid Adam pulls out a knife and stabs him.]])''
* LetsPlay/{{Jayuzumi}} both displays this and gets hit by this in equal measure. On his end, he knows just how to piss certain players off enough for them to entertain him and the viewers. The players he interact with show this from time to time as well, with some immediately muting him after advising others to do the same, while others realise instantly that he's using a soundboard.
* LetsPlay/HatFilms are aware that any mention of "Geoff" (the silverfish that constantly annoys them) probably won't end well. Similarly, whenever something gets set on fire, they often blame [[PyroManiac Smiffy]].
* Some contestants from ''Main/KawaiiVinnysMinecraftSurvivor'' are prone to being this. The most notable example was [=Epic_Duck3=] (now known as [=EpicsAdventure=], the host of ''Main/EpicsGameshows'') in Season 6 who managed to guess who was with who on the other tribe as well as how others were probably thinking due to knowing them from previous games.
** [[spoiler: [=DeviantKyle=], a returnee,]] from season 6 knew [[spoiler:two-time finalist, [=AlcoholicRobot=],]] better than anybody else due to [[spoiler: playing with him in two past seasons and knew how strong he ''really'' was and warned others about him]].
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* Ani Mae, a superhero from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', whose powers stem from the fact that she's the real life incarnation of an anime MagicGirl, has [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] as one of her superpowers. Knowing that she is essentially a living cartoon superhero, she's very good at predicting what the villains will do next, because she knows what cartoon and comic book supervillains do.

* In Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars, @/AweStriker and @/{{Ozbourne}}, due to being humans from worlds very much like ours, often have familiarity with the fictional universes that many of the other characters come from. This is fairly common amongst most {{Author Avatar}}s, but a lot of other characters happen to be as well.
* This is the source of most of the jokes in the X-Men Flash cartoon "Dark Phoenix Rising". Cyclops references Jean's habit of constantly returning from the dead, the need to [[WolverinePublicity put Wolverine on every X-Men team possible]] and the fact that another group of villains will likely attack while they're being distracted with Dark Phoenix. In "Death Becomes Them", Kitty Pryde asks if the team is counting alternate timelines when they discuss which of them have died and come back to life.
* In "84 Egg Sandwich", the employee manning the drive-thru station figures out that the people (Harvey and the gang) are ordering something for an WebVideo/EpicMealTime project because of how much they're buying.
%%* Dana from ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', in contrast to [[GenreBlind Tom]].
* Cheapus from TheCheapArseFilmReview has a moment in the Christmas special:
--> Cheapus: All right, plot has found me. I'm an [[WebOriginal Internet reviewer]], it was bound to happen some time.
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': "Gee, another predictable card tournament. I wonder if I'll win!"
* ''Literature/SkippysList'' has examples:
--> 62. It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, no longer applies to Specialist Schwarz.
--> 87. If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.
* AniMae, a superhero from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', whose powers stem from the fact that she's the real life incarnation of an anime MagicGirl, has [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] as one of her superpowers. Knowing that she is essentially a living cartoon superhero, she's very good at predicting what the villains will do next, because she knows what cartoon and comic book supervillains do.

%%* The gravedigger in the {{creepypasta}} [[http://www.creepypastaindex.com/creepypasta/sarah-o-bannon Sarah O' Bannon]].

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* Most of the protagonists in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse grew up reading {{Marvel}} Comics and DC Comics, and watching lots of anime, so they're pretty well suited to be growing up as mutants in a superhero universe. DeadpanSnarker Phase is probably the most genre savvy of the group. although they all get into the act sooner or later, even the CloudCuckooLander Jade.
** On the other hand, some of the villains are get a piece of this, too. most notably Mimeo, whose basic MO was worked out decades ago and still remains almost unbeatable, in part because he goes out of his way not to make too many waves. AntiVillain Jobe Wilkins tends to be GenreSavvy about everything ''except'' his own gratingly egotistical personality, which is what usually gets him (sorry, ''[[GenderBender her]]'') in trouble in the first place.

* [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6617410/jurassic-park-characters-awful-realization This video]] shows what happens when a movie character suddenly becomes aware of and tries to [[DefiedTrope defy]] the SortingAlgorithmOfMortality.
* Deconstructed in ''[[http://nequ.deviantart.com/art/Sonny-Gets-Mad-Scienced-144594113 Sonny Gets Mad Scienced]]''. [[spoiler:For all his knowledge about his situation, Sonny's Genre Savvy doesn't actually help him escape. He just happens to be the lucky person on whom the MadScientist's experiment worked. Reconstructed when he knows ''exactly'' what to do with the henchmen and the scientist when he gets free.]]
* In ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'', v4 character Bounce had been a massive fan of the series prior to her own involvement in it and as such references things like ThePowerOfFriendship never working in [=SOTF=] and the fact that, as an unfit, unpopular nerd, there's no point in her making plans because people like her never stand a chance.

* Britanick's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4&feature=grec_index Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever.]]''

* ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'': The Animator had his hands full with the original installment's BadassNormal Victim, so when he decides to create a more powerful Animation to torment in ''Animator vs Animation 2'', he comes prepared with a library full of programmed deadly weapons. Not that it does much good when The Chosen One fries the library with his EyeBeams...

* In episode 54 of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', the town's citizens have been through enough at this point to realize that the carnival coming to town is probably an EldritchAbomination intending nothing but harm. [[spoiler:They're hilariously wrong this time, but can you really blame them?]]

* Flaky in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is scared a lot of the time, and ''damn'' well should be. She always knows that danger ''will'' find her in the sadistic world of this show.

* Dana from ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'', in contrast to [[GenreBlind Tom]].
* Creator/CinWicked tries to avoid the other reviewers in ''Film/ProjectMillion'', stating that he "doesn't want to get involved in crazy shenanigans". He was right to do so.

* The hosts of WebVideo/EatYourKimchi, Simon and Martina Stawski are savvy with both North American and Korean popular culture
* The gravedigger in the {{creepypasta}} [[http://www.creepypastaindex.com/creepypasta/sarah-o-bannon Sarah O' Bannon]].

* LetsPlay/PewDiePie is probably one of the most savvy gamers on Youtube, considering the games he plays.

* AniMae, a superhero from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', whose powers stem from the fact that she's the real life incarnation of an anime MagicGirl, has [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] as one of her superpowers. Knowing that she is essentially a living cartoon superhero, she's very good at predicting what the villains will do next, because she knows what cartoon and comic book supervillains do.

** [[spoiler: [=DeviantKyle=], a returnee,]] from season 6 knew [[spoiler:two-time finalist, AlcoholicRobot]] better than anybody else due to [[spoiler: playing with him in two past seasons and knew how strong he ''really'' was and warned others about him]].