History LampshadeHanging / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'': Taryn O'Connell describes her adventures with Ulysses Solomon Archer as "like a story right out of a comic book".

* Picture on the page for AlliterativeName, Superman in ''{{ComicBook/Supergirl}} pointing out how coincidentally both his former girlfriend and his current shares the same initials.

** When the comic began drifting away from being farcical to mirroring [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM SatAM,]] it still had TheArtifact of Boomer's name, who in the show was named Rotor. The editors pointed this out in the letters column in one issue and stated they would be changing it to match the show. The next several issues have various visual lampshades hung on this, such as the character wearing a "Hello, my name is Rotor" pin, and nailing a crude plank of wood with "Rotor" written on it over the "Boomer" part of his "Boomer's Shop" sign.

** It seems Wolverine's students also learn the art of Lampshading at the Jean Gray School for Higher Learning as in Wolverine and The X-Men Quentin Quire makes frequent remarks of this kind. For instance, on a field trip to the Savage Land where the class become stranded Quentin remarks to Hellion to "learn his history. Being stuck in a pre-historic jungle is practically an X-Men rite of passage"

* In an early, limited-edition ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' comic book (that has been collected in ''Sonic Beginnings''), Princess Sally has blonde hair in the first issue, and in the next, she's a brunette. When she says she has something to tell him, Sonic asks, "You mean why you changed from a blonde to a brunette?"
** This is also referenced in a later story where Sally goes on an angry rant and someone will be punished... because someone published a story that she dyed her hair from blonde to black.

** A more recent one happened during the "Endangered Species" arc. The end of one part has Sonic fighting Lien-Da and the Dark Egg Legion in Albion. The beginning of the next has Sonic coming to from being knocked out, realizes ''no one'' is there outside of him, Tails and Amy and comments that an entire population can't disappear like that. [[note]]It was because of the [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal problems]] between Archie and former writer Ken Penders.[[/note]]

* In ''Amazing SpiderMan'' Annual 21, which depicted the wedding of Peter Parker and MJ Watson, J. Jonah Jameson helped finance their wedding reception on behalf of the Daily Bugle. Since Jameson is generally regarded as the biggest tight-wad in comics who isn't [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck an anthropomorphic duck with a Scots accent]], there is a bit of lampshading;

* A ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' comic has ComicBook/TheAtom (along with someone else) shrink down smaller than an atom. The person asks how it's possible for them to survive, seeing as how the air molecules are too large for them to breathe. Atom basically replies, "I don't know. It's better if you don't think about it too much."

* In Franchise/{{Batman}}, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker has fluctuated nigh constantly from harmless prankster, to larcenous loon, to homicidal harlequin of hate. Creator/GrantMorrison took note and made it part of his canon personality that, well, he doesn't really have a personality. He just reinvents himself every single morning. He first mentioned it in ''Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', and revisited the concept throughout his stint that began with ''Batman and Son''.

** When Rarity comments that the Hippie Ponies leave a mess during the bottling procces of their beauty products, Flax Seed says that's because filling tiny bottles is really hard when you don't have '''thumbs'''.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', several characters comment on the impossiblity of there being [[ArtisticLicenseGeography headhunters in Africa]], since they [[RunningGag only live in the Amazon]].

* PeterDavid tells a story about how, while writing a particular issue of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'', he handily had Bruce and Betty Banner escape from a damaged Skrull ship just moments before the ship exploded, but forgot to do the same for Rick Jones, whom he had technically just killed in the explosion without meaning to. Rather than rewrite the scene, he had the Banners watch incredulously as Jones floated down to the ground on a parachute. Knowing that the readers will see it for a shuck-and-jive, David then included the lampshading:
-->'''Rick Jones''': Don't look so shocked. I always carry a miniature parachute with me in case I have to jump from an exploding Skrull saucer.
-->'''Bruce Banner''': That's... that's ridiculous.
-->'''Rick Jones''': Why? I needed to, didn't I?

* The writers for the ''ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}}'' arc "The Other" made a glaring continuity error during the story; in one issue, the villain Morlun broke Mary Jane's arm, but in the next issue her arm is unbroken. After the arc, Creator/JMichaelStraczynski wrote a scene in Amazing Spider-Man, where Peter Parker asked Tony Stark about MJ's arm. Tony provided an elaborate AppliedPhlebotinum explanation (involving injecting a material in MJ's arm that acted like a cast but allowed her full movement of her arm). In the next frame, Peter and Tony appear to be [[BreakingTheFourthWall looking directly at the reader]] with expressions on their faces as if daring the reader to challenge Tony's explanation. The next frame, the scene is forgotten and they return to the main plotline.

* ''The Amazing SpiderMan #46'': Just as Spider-Man is wondering where to start looking for The Shocker (a vibration based villain) he spots a cop in a police call box reporting strange tremors, causing Peter to say "Boy! if it had happened that easy in a movie, I'd say it was too [[StealthPun phony!]]"

* In Marvel's second ''ComicBook/{{Damage Control}}'' mini-series, which featured SheHulk (who at that time was 100% aware she was in a comic and often did things like making comments on the art or talking directly to her editor) as one of the cast, during a typical Marvel-smashing-empty-buildings fight Damage Control's construction foreman is keeping a count: "That's one ... that's two ... that's three ..." (Building falls down) "I keep telling them - when you break the fourth wall, the whole thing falls down."

* In ''Amazing SpiderMan'' Annual 21, which depicted the wedding of Peter Parker and MJ Watson, J. Jonah Jameson helped finance their wedding reception on behalf of the Daily Bugle. Since Jameson is generally regarded as the biggest tight-wad in comics who isn't [[UncleScrooge an anthropomorphic duck with a Scots accent]], there is a bit of lampshading;
-->'''JJJ''': Eat, drink and be merry, people. The Daily Bugle is proud to be sponsoring this wedding reception. Why, I'd want you to have a good time even if this shindig ''wasn't'' covered by the new tax laws!

* A ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' comic has TheAtom (along with someone else) shrink down smaller than an atom. The person asks how it's possible for them to survive, seeing as how the air molecules are too large for them to breathe. Atom basically replies, "I don't know. It's better if you don't think about it too much."

* In ''The Amazing SpiderMan #46'' Just as Spider-Man is wondering where to start looking for The Shocker (A vibration based villain) He spots a cop in a police call box reporting strange tremors, causing Peter to say.
---> '''Spiderman''' Boy! if it had happened that easy in a movie, I'd say it was too [[StealthPun phony!]]

* JossWhedon's final issue of ''Astonishing X-Men'' has one of the characters say something to the effect of, "Your big plan was [[spoiler:to bring back the destroyer of your world from the dead and then shoot the Earth with a giant bullet. Is everyone on the planet a complete idiot?]]"

* In Franchise/{{Batman}}, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker has fluctuated nigh constantly from harmless prankster, to larcenous loon, to homicidal harlequin of hate. GrantMorrison took note and made it part of his canon personality that, well, he doesn't really have a personality. He just reinvents himself every single morning. He first mentioned it in ''Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', and revisited the concept throughout his stint that began with ''Batman and Son''.

* In the Marvel TheUltimates series, issue 4, Nick Fury is asked who he would expect to play him in a movie featuring the Ultimates. His response is; "Why, Mister Samuel L. Jackson, of course. That's not even open for debate."

-->'''Rick Jones'': Don't look so shocked. I always carry a miniature parachute with me in case I have to jump from an exploding Skrull saucer.

* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Ultimate Venom attacks an art museum, Spider-Man fights him off, and (as usual) the NYPD tries to arrest him for the trouble. Spider-Man angrily points out that they're being idiots for pointing their guns at him when he just saved who knows how many museum patrons from being eaten. A nearby woman chimes in, "Spider-Man saved my baby!" Spider-Man's response: "You know what? '''THANK YOU!''' No one ever says anything nice, I appreciate that."

* A ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' comic has the Atom (along with someone else) shrink down smaller than an atom. The person asks how it's possible for them to survive, seeing as how the air molecules are too large for them to breathe. Atom basically replies, "I don't know. It's better if you don't think about it too much."

* In Marvel's second ''ComicBook/{{Damage Control}}'' mini-series, which featured She-Hulk (who at that time was 100% aware she was in a comic and often did things like making comments on the art or talking directly to her editor) as one of the cast, during a typical Marvel-smashing-empty-buildings fight Damage Control's construction foreman is keeping a count: "That's one ... that's two ... that's three ..." (Building falls down) "I keep telling them - when you break the fourth wall, the whole thing falls down."

* {{Wolverine}} has openly acknowledged that his real mutant power is [[WolverinePublicity multi-tasking]].
** The entire first three issues of ''Wolverine and the X-Men'' featured pretty much everyone--Kitty Pryde, Xavier, Iceman and especially Wolverine himself--pointing out how ridiculous the post-''Schism'' situation is.
** In ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' #157, {{Wolverine}} says to {{Cyclops}}, "Listen bub, I appreciate the faith in me, but I can't be on ALL the teams"-- a nod to Marvel's tendency to put him in an unbelievable amount of titles.

* Mark Millar did this to death when he was writing {{Ultimate X-Men}}. Every time a plot device didn't make sense (the U.S. Army sending ''robots'' to fight ''Magneto'', the Brotherhood goons not recognizing Cyclops, Professor X not noticing that the Hellfire Club was plotting against him, etc.), someone in the cast would point this out. You almost got the impression that Millar was simply trying to apologize for creating so many plot holes.