History Main / IWishItWereReal

-->'''Jack:''' In my world [[CriminalMindGames they just leave clues]].
-->'''Danny:''' But we're not in your world.
-->'''Jack:''' [[ChandlersLaw Or they show up and kidnap me.]]
-->'''Danny:''' That kind of stuff doesn't happen here, Jack. Because ''this world stinks!''

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' after watching a VHS tape of ''Anime/{{Voltron}},'' Molly is inspired to build a [[MechanicalMonster giant robot lion.]] Naturally, it [[HilarityEnsues runs amok and starts a panic.]] Later, she builds a steam-powered WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman. He melts because, well, he's steam-powered.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity''
** The trope is played straight with Loony Leo, a living cartoon character who was accidentally brought to life by a villain's Belief Ray. He should have faded away when he destroyed the weapon, but a hero convinced the crowd to believe in him.
** Subverted with Beautie, a life-sized version of the series' FictionalCounterpart of Barbie. [[spoiler:In reality, she is an android built by a ChildProdigy who modeled her masterpiece on the toy.]]

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The story opens up with Kyon narrating how much he wished as a kid to meet aliens, time travelers and ESPers, but now he's left those fantasies behind. Then he meets Haruhi and all those fantasies he had as a kid become very real (and often dangerous).

** And Sega characters. And Konami characters.
*** ...and Capcom characters. And Namco characters.

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-->-- '''Music/{{Rush}}''', ''2112''

* The fantasy series ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' has the college professor DM of a gaming group turn out to be a wizard from a fantasy world who sends his players through to try and set things right there. Some benefit from the immigration (one guy, who's disabled in real life, become his able-bodied dwarf character), but there is a ''high'' body count once the characters find out that this DM's world is much harsher than their usual 'game', with one of them dying almost immediately.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom,'' does this when Spongebob and Patrick wish for "Real nice Robots to play with". Guess who the mooks of this game are!

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' 2002: "Azoth The Avenger Is A Friend Of Mine". A little boy meets his favorite BarbarianHero.

* A very common subgenre of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction involve [[FandomNickname bronies]] somehow winding up in Equestria. {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed and {{inverted|Trope}} in FanFic/TheNonBronyverse where the one who ended up in Equestria is anything but a brony, and wants nothing to do with Equestria and makes getting home his main priority.

* The fantasy series ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' has the college professor DM of a gaming group turn out to be a wizard from a fantasy world who sends his players through to try and set things right there. Some benefit from the immigration (one guy, who's crippled in real life, becomes his physically whole dwarf character), but there is a ''high'' body count once the characters find out that this 'DM's world is much harsher than their usual 'game'.

* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is in a sense, an in-depth analysis of the idea of Wish Fulfillment, playing it straight in the first half of the novel, then deconstructing it and rebuilding it at the end. The story itself even comments on this:

** [[http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/48208-wisdom-of-crowds/ "Maybe wanting something does make it real. Clearly, the comic needs to be corrected."]]

* Many MarySue [[FanFic fanfics]] are along these lines, either of a character discovering the characters in their favorite fandom are real or somehow getting sucked into their world. They never seem to want to go home...

* ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons''
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''

->''The sleep is still in my eyes, the dream is still in my head''
->''I breathe a sigh, and sadly smile, and lie awhile in bed''
->''I wish that it might come to pass, not fade like all my dreams''
->''Just think of what my life might be in a world like I have seen!''

* ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''

* ''[[Manga/{{MAR}} Märchen Awakens Romance]]'' (an anime and manga series that is based on the idea of its hero, Ginta, entering a fantasy world and living out his dream of being a hero.)

* ''Comicbook/AstroCity''

* Any time a Creator/DCComics super hero visits Earth Prime, the AlternateUniverse where super heroes only exist in comic books.
* In one issue of ''Comicbook/TheSimpsons'' comic book, aliens Kang and Kodos bring Itchy and Scratchy into the real world. Bart gets hold of the alien device and uses it to evoke Radioactive Man (his favorite ComicBook hero) to deal with the resulting mayhem.
* Pretty much sums up the entirety of Futurama.

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%%* ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard''