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* Ride/UniversalStudios' Ride/TheIncredibleHulkCoaster suddenly hurls the passengers forward during the climb up the first hill, right when the audio says the experiment they're listening to goes wrong. The engineer says this represents the sudden surge of uncontrollable power experienced by Bruce Banner upon turning into the Hulk.
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* PaintingTheMedium/WebComics

* Ride/UniversalStudios' The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdZROJf9Ag&feature=related roller coaster]] suddenly hurls the passengers forward during the climb up the first hill, right when the audio says the experiment they're listening to goes wrong. The engineer says this represents the sudden surge of uncontrollable power experienced by Bruce Banner upon turning into the Hulk.

* Here's a really meta one: the early Disney ''[[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]]'' shorts were played out as readings of the books, down to the animated characters being able to walk on the text, a hurried page-turning at one point to keep Pooh from flying out of the book, and so forth. Thus it [[MediumAwareness played with the concept that it was a book]], when in fact it ''wasn't''. All this in a cartoon for children.

* In Disney's ''Disney/BrotherBear'', when Kenai is transformed, the movie changes its aspect ratio to subtly tell the viewer that he's seeing through different eyes now.
* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kuzco-the-{{narrator}} freezes the frame and literally paints on the screen to bring the story back to himself. He then continues to interrupt the story so it focuses on himself. Later on in the story, Kuzco-the-character yells at Kuzco-the-narrator to stop talking and leave him alone. From then on, the movie is un-narrated.

* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', Literature/{{Rapunzel}} ''literally'' paints the fourth wall.

** JustForFun/AllBlueEntry

** AllBlueEntry

* In Schoenberg's opera ''Moses und Aron'', the composer illustrates the two lead characters' differences by a radical break with the basic convention of opera:

Some of the most popular variants have become so conventional that we stop noticing them completely -- for example, dialogue written in [[NoIndoorVoice ALL CAPITAL LETTERS]] is shouted. Heck, even we do it (check the entries in SelfDemonstratingArticle why not?)

By Painting The Medium, a creator turns a transparent tool -- meant to show the work behind it -- into a part of the work.

Please note: This trope is '''not''' 'Character interacts with the pages of the book/panels of the comic/film camera/suitable alternative for their story' - that trope is MediumAwareness. This trope is 'The setup, layout or presentation of the book/comic/film/whatever is changed to reflect a change in the characters' situation'. Please don't put incorrect examples on pages they shouldn't be on, thank you. Splatter on the camera lens may be acceptable as a way of showing just how much rain/blood/liquid is flying around the scene at that point.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewc1hixzYPY "Madvillain - All Caps."]] It's an animated comic book -- literally.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZwMX6T5Jhk music video for Kanye West's "Love Lockdown"]], if watched on a standard-definition TV or Youtube, is letterboxed. At about one minute in, a character in the video races towards the camera, then actually jumps ''out'' of the letterbox.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewc1hixzYPY Madvillain - All Caps]]. It's an animated comic book -- literally.
* The video for [[{{Music/Justice}} Justice]]'s remix of Lenny Kravitz's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDDxBSvOYB8 Let Love Rule]]" feature the end of a fictitious movie and its credits sequence. Early on, the lead character's sleeve gets caught on one line of the credits. At first, things are fun, but then the video deconstructs the idea of having a credits sequence be a physical part of the world.

** ''[[color:blue:House]] [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves of Leaves]]''

* TheScrappy and other [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV tropes]] are helpfully highlighted with a solid red bullet.
** Except when they're not, [[MindScrew such as this very example.]]

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