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* ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'': One comic has ''Simpsons'' characters (and later, non-''Simpsons'' fictional characters) being pulled out of comics into the ''Futurama'' world.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' features the recurring antagonist "Blast Ketchup", a parody of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries Pokemon]]'''s Ash Ketchum, who can transport himself along with other [=TinyMon=] into the real world.

* Played with in ''Film/Barbie2023'': Barbieland and the real world interact with each other in a sort of cosmic manner that has significant implications when someone interacts with the opposite side. Barbie's issues arise from her going through the same thoughts Gloria has, and Weird Barbie is the way she is because the girl who played with her in the real world essentially defaced her. Barbie and Ken both have some issues adjusting to the imperfect real world but adapt to it in different ways: [[spoiler:While Barbie helps her real-world family, Ken discovers the concept of the patriarchy and brings it back to Barbieland, influencing the success of Ken Mojo Dojo Houses and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a Ken film]] in the real world.]]

* In ''Series/RedDwarf: [[Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth Back to Earth]]'', the crew try to jump to another dimension, and [[spoiler: seemingly]] end up in a reality where ''Red Dwarf'' is a TV show. Interestingly, it's made quite clear this ''isn't'' our world; it's a reality where Seasons IX and X were made, and the series still has loads of [[TheMerch Merch]] available. (Because they don't end up in "our" world, this doesn't quite count as WelcomeToTheRealWorld.)

->'''Kryten:''' Ah, Mr Charles, sir! My name is Kryten. I'm a fictitious character from the television series ''Series/RedDwarf'', and we really need your help.
->'''[[ActingForTwo Lister]]:''' You're the only one who can help us, man!
->'''[[AsHimself Craig Charles]]:''' I've heard about these! They're called flashbacks! I ''know'' you don't exist!
->'''Cat:''' OK, no need to rub it in!
-->-- ''Series/RedDwarf: Back to Earth''

* In ''Series/RedDwarf: Back To Earth'', the crew try to jump to another dimension, and [[spoiler: seemingly]] end up in a reality where ''Series/RedDwarf'' is a TV show. Interestingly, it's made quite clear this ''isn't'' our world; it's a reality where Seasons IX and X were made, and the series still has loads of [[TheMerch Merch]] available. (Because they don't end up in "our" world, this doesn't quite count as WelcomeToTheRealWorld.

Very similar to RealWorldEpisode, where the initial characters we're introduced to leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow. Using either trope implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop.

The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living there. But after establishing this outer setting, the narrative switches to yet another setting within the first one, a ShowWithinAShow with its own, separate cast. The characters from this ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way out to the first setting and meet the characters we were introduced to there. The intended effect is to make the audience believe that the characters have broken through the FourthWall and [[ThisIsReality entered your reality]]. Stories with these plots are popular because of {{Deconstruction}} and LampshadeHanging jokes, as well as TakeThatMe humour. Sometimes it's a form of raising the stakes, as at least two worlds may now be in trouble.

* In ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', the Librarians of [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything the Library]] are sentient projections of iconic fictional characters, such as [[Myth/RobinHood Robin Hood]] or [[Literature/LandOfOz Jack Pumpkinhead]]. This is specifically stated to be a different phenomenon to the fact that everything that's fictional in a given universe will, due to the Multiverse being infinite, also happen to be real in a different universe or seven. When meeting the Library's Jack Pumpkinhead, [[DimensionalTraveler Century Smith]] tells him that he actually met the "real" Jack in the actual Land of Oz, which Pumpkinhead finds quite fascinating, asking to know more about his "model".

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* ''Literature/{{Alice}}'' us a borderline example -- the "Fairy Tale" creatures live in contained bio-dome and mostly obey Fairy Tale conventions, but apparently they were imported into the future from a time when AllMythsAreTrue.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' features the recurring antagonist "Blast Ketchup", a parody of ''Franchise/Pokemon'''s Ash Ketchum, who can transport himself along with other [=TinyMon=] into the real world.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' features the recurring antagonist "Blast Ketchup", a parody of ''Anime/Pokemon'''s Ash Ketchum, who can transport himself along with other [=TinyMon=] into the real world.

->'''[[TalkingToHimself Lister]]:''' You're the only one who can help us, man!

* This is Monika's ultimate goal in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', as she has [[NoticingTheFourthWall Noticed The Fourth Wall]] and is [[{{Yandere}} obsessed with the player]], culminating in her desire to escape from the game and enter our world.

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* In ''Film/FatAlbert'', WesternAnimation/{{Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids}} come to life and step out of their animated, 1970s inner-city Philadelphia world to help a teenage girl, Doris Robertson, deal with the challenges of being hated.

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has a fairytale princess, her handsome prince, a wicked queen, and SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer transported to modern UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': This is the plot of the season 14 finale. After a combination of a teleporter malfunction, coffee getting spilled on the Xbox, and Burnie cutting the power to the studio, the Blood Gulch Crew get transported to the real world.

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' has Saiko Bichitaru, who is first seen on a dating similator Boopkins is playing. He decides to bring her into the real world, and eventually does so with a Magikoopa's wand. It's worth noting that Saiko has never expressed any desire to return to her game, and in fact seems to has comfortably settled down in the real world.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': One three-episode anime has Wily escape from the video game he's in, forcing Mega Man to go into the RealWorld to stop him.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Snegurochka is a Russian [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent ayakashi]] that came from a picture book where she's the main character. The series is somewhat vague whether Rochka was created ''in'' the book or is a {{Tulpa}} that moved into it, but regardless she considered it her previous home and thinks of the other major character (Ded Moroz) as real, even if she he'd be fictional unless he also became an ayakashi.

* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'': One storyline involves Kang and Kodos bringing WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy into the real world, as the two were worshipped as gods on Rigel IV. To stop them, Bart pointed a camcorder at a Radioactive Man comic and used the aliens' device to make his favorite superhero real.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan'': One three-episode animate has Wily escape from the video game he's in, forcing Mega Man to go into the RealWorld to stop him.

* ''Machinima/SMG4sMarioBloopers'' has Saiko Bichitaru, who is first seen on a dating similator Boopkins is playing. He decides to bring her into the real world, and eventually does so with a Magikoopa's wand. It's worth noting that Saiko has never expressed any desire to return to her game, and in fact seems to has comfortably settled down in the real world.