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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation put its typically creepy spin on this: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1304 SCP-1304]] is a violent sacrifice ritual. If one writes a book where a character has it done to them, soon after publication the victim will get reincarnated as a human in the real world. They won't have memories of their fictional past, but their life will mirror that in the novel, as closely as reality allows.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation Website/SCPFoundation put its typically creepy spin on this: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1304 SCP-1304]] is a violent sacrifice ritual. If one writes a book where a character has it done to them, soon after publication the victim will get reincarnated as a human in the real world. They won't have memories of their fictional past, but their life will mirror that in the novel, as closely as reality allows.
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* This is the plot of the season 14 finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. 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.
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* This is the plot of the season 14 finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''.''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. 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.
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* A ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' storyline involved Kang and Kodos bringing ''WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy'' characters 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.
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* A ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' storyline involved Kang and Kodos bringing ''WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy'' ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' characters 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.
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* In one ''ComicBook/CherryComics'' story, the characters of a soap opera come out of the television to have sex with Cherry.
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* Many fan works based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' use this trope. One of the best known is the SelfInsert collaborative work called ''Fanfic/{{Ponyfall}}'', in which most of the main characters are transported to Earth and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]], where they are all found by bronies living around the world.
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* This trope is actually a somewhat popular method of creating a SelfInsertFic-a character or characters from a popular fictional work (or [[{{Crossover}} multiple works of fiction]]) end up in the real world, and it's up to the OriginalCharacter to help them out.* Many fan works based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' use this trope. One of the best known is the SelfInsert collaborative work called ''Fanfic/{{Ponyfall}}'', in which most of the main characters are transported to Earth and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]], where they are all found by bronies living around the world.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Emergence}}'', all four members of Team ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' wake up scattered in the real world with no idea how they got there and having to adjust to the differences between Remnant and Earth.
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* In ''Fanfic/{{Emergence}}'', ''Fanfic/{{Emergence|RWBY}}'', all four members of Team ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' 'WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} wake up scattered in the real world with no idea how they got there and having to adjust to the differences between Remnant and Earth.
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* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', magic brought a character from a 1950's romance film to reality. Oh, and some slasher horror monsters.
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* The video for JackConte's "Yeah Yeah Yeah" contains Jack portraying a man who buys a magical painting and [[PortalPainting brings the girl in it into reality]].
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The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it switches to another setting, one that operates as a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''there''. The characters from the ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way 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.
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The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it there. But after establishing this outer setting, the narrative switches to yet another setting, one that operates as setting within the first one, a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''there''. with its own, separate cast. The characters from the 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.
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The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it switches to another setting, one that operates as a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''that'' setting. The characters from the ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way to the first setting and meet the characters we were introduced to there.
Very similar to RealWorldEpisode, where the initial characters we're introduced to leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow. Quietly implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. The inverse is TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a ShowWithinAShow).
Very similar to RealWorldEpisode, where the initial characters we're introduced to leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow. Quietly implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. The inverse is TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a ShowWithinAShow).
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The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it switches to another setting, one that operates as a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''that'' setting.''there''. The characters from the ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way to the first setting and meet the characters we were introduced to there. \n\n 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.
Very similar to RealWorldEpisode, where the initial characters we're introduced to leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow.Quietly Using either trope implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. The inverse ReadingIsCoolAesop.
Compare MageInManhattan (where a powerful villain from another world, but not always another fiction, comes to assault the world of the audience), UpTheRealRabbitHole (where the "topmost" universe is recognized as the "real" one), and TomatoSurprise (where we learn the protagonists are not what we expected them to be). Contrast TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside aShowWithinAShow).ShowWithinAShow).
Very similar to RealWorldEpisode, where the initial characters we're introduced to leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow.
Compare MageInManhattan (where a powerful villain from another world, but not always another fiction, comes to assault the world of the audience), UpTheRealRabbitHole (where the "topmost" universe is recognized as the "real" one), and TomatoSurprise (where we learn the protagonists are not what we expected them to be). Contrast TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a
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Whatever the circumstances, a Refugee from TV Land is a good way to show differences between fiction and reality, and play up tropes as it does so. Quietly implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. Compare TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a ShowWithinAShow) and RealWorldEpisode (the characters we're introduced with leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow).
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* ''Film/SpaceJam'' plays with this trope, combining it with the RogerRabbitEffect. The film begins with UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan shooting the ball into the hoop as a kid, and continues on to see the villains living in deep space (no portals or alternate universes here!). Whenever the human characters find the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', the assumption is made that they're fictional, but the cartoons talk about agents, acting, and merchandising. We even see Jordan's kids [[ShowWithinAShow watching a "Roadrunner" short]] when it gets interrupted for their emergency meeting to deal with the aliens.
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->'''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.
->'''[[TalkingToHimself 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''
The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it switches to another setting, one that operates as a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''that'' setting. The characters from the ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way to the first setting and meet the characters we were introduced to there.
Whatever the circumstances, a Refugee from TV Land is a good way to show differences between fiction and reality, and play up tropes as it does so. Quietly implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. Compare TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a ShowWithinAShow) and RealWorldEpisode (the characters we're introduced with leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow).
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* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'' [[MonsterOfTheWeek the ghost of a mangaka who worked himself to death]] conjures up his comics characters: giant robot warriors, magical girls and, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking worst of all]], some mind-numbingly boring historical characters from an educational comic he made.
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* A ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' storyline involved Kang and Kodos bringing ''WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy'' characters 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.
* A ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comic had ''Simpsons'' characters (and later, non-''Simpsons'' fictional characters) being pulled out of comics into the ''Futurama'' world.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': One story arc featured a villain called the Queen of Fables (her OriginStory is an evil sorceress who got [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in a magical story book]]), who had the power to to manifest any fictional character into the real world when she escaped her story.
* In an early ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' story, a character escapes from the world of fiction and ends up running across John Constantine, who witnesses as authorities from the world of fiction keep trying to drag the refugee back. He's eventually knocked out and taken back by Winnie, from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''.
* In one ''ComicBook/CherryComics'' story, the characters of a soap opera come out of the television to have sex with Cherry.
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* Tamahome and Nakago from the book in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' briefly appear in present-day UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} to fight over Miaka and Yui... and more fantastic monsters from the book get summoned.
* There is a 3 episode ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' anime where in each episode, Wily escapes from the video game he is in and Mega Man has to go into the RealWorld to stop him.
* ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', while more GenreSavvy than the usual version of this trope, did jump out of the TV.
* ''Anime/PhantasyStarOnline2'': [[spoiler:Aika]] is this. It's just not readily apparent given that [[spoiler:she has a cover story involving claiming to be a student from overseas and she otherwise blends in with the rest of the cast.]] There's also a little playing in that [[spoiler:she can move between her home dimension and Earth's dimension at will, which allows her to take care of a universe-ending threat that ''also'' found its way outside of her home dimension.]]
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* In the ''Nightveil'' Special (spun off from ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}''), a comic book superheroine named Thunderfox is brought into the regular world, and became a Femforce member for several issues.
* Loony Leo is a cartoon lion brought to life in ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.
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* Many fan works based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' use this trope. One of the best known is the SelfInsert collaborative work called ''Fanfic/{{Ponyfall}}'', in which most of the main characters are transported to Earth and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]], where they are all found by bronies living around the world.
* In ''Legolas, Back to the Future'', Legolas pops out of a Canadian teenager's TV during a power outage. Absolutely NOTHING is done with this premise; he simply tags along as the girl and her friends shop, see a movie, visit a youth camp and a theme park, etc. No one is surprised to see Legolas, nor do they bother to help him get home.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Emergence}}'', all four members of Team ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' wake up scattered in the real world with no idea how they got there and having to adjust to the differences between Remnant and Earth.
** The sequel fic, ''Convergence'', brings in Team JNPR and [[spoiler:Cinder's faction]], and ties in another fic by the same author in which an amnesiac Summer Rose played this role.
* This trope is actually a somewhat popular method of creating a SelfInsertFic-a character or characters from a popular fictional work (or [[{{Crossover}} multiple works of fiction]]) end up in the real world, and it's up to the {{OC}} to help them out.
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* ''Film/LastActionHero'' has a CowboyCop from an early '90s action movie (played by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) arrive in the real world. [[spoiler:So does his nemesis Benedict, who realizes he can use the magic ticket to bring other movie villains into the real world, where the rules of storytelling don't apply and "bad guys can win!"]]
* The Disney film ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has a fairytale Princess, her handsome Prince, a wicked Queen, and SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer transported to modern UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
%%* The plot of the B-list Creator/AdamBaldwin film ''Film/MonsterMakers''.
* The LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/TheSmurfs'' has been criticized for having a similar plot to ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''
%%* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo''.
* ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemenApocalypse'' has the characters from the show traveling to the real world to stop their writers canceling the show
%%* The plot of the ''Film/FatAlbert'' movie.
%%** And the ''Film/RockyAndBullwinkle'' movie.
* In ''Film/TheIcicleThief'', an American supermodel comes out of a commercial into the Italian village the story is set in.
%%* [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} "What did you do, Ray????"]]
* In the wrap-up film for ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson'', Jett and his ShowWithinAShow character, a superspy named Silverstone, switch places. While Jett has to try to save the world using skills he doesn't have, Silverstone is stuck in a small town with real-life problems he never learned to deal with. Notably, Jett's great-grandmother Miz Correta immediately realizes that Silverstone isn't Jett.
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* The book ''Literature/{{Inkheart}}'' is actually about a man who reads a character, Dustfinger, out of a book also called ''Inkheart''. Dustfinger goes on to complain about the chaos of the Real World and tries to get read back into the book. Along the way he discovers the general unkindness of the human race and the uncaring offhandedness of fire. During the story, he also meets ''Inkheart'''s author, who is glad to meet him, but who does not offer that feeling to Inkheart's villain, Capricorn.
* The Creator/StephenKing short story "Umney's Last Case" has a writer switch places with his [[PrivateDetective private eye]] character. The PI wets himself as he's [[NobodyPoops never gone to a toilet before]].
* The ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' novels have various characters traveling both ways. Most notable is ''Something Rotten'', where Thursday explains the real world's lack of certain tropes to Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, and where Intergalactic [[EvilOverlord Emperor Zhark]] threatens his own author with a laser when it sounds like he'll be KilledOffForReal.
** [[spoiler: In the 6th book, the written Thursday enters the real world and, for the first time, has to experience breathing, a heartbeat, learning to walk and turn while walking, and the fact that some things happen for absolutely no reason.]]
* The Tom Holt novel ''Open Sesame'' has Akram The Terrible escape to the real world, where he gets confused by people having discussions that don't further the plot.
* The children's book ''It's New! It's Improved! It's Terrible!'' features a commercial-based TV refugee.
* The early Creator/TerryPratchett short story "Final Reward" has a BarbarianHero, following his death, arriving in the hall of his "creator"; that is, the fantasy writer who invented him.
* Kir Bulychevs ''Alice'' books are 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.
* "The Kugelmass Episode" by Creator/WoodyAllen sees Literature/MadameBovary transported to modern New York. Initially thrilled by the experience, she soon becomes jaded -- "I want to get a job or go to a class, because watching TV all day is the pits" -- and demands to be returned to 19th Century France. Conversely, Kugelmass himself becomes TrappedInTVLand.
* In Paul Robinson's ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', the main character, 246, ends up crossing over into another universe where his life is actually being recorded and is part of a major TV show that a lot of people watch, so he visits a fan convention where he answers questions about the show, but nobody there is aware of the fact it's not really a show, the life he's being filmed is really what happens to him, not a TV show.
* The book ''The Magic Typewriter'' has an aspiring teenaged writer buy the eponymous typewriter from an antique store. He proceeds to write a [[HamAndCheese horribly cheesy story]], climaxing in the villain casting a spell that is supposed to make the main character "[[ExactWords meet his maker]]". Guess who appears in the kid's bedroom?
* ''Effigy Nights'' by Yoon Ha Lee. A GalacticConqueror subdues a PlanetOfHats famous for its art and literature. The wardens of the planet free legendary heroes from their books to fight the invaders, only the magic gets out of control, destroying their culture as the content of books are turned into soldiers. Having run out of books, the magic then starts on people...
* In the climax of ''Literature/SophiesWorld'', Sophie and Alberto [[spoiler:escape their own level of reality and end up in Hilde and the Major's, where they are fictional characters. Although they're unable to interact with the new level they discover a society made of cast-off fictional characters from stories living there.]]
* In Kasey Michaels' ''Maggie Kelly'' mystery series, author Maggie finds her fictional Regency detective, Alexandre Blake (along with his lovable, bumbling sidekick) materializing in her modern New York apartment. Alexandre and Sterling's attempts to fit in to the modern world (and Maggie having to adjust to them) are a running subplot in the series.
* Creator/GeneWolfe's story "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" is about a boy obsessively reading a pulp adventure book similar to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', with heroes and villains from the book occasionally popping into the real world to talk about themselves and lend him moral support or advice. It looks as if it's all happening in his imagination, but several other people can see the characters too.
* ''[[Literature/MaryPoppins Mary Poppins in the Park]]'' has a variation, in which three fairy-tale princes and their unicorn meet Jane and Michael. They claim to have a book about the people of Cherry Tree Lane, which they use as a PortalBook to the park once every generation (UsefulNotes/{{London}} time). Unfortunately, when most of the children the princes meet over the years become adults, they seem to forget meeting the trio.
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* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', magic brought a character from a 1950's romance film to reality. Oh, and some slasher horror monsters.
* The sitcom ''Series/HiHoneyImHome'' was based around a 1950s sitcom family, whose show had been canceled, moving next door to a fan to await being put back on the air.
** Additionally, a series CouchGag would have a different classic tv character come visit Honey, for example in one episode Ann B. Davis drops in as [[Series/TheBradyBunch Alice Nelson]].
* The short-lived series ''Series/OnceAHero'' had the comic book superhero Captain Justice crossing over from Pleasantville into the real world, and befriending his creator. Captain Justice decided to stay to get people believing in him again.
* Used a couple times in the various ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. This was always done by having simulations of famous people (fictional and real) from the holodeck. One notable episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E3ElementaryDearData Elementary, Dear Data]]" has a simulation of [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]], who ends up becoming self aware and trying to find a way out of the simulation. A few seasons later, he [[RecursiveReality tries it again]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle Ship in a Bottle]]".
* In the famous Czech fairy tale TV series ''Arabela'' (1979-81) (Western Germany title: ''Arabella, die Märchenbraut'', Eastern Germany title: ''Die schöne Arabella und der Zauberer''), not only do characters and villains from the Fairy Tale reality enter the Real World and spread chaos there with their magic and strange ways, [[MageInManhattan the sorcerous villains even take modern inventions (and ideas)]], like cars, back into their own reality which runs on [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality fairy tale tropes]], install themselves as new rulers, and start a reign of tyranny by banning, on pain of death, all things magical, including [[FantasticRacism racism against non-human "magical" races]]. With hilarious results.
* 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.
* In ''Series/LostInAusten'', Elizabeth Bennet somehow comes to modern-day London. The serial focuses on the woman [[TrappedInTVLand unwittingly taking her place in the fictional world]], though.
* Butch, a 50s film character from two episodes of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus''. In his first episode, Merton attempts to {{Technobabble}} up an explanation, only to realise that it makes no sense even for the FantasyKitchenSink they live in.
-->'''Merton''': Okay, now if we can maintain a constant level of ''emulsion'', uh, y'know, and there would be celluloid and protons would converge in a, in a, ''diverge'', in-in - I don't know where I am right now, I'm, I'm, this, I'm lost.
* There is a ''Series/{{Yeralash}}'' episode about a bicyclist from a school mathematics textbook who chases down two boys and makes them finally solve the problem.
* Played with in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Season 6 episode, "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake The French Mistake]]" where Balthazar sends Sam and Dean into an alternate universe very similar to ours where they are actors named Creator/JaredPadalecki and Creator/JensenAckles starring on a cult TV show called ''Supernatural''.
* In an episode of ''Series/EerieIndiana'', Simon's younger brother zaps himself into a monster movie on TV by biting the remote control. By zapping himself in, though, he also zapped the monster into the real world. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/AceLightning'' is about video game character dragged into the real world.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': fairy tale characters are cursed to live a world without magic (the real world).
* In ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', the series got started when the protagonists earned a wish to be granted and chose to become their favorite comic book superheroes - unfortunately, the magic that brought the superpowers to the real world also brought the comic's villains as well.
* The second season of ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'' introduces the concept of Fictionals, which are fictional characters brought into the real world either with a spell, or, more rarely, by their sheer popularity being enough to literally bring them up off the page. In any case, they remain bound by the rules of their story, and cannot be killed in any way unbefitting of their character. The main villains of the season happen to be two evil ones – [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] [[Theatre/TheTempest Prospero]] and [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]]. In fact, the former is unique in that [[spoiler:he's actually possessing the body of the Bard himself, borne of Shakespeare's angst over his waning popularity and a magical quill]].
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* The video for JackConte's "Yeah Yeah Yeah" contains Jack portraying a man who buys a magical painting and [[PortalPainting brings the girl in it into reality]].
* "The Sun Always Shines on TV", the sequel to Music/{{Aha}}'s video "Take On Me" has the 80's Girl bringing Motorcycle Guy out of the comic.
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* Wrestling/{{GLOW}}'s superhero tag team Thunderbolt and Lightning come from the pages of a comic book.
* Gabby Gilbert is from ''Creator/VH1 I Love The 80s''.
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* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': Sir William, Earl of Marshall, a KnightInShiningArmor in an Imagination Station adventure, comes out of the Imagination Station with Isaac and accuses Eugene of being a "student of darkness", tries to rescue Mr. Barclay from being eaten by his car, and tries ice cream before Isaac realizes TheGameNeverStopped.
* A few sketches on ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' had a man who was a "sitcom character" trying (and failing) to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] tropes like GilliganCut and RightBehindMe.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Within the TabletopGame/FreedomCity setting of ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'', the Toon Gang are these, miniature cartoon gangster brought to life by one of Doc Otaku's devices and refusing to go back.
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[[folder:Videogames]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has a gimmick involving actual toys of the characters, having the player place the toys on a "portal" peripheral to use them in the game. Storywise, the characters were banished from the Skylands and into our world by the the evil [[BigBad Portal Master Kaos]], being frozen into little figures in the process, and the player uses the portal to send them back home.
* The arcade ending to ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' had the heroes and villains escaping the arcade machine and continuing their battling.
* The entire premise of ''VisualNovel/{{Harem Party}}'' eroge is an all-female cast of a fantasy video game jumping out of the main character's PC. The positive: he can bed them all, often at the same time. The negative: the game's antagonist, an evil god, escaped to reality as well and he wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''VideoGame/StayTooned'' inverts this trope. The player's remote (with the push of a BigRedButton) allows several cartoons to escape the TV, but in the process also turns the entire apartment building into cartoon form.
* The plot of the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' and ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' {{crossover}} ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'' is that Luigi accidentally knocks over the book containing the Paper Mario universe, releasing many of its inhabitants--including its version of Mario himself--into the Mario & Luigi world.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', [[spoiler:you are this. Thanks to a video game made by Earthlings connecting Earth to the home dimension of the PlayerCharacter and pals, you are able to use the video game, ''[[CelebrityParadox Phantasy Star Online 2]]'', to travel to Earth. Of course, your job there is strictly business, since most time spent there involves [[ItMakesSenseInContext beating the crap out of evil manifestations of Earthling animate and inanimate objects]] [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse in Tokyo.]]]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* A ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' storyline had Tony accidentally transported to "our" world (represented via superimposing Tony on real photos) and meeting Greg Dean. With Real!Greg's help, he manages to return to the comic's universe. And what are Tony's first words as soon as he gets back?
-->'''Tony''': Save that dimensional code...[[MagnificentBastard and mark it as "leverage"!]]
* Eri-Chan from ''Webcomic/OkashinaOkashi'' escaped the frames of the webcomic, and promptly got stuck in the comments section.
* The final storyline of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' involves Cap'n Crunch's old advertising foes the Soggies enter the strip's reality as the lines between fiction and non-fiction collapse from an overabundance of diversity. (The forces of good get [[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]] Ravage, created by the strip's author, in return.)
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation put its typically creepy spin on this: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1304 SCP-1304]] is a violent sacrifice ritual. If one writes a book where a character has it done to them, soon after publication the victim will get reincarnated as a human in the real world. They won't have memories of their fictional past, but their life will mirror that in the novel, as closely as reality allows.
** [[spoiler: One version of SCP-001 has the Foundation attempting to do this... so they can kill the writers and control their own destiny. Only thing stopping them is that they're not quite sure if it would cause a [[ApocalypseHow Class X-4 for them]].]]
* The premise of {{WebVideo/Dragonbored}} is an obsessive gamer's RPG character being accidentally summoned into the real world, where he subsequently gets promoted over the player at work and woos his dissatisfied girlfriend away. The gamer then manages to recreate the event to get himself into the game world, which doesn't go as well as he hoped.
* This is the plot of the season 14 finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. 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.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In an episode of ''The Adventures of WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', "It's Dangly Deever Time", they bring a character from an old kid's TV show to reality (the titular Dangly Deever, an obvious parody of Howdy Doody). In this case, however, the problem wasn't the character -- for some reason, this also created a murderous [[EvilTwin evil duplicate]]. The good Deever ended up having to go back too for Sam and Max to be able to get rid of the evil one.
* In one of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''' Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials, Bart and Lisa are sucked into an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon by a magic remote. They manage to escape, but Itchy and Scratchy follow...only to find that the "real world" is quite a bit different from a cartoon world, where the rules are quite different--for example, pets with all their bits aren't very tolerated.
** Another Treehouse Of Horror episode ended with Homer being teleported to the real world with no visible means of returning. Thank goodness for the healing power side of StatusQuoIsGod and CanonDiscontinuity.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', the titular character pursues one of his nemeses into... a fancon. While trying to find or avoid one another, they deal with over-eager convention-goers, fans dressed up like them, and being forced to sit on a panel regarding their cartoon.
** In a last laugh move, at the end of the segment Freakazoid informs several cast members with minimal screen time that, due to budget cuts, they've been reduced to washing his car.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has the titular character and PsychoElectro Megavolt transported to the "real world" by means of a TrappedInTVLand device made by Megavolt. It turns out that the guy who owns the rights to Darkwing Duck gets his ideas by means of a radio helmet that is tuned to Darkwing's world.
** The episode also dishes up some nice {{Lampshade Hanging}}s and has a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' when the helmet gets rewired by the cartoons' return trip.
* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventures'' where the booth is used to retrieve a character from a TV show. As a result, the show never ends and nothing else can ever be shown on TV, so they have to put them back.
* The 1994 ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' finale featured Spider-man teaming up with various Spider-men from alternate universes including a powerless Spider-man who played the character on TV. This culminates in the main Spider-Man of the series visiting the real world and taking ''Creator/StanLee'' webslinging.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "Through the Door" had a group of fairy-tale characters (including PrinceCharming, Myth/RobinHood, and a genie) escaping into Ponyland from behind a magical door that leads to the "Land of Legends".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had the Crimson Chin taken out of his comic. This results in him discovering he is imaginary, growing depressed and almost getting his comic book cancelled.
* This trope is invoked by [[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Ghoulies]] in [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a memorable if freaky sequence]] of the 1972 TV Movie ''Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies'', part of ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie'' series. The bratty Hauntleroy has stolen Wolfie's guitar and flees into 'Mad Mirror Land', where all four characters (Including Drac and Frankie) get turned into live-action versions, still operating by cartoon laws, for the most part. It was originally part of a seriously weird, not-so-hot crossover with the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, and then was re-edited for syndication as a separate episode. Original, B&W: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP36Rc_CIo / Reedit color: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxaJbMqZUA
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' cartoon "The Lion Is Busy," the detectives are chasing a loose mountain lion (an early version of Snagglepuss) into an adventurer's club. As they come across a line of adventurers in [[AdventurerOutfit safari gear and pith helmets]], Snooper asks if any of these "fugitives from a late, late show" has seen the lion.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E10FightFighters Fight Fighters]]", Dipper summons a video game character named Rumble [=McSkirmish=] to scare Robbie. Rumble quickly thinks anyone he must fight is an evil enemy he must eliminate.
* ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'': In "Don't Judge A Mutant By Its Slobber", the team's attempt to "awesome-ize" a video game results in the games SergeantRock protagonist and mutant villains escaping into the real world.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Still, a [[GenreSavvy good use]] of MediumAwareness.]]
->'''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.
->'''[[TalkingToHimself 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''
The work opens with one setting, and introduces several characters living in that setting. Then it switches to another setting, one that operates as a ShowWithinAShow of the first setting, introducing characters from ''that'' setting. The characters from the ShowWithinAShow, due to some AppliedPhlebotinum, manage to find their way to the first setting and meet the characters we were introduced to there.
Whatever the circumstances, a Refugee from TV Land is a good way to show differences between fiction and reality, and play up tropes as it does so. Quietly implies that AllFictionIsRealSomewhere and can be paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop. Compare TrappedInTVLand (character is sucked inside a ShowWithinAShow) and RealWorldEpisode (the characters we're introduced with leave their setting and find their home is a ShowWithinAShow).
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/HauntedJunction'' [[MonsterOfTheWeek the ghost of a mangaka who worked himself to death]] conjures up his comics characters: giant robot warriors, magical girls and, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking worst of all]], some mind-numbingly boring historical characters from an educational comic he made.
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[[folder:Comicbooks]]
* A ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons Comics]]'' storyline involved Kang and Kodos bringing ''WesternAnimation/ItchyAndScratchy'' characters 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.
* A ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comic had ''Simpsons'' characters (and later, non-''Simpsons'' fictional characters) being pulled out of comics into the ''Futurama'' world.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': One story arc featured a villain called the Queen of Fables (her OriginStory is an evil sorceress who got [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in a magical story book]]), who had the power to to manifest any fictional character into the real world when she escaped her story.
* In an early ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' story, a character escapes from the world of fiction and ends up running across John Constantine, who witnesses as authorities from the world of fiction keep trying to drag the refugee back. He's eventually knocked out and taken back by Winnie, from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''.
* In one ''ComicBook/CherryComics'' story, the characters of a soap opera come out of the television to have sex with Cherry.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Tamahome and Nakago from the book in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' briefly appear in present-day UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} to fight over Miaka and Yui... and more fantastic monsters from the book get summoned.
* There is a 3 episode ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' anime where in each episode, Wily escapes from the video game he is in and Mega Man has to go into the RealWorld to stop him.
* ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', while more GenreSavvy than the usual version of this trope, did jump out of the TV.
* ''Anime/PhantasyStarOnline2'': [[spoiler:Aika]] is this. It's just not readily apparent given that [[spoiler:she has a cover story involving claiming to be a student from overseas and she otherwise blends in with the rest of the cast.]] There's also a little playing in that [[spoiler:she can move between her home dimension and Earth's dimension at will, which allows her to take care of a universe-ending threat that ''also'' found its way outside of her home dimension.]]
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[[folder:Comicbooks]]
* In the ''Nightveil'' Special (spun off from ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}''), a comic book superheroine named Thunderfox is brought into the regular world, and became a Femforce member for several issues.
* Loony Leo is a cartoon lion brought to life in ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Many fan works based on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' use this trope. One of the best known is the SelfInsert collaborative work called ''Fanfic/{{Ponyfall}}'', in which most of the main characters are transported to Earth and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]], where they are all found by bronies living around the world.
* In ''Legolas, Back to the Future'', Legolas pops out of a Canadian teenager's TV during a power outage. Absolutely NOTHING is done with this premise; he simply tags along as the girl and her friends shop, see a movie, visit a youth camp and a theme park, etc. No one is surprised to see Legolas, nor do they bother to help him get home.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Emergence}}'', all four members of Team ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' wake up scattered in the real world with no idea how they got there and having to adjust to the differences between Remnant and Earth.
** The sequel fic, ''Convergence'', brings in Team JNPR and [[spoiler:Cinder's faction]], and ties in another fic by the same author in which an amnesiac Summer Rose played this role.
* This trope is actually a somewhat popular method of creating a SelfInsertFic-a character or characters from a popular fictional work (or [[{{Crossover}} multiple works of fiction]]) end up in the real world, and it's up to the {{OC}} to help them out.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/LastActionHero'' has a CowboyCop from an early '90s action movie (played by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) arrive in the real world. [[spoiler:So does his nemesis Benedict, who realizes he can use the magic ticket to bring other movie villains into the real world, where the rules of storytelling don't apply and "bad guys can win!"]]
* The Disney film ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has a fairytale Princess, her handsome Prince, a wicked Queen, and SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer transported to modern UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
%%* The plot of the B-list Creator/AdamBaldwin film ''Film/MonsterMakers''.
* The LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/TheSmurfs'' has been criticized for having a similar plot to ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''
%%* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo''.
* ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemenApocalypse'' has the characters from the show traveling to the real world to stop their writers canceling the show
%%* The plot of the ''Film/FatAlbert'' movie.
%%** And the ''Film/RockyAndBullwinkle'' movie.
* In ''Film/TheIcicleThief'', an American supermodel comes out of a commercial into the Italian village the story is set in.
%%* [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} "What did you do, Ray????"]]
* In the wrap-up film for ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson'', Jett and his ShowWithinAShow character, a superspy named Silverstone, switch places. While Jett has to try to save the world using skills he doesn't have, Silverstone is stuck in a small town with real-life problems he never learned to deal with. Notably, Jett's great-grandmother Miz Correta immediately realizes that Silverstone isn't Jett.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The book ''Literature/{{Inkheart}}'' is actually about a man who reads a character, Dustfinger, out of a book also called ''Inkheart''. Dustfinger goes on to complain about the chaos of the Real World and tries to get read back into the book. Along the way he discovers the general unkindness of the human race and the uncaring offhandedness of fire. During the story, he also meets ''Inkheart'''s author, who is glad to meet him, but who does not offer that feeling to Inkheart's villain, Capricorn.
* The Creator/StephenKing short story "Umney's Last Case" has a writer switch places with his [[PrivateDetective private eye]] character. The PI wets himself as he's [[NobodyPoops never gone to a toilet before]].
* The ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' novels have various characters traveling both ways. Most notable is ''Something Rotten'', where Thursday explains the real world's lack of certain tropes to Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, and where Intergalactic [[EvilOverlord Emperor Zhark]] threatens his own author with a laser when it sounds like he'll be KilledOffForReal.
** [[spoiler: In the 6th book, the written Thursday enters the real world and, for the first time, has to experience breathing, a heartbeat, learning to walk and turn while walking, and the fact that some things happen for absolutely no reason.]]
* The Tom Holt novel ''Open Sesame'' has Akram The Terrible escape to the real world, where he gets confused by people having discussions that don't further the plot.
* The children's book ''It's New! It's Improved! It's Terrible!'' features a commercial-based TV refugee.
* The early Creator/TerryPratchett short story "Final Reward" has a BarbarianHero, following his death, arriving in the hall of his "creator"; that is, the fantasy writer who invented him.
* Kir Bulychevs ''Alice'' books are 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.
* "The Kugelmass Episode" by Creator/WoodyAllen sees Literature/MadameBovary transported to modern New York. Initially thrilled by the experience, she soon becomes jaded -- "I want to get a job or go to a class, because watching TV all day is the pits" -- and demands to be returned to 19th Century France. Conversely, Kugelmass himself becomes TrappedInTVLand.
* In Paul Robinson's ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', the main character, 246, ends up crossing over into another universe where his life is actually being recorded and is part of a major TV show that a lot of people watch, so he visits a fan convention where he answers questions about the show, but nobody there is aware of the fact it's not really a show, the life he's being filmed is really what happens to him, not a TV show.
* The book ''The Magic Typewriter'' has an aspiring teenaged writer buy the eponymous typewriter from an antique store. He proceeds to write a [[HamAndCheese horribly cheesy story]], climaxing in the villain casting a spell that is supposed to make the main character "[[ExactWords meet his maker]]". Guess who appears in the kid's bedroom?
* ''Effigy Nights'' by Yoon Ha Lee. A GalacticConqueror subdues a PlanetOfHats famous for its art and literature. The wardens of the planet free legendary heroes from their books to fight the invaders, only the magic gets out of control, destroying their culture as the content of books are turned into soldiers. Having run out of books, the magic then starts on people...
* In the climax of ''Literature/SophiesWorld'', Sophie and Alberto [[spoiler:escape their own level of reality and end up in Hilde and the Major's, where they are fictional characters. Although they're unable to interact with the new level they discover a society made of cast-off fictional characters from stories living there.]]
* In Kasey Michaels' ''Maggie Kelly'' mystery series, author Maggie finds her fictional Regency detective, Alexandre Blake (along with his lovable, bumbling sidekick) materializing in her modern New York apartment. Alexandre and Sterling's attempts to fit in to the modern world (and Maggie having to adjust to them) are a running subplot in the series.
* Creator/GeneWolfe's story "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" is about a boy obsessively reading a pulp adventure book similar to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', with heroes and villains from the book occasionally popping into the real world to talk about themselves and lend him moral support or advice. It looks as if it's all happening in his imagination, but several other people can see the characters too.
* ''[[Literature/MaryPoppins Mary Poppins in the Park]]'' has a variation, in which three fairy-tale princes and their unicorn meet Jane and Michael. They claim to have a book about the people of Cherry Tree Lane, which they use as a PortalBook to the park once every generation (UsefulNotes/{{London}} time). Unfortunately, when most of the children the princes meet over the years become adults, they seem to forget meeting the trio.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', magic brought a character from a 1950's romance film to reality. Oh, and some slasher horror monsters.
* The sitcom ''Series/HiHoneyImHome'' was based around a 1950s sitcom family, whose show had been canceled, moving next door to a fan to await being put back on the air.
** Additionally, a series CouchGag would have a different classic tv character come visit Honey, for example in one episode Ann B. Davis drops in as [[Series/TheBradyBunch Alice Nelson]].
* The short-lived series ''Series/OnceAHero'' had the comic book superhero Captain Justice crossing over from Pleasantville into the real world, and befriending his creator. Captain Justice decided to stay to get people believing in him again.
* Used a couple times in the various ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series. This was always done by having simulations of famous people (fictional and real) from the holodeck. One notable episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E3ElementaryDearData Elementary, Dear Data]]" has a simulation of [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]], who ends up becoming self aware and trying to find a way out of the simulation. A few seasons later, he [[RecursiveReality tries it again]] in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E11ShipInABottle Ship in a Bottle]]".
* In the famous Czech fairy tale TV series ''Arabela'' (1979-81) (Western Germany title: ''Arabella, die Märchenbraut'', Eastern Germany title: ''Die schöne Arabella und der Zauberer''), not only do characters and villains from the Fairy Tale reality enter the Real World and spread chaos there with their magic and strange ways, [[MageInManhattan the sorcerous villains even take modern inventions (and ideas)]], like cars, back into their own reality which runs on [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality fairy tale tropes]], install themselves as new rulers, and start a reign of tyranny by banning, on pain of death, all things magical, including [[FantasticRacism racism against non-human "magical" races]]. With hilarious results.
* 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.
* In ''Series/LostInAusten'', Elizabeth Bennet somehow comes to modern-day London. The serial focuses on the woman [[TrappedInTVLand unwittingly taking her place in the fictional world]], though.
* Butch, a 50s film character from two episodes of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus''. In his first episode, Merton attempts to {{Technobabble}} up an explanation, only to realise that it makes no sense even for the FantasyKitchenSink they live in.
-->'''Merton''': Okay, now if we can maintain a constant level of ''emulsion'', uh, y'know, and there would be celluloid and protons would converge in a, in a, ''diverge'', in-in - I don't know where I am right now, I'm, I'm, this, I'm lost.
* There is a ''Series/{{Yeralash}}'' episode about a bicyclist from a school mathematics textbook who chases down two boys and makes them finally solve the problem.
* Played with in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Season 6 episode, "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake The French Mistake]]" where Balthazar sends Sam and Dean into an alternate universe very similar to ours where they are actors named Creator/JaredPadalecki and Creator/JensenAckles starring on a cult TV show called ''Supernatural''.
* In an episode of ''Series/EerieIndiana'', Simon's younger brother zaps himself into a monster movie on TV by biting the remote control. By zapping himself in, though, he also zapped the monster into the real world. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/AceLightning'' is about video game character dragged into the real world.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': fairy tale characters are cursed to live a world without magic (the real world).
* In ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', the series got started when the protagonists earned a wish to be granted and chose to become their favorite comic book superheroes - unfortunately, the magic that brought the superpowers to the real world also brought the comic's villains as well.
* The second season of ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'' introduces the concept of Fictionals, which are fictional characters brought into the real world either with a spell, or, more rarely, by their sheer popularity being enough to literally bring them up off the page. In any case, they remain bound by the rules of their story, and cannot be killed in any way unbefitting of their character. The main villains of the season happen to be two evil ones – [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] [[Theatre/TheTempest Prospero]] and [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]]. In fact, the former is unique in that [[spoiler:he's actually possessing the body of the Bard himself, borne of Shakespeare's angst over his waning popularity and a magical quill]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* The video for JackConte's "Yeah Yeah Yeah" contains Jack portraying a man who buys a magical painting and [[PortalPainting brings the girl in it into reality]].
* "The Sun Always Shines on TV", the sequel to Music/{{Aha}}'s video "Take On Me" has the 80's Girl bringing Motorcycle Guy out of the comic.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/{{GLOW}}'s superhero tag team Thunderbolt and Lightning come from the pages of a comic book.
* Gabby Gilbert is from ''Creator/VH1 I Love The 80s''.
* Wrestling/{{Austin| Aries}} Starr is merely from TV Land.[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'': Sir William, Earl of Marshall, a KnightInShiningArmor in an Imagination Station adventure, comes out of the Imagination Station with Isaac and accuses Eugene of being a "student of darkness", tries to rescue Mr. Barclay from being eaten by his car, and tries ice cream before Isaac realizes TheGameNeverStopped.
* A few sketches on ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' had a man who was a "sitcom character" trying (and failing) to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] tropes like GilliganCut and RightBehindMe.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Within the TabletopGame/FreedomCity setting of ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'', the Toon Gang are these, miniature cartoon gangster brought to life by one of Doc Otaku's devices and refusing to go back.
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[[folder:Videogames]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has a gimmick involving actual toys of the characters, having the player place the toys on a "portal" peripheral to use them in the game. Storywise, the characters were banished from the Skylands and into our world by the the evil [[BigBad Portal Master Kaos]], being frozen into little figures in the process, and the player uses the portal to send them back home.
* The arcade ending to ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe'' had the heroes and villains escaping the arcade machine and continuing their battling.
* The entire premise of ''VisualNovel/{{Harem Party}}'' eroge is an all-female cast of a fantasy video game jumping out of the main character's PC. The positive: he can bed them all, often at the same time. The negative: the game's antagonist, an evil god, escaped to reality as well and he wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''VideoGame/StayTooned'' inverts this trope. The player's remote (with the push of a BigRedButton) allows several cartoons to escape the TV, but in the process also turns the entire apartment building into cartoon form.
* The plot of the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' and ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' {{crossover}} ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'' is that Luigi accidentally knocks over the book containing the Paper Mario universe, releasing many of its inhabitants--including its version of Mario himself--into the Mario & Luigi world.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', [[spoiler:you are this. Thanks to a video game made by Earthlings connecting Earth to the home dimension of the PlayerCharacter and pals, you are able to use the video game, ''[[CelebrityParadox Phantasy Star Online 2]]'', to travel to Earth. Of course, your job there is strictly business, since most time spent there involves [[ItMakesSenseInContext beating the crap out of evil manifestations of Earthling animate and inanimate objects]] [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse in Tokyo.]]]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* A ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' storyline had Tony accidentally transported to "our" world (represented via superimposing Tony on real photos) and meeting Greg Dean. With Real!Greg's help, he manages to return to the comic's universe. And what are Tony's first words as soon as he gets back?
-->'''Tony''': Save that dimensional code...[[MagnificentBastard and mark it as "leverage"!]]
* Eri-Chan from ''Webcomic/OkashinaOkashi'' escaped the frames of the webcomic, and promptly got stuck in the comments section.
* The final storyline of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' involves Cap'n Crunch's old advertising foes the Soggies enter the strip's reality as the lines between fiction and non-fiction collapse from an overabundance of diversity. (The forces of good get [[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]] Ravage, created by the strip's author, in return.)
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation put its typically creepy spin on this: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1304 SCP-1304]] is a violent sacrifice ritual. If one writes a book where a character has it done to them, soon after publication the victim will get reincarnated as a human in the real world. They won't have memories of their fictional past, but their life will mirror that in the novel, as closely as reality allows.
** [[spoiler: One version of SCP-001 has the Foundation attempting to do this... so they can kill the writers and control their own destiny. Only thing stopping them is that they're not quite sure if it would cause a [[ApocalypseHow Class X-4 for them]].]]
* The premise of {{WebVideo/Dragonbored}} is an obsessive gamer's RPG character being accidentally summoned into the real world, where he subsequently gets promoted over the player at work and woos his dissatisfied girlfriend away. The gamer then manages to recreate the event to get himself into the game world, which doesn't go as well as he hoped.
* This is the plot of the season 14 finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. 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.
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* In an episode of ''The Adventures of WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', "It's Dangly Deever Time", they bring a character from an old kid's TV show to reality (the titular Dangly Deever, an obvious parody of Howdy Doody). In this case, however, the problem wasn't the character -- for some reason, this also created a murderous [[EvilTwin evil duplicate]]. The good Deever ended up having to go back too for Sam and Max to be able to get rid of the evil one.
* In one of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''' Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials, Bart and Lisa are sucked into an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon by a magic remote. They manage to escape, but Itchy and Scratchy follow...only to find that the "real world" is quite a bit different from a cartoon world, where the rules are quite different--for example, pets with all their bits aren't very tolerated.
** Another Treehouse Of Horror episode ended with Homer being teleported to the real world with no visible means of returning. Thank goodness for the healing power side of StatusQuoIsGod and CanonDiscontinuity.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', the titular character pursues one of his nemeses into... a fancon. While trying to find or avoid one another, they deal with over-eager convention-goers, fans dressed up like them, and being forced to sit on a panel regarding their cartoon.
** In a last laugh move, at the end of the segment Freakazoid informs several cast members with minimal screen time that, due to budget cuts, they've been reduced to washing his car.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has the titular character and PsychoElectro Megavolt transported to the "real world" by means of a TrappedInTVLand device made by Megavolt. It turns out that the guy who owns the rights to Darkwing Duck gets his ideas by means of a radio helmet that is tuned to Darkwing's world.
** The episode also dishes up some nice {{Lampshade Hanging}}s and has a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' when the helmet gets rewired by the cartoons' return trip.
* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventures'' where the booth is used to retrieve a character from a TV show. As a result, the show never ends and nothing else can ever be shown on TV, so they have to put them back.
* The 1994 ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' finale featured Spider-man teaming up with various Spider-men from alternate universes including a powerless Spider-man who played the character on TV. This culminates in the main Spider-Man of the series visiting the real world and taking ''Creator/StanLee'' webslinging.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "Through the Door" had a group of fairy-tale characters (including PrinceCharming, Myth/RobinHood, and a genie) escaping into Ponyland from behind a magical door that leads to the "Land of Legends".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had the Crimson Chin taken out of his comic. This results in him discovering he is imaginary, growing depressed and almost getting his comic book cancelled.
* This trope is invoked by [[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Ghoulies]] in [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a memorable if freaky sequence]] of the 1972 TV Movie ''Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies'', part of ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie'' series. The bratty Hauntleroy has stolen Wolfie's guitar and flees into 'Mad Mirror Land', where all four characters (Including Drac and Frankie) get turned into live-action versions, still operating by cartoon laws, for the most part. It was originally part of a seriously weird, not-so-hot crossover with the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, and then was re-edited for syndication as a separate episode. Original, B&W: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP36Rc_CIo / Reedit color: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqxaJbMqZUA
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'' cartoon "The Lion Is Busy," the detectives are chasing a loose mountain lion (an early version of Snagglepuss) into an adventurer's club. As they come across a line of adventurers in [[AdventurerOutfit safari gear and pith helmets]], Snooper asks if any of these "fugitives from a late, late show" has seen the lion.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E10FightFighters Fight Fighters]]", Dipper summons a video game character named Rumble [=McSkirmish=] to scare Robbie. Rumble quickly thinks anyone he must fight is an evil enemy he must eliminate.
* ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'': In "Don't Judge A Mutant By Its Slobber", the team's attempt to "awesome-ize" a video game results in the games SergeantRock protagonist and mutant villains escaping into the real world.
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