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* MutuallyFictional: InUniverse ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a TV show to Jim Kirk, but ''Series/StarTrek'' is a TV show to the Doctor, and so on.
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* MutuallyFictional: InUniverse ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a TV show to Jim Kirk, but ''Series/StarTrek'' ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' is a TV show to the Doctor, and so on.
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In a ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' strip, Darrin and Samantha are in trouble because another witch has transformed Samantha into a shape with no nose, preventing her from doing the nose-wiggle that activates her magic. On top of which, everybody Darrin asks for help immediately succumbs to the temptation to ask, "No nose? How does she smell?"
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** In a ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' strip, Darrin and Samantha are in trouble because another witch has transformed Samantha into a shape with no nose, preventing her from doing the nose-wiggle that activates her magic. On top of which, everybody Darrin asks for help immediately succumbs to the temptation to ask, "No nose? How does shesmell?"smell?"
** Several strips end with the AuthorCatchPhrase "[[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bbko.htm Everyone thinks he's the first]]".
** In a ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' strip, Darrin and Samantha are in trouble because another witch has transformed Samantha into a shape with no nose, preventing her from doing the nose-wiggle that activates her magic. On top of which, everybody Darrin asks for help immediately succumbs to the temptation to ask, "No nose? How does she
** Several strips end with the AuthorCatchPhrase "[[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bbko.htm Everyone thinks he's the first]]".
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* CallForward: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bbjw.htm a strip]] set immediately after [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E01Brother the first episode]] of season two of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' (and unfortunately immediately contradicted by [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E02NewEden the second episode]]), Burnham explains to Captain Pike that Spock has been tracking the Red Angel. Pike says he wouldn't expect Spock to [[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI abandon his duty for a personal mission]].
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''Film/StarTrek''.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''Film/StarTrek''.''Film/StarTrek2009''.
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* GoodAngelBadAngel: Discussed by Riker, Troi and Picard [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bati.htm here]].
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* GoThroughMe: In one ''Series/DoctorWho'' strip, Ace tells an alien villain that he'll have to go through her to get to the (currently unconscious) Doctor. The villain asks what makes her think he won't. She replies that he's misunderstood: it's not that she's counting on him not to try, it's that she's confident he won't succeed.
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* MediumAwareness: When the Doctor explains to Radar O'Reilly that ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has a LaughTrack, he's relieved to finally know where that's coming from.
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->''Fanfiction but it's comic strips. Stick figures but they're triangles.''
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* MythologyGag: One strip has Nebula from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and Rip Hunter from ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' in a bar commiserating about having their destinies meddled with by forces beyond their control. Left unspoken is that have another thing in common, being played respectively by Creator/KarenGillan and Creator/ArthurDarvill, who starred together on ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the strip depicting the Doctor's first meeting with Samantha Stephens of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', the joke is based on the fact that it's impossible to depict Samantha's trademark nose wiggle in the strip's minimalist art style (no noses).
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: In a ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' strip, Darrin and Samantha are in trouble because another witch has transformed Samantha into a shape with no nose, preventing her from doing the nose-wiggle that activates her magic. On top of which, everybody Darrin asks for help immediately succumbs to the temptation to ask, "No nose? How does she smell?"
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* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Discussed in a strip where the Doctor, Geordi and Data have a conversation about how different fiction planes have different physical laws. Data speculates that if they traveled to the plane where WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons happen, they would also be able to do the "unwittingly walking on the thin air" trick; the Doctor takes them to that so they can try it, but insists Data go first.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: A talky strip will often have a sight gag playing out in the background, such as in [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/badw.htm this strip]], where Giles and a friend discuss Willow's progress in mastering her magic while Willow uses her magic to steal honey from a beehive and suffers the consequences.
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* TheRecordingKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation in [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/abnd.htm in this strip]], with the Doctor speaking through a communicator with no earpiece, and correctly predicting what the person at the other end will say.
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation in [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/abnd.htm in this strip]], with the Doctor speaking through a communicator with no earpiece, and correctly predicting what the person at the other end will say.
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* TheRecordingKnewYouWouldSayThat: A variation in [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/abnd.htm in this strip]], with the Doctor speaking through a communicator with no earpiece, and correctly predicting what the person at the other end will say.
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** [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/baae.htm Buffy has deduced]] that not only is she fictional, she's currently appearing in fanfiction written by somebody with a fondness for crossovers.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''StarTrek2009''.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''StarTrek2009''.''Film/StarTrek''.
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* MutuallyFictional: InUniverse ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a TV show to Jim Kirk, but ''Series/StarTrek'' is a TV show to the Doctor, and so on.
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* MutuallyFictional: ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a TV show to Jim Kirk, but ''Series/StarTrek'' is a TV show to the Doctor, and so on.
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* ArtEvolution: In earlier strips the characters' heads are the top third of the triangle; in later ones it's the top half. There was an experiement with giving some characters round heads that never quite worked and was abandoned.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Danny Pink [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablx.htm suggests]] that if the management want to showcase a character who has many of the Doctor's qualities but isn't a white male, they should ask Guinan. The Doctor replies "Brilliant idea, Danny! Guinan will know just what to do!"
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** In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/03091700.htm this strip]], River Tam is a FourthWallObserver.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''StarTrek2009''.
* ShowWithinAShow: Before the MutuallyFictional concept was established, characters were fans of ''King Arthur in Time and Space'' and related "imaginary screen canon" from Paul's search-and-replaced fanfic that eventually became the inspiration for ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''. This includes the "strangely familiar" variant, [[http://members.iglou.com/scarfman/02051300.htm one strip]] shows the Scoobies watch ''St Pudentiana the Fairy Bane'', the KAITAS ''Buffy'' analogy.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: In [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ablz.htm this strip]] it's totally unclear what's causing Guinan's confusion in her conversation with Captain April. [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/index.html This strip]] shows that her RippleEffectProofMemory is struggling with the events of ''StarTrek2009''.
* ShowWithinAShow: Before the MutuallyFictional concept was established, characters were fans of ''King Arthur in Time and Space'' and related "imaginary screen canon" from Paul's search-and-replaced fanfic that eventually became the inspiration for ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''. This includes the "strangely familiar" variant, [[http://members.iglou.com/scarfman/02051300.htm one strip]] shows the Scoobies watch ''St Pudentiana the Fairy Bane'', the KAITAS ''Buffy'' analogy.
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* FullyAbsorbedFinale: [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/abls.htm This strip]] is the finale of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', expanding on the single-panel summary that had been all Gadzikowski had been able to include in ''Arthur King of Time and Space'' itself.
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* MeaningfulEcho: The strip for the ''Series/SleepyHollow'' season 1 cliffhanger has word-for-word the same dialogue as the strip for the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' season 3 cliffhanger, highlighting the similarities between the cliffhangers themselves.
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* AnachronicOrder: The strips are posted in the order in which gags for various properties occur. There is also a chronological archive; however, Paul's crossover rules are based on date of broadcast/release/publication, so events in the chronological archive will be in anachronic order if the original properties were. (For example, the Fourth Doctor crosses over with Luke, Leia and Han ... and the Eighth Doctor crosses over with Annakin and Padme, which is earlier in ''StarWars'' time but later in "outside" time.)
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* AnachronicOrder: The strips are posted in the order in which gags for various properties occur. There is also a chronological archive; however, Paul's crossover rules are based on date of broadcast/release/publication, so events in the chronological archive will be in anachronic order if the original properties were. (For example, the Fourth Doctor crosses over with Luke, Leia and Han ... and the Eighth Doctor crosses over with Annakin and Padme, which is earlier in ''StarWars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' time but later in "outside" time.)
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Invoked - the Doctor can't use the TARDIS to rescue the crew of the ''[[StargateUniverse Destiny]]'' or the ''[[StarTrekVoyager USS Voyager]]'' or the ''[[GilligansIsland SS Minnow]]'' because the [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality laws of dramatic necessity]] prevent it.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Invoked - the Doctor can't use the TARDIS to rescue the crew of the ''[[StargateUniverse ''[[Series/StargateUniverse Destiny]]'' or the ''[[StarTrekVoyager ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager USS Voyager]]'' or the ''[[GilligansIsland ''[[Series/GilligansIsland SS Minnow]]'' because the [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality laws of dramatic necessity]] prevent it.
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** {{Lampshaded}} in one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' strip which appears to be in-continuity until the punchline.
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** {{Lampshaded}} {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ed in one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' strip which appears to be in-continuity until the punchline.
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It can be found [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/ here]].
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** {{Lampshaded}} in one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' strip which appears to be in-continuity until the punchline.
-->'''Angel''': ''(waving a hand outside the panel)'' Hey! Fourth-wall-breaking material always goes outside regular panel borders!
-->'''Wesley''': No. That could have telegraphed the gag.
-->'''Angel''': ''(waving a hand outside the panel)'' Hey! Fourth-wall-breaking material always goes outside regular panel borders!
-->'''Wesley''': No. That could have telegraphed the gag.
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* NoFourthWall: In the frame-breaking sequences. Also, even within the setting, most of the characters know they're "fictional" ''somewhere'' and can comment on that.
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''The Hero of Three Faces'' is a gag-a-day style webcomic by Paul Gadzikowski (''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''). It mostly consists of one-off jokes featuring characters from film and TV series, with occasional {{Call Back}}s to earlier strips and even more occasional brief story arcs.
There are many crossovers, justified on the principle that AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere. [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], whose TARDIS can travel to alternate universes, gets the lion's share of the crossovers and is usually the one expositing about the underlying mechanic. A recurring feature of the mechanic, and the basis of some of the jokes, is that TV shows and films don't always reflect precisely what "really" happened, due to being consciously or unconsciously influenced by budget restrictions, ExecutiveMeddling, MoralGuardians, and copyright issues. (For example, all the episodes of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' featuring a certain British time traveller are "really" somewhat-inaccurate reflections of the Doctor's visits to that universe.)
The webcomic's title, apart from being a nod to ''Literature/TheHeroWithAThousandFaces'', refers to the comic's minimalist art style that renders all the characters as triangles with faces, arms and feet.
!!This webcomic provides examples of:
* AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere
* FrameBreak: It's not uncommon for characters to step outside the comic strip frame to comment on themselves as fictional characters, the shows they appear in, etc.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover
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There are many crossovers, justified on the principle that AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere. [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], whose TARDIS can travel to alternate universes, gets the lion's share of the crossovers and is usually the one expositing about the underlying mechanic. A recurring feature of the mechanic, and the basis of some of the jokes, is that TV shows and films don't always reflect precisely what "really" happened, due to being consciously or unconsciously influenced by budget restrictions, ExecutiveMeddling, MoralGuardians, and copyright issues. (For example, all the episodes of ''Series/LoisAndClark'' featuring a certain British time traveller are "really" somewhat-inaccurate reflections of the Doctor's visits to that universe.)
The webcomic's title, apart from being a nod to ''Literature/TheHeroWithAThousandFaces'', refers to the comic's minimalist art style that renders all the characters as triangles with faces, arms and feet.
!!This webcomic provides examples of:
* AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere
* FrameBreak: It's not uncommon for characters to step outside the comic strip frame to comment on themselves as fictional characters, the shows they appear in, etc.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover
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