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1->'''Artix:''' No problem at all, my friend! We can solve this the same way we justify all the plot holes and bugs in the game.\
2'''The Hero:''' How do we do that?\
3'''Artix:''' Magic!
4-->''-- VideoGame/DragonFable''
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6{{Lampshade|Hanging}}s. Some writers just love them.
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8Particularly in parodies, lampshades are the entire point. Usually the idea behind a lampshade is that it is calling attention to the trope it is using and by hopefully doing so it helps maintain the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Here, the idea is just to lampshade everything, and either derive humor from that, or engage in PostModernism of some other variety.
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10This can also be a bad thing. Sometimes this is a problem because [[DontExplainTheJoke they explained the bulb too much.]] In addition, if the goal was [[PlayedForDrama drama]], excessive lampshading can draw away from the tone of the scene. Lampshading a badly written plot point or stupid character decision can also have a negative effect as it can make the characters look dumb for not realising their stupid idea earlier, which in turn makes the writers look stupid for allowing themselves to write their plot and characters in an idiotic manner.
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12What constitutes "excessive" is debatable and not the subject of this article.
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14This trope is about works whose authors and writers believe that lampshades are Better than a Bare Bulb. Please do not address the quality debate in the examples. Examples should merely be shows or works that [[LampshadeHanging hang lampshades]] everywhere, possibly to the point of turning entire scenes into AffectionateParody. Bonus points for a show that lampshades the extensive lampshade hanging.
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16See also Administrivia/TropesAreTools and {{Deconstruction}}. Compare JustForFun/TropeOverdosed and {{Troperiffic}}. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum is something of a subtrope.
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18!!Examples:
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22[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
23* A staple of the humor in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is to have someone acting as a StraightMan and/or MetaGuy for the sake of hanging lampshades on all of the absurdity that happens.
24* Creator/KenAkamatsu likes doing this. Both ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' (''especially'' the [[{{Troperiffic}} latter]]) are veritable hailstorms of lampshades, usually hung by a [[MetaGuy particular character]].
25* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' often hangs lampshades in both the anime and the manga, at least in the beginning of the series. Even the author herself hangs a lampshade now and then in her Author's Notes. Then again, Ouran is an AffectionateParody of {{shoujo}} series.
26* ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'': Due to having no frame of reference for the absurdities of {{Sentai}} series, the other characters, especially Idola, frequently complain about Tougo's obnoxiously flashy weapons, absurd powers that make no sense, and brightly colored spandex that just looks weird in the fantasy setting the story takes place in. Tougo is, for the most part, either oblivious to or somewhat confused by these complaints due to a severe case of CultureClash. All of it PlayedForLaughs, of course.
27* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' has its own [[LampshadeHanging/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows page]] dedicated to everything it lampshades.
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30[[folder:Comic Books]]
31* Here are a few characters who ''love'' to hang lampshades all over the place.
32** [[Characters/SheHulkTitleCharacter She-Hulk]]
33** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]]
34** Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}}
35** [[Characters/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Squirrel Girl]]
36** [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]
37** [[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]]
38** [[Characters/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]]
39* And now creators
40** Creator/PeterDavid
41** Keith Giffen and J. M. [=DeMatteis'=]
42** Creator/MarkMillar
43** Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}
44** Creator/GrantMorrison: e.g. one scene in his ''Bulleteer'' miniseries shows a villainess trying to kill the title character [[StuffedIntoTheFridge with a refrigerator]].
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47[[folder:Comic Strips]]
48* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' is fond of LampshadeHanging to an extreme degree. Notice how many trope examples on its page involve lampshades in some way.
49* The only trope ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' loves more than LampshadeHanging is [[WorldOfSnark excessive snark,]] as the works page demonstrates. The lampshades are frequently used for BreakingTheFourthWall.
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52[[folder:Fan Works]]
53%%* The work of [[WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC Its Just Some Random Guy]].
54* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' (and AbridgedSeries in general) ''exist'' for this reason.
55* ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero''. Since it's a Haruhi and Tv Tropes crossover written by a troper, this is only to be expected. The name is a big clue, as well.
56* ''Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain!'' features copious amount of lampshade hanging, paralleling your average abridged series.
57* ''Fanfic/OnceUponATimeAbridged'': The lampshades are placed where you don't expect them, making it an interesting twist.
58%%* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' also does this.
59* ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows.'' Like the top example, written by a troper.
60** ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', written by the same [[Creator/NimbusLlewelyn author]], dials it back a little, but still features a ''lot'' of this - you can pretty much guarantee at least one lampshade per chapter.
61* ''Fanfic/EbonyDarknessDementiaRavenWayVsCanon'' and its sequel were both written by a troper. Naturally, all tropes that pop up are extensively lampshaded (and [[WorldOfSnark mocked]]).
62* ''Fanfic/TheFanmakeBlooperSeries'' was also written by a Troper, though instead of tropes that are found here, they're tropes that are found in certain kinds of {{Film Fic}}tion, and they are not just lampshaded, but also subverted, parodied, and even deconstructed.
63%%* ''Fanfic/LatiasJourney'' did this often enough that you might have mistaken it's author as a troper. By the time of its sequel, ''Fanfic/BraveNewWorld'', he WAS a troper, and the GenreSavvy [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Leo]] occasionally indulges in this (and he isn't the only one - chief Badass [[TheCaptain Captain Briny]] also does this at times, and other Pokémon occasionally throw it out)
64* The author of ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' is a troper, and it shows in his writing. Every single trope that pops up is lampshaded, invoked, subverted or exploited mercilessly by the characters, specifically [[TheTrickster Yang]].
65* ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'' does quite a fair bit of lampshade hanging. To the point that a late chapter even does a homage of the below example from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' wherein ''actual lampshades'' serve as the catalyst for the story's crowning line of lampshading its whole premise.
66* ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' hangs lampshades over every inconsistency and absurdity in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms.''
67* ''Fanfic/PonyPalsDirkStriderEdition'' heads in this direction once [[AuthorAvatar Dirk and Jane Betancourt]] show up. Topics played with include the girls' acknowledging and hating NoFourthWall being forced on them, lampshading Dirk's pretensiousness, and Betancourt getting into a lengthy conversation with Dirk over how their talking is just another excuse to for him to argue with himself. All of which is supposed to obstenibly be Jane Crocker's birthday present.
68* Full force in ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheSaveUms'', between the mockery of teen movie tropes and poking at the flaws of the [[WesternAnimation/TheSaveUms source material]].
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71[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
72* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has a tone closer to an extended episode of ''Freakazoid'' than your average Disney movie. Most blatantly: after our heroes manage to escape Yzma and Kronk in a chase scene, they make it to Yzma's secret lab -- only to find Yzma there waiting for them. Kuzco demands to know how she pulled that off.
73-->'''Yzma:''' Uh... how ''did'' we, Kronk?\
74'''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''[pulls down chart showing the chase]'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.
75* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': This movie loves to throw in jokes about the fact that it is a musical, the characters will constantly comment how strange it is for them to be singing or even point out how weird the lyrics to the songs they're singing are.
76* Starting with ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', this has become something of a house style for Warner Bros. in its animated movies:
77** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' repeatedly had the characters point out all the "LEGO logic" and the oddities in the world.
78** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' also did the same - even down to making the characters 'fight' like minifigs.
79** ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'', while not related to the LEGO movie, still was produced by the same company and has all sorts of lampshadings of movie tropes. The characters repeatedly ask HowIsThatEvenPossible and lean on the fourth wall.
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83* Every Movie movie by Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg (such as ''Epic Movie'', ''Meet The Spartans'', and ''Disaster Movie'') is ''all'' about hanging lampshades when it's not shoehorning pop culture references. But then [[DontExplainTheJoke they explain what the lampshade is hanging over]].
84* The bulk of ''Film/PlayingItCool'''s characters are writers and performers so they spend several scenes discussing the various tropes related to romance and the narrator's monologue also touches upon various tropes as they happen on screen.
85* ''Film/TheresNothingOutThere'', in which a group of teenagers stay at a cottage in the woods and then get attacked by an alien. The twist is the GenreSavvy protagonist, who points out the absurdities of the CatScare, predicts SexSignalsDeath, and eventually figures out that [[spoiler: [[TrappedInTVLand they're all literally trapped inside a horror movie]]]].
86* Zucker/Abrams parodies from the '80s are a good example of this, as often not a minute goes by where a lampshade isn't hung on something.
87* The entire idea behind ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. It even hangs lampshades on itself.
88-->'''Schwartz Master Yogurt:''' Spaceballs: The Lunchbox! Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal! Spaceballs: [[MyLittlePanzer THE FLAMETHROWER!]] The kids love that one.
89** The reasoning behind that particular joke - which is ''not'' explained in the film - makes this a case of reality being weird combined with a TakeThat at the lawyers, making this a very peculiar case of a joke simultaneously being a bare bulb ''and'' lampshaded at the same time. [[note]]Under legal agreements, primarily to avoid a war with the IP holders of ''Star Wars'', Mel Brooks had to agree that ''Spaceballs'' would not be allowed to engage in any merchandising. So, both to deal with that albatross around his neck and have some fun at the lawyers' expense, the merchandising scene was used for some gleeful, if heavily veiled, mockery.[[/note]]
90%%* A common occurrence throughout ''Film/NightAtTheMuseumBattleOfTheSmithsonian''.
91* Every movie involving Franchise/TheMuppets hangs enough {{lampshade|Hanging}}s in its 90-or-so minutes to open a store with more than a week's inventory.
92* The narrator in ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' points out and occasionally mocks the storytelling devices being used.
93-->'''Harry:''' Yeah, it's a dumb movie thing, but what do you want me to do, lie about it?
94* Elmont and Roderick from ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' just love {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing FairyTale tropes and referencing [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk the original story]].
95* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' gleefully points out its own editing inconsistencies, such as TheChosenOne asking Master Tang why he's suddenly lying in bed when a moment before in the same scene he was walking around in a completely different room, and Betty proclaiming he's a magician and changing the color of a lackey's shirt throughout the scene.
96* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' is loaded with these even by the standards of this trope. Given that many of the major characters are fully aware that they are fictional characters transplanted from a cartoon (with all the tropes that "cartoon" implies), it's not entirely surprising.
97* ''Film/BurnAfterReading'': Without the CIA scenes, the plot would look like a ridiculous, disconnected mess. Just having an omniscient observer ''acknowledge'' that the plot is a ridiculous, disconnected mess somehow manages to absolve this.
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101* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'' does nothing but [[LampshadeHanging hang lampshades]], being a [[BooksOnTrope Book on Trope]].
102%%* Both the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' and ''Literature/NurseryCrime'' series by Creator/JasperFforde. [[PostModernism Hoooo boy.]]
103* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series hangs lampshades on and/or subverts practically every trope it uses, as befits a series in which characters have scientifically proven (and [[TropeNamers named]]) the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality.
104* Tolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Many examples, done very well, of characters noting they are like, or ''are'', characters in a saga and that some trope applies to them. "Give us a story, I want to hear about 'Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom'", et cetera. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] insofar as in their world there isn't much difference between a story and a history lesson, so this is a little like (for example) drawing parallels between the Iraq war and Vietnam.
105* All of the main characters in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' are very GenreSavvy and very snarky. Any use of tropes (and [[{{Troperiffic}} there will be many]]) will thus inevitably be accompanied by a dry LampshadeHanging, and maybe a ShoutOut or two.
106* ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'' is rather fond of this. Considering it is written as an autobiography by a [[DeadpanSnarker protagonist]] who likes to go on philosophical tangents and flat out [[BlatantLies make things up]].
107* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' combines this with LeaningOnTheFourthWall and MediumAwareness, as George and Harold frequently lampshade whatever ContrivedCoincidence or convoluted plot they're currently involved with.
108-->"That only happens in children's book where the author is clearly running out of ideas."
109* While much of Postmodern fiction falls under this, Creator/DavidFosterWallace should get a special mention; he'll frequently hang a lampshade on a plotpoint or theme he's using genuinely...and then hang a lampshade on the hanging itself, which will tie back into the original theme (drawing something real out of irony)
110* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', the Battle of Yonkers is both in-universe and out a massive contrivance that requires ''the entire US military command'' to suddenly become TooDumbToLive. As it's told by one of the infantry who were present, he keeps recounting how stupid the decisions had to be. Depending on the reader, this just keeps reminding one of how contrived the whole situation is, bordering on a mid-game DiabolusExMachina.
111** Also lampshaded is the mysterious absence of Solanum from the news; the companies that own them didn't want to cause a panic. This disregards just about everything about how the news works, the entire Internet, and the tendency of news to gravitate towards more sensationalist stories, even if it means sacrificing accuracy. The walking dead would be the Holy Grail for any news organization.
112* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is constructed almost entirely out of lampshades (held together with British snark, postmodernism, and cynicism).
113* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' does this several times to reconcile the writing of an epic with the pragmatic and rather cynical view of war which moderns [[JustifiedTrope and probably Byzantine soldiers too]] have. For instance when Valentinian and Rana Sanga are having a gloriously heroic CombatByChampion, the Roman officer Maurice commits that it is the craziest thing he had seen in his life.
114* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' is filled with moments where Bella comments on the series' much-maligned flaws like [[IdiotBall how inexplicably stupid her own decisions are]], [[StalkingIsLove the disturbingly unhealthy nature of her relationship with Edward]] and [[VanillaProtagonist her lack of any discernible personality traits.]]
115* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the SOS Brigade create a film for the Cultural Festival. Kyon becomes narrator, as usual, and proceeds to act as a LemonyNarrator, doing things such as threatening to beat up Koizumi should he kiss Mikuru or pointing out that some scenes just don't make sense.
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119%%* ''Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow'' had Creator/GeorgeBurns shading lamps all over the place.
120%%* ''Series/BostonLegal''. Denny could open a lighting store.
121%%* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is one of the biggest users of lampshades.
122* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. This is because the [[Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger source footage]] is so ridiculously cheesy that ''not'' doing so would almost be an insult, given [[DarkerAndEdgier the nature of the show]]. Lampshades hung include the cutesy-animal mecha, the transformation callphrase, the prerequisite explosions behind them after transforming (which was brilliantly turned into an actual plot point). Impressively, most of the lampshades also come with {{justifi|edTrope}}cations wherein the cliches of the franchise are given semi-plausible explanations.
123* Before that, ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' had a good amount of jokes about brightly colored heroes fighting evil space ninjas. And the villains send monsters like the foot monster... with anti-gravity bunion pads.
124%%** And then Toei tried their hand at the trope with ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger''.
125* ''Series/StargateSG1 loves'' its lampshades. Particularly notable is its use of ''Wormhole Xtreme,'' a ShowWithinAShow that pokes fun at the series, the creative process, and the entire SciFi genre. After the names of the most-recurring props, cast, and crew (and pronouns and prepositions, of course), "lampshade" may just be the most frequently uttered word on all SG-1 DVD commentaries and behind-the-scenes material. Unless you limit that to only material featuring frequent director and story consultant Peter [=DeLuise=], in which case "regular" (as in bowel movement) might just pip "lampshade".
126** Plus "Citizen Joe" which contains many a TakeThat at earlier episodes and "200" which somehow manages to push the ideas introduced in "Wormhole Xtreme" even further. Basically, the older the series got, the more lampshades were hung. At one point, they even explain the term LampshadeHanging as part of the plot.
127%%* ''Series/TheMiddleman'' even has a wall of actual lampshades.
128* ''Series/{{Community}}'' operates primarily on this rule (especially through MetaGuy Abed) plus a few others. It's even lampshaded this trope.
129-->'''Jeff''': Abed! [[HypocriticalHumor Stop being so meta all the time! Why do you have to take everything that happens and shove it up its own ass?]]
130* ''Series/ICarly'' generally lampshades anything remotely related to the characters picking up an IdiotBall, as well as a wide variety of common genre tropes like [[AdultsAreUseless All Adults Are Useless]].
131* ''Series/DueSouth'' enjoys giving Fraser increasingly strange and unbelievable abilities and when other characters express astonishment as to how he does it, he merely says "That's not important."
132%%* ''Series/{{Psych}}''. Almost the entire show is varying degrees of lampshade hanging.
133%%* ''Series/DoctorWho'', being a show that's a dramedy loves itself a good lampshade hanging.
134* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' started doing this around the fourth season - lampshades were present before, but never to such a degree. It's since increased to the point that most jokes are lampshades on the show's own inconsistent logic.
135%%* ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'': the episode "Girl Meets Gravity" is about 50% lampshade-hanging/meta-humor.
136* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' reaches this territory, especially in later seasons. The show has NoFourthWall and frequently cracks jokes about its existence as a NonActorVehicle, [[TheOtherDarrin characters switching actors]], and its use of the ResetButton.
137* When it isn't outright {{Deconstruction}} RomanticComedy tropes, ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' is instead thoroughly mocking them. Often in the form of a musical number.
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141* ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' has extensive LampshadeHanging, including references about how much the villain resembles monster-movie star Creator/BorisKarloff (who acted the role during the play's initial run on Broadway but not in the film adaptation. Karloff's absence from the film was in fact ''because'' he was doing the play on Broadway - his contract stopped him.) There is also a bit where the hero, a theater critic, lampshades his scene by discussing the same scene in a play he recently saw, which is the play in which he is acting. Confused yet?
142* The musical ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'' hangs lampshades on everything in sight, starting with "too much exposition" and the show's IntentionallyAwkwardTitle.
143%%* This was one of the signatures of George M. Cohan's shows (besides flag-waving, that is).
144%%* ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}''. Considering [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the source material]], it's not surprising ''at all''.
145* OlderThanSteam[=/=]JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples: In ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', a troupe of peasants put on a horrible cliched play about Pyramus and Thisbe. Every lame standby is used and acknowledged. The King and his court--while happy to point out the flaws -- still thoroughly enjoy the show, and reward the performers.
146-->'''King:''' The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. \
147'''Queen:''' [[DeadpanSnarker It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.]]
148** For added fun, "Pyramus and Thisbe" has the same basic plot he used for ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' at around the same time.
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151[[folder:Video Games]]
152* Artix Entertainment games do this so frequently they have 3 or 4 lampshades to a bulb. Games like ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'', ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', ''VideoGame/MechQuest'', and ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' have so many examples of this that they start lampshading how frequently they lampshade.
153* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' does this, thanks largely to having a cast with purposefully vague characterization, especially with both the major heroines being JerkAss DeadpanSnarker MetaGuy characters. In ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'', Marisa and Alice's storyline consisted of the two of them insulting each other and making fun of everything they ran across to the point where they never actually uncovered what the plot was, they simply blew everything up because they know it's a game with EverythingTryingToKillYou, and that the motives really didn't matter, [[KleptomaniacHero so long as they got all the loot they could find in the end]]. This form of conversation continues in the Extra Stage, where Marisa asks why the hell she's visiting the Moriya Shrine, and Alice outright tells her that it's the BonusDungeon. Marisa's response is along the lines of [[NoFourthWall 'Haven't I already done enough by beating the game already?']]
154* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' has taken great glee in mocking just about every Zelda tradition it can. It has to be played to be believed.
155-->'''Princess Zelda''': ''(to Link)'' You have a very important mission ahead of you. I will wait here. That's what we princesses have always done. From what I understand, it's kind of a family tradition.
156* There are two dungeons in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' which feature countless billboards lampshading almost every known dungeon cliché, including the overdose on billboards itself.
157* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'' is loaded with meta references to the game's story. For example, Peach predicts that it's "that part of the story" where she gets kidnapped, and Bowser refers to Mario's constant attempts to stop him. However, the [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi previous installments]] were much more story-focused than the {{Excuse Plot}}s of the main series.
158* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
159** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'' has very silly humor, with references to the game's age rating, background music, and a CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot joke.
160--->'''Toad''': Mario! Princess Peach has been kidnapped by Bowser! No one could have predicted this!
161** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' loves to do jokes about Toads being the only friendly species, in response to criticism that the previous two games had too many Toad characters. A Goomba complains that he "never got to see Toad", there's dramatic reveals that both [[spoiler:the Ancient One buried underground and Olivia and Olly's creator]] are Toads, and Olivia refers to a "random unnamed staff-member Toad" at an amusement park, among others.
162* The iOS game ''VideoGame/{{Highborn}}'' lampshades everything it possibly can: odd things that happen in the story, the fact that they're breaking the fourth wall repeatedly, many of the shout-outs.
163%%* The later ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games use lampshading as a frequent source of humor, most prominently Sonic's snarky comments towards Dr Eggman's plans past and present.
164%%* The 2004 ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'' has the Bard and the [[InteractiveNarrator Narr]][[LemonyNarrator ator]] both hang lampshades on everything in reach.
165* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' runs off of this, combining a {{Moe}} personification of the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars with a complete lack of subtlety.
166* ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' hangs lampshades on nearly everything in the game, ranging from minor CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot moments to its endless {{Double Entendre}}s.
167* Its fellow DS SpinOff of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', ''Videogame/SupaRoboGakuen'', uses its gimmick of being Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[JustForFun/XMeetsY with]] {{Super Robot|Genre}}s to lampshade the heck out of {{Mon}}s, mecha anime conventions, school anime conventions and anything else they can get their hands on, including its parent series.
168%%* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' is pretty much about this.
169* ''VideoGame/MobiusFinalFantasy'' is supposedly a dramatic story about a Warrior Of Light rising to save Palamecia. The problems? There's several hundred people who claim to be TheChosenOne, everyone else is just trying to reassure the people of the world that they are going to be saved, and the ExpositionFairy outright uses NoPlotNoProblem as a ShrugOfGod over the fact that some of it is literally a RandomEventsPlot, and even your loyal companion seems to not have a clue what he's doing half the time. It even allows the player character constantly let rip with some of the more obvious snarks!
170* ''VideoGame/ClarencesBigChance'': Due to the game's parodic and humourous nature, Pseudolonewolf is able to hang even more lampshades than he usually does.
171%%* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' tends to do this a lot, though notably in a more BlackComedy style way than normal due to the presence of [[BearsAreBadNews Mono]][[SeriesMascot kuma]].
172* ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' frequently has the protagonist quip about some modern shooter cliché, only to indulge in them anyway. One level has Duke moan "Not another valve puzzle!" for instance, only to do the valve puzzle anyway.
173* ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' is rather fond of this. Kartos's character in particular: he's a sentient minecart who's out of a job because the old-school MinecartMadness level has fallen out of fashion. His primary joke is about how nobody really liked minecart levels... but Kartos's main contribution to the game is--you guessed it--minecart levels.
174* The sillier side of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is a mix of hanging lampshades on the weirdness of the ''Franchise/FateSeries'', creating characters and plotlines for that express purpose (and bringing in characters who already were for good measure), having the characters involved lampshade ''that'' too, then playing it all straight anyway. Special mention goes to the ''GUDAGUDA'' events, which are events that parody ''Grand Order'' itself that star characters from a series that parodies the rest of the Nasuverse, and frequently hangs lampshades on both.
175* A good chunk of the humor in ''VideoGame/MysteryScienceTheater3000PresentsDetective'' comes from the riffers pointing out the original game's many strange aspects, including going through a door and being prevented from returning for no apparent reason ("Sorry, folks, it looks like the door just vanished into thin air") and a dead end that inexplicably kills you ("Oh, I get it! It's a 'dead' end! See?").
176* ''VideoGame/{{Zigfrak}}'': The loading screens alone are a gold mine of lampshade hangings to various sci-fi tropes and cliches.
177* ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'':
178** On Timmy Failure Island, you tell Timmy to "just give [you] the darn medallion" at the end of the island.
179** On Red Dragon Island, your character notices when they don't get a reward for doing a good deed.
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183* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': Yahtzee has a habit of pointing out how cliche something he's about to do is, and in one case, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment lampshaded lampshading]].
184* ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'' frequently points out its own flaws including lackluster animation, questionable voice acting, Dusty's behavior, and Matt's unlikeability.
185* A lot of the ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'' videos tend to lampshade just about ''anything'' that's considered ridiculous in fiction, with video games being the most common victims of this.
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189* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' derives about half its humour from LampshadeHanging, to such an extent to even ''hang a lampshade on hanging lampshades.'' See the picture on LampshadeHanging. Given that the entire cast [[MediumAwareness are aware that they're characters in a stick figure comic]] (or at least they are [[RuleOfFunny whenever it's funnier that way]]), this was always inevitable.
190%%* [[http://www.nodwick.com/ Nodwick]] also runs hilariously headlong into this trope.
191* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' does this a lot, too, and a lot of the humor ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' comes from hanging Lampshades on some of the more JustForFun/{{egregious}} things in ''Franchise/StarWars''. And so, naturally, it was only a matter of time before they got around to [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0353.html Lampshading their own attachment]] to this trope. It's like some sort of infinite recursion of {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing.
192* ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'' is made of lampshades. Even directly referencing [[Website/TVTropes This Very Wiki]].
193* All of the video game tropes parodied by ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'' are lampshaded by Cherry calling attention to them. This in itself is lampshaded in one comic with: "Oh look, Cherry doesn't get it."
194** ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'' does much the same, except every RPG trope [[ClicheStorm in existence]] gets lampshaded by ''everyone''. But especially [[OnlySaneMan Ardem.]]
195* When ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' indulges in some piece of {{Technobabble}} that's more than half drivel, there's usually a caption saying "Yay! Technobabble!" or something similar.
196* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' derives much of its dialogue from the characters pointing out the flaws in the author's own logic.
197%%* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. Full stop. To the point where the lampshade hanging continues ''in the Author commentary''!
198* ''Webcomic/{{Comc}}'': While [[TheRant the commentary]] says (lampshades?) that "semi-frequent" LampshadeHanging might still be an exaggeration, [[https://sites.google.com/site/comccomic/archive/comc40 this str'p]] [[SpeechBubblesInterruption nearly]] lampshades lampshading lampshading using a [[LampshadeWearing lampshade]] to lampshade lampshade hanging. No wonder Block got a headache.
199* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' is incredibly fond of this, usually with Robin, who tapdances and does backflips on the fourth wall in about every third appearance. Other characters will occasionally do it also, particularly Mike.
200* ''Webcomic/MuhPhoenix'': The comic takes a dig at most of the incongruences of ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', and comic books in general.
201* ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'' lampshades its parent game's gacha mechanics, gameplay, and even players. It also frequently takes digs at itself, lampshading its lack of acknowledgement of the story, its use of SnapBack, and what little has been done about its own OriginalGeneration cast (usually to said original cast's frustration).
202* The ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' parody ''Gurlfeel'' is about a struggling cartoonist who decides to do anthropomorphic pet comics because he's certain the audience won't pay attention to the humor so long as [[SexSells the personified pet is cute]] -- as he explains to his attractive, pet-like catgirl roommate. Many of the strips make similar self-deprecating jabs at its premise.
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206* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWallTheMovie'': A good chunk of the film's humor comes from pointing out just how ridiculous the idea of a comic book reviewer having a spaceship and fighting interdimensional threats is. It even seeps into the film's dramatic moments too, with Pollo at point comforting [=MarzGurl=] by claiming that "storylines" are always going to interrupt their daily routines and having to deal with them is just a part of living.
207* LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}, in his LetsPlay videos will lampshade anything and everything that happens. Usually done with regards to tropes within the game itself, either the story or gameplay, but often will point out how cliche something [[VerbalTic he says is]], or how badly he's playing due to the [[PerformanceAnxiety Let's Play Curse]].
208* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' spends almost all of its time lampshading just about everything nonsensical about ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.
209* The ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' often lampshade the stranger aspects of the games they play.
210* ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'': In the ''Film/Halloween1978'' pitch meeting, both the Screenwriter and Producer realize it makes no sense for Michael Myers to know how to drive despite having spent most of his childhood in a sanitarium. The Screenwriter decides to have the characters note how strange this is without explaining it "because a character pointed out it makes no sense, it's okay."
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214%%* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' in later seasons.
215* Lampshading common cartoon tropes is the whole point of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''. The show also tends to point out and/or ridicule [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke really offensive stereotypes and lazy adult jokes]] before immediately playing all of them straight right afterwards.
216%%* ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' has a lot of this type of humor.
217* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' gets into this, particularly in the later seasons, where characters are constantly commenting on how bizarre the plots are.
218%%* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' uses this type of humor a lot.
219%%* ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever''
220* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', usually on any of its vast amount of OncePerEpisode tropes.
221--> '''Phineas:''' Someone should build an All-Terrain vehicle that really goes over all terrain!\
222'''Ferb:''' [Holds up fingers to count] Two, three, four...\
223'''Phineas:''' Hey, Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!\
224'''Ferb:''' ...five, six, seven...\
225'''Phineas:''' Hey, where's Perry?
226%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a whole episode devoted to this trope: "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]]."
227%%* This more or less was the point of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity''.
228* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has a lot of jokes pointing out its own use of spy fiction tropes, to the point where it's even lampshaded LampshadeHanging.
229-->'''Lana''': Where'd you get that grenade?\
230'''Archer''': Hanging from the lampshade!\
231'''Lana''': ...What?
232** Season one had Cyril mistakenly believe that the ''literal'' ChekhovsGun would be the problem due to a hair-trigger, but it was instead the ''metaphorical'' one [[spoiler: that poisons Trinette]].
233--->'''Archer''': God, I said the cap on the poison pen slips off for no reason, didn't I?\
234'''Cyril''': But I just assumed that if anything bad happened...\
235'''Archer''': No, do not say the Chekhov gun, Cyril. That, sir, is a facile argument.\
236'''Woodhouse''': Also woefully esoteric.
237* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' uses this a lot, with characters (and sometimes even the [[IdiosyncraticWipes Wicked Cool Transitions]]) often pointing out how bizarre, unlikely or convenient a situation is.
238-->'''Corey:''' We just need to find another genie and wish up a fix. ''(grabs a jug and rubs it)''\
239'''Laney:''' Core, finding another genie in the same pile of jugs should be- (a genie appears from Corey's jug) ...impossible?\
240'''Corey:''' Finding one genie should have been impossible too. Roll with it, Lanes.
241* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' does this a lot. Unlike most examples, the lampshading of the show's weird aspects is often relevant or even central to the plot; in these cases, it will usually be explained by the episode's end, but if not, it'll just get left as RuleOfFunny.
242* Characters on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' often point out how contrived certain plot points are.
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