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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:182: Fictional Brand + Real Demand = Real Life Woo-Hoo!]] |
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| 7 | ->"''[Sniffs] Mmmm... Can you smell that? Yeah. It's the scent of fiction transforming into reality.''" |
| 8 | -->-- '''Narrator of Website/Vat19''' (advertising the Sex Panther perfume from ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'') |
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| 10 | The complete inverse of ProductPlacement, Defictionalization is the transformation of a product, object, or {{Prop}} from a movie, book or other fictional source into a real item in the real world.[[note]]Although they can overlap in some cases - ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' had an Audi promotion and they sold a real car called Audi R8 Star of Lucis that appears and has a backstory in-universe.[[/note]] Almost always done as a merchandising tie-in that helps promote the source, and provides an additional revenue stream to boot. |
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| 12 | This can become strange if the product becomes highly recognized. A viewer who doesn't know about the defictionalization may see its appearance in the original source as blatant product placement, or even as a straight documentary. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | A SubTrope of LifeImitatesArt. Related to TheRedStapler which is when fiction (further) popularizes an already existing thing. May overlap with OfficialCosplayGear or CreatorsShowWithinAShow. Differs from FakeRealTurn in that the fictional element was never (mis)represented as real. Is often a result of a program that is MerchandiseDriven. |
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| 16 | Not to be confused with {{Deconstruction}}, or with RealityBleed or TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou (which are story devices about the fictional world blurring with real ones). A similar trope, where a fictional concept will become real and interact with the real world, either in fiction or real life, is ReachingThroughTheFourthWall. Also see FictionalVideoGame. |
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| 18 | Compare with AscendedFanon, which is fan-made depictions of characters or plot turned "real" by the author, and ScienceImitatesArt, when a work of fiction serves as an inspiration for real-life scientific nomenclature. |
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| 20 | !!Examples should be listed under the medium of the work they originally appeared in. |
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| 22 | !!Example subpages: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[index]] |
| 25 | * Defictionalization/AnimeAndManga |
| 26 | ** ''Defictionalization/LoveLiveSunshine'' |
| 27 | * [[Defictionalization/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 28 | * Defictionalization/{{Literature}} |
| 29 | * Defictionalization/LiveActionTV |
| 30 | * Defictionalization/VideoGames |
| 31 | * Defictionalization/WesternAnimation |
| 32 | ** ''Defictionalization/TheSimpsons'' |
| 33 | [[/index]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | !!Other examples: |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 40 | * A 1980s British TV ad for Yellow Pages features a man searching second-hand bookshops for a hard-to-find book: ''Fly Fishing'' by J. R. Hartley. Eventually, with the help of Yellow Pages, he finds a shop which has a copy of the book, which he reserves over the phone; at this point, we find out that the man ''is'' (the fictional) J.R. Hartley. Later, the author of a real book on fly fishing used "J. R. Hartley" as a pseudonym. |
| 41 | * Staples had a series of commercials in which office employees would press a BigRedButton labeled "EASY" to make needed office supplies appear. Staples later began selling "Easy Buttons" that, when pressed, play a recording of the ad's narrator saying "That was easy." A Spanish version also exists, which says "Así de fácil" when pressed. And a French-Canadian version, that goes "Y'a rien d'plus simple." (Nothing's simpler). |
| 42 | ** Amazon offers Dash Buttons, which allow ordering of a specific product with the push of a button. The EASY Button has come into full reality, just not at Staples though. |
| 43 | * Like many retailers, Think Geek celebrates April Fools Day by advertising bogus, and often bizarre, products. Some of them have subsequently been made into real products at their customers' insistence, the most well-known being the fully licensed by [[Creator/GeorgeLucas Lucasfilm]] [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/ Tauntaun Sleeping Bag]]. |
| 44 | * Czech washing powder ads used to always compare their product to a "regular laundry detergent" on a SplitScreen. "Regular" later appeared on shelves. |
| 45 | * UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}}: Toyota Racing did a "Sponsafy Your Car" contest that asked fans to go the Toyota Racing website and design their own paint scheme. In the commercial, a young girl named “Kimmy” designs a pink racecar for Kyle Busch. Then later, Busch drove the actual car in the Sprint Cup Series. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXiwlDBCZc Here's that commercial:]] |
| 46 | --> '''Kyle Busch:''' "Who doesn’t like kittens, bunnies and little baby seals?" |
| 47 | * Nescafé coffee had an ad campaign in the 1970s that showed people drinking from glass coffee cups resembling an Earth globe. This tied in with their slogan "If Nescafé can please the whole wide world, it can sure please you." Eventually, Nestlé made those cups available through a mail-in offer. |
| 48 | * A Geico commercial "Do people use smartphones to do dumb things?" featured three office workers goofing off with stupid smartphone apps. One of those apps, the Brostache, became a real app available for download. |
| 49 | * The main character, Alexandr, from the Advertising/CompareTheMeerkat campaign wrote an autobiography. |
| 50 | * There was a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commercial where Mr T claimed to play as a Night Elf, Mohawk which didn't exist in-game at the time. Shortly afterwards it was possible in game to gain a mohawk buff thus allowing players to be Night Elf, Mohawks. Then it became possible for players to deliberately style their hair in this fashion. |
| 51 | * Website/Vat19 ran a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vat19/the-not-a-cat-cat-the-worlds-first-cat-that-isnt Kickstarter]] to produce the Not-A-Cat Cat, which was a frequent RunningGag in [=Vat19's=] advertisements. |
| 52 | * An ad for UsefulNotes/McDonalds Fillet-O-Fish in 2009 featured a singing fish similar to Big Mouth Billy Bass named Frankie singing "Give me back that Fillet-O-Fish! Give me that fish!" Shortly after the ad aired they released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f071AfSf9rE a real life version of Frankie.]] |
| 53 | * Cheerios would often feature a red heart-shaped bowl in its advertisements because the cereal was "good for your heart". In the early 2000s they made the bowl available through mail order. |
| 54 | * Derek Zoolander made the cover of the January 2016 issue of ''Vogue'' as part of the lead up to the release of ''Film/{{Zoolander 2}}'', giving us the "Blue Steel" of course. |
| 55 | -->'''[[http://dlisted.com/2016/01/15/night-crumbs-502/ Michael K.]]''': Anna Wintour must’ve gone on some kind of sabbatical and put someone with real taste in charge of the February issue of Vogue, because a truly worthy model has finally made the cover |
| 56 | * "Limonana", a type of lemonade popular in the Middle East and made with spearmint, gained popularity in Israel before it actually existed due to a bus-only advertising campaign, that was meant to prove the effectiveness of advertising on buses. Only after it became popular, manufacturers actually started making this drink. |
| 57 | * The video game ''Loot It'' is based on a type of puzzle gameplay shown in advertisements for ''Hero Wars'' and other web games [[NeverTrustATrailer that doesn't actually appear in those games]]. |
| 58 | * In 2016, the International Fund for Animal Welfare created a PublicServiceAnnouncement disguised as a toy commercial to inform the public about the dangers of puppy mills and how to buy a puppy responsibly. Alongside the ad came a real-life Advertising/SuzyPuppy, which was sold at pet stores, as well as given to each member of the UK Parliament. |
| 59 | * In the 80s, Zest soap ran an ad campaign detailing the benefits of the brand's products, with much of the ads ending with someone drying themselves off with a towel bearing the "Zestfully clean!" slogan. The towels were subsequently made available via brand promotions. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Alternate Reality Games]] |
| 63 | * ''ARG/OmegaMart'': Prior to Omega Mart opening, Creator/MeowWolf uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnphD0ePokc several]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6otqoHB27O0 parodical]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40XBXlvXDw advertisements]] to their Website/YouTube account, which went viral due to just how ''weird'' they were. Highlights from the "now open" ad include a "celebrity cameo" by Willie Nelson (clearly someone else with Willie's face deepfaked on), an employee spitting out an unbroken egg to fill a customer's carton, and a box of pet food taken off the shelf instantly being replaced by four smaller boxes like a fractal. |
| 64 | [[/folder]] |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': From Batman to real life -- [[http://waynefdn.org The Wayne Foundation]] is an actual charity group dedicated to ending child sex trafficking. Connections to the Batman comics are deliberate, however, as Creator/KevinSmith is a co-founder of the charity. They are using the name with the blessing of Warner Brothers. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': InUniverse, thanks to reality-altering shenanigans in both ''ComicBook/DaredevilCharlesSoule'' and ''ComicBook/Daredevil2019'', Mike Murdock, an identity Matt Murdock made up as a FakeTwinGambit to throw his friends off the trail that he was Daredevil, became a real person of his own. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'': In 2012 the Italian knife-maker Maserin produced a reproduction of Diabolik's iconic knife [[MilestoneCelebration as part of the celebrations for the comic's fiftieth anniversary]]. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': ''The Life Story of the Flash'', ostensibly by Iris Allen. In-universe, the appearance of a copy from the future (owned by Professor Zoom, no less) let her nephew know she'd be coming BackFromTheDead to write it by 1997. DC put out a RealLife version in 1998. |
| 71 | * ''Froid Equateur'': Chess Boxing was directly inspired by the comic by Creator/EnkiBilal. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': A gag in issue 7 of ''ComicBook/{{Thor|2020}}'' sees Thor write [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s personal cell number onto Mjolnir along with a message telling people to call Tony with a later issue showing a message from Tony saying he no longer uses it due to Thor. [[https://www.cbr.com/marvel-thor-tony-starks-phone-number-really-works/ You can actually call the number and hear the message]]. |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'': S.H.I.E.L.D. from Marvel Comics became real in 2021... or at least, proposed as a new joint government project. Mostly sharing the acronym with the comic book agency, it is a [[https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-shield-defence-ballistic-missile-bmd-1.5887192 planned improvement on the existed NORAD system]] that protects the United States and Canada from air- and space-based threats. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'': The titular character is the drummer in a punk rock bank called the Mary Janes, with one of their songs being "Face It, Tiger." Marvel would later release [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_inenhypZI a short demo version of the tune]]. |
| 75 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': The new ''Musée Hergé'' in Louvain-la-Neuve has the same address as the Brussels flat in which Tintin lived in his early adventures: 26, rue du Labrador. (For the comic, Hergé had taken the address of his grandmother, 26, rue de Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland Street) and slightly altered it). |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Swerve's GoodGuyBar was made into a real establishment at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Beijing's]] Transformers Metrobase. Naturally, James Roberts, the writer of ''More than Meets the Eye'', [[https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/1435572790346801156?s=21&t=6uh3gAP6jfUwddT580_SAQ was ecstatic to find out about it]]. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': Some of the worthless rubbish from the fake adverts in the British magazine has been manufactured and sold in real life, even the Elvis Presley Dambusters Clock Plate of Tutankhamen. |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'': In the German comic, the beer Werner drinks, some of the vehicles, and the Horex vs. Porsche race were made into actual things. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 82 | * ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': |
| 83 | ** The TabletopRPG ''Hackmaster'' from the gamer comic. Rather than being created from scratch, the ''Hackmaster'' rules set was actually licensed from Wizards of the Coast and was, more or less, a reprint of the ''D&D'' 1st Edition rules with a great deal more snarkiness, [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]], and in-universe references thrown in. All but one page of the Players Handbook was written as though this were a book being published in-universe by the Hard 8 staff, including long diatribes about using male pronouns by default as a writing convention and insisting that female dwarfs have beards. ''Hackmaster'' has now entered its second edition (or fifth, since [[{{Uninstallment}} the first edition was published as the fourth]] because the KODT characters were playing fourth edition in the comic at the time the system was licensed), and been seriously overhauled into a new system, as Kenzer & Co's license with Wizards expired. |
| 84 | ** ''Dawg the RPG:'' A failed game designed by BA in which you get to play a dog. The rules were recently published in the back half of the double-sized ''KODT'' #150. |
| 85 | * One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip has Jason [[http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/images/foxtrot_big_item.gif finding a superpowered mace]] by the name of "[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doomulus Prime]]". Blizzard [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=22348 put it in the game.]] |
| 86 | * The "Lisa's Legacy" breast cancer walk featured in ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' has become [[http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2009/10/post_6.html a real event]]. |
| 87 | * ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'': |
| 88 | ** The comic featured an annual event called Sadie Hawkins Day, an event where women would chase men down and forcibly marry them. To this day, schools often hold Sadie Hawkins Day dances in which female students are expected to invite boys instead of the usual arrangement. This, despite the fact that ''Li'l Abner'' went out of print over thirty years ago. |
| 89 | ** A Sadie Hawkins Day dance was actually a plot point in one episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
| 90 | * The Thagomizer (the spiked tail on a ''Stegosaurus'' and similar dinosaurs) got its name from ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', where it was named after "the late Thag Simmons". In an example of AscendedFanon and just overall fandom, paleontologists have been using the name themselves, as they realized that the part did not have a standardized name before. |
| 91 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': |
| 92 | ** As a matter of principle, Bill Watterson always refused any kind of merchandising. This does not stop people creating pirate products. A pair of authors actually wrote a children's book called ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie''. Watterson specifically never went into detail about what happens in the book [[NothingIsFunnier to preserve the funny vagueness]]. |
| 93 | ** On a more positive note, a few scientists have replaced the term "Big Bang" with Calvin's more accurate "Horrendous Space Kablooie" since Watterson coined the term in 1991. |
| 94 | * Some eateries offer a DagwoodSandwich (originating from ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930''), though real-life versions tend to be smaller. |
| 95 | ** Dagwood's dreams of opening a sandwich business have been realized [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dagwood-goes-into-sandwich-business/ as of 2006]]... at least by current writer Dean Young. |
| 96 | * Ken Maynards' [[http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/6/8/8/a/88a34100-8d0c-012d-0b86-0050569428b1.jpg Ettamogah Pub]] has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettamogah_Pub replicated multiple times throughout Australia]]. [[http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/The-Ettamogah-Pub-is-no-longer-the-Ettamogah-Pub/2461616/ The one on the Sunshine Coast had to change due to a licencing problem]]. |
| 97 | * ''ComicStrip/BroomHilda'': Grelber appeared as a command in older Platform/{{UNIX}} systems. Typing in the command "Grelber" would have the computer insult the user. |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 101 | * A {{Creepypasta}} story called ''Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver'' led to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnCBwsa-bU homemade Pokémon game]] based on the experiences of the story [[http://64digits.com/users/reidd/pokemon_lost_silver.zip (download)]]. |
| 102 | * The ROM hack detailed in the creepypasta ''Pokémon Black'' (a.k.a. ''Creepy Black'' or ''Cursed Black'' to differentiate it from the official game of the same name) was [[http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4577/ turned into a real hack by fans]], following the story to the letter. The only thing missing is the blank black cartridge mysteriously turning up at a local flea market...so far. |
| 103 | * Some of the technology detailed in ''Fanfic/LeftBeyond'' was subsequently developed by the author, notably the handheld laser cutters and drone rover swarms. In fairness, the author was simply writing about projects under development at the time. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 107 | * The CoolCar, ''[[BilingualBonus Il tempo gigante]]'' of the Ivo Caprino film ''WesternAnimation/PinchcliffeGrandPrix''. A real ''Il tempo gigante'' car was used to promote the film, e.g. driving around the Hockenheimring between races. The car originally had an 250 hp Cadillac engine but when Niki Lauda saw it he provided them with an 7,6 ltr, 550 hp, big-block Chevrolet engine. The car also has an auxiliary jet-engine, but due to EU restrictions the vehicle is barely permitted to be used at all save for exclusive TV cameos. |
| 108 | * ''Franchise/ToyStory'': |
| 109 | ** In-universe, [[CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth Buzz Lightyear]] is based on the lead character of the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', itself based on the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}''. The cartoon later got turned into a real series in 2000, while the film later became an actual film that released in 2022. Buzz also got his own actual action figure that, as implied in the ''Toy Story'' films, was highly sought-after and impossible to lay your hands on until mass production took over. This event was ported back ''into'' the movie world: in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Tour Guide {{Franchise/Barbie}} makes reference to it. Pull back to reveal an ''entire aisle'' of [[CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth Buzz Lightyears]]. |
| 110 | ** It should go without saying, but just about any fictional toy in the films became a real toy, too, including the cast of Woody's Roundup, in both kid and adult collector's form. The latter becomes especially hilarious given a certain antagonist of a collector in ''Toy Story 2''. |
| 111 | ** Until November 2016, a replica of Pizza Planet existed at Walt Disney World's Disney Hollywood Studios. |
| 112 | ** The video game that Rex plays at the beginning of ''Toy Story 2'' was later made into a level for the tie-in video game for ''VideoGame/ToyStory3''. |
| 113 | * There were actually ''two'' versions of the NostalgicMusicBox made for ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}''. One was a plastic toy with Anastasia inside, [[http://www.musichouseshop.com/store/bsf8429715949.html while the other was based off the movie version.]] |
| 114 | * The Detroit Zoo snow globe featured in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' is another example requested by fans. A replica of the Coraline "little me" doll has also been made. |
| 115 | * ''Franchise/DespicableMe'': |
| 116 | ** The [[http://www.amazon.com/Sleepy-Kittens-Despicable-Cinco-Paul/dp/031608381X/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b Sleepy Kittens]] book. Unfortunately though, it doesn't come with a small brush with which you can brush the kitties' fur. |
| 117 | ** The "it's so fluffy!" unicorn can also be had, complete with sticking out tongue. |
| 118 | ** Super Silly Fun Land opened in April 2014 at Universal Studios Hollywood. |
| 119 | * Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: |
| 120 | ** There is actually a real-life version of the Shepherd's Journal created as a tie-in to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', as with a fake visitor's guide. |
| 121 | ** At Robo Games 2015, a real-life prototype of the neurocranial transmitter headband from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' was exhibited. It was tested by none other than [[Series/MythBusters Grant Imahara]]. |
| 122 | ** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': |
| 123 | *** As ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' is about the repentant villain of a fictional video game, it was inevitable for that fictional video game to go through the defictionalization treatment. And [[http://lol.disney.com/games/wreck-it-ralph-fix-it-felix-jr here it is]]. And then they defictionalize the concept of game jumping by having Ralph appear in ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]]''. And now Ralph has his own games on the Wii, DS and 3DS. |
| 124 | *** Somebody took the game Fix-It Felix Jr. and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzsmhnHtCKE made it into a homebrewed video game for the Sega Genesis.]] There is also a Platform/Commodore64 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRotw7NaHGk version]] complete with voice clips and SID chip reinterpretations of the music. |
| 125 | *** And for a time at both the Starcade at Disneyland and at [=DisneyQuest=] at Disney World, there were real Fix-It Felix Jr. cabinets that guests could play - without the need to put in coins. |
| 126 | ** Special-occasion desserts at Walt Disney World's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''-themed Be Our Guest Restaurant include dollops of the "grey stuff" that Lumiere offered to Belle during dinner. |
| 127 | ** There are [[http://www.thedisneydiner.com/2012/10/snow-whites-poisoned-candy-apple-recipe.html recipes]][[http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/articles/961735/poison-apple-party-dip-recipe for]] [[http://spoonful.com/recipes/poison-apple-cookies the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BGVUcjGPs poison apple]] from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. |
| 128 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': |
| 129 | *** Judy's carrot pen/recorder [[http://www.disneystore.com/carrot-recorder-pen-zootopia/mp/1393535/1026201/?DM_PersistentCookieCreated=true is an actual piece of merch made for the film.]] And it records up to 60 seconds of audio! |
| 130 | *** The Dancing With Gazelle app was available online as a website (which has since then been discontinued). |
| 131 | ** ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'': When Disney first revealed the Disney Princesses' new Vanellope-inspired casual outfits, it seemed inevitable that said outfits would be defictionalized, much like the titular character's video game. These outfits are now available for purchase on shopdisney.com. |
| 132 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}'': The stuffed dolls of Pooh and his friends, as seen in the live-action opening, were made available in limited quantities by Disney Store. |
| 133 | *** This is a double zigzag. Almost all of the major characters in A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" were inspired by actual stuffed animals owned by the real Christopher Robin (Milne's son). Then Disney created very different versions of these characters for its animated features, and, of course, made them available as stuffed animals. The plushies seen in the live-action opening of the 2011 movie are Disneyfied versions rather than copies of the originals, which makes the limited edition replicas defictionalized versions of fictional products based on fictional versions of real products. |
| 134 | * During the scene in ''WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}}'' when the people have a discussion about if Turbo should enter the race or not, someone's phone rings, and the ringtone is an ImageSong for Turbo: "That Snail Is Fast". Verizon would offer the ringtone as a prize in their game "Turbo Racing League". |
| 135 | * The house from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' [[http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home2/52141049-183/bangerter-disney-movie-parade.html.csp has been recreated at full scale in Herriman, Utah]]. Disney approved of the house, and it was put on the market for sale to buyers. |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', unsurprisingly, turned many of the creations from the movie into LEGO sets branded with the movie. (This includes [[http://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816 "Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!"]].) Additionally, several of the mini-figures from the movie (such as William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Michaelangelo the artist) that were just cameos or background gags were also made after their appearance. |
| 137 | * There is material to make [[http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/4424989 Bing Bong's bottomless bag]] from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', and some people have made [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/259097784789552275/ his rocket]]. |
| 138 | * In one scene of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', we see children at the Marine Life Institute carry stuffed animals of Bailey and Destiny, whom are popular animals at said institute. In an odd example of a defictionalized product coming out before the film it was based on, the exact same plush toys featured in the movie were on sale at the Disney Store two months before ''Finding Dory'' premiered. |
| 139 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' has a RunningGag about how the Peter Parker of Miles's universe once recorded a Christmas album. Lo and behold, ''A Very Spidey Christmas'', featuring songs sung by various cast members, was actually released to coincide with the Christmas season. It features "Spidey Bells" and "Up on the Housetop" by the aforementioned Peter (Creator/ChrisPine), "Joy to the World" by Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), "Deck the Halls" by Peter B. Parker (Creator/JakeJohnson), and "The Night Before Christmas" by [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Earth-67 Spider-Man]] (Jorma Taccone)]]. |
| 140 | * In ''Film/OsmosisJones'', Bill Murray's character mentions a "National Chicken Wing Festival" in Buffalo, New York. While the festival did not exist during the filming of the movie, this mention caused organizers to create an annual festival in Buffalo. |
| 141 | * Practically every character from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has been turned into a toy, but among plush merchandise adapting characters from the film, the vampire teddy bear has been featured a few times, acting more like a replica by turning a fictional stuffed toy into a real one. Human-sized reproductions of Lock, Shock, and Barrel's trick-or-treat masks have also been made. |
| 142 | * Poppy's boombox from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B5scHUUFjYB/?igshid=13w7fh422qttr was made into an actual toy]] for ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour''. |
| 143 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'': A real [[https://www.pallabs.com Pal Labs website]] was made to promote the film. |
| 144 | * Fei Fei's Chang E doll from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon'' [[https://www.amazon.com/Mattel-Over-Moon-Chang-Doll/dp/B085FZ8W6M/ref=sr_1_43?dchild=1&keywords=over+the+moon+toys&qid=1603110592&sr=8-43 was made into an actual product]]. |
| 145 | * In an ironic way, the "wrong face" emoji from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' has been adapted for use in some Discord servers. |
| 146 | * The ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' merch includes a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/riseoftheguardians/images/7/7a/North%27s_Nesting_Doll_set.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130309203259 set of North's Russian dolls]]. |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': |
| 148 | ** Real life "Fur Baby" shirts (the shirts Mei and friends sold in the film) were made shortly after the film's release. |
| 149 | ** A real life version of Tyler's birthday cake was [[https://twitter.com/PixarTurningRed/status/1520885068041887745 made]] and eaten to celebrate the completion of animation of the film. |
| 150 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': A [[https://www.smbplumbing.com website]] for Mario and Luigi's plumbing business was made to tie in with the movie, as was a KitschyLocalCommercial that aired during Super Bowl LVII. Calling the number mentioned in the ad will even direct you to a voice message from Luigi. |
| 151 | * ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'': |
| 152 | ** Khalil's Jonah plush toy was defictionalized for the movie's merchandise line. However, the plush looks different than the one in the movie, as it wears a duck-shaped inner tube and has an open mouth instead of a smiling mouth. |
| 153 | ** The song "Billy Joe [=McGuffery=]", which is said to be perfomed by Twippo in-universe, had two full versions recorded: one by Chris Rice and the other by a kid chorus for a ''Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie''-themed sing-along CD. |
| 154 | ** Moby Blaster, the arcade game mentioned at the beginning of the movie, was playable on the movie's website. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 158 | * To promote Music/JohnnyCash's "One Piece At A Time", a Tennessee auto-parts supplier re-created the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_at_a_Time#mediaviewer/File:One_piece_at_a_time.jpg jerry-built Cadillac]] described in the song. |
| 159 | * Music/{{Animusic}} originally created its "Pipe Dream" video as a CGI visualization, but Intel has made a functional version of the devices in the video, down to having notes play when launched balls strike the appropriate keys. |
| 160 | * Music/ToadTheWetSprocket took their name from a fictional band discussed in the "Rock Notes" sketch from ''AudioPlay/MontyPythonsContractualObligationAlbum''. Eric Idle, the writer and performer of the bit,[[note]]He'd originated the Toad the Wet Sprocket name for a sketch on ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'' a few years before the Python sketch.[[/note]] once said that he nearly drove off the road when he heard the band mentioned on the radio. |
| 161 | * In a similar manner, Heaven 17 are one of the fictional bands mentioned in ''Literature/AClockworkOrange''. A real band of the same name would form in 1980. |
| 162 | * [[Characters/{{Vocaloid}} Gakupo]], a voice synthesizer program, was based on the likeliness and voice samples from Japanese Singer Music/{{Gackt}}. Then Nico Nico held a Vocaloid contest hosted by Gackt, where they asked him to sing the winning songs, Episode.0 and Paranoid doll. Gackt not only remixed Episode.0, but he also recreated the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQpbHzRlwo original Episode 0 video]] with the pictures of Gakupo replaced with pictures of ''Gackt'' dressed as Gakupo. And here's the version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU3JR1_5JT4 featuring Gackt dressed as a program based of himself]]. |
| 163 | * The band Music/{{Gorillaz}} originally existed solely as animated characters, but through CGI coupled with a clever projection system was able to make several "live" appearances. |
| 164 | ** The human band behind the cartoon characters have taken to openly performing as Gorillaz without the fictional trappings, save for some looped Gorillaz cartoons in their video wall. |
| 165 | * [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] has been able to make several live concert tours using a similar technique. |
| 166 | * ''Series/HannahMontana'' -- Hannah is a pretty creepy example. Disney now sometimes double-bills the character and the actress in the same albums and concerts, as though they were two different people. |
| 167 | * Other fake Disney bands have become real. Film/TheCheetahGirls also became a real band after debuting in a Disney Channel Original Movie (which was based on a book) -- which, conversely, led to the need to phase Creator/RavenSymone's character from the first movie out of the third movie since she wasn't a part of the group outside of the movie world and due to disagreements with the rest of the cast. Although, in reality, you could just call them Music/ThreeLW-2. |
| 168 | * The cartoon band Dethklok from the show ''{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}}'' released two albums of songs from the show, and there have been tours supporting said albums feauring the show's creators doing the songs. The band's two albums are the two highest charting death metal albums in the history of the Billboard 200 album chart. |
| 169 | * Film/TheBluesBrothers. Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi still perform today. |
| 170 | * There's a common MemeticMutation about [[PoliceAreUseless police wrongdoing]] which goes "nobody ever says 'fuck the fire department'"... so Vincent E.L. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI actually made a song with this premise]], framed as being made in an alternate universe where "Firefighters Are Useless" applies and the rapper goes through the five stages of grief. |
| 171 | * "Satanic backmasking" might be considered an example. A 1980s-and-90s hysteria held that TheNewRockAndRoll was creating SubliminalSeduction by using seemingly innocuous lyrics which, run backwards, vaguely sounded like Satanic messages. Following this, both metal and comedy musicians did this deliberately, ForTheLulz. (Artists had already been backmasking for a while, but not Satanically.) The results, of course, actually sound like backwards talking/singing and are therefore unintelligible if listened to forwards. Playing the record backwards to hear the message often reveals a silly or comically mundane message, often [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the practice of backmasking. |
| 172 | * Music/{{Wilco}} had a song called "The Late Greats", which mentions "Turpentine" by non-existent band The Late Greats as being "the greatest lost track of all time". Inevitably, a real band called themselves The Late Greats a few years after the song came out - they have yet to write a song called "Turpentine" though. |
| 173 | * Official replicas of the cool jackets worn by [[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys The Killjoys]] from the Music/MyChemicalRomance music videos are being sold in their online store. |
| 174 | * [[http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/US/CA/San-Francisco-hotels/BEST-WESTERN-The-Hotel-California/Hotel-Overview.do?propertyCode=05678 There is a real-life]] [[Music/TheEagles Hotel California]] in San Francisco (the song came first). |
| 175 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic |
| 176 | ** His song [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota]] was about an actual giant ball of twine in said state; however, it didn't feature "Welcome to the Twineball: Wish You Were Here" postcards or a "Twineball Inn" until he sang about them. |
| 177 | ** The over-the-top subject of his song "Franks2000InchTV" was defictionalized in 2009 when the Dallas Cowboys installed a ''pair'' of 2150 inch TV s in their new stadium. |
| 178 | * ''Series/MrShow'': |
| 179 | ** Members of Music/{{Tool}} had a cameo in the show as the fictional band Puscifer. Years later, Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan used the name for his solo projects. |
| 180 | ** Two sketches in the show include a rapper named Professor Murder. A dance-punk band would later take the name as a reference to the show. |
| 181 | * The "Boy [[Series/FraggleRock Gorg]]" shirt that Creator/AnnaKendrick wore in the Music/BenFoldsFive video "Do It Anyway" was available from Cafepress for some time after the video came out. |
| 182 | * In an easy to miss bit of dialogue in ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'', Lammy says on her answering machine's outgoing message that her and the band have been in the studio lately recording. Assumedly, the album ''Music/MakeItSweet'' is intended to be the fruits of their labor. |
| 183 | * In his and Pierre Delanoë's 1964 song ''Nathalie'', French singer Gilbert Bécaud mentions a Moscow café named "Café Pushkin"... which didn't actually exist. In 1999, however, an ''actual'' Café Pushkin was inaugurated in an upscale Moscow district, and both Bécaud and Delanoë were at its inauguration. |
| 184 | * ''Music/TheLegendOfTheDogman'': A song about a WolfMan that started as a creepy prank and became popular enough to turn into a genuine UrbanLegend. |
| 185 | * A series of promotional photos from 2009 featured the indie rock band Music/TheDecemberists playing a fictional, complicated board game. Several years later, lead singer Colin Meloy and his wife, illustrator Carson Ellis, [[https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/we-beat-the-decemberists-at-their-own-board-game-illimat/ created an actual version of that game]], which they call Illmat. |
| 186 | * In 2009 Music/NineInchNails had an AprilFoolsDay joke wherein a 'new album' titled ''Strobe Light'' was announced, with a ridiculous-sounding track list and a large amount of guest artists; of course, there was no such album. Then in April 1st 2019, on ''Strobe Light'''s 'tenth anniversery', someone by the name of [=Seed9=] (later revealed to be remix artist ToTom) [[https://seed9.bandcamp.com/album/strobe-light released their own interpretation of what the album might have been like]], consisting of bizarre song mashups. |
| 187 | ** The third volume of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for ''Series/Watchmen2019'' gives a fictional discography of NIN's counterparts in the show's universe, The Nine Inch Nails. One of the releases mentioned in the discography, the EP ''Heresy'', was defictionalized and [[https://soundcloud.com/thninchnails released]] in June of 2020, this time full of remixes of songs from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral''. |
| 188 | * One section of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' depicted the deranged rockstar protagonist starting a fascist movement known as the Hammers or Hammerskins. In a grim piece of PoesLaw, a group of neo-nazi skinheads in Texas decided that the name and symbolism were really cool, leading to a far-right-wing group that exists to this day, much to Roger Waters' horror. |
| 189 | * The cover of {{Music/Kesha}}'s album ''High Road'' depicts a partially melted candle shaped like a bust of Kesha herself - her official merch site started selling actual candles based on the artwork. |
| 190 | * {{Music/Massacration}} was originally just a fictional band in the MTV Brazil sketch comedy show ''Hermes & Renato'', serving as an AffectionateParody of Heavy Metal cliches. However, due to fan demand, it ended up turning into a real band with two albums, even opening the shows of serious metal bands such as {{Music/Sepultura}}. |
| 191 | * Creator/ToneLoc's "Funky Cold Medina" is the name of a song about a fictional drink that he uses as a love potion. After it became popular, several real cocktails with the name have been made. |
| 192 | * The 2D idols of Music/{{Tsukipro}} are fictional characters who release real music singles and post their RealTime stories on social media. As idols, the characters do a lot of acting work, and since 2015, they've done a combined play every year, with all the idols playing AlternateUniverse versions of themselves. In 2019, the [[Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}} stage play adaptation]] of their stories started performing these plays in full. So, instead of getting backstage episodes about the characters performing, with only snippets of the actual play, we now get the actual plays in full, in addition to TrappedInAnotherWorld stories. So far, Theatre/TsukinoEmpire, Theatre/MachineElements, Theatre/TsukihanaKagura, and Theatre/{{Zanshin}} have gotten this treatment. |
| 193 | * Music/UnknownP, a British [[PissTakeRap posh drill rapper]] character, was initially created by comedian Munya Chawawa for his series of short SketchComedy Website/YouTube videos. However, it turned out that Munya was actually a good enough rapper for Unknown P to get signed as an artist to Creator/AtlanticRecords. |
| 194 | * Music/PearlJam's Jeff Ament created a list of songs for the FakeBand of ''Film/{{Singles}}''. Music/ChrisCornell took it as a challenge to actually use those titles for real songs, and one of them, "Spoonman", named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artis_the_Spoonman a Seattle artist]], wound up with an early version in the movie before the one recorded by Cornell's band Music/{{Soundgarden}}. |
| 195 | * One game designer decided to make [[https://comandogdev.itch.io/califonication a playable version out of the game]] featured in the AnimatedMusicVideo for [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers "Californication"]]. |
| 196 | * "Rocky Top", the {{Bluegrass}} standard (and beloved [[FootballFightSong rally song for University of Tennessee athletics]]) is a HomesicknessHymn about a town called Rocky Top, Tennessee. When the CreatorCouple songwriting team of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant wrote the song in 1967, they just chose a random, evocative name for the fictional town. In 2013, a group approached the tiny mountain town of Lake City, Tennessee with an offer to build a water park there if it changed its name to Rocky Top. After a legal challenge by the estate of the Bryants was thrown out of court, Lake City officially became Rocky Top the next year, gaining it notoriety even though the proposed water park is now stuck in DevelopmentHell. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 200 | * Season 2 of ''Podcast/WithinTheWires'' sees the creation of official merchandise of in-universe painter Claudia Atieno's work, a large art print styled and labeled with fictional exhibition details as though it were sold in a museum gift shop. Real-life artist Jessica Hayworth creates "An art print of Claudia Atieno's [[https://topatoco.com/products/wtw-damselfly-print "Child and Damselfly"]] from the Karikari Contemporary Gallery," an impressionistic work described in a donor-exclusive BonusEpisode #0. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 204 | * Aside from Fray Tormenta, in 1965 [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]] decided to make Mil Máscaras, a character created specifically for movies, into a gimmick used by an actual luchador. This was also the origin of Huracán Ramirez. |
| 205 | * There is an anime and manga from the 1960s called ''Manga/TigerMask'' whose title character is a pro wrestler (he inspired the creation of both King and Armor King from VideoGame/{{Tekken}}). The character was so popular that he became a real life wrestler at Korean and then Japanese wrestling events. He has been played by a few different people. |
| 206 | ** The same is true of Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger, named (and kind of modeled) after an anime series from the late 80s. |
| 207 | * Similarly, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, who played Zeus in ''No Holds Barred'', would continue to play the character into a short-lived [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] career. |
| 208 | * Similar to above, ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter's'' Wolf Hawkfield became a real wrestler in Japan from 1997 to 2000, portrayed by Jim Steele. |
| 209 | * The crossover at times between [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts MMA]] and pro wrestling doesn't just stop at the long history of crossover between the two in Japan or MMA moves being borrowed for use in pro wrestling (i.e. Wrestling/SamoaJoe's use of the rear naked choke as the "Coquina Clutch," Wrestling/BryanDanielson's use of the triangle choke, or Wrestling/TheUndertaker's first using the triangle choke followed by the gogoplata as the "Hell's Gate"), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzk66VwinCc pro wrestling moves being done in actual MMA competition]]. Trivia: It does look like the DDT example is basically an accident -- but that's exactly how the pro wrestling version was "created" in the first place. |
| 210 | * The Suicide character, originally designed for the ''Wrestling/{{TNA}} Impact'' video game, started appearing at real life events in late 2008. The gimmick has been used by multiple people (Wrestling/FrankieKazarian, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada, Wrestling/AustinAries, TJ Perkins, Caleb Konley) and briefly went by the name of "Manik" (Perkins still wearing the suit). |
| 211 | * At ''19'O Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 1st Anniversary Show'', Tsukasa Fujimoto and Makoto had to defend Ice Ribbon from two invaders from Shiratori Pro, Big Devil and Kaoru Hoshi. Both invading wrestlers and their promotion are from the television show ''Muscle Girls''. |
| 212 | * "Stevie Night Heat" a show that only existed [[SmallNameBigEgo in the heads]] of Wrestling/StevieRichards and Wrestling/AlSnow, was made an Canadian Wrestling's Elite event in 2013. |
| 213 | * Arguably, the whole concept of {{Kayfabe}}. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 217 | * Some Creator/{{PBS}} member stations ([=WCFE-TV=] of Plattsburgh, New York and [=WCVE-TV=] of Richmond, Virginia to name two) have renamed the street their studios are located on to ''Series/SesameStreet''. For that show's 40th anniversary, the corner of 64th Street and Broadway in Lincoln Square was temporarily renamed "123 Sesame Street", with a permanent Sesame Street sign being unveiled at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway for its 50th. |
| 218 | * ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': The Barney doll and the Barney Bag were made into real products. |
| 219 | * ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': |
| 220 | ** On the Creator/PBSKids parents site, there's a recipe for Flying Flapjacks, as well as instructions to make Donkey's beach bongos and a tutorial on how to hoof dance. |
| 221 | ** The Bob-stacle Course from "Being Bob Dog" was defictionalized at the "Donkey Hodie: A Hee-Hawesome Adventure" event, but InNameOnly, as the show's Bob-stacle course consisted of multiple activites, while this one just consists of carrying a ball on a bone-shaped spoon, an activity of which was not done in said episode. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 225 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Waggon Band Waggon]], a BBC Radio comedy from the 1930s, featured a fictional cleaning product called Askitoff (slogan: Askitoff Will Take It Off), named after the star, Arthur Askey. Askey was prohibited from taking advantage of this new brand name by his BBC contract, but this didn't stop an [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760943,00.html unofficial product]] reaching the marketplace within weeks. |
| 226 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Norwich Radio Norwich]] used to be a spoof radio station which employed [[Series/ImAlanPartridge Alan Partridge]]. In 2006, a real commercial station named 99.9 Radio Norwich was launched (but was sadly shut down by Bauer Media Group in 2020). |
| 227 | * After Creator/JeanShepherd kept urging his radio listeners to buy the imaginary novel "I, Libertine" by "Frederick R. Ewing", the demand was so great that Ballantine hired Creator/TheodoreSturgeon to actually write it. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 231 | * ''The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer'', an [[FictionalDocument ever-so-helpful handbook]] given to members of the [[RedshirtArmy Imperial]] [[BadassNormal Guard]] in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', is actually available for purchase. It's filled with the amount of propaganda, disinformation, and blatant lies that you'd expect for the setting ("while sneaking up on the enemy, recite the [[WithCatlikeTread Litany of Stealth]] to reduce your chances of being heard"). Also the lengthy "Blessing of the Bomb", to be recited after pulling the pin of a grenade but before throwing it to ensure accuracy. |
| 232 | * Creator/WhiteWolf has produced a few published versions of {{Fictional Document}}s (''Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth'' for ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', ''Rites of the Dragon'' for ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', etc.), game symbols (clan pins for ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', tribal glyph necklaces for ''Werewolf'', and clan and covenant pins for ''Requiem''), and even Tarot decks (one for ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Ascension]]'', and one for ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Awakening]]'') for its Worlds of Darkness. The darker materials above and many others were released under the label "Black Dog," White Wolf's in-universe analogue of themselves in TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness (a subsidiary of Pentex, of course -- so they naturally produce role-playing games that actually have the effects on children that [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] warns of). |
| 233 | ** White Wolf's Arthaus, like TSR before it, also produced Tarokka decks like those used by the Vistani of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''. Though intended as game props, some people have used them as a Tarot substitute in actual attempts at fortune-telling. |
| 234 | ** Similarly, the Harrow deck from Paizo has been printed, and there are versions of the Deck of Illusions for sale. |
| 235 | * Although its philosophical underpinnings were already well established in the real world at the time of writing, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosocialism infosocialism]] was first codified and named in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' as the basis of a speculative future economic system. Ironically, within the game world itself it wouldn't be invented until the 2030s. |
| 236 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 237 | ** ''The Book of Exalted Deeds'' and ''The Book of Vile Darkness'' are minor artifacts that, when read, grant power to the reader if he is of the correct alignment. Wizards later released splatbooks by the same names that enabled you to make your characters more powerful. |
| 238 | ** It is possible to buy a [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/aaa5/ Bag of Holding]] (nondimensional space not included). |
| 239 | * Several legendary in-universe books from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' have seen print as sourcebooks in RealLife, including ''The Book of Three Circles'', ''The White Treatise'', ''The Black Treatise'', ''Oadenol's Codex'', and ''The Thousand Correct Actions of the Upright Soldier''. Sadly, perhaps the most prominent and significant of these in the setting, ''The Broken-Winged Crane'', only exists as a PDF containing material that should have been in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals'', but had to be cut for word count reasons. |
| 240 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'', across its various editions, featured repeated references to and quotations from Johnny Silverhand's songs as the frontman of the band Samurai. Obviously, these were text only. Then ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' came around, with a plot heavily focusing on Johnny, and real versions of the songs were recorded for the soundtrack. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 243 | * ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'': So Anatevka, where the musical and film are set, is a fictional ''shtetl'' in [[{{UsefulNotes/Ukraine}} Ukraine]], close to Kyiv. But come Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and it became [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatevka_(village) a real settlement for Jewish and Gentile internally displaced people]] organized by Jewish diaspora - near Kyiv, of course. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 246 | * Several outfits for ''Literature/AmericanGirl'' dolls (and their Canadian counterparts ''Toys/MapleleaGirls'') are seen in illustrations of stories or journals before they're released as part of the character's collection. For example, [[https://americangirl.fandom.com/wiki/Play_Dress_and_Pinafore Samantha's Play Dress and Pinafore]] was illustrated in her book series before it was released as an item for the doll. This is a flexible example, as many of the items are put into the books or journals specifically to be made into collection items. |
| 247 | * In 1968, Toys/HotWheels came up with their first original car design, the [[http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Mill Twin Mill]], which became available one year later. 33 years later, [[http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2002-01/1400-horsepower-hot-wheels-car a life-sized Twin Mill was built]]. And not only a mere prop, but a fully driveable automobile, actually propelled by that [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill pair of supercharged 502cui Chevy Big Blocks with something between 700 and 900bhp each]]. |
| 248 | * One couple converted their van into a life-size [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} transforming robot]]. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 252 | * ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'': |
| 253 | ** There were pre-order bonuses for all three games that were the watches/bracelets the characters in the game wore. |
| 254 | ** To commemorate the announcement of ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', a real life escape room has been designed after the game. For a limited time, fans can participate in a light version of the Nonary Game. |
| 255 | * ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'': |
| 256 | ** Monokuma plushies aren't just for sale, there are multiple places selling ones of various quality from spot-on to shoddy. It's probably only a matter of time before someone sticks a walking drone in one. Additionally, cosplays for just about everyone are easily purchased online and some of them can easily be used in any outfit, like Naegi's hoodie. |
| 257 | ** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' gives us an in-universe example pertaining to the true mastermind. [[spoiler:The killing game is an in-universe defictionalization of ''Danganronpa'' as a reality show, which is now in its 53rd season.]] |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 261 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 262 | ** FakeBand Limozeen held a live performance. It included a guest appearance by Schenkel [=McDoo=], the fictional lead singer of Taranchula, another FakeBand in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' universe. |
| 263 | ** Before that, Strong Bad's song "Trogdor" and Limozeen's hit song "Because, It's Midnite" appeared in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero II'' and ''Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The Eighties'' respectively (the CD containing the songs was actually released in 2003). |
| 264 | ** Strong Bad has long used a lighter with the BMW logo on it. At the time, there was no such lighter in real life, but BMW would later give their license for BMW lighters, very likely due to Strong Bad's influence. |
| 265 | ** On April Fool's Day 2015, Strong Bad briefly discussed this trope in a parody of the [=ThinkGeek=] example (See "Web Original"). |
| 266 | --->"It's only fake unless enough of you say you'll buy one, in which case SUPPORT MY CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN!" |
| 267 | * Sarge of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' once made an off-hand joke about turning his least favorite soldier into target practice being "the best game since Grifball!" Then the Forge map creator came out for ''VideoGame/Halo3'', and the makers of the machinima suddenly had the tools to design their own custom match type. |
| 268 | ** Bungie even went so far as to make the underground segment to an additional map, Sandpit, to the ''exact specifications'' of the original Grifball arena. Grifball is also extremely popular as a weekend playlist in matchmaking; there are even [[http://www.grifballhub.com official leagues]]! |
| 269 | *** Hell, in ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', it became an official game-type, with its own icon and Announcer line! |
| 270 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 271 | ** Creator/RoosterTeeth made a couple of clothing items seen on the show into actual merchandise, such as Ruby's pajama pants, Nora's Boop shirt and Jaune's Pumpkin Pete Hoodie. Not to mention actual Pumpkin Pete cereal, with Pyrrha on the box. |
| 272 | ** [[BigGood Professor Ozpin]] created a book called ''Fairy Tales of Remnant'' about stories from all over the world of Remnant, and made it part of the curricula of the Huntsmen Academies. Fairy tales are important in the show because they contain clues about the secret history of Remnant that only a select few individuals know. Rooster Teeth [[Literature/RWBYFairyTalesOfRemnant published the book]] as Professor Ozpin's personal copy, including notes he's made about each fairy tale, both to contribute to world-building and to drop plot-significant clues about the main show. |
| 273 | * Genki Rockets, the virtual in-house band of Creator/QEntertainment (''VideoGame/{{Rez}}'', ''VideoGame/ChildOfEden'', ''VideoGame/{{Lumines}}'', etc.), have two real albums. |
| 274 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dorkly|Originals}}'''s [[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1676449045731832 Mario With a Portal Gun]] [[VideoGame/{{Mari0}} was turned into an actual game]]--so now you can actually play ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Bros|1}}.'' with a [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} portal gun]]. Now let's just hope someone does the same with ''Franchise/MegaMan'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''. |
| 275 | * Ava's Oddish from ''WebAnimation/PokemonPathToThePeak'' has been released as a promo card for the ''[[TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon Trading Card Game]]'' shortly after the miniseries was released. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 279 | * A good half of the products in the ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' store were actually items worn by the characters in the comic. Piro comments in the first ''[=MegaTokyo=]'' book how no one was really sure what Largo's "cool thing" purchase was. Dom comments, "When we do, it'll be on our online store in less than two weeks. God bless America." |
| 280 | * ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' has two short stories "written" by character Nice Pete, as well as six issues of Roast Beef's 'zine and greeting cards (from [[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04242008 this]] storyline) in the shop. [[http://phoneballs.com/ Phoneballs]] exist now, though they seem to have been created independently of the ''Achewood'' strips. |
| 281 | * The creators of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' created a website for [[http://www.hamstard.com/ Hamstard]], which was Parson Gotti's SoBadItsGood ([[StylisticSuck deliberately in its real world incarnation]]) webcomic before he got plotted into Erfworld. It's actually been up since before the comic that shows it was posted -- hasn't been updated since then either. Presumably it'll get some fresh content when (if) he makes it back to the "real world". |
| 282 | * In [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=150 Chapter 150]] of ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxHound'', it shows what appears to be a Website/LiveJournal account for Dr. Naomi Hunter detailing her activities, then it shows Ocelot reading that journal. Well, guess what...[[http://foxdiegal.livejournal.com the journal actually exists]] |
| 283 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': |
| 284 | ** Website/ThatOtherWiki has an impressively large list of life imitating ''xkcd''. |
| 285 | ** After a joke about RuleThirtyFour, the author (and some, ahem, artistically-minded fans) went on to create a tongue-in-cheek site of guitar-in-shower porn. |
| 286 | ** When a gag hinged upon stupid Website/YouTube comments being read back to the authors, ''[=YouTube=] responded by adding an audio preview''. |
| 287 | ** Probably the most famous is [[http://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/ Chesscoaster]], inspired by [[http://xkcd.com/249/ this comic]]. |
| 288 | ** After the comic where [[http://xkcd.com/225/ Richard Stallman fights off Microsoft agents with katanas]], [[http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/life-imitates-xkcd-part-ii-richard-stallman/ some fans bought him a Katana]] |
| 289 | ** ''xkcd'' also managed to get this trope backwards with [[http://xkcd.com/369/ this infamous strip]]. Before this comic, there were only two hits on Google for "died in a blogging accident", but within hours of the strip going live, there were several tens of thousands. In future strips where Randall has referenced Google search strings, fans have been careful not to replicate them exactly when discussing them. |
| 290 | ** Shortly after the strip [[https://xkcd.com/806/ "Tech Support"]] was posted, a small ISP in England announced that they would actually transfer you to an employee who knows a minimum of two programming languages if you say the code word "shibboleet". [[http://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html No, really.]] |
| 291 | ** It is not unusual for someone to bring a sign to a protest reading [[https://xkcd.com/285/ [Citation Needed],]] or [[https://xkcd.com/470/ "Things are pretty okay"/"Anyone for Scrabble Later?"]]. |
| 292 | * ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' brings us a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids so-called children's book]] named ''Happy Dog the Happy Dog'', written by webcomic author Ryan North and illustrated by Allene Chomyn. The book originally came from [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000484.html this comic]] where the T-Rex announces that he has written the book and quotes a few excerpts from it, namely, "Happy Dog the happy dog is the happiest dog on his street! He loves to play in the grass. [[MoodWhiplash Everyone you know will one day be dead!]]" |
| 293 | ** In [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2227 one strip]], T-Rex proposes the idea of urgent-sounding and overly-specific fortune cookie messages to be mixed in with the regular ones. Cookie Misfortune, a company already specializing in a somewhat similar idea, [[http://www.cookiemisfortune.com/products/t-rex-brand-fortune-cookies now sells official T-Rex Brand Fortune Cookies]] with messages either inspired by or directly taken from that strip. |
| 294 | * Many examples in TheMerch debuted in the comics they're selling. For example, Marten's iconic "TEH" shirt from the first strip of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. (Unfortunately, Jeph Jacques has yet to perfect the [[RobotBuddy AnthroPC]].)\ |
| 295 | Jeph has also been releasing music under the name of Deathmøle, the band from the comic, as well as one or two by Dystynt Hollerin, from a one-off reference in ''Overcompensating'', a different comic entirely. As he says: |
| 296 | --> ''Also it is extremely weird to have multiple albums' worth of music by a fictional (for now?) band.'' |
| 297 | * The chupaqueso from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' was originally a fictional food that resembled a burrito in appearance and sold at the Tacobufa restaurants and vending machines. After enough fans asked the author, Howard Tayler, finally posted a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030906.html recipe]]. |
| 298 | ** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1q_e6dEoWk&fmt=18 similar event]] transpired regarding the absolutely ''delicious''-sounding [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080808.html Smutto]]. |
| 299 | ** [[BigBookOfWar The 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries]] was published as an actual book. In the same vein as ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}'', the published version is an annotated copy containing scholarly analysis of the Maxims. There was also an option for a defaced version, the copy given to General Tagon when he was a new recruit with handwritten commentary from a number of different characters. |
| 300 | * [[http://ibuyextradomainscuzihavenopenis.com/ ibuyextradomainscuzihavenopenis.com]] as seen in [[http://www.shortpacked.com/blog/comic/book-11/01-no-thanks-to-eharmony/domains/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' strip. |
| 301 | * [[http://nonadventures.com/2010/05/01/the-queerest-of-the-mirror/ This strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' features Hitlerella relaxing in a sleeved blanket adorned with swastikas. The AltText reads, "If anyone actually creates a blanket like this, do me a favor and never ever tell me." |
| 302 | * The ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' website has a store where you can buy, among other things, shirts for all the kids and trolls in the latest series, ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. The fans have also been working on coding some of the fictional computer programs shown in the adventure, most notably the [=PesterChum=] instant messaging service, now available [[https://homestuck.net/pesterchum.html here]]. |
| 303 | ** Additionally, the ShowWithinAShow ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' has a real webpage, which is shown just as it looks in the comic and even has a redirect from [[http://www.sweetbroandhellajeff.com sweetbroandhellajeff.com]]. Sadly, Sweet Bro's Hella Blog is an aversion, as it consists entirely of a page saying [[BlatantLies "No, no one registered this account name."]] |
| 304 | ** ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s crafty Website/DeviantArt fandom are responsible for a few migrations to reality; among them the puppet Lil' Cal, plush Squiddles, and the Warhammer of Zillyhoo. |
| 305 | ** You can also now buy [[http://whatpumpkin.com/sufferer-necklace.html Aranea's Sufferer necklace]], and a bunch of Terezi's plushies are available as parts of packs for the [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game?ref=category Kickstarter]] and later available in the store. |
| 306 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'', access to the titular speakeasy is granted by showing a club-shaped pin, which was made available in their online store alongside their comics and prints. |
| 307 | * One fan of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' took their devotion a little too far by inventing and wielding the fictional sword-chucks. And then he lit them on fire. |
| 308 | * Kevin from ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' started an ISP in-universe named [=HareLink=]. [[http://www.harelink.biz/ Wanna hire them yourself?]] Granted, it seems more of a webhost than an ISP... |
| 309 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' used to sell trilobite pins (symbol of the Heterodynes). Currently they sell winged castle pins (symbol of the Wulfenbachs) and fanged monster pins (symbol of the Jagerkin). Plus the comic books, of course. |
| 310 | * In ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' the [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/08/21/182-present/ Dededoll]] was originally a gift from Kirby to King Dedede, and then was later made available in their online store. |
| 311 | * ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' has [[http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Medallion_%28merchandise%29 Medallions]] and [[http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Borogove Borogove]] as examples of comic items that have made it into the real world. |
| 312 | * In ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', the Vigor Assistant for the Platform/{{Unix}} VI text editor is a clone of Clippy for Microsoft Word. Like Clippy, Vigor is a talking paper clip who gives [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper too many annoying hints]] to the user. Some random hacker made a [[http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ real Vigor assistant]]. This is an unusual example because Vigor is just a download and does not create a revenue stream (because no one would want to buy Vigor). |
| 313 | * ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Heather, our protagonist, has a spider plushie named "Mr.Webby" and fans of the comic can order one of their own. |
| 314 | * ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': The Clothing brand shirt worn by Isaac in chapter 3 [[http://hivemill.com/collections/paranatural/products/paranatural-clothing-brand-clothing-shirt can now be bought from Hive Mill]]. |
| 315 | * ''Frenzy'', a FictionalVideoGame in ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'' episode "Two Friends Play Frenzy", is now a game for sale on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/545430/ Steam]]. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 319 | * The online store [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/ ThinkGeek]] lists [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/ fake products on April Fool's day]] that are intended to be obviously something that couldn't exist in real life[[note]]one of these, [[HilariousInHindsight surprisingly]], was ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''[[/note]], but sometimes they're just so plausible, that they have to give into fan demand and make them real. The [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/9352/ 8-bit Tie]], [[http://replay.web.archive.org/20100105205353/http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/98ab/ the Grow Your Own 1-Up Mushroom kit]] (although not as literally as the original product was described, and no longer on the site) and [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/ the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag]] are examples of this. |
| 320 | * The real-life [[http://www.lollershop.com/products/classic-loldongs-tshirt "LOLDONGS" t-shirt]] and [[http://dudebro.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page "Dudebro 2" PC game]] were each inspired by in-jokes on message boards. |
| 321 | * [[http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html Gmail Motion]], a 2011 AprilFoolsDay joke by Google about a hand-gesture interface to Gmail, inspired researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies to make a [[http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/faast/ real prototype]] of such an interface [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfso7_i9Ko8 using a Kinect sensor]]. |
| 322 | * [[https://twitter.com/#!/petermolydeux @petermolydeux]], a twitter feed that posted absurd HighConcept fictional games to poke fun at Creator/PeterMolyneux; later, a gamejam, [[https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23molyjam2012 molyjam]] was set up to make actual games based on those ideas. |
| 323 | * ''Blog/CouldItExistInRealLife'' is a blog site dedicated to defictionalization. |
| 324 | * Neiman Marcus has made their own [[http://www.neimanmarcus.com/assistance/assistance.jsp?itemId=cat33940741 cookie recipe]] to quell the rumors of the infamous "$250 Neimus Marcus Cookie Recipe", which came out ''before'' the actual recipe. |
| 325 | * ''Website/{{Cracked}}'': |
| 326 | ** It has [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-flaming-moe-5-other-fictional-cocktails-tested/ these]] [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-fake-movie-tv-drinks-that-got-us-drunk-in-real-life/ articles]] where the author makes various alcoholic drinks from tv shows. |
| 327 | ** These [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-crazy-sandwiches-from-tv-shows-taste-tested21/ two]] [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/milk-steak-to-moon-waffles-tackling-tvs-grossest-recipes/ articles]] were made similar to the previous ones but about food instead. |
| 328 | * ''WebOriginal/KeitAi'' was an idea made JustForFun on a "Write an Anime and Manga Plot" thread on Website/FourChan. Through [[MemeticMutation memes]], it produced [[WebOriginalFiction original fiction]], [[{{Fanfic}} fan fiction]], [[FanArt fan art]], a {{webcomic|s}}, [[{{Fanime}} faux anime videos]], and much more. It hasn't turned into a real commercial anime (yet), though. |
| 329 | * There's now a [[https://www.originalpoopknife.com/ Poop Knife]] in homage to the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/8m1c03/the_poopknife_story/ reddit post]] that became a meme. |
| 330 | * Brazil had a famous mishearing of "The Rhythm of the Night" as "Jesus Humilha o Satanás" (Jesus humiliates Satan). One comedy troupe decided to downright make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_5hdZ58eE4 a full song out of this]]. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 334 | * ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': his exaggerated video game death trap that he came up with in his ''VideoGame/SuperPitfall'' review was actually turned into a video game death trap for his own game, ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'', except it didn't have laser cannons. Also, in his review of ''VideoGame/HongKong97'', he imagines a similar game called "New York 2017". A flash game based on what he imagined acting as a clone of ''Hong Kong 97'' was later created for Newgrounds, though it was later removed. |
| 335 | * The premise of ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'' is to accurately recreate recipes from films and TV shows, and some of the dishes that are tackled are completely fictitious to start off. |
| 336 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3g4s4Q2uulee1MZYv0S9wA DATSATOILET]], a joke originally started by LetsPlay/{{VanossGaming}} and his friends, is now an actual channel. |
| 337 | * ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': Unsurprisingly, [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e689/ Captain Hammer's shirt is available]]. Also unsurprisingly, Wonderflonium is not. |
| 338 | * In Season 2 of ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'', Joel starts selling unauthorized toys based on Jimmy. Eventually, Jimmy himself would end up [[https://www.makeship.com/products/the-sheriff producing]] plush toys based on his character, meaning that you can get Joel's "unauthorized" toys in real life. |
| 339 | * The web series ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/feastoffiction Feast of Fiction]]'' focuses on making fictional foods into actual recipes. |
| 340 | * ''WebVideo/TheGuild'': There is a guild called The Knights of Good on pretty much any MMORPG that has guilds. There is also a website for [[http://finnsmulders.com Finn Smulders]]. |
| 341 | * Creator/JamesRolfe recreated several pizzas from the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' show for a party in the video: TMNT Pizza Taste Test. |
| 342 | * As the name suggests, ''Make It Real'' is all about this. Its owner, ''Hacksmith Industries'', started out when engineer and ''ComicBook/IronMan'' fan James Hobson set out to make both a suit of PoweredArmor and [[JetPack a forearm-mounted jetpack]]. He has since branched out into defictionalizing the guns from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' (basically a NERF dart mod that shoots superheated flint bombs), [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor's Hammer Mjolnir]] (some capacitors and a brick of lead), and some guns from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' (a laser tube and a tesla coil in 3-D printed casings). |
| 343 | * ''WebVideo/ManAtArms'' is a [=YouTube=] series starring a professional blacksmith who, in addition to making prop weapons for movies, takes weapons from various media and creates battle-ready real life versions. |
| 344 | * Kind of defictionalization: [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Team Nostalgia Chick]] did [[http://t.co/5mbkBLh a live-action reenactment]] of a Website/ChannelAwesome fanfic. |
| 345 | * ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'' is a fictional LetsPlay series about the titular FictionalVideoGame. Naturally, there is a reproduction, Giftscop, downloadable [[https://giftscop.com/ here.]] |
| 346 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs Powerthirst]] is now [[http://www.powerthirst.ca real]], as well. |
| 347 | * ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Many of the puppets used on the web show such as Jeffy were original creations by the creators and didn't exist in puppet stores before, but are now being sold in actual puppet stores. |
| 348 | * On Platform/TikTok, a video surfaced that repurposed another user's ballad dedicated to Remy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' into a Broadway musical number. This later resulted in other videos showing up featuring people making their own songs, choreography and even makeup for a hypothetical ''Ratatouille'' Broadway musical. It eventually became a reality, [[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/638968/disney-pixar-ratatouille-tiktok-musical-todaytix with [=TodayTix=] streaming their own version of said musical]] on New Year's Day 2021. |
| 349 | * ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'': |
| 350 | ** Cross of this and video games: Krin, the title card artist for Todd, decided to defictionalize the "[[http://thebutterfly.deviantart.com/#/d3datkc Die Scumbag]]" cake seen in a LetsPlay Todd [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/pushinguproses/lets-play-shortys/30518-lets-play-shortys-fatty-bears-birthday-surprise-pt2 recorded with]] WebVideo/PushingUpRoses. |
| 351 | ** And before, Krin [[http://thebutterfly.deviantart.com/art/Todd-In-The-Shadows-179883302 drew a comic where Todd reviewed "Like a G6"]]. This attracted his attention to both the artist (who got hired to do his title cards) and the song, which then got a proper review. |
| 352 | ** Later, she did [[http://thebutterfly.deviantart.com/art/S-and-M-203211080 a title card for]] Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "S&M" as an AprilFools joke. Almost 2 months later, Todd reviewed the song, prompting her to say "[[http://thebutterfly.deviantart.com/#/d3hd2ao MY ART IS PROPHETIC]] n/ Hmm... maybe I should draw Creator/DougWalker giving me a big check! ^_~". |
| 353 | * [=YouTube=] creator Morgan Cooper created a [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] for a gritty dramatic reboot of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', titled simply ''Bel Air''. Creator/WillSmith liked the idea so much that he got it [[Series/BelAir made for real]]. |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 357 | * ARG/MITMysteryHunt: [[http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/02/round2/04/Puzzle.html This puzzle]] was written seven years before [[http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/09/puzzles/The_Board_Game/ one of the board games it involves]]. |
| 358 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York Agloe, New York]] started out as a copyright trap by a mapmaking company. Later, someone opened an Agloe General Store at the indicated location. |
| 359 | * In 2012, word spread across Bethel, Alaska (population 6,000) that a Taco Bell would open there. Bethel is only accessible by air or water. Residents were heartbroken to learn that the original rumor was a hoax, until Taco Bell picked up on the story and airlifted a taco truck with 10,000 tacos to the town, giving them Taco Bell for at least one day. |
| 360 | * During TheEighties and TheNineties, there were persistent rumors of a super exclusive black American Express card only available to the ridiculously wealthy. Tired of having to explain this was just an UrbanLegend, and realizing it was a pretty good idea, American Express introduced the Centurion Card in 1999, available by invitation only to those with $20 million net worth, for a $7500 sign up cost plus $2500 annual fee. It's made of anodized titanium. |
| 361 | * Similar to the American Express example above, an urban legend had been spread for years about a woman who had been charged $250 for requesting the recipe to make Neiman Marcus chocolate chip cookies at her home - despite the fact that Neiman Marcus (a department store) didn't sell chocolate chip cookies. [[GossipEvolution The rumor had originally been attributed to cookie maker Mrs. Fields, which was then misheard as Marshall Fields (another department store), which in turn was misheard as Neiman Marcus.]] An amused Neiman Marcus ended up developing a chocolate chip cookie recipe in response to the myth, which was [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160514052438/http://www.neimanmarcuscareers.com/story/recipe.shtml available for free on their web site.]] |
| 362 | * On October 6, 2014, Drew [=McWeeney=] of [=HitFix=].com broke a story that Marvel and Sony were [[http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/marvels-making-big-plans-beyond-avengers-3-and-its-making-hollywood-crazy secretly working on a deal]] to add Spider-Man to ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. As it turns out they ''weren't''... until someone at Marvel read [=McWeeny=]'s story and [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/04/17/spider-man-wasnt-going-to-be-in-captain-america-until-it-was-rumoured-sony-leaks/ emailed it to the higher-ups]], asking if the rumor was true. This led to some back-and-forth discussion between Sony and Marvel which in turn led to the first round of talks about incorporating Spider-Man into [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel's films]]. Although the negotiations broke down, the Sony email leaks in December 2014 ended up more or less "confirming" [=McWeeney=]'s original story that a discussion between Marvel and Sony had taken place, which (ultimately due to Sony's embarrassment over the leaks) led to a second, more successful round of talks between the two companies in February 2015, and [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/spider-man-marvel-sony-movies-1201429508/ a film deal was announced]] shortly thereafter. |
| 363 | * Inverted in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' - the author's CD player became the basis for the MTM. |
| 364 | * This one fits in Western Animation, Anime and Manga, Live Action TV and Movies all at once. Apple Watch and the Samsung Galaxy Gear are real life versions of the wrist mounted communicators seen in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', ''[[Series/GiantRobo Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot]]'', ''Film/{{Predator}}'', ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', ''Series/KnightRider'', ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}''. |
| 365 | * Tablet computers were first envisioned as [[DataPad DataPads]] in films like ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' years before their real-life debut. |
| 366 | * Also fitting in multiple categories, the Website/YouTube series ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUUGFk1wE5OHqeNDwp2q9_ZiPqKlWNc6V Man At Arms]]'' creates "properly-forged deadly weapons" (mostly {{Cool Sword}}s) from nearly all forms of popular media. |
| 367 | * A handful of food-related [=YouTube=] channels have videos dedicated to recreating food seen in various pieces of fiction as well, probably the most well-known one being ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw Binging with Babish]]''. |
| 368 | * The 265-mile [[http://www.palrr.biz/ Paducah & Louisville Railway]] began operating in 1986. Its diesels wear a green and black paint scheme and diamond logo designed several years earlier by Louis Jaquith for his HO scale train layout depicting an imaginary railroad called the Paducah & Louisville. The real railroad licensed its name and trademarks from Mr. Jaquith. |
| 369 | * The very act of cosplay, particularly in its more intricate examples, involves defictionalizing a character's IconicOutfit. |
| 370 | * The bridges on [[UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion Euro notes]] were originally fictional -- since there were twelve member states and only seven denominations, it would be impossible to choose real bridges without leaving several countries unrepresented. Then a designer in the Netherlands decided to build real-world replicas of all those bridges, thereby "claiming" them for the Netherlands. |
| 371 | * Marijuana cigarettes, the staple of certain sci-fi literature stories, are slowly making their way into the market with brands such as [[https://purebeautypurebeauty.co/products/ Pure Beauty]] emerging, though at this time the products are mostly region-locked due to marijuana legalization not yet being nationwide in the United States. Hemp cigarettes are also entering the market with brands such as Freed, Qiwi, Plain Jane, Timbr, Redwood Reserves, Vance Global, Wild Hemp, and Green & Wild being available online. |
| 372 | * A cult devoted to worshipping the Rescue Rangers character [[https://medium.com/@thefandome/gadget-hackwrench-religion-or-how-a-fandom-reborn-into-a-cult-c66050342d64 Gadget Hackwrench]] believed in the ‘egregore concept of energy’, [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve where fictional creations would spontaneously start existing in the real world if enough people believe in them.]] |
| 373 | ** This greatly resembles the [[FishPeople kuo-toa]]’s worship system in the Fifth Edition of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. |
| 374 | * [[https://www.thedailybeast.com/ The Daily Beast]] was named for the fictional newspaper from ''Literature/{{Scoop}}''. |
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