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1''{{Metafiction}} is crazy, man! We had to do what it said!''
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7+ {{Metafiction}}
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9'''Sub-indexes:'''
10+ FourthWall
11+ PaintingTheMedium
12+ TelevisionTropes
13+ TheseTropesAreAvailableOnVideoAndDVD
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15* TwoForOneShow: A ShowWithinAShow has equal prominence as the main plot.
16* ActorAllusion: A work references the career or personal life of one of the actors involved.
17* AddressingThePlayer: The game talks to the player directly, rather than as if they were a character in the game.
18* AllPartOfTheShow: Genuine chaos during a show is misinterpreted as an intentional part of it.
19* AlwaysALiveTransmission: A work that would probably be pre-recorded still appears to be happening live.
20* AnimatedActors: Fictional characters act as if they're in-universe actors performing on the show.
21* AscendedMeme: A meme is made officially canon by the work it is derived from.
22* AudienceParticipation: A performance requires the audience to say things in response to what the characters say.
23* AudienceParticipationFailure: The audience disrupts the performance by not giving the expected responses.
24* AudienceWhatAudience: Other characters can't see the metafictional elements that one character can.
25* AuthorPowers: A character's godlike powers are justified by being the author of the work itself.
26* AuthorsRetaliation: A character is made to suffer due to offending the author of their own work.
27* BehindTheBlack: Character's aren't aware of what the audience can't see, even if it violates in-universe logic.
28* BetterThanABareBulb: A work or creator tends to apply LampshadeHanging extensively.
29* BodyWipe: The camera makes contact with a character as it transitions to a new scene.
30* BritishHumour
31* CastIncest: Related characters are played by actors who are lovers in real life.
32* CatchTheConscience: A show or story is put on to trigger the conscience of an audience member.
33* CelebrityParadox: The people involved in a work of fiction may not exist in that work's reality.
34* CharacterBlog: A character has their own account on a real life social media website.
35* CommercialSwitcheroo: The real commercial interrupts or replaces the fake commercial.
36* CompanyCameo: Companies that worked on and/or distributed a piece of media receive references in-universe.
37* ConversationalTroping: Characters talk about tropes in fiction despite being in fiction themselves.
38* DeathByGenreSavviness: A character tries to use their knowledge of how things usually happen in stories similar to their current situation, but gets killed anyway.
39* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The work features an in-universe playing/whistling/humming/etc. of a song from the soundtrack.
40* DiegeticVisualEffects: What seems like special effects turn out to be an in-universe part of the setting.
41* DirectLineToTheAuthor: A work is presented as if it really happened and was later recounted to the actual creators.
42* EasterEgg: Some of the work's content can only be revealed by the right real-life circumstance or audience interaction.
43* EndOfSeriesAwareness: The ending of a series has the characters acknowledge that their show has come to an end.
44* EpistolaryNovel: A novel is presented as if it was a compilation of multiple other writings.
45* ExpyCoexistence: A parody or imitation of a copyrighted character is established to coexist with the character they are copying.
46* ExternalRetcon: One work explains or re-tells the events of another work as if the new one was the "real" story.
47* FakeInteractivity: A work, often for children, prompts AudienceParticipation that has no actual effect on the work.
48* FourthWall: The invisible wall between a work of fiction and the real world.
49** BreakingTheFourthWall: A character talks directly to the audience or points out that they're in a work of fiction.
50** BreakingTheReviewersWall: Someone discussing the work directly interacts with the characters in it.
51** ExploitingTheFourthWall: Characters use their access to metafictional elements to their advantage.
52** FourthWallMailSlot: Characters within the work respond to letters from real life fans.
53** FourthWallObserver: A character who addresses the audience but is the only one who acknowledges the fourth wall's existence.
54** FourthWallPsych: A subversion of BreakingTheFourthWall.
55** FourthWallShutInStory: An author becomes trapped inside their own fictional world.
56** TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: A character threatens to harm the audience.
57** FromBeyondTheFourthWall: Entities, items, or influences come into the story directly from the real world.
58** LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A character makes a statement that makes sense in-universe, but can also be interpreted as acknowledging that they are in a work of fiction.
59** LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: Real audience members can visit the website from within the story.
60** NoFourthWall: The fourth wall is broken so frequently that it may as well not exist.
61** NoInnerFourthWall: NoFourthWall for the ShowWithinAShow.
62** NoticingTheFourthWall: A character makes the shocking realization that they exist within a story.
63** ReachingThroughTheFourthWall: A non-real concept passes through the fourth wall and becomes a real, physical person, object, place, animal, or event.
64** ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker: A character is reprimanded for breaking the fourth wall.
65** YouBastard: The audience is called out on enjoying the characters' suffering.
66* FunctionalGenreSavvy: A character's interpretation of situations leans towards the genre they're in.
67* GenreSavvy: A character who knows what to do in certain situations due to being knowledgeable on how similar events happen in specific works of fiction.
68** YouWatchTooMuchX: One character thinks another's GenreSavvy take on a situation is excessive.
69* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits: Video game characters explain how the controls work.
70* HiddenTrack: The general information about the work doesn't disclose the existence of part of the work.
71* HostileShowTakeover: A villain tries to take over the hero's show as their own.
72* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
73* HowIsThatEvenPossible: A character points out that an action or event can't happen in real life by asking in bewilderment how it can possibly happen.
74* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The main story is implied to be written by one of the characters in it.
75* IWroteOurStory: A character writes a story within the main story based on the main story or its characters.
76* ImagineSpotting: One character can inexplicably see another's FantasySequence just like the audience can.
77* InDefenceOfStoryTelling: The moral of the story: Telling stories makes life better.
78* InCharacterCommentaries: The audio commentary on the home media release of a work consists of the actors pretending to be their characters recounting their experiences in the movie or television episode.
79* InUniverse: Metafictional tropes occur within the story, such as characters in the story having the same AudienceReactions real life audiences do.
80* InspirationNod: A work contains a ShoutOut or shared element with the work that inspired it.
81* IntrepidFictioneer: A character in the main work enters into one or more ShowsWithinAShow.
82* LampshadeHanging: Characters point out when a trope is in play or address the tendency for the trope to be present.
83* LeftItIn: A character comments that the scene they're currently appearing in will or should be cut, but it's not.
84* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Background music turns out to be coming from an in-universe source and is then turned off.
85* LetsWatchOurShowPlot: Characters watch and commentate on the actual episodes of their own show.
86* LifeEmbellished: The story is directly based on the author's life, except way cooler.
87* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Fans theorize that the work comes from the creator retelling events that actually happened.
88* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: A RealLife fictional work has an agenda [[InUniverse in the universe]] of another.
89* MediumAwareness: Characters are shown to be aware that they are in a work of fiction.
90* MetaCasting
91* MetaFic
92* MetaGuy
93* MetaTwist
94* MetafictionalDevice
95* MutuallyFictional
96* MythologyGag: An adaptation makes a reference to one or more of the previous continuities.
97* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: A work mentions factual information that sounds like made-up nonsense, followed immediately by a disclaimer that the information is accurate in spite of how outlandish it may sound.
98* NestedStory
99* NestedStoryReveal
100* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs
101* OpeningShoutOut: The series references its own title sequence.
102* ThePlayerIsTheMostImportantResource
103* PlayingATree
104* PushedInFrontOfTheAudience
105* {{Postmodernism}}
106* ThePowerOfLanguage
107* PrisonerPerformance: Inmates put on a theatrical performance or other live entertainment in prison.
108* ProductionForeshadowing: A work unintentionally alludes to another work that the same production company wouldn't produce until much later.
109* ProductionThrowback
110* {{Prop}}: Something an actor holds or physically interacts with in a production.
111* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The characters try to defy what the author wants to do with the story.
112* RainbowSpeak
113* ReadingAheadInTheScript
114* RealWorldEpisode: An episode where the characters find their way into the real world.
115* RebootSnark: A joke about the abundance of reboots and remakes.
116* RecursiveCanon: A work of fiction somehow exists as a work of fiction within its own reality.
117* RecursiveReality
118* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: The future shows a film series to still be ongoing with more sequels being made.
119* RefugeeFromTVLand: An in-universe fictional character finds their way into the work of fiction's "real world".
120* RetroactiveLegacy
121* RPGMechanicsVerse
122* SchoolPlay
123* ScrapbookStory
124* ScreenTap
125* SequelSnark: A joke is made about the movie getting a sequel.
126* SelfParody
127* TheShowMustGoWrong
128* ShowWithinAShow: A work of fiction within the work of fiction.
129** CreatorsShowWithinAShow: The in-universe show becomes a work in its own right.
130* SortingAlgorithmOfTropes: With many a SlidingScale.
131* SpeechBubblesInterruption
132* StudioEpisode
133* SuddenGameInterface
134* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality
135* ThisIsReality: A joke where a character points out that the real world isn't some cartoon, unaware that they actually ''are'' in a work of fiction.
136* TitleDrop: A work's title is mentioned within the work.
137* TrappedInTVLand: Someone gets trapped inside a work of fiction.
138* TropeName
139* TranslationNod: A work references one of its translations.
140* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse
141* UnconventionalFormatting
142* VideoGamesAndFate
143* VisualTitleDrop
144* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: The characters of a television show laugh at the idea of someone making a show starring them.
145* WhoWritesThisCrap: Characters remark about the writing having quality that leaves a lot to be desired.
146* TheWorldAsMyth
147* WrongGenreSavvy: Someone thinks they know what needs to be done based on what they've seen done in fiction, but are foiled by not knowing the kind of story they're actually involved with.
148* YouJustRuinedTheShot: Someone attempts to be a hero, but learns the hard way that the "disaster" was really a movie scene being filmed that their efforts have just ruined.

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