1 | ->''"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?"'' |
2 | -->-- '''Randall Munroe, Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''' [[http://xkcd.com/785/ #785]] in the AltText |
3 | |
4 | SuperTrope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one's own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two. |
5 | |
6 | Insert joke about the FourthWall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don't exist, and adding examples to the SelfDemonstratingArticle list. |
7 | ---- |
8 | !!Tropes involved: |
9 | [[index]] |
10 | [floatboxright: |
11 | Related Indexes: |
12 | + RantComedy |
13 | + ThisTropeNameReferencesItself |
14 | ] |
15 | * AffectionateParody: A work parodies another work out of love for the source material. |
16 | * AsideGlance: Characters looking toward the audience briefly. |
17 | * AudienceWhatAudience |
18 | * BritishHumour |
19 | * {{Camp}} (occasionally) |
20 | * CompanyCameo: The work contains references to the companies that worked on and/or distributed it. |
21 | * DeconstructiveParody: A franchise installment handles the tropes and traditions of the series in a more realistic manner than usual. |
22 | * JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere (a quick self reference for a page here, that doesn't get in the way of the main description) |
23 | * EyebrowWaggle |
24 | * HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore. |
25 | * HypocriticalHumor: A gag involving a character making a hypocritical statement or otherwise demonstrating comically blatant hypocrisy. |
26 | * HypocrisyNod: A character acknowledges when they're being hypocritical. |
27 | * LampshadeHanging: A character acknowledges when a specific trope is occurring or has a tendency to happen. |
28 | * LeftItIn |
29 | * MediumAwareness: The character is aware that they are in a work of fiction. |
30 | * NoFourthWall: The fourth wall is broken so often that it's as if there never was a fourth wall to begin with. |
31 | ** Some regions of the SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness |
32 | * PlayingWithATrope |
33 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor |
34 | * SatireParodyPastiche (and a little bit of all three) |
35 | * ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker |
36 | * SelfDeprecation: The work makes fun of itself for laughs. |
37 | * SelfParody |
38 | * SpoofAesop |
39 | * SubvertedTrope (sometimes) |
40 | [[/index]] |
41 | ---- |
42 | -->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]''': TV Tropes breaks the FourthWall soooo much... |
43 | -->'''[[ThoseTwoGuys Statler]]:''' [[Series/MatchGame How much do they break it?]] |
44 | -->'''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Waldorf]]''': They break it so much they're now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot! |
45 | -->'''Both''': Ho Ho Ho! |
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