'''Basic Trope''': Characters are aware they are in a work of fiction, and are able to talk to the audience.
* '''Straight''': Characters can turn to camera and talk to the audience.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** NoFourthWall
** Characters are able to argue with the writers, to the extent that they can alter scenes after they happen.
** JerkassGods become impatient with you for not responding and actually manage to get out of the screen and into RealLife to talk to you ''directly.''
* '''Downplayed''': LeaningOnTheFourthWall
* '''Justified''':
** The characters are in a RealityTV show or being filmed for a documentary. The cameras ARE there.
** An {{Author Avatar}} breaks the fourth wall, as the author has reason to be aware of the audience that they are writing to.
** JerkassGods are experienced universe hoppers, thus they're genuinely capable of seeing into other realities- Breaking the fourth wall is easy.
* '''Inverted''': The actors remain completely in character and are shocked by the writers turning up on the set and telling them that they are fictional characters, explaining what is about to happen.
* '''Subverted''': A FourthWallPsych, e.g: Jim turns to camera and comments on the situation. On the next shot we realize that this was [[POVCam shown through Bob's eyes]].
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Bob then turns to camera and says “He was talking to me, OK? Jeez.”.
** Jim says "Not you, Bob! Them!", referring to the audience.
* '''Parodied''':
** As Alice does a long, inappropriate Shakespearian soliloquy, other characters pace around looking impatient.
** One of the characters is the camera person.
** The characters break the fourth wall in a way that [[WrongGenreSavvy makes no sense for the medium they are being portrayed in]], e.g. cartoon characters referring to the audience as "the reader".
** A character breaks through the fourth wall (a ''literal'' wall), leaving a pile of debris when they enter the real world.
* '''Zig Zagged''': A Bob is always talking to camera, both to the writers and the audience. It gets diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, and he is committed to mental hospital. We get scenes from “the ward for people who talk to invisible cameras” which are very odd. People in this ward are not always in agreement about where the camera is. Meanwhile, the writers miss having someone to talk to, and are punishing the other characters. Alice realizes this, and proclames it in a long Shakespearian soliloquy. The writers are moved and flattered by this. Bob is later released, but he is cured of his fourth-wall breaking.
* '''Averted''': Despite the wacky, whimsical, and down-right illogical setting, despite the whole thing being a spoof, no-one ever so much as turns to look at the camera.
* '''Enforced''': This is exactly the kind of show where people talk directly to the audience and the authors. And they do.
* '''Lampshaded''':
** “Yes YOU, audience! I can see you! Hello!”
** An AuthorAvatar is enraged upon witnessing this trope, shouting to the fourth-wall-breaking character "I REPLACED THE FOURTH WALL YESTERDAY, YOU DOUCHEWAD!"
* '''Invoked''': When something unfair happens, Bob complains to the writers.
* '''Exploited''': ReadingAheadInTheScript.
* '''Defied''': The characters [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretend]] that they are [[CloudCuckoolander oblivious to the fact or at least the very likely possibility that they are on a T.V show/movie]] and just roll along with the script as if they are in the real world.
* '''Discussed''': “I prefer talking to the writers than the audience. You can get more done.”
* '''Conversed''': “The characters on this show are always talking directly to the viewers. But they never seem to hear when I talk back to them.”
* '''Implied''': Not applicable. (Looking to the viewer/outside media is key to producing this trope.)
* '''Deconstructed''':
** One character talks to the camera, but it's actually a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, and bothers the other characters.
** Or, the [[NoticingTheFourthWall discovery that they are nothing more than fictional characters]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drives them insane]].
** [[MindScrew Character realizes that it has no free will, that its will is the will of author's, that everything it does and says including the realization part are just actions of the author, because of that author does not even know how to properly handle breaking the fourth wall since none of his characters exist especially the fourth wall breaker. This just makes everybody confused author, audience, and both characters of work and forth wall breaker who both do not even have free will to even get confused in the first place.]]
** Hate sink characters, especially slightly sympathetic ones, find out that the writers wrote them to be hated by everyone, therefore they realize they never have a chance to be good in first place, driving them mad with disastrous consequences.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** However it's pretty harmless - it's basically talking to yourself. The other characters learn to ignore it.
** Upon noticing they're supposedly fictional characters, it doesn't take long for them to realize ''[[AGodAmI we're]]'' [[MutuallyFictional just as fictional]]. Thus acknowledging us as mere observers they're capable of seeing too.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob, upon witnessing his author acts like he's their god, shrugs his shoulders and says to the audience "Least its not hentai."
* '''Played for Drama''': The Shakespearian soliloquy: A character gives a long speech, pretty much directly to the audience, about everything going on in their head.
* '''Played for Horror''': TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou
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