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* ''Webcomic/TrueVillains": Mia briefly [[https://www.truevillains.com/comic.php?P=2015-09-23-Spatial%20Awareness-jpg stands astride]] two panels when Dexter teleports her into his house without warning.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Invoked in episode 11 of ''Anime/AnimeGataris'', where Minoa nearly walks into the abyss when the aspect ratio of a scene changes from 16:9 to 4:3. [[spoiler: This is just one example of reality breaking down into anime tropes during her day, but she's the only one to notice the change.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Loop}}'': The twins use their time powers to cross panel borders, such as the red twin firing her gun at the next panel's blue twin, or the blue twin leaping back a panel. Their dad, FatherTime, also does this, reaching back a panel to poke his daughter's cheeks.
* ComicBook/SheHulk did it once or twice. One issue of ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' has her ripping through two pages of ads to go after a villain.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Kitty Pryde, in some comics, can [[IntangibleMan phase]] through panels.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' has Doomsday [[spoiler:(actually a clone of him)]] smash through the entire bottom half of a page in attacking Superboy, destroying the frames in the process.
%%* Has been used in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' a number of times and in the Beano Video as well.
* In part 10 of the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' crossover, [[spoiler:Duo]] does this when he flies off to fight [[spoiler:the Chaos Devil.]]

* Issue #17 of ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' is mostly composed of Gwen going HowDoIShootWeb over her new NinjaProp wielding abilities which culminate into her not only touching the panel border, but pushing a pencil through it, then breaking into her future (the next panel), and finally falling through the hole out of the comic.
* The eponymous hero of the French comic ''Imbattable'' (Undefeatable) has the ability to move across panels as a superpower. Other characters see him teleporting, travelling in time, or duplicating himself, and never understand his explanations on how he's doing it.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay#Early_life "Little Sammy Sneeze"]] by Winsor [=McCay=] used this as early as the 1900's.

*** Another has Rat comment about being able to see up Blondie's skirt. Obviously the joke worked best when Pearls was immediately beneath ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930''.

* ''ComicStrip/LibertyMeadows'' occasionally features things like Ralph trying to hold onto the panel borders while Brandy drags him off to therapy. *SNAP* "Stupid cheap panel borders!"

* In the ''Blog/AskFlufflePuff'' short for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_fc3_ixN9Q "Pink, Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows"]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] weighs on her frame until it breaks, falling down on WesternAnimation/{{Dan|Vs}}.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]

* ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' had some scenes in the 3D version where characters and elements would protrude over the black {{letterbox}} bars. [[spoiler:When Erin saves Abby from falling into a dimensional portal, the ''whole movie'' expands over those bars.]] On DVD and Blu-ray, the 2D version also features these protrusions.

* Though it was a split screen in this case, one segment of "Formidable Opponent" on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' (where two Stephens would debate via chroma-key tricks) had Stephen Al-Bert (his terrorist counterpart) blowing up the split-screen at the end of the segment with a rocket launcher; when the smoke clears, the image is mainly broken like glass and all three Stephens have vanished.

* In the ''Advanced TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (2[[superscript:nd]] edition) "Monster Manual", the border around the [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elemental]] is burning up due to the close proximity. Similarly, the rust monster is corroding its border.

* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'': In the Webisode "The Last Day of School", at one point Rainbow Dash [[https://derpibooru.org/1689554 pushes a transition bar against Twilight's side of the screen]] to speak over her, while Twilight pushes back.

* Only the outsiders of ''Webcomic/Project0'' break panel to show that they aren't [[RealityWarper bound by reality.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' plays with this sometimes.
** Haley gets knocked into the next strip in the fight with Tsukiko. (The strip in question is called "At Least It Wasn't the FourthWall This Time.")
** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1291.html "Threadbare"]], the visible "Threads of Creation" (the raw materials making out the plane, as well as the Snarl), a sure sign that reality is getting frayed around the edge, are seen bursting through the usual panel dividers of the strip.
* In the ArtShift [[http://www.webtoonlive.com/webtoon/Welcome%20to%20the%20Convenience%20Store/ch78/ chapter]] of ''Webcomic/WelcomeToTheConvenienceStore''.
* In [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=310 a strip]] of ''[[Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}} Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'', Garfield breaks through all the panels to get a cookie jar that's [[JustOneSecondOutOfSync just two seconds out-of-sync]].
* ''Webcomic/TheBookOfBiff'': [[http://thebookofbiff.com/2010/04/12/1000-grow/ One panel]] and all the others that [[IndexOfTheWeek same week]] have Biff end up as a giant who towers above the comic panel.
* From ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'': [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0240.html Nemen Yi]] is a master of InfiniteCanvas Style. High-level TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} are just ''that good''. Including using part of the frame [[ImprobableWeaponUser as throwing knife]].

* ''[[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/ Rock, Paper, Cynic]]''
** Panel-breaking is used as a version of two-dimensional time travel in the comic, "[[http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-03-10 Time Travel]]".
** We see a similar trick in "[[http://rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-01-15 Free]]", where a stickman tries to dig his way out of the frame.
* ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'' does this. A lot. Looking at previous and future panels, climbing between panels, and even pulling a section out of a panel are common occurrences.
* ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'' may provide the most triumphant example. Faerie pirates cast a spell that lets them fire a ''cannon'' [[http://footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=350 through the side of the panel and into the next]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' likes to show characters leaning into frame and holding onto the panel borders.
** Of particular note is that when Tagon crashed through a ceiling to make an entrance, it also looks like [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-11 he crashed through the top of the panel]] with a large section missing, and bits falling off.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Unbound}}'', events sometimes spill over the sides of the comic. In one case a fire spreads to the 'paper' of the website's background, leaving it blackened once the fire is out.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', weird supernatural stuff--like certain fires, or metaphorical snake skeletons--extend off the page. When the characters walk through a dark tomb, the entire webpage is darkened. Interactions between the [[EldritchLocation Khert]] and the physical world are also occasionally shown through frame breaks--Sette enters the Khert by falling through a frame, and during a later conversation she has with Murkoph he's trapped outside the page's frames while Sette is safely inside of them.
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. During the ''VideoGame/MegaMan5'' parody, the protagonists split up and the comic began running two strips per day so the plots for both groups could update concurrently. After about a month of these updates, the characters in the bottom strip began wondering how their allies were doing, so they climbed into the strip above them to ask.
* In ''Webcomic/MixedMyth'', Tamit learns the secret of TimeTravel, and it involves seeing the comic panels. She then demonstrates her mastery by reaching through time (i.e. across the panel borders) to poke someone in an adjacent panel.

* Gavin, the main villain of ''Webcomic/TheFancyAdventuresOfJackCannon'', [[http://fancyadventures.com/2011/12/02/page-349 here]] tries to trap the titular hero in a shrinking panel frame, and Jack has to break it to escape.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', a [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-09-03 flashback panel]] featured Grace holding onto the "pop-up" panel she's coming out of in one instance and pointing at the flashback in another instance.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Late into the comic's sixth act, a villainous (and [[FourthWallObserver metafictional]]) character discovers a magical Crowbar and proceeds to use it to beat a harmless, if unsettling, clown. The narrator is disgusted and plays terrible music to punish the villain, but the AntiMagic gives the crowbar the ability to attack the website's format, and send links across the page flying around. He uses this to keep the narrator in-line and protest any story development he objects to [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/007395/ here]].
** Cans clocking powers allow him to punch characters out of panels into the default background of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures''. This escalates in the End of Act 6 animation, where his powers have him chasing a character across and through multiple panels until they start fighting on top of one.
** To demonstrate John's new metafictional powers to traverse and retcon the story, when he turns into wind he dissipates past the panel borders.
* ''Webcomic/DarkLegacyComics'' [[http://www.darklegacycomics.com/421 #421]] features a whole page full of increasingly broken frames (eventually collapsing onto each other, with objects sticking from one frame to the next) as a result of Narya and Miji ''mining the frame sides'' to make "white platinum". [[http://www.darklegacycomics.com/411 #411]] features the clones attacking each other (accidentally) through the panel borders, even between ''rows'' in a strange form of time travel.
* ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'' has this as part of a WhamShot when [[spoiler: Temporary Dark Samus [[http://l-empire.smackjeeves.com/comics/2315292/the-end-is-nigh-pt-12/ jumps out of the frame of the comic]], [[RageAgainstTheAuthor taking one of the authors with him]].]]
* Near the end of the original series of ''Webcomic/StarMares'', the background ponies are trying to reach the top of the Empress's tower, but are trapped in an adjacent shaft with no way through. Maple Leaf, after having spent the entire comic telling everypony ''not'' to break the fourth wall, uses her party cannon to bust through the frame (it being more easily broken than the wall would be).

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' plays with this sometimes. Haley gets knocked into the next strip in the fight with Tsukiko. (The strip in question is called "At Least It Wasn't the FourthWall This Time.")

*** Another has Rat comment about being able to see up Blondie's skirt. Obviously the joke worked best when Pearls was immediately beneath ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}''.