History Main / RealAwardFictionalCharacter

* In his first episode, Potter confides to Hawkeye that he got his Purple Heart when the moonshine still in his tent exploded.

* William Nekton from ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'' is an Olympic gold medalist in swimming.

Common choices include a Nobel Prize for the intellectuals, UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for the IntrepidReporter, a country-appropriate medal of honor for military personnel, the Tony/[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]/[[MediaNotes/GrammyAward Grammy]]/Emmy for performers, and [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic]] medals for athletes.

* The group of futurists in "Literature/TomorrowTown" is led by two UsefulNotes/HugoAward winners. The story even specifies the years and categories: Varno Zhoule won Best Short Story 1957 and Best Novelette 1958, and Georgie Gewell won Best Fan Editor 1958. (In real life, the Hugo Award categories were not standardised until the 1960s, and those categories were not awarded in those years.) Probably the only example of this trope in which a fictional character is ''bludgeoned to death'' with his own real award.

** [=BoJack's=] book, ''One Trick Pony'', ends up winning a [[UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward Golden Globe]].
** [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn ends up winning a Best Original Song [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]. Sadly, she doesn't get to enjoy it, as she dies from a drug overdose shortly thereafter]].

* Normally reserved for actors and filmmakers, the Hollywood Walk of Fame features stars for several fictional characters, including WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]], WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]], WesternAnimation/Shrek1, and Franchise/TheMuppets (Kermit got his own star several years previously).

* In 2003, the {{UsefulNotes/Academy Award}}s nominated Donald Kaufman in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'', a film in which he is a character and credited co-screenwriter with his in-film brother, the actual person Creator/CharlieKaufman.

->''"She's a world-class painter, social activist, iconoclast, UsefulNotes/{{Olympic|Games}} gold medalist for archery, a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} winner for her documentary on her UsefulNotes/{{Grammy|Award}}[==]-winning album, and the person voted 'Most Likely to be Creator/{{Banksy}}.'''

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", the title character tells UsefulNotes/JesseJames that he has been nominated for two [[MediaNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]]. The unimpressed James thinks that [=McGrew=] did not deserve to be nominated.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E102TheChangingOfTheGuard The Changing of the Guard]]", Artie Beechcroft received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Common choices include a Nobel Prize for the intellectuals, UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for the IntrepidReporter, a country-appropriate medal of honor for military personnel, the Tony/[[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]/[[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy]]/Emmy for performers, and [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic]] medals for athletes.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", the title character tells UsefulNotes/JesseJames that he has been nominated for two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]]. The unimpressed James thinks that [=McGrew=] did not deserve to be nominated.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone tells Nelson Baxley that he will go into television production and win two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]] in the future.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Tracy makes it his quest to complete the [[UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs EGOT grand slam]]. He wins an Oscar over the course of the show.

* ''Film/{{Tar}}'': In her opening introduction, the protagonist Lydia is mentioned to be one of very few creators who have completed UsefulNotes/TheEGOTs. This helps establish her as a huge name in the field of classical music.

* At the opening of ''Film/AllAboutEve'', Eve is being awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, an award for acting. This was a fictional award at the time, but was later {{Defictionalized}} as a regional award in Chicago.

* The GrandFinale of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is about Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Amy Ferrah-Fowler winning the Nobel Prize for their discovery of superasymmetry.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his pictures of Spider-Man. After he revealed to the world that he ''was'' Spider-Man in ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', he was sued by J. Jonah Jameson for essentially selling him pictures of himself, but no word if his prize was in danger of being revoked as well.

->''"She's a world-class painter, social activist, iconoclast, UsefulNotes/{{Olympic|Games}} gold medalist for archery, a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} winner for her documentary on her UsefulNotes/{{Grammy|Award}}[==]-winning album, and the person voted "Most Likely to be Creator/{{Banksy}}."''

* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Gru tries to impress Miss Hattie by having his minions create an online CV that claims he won a Nobel Prize and received a Medal of Honor, among other awards.