History Main / TheTreacheryOfImages

* This one can and has sometimes been easily averted, by instead stating "The next page has been intentionally left blank", followed by said blank page.

* Probably "This is Not a Photograph" by Music/MissionOfBurma, although--in keeping with their [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible commitment to obscurity]]--you can't really tell whether the song is a ShoutOut to Magritte, or something else entirely. Their tribute to "Max Ernst" is ''somewhat'' more straightforward, ending with a repeated "UsefulNotes/{{Dada}}" chant.

* [[DittoFighter Ditto]] in the anime and manga of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' have much more advanced shapeshifting skills than in the video game, but aren't particularly bright. In one case, a Ditto was shown a picture of a Dratini in a book and told to turn into it...and the Ditto turned into the book.

[[SelfDemonstratingArticle What you are reading is not a "page".]] It is merely a series of [[ComputersSpeakBinary 0's and 1's]] grouped into TCP segments, interpreted as HTML markup, and displayed via a matrix of glowing dots; just part of a large and complex abstraction which people call a "page" by means of convention, even though it only superficially resembles a thin rectangle of plant-fiber covered in ink shapes. [[StrawNihilist Believe nothing.]]

* In one ''Comicstrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic, Dogbert was trying to get someone to invest in his latest "Give more money to Dogbert" fund. His argument consisted of handing a photo of a mansion to the very, very stupid client and saying, "If you invest in the Dogbert Deferred Earnings Fund, one day this could be yours!"

* In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' the Man in the Shack, who claims not to rule the universe, also claims to be unconvinced that anything he experiences is real. Another episode mentions a man who claimed that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

* This is parodied in ''Videogame/KingdomOfLoathing'' with the [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Not-a-pipe Not-a-pipe]]: "You do not light the not-a-pipe, and you proceed to do something with it that is not smoking. Whatever it is, it's very refreshing, and gives you the feeling that your head has been replaced with either a window or a giant apple."

* [[DittoFighter Ditto]] in the anime and manga of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' have much more advanced shapeshifting skills than in the video game, but aren't particularly bright. In one case, a Ditto was shown a picture of a Dratini in a book and told to turn into it...and the Ditto turned into a book.

-->-- '''Hagbard''', The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' Trilogy

* ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'': This is a [[http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20061121 penis.]]

* According to Creator/{{Sanrio}}, the namesake of Franchise/HelloKitty [[https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/kitty-not-cat-sanrio-article-1.1920049 is not a cat]]:
--> Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature... The design takes the motif of a cat, but there is no element of a cat in Hello Kitty's setting.

[[caption-width-right:300:Nor is this a drawing by [[http://www.bizarro.com Dan Piraro.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Nor is this a drawing by [[http://www.bizarro.com/ Dan Piraro]].]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Nor is this a drawing by [[http://www.bizarrocomics.com/ Dan Piraro]].]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Nor is this a drawing by Dan Piraro.]]