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Examples of type 1 (characters involved in production)

• In Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series, Bakura and Zorc star in a sitcom called Zorc and Pals. And The Suite Life of Zorc and Cody.
  • Also the brief appearance of Kill Your Family.
• In Legally By 30, Quinn stars in a show called Crashcart Justice.
• The South of Nowhere story, "Romance on the Set" Spencer and Ashley (and many of the other characters) star in a teen drama called North of Somewhere and meet during production.
• In The Game Of The Gods, Morgoth and Varda play a Cosmic Chess Game. Each game is a story. Morgoth's game piece is a Mary Sue, and Varda's goal is to remove this piece from the board. Morgoth is always losing, so we go through 30 stories, each centered on some Mary Sue.
• In All You Need Is Love in order to raise money for the Kira investigation Matsuda writes and produces a low-budget soap opera called "The Boogeyman" which is very loosely based on the lives of the Kira-taskforce and has roped the taskforce into acting in his Soap. To Light's ire Matsuda has him cast as "the nice gay schoolboy."

Examples of type 2 (characters are fans)

• Several in Aeon Natum Engel:
  • Question Time with Alpha Centauri leaders who speak mostly with their game quotes.
  • Jerry Springer with Chaos Lords from Dawn of War as its hosts.
  • Artistic License-Heavy Snake Fist.
  • Viewers Are Geniuses-type show T for Tangency.
• Kyon: Big Damn Hero has a Trope-tan anime and movie, with shades of Type 3 and possibly 4 mixed in as well.