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* ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' is rather fond of this. Kartos's character in particular: he's\s a sentient minecart who's out of a job because the old-school MinecartMadness level has fallen out of fashion. When he's around, the jokes about how nobody really liked minecart levels... but Kartos's main contribution to the game is--you guessed it--minecart levels.

* The later ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games use lampshading as a frequent source of humor, most prominently Sonic's snarky comments towards Dr Eggman's plans past and present.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovieTheSecondPart'' also did the same - even down to making the characters 'fight' like minifigs.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2'' also did the same - even down to making the characters 'fight' like minifigs.

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* ‘’Literature/AlcatrazVsTheEvilLibrarians’’ is rather fond of this. Considering it is written as an autobiography by a [[DeadpanSnarker protagonist]] who likes to go on philosophical tangents and flat out [[BlatantLies make things up]].

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** Comicbook/SheHulk
** SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}

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%%* FanFic/GraveAcademy, Jack, Samantha and Luke usually have this job.

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* ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has a tone closer to an extended episode of ''Freakazoid'' than your average Disney movie. Most blatantly: after our heroes manage to escape Yzma and Kronk in a chase scene, they make it to Yzma's secret lab - only to find Yzma there waiting for them. Kuzco demands to know how she pulled that off.
-->'''Yzma:''' Uh...how ''did'' we, Kronk?\\
'''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''(pulls down chart showing the chase)'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.

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* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' is fond of LampshadeHanging to an extreme degree. Notice how many trope examples on its page involve lampshades in some way.
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* OlderThanSteam[=/=]JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples: In ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', a troupe of peasants put on a horrible cliched play about Pyramus and Thisbe. Every lame standby is used and acknowledged. The King and his court--while happy to point out the flaws--still thoroughly enjoy the show, and reward the performers.

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* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] has a habit of pointing out how cliche something he's about to do is, and in [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1632-Just-Cause-2 one case]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment lampshaded lampshading]].
* {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}, in his LetsPlay videos will lampshade anything and everything that happens. Usually done with regards to tropes within the game itself, either the story or gameplay, but often will point out how [[CatchPhrase cliche something]] [[VerbalTic he says is]], or how badly he's playing due to the [[PerformanceAnxiety Let's Play Curse]].
%%* The work of [[WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC Its Just Some Random Guy]].
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' (and AbridgedSeries in general) ''exist'' for this reason.

* ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'' frequently points out its own flaws including lackluster animation, questionable voice acting, Dusty's behavior, and Matt's unlikeability.
* A lot of the ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'' videos tend to lampshade just about ''anything'' that's considered ridiculous in fiction, with video games being the most common victims of this.
* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' spends almost all of its time lampshading just about everything nonsensical about ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' derives about half its humour from LampshadeHanging, to such an extent to even ''hang a lampshade on hanging lampshades.'' See the picture on LampshadeHanging.

* ''VideoGame/MobiusFinalFantasy'' is supposedly a dramatic story about a Warrior Of Light rising to save Palamecia. The problems? There's several hundred people who claim to be TheChosenOne, everyone else is just trying to reassure the people of the world that they are going to be saved, and the ExpositionFairy outright uses NoPlotNoProblem as a ShrugOfGod over the fact that some of it is literally a RandomEventsPlot, and even your loyal companion seems to not have a clue what he's doing half the time. It even allows for it's own SnarkBait status... by having the player character constantly let rip with some of the more obvious snarks!

** Comicbook/{{Robin}}

** Season one had Cyril mistakenly believe that the ''literal'' ChekhovsGun would be the problem due to a hair-trigger, but it was instead the ''metaphorical'' one [[spoiler: that poisons Trini]].

->'''Artix:''' Magic!

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' started doing this around the fourth season - lampshades were present before, but never to such a degree. It's since increased to the point that most jokes are lampshades on the show's on inconsistent logic.

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' tends to do this a lot, though notably in a more BlackComdey style way then normal due to the presence of [[BearsAreBadNews Mono]] [[MascotCharacter kuma]].

** Also lampshaded is the mysterious absence of Solanum from the news; the companies that own them didn't want to cause a panic. This disregards just about everything about how the news works, the entire Internet, and the tendency of news to gyrate towards more sensationalist stories, even if it means sacrificing accuracy. The walking dead would be the Holy Grail for any news organization.

** The reasoning behind that particular joke - which is ''not'' explained in the film - makes this a case of reality being weird combined with a TakeThat at the lawyers.[[note:Under legal agreements, primarily to avoid a war with the IP holders of ''Star Wars'', Mel Brooks had to agree that ''Spaceballs'' would not be allowed to engage in any merchandising. So, both to deal with that albatross around his neck and have some fun at the lawyers' expense, the merchandising scene was used for some gleeful, if heavily veiled, mockery.]]

** The reasoning behind that particular joke - which is ''not'' explained in the film - makes this a case of reality being weird combined with a TakeThat at the lawyers.[[note:Under legal agreements, primarily to avoid a war with the IP holders of ''Star Wars'', Mel Brooks had to agree that ''Spaceballs'' would not be allowed to engage in any merchandising. So, both to deal with that albatross around his neck and have some fun at the lawyers' expense, the merchandising scene was used for some gleeful, if heavily veiled, mockery.

->'''[[ThePaladin Artix]]:''' No problem at all, my friend! We can solve this the same way we justify all the plot holes and bugs in the game.
->'''[[HelloInsertNameHere The Hero]]:''' How do we do that?

* ''Film/TheresNothingOutThere'', in which a group of teenagers stay at a cottage in the woods and then get attacked by an alien. The twist is the GenreSavvy protagonist, who points out the absurdities of the CatScare, predicts DeathBySex, and eventually figures out that [[spoiler: [[TrappedInTVLand they're all literally trapped inside a horror movie.]]]]

* Every movie involving Franchise/TheMuppets hangs enough {{Lampshades}} in its 90-or-so minutes to open a store with more than a week's inventory.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series hangs lampshades on and/or subverts practically every trope it uses, as befits a series in which characters have scientifically proven (and [[TropeNamer named]]) the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' does this, thanks largely to having a cast with purposefully vague characterization, especially with both the major heroines being JerkAss DeadpanSnarker MetaGuy characters. In ''Subterranean Animism'', Marisa and Alice's storyline consisted of the two of them insulting each other and making fun of everything they ran across to the point where they never actually uncovered what the plot was, they simply blew everything up because they know it's a game where EverythingIsTryingToKillYou, and that the motives really didn't matter, [[KleptomaniacHero so long as they got all the loot they could find in the end]].
** This form of conversation continues in the Extra Stage, where Marisa asks why the hell she's visiting the Moriya Shrine, and Alice outright tells her that it's the BonusDungeon. Marisa's response is along the lines of [[NoFourthWall 'Haven't I already done enough by beating the game already?']]

* Its fellow DS SpinOff of Videogame/SuperRobotWars, ''Videogame/SupaRoboGakuen'', uses its gimmick of being Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[JustForFun/XMeetsY with]] {{Super Robot}}s to lampshade the heck out of {{Mons}}, mecha anime conventions, school anime conventions and anything else they can get their hands on, including its parent series.

* ''VideoGame/MobiusFinalFantasy'' is supposedly a dramatic story about a Warrior Of Light rising to save Palamecia. The problems? There's several hundred people who claim to be the ChosenOne, everyone else is just trying to reassure the people of the world that they are going to be saved, and the ExpositionFairy outright uses NoPlotNoProblem as a ShrugOfGod over the fact that some of it is literally a RandomEventsPlot, and even your loyal companion seems to not have a clue what he's doing half the time.
** It even allows for it's own SnarkBait status... by having the player character constantly let rip with some of the more obvious snarks!

* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' does this a lot, too, and a lot of the humor ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' comes from hanging Lampshades on some of the more JustForFun/{{egregious}} things in ''Franchise/StarWars''.
** And so, naturally, it was only a matter of time before they got around to [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0353.html Lampshading their own attachment]] to this trope. It's like some sort of infinite recursion of {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing.

* ''WebComic/MuhPhoenix'': The comic takes a dig at most of the incongruences of ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen, and comic books in general.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' does this a lot. Unlike most examples, the Lampshading of the show's weird aspects is often relevant or even central to the plot; in these cases, it will usually be explained by the episode's end, but if not, it'll just get left as RuleOfFunny.

->'''Artix:''' [[AWizardDidIt Magic!]]