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* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Virgil grows up reading comic books about ComicBook/{{Superman}} and the ComicBook/GreenLantern, and eventually meets and teams up with them from time to time. Probably more of a subtle {{retcon}}. ''Static Shock'' was originally disconnected from the regular DC universe with the DC characters as fictional (kind of like Creator/MilestoneComics to Franchise/TheDCU). Then Static and his universe got added to the DC universe, so now Static couldn't have possibly read those comics or everyone should know Superman's SecretIdentity as well.
** Possibly justified if the Superman comics in-universe are meant to depict battles that Superman actually fought in-universe, and details like Superman's secret identity are never touched upon in those comics. The line "Even Clark Kent has a day job" in "They're Playing My Song" was subjected to OrwellianRetcon and cut from later broadcasts.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Virgil grows up reading comic books about ComicBook/{{Superman}} and the ComicBook/GreenLantern, and eventually meets and teams up with them from time to time. Probably more of a subtle {{retcon}}. Originally those comics ''were'' just meant as fiction in-universe, but then ''Static Shock'' was originally disconnected from the regular DC universe with the DC characters as fictional (kind retconned to be part of like Creator/MilestoneComics to Franchise/TheDCU). Then Static and his universe got added to the DC universe, so now Static couldn't have possibly read those comics or everyone should know Superman's SecretIdentity as well.
** Possibly justified if the Superman comics in-universe are meant to depict battles that Superman actually fought in-universe, and details like Superman's secret identity are never touched upon in those comics.
Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. The line "Even Clark Kent has a day job" in episode "They're Playing My Song" originally had the line "Even Clark Kent has a day job.", but it was subjected to OrwellianRetcon and [[OrwellianRetcon cut from later broadcasts.broadcasts]] because it no longer made any sense in a setting where Superman exists and his identity is still a secret.
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** TheNineties [[Anime/SailorMoon Anime]]: Sailor V's franchise still exists, again started with the Sailor V Game (even if the circumstances are unknown). One episode has Usagi, Ami and Rei visiting the studio where Sailor V's anime is being made and defending it from two Youmas accidentally trying to ruin it. Later episodes show that the franchise has expanded to at least ''Sailor Moon'', [[IdentityImpersonator with Sailor Venus disguised as Sailor Moon passing Usagi as a fan who owns a fake Cosmic Heart Compact]].

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** TheNineties [[Anime/SailorMoon Anime]]: Sailor V's franchise still exists, again started with the Sailor V Game (even if the circumstances are unknown). One episode has Usagi, Ami and Rei visiting the studio where Sailor V's anime is being made and defending it from two Youmas accidentally trying to ruin it. Later episodes show that the franchise has expanded to at least ''Sailor Moon'', Moon''; Sailor Venus, [[IdentityImpersonator with Sailor Venus disguised as Sailor Moon passing Moon]], passes Usagi off as a fan who owns a fake toy Cosmic Heart Compact]].Compact.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersEarthspark'': The Transformers have their own comics, which capitalizes their fame among human society after the war between Autobots and Decepticons.

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* In Lev Grossman's ''Literature/TheMagicians'' the world described in a popular fantasy series titled ''Fillory and Further'' turns out to really exist and is visited by the novel's protagonists.
** In its sequel ''The Magician King'', the world of ''The Teletubbies'' turns out to really exist as well.

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* In Lev Grossman's ''Literature/TheMagicians'' ''Literature/TheMagicians'', the world described in a popular fantasy series titled ''Fillory and Further'' turns out to really exist and is visited by the novel's protagonists.
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protagonists. In its sequel ''The Magician King'', the world of ''The Teletubbies'' turns out to really exist as well.



* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The Monster at the End of This Book". Sam and Dean discover that their lives have been turned into a series of horror novels. Played straight with the writer, who discovers (when Sam and Dean show up at his house) that [[MindScrew the characters he thought he'd created are actually real.]]

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* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E18TheMonsterAtTheEndOfThisBook The Monster at the End of This Book".Book]]". Sam and Dean discover that their lives have been turned into a series of horror novels. Played straight with the writer, who discovers (when Sam and Dean show up at his house) that [[MindScrew the characters he thought he'd created are actually real.]]real]].

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