History Main / RogerRabbitEffect

* The PlatypusComix story "True Believers" portrays such comic characters as {{Spider-Man}} as actual people, and such editors as [[JoeQuesada Joe]] [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Quesadilla]] as both their bosses and their gods (any possible comic-world occurrence they right down instantly happens to the characters).

A sub-category of this trope is any story where cartoon characters are real and exist independently from "real" human beings (which may or may not be set in ToonTown). Since this is such a visual idea, it's not very common in forms of media that lack a visual aspect, although the odd duck does exist.

* ''CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', inhabitants of the DC Universe's Earth-C, a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. Occasionally, they lend a hand to characters such as {{Superman}} and the ComicBook/TeenTitans.

* ''[[{{Ptitle36fwwzhk}} Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'' and ''SpaceJam''

* ''Howard The Duck''
* The ''Warren Strong'' episodes of ''Tom Strong''.

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* The opening of ''ExcelSaga'' briefly features Excel, Hyatt, Nabeshin, and a few other characters running through a [[RealLife real-world]] environment. However, they do not interact with any live-action performers.
* ''TwilightOfTheCockroaches'' is a rare Japanese example of the first type of Roger Rabbit Effect. A live action character lives in an apartment with a society of anime roaches.
* The wall calendars for ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'' feature Yotsuba drawn into color photographs, sometimes interacting with real people.
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* A music video for The Apples in Stereo song "Signal in the Sky (Let's Go!)" features the band members playing their song in a cardboard recreation of the city of Townsville while ThePowerpuffGirls fly around in the background beating up a guy dressed as the orange fish monster with the many eyes. You know the one.
* The video for "Opposites Attract" famously has Paula Abdul dueting with MC Skat Kat, a cartoon cat.
** Continued in the video for [[VirtualCelebrity MC Skat Kat]]'s single "Scat Strut".
* The video for "Breathless" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds has cartoon foxes, rabbits, and other animals running around.
* The video for PeterGabriel's "Sledgehammer" has Gabriel next to stop-motion characters.
** Blending was actually made more believable by stop-motion animating [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixilation Peter Gabriel himself as well]].
* The video got A-ha's "Take On Me" featured a pencil-sketch character "drawing" a live-action woman into his life.
* {{Gorillaz}} occasionally interact with live-action performers; during a concert, their computerised selves performed alongside Madonna. Within the canon, it varies as to whether they ''know'' they're cartoon characters; 2D once said he's pleased to be a cartoon character because "Paternity suits don't stick 'cos I don't have any DNA." (Apparently they ''do'' stick when the mother is another cartoon character, as shown by the existence of 2D's numerous illegitimate children.) Murdoc also shrugged off a potential murder charge after [[spoiler:the ''El Manana'' XanatosGambit in which he used the crashing windmill to kill off a stalker of his]], on the grounds that "I don't even have fingerprints."
** Murdoc claims Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the actual band creators, are their producer and photographer/video producer, respectively (although, as he further stated, "it's all bull because Damon mostly sits around playing his banjo or looking up 'ethnic instruments' on Google, and Jamie's mainly designing his beard"). Then there's [[http://i35.tinypic.com/m9vz7o.jpg this]], to prove the point visually. There was also the interview with {{Franz Ferdinand}} that had a "photoshoot" with both band's members.
* [[{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] did this during her during her "live-action" concert in Los Angeles, I think it was. Each time a member of her band was introduced, she would turn to them, smile, and wave. In fact, the entire concert was an example of this. A virtual diva in the real world? Sweet!
* The French pianist RichardClayderman has a clip, "Smiling Joey", where for some reason he's at his piano in a boat floating down a river while various animated woodland critters are playing the parts of the orchestra.
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* [[WalkingWithDinosaurs]] has CGI (or sometimes puppet) dinosaurs on live-action backgrounds, complete with footprints, splashes in water, kicking up dust, and even [[{{Squick}} urinating]].

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* Disney used this for decades, starting with the [[AliceComedies "Alice"]] series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through ''TheReluctantDragon'', ''So Dear To My Heart'', the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', ''MaryPoppins'', ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', and ''[=~Pete's Dragon~=]''. They're still using it today.

* ''[=~Out Of Jimmy's Head~=]''

* On one episode of ''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]'', as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIJvcWkVcs Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion]] question how to put down dead budgies, one of TerryGilliam's cut-out animations from the previous link strolls by (it's really a blow-up on a large piece of board being carried around). The two old ladies greet it with a hearty "Good morning, Mrs. Cut-Out!"

** In addition, Cosmo and Wanda made a special guest cameo in a fantasy sequence on ''[=~Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide~=]''.
* Infrequently done for comic effect on ''[=~SpongeBob SquarePants~=]'' when the characters go on land. In one episode, they were all portrayed as [[StylisticSuck crude puppets]]. In ''[=The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie=]'', part of the climax even involves Spongebob and Patrick receiving help from an AdamWesting DavidHasselhoff.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Wait, aren't they]] [[spoiler:''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint both]]'' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Toons?]]]]]]]]

* [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} The Team Rocket trio's Meowth]] did this in a Japanese commercial for PokemonYellow. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSD0ixlhczY See it here.]]

* ''[[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4614551809359272199&q=fear+came&pr=goog-sl El Origen del Miedo]] [How Fear Came]'' is a school video based on one of RudyardKipling's ''[[TheJungleBook Second Jungle Book]]'' stories, in which some of the animal characters are played by kids in costumes while others are CGI. Obviously the animation is a bit crude, but you have to give them credit for ambition.

* ''[[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4614551809359272199&q=fear+came&pr=goog-sl El Origen del Miedo]] [How Fear Came]'' is a school video based on one of RudyardKipling's ''[[TheJungleBook Second Jungle Book]]'', in which some of the animal characters are played by kids in costumes while others are CGI. Obviously the animation is a bit crude, but you have to give them credit for ambition.

* ''Homer³'', one of the ThreeShorts of [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse Of Horror VI]] in ''TheSimpsons'', ends with 3D Homer being transported into the real world.

** Although the animated segments in ''{{Fantasia}}'' are kept separate from the live-action intros, there is one scene in which Mickey Mouse runs up to the podium to shake Leopold Stokowski's hand. This is carried over in ''Fantasia 2000'', where Mickey then goes over to talk to James Levine.

** Sort of an odd case. In ''Melee,'' one of the Event Matches pits you against what the game calls the "[[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness realistic]]" characters, presumably contrasted with the "cartoony" characters. But the supposedly realistic characters include the anthropomorphic animal [[StarFox Fox]]. Go figure.

** "Who Killed Who?" starts with an onscreen presenter introducing a murder mystery, and in the end the murderer is unmasked and revealed to be [[spoiler:the very same presenter]].

* The climax of ''The SpongebobSquarepant Movie'', as a continuation from the series, establishes that the cartoon characters are simply living in an otherwise live-action world when they get to the surface. When the characters are dried up, they die and become live-action sea objects.