History PlayingWith / BreakingTheFourthWall

** The characters break the fourth wall in a way that makes no sense for the medium they are being portrayed in, e.g. cartoon characters referring to the audience as "the reader".

** TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou

* '''Defied''': The characters [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretend]] that they are [[CloudCuckoolander oblivous to the fact or at least the very likely possibility that they are on a T.V show/movie]] and just roll along with the script as if they are in the real world.
* '''Discussed''': “I prefer talking to the writers than the audience. You can get more done”

** Characters become impatient with you for not responding and actually manage to get out of the screen and into RealLife to talk to you ''directly.''

** Bob is an experienced universe hopper, thus he's genuinely capable of seeing into other realities- Breaking the fourth wall is easy.

** One of the characters is the camera(wo)man.

* '''Reconstructed''': However it's pretty harmless - it's basically talking to yourself. The other characters learn to ignore it.

** Characters become impatient with you for not responding and actually manage to get out of the TV screen and into RealLife to talk to you directly.

'''Basic Trope''' Characters are aware they are in a work of fiction, and are able to talk to the audience.

** Or, the discovery that they are nothing more than fictional characters [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drives them insane]].

* '''Defied''': The character's [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretend]] that they are [[CloudCuckoolander oblivous to the fact or at least the very likely possibility that they are on a T.V show/movie]] and just roll along with the script as if they are in the real world.

** As Alice does a long, inappropriate Shakespearian soliloquy, other characters pace around looking inpatient.

** Characters become impatient with the you for not responding and actually manage to get out of the TV screen and into RealLife to talk to you directly.

** One character talks to camera, but it's actually a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, and bothers the other characters.
** Or, the discovery that that they are nothing more than Fictional Characters drives them insane.

* '''Parodied''': As Alice does a long, inappropriate Shakespearian soliloquy, other characters pace around looking inpatient.

* '''Parodied''': As Alice does a long, inappropriate Shakespearian soliloquy, other characters pace around look inpatient.

* '''Conversed''': “The characters on this show are always talking directly to the viewers. But they never seem to hear wen I talk back to them.”

* '''Zig Zagged''': A Bob is always talking to camera, both to the writers and the audience. It gets diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, and he is committed to mental hospital. We get scenes from “the ward for people who talk to invisible cameras” which are very odd. People in this ward are not always in agreement about where the camera is. Meanwhile, the writers miss having someone to talk to, and are punishing the other characters. Alice realizes this, and proclames it in a long Shakespearian soliloquy. The writers are moved and flattered by this. Bob is later released, but he is cured of his fourth-wall braking.

* '''Justified''': The characters are in a RealityTV show or being filmed for a documentary. The cameras ARE there.

* '''Exploited''': [[ReadingAheadInTheScript Reading Ahead In The Script]]

* '''Enforced''': his is exactly the kind of show where people talk directly to the audience and the authors. And they do.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** ''OR'' Jim says "Not you, Bob! Them!", referring to the audience.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** One character talks to camera, but it's actually a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, and bothers the other characters.
** Or, the discovery that that they are nothing more than Fictional Characters drives them insane.
* '''Reconstructed''': However it's pretty harmless - it's basically talking to yourself. The other characters learn to ignore it.

* '''Played for laughs''': Nearly Always.

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* '''Defied''': ???

* '''BeyondTheImpossible''': Characters become impatient with the you for not reponding and actually manage to get out of the TV screen and into RealLife to talk to you directly.

* '''Exaggerated''': Characters are able to argue with the writers, to the extent that they can alter scenes after they happen.

* '''Double Subverted''': Bob then turns to camera and says “He was talking to me, OK? Jeez.”.

* '''Deconstructed''': One character talks to camera, but it's actually a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, and bothers the other characters.

* '''Subverted''': Jim turns to camera and comments on the situation. On the next shot we realize that shot was through the eyes of Bob.