History ShowWithinAShow / FanWorks

* The ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series has several examples in the form of various characters writing RealPersonFic about themselves and each other. If [[Franchise/Dragon Age Varric Tethras]] isn't the one writing it, he's usually the one reading it out loud to other characters (and thus to the reader).

* In ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'', [[BrokeEpisode 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'' [[IWroteOurStory based on the lives of the Kira-taskforce]] and has roped the taskforce into acting in his Soap. [[NiceCharacterMeanActor To Light's ire Matsuda has him cast as "the nice gay schoolboy."]]

* ''Fanfic/SuperheroRPF'' is a fanfic about fanficers so it has [[ShapedLikeItself a lot of fanfics in it]]. Most just referenced by their title and summaries, except ''For Asgardia!'', by a guy going by the username Sassgardian, from which there are excerpts all around the fic. It get's him accused with {{Draco In Leather Pants}}ing for his heroic interpretation of Loki, [[spoiler:and when his identity comes out, he is in fact Loki, with writing SelfInsertFic]].

* The SouthOfNowhere 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.

** ''Series/QuestionTime'' with [[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Alpha Centauri]] leaders who speak mostly with their game quotes.

* In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisistsTheHague'', Queen Chrysalis somehow manages to tv-zap to a ''supremely'' clichéd prison drama (while being in prison herself, naturally), complete with a DeepSouth setting, a [[WardensAreEvil sadistic warden]] and some heavily implied [[PrisonRape soap-droppin']]. The author calls it ''[[Film/TheShawshankRedemption 'The Shawshank Pretension']]''.

* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'': In chapter 4 Kensuke proposes go to theatre to watch Gekiganger-X, a movie based on a SuperRobotGenre show (the name being a homage to ''Anime/{{Gekiganger3}}'' and ''Anime/MazingerZ'').

* The [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10530358/8/Tales-from-Gundam-Island eighth entry]] for "Tales From Gundam Island" (supplemental stories for the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''/''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' AlternateUniverse crossover [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9990992/1/Tears-of-Revelry "Tears of Revelry"]]) falls somewhere between Types 3 and 4. In it, the Gundam boys go to the premiere of a play about how the first Avatar came to be in that universe... filtered through [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers the Ember Island Players]]. As with the canon episode, [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity and embarrassment ensue]]. It even includes a direct nod to that episode:
-->'''Quatre:''' ''I wonder if this is how Avatar Aang felt watching that awful short-run show about him that was really Fire Nation propaganda.''

** ''JerrySpringer'' with Chaos Lords from ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' as its hosts.

** ''JerrySpringer'' with Chaos Lords from ''DawnOfWar'' as its hosts.

* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Bakura and Zorc star in a sitcom called ''Zorc and Pals''. And ''[[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life of Zorc and Cody]]''.

* In [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/426761/chapters/717415 Legally By 30]], [[{{Glee}} Quinn]] stars in a show called ''Crashcart Justice''.

* The entire plot of ''[[Fanfic/TheCalvinHobbesAndPaineEShow The Calvin, Hobbes, and Paine Show]]'' revolves around ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' being one of these, and being {{retool}}ed into a VarietyShow after Watterson leaves.

* In ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'' [[BrokeEpisode 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'' [[IWroteOurStory based on the lives of the Kira-taskforce]] and has roped the taskforce into acting in his Soap. [[NiceCharacterMeanActor To Light's ire Matsuda has him cast as "the nice gay schoolboy."]]

* ''FanFic/SonicEvilRebornZero'' gives us [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog ''Atom The Porcupine,'']] a video game franchise about the adventures atomic rodent and friends who trumps Atom's arch nemesis, Doctor Nucleo. Tails is a ''massive'' fan, even going so far as to [[SelfDeprecation write novel-length fanfiction that is much [[DarkerAndEdgier deeper and more serious]] than the saccharine source material, to the point of being laughable.]]

* ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' has a ''{{Trope-tan}}'' anime and movie, with shades of Type 3 and possibly 4 mixed in as well.

* In ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'' [[BrokeEpisode 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'' [[IWroteOurStory based on the lives of the Kira-taskforce.]]

** ''QuestionTime'' with [[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Alpha Centauri]] leaders who speak mostly with their game quotes.