History ShowWithinAShow / FanWorks

* The ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HomeSick'' features a comedy series titled "[[Series/TheGoldenGirls The Sassy Sisters of Shady Shores]]", which is about quadruplet sisters living in a nursing home together. This show is also mentioned in some of the author's other fanfics, such as ''Fanfic/HoldMe''.

* ''Fanfic/SonicEvilRebornZero'': Atom the Porcupine doesn't end there. It's noted that the series was once extremely popular and rivaled [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros another great franchise]], but has gone through a DorkAge filled with an unneeded surplus of characters and [[PolygonCeiling pitiful 3D games]] and, though getting back on its feet in recent days, is still ridiculed as a "kiddy game series."

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': Kalsang is a diehard fan of the sci-fi TV series ''Starbenders: A Journey Through Space'' to the point where he's seen every episode, constantly shares his fan theories with his family, and has even named his pet sky bison Aimee after one of the show's characters. Luan is also a fan of ''Starbenders'' and has personally met the show's cast.

** Tank's also a fan of the toku series ''Crossing Rider Go''.

* ''Fanfic/SonicEvilRebornZero'': Atom the Porcupine doesn't end there. It's noted that the series was once extremely popular and rivaled [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros another great franchise]], but has gone through a DorkAge filled with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters an unneeded surplus of characters]] and [[PolygonCeiling pitiful 3D games]] and, though getting back on its feet in recent days, is still ridiculed as a "kiddy game series."

* ''Fanfic/TheIkaris'': The "Super Gendo Super Show", created by the PR department to make people more aware about Commander Ikari. It is like Evangelion on crack with a healthy helping of SuperRobotGenre and tokusatsu tropes. They are making lunchboxes, too.

!!Characters involved in production

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
** Bakura and Zorc star in a sitcom called ''Zorc and Pals''. And ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life of Zorc and Cody]]''.
** Also the brief appearance of ''Kill Your Family''.
* In [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/426761/chapters/717415 Legally By 30]], [[Series/{{Glee}} Quinn]] stars in a show called ''Crashcart Justice''.
* The ''Series/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.

* 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 task force 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 gets him accused of {{Draco In Leather Pants}}ing for his heroic interpretation of Loki, [[spoiler:and when his identity comes out, he is in fact Loki writing SelfInsertFic]].
* The ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series has several examples in the form of various characters writing RealPersonFic about themselves and each other. If [[Franchise/DragonAge 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 Chapters 33-40 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9821669/chapters/22053209 Awakening]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, Metalhawk and Pharma]] put on a [[KabukiTheatre kabuki-style]] play called "The Matchmaker".

!!Characters are fans

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/4162372/ in chapter 8]] Shinji and Asuka watch a show -based on an ''TabletopGame/AdeptusEvangelion'' campaign the author takes part in-. Asuka describes it like this:

* ''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.
* In ''Fanfic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries'' the protagonists get a book written about their first adventure. It's implied to be badly written.

* In ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'', 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']]. [[WordOfGod The author]] calls it ''[[Film/TheShawshankRedemption 'The Shawshank Pretension']]''.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku has an entire collection of comics titled, "The Adventures of the All Mighty Huntsman", which are a loose adaptation of Toshinori's various adventures. There's also a TV show based on the comics, in which Toshinori's voice is [[CelebrityParadox impersonated by a guy]] named [[Creator/ChristopherSabat Chris Sabat]].
* ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'': [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Freddy Freeman]]'s newsstand sells comic-books like ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' (who doesn't exist in Earth-S) or ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]]'' (given the year, probably issues of Creator/CarlBarks' run).
-->'''Freddy Freeman:''' "Denny, if it's about the new comics, they don't come in today. You know that, right?"\\
'''Denny Smith:''' "Right, Mr. Freeman. I just want to make sure you know to put the right ones back for me."\\
'''Freddy Freeman:''' "Sure. ''Superman'', ''Uncle Scrooge'', ''Crime Does Not Pay'', and ''Frontline Combat''. They'll be here for you, Den, when they get here. If they get here."
* In ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'', Deborah is a huge fan of an anime called ''Intergalactic Imogen''.

!!Show is a plot point

* 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 [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers the Ember Island Players]]. As with the canon episode, [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity and embarrassment ensue]].
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', ''Franchise/MarvelComics'', the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', and the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' all exist in Izuku's universe, cementing Franchise/SpiderMan has a purely fictional character. This is why Izuku is so bewildered when he starts developing spider powers and meets Peter Parker the same day after being bitten by a genetically-altered spider.

* In ''Franchise/XMen'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/DevilsDiary'', Creator/MarvelComics, Creator/DCComics and ComicBook/ArchieComics all exist in-universe. ComicBook/{{Magneto}} even gets to meet Creator/StanLee, and is told Lee convinced his boss to get the licensing for a ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comic before Irwin Donenfeld -DC's owner back in TheSixties- did.

!!PlotParallel

* ''Fanfic/SonicEvilRebornZero'': Atom the Porcupine doesn't end there. It's noted that the series was once extremely popular and rivaled [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros another great franchise]], but has gone through a DorkAge filled with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters an unneeded surplus of characters]] and [[PolygonCeiling pitiful 3D games]] and, though getting back on its feet in recent days, is still ridiculed as a "kiddy game series."
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': An omake at the end of Chapter 68 reveals thet there's a shonen series named ''Haruto'' which has pretty much the same premise as canon ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' as we know it (and to the story itself). Itachi uses Tsukuyomi on an Amegakure shinobi he captured to torture him for information, [[ForcedToWatch by forcing him to watch]] [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment the entire filler season]]. Doubles also as a TakeThat as Itachi describes said season as "72 hours of mediocre writing, forgettable characters, cheap animation and nonsensical yet predictable plots".

!!Examples of type 1 (characters involved in production)

!!Examples of type 2 (characters are fans)

* ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' has a ''JustForFun/TropeTan'' anime and movie, with shades of Type 3 and possibly 4 mixed in as well.

!!Examples of type 3 (the show is a plot point)

!!Examples of type 4 (the show is eerily similar to the main show)

* In Chapters 33-40 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9821669/chapters/22053209 Awakening]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, Metalhawk and Pharma]] put on a kabuki-style play called "The Matchmaker".

* In Chapters 33-40 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9821669/chapters/22053209 Awakening]]'', Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, Metalhawk and Pharma put on a kabuki-style play called "The Matchmaker".

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

* In ''FanFic/TheGameOfTheGods'', Morgoth and Varda play a CosmicChessGame. Each game is a story. Morgoth's game piece is a MarySue, and Varda's goal is to remove this piece from the board. [[TheDevilIsALoser Morgoth is always losing]], so we go through 30 stories, each centered on some Mary Sue.

* In Chapters 33-40 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9821669/chapters/22053209 Awakening]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, Metalhawk and Pharma]] put on a kabuki-style play called "The Matchmaker".

* Several in ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'':

* ''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.
* In ''FanFic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries'' the protagonists get a book written about their first adventure. It's implied to be badly written.
* ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'':

* Rosalina loves the show "Comet Academy", which comes on once every 86 years. Peach and Daisy find it utterly boring.

* In [[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]], the LemonyNarrator writing the fic-essay decides to go out drinking and just copies a large block of test from a book on a soldier's recounting of a significant battle in the history of the Equestrian Civil War into the fic. Notable in that the copied text proves to be vastly different in tone than the rest of the tone of the fic, probably due to its InUniverse copied nature, and is even written in a more high quality fashion than the rest of the essay-fic.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Franchise/MarvelComics, the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and the Film/SpiderManTrilogy all exist in Izuku's universe, cementing Franchise/SpiderMan has a purely fictional character. This is why Izuku is so bewildered when he starts developing spider powers and meets Peter Parker the same day after being bitten by a genetically-altered spider.

* In ''Franchise/XMen'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/DevilsDiary'', Creator/MarvelComics, Creator/DCComics and Franchise/ArchieComics all exist in-universe. ComicBook/{{Magneto}} even gets to meet Creator/StanLee, and is told Lee convinced his boss to get the licensing for a ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comic before Irwin Donenfeld -DC's owner back in TheSixties- did.

* In Fanfic/HisHonorTheMayorDrewLipsky WesternAnimation/KimPossible is a ShowWithinAShow series of stories written by Ron like [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Rusty Venture Show.]] The characters will occasionally note how the episodes differ from what actually happened when relevant to the story and at one point a pair of gangsters end up MuggingTheMonster repeatedly due to being WrongGenreSavvy regarding which parts of the cartoon were real and which weren't.

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4506768/1/His-Honor-The-Mayor-Drew-Lipsky His Honor, The Mayor, Drew Lipsky]] WesternAnimation/KimPossible is a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory cartoon kinda like [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Rusty Venture Show.]] Ron helps with production, the characters will occasionally note how the episodes differ from what actually happened when relevant to the story and at one point a pair of gangsters end up MuggingTheMonster repeatedly due to being WrongGenreSavvy regarding which parts of the cartoon were real and which weren't.

* [[FanFic/SonicEvilRebornZero Atom the Porcupine doesn't end there]]. It's noted that the series was once extremely popular and rivaled [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros another great franchise]], but has gone through a DorkAge filled with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters an unneeded surplus of characters]] and [[PolygonCeiling pitiful 3D games]] and, though getting back on its feet in recent days, is still ridiculed as a "kiddy game series."

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Franchise/MarvelComics, the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, and Film/TheSpiderManTrilogy all exist in Izuku's universe, cementing Franchise/SpiderMan has a purely fictional character. This is why Izuku is so bewildered when he starts developing spider powers and meets Peter Parker the same day after being bitten by a genetically-altered spider.