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** Buzz Lightyear (or one of his duplicates) goes through this in varying degrees in all three movies.
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** Buzz Lightyear (or one of his duplicates) goes through this in varying degrees in all three movies. He thinks he's the hero of a SpaceOpera, because he's [[TheMerch an action figure based off of the hero of a Space Opera.]]
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* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier seems to think he's in a SilverAge ScienceFiction story that will easily be resolved once he and his friends defeat [[BigBad Shaw]]. Actually, he's part of a larger conflict between humans and mutants, and he and his [[{{Magneto}} best friend]] are destined to become [[FriendlyEnemy reluctant arch-enemies]] in the oncoming war.
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** Bob Hendry assumes that Shaw will kill him once he gets what he wants, and prepares for it. [[spoiler:But he didn't bet on Shaw being an extremely powerful mutant, not just a man with mutants working for him.]]
** Charles Xavier seems to think he's in a SilverAge ScienceFiction story that will easily be resolved once he and his friends defeat [[BigBad Shaw]]. Actually, he's part of a larger conflict between humans and mutants, and he and his [[{{Magneto}} best friend]] are destined to become [[FriendlyEnemy reluctant arch-enemies]] in the oncoming war.
** Bob Hendry assumes that Shaw will kill him once he gets what he wants, and prepares for it. [[spoiler:But he didn't bet on Shaw being an extremely powerful mutant, not just a man with mutants working for him.]]
** Charles Xavier seems to think he's in a SilverAge ScienceFiction story that will easily be resolved once he and his friends defeat [[BigBad Shaw]]. Actually, he's part of a larger conflict between humans and mutants, and he and his [[{{Magneto}} best friend]] are destined to become [[FriendlyEnemy reluctant arch-enemies]] in the oncoming war.
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* Played for laughs in ''Film/PayItForward''. Early on a reporter is offered a Jaguar (car) for free by a stranger. He is baffled and asks if he perhaps was expected to [[AlwaysMurder kill the stranger's wife]] in return and when this is denied he suspects the Jag to be rigged and blow up in an ExternalCombustion (which of course was not the case).
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* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' has a scene where the hero, Cleveland Heep, consults the movie critic in order to identify the tenants who fill in the roles of Story's helpers. However, when their plan goes awry [[spoiler: and Story is attacked and injured]], Cleveland realizes that he incorrectly identified himself. Note that the movie critic was more or less right in his ideas of who the tenants would be, but Cleveland merely interpreted the clues incorrectly.
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* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' has a scene where the ''Film/LadyInTheWater''
** The hero, Cleveland Heep, consults the movie critic in order to identify the tenants who fill in the roles of Story's helpers. However, when their plan goes awry [[spoiler: and Story is attacked and injured]], Cleveland realizes that he incorrectly identified himself. Note that the movie critic was more or less right in his ideas of who the tenants would be, but Cleveland merely interpreted the clues incorrectly.
** The hero, Cleveland Heep, consults the movie critic in order to identify the tenants who fill in the roles of Story's helpers. However, when their plan goes awry [[spoiler: and Story is attacked and injured]], Cleveland realizes that he incorrectly identified himself. Note that the movie critic was more or less right in his ideas of who the tenants would be, but Cleveland merely interpreted the clues incorrectly.
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** Andy, one of the passengers, keeps insisting that The Driver just wants their money and goods and they're only getting hurt because they keep resisting. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Andy turns out to be TheMole, part of the kidnapping group]].
** Mel becomes convinced that their kidnappers dare not hurt her or Jules because [[spoiler:it would hurt their value as merchandise. Jules promptly gets gassed for having a yeast infection]].
** Andy, one of the passengers, keeps insisting that The Driver just wants their money and goods and they're only getting hurt because they keep resisting. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Andy turns out to be TheMole, part of the kidnapping group]].
** Mel becomes convinced that their kidnappers dare not hurt her or Jules because [[spoiler:it would hurt their value as merchandise. Jules promptly gets gassed for having a yeast infection]].
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** * The Stranger from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is convinced that he is in a western, and narrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like they're in a melodrama, while the Dude and his friends are not resulting in constant confusion.
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** * Everyone in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', to some extent.
*** The Strangerfrom ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' from is convinced that he is in a western, western.
*** Maude andnarrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like Big Lebowski think they're in a melodrama, while FilmNoir.
*** The Kraftwerk-nihilists seem to believe they are the {{Villain Protagonist}}s in a QuentinTarantino BlackComedy.
*** Walther seems to think he is in some deep moody drama about damaged Vietnam veterans.
*** The Dudeand his friends are not resulting in constant confusion. thinks he is the protagonist of a sixties stoner-flick.
*** Bunny apparently thinks her world is a PornWithPlot-adventure of some sort.
*** Donny seems to believe he is living a completely ordinary RealLife.
*** The Stranger
*** Maude and
*** The Kraftwerk-nihilists seem to believe they are the {{Villain Protagonist}}s in a QuentinTarantino BlackComedy.
*** Walther seems to think he is in some deep moody drama about damaged Vietnam veterans.
*** The Dude
*** Bunny apparently thinks her world is a PornWithPlot-adventure of some sort.
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** Princess Anna may be justified for believing in LoveAtFirstSight, given that this is a Disney film and all, [[spoiler:unfortunately, said film is a {{Deconstruction}} of said trope, with her love interest actually being the BigBad.]]
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** Princess Anna may be justified for believing in LoveAtFirstSight, given that this is a Disney film and all, [[spoiler:unfortunately, said film is a {{Deconstruction}} of said trope, with her love interest actually being the BigBad.villain.]]
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* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' taunts Mr. Incredible about how he's obviously an ArchNemesis with JokerImmunity who will continue to dog and torment the family throughout their lives. He realizes that this isn't [[DeconReconSwitch that]] [[TheModernAgeOfComicBooks kind]] of {{Superhero}} story about the time he notices the car hurtling towards his jet.
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* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' taunts Mr. Incredible about how he's obviously an ArchNemesis with JokerImmunity who will continue to dog and torment the family throughout their lives. He realizes that this isn't [[DeconReconSwitch that]] [[TheModernAgeOfComicBooks kind]] [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie of {{Superhero}} story superhero story]] about the time he notices the car hurtling towards his jet.
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** In one scene Giselle talks with her young friend Morgan, who is nervous about her father marrying Nancy, having read plenty of stories involving a WickedStepmother. Giselle assures her that most stepmothers are actually very nice people, a true lesson for the real world. Unfortunately, she uses her own stepmother-to-be Narissa as an example, unaware that Narissa actually ''is'' a wicked stepmother who is trying to kill her.
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** In one scene Giselle talks with her young friend Morgan, who is nervous about her father marrying Nancy, having read plenty of stories involving a WickedStepmother. Giselle assures her that most stepmothers are actually very nice people, a true lesson for the real world. [[spoiler:that proves its worth when Giselle becomes Morgan's stepmother]]. Unfortunately, she Giselle uses her own stepmother-to-be Narissa as an example, unaware that Narissa actually ''is'' a wicked stepmother who is trying to kill her.
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* Queen Narissa, the antagonist of ''{{Enchanted}}'', singlehandedly puts the "decon" in the film's DeconReconSwitch of fairy-tale movies, but fails to recognize the "recon". The one character she can easily handle is [[LordErrorProne Edward]], who besides [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Pip]] is the only one who lacks HiddenDepths beyond what would be expected of the genre.
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* Queen Narissa, the antagonist of ''{{Enchanted}}'', ''{{Film/Enchanted}}'', singlehandedly puts the "decon" in the film's DeconReconSwitch of fairy-tale movies, but fails to recognize the "recon". The one character she can easily handle is [[LordErrorProne Edward]], who besides [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Pip]] is the only one who lacks HiddenDepths beyond what would be expected of the genre.genre.
** In one scene Giselle talks with her young friend Morgan, who is nervous about her father marrying Nancy, having read plenty of stories involving a WickedStepmother. Giselle assures her that most stepmothers are actually very nice people, a true lesson for the real world. Unfortunately, she uses her own stepmother-to-be Narissa as an example, unaware that Narissa actually ''is'' a wicked stepmother who is trying to kill her.
** In one scene Giselle talks with her young friend Morgan, who is nervous about her father marrying Nancy, having read plenty of stories involving a WickedStepmother. Giselle assures her that most stepmothers are actually very nice people, a true lesson for the real world. Unfortunately, she uses her own stepmother-to-be Narissa as an example, unaware that Narissa actually ''is'' a wicked stepmother who is trying to kill her.
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* A positive example: Guy from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', though for the most part GenreSavvy, goes through the events of the film in a depressed and terrified state, because he is convinced that he is nothing more than a designated RedShirt among the ShowWithinAShow's stars (even his ''name'' suggests this). In the end, he is told that he has a promising future as the PluckyComicRelief.
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* A positive example: Guy from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', though for the most part GenreSavvy, goes through the events of the film in a depressed and terrified state, because he is convinced that he is nothing more than a designated RedShirt among the ShowWithinAShow's stars (even his ''name'' suggests this).this[[note]]"Yeah? What's my last name? You don't even know, do you!"[[/note]]). In the end, he is told that he has a promising future as the PluckyComicRelief.
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* Chad and Lynda from ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' both start acting like they're in a SpyDrama after they find a disc with the financial records of a former CIA analyst, acting all mysterious around the analyst and refusing to give their real names. However, they're in a BlackComedy, so HilarityEnsues.
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* Common in Creator/CoenBrothers films, especially the [[BlackComedy comedies]]. While the characters are actually a part of an IdiotPlot none of them realize it.
** * The Stranger from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is convinced that he is in a western, and narrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like they're in a melodrama, while the Dude and his friends are not resulting in constant confusion.
** Chad and Lynda from ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' both start acting like they're in a SpyDrama after they find a disc with the financial records of a former CIA analyst, acting all mysterious around the analyst and refusing to give their real names. However, they're in a BlackComedy, so HilarityEnsues.
** * The Stranger from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is convinced that he is in a western, and narrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like they're in a melodrama, while the Dude and his friends are not resulting in constant confusion.
** Chad and Lynda from ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' both start acting like they're in a SpyDrama after they find a disc with the financial records of a former CIA analyst, acting all mysterious around the analyst and refusing to give their real names. However, they're in a BlackComedy, so HilarityEnsues.
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* In ''ABugsLife'', Hopper is shown to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy in his dealings with the ants. For instance, he's the one who sees through the fake bird. However, later, he's faced with another bird, and:
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
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* In ''ABugsLife'', Hopper is shown to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy in his dealings with the ants. For instance, he's the one who sees through the fake bird. However, later, he's faced with another bird, and:
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
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* In ''Film/{{Fresh}}'', the titular character has a friend named Chucky who he brings into the business of running drugs. Unlike Fresh who is a smart teen, Chucky is a LeeroyJenkins who's obsessed with the gangster movies, gangsta rap music, and comic books like ''Comicbook/ThePunisher''. When the two go on their first delivery job at night, they get jacked by rival drug dealers. Fresh warned Chucky beforehand that if they get jacked to drop the book bags filled with drugs and run. However, Chucky, thinking he's in a gangster film, [[TooDumbToLive takes out his gun and starts shooting]] at the adult dealers - missing with every shot. They kill him and Fresh gets away. In fact, the whole film is about a young man being GenreSavvy.
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* In ''Film/{{Fresh}}'', the titular character has a friend named Chucky who he brings into the business of running drugs. Unlike Fresh who is a smart teen, Chucky is a LeeroyJenkins who's obsessed with the gangster movies, gangsta rap music, and comic books like ''Comicbook/ThePunisher''. When the two go on their first delivery job at night, they get jacked by rival drug dealers. Fresh warned Chucky beforehand that if they get jacked to drop the book bags filled with drugs and run. However, Chucky, thinking he's in a gangster film, [[TooDumbToLive takes out his gun and starts shooting]] at the adult dealers - missing with every shot. They kill him and Fresh gets away. In fact, the whole film is about a young man being GenreSavvy. GenreSavvy.
* In ''ABugsLife'', Hopper is shown to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy in his dealings with the ants. For instance, he's the one who sees through the fake bird. However, later, he's faced with another bird, and:
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
* In ''ABugsLife'', Hopper is shown to be DangerouslyGenreSavvy in his dealings with the ants. For instance, he's the one who sees through the fake bird. However, later, he's faced with another bird, and:
-->''"[[FamousLastWords Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?]] [[EatenAlive Hello, girls!]]"''
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* In ''{{Fresh}}'', the titular character has a friend named Chucky who he brings into the business of running drugs. Unlike Flesh who is a smart teen, Chucky is a LeeroyJenkins who's obsessed with the gangster movies, gangsta rap music, and comic books like ''ThePunisher''. When the two go on their first delivery job at night, they get jacked by rival drug dealers. Fresh warned Chucky beforehand that if they get jacked to drop the book bags filled with drugs and run. However, Chucky thinking he's in a gangster film, [[TooDumbToLive takes out his gun and starts shooting]] at the adult dealers - missing with every shot. They kill him and Fresh gets away. In fact, the whole film is about a young man being GenreSavvy.
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* In ''{{Fresh}}'', ''Film/{{Fresh}}'', the titular character has a friend named Chucky who he brings into the business of running drugs. Unlike Flesh Fresh who is a smart teen, Chucky is a LeeroyJenkins who's obsessed with the gangster movies, gangsta rap music, and comic books like ''ThePunisher''.''Comicbook/ThePunisher''. When the two go on their first delivery job at night, they get jacked by rival drug dealers. Fresh warned Chucky beforehand that if they get jacked to drop the book bags filled with drugs and run. However, Chucky Chucky, thinking he's in a gangster film, [[TooDumbToLive takes out his gun and starts shooting]] at the adult dealers - missing with every shot. They kill him and Fresh gets away. In fact, the whole film is about a young man being GenreSavvy.
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* In ''{{Fresh}}'', the titular character has a friend named Chucky who he brings into the business of running drugs. Unlike Flesh who is a smart teen, Chucky is a LeeroyJenkins who's obsessed with the gangster movies, gangsta rap music, and comic books like ''ThePunisher''. When the two go on their first delivery job at night, they get jacked by rival drug dealers. Fresh warned Chucky beforehand that if they get jacked to drop the book bags filled with drugs and run. However, Chucky thinking he's in a gangster film, [[TooDumbToLive takes out his gun and starts shooting]] at the adult dealers - missing with every shot. They kill him and Fresh gets away. In fact, the whole film is about a young man being GenreSavvy.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Tai Lung grew up thinking he would be TheHero instead of the BigBad.[[/folder]]
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* [[MsFanservice Ice Blonde]] in ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion'' is just as surprised as the audience is about [[spoiler:who survives the film]]. [[spoiler:She survives the film, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes of course]]. She's surprised Mech survives, completely inverting BlackDudeDiesFirst, and likewise [[DumbMuscle Ratzass]] averts BigGuyFatalitySyndrome. [[TheChick Trig]] dies, [[BetaCouple as does Bugspray]], and the not-so aptly named [[DecoyProtagonist Hero]]]].
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* [[MsFanservice Ice Blonde]] in ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion'' is just as surprised as the audience is about [[spoiler:who survives the film]]. [[spoiler:She survives the film, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes of course]]. She's surprised Mech survives, completely inverting BlackDudeDiesFirst, and likewise [[DumbMuscle Ratzass]] averts BigGuyFatalitySyndrome. [[TheChick Trig]] dies, [[BetaCouple as does Bugspray]], and the not-so aptly named [[DecoyProtagonist Hero]]]].
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** No, Princess Anna, it is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiler:Especially if your love interest is the BigBad.]]
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** No, Princess Anna, it Anna may be justified for believing in LoveAtFirstSight, given that this is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiler:Especially if your Disney film and all, [[spoiler:unfortunately, said film is a {{Deconstruction}} of said trope, with her love interest is actually being the BigBad.]]
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** No, Princess Anna, it is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiker:Especially if your love interest is the BigBad.]]
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** No, Princess Anna, it is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiker:Especially [[spoiler:Especially if your love interest is the BigBad.]]
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* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', everyone assumes that the ''[[ThePowerOfLove act of true love]]'' needed as a CurseEscapeClause is TrueLovesKiss, but it's not ''romantic'' love that ends up breaking the curse in the end, but ''sisterly'' love.
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* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', everyone assumes that the ''[[ThePowerOfLove act of true love]]'' needed as a CurseEscapeClause is TrueLovesKiss, [[spoiler: but it's not ''romantic'' love that ends up breaking the curse in the end, but ''sisterly'' love.]]
** No, Princess Anna, it is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiker:Especially if your love interest is the BigBad.]]
** No, Princess Anna, it is ''not'' a good idea to believe in LoveAtFirstSight. [[spoiker:Especially if your love interest is the BigBad.]]
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** This gets a lampshade in the first movie, when Barbossa taunts Elizabeth by telling her she'd best start believing in ghost stories, because she's in one.
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* In ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'', the reason why Creator/EmmaWatson steals the drinks from the protagonists is because she thought she was in a zombie movie and that they were about to rape her.
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* The police in ''Film/TheTerminator'' believe themselves to be in a standard slasher movie. To their credit, they would have done ''very'' well against, say, Jason Voorhees. As soon as they receive the death certificates of the first two ladies named Sarah Connor, they send out a news bulletin to warn any other Sarah Connors that might be out there as well as their friends and family, and they keep officers on the 911 lines just in case one of the Sarahs calls in. Then they bust open a crate of [=M16s=] and hide Sarah behind a wall of guns. If the titular Terminator wasn't ImmuneToBullets, the movie would have been over in about 25 minutes.
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* The police in ''Film/TheTerminator'' believe themselves to be in a standard slasher movie. To their credit, they would have done ''very'' well against, say, Jason Voorhees. As soon as they receive the death certificates of the first two ladies named Sarah Connor, they send out a news bulletin to warn any other Sarah Connors that might be out there as well as their friends and family, and they keep officers on the 911 lines just in case one of the Sarahs calls in. Then they bust open a crate of [=M16s=] and hide Sarah behind a wall of guns. If the titular Terminator wasn't ImmuneToBullets, the movie would have been over in about 25 minutes.
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** Elizabeth also spends a good deal of the first movie expecting and hoping one of the pirates she runs into would be like the romantic, dashing rouges she reads about in her books, or for them to at least adhere to some honor-among-thieves morality. Over the course of the film she's increasingly disillusioned (Barbossa shirks the code whenever it inconveniences him, the Black Pearl crew want to rape her, Jack Sparrow's a horny, opportunistic drunk, ''Jack's'' own crew don't bother to rescue their captain once they get their ship...) until the very end. When Will risks his life to do what's right, she sees he's the kind of heroic ne'er-do-well she'd been hoping to see.
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-->"Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch [[SaturdayMorningCartoon on Saturday mornings]]? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well, these guys aren't like those guys]]. They won't exercise restraint [[WouldHurtAChild because you are children]]. They ''will'' kill you if they get the chance. Do ''not'' give them that chance."[[/folder]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Tai Lung grew up thinking he would be TheHero instead of the BigBad.[[/folder]]
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*** In Matt Stover's novelization of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', Yoda realizes this the moment he and Palpatine's lightsabers clash. Skill and power were irrelevant -- the Sith had already ''won'' because they had become something new while the Jedi had remained the same. The Jedi had been preparing for the wrong kind of war.
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*** In [[Literature/RevengeOfTheSith Matt Stover's novelization novelization]] of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Yoda realizes this the moment he and Palpatine's lightsabers clash. Skill and power were irrelevant -- the Sith had already ''won'' because they had become something new while the Jedi had remained the same. The Jedi had been preparing for the wrong kind of war.
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* Jack Burton of ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' thinks he's a sort of western-style hero who takes charge and beats the bad guys with guts and bravado. However, he doesn't know anything about all the eastern mysticism going on. His best friend Wang has to explain everything to him. It's Wang who is actually the hero, out to rescue his girlfriend. Jack is actually the sidekick, just tagging along and trying to recover his lost truck.
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* Jack Burton of ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' thinks he's a sort of western-style hero who takes charge and beats the bad guys with guts and bravado. However, he doesn't know anything about all the eastern mysticism going on. His best friend Wang has to explain everything to him. It's Wang who is actually the hero, out to rescue his girlfriend. Jack is actually the sidekick, just tagging along and trying to recover his lost truck.
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* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'':
** Through much of the film Pete the Prospector plays the role of Sage, dispensing advice to other characters. But a glimpse of "Woody's Roundup", the TV show that represents his origin, shows Pete playing a self-sabotaging buffoon. The glimpse hints that his sagely nuggets of wisdom may actually be fool's gold. By the end of the film his true role is revealed.
** Buzz Lightyear (or one of his duplicates) goes through this in varying degrees in all three movies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Megamind thinks that Hal will be the perfect person to train as a hero once he's seen him: he thinks he's a complete nobody who can realize his true heroic potential with his help. Unfortunately, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Hal]] fits a [[FromNobodyToNightmare different]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity set of]] [[BewareTheSuperman tropes...]]
* Another positive example: what keeps the plot of ''Anime/ChildrenWhoChaseLostVoices'' from being a TearJerker is Asuna, who's almost always happy and vigilant despite the relatively large amount of [[WhamLine whams]] coming in even early on. Remember that this is coming from the [[MakotoShinkai same person who made]] ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.
* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', Naveen mistakenly thinks that being kissed by Tiana will turn him back. [[spoiler:Later, he accuses of her of falsely wearing the tiara, deceiving him into thinking she was a princess -- and it turns out that he does just need a princess to do it.]]
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' - Gaston (BigBad) thinks he's the hero, and that Beast (JerkWithAHeartOfGold) is a monster who wants to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty get his claws on Belle]].
* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' taunts Mr. Incredible about how he's obviously an ArchNemesis with JokerImmunity who will continue to dog and torment the family throughout their lives. He realizes that this isn't [[DeconReconSwitch that]] [[TheModernAgeOfComicBooks kind]] of {{Superhero}} story about the time he notices the car hurtling towards his jet.
** Elastigirl warns the kids about the danger of being Wrong Genre Savvy.
-->"Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch [[SaturdayMorningCartoon on Saturday mornings]]? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well, these guys aren't like those guys]]. They won't exercise restraint [[WouldHurtAChild because you are children]]. They ''will'' kill you if they get the chance. Do ''not'' give them that chance."[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action Films]]
* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' has a scene where the hero, Cleveland Heep, consults the movie critic in order to identify the tenants who fill in the roles of Story's helpers. However, when their plan goes awry [[spoiler: and Story is attacked and injured]], Cleveland realizes that he incorrectly identified himself. Note that the movie critic was more or less right in his ideas of who the tenants would be, but Cleveland merely interpreted the clues incorrectly.
** Not to mention the scene where the same movie critic [[spoiler: is confronted by the monster, and instead of running away he goes on spiel about how the movie has had no violence, deaths, lewd acts, or nudity and deduces that he is going to live with just a wound because of these factors. He must've forgotten about the female lead being naked for all her screentime.]]
* In the ''StarWars'' prequels, Obi-Wan is extremely GenreSavvy when he tells Anakin that AristocratsAreEvil if they are politicians. Too bad he's applying this trope -- and that of GodSaveUsFromTheQueen -- to Padme as well as Palpatine, because they aren't anything alike. Padme is in fact an example of TheHighQueen and debatably the most moral character in the whole Star Wars universe. Obi Wan specifically warns Anakin to be cautious of Padme ''because she is a politician'', and although he specifically includes Palpatine in that general categorization, against Anakin's more naive trust, the point still stands. Her being an aristocrat technically doesn't come into it but it is a variant in a way since aristocrats often are politicians in the Star Wars universe.
--->'''Anakin Skywalker;''': ... and besides, you're generalizing. The Chancellor doesn't appear to be corrupt.
--->'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''': Palpatine is a politician. I've observed that he is very clever at following the passions and prejudices of the Senators.
** Obi-Wan's problem is that he believes he's living in a naturalistic universe rather than a fantastical one. He's a cynic who believes that all politicians are [[ObstructiveBureaucrat corrupt and self-serving]]. He doesn't believe that any of them could be effective, let alone really dangerous: the worst they can do is take advantage of a crisis to serve their own ends. It never occurs to him to think that one of these politicians is actually a devious puppet master who is ''engineering'' a crisis in a bid to bring the entire political system down. Ironically, his status as the OnlySaneMan works against him: if he'd realized he was in a universe where there actually ''is'' an AncientConspiracy working behind the scenes, he might have spotted Palpatine sooner.
** The entire Jedi Order during the last days of the Old Republic have this problem too: they see themselves as the stalwart protectors of a noble old order (and perhaps they really were at one point). In reality they're the arrogant and hidebound old masters whose inflexibility and strict adherence to tradition almost directly leads to the fall of their most powerful member and their complete destruction at his hands.
*** In Matt Stover's novelization of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', Yoda realizes this the moment he and Palpatine's lightsabers clash. Skill and power were irrelevant -- the Sith had already ''won'' because they had become something new while the Jedi had remained the same. The Jedi had been preparing for the wrong kind of war.
* The unease audiences feel toward Hannibal Lecter in ''SilenceOfTheLambs'' is heightened by his seemingly unsavvy placement in the structure of the story. Genre conventions would make him the villain. But the story's villain is Buffalo Bill. "Hannibal the Cannibal" is actually the TricksterMentor. He is Yoda to Clarice's Luke, the shadow counterpart of her FBI academy instructor. Other characters call him a monster, but Clarice addresses him as she would a teacher and he is among those who congratulate her when she graduates. His function in the story places him much closer to the main character than we would expect him to be, and far too close for comfort. With his breakout at the end of the film, this genre-savvy character sheds the mentor role and assumes a more conventional role as villain. In a sense, his act signals a return to "order".
* ''Film/LastActionHero'': Child hero Danny rides his bicycle head-on to play chicken with the main villain's car, reasoning that it has to work because he's the hero in a non-R rated movie where [[InfantImmortality the kid would never die]]. Then it dawns on him that he's the PluckyComicRelief instead, and ''is'' vulnerable. Cue ET visual gag.
** The second half of the movie deals heavily with how badly Jack Slater's GenreSavvy as an ActionHero fails him in the gritty, real world until he learns the new rules whereas Benedict becomes DangerouslyGenreSavvy right out of the gate instead.
* A positive example: Guy from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', though for the most part GenreSavvy, goes through the events of the film in a depressed and terrified state, because he is convinced that he is nothing more than a designated RedShirt among the ShowWithinAShow's stars (even his ''name'' suggests this). In the end, he is told that he has a promising future as the PluckyComicRelief.
** In fact, everyone in that movie who acts like it's a movie is proven wrong, and everyone who acts like it's real is proven just as wrong.
** For an even bigger payoff, pay attention during [[spoiler: the shootout on the bridge. Everybody ''except'' Guy gets shot.]]
* Jack Burton of ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' thinks he's a sort of western-style hero who takes charge and beats the bad guys with guts and bravado. However, he doesn't know anything about all the eastern mysticism going on. His best friend Wang has to explain everything to him. It's Wang who is actually the hero, out to rescue his girlfriend. Jack is actually the sidekick, just tagging along and trying to recover his lost truck.
** Wang may be the hero, but Jack is the one who [[spoiler:kills the BigBad]].
* Near the end of ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', Lord Chancellor Thurlow wastes time announcing the king's return to health by bemoaning the messenger in ''Theatre/KingLear'' who arrives too late to save Cordelia. The whole film is an averted ''Lear'' -- something the king seems to recognize, even if Thurlow doesn't.
* Chad and Lynda from ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' both start acting like they're in a SpyDrama after they find a disc with the financial records of a former CIA analyst, acting all mysterious around the analyst and refusing to give their real names. However, they're in a BlackComedy, so HilarityEnsues.
* The ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie series has a faint undercurrent of this throughout: nearly every character thinks they're in a different story than they actually are. There's a subtle Deconstructionist aspect as well, as established pirate Tropes are played with and/or dismantled.
** In ''The Curse Of The Black Pearl'', Elizabeth thinks Barbossa's crew are standard pilfer-and-loot pirates who would hold her for ransom if they found out she's the [[ThePresidentsDaughter Governor's daughter]]. Unfortunately, they're not after something so mundane as money, and the name she chooses to give them - Turner - is actually the very name they're looking for. She also expects pirates to honor the Code of the Brethren as if it were a binding rule of law, not realizing that Barbossa is a GenreSavvy RulesLawyer who sees the Code more as "guidelines."
*** All pirates see the Code this way... unless Captain Teague is in he vicinity.
** In ''Dead Man's Chest'', when the Kraken is taking down a ship full of {{Red Shirt}}s, one of the merchants runs forward, bravely offering what they had previously thought was the dress of a ghost who was haunting their ship. That would have worked out a lot better for him if he had been in a ghost story, and if that ghost story was actually about him.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'', the "hero" thinks he's in a huge role-play featuring acted danger and spying.
* An exchange from ''Film/DetroitRockCity'', about whether or not some road-tripping stoners should pick up a hitchhiker:
-->'''Jam:''' It's a teenage girl walking along the side of the highway. They make scary movies that start out like that!
-->'''Trip:''' But they make porno movies that start out like that too, man!
* [[SissyVillain Park Chang-yi]] in ''The Good, the Bad and the Weird'' is basically a melodramatic and serious {{Shonen}} anime villain stuck in a goofy Korean parody of Spaghetti westerns.
* ''StrangerThanFiction'' is a unique case, where the main character realizes he's in a story after he starts hearing his own narration. He seeks out help to try to become GenreSavvy, and correctly deduces that in the context of his narrator's story, he's in a [[spoiler: tragedy]], which is ironically Wrong Genre Savvy as the meta-story (the movie about the story about a man who hears his own narrator, i.e., the movie you're watching) is actually a [[spoiler: comedy]].
* The hostages in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', particularly Scott Fuller, have all the GenreSavvy needed to survive in a heist film or hostage-taking film. Scott even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by telling his father, "I've seen this on TV, Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop at is full of ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fricking Vampire]] [[FanService Strippers!]]''
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': When confronted with a reanimated cadaver, a group of characters put a pick axe through its brain based on what they know about zombies from seeing ''Night of the Living Dead.'' [[OurZombiesAreDifferent It has no effect.]]
-->'''Burt:''' I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
-->'''Frank:''' It worked in the movie!
-->'''Burt:''' Well, it ain't workin' now, Frank!
-->'''Fred:''' You mean the movie lied?
** Ironically, the idea of zombies who are smart enough to repeatedly moan "Brains" and/or who explicitly feel overpowering hunger instead of mindlessly eating, comes from this trilogy, not the original series.
*** Or even care about brains; the originals seemed to show a distinct preference for liver.
* The college kids from ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' believe they are in a typical HillbillyHorrors-style horror film after two rednecks announce that they "have" one of their friends and they start dying one by one. In actuality, they're in a comedy and the two hillbillies saved the girl from drowning. All the deaths are a result of the "victims" being TooDumbToLive. On the flip side, Chad believes he is TheHero who is going to defeat the evil hillbillies and get the girl. [[spoiler:He's actually the villain.]]
* In the little-known ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' [[FollowTheLeader ripoff]] ''Creature'', someone says they remember seeing an old movie (specifically, ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'') where they tried to stop the monster from killing everyone with an electrified forcefield. Not too effective against ''this'' monster.
** Also how they tried to stop Godzilla in [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original 1954 film]]. [[OlderThanTheyThink It didn't work then, either.]]
* The camp Disney flick ''{{Condorman}}'' features a comic book artist as its protagonist, who dreams of being a comic book action hero. He gets his chance when he persuades his CIA buddy to let him take a courier mission, but then proceeds to ham it up as the most ludicrously obvious CloakAndDagger spy ever -- which causes the Soviet agent he's meeting with to fall in love with him and [[DefectorFromCommieLand defect]]. In a weird way, his Wrong Genre Savviness actually twists the story until he ''is'' a superhero in a spy movie.
* The knights in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' tend to act like they are in a standard Arthurian romance, without realising they are in anything from 1) A very low budget Arthurian Romance, 2) A realistic depiction of the dark ages, 3) A musical, or 4) A modern day Police Procedural.
** Lancelot's Tale has a very obvious example of this. He keeps talking about how he's going to fulfill this quest of saving a DamselinDistress in his own "idiom" only for everything to go wrong for him since the movie's a parody. The script actually uses the word "genre" outright, but John Cleese [[ThrowItIn forgot the correct word while filming]] resulting in a much funnier scene.
* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'', the "new" Kirk assumes that a Romulan from TheFuture would know what the ''Enterprise'' crew will do, so they should [[DidntSeeThatComing be unpredictable]]. His Vulcan shipmate more accurately recognizes that the Romulan and his ship are a TimelineAlteringMacGuffin, causing a new chain of events (though nonetheless [[InSpiteOfANail failing to prevent]] the assemblage of the same ''Enterprise'' crew). Later, [[spoiler:old-Spock takes advantage of Kirk's ignorance to falsely "imply" that NeverTheSelvesShallMeet is a rule of this particular TimeyWimeyBall]].
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' has this from two angles: Jeff kidnaps Creator/BruceCampbell, expecting him to be a real-life BadAss like [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]], and hoping that he can cure Gold Lick's monster problem. [[AdamWesting Bruce]], on the other hand, is oblivious to the horror because he thinks that the whole thing's a prank.
* Sam in ''Film/TRONLegacy'' holds the lightcycle baton like [[Franchise/StarWars a lightsaber.]]
--> '''Sam:''' What's this? What do I do with this?
--> '''Jarvis:''' I'll give you a hint ... ''Not that''.
** Even funnier if you're familiar with the AlternateContinuity where you ''did'' [[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh have to use a lightcycle rod]] as an improvised weapon...
*** And even then... ''not like that''.
* Tom in ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' thinks that he's in a romantic comedy where everyone gets their happy endings, you can stand up to people hitting on your girlfriend and knock them out with one punch (when he tries this, the guy gets up right away and kicks his ass), etc. Justified because he's grown up on romantic comedies and confused them with reality (and missed the point of ''TheGraduate''). He's in a {{Deconstruction}} of a love story.
** [[spoiler: Actually, he is right to believe he is in a romantic comedy. He is just wrong about the girl - a {{Deconstruction}} of the ManicPixieDreamGirl.]]
* Queen Narissa, the antagonist of ''{{Enchanted}}'', singlehandedly puts the "decon" in the film's DeconReconSwitch of fairy-tale movies, but fails to recognize the "recon". The one character she can easily handle is [[LordErrorProne Edward]], who besides [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Pip]] is the only one who lacks HiddenDepths beyond what would be expected of the genre.
* The priest from ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' mistakes the moorwen for a demon and tries to exorcise it. The moorwren mauls him in the middle of his chant.
* The Stranger from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is convinced that he is in a western, and narrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like they're in a melodrama, while the Dude and his friends are not resulting in constant confusion.
* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', Marty thinks he's in a RealityTV show after discovering a hidden camera in his room. What he doesn't realise is that [[spoiler:he's about to sabotage a ritual sacrifice that's needed to prevent the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]]]].
* ''Film/TheFugitive'': When Kimble escapes through the storm drains and comes to a point where they bisect, he tosses his jacket down one tunnel and goes down the other one. The pursuing US Marshals aren't fooled for a second, they simply split up in order to check both passages. Later, when calling his lawyer, Kimble lies and says he's in St. Louis, correctly suspecting that the cops might be eavesdropping--but not that their equipment would determine that Kimble's in ''Chicago''.
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier seems to think he's in a SilverAge ScienceFiction story that will easily be resolved once he and his friends defeat [[BigBad Shaw]]. Actually, he's part of a larger conflict between humans and mutants, and he and his [[{{Magneto}} best friend]] are destined to become [[FriendlyEnemy reluctant arch-enemies]] in the oncoming war.
* Wayne seems to think the problems in the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' movies are because the kids keep coming into contact with his machine. As a result, when he needs to use it in the final film he makes sure the kids are out of the house, so nothing can possibly go wrong and shrink them. While they do manage to stay out of trouble (or at least shrunken trouble, as the get in over their heads since they are "Alone" for the weekend) because of this the problem is actually the machine itself as Wayne and his brother rather stupidly stand in range of the machine while checking something and figure its fine because "nobody is in the house to hit the button". Sure enough a random object hits the button, and they get shrunk.
* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', Paris thought the world works like a romantic poem. Hector angrily informs him about how WarIsHell. Later, Paris thinks ThePowerOfLove can motivate him to defeat Menelaus in a duel. [[RealityEnsues The old but incredibly strong and experienced warrior beats the shit out of him]].
* Lampshaded in ''Film/SantasSlay'' when Nicholas [[WeakenedByTheLight shines a light]] in the evil Santa's face, and it [[NoSell doesn't do anything]].
-->'''Santa:''' I'm Santa Claus, not fucking {{Dracula}}![[/folder]]
* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'':
** Through much of the film Pete the Prospector plays the role of Sage, dispensing advice to other characters. But a glimpse of "Woody's Roundup", the TV show that represents his origin, shows Pete playing a self-sabotaging buffoon. The glimpse hints that his sagely nuggets of wisdom may actually be fool's gold. By the end of the film his true role is revealed.
** Buzz Lightyear (or one of his duplicates) goes through this in varying degrees in all three movies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Megamind thinks that Hal will be the perfect person to train as a hero once he's seen him: he thinks he's a complete nobody who can realize his true heroic potential with his help. Unfortunately, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Hal]] fits a [[FromNobodyToNightmare different]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity set of]] [[BewareTheSuperman tropes...]]
* Another positive example: what keeps the plot of ''Anime/ChildrenWhoChaseLostVoices'' from being a TearJerker is Asuna, who's almost always happy and vigilant despite the relatively large amount of [[WhamLine whams]] coming in even early on. Remember that this is coming from the [[MakotoShinkai same person who made]] ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond''.
* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', Naveen mistakenly thinks that being kissed by Tiana will turn him back. [[spoiler:Later, he accuses of her of falsely wearing the tiara, deceiving him into thinking she was a princess -- and it turns out that he does just need a princess to do it.]]
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' - Gaston (BigBad) thinks he's the hero, and that Beast (JerkWithAHeartOfGold) is a monster who wants to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty get his claws on Belle]].
* Syndrome in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' taunts Mr. Incredible about how he's obviously an ArchNemesis with JokerImmunity who will continue to dog and torment the family throughout their lives. He realizes that this isn't [[DeconReconSwitch that]] [[TheModernAgeOfComicBooks kind]] of {{Superhero}} story about the time he notices the car hurtling towards his jet.
** Elastigirl warns the kids about the danger of being Wrong Genre Savvy.
-->"Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch [[SaturdayMorningCartoon on Saturday mornings]]? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well, these guys aren't like those guys]]. They won't exercise restraint [[WouldHurtAChild because you are children]]. They ''will'' kill you if they get the chance. Do ''not'' give them that chance."[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action Films]]
* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' has a scene where the hero, Cleveland Heep, consults the movie critic in order to identify the tenants who fill in the roles of Story's helpers. However, when their plan goes awry [[spoiler: and Story is attacked and injured]], Cleveland realizes that he incorrectly identified himself. Note that the movie critic was more or less right in his ideas of who the tenants would be, but Cleveland merely interpreted the clues incorrectly.
** Not to mention the scene where the same movie critic [[spoiler: is confronted by the monster, and instead of running away he goes on spiel about how the movie has had no violence, deaths, lewd acts, or nudity and deduces that he is going to live with just a wound because of these factors. He must've forgotten about the female lead being naked for all her screentime.]]
* In the ''StarWars'' prequels, Obi-Wan is extremely GenreSavvy when he tells Anakin that AristocratsAreEvil if they are politicians. Too bad he's applying this trope -- and that of GodSaveUsFromTheQueen -- to Padme as well as Palpatine, because they aren't anything alike. Padme is in fact an example of TheHighQueen and debatably the most moral character in the whole Star Wars universe. Obi Wan specifically warns Anakin to be cautious of Padme ''because she is a politician'', and although he specifically includes Palpatine in that general categorization, against Anakin's more naive trust, the point still stands. Her being an aristocrat technically doesn't come into it but it is a variant in a way since aristocrats often are politicians in the Star Wars universe.
--->'''Anakin Skywalker;''': ... and besides, you're generalizing. The Chancellor doesn't appear to be corrupt.
--->'''Obi-Wan Kenobi:''': Palpatine is a politician. I've observed that he is very clever at following the passions and prejudices of the Senators.
** Obi-Wan's problem is that he believes he's living in a naturalistic universe rather than a fantastical one. He's a cynic who believes that all politicians are [[ObstructiveBureaucrat corrupt and self-serving]]. He doesn't believe that any of them could be effective, let alone really dangerous: the worst they can do is take advantage of a crisis to serve their own ends. It never occurs to him to think that one of these politicians is actually a devious puppet master who is ''engineering'' a crisis in a bid to bring the entire political system down. Ironically, his status as the OnlySaneMan works against him: if he'd realized he was in a universe where there actually ''is'' an AncientConspiracy working behind the scenes, he might have spotted Palpatine sooner.
** The entire Jedi Order during the last days of the Old Republic have this problem too: they see themselves as the stalwart protectors of a noble old order (and perhaps they really were at one point). In reality they're the arrogant and hidebound old masters whose inflexibility and strict adherence to tradition almost directly leads to the fall of their most powerful member and their complete destruction at his hands.
*** In Matt Stover's novelization of ''RevengeOfTheSith'', Yoda realizes this the moment he and Palpatine's lightsabers clash. Skill and power were irrelevant -- the Sith had already ''won'' because they had become something new while the Jedi had remained the same. The Jedi had been preparing for the wrong kind of war.
* The unease audiences feel toward Hannibal Lecter in ''SilenceOfTheLambs'' is heightened by his seemingly unsavvy placement in the structure of the story. Genre conventions would make him the villain. But the story's villain is Buffalo Bill. "Hannibal the Cannibal" is actually the TricksterMentor. He is Yoda to Clarice's Luke, the shadow counterpart of her FBI academy instructor. Other characters call him a monster, but Clarice addresses him as she would a teacher and he is among those who congratulate her when she graduates. His function in the story places him much closer to the main character than we would expect him to be, and far too close for comfort. With his breakout at the end of the film, this genre-savvy character sheds the mentor role and assumes a more conventional role as villain. In a sense, his act signals a return to "order".
* ''Film/LastActionHero'': Child hero Danny rides his bicycle head-on to play chicken with the main villain's car, reasoning that it has to work because he's the hero in a non-R rated movie where [[InfantImmortality the kid would never die]]. Then it dawns on him that he's the PluckyComicRelief instead, and ''is'' vulnerable. Cue ET visual gag.
** The second half of the movie deals heavily with how badly Jack Slater's GenreSavvy as an ActionHero fails him in the gritty, real world until he learns the new rules whereas Benedict becomes DangerouslyGenreSavvy right out of the gate instead.
* A positive example: Guy from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', though for the most part GenreSavvy, goes through the events of the film in a depressed and terrified state, because he is convinced that he is nothing more than a designated RedShirt among the ShowWithinAShow's stars (even his ''name'' suggests this). In the end, he is told that he has a promising future as the PluckyComicRelief.
** In fact, everyone in that movie who acts like it's a movie is proven wrong, and everyone who acts like it's real is proven just as wrong.
** For an even bigger payoff, pay attention during [[spoiler: the shootout on the bridge. Everybody ''except'' Guy gets shot.]]
* Jack Burton of ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' thinks he's a sort of western-style hero who takes charge and beats the bad guys with guts and bravado. However, he doesn't know anything about all the eastern mysticism going on. His best friend Wang has to explain everything to him. It's Wang who is actually the hero, out to rescue his girlfriend. Jack is actually the sidekick, just tagging along and trying to recover his lost truck.
** Wang may be the hero, but Jack is the one who [[spoiler:kills the BigBad]].
* Near the end of ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', Lord Chancellor Thurlow wastes time announcing the king's return to health by bemoaning the messenger in ''Theatre/KingLear'' who arrives too late to save Cordelia. The whole film is an averted ''Lear'' -- something the king seems to recognize, even if Thurlow doesn't.
* Chad and Lynda from ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' both start acting like they're in a SpyDrama after they find a disc with the financial records of a former CIA analyst, acting all mysterious around the analyst and refusing to give their real names. However, they're in a BlackComedy, so HilarityEnsues.
* The ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie series has a faint undercurrent of this throughout: nearly every character thinks they're in a different story than they actually are. There's a subtle Deconstructionist aspect as well, as established pirate Tropes are played with and/or dismantled.
** In ''The Curse Of The Black Pearl'', Elizabeth thinks Barbossa's crew are standard pilfer-and-loot pirates who would hold her for ransom if they found out she's the [[ThePresidentsDaughter Governor's daughter]]. Unfortunately, they're not after something so mundane as money, and the name she chooses to give them - Turner - is actually the very name they're looking for. She also expects pirates to honor the Code of the Brethren as if it were a binding rule of law, not realizing that Barbossa is a GenreSavvy RulesLawyer who sees the Code more as "guidelines."
*** All pirates see the Code this way... unless Captain Teague is in he vicinity.
** In ''Dead Man's Chest'', when the Kraken is taking down a ship full of {{Red Shirt}}s, one of the merchants runs forward, bravely offering what they had previously thought was the dress of a ghost who was haunting their ship. That would have worked out a lot better for him if he had been in a ghost story, and if that ghost story was actually about him.
* In ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'', the "hero" thinks he's in a huge role-play featuring acted danger and spying.
* An exchange from ''Film/DetroitRockCity'', about whether or not some road-tripping stoners should pick up a hitchhiker:
-->'''Jam:''' It's a teenage girl walking along the side of the highway. They make scary movies that start out like that!
-->'''Trip:''' But they make porno movies that start out like that too, man!
* [[SissyVillain Park Chang-yi]] in ''The Good, the Bad and the Weird'' is basically a melodramatic and serious {{Shonen}} anime villain stuck in a goofy Korean parody of Spaghetti westerns.
* ''StrangerThanFiction'' is a unique case, where the main character realizes he's in a story after he starts hearing his own narration. He seeks out help to try to become GenreSavvy, and correctly deduces that in the context of his narrator's story, he's in a [[spoiler: tragedy]], which is ironically Wrong Genre Savvy as the meta-story (the movie about the story about a man who hears his own narrator, i.e., the movie you're watching) is actually a [[spoiler: comedy]].
* The hostages in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', particularly Scott Fuller, have all the GenreSavvy needed to survive in a heist film or hostage-taking film. Scott even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by telling his father, "I've seen this on TV, Dad!" Pity for them the bar the Gecko Brothers choose to stop at is full of ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Fricking Vampire]] [[FanService Strippers!]]''
* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': When confronted with a reanimated cadaver, a group of characters put a pick axe through its brain based on what they know about zombies from seeing ''Night of the Living Dead.'' [[OurZombiesAreDifferent It has no effect.]]
-->'''Burt:''' I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!
-->'''Frank:''' It worked in the movie!
-->'''Burt:''' Well, it ain't workin' now, Frank!
-->'''Fred:''' You mean the movie lied?
** Ironically, the idea of zombies who are smart enough to repeatedly moan "Brains" and/or who explicitly feel overpowering hunger instead of mindlessly eating, comes from this trilogy, not the original series.
*** Or even care about brains; the originals seemed to show a distinct preference for liver.
* The college kids from ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' believe they are in a typical HillbillyHorrors-style horror film after two rednecks announce that they "have" one of their friends and they start dying one by one. In actuality, they're in a comedy and the two hillbillies saved the girl from drowning. All the deaths are a result of the "victims" being TooDumbToLive. On the flip side, Chad believes he is TheHero who is going to defeat the evil hillbillies and get the girl. [[spoiler:He's actually the villain.]]
* In the little-known ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' [[FollowTheLeader ripoff]] ''Creature'', someone says they remember seeing an old movie (specifically, ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'') where they tried to stop the monster from killing everyone with an electrified forcefield. Not too effective against ''this'' monster.
** Also how they tried to stop Godzilla in [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original 1954 film]]. [[OlderThanTheyThink It didn't work then, either.]]
* The camp Disney flick ''{{Condorman}}'' features a comic book artist as its protagonist, who dreams of being a comic book action hero. He gets his chance when he persuades his CIA buddy to let him take a courier mission, but then proceeds to ham it up as the most ludicrously obvious CloakAndDagger spy ever -- which causes the Soviet agent he's meeting with to fall in love with him and [[DefectorFromCommieLand defect]]. In a weird way, his Wrong Genre Savviness actually twists the story until he ''is'' a superhero in a spy movie.
* The knights in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' tend to act like they are in a standard Arthurian romance, without realising they are in anything from 1) A very low budget Arthurian Romance, 2) A realistic depiction of the dark ages, 3) A musical, or 4) A modern day Police Procedural.
** Lancelot's Tale has a very obvious example of this. He keeps talking about how he's going to fulfill this quest of saving a DamselinDistress in his own "idiom" only for everything to go wrong for him since the movie's a parody. The script actually uses the word "genre" outright, but John Cleese [[ThrowItIn forgot the correct word while filming]] resulting in a much funnier scene.
* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'', the "new" Kirk assumes that a Romulan from TheFuture would know what the ''Enterprise'' crew will do, so they should [[DidntSeeThatComing be unpredictable]]. His Vulcan shipmate more accurately recognizes that the Romulan and his ship are a TimelineAlteringMacGuffin, causing a new chain of events (though nonetheless [[InSpiteOfANail failing to prevent]] the assemblage of the same ''Enterprise'' crew). Later, [[spoiler:old-Spock takes advantage of Kirk's ignorance to falsely "imply" that NeverTheSelvesShallMeet is a rule of this particular TimeyWimeyBall]].
* ''Film/MyNameIsBruce'' has this from two angles: Jeff kidnaps Creator/BruceCampbell, expecting him to be a real-life BadAss like [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]], and hoping that he can cure Gold Lick's monster problem. [[AdamWesting Bruce]], on the other hand, is oblivious to the horror because he thinks that the whole thing's a prank.
* Sam in ''Film/TRONLegacy'' holds the lightcycle baton like [[Franchise/StarWars a lightsaber.]]
--> '''Sam:''' What's this? What do I do with this?
--> '''Jarvis:''' I'll give you a hint ... ''Not that''.
** Even funnier if you're familiar with the AlternateContinuity where you ''did'' [[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh have to use a lightcycle rod]] as an improvised weapon...
*** And even then... ''not like that''.
* Tom in ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' thinks that he's in a romantic comedy where everyone gets their happy endings, you can stand up to people hitting on your girlfriend and knock them out with one punch (when he tries this, the guy gets up right away and kicks his ass), etc. Justified because he's grown up on romantic comedies and confused them with reality (and missed the point of ''TheGraduate''). He's in a {{Deconstruction}} of a love story.
** [[spoiler: Actually, he is right to believe he is in a romantic comedy. He is just wrong about the girl - a {{Deconstruction}} of the ManicPixieDreamGirl.]]
* Queen Narissa, the antagonist of ''{{Enchanted}}'', singlehandedly puts the "decon" in the film's DeconReconSwitch of fairy-tale movies, but fails to recognize the "recon". The one character she can easily handle is [[LordErrorProne Edward]], who besides [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Pip]] is the only one who lacks HiddenDepths beyond what would be expected of the genre.
* The priest from ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' mistakes the moorwen for a demon and tries to exorcise it. The moorwren mauls him in the middle of his chant.
* The Stranger from ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is convinced that he is in a western, and narrates the film as if it were one. Another example is that the titular character and company talk and act like they're in a melodrama, while the Dude and his friends are not resulting in constant confusion.
* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', Marty thinks he's in a RealityTV show after discovering a hidden camera in his room. What he doesn't realise is that [[spoiler:he's about to sabotage a ritual sacrifice that's needed to prevent the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end of the world]]]].
* ''Film/TheFugitive'': When Kimble escapes through the storm drains and comes to a point where they bisect, he tosses his jacket down one tunnel and goes down the other one. The pursuing US Marshals aren't fooled for a second, they simply split up in order to check both passages. Later, when calling his lawyer, Kimble lies and says he's in St. Louis, correctly suspecting that the cops might be eavesdropping--but not that their equipment would determine that Kimble's in ''Chicago''.
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier seems to think he's in a SilverAge ScienceFiction story that will easily be resolved once he and his friends defeat [[BigBad Shaw]]. Actually, he's part of a larger conflict between humans and mutants, and he and his [[{{Magneto}} best friend]] are destined to become [[FriendlyEnemy reluctant arch-enemies]] in the oncoming war.
* Wayne seems to think the problems in the ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' movies are because the kids keep coming into contact with his machine. As a result, when he needs to use it in the final film he makes sure the kids are out of the house, so nothing can possibly go wrong and shrink them. While they do manage to stay out of trouble (or at least shrunken trouble, as the get in over their heads since they are "Alone" for the weekend) because of this the problem is actually the machine itself as Wayne and his brother rather stupidly stand in range of the machine while checking something and figure its fine because "nobody is in the house to hit the button". Sure enough a random object hits the button, and they get shrunk.
* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', Paris thought the world works like a romantic poem. Hector angrily informs him about how WarIsHell. Later, Paris thinks ThePowerOfLove can motivate him to defeat Menelaus in a duel. [[RealityEnsues The old but incredibly strong and experienced warrior beats the shit out of him]].
* Lampshaded in ''Film/SantasSlay'' when Nicholas [[WeakenedByTheLight shines a light]] in the evil Santa's face, and it [[NoSell doesn't do anything]].
-->'''Santa:''' I'm Santa Claus, not fucking {{Dracula}}![[/folder]]
