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12	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': Fred believes that Alastair Krei is secretly the villain Yokai, citing several comic book stories in which a CorruptCorporateExecutive would turn out to be the main villain. After Yokai is revealed to be Professor Callaghan, who blamed Krei for the death of his daughter, Fred and the others realize the truth: "This is a revenge story."
13	* Princess Anna ThinksLikeARomanceNovel or an idealized FairyTale, while ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'' is a FracturedFairyTale. She thinks LoveAtFirstSight equals TrueLove, and after singing a romantic duet, she can totally [[FourthDateMarriage marry a man she just met]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:said man turns out to be the PrinceCharmless who only pretended to love her to get to the throne.]] She assumes she needs TrueLovesKiss to break the curse, but the ActOfTrueLove that saves her turns out to be [[spoiler:her own HeroicSacrifice.]]
14	* DiscussedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', when Elastigirl warns the kids about the danger of being Wrong Genre Savvy.
15	-->"Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch [[SaturdayMorningCartoon on Saturday mornings]]? [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Well, these guys aren't like those guys]]. [[WouldHurtAChild They won't exercise restraint because you are children]]. They ''will'' kill you if they get the chance. Do ''not'' give them that chance."
16	** As a more specific example, main villain Syndrome often falls into this trap, seemingly expecting that he's living in a world bound by the rules of a classic {{Superhero}} comic than the [[MediaNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern-Age-influenced]] DeconReconSwitch it actually is. This is ultimately [[spoiler:what led to Syndrome's death; he assumed he was an ArchNemesis with JokerImmunity and that Mr. Incredible wouldn't dare interrupt his evil gloating, leaving him open to be hit by a car that sent him flying into his own plane engine]].
17	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'': [[BigBad Tai Lung]] seems to believe he's TheHero of the story, which WordOfGod has said was intentional, and is why Tai Lung has golden eyes -- [[ColorMotif the color gold represents glory and heroism]]. Tai Lung's scenes are framed as an archetypical action HerosJourney: he is betrayed by his master and denied prestige he feels he deserves, is imprisoned for years before escaping, and he fights his way back to his homeland (including an encounter with a QuirkyMinibossSquad of his master's current pupils) to confront his old master and his new favorite student and claim the destiny they denied him. Unfortunately for Tai Lung, he ''isn't'' TheHero of this story, Po is.
18	* ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'': TJ thinks that he and Principal Prickly are in the same scenario as the old spy thrillers he's seen and that the DressingAsTheEnemy plan will work perfectly. Unfortunately for them, the mooks are a lot smarter than the ones in those films and can [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome immediately tell they're not real guards]].
19	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'': Shaggy splashes the evil witch with water, which just annoys her. Shocked, he says he thought water would make her melt like in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
20	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': {{Implied}}. Spider-Punk mistakes Mayday soiling her diaper for an ExcrementStatement. The fact that he's not in his universe, which resembles a punk zine or underground comix, is the most probable reason.
21	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'':
22	** When Priya first appears, she's reading a ''Twilight'' pastiche. When she sees Mei's transformation, after calming down from the initial shock, she asks if Mei is a werewolf.
23	** When Mei sees her new red panda form in the mirror, she instantly assumes she's become the star in a classic werewolf story, and everyone who sees her new form will be terrified and repulsed by it - her schoolmates, her friends, and even her parents. Fortunately, she's wrong on all points.
24	* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Ralph, being from an '80s platformer, has no clue what kind of violence he could find in a bug-infested, 21st-century, ScienceFiction FirstPersonShooter. He thought it would be fairly tame and family friendly like ''VideoGame/{{Centipede}}''. Naturally, he's caught highly off guard when it turns out to instead be considerably more violent than he was expecting.
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28	* Tom in ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' grew up on romantic comedies and confused them with reality (and missed the point of ''Film/TheGraduate'', declaring it the perfect love story when it clearly isn't). When he meets Summer, he tries out the LoveAtFirstSight and FourthDateMarriage tropes, completely oblivious that she doesn't feel the same way and only treats their relationship as a fling. When he tries the genre-appropriate action of standing up to the guy hitting on his girlfriend and knocking him out with one punch, the guy gets up right away and kicks his ass. Turns out he's in a {{Deconstruction}} of a love story.
29	* The title character in ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'' is a flamboyant gunfighter straight out of a Hollywood Western. He's an [[ImprobableAimingSkills implausibly skilled gunfighter]] with a [[AffablyEvil cheery demeanor]], who only [[KillingInSelfDefense shoots people who are threatening him]], and consequently assumes that he's the hero of the story. In truth, he's a borderline-sociopathic VillainProtagonist who appears to enjoy provoking life-and-death conflicts, confident that his PlotArmor will protect him. [[spoiler: At the end of his segment, he's unceremoniously [[BoomHeadshot shot through the head]] by an even better gunfighter.]].
30	-->'''Buster Scruggs:''' Shoulda seen this comin'...
31	* ''Film/BarelyLethal'': Megan is a girl raised since childhood to be an assassin until she fakes her death to escape and decides to live as a normal high school girl. To prepare herself, she does "research" by watching several high school films like ''Film/MeanGirls''. But since these movies do not reflect real life, she ends up weirding everybody out by trying to follow their tropes. She also automatically assumes the cheerleaders trying to befriend her are all {{alpha bitch}}es trying to set her up, since that is what happened in ''Film/MeanGirls'', when in reality, their offer was genuine.
32	* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' is perhaps one of the most celebrated examples of the PluckyComicRelief thinking he's the star. Jack Burton insists on acting like TheHero in a standard action movie (having taken a steady diet of Creator/JohnWayne films throughout his life from the way his swagger sounds) when he's actually a SupportingProtagonist at best who's serving as the unofficial sidekick to his friend Wang (the true main hero of the story that Jack thinks is the sidekick) in an UrbanFantasy movie that just happens to feature moments of action. To further emphasize just how out of his depth he actually is, he also spends several scenes having to ask [[NaiveNewcomer what the hell is going on]] when everybody else already knows, and he's only able to successfully make meaningful contributions to the plot [[spoiler:(such as killing the BigBad)]] via sheer luck in times when he's acting on pure reflexive gut instinct.
33	* ''Film/BloodRedSky'': [[InspectorJavert Colonel Drummond]] thinks he's in a mundane airplane thriller like ''Film/NonStop'' and dismisses the warnings to the contrary from both the wounded pilot, whom he thinks is the lead hijacker, and the sole escapee. However, he's actually in a vampire horror film. [[spoiler: He waits for nightfall to assault the airliner for the supposed cover of darkness, sending his team to their deaths and allowing the vampires to almost escape.]]
34	* ''Film/BodiesBodiesBodies'':
35	** Alice is caught up in the idea that the deaths are related to the game of Bodies Bodies Bodies they were playing, seeming to think that this is a DeadlyGame movie along the lines of ''Film/TruthOrDare2018''. She's quickly shouted down for having faulty evidence [[spoiler:(Greg was the first "victim" in Bodies Bodies Bodies, but the second to die in real life)]], and for still fixating on it after ''three people have died''.
36	** More broadly, [[spoiler:the main characters think they're in a whodunit SlasherMovie and that one of them is the killer. Bee and Sophia only realize that there was no killer after everybody else was dead, victims of their own paranoia after they turned on each other.]]
37	* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'': Frank impersonates a doctor and a lawyer, but everything he knows about those professions he learned from ''Series/DrKildare'' and ''Series/PerryMason'' respectively. His attempts to use this knowledge in actual medical and legal settings just end up confusing his colleagues.
38	* 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.
39	* An exchange from ''Film/DetroitRockCity'', about whether or not some road-tripping stoners should pick up a hitchhiker:
40	-->'''Jam:''' It's a teenage girl walking along the side of the highway. They make scary movies that start out like that!\
41	'''Trip:''' But they make porno movies that start out like that too, man!
42	* ''Film/EscapeRoom2019'': Danny has the most experience with escape rooms so he can anticipate a lot of the gameplay. However, he keeps downplaying the actual danger that the players are put in, reasoning that the company behind the escape rooms would be sued into oblivion if somebody actually died. He's not aware that Minos is an EvilCorp that profits off their deaths. [[spoiler:End result, Danny is the first person to die.]]
43	* In ''Film/{{Freaky}}'', early on Josh Dormer operates on the assumption that he's basically in a classic slasher film when in reality he's in a modernized, subversive take on the genre. During his and Nyla's first encounter with The Blissfield Butcher (who has actually switched bodies with their friend Millie by this point), he even says this gem of a line.
44	-->'''Josh:''' [Whist running from "The Butcher"] You're [[BlackDudeDiesFirst black]], I'm [[GayGuyDiesFirst gay]], We're ''so'' dead!
45	* 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.
46	* In ''Film/TheFrighteners'', Agent Milton Dammers has suffered various traumas from his investigations into "supernatural" cases, with the result that he ''thinks'' he's an OccultDetective who's tracked down a serial-killing psychic. In reality, he's actually [[HeroOfAnotherStory stumbled into a battle]] between a NotSoPhonyPsychic and a serial-killing ''ghost'', and it's left ambiguous whether any of his supernatural beliefs are remotely valid or just pure delusion. His inability to stretch his mind that one extra inch and accept the mere ''possibility'' that the psychic (named Frank) ''isn't'' the bad guy results in him interrupting an exorcism ritual the psychic and his partner are performing against the killer ghost at a crucial moment [[spoiler:and then subsequently getting [[BoomHeadshot his head]] [[YourHeadASplode blown off]] by Patricia (the killer ghost's mortal lover)]].
47	* 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!]]''
48	* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': A comedy spoof of Franchise/StarTrek, the actors of a Franchise/StarTrek-like ShowWithinAShow meet a group of aliens who have based their society on the broadcasts of that show, believing them to be historical records. Guy, who played a RedShirt, goes through the events of the film in a depressed and terrified state, convinced that he's doomed to die to prove the seriousness of the situation. He is so obssessed with the sci-fi tropes that he never considers the possibility that tropes common to comedy genres may be in play; eventually, one of his colleagues gives him a pep talk by suggesting he's actually the PluckyComicRelief instead of the RedShirt. It works, he lives, and winds up getting a starring role in a revival series.
49	* In ''Film/KnivesOut'', Fran the housekeeper mentions having watched quite a few [[SugarWiki/AHallmarkPresentation Hallmark Channel murder mysteries]], and [[spoiler: tries to blackmail the killer after engaging in some {{Amateur Sleuth}}ing. This promptly gets her killed since, unlike the murderers she's familiar with from Hallmark, this culprit doesn't immediately back down after being presented evidence of their crimes. Had her savviness gone just a little deeper, she would have known that trying to blackmail the killer is the fastest way to die in old school ''Creator/AgathaChristie'' novels.]]
50	** In the film’s sequel, Film/GlassOnion, it only takes Blanc as long as it does to crack the case because he thinks he’s in a more traditional cat-and-mouse type thriller or mystery with a cunning villain behind everything going on similar to what he found himself experiencing in the previous movie. In reality, he’s in a mystery satire of the .01%, and as it ultimately turns out, [[OccamsRazor the simplest and most obvious answer behind the mystery]] (which Blanc had previously considered far too stupid to be taken seriously as an option) turns out to indeed be the case, with the villain behind it all turning out to be a complete idiot.
51	* ''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 [[ImprobableInfantSurvival the kid would never die]]. Then it dawns on him that he's the PluckyComicRelief instead, and ''is'' vulnerable; at which point he is only just barely able to get out of the way in time.
52	* ''Film/LatePhases:'' Westmark the gunsmith, when asked why he thinks Ambrose is buying bullets, doesn't seem to consider the werewolf angle, just commenting it reminds him of ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' and the image of a VigilanteMan with the symbolism of purity in the clamps.
53	* Martin from ''Film/LoveSimon'' thinks he’s the DoggedNiceGuy protagonist whose questionable decisions and over-the-top romantic gestures will help him [[StandardHeroReward get the girl]]. Sadly, he’s not the protagonist, but rather the [=ANtagonist=]. And He DidNotGetTheGirl, either.
54	* ''{{Film/Maleficent}}'': When Aurora meets Maleficent, she assumes the fae to be her FairyGodmother because of the books she's read. Nice guess if she were {{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}, not so much as WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty.
55	* Colonel Nathan Hardy in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' at first acts like he's the protagonist of a MilitaryScienceFiction action story where [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] is a DefectorFromDecadence and the Kryptonian invaders can be defeated with enough firepower from humanity's military. Truth of the matter is, he's a side character in a [[SuperheroOrigin superhero origin story]] and the newly-christened Superman is the only one who can fight the invaders off on an equal physical level, so in order for the humans to help him, they're going need to be a lot craftier (in this case, sending them off into the PhantomZone).
56	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
57	** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Spider-Man watched the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies, and automatically assumes Mantis is a creature similar to a Xenomorph, frantically begging her not to lay eggs inside of him.
58	** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
59	*** War Machine and Ant-Man cite ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', and other time travel films to reveal their idea of how time travel works, believing they can simply kill Thanos as a baby to undo his crimes. Smart Hulk lectures them that "time travel" actually sends you to a parallel universe, so nothing you do there affects your own universe. The best they can do is borrow the parallel universes' Infinity Stones and use them to undo "The Snap".
60	--->'''Ant-Man:''' What, so ''Back to the Future'' is a bunch of ''bullshit''!?
61	*** When War Machine and Nebula arrive at the temple where the Power Stone was originally kept, War Machine stops her from entering, convinced the place is filled with ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' style booby traps. Nebula, being from this part of the universe and knowing there's no such thing, proceeds to just waltz in and grab the stone, to his confusion.
62	* Franchise/MonsterVerse: A lot of people InUniverse (particularly before the events of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'') such as [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary Admiral Stenz]] believe that humanity needs to attempt to kill the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] using manmade super-weaponry in defence of their right to rule the Earth uncontested and to prevent future destruction and casualties to their cities; and Monarch's arguments against that and tendency towards admiring the creatures make most people see them as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHmUk_J6xQ that one guy in a monster movie who insists on keeping the monster alive For Science at the risk of causing the end of the world through sheer naivete]]. As it stands, many of the kaiju in this setting are capable of coexisting with humans peacefully if a benevolent Alpha like Godzilla or Kong gets them in line, and they're furthermore [[GreenAesop allegories for forces of nature]] -- attempts to up technology to a level which can deal serious damage to Titans ''always'' goes awry, doing nothing but leaving the world in an even worse situation with the Titans than it was before, and humanity is simply reliant on the Titans to survive in the long-term since many of them act as antibodies maintaining the world's ecosphere. Monarch are in actuality [[GoodIsNotDumb every bit the Titan experts that they're supposed to be per their job]] because of their pro-Titan arguments. This Wrong Genre Savvy is quite central to the ridiculously-arrogant [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Apex Cybernetics]]' EvilPlan to control or exterminate all the Titans in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', and to the organization's downfall.
63	* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': Ricky "Jupe" Park thinks he's in an ABoyAndHisX story where he befriends [[spoiler: a bunch of aliens in a flying saucer, due to having survived an attack by an enraged chimp in the past because the animal had a bond with him (it actually didn't, it was mostly luck, making it another example of the trope)]]. He's actually in a [[spoiler: [[AttackoftheKillerWhatever monster movie]] and the 'flying saucer' is in reality a giant animal that eats him without a second thought]].
64	* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': Thanks to all the stories they’ve read, the Brown children are certain that any woman their father remarries after their mother’s death [[WickedStepmother will be horrible to them and treat them like servants]]. Derek even produces a book of stories about children with {{Wicked Stepmother}}s as “hard evidence” for the theory. They might be right about their father’s first choice, [[GoldDigger Mrs. Quickly]], but [[MarryTheNanny their father ultimately marries the sweet, angelic scullery maid Angeline]], who has been kind and motherly to the children long before the wedding, and cares for them so much that she willingly went to live with their cold aunt Adelaide so one of them would not be separated from their family.
65	* In ''Film/TheOtherGuys'':
66	** Detectives Gamble and Holtz (our heroes) attempt an UnflinchingWalk away from an explosion, but the explosion knocks them down and partially injures and deafens them. They proceed to complain that all the action movies they watched lied to them by making them think you can casually walk away from an explosion to look badass.
67	** Danson and Highsmith are a CowboyCop pair that have lived their lives like ''Film/BadBoys1995'' starring Creator/SamuelLJackson and Creator/DwayneJohnson. They are insanely reckless yet beloved as super-cops and have seen a lot of action films. They are the DecoyProtagonist pair because they jump off a freaking building with nothing to stop their fall in the apparent belief that something will appear as they do (they even say "aim for the bushes" when there's not even any there). [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome They get splattered]] [[EpicFail all over the pavement]] and Gamble and Holtz spend a couple of minutes during the funeral scene wondering [[WhatWereYouThinking just what the hell were they thinking]].
68	** Holtz, apparently thinking in an action movie terms, is convinced that they are chasing [[TheCartel drug dealers]] of some kind (the criminals are white-collar and have no connection to drugs at all).
69	* ''Film/ThePackage'' looks at Jeremy's reaction after he accidentally cuts his penis off while high and leaves it behind while he's taken to hospital. As his friends and sister try to get the penis to him, Jeremy starts relying on his belief in tropes from several other genres that don't quite apply to a more grounded comedy. At one point, he believes that a flower slowly dying in his room is a magic clock counting down the time that his friends have to reach him and tries to send messages to Becky using TwinTelepathy.
70	* Captain Vidal in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' thinks he's the hero of a war film who wants to live up to his father's legacy and be remembered as a great soldier. On the DVD commentary Guillermo del Toro notes that Vidal expects his death at the end to be the kind of emotional climax often seen in similar stories where the hero dies honorably as the music swells up, as he asks for his son to know who he was. He's legitimately shocked when he's unceremoniously executed after being told that his child will never know anything about him.
71	* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', Elizabeth Swann somehow does it ''twice'':
72	** She spends a good deal of the movie expecting and hoping one of the pirates she runs into would be like the [[LoveableRogue romantic, dashing rogues]] 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, etc.) 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.
73	** When she first meets Barbossa and his crew, she believes they are just normal, mundane pirates that would hold her for ransom if they knew she was the Governor's daughter, so she gives her name as "Elizabeth Turner" and claims to be a maid of the Governor. Unfortunately, these pirates couldn't care less about the Governor or ransom and need a Turner to break the curse, effectively guaranteeing she remains a captive aboard their ship.
74	--->'''Barbossa:''' You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!
75	** James Norrington, Elizabeth's HopelessSuitor, is exactly the kind of man who would be the lead in a traditional pirate story (one where the pirates were the bad guys, anyway): a highly successful, improbably decorated young naval officer who's made commodore by the age of 26 and seems to always have a one-liner ready when he apprehends Jack Sparrow (multiple times, actually). Unfortunately for him, the moral rules of this universe are [[BlackAndGrayMorality extremely gray]], his act of mercy toward Jack and general movement toward taking a more sporting attitude toward the whole thing end up ''costing him his flagship and his entire crew'', and when he shows up in the sequel he's a disgraced, filthy, vengeance-crazed drunk... who ''still'' hasn't figured out that bringing the heart of Davy Jones to corrupt suit Cutler Beckett in order to regain even a shadow of his former life isn't the way this world works, either. After failing at being the hero, and realizing he doesn't have it in him to really be a villain of either the backstabbing pirate type ''or'' the ruthless pirate-eradicating type, he ends up making a HeroicSacrifice to save Elizabeth, who has become a pirate captain herself by that point, and her crew.
76	* ''Film/{{Predator}}'': In a unique twist on the trope, the characters initially prove right at home in the film's first half (which just so happens to be a typical 1980s action flick), only for a sudden GenreShift in the film's second half to plunge them into a sci-fi slasher horror. At which point, as badass and nigh unstoppable as the film's soldier protagonists are against ordinary hostile human enemies in a regular earth combat scenario, they learn the hard way just how hopelessly out of their depth they are against [[spoiler:an alien monster]] that's come to the area for the sake of HuntingTheMostDangerousGame.
77	* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'': 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 ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968.'' [[OurZombiesAreDifferent It has no effect.]]
78	-->'''Burt:''' I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!\
79	'''Frank:''' It worked in the movie!\
80	'''Burt:''' Well, it ain't workin' now, Frank!\
81	'''Fred:''' You mean the movie lied?
82	* ''Film/SantasSlay'': Lampshaded when Nicholas [[WeakenedByTheLight tries to shine a flashlight]] in Santa's face, and all it does is annoy him.
83	-->'''Santa:''' I'm Santa Claus, not fucking {{Dracula}}!
84	* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'': Frog/Carrie is driving the Bandit's car with him in the passenger seat. They decide to [[TakeTheWheel swap places]], but find it is pretty much impossible to do while driving. Confused, they point out people do it all the time in movies.
85	* ''Film/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 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 comedy.
86	* ''Film/TheTerminator'' does this with the LAPD. Traxler and Vukovich are competent investigators who quickly catch on to the T-100's pattern and leak the story to the press to flush out Sarah Connor so they can place her in protective custody. When the cops bring Sarah and Kyle Reese in, they take them to a heavily-occupied precinct for protection while detectives prepare to search for the Terminator. Of course, they aren't dealing with a serial killer but a nearly-indestructible cyborg who [[CurbStompBattle makes quick work of the police]] when he arrives.
87	* In ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'', Creator/EmmaWatson is perfectly aware that [[ApocalypseHow the apocalypse]] is happening, but is under the impression that it's a ZombieApocalypse rather than TheRapture.
88	* Most of the college students in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' are under the belief that they're in a HillbillyHorrors film and act accordingly (''"Film/{{Deliverance}}"'' is mentioned by them at one point). Except the hillbillies are our ''actual'' heroes; they just happen to suffer from poor communication skills and bad timing. As a result, the students die in various ways thanks to their own stupidity, and one of them [[spoiler:is so driven by his hatred that he becomes a serial killer himself]]. A notable example is when one of the students wants to call the cops with her cell phone and get it all over with, but Chad ([[spoiler:the aforementioned crazy fanatic]]) just smashes her phone and says "[[CellPhonesAreUseless they never work in times like these!]]" (not only did he never check to see ''if'' they work before saying that, none of them ever do later).
89	* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', psychiatrist Doctor Hoenneger decides to try and treat Lawrence's 'delusion' that he's a werewolf by making Lawrence experience a full moon while surrounded by witnesses, hoping that seeing nothing happen will essentially "shock" Lawrence out of his delusion. This might have been effective and helpful to Lawrence in a psychological thriller about a man who only had mental delusions about lycanthropy, but unfortunately for Hoenneger, Lawrence really ''is'' a werewolf, and he proceeds to throw Hoenneger out of a window and tear through a few other doctors before he escapes the lecture hall.
90	* Mr. Beauchamp in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' is a big-city writer who travels with [[EvilBrit English Bob]] and later [[KnightTemplar Sheriff Bill Daggett]] to mine material for his dime novels. He thinks life out west is a classic "white hats vs. black hats" setup. In reality, it's a CrapsackWorld where everyone is varying degrees of "bastard".
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