What do you supose the 4th Wall looks like?

For me The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You It's a clear wall with people behind it. I go there sometimes.

edited 3rd Nov '14 11:51:15 AM by Beaver

It's a brick wall with the number 4 written on it.

It's a series of invisible floating cameras that follow the characters.

Gee, the fourth wall is... ...It's like fire, and ice, and rage. It's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. It's ancient and forever. It burns at the center of time and can feel the turn of the universe. And it's wonderful.

Well, you can't actually see it. It's more of a presence; just a strange, innate feeling of being watched, and an invisible border that nothing will ever, ever touch. If you could see it, it would either look like a glass wall with nothing but darkness and forever-staring eyes on the other side, or this◊.

Have you ever looked at 4 walls in a room at once? No its impossible that means that there MUST be at least one wall at all times that you are not looking at. That one wall you are not looking at means that that is the proverbial 4th wall. Even if you are in a group you can, 1) not really see what other people are seeing, and 2) all stories have a main character(even shows about groups focus on one or another character per episode/scene) so how do you know that you are not a main character and that one guy staring at the wall behind doesn't even focus in picture? The audience would be staring at you. And who said that the ENTIRE wall was the 4th wall? It could be ON the wall your not looking at. This also explains that one person staring at that other wall, the 4th wall isn't either focusing on him or even register that he's there because he's not even in the confines of the screen. This means that at any given moment you could be watched. The same applies to outside , just think that you have an average size box on you at all times. (Wouldn't let me do paragraphs sorry.)

edited 12th Dec '14 2:38:56 PM by stormtrooper

In the Bravoman Web Comic, a machine was created called the "Fifth Wall", which prevented characters from breaking the Fourth Wall. After the Fifth Wall was powered down, they literally knocked its creator out of the strip and into an alternate reality. Therefore, the fourth wall looks like a comic strip.

The fourth wall is actually the camera. It's invisible unless the character knows it exists, in which case they see a camera crew.

The fourth wall is a protection. Something created to protect the characters of going mad over the lack of free will.

I would say that is like a lock in the brain. Or the equivalent of it to the ones that don't have brains.

Just...a wall. The same color of your TV/laptop/whatever. Or maybe it's a glass wall, like your screen.

I pictured it as a regular wall that is the same style of the room of the scene

A constantly moving wall that camouflages the camera crew behind it.

I don't imagine it's so much of a 'wall' in appearance. That would imply physical presence. The only sense in which it is a wall is that it separates. It would be more of a big ball that encircles the universe, every mind, every timeline, everything. Those sensitive to the fourth ball, if you will, register it as a faint echo in the back of their mind. This can be acknowledged, or ignored, but in any case, it allows one to view the strings tying everything together, and pull some if they're lucky.

A few various theories:

A camera of some sort, or a giant screen.

Maybe it's just a sheet of 4th dimensional fabric with the word "FRAGILE" on it.

That'd be terribly disappointing, however. Perhaps it varies with both the medium and the work?

On the edge of all things, there is a massive barrier. MASSIVE. So big that in the barrier, all of reality, all existence, only makes up 0.01% of the entire volume. And at the barrier, written repeatedly in every single language in all existence with words the size of planets, is the following:

• Outside: All of fiction
• Inside: All of non-fiction

the fourth wall in most fictional shows are presented in such a way that it pretty much implies the only thing that allows the characters the look out into the real world... except they're not really real and aren't looking out into anything. sometimes character will "literally" bump into it as though it were made out of glass. sometimes characters will even get stuck in it, unable to leave the "borders", meaning that the wall has depth from their perspective. they are also sometimes able to interact with it

i propose that the fourth wall looks like a sheet of self-repairing glass with black, leather-like borders. the glass being what separates the fictional world from reality and the black leather-material being what represents, and is the literal Void Between the Worlds. with enough force, a fictional character can push through the glass- albeit only for a short period of time before the Void Between the Worlds automatically closes to avoid catastrophic events. the black leather-material closing in on the characters is what forcefully shoves them back into their world.

Edited by KingOfStickers on Dec 12th 2019 at 11:59:52 AM

I imagine it looks like a window into the real world constantly switching position but it’s only visible to certain people.Kinda like Wreck It Ralph.

It's sort of a clear glass wall but you can periodically see duct tape covering all the holes in it.

It's blue. (It's black!) It's blue. (It's black!) On the outside, it's blue.

It's invisible, but it follows you everywhere. There is no escape from the fourth wall.

It is a menu screen from some video game.

An elastic dark mirror that still reflects things.

It looks like the second wall.

Probably something beyond our comprehension.