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MetaFour MOD (Old Master)
2019-05-23 18:12:34

I Should Write a Book About This crossed with Title Drop?

Tolkien used this one, too. The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again had Bilbo Baggins write about his adventures and title it There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Holiday. And in the sequel The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins expands Bilbo's narrative to include his own adventures, and he renames the completed book On the Downfall of the Lord of the Rings, and the Return of the King.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2019-05-23 19:00:31

^ I have an example of this that doesn't fall under I Should Write a Book About This, though, Marble Hornets is so-named because the in-universe short-film attempted was named Marble Horents, even though the actual plot had nothing to do with marbles or hornets.

Edited by WarJay77 Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
SBMShaneomaniac Since: May, 2019
2019-05-24 02:26:54

While it's not the finale episode, in Supernatural, the actual tv show is written into a book series by God Himself and published, up to a certain point. After that, the series is taken up by the internet and crazy fanfiction authors in an attempt to keep the story going, even though it actually still is in the context of the show. When confronted with the "True" continuation of the story, the fanfic author being told dismisses it as "Our of character" and "Would never happen"

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