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MissRoboto
Since: Feb, 2020
18th Apr, 2021 06:07:22 PM
End-of-Series Awareness is similar to this, I guess.
Two for one combo-nation!
CaptainTedium
Since: Oct, 2012
19th Apr, 2021 12:21:58 AM
This sounds too similar to End-of-Series Awareness to warrant its own trope.
The finale of a show or series is much more metafictional and aware of the fourth wall than the rest of the series.
- Community:
- While the show was always meta, the sixth and last season dialed up the fourth wall jokes. The finale episode involved the characters discussing what a hypothetical seventh season would look like.
- The fifth season (which was the last season produced by NBC and looked like it would be the last season of the show at the time) ended with a storyline of the Greendale board selling the college to a corporate sponsor. This was a metaphor for how the show had been treated by the executive.
- Marville: The second to last issue (which was the last issue with any story) had the protagonist pitch the events of the series to a comic book editor. The editor says that the story is good and could bring about world peace, but rejects it because audiences wouldn't accept such a challenging story. This was a jab at comic book readers who didn't buy the series.
Edited by RustBeard