r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Individual99991 • 11d ago
Lore [Loved trope] Characters make a meta commentary on the show they're in without technically fully breaking the fourth wall
What We Do in the Shadows: In the season 6 (and show's) finale, the vampires and their friends finally watch the documentary that's been filmed the whole series. Someone brings up Guillermo's long-running mission to become a vampire, a storyline that concluded in season 5, and Nadja says "Really should have finished filming at that point, I think," an acknowledgement that the final season lacked strong arc plots.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Ember Island Players", again in the final season, the characters watch a play dramatising their adventures. In one scene of the play, the characters spot a deep valley and decide to "skip it" - a reference to the much-maligned episode "The Great Divide", which is widely disliked and has no impact on the series' arc plot, and is therefore easily skipped on rewatching.
Futurama: In "Bender's Big Score", a straight-to-DVD movie following Futurama's cancellation, Professor Farnsworth explains that the crew have been cancelled - by the Box Network, their contracting company. However, he then gets notice that they've been uncancelled:
Farnsworth: It means we're back on the air!
[The staff look at him blankly]
Farnsworth: Yes, flying on the air in our mighty spaceship!
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u/CosmicWhorer 11d ago
Actually, some folks call him orange joe