"The Matrix movies exist in the world of the Matrix Resurrections, which would vindicate the reading that Neo knows he's in a movie."
"What happens when a story becomes so self-referential that it ceases to have a self to reference?"
"The unironic cliches have been a trick; the real story is the collision point between the power fantasy and the unflattering detail this genre normally omits."
"She-Hulk changes the Canon of the ending making her more powerful than anyone in all of Marvel because she can just edit the script herself."
"New Nightmare is an early attempt at metafiction in horror movies, and Wes Craven went on to direct less complicated meta horror movies with The Scream series."
"Scream asked the question: what would happen if characters in a slasher were aware of the rules of a slasher?"
"This isn't even breaking the fourth wall anymore, this is completely demolishing it."
"Did this game just acknowledge that it's also a cartoon? Interesting..."
"There is no need to reboot this. He exists as a little pocket universe. He's meta. Deadpool is the honey badger of Marvel."
"As those credits roll, you even get some more fourth wall breaking family action."
"Neil Gaiman takes that idea and adds the meta-level of Shakespeare having based his play on fictional events as well."
"The parody not only rewrites another work but suggests yet another one within itself."
"Having Demons take place in a theater, where the movie being watched is the origin of the demonic curse that's about to be let loose, is a fantastic way to quietly get past the sense of security viewers have while watching film."
"The concept itself is the perfect one for watchable media as we witness a movie with no clear internal fiction versus internal reality."
"One of my favorite things in stories is whenever the story stops for a moment to tell another story."
"There's a sort of self-awareness to this film as if it's admitting that its characters are characters, thus breaking the illusion of a naturally progressing story."
"In movie world LA, Charles Dance's character... has come to the realisation... that he's living inside of a fictional movie world."
"Okay, now I'm confused. Right, so supposedly the film we're watching is the film that Andy from Toy Story was obsessed with."
"What if the characters within the world of the SCP Archive somehow knew they had been created by the SCP Wiki authors?"
"Deadpool is manipulating you as you experience him."
"Deadpool can break the fourth wall and he's also aware of the fact he is a comic character, he can therefore take advantage of the tropes that exist within comics."
"Morrison's Animal Man run is characterized by its use of metafictional elements such as breaking the fourth wall."
"So it is genuinely imaginative and fantastic and he doesn't sort of info dump and fill in all the clues you've got to work it out and gradually what happens throughout the books is that you start to see that he's doing something very clever and meta-fictional."
"That was absurd and then they killed the tiger, which was such a fun, weird, like fourth wall like, 'What's real? What's fantasy?'"
"You can't break the fourth wall if you already destroyed it."
"It's time to worry about it. The producers at Gundam looked at their massive series, sipped their fourth-dimensional coffee and said you know what let's make a show about us, but we're a Gundam timeline."
"Calvino is breaking the fourth wall by acknowledging that this is a work of fiction."
"Addressing the audience is a form of metafiction, where the character is fully aware that they're telling a story."
"Meta fiction makes the audience feel as though their perspective on the work matters and is interesting."
"Deadpool could do what She Hulk did with breaking the fourth wall."
"The tale of Velma is an important one because it reminds us just how important the story actually is. You can have a show that tells meta jokes and also have a story."
"This movie became a lot more meta than it was ever meant to be."
"...it's got quite a lot of meta elements in there when it comes to the doctor's effect on the civilizations their visits if you're a nerd for metafiction you'll find a lot to love about this one."
"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."
"I adored its self-consciousness and its metafictional reflections about its own writing."
"Books about books, books related to books, books with authors as main characters."
"That's the Nicholas Cage movie where he plays himself."
"The characters actually know they're in a show and have been acting the whole time."
"Deadpool is one of the very few comic-book characters that is aware that they're just fictional characters."
"The universe of Scream is so perfect because you can have the characters talking about the Stab movies, talking about the Scream movies, talking about horror in general."
"Rather than regurgitating worn out tropes, we'd argue that Dune is actually commenting on storytelling itself."
"It's very humorous and a very fourth wall breaking."
"It's like meta on top of meta on top of meta, which is just a nice twist for this franchise."
"Literary knowledge itself should be regarded as another play within a play."
"Fictional characters entering reality and seeking out their creators is nothing new."
"...it's not a bad premise at all; it breaks the fourth wall also in talking about these tropes in general."
"I've always been a sucker for characters that break the fourth wall."
"Uncle from Another World's success relies on its fourth wall breaking and metacommentary."
"...they broke the fourth wall a lot they explained a lot of things it was just very like blunt and I liked that..."
"It's like Scream was a movie that existed in our universe, like Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, that's our reality amongst all these franchises in the horror genre."
"For as long as video games have been around, the concept of breaking the fourth wall has been explored by game developers."
"If on a winter's night a traveler... it's about a story within a story, a story very conscious of the fact that it is a story."
"I love the breaking of the fourth wall, I think that's so clever."
"I think they finally started breaking the fourth wall."
"We have broken through the fourth wall."
"I love the idea of a book about books and a book about watching a book unfold in a book."
"She's arguably Deadpool before Deadpool, she was breaking the fourth wall and being funny."
"I love reading, so any kind of meta fiction I'm super into."