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#SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD THE GAME SPRITE MIC SERIES#
See also End of Series Awareness, another specific subtrope. See also Genre Savvy (which doesn't involve the Fourth Wall) and No Fourth Wall. Fourth Wall Observer is what happens when a particular character has this on full-time and the rest do not. Sorry I Left the BGM On is a specific inversion. Compare with other metafictional devices, particularly Painting the Medium, which uses Paratext and artifacts to tell the story. Used this way, it's Lampshade Hanging as applied to Paratext.Ī subtrope of Breaking the Fourth Wall. Generally, this awareness is brief: It's used for a joke or two, then never spoken of again. Suddenly the characters can hear the ominous background music or the disembodied narration, they can read the subtitles at the bottom of your screen, and they can tell when it's almost time for a commercial break. And that is exactly what Medium Awareness does, by having the characters acknowledge and interact with elements and conventions of the medium that shouldn't technically "exist" in-universe. It's also a wonderful thing to play with. No explanation is necessary for why our hero can hear a ringing telephone but not the movie's soundtrack-or why the space ship is menaced by the Negative Space Wedgie, but not by the opening credits drifting by outside the ship-it's part of the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Dammit, Deadpool, we just fixed the fourth wall!Īudiences are very good at figuring out which elements of a work are on which side of the Fourth Wall.