Break The Fourth Wall

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Breaking The Fourth Wall is when a character is aware that they're nothing more than a fabrication of imagination. They do this by talking directly to the audience, acknowledging the franchise they're in, or both. There are many other methods of Breaking The Fourth Wall unique to a kind of media, like in video games where a character tells the player how to play the game with their controller.

Break The Fourth Wall Plays
Basic: Somebody realizes they're not real.

Reinforced: Taking "break the fourth wall" to a new level by literally breaking the fourth wall. You know, break the camera lens?

Downplayed: Bend The Fourth Wall.

Negated: --

Inverted: --

Justified: --

Gleeful: The person who just realized they don't really exist decides to have a little fun with their new knowledge, like playing around with the camera, walking off of the "set", or doing some other fourth-wall-related stunt.

Dismal: This leads to an Existential Crisis.

Zip: --

Examples of Breaking The Fourth Wall
Teen Titans Go! - The Fourth Wall [ Reinforced]. The episode begins with Control Freak telling the Titans that they're nothing more than a TV show and that they're being watched by millions of people. The Titans then look directly at the audience and calls them creepy for watching them. Later, the Titans figure that the only way to stop people from watching them is to Break The Fourth Wall, which they then take turns doing. This is Reinforced for reasons too obvious for us to need to explain.