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Deadpool breaking the fourth wall.

Summary

The term "the Fourth Wall" refers to the imaginary barrier between the audience of a work of fiction and the fictional universe itself. In most works of fiction, the fourth wall is intact, that is, the characters do not acknowledge the existence of an audience or that they themselves are part of a fictional work. However, some fictions employ the literary technique of Breaking the Fourth Wall.

In its most basic sense, breaking the fourth wall is the simple acknowledgement that a character resides inside a fictional setting, usually accomplished by speaking to a perceived audience, reader, player, etc.. However, certain verses, especially those that are metafictional by approach, will often take it a step further by directly interacting with the medium that the story is being told in, such as the panels or speech bubbles of a comic book or the HUD of a video game. Certain fourth-wall breakers are known even to go as far as to manipulate the Plot of the story that they reside in, but this is considerably rare among fourth wall breakers.

Notable Users

  • Deadpool and She-Hulk (Marvel)
  • Lobo (DC)
  • Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob Squarepants)
  • Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
  • Mickey Mouse (Disney)
  • Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
  • Sans (Undertale)
  • Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
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