Fourth Wall, FOURTH WALL!!!!!

[daemon37]

Edit: Another one which comes to mind, but which I don't fully remember was clear back in the floppy days there was an adventure game (King's quest?) which blue-screened and asked you to insert the (insert ridiculously large number here) disk to continue at one point in the game.

That's the hollow treestump from The Secret of Monkey Island. I was pretty young when I got to that part of the game and I remember being very upset. I thought I didn't have the full version of the game (even though it was asking for disc 114). What can I say, I was a pretty gullible kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Monkey_Island#Stump_joke

They revisited this joke in The Curse of Monkey Island.

 

[crudus]

MGS1 did this heaps, it was awesome.

It's on the back of the CD case XD

Octacon: Snake, It is time to change the disk
Snake: Ok....There was only one disk in here
O: Oh that's right! Blue-ray!

Probably the best part in MGS4.

 

[cathou]

Chrypto does it very often in the destroy all humans series. Very funny

 

[Blueruler182]

For the dismissal with basically a handwave, Spider-Man. There was a story arc called One More Day where he made a deal with the devil to save his aunt which basically said Marvel could revert all the mistakes they made and go back to his life when Spider-man was in his prime. He's no longer married to Mary-Jane because of it. That's the angriest I've ever gotten at a fictional piece.

As far as fourth wall altogether... Deadpool. Yeah, it's been mentioned, but I have a moment. There was this one page where Deadpool and Spidey are fighting a group of god-powered people called the wrecking crew, each able to grapple the Hulk relatively easily and Deadpool being human accept for a healing factor and badass skills and insanity. There's one panel where Deadpool gets his across the face. The next panel pulls back to show the frames of the page you're reading with a guy out of shot saying "That's gotta hurt," and the next one pulls back to show the guy arguing with his mom over dinner.

Deadpool lubes the fourth wall these days, with all the times he breaks it.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Also, when Dark Helmet hits the light guy in Spaceballs

Don't forget when they go get the VHS of the movie and fast forward to see what's going to happen.

Omg I how could I forget that part. Or the Spaceballs the flamethrower and other tie ins.

 

[crudus]

-snip-

In Warcraft 3 the human priest also says "I have been chosen by the big metal hand in the sky!". I actually sent Blizzard an email telling them they should make a night-elf hand float in the sky during the Mount Hyjal raid in WoW because it would be hilarious.

 

[Deofuta]

Deadpool he always breaks breaks the 4th wall. At one point he walked into Marvel Offices to find someone who knew were Taskmaster was.

In the upcoming Capcom vs. Marvel game, Deadpool will use his own health bar to beat his opponent to death. He's not breaking the fourth wall... it simply isn't even there.

This is the most accurate statement about Dead Pool (so cooooll!)

There is no 4th all for him. The only other one who has this sort of aptitude is squirrel Girl. He even has a relationship with the boxes that show what he is thinking

 

[stiborge]

If I understand the original post in sounds a lot like what No More Heroes did multiple times. And in No More Heroes 2, in the beginning where Travis Touchdown was like "But I was number 1 before that should qualify me to be higher now" and Sylvia replied with "Hey, There are people playing right now that didn't play the first game and don't give a damn about continuity." It was all done for comedic value so it was alright.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Robin Hood: Men in Tights did break the fourth wall a whole lot, like when Robin lost the archery contest, he pulled out the script to see if that was right. And during one of the final scenes one of the characters bumps into the camera as he walks past.

 

[AldirTK]

MGS1 did this heaps, it was awesome.

It's on the back of the CD case XD

Well how was I supposed to know that?

Colonel tells you.

Oh. I killed him.



Monty Python and the Holy Grail, right at the end.


EDIT: Jak 3 when the priest girl says "This isn't a game!" and then Jak and Daxter look at you right in the face.

 

[JJMUG]

Deadpool he always breaks breaks the 4th wall. At one point he walked into Marvel Offices to find someone who knew were Taskmaster was.

In the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom game, Deadpool will use his own health bar to beat his opponent to death. He's not breaking the fourth wall... it simply isn't even there.

Because the sheer awesome that is Deadpool vaporized the fourth wall, until all that was left was him betting the shit out of his opponent with his FREAKING HEALTH BAR.
Oh, and apparently one of the X-Men Orgins endings was Deadpool (the messed up one at the end, I still don't count it with the real deadpools, the dog one was better) lifting his own decapitated head and turning it, the a finger going up and Deadpool going "sshh."
Try and get that much AWESOME out of your brain.
Yeah, I'm a Deadpool fan.
"Where's my friend, Mr. Yellow Box?" "(text in box)Here" "Oh, there you are. We should probably go beat that guy, there's only 6 pages left" Real text from a comic.
"It requires a lot of boring, expository dialogue that everyone will skip over. Besides, can we even do flashbacks any more?" Still straight from the comic.
Only the cool kids break the fourth wall. Not from the comic.
[sub]fixed your post because I'm petty like that[/sub]

] Deadpool accepts that his origin depends on the writer. Also the was Barakapool : (

 

[daftpunk95]

Jak 2 also (Or maybe Jak X, I can't remember), when Daxter's reading down the fat man's (Forget his name)contract and reads "game rights, GAME RIGHTS?"

Bleach when Uryu says "How did that motion have any sort of healing properties? The only thing you did we can't even air!"

Mayuri: "You can't air that? Preposterous. You were just thinking naughty thought while watching."

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Animaniacs was so self aware that they might as well of jumped out of the screen.

 

[Antitonic]

Becides Deadpool & the Joker, there's this manga that absolutely no one but me has read called "Vampire Doll" that breaks the forth wall at least 4 times per volume by reminding a character that they already did something in a previous volume.

It's not just recaps...

(It's manga, so read right to left)

 

[Silver Patriot]

And since that's a fairly lame topic idea on it's own, we can also use this as a general 'fourth wall' discussion thread .

Fourth walls are so overrated. We're much better off without them.

Also: Psycho Mantis

 

[sheic99]

So as I've mentioned in a few previous posts recently, I was hit by the nostalgia bug recently (plus the fact that I've only ever seen the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City arcs to date) and decided to rewatch the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, dubbed by 4Kids.

I just finished watching the Noah Arc, which takes place in the first half of Season 3. Now, this arc never actually took place in the original manga. It basically cuts the Battle City events into two seperate arcs, which take place in Season 2 and the second half of Season 3. This is all just technical stuff, but the Noah Arc was written in to make up for the delay in the manga of the Battle City plotline.

Anywho, right at the end of the arc, main character Seto Kaiba basically dismisses the entire plotline of the Noah Arc with a literal handwave, saying "this was all just a waste of my time. Now let's just forget this ever happened and never mention it again."

My reaction? You guessed it. Facepalm. To sum it up for those confused by paragraph 2:

- Yu-Gi-Oh! anime catches up to manga.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! anime gets filler arc in Season 3 to make up for it.
- At end of arc, main character dismisses it.
- Arc is never mentioned again.

So what I want to know is, has anyone else seen anything like that before? Whether for comedy or serious reasons (this case was actually serious), have you seen an instance where someone has effectively wiped everything previous from the slate and dismissed things with a literal handwave?

(P.S. No linking to TV Tropes please, I know there are countless examples there but I want to hear if you have any new ones...)

And since that's a fairly lame topic idea on it's own, we can also use this as a general 'fourth wall' discussion thread .

Please tell me I'm not the only person to see that horrible pun.

OT: Surprisingly, the comic Maus did this a couple of times, but without the intention of humor though.

They use the pun in the arc itself. In Duels during that arc, each character has a special monster called a Deck Master. And when Noah duels Seto Kaiba near the end of the plot, he just happens to use the combo of 'Shinato' and 'Shinato's Ark' as his Deck Master...

Well played 4kids, well played.

 

[Necrofudge]

Well this is actually a fairly common occurrence in Anime.
For instance, in Bleach, they have to jam in a filler every 100 episodes or so to give the manga time to catch up.
Thats why I never follow a series until its close to ending. Then I just download all the relevant episodes in bulk at watch them at my leisure.

 

[Vrex360]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back had a few of those.
There were a few moments of characters staring at the screen whenever they mentioned something to do with a 'bad movie' or even hints towards Kevin Smith himself but more notably was when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were on set of Good Will Hunting 2 and they mention at one point working on 'Dogma'.
This would imply that since Dogma was set in Kevin Smith's universe that either it was a movie set in Kevin Smith's universe or that the Universe itself were all movies and the Jay and Silent Bob movie was actually the real world to which they were based.....

But if that was the case then how did all those characters from past movies end up in... and if Dogma was just a movie and not part of the actual 'canon' aspect of Kevin Smith's movie universe then what were Jay and Silent Bob doing in it?
I will have to think about this.

Spoiler

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Deadpool he always breaks breaks the 4th wall. At one point he walked into Marvel Offices to find someone who knew were Taskmaster was.

Deadpool breaks the fourth wall so much they may as well install a revolving door

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