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Q&A How do I prevent a structure-breaking character from being seen as a fourth-wall-breaking joke?

I don't know games, but comic books play with 4th wall breaking a lot -- it's part of what makes Deadpool & She-Hulk so powerful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Hulk#Breaking_the_fourth_wall...

posted 5y ago by April Salutes Monica C.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T05:42:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
I don't know games, but comic books play with 4th wall breaking a lot -- it's part of what makes Deadpool & She-Hulk so powerful.  
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Hulk#Breaking\_the\_fourth\_wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Hulk#Breaking_the_fourth_wall)

Since in the Marvel universe, the readers-reading-the-comics-in-our-hands is one of many specific universes (most adventures, the "baseline" inside a Marvel comic, is Universe 616), which is similar perhaps to your "layers" of reality in games.

A lot of it depends on what your reveals have been all along.

One of my favorite techniques of establishing "reality" in fiction is realistic snippets of other media -- in Stephen King's _Carrie_, the original novel has snippets of news articles. Perhaps a snippet of a Wikipedia entry explaining the day the big simulation was revealed? And a Buzzfeed Listicle about top tweets about the SimulationThingie? One tv network denying it, one with a scientist showing how it's so clearly logical...?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-02-26T13:46:17Z (over 5 years ago)
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