The Fourth Wall

From Yb Timeline

'"'Wait, wait, wait… THAT WASN’T EVEN IN THE SCRIPT! Crapud! I’ve broken the fourth wall so much, they’ve learned to go against the script!"

-Topmonhit (The Cloud), Topmonhit Story (Story 10: Unity of the Shadows; Part 10-23: Piggy Bells)

The Fourth Wall is a tool originally used in plays where a character would address the audience. Eventually, it became any use of a character referring to how the work was fictional in some way. We here at the wiki break the fourth wall so much, it has become a sort of all-use character, and it has even been used for plots.

Examples of Breaking the Fourth Wall

This list is going to be huge. HUGE, I TELLS YA! If a story or RP or something gets like ten or more examples, give it its own subsection.

• Omnipotent Voice-of-the-User Characters either break the fourth wall by existing or often break the fourth wall in what they say.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 5-4: We like to call this one the Cooking Beam!; Panel 9; Crawgrip yells "I HATE THIS COMIC!!!" just before being blasted by his own attack.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 6-1: Why is this cave green?; Panel 9; Luigi makes a reference to the size of Danny's sprite.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 6-2: WHAT IS THAT!?!?; NOA_Shaun, an administrator from NSider, is referenced to multiple times.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 7-2: Why aren't you in the battle?; Panel 7; Lord Crump mentions his lack of battle sprites as why he isn't in the battle.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 7-2: Why aren't you in the battle?; Panel 18; Luigi wonders why Bowser suddenly switched from Bacon style to M&L style.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 7-3: OMG THE INCREDIBLE LUIGILK; Panel 8; Wart complains you aren't supposed to get a first strike in battles.
• Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream; Comic 7-3: OMG THE INCREDIBLE LUIGILK; Panel 48; Luigi complains that the entire series was a waste.
• Mario & Luigi: Luigi & Mario; Comic 1: The Life Switcher Machine; Panel 13; Top admits he had nothing planned for the series.
• The fact that Mario & Luigi: Luigi & Mario was a comic series that was created by Top and Oshy was brought up many times.
• Mario & Luigi: Luigi & Mario; Comic 7: Yep, another alien attack; Panel 6; Tatanga mentions he had no overworld sprites.
• In M&L: L&M, a group of Guest Stars began battling inside the Guest Star Center, which was a place to "heal" "defeated" guest stars.
• In Metal Wars Climax Chapter 2-3: Reunion, Ultra Stuffwell swatted Metal Sneezier's Robo Drone into the 4th Wall, literally cracking it like glass.
• Pokemon Obscure Metal; Part 15-3: Metal Pokemon Appeared!; Lucky complained to the narrator, Wally Plotch, that he was a he, not an it.