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.
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Examples of Breaking the Fourth Wall
This list is going to be huge. HUGE, I TELLS YA! If you add a category, keep it in alphabetical order please.
General
- Omnipotent Voice-of-the-User Characters either break the fourth wall by existing or often break the fourth wall in what they say.
Mario & Luigi: Luigi & Mario
- Main Article: Mario & Luigi: Luigi & Mario
- Comic 1: The Life Switcher Machine; Panel 13; Top admits he had nothing planned for the series.
- The fact that this series was a comic series that was created by Top and Oshy was brought up many times.
- Comic 7: Yep, another alien attack; Panel 6; Tatanga mentions he had no overworld sprites.
- Comic 15: Final Battle; Longest Comic (Part 2); a group of Guest Stars began battling inside the Guest Star Center, which was a place to "heal" "defeated" guest stars.
Metal Wars Climax
- 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.
Paper Luigi: Pickle Star Dream
- Main Article: 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.
- Comic 6-1: Why is this cave green?; Panel 9; Luigi makes a reference to the size of Danny's sprite.
- Comic 6-2: WHAT IS THAT!?!?; NOA_Shaun, an administrator from NSider, is referenced to multiple times.
- 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.
- 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.
- Comic 7-3: OMG THE INCREDIBLE LUIGILK; Panel 8; Wart complains you aren't supposed to get a first strike in battles.
- Comic 7-3: OMG THE INCREDIBLE LUIGILK; Panel 48; Luigi complains that the entire series was a waste.
Pokemon Obscure Metal
- Part 15-3: Metal Pokemon Appeared!; Lucky complained to the narrator, Wally Plotch, that he was a he, not an it.
- Part 15-4: An Electro Plan; Topmonhit admitted he forgot Whacko was supposed to go with Team TOT, then promptly telepoted him to them.
- Part 15-5: Top Can Really Take a Licking
- When Wally Plotch mentioned a giant tongue coming, Top reacted to him.
- Oshy also asks Topper if him yelling "CLAM DOWN!" is a catch phrase now.
- When Top saw Slurp, he referenced him being in a "story" and wondered how he recognized Slurp (given he looks like all other Lickitung).
- Top mentioned how Whacko was not with them the last time they appeared in the story.
- Top also mentions how they had only done dialogue so far yet they had not done anything yet.
- Oshy suggests that they ask Wally Plotch what had happened, and so he explains.
- Part 15-6: Attack of the Robot Nerd; Tig complains that EV training makes no sense, as they were not in an RPG.
Wary's Stories
- Sea of Bodies (ROB): Ein often confuses himself with the author due to the story being in first person.
- Sea of Bodies (ROB): Early on, Anna yells at the author for making her obsessed with Ein.
- In the Shadow of Jupiter: Terra keeps some information from Ein on purpose, not because he needs to learn it on his own but "because the audience needs the suspense." Ein then comments that she's proud of her for breaking the Fourth Wall.
