“OMG Who the fuck is writing this story? These ‘hero’ characters are too stupid to be believable.” -NPC in a D&D game

We are a childrens show, no one actually dies here. walks into traffic

There’s a Boston Legal episode that is kind of the opposite of this. A character looks at the camera, then the camera cuts to a different angle to avoid their gaze, then the character looks over at the new camera position to rub it in, all after saying “we wouldn’t want to break the 4th wall, would we?”

This could be the plot of the next Deadpool movie. Basically old man Deadpool with his 4th Wall powers failing.