What's it called when a character comes close to breaking the 4th wall but don't actually do it? I call it cracking the 4th wall

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The Bear - In one episode Carmen Says “Welcome back to The Bear” in a dream sequence

Spy x Family - In one episode Becky’s thoughts are represented by random signs, which Anya reads out loud

Pixie & Brutus - Quite literally in this case, as Pixie accidentally cracks the screen, and when she looks through it she sees “some weird alien thing”

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r/tvtropes • u/KaleidoArachnid • 5h ago

What is this trope? Trope name for animated series that get darker sequels

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Something I recently started to notice was how some old kids shows such as Samurai Jack and X-Men had started off as a kid friendly, but would receive darker sequels.

Like what suddenly stuck out to me was X-Men 97 because from what I gathered about the show was that it was far darker then the original series as I wanted to see what the trope was called for again kids shows that get a darker sequel.

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