Wrong Genre Savvy/Web Original

Examples of Wrong Genre Savvy characters in Web Original include:

• Sooni from Tales of MU lives in a Dungeon Punk world that draws heavily on Dungeons and Dragons in particular, yet seems to consider herself an Anime heroine. Among other things, she strongly believes that Defeat Means Friendship.
• Zeke Strahm from Seeking Truth is a Badass Cowboy Cop, who steadfastly refuses to believe he is in the midst of a Cosmic Horror Story.
• Cracked.com's Infiltrating a Gang Based on My Knowledge of West Side Story.
• The Dove, a Serial Killer Killer from the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, incorrectly believed he was the hero in a revenge-driven crime thriller. It honestly never occurred to him that he was the villain of a superheroic version of the standard Police Procedural. The revelation of his actual status in the story caused him to commit suicide.
• The Spoony One tries to apply LARPing rules in Suburban Knights when they first encounter The Cloaks. He eventually realizes that they're not playing by the rules.

Spoony: "Suddenly I've decided that I'm terribly afraid of you."

• Don Sebastiano, from the Whateley Universe, thinks that he's in a standard Sky High-esque superhero story, he's the Big Bad and that he and Hekate can do anything they want. Problem is, they're actually in an X-Men-esque superhero story. He's more the Disc One Final Boss, Hekate is his dragon, and he's underestimated the value of politics- without them, he'd be dead or maimed, because he's playing in the same league as a bunch of people who could kill him without any effort and have already gone up against bigger enemies. (Seriously, the Don or Hekate- or both of them- versus Tennyo? No contest.)

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