metafictional character

C40004
concept

A metafictional character is a figure within a narrative who is aware of, comments on, or otherwise reveals the story’s own fictional nature, often breaking conventional boundaries between the story and its audience.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
metafictional character canonical 2
literary parody character 1
meta-theatrical character 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: metafictional character
Generated description
A metafictional character is a figure within a narrative who is aware of, comments on, or otherwise reveals the story’s own fictional nature, often breaking conventional boundaries between the story and its audience.

Instances (5)

Instance Via concept surface
The Literary Ace literary parody character
Animal Man —
The Chairman meta-theatrical character
Stage Manager
surface form: Stage Manager (Our Town)
metatheatrical character
Martin Amis (character) —