Lampshade Hanging

There have been times where a character applies this trope. This page lists all of these times by franchise/series/season.

## Guardians of Harmony

### Season 1

* Twinkle's first line is not just this, but also a *Wham Line*:
	+ *Pony: **Hmmm, Arceus, the Divinity and the Phoenix... I could find them somewhere. But, where?***
* In "Challenge of the Elements"...
	+ *Victoria: **Wait a minute... You... YOU GOT A SISTER?! Twilight, I didn't know that!***
	+ *Twinkle: **And my wish didn't even come into effect until now!***
	+ *(Kyubey looks embarrased.)*
	+ *Kyubey: Note to self: Next time, make sure the wish fully goes into effect before thinking twice.*

### Season 2

* At one point...
	+ *Aurea: **Pardon me, but why are you stronger than me?***
	+ *Melody: **Uh, duh, because I was created by the Light of Hope?***
	+ *(Melody realizes what she just said and covers her mouth in embarrassment.)*
	+ *Aurea: **Divinity's sake...** She might be the main 'runner-up' in power with the Divinity Herself! Even though...uh...*

### Season 4

* In "The Journey Begins"...
	+ *Sayaka: **Uhh... What if my soul is t-***
	+ *Kyubey: **No, silly, I don't take your soul or anything like that in exchange for the wish! I won't grant any negative or mean ones, though, such as a wish to kill somecreature.***
	+ *Madoka: **You may be right, but I think Sayaka and I are still gonna have to let the contract wait...***
* In "Pokémon Emergency!", when Team Rocket arrives, Dragonet exclaims **"IS THAT MEOWTH ACTUALLY SPEAKING HUMAN LANGUAGE?! AS IN MOVING ITS MOUTH AND ENUNCIATING HUMAN WORDS INSTEAD OF JUST BEING HEARD AS HUMAN WORDS?!"**
* In "Sayaka's Magic Awakens," Sayaka angrily calls Event Horizon an "evil girl who thinks [she's] a goddess or something." Event Horizon replies with, **"Well, I guess you could say that."**
* In "School of Hard Knocks": While breaking up an argument between Mami and Jim, Marina comments that they're running late and snidely breaks the 4th wall by saying they have to start the show.
* In "A New Baby Pokémon is Born!", at the beginning of the episode while Dragonet, Bubblebath, Pudding, and Carrot Cake are inside the WPAP (after the first one went in to rest since she is in pain), Emily asks why the heck Ninja Dragonets don't lay eggs despite being Pokémon. Mikey, however, slaps her.
* In "Hypno's Naptime", Team Rocket tries to steal Hypno by getting it to hypnotize itself with a mirror. When this fails, they simply tie the Pokémon up and leave with it, which prompts this 4th-wall breaking exchange:
	+ *James: **I don't get it, why didn't we just do this from the start?***
	+ *Jessie: **We have to fill a half hour!***
* In the episode where Erika is battled, Meowth breaks the 4th wall by saying **"Ah, the stench is burning off my nose! No, wait. The animators never gave me one."**
* In "Snow Way Out..."
	+ *Black Hat: [to Event Horizon] **How the** \*bleep\* **are you not freezing in this weather with your exposed human skin?***
	+ *Event Horizon: **...Magic.***
	+ *(Black Hat, Demencia, and Necrosis just facepalm/faceblade at that remark.)*

### Season 5

* In a scene in the movie *Spell of the Unown* in which Team Rocket swims in an underwater room:
	+ *James: **How are we breathing?***
	+ *Jessie: **There are some questions that it's better not to ask.***
* Also in *Spell of the Unown*, after Team Rocket saves Ash, Ash asks why, to which Meowth replies: **"If anything happened to you, we'd be out of showbusiness!"**. This is clearly a 4th wall break.
* In "The Whistle Stop": When the bridge is about to collapse, the 4th wall is broken when Meowth says, **"We usually don't wash out this early in the episode!"**
* In the Special "Mewtwo Returns": James comments that **"This feels like a sequel to a movie I missed!"** This obviously breaks the 4th wall, and the special is the sequel of the movie *Mewtwo Strikes Back*, the events of which were erased from the characters' memories.
* The Iron-Masked Maduar takes an interest in Bailey in "Celebi and the Voice of the Forest," but doesn't put his plan into action until "The Iorn-Maked Maradur's Revenge."

### Season 6

* In "A Poached Ego": A character recalls his Pokémon while it's under the effect of Wrap, which is impossible in the games. Meowth shouts **"Hey, that's not fair!"** (note that in an earlier episode attempting the same indeed didn't work - the ball's recall beam was hitting the opponent's Pokémon instead of the intended target)
* In "May's Egg-Cellent Adventure": Meowth says that James is giving him a pain, but he cannot say where because there are kids watching the show, breaking the 4th wall.
* Team Magma's hidden base is inside the volcanic Mt. Chimney. One of the grunts on guard when the heroes infiltrate says that he's been stood on watch next to this lava pit all day and he feels like his face is burning up.
* In "Time Warp Heals All Wounds," May, Alix Kubdel (due to her visiting the Pokéverse to go skating), and Meowth travel back in time via Alix's powers to stop Jonathan from leaving on the train without Edna. This prompts this exchange:
	+ *May: [inside the magic pocket dimension Alix summoned, while she is busy figuring out which point in time to go to] **Why don't you do this all the time? We could go on adventures through space and time!***
	+ *Meowth: (thinking, to himself) And Team Rocket could conquer all of space-time!*
	+ *(Alix overhears May with her fake bunny ears).*
	+ *Alix: **Uhh, duh, BECAUSE I'M A FREAKING MESSIAH?! MESSING WITH TIME WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING COULD HAVE DEVASTATING CONSQUENCES, YOU BLOCKHEAD!***

### Season 7

* In *Zoroark: Master of Illusions*, Rioka guesses that the password to Kodai's files about the Ripple of Time is... "Ripple of Time".
	+ *Rioka: **He's more simple-minded than I thought.***
* In "When Pokémon Worlds Collide!": Yet another 4th-wall-breaking example. When Team Rocket blasts off, James says, **"Aren't we supposed to leave our audience wanting more?"** Meowth responds, **"You go tell that to the writers!"**
* In "The Needs of Hope..."
	+ *[as Dawn, Josie, and Kyubey, who got separated from the main group, along with Gary Oak, watch Team Galactic kidnap the Lake Trio]*
	+ *Dawn: **There's nothing we can do to help them right now, even though we're transformed.***
	+ *[Suddenly, the Future Sight takes effect on Hunter J's ship.]*
	+ *All four: \*gasp\* **What the....?!***
	+ *Gary*: ***...I have a very bad feeling about this.***

### Season 8

* In the second episode, Homura mutters to herself "Cheren, there may be a time when you'll lose your dear Gina..." Obviously, Cheren then slaps her.
* In "A Venipede Stampede..."
	+ *Marina: [after Nanette gets poisoned by the Venipede] **Nanette-chan! Are you okay?!***
	+ *Hilda: **She's poisoned!***
	+ Rosa: ***...Humans can get poisoned by Pokémon?!***
	+ *(Cheren facepalms.)*
	+ *Cheren: She didn't pay attention in class...*

* In "Crisis From the Underground Up!", when confronting Meowth and learning that he tricked them the whole time, Hilbert mumbles to himself that it *was* pretty clever of Team Rocket to steal their henshin items.
* In the episode where Brycen is battled, a Black Belt comments on some of the dangerous gimmicks the gyms have. Naturally, he says this in the gym that has Frictionless Ice going over Bottomless Pits.
* In one episode...
	+ *Melody: **Hilda, Nina, are you okay?** \*shivers\* **I'm not.***
	+ *(Hilda and Nina just nod.)*
	+ *Nanette: **A certain evil team must be g-***
	+ *Melody: [puts a finger on Nanette's mouth] **Be quiet. I do not want to talk about it.***

### Season 12

* Team Rocket in the second movie of the season:
	+ *Jessie: **Prepare for more trouble than you've ever seen!***
	+ *James: **And make it double, because we're on the big screen!***
	+ *Ash: **I'll have to catch this on video!***
	+ *Team Rocket: **WHAT?!***
	+ *Nanette: **Okay, I'm not having any of this. Grr... CUT! LET'S GET BACK TO THE MOVIE NOW!***
* The first arc has a scene from "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!" in which Ghetsis wonders aloud why the Guardians always screw up his plans at the last moment.
* In Part 2 of "The Guardian' Unovian Crisis..."
	+ *Nicole: **That was... quite unexpected. I've never even been a baby before.***
	+ *Eileen:* ***Yeah, although our memories were erased at the time! In your case? It's because you were born a-***
	+ *Nicole: [forcibly puts her finger on Eileen's mouth] **NOPE. Don't even mention it.***
	+ *(Nicole gets slapped by Felicia.)*
	+ *Eileen: \*furious\* **ONEE-CHAN!!! YOU NEED TO...***
	+ *Cherry: \*stunned\* **Eileen is usually kind and friendly! She's also usually naive! What's gotten into her?!***
* In the GoH movie that is the adaptation of "Gensect and the Legend Awakened"...
	+ *Water-Drive Genesect: **I love my new home!***
	+ *Nicole: (takes a deep breath and nervously approaches the Water-Drive Genesect) **Hi there... I'm Nicole Messerli and I'm a Guardian of Harmony. Nice to meet you!** (shakes its claw) (...) **I'm a great Guardian, but... I haven't even gotten my Stage 3 yet like my friends.***
	+ *Nanette (glares): **Ummm, Nicole-chan, are you blind? ...Look at your necklace.***
	+ *(as she looks down at her Power Necklace in surprise) Teryn: **You overcame a great weakness!***
* In "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!", after Nanette is saved...
	+ *Nanette: **I don't know what we ALL just went through, but... uh... WEH?! MOM, JIMMY-SAN, AUNTIE AUREA, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THREE OF YOU?!***
	+ *Aurea: **There are some things it's better not to ask.***
	+ *(A guilty-looking Elis and Jim look at each other and nod.)*
	+ *Fennel: **If that were to happen again, I will be the one to not take it easy.***

### Season 13

* After the Guardians (as well as Katrina) detransform from exhaustion after the battle...
	+ *Nanette (as Aisha and Elizabeth pick up the unconscious purple-haired woman): **Uhhh, one question. Where are Katrina-senpai's clothes?***
	+ *Ella (pulls down her glasses and gives Nanette a "don't ask silly questions" glare): **...Would \*your\* clothes still fit if you aged eight years?***
* Near the end of "The Ending of the End," Sugar grabs the Bewitching Bell and briefly grows ginormous, saying **"I CAN TRANSFORMEEY THE MULTIVERSEEY INTO EVERYTING MAKEEYED OF CANDEEY!"** An annoyed and slightly terrified Nanette then says "**Umm, Discord... YOU BETTER TAKE BACK YOUR CHAOS MAGIC!"**
* Guardians of Harmony: The Multiversal Crisis!
	+ Example talking about a previous season (in this case, Season 7): In the Japanese version of the first part, after Nonomi gets healed by Sayaka...
		- *Nonomi: **[Ugh... Thanks, Sayaka-chan.]***
		- *Hikari: **[Those guys never learn...]***
		- *Jotaro: **[This is why they must die for** \*bleep\***ing good... I thought Nono-chan's got Blood Rage like me from the last time.]***
		- *Emi: **[Lucky you that you didn't turned into a witch.]***
		- *Hikari: **[EMI-CHAN! WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!]***
	+ In Part 2, when the Guardians are about to fly to the Sandgem Town Pokémon Center, the GoH counterparts of the YuYuYu girls point to their backs and give Disapproving Looks, since the others are obviously forgetting that they have no wings and can't fly.

* In "Miko Dayout," when the villains show up on Pinkan Island, create an Allfornothing, and the six Guardians transform, Thomas asks the others "What are we even supposed to do?!"

### Season 14

* In the first episode...
	+ Example talking about a previous season (in this case, Season 1): After Nanette reads a letter...
		- *Nanette: **That's it.***
		- *Jim: **Really? There's gotta be more.***
		- *Kyubey: **After all, it's really surprising because Victoria and Arcturus both used to be Guardians!***
		- *Melody: **HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT MY PARENTS' LIFE AS GUARDIANS?!***
	+ After hearing about the previous Guardians going missing and putting two and two together...
		- *Blissany: **It's so sudden...***
		- *Christine: **They're gone, just like that! The news has even reported that they're missing. Even Katrina-senpai is, after she already went missing once!***
		- *Dolores: **I have a strange hunch that...***
		- *Avvy: **...That big fat meanie Leucosia that Nanette and her friends beat years ago is on the loose.***
	+ Before the scene where Nanette witches out, there's this time where everycreature becomes shocked over seeing Blissany half-blind:
		- *Evelyn: **BLISS-CHAN! YOUR RIGHT EYE!***
		- *Blissany: \*notices what her best friend meant\* **WAAAHHHH!!! WHYYYYYY?!?!?!***
		- *Melody: **Did she become vurnable to such problems?! What if it happens when we actually fight a witch?!***
	+ When the witched-out Nanette retreats into her witch barrier which then closes, Kohri remarks "...it might take a while for us to find her and free her..."

## GoH AUs

### My Little Pony: Guardians of Harmony

* In the second episode, Pinkie Pie starts to sing the first of her many songs. The other characters reactions?
	+ *Pinkie: **When I was a little filly and the sun was going dooooown...***
	+ *Twilight: **Tell me she's not...***
	+ *Pinkie: **The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me frooooown...***
	+ *Rarity: **She is.***
* In the first season finale, Rarity objects to allowing Spike, a male character, in to the room while the female ponies were getting dressed, to which Applejack responded **"Beg your pardon, Rarity, but, uh, we don't normally wear clothes."** (Says the pony who normally wears a cowboy hat.)
* In the episode "Baby Cakes", the Cakes (who are Earth Ponies) have twins who happen to be a Pegasus and a Unicorn. When Applejack wonders how this happened, Mr. Cake hastily explains that he has a Unicorn ancestor and Mrs. Cake has a Pegasus ancestor. He then nervously adds **"That makes sense, right?"** while glancing around as if he's either trying to convince himself his wife wasn't having an affair or begging the audience to accept it.
* In the episode "It's About Time," While consulting Madame Pinkie in her tent, Twilight has a flower pot fall on her head. Pinkie immediately lampshades this by asking **"Where did that even come from?"**
* In "Rarity Takes Manehattan", right before Rarity's song, Rainbow Dash, who's excited Rarity got everypony tickets to see Hinny of the Hills, quips that she's normally not into musicals: **"Ponies just bursting into song in random places at the drop of a hat? Who does that?"**