Wtf does that even mean? I'm wondering about fictional characters from movies and tv shows who have infiltrated our reality and became personalities in their own right. A few examples of wtf I'm blathering about:


Garth Merenghi of Darkplace was an actor (Matthew Holness) playing a character (Garth Merenghi) playing a character (Rick Dagless, MD), so this meta approach is already inherent and part of the charm. He's broken through to our world with written works. Novels. Crap novels hopefully, true to the character. Author. Visionary. Dreamweaver. I guess Matthew was in character of Garth while writing them, so these books exist. I think.

And then there's the "fictional" band Spinal Tap. The movie has an album's worth of original music, but that would still be more of a soundtrack, right? Well, the band released a follow-up album without a movie. "Break Like the Wind". It made it on the charts. Some chart in some joke of a country...

Also, there are the Trailer Park Boys. Originally from the late 90s with a short film and a B&W feature, then a slew of shows and specials. The actors maintain personal lives, but the characters are constant personalities too, featured in podcasts and live on stage. The youtube channel Epic Meal Time featured them, and as usual, they never break character.


Can you think of any other fictional things that have taken on a life of their own, so to speak?