The Mary sue complaint has always included the unearned praise clause.
But this seems slightly tweaked from that, as it's not about how likeable they are, which is usually the Mary Sue trope, but how.... meta likeable they are. The best way to show a movie is good is to have the characters point out how much more awesome THIS adventure is than the last one.
To draw another parallel, it reminds me of a perversion of the Japanese obsession with callbacks. Like imagine DMC8 or whatever ending with "now this... is the real jackpot" fag kissing
Ultimately it's just the metasized version of "Sonic would agree with me!"
It's a weird inversion of the Worf effect.
The Mary sue complaint has always included the unearned praise clause.
But this seems slightly tweaked from that, as it's not about how likeable they are, which is usually the Mary Sue trope, but how.... meta likeable they are. The best way to show a movie is good is to have the characters point out how much more awesome THIS adventure is than the last one.
To draw another parallel, it reminds me of a perversion of the Japanese obsession with callbacks. Like imagine DMC8 or whatever ending with "now this... is the real jackpot" fag kissing
Ultimately it's just the metasized version of "Sonic would agree with me!"
It's "From the studio that brought you-" in narrative form. Credentialism, essentially.