I recall a story written by my brother about people we knew, albeit with much stranger personalities and circumstances than their real-life counterparts. The one voice of reason in the story was a man named Gene. That is, until he gets killed off about halfway through. Near the end, the story needed a reasonable character again, so my brother brought Gene back. After I reminded him that Gene had been killed off, he kept it in anyway and {{lampshaded}} it, as another character asked "Hey dude, aren't you dead?", to which Gene replied in the affirmative and crawled back into his grave.

{{This troper}} frequently runs into things that, at the very least, appear to be plotholes in {{real life}}. Well, not frequently, but surprisingly often. And they are generally {{handwave}}d rather than explained. I have sudden sympathy for characters with bad writers.

You know, that very entry was the Writer Lampshading their own BadWriting?

In a story that I'm writing I'm intentionally leaving {{plothole}}s for the {{sequel}}s to fill (and, yes, I have a whole bunch of {{sequel}}s planned). In fact, the story practically relies completely on the fact that there are plotholes (I tried to make the 1st one a stand alone story, but the whole premise makes no sense without more stories to continue the {{plot}}).

{{This troper}} frequently lampshades it - Characters climb in and out of plotholes, claim that they have such odd effects on the world (Such as a plothole opening up in the middle of a town and threatening to suck everything in if it's not {{film}}ed), and someone gets PutOnABus this way - that is, they fall into a PlotHole and then come out the other side. (Asking "Do people walk upside down here?")

{{This troper}} intends to write (just as soon as she is able) a {{fanfiction}} in which a secret agent infiltrates ''The Girl Who Lived'' series to kill Rose Potter. will ultimately be erased when her multitude of {{canon}} changes result in one HUGE [[PlotHole plothole that sucks her into oblivion.]]

In a verbal semi-RP thing that my friend and I did (difficult to explain, but think of me as PC and him as the DM), my character (myself at college-age) was transported to an area known as the "PlotHole," a huge, swirling hole in reality in a vast expanse of darkness, along with many of the story's other main heroes. I was only able to escape with three other characters, unfortunately leaving the rest to fall into the PlotHole; however, a short time later, my friend had them reappear in the story, without any explanation. I found that odd, until realizing much later that falling into a literal Plot Hole would allow them to come back ''through'' a plot hole.

{{This troper}}, who has yet to finish the main story, has planned for a {{spin off}} (well, three, but this one is the main one I've got planned) which will pretty much feature {{the protagonist}}s (well, an entire army) going through one and coming out a thousand years later, trying to find their way back to their land. No prizes for guessing what really happened to them. Some good news about it, however: they will make it back and not be executed for taint. However, less than a hundred out of a few thousand will make it back.

This troper's GM uses literal plotholes as an explanation for where characters go when they're not being used - including ones belonging to players who dropped out and all the bad guys we've left unkilled / got away. It's getting a little crowded in there...