Experience: Self-Irony

Like me, Quixote seeks the same experiences he read about in literary romances (fully convinced these things will come to him), but encounters the real world: "The don's reward for these wish-chasing heroics is gruesome physical hurt. Crashing into the hard knocks of life, he gets chewed by lions, outmuscled by pilgrims, and thwacked by windmills, ending up bone bruised in ditch after ditch" (Fletcher 168).

Like me, Liz Lemon thinks that she can fight the powers of the corporation she works for.

The earthling, Arthur Dent, learns from the alien researcher, Ford Prefect, that the entry for "earth" in the digital encyclopedia of the cosmos notes only that it is "mostly harmless." Like me, Dent thought the earth was pretty important and worthy of more description.

Like me, Snowball and Napoleon think they can organize things better if they're in charge

Like me, Hal self-medicates and consumes tons of pop entertainment to feel better.

Like me, the main character thought that ancient sages achieved enlightenment

Like me, Babbitt believes that capitalism provides a better system to organize our society

Like me, D-503 thought that state-run socialism would solve problems

Like me, it took Gulliver a long time to realize that the people he meets on his travels have all the same flaws as people have at home

Like me, Meno didn't realize at first that he doesn't know anything.