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* ''[[Homestuck]]'' uses this very frequently, often in conjunction with [[Mood Whiplash]]. John makes a dramatic and somewhat [[Mind Screw]]-y discovery about his and his best friends' parentage--andparentage—and then he uses the event to reenact the ending scene of [[Con Air|one of his favorite movies]]. Scenes of well-loved characters dying are accompanied by shots of the dead body landing on a pile of bike horns, or references to [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|an intentionally-bad comic-within-the-comic]], or simply a blunt [[Unsound Effect]] "DEAD".