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[[File:Aladdin_Big_Entrance_1025.jpg|link=Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|frame|White Persian Monkeys, Purple Peacocks, Golden Camels, an elephant, and a magic carpet. Subtle, Aladdin.]] |
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A '''Big Entrance''' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. An entrance so over-the-top and so cool, ensuring that every character's eyes are on that entrance, that the entrance itself merits its own entry on the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page. |
A '''Big Entrance''' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. An entrance so over-the-top and so cool, ensuring that every character's eyes are on that entrance, that the entrance itself merits its own entry on the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] page. |
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** Harry does this in ''Storm Front'' to Marcone, blowing down the door. Marcone has remembered this and now puts flimsy doors at all dramatic entry points. All ''strategic'' entrance points have doors of solid steel. |
** Harry does this in ''Storm Front'' to Marcone, blowing down the door. Marcone has remembered this and now puts flimsy doors at all dramatic entry points. All ''strategic'' entrance points have doors of solid steel. |
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* Kelson and Dhugal in ''[[Deryni|The Quest for Saint Camber]]'' were thought to be dead after a mountain trail washed out beneath them. When they return to Gwynedd's capital Rhemuth, they arrive with their entourage via Transfer Portal (which permits instantaneous travel) in the sacristy of the cathedral ''on Easter Sunday morning'' no less. |
* Kelson and Dhugal in ''[[Deryni|The Quest for Saint Camber]]'' were thought to be dead after a mountain trail washed out beneath them. When they return to Gwynedd's capital Rhemuth, they arrive with their entourage via Transfer Portal (which permits instantaneous travel) in the sacristy of the cathedral ''on Easter Sunday morning'' no less. |
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and |
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', Dumbledore makes one of these after professor Trelawney has been sacked, by opening the castle's huge double doors by himself and striding through them. Harry notes how impressive he can make the simple act of walking through a door. |
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* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Castiel's first scene. All the lights start flickering and bursting, the roof starts rattling, and the barn door breaks open, and Castiel [[Unflinching Walk|casually strolls in]] amidst the howling wind and sparks. |
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Castiel's first scene. All the lights start flickering and bursting, the roof starts rattling, and the barn door breaks open, and Castiel [[Unflinching Walk|casually strolls in]] amidst the howling wind and sparks. |
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{{quote|'''Dean''': (Panicked) Who are you? |
{{quote|'''Dean''': (Panicked) Who are you? |
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