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== Advertising ==
* It was once fairly standard for motels to promote a colour telly in every room with signage declaring <
== Anime and Manga ==
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== Literature ==
* Edward D'Eath spoke like this to himself (with ''italics'' in place of '''bold''') in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* The book series ''[[Fearless (novel)|Fearless]]'' puts what the writer (or other member of [[The Powers That Be]]) thinks is the most [[Badass]] sentence on each page larger and in a different typeface than the rest, instantly transforming it into [[Narm]].
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] uses this (with italics) in several of her books to show the annoying speech patterns of certain characters.
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* [[John Hodgman]] is fond of using ALL CAPS for emphasis. [[Complete World Knowledge|WERE YOU AWARE OF IT?]]
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* '''Captain''' [[Star Trek|James]]...'''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|T]].'''...[[William Shatner|Kirk]]!▼
* ''[[Top Gear]]'' Jeremy '''Clarkson''''s speech is the '''best''' example of this...▼
** ...in the '''world'''.▼
* Putting unusual emphasis on random words? Could there '''be''' a better description of Chandler's signature mode of speech '''on''' ''[[Friends]]''?▼
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'''s Barney '''[[How I Met Your Mother|Stinson]]'''. His use of this is '''Legen''' waitforit '''''DARY'''''. '''LEGENDARY'''.▼
* ''Boot'', the precursor to ''[[Maximum PC]]'', had one of the [[Letters to the Editor]] complain about this. It contained semi-boldfaced words, and stated that the writer read the '''FIRST''' and '''LAST''' issue because they '''BOLDFACE''' every third '''WORD'''. The editor's reply was that you '''CAN'T''' win them '''ALL'''.
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' has does this constantly ever since its days as a comic book. Authors especially like '''emboldening nouns''' and '''adjectives!''' ''[[Gratuitous Yiddish]] expressions'' will always be bold as well, '''schmuck!'''
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* ''The Sun'' and similar disreputable [[British Newspapers]] '''ABUSE''' this trope '''CONSTANTLY''' so that their '''READERS''' can pick out the '''IMPORTANT''' words.
** [[Russell Brand]], when dissecting an unflattering Sun article about him in his stand-up routine, drew the audience's attention to this trope. Some time afterwards, the Sun had another article about him, in which they seemingly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it, emboldening words such as '''WAS''' and '''HAD'''.
* ''PC Magazine'' columnist [https://web.archive.org/web/20081222014807/http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,1103,00.asp John C. Dvorak] randomly scatters '''bolding''' throughout his technology columns.
== Live-Action TV ==
▲* '''Captain''' [[Star Trek|James]]...'''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|T]].'''...[[William Shatner|Kirk]]!
▲* ''[[Top Gear]]'' Jeremy '''Clarkson''''s speech is the '''best''' example of this...
▲** ...in the '''world'''.
▲* Putting unusual emphasis on random words? Could there '''be''' a better description of Chandler's signature mode of speech '''on''' ''[[Friends]]''?
▲* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'''s Barney '''[[How I Met Your Mother|Stinson]]'''. His use of this is '''Legen''' waitforit '''''DARY'''''. '''LEGENDARY'''.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''Kevin Siembieda'', creator of ''[[Rifts]]'', has a ''deep and abiding'' love for ''unnecessary'' amounts of ''italics'' in any [[Sourcebook]] that he ''writes''.
* Most of the old '''Traveller''' RPG material insists on putting the name of the game system in bold. While it looks okay in small doses, it can look a little awful when you have to list all of the '''Traveller''' systems, like '''Classic Traveller''', '''
** Similarly '''''[[GURPS]]''''' (that's right: bold, italic ''and'' all caps). It frequently ends up looking silly given that the system has an enormous volume of [[splat]]books and the writers load them with references to one another.
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== Web Original ==
* [[All The Tropes|Repeatedly Used On This Very Wiki]], despite what it says in the [[All The Tropes:Style Guide|Style Guide]], '''especially''' when [[Reality Is Unrealistic|I Am '''Not''' Making This Up]] is invoked. Articles that use '''Bold Inflation''' without the mods getting annoyed:<ref>MOD: Because we like a good running joke as much as the next person does.</ref>
** [[A Mech by Any Other Name]]
** [[Fun with Acronyms]]
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*** [[Ciaphas Cain]], '''[[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF]] [[Warhammer 40,000|THE]] [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|IMPERIUM!]]''' is similarly treated by many of his adoring fans.
** Wait, and what about... ''Italic Bending''? I guess you just '''didn't''' expect this!
* [[The Other Wiki]] has turned "'''be bold''' when editing pages" from a [[wikipedia:project:be bold|style guideline]] into a de-facto '''slogan'''. There's even a '''coffee mug''' with '''be bold''' in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190713000125/https://store.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-bebold-mug appropriate typeface] alongside Wikipedia's logo.
** Not to be outdone, [[Uncyclopedia]] has advised its users to ''be italic'' since, about MMV or so.
* More websites than you can possibly imagine. The tendency of people to do this was parodied, along with many other things, at the [http://www.realultimatepower.net/ Real Ultimate Power] page.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100308043611/http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/view/harvey Jackie Harvey], fake columnist for ''[[The Onion]]'', parodies this trope as it applies to gossip rags.
* As the EM part of PBEM stands for "e-mail", the action in the campaigns in the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]] was always produced in text. This trope thus occurred on a more-than-regular basis.
* [http://www.foolquest.com/atheism.htm foolquest]. '''Bold''', ''italic'', <u>underline</u>, <
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* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' falls into this all too often. The words in bold tend to be the usual [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s, and while their emphasis would be weird in normal conversation, it serves to highlight those puns to the more moronic listeners (and the [[Viewers are Morons|more moronic readers]]).
** Though most of the time, the bolded words are completely random, and may just be due to Mookie writing the text by hand, causing people to be emphasizing words in their speech for no reason.
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