Category:Spectacle
All forms of showing off in a work, to wow the audience. Frequently used to set the mood and serve the Rule of Cool.
For example, for Live Action TV, this includes scenery, lighting, props, costuming, makeup, background music, sound effects, and Special Effects in general. For Comic Books, it includes things like coloring and lettering. And so on.
The name comes from Aristotle's Poetics and is used more broadly here. He considered using spectacle to cover deficiencies in plot and character a flaw. If they are just in addition to good plots and characters, then these are just a bonus.
Not to be confused with Glasses Tropes.
Subcategories
This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
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- Dancing Tropes (28 P)
- Discretion Shot (16 P)
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- Glasses Tropes (37 P)
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- Lighting Tropes (40 P)
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- Manga Effects (29 P)
- Musical Number Index (60 P)
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- Rule of Glamorous (39 P, 1 F)
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- Smile Tropes (30 P, 1 F)
- Solar Tropes (19 P)
- Sound FX Tropes (70 P)
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Pages in category "Spectacle"
The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total.
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- Scenery Gorn
- Scenery Porn
- Screen Shake
- Screw the Electric Bill!
- Serkis Folk
- Shiny-Looking Spaceships
- Shoot the Money
- Short-Lived Aerial Escape
- Showy Invincible Hero
- Sickly Green Glow
- Siege Engines
- Sigil Spam
- Signature Shot
- Sinister Silhouettes
- Skyward Scream
- Slow-Motion Pass-By
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
- Special Effect Branding
- Special Effect Failure
- Special Effects Evolution
- Sphere of Destruction
- Sphere of Power
- Standardized Space Views
- Stanley Steamer Spaceship
- Starring Special Effects
- Stock Visual Metaphors
- Stop-Motion Lighting
- Streaming Stars
- Stripperiffic
- Stuff Blowing Up
- Summer Blockbuster
- Super Move Portrait Attack
- Swiss Army Tears
- Sword Sparks
- Symbolic Blood