Dramatic Wind: Difference between revisions

=== Advertising ===

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gPcVG-dx8Y This] old Dairy Queen commercial, featuring none other than Fabio.

 

=== Anime and Manga ===

=== Comic Books ===

* [[Doctor Strange]]'s Cloak of Levitation is in near-constant billow—justified since it's 1) magic and 2) associated with flight. When he stopped wearing it he adopted a [[Badass Longcoat]] look, then a housecoat with tails, just to keep the effect.

 

=== Fan Works ===

* In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' fanfiction "[[The Nowakverse|Under the Bridge]]", [[Byronic Hero]] Widget waited to go on deck until the (surfaced) submarine was going the right velocity to cause her cape to flap in the wind.

* In [[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns]], Alim Surana, the [[Badass Longcoat]]-wearing mage, sometimes generates his own wind, like when he {{spoiler|destroys the rock wall Branka had collapsed over the tunnel they came through}} and {{spoiler|during the whole succession mess in Orzammar, when he prevented the bloodbath and stood in the middle of the assembly room, adding some [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and a [[Battle Aura]] for intimidation purposes}}.

 

=== Film ===

==== General ====

 

* In the Hindi movie ''Kabhi Khushi, Kabhi Gham'', houses are incredibly drafty: even a small apartment seems to have high-powered fans running constantly off screen. And once the music numbers start, every conceivable thing (hair, clothes, paper, curtains, etc.) begins roiling like a poorly-built suspension bridge. Fortunately, the look is [[Rule of Cool|too awesome]] to annoy the audience.

* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'', nearly every important discovery about Imhotep is accompanied by an omnious gust of wind. This is later [[Lampshade Hanging|given a lampshade]] when, just before the book that will release Imhotep upon the world is opened, a gust of wind blows—and one of the characters, unsettled, remarks that it does that a ''lot'' around there.

* [[Batman]] in most incarnations has a cape solely for Dramatic Wind and also to provide an intimidating shadow. In the ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy]]'' they changed that by making the cape into a firm glider to prevent hard landings. So now the Dramatic Wind is just an added bonus.

* When Elizabeth falls in the water in ''[[The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', there is a dramatic change in wind direction, apparently triggered by the pulse the medallion sent out.

** This is also used a little earlier in (Captain) Jack's introduction, when his braids are flying out behind him as he stands on top of the mast.

* In what is clearly a wink-and-nod to the trope, whenever [[Pocahontas]] appears in ''[[Ralph Breaks the Internet]]'', her hair is ''always'' blowing in a Dramatic Wind. Even if she's indoors and none of her fellow [[Disney Princess]]es are affected.

 

 

=== Music ===

* The [[Eurovision Song Contest]] is rife with Dramatic Wind. One example is Swedish Carola, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKUGgK7R6EA Queen of the Wind Machine].

 

=== Tabletop Games ===

** 3e [[Sourcebook]] ''[[Forgotten Realms|Races of Faerǘn]]'' recommends a slight breeze from nowhere as one of possible traits for Air Genasi (descendants of humans and Djinn or other air elemental creatures).

** Of course, this is one of the classic things DMs in serious campaigns '''have''' to narrate.

 

=== Video Games ===

** Protoman and Prometheus have air vents in their backs that makes their scarves flutter. They are also just that damn cool anyway though.

* The [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is filled to the brim with examples. Once a character has a cape, it is ''always'' blowing in his or her very own personal wind whenever they are standing still - get five caped heroes together and each one's cape blows in a different direction.

* Ryu's famous [[Victory Pose]] in the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series shows him crossing his arms and disdainfully turning his back on his defeated foe. As he does so, the wind blows his headband and hair around, regardless of location.

** [[Fan Girl|Sakura]] also does this, but she's wearing a skirt. The result is inevitable.

* [[Hot Blood|Bang]] [[Badass|Shishigami]] of ''[[BlazBlue]]'' has his scarf that blows heroically behind him in the breeze no matter which way he's facing or even if he's indoors. Then again, it just... fits [[Large Ham|his character]] so well.

* Jude of ''[[Agarest Senki]]'' abuses this trope with flair. His scarf looks like it has a life on its own whenever he's in his idle animation, his [[Victory Pose]], or [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|his world avatar]].

 

=== Web Comics ===

* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907002648/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00655.html it wins an argument.]

* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2011/09/11/6-27/ when Kyri confronts Jon].

 

=== Web Original ===

* An awesome example of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''. While the Chicago weather nearly forced the reviewers to stop filming entirely, the constant wind of the Windy City made some scenes (especially the final battle) seem even more epic.

 

=== Western Animation ===

* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', Mojo Jojo's cape always flows in the wind, no matter where he is.

* [[Phineas and Ferb]] invokes this, when Ferb pulls out a large fan to blow some Dramatic Wind on Phineas when he's making a speach.

 

=== [[Real Life]] ===

 

== Non-Straight Examples ==

=== Advertising ===

* Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgSiAVb7nY this commercial for a Dutch energy company], which shows a dramatic wind following illusionist [[wikipedia:Hans Klok|Hans Klok]] wherever he goes. The company tries to harness the wind energy, but the contract keeps blowing out the window before Klok can sign it.

 

=== Anime and Manga ===

* Parodied in ''[[Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' , where Raid has monsters with fans specifically to produce this effect.

* Strike Man, a self-proclaimed defender of justice who is more of a nuisance than a help to the police protagonists in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' likes to appear dramatically, posing on [[I Have the High Ground|high places]] with dramatic wind blowing his cape... except that the wind is generated by a mini ''electric fan''.

 

=== Fan Works ===

* ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'' lampshades this when descending from a height: 'One improbable slow-falling swooshy-coat and hair dramatic landing on their feet later, our heroes found themselves deep in the basement of the Second Darkest Tower.

 

=== Film ===

* Spoofed (as you might expect) in the poster for the 2008 version of ''[[Get Smart (film)|Get Smart]]'': a dramatic wind is blowing, but all it's serving to do is (a) blow one character's tie in front of another one's face (b) blow the female lead's hair in the face of the third character and (c) force the third character to hold his gun in a [[Pistol Pose]] which blocks out the fourth character's face.

 

=== Literature ===

* Parodied in the third ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', The Eternity Code. {{spoiler|As Artemis and crew arrive in Chicago}} John Spiro's coat blows dramatically in the downdraft. The narrator remarks that "it was all very cinematic."

* Shree, a wind sprite, [[Genre Savvy|mocks this trope]] in the [[Shadowleague]] trilogy, and her partner Elion mentions that she tends to blow up out of nowhere at dramatic moments.

 

=== Tabletop Games ===

* Parodied (of course) in ''Paranoia'', where antagonist Botman employs strategically placed fans (not to mention an entire special effects crew) in an attempt to look impressive.

* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' has a section on 1-point powers called Features, one of which is Dramatic Wind on command.

 

=== Video Games ===

* Illustrated and parodied at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq-TNllpIfg#t=01m55s end of the trailer] for the new ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game (starring Edgeworth).

* Parodied in the quest "Minimum Safe Distance" in ''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]]'', when one character holds a fan up to another character who is making a dramatic speech.

 

=== Web Animation ===

** Another of Strong Bad's personas, First Lieuteneral [[Recycled in Space|Space Captainface]], also gets a nice breeze whenever he appears. When appearing in person as Space Captainface, Strong Bad goes so far as to bring a fan with him, as seen in Career Day.

* Sailor Venus of, like, ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'' has "Revlon Wind", which, like, makes her look ''so'' totally hot, okay!

 

=== Web Comics ===

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' lampshades this in the Punch Dracula arc. A politician (who is secretly a ghost wizard) has a dude set up fans behind some flags, so the wave in the wind during his speech. [[Rule of Cool|These fans are used against him to make a tidal wave, where he is picked up in a submarine, where he promptly gets the undead shit beat out him by the McNinjas and Gordito.]]

* ''[[Sinfest]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209170134/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=390 in a staring contest]. Also, Slick when trying [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209180058/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=278 "Alejandro"] role.

{{quote|'''"Alejandro"''': Hairspray. ''Mucho'' hairspray.}}

* An antagonist in ''[[Sarab]]'' invokes this with his [[Blow You Away|powers]].

 

=== Western Animation ===

 

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