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This is an admitted [[Sub-Trope
▲This is an admitted [[Sub-Trope|subtrope]] of the [[Bad Writing Index]], but sometimes it's [[Guilty Pleasures|fun]].
You might find it hard to believe, but ''some'' writers actually use ''way too much'' emphasis in their descriptions! Using [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma|punctuation]], [[Bold Inflation|formatting]] and ''[[Purple Prose|endless]]'' [[Purple Prose|superlatives]], they ''exhaust'' you by '''endlessly''' '''''insisting THAT EVERYTHING THEY TELL YOU IS TOTALLY EPIC!!'''''
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Overemphasis comes in many forms. The writer may be typing as though they were talking to you, and attempting to convey their excitement by ''yelling!'' They might be using text-only formatting tricks like setting boxes aside, underlining and using different colors. Perhaps they insist use intense words like "[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|incredible]]" and "[[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|despicable]]" when there's not much reason to. In any case, the effect is the same: you're left without a way to gauge how amazing or important things "really" are.
'''[[Hypocritical Humor|Remember this:]]''' [[The Law of Conservation of Excitement|''
Related to [[Bold Inflation]] and overlaps with [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]] when "bitch" comes every other sentence. It can also crop up when the character (or writer) is particularly [[Hot-Blooded|enthusiastic]], [[Single-Issue Wonk|invested]] or [[Unfortunate Implications|offended.]] This can result in any one of the [[What Do You Mean It's Not an Index?]] tropes. When similar overemphasis is used in acting, the result is an enormous, ebullient '''[[Large Ham]]'''!! See also [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]] for constrained emphasis.
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== Anime ==
* [[Dan Green]] said in an interview (perhaps jokingly) that all of his lines in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' were written in ALL CAPS with bold for '''EVEN MORE EMPHASIS'''!
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** Likewise with [[Mark Trail]]!
* [[Jack Chick]] tends to have a problem with this, which just adds to how incredibly [[Anvilicious]] his tracts are.
** In one tract, the Voice of God speaks, but the previous pages contained so much
* The [[Donald Duck]] comic books have a tendency to not contain a single speech bubble without at least one exclamation mark. Yes, even whispering ends with "!" Which makes it jarring when the rare dotted sentence shows up.
* [[Archie]] comics end every! Single! Sentence! With an exclamation point! No matter what! Even when they whisper!
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* Aaron William's works (''[[Nodwick]]'', ''[[PS238]]''), for otherwise exceptional series, can often feature uncomfortable amounts of this.
* Many sparks in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' talk like this.
** Princess Xerxsephnia von Blitzengaard talks expressively, too. Possibly because Seffie knows that [[Mad Scientist]]s rule the world (badly) and adapts accordingly. She ''trained'' to perform [[Evil Laugh|creepy maniacal laughter]] ("Hee hee! Isn't it ''good?!'' ...but I'm still working on the ''harmonics''.") - so this habit may be another tool: she isn't [[Chewing the Scenery]], but won't seem too bland either.
* The dialogue in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' is filled with '''bolded words'''. Sometimes it's there to [[Viewers are Morons|make sure that readers don't miss the puns]], but most of the time it's downright random.
* In over ten years of ''[[Gene Catlow]]'', there are maybe two sentences that don't end in either an exclamation point, a question mark, or an ellipsis. This can make the frequent [[Wall of Text|exposition]] frustrating to read, especially on an [[Archive Binge]].
== Video Games ==
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* As mentioned, many descriptions on the
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** Any sufficiently enthusiastic fandom will sprinkle exclamation points and italics here or there, especially when the work in question involves '''a lot of yelling.''' The italics seem to come out for particularly [[Gorn|brutal]] or [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|extreme]] actions, though things that might be intense in [[Azumanga Daioh|one fandom]] won't even register in [[Warhammer
* Often crops up in [[Fan Fiction]] of course, but what aspect of bad writing doesn't?
** One can find [[Emphasis Spam]] in all its forms, including bold, italic, coloured text, different fonts, repeated letters (including letters that represent sounds that are hard if not impossible to extend) and multiple exclamation marks.
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