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This is an admitted [[Sub-Trope]] of the [[Bad Writing Index]] -- [[The Law of Conservation of Excitement]] -- but sometimes it's [[Guilty Pleasures|fun]].
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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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* 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]].
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