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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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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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See also [[The Law of Conservation of Excitement]].
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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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* 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 40,000|another.]]
* Often crops up in [[Fan Fiction]] of course, but what aspect of bad writing doesn't?
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