High-Pressure Emotion: Difference between revisions

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Embarrassed or angry, a cartoon character can go beyond a [[Luminescent Blush|red face]]. The deep redness wells up from the neck (teakettle or steam locomotive whistle sound effect here is useful) and culminates in a puff of steam erupting from both ears, the top of the head, or an indeterminate point on the face. The visual effect is similar to a old thermometer rising so high, it blows its top.

 

Resembles, but should not be confused with, some manifestations of the [[Fire-Breathing Diner]]. Compare [[Burning with Anger]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Trying to fool Nabiki, Ranma accidentally confesses his love to Akane. [[media:steamedexample.png|This is the immediate aftermath.]]

 

 

* In ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]],'' mechanical villain Morticon actually blew steam when really pissed. (In a nice touch, you could see actual condensation on him sometimes.) This is pretty much lifted from Branken of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]''.

** Similarly, in [[Engine Sentai Go-onger]], Kegalesia had an actual ''valve'' that one of the other villains had to open to allow her to 'let off steam' when she was particularly annoyed.

* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' did this ''all the time'' in earlier episodes.

 

== Video Games ==

 

 

* Parodied in [[Megatokyo]], with Largo's [[Nice Hat]] shooting steam with the help of his hamster/conscience Boo.

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' implied that the GM, when suitably stressed by his players' [[Off the Rails]] tendencies, can emit steam from his ears; the gamers tend to use that point as the moment to consider returning to the plot.

** The newspost for the comic{{context|reason=Which comic? Link, please.}} on this remarked that it was possible to do in real life with dry ice and tubing.

 

* Countless ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.

* [[Donald Duck]].

** A pissed-off Optimus once had his engine revving to sound like heavy breathing.

* Minus the steam, this happens to Darla Dimple in ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' when she gets ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090419182939/http://toonguru.com/CDD/screens/scenes/08/pages/CDD8_185.htm very]'' angry.

* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''

* Zuko of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' once reacted to his uncle's fooling around by actually breathing smoke. Makes sense, in that he is a firebender and thus can control fire.

 

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[[Category:Paint the Index Red]]

[[Category:Stock Visual Metaphors]]

[[Category:Emotion Tropes]]