Painting the Medium: Difference between revisions

* [[Screen Shake]]

* [[Speech Bubbles]]

* [[Splash of Color]]

* [[Think in Text]]

** At the beginning of ''Asterix and Cleopatra'', which depicts a dialogue between two Egyptian characters, a footnote indicates that the scene will be dubbed for the reader's convenience, and goes to explain that the reason why the movement of characters' lips doesn't fit the pronunciation of the words is because dubbing techniques of the time were not sophisticated enough.

*** At one point, Obelix attempts to speak Egyptian. Since Egyptian is represented by hieroglyphics, his faltering efforts look like a child's drawings.

* One issue of ''[[She Hulk]]'' had the titular character (who knew she was in a comic book) escape from a situation by ripping her way out of a page, clambering her way across a two page advert, and ripping back into the story at a later point.

* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Mighty Avengers]] #9'' has several characters accidentally yanked back in time; this is shown by printing everything but the word bubbles and captions in a faux-CMYK halftone style, like the comics of the time they were transported to. In the next issue, it goes even further by adding the introductory caption, tiny ads at the bottom of pages, and so on of the era.

*** {{spoiler|He doesn't talk like this out of costume, either}}. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|That's because]] when he's out of costume, ''[[Secret Identity Identity|he isn't Rorschach.]]''}}

** Manhattan speaks in blue speech balloons while everyone else's are white.

** '' "{{smallcaps| Silence,}}'' {{smallcaps| minion.}}"

* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Zonic the Zone cop comes from a "perpendicular" world; he's always shown floating sideways, sometimes with his feet resting on the side of the panel.

* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' opens with commercials and [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|movie trailers]] starring the main characters of the [[Show Within a Show|film within the film]].

* During a very frantic and drug addled day in ''[[Goodfellas]]'' the editting and camera work shifts from the usual pacing to an equally frantic and excited style, mimicing the character's drug use.

* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Kuzco-the-[[Narrator]] freezes the frame and literally paints on the screen to bring the story back to himself. He then continues to interrupt the story so it focuses on himself. Later on in the story, Kuzco-the-character yells at Kuzco-the-narrator to stop talking and leave him alone. From then on, the movie is un-narrated.

* In ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', the opening scenes have the credits spelled out in flaming scenery lit by arrows. The villagers are understandably distressed by this and one remarks, "Every time they make a [[Robin Hood]] movie, they go and burn our village down!"

* One [[National Geographic]] special was about ninjas. It ended with a simulated comparison between ninja methods and modern military; a "VIP" was placed in a "hotel room" with two trained bodyguards-armed with laser pointer pistols. The "assault team" managed to get to the VIP in less than a minute. The "ninja" took nine hours, and used a disguise...as a member of the National Geographic film crew.

* In ''[[Farscape]]'', after John Crichton finally reached the absolute nadir of his progressing insanity, he would occasionally hum along with the show's score.

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' once had Stephen respond to the people who didn't broadcast his show in HD by putting his hands in the parts of the screen which is cut off in the standard definition broadcast {{spoiler|and sticking out the middle finger of each hand}}, after which he advises them to upgrade so that they can see it.

* In the Wayne's World skits on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', when Wayne and Garth want to do a dream sequence, they wave their arms and make "dream sequence" sound effects until the image fades. They do it to end the dream sequences too, but sometimes can't get particularly stubborn dream sequences to end when they want them to.

* The vintage adventure game ''[[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders]]'' represents the eponymous character's eponymous treatment by emptying his set of commands and having them gradually return as he recovers.

* ''Captain Blood'' represents the degenerative disease the main character quests to cure with an increasingly jittery mouse cursor.

** In the ''Red Alert'' games, the installer pretends to be a highly classified program that contains an intelligence briefing on the current situation. Your CD-key is called a "security clearance code" by the "secret program".

*** The setup process ''Red Alert 2'' pretends to have hacked into the Allied network, requiring you to use your CD-key to disable the security measures. The installation itself plays out as a slideshow briefing.

* ''The Rats'', a 1985 Spectrum horror strategy interspaced with scenes of text adventure (unfortunately written years before this concept became feasible), depicts the encroaching presence of rats by having teeth marks, claw marks and actual vermin appear on the screen, and being killed by a rat by having one {{smallcaps|TEAR THROUGH THE TEXT WINDOW AND LUNGE AT YOU }}

** ''The Prisoner'', a 1980 [[Edu Ware]] game upped the ante by having the game over scenario involve entering in a specific secret code at any point in the game. {{spoiler|This includes at least once scenario where the game apparently crashes to the operating system prompt and a recovery program asks for the line number of the crash... which just happens to be your secret number.}}

** [[Adventure Game|Adventure games]] ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' II and ''Escape from [[Monkey Island]]'', as well as the Super Nintendo ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' sports game, each have a scene where a badly aimed projectile breaks the screen.

** So did ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga''. ...Except it was Bowser.

** The titular protagonist of the Danish-made ''Hugo'' TV game had a habit of knocking on the screen to get the viewer's attention.

** The fighting game based on ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' features the character Hol Horse, whose partner has a Stand named The Hanged Man that can only materialize through reflections. In one of his super moves, Hol Horse shoots the screen so The Hanged Man can attack his opponent through the broken glass.

** In the remake, during the war chapter, the bullets litteraly break the fourth wall, as they make the screen as it was shot.

* ''[[Kane and Lynch|Kane And Lynch 2: Dog Days]]'' is presented as if someone just decided to start filming right behind a madman with a gun. Brutal headshots (and nudity) get censored, [[Camera Abuse|the camera drops if you die, digital artifacts are everywhere]], a timestamp appears, and during one explosion in the demo, the frame rate drops incredibly, the camera gets almost entirely pixelated, and the fake camera man almost gets knocked off his feet.

** [http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v5/458.html And the narrator's one of the Vok.]

* ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' does this often. [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/4/ here] is an example of [[Odd-Shaped Panel]], and here is where they play around with [[Flashback Effects]] [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/69/ twice]

** In addition, one of the many, many omnipotent abilities of Sarda includes being able to rearrange the speech bubbles of people he doesn't like, particularly [[Butt Monkey|Black Mage]].

* In ''Lick My Jesus'' (which is, unfortunately, no longer accessible), one strip was based around the idea that different fonts were different languages. One character admitted, "I'm sorry... I don't speak Garamond."