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** Similarly, Arienai Fansubs's release of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' had some of the karaoke lyrics in the opening credits mimic the motion of objects onscreen, sliding across the screen or spiraling off into the distance.
** A pioneer in these effects was Kaizoku Fansubs with their ''[[One Piece]]'' sub-work. Each character got an elaborate font for calling out their attacks, and sometimes different ways for the letters to appear. It's a bit over-the-top, but then again it's ''One Piece''.
** A somewhat humorous one is done in a fansub of ''[[Gao Gai Gar]]''. A certain energy source that greatly boosts the power of any mecha (potentially, ''anything at all'') with mostly unknown origins goes by the name '''{{color|orange| THE POWER}}'''. Whenever a character mentions this, the only subtitles that would show on the screen would say '''{{color|orange| THE POWER!}}''' in gigantic orange letters (the color someone or something becomes when infused with it).
** [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8466225710208488797&ei=ArTuSJv_CYmwrQL0tfzJBg&q=garlock+ subtitled This Gurren Lagann scene] is an example of the first technique mentioned (in the last few seconds).
* During Lucy's [[Start of Darkness]] from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', the moment when Lucy snaps and murders the [[Kids Are Cruel|cruel kids]] who have just {{spoiler|[[Kick the Dog|beaten her little puppy to death]]}} has her final words ("...ARE YOU!!!") {{color|red|ssubtitled in red}}. In some [[Fan Sub|Fan Subs]], the font changes as well.
** The same effect was used by at least one fansub group in the final scene of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'''s Watanagashi-hen, when {{spoiler|Mion ([[Twin Switch|apparently]]) murders Keiichi in his hospital bed.}}
*** They got that from the [[Visual Novel]].
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* In the beginning of the eleventh episode of The Escapist's home webseries ''Apocalypse Arcade'', the heroes meet a wizard who pretends he can stop time. After one of the heroes make a sigh of incredulity, the loading icon appears for a few seconds before being pushed aside by the incredulous protagonist.
* The web story ''Ted the Caver'' is presented as a caving log with dated daily entries, and as the story continues it gets progressively [[Cosmic Horror|weirder and scarier]], ending with the protagonist acting oddly and against all logic planning another trip to the cave, but he promises several times that as soon as he returns, he'll write up everything that happened on his final journey. He states it won't be more than a few days. This is, of course, the last entry, dated sometime in 2001. Clicking on the link for "Next Entry" brings the reader to a 404 error. (The ending is told in the lack of an ending!)
* [[Survival of the Fittest]] v4's [[Cloudcuckoolander|Maria Graham]] does this at one point, starting with a flashback where she and another character are having a conversation, with their lines in blue and orange respectively to clarify who's saying what. After the flashback, Maria's ''still'' talking and thinking in blue text until she finally goes "{{color|blue|WWait, why am I still thinking in blue?}}" and promptly stops.
* Whenever some sad sad person thinks they're being funny on a wiki or message board by using the tired joke of mentioning [[Candle Jack]] and then not fi
* The "Pokemon Black" creepypasta was [http://kotaku.com/5619302/creepy-pokemon-story-now-a-visual-novel-for-the-ds turned into a visual novel], playable on Nintendo DSes with homebrew-running devices. The last line is {{spoiler|"GHOST cursed you, [DS owner]!"<ref>It uses the name entered on the DS profile screen as the final word.</ref>}}
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* According to [[The Other Wiki]], when ''The Hobbit'' was published Tolkien wished for "Thror's map to be tipped in (that is, glued in after the book has been bound) at first mention in the text, and with the moon-letters (Anglo-Saxon runes) on the reverse so they could be seen when held up to the light." This turned out to be prohibitively expensive and was left undone. Alas.
** Fortunately the 'moon letter' version of the map has been created in the 2004 deluxe edition.
* In some editions of Daniel Handler's book ''Watch Your Mouth'', {{color|brown|tthe second half of the story is printed in burgundy.}}
* [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks']] ''Feersum Endjinn'' has about a quarter of the text written in [[Funetik Aksent]]. One of the characters (Bascule) is keeping a journal, but some kind of brain dysfunction makes him spell phonetically. It was [[Woolseyism|woolseyized]] as containing absolutely [[Egregious]] amounts of orthographic and spelling errors in the Polish version.
* ''Life of Pi'' ends with an extended conversation, written in script form, between the protagonist and two Japanese businessmen. The Japanese businessmen alternate between speaking to the protagonist in English and to each other in Japanese. The Japanese dialogue is denoted with a bold, paintbrush-like font.
* ''[[The Neverending Story (Literature)|The Neverending Story]]'' uses two different colors for the two reality levels in the book, or two different typefaces in cheaper printings.
* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' is printed in three colors, although there are some variations between the different [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves#Colors versions] of the book. Normal text is printed in black, the word "{{color|blue|hhouse}}" appears in blue, and {{color|red|rreferences to mythology}} or <s>{{color|red|sstruck out passages that are somewhat threatening to the reader}}</s> are in red, with the addition of colored and Braille plates. "{{color|red|MMinotaur}}" may or may not be struck out, depending on whether it's used during one of the aforementioned mythology references. In addition, there are a few instances of purple in the book as well, including the phrase "{{color|purple|A Novel}}" on the front cover, the {{color|purple|eedition number}}, and one instance of a {{color|purple|sstruck-out purple phrase}} in Chapter XXI. There are two different typefaces, which are used to represent the contributions of the elderly blind man, Zampano, and the twenty-something slacker, Johnny Truant, with a rare third typeface for "The Editors" -- and even the accuracy of the typefaces is called into question. Mirror text is used on occasion; some pages have only a few words sparsely placed, and in odd orientations. A labyrinth is represented by a chapter consisting almost wholly of footnotes which refer to each other in a way that can only be described as labyrinthine. The vote is out on if it's good surrealism or pretentious crap.
** Some paperback editions have covers that are smaller than the pages. The book is larger on the inside than on the outside.
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** Danielewski also wrote a book called ''The Fifty Year Sword'' in which he uses different colors of quotation marks to indicate different speakers.
* The web novel ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' is, of course, not content to mess only with [[Deconstruction|genre]] and [[Anachronic Order|storytelling]] conventions. The color and font of headers reflects the mood of a particular section; Chapter 5 is split into four subpages, presented in a random order that changes on refreshing the page, each written in first person from a different character's perspective; Shin's journal entry uses a monospace font; the title for Cobalt's entry is the periodic table cell for cobalt; and Chapter 7 is rendered entirely as an [[Interactive Fiction]] game with sprites, although the author has provided a text-only "walkthrough FAQ" version. Even in the "normal" chapters, the narration switches between first person, third person, diary entries, et cetera. The little divider graphics between sections of a chapter contain one-liners if you squint just right.
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** Or the grammarvores who consume punctuation and grammar which have overrun ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''.
* [[Stephen King]] is known to have dabbled in this from time to time.
** In ''Insomnia'', certain characters' telepathic thoughts fade out and back in, signifying that something is wrong with them. The text of their thoughts {{color|grey|aactually}} {{color|darkgrey|ffades}} {{color|lightgrey|iinto}} {{color|white|iillegibility,}} {{color|lightgrey|tthen}} {{color|darkgrey|bbecomes}} {{color|grey|cclear}} and readable again.
** Several King works (''[[The Dark Half]], [[Hearts in Atlantis (Literature)|Hearts in Atlantis]], [[The Dark Tower]], [[Misery]], [[IT]], [[Pet Sematary]]'') feature actual handwriting instead of text at certain points where hand-written signs or messages enter the story.
** In his later efforts (''Lisey's Story, [[The Dark Tower]]'' volumes 4-7), King experiments frequently with changing fonts and typefaces.
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* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Prosperos Daughter|Prospero In Hell]]'', the demon possessing Theo speaks in ''italics'' and ALL CAPS.
* The [[Tortall Universe|Provost's Dog]] books are presented mostly as the journals of Beka Cooper, the protagonist. There is the occasional mispelling, especially when she is sick or exhausted. At one point, she falls asleep while writing and one of her words trails off into a wavy line running down the page. There is also a page where her cat jumps onto her journal, leaving a blob of ink where the inkwell is spilled, and a set of inky pawprints on the page.
* In the [[Real Life]] "[http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/bacon.htm Baconian Cipher]" (not actually a cipher, rather, a steganographic code), developed by Francis Bacon, two different typefaces ('''bold''', ''italic'', {{smallcaps|a different font}}, {{color|blue|a}} {{color|red|ddifferent}} {{color|green|ffont}} {{color|blue|ccolour}}, etc.) are utilised, one standing for the letter "A" and one standing for B, so that messages can be hidden within the fabric of some plaintext, i.e. literature, be it fictional or not. It has, therefore, been suggested by some that Bacon in fact might have hidden clues to the supposed "fact" he wrote [[Shakespeare]]'s plays by using this ciphe-er, steganographic code.
* In ''[[The Years of Rice and Salt]]'' by Kim Stanley Robinson, the format of the book changes to match the historical era each section is set in. At the beginning, chapters have [[In Which a Trope Is Described|elaborate descriptions]] and the prose is frequently interrupted by poetry. Gradually, the prose becomes more solid, the chapters shorten to just titles, then numbers, and then nothing but a blank spot between them and the next chapter.
 
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** Yet another puzzle in the same game involves producing a stream of air to set windmills spinning. {{spoiler|Blowing into the DS' microphone does the job}}.
* ''Twilight Princess'' gave important characters their own colored texts.
{{quote| '''Midna''': ''{{color|blue|HHa. Such conceit.}}''}}
** As do the two Zelda games for the Nintendo 64. Navi from ''Ocarina of Time'' always spoke in blue, and some other characters had their own color.
*** In addition to that, important {{color|red|kkeywords}} in dialogue had a different colour to make sure the player noticed them.
* It's debatable if the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series actually has a fourth wall.
** Most famous example is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayZG-RJCUYs#t=1m41s the fight against Psycho Mantis].
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' colours the screen red or fills the screen with static whenever the protagonist is badly wounded (or going through an epiphany). In the final route of the game, ''Heaven's Feel'', {{spoiler|the screen ''cracks'' whenever the protagonist uses his [[Deadly Upgrade]] which induces brain damage; the static becomes omnipresent, and certain words are whited out or simply ''not there'', as he slowly loses his precious memories and ability to recall events, providing a chilling and saddening effect.}}
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'', {{color|red|rred text}} is [[Language of Truth|always true]]. {{color|blue|BBlue text}} is used to present theories that deny witches. {{spoiler|There's also gold text in the most recent game.}} [[The Anime of the Game]] shows this by making the screen take on the appropriate color tint and having the words fly around the speaker. Also, the title should technically be written as ''Umineko no {{color|red|NNa}}ku Koro Ni''.
** Similarly, the {{color|red|NNa}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' is an "official" part of the title.
*** Higurashi also has colored text.
* In ''[[Cross Channel]]'', at one point Taichi flips Touko's skirt up expecting a [[Megaton Punch]]. When he doesn't get one, he decides to go one step further by pulling her panties down and quickly requesting that someone throw up a mosaic. And, of course, as per Japanese laws on [[H-game|H-Games]], it's already there since ''Cross Channel'' is a partially censored game.
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** [[Easter Egg]]
** [[Footnote Fever]]
** ''{{color|blue|HHouse}} [[House of Leaves|of Leaves]]''
** ''[[Memento (Film)|Memento]]''
** [[Shameless Self Promoter]]
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