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* [[Interface Screw]]
* [[No Punctuation Period]]
* [[Odd
* [[Rainbow Speak]]
* [[Rebus Bubble]]
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* ''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 [
** Some paperback editions have covers that are smaller than the pages. The book is larger on the inside than on the outside.
** Similarly, Danielewski's sec{{color|gold|o}}nd b{{color|gold|oo}}k, ''{{color|gold|O}}[[Only Revolutions|nly Rev]]{{color|gold|o}}[[Only Revolutions|luti]]{{color|gold|o}}[[Only Revolutions|ns]]'', had tw{{color|gold|o}} st{{color|gold|o}}ries, {{color|gold|o}}ne starting fr{{color|gold|o}}m the fr{{color|gold|o}}nt and {{color|gold|o}}ne fr{{color|gold|o}}m the back. With every passing page, a little less page space was given t{{color|green|o}} the {{color|green|o}}ne st{{color|green|o}}ry and a little m{{color|green|o}}re t{{color|green|o}} the {{color|green|o}}ther st{{color|green|o}}ry, until at the middle {{color|green|o}}f the b{{color|green|oo}}k it's exactly 5{{color|green|0}}/5{{color|green|0}}. ({{color|gold|O}}h, and there's a hint t{{color|gold|o}} the f{{color|gold|o}}nt c{{color|gold|o}}l{{color|gold|o}}rs in this n{{color|gold|o}}vel. [[Captain Obvious|Did y]]{{color|green|o}}[[Captain Obvious|u catch it?]])
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** In ''[[The Demolished Man (Literature)|The Demolished Man]]'', telepathic communication is represented by creative typesetting, sentences that can be read up, down, left or right simultaneously, rebuses, fonts and other trickery. Bester seemed very fond of this sort of thing in general.
*** An example: Two of the characters in this book are named @kins (Atkins) and 1/4maine (Quartermaine).
** ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' is full of [[Shout
** Another occurs in the short story ''Fondly Fahrenheit'', about a schizophrenic mass murderer and his robot. At times the guy thinks of himself simply as himself, other times he thinks of himself as the robot, and then there's the times he thinks of them both as one person. All of this is accomplished by Bester constantly switching his use of pronouns.
* In the ''Turing Hopper'' series by Donna Andrews, different typefaces are used for third-person narration vs. Turing's first-person commentary.
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* ''[[Allo Allo (TV)|Allo Allo]]'' was set in Nazi-occupied France and has characters of several nationalities speaking several different languages, all represented by the actors using deliberately bad accents. The Germans had bad German accents. The downed English airmen had bad English accents. The French had bad French accents, except when they were speaking English in which case they used bad English accents as well. The English spy masquerading as a French policeman had an ''atrocious'' French accent and mispronounced all his vowels (leading to endless double entendres), but only the French characters noticed. And so on.
** And, of course, whenever a French character spoke "French" (ie, English with a bad French accent) to an English character who only spoke "English" (ie, English with over-the-top British accents and mannerisms), it was treated as being completely incomprehensible.
* In the ''[[
** Similarly, in "[[Doctor Who
*** Also done in [[Doctor Who
** In "[[Doctor Who
** The Weeping Angels' schtick of freezing when anybody's watching is as creepy as it is largely because the camera apparently counts as somebody watching them-- even if all characters have their backs on an Angel, ''we'' don't get to see it move either. Until the episode "[[Doctor Who
* Whenever a location is shown on ''[[Fringe]]'', the words hang there like they are part of the actual setting, sometimes with the camera avoiding the lettering as though it is actually there.
** And in an episode mostly set during the Eighties, those words (and the opening credits) were changed into a font style typical of the period.
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** Not to mention the entire last hour or so of ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 2''. It's one massive [[Mind Screw]].
** ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid 3'' gets in on the act with the fake death pill, which causes a [[Fission Mailed|fake game over screen]]. Not to mention the fact that, if you kill someone important to the plot in the first two games (it's a prequel), you are informed by [[Nonstandard Game Over]] that you're creating a [[Temporal Paradox|time paradox]].
*** ''MGS''3 also gives us the scene with Ocelot. Not only are [[Bee
** ''Guns of the Patriots'' has a flashback to the first ''Metal Gear Solid'' {{spoiler|1=which appears with PS1 graphics, including a dream sequence that you actually ''play''}}. Also, {{spoiler|1=Psycho Mantis is back: when he tries his old tricks, you realize you can't change controller ports and changing controller order doesn't work, he realizes there isn't a memory card anymore, and he gets pissed if you're using SixAxis controller, which doesn't vibrate}}.
*** Shortly after Snake meets Drebin, Drebin ''wipes his own identifying subtitle off the screen.''
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* The ''[[Insecticomics]]'' [http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v3/214.html does] this [http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v2/118.html twice].
** [http://www.insecticons.com/insecticomics/v5/458.html And the narrator's one of the Vok.]
* ''[[Books Don't Work Here (Webcomic)|Books Don't Work Here]]'' does this often. [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/4/ here] is an example of [[Odd
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', after Thief's [[Class Change]], he's seen in a red outfit for a few strips, then changes to black. When Black Mage asks him about it, he replies that his outfit was always black -- and the red outfit in the archived strips was changed to match the "new" black one.
** ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' once represented the Light Warriors experience in distorted time by having a strip where [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/03/24/episode-531-time-for-a-new-space/ the characters could see themselves in the past and future by looking around].
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* 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."
** Kinda like the old [[Britcom]] ''Allo, Allo'', in which different languages are represented by [[Just a Stupid Accent|different accents]] -- the Germans speak English with a German accent, the French speak English with a French accent, and so forth. One British character's "French" accent is very, very bad and leads to him saying things like "Gud moaning" rather than "Good morning".
* Used in the ''[[Asterix]]'' books where Viking speech has [[Punctuation Shaker|extra punctuation]], the Goths talk in [
* In a similarly defunct example, ''[http://cwcomics.comicgenesis.com/alt/thisis/ This is]'', a webcomic presented as a series of brief, tongue-in-cheek descriptions, had as its 404 page a picture and brief, tongue-in-cheek description of a 404 page. Sadly, it has since been replaced by the 404 page from the author's subsequent project, which is significantly less meta about itself.
* Apropos 404 not found: ''[[Loserz]]'' once used this as a gag. See [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=57 this strip].
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** In ''[[The Simpsons Movie (Animation)|The Simpsons Movie]]'': Homer calls everyone watching The Itchy and Scratchy movie a "giant sucker" for "paying to see somthing they can watch at home for free" and starts pointing at a random theater audience member...only for the camera to swivel around so that Homer's finger is pointed directly at the fourth wall while he says "Especially YOU!"
* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LqiC6LSPlQ once] had the usual promo for the Simpsons (8/7c) come on over the top of the regular cartoon, with Marge Simpson walking into frame. Suddenly, Quagmire walks into view and tackles her, ostensibly for sex. She fights him off, and he chases her around with his pants around his ankles. Eventually, she gives in, offscreen, and they both return to view and decide to head back to the Simpsons' for round two. The characters in the body of the cartoon ''actually stop talking'' to watch what's going on. The next scene is an exterior shot of the Simpson house. The audio indicates that Homer walks in on them, and gets shot by Quagmire in self-defense. Then he shoots Marge to keep her from calling the police. Then Bart walks in and gets shot. Then Lisa. He hesitates with Maggie. Then the show cuts right back to ''Family Guy'' like nothing ever happened.
** In a more recent episode, an [[Commercial Pop-Up|intrusive ad]] for ''[[
{{quote| '''Stewie:''' Oh- oh, I'm sorry, is my wedding interrupting your- your promotion? We're right in the middle of ''our'' show. Okay? Right now. You have a timeslot. Go there. Maybe finish ''this'' candy bar before you open another one.}}
** Which kicked off a running joke in the same episode as fake live-action sitcom ads periodically showed up at the bottom of the screen, including "Shovin' Buddies" and "Slowly Rotating Black Man". The characters reacted to them each time.
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