Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Difference between revisions

Many times, particularly for the [[300|former Trope Namer]], invokes the [[Rule of Three]]. Sometimes a part of a [[Skyward Scream]]. If each word is accompanied with an attack then it's a [[Punctuated Pounding]]. If the delivery ends with a swear, then it's [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]].

 

{{examples|'''THESE! ARE! EXAMPLES!'''}}

== Anime! and! MANGA! ==

* Can there be an example of [[This Is Sparta]] in one word instead of three? Well, if you're IIIIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA-KUUUUUUUUUUUN from ''[[Durarara!!]]'', then yes. Yes, there can.

* ''[[Super Atragon]]'': Captain Hayate is prone to saying his [[Catch Phrase]] this way, "UNDERSEA-BATTLESHIP ''RA'', '''ENGAGE!!!'''"

 

== Advertising! and! COMMERCIALS! ==

{{quote|No! One! Speaks! To! Me! This! Way!}}

* [[The Age of Dusk|“I am master and king of all Space marines. Though you have cast aside your humanity, you are still Astartes, and you! Will! Kneel!]]

{{quote|'''''AND YOU! ARE UNDER! ARREST!'''''}}

* [[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War|Fluttershy]] yells "Leave and NEVER! COME! BACK!" at the two griffins, scaring them away with The Stare.

 

 

* Sadly averted in the original [[300]] graphic novel, and former [[Trope Namer]]. No emphasis was placed on this sentence when Leonidas kicks the messenger into the well. Just, "This is '''Sparta'''."

* In [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Supreme]]'', the unseen villain The End speaks everything like this, each word being afforded its own speech bubble. For example, when addressing some lesser rogues gallery members: "YOU." "ARE." "SPECKS." "GO." "AWAY." They promptly fled the room.

{{quote|'''[[Black Panther]]:''' Van Lunt, I swear to you that lives of everyone on this planet are at stake! '''We -- Need -- This -- Weapon!'''

'''Van Lunt:''' Well--, when you put it like that--! I guess... I won't be needing it anyway. }}

* [[Deadpool]] in ''[[Cable]] & [[Deadpool]] #42'':

{{quote|'''Deadpool:''' "[[Lampshade Hanging|Must…use]]…[[William Shatner|Shatner…voice]]…to…reach…[[MacGuffin|STATUE]]!"}}

* Near the end of ''[[Empowered]]'', volume four. Combined with [[World of Cardboard Speech]], and delivered {{spoiler|while the title character is laying the smack-down on Fleshmaster}}:

{{quote|'''Empowered:''' Unlike you, _____, I do this stupid, ''stupid'' job because--

* This is how [[Swamp Thing]]'s drawn out, slow speech pattern is represented.

** '''[[Swamp Thing]]''': I don't... know... where to... go.

 

== Live! Action! MOVIES! ==

** [[The Simpsons (animation)|Reminds me of elephants...]]

* I'm [[Citizen Kane|CHARLES! FOSTER! KANE!]] I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes! GETTYS! I'M GOING TO SEND YOU... TO SING SING! SING SING, GETTYS! SIIIIING! SIIIIING!"

* ''[[History of the World Part One]]'':

** '''"SEE!"'''

* ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]'' and its remake, ''[[Red Dragon]]'': "You. Owe. Me. ''Awe'', Mr. Lounds."

** [[Hannibal Lecture|"EFF. BEE. EYE."]]

** "It's Frilly! And Pink! With Lace!

** "Our! Sexual! Preferences! Are! Our! Own! Business!"

* From ''[[Orphan]]'': {{spoiler|I'm not! Your fucking! Mommy!}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfFrIorz6k WHAT ''FUCKING'' IAN GUY?!!?]

* From ''1941'': [[Big OMG|"OH!" "MY!" "...god..."]]

* ''[[Shrek]]'': Ogres. Are not. Like cakes.

{{quote|"You -- will -- never -- touch -- our -- children -- again!"

"NOT MY DAUGHTER, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|YOU BITCH]]!!" }}

{{quote|"They. Like. It. They like being enslaved!"}}

** Hagrid yelling at Uncle Vernon, right before giving Dudley a pig's tail?

** THIS- HAS- SOMETHING- TO- DO- WITH- POTTER!!

** YOU - COMPLETE - ''ARSE'' - RONALD - WEASLEY! YOU - CRAWL - BACK - HERE - AFTER - WEEKS - AND - WEEKS--!"

* [[Discworld]] examples:

** Although Not With The Same Intensity, All Of The [[Golem]]s Of [[Discworld]] Are Implied To Speak Like This ''All The Time''.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': ''I. Am Not. Yoda.'' Since the main character who was saying that had exploded a rubbish bin out of sheer rage at his stubborn, mouthy, disobedient and at risk of the dark side, apprentice, who had just complained about an assignment, saying that Yoda would never have made anyone do that.

** [[Special Guest]] Richard Waugh (aka [[Resident Evil|Albert goddamn Wesker]]), when repeatedly questioned about the whereabouts of his mother, eventually loses his patience.

{{quote|AT! THE! '''LAAAAKE!''}}

* [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!]]

** And, notably: [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|I. AM. COMING. FOR. ALL. OF. YOU!]]

* [[CSI: Miami|"You forget one thing: We. Never. Close."]]

'''Sid:''' Why are you talking in very short sentences?

'''Mark:''' EMPHASIS! Drama! Fuck off. }}

* ''Chef!'': "Who - made - this - sauce?"

** "CLEAN! THIS! FRIGGING! KITCHEN!"

* [[The Big Bang Theory|Our whole universe was in a HOT! DENSE! STATE!]]

* Hilariously, in a recent tour promoting his latest film (''Law Abiding Citizen''), Gerard Butler of [[300]] fame appeared on ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'', and was asked (persuaded? bullied?) to introduce each and every guest in exactly this way. He introduced [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oDQK164C8 heavyweight champion of the world David Haye], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDXh2h2x0E Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EAIzcdgZ1E comedian Michael McIntyre]. Who then [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTBIBYFnGc=related introduced Butler himself in similar style, complete with kick].

** [[Large Ham|Kirk]]: Do you HEAR! ME! WE'VE GOT! TO RISK! A FULL! POWER! START!

*** HE! CAN! SOME! TIMES! DO! THIS! WITH! MUL! TI! PLE! SYL! A! BYLS! WITHIN! THE! SAME! WORD! OR! [[Motor Mouth|Shiftintomotormouthatamomentsnotice!]] AND! BACK! AGAIN! Fornoreasonwhatsoever!

* It's heard in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drbl2sDxv0w intro sequence] to the "Word of Mouth" segments on [[Turner Classic Movies]]. At the very end, you can hear a voice say, "Damn. Good. Actress."

* [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|I HAVE A HEADAAAAAAAAAACHE!!]]

- "I am not GAY!" this is followed closely by Irene's comment "Well I AM!"

* [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|YOU! ARE! GOING! TO!]] '''AUUUUUSTRAAAAAAAALIA!''' Subject to much [[Memetic Mutation]] among Australians, since this particular clip was replayed pretty much everywhere by almost every channel for a while in the leadup to Oprah's actual visit.

* ''[[Father Ted]]'': Most of the time, Father Jack, who tends to stick with a handful of words. Namely "[[Big "What?"|WHAT?!]]", "[[Big No|NO!]]", "[[The Alcoholic|DRINK!]]", "[[Precision F-Strike|FECK!]]", "[[Sir Swearsalot|ARSE!]]", "[[Dirty Old Monk|GIRLS!]]"

{{quote|'''Father Jack:''' NUNS! NUNS! REVERSE! REVERSE!}}

* Rapper The Game has been known to start live performances of "How We Do" by repeatedly chanting "(Insert rapper here) can '''SUCK! MY! DICK!'''".

 

 

== Professional! WRESTLING! ==

** MISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Kennedy. Kennedy.

*** He's now MISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Anderson

** [[Booker T]]: FIVE TIME!! FIVE TIME!! FIVE TIME!! WCW CHAMPION BOOKER T!!

** [[Batista]] couldn't believe [[John Cena]] would STOOP! THAT! LOW! and resort to [[Duct Tape for Everything|duct tape]] to win their Last Man Standing match.

** Two examples from [[Michael Cole]]: "NOT! THIS! WAAAAY! NOT! THIS! WAAAAY! DAMMIT!!!" And of course, to our collective chagrin, "AND! I! QUOTE!"

** IF! YOU! SMEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL... WHAT [[Dwayne Johnson|THE ROCK!]] IS! COOKIN'!!!

 

== RADIO! ==

* "X! MINUS! ONE!"

* ''Lights Out'': "It...is...later...than...you...think!"

* [[National Public Radio|NPR]]'s ''On The Media'' with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield always ends with:

{{quote|'''Bob Garfield''': "And edited...by...Brooke"}}

 

== Theatre! and! PLAYS! ==

* ''The Pirate Queen'': "GIVE ME. MY SWORD."

* ''[[Blood Brothers]]'': "But a debt is a debt... AND MUST. BE. PAID."

 

== VIDEO! GAMES! ==

* From the beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ZYF-Zmo2E&playnext_from=TL&videos=MTYH9Af-WUM Lazer Collection 3]: Just. Pure. ENERGY.

* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/79149 This] [[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]] animation: "[[Kamehame Hadoken|HA... DO... KEN!]]"

 

== Web! COMICS! ==

** "Has a name! {{spoiler|'''''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|NAME- IS- ED!]]'''''"}}

* Mike from [https://web.archive.org/web/20130520055425/http://sexylosers.com/225.html Sexy Losers]: I...AM NO...ORDINARY...MAN! His delivery of this line was what elevated him from simple comedy to being actually sort of awesome. That is, if you look past the fact that he's masturbating and just see it from his own artistic perspective.

{{quote|'''[[Aloof Older Brother|Alasdair]]:''' That! Is! Not! A! Mage!! That! Is! A! Freaking! {{spoiler|'''Dragon'''}}'''!!'''

'''Amadan:''' Did I forget to mention that? }}

* ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound|The Last Days of Foxhound:]]'' [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=374 I. Don't. Speak.] '''[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=374 WOLF!]'''

* ''Stick Figure [[Hamlet]]'' manages to find one of these in its Shakespearean text: "[http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com/act4/scene5/page12.html Tell me, Laertes... Why. Thou. Art. Thus. Incensed?]"

* ''[[Buttersafe]]'': [http://buttersafe.com/2008/10/02/the-threat/ Every. Genital. You. Own.]

* From ''[[Homestuck]]'': [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004719 This...] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004720 Is...] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004721 Motherfuckin...] '''''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004722 BlAsPhEmY!!]'''''

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' ("The Research and Development Wars"): "Orbital. Weaponized. Dimensional. Flux. Agitator." [[It Makes Sense in Context|It makes more sense in context than usual for this comic]]: Riff is referring to a [[Doomsday Device]] made by {{spoiler|setting up a network of "flux agitators" that can not only be used as the ultimate weapon to blast absolutely anything on a world-wide scale into another dimension, but is also prone to rip the fabric of reality in the dimension where they are used, while parallel uses in different dimensions [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|will have had caused]] a cross-universe disaster in the future from which he has returned.}} And all of that makes sense in context, too.

* ''[[Times Like This]]'':

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''

** Para Ventura have seen enough of the Esspererin schematics on the screen to dub them "[[Mechanical Lifeforms|solar powered robo-fairies]]". Then she actually meets one for the first time. "[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-06-08 Oh. My. Goggles.]"

* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'': [http://kevinandkell.com/2016/kk1125.html "Because... I... hear... everything."]

* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'', when Ranna watches her Evil Plan stumbling on the last stage, [https://www.yafgc.net/comic/3325-an-unholy-ribbing/ then finds out her recently-converted minion is absent and there's some strange guy instead of her]. So she asks. the obvious. question. Without interrupting [[Face Palm]].

 

== Web! ORIGINAL! ==

** {{spoiler|John Rizzolo}}:[http://z10.invisionfree.com/SOTF_V2/index.php?showtopic=2760&view=findpost&p=14090745 "YOU! MAXIE! EVERYONE!"]

** {{spoiler|Leo Curtis}} [http://z10.invisionfree.com/SOTF_V2/index.php?showtopic=2753&view=findpost&p=14093249 "I'M NOT LIKE YOU RYAN! I WILL LIVE! I! WILL! LIVE!"] Also a [[Punctuated Pounding]].

* Repeatedly! Used! On! This! Very! WIKI!

* On this [[The Nostalgia Critic|Nostalgia Critic]] review... [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924131702/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/17979-quest-for-camelot JUST! EX-! PLAIN!] [[Angst Nuke|*BLAAAAAAM*]]

** From the same playthrough, except in a much later part:

{{quote|'''GM:''' Oh by the way, [[Urban Legend of Zelda|there's a truck over there that DROVE. PEOPLE. NUTS.]]}}

{{quote|'''Adam:''' "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning! Moment! Of! Awesome!]]'''

'''Mobius:''' "Aaaaand... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Funny!]] }}

Anonymous18: GO PLANET! }}

* [http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/03/31/this-is-how-you-know-we-mean-it/ This] entry from passiveaggressivenotes.com seems to have this.

 

== Western! ANIMATION! ==

* From Shane Acker's feature film adaptation of the short film [[9]]: "YOU. AWAKENED. ''WHAT?!''"

* ''[[Megas XLR]]'': YOU! DIG! GIANT ROBOTS! [[Crowning Music of Awesome|I! DIG! GIANT ROBOTS!]] WE! DIG! GIANT ROBOTS! CHICKS! DIG! GIANT ROBOTS!

** I'M! TUXEDO! MAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!

* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'': Making! More! Awesome!

 

== Real! LIFE! ==

* Most. Overused. Emphasis. Technique. Ever.

** This technique seems to be a personal favorite of [[Websnark|Eric Burns-White]].

* "I'm...a generic politician...and I...don't know how...to string...more than...three words...together..."

** Quick guideline: If you ever hear a politician ''not'' talking like this, he's using a Teleprompter.

** Back before Teleprompters were common, P J O'Rourke observed that politicians would read out their prepared speeches this way, interrupted by page-turning at the most inconvenient possible moment: "We are in a position! To mandate large expenditures! By both state and local governments! But we are not!" ''rustlerustlerustle'' "Giving them financial aid!"

* Sometimes happens in various chatrooms only to be kicked out for flooding if entered word per word.

* Bill Clinton [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDppdVXeMw Did not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With. That. Woman.]

* Peter Dickson, the Voiceover Man of [[Channel 4|E4]] and [[The X Factor]], among others: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTKNRSZspQ IT'S TIME. TO TASTE. THE MUESLI!]

* In a well known, nasally, British accent, Robin Leach of "Lifestyles... of the Rich. And. Famous."

* Rep. Anthony Weiner during an incensed and impassioned speech ended with saying his opponent, "Instead of [...] defending [his] colleagues in voting no on this humane bill, [...] should urge them to vote yes, something the gentleman ''HAS! NOT! DONE!''"

 

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