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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! ==

** [[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.

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

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

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

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

** "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.]"

** {{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!]] }}

* 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!

* 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!]

* You'll find this done quite a bit by members in [[TV Tropes]], which are [[Pothole]]d [[Pothole Magnet|to their copy of this very page]]. (And which we've inherited.)

* The advertising slogan for California Pistachios: "Big. Open. Pistachios."

 

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