Serial Escalation: Difference between revisions

This isn't meant to be confused with the buildup to season finales or a plot climax, but rather a consistent escalation in events that always exceeds what a viewer would expect. When this is done well, a new [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] is, at any given moment, just around the corner. When done poorly, what would constitute as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] can feel [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|ordinary]], or even absurd.

Not to be confused with [[Up to Eleven]], where a series, group, or artist make a point of topping whatever was the latest, greatest thing (including if it was their own thing). To make a Serial Escalation is to create an enormous stack of such occurrences, generating a series of events that top the prior consecutively. Compare [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]], which describes the hypothetical point at which such a process [[Going Critical|goes critical]], resulting in an explosion of awesomeness (or, as noted, in a [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|fizzle]] if the [[Small Name, Big Ego|bomb is a dud]]).

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