Skyscraper Messages: Difference between revisions

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This trope is easily doable in [[Real Life]], but limited to special occasions because it's otherwise disruptive to the people in the offices and apartments. In the movies, the trope is often assisted by computer animation; it's easier than getting the permits/paying the money to use the building, etc.

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== [[Advertising]] ==

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* One Chik-Fil-A ad has cows wandering through an office building, turning lights on and off (while late-working folk look up in wary confusion). At the end, the lights spell "Eat Mor Chikin" on the side of the building.

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[City Hunter]]'' at one point, the lights formed the katakana version of the woman's name and "daisuki" (I like you a lot/love you.)

* On ''[[Case Closed]]'', the Suspect Of the Week uses such a window lighting event to give himself an alibi to murder his victim.

* On ''[[Case Closed]]'', the Suspect of the Week uses such a window lighting event to give himself an alibi to murder his victim.

** And in ''[[Magic Kaito]]'', Kaitou arranged for a pair of skyscrapers to display a birthday message to Aoko once.

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* A 1970s Spider-Man story has the Shocker doing this with whole city blocks as part of an extortion scheme. Unsurprisingly, a later story has [[Psycho Electro|Electro]] doing the same thing.

* The cover of one (UK version) ''[[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis The Menace]]'' album has Dennis and Gnasher being chased out of a building after doing this.

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== [[~~Commercials~~]] ==

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* One Chik-Fil-A ad has cows wandering through an office building, turning lights on and off (while late-working folk look up in wary confusion). At the end, the lights spell "Eat Mor Chikin" on the side of the building.

== [[Film]] ==

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* ''[[Fight Club]]''

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'' had a business do this to try and win back his former fiance. {{spoiler|He rejected her in favour of his boss' daughter. Then changed his mind and invoked this trope. She turned him down (albeit quite gently) but his boss (who was watching from that very building) killed him for rejecting his daughter}}.

* In ''Furuhata Ninzaburou'', such a window lighting event ''breaks'' the suspect's ~~alibi—the~~ hotel where he was staying was spelling out its name in lights, and if he was in the room with the drapes open, then it would have ruined the character.

* In ''[[Furuhata Ninzaburou]]'', such a window lighting event ''breaks'' the suspect's alibi — the hotel where he was staying was spelling out its name in lights, and if he was in the room with the drapes open, then it would have ruined the character.

* One episode of ''[[Barney Miller]]'' has a call about a man on a ledge. It's quickly followed by a report that the man is writing on the windows. Barney asks "It's not a jumper?" Wojo replies "Unless it's a suicide note."

== [[Music]] ==

* The music video for ''Black Eyed Peas'''s "Where Is The Love?" has lights spell out a question mark.

* The music video for [[Black Eyed Peas]]'s "Where Is The Love?" has lights spell out a question mark.

== [[Video Games]] ==