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* In ''[[Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040]]'' episode 7, a worker in an undersea base discovers that his wife is cheating on him when he enhances a video message from her and sees a naked man sitting on her bed reflected in the bezel of her watch.
* Subverted in ''[[20th Century Boys]]'': Fujiki and Yoshitsune have some old pictures magnified so Kyoko will have an easier time identifying someone in them, but as she points out it doesn't help much because that makes them a lot more blurry.
== Comic Books ==
* In issue #11 of the original Marvel run of ''[[The Transformers (Marvel Comics)|The Transformers]]'', [[Big Bad|Shockwave]] accesses Rumble's brain to know if he saw anyone breaking into the captured Ark. He uses his "more advanced" robot brain to enhance a pixelated image from Rumble's memory, revealing that Buster Witwicky had snuck in because he was too small to be noticed by Rumble at the time.
== Film ==
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* Done in ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'', where a bit of camera footage is enhanced, through the controls on the camera that recorded it no less, to show ''a ghost'' that was present during the recording.
* In ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', the [[Big Bad]] got a hold of a photo of a secret map...with Daffy Duck blocking the important part. No one responds to his increasingly angry command to "remove the duck", and he breaks the glass the photo is projected on.
== Literature ==
* A character does this ''by hand'' in a ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' novel: After she's blown up a couple photos as much as she can and still can't make out a background detail, she photographs the pictures and then blows ''those'' photos up, resulting in a perfectly clear and damning piece of evidence.
* In ''[[
** And what he gets out is barely more than a couple dots of light. In this case it's just enough to give Vimes the clue he needs.
* [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] in ''Dirty Martini'' by J. A. Konrath, where a tech-savvy police grunt drops some [[Techno Babble]] to describe how they were able to filter and blow up a grainy picture until it became legible.
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* [[Michael Connelly]]'s ''The Narrows'' subverts this trope. Our protagonist detective, who knows little of computers, asks another character to "enhance" a digital picture this way only to be told that it's impossible.
* A ''[[BattleTech]]'' novel, ''Assumption of Risk,'' has an entire chapter dedicated to a minor character enacting this trope. Possibly justified: the year is 3055 and holographic display technology is widely available, to say nothing of the [[Humongous Mecha]] of the setting. It probably isn't too much of a stretch to expect some absurdly high-resolution camera equipment by that time.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' loves to skewer this trope, often in combination with a [[Bat Deduction]], as in [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361889/october-12-2010/tip-wag---peabody-public-schools--andy-rooney---ground-zero-mosque-design this sketch]. Fundamentally, they just make up whatever the enhanced image looks like (usually something ridiculous) and photoshop it in.
* ''[[The Wire]]''. Prysbelewski shows off by clarifying a photo of a license plate.
== Video Games ==
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* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in ''[[Command & Conquer|Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun]]'' in Nod's introduction to Umagon. Slavik and Oxanna are examining recently-recorded footage, cutting, turning, zooming in and finally ordering CABAL to extrapolate missing data to remove shadows. Not only do we get to know later on CABAL's cores use {{spoiler|human brains}} explaining the massive computer power behind the operation, the resulting image is grainy except for the extrapolated parts, which are uncharacteristically smooth. These parts also lack the Tiberium infestation later seen on the real Umagon. The resulting image only gives Oxanna the clue the woman is a mutant, but not who.
== Web Comics ==
== Western Animation ==▼
* Parodied in ''24 Minutes'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons']]'' [[Whole-Plot Reference|spoof]] of ''[[24]]''; Principal Skinner orders Lisa to enhance a photo of a message carved into a classroom desk. When it turns out to be a slur directed at him, he shouts "De-hance! De-hance!"▼
** Parodied again when Bart is going through the school newspaper archives and sees an old picture. He tells Lisa, who is reading over his shoulder, "Zoom in and enhance!" Lisa responds by grabbing the back of Bart's head and pushing his face closer to the screen.▼
* Parodied in ''[[Clone High]],'' where Abe Lincoln watches a videotape and, upon seeing something of interest, rewinds it and tells ''the VCR'' to zoom and enhance the image. Needless to say... it does.▼
* Justified in an episode of ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', where the camera in question was invented by a [[Mad Scientist]] and was said to take pictures at insanely high numbers of pixels.▼
* In ''[[Squidbillies]]'', Early, on trial for attacking baseball players during a game, tells the court to "Zoom in! Enhance!" the evidence footage. The lawyer responds, "We can't do that. That's really more of a sci-fi thing."▼
** 'At's a shame. 'Cause if y'all could, you could see that my hat reads 'Gyneocologist: Saturday Nights Only.' At's funniern' hell. I got that at a truck stop in Ellijay.▼
* Parodied on an episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. While looking through security footage, Phil modifies the image: "Hello, and who do we have here? Enhance! Contrast! Tint! Bright! Sleep mode! Vertical hold!"▼
* Parodied in the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxgis7bOS8M King Dead]": Space Ghost [[Viewer-Friendly Interface|tells]] Moltar's console to "zoom in" on a frame from a VHS ransom video. The computer zooms ''way'' in until a single yellow pixel fills the entire screen as a [[Robo Speak|calm computer voice]] says "Enhancing. Enhancing complete. Yellow... block." From this giant pixel Space Ghost somehow recognizes the interior of his own apartment.▼
* In an episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', the nephews are able to clearly identify a culprit on a surveillance tape by holding a magnifying glass up to their ''TV screen''.▼
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' uses this like crazy. An example: Batman is trying to identify who robbed the safe at a Boxing match. He asks his [[Magical Computer]] to play security footage in super slow motion. Then he zooms in on a thug's tattoo (briefly seen during the slow mo sequence) and enhances it so well it matches up with the [[Facial Recognition Software]] and identifies the thief.▼
* The cartoon version of [[BattleTech]] used a variation of this, the enemy mechs (and later the good guy ones) were equipped with a system called Enhanced Imaging, ostensibly to aid in combat by making the situation clearer. What this in fact did in terms of the show's effects is turn detailed traditional animation into untextured 3D models.▼
** Similarly occurred in the non-[[Updated Rerelease|Titanium]] version of [[Mechwarrior|MechWarrior 2]]. "Image Enhancement" blackened out the screen and displayed everything as wireframe models—which did have the benefit of at least displaying the status of the enemy Mech's body parts.▼
* Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]''. In the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", Zapp Brannigan asks for a section of the screen to be magnified. See the page quote for how well it turned out.▼
* [[X-Men]] episode "Time Fugitives: Part 1" has Beast doing this to see what Creed used to infect himself. Image Scan Mode... CLOSER. STOP. CLOSER!▼
* Parodied by ''[[Nedroid]]'' in [http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/265654.html Crime Lab]. Luckily, the killer's face just happens to be a 4x4 block of pixels and compression artifacts.
* Played for laughs in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130604045808/http://www.goats.com/archive/091221.html this Goats strip]
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* Parodied in ''[[Housepets]]'', [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/10/12/not-another-new-character/ here].
* Averted and parodied in [http://skullpanda.com/post/23151750027 this] ''Skull Panda Loves Everything'' comic.
== Web Original ==
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* ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]'' - some customers [http://notalwaysright.com/forensics-for-dummies expect] [http://notalwaysright.com/must-be-one-of-them-transdimensional-cameras photo labs] to have one of these.
* ''Clients From Hell'' had [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013095847/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/9049046312/a-client-wanted-some-special-retouching-on-some a client] with expectations [[The Nudifier|even more detached from reality]].
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* Parodied in ''24 Minutes'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons']]'' [[Whole-Plot Reference|spoof]] of ''[[24]]''; Principal Skinner orders Lisa to enhance a photo of a message carved into a classroom desk. When it turns out to be a slur directed at him, he shouts "De-hance! De-hance!"
▲** Parodied again when Bart is going through the school newspaper archives and sees an old picture. He tells Lisa, who is reading over his shoulder, "Zoom in and enhance!" Lisa responds by grabbing the back of Bart's head and pushing his face closer to the screen.
▲* Parodied in ''[[Clone High]],'' where Abe Lincoln watches a videotape and, upon seeing something of interest, rewinds it and tells ''the VCR'' to zoom and enhance the image. Needless to say... it does.
▲* Justified in an episode of ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', where the camera in question was invented by a [[Mad Scientist]] and was said to take pictures at insanely high numbers of pixels.
▲* In ''[[Squidbillies]]'', Early, on trial for attacking baseball players during a game, tells the court to "Zoom in! Enhance!" the evidence footage. The lawyer responds, "We can't do that. That's really more of a sci-fi thing."
▲** 'At's a shame. 'Cause if y'all could, you could see that my hat reads 'Gyneocologist: Saturday Nights Only.' At's funniern' hell. I got that at a truck stop in Ellijay.
▲* Parodied on an episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''. While looking through security footage, Phil modifies the image: "Hello, and who do we have here? Enhance! Contrast! Tint! Bright! Sleep mode! Vertical hold!"
▲* Parodied in the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxgis7bOS8M King Dead]": Space Ghost [[Viewer-Friendly Interface|tells]] Moltar's console to "zoom in" on a frame from a VHS ransom video. The computer zooms ''way'' in until a single yellow pixel fills the entire screen as a [[Robo Speak|calm computer voice]] says "Enhancing. Enhancing complete. Yellow... block." From this giant pixel Space Ghost somehow recognizes the interior of his own apartment.
▲* In an episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', the nephews are able to clearly identify a culprit on a surveillance tape by holding a magnifying glass up to their ''TV screen''.
▲* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' uses this like crazy. An example: Batman is trying to identify who robbed the safe at a Boxing match. He asks his [[Magical Computer]] to play security footage in super slow motion. Then he zooms in on a thug's tattoo (briefly seen during the slow mo sequence) and enhances it so well it matches up with the [[Facial Recognition Software]] and identifies the thief.
▲* The cartoon version of [[BattleTech]] used a variation of this, the enemy mechs (and later the good guy ones) were equipped with a system called Enhanced Imaging, ostensibly to aid in combat by making the situation clearer. What this in fact did in terms of the show's effects is turn detailed traditional animation into untextured 3D models.
▲** Similarly occurred in the non-[[Updated Rerelease|Titanium]] version of [[Mechwarrior|MechWarrior 2]]. "Image Enhancement" blackened out the screen and displayed everything as wireframe models—which did have the benefit of at least displaying the status of the enemy Mech's body parts.
▲* Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]''. In the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", Zapp Brannigan asks for a section of the screen to be magnified. See the page quote for how well it turned out.
▲* [[X-Men]] episode "Time Fugitives: Part 1" has Beast doing this to see what Creed used to infect himself. Image Scan Mode... CLOSER. STOP. CLOSER!
== Real Life ==
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