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#REDIRECT [[:Category:Spectacle]] |
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[[File:final_fantasy_x2_concert.jpg|link=Final Fantasy X 2|right|Arena concerts are all about this.]] |
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All forms of showing off in a work, to wow the audience. Frequently used to set the mood and serve the [[Rule of Cool]]. |
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For example, for [[Live Action TV]], this includes scenery, [[Lighting Tropes|lighting]], props, costuming, makeup, background music, sound effects, and [[Special Effects]] in general. For [[Comic Books]], it includes things like coloring and lettering. And so on. |
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The name comes from [[Aristotle (Creator)|Aristotle]]'s ''[[Poetics (Literature)|Poetics]]'' and is used more broadly here. He considered using spectacle to cover deficiencies in plot and character a flaw. If they are just in addition to good plots and characters, then these are just a bonus. |
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Not to be confused with [[Glasses Tropes]]. |
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Categories: |
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* [[Body Language]] |
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* [[Camera Tricks]] |
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** [[Lighting Tropes]] |
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* [[Dancing Tropes]] |
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* [[Heliotropes]] |
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* [[Manga Effects]] |
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* [[Party At My Index]] |
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* [[Personal Appearance Tropes]] |
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** [[The Beautiful Tropes]] |
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** [[Costume Tropes]] |
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*** [[Stripperiffic]] |
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** [[Eye Tropes]] |
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*** [[Glasses Tropes]] |
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** [[Hair Tropes]] |
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** [[Race Tropes]] |
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** [[Rule of Glamorous]] |
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** [[Smile Tropes]] |
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* [[Score and Music Tropes]] |
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* [[Sound FX Tropes]] |
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* [[Stellar Index]] |
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* [[Stock Visual Metaphors]] |
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* [[Weather and Environment]] |
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{{sidemenuend}} |
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=== Tropes: === |
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* [[Abandoned Area]] |
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* [[Above the Ruins]] |
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* [[Alien Sky]] |
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* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]] |
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* [[A Truce While We Gawk]] |
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* [[Awesome Art (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Art]] |
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* [[Bad Vibrations]] |
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* [[Battle Amongst the Flames]] |
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* [[Big Ball of Violence]] |
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* [[The Big Board]] |
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* [[Big Dam Plot]] |
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* [[Billions of Buttons]] |
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* [[Bookshelf Dominoes]] |
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* [[Build Like an Egyptian]] |
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* [[Bullet Sparks]] |
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* [[Burn, Baby, Burn]] |
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* [[Busby Berkeley Number]] |
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* [[Cave Mouth]] |
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* [[Chunky Updraft]] |
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* [[Chiaroscuro]] |
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* [[Cobweb Jungle]] |
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* [[Comet of Doom]] |
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* [[Confetti Drop]] |
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* [[Conspicuous CG]] |
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* [[Conspicuous Consumption]] |
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* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]] |
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* [[Construction Is Awesome]] |
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* [[Cool Chair]] |
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* [[Costume Porn]] |
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* [[Cow Tools]] |
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* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]] |
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* [[Deadly Fireworks Display]] |
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* [[Desert Skull]] |
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* [[Desolation Shot]] |
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* [[Destination Defenestration]] |
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* [[Dirt Forcefield]] |
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* [[Disaster Dominoes]] |
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* [[Discretion Shot]] |
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* [[Dragons Up the Yin Yang]] |
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* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]] |
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* [[Dramatic Spotlight]] |
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* [[Editorial Synaesthesia]] |
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* [[E Equals MC Hammer]] |
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* [[Eiffel Tower Effect]] |
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* [[Empathic Environment]] |
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* [[Epic Movie]] |
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* [[Epileptic Flashing Lights]] |
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* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]] |
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* [[Everything Makes a Mushroom]] |
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* [[Eyedscreen]] |
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* [[Excessive Steam Syndrome]] |
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* [[Fake Out Fade Out]] |
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* [[Farts On Fire]] |
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* [[Fashion Show]] |
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* [[Fighter Launching Sequence]] |
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* [[First Time in The Sun]] |
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* [[Flag Drop]] |
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* [[Flaming Hair]] |
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* [[Flaunting Your Fleets]] |
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* [[Floorboard Failure]] |
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* [[Franks 2000 Inch TV]] |
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* [[Fungus Humongous]] |
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* [[The Future Is Noir]] |
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* [[Grand Staircase Entrance]] |
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* [[Gratuitous Special Effects]] |
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* [[Great Balls of Fire]] |
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* [[Hand Puppet]] |
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* [[Heart Light]] |
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* [[Hit Flash]] |
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* [[Hollywood Darkness]] |
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* [[Human Cannonball]] |
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* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]] |
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* [[If You Can Read This]] |
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* [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]] |
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* [[Improbable Cover]] |
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* [[Incendiary Exponent]] |
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* [[Instant Runes]] |
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* [[Instant Thunder]] |
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* [[Interesting Situation Duel]] |
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* [[Its Going Down]] |
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* [[Knife Throwing Act]] |
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* [[Man On Fire]] |
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* [[Marked Change]] |
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* [[Mid Air Bobbing]] |
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* [[Monumental Damage]] |
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* [[Monumental Damage Resistance]] |
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* [[Monumental View]] |
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* [[Mood Dissonance]] |
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* [[Motorcycle On the Coast Road]] |
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* [[Mundane Made Awesome]] |
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* [[Muppet]] |
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* [[Musical Number Index]] |
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* [[Natural Spotlight]] |
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* [[Nothing but Skulls]] |
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* [[Nuclear Candle]] |
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* [[Ocean Awe]] |
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* [[Off the Shelf FX]] |
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* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]] |
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* [[One-Woman Wail]] |
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* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]] |
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* [[Pixellation]] |
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* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]] |
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* [[Power Echoes]] |
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* [[Power Floats]] |
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* [[Power Gives You Wings]] |
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* [[Power Glows]] |
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** [[Battle Aura]] |
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*** [[Animal Battle Aura]] |
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** [[Phosphor Essence]] |
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** [[Pillar of Light]] |
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** [[Pre-Explosion Glow]] |
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** [[Sickly Green Glow]] |
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** [[Sphere of Destruction]] |
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** [[Throat Light]] |
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** [[Tron Lines]] |
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* [[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]] |
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* [[Power Makes Your Voice Deep]] |
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* [[The Power of Rock]] |
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* [[Rain of Blood]] |
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* [[Raygun Gothic]] |
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* [[Ring of Fire]] |
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* [[Rockers Smash Guitars]] |
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* [[Rule of Perception]] |
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** [[Behind the Black]] |
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* [[Scenery Porn]] |
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** [[Real Place Background]] |
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** [[Scenery Gorn]] |
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* [[Screen Shake]] |
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* [[Screw the Electric Bill]] |
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* [[Short Lived Aerial Escape]] |
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* [[Siege Engines]] |
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** [[Battering Ram]] |
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* [[Serkis Folk]] |
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* [[Shiny-Looking Spaceships]] |
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* [[Shoot the Money]] |
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* [[Showy Invincible Hero]] |
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* [[Sigil Spam]] |
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* [[Signature Shot]] |
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* [[Sinister Silhouettes]] |
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* [[Skyward Scream]] |
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* [[Slow-Motion Pass-By]] |
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* [[Special Effects]] |
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* [[Special Effects Evolution]] |
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* [[Special Effect Branding]] |
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* [[Special Effect Failure]] |
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* [[Sphere of Power]] |
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* [[Standardized Space Views]] |
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* [[Stanley Steamer Spaceship]] |
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* [[Starring Special Effects]] |
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* [[Stop-Motion Lighting]] |
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* [[Streaming Stars]] |
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]] |
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** [[Every Car Is a Pinto]] |
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** [[Explosive Instrumentation]] |
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** [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]] |
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** [[Made of Explodium]] |
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** [[Pre Explosion Buildup]] |
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** [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]] |
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* [[Summer Blockbuster]] |
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* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]] |
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* [[Swiss Army Tears]] |
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* [[Sword Sparks]] |
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* [[Symbolic Blood]] |
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* [[Taxidermy Terror]] |
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* [[Technology Porn]] |
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* [[Tickertape Parade]] |
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* [[Toppled Statue]] |
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* [[Transformation Sequence]] |
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* [[Trashcan Bonfire]] |
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* [[Unflinching Walk]] |
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* [[Unsound Effect]] |
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* [[Used Future]] |
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* [[Visible Invisibility]] |
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* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]] |
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* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]] |
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* [[Weaponized Landmark]] |
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* [[The World Is Just Awesome]] |
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* [[Worm Sign]] |
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* [[Written Sound Effect]] |
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** [[Unsound Effect]] |
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** [[Written Roar]] |
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* [[You Have to Burn The Web]] |
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* [[Your Head Asplode]] |
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* [[Zeerust]] |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Index Index/Sandbox]] |
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[[Category:Narrative Tropes]] |
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[[Category:Index Index]] |
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[[Category:Tropes]] |
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[[Category:index]] |
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[[Category:Spectacle]] |
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[[Category:Trope]] |
Latest revision as of 21:02, 19 March 2014
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