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{{quote|''"Man, I wish I had swishy lines behind'' me ''when'' I ''did stuff."''|'''Narrator''', A [[Cartoon Network]] ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' spot}}
 
In animated shows, characters moving at high speed often appear in front of a set of moving colored lines -- usually blue background with yellow stripes, although depending on the impact, any color combination may be used. This is usually done because drawing a proper background moving behind the character would require drawing a large background from a camera angle which would only be seen for a split-second. The direction of the lines indicates the direction; if the lines seem to be coming from a central point, then it is because the character is moving toward or away from the screen.
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Examples:
* ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z'' is infamous for this, with characters flying in every direction.
** ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]'', being based on ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z'', also uses this trope heavily when characters are launched and often when they are fighting in midair.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' occasionally uses speed lines when a major character is playing a card.
* Even ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'' (an anime about, well, people playing ''Go'') gets in the act. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]?
* A season 4 ''[[Re Boot]]'' episode makes fun of this, while the characters of Bob and Matrix play a game that combines ''DBZ'' and ''[[Pokémon]]''. Matrix is held in an airborne kick for an extended shot, and it's revealed that he's on wires in front of a speed-striped rolling background.
* The lawyers in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' do this when [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|making particularly forceful arguments]].
** It can become a [[Bigger Stick]] if the two lawyers pull these off back and forth in quick succession. One example:
{{quote| Edgeworth: *[[Speed Stripes]]* "Can you prove that? I THINK NOT!" <br />
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* Referenced in this ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip "[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=721 Speed Lines Equal INTENSITY]".
* Used in ''[[Speed Racer]]''. And the 2008 live-action film actually replicated this effect.
* ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' would use this on occasion.
* Even [[The Simpsons]] is guilty of this, while Marge is chasing Snake through the city in The Springfield Connection.
** The opening credits when shown in full seem to contain an example but when watched frame by frame the quick pan across their lawn is actually filled with people.
* ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]]'' did this in an unusual way, using ''three-dimensional'' speed lines. In many cases, the background could be glimpsed in gaps between them.
* Used by [[Questionable Content]] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1463\] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1485\] and elsewhere.
* The ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' Intro.
* The ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' series uses these.
* The ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' series, whenever you activate the Mach Speed VFX.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib096.html Dara to the rescue].
* In the later episodes of the first season of [[Weiss Kreuz]], the animation budget was so low that sometimes even fast camera pans would make everything devolve into speed stripes for a second. As an example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], it actually looked pretty awesome.
* In the third episode of season two of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], Rainbow Dash has these behind her when she's destroying Applejack's old barn.
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' often uses this, usually multiple times in one episode. For example, "It Came from the Nightosphere" had speed stripes when Gunther was thrown, [[It Makes Sense in Context|Marceline unleashed the Finn bomb, and her father flicked Finn in the butt without his consent. ]]
 
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