Wild Take: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"AAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!"|Pretty much anyone who does a cartoon Wild Take.}}

 

 

For example, say a mouse ran across the kitchen floor. A take would be to jump back, startled. A spit take would be to drop the roast on your feet while shouting. A wild take would be to scream at the top of your lungs and jump high enough to leave a hole in the roof.

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* '''Everywhere''' in ''[[One Piece]]''. You're hard bound to find a chapter that doesn't have one. Bonus to point to Usopp for doing this so much it might as well be his regular face. {{spoiler|Especially once he dons the persona of Sogeking and a mask. The mask completely averts the [[Expressive Mask]], but Usopp's jaw sticks out from below the bottom of the mask so you can still see his wide take.}}

** Averted by Nico Robin (and how). Ever since her introduction in Chapter 114 of the manga, ''she has never had a single wild take. EVER.'' When she and her crewmates see something surprising, they'll have their eyes popping and jaws dropping (Zoro and Nami sometimes have more composed expressions, but they've had their fair share of wild takes), all while Robin has an unexaggerated shocked expression... or even better, [http://www.citymanga.com/one_piece/chapter-442/13/ she'll keep her composure.]

** Dracule Mihawk also averts this trope. He takes surprising news in stride, such as Sengoku revealing the identity of Luffy's father. Most of the people around him are dumbfounded by the news. Mihawk's reaction?

{{quote|'''Mihawk:''' It's hardly surprising at this point.}}

** Also Yukko again and Mio as well after being bit by Mai's dogs.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* A rare live-action example in ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]''. Del and Neal are driving on the wrong side of the motorway at night completely unaware of it until two huge trucks come up either side of them. Their car scrapes up against the two and the pair scream. There is a series of fast cuts between the outside and inside of the car, and at one point we see that both Del and Neal have been replaced by google-eyed skeletons just to elevate the sheer cartoonish shock. This is followed by Neal looking over at Del and seeing him dressed as the devil himself, laughing maniacally. The two end up on the other side, pull the brakes and their suitcases fly off the back of the car and land on the road. Neil's fingertips are embedded in the dashboard and Del has bent the steering wheel.

* ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'', being a live-action cartoon, gets off several, the most extreme probably coming when he exits a city park and turns to find himself confronted with the entire Edge City police department.

* The title character in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is prone to wild takes. Other Toon characters get at least one, including the weasels, Jessica and {{spoiler|Judge Doom}}.

 

 

== [[Television]] ==

* An episode of [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]] featured a game of Unlikely Superheroes, where Colin was Horribly Frightened Of Everything Man. Priceless.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

{{quote|'''Black Mage:''' Hey, Fighter. You've got... ''a giant spider on your face!''

'''Fighter:''' AUGH, GET IT OFF! IT'S IN MY HAIR, IT'S IN MY HAAAAAIIIIR!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS! YOUR SWORDS, AS SHINY AS THEY MAY BE, ARE POWERLESS AGAINST THE SPIDER'S WRATH! THE INVISIBLE SPIDER GOD WILL SMITE US ALL! NO ONE IS SAFE! ALL IS DOOMED! THE BLACK APOCOLYPTIC SKIES RAIN WITH SPIDERY DEATH! WHY HATH YE GODS FORSAKEN US! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! Spiders... all over... can't get them away... ''(THUD!)'' }}

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** In "Night of the Weremole", early in the episode, when he sees a snarling Muriel raiding the refrigerator, he starts screaming, then clutches his chest with a yelp, and collapses. Then it cuts to an ambulance racing across Nowhere, followed by Courage recovering in Dr. Vindaloo's office. Of all the insane things he would go through during the series, that is the one thing that literally gave Courage a heart attack.

** This trope was done to the point that it became a [[Chekhov's Skill]] in one of the last episodes - Courage's panicked yelling is what wound up defeating the villains by causing the ground beneath them to split from the force.

* The Planet of Easily Frightened People on ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' was a [[Planet of Hats]] based around constantly having Wild Takes. ("AHH! Something green! AHHH! Something not green! AHHHH! Air!")

* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Slappy Squirrel was fond of pointing these out while watching her old cartoons; "Ah, wild take no. 32, regular as clockwork. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Wish everything was as regular as clockwork around here]]."

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': "Excuse me sir, I hope my horrible ugliness won't be a distraction to you." "Not at all, boy-[[Memetic Mutation|DEUUEAUGH!"]]

** Most of [[John K]]'s works are pretty much built around this trope.

* [[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]: Larry 'Cheatsy' Koopa does a wild take in the episode 'Gopher Bash'.

* Characters on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' have these in [[Halloween Episode|Treehouse of Horror episodes]] such as Bart and Lisa when they see Itchy and Scratchy about to fire weapons at them or Homer when he sees the hole in the third dimension.

** According to Dr. Hibbert, the medical term for this is called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPe8XFo9Zg Tex Avery Sundrome]."

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': Rocko often did the impressive brain-pops-out-of-the-skull ones, and was surpassed only by ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' at the time in terms of creative and somewhat gory wild takes.

* ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' does this constantly with almost all the characters at some point.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Surprise Tropes]]

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