Spectacle
Basic Information
A Spectacle is a narrative trope that is all about impressing the audience with cool sensory effects. Often the Rule of Cool will take precedence over plausibility.
List of Spectacle Tropes
- Alien Sky
- Bad Vibrations
- Big Ball Of Violence
- Billions Of Buttons
- Bullet Sparks
- Burn Baby Burn
- Conspicuous CG
- Conspicuously Light Patch
- Cow Tools
- Crystal Spires And Togas
- Desolation Shot
- Dirt Forcefield
- Disaster Dominoes
- Discretion Shot
- E Equals MC Hammer
- Fungus Humongous
- The Future Is Noir
- Great Balls Of Fire
- Hand Puppet
- The Hit Flash
- Hollywood Darkness
- If You Can Read This
- Incendiary Exponent
- Instant Runes
- Its Going Down
- Man On Fire
- Marked Change
- Midair Bobbing
- Monumental Damage
- Mood Dissonance
- Muppet
- Nothing But Skulls
- Nuclear Candle
- Off The Shelf FX
- Ominous Multiple Screens
- One Woman Wail
- Pixellation
- Power Echoes
- Power Floats
- Power Gives You Wings
- Power Glows
- The Power Of Rock
- Rain Of Blood
- Ring Of Fire
- Rule Of Perception
- Scenery Porn
- Screen Shake
- Screw The Electric Bill
- Serkis Folk
- Shiny Looking Spaceships
- Shoot The Money
- Slow Motion Pass By
- Special Effects
- Special Effect Branding
- Special Effect Failure
- Standardized Space Views
- Stanley Steamer Spaceship
- Streaming Stars
- Stuff Blowing Up
- Summer Blockbuster
- Swiss Army Tears
- Sword Sparks
- Symbolic Blood
- This Is SPARTA
- Transformation Sequence
- Unflinching Walk
- Unsound Effect
- Used Future
- Vomit Discretion Shot
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome
- Written Sound Effect
- Your Head A Splode
- Zeerust
See Also
- Body Language
- Camera Tricks
- Manga Effects
- Personal Appearance Tropes
- Score And Music Tropes
- Sound FX Tropes
- Stock Visual Metaphors
- Weather And Environment
Sources
Game and Story Use
- Use these to make your scenes more dramatic.
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