Arena concerts are all about this.
All forms of showing off in a work, to wow the audience. Frequently used to set the mood and serve the Rule of Cool.
For example, for Live-Action TV, this includes scenery, 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.
The name comes from Aristotle's 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.
Not to be confused with Glasses Tropes.
See also Garnishing the Story, Opulent Outfits, and Rule of Index.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Abandoned Area
- Body Language
- Breaking And Destruction Tropes
- Camera Tricks
- Celebration Tropes
- Chase Scene
- Dancing Tropes
- Fight Scene
- Heliotropes
- Manga Effects
- Musical Number Index
- Party at My Index
- Personal Appearance Tropes
- Score and Music Tropes
- Sensory Index
- Sound FX Tropes
- Stellar Index
- Stock Visual Metaphors
- Tropes That Go BOOM!
- Weather and Environment
- Action-Hogging Opening
- Alien Sea
- Alien Sky
- All Deserts Have Cacti
- Amazing Technicolor Battlefield
- Artificial Outdoors Display
- Astral Finale
- A Truce While We Gawk
- Awesome Art
- Bad Vibrations
- Battle Amongst the Flames
- Battle in the Rain
- Big Ball of Violence
- The Big Board
- Big Dam Plot
- Billions of Buttons
- Bookshelf Dominoes
- Build Like an Egyptian
- Bullet Sparks
- Burn Baby Burn
- Busby Berkeley Number
- Car Porn
- Cave Mouth
- Chunky Updraft
- Chiaroscuro
- Cobweb Jungle
- Comet of Doom
- Confetti Drop
- Conspicuous CG
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Conspicuously Light Patch
- Construction Is Awesome
- Cool Chair
- Costume Porn
- Cow Tools
- Creation Sequence
- Crystal Spires and Togas
- Desert Skull
- Desolation Shot
- Destination Defenestration
- Dirt Forcefield
- Disaster Dominoes
- Discretion Shot
- Dragons Up the Yin Yang
- Dramatic Landfall Shot
- Dramatic Spotlight
- Editorial Synaesthesia
- E = MC Hammer
- Eiffel Tower Effect
- Empathic Environment
- Epic Movie
- Epileptic Flashing Lights
- Excessive Steam Syndrome
- Every Bullet Is a Tracer
- Everything Makes a Mushroom
- Eyedscreen
- Fake-Out Fade-Out
- Fanfare
- Fantastic Fireworks
- Farts on Fire
- Fashion Show
- Fighter-Launching Sequence
- First Time in the Sun
- Flag Drop
- Flaming Hair
- Flaunting Your Fleets
- Floorboard Failure
- Frank's 2000-Inch TV
- Fungus Humongous
- The Future Is Noir
- Grand Staircase Entrance
- Gratuitous Special Effects
- Great Balls of Fire
- Hand Puppet
- Heart Light
- Hit Flash
- Hollywood Darkness
- Human Cannonball
- Hurl It into the Sun
- If You Can Read This
- Immortal Life Is Cheap
- Improbable Cover
- Incendiary Exponent
- Instant Runes
- Instant Thunder
- Interesting Situation Duel
- It's Going Down
- Knife-Throwing Act
- Made of Incendium
- Man on Fire
- Marked Change
- Midair Bobbing
- Monumental Damage
- Monumental Damage Resistance
- Monumental View
- Mood Dissonance
- Motorcycle on the Coast Road
- Mundane Made Awesome
- Muppet
- Natural Spotlight
- No OSHA Compliance
- Nothing but Skulls
- Nuclear Candle
- Obvious Stunt Double
- Ocean Awe
- Off-the-Shelf FX
- Ominous Multiple Screens
- One-Woman Wail
- Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame
- Pixellation
- Power Dyes Your Hair
- Power Echoes
- Power Floats
- Power Gives You Wings
- Power Glows
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow
- Power Makes Your Voice Deep
- The Power of Rock
- Rain of Blood
- Raygun Gothic
- Ring of Fire
- Rockers Smash Guitars
- The Ruins I Caused
- Rule of Perception
- Scenery Porn
- Screen Shake
- Screw the Electric Bill!
- Short-Lived Aerial Escape
- Siege Engines
- Serkis Folk
- Shiny-Looking Spaceships
- Shoot the Money
- Showy Invincible Hero
- Sigil Spam
- Signature Shot
- Sinister Silhouettes
- Skyward Scream
- Slow-Motion Pass-By
- Special Effects
- Special Effects Evolution
- Special Effect Branding
- Special Effect Failure
- Sphere of Power
- Spoofing in the Rain
- Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
- Standardized Space Views
- Starring Special Effects
- Stop Motion Lighting
- Streaming Stars
- Stuff Blowing Up
- Summer Blockbuster
- Super Move Portrait Attack
- Swiss Army Tears
- Sword Sparks
- Symbolic Blood
- Tainted Veins
- Taxidermy Terror
- Technicolor Death
- Technology Porn
- Tickertape Parade
- Toppled Statue
- Transformation Sequence
- Trashcan Bonfire
- Unflinching Walk
- Unsound Effect
- Used Future
- Visible Invisibility
- Volcanic Veins
- Vomit Discretion Shot
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot
- Weaponized Landmark
- The World Is Just Awesome
- Wormsign
- Written Sound Effect
- You Have to Burn the Web
- Your Head A Splode
- Zeerust
