Tropes meant to draw attention to a particular moment or point. These are especially common for Animated Works and Hammy Characters. See also Painting the Medium.
Tropes:
- Animation Bump
- Bold Inflation: Making important words bold print.
- Extreme Close-Up
- Eyedscreen: A close-up so close, all you see is a character's eyes.
- Finger Framing
- Gross-Up Close-Up: A disgusting close-up to emphasize how gross something is for a joke.
- Hit Flash
- Hit Spark: Attacking something emits spark particles.
- Medium-Shift Gag
- Monochromatic Impact Shot
- Notice This
- Odd-Shaped Panel
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Pausing. Mid. Sentence. Is. Chilling.
- Rainbow Speak: Important words are written in distinct colors.
- Repeat Cut
- Repeated for Emphasis: Saying something twice adds emphasis. Saying something twice adds emphasis!
- Speed Echoes: When something moves extremely fast, it leaves afterimages.
- Spelling for Emphasis: It's C-O-O-L.
- Splash of Color: One brightly colored thing in an otherwise monochrome shot.
- Stop and Go
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Adding "bitch" to the end of a sentence for emphasis.
- Wild Take: An exaggerated cartoonish reaction.
- Written Sound Effect: Writing out sound effects to emphasize an action such as an attack.