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Big Red Button
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The activation control of choice for any truly powerful weapon or effect, usually located dead center on the control console, sometimes under a molly-guard. It's usually colored red, as a hazard warning. Pressing the Big Red Button activates the function of a given machine that is important to the plot, be it firing the superweapon, activating the Self-Destruct Mechanism, or emergency shutdown. In live action, this will often be the only control big enough to make out on camera. In animation, this will often be the only control, period. (At least the only one that's not painted on the background layer.) Sometimes, it's used as an excellent piece of Schmuck Bait to lure someone into a trap by making it Forbidden Fruit; tell someone not to press it, list all the negative side effects it will cause and all the terrible consequences if they do press it, and you can almost guarantee they will press it. Of course, if you don't tell them about it, they might walk right up to it and discover by experimentation the answer to the question "What Does This Button Do?" Almost every piece of factory equipment or free-standing power tool sold in the real world has an actual Big Red Button. It is always an emergency shutdown or power disconnect, intended to save the life of the operator or bystanders by stopping the machine in a big hurry. In nuclear reactors, this is referred to as a SCRAM Switch (quite the meaningful name, due to the incredibly strong urge to run like hell away from the malfunctioning nuclear reactor). It is not, however, found in real-world examples of certain weapons. There are several common things which pushing the big red button may do, including initiating the Self-Destruct Sequence, activating the Ejection Seat, using the Nitro Boost, sounding the Red Alert, and launching a missile, rocket, or air strike. It may also be there to confuse people infiltrating the secret base and it will immediately cause the pusher of the button to fall into a trap. Or it may do absolutely nothing. Compare Big Electric Switch. See also Plot-Sensitive Button, What Does This Button Do?, and Caps Lock, Num Lock, Missiles Lock. Not to be confused with the game company that developed the infamous Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Or with the late actor and comedian Red Buttons. Examples |
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Later seasons of Supermarket Sweep featured these on the bottom of television monitors located throughout the store; finding one and hitting the button revealed a clue to the bonus item located in the store. (Originally, the monitors were touchscreens.) | |
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Played with quite elaborately in The Penguins of Madagascar episode "Tagged." While confined due to electronic bracelets, the penguins enlist the lemurs' help in fixing a heating/cooling unit that they had started to work on before being confined. Seven buttons appear before the three lemurs, each button an almost-imperceptible shade of red (ruby, brick, crimson, scarlet, etc.). Kowalski instructs the lemurs that they are supposed to press only the scarlet button, which leads to King Julien and Maurice arguing over which one is scarlet. King Julien starts to play eenie-meenie-minie-moe, until Mort, The Chew Toy of the group, pads up and presses a button at random. | |
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Megas XLR. Coop's Big Red Button. Its label and effect would change depending on the situation, like when Coop yells "Maybe you'll like this better, then!", the button is actually labeled "This Better Then". He even has a button labeled "Big Red Button of Irony". A couple episodes draw attention to this, in fact. One episode had the button marked "Five Minutes Until End of Episode," activating a brand-new power that saves the day. Another episode had Coop use it twice, for two different results. The second time, it's labeled "The Exact Same Button Coop Used Like Five Minutes Ago." And then there's "The Button That Does The Same Thing As The Other Button" button. Still better, Megas does, in fact, have a "Save the World" button (right under "Destroy the World", "Smite the World", and "Destroy the World Worse".) But it's been removed. He also has a button that is simply titled "The Button", which has the following warning posted around it: "Danger", "Do Not Touch", "This Means You!", and "Never ever press!". Said button launches an arsenal of nukes from Megas, though Kiva stops him from using it (to which he replies "What's the point of having nukes if I never get to use them?") |
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Kamen Rider Fourze has the Cosmic Switch, which activates Fourze's Super Mode. | |
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Zero Time Dilemma has one of these as a round in the decision game. Stuck inside the healing room, Sigma, Phi, and Diana come across a big button with "Warning: Do not touch this button" flashing around it. While Phi's of the opinion that they obviously shouldn't press it, Sigma's persistent about doing the opposite of what Zero's telling them to do. It's ultimately up to Diana, aka the player, to decide whether to press it. Pressing the button results in the entire facility blowing up. Wait for around a minute, and the room's door unlocks letting the three get out. | |
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Episode six of the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? had a challenge with this labeled "Do not touch", though it didn't actually do anything. Some of the superheroes actually pressed the buttons thinking it was the method to win the challenge (to save the world, or a model of it anyway). | |
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In an episode of The Pretender, Miss Parker and Mr. Lyle are investigating one of Jarod's "lairs" (a shipping container) when they see a Big Red Button with a sign saying "DANGER - DO NOT PUSH" in Jarod's handwriting. Parker tells Lyle not to push it, saying it's probably a trap. Lyle pushes it...and it IS a trap. In the "lair", there's also a red lever marked "DANGER - DO NOT PULL". After the experience with the Big Red Button, Parker is understandably reluctant to pull it...until the container arrives at The Centre and Broots reads a note that tells them to pull the lever. Parker pulls it...and the container unlocks. | |
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Munchkin has "The most fiendish trap of all!" It's this. The problem is, apparently, not pressing it. Everybody who gets it must. | |
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In Rocketship Voyager, the eponymous rocketship is a contraterrene-powered torchship. In one scene the Chief Engineer has his hand on a red-lit lever which will eject the entire Cochrane Drive if needed, but knows that if the electromagnetic fields falter for so much as a microsecond, they'd all be obliterated before he could even think of pulling it. | |
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Deconstructed in Heathers, where the time bomb has three red buttons. The reason isn't given but we can assume they are meant to complicate a defusing. | |
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Gaia Online randomly shows an enormous red button on its main page. It's actually a good button; it directs newcomers to the sign-in page, so they want people to get tempted and click it. | |
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In Bleak Expectations, Harry Biscuit accidentally pushes the big self-destruct button in Mr. Gently Benevolent's evil volcano base. When questioned, Benevolent shrugs and says it just seemed like something he should have. (And he probably should have put a cover on it.) | |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, The Riddler put an Explosive Leash on Catwoman to force Batman to participate in his latest challenges. The Riddler will at one point reveal the detonator for it is a big red button. He then feels the need to clarify that it didn't need to be (he is intelligent enough to remember which button does what thank you), but he couldn't resist. | |
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At the end of Osmosis Jones, Mayor Phlegming has been voted out of office (or possibly impeached and forcibly removed) following Frank's Near-Death Experience. He gets demoted to working in Frank's colon as a street cleaner, and comes across a Big Red Button. He wonders what it does, and presses it. This results in him being expelled from Frank's body via a fart. | |
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In The Whiteboard, Roger stumbles across one of these (aptly labeled "For the love of God, do NOT press this button!") in Doc's shop. He can't stop pressing it, with various responses suggested by TWB fans. It makes a return as a last ditch effort to change Doc and Roger back to themselves after launching fireworks. | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space Annika-709 produces a Long List of security flaws in the Supervillain Lair, concluding with the Self-Destruct Mechanism being activated by a highly-visible red button. Invoked when the supervillain activates his Doomsday Device. "Focus the beams! Press the Big Red Button!" |
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From the Donkey Kong Country episode "The Big Chill Out": | |
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In the companion short film, BURN-E accidentally pushes one in another pod, which turns out to be its launch button. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob hooks an atomic bomb up to one of these. Lisa and Bart barges in as he is tracing his finger around the button. Lisa objects, saying: "Don't you see? That would be taking the easy way out!", to which he replies "I agree!" and presses it. The bomb turns out to be a dud. | |
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In Ali G Indahouse, after pseudo gangsta Ali G becomes a member of Parliament, he asks the Prime Minister to see the red button for the nukes. After the PM shows it to him he pretends to slip and fall on the button. | |
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Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure: Subverted. Kazuki pushes a big red button that he thinks will activate the machine which will prevent the two alternate realities from destroying each other. Turns out, the button actually did nothing and the machine was instead activated by Mitsuki leaning against a lever on the machine. This turns out to have an affect on the third world that gets created by putting up a situation where Kazuki appears to be destined to end up with all three of her romantic rivals as well as her. | |
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Douglas Fargo of Eureka is incapable of going by a big red button without pushing it. This has become a running joke. | |
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In the Blake and Mortimer story "SOS Meteors", there is such a button standing out in the control panel of the Big Bad's base. Mortimer wonders what it does multiple times, before accidentally pushing it. It is the Self-Destruct Sequence. | |
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Lampshaded in a strip of Ah! My Goddess where Skuld writes under a Big Red Button "don't push." Urd wants to push it because it's stated not to do so. Skuld finally writes "push it" to prevent her sister from using it. It ends with Belldandy (whose personality is markedly different from Urd's) pushing the button. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "Design for Leaving", Daffy Duck equips Elmer Fudd's home with "time-saving gadgets" operated from a push-button control panel. The panel includes one Big Red Button which Daffy warns him to never touch. At the end of the cartoon, curiosity gets the better of Elmer and he pushes it. A display lights up reading "IN CASE OF TIDAL WAVE", and the entire house rises up hundreds of feet over the ground. Daffy arrives by helicopter and says "For a small price, I can install this little blue button to get you down." | |
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The Imagination Station in Adventures in Odyssey activates at the press of "The Red Button". It was changed to "The Flashing White Button" for one episode due to the machine having been rebuilt but it has been "The Red Button" ever since. | |
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Hey You! What If...: In "You Could Levitate?", there is a big red button that Ziggy presses repeatedly on the device that allows him to increase the Earth's magnetic field. He keeps pressing it until the Earth's magnetic field is 1,000,000 times stronger. | |
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One such button can be found in each of three later factory levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns. You must find and activate all three to open the rocket level that leads to the world's boss. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown, pressing these is how you cause changes in the levels to happen so that they become possible to clear, and also how you save your game. | |
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An episode of The Outer Limits (1995) inverts this, with several people in silos tasked to push a Big Red Button (after completing a retina and handprint scan) to STOP the world from blowing up, making it a Dead Man's Switch. | |
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Liberal Crime Squad allows you to push a "big red button" in a nuclear power plant to release waste into the environment. The catch is you need a character with the right skill to push the big red button. | |
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Invoked in Aqua Teen Hunger Force when Frylock fiddles with the control panel of the Plutonians' spaceship to try to beam himself back to Earth. | |
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In Resident Evil (2002), there's a Big Red Button in the subway car that opens and closes the door in the floor. | |
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Steel Battalion has a Big Red Button with a flip-up plastic cover and yellow diagonal stripes to trigger the Ejection Seat. Failing to use it before your VT explodes or floods will result in a deleted save game. | |
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Steel Battalion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3a4e94f0 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3a4e94f0 | comment |
In Madballs: Escape from Orb, Freakella correctly guesses that this is the button to press in order to start Aargh and Slobulous's ship: | |
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Madballs | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3b11106f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3b11106f | comment |
Flash Gordon (1980): Hans Zarkov's spaceship has a Big Red launch button. | |
Big Red Button / int_3b11106f | featureApplicability |
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Flash Gordon (1980) | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3bf4b641 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3bf4b641 | comment |
As in the novel, Ready Player One (2018) features a Big Red Button that will permanently shut down the OASIS and delete all its content. Unlike the novel, in the film version Wade is accessing the OASIS from the back of a speeding van when he is given access to the button — the van's wild maneuvering nearly sends him careening straight into it. | |
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Ready Player One (2018) | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3c16210b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3c16210b | comment |
In DC Comics Presents #59: Superman and the Legion of Substitute Heroes, it provides a trap for Ambush Bug. They provide the Superman Museum with just two signs in 20th century English instead of Interlac. One is a KEEP OUT. The other is the DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON sign on the Phantom Zone projector. Of course, Ambush Bug enters the room and pushes the button. | |
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DC Comics Presents (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3c16210b | |
Big Red Button / int_3c53ffa8 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3c53ffa8 | comment |
In the Rush 2010 Time Machine Tour, every show opened with a very funny short video featuring Gershon (Geddy Lee), Slobovitch (Alex Lifeson) and cop O'Malley (Neil Peart). In the video, Herr Slobovitz activates the "Gefilter", a contraption designed to improve the sound of the bar band playing at Gershon's Haus of Sausage. The device has a BIG OL' red button with a TIME MACHINE label, which is accidentally pressed. Watch the results here. | |
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Rush (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3c53ffa8 | |
Big Red Button / int_3e96b159 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3e96b159 | comment |
In Cats Don't Dance, Darla Dimple finds all her other efforts to ruin the animals' big musical number flummoxed by way of her being the villain of the picture. Then, she throws a Big Red Button (er...switch) bigger than she is, labelled "Granddaddy of All Switches"...which sets off all manner of fantastic special effects, making the performance that much more spectacular.note It's made even funnier by the fact that Darla herself previously advised the heroes to make their performance "big and loud", which is exactly what she makes it become when pulling the switch. | |
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Cats Don't Dance | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3ebe3723 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3ebe3723 | comment |
The Demented Cartoon Movie has a whole bunch of Big Red Buttons, most of which cause Stuff Blowing Up. One of the two that blows up the world is clearly labeled with a picture of an Earth-Shattering Kaboom (and Blah Guy presses it anyway), and the other is unseen because "the animator got lazy." | |
Big Red Button / int_3ebe3723 | featureApplicability |
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The Demented Cartoon Movie (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3ebe3723 | |
Big Red Button / int_3ee92dfe | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3ee92dfe | comment |
In an episode of Watch My Chops, when Bernie has to demonstrate a hydrogen fuel machine that's controlled with multiple buttons, Corneil states to Bernie the machine activates with the white button and warns him to never press the purple button. Unsurprisingly, Bernie screws up the demonstration, claiming the machine is flawed and proceeds to press the purple button, blowing the machine and demolishing much of the school. | |
Big Red Button / int_3ee92dfe | featureApplicability |
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Watch My Chops | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_3f10d191 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3f10d191 | comment |
The Jackbox Party Pack 6: The eponymous button in "Push the Button" is a big red button at the bottom of your playscreen. If a player thinks they know who the alien(s) are (or an alien player thinks they've sown enough distrust to trick the other players), they can hold down the button in order to pick players to be Thrown Out the Airlock, which the other players will have to vote on unanimously. | |
Big Red Button / int_3f10d191 | featureApplicability |
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The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3f10d191 | |
Big Red Button / int_3f20192e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3f20192e | comment |
Moonraker. To stop the Centrifugal Gravity on Drax's space station, Bond flips up a red molly-guard cover and presses the black button underneath. | |
Big Red Button / int_3f20192e | featureApplicability |
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Moonraker | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3f20192e | |
Big Red Button / int_3f5f4ea2 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_3f5f4ea2 | comment |
In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Dr. Evil's lair has a button that, when pressed, aborts the nuclear-armed probe that will cause all of the world's volcanoes to erupt simultaneously. | |
Big Red Button / int_3f5f4ea2 | featureApplicability |
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Austin Powers | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_3f5f4ea2 | |
Big Red Button / int_42c05590 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_42c05590 | comment |
In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Power Trip", Rocko's Bad Boss, Mr. Smitty, goes out of town for a hair transplant, and leaves Rocko (his only employee) in charge, giving him the keys to the manager's office. He cryptically warns Rocko "Don't touch the green button." Rocko gets into the manager's office, and enjoys playing around with all the functions on Mr. Smitty's chair. He presses a pink button, which plays music and makes bubbles... and finds himself tempted by The Green Button. He decides to chance it and presses it. It starts off as an intense massage function... but it eventually causes Rocko to turn into a Bad Boss just like Mr. Smitty. | |
Big Red Button / int_42c05590 | featureApplicability |
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Rocko's Modern Life | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_42ffb88e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_42ffb88e | comment |
SCP Foundation: This joke SCP entry. Hilariously justified in that the button itself is semi-sentient and sends out a mild psychic signal, compelling people to press it. | |
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SCP Foundation (Website) | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_44127c7c | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_44127c7c | comment |
Power Rangers: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Lord Zedd brings out Serpenterra (a spacegoing, especially humongous Humongous Mecha) every so often. The planet-wrecking Wave-Motion Gun was triggered by a Big Red Button. Played for Laughs in The Movie: the Humongous Mecha has a Big Red Button behind a pane of glass that must be broken, with a sign that says "For Emergency Use Only." Turns out it causes the mecha to knee an opponent in the groin. Played for coolness in Power Rangers Ninja Storm: The computer at Ninja Ops has a normal keyboard, with the addition of a huge button with the Wind Ninja Academy logo in red, which Mission Control always jabs emphatically to send the gadget he'd prepared via Rapid-Fire Typing. |
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Power Rangers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_44fe781e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_44fe781e | comment |
Neon Genesis Evangelion has one of these, and it might be one of the more realistic things in the series in that it's an emergency shutdown switch for the Eva. Not that it ever seems to help. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_44fe781e | |
Big Red Button / int_468bebb0 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Lampshaded heavily in Discworld where it is explained that no matter what a big red button always attracts attention and that even if you tell everyone the dire consequences of pressing it and putting up a sign to warn them off, someone is going to press it just to see what it does. Especially if they're a wizard. | |
Big Red Button / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_468bebb0 | |
Big Red Button / int_468da18e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_468da18e | comment |
Subverted in Steve And Carlos where Carlos leads Steve to believe he's fallen for this trope, when really the big red button he pushed was the fire alarm. | |
Big Red Button / int_468da18e | featureApplicability |
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Steve And Carlos (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_468da18e | |
Big Red Button / int_480ec6f0 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_480ec6f0 | comment |
Bonkers lampshaded this trope after a criminal toon told Bonkers not to push a very obviously hazardous-to-himself-and-his-human-partner big shiny red button, citing that it's a built-in rule for cartoon characters to push big red buttons once it's pointed out - making it a literal Rule of Funny. | |
Big Red Button / int_480ec6f0 | featureApplicability |
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Bonkers | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_4937d0d9 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4937d0d9 | comment |
In Sins of a Solar Empire, the TEC Starbase can be upgraded to have the big red button. With the second level of this, the starbase explodes in a sizable area (More than the range of most attackers), causing enough damage to kill all but high leveled, full HP capital ships. | |
Big Red Button / int_4937d0d9 | featureApplicability |
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Sins of a Solar Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4937d0d9 | |
Big Red Button / int_49ad83ee | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_49ad83ee | comment |
World of Warcraft: In the Ulduar raid dungeon, mechagnome boss Mimiron has one of these, conveniently labeled "DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON", that sets off his lair's self destruct mechanism. If you defeat him after activating it, you get more loot. However, it also covers half the room with fire, causes him to go into a frenzy that increases the damage of all of his attacks, gives him several methods of combating said fires that also hurt you if you happen to be in the wrong place, and finally, places a timer on how long you have to kill him before the room goes kablooey. Good luck. He's not happy about it, either. There's another one in a newbie questchain for goblins to destroy an oil rig. Oh, and this button is VERY BIG! (Also very red. And the character comments on it.) |
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Big Red Button / int_49ad83ee | featureApplicability |
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World of Warcraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_49ad83ee | |
Big Red Button / int_4b790c79 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4b790c79 | comment |
In Iron Man, Tony Stark activates the untested flight system for the Mark I to fly away from the terrorist camp by punching the big red button on his arm. | |
Big Red Button / int_4b790c79 | featureApplicability |
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Iron Man | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4b790c79 | |
Big Red Button / int_4be3aedd | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4be3aedd | comment |
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Lord Zedd brings out Serpenterra (a spacegoing, especially humongous Humongous Mecha) every so often. The planet-wrecking Wave-Motion Gun was triggered by a Big Red Button. Played for Laughs in The Movie: the Humongous Mecha has a Big Red Button behind a pane of glass that must be broken, with a sign that says "For Emergency Use Only." Turns out it causes the mecha to knee an opponent in the groin. |
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Big Red Button / int_4be3aedd | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_4be3aedd | featureConfidence |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4be3aedd | |
Big Red Button / int_4c6bb7c5 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4c6bb7c5 | comment |
The plot of Stay Tooned! gets kicked off when the player pushes a red button on their remote control, which many of the Toons warn you not to push. Doing so causes the toons to jump out of your TV and steal the remote, "tooning" the apartment building you're in while this happens. Naturally, the goal is to find the remote and send the Toons back home. | |
Big Red Button / int_4c6bb7c5 | featureApplicability |
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Stay Tooned! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4c6bb7c5 | |
Big Red Button / int_4cc7ca61 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4cc7ca61 | comment |
In Future War 198X the Minister of Defense ignores orders and presses the large red button, which launches a massive second wave assault. Miami, New York City, Chicago, and Tokyo are all destroyed and from space the earth turns red. | |
Big Red Button / int_4cc7ca61 | featureApplicability |
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Future War 198X | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4cc7ca61 | |
Big Red Button / int_4da4f10d | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4da4f10d | comment |
Work It Out Wombats!: In "Secret Tunnels," Zeke finds a big red button in the secret tunnels, but Super tells him not to touch it, since it will melt everyone's ice cream. | |
Big Red Button / int_4da4f10d | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_4da4f10d | featureConfidence |
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Work It Out Wombats! | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4da4f10d | |
Big Red Button / int_4f14e537 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4f14e537 | comment |
The New Adventures of Invader Zim: In the first chapter, it's shown that Dib's Spittle Runner (formerly Tak's) has one of these that Dib thinks activates the weapons systems. It's actually an emergency brake. A later chapter shows one of these on the control panel for the City Cesspool, which triggers an emergency purge that dumps the cesspool's contents into the sewer system. |
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Big Red Button / int_4f14e537 | featureApplicability |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4f14e537 | |
Big Red Button / int_4f1f3628 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_4f1f3628 | comment |
The Suite Life Movie averts this - A Big Red Button is seen as the Big Bad moves to initialize Stage Four of the Gemini Project - only to be pushed aside while a smaller button on a keychain is pushed. | |
Big Red Button / int_4f1f3628 | featureApplicability |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_4f1f3628 | |
Big Red Button / int_510974b4 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_510974b4 | comment |
In one episode of Johnny Test, Dukey tries to constantly edge Johnny away from pushing said button, mainly because more often than not, said Big Red Button tends to cause the trouble that they have to stop. This is the one time where pushing the red button actually saves the day. | |
Big Red Button / int_510974b4 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_510974b4 | featureConfidence |
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Johnny Test | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_510974b4 | |
Big Red Button / int_5178149f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5178149f | comment |
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The Joker gets to ride in the Batmobile during an Enemy Mine, and is in full What Does This Button Do? mode, with Batman repeatedly telling him not to touch anything. He spots a Big Red Button, which Batman warns him he really doesn't want to touch. He touches it — and gets hit in the face with knock-out gas. It's like Bats read the Evil Overlord List example at the top of the page and made it non-lethal. The Joker highlights this trope again during The Teaser, only this time it's a Self-Destruct Mechanism, which results in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. | |
Big Red Button / int_5178149f | featureApplicability |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5178149f | |
Big Red Button / int_527a5949 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_527a5949 | comment |
In Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, the firing button for the God Phoenix's bird missiles is big and red and Condor Joe, being the team's gunner, just loves to push it. To emphasize that, the button has a glass cover that retracts when the missile system is armed, but sometimes Joe doesn't wait and punches through it to push the button. | |
Big Red Button / int_527a5949 | featureApplicability |
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_527a5949 | |
Big Red Button / int_568d13a | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_568d13a | comment |
In the first installment of The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, Timmy Turner's given a teleporter back to his room that takes the form of this and Jimmy Neutron accidentally presses it, sending him to Timmy's universe and leaving Timmy free to wreak his usual brand of havoc in his. | |
Big Red Button / int_568d13a | featureApplicability |
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The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_568d13a | |
Big Red Button / int_56dce3c1 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_56dce3c1 | comment |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Rocket builds a nuclear weapon with two Big Red Buttons. They are right next to each other and look identical. One will start a five-minute countdown, the other will trigger instant detonation. This causes problems when Baby Groot is the only one who can plant the bomb but is unable to tell the difference. Rocket gets extremely frustrated trying to explain the concept in the middle of a battle. | |
Big Red Button / int_56dce3c1 | featureApplicability |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_56dce3c1 | |
Big Red Button / int_58990424 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_58990424 | comment |
Ratchet & Clank (2002) had a level that took place in a spaceship. On the console in the bridge is a big red button. What makes this more notable than most is the fact that the Action Command when you approach it is, word for word, "Press the big red shiny button?" It's the self-destruct. It's also a Shout-Out, and proves that the Insomniacs watched The Ren & Stimpy Show. | |
Big Red Button / int_58990424 | featureApplicability |
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Ratchet & Clank (2002) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_58990424 | |
Big Red Button / int_5a0093 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5a0093 | comment |
The Price Is Right features them in several pricing games, including ten of them serving as the reveal mechanism for "Ten Chances" and the method of stopping the range finder on "Range Game". | |
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The Price Is Right | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5a0093 | |
Big Red Button / int_5ab7ccaf | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5ab7ccaf | comment |
In Ready Player One, whoever controls the OASIS has access to a Big Red Button that will shut it down... permanently. | |
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Ready Player One | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button / int_5ada53ed | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5ada53ed | comment |
Speaking of synths, Waldorf's trademark design element was a Big Red Knob for data entry. This tradition wasn't dropped before the Blofeld. | |
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James Bond | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5ada53ed | |
Big Red Button / int_5b8afa32 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5b8afa32 | comment |
In GaoGaiGar, Final Fusion is initiated with one of these. While it, like the Gatchaman example above, has a glass cover over it that can, presumably, be flipped up with relative ease, Mikoto never bothers to do so, instead always opting to smash her fist right down through it. In one episode, Mikoto is out of action, leaving Swan to engage Final Fusion instead...she, too, opts for the fist-smashing-through-glass option. You gotta wonder how many of those little glass panels they go through in a month. |
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GaoGaiGar | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5b8afa32 | |
Big Red Button / int_5c208620 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5c208620 | comment |
Superman: The Animated Series: In "World's Finest", the Joker is flying Lex Luthor's jet and trying to shoot down the heroes. He asks Lex (whom he has tied up and is about to murder) for help: | |
Big Red Button / int_5c208620 | featureApplicability |
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Superman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5c208620 | |
Big Red Button / int_5c28fa93 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_5c28fa93 | comment |
Please, Don't Touch Anything has you in an empty room with a big red button and a monitor of a large city. You can guess what happens when you start messing with stuff. | |
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Please, Don't Touch Anything (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_5c28fa93 | |
Big Red Button / int_60570997 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_60570997 | comment |
In S.S.D.D. the fission reactor on the Britannia had a "scram" button that stopped it dead, unfortunately the Inlay that sabotaged it ripped that button out before the protagonists had the chance to press it. | |
Big Red Button / int_60570997 | featureApplicability |
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S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_60570997 | |
Big Red Button / int_60996c02 | type |
Big Red Button | |
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Lampshaded in Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Spider-man points the big red button they must press to save the day. Why? Because in films, it's always the big red one. | |
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Spider-Man: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_60996c02 | |
Big Red Button / int_61d4e874 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_61d4e874 | comment |
In Conker's Bad Fur Day, the weak point of the Haybot boss is a Big Red Button on his back. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_61d4e874 | |
Big Red Button / int_6250d2c3 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6250d2c3 | comment |
College Roomies from Hell!!!: Link. | |
Big Red Button / int_6250d2c3 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_6250d2c3 | featureConfidence |
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College Roomies from Hell!!! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6250d2c3 | |
Big Red Button / int_65790110 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_65790110 | comment |
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening gets the game rolling with this trope. The titular protagonist pays a visit to the factory that apparently is responsible for the world's weather, with the intent to stop the thunderstorms that have been creeping him out so much. He gets an explanation that enlightens his viewpoint almost right off the bat, but he trips on his cape, causing him to fly into and press a giant red button on the control panel; said button inexplicably causes partial destruction of the factory. Sam ends up with the responsibility of locating the missing parts, a task that covers the rest of the game. | |
Big Red Button / int_65790110 | featureApplicability |
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Pajama Sam (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_65790110 | |
Big Red Button / int_6744d821 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6744d821 | comment |
The Owl House: In "Enchanting Grom Fright", Luz pokes around in the Hexside gym while they're setting up for Grom. There, she sees a big red button on a plinth and gleefully gives in to the temptation to press it. It reveals an arena hidden under the gym and racks of weapons, and while Luz thinks they're just more decorations ("Medieval torture seems like a weird theme for Grom, but... eh!") it turns out they're part of a ritual where the Grom Royalty has to fight a ferocious monster. | |
Big Red Button / int_6744d821 | featureApplicability |
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The Owl House | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6744d821 | |
Big Red Button / int_691be369 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_691be369 | comment |
The X-Files: This was played completely straight, with lots of unintentional humor, in "First Person Shooter", where a video game development company had a literal big red button to erase all data on their computers. In real life people go to great lengths to have backups, especially when developing something as expensive and work-intensive as a game, but apparently in that universe accidental evil Artificial Intelligences with physics-breaking abilities are an ever-present threat that justify installing a big red bankruptcy button. | |
Big Red Button / int_691be369 | featureApplicability |
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The X-Files | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_691be369 | |
Big Red Button / int_694ab80 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_694ab80 | comment |
In Batman Beyond, Bruce has a big red button to remotely shut down the Batsuit in case it ever ended up in the wrong hands. He uses it in the two-part pilot episode "Rebirth" after Terry steals the suit, and again in "Lost Soul" to freeze the suit after it is taken over by a hostile AI. | |
Big Red Button / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
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Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_694ab80 | |
Big Red Button / int_6952ee85 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6952ee85 | comment |
In AdventureQuest, the Big Red Button is an armor, which deals five times normal damage at the cost of losing 100 HP. | |
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AdventureQuest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6952ee85 | |
Big Red Button / int_69d15cc0 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_69d15cc0 | comment |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man, Tony Stark activates the untested flight system for the Mark I to fly away from the terrorist camp by punching the big red button on his arm. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Rocket builds a nuclear weapon with two Big Red Buttons. They are right next to each other and look identical. One will start a five-minute countdown, the other will trigger instant detonation. This causes problems when Baby Groot is the only one who can plant the bomb but is unable to tell the difference. Rocket gets extremely frustrated trying to explain the concept in the middle of a battle. |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_69d15cc0 | |
Big Red Button / int_6a3f27 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6a3f27 | comment |
Nuclear War comes with printed mats for organising one's cards. They have a flavour illustration of a button, with THE BUTTON - PRESS TO TEST written beneath it. | |
Big Red Button / int_6a3f27 | featureApplicability |
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Nuclear War (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6a3f27 | |
Big Red Button / int_6b3cfe38 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6b3cfe38 | comment |
Bob and George: George uses a Big Red Button to lower the not-yet-activated X's pod so that X's body can be placed back into it without Dr. Light seeing, and then uses the button again to raise the pod back in place, with X in it. George's "manipulation" of the control is a shot at Dr. Light for putting him in a single button-operated time suit with overly complex controls in a previous arc (not a red button, but a big and important one nonetheless). There's also a Big Red Button inside Mega Man's mind to activate his router. |
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Big Red Button / int_6b3cfe38 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_6b3cfe38 | featureConfidence |
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Bob and George (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6b3cfe38 | |
Big Red Button / int_6eece11b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6eece11b | comment |
In Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, all of the four races have a speed boost on their ships. The Orkish speed boost takes the form of a big red button that gives the ship much more massive speed boost than that of either of the two human factions, and can't be shut off until it runs out of fuel. | |
Big Red Button / int_6eece11b | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_6eece11b | featureConfidence |
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6eece11b | |
Big Red Button / int_6f70ad52 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_6f70ad52 | comment |
Wasteland 2 has a big red button that, when pressed, causes the screen to shake. It opens up another area, with a man named Aaron Chewitt and another button. Pressing this button causes Aaron to panic but does nothing else. The entire thing is a pun - Aaron Chewitt is the real name of comedian Red Buttons. | |
Big Red Button / int_6f70ad52 | featureApplicability |
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Wasteland (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_6f70ad52 | |
Big Red Button / int_7038c36b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_7038c36b | comment |
Danger 5: Used to activate Stalin's Doomsday Device, and the Ejection Seats on Danger 5's prop-driven fighter planes. | |
Big Red Button / int_7038c36b | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_7038c36b | featureConfidence |
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Danger 5 | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_7038c36b | |
Big Red Button / int_708ae58b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_708ae58b | comment |
Subverted in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, with the shiny button that decorates the keyboard of Jyrras' main computer. | |
Big Red Button / int_708ae58b | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_708ae58b | featureConfidence |
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_708ae58b | |
Big Red Button / int_70b7f8 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_70b7f8 | comment |
On The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore evidently has one for "science emergencies", such as rappers trying to "prove" the world is flat, that instantly summons Neil deGrasse Tyson. | |
Big Red Button / int_70b7f8 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_70b7f8 | featureConfidence |
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The Nightly Show | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_70b7f8 | |
Big Red Button / int_71818a80 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_71818a80 | comment |
The button used for the "Cash or Clunkers" game on the current incarnation of Let's Make a Deal. | |
Big Red Button / int_71818a80 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_71818a80 | featureConfidence |
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Let's Make a Deal | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_71818a80 | |
Big Red Button / int_727259ac | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_727259ac | comment |
The Ren & Stimpy Show: "Space Madness" ends with Ren ordering Stimpy to guard the History Eraser Button, "The jolly, candy-like button!" Stimpy eventually caves in to the pressure of the voice-over announcer◊ and pushes the button,◊ erasing himself, Ren, and the narrator from history. In "Stimpy's Fan Club", Ren has an Imagine Spot of being president of the United States. He's seen arguing with someone on the phone, shouting "What do you mean you don't agree with me?! Do you know who you're dealing with?!", and pushing a Big Red Button that blows up Australia. |
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Big Red Button / int_727259ac | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_727259ac | featureConfidence |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_727259ac | |
Big Red Button / int_73d7930f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_73d7930f | comment |
As in the Evil Overlord List, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel Valhalla had Bashir push a big red button on an abandoned alien ship, only to have one of the other characters tell him about a race which wires up its big red obvious buttons to a fatal electric shock to prevent exactly this situation. | |
Big Red Button / int_73d7930f | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_73d7930f | featureConfidence |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_73d7930f | |
Big Red Button / int_73e23cc7 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_73e23cc7 | comment |
The Key of Awesome's Space Girl is trying to Abandon Ship, but her ship's computer keeps debating the issue. Space Girl threatens to use the Manual Override, and we're shown a bank of red-knobbed levers labelled with everything from SELF DESTRUCT to PULL IF COMPUTER IS IN DENIAL. | |
Big Red Button / int_73e23cc7 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_73e23cc7 | featureConfidence |
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The Key of Awesome (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_73e23cc7 | |
Big Red Button / int_77c95fb8 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_77c95fb8 | comment |
In the Young Samson and Goliath episode "The Dome", the title villain tries to push a red button that will launch nuclear missiles against six targets, but Samson has Goliath destroy the button with his power beams. | |
Big Red Button / int_77c95fb8 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_77c95fb8 | featureConfidence |
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Young Samson and Goliath | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_77c95fb8 | |
Big Red Button / int_7988cb68 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect has no actual buttons but lampshades this trope anyway if Tali is in the party on Noveria. When Mira is explaining the neutron purge, Tali will provide immortal line: Mass Effect: Andromeda does have a Big Red Button, in the Collective Base on Kadara, which you are advised not to push. Repeatedly. Go ahead. It's broken. |
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Big Red Button / int_7988cb68 | featureApplicability |
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Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_7988cb68 | |
Big Red Button / int_79e59d25 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_79e59d25 | comment |
Ruby Pair: Dib hits one to shut down all the security in the Vortian prison in "Frosting the 13th". Tenn is incredulous that such a button was even installed. | |
Big Red Button / int_79e59d25 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_79e59d25 | featureConfidence |
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Ruby Pair (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_79e59d25 | |
Big Red Button / int_7c038c18 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: Used in every episode by Dr. Doofensmirtz, to the point that in one episode, he laments "Someone always finds my self-destruct button." In "Hail Doofania!", Phineas and Ferb build a big red self-destruct button on their rainbow generator. Naturally, it gets activated, which prompts Ferb to comment, "In hindsight, I question the logistics of including a self-destruct button in the first place." |
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Big Red Button / int_7c038c18 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_7c038c18 | featureConfidence |
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Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_7c038c18 | |
Big Red Button / int_7f19ccc3 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_7f19ccc3 | comment |
The "Deal" button on Deal or No Deal (well, maybe not the button itself, but it at least contains a big pulsing red light). | |
Big Red Button / int_7f19ccc3 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_7f19ccc3 | featureConfidence |
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Deal or No Deal | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_7f19ccc3 | |
Big Red Button / int_8019a9f1 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8019a9f1 | comment |
The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Tilly Heyday pushes the large red button swathed in caution tape on the experimental aircraft Diana and the Holliday Girls "borrowed", despite the chorus of her friends shouting Don't Touch It, You Idiot!, in slightly more polite words. Luckily for everyone the button turns the plane invisible and doesn't cause them or their allies any harm. | |
Big Red Button / int_8019a9f1 | featureApplicability |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8019a9f1 | |
Big Red Button / int_81692f99 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_81692f99 | comment |
Star Trek: In the Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine" the button to start the timer to overload the impulse engines on the Constellation is naturally this color. |
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Big Red Button / int_81692f99 | featureApplicability |
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Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_81692f99 | |
Big Red Button / int_8192cba | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8192cba | comment |
Toy Story: There is actually a big, red button on Buzz Lightyear's chest. Pushing it will cause his wings to pop out. Several big red push buttons can be seen in Toy Story 3 during the Fake Action Prologue. One on Mr. Potato Head's remote control that he presses to blow up the bridge. Two more are seen on the bridge of Evil Dr. Pork-Chop's airship, one for releasing the monkeys and another one for a death cannon. |
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Big Red Button / int_8192cba | featureApplicability |
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Toy Story (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8192cba | |
Big Red Button / int_84823809 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_84823809 | comment |
Kaeloo: Olaf's lair has one, and Stumpy pushes it despite Olaf telling him not to. | |
Big Red Button / int_84823809 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_84823809 | featureConfidence |
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Kaeloo | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_84823809 | |
Big Red Button / int_85a246b3 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_85a246b3 | comment |
Titans (2018). Dr. Adamson is shown threatening the Nuclear Family with a remote detonator. When he decides You Have Failed Me for the last time, he presses the button on the tip which then turns red. Miles away the Nuclear Family have red lights appear under the skin of their foreheads, before Your Head Asplode. | |
Big Red Button / int_85a246b3 | featureApplicability |
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Titans (2018) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_85a246b3 | |
Big Red Button / int_85c8bdad | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_85c8bdad | comment |
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. A Posthuman who can take control of any networked system is being kept in an isolation chamber with all crucial systems air-gapped. Except, Misato points out, the emergency systems connected to the big red button a technician just pressed when the Posthuman tried to break out... | |
Big Red Button / int_85c8bdad | featureApplicability |
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_85c8bdad | |
Big Red Button / int_87b55b5d | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_87b55b5d | comment |
From The Onion: Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All U.S. Nuclear Weapons At Once. | |
Big Red Button / int_87b55b5d | featureApplicability |
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The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_87b55b5d | |
Big Red Button / int_87c6ac8e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_87c6ac8e | comment |
Lampshaded in Monsters vs. Aliens, where there are two big red buttons in the bunker: one that launches all of America's nuclear weapons, and the identical one right next to it which makes coffee. In a credits tag, one of the other characters asks for a cup of coffee from the President, who proceeds to press the wrong button. Neither is labeled. | |
Big Red Button / int_87c6ac8e | featureApplicability |
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Monsters vs. Aliens | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_87c6ac8e | |
Big Red Button / int_88043b11 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_88043b11 | comment |
The sandbox in World of Goo can be reset with one of these, molly-guard included. | |
Big Red Button / int_88043b11 | featureApplicability |
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World of Goo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_88043b11 | |
Big Red Button / int_893a8106 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_893a8106 | comment |
In Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, Blackjack finds one in a gem mine run by slaves and is just dying to press it. What it does is bit more... graphic than she would have hoped. | |
Big Red Button / int_893a8106 | featureApplicability |
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Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_893a8106 | |
Big Red Button / int_8ae87a20 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8ae87a20 | comment |
Press Your Luck used them to both buzz in when answering questions and stopping the Big Board. | |
Big Red Button / int_8ae87a20 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_8ae87a20 | featureConfidence |
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Press Your Luck | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8ae87a20 | |
Big Red Button / int_8da0ea80 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8da0ea80 | comment |
In Pokémon Red and Blue, the player is prompted as to whether or not he wants to push the buttons he finds in Team Rocket's hideout. Choosing "Yes" makes the game reply, "Who wouldn't?" | |
Big Red Button / int_8da0ea80 | featureApplicability |
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Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8da0ea80 | |
Big Red Button / int_8df5521b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8df5521b | comment |
Superman: In DC Comics Presents #59: Superman and the Legion of Substitute Heroes, it provides a trap for Ambush Bug. They provide the Superman Museum with just two signs in 20th century English instead of Interlac. One is a KEEP OUT. The other is the DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON sign on the Phantom Zone projector. Of course, Ambush Bug enters the room and pushes the button. In Day of the Dollmaker, the titular villain's remote control which sets off the bombs strapped to his hostages has a huge red button in the center. |
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Big Red Button / int_8df5521b | featureApplicability |
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Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8df5521b | |
Big Red Button / int_8e619ff4 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8e619ff4 | comment |
Solitary is a Reality Show where contestants are eliminated when they are tired of torturing themselves. Guess how they signify this. | |
Big Red Button / int_8e619ff4 | featureApplicability |
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Solitary | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8e619ff4 | |
Big Red Button / int_8e8086c3 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_8e8086c3 | comment |
In Goldfinger, the red button that activates the James Bond car's famous ejector seat is hidden inside the cap on the gearshift lever. | |
Big Red Button / int_8e8086c3 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_8e8086c3 | featureConfidence |
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Goldfinger | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_8e8086c3 | |
Big Red Button / int_905cf99c | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_905cf99c | comment |
The Fifth Element: Not Big, but definitely red, is one mentioned by Zorg: "I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun." Immediately after, Arnot the Mangalore pushes that button, and the weapon self destructs. Impressively. While the doctors are reassembling the Sole Survivor of the Mangalore vessel, General Munro keeps his hand hovering over a large red dome, warning that their patient had better be polite. On revealing that their patient is a beautiful woman, the doctor gently moves a gaping Munro's hand away from the button. |
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Big Red Button / int_905cf99c | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_905cf99c | featureConfidence |
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The Fifth Element | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_905cf99c | |
Big Red Button / int_9060799c | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_9060799c | comment |
Invoked in Infinity Crisis story Powers and Marvels. After the Rangers have received their new suits, Billy notices something in red in the data feed they're receiving from the new suits, and Shuri tells him to only press that in an emergency, as that triggers the suits to come together in what they term 'the Iron Zord'. | |
Big Red Button / int_9060799c | featureApplicability |
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Infinity Crisis (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_9060799c | |
Big Red Button / int_90a3a7f4 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
Kim Possible: One of Dr. Drakken's temporary lairs includes one of these, which Shego gleefully employes. In the series finale: |
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Big Red Button / int_90a3a7f4 | featureApplicability |
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Kim Possible | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_90a3a7f4 | |
Big Red Button / int_918c5a7e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_918c5a7e | comment |
In Evil Genius, one can be used as a Death Trap. Popping up out of the ground with a big sign that says "Do Not Press", it compels low-willpower enemy agents to press it anyway, giving them a shock. The final mission also adds a big red "Launch" button to the main interface when it is complete; pushing this one activates your Doomsday Device and ends the game. | |
Big Red Button / int_918c5a7e | featureApplicability |
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Evil Genius (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_918c5a7e | |
Big Red Button / int_91c7e65 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_91c7e65 | comment |
Subverted in Forever Free (sequel of The Forever War). While pressing the big red button, the hero wonders how many people guessed that it has absolutely no use, everything being automatic. | |
Big Red Button / int_91c7e65 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_91c7e65 | featureConfidence |
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The Forever War | hasFeature |
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Spectre: Franz Oberhauser (Bond's evil foster brother) muses that brothers always know which button to press to aggravate the other. He then pushes the red button to start the countdown to demolish the building they are in, giving Bond a Sadistic Choice between saving himself or trying to save the Bond Girl in time. | |
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MonsterVerse: Monarch's Titan containment sites in Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) have Big Red Buttons which activate emergency procedures designed to kill the captive Titans (or rather try to kill them). Ultimately, they only serve a very minor role in the plot of either film, as they either don't get pressed or they dramatically fail to so much as make the Titans bleed. Exactly what happens when the button is pushed seems to vary by Titan. The Janjira Outpost's measure was a gigantic net of electrified wires that swung out over the open pit where the reactor cores and Hokmuto's cocoon were, in an attempt to either electrocute the Kaiju or at minimum keep him from leaving the area. Hokmuto, however, doesn't seem to notice the electrical current when he pulls the wires down and escapes into the night sky. | |
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In Transhuman Space, the "C-Brown" gardening cybershell (robot body) has large red buttons on the front and back that shut it down instantly. This is because berserk gardener shells attacking with their built-in shears are a popular threat in the setting's fiction, although it's never actually happened. | |
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WALL•E WALL•E ends up pushing the big red button repeatedly to stop his doomed Escape Pod, with no visible result. In the companion short film, BURN-E accidentally pushes one in another pod, which turns out to be its launch button. |
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Odd Squad: "Oscar of All Trades" features a small red button in Oscar's flashback of him as a tube operator, which he pushes in a desperate attempt to send Oren and Olaf up the tubes. He ends up being shot straight through the roof instead. At the end of "Shapely University", Olympia, Otis, Olena and Omaha press one in unison to dump Oprah and Olivia into vats of pickle juice as a result of them tying during their bet. |
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In the Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine" the button to start the timer to overload the impulse engines on the Constellation is naturally this color. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
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In The Box, a family is given a small box which has a Big Red Button. If anyone in the family pushes the button, they get 1 million dollars, tax free (this is set in the 1970s), but someone they do not know will die. Naturally, someone does, setting off the plot. | |
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The Herculoids: In the episode "Malak and the Metal Apes", Zandor sneaks into Malak's base inside one of the Metal Apes (robots). When he reveals himself, Malak orders his henchman to push a red button to activate the Ape's Self-Destruct Mechanism and destroy him. | |
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Becoming a True Invader: GIR has to hit one to activate the Dibship's new power cell during the fight with the monster larvae on Fefa. Since he can't quite figure out how to press it, Gaz throws Dib at the button to trigger it instead. | |
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Edge of Tomorrow When the dropship starts to break up around him, Cage hits a red-coloured emergency release flap mounted over his shoulder, falling out of the belly of the dropship swinging wildly on a cable until it breaks and dumps him on the ground. As he becomes familiar with his equipment due to the "Groundhog Day" Loop, he just enters a command into his Powered Armor and makes a more controlled descent. Rita uses an ordinary industrial red button to stop the robots in the training area. When she hits it again, a robot immediately slams into Cage in a painful manner. |
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The Good Place: In a far off corner of the Good Place, on an isolated beach, there's a big red button that will kill and reboot Janet. She will lead anyone who asks to it, and the only safety guard is that, as people approach the button, Janet instantly starts begging for her life. She can't actually feel fear, or truly care about her impending destruction, but she's programmed to act that way so people don't push the button without realizing the consequences. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Used in One Piece when Franky pushed the "Pirate" button in Vegapunk's lab, thus blowing the whole place up. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Lobotomy Corporation has "Don't Touch Me", which is a button that has dire consequences for pressing it. | |
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Several big red push buttons can be seen in Toy Story 3 during the Fake Action Prologue. One on Mr. Potato Head's remote control that he presses to blow up the bridge. Two more are seen on the bridge of Evil Dr. Pork-Chop's airship, one for releasing the monkeys and another one for a death cannon. | |
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In Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Eggman activates his All-Star move with one of these. The announcer even references this trope. "Watch out, everyone! Eggman's pushed his Big Red Button!" | |
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The final level of Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus has a sign on the SoulStorm Brewery main boiler control panel that reads "ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NEVER EVER TURN THIS WHEEL!" Guess what your objective is. The previous game, Abe's Oddysee, has a button labeled Do Not Push. You can choose not to push that button if you want, you just miss a short cutscene. One of the games has a lever with an LCD marquee behind it that reads "Only a fool or a murderer will pull this lever." Pulling the lever will kill the slave next to you if you didn't rescue him first. |
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Magic: The Gathering: Seasoned Buttoneer is seen pressing a large red button marked DON'T PANIC. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Portal 2, in addition to the above, has various highly prominent red buttons in the areas outside the test environments. They operate whatever key piece of machinery you need to resolve the current puzzle. The Old Aperture test chambers also feature a version of the Super Button with a retro 50's look. | |
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Exterminatus Now subverts the trope here by having the big red button. That summons the guards. | |
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Subverted in VeggieTales. Bob and Larry are chasing after Madame Blueberry in a motorized shopping cart, and Bob asks "Can't this thing go any faster?" Right on cue, the big red button starts blinking. Bob pushes it and then flinches, expecting something incredible to happen. Instead, it prints a coupon. | |
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One Keiki comic had a red button that Amara's father had to push every 108 minutes, or else Hawaii might explode, a la Lost. When Amara got left to watch the button alone, she failed to press it quickly enough after the third time 108 minutes passed, but Hawaii still didn't explode. Her father subsequently claimed this did not confirm the possibility that the button actually had no connection to Hawaii's safety, since "it gives you a couple extra minutes." | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon has the Big Red LEVER - at the beginning of the game, there's a DO NOT TOUCH sign with a lever in front of it. Once a butterfly lands on it, Pep sees it and jumps for it, only to land on the lever and pull it, causing the fireworks factory to go haywire. This summons a rocket that carries Putt-Putt into space and eventually landing on the moon. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In Forbidden Planet, the Big Red Button is a switch that, when thrown, initiates a chain reaction that will destroy the planet. It's not actually big, or red, and has to be activated by turning a disc, which raises a vertical rod from the floor that is then pushed down to activate. In other words, a disappointingly safe example. | |
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In an episode of Father Ted, Dougal is unfortunately confronted with one of these while visiting the cockpit of a jumbo jet. It is not only very Big and very Red but clearly labelled DO NOT PRESS. Unsurprisingly, the rest of the episode deals with the consequences of jettisoning most of the fuel in mid-air. | |
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Adventurers!!: "To steal big thing press button." | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In Dr. No, there's a big red wheel on the wall in the title Big Bad's nuclear reactor control room labeled "Danger Level". Bond turns it to overload the reactor. | |
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TV Tropes: Aversion — the one on top of this very page is harmless (like his blue cousin). That is, if you see wasting your time as harmless... | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Invader Zim: Parodied. Dib asks, "How'd I miss that?? The Megadoomer's self-destruct button was also a Big Red Button with a crazy smiley face on it. |
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Big Red Button | |
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Two in You Only Live Twice: One pushed by Bond to destroy the SPECTRE space ship, one used by Blofeld to activate his base's Self-Destruct Mechanism. | |
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You Only Live Twice | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button | |
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This was parodied in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. When Arthur Dent encounters an inviting Big Red Button and pushes it, a sign lights up saying "Please do not press this button again." Later in the book, Arthur encounters a different button labeled, "This is probably the best button to press." | |
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In the Leverage episode "The (Very) Big Bird Job", the final stage of the con involves a big red button marked "Crash". | |
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Leverage | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button | |
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In Episode 9 of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, the button Kabaton uses to suck Tsubasa and Elle-chan into his UFO and kidnap them is a big red button. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In Undercover Brother, Conspiracy Brother foolishly pushes a large red button labeled "Atomic Core" and starts a Self-Destruct Mechanism that will destroy The Man's headquarters. This forces the Brotherhood's infiltration team to flee for their lives. | |
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Undercover Brother | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button | |
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The Incredibles: One of the DVD Easter Eggs is a compilation sequence showing "every door, button and explosion in the movie" which highlights just how many there are. Examples include: Mr. Incredible pushing one in his car at the start of the film to transform the car into the Incredibile. Helen activating flares when flying the jet to stave off Syndrome's missiles. Both of Syndrome's consoles have Big Red Buttons. One of them launches missiles, the other launches the rocket. |
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Warhammer 40,000: In the lore, Ork planes come with one of these by default. It's typically labelled something like GO and it starts the engine without any need for the boring and useless preflight checks that more cowardly species than Orks insist on doing for some reason. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Earth-X, during the final battle the Waverider engages against its Evil Counterpart Der Wellenreiter, but they're unable to damage it due to having its shields on. Felicity Smoak hacks the shields to override the system and put it on manual control. Once she does, Killer Frost spots the Big Red Button, and even quotes it by name before pushing it to shut the shields down. | |
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Arrowverse | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button | |
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Chernobyl. The AZ-5 button, which was used for an emergency shutdown. Due to gross negligence during the safety test procedure and a fatal design flaw in the reactor core rods, instead of shutting the reactor down it causes it to explode. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In Empire at War when you engage in a space battle above an enemy planet with a fleet that contains the Death Star, the dead space on your HUD becomes a big red button you just have to hold out until the timer counts down, then Death Star, ready to fire then lots of pretty explody doom. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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In the beginning of The Crawling Hand a hysterical astronaut begs the main characters at command central to "Push... the red... Button!" They do, and it blows him up. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Doktor Sleepless causes a temporary city-wide blackout using a touchscreen tablet which he's set up to display the image of a Big Red Button labeled "DO NOT PRESS". | |
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Big Red Button | |
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Blackadder. In "Back & Forth" Blackadder tries to stop the time machine and return to the present by hopefully pressing a red button he hadn't pressed before. It turns out to be a lolly. | |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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Big Red Button | |
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Blasto: Pressing a large button with the sign "Do Not Press" displayed above it will result in Blasto getting disintegrated by a lightning bolt. In a slightly later section of the game, a second, identical button is encountered, with the same "Do Not Press" sign. If, against all logic, you fall for the same trick and press this one... a bunch of health and power-ups spawn nearby. |
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Big Red Button | |
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Invasion: The Abductors: The buttons to disengage the cargo pod from the alien mothership are massive (As in, given the scale, they're probably the size of a car at least) green buttons that you shoot to activate. Which turns them red. | |
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Big Red Button | |
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The October 1983 issue of Fantasy Empire featured a Doctor Who-related quiz called "Would You Make a Fit Companion?". Question #41 was: | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_c43df4d8 | |
Big Red Button / int_c487221e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_c487221e | comment |
While not as big as most, the button to activate the LTD's turbo engines in Men in Black definitely qualifies. "Remember the little red button? Push the little red button." | |
Big Red Button / int_c487221e | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_c487221e | featureConfidence |
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Men in Black | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_c487221e | |
Big Red Button / int_c4a1d59e | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_c4a1d59e | comment |
Modern Warfare 2's Museum level (A couple rooms with museum-style setpieces of all the levels) has two Big Red Buttons on the desks in the entrances of the rooms. Going up to them brings up a prompt "DO NOT press x". Doing so causes the enemies to attack en masse. | |
Big Red Button / int_c4a1d59e | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_c4a1d59e | featureConfidence |
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Call of Duty (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_c4a1d59e | |
Big Red Button / int_c62995ba | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_c62995ba | comment |
Child of the Storm reveals in Chapter 74 that there's one in the heart of Avengers Tower, which Tony presses in order to overload the arc reactor and destroy the building, preventing it from falling into HYDRA's hands. Actually deliberately invoked and justified, given that Tony's a Pop-Cultured Badass. | |
Big Red Button / int_c62995ba | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_c62995ba | featureConfidence |
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Child of the Storm (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_c62995ba | |
Big Red Button / int_c6e92879 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_c6e92879 | comment |
Daxter: Kaeden presses one of these to destroy the Kridder Ridder building after finding a bug in there (Daxter’s friend Tik, if you’re wondering) and squishing it to death. | |
Big Red Button / int_c6e92879 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_c6e92879 | featureConfidence |
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Daxter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_c6e92879 | |
Big Red Button / int_cac82d00 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_cac82d00 | comment |
The van in Fanboys has an exact duplicate of the Falcon's Big Red Button, which activates the engine's nitro cylinder. | |
Big Red Button / int_cac82d00 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_cac82d00 | featureConfidence |
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Fanboys | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_cac82d00 | |
Big Red Button / int_cc1865ec | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_cc1865ec | comment |
Lampshaded in Tom and Jerry: The Movie, in which our cat and mouse heroes are attempting to stow away on a river boat and Tom is searching wildly for the start button. Jerry says that he should push the red button because "It's always a red one!" They push it, aaand... yup. It is the start button they were looking for. | |
Big Red Button / int_cc1865ec | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_cc1865ec | featureConfidence |
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_cc1865ec | |
Big Red Button / int_cf2d20a8 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_cf2d20a8 | comment |
Johnny Bravo: In the episode "Bootman", Johnny ends up on the space station headquarters of the Astounding League of Super People, and is tempted by a big red button. | |
Big Red Button / int_cf2d20a8 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_cf2d20a8 | featureConfidence |
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Johnny Bravo | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_cf2d20a8 | |
Big Red Button / int_d0c8185a | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d0c8185a | comment |
In The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), some bounty hunters coming in for a hard landing on a planet are told to hit the "Party Poppers" by their leader. Said "poppers" are retro-rockets on strings, much like a drag chute. The relevant button is simply named "Party Poppers". | |
Big Red Button / int_d0c8185a | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d0c8185a | featureConfidence |
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d0c8185a | |
Big Red Button / int_d0f124da | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d0f124da | comment |
In the Jonny Quest episode "The Robot Spy", the duty officer of an Air Force base pushes such a button to call a Red Alert and scramble jet fighters. | |
Big Red Button / int_d0f124da | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d0f124da | featureConfidence |
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Jonny Quest | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d0f124da | |
Big Red Button / int_d131c1e9 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d131c1e9 | comment |
In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "Beyond the Farthest Star", the auxiliary warp drive controls are activated with a red button. Kirk presses it to send the Enterprise on a desperate slingshot maneuver to escape the dead star's gravity and get rid of the alien intruder. | |
Big Red Button / int_d131c1e9 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d131c1e9 | featureConfidence |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d131c1e9 | |
Big Red Button / int_d14c3aa1 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d14c3aa1 | comment |
Ghostbusters (1984): The Ghostbusters headquarters has a big red button on Janine's desk that she smashes to sound their alarm whenever they get a call for service. | |
Big Red Button / int_d14c3aa1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Big Red Button / int_d14c3aa1 | featureConfidence |
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Ghostbusters (1984) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d14c3aa1 | |
Big Red Button / int_d461f757 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d461f757 | comment |
Battlestar Galactica. A red-lit button is used to release the outer doors of the Viper launch bay, as seen in several execution scenes. | |
Big Red Button / int_d461f757 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d461f757 | featureConfidence |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d461f757 | |
Big Red Button / int_d4a00292 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d4a00292 | comment |
Downplayed in Queen of Outer Space. The Beta Disintegrator that will be used to destroy Earth is only activated by a tiny red button, as the titular queen points out. Presumably as she Does Not Like Men, she doesn't feel the need to compensate for anything. | |
Big Red Button / int_d4a00292 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d4a00292 | featureConfidence |
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Queen of Outer Space | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d4a00292 | |
Big Red Button / int_d4fe015f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d4fe015f | comment |
The QI website recently added a Big Red Button. It triggers the Klaxon. | |
Big Red Button / int_d4fe015f | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d4fe015f | featureConfidence |
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QI | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d4fe015f | |
Big Red Button / int_d658b2f2 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d658b2f2 | comment |
Karate Bears: Finger on the big red Button blows up the car the badguy/goodguy just got into. | |
Big Red Button / int_d658b2f2 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d658b2f2 | featureConfidence |
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Karate Bears (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d658b2f2 | |
Big Red Button / int_d6666774 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d6666774 | comment |
One controversial change in the American release of The Return of Godzilla was the scene in which the Russian freighter Colonel Kashirin hits a big red button to launch a nuke. Of course, in the original release, he was valiantly trying to hit the button to stop the launch before he died from his injuries, but the American release had the subtitles changed and added a quick clip of his hand hitting the button (which instead triggers the launch now), most likely because the Cold War was ongoing at the time of release. | |
Big Red Button / int_d6666774 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d6666774 | featureConfidence |
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The Return of Godzilla | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d6666774 | |
Big Red Button / int_d7eaa0d3 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d7eaa0d3 | comment |
The Odin in Starcraft II Wings Of Liberty apparently comes with both a big red button and a skull button. | |
Big Red Button / int_d7eaa0d3 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d7eaa0d3 | featureConfidence |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d7eaa0d3 | |
Big Red Button / int_d82fe290 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d82fe290 | comment |
The Han Solo Trilogy: In The Hutt Gambit, illusionist Xaverri’s biggest and most risky illusion can be turned on when she hits a large red button on her control panel which had a label in all caps saying no one but her can ever touch it. | |
Big Red Button / int_d82fe290 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d82fe290 | featureConfidence |
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The Han Solo Trilogy | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d82fe290 | |
Big Red Button / int_d99024a2 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d99024a2 | comment |
In the end of the "Land of Confusion" music video by Genesis, it is shown that Ronald Reagan had two Big Red Buttons in his bedroom. One was for "NUKE", the other for "NURSE". Guess which one he pressed. | |
Big Red Button / int_d99024a2 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d99024a2 | featureConfidence |
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Genesis (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d99024a2 | |
Big Red Button / int_d9b2f1eb | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_d9b2f1eb | comment |
Maniac Mansion has a Big Red Button at the bottom of the pool, with the warning "Do not press!" written above. You just had to find out what the button did, and ended up detonating the mansion in the process. | |
Big Red Button / int_d9b2f1eb | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_d9b2f1eb | featureConfidence |
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Maniac Mansion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_d9b2f1eb | |
Big Red Button / int_dae94b19 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_dae94b19 | comment |
Both Road Rovers ' first and last episodes had Colleen pushing a not-exactly-Big Red Button on a vehicle dashboard causing it to go ludicrously fast. | |
Big Red Button / int_dae94b19 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_dae94b19 | featureConfidence |
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Road Rovers | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_dae94b19 | |
Big Red Button / int_dc25de3f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_dc25de3f | comment |
Portal has the "Fifteen Hundred Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button". The biggest red button ever, and generally used in combination with the Aperture Science Weighted Storage Cube to solve puzzles. There are also small red buttons that function as switches. | |
Big Red Button / int_dc25de3f | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_dc25de3f | featureConfidence |
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Portal / Videogame | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_dc25de3f | |
Big Red Button / int_df87744 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_df87744 | comment |
Whacked! has these, which causes various things to happen. The world turns upside-down, zombie stars attack everyone, everyone's vision gets distorted, all weapons disappear, etc. | |
Big Red Button / int_df87744 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_df87744 | featureConfidence |
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Whacked! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_df87744 | |
Big Red Button / int_dfd300a6 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_dfd300a6 | comment |
In a Prickly City Sunday Strip, Winslow sees a button with a "Do not push" sign. After some careful idleness, he pushes it in the penultimate panel. In the ultimate one, he complains, "If you break the rules you deserve a boom." | |
Big Red Button / int_dfd300a6 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_dfd300a6 | featureConfidence |
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Prickly City (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_dfd300a6 | |
Big Red Button / int_e081af79 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e081af79 | comment |
In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Bob encounters a Big Red Button so big he has to jump up and down on it to activate it. | |
Big Red Button / int_e081af79 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e081af79 | featureConfidence |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e081af79 | |
Big Red Button / int_e0fcfdea | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e0fcfdea | comment |
The Avengers (1960s). In "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" the villain proudly shows off the red button that will blow up the railway carriage carrying the Prime Minister of Britain. Later Emma Peel (who wasn't present to hear this) accidentally puts her hand on the button giving everyone an Oh, Crap! moment; fortunately Steed has already disconnected the wires. | |
Big Red Button / int_e0fcfdea | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e0fcfdea | featureConfidence |
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The Avengers (1960s) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e0fcfdea | |
Big Red Button / int_e179ec3a | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e179ec3a | comment |
Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Dr. Brainstorm has one of these in his lair that triggers several traps. Likewise, Brainstorm's aircraft has one that launches missiles. Thunderstorm has one on one of his contraptions, though it's not big. |
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Big Red Button / int_e179ec3a | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e179ec3a | featureConfidence |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e179ec3a | |
Big Red Button / int_e1c8fa4d | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e1c8fa4d | comment |
Ducktalez 3: In the cockpit of Robot Christopher Walken. Scrooge pressed it when the Cornmander got angry at him. It activated the secret move that finished off Vegeta. | |
Big Red Button / int_e1c8fa4d | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e1c8fa4d | featureConfidence |
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Ducktalez (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e1c8fa4d | |
Big Red Button / int_e25322af | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e25322af | comment |
On Homestar Runner Strong Bad used a USB self destruct button which parodies the Easy button above. | |
Big Red Button / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e25322af | featureConfidence |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e25322af | |
Big Red Button / int_e286c58d | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e286c58d | comment |
In an episode of The Problem Solverz, there is a magic clock with a red button on it that is capable of ripping a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum. Naturally, crazy fangirl Katrina Rad steals the clock and threatens to press the button if Roba doesn't marry her. | |
Big Red Button / int_e286c58d | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e286c58d | featureConfidence |
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The Problem Solverz | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e286c58d | |
Big Red Button / int_e3a1067 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e3a1067 | comment |
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The Demon sisters' vehicle G-Sting has a particularly noticeable self-destruct button built inside, that Scanty accidentally pushed out of rage in "If Angels Wore Swimsuits". Way to go, dumbass. | |
Big Red Button / int_e3a1067 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e3a1067 | featureConfidence |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e3a1067 | |
Big Red Button / int_e5b22efe | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e5b22efe | comment |
In Fortunately, the Milk, the Really-Good-Moves-Around-in-Time-Machine is activated by pressing a big red button. | |
Big Red Button / int_e5b22efe | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e5b22efe | featureConfidence |
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Fortunately, the Milk | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e5b22efe | |
Big Red Button / int_e7e37776 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e7e37776 | comment |
Firefly - the episode "Out of Gas" features a jerry-rigged Big Red Button to call Serenity's shuttles back in the event of a miracle. When Mal gets his miracle, he goes to hit the button, but collapses before he can, though luckily the ships came back anyway. note According to the commentary, after the show was canceled, Joss Whedon swore it wasn't the end. The button ended up on his desk with a note attached, quoting one of Wash's lines: "When you get your miracle, push this button." And he got his miracle — kinda — with the Serenity movie. | |
Big Red Button / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
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Firefly | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e7e37776 | |
Big Red Button / int_e885c808 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e885c808 | comment |
Spaceballs has a Big Red Button on Spaceball Onenote For some reason, situated in the guard barracks. that triggers the self-destruction of the ship. Lone Starr knocks Dark Helmet into it, setting off the countdown to the big boom. The bad guys later try to stop the self-destruct sequence with a second smaller, yellow button, only to find it's out of order, prompting Dark Helmet's cry of "Even in the future, nothing works!" The ship also features a lever-activated Emergency Stop which is labelled "NEVER USE"; Dark Helmet learns the hard way why that injunction was included. | |
Big Red Button / int_e885c808 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_e885c808 | featureConfidence |
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Spaceballs | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e885c808 | |
Big Red Button / int_e8970723 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_e8970723 | comment |
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Maisie presses one to free the dinosaurs trapped in Lockwood Manor. | |
Big Red Button / int_e8970723 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Big Red Button / int_e8970723 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_e8970723 | |
Big Red Button / int_ea4f62db | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Parodied in Family Guy; Peter finds himself in front of a big red button with accompanying sign reading "Do not press this button". When he presses it, the only observable result is an elderly Asian black belt who enters the room, bows to Peter, and then roundhouse kicks him in the face. | |
Big Red Button / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_ea4f62db | featureConfidence |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_ea4f62db | |
Big Red Button / int_ea7635f4 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_ea7635f4 | comment |
Alien: Resurrection: Liquid helium sprays activated by a Big Red Button are set up to control the aliens in their cells. Unfortunately the Mad Scientist fumbles at removing the pin and raising the mollyguard in time to stop the aliens escaping. One alien is clever enough to deduce the connection between the sprays and the Big Red Button, which serves to bite the ass of a security mook. | |
Big Red Button / int_ea7635f4 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_ea7635f4 | featureConfidence |
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Alien: Resurrection | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_ea7635f4 | |
Big Red Button / int_eb3f3551 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_eb3f3551 | comment |
Mass Effect: Andromeda does have a Big Red Button, in the Collective Base on Kadara, which you are advised not to push. Repeatedly. Go ahead. It's broken. | |
Big Red Button / int_eb3f3551 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_eb3f3551 | featureConfidence |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_eb3f3551 | |
Big Red Button / int_ebf385d8 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_ebf385d8 | comment |
In Twice Upon a Time, one of these — labeled "The Big Red One" — will set off the nightmare bombs sent to the land of Din in a plot to trap everyone there in waking nightmares. The hero Ralph tricks the baddie Botch into hitting it too early, before his minions can return the mainspring to the Cosmic Clock and restart time, and the nightmares go to waste. | |
Big Red Button / int_ebf385d8 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_ebf385d8 | featureConfidence |
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Twice Upon a Time | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_ebf385d8 | |
Big Red Button / int_ed422d3f | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_ed422d3f | comment |
The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: Ridiculously Epic Fail launches himself into a big red button that causes it to rain adorable kittens and sunshine. Considering his goal was to cause chaos, this big red button accomplished the exact opposite of what he wanted. | |
Big Red Button / int_ed422d3f | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_ed422d3f | featureConfidence |
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The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_ed422d3f | |
Big Red Button / int_f0d55ae5 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f0d55ae5 | comment |
Pandemonium! (1996): In the level "Fantabulous", there exists a button (though green) with "Press this button" printed above it. Kicking the button triggers an alarm and flashing red lights, the camera pans up to see "DON'T!" spray-painted in red above it, and the air station proceeds to count a self-destruct. The button turns red. Pressing this button is a must anyway, as it opens a path to escape the air station. | |
Big Red Button / int_f0d55ae5 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_f0d55ae5 | featureConfidence |
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Pandemonium! (1996) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_f0d55ae5 | |
Big Red Button / int_f1281a6b | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f1281a6b | comment |
Interceptor has a Designated Girl Fight over two red buttons. A female terrorist is trying to get to the red button that will open the door and let her fellow terrorists into the control room, while the heroine fighting her is trying to hit the red button that will launch an interceptor missile to destroy a nuclear missile heading towards the United States. | |
Big Red Button / int_f1281a6b | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_f1281a6b | featureConfidence |
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Interceptor | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_f1281a6b | |
Big Red Button / int_f337bca4 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f337bca4 | comment |
Twin Robots: The first objective in each level is to push the big red button, which will deactivate the trash compactor and open the door to let the trapped robot out. | |
Big Red Button / int_f337bca4 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_f337bca4 | featureConfidence |
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Twin Robots (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_f337bca4 | |
Big Red Button / int_f406bc87 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f406bc87 | comment |
An episode of Gerald McBoing-Boing has the family buy a car. Gerald's dad sees the car has a big red button (alright it wasn't that big but it was red) in the car and presses it, activating an ejector seat. | |
Big Red Button / int_f406bc87 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_f406bc87 | featureConfidence |
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Gerald McBoing-Boing | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_f406bc87 | |
Big Red Button / int_f4981f42 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f4981f42 | comment |
You Are (Not) At Fault: Lampshaded when Asuka sarcastically notes the Third Impact happened because Rei, in her infinite wisdom, handed the big red button for the end of the world to a borderline suicidal. | |
Big Red Button / int_f4981f42 | featureApplicability |
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Big Red Button / int_f4981f42 | featureConfidence |
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You Are (Not) At Fault (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Big Red Button / int_f4981f42 | |
Big Red Button / int_f691fa67 | type |
Big Red Button | |
Big Red Button / int_f691fa67 | comment |
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: "Dr. Boom, Mad Genius" is a Warrior hero card that switches your Hero Power to "Big Red Button", which swaps between one of five effects every turn: Deal 3 damage, gain 7 Armor, deal 1 damage to all enemies, summon 3 1/1 Microbots with Rush, and Discover a Mech card. The idea is that he wired all these functions into one button without bothering to test it. | |
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In Hitman 2, pressing a Big Red Button is required to open the vault in "The Golden Handshake"*New York, a.k.a "The Bank". Deactivating the security locks protecting the button in order to press it is a multi-step process. | |
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Played straight in Pokémon X and Y. In Team Flare's lab, the player is given a choice of two buttons. The blue one deactivates the ultimate weapon, while the red one (obviously) activates it. However, even if you press the blue one, they activate it anyway. | |
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In Day of the Dollmaker, the titular villain's remote control which sets off the bombs strapped to his hostages has a huge red button in the center. | |
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The Dead Mines: The player's goal is to find four bright-red valves scattered throughout a gas-choked mine. | |
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BIP in Little Robot, Big Scary World is assigned to push one of these, and soon questions the monotony of this kind of life. | |
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Into the Breach: The Self-Destruct weapon, which instantly destroys a mech and everything around it, is displayed as a red button with yellow and black hazard stripes around it. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods has a Big Red Button under a clear box labeled "System Purge" which plays a pivotal role in the storyline. This is an obvious joke on the trope as well as a Deus ex Machina. It's right behind a desk in the main lobby, unguarded, can be pressed by just anyone (no extra keys, password, or security override necessary), and when activated, turns the entire base into a blood-soaked chaos because the controllers are woefully ill-prepared for dealing with all the monsters at once getting released from their containment units. Really, they deserved to get slaughtered with that kind of Too Dumb to Live-level risk management. | |
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In Dexter's Laboratory, Dee Dee is fond of pushing the Big Red Button that will wreck one of Dexter's inventions or otherwise cause trouble. A vapid "Oooh! What Does This Button Do?" became her main catchphrase. One would think that eventually, Dex would learn to stop putting Big Red Buttons on everything he builds. | |
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In Wandaba Style, Susumu always gets his experiments started by exclaiming "Wandaba Style A Go!" and pushing a large button labeled "Wandaba." | |
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In Eagle Strike of the Alex Rider book series, there is one such button on board Air Force One, but it is sensitive to the President's fingerprint. The villain (an evil Elton John) being crazy prepared, has a mold of the Prez's hand on hand. | |
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