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Bombers on the Screen
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An alternative way to show war without the use of Stock Footage, but can be used with it. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A real-time computer map is used, showing the positions of military units. In WWII era stories, it might be tiny models on a big map instead. See also: The Big Board, Sensor Suspense, Spreading Disaster Map Graphic. Examples: |
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The second half of 24 Season 2. Stock Footage was not used. | |
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World War II: When the series isn't being presented by Talking Heads narrating by themselves or over Stock Footage, it's maps overlaid with symbols representing the units involved and shifting colored lines of battle as fronts advance and retreat. | |
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Battle of Britain showed a command center where personnel (many of them female auxiliaries) had a giant map of Great Britain and the surrounding areas (coastal France, Norway, etc.) using croupier sticks to move counters representing friendly fighters and enemy bombers. Britain's dire situation is clearly illustrated partway into the film when this command center has part of the roof cave in due to a near miss, with the table getting smashed by fallen roof supports. | |
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Starship Operators has a lot of this, since (unlike most non-literature Space Opera) battles typically take place outside visual range. | |
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Used during the Dominion War arc in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with Starfleet and Dominion insignia representing the ships. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
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Taken to the ultimate level in WarGames where thousands of nuclear missiles were shown on a giant map traveling across the world and exploding, not once but hundreds of times, as the WOPR computer displayed multiple strategies to try to "win" a nuclear war. | |
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Fail Safe (the original version, at least). Stock Footage was also used. | |
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Independence Day had shots of this interspersed with action shots to drive home the scale of the aliens' attack across the world (and by "world" we mean the continental United States). | |
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Ender's Game has bombers on screen. Command School's simulators would simulate countless battles for which one would have to fight through using whatever "ships" supplied. However the awesome reveal at the end shows that the "simulators" are actually representations of REAL ships and that Ender, by beating the simulators time and again, actually wiped out an alien race during an invasion that he was unknowingly in control of. | |
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A version is shown on screen during Huey's monologues about how Peace Walker works in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The targets are shown as butterflies. | |
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The models on a big map version is parodied in Blackadder Goes Forth, "Plan F: Goodbyeee". when Field-Marshall Haig is shown sweeping up the figures with a dustpan and throwing them away. | |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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DEFCON is built around this trope, being mainly inspired by WarGames. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978): in cheaper, 1970s computer graphics, you saw the same in the original Galactica's bridge. | |
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Speaking of Combat Information Centers, you'll see a lot of this in Battlestar Galactica CIC, mixed with (usually not stock) footage of the actual battle. Bonus points for using both screen displays showing what the ship's sensors are picking up, AND a big table with models giving a low-tech picture. | |
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Dr. Strangelove shows the bombers of the 843rd Bomb Wing on The Big Board in The War Room approaching their targets in Russia. | |
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Used with a twist in an episode of Stargate Atlantis — the war is a computer simulation, designed to force peace between two countries. | |
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Stargate Atlantis | hasFeature |
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Used in Harpoon, since it is representative of what you'd see in an real ship Combat Information Centre. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country showed this from the Klingon perspective, with icons showing the USS Enterprise and the USS Excelsior during the final battle. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | hasFeature |
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Bombers on the Screen / int_fcb6fb21 | type |
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Played with in Air Force Blues, where an AWACS controller offers a visiting fighter pilot the chance to see a Quraci MiG get in a dogfight with a Predator drone... and we see a shot of a very simplistic line rendering on the radar screen with all of the contacts being represented by dots with a short text description. To be fair, the AWACS controller never said it would look cool. | |
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