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In some cartoons, it is obvious that a part of the background will be used. What makes it obvious is that it is strikingly lighter in color than its surroundings. It might also have an obvious difference in detail or color saturation. Another telltale sign would be clear black outlines on the object: the three clearly outlined rocks on the cliff would be the ones to tumble. A similar situation is where things that should move don't, because they are made a part of the background to save time. This is an unintentional artifact from the traditional, celluloid animation process. This was largely because, besides being painted by different artists at different times/locations, already making consistent matching difficult, each foreground/animated object would require up to hundreds of different drawings, as opposed to backgrounds/matte paintings, which each only needed to be done once. Therefore devoting any more than basic color saturation and contrasting light values would only make the process even more lengthy and time consuming than it already was. Additionally, the unpainted portions of cels were not perfectly transparent, so the colors on lower cels became more and more muted as additional layers were added to the top of the stack. Film critic Roger Ebert has called this the "Fudd Flag", after Bugs Bunny's nemesis, who uses it to determine which tree Bugs is hiding behind, which rock he needs to trip over, etc. Nowadays, digital ink-and-paint and compositing has largely displaced the use of painted cels, meaning that colors can be matched accurately (although conspicuously light patches are still pretty common in cartoons with digitally inked-and-painted foregrounds and hand-painted backgrounds). The issue of lavish backgrounds contrasting with simple animated elements remains to some extent, but it is often avoided. Many TV cartoons now use backgrounds rendered in the same simplistic style as the animation, while theatrical films can now use CG to render "background" elements that can be animated... which can lead to a whole new set of problems. Something similar occasionally appears in older live-action productions. In particular, you may see an oddly colored sheen around the characters in shows featuring heavy use of Chroma Key. In his review of the Star Wars prequel trailer, Mr. Cranky dubbed this slight Special Effect Failure a "mystical aura." The technique has since evolved to the point where it is mostly no longer noticeable. Mostly. No form of animation being intrinsically immune to the Fudd Flag, claymation-animated works are wholly capable of falling prey to it, too. This also applies to mid-era point-n-click Adventure Games, when the background would be painted or 3D rendered, while objects would usually be drawn sprites. However, this had a practical use, allowing players to easily locate collectible objects, even small ones. Especially small ones. A similar version can appear in action games that require you to destroy parts of the environment to proceed, again, mostly in older ones. The breakable parts would usually be a different color, and one can sometimes even see the seams where the object is supposed to break apart. In early console games, some interactive objects might use a noticeably different palette than the background, since sprites and backgrounds have their own color spaces. Also, it may be used intentionally in video games to help point out certain objects or items, and often in different form than the accidental style mentioned above but the same spirit (something that looks out of place in a minor way that reveals it to be important) most often as a Notice This. Occasionally inverted by allowing the cel/object to exist and making it readily visually apparent, and then moving the background art instead of the cel. This trope is particularly prominent in cartoons made during The Golden Age of Animation. With the modern trend of flash animation, there is almost no difference between backgrounds and cels, completely averting this trope altogether by the fortune of new technology. |
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The Adventures of Superman used greenscreening as a budget-saving technique for the flying scenes. One shot of Superman was filmed against a variable backdrop, and as a result, he gains a mystical aura every time he has to fly somewhere. | |
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El Chapulín Colorado's Chroma Key isn't very sophisticated, so you can instantly tell which people or objects were digitally composited into the image because they're both strikingly light and have a green aura around them. This is particularly noticeable in the haunted house episode, where some characters start speculating at the possibility of objects levitating - and in the exact same show there's an object that looks slightly off, which ends up floating. | |
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Hitchcock's classic North By Northwest has the climax take place on the front of Mt. Rushmore. If you look very carefully in the moments in which you can see the full monument, you can see the blue-tinted line. | |
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Averted in the Tex Avery cartoon Northwest Hounded Police. There's a scene where the wolf, fleeing Droopy, sits on a beach next to a conspicuously light-colored rock. He points the rock out and predicts that Droopy will pop out from under there, only to have Droopy appear from under a different, less conspicuous rock. The wolf then grabs the first rock and hits himself on the head with it, ensuring that the animators would make it a cel painting instead of a background element. | |
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Tom and Jerry: It's quite easy to tell which objects are going to be broken or picked up and used by the characters by the distinctly different shade that they have. | |
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Awkward Zombie humorously points out how the yellow outlines in Deus Ex: Human Revolution lead to confusion when things that actually have a yellow outline aren't actually interactable. | |
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Mega Man 8 has a very weird shot in the animated cutscene where Duo explains evil energy, where his head is drawn on a cel and the entire rest of his body is a background object for some reason. | |
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While The Secret of Monkey Island features pixel-art backgrounds that mesh convincingly with foreground elements, backgrounds in the second and third (and the remake of the first) are hand-painted. This is mostly averted; items that can be picked up are often also hand-painted and pasted in, and disappear when you pick them up. This convention was completely thrown out in Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, in which everything is 3D but the backgrounds are all pre-rendered and, more importantly, not anti-aliased (except in the Grim Fandango remaster). So just look for the items with jaggedy edges. | |
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Inside Out: The memory shelf that collapses to reveal the recall tube has something different about its color scheme compared to the surrounding ones. | |
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Looney Tunes: "Falling Hare" does it several times, but it's most noticeable on a section of a wall that Bugs Bunny backs up into in order to ram open a door. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Subverted (perhaps unintentionally) in cartoon, where Wile E. cuts a suspension bridge that's clearly drawn on a cel, but the fully painted cliff he's standing on falls instead. |
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In Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, using certain Psynergy powers will cause the background to turn monochrome...except for items that can be dealt with by hand or affected by Psynergy powers (containers with items inside sparkle instead). Golden Sun: Dark Dawn instead has Insight, which causes Psynergy-affected objects (rocks, plants...) to sprout thought bubbles indicating what type of Psynergy can be used on them. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): You can tell which rocks were going to fall because they're lighter in color than the others. | |
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In the Unikitty! episode "Hide N' Seek", Richard, being so monotone that people flat out don't realize that he's there sometimes, is drawn in some scenes as being part of the background, with his face rendered onto a separate, albeit less detailed, layer. It is not as jarring as most examples, as he is simply a grey LEGO brick in design. | |
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Spectacle: The loose rock in the Khaki Mud Wall is brown, unlike the other rocks which are grey. | |
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Half-Life has this quite often, most often in mods and the like, based on rendering limitations. Lighting effects were determined when the level was built, and don't change during play, even if an object moves to a differently lit environment. Similarly, interactive objects don't block light, meaning a bright light will shine right through a door or destructible wall as though it were glass. The levels had to be designed with the limitations in mind, by having near identical lighting on both sides, or leaving the light off on the opposite side until it's triggered. In fact, most games and Mods based on Quake-derived shooters suffered from this until dynamic shadows became more prevalent in engines starting in 2004; in most cases, dynamic objects and static models or map scenery are treated differently lighting-wise. For example, the LS3D engine used in Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven uses dynamic shadows for characters and moving lights, but everything else is pre-baked. | |
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Half-Life 2 and its episodes feature a related phenomenon, where objects that aren't anchored to the environment — and can therefore be picked up or at least punted with the Gravity Gun — have sharp, flat-colored shadows as a side effect of the limited lighting engine. This is of limited usefulness, since the developers were quite thorough in ensuring that virtually everything smaller than a pickup truck is a physics object. | |
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In Beauty and the Beast, the book Belle checks out at her village's library at the beginning is lighter than the other books on the shelf. | |
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Purposely avoided in the second episode of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, a missing cat decorated like a chimaera is sitting on the shelf in a bedroom filled with the belongings of a chuunibyou. In the full-room shot the cat is purposely drawn like the background. However this is explainable since said animal doesn't move until the next shot. | |
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Flash Gordon (1980) has a bit where, as a rocket travels forward entering the Imperial Vortex, this bright, transparent... thing moves behind it. Instead of moving steadily behind the rocket, it sort of jumps whenever the rocket's going to go past it. | |
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Discussed in episode 11 of The Fallen Gods when the only information Mara gives the party on what she wants from a wizard's Tower is "you'll know it when you see it". They decide that this trope will be how they spot it. | |
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Conspicuous in King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, the first SVGA King's Quest game, where the cartoonishness of interactable objects, in contrast to the backgrounds, sometimes make it ludicrously easy to figure out that, say, a statue is actually going to come to life and kill you. | |
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Animaniacs makes fun of this. In one episode, the Warner Brothers (and Sister) are rented out to a Hanna-Barbera-esque company, and placed in a Yogi-Bear-esque cartoon with plenty of these. | |
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Epic Mickey deliberately invokes this as a homage to old cartoons. Toon objects, which can be affected by Paint and Thinner, are bright and colorful, while Inert objects look dark and menacing, and cannot be painted or thinned. | |
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Final Fantasy VII has the point-and-click-adventure-game example of this trope. Any object, person or thing that can be examined or otherwise interacted with is rendered in rather blocky 3D (mind-blowing at the time, but extremely dated now, decades later) against the smoother, less-dated pre-rendered backgrounds. In fact, the main character remarks on it once or twice in the Beginners Hall. Even more obvious in the PC version and later ports of the game, in which the backgrounds are still 320x240 but everything else is in high resolution, especially on HD consoles. | |
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World of Warcraft The game frequently has quests where you have to pick up objects on the ground. These objects are scenery and can't be manipulated (and don't even light up when the cursor hits them) unless you're on the relevant quest. Since finding which book among the thousands of books you see in a building is the one you're supposed to pick up is annoying, Blizzard eventually made quest objects sparkle and glow to make them easier to discern. A variation on this is used in at least a couple of places, including the mines underneath one of the Mana Forges in Outland and during one of the Harrison Jones quests in Uldum. Dead NPCs that will spawn additional creatures lie on the ground. The ones that will spawn creatures use a different model and are rendered in higher detail than other "background" elements, making it very easy to tell which bodies will spawn mobs. Happens in most MMOs sooner or later, thanks to Players Are Morons (sort of justified on the side of the developers, because only the players who can't find the items will write long ranty bug reports saying finding the objects is impossible). |
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Referenced in the Past Doctor Adventures book Verdigris when Jo is asked: | |
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In Pokémon Sword and Shield, trees with harvestable berries are brighter and less detailed than the surrounding landscaping. | |
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Subverted (perhaps unintentionally) in cartoon, where Wile E. cuts a suspension bridge that's clearly drawn on a cel, but the fully painted cliff he's standing on falls instead. | |
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Lampshaded on The Daily Show. During the 2004 election, a segment is done with Rob Cordry lying handcuffed on the street, with an extremely obvious Aura. After the segment, Jon Stewart comments that it "looked like the street was melting away from him." | |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has instances of this: In the final mission of San Andreas, "End of the Line", the player is required to ram through a fortified wall using a SWAT APC. The breakable segment of the wall has a noticeably light tinge to itnote Due to how the building's lighting is baked during development but dynamic objects aren't., and its textures don't line up with the rest of the building. Same case with part of the bridge rail where Tenpenny's firetruck crashes through. Certain scenery such as pillars in the Majestic Hotel in Grand Theft Auto IV were made to take damage, with chunks flying off upon gunfire. A close look at these pillars will reveal subtle yet noticeable seams that make up the structure. |
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DuckTales (1987) has a title sequence example, in which Scrooge pops his head out of a lightly colored patch of gold coins. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Barrels that contain items are easy to tell apart from regular ones due to their noticably different texture. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has one companion perk which causes certain items to glow when the player aims. Useful in some of the darker caves and buildings. | |
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Jorel's Brother: Subverted in an online short. In a live show, three green doors are presented to be chosen; two of them have a paper texture like the rest of the backgrounds, while the other one is completely plain. Turns out the third one was not chosen, however, and one of the textured doors were opened instead. | |
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Dark Souls II uses a lighting engine which seems to use different values for NPCs and static objects - due to the washed-out filter and generally harsh lighting, this doesn't become particularly obvious until you encounter a Mimic in a dark room surrounded by real chests and spot it immediately because it's about five shades brighter. | |
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SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron: Visible, though subtle, in "The Giant Bacteria", at the very beginning, parts of an oil refinery blow up, and you can tell which is which ahead of time. They had it far less subtle most of the time, however, as the backgrounds were drawn in a rather lavishly detailed style reminiscent of a comic-book, but the animated pieces were less "stylized", and more similar to other animated series of the time. | |
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The Animals of Farthing Wood averted this by having certain objects painted on the animation cels so that the characters could use them without them looking conspicuous beforehand. | |
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American Pop: One character is seen playing the piano, and as he moves his arm his sleeve repeatedly flickers to a lighter shade than the rest of his shirt. | |
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Peasant's Quest subverts the game version. At one point in the game, a conspicuously light candle appears on the screen. If you try to get it, the game says "It seems like you should be able to do that, doesn't it? Sorry. No dice." | |
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Serious Sam, interestingly, features these. Behind a lightly colored spot on a wall, you can expect to find a secret by moving to it or shooting at it. | |
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Near the end of World 8-3 of the original Super Mario Bros., if you look very closely at the last brick wall in the background (it's behind the last Hammer Bros. there) before the flagpole, you can easily tell that one of the bricks making up the wall contains coins. What makes this obvious is the fact that the coin brick has a thin white line drawn above. In the SNES remake however, that brick is completely visible all the time as those walls have been removed and placed in a different background. | |
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Super Mario Bros. 3: One level features enemies who hide in brick blocks; the blocks concealing enemies are easily distinguishable because, due to palette limitations, they don't shimmer the way that normal blocks do. In the Super Mario All Stars remake there is no such giveaway, due to the SNES' more advanced graphics capabilities. They're still a slightly different color in All-Stars, though that's probably intentional. If you pause the game, though, enemies are not drawn. So if you see bricks disappear...now you know. Underground hidden blocks — on the NES, the starry background is a noticeably (though not too noticeably) different color where a hidden block will show up. Again, no dice on the SNES. The ROM Hack Mario Adventure adds random weather effects to every outdoor level. For whatever reason, the weather effects wouldn't appear where there was an Invisible Block, making many puzzles perhaps easier than they had been intended to be. |
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Molly of Denali: In "Hot Springs Eternal," when Molly goes to get a book from the book shelf, the blue book about hot springs stands out against the rest. Indeed, that's the book she picks out. | |
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The Crystal Dynamics-developed Tomb Raider games constantly use white ledges to signify which parts of the wall Lara can grab. The older games don't need these hints, as grabbable elements are more obvious due to the simpler landscapes. | |
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Early episodes of Quantum Leap also signal when Al is about to walk through something; his aura isn't striking, but he's often suddenly lit differently from the rest of the scene. This got better as the series went on; just as well, as some episode plots depended on both characters and viewers not being able to see any difference. | |
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Marooned: A lot of the outer space scene have noticeable auras around the spaceships and astronauts doing EVAs. | |
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In the "Conky" episode during the vet clinic scene, Randy and Lahey get shot with tranquilizer darts and Conky the hand puppet's head is blown apart with a gunshot while still on Bubbles' hand. The show is a mockumentary normally shot in long takes with handheld cameras, but these effects would of course be impractical and unsafe to try and achieve in real time on a low budget, so they're rather obviously shot in extreme close-up with stationery cameras instead. | |
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At the end of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, after Clark's Santa sleigh flies into the air as a result of the sewer explosion, you can see a faint rectangle around the sleigh as it flies in front of the moon. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Avatar Returns", the snow wall Sokka is standing on has plenty of these, including his snow watch tower, which collapses as Prince Zuko's ship approaches. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: Subverted in "Stimpy's Invention". When Ren goes to the kitchen to find something to take the happy helmet off with, he stands in front of the cupboards with one drawer drawn differently than the others, but he doesn't open it right away. After a scene change, the camera switches back to the kitchen, and the entire cupboard is drawn differently with no clue as to which drawer he might open, only then does he open the one that the previous scene alluded to. | |
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Resident Evil: Want to know if a corpse in the PlayStation-era game is just a corpse or if it's going to bite your legs off as you walk past? Just check whether it's rendered like the background or like a character model. Smooth-shaded = dead dead, jagged polygons = zombie. Not nearly so easy in the GameCube remake, however. The increased render capabilities make the zombies blend in a lot better to the remade backgrounds. Occasionally the series will fake you out, though, with a polygonal body that doesn't get up and try to eat you. Occurs with other objects as well, such as doors, paintings, etc. as they're usually noticeably brighter and more jagged than background objects. If a door looks like this, you can bet something'll come crashing through it sooner or later. Averted with breakable windows, which are hidden surprisingly well. |
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Arthur is prone to this, at least in the earlier episodes. For example, Arthur frequently visits the library, and it's pretty obvious which books he'll take off the shelf. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the area of floor you have to bomb in order to reach King Dodongo uses a texture that doesn't quite mesh with the floor around it; if you look closely you can see the seams. The rocks that you can bomb also tend to be very obvious, as they all use the same model. The Nintendo 64 Zeldas are terrible about this. Most of the interiors and one very key town in Ocarina are created with a pre-rendered background, thus the interactive objects are very obviously polygons. Majora's Mask is a little better about this, but still suffers from the limitations inherit in the console. (ONE rock is in this canyon, guess which one you have to bomb?) This is true in any Zelda game — a stretch of wall or piece of floor or what have you that needs bombing will have something that makes it different from the rest of the area. This would be justified in that it serves as a clue for players to figure out how to move forward in dungeons and gives them a rough idea of where exactly to bomb (so that they don't use up all of their bombs trying to hit the right spot). Secret areas will seldom have this, requiring you to slash the wall in different places with your sword (bombable walls go "clink" instead of "clang" when you slash them, a fact pointed out by a Goron in Ocarina's Fire Temple.) |
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CatDog, for example in the taco restaurant in the episode "All You Can't Eat" where CatDog crawl under the floor tiles and you can see the path they take outlined on the tiles. | |
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Steven Universe: According to the art book, the show's background artists deliberately make some background objects stick out even though they don't move. It's an attempt to make backgrounds more lively, based on a theory they call "threat of activation". A subtle joke in "Sadie's Song"; Sadie offers Steven a stuffed animal from a large pile. It looks like he's about to choose one that's a blatantly different style and color from the rest, but then he refuses. |
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In the first Mass Effect game, you would sometimes come across rows of weapons lockers in merc bases, and the only hackable locker would be a lot brighter than the rest. | |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic, interactive items have a blue-tinged sheen to them, ordinarily conspicuous enough. But on snowy planets like Alderaan or Hoth, lighting gives everything a blue cast, meaning the player could glimpse a security chest out of the corner of their eye... nope, just a rock. | |
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A few Doraemon movies, especially from the older series, uses this trope every now and then. Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth has Gian avoiding the bombing of Hotel Burinkin from Napogistler's planes amidst a copse of palm trees, all but one in the foreground which are dark-coloured. Then, Gian decides to fight back by ripping out one of the trees as an improvised baseball bat - guess which one he rips out. Just guess. Appears again in the climax of Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom, when Nobita uses the Anything Controller on one of the robot colosseum's giant statues to improvise a giant mech and battle Dester. Those statues are mostly dark-colored, solid and blends with the background, and the one Nobita pilots quickly turns light and animated. |
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In Far Cry 3 the drugs you can take in the cave are a distinctly different shade of red from the rest of the bowl. | |
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In the Hammer House of Horror episode "Charlie Boy", it's blatantly obvious which item in a collection of African figurines will be the haunted/cursed/whatever artifact, even before anyone singles it out for attention on screen. That's because it's the only one that's so shoddily-crafted that it must have been built specifically as a prop for a low-budget horror TV show. | |
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An episode of Black Cat Detective sees Black Cat dealing with a hungry elephant who's eating bricks from civlian houses. The lighter colored bricks are the ones he ripped off to stuff his face with, of course. | |
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In Gargoyles, the animators worked very hard to keep the stone gargoyles from being Fudd Flags. When stone, the gargoyles are in background animation, appearing as any other inanimate object. When they come to life, they are in cel animation. This trope is back to being played straight whenever somebody needs to move a stone gargoyle, but that doesn't happen very often. | |
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Turns up in the old arcade game, Kabuki Z. In the underground crypt, the floors are filled with bones and skulls, most which are perfectly blended with the background, but some are still pale white and suspiciously sticks out. As you fight the undead warrior who starts summoning a set of skeletal armor for himself, sure enough, the outstanding bones are the ones that revives. | |
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"Falling Hare" does it several times, but it's most noticeable on a section of a wall that Bugs Bunny backs up into in order to ram open a door. | |
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Back to the Future: In "Gone Fishin'", the section of a cliff that collapses under Young Emmett (or, in the changed timeline, under Marty) has a rather obvious black outline while the rest of the cliff is a painting. | |
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Space Quest: Spoofed in one of the first few screens of Space Quest 3. Using the parser to try and examine a very inconspicuous object gives a message along the lines of "We know what you're looking at, and we assure you, you don't need it." In one of the first screens of Space Quest 2 there was a suspicious square of grass outlined by dots, concealing a Pit Trap. The command "look at trap", which only worked on this screen, would tell you to stop being paranoid. |
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In Pokémon Red and Blue, Koga's Gym has "invisible walls" that you have to find your way around to get to the Gym Leader. The tiles with "invisible walls" on them have four white dots, allowing you to find the right path fairly easily. This was most likely intended as a hint for players, since it's not hard to make a tile have the properties of a wall but the image of a floor. It still isn't THAT easy, since you sometimes walk into dead ends. | |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact has an aura in most exterior shots of the Leonov, most noticeable when the ship moves toward the camera. | |
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Parodied in episode 15 of Pani Poni Dash!. When the bus is teetering on the edge of the cliff, every external shot of the cliff shows the edge of the cliff very obviously animated this way, indicating that the cliff is about to crumble. It never does. | |
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In The Lion King (1994) during the elephant graveyard scene, all background bones are dark grey but animated bones are a light cream color. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Two-Face (Part One)," there's an extreme closeup of Harvey Dent's disfigured face, where his left eye opens just so and he looks at his girlfriend and the doctor talking about him. In order to keep his appearance somewhat mysterious, the animators did twenty-four background plates with the eyelid opening to match, and then had the pupil as a cel-animated piece. It is creepy. | |
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: Objects that are interactive but would not otherwise be obvious glow. | |
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Each level in Yoshi's Island for the SNES had 20 red coins, disguised as and placed among regular gold coins. However, if you look very closely, you'll notice that the disguised red coins have a subtle red tint to them, which makes them easy to distinguish from the gold coins once you know what to look for. This trick doesn't work in the GBA remake. | |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks makes a lot of use of this, from a door that's shortly going to be opened, to a boulder that's going to fall down on the heroes. | |
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Dumbo: In the "Baby Mine" scene, when we see the montage of baby animals and their mothers after Dumbo and Timothy visit Dumbo's mother still in the cage, a mother zebra actually has her head drawn on an individual cel while her body is drawn onto the background! (Her foal is also drawn on an individual cel). | |
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Pokémon: In Pokémon Red and Blue, Koga's Gym has "invisible walls" that you have to find your way around to get to the Gym Leader. The tiles with "invisible walls" on them have four white dots, allowing you to find the right path fairly easily. This was most likely intended as a hint for players, since it's not hard to make a tile have the properties of a wall but the image of a floor. It still isn't THAT easy, since you sometimes walk into dead ends. In all of the Pokémon games, places where you can use HM moves stand out, from a different kind of rock being breakable, rocky slopes that can be climbed, and dark patches of water that serve as Dive spots. In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Ninja Boy◊ trainers disguise themselves as trees... rather poorly, since it's easy to tell they're a different color from everything around them. Justified because they're supposed to be cardboard cutouts in-universe. |
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Rugrats: In one scene when Jonathan is snooping around Charlotte's house, trying to find something to embarrass her with at the office, he comes across a shelf of home movies. On the tape that he takes, the label is a different shade of blue than the rest, and has different handwriting. | |
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The Adventures of Tintin (1991): In "Cigars of the Pharaoh", the inside of a cigar box is shown. The cigar which Tintin picks up is quite clearly drawn on a cel, whereas the rest of the cigars are obviously part of the background. | |
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The anime of Blue Seed has an omake sequence after one episode which parodies this; one character stops and monologues on the properties of a set of desk drawers, noticing that one is drawn more simply and in a different palette — therefore, it must be the only one that moves, and contains the item he is looking for. In the same sequence, Matsudaira warns Kunikida not to step on a part of the cliff that is colored differently. Much to their surprise, the more complex part of the cliff collapses. | |
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Mystical aura is spoofed in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with the Mayor's ad for Sardine Land, in order to make it all the more crapstastic. Ironically, since the film is made with state-of-the-art CGI, it took a bit of doing to properly simulate the look of bad Chroma Key. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Trap doors, curtains hiding monsters, vases that activate secret passages, paintings with moving eyes, it's everywhere. Quasi-subverted in the theme song, however, with an obviously-background-painted Scooby-Doo covered in cotton candy, which is cleared away by an animated tongue to reveal the lighter, animated Scooby. | |
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In the German animated film Felidae, when Francis is running away from some cats chasing him, he runs out on a plank balanced by a heavy sack. You can tell this plank is going to fall because it's drawn on a cel, rather than painted like the rest of the background. | |
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If you see a patch on a wall in Mondo Medicals that is lighter than the rest of the wall, you can walk through that part. This is key to solving many of the game's puzzles, including "Counts to Fifteen" (15 is hidden behind one of the walls). | |
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Trailer Park Boys: In the "Conky" episode during the vet clinic scene, Randy and Lahey get shot with tranquilizer darts and Conky the hand puppet's head is blown apart with a gunshot while still on Bubbles' hand. The show is a mockumentary normally shot in long takes with handheld cameras, but these effects would of course be impractical and unsafe to try and achieve in real time on a low budget, so they're rather obviously shot in extreme close-up with stationery cameras instead. |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Objects that characters interact with are animated (typically in a medium matching at least one person using it) while background objects are live-action. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the area of floor you have to bomb in order to reach King Dodongo uses a texture that doesn't quite mesh with the floor around it; if you look closely you can see the seams. The rocks that you can bomb also tend to be very obvious, as they all use the same model. | |
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The original The Legend of Zelda has identical dungeon walls whether a bomb will punch a hole in them or not. Fortunately, only the middle of any given wall needs checking. The overworld is far trickier, since bombable walls always face south, but otherwise can be in any location. (It helps to remember that bombing between tiles can let you hit two walls at once.) | |
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Invoked in the LEGO Adaptation Games, where non-LEGO scenery serves only as background. All interactions involve only LEGO items. | |
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My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Fugitive Flowers, Part 1", a panoramic shot of Dream Valley is, as usual for the show, mostly a hand-drawn painting, with the exception of a single notably cel-shaded tree in the distance, which also stands out for being larger and more individually detailed than the fuzzy mass of forest around it. Sure enough, at the end of the shot, the tree gets knocked over to mark the Crabnasties blundering through the woods. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants inverts it with the robot waiter in the episode "No Weenies Allowed", which (except for its claws) is a painted background object whenever it appears. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (which is animated digitally) when Apache Chief picks up a telephone pole and it's suddenly a different color from when it was a background object. | |
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Bananaman: The bricks the eponymous hero breaks through in "Bananaman Meets Dr. Gloom" are clearly much brighter than the rest of the wall. | |
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Doctor Who: There's two pre-Chroma Key examples in William Hartnell stories. In "The Keys of Marinus", it's obvious when the characters are going to use the teleportation devices, because they move in front of a completely black square of backdrop to do it — usually disguised as the inside of a doorway, but sometimes just a random black square hanging around for no reason. The effect of the seed shrinking in "Planet of Giants" also takes place in front of a completely black panel in the TARDIS that was not there before and is never shown there again. It's quite easy to tell in the Classic series when a Dalek is going to get a severe thrashing, because it stops twitching its eyestalk, gun and plunger beforehand, due to there being no human inside for obvious safety reasons. This is especially noticeable in the scene where the TARDIS crew and the Thals storm the Dalek city at the end of "The Daleks" due to the minimal amount of editing possible with the No Budget conditions, so motionless Daleks are on screen for a surprisingly long time before Ian runs up to them and kicks them. In "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", you can even tell which Daleks in a group are going to be attacked by which ones aren't moving. In "The Claws of Axos", one of the TARDIS roundels is inexplicably blue. Later in the scene, it is CSOed into becoming a viewscreen. In "Dark Water", a spare TARDIS key is hidden in a book which looks much newer than any of the other books on the shelf with it. |
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In the episode of Digimon Adventure 02 with the Dark Ocean, Kari is at one point inside a tunnel when part of the ceiling collapses. The bricks that fall are a shade lighter than the ones that don't. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth has Gian avoiding the bombing of Hotel Burinkin from Napogistler's planes amidst a copse of palm trees, all but one in the foreground which are dark-coloured. Then, Gian decides to fight back by ripping out one of the trees as an improvised baseball bat - guess which one he rips out. Just guess. | |
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Parodied in Episode 70 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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In the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Dorian Secret", the actual secret of the mask-wearing culture in question is given away just a half-second early, during the shot where the camera pans across three of the Dorian men finally removing their masks. Or rather, it's supposed to look like a continuous panning shot, except the transition between one Dorian and the next is a very bad splicing job, that doesn't at all conceal the fact that the same actor is being shown over and over, each time removing a different mask, to illustrate that all Dorians look exactly like all others of their sex. | |
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Crysis tags hostile targets in bright colors. | |
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DUSK-12 does this in stages where there are walls with different colour textures. Destructible walls are in a lighter shade and goes down in just a handful of punches, behind it being the area you'll need to proceed. Normal textured walls on the other hand can't be interacted with and you can spend a day attacking it to no avail. | |
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Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 3 spoofs it. A bricked-up doorway features a obviously discoloured brick, the only selectable object upon the surface. It's just there to have Marty make a joke about it being "another brick in the wall". Subsequent clicks confirm its useless nature, with Marty commenting that it is just a brick. | |
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Extreme Ghostbusters: In an episode featuring the Piper, when the characters are standing on the pier, one can see that the foreground planks in a richer shade of mahogany shortly before they're smashed to pieces. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: In the episode "The Beacon", there's a Funny Background Event of Scorpia trying to patch holes in a crude brick wall while Catra and Entrapta talk. You can tell which bricks will fall out before they do because they're a lighter shade of green than the ones that are part of the background painting. | |
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The creators of Doom³ made a point of rendering both fixed and dynamic objects the same way for this reason, among others. | |
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Xanadu (1980): Sonny gets gets a mystical aura as he enters the muses' world, as seen at the bottom of this page. | |
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In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, most blatantly during the end scene where the Grinch is cutting the roast beast, not only is each slice cel-animated, but each slice cuts and looks identical — and the roast never gets smaller. Many Seuss-based animated films suffer from this effect. | |
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Appears again in the climax of Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom, when Nobita uses the Anything Controller on one of the robot colosseum's giant statues to improvise a giant mech and battle Dester. Those statues are mostly dark-colored, solid and blends with the background, and the one Nobita pilots quickly turns light and animated. | |
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Certain scenery such as pillars in the Majestic Hotel in Grand Theft Auto IV were made to take damage, with chunks flying off upon gunfire. A close look at these pillars will reveal subtle yet noticeable seams that make up the structure. | |
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Doom, as with many early FPSes, uses many Conspicuously Light Patches along with other texturing and lighting tricks, as they're often a clue to where a secret is, or where monsters will come from. In this case, they're put in deliberately to help the player rather than a side effect of graphical limitations; several commercial and fan-made levels do avert this, and it makes things exponentially more frustrating. | |
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Crunchy Bunches made fun of this in one comic. | |
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In the climatic fight scene in The Princess and the Goblin Curdie rushes to get a sword from the weapons room. It's extremely obvious which weapon he's going to pick up because of this trope. | |
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Dragon Ball Z has it, though not as bad as some other cartoons of the era. For example, it's usually obvious when rocks are going to break because they're lighter and less detailed.◊ | |
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The Secret of NIMH: While the characters' fairly straightforward animation is understandable in contrast to the sumptuously painted backgrounds, when something in the background needs animating, it can be rather jarring. The mud sloshing around the Brisbys' house as they're trying to move it is particularly obvious. Plus the scene where Mrs. Brisby pushes out the water dish to escape the cage. It changes between static painting and movable cartoon in every edit. The same is true with the latch Nicodemus uses to open his cage - it also switches to a hand-drawn cel just after zooming in. |
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In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the Ninja Boy◊ trainers disguise themselves as trees... rather poorly, since it's easy to tell they're a different color from everything around them. Justified because they're supposed to be cardboard cutouts in-universe. | |
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Done intentionally in the "Secrets of the Muppets" episode of The Jim Henson Hour. Henson explains how the room he is hosting the show from is blue-screened, then holds a bright blue necktie in front of himself, making his chest transparent and demonstrating the Chroma Key technique. Subverted later on; Jojo (the Audience Surrogate) claims that he can now tell when Chroma Key is being used. When a Doozer from Fraggle Rock enters the room, he claims that it's obvious the character isn't really there, and is probably about three feet tall and standing in front of a blue screen somewhere. Jim then picks up the Doozer, demonstrating that it is actually a radio controlled puppet, and then begins the segment on how characters like that are made. | |
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Circle of Blood averts this; everything (everything) is in the same cartoonish style, including things two or three pixels wide that you need to pick up. If you don't mouse over every pixel in a new area, you'll miss something. | |
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In several Kingdom Hearts games, destructible obstacles have a different look from the rest of the landscape. | |
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On Babylon 5: Some special effects failures let you see the characters were suddenly in front of a blue screen such that someone was going to do something that required a special effect to depict. Due to the way the widescreen version was produced you can spot the picture quality drop with every effects shot in Babylon 5 on DVD, at least on a good quality TV setup. |
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On Cuphead's world map, the backgrounds are painted with watercolors, while things you can interact with — like characters, stages, and shops — are ink-drawn. This is both for the player's benefit and to deliberately invoke the style of old cartoons, where cel-animated objects would stick out over the painted backgrounds. | |
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In City of Heroes, items that had to be found to complete a mission not only pulsed with light, but emitted a sound to alert players to their presence, earning them the nickname of "glowies" among players. This falls under the category of Acceptable Breaks from Reality. The "glowies" didn't originally include the sound clue for finding them, but since some were tucked into corners and nearly impossible to locate by sight alone, the sound effect was added to relieve frustration and reduce GM calls. You could alter the file and make them emit any sound you care to, if the "wom wom wom" noise was too disruptive or irritating. | |
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Lampshaded, as with other animation tropes, on the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Your World is an Illusion". Holo-Jane tries to explain to K.O. that his world isn't real, and has him pick up one of two pebbles on the ground. One is in a lighter color, while the other one is more rendered and clearly part of the background. K.O. instinctively picks up the lighter pebble, but when Holo-Jane asks him to pick up the other one, he finds himself unable to. | |
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Lilo & Stitch uses this deliberately as part of the art style, as all the characters are cel animated on top of watercolour backgrounds. | |
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Pokémon Journeys: The Series: Goh calls out his giant Golurk to help him dig for fossils. The Pokémon stretches and faces the background, where you can see a large boulder that's animated differently and ready to move, only seen for this scene. Golurk actually ignores this boulder completely to break open a regular-looking rock. | |
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Inverted in the anime of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, as the titanic Ohmu insects are made up of animated backgrounds. | |
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Extremely apparent in some Muppet productions, as Jim Henson liked using Chroma Key a lot in the mid-80's. It gets to the point where you can tell something's up when you see that "mystical aura" around a character. Done intentionally in the "Secrets of the Muppets" episode of The Jim Henson Hour. Henson explains how the room he is hosting the show from is blue-screened, then holds a bright blue necktie in front of himself, making his chest transparent and demonstrating the Chroma Key technique. Subverted later on; Jojo (the Audience Surrogate) claims that he can now tell when Chroma Key is being used. When a Doozer from Fraggle Rock enters the room, he claims that it's obvious the character isn't really there, and is probably about three feet tall and standing in front of a blue screen somewhere. Jim then picks up the Doozer, demonstrating that it is actually a radio controlled puppet, and then begins the segment on how characters like that are made. |
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In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, anything you can use the Grapple Lasso on shimmers yellow, while ledges you can jump to and pull yourself up onto shimmer green. In all three of the Metroid Prime Trilogy games scannable enemies and objects are Color-Coded for Your Convenience to tell you if you have scanned them or not. Justified, as Samus's visors are equipped with a Heads-Up Display and her suit holds an internal computer. The Power Suit is highlighting these things for her. | |
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