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Dramatic Pause
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The Dramatic Pause is a beat or two of silence with no dialogue and little or no music/background sound. Usually done to heighten the anticipation before The Reveal. Also called a "Pregnant Pause", it can also follow the reveal... it's just that shocking! It's fairly common in situations where it takes a moment for the joke to sink in. In Sequential Art, it is often depicted by a Beat Panel. A classic of mystery serials and soap operas would be to follow with a three-note sequence heralding The Reveal. As in, "Nobody leaves! There's been ...(Dramatic Pause)... a murder!" (DUN-DUN-DAAAH!) Basically, the dramatic equivalent of an "Applause" sign in a TV studio. Soap Operas often use a version of this called the Melodramatic Pause. The print equivalent (what you see in Literature and sequential art) is the Dramatic Ellipsis. A single-note (or chord) version of this is called a dramatic sting. The Sting is a Discredited Trope, although subtle variations can still be effective. The Dramatic Pause itself will likely remain alive trope for a long, long time; it's rather hard to overdo silence, after all. Stilted delivery, on the other hand... Often used in Arson Murder And Life Saving. Can overlap with Stopped Dead in Their Tracks. Compare Beat, which is shorter, and usually used for comedic effect. See also Stop and Go for the musical version. Can turn into a Beam Me Up, Scotty! when fans routinely introduce a dramatic pause into a line that never had one. ("The question is ... do I feel lucky?") If it's just the music that stops, see Sudden Soundtrack Stop. |
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When Vimes is talking to "Madam" Roberta Meserole in Night Watch Discworld: | |
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Viz: Parodied in an episode of Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly. In the first panel, Roger is standing with the contestants. He says: "And the winner is..." He then walks off stage, drives away from the studio, spends the night in the pub, goes home to bed, gets up the next morning, eats breakfast, drives back to the studio and walks back on stage to announce the winner's name in the last panel. | |
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Bleach: The fight between Charlotte and Yumichika is full of music and dialogue until the moment Charlotte appears to win. He clarifies to Yumichika what his final attack is doing, and suddenly.... silence. Even the music stops. Cue Glowing Eyes of Doom and Pre Ass Kicking One Liner as Yumichika proceeds to curb stomp Charlotte. Done to powerful effect with Hitsugaya when he realises he's stabbed Hinamori instead of Aizen. Everything stops: characters, fighting, dialogue, music. Everything. And then the screen itself blacks out. And then Hitsugaya explodes. |
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Shatner may be famous for it, but he's a positively fluid communicator compared to B-grade actor Thom Christopher, best known as Hawk from Buck Rogers and to MSTies as Troxartes, the villain from Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell. | |
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In AIR, the music gets cut off right before Misuzu's famous "goal"-moment. After that, the immensely melancholic vocal version of that tune kicks in, which makes the sadness of the scene hit really hard. | |
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Played with in The Vicar of Dibley, when the characters are rehearsing for a scene from the Nativity in which the angel (played by Geraldine) comes down to the shepherds to tell of Jesus's birth. The comedy comes from Owen and Frank mistaking Geraldine's dramatic pauses for forgetting the lines and prompting her, causing her to lose her temper. On the night: |
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The Happy Video Game Nerd: Every once in a while; often, he smiles creepily right after one. | |
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This was parodied to shreds in Whose Line Is It Anyway??; after every question the "host" would ramble on about how it's such a crying shame that the guest went all the way to New York just to win a million dollars! And if there's a commercial break coming up, they'll often keep the dramatic pause up to end on a Cliffhanger, then start a new dramatic pause on the return and have even made answering the question an episode-ending Cliffhanger, though. |
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Played for laughs in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, whenever Anthony reveals the new object of his affections. The Protagonist apparently considers this so shocking even the background music stops for a few seconds (Anthony quickly learns to anticipate this reaction and complains about it.) | |
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Used for completely non-dramatic reasons in an episode of Dave the Barbarian. At the end of the story, Dave appears, Behind The Scenes style, and, referring to something he'd done during the episode, says, "I bet a lot of you are wondering why I tied a squirrel to a megaphone." Dramatic Pause "Well, bye!" | |
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Justice League villain Manga Khan soliliquizes as part of a medical condition, and demands his subjects make dramatic pauses before any important announcements. | |
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Colonel Kepler of Wolf 359 speaks verrrrrrry slowly and uses...a lot...of these. It's probable that he does this just to put people on edge. | |
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Red Mage from 8-Bit Theater likes to "DUN DUN DUUUN!" at moments he considers dramatic. | |
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"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am [insert something hilarious]! I am [Dramatic Pause]: Darkwing Duck!" | |
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Dr. Weird from Aqua Teen Hunger Force is fond of this. "Gentlemen... behold!" | |
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The voice director of Grandia Xtreme seemed to love this trope: "This blow will...split your skull!" "I'll cut you in...two!" "X...Slash!" "Eat...this!" "I'll carve...YOU up!" "Dra...gon...Rise...oh!" "Dragon...Mirage!" |
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has these in narration and sometimes in dialogue to add tension. | |
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The Hives are famous for their high octane live performaces with the Almqvist brothers (lead singer and guitarist) jumping all over the stage (and sometimes into the audience). But during performances of their song Tick Tick Boom, the whole band suddenly freezes like statues for several seconds while the audience goes nuts around them. (Here for almost a minute starting at around 2.30) It's impressive. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, when Shinji holds Kaworu in the hand of his Eva. The same frame lasts for about a minute before he finally crushes Kaworu! | |
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The protagonist notes that Mike has been putting appropriate pauses in his speech to sound more human. He assumes that as Robots Think Faster, Mike just spends this interval doing something else, then goes back to the conversation. | |
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Parodied in My Life as a Background Slytherin, where Snape pretty much constantly does this (as inspired by Alan Rickman's performance in the Harry Potter movies). | |
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This is also used in Slumdog Millionaire. | |
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When called on this trait by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, he explained that he adopted the mannerism because "I kept forgetting my lines." (Specifically, he had trouble remembering the technobabble on Star Trek. | |
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Heavily Lampshaded in Freakazoid!!, in which "BUM-BUM-BUUUUM!" was sung by the characters, Joe the announcer, or even the background singers. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "I see you shiver with antici...................................note "Say it! Say it master!"............................................................................pation." The criminologist is guilty of these, too, leaving plenty of space for Audience Participation lines. |
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Norbert of The Angry Beavers in one episode planned to foil Daggit's "Muscular Beaver" superhero persona (make-believe, of course) with his very own villain identity wherein he revealed himself as "Baron von Bad Beaver" followed by a "Dun-dun-duuunn!" to which he added for an even longer pause "Dramatic reverb!" | |
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In the penultimate episode of the The Shield, there is a pause that lasts almost a minute right before Vic Mackey confesses all of his crimes to Olivia under ICE's immunity. | |
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Seen and Not Heard: Bet's rabbi pauses before telling her "something deep and vital". The transcript describes this as "The RABBI milks the moment." | |
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In Auction Kings, anytime an expert looks at a signature, expect a pause before they announce if its authentic. | |
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Top Gear (UK)'s Jeremy Clarkson is considered to use some of the longest dramatic pauses Clarkson once criticized Harry Enfield's impression of him by saying that he left out the ellipsis in the catchphrase. |
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Klarion... bumbumbum... the Witch Boy, obscure DC Comics character (with almost no concrete characterization), given an unusual Verbal Tic by Peter David. | |
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Going Postal has the Smoking Gnu's secret weapon, "... The Woodpecker." | |
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Angua is sometimes used to deliver this a a sort of running joke, although it also appears in Monstrous Regiment. | |
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Overused in Deal or No Deal before opening a case, or just about any other Game Show where they need to stretch a dozen questions or decisions into an hour of programming. If they didn't use all the dramatic pauses, the episode could be over in just 2 minutes and 46 seconds. |
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My So-Called Life: The characters often pause mid-sentence, giving the dialogue a lurching and improvisational feel, even if the line is otherwise constructed very elegantly. Lampshaded when Rickie mimicks Mr. Katimski, who is probably the most egregious offender. But all the major characters did this a lot. In the case of Jordan Catalano, it was used to highlight how he was fumbling to come up with something, anything, to say. That lurching sensation, mentioned before... was further heightened by having the actors... pause at just the right point in the sentence that the apparent meaning being expressed... seemed to change after the pause. |
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The Garden of Sinners has one of the most terrifying uses of the dramatic pause ever at the end of episode 2. | |
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Non-Terran characters in Starcraft II love... dramatic pauses. | |
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Infinite Stratos does this when Laura steals Ichika's First Kiss. The frames then show Cecilia's, Ling's, and Houki's faces. | |
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"Rest. ... In. ... PEAAAAACE." | |
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BECAUSE I'M THE MIZ...AND I'M...AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME! | |
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The character Q from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike talks exclusively in dramatic pauses. | |
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This happens quite a few times in Reba. One example: Reba's comment regarding her dress for a beauty pageant she attended: "I feel overdressed... for Vegas." | |
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In Twice Charmed, Lady Tremaine does this in the reprise of "In A Moment." | |
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An episode of Batman: The Animated Series has The Creeper say "Last time I saw you, you were working for... dramatic pause... The Joker!" That's right, he actually says "dramatic pause". He also asks for a drumroll when he is about to say his name. | |
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In the original Broadway version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the chorus ends the opening song "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" with "...The Demon barber of Fleet ... Street!" | |
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Tlf Travel Alerts takes it to ridiculous extremes: | |
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In Despicable Me, Gru tells the minions "Next, we are going to steal... (pause for effect) ...THE MOOOOOOOON!" | |
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Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami is infamous for doing this in the middle of his one liners. Not to mention he punctuates the dramatic pause even further by taking the opportunity to don his Sunglasses of Doom. Every. Single. Time. |
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Abused to hell and back by Crocus in One Piece, who ends anything he says with a long dramatic pause, complete with *WHAM* sounds, even when he's saying pretty irrelevant things. He lampshades it when the Straw Hats ask him to stop doing that, saying it's a Running Gag. | |
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In Mother 3, this is used a lot during the final battle. After the Masked Man reveals himself as Claus, there's a long pause before he suddenly fires a bolt of lightning at Lucas. When this is inevitably reflected back at him by the Franklin Badge, the text that normally appears has a brief but noticeable pause. | |
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An episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (yes, it was a TV series briefly) has the punctuated sting performed by a trio of trumpeteers who always happen to be in the scene when it's called for. At one point, Wayne got so fed up he confiscated their trumpets, only for them to replace them with kazoos. | |
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Parodied in Futurama with Calculon, self-proclaimed master of the dramatic... pause! | |
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Played dead straight in game shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: Occasionally the host in this situation will actually begin this last statement with something that implies that the contestant got the answer wrong ("You've done a great job..." etc.), before switching back and declaring the answer correct. |
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In the TV adaptation of Hogfather, actor Marc Warren gave Mr. Teatime a Verbal Tic of pausing before the last word of every sentence ("I guess I just see things... differently."). This added a level of creepiness to Teatime's soft-spoken Psychopathic Manchild characterization. | |
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Code Geass: Aw, look at poor, blind, disabled Nunnally. *sad violin* ...and then she opens her eyes. Sad violin theme vanishes. | |
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In The Truth, scrap magnate Harry King (who also happens to manage the city's "night soil" collection) warns William de Worde that his investment in the newspaper had better pay off or they'll be "in deep... trouble. Face downwards." William later mentions wanting to avoid "deep significant pause trouble" with Mr. King. | |
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Happens in Portal 2 when you shoot the moon with your portal gun. As a Genius Bonus it lasts about 1.4 seconds, or the time it takes for light to reach the moon. | |
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Avenger is notorious for these. Pauses are long and drawn out; they often switch between two character's faces for their reactions. The problem with this is that it is an anime, and at least one such exchange occurs between the unemotional protagonist and the antagonist, whom you only see the lower face of. The worst was between the antagonist and a subordinate in another city. | |
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In Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, one of Fayt's battle quotes is "Blade...of Fury!" | |
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Used all the time in My Immortal. For example, this gem: | |
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Dracula as played by Bela Lugosi: "I never drink ..... wine. | |
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Parodied in Clan of the Cats during a horror movie spoof where Jubal takes a dramatic pause so long, he stops and checks his watch during it. | |
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In Mononoke the Medicine Peddler constantly...talks like...this. Usually with the angle of the shot switching with every word. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, from "May the Best Pet Win!": | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kaiba comes back from the dead as a ghost to duel Yugi, a rematch for beating him earlier in the show. He makes his entrance at a dueling station with this line in the 4kids dub: | |
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Every episode of Justice's short run did this before announcing the verdict. | |
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The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan does it quite a lot, both in his narration and his appearances at the end of each episode telling contestants whether they're eliminated or not. One time, a team actually broke down in giggles in the middle of his pause and told him to just get on with it already. | |
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Jeff Probst also uses the pause on Survivor when an elimination comes down to the last vote in the urn. When it doesn't, he just flips around the deciding vote while saying "Nth person voted out of Survivor..." which pretty much kills the drama of the vote. In earlier seasons, he would simply flip over the vote silently and let it speak for itself, which was much more climactic. | |
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From the Prologue of Into the Woods: | |
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In Soul Music, Quoth the Raven gets fussed at by Death of Rats for giving the "DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN!" stinger before telling Susan Sto Helit who her grandfather is. | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: From Princesses in the Darkest Depths, used when someone's telling of their multi-year quest: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Hush" the voices of everyone in Sunnydale are stolen by some demons, so Giles has to give his usual exposition via overhead transparencies, including one saying only "then" in order to include a suitable dramatic pause. | |
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Kefka in Dissidia Final Fantasy emphasises the "dramatic" in Dramatic Pause. "I'm afraid the mouse is SMACK...dabinthemiddleofenemyterritory." | |
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Done to death on "results shows" for talent (or any other reality) programming. You can just tune in in the last five minutes of American Idol to see who's going home, and even then, Ryan's going to say "The person going home this week is..." | |
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Barney in How I Met Your Mother does this all the time. His mid-word pauses are Legen...wait for it...dary! He actually managed to hold the beat between two whole seasons one time, and once fell asleep partway. | |
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Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: In-Universe, when Grant asks the people handling the crisis at Hoover Dam whether Lake Mead should hold all the incoming water. Nobody dares to answer positively. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil": In the first scene, both the Background Music and the dialogue stop for two seconds after Louis de Pointe du Lac informs Lestat de Lioncourt that Jackson Square used to be the site where runaway slaves were decapitated and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart": The Background Music becomes quiet after Claudia blurts out that Lestat is cheating on Louis with Antoinette, and no words are exchanged for several seconds. |
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