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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })This is an admitted Sub-Trope of the Bad Writing Index, but sometimes it's fun. You might find it hard to believe, but some writers actually use way too much emphasis in their descriptions! Using punctuation, formatting and endless superlatives, they exhaust you by endlessly insisting THAT EVERYTHING THEY TELL YOU IS TOTALLY EPIC!! You'll see a lot of shouting on this very wiki, but since the question of whether or not it's overdone is purely subjective, what can you do? NOTHING!! Overemphasis comes in many forms. The writer may be typing as though they were talking to you, and attempting to convey their excitement by yelling! They might be using text-only formatting tricks like setting boxes aside, underlining and using different colors. Perhaps they insist on using intense words like "incredible" and "despicable" when there's not much reason to. In any case, the effect is the same: you're left without a way to gauge how amazing or important things "really" are. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Remember this: when everything is emphasized, nothing is! Related to Bold Inflation and overlaps with This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! when "bitch" comes every other sentence. It can also crop up when the character (or writer) is particularly enthusiastic, invested or offended. This can result in any one of the What Do You Mean, It's Not an Index? tropes. When similar overemphasis is used in acting, the result is an enormous, ebullient Large Ham!! See also Punctuated! For! Emphasis!! for constrained emphasis. Sarcasm Mode is used in print media for similar reasons. |
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The Birthday Cake's storybook is guilty of this in Awful Hospital. It is a very excitable, high-strung, and easily irritable pastry. | |
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The book Antigua: The Land of Fairies Wizards and Heroes, mentioned on So Bad, It's Good, falls into that category largely because of this. More recent printings have been edited to use more sensible punctuation, but in the Amazon preview for the original version, every other sentence or so ended in an exclamation point. | |
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In over ten years of Gene Catlow, there are maybe two sentences that don't end in either an exclamation point, a question mark, or an ellipsis. This can make the frequent exposition frustrating to read, especially on an Archive Binge. | |
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The dialogue in Dominic Deegan is filled with bolded words. Sometimes it's there to make sure that readers don't miss the puns, but most of the time it's downright random. | |
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Mainstream comic books tend to do this with bold text. It's actually very strange and no one seems to know why it happens. Possibly, it's intended to highlight the key (i.e., plot relevant) words in the character's speech, and has nothing to do with how the characters are talking. That way the readers, if they want to get to the guys in colored tights beating on each other, can skim more easily. That doesn't make it any less weird for someone who isn't used to reading comics. Linkara loves to point out this, as reading speech balloons aloud (sometimes, as dramatically as possible) is obligatory for his reviews. Often (though not always) the emphasized words are those that one would expect to be stressed slightly more in natural-sounding speech: "His power ... I've never seen anything like it!" Using bold text does come across as a bit overly dramatic and italic would probably be better, but a lot of letterers produce "normal" text that's already slanted significantly from the vertical, so that italic doesn't stand out as much. | |
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In the 1997 informative video The Kids Guide to the Internet Peter signs off on an e-mail with "Peter!!!!" | |
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Chris Evans has a naturally ebullient style of presentation, which people more used to his predecessors Sarah Kennedy and Terry Wogan might consider to be shouty and over-excited. Evans is certainly capable of treating the mundane with hyperbolic enthusiasm. | |
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Karkat from Homestuck CONSTANTLY TYPES IN ALL CAPS NO MATTER WHAT HE'S SAYING. This is likely deliberate on his part, representing how PISSED OFF AT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING HE IS, PRETTY MUCH CONSTANTLY. | |
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The Breath of Fire series is particularly guilty of this, combining it with Rainbow Speak. | |
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Aaron William's works (Nodwick, Ps238), for otherwise exceptional series, can often feature uncomfortable amounts of this. | |
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In MAD, words are bolded apparently at random. Might be a parody of comic books as a genre. | |
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Forward uses it deliberately, depicting resident Cloud Cuckoolander River's thoughts with "Riverthink", consisting of randomly-placed italics, bold, underlining, and sudden switches to centered or right-aligned text. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey's assistant Miss Climpson likes to emphasize everything with italics in her letters.note Actually single, double, and triple underlining, which in print translates to italics, small caps, and all caps respectively. Also lots of exclamation points. Since they usually only take up a few pages, it's more of a character quirk than an annoyance. Wimsey lampshades it in at least one book, with a comment to the effect that to Miss Climpson, everything is epic. | |
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In an episode of Seinfeld, Elaine (working as an editor) goes overboard on the exclamation points. This overlaps with Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma. | |
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Your Happy Buddy from Presentable Liberty often sends you letters written in CAPS LOCK, accompanied by more exclamation marks than the page can fit. | |
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a great offender, especially when emphasizing the end of certain symphonies. His fifth symphony screams exclamation when he ends it with a smashing final chord. And then he ends it again. And yet another time... Erik Satie parodied this in one of his piano pieces, that seemingly had to finish no less than five times in different ways. |
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Sparks in Girl Genius talk like this, especially when they're in The Madness Place. | |
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Donald Duck comic books have a tendency to not contain a single speech bubble without at least one exclamation mark. Yes, even whispering ends with "!" Which makes it jarring when the rare dotted sentence shows up. | |
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It makes a certain kind of sense for Shazam, seeing as the very title is an exclamation. | |
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As noted by many at the time, David Harewood's performance as Tuck in Robin Hood was-marred-by-his-odd-insistence of speaking-very-quickly during all-of-his-lines and putting-an-emphasis on the-very-last-word of each-sentence. Needless-to-say, it-got-very-annoying. | |
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The Pokémon series tends to do this, particularly during battles. The first three generations put every proper noun in ALL CAPS. | |
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Older English editions of The Bible emphasized certain words in every sentence, probably because the editors intended the text to be read out loud. It's possible this is true for some versions, but the King James Version uses italics for a very different purpose: to mark words added during translation that weren't present in the original. Usually this is done because English grammar is sufficiently different from Hebrew/Greek grammar that additional words are needed to clarify the meaning. Another variation is those Bibles that print all direct quotes from Jesus in red. |
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Many ideological tracts, especially those published by the more extreme fringes. See Jack Chick for links to some of the tamer examples. | |
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The Daleks of Doctor Who emphasize every individual syllable of every word they say, without exception. | |
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This was parodied in Pearls Before Swine making fun of soap strips, complete every third word being bolded. | |
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Much seen in old Superman comics, where every mention of Superman or any of his super-powers is given super-emphasis. | |
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Opera, especially Richard Wagner & Giuseppe Verdi. | |
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Media in American Gods is fond of overusing italics. This is intentional, as narrator Shadow takes special notice of the fact that the New Gods at large talk in cliches and unrealistic speech patterns. | |
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A lot of words you wouldn't expect to be italicized are anyway in Watchmen. Averted with Rorschach who speaks with no italics or bold. His voice is described by other characters though as being a creepy, gravel-y monotone. | |
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The original dead tree edition of ElfQuest #5 suffered a lot from overuse of bold text and double exclamation points!! Fan complaints led to it being toned down in all subsequent editions. | |
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One can grow weary of The Lord of the Rings trilogy's habit of using a constant mix of slow-motion, CGI, sweeping pans and a thunderous soundtrack to make everything seem epic. Notoriously led to Ending Fatigue at the end of the third film. | |
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Secret Wars is particularly noted for this. It's a 12-issue series, and there are fewer than fifteen sentences that end with a period in the whole thing. (We're not counting ellipses...) | |
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