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Skyscraper Messages
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Skyscrapers are very tall and covered in windows. This makes them a useful canvas for a creative person to turn into a message an entire city (or the world) can see. Skyscraper Messages come from lighting specifically chosen windows in otherwise dark buildings to make recognizable images or words. The trope, of course, only occurs at night. A poor man's version of Rushmore Refacement or Deface of the Moon if a villain is behind it. This trope is easily doable in Real Life, but limited to special occasions because it's otherwise disruptive to the people in the offices and apartments. In the movies, the trope is often assisted by computer animation; it's easier than getting the permits/paying the money to use the building, etc. |
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On Detective Conan, the Suspect Of the Week uses such a window lighting event to give himself an alibi to murder his victim. And in Magic Kaito, Kaitou arranged for a pair of skyscrapers to display a birthday message to Aoko once. |
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Now You See Me does a Seven of Diamonds on the John Hancock Center. | |
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In Hackers, the finale has Crash having rigged windows visible from their Rooftop Swimming Pool to read "Crash + Burn", which really impresses Burn that much more. | |
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And in Magic Kaito, Kaitou arranged for a pair of skyscrapers to display a birthday message to Aoko once. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold ("Mayhem of the Music Meister!"), during the song "The World Is Mine", two skyscrapers behind The Music Meister spell out the name of the villain. Similarly, in The Batman the Riddler hijacks the skyscraper lighting in order to display his green question mark symbol across the city. |
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A similar variant occurs in Green Lantern. The residents of Coast City tint all their lights green to show support to Green Lantern. | |
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An episode of Art Attack had Neil do this with the skyscrapers in New York City for the "Big Art Attack." | |
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A hotel in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will, in typical Rockstar North fashion, light up at night in the form of an erect penis◊. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the same hotel shows the same thing, ejaculating. | |
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Spider-Island has a variation at the end where J. Jonah Jameson (now the mayor of New York City) has the windows of the Empire State Building lit up in red and blue as a "thank you" to Spider-Man for saving the city. | |
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The cover of one (UK version) Dennis The Menace album has Dennis and Gnasher being chased out of a building after doing this. | |
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One chapter of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is about getting dragged into other people's drama. Itoshiki-sensei is staying at a hotel whose manager wants to write a message for some holiday or other and his room has to be dark. | |
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The music video for The Black Eyed Peas's "Where Is The Love?" has lights spell out a question mark. | |
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In The Secret World, John does this on Orochi Tower in order to signal the player, using his powers to spell out "Come On In, Chuck" in words visible from the other side of Kaidan. | |
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The finale of Sleepless in Seattle puts a giant red heart shape on the four sides of the Empire State Building. | |
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In the TV special Kamen Rider G, the eponymous hero's Transformation Sequence ends with an awesomely flashy example of this trope, where the windows of the skyscraper behind Goro explode to form a giant letter G. | |
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In the episode of Danny Phantom where Danny is dating Valerie, the two of them see building lights writing out "D+V" while riding a Ferris wheel. This was all set up by Technus as part of a plan. | |
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An episode of CSI had a business do this to try and win back his former fiance. He rejected her in favour of his boss' daughter. Then changed his mind and invoked this trope. She turned him down (albeit quite gently) but his boss (who was watching from that very building) killed him for rejecting his daughter. | |
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In City Hunter at one point, the lights formed the katakana version of the woman's name and "daisuki" (I like you a lot/love you.) | |
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At the end of Ghostbusters (2016), the entire New York skyline is lit up with "We ♥ GB" and similar messages, thanking the Ghostbusters for saving the city. | |
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One episode of Barney Miller has a call about a man on a ledge. It's quickly followed by a report that the man is writing on the windows. Barney asks "It's not a jumper?" Wojo replies "Unless it's a suicide note." | |
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Actually done at MIT with the Green Building. They've played Tetris by altering its lights. Brown sees your Green Building, MIT, and raises you "La Bastille" (the aforementioned Tetris on the side of a building). |
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A 1970s Spider-Man story has the Shocker doing this with whole city blocks as part of an extortion scheme. Unsurprisingly, a later story has Electro doing the same thing. | |
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Similarly, in The Batman the Riddler hijacks the skyscraper lighting in order to display his green question mark symbol across the city. | |
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The Critic did a parody of the Sleepless In Seattle thing, with Siskel And Ebert. They Lampshaded it. | |
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