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The Big Board

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The Big Board	comment	A display (whiteboard, blackboard, chart, map, 3D hologram, whatever) can serve the dual purpose of establishing that the characters are evaluating information and providing quick exposition for the audience. This trope includes tabletop maps where people use a "croupier stick" to move around counters. The Strategist, Insane Admiral, and The Brigadier tend to argue standing around this variety while in The War Room. General Ripper has a bad habit of breaking the pieces that stand for enemy troops. Chessmasters may use a literal chess board. It also includes "vertical plotting boards". That's the clear piece of glass or plastic that, in the real world, is written on with a grease pencil backwards on warships. In fact, transparent versions are way more common in fiction than in reality—in the real world, their use is limited by the fact that they're hard to read, but in film and television they're frequently used as a way to get the standard "actor's face behind a sea of equations" shot. Also included are dioramas, which are simply models of buildings or areas. May be used as an Exposition Diagram or Spreading Disaster Map Graphic. Note that Reality Is Unrealistic and most examples of this look far more dramatic in media than in Real Life. Compare Holographic Terminal, Ominous Multiple Screens, Room Full of Crazy, String Theory, Model Planning, Planning with Props. Not to be confused with Big Bad, the game board used on the game show Press Your Luck, or the level of the same name from Wario Land 4. See also Prop.
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The Big Board / int_111c48dd	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_111c48dd	comment	In The Untouchables series from the early '90s, the heroes' headquarters was a back room with a blackboard, on which Eliot Ness would sometimes draw maps illustrating the operation they were about to carry out.
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The Big Board / int_12b12556	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_12b12556	comment	In The Bourne Identity, the director of Project Treadstone announces, "I want a big map up on that wall!" once his office starts tracking down Jason Bourne. Sure enough, there's a big map of Europe up in the next scene.
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The Big Board / int_14f9297e	comment	These appeared frequently in The Far Side, usually in a science lab with a nonsensical equation or diagram written thereupon.
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The Big Board / int_1510822e	comment	GoldenEye: MI6 headquarters has one showing a live satellite map of Siberia and Severnaya station where the stolen Tiger helicopter was tracked to along with a pair of Russian MiGs scrambled there when the alarm is sound, just before they are all hit with an EMP by the titular weapon. At the station itself, the control room also has a big board that tracks the orbit of the titular satellite (well, satellites — keen observers will note two orbits being tracked) and time left before it fires onto the station itself. The latter board is replicated in the Big Bad's base in Cuba.
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The Big Board / int_1ad4d09c	comment	The windows in A Beautiful Mind that the protagonist uses to dramatically write down his mathematical work.
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The Big Board / int_1b1c2c8a	comment	Also the windows in The Social Network. If you're writing out wicked smart equations, it's better if you can see through them.
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The Big Board / int_1e7ca85f	comment	In Hercules, Hades uses one where he puts various monster figures whom all are sent to destroy Hercules.
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The Big Board / int_2010e6ea	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2010e6ea	comment	Deepwater Horizon: Don uses this draw a diagram illustrating his idea for why the negative flow test had such a high reading, but no mud came shooting back up.
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The Big Board / int_21317f86	comment	In Werewolf Women of the SS, the Nazis have a big map of Europe, on which they appear to be playing Risk.
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The Big Board / int_2175d90e	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2175d90e	comment	In Benson the Governor, Benson and the rest of the staff were in an underground bunker participating in a war game involving a nuclear attack. As they got 'news' that a city had been bombed, they put a little mushroom cloud on that city.
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The Big Board / int_2191a786	comment	Fatal Instinct. Lana Ravine explains her plan to murder her husband to her co-conspirator lover by using a tabletop map as well as an audiovisual presentation. When her lover asks how long she's been planning this, she claims it only just came to her.
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The Big Board / int_21eccc35	comment	The Doctor Blake Mysteries it is first used by the brilliant but annoying suspect in S1:E8 Game of Champions to prove the game was rigged. Later in the episode Dr. Blake uses it to draw connections between the two victims and all the suspects.
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The Big Board / int_2212773a	comment	Angel has a whiteboard which they occasionally put lists of jobs on. It goes away when they realize it makes them more focused on keeping score than on doing good; it then comes back after Connor is born, listing everyone whom they think might be a threat.
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The Big Board / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck has his own conspiracy wall hidden on the back of his framed Tron poster.
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The Big Board / int_224ed8b0	comment	In both Enigmatis games the detective has one of these. In The Ghosts of Maple Creek, one wall of the main character's hotel room contains scribbles and arrowed circles connecting various facets of the case. When you find enough evidence on a particular point and stick it up on the wall, the game opens up a new point to investigate. The Mists of Ravenwood has an old tool board which serves a similar purpose.
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The Big Board / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise has the air-hockey table at the back of the bridge. It's often used for planning away missions.
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The Big Board / int_2275c659	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2275c659	comment	House. Only House is allowed to touch the sacred marker. Though when House is for whatever reason incapacitated, Cameron gets to write on the board. If she's not present, Foreman gets the job. Chase, however, is just not ready. Though Chase gets to keep score on the board during House vs God. When things get REALLY desperate, House uses a wall in an airport terminal, much to the displeasure of the security.
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The Big Board / int_22f49cdf	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_22f49cdf	comment	In Castle, the police use a whiteboard (or, on big cases, a pair of whiteboards) to keep track of the information for that week's case. It's also revealed that Castle uses a more hi-tech version to plot out his mystery novels. Beckett has one in her house for the unsolved murder case of her mother.
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The Big Board / int_2337b3e2	comment	Iron Eagle: While planning the rescue mission, Doug, Chappy, and their crew construct a makeshift diorama of the mission area. Somehow, Chappy's lunch winds up in the middle of city...
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The Big Board / int_2372359	comment	In the Belgariad, Emperor Ran Borune XXIII has a really big board, actually an acre of real estate, which is covered in lead figurines of soldiers, representing his daughter's military campaign as she marched her army through Algaria to attack Mishrak ak Thull. The more elderly members of the general staff really hated climbing up the ladder to the platform which allowed them an overhead view of the enormous scale map.
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The Big Board / int_23945975	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: Atlantis: The Lost Empire opens with Milo giving a presentation on a chalkboard; he steps into the display when he accidentally erases part of it. Later, he also draws a diagram of the "trap" at the entrance to Atlantis. In Hercules, Hades uses one where he puts various monster figures whom all are sent to destroy Hercules. In Mulan, there's a scene between Shang and his father, where the general is plotting out where the Huns have attacked and where the Imperial Army will meet them.
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The Big Board / int_24a6dfde	comment	In lonelygirl15 whiteboards seem to be the TAAG's favourite planning method. Additionally, every bunker belonging to the old Resistance contains one, complete with notes.
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The Big Board / int_24e41891	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_24e41891	comment	On Dexter there is a large whiteboard at the police station, often with a flow chart illustrating recent events, and almost always including many large, full color photographs of the victims, suspects, and other plot elements relevant to the current investigation.
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The Big Board / int_25ea67f6	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_25ea67f6	comment	Assassination of a High School President had one at the very start of the movie to explain "the elements" (cliques) of the high school.
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The Big Board / int_261c8d3f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode where Homer goes to space, NASA (naturally) has this:
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The Big Board / int_2649580f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2649580f	comment	In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Miu has one regarding the good guy's plan for the second day in Kyoto in the Den-Liner.
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The Big Board / int_27b0262b	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_27b0262b	comment	Seen frequently on MythBusters when the plan on how to test the myth is illustrated for the watchers. Later episodes (especially the "sudden sobriety" myths and the "beer goggles" myth) have featured a tricked out, digital touchscreen big board.
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The Big Board / int_28fe1376	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe's Astrid used a big transparent board to solve a code - which was actually used in a nifty bit of cinematography: the shadow of the cyphers on a nearby globe gave her a crucial clue.
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The Big Board / int_2a87fb1a	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2a87fb1a	comment	Spotlight: On the back wall of the Spotlight team's office, to keep track of where the pedophile priests were every year, until they realize they're dealing with way more pedophile priests than just 13 and they swap the whiteboard for a spreadsheet.
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The Big Board / int_2bb4ae0f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	On season one of Heroes, Mohinder's father used a Big Board map to track where his genetic theory predicts people with Abilities are likely to emerge. After his death, Dr. Suresh's map becomes a clue for numerous characters who are working to track down Ability-users.
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The Big Board / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote likes to use a chalkboard to plan his Road Runner traps. Napoléon Bonaparte uses a table-mounted map to plot military strategy in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Napoleon Bunny-part. He sees Bugs on it later:
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The Big Board / int_2bc165fe	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2bc165fe	comment	The map of the King Pipeline in The World Is Not Enough so that they can track a pipewall-checking vehicle carrying a nuclear weapon.
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The Big Board / int_2ca0fc2f	comment	Theodore Rex tries for some neopunk style version of the giant battlemap with young waafs pushing units around with croupier rakes except the overblown size and odd dress code means that it looks more like the Olympic curling team are pushing around Hershey's Kisses.
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The Big Board / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future parts I and III also have dioramas to show how Marty will get, well, back to the future. They're insanely detailed, which doesn't stop Doc apologizing that the scale isn't quite right, and he didn't have time to paint them.
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The Big Board / int_2feff3ce	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_2feff3ce	comment	On Grey's Anatomy, Derek draws a detailed diagram of a spine on his own bedroom wall when fretting over a complex surgery. And in a nice little bit of continuity, we see it in other episodes later on.
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The Big Board / int_34753b6f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_34753b6f	comment	Its beta version, Second Chance (1977) had the same type of board but used devils instead of Whammies.
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The Big Board / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck: In "In Like Blunt", when Blunt asks if he has a map, Darkwing shows him a huge one that occupies one wall of his lair. He is flabbergasted when Blunt draws on it with a marker.
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The Big Board / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community - Abed, taking a class analyzing the tv show "Who's the Boss?", is challenged by the professor to teach the class to put him in his place. Instead, Abed, with a solid argument backed up with a painfully complex formula written on the blackboard, proves conclusively who the boss is.
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The Big Board / int_36151c14	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_36151c14	comment	Hawaii Five-0 has the touch screen table version with plasma screens.
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The Big Board / int_3840524e	comment	1776 features a board showing the votes of the various American colonies. There is also a gigantic calendar showing the date.
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The Big Board / int_39e45334	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_39e45334	comment	On an episode of Poirot, Scotland Yard has a large table set up with a map of London on it, and a bevy of policewomen pushing models of police cars around the map as they get radio reports from each of the cars. Taken up to a ridiculous level when the cars converge on the person they're tailing and all the cars are shoved simultaneously into a neat circle around the target in a very synchronized and rehearsed manner.
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The Big Board / int_39f6a46c	comment	Diamonds Are Forever used a model map to show off Willard Whyte's empire. This comes in handy for finding the Supervillain Lair of Blofeld (who'd kidnapped and impersonated Whyte in order to take over his business interests) when the real Whyte sees there's an oil rig off Baja California that he knows he doesn't own.
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The Big Board / int_3a5b3f50	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_3a5b3f50	comment	In La Femme Nikita, when a conference is being held in the Section One headquarters, a futuristic transparent computer monitor is used, placed in the center of the conference table.
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The Big Board / int_3c65a1d1	comment	Big Boards appear often in Banner of the Stars. The Abh Admiralty use a particularly big one to monitor strategic fleet movements.
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The Big Board / int_3f4a104b	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_3f4a104b	comment	A reverse-subversion in Dilbert: an individual who admits he cannot explain anything without a whiteboard to diagram things. When he tries to give a presentation without a whiteboard, he ends up making ape-like noises and imitating a chimpanzee.
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The Big Board / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Parodied in Austin Powers when Number Two says they own the factories modeled, "-and a factory in Chicago that makes miniature models of factories".
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The Big Board / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files, Harry Dresden has a highly detailed tabletop model of Chicago in his basement laboratory. He can use it to find out what supernatural events are going on where in the city, and also to project his magical (not physical) presence into a given location as needed. In Small Favor, he figures out a hit squad of Summer Court Faeries have been using loophole abuse to track him via a silver talisman presented to him as a gift in an earlier novel. To confuse them, he MacGyvers the talisman's location to be projected at random times and places via this board and the help of his cat, Mister. By the time he actually takes it out again, the hit squad chasing him is ignoring the talisman's location entirely. Other characters describe the board as a "creepy voodoo doll of Chicago".
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The Big Board / int_420172c7	comment	Catch Me If You Can: Tom Hanks's character gives a presentation on The Big Board explaining his findings on the check forgery cases, and is met with boredom from the rest of the FBI.
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The Big Board / int_42c17ca1	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_42c17ca1	comment	In Power Rangers in Space, the team used a chess board with figures of themselves and The Psycho Rangers to plot their strategy against them and keep track of which ones were destroyed. This was notable because it set off some rather frantic Epileptic Trees about the possibility of the Psycho figures used might have been prototypes for a series of Psycho Ranger action figures that never materialized.
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The Big Board / int_43da6f7f	comment	Memento. Remember the giant diagram with photos and association charts and everything? The degree to which an anterograde amnesiac could pull off that kind of planning was a major theme of the movie.
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The Big Board / int_44014b66	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_44014b66	comment	Contact: Both as a child and as a professional astronomer, Jodie Foster's astronomer character relies on sticking pins into maps to keep track of locations in the universe she has made radio contact with.
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The Big Board / int_44e08ee8	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_44e08ee8	comment	The Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit Homicide: Life on the Street uses a white board with victims' names on it to track case progress.
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The Big Board / int_44fe781e	comment	The NERV headquarters in Neon Genesis Evangelion not only has a really, really Huge Board, but also a holographic terrain projector!
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The Big Board / int_468bebb0	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld fic The Price of Flight sees the Ankh-Morpork City Air Watch get its first dedicated Operations Room. As the pilots and commanding officers are Discworld Witches, Rule of Funny has the girls doing the flying, while male ground staff take over the function of pushing the little models around the plotting table with long sticks.
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The Big Board / int_46ae7ca0	comment	Red Tornado uses a chalkboard for the exact same purpose in Batman: The Brave and the Bold's Christmas Episode.
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The Big Board / int_47607004	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_47607004	comment	The Closer has one, which is used to collect photos, documents, and timeline information about the victim. It's referred to by the characters as "the murder board."
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The Big Board / int_4771fb78	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_4771fb78	comment	The Japanese in Tora! Tora! Tora! use a board to help plan the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Big Board / int_48cf61a6	comment	In a first-season episode of Superfriends, Batman and Robin used an anagram board to identify the author of a message attributed to "Roy LaPost".
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The Big Board / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Most of the Ace Combat games have regular mission briefings and debriefings given on one of these.
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The Big Board / int_4c10a9e0	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_4c10a9e0	comment	In Trial & Error, when Josh the defense lawyer sets up one, his helpers excitedly chant "Murderboard" over and over with motions until he joins in.
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The Big Board / int_4ccf8068	comment	A couple different ones are used over the course of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Thirteen Days: one early in the film diagrams of how far the Soviet missiles in Cuba can reach (i.e., Washington), another later on plots positions of ships following the US' implementation of the blockade.
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The Big Board / int_4ce5263e	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown has the Situation Room, which has a big map of the world detailing your strategic situation - your base location, where you have satellite coverage and interceptors (and how many), and the status of Council members (whether they're still onboard the project and how bad the panic is in their country). Enemy Within adds EXALT to the mix with the presence of agent cells in countries, and the whole process of elimination based on intel against these cells to find their HQ. The Geoscape has most of these informations as well as available missions, and you can pan the Hologlobe around to keep track of thingsnote this function is broken in Enemy Within, but a small rewrite of the files fixes this.
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The Big Board / int_4da11f30	comment	The hologram used by Mon Mothma and General Madine in their briefing in Return of the Jedi. It was also the first use of CGI in the movies.
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The Big Board / int_4dc4fbf5	comment	Not long after the nuclear attack on Jericho (2006), the bar's TV picks up a few seconds of a news report from Asia. The reporter stands beside a Big Board map of a nuke-battered United States, which offers both the townsfolk and the viewers a first glimpse of which cities have been destroyed.
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The Big Board / int_531c562b	comment	Top Secret!. The diorama Nigel uses to explain his plan for entering Flugendorf Castle to the other Resistance members.
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The Big Board / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z: The Photon Power Research Institute had one that was used by The Professor and the cast during strategic sessions. To cite some examples, it was seen in episode 33 when they were trying to solve the mystery of a monster showed up in a chain of lakes, and in the last episodes when they were trying to locate Dr. Hell's Super Villain Lair and later when they were preparing the Final Battle.
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The Big Board / int_5690420f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_5690420f	comment	Unsurprisingly one's used on the aircraft carrier Donald's stationed on in DuckTales (1987). It evidently sees the most use letting the admiral act out fantasies of blowing up enemy ships.
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The Big Board / int_56cb92c3	comment	In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Nova Corps uses a huge holographic board for strategics.
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The Big Board / int_5ada53ed	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_5ada53ed	comment	Seen in quite a few James Bond movies. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. During the assault on Piz Gloria, Bond finds an electronic display board detailing the locations and identities of the Manchurian Agents dispersing the Omega virus, hidden behind a cabinet in Blofeld's office. Blofeld tries to shoot Bond in the back while he's taking photos of the board with his Minox camera. The Fort Knox model from Goldfinger when the titular villain explains his plan to his financial backers. Bond is actually hiding underneath the model (which lifts up from under a retracting floor) while Goldfinger is explaining the plan. Diamonds Are Forever used a model map to show off Willard Whyte's empire. This comes in handy for finding the Supervillain Lair of Blofeld (who'd kidnapped and impersonated Whyte in order to take over his business interests) when the real Whyte sees there's an oil rig off Baja California that he knows he doesn't own. The Man with the Golden Gun has a plotting board example in a Chinese air defence room. The Silicon Valley model in A View to a Kill with a computer simulation to show exactly how the Evil Plan to flood Silicon Valley will take place. It saved the trouble of including a Just Between You and Me scene, I guess. GoldenEye: MI6 headquarters has one showing a live satellite map of Siberia and Severnaya station where the stolen Tiger helicopter was tracked to along with a pair of Russian MiGs scrambled there when the alarm is sound, just before they are all hit with an EMP by the titular weapon. At the station itself, the control room also has a big board that tracks the orbit of the titular satellite (well, satellites — keen observers will note two orbits being tracked) and time left before it fires onto the station itself. The latter board is replicated in the Big Bad's base in Cuba. The map of the King Pipeline in The World Is Not Enough so that they can track a pipewall-checking vehicle carrying a nuclear weapon. In MI6's situation room in Casino Royale (2006), the walls and table themselves are fancy touchscreens with Viewer Friendly Interfaces.
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The Big Board / int_5dd2cbc0	comment	In Ministry of Fear the Ministry of Home Security has a map of Europe that they can project things on, like the plans for Channel mines that the Nazis are trying to steal.
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The Big Board / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate has a big see-through board showing planets and displays where the wormhole turns up. In the movie there is a big board in the board room with important looking stuff on it; it rolls up for the big-reveal. The large Earth developed starships also have a 3D version of the vertical plotting board (because they're in space, naturally) with two regular ones intersecting at a right angle.
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The Big Board / int_64dbb72f	comment	The Man with the Golden Gun has a plotting board example in a Chinese air defence room.
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The Big Board / int_6535218b	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_6535218b	comment	In Red Storm Rising, we are treated to officers in an Army-/Corps-level headquarters of the Soviet Army pushing pieces around based on radio reports, with junior officers pushing pieces around on a map. Surprisingly tense for a scene where we don't see any direct actions, only a map where the red pieces push forward on a road network.
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The Big Board / int_65d07453	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_65d07453	comment	Captain America: The First Avenger: When the SS turn up at Hydra's base demanding results for all the resources Hitler has allocated, Johann Schmidt brags of having the technology to wipe out every enemy capital in just a few hours. As the SS officers smirk at the Mad Scientist, one officer examines the pins stuck in Schmidt's mapboard... Later, Captain America sees a similar board in a Hydra base which handily reveals the location of several other Hydra bases. As Cap and the Howling Commandos destroy them one by one, we see the equivalent flag counters being removed from a map table in SSR headquarters in London.
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The Big Board / int_65fc3782	comment	Battle of Britain shows both the tabletop diorama version and the wall display version. The calm and collected plotters moving counters around on the tabletop contrast to the chaotic and deadly air battles that they are keeping track of. At least until one of those calm collected scenes is interrupted by the roof of the command center caving in during an air raid.
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The Big Board / int_691be369	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: Mulder's office has bulletin boards and walls covered with pictures, photos and newspaper clippings concerning the paranormal and the cases Mulder and Scully were working on. Considering Mulder's interest in the paranormal and the level of his obsession, some might consider his office to be a Room Full of Crazy. The X-Files team would often provide a carousel slide show to present a case to each other or to other agents or detectives. Somehow plain old fashioned photographs are not good enough for them. The FBI are using a big chalk blackboard for a hostage negotiation in "Duane Barry".
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The Big Board / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has this in its Broken Steel DLC with the wall map in the Citadel marking the locations of the remnant Enclave bases.
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The Big Board / int_72262aee	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_72262aee	comment	In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Guru", the Earth Kingdom generals have an enormous world map◊ to help them plan their invasion of the Fire Nation. Instead of using a stick to move the little pieces representing various troops, they just earthbend the pieces across the board.
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The Big Board / int_74e86228	comment	In the movie Midway, both the Japanese and the Americans have big boards that both commanders use to plan their moves and counter moves during the battle.
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The Big Board / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, the Galaxy Map also shows which star systems are occupied by the Reapers. In addition, there is a second command center where various visiting foreign leaders will operate out of during joint operations, and where you can find a terminal that gives you a listing of war assets and the overal strategic situation in the war. Liara has also transplanted her command center into her quarters aboard the ship, complete with Ominous Multiple Screens showing a display of the galaxy for her.
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The Big Board / int_77e22425	comment	Pinky and the Brain once had an episode where Brain creates his own country, and the U.S. tries to go to war with it. Cut to a scene between the President and the Military H.Q.:
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The Big Board / int_791fca44	comment	In BioShock, you find one of these right before entering Ryan's office, with various photos, newspaper clippings and other pieces of paper, two audio logs and, to top it all off, Arc Words scrawled across it all in big red letters.
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The Big Board / int_7981ca33	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_7981ca33	comment	In WarGames the huge Big Boards help us to understand what is going on. It also provides some Nightmare Fuel (can you say Global Thermonuclear War?). In addition it provides some Reality Is Unrealistic, as the real NORAD does not have huge Big Boards.
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The Big Board / int_7988cb68	comment	The Galaxy Map in the Mass Effect series is a large 3-d projection of the galaxy situated right in front of Shepard's little balcony on a raised platform that serves as the command bridge of the Normandy. In the sequel, when Shepard's not using it it switches to a 3-d image of the ship with all the installed upgrades highlighted in blue. In Mass Effect 3, the Galaxy Map also shows which star systems are occupied by the Reapers. In addition, there is a second command center where various visiting foreign leaders will operate out of during joint operations, and where you can find a terminal that gives you a listing of war assets and the overal strategic situation in the war. Liara has also transplanted her command center into her quarters aboard the ship, complete with Ominous Multiple Screens showing a display of the galaxy for her.
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The Big Board / int_7c07df33	comment	Billion Dollar Brain. General Midwinter sends his private army to liberate Communist-controlled Latvia, but the Soviets are waiting for them, as shown by the attack being plotted on a table map—a single black counter marked with Mindwinter's symbol, surrounded by an array of red bomber-shaped counters being moved into position around it. After Midwinter's force is destroyed, KGB colonel Stok picks up the black counter and contemptuously tosses it over his shoulder.
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The Big Board / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The very first issue of The Simpsons has a shout-out to Doctor Strangelove (see Film, below), with the mayor's office apparently having both a war room and an accompanying big board of their own. Chief Wiggum fills the role of General Buck Turgidson, refusing to let Marge see it (she's there to help them find and subdue a giant-sized Homer).
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The Big Board / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): The bridge on the USS Argo has a giant tabletop computer touch-screen which The Team in King of the Monsters stand around several times. When they're expositing, they often use the screen to display images relevant to the immediate topic, including Titan X-rays, mythography, satellite mapping (including a Spreading Disaster Map Graphic), and bio-acoustic readings.
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The Big Board / int_7d52225f	comment	On Her Majesty's Secret Service. During the assault on Piz Gloria, Bond finds an electronic display board detailing the locations and identities of the Manchurian Agents dispersing the Omega virus, hidden behind a cabinet in Blofeld's office. Blofeld tries to shoot Bond in the back while he's taking photos of the board with his Minox camera.
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The Big Board / int_7e053c98	comment	The Silicon Valley model in A View to a Kill with a computer simulation to show exactly how the Evil Plan to flood Silicon Valley will take place. It saved the trouble of including a Just Between You and Me scene, I guess.
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The Big Board / int_802ca7b	comment	In GoldenEye 007, photographing or destroying the Big Board tends to be an objective. Or not destroying. It gets complicated.
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The Big Board / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The windows of the various starships, being made of Unobtanium rather than plain old glass, doubles as its big board, and is most often used as a video conferencing device. The Captain ordering his communications officer to put an incoming message "on screen" has pretty much happened at least Once per Episode in most episodes. Though in most cases, the "window" is actually a viewscreen; it wasn't until the 2009 reboot that the bridge gained actual windows onto which the viewscreen functions were projected. Star Trek: The Next Generation also introduced the large systems monitor display in Main Engineering, which ostensibly showed the current status of the ship's systems. (Usually it was just the default fixed, backlit cutaway image of the Enterprise-D, with the occasional overlaid or backlit effect; on rare occasions, it would be used to display other images as though it were a regular viewscreen.) There was also its companion piece, a table which had a large surface display on each end, and with which the crew interacted much more. The wall monitor would appear on other starships in the franchise, usually at the rear of the bridge, opposite the viewscreen. In addition, one alternate version of the Enterprise-D in the episode "Parallels" had a free-standing clear display behind the tactical station. Star Trek: Voyager. Season 4 saw the introduction of the Astrometrics lab, which also helped avert the 2-D Space trope via a wraparound holographic wall screen. As per usual for this trope, it's used to provide exposition visually. Star Trek: Enterprise has the air-hockey table at the back of the bridge. It's often used for planning away missions.
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The Big Board / int_831b0d1	comment	In Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, Mr. Whoopee explained the conundrum of the week using a collapsible animated chalkboard he called the "Three Dimensional Blackboard", or 3DBB.
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The Big Board / int_847a1ace	comment	In Attack of the Clones, the separatist leaders have a real-time holographic projection on a table showing the battle for them. The star map Obi-Wan and Yoda use in the younglings scene is another example.
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The Big Board / int_86c3beca	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Castle Wulfenbach has one here, as does Castle Heterodyne (seen here when the map was still damaged, and here after some repairs are made).
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The Big Board / int_87e00d8e	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_87e00d8e	comment	In Teen Titans (2003), when someone stole the Red X suit and identity, the Titans wrote their attempts to figure out who had done it on a whiteboard. This allows them to sneak in a Mythology Gag, as one of the names is Jason Todd.
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The Big Board / int_892aa56a	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: So many chalkboards: Detective Murdoch has a big blackboard in his office in Station House Four. He uses it for collecting leads, visualizing crime scenes, or explaining his ideas of new forensic methods. He sometimes sticks there photos of victims, reports of related older crimes, newspaper articles and so on. In some cases when he's away from his office (Anna Fulford's pub in Bristol in "The Murdoch Identity", the train bar car in "Midnight Train to Kingston", the local inn in "All That Glitters"), he borrows a chalkboard for this purpose. A chalkboard also makes an occasional appearance at the city morgue. Sometimes it has drawings and notes from an unrelated case, but Dr. Grace uses it to show her work with blood typing in "Tour de Murdoch". Crabtree uses the backside of Murdoch's board in "Loch Ness Murdoch" to lay out his investigation of the "Miss Purity" pageant. He turns it around to reveal his work, but Brackenreid tells him to turn it back to the notes on the "monster" inquiry. In the B-plot of "Murdoch Takes Manhattan", Brackenreid and Crabtree are investigating a murder at a private club of "puzzlers" and Crabtree suggests making a chart and using Murdoch's chalkboard. Brackenreid tells Crabtree to get a chalkboard for him. Later, Brackenreid gets frustrated and pushes over the board, which in turn breaks his bottle of scotch. Even so, Brackenreid's Imagine Spot that breaks the case shows him back at that board erasing one line of the chart that so frustrated him earlier. George Crabtree's ultimate wedding present to Murdoch is a small chalkboard for his home, seen in William and Julia's suite at the Windsor Hotel.
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The Big Board / int_8a339030	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark examples: While teaching a class on archeology, Dr. Jones writes on a chalkboard and has difficulty spelling the word "Neolithic". While talking to the Army Intelligence agents, he uses a chalkboard to draw the Staff of Ra and its headpiece. The Nazis in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, whom Indy hates, have one of these, complete with little model soldiers and tanks and things. They appear to be playing Risk.
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The Big Board / int_8ae87a20	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8ae87a20	comment	Press Your Luck had one of these as the central element; filled with prizes, cash, and Whammies looking to humiliate you. Note that this version wasn't like most of these other examples; it ran off slides (at one point, they had to stop taping in the middle of an ep and finish the next day after a slide blew up) and had patterns, which Michael Larson notoriously exploited to have a seemingly endless run at the board, which ended up being two episodes long; they changed it after that. Its beta version, Second Chance (1977) had the same type of board but used devils instead of Whammies.
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The Big Board / int_8b7b9cd5	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Similar plotting boards are seen in A New Hope during the Battle of Yavin, and in The Empire Strikes Back inside the rebel Hoth base. Although, since the boards are simply pieces of glass with unmoving lines in them, it's debatable how useful they are. A New Hope also has a (ridiculously specialized) circular table that shows the Death Star's position.
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The Big Board / int_8cd6b86f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8cd6b86f	comment	Battle of the Bulge: German army headquarters has a flat map of the campaign area with symbols of the military forces being moved to indicate their progress.
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The Big Board / int_8d817ccb	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost has the "invisible map" during season two, which was painted on one of the blast doors by Radzinsky and Kelvin, and can only be seen when ultraviolet light is shined on it. We (and Locke) only get to see it for a few seconds, but hundreds of Epileptic Trees have been based on it.
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The Big Board / int_8d81bb26	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS has one in the form of a plasma screen TV hooked up to the computers, as well as the Multiple Threat Alert Center. Incidentally, the MTAC is a real thing, although the one on the show looks an awful lot like a converted movie theatre. NCIS: Los Angeles has their own in the form of a ginormous touch screen interface. (This also gives Eric the opportunity to object to a dodgy character being let into the OSP by pointing out that "She'll see the big board!")
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The Big Board / int_8d81f086	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8d81f086	comment	In the pilot episode of Monk, we see that Adrian Monk's OCD is both a blessing and a curse when he starts compulsively rearranging the marker pins on a politician's campaign planning map. And then he accidentally knocks all of the pins off. And then he puts them all back as they originally were, from memory.
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The Big Board / int_8d85e2c5	comment	Vera: Vera's first action on returning to the squad room after viewing the Victim of the Week is to set up a board with a photo of the victim, photos of suspects, timelines and whatever clues they have. It is added to over the course of the investigation as new facts are discovered.
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The Big Board / int_8e8086c3	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8e8086c3	comment	The Fort Knox model from Goldfinger when the titular villain explains his plan to his financial backers. Bond is actually hiding underneath the model (which lifts up from under a retracting floor) while Goldfinger is explaining the plan.
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The Big Board / int_8e8ed866	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8e8ed866	comment	Knight Rider. Michael Knight goes undercover with a group of people being trained for an unknown criminal caper. At one point he sneaks into the leader's office and finds a board marked with the schematics of a high security prison. Michael passes on the information to Devon who alerts the prison governor. Then when it's time for The Caper to be revealed, their leader reveals the prison...is actually their next job after they've completed the one they've been training for, and flips over schematic to reveal another one underneath.
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The Big Board / int_8f4ee60f	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Back to the Future: Back to the Future Part II has a chalkboard scene where it's particularly evident that the chalkboard diagram is for the benefit of the audience rather than anyone in the film. Back to the Future parts I and III also have dioramas to show how Marty will get, well, back to the future. They're insanely detailed, which doesn't stop Doc apologizing that the scale isn't quite right, and he didn't have time to paint them.
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The Big Board / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Many of Dr. Drakken's lairs in Kim Possible feature one of these, as does Global Justice headquarters.
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The Big Board / int_918c5a7e	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_918c5a7e	comment	In Evil Genius, installing a giant screen on your Control Room will increase your Mooks' attention. In addition, the World Domination Screen, where you perform your missions and send your Mooks around the world, has the form of a tabletop map complete with little pawn figures for the mooks that get flicked over when they die. In addition, scientists are also trained with a big blackboard.
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The Big Board / int_937d01ca	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_937d01ca	comment	In Patton, the German Captain Steiger is assigned the job of researching General Patton and letting the General Staff know how Patton thinks. In one scene, near the end of the war, he is holding a chalkboard with "Wounded" and "Killed" on it to list German casualties. He is seen wiping out the numbers and writing in larger ones a few times. One of the nice touches is that the words are written in German and he writes the numbers in European fashion, i.e. the number 7 has a slash in the center.
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The Big Board / int_94e70b02	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_94e70b02	comment	Treadstone. Ellen Becker is told that Treadstone, far from being a defunct Cold War program, has been reactivated by the CIA. She's brought into the operations room which has a large wallscreen showing multiple assassinations being carried out all over the world as she's watching.
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The Big Board / int_9614fa1e	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9614fa1e	comment	Raiders of the Lost Ark examples: While teaching a class on archeology, Dr. Jones writes on a chalkboard and has difficulty spelling the word "Neolithic". While talking to the Army Intelligence agents, he uses a chalkboard to draw the Staff of Ra and its headpiece.
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The Big Board / int_9910cc85	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9910cc85	comment	In Mulan, there's a scene between Shang and his father, where the general is plotting out where the Huns have attacked and where the Imperial Army will meet them.
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The Big Board / int_9d37e993	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9d37e993	comment	Edge of Tomorrow has one that explains to Cage about the Mimics, in both hierarchy and why killing one of them caught him in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. After it's done, he compliments it with "Terrific presentation!" (he used to be in Public Relations).
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The Big Board / int_9d963831	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9d963831	comment	Septimus Heap: Flyte has an Observatory with a huge screen that displays a view of the countryside, including the Castle, and can be modified to see smaller objects.
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The Big Board / int_9df76a0d	comment	The see-through one from Waking the Dead.
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The Big Board / int_9e6cec94	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9e6cec94	comment	Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) plans their heist on a blackboard with UV-florescent paint. (Inability to completely wipe out this critical evidence when the first hideout gets raided by the police is how they're tipped off to what's going on.)
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The Big Board / int_9eac916a	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9eac916a	comment	The Sting: With horse racing odds and results.
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The Big Board / int_9ec61fa1	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_9ec61fa1	comment	In NewsRadio, Matthew makes one with colored index cards when he's "promoted", though he's the only one who cares about it. Joe ends up taping index cards to Matthew's back spelling "SPAZ".
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The Big Board / int_a02dfb90	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a02dfb90	comment	Wedding Season: The police have a board up for the Delaney case, with Stefan and Katie as the suspects in the middle and strings connecting them to other pieces of information and evidence. Stefan lampshades it as a board out of The Wire.
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The Big Board / int_a0545fde	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a0545fde	comment	Newsnight used to have a sandpit to illustrate military activities. Peter Snow's enthusiasm for manipulating it was famous. War reports lost something when they switched to CGI.
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The Big Board / int_a29544ab	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a29544ab	comment	Apollo 13 has a couple of variations: The more traditional (trope-wise) Big Board is up at the front of Mission Control, variously showing plot-relevant information about the status of the mission (e.g., center engine aborting early during liftoff, where the astronauts are in relation to Earth and the Moon, etc.) After the explosion and initial scrambling to stabilize the situation, the camera cuts to a conference room where Flight Director Gene Kranz illustrates via drawing on a chalkboard where exactly the spacecraft was in relation to both Earth and the Moon, as well as illustrate for the audience what was meant by "free-return trajectory" (using the Moon's gravity to slingshot the spacecraft back to Earth). The same diagram was used later to show how an estimated 45 hours of life support wasn't enough to get all the way back to Earth. Kranz initially tried to use an overhead projector, but the light bulb blew out as soon as he turned it on.
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The Big Board / int_a32b6a64	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a32b6a64	comment	Big red and blue maps were used in The West Wing, especially during the campaign in seasons 6 and 7. They also have a very sci-fi version of the White House "Situation Room." At one point Leo has "the boys" put together a simulation of a nuclear attack on Lincoln, Nebraska, just to impress the woman he likes.
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The Big Board / int_a40b1126	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day: The control room of Area 51 has several maps and displays tracking the alien ships, along with plotting which cities have been destroyed.
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The Big Board / int_a52def46	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a52def46	comment	Kerbal Space Program has a Tracking Station and an in-flight map view that allow you to see statistics on the various bodies in the Kerbin system and monitor the progress of your active flights.
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The Big Board / int_a5d35fda	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a5d35fda	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, two characters, Faramir and one of his men, look over a map showing the cities of Middle Earth and who is attacking and from where. This is done clearly for the purposes of clarifying it to the audience.
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The Big Board / int_a8150af4	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Hall of Lore from Numenor has a table carved with the shape of Middle-earth. Galadriel discovered with its help that Sauron's mark was in fact a Map All Along indicating the Southlands.
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The Big Board / int_aac640fe	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_aac640fe	comment	Sink the Bismarck! features a plotting table in the British Admiralty headquarters showing the locations of friendly and enemy warships and convoys. Major warships are even represented by small models. At the end of the movie, Captain Shepard removes the model representing the Bismarck from the table and pockets it.
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The Big Board / int_ab42c63a	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart. In "The Amazing Harry Hoo", the Chief shows Maxwell Smart a map of the United States covered in pushpins representing identified KAOS agents. Max, however notices that: The same gag is recycled in "Leadside", only this time it's the Chief who causes the board to fall down.
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The Big Board / int_ac03f223	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_ac03f223	comment	On FlashForward (2009) there is a large investigation board at the FBI office. The interesting thing about this particular big board is that the main character is only inspired to put it up because he has a flash forward of himself using it to solve an investigation in six months time. As the events of the investigation transpire, he adds to it and it becomes closer to that seen in his vision.
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The Big Board / int_b24f49ab	comment	Back to the Future Part II has a chalkboard scene where it's particularly evident that the chalkboard diagram is for the benefit of the audience rather than anyone in the film.
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The Big Board / int_b2b67330	type	The Big Board
The Big Board / int_b2b67330	comment	The War of the Worlds (1953): In the Washington military headquarters, there's a large flat world map with officers pushing around symbols representing the Martian war machines. Major General Mann draws on a chalkboard to show the tactics the Martians use against the human forces. His dramatic gestures while drawing help emphasize the Martians' aggressive nature.
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The Big Board / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Stannis' council chamber on Dragonstone contains a table carved and painted in the shape of Westeros, around which he plans his maneuvers. Queen Daenerys makes use of it when she occupies Dragonstone herself. Robb's map layouts and carved sigils to mark troop deployments gets the most close-ups of any map. Roose and Ramsay also strategize around one in "Kill the Boy". After Cersei seizes power, she has a map of Westeros painted on the floor, a sign of her unrealistic ambition at a time when the odds of Lannister survival (let alone success) seem hopeless. Jaime and Cersei walk back-and-forth across it as they strategize how to fight their enemies.
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The Big Board / int_b3f3228	comment	Under Ten Flags opens with the plotting table in the British Admiralty, and various counters being removed from the board as reports come in one-after-the-other of sinkings.
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The Big Board / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: Hardison has a giant screen that he uses for presentations before a con. In "The Jailhouse Job", the presentation gets stored on a flash drive so Elliot can show it to Nate, who's in prison.
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The Big Board / int_ba043680	comment	The Emperor and the Assassin. King Ying Zheng is presented with an enormous map of China laid out on the floor and notices one of the mapmakers is crying — he's from a nation that Ying Zheng has just subjugated. So Ying Zheng uses the map to state his grand vision of a united China.
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The Big Board / int_ba07853c	comment	In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the American government is shown to have one of these, almost identical to the one in Dr. Strangelove. The only difference is that it uses peace signs to represent failed strikes.
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The Big Board / int_bd886ad	comment	Used in the Sebben and Sebben training film in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. "...is so much more. More potent, powerful and frightening." Cue picture of globe with markers all over it.
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The Big Board / int_be245531	comment	In Gotham Central, the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department has a whiteboard which lists detectives and the cases they are assigned to (currently open cases written in red, closed cases written in black). Charlie Fields, an MCU detective, once proposed putting Batman up on the board and assigning him all the cases that had gone cold or been abandoned by their officers. However, Charlie did not mean for this to be a compliment or show of faith to Batman, but as a mark of shame for the MCU by highlighting that they needed an outsider to do their jobs for them.
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The Big Board / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Queen Sonorie uses a pymaric board depicting the city of Grenzlan to remotley oversee the liberation of the city from the Aldish military. Most of it appears to be glowing holograms but Grenzlan's khert hub is a physical model on the board.
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The Big Board / int_bf3a0285	comment	Without a Trace tracks the missing person's movements on a big whiteboard.
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The Big Board / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 has a handful of these, usually in the intel rooms. Each map (and the general objective thereof) is also presented in the style of a strategy session on a chalkboard. The "Meet the Spy" video has a rather large and low-tech one◊ in the BLU base, complete with a number of in-jokes.
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The Big Board / int_c2917895	comment	The Old Guard. Ex-CIA agent Copley has several boards in his house that, at first glance, appear to be tracking the immortal protagonists across history, but are later revealed to show how they (unknowingly) saved the lives of people who would go on to change history for the better. Close-ups of what's on the board are shown during the credits.
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The Big Board / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: It parodied the We Have Reserves mentality of World War I generals by having Field Marshall Haig sweep the model troops into a dustpan and throw them away in "Goodbyeee". Spoofed in "Private Plane" where Gen. Melchett proudly shows off a table containing a display of the amount of land recaptured during the latest "Big Push"...at a one-to-one scale (17 square feet).
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The Big Board / int_c4282b71	comment	As of the season 5 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle has a magical crystal map of Equestria in her home. It can send her and her friends to different places to solve friendship problems.
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The Big Board / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who "webisode" Dreamland had the Colonel Ripper Of The Week show one of these to the Doctor. It consisted of the US marked in blue, and the USSR in bright red with a giant hammer and sickle on it and the rest of the world in grey.
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The Big Board / int_c5472110	comment	Their later game DEFCON goes the whole hog and makes a complete game out of the exact same thing. It also plays heavily on the "Nightmare Fuel" aspect of the WarGames board mentioned above, completed with mentions of the megadeath body count each bomb causes and, for those who didn't turn the sound off and can hear it, increasingly depressing music and sick and sobbing people huddled in the bunker in the background, it being a tribute to the movie.
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The Big Board / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. Root has a rare Oh, Crap! moment when she's snooping around the restricted floor of a mental hospital, peeks in a window and sees Greer standing in front of an enormous computer screen showing Samaritan's worldwide operations. She's just stumbled into their secret headquarters. Team Machine has a battered acrylic board set up in the abandoned library they use for their headquarters, on which they put pictures and information on the Number they're currently working on. When they have to Run or Die in the Downer Ending of Season 3, the board gets smashed as the library is stormed by a SWAT team.
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The Big Board / int_ca08598f	comment	The Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit in The Wire uses a white board with victims' names on it to track case progress. Each squad has a column on the board. Names written in red are unsolved; the are rewritten in black after the detectives solve the case. Sgt. Landsman gets very upset when someone—especially one of his detectives—"puts red on the board" (as when McNulty forced Homicide to eat the case of the canister of trafficked sex workers in Season 2, or when Lester Freamon opened up the vacant houses where the Stanfield Organization was disposing of bodies at the end of Season 4); he is similarly happy when his detectives "turn red to black." Both the board in Homicide and The Wire were taken from an actual tool of the Baltimore PD that David Simon observed when he was embedded with Homicide while writing his book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (on which the Homicide TV series is based and which heavily informed the police plotlines of The Wire). The Baltimore PD Homicide Unit tried to take down the real board, citing poor morale and the fact that it encouraged rivalry between detectives instead of information-sharing, but ended up leaving it in its various precincts after officers stated that it was a useful tracking tool.
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The Big Board / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "Whither Canada": British Army HQ, with models of pigs being pushed around a map. View it here, starting around 8:00.
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The Big Board / int_cac1f772	comment	Most versions of CSI, Law & Order and other elaborate Police Procedurals. Corkboards detailing the organization of drug gangs are also a staple of the Major Crimes Unit office.
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The Big Board / int_cb1906ec	comment	In Von Ryan's Express, the Germans have a big board with lights indicating the status of the trains running throughout Germany.
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The Big Board / int_ccbaad5d	comment	Bagramon's castle in Digimon Fusion has one that shows who controls what Zones.
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The Big Board / int_cdddd63a	comment	On The Dead Zone, Johnny Smith had a big board in his basement where he was keeping track of clues about Greg Stillson and Armageddon.
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The Big Board / int_cf6c5715	comment	Not just one but two(!) make an appearance in time travel command center of Rewind (2013). There's a sleek, glass version in The War Room for the military brass, which is covered in post-it notes and surrounded by blinking monitors. The support staff gets a bulletin board with photos, newspaper clippings, and plenty of red yarn.
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The Big Board / int_cfcb0b92	comment	Lorenzo's Oil: Augusto has a whiteboard charting Lorenzo's blood fat levels by month. He repeatedly draws a kitchen sink with two faucets to illustrate and then update his understanding of how the fat level balances are supposed to work.
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The Big Board / int_d2d6de50	comment	In Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean has a hi-tech board which he uses to display various building schematics of the casino vault.
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The Big Board / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica has the Whiteboard of Extinction. If it counts, the big strategic planning board with all the little models as well. Astute viewers will notice that at some point during the first season, someone in the Fleet took time to create new miniatures of the updated Cylon Raiders, replacing the Classic-era ones they used earlier in the show.
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The Big Board / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER has the doctors writing their cases in a transparent board.
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The Big Board / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. A vast map of the world is seen spanning the wall of a zeppelin hanger of the Flying Legion, worked on by men climbing tall and unsafe-looking ladders.
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The Big Board / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire opens with Milo giving a presentation on a chalkboard; he steps into the display when he accidentally erases part of it. Later, he also draws a diagram of the "trap" at the entrance to Atlantis.
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The Big Board / int_d78af2ac	comment	Kingsman: The Secret Service: There is one next to the Kingsman table, which they use to display the first Lancelot's investigation and some disappeared VIPs. They need their AR glasses to see anything on it, which means anyone looking in doesn't see anything strange on the mirror. Valentine has one in his hideout, which he and Gazelle use to run their entire operation.
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The Big Board / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Dr. Strangelove features big maps which follow the bombers as they start a nuclear war. Gen. "Buck" Turgidson even names the trope; see above.
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The Big Board / int_da92c130	comment	Two versions of a Big Board show up in Erfworld. Stanley has a tactical table with real-time intelligence and images generated by his linked casters; Ansom uses a more prosaic map-and-counters representation of his available intel.
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The Big Board / int_db304f20	comment	Paul Merton: The Series: In one sketch, a gang plans a bank robbery this way, and as it drifts further from its origins they keep producing implausibly specific models to add to the map to illustrate their points.
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The Big Board / int_ddf7a3e0	comment	In one episode of Galactica 1980, some of the Colonial Warriors on Earth find a scientist's chalkboard with various formulas on it. One of them writes information on the chalkboard that will improve the scientist's knowledge (disposing of nuclear waste?). This is copied from the scene in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) where Klaatu corrected the equation on Professor Barnhardt's chalkboard. It's not as if Galactica 1980 ever did anything original.
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The Big Board / int_de89c047	comment	Parodied in Casey and Andy, where J.J.'s whiteboard always appears whenever she needs its assistance with some exposition. This ability is likely genetic in nature, since Quantum Cop has his chalkboard, which appears whenever he needs to explain physics.
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The Big Board / int_de959477	comment	Enola Holmes: Sherlock's got a map of London on his wall marked with the movements of the money he's trying to follow marked with string. It's big enough to hide a large secret compartment behind it.
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The Big Board / int_df7fa951	comment	In MI6's situation room in Casino Royale (2006), the walls and table themselves are fancy touchscreens with Viewer Friendly Interfaces.
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The Big Board / int_e251c6c5	comment	The Big Clock: When hunting fugitives, George Stroud and the staff of Crimeways magazine set up a blackboard known as 'the clue board' where they list everything they learn about the fugitive. Under Janoth's orders, George has to set one up to in an attempt to locate the mysterious 'Jefferson Randolph': even though Jefferson Randolph is actually him.
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The Big Board / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Homecoming", Buffy is trying to compete with Cordelia for the title of Prom Queen (Or something like that), and makes a chart of the competition's strengths and weaknesses. In the end, the two other girls win, much to the chagrin of Buffy and Cordelia. Giles used an AV projector during "Hush", since no one could talk. Complete with stick figures. Similarly, he used picture flash cards to communicate with non-English-speaker Chao Anh in "First Date". Andrew's big board for explaining the First Evil to new Potential Slayers in "Get it Done". He even quotes General Turgidson when Buffy first brings Robin Wood into the house:
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The Big Board / int_e4b94ee8	comment	Uplink has one of these on a hidden machine, in direct and explicit tribute to WarGames.
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The Big Board / int_e4d5575	comment	In Warcraft (2016), Llane's war room's main feature is a huge table with a 3D-ish map of Stormwind and figurines to represent Horde and Stormwind legions, which humans use to plan their campaign.
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The Big Board / int_e7327ca8	comment	1941 (1979): U.S. Army air defense center has plane models on a large flat map.
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The Big Board / int_e97e9ac4	comment	Harpoon is essentially like this.
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The Big Board / int_ea4f62db	comment	When Family Guy parodied Back to the Future, they lampshade this by having Brian wonder why they have a chalkboard in the middle of their living room in the first place.
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The Big Board / int_ecdc7362	comment	Star Wars: Rebellion has you spend the game looking at one of these. Given the largest version of the galaxy contains 200 systems, it is surprisingly helpful.
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The Big Board / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager. Season 4 saw the introduction of the Astrometrics lab, which also helped avert the 2-D Space trope via a wraparound holographic wall screen. As per usual for this trope, it's used to provide exposition visually.
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The Big Board / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	A similar real-time battle hologram is seen briefly in Revenge of the Sith. The Separatists are using it to oversee a distant battle just before they have their last conversation with Darth Sidious. There are also several in the Jedi Temple, such as one detailing the progress of the Outer Rim Sieges and another detailing movements in a battle, possibly Mygeeto since Ki-Adi-Mundi is there.
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The Big Board / int_f0a86c12	comment	In How I Met Your Mother, the gang uses a March Madness-like bracket on a chalkboard to determine which of the 200+ women Barney has slept with is trying to ruin his life. They narrow it down to a Final Four who he treated the most poorly (such as going camping with one woman and then stealing her car and leaving her stranded in the woods).
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The Big Board / int_f26c58d6	comment	World in Conflict has Colonel Sawyer using anything that we can gets his hands on to simulate on of these on the battlefield. Near the end he uses a month old donut and a ketchup bottle to simulate the space needle in Seattle when they're moving in to stop US High Command from having to Nuke it to prevent Chinese reinforcements getting into the US Mainland.
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The Big Board / int_f481d3e4	comment	The titular spaceship in Prometheus has a huge holographic board for strategic operations.
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The Big Board / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Briefings on both versions of Mission: Impossible usually required an electronic big board that the team could view their target and other operational data on. In the revival series a General Ripper is fooled into making an Engineered Public Confession by programming the electronic display board to make it appear that the illegal invasion he planned has gone ahead on schedule. After he makes a public broadcast boasting of his success, he discovers otherwise.
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The Big Board / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 Big Boards appear occasionally, often on warships. One episode has an EarthForce general planning an operation on the table form. On the station itself there is a Big Board in The War Room, depicting friendly and hostile force dispositions throughout the entire galaxy. Minbari warcruisers are shown to have a 3D holographic version where everything in the room except for the spot where the viewers are standing is turned into a projection of the battlefield. Captain Sheridan is suitably impressed the first time he's introduced to it. Meanwhile the smaller White Stars have a much more modest version that essentially serves as a viewscreen similar to the ones in Star Trek, in this case a hologram projected in front of the actual window.
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The Big Board / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes provides the player with all◊ sorts◊ of◊ goodies◊ for their big board needs.
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The Big Board / int_fbc58609	comment	In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington uses a big chalkboard while trying to figure out the "formula" for Christmas.
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The Big Board / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: When General Canada explains the impending Nazi attack to his soldiers, he demonstrates his defense plans on a huge planning board with little figures.
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The Big Board / int_ff4647d6	comment	The Angry Joe Show: Angry Joe has one of these on his spaceship.
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The Big Board / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation also introduced the large systems monitor display in Main Engineering, which ostensibly showed the current status of the ship's systems. (Usually it was just the default fixed, backlit cutaway image of the Enterprise-D, with the occasional overlaid or backlit effect; on rare occasions, it would be used to display other images as though it were a regular viewscreen.) There was also its companion piece, a table which had a large surface display on each end, and with which the crew interacted much more. The wall monitor would appear on other starships in the franchise, usually at the rear of the bridge, opposite the viewscreen. In addition, one alternate version of the Enterprise-D in the episode "Parallels" had a free-standing clear display behind the tactical station.
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Batman Ninja / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Cross Ange / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Hanaukyō Maid Tai / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Booster Gold (Comic Book) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Gotham Central (Comic Book) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw (Comic Book) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Red Ten (Comic Book) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Mulan / Disney / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (Fanfic) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
A Bridge Too Far / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
A View to a Kill / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Aliens / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Alimuom / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
And the Band Played On / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Angel on My Shoulder / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Apollo 13 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Barbie (2023) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Battle of Britain / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Battle of Moscow / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Battle of the Bulge / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Billion Dollar Brain / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
By Dawn's Early Light / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Contact / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Deepwater Horizon / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Diamonds Are Forever / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Die Wannseekonferenz / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Dr. Strangelove / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Edge of Tomorrow / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Emperor (2012) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Enola Holmes 2 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Fail Safe / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Fantastic Voyage / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Fatal Instinct / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
First Man / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
49th Parallel / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Going To Blazes / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
GoldenEye / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Goldfinger / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Greyhound / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
High&Low / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
High and Low (1963) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Independence Day / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Iron Sky / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Kingsman: The Secret Service / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Mars Attacks! / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Mars Needs Women / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Memento / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Midway (1976) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Ministry of Fear / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Minority Report / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Aliens / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Objective, Burma! / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Ocean's Eleven / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Passage to Marseille / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Passengers (2016) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Patton / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Prometheus / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Rendezvous / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Reservoir Dogs / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Rewind (2013) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Rollerball / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Sink the Bismarck! / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Spotlight / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Abyss / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Big Clock / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Dam Busters / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Day Called 'X' / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Force Awakens / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Godfather / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Lion Has Wings / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Man with the Golden Gun / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The President's Last Bang / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Sting / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Theodore Rex / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Top Secret! / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Union Pacific / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Von Ryan's Express / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Warcraft (2016) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
What's Your Number? / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
X-Men / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Lensman / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Lock In / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Tress of the Emerald Sea / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Hanaukyō Maid Team (Manga) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Poison Berry in My Brain (Manga) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
How Did This Get Made? (Podcast) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Tropes N to S / Real Life / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Invasion Of The Gempire (Roleplay) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Benson / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Chuck / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Corporate / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Death in Paradise / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Fresh Meat / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Grey's Anatomy / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Hawaii Five-0 / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Homeland / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Homicide: Life on the Street / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
How I Met Your Mother / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Inspector Morse / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Life (2007) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Luke Cage (2016) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Mr. Robot / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Murdoch Mysteries / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
My Own Worst Enemy / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
NCIS: Los Angeles / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
NewsRadio / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Newsnight / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Paul Merton: The Series / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Picket Fences / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Prison Break / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Scandal / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Scandal (2012) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Silicon Valley / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Good Place / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Man in the High Castle / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Thick of It / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The X-Files / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Time Commanders / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Wedding Season / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
1776 (Theatre) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
DEFCON (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Dead State (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Detectives United (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Freedom Planet 2 (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Call Of War / Videogame / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Dr. Havoc's Diary (Web Animation) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Saturday Morning Watchmen (Web Animation) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Watchers (Web Animation) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever (Web Video) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Echo Chamber (Web Video) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
lonelygirl15 (Web Video) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Video Game High School (Web Video) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Nepetaquest 2011 (Webcomic) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
How War Came / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
ReBoot / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Stripperella / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Dragon Prince / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
WALLâ€¢E / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
A Beautiful Mind / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Nikita / int_87504252	type	The Big Board

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