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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })You can panic now! Why? It's the BLACK POLIO AIDS ANTHRAX MONKEY-POX SARS BIRD SWINE ZIKA EBOLA CORONAVIRUS-19 FLU! Wait. It's actually ACID RAINing AIRBORNE SAR-AIDS-CANCER over THE WHOLE OF NORTH AMERICA as a distraction for a SINISTER TERRORIST SATANIC PLOT to ASSASSINATE UNWED TEENAGE MOTHERS by INNOCENT CHILDREN mind-controlled by VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES and the LSD SOLD IN PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS... and so on. In fiction, the media is often depicted as relentlessly fear-mongering for ratings, and will take any story or event, no matter how innocuous or harmless, and make it look like The End of the World as We Know It. In the case of real-life media drumming up fear, this one goes hand-in-hand with the Made-for-TV Movie which sensationalizes the topic of discussion. Whatever the latest media-induced paranoia is, like crime, typhoons and the best show on Earth, we're going to get a show or special report about it. Think Everything Trying to Kill You applied to Real Life and you have the idea. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })If children are in danger, then it's Harmful to Minors. If it's about new technology, then it's probably because Science Is Bad. If it's a new minority or subculture, then lock the doors and hide your daughters — it's the Subculture of the Week! Expecting volcanic eruptions in the midwest? Then it's likely a Disaster Movie. New diseases or health issues like high cholesterol and cancerous artificial sweetener? Then it's probably a Hallmark Channel Made-for-TV Movie about a Pollyanna and her family going through something truly Glurge-y. Often involves a Clueless Aesop. May evoke Poe's Law if its parody status is unknown. Let No Crisis Go to Waste is often implied or stated to be the reason for telling people to panic. Compare If It Bleeds, It Leads and Monster of the Week. Not to be confused with Fear Is the Appropriate Response, which describes a justified reaction to imminent real danger (as opposed to the sensationalized fearmongering described by this trope). Contrast Bystander Syndrome and It's Probably Nothing, when situations that people should be rightly concerned about are dismissed as nothing important. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })See also: Axes at School, Disaster Movie, Glurge, New Media Are Evil, Pædo Hunt, Ripped from the Headlines, Subculture of the Week, Tabloid Melodrama, The New Rock & Roll, Western Terrorists. Completely unrelated to This Is No Time to Panic. Examples: |
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Sluggy Freelance ran this one perfectly straight during the Storm Breaker Saga, when the evil book (The Book of E-Ville) goes missing on the battlefield between good and evil. The monk who'd had custody of the book tells everyone not to panic and it has to be there somewhere - when it turns up in the hands of one of the story's biggest idiots. The monk reverses course. Seen here in the archives. | |
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From The Simpsons: One episode features a hidden media conspiracy to actually release a disease and do reports on it blaming the imminent outbreak on cats. In "Homer the Vigilante", Kent Brockman's initial report on the string of cat burglaries ends with him asking a professor if the town should panic. He nonchalantly agrees that they should. Later, Kent brings in the same professor after a large number of townspeople start searching for the cat burglar's loot. |
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Though not technically in featured in a Dilbert strip, Scott Adams has noted that whenever humanity has become aware of a serious problem years in advance, it has been averted. When the Powers That Be said, "Panic!", people went out and solved the problem. | |
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Parodied in a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad was watching "Eyewitness Action News", which aimed to tell its audience ''why YOU should be paralyzed with helpless fear!" | |
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This is a common subject in Candorville, as part of its general dislike of "Mainstream Media." Typically, honest information is presented, but certain panic-inducing words are written larger than others. | |
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Inverted on That Mitchell and Webb Look with a sketch about the news declaring that major disasters, explosions, and serial killings are all "fine" because they're over now, or because there isn't any violence except in the few minutes the serial killer is actually murdering someone, so there's no need to worry at all and it's all fine. However, their preview of the next day's newspaper headlines takes a shot at the Daily Mail's habit of playing the trope straight with its headline "Everything's fine, fear it, fear it." | |
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Bowling for Columbine: Seen in a news segments montage during the film. Although he is not quite as scathing towards them as the NRA or gun manufacturers, Moore criticizes the news media for stoking non-stop fear to boost ratings, and sees this as a major contributing factor to the number of gun deaths in the United States. | |
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Parodied by CollegeHumor here. Set to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", they showcase basically every ratings-driven media panic frenzy of the past 10-15 years, including Y2K, 2012, Peak Oil, terrorist attacks, Global Warming, and the imminent Zombie Apocalypse, Robot War, and Alien Invasion. | |
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State of Fear, as quoted, manages to make a good point about this despite being mostly an Author Tract about why Michael Crichton thought Global Warming was a sham. | |
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Mock the Week also ran a story about Bird Flu, showing the scare-mongering of the English media. | |
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Reefer Madness: The Musical: The Lecturer says "When danger's near, exploit their fear." The one parent who objects to these Red Scare tactics is labeled un-American. | |
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The Scarfolk Council would like to remind you that the small humanoids living in your home and eating your food may not be your children, that the tall humanoids who live in your house and feed you may not be your parents, and that foreigners may be stealing your thoughts, so you should surrender them to the Scarfolk Council for safe keeping. | |
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Pretty much the whole point of The Host (2006) was satirizing this. Giant tadpole running around Seoul, eating people? It must be carrying A HIDEOUS NEW DISEASE! Let us completely focus on this possibility, and ignore the fact that it's eating people! | |
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Parodied in The Areas of My Expertise, when one character is smugly worried that terrorists will attack the Mall of America. | |
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In the first episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, the eponymous characters are mistaken for invading aliens (It Makes Sense in Context...more or less). The radio announcement to this effect concludes with the line, "This is not a play, repeat, not a play. Feel free to panic." | |
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The Leverage takes on a TV reporter who makes a career out of this in "The Three Days of the Hunter Job". She actually turns down a fake story they feed her about secret terrorist prisons in the US because she doesn't think it will scare her viewers enough. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants. Along with the page quote from "The Smoking Peanut", there's "Wormy" where SpongeBob and Patrick stir Bikini Bottom into a frenzy when they start warning people about a monster (actually a butterfly). Also in the episode "Krab Borg", after Squidward learns that robots have "taken over the navy", |
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Mocked on Some More News with their "No More Boar" series of videos, which, similarly with Stephen Colbert and his bears, attempts to 'awaken' America to the threat of radioactive, teleporting boar planning to Kill and Replace humanity. (Any rhetorical devices in these segments also sometimes used to demonize 'other' groupings in other ideologically aligned media is purely coincidental.) | |
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The parents in South Park, frequently. | |
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Nicky Case's short game We Become What We Behold is a criticism of this. In the last scene before the credits, the TV screen shows the headline "Be scared. Be angry.". | |
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Drop the Dead Donkey. When Globelink News decide to make a crimewatch program, Gus Hedges assures the police liaison officer that it's not going to increase the public's fear of crime for cheap ratings. Cue the title sequence showing a couple moving fearfully through a darkened street, while an ominous voiceover accompanied by creepy music tells how crime is lurking everywhere, waiting to strike... The music stops as the couple make it to their car, lock the doors and sigh with relief, only for a blood-stained man wielding a huge knife to rise up from the backseat. We then cut to a 'recreation' of a postal robbery, which involves grinning hoodlums knocking an old lady's teeth out and splattering a clerk against a wall with a shotgun. | |
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Mazes and Monsters was a movie made to illustrate to parents the dangers of Dungeons & Dragons and how it could drive kids insane, to commit murder and then suicide. It was entirely based on an urban legend. There are quite a few accounts of active Dungeons and Dragons players who credit this movie for discovering the game, as they were not aware that it existed until this movie got their parents to warn them of its dangers and willfully seek out what sounded like an exciting adventure. | |
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A cliche at Fark. Submitted headlines for ridiculous scaremongering stories usually include the line EVERYBODY PANIC at the end. | |
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Fahrenheit 9/11: Moore replays a female scream after images of destruction to emphasize how the government exploited the 9/11 attacks to manipulate people. | |
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