This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Super Move Portrait Attack: From YKTTW
Ecliptor Calrissian: Isn't this used for Oh, Crap! situations waaaaaaaay more?
fhqwhgads: Perhaps something similar is used in TV shows, but this is a video game trope. I can't really even visualize how this trope would work with Oh, Crap! either. This trope is about how the camera quickly zooms in on a character just before they use their Limit Break, or how a portrait of that character flashed in front of the screen before said Limit Break. I've never heard of a game where the victim of a Limit Break gets their face shown on the screen, and if it's a TV show, they do close-ups of the characters' faces all the time anyway, so what would the difference be?
If you're trying to say that there's a lot of TV show situations where the camera does a close-up of a character who's about to be the victim of an Oh, Crap! situation, then that would probably be another trope entirely.
