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* Multiple {{Buffy}} comic books (Pre-Season 8) had festivals/celebrations become interupted by huge monster fights.
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* Multiple {{Buffy}} [[Comicbook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] comic books (Pre-Season 8) had festivals/celebrations become interupted by huge monster fights.
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** When they arrived they found that they were to late and the Athenians were resting AtopAMountainOfCorpses.
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* The fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945 occured over the Shrove Tuesday festivities.
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* In {{Command and Conquer}}: {{Red Alert 3}}, the first mission in the Empire campaign has the player leading an attack on a Russian town in the midst of New Year's celebrations. The opposing commander berates you over the comlink for this, saying that he'll defeat you quickly so that his men will still have time to celebrate.
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* Washington's Christmas attack on the Hessian encampment during the Revolutionary War.
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* ''TheVampireDiaries'' does this. A lot. One gets the impression that the constant festivities are a desperate attempt to distract people from all the murders.
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* A variation on this occurs in the ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "Ring-a-ding Girl". An actress leaves her press tour to stop off at her home town, where the big annual town picnic is going to be held that very afternoon. She convinces the powers that be to move the scheduled picnic to the high school gymnasium, where she will appear as a surprise guest. At the end, a plane (the very plane Ringading Girl was flying in) crashes in the field where the picnic was supposed to take place.
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* A variation on this occurs in the ''TheTwilightZone'' ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Ring-a-ding Girl". An actress leaves her press tour to stop off at her home town, where the big annual town picnic is going to be held that very afternoon. She convinces the powers that be to move the scheduled picnic to the high school gymnasium, where she will appear as a surprise guest. At the end, a plane (the very plane Ringading Girl was flying in) crashes in the field where the picnic was supposed to take place.
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* In ''{{Ys}} VI'', the Rehdan Village is raided by the Romun army just before the Festival of Alma.
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* In ''{{Ys}} ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} VI'', the Rehdan Village is raided by the Romun army just before the Festival of Alma.
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* Very literal example happens in ''{{Hellblazer}}'', where a pagan costume festival (which is also helping to revive the town) causes everyone in fancy dress to [[BecomingTheCostume become whatever they're dressed as]] and become murderously insane (new father in baby costume to infant: "You're taking all of mummy's attention and it's! not! fair!" *splat*; a dentist(?) with a rictus grin mask wants [[StepfordSmiler EVERYONE]] [[GlasgowGrin TO]] [[SlasherSmile SMILE!]]). John and his friend discover that [[ThePowerOfRock loud punk rock]] cancels the effect [[spoiler: a little too late: an ex-fighter pilot is "cured" just seconds after he releases a nuke, destroying the town and everyone in it (except John, of course).]]
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* Very literal example happens in ''{{Hellblazer}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', where a pagan costume festival (which is also helping to revive the town) causes everyone in fancy dress to [[BecomingTheCostume become whatever they're dressed as]] and become murderously insane (new father in baby costume to infant: "You're taking all of mummy's attention and it's! not! fair!" *splat*; a dentist(?) with a rictus grin mask wants [[StepfordSmiler EVERYONE]] [[GlasgowGrin TO]] [[SlasherSmile SMILE!]]). John and his friend discover that [[ThePowerOfRock loud punk rock]] cancels the effect [[spoiler: a little too late: an ex-fighter pilot is "cured" just seconds after he releases a nuke, destroying the town and everyone in it (except John, of course).]]
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* Similarly, in ''SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Soleanna's Festival Of Light gets interrupted by Eggman's arrival.
** In ''SonicGenerations'', when Sonic goes back to [[SonicUnleashed Spagonia]], there is some type of celebration happening.
** In ''SonicGenerations'', when Sonic goes back to [[SonicUnleashed Spagonia]], there is some type of celebration happening.
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* Similarly, in ''SonicTheHedgehog2006'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Soleanna's Festival Of Light gets interrupted by Eggman's arrival.
** In''SonicGenerations'', ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', when Sonic goes back to [[SonicUnleashed [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Spagonia]], there is some type of celebration happening.
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** In ''SonicGenerations'', when Sonic goes back to [[SonicUnleashed Spagonia]], there is some type of celebration happening.
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** And the Tet Offensive. [[{{Understatement}} That was unexpected.]]
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* The first 'Kitten' arc of ''SluggyFreelance'' parodied the ''{{Jaws}}'' example with the local sheriff refusing to make any serious investigation into some murders because it might scare away the tourists. The person who is trying to get an investigation counters that the town's tourist trade consists of renting a few cabins to college kids, and that she could cover the town's loss out of her own pocket. She is promptly ignored.
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* This happens at the beginning of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', where the Star Festival in Toad Town is brutally interrupted by Bowser and his flying Airships.
** Also happens in the [[SuperMarioGalaxy2 sequel]]
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* This happens at the beginning of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', where the Star Festival in Toad Town is brutally interrupted by Bowser and his flying Airships.
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* AlfredHitchcockPresents did a revised version of TheLadyVanishes for one episode. In it, this trope provides the reason for the mysterious disappearance of the eponymous lady and the town's collusion with it: the lady died of some highly communicable disease. Because the town's well-being rests on the success of a world's fair (or some such event) they're putting on at great expense, they attempt to suppress news of the death. The episode starred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia who'd appeared in some of his 50's era movies. "How'd you like the little leading lady?" he asks in the epilogue.
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* ''DragonQuestVII'' has Engow's Festival of Flame, which involves throwing torches into a volcano as part of a whole symbolic "returning the God of Flame's gifts" exercise. [[FortuneTeller Pamela]] had a vision of the volcano erupting right after the ceremony ends, but their [[KingOfTown leader]] refuses to listen, playing this trope to the hilt.
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* ''DragonQuestVII'' has Engow's Festival of Flame, which involves throwing torches into a volcano as part of a whole symbolic "returning the God of Flame's gifts" exercise. [[FortuneTeller Pamela]] had a vision of the volcano erupting right after the ceremony ends, but their [[KingOfTown leader]] leader refuses to listen, playing this trope to the hilt.
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* ''{{Tremors}}'' TV series had an episode about Shrieker attack on a typical town festival.
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* The big fishman attack in ''Humanoids From the Deep'' occurs at the town festival.
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* Subverted in ''Two Thousand Maniacs!'', where it's the inhabitants of the town who are the killers.
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** Also Cosmo Entelecheia's attack during General-Governor's Ball.
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* The Pioneer Days celebration in Juniper, NV, is menaced by shriekers in an episode of ''{{Tremors}}: The Series''. The townsfolk actually ''do'' know about the shriekers, they just have no idea how dangerous they are and don't expect wild animals to come into town.
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* Averted in WW1. Both the German and English armies decided to exchange presents between the trenches at Christmas.
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* In ''Transylvania 6-5000'', town officials frantically attempt to get rid of the local monsters so they can boost revenues from festivals and expand the tourist trade. Unusual in that [[spoiler: the "monsters", none of which are genuine, only become a problem ''because'' the local busybodies are trying to chase them off.]]
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* The plot in ''Dark Cloud'' was kicked off when the genie attacked our hero's town, during a festival.
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* Happened in MahouSenseiNegima during the Mahora festival.
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* The only tolerable Jaws ripoff, ''{{Alligator}}'' has its titular giant predator attack a wedding. The sequel-cum-remake has ''its'' mutant version attack a carnival.
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* ''WallaceAndGromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' has a vegetable festival. Since the titular creature is a giant ''rabbit'', it's ''only'' the focus of the festival that will attract it, and the people are in no real danger. The festival is SeriousBusiness, though.
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* ''WallaceAndGromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' has a vegetable festival. Since the titular eponymous creature is a giant ''rabbit'', it's ''only'' the focus of the festival that will attract it, and the people are in no real danger. The festival is SeriousBusiness, though.
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* In ''FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' all the monstrous doins' in Frankenstein's ruins take place during the village's "Festival of the New Wine."
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* In ''WildArms'', a devastating demon attack strikes Adlehyde during a major festival. Everyone in the festival grounds was killed, and only a handful of survivors can be rescued from the main town.
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* Mont Pelee was about to erupt. The local government, which was facing an election, tried to keep everyone from panicking.
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** ItGotWorse. The town of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique Saint-Pierre]] was not only the largest city in Martinique at the time, but its population swelled to several times its size as people migrated from the countryside to vote in elections. This contributed to the death toll of 30121 people.
** ItGotWorse. The town of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique Saint-Pierre]] was not only the largest city in Martinique at the time, but its population swelled to several times its size as people migrated from the countryside to vote in elections. This contributed to the death toll of 30121 people.
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* In Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus, a town is celebrating the whole Sephiroth fiasco. What happens? Soldiers arrive and start shooting and capturing anything that moved.
**Cue Vincent Valentine to go into BadAss stalker mode and wiping most of the force out with a triple-barreled pistol.
**[[CutscenePowerToTheMax ...in cutscenes.]]
**Cue Vincent Valentine to go into BadAss stalker mode and wiping most of the force out with a triple-barreled pistol.
**[[CutscenePowerToTheMax ...in cutscenes.]]
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** Make that ''every'' episode of ''Midsomer Murders''. if it wasn't a festival, it was a regatta, or a fair, or a carnival...
