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* The main antagonists of ''VideoGame/KingAndBalloon'' are hot-air balloons that drop from the sky and attempt to capture the King. The player has to shoot them down before they can reach the ground and pick up the King before lifting him away.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event/publicity stunt where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, multiple traffic collisions were reported, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event/publicity stunt where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, multiple traffic collisions were reported, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when with the water was covered in balloons.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off scot-free.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, coins or items) while the other players get off scot-free.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, multiple traffic collisions were reported, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event event/publicity stunt where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, multiple traffic collisions were reported, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, multiple traffic collisions were reported, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was an event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was an a fundraising event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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* Balloonfest '86 was an event where United Way set a world record by releasing 1.5 million balloons over Cleveland. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily that day, and the rain pushed the balloons back down, burying Cleveland in balloons. An airport runway had to shut down, a woman's horses panicked and injured themselves, and two missing boaters in Lake Erie drowned because it was impossible to find them when the water was covered in balloons.
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-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', reacting with [[FauxHorrific faux horror]] to Pennywise's balloons in ''Film/It1990''
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* ''VideoGame/GarfieldsNightmare'': The third boss is Jean Cloud, a sentient animal balloon that moves in the air thanks to three red balloons, and aims to harm Garfield by throwing teal-colored water balloons. Garfield has to hop onto an ascending helium balloon and stomp the boss to burst one of the three red balloons. Repeating the tactic until all three balloons explode will make the boss lose control of its flight and erratically move away, consumating its defeat.
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This is perhaps due to the rising trend of {{Monster Clown}}s - many people are scared of clowns, so clowns are portrayed as evil, and as a result, clown props like balloons get the same treatment.
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This is perhaps due to the rising trend of {{Monster Clown}}s - -- many people are scared of clowns, so clowns are portrayed as evil, and as a result, clown props like balloons get the same treatment.
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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Mannish Boy's Death Thirteen's bring his targets in an AmusementParkOfDoom dream world that's brightly-coloured with balloons, various rides, and roller coasters, enough to make the victims doubt they're in any danger until it's too late.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Mike O.'s Tubular Bells allows him to inflate balloons out of metal that can be twisted and bent to turn into animals to attack their opponents.
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** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Mannish Boy's Death Thirteen's bring his targets in an AmusementParkOfDoom dream world that's brightly-coloured with balloons, various rides, and roller coasters, enough to make the victims doubt they're in any danger until it's too late.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': Mike O.'s Tubular Bells allows him to inflate balloons out of metal that can be twisted and bent to turn into animals to attack their opponents.
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* ''VideoGame/BrokenSwordTheShadowOfTheTemplars'': The game starts with George encountering a clown with grinning balloons before it bombed a cafe.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In "Der Inflatable Fuhrer", Frylock takes on a freelance gig on filling up balloons with a deadly virus, something that even [[EvenEvilHasStandards Shake]] calls sick. Frylock is then horrified to find out his employer are ThoseWackyNazis led by AdolfHitlarious as a talking balloon.
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* ''Literature/TheOriginOfLaughingJack'': A variant. Laughing Jack uses a bit of Isaac's intestines to make a balloon animal, inflating it and twisting it into a poodle shape.
--> '''Laughing Jack:''' [[PsychopathicManchild I can make giraffes too!]]
--> '''Laughing Jack:''' [[PsychopathicManchild I can make giraffes too!]]
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* ''Film/TheBlackPhone'': The killer is shown handling some surprisingly ominous black balloons.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Return of Harmony Part 1", Discord uses an illusion of creepy laughing balloons (Pinkie Pie's [[ChestInsignia cutie]] [[ButtBrand mark]]) to mock Pinkie Pie in order to CorruptTheCutie and break the PowerOfFriendship.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Return of Harmony Part 1", Discord uses an illusion of creepy laughing balloons (Pinkie Pie's [[ChestInsignia cutie]] [[ButtBrand cutie mark]]) to mock Pinkie Pie in order to CorruptTheCutie and break the PowerOfFriendship.
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* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:Gordy's violent rampage was kicked off when the chimp actor was startled by a balloon popping in the hot studio lights. As more balloons went off, the chimp renewed its violence. Jean Jacket is also basically [[LivingGasbag a giant living balloon]] in its true form seen at the end, and is itself is killed by a giant balloon popping.]]
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* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:Gordy's violent rampage was kicked off when the chimp actor actor, already on edge from the studio audience full of smiling humans making eye contact with him, was startled by a balloon popping in the hot studio lights. As more balloons went off, the chimp renewed its his violence. Jean Jacket is also basically [[LivingGasbag a giant living weather balloon]] in its true form seen at the end, and is itself is killed by a giant balloon popping.popping inside it.]]
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* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:Gordy's violent rampage was kicked off when the chimp actor was startled by a balloon popping in the hot studio lights. As more balloons went off, the chimp renewed its violence. Jean Jacket is also basically [[LivingGasbag a giant living balloon]] in its true form seen at the end, and is itself is killed by a giant balloon popping.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off scot-free.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get offscot-free.scot-free.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Balloon Busters has each player use the Mic to inflate a red balloon with the drawing of a huge explosion engraved in it (the player doesn't blow, but instead says "Bigger" to make their character blow once and "Stop" to end their turn). Each player must blow at least once so they have the option to stop, and can only blow up to five times; once they do either action, they go to a safe cover and the next player begins their turn. If a player plays for more than 15 seconds, their character will automatically blow up to the fifth time. Only the character who is behind the cover will be safe once the balloon explodes, as both the player blowing and the next two in the waiting line will be blasted away, losing the minigame.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Balloon Busters has each player use the Mic to inflate a red balloon with the drawing of a huge explosion engraved in it (the player doesn't blow, but instead says "Bigger" to make their character blow once and "Stop" to end their turn). Each player must blow at least once so they have the option to stop, and can only blow up to five times; once they do either action, they go to a safe cover and the next player begins their turn. If a player plays for more than 15 seconds, their character will automatically blow up to the fifth time. Only the character who is behind the cover will be safe once the balloon explodes, as both the player blowing and the next two in the waiting line will be blasted away, losing the minigame.
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* In ''VideoGame/MarioParty 4'', one of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off scot-free.
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* In ''VideoGame/MarioParty 4'', one ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': One of Bowser's minigames aptly called "Balloon of Doom" has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off scot-free.
