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Bathos can be both intentionally invoked or unintentionally present. It most often appears intentionally in comedic works or those with a comedic undertone, although not always. When unintentional, it is frequently caused by BadWriting, especially PurpleProse. Unintentional bathos is {{Narm}}.
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Bathos can be both intentionally invoked or unintentionally present. It most often appears intentionally in comedic works or those with a comedic undertone, although not always. When unintentional, it is frequently caused by BadWriting, especially PurpleProse. Unintentional bathos is described as {{Narm}}.
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Bathos can be both intentionally invoked or unintentionally present. It most often appears intentionally in comedic works or those with a comedic undertone, although not always. When unintentional, it is frequently caused by BadWriting, especially PurpleProse.
PurpleProse. Unintentional bathos is {{Narm}}.
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* Found throughout PGWodehouse's work. A spectacular example is present in ''Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit'', with a florid poem describing a sunset that ends with "I say / Doesn't that sunset remind you / Of a slice / Of underdone roast beef?"
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* During Triple H and The Undertakers match at Wrestlemania 27, they at one point send themselves flying into [[MichaelCole Michael Cole's]] little cubical that he calls the "Cole Mine". Despite the serious tone a match involving undertaker usually would have, seeing Cole's property go to pieces makes you laugh just a little
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* During At one point during Triple H and The Undertakers Undertaker's match at Wrestlemania 27, they at one point send themselves flying into [[MichaelCole Michael Cole's]] little cubical cubicle that he calls the "Cole Mine". Despite the serious tone that a match involving undertaker Undertaker would usually would have, seeing Cole's property go to pieces makes you laugh just a littlelittle.
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* Common throughout the ''DresdenFiles''. Top prize probably goes to asking a [[spoiler: faerie hit-''thing'']] for a donut.
-->'''[[spoiler: Eldest Brother Gruff]]''': [[YeOldeButcheredEnglish Likest thou jelly within thy donut]]?
-->'''Harry''': Nay, but with sprinkles 'pon it, and frosting of white.
-->'''[[spoiler: Eldest Brother Gruff]]''': [[YeOldeButcheredEnglish Likest thou jelly within thy donut]]?
-->'''Harry''': Nay, but with sprinkles 'pon it, and frosting of white.
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Is it that freaking hard to italicize?
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* The [[MemeticMutation infamous]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLrldtZtRA pea scene]] from ThePowerpuffGirls. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* The [[MemeticMutation infamous]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLrldtZtRA pea scene]] from ThePowerpuffGirls.''ThePowerpuffGirls''. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* ''the Farnsworth Parabox'' in ''{{Futurama}}'' has Farnsworth warning near the end: "Everything that ever was, is, and will be is contained in this box, and the actual box is probably worth something as well."
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* ''{{Firefly}}'' delved into this from time to time. In ''War Stories'', Mal and Wash have a very domestic argument while being tortured, much to the befuddlement of the torturer.
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* This trope is what drives most of ''TheVentureBrothers''.
* This trope is what drives most of ''TheVentureBrothers''.
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The [[TropeNamer trope name]] comes from AlexanderPope, who wrote ''Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry'' in 1772, in which he explains the comic uses of tropes and figures of speech. In it, he notes that juxtaposing the serious and the trivial creates unintentional (or unexpected) humor, which sinks serious poetry.
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The [[TropeNamer trope name]] comes from AlexanderPope, Alexander Pope, who wrote ''Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry'' in 1772, in which he explains the comic uses of tropes and figures of speech. In it, he notes that juxtaposing the serious and the trivial creates unintentional (or unexpected) humor, which sinks serious poetry.
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Compare GallowsHumor, where the comedy is used by characters within the story as a tension breaker.
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* OneFootInTheGrave : Nearly every episode, a serious conversation was interrupted with something completely ludicrous, such as finding a wig in a loaf of bread, or Victor discovering that a workman planted a Yucca plant actually ''in'' the downstairs toilet.
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** You can extend that to any game where you can put on joke costumes, and the costumes show during cutscenes.
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* During Triple H and The Undertakers match at Wrestlemania 27, they at one point send themselves flying into MichaelColes little cubical that he calls the "Cole Mine". Despite the serious tone a match involving undertaker usually would have, seeing Coles property go to pieces makes you laugh just a little
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* Stand-up comedian and author Lewis Grizzard uses this trope extensively in his routines and writing.
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* Stand-up comedian and author Lewis Grizzard uses this trope extensively in his routines and writing. From his memorial column for his dog Catfish:
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-->I don’t know why I named him what I named him. He was all curled up in a blanket on my back seat. And I looked at him and it just came out. I called him, “Catfish.” I swear he raised up from the blanket and acknowledged. Then he severely fouled the blanket and my back seat.
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It has its origins in poetry, where lofty prose would be followed with an anticlimax of sorts. It later evolved to cover any instance where the serious is mixed with the surreal or commonplace in order to provide humor.
The [[TropeNamer trope name]] comes from AlexanderPope, who wrote ''Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry'' in 1772, in which he explains the comic uses of tropes and figures of speech. In it, he notes that juxtaposing the serious and the trivial creates unintentional (or unexpected) humor, which sinks serious poetry.
Bathos can be both intentionally invoked or unintentionally present. It most often appears intentionally in comedic works or those with a comedic undertone, although not always. When unintentional, it is frequently caused by BadWriting, especially PurpleProse.
SophisticatedAsHell and ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are subtropes. Bathos may cause MoodWhiplash when it does not appear in an otherwise comedic segment of the work.
'''Please do not place examples that better belong on {{Darthwiki/Narm}} here or on any main page.''' In other words, only intentional Bathos belongs on this page.
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*In ''TheIncredibles'', the superfamily is rushing to save Metroville from a rampaging robot. Along the way they do what ''every'' family does on a long car trip: start bickering.
-->'''Dash:''' Are we there yet?
-->'''Mr Incredible:''' We'll get there when we get there!
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* An example of the trope that predates Pope's coining of the term comes from John Dryden in ''Albion and Albanius'', where he writes:
-->"The cave of Proteus rises out of the sea, it consists of several arches of rock work, adorned with mother of pearl, coral, and abundance of shells of various kinds. Through the arches is seen the sea, and parts of Dover pier."
* Pope himself used this trope deliberately in the mock-heroic poem ''{{The Rape of the Lock}}'':
-->Not louder Shrieks to pitying Heav'n are cast,
-->When Husbands or when Lap-dogs breath their last,
* DouglasAdams was quite fond of this trope. From ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':
-->The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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* In ''{{Okami}}'' during the [[spoiler:second (of three)]] battle with Orochi. [[spoiler:Nagi]] tries to look awesome, but it's hard to take him seriously when he's [[WholesomeCrossdresser dressed in women's clothing]]... and even harder when he falls flat on his face jumping into battle.
* The ''player'' can intentionally create Bathos in ''ResonanceOfFate''. Thanks to its VirtualPaperDoll-like clothing and accessories, you can have your characters wearing almost clown-like attire during the most serious of scenes.
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