History Main / EmphasizeEVERYTHING

* Parodied in ''ComicBook/RatMan'' with a one-panel joke: one of Rat-Man's old enemies was a guy named "Exclamation Man" whose symbol was a giant "'''!'''" and who put an exclamation mark after literally every single word of his speeches.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' during fights, all instances of character names will be in all caps (RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE, JIN KISARAGI, NOEL VERMILLION) in the vs screen, the life bar and the results. The only notable exceptions are with Nu-13, Lambda-11 and Mu-12 (spelled ν-No.13-, Λ-No.11- and μ-No.12-, respectively) and Es. The latter may be to further empazise that she's from a different plane of existance.

** In one tract (his YetAnotherChristmasCarol), the Voice of God speaks, but the previous pages contained so much EmphasizeEverything that it actually detracts from how impressive God's voice seems. Probably not the effect he was going for.

* DonaldDuck comic books have a tendency to not contain a single speech bubble without at least one exclamation mark. Yes, even whispering ends with "!" Which makes it jarring when the rare dotted sentence shows up.

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* Creator/FrankMiller already used plenty of emphasis even when he was at the top of his game, and once he sank into his [[SelfParody self-parody]] phase, it got even worse.

* Aaron William's works (''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Ps238}}''), for otherwise exceptional series, can often feature uncomfortable amounts of this.

Overemphasis comes in many forms. The writer may be typing as though they were talking to you, and attempting to convey their excitement by ''yelling!'' They might be using text-only formatting tricks like setting boxes aside, underlining and using different colors. Perhaps they insist on using intense words like "[[MundaneMadeAwesome incredible]]" and "[[FelonyMisdemeanor despicable]]" when there's not much reason to. In any case, the effect is the same: you're left without a way to gauge how amazing or important things "really" are.

* '''Mainstream comic books''' tend to do this with '''bold text'''. It's actually very '''strange''' and no one seems to know why it '''happens.''' Possibly, it's intended to highlight the key (i.e., plot relevant) words in the character's '''speech,''' and has nothing to do with how the characters are '''talking.''' That way the '''readers,''' if they want to get to the guys in colored tights '''beating''' on each other, can skim more '''easily.''' That doesn't make it any less '''weird''' for someone who isn't '''used''' to reading comics. [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] loves to point out this, as reading speech balloons aloud (sometimes, [[LargeHam as dramatically as possible]]) is obligatory for his reviews.\\\
Often (though not always) the emphasized words are those that one would expect to be stressed slightly more in natural-sounding speech: "His '''power''' ... I've never seen anything '''like''' it!" Using '''bold''' text does come across as a bit overly dramatic and ''italic'' would probably be better, but a lot of letterers produce "normal" text that's already slanted significantly from the vertical, so that italic doesn't stand out as much.
* A lot of words you wouldn't expect to be italicized ''are anyway'' in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. Averted with Rorschach who speaks with no italics or bold. His voice ''is'' described by other characters though as being a creepy, gravel-y monotone.

* Parodied in ''ComicBook/RatMan'' with an one-panel joke: one of Rat-Man's old enemies was a guy named "Exclamation Man" whose symbol was a giant "'''!'''" and who put an exclamation mark after literally every single word of his speeches.

* It was a convention in some comic strips to use exclamation points at the end of ''every sentence''. This tradition reportedly began because with the older, fairly coarse four color printing process, it was easy for a tiny dot like a period to be lost, but some of an exclamation point would survive! (Letters would also sometimes be joined by stray ink: writers were advised not to use the verb "flick" or name a character "Clint", lest the l and i run together and produce a [[PrecisionFStrike serious]] [[CountryMatters violation]] of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode!) Serials such as ''ComicStrip/MaryWorth'', ''ComicStrip/ApartmentThreeG'', ''ComicStrip/RexMorganMD'' and ''ComicStrip/MarkTrail'' are known for this, as well as ''Archie'' comics and many others.

* One can grow weary of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy's habit of using a constant mix of slow-motion, CGI, sweeping pans and a thunderous soundtrack to make everything seem epic. Notoriously led to EndingFatigue at the end of the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing third film]].

* This is staple trope of several forms of Punk and Metal in which screaming or growling is the dominating vocal technique. At extreme cases the growling sounds like whispering and the distorted guitars sound like TV static.

* The magazine ''boot'' (predecesor to Maximum PC) had an IRATE letter to the EDITOR saying that it was the first and last issue he reads because ''boot'' BOLDFACES every third WORD. The reply: You CAN'T win them ALL, Clark.

-->-- '''The Story of the Old Flesh''', ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'',

This is an admitted SubTrope of the BadWritingIndex, but sometimes it's [[GuiltyPleasures fun]].

* Good luck finding a single page of any Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid book that doesn't contain at least one word in all caps.

* ''ComicBook/SecretWars'' is particularly noted for this. It's a 12-issue series, and there are fewer than fifteen sentences that end with a period in the whole thing. (We're not counting ellipses...)

* One can grow weary of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy's habit of using a constant mix of slow-motion, CGI, sweeping pans and a thunderous soundtrack to make everything seem epic. Notoriously led to EndingFatigue at the end of the third film.

-->-- '''The Story of the Cake''', ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'',

* The ''BreathOfFire'' series is particularly guilty of this, combining it with RainbowSpeak.

** Our late I Am Not Making This Up section was an epic emphasis spam, not only in grammatical terms but by its very existence. It was a place that everyone could go to underscore how amazing/bizarre/hilarious events from entertainment could be, and, well, everything ended up underscored.
** Any sufficiently enthusiastic fandom will sprinkle exclamation points and italics here or there, especially when the work in question involves '''a lot of yelling.''' The italics seem to come out for particularly [[{{Gorn}} brutal]] or [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome extreme]] actions, though things that might be intense in [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh one fandom]] won't even register in [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} another.]]

** One can find EmphasisSpam in all its forms, including bold, italic, coloured text, different fonts, repeated letters (including letters that represent sounds that are hard if not impossible to extend, or that are silent) and multiple exclamation marks.
** TropesAreNotBad example: ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'' is notorious for depicting resident CloudCuckoolander River's thoughts with "Riverthink", consisting of randomly-placed italics, bold, underlining, and sudden switches to centered or right-aligned text.

* Many sparks in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' talk like this.

* Literature/LordPeterWimsey's assistant Miss Climpson likes to emphasize everything with italics in her letters.[[note]]Actually single, double, and triple underlining, which in print translates to italics, small caps, and all caps respectively. Also lots of exclamation points.[[/note]] Since they usually only take up a few pages, it's more of a character quirk than an annoyance.

* As mentioned, many descriptions on the TVTropes wiki itself fall into this. It's one of the hallmarks of DarthWiki/ThatTroper.