History Main / IdiosyncraticWipes

May be used for FightWooshes.

* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' uses alot of these. Usually featuring Elsie.

* The ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage Remake'', of all games, allows the player to swap the level transition fade-ins/outs with one of these.

* Pretty much any game that employs {{Fight Woosh}}es.

** It happens in VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}} whenever you clear a stage. If you have ever played and / or seen the game, you'll know it when you see it.

* ''Series/TheTaleOfTheBunnyPicnic'' uses a "page turning" effect.

* The Anime/DeltoraQuest anime (even in the Japanese version)

* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', ''[[Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce Masterforce]]'', and ''[[Anime/TransformersVictory Victory]]'', the created-for-Japan sequels to ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', kept the original series' faction symbol wipes, although they would be redrawn in a simplified manner later on.
** ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' had CGI versions of the faction symbols, at least in the English dub.
** They were also used in ''Anime/TransformersArmada'', but their use was inconsistent. They were dropped entirely for ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' and ''Anime/TransformersCybertron''.
* The {{Anime/Pokemon}} short, Pikachu's Vacation has pretty lengthy and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippy]] transitions, showing various Pokémon performing some actions. The first time, it's easy to think that it's part of the actual short, and not a transition.

* The 1931 film adaptation of ''[[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' uses what might be described as diagonal wipes, where a wipe starts on either the left-hand side and pivots in a clockwise motion across the scene, or a wipe starts on the bottom of the frame and pivots in a counter-clockwise direction. Just to make it more idiosyncratic, the wipe usually stops in the middle for a little bit, resulting in a diagonal SplitScreen where action is going on in both corners, before restarting and finishing the transition to the new scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' also did this. It even had it's own version of the "spinning sword" bit.

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* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' had quite a number of unorthodox wipes. The director claimed he was aiming for a 'live action cartoon'. The annoying wipes did help distract from the [[DutchAngle obnoxious camera angles]], but not from the performances. The only wipe was the centre-screen split. Which made the other three or so transitions look like masterpieces.

* The ''Series/{{Batman}}'' example below is parodied once on ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''.

* In Disney's ''Disney/SaludosAmigos'', the "Gaucho Goofy" segment features some imaginative wipes, a couple where a solid line moves from one side of the screen to the other, [[BreakingTheFourthWall pushing Goofy and his horse along with it.]]

* Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail, "Videography", where Strong Bad goes through several transitions he can do, which are used constantly through his own commercial on videography.

* When ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Witch}} W.I.T.C.H.]]'' switches between Heatherfield and Meridian, it tends to have either a portal changing the scene, or the Heart of Kandrakar swinging over it.

* To complement the show's setting, ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' usually uses bubbles (and an appropriate sound effect) for its wipes, other than the occasional brief cut-away, or whenever else quick transitions are needed.

* Some of the Franchise/{{Barbie}} movies do this. Also done in ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse''.

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* Most ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series games from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' onwards will have a Mario/Luigi-shaped iris when you beat a level and a Bowser-shaped iris when you lose a life. Most levels begin with a round iris, and in both ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'', if you lose all your lives the iris out will be shaped like the words "GameOver" instead of Bowser's head.

* The Creator/DICEntertainment-dubbed version of the first two seasons of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' added these through CGI (with sounds to boot!), which just made the [[OffModel crappy]] first-season cel animation that much more noticeable in contrast.[[note]]It also meant that each episode had to be edited for time (moreso than they already were) in order to include them.[[/note]] The Cloverway dub did the same for Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon [=SuperS=], but not as often.

* ''That70sShow'' had cast members doing stuff in front of colorful backgrounds (like posing, walking all over, etc.)

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer shows a strong preference for star wipes when video editing. Then, a star wipe is used in the episode itself.
* The ''Series/{{Batman}}'' version has also been parodied several times, once for Child Safety Services.
* The second season of ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' featured zooming from one bit of a map to another when changing locations, accompanied by a scratching record.

* To complement the show's setting, ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' usually uses bubbles (and an appropriate sound effect) for its wipes, other than the occasional brief cut-away, or whenever else quick transitions are needed.

* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' does this with the show's insignia. It had a different facial expression each time.
** In fact, Filmation Studios had a knack for transitional sequences.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' uses a "claw wipe" - criss-crossing parallel tears, as though from a gargoyle's claws, through the previous scene into the new one.

%%* ''That70sShow''

* Film/{{Xanadu}} has two, with the second occurring in the final number.

'''Lisa:''' [[AlanSmithee I'm taking my name off this thing.]]

** They were also used in Anime/TransformersArmada, but their use was inconsistent. They were dropped entirely for Anime/TransformersEnergon and Anime/TransformersCybertron.

* ''That70sShow''

* ''{{Numb3rs}}'' sometimes does this into (and out of) commercial breaks.

* ''Series/{{Reba}}''

* ''{{Wonderfalls}}'' used the rotation of a [=View-Master=]® reel

* {{Hellcats}} has a cheerleader doing cartwheels across the screen for transitions. [[{{Narm}} It's a very cheesy effect]].

** This also happens in VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 with the spinning DK logo.
** A completely different "spinning DK" logo is used in VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'' sometimes uses things like Spider-Man's ChestInsignia and herds of crawling spiders to move between scenes. During the black suit StoryArc, they used the symbiote crawling across the screen.

* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians: The Series'' had a couple.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s use of bursts of static (as if changing the channel) have become a trope in and of itself, having inspired such fan works as ''AMVHell'' and ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox''. [[Creator/SethMacFarlane "And checkerboard wipe to ..."]] WordOfGod says it's a reference to ''Series/HappyDays''.

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* Elaborate and often bizarre examples can be found in the ''Film/{{Saw}}'' movies. In one example from ''Saw 4'', a camera follows two people crashing through a large mirror into a set at a police station.

* In one of the stupendously silly ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfSamuraiCat'' books, the characters (in the middle of an affectionate ''SevenSamurai'' parody) employ a Kurosawa-esque wipe to end a scene. Everybody shouts "WIPE!" and voila, the scene changes ...

* Interesting variation on ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs:'' an immediate transition to a spotlight, into which a dog rushes, followed by the shouting out of STUNT DAAAAWWWWWWGGGGGGSSSSSSS, and finally, the dog's [[EatTheCamera mouth]] revealing the new scene.

'''Lisa:''' I'm taking my name off this thing.

* ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'' uses brief shots of Austin and his FakeBand, Ming Tea.

* BeforeTheDevilKnowsYoureDead shifts between the last frame of one chapter and the first of the next several times while making "WHOOSH" noises before transitioning.
* While ''{{Casablanca}}'' itself was fairly staid in its transitions, its original ''trailer'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Ud8O3KBSM used every wipe known to the science of the time]].