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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'''s opening flashes an entire paragraph of French philosophical text onscreen for a few seconds. Then came [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGDHKyVJtu8 the PSP remake's opening]], which takes the trope to a ridiculous extent.

--->Scratchy sued over being turned into a canoe and won 65 million dollars, he was given a sack with a dollar sign on it, but when he opened the sack, he saw a bomb with a lit fuse. He threw the bomb out the window and got a relieved look on his face. However, the bomb landed on a trampoline held up by mice firemen, bounced back into the room, and killed him.

** The credits for "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" as seen in "The Front" is done in this manner.

* A quarter way through the run of ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', a bogus credit would go by fleetingly, and usually a bad pun in regards to something in the episode. In an episode which dealt with a flight on a plane, the bogus credit was "Runway - Del Shannon."

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* French humourist trio Les Inconnus made a gag named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iba0az8Btc "Théréza"]] (actually a fake movie extract taken from a sketch mocking cinema critics), in which the eponymous character speaks in a roughly Spanish-sounding language while French subtitles are displayed with an increasing speed until they cover all the screen and goes too fast to be readable. At this point, there is actually a quite visible phrase in the middle of the text which could be translated by something like "... about the most vicious among you who would be patient enough to read everything...".

-->'''Hyness''': [[spoiler: We are the masters of a power driven to the far reaches of the universe, and we have but one desire! Can one such as you possibly fathom how dearly we have clung to this dream across the aeons? How could you! You couldn't! Never ever ever! We who once faced those who were in such fear of our power that they sealed us away and banished us to the edge of the galaxy! US! As if THAT loveliness wasn't enough, they tried to erase our very existence from history! RUDE! Only through our magic were we able to overcome their science and achieve great prosperity! We alone were responsible for stopping that repulsive nightmare of a galactic crisis, yet this is how you repay us! This won't stand! It won't be forgiven! It won't be forgotten! Never ever EVER! Those who called us mad, are you listening? You left us at the edge of the galaxy to be forgotten, then went along your merry way, probably living somewhere pretty and peaceful! But know this! Your future is a farce! You have none! We, masters of a matter most dark, vow to be restored, as told in the book of legend, which everyone thought was just a fairy tale! It WASN'T! We have already obtained the vessel that contains our Dark Lord, and he will soon awaken and shower us in compassion! Look! The vessel of our Dark Lord is filling up even as we speak! Now the time for his greatness to enter our world has come! Welcome to a new history! A new age! The age of awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARK LORD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!]]

Usually a form of FreezeFrameBonus. Often the text will [[LampshadeHanging mention something about how the people who took the time to freeze-frame the text and read it clearly]] [[TakeThatAudience have too much time on their hands]]. A common joke is for an advert to have contract small print or medical side-effects shown like this.

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* In a ''VideoGame/MarioParty 4'' minigame, Bowser gives a list of fruits (with repeats), and players take turns bringing fruits to him. Choose a fruit he didn't list, or bring him a fruit more times than he listed, and you lose the game (and your coins). At first, the list scrolls by slowly, but quickly becomes unreadably fast, turning the game into a [[LuckBasedMission game of luck]].

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', [[spoiler:Hyness]] manages to explain his (lengthy) entire plan to Kirby and his friends... in ''13 seconds flat''. Good luck trying to catch more than a few words from that fast-scrolling text.

* The main villain of ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', Hyness, goes into a MotiveRant that scrolls by so fast that you would have a really hard time trying to make out what he's saying. In case you were wondering, it goes exactly like this:
-->'''Hyness''': We are the masters of a power driven to the far reaches of the universe, and we have but one desire! Can one such as you possibly fathom how dearly we have clung to this dream across the aeons? How could you! You couldn't! Never ever ever! We who once faced those who were in such fear of our power that they sealed us away and banished us to the edge of the galaxy! US! As if THAT loveliness wasn't enough, they tried to erase our very existence from history! RUDE! Only through our magic were we able to overcome their science and achieve great prosperity! We alone were responsible for stopping that repulsive nightmare of a galactic crisis, yet this is how you repay us! This won't stand! It won't be forgiven! It won't be forgotten! Never ever EVER! Those who called us mad, are you listening? You left us at the edge of the galaxy to be forgotten, then went along your merry way, probably living somewhere pretty and peaceful! But know this! Your future is a farce! You have none! We, masters of a matter most dark, vow to be restored, as told in the book of legend, which everyone thought was just a fairy tale! It WASN'T! We have already obtained the vessel that contains our Dark Lord, and he will soon awaken and shower us in compassion! Look! The vessel of our Dark Lord is filling up even as we speak! Now the time for his greatness to enter our world has come! Welcome to a new history! A new age! The age of awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARK LORD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

* A quarter way through the run of ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', a bogus credit would go by fleetingly, and usually a bad pun in regards to something in the episode. In an episode which dealt with a flight on a plane, the bugs credit was "Runway - Del Shannon."

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** ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]]'' makes frequent use of this, typically either in German or in the runes made up for the series. The messages are far too long, or move to fast, to read without freeze-framing (and then translating it, for those who don't speak German). The text ranges from spoilery warnings about the dangers ahead to quotes from [[spoiler: Faust, the story from which Madoka draws heavily.]] During the battle with Walpurgisnacht, one of the missile launchers coming out of the water says SHAFT. Self advertisement, anyone?

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'': TheMovie has detailed PowerLevel information displayed for a short time.

* Speaking of DHARMA: Creator/ChuckLorre's vanity plates.

* ''VideoGame/RockBand'' example: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar2alO6JkNg They're Red Hot on vocals]].

* The beginning of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' features a reading from some sort of life-support machine log. It starts of with a simple status update, but as the eponymous [[TheCorruption corruption]] starts spreading, the text glitches, pauses, then suddenly start scrolling at an unreadable rate before everything goes black. If viewed in slow motion, most of it is gibberish, but there is the occasional readable phrase, like "Wii Format" and some German.

* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. During the second phase of the fight against [[spoiler: Sans]], [[InterfaceScrew he'll start to attack you in the menu]]. Since you have to move your soul incredibly fast to prevent yourself from getting hit, reading the FlavorText becomes impossible. The game seems to realize this too.

* In [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara's]] review of ''New Guardians'' #2, he mocks the "genetically superior beings" concept of the comic using a clip of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler ranting. The second time he uses the clip, a piece of text pops up the split second before resuming the review. The text reads: "[[SarcasmMode Yeah, I can see why Germany would want to follow this shouting, drug-crazed lunatic.]] [[EasterEgg ZOMG Easter Eggs!]] [[ShoutOut Hi]] Wiki/TVTropes!"
* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's tribute to Siskel & Ebert, the Critic assures us that not all critics dislike certain religions.

* Machinima/RedVsBlue has a scene in the season 13 finale where text is rapidly scrolling on F.I.L.S.S' screen. One of the lines reads: [[spoiler:Church dies at the end]].

** One of the most notable examples was in the episode "Homer Badman", where Homer is accused of sexual harassment. A tabloid news program covers this and [[ManipulativeEditing makes Homer look bad]], but eventually corrects their story, listing it alongside [[TheLongList a long, unreadably-fast list]] of other corrections including lines such as "The people who are writing this have no life.", "[[TakeThatAudience If you are reading this, you have no life.]]", and [[http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/2F11.html "Licking an electrical outlet will not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger."]] (More under "Freeze Frame Fun".)

** And in "Two Bad Neighbors" when Bart shreds Bush Senior's memoirs: a scrap of paper flits past the screen with the words "VP Dan Quayle" and "embarassment."

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* The BadEnding of ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman 5'' [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zags]] with this, as the credits continually speed up, slow down or grind to a halt. When you consider that the BigBad Emperor Terrorin is a master of time & space, it's fitting.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' shows a paper with a very detailed description of the 2nd impact for only a second or so.

* Creator/StudioShaft does this ''all the time''.

** [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Madoka]] makes frequent use of this, typically either in German or in the runes made up for the series. The messages are far too long, or move to fast, to read without freeze-framing (and then translating it, for those who don't speak German). The text ranges from spoilery warnings about the dangers ahead to quotes from [[spoiler: Faust, the story from which Madoka draws heavily.]]
*** During the battle with Walpurgisnacht, one of the missile launchers coming out of the water says SHAFT. Self advertisement, anyone?

* When Heero is looking over the giant glob of text in the first episode of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', it's really a Photoshop readme.

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' occasionally has pages of English text on screen that are legible but flash by too quickly to read much of. If you pause to get a better look, the first few lines are on-topic SurprisinglyGoodEnglish and the rest are meaningless gibberish.
** Incidentally, the legible lines are taken verbatim from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players manuals on alchemy. ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' evidently runs on a D20 system.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the gardener in ''Rose Town'' spews several almost unreadably fast messages after you bring him the seed and the fertilizer, accompanied by the music going double-speed (and Mario becoming dizzy and falling down afterward). The same happens when finally his dreams come true and see their grown beanstalk, the one that give you access to the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Lazy Shell equipment]]. In total, he does this [[RuleOfThree three]] [[RunningGag times]].
** This seems to be a running gag in the Mario [=RPG=]s. Every game in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' trilogy does it at some point, and it's been done once or twice in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series as well. For example, in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', a woman in Twilight Town grows increasingly frantic when talking about her missing husband, and begins talking in this manner when listing his flaws. Rather than become dizzy like the example above, Mario falls asleep during this!

* PlayedWith in ''Videogame/Undertale''. During the second phase of the fight against [[spoiler: Sans]], [[InterfaceScrew he'll start to attack you in the menu]]. Since you have to move your soul incredibly fast to prevent yourself from getting hit, reading the FlavorText becomes impossible. The game seems to realize this too.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' TV show has faux computer graphics that were deliberately too detailed to read in full unless one paused one's VCR (as was then in vogue).

* The first trailer for ''Film/Deadpool2'' ends with a long report on ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' scrolling by.

* In the original release of ''VideoGame/Myst'', the credits scroll past in mere seconds. This was changed for updated releases.

* In the original release of ''VideoGame/Myst,'' the credits scroll past in mere seconds. This was changed for updated releases.