[[quoteright:320:[[FinalFantasyX2 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/final_fantasy_x2_concert.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:320:Arena concerts are all about this.]]

All about superficialities, the sensory candy of a work. Frequently used to set the mood and serve the RuleOfCool.

For example, for LiveActionTV, this includes scenery, lighting, props, costuming, makeup, background music, sound effects, and SpecialEffects in general. For ComicBooks, it includes things like coloring and fonts. And so on.

The name comes from {{Aristotle}}'s ''Poetics'' and is used more broadly here. (One notes that he considered using spectacle to paper over deficiencies in plot and character a flaw; this is an ''old'' practice.)

See also GlassesTropes for a different kind of spectacles.
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[floatboxright:
Categories:
+ BodyLanguage
+ CameraTricks
+ MangaEffects
+ PersonalAppearanceTropes
++ TheBeautifulTropes
++ CostumeTropes
+++ {{Stripperiffic}}
++ EyeTropes
+++ GlassesTropes
++ HairTropes
++ RaceTropes
++ SmileTropes
+ ScoreAndMusicTropes
+ SoundFXTropes
+ StockVisualMetaphors
+ WeatherAndEnvironment
]

Tropes:
* AlienSky
* AllDesertsHaveCacti
* BadVibrations
* BigBallOfViolence
* BillionsOfButtons
* BulletSparks
* BurnBabyBurn
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber
* ChunkyUpdraft
* {{Chiaroscuro}}
* CometOfDoom
* ConspicuousCG
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch
* CoolChair
* CostumePorn
* CowTools
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas
* DesolationShot
* DestinationDefenestration
* DirtForcefield
* DisasterDominoes
* DiscretionShot
* DragonsUpTheYinYang
* DramaticLandfallShot
* EEqualsMCHammer
* EiffelTowerEffect
* EmpathicEnvironment
* EpilepticFlashingLights.
* {{Eyedscreen}}
* FartsOnFire
* [[{{ptitle2m1l0q07}} Frank's 2000" TV]]
* FungusHumongous
* TheFutureIsNoir
* GreatBallsOfFire
* HandPuppet
* HitFlash
* HollywoodDarkness
* HurlItIntoTheSun
* IfYouCanReadThis
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap
* IncendiaryExponent
* InstantRunes
* InterestingSituationDuel
* [[{{ptitlem3hbxctg}} It's Going Down]]
* KnifeThrowingAct
* ManOnFire
* MarkedChange
* MidairBobbing
* MonumentalDamage
* MoodDissonance
* {{Muppet}}
* NothingButSkulls
* NuclearCandle
* OffTheShelfFX
* OminousMultipleScreens
* OneWomanWail
* {{Pixellation}}
* PowerEchoes
* PowerFloats
* PowerGivesYouWings
* PowerGlows
** PillarOfLight
** PreExplosionGlow
** SicklyGreenGlow
** SphereOfDestruction
** TronLines
** AnimalBattleAura
* ThePowerOfRock
* RainOfBlood
* RaygunGothic
* RennyHarlinHelicopterExplosion
* RingOfFire
* RuleOfPerception
** BehindTheBlack
* SceneryPorn
** SceneryGorn
* ScreenShake
* ScrewTheElectricBill
* SerkisFolk
* ShinyLookingSpaceships
* ShootTheMoney
* ShowyInvincibleHero
* SigilSpam
* SinisterSilhouettes
* SkywardScream
* SlowMotionPassBy
* SpecialEffects
* SpecialEffectsEvolution
* SpecialEffectBranding
* SpecialEffectFailure
* SphereOfPower
* StandardizedSpaceViews
* StanleySteamerSpaceship
* StarringSpecialEffects
* StreamingStars
* StuffBlowingUp
** EveryCarIsAPinto
** ExplosiveInstrumentation
** ImpressivePyrotechnics
** MadeOfExplodium
** PreExplosionBuildup
** SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb
* SummerBlockbuster
* SuperMovePortraitAttack
* SwissArmyTears
* SwordSparks
* SymbolicBlood
* TakeOffEveryZig
* [[{{ptitlegf1u3pozudh8}} This Is SPARTA!]]
* TechnologyPorn
* TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet
* TransformationSequence
* TrashcanBonfire
* UnflinchingWalk
* UnsoundEffect
* UsedFuture
* VisibleInvisibility
* VomitDiscretionShot
* VomitIndiscretionShot
* WeaponizedLandmark
* [[{{Ptitle8px80d2wm3pd}} What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]
* {{Wormsign}}
* WrittenSoundEffect
** UnsoundEffect
** WrittenRoar
* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb
* YourHeadASplode
* {{Zeerust}}

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