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You think these Princess Curls are extreme, you should see the curling irons! When the writers decide to play with a trope by turning the results Up to Eleven.
Since Tropes Are Flexible, they can be taken to various degrees. This is about taking them to degrees much higher than typical, often to ridiculous extremes.
In short, this is why The Same But More warns that higher degrees of tropes alone are not new tropes. Those are simply Playing with a Trope.
This is usually done for parody (which makes this a Sister Trope to Satire/Parody/Pastiche), but there can be other reasons to do this.
Compare Troperiffic, Serial Escalation, Up to Eleven, Refuge in Audacity, Logical Extreme.
Contrast Downplayed Trope.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
Literature
Live-Action TV
Music
Tabletop RPG
Video Games
- Disgaea does this with Character Levels, including going literally Over Nine Thousand.
- Fate/stay night does this with Earn Your Happy Ending. Shirou goes through hell, literally at one point, to get to the true ending of Heaven's Feel.
- Megaman Battle Network = Everything is Online. No, everything. That doghouse out front, too. And the squirrel statue.
- Ōkami does this with Friend to All Living Things, cranking up Amaterasu's animal magnetism far beyond "fuzzy woodland creatures love her" to reach "flowers literally bloom wherever she walks."
- Olympus Mons is pretty much the main idea with the Mega Ten games.
- As shown above, the hairstyle of Rival Schools' Yurika Kirishima takes Princess Curls to a ridiculous level.
- Touhou Soccer demonstrates this with Absurdly Sharp Blade by having Youmu cut the moon in half with her katana.
- In Dragon Age 2, the silly dialogue got this treatment.
- The Binding Of Isaac does this with Disc One Final Boss, True Final Boss, Disc One Final Dungeon, and Very Definitely Final Dungeon. In your first playthrough, the Depths 2 is the final dungeon and Mom is the final boss. In your next nine playthroughs, the Womb 2 is the final dungeon and Mom's Heart is the final boss, demoting the Depths 2 and Mom to Disc One Final Dungeon/Boss. For all those playing before the Halloween update, after the tenth playthrough, Mom's Heart would get replaced with True Final Boss It Lives, making Mom's Heart effectively a Disc Two Final Boss, though you never get to fight it again, although It Lives is just an upgraded Mom's Heart. After the Halloween Update, a new floor, Sheol, is in the game as the new Very Definitely Final Dungeon, with Satan as the new True Final Boss, making The Womb 2 a Disc 2 Final Dungeon and It Lives the Disc Three Final Boss. Oh, and there's going to be another expansion that will proceed to DEMOTE SHEOL AND SATAN, AS WELL.
Web Comics
Western Animation
- A lot of the Disney Princess artwork really loves to crank up Everything's Better With Sparkles.
- The Hilariously Abusive Childhood of Doctor Doofenshmirtz's Multiple Choice Past from Phineas and Ferb: "It all started when I was born. Neither of my parents showed up." He had to pretend to be a lawn gnome after theirs was repossessed, he had to wear dresses, he wasn't allowed to go swimming in public pools, his father preferred the dog and named it "Only Son" and he was abandoned and raised by ocelots.
- Then there's Phineas and Ferb's homemade inventions - they think nothing of building a mountain ski resort in their backyard, a rollercoaster that spans the city or two spacecraft and mission control with a free morning, and Candace's inevitable case of It Was Here, I Swear: whatever it is, and however much of a mess it should leave behind, everything vanishes without trace by the time she tries to show their parents.
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