This! Is! SPARTA! - Television Tropes & Idioms

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alt title(s): This Is SPARTA; Punctuated Emphasis

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Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
Leonidas: Madness?! This! Is! SPARTA!"

—300

"That many periods in one sentence can't be good for your brain."

—Narbonic

Nappa: Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?

Vegeta: IT'S OVER 9000!!!

—Dragonball Z

LINES! DELIVERED! WITH! EXTREME! EMPHASIS! ON! EVERY! WORD! Can be either shouted or whispered. The loud variety is very often involved in a Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night speech or as a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. Occasionally coincides with Calling Your Attacks, but only when said attack is being performed with feeling. Sometimes, there is a musical Sting after EACH! EMPHASIZED! WORD!

Dialogue transformed into Spectacle; the equivalent of Bang Bang BANG. Normally used in accordance with the Rule Of Cool. Easily parodied by putting it in a banal context for a What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome moment. Despite the name of this article, was not invented by 300: that's just a movie in which every! Single! Line! Is! Phrased! This! Waaaaaaay! (In fact it was probably old long before the real battle of Thermopylae, assuming it really happened and Herodotus didn't make it up.) Can sometimes be coupled with My Name Is Inigo Montoya.

Done badly, it's the height of Narm. Done well, it can be part of a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, although rarely the only component.

Sometimes a part of a Skyward Scream or a Large Ham / Feed Me moment. If each word is accompanied with an attack then it's a Punctuated Pounding, please do! Not! Duplicate! EXAMPLES! Using musical Stings as punctuation is allowed, though. Note that not! Every! Word! In the sentence needs to be emphasized. However, Most! Of! The words! Must! Be emphasized! To Count!

As is apparent, this is neither blasphemy nor madness. It is, however, sometimes BRIAN BLESSED. People who talk this way all the time have No Indoor Voice.

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