Split Screen wick check — originally by Crossover-Enthusiast, adopted by The Mayor of Simpleton per discussion in the Wick Check thread
30/50
open/close all folders
Correct use (4/50)
- Double-Sided Tropes: Split Screen: People/things, split over two screens, usually at opposite ends of the full screen.
- Influenza: Several scenes, like the scene where Mr. Cho is dragged off the train or the first time he robs a woman, are show in split screen views like one might expect from a video security system. Kinda?
- Twister...Ride it Out: The first pre-show had Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt on two separate screens, also showing them in two different locations. This was supposedly done because Bill and Helen did not get along during the shooting of the original movie, and afterwards never wanted to work with each other again.
- Western Animation: "Change Your Mind" has White Diamond successfully attempting to remove Steven's gem. After that, the gem begins to take form, showing the past forms of Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz...before becoming the shape of Steven himself. And while this is happening, we see the perspectives of both of them in a Split Screen. Split screen explicitly mentioned as being used to show perspectives.
Zero Context Examples (20/50)
- Atari 8-Bit Computers: Nautilus - the first known Split Screen game and Asymmetric Multiplayer game.
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank: Raul Julia plays not only Aram Fingal, but also Fingal's Ascended Fanboy version of Rick from Casablanca in Cyberspace. The two are shown to interact on numerous occasions (in fact, at one point the timing of the Split Screen dialog doesn't quite match up, resulting in an awkward pause).
- Parappa The Rapper: Happens in Um Jammer Lammy, when Lammy tries hard to fly a plane with Captain Fussenpepper in Stage 4; and in PaRappa 2, when both PaRappa and Guru Ant are grown big for the final time, while you can see Ma-san getting bored (which doubles as a Funny Background Event), as long as you don't mess up.
- Captain Disillusion: Roger Rabbit Effect: In part 2 of "VFXcool: Back to the Future Trilogy"
, the Captain appears alongside Ami Yamato, who represents herself as a 3D-animated avatar in real-life environments, even in her own videos. In a really weird twist, the reason she's there is to demonstrate a VistaGlide camera rig and an advanced Split Screen effect used in Back to the Future Part II that allows live-action actors to appear simultaneously in multiple spots... and so the Captain uses an Animated Actor. - The Handmaids Tale S 1 E 4 Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum: How Offred's conversation with Moira is framed by the washroom stalls.
- Genocide (1981): Used many times in the film, like the sequence discussing Kristallnacht that shows multiple clips of the 1938 pogrom that involved anti-Jewish violence and destruction throughout Germany.
- Love Keeps Going: Used in the final episode to show the expressions of both protagonists during a speaker-phone conversation.
- Dark S1 E5 "Truths": Again, several times throughout the episode, there is a split screen showing the characters from 1986 and 2019.
- Secret Garden: Used before and during the first body switch at the end of episode 5.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S5 E25 "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1": One is used to show the two Pie sisters smashing a rock into rubble simultaneously.
- Freaky Friday (1976): For the wish, and the switch that happens immediately afterward.
- (500) Days of Summer: Postmodernism: Plenty, including the nonlinear narrative, the spontaneous dance sequence, the onscreen count of the actual 500 days, and one scene which contrasts "Expectations" vs. "Reality" via Split Screen.
- Fargo S 02 E 08 Loplop: The scene with Peggy and Ed in the car has this, even though they're sitting right next to each other. This is used to emphasize that they are having very different lines of thought.
- Cube 2: Hypercube: When each of the characters relate How We Got Here. 'No context.
- Fuller House S 1 E 1 Our Very First Show Again: Also a Call-Back to the pilot, when the gang all sings The Flintstones theme. No context.
- Grey's Anatomy: Season 9's "Beautiful Doom" uses this extensively to contrast Meredith in Seattle with Cristina in Minnesota. No context.
- YMMV.Le Coeur A Ses Raisons: Special Effects Failure: Plenty.Criquette: "I think I'd prefer having this conversation over phone. Let's create a quality visual effect!" She then puts up a bar to create a Split Screen. "Now we are in two different places."Peter's Ghost: "I am immaterial!" spreads his arms and knocks over a vase on a nearby table So little context that I can't even tell if the trope is used properly.
- Series.Code Lyoko Evolution: Used generously, notably during virtualization and for some simultaneous actions on Lyoko and the real world. Not enough context.
- A VHS Christmas Carol: Obviously this technique is used throughout to put the actors into the same scene, but it's also used in the stylistic form of an '80s Surreal Music Video to show two mirrored images of the same actor for effect.
- Series.Memories Of The Alhambra: Used in Episode 1 to make it more dramatic as Jin-woo walks to the public square for what turns out to be his entrance into the game. Not enough context.
Other (5/50)
- PlayStation: Link Cable: A peripheral allowing for playing games with multiplayer modes without the need of Split Screen. However, it has two issues: 1) a set of two TVs, two PlayStation consoles, and two copies of the game are required, and 2) the cable isn't compatible with the redesigned PS one. About 30 games are compatible with the Link Cable, among which are the Armored Core series, the WipEout series, TOCA 2 Touring Cars, and Final Doom.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The first time Kamina promises to "combine" with Simon, after the inevitable Split Screen of everyone repeating it dramatically, Yoko exclaims in glee, before Leeron tells her to forget about it. The trope I'm assuming they're referring to is Split-Screen Reaction, not vanilla Split Screen.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 S 10 E 02 Girl In Gold Boot: In the film, Critter sings a mournful song of love to (freakishly large) dream images of Michelle that keep fading in and out. This isn't Split Screen??Crow: (as Michelle) I can't go out with you because I'm considerably bigger than you.
- Divinity: Original Sin II: This is the video game split-screen, not the trope.
- Like the Original Sin Enhanced Edition, the game allows several players to play at the same PC and automatically enters the split-screen mode when they steer their characters too far apart from each other (only when playing with controllers).
- This how local multiplayer works on consoles, as well. Note that local multiplayer is limited to two people, not the four that online multiplayer allows for, mostly due to screen size.
- Nightmare Time S1E2 "Forever and Always and Time Bastard": Continuing the trend of Nightmare Time doing stories that it would be impossible or very difficult to literally portray onstage or onscreen, Lauren Lopez plays the two Emmas without the use of any Split Screen, just altering her position slightly and letting her tone of voice tell you which is which (and showing off some very skillful acting chops in the process).
Unclassifiable (1/50)
- S Index
