Examples need more elaboration: Camp

Camp is one of those tropes that's one of the most non-self-explanatory (Even Laconic Wiki needs to have more words than most other laconic pages to explain it). However, some of the examples are a bit unclear, including the following:

Anime and Manga

• G Gundam arguably falls under this trope. Some say it's good precisely because of it, others say it's just good, period.
• Star Driver, as one might expect from a Super Robot show produced by the Ouran High School Host Club team, is absolutely dripping in camp.

Film

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• James Whale famously employed this in his 1930s horror films, particularly The Old Dark House and Bride of Frankenstein.
• The Showa (1955-1975) Godzilla films were just filled with this.
• Final Wars. "Kid, there are two things you don't know about the Earth..."
• Xanadu
• The Disney flick Condorman falls squarely into this category. It's pretty entertaining if you don't mind suspending your disbelief a bit (and remember that it was intended for kids).
• The 5000 Fingers Of Dr T, especially this number. The movie was written by Dr Seuss, and it's exactly what you'd expect from him.
• Mommie Dearest.

Live-Action TV

• The original Battlestar Galactica series.
• Tales Of The Gold Monkey had more than its share.
• Special Unit 2, an original series on Sci Fi.
• Both Hercules The Legendary Journeys and Xena Warrior Princess delved into this on occasion

Music

• The B-52's based their entire career around two core concepts: catchy songs and heavy camp.
• David Bowie, especially Ziggy Stardust.
• Steps, even by The '90s pop standard...

Theatre

• Most Richard Strauss operas — especially Salome.
• The musical of Little Women takes the short and melodramatic play that Jo and her sisters stage in the early chapters, and turns it into a musical number spanning the entire cast (all... six of them), stuffed chock-full of wholesome, affectionate camp.
• The entire output of Gilbert And Sullivan falls into this category, but was probably intentional from square one. Still well-executed, catchy, funny and well worth watching.

Video Games

• Devil May Cry. In the second game the developers forgot this, but the third game made up for it in spades.
• The Tiberium series of Command And Conquer games is mildly campy. Red Alert pushes it Up To Eleven.
• While all of the games take themselves dead serious, the Metal Gear Solid series does have its fair share of campy parts.

Web Original

• Animutations.
• Commentary The Musical.
• 'Pegasus is ruthless. Camp, yet ruthless'. Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series lives off this.
• Everything Doctor Steel - or his fans - do is done consciously and conspicuously over the top.

Western Animation

• Schoolhouse Rock is so camp that it often gets in the way of being educational. Maybe that's why students like them so much.
• Where there's a whip *whipcrack!* there's a way!
• M. Bison, in the animated Street Fighter series. This is delicious!
• He Man. So much so, that even in the 80s, many were suspicious that it was actually gay propaganda. (Especially with names like Ram-Man, Man-at-Arms, Extendar, and last but not least, Fisto. Yes, these were real).
  • She Ra sometimes contains just as much if not more Ho Yay, and is similarly remembered.

I wonder what to do.

edited 12th Mar '11 8:31:21 PM by artman40

Shove the X Just X onto the discussion page labeling them as such.

Some of these have already been fixed, and the discussion was moved to the discussion page. Calling for a lock.