History Main / EngagingChevrons

** The reason Earth's stargate goes through all this rigamarole is because it lacks the control console (which they refer to as a DHD, for "Dial Home Device") which is connected to most offworld gates. Without a DHD, they're forced to use a jury-rigged dialing computer and a manual dialing method that involves spinning the inner wheel and locking the chevrons in sequence. Activating a gate with a working DHD can be compared to a touch-tone phone (the chevrons engage as fast as you can hit the buttons), while dialing Earth's gate is more like the old-style rotary pulse dialing.

* In the ''Manga/OutlawStar'' spin-off ''Anime/AngelLinks'' they run a minute or so launch sequence everytime the main ship launches. If you get bored of the regular launch sequence, they also have a night version.

** Chicken Fights anyone?
** All thanks to the {{cloning|Blues}} experiments of a certain doctor.

* The original Adam West ''Series/Batman1966'' series: "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed"... then the rocket engine ignites, they take off out of Bronson Canyon... and off to Gotham City, past that sign stating, "Gotham City 14 miles."

* ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' does this in one of its prequel series, when Reinhard and Kircheis are preparing to go out in a battle tank.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' had that scene with Japan, Italy and Germany on the island and that moment when they realize that the Allies are there. And that fact that they repeated it a million times.
** It was only three times…

* The transformation sequences of the Sailor Senshi in ''Anime/SailorMoon''. Generally you can quickly tell a poor episode script from a better one by seeing if the full transformations are shown, or just shortened versions. Transformations happening offscreen? You might actually have a good story there… They eventually began doing split screens to transform everyone at once, or showing condensed versions, but it would still eat 1-3 minutes out of the climax of each episode. That goes double for the seasons where Sailor Moon had a ''double'' transformation: first to regular Sailor Moon, then an added one to transform into Super Sailor Moon. As the seasons progressed and added [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters more and more Senshi]], it just lengthened out again.

* The 2-minute-long spiral staircase sequence in every episode of ''[[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena]]''.

* The unaired final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' includes several unnecessarily drawn out moments, include one where Hyatt repeats the words "how exciting" like a BrokenRecord. These were included to deliberately make the episode too long to fit into a regular time slot,

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' spent much of its fourth season engaging chevrons by having whole episodes devoted to a disagreement with an obvious logical compromise that any viewer with two brain cells to rub together could come up with in about three minutes.

-->"They started engaging chevrons about how 'terrorists are really, really bad people', so I went to the fridge for a fresh beer."

->''"Sadly, the twenty-minute scene where Archer convinces the computer he does not want a full starship wax done for only an extra 100l of warp plasma had to be cut for time."''
-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/04/06/star-trek-enterprise-dead-stop-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Dead Stop"

* ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'', in keeping with its retro-[[HumongousMecha Super-Robot]]-show style, has an extended sequence for when Dannar and Okusaer take off from the base - the robots' engines are spun up by an external flywheel, the Jet Boys are attached to their backs, a huge runway is raised from beneath the sea, the front of the base opens up, numerous lights flick to green in the control-room, and the pilots flick a sequence of switches, etc. They're about 50% FighterLaunchingSequence, and the rest is this trope. To spice things up, however, they (almost) never use the FULL sequence, and instead vary which parts are shown each time. Keeps it from getting TOO... chevronish?

* ''Videogame/SteelBattalion'' deserves a special mention here because it actually has you, the player, engage your own chevrons. Five switches on the game's almost absurd flight-stick-esque controller were dedicated to being flipped on during the start-up sequence before each mission, then off again between missions.

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* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' had that scene with Japan, Italy and Germany on the island and that moment when they realize that the Allies are there. And that fact that they repeated it a million times.

** ''Stargate SG-1'' also periodically uses a falling-through-the-wormhole animation for similar purposes. It's also the {{Trope Namer|s}}, as despite the movie using the exact same format, it was not really intended as filler, but suspense. On one occasion, when O'Neill while [[TouchedByVorlons under the influence of an Ancient Repository of Knowledge]] rigs the computer to dial an address automatically, Walter goes through with the chevron announcements anyway despite having no control over the dialing. The characters are all thrown for a loop, though, when Walter announces the seventh chevron... and the gate continues to dial an ''eighth'' one. Since at the time it was believed that every stargate in the universe could be reached via a 7-chevron address, this time the announcement actually ''was'' dramatic.
** The reason Earth's stargate goes through it is because it lacks a DHD that is connected to most offworld gates. Without a DHD and using a jury-rigged dialing computer, they use the manual dialing method that involves spinning the inner wheel and locking the chevrons. Dialing a DHD can be compared to a touch-tone phone (i.e. takes several seconds), while dialing Earth's gate is more like the old-style rotary pulse dialing.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': There have been episodes in which characters "powered up" (grunted fiercely) for literal minutes at a time. While they did this, the animation would be of the camera panning over one still frame.
-->On tonight's episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku continues powering up to [=SuperSayan=]!

---> '''Normandy:''' Stand by shore party. Decontamination in progress... Decontamination in progress... Decontamination in progress... Decontamination in progress...

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' had another example with the pre-mind-meld speech given by the Asari commando on Feros. Averted later; whenever Liara melds with Shepard all she says beforehand is "Embrace eternity!", and by the end of her romance arc she doesn't even need that much.

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. Slowest elevators the universe has ever seen. People claim that they hate the game ''for no other reason'' than that those endless elevator-sequences drives them to distraction. Admittedly, when there's some plot relevant announcement or witty comrade banter it's not ''too'' bad, but the rest... egh. The Unreal engine can do much better than that. (Also fixed in the PC version.) Mocked [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/16/nitpicking-mass-effect-part-two/ here]] by ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''. Arguably ''the'' worst is the elevator on the Normandy. Going down one level? Almost thirty seconds. No music. No radio. No other characters talking. And then you have to go back up when you want to go somewhere else in the ship!

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' had load time elevators but they were pretty short due to the quick load time of the Gamecube and awesome because it was the best way to check out suit upgrades. The more annoying version was that doors sometimes stayed closed until the rooms behind them finished loading. In a [[VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy sub-series]] with much {{Backtracking}}, that got old really fast, especially in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'' where there were {{Timed Mission}}s that kept the timer counting down while you had to wait for the doors to open.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' and ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones The Two Thrones]]'' played an animation in full when loading, forcing you to watch the entire animation even if the actual load time was a fraction of a second. This could, fortunately, be avoided by manually deleting the videos files in question.

* The original Adam West ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series: "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed"... then the rocket engine ignites, they take off out of Bronson Canyon... and off to Gotham City, past that sign stating, "Gotham City 14 miles."

** Hawk Moth captures a butterfly, evilizes it, and it flies out his window.[[note]]PlayedForDrama in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E01TheCollector The Collector]]", as the sudden aversion of this trope is used to set up a WhamShot.[[/note]]

** Ladybug captures the butterfly and uses her de-evilize sequence.