History Main / OminousMultipleScreens

* Played with in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Inside of Thymilph's Ganmen, he has multiple monitors. One of them is [[MaleGaze a close-up of Yoko's breasts]].

* ''ScaryMovie 4'': The Architect is parodied by George Carlin -- He has cameras in Cindy's house - including her bathroom - on the wall of screens in his lighthouse.

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* ''[[{{V-2009}} V]]'' (2009): Maggie gets past the Visitors' lower-tech for-show surveillance room and into their real one. Lotsa screens.

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* When Sky Television began broadcasting to Britain in 1989 they set up some advertising displays with multiple screens in public places. What they apparently forgot was that Sky receivers could only receive ''one channel at a time'', so all the screens had to show the same thing.
* Some cable company headquarters have a giant wall of monitors showing every channel they provide. This is so that when someone calls in who's having trouble with their service, the employee can just look up and instantly see what's supposed to be on the channel they're talking about.
* The control room of Minatur Wunderland, a large model railroad in Hamburg, has a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZkSYv7BLl8 control room]] with about a hundred screens for five operators.
* It's been said that President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson has a special TV with three screens made so that he could watch all of the major news networks at once. It only played the sound from one screen at a time, though.
** His contemporary, Music/ElvisPresley, just bought three ordinary televisions and sat them next to each other.
* Television [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_control master control]] rooms contain a bunch of video monitors that show multiple cameras/feeds.
* BP released a poorly photoshopped [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/bps-photoshopped-command_n_652633.html image]] of their control room during the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
* [[http://www.barco.com/~/media/Images/References/2013/Belgacom/Barco_Belgacom_videowall_20121220-48%20jpg.jpg?mh=900&mw=900 Network Operations Centers]], whether for large telecoms or datacenters, are the ultimate expression of this concept. Most have dozens, and possibly over a hundred, different large screens plastered over every single inch wall space, with desks having dozens more. They show everything from individual machine consoles to network traffic flow, call volumes and destinations, potential intrusion alerts, power issues, HVAC status, to trending of any of a hundred different metrics. Small [=NOCs=] will have less than a dozen people in them; large ones up to a hundred.
* Traffic control centers for major metropolitan areas are this, combined with TheBigBoard. They will have one or two very large screens (often floor-to-ceiling or close to it) showing the entire region's traffic flow, then dozens of other wall-mounted screens displaying individual traffic cameras and smaller neighborhood details.
* [[Creator/MontyOum Monty Oum's]] standard work setup involved a huge number of screens, at which he seemed to be both watching inspiration material and [[{{Workaholic}} working on multiple things at once]].
* Chinese package delivery giant Alibaba created a 24-hour TV special for November 11th, 2015[[note]]November 11th is a major shopping day in China for people to buy Christmas gifts, quite similar to Black Friday in the United States[[/note]] whose background, although it was one big screen, functioned as a wall of monitors divided into various stats, updates, and the occasional live transmission. In front of the big screen were presentations, interviews, and performances with Alibaba's founder as its host. Rather than something ominous, however, this TV special presented itself as something glorious, as it was practically one big infomercial with guest stars like Creator/DanielCraig and Creator/KevinSpacey talking about discounts and bargains available from Alibaba on that day only.
* The control centres of space agencies around the world, like [[https://rmglennon.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dscn0917.jpg the one at NASA's JPL]], while hopefully not ominous, certainly do qualify, with usually one or multiple large screens taking up an entire wall and rows of consoles.
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* How the Shredder is introduced in the 1990 live-action ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' film.

* ''NoMoreHeroes'': ''Desperate Struggle'' has Travis smash his way into Jasper Batt Jr.'s office at the end. If you look, you will see ''many'' screens on some of the walls, and close inspection of some of them show that Jasper has been keeping an eye on you, Henry and just about everyone else!

* Chinese package delivery giant Alibaba created a 24-hour TV special for November 11th, 2015[[note]]November 11th is a major shopping day in China for people to buy Christmas gifts, quite similar to Black Friday in the United States[[/note]] whose background, although it was one big screen, functioned as a wall of monitors divided into various stats, updates, and the occasional live transmission. Rather than something ominous, however, this TV special presented itself as something glorious, as it was practically a day-long infomercial with guest stars like Creator/DanielCraig and Creator/KevinSpacey talking about discounts and bargains available from Alibaba on that day only.

* Chinese package delivery giant Alibaba created a 24-hour TV special for November 11th, 2015[note]November 11th is a major shopping day in China for people to buy Christmas gifts, quite similar to Black Friday in the United States[/note] whose background, although it was one big screen, functioned as a wall of monitors divided into various stats, updates, and the occasional live transmission. Rather than something ominous, however, this TV special presented itself as something glorious, as it was practically a day-long infomercial with guest stars like Creator/DanielCraig and Creator/KevinSpacey talking about discounts and bargains available from Alibaba on that day only.

* In an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' animated series, Mojo comes to take the heroes to his dimension by appearing in multiple TV screens while Scott and Jean are at the mall. Eventually, his assistant Spiral would go from the same image on all screens to one life-sized image spread across them... and step out into reality.

* ''RobotChicken'': Parodied in the end of the title sequence. The titular chicken is strapped down in front of a wall of [=TVs=] showing various sketches from the show. One of the [=TVs=] is snowed out; it gets zoomed into and displays the last couple credits. It's implied you see the point of view of the chicken, and all the random crap during the show is the chicken looking from screen to screen.

* A comedic version occurs in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. In the 2015 segment, Marty's son comes home from school and watches a half dozen TV channels at one time.

* ''PhantasyStarOnline'': During the first phase of the Vol Opt (or its Ultimate mode evolution, Vol opt ver.2) Boss battle, the supercomputer's visage is displayed on, and moves between, the multiple monitors encircling the chamber while he throws various electrical attacks at the player characters. While his face is visible on screen, attacks against the monitors break them and deal damage to him. By the end of the phase, all the screens are broken, either through damage or the explosions that occur after defeating him.

* The GagSeries ''[[NegimaSecondSeason Negima!?]]'' uses this often.

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. The control room in L's HQ has these along one wall. [[spoiler: You don't get much more ominous than every screen in the HackerCave informing you that your systems have been completely wiped.]] Near's HQ one-ups L by having ''three'' walls covered with [=TVs=].

* Spike never confronts the bounty in the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Brain Scratch" directly. Instead, he only manages to find a trap room full of TVs, and succumbs to some kind of ultrasound attack after a face on those TVs monologues at him for a bit. Luckily, Jet and Ed have already discovered where the villain was broadcasting from, and manage to stop him before he can finish Spike off.

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. The control room in L's HQ has these along one wall. [[spoiler: You don't get much more ominous than every screen in the HackerCave informing you that your systems have been completely wiped.]] Near's HQ one-ups L by having ''three'' walls covered with TVs.

* Spike never confronts the bounty in the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Brain Scratch" directly. Instead, he only manages to find a trap room full of [=TVs=], and succumbs to some kind of ultrasound attack after a face on those TVs monologues at him for a bit. Luckily, Jet and Ed have already discovered where the villain was broadcasting from, and manage to stop him before he could finish Spike off.

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. The control room in L's HQ has these along one wall. [[spoiler@ You don't get much more ominous than every screen in the HackerCave informing you that your systems have been completely wiped.]] Near's HQ one-ups L by having ''three'' walls covered with TVs.

* A number of the bounties in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' aren't confronted directly by Spike, he only manages to find a trap room full of [=TVs=]. And, the fool that he is, he ends up usually succumbing to some kind of ultrasound incapacitating thing that makes anybody who enters the room collapse within a minute (not before he gets a Monologue to the face first). (Somebody else ends up taking care of the bad guy when this happens).

* ''Manga/DeathNote''. You don't get much more ominous than every screen in the HackerCave informing you that your systems have been completely wiped.

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'': The TSAB Headquarters has multiple screens; however, the only time they're seen is when [[SmugSnake Quattro]] is using her Silver Curtain illusion ability to bring them all offline.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': Some rooms in Cylon Baseships are covered in screens or have rows of screens in them (best visible in the climax of ''Guess What's Coming to Dinner''). In what may be a subversion, they don't actually show anything comprehensible. Just more of the pseudo-Chinese Cylon glyph language that is already projected everywhere.

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* A comedic version occurs in ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back To The Future Part II]]''. In the 2015 segment, Marty's son comes home from school and watches a half dozen TV channels at one time.

* Zeke in ''Film/{{Sliver}} owns a surveillance room with numerous video monitors which he uses to spy on tenants of an exclusive New York residential building.

* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': The Architect's chamber is filled wall-to-wall with screens, showing Neo. The implication is they are all the different choices Neo could be making at this particular moment, [[spoiler:choice being the one fundamental flaw in the programming of the Matrix that allows The One to keep popping, despite the machines' best efforts to prevent it]]. It was also used for surveillance so he could see anywhere in the Matrix at any given time, be it past or near future, which actually made sense. Often the screens would work together to form a bigger image.

* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': The Architect's chamber is filled wall-to-wall with screens, showing Neo. The implication is they are [[spoiler:other Ones from earlier instances of the Matrix]]. It was also used for surveillance so he could see anywhere in the Matrix at any given time, be it past or near future, which actually made sense. Often the screens would work together to form a bigger image.

* Players in ''CityOfHeroes'' can purchase [[http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Image:Tech_Control_Aux-Monitor-Bank-1.jpg monitor banks]] and [[http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Image:Tech_Control_Aux-Mega-Monitor-1.jpg mega monitors]] for their hero/villain lairs.

* The [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated Feel Good Inc]] in the {{Gorillaz}} eponymous video is filled with gigantic, constantly flashing screens.

* A number of the bounties in ''CowboyBebop'' aren't confronted directly by Spike, he only manages to find a trap room full of [=TVs=]. And, the fool that he is, he ends up usually succumbing to some kind of ultrasound incapacitating thing that makes anybody who enters the room collapse within a minute (not before he gets a Monologue to the face first). (Somebody else ends up taking care of the bad guy when this happens).

* ''{{Dollhouse}}'' either plays this straight or [[MindScrew shows us a mind in a weird way]] when [[spoiler:Victor joins Mindlink]].