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* ThinkingWheels: When a character is deep in thought, wheels are shown inside his head.
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* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: Surrender, meditation, calm, overwhelm, isolation, or helplessness.

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* ShamefulShrinking: literally shrinking in shame.

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* SeparatedByTheWall: sympathy and disconnection
* ShamefulShrinking: literally shrinking in shame.shame
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* OminousVisualGlitch: something glitches out, symbolising that something is going wrong. Sometimes the glitches are visual representations of actual coding terms, programs, software etc.

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* OminousVisualGlitch: something glitches out, symbolising that something is going wrong. Sometimes the glitches are visual representations of actual coding terms, programs, software etc.Might go hand in hand with HollywoodHacking.
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* OminousVisualGlitch: something glitches out, symbolising that something is going wrong. Sometimes the glitches are visual representations of actual coding terms, programs, software etc.
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* TheFlameOfLife: Fire is used to represent life.
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** DyingCandle

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More accurate.


* CardiovascularLove: Hearts used for romantic crushes.



* HeartSymbol: romantic crush



* {{Shameful Shrinking}}: literally shrinking in shame.

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* {{Shameful Shrinking}}: ShamefulShrinking: literally shrinking in shame.
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* EndingByAscending: A character going up a staircase or ladder means their journey is coming to an end.
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** A character turning into an angel.
* If fireworks or champagne corks aren't meant to symbolise an orgasm, they're often used to symbolise happiness, excitement, American patriotism (in the case of fireworks), or celebration.

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* BackgroundHalo

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* BackgroundHaloBackgroundHalo: saintliness or ChosenOne status.



* BigLittleMan
* BigShadowLittleCreature
* CagedBirdMetaphor
* CanaryInACoalMine
* CatchingSomeZs: sleep, formerly snoring

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* BigLittleMan
BigLittleMan: something conveys size, but the person is actually small.
* BigShadowLittleCreature
BigShadowLittleCreature: a ''shadow'' conveys size, but the ''animal'' is actually small.
* CagedBirdMetaphor
CagedBirdMetaphor: confinement, usually for a young woman.
* CanaryInACoalMine
CanaryInACoalMine: while this is usually literal, it can be a metaphor for danger.
* CatchingSomeZs: sleep, formerly snoringsnoring or sleep in general



* EyeColourChange
* FireBreathingDiner: hot, spicy food

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* EyeColourChange
EyeColourChange: could mean a whole laundry list of things.
* FireBreathingDiner: [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot, spicy foodfood]]
* HeartsAreHealth: health or life force



** HeartsAreHealth: health or life force



* MarkedChange
* MusicIsEighthNotes

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* MarkedChange
MarkedChange: acquisition of or increase in superpowers.
* MusicIsEighthNotesMusicIsEighthNotes: all music is represented by eighth notes (quavers).



* PowerMakesYourHairGrow
** PowerDyesYourHair

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* PowerMakesYourHairGrow
** PowerDyesYourHair
PowerDyesYourHair: superpower boost
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: becoming more powerful



* SeparatedByTheWall

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* SeparatedByTheWallSeparatedByTheWall: separation between lovers



** Hot dog

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** Hot dogdog (the fact that it's sometimes called a "wiener" helps)



** [[PhallicWeapon A gun or a knife]]
** Hose (especially to imply a man urinating)



*** Also parodied in a ''Simpsons'' scene, where Homer and Marge are having sex while the kids are at a Stock Footage Festival, with no idea what their parents are doing. Also during a romantic scene, Homer and Marge use the metaphor while looking lustfully at each other, right before they begin launching literal fireworks.

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*** Also parodied in a ''Simpsons'' ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' scene, where Homer and Marge are having sex while the kids are at a Stock Footage Festival, with no idea what their parents are doing. Also during a romantic scene, Homer and Marge use the metaphor while looking lustfully at each other, right before they begin launching literal fireworks.


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* Death:
** X's on the eyes (can sometimes simply mean the person is unconscious).
** A cut to a small animal dying.
** {{Flatline}}s are sometimes used symbolically but can be used literally.
** An item belonging to the dead/dying person lying discarded.
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* HollywoodHacking: Visual metaphors used to interpret either real life coding terms that are often combined with TechnoBabble.

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* HollywoodHacking: Visual metaphors used to interpret either real life coding terms that are often combined with TechnoBabble.or is just plain TechnoBabble. Sometimes they're combined.
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* HollywoodHacking: Visual metaphors used to interpret either real life coding terms often combined with TechnoBabble.

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* HollywoodHacking: Visual metaphors used to interpret either real life coding terms that are often combined with TechnoBabble.
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* HollywoodHacking: Visual metaphors used to interpret either real life coding terms often combined with TechnoBabble.
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* CagedBirdMetaphor
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* CanaryInACoalMine
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* SeparatedByTheWall

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** Fireworks, or bursts of light[[/index]]
** Cork popping, followed by an overflow of champagne

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** Fireworks, or bursts of light[[/index]]
Fireworks
** Cork Champagne cork popping, followed by an overflow of champagnea frothy overflow
**Screen awashes in white light
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* Defloration (i.e. loss of a woman's virginity)
** A single falling flower petal, or a falling rosebud

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* Defloration (i.*Defloration[[note]]i.e. loss of a woman's virginity)
** A
virginity[[/note]]
**A
single falling flower petal, or a falling rosebud



** Cork popping, followed by an overflow of champagne

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** Cork **Cork popping, followed by an overflow of champagne
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*Defloration (i.e. loss of a woman's virginity)
**A single falling flower petal, or a falling rosebud


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**Cork popping, followed by an overflow of champagne

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** Elephant (in Japanese things) - also eggplant (traditional phallic symbol) and turtle's heads (pun on a slang term for foreskin)

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** Elephant (in Japanese things) - also eggplant (traditional phallic symbol) and turtle's heads (pun on a slang term for foreskin)foreskin).
**The ♂ symbol may also be used, with the arrow portion representing the penis itself.
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* FloatingClocks big, spectral clocks to let you know you're traveling through time

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**Jackhammering
*Orgasm:



** Fireworks or bursts of light[[/index]]

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** Fireworks Fireworks, or bursts of light[[/index]]
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*** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Even in space.]][[index]]

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*** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Even in space.]][[index]]
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* MusicIsEighthNotes
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** Fireworks [[/index]]

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** Fireworks [[/index]]or bursts of light[[/index]]
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* BigBallOfViolence uses a big cloud of smoke / dust to imply an intense fight going on.

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Merging response into bullet.


* AudibleSharpness uses sound to imply sharpness. (Might not count as a *visual* metaphor.)
** It counts if the blade twinkles or shines when it makes the noise.

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* AudibleSharpness uses sound to imply sharpness. (Might not count as a *visual* metaphor.)
** It counts if
is sometimes accompanied by the blade twinkles twinkling or shines when shining as it makes the noise.

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* {{Shameful Shrinking}}: literally shrinking in shame

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* {{Shameful Shrinking}}: literally shrinking in shameshame.
* Spirals around the head: [[{{Brainwashing}} Mental tampering,]] usually forcefully.



* Rising small bubbles: Drunkenness. Also known as [[BriffitsAndSqueans Squeans]].

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* Rising small Small rising bubbles: Drunkenness.Carries special meaning for drunkenness, but can also represent several other states of reduced mental function (including sleepiness, laziness and even hypnosis). Also known as [[BriffitsAndSqueans Squeans]].

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* AudibleSharpness uses sound to imply sharpness. (Might not count as a *visual* metaphor.)[[/index]]

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* AudibleSharpness uses sound to imply sharpness. (Might not count as a *visual* metaphor.)[[/index]])
** It counts if the blade twinkles or shines when it makes the noise.
[[/index]]

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