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* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot that was caused by some very serious and important political matters swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting. Absolutely everyone looks on as they stop what they're doing and watch the spectacle unfold before them.

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* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot that was caused by some very serious and important political matters swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting. [[BattleHaltingDuel Absolutely everyone looks on as they stop what they're doing and watch the spectacle unfold before them.them]].
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* '''Parodied''': Anything that even ''disrupts'' the silence is swiftly followed by a ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse. [[BullyMagnet Kayla]] finds this out the hard way after she bumps into a chair and making it fall a ''little'' too loudly, causing everyone to spontaneously brawl with each other.

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* '''Parodied''': Anything that even ''disrupts'' the silence is swiftly followed by a ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse. [[BullyMagnet [[ButtMonkey Kayla]] finds this out the hard way after she bumps into a chair and making it fall a ''little'' too loudly, causing everyone to spontaneously brawl with each other.
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** The air was already thick and tense, with everyone now making up an absolutely ''gargantuan'' (as in, citywide or even ''intergalactic'') PowderkegCrowd. It just needed two short tempered meatheads to light the fuse.

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** The air was already thick and tense, filled with tension, with everyone now making up an absolutely ''gargantuan'' (as in, citywide or even ''intergalactic'') PowderkegCrowd. It just needed two short tempered meatheads to light the fuse.fuse, and who better to pick than these two knuckleheads Flash and Max?
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** The air was already thick and tense, with everyone now being a PowderkegCrowd. It just needed two meatheads to light the fuse.
* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting. Absolutely everyone looks on as they stop what they're doing and watch the spectacle unfold before them.

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** The air was already thick and tense, with everyone now being a making up an absolutely ''gargantuan'' (as in, citywide or even ''intergalactic'') PowderkegCrowd. It just needed two short tempered meatheads to light the fuse.
* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot that was caused by some very serious and important political matters swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting. Absolutely everyone looks on as they stop what they're doing and watch the spectacle unfold before them.



* '''Parodied''': Anything that even ''disrupts'' the silence is swiftly followed by a ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse. [[TheGadfly Alicia]] [[NerdyBully P. Navarro]] finds this out the hard way after she bumps into a chair and making it fall a ''little'' too loudly, causing everyone to spontaneously brawl with each other.

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* '''Parodied''': Anything that even ''disrupts'' the silence is swiftly followed by a ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse. [[TheGadfly Alicia]] [[NerdyBully P. Navarro]] [[BullyMagnet Kayla]] finds this out the hard way after she bumps into a chair and making it fall a ''little'' too loudly, causing everyone to spontaneously brawl with each other.



* '''Exploited''': The chaos allows for Alicia to enact a few devious plans of hers.

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* '''Exploited''': The chaos allows for Alicia [[AcademicAlphaBitch Alicia]] [[TheChessmaster P]][[BitchInSheepsClothing .]] [[NerdyBully Navarro]] to enact a few devious plans of hers.
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** The air was already thick and tense, with everyone now being a PowderkegCrowd. It just needed two meatheads to light the fuse.
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* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting.

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* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting. Absolutely everyone looks on as they stop what they're doing and watch the spectacle unfold before them.



** Professor [[HulkMashUp Bryce]] [[BadassTeacher Baxter]] gives Flash and Max a ''harsh'' warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. [[HorrifyingTheHorror They nervously oblige]].

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** Professor [[BadassTeacher Professor]] [[HulkMashUp Bryce]] [[BadassTeacher [[HulkingOut Baxter]] gives Flash and Max a ''harsh'' warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. [[HorrifyingTheHorror They nervously oblige]].
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** It was a rock-paper-scissors game over a grilled cheese that got Flash and Max fighting. It swiftly devolves into a continental riot.

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** It was a rock-paper-scissors game over a grilled deep fried cheese sandwich that got Flash and Max fighting. It swiftly devolves into a continental an intercontinental riot.
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--> '''Bryce''': ''(Pushes up his ScaryShinyGlasses)'' Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not at the school. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to tick me off]], ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat would you]]?''
--> '''Flash and Max''': ''(In unison)'' Y-YESSIR!

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--> '''Bryce''': ''(Pushes up his ScaryShinyGlasses)'' Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not at the school. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't wouldn't want to tick me off]], ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat would you]]?''
--> '''Flash and Max''': ''(In unison)'' Y-YESSIR!N-NO SIR!
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** It was a rock-paper-scissors game that's usually done for the hell of it but it seems Flash and Max treat it as SeriousBusiness, and they started fighting. It swiftly devolves into a ''ApocalypseHow/ClassZ'' Apocalypse.

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** It was a rock-paper-scissors game that's usually done for the hell of it but it seems Flash and Max treat it as SeriousBusiness, and they started fighting. It swiftly devolves into a ''ApocalypseHow/ClassZ'' ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse.
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--> '''Bryce''': ''(Pushes up his ScaryShinyGlasses)'' Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not here. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to tick me off]], ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat would you]]?''

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--> '''Bryce''': ''(Pushes up his ScaryShinyGlasses)'' Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not here.at the school. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to tick me off]], ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat would you]]?''

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** [[HulkMashUp Bryce]] [[BadassTeacher Baxter]] gives Flash and Max a ''harsh'' warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. [[HorrifyingTheHorror They nervously oblige]].

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** Professor [[HulkMashUp Bryce]] [[BadassTeacher Baxter]] gives Flash and Max a ''harsh'' warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. [[HorrifyingTheHorror They nervously oblige]].oblige]].
--> '''Bryce''': ''(Pushes up his ScaryShinyGlasses)'' Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not here. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You don't want to tick me off]], ''[[ImpliedDeathThreat would you]]?''
--> '''Flash and Max''': ''(In unison)'' Y-YESSIR!

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* '''Defied''': Pretty much ''everybody'' clears the way for Flash and Max to do their thing. Nobody wants to get involved, and as such, they make an active attempt to get the hell out of their way.

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Pretty much ''everybody'' clears the way for Flash and Max to do their thing. Nobody wants to get involved, and as such, they make an active attempt to get the hell out of their way.way.
** [[HulkMashUp Bryce]] [[BadassTeacher Baxter]] gives Flash and Max a ''harsh'' warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. [[HorrifyingTheHorror They nervously oblige]].
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* '''Implied''': While looking through a history book in regards to the city, one can find a chapter known as "The Riot", and it apparently started when two guys had a bit of a spat.

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* '''Implied''': While looking through a history book in regards to the city, one can find a chapter known as "The Riot", and it apparently started when two guys had a bit of a spat. The summary of the chapter, which is only shown to the viewer, simply reads: ''"You can probably tell where this verbal spat went and why this event is now known as The Riot."''

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** InAWorld Where [[WorldOfBadass Badasses]] and [[WorldOfHam Large Ham]] are about as common as the element of Hydrogen... It's pretty much impossible for any fight to ''not'' be one-on-one unless it's a formal event. And even then, it may just inspire others to start fighting each other, because why the hell not?

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** InAWorld Where [[WorldOfBadass Badasses]] and [[WorldOfHam Large Large, Steaming Ham]] are about as common as the element of Hydrogen... It's pretty much impossible for any fight to ''not'' be one-on-one unless it's a formal event. And even then, it may just inspire others to start fighting each other, because why the hell not?not?
** Both of them are {{Fight Magnet}}s. They seriously can't control suddenly making riots form out of nowhere.
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** InAWorld Where [[WorldOfBadass Badasses]] and [[WorldOfHam Large Ham]] is about as common as the element of Hydrogen... It's pretty much impossible for any fight to ''not'' be one-on-one unless it's a formal event. And even then, it may just inspire others to start fighting each other, because why the hell not?

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** InAWorld Where [[WorldOfBadass Badasses]] and [[WorldOfHam Large Ham]] is are about as common as the element of Hydrogen... It's pretty much impossible for any fight to ''not'' be one-on-one unless it's a formal event. And even then, it may just inspire others to start fighting each other, because why the hell not?
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* '''Defied''': Pretty much ''everybody'' clears the way for Flash and Max to do their thing. Nobody wants to get involved.

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* '''Defied''': Pretty much ''everybody'' clears the way for Flash and Max to do their thing. Nobody wants to get involved.involved, and as such, they make an active attempt to get the hell out of their way.
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* '''Conversed''': "Jesus H. Christ, how the fuck did we get from two big brutes having a scuffle to ''a full on fucking riot!?''

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* '''Conversed''': "Jesus H. Christ, how the fuck did we get from two big brutes having a scuffle to ''a full on fucking riot!?''riot!?''"
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'''Basic Trope''': A fight between two characters ends up in a complete brawl including everyone in sight.
* '''Straight''': [[BarbaricBully Flash]] [[TheDreaded Young]] gets into a fight with [[TheJuggernaut Maximilian]] [[JerkJock Khan]] in school over some verbal spat. Next thing that's known, the entire school gets in on the fight, even with the school faculty.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** It was a rock-paper-scissors game over a grilled cheese that got Flash and Max fighting. It swiftly devolves into a continental riot.
** It was a rock-paper-scissors game that's usually done for the hell of it but it seems Flash and Max treat it as SeriousBusiness, and they started fighting. It swiftly devolves into a ''ApocalypseHow/ClassZ'' Apocalypse.
* '''Downplayed''': It was already a pretty bad fight between Flash and Max, but the whole class gets in on the brawling.
* '''Justified''':
** Flash and Max fought so wildly that it just involved others getting sucked into the fight.
** InAWorld Where [[WorldOfBadass Badasses]] and [[WorldOfHam Large Ham]] is about as common as the element of Hydrogen... It's pretty much impossible for any fight to ''not'' be one-on-one unless it's a formal event. And even then, it may just inspire others to start fighting each other, because why the hell not?
* '''Inverted''': A citywide riot swiftly dissolves into just Flash and Max fighting.
* '''Subverted''': Flash hurls Max into [[SpiderManSendUp Pete]] [[BullyMagnet Perkins]], but Pete doesn't really get too involved with the fight.
* '''Double Subverted''': The same can't be said for [[BullyHunter Adelita]] [[AffirmativeActionLegacy Diaz]], and soon it involves other people too!
* '''Parodied''': Anything that even ''disrupts'' the silence is swiftly followed by a ''[[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z-4]]'' Apocalypse. [[TheGadfly Alicia]] [[NerdyBully P. Navarro]] finds this out the hard way after she bumps into a chair and making it fall a ''little'' too loudly, causing everyone to spontaneously brawl with each other.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': The size of the brawl tends to oscillate.
* '''Averted''': Flash and Max are kept to themselves, brawling with each other and each other ''only''.
* '''Enforced''': ExecutiveMeddling sees that {{Big Badass Battle Sequence}}s draw in ''loads'' of dough. The writers try for something new instead of having a BigBadassBattleSequence planned by both parties ahead of time; They turn to this trope instead.
* '''Lampshaded''': Pete laments, "Man, I wished that the fight only involved these two! Now it's nothing ''but'' chaos and fisticuffs everywhere!"
* '''Invoked''': Flash decides that there's not enough chaos, so he decides to pick a fight with Max in the hopes he can spark this.
* '''Exploited''': The chaos allows for Alicia to enact a few devious plans of hers.
* '''Defied''': Pretty much ''everybody'' clears the way for Flash and Max to do their thing. Nobody wants to get involved.
* '''Discussed''': "Remember the time when Flash and Max never fought and all was at peace? I remember. Those were good times."
* '''Conversed''': "Jesus H. Christ, how the fuck did we get from two big brutes having a scuffle to ''a full on fucking riot!?''
* '''Implied''': While looking through a history book in regards to the city, one can find a chapter known as "The Riot", and it apparently started when two guys had a bit of a spat.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The entire brawl is portrayed as a BigBallOfViolence that's ever so growing with each combatant entering the fight.
* '''Played for Drama''': The entire brawl injures a not-so-insignificant amount of people (some fatal injuries), and they have to deal with all the trauma that comes with riots. Flash and Max are particularly [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech dressed drown]] over starting the fight in the first place.
* '''Played for Horror''': The entire brawl kills people in {{cruel|andunusualdeath}}, [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank bloody]], {{gor|n}}y, [[BodyHorror and horrific ways]].
* '''Deconstructed''': When there's so much violence around, the [=SWAT=] team tends to show up, forcibly trying to stop the brawl at all costs.
* '''Reconstructed''': This just tends to make people fight more, and once the [=SWAT=] team inevitably runs out of ammo, they're forced to fight hand-to-hand as well, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy instead adding more fuel to the fire and not dousing it]].
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OhCrap Flash and Max had just bumped into Adelita, brace yourselves for an EscalatingBrawl! Also, if you mind, can you PassThePopcorn?
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