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7->''"It's like they knew that we had seen this movie before, and we knew the curves they were gonna throw at us, but they made the curves just a little bit sharper than usual."''
8-->-- ''[[WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist The Distressed Watcher]],'' on ''Film/TheHangover,'' from his 2009 Top 10 movies list
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10When the writers decide to [[PlayingWithATrope play with a trope]] by raising the results to the extreme.
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12Since Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible, they can be taken to various degrees. This is about taking them to degrees much higher than typical, often to ridiculous extremes.
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14Sometimes there are multiple ways to exaggerate a trope. For an example, ExplodingBarrels trope can be exaggerated by either increasing the explosive radius of a barrel, the prevalence of exploding barrels, and/or how easily the barrels explode.
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16In short, this is why Administrivia/TheSameButMore warns that higher degrees of {{trope}}s alone are not new tropes. Those are simply PlayingWithATrope.
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18This is usually done for [[ParodiedTrope parody]], but there can be other reasons to do this.
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20Compare {{Troperiffic}}, SerialEscalation, RefugeInAudacity, LogicalExtreme, CrossesTheLineTwice.
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22Contrast DownplayedTrope.
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30* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As should be evident by the title]], the manga exaggerates the premise of [[HaremGenre a boy with multiple girlfriends]] by having him be destined to meet 100 soulmates.
31* In ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', the exaggeration of GoryDiscretionShot in the scene where [[spoiler: Mikage-in-Aki's body [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] Tooya via repeatedly gunning him down and taking advantage of his HealingFactor that won't let him die]] was [[OverlyLongGag so over the top]] that the scene itself [[{{Narm}} was... funnier than it was probably intended.]]
32* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' exaggerates PlotArmor Variant of MadeOfIron.
33* Speaking of PowerLevels, ''Manga/DragonBall'' would occasionally switch to a new system of power measurement, likely to avert doing this.
34* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' exaggerates numerous tropes, both for laughs and deconstruction.
35** AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: With people getting expelled or even ''executed'' for the tinest of infractions, their capabilities of annexing other schools, and even having a student's status at school ''affect their quality of life in the city surrounding it'', [[AcademyOfAdventure Honnouji Academy]] can be likened to a totalitarian regime.
36** ComingOfAgeStory: Not only is the story exclusively female (which is rare for a ComingOfAgeStory), but every single cliche is cranked up until the knob pops off. Blood as a metaphor for menstruation? Have superpowered over-sexed clothing that drinks the blood of its wearer. A RichBitch AlphaBitch StudentCouncilPresident? She's trying to take over the country. High school feels like everyone is against you? Here, they are literally trying to kill you.
37** {{Fanservice}}: The main character fights in a garter-belt bikini, every fight ends with the loser being stripped naked, and [[EccentricMentor Mikisugi]] spends most of his screentime sensually removing his clothes for no reason at all.
38** FullFrontalAssault: The rebels are literally nudists.
39** HotBlooded: When Ryuko gets angry enough, her blood ''literally'' boils, causing problems for the symbiotic clothing that drinks it.
40** PowerGlows: Satsuki and her mother Ragyo both produce massive lights like stage effects at all times--Satsuki's lights are pure white, while Ragyo's are rainbow-colored. It's to the point that Ragyo's subordinates wear sunglasses at all times. In addition, Mikisugi's nipples and crotch glow pink.
41** YourSizeMayVary: Ira Gamagoori always towers over everyone else. If that means he has to grow some fifty feet to properly tower, then so be it.
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43* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' does this to SelfMadeOrphan; growing up, [[BigBad Johan Liebert]] killed at least ''five'' sets of foster parents.
44%% ** As does ''Manga/SakuraTrick'', where the main couple makes it their mission to kiss ''every chapter''.
45* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' exaggerates quite a bunch of {{trope}}s, such as SchoolFestival (which is so large-scale it gives Disneyland a run for its money) and {{BFS}} (at one point, a character wields a sword the size of a ''building'').
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47* One character of ''Manga/PenguinMusume'', Saki, exagarate {{Moe}} by cumulating nearly every major Moe tropes. Of course, this make [[{{Otaku}} Sakura]] [[LesYay Crazy about her]].
48* ''Anime/QueensBlade'' exaggerates {{fanservice}}.
49** Same goes to ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', to the point where some readers ''complained''.
50* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'':
51** NeglectfulPrecursors gets exaggerated with how ridiculously dangerous the AfterTheEnd ruins of the Old World are. Not only are many androids SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids of some sort, but there are things like ''vending machines'' with security so high they can kill high level hunters. Flying is impossible because getting high enough in altitude will alert automated air-control networks to summon an entire AttackDrone air fleet to take you down
52** MeleeATrois gets this with Inabe's invasion of the inner Kuzusuhara Ruins. The jamming of all communications combines with AgentProvocateur sleeper androids being activated, leading to a literal free for all, with the highlight of three major characters shooting at each-other on the top and sides of a moving APC, their stray shots making hunkered down hunters around them fire back in self-defense, and a feral monster jumping on board.
53** NinjaMaid combined with MaidCorps, with there being a MegaCorp called Lion Steel, whose fanatical armies fight in maid (and BattleButler) styled PoweredArmor, and field RobotMaid units remote controlled en masse. Their most elite force consists of a unit of OneWomanArmy A.I. maids left over from {{Precursors}}, and they're ruled by one of those, Alice.
54* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' exaggerates social commentary by making the eponymous teacher prone to [[SuicideAsComedy committing suicide]] over ''everything that is not right about society''.
55* ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'':
56** During Sonic's showdown with Metal Sonic, he attempts to do some kind of paradox by saying the now-famous line:
57--->'''Sonic:''' You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since ''I'' know everything ''YOU'RE'' going to do! '''''STRANGE, ISN'T IT!?'''''
58* ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'', ''Anime/GunBuster'' and ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' do this with HumongousMecha, featuring impossibly powerful and unbelievably massive giant robots. More details on the latter, below.
59* ''Kill la Kill's'' spiritual predecessor, ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is no slouch in that department either:
60** BeyondTheImpossible: It tends to happen every other episode, hence why this series [[TropeNamer named the trope.]] Some notable examples include [[spoiler:Kamina willing himself back to life to give Simon a pep talk, invent the Giga Drill Break and ''avenge his own death'' before finally dying for good]], [[spoiler:Team Dai-Gurren escaping from the Extradimensional Labyrinth, which, according to the Anti-Spirals, cannot be escaped from by sentient beings]] and the MillionToOneChance and ReadingsAreOffTheScale entries below.
61** HumongousMecha: As mentioned above. The Gurren Lagann itself goes from a robot the size of a building, to a robot the size of a city, to a robot the size of the moon, to a robot that ''dwarfs galaxies'', to an EnergyBeing that is comparable in size to the '''observable universe'''. [[spoiler:Also deconstructed, as beings evolving to such heights en masse would cause the [[RealityBreakingParadox Spiral Nemesis]], which the BigBads, the Anti-Spirals, are trying to prevent.]]
62** MetaMecha: By the end of the series, we have a a human piloting a building-sized robot piloting a city-sized robot piloting a moon-sized robot piloting a robot that dwarfs galaxies piloting an energy being that is comparable to the size of the observable universe.
63** MillionToOneChance: The heroes succeed on one particular operation- [[spoiler:Specifically, destroying the Death Spiral Machine, a suicide mission that required Kittan's HeroicSacrifice]]- that was calculated to have zero chance of success. Not 'so miniscule that it may as well be zero', but zero, as in ''flat-out impossible''. To quote [[spoiler:Lordgenome]] on the subject:
64---> "The chances of this operation succeeding were zero, but I see now that theoretical calculations are useless with you people."
65** MoreDakka: One weapon that one of the titular mech's line uses shoots all points in time and space at once, bringing it into the elite club of coming close to having enough dakka.
66** MundaneUtility: Simon literally invents conceptual-based teleportation for the sole purpose of [[spoiler:getting to a suicidal Rossiu's location so he can snap him out of that funk [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan by punching him in the face]], just as Kamina did to him so many years ago.]] So it's not using an existing power in a mundane way, but ''inventing an entirely new one'' (as Gurren Lagann had not shown such an ability prior) just to do something mundane.
67** RatedMForManly: All of the good guys are this, as being manly and hot-blooded (and by proxy, a LargeHam) is a requisite to use [[AwesomenessIsAForce Spiral Power]]. Yes, that includes the women and even the resident CampGay Leeron, though the epitome of this trope has to be Kamina [[spoiler:and later, Simon, after Kamina's death]], best exemplified by Kamina's line introducing himself before challenging a giant robot to a fight armed only a nodachi (which, according to WordOfGod, ''he would have won'', [[spoiler:in spite of being lacking in Spiral Power]]):
68--->'''Kamina''': I'm going to tell you something important now, so you better dig the wax out of those huge ears of yours and listen! The reputation of Team Gurren echoes far and wide. When they talk about its badass leader - the man of indomitable spirit and masculinity - they're talking about me! The mighty Kamina!
69** ReadingsAreOffTheScale: In the final battle, the scales that measure spiral power take on a never-before seen rainbow color, spirals out to fill the gauge, [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale shatters the glass surrounding the gauge]], and then keeps spiralling out into thin air, in plain defiance of logic and common sense. To put it simply, spiral power went off the scale on a scale that was designed to measure things that go off the scale.
70** StuffBlowingUp: Enemy mechs typically explode when destroyed... unless they're on the receiving end of a FinishingMove- which tends to make them explode ''more than once'' in spite of all logic or common sense. The Giga Drill Break typically makes the target explode ''twice'', and the final BigBad, when finally defeated, explodes no less than ''four'' times in quick succession. There are also the times when Team Dai-Gurren performs an awesome speech, causing a volcano to spontaneously manifest and then explode behind them. [[spoiler:Even in space, when the mechs they're piloting are large enough that they dwarf galaxies.]]
71** ThisIsADrill: As far as the titular mech is concerned, they're ''everywhere''. Giant drills (including the [[FinishingMove Giga Drill Break]]), spawning drills on the hands to enhance punches, drills all over the body for mass attacks, drills as projectiles, drills to connect things together, drilling into other mechs is the method that the Gurren Lagann uses to combine, even attacks that don't directly use drills tend to have some drill theming in there (For instance, the Arc-Gurren Lagann's Burst Spinning Punch sends the target flying in a cloud of spiral energy, shaped like- what else- a drill)- it'd be faster to list the attacks which DON'T have some sort of relation to drills. This gets taken to truly ridiculous proportions in the finale, [[spoiler:where the heroes and the BigBad engage in what can best be described as a Giga Drill Break-O-War with drills ''much'' larger than our own observable universe.]]
72* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': The state of male nobles in the LadyLand Kingdom of Holfort is an exaggerated version of HenPeckedHusband, with them being worked like slaves, used as CannonFodder, or just having all their income drained to their wife who lives far away in luxury with multiple lovers.
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76* ''ComicBook/ActionComics #1000'' takes VariantCover to the extreme as there are ''eight'' covers depicting Superman in the style of each decade: Steve Rude (TheThirties), Michael Cho (TheForties), Dave Gibbons (TheFifties), Michael Allred (TheSixties), Creator/JimSteranko (TheSeventies), Joshua Middleton (TheEighties), Dan Jurgens (TheNineties)[[note]]Since Jurgens was the artist during that period, DC basically told him "You do you, Dan."[[/note]] and Lee Bermejo (TheNoughties).
77* ''ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles'' does this with AmazingTechnicolorWildlife. The story "Tribal Warfare" has a herd of ''Parasaurolophus'', which have individually different colors, resulting in a veritable rainbow of neon dinosaurs.
78* ''ComicBook/AlanFord''
79** The Alcade from ''Caramba'' and his political rival Don Diego Delarogna are exaggerated versions of the BadBoss trope. The latter promises the villagers that if he's elected he will reduce the working hour to ''18 per day'' and lower the number of whippings to 20 per transgression. Don Diego is outraged... he's willing to lower the whippings to 15, but he won't go below ''20'' daily hours of work: they already have four hours to sleep, how dare they ask for more? [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Number One is appalled]].
80** SatiatingSandwich gets the extreme treatment in one early volume. The group manage to steal a gigantic six chilogram sandwich the size of a truck tire filled with ham, mustard, pickles, tomato and salad. The baker who made it (for a culinary exposition) [[SeriousBusiness is so distraught]] over its loss [[SuicideAsComedy that he commits Seppuku with his bread knife]].
81* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' takes ParentalObliviousness to extremes with Carrie Kelley's parents, probably due to their drug abuse. They occasionally forget Carrie exists.
82-->'''Parent #1''': [''visible only as a trickle of dope smoke''] ...Hey...didn't we have a kid?
83* ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' exaggerates SuperpowerLottery. Betsy Braddock has all of Captain Britain's abilities[[note]]Super strength, flying at high speed, invulnerability, and creating forcefields[[/note]], plus her own innate mutant powers related to telepathy and telekinesis.
84* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'': Superman and Wonder Woman have a DestructoNookie that causes natural disasters worldwide.
85%%* Creator/DCComics Doomsday exaggerates DumbMuscle.%% Add more context
86* ''ComicBook/ADistantSoil'': The Ovanan exaggerate CostumePorn in the case of nobles. The Hierarchy members have wardrobes that are almost beyond belief, and what they consider everyday casual wear would count as royal court dress in almost any other civilization.
87* ''ComicBook/{{Squad}}'' takes PopularIsEvil to new heights. The popular girls at Piedmont High are cannibalistic ''lycanthropic serial killers''.
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91* Thanks to RuleOfDrama, the overall narrative of ''Fanfic/TheBuckyOHareWebSeries'' thrives on TheMole trope. [[spoiler:Chairman Pigton]] (a.k.a. the [[spoiler:Secretary General]] from the [[ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars series]]), his associate [[spoiler:Barton]], [[spoiler: Renfield]], [[spoiler:Councilman O'Neil]] [[spoiler:and his niece Shira]], and a host of others have all gradually been revealed as spies for the toads.
92* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Let's just say Italy's [[{{Superspeed}} superspeed]] was taken from just being able to run fast to being able to travel from Japan to Germany within a few hours. ''A few hours.''
93%%* the whole [[http://www.shacknews.com/article/76656/doom-mod-pokes-fun-at-call-of-duty Call of Dooty]] Doom Mod are TakeThat against ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series.%% How does this fit here?
94* ''Ultraman Moedari'' takes some ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' tropes, most notably the multiverse concept of the Zero Film Trilogy, and takes them beyond eleven. So much so that there are categories for groups of multiverses. Previous hero's powers? Take them all and combine them!
95* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'':
96** Supergirl and Wonder Girl have each been a GoodBadGirl and FriendWithBenefits to almost every other young hero around the world, and then some, making time for coitus every single night. They both take after Wonder Woman, who has bedded every other Justice League member, and then some.
97** The sequel ''Justice Returns'' opens up by overdoing TheWorfEffect by having Darkseid about to deliver death blows to the defeated Justice League, only for White Raven to appear and defeat him with absolutely no effort.
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101* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2'' takes CatsAreMean to another level. The demonic Red and [[DemBones his skeletal minions]] are all feline. Apparently, cats are not only mean but also TheLegionsOfHell.
102* ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool'' exaggerates BookOnTheHead. Delancy manage to walk with about twenty books. Later, Headmistress Privet exaggerates the trope while, in private lessons for Blair, she teaches the girl how to carry a dozen books on the head. While standing on one foot. With a flower vase in each hand.
103* ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' exaggerates BoxOfficeBomb. This animated film made on a $65 million dollar budget only managed to make back '''$75,000''' of it during its theatrical run.
104* ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'': At one point, Scamper comments, "Can you imagine a face like that on a 40-foot screen?" Cut to an extreme NostrilShot of Eva.
105* ''Animation/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseking'' exaggerates TheAllegedSteed: The first of the Mouse King’s “steeds” we see is made of straw and wood, pushed by the minions [[FatAndSkinny Tall and Fat]]. As it gets crushed under a stone, later the King just uses Tall and Fat who stand under a piece of fabric and argue who's the tail and who's the head.
106* The 2006 film ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' exaggerates AbsurdlyBrightLight. The Depelter Turbo's activation causes tans, pops popcorn, and can be seen from space, specifically from ''outside the Milky Way galaxy''.
107* A rather extreme example of SlapSlapKiss is used very briefly early in the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. When Remy is running through the walls of an apartment building, we briefly see a woman holding a man ''at gunpoint'' as he runs by; a shot goes off, narrowly missing Remy, who goes back to investigate. The two struggle over the gun briefly before they passionately kiss one another. Those French...
108* ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'' exaggerates StatuesqueStunner. Even at her shortest, Eris is still looking down at Sinbad. When introduced, she's looking down at ''the Earth''.
109* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'':
110** The FryingPanOfDoom is exaggerated to the extent that at the end of the movie, frying pans are made the official weapon of the town guards.
111** The movie also exaggerates LightIsGood. As quoted from the trope example: "Rapunzel, a gentle, caring girl who is a FriendToAllLivingThings, loves daylight (as well as starlight) and [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold has golden hair]] because her mother ingested a flower that had grown from a drop of ''liquid sunlight''."
112* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' exaggerates FootPopping: In Mei's fantasy of how the 4*Town concert goes, she is proposed to by Robaire and goes not just on one foot but on her tiptoes.
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116* DoubleTap is exaggerated in ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem''. The alien who kills the JerkJock's friends is seen "stabbing" the dead body of the friend in the head over and over again, likely because it was feeding.
117* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': {{Going Native}}. The protagonist physically becomes one of the People.
118* InnocentBystanders is exaggerated in ''Film/BatmanTheMovie''. Everywhere Batman goes to dispose of a bomb in the third act, a new group of innocents appears to prevent him from disposing of it. Whether it be a convent, a group of tourists, a family of ducks or a restaurant full of people, it looks like some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
119%%* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': the ending. [[spoiler:From the police car chase to Chicago onwards, increasing amounts of men keep pouring in to stop the Blues Brothers, from more and more branches of law enforcement and the armed forces, with ever more material rushing.]]
120* ''Film/LeChat'' does this with AwfulWeddedLife. Julien and Clémence do not talk to each other any more, they do not eat together any more, but they do not want to separate.
121* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou is exaggerated in ''Film/{{Cruella}}''. Horace cries at [[spoiler:Estella's funeral even though he's [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral attending it with her]].]]
122* ''Film/DarkCity'' takes IntriguedByHumanity to an extreme degree. The Strangers’ whole purpose in creating the city and performing their nightly experiments is to study humans in order to [[BecomeARealBoy become like them]] and reverse the [[DyingRace death of their species]].
123-->'''Mr. Hand''': [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove I wanted to know what it was like … how you feel.]]
124-->'''Murdoch''': You know how I was ''supposed'' to feel. That person isn’t me—never was. You wanted to know [[HumansAreSpecial what it was about us that made us human]]. Well, you're not going to find it ''<<points at his head>>'' in here. You were looking in the wrong place.
125* ''Film/DieHard'':
126** Harry Ellis was played as a comically over-the-top version of the sleazy, smarmy executive.
127** Richard Thornburg exaggerates the ImmoralJournalist who is trying to cover the events in the [[Film/DieHard first]] [[Film/DieHard2 two]] films in order to [[ItsAllAboutMe make a name for himself]], press ethics and people's safety and privacy be damned.
128* TheStinger is taken to extremes in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', even by MCU standards! The movie has five scenes during and after the credits.
129* An exaggerated version of TeamPowerWalk is in ''Film/HotRod'', set to John Farnham's "You're The Voice." Starts off pretty normal with the main cast doing it, and winds up with half the town following them and a mass riot breaking out. With bagpipes blaring in the background.
130* ''Film/JohnMulaneyAndTheSackLunchBunch'' exaggerates TrademarkFavoriteFood for [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]]. Orson doesn't want anything but a plain plate of noodles with a little bit of butter. You could give him the fanciest lobster, and his heart will still yearn for macaroni.
131* [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime movies]] exaggerate pretty much every trope that makes men look bad.
132** Lifetime movies about eating disorders tend to exaggerate the effects. ''Starving in Suburbia'' actually has the main girl manifesting her eating disorder into an imaginary friend who she converses with and in one scene the mother inspects the smell coming from her daughter's closet and finds she had been stuffing food in her pockets and it was left there so long it went rancid.
133* SlapSlapKiss is taken to extremes by ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''. The two main characters practically demolish a house with gunfire in an attempt to kill each other. They then proceed to punch, kick and smash objects onto each other, demolishing even more furniture in the process, until they grab their weapons again and get to a MexicanStandoff. Surprising nobody, little time passes before they put down the guns and start kissing and ripping each other's clothes off. They then proceed to [[DestructoNookie demolish even more of the house...]]
134* Elaine May of ''Film/ANewLeaf'' takes CuteClumsyGirl to the extreme as the socially inept Henrietta. She forgets to remove price tags from her clothes; has to be vacuumed after she eats; spills multiple cups of tea in one sitting; and accidentally ''puts her head through the arm hole'' of a Grecian nightgown.
135* 1982's slasher-parody ''Pandemonium'' satirized the various "hand tools as murder implements" tropes ubiquitous to the subgenre, with a baddie who not only killed with power tools, but converted his victims' remains into furniture afterwards. And was ''very good'' at it, such that his victims' "corpses" are portrayed by actual cabinets, dressers, and end tables.
136* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene is exaggerated by the premise of ''Film/AQuietPlace''. Every scene is either ''dead silent'' or frantic white-knuckle terror. The only thing in between is when Lee takes Marcus to a waterfall where they can talk in normal voices since the monsters won't hear them over the sound of the rushing water.
137* ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII'' manages to outdo the first one for leg and [[AgonyOfTheFeet foot injuries]]. There are numerous shots of the Abbott family's bloody feet as they travel across miles of rough terrain barefoot. Adding to that, Evelyn still has her nail wound, Marcus steps in a BearTrap early on, and Emmett gets a leg injury towards the end of the movie.
138%%* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'': Any tropes about war, army, etc… %% Zero Context Example
139%%* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'': The band has (and actively uses) a speaker they can crank up to eleven instead of the normal ten. %% Which trope is being exaggerated?
140* ''[[Film/LaTourMontparnasseInfernale La Tour de contrôle infernale]]'' (2016) exaggerates BananaPeel. According to Éric Judor and Creator/RamzyBedia, bananas caused a truck to crash.
141* The ''Film/{{Tron}}'' universe (films, games, comics, animated series) have GoodColorsEvilColors and TronLines as exaggerated and {{Justified Trope}}s. A Program's circuitry patterns and coloration indicate their loyalties, native system, and relative social class. If a character changes their social position or loyalties, their circuitry will change to match.
142* ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' exaggerates IfItBleedsItLeads with [[BigBad Elliot Carver]]. Not only does he and his media company jump on tragedies and conflicts in order to write about them as soon as possible, they often create or instigate said events to be the first to write about them and the plot is about them sparking a conflict between the UK and China for the sake of ratings and cable rights.
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146* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
147** Rincewind's mother "ran away before he was born." This is never explained, because it is ''unexplainable''.
148** ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', in which [[spoiler:[[FlockOfWolves every single enlisted soldier]] in the squad is a SweetPollyOliver]], even [[spoiler: the legendary sergeant who leads them]] ''and'' [[spoiler: at least a third of the Borogravian High Command.]]
149* Dulcinea del Toboso is a ShadowArchetype that Literature/DonQuixote imagined from a peasant girl called Aldonza Lorenzo. She represents for him all that is lovable about a woman without any of the defects of a real person, emboding the SatelliteLoveInterest. (Nobody is more shallow than a shadow).
150* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent, but Jim Butcher's werewolves in his second ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/FoolMoon'' are even different from ''each other''; the book features [[spoiler:four]] entirely dissimilar and unrelated kinds of werewolf. Later books give the exact same treatment to OurVampiresAreDifferent, too.
151** Creator/MercedesLackey does the OurVampiresAreDifferent trope as well in ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheNight'', which has three different varieties of vampire colliding.
152* The ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' is much, ''much'' BiggerOnTheInside.
153* Creator/HPLovecraft does this with PunyEarthlings trope
154* The Planet's Revenge in ''Literature/JudasUnchained'' is this for WeatherOfWar.
155* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}''
156** ''Children of the Lens'' does this with {{Earth Shattering Kaboom}}s, as a result of being the final book in the TropeNamer series for the LensmanArmsRace. Planets are used as anti-missile missiles, to counter planet-sized negaspheres aimed at Arisia.
157** Don't forget the planets that the good guys borrowed from the other dimension, which has the speed of light as a low bound (ie, everything in it is moving much much faster than light). Transporting two of these planets to our dimension on a collision course such that they meet with the bad guys planet between them, [[Main/ReadingsBlewUpTheScale gives new meaning to the equation F=0.5mv(squared)]], when 'm' is two planetary masses and 'v' is two times many times the speed of light.
158* StuckAtTheAirportPlot is exaggerated in ''Literature/StationEleven''. During the first outbreak of Georgia Flu, [[spoiler:Clark]] boards a plane that is redirected to the Severn City Airport due to the pandemic. The passengers are then stranded there for the next ''two decades''. Seeing as 99% of the population has died, and the world has become a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]], it's not like they have anywhere else to go.
159* ''Literature/MyVampireOlderSisterAndZombieLittleSister'' has a short segment doing this with both the ClassifiedInformation and WeHaveReserves tropes at once. The group JB gives out orders to eliminate [[spoiler:Amatsu Yurina]]. They also give secret orders to their A Team, who are to eliminate the target no matter how many casualties this causes among their first wave of people. Then there's the secret orders given to S Team, who are to treat A Team and below as merely a diversion and eliminate the target. And ''then'' there's the top-secret orders given to SSS Team, who are simply told to "go nuts".
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163* ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder Goes Forth]]'': "A fate ''worse'' than a FateWorseThanDeath? ...That's pretty bad."
164* A TooDumbToLive drug dealer in the ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "Sucker Punch" has an exaggerated version of CutHimselfShaving inflicted on him. His injuries are very obviously the result of being beaten half to death by the local [[TheIrishMob Irish mob]] ("very obviously," as in Castle and Beckett ''literally walked in on the beating''), but he explains it as having fallen down the stairs. And his eye being swollen shut due to having hit a door on his way down. And his mangled hand as a result of getting it caught in a grate at the bottom.
165--> '''Castle:''' Well. [[DeadPanSnarker Thanks for keeping it real.]]
166* ''Series/FatherTed'' exaggerates BadassCape with Bishop Brennan, whose cape somehow grow in size when he gets pissed.
167* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Victoria and Klaus were simultaneously treating each other as {{Disposable Fiance}}s. [[spoiler:Victoria is convinced to write a note to Klaus, but when Ted goes to drop it off, he bumps into Klaus himself... who was ''also'' running away from the marriage and ditching Victoria. Turns out that ''he'' realized that she is almost what he wants, but not quite.]]
168%%* ''Series/ICarly'' does this with ''ComedicSociopathy''. needs more context%%
169%%* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' - In the episode "House Of Quark," D'Ghor gets disowned by the Klingons openly for threatening to kill Quark, when unarmed. However, it's the way this scene is excuted that makes it seem like it devolved, hilariously, into self-parody. It's more hilarious than serious. Leans on narm.%%
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173* SelfBackingVocalist is exaggerated in the Music/AlkaliEarthMetal song ''Mysterious Colours Choir''. It consists of nothing but the same voice at multiple layers to create a choir effect.
174* In a rather extreme example of RearrangeTheSong, Music/{{D}} rerecorded their entire discography after Tsunehito joined the band.
175* On ''Music/SomethingAnything'', Music/ToddRundgren does this to the DistinctDoubleAlbum trope: each of the four LP sides has its own individual concept.
176* Music/TomWaits does this with the StarCrossedLovers {{trope}} in his song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRSL7K5y8cg "Fish and Bird"]]. This doesn't stop the song from being a legitimately sad tear-jerker.
177* AvantGardeMetal is basically ProgressiveMetal with exaggeration over technical approach and pushing boundaries.
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181* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
182** In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only [[DarkerAndEdgier grimdarkness]] turned up to 40,000!
183** Pretty much every other trope that it uses: HyperSpaceIsAScaryPlace (it is hell, quite literally), WarriorMonk, SuperSoldier, ChurchMilitant (those last three all relate to each other), BFG, BFS (often combined with ChainsawGood), CoolTank, TankGoodness, WeHaveReserves (to the point where the Chinese forces in the Korean War and the Red Army seem to be places where you have a decent chance of survival in comparison to the Imperial Guard), KillItWithFire, and BlackAndGreyMorality (verging on EvilVersusEvil frequently) are some of the most obviously exaggerated ones.
184* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' exaggerates... well... [[{{Troperrific}} as many tropes as it's (super-)humanly possible to put in a heroic fantasy]]. To not exaggerate the length of this page we suggest you to head on to its works page.
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188* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' does this for any Rage and anger tropes, as well as super strength, and, later, HumongousMecha tropes similar to the anime examples above in it's final DLC chapter.
189* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' does this with {{Character Level}}s, including going literally OverNineThousand.
190* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', the [[DeadpanSnarker silly dialogue]] got this treatment.
191* Book 2 of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' exaggerates HeroesPreferSwords, as axes are relegated to being UnusableEnemyEquipment, and cavalry units are forced to dismount in indoor chapters, thereby switching to swords. With Knights being the only melee units that can equip lances in indoor chapters, it's not unlikely to have a large chunk of the player's army equip swords at a given time.
192* ''VideoGame/GinormoSword''. [[{{BFS}} Take a guess]].
193* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' = EverythingIsOnline. No, everything. That doghouse out front, too. And the squirrel statue.
194* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', an inch-deep puddle of water will [[SoftWater completely negate any and all falling damage]], even if you're falling at terminal velocity.
195* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' does this with FriendToAllLivingThings, cranking up Amaterasu's [[{{Pun}} animal magnetism]] far beyond "fuzzy woodland creatures love her" to reach "[[FertileFeet flowers literally bloom wherever she walks]]."
196* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': Mega Gatling Pea takes CriticalHit to the next level by using its LimitBreak for free instead of its regular attack on a critical attack.
197* The hairstyle of ''VideoGame/RivalSchools''' Yurika Kirishima takes OjouRinglets to a ridiculous level.
198* ''VideoGame/RType'' Final's Stage F-C takes PointOfNoContinues to the extreme, not only giving the player no chance to continue but removing any and all extra lives. Since the player's ship is a OneHitPointWonder, it's an instant GameOver if they are ''even hit once''.
199* While the first ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' plays EarthquakesCauseFissures straight after the first battle, [[VideoGame/ShiningForceII its sequel]] exaggerates this much further by having the earthquake open up an ''enormous'' chasm surrounding the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Ground Seal]], which swallows an entire kingdom and most of a mountain.
200* ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer1990'' is one of the most ludicrous examples of AdaptationalWimp in all of fiction.
201-->''"I CAN'T TOUCH THE RED POT?"''
202--->--'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' in his review of the game
203* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'': RussianBear is exaggerated with the sheer quantity of bear in FantasyCounterpartCulture Kislev. Bears pull their artillery, most heroes and lords get bear mounts, their flag is a bear, they worship a bear, they summon a giant spirit bear unit, half their cavalry ride bears, and so on.
204* ''VideoGame/TouhouSoccer'' does this to most things that appear in it. For example, its take on AbsurdlySharpBlade has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7UGHkBikpY Youmu cut the moon in half with her katana.]]
205* ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'' exaggerates AmazingTechnicolorWildlife. The games' characters consist mainly of pinata animals that often come in much more colorful forms than their real life counterparts.
206* ''The VideoGame/{{X}}-Encyclopedia'' makes mention of several PlanetSpaceship built by [[JustForFun/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit Kardashev-abusing]] {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s that are each the size of an entire solar system.
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210* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' does this with EarnYourHappyEnding. Shirou goes through Hell, [[spoiler: literally at one point,]] to get to the true ending of Heaven's Feel.
211* The ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' franchise exaggerates MurderTheHypotenuse, with ''several'' {{bad ending}}s invoking it.
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215* Episode 2 of ''WebAnimation/BHappy'' exaggerates HiccupHijinks. A French artist who comes down with a terrible case of the hiccups, and as a result, ruins the painting he was working on. If you make the wrong decision, B. Happy's failure to cure him results in him catching the hiccups, and when [[spoiler: Maureen tries to smite them, all of them to get smited to death with hiccups, and continuing hiccuping in their graves.]]
216* ''WebAnimation/DarkSecretsOfGarrysMod'': CatsAreMean is exaggerated in ''Garry's Mod Sötét Titkai 2'' where [=KillerTankHUN=] gets {{rape|AsComedy}}d to death by a cat.
217* NoSenseOfDirection is exaggerated in ''WebAnimation/HoloChronicles''. Gura somehow manages to get lost on the way to Miko's shrine despite [=HoloMyth=] simply using a portal to travel there.
218* ''WebAnimation/RuneAdventure'' exaggerates SexyDimorphism when it comes to human beings. While the male characters are shown with normal bodies, the women have exaggeratedly luscious bodies, with [[MostCommonSuperpower large, inflated breasts]] and [[ComicallyOversizedButt exaggeratedly enormous butts]] in proportion to their size.
219* Similar to the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' example below, the creators (who lampshaded it in their segment) of ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' exaggerated PottyFailure by revealing in Episode 29 that [[spoiler:Deandra the New Girl]] pooped outside of her pants, all over [[spoiler: her cheer squad]], ''on everything within a 30-foot radius'', and on the city!
220-->'''Brittnay:''' ''[about to puke]'' [[NauseaFuel Oh, oh, oh my god, please stop, I'm gonna be sick. Ulp!]]\
221'''[[spoiler: Deandra]]:''' When you pressure-blast Mountain Dew out of your anus it's not easily forgotten! After that, I was ruined. I wasn't just the girl who pooped her pants. I was the girl who monster dumped on [[spoiler:two prom court members, a candy cane princess, and the junior class treasurer!]]
222* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere is taken to extremes in ''WebAnimation/RussianDancingMen'' with the Russians invading and the people of Uchekivstan are clearly taking notice.
223-->'''Guard''': Hey, are you invading?
224-->'''Russian''': ''(riding a tank)'' Nyet! I am just walking my dog.
225-->'''Guard''': You look like you invading!
226-->'''Russian''': Do not shout! You're upsetting my dog!
227-->'''Guard''': It looks like a tank!
228-->'''Russian''': It is fat dog.
229** And again.
230-->'''Uchekivstan Leader''': THE RUSSIANS ARE TRYING TO INVADE AGAIN!
231-->'''Russian''': ''(a tank with a tree drawn on it between two bushes as the Russian hides in one of them)'' Nyet! I am bush. Please be ignoring me. [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud Rustle, rustle]].
232** [[RuleOfThree In the end]], [[RunningGag it's persisted]] by their Great Leader when a tank falls into the hole they made escaping from prison.
233-->''(tank falls into a hole)''
234-->'''Great Leader''': That was a mole.
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239* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'':
240** It does this with TemptingFate. "Everything is good and it will be that way forever!"
241** It also does this with {{Brick Joke}}s. An off-hand comment in episode 7 turned out to be foreshadowing for an important plot point in episode 1221, ''[[WebcomicsLongRunners almost nine years later]]''.
242* ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'' does this with BeatPanel.
243** [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0317.html Ladies and gentlemen, the ultimate beat panel.]] The [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0318.html next strip in the sequence]] takes it to a new level with shots of Anakin's face in-between panels of Padmé's player Jim awkwardly confessing to romantic interest in Annie.
244** [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1153.html This]] (warning: major spoilers!) is an entire Beat ''Strip'', meant to resemble how there was a three-year wait until ''Return of the Jedi'' explained the plot twist of ''Empire Strikes Back''.
245* ''Webcomic/HaileyFlower'' exaggerates {{Gasshole}} in Victoria Flower, the mother of the titular character. Although this can also apply to all female characters because in this world only and solely women can fart, Victoria takes it to the extreme when it is revealed that she has throwing the same uninterrupted fart for thirty years.
246* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
247** Dave Strider has to do this with BreakableWeapons. Due to how Abstratii work, when one of his swords break in half, ALL of his swords break in half, and he's unable to equip any swords until they get broken as well.
248** ''Homestuck'' does a Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes-homage EarthAllAlong reveal not by showing a ruined Statue of Liberty, but by showing that the surface of the planet is littered with ''thousands'' of shitty old Statues of Liberty.
249* ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' exaggerates DreamWithinADream in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=493 Recursive Nightmare]] and [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1188 Y Combinator Garfield]], which enter an infinite dream loop.
250%%* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2012#comic exaggerates]] {{Deconstruction}}.
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254* Website/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2000 SCP-2000]] exaggerates the ResetButton trope with an extremely long narrative, relentless TechnoBabble and a very convoluted process to actually hit the button. Oh, and it's been used several times before. The current iteration of the Foundation broke the damn thing so that it doesn't actually work anymore, though.
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258* Done in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' with AffectionatePickpocket: When Finn and Jake assume they converted [[StreetUrchin little orphan girl]]/thief Penny into living a new life, she gives Finn a thank you hug... then runs off after swiping all his clothes!
259* In the original {{Franchise/Batman}} comics, Batman's villain The Ventriloquist's act is mediocre because Scarface has a SpeechImpediment (he substitutes the letter ''"B"'' for a letter ''"G"'', an unfortunate fact if you are going to fight ''"Gatman and Rogin"'') that is a common problem with {{ventriloquism}}. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' exaggerates AdaptationalIntelligence upgrading the Ventriloquist skills to ridiculous levels: Scarface not only can perfectly pronounce the letter "B" on all his appearances in the show, but "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE64ReadMyLips Read My Lips]]" shows the Batcomputer analyzing The Ventriloquist and Scarface's voices like ''two different people''. Also, Batman knew the greatest ventriloquist of his time, recognized as the world's best StageMagician, Zatara (Zatanna's father) and believes the Ventriloquist ''could teach him lessons''. So now the Ventriloquist act is so good he can fool an Artificial Intelligence and he can give lessons to the best Ventriloquist in the world.
260* A lot of the Franchise/DisneyPrincess artwork really loves to crank up EverythingsBetterWithSparkles.
261* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' exaggerates nearly every trope it uses. In the first episode, it's revealed that Xandir has [[DeathIsCheap died millions of times.]]
262* Old Kid from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', takes YoungerThanTheyLook to extremes. He's an elementary school student who looks eighty.
263* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
264** The HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood of Doctor Doofenshmirtz's MultipleChoicePast: "It all started when I was born. [[RuleOfFunny Neither of my parents showed up]]." He had to pretend to be a lawn gnome after theirs was repossessed, he had to wear dresses, he wasn't allowed to go swimming in public pools, his father preferred the dog and named it "Only Son", and he was abandoned and [[RaisedByWolves raised by ocelots]].
265** Phineas and Ferb's HomemadeInventions--they think nothing of building a mountain ski resort in their backyard, a rollercoaster that spans the city or two spacecraft and mission control with a free morning, and Candace's inevitable case of ItWasHereISwear: whatever it is, and however much of a mess it should leave behind, everything vanishes without trace by the time she tries to show their parents.
266* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "The City of Frownsville" exaggerates the OcularGushers trope. Lou Gubrious, a miserable scientist, uses them. Not only is it used normally, but his tears [[CryingARiver fill up the island's retreats and cause a myriad of waterfalls]].
267* Benson on ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' takes RageBreakingPoint to the max at the end of the episode "[[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep14ThinkPositive Think Positive]]" when Pops forces him to berate Mordecai and Rigby after holding his rage in the entire episode.
268-->"'''''YOU LAZY, NO GOOD SLACKERS DRIVE ME NUTS!'''''"
269* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Fake Dad" does this with RealMenEatMeat when the huge, burly convict Kowalski requests a meat on meat sandwich [toasted], which he washes down with a glass of meat.
270* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Ralph Wiggum is such an extreme example of TheDitz that at times one wonders if he has any functional brain cells. At one time, this wiki had its own trope called "Ralph Wiggum" which worked as an exaggeration of TheDitz.
271* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
272** The episode "World Wide Recorder Concert" exaggerates PottyFailure. When the boys slip the {{brown no|te}}ise into the sheet music of rivals, it accidentally gets added to the sheet music for the entire concert, which is being broadcast worldwide...
273--->'''Reporter:''' Like the rest of the world, everyone here has crapped their pants. Some crapped themselves to death. And still others ...ruined perfectly good pairs of pants.
274** They do this a lot, especially how they exaggerate {{Hell}} seeing as how it has ''a million times more people than Heaven.'' In "Best Friends Forever" we also exaggerate OffscreenMomentOfAwesome as Kenny leads an army outnumbered a million to one and ''wins.''
275* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Kracked Krabs" exaggerates StealingFromTheHotel. Mr. Krabs and [=SpongeBob=] winded up [[StealTheSurroundings stealing the entire room]]. They even call it [[UnusualEuphemism "exaggerating".]]
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