Basic Trope: A fight between two characters ends up in a complete brawl including everyone in sight.
- Straight: Flash Young gets into a fight with Maximilian 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 deep fried cheese sandwich that got Flash and Max fighting. It swiftly devolves into an intercontinental 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 Serious Business, and they started fighting. It swiftly devolves into a Class Z-4 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.
- In a World… Where Badasses and 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?
- Both of them are Fight Magnets. They seriously can't control suddenly making riots form out of nowhere.
- The air was already thick and filled with tension, with everyone now making up an absolutely gargantuan (as in, citywide or even intergalactic) Powderkeg Crowd. It just needed two short tempered meatheads to light the fuse, and who better to pick than these two knuckleheads Flash and Max?
- 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.
- Subverted: Flash hurls Max into Pete Perkins, but Pete doesn't really get too involved with the fight.
- Double Subverted: The same can't be said for Adelita Diaz, and soon it involves other people too!
- Parodied: Anything that even disrupts the silence is swiftly followed by a Class Z-4 Apocalypse. 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.
- 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: Executive Meddling sees that Big Badass Battle Sequences draw in loads of dough. The writers try for something new instead of having a Big Badass Battle Sequence 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 P. Navarro 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, and as such, they make an active attempt to get the hell out of their way.
- Professor Bryce Baxter gives Flash and Max a harsh warning not to try and start a fight in his presence. They nervously oblige.
Bryce: (Pushes up his Scary Shiny Glasses) Boys... Don't try anything funny, even when I'm not at the school. You wouldn't want to tick me off, would you?Flash and Max: (In unison) N-NO SIR! - 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. 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."
- Played for Laughs: The entire brawl is portrayed as a Big Ball of Violence 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 dressed drown over starting the fight in the first place.
- Played for Horror: The entire brawl kills people in cruel, bloody, gory, 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, instead adding more fuel to the fire and not dousing it.
Oh, Crap! Flash and Max had just bumped into Adelita, brace yourselves for an Escalating Brawl! Also, if you mind, can you Pass the Popcorn?
