Basic Trope: Onomatopoeia, or sound effects in written form.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are talking. Carol drives by at high speed, and "Vroom!" appears on screen. Later, a "Crash!" manifests from offscreen.
- Exaggerated:
- Ten characters get into a fight, causing the screen to get flooded with onomatopoeia.
- Dave pulls out a giant Cartoon Bomb; when it explodes, a giant "BOOM!" covers the whole screen.
- Downplayed: Alice checks her rather noisy watch, and a very tiny "Tick-tock" appears on screen.
- Justified:
- Sound doesn't exist in the work's universe, so everything that in our world we simply hear, in theirs is perceived visually.
- The story is shown from the first-person view of a character with synesthesia (or rather, a heavily fictionalized version thereof), who actually sees onomatopoeia when perceiving sounds.
- Inverted: Sounds representing visual effects, e.g. Audible Gleam.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied:
- Unsound Effect
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
- Ten characters get into a fight, creating a Big Ball of Violence... that's made up entirely of the onomatopoeia from the fight's sounds, such as "Pow!", "Bonk!" and "Slap!"
- Zig-Zagged: Onomatopoeia are inconsistent as to when they appear and when they don't.
- Averted: There are no onomatopoeia.
- Enforced:
- It's a comic, so the audience can't actually hear the sounds. They're represented visually to get around this, especially if they're important to the plot, thus following the Rule of Perception.
- The show is inspired by and pays homage to comics, so the onomatopoeia were included as part of the aesthetic.
- The new installment in a franchise is Denser and Wackier, so the onomatopoeia are used to make the setting look sillier.
- Lampshaded: "Why did the word "Vroom!" just appear in my field of sight?"
- Invoked: A sorcerer casts a spell that renders all sounds as text.
- Exploited: Onomatopoeia flood the screen during an action packed scene, so Alice uses them as cover to slip by undetected and steal the MacGuffin.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "How will we know if the bomb works?" "Well, if it does, you should see the word "Boom!" appear around the corner".
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A burst bubble appears on the screen's edge, but the text spelling out the sound effect is offscreen.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: The only times onomatopoeia appear in the show are during a comedic Running Gag, in which Bob gets hit by a cream pie, causing "Splut!" to show on screen.
- Played for Drama: ???
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