- Drama Bomb
- Concern: Misuse, redundant to Wham Episode
50/50
Wham Episode (6/50)
- ADifferentLesson.Tropes M To Z: "Wham Chapter: Chapter 34. Nuff said, and Chapter 30 as well. The first one is the chapter where Zhuang is murdered, Ping is kidnapped and Po informed of it, and Shifu has his frightening premonition just before the Cliffhanger of Tai Lung's arrest. The second starts with Zhuang discovering the blinded Chang and his wife being fed off of by Chao and warned about Vachir, then has the zombie Anvil of Heaven, the fight with Vachir, the revelation that Monkey was possessed (and Disney Death of Mantis), and the stabbing of Vachir that led to the explosion of dark chi and Tai Lung and Tigress falling into the abyss. Whew! Chapter 34 also counts as a Drama Bomb since, unlike Chapter 30, it takes place after a breather in the plot and what seems to be things mostly better or on the rise toward resolution." 'A Wham Episode example, though at least it explains how it's meant to fit Drama Bomb as well.
- FanFic.Of Leaves And Lilac: "Chapter 17. What has been mostly Slice of Life gets a massive Drama Bomb." A Wham Episode ZCE.
- Fanfic.The Keys Stand Alone: "John has just rescued Ringo and himself from a roomful of nasty psionics, and they're currently lying on their "default" mesa, with John laughing hysterically at his triumph. But Ringo is still under the psionics' mental influence and demands to be taken back. When John tries to snap him out of it, Ringo throws him over the side of the mesa. While John is still wearing his cloak and, hence, his wings are bound. Which does snap Ringo out of it. This little event causes a seismic shift in the way the four deal with the Power Groups from then on." Because it changes the story, it sounds like a Wham Episode.
- VideoGame.Delicious: "Wham Episode: "A Bitter Blow". Doubles as a Drama Bomb." No context, but calls itself a Wham Episode, so...
- WhamEpisode.The Sopranos: "Long Term Parking": One of the biggest Drama Bomb episodes in the series. After a season of working with the government, Adriana finally tells Chris that she is an informant. Chris rats her out to Tony and Ade is shot in the woods by Silvio. Chris is so much pain that he has a heroin relapse, causing Tony to snap and beat him up. Tony learns where Tony B is, but refuses to tell Johnny Sack when he learns that he wants to kill him. Tony and Carmela finally reconcile and get back together. Listed as a Wham Episode.
Cerebus Syndrome (4/50)
- Anime.The Idolmaster: "The story of Chihaya's dead brother going public, and later the producer's life-threatening accident mark the anime's turn into drama territory.
- Borderlands2.Tropes O To Z: All the DLC stories, all of which chronologically set after the main plot, are Lighter and Softer Due to the lack of Handsome Jack. Until the end of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep. Starts out lighter and then turns more dramatic, like Cerebus Syndrome.
- Manga.Happy Happy Clover: "Starting in Volume 5 the manga starts becoming more serious and dramatic compared to it's lighthearted tone."
- WebVideo.Echo Chamber: Two examples, one in the general folder and one specifically referring to episode 9 of season 2.
- The last four episodes of season 2 are more serious than all the preceding episodes. This appears to be the series growing more serious as it goes on.
- Although there's some humor, this episode is more serious than usual. Ditto this example. It says nothing about how dramatic or shocking it is.
Other (24/50)
- AnalogyBackfire.Live Action TV: Analogies often backfire in The Thick of It, and most spectacularly in the Drama Bomb episode where Malcolm gets fired. The script features a running theme of theatre-related metaphors:Marianne Swift: Malcolm, we get it, you're still the star of the show.
Malcolm Tucker: Warm them up, tell them Olivier's on his way but in the meantime here's An Audience With Peter fuckin' Bowles... what happened, did you get heckled off?
Steve Fleming: The show's over, it's curtains... The way this is phrased seems like it's referring to a Wham Episode or Wham Line, but I can't tell just from this example. - Anime.Saber Marionette J: The infiltration into Gartland's episodes. The jolt after almost 10 episodes of seeing Japoness, a peaceful and colorful city, to then seeing Gartland and how bad its social situation is, is quite shocking. It's said to be shocking, but I'm a little hazy if it counts as a Drama Bomb.
- Characters.Master Chef: "She got a much longer one of these from Gordon after it turned out she had unwittingly served raw pork in her last episode. Between Gordon almost seeming personally let down by her mistake, and her elimination being treated as far more of a Drama Bomb moment than usual, many fans and fellow contestants speculated that the judges and/or producers had earmarked her to win the season, but she had just committed a mistake so serious that there was no way they could justify not eliminating her." Sounds like a really dramatic turn of events.
- DarthWiki.Active Duty: Three examples, all just "drama happens".
- Half of O-23 gets the shit tore out of them, then Alice has Travis, inducing so much drama that time itself got warped for a second.
- Jason gets demoted, Akane promoted, and there's a confrontation on the roof. Akane ends up brainless and John finally snaps. The drama was delicious.
- Priscilla gets reality bent into someone else. Jason and Alice, tired of their bosses being stupid, quit the Foundation."
- Erotic Asphyxiation: "This kicks off the Drama Bomb that is "Screams Of Silence: The Story Of Brenda Q.", with Quagmire nearly killing himself via doing this while watching clown porn." It's a Family Guy example, so I'm pretty sure this is just an abnormally dramatic episode in a generally context-light series.
- Fanfic.Tokimeki Poke Live And Twinbee: Even though PokéLive! appears to be a lighthearted series on the surface and in fact, still keeps the fun/optimistic tone of Love Live! and Tokimeki Memorial, but oh man, compared to the School Idol Project and Sunshine anime, and even more so to School Idol Festival and ALL STARS as well as the Nijigasaki anime, PokéLive! has much more bits of drama in it's stories at times!
- The events of the original Pokémon Black and White are essentially a Darkest Hour for this version of Shizuku's World.
- An Ultra Beast invasion has destroyed an alternate version of Mobius.
- Yoko's (And possibly Ellie's) bioligical parents are dead! Thankfully, both girls have wonderful mothers who adoped them.
- In a possible future, Climate Change brings down modern civilization in most of the world.
- Not only that, the future Aleena hails from was caused by Yoko's and Ellie's defeat at the hands of Eggman.
- As part of her backstory, Shizuku didn't trust N at first, even though he has already joined the side of the good guys by that time.
- N and Eggman have a disagreement over whether or not Pokémon should be modified in "Cretaceous Hunters and Pennsylvanian Giants, Oh My!". Most of these examples are just dramatic plot points, some of which involve heavy subject matter (climate change, orphans).
- Film.The Oscar: "Hymie reveals to Frankie that Laurel died years ago miscarrying Frankie's baby. One suspects the plot twist was going to be a botched abortion but there may have been a reluctance to mention abortion in a 1966 film." Dramatic reveal.
- Film.The Gypsy Moths: "The Slice of Life suddenly turns sour when Rettig dies during the show." Dramatic thing happens.
- Literature.Babar: " "The Coin". Babar is held to a promise by a pirate artifact, three shards of a gold medallion, and whoever hands him one of the pieces gets whatever they want from him, without question, without compromise. One of the shards is obtained by Rataxes, who uses his wish to take over Celesteville. It didn't last long thanks to Cornelius, but it was easily one of the darkest episodes in the series, not counting the premiere." More dramatic-than-usual episode.
- Literature.Luna Labs: "Used several times, most notably in Chapter Twenty-Eight when Luna is forced to trade her limited freedom for the lives of five hostages. Up to this point, nothing so relevant to the plot had happened for several chapters." Drama happens, and complaining to boot.
- Literature.The Overstory: "The third part, "Crown", deals with the fallout of the last part's ending over a time period of twenty years, while the shorter fourth part "Seeds" acts as an epilogue to the book as a whole." Dramatic ending.
- Literature.The Paper Magician: "The first section of the book follows Ceony around the house as she studies, wonders about Thane's background and what he does when he leaves the house, and cooks. Then a vaguely-foreshadowed villain literally appears from nowhere and rips Thane's heart out of his chest. Yeesh." Sounds just kinda like "sudden dramatic thing happens.
- Manga.Space Brothers "Later in the series, it is revealed that Sharon has ALS. The same disease that Stephen Hawking has in real life, and that it took Serika's dad to his death." Dramatic thing happens.
- PlayingWith.Shock Party: "Played For Drama: Bob breaking up with Alice is the start of a Drama Bomb barrage (Alice says she's pregnant, Bob states That Thing Is Not My Child!, her father disowns her because of having sex out of wedlock, Alice gets in a Surprise Car Crash while driving away in tears that doesn't hurts her or the baby but kills her mother, the only person in her life that still gave a shit about her...)" Dramatic stuff happens.
- Recap.Jeffys Parents: " This is notably more emotional than the usual comedic SML video. The video plays Jeffy's backstory and the child abuse he goes through entirely straight and only has a few jokes shown in." Episode is more dramatic than usual.
- Recap.Monster High Freaky Fusion: "With lots of backstory, the (kinda) return of Hexiciah, and the straight up Disney Death of Frankie Stein through saving her friends by destroying a robot with Shock and Awe? Oh yeah." Dramatic stuff happens.
- Roleplay.Imperial Beach: Being a roleplay, this happens a lot. Most of it is started by the roleplayers being flat out sadistic. Most memorable one being Brendon's suicide attempt. This seems to be more "roleplayers introduce dramatic tension and/or serious subjects" than anything else. It could also be a Wham Episode, but the example doesn't give enough context for it to concretely count as one.
- Series.The Brittas Empire: "Gordon, despite losing his job, still manages to indirectly cause the entire leisure centre to explode and collapse to the ground in the series 4 finale. He is hailed a hero after rescuing three young children from the carnage." Drama happens.
- Series.Married At First Sight, under True Love Is Boring: Season 10's Jessica and Austin basically do not have a single fight until the second-to-last episode. Reviewers vacillated between pointing out this trope and being thankful for their stabilizing presence in a season otherwise crammed full of Drama Bombs. The wick here seems to be using the trope as simply "a dramatic, heavy moment".
- Toys.Monster High:
- Robecca Steam's basic diary details the story of a teenager being trapped underground for a century, waking up only on accident to find the world drastically changed and her father long missing.
- Cleo's Gloom and Bloom diary gives us some information about her fairly sad backstory, and sheds more light on her situation.
- Draculaura's collector edition diary gives us a small timeline of her young life. See her character page.
- Freaky Fusion, containing the first straight up Disney Death in the series... that of Frankie Stein, who uses up her own life-force to save her friends from absorption.
- VisualNovel.Ef A Fairy Tale Of The Two: "This is a case where an already-dramatic series is made even more dramatic by "Yuuko's revelation of her scarred body and the aforementioned long, long list." Dramatic thing happens in a dramatic work.
- WebAnimation.Wild Adventures: "Episode 3 serves as this. It tells the story of "Admin and Eve" and features Steve having a dream that tells him to go to North Haven, which kicks off the main plot." Drama that kicks off the main story.
- WesternAnimation.The Ultimate Enemy: "Jawdropping. Not least for its awesomeness, abruptness, as well as its sudden venture into dark humour. Oh yes, and the brutal murders, so many brutal murders." Knowing Danny Phantom and this film, it's not describing a Wham Episode. It's just gushing about the drama.
- YMMV.Total Drama Comeback Series, under Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Chapter 29 of TDC starts with a Soap Opera parody with lots of surprise pregnancies. May be Chris's way of mocking the Drama Bomb nature of the episode overall, but it still comes as a Mood Whiplash. This wick implies that the episode is full of dramatic tension.
ZCE (15/50)
- Characters.The Ollivander Children: "She will oftern give her own opinion about things without even the littlest concern of who she's speaking to, a lot of the time making her look like a Rich Bitch and dropping several Drama Bombs." What does this even mean?
- FanFic.Seven Pieces Of Chalk: A commented-out trope-name-only ZCE
- Fanfic.Total Drama Chris: "The fourth episode of Total Drama Izzy, where Izzy brings on Leshawna's abusive former friend Madison, forcing a confrontation." Without knowing anything else, there's not enough context to categorize this.
- Funny.Dingo Doodles: "Although Episode 15 has very few humorous moments..."
- Funny.The Pinkertons: "The Drama Bomb episode "On Account of Huckleberries" has some funny moments to balance things out." The rest of the example is irrelevant; we don't get any info on why it's a Drama Bomb.
- Heartwarming.Tangled Adventures In Arendelle: "Anna and Elsa get to play again after ice skating, because it's time they finally build a snowman after all this time. So they go and build snowmen, make snow angels, ride ice slides, and have snowball fights. But the best part is where Elsa turns herself into Elsaf the living snowman, and they enjoy another warm hug together again. A shame then that these moments get interrupted soon after by their next challenge." Just a ZCE pothole.
- Literature.Watching Yute: Pretty much the entire second half of the novel. This explains nothing about how the trope applies to the book.
- Manga.Wife And Wife: "Kina apparently has that effect on a total stranger. Surprisingly she responds to this as if it were a Drama Bomb." For context, this is a Love at First Sight example, and this is all we get, whatever it means.* Roleplay.Dorf Quest: "Several, and often with Mood Whiplash to boot."
- Roleplay.Red Hoods: "Brighid uses a spell to release the sentenced recruits from their shackles, the results are... interesting."
- Series.Doc Martin: "When Joan is Killed Off for Real at the start of Series 5." Almost labeled this a Wham Episode, but I can't tell for sure.
- Series.This Is England, under Plucky Comic Relief / Those Two Guys: Flip and Higgy in '90 serve as a comic relief duo, and are notably absent from the third episode. Pothole bolded for emphasis. This explains nothing about how the episode is dramatic.
- Webcomic.Captain Ufo: "A few in season two. For example, the explosion caused by big bad's attack that kills General Lyne, or Shaan's memories of how he lost his crew, his family and the entire planet he decided to retire on." A list of dramatic events with no other context.
- Webcomic.Dumbing Of Age: It's written by David Willis, so yeah. Expect lots of drama. This explains nothing about how the trope is used.
- Webcomic.Kubera: "Asha's murder trial."
