About: Shadow of Impending Doom   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

If you're in a cartoon, an anvil, safe, or piano can fall on you at any time -- often without warning. But when comedic effect demands, your imminent flattening can be several seconds away, portended by a Bomb Whistle and the slowly expanding Shadow of Impending Doom. Of course, the character could try to escape, at which point the anvil will either follow him somehow(with or without the shadow updating) or land on a sloped surface and slide toward its target. But rest assured, those caught in the Shadow will meet their (temporary) doom. Examples of Shadow of Impending Doom include:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Shadow of Impending Doom
rdfs:comment
  • If you're in a cartoon, an anvil, safe, or piano can fall on you at any time -- often without warning. But when comedic effect demands, your imminent flattening can be several seconds away, portended by a Bomb Whistle and the slowly expanding Shadow of Impending Doom. Of course, the character could try to escape, at which point the anvil will either follow him somehow(with or without the shadow updating) or land on a sloped surface and slide toward its target. But rest assured, those caught in the Shadow will meet their (temporary) doom. Examples of Shadow of Impending Doom include:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:all-the-tro...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:allthetrope...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • If you're in a cartoon, an anvil, safe, or piano can fall on you at any time -- often without warning. But when comedic effect demands, your imminent flattening can be several seconds away, portended by a Bomb Whistle and the slowly expanding Shadow of Impending Doom. As this shadow - often circular - engulfs the soon-to-be-crushed (an especially large anvil or rock may darken the entire scene), it will be met or ignored with a number of stock responses (such as wondering why it got dark so early). a particularly oblivious flattenee clapping the dust off his hands in satisfaction of a job well done, while the merely stupid will watch in confusion as their partner or adversary flees the scene; if he does notice, there's a good chance the falling object is far to big to escape -- expect him to simply stand there, resigned to his fate, perhaps looking to the sky in bug-eyed terror, perhaps producing a tiny umbrella or sign reading "Eep!" On rare occasion they might run back and forth within the shadow, too panicked to think to actually leave it. Note that this implies both that the object is falling down perfectly straight and that there's light directly above it. Of course, the character could try to escape, at which point the anvil will either follow him somehow(with or without the shadow updating) or land on a sloped surface and slide toward its target. But rest assured, those caught in the Shadow will meet their (temporary) doom. Examples of Shadow of Impending Doom include:
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software