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* One time in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofensmirch catches Perry in a trap and begins to explain his take over the tri-state area plan. The last slide is a picture of himself explaining the plan to Perry.

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* One time in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofensmirch Doofenshmirtz catches Perry in a trap and begins to explain his take over the tri-state area plan. The last slide is a picture of himself explaining the plan to Perry.
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Often the explainer will use drawings in universe too (which may be subject to StylisticSuck). See StringTheory for when things are less organised or viewer friendly. Compare ModelPlanning, which is when people build a model of something, like a building or a ship or a neighborhood, to go over their plan. See also RebusBubble for another sort of [[PaintingTheMedium visual representations]]. See FormulaForTheUnformulable when a character tries to solve a non-scientific problem with maths and science. If the exposition is about what will happen should the heroes fail, you're StoryboardingTheApocalypse.

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Often the explainer will use drawings in universe too (which may be subject to StylisticSuck). See StringTheory for when things are less organised or viewer friendly. Compare ModelPlanning, which is when people build a model of something, like a building or a ship or a neighborhood, to go over their plan. See also RebusBubble for another sort of [[PaintingTheMedium visual representations]]. See FormulaForTheUnformulable when a character tries to solve a non-scientific problem with maths and science. If the exposition is about what will happen should the heroes fail, you're StoryboardingTheApocalypse.
StoryboardingTheApocalypse. If the diagram in question involves looking at a person's brain, this may lead to a SillyBrainDiagram.
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* ''Film/AnyNumberCanWin'': Somehow Mr. Charles got an architectural diagram of the casino, which he uses to explain to his partners where the vault is and how they will break in and steal the money.

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The first back to the future example is Model Planning


Often the explainer will use drawings in universe too (which may be subject to StylisticSuck). See StringTheory for when things are less organised or viewer friendly. See also RebusBubble for another sort of [[PaintingTheMedium visual representations]]. See FormulaForTheUnformulable when a character tries to solve a non-scientific problem with maths and science. If the exposition is about what will happen should the heroes fail, you're StoryboardingTheApocalypse.

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Often the explainer will use drawings in universe too (which may be subject to StylisticSuck). See StringTheory for when things are less organised or viewer friendly. Compare ModelPlanning, which is when people build a model of something, like a building or a ship or a neighborhood, to go over their plan. See also RebusBubble for another sort of [[PaintingTheMedium visual representations]]. See FormulaForTheUnformulable when a character tries to solve a non-scientific problem with maths and science. If the exposition is about what will happen should the heroes fail, you're StoryboardingTheApocalypse.



* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy:
** On multiple occasions, Dr. Brown spends hours building elaborate models of the town to explain his plans to Marty, and apologizes that everything isn't to scale.
** Used by Doc Brown to explain the TimeParadox in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''

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* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy:
** On multiple occasions, Dr. Brown spends hours building elaborate models of the town to explain his plans to Marty, and apologizes that everything isn't to scale.
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Used by Doc Brown to explain the TimeParadox in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''
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** Episode 4. Ryuuka uses a series of audience only examples to explain the rivalry between the Jihyou and Hanaukyo families.

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** Episode 4. Ryuuka uses a series of audience only examples audience-only diagrams to explain the rivalry between the Jihyou and Hanaukyo families.



** ''La Verite'' episode 5. While the protagonists are at Comiket a message in Japanese appears over Mariel's head.
** ''La Verite'' episode 7. During an underground expedition two of Taro's personal maids hold up signs (which they pulled [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]]) with Japanese writing indicating they give up and don't want to go any further.

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** ''La Verite'' episode 5. While the protagonists are at Comiket Comiket, a message in Japanese appears over Mariel's head.
** ''La Verite'' episode 7. During an underground expedition expedition, two of Taro's personal maids hold up signs (which they pulled [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]]) with Japanese writing indicating they give up and don't want to go any further.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Abby [[PassingNotesInClass passes a note]] to Stacy about where to get panda pictures which is communicated with a drawing of a camera next to one of a red panda.
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* Throughout ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', when Yusei Fudo comes up with a game-winning combo, it will sometimes be visualized as the relevant cards being connected with StringTheory.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Next'' uses an audience only diagram after the filler arc. At the beginning of the episode that returns to the serious plot, Lina recaps the situation with Gaav while a helpful diagram displays the Mazoku lords and their relations to each other.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} ''Literature/{{Slayers}} Next'' uses an audience only diagram after the filler arc. At the beginning of the episode that returns to the serious plot, Lina recaps the situation with Gaav while a helpful diagram displays the Mazoku lords and their relations to each other.
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* Gru in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' explains his plan to steal the moon. The girls have inserted a drawing of him on the toilet into it.

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* Gru in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' explains his plan to steal the moon. The girls have inserted a drawing of him on the toilet into it.
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* ''Manga/SoulEater'' had these on occasion, such as when [[SuperOCD Death the Kid]] explained why he preferred the number 8 to 7 (because it's symmetrical, for those who don't know), and more seriously (or as seriously as you can get with little chibis running into each other) by Dr. Stein when [[spoiler: he outlines his plan to prevent the [[BigBad Kishin]] from being released]].

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* ''Manga/SoulEater'' had these on occasion, such as when [[SuperOCD [[ObsessivelyOrganized Death the Kid]] explained why he preferred the number 8 to 7 (because it's symmetrical, for those who don't know), and more seriously (or as seriously as you can get with little chibis running into each other) by Dr. Stein when [[spoiler: he outlines his plan to prevent the [[BigBad Kishin]] from being released]].
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* ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'': Mercymorn draws up a diagram to explain what the UndeadAbomination Resurrection Beasts are, detail how they interact with the regions of TheUnderworld, and plan a defense against an approaching Beast. In a moment of {{Bathos}}, she's a TerribleArtist, so the discussion of the apocalyptic threat gets sidelined while people critique the illustrations.

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* In the episode of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' ''Terror in New York City'', the plan to move the Empire State Building is explained by the characters watching the news on television, with diagrams showing exactly how this will be done.
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* Two people independently come up with the ''same'' exposition diagram in the fanfic ''TroperWorks/CrownsOfTheKingdom''.

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* Two people independently come up with the ''same'' exposition diagram in the fanfic ''TroperWorks/CrownsOfTheKingdom''.''Fanfic/CrownsOfTheKingdom''.

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