History Main / StaggeredZoom

* Done for laughs in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', where Kronk is holding the unconscious emperor over a waterfall, where the camera zooms out and out and out... until finally the waterfall isn't even visible, and the focus is on a monkey eating a bug. Quoth [[LemonyNarrator Kuzco the narrator,]] "What's with the chimp and the bug? Can we get back to ''me'' now?"

* Used in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' (2006) at the start of the airport chase sequence.

* The 2000s ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' loved this.

* ''Film/FerrisBeullersDayOff'' uses this in the infamous museum scene of Cameron staring at A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

** When Jamie sees one of the ghost childrenin [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCornRevelation the seventh film]] skipping in the asphalt in the middle of the night, camera does a staggered zoom on kid's face.

* The introduction of Karloff's Monster in ''{{Frankenstein}}'' (1931) is done as three cuts rather than a zoom.

* Director Sogo Ishii, of ''{{Gojoe}}'' is very fond of this. He often does it in reverse: extreme close-up, close-up, medium shot, long shot.

* The introduction of Daniel Day-Lewis' character Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Martin Scorsese's ''Gangs of New York'' follows this trope to a T. The overall effect is heightened by the addition of both a badass longcoat and an American eagle patterned glass eye.

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* HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi does this many times to unbelievable effect.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' this is how we find out that Carl's house is now surrounded by a massive construction project.

* ''Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn''

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* Done in comic form in the "President Madagascar" strip, a MemeticMutation of the flash game ''Pandemic II'' where [[DontExplainTheJoke the game can become]] {{Unwinnable}} [[DontExplainTheJoke if Madagascar closes its only seaport]].
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* Used in WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment review of ''TheKingOfFighters'' movie to mock its ending.

* Done in ''TheBraveLittleToaster'' just before the HeroicSacrifice.
* Done for laughs in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', where Kronk is holding the unconscious emperor over a waterfall, where the camera zooms out and out and out... until finally the waterfall isn't even visible, and the focus is on a monkey eating a bug. Quoth [[LemonyNarrator Kuzco the narrator,]] "What's with the chimp and the bug? Can we get back to ''me'' now?"
* Used in the end of ''TheSimpsons''' episode "Bart vs. Australia", when we are shown one stowaway Koala clinging on a helicopter.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", zooming out from the mountaintop cave as Fluttershy explains her objection to facing a fully-grown dragon, each jump punctuating the list of things she finds terrifying about them.
*** In FriendshipIsWitchcraft, this scene is parodied quite nicely, with Fluttershy's story of her [[spoiler: HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood.]]
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", we get a staggered zoom in on Rarity whenever she decries something as "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis The. Worst. Possible. Thing!]]" After the [[RuleOfThree third time]] (when Twilight has to go face Princess Celestia), we get a normal zoom out afterward, with Rarity meekly stating "I really mean it this time!"
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win]]", when Rainbow Dash announces the final contest will be a race through Ghastly Gorge, the camera pulls back to reveal the hazard-filled canyon. She even [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud provides the sting sounds herself]].
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]" the camera zooms in on Pinkie Pie when the other girls decide to "bring out the big guns" (i.e. [[spoiler:use her MotorMouth tendencies to get Applejack to open up about why she ran away from home]]).
* Done near the end of the song "Under the Sea" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo "Do ya?! Do ya?! DO YA?!"]]
* The ending of "The Remote" in ''[[NightmareFuel/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.

* Used in the end of ''TheSimpsons''' Australia episode, when we are shown one stowaway Koala clinging on a helicopter.

* Happens in the ''{{Talkartoons}}'' short "The Bum Bandit" when we zoom along the train tracks until we pause at Bimbo armed with pistols.

* Pictured above: in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', StanleyKubrick combines this with QuieterThanSilence when the camera zooms in on HAL 9000's eye on the front of the space pod that he kills Frank Poole with, and the sound of Frank's breathing cuts off abruptly.

* Used by QuentinTarantino in the first ''Film/KillBill'' movie, when O-Ren Ishii and her bodyguards enter the restaurant.

* Used by QuentinTarantino in the first ''KillBill'' movie, when O-Ren Ishii and her bodyguards enter the restaurant.

* Part of {{NCIS}}'s SignatureStyle.

* Used in a trailer for ''MassEffect2'', in order to show the relative size of the spaceship Shepard is viewing.

* The ending of "The Remote" in ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.