Basic Trope: A electromagnetic wave that wipes out electronics.
- Straight: In Alice Wars, an EMP is generated by Emporer Evulz which causes every several electronics in the area to stop working completely.
- Exaggerated: An EMP is generated that causes ALL of the world's electronics to explode.
- Downplayed: The EMP only causes electronics to stop working temporarily.
- Justified: Sending enough electricity into something will cause it to break.
- Inverted:
- Emperor Evulz sucks away energy from everything, meaning they are unable to be recharged.
- Or, to invert it in a different way, all living matter is wiped out in the area, but not the electronics.
- Subverted: Several of the electronics are designed to endure high electricity overloads.
- Double Subverted: But the EMP is powerful enough to still break them.
- Parodied:
- The EMP generates 1 voltz of electricity, something that wouldn't cause anything to happen.
- It also wipes out Emperor Evulz' robot army as well.
- Zig Zagged: Some electronics are overloaded, some aren't.
- Averted: Emperor Evulz decides not to use an EMP.
- Enforced: "Hey, we need an explanation on how their electronics broke!"
- Lampshaded: "Oh, Crap! Our weapons!"
- Invoked: Emperer Evulz, knowing that the heroes are using electronic devices, creates a powerful EMP.
- Exploited: ???
- Implied: ???
- Defied: The heroes manage to stop the EMP from occuring.
- Discussed: "Why did you use it?" "Because, your weapons are electrical!"
- Conversed: "You know, this is the part of the movie where all our electronics die."
- Deconstructed: Emperor Evulz, knowing that using an EMP would wipe out his army as well, decides not to use it.
- Reconstructed: And proceeds to make his robot army EMP-proof, then decides to use it.
- Played for Laughs: The EMP causes several electronics such as fridges and toasters to stop working.
- Played for Drama: Without their weapons, the heroes must fight Emperor Evulz with nothing but swords.
- Played for Horror: One of the characters is partially robotic.
