Basic Trope: Special effects are concealed.
- Straight: "Alice and Bob: The Movie" features a scene where Emperor Evulz uses his magic abilities, but the act is not entirely shown onscreen.
- Exaggerated: Despite "Alice and Bob: The Movie" being a fantasy film with magic as a plot element, there aren't any special effects whatsoever.
- Downplayed: The special effects are only used in important scenes.
- Justified: Evulz's magic abilities require that nobody is around to witness them.
- Inverted: Gratuitous Special Effects
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- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied:
- Whenever there's a special effects shot, we see it for one second, then a hand covers the part of the screen where the effect is happening. Or, the effects shots are censored by a large black rectangle.
- Whenever a monster is about to reveal its face indoors, somebody turns the lights way down with a dimmer first.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Special effects are used normally.
- Enforced:
- It's a low-budget production, so there isn't much budget for special effects.
- It's funnier than showing the effect.
- The American dub doesn't have the copyright license(s) that some of the sub-effects require to be legal.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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