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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CoversAlwaysLie In case you're not sure if it's a cat toy for iguanas or something.]][[note]][[RuleOfThree On the back, it says "Cat Toy"]] ''[[RuleOfThree again]]'', and below that, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids "This toy is not suitable for children."]][[/note]]]]

"[[{{Film/Airplane}} I just want you to know, good luck, we're all counting on you.]]"

* [[Redundancy/{{Advertising}} Advertisements Using TV To Promote Products To You On Television]]
* [[Redundancy/AnimeAndManga Anime Cartoons From Japan And Manga Comics From Japan]]
* [[Redundancy/ComicBooks Comics With Pictures And Dialogue Drawn By Western Comic Book Artists]]
* [[Redundancy/FanFiction Fan Fiction Written By Fans Of Fiction Which Is Fictional]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Film}} Filmed Movies Using Film Which Was Used To Film The Movies]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Literature}} Literature Stories Written In Books By Authors]]
* [[Redundancy/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV Played By Live-Actors On Television]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Music}} Musical Sounds In The Form Of Melody Which Sounds Like Music]]
* [[Redundancy/NewMedia New Media Which Is New And Is A Form Of Media]]
* [[Redundancy/NewspaperComics Newspaper Comics Printed In The Comics Section Of Newspapers]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Pinball}} Pinball With Pins And A Ball Bouncing On Those Pins With Other Balls]]
* [[Redundancy/ProfessionalWrestling Professional Wrestling By Professional Wrestlers Who Wrestle Professionally]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Radio}} Radio Playing Radio Music And Radio News On The Radio]]
* [[Redundancy/StandupComedy Standup Comedy Done By Comedians While Standing Up]]
* [[Redundancy/TabletopGames Tabletop Games Played By Gamers On The Top Of A Table]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Theater}} Theater With Actors Played By People On A Stage In A Theater]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Toys}} Toys That You Play With Using Your Imagination]]
* [[Redundancy/VideoGames Video Games That You Play Games With Including Visuals Played Using Electronics]]
* [[Redundancy/WebAnimation Web Animation Moving Pictures Uploaded To The Internet]]
* [[Redundancy/{{Webcomics}} Webcomics Made And Uploaded To The Internet By Webcomic Artists]]
* [[Redundancy/WebOriginal Web Original Uploaded To The Internet And Consisting Of Original Content Which Can Be Found On The Web]]
* [[Redundancy/WesternAnimation Western Animation Moving Pictures Made In The West]]
* [[Redundancy/RealLife Real Life Non-Fictional World Of 3-D]]

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** FrankMiller [[SignatureStyle loves repetition.]]

** FrankMiller [[SignatureStyle really loves repetition.]] [[MemeticMutation And whores.]]

** [[SayMyName Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]]
** {{Hello}}. MyNameIsInigoMontoya. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie.

*** [[YouKeepUsingThatWord You keep using that trope !]] I do not [[SinkHole think it means]] what you think it means

** Department Of Redundancy Department uses this trope.

* [[Redundancy/{{Pinball}} Pinball Being Flipped By Flippers In A Pinball Machime That Are Player-Controlled]]

"[[Film/Airplane I just want you to know, good luck, we're all counting on you.]]"

[[Film/Airplane "I just want you to know, good luck, we're all counting on you."]]

* [[Redundancy/{{Pinball}} Pinball Being Flipped By Flippers And Played By Players]]

"I just want you to know, good luck, we're all counting on you."

'''Disclaimer:''' The D.R.D. Department does not share the opinion of anything written on this page, including {{overly long gag}}s, overuse of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' quotes, {{pot hole}}s, [[OverlyLongGag overly long]] [[SelfDemonstatingArticle gags]], and use of [[ThePageForRedlinksExistsNowSoWePutThisLinkInsteadOfThePageForRedlinks redlinks]].

'''Disclaimer:''' The D.R.D. Department does not share the opinion of anything written on this page, including {{overly long gag}}s, overuse of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' quotes, {{pot hole}}s, {{overly long gag}}s, and use of [[ThePageForRedlinksExistsNowSoWePutThisLinkInsteadOfThePageForRedlinks redlinks]].

** Amusingly, peanuts aren't actually nuts, which puts an interesting spin on the traditional 'may contain nuts' warning. In particular "This product was made in a place that processes nuts and peanuts".* Because of regulations or lawsuit-related ass covering, in the US a lot of food products that obviously have a product in them (Peanut M&Ms have peanuts!) have this trope in action on their packaging. Like milk or cheese labeled "Contains Dairy product."

** Amusingly, peanuts aren't actually nuts, which puts an interesting spin on the traditional 'may contain nuts' warning. In particular "This product was made in a place that processes nuts and peanuts".
*** The British product Sun-Pat Peanut Butter, in a real headscratcher, now says 'peanut spread' on the packaging, and in the description, says 'contains absolutely no butter'. You wonder if they are marketing themselves to aliens.
* Because of regulations or lawsuit-related ass covering, in the US a lot of food products that obviously have a product in them (Peanut M&Ms have peanuts!) have this trope in action on their packaging. Like milk or cheese labeled "Contains Dairy product."

* Warning on sleeping pills: "This product may cause drowsiness. If affected, do not drive or operate machinery."

Another form of the trope is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric) tautology]], which is basically reusing synonyms to describe one another, e.g. "That gay person is a homosexual", or "A tautology is anything that is tautological."

!!Examples and various cases that are exemplifying the trope

* This page is a self-explanatory page of redundancy. So if you look for an example of redundancy, this page is one!

* Any time there's a peanut butter jar or a labelled peanut container that says "Warning: May contain peanuts."

** If it said 'contains peanuts', that would be one thing. The real headscratcher is that it seems to suggest that ''it might not''.

This also shows up frequently with the misuse of acronyms, specifically when part of the acronym is used next to the acronym itself. TheOtherWiki knows this as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome RAS Syndrome]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke i.e. Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome]]).

->'''Mojo Jojo:''' I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different. I do not reiterate, repeat, reinstate the same thing over and over again. I am clear, concise, to the point!
-->''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

With some websites and occasionally in RealLife, the Department of Redundancy Department is referred to as an actual organization run by CaptainObvious with a side branch called the Branch of Awkward Wording (or, for bonus points, the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch).

** Paradoxically, many sleeping pills also include the side effect warning "may cause insomnia" (as technically, the drug failing to work is also a side effect).

* To avoid having ZeroContextEdits, all tropes on a list have to have an explanation of why they are there, no matter how blatant they are. As such, if multiple tropes are present because of the same event, that event ends up getting described repeatedly.

* To avoid having ZeroContextEdits, all tropes have to have an explanation of why they are there, no matter how blatant they are. As such, similar tropes tend to describe the same event over and over.

* A variety of products, including baby shampoos and Mr. Bubble-- a brand especially made and promoted for children-- are labeled "Keep out of children's reach".

* To avoid having ZeroContextEdits, all tropes have to have an explanation of why they are there, no matter how blatant they are. As such, similar tropes tend to describe the same even over and over.

When listing things, a character will repeat an item. Might end with "Did I mention X already?" when making a list. Common ways for it to show up are a list going "A, B, C, B, D, B, E... and did I mention B?" and "[[Film/BlazingSaddles You said X twice]]." "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I]] ''[[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice like]]'' [[Film/BlazingSaddles X]]." These occur frequently, especially when listing things.