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* '''Subverted''': Bob walks into a building and the crowd shouts, "The Hunter!" However, it's revealed that they're talking about something else.

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Bob walks into a building and the crowd shouts, "The Hunter!" However, it's revealed that they're talking about something else.else.
** Hunter is his family name, to which he applies SpellMyNameWithAThe.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everyone'' refers to him as The Hunter. He just [[NeverLiveItDown can't live it down]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everyone'' refers to him as The Hunter. He just [[NeverLiveItDown [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten can't live it down]].
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Back to [[EarnYoutTitle The Liferuiner wiki]].

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Back to [[EarnYoutTitle [[EarnYourTitle The Liferuiner wiki]].
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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???Bob does something memorable, but misguided in an attempt to get the title.



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???"Stop calling me that!"
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* '''Inverted''': Bob [[InsistentTerminology insists]] on calling ''himself'' "The Hunter", but nobody else goes along with it.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob [[InsistentTerminology insists]] {{insist|entTerminology}}s on calling ''himself'' "The Hunter", but nobody else goes along with it.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everyone'' refers to him as The Hunter. He just CantLiveItDown.

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* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everyone'' refers to him as The Hunter. He just CantLiveItDown.[[NeverLiveItDown can't live it down]].



* '''Inverted''': Bob [[InsistentTerminoligy insists]] on calling ''himself'' "The Hunter", but nobody else goes along with it.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob [[InsistentTerminoligy [[InsistentTerminology insists]] on calling ''himself'' "The Hunter", but nobody else goes along with it.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character is referred to as a shameful title for a past act.
* '''Straight''': Bob is referred to as "The Hunter" because he shot a man in the past.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''Everyone'' refers to him as The Hunter. He just CantLiveItDown.
* '''Downplayed''': A few murmurs abound about The Hunter, but Bob is usually referred to by name.
* '''Justified''': Giving a wanted man a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast name to run away from]] is one way to dehumanize them in the public eye.
* '''Inverted''': Bob [[InsistentTerminoligy insists]] on calling ''himself'' "The Hunter", but nobody else goes along with it.
* '''Subverted''': Bob walks into a building and the crowd shouts, "The Hunter!" However, it's revealed that they're talking about something else.
* '''Double Subverted''': Specifically, the man entering the building behind Bob.
* '''Parodied''': Bob is referred to as "The Walker of 3 blocks to the Corner Store Down the Hill".
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob is referred to by name and only by name.
* '''Enforced''': "We need something easy to remember. Something to call him shorthand, something that ''means'' something. Audiences aren't going to get any reaction out of something like Bob Mclastname."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why do you call me that? Why does everyone call me that? I'm sick of it!"
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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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