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1'''Basic Trope''': Character says X is true or their name isn't Y.
2* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are looking at a building or with strange hieroglyphics all over it. Alice, who is very curious, asks Bob "What does that say?". Bob says "Nobody's tried to find out". Determined, Alice announces "Well, ''I'' will find out, or my name isn't Alice!"
3* '''Exaggerated''': Alice says she will have no name at all if she fails to decipher the hieroglyphics.
4* '''Downplayed''': ???
5* '''Justified''': ???
6* '''Inverted''':
7** Alice announces that if she deciphers the hieroglyphics, she will change her name.
8** "I will find out, or my name is Carol!"
9* '''Subverted''': She then decides "I guess it still will be Alice."
10* '''Double Subverted''': everyone else agrees that "there is no backpedaling on betting your name, whatever-your-name-is."
11* '''Parodied''': Alice is doing a SweetPollyOliver and says "Or my name's not Daniel." "But that's not your name," says Bob.
12* '''Zigzagged''': ???
13* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't bet her name on something.
14* '''Enforced''': ???
15* '''Lampshaded''': "Why would you want to change your name?"
16* '''Invoked''': ???
17* '''Exploited''': ???
18* '''Defied''': Alice decides it's not worth risking her name over.
19* '''Discused''': ???
20* '''Conversed''': "Why do these characters bet their names on things?"
21* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob refuses to call Alice by her name until she deciphers the hieroglyphics.
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25%%* '''Implied''': ???
26%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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