1 | '''Basic Trope''': An ordinary item/creature is called by a fictional name. |
2 | * '''Straight''': A rabbit is called a smeerp. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Every object that exists in reality is called by a different made up name. Clocks are called "ring-toks", for example. |
5 | ** A rabbit is called a [[OverlyLongName substered perhympiedexcitypolinkhausive galition]]. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': The rabbit has a few differences from ordinary rabbits (for instance, it has long fangs), but wouldn't "fanged rabbit" be a more appropriate name for it than "smeerp"? |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** The work takes place in a world with alternate naming conventions for items. |
9 | ** GratuitousForeignLanguage |
10 | ** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottontail_rabbit Sylvilagus]] Smeerpus is a species of rabbit discovered by Dr. Smeerp. |
11 | ** [[SpySpeak The gathering rolls no moss while the smeerp is loafened into the opening.]][[labelnote:translation]]No unencrypted messages about the rabbit on a monitored-by-the-enemy channel.[[/labelnote]] |
12 | ** Bobby, [[FirstPersonPerspective the one-year-old P.O.V. Character]], doesn't know the word for ducks (yet), so he calls them "quackquacks". |
13 | * '''Inverted''': CallASmeerpARabbit |
14 | * '''Subverted''': The "smeerp" is revealed to have good reason for being considered different from rabbits. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': This "reason" is something such as having more than one fur color, having lop ears, or any other trait that regular rabbits could just as well have. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': |
17 | ** Everyone keeps calling the rabbit "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not a Rabbit]]". |
18 | ** The word for rabbit is so long or ridiculous sounding that HilarityEnsues whenever the characters talk about one. |
19 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Sometimes they call the creature a rabbit, and sometimes they call it a smeerp. |
20 | * '''Averted''': Everyone just calls it a rabbit. |
21 | * '''Enforced''': "We want the setting to be almost exactly like Earth, with a few differences. So stick some regular Earth objects and animals on there, but give them different names." |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't that just a rabbit?" |
23 | * '''Invoked''': Bob tells a taxonomer to start calling rabbits "smeerps". |
24 | * '''Exploited''': Bob uses an item's NonIndicativeName to make it sound more dangerous than it really is so he can intimidate an enemy. |
25 | * '''Defied''': "What the hell is a smeerp? That's a rabbit, and we're calling it a rabbit." |
26 | * '''Discussed''': "I've heard they have creatures on Earth exactly like smeerps, but they call them a different name." |
27 | * '''Conversed''': "I can understand calling a cat a meow, but a rabbit a smeerp? Is that even the sound rabbits make?!" |
28 | ---- |
29 | Back to CallARabbitASmeerp |
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31 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
32 | %% * '''Implied''': ??? |
33 | %% * '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %% * '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
35 | %% * '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
36 | %% * '''Played for Drama''': ??? |
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