Let's say you come to This Very Wiki for the first time and you don't even bother looking at the description. You just look at the trope's name and take it 100% at face-value. Here's a Just for Fun index of Tropes where you can share that presumption and share a good laugh with the people on the sight!!
Not to be confused with Punny Trope Names, where the trope names themselves are actual puns.
Examples:
- Alpha Strike: The first blow made.
- Barbaric Bully: An adjective used to describe a barbarian character through bull-like characteristics. "That guy's got Barbaric Bully biceps (he's super yoked)!" or "Conan's got a Barbaric Bully cock (he's hung like a prized breeding bull)!"
- Beehive Barrier: A wall crafted entirely out of beehives.
- Black Metal: A slab of metal painted black.
- Bob Ross Rib: When someone digs up Bob Ross' corpse and takes one of his ribs.
- Bonding Through Shared Earbuds: Two objects joined together through a shared false ear.
- Borrowing the Beatles: "Hey, can I borrow The Beatles for a second?" "Yes, please. Ringo has been really needy lately and I need some space."
- Brainwashed: A medical procedure where the doctor power-washes the folds of one's brain of excess gunk.
- The Burlesque of Venus: A burlesque show hosted and performed on Venus.
- Captain Fishman: The captain of a boat named "Fishman."
- Casino Park: A parking space for casinos.
- Chekhov's Gun: Anton Chekhov's personal firearm that he keeps under his mattress in case of home invasion. And duck-hunting.
- Chekhov's Skill: Anton Chekhov's creative writing prowess.
- Chest Monster: A monster that is literally just an upper torso. The males are rock-hard pecs, the females are a bodacious pair of boobies.
- City of the Damned:
- A city that with a giant wall around it, flooded and now the entire place is underwater.
- Alternatively, a city with a wall around it to keep rising sea levels from flooding it.
- Class Trip: When everyone in the class stumbles and falls.
- Classical Anti-Hero: A villain themed after Classical Music.
- Confused Question Mark: A sentient question mark that is, itself, confused.
- Cool Gate: An archway with air-conditioning.
- Cool Sword: A sword made of ice.
- Criminal Convention: "The conventions of how you are to be a criminal are written down thusly..."
- Currency Conspiracy:
- "There's a conspiracy on where all of my money is coming from and going too!"
- "I think the dollars in my wallet are out to get me! And the banks are in on it!"
- Dead Person Impersonation: A dead impersonator.
- Death Metal: A slab of metal known to kill people.
- Death Trap Tango: Mr. Death and Ms. Trap doing the tango.
- Death World: The Grim Reaper's homeworld.
- Difficulty Spike: A literal spike that makes anything it's stuck into more difficult.
- Earth Song: The song the planet Earth sings when it has the opportunity.
- Egg MacGuffin: An Egg McMuffin that's super important to the plot.
- Erotic Eating: Video content of people eating that's been posted onto pornographic sites or magazines.
- Extreme Sports Plot: A plot of land used exclusively for extreme sports.
- Eye of Providence: Mr. Joe H. Providence's glass eye.
- Fallen Angel: An angel tripped and fell over.
- Fallen Cupid: Cupid tripped and fell over.
- Fantastic Fragility: "It's incredibly fragile? Fantastic!"
- Fantastic Plastic: Good, quality plastic.
- Filth: Dirt and grease.
- Firing Day: A day that everyone celebrates by setting their things on fire.
- Food Porn:
- Pornography where you watch the food contents of your plate doing it.
- Pornography where you watch someone masturbate with a piece of food.
- Forgotten Anniversary: The anniversary of the day you forgot something.
- Glasses of Aging: An Artifact of Doom that takes the form of a pair of reading glasses that causes Rapid Aging when worn.
- Go Mad from the Apocalypse: Getting angry after entering Apocalypse, Arkansa.
- Goodness Exam: A type of admissions test — both multiple-choice and open — that quizzes you on virtues and how to act upon them.
- Groove Metal: A very dented slab of metal.
- Hard Rock: A rock.
- Head-Turning Beauty: A version of the protagonist from Beauty and the Beast that routinely turns her head for various reasons.
- Heel–Face Town: A town that has a face and a heel.
- Hentai: A chicken wearing a tie.
- Index in a Half Shell: Index paper folded and wedged into oysters on an oyster platter.
- Invisible President: President of the Council of People With the Power to Turn Invisible (or "CPWTPTTI").
- Jews Playing Nazis: When a Jewish person is in a game of pretend, they always want to play a Nazi because Evil Is Cool in a harmless make-believe context.
- Mad Science Fair: "Only mad science is impartial."
- Match Sequence: A series of matches lined up by size.
- Milkman Conspiracy: The dairy industry is up to something!
- Mordor: A surplus of doors with the product names misspelled.
- Mouthscreen: A screen meant to be kept in a person's mouth.
- Nightmare Hands: The front hooves of nocturnal horses.
- No Need for Names: A character marks off all the individual names he sees and instantly forgets whatever name someone tells him because he has grown beyond the need for it.
- Not in Kansas Anymore: When someone leaves the Kansas state border.
- Parasite Zombie: A zombified tapeworm.
- Pop Rap: Slang for bubble wrap that the kids are using these days.
- Powersuit Monkey: A chimpanzee in Powered Armor.
- Psychic Index: A carefully written statistic that measures Psychic Powers.
- Psycho Knife Nut: When an absolute psychopath uses knives to dice nuts.
- Punk Rock: A pet-rock with a mohawk.
- Read the Fine Print: Being asked to read a finely worded, carefully written piece of calligraphy. "Now that's some fine print, right there."
- Runaway Bride: A woman who was a runaway who is now getting married.
- Screw You, Elves!: Elf porn.
- Skinny Dipping: Dipping skinny people in ranch dip.
- Soft Rock: A ball of clay.
- Sword Plant: A plant that grows swords like corn.
- The Television Talks Back: A Video Phone.
- Threatening to Cut Ties: When a person threatens you into doing something for fear of taking scissors to your shoelaces.
- Totally Not a Criminal Front: The front of a store that is itself legal in its totality.
- Trashy Tourist Trap: A Chest Monster that resembles a trashcan that preys upon tourists. When they get close, the creature springs a trap and catches them in its net.
- Urban Hellscape: Hell as a city.
- Video Phone: A television show aimed towards a telephone demographic.
- Wedding Ring Defense: A wedding ring that doubles as a shield.
- Wolverine Claws: The disembodied claws of a wolverine
. - Working Class Anthem:
- An anthem people are workshopping in Creative Writing Class.
- A Pledge of Allegiance the Working Class have to recite every morning before getting to work.
- Wormsign:
- A sign with the word "worm" on it.
- A sign written in a language only worms can read.
