Basic Trope: A real life car gets a name change for a work.
- Straight: In Troper Thieves, there's a car that looks like an Apollo Intensa Emozione, but is named the Mastorino Suprema.
- Exaggerated:
- Every car is modelled after their real life counterparts, down to the seatbelts and engine sounds, but they have different names.
- The helicopter looks like Boeing Apache helicopters, but is actually a Samuel Ratchet helicopter.
- Downplayed: The Toyota Corolla Levin is just called the Levin.
- Justified:
- The person who owns the car is too poor to buy an actual Apollo, so he goes for the next best thing, which happened to be this.
- The builders doesn't want to use real names of the cars when modifying them.
- The (highly ruggedized) Mastorino is used by the locally produced TV-show for the jumps that would wreck the hero's Appolo in real life.
- Inverted:
- The Apollo Intensa Emozione looks a lot different in game than the actual car, but still gets called this name.
- The Pimped-Out Car Blaster XL is turned out to be an Apollo Intensa Emozione.
- Subverted:
- The Mastorino Suprema looks like an Apollo Intensa Emozione but it has a different engine and larger boot space.
- Troper Thieves (and by extension the Mastorino) came out in 2015, the resemblance to the Appollo is either coincidence or a case of Life Imitates Art.
- Samuel Ratchet Helicopter Service is the operator, not the manufacturer.
- Samuel Ratchet was a designer at Boeing, in this context the distinction does not have the implied level of difference.
- Double Subverted: The Apollo exists in this game while the Suprema is a lookalike car created by a Mafia brand.
- Parodied: Mastorino makes a car called the Supreme, and Bob steals that car instead of the Suprema.
- Averted: The Apollo Intensa Emozione is actually called the Apollo Intensa Emozione.
- Enforced:
- The developers could not get the license from Apollo due to the subject matter.
- The dangerous stunts being performed are so awesome that calling the car by its real name and adding a Don't Try This at Home disclaimer, would more likely than not result in someone trying to copy them, It's a lot safer to simply tell the audience that they can only be performed by a non-existent lookalike.
- Defied:
- Apollo sues the production company for using a look-alike, no matter how many changes were done to get rid of proprietary details. Either the production will use an actual Intensa Emozione or they will need to get rid of that car propio adesso.
- The developers refuse to add a car that resembles an Apollo Intensa Emozione even vaguely. They either develop a super car design of their own for their purposes or seek a car design to license from a cheaper, and hopefully less lawsuit-happy, company.
- Lampshaded: "Check out my sick ride. It's a Mastorino Suprema, not to be confused with any other identical car models."
- Conversed: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laugh: The Mastorino Suprema is The Alleged Car, an utter lemon that is the car equivalent of Brand X.
- Played for Drama:
- Jim's ownership of a Mastorino Suprema while pretending that it's an Apollo Intensa Emozione is evidence that he has fallen on hard times financially speaking and hoping to fake it till he makes it as long as he can.
- The Mastorino Suprema is nowhere near as safe as the Intensa Emozione and when Bill takes it for a joyride accidents that would not have happened if it was an Emozione happen.
- The Mastorino Suprema is used for Insurance Fraud, smuggling drugs, or some other kind of criminal enterprise that just cannot be done with an Emozione (because it would have been more profitable to sell the damned thing).
- Played for Horror: Jim makes a Deal with the Devil and sells his soul for an Apollo Intensa Emozione. The Devil gives him a Mastorino Suprema instead and makes sure Jim dies in a car crash.
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