Basic Trope: A heavy metal band uses umlauts in its name.
- Straight: A heavy metal band is named "The Tröpers".
- Exaggerated:
- A heavy metal band is named "Thë Tröpërs".
- Every single letter has umlauts on them - even the ones that never have them otherwise.
- The album titles and track titles also contain plenty of gratuitous umlauts.
- Downplayed:
- Even though the band's official name is "The Tröpers", it's often written without the umlaut.
- The band's actual name is "The Tropers", but it's frequently stylized as "The Tröpers".
- Justified: The name is an actual German word that contains an umlaut.
- Inverted: A heavy metal band calls itself "Flugel". If the "u" had an umlaut, it would have been the German word for "wing" (or "grand piano"), but the band decided to remove it from their name to eliminate any difficulties that might arise from writing the umlaut with certain keyboards.
- Subverted:
- A heavy metal band calls itself "Flügel" (Wing). It's an actual German word and the umlaut is supposed to be there, they're just a Wings cover band.
- Alan, Bob, Carl and Dave announce that they've formed a band named "The Tröpers". Everyone assumes it's a heavy metal band, but then they release their first track... a One Direction cover.
- Double Subverted:
- But the band didn't know it at the time someone came up with the name and gave it to them. They just assumed it was there to look cool.
- Their first track turns out to be a heavy metal cover of a One Direction song.
- It turns out that The Tröpers only released a One Direction cover to troll. They go on to release actual heavy metal tracks.
- Parodied:
- A heavy metal band calls itself "Thë Ümläüt Äbüsërs".
- A heavy metal band is named "Thė Trȯpėrs".
- Zig Zagged: The name is sometimes written "The Tropers", sometimes "The Tröpers", sometimes "Thë Tröpërs"...
- Averted: The band simply decides to go with the name "The Tropers".
- Enforced: The band put umlauts in their name because it was common when it was formed, and they wanted to (1) make it obvious from their name that they were a heavy metal band, and (2) look cool.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, another band with umlauts in their name. I never learnt to pronounce those things."
- Invoked: Someone suggests that the band put umlauts in their name to make it look cool.
- Exploited: "The Tröpers" are playing at the big rock festival; their name is printed on posters with umlauts, so heavy metal fans would understand they will play their favourite genre (and not something else) and would gather at the time "The Tröpers" will perform.
- Defied: The label suggests adding an umlaut to the "The Tropers" name. The band members refuse because they don't want to abuse diacritical marks that have meaningful functions.
- Discussed: "You plan to start a band? Are you going to put umlauts in its name?"
- Conversed: "Why do all these people in this film think umlauts make a band name more heavy metaly?"
- Deconstructed: When The Tröpers decide to tour in Germany, local metalheads pronounce their name as "The Truoepers", leading to Narm.
- Reconstructed: The umlaut-using band names itself "Schlägerei" - German for "brawl" - which avoids the pronunciation problem, and at the same time serves as a "this is a heavy metal band" indicator for both English-speakers and German-speakers.
- Implied: A scene where "The Tröpers" are mentioned shows two people looking at their poster (which isn't shown), and one of them scratching their head and asking: "How do you pronounce that?"
- Played For Laughs: A Grammar Nazi rants at The Tröpers' umlaut abuse.
- Played For Drama: The band starts arguing and nearly splits over the question of gratuitous umlauts.
Bäck tö Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut.
