Basic Trope: Character says X is true or their name isn't Y.
- Straight: Alice and Bob 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!"
- Exaggerated: Alice says she will have no name at all if she fails to decipher the hieroglyphics.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: ???
- Inverted:
- Alice announces that if she deciphers the hieroglyphics, she will change her name.
- "I will find out, or my name is Carol!"
- Subverted: She then decides "I guess it still will be Alice."
- Double Subverted: everyone else agrees that "there is no backpedaling on betting your name, whatever-your-name-is."
- Parodied: Alice is doing a Sweet Polly Oliver and says "Or my name's not Daniel." "But that's not your name," says Bob.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't bet her name on something.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Why would you want to change your name?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides it's not worth risking her name over.
- Discused: ???
- Conversed: "Why do these characters bet their names on things?"
- Played for Laughs: Bob refuses to call Alice by her name until she deciphers the hieroglyphics.
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