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* The plot of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''The Andalite's Gift'' has absolutely nothing to do with the Morphing Cube, the titular gift that the kids received from the dying Andalite soldier Elfangor at the start of the series. It might have been an appropriate title for the very first book in the series, but that book was called ''The Invasion''.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': Sun Wukong is said to have mastered "the 72 Earthly Transformations" as his main magical powerset. This does not mean he can transform into 72 different things. The 72 Transformations are a set of magical/spiritual powers he gained as part of his Taoist training. The ability to shapeshift into virutally anything is just ''one'' of those 72 powers.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': Sun Wukong is said to have mastered "the 72 Transformations" as his main magical powerset. This does not mean he can transform into 72 different things. The 72 Transformations are a set of magical/spiritual powers he gained as part of his Taoist training. The ability to shapeshift into virutally anything is just ''one'' of those 72 powers.

** Although it's said that the great majority of the Braavos assassins' guild known as the Faceless Men are indeed men, some are women and an even smaller minority are children. Also, they tend to be masters of disguise, so a Faceless Man assassin could very well pose as a woman or child regardless.

** Eight of the nine Free Cities practice slavery. They are called "free" because the cities were autonomous during the times of the Valyrian Freehold. For that matter, the Freehold was the largest slave-trading empire in the world, and was named as such because the Valyrians were free to exercise authority in the land for life, not because the people were free.

* In the ''Literaure/Codex Alera'' series, the name of the antagonist 'Fidelias' means 'faithful' in Latin; but he is not at all faithful, except to his own sense of the welfare of the realm.

** The Iron Throne is the seat of the monarch of the Seven Kingdoms as a whole and has no special connection to the Kingdom of the Iron Islands, whose traditional throne in times of independence was/is the Seastone Chair. It is called the Iron Throne because it is ''made'' from iron, specifically, the iron of the swords owned by the Targaryens' enemies, which were reforged into a throne using dragonfire.

* Flann O'Brien loved doing this: the tiny Shannon River islet of Swim-two-Birds is mentioned exactly once in passing in "Literature/AtSwimTwoBirds".

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', [[MagicalGirl Haruna]] has a FinishingMove called Mystletainn Kick, which consists of bisecting the opponent with her chainsaw (which at the very least is called Mystletainn). Everyone on the receiving end [[PhraseCatcher responds with]] "[[{{Lampshaded}} That's not a kick!]]"

* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'': Togame and Shichika are on a quest to retrieve the [[PlotCoupon 12 Deviant Blades]] of [[UltimateBlacksmith Shikizaki Kiki]], Severals of which are not bladed weapons. For that matter, contrary to what the title implies, only four of Shikizaki's blades are actually katanas.

* ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'': The White Queen's full name is "The White Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth". The Sword of Unsullied Truth is actually her dress, which can transform into various weapons (including, but certainly not limited to, swords).

** One of the titles held by monarchs of the Seven Kingdoms is "King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men", with the Rhoynar part referencing the Dornish, who are partly descended from Rhoynar refugees. However, when the series begins, Dorne has only been a part of the realm for 109 years, despite the title dating back to the Targaryen conquest. Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters had plans to take over Dorne as they had done with other parts of the realm, but the Dornish resisted any attempt to conquer them by force, and remained independent by the time Aegon died. It was not until the reign of Daeron I, Aegon's great-great-great-great-grandson, that the Targaryens finally defeated Dorne, and even it took another generation and an AltarDiplomacy before the Dornish voluntarily accepted the Targaryens and stopped rebelling.
** The Dothraki Sea, or the Great Grass Sea, is a gigantic steppe. In fact, the Dothraki are averse to the actual sea and can get seasick real quick if they board a ship. Lampshaded in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', when Victarion Greyjoy, from the highly marine Iron Islands, mistakes the name for a real sea and dares to cross it with his ship, and is laughed at.

* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': While the titular factory does make a lot of chocolate, it also makes many products that ''don't'' use chocolate, so it'd be more accurate to call it a ''candy'' factory.

* In Stephen Baxter's XeeleeSequence, a government known as the "Interim Coalition Of Governance" rules humanity. It stands for an "interim" period of ''roughly 20,000 years''.

* [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Balefire]] in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' which not only kills a person, but [[RetGone burns them and their recent actions out of reality itself]] does not look anything like fire.

* The VillainProtagonist from ''LightNovel/HowToBuildADungeonBookOfTheDemonKing'', commonly just referred to as Aur, has [[spoiler:Ain Soph Aur as his actual name, a term coming straight out of the Kabbalah, meaning "The Limitless Light", a term used to describe {{God}} Himself in those teachings]]; an extremely ironic name considering Aur is a Sorcerer who has declared himself Demon Lord, who engages in many nefarious actions against humanity, not the mention how handles women who were against him at first, that is manipulate them through rape and hypnotism.

** One of the titles held by monarchs of the Seven Kingdoms is "King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men", with the Rhoynar part referencing the Dornish, who were partly descended from Rhoynar refugees. However, when the series begins, Dorne has only been a part of the realm for 109 years, despite the title dating back to the Targaryen conquest. Aegon and his sisters had plans to take over Dorne as they had done with other parts of the realm, but the Dornish resisted any attempt to conquer them by force, and remained independent by the time Aegon died. It took 158 years before the Targaryens finally defeated Dorne, and even it took another generation and an AltarDiplomacy before the Dornish voluntarily accepted the Targaryens and stopped rebelling.

** The Dothraki Sea, or the Great Grass Sea, is a gigantic steppe. In fact, the Dothraki are averse to actual sea and can get seasick real quick if they board a ship. Lampshaded in ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', when Victarion Greyjoy, from the highly marine Iron Islands, mistakes the name for a real sea and dares to cross it with his ship, and is laughed at.

** Big Walder is smaller than Little Walder. They got their names based on their ages, with Big Walder being 52 days older, before Little Walder grew a foot and a half taller than he.