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This is an extremely opaque and unhelpful example. I don't know enough about the Touhou franchise to edit it, though. Would someone who knows more please edit it into an example that's actually an example of something? —Epiblast
I'm slightly confused by the phrase "doujin companies". Isn't that a contradiction in terms? —Document N
Gambrinus: Not if you read "company" as a "group." Doujin circles are pretty common.
Just added a Simpsons quote to the page, largely because it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the page title. :) I'm not sure if it's entirely relevant to this page (it does feature people talking about something pop cultural which is then accepted with a cry of the title phrase... but they're not proposing any sort of fan theory). Also, not having access to the episode right now, I just copied it from here
, so apologies if it's wrong (amazingly, The Simpsons Archive doesn't feature the quote in its "Marge vs the Monorail" capsule). —Nick R
I removed this example, because it is an example of Sure, Let's Go with That rather than Sure, Why Not?, and put it on its proper trope.
- Like Darths And Droids, Girl Genius has an in-story example here.
- Some, more cynical, people (like this troper) suspect that she simply thought she hadn't had any press coverage for a while and thought a "startling revelation" about Dumbles would give her a week's worth of column inches...
- This troper has to agree; if Dumbledore was going to be gay to help highlight the books nearly anvilicious message against discrimination, it would probably have been a bit better if anyone had actually thought he was gay. Besides crack pairers, I mean.
- This troper thought she was giving the finger to the evangelical Christians attacking Harry Potter and just trying to send them into even more of a towering rage.
- Or that she thought parents wouldn't buy it if she revealed that before it came out. Of course, those same parents probably wouldn't be buying anyway; they'd rather be burning it.
- This troper thought it was a pun, and it meant both... The two screens are the most obvious new feature of the system.
- That's the company line. The actual story is probably more akin to the first version.
Conversation In The Main Page.
- Inverted in that fans who didn't like the Eighth Doctor have speculated that he was part of the Expanded Universe and not canon (as he only appeared in a TV movie, novels, audio plays, and comics). But a televised Tenth Doctor story shows a sequence that flashes back to all nine of his past lives, including the Eighth as played by Paul Mc Gann.
This isn't an inversion, it's just not using the trope.
- In a case of one hand of a company doing this with another, Super Mario Bros 2 was really a different game in Japan that was modified into Mario characters. Nevertheless, many enemies from it have since become part of the "real" games.
- This is less of an example than it might seem, since all the games in question were made by Shigeru Miyamoto; he was just re-using his creations elsewhere (and, in fact, Doki Doki Panic — the game that was modified into Super Mario Bros 2 — already contained many elements from the Mario series before its conversion, such as invincibility stars, identical coins, and POW blocks.)
- Actually, they had originally turned it into a Mario game just so Doki Doki Panic would sell in the United States. Japanese fans were upset that the US would be getting a Mario game when they wouldn't and started complaining. This led Nintendo to re-release Doki Doki Panic in Japan as Super Mario USA. In other words, Nintendo got to sell the exact same game twice due to fan demand. (Well, not quite exactly...)
- Actually, they had originally turned it into a Mario game just so Doki Doki Panic would sell in the United States. Japanese fans were upset that the US would be getting a Mario game when they wouldn't and started complaining. This led Nintendo to re-release Doki Doki Panic in Japan as Super Mario USA. In other words, Nintendo got to sell the exact same game twice due to fan demand. (Well, not quite exactly
- This is less of an example than it might seem, since all the games in question were made by Shigeru Miyamoto; he was just re-using his creations elsewhere (and, in fact, Doki Doki Panic — the game that was modified into Super Mario Bros 2 — already contained many elements from the Mario series before its conversion, such as invincibility stars, identical coins, and POW blocks.)
Not this at all. It's a Dolled-Up Installment.
Technically the company name in Asimov's series is "US Robotics and Mechanical Men", but USRMM -> USR doesn't seem quite as clever.
- Technically it's "United States Robots and Mechanical Men." US Robotics was named in homage to the fictional company.
Random Surfer: Similarly to the Supernatural "Cas" mention in the article, I heard the gang from Buffy being called the "Scooby Gang" long before it showed up in the show.
