History Main / PortManteau

* Yaoi = '''ya'''nma nashi '''o'''chi nashi '''i'''mi nashi[[note]]"No plot, no resolution, no meaning"[[/note]]. An alternate (joking) portmanteau for yaoi is "'''Ya'''mete, '''o'''shiri '''i'''tai!"[[note]]"Stop it, my ass hurts!"[[/note]]

* PetreSellers in ''The Bobo'' is a wandering singer/bullfighter who calls himself a matatroubador - or troubamatador, he hasn't decided which.

* Video games in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' tend to be mashups of real-life titles, like the first-person shooter ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}[[VideoGame/{{Marathon}} athon]]'' or the unlikely combination ''VideoGame/{{Riv|en}}[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} iablo]]''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}: Episode 1'' introduces zombified Combine soldiers. And the developers did not miss the chance to give Alyx a line that calls them Zombine, and the name obviously has become the common name for these enemies.

* The title of ''{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}'' is "symbiotic" (two organisms living closely together) and bionic (cyborgs).

* Ever heard of a [[NaziZombies Blundergat]]? [[labelnote:Weapon Description]]This is what happens, when you take multiple barrels and firepower of a gatling gun, with the compactness and spread of a blunderbuss. To be frank, [[RareGuns this thing is pretty damn rare.]][[/labelnote]]

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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and her friends released a ParanormalRomance [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu featuring an]] EldritchAbomination called ''Awoken'', under the pen name Serra Elinsen - combining Antonella "Nella" Inserra and Lindsay Ellis, while also evoking Elisa Hansen.

Incidentally, the original French word "portemanteau" is a portmanteau. "Porte" means carries and "manteau" means coat, so a portemanteau is something that carries your coat. In modern French the word means coat hanger instead of a type of suitcase.

** Paladin builds do much the same thing, from the Hammerdin (Paladin who uses Blessed Hammer), Auradin (Paladin who uses auras) Vengadin (Paladin who uses Vengeance). There's also a build using Holy Freeze and Zeal which is called (appropriately) the [[IncrediblyLamePun Freezealot]].

** There's also a Paladin build focused on Holy Freeze and Zealot, called [[IncrediblyLamePun Freezealot]].

* Yaoi = '''ya'''nma nashi '''o'''chi nashi '''i'''mi nashi[[hottip:*:"No plot, no resolution, no meaning"]]. An alternate (joking) portmanteau for yaoi is "'''Ya'''mete, '''o'''shiri '''i'''tai!"[[hottip:*:"Stop it, my ass hurts!"]]

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' = Digital + Monsters.[[hottip:*:Digimon are the champions.]]

* Some tag team names are Portmanteaus, such as LayCool, comprised of Layla and Michelle [=McCool=].

* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}: Episode 1'' introduces zombified Combine soldiers. And the developers did not miss the chance to give Alyx a line that calles them Zombine, and the name obviously has become the common name for these enemies.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: "Horribfuckus."

* Real life has an equivelent called "compount words". However, letters are not taken out of the words themselves, they are just slammed together. Some examples are "lifetime" (life time), "pickpocket" (pick pocket), and "windmill" (wind mill).
* Oxymorons are like compound words, except the words are the ''exact opposite'' of eachother. However, the words have nothing to do with the context of the word itself. Some examples are "ballpoint" (ball point), "begone" (be gone), and even the word "oxymoron" (oxy moron).

* Wrestling/Ryback combines this with a DevelopmentGag. His first name is Ryan, and he wrestled in the indies as Ryan "The Silverback" Reeves.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has "muttations" (mutt+mutation, for genetically engineered beasts), "nightlock" (nightshade+hemlock, poisonous berries), "Communicuff" (a watch-like communicator that looks like a handcuff) and "propos" (propaganda ads).

* The [[ThrowItIn fans and creators]] of the game ''[[Videogame/DontStarve Don't Starve]]'' have a peculiar term for the creation which allows one to proceed to the next world: the 'Teleportato'.