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** JustTheFirstCitzen

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** JustTheFirstCitzenJustTheFirstCitizen
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Bob is sent on an espionage mission using his real name, since nobody on the enemy's side knows it anyway.



* '''Discussed''': ???
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"The Lion already managed to kill more than one-hundred enemy soldiers alone in the last month..." "You mean Bob? Heard of that, that's common for him."
* '''Conversed''': ???"Kinda cool to have a badass nickname."
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why does Bob need a scary nickname? He's scary enough by himself!"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Why does Bob need a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scary nickname? nickname?]] He's scary enough by himself!"
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** Bob's attire has a lion motif.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes their exploits, skills, or general badassery.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes their exploits, skills, or general badassery. Said name is better known than the character's real name.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes his or her exploits, skills, or general badassery.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes his or her their exploits, skills, or general badassery.



** Almost ''every'' character has at least one name in their résumé, and for good reason.

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** Almost ''every'' character has at least one name in their résumé, and [[WorldOfBadass for good reason.reason]].

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** Bob has [[IHaveManyNames multiple badass names]] because nobody believes that the same person could have done all of those things.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob gains a title for his exploits in battle, using it during war to frighten his enemies. Afterward, he uses it to keep up his self-confidence, althogh it makes him feel out of place in the postwar world. However, he feels that his war nickname is all he has.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob gains a title for his exploits in battle, using it during war to frighten his enemies. Afterward, he uses it to keep up his self-confidence, althogh although it makes him feel out of place in the postwar world. However, he feels that his war nickname is all he has.
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** almost ''every'' character has at least one name in their résumé, and for good reason.

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** almost Almost ''every'' character has at least one name in their résumé, and for good reason.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has anyone who uses his real name executed.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Bob has anyone who uses his real name executed.executed.
** almost ''every'' character has at least one name in their résumé, and for good reason.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob uses his title to impress and frighten the enemy, hiding as much information about himself as possible, building up an image as a [[TheDreaded ferocious, wily, mysterious warrior]].

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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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Bob uses his title to impress and frighten the enemy, hiding as much information about himself as possible, building up an image as a [[TheDreaded ferocious, wily, mysterious warrior]].warrior]].
** Everyone knows The Lion, but no one knows Bob, so Bob can walk around in civilian life as himself.
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* '''Justified''': Bob is a [[TheDreaded feared]] [[OneManArmy fighter]], and his enemies are so afraid of him that they created a nickname which stuck.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob is a [[TheDreaded feared]] [[OneManArmy fighter]], and his enemies are so afraid of him that they created a nickname which stuck.



* '''Inverted''': The Lion is a superhero epithet, but it's mostly ignored in favor of his real name

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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The Lion is a superhero epithet, but it's mostly ignored in favor of his real namename.



* '''Invoked''': "As the best fighter on this team, I need a badass nickname."

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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
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"As the best fighter on this team, I need a badass nickname."
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* '''Enforced''': Bob is a badass, so he should have a cool nickname, like the Lion.

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* '''Enforced''': Bob "Bob is a badass, so he should have a cool nickname, like the Lion."



** Bob hears that the enemy calls him the Lion and decides to take the name for himself.

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** Bob hears that the enemy calls him the Lion Lion, and decides to take the name for himself.
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** Bob hears that the enemy calls him the lion and [[AppropriateAppellation takes the name for himself.]]

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** Bob hears that the enemy calls him the lion Lion and [[AppropriateAppellation takes decides to take the name for himself.]]
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** Bob has the unassuming, and completely non-combat-related nickname of "Newspaper Reader," but he is so fierce and overwhelming in battle that the phrase "Newspaper Reader" ''becomes'' one of the NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast due to association with him.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob hates his title and only wants to be called by his real name.

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** Bob never stopped to give his name, and [[SpeedBlitz no-one can see him as more than a lion-shaped blur in combat]], so they called him the Lion so they could refer to him somehow.
* '''Inverted''': Bob The Lion is a superhero epithet, but it's mostly ignored in favor of his real name
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** Bob hears that the enemy calls him the lion and [[AppropriateAppellation takes the name for himself.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes his or her exploits, skills, or general {{Badass}}ery.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character has a name that describes his or her exploits, skills, or general {{Badass}}ery.badassery.



* '''Enforced''': Bob is a {{Badass}}, so he should have a cool nickname, like the Lion.

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* '''Enforced''': Bob is a {{Badass}}, badass, so he should have a cool nickname, like the Lion.



* '''Invoked''': "As the best fighter on this team, I need a {{Badass}} nickname."

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* '''Invoked''': "As the best fighter on this team, I need a {{Badass}} badass nickname."
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob will, when referencing his skills, use his well known nickname, but otherwise he just goes by Bob.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Although proud of it at first, Bob starts to hate his title, which he sees as embodying an unwanted bloodthirsty nature, and eventually abandons it when he leaves war, but others still use his war nickname anyway, driving him into guilt and depression over the deaths he caused as the Lion.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob uses his title to impress and frighten the enemy, hiding as much information about himself as possible, building up an image as a [[TheDreaded ferocious, wily, mysterious warrior]].



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* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Although proud of it at first, Bob starts to hate his title, which he sees as embodying an unwanted bloodthirsty nature, and eventually abandons it when he leaves war, but others still use his war nickname anyway, driving him into guilt and depression over the deaths he caused as the Lion.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob uses his title to impress and frighten the enemy, hiding as much information about himself as possible, building up an image as a [[TheDreaded ferocious, wily, mysterious warrior]].



Back to RedBaron.

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Back to RedBaron.RedBaron
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Subverted''': Bob asks to be called by his real
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* '''Subverted''': Bob asks to be called by his real
real name, not wanting to lose credit for his achievements.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''': ...but is given a nickname anyway.



* '''Invoked''': "We need a scary bird on Team Evil. Let's use a raven. DarkIsEvil, right?"

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* '''Invoked''': "We "As the best fighter on this team, I need a scary bird on Team Evil. Let's use a raven. DarkIsEvil, right?"{{Badass}} nickname."

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