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| 7 | [[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/ToontownOnline https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fast_freddys_fretless_fingerboards_1.png]]]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:Festival Friday: Fantastic Foreign Fiddles Free For Forty Femtoseconds!]] |
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| 10 | ->''"'''V'''erily, this '''v'''ichyssoise of '''v'''erbiage '''v'''eers most '''v'''erbose, so let me simply add that it's my '''v'''ery good honor to meet you and you may call me ''''V''''."'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''V''', ''Film/VForVendetta'' |
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| 14 | [[SelfDemonstratingArticle An article adds alliterative appeal]] if it includes identical initial icons in the trope title that the troper thought to try, where words will without [[OverlyLongGag exception employ equivalent establishing emblems]]. |
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| 16 | ... Or if phrased more obviously, the particularly pithy practice of combining common consonants at the beginning of words. It's a specific SubTrope of two phonetic father phenomena -- "consonance" (consonants) and "assonance" (vowels), wherein similar sounds can occur anywhere in the individual words. |
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| 18 | Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to these specified circumstances: |
| 19 | * '''Alliteration applies to a particular piece's ''[[red:pronunciation]]'' more than its specific ''[[red:spelling]]''.''' As an easy example, "'''F'''atal '''F'''amily '''Ph'''oto" is obviously indicative of Added Alliterative Appeal ("ph" = "f"), whereas "'''C'''ombat by '''Ch'''ampion" is ...not as much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations). However, a phrase, name, nickname, or title that is alliterative only in spelling can still be considered an alliteration. One must regard regional pronunciations with proper precaution; "'''Tr'''ial by '''Ch'''ampion" allows alliteration in occasional accents ("'''Ch'''rial"), but decidedly ''not'' in others, and not in [=RP/Standard=]. (That is, both words do start with /t/, but the second consonant sound right after it isn't the same in most accents.) |
| 20 | * Alliteration doesn't require ''every'' individual word shares similar starting sounds and minor words lacking verbal stress are exempted by default. Take "BreakingTheBonds" for example; nobody notices the thorny "the" therein. |
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| 22 | It's currently defined in two ways, when alliteration occurs as a quirky CharacterTic (which may or may not mean there's something ''off'' about them), or when a short phrase or sentence is mainly alliterative, beyond an isolated common phrase like "knobby knees". |
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| 24 | Individual interpretation of this purposeful practice varies by viewer: It can range from a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools good grammar gag to a personal pet peeve]]. Indeed, it is somewhat susceptible to the RuleOfThree, so be careful when considering questionable cases. |
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| 26 | Considering AuthorAppeal, RuleOfFunny, or RuleOfCool would be a good idea as well. |
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| 28 | SisterTrope of RhymesOnADime. A TongueTwister often, although not universally, involves this trope, and frequent use may result in PurpleProse. |
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| 30 | If you are looking for the list of alliterative trope names that was previously here, they have been moved to subpages of AlliterativeName. |
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| 32 | !!Subtropes: |
| 33 | [[index]] |
| 34 | * AlliterativeFamily |
| 35 | * AlliterativeList |
| 36 | * AlliterativeName |
| 37 | * AlliterativeTitle |
| 38 | [[/index]] |
| 39 | ---- |
| 40 | |
| 41 | !!Examples: |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', Fuu is described as seeking: |
| 47 | -->"the samurai who smells of sunflowers." |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 51 | * ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Amazeey's final challenge which takes place in the gym is called the "'''A'''thletic '''A'''gony Challenge." |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Audio Play]] |
| 55 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho103TheGirlWhoNeverWas The Girl Who Never Was]]'': |
| 56 | ** |
| 57 | --->'''Byron''': And I won't have some '''p'''onstop '''p'''irate '''p'''it me to the '''p'''ost. |
| 58 | ** |
| 59 | --->'''The Doctor''': I think a '''p'''erson's '''p'''rivate '''p'''ockets are '''p'''rivate, and if you ''will'' '''p'''lunder a '''p'''erson's '''p'''rivate's '''p'''ockets. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms'': ''Figment'' has the Sound Sprites, who create objects from sound. Because of this, they prize aural perfection and speak entirely in alliteration to reflect this. Anything and anyone that doesn't communicate in this manner is considered imperfect/cacophonic, a source of bad audio, and must be imprisoned. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': |
| 65 | ** '''S'''tephen '''S'''trange, the '''S'''orcerer '''S'''upreme, resident of the '''S'''anctum '''S'''anctorum (and Master of the Mystic Arts). |
| 66 | ** Pretty much any item and entity he calls upon will be alliterative. This was taken to its most ridiculous extremes in the "Eighth Day" crossover, in which a number of people were empowered by the Octessence, eight principalities typically invoked by Doctor Strange. ''All'' of them were empowered by alliterative items, such as the "Blinding Brazier of Balthakk". Not surprising when you consider who his [[Creator/StanLee original writer]] was. |
| 67 | ** During the Sixties, Doctor Strange would spout alliteratives, usually in place of expletives, or as his personal version of "verily, I say unto thee." One of Doc Strange's favorites is "by the hoary hosts of Horgoth!", though he has many others as the Master of Mysticism. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' The Caged Demonwolf loves speaking with alliterations, and even occasionally comments on how many he managed to queue. Ninjette occasionally does it when talking to him. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Creator/StanLee worships alliteration, to the point where [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] was almost scrapped because Lee couldn't think of a suitable alliterative for Doom; he'd pondered Donald Doom in desperation before hitting upon ''Doctor'' Doom. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'': "Bought the farm for failing to field a fetched frap tree." |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'': As fighting the Trinexx, Link exclaims: "This is one schizoid serpent!" |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'': In ''Lobocop'', where Lobo is transformed into an expy of [[Franchise/RoboCop RoboCop]], the titular character guns down a trio of thugs chasing a civilian. Witnessing this, the civilian comments "Holy heck! He hardly hesitated!" Lobocop blasts a hole through the civilian's gut for "unnecessary alliteration." |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelWesterns'': An UnreliableNarrator newspaper clipping about the Masked Raider gives him a number of alliterative appelations, these being, in order: Masquerading Menace, Veiled Villain, Disguised Dastard, Hooded Hooligan, Screened Scalawag, Muffled Miscreant, and Cloaked Cutthroat. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/MisfitCity'': The town the comic is set in is known as Cannon Cove. |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Tim Drake and some classmates discuss an assignment on Shakespeare's use of alliteration, and when several of them says they don't understand what alliteration is Tim eventually responds with, ''"Stupid students stagnantly steeped in stupor"'', which gets it to click for one of them, who responds with the tongue twister ''"Sally sells seashells."'' |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': J. Jonah Jameson, [[AlliterativeName naturally]], has a predilection for this in his editorials. He once praised himself for coming up with the phrasing 'blizzard of banal bureaucracy' for an editorial. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'': In the crossover story, a narration box calls Black Flame and Catwoman "the captive crime-chicks". |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': |
| 79 | ** V introduces himself in a speech that is rife with words starting with the letter "V". |
| 80 | ** After [[spoiler:Finch]] takes acid, V comes up with: |
| 81 | --->'''V: V'''aulting, '''v'''eering, '''v'''omiting up the '''v'''alues that '''v'''ictimized me, feeling '''v'''ast, feeling '''v'''irginal... was this how he felt? This '''v'''erve, this '''v'''itality... this '''v'''ision... La '''v'''oie... la '''v'''verite... la '''''v'''ie''. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 85 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin consistently creates added alliterative appeal in his freeform flights of fantasy featuring Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man: |
| 86 | ** '''Z'''orched by '''Z'''arches, '''S'''paceman '''S'''piff's '''c'''rippled '''c'''raft '''c'''rashes on '''P'''lanet '''P'''lootarg! |
| 87 | ** '''Z'''ounds! The '''z'''ealous '''Z'''arches have followed Spiff to the planet's surface to finish him off! |
| 88 | ** YES! It's... STUPENDOUS MAN! '''F'''riend of '''f'''reedom! '''Opp'''onent of '''opp'''ression! '''L'''over of '''l'''iberty! |
| 89 | ** With stupendous powers of reasoning, the '''c'''aped '''c'''ombatant '''c'''oncludes there's no need for homework if ''there's no school tomorrow!'' |
| 90 | ** STUPENDOUS MAN has the strength of a '''m'''illion '''m'''ortal '''m'''en! Give up! |
| 91 | ** With '''m'''uscles of '''m'''agnitude, STUPENDOUS MAN fights with heroic resolve! |
| 92 | * ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'': Bechdel sometimes indulges in this. Take these examples using the letter "P": |
| 93 | ** The [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness narrative caption]] "Mo's '''p'''ulchritudinous '''p'''al '''p'''erforms her '''p'''uerile '''p'''oetry" |
| 94 | ** The title of one of Sydney's papers, "'''P'''olysemous '''P'''erversity: '''P'''aradigms of '''P'''leasure in the '''P'''ornographic '''P'''urview". |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 98 | * "Literature/PrinceIvanTheWitchBabyAndTheLittleSisterOfTheSun": When the witch discovers Prince Ivan has fled, it is said that "the witch waxed wroth". |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 102 | * In ''Fanfic/BestOfMyLove'', Meng Yao and Qin Su got a car from Jin Corporation in a peacock pattern. The narrative calls it "the peacock print Peugeot" at one point. |
| 103 | * ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'': The Death Squad Daleks address the Defence Drone Daleks as "B&M Bargain Bin Boys". |
| 104 | * In "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6722311/1/Cannonball-Run-7-High-Speed-Heroes Cannonball Run 7: High Speed Heroes]]", WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons reach Antarctica and find out that Homer and his friends engineered their car so that it could be disassembled and reassembled into a snowmobile. The reassembly process is supposed to be easy to remember as each part is labelled with a letter. Unfortunately, Homer (being TheDitz) forgets what comes after B. |
| 105 | -->'''Lisa:''' Uh, Dad? The next letter is...\ |
| 106 | '''Homer:''' Not now, Lisa. I can't concentrate on correctly combining these components into creating a cool cold weather contraption. |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/CuriousityMaintentanceCrew'': [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/30827/3/curiousity-maintentance-crew/examination-of-truths "Examination of Truths"]]: |
| 108 | -->focus on the purple unicorn who had just made what in retrospect would be considered the worst mistake ever. Namely, she has agreed to attend a Party. Not simply a party, but a Party Planned by the Pony Proletariat of Perpetual Positivity. |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/ADream'': Valiant once describes himself as an "absolutely asinine alliteration activist". |
| 110 | -->'''Valiant:''' Don't snub the SNUT, you slut. |
| 111 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Zarekos uses it often, like in "[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-4#post-6355751 Counter-Invasion]]": |
| 112 | -->Her determination was not lacking, but the delicious dilemma of having to defend a dozen directions from the diligent depredations of his minions divided her attention and slowed her responses. |
| 113 | * "Fanfic/TheEchoRanger": While contemplating how to fight Izuku, Katherine hadn't "factored for her frequently forgotten fifth feline form." |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/ElementalsOfHarmony'': |
| 115 | ** ''Elementals of Harmony'': "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/1048/10/elementals-of-harmony/plight-of-foals-betrayal Plight of Foal's Betrayal]]": |
| 116 | --->Swoosh! Pinkie Pie, having swathed herself in the smoldering, sulfurous embrace of Shiv\ |
| 117 | ...\ |
| 118 | Where was I? Oh, right! That delightful dear Pinkie Pie delivering deadly draconic doom to a dreadful danger to darn near everypony! |
| 119 | ** ''Sideboard of Harmony'' - "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/17719/8 Spectrometer of Worlds]]": |
| 120 | --->Pinkie paused, perceiving pluripotent perplexing pronoun potential. |
| 121 | * ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/324959/3/hc-svnt-equus-pinnis/advna-in-tera-alina Hc Svnt Equus Pinnis]]'': |
| 122 | -->"It's not so much that I'm uncomfortable with the neuroplex as..." Fluttershy shifted, awkwardly. "Well... as the thought that you, Twilight, might be a touch too comfortable with the concept."\ |
| 123 | "[=OOOOooooo=]," Pinkie Pie breathed. "Twilight tempted by technology totally transported from territory not traveled to terrible and terrific tendencies? Now you HAVE to tell us what a neuroplex is!" |
| 124 | * ''Fanfic/KedaborysMuppetMania'': In "Muppets' Funniest Home Videos", Scooter describes Kermit as "the feisty folk from funky '55". |
| 125 | * ''Fanfic/ALittleLightReading'': |
| 126 | -->'''Harry:''' ...or whichever slimy Slytherin snake told you I did something. |
| 127 | * ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': Bonnie Rockwaller's pen name for the dating service is "Bodacious Bonnie". |
| 128 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''/''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/MapleSugarPrettyCure'', Mei is paired with Mepple. |
| 129 | * ''Fanfic/MoreFraggingPaperwork'': A hypothetical epitaph for Brawn includes the phrase "He might have been a bit '''k'''een to '''k'''ick '''k'''eister..." |
| 130 | * ''Fanfic/MyLittleDenarians'': |
| 131 | ** From "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/9904/4/my-little-denarians/but-thou-must But Thou Must!]]": Harry notes with dismay that his stay in cartoon-land may have changed his thinking process somewhat: |
| 132 | --->The peppy pink party pony pounced playfully upward.\ |
| 133 | '''Harry:''' Wait... Why am I thinking in alliteration? Being in cartoon-land is really starting to mess with my brain. |
| 134 | ** In "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/9904/21/my-little-denarians/harry-tries-to-break-the-multiverse Harry Tries to Break the Multiverse]]": After Pinkie Pie escapes from being imprisoned in a "near-perfect Pinkie Pie ice sculpture": |
| 135 | --->Pinkie's mouth opened up impossibly wide and she swallowed the entire ice sculpture in a single gulp. "Mmm! Chilly." The pony let out another excited squeal. "After I kill you, I can use the leftover ice and meat to make a frozen chili dish. Chilly Chili! And then I can add chocolate and cherries and chives! Chilly Cherry Chocolate Chive Chili! Doesn't that just sound delicious?" |
| 136 | * ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': In the description for ''Blue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade'': |
| 137 | -->Lemon Zest: Crystal Prep's looniest lover of ludicrousness and local lady of looking after lackies. |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k'': "Dark figures with dark designs deigned to discuss their dire directives despite the distance." |
| 139 | * The ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle'' series: |
| 140 | ** ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle1'': ''Lather, Rinse, Repeat'': Zapp's seems to use alliteration frequently: |
| 141 | --->"Meet my maelstrom, mephitic malefactors!"\ |
| 142 | [...]\ |
| 143 | Cream's body and locks both sagged in relief. "I have never been happier to hear alliteration." |
| 144 | ** ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle2DoubleMasters'': From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/469652/13/story-shuffle-2-double-masters/how-not-to-luau "How Not to Luau"]]: "personal pan parties" is Pinkie Pie's {{Unusual|Euphemism}} and SexualEuphemism. |
| 145 | * ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/408425/1/tactical-espionage-fashion/pie-another-day Tactical Espionage Fashion]]'': |
| 146 | -->"Trust me: when the Pinkie Pie Palate pines for pastry, it pines profoundly!" |
| 147 | * ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''Winterheart'': A hunter speaking to its prey: |
| 148 | --> ''At last. Alone'', hissed [[spoiler:the windigo]], its voice a saw blade drawn gently across the eardrum. ''Afraid''. It leaned towards her. ''A feast.'' |
| 149 | * ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': In chapter 107, "Bight Star" [=(AKA)=] Starlight Glimmer, is fuming over her defeat by Twilight and Co. |
| 150 | --> And this time Miss ''Prissy Prying Perfect Princess'' Twilight Sparkle would not get to interfere. Nor would her meddling friends. |
| 151 | * ''Fanfic/BoldoresandBoomsticks'': |
| 152 | -->'''Weiss''': Do you know any irresponsible, immature, incoherent, inconsiderate, idiotic imbeciles with a penchant for pyromania and property damage? |
| 153 | * ''Fanfic/SteelSoulSaga'': In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/40308/1/steel-soul/steel-soul "Steel Soul"]], a TongueTwister: |
| 154 | --> “Right! So stop all that mopy dopy nonsense and let me fix you up!” The party pony grinned tapping her belt. “It’ll hurt a bit but you’ll be running round with the other crusaders before you can say Chipper Chanter chases Cherry Chimichangas!”\ |
| 155 | “Chipper Chant cherry chimi...?” The little unicorn’s eyes spun in confusion.\ |
| 156 | “See what I mean?” |
| 157 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', the Storyteller shows some fondness for alliteration (which is, after all, a basic poetic device) in the narrative. The dialogue includes a full-fledged alliteration "duel" between two contestants (full text on the Quotes page), with even [[TheHost Chris]] getting into the act as he interrupts it. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCatPiano'': The poem does this occasionally with lines such as, "parlours paraded purring glamorous songstresses," and at one point, the poet describes the cat piano as a "harpsichord of harm." |
| 162 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': After getting mad at Pain and Panic for not telling him the Fates already arrived, Hades says, "Right, '''m'''emo to '''m'''e. '''M'''emo to '''m'''e: '''m'''aim you after '''m'''y '''m'''eeting." |
| 163 | ** Also this verse from the "Zero to Hero" song sequence: |
| 164 | --> ''Folks lined up just to watch him flex\ |
| 165 | And this '''p'''erfect '''p'''ackage '''p'''acked a '''p'''air of '''p'''retty '''p'''ecs!'' |
| 166 | * The third verse of Baloo's "Bare Necessities" song in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' is one long tongue twister: |
| 167 | -->Now when you pick a pawpaw\ |
| 168 | Or a prickly pear\ |
| 169 | And you prick a raw paw\ |
| 170 | Next time beware\ |
| 171 | Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw\ |
| 172 | When you pick a pear\ |
| 173 | Try to use the claw\ |
| 174 | But you don't need to use the claw, when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw\ |
| 175 | Have I given you a clue? |
| 176 | * ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when Slinky in the [[ConveyorBeltODoom baggage conveyor area]] when the suitcase he's on ends up going onto another conveyor belt: "'''B'''uzz, my '''b'''ack end's goin' to '''B'''aton Rouge!" |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 180 | * ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'': |
| 181 | -->'''The Lizard:''' Poor Peter Parker. No mother, no father, no uncle; [[KickTheDog you're all alone]]! |
| 182 | * ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerDonuts'': [[TheProtagonist John]] works with Michelle at a place called Dandy Donuts. |
| 183 | * ''Film/BattleOfBritain'': "Leave the flaming fighters! It's the bloody bombers we want!" |
| 184 | * ''Film/BroadcastNews'': {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Aaron when Tom starts alliterating. |
| 185 | -->'''Aaron:''' ''[half-drunk]'' A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts! |
| 186 | * ''Film/DoctorSeries'': |
| 187 | ** ''Film/DoctorInLove'': |
| 188 | *** At the Haystack Club, Dawn introduces Leonora as the "'''l'''ovely, '''l'''uscious, '''l'''ovable '''L'''eonora". |
| 189 | *** When trying to get Dr. Hare to operate on him, Sir Lancelot remarks that he's being offered the chance to "slice up one of the '''b'''est-known '''b'''read'''b'''askets in '''B'''ritain". |
| 190 | ** ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'': |
| 191 | *** When Dr. Sparrow mentions how Sir Lancelot doesn't know about ladies' hearts, he admits he does know about their '''l'''ungs, their '''l'''ights, and their '''l'''ivers. |
| 192 | *** Dr. Sparrow doesn't have a high opinion of Mr. Heilbronn, calling him a "'''m'''idget '''m'''ovie '''m'''agnate". |
| 193 | ** ''Film/DoctorInClover'': |
| 194 | *** Sir Lancelot trains his students to go out into the world and make use of the "'''m'''ost '''m'''odern '''m'''edical '''m'''ethods" science can devise. |
| 195 | *** When Sir Lancelot tells off Miss Rubikov for having visitors outside of visiting hours, she remarks that "'''l'''ove '''l'''aughs at '''l'''ocksmiths". |
| 196 | * ''Film/HarryPotter'': Minerva [=McGonagall=] occasionally uses this as something of a RunningGag. |
| 197 | ** In ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'', as she announces preparations for the Yule Ball she warns her students that she doesn't want them "besmirching [their house] by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons". |
| 198 | ** In ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows Part 2]]'', as they're preparing for battle, she recommends burning the bridge as a defensive measure, and recalls Seamus's "particular proclivity for pyrotechnics". |
| 199 | * ''Film/HouseShark'': The realtor trying to sell [[TheProtagonist Frank]]'s house is Regan Realtors. |
| 200 | * ''Film/TheHug'': The ShortFilm is set in [[SuckECheeses Pandory's Pan Pizza Palace]]. |
| 201 | * ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'': showman Creator/MarkRuffalo speaks this way when drumming up business for his Shooting Show & Death Display: |
| 202 | -->'''Mark:''' Step right up and see the spectacular shooting show and death display. See the world's greatest gunslinger. He's sharp. He's a shootin' shark. So step right up and get your tickets here, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 203 | * ''Film/NoKidding'': |
| 204 | ** Dandy Big mutters "'''L'''eapin' '''l'''izards" as he heads up the stairs to see his room at Chartham Place for the first time. |
| 205 | ** David calls Chartham Place a "'''h'''appy '''h'''oliday '''h'''ome". |
| 206 | * ''Film/TheProducers'' -- The musical and 2005 version: |
| 207 | -->'''Roger:''' This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us.\ |
| 208 | '''Carmen''': Oh, Roger, what alliteration! |
| 209 | * ''Film/ShockTreatment'': "Farley Flavors' Fabulous Fast Foods Feed and Fortify Families for a Fabulous Future!" |
| 210 | * ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer'', Charlie recites a poem describing Harriet as a "hard-hearted harbinger of haggis." |
| 211 | * ''Film/TenLittleMistresses'''s trailer gleefully calls the film it's advertising a "murderous mistress mystery". |
| 212 | * ''Film/VForVendetta'': |
| 213 | --> '''V:''' '''V'''oila! In '''v'''iew, a humble '''v'''aude'''v'''illian '''v'''eteran cast '''v'''icariously as both '''v'''ictim and '''v'''illain by the '''v'''icissitudes of Fate. This '''v'''isage, no mere '''v'''eneer of '''v'''anity, is a '''v'''estige of the '''v'''ox populi, now '''v'''acant and '''v'''anished. Howe'''v'''er, this '''v'''alorous '''v'''isitation of a bygone '''v'''exation stands '''v'''i'''v'''ified and has '''v'''owed to '''v'''anquish these '''v'''enal and '''v'''irulent '''v'''ermin '''v'''anguarding '''v'''ice and '''v'''ouchsafing the '''v'''iolently '''v'''icious and '''v'''oracious '''v'''iolation of '''v'''olition! ''[slashes a large '''V''' through a propaganda poster]'' The only '''v'''erdict is '''v'''engeance; a '''v'''endetta held as a '''v'''oti'''v'''e, not in '''v'''ain, for the '''v'''alue and '''v'''eracity of such shall one day '''v'''indicate the '''v'''igilant and the '''v'''irtuous. ''[giggles]'' '''V'''erily, this '''v'''ichyssoise of '''v'''erbiage '''v'''eers most '''v'''erbose, so let me simply add that it's my '''v'''ery good honor to meet you and you may call me ''''V''''. |
| 214 | * ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': The Wizard's infamous greeting to the Tin Man |
| 215 | -->'''Oz''': "You DARE to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caligenous junk!" |
| 216 | * ''Film/{{XXX}}'': Early on, Agent Gibbons points out that their agent was killed because he didn't fit in with Anarchy 99 and suggests finding someone who does. When he shows off the chosen candidates, he calls them "the best and the brightest from the bottom of the barrel." |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 220 | * ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': Eve calls René a cut-price [[LesCollaborateurs collaborating]] [[CountryMatters cunt]]. This is a rare serious example -- the alliteration is done solely to add some punch and isn't commented on by the narrator. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/AnElegyForTheStillLiving'': |
| 222 | -->''A slim shoddy stalk shaded as silver steel shot shyly slantwise, and sundered the soil.'' |
| 223 | * Creator/DrSeuss's ''Oh Say Can You Say'''s "Never buy your Daddy a Walrus": |
| 224 | -->A walrus with whiskers is not a good pet.\ |
| 225 | And a walrus which whispers is worse even yet.\ |
| 226 | When a walrus lisps whispers through tough rough wet whiskers,\ |
| 227 | your poor daddy's ear will get blispers and bliskers. |
| 228 | * ''Literature/TheFourthBear'': Has a long gag about office gossip about someone named Pippa Piper that references the "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" tongue-twister. The whole thing ends with a glorious, paragraph-long cascade of alliteration for humorous effect, which is lampshaded by the characters: |
| 229 | -->"Pippa Piper picked Peck over Pickle or Pepper? Which of the Peck pair did Pippa Piper pick?" "Peter 'Pockmarked' Peck of Palmer Park! He was the Peck that Pippa Piper picked!" "No, no! You've got it all wrong! Paul Peck is the Palmer Park Peck. Peter Peck is the pockmarked Peck from Pembroke Park. Pillocks! I'd placed a pound on Pippa Piper picking P.C. Percy Proctor from Pocklington."\ |
| 230 | [pause] "It seems a very laborious setup for a very lame joke, doesn't it?" "Yes", said Mary, shaking her head sadly, "I really don't know how he gets away with it". |
| 231 | * ''Literature/TheFrugalWizardsHandbookForSurvivingMedievalEngland'': [[TheBard Skops]]' boasts are heavily based on it -- no wonder, as they are based on Old English poetry, which often used this device. |
| 232 | * ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'': Has the academy and the various salons named alliteratively. Some examples: |
| 233 | ** '''A'''monotsuka '''A'''cademy |
| 234 | ** '''S'''ky '''S'''alon |
| 235 | ** '''P'''aradise '''P'''alace |
| 236 | ** '''M'''auve '''M'''anor |
| 237 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'' |
| 238 | ** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' |
| 239 | *** Dr Ubbly's Oblivious Unction is medicine used to reduce the appearance of scars. |
| 240 | ** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' |
| 241 | *** Chapter 11 is titled Hermione's Helping Hand. |
| 242 | *** When the pupils learn to Apparate, they are taught by Wilkie Twycross, whose motto is the three D's: destination, determination, deliberation. When Apparation proves very difficult to learn, there is a certain ill-feeling towards Twycross and his three D's, which inspire nicknames such as dung-head and dog turd. |
| 243 | * ''Irene Iddesleigh'' by Creator/AmandaMcKittrickRos: |
| 244 | -->"pillaged pillow of poverty"\ |
| 245 | "linen of loose lore and lengthy wear"\ |
| 246 | "pebbled with principle, piety, purity and peace." |
| 247 | * ''Literature/TheKalevala'': In Finnish, alliteration is one of the main characteristics of the ''Kalevala'' meter. For example, the first lines: |
| 248 | -->''Mieleni minun tekevi,\ |
| 249 | Aivoni ajattelevi\ |
| 250 | lahteani laulamahan,\ |
| 251 | saa'ani sanelemahan,\ |
| 252 | sukuvirtta suoltamahan,\ |
| 253 | lajivirtta laulamahan.'' |
| 254 | * ''Literature/LillysPurplePlasticPurse'': Lilly brings her new purple plastic purse to school and really wants to show it off. |
| 255 | * ''Literature/LyttleLyttonContest'': It's a humor contest. As part of the [[http://adamcadre.ac/17lyttle.html 2017 submissions]]: |
| 256 | -->It was autumn, and the last leaf of liberty had fallen from the tree of tyranny onto the dirt of destruction. |
| 257 | * ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': [[ThoseTwoGuys Troll twins Vincent and Victoria]] love puns and alliteration and Cecile plays along with them. |
| 258 | --> '''Cecile''': The perfectly pretty porcupine perfumed the palace with the putrescence of a porky pig. |
| 259 | * ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknightsTheTowerOfTime'': When Mumblin' the Magician shows the FantasyWorldMap, several places on the map have names like... |
| 260 | ** '''B'''listering '''B'''ay. |
| 261 | ** '''F'''earless '''F'''orest. |
| 262 | ** '''K'''ingdom of '''K'''lunk. |
| 263 | ** '''S'''eventh '''S'''ea. |
| 264 | ** '''S'''tone '''S'''ea. |
| 265 | ** '''W'''andering '''W'''oods. |
| 266 | * ''Literature/MrsSmithsSpySchoolForGirlsPowerPlay'': A new ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' knockoff has debuted in this book that is very popular. It's called "Monster Mayhem". |
| 267 | ** One of the monsters you can capture in the game is the Mogollon Monster. |
| 268 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Third High Septon's [[StrawMisogynist views on women]] are expressed this way. |
| 269 | -->'''High Sparrow:''' The wickedness of widows is well-known, and all women are wantons at heart, given to using their wiles and their beauty to work their wills on men. |
| 270 | * ''Literature/TogetherlyLong'': Used in two ways: |
| 271 | ** First, the names for each of the individual storylines are always something like, "Starry Story Start" or, "Wheel Wackiness". |
| 272 | ** Second, almost all of the named locations in the story have a name like, "Sparkle Slope" or, "Dangerous Drop". |
| 273 | * ''Literature/VigilauntieJustice'': The BBC refers to the unknown SerialRapist as the Goldsmiths Groper. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': From [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/155-jade-8-exams "Jade 8: Exams"]]: |
| 275 | --> Toni chortled. "I can just see it as Nikki, also known as super-fairy, goes to stop her first bank robbery." She waved her hands in the air as she described the scene. "Nikki stays back, casting her strange magic. As the bank robbers appear, she gestures, shouting, ‘Pixie Patrol! Pursue and Punish with Pugilistic Power!’ And while the elf queen sits back, her hoard of insect-size minions grab the robbers, giving them flips, socks to the jaw, and carrying them off to the paddy wagon! What a triumph to see on the evening news, except for the fact that the pixies are too small to show up on camera."\ |
| 276 | " ‘Pugilistic Power’?" Nikki frowned at her roommate. "Sounds like someone’s aching for a little magic right now!"\ |
| 277 | Toni gave a sheepish grin, but didn’t look like she regretted it. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/AWishForWingsThatWork'': The ducks, bursting into Opus's house with the news that [[spoiler:Santa has crashed into the lake]]. |
| 279 | -->'''Duck 1:''' Calamity!\ |
| 280 | '''Duck 2:''' Catastrophe!\ |
| 281 | '''Duck 3:''' Cataclysm! |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Live-Action Television]] |
| 285 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': "[[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS9E7TheSpockResonance The Spock Resonance]]": {{Invoked|Trope}} in this following exchange: |
| 286 | --> '''Sheldon:''' ''[shows contents of his personal safe]'' My Wil... ''[shows [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wesley Crusher]] action figure]'' My 1/8 scale Wil Wheaton action figure. I also have the other kind of will. And in it I will my Wil back to Wil.\ |
| 287 | '''Leonard:''' Will Wil want it?\ |
| 288 | '''[[AsHimself Wil Wheaton]]:''' Wil won't. |
| 289 | * In ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', little Cindy is attempting to get rid of her lisp: |
| 290 | -->'''Cindy:''' She sells seashells by the seashore. She sells seashells by the seashore. She sells seashells by the seashore.\ |
| 291 | '''Marcia:''' Cindy, would you mind practicing somewhere else? Arithmetic is kind of hard.\ |
| 292 | '''Cindy:''' So are S's. |
| 293 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E02ParanormalParentage Paranormal Parentage]]", when Jeff runs away from Britta when she's trying to [[BuffySpeak therapize]] him. |
| 294 | -->'''Britta:''' Help me heal your heart hole! |
| 295 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Mac has the night off in "[[Recap/CSINYS03E16 Heart of Glass]]" so Don expresses surprise to see him at a crime scene. Mac replies, "My dinner date dumped me for a dead body."[[note]]He was dating an M.E. at the time.[[/note]] |
| 296 | * ''Series/ItsAwfullyBadForYourEyesDarling'': |
| 297 | ** When Virginia asks if there has been any post in "A New Lease", Pudding tells Samantha that she's expecting another "'''p'''assion-'''p'''acked '''p'''ostcard". |
| 298 | ** In the same episode, Clover tells Hugo that Pudding's been having the most "'''t'''errible '''t'''ime with her '''t'''ummy". |
| 299 | * Hyacinth had a proclivity for these in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'': |
| 300 | -->'''Hyacinth:''' Beautiful day, Elizabeth...completely conducive to contemplating cosy charismatic country cottages. |
| 301 | * ''Series/Kingdom2007'': Lyle, being flippant, calls Peter "P.K." |
| 302 | -->'''Peter:''' Call me "P.K." again and I'll pull your pancreas out with a pair of pliers. |
| 303 | * ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'': Seasons two and three begin with Wayne delivering a series of statements describing what happened immediately after last season's cliffhanger. Most of the words in each sequence begin with the same letter, and he progresses through the alphabet in order, from A to Z. Between each sequence, Daryl makes an single-word interjection that starts with the next letter. |
| 304 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': In episode 8, while saying their goodbies, Poppy calls Nori her "best friend in this '''whole wide, wild world.'''" |
| 305 | * In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Code M for Murdoch", when they realise James Prendrick was researching rabies after having to put his dog down, Detective Watts says "Perhaps the passing of his pup prompted Prendrick to pursue a ... [[SubvertedTrope cure]]", as he fails to think of an appropriate p-word. |
| 306 | * ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': Some places in Wonderland, like Mallow Marsh, Whisperer Woods, the Towering Tum-Tum Tree... |
| 307 | * ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' has "Rothschild's '''s'''ewage and '''s'''eptic '''s'''ucking '''s'''ervices." |
| 308 | * ''Series/{{Shoresy}}'': After the Sudbury Bulldogs get sponsored by the Sudbury Blueberry Festival they become the "Blueberry Bulldogs". The citizens of Sudbury find the alliterative name change degrading, and are sure to let the team know. It's a treat to watch Shoresy get a taste of his own medicine from high school hockey players Corey and Riley while he's trapped by his reffing job. |
| 309 | --> '''Shoresy''': May as well be called the fucking Sudbury Banana Boat Bulldogs. Fucking Sudbury Nectarine Neapolitan Mastiffs. |
| 310 | * ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'': Moseby: "I've been punched and pummeled by a pack of peeved Parisians!" and "Please place the pamphlets properly in the pamphlet podium!" |
| 311 | * At the beginning of every episode of ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' had the Chief use massive alliteration to describe Carmen's rogues gallery of thugs. |
| 312 | --> '''Chief''': Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's covey of cretinous creeps has created another crime. |
| 313 | * On one episode of ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'', Les tries to deliver news reports this way. He later tells Johnny that he's trying to establish a distinct style for himself. Johnny points out he already has a "style": mispronouncing Hispanic names. |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Mnemonics]] |
| 317 | Alliteration is often used to help remember things: |
| 318 | * Physics: downplayed in "Speed is a scalar. Velocity is a vector." The initial consonant sounds in speed and scalar aren't really the same. Despite this, the definition doesn't stick: "velocity" is routinely used for "speed". |
| 319 | * Seen in a chemistry text: "Electrons leave the left." The initial "e" in "electron" has the same weight as "the". |
| 320 | * Anatomy: While the rods in your eyes detect light, the '''c'''ones detect '''c'''olors. |
| 321 | [[/folder]] |
| 322 | |
| 323 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 324 | * ''Music/AftermathAlbum'': "Stupid Girl": |
| 325 | -->''She purrs like a pussy-cat'' |
| 326 | * Music/{{AJJ}}: There are 28 words in the first stanza of "A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit", and 19 of them begin with F: |
| 327 | -->''For four fortnights I have fled from my fortress\ |
| 328 | Foraging forests five footsteps in length\ |
| 329 | Fortitude found within forty-ounce bottles\ |
| 330 | Flowing like flies from your face\ |
| 331 | From your face'' |
| 332 | * Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung: The song lyrics to "Helplessly Hoping" from the group's first album (as Crosby, Stills, and Nash) are loaded with alliterative examples. |
| 333 | -->''Helplessly hoping\ |
| 334 | Her harlequin hovers nearby\ |
| 335 | Awaiting a word.'' |
| 336 | * Music/{{Jhariah}}: "DEBT COLLECTOR" contains the line "Dollars and '''c'''oins '''c'''an't '''c'''ut your '''c'''heck this time around!" |
| 337 | * Music/JoniMitchell has a famous example in "Big Yellow Taxi": |
| 338 | -->''They paved paradise and put up a parking lot'' |
| 339 | * In tribute to the ''Film/VForVendetta'' example, [[Music/TheGreatLukeSki the great Luke Ski's]] "[[https://lukeski.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-fanboy-christmas-2-the-wrath-of-claus It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus]]" features: "Fantastic fen, file in fast for this fanciful frolicking through fandom's fabulous frivolities of festive times of the fantastic future! While first and foremost a fallacy, fear not as this farcical fop felicitates to you, 'It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus'!" |
| 340 | * Music/RushBand: From "The Spirit of Radio": |
| 341 | ** "...and the magic music makes your morning mood." |
| 342 | ** "Machinery making modern music". |
| 343 | * In Music/SecondPerson's "Wood": |
| 344 | -->''Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer'' |
| 345 | * In "I Am a Rock" by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel: |
| 346 | -->''A winter's day\ |
| 347 | In a deep and dark December\ |
| 348 | I am alone\ |
| 349 | Gazing through my window to the street below\ |
| 350 | On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow'' |
| 351 | * Music/DanBull uses this pretty frequently: |
| 352 | ** It appears throughout almost every bar of his "''VideoGame/Fallout4'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQPfVZbMbg Special Rap]]", with each letter matching the letter of the associated S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat (Strength uses S, Perception uses P, and so on). |
| 353 | ** He holds a very long one in the last verse of the "''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'' Epic Rap". Here's a snippet: |
| 354 | ---> '''S'''inning with a '''s'''eriously '''s'''ymbiotic '''s'''ynergy\ |
| 355 | We're the three '''s'''imilarly '''s'''inister Gs\ |
| 356 | Each '''s'''ending the '''c'''inema '''s'''creen into the '''c'''emetery |
| 357 | ** Also done in the "''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' Epic Rap": |
| 358 | ---> '''I'''llumination with '''i'''mmolation\ |
| 359 | '''I'''ncineration and '''i'''nhalation of the vapour's '''i'''ncapacitation\ |
| 360 | '''I''''m '''i'''mpudent '''i'''ndemnification's '''i'''nsolent '''i'''ncarnation\ |
| 361 | Your argument just '''i'''s '''i'''nvalidation |
| 362 | ** Again in the "''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' Epic Rap": |
| 363 | ---> Like '''R'''oman '''r'''oads are e'''r'''oded\ |
| 364 | A '''r'''onin '''r'''ode a '''r'''odeo\ |
| 365 | '''R'''ewrote the '''r'''ule; we '''r'''owed a '''r'''owboat\ |
| 366 | Over '''r'''ows of '''r'''apid '''r'''iver flows |
| 367 | * Music/{{Lovebites}}' first album is ''Awakening from Abyss''. Their fourth album, ''Judgement Day'' contains the tracks "Wicked Witch" and "Soldier Stands Solitarily" |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 371 | * During the ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'' episode on ghost ships, Justin, after the usual pre-show chit-chat, announces the start of the episode with a list of alliterative synonyms for ghost ships for some seasonal flair: |
| 372 | -->'''Justin:''' Spectral sloops! Haunted hulks! Paranormal pinnaces! Spooky schooners. Ghoulish gondolas. Scary scows. Dreadful dredges. Creepy canoes. Yikes yachts. The boo barge. We're gonna talk about ghost ships. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 376 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}}'' has the phrase the Gatekeeper comes up with that a player has to repeat three times fast: "I'm a miserable maggot-munching mongrel". |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 380 | * ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'': MilesGloriosus tends to speak like this: |
| 381 | ** |
| 382 | --->'''Miles:''' ...the beautiful bride I bargained for. |
| 383 | ** |
| 384 | --->'''Miles:''' Now, I rid Rome of a rascal. |
| 385 | ** This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Pseudolus at one point: |
| 386 | --->'''Miles:''' Her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement!\ |
| 387 | '''Pseudolus:''' Very good! Can you say "Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse"? |
| 388 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': |
| 389 | ** Washington's first verse in "Right Hand Man" uses this, as a shoutout to ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''. |
| 390 | --->''Now I'm the '''m'''odel of a '''m'''odern '''m'''ajor general\ |
| 391 | The '''v'''enerated '''V'''irginian '''v'''eteran whose men are all\ |
| 392 | Lining up to '''p'''ut me on a '''p'''edestal\ |
| 393 | Writing letters to relatives\ |
| 394 | '''E'''mbellishing my '''e'''legance and '''e'''loquence'' |
| 395 | ** During Hamilton's section of "Cabinet Battle #2": |
| 396 | --->'''''M'''eddling in the '''m'''iddle of a '''m'''ilitary '''m'''ess'' |
| 397 | ** One of Hamilton's verses in "We Know": |
| 398 | --->''I never '''s'''pent a '''c'''ent that wasn't mine\ |
| 399 | You '''s'''end the dogs after my '''sc'''ent - that's fine!'' |
| 400 | ** Burr's description of Lafayette in "Guns and Ships": |
| 401 | --->''He's '''c'''onstantly '''c'''onfusing, '''c'''onfounding the British henchmen\ |
| 402 | Ev'ryone give it up for America's '''f'''avorite '''f'''ighting '''F'''renchman'' |
| 403 | ** A brief but tongue-twisting example from "Helpless": "We were at a '''r'''evel with some '''r'''ebels on a hot night." |
| 404 | ** Not just word-to-word, but syllable-to-syllable in "Washington on Your Side": "If Washington isn't gon' listen to '''d'''iscipline'''d''' '''d'''issi'''d'''ents this is the '''d'''ifference: This kid is out!" |
| 405 | ** Also in the cut song "Congratulations": "I '''l'''anguished in a '''l'''oveless marriage in '''L'''ondon, I '''l'''ived only to read your '''l'''etters." |
| 406 | * ''Theatre/MyFairLady'': {{Tongue twister}}s made of these are used as teaching tools, such as "In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen." |
| 407 | * Music/RichardWagner's text for ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'' is written entirely in ''stabreim'', a form of verse that uses alliteration instead of rhyme, so every line has at least two alliterative words, and sometimes many more. |
| 408 | -->''"Garstig glatter glitsch'riger Glimmer! wie gleit' ich aus!"'' |
| 409 | * ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'': "My Favorite Things" includes '''r'''aindrops on '''r'''oses, bright '''c'''opper '''k'''ettles, '''w'''arm '''w'''oolen mittens, brown '''p'''aper '''p'''ackages, '''cr'''eam '''c'''olored ponies and '''cr'''isp apple strudels, blue '''s'''atin '''s'''ashes, and silver '''w'''hite '''w'''inters. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 413 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Franziska in all of her appearances, often with some good ol' rhyming added for good measure: |
| 414 | --> '''Franziska:''' You huffy, puffy, loosey-goosey excuse for a whimpering whining wuss of a witness. |
| 415 | * ''VideoGame/AdVerbum'' is an InteractiveFiction game built around ConstrainedWriting and wordplay. On the initial floor of the house, each room has an alliterative name and description, as does each of the objects within; the game's status messages within each of the rooms is also alliterative... and so too must be the commands you enter if you want them to be understood. |
| 416 | * ''VideoGame/{{Alekon}}'': Lands in the Realm of Fiction have names such as... |
| 417 | ** '''D'''ream's '''D'''oorstop. |
| 418 | ** '''S'''nowdrop '''S'''lopes. |
| 419 | ** '''W'''ell of '''W'''himsy. |
| 420 | * ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'': This is the VerbalTic of the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Kunal Trow]] Fnarf, whom the eponymous Bard had to subdue in order to acquire his Ornate Lute. |
| 421 | -->'''Narrator:''' ''[after Fnarf's death]'' Our begrudgingly brave but bedraggled Bard set out to return to the pleasingly pert Princess Caleigh.\ |
| 422 | '''Bard:''' I've had just about enough of these atrocious alliterative announcements... [[GotMeDoingIt Now I'm doing it!]] |
| 423 | * ''VideoGame/ABearsNightOut'': Tasks described in the score breakdown are described alliteratively. |
| 424 | * ''VideoGame/CandiesNCurses'': The name of the final room, Shudder Shade Story. |
| 425 | * Most of the levels in ''VideoGame/TheCatInTheHat'', including Boiler Bonanza, Wishy Washy, and Chemical Chaos. |
| 426 | * ''VideoGame/CookieClicker'': At the end of the "Taller Tellers" upgrade description: |
| 427 | -->"Able to process a higher amount of transactions. Careful though, as taller tellers tell tall tales." |
| 428 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': All eight levels follow this theme: JungleJapes, [[ShiftingSandLand Angry Aztec]], [[EternalEngine Frantic Factory]], Gloomy Galleon, Fungi Forest, Crystal Caves, [[OminousFloatingCastle Creepy Castle]], and Hideout Helm. |
| 429 | * ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsOnline'': In-game books are grouped into collections, and many of the collections that group books together based on location are named alliteratively. This includes Anequina Archives, Books of Blackwood, Dispatches from the Deadlands, Moawita Mysteries, Pellitine Postings, Solitude Soliloquies, Summerset Scrolls, Telvanni Tomes, The Reach Reader, Vvardenfell Volumes, and Wrothgar Writings. |
| 430 | * ''VideoGame/EternalSenia1'': The Jack-in-the-Chest, a talking chest that's trying to be funny: |
| 431 | -->Hum hum! Hammer!\ |
| 432 | Bom bom! Boomerang!\ |
| 433 | Dom dom! Senia Dumb! |
| 434 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': |
| 435 | ** [[LittlePeople Lalafell]] [=NPCs=] frequently indulge in alliteration in their dialogue. |
| 436 | ** The Moggle Mogweapons from Good King Moggle Mog XII are all alliterative with the "Mog" sound. Even their crafted versions use qualitive adjectives that have that sound. |
| 437 | * ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Week 1 is titled '''D'''addy '''D'''earest, while Week 4 is titled '''M'''ommy '''M'''ust '''M'''urder. |
| 438 | * ''VideoGame/FoxNForests'': Most of the levels in the game have alliterative names, like '''R'''evolving '''R'''iver and '''G'''orgeous '''G'''orge. |
| 439 | * ''VideoGame/GoneGolfing'' is set in a miniature golf course called "Cozy Cove". |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/HauntedHalloween85'': The VideoGameLives in this game and its sequel are cans of Serum Soda. |
| 441 | * ''VideoGame/TheLogomancer'': The Tongue Twister skill's FlavorText is: |
| 442 | -->Examples of egregious edicts elicit extraneous enunciations and elaborate elocution ending in enemy's eradication. |
| 443 | * ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': Eve likes to come up with alliterative headlines for her articles on the Appleton Times. |
| 444 | ** Her article on the café arson is entitled "Deluded Daughter in Desperate Denial!" |
| 445 | ** When Eve tries coming up with a title for the news that Amelia rightfully owns the café, she suggests "Deluded Daughter Gets the Deed!" and "Kooky Café Cooks Up Conundrum!" However, they're declined in favor of Joe's: "Born and [[{{Pun}} Bread]] for Success in the Café!" |
| 446 | ** Eve comes up with "Fruitcake Seeks Fake Fortune!" when Amelia tells her about the treasure hunt, albeit jokingly. After the treasure is found, she writes, "Precious Painting Found in Precious Pastry Café!" |
| 447 | ** Amelia suggests "Crash Chaos Can't Curb Café!" for Eve's article about Esme's van crash into the café. |
| 448 | * ''VideoGame/{{ONRUSH}}'': A few courses are so named: Big Dune Beach, Freightyard Forest, Red Rock Refinery and Sanctuary Shore. |
| 449 | * ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica'': All of the {{Mooks}} in the Third Kingdom follow this: Hostile Husk, Hollow Hellion, Devoid Drummer, Missing Madam, and Nonexistent Ninja. |
| 450 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'': Roxie uses alliteration to say what she thinks when her father goes off to try being a movie star on top of a ship captain. |
| 451 | -->'''Roxie:''' [[SkywardScream AHHHHH!]] You dim-witted...dense...dumb...daft...dippy...dorky...doltish DOOFUS! |
| 452 | * ''VideoGame/PowerBomberman'': Several stages have alliterative names, such as Circus Caper, Manic Mine, Freezing Frenzy, Pollen Poppers, Splish Splash, Midtown Madness, Clitter Clatter, Soccer Stadium, Temple Tempest and Galvanized Generator. |
| 453 | * ''VideoGame/{{Poptropica}}'': Very common. [[AlliterativeName Plenty of characters names]] are this (Captain Crawfish, Binary Bard, Ned Noodlehead, Gretchen Grimlock, and oh so many more) and can even apply if your character's name begins with the same letter (such as Bendy Bug). A few of the island names can also apply such as Wimpy Wonderland and Twisted Thicket, as well as location names such as Hemlock Harbor and Parrot Port. |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': |
| 455 | ** ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Ammo Baron calls his army "two tons of tactical tin toy terror!" |
| 456 | ** ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': In the [[https://youtu.be/YQaKqjMvzPg?t=13 Spectacular Superstar Update Trailer]], the Definitive Mode is called the "Seven Sirens Sirector's Cut", instead of "director's cut". |
| 457 | * ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' have the titular character's golem forms, Strong Silent, Fleet Footer and Jolly Jumper. |
| 458 | * ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Warhammer 40000 - Dawn of War: Soulstorm]]'' gives us this line from Commander [[LargeHam Indrick Boreale]]: |
| 459 | -->'''Boreale:''' We have placed numerous beacons, allowing for multiple, simultaneous and ''devastating defensive deep'' strikes. |
| 460 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'': Every potential case/episode you can face has an alliterative title such as "Eerie Episode of Evolving Eels", "Freaky Feature of Found Footage", and "Spine-Chilling Story of School Scissors". |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 464 | * ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'': "The Dodo Bird: What ACTUALLY Happened" describes the eponymous bird as "a dawdling dumpy little dolt doomed to be devoured by Dutch deckhands until demographic decline destroyed it within decades." |
| 465 | * ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Some of the episode titles, such as: |
| 466 | ** "Kuromi's Conspiracy Cruise" |
| 467 | *** Wherein she takes her friends to the Terrible Tropic Triangle. |
| 468 | ** "Badtz-Maru's Manga Mania" |
| 469 | * ''WebAnimation/JoCat'' |
| 470 | ** In the Crap Guide to Barbarian, he describes the Barbarian's rage as "A Ferocious Frenzy of Force that Foes will Fear For all their Fannies". |
| 471 | ** [=JoCat=] also has a series titled "Character Creator Critique", where he... well, critiques video games' character creator options. |
| 472 | ** In the "Melee DPS" guide to ''Final Fantasy XIV'', [=JoCrap=] starts the video with a long alliterative sentence about melee classes using multiple words that start with the letter "P". He eventually starts putting a lot of emphasis on each "P" sound, and by the end of the sentence, he's resorted to making spitting noises. |
| 473 | --->'''[=JoCrap=]:''' And you bet your precious patoot the progress preventors will be promptly pounded, because this potent projector of pain will be peppering those peasties until your pack is paved with enough resulting pellets that every peddler will pray to be pampered by a more-palatable pacifist. ''(makes several "P"-like spitting sounds with his mouth)'' |
| 474 | * ''WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut'': The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDyxXGCVIuI My Poetry Teacher]]" video: |
| 475 | -->'''James:''' Well, freakin...why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poem? [[LampshadeHanging Pterodactyl!]] |
| 476 | * ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': Yahtzee has employed this a few times. |
| 477 | ** In his review for ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'': |
| 478 | --->'''Yahtzee:''' And all of the sudden, pinpointing the previous Pikmin protagonist is your party of pillocks' primary priority. |
| 479 | ** Lampshaded in his review of ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'': |
| 480 | --->'''Yahtzee:''' It's a bit of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' and a bit of ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham Asylum]]'', asking to be assigned to the always ambiguous action-adventure archive. Urgh, apologies, I'm aiming to annul this alliteration annoyance. So it's your standard suite of stealth stabs (alright, pack it in!). |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 484 | * ''Webcomic/Astray3'': [[MotorMouth Fidolus]]'s first words are this '''and''' SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Most of his words are SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. |
| 485 | -->'''Fidolus:''' Desist you ponderous pile of perfidious filth! |
| 486 | * ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'' [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0692.html episode 692]]: |
| 487 | --> '''[[GameMaster GM]]:''' Delivered to this dark, dank den of despair, you discern a disarray of disheartened, disfigured, and dismembered droids.\ |
| 488 | '''Pete:''' You've been practising that sentence, haven't you?\ |
| 489 | '''GM:''' Definitely. |
| 490 | * ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'': Mr. Mighty will occasionally [[http://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/65/ break into bombastic bluster.]] |
| 491 | * ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Max does this at one point: |
| 492 | -->'''Max:''' I possess a plethora of popularity prerequisites. |
| 493 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-03-10 Strip 2015-03-10]]: |
| 494 | --> For the detailed dirt on this disaster, drop a decicred in the hyperbucket here at a '''Pay-4-News'''. |
| 495 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Team Outrageous uses alliteration in several of their flashy [[CallingYourAttacks attack names]], such as "Lemon Lace Laceration" and "Awesome Apple Ollie". Undine lampshades that Outrageous Lime's "Lime Home Run" [[OddNameOut doesn't seem to fit the pattern]]. |
| 496 | * ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'': The stories in chapter 25: Changes are called: |
| 497 | -->Homecoming\ |
| 498 | Home Hunting\ |
| 499 | [[HauntedHouse House Haunting]]\ |
| 500 | [[ItMakesSenseInContext Herald Hiding]]\ |
| 501 | [[FillerStrips Happy Hiatus]]\ |
| 502 | Halloween\ |
| 503 | [[ShoehornedFirstLetter Haftermath]] |
| 504 | * ''Webcomic/TheOddShow'': In episode 21, The title and what the charaters say are alliteratives. |
| 505 | * ''Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively'': A rather sombre example in the "Dial D for Dysphoria" four-parter, where all of the words Xan uses to describe the feelings gender dysphoria gave her all begin with the letter D. Examples include "dissociation", "disgust", "distress" and "disgraceful". However it ends on a happy note where the last word is [[spoiler: "discovery"]]. |
| 506 | [[/folder]] |
| 507 | |
| 508 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 509 | * ''Website/TVTropes'': We use it every once in a while, when writing examples and in trope descriptions: |
| 510 | ** Tropes: |
| 511 | *** This trope is a SelfDemonstratingArticle: |
| 512 | ---->An article adds alliterative appeal\ |
| 513 | if it includes identical initial icons in\ |
| 514 | the trope title that the troper thought to try,\ |
| 515 | where words will without\ |
| 516 | exception employ equivalent establishing emblems. |
| 517 | *** PuppetPermutation: "Sometimes, something strange happens." |
| 518 | *** AlphabetArchitecture: The caption of the picture of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''' T-shaped tower: |
| 519 | ---->Titans Tower, territory tailored to the Teen Titans' tastes. |
| 520 | *** AssKicksYou: |
| 521 | ---->[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Princess Peach's]] pretty pink posterior promptly pummels portly plumber. |
| 522 | *** BeeAfraid: Both pre- and post-Trope Transplant image captions employ the alliteration: |
| 523 | ---->Bee-ware of the wicked warrior wasps wildly waving warlike weapons! (pre-transplant)\ |
| 524 | Bee-ware of the scary stinging swarm soaring straight into the slaughter with spears and swords and shields! (post-transplant) |
| 525 | *** BlatantBurglar: Used in the caption's image. |
| 526 | ---->[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Beagle Boys]] bungle burglaries bearing bright, blatantly bad boy baggage. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 530 | * ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'': Season 7 gave us the gem "''You bluntly bash her bark-covered body''". |
| 531 | * ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'' has numerous examples: |
| 532 | ** In episode 23, "WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Szechuan Sauce", Andrew describes Szechuan as having "fruity floral flavors". |
| 533 | ** Episode 61 (''Series/TheWire'') stands out. |
| 534 | --->At this point, you can keep these fries frozen for up to three months, so you can have fresh fries whenever you fancy. But for now, I want fries in my face forthwith. |
| 535 | * ''WebVideo/FixedFairyTales'' perfectly punctuates 'Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers' with properly placed Ps until the poor presentor passes out from being properly pooped. |
| 536 | * ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal'': |
| 537 | ** "Monika vs. Harley Quinn" has this in Monika's first verse: |
| 538 | --->''Okay, everyone! Watch me roast a giggling gullible gauthy Gotham goth!'' |
| 539 | ** Against [=McDonald=]'s Big Mac, Little Mac adds four words staring with "b" in a row to his lines, and the first two specifically starts with "br". |
| 540 | --->''Bronx Bruiser beating burgers? That's a B-KO!'' |
| 541 | ** In "Norman Bates vs. Jack Torrance", Norman does a triple "f" in one of his lines. |
| 542 | --->''Now I'll make this the Part 2 of ridding frantic frivolous fathers'' |
| 543 | ** "King Dice vs. Oogie Boogie" has the latter proclaiming he is "decking dicey devil-dealing douches dead", then lampshading it while making a pun on dice terms by calling it a d6. |
| 544 | * ''WebVideo/GuyFawkesVsTheJoker'': Guy Fawkes threatens to "violently violate the Joker's vagina". |
| 545 | * WebVideo/{{Hatchetfield}}: In the various media, words and names beginning with the letter "W" are bizarrely common in relation to the paranormal phenomena throughout the series: the BigBad Wiggly, his nemesis Webby, and his servant Wiley; the [[EldritchLocation Witchwood Forest]], the amusement park [[CircusOfFear Watcher World]], the evil Witch in the Web, and [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the ape-man]] Wooly-Foot. |
| 546 | * Seen in the ''WebVideo/HowItsActuallyMade'' episode on soap bars: |
| 547 | -->''Steel plates shape, stamp, and sort the soap cylinders, shipping their supple slippery soft bodies to be sensationally sent skyward. See?'' |
| 548 | * ''WebVideo/TheMisadventuresOfSkooks'' uses this in Episode 3, complete with an "Alliteration Counter" hanging in the top right of the screen: "I wonder where this fat fuck floated in from?" |
| 549 | * Every video from ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos'' uses alliteration in its title, be it partial (''ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY'', ''AIRFORCEONEANGEL'') or complete (''WASHINGTONWORMHOLE'', ''MAIZEMOVIEMAKER'', ''LIBERTYLURKER'', and so on). |
| 550 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': When mocking Michael Crawford's exaggeratedly [[TrrrillingRrrs trilled r's]] in ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'': |
| 551 | -->'''NC:''' Yes, what is "rrrrrheumatism"? Is it why Rrrrruffles have rrrrrridges? I'd rrrrreally, rrrrrreally, ''rrrrreally'' like to know! |
| 552 | * LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: {{Discussed}} in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETjSiaIZOQA Mario Party but SECOND Wins]]", where the crew (excluding Vernias) find "Vern Virus" so funny due to having alliteration. Vernias tries to get back at them by creating "Nick Nitochondria" and "Brent Bronchitis", [[AvertedTrope both of which fall flat]]. The "Brent Bacteria" was more successful though, with the variants for Nick and Sophist often cited as the "Nick Nausea" and "Sophisticated Sickness" respectively. |
| 553 | * ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' has the Wacky Wheel at spawn. |
| 554 | * ''WebVideo/TuckerBudzyn'': The videos of Tucker [[PreciousPuppy as a puppy]] are usually posted with the title "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZE3t1Fh_5U Tiny Tucker Tuesday]]". |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 558 | %%* The WesternAnimation/{{Alphablocks}} ''love'' this. |
| 559 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'': Almost all of Chef Jeff's recipes are this. |
| 560 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNOW'': Part of the narrator's speech pattern. |
| 561 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': The theme song. |
| 562 | -->'''''D'''ashing and '''d'''aring, '''c'''ourageous and '''c'''aring\ |
| 563 | '''F'''aithful and '''f'''riendly with '''s'''tories to '''s'''hare''\ |
| 564 | [...]\ |
| 565 | '''''M'''agic and '''m'''ystery are part of their history'' |
| 566 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'': Dot and Yakko briefly talk like this during "Magna Cartoon". |
| 567 | * Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' animated series: |
| 568 | ** Pompadour's numerous "Pachyderm Public Opinion Polls". |
| 569 | ** In "My Dinner With Rataxes", after the children get lost in a dark tunnel, Basil discovers a "document detailing the diverse detours within those dark, dank dungeon depths." |
| 570 | --->'''Lady Rataxes:''' ''[after Babar and Celeste stare at each other]'' He's found the map. |
| 571 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': |
| 572 | ** Batman appears to be taking speech lessons from [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents The Crimson Chin]]. |
| 573 | ** Joker picks it up while he's the [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] in "[[Recap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldS3E1JokerTheVileAndTheVillainous Joker: The Vile and the Villainous]]". |
| 574 | ** ''Aquaman'' actually gets into an alliteration battle with Penguin in "[[Recap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldS3E3NightOfTheBatmen Night of the Batmen!]]". |
| 575 | ** Taken to the extreme when Captain Atom has an ImagineSpot of what Batman does when he fights: "Your deluge of destruction is over, Despero", "Your wicked winds wane tonight, Weather Wizard", "Your sinister subterfuge ceases now, Star Sapphire", and lastly, "Your titanic tantrum of terror terminates tonight, Giganta." |
| 576 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': |
| 577 | ** From "Cricket's Shoes": |
| 578 | --->'''Cricket:''' They've gone mad with meat fever! |
| 579 | ** From "Harvest Dinner": |
| 580 | --->'''Tilly:''' Paprika for Papa... Paprika for Papa... Paprika for Papa... |
| 581 | ** From "Green Streets": |
| 582 | --->'''Tilly:''' My own brother. A bonafide boy of the badge. A boy in blue. A blue boy. |
| 583 | ** From "Football Camp": |
| 584 | --->'''Tilly:''' Let's see if you can resist the tuneful tune of tuna. |
| 585 | ** From "Bill-iever": |
| 586 | --->'''Cricket:''' Now let's see if my big Billy fish is bitin'. |
| 587 | ** "Shark Objects" has five of them: |
| 588 | *** "Not so proud now that I've plucked you from the sky, huh?" |
| 589 | *** "I could've pulled off the perfect prank!" |
| 590 | *** "You're sure bein' particular about my playtime, Papa." |
| 591 | *** "Care to join our beachside boogie?" |
| 592 | *** "Not to worry, son! The chances of a shark showing up on this beach are incredibly slim!" |
| 593 | ** From "Level Up": |
| 594 | --->'''Tilly:''' Papa, we've come to pry you loose from this polygon prison! |
| 595 | ** In "Junk Mountain", Cricket's has the title of '''C'''ricket the '''C'''rusher in his "Junk Mountain" game, while his old friend Hector was '''H'''ector the '''H'''eathen; after passing his old position to his sister Lupita, she becomes '''L'''upita the '''L'''egendary. Slightly subverted with Remy's title '''R'''emy the '''W'''recker, which does not use the same letters but have the same beginning sound. |
| 596 | * ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Lawrence Lactavius Limburger uses it, and it lends a lovely layer to Limburger's loquacious lambasting of his lackeys. |
| 597 | * WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: |
| 598 | ** The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} WartimeCartoon "Victory Vehicles" begins with a montage satirizing the then shortage of rubber. One such gag has this bit: |
| 599 | --->'''Narrator:''' ''(reading newspaper headline)'' "Pumping Politician Polls Precinct in Public Primaries – Pumps as He Stumps." Eh, this popular public personality predicts... |
| 600 | --->'''Politician:''' It is a pleasure and a privilege to personally point the pride and praise the perfect performance of this pump perambulator. |
| 601 | * ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has an affinity for alliteration. |
| 602 | * ''Franchise/DuckTales'': |
| 603 | ** ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 DuckTales (1987)]]'': These lines from "[[Recap/DuckTalesADuckTalesValentine A DuckTales Valentine]]" contain a lot of words that start with similar sounds. |
| 604 | --->'''Scrooge:''' Now, keep your peepers peeled for priceless plunder.\ |
| 605 | '''Launchpad:''' Personally, I'd prefer to protect my posterior from predators. |
| 606 | ** The reboot, ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 DuckTales (2017)]]'' has Scrooge say such stuff spontaneously. |
| 607 | --->'''Scrooge:''' '''J'''etison that '''j'''alopy from my driveway this instant, ya deadbeat!\ |
| 608 | '''Scrooge:''' Don't raise your voice at me, you '''r'''apacious '''r'''ocketeer! ''[to Della, who says, "I missed your [[LampshadeHanging Scroogey alliteration]]."]'' |
| 609 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had a CutawayGag mocking ''Series/TVsBloopersAndPracticalJokes'', with a blooper from ''Joanie Loves Chachi'', with Chachi attempting to say, "She sells seashells by the seashore". [[BaitAndSwitch He gets attacked by a bear]]. |
| 610 | * ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr'': Almost every sentence out of the Mad Inventor's mouth in his second appearance. His "menacing Monstermobile" is a "mechanical marvel" and "vicious vehicle" filled with "dozens of destructive devices". Buzz himself is no slouch. |
| 611 | * ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'': Two of the teams are the Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens. |
| 612 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:'' |
| 613 | ** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny [[BreakingTheFourthWall addresses the audience]] from the pitcher's mound in "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs": |
| 614 | --->'''Bugs:''' Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful, paralyzing, perfect, pachydermous percussion pitch. |
| 615 | ** "This Is a Life?" is brought to you by the Wishy Washy washing machine company of Walla-Walla, Washington. |
| 616 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 617 | ** About a third of the dialogue in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]" is this. For example: the cake is called the "Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness", and gets "mutilated". |
| 618 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]": The amount of alliteration is not surprising, when there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001Fs9lZ5YQ enough "pony" and "party" in the dialog to fill a whole minute of the episode]]. |
| 619 | *** "A pair of party pony planners in Ponyville?! What can be more perfect?!" ponders Pinkie Pie. |
| 620 | *** Rainbow Dash, in the final act, reminds us that Pinkie Pie is Ponyville's permanent party planner. |
| 621 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances No Second Prances]]": During his magically-induced MotorMouth moment, Big Mac recounts "Annie Apple awoke and accidentally ate an auburn azalea." |
| 622 | * The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbDayOfTheLivingGelatin "Day of the Living Gelatin"]] has Dr. Doofenshmirtz rattling off a series of words starting with a hard "C" sound when describing the gelatin monster that has arrived to his aid. |
| 623 | -->'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz:''' Now you can kowtow before my cartilaginous creation! It's so corrupt and cantankerous and... carnivorous, and, uh, um, low in... calories! And, um... cow, couch... eh, that's all I got. |
| 624 | * ''WesternAnimation/PontoffelPockWhereAreYou'': The Amalgamated Do-Gooding Fairies: |
| 625 | -->have branches from Boston to Bannock, Baltimore, Bangledesh to even down to Buenos Aires. |
| 626 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': |
| 627 | ** The episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E2InsectInsidePowerpuffBluff Powerpuff Bluff]]" has this exchange done while three thugs hold the Mayor and Ms. Bellum captive at his home and rob it, prompting the girls to intervene: |
| 628 | --->'''Blossom:''' Put down the priceless porcelain poodle, you punks!\ |
| 629 | '''Lead Thug:''' P-p-p-Powerpuffs!\ |
| 630 | '''Blossom:''' Precisely! ''[beatdown ensues]'' |
| 631 | ** In "Buttercrush", the narrator does this at one point. |
| 632 | --->'''Narrator:''' Oh, no! Blossom and Bubbles' screams are being drowned out by this '''r'''ogue '''R'''omeo's '''r'''ambunctious '''r'''ock! |
| 633 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': Cyril Sneer often talks like this. |
| 634 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' ChristmasEpisode, Rocko notices that it's hard to believe it's Christmas Eve in O-Town, and asks Spunky, "'''W'''here's the '''w'''inter '''w'''onderland? '''W'''here's the '''w'''arm, friendly gatherings?" |
| 635 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 636 | ** The ''Krusty Komedy Klassic''. |
| 637 | --->'''Krusty:''' Hey hey, it's great to be back at the Apollo theater! And -- KKK? That's not good... |
| 638 | ** During Marge's ''Series/LostInSpace'' dream, Homer as Dr. Smith refers to Lisa the robot as a "clattering clank of cogs". |
| 639 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 640 | ** In "Pranks a Lot", Mrs. Puff was about to have some "double dark deep sea light diet cake" before it gets eaten by "ghosts". |
| 641 | ** In "Selling Out", the Krabby O' Mondays motto is "[[HappinessIsMandatory Sincere Service with a Smile!]]". |
| 642 | ** In "Karate Island", Sandy has to get past the "Four Floors of Fear". |
| 643 | ** This bit in "Earworm": |
| 644 | --->'''Mr. Krabs:''' That door squeak sounded decidedly disgruntled! |
| 645 | ** "Mimic Madness" has [=SpongeBob=] develop a condition known as "Mocking Mimicry Madness". |
| 646 | ** "Kwarantined Krab" ends with everyone in the Krusty Krab catching various alliterative diseases such as "Grease Gout", "Moldy Measles", "Trash Trichinosis", "Dust Bunny Bronchitis", "Polyester Plague", and "The Whole Shebang". |
| 647 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Happens in multiple episodes: |
| 648 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E29LogDate7152 Log Date 7 15 2]]", Peridot discovers a ShowWithinAShow and creates a shipping chart, which she claims is a "complex chart cataloging the compatible characteristics between campers". |
| 649 | ** In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E19StevenVsAmethyst Steven vs. Amethyst]]", through using both AlliterativeName objects and AlliterativeList in quick succession: |
| 650 | --->'''Pearl:''' I'm glad you asked! Pearl Points are awarded for punctuality, perseverance, and positivity [...] And the Pearl Prize Pouch! |
| 651 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': |
| 652 | ** This shows up every now and then, usually narration-wise (ie. "popped a piston", "rattled his/her rods", "boiler bubbled", "firebox fizzed", "wheels whirred", etc.). Seasons 13-16 have this occur at least OncePerEpisode. |
| 653 | ** Gordon, James, and Henry's "Disgraceful! Disgusting! Despicable!" catchphrase dates back to the Season 2 episode "Dirty Work," or in the US version "Diesel's Devious Deed." |
| 654 | ** Some catchphrases often make examples of this, specifically "Bust my buffers/boiler!", "Rattle my rods!", and "Flatten my funnel!". |
| 655 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 656 | ** When seagulls ruin the Screaming Gaffers' sandcastle in "[[Recap/TotalDramaBeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]", Harold exclaims: "No, there's birds in my belfry! Dang, they busted my buttresses!" |
| 657 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaFindersCreepers Finders Creepers]]", Chris summarizes the events of the previous episode with an emphasis on the letter B on account of the camper B's elimination: "Eleven bumbling buffoons battled it out in a brutal buffet of bombastica. Why all the B words? Because B proved he was a brave and brilliant improviser who scored big time for his team. Until his bitter teammate Scott fudged it on purpose and B got the boot." |
| 658 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': |
| 659 | ** From "The Greatest": |
| 660 | --->'''Lord Hater''': I have '''m'''angled the '''m'''inds of '''m'''illions, I have '''t'''empted forth '''t'''orrential '''t'''ides of '''t'''ears, I have '''r'''educed the '''r'''ichest of '''r'''epublics to '''r'''evel and '''r'''uin! Because I... am the '''g'''reatest in all the '''g'''alaxy! |
| 661 | ** From "The Fugitives": |
| 662 | --->'''Wander:''' Gentle-mants, please. Might I propose a proposition to your perplexing and ponderous peanut problem? |
| 663 | ** From "The Boy Wander": |
| 664 | --->'''Wander:''' What's the trouble? Snatched statues? Ransacked rubies? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Misappropriated masterpieces?]] |
| 665 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderingWenda'' is all about this. Each of the show's 26 episodes is themed around a letter of the alphabet, and the writers clearly go out of their way to include as many words that start with (or at least produce the sound of) the episode's focus letter as possible in names and places, the characters' dialogue (including that of the {{Narrator}}), and every episode's title. The result is probably the most alliteration you'll ever hear in the span of 8 minutes. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
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