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14A title should tell you what a movie, show, episode of a show or product is about or does. Sometimes, though, the premise or plot of the story is '''all''' right there in the title. That's when you can say that the story is "Exactly What It Says on the Tin". Thus, this trope.
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16The names of action shows designed for children tend to have this as a distinguishing feature, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick as do many pornographic films]], but it certainly doesn't stop there.
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18This trope also shows up in naming. An object or organization that does exactly what its name says falls into this trope through sheer power of doing Exactly What It Says In Its Name. Also applies when minor characters in films and TV shows are given names that are nothing more than a brief description of what they do or look like. For example, a character named simply "Flower Deliveryman" or "Girl in Red Dress".
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20The title comes from the long-running "Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin" TV advertising campaign for Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain, a British product for staining wood, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment which is known to dry quickly]] (and other Ronseal products, but the woodstain was first). This became a figure of speech through their extremely straight-forward TV ads. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_the_tin More on which may be found]] at [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]].
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22Direct opposite of WordSaladTitle, but not necessarily mutually exclusive with it. Direct opposite of ''and'' mutually exclusive with NonIndicativeName.
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24See also InWhichATropeIsDescribed, a Victorian version of this trope. A SpoilerTitle or ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName may feature some degree of this. The characters might point out the thing with a TitleDrop. If a title is going for this kind of transparency in description, it may also be ShapedLikeItself; but ShapedLikeItself tends to fail at actually being descriptive in the way that Exactly What It Says On The Tin always is. AdjectiveNounFred titles easily lend themselves to this.
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26Contrast InNameOnly, ArtifactTitle, and ''especially'' NeverTrustATitle. Compare MeaningfulName, ADogNamedDog.
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28This trope is only for titles or names given deliberately by authors or marketers. All RealLife examples go in Titles or Advertising section. This is not a trope for the names of things in general.
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30'''When adding examples to this page, there are some notes to keep in mind:'''
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32* Just because it may be obvious to ''you'' doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone. That next-door neighbor you never talk to? Tell her the title and see if she can give a one sentence description of the plot. If not, then the title is NOT Exactly What It Says On The Tin. '''This also means that if you feel the need to explain it, it probably isn't this trope.'''
33* As a rule of thumb, for this trope to apply to a work you generally need a [[PizzaBoySpecialDelivery paperthin]]/[[NoPlotNoProblem non-existent]] plot, an overly descriptive title, or both.
34* '''It isn't enough for the title to just be relevant or accurate''' -- ''everything'' meaningful has to be conveyed in the title. However, only the ''meaningful'' parts need to be in the title; the title doesn't have to be the entire script of the movie.
35* Note: Many examples on this page actually do not qualify and we are in the process of slowly cleaning it up. Please help us by removing examples that don't fit when you see them.
36* '''Make sure you add title examples to "title examples", and in-universe examples to "in-universe examples".'''
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39!Examples:
40[[index]]
41* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/{{Literature}}
42* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/LiveActionTV
43* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/{{Music}}
44* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/VideoGames
45* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/WesternAnimation
46* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin/RealLife
47[[/index]]
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49!!Title Examples:
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53[[folder:Advertising]]
54* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PiUoLyOa40 Ronseal]] Quick Drying Woodstain: {{Trope Namer|s}}, as its advertisement claims it does what its name is -- It stains wood (for protection from the elements), which dries quickly. The advertising was distinctive for simply declaring these properties, and leaving it at that.
55** The German company Lugato does this quite a lot. They offer products like "BAD-SILICON WIE GUMMI"[[note]]The person inventing the names has possibly never found out how to disengage the caps lock key.[[/note]] ("bathroom-silicone like rubber"), "TROCK'NE MAUER SILICON-IMPRÄGNIERUNG" ("dry wall silicone finish", a finish to keep walls (masonry) dry) or "WEISSES HAUS KUNSTHARZ ROLLPUTZ 0,5 MM" ("white house synthetic resin roll-on plaster 0.5mm" obviously makes your house white and has a thickness of half a millimeter[[note]]No, that is not the german paint which is used for the White House - this comes from Keimfarben (based in Diedorf near Augsburg in Germany). Also, the White House is not really white.[[/note]]).
56* Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes -- as the box indicates, the full name is even more Exactly What It Says on the Tin: [[http://godsofadvertising.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/frostedflakes.jpg they're Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes of Corn]] used to be this at least in the USA and Canada, but the word "sugar" was dropped in the 1980s making it less of an example. There's also the frosting-free version, Corn Flakes. A lot of store-brand versions of popular cereals follow this trope. Averted in other markets where they are simply known as "Frosties".
57* The product description of Nestlé's "Buncha Crunch" candy is "Bunches of crunchy milk chocolate."
58* UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ranch Chicken BLT, is a chicken sandwich with bacon, lettuce, tomato, and ranch sauce.
59* There's a popular restaurant in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}'s Reading Terminal Market called "Dutch Eating Place". As long as you're aware that "Dutch" means "Pennsylvania Dutch" (i.e. [[NonindicativeName German]]) and what that entails (and if you're in Philly, you should, and if you don't you should learn), there's nothing else you need to know about it.
60* Invoked by early 1990s ads for Listerine, with the tagline "It says what it does / It does what it says".
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63[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
64* This applies to a lot of {{isekai}} titles, and LightNovels in general, since it's become trendy.
65* One-shot manga often use this naming method to convey the premise to prospective readers.
66* Also very common with romance and harem light novels, especially of the aforementioned isekai genre. This is partly to frontload the description so that readers could get what they wanted quickly and easily, as such books became very popular very quickly and literally hundreds of new titles were released over a very short period of time.
67* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' is about a boy who is destined to meet and fall in love with 100 girls, in the process deconstructing many of the HaremGenre clichés in increasingly ridiculous ways.
68* All of the episode titles for ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' are ''very'' straightforward. For example:
69** "The Vice President Doesn't Say Anything about the Possibility of Him Being the Main Character" (Episode 1)
70** "Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Slaughtering a Lot" (Episode 4)
71** "The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches" (Episode 6)
72* ''Manga/BottleFairy'': [[FairyInABottle Four fairies who live in bottles]] are the main characters.
73* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' has an organisation that goes by the name 'Port Mafia'. Three guesses as to what it is.
74* The Japanese version of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is particularly bad, with episodes such as "Here comes Satan's Army! Mr. Satan Gets Beat In One hit..." in which Mr. Satan tries to fight Cell, only to get beat in one hit, or "Pitiful Frieza Cannot Stop Shaking" in which pitiful Frieza cannot stop shaking. This is probably because, due to excessive fillers, very little happens in some episodes, and in addition, the Japanese episode titles are all [[https://web.archive.org/web/20011203064357/http://www.myfavoritegames.com/dbz/DBZJap.htm really long]], so it's fairly common for the episode title to describe exactly what happens in the episode. It could also be because it is assumed that all the viewers has ''already read'' the manga so they just explicitly state whenever something will happen for example "Transformed at Last!! Son Goku, the Legendary Super Saiyan".
75* Mamoru Hosoda's films tend to be self-explanatory with their titles, what with them being called ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', ''Anime/WolfChildren'', and ''Anime/TheBoyAndTheBeast''.
76* Several Creator/GoNagai works had {{Crossover}} movies and mangas with titles pretty much informed those works' fans all they needed to know:
77** ''Anime/MazingerZ'' vs ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''
78** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' vs ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer''
79** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' vs ''Manga/GetterRobo''
80** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' vs ''Getter Robo G''
81** ''Devilman'' vs ''Getter Robo''
82%%* ''Manga/KoreWaKoiNoHanashi'' is a manga about a love story.
83* ''Manga/TriGun'': The subtitle on the manga says ''Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action!'' Try to guess what the series is about.
84* ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'' is about exactly what the title says. Yohko Mano is the 108th Devil Hunter in [[BadassFamily the Mano Family]] line. As such, it's her sacred duty to protect humanity from demonkind.
85* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' is about... girls [[GratuitousGerman und]] [[TankGoodness panzers]].
86* Episode 36 of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' is titled "Kagome Kidnapped by Koga, the Wolf Demon!", which is exactly what happens in it.
87* ''[[Manga/PingPong Ping Pong the Animation]]''
88* ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'' is about a girl named Robin who hunts witches.
89* Ditto with ''Literature/VampireHunterD''.
90* ''Anime/CombatMechaXabungle''. The main HumongousMecha is named Xabungle. It frequently engages in combat.
91* ''[[Manga/{{Locodol}} Futsuu no Joshikousei ga Locodol Yattemita]]'': "Ordinary High School Girls Tried Being Local Idols." That's the premise right there.
92* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' is about a dragon who works as a maid for a woman named Kobayashi.
93* In ''Manga/MyDressUpDarling'', the series’ original Japanese title is a full description of Marin and Gojou’s character and relationship, thus the premise of the entire series. ''The Bisque Doll Who Fell In Love'': Gojou became his grandfather’s disciple in making dolls after he grew so enamored with their beauty, Marin is an aspiring cosplayer who loves the aspect of producing clothing and pieces in her cosplay; Gojou found in Marin his perfect doll to produce clothing for, Marin found the perfect tailor to produce her cosplay, and so the bisque doll falls in love.
94* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': The Swedish title, ''Keroro, Grodan Från Rymden'' (Keroro, the frog from space).
95* ''Manga/MissKoizumiLovesRamenNoodles'' stars a girl with the surname Koizumi, and features her obsession with ramen.
96* ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone''. The protagonist [[DiabolusExMachina is killed by God]] and [[TrappedInAnotherWorld sent to another world]]. Guess what he gets to bring with him.
97* ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'' is exactly what it sounds like: a tale about a HotBlooded Red Ranger who ends up [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in a fantasy world]] after the final climactic battle with the Rangers' enemies, and uses his Ranger powers to become an adventurer while he looks for a way home - much to the confusion of the otherworld's residents, who have absolutely no context for sentai heroes or their powers.
98* ''Anime/BikiniWarriors''. Not much room for interpretation. It's mostly an ad for a figurine series of the same name.
99* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' is about the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII battleship Yamato...]] [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
100* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' has an extra chapter called "Her Sister's Perspective," which has Rei Koito, Yuu's older sister, as the [=PoV=] character.
101* ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting''. And if that isn't self-explanatory enough, the cover art is a dragon reading a book titled "Buying Your First Home (Without Failing)."
102* ''Literature/ICouldntBecomeAHeroSoIReluctantlyDecidedToGetAJob'' is literally that. Raul (the first person protagonist), could not become a hero (no more demons to slay), so he reluctantly (VERY reluctantly) decided to get a (shitty) job.
103* ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' The devil works part time at [[BlandNameProduct MgRonald's]]. Not the case for the original title, though, which translates to something considerably less specific: "Overlord At Work."
104* There's an ero-manga called ''Drawing While Masturbating''. The cover depicts the lead girl doing, well, that.
105* ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'': So, what's the main character's name, and what sport does he play?
106* ''Manga/NotariMatsutarou'', localized as "Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro."
107* ''Manga/IMarriedMyBestFriendToShutMyParentsUp'' is about a young woman who marries her best friend because she's tired of her parents' efforts to hook her up with a successful husband.
108* ''Literature/TheHeroIsOverpoweredButOverlyCautious'' is about a goddess who summons a hero with spectacular stats, but is ridiculously over-careful no matter the situation.
109* ''Manga/TheIslandOfGiantInsects''. Not surprisingly, these inflated insects [[SlasherMovie aren't very friendly]].
110* ''Manga/IThinkOurSonIsGay'', in which a mother realizes her son is [[TransparentCloset probably gay]]. (Fortunately, she's [[OpenMindedParent not the least bit bothered by it]].)
111* ''Literature/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'' isn't quite an example until you tack on its [[ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle lengthy subtitle]]: "History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants."
112* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' is about a man who becomes a superhero because he is able to beat anyone he fights with one punch. The conflict comes from the fact that he gets bored easily winning all the time, is otherwise lazy and unmotivated, and [[AesopAmnesia life lessons don't stick]] most of the time. Contrary to expectation, it's only loosely a ProtagonistTitle because his hero name isn't One Punch Man. [[spoiler:It's Caped Baldy.]]
113* ''A Lazy Guy Woke Up As A Girl One Morning'' is about a high schooler named Yasuda who wakes up to find that [[GenderBender he's been turned into a girl]]. Much of the comedy is about the problems he faces now that he's been transformed into the opposite sex, and how he always takes the path of least resistance.
114* ''Literature/SupposeAKidFromTheLastDungeonBooniesMovedToAStarterTown'', in which a kid from... yeah. As one would expect, he [[NormalFishInATinyPond becomes the strongest person around]], and hijinks ensue.
115* ''Manga/DeathNote'': "Note" is what the Japanese call notebooks. The Death Note is a notebook that can kill people.
116* ''Vtuber Confucius'' is a Taiwanese ''manhua'' where the famous sage Creator/{{Confucius}} and his disciple Yan Hui are [[FishOutOfTemporalWater transported to modern times]], and Confucius ends up becoming a VirtualYouTuber named Ren Zi to make ends meet and spread his philosophical teachings.
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119[[folder:Arts]]
120* Many abstract expressionism paintings do this, like Mark Rothko's [[http://www.markrothkopaintings.org/sienna-orange-and-black-on-dark-brown-by-mark-rothko/ Sienna, Orange, and Black on Dark Brown.]]
121* Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' is about Lucifer, who just fell from Heaven and is salty about it.
122* ''Art/AllegoryOfTheFourSeasons'': The painting's subjects are four people who each [[AnthropomorphicPersonification represent]] one of the year's seasons -- summer, spring, autumn, and winter.
123* Most of Franz Marc's {{paintings}} are this, especially his animal paintings, for example the ''[[http://www.lenbachhaus.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Blaues-Pferdchen-Kinderbild_720.jpg Small blue horse]]''. A notable exception is also his most famous (and lost) painting, ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Franz_Marc_029a.jpg The Tower of Blue Horses]], where the title is an analogy to the composition of the painting, as the (blue) horses are arranged in a tier to the right of centre, towering over each other.
124* ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/creed-lightsonoff.gif The Lights Going On And Off]]'' by Martin Creed.
125* ''Art/DogsPlayingPoker''. It's a series of {{paintings}} of dogs that are playing poker. Or, at least, gambling and socializing in a manner where you could technically call it "playing poker".
126* The [[http://snipurl.com/witem painting]] (originally, a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OriginalNipper.jpg photograph]]) ''Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph''. Better known as ''[[Creator/HisMastersVoiceRecords His Master's Voice]]'', which is not indicative.
127* Creator/EmanuelLeutze's paintings tend to be self-explanatory in titles:
128** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze,_MMA-NYC,_1851.jpg Washington Crossing the Delaware]]''
129** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BattleofMonmouth.jpg Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth]]''
130* Most of the famous paintings tend to be known this way. ''Daffodils'' is a picture of some daffodils.
131* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit Artist's shit]] by Piero Manzoni, an Italian conceptual artist. The artwork consists of 90 tin cans aptly labeled: Artist's Shit, Contents 30 gr net, Freshly preserved, Produced and tinned in May 1961. Now that's an example.
132* The "Rape Tunnel", a sequel to the artist's previous work, the "Punch You In The Face Tunnel", in which the artist constructed a tunnel, and would attempt to perform the specified action on anyone who walked through it. (Happily or sadly, the whole thing was actually a hoax; he never actually built either of them, just pretended he had.)
133* "Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring", by Creator/JohannesVermeer, is a painting of, well, a girl with a pearl earring.
134* JMW Turner's paintings included "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)", "[[Art/TheFightingTemeraire The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up]]", and "The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of ''the Victory''". It does not take a genius to figure out what's being depicted.
135* ''Art/ASundayAfternoonOnTheIslandOfLaGrandeJatte'' is a painting about people relaxing on La Grande Jatte in the afternoon.
136* "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_Money_and_Run_(artwork) Take the Money and Run]]", a work by Danish artist Jens Haaning. The original commissioned work was meant to feature two framed piles of money, comparing the annual wages of workers in Denmark and Austria. Instead, Haaning delivered... two empty frames. While the museum director admitted [[ActuallyPrettyFunny he laughed when he saw it]], a deadline was issued for the money to be returned, and when it wasn't, the museum took Haaning to court. The artist was ultimately forced to return the money and pay court costs -- with his own fees deducted.
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139[[folder:Comedy]]
140* Invoked by Creator/JaneaneGarofalo ("just as it says on the tin") in If You Will, regarding CakeFarts.com.
141* Paula Poundstone's award-winning HBO show was called "Cops, Cats and Stuff". Guess what Paula talks about?
142* Creator/{{Norm MacDonald}}'s DVD entitled "[=Norm MacDonald=]: Me Doing Stand-Up" is a good example.
143* Jimmy Carr's live DVD titles are, in order of release: "Jimmy Carr Live", "Jimmy Carr Standup", "Jimmy Carr - Comedian", "Jimmy Carr In Concert", "Jimmy Carr Telling Jokes", "Jimmy Carr Making People Laugh", "Jimmy Carr Being Funny", and "Jimmy Carr Laughing and Joking".
144* Joshua Ladgrove:
145** His 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show, "Joshua Ladgrove Talks at You for 52 Minutes in Exchange for Some of Your Money".
146** His 2014 show, "Come Heckle Christ", invited the audience to do exactly that.
147* [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Eddie Izzard]], discussing the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]] in her "Death Star Canteen" sketch:
148-->"What's that star? That's the Death Star! What's it do? It does death!"
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152* ''[[Creator/JhonenVasquez The Bad Art Collection]]''.
153* ''ComicBook/TimeLincoln'' is about the time travel adventures of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
154* Creator/AntarcticPress's ''Pirates Vs. Ninjas'' is about [[PiratesVersusNinjas pirates fighting ninjas.]]
155* ''Creator/MarvelComics'':
156** The solicitation for the ''[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace Space]] [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' miniseries reads: "THIS BOOK IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE!" There's also ''ComicBook/ThePunisherKillsTheMarvelUniverse''.
157** Creator/StanLee claims that he originally wanted to title ''The ComicBook/XMen'' simply ''The Mutants,'' but his bosses complained that nobody would know what a mutant was. Stan has joked for years that it's not as if the readers would know what the heck an "X-Man" was supposed to be.
158** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' are literally about those two characters from mythology running around with Marvel's super-heroes. The Golden Age heroes Venus and Mercury were also originally based on the myth, until they were retconned into being merely a siren and an [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternal,]] respectively.
159** Creator/JackKirby's ''ComicBook/MachineMan'' is about an android.
160* ''Creator/DCComics'':
161** DC's ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' is about a legion of superheroes.
162** DC's Silver Age feature "Space Cabby" is about a taxi driver... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
163** DC's Silver Age feature "G.I. Robot" is about a soldier who is a robot.
164** DC's Silver Age feature "Viking Commando" is about a commando who is a viking. Really!
165** ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' is literally about the Sandman of legend (although there's a lot more to his job than just putting people to sleep).
166** ''ComicBook/TheHauntedTank'' is about a tank with its own ghost.
167* ''[[ComicBook/MagnusRobotFighter Magnus Robot Fighter: 4000 A.D.]]'' is about a guy named Magnus who fights robots in the year 4000 A.D.
168* ''[[ComicBook/{{Turok}} Turok: Dinosaur Hunter]]'' is about a guy (well, actually a succession of guys) named Turok who hunt dinosaurs.
169* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' is a horror comic about... a [[AxCrazy homicidal]] [[PsychopathicManchild maniac]] named [[FluffyTheTerrible Johnny]].
170* ''Stalin's Spy in Tokyo'', the original German title adds “The Case About Sorge”[[note]]"Die Sache mit Sorge"[[/note]]: Richard Sorge is in Tokyo, and he works as a spy for Stalin.
171* ''ComicBook/GodzillaGangstersAndGoliaths''. It's a gangster story set in the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} universe, exactly like you'd hope.
172** ''ComicBook/GodzillaInHell'' is exactly what it sounds like: Godzilla blasting things in hell.
173* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight'', Dogwelder welds dogs to people.
174* ''ComicBook/DinosaursVsAliens''. Aliens invade during the age of the dinosaurs; they battle.
175* The chilean comic ''Zombies en la Moneda'' is about zombies that attack the chilean presidential palace, known as La Moneda.
176* The "Origins" arc of ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2011'' is about the origins of both the Justice League [[AdaptationOriginConnection and]] [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]] in the ComicBook/New52 universe.
177* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': The "Klingon Language Edition" of Manifest Destiny's first issue translates all of the text (besides the publisher info and staff credits) into Klingon.
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180[[folder:Fan Works]]
181* ''The Death Of Batman'' is a FanFilm which depicts the death of Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}}. The [[ColdBloodedTorture torturous]], UndignifiedDeath of Batman.
182* "Fanfic/BrendansPokemonAdventure" is about the main character Brendan going on a Pokémon Adventure.
183* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/37680/Fluttershy-Has-Tea-With-Jesus Fluttershy Has Tea with Jesus]]'' is about Fluttershy having tea with Jesus, all while the narration comments on subjects only tangentaly related to their teatime.
184* The premise of ''Fanfic/TotalDramaIslandByGilbertAndSullivan'' is, "What if Creator/GilbertAndSullivan had written ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island''?
185* ''Fanfic/SodorFallout'': What if [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends the Island of Sodor]] underwent a mutation-inducing nuclear disaster?
186* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/98095/vinyl-and-octavia-get-incredibly-drunk Vinyl and Octavia Get Incredibly Drunk]]'' There's also a prequel, ''Vinyl and Octavia Machete Their Way Through the Jungle'', and three sequels, ''Vinyl and Octavia Are Forcibly Shipped'', ''Vinyl and Octavia Fight Ten Thousand Ninjas'', and ''Vinyl and Octavia Have Multiple Dates''.
187* The crossover fic ''Fanfic/GuyverNaruto''.
188%%* Basically any fanfic with a title such as "(number) Times (character) (action)".
189* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'' is... exactly that. [[SarcasmMode What, were you expecting the Japanese, German, and Italian ships we're already familiar with?]]
190* Chapter 48 of ''Fanfic/{{Vapors}}'' is titled "In Which Danzo Is Blamed for Something He Did Not Do (for Once)." It deals with exhuming Sasuke's parents to find that their eyes were stolen. Tobi did it, but no one else knows that.
191* A crossover between Creator/CSLewis and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/224361/1/A-Letter-from-Screwtape-to-Mr-Holland-Manners A Letter From Screwtape to Mr. Holland Manners]]''.
192* ''Webcomic/DatingATeamMagmaGrunt'' features [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Brendan]] dating a Team Magma Grunt.
193* In ''Fanfic/TheStoryToEndAllStories'', all stories just might come to an end if the Nothing is not stopped dead in its tracks. Also the title of a short story by Creator/PhilipKDick, as referenced by Crow.
194* The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfic ''Foundling'', is about, well, a foundling, a human one abandoned in a forest of youkai to be exact.
195* The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Midna]] fan forum/site [[http://wantmidnaback.com/forum/index.php Want Midna Back]] is a forum created and visited by Midna fans who... well, weren't pleased by her final scene.
196* ''Blog/RainbowDashReadsHomestuck''. Granted, there's a bit more to it then that, but that's the core of the tumblr.
197* [[http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/ AM2R]] or, "Another ''Franchise/{{Metroid}} 2'' Remake". Mildly subverted; it was originally one of ''many'' fan projects to remake ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' with more modern ''Metroid'' features (specifically, making it more like ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''). All of the other projects were abandoned, while ''[=AM2R=]'' was the only one to be released.
198* ''[[Fanfic/BreakMyHeartBreakYourHeart Break My Heart, Break Your Heart]]'', an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' [[PortmanteauCoupleName WidowTracer]] story, has Chapter 62, which is entitled "Sex". Guess what happens.
199* ''Fanfic/YandereSumia'' involves [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Sumia]] playing the {{Yandere}} trope to the hilt by [[MurderTheHypotenuse killing all of Chrom's other potential brides]] and then [[IfICantHaveYou killing him when he continues to reject her]].
200* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11179010/1/How-Lisanna-Died-and-Nobody-Cared How Lisanna Died and Nobody Cared]]'' involves [[Manga/FairyTail Lisanna]] dying by [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] after failing to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Lucy]]. Nobody cares about Lisanna's death because after she dies, they forget about her.
201* ''Fanfic/BloodMeridianWithExtraSprinkles'':
202--> The Man then sat down and started drinking a nice tall can of Mountain Dew. “It’s the Mountain Dewiest” said The Man happily.
203* ''Fanfic/BoysDoTankary'' and ''Fanfic/BoysUndSenshado''[[note]]"Und" is German for "and", while "Senshado" is the Japanese name for tankery[[/note]] are two ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' fics (among ''[[FandomSpecificPlot many]]'' others) that involve boys getting involved in the previously all-girl sport of tankery.
204* [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/385282/severe-weather-appreciation-week "Severe Weather Appreciation Week"]] is both the story title and [[TitleDrop the holiday]]. It would also be an in-universe example but somehow, some ponies just don't get it:
205-->They called it, as Rainbow insisted, “Severe Weather Appreciation Week.” It seemed like a pretty easy concept to Rainbow Dash: you have severe weather, and you appreciate it. She wasn’t sure how much simpler she could make it.
206-->“I don’t get it,” Rarity said. “Are you preventing the severe weather? Are we supposed to appreciate you for that?”
207* ''Fanfic/OriginStory'' is literally the story of an young woman with super-powers deciding to become a superhero, and by doing so improve things for everyone, rather than waste her potential by just sitting around bitching about things the way most normal folk do.
208* ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'' is about how Literature/HarryPotter is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]], and how that fact is treated as an everyday, okay part of his wizarding student life.
209* ''VisualNovel/SakuyaIzayoiGivesYouAdviceAndDabs'':
210** In this fan visual novel, you talk to [[Franchise/TouhouProject Sakuya Izayoi]]. She gives you some advice. Then she dabs.
211** In the DLC, titled ''Nitori Kawashiro Offers You Advice In Exchange For Cucumbers And Eats The Cucumbers'', Nitori Kawashiro offers you some advice in exchange for cucumbers, and then eats the cucumbers.
212* In the ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' fanfiction, ''FanFic/HopeOfTheShieldHero'', Chapter 39 is titled "He Forgot The Talk". Naturally, in it, Naofumi comes to the grim realization that with everything else going on at the time, he had forgotten to ensure that Raphtalia had been given TheTalk.
213* ''Fanfic/TheNutdealerExpandedUniverse'': The second entry's EitherOrTitle succinctly sums up the series as "Silly Anagram Based Jokes" -- every entry in the series is a CrackFic based on one of the various anagrams of "VideoGame/{{Undertale}}".
214* ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAGardevoirThatBecameATrainer'' is exactly this, and it also comes with [[HumanityEnsues turning her into a human]].
215* ''Fanfic/FireEmblemThreeHousesFifthPath'':
216** The Supports love to do this, including such titles as "Hubert Gets Detention" which is about Hubert getting detention, "Detention with Professor Byleth" which is about four students being in detention that is overseen by Byleth, and "Claude's Arrow Making Lessons" which are about Claude giving arrow making lessons to Ashe.
217** The main story also has quite a few of these such as Chapter 3 "The Mock Battle" which is about the Mock Battle and Chapter 4 "The Black Eagles’ First Mission" which is about the Black Eagles' first mission.
218* ''WebAnimation/TheMarionetteTriesToListenToHisMusicbox'' is about the Marionette trying to listen to his music box. What the title ''doesn't'' mention is that the "tries" is because other animatronics keep making noises over the music box.
219* ''Fanfic/ASmallBluePocketUniverseLearnsAboutHerself'''s full title is ''A Small Blue Pocket Universe Learns About Herself, Love, Her Friends, And Also Whole Foods'' which is a summary of the entire fic.
220[[/folder]]
221
222[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
223* The ''WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo'' sequel, ''Dot Goes to Hollywood''.
224* ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'', which is [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Hulk]] versus the other guy in the title ([[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]] or [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]).
225* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''. One might expect a movie made with LEGO. But it is, as stated in the title, a movie ''about'' LEGO.
226* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart''. It's a sequel and follow-up to the original.
227* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie''. It's a spinoff focused on Batman.
228* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'' is set in the ''LEGO Movie'' universe and is about the Ninjago toyline, though not in continuity with the previous ''Ninjago'' cartoon.
229* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' CompilationMovie ''Doctor Doom Conquers the World'', Doctor Doom... conquers... the world.
230* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' has "The Song Under the Credits", which is indeed a song that plays during the credits.
231* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was originally planned to have the title "Basil of Baker Street" (after the series of books it was based on). When the title changed, Peter Schneider sent [[http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4081/2333/1600/WDPNewTitles_large.1.jpg a gag memo]] to the animation department suggesting to rename the entire Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon at the time as thus[[labelnote:*]]Note that ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' aren't referenced.[[/labelnote]]:
232** ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Seven Little Men Help a Girl]]''
233** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} The Wooden Boy Who Became Real]]''
234** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Color and Music]]''
235** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} The Wonderful Elephant Who Could Really Fly]]''
236** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} The Little Deer Who Grew Up]]''
237** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} The Girl With the See-Through Shoes]]''
238** ''[[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland The Girl in the Imaginary World]]''
239** ''[[WesternAnimation/PeterPan The Amazing Flying Children]]''
240** ''[[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Two Dogs Fall in Love]]''
241** ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty The Girl Who Seemed to Die]]''
242** ''[[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Puppies Taken Away]]''
243** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone The Boy Who Would Be King]]''
244** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 A Boy, a Bear and a Big Black Cat]]''
245** ''[[OddNameOut Aristo]][[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats cats]]''
246** ''WesternAnimation/{{Robin Hood|1973}} [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace with Animals]]''
247** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRescuers Two Mice Save a Girl]]''
248** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound A Fox and a Hound are Friends]]''
249** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron The Evil Bonehead]]''
250''The Great Mouse Detective'' was later re-released as '''''The Adventures of''' the Great Mouse Detective'', which is still ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin while being three words longer and adding no additional information.
251* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' is a movie about a team of [[VersusTitle monsters versus alien]] invaders.
252[[/folder]]
253
254[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
255* ''Film/EighthGrade'' is a SliceOfLife film about eighth graders experiencing eighth grade.
256* {{Enforced|Trope}} in ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane''. It was originally only a WorkingTitle. They eventually decided on "''Pacific Air Flight 121''". Contrary to popular belief, Creator/SamuelLJackson did not threaten to pull out if they didn't change it back, but he did strongly suggest they do so.
257* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''. A fake trailer in the ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' double feature (although seemingly limited to Canadian theatrical releases, for some illogical reason), you get exactly that. And about two minutes of sheer awesome ensues. Both the ''Hobo with a Shotgun'' and ''Machete'' trailers eventually inspired [[{{Defictionalization}} actual films]].
258** There's also Music/RobZombie's contribution, ''[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] [[FanService Women]] of the [[StupidJetpackHitler S.S.]]''.
259* [[LeFilmArtistique Pop-culture auteur Andy Warhol]] was notorious for making films which nothing more than [[LeaveTheCameraRunning pointing a camera at the title subject for several minutes or even hours]], including one of the most famous TakeThat moments in film, a 70 minute ''magnum opus'' named ''Taylor Mead's Ass''. Others including ''Blow Job'' (35 minutes watching the facial expressions of a man receiving oral sex), and ''Sleep'' (five hours of watching John Giorno sleeping).
260* Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno made a short art movie called ''Erection'' which was, of course, a time-lapse of a building being constructed. [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Did you expect it to be about something else?]]
261* Originally, the film ''The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World'' was an example of this: it's 48 hours of random stock footage. However, since then, even longer movies were made.
262* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid]]'': A documentary of the guys from Music/TheKLF, also known as the K Foundation, which documents them burning a million pounds in banknotes.
263* The titles of the ''Film/ErnestPWorrell'' films ware never particularly ambiguous. ''Ernest Goes to Camp'', ''Ernest Goes to Jail'', ''Ernest Goes to Africa''. Once memorably parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with ''Ernest Goes Somewhere Cheap''. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had Peter forced to choose between ''Ernest Goes to the Beach'' and ''Ernest Doesn't go to the Beach''.
264* The long-running Finnish movie franchise ''Film/UunoTurhapuro'' almost always had titles like these. For example, the movie where the titular character Uuno Turhapuro joins the Army is called ''Uuno Turhapuro in the Ranks of the Army'', the one where he moves to the countryside is called ''Uuno Turhapuro Moves to the Countryside'', and so on. The prize, however, goes to ''Uuno Turhapuro Loses His Memory'', and its sequel, ''Uuno Turhapuro's Memory Returns Bit by Bit''.
265* Kyle Kallgren of ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' had this to say when describing ''Film/TrashHumpers''.
266-->'''Kyle:''' You're probably wondering what ''Trash Humpers'' is about. Well, you know how ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' was about cats? ''[cut to clip of "old men" humping trash bags]''
267* ''Film/SeekingAFriendForTheEndOfTheWorld'': It's the [[JustBeforeTheEnd end of the world]] and [[TheEveryman Dodge]] is seeking a friend.
268* ''Film/ProWrestlersVsZombies'': Yup, Pro Wrestlers battle Zombies.
269* There's a 1976 film about a massacre at Central High: ''Film/MassacreAtCentralHigh''.
270* ''[[Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies]]''
271* ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre'' is about a man going to have dinner with an old friend. Whose name is Andre.
272* ''Film/TheKiss'': This 1896 silent film is only 18 seconds long, but it does feature a kiss. The first one in movie history.
273* ''Film/KillerCrocodile'' a film about a group of people being terrorized by a killer crocodile.
274* The horror-comedy ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' features, you guessed it, murderous circus folk from beyond the stars.
275* The monsters in ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' are... Well, take a guess.
276* ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'': In this movie, King Kong gets in a fight with Godzilla. Really this might as well to apply to most {{Kaiju}} movies. Titles such as ''Film/GameraVsGuiron'' or ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' leave little doubt who's going to be in the film or what's going to happen in the story.
277* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'': Its tagline is "ENOUGH SAID!!!"
278* ''Film/BigAssSpider'' depicts Los Angeles being attacked by a really big alien-hybrid spider.
279* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': Creator/WilliamShatner himself admitted that with a title like this, there was no way it would end with Admiral Kirk turning to the audience and saying "Sorry, folks, we didn't find him." If it had, people would've thrown rocks at the screen.
280* The short film ''Film/IncestTheMusical'' features {{Twincest}} and SpontaneousChoreography. It's basically ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] BrotherSisterIncest.
281* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' is about cow-boys fighting aliens.
282* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': So what are the main characters' names, and where are they going? This film also has the MarketBasedTitle ''Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies''. So, who are the main characters, and what happens to their appetite after they smoke some weed?
283* ''Film/{{Alien vs Ninja}}'' is 90 minutes of {{ninja}}s fighting aliens.
284* ''Film/Utoya22Juli'' by Erik Poppe is a depiction of what happened on the island Utøya on 22. July [2011], namely a mass-murder.
285* ''Film/GameNight'' is all about the incredible events that occur to the main characters during their weekly game night.
286* ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' isn't about a French lizard man in Detroit.
287* ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' is about a man who is half wolf.
288* ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis'' is about a deadly mantis. Well, a really big one, anyway.
289* Likewise, ''Tarantula'' is about, well...
290* ''[[Film/{{Dragonslayer}} Dragonslayer]]'' is about a guy trying to slay a dragon.
291* ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan'' is about [[IncredibleShrinkingMan a man who becomes smaller.]]
292* ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman'' is about a ''[[DistaffCounterpart woman]]'' who becomes smaller.
293* ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'' is about a man who becomes bigger.
294* The plot of ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'' was summed up in TV listings as “Woman meets giant alien. Woman turns into giantess. Woman catches husband with another woman.”
295* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' is about a guy who shrinks his kids.
296* ''Film/HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'' is about a guy who shrinks himself and his friends.
297* ''Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid'' is (thankfully) about a guy who makes his kid bigger, and [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant does not involve any explosions.]]
298* In none of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies or very many of the ExpandedUniverse materials do we see the Galaxy at peace for long. Because that would be Star Peace. Which would be different.
299* ''Film/TimeCop'' is about a time-traveling cop.
300* ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'' is about two roommates who make a pornographic movie in order to pay their bills.
301* ''Film/MikeAndDaveNeedWeddingDates'' is about the title characters putting out an online ad for dates to their sister's wedding.
302* The short documentary ''Creator/WernerHerzog [[EatingShoes Eats His Shoe]]'' shows what happens when a certain famous director loses a dare that, if a certain experimental film ever gets finished[[note]]Film/GatesOfHeaven directed by Errol Morris, finished in 1979[[/note]], he will eat his own shoe. Sure enough, Herzog is a man of his word.
303* ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'' is about the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the effects it had on everyone around him.
304* ''Film/RobTheMob'': About a couple who rob mob social clubs.
305* The Music/StrawberryAlarmClock song that plays over some scenes in ''Film/PsychOut'' is officially titled "The Pretty Song from ''Psych-Out''."
306* ''Film/DragMeToHell''. A woman tries to avoid being DraggedOffToHell. [[spoiler:She fails.]]
307* ''Film/WomenTalking'': Most of the film is, indeed, just a group of women talking about how to respond after learning men in the community have been repeatedly raping them, with their elders demanding they forgive this or leave.
308* Guess what happens in ''Film/PennAndTellerGetKilled?'' You shouldn’t be surprised that it happens.
309* ''Film/KillerNun'' is a film about a nun committing a series of murders.
310* ''Film/CocaineBear'' is about a bear who does a shit ton of Cocaine.
311* ''Film/HowToBlowUpAPipeline'': The film, is indeed, about blowing up a pipeline and shows in detail how it's done.
312* ''Film/TheHamburgSyndrome'' is a film about a disease outbreak in UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}.
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315[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
316* ''Literature/TheBible'': The titles of some books leave no doubt as to their contents -- in particular, [[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs]], [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms]], and Lamentations. Also, [[BilingualBonus the word "Bible" means "book"]][[note]]Koine Greek: τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books"[[/note]]. It's a book of books.
317[[/folder]]
318
319[[folder:Pinballs]]
320* ''Pinball/LaserWar'' is a war between three teams armed with {{Ray Gun}}s shooting [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Energy Beams]].
321* ''Creator/SternElectronics'' released a pinball game called just that, ''Pinball'' in 1977.
322[[/folder]]
323
324[[folder:Print Media]]
325* ''True Story'' and related confessions-type magazines, including ''True Confessions'': Purportedly. Many of these confessional-style stories were actual submissions by readers, but re-written, while others were complete fiction (thus inverting the trope); however, they typically followed a "sin-suffer-repent" formula, wherein the main character (these stories were always first person) explains her background, makes a poor life decision (such as marrying someone rumored to be a domestic abuser), suffers the consequences, things come to a head and the main protagonist takes steps to change her situation. After the situation is resolved, the main character explains the lessons learned, that she is (usually, but not always) unembittered by the negativity, and then [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue explains what happened later]] (often, but not always, a positive, sunny outcome, with the bad guys in jail or having finally had their comeuppance/suffered negative consequences, such as jail or death). Many of the stories were from young women or teen-aged girls who had become stuck in bad relationships, although one memorable story was about a teen-aged girl who was trapped in an abusive family[[note]] (escaping only after she overdoses on aspirin, is sent to foster care and is emancipated when her parents make the mistake of becoming violent with each other inside her foster home)[[/note]].
326[[/folder]]
327
328[[folder:Podcasts]]
329* ''Podcast/BinaryBreak'' gives us Columbus, Indiana's most notable landmark: The Large Arch. It's an arch that's large.
330* ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' is a show about host Starlee Kine solving mysteries.
331* The podcast ''[=LeVar=] Burton Reads'' is exactly what it sounds like: Creator/LeVarBurton reading a piece of short fiction. (It is, essentially, an audio-only form of ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' but with stories that are more mature in tone.)
332[[/folder]]
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334[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
335* Steel Cage match, a match inside a steel cage.
336* WWE's "Table, Ladders, and Chairs" matches. No points for guessing what 3 items are implemented in these.
337* ''I Quit'' Match, get your opponent to say the words, and there are no count-outs, disqualifications, or pin-falls.
338* Flag Match. Jan. 20 2012 ''WWE Friday Night Smackdown'' during the Flag Match between Wrestling/TedDiBiaseJr, representing America, and Wrestling/{{Hunico}}, representing Mexico where Cole explains this.
339-->'''Michael Cole:''' The Rules are simple. You gotta climb the pole, grab the flag, and you win, right?\
340'''Booker T:''' You just told them the rules.
341* The Wrestling/BigGoldBelt. Subverted in that it's actually silver with gold plating, though from a distance of more than a few feet it looks completely gold. Starting in the early 2000s, the original Big Gold was replaced with all-gold cast copies, and the WWE versions would follow suit.
342* Boiler Room Brawl, any guess where it takes place.
343* Ring of Fire - a variation of the Inferno match, where the fighters are in the ring that is surrounded by fire. Luckily, the ring match allows pin-falls and submission, instead of setting someone on fire.
344* The Naked Women's Wrestling League, a defunct erotic women's wrestling organisation, was exactly what it sounded like- women wrestling in the nude (referees wore black-and-white striped shorts only). The interesting thing was that it was ''[[ExactWords exactly]]'' what it sounded like, as aside from the lack of clothing and camera work focusing even more on the MaleGaze than usual, it featured trained female wrestlers putting on ''actual'' legitimate wrestling matches, rather than just using it as an excuse for [[GirlOnGirlIsHot untrained pornstars to engage in lesbian sex in the ring]]. Sure, the quality of the in-ring action wasn't much to write home about, but it was also surprisingly straight-laced and unsexualised (or at least no more so than normal women's wrestling) despite all the female flesh on display. It was the Naked Women's ''Wrestling'' League, after all.
345[[/folder]]
346
347[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
348* [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] movie titles are usually pretty straightforward:
349** ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' is in fact a movie about the Muppets.
350** ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' and ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' are indeed Muppet adaptations of those two very famous pieces of literature.
351** ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' does indeed feature Muppets arriving from beyond our planet.
352** Their 2011 film is as direct as it gets, titled simply ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}''.
353** ''Film/MuppetsHauntedMansion'', in case you couldn't guess, is a Muppet story taking place in Franchise/TheHauntedMansion.
354[[/folder]]
355
356[[folder:Radio]]
357* Played with on ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'', which features a regular round called One Song to the Tune of Another. Despite the fact that the game is as self-explanatory as one could possibly hope for, one of the show's [[RunningGag Running Gags]] is the chairman's completely unnecessary attempts to explain the rules, usually by means of a hideously convoluted metaphor.
358-->"Perhaps the simplest way to understand this is to think of a song as a jam roly-poly, with the tune being the sponge, obviously, which is rolled up neatly to contain the jam, or words. It would be perfectly possible to unroll the sponge and scrape out the jam, which might be strawberry or raspberry, and to replace it with a different jam taken from a second roly-poly, perhaps a summer fruit compote or even orange marmalade, although obviously you wouldn't want to use the thick cut variety as that would have lumps of peel sticking up through the sponge. But please don't get bogged down on fruit preserves, teams. The type isn't important. What you should be concentrating on is the state of the sponge pudding that's been unrolled: it would doubtless be damaged and possibly broken in places as a result of the unrolling and scraping. So I know exactly what you're thinking, teams: Where does a useless old pudding come into this?" [''{{Beat}}''] "[[TakeThat At the piano, Colin Sell!]]"
359* "I Was a Communist for the FBI" about an FBI agent(played by Dana Andrews) going undercover in a Communist party cell. Loosely based on a true story and was also a film.
360[[/folder]]
361
362[[folder:Sports]]
363* The Fan Controlled Football League (FCF) promotes themselves as "[=eSports=] and traditional sports colliding together" and works like it does by having the fans vote through a mobile app on important things for the sport of indoor football like play-calling, drafts, rules, team names, and seasonal awards throughout each season played.
364* Many football/soccer teams throughout the world are simply known as the name of their city followed by Football/Soccer Club.
365* The basketball team Motor City Muslims is a team from Detroit (a.k.a. Motor City) where every member is a Muslim.
366* The Lingerie Football League, a women's American football league where the players wear lingerie. Subverted in its renamings to the Legends Football League and later the X League[[note]]Much like the Naked Women's Wrestling League example above, while the lack of clothing was a gimmick the action on the field was totally legitimate (even more so, as it's not fixed), with commentators calling it like they would any other game. It's also not as sexy as it sounds, the players wear full pads and the cameras don't focus on any fanservice shots[[/note]].
367* The Worcester Worcesters, an old MLB team from the late 19th century, had a very on the nose name, to say the least.
368[[/folder]]
369
370[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
371* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' stands for "Generic Universal Role-Playing System." This is a system to govern roleplaying games, in any genre, in any setting, and dealing with any subject matter. According to the creator, Steve Jackson, he intended to replace the term (originally a placeholder) with a more imaginative title and just couldn't think of anything.
372* There is a French amateur tabletop RPG called ''Lycéenne JDR'' (''TabletopGame/HighSchoolGirlsRPG''). It's a game in which you play girls in high school. And there is an extension called ''MagicalGirl'', allowing you to play a MagicalGirlWarrior.
373* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
374** There's a monster called a [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Trap_Eater Trap Eater]] that eats, uhm, Traps. (That's how you summon it, you send an opponent's Trap Card to the Graveyard. In the anime, this is expressed by the monster literally eating the Trap.)
375** Negate Attack. It lets you prevent an opponent's monster from attacking, then ending the Battle Phase.
376** Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a dragon with a vaguely white color scheme (though tends to be animated and shaded in light blue) with blue eyes. Its support cards and variations, the various With Eyes of Blue spellcasters as well as other Blue-Eyes dragons, all tend to have descriptive names - Blue Eyes Alternative White Dragon is treated the same as the original but has an added effect, Blue Eyes Chaos Dragon has an effect similar to other Chaos named monsters, Azure Eyes Silver Dragon has a metallic appearance...
377** Similarly Red-Eyes Black Dragon is a black dragon with red eyes. Its infant form is called Black Dragon's Chick. Equipping the Metal Coat Spell card to it allows it to be upgraded to Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon. Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon is on fire. Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon is on fire and has metal plates on its body. Fusing it with Meteor Dragon (itself an example, being a dragon with a meteor for a shell) ''subverts'' this, though - Meteor Black Dragon is actually purple. [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack Which is its own trope]].
378* ''TabletopGame/TheAwfulGreenThingsFromOuterSpace'': They are indeed awful, green, and from outer space.
379* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': By way of ArtifactTitle, the game used to be a SettingUpdate for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' (specifically, set 40,000 years into the future). Further editions made each more distinctive, until the Warp and the powers of Chaos are all that's left in common.
380* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. You often go into dungeons with a party and dragons are one of the many creatures you can encounter.
381** A ''lot'' of the spells in the game works like this. ''Floating Disk'' is a floating disk, ''Create or Destroy Water'' creates or destroys water, ''See Invisibility'' lets you see invisibility, ''Fly'' gives you flight and its less powerful but nevertheless useful cousin ''Feather Fall'' lets you and a number of companions fall slowly enough to avoid fall damage.
382[[/folder]]
383
384[[folder:Theatre]]
385* ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. That's it. Creator/SamuelBeckett, in general: among his other works are 'Act Without Words I' (an act without any spoken words), 'Act without Words II' (another act without any spoken words), Breath (a play just featuring the sound of someone breathing), 'Play' (a play), and 'Film' (you get the idea).
386* ''[[Theatre/MaratSade The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade]]''. Yes, all that is the play's title. However, among theater geeks (about the only people who have heard of it), it's usually just shortened to ''[="Marat/Sade"=]''.
387* There's a very off-off-off-Broadway show called ''Naked Boys Singing''. Yep. That's it.
388* A show advertised on this very wiki, ''Old Jews Telling Jokes''.
389* ''A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking'': A description that could fit more than a few TV shows, as well.
390* ''Cat out of the bag'' was a man releasing a cat from a bag.
391* Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers often uses this trope:
392** He made a play called "1. don't smoke; 2. don't eat; 3. smoke; 4 eat". In this play, five men enter the stage four times. The first two times they don't do anything, the third time they smoke a cigarette and the fourth time they eat a sandwich.
393** He is also the creator of the "Peanut Butter Floor" which is a floor entirely made out of peanut butter.
394* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's early {{opera}} ''The Abduction from the Seralgio.'' Plot: The main character is trapped in a seraglio and has to be abducted from it.
395* ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong'' presents us with a play ([[PlayWithinAPlay within a play]]), in which [[TheShowMustGoWrong everything that can go wrong does go wrong]].
396* The tragedy, ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', follows the series of events that would eventually lead to the death of a salesman.
397[[/folder]]
398
399[[folder:Theme Parks]]
400* At the Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
401** ''Ride/TheGreatMovieRide'' was a ride about great movies.
402** ''Soarin' Over California'' is solely about guests flying over the various sights of California. Likewise, it's successor, ''Soarin' Around the World'' is about soaring over various parts of the world and nothing else.
403[[/folder]]
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405[[folder:Visual Novels]]
406* The names of a few arcs from ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' does this mixed with SpoilerTitle:
407** From ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' we have the Atonement Arc (Tsumihoroboshi-hen) [[spoiler: where Keiichi remembers his actions from the Abducted by Demons arc (Onikakushi-hen) and asks for forgiveness]] and the Massacre arc (Minagoroshi-hen) [[spoiler: where everyone in the village is massacred by the BigBad, Takano, and her troops]]. The Eye-Opening arc (Meakashi-hen) can also be this on a meta level since it reveals the truth about the Cotton Drifting arc (Watanagashi-hen) and is the first of the answer arcs.
408** From ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' we have the [[spoiler: End of the Golden Witch where Beatrice dies]] and the [[spoiler: Requiem of the Golden Witch where Beatrice (or at least the concept of her) is buried]].
409* ''VisualNovel/BurlyMenAtSea'' is about three stout brothers exploring the seas around the island where they live in a boat.
410* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape: VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', in which nine people have nine hours to escape a ship through a series of nine doors.
411* ''VisualNovel/TheMurderOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Amy's hosting a murder mystery party. [[SpoilerTitle Guess who the murder victim is?]]
412* ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'' is a story in which you attempt to slay the princess. The game has MultipleEndings depending on how well you did towards this goal, but the princess and attempts to slay her form the core of all of these endings.
413[[/folder]]
414
415[[folder:Web Animation]]
416* ''WebAnimation/BananaNanaNinja''
417* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'': 20 contestants battling to win an island named Dream Island. That's literally it.
418* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The short "Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon", as the name implies, features Strong Bad going to jail. In fact, Strong Bad goes to jail twice; he breaks out, goes on a crime spree, then gets caught and sent back to jail.
419* ''WebAnimation/MagicalBorderPatrol'': It's got a magic border, being patrolled.
420* The ''WebAnimation/MarioPissing'' video indeed features Mario taking a piss, with a Goomba calling him out for not jumping on him like he’s supposed to.
421* ''Zombie College''
422[[/folder]]
423
424[[folder:Webcomics]]
425* ''Webcomic/OneHundredAndEightyAngel'': Episode 94 is called "The Bad Guy Episode." It is about not one, but two villains scheming about various plans. Lampshaded by the author, who said that his girlfriend named the episode.
426* The InteractiveComic ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' takes places in a medical facility no human would want to be treated in.
427* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' has a strip titled: [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2012/04/11/400-the-history-of-nintendo/ The History of]] ''Creator/{{Nintendo}}''.
428* ''Floating Henry Rollins Head Haiku'' is a webcomic featuring Music/HenryRollins's floating head, written entirely in {{haiku}}. [[http://www.phancy.com/fhrhh/archive.php?comic=20000822 Find it here.]]
429* Pages of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' are named in groups. Examples of these titles include "Gil deals with it", "Monster Horse Beastie" and "Barfight, also Higgs" (the latter reintroducing [[ImplacableMan Airman Higgs]] in the middle of a bar fight).
430* You probably won't be surprised by what happens in the ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' episode called "[[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1374.html Han Solo Killed the Radio]]". (For bonus Meta points, the commentary there links to [[Website/TVTropes this very page]].)
431* Back when ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' had titles, some of them were this. Examples include: "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-01-21 First Comic]]", "[[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-07-02 Tedd and Grace Embrace]]", "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-12-08 Ellen Transformed by Her Own Beam Blows Up the Goo With the Tamashii Gekido]]" and "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-11-10 Nioi Arrives Via Portal to the Main Universe]]".
432* ''Webcomic/DumCat'' is about a cat that does dumb things.
433* ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' in: [[http://www.angryflower.com/slappi.gif Slapping the Shit out of George W. Bush.]]
434* You'd be sorely mistaken if you thought ''Webcomic/{{Pilot}}'''s main character was anything other than a pilot.
435* ''Swageon and Glacigeon'' has a strip called [[http://inklingstudioshub.deviantart.com/art/Someone-dies-649186224 someone dies]]. [[spoiler: It's Glaceon who dies.]]
436* ''Webcomic/{{Qxlkbh}}'': [[https://qxlkbh.github.io/89 89: lc makes a comic]] tells you everything you need to know about the plot.
437* ''Webcomic/XWhy'' has a strip called [[https://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2017/07/cosmic-microwaves.html Cosmic Microwaves]].
438* ''Webcomic/{{Swords}}'' is about swords.
439* ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'': It's about two princesses. Additionally, [[MeaningfulName Amira and Sadie both mean “princess” in Arabic and Hebrew respectively.]]
440* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' is about a man named Bob who keeps getting pulled into fantastic adventures for [[WeirdnessMagnet no readibly explicable reason.]]
441* ''Webcomic/FoxesInLove'' is about two foxes, who are in love with each other. There's next to no continuity and the supporting cast rarely shows up, so most comics just have the two foxes doing in-love stuff together.
442* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' is a webcomic about the lives of a neighborhood of housepets.
443[[/folder]]
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445[[folder:Web Original]]
446* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' is about a nerd... who plays video games... and is angry.
447* [[https://www.youtube.com/c/bajancanadian Bajan Canadian]] is a Barbadian-Canadian ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' player.
448* ''WebVideo/TheFinalMinutes'': ''Australian Nuclear Attack Warning'' is about an emergency warning broadcast, from "nuclear strike is likely" to '''[[OhCrap ATTACK IN PROGRESS]]'''.
449* ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' is, similarly, about a gamer who is irate.
450* ''WebVideo/ChappersAndTheCaptainAtAndertons'' features Rob "Chappers" Chapman and Lee "The Captain" Anderton, talking (about guitars) at Andertons, a music shop in the United Kingdom.
451* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' is just that. There are little details, but the title sums up the essentials of the entire game. Destroy the godmodder.
452* ''Roleplay/RockPaperAnything'' is, well, RockPaperScissors, except you can use anything.
453* ''WebVideo/AitorMolinaVs'' is about [[CharacterTitle Aitor Molina]] versus media.
454* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': See [[http://z10.invisionfree.com/SOTF_V2/index.php?showtopic=2997&view=getnewpost The One Where Gabe Dies]], which is the one where Gabe dies. [[spoiler: Gabe [=McCallum=],]] to be specific.
455* The [[http://www.catsinsinks.com/ Cats in Sinks]] website. And the [[http://upsidedowndogs.com/ Upside Down Dogs]] website.
456* An Instagram called [[http://instagram.com/catzwithbowties/ Catz with Bowties]] is about pictures of cats with bowties on.
457* ''WEBVIDEO/StopmotionChess'' is a StopMotion video using TABLETOPGAME/{{chess}} pieces.
458* The ''Advertising/WillItBlend'' series of Website/YouTube videos involve a man putting objects in a blender to see if they will blend. Subverted slightly in that they're actually a series of commercials to show that a particular brand of blender ''will'' blend pretty much anything. "Blendtec Blenders Can Blend [X]" would be closer to the trope.
459* ''Will It Soft Serve?'' Matt Gray bought a soft serve ice-cream machine, and puts things in it.
460* ''WebVideo/IsItAGoodIdeaToMicrowaveThis'' involves putting things into a microwave to see if it's a good idea.
461* [[http://brokershandsontheirfacesblog.tumblr.com/ The Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog.]]
462* See also [[http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/ Sad Guys on Trading Floors.]]
463* Website/BadassOfTheWeek features articles about badasses. Updated weekly.
464* [[http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com Cats That Look Like Hitler]]
465* [[http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/ Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.]]
466* [[http://www.japanesebirdcookingspaghetti.com Japanese Bird Cooking Spaghetti.]]
467* [[http://womenlaughingalonewithsalad.tumblr.com/ Women Laughing Alone With Salad.]] Stock photos of... you get the idea.
468* The programming blog at [[http://www.delphi.org delphi.org]] features a regular podcast about Delphi programming. Its name? "The podcast @ delphi.org"
469* [[http://www.howstuffworks.com How Stuff Works]] is a website dedicated to showing you... well... how stuff works.
470* And websites such as [[http://www.howtobakeapotato.com HowToBakeAPotato.com]] show you how to.... well, you know.
471* [[http://oldjewstellingjokes.com Old Jews Telling Jokes]]
472* The "Free Boobs" test on OK Cupid refers to this trope by name in its description,
473* [[http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com You Suck at Craigslist]] actually uses the trope as its subtitle.
474* [[https://wariofartsonpokemon.tumblr.com/?amp_see_more=1 Wario Farts On Pokemon]]. Showing screenshots of [[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario]] farting on every Franchise/{{Pokemon}} in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', for the humour value.
475* [[http://www.leekspin.com Leekspin.com]]. It's about spinning a leek.
476* [[http://www.arcadebomb.com/play/robot_dinosaurs_that_shoot_beams_when_they_roar.html Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar]].
477* [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA!]]
478* WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms. They're films that are five seconds long.
479* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' counts too!
480%%* There's a story on a NSFW site whose title is simply the name of its main character. It's the ''blurb'' which takes the cake: "[character name] has a lot of sex." %%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
481* ''Website/MoviesYouMayHaveMissed'' is about [[http://mymhm.tv/ movies you may have missed]].
482* Many of Jon Lajoie's videos, such as both parts to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiv0MOLSd_Q Pointless]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoEKcf01qs Profanity]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMc3f588yc Breathing Commercial]].
483* [[http://pauladeenridingthings.com/ Paula Deen Riding Things]] It even lampshades this in the subtitle of the website.
484* [[http://www.sometimesredsometimesblue.com/ Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue]]. Each color has a 50% chance of being chosen.
485* There's a Brazilian Website/{{Tumblr}} named "[[http://ateismoepeitos.tumblr.com/ Atheism and Breasts]]" (NSFW), which shows atheist quotes and pictures of boobs.
486* There's a Website/YouTube channel called "[[https://www.youtube.com/user/cookingwithdog Cooking with (a) Dog]]". The banner says "It's not what you think..."[[note]]That is, not ''cooking dogs''[[/note]], except it's ''exactly'' what you think -- cooking. With a dog, who is also the narrator.
487* There's a Tumblr called [[http://animalstalkinginallcaps.tumblr.com Animals Talking in All Caps]], and it's exactly what you'd expect. It's even lampshaded.
488* The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Te7QAsH6w "Yelling at Cats"]] [[WebVideo video]]. Do not watch if you are a cat-lover.
489* In July of 2012, [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]] started a web series where he picks up a fellow comedian in a classic car and they go to get coffee. What's it called? ''WebVideo/ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee''.
490* ''WebOriginal/MediaInUno'' is EXACTLY what you think it is. Media. With uno card enacting.
491* The podcast ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'' is about Michael Ian Black and Creator/TomCavanagh eating and rating snacks.
492* Similarly, the podcast Podcast/{{Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap}} is about a guy named Kevin and his girlfriend Creator/UrsulaVernon eating (and then rating) cheap (often pre-packaged) foods.
493* What do you call a collection of photos of Kim Jong-Il looking at various things? [[http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things]]. Helpful captions identifying what he is looking at are also provided.
494* ''WebVideo/MicrosoftSamReadsFunnyWindowsErrors'' is about a Speakonia voice who reads funny Windows errors.
495* Todd and Rap Critic talk about "Accidental Racist" is a video with WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows and WebVideo/TheRapCritic talking about the Music/BradPaisley song "Accidental Racist"
496* In episode 35 of ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'', Liz Reed introduces and later sings a song she wrote. It's called "I hate you, leave me alone".
497* Website/IndieGameMagazine is an online magazine devoted to {{Indie Game}}s.
498* [[http://amirunningxp.com AmIRunningXP.com]] is a site that tells you whether or not you are running Windows XP.
499* Website/WeirdSSBFanfics reads Weird ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' fanfiction.
500* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDj72zqZakE Waffle Falling Over]]"
501* ''WebVideo/TheMostStupidDeathsInSuperMario64'', though later episodes have less deaths.
502* The podcast ''[[http://ognetworks.tv/c/kyleandluke Kyle and Luke Talk about Toons]]'' has two people discussing animation. They are named "Luke" and "Kyle".
503* ''Blog/ScaramouchesAttic'', a Creator/VCAndrews fan and ReviewBlog, has a side feature called "Cover Talk" in which Scaramouche... talks about book covers.
504* ''Literature/DreamHighSchool'' is literal -- you're dreaming the high school.
505* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': ''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation The Things Dr. Bright Is Not Allowed to Do at the Foundation]]'' lists all the things Dr. Bright is not allowed do with or to other SCP Objects or SCP Foundation personel. There are a ''lot'' of items on the list. A few of the items on the list reference out-of-universe stuff like ''D&D'', ''My Little Pony'', the Game, etc. so readers don't need to be ''completely'' SCP savvy to enjoy reading the list.
506* ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'' ([[http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html starting here]]) is a collection -- initially around 250, but now over 2000 -- of similar examples ranging from outrageous powergaming to even more outrageous silliness that the titular Mr. Welch is prohibited from doing with an RPG character.
507* Many videos made by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro are this. For example, "10 DEAD PEOPLE Who CAME BACK TO LIFE!" is about 10 dead people who [[BackFromTheDead came back to life]].
508* ''WebVideo//StopSkelatonsFromFighting'': During Derek's stint as "The Happy Video Game Nerd'' this was usually played straight but sometimes subverted. He mentions in his review of ''Eternal Darkness'' that viewers comment on his name as if that's his only modus operandi and that he should be praising games all the time. Instead, he reminds them that he's just honest about games he doesn't like but provides constructive criticism (backed by personal experience shown in the reviews) as to why that is.
509* ''Roleplay/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPG'' is, well, a role-playing game featuring a massive number of characters from multiple fandoms.
510* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2ftqfYk_s A Solid 10 Minutes of Useless Information.]]'' Made in response to a comment that everything on his channel was just useless information.
511* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': It's a {{Documentary}} series about UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
512* ''WebVideo/BackwardsSongsWithLuke'' is about, well...listening to backwards songs with Luke.
513* ''WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}}'':
514** The title for the "Unused Content" series, which is jokingly referred to as "creatively named", is stating the obvious: a series about unused content in games.
515** "Odd Fan Games" is a series about, well, reviewing odd fanmade games.
516* ''WebVideo/OzzyManReviews'': Ozzy Man's videos sometimes have very indicative titles and it's another goldmine of humour.
517** "Teenagers Slipping on Ice" is a video of school kids falling one by one on icy pavement.
518** "People Fucked Up by Bulls" is about people being chased and/or injured by bulls.
519** "Cats being dodgy" is a video with footage of cats behaving like nature's biggest arseholes.
520* The popular meme: "Ah, yes. The floor here is made out of floor."
521* ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'': The videos all involve riddles, and you get seven seconds to solve each one before they supply the solution.
522* ''Website/{{Reddit}}'' features such oddly specific subreddits as r/shittycarmods, which is full of cars with badly-made, impractical, or just plain weird modifications, r/evilbuildings, which is full of buildings that look evil and menacing, and r/your_post_as_a_movie, which turns random pictures submitted by other redditors into movie posters.
523* ''WebVideo/MasahiroSakuraiOnCreatingGames'' is an EdutainmentShow about creating video games hosted by Creator/MasahiroSakurai.
524* ''WebVideo/SMPEarth'' is a survival multiplayer server on a recreation of the Earth.
525* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' is a survival multiplayer ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' server that's livestreamed.
526* ''WebVideo/{{Highcraft}}'' is about a bunch of people playing ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' while high.
527[[/folder]]
528
529!! InUniverse Examples:
530
531[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
532* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': The Yakusens' drugs are named after what they do when used.
533* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has an evil organization named Evil Organization.
534* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has Jack Rakan, who has [[IHaveManyNames many names]]. Two of which are "The Thousand Blades" and "[[OverlyLongGag That Damn Guy You Can Stab with Swords All You Like and It Won't Do a Thing, Dammit.]]" These two names really tell you all you need to know about his fighting style.
535* In the ''Mazinger'' series:
536** ''Anime/MazingerZ'' has such weapons like RocketPunch, Drill Missiles, Iron Cutter or [[FreezeRay Freezing Beam]]. [[FemBot Aphrodite A's]] signature weapon is [[TorpedoTits Breast Missiles]].
537** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' is armed with the Great Typhoon, Great Boomerang and Navel Missile.
538* One of the [[MorphWeapon swords]] in ''Anime/RaveMaster'' is named "Explosion". Guess what it does?
539* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
540** ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' manga give Subaru a new defensive melee weapon called [[TrickedOutGloves Sword Breaker]] that proves its effectiveness by breaking a sword.
541** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' has Dieci, whose weapon is called Enormous Cannon which is... [[{{BFG}} a giant artillery weapon.]]
542* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': The titular HumongousMecha is a TransformingMecha with two modes: robot and Falcon Flight Form. The name describes exactly what it is and what it looks like.
543* An episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has the heroes facing a gang that says, "We are a band of Diglett thieves known as The Band of Diglett Thieves!" When the heroes mock their name, the gang replies, "We used to have a cooler name, but those old fools could never remember it!"
544* ''Manga/TwelveBeast'' has Eita Touga's weapon of choice (aside from his PSP and tablet): the Gigas Slayer, a magical gauntlet capable of slaying the nigh-indestructible Gigas.
545* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[ManipulativeBastard While it's a complete ass for not saying something]], you can see Kyubey's point when it fails to understand the girls' confusion when it turns out their '''Soul''' Gem is literally their [[SoulJar soul, removed from their body, given physical form as a crystal]]. [[OurLichesAreDifferent The implications then start to sink in...]]
546* "Anime/SpaceDandy, he's a dandy guy... ''in space''" as the narrator says OncePerEpisode. (The title isn't particularly self-explanatory, though; it does involve a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy dandy guy]] in space, but mainly it's a surreal parody of ''Anime/CowboyBebop''-style space adventure stories.)
547* ''Sands of Destruction'' (both the [[Anime/SandsOfDestruction anime]] and [[Manga/SandsOfDestruction manga]]) features the World Destruction Committee. Guess what they want to do? They are opposed by the World Salvation Committee; no points for guessing what they want to prevent.
548* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': a villain, Majin Buu, at one point uses the Human Extinction Attack. When the dust clears, sure enough, the only survivors on the planet are the ones standing on the same lookout platform as him.
549* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'''s mafia that rules over the port district is called...the Port Mafia.
550* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', the original Gurren Lagann is a fusion between two machines called Gurren and Lagann.
551* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Isshin Matoi has a penchant for names such as this. What did he call a giant pair of scissors that could rend Life Fibers, killing them? Rending Scissors. What did he call the rebel force to oppose the Kiryuins' [[ItMakesSenseInContext use of clothes to dominate the world]]? Nudist Beach. His daughter Ryuko seemed to have inherited it, too. What did she call the uniform that awoke by drinking her blood? Senketsu, meaning "fresh blood."
552* ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'': Mr. Compress (real name Atsuhiro Sako) is a villain whose Quirk, Compress, allows to him to compress just about anything inside a spherical area into a small marble without damage it.
553[[/folder]]
554
555[[folder:Asian Animation]]
556* ''Animation/InspectorChingum'': No Baal has a BaldOfEvil. His name is literally "no hair"; "hair" is "baal" in Hindi.
557[[/folder]]
558
559[[folder:Comedy]]
560* Invoked by comedian Ed Byrne as an introduction to a series of jokes about religion and homosexuality: "Let me explain what God Hates Fags are about, for those of you who didn't know what to expect from ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane''. 'Hmm, I haven't been this mystified by the title of a film since ''Film/TheMummyReturns''!'"
561* Australian comedian Steve Hughes tells a joke claiming that this trope is the attitude Australians have towards naming most of the things in their country, citing examples such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge ("It's a bridge, it's in Sydney, and it spans the harbour!"), the Snowy Mountains and the Great Sandy Desert ("Took us ages to think of a name for that!"), the states South Australia and Western Australia, and the Northern Territories.
562* [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Eddie Izzard]]'s take on horror films: "It's like those people who go camping in millions of films."
563-->'''Person 1:''' Lets go camping in The Forest of Death and Blood.\
564'''Person 2:''' Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Whoa. The Forest of Death and Blood, isn't there a story behind that name?\
565'''Person 1:''' Why yes, if one goes there they die of death and blood.\
566'''Person 2:''' I'll pass on this...
567[[/folder]]
568
569[[folder:Comic Books]]
570* Parodied in Creator/EvanDorkin's ''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook'': When Bill and Ted take [[TheGrimReaper Death]] to see ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'', he asks "What's this movie about?" "Dude," answers Bill; "it's about a planet of apes!"
571* ComicBook/{{Ghost|DarkHorseComics}} is a ghost.
572* ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'': Troll ''wasn't'' this trope, until Creator/AlanMoore retconned him into being, literally, a centuries-old [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll.]]
573* The ComicBook/SouthernKnights' member Dragon is a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] who can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting disguise himself as a human.]]
574* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Cheetah is a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting were-cheetah.]]
575* Creator/MarvelComics:
576** Lampshaded with Speed from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers:''
577--->'''Patriot:''' I'm sorry: "Speed"?\
578'''Speed:''' Nice fit, don't you think?\
579'''Hawkeye:''' What's wrong with "Speed"? It tells you everything you need to know in one syllable.
580** A similar lampshade came when [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Molly Hayes]] (a kid with super strength) gut punches [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]] (a guy with no powers but guns). Molly is sorry as "how was [she] supposed to know he didn't have powers?" [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Victor Mancha]]'s response "you think he's got some punishy force?"
581** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheEnchantress The Asgardian Enchantress]]: Yes, she's an Asgardian, and ''[[FemmeFatale very]]'' [[FemmeFatale much yes, she is an Enchantress]].
582** [[ComicBook/XStatix Dead-Girl]]: She's a dead girl.
583** [[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Flat-Man]]: He's a flat man.
584** [[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Mr. Immortal]] is a man who is immortal.
585** [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]]: He's a giant man.
586** [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Gorilla-Man]]: He's a man who is now a gorilla.
587** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]]: She's an invisible woman, though the name doesn't mention her forcefield powers. However, it was the full extent of her powers when first created and named -- the forcefields came later.
588** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]]: [[IncendiaryExponent is on fire]].
589** [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Sandman]]: He's a man made of sand.
590** [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed]]: He has speed powers.
591** [[ComicBook/XFactor Strong Guy]] is a strong guy.
592** ComicBook/TwoGunKid: He was a kid with two guns. Now, he's a young adult...with two guns.
593** Characters/SilverSurfer: He's silver, and he rides on a surf board.
594** Some of the mobsters [[Characters/MarvelComicsMattMurdock Daredevil]] had to fight during his career. Aside from his sworn enemy, [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], he has also crashed with the holders of such creative nicknames as The Organizer, The Boss and The Masked Marauder.
595** Speaking of mobs, the famous trio of mob enforcers is called The Enforcers.
596** Subverted with Skrull-spy-who-has-gone-native-and-is-now-a-hero, The Crusader, who emphatically tells his protegé ''not'' to use a name which suggests your power set (and weaknesses). Freedom Ring... whose powers were derived from his ring... really should have listened.
597** ComicBook/HowardTheDuck is a duck named Howard.
598** [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Dragon Man]] is a humanoid dragon creature.
599** [[Characters/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Squirrel Girl]] is a girl with the characteristics of a squirrel.
600** ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} is a man who kills... Well, take a guess.
601
602* And from Creator/DCComics:
603** The best example would probably be Dogwelder. He welds puppies to people.
604** A fair number of DC's villains. Captain Boomerang uses boomerangs, the Fiddler plays a violin, the Toymaker makes ([[HappyFunBall high-explosive]]) toys...
605** Man-Bat
606** Beast Boy
607** The ComicBook/MetalMen
608** Franchise/TheFlash's villains Captain Cold, the Mirror Master, and Weather Wizard. It's like they did it on purpose.
609** Abra Kadabra. Apparently it's not even an alias, but his ''actual name''. Also, pretty much his entire power-set.
610** ComicBook/MartianManhunter: is a Martian that hunts down bad guys.
611** ComicBook/GreenArrow: dresses in green and shoots arrows.
612** ''ComicBook/BlackLightning'': a black guy who can control lightning.
613** ''ComicBook/{{Deadman}}'': His super-power is that he's dead.
614** Many members of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes exhibit this trope (in the original version, while the "Reboot" and "Threeboot" retcons deliberately avert it). Lightning Lad throws bolts of lightning, Triplicate Girl splits into three separate bodies, Invisible Kid turns invisible, Bouncing Boy bounces, Matter-Eater Lad eats all forms of matter, et cetera.
615*** It's somewhat of an invoked trope in-universe, as the Legion's usual naming convention is a deliberate imitation of their 20th-21st century inspirations: Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}, Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}}, Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}}, ComicBook/{{Hawk|man}}girl, ComicBook/ElongatedMan, etc.
616*** When it's averted, there's usually a very specific reason:
617*** [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Lar Gand]]'s alias of Mon-El was given to him by ComicBook/{{Superboy}} when he mistakenly thought Gand might be a long-lost relative (Mon=found him on a Monday + El=Kal-El's family surname).
618*** Braniac 5 is trying to rehabilitate the name of his infamous ancestor(s)(always Braniac, depending on the version may include Braniacs 2 and 4).
619** [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]] is a cyborg. In fairness, the word was a lot less commonly used when he first appeared in the 80's.
620** ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' has had a few of these: The Chief is the leader of the team, Robotman is a man who became a robot, Danny the Street is a sentient street called Danny, and Beard Hunter is a guy who hunts for... Well, take a guess.
621** The Worldkillers from ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'' are biological weapons created to kill worlds.
622** Subverted in the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind''. When she hears the name of the "Plant Scourge" device, Supergirl guesses it scourges all plant life. Then she finds out it turns all animal life into plants.
623** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'', Darkseid's soldier Cyberpak's weapon are flesh grenades: explosive fleshy lumps growing on his arms which he can tear off and throw.
624** ''ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'': The Television Trouble-finder owned by the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes titular team]] is a broadcasting device which finds trouble.
625** As Creator/GailSimone often reminds people, [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad King Shark]] is a shark.
626* One of the supporting characters in ''ComicBook/GrimJack'' went by the name Goddess. It was eventually shown that she was indeed one, specifically from one of the African myths.
627* No prizes for guessing what animal Alexander Lemming from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' is. Also from ComicBook/TheBeano Roger the Dodger who as the name suggests tries to dodge things mainly work.
628* In ''ComicBook/SexCriminals'', Suzie refers to the [[spoiler:totally silent, frozen-time post-orgasm world]] as "The Quiet".
629* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has a few examples:
630** The Evrongun is the standard emotion-draining sidearm of the Evronians, and has a genetic scan that allow them to be used only by Evronians (generals also have Evronguns that can be used only by their owner).
631** The Evroncannon is a larger Evrongun.
632** Paperinik's Extransformer Shield is [[MorphWeapon a shield that can transform and has lots of extra functions]].
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634
635[[folder:Comic Strips]]
636* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/MyCage''. When buying [[ISOStandardUrbanGroceries more generic groceries]], Norm asks what's in the box labeled "Food".
637* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': When Calvin is assigned to give a report on a newspaper article, he chooses: "Space alien weds two-headed Elvis clone."
638-->'''Calvin:''' Actually, there's not much left to explain.
639* In one comic of ''Tina's Groove'', Chef Carlos begs the waitresses to help him by telling the plot of a movie, because last night he told his girlfriend he was out watching a movie when he really wasn't.
640-->'''Tina:''' What was the movie?\
641'''Carlos:''' ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane''.
642* Many of ComicStrip/DickTracy's enemies are like this. Flattop, Pruneface, Shaky, Mumbles, etc.
643[[/folder]]
644
645[[folder:Fan Works]]
646* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
647** "Operation Spy on the Slimy Girl".
648** "Calvin's Never Before Eaten Foods" from "Help Wanted" as well.
649* ''Fanfic/RetroChill'': Dr. Brainstorm's "Defeat Current Dictator and Give User Control all at the Same Time" device.
650* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the LemonyNarrator cites references from a book called, "''How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under an Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends that Start Off Whimsical but End in Destruction and Death''".
651* ''Fanfic/HZDTerraformingBase001TextCommunicationsNetwork'': The fic's title is the name of the groupchat that GAIA made. It's pretty clear that she was just being entirely literal; it's a text communications network for the first Zero Dawn terraforming base. The "H" is less clear, since "Horizon" isn't mentioned in-universe, but it's probably a CreatorInJoke.
652* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'' has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight's]] ''How to Be a Lawyer in 24 Hours''. Of course, being conveniently titled [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe is one of its lesser "features"]].
653* In ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'', the incantations for most spells are like this. For example, the spell to produce an Indian burn is "Indian Burn Hex!"
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655
656[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
657* Little Blue Dragon from ''[[Animation/MissionIncredibleAdventuresOnTheDragonsTrail Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail]]'' is, in fact, little, blue, and a dragon.
658[[/folder]]
659
660[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
661* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in HBO's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%282001_film%29 Conspiracy]] by Otto Hofmann, Chief of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office, who after introducing his title self-consciously adds "we deal with matters of race and settlement."
662* The following conversation from ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' shows that sometimes a nickname can be exactly what they say on the tin.
663-->'''Tony:''' Boris?!! As in Boris the Blade? As in Boris the Bullet Dodger?\
664'''Avi:''' Why do they call him the Bullet Dodger?\
665'''Tony:''' ''[pauses, gives Avi a look]'' Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
666* Used similarly (and humorously) in ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'': "Why do they call him the boss?" "Why do they call you the Rabbi?" "Why do they call him The Fairy?"
667* Used similarly in ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', with "Nick the Greek" who is... Greek.
668* Boris Blavasky, a.k.a Boris TheButcher from ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooLittle'', is a hitman famous for brutal and messy hits by night. But his title is not a metaphorical one as might be supposed. By day, he is the owner and proprietor of a butcher's shop.
669* Film/PacificRim: Take a shot in the dark what the {{Kaiju}} [[Characters/PacificRimKaiju Knifehead]] looks like.
670* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
671** The All Terrain-series of [[SpiderTank walkers]], on multiple levels. They are called walkers because they move on legs instead than wheels, treads or repulsors. The third and fourth letter in the popular name of any walker describe their purpose (AT-ST, for example, is a Scout Transport, while the famed AT-AT is an Armored Transport, armored enough that normal ground artillery can't damage it). Finally, the first and second letter stand for "All Terrain"... And ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' shows the AT-TE, usually fielded on flat terrain, used in multiple odd terrains, such as mountain but ''vertically'' and ''outer space''.
672** Similarly, the SPHA-series of walkers. SPHA stands for '''S'''elf-'''P'''ropelled '''H'''eavy '''A'''rtillery and they're just that, vehicles that carry artillery heavy enough to take on ''starships'', with an additional letter specifying what kind of artillery (the SPHA-T has a Turbo laser, the SPHA-I has an Ion cannon, the SPHA-V has an Vehicle destroying laser, the SPHA-C carries Concussion missiles, and the SPHA-M has a Mass driver).
673* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is not itself an example, but...
674** ...the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]], the number-one movie in its degraded BadFuture, is: ''Ass''. Explains the narrator: "And that's all it was, for 90 minutes."
675** And the most popular TV show is ''[[OwMyBodyPart Ow! My Balls!]]'', consisting of the star being subjected to non-stop {{groin attack}}s.
676[[/folder]]
677
678[[folder:Literature]]
679* ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'': As Felassan points out, the ancient elven empire, ''was an empire''. [[TheEmpire With all that that entails]].
680[[/folder]]
681
682[[folder:Podcasts]]
683* ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'' has a character who goes by the name Rat-Licker, who states that she's called that because she licks rats, though [[InformedAttribute she's never actually been shown licking a rat]] in the few scenes she appears in.
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685
686[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
687* ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'': The makers of the game released a joke expansion called the "Bullshit!" pack, which they outright admitted was literal bull shit. Anyone curious or foolish enough to try ordering it got a box in the mail that looked like a CAH expansion, but contained nothing but a lump of dried cow dung.
688* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
689** For every monster with an obscure or entirely nonsensical name, there's another one or two monsters that's exactly what it says on the tin -- take a wild guess what Blooddrinker Oozes, Invisible Stalkers, or Flame Snakes do. This can get particularly amusing when players, upon encountering a strange monster for the first time, start referring to it by a name that turns out to be what it's actually called in the Monster Manual.
690** [[MixAndMatchCritters Owlbears]]. They're... bears... with owl heads. You can't get more tinny than that.
691** The infamous "Brain-in-a-Jar"? A brain in a jar.
692** Same goes for prestige classes: for every Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil and Green Star Adept, there's a Frost Mage or Exotic Weapon Master.
693** The standard Ring of Invisibility allowed its wearer to become invisible. The joke Invisible Ring, on the other hand, is itself invisible.
694** Likewise, in 3.0, there is an item called "Ring of Death Immunity". It's a magic ring that makes the wearer immune to Death. Not Death Effects. Death. Also qualifies as a Game-Breaking Powerup.
695* The Troubleshooters in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. They find trouble, and shoot it.
696* ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'''s resident ButtMonkey, the ''[=UrbanMech=]'' is a [[HumongousMecha mech]] designed to fight in urban environments. The ''Hatchetman'' and ''Axman'' are mechs that unsurprisingly, wield a hatchet and ax, respectively.
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698
699[[folder:Visual Novels]]
700* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
701** A character in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' is called [[PunnyName Deid Mann]].
702** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Justice For All'', [[spoiler:after finding out that a murder has just occurred, the titular character talks to someone over a two-way who calls themself "De Killer"... he's the murderer. Specifically, a hired assassin]].
703* In the epilogue of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', Tamara [[spoiler:opens a clothing store where she sells her favorite clothes]]. The name of the business is “Nothing But Black.”
704[[/folder]]
705
706[[folder:Web Animation]]
707* The Pointless Button in the ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}'' series is completely pointless.
708* The hosts of ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' give a LampshadeHanging on the equipments in ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' being a little too descriptive with their names when going through Strider Hiryu's profile in his match against [[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ryu Hayabusa]].
709-->'''Wiz:''' He uses his Medical Tech to heal wounds. The Climb Sickle to, well, climb. The Jump Tech to... jump... higher.\
710'''Boomstick:''' I guess they don't have a Thesaurus at the ninja school.
711* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' has a lot of these: the Auto Romeo Maker, the Kamikaze Watermelon, the Make-The-World-Blow-Up Button, Mr. Large Generic Blunt Object, the Crash-Yourself-Into-A-Brick-Wall Race, etc.
712* Mister Brave from ''WebAnimation/DusksDawn'' has bravery as his element, as he gallops through a storm to save Star Whistle.
713* ''WebAnimation/FreshGuacamole'' is about a man preparing exactly that.
714* The [[ShowWithinAShow Dangeresque trilogy]] from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' features a henchman called Killingyouguy, whose task is to kill you. Incidentally, he's a guy.
715** There's also The Cheat, something that gets lampshaded regularly, as in the early cartoon "Where's The Cheat?"
716-->'''Strong Bad:''' Lessee what we got in here. Nope, he's not here. Though I see he ''has'' been cheating on his New Year's Resolution. ''(pulls out a pack of cigarettes)'' Though I can't really blame him. You know, because he's The Cheat.
717[[/folder]]
718
719[[folder:Webcomics]]
720* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
721** In the not-quite-canon story ''The Heterodyne Boys and the Dragon from Mars'',
722--->'''Bill:''' I never thought I'd have to use this.\
723'''Dr. Mongfish (reformed):''' "Ocean in a bottle"? What's that?\
724'''Bill:''' Truth in packaging.
725** A book titled ''Using Found Objects as Weapons'' gets [[ThrowTheBookAtThem used as a weapon]], to beat a [[{{Determinator}} particularly persistent enemy]] upside the head. The tome strikes with the sound effect [[UnsoundEffect TOME!]]
726** In ''Revenge of the Weasel Queen'', Agatha uses a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070910 De-arming Device]]. It does exactly that, [[AnArmAndALeg cutting the arms off Agatha's opponent]].
727** DoubleSubversion in the story "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100519 Maxim Buys a Hat]]". Because a Jäger's hat is a badge of honor, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100521 one does not simply buy a hat]], one has to earn it by taking it from a worthy enemy; the story ends with Maxim tricking Ol' Man Death [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100611 into selling him his hat]].
728* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', regarding [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/5/ The Time Machine]].
729* There is a moment in ''Webcomic/DaisyOwl'' when her teacher meets her father, Mr. Owl.
730-->'''Teacher:''' I didn't expect you to be an actual owl...
731* In ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', King Europe builds an Extremely Large Telescope. He then writes on it in white paint "European Extremely Large Telescope". Even better? ''That is its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Extremely_Large_Telescope actual name.]]''
732* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', while not an example in itself, has a few:
733** The FillerStrips character Yelling Bird, whose only purpose is to yell obscenities at the author.
734** Hannelore's father (who lives in space) owns a spaceship named Spaceship, and a space station named Station. Station explains that Hannelore went through an "overly descriptive phase," and the names stuck.
735--->'''Hannelore:''' I called my dad "Science Daddy" until I was seventeen.
736* In ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'', there's a town called "Townwithanequipmentstoreaplacewithmapsandatavernofcourse". Guess which three things are located in said town.
737* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', troll movies are apparently named this way, due to the troll civilization being so old that all the good movie titles are taken.
738-->CG: WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG);\
739CG: SEVERAL ATTRACTIVE FEMALE LEADS PROVOKE ROMANTIC TENSION; FOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS WEAR UNUSUAL HATS; ONE HOLDS PLOT-CRITICAL SECRET;\
740CG: 47 ON-SCREEN EXPLOSIONS, ONE RESULTING IN DEMISE OF KEY-ADVERSARY; 6 to 20 LINES THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS HUMOROUS;\
741EB: wait...\
742EB: this is the title?\
743CG: IT GOES ON.
744* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'':
745** We have the [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/120329 self-destruct button]]. HilarityEnsues
746** And as a [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/140730 discussed trope]] "I cannot describe Zombie Head on a Stick any clearer than her name does."
747* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' suggested [[http://xkcd.com/311/ an all-action action movie]] called "[[{{Series/Firefly}} River Tam]] Beats Up Everyone."
748* In Chapter 3 of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'', Isaac wears a T-shirt with "CLOTHING" written across it. Clothing-brand clothing.
749* ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' features a superhero named Rocket Hat. Guess what his superpower is.
750* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', a pair of adventurers have collected a wide array of {{curse}}s from a dungeon crawl called the Cursewalk. Bowst (the fighter) adds that he wasn't expecting that, to what Forgath retorts that the name "Cursewalk" should have tipped him off.
751* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
752** The setting is pretty lazy about its location names. There's the Northern Continent (it's to the north), the Southern Continent (it's to the south), the Western Continent (''guess''), Greysky City (it rains a lot), Cliffport (a port on a cliff), Redmountain Hills (lots of hills and mountains, all red), the Oracle of Sunken Valley (he lives in Sunken Valley, which is itself pretty self-explanatory), so on and so on. This is pretty much the same as real life; most locations have blandly descriptive names, even if they're in a foreign language and seem more interesting.
753** Played for laughs in the Kickstarter-backer story ''How the Paladin Got His Scar''. All of the Southern Continent was once under the control of the Ancient Empire, before it splintered into the modern countries (including Azure City, where much of the plot takes place). No one knows why they called themselves the Ancient Empire.
754* In one of the tie-in comics to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', "WAR!", a visit to the messy, paranoid BLU Soldier leads to a shotgun pointed over an overturned table and the ultimatum that if they are not a tomato soup wholesaler or a new delivery man from the rib place, the interloper is in for a world of hurt. Close inspection of some of the boxes and containers on the floor reveals that the Soldier is, indeed, a longtime customer of an establishment called "THE RIB PLACE".
755* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': Sarda's "spell that hurts Black Mage".
756-->'''Black Mage''': When Sarda casts a spell to hurt you and you learn that spell, you learn to ''cast a spell that hurts you''.
757[[/folder]]
758
759[[folder:Web Original]]
760* The final round in ''Podcast/PappysFlatshareSlamdown'' is the Quick-Fire Round. The standard opening lines for that round's [[OverlyLongGag very slow jingle]] sums it up: "This is the quick-fire round. It's a round that goes really quickly".
761* The Antagonists in ''Roleplay/BattleActionHaremHighschoolSideCharacterQuest'' are an alien force invading Earth.
762* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' has the Evil League of Evil, led by Bad Horse. He's bad. And a horse.
763* The Dutch Gamesite named Gamekings once had an item named: A look into the kitchen of Rockstar (which besides the literal meaning means something like: A look behind the scenes of Rockstar) Little did viewers know that they indeed showed the kitchen of the Rockstar studios.
764* Parodied by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob, when he comments on a film titled ''Death Bed: The Bed That Eats'', that he and everybody else in the world should know what to expect. [[spoiler:Turns out it's an artsploitation flick with pretensions of seriousness and relatively minimal gore. It ''does'' have a bed that eats, at least.]]
765* One episode of ''WebVideo/AgentsOfCracked'' has Swaim being asked to make a Facebook for the site, and he assumes this trope is in effect. The result screams, faintly, in its bloody box. They end up having an intern make "the other kind" of Facebook instead.
766* Subverting this is something of a meme on 4chan, where users will deliberately misname images as a joke (e.g. a .gif of Jackie Chan punching a guy will be labeled as "Bruce Lee Practices a [[Franchise/KamenRider rider kick]]," and the like).
767* A sketch by WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun mentions the film ''Film/ThreeHundred [[ParallelPornTitles People Having Sex]]''. Pretty straightforward, even for porn.
768* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' readers retitle movies in this manner in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_130_if-movie-titles-were-honest/ If Movie Titles Were Honest]].
769* Kneecapper from ''WebVideo/SuperAcademy'', who wields a sledgehammer. Now consider that he's an [[GoodIsNotNice aspiring superhero...]]
770%%* Some of [[Website/TVTropes this wiki's]] trope titles.
771* LetsPlay/ManyATrueNerd has his ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' Kill Everything run, where he plays ''Fallout: New Vegas''... and kills everything.
772* A great many Website/SCPFoundation objects are EXACTLY what they say on the tin. The [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 Hard-To-Destroy Reptile]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 a Machine]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-115 a Miniature Dump Truck]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-513 a Cowbell]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-028 Knowledge]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-387 living LEGO]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-668 the 13 Inch Chef's Knife]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 a Ball of Green Slime]]...
773* ''WebVideo/{{Dad}}'': Dad works at Work, eats canned food called "Food", shops at Store, and may even go out to eat at the Restaurant with his family, Mom and Daughter.
774* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Frozen Flame", the court mage known as Mr. Storm of course uses lightning and thunder as his main powers.
775* ''WebVideo/PissedOffAngryGamer'': He calls his [[Platform/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] the [=ShitCube=]. The reason? Because [[SuddenlyShouting IT'S A PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!]]
776* In an early ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'' episode, the characters are brought on-board with the quest by [[BetterThanABareBulb making a joke of the fact]] that the MacGuffin objective can somehow meet ''all'' of their individual, completely-disparate personal goals. This leads to it being dubbed later The Chalice Of Everything Everyone Ever Wanted [[labelnote:*]]This actually becomes significant later when Prudence discovers she can't barter with the enemy they encounter to hand it over - it's The Chalice Of Everything Everyone Ever Wanted, it's ''all they ever wanted''[[/labelnote]].
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