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5	[[caption-width-right:291:If it's all-seeing, then why isn't it traumatized already? Surely it's seen all the carnage going on.]]
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7	->''The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.''
8	-->-- ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
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10	Something, often a company, that is described with an adjective in the title that is entirely at odds with what it actually does. Commonly, something evil will be paired with a nice-sounding adjective. This also applies when the title's implications are opposed to what the company/organization/EvilOverlord does. Basically, when you apply a completely inappropriate adjective to something ([[VillainWithGoodPublicity often to make it seem better]]), that's this trope. Look for characters exclaiming "Hey...this isn't happy!" or something similar.
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12	Oppressive dictatorships in fiction (especially [[BananaRepublic tiny ones]]) will have long names incorporating the words [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "Free," "Democratic," "Republic," "of the People," or any combination thereof.]]
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14	This is a NewSpeak trope. There is usually a rather pointed takeaway for the audience about the people doing the naming: a society that uses vicious irony like this is never, ''ever'' nice or just misunderstood.
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16	For ''objects'' of doom that masquerade as harmless objects, see HappyFunBall or the more prosaic ArtifactOfDoom.
17
18	!!Compare with:
19	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Evildoers take offense to someone describing an evil deed with an accurate term.
20	* DeadlyEuphemism: This trope as applied to death or murder.
21	* DeceptivelySillyTitle
22	* FluffyTheTerrible: Also a trope where something fearsome has a harmless name; generally, though, FluffyTheTerrible tends to be silly or goofy, whereas Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom tends to be a lot darker.
23	* HappyFunBall: A trope where something's ''appearance'' doesn't match its function.
24	* HonestJohnsDealership: Many examples of that trope apply this to themselves, as evidenced by the trope name.
25	* KillerRabbit: A critter whose cuteness doesn't match its deadliness.
26	* NonindicativeName: For broader cases of name not matching reality.
27	* OminousMundanity: Where the name is neither deceptively pleasant nor needlessly terrifying, just (eerily) utilitarian.
28	* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: This trope as applied to a corporation.
29	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: This trope as applied to a country or government.
30	* SchmuckBait: When a name is a transparent and pathetic attempt, if an attempt is made at all, to make something look good, but it still looks glaringly suspicious. Alternatively, it attempts to warn about something horrible, but that very attempt attracts people.
31	* SubvertedKidsShow
32	* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment turns out to be much worse than it initially appears to be.
33	* TotallyNotACriminalFront: A criminal organization masquerading as a legitimate business.
34
35	!!Contrast with:
36	* DeathbringerTheAdorable: The inverse of this trope, where something harmless has a fearsome name.
37	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
38	* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace
39	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
40	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Most likely what the "evil" corporation wanted to achieve with the name.
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42	----
43	!!Examples
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46	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
47	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has the nice sounding Island of Paradis [[spoiler:which is the place where the three Walls are situated]], in reality [[spoiler:it's infested with possibly thousands of mindless man-eating Titans]], thus the phrase "Being sent to Paradise" means [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream being transformed into a mindless human-devouring monster to roam the island for all eternity]]]].
48	* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'':
49	** The Summer of Love was a worldwide catastrophe that sparked tremendous conflict and civil war. It is feared that, if it is allowed to occur, the Second Summer of Love could mean TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
50	** Also, the research station that performs inhumane and usually fatal experiments on teenage girls is nicknamed "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dolls Joy Division]]" by the scientists there.
51	* The F.L.E.I.A. in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is named for Freya, the Norse goddess of love and beauty. Its function is to create a huge SphereOfDestruction using a combination of nuclear fission and [[GreenRocks Sakuradite]].
52	* The bad guys of ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' are the "Friendship Democratic Party". They're a front for an evil [[BigBad cult]].
53	* ''Flying Ghost Ship'' has a very cheerful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F26V72seAAM advertisment]] for the "Boa Juice". Which melts people alive.
54	* The [[ImplacableMan Satchi]], cyber law-enforcers in ''Anime/DenNohCoil''. They look like giant brown standing peanuts with smiley-faces painted on. [[NightmareFuel Yeah]].
55	* This has to be the only reason [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] ordered monsters from ''Holy'' Nightmare in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''. It doesn't help that a few of the soon-to-be-gigantic enemies ''are'' [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter pretty cute]] [[KillerRabbit at first]].
56	* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'': When you hear the words "Moonlight Butterfly", your first thought is probably something beautiful and harmless. And while it is indeed rather beautiful in action, it also happens to be an unstoppable apocalypse weapon capable of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending all human civilization]]... and [[AfterTheEnd it's already done so at least once]].
57	* The "Friendship and Rapport Training Camp" in ''Manga/FoodWars''. It sounds like fun, and the flyer that goes out to the first-year students that are going there is very cute, with a little cartoon chef mascot and everything! And then you remember that this is ''Tootsuki'', one of the most elite and brutal cooking schools in the world, and that the "training camp" is a week-long meatgrinder of non-stop training courses, arranged by some of the INCREDIBLY rare alumni of the school. It's revealed that up to ''half'' of the first-years in every generation of students are eliminated and expelled in this first hurdle ''alone''.
58	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The Human Auctioning House in the Sabaody Archipelago where nobles and other rich folks can buy slaves despite the fact that slavery has been deemed illegal for centuries is known as the "Public Employment Security Office" by the Marines.
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61	[[folder:Fan Works]]
62	* The "Merry-Go-Round" in the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', an immense techno-organic tower to which the prisoners of [[LegionOfDoom Dead End]] are not bound, but ''grafted''. [[spoiler:Its purpose is to use the unending agony of the hundreds of captive magical girls to cause an [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Omniversal Metaphysical Negation]].]]
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65	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
66	* The Lemarchand puzzle boxes from ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''. Their real name is the Lament Configuration.
67	* Consumer Recreation Services in ''Film/TheGame1997''.
68	* In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', the plantation of a particularly sadistic slaveowner, Calvin Candie, is called "Candyland".
69	* The German movie ''Film/TheColony2016'' takes place in the compound of a {{Cult}} that's set up shop in a secluded area of the Chilean Andes. The place in question is called "Colonia Dignidad," which translates to Dignity Colony.
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72	[[folder:Live Action TV]]
73	* In season two of ''[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'', Earth's government actually creates a Ministry of Peace (or [[DoubleSpeak minipax]] [[ShoutOut as they like to call it]]). The results are predictable.
74	* In ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', of all places, X the Owl suggests that bombs should be renamed to "Surprise Treats."
75	* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'': President Charles Lindbergh and Rabbi Bengelsdorf use benign rhetoric and naming conventions to obscure their true intention of stripping American Jews of their cultural identity because they're seen as aliens who are not American enough. Bengelsdorf runs Lindbergh's "Office on American Absorption," tasked with "absorbing" Jews into American society, even though they're already Americans. An initiative to indoctrinate Jewish boys by sending them to live on Midwest farms is called "Just Folks."
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78	[[folder:Literature]]
79	* Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': Is all about twisting language to guide thought.
80	** The government has four chief buildings: The Ministry of Truth, in charge of propaganda, the Ministry of Peace, in charge of the military, the Ministry of Plenty, in charge of rationing supplies, and the Ministry of Love, in charge of torturing prisoners.
81	** The tyrannical government is called Big Brother.
82	** The appendix notes that "joycamp" is the Newspeak term for a forced-labor camp.
83	* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series loves this one. The eponymous sword's magic doesn't operate based on truth, but on the wielder's perceptions, whether or not they're accurate. A "death spell" doesn't kill people; it's used to save their life. And a "maternity spell" is nothing tender or nurturing; it's used to take the target hostage by creating {{Synchronization}} between the caster and the target. It's even lampshaded when one of the characters reflects on the fact that she suggested to the BigBad he start styling himself "Emperor Jagang the Just".
84	* The trade paperback of Jhonen Vasquez' ''Squee'' series is called ''Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors'', and not without reason.
85	* Mocked in ''Literature/AmericaTheBook'' by Creator/JonStewart, which contains a chart demonstrating how as the Congo's "Inherent Lies in Name" increased, so did its oppression level.
86	-->''Sub-saharan Africa's largest nation has grown more oppressive over the decades, and its name has kept pace.\
87	Congo. Lies in name; 0. Oppression level; bloody.\
88	Republic of the Congo. Lies in name; 1. Oppression level; sadistic.\
89	Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lies in name; 2. Oppression level; genocidal.\
90	People's Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lies in name; 3. Oppression level; inhuman.\
91	Shiny Happy People's Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lies in name; 5. Oppression level; hide.''
92	* In the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers' novel ''Literature/HardToBeAGod'', a lot a villages are renamed from their WretchedHive names to this trope. Perhaps in hopes it will make them better.
93	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' gives us The Sharing, an organization full of nice, friendly people who do charity work and have a great time doing it. And after you are initiated, a parasitic alien crawls into your ear and you are a slave to the invading alien race.
94	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
95	** [[TownWithADarkSecret Harfang]] is said to be the home of the only "[[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]]" of the far north. [[ToServeMan Don't believe it for one second]].
96	** The "Island Where Dreams Come True" -- not daydreams, ''[[RealDreamsAreWeirder dreams]]'', with [[NightmareSequence all that that entails]].
97	* In "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" from ''Literature/GodelEscherBach'', the Tortoise was promised by a fortune teller "a stroke of Good Fortune," and it happens to him and Achilles in the form of one "Hexachlorophene J. Goodfortune, Kidnapper-At-Large, and Devourer of Tortoises par Excellence."
98	* In ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'', the world is protected by "Peace Rays," invented by none other than UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla himself.
99	* In the novel ''The Tomorrow File'' the United States TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture renames the government departments. The Department of Defense is called the Department of Peace. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare becomes the Department of Bliss. Other departments are also renamed. These names are determined by "The Office of Linguistic Truth".
100	* Hologram Fun World, in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' and a few other parts of the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. It's an amusement park, but attendance has been suffering and [[spoiler: the BigBad is testing his [[IKnowWhatYouFear Nightmare Machine]] on the few people still coming.]]
101	* In ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'', the evil organization is the [[ScaleOfScientificSins National Institute of Coordinated Experiments]], or [[FunWithAcronyms N.I.C.E.]] Naturally, they're not very nice at all.
102	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
103	** The role of the Peacekeepers [[PoliceBrutality isn't as sweet as it sounds]]. (Bit like in RealLife, then?)
104	** Everything surrounding the Hunger Games is treated as fun and entertaining by the Capitol, where becoming a tribute is seen as an honor. The Career Districts (1, 2, and 4) also share the same opinion, to the point that Reapings reportedly have to include voting because so many kids want to volunteer themselves. To everyone from the other Districts, however, they're seen as what they really ''are'': horrible {{deadly game}}s where parents are regularly forced to see their kids battle to the death just to hammer in the idea how powerless they are.
105	* ''Literature/OneNationUnderJupiter'': Camp Piety, where children suspected of atheism are tortured.
106	* The YA novel ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'' features Treehouse, a preschool with a sterling reputation, which has been in operation for nearly twenty years. There, kids play wholesome-sounding games like "TV-star" and "hide-and-seek." [[spoiler:Treehouse is actually a toddler sex ring. "TV-star" is where the kids are forced to perform sex acts on camera, and for this version of hide and seek, the kids have to take off their clothes.]]
107	* ''Franchise/{{Pinocchio}}'''s book and movie incarnations include the location "Pleasure Island", where young boys are allowed to indulge their every whim until being magically transformed into donkeys and sold to be worked to death.
108	* According to the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Fools' Guild Diary'', the Guild enforcers -- who deal with Fools who break the very serious rules of clowning with terminal slapstick -- are officially known as the Jolly Good Pals. They are ''unofficially'', and more accurately, known as the Bloody Fools.
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111	[[folder:Music]]
112	* "Super Duper Meteor" from Music/LemonDemon's ''Dinosaurchestra''.
113	* "Chain Gang of Love" from Music/TheRaveonettes' album of the same name.
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116	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
117	* Wrestling/{{Raven}} has invented his own variation on the [[GarbageWrestler hardcore match]], which he's dubbed the "[[Literature/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]] House of Fun", which he's challenged several opponents to in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{TNA}}.
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119
120	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
121	* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' spell "Nybor's Joyful Voyage". That Nybor also devised a whole ''line'' of AgonyBeam spells can be counted as a subtle hint. It [[TeleFrag unsafely teleports]] one victim to a random place 1-100 miles away from the point of origin (including straight up and down).
122	--> The "joyful" nature of Nybor's voyage refers to the joy of the spell's caster rather than that of its target.
123	** The AgonyBeam spells also fall into this trope. "Gentle reminder," which inflicts intense pain, "mild admonishment," which causes prolonged torture, and "stern reproof," which is so painful it can kill its target. By the time you get to wrathful castigation, it's time to be afraid.
124	* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': Alpha Complex practices this trope heavily, with flowery euphemisms for mind-control drugs and a brutal bloodsport called [=FunBall=]. At the same time, though, the most dangerous things in Alpha Complex tend to have absolutely honest and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast deeply intimidating]] names.
125	* In ''TabletopGame/AdeptusEvangelion'', the weapons company HELIOS manufactures a MASER pistol for Evangelion use. The design puts massive strain on the weapon's internal battery, occasionally causing what HELIOS advertises as a "bonus energy release." [[spoiler:It explodes.]]
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Video Games]]
129	* ''VideoGame/FableII'' features a mission to become Super Best Friends with Chesty the treasure chest, who has [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant a rather twisted idea of what constitutes "fun"]].
130	** Chesty returns for another side quest in ''Fable III'''
131	* Future Fun Land in ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''. Giant stone spikes, electric fences and spaceships shooting at the player character are probably not what most people would expect from the "fun" part of the name.
132	* Peaceful Pier in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' is anything but peaceful due to sharks and a pirate ship firing cannonballs at you. Though, it could just mean that the pier is peaceful--the ocean is not.
133	* In the pre-console days, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Evil Otto]] of ''Berzerk!'' was a bouncing, smiley "have a nice day" face which was trying to kill you. So great is Evil Otto's urge to destroy the Humanoid that he will literally steamroll over his allies just to get a shot at you -- grinning all the while. His hatred was so great that he'd go through the electric death walls to get to you, curse his bright smiliness.
134	* ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' features a building that appears to be [[strike: a local branch]] the headquarters of the [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain Outstanding Citizens]] Warehouse Corporation. It is an immense, [[AbandonedWarehouse run-down warehouse]] where a sim may [[EqualOpportunityEvil join]], and advance through the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation criminal career]].
135	* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has the "Survival Mode". As they say on the poster, "It doesn't end well."
136	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': Each of the Bowser minigames has a cheery-sounding ExcitedEpisodeTitle like "Funstacle Course!" or "Treasure Dome!", but they're all horrible obstacle courses with scary music and Bowser's minions shooting fire at you.
137	* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'':
138	** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': Peaceful Rest Valley is populated mostly by alien invaders, killer robots, and exploding trees. And when you consider "peaceful rest" probably refers to [[DeadlyEuphemism the likely fate of anyone who blunders in...]]
139	** ''VideoGame/Mother3'' features the following sign:
140	-->"Tower of Love and Peace. Stay away!" [[spoiler:sign for the Tower of Thunder, which zaps people's houses if they don't obey Porky]]
141	* The Hidden Fun Stuff of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''. [[spoiler:DemonicInvaders that attack your fortress if you [[DugTooDeep dig too deep]].]]
142	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Professor Putricide's Laboratory of Alchemical Horrors and Fun. [[ThatOneBoss It's not that fun.]]
143	* From ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', we have [[MegaCorp Shinra Inc's]] Public Safety Maintenance Department, just a fancy euphemism for the company's [[EvilArmy army]] and police force. Said department has a sub-branch known as The Investigative Division of General Affairs {{Department\|OfRedundancyDepartment}}, a.k.a. [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Turks]], highly skilled special agents that perform black ops on behalf of the corporation, including kidnappings and assassinations.
144	* ''VideoGame/OurDarkerPurpose''. Anything with a pleasant-seeming name can be safely expected to be malevolent, dangerous, or at least unpleasant, but special points must go to [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Caring Friends]]]].
145	* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' has an [[MadScientist Inquest]] lab called The Funhouse.
146	* The ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Modern Warfare 2]]'' mission "Exodus" takes place in an upper class suburb known as {{Arcadia}}, a few miles away from Washington D.C. Arcadia was the ancient Greek kingdom that was supposed be in a peaceful wilderness. Here, it's [[SceneryGorn a hotly contested war-zone between the U.S. and Ultranationalist Russian armies.]]
147	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' features the titular Peace Walker, a giant mech with nuclear launch capability and is set to "Fail Deadly"(as in, if it loses it's signal to NORAD, it launches a nuclear strike, assuming NORAD has been wiped out). The name comes from the idea that it's the "Perfect Deterrent" to nuclear war and thus guarantees Peace.
148	* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': The island prison where the [[LightIsNotGood Divine Order]] takes Sourcerers to inflict a FateWorseThanDeath is named Fort Joy.
149	* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': In the Demon Path, after taking over the Kingdom of Orviska, declaring it the base for their [[TheEmpire evil empire]], and crowning themself as its [[EvilOverlord Devourlord]], Revya is forced to sleep to recuperate, allowing Gig to take control of their body. When they wake up forty-four days later, they find out that Gig decided to name their empire the "BFF Empire". Everyone thinks it's lame, but Gig refuses to change the name and Revya just accepts it.
150	* The Vaults of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', advertisement featuring the Vaults show them as safe havens to protect its occupants from nuclear destruction, and they can enjoy comfortable living standards for years. In truth only a hand full of them work as advertised, the rest of the Vaults are used as controlled experiments meant to test its subjects on numerous experiments raging from the mundane, to inhumanely cruel. Leading to some Vaults having their occupants getting killed from them.
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153	[[folder:Web Original]]
154	* WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn travels to Candy Mountain... only to [[spoiler:[[OrganTheft have his kidney stolen]]]] when he goes inside.
155	* [[http://patpend.net/articles/zd/quotes.html This quote]]:
156	--> What the HELL is up with these candy companies? Little teeny bars are called "Fun Size".. Damn, What's so fun about a smaller candybar?!?
157	** [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] makes the same joke in ''The House That Gave Sucky Treats''.
158	* The Equestrians from ''Roleplay/VoidOfTheStars'' use rainbow weapons. These are used to destroy starships and bombard planets.
159	* The Venezuelan satirical blog ''[[Blog/ElChiguireBipolar Chigüire Bipolar]]'' has the article [[http://www.elchiguirebipolar.net/11-09-2013/maduro-confundio-plan-de-la-patria-con-copia-de-1984-de-orwell/ Maduro confuses the "Homeland's Plan" [i.e. the government plan] with Orwell's 1984]], over the creation of the "Newscast of Truth" in RealLife.
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162	[[folder:Webcomics]]
163	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
164	** {{ZigZagg\|ingTrope}}ed with "Fun-sized mobile agony and death dispensers", the official name of what are commonly called [[MechanicalMonster "devil dogs"]]. It should be noted that given the propensities of the Heterodyne Family "Fun-size" being mechanical horrors the size of a bear is only to be expected. Just imagine if they'd been made by the Wulfenbach clan...
165	** Also, the Happy Fun Ball Of Death, which apparently stalks the castle in a week-long cycle.
166	--->'''Ball:''' Clung! Clung!
167	--->'''Agatha:''' Why do I even ''have'' one of those?
168	--->'''Tiktoffen:''' Huh. I ''wondered'' where that went on Tuesdays.
169	--->'''Zola:''' ''Gillll!''
170	** Gil at one point used a fabric-destroying grenade called the Wacky Weave Destabilizer on Zeetha, who was fortunately wearing special underwear. He had wanted to destroy her ChainMailBikini with a Jolly Fun-Time Oxidation Enhancer.
171	* Done by Ridley in ''Webcomic/PlanetZebeth'', with his bar's Super Happy Fun Slide. It is a slide, but the wall above the entrance disguises the fact that it leads down to a deep-fryer; any small enemies who enter the slide are cooked up and served to hungry bar patrons. Amazingly, none of the minions notice the deception; presumably due to the state of its riders, word-of-mouth recognition of the slide is based solely on its name.
172	* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' has [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-05-14 National Perfection Agency]], [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-07-26 Beelze-Bud]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2010-04-12 Illumi-nicey (the New Illuminati Logo)]].
173	* In a strip of ''Help Desk'', in an attempt to get a better public image, The Dark Lord of Ubersoft legally changes his name to "Mr. Bunny, the Hoppy Computer Guy." It doesn't really work.
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176	[[folder:Web Video]]
177	* In the second campaign of ''Webvideo/CriticalRole'', Jester and Nott concoct a plan blow up some black powder with an explosive arrow to cause a ''massive'' explosion, and call the plan "Flutternutter" . With such a cute name, they are very motivated to use it.
178	** In the same campaign, the group acquires a sphere that serves as a portal to a demiplane where time moves faster that served as the abode of a powerful mage, with many, ''many'' traps and dangers. It's officially known as the Archmage's Bane. The group's name for it? The ''Happy Fun Ball.''
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181	[[folder:Western Animation]]
182	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
183	** Mom's Friendly Surveillance Company
184	** In the episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles":
185	--->'''Farnsworth:''' Teddy Bear Junction: [[WretchedHive The worst scum hole in the galaxy.]]
186	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
187	** "Ooh! Super fun happy slide!" [[SchmuckBait (which just happens to lead into a pit full of vampires)]]
188	** Also, Motherloving Sugar Corporation. Named for its founder, Garth Motherloving, formerly Garth Hitler.
189	*** Which also somewhat doubles as a form of GoshDangitToHeck. Three guesses what the "loving" part ''really'' is supposed to be...
190	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. "Fun box, oh fun box, so small and square and dark. Fun box, oh fun box, check out these cool fun locks, hey!"
191	** In fact, anything to do with Flappy Bob and his two assistants, Happy Peppy Gary and Happy Peppy Betty.
192	* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'', Shanks takes the crew on a "bonding mission" to hunt {{Chupacabra}} on "Happy Fun-Time Island", which is infested with talking tree cobras.
193	-->'''Quinn:''' "Happy Fun-Time"? Who the hell named this island?\
194	'''Shanks:''' Franchise/{{Rambo}}.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Real Life]]
198	* In 1974, India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi joined the [[UsefulNotes/TheRestOfTheNuclearClub the nuclear club]], with a test dubbed ''Smiling Buddha''.
199	* The UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution's Committee of Public Safety. By "Safety" they meant ReignOfTerror. [[HaveAGayOldTime Though at that time]], the meaning of the phrase "public safety" meant "[[WellIntentionedExtremist the greater good]]" and signified the state of emergency they were under.
200	* Many [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny totalitarian regimes]] use this sort of technique as a form of propaganda. See MaximumFunChamber, PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.
201	** Stalin's USSR had "the ultimate act of social security." Guess what that means? [[spoiler:Death penalty]]. Later, they realized how stupid it sounds and changed the legal formula to the much more appropriate-sounding "ultimate act of punishment." More infamously, ThoseWackyNazis similarly referred to UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust as the "FinalSolution" (to the "Jewish problem").
202	* It's very common, at least in the U.S.A. and its member states, for legislation to be given names that are either unrelated to the legislation in question or, often, actually in contradiction to what the legislation does, purely for propaganda uses. This is especially common if the act in question is written by or for powerful business interests. Examples include things like "The Clean Water Act" or "The Job Creation Act" or "The [[FunWithAcronyms USA PATRIOT Act]]". After all... who would want to vote against something called "The Clean Skies and Fair Treatment for Innocent Victims Act" or the "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act"?
203	%%** Joe Biden's infamous "Inflation Reduction Act" does absolutely nothing to reduce inflation, and quite a lot of things that actually ''increase'' it!
204	** The British Parliament gets around this by naming acts in BeigeProse, always of the form "General Topic (Optional Specific Subtopic) Act Year".
205	** In recent years there has also been a trend in the U.S. toward informally assigning girls' names to legislation (usually laws concerning punishment and/or registration of convicted sex offenders); e.g., "Megan's Law," "Jessica's Law." (Combines this trope with ThinkOfTheChildren as well as MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome).
206	*** The girl's name thing tends to be that the law is named after a girl who fell victim to the specific thing the law is addressing (for example, "Amber Alert" isn't specifically named after the color "amber", but Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered).
207	%%** In Israel, there was a proposal named the "Law for the Protection of Written Journalism", which would have ordered the closure of any newspaper that falls under certain conditions fulfilled pretty much only by ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Hayom Israel Hayom]]'', one of the only right-wing newspapers in Israel. This is actually an interesting case of restricting press freedom, as it is the opposition trying to silence pro-government views.
208	* The National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 is this to some degree. On one hand, its most famous provision is one that allows warrantless indefinite detention for those suspected of terrorism in certain circumstances. However, most of the act actually really ''was'' about defense matters--that is, it was the annual appropriations act intended to keep the military fully supplied for the coming fiscal year.
209	* In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) decides whether or not a drug should be provided by the NHS -- so NICE can be responsible for denying life-prolonging treatments for reasons of expense... although sometimes they do this to avoid having to shut down care in areas that affect more people.
210	* A "screw you, [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil M.A.F.I.A.A.]]" project, mass implementation of which would cause the litigous sort of publishers either lobby prohibition of [=WiFi=] as we know it or weep in futility?
211	--> ...[[http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/27/piratebox-anonymous-1.html#comment-1008662 it should probably be called a "Togetherness Unicorn Pony Box" and be painted pink and blue to soothe the billy club bunch and avoid unfortunate incidents]].
212	* In France, it is frequent to add the epithet "social" to things… that are not. If you fire 1000 workers for the sake of profitability, call it a "social plan"; If you raise the VAT, making life more expensive for poorer consumers, call it the "social VAT", etc. Also, recently the term "videosurveillance" has been replaced by "videoprotection". [[BigBrotherIsWatching Reassuring, isn't it?]]
213	* [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Imperial Japan's]] department of biological and chemical warfare research is called the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department.
214	* Al-Qaeda puts out an English-language magazine called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_(magazine) Inspire]]''. Seriously.
215	* The United States' Department of War became the Department of Defense in 1947. It's arguable as to whether America has fought a truly ''defensive'' war since... ever.
216	** Technically speaking the Department of War became the Department of the Army (and arguably the Department of the Air Force). The Department of Defense took the War Department and the Navy Department's Cabinet seats (there was no department that ran all the military branches at the same time after the creation of the Navy Department in 1798[[note]]The War Department was created eight years earlier as one of the three original Cabinet Departments. The others were State and Treasury. The Attorney General was in the original Cabinet, but he didn't get a Justice Department to run until 1870.[[/note]] until 1947) and became their boss.
217	* The planned "Data Protection Agreement" between the EU and the US. The goal is to grant US agencies legal wholesale access to data on European citizens (suspicious or not, nevermind).
218	* Although short-lived, the Venezuelan government created the 'Newscast of Truth', a very much not balanced news space on forced broadcast in national TV.
219	* The infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Baviera Colonia Dignidad]] in Chile was a cult commune led by a Nazi pedophile priest; during UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet dictatorship, the place was also a front for a clandestine prison and torture center for political opponents. The place's name means "Dignity Colony".
220	* The U.S. has in its arsenal a nuclear missile that separates into ten warheads, each of which can take out a separate city, for a total of ten cities anihilated by a single missile. The missile's name: the Peacekeeper.
221	* The U.S. Department of Defense at one time measured the amount of radioactivity from strontium-90 (a radionuclide found in nuclear fallout) in a subject's body by the doublespeak term "sunshine units." Public ridicule of the term (partially brought on by Creator/GeorgeCarlin's routine about using euphemistic language) forced the [=DoD=] to change the term to the more accurate and less super happy fun "strontium units."
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