1 | '''Basic Trope''': Fictional creatures are only able to say their own name. |
2 | * '''Straight''': The Tropana is a species of birds only able to say their name, "Tropana". |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Every living thing on Earth communicates by only saying their name. EVERY. LIVING. THING. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': The Tropana speaks normal English and their name is a VerbalTic in most senses. |
5 | * '''Justified''': [[VerbalTicName Tropanas were named after the sound they made]]. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** Tropanas are capable of full human speech, but they are forbidden to say their own name. |
8 | ** Bob can only say the name of whoever or whatever he's talking to. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': A character assumes the bird's name is "Tropana", since it's the only thing is says. Turns out it's a Parrot. |
10 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
11 | ** A character assumes the bird's name is "Tropana", since it's the only thing is says. Turns out it's a Parrot, but the locals call it a "Tropana." |
12 | ** Then the character meets the parrot's owner and it turns out that "Tropana" is the parrot's name. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': |
14 | ** A new species of Tropana-mon is named [[SymbolSwearing %&$#?@!]]. The researcher explains that that's the sound they make. |
15 | ** All animals in the work vocalize their names, so dogs go "Dog!" and pigeons coo "Pigeon". Even the humans can only say "Human!" |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
17 | ** On some episodes, Tropanas can only say their name; others, they make normal animal sounds and in yet others they speak English. |
18 | ** Tropanas [[EloquentInTheirNativeTongue actually have a very detailed and articulate language]]: it's just that "Tropana' is their equivalent the word "the" and [[StarfishLanguage the rest of it is too high or low in pitch for humans to hear.]] |
19 | * '''Averted''': Tropanas make regular bird sounds. |
20 | * '''Enforced''': In the original dub, the Tropanas only said the Japanese word for something icky. Rather than translate, the American distributor dubbed the harmless nonsense word used for the bird's name. |
21 | * '''Lampshaded''': "How come all that bird ever says is its own name?" |
22 | * '''Invoked''': Bob purposely only says the word "Bob". |
23 | * '''Exploited''': Alice grabs a Tropana and gets it to speak its name, which happens to be the password to the secret base. |
24 | * '''Defied''': One of the Tropanas teaches himself how to speak fluent Japanese. |
25 | * '''Discussed''': "If you hear an animal make a sound, it's probably the name of that animal." |
26 | * '''Conversed''': "I can understand animals named after the sound they produce, but animals saying their name even though it's clearly based on a word of the english language? Ridiculous!" |
27 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
28 | ** A new Tropana-mon species can speak English, because its name [[OverlyLongName contains the entire English language]]. |
29 | ** [[PoorCommunicationKills The species can't communicate effectively because their 'language' only consists of a single word with a very small amount of syllables, all of this also being true for any scientists hoping to study the species and their methods of communication.]] |
30 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
31 | ** A little girl points at a Tropana and calls it a Parrot; all the Tropanas start saying "Parrot" instead, and the bird is later renamed. |
32 | ** The species has multiple ways of communication [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome much like any real species would have,]] including body language, pheromones, the use of emphasis and emotion when saying certain syllables, and possibly more. |
33 | * '''Played For Laughs''': The [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Chrononhotonthologos]] is a species of birds only able to say their name, "Chrononhotonthologos" |
34 | * '''Played For Drama''': Bob can only say "Bob". As such, when he tries to give the password to introduce himself in an enemy base, he says "Bob". [[BreadEggsMilkSquick He is immediately recognized and brutally murdered]]. |
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