Line #16 PlayingWith/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin


1	'''Basic Trope''': The title of a work tells you ''exactly'' what the work is about.
2	* '''Straight''': A film called ''Bob Becomes a Zombie'' is about Bob becoming a zombie.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** The film is called ''A Guy Named Bob Is Bitten by a Zombie and Turns into One Himself'' … which is literally all that happens in the film.
5	** The film is titled ''Three Hundred Twenty-five Zombies Escape from Eternal Imprisonment under the Island of Java, Two of Which Bite a Lawyer Named Bob, Causing Him to Turn into a Zombie Himself, Whereupon He Rampages through UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and Destroys Two Gift Shops, a Supermarket, Blows up an SUV, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Doesn’t Brush His Teeth Afterward]], Forcing His Friend Alice to Chase after Him for an Hour until She Defeats All of the Other Zombies Using a Magical Sword She Found at a Strange Antique Shop and Returns Bob to His Original Form''.
6	** The title is literally the entire script of the film.
7	* '''Downplayed''': ''Zombie Adventures'' is a fairly Administrivia/SelfExplanatory title, but you have to watch the film to learn just what those adventures entail.
8	* '''Justified''': Bob is a very important figure and the film wants to document and inform the masses about this transformation perfectly.
9	* '''Inverted''':
10	** The film is actually about a zombie becoming a guy named Bob.
11	** NonIndicativeName
12	** The film is called ''Bob Becomes a Zombie'', but it includes neither zombies nor characters named Bob.
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** Bob goes through several stages of the transformation, but then [[WesternAnimation/VeggieTales turns into a tomato.]]
15	** ''Bob Becomes a Zombie'' begins with a scene where Bob is bitten by a zombie, but it turns out to be [[AllJustADream Bob’s dream]] and the rest of the movie is about something else.
16	** ArtifactTitle
17	* '''Double Subverted''':
18	** …and ''then'' he turns into a zombie. The tomato form was just an odd stage of the metamorphosis.
19	*** Alternatively: What he turned into was a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs zombie tomato.]]
20	** Bob lives InAWorld where YourMindMakesItReal, and the first time he appears on camera again, he ''has'' begun transforming into an undead being.
21	* '''Parodied''':
22	** A WordSaladTitle perfectly describes the TV show to which it is attached.
23	** SesquipedalianLoquaciousness describes something perfectly when expressed in LaymansTerms.
24	* '''Zig-Zagged''':
25	** ...Actually, a zombie was just one of the later stages of the complete metamorphosis. Bob then turns into a potato.
26	** Some scenes revolve around Bob’s infection while others are about [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus something completely different]].
27	* '''Averted''': The film is named ''[[ProtagonistTitle Bob]]''. The title is related to the film, but you wouldn’t be able to tell what it’s about without watching it.
28	* '''Enforced''':
29	** [[ViewersAreMorons “How will people know what the show is about without an accurate name?”]]
30	** The Authors [[WritersBlock ran out of clever ideas for a title]], so they summarize the [[ExcusePlot plot that excuses all of the action and events in the story]] in 3 words as a title.
31	* '''Lampshaded''': [[NoFourthWall “The title clearly states ‘Bob Becomes a Zombie!’ What did you think would happen?”]]
32	* '''Invoked''': “We want to make sure the audience isn’t confused when watching this … Let’s give it a descriptive name!”
33	* '''Exploited''': Alice has [[MediumAwareness an ironclad excuse]] to keep her gun pointed at Bob all day long.
34	* '''Defied''': “Damn it, no! I won’t let that stupid title be true!”
35	* '''Discussed''': "So, there is the movie ''Bob Becomes a Zombie'' and the plot is what the title says.” “Yup. ''[[SarcasmMode Real]]'' [[SarcasmMode genius idea for a title, people]].”
36	* '''Conversed''': [[SarcasmMode “I]] ''[[SarcasmMode love]]'' [[SarcasmMode when movie titles say exactly what the events of the movie are.”]]
37	* '''Deconstructed''':
38	** Bob was the SoleSurvivor of a ZombieApocalypse and has just been bitten; the film goes into detail about how tragic living like a zombie is as he struggles through his infection.
39	** Bob doesn’t turn into a zombie until the very end, making the [[SpoilerTitle title a spoiler]].
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41	Back to ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, [[SelfDemonstratingArticle the trope in which a name or title of something that tells you all about on what it's about]].
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43	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
44	%%* '''Implied''': ???
45	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
46	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
47	%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???

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