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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