Line #22 PlayingWith/PokemonSpeak


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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