1 | Believe it or not, TropeNamers pop up in that thing you call "the real world," too. Technically RealLife names every trope, ever. |
2 | ---- |
3 | [[index]] |
4 | * FourOneNineScam |
5 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism |
6 | * AllBikersAreHellsAngels |
7 | * {{Anorgasmia}} |
8 | * ArtificialLimbs |
9 | * BattleCry |
10 | * TheBerserker |
11 | * BulletProofVest |
12 | * CannotTellALie (from a myth about UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington) |
13 | * CargoCult (natives conducting rituals to lure back the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII supply planes; famous for UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman's lecture on "Cargo Cult Science") |
14 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment (referencing the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) |
15 | * CoupDeGrace |
16 | * DeadMansHand: Named for the poker hand allegedly drawn by Wild Bill Hickock before he was shot in the back in Deadwood, South Dakota. |
17 | * DreamTeam: Named for the 1992 United States Olympic Men's Basketball team. |
18 | * DressCode |
19 | * DrinkingTheKoolAid ([[BeamMeUpScotty kinda]]; the substance used in the infamous Jonestown incident was actually Flavr-Aid) |
20 | * EnforcedColdWar |
21 | * FightingIrish ([[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootballConferences University of Notre Dame]]) |
22 | * FinalSolution ("Final Solution" was a euphemistic phrase used by the Nazis to refer to their genocide of Jews and other people) |
23 | * FoodFight |
24 | * ForceFeeding |
25 | * GiantSquid |
26 | * GrandfatherClause: The idiom comes out of a loophole written into the Jim Crow laws to the effect that anyone whose grandfather was able to vote didn't have to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test in order to vote. This ensured most whites could vote, but poor blacks couldn't and immigrants usually couldn't, either. |
27 | * GroinAttack |
28 | * HumanShield |
29 | * KnightTemplar (UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar) |
30 | * LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics (attributed to UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli and Creator/MarkTwain) |
31 | * LimaSyndrome |
32 | * LogicBomb |
33 | * AMatchMadeInStockholm (UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome) |
34 | * MatryoshkaObject |
35 | * {{Metapuzzle}} (Creator/CliffJohnson coined the term, though the trope itself existed since a few decades prior) |
36 | * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome |
37 | * MolotovCocktail |
38 | * MysteryMeat |
39 | * {{Narcissist}} (directly, though indirectly from Myth/ClassicalMythology) |
40 | * NeverNeedsSharpening |
41 | * NightmareDreams |
42 | * NoTrueScotsman |
43 | * OneRiotOneRanger (motto of the Texas Rangers) |
44 | * PanderingToTheBase |
45 | * PardoPush |
46 | * PirateBooty |
47 | * ThePlague |
48 | * PlausibleDeniability |
49 | * PoliceBrutality |
50 | * PoliceLineup |
51 | * ThePowerOfCheese |
52 | * PrisonRape |
53 | * RecursiveAcronym |
54 | * SawedOffShotgun |
55 | * TheScourgeOfGod (what UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan allegedly called himself) |
56 | * SerialKiller |
57 | * SnipeHunt |
58 | * TheSociopath |
59 | * SparseListOfRules (from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_array "sparse list,"]] a computer science technique used to efficiently manage large numbered lists with many elements missing) |
60 | * SwissArmyAppendage |
61 | * SwissArmyWeapon (after the ubiquitous Swiss Army knives) |
62 | * ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil (from the "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" PublicServiceAnnouncement) |
63 | * UncannyValley |
64 | * UncleSamWantsYou |
65 | * UnnecessaryRoughness (an actual term used by NFL referees) |
66 | * VaudevilleHook |
67 | * ViciousCycle |
68 | * WardrobeMalfunction (from the infamous UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XXXVIII performance by Music/JanetJackson and Music/JustinTimberlake) |
69 | * TheWarToEndAllWars (UsefulNotes/WorldWarI) |
70 | * WeaponOfMassDestruction (used to refer to any weapon of unknown nature that is very powerful) |
71 | |
72 | '''Individuals''' |
73 | * TheBarnum (P. T. Barnum) |
74 | * {{Bowdlerise}} (Thomas Bowdler) |
75 | * TheCaligula |
76 | * TheCasanova |
77 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower |
78 | * TheChrisCarterEffect (Creator/ChrisCarter) |
79 | * {{Cincinnatus}} |
80 | * TheDanza (Creator/TonyDanza... and Banta... and Micelli...) |
81 | * EEqualsMCHammer ([[{{Pun}} cross-reference]] to Music/MCHammer and UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein's theories of relativity) |
82 | * FinaglesLaw |
83 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff (Creator/DavidHasselhoff) |
84 | * GodivaHair |
85 | * IronLady (UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, though it was earlier applied to Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir[[note]]See a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lady_(disambiguation) list]] of all the women who have been called Iron Lady.[[/note]]) |
86 | * JackieRobinsonStory (UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson) |
87 | * LenoDevice (Creator/JayLeno) |
88 | * LeslieNielsenSyndrome (Creator/LeslieNielsen) |
89 | * MockCousteau (Creator/JacquesCousteau) |
90 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily |
91 | * TheMunchausen (Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, a.k.a. Baron MĂ¼nchhausen) |
92 | * TheNapoleon (UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte) |
93 | * ThePeterPrinciple (coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter) |
94 | * PyrrhicVictory (King Pyrrhus of Epirus) |
95 | * TheQuisling (Vidkun Quisling) |
96 | * RedBaron |
97 | * SedgwickSpeech (John Sedgwick) |
98 | * PatrickStewartSpeech (Creator/PatrickStewart) |
99 | * StreisandEffect (Music/BarbraStreisand) |
100 | * SturgeonsLaw |
101 | * TomHanksSyndrome (Creator/TomHanks) |
102 | * {{Trumplica}} (UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump) |
103 | * TyphoidMary (Mary Mallon) |
104 | * WordOfDante |
105 | |
106 | * Archimedes |
107 | ** EurekaMoment |
108 | |
109 | * Creator/{{Aristotle}} |
110 | ** IntellectualAnimal |
111 | ** MagicAIsMagicA |
112 | |
113 | * Creator/GeorgeCarlin |
114 | ** SevenDirtyWords |
115 | |
116 | * Creator/AntonChekhov |
117 | ** ChekhovsGun and all of its [[{{Snowclones}} punny subtropes]] |
118 | |
119 | * Creator/AgathaChristie |
120 | ** AcquittedTooLate |
121 | ** PoirotSpeak |
122 | |
123 | * UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill |
124 | ** ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma |
125 | ** WrittenByTheWinners |
126 | |
127 | * UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin |
128 | ** TheSocialDarwinist |
129 | |
130 | * UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins |
131 | ** MemeticMutation |
132 | |
133 | * Creator/FirminDidot |
134 | ** {{Stereotype}} |
135 | |
136 | * Creator/WaltDisney |
137 | ** DisneyAcidSequence |
138 | ** DisneyDeath |
139 | *** DisneyVillainDeath |
140 | ** DisneyDogFight |
141 | ** {{Disneyesque}} |
142 | ** {{Disneyfication}} |
143 | ** DisneyOwnsThisTrope |
144 | ** DisneySchoolOfActingAndMime |
145 | ** MrAltDisney |
146 | |
147 | * Creator/ClintEastwood |
148 | ** ClintSquint |
149 | |
150 | * Creator/RogerEbert |
151 | ** FruitCart |
152 | ** HyperlinkStory |
153 | ** IdiotPlot |
154 | |
155 | * Creator/MarkEvanier |
156 | ** TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong |
157 | |
158 | * UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud |
159 | ** AllPsychologyIsFreudian |
160 | ** FreudianCouch |
161 | ** FreudianExcuse |
162 | ** FreudianSlip |
163 | ** FreudianSlipperySlope |
164 | ** FreudWasRight |
165 | |
166 | * Creator/WhoopiGoldberg |
167 | ** WhoopiEpiphanySpeech |
168 | |
169 | * UsefulNotes/WayneGretzky |
170 | ** GretzkyHasTheBall |
171 | |
172 | * Creator/TheBrothersGrimm |
173 | ** {{Grimmification}} |
174 | |
175 | * Creator/ButchHartman |
176 | ** HartmanHips |
177 | |
178 | * Patrick Henry |
179 | ** GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath |
180 | |
181 | * Creator/AlfredHitchcock |
182 | ** FridgeLogic |
183 | ** KickTheDog |
184 | ** MacGuffin |
185 | |
186 | * UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (see also: GodwinsLaw) |
187 | ** HitlerAteSugar |
188 | ** HitlerCam |
189 | ** HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct |
190 | ** SpringtimeForHitler |
191 | ** StupidJetpackHitler |
192 | |
193 | * Creator/HarryHoudini |
194 | ** EliminationHoudini |
195 | ** KarmaHoudini |
196 | *** KarmaHoudiniWarranty |
197 | ** IdiotHoudini |
198 | |
199 | * UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper |
200 | ** JackTheRipOff |
201 | |
202 | * Chief Joseph |
203 | ** IWillFightNoMoreForever |
204 | |
205 | * UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc |
206 | ** JeanneDArchetype |
207 | |
208 | * UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan |
209 | ** GenghisGambit |
210 | |
211 | * Creator/JackKirby |
212 | ** KirbyDots |
213 | |
214 | * Creator/StanleyKubrick |
215 | ** KubrickStare |
216 | |
217 | * Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
218 | ** LamarckWasRight |
219 | |
220 | * Creator/BruceLee |
221 | ** BruceLeeClone |
222 | ** DontThinkFeel |
223 | ** FunnyBruceLeeNoises |
224 | |
225 | * Creator/SpikeLee |
226 | ** MagicalNegro |
227 | |
228 | * Carl von Linné; a.k.a. Carl Linnaeus, |
229 | ** ReptilesAreAbhorrent |
230 | |
231 | * Creator/CarlMacek |
232 | ** {{Macekre}} |
233 | |
234 | * [[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]] |
235 | ** HarpoDoesSomethingFunny |
236 | |
237 | * Abraham Maslow |
238 | ** WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer |
239 | |
240 | * Creator/WilliamTopaz [=McGonagall=] |
241 | ** GiftedlyBad |
242 | |
243 | * Creator/MarilynMonroe |
244 | ** MarilynManeuver (you know the one!) |
245 | |
246 | * Creator/FriedrichNietzsche |
247 | ** Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra |
248 | ** EternalRecurrence |
249 | ** GodIsDead |
250 | ** HeWhoFightsMonsters |
251 | ** NietzscheWannabe |
252 | ** {{Ubermensch}} |
253 | |
254 | * UsefulNotes/RichardNixon |
255 | ** {{Scandalgate}} |
256 | ** NixonMask |
257 | ** RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman |
258 | ** SilentMajority |
259 | |
260 | * UsefulNotes/BarackObama |
261 | ** {{Hopemongering}} |
262 | |
263 | * Creator/LaurenceOlivier |
264 | ** MoneyDearBoy |
265 | |
266 | * UsefulNotes/{{Pericles}} |
267 | ** JustTheFirstCitizen |
268 | |
269 | * Creator/SamRaimi |
270 | ** FakeShemp |
271 | |
272 | * [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]] |
273 | ** RasputinianDeath |
274 | |
275 | * Creator/JeanJacquesRousseau |
276 | ** EatTheRich |
277 | ** RousseauWasRight |
278 | |
279 | * Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger |
280 | ** TheAhnold |
281 | |
282 | * Creator/AndySerkis |
283 | ** SerkisFolk |
284 | |
285 | %% A Million is a Statistic is commonly misattributed to Stalin |
286 | |
287 | * Creator/JMichaelStraczynski |
288 | ** TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot |
289 | ** WhamEpisode (and derived from that, WhamLine) |
290 | |
291 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist) * Jack Thompson]] |
292 | ** MurderSimulators |
293 | |
294 | * Creator/BruceTimm |
295 | ** TimmStyle |
296 | |
297 | * Creator/MikeTyson |
298 | ** TheTysonZone (coined by sports writer Creator/BillSimmons) |
299 | |
300 | * Creator/MaeWest |
301 | ** OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe |
302 | |
303 | * Creator/JossWhedon |
304 | ** {{Jossed}} |
305 | |
306 | * Creator/RobinWilliams |
307 | ** GettingCrapPastTheRadar |
308 | ** ICallHimMisterHappy |
309 | |
310 | * Creator/TedWoolsey |
311 | ** {{Woolseyism}} |
312 | |
313 | '''Organizations''' |
314 | |
315 | * 7-Eleven |
316 | ** GiganticGulp (taken from its "Big Gulp" line of beverage holders) |
317 | |
318 | * Adobe |
319 | ** GaussianGirl (from a Photoshop feature) |
320 | ** WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture |
321 | |
322 | * Creator/{{Apple}} |
323 | ** EveryoneOwnsAMac |
324 | ** EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture |
325 | ** IProduct |
326 | ** ISophagus (Cross-reference to a ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip) |
327 | |
328 | * Creator/TheBBC |
329 | ** BBCQuarry |
330 | |
331 | * Creator/{{Capcom}} |
332 | ** CapcomSequelStagnation |
333 | |
334 | * Coca-Cola Company |
335 | ** AndADietCoke |
336 | ** BiteTheWaxTadpole ([[http://snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp allegedly]]) |
337 | |
338 | * Creator/DiscoveryChannel |
339 | ** TheWorldIsJustAwesome |
340 | |
341 | * Creator/DreamWorksAnimation |
342 | ** DreamworksFace |
343 | |
344 | * UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard |
345 | ** RatedMForManly (cross-reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk the video]] "''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' [[{{Bowdlerise}} For Kids]]") |
346 | ** RatedMForMoney |
347 | |
348 | * Ford Motor Company |
349 | ** EveryCarIsAPinto |
350 | ** EverybodyOwnsAFord |
351 | |
352 | * Fox News |
353 | ** FoxNewsLiberal |
354 | |
355 | * Fortune Magazine |
356 | ** {{Fiction 500}} |
357 | |
358 | * UsefulNotes/GeneralMills |
359 | ** LuckyCharmsTitle |
360 | ** MagicallyDelicious |
361 | ** SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids |
362 | |
363 | * Hershey's Food Company |
364 | ** GetTheSensation (from a commercial for York Peppermint Patties) |
365 | |
366 | * Creator/IdSoftware |
367 | ** GodMode |
368 | |
369 | * Kellogg's |
370 | ** FollowYourNose (catch phrase of Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam) |
371 | |
372 | * UsefulNotes/McDonalds |
373 | ** EggMacGuffin (a [[{{Pun}} play on]] their Egg [=McMuffin=]) |
374 | |
375 | * Creator/{{Microsoft}} |
376 | ** FanServicePack |
377 | ** HeroicBSOD |
378 | ** HeroicRROD |
379 | ** WingdingEyes |
380 | ** {{Wingdinglish}} |
381 | |
382 | * MediaNotes/MotionPictureAssociation |
383 | ** AvoidTheDreadedGRating |
384 | |
385 | * Creator/{{Nintendo}} |
386 | ** NintendoHard |
387 | ** OlderThanTheNES |
388 | ** SuperTitle64Advance |
389 | |
390 | * Creator/{{PBS}} |
391 | ** ViewersLikeYou |
392 | |
393 | * AncientRome |
394 | ** TheEmperor (the term which lent this trope its name, ''Imperator'', originated in the [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific) |
395 | ** TheEmpire (see above) |
396 | ** PraetorianGuard |
397 | ** TheRepublic (from the Latin ''res publica'') |
398 | |
399 | * {{Creator/SNK}} |
400 | ** SNKBoss |
401 | |
402 | * Creator/StudioGainax |
403 | ** GainaxEnding |
404 | ** {{Gainaxing}} |
405 | |
406 | * Creator/StudioGhibli |
407 | ** GhibliHills |
408 | |
409 | * Creator/TexasInstruments |
410 | ** InappropriateSpeakAndSpell |
411 | |
412 | * Unilever |
413 | ** BadHumorTruck |
414 | ** ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin |
415 | |
416 | * [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem United States government]] |
417 | ** EmptyQuiver (from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology military nuclear incident terminology]]) |
418 | ** NoFEMAResponse (after the Federal Emergency Management Agency, charged with helping citizens clean up after natural disasters strike) |
419 | ** NoOSHACompliance (after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, charged with workplace safety and the like. It is also a reference to an achievement in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''). |
420 | ** NoSuchAgency (from an unknown DeadpanSnarker who joked that the initials of the [[UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} National Security Agency]], which deals mainly with cryptology and ELINT analysis, really stood for that) |
421 | ** ShockAndAwe (from the military's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe doctrine of huge displays of power]] meant to [[VictoryThroughIntimidation demoralize an enemy out of fighting]]) |
422 | |
423 | * Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery |
424 | ** AlphabetNewsNetwork (for CNN) |
425 | |
426 | '''Places''' |
427 | * SpaceBrasilia |
428 | [[/index]] |
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