'''Basic Trope''': Changing an everyday phrase or proverb to make it sound older and/or more whimsical.
* '''Straight''': A few characters in ''A Fantastical Fantasy Book'' say "What the [[labelnote:Hades]]Hell[[/labelnote]]?" or "I'm so hungry I could eat a [[labelnote:Pegasus]]Horse[[/labelnote]]."
* '''Exaggerated''': Literally every sentence in the ''Fantastical Fantasy Book'' is a Mythology-Based {{Pun}} on cliches.
* '''Downplayed''': The phrase "What the Hades" shows up once, and only once, in the entire series.
* '''Justified''':
** Hell or horses do not exist in this setting.
** Bob, [[TrappedInAnotherWorld from the mundane world]], tries to use phrases from his world but only gets confused responses, so he modifies them using terms from the fantastic setting.
** [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality It would be really, really weird to have fantasy characters do something like making references to Jesus when he obviously doesn't exist in the setting.]]
* '''Inverted''':
** The mythical creatures use human related puns.
** The people in ''A Fantastical Fantasy Book'' say "What the Hell?" and "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," despite neither Hell or Horses existing in the AFFB universe.
* '''Subverted''': Other characters say "What the Hell?" frequently.
* '''Double Subverted''': Only to be corrected by their peers.
* '''Parodied''': We get to see people actually eat pegasus meat and hold miniature hippogriffs.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** People say "What the hell?", "What the hades?", "a basilisk in the grass" and so on interchangeably, changing speech pattern and phrase usage whenever they want.
** Various cultures replaces the word "hell" with different terms for the afterlife, but "hell" is also a universal term for an afterlife of suffering.
* '''Averted''':
** They use modern slang with no puns whatsoever.
** They use entirely different slangs, which is the one actually used back in the day.
* '''Enforced''': "We can't have normal slang in ''Fantastical Fantasy Book''. Make it sound, you know, more older and stuff,"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why can't we just say 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse'?"
* '''Invoked''': A character only uses "So hungry I could eat a pegasus" when other people are [[VisualPun eating pegasi.]]
* '''Exploited''': A character realizes that all of the idioms he's used to hearing have been modified to reflect the setting, indicating that his being in a fantasy realm is not the result of a MushroomSamba, as he previously thought.
* '''Defied''': They tell the people correcting them "Shut up, I know what I'm talking about!"
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Yeah, I have to admit it's a little strange how ''Fantastical Fantasy Book'' use all those mythology-based words."
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