Alternate title:
Our Jesus Is Different,
So Screw The Sliding Scale Of True Art Versus Chekhov's Nightmare Phlebotinum Everythings Better With Hollywood Gambit Badass Moments of Doom Ex Machina,
BITCH! (
IN SPACE!)
It's a fairly common practice in the wiki to make puns based on pre-existing trope titles. Outside of this wiki, this is called a "
snowclone", where in a sentence "X is the new Y", X and Y can be substituted for anything the speaker wants to use.
But very often, this new trope will have nothing whatsoever to do with its namesake. (
And that's bad.)
This is
Chekhov's Pun — the title (
but not concept) is taken from
Chekhov's Gun, a common target of the various punners that frequent
YKTTW.
Nightmare Fuel,
Nightmare Retardant,
Nightmare Dreams,
Nightmare Valley, and
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant suggest that this is happening to another trope, though those
are directly related to the original article.
Another example is the
Just for Pun index, which is a pun on
Just for Fun. In fact,
many Just for Pun entries were named after other tropes, including this one.
The Title Bin was the place where silly wordplay ought to go if it can't be justified by the trope description, as more creative ways of
Naming a Trope should be used.
Not to be confused with
Brick Joke, where a seemingly throw-away pun that is used once makes a return later.
Chekhovs Pun Indexes:
