Alternate title:
What Do You Mean, Our Jesus And Cthulhu Are 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 Ensues,
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.
The term "Snow Clone" originated on
Language Log
, from multiple examples of people claiming "[Culture X] has [Y] words for [concept Z.]" based on the [false] statement that "Eskimos have 50 words for snow."
But very often, this new trope will have nothing whatsoever to do with its namesake. (
And that's bad.)
This index used to be called "Chekhov's Pun" — the title (
but not concept) was 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.
The Title Bin was the place where silly wordplay used to go if it couldn't be justified by the trope description, as more creative ways of
Naming A Trope should be used. It was eventually deleted as too few of the entries displayed any actual humor.
See also
Everything's Worse with Snowclones for more reasons that you
shouldn't do this.
Index of Snowclones:
