Basic Trope: Describing a person's actions through using the name of someone known for it.
- Straight: Felix is known for being a Dirty Coward who tends to run away from his problems, usually after starting trouble. When Mary tries to ditch a bad situation, Cecil says, "You're not pulling a Felix on me!"
- Exaggerated: "Mary Lanner, you're a total Felix Q. Whitlock!"
- Downplayed:
- "That's something Felix would do!"
- "Are you sure you're not Felix?"
- Justified:
- Mary holds a grudge against Felix. Cecil insinuating that she's being like him is enough to make her rethink her ways.
- Felix does something way above and beyond, and much more memorable, than the mere definition of cowardice. There is 'coward' and there is "sell your entire country for thirty cents (no, not thirty pieces of silver which may have a price of $30,000 with a good fence, thirty cents) and get blown away by the hundred pissed-off Marines who barely survived your betrayal" 'coward'.
- Inverted: Felix earns the insulting nickname "Run-Away", and people use that in place of his name.
- Subverted: "You're being a total Fe— I mean, you're being such a coward!"
- Double Subverted: "...And that makes you a Felix!"
- Parodied:
- Felix is so well-known for his cowardly tendencies that "to Felix" officially becomes a dictionary synonym for "to run away."
- The noun "coward" was actually named after a man called Sebastian R.K. Coward Jr.
- Cecil doesn't actually know who Felix is, so Mary has to explain who he is, then why she called him that.
- Zig-Zagged: People use Felix's name as a synonym for running away. Then this becomes an Ascended Meme and gets into the dictionary, but only in certain dialects. And that word is actually pronounced "pha-LEE", not like Felix's name. But Felix thinks it's cool and tells people otherwise.
- Averted: Nobody uses Felix's name as a verb.
- Enforced: The show's creators want to make a Forced Meme and hope that "Felix" catches on as a term.
- Lampshaded: "Hey! Did you just use Felix's name as a verb?"
- Invoked: Mary presents a fake page from a dictionary that claims "Felix" is a synonym for running away to Cecil, and he believes it.
- Exploited: Felix sees this as a compliment, since to him, running away is simply a sign that he's smart enough to recognize danger and live to see another day. And, besides, it gives him more publicity.
- Defied:
- Felix threatens anyone who uses his name in place of a verb to get them to stop.
- "There's already a perfectly serviceable term to describe people like you, Felix: "coward". And then there's nice variations such as "yellow-belly", "scaredy cat", "chicken", "candy-ass”, "pussy" and oh, yeah, "fucking coward". So why should I use your name, huh, Felix?"
- Discussed: "Y'know what? I bet that if you look in the dictionary for 'coward', you'll see Felix's name as a synonym!"
- Conversed: "I wonder if the show's writers want people to start saying 'pull a Felix' in real life."
- Implied: We hear Mary saying "I didn't even think you could use someone's name that way!", but we don't know what exactly she was referring to.
- Deconstructed: Using the name of Felix as an adjective for something bad break the friendship between Felix and the group
- Played for Laughs: Turns out that "to Felix" has a really long and silly (and if it's funnier requires some very lengthy explanation of the situation that led to coining it) definition, which takes Mary longer to explain than just using a regular word.
- Played for Drama:
- Felix is a notorious cheater, and when Mary finds that Cecil is cheating on her, she calls him a "total Felix".
- What started as a kind of in-joke amongst the group (innocent or not) becomes a whole lot more venomous when people outside the circle adopt the term and fling it around with abandon, permanently ruining Felix's reputation.
- Played for Horror:
- Felix is an Eldritch Abomination who feeds off invocations of his name.
- In this series, ”pulling a Felix” means "murdering three hundred people in Khorne-worshipping ritualistic murder".
Pull a TV Tropes back at Person as Verb.
