Well, the usage numbers certainly suck.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
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Nounmobile, custom titles to display as "[noun]mobile" ?
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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That would work.
The Other Troper
I think something more, well, exciting than "noun" should be used here, since it's not just a term most of the time, but a reflection of the person it carries.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Oy. I should know better than to assume that a trope is what the name sounds like it is without reading the page.
I assumed it was about the convention of naming the character's vehicle the whatever-mobile/cycle/bus/plane. It's broader than that; it's "The character's vehicle follows the same theme as the character in color, name or something else.
I retract that suggestion.
How about the Excruciatingly Clear And Boring TM Character Themed Vehicle ?
edited 14th Oct '11 10:40:16 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
is a good summary.
Do we already have character named tools? Because that should be a compare on this page.
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Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk
How about Charactermobile? Seems clear while still pretty funny.
Lost in Space
I would go with Character Themed Vehicle as a much more indicative name. Clear > Concise > Witty.
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Or Bobmobile.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Dragon Writer
Interesting; this isn't about the naming, but the theming. The Thememobile?
edited 14th Oct '11 11:41:46 AM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
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^ Yep. Theme, which may, or may not, include a name.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
What does "not in vogue" mean, and why does it merit renaming as a result?
Dragon Writer
Vogue refers to fashion. So something that's not "in vogue" is out of fashion (style, season, etc.)
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
The Other Troper
This isn't an accepted style. It's more like an information clarity standard. Heck, I even think there was an admin decree about this.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Dragon Writer
So the OP was using a euphemism...
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk
More an Understatement than a euphemism.
(Wow, a correct use of understatement, I never thought I'd do this.)
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NaNo 4328 / 50,000
Found it; To The Bat Noun is when... well it's when a character is shouting to "this thing" in a dramatic manner. That's... not quite what I was thinking of. There's apparently no example of "Batnoun" naming... off to YKTTW.
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Hi
Thememobile requires the least amount of a change. Character Themed Vehicle would be a good redirect.
Loser
There is now a single proposition rename crowner for this trope here
. If people think we can go straight to alternative titles because the trope uses "trope" as a placeholder, I could make that kind of crowner instead.
For form sake, you might as well give people a few days to vote on whether to rename rather than just going straight to alternate titles.
Well, trope-as-placeholder = I am upvoting. *shrug*
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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Previous single-action crowner showed 17:1 support for renaming Tropemobile.
Not that I have any particular objection to the title myself, but I understand that this type of title is not in vogue these days.
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