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If these are \\\"the forbidden tropes\\\", why haven\\\'t we banished all of them to the farthest reaches of the DarthWiki yet? And in my opinion, {{Narm}} could be brought down to a {{YMMV}} item.
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Surely the point is that this is about things/people in media that have names that don\'t truly indicate what they are, not names that aren\'t literally true. The key test is probably whether there is a chance, albeit remote, that someone could be deceived by the name. If you had a minimal knowledge of pop music, you might just think the BareNaked Ladies were some sort of burlesque act. No-one who wasn\'t actually psychotic would go to a Rolling Stones concert and say - \
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Surely the point is that this is about things/people in media that have names that don\\\'t truly indicate what they are, not names that aren\\\'t literally true. The key test is probably whether there is a chance, albeit remote, that someone could be deceived by the name. If you had a minimal knowledge of pop music, you might just think the BareNaked Ladies were some sort of burlesque act. No-one who wasn\\\'t actually psychotic would go to a Rolling Stones concert and say - \\\"I demand my money back! Rather than small pieces of rock moving by rotation through 360 degrees, these so-called Rolling Stones are elderly English musicians cranking out hot guitar licks!\\\"

Your examples aren\\\'t literally true, but they aren\\\'t non-indicative, for the same reason.
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Surely the point is that this is about things/people in media that have names that don\'t truly indicate what they are, not names that aren\'t literally true. The key test is probably whether there is a chance, albeit remote, that someone could be deceived by the name. If you had a minimal knowledge of pop music, you might just think the BareNaked Ladies were some sort of burlesque act. No-one who wasn\'t actually psychotic would go to a Rolling Stones concert and say - \
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Surely the point is that this is about things/people in media that have names that don\\\'t truly indicate what they are, not names that aren\\\'t literally true. The key test is probably whether there is a chance, albeit remote, that someone could be deceived by the name. If you had a minimal knowledge of pop music, you might just think the BareNaked Ladies were some sort of burlesque act. No-one who wasn\\\'t actually psychotic would go to a Rolling Stones concert and say - \\\"I demand my money back. Rather than small pieces of rock moving by rotation through 360 degrees, these so-called Rolling Stones are elderly English musicians cranking out hot guitar licks!\\\"

Your examples aren\\\'t literally true, but they aren\\\'t non-indicative, for the same reason.
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