Visual pun is also used to mean one thing looking like something else - - - or a selection of things that combine to form an image.
Example: 
Do the current description and pic really have the right idea of what a pun is? Taking a figure of speech too literally may be a type of pun, but I think that definition's a little narrow. A pun is any exploitation of two possible meanings in a set of words.
A couple of (I think) better examples appear at right.
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Merv Griffin's company uses a mythological griffin in its logo. But that's not a pun — "griffin" has no other meanings. When the production company "Baer Bones" has a bear in its logo, standing before an x-ray screen and showing its bones — THAT's a visual pun. So is Behr Paints, which also uses a bear.
I assume that the with Sherlock example, "bloody stupid power complex," the makers knowingly passed up the opportunity to show the power complex as bloody, perhaps due to television restraints. Would anyone care to mention that in the entry?
For some reason, the Visual pun article has been listed as a selfdemonstrating.
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Well, it does have a self demo illustration.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I have an Object Show character called Word Salad who is an example of this trope. Xe's a plastic bowl containing slips of paper with words like "lettuce", "tomatoes" and "croutons" written on them.
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