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The trope name comes from the Website/TurkeyCityLexicon, which named it in reference to the Literature/MikeShayne detective novel series -- whose various writers preferred to call the protagonist "the burly detective" or similar epithets rather than writing out Mike Shayne's name.[[note]]This may have made it easier for a writer who couldn't sell the story as a Michael Shayne one to change the name and sell it as another detective novel.[[/note]]
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The trope name comes from the Website/TurkeyCityLexicon, which named it in reference to the Literature/MikeShayne Literature/MichaelShayne detective novel series -- whose various writers preferred to call the protagonist "the burly detective" or similar epithets rather than writing out Mike Shayne's name.[[note]]This may have made it easier for a writer who couldn't sell the story as a Michael Shayne one to change the name and sell it as another detective novel.[[/note]]
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-->'''"Burly Detective" Syndrome:''' This useful term is taken from SF's cousin-genre, the detective-pulp. The hack writers of the Mike Shayne series showed an odd reluctance to use Shayne's proper name, preferring such euphemisms as "the burly detective" or "the red-headed sleuth." This syndrome arises from a wrong-headed conviction that the same word should not be used twice in close succession. This is only true of particularly strong and visible words, such as "vertiginous." Better to re-use a simple tag or phrase than to contrive cumbersome methods of avoiding it.
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-->'''"Burly Detective" Syndrome:''' This useful term is taken from SF's cousin-genre, the detective-pulp. The hack writers of the Mike Shayne Literature/MichaelShayne series showed an odd reluctance to use Shayne's proper name, preferring such euphemisms as "the burly detective" or "the red-headed sleuth." This syndrome arises from a wrong-headed conviction that the same word should not be used twice in close succession. This is only true of particularly strong and visible words, such as "vertiginous." Better to re-use a simple tag or phrase than to contrive cumbersome methods of avoiding it.
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* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings''. Bromosel is referred to only as "the man with the pointed shoes" in one line and is annoyed by this when he next gets to speak.
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See also SaidBookism (which can occur at the same time), DelusionsOfEloquence, and AuthorVocabularyCalendar; often accompanies (or is accompanied by) SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Compare and contrast SuperheroSobriquets and the RedBaron, which are InUniverse descriptive names given to a character who (usually) merits them. Compare NamelessNarrative, in which epithets are used because all characters have NoNameGiven. See YouKnowTheOne for when this is used to conceal a character's identity.
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See also SaidBookism (which can occur at the same time), DelusionsOfEloquence, and AuthorVocabularyCalendar; often accompanies (or is accompanied by) SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Compare and contrast SuperheroSobriquets SuperheroSobriquets, EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, and the RedBaron, which are InUniverse descriptive names given to a character who (usually) merits them. Compare NamelessNarrative, in which epithets are used because all characters have NoNameGiven. See YouKnowTheOne for when this is used to conceal a character's identity.
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* In the {{Novelization}} of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's friends are collectively referred to as "the 4*Townies".
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The trope name comes from the Website/TurkeyCityLexicon, which named it in reference to the Michael Shayne detective novel series -- whose various writers preferred to call the protagonist "the burly detective" or similar epithets rather than writing out Mike Shayne's name.[[note]]This may have made it easier for a writer who couldn't sell the story as a Michael Shayne one to change the name and sell it as another detective novel.[[/note]]
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The trope name comes from the Website/TurkeyCityLexicon, which named it in reference to the Michael Shayne Literature/MikeShayne detective novel series -- whose various writers preferred to call the protagonist "the burly detective" or similar epithets rather than writing out Mike Shayne's name.[[note]]This may have made it easier for a writer who couldn't sell the story as a Michael Shayne one to change the name and sell it as another detective novel.[[/note]]
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In the UK (especially amongst the press), you might see it referred to as "Popular Orange Vegetable" syndrome, after a Guardian article brought attention to a particularly hilarious version in an article about carrots, which tried to avoid saying the word "carrot" entirely after using it once in the first line. Such descriptions are also referred to as "knobbly monsters", supposedly named after a story about crocodiles.
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In the UK (especially amongst the press), you might see it referred to as "Popular Orange Vegetable" syndrome, after a Guardian ''Guardian'' article brought attention to a particularly hilarious version in an article about carrots, which tried to avoid saying the word "carrot" entirely after using it once in the first line. Such descriptions are also referred to as "knobbly monsters", supposedly named after a story about crocodiles.
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* A lot of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fanfic slips into referring to characters as "the purple-banded turtle", which is a bit of a mouthful when overused.
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* Sufficiently common in old ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' fanfic that it strongly shaped the way the fandom as a whole viewed the characters. The two characters are almost always referred to as "the warrior" and "the bard", leading to a lot of fanfic focusing much more heavily on Gabrielle's "bard" identity than the show itself did, just because people were so used to hearing her described that way.
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* ''Literature/TheBlondeCriedMurder'': This is an installment of the "Mike Shayne" series, which as noted above in the trope description, named this trope. In this installment, Michael Shayne is never referred to as a burly detective, maybe because this one was actually written by creator Brett Halliday instead of the hacks he handed the series off to in the late 1950s. But there are a lot of references to Shayne's red hair, like when a cabbie suggests that Shayne's a FieryRedhead, or when Shayne's secretary Lucy thinks of him as "her red-headed employer", or Bert thinks of the man he just met as "the red-headed private detective" and then "that damned redhead" on the very next page, or the narration just calls him "the redhead" as he approaches a bar to talk to the bartender.
