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* {{Textplosion}}: A {{comic|s}}s' panels are suddenly filled with (dialogue) text before reverting to illustrations.

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* PromisesAndVowsIndex

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* BeatWithoutABut


* BreakingPointSwearing: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.


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* PrecisionFStrike: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.

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* RequestForPrivacy

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* PersonalizedPledge: "I swear upon [something personal]."


* {{Ahem}}
* AirQuotes: A gesture made by wiggling your index and middle fingers while saying a word to represent the word being sandwiched in quotations marks and to signify that the word is being used sarcastically.

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* {{Ahem}}
{{Ahem}}: Throat-clearing to get someone's attention.
* AirQuotes: A gesture made by wiggling your index and middle fingers while saying a word to represent the word being sandwiched in quotations marks and to signify that the word is either being used sarcastically.sarcastically or that someone else used it and you don't believe it.



* AskAStupidQuestion

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* AskAStupidQuestionAskAStupidQuestion: Rudely giving someone's question a deliberate wrong answer due to feeling the question was stupid.



* BadNewsInAGoodWay

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* BadNewsInAGoodWayBadNewsInAGoodWay: Delivering bad news in a way that makes it sound like good news.



* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartmentDepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When a character unnecessarily repeats themselves or says something that means the same thing as what they just said.



* EspeciallyZoidberg
* EuphemismBuster

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* EspeciallyZoidberg
EspeciallyZoidberg: A conversation that ends on "Even X?" "''Especially'' X!" when you'd expect X to be an exception.
* EuphemismBusterEuphemismBuster: Someone says a euphemism, but then someone else says the non-euphemistic term.



* FreudianSlip: A character accidentally says what they were thinking about instead of what they wanted to say.



* HeDidntMakeIt

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* HeDidntMakeItHeDidntMakeIt: "Not making it" is a euphemism for death.



* HurricaneOfEuphemisms

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* HurricaneOfEuphemismsHurricaneOfEuphemisms: A LongList of synonyms.



* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder

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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholderImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Someone says that they're "an X, not a Y".



* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: A child accidentally shocks or embarrasses adults with a question.



* MouthfulOfPi

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* MouthfulOfPiMouthfulOfPi: A brainy character can recite pi to many places.



* NotHyperbole

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* NotHyperboleNotHyperbole: What seems like a figure of speech isn't.



* ObviouslyNotFine

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* ObviouslyNotFineObviouslyNotFine: A character says that they're okay when [[BlatantLies it's quite plain that they're not]].



* OrMyNameIsnt

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* OrMyNameIsntOrMyNameIsnt: A character says that "X will happen or my name isn't Y!".



* PronouncingMyNameForYou

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* PronouncingMyNameForYouPronouncingMyNameForYou: A character tells someone how to say their name.



* RaceNameBasis

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* RaceNameBasisRaceNameBasis: Calling someone by their race or species.



* SaidBookism

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* SaidBookismSaidBookism: Authors say anything but "said" when describing a character's dialogue.



* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud

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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoudSayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: A character says a sound effect.



* SayMyName

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* SayMyNameSayMyName: A character yells out another one's name.



* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousnessSesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Big words.



* WasntThatFun

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* WasntThatFunWasntThatFun: A character (sincerely or not) claims they want to do something dangerous again.



* WhatsAHenway

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* WhatsAHenwayWhatsAHenway: Tricking someone into asking what a nonsense word is, leading to a pun (e.g. "Have you seen my dogway?" "What's a dogway?" "Depends on the breed.")



* WhosOnFirst

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* WhosOnFirstWhosOnFirst: Two words are confused (for instance, a character named Watt causing confusion when asked, "What's your name?").


* BreakingPointProfanity: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.

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* BreakingPointProfanity: BreakingPointSwearing: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.


* BreakingPointProfanity: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.



* PrecisionFStrike: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, someone abruptly says a swear word.


* TwoChicksInAKitchen

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* CowardiceCallout: Someone gets called out on their cowardly behavior/conduct.


* CasualDangerDialog

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* CasualDangerDialogCasualDangerDialogue

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* TechnicalEuphemism: Technical vocab used euphemistically.

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