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--> -- ''A Pun-filled Life Is A Fun-Filled Life!'', found on Torneko's bookshelf in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' lives and breathes puns. Attack names (most of Zoro's sword moves, notably, also resemble types of sushi when written), character names, and in the seventh movie over half the lines of the plot-central prophecy were puns.
* The ''Anime/RaveMaster'' dub is overflowing with puns.
* ''Manga/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' has a ''lot'' of puns. Izumi Maki, in particular, uses so many puns that she barely speaks at all without a translator's note appearing.
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Name itself is pun already, far more ensues.

* The official English translation of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', goose full on with the animal puns. Deer cod...

** [[GoroawaseNumber Senjinmaru's phone number]].

** There are also the cards [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=26640 Crashing Boars]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4748 Apes of Rath]].
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=33693 "Over-Soul'd Cemetery"]].

** Goblin Offensive? [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205388 They certainly are.]]
* ''TabletopGame/TheSpoils'' has got quite a few, too. Pick five cards at random, and there's a pretty high chance that at least ''one'' involves at least one pun.

* The Flemish series ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'' (a few English translations exist as ''Jo and co'') has over 100 issues and in almost all of them at least one of the one-time characters, the companies or even the title itself is a pun.
* A lot of ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' comics are based around puns, especially the last few ones.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' comic books are full of this, in both the original French and the English translations.
** From the same writer as Asterix (René Goscinny), the ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'' comic books take this UpToEleven and into a Dimension of Pun all its own.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' could barely go ''two panels'' without punning.
* Brian Azzarello loves using puns, and so do characters in pretty much all his works, especially ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets.''

* Polish ''ComicBook/{{Dollicious}}'': has entire universe build around food-puns and injokes.

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'': loads of them -- "Surely you can't be serious", Ted's drinking problem, smoking tickets.
* Practically all the lines in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' are "plant" or "ice" puns.
--> "Allow me to break the ice."
--> "I'm afraid my condition has left me cold to your pleas of mercy!"
--> "FREEZE IN HELL, BATMAN!"
--> "Freeze well!"
--> "What killed the Dinosaurs? The Ice Age!"

* The whole movie ''[[UnaPeliculaDeHuevos Una Película de Huevos]]'' (even the title itself).

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}.'' The radar gets jammed, they comb the desert, and of course there's the Druish princess.
-->'''Dark Helmet:''' Raspberry! There's only one person who would dare give me the raspberry. ''*visor clanks shut*'' [[AC: Lone Starr!]]

* Creator/RickRiordan's ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus''. Riordan being Riordan, it is almost as frequent as snarking. Special mention goes to Lupa, directed to Jason: "As always, you are our saving ''Grace''."

* ''Manga/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' has a ''lot'' of puns. Izumi Maki, in particularly, uses so many puns that she barely speaks at all without a translator's note appearing.

* The Land of Wisdom in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' is one of these. Milo's companions are a "watchdog" called Tock who is a dog with a clock in his abdomen, and an anthropomorphic insect who [[MilesGloriosus brags of his wit and exploits but has nothing to back them up]] called the Humbug. In the city of Dictionopolis people literally "eat their words" off plates, and for dessert they have half-baked ideas (like "The moon is made of green cheese"), fresh from the half-bakery. King Azaz owns a carriage that "goes without saying" -- as soon as the passengers were all quite silent, it starts moving. People who make rash assumptions near the island of Conclusions may find themselves literally jumping to Conclusions. And so on and so forth.

* The Land of Wisdom in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' is one of these. Milo's companions are a "watchdog" called Tock who is a dog with a clock in his abdomen, and an anthropomorphic insect who [[MilesGloriousus brags of his wit and exploits but has nothing to back them up]] called the Humbug. In the city of Dictionopolis people literally "eat their words" off plates, and for dessert they have half-baked ideas (like "The moon is made of green cheese"), fresh from the half-bakery. King Azaz owns a carriage that "goes without saying" -- as soon as the passengers were all quite silent, it starts moving. People who make rash assumptions near the island of Conclusions may find themselves literally jumping to Conclusions. And so on and so forth.

* Essentially every name in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series is a pun. Most of them are just terrible, including a bomber named Ted Tonate, a detective named Dick Gumshoe, a noodle vendor named Guy Eldoon, and a victim literally just named Deid Mann. Others are a little more well thought out: mob doctor Pal Meraktis, for instance, becomes "malpractice" when you switch the first letters of the first and last names. All, however, are corny as hell and stupidly fun to figure out.

** One of Sabrina's cousins, aunt Dorma, was an actual black sheep.

* If the Website/NotAlwaysRight editors can fit a pun into a title, they will. There also tend to be long pun chains in the comments as well.

* If the Website/NotAlwaysRight editors can fit a pun into a title, they will. There also tend to be long pun chains in the comments as well.

* Puns are everywhere in ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}'', especially around the kappa characters, and tie into the work's symbolism. Most episodes are themed around an object which is often used with multiple, punny, meanings (i.e. kisu (fish)/kisses, balls/testicles) etc. Puns are esssential to the charcater of Sara, an idol whose name means "dish", has a verbal tic of "~dish", [[spoiler: is a Kappa with a dish on her head]], provides the "dish" on whatever's going on in the world that week through her news show, and is an object of desire for various characters, consistent with the work's use of dishes as a symbol for desire.

* ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' is one of these. There's a "watchdog" called Tock who is a dog with a clock in his abdomen. In the city of Dictionopolis people literally "eat their words" off plates, and for dessert they have half-baked ideas (like "The moon is made of green cheese"), fresh from the half-bakery. King Azaz owns a carriage that "goes without saying" -- as soon as the passengers were all quite silent, it starts moving. People literally jump to an island called Conclusions. And so on and so forth.

* The official English translation of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', goose full on with the animal puns. Deer cod...

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''

** and then ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft''went to Pandaria. Basically everything on the continent is either a pun or an anime joke. Not that things outside of Pandaria aren't: it's Warcraft after all. Most of the quest names in the world are puns, though this is probably simply because they had to write an obscenely large number of quests all with unique names. These range from the terrible, to the actually extremely clever. Most minor [=NPCs=] also have [[PunnyName a pun for a name]], which again is probably mostly because there are a ridiculously huge number of them. A fairly large number of the items you receive in the game are also puns, either just their names or also being visual puns. They used up the possible permutations of actual weapons a long time ago, so a lot of weird items get used as weapon models. Some of the things are extremely clever though: like the fist weapons entitled the Fists of Deity looking suspiciously like a certain god-killing character from another game's weapons. You get the weapons off a god-killing character too. Mounts, pets, and other collectibles have a very strong chance of being a pun (visual, nominal, or both). Tabards are also a frequent source of visual puns. Major characters might also have a [[PunnyName pun in their name]] but it's almost always extremely sophisticated to the point where it counts as an [[EasterEgg]]. Like the name Malfurion, originally introduced as Furion. In Greek mythology, the furies were horrific earth deities who punished mortals for their misdeeds. Malfurion is a druid, and if you value your life you don't tick him off (unless of course your name is Illidan). Characters also pun in-universe: usually either because they're joke characters, or for the purposes of smack-talk. Bosses usually do this, since they tend to be canonically smarter: although sometimes major heroic [=NPCs=] do it too. There are also a few characters who are walking puns: such as Orkus (who is an orc, obviously: but points here since Orcus is the name of the Archdevil of Undeath in D&D, and Orkus is a Death Knight). The best pun of all has to go to Matthias Lerner (Matthias is the name of a heroic mouse in Brian Jacques ''Literature/Redwall''series, he is a novice aka... a "learner"). [[spoiler: But this is the best one, because Matthias Lerner is really the Lich King's heart (or soul? the thing you pick up looks more like soul gem than a heart, but the jury is still out on this one). Rearrange the letters, and you get Arthas Menethil. You go on a series of quests as the Lich King with Matthias narrating, that eerily mirror the story of Matthias the mouse. So, it's pun as (childhood ruining) meta-commentary rather than just existing because the devs were bored.]]

* You'd be ''extremely'' hard-pressed to find a hero in ''{{Videogame/Dota 2}}'' that doesn't have at least one or two puns in their voice responses.

* ''{{VideoGame/Godville}}'' goes a step further by integrating puns into the local laws of ''physics''. Items like a Token of Gratitude and a Green Thumb, monsters like the dreaded Wedding Knight and the vile Turncoat of Arms, and even events like your hero literally slamming a window of opportunity shut in the enemy's face.

* Robert Asprin's ''Literature/MythAdventures'' series has puns ''everywhere'', including the titles of all the books and of the series itself. The various dimensions have {{Punny Name}}s: Klahds are from Klah, Deveels are from Deva, Cupys (small, doll-like people) are from Cupid...

* Nobody in ''Literature/TheLandOfOz'' can resist making puns, up to and including the scenery itself. Things are already pretty punny in the books by L. Frank Baum, but when Ruth Plumly Thompson takes over the story, the pun levels go UpToEleven.

** There's the "Oh God of Hangovers" in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' -- not ''a'' god, or ''the'' god, but ''Oh, GOD'' of Hangovers.
** ''Discworld/NightWatch'' contains a sequence describing the ornamental armour Sam Vimes has to wear, and how it makes him feel like a class traitor. The pune-chline: [[spoiler:"It was gilt by association."]]
** And the Fat Mines in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'' contained [=BCB=]s (Burnt Crunchy Bits - animals caught up when the then-hot fat arrived on the Disc) that Vimes said died because they were battered to death.
** There's also an example of him being entirely unable to stop himself with the story of Fingers Mazda in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', who stole the secret of fire from the gods. He was unable to fence it, it was too hot. He really got burned on that deal.
** In ''Discworld/EqualRites'' Granny Weatherwax's lodgings in the Shades are made are all the better for being next door to a notorious reseller of stolen items. Because good fences make good neighbours.

** In ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook'' and ''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'', Gytha's cottage is called [[Myth/CelticMythology Tir Nani Ogg]], which is translated as "Nanny Ogg's Place".

Compare WorldOfHam and WorldOfSnark. Often includes {{Punny Name}}s and {{Pun Based Title}}s. See also HurricaneOfPuns. FlintstoneThemeNaming is a subtrope, where the puns follow a particular theme. For a character who frequently uses puns, see PungeonMaster.

Compare WorldOfHam and WorldOfSnark. Often includes {{Punny Name}}s and {{Pun Based Title}}s. See also HurricaneOfPuns. For a character who frequently uses puns, see PungeonMaster.

** and then ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft''went to Pandaria. Basically everything on the continent is either a pun or an anime joke. Not that things outside of Pandaria aren't: it's Warcraft after all. Most of the quest names in the world are puns, though this is probably simply because they had to write an obscenely large number of quests all with unique names. These range from the terrible, to the actually extremely clever. Most minor NPCs also have [[PunnyName a pun for a name]], which again is probably mostly because there are a ridiculously huge number of them. A fairly large number of the items you receive in the game are also puns, either just their names or also being visual puns. They used up the possible permutations of actual weapons a long time ago, so a lot of weird items get used as weapon models. Some of the things are extremely clever though: like the fist weapons entitled the Fists of Deity looking suspiciously like a certain god-killing character from another game's weapons. You get the weapons off a god-killing character too. Mounts, pets, and other collectibles have a very strong chance of being a pun (visual, nominal, or both). Tabards are also a frequent source of visual puns. Major characters might also have a [[PunnyName pun in their name]] but it's almost always extremely sophisticated to the point where it counts as an [[EasterEgg]]. Like the name Malfurion, originally introduced as Furion. In Greek mythology, the furies were horrific earth deities who punished mortals for their misdeeds. Malfurion is a druid, and if you value your life you don't tick him off (unless of course your name is Illidan). Characters also pun in-universe: usually either because they're joke characters, or for the purposes of smack-talk. Bosses usually do this, since they tend to be canonically smarter: although sometimes major heroic NPCs do it too. There are also a few characters who are walking puns: such as Orkus (who is an orc, obviously: but points here since Orcus is the name of the Archdevil of Undeath in D&D, and Orkus is a Death Knight). The best pun of all has to go to Matthias Lerner (Matthias is the name of a heroic mouse in Brian Jacques ''Literature/Redwall''series, he is a novice aka... a "learner"). [[spoiler: But this is the best one, because Matthias Lerner is really the Lich King's heart (or soul? the thing you pick up looks more like soul gem than a heart, but the jury is still out on this one). Rearrange the letters, and you get Arthas Menethil. You go on a series of quests as the Lich King with Matthias narrating, that eerily mirror the story of Matthias the mouse. So, it's pun as (childhood ruining) meta-commentary rather than just existing because the devs were bored.]]

** One of Sabrina's cousins, aunt Dorma, is an actual black sheep.