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'''Basic Trope''': [[AppliedMathematics Pictures with numerical signs between them]] in a thought bubble.

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'''Basic Trope''': [[AppliedMathematics Pictures with numerical signs between them]] in a thought or speech bubble.


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** A left-side-only RebusBubble can be used for [[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship Not that Clumsy Copyright Censorship]] by requiring the reader to work out what is meant (EG: a singer's speech bubble consists of [[Music/NikKershaw a picture of a five cent coin, a picture of a saw]] and a [[GrassIsGreener picture of a pair of shoes]])

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* '''Enforced''': The writer had a word limit, so they decided to opt for this method to decrease the word count.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The writer had a word limit, so they decided to opt for this method to decrease the word count.count.
** Iconographs are much more universal than words, making it much easier to reach an international audience.
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'''Basic Trope''': [[AppliedMathematics Pictures with numerical signs between them]] in a thought bubble.
* '''Straight''': Alice walks into Bob's house, where Bob has a PricelessMingVase. Alice is [[TheKlutz a bit clumsy]], so Bob gets a thought bubble which reads "[picture of Alice] + [picture of the vase] = [picture of the vase being knocked over]."
* '''Exaggerated''': All the thought bubbles read like this, even those of babies and pets, who logically shouldn't be able to do math.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob's thought bubble has words instead of pictures, but still numerical signs, i.e. "Alice + breakable objects = trouble."
* '''Justified''': Bob is actually imagining the numerical symbols.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is calculating in his head, but there are no numerals or symbols, it's all in words.
-->'''Bob''': ''(thinking)'' "Seven times six equals forty-two..."
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''': Alice [[MediumAwareness can read Bob's thought bubble]] and says, "That's not how arithmetic works!"
* '''Zigzagged''': Bob's thought bubble reads "Alice + [picture of the vase] equals trouble."
* '''Averted''':
** There are no thought bubbles.
** None of the thought bubbles read like this.
* '''Enforced''': The writer had a word limit, so they decided to opt for this method to decrease the word count.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Now I'm thinking in math!"
* '''Invoked''': A witch gives Bob a potion that makes him think in math.
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': Bob starts to imagine the plus sign, then thinks, "That's silly" and corrects himself.
* '''Discussed''': "Sometimes I imagine numerical symbols."
* '''Conversed''': "These comic book characters take 'mental calculations' to a whole new level!"
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* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''':
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice is in danger of dying, so Bob's thought bubble has a picture of her death after the equals sign.
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