Line #15 PlayingWith/XtremeKoolLetterz


1	'''Basic Trope''': Deliberately misspelling words -- e.g. throwing in a few extra Z's and X's -- to make a work more appealing to the younger audience.
2	* '''Straight''': ''Super Skaterz''
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** ''Zztuper Zelectrixx Koolnezz Fighterz''
5	** ''Xtremli Kewl Zup@ Ǝlectryxx Fytaz: Kall [[Letters2Numbers 2]] [[FunetikAksent Acshun]]''
6	** All of the text in ''Super Skaterz'' contains gratuitous Z's and X's.
7	* '''Downplayed''': ''eXtreme Skaters''
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** The story takes place in a futuristic society where the alphabet has changed and Z's actually do replace S's.
10	** [[CharacterNarrator The In-Universe Author]] is that bad at spelling.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** A writer thinks it would be really, really cool to take all the Z's and X's ''out'' of the title.
13	** A writes takes the Z's and X's out of the title to make it look softer.
14	* '''Subverted''':
15	** The hero, Sam, only writes his name as "Zam" to look cool in print.
16	** The name Zam isn't related to Sam and is actually pronounced with a Z.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': Although his birth name is actually Zam.
18	* '''Parodied''':
19	** A corporate executive rents a teamwork-building video for his employees. The movie is called "Bizness Skillz".
20	** ''Zupa Xtremli Myspelt Tytl Kuz Kool Kidz Lyk Dat, Rite?''
21	** Alex tries to come up with a cool title, but his "cool" substitutions just end up making it look like a child wrote it -- complete with [[TheBackwardsR faux-Russian]] indistinguishable from RandomlyReversedLetters.
22	** Alex tries to make Shakespeare appeal to kids by adding "kool" letters where it doesn't even make sense, e.g. ''[[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream A Mydzymmer Nyte's Dreem]]''
23	** An educational work is titled ''[[HypocriticalHumor Zpellin' Skool]]''.
24	* '''Zig Zagged''': A comic writer can't decide whether to use extra-cool lettering, so the work's title is constantly changing.
25	* '''Averted''': A 90's-style superhero comic contains no X's or Z's in the title.
26	* '''Enforced''':
27	** '''[[ExecutiveMeddling Meddling executives]]''': "Nah, a title like that won't pop off the shelves. Add a Z or something!"
28	** The work was originally titled ''Skaters'', which can't be trademarked as-is because it's a common word. However, the deliberate misspelling ''Skaterz'' can.
29	* '''Lampshaded''': "Look, if I knew how to spell, I wouldn't be called the Kool Kat."
30	* '''Invoked''': A group of ragtag teens [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and erases the S in "Super Skaters", changing it to a Z with red pencil.
31	* '''Exploited''': "When my comic-writing rival names his work something idiotic with lots of cool letters, I'll swoop in with a correctly-spelled title and win over the intelligent crowd!"
32	* '''Defied''': A book-smart writer refuses to add cool letters to the title, even if doing so would be beneficial.
33	* '''Discussed''': "Maybe you should add a few cool letters here and there."
34	* '''Conversed''': "Why does the title have so many X's? Are we 5 years old?"
35	* '''Implied''': Alex mentions that he didn't buy "the comic book with a lot of X's and Z's in the title". The comic itself is never shown.
36	* '''Deconstructed''': Kids start believing that "skaters" is spelled with a Z.
37	* '''Played For Laughs''': Alex insists on writing his name as "[=AleXX=]" because it's "awesome" and "edgy". Everyone else in-universe mocks him for being TotallyRadical.
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