Just For Fun / Punny Trope Names

aka: Just For Pun

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Sometimes we make punny trope names, just for pun. Some people like this, while others view it as cruel and unusual pun-ishment.

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Please, when you add a new article title here, add the source of the pun (i.e. the original title or quote or whatever) in a note behind it. Don't just say "say it out loud" — explain what we're supposed to hear when we do that. Many puns here are just too obscure for most of us.

And no, you are not supposed to explain your own puns like this page does.

If you came here looking for an index of pun-related tropes, rather than tropes whose names are puns, that's Pun.

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Punny Trope Names

Punny Indices

• Books on Trope (books on tape)
• Can't Stomach This Index
• Hocus Tropus (hocus pocus)
• I Have Your Index (I Have Your Wife)
• Incest Is Relative (relativeness/related)
• Ind ex Machina (Deus ex Machina)
• An Index Orange (A Clockwork Orange)
• Infauxmation Desk (information desk)
• Invisibility Index (visibility index)
• The Parent Trope (The Parent Trap)
• Purple is the New Trope (Purple Is the New Black)
• Queer as Tropes (Queer as Folk)
• A Safe Index to Hide (a safe place to hide)
• The Smoking Section
• Spoilered Rotten (spoiled rotten)
• Stay Ahead of This Index
• Stock Room
• Tail of the Index
• Tastes Like An Index (Tastes Like Chicken)
• This Index is a Real Pain
• A Whole Latte Tropes (A Whole Lot of Tropes)
• The World's Breast Tropes
• You Would Not Want to Live in Dex

Punny Redirects

• Accident & Entertainment "Accident and Emergency" - redirects to Putting the "Medic" in Comedic
• Born to Pun Born to Run - redirects to Pungeon Master
• Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive Clap Your Hands If You Believe - redirects to Finger-Tenting
• Dumbass Victim Asshole Victim - redirects to Too Dumb to Live
• A God Am AI A God Am I - redirects to Deus Est Machina
• Health Food Term normally refers to healthy foods to eat - redirects to Hyperactive Metabolism
• Horny Devils "Horny" as in sexual slang, but also devil horns; redirects to Succubi and Incubi
• Just for Pun Just for Fun - redirects to Punny Trope Names
• Morale Event Horizon Moral Event Horizon - redirects to Despair Event Horizon
• Omazing Powerup After the "Om" used in chanting - redirects to Meditation Powerup
• Tanks for the Memories "thanks for the memories"- redirects to Transferable Memory
• VoldeMart Voldemort and Walmart - redirects to Predatory Business
• What's a Secret Four? "What's a secret for?" - redirects to Cryptic Background Reference

Tropes #–D

• 20 Bear Asses: "bare" ass
• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder "Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
• Accent Depundent "accent-dependent"
• Accordion to Most Sailors "according to most sailors"
• Acoustic License Artistic License
• Acrofatic "acrobatic"
• Acting Unnatural "Act natural!"
• Addiction Displacement Adaptation Displacement
• Adipose Rex Oedipus Rex + adipose tissues, meaning fats
• Adolf Hitlarious Adolf Hitler + hilarious
• Aerith and Bob Alice and Bob
• Affair Hair fair (i.e., blond) hair
• Affirmative Action Girl "affirmative action" + Action Girl
• Agony of the Feet "agony of defeat"
• Air Voyance "clairvoyance"
• A.K.A.-47 AK-47
• Alcohol Hic alcoholic
• Aliens Steal Cable Aliens Steal Cattle
• The All-Concealing "I" "the all-seeing eye"
• All Deaths Final "all sales final"
• All-Ghouls School "all-girls school"
• The All-Seeing A.I. also "the all-seeing eye"
• All-Stereotype Cast All-Star Cast
• All the Worlds Are a Stage "All the world's a stage" + "world" and "stage" as terms for Game Levels
• Alphabet Soup Cans "alphabet soup" + Solve the Soup Cans
• Altar the Speed "alter the speed"
• Alternate Tooniverse "Alternate Universe"
• The Alternet "alternate" + "Internet"
• Ambadassador "ambassador"
• Anchored Ship relationship going nowhere, like a tethered boat
• And Now for Someone Completely Different "And now for something completely different."
• Animal Wrongs Group "animal rights group"
• Angry, Angry Hippos modeled after the game "Hungry Hungry Hippos"
• Angrish "angry" and "Engrish"
• Apathy Killed the Cat "Curiosity killed the cat"
• Apocalypse How Apocalypse Now
• Apocalypse Not Apocalypse Now
• Apocalypse Wow Apocalypse Now
• Arc Welding "arc" as in a story arc
• Arkham's Razor portmanteau of "Occam's Razor" and "Arkham" from the Cthulhu Mythos, and/or Arkham Asylum from Batman
• Armed Farces "armed forces"
• Armed with Canon "armed with cannon"
• Art Attacker Art Attack
• Art Course "art-course"
• Ash Face the insult "ass face"
• Ashes to Crashes "ashes to ashes"
• Ass Kicks You the compliment "you kick ass"
• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder"
• Atomic F-Bomb "atomic bomb"
• Auto Erotica a pun on "auto" in the sense of a car, and "autoerotic"
• Awesome Moment of Crowning from when Moment of Awesome was called "Crowning Moment of Awesome"
• Awful Wedded Life "lawful wedded wife"
• Ax-Crazy "acts crazy"
• Axe Before Entering "ask before entering"
• Baa-Bomb Bob-omb
• Bad Habits nuns wearing habits + bad habits, as in behavioural patterns
• Bad Humor Truck Good Humor, an ice cream company
• Bad Influencer bad influence + social media influencer
• Bad to the Last Drop Maxwell House Coffee slogan "Good to the last drop"
• Bad with the Bone "Bad to the Bone"
• Balkanize Me Super Size Me
• Balloonacy lunacy
• "Balls" Gag ball gag
• Band of Brothels plays on "band of brothers" from the original Saint Crispin's Day speech
• "Bang!" Flag Gun BFG
• Barred from Every Bar "bar" is a place that serves alcohol, and to be "barred" from something is to be forbidden from it
• Bathroom Break-Outbathroom break
• Bat Scare cat scare
• Battle in the Center of the Mind Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Bayonet Ya Bayonetta
• Beardness Protection Program / Beardless Protection Program "Witness Protection program"
• Bears Are Bad News The Bad News Bears/ Bearers of Bad News
• Beary Friendly ...very friendly
• Beary Funny ...very funny
• Beating A Dead Player "beating a dead horse"
• Beat Still, My Heart "Be still, my heart"
• Beauty to Beast "Beauty and the Beast"
• Bee Afraid "Be afraid"
• Bee-Bee Gun BB gun
• Beetle Maniac Beatlemaniacs
• Bifauxnen Bishōnen
• Big Applesauce "The Big Apple", common nickname for New York City
• Big Beautiful Man Big Beautiful Woman
• Big Brother Is Employing You Big Brother Is Watching
• Big Dam Plot Big Damn Heroes
• Bittersweet 17 "sweet sixteen"
• Black Hole Sue "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden
• Blackground black + background
• Bland-Name Product "brand name product"
• Bleed 'Em and Weep "read 'em and weep"
• Blood Bath The term "bloodbath" separated into two words to refer to a literal bath in blood
• Blood Is Squicker in Water "Blood is Thicker Than Water"
• Blood Lust The term "bloodlust" adopted to refer to a literal lust for blood, rather than a general joy of committing violence
• Blood on the Debate Floor "Blood on the Dance Floor"
• Bloodstained Glass Windows stained glass windows
• Bloody Hilarious "bloody" being used both as slang and literally
• A Bloody Mess ditto
• Bloody Murder Where blood itself is used to cause a murder
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma "blunt force trauma"
• Board to Death "Bored to death"
• Boggles the Mind after the word game Boggle
• Boldly Coming "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
• Boogie Knights Boogie Nights
• Book and Switch Bait-and-Switch
• Bows and Errors bows and arrows
• Boy Meets Ghoul Boy Meets Girl
• Brain Food in this case, using brains as food
• Brawn Hilda Brünnhilde
• Breaking Out Breakout
• Break the Haughty Break the Cutie
• Bride and Switch "Bait and switch"
• Bridge Logic Fridge Logic
• Bubble Gun bubble gum
• Bullet Holes and Revelations Black Holes and Revelations, by Muse
• Butter Face "But her face"
• By the Lights of Their Eyes "by the whites of their eyes"
• By Wall That Is Holey "by all that is holy"
• Came Back Strong "Came Back Wrong"
• Camera Obscurer Camera Obscura
• The Can Kicked Him "Kicked the Can" reversed
• Canon Fodder "cannon fodder"
• Canon Welding "cannon welding"
• Capital Offensive "capital offense"
• Captain Oblivious "Captain Obvious"
• Cargo Ship an object-centered\transporting ship
• Casting a Shadow "casting a shadow" and "casting" spells.
• Cat-apult "cat" and "catapult"
• Catch a Falling Star protagonist/celestial body. Also a song from the 1950s first recorded by Perry Como.
• Caught the Heart on His Sleeve "wearing your heart on your sleeve"
• Ceiling Banger "wall banger"
• Celestial Body a human or animal body made of actual celestial bodies
• Centrifugal Farce "centrifugal force"
• The Chains of Commanding chain of command
• Chairman of the Brawl "chairman of the board"
• Chekov's Gun Chekhov's Gun
• Chic and Awe "shock and awe"
• The Chosen Zero The Chosen One
• Christmas Rushed "Christmas rush"
• Church Militant a term normally used to refer to fighting against sin
• Cicadian Rhythm circadian rhythm
• Civil Warcraft Civil War
• Clipped-Wing Angel One-Winged Angel
• Clock Roaches "cockroaches"
• Clothes Make the Maniac "clothes make the man"
• Clothes Make the Superman ditto
• Cluster F-Bomb "cluster bomb"
• Cocky Rooster cock is an alternate name for rooster; here used in its personality adjective form
• Coitus Uninterruptus "coitus interruptus"
• Cold Ham a Large Ham who acts in a cool, i.e. Stoic, manner
• Colon Cancer punctuation mark/large intestine
• Comeback Tomorrow "come back tomorrow"
• Comic Sutra Kama Sutra
• Command & Conquer Economy "command economy" plus Command & Conquer
• Com Mons Commons
• Compressed Hair "compressed air"
• Compressed Vice "compressed ice"
• Confucian Confusion
• Confusion Fu "kung fu":
• The Convenient Store Next Door "convenience store"
• Cool and Unusual Punishment Cruel and unusual punishment
• Cosmetic Horror Cosmic Horror
• Les Cops Sportif Le Coq Sportif, a French clothing company
• Cordon Bleugh Chef Le Cordon Bleu, the instution of French cooking, and "blegh", disgust
• Crappy Holidays "happy holidays"
• Crapsaccharine World Crapsack World
• Crash Course Landing "crash course"
• Crate Expectations "great expectations"
• Crater Power Greater Power
• Creator's Pest Creator's Pet
• Crime After Crime "time after time"
• Crime Time Soap "Prime Time Soap"
• Critical Encumbrance Failure Critical Existence Failure
• The Croc Is Ticking "the clock is ticking"
• Crown of Horns "crown of thorns"
• Cruella to Animals "cruelty to animals"
• Cue O'Clock "two o'clock"
• Cue the Billiard Shot "cue" referring to both the cue ball and the signalling to others for something else to happen
• Cumulonemesis "cumulonimbus cloud"
• Cunning Linguist "cunnilingus"
• Curiosity Killed the Cast also from Curiosity killed the cat
• Curse Is Foiled Again "Curses! Foiled again!"
• Curse of The Ancients "curse" as in profanity, "ancients" as in old people
• Danger Takes a Backseat Death Takes a Holiday

• The Day the Music Lied The Day the Music Died
• Dead Line News Headline News
• Dead Man Honking "dead man walking"
• Dead Man's Chest a chest with a dead man, obviously
• Dead Man's Switch Dead Man's Switch
• Dead Weight a pun on the figure of speech "dead weight" and the most prominent characteristic of fat zombies
• Death Dealer playing cards as weapons, i.e. "dealing death"
• A Death in the Limelight A Day in the Limelight
• Death Is Cheap "Talk is cheap"
• Death Throws "death throes"
• Debate and Switch Bait-and-Switch
• Deface of the Moon "the face of the moon"
• Deliver Us from Evil the line from the Lord's Prayer crossed with delivering a baby
• Delusions of Doghood Delusions of Godhood
• Denied Parody "denied parity"
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells "depleted uranium shells"
• Depopulation Bomb The Population Bomb, a 1968 book by Paul Ehrlich
• Depth Deception "depth perception"
• Depth Perplexion also "depth perception"
• Determinator The Terminator
• Detonation Moon Destination Moon, an early sci-fi movie and novel by Robert A. Heinlein
• Deus Angst Machina*
• Deus Ax Machina*
• Deus Est Machina*^note And its alternate title, A God Am AI
• Deus Exit Machina*
• Deus Sex Machina* * all from Deus ex Machina
• Diamonds in the Buff "diamonds in the rough"
• Dies Wide Open "eyes wide open"
• Diplomatic Impunity "diplomatic immunity"
• Dirty Harriet Dirty Harry
• Disco Tech "discotheque"
• Discriminate and Switch Bait-and-Switch
• Disney Creatures of the Farce "creatures of the forest"
• Distress Ball Stress ball
• Divided States of America "United States Of America"
• Domed Hometown Doomed Hometown
• Don't Shoot the Message "don't shoot the messenger"
• Donut Mess with a Cop "do not mess with a cop"
• Doom It Yourself "do it yourself"
• Doorstop Baby "doorstep baby"
• Dork Horse Candidate "dark horse candidate"
• Dork Knight "Dark Knight" + "dork"
• Down in the Dumps an idiom used to refer to a state of sadness
• Down L.A. Drain "down the drain" + L.A.
• Do Wrong, Right "right" meaning "done properly" instead of "morally correct"
• Dr. Fakenstein "Dr. Frankenstein"
• Dragon Their Feet "dragging their feet"
• Dragons Up the Yin Yang "up the yin yang"
• Dread Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
• Dressed to Oppress "dressed to impress"
• Dub Text subtext
• Dueling Dojos Dueling Banjos
• Dumb and Drummer Dumb and Dumber
• Dung Fu "kung fu" + "dung"
• Dyeing for Your Art "dying for your art"
• Dye Hard Die Hard
• Dye or Die same sound, different spelling and meaning/"do or die"
• Dysfunction Junction Conjunction Junction, a Schoolhouse Rock! song

Tropes E–K

• E = MC Hammer E = mc^2, MC Hammer
• Egg MacGuffin "Egg McMuffin"
• Elevator Action Sequence Elevator Action
• The Elevator from Ipanema "The Girl from Ipanema"
• Elevator Going Down a play on the double meaning of the phrase "going down"
• Elfeminate portmanteau of "elf" and "effeminate"
• Elvish Presley 'Elvis Presley'
• Enemy Mime Enemy Mine
• Engaging Conversation "engaging" as in marriage engagement
• Epic Flail Epic Fail
• Epic Hail Epic Fail
• The Eponymous Show Partially named after Eponymous Kid, who started the campaign against "trope" in trope titles years before it became official policy. The working title was "The Trope Show".
• Epunymous Title "eponymous title"
• Everything's Deader with Zombies Everything's Better with...
• Everyone Looks Sexier if French Everything Sounds Sexier in French
• Evilutionary Biologist Evolutionary biologist
• Extra-ore-dinary extraordinary
• Extreme Omni-Goat Extreme Omnivore
• Eye Am Watching You "I am watching you."
• Eyedscreen "Eyes in Widescreen"
• Eye Glasses eyeglasses - the trope is about glasses that seem to behave like actual eyeballs
• Eye Recall "I Recall" as in "If I Recall Correctly"
• Eye Spy I spy
• Eye Scream ice cream
• The Eyes Have It "the 'ayes' have it"
• Facial Profiling racial profiling
• Failing a Taxi hailing a taxi
• Failure Is the Only Option "failure is not an option"
• Fair Cop "It's a fair cop" i.e. "okay, you caught me fair and square"
• Fairy Sexy "very sexy"
• Faith–Heel Turn Face–Heel Turn
• Fake Arm Disarm "disarm" meaning to remove another person's weapon from their control, and "arm" being an upper limb of the human body
• Fake in the Hole "Fire in the hole!"
• Fake–Real Turn Face–Heel Turn
• Faking the Dead Waking the Dead
• Faking and Entering Breaking and entering
• Fallin Angel Fallen Angel
• Fall of the House of Cards Fall of the House of Usher
• The Fantastic Faux "Fantastic Four''
• The Family That Slays Together "The family that plays together stays together"
• Fan Disservice Fanservice
• Fan Dumb Fandom
• Fanon Canon
• Fanservice Pack "service pack"
• Fan Service With A Smile "service with a smile"
• Fantastic Noir "Fantastic Four''
• Fartillery "artillery"
• Farts on Fire "hearts on fire"
• Faux Furby "faux fur"
• Faux Paw "faux pas"
• Faux-To Guide "How To Guide"
• Fauxdian Slip Freudian Slip
• Fauxlosophic Narration "philosophic narration"
• Fauxreigner "foreigner"
• Fauxrrari "Ferarri"
• Fauxshadow "foreshadow"
• Fauxtastic Voyage Fantastic Voyage
• Fauxtivational Poster motivational poster
• Feathered Fiend feathered friend
• Feed by Example "Lead by example"
• Fee Fi Faux Pas "Fee fi fo fum"
• Femme Fatalons Femme Fatale with talons
• Feng Schwing Feng shui
• A Fête Worse than Death A Fate Worse Than Death
• Fiction 500 Fortune 500
• Fight Fur Your Right to Party "fight for your right to party"
• Fight Unscene fight unseen
• Fingore finger
• The Firefly Effect Butterfly Effect
• Firemen Are Hot being high in temperature/sexually attractive
• First-Person Snapshooter First-Person Shooter
• Fishing for Sole the type of fish vs. the bottom of a shoe
• Fission Mailed spoonerism of Mission Failed
• Flamethrower Backfire flamethrower fuel tanks are typically worn on your back, and getting it shot could have incendiary consequences for you
• Flipping Helpless "flipping" as both a mild expletive and a literal verb
• Flying Under the Gaydar "flying under the radar"
• Follow the Money A catchphrase for inferring one's political activities through their financial activities
• Follow the Plotted Line "follow the dotted line"
• Food End Good End
• Foo Fu Kung Fu
• For Doom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls
• For Inconvenience, Press "1" "for information press one"
• For the Evulz "for the lulz"
• Foreign Queasine "Foreign Cuisine"
• Formulaic Magic "formulaic" as in "of mathematical formulas", not "unoriginal"
• Foul Ball Pit "Foul" as in both disgusting and a foul baseball hit
• Fountain of Memes "Fountain of Dreams"
• Four Lines, All Waiting "no lines, no waiting"
• Fowl-Mouthed Parrot "foul-mouthed parrot"
• Freddie Mercopy Freddie Mercury, as in "copies of Freddie Mercury"
• Free-Range Children "free range chicken"
• Free Wheel "free will"
• From Russia with Nukes From Russia with Love
• Fruit of the Loon Fruit of the Loom, which is itself a pun on "Fruit of the Womb"
• Full-Boar Action "full-bore action"
• Fully Automatic Clip Show "fully automatic clip"
• Full-Name Basis "first name basis"
• Fulton Street Folly "Fulton's folly"
• Fur and Loathing "fear and loathing", or more specifically Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• The Future Is Noir The Future Is Now
• Futureshadowing Foreshadowing
• Game-Over Man when you lose, he appears as if to say "Game Over, man!"
• Gambit Roulette "Russian Roulette"
• Garden of Evil Garden of Eden
• Gasshole "asshole"
• Gaydar radar
• Gendercide genocide
• Gene Hunting Life On Mars' character Gene Hunt
• Generation Xerox Generation X
• Germanic Depressives "manic-depressive"
• Get into Jail Free "Get Out of Jail Free" Card
• Ghostapo Gestapo
• Ghost Butler Ghostbusters
• Give Geeks a Chance "Give Peace a Chance"
• Giving Them the Strip "giving them the slip"
• God Couple The Odd Couple
• God Save Us from the Queen! "God Save the Queen"
• The Gods Must Be Lazy The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Going by the Matchbook "going by the book"
• Going Fur a Swim "going for a swim"
• Good Angel, Bad Angel "good cop, bad cop"
• Good-Looking Privates low-ranking enlisted personnel, of course. What else could that refer to?
• Gotta Get Your Head Together "get your head together"
• Grave Clouds serious/place of burial
• Grave Humor ditto
• Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
• The Greatest Story Never Told The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Green Boy Color Green and Game Boy Color
• Grey-and-Gray Morality note the spelling
• Grievous Bottley Harm "grievous bodily harm"
• Grievous Harm with a Body ditto
• The Guards Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Guide Dang It! "God dang it""
• Gung Holier Than Thou "gung ho" plus "holier than thou"
• Hail to the Thief "Hail to the Chief"
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow "here today, gone tomorrow"
• Half the Man He Used to Be "I'm not half the man I used to be..." from "Yesterday" by The Beatles, which was a metaphorical statement.
• Ham and Cheese "ham" as in Large Ham and "cheese" meaning schlock
• Ham-to-Ham Combat "hand to hand combat"
• A Handful for an Eye hand for a hand, eye for an eye
• Handy Cuffs "handcuffs"
• Handy Feet "handy" meaning readily usable
• Hannibal Lecture Hannibal Lecter
• Hate at First Sight Love at First Sight
• Hate Dumb hatedom
• Hate Sink "heat sink"
• Hazy-Feel Turn Spoonerism of Face–Heel Turn or Heel–Face Turn, also "hazy" as in unclear
• Heart Beat-Down "heartbeat" + "beatdown"
• Heart Drive hard drive
• Heavy Meta Heavy Metal
• Heavy Mithril Heavy Metal + Mithril
• Heel–Face Return Heel–Face Turn
• Heel–Faith Turn Heel–Face Turn
• Heir Club for Men Hair Club for Men
• Heliotropes "helios" = Greek "sun" + "tropes"; no relation to the flowers
• Hell-Bent for Leather A literal application of the idiomatic phrase.
• Hellevator "elevator"
• Hellish Copter "helicopter"
• A Hell of a Time having a good time in Hell
• Helping Hands Literal use of an idiom meaning "people who help another"
• Hemo Erotic "Homoerotic"
• Her Heart Will Go On "My Heart Will Go On"
• He Who Must Not Be Seen "He Who Must Not Be Named"
• He Who Must Not Be Heard also "He Who Must Not Be Named"
• Hide and No Seek "hide and go seek"
• High-Heel–Face Turn Heel–Face Turn
• High Koala-ty Cuteness "high quality cuteness"
• High-Pressure Blood "high blood pressure"
• Hilarity in Zoos Hilarity Ensues
• Hilarity Sues also Hilarity Ensues
• Hindenburg Incendiary Principle "Heisenberg's uncertainty principle"
• His Story Repeats Itself History Repeats Itself
• Hoax Hogan Hulk Hogan
• Hood Hornament hood ornament + horn
• Horny Vikings derived from their stereotypical horned helmets
• Horrorscope "horoscope"
• Hot for Preacher "Hot for Teacher"
• Hot Wind "hot" meaning sexually attractive, instead of high in temperature
• Hot Wings covered in fire instead of hot sauce
• How Do I Used Tense? How Do I Shot Web?
• Huggy, Huggy Hippos modeled after the game "Hungry Hungry Hippos"
• Hugh Mann "human"
• Hu Mons humans + Mons
• Hulk Speak "Hulk Smash!"
• Human Resources resources extracted from human bodies
• Humanity Ensues Hilarity Ensues
• Hummer Dinger "humdinger"
• Ice-Cream Koan "ice cream cone"
• An Ice Person "a nice person"
• I Have Your Index I Have Your Wife
• I'm a Humanitarian "I'm a vegetarian" + Humanitarianism
• Implausible Deniability Plausible Deniability
• In the Hood a literal hood rather than a (neighbor)hood
• Inaction Sequence "action sequence"
• Incest Is Relative "incest" = romantic love or sex between two close relatives
• Incredibly Lame Fun Incredibly Lame Pun
• Inhumanable Alien Rights "inalienable human rights"
• Inhuman Resources Human Resources
• Inn Between the Worlds "in between"
• Inn Security insecurity
• Insecurity System "security system"
• Instant Messenger Pigeon instant messenger + messenger pigeon
• Intro Dump Infodump
• iPhony fake iPhone
• I Resemble That Remark! "I resent that remark"
• Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
• Inventional Wisdom A play on "Conventional Wisdom", which none of the inventors in this trope seem to have
• Invisibility Ink invisible ink
• iSophagus iPod in esophagus
• It's A Small Net After All "It's a Small World After All"
• It's Snowing Cocaine "snow" is a slang term for cocaine
• Jack the Ripoff Jack the Ripper
• Jail Bake jailbreak
• Japandering Japan + pandering
• The Jaywalking Dead The Walking Dead
• Jeanne d'Archétype Jeanne d'Arc
• Jerkass Jackass
• Joke of the Butt "butt of the joke"
• The Joy of X "The Joy of Sex"
• Just Desserts "Just deserts", except the villain actually gets eaten
• Just for the Heli of It "just for the hell of it"
• Just Plane Wrong "just plain wrong"
• Just Train Wrong "just plain wrong"
• Kevlard "Kevlar"
• Knight Fever "night fever"
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!" "The Knights Who Say Ni"
• Knocking on Heathens' Door knocking on heaven's door
• Knotty Tentacles Naughty Tentacles
• Kosher Nostra Cosa Nostra
• Kung-Shui "feng shui"

Tropes L–O

• Laconical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions "Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions", of which the former is a Snowclone. Laconical is a word, but it is an archaic form of the more standard "Laconic".
• Large Ham Radio "ham radio"
• Last Disrespects "last respects"
• Last-Name Basis "first name basis"
• Last Plan Standing "last man standing"
• Laughably Evil Affably Evil
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships "the face that launch'd a thousand ships"
• Leaf Boat "lifeboat"
• Let's Duet "let's do it"
• Level Ate "level 8"
• Lighting Bug "lightning bug"
• Limey Goes to Hollywood Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• Lip Losses "lip glosses"
• Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! "Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!"
• Lipstick-and-Load Montage Lock-and-Load Montage
• Little Brother Is Watching Big Brother Is Watching
• Little Dead Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood
• Little Miss Snarker Little Miss Marker
• Little Red Fighting Hood Little Red Riding Hood
• The Living Dead concerns living actors playing dead characters
• Locked into Strangeness a lock of hair
• The Loins Sleep Tonight "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" song
• Loose Canon "loose cannon"
• Losing Your Head A figurative statement turned literal
• Lost in the Maize "maze"
• Lost in Imitation Lost in Translation
• Lost in Transmission Lost in Translation
• Lost Will and Testament "last will and testament"
• Loud of War "Lord of War"
• Louis Cypher "Lucifer"
• A Love to Dismember "a love to remember"
• Mage in Manhattan Maid in Manhattan, itself a Pun-Based Title
• Magical Mystery Doors Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles album)
• Majorly Awesome "majorly" meaning "mostly" or "very", and the military rank of "Major"
• Major Coward Same idea as above
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself "spectacles", as in eyeglasses
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places "Lookin' for Love (In All the Wrong Places)"
• Malcolm Xerox Malcolm X
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman named after a song about female empowerment, refers to men feeling themselves up after turning into a woman
• Marathon Running "running" as in being aired by a network
• Marked Change "marked" being used in the literal sense
• Married to the Job Married to the Mob
• Martial Arts and Crafts "arts and crafts"
• Marty Stu Mary Sue
• Mary Tzu Mary Sue + Sun Tzu
• Master of Delusion Master of Illusion
• Mayor Pain "major pain"
• Me's a Crowd "three's a crowd"
• Medal of Dishonor "medal of honor"
• Mega Neko Meganekko
• Mêlée à Trois "ménage à trois"
• Mellow Fellow "mellow yellow"
• Memetic Mutation "genetic mutation"
• Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus Men are from Mars (bars), Women are from Venus (razors)
• Mentor Ship mentorship / mentor+Shipping
• Mercurial Base "mercurial" meaning both "moves around" and "frequently found on Mercury"
• Metaphorgotten metaphor + forgotten
• Michael Hackson Michael Jackson
• Mighty Whitey "tighty whitey", a term for a type of men's underwear
• Million Mook March Million Man March
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read "A mind is a terrible thing to waste": The slogan of the UNCF
• Mind over Manners Mind over Matter
• Misfortune Cookie "fortune cookie"
• Misguided Missile "guided missile"
• Miss Conception "misconception"
• Mobile-Suit Human Mobile Suit Gundam
• Mobstacle Course "obstacle course"
• Moby Schtick "Moby-Dick" plus "entertainment routines"
• Mock Cousteau Jacques Cousteau
• MockGuffin MacGuffin
• Mockspiracy "conspiracy"
• Mockumentary "documentary"
• Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness The Mohs scale, only with Rock & Roll and Heavy Metal instead of rocks and metals.
• More Friends, More Benefits "friends with benefits"
• The Mourning After "the morning after"
• Moustache de Plume "nom de plume"
• Mouthful of Pi "mouthful of pie"
• The Moving Experience wordplay in that "moving" here refers to physical movement to a new home
• Mr. Vice Guy "Mr. Nice Guy"
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous "armed and dangerous"
• Multiple Head Case "head case" = insane
• Mundanger "mundane" + "danger"
• The Murder After "the morning after"
• Murder in the Family "murder(ing) the family"
• Murphy's Bed: "Murphy's Law" + "Murphy bed"
• Muscle Beach Bum: Muscle Beach + "beach bum"
• Music of Note importance/music note
• Musical Chores "musical chairs"
• Musical Squares "musical chairs"
• Musicalis Interruptus "coitus interruptus"
• My Beloved Smother "my beloved mother"
• My Little Panzer My Little Pony
• My Little Phony My Little Pony
• My Own Private "I Do" My Own Private Idaho
• My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
• My Skull Runneth Over "My cup runneth over"
• Nature Abhors a Virgin "nature abhors a vacuum"
• Nature Adores a Virgin ditto
• Naval Gazing "Navel-Gazing"
• Neck Lift literally lifting somebody by the neck, not the cosmetic-surgery technique
• The Need for Mead "the need... for speed"
• Nepharious Pharaoh "nefarious".
• New Child Left Behind No Child Left Behind
• Newbie Boom "baby boom"
• Newspaper-Thin Disguise Paper-Thin Disguise
• Nice Job Breaking It, Herod Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant Nightmare Fuel + "fuel station attendant"
• Nipple and Dimed "nickel-and-dimed"
• Nitro Express after Nitro Express, a series of cartridges used in large-bore hunting rifles
• Noah's Story Arc Noah's Ark + Story Arc
• No Body Left Behind No One Gets Left Behind
• No Dead Body Poops Nobody Poops
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine "No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to die."
• No One Respects the Spanish Inquisition "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
• No Periods, Period "period" can mean both menstruation and a full stop
• No Port For You No Export for You
• No Shirt, Long Jacket "Short Skirt, Long Jacket"
• No Woman's Land "no man's land"
• No Yay also a pun on Ho Yay
• Non-Voyage Party "bon voyage"
• Noodle Implements Noodle Incident
• Norse by Norsewest North By Northwest
• Not Right in the Bed "not right in the head"
• Nothing Is Scarier "nothing" has two meanings, and in this case it's both — ^nothing such a thing does not exist which is scarier than ^nothing the absence of a thing
• Nubile Savage Noble Savage
• Nuns 'n' Rosaries Guns N' Roses
• Nun Too Holy "none too holy"
• The Obi-Wannabe Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Of Corpse He's Alive "of course he's alive!"
• Of Corset Hurts "of course it hurts!"
• Of Corsets Sexy "of course it's sexy!"
• Obsessed Are the Listmakers "Blessed are the peacemakers"
• Obfuscating Disability Obfuscating Stupidity
• Olympus Mons "Mons from the Olympus", and the actual mountain in Mars
• Omnicidal Maniac "homicidal maniac"
• One-Hit-Point Wonder One-Hit Wonder
• One-Scene Wonder also One-Hit Wonder
• One-Tract Mind "one track mind"
• One True Threesome "One Two Three"
• One-Two Punchline one-two punch
• One, Two, Three, Four, Go! "go" is five in Japanese
• "Open!" Says Me "Open Sesame"
• The Operators Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Orchestral Bombing "orchestrated bombing campaign"
• Out-of-Genre Experience "out of body experience"
• Out of the Closet, Into the Fire "out of the frying pan..."
• Out with a Bang "bang" as in an act of coitus
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
• Overt Operative "covert operative"
• The Owl-Knowing One "the all-knowing one"

Tropes P–S

• Pain to the Ass "pain in the ass"
• Parodic Table of the Elements Periodic Table Of The Elements
• Party of Representatives political/representative party + role-playing Player Party
• Pass Fail from "pass/fail" as an academic term
• Passing Judgment "passing" in the sense of "moving past" and "passing" in the sense of "expressing"
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat Mortal Kombat
• Pater Familicide "pater familias"
• People Fall Off Chairs People Sit on Chairs
• People of Hair Color "people of color"
• Perfumigation "fumigation"
• Perma-Shave Burma-Shave
• Personal Space Invader "personal space" + Space Invaders
• Person of Mass Construction Person Of Mass Destruction
• Person of Mass Destruction Weapon of Mass Destruction
• Pest Controller A character that commands pests rather than tries to exterminate them – in short, one that does the opposite of pest control
• Pet Heir "pet hair"
• Phlegmings "lemmings"
• Phoney Call "phone call", used to be called Fauxn Call
• Pin-Pulling Teeth either teeth that pull out grenade pins or grenade pins pulling out teeth
• The Pin Is Mightier Than the Sword The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
• Plane Awful Flight A plain awful plane flight
• Plane Spotting Trainspotting
• Planes, Trains, and Imbeciles Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• A Plot in Deed "A plot in deed"
• Pocket Protector One kind protects the shirt; the other, the wearer.
• Polka Dork "polka dot"
• Pony Tale "ponytail"
• Pooled Funds swimming pool vs. common money
• Poor Communication Kills "poor communication skills"
• The Poorly Chosen One "poorly chosen" + "The Chosen One"
• Porn Stache Porn Stash
• Porting Disaster "courting disaster"
• Power Gives You Wings "Red Bull gives you wings!"
• Practically Joker "practical joker"
• Pre-Climax Climax "climax" being used in both the sexual and dramatic senses
• Precision F-Strike "precision strike"
• Premature Aggravation "premature ejaculation"
• Premature Encapsulation ditto
• President Evil Resident Evil
• Pretty in Mink Pretty in Pink
• Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", The Offspring
• Prophetic Fallacy Pathetic fallacy
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Public Exposure The criminal offence of "public exposure", "exposure" in the sense of publicity and the camera term for how long the shutter is open
• Pungeon Master Dungeon Master
• The Punishment Is the Crime "The punishment fits the crime"
• Punny Name "funny name"
• Put Their Heads Together about two characters' heads literally being smashed together by a third
• Putting on the Reich "Puttin' on the Ritz"
• Putting the Pee in Pool "pee" being a fully spelled out form of the name of the letter P, which the word "pool" starts with
• Questionable Consent Questionable Content
• Quicksand Box portmanteau of "quicksand" and "Wide-Open Sandbox"
• Race Lift "face lift"
• Rainbow Lite Rainbow Brite
• Raising the Steaks "Raising the stakes"
• Ramp-rovisation "Improvisation"
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs Good Old Fisticuffs
• Rash Equilibrium Nash equilibrium
• Rated M for Manly Mature rating
• Rated M for Money Mature rating
• Reaching Between the Lines Reading Between The Lines
• Really Moves Around Really Gets Around
• Red Eyes, Take Warning "red sky at morning, sailors take warning"
• Refrain from Assuming to hold back/the chorus of a song
• Remilitarized Zone Demilitarised zone
• Remittance Man Renaissance Man
• The Resolution Will Not Be Identified "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
• Ret-Gone Retcon
• Retirony retirement + irony
• Retraux faux + retro
• Revenge Is a Dish Best Served "revenge is a dish best served cold"
• RevengeSVP RSVP
• The Revolution Will Not Be Bureaucratized "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized same as above
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified same as above
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense "poor in cents"
• Right on Queue "right on cue"
• Rip Tailoring actor-comedian Rip Taylor
• Rip Van Tinkle Rip Van Winkle
• Robot Republic Roman Republic
• Rock Me, Asmodeus! "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco
• Role Called "roll call"
• Room Disservice "room service"
• Roswell That Ends Well All's Well That Ends Well
• Rule of Pool Rule of Cool
• Rummage Fail "rummage sale"
• Rump Roast A character's rear end (or "rump") gets burned.
• Sadly Mythcharacterized "mischaracterized"
• Sadly Mythtaken "sadly mistaken"
• Safety Worst "safety first"
• Santa's Existence Clause Santa Claus
• Saved by the Church Bell "saved by the bell"
• Scaled Up "scaled up" = made larger + "scaled up" = covered in scales
• Scooby-Dooby Doors "Scooby dooby doo!"
• Scooby Stack "Scooby snack"
• Scout-Out Shout-Out
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
• Screw Yourself a common insult, applied literally
• Scry vs. Scry "Spy vs. Spy"
• Sealed Evil in a Duel Sealed Evil in a Can
• Second-Face Smoke "second-hand smoke"
• Sea Hurtchin portmanteau of "sea urchin" and "hurting"
• See Water "seawater"
• Self-Offense "self defense"
• Self-Fanservice "self-service"
• Send in the Clones "Send in the Clowns"
• Senseless Violins "senseless violence"
• Series Fauxnale "series finale"
• Serkis Folk "circus folk"
• Seriously Scruffy "Seriously" can be used as an intensifier, therefore the trope name can mean either "Very scruffy" or "Scruffy because things are serious".
• "Sesame Street" Cred Sesame Street + "street cred"
• Set the World on Fire referencing works in which the Earth is literally set ablaze
• Sexiled "exiled"
• Sexophone "saxophone"
• Sexposition portmanteau of "sex" and "Exposition"
• Sextra Credit: "extra credit"
• Sexy Dimorphism: "sexual dimorphism"
• "Shaggy Frog" Story "Shaggy Dog" Story
• Shear Menace "sheer menace"
• She-Fu "sifu"
• Sherlock Homage Sherlock Holmes
• Ship Mates "ship mates," i.e. fellow sailors
• Ship Sinking relationship sinking like a wrecked boat
• Ship Tease "striptease"
• The Ship Yard the docking location of many vessels; Also, just about every trope there is a pun
• Sir Cameos-a-Lot "sir" + "Camelot"
• Shock and Awe "shock" meaning a literal electric charge
• Shoo Out the Clowns "Send in the Clowns"
• Shoo the Dog Shoot the Dog
• The Show Must Go Wrong The Show Must Go On
• Sickeningly Sweethearts Sickeningly Sweet
• Single Malt Vision "single-malt Scotch" + Double Vision
• Single-Palette Town "single palette" + Pallet Town
• Sit Comic a Sitcom starring a stand-up comic
• Skeleton Key Card "skeleton key" + "key card"
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet "skeletons in the closet", i.e. embarrassing or damaging secrets
• Skirts and Ladders "Chutes and Ladders", a board game
• Sky Heist "sky high" + "heist"
• Slippery Soap "slippery slope"
• Slow "NO!" "slow mo"
• Smell Phone "cell phone"
• Smithical Marriage "mythical marriage"
• Smoking Gun Control "smoking gun"
• Smoking Hot Sex with "smoking" here referring to smoking tobacco rather than the degree of passion
• Snark Bait "shark bait"
• The Snark Knight The Dark Knight
• Social Semi-Circle "social circle"
• Soft Reboot "soft reset"
• Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond
• Something Else Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
• Songs in the Key of Lock Songs in the Key of Life
• Songs in the Key of Panic ditto
• Soul-Powered Engine Coal powered engine
• Sound Defect Sound effect
• Sounds of Science "Sounds of Silence"
• Spare to the Throne "heir to the throne"
• Sphere Factor Fear Factor
• Spin-Offspring Spinoff and "Offspring"
• Spoiled Sweet "spoiled rotten"
• Spring Cleaning Fever "spring fever"
• Squat's in a Name "What's in a name?"
• Stalked by the Bell "saved by the bell"
• Start of Darkness Heart of Darkness
• Steel Ear Drums Steel Drums
• Step into the Blinding Fight "Step Into the Blinding Light"
• Stock Ness Monster Loch Ness Monster
• Stock Punishment Stock Punishment is a stock punishment (in the same vein as Stock Phrases, Stock Characters, etc.)
• Stocking Filler a play on "stocking filler" (as in a small Christmas gift), this trope deals with sexily-stockinged women
• Stolen Good, Returned Better "stolen goods"
• The Story That Never Was "The Year that Never Was"
• The Straight and Arrow Path "the straight and narrow path"
• Straight to the Pointe "straight to the point"
• Stranger in a Familiar Land Stranger in a Strange Land
• Stranger in a Strange School ditto
• Strawberry Shorthand strawberry shortcake
• Suck E. Cheese's Chuck E. Cheese
• Sucksessor "successor"
• Sue Donym "pseudonym"
• Suit with Vested Interests "suit with vest" + "vested interests" + "suit" as a metaphor for a Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Suppressed Mammaries "suppressed memories"
• Sweet Baker A baker who bakes sweets, and a baker who is sweet.
• Swing Low, Sweet Harriet "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
• Swipe Your Blade Off "wipe your blade off"
• Sword Almighty "Lord Almighty"
• Synchronized Swarming "synchronized swimming"

Tropes T–Z

• Tae Kwon Door "taekwondo"
• Take a Moment to Catch Your Death "...to catch your breath"
• Take Me Out at the Ball Game "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
• Taken for Granite "taken for granted"
• Talking Poo usually means "speaking nonsense"
• The Taming of the Grue The Taming of the Shrew + grues
• Tank Goodness "thank goodness"
• Tanks, but No Tanks "thanks, but no thanks"
• Tanks for Nothing "thanks for nothing"
• Tantrum Throwing a reference to the phrase "throwing a tantrum," this trope is about throwing objects during a tantrum
• Technological Pacifist Technical Pacifist
• Teeny Weenie "teeny weeny" + wiener, or genitalia
• Telephone Polearm "telephone pole + polearm"
• Tentacle Rope "tentacle rape"
• Terms of Endangerment "terms of endearment"
• Terra Deforming "terraforming"
• Terror-dactyl "pterodactyl"
• Testes Test "taste test"
• Thanatos Gambit Xanatos Gambit + Thanatos, the Greek god of death
• Thanks for the Mammary "thanks for the memories"
• That Old-Time Prescription "that old time religion"
• That Poor Car That Poor Cat
• That Poor Cat That Darn Cat!
• That Syncing Feeling "that sinking feeling"
• There Will Be Toilet Paper There Will Be Blood
• Third Line, Some Waiting "no lines, no waiting"
• This Bed of Rose's "bed of roses"
• This Is a Drill This Is Not a Drill
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman "This looks like a job for Superman!"
• This Means Warpaint This Means War!
• Throw the Mook at Them Throw the Book at Them
• Thud and Blunder "Blood and thunder"
• Tinkle in the Eye "Twinkle in the Eye"
• Title Scream "Title screen"
• Toasted Buns A character's rear end (or "buns") gets burned by a jet pack.
• The Tooth Hurts "the truth hurts"
• Top God "top dog"
• The Topic of Cancer "Tropic of Cancer"
• Toy Ship "toy ship" + "shipping"
• Trade Snark "trademark" + "snark"
• Trainstopping "Trainspotting"
• Transflormation "A transformation into flora"
• The Trap Parents The Parent Trap
• Trash Landing "crash landing"
• Trash of the Titans Clash of the Titans
• Treasure Chest Cavity "treasure chest" + "chest cavity''
• Tree Buchet "Trebuchet", a catapult-like siege weapon
• Trenchcoat Warfare Trench warfare
• Tribal Carry Bridal Carry
• Trojan Gauntlet "Trojan" as in the brand of condoms
• Trouble Entendre Double Entendre
• Tuck and Cover a play on the combat maneuver "Duck and Cover"
• Tutu Fancy "too fancy"
• Twerp Sweating Perp Sweating
• Twincest twins + "incest"
• A Twinkle in the Sky "Twinkle in the Eye"
• 2xFore "2x4"
• Two Dun It "whodunit"
• Two Lines, No Waiting "no lines, no waiting"
• Two Shots from Behind the Bar shots (gunshots) vs. shots (of liquor)
• Tyke Bomb "time bomb"
• Type Caste "typecast"
• Typeset in the Future "set in the future"
• Uncanny Valley Girl Uncanny Valley + Valley Girl
• Uncatty Resemblance "uncanny resemblance"
• Uncle Tomfoolery "Uncle Tom"
• Unconscious Objector conscientious objector
• Undeath Is Cheap "Talk is cheap
• The Unfair Sex "the fair sex," i.e. womankind
• Unholy Matrimony "holy matrimony"
• Unishment "punishment" that is actually a reward
• Unsexy Sadist "Sexy Sadie"
• Unsound Effect "sound effect"
• Up Marketing marketing to the upmarket
• Uranus Is Showing "your anus is showing"
• Urban Legend of Zelda "urban legend" plus The Legend of Zelda
• Urine Trouble "you're in trouble!"
• Use Your Head literally!
• Vampire Bites Suck dual meaning of "suction"/"not good"
• Van in Black The Men in Black
• Vapor Wear Vaporware
• Verbal Ticked Verbal Tic
• Victoria's Secret Compartment Victoria's Secret (lingerie company)
• The Von Trope Family Von Trapp Family
• Wager Slave "wage slave"
• Waif-Fu "waifu"
• Wall Bang Her "wall banger"
• Wall Glower "wallflower"
• Waltz on Water "walk on water" - incidentally, "waltz" happens to be derived from the German for "walk"
• War Ship shipping in battle, maybe even in a war vessel
• Water Wake-up "What a wakeup!"
• Wealth's in a Name "What's in a name?"
• Weapon Wields You Russian Reversal joke
• Weeding Out Imperfections to "weed out" something means to remove it; the trope is a metaphor for removing "undesirable" people from society as one removes weeds from a garden
• We Didn't Start the Führer "We Didn't Start the Fire"
• Weight and Switch "Bait and Switch"
• Weight Taller "way taller"
• A Weighty Aesop "weighty" in the sense of anviliciousness, and fat
• What a Drag a literal instance of dragging someone
• What Have We Ear? "What have we here?"
• What the Fu Are You Doing? "What the fuck are you doing?"
• When Harry Met Svetlana When Harry Met Sally...
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", the theme - and tagline - from Cheers
• Where I Was Born and Razed "where I was born and raised"
• White-Dwarf Starlet "white dwarf star" + "starlet"
• Wicked Cultured "wicked" meaning evil or villainous
• Wife Husbandry Husbandry = raising something.
• Wight in a Wedding Dress "Wight" is a type of ghost, and wedding dresses are usually white
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity "with great power comes great responsibility"
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks again, "with great power comes great responsibility"
• Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer "won't take no for an answer"
• Words Can Break My Bones the nursery rhyme "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words shall never hurt me"
• Working Out Their Emotions "working out" in both the exercise sense and the "dealing with something" sense
• Work Pages Are a Free Launch Play on "a free lunch", common euphemism for anything of value that is free, as in "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
• Worst Aid "first aid"
• Wreaking Havok "wreaking havoc"
• Write Back to the Future Back to the Future
• Writer on Board Baby on Board
• Xeno Nucleic Acid "ribonucleic acid"
• Yoko Oh No Yoko Ono
• You Are What You Hate "you are what you eat"
• You Dirty Rat! a literal play on a phrase often and incorrectly attributed to James Cagney
• Your Mime Makes It Real Your Mind Makes It Real
• Your Size May Vary Your Mileage May Vary
• Your Vampires Suck see Vampire Bites Suck above
• Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb "Youth is wasted on the young"
• Zero-G Spot "Zero G(ravity)" and "G-spot"
• Zipperiffic Stripperiffic

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