Basic Trope: Changing an everyday phrase or proverb to make it sound older and/or more whimsical.
- Straight: A few characters in A Fantastical Fantasy Book say "What the Hades ?" or "I'm so hungry I could eat a Pegasus ."
- Exaggerated: Literally every sentence in the Fantastical Fantasy Book is a Mythology-Based Pun on cliches.
- Downplayed: The phrase "What the Hades" shows up once, and only once, in the entire series.
- Justified:
- Hell or horses do not exist in this setting.
- Bob, from the mundane world, tries to use phrases from his world but only gets confused responses, so he modifies them using terms from the fantastic setting.
- It would be really, really weird to have fantasy characters do something like making references to Jesus when he obviously doesn't exist in the setting.
- Inverted:
- The mythical creatures use human related puns.
- The people in A Fantastical Fantasy Book say "What the Hell?" and "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," despite neither Hell or Horses existing in the AFFB universe.
- Subverted: Other characters say "What the Hell?" frequently.
- Double Subverted: Only to be corrected by their peers.
- Parodied: We get to see people actually eat pegasus meat and hold miniature hippogriffs.
- Zig Zagged:
- People say "What the hell?", "What the hades?", "a basilisk in the grass" and so on interchangeably, changing speech pattern and phrase usage whenever they want.
- Various cultures replaces the word "hell" with different terms for the afterlife, but "hell" is also a universal term for an afterlife of suffering.
- Averted:
- They use modern slang with no puns whatsoever.
- They use entirely different slangs, which is the one actually used back in the day.
- Enforced: "We can't have normal slang in Fantastical Fantasy Book. Make it sound, you know, more older and stuff,"
- Lampshaded: "Why can't we just say 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse'?"
- Invoked: A character only uses "So hungry I could eat a pegasus" when other people are eating pegasi.
- Exploited: A character realizes that all of the idioms he's used to hearing have been modified to reflect the setting, indicating that his being in a fantasy realm is not the result of a Mushroom Samba, as he previously thought.
- Defied: They tell the people correcting them "Shut up, I know what I'm talking about!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Yeah, I have to admit it's a little strange how Fantastical Fantasy Book use all those mythology-based words."
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