Playing With / One-Word Vocabulary

Basic Trope: A character can only say one word.

• Straight: Bob only says, "Hello!"
• Exaggerated:
  • All of the characters can only say one word.
  • Even when Bob is asked to give a speech for 3 minutes, he only says "Hello!" then bows and gets off the stage.
• Downplayed:
  • Bob can speak a single word in different inflections which allows for sentences albeit describing nonsense.
  • While Bob knows a lot of words, he can only say one of those words at a time.
• Justified:
  • Bob is a robot.
  • Bob is still a child with very limited vocabulary.
  • The Quiet One.
• Inverted: Everyone else says one word, except for Bob.
• Subverted: Bob says another word for once...
• Double Subverted: ...but it was actually someone who looked like Bob.
• Zig Zagged: (triple subversion) ...Or was it?
• Parodied: Bob only says, "Antidisestablishmentarianism."
• Averted: Bob says many other words like a normal person.
• Enforced: The actor for Bob has severe memory issues and can only remember his lines if they consist of only one word.
• Lampshaded: "For god's sake, Bob! Can you say something else for once?"
• Invoked: Bob wants to come off as mysterious or wise because he firmly believes that the less said the better.
• Exploited: Bob uses the word "Antidisestablishmentarianism" as a Catchphrase to have people recognize him by it.
• Defied: Bob learns more words.
• Discussed: "Can't that guy say anything else?"
• Conversed: "Why do these shows have at least one character that can only say one word?"
• Deconstructed: Bob's inability to say other words bores people and even makes them view him as a weirdo, and thus, they avoid talking to him.
• Reconstructed: People around Bob get used to his lack of variety in vocabulary and think it makes him unique.
• Played For Laughs: The only word Bob says is "dick."
• Played For Drama: Bob can only say "goodbye" the last word his mom said before she abandoned him at a candy store. The trauma of his mom abandoning him almost renders him Dumb Struck save for the word "goodbye" being the only one he's able to say.

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