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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#226: Apr 24th 2023 at 7:01:24 PM

This is a convoluted one: When I was a child I had a diecast figure of General Kael from Willow - I never saw the movie, I think I just thought the character design was cool and he kind of reminded me of a more realistic Skeletor - And like Skeletor I thought he had a Skull for a Head, rather than it being part of his helmet. Then, still without having seen the movie, I happened to gather from this very wiki that his name was a Take That! to a female movie critic, and from elsewhere that the movie had a female villain - so I developed this vague idea that there was some sort of villainous Samus Is a Girl twist. Now I finally have watched the movie, and he's more of The Dragon to Bavmorda, who is the true main antagonist, and is a woman without it being a twist.

Edited by MikeK on Apr 24th 2023 at 7:01:46 AM

BlakeIsHere That isn't a phone, Abe... from The Local Luigi's Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: In denial
That isn't a phone, Abe...
#227: Apr 25th 2023 at 2:35:14 AM

I used to think that the place Horrid Henry took place in was somewhere in Plymouth. Then I researched and found out it didn't. But it's my fanon now anyways.

Hi, I'm a guy who loves a bunch of random stuff.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#228: Apr 25th 2023 at 10:20:23 AM

For some reason, I thought the flashback scene in Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow was the only time we saw Kakashi Hatake without his mask.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Cutegirl920fire Player 222 from the Squid Games (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Paris holds the key to my heart
Player 222
#229: Apr 25th 2023 at 11:29:14 AM

When I first read The Great Gatsby, I somehow missed that Tom was having an affair with Myrtle Wilson even tho that was like a important plot point.

...Blame my ADHD.

CG for short
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#230: Apr 25th 2023 at 4:07:22 PM

When I was being read The Hobbit for the first time, I was only about five or six, so I wasn't really paying attention. So when the dwarfs sung that song about what Bilbo would hate, I thought they were actually planning on doing that and got mad at them. It wasn't until I read it properly at about eleven that they were actually singing about avoiding doing that.

For every low there is a high.
Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#231: Apr 26th 2023 at 12:13:29 PM

When first playing Warioware, I somehow used to think the star shapes at the side of 9-Volt's head were part of his helmet/visor rather than his hair. Guess I just assumed his hair was short enough to not show underneath the helmet or something

Edited by Zanreo on Apr 26th 2023 at 9:14:16 PM

My favorite failed console tbh
Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Pomeranian Lover
#232: Apr 27th 2023 at 6:45:59 AM

I thought that Antoine from the Archie Sonic Comics was a fox like Tails, rather than a coyote, until his description here on TV Tropes corrected me. It probably doesn't help that his name doesn't indicate his species, whereas many of the other animal characters in that comic have names that either outright state their species or relate to it in some way.

Edit: I found where that misconception came from. In the "Sonic-Grams" fan mail section of issue #12, someone's letter asks what animal Antoine is, and the writers give the answer that he's a fox. So maybe he was intended to be a fox early on (since that was a very early comic book, from before Sally had her current coloration) but then was later changed to be a coyote.

Edited by Rainbow on Apr 27th 2023 at 10:02:52 AM

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#233: Apr 29th 2023 at 5:13:12 AM

When I first watched Stickin' Around as a little kid, I thought Stacey and Bradley were siblings (I guess the line in the theme song "Me and my friend Bradley" flew over my head)

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#234: Apr 29th 2023 at 2:21:20 PM

As a kid I thought Old Dutch (the potato chip brand) was called Old Outch because of how their logo font makes the D look.

punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#235: Apr 29th 2023 at 7:12:17 PM

[up] Reminds me of when I had a friend who thought that the first in the Junie B. Jones, First Grader books was called "Cat Last", because he assumed the first parenthesis in "(at last!)" was a C.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#236: Apr 29th 2023 at 8:32:15 PM

Similar to that, I thought the D in the Disney logo was a G (to be fair, I think everyone thought that as a little kid)

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#237: Apr 30th 2023 at 11:16:48 AM

As a kid I thought Old Dutch (the potato chip brand) was called Old Outch because of how their logo font makes the D look.

This one was actually not as a kid, but there's this coffeehouse chain called Caffè Nero that I think only started having shops in my area within the past few years. Because it's all caps and because of the way the font makes the "O" look, the first time I saw it across the street I read it as "Caffè Nerd". In my mind, Caffè Nerd would have, like, displays of fantasy / sci-fi memorabilia to look at while you waited for your coffee order. Maybe a menu that gave all their coffee drinks geeky pop culture Shout-Out names. I'd go.

Edited by MikeK on Apr 30th 2023 at 11:18:17 AM

MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#238: Apr 30th 2023 at 12:56:17 PM

Besides Old Dutch, here's another misreading incident of mine:

When the company Kal Tire had a tire in the middle of its logo, I couldn't tell if it was Kal Tire or Kalo Tire. Maybe that's why they changed their logo.

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#239: Apr 30th 2023 at 3:57:33 PM

I misunderstood the line "A lady has to pack a few things, you know" from The Rescuers as meaning that Bianca had to pack tampons.

For every low there is a high.
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#240: May 2nd 2023 at 9:26:17 AM

Another thing due to a misreading- as a kid I had some of the choose your own adventure books published by Bantam but thought the name on the side said "Batman" - so I wondered why 1) they had a rooster as a mascot instead of Batman, and 2) they never had Bats at least make a cameo in any of the books.

KingofNightmares Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#241: May 3rd 2023 at 12:24:52 AM

When I first saw Rio as a kid, I thought Blu's name was Rio up until they said his real name

"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#242: May 9th 2023 at 5:59:40 PM

[up][up] I think I thought it said Batman as well (as I had no idea what Bantam meant). I didn't really think about it beyond that tho.

punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#243: May 9th 2023 at 9:56:48 PM

[up][up][up] I remember my dad and I going to a farm-like place that had bantam chickens when I was about 10. He referred to them as "Batman chickens" (he probably read the sign correctly, he just thought it was funnier that way).

On an unrelated note, I think I must've been about 10 before I finally realized that Ellie from Up was meant to be a Posthumous Character. I didn't have a very strong understanding of death when I was a kid, and assumed that maybe she just left/divorced Carl.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#244: May 15th 2023 at 9:25:39 PM

This is my brother's but I thought I'd post anyway: I remember one time as a kid I was in the car with my brother and mother and some shopping center. My brother said "What's the "Flaming O"? My mom said "I don't know, sounds like some kind of barbeque restaurant or something, where did you see that." He then pointed to a sign that said "The Flamingo" and my mom about died laughing on the spot. I think the "O" in the logo actually was on a fire, which is probably part of why he thought it said that.

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#245: May 16th 2023 at 10:29:23 AM

When I was a kid and the song "Date Rape" by Sublime came on the radio my dad would turn it off immediately. I didn't get why, so I asked my dad what it was about, and he just vaguely said "someone doing inappropriate things on dates" (I guess he didn't want me to know what rape was since I was only like 8 at the time.) Anyway, because his description was so vague, I just thought it was about a guy with bad manners, and didn't get why he was so worried about me hearing it.

Edited by Bootlebat on May 16th 2023 at 2:12:10 AM

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#246: May 16th 2023 at 2:10:35 PM

2 more Star Wars ones I thought I'd add

  • I thought that Palpatine was some kind of alien. To be fair, he looks rather inhuman. I did learn that he was a human before the prequels, as I read this one guidebook to it that said he was.
  • After Shadows of the Empire came out and a I played it I thought that the Weequay who falls into the Sarlaac during the barge fight on Return of the Jedi was Prince Xizor. Yes, I realize they don't look very similar, but I guess my kid brain was just like "it's a reptilian guy with black hair, must be him." It didn't help that I never completed Shadows of the Empire, and thus didn't know Xizor dies at the end, and thus was like "What happened to Xizor after the game"? as I knew the game took place at the same time as the movies.

Edited by Bootlebat on May 16th 2023 at 2:11:06 AM

punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#247: May 16th 2023 at 5:27:34 PM

Around the time "Rude" by Magic first came out, I once asked my mom when the song came on the radio "Why would he want to marry someone that's rude?"

My mom had to explain that it's about a man asking his girlfriend's father if they can get married, only for the father to decline this request, though the man and his girlfriend plan to elope instead.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Pomeranian Lover
#248: May 18th 2023 at 2:12:38 PM

I used to think that the Pokemon Delibird's name was a reference to deli meat, rather than being a pun on the word "delivered". Mainly because when I first saw it in its early Sugimori artwork, I thought that its tail bag was a frozen meat drumstick that it carried around, similar to Farfetch'd carrying a leek. I didn't learn that it was supposed to be a tail that acts as a bag until much later.

Edited by Rainbow on May 18th 2023 at 5:30:05 AM

Segal991 A loyal animal lover from Somewhere Beyond the Sea Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, we're lovers, and that is that
A loyal animal lover
#249: May 20th 2023 at 1:19:35 PM

When I first saw a picture of Wile E. Coyote when I was a younger kid, I thought he was a wolf.

Oh, I believe in yesterday
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#250: May 20th 2023 at 3:47:28 PM

[up] he and Ralph Wolf look almost identical, so it's not a big reach.

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