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Just For Pun, according to Tropes Needing TRS: "This is an index of tropes with pun-based names, but due to it having a non-indicative name it is frequently misused as a Pothole Magnet for puns."

My wick check, Wick For Pun Check, needed 62 wicks. I checked 70, which contained 73 examples. The results are as follows:

What to do? I'd suggest a more indicative name for the index, like Punny Trope Names. I was going to suggest a disambig to pun tropes, but Pun already has all the pun tropes as an index, so maybe redirect there. Soliciting better ideas for this back half of the proposal.

Wick check:

Just For Pun, according to Tropes Needing TRS: "This is an index of tropes with pun-based names, but due to it having a non-indictive name it is frequently misused as a Pothole Magnet for puns."

Wicks checked: 70/62, containing 73 examples


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    Wick for index: 0/ 73 = 0% 
    Pun in-universe: 18/ 73 = 24.7% 
  1. Film.Zombeavers: From Bad to Worse: In The Stinger [[spoiler:a bee comes into contact with infected blood, and then infects its entire hive.]] Now imagine the consequences... [[spoiler: Zombees.]] IU pun
  2. Funny.Monster House: And DJ's attempt at lightening a situation at the end. IU pun
    Sorry about your house... and your wife... your house-wife.
  3. Funny.Poker Night At The Inventory: Bad hands? IU pun
    Heavy: These cards are weak, like BLU baby team! *folds*
    ...
    Tycho: *flatly* Fuck this shit. *folds*
  4. Funny.Vampire Survivors: The Loremaster doesn't have much to say about the Notadam. "They're dwarves. Just regular ol' dwarves. What more do you want, exactly? Some sort of clever twist on familiar folklore? A delightful parody full of puns and unsubtle political allegories? Sorry, but I've Notadam thing to say other than the fact that they're dwarves and they believe in free universal healthcare." IU pun
  5. Magazine.Mad: Artifact Title: The 'departments' listed at the top of each article. This is a leftover from the days when MAD was a color comic book in the 50's, when it actually had things like "Western Department" or "Horror Department" depending on the article's subject matter. Now (and at least since the 60's) it's little more than a throwaway gag and usually Just For Pun. IU pun
  6. Main.Do Androids Dream: Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has a one-off strip that deliberately inverts this trope Just For Pun. IU pun
  7. Main.Furry Reminder: SWAT Kats generally sees the populace lean towards the more human end of the scale, with the only reminders (aside from the lame cat-puns) being references to consumer goods such as "hairball eliminator," the apparent substitution of milk for alcohol, and the one time in the series that Razor gets a furball (chalk that one down to Rule of Funny). IU pun
  8. Main.Mundane Afterlife: R.I.P.D.: Heaven is a large, bustling police department... overseen by the Bureau of Eternal Affairs. IU pun
  9. Main.Second Person Narration: The last part of the novel Some Other Place. The Right Place by Donald Harington is written like this, but the "you" is not the reader but the first-person narrator of the previous chapters, whose "eye" has been confiscated by a new narrator who speaks in first person plural. IU pun
  10. Main.So Unfunny Its Funny: Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Angel, of all people, crack a joke like this in "Earshot", saying he's "dying to get rid of immortality". IU pun
  11. Quotes.Big Damn Heroes: IU pun
    Firefly: Seems like we've arrived in the nick of time. What does that make us, Thunder?
    Lightning Bolt: Big Mane Heroines, Flash!
  12. Recap.Pokemon S 2 E 3 Poke Ball Peril: Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: The blimp Team Rocket has captured Ash and Misty on is filled with inflammable hydrogen gas, and Ash is warned not to have Pikachu use any electric attacks or the blimp will burst into flames... IU pun
    Jessie: Hold it! This blimp is a giant flying inflammable gas tank!
    James: If your Pikachu uses its' Thunderbolt..
    Meowth: We'll all go Pika-BOOM!
  13. Recap.Trollhunters S 2 E 8 Just Add Water: Toby phrases the new mineral exhibit at the science museum as a "rock show", making it sound like he was bringing his "baby" to a musical concert. You can tell he did that on purpose just to get a reaction. IU pun
  14. Series.Mahou Sentai Magiranger: The series has as much fun as it can playing on the words "Magi-" and the Japanese word "maji" (meaning "really" or "seriously"). IU pun
  15. Series.Mahou Sentai Magiranger: According to GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai, the Ozu family residence is located in "Tokyo-to Kanza-su Doro-shi 5-2-13". Kanza-su and Doro-shi, or, that is to say, Kansas and Dorothy. IU pun
  16. SwissArmyWeapon.Video Games: RuneScape: Members now also have access to the Dwarven Army Axe, which combines the functions of a hatchet, pickaxe, needle, tinderbox, and chisel into one item. While nowhere near as good as a specialty pick or hatchet, being able to cram five tools into one inventory slot is very useful when traversing dangerous areas of the world that need those sort of tools to get around. IU pun
  17. Trivia.Bobs Burgers: Old Shame: Loren Bouchard admitted that he found the "Child Molester" burger, as well as some of the other audacious jokes from the first episode, to be in poor taste. IU pun
  18. WebVideo.Nullmetal Alchemist: Catchphrase: Nullmetal's "BIGGITY BAM!" and Dr. Marcoh has a habit of replying to people saying his name with "Polo (Motherfucker)." IU pun

    Pun out-of-universe: 45/ 73 = 61.6% 
  1. Anime.Genesis Of Aquarion: Hopeless Suitor: Otoha, The Dragon to Touma, is head-over-wings for him and her loyalty knows no bounds for the one man she loves. In spite of her awareness as this role given Touma and Apollonius' history, Otoha pinballs between depression over knowing there will never be a true place in Touma's heart for her and haughty arrogance that she'll be the one to win his affections. OOU pun
  2. Anime.Ghost In The Shell Arise: Unresolved Sexual Tension: It starts with the Belligerent Sexual Tension in the manga, where Batou and the Major are still major rivals, through their usual Vitriolic Best Buds and Well, Excuse Me, Princess! dynamic, to the pretty blatant last scene of the fourth OVA. OOU pun
  3. Characters.Granblue Fantasy Event Antagonists: Bullying a Dragon Knight: All of the thugs he sent are easily dispatched by the knights without even requiring a battle sequence whatsoever. OOU pun
  4. Characters.Honor Harrington Manticore: Chest of Medals: See the list of honors after her her name? That's but the highest awards Honor's been decorated with in her half century of service. OOU pun
  5. Characters.Punch Out: Oh, Crap!: Notably tries to defy this when Little Mac throws a Star Punch, by trying to beat Little Mac to the punch... which doesn't work. Points for trying, though! OOU pun
  6. Characters.Shadowverse: One of the unlockable flairs from playing Swordcraft is titled "Maid to Kill".
  7. Characters.Sly Cooper Villains: Walking Spoiler: This girl is full of surprises in the game, though her spot on this page lets her out of the bag. OOU pun
  8. Characters.The Batman Antagonists: Pungeon Master: Every other line out of his mouth includes ice puns. However, unlike the previous ice-pun-quipping version of Freeze, this version actually manages to make them sound... chilling. OOU pun
  9. Characters.The Brave Little Toaster: Genius Ditz: Lampy's not very bright and none of his ideas ever work...but he is an expert on anything related to light. And most usefully, he knows how to read. OOU pun
  10. Characters.Hearthstone Heroes Of Warcraft Dungeon Run Bosses: Crippling Overspecialization/Weaksauce Weakness: Minion-heavy decks are bearly affected by him. OOU pun
  11. ComicBook.Owly: Cute Owl: Hoo else but Owly? Just look at him! OOU pun
  12. ComicStrip.Peanuts: Eskimos Aren't Real: Lucy once spent several strips mocking Charlie Brown for telling her that birds fly south for the winter: "In all my life, Charlie Brown, I have never met anyone with an imagination like yours!" When Chuck insisted, and also added that they fly north during the summer, Lucy sarcastically retorted that they must fly east during the spring and west during the fall. Then she pressed the issue further with "Chickens are birds, aren't they?! You never see a chicken flying south for the winter, do you?! CHICKENS ARE BIRDS, AREN'T THEY?!" Eventually Lucy learned (from a third party) that Charlie Brown was right about (some) birds flying south for the winter, and had to eat crow. OOU pun
  13. CoolStarship.Video Games: In SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays, the battleship Carry Base, which was once just a recolored Space Ark from Mobile Suit Gundam F91, got itself a nifty redesign which divorced it from its base and made it its own distinct ship. It has a nice fearsome silhouette and you'll be using it a lot until you can access canon ships. OOU pun
  14. CurbStompBattle.Real Life: 1944's version included two thousand artists to create hundreds of blow up trucks, artillery pieces, and tanks. They then gave the artists several dozen real versions of each, a bunch of recording equipment and loudspeakers, and several hundred radio sets, and got them to...inflate... Allied numbers in certain sectors. Together these two thousand men consistently faked the existence of forces of between fifty and a hundred thousand combat troops - no mean feat, given that the Western Allies only had half a million real ones! OOU pun
  15. DethroningMoment.Sponge Bob Square Pants: But the third and absolute biggest sin of this scene isn't either of those very glaring issues; it's that it deliberately puts the movie to a screeching halt just so it can have a series of back-to-back flashbacks to a spinoff show that people are already on the fence about. This blatant act of self-promotion is something that films like Ralph Breaks the Internet and The Emoji Movie get criticized for, except in those movies you could argue that the plot is still moving forward to some tiny extent. Here, you could remove every flashback and cut to the chase (literally) and nothing of value would be lost. OOU pun
  16. Fanfic.Wanna Bee: Underestimating Badassery: Because of her skinny appearance, Khepri comes across as unintimidating to anyone who looks past her creepy demeanor. Even Vaggie and Angel Dust dismiss her as nonthreatening. Then she busts out her swarm and shows that she makes one Hell of a One-Woman Army. OOU pun
  17. Film.Love Stinks: Shot in the Ass: Chelsea does this to Seth in the end. OOU pun
  18. Funny.Guilty Gear: The conversations between Valentine and her balloon Lucifer, when she remains idle. He keeps trying to flirt with Valentine, but deflates immediately when she rebuffs him. OOU pun
  19. Manga.Cat Paradise: Technicolor Fire: Kaen's flames are supposed to be blue, according to some comments in the story. However, if colored pages are to be believed, it's more likely that they're the normal orange-yellow color most of the time, and blue when he's sufficiently fired up. OOU pun
  20. Monster.Wiki Sandbox: This is a complete monster of a page, clocking in at exactly 500,000 characters - otherwise known as the page size limit here on TV Tropes. If you ever wanted to see the "this page is too long" error without hunting for it, well, just try to edit the page. OOU pun
  21. Music.Dire Straits: New Sound Album: While they never entirely moved away from their roots rock... erm... roots, Love Over Gold definitely marked a shift to a more technically complex sound with more liberal use of Epic Rocking. This is particularly apparent on Love Over Gold itself, which opens up with the 14-minute Progressive Rock suite "Telegraph Road". OOU pun
  22. PlayingAgainstType.Video Games: Brianna Knickerbocker is often associated with Nice Girl, Shrinking Violet, and The Quiet One type characters. In Fire Emblem Fates have this along with Pigeonholed Voice Actor. Sakura is the kind of character she would normally voice, but Charlotte is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that likes to flirt with men. OOU pun
  23. Funny.RWBY Thoughts: Cinder's overconfidence in her Paper-Thin Disguise gets ripped to shreds. Her reaction is genuine shock that it didn't work. OOU pun
  24. Heartwarming.Wonderlab: The growing camaraderie between Taii, Rose, and Catt is the emotional core of Wonderlab. Over the course of the comic, the former two begin to soften and chip away at the ice-shelled heart of the friendship-wary Catt, and Catt slowly starts to open themself up even after the heartache they faced after joining the company. Though tragedy inevitably strikes, it's hard not to get attached to the three and wonder at their growing bond. OOU pun
  25. Literature.Auntie Mame: Moody Mount: Sally saddles Mame with one of these, Lightning Rod. In the movie, he is much more unfittingly named "Meditation". OOU pun
  26. Main.Bare Handed Blade Block: Parodied like so many other things in Keijo!!!!!!!! When Iaijutsu Practitioner Saya attacks Kaya with her breasts, Kaya counters with a Bare Breasted Boob Block. OOU pun
  27. Main.Clipped Wing Angel: In the season 3 finale of The Legend of Korra, armless waterbender Ming-hua lures Mako down to an underground pool because she has no way to fight him without water. She makes multiple Combat Tentacles from the pool and leaves him out of (what she thinks) his element and into hers; shockingly for her, he's able to use his lightning to take advantage of her logical Achilles' Heel. He gets clear of the water, shoots it with lightning, and kills her almost instantly. OOU pun
  28. Main.Demonic Dummy: You've all heard of monstrous mimes and creepy clowns. Well, rounding out the Trilogy of Horror Vaudevillainy is the Demonic Dummy, otherwise known as the evil ventriloquist's doll. OOU pun
  29. Main.Gasshole: A Gasshole is a character in a series who is known for being, well, gassy. The humor may focus on the frequency with which this person farts or belches, the magnitude of their emissions, or their shamelessness about it. If they use their, ahem, talent as a form of attack, the trope is Fartillery, and if they meet their match it's Farts on Fire. OOU pun
  30. Main.Generational Saga: The History Channel's Vikings deals with one generation's rise to prominence and the rise of the following generation of kings and vikings. OOU pun
  31. Main.Longing For Fictionland: An abnormal psychology textbook from 2006 or so contained a section on really hard-core Elvis fans. It advised readers not to regard these fans as schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill, because, devoted though they are, they will quite readily admit that Elvis really has left the building. OOU pun
  32. Recap.Angel S 05 E 22 Not Fade Away: Back at Wolfram & Hart, Hamilton continues to beat the (un)living hell out of Angel. Connor arrives to help his father, but the duo still have trouble taking Hamilton down. OOU pun
  33. Recap.Batman The Animated Series E 34 The Laughing Fish: Artistic License – Law: Even worse, his plan was to copyright (not patent) the fish so that anyone catching them would have to pay him a royalty. That's not how copyright works. (And since the fish were going to be released into the wild, he obviously didn't have any issue with unauthorized reproduction...) But again, it's probable the Joker knew this all along and was just doing it all For the Evulz... OOU pun
  34. Series.Power Rangers SPD: Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted in the finale. A-Squad Rangers morph first, but don't wait for B-Squad Rangers to do so, instead they just shoot at them during their morphing sequence. Unfortunately, it does nothing other than make them look cool. (A-Team Firing, maybe?) OOU pun
  35. Series.The Americans: The Cold War Just Got Hotter OOU pun
  36. SpiritualSuccessor.Animated Films: The Bad Guys (2022): Take the zany heist scenes, the designs of the humans, and render them in 2D black-and-white, and you'd be forgiven for thinking it's for a new installment of Lupin III. Officer Luggin's status as a dedicated member of the law constantly coming close to but always failing to apprehend her suave and crafty lupine nemesis directly bring to mind Zenigata. OOU pun
  37. TearJerker.Land Of The Lustrous: Chapter 79: Phos' suffering hits absolute rock-bottom as they, after being shattered for 220 years, finally get reassembled, only to learn that nobody, nobody, sans Adamant who reassembled them, no longer have even the slightest shrapnel of memory left about the gem, making them the Un-person of the Lustrous. OOU pun
  38. Trivia.Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 01 E 15 Progress: Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Hydroelectric power doesn't always require damn big dams on a river. Alternatives can best be described as "windmills under water," whether that water is a river or the ocean. Speaking of windmills... OOU pun
  39. VideoGame.Oddworld Strangers Wrath: Wire Dilemma: From the opposite direction, a pair of Outlaws are trying to arm a bomb, bickering about whether the blue or green button sets the timer. [[spoiler:It's the blue one, but since Outlaws are criminally stupid...]] OOU pun
  40. Webcomic.Fey Winds: Shirtless Scene: After Kit rips off the dress that was hampering her in battle, Nigel follows suit... OOU pun
  41. WesternAnimation.Batman The Brave And The Bold: Death Montage: Poor Batman suffers through this in "Emperor Joker!". Throughout this montage he gets crushed by a giant hammer, dropped into the Acid Pool, incinerated to ashes by a flamethrower, Chained to a Railway and run over by a train, guillotined, Eaten Alive by a Threatening Shark, etc. And at each painful, comedic death he goes through, the Joker brings him back to life only to kill him again. It is not until the Dark Knight gets worn out from all the deaths he endured that the new Clown Emperor decides not to kill him again, as his repeated killings start getting rather boring. OOU pun
  42. WMG.Ant Man 1: The Wasp will appear in The Stinger: Just For Pun. OOU pun
  43. WMG.Gods Not Dead 2: Josh will return: Joshed OOU pun
  44. YMMV.How The Grinch Stole Christmas: Ham and Cheese: Jim Carrey providing his trademark ham to the movie's cheese. While the critics provide the whine. OOU pun
  45. YMMV.The A Team: Cliché Storm: Which is part of the pun... ah fun. OOU pun

    Other pun trope: 10/ 73 = 13.7% 
  1. Blog.DiscordedWhooves: Enforced on the Doctor once he enters the Punverse. World of Pun
  2. Characters.MCU Criminals Terrorists New York: Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Along with Just For Pun. He doesn't quip too often, but he does kind of enjoy it when it does. Pungeon Master
    Luke: I'm looking for Nigel, man.
    Bushmaster: Him gone. Headed elsewhere. [laughs]
  3. Characters.Kimba The White Lion: Meaningful Name: Doubles for Just For Pun - in Japanese, "Dick and Bo" sounds like the Japanese word for "blockhead", reflecting their lack of competence. Punny Name
  4. EasterEgg.Watchmen 2019: Episode 8: "A God Walks Into Abar" ...isn't named after anything and is Just For Pun. Pun-Based Title
  5. FamousLastWords.Death Battle: "Sorry to SOIL your fun!" Twilight Sparkle, about to stomp on Raven (transformed into a small potted plant) before Raven's Soul-Self pounds her into the ground. Though it's deliberately ambiguous as to whether she died or not. Pre-Mortem One-Liner
  6. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Compare Dawn of the Dead (Wright and Pegg freely admit this is an awful gag, but were too attached to it.) Pun-Based Title
  7. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Pun-Based Title Pegg has also joked about making a sequel - From Dusk Till Shaun. Pun-Based Title
  8. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Pun-Based Title One of the bonus features is an It's A Knockout-style game with zombies as the contestants — called "Dead Fun", thus playing on two meanings of "dead". Pun-Based Title
  9. Funny.The Last Of Us 2023: Ellie gains her proficiency for puns this episode when it's revealed she has acquired a joke book full of them. Pungeon Master
  10. Main.Skeleton Key: Used Just For Pun in The Monkees, when Mickey finds one in the pocket of a skeleton's coat. Visual Pun

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 23rd 2023 at 3:36:59 AM

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    Thread OP 
Just For Pun, according to Tropes Needing TRS: "This is an index of tropes with pun-based names, but due to it having a non-indicative name it is frequently misused as a Pothole Magnet for puns."

My wick check, Wick For Pun Check, needed 62 wicks. I checked 70, which contained 73 examples. The results are as follows:

What to do? I'd suggest a more indicative name for the index, like Punny Trope Names. I was going to suggest a disambig to pun tropes, but Pun already has all the pun tropes as an index, so maybe redirect there. Soliciting better ideas for this back half of the proposal.

Wick check:

Just For Pun, according to Tropes Needing TRS: "This is an index of tropes with pun-based names, but due to it having a non-indictive name it is frequently misused as a Pothole Magnet for puns."

Wicks checked: 70/62, containing 73 examples


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    Wick for index: 0/ 73 = 0% 
    Pun in-universe: 18/ 73 = 24.7% 
  1. Film.Zombeavers: From Bad to Worse: In The Stinger [[spoiler:a bee comes into contact with infected blood, and then infects its entire hive.]] Now imagine the consequences... [[spoiler: Zombees.]] IU pun
  2. Funny.Monster House: And DJ's attempt at lightening a situation at the end. IU pun
    Sorry about your house... and your wife... your house-wife.
  3. Funny.Poker Night At The Inventory: Bad hands? IU pun
    Heavy: These cards are weak, like BLU baby team! *folds*
    ...
    Tycho: *flatly* Fuck this shit. *folds*
  4. Funny.Vampire Survivors: The Loremaster doesn't have much to say about the Notadam. "They're dwarves. Just regular ol' dwarves. What more do you want, exactly? Some sort of clever twist on familiar folklore? A delightful parody full of puns and unsubtle political allegories? Sorry, but I've Notadam thing to say other than the fact that they're dwarves and they believe in free universal healthcare." IU pun
  5. Magazine.Mad: Artifact Title: The 'departments' listed at the top of each article. This is a leftover from the days when MAD was a color comic book in the 50's, when it actually had things like "Western Department" or "Horror Department" depending on the article's subject matter. Now (and at least since the 60's) it's little more than a throwaway gag and usually Just For Pun. IU pun
  6. Main.Do Androids Dream: Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has a one-off strip that deliberately inverts this trope Just For Pun. IU pun
  7. Main.Furry Reminder: SWAT Kats generally sees the populace lean towards the more human end of the scale, with the only reminders (aside from the lame cat-puns) being references to consumer goods such as "hairball eliminator," the apparent substitution of milk for alcohol, and the one time in the series that Razor gets a furball (chalk that one down to Rule of Funny). IU pun
  8. Main.Mundane Afterlife: R.I.P.D.: Heaven is a large, bustling police department... overseen by the Bureau of Eternal Affairs. IU pun
  9. Main.Second Person Narration: The last part of the novel Some Other Place. The Right Place by Donald Harington is written like this, but the "you" is not the reader but the first-person narrator of the previous chapters, whose "eye" has been confiscated by a new narrator who speaks in first person plural. IU pun
  10. Main.So Unfunny Its Funny: Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Angel, of all people, crack a joke like this in "Earshot", saying he's "dying to get rid of immortality". IU pun
  11. Quotes.Big Damn Heroes: IU pun
    Firefly: Seems like we've arrived in the nick of time. What does that make us, Thunder?
    Lightning Bolt: Big Mane Heroines, Flash!
  12. Recap.Pokemon S 2 E 3 Poke Ball Peril: Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: The blimp Team Rocket has captured Ash and Misty on is filled with inflammable hydrogen gas, and Ash is warned not to have Pikachu use any electric attacks or the blimp will burst into flames... IU pun
    Jessie: Hold it! This blimp is a giant flying inflammable gas tank!
    James: If your Pikachu uses its' Thunderbolt..
    Meowth: We'll all go Pika-BOOM!
  13. Recap.Trollhunters S 2 E 8 Just Add Water: Toby phrases the new mineral exhibit at the science museum as a "rock show", making it sound like he was bringing his "baby" to a musical concert. You can tell he did that on purpose just to get a reaction. IU pun
  14. Series.Mahou Sentai Magiranger: The series has as much fun as it can playing on the words "Magi-" and the Japanese word "maji" (meaning "really" or "seriously"). IU pun
  15. Series.Mahou Sentai Magiranger: According to GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai, the Ozu family residence is located in "Tokyo-to Kanza-su Doro-shi 5-2-13". Kanza-su and Doro-shi, or, that is to say, Kansas and Dorothy. IU pun
  16. SwissArmyWeapon.Video Games: RuneScape: Members now also have access to the Dwarven Army Axe, which combines the functions of a hatchet, pickaxe, needle, tinderbox, and chisel into one item. While nowhere near as good as a specialty pick or hatchet, being able to cram five tools into one inventory slot is very useful when traversing dangerous areas of the world that need those sort of tools to get around. IU pun
  17. Trivia.Bobs Burgers: Old Shame: Loren Bouchard admitted that he found the "Child Molester" burger, as well as some of the other audacious jokes from the first episode, to be in poor taste. IU pun
  18. WebVideo.Nullmetal Alchemist: Catchphrase: Nullmetal's "BIGGITY BAM!" and Dr. Marcoh has a habit of replying to people saying his name with "Polo (Motherfucker)." IU pun

    Pun out-of-universe: 45/ 73 = 61.6% 
  1. Anime.Genesis Of Aquarion: Hopeless Suitor: Otoha, The Dragon to Touma, is head-over-wings for him and her loyalty knows no bounds for the one man she loves. In spite of her awareness as this role given Touma and Apollonius' history, Otoha pinballs between depression over knowing there will never be a true place in Touma's heart for her and haughty arrogance that she'll be the one to win his affections. OOU pun
  2. Anime.Ghost In The Shell Arise: Unresolved Sexual Tension: It starts with the Belligerent Sexual Tension in the manga, where Batou and the Major are still major rivals, through their usual Vitriolic Best Buds and Well, Excuse Me, Princess! dynamic, to the pretty blatant last scene of the fourth OVA. OOU pun
  3. Characters.Granblue Fantasy Event Antagonists: Bullying a Dragon Knight: All of the thugs he sent are easily dispatched by the knights without even requiring a battle sequence whatsoever. OOU pun
  4. Characters.Honor Harrington Manticore: Chest of Medals: See the list of honors after her her name? That's but the highest awards Honor's been decorated with in her half century of service. OOU pun
  5. Characters.Punch Out: Oh, Crap!: Notably tries to defy this when Little Mac throws a Star Punch, by trying to beat Little Mac to the punch... which doesn't work. Points for trying, though! OOU pun
  6. Characters.Shadowverse: One of the unlockable flairs from playing Swordcraft is titled "Maid to Kill".
  7. Characters.Sly Cooper Villains: Walking Spoiler: This girl is full of surprises in the game, though her spot on this page lets her out of the bag. OOU pun
  8. Characters.The Batman Antagonists: Pungeon Master: Every other line out of his mouth includes ice puns. However, unlike the previous ice-pun-quipping version of Freeze, this version actually manages to make them sound... chilling. OOU pun
  9. Characters.The Brave Little Toaster: Genius Ditz: Lampy's not very bright and none of his ideas ever work...but he is an expert on anything related to light. And most usefully, he knows how to read. OOU pun
  10. Characters.Hearthstone Heroes Of Warcraft Dungeon Run Bosses: Crippling Overspecialization/Weaksauce Weakness: Minion-heavy decks are bearly affected by him. OOU pun
  11. ComicBook.Owly: Cute Owl: Hoo else but Owly? Just look at him! OOU pun
  12. ComicStrip.Peanuts: Eskimos Aren't Real: Lucy once spent several strips mocking Charlie Brown for telling her that birds fly south for the winter: "In all my life, Charlie Brown, I have never met anyone with an imagination like yours!" When Chuck insisted, and also added that they fly north during the summer, Lucy sarcastically retorted that they must fly east during the spring and west during the fall. Then she pressed the issue further with "Chickens are birds, aren't they?! You never see a chicken flying south for the winter, do you?! CHICKENS ARE BIRDS, AREN'T THEY?!" Eventually Lucy learned (from a third party) that Charlie Brown was right about (some) birds flying south for the winter, and had to eat crow. OOU pun
  13. CoolStarship.Video Games: In SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays, the battleship Carry Base, which was once just a recolored Space Ark from Mobile Suit Gundam F91, got itself a nifty redesign which divorced it from its base and made it its own distinct ship. It has a nice fearsome silhouette and you'll be using it a lot until you can access canon ships. OOU pun
  14. CurbStompBattle.Real Life: 1944's version included two thousand artists to create hundreds of blow up trucks, artillery pieces, and tanks. They then gave the artists several dozen real versions of each, a bunch of recording equipment and loudspeakers, and several hundred radio sets, and got them to...inflate... Allied numbers in certain sectors. Together these two thousand men consistently faked the existence of forces of between fifty and a hundred thousand combat troops - no mean feat, given that the Western Allies only had half a million real ones! OOU pun
  15. DethroningMoment.Sponge Bob Square Pants: But the third and absolute biggest sin of this scene isn't either of those very glaring issues; it's that it deliberately puts the movie to a screeching halt just so it can have a series of back-to-back flashbacks to a spinoff show that people are already on the fence about. This blatant act of self-promotion is something that films like Ralph Breaks the Internet and The Emoji Movie get criticized for, except in those movies you could argue that the plot is still moving forward to some tiny extent. Here, you could remove every flashback and cut to the chase (literally) and nothing of value would be lost. OOU pun
  16. Fanfic.Wanna Bee: Underestimating Badassery: Because of her skinny appearance, Khepri comes across as unintimidating to anyone who looks past her creepy demeanor. Even Vaggie and Angel Dust dismiss her as nonthreatening. Then she busts out her swarm and shows that she makes one Hell of a One-Woman Army. OOU pun
  17. Film.Love Stinks: Shot in the Ass: Chelsea does this to Seth in the end. OOU pun
  18. Funny.Guilty Gear: The conversations between Valentine and her balloon Lucifer, when she remains idle. He keeps trying to flirt with Valentine, but deflates immediately when she rebuffs him. OOU pun
  19. Manga.Cat Paradise: Technicolor Fire: Kaen's flames are supposed to be blue, according to some comments in the story. However, if colored pages are to be believed, it's more likely that they're the normal orange-yellow color most of the time, and blue when he's sufficiently fired up. OOU pun
  20. Monster.Wiki Sandbox: This is a complete monster of a page, clocking in at exactly 500,000 characters - otherwise known as the page size limit here on TV Tropes. If you ever wanted to see the "this page is too long" error without hunting for it, well, just try to edit the page. OOU pun
  21. Music.Dire Straits: New Sound Album: While they never entirely moved away from their roots rock... erm... roots, Love Over Gold definitely marked a shift to a more technically complex sound with more liberal use of Epic Rocking. This is particularly apparent on Love Over Gold itself, which opens up with the 14-minute Progressive Rock suite "Telegraph Road". OOU pun
  22. PlayingAgainstType.Video Games: Brianna Knickerbocker is often associated with Nice Girl, Shrinking Violet, and The Quiet One type characters. In Fire Emblem Fates have this along with Pigeonholed Voice Actor. Sakura is the kind of character she would normally voice, but Charlotte is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that likes to flirt with men. OOU pun
  23. Funny.RWBY Thoughts: Cinder's overconfidence in her Paper-Thin Disguise gets ripped to shreds. Her reaction is genuine shock that it didn't work. OOU pun
  24. Heartwarming.Wonderlab: The growing camaraderie between Taii, Rose, and Catt is the emotional core of Wonderlab. Over the course of the comic, the former two begin to soften and chip away at the ice-shelled heart of the friendship-wary Catt, and Catt slowly starts to open themself up even after the heartache they faced after joining the company. Though tragedy inevitably strikes, it's hard not to get attached to the three and wonder at their growing bond. OOU pun
  25. Literature.Auntie Mame: Moody Mount: Sally saddles Mame with one of these, Lightning Rod. In the movie, he is much more unfittingly named "Meditation". OOU pun
  26. Main.Bare Handed Blade Block: Parodied like so many other things in Keijo!!!!!!!! When Iaijutsu Practitioner Saya attacks Kaya with her breasts, Kaya counters with a Bare Breasted Boob Block. OOU pun
  27. Main.Clipped Wing Angel: In the season 3 finale of The Legend of Korra, armless waterbender Ming-hua lures Mako down to an underground pool because she has no way to fight him without water. She makes multiple Combat Tentacles from the pool and leaves him out of (what she thinks) his element and into hers; shockingly for her, he's able to use his lightning to take advantage of her logical Achilles' Heel. He gets clear of the water, shoots it with lightning, and kills her almost instantly. OOU pun
  28. Main.Demonic Dummy: You've all heard of monstrous mimes and creepy clowns. Well, rounding out the Trilogy of Horror Vaudevillainy is the Demonic Dummy, otherwise known as the evil ventriloquist's doll. OOU pun
  29. Main.Gasshole: A Gasshole is a character in a series who is known for being, well, gassy. The humor may focus on the frequency with which this person farts or belches, the magnitude of their emissions, or their shamelessness about it. If they use their, ahem, talent as a form of attack, the trope is Fartillery, and if they meet their match it's Farts on Fire. OOU pun
  30. Main.Generational Saga: The History Channel's Vikings deals with one generation's rise to prominence and the rise of the following generation of kings and vikings. OOU pun
  31. Main.Longing For Fictionland: An abnormal psychology textbook from 2006 or so contained a section on really hard-core Elvis fans. It advised readers not to regard these fans as schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill, because, devoted though they are, they will quite readily admit that Elvis really has left the building. OOU pun
  32. Recap.Angel S 05 E 22 Not Fade Away: Back at Wolfram & Hart, Hamilton continues to beat the (un)living hell out of Angel. Connor arrives to help his father, but the duo still have trouble taking Hamilton down. OOU pun
  33. Recap.Batman The Animated Series E 34 The Laughing Fish: Artistic License – Law: Even worse, his plan was to copyright (not patent) the fish so that anyone catching them would have to pay him a royalty. That's not how copyright works. (And since the fish were going to be released into the wild, he obviously didn't have any issue with unauthorized reproduction...) But again, it's probable the Joker knew this all along and was just doing it all For the Evulz... OOU pun
  34. Series.Power Rangers SPD: Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted in the finale. A-Squad Rangers morph first, but don't wait for B-Squad Rangers to do so, instead they just shoot at them during their morphing sequence. Unfortunately, it does nothing other than make them look cool. (A-Team Firing, maybe?) OOU pun
  35. Series.The Americans: The Cold War Just Got Hotter OOU pun
  36. SpiritualSuccessor.Animated Films: The Bad Guys (2022): Take the zany heist scenes, the designs of the humans, and render them in 2D black-and-white, and you'd be forgiven for thinking it's for a new installment of Lupin III. Officer Luggin's status as a dedicated member of the law constantly coming close to but always failing to apprehend her suave and crafty lupine nemesis directly bring to mind Zenigata. OOU pun
  37. TearJerker.Land Of The Lustrous: Chapter 79: Phos' suffering hits absolute rock-bottom as they, after being shattered for 220 years, finally get reassembled, only to learn that nobody, nobody, sans Adamant who reassembled them, no longer have even the slightest shrapnel of memory left about the gem, making them the Un-person of the Lustrous. OOU pun
  38. Trivia.Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 01 E 15 Progress: Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Hydroelectric power doesn't always require damn big dams on a river. Alternatives can best be described as "windmills under water," whether that water is a river or the ocean. Speaking of windmills... OOU pun
  39. VideoGame.Oddworld Strangers Wrath: Wire Dilemma: From the opposite direction, a pair of Outlaws are trying to arm a bomb, bickering about whether the blue or green button sets the timer. [[spoiler:It's the blue one, but since Outlaws are criminally stupid...]] OOU pun
  40. Webcomic.Fey Winds: Shirtless Scene: After Kit rips off the dress that was hampering her in battle, Nigel follows suit... OOU pun
  41. WesternAnimation.Batman The Brave And The Bold: Death Montage: Poor Batman suffers through this in "Emperor Joker!". Throughout this montage he gets crushed by a giant hammer, dropped into the Acid Pool, incinerated to ashes by a flamethrower, Chained to a Railway and run over by a train, guillotined, Eaten Alive by a Threatening Shark, etc. And at each painful, comedic death he goes through, the Joker brings him back to life only to kill him again. It is not until the Dark Knight gets worn out from all the deaths he endured that the new Clown Emperor decides not to kill him again, as his repeated killings start getting rather boring. OOU pun
  42. WMG.Ant Man 1: The Wasp will appear in The Stinger: Just For Pun. OOU pun
  43. WMG.Gods Not Dead 2: Josh will return: Joshed OOU pun
  44. YMMV.How The Grinch Stole Christmas: Ham and Cheese: Jim Carrey providing his trademark ham to the movie's cheese. While the critics provide the whine. OOU pun
  45. YMMV.The A Team: Cliché Storm: Which is part of the pun... ah fun. OOU pun

    Other pun trope: 10/ 73 = 13.7% 
  1. Blog.DiscordedWhooves: Enforced on the Doctor once he enters the Punverse. World of Pun
  2. Characters.MCU Criminals Terrorists New York: Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Along with Just For Pun. He doesn't quip too often, but he does kind of enjoy it when it does. Pungeon Master
    Luke: I'm looking for Nigel, man.
    Bushmaster: Him gone. Headed elsewhere. [laughs]
  3. Characters.Kimba The White Lion: Meaningful Name: Doubles for Just For Pun - in Japanese, "Dick and Bo" sounds like the Japanese word for "blockhead", reflecting their lack of competence. Punny Name
  4. EasterEgg.Watchmen 2019: Episode 8: "A God Walks Into Abar" ...isn't named after anything and is Just For Pun. Pun-Based Title
  5. FamousLastWords.Death Battle: "Sorry to SOIL your fun!" Twilight Sparkle, about to stomp on Raven (transformed into a small potted plant) before Raven's Soul-Self pounds her into the ground. Though it's deliberately ambiguous as to whether she died or not. Pre-Mortem One-Liner
  6. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Compare Dawn of the Dead (Wright and Pegg freely admit this is an awful gag, but were too attached to it.) Pun-Based Title
  7. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Pun-Based Title Pegg has also joked about making a sequel - From Dusk Till Shaun. Pun-Based Title
  8. Film.Shaun Of The Dead: Pun-Based Title One of the bonus features is an It's A Knockout-style game with zombies as the contestants — called "Dead Fun", thus playing on two meanings of "dead". Pun-Based Title
  9. Funny.The Last Of Us 2023: Ellie gains her proficiency for puns this episode when it's revealed she has acquired a joke book full of them. Pungeon Master
  10. Main.Skeleton Key: Used Just For Pun in The Monkees, when Mickey finds one in the pocket of a skeleton's coat. Visual Pun

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 23rd 2023 at 3:36:59 AM

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#3: Jul 14th 2023 at 8:53:34 AM

Do we need an index for pun-based names? Feels like a Search-Generated Index to me.

[tup] Redirecting to Pun.

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#4: Jul 14th 2023 at 8:55:21 AM

Ah finally, I've been waiting for this abomination of a Pothole Magnet to come here.

[up]I actually disagree with you on that. Having a list of punny tropes found on this site is pretty helpful and fun for me. Keyword fun. So why not put it in the Just for Fun namespace? It's already listed under that home page anyways.

I still think we should either rename it to sound like an index though. Or just redirect to Pun like you said.

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jul 15th 2023 at 12:11:14 AM

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#5: Jul 14th 2023 at 9:01:57 AM

If we are to keep this at all, it should be JustForFun.Punny Trope Names and definitely not an index.

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#7: Jul 14th 2023 at 9:15:04 AM

[up][up][up][up]A search generated index would be, say, only pages with "Pun" in the article title.

Rename. Punny Trope Names or Trope Name Puns maybe.

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#9: Jul 14th 2023 at 11:09:46 AM

I like Synchronicity's idea since this doesn't seem to be treated like an index in general from the wick check and what I've seen. To a lesser extent, I'm good with a rename.

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#10: Jul 14th 2023 at 11:18:01 AM

Aw, I'm kinda sad about this since I absolutely love the current name. Why can't people be trusted with the more fun trope and index names? This bites :(

I guess Punny Trope Names would work. Kinda neutral on the JFF idea.

Edited by WarJay77 on Jul 14th 2023 at 2:18:18 PM

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#11: Jul 14th 2023 at 12:03:29 PM

[tup] for Punny Trope Names

Edit: JFF as well.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 14th 2023 at 7:07:53 AM

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#13: Jul 14th 2023 at 4:43:10 PM

If my vote wasn't clear, I vote for either a Punny Trope Names with a Just for Fun namespace or just Punny Trope Names in Main.

Edit: I'm leaning on the Just for Fun namespace option.

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jul 15th 2023 at 7:39:46 PM

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#14: Jul 14th 2023 at 4:59:12 PM

I agree with Synchronicity's idea of moving it to Just for Fun. While I like the original name suggestion (which was the one used in the JFF proposal) the most so far, I'll see what other suggestions there are.

Edit: Neglected to mention that whenever it's time for a crowner, whether to rename and whether to move to Just for Fun will be addressed separately, in case some would prefer doing one without the other. (Mentioning it two days ahead of schedule because what to put on a crowner appears to be easy to figure out in this thread's case.)

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 14th 2023 at 8:58:50 AM

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#17: Jul 15th 2023 at 10:15:04 AM

[tup] To Punny Trope Names rename. Ambivalent about the JFF move.

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#18: Jul 16th 2023 at 6:36:54 AM

Huh. Just For Pun is already indexed on JFF. Wayback Machine tells me it's been indexed there since sometime between 12/2008 and 01/2009. Its sibling JustForFun.Tropemanteau is JFF, though the other trope name indices indexed on the JFF main page like Snowclones, Trope Names from the French, Trope Names from Other Languages, Trope Names from Memes, and Sublime Rhyme are on Main/.

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#19: Jul 16th 2023 at 7:39:49 AM

[up]The timeframe you gave was back when pretty much everything was in Main/, so that's probably why they're in that namespace. That said, whether they should have their own namespaces changed is off-topic, since we're only covering Just For Pun here.

Also, with at least two pages indexed on Just for Fun (Cerberus Syndrome and TV Troops), being in Main/ is part of the joke.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 16th 2023 at 9:41:58 AM

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#20: Jul 17th 2023 at 2:17:36 AM

Hooked a crowner.

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#21: Jul 17th 2023 at 11:38:09 AM

I'm thinking of JustForFun.Tropes For Pun as a new name.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Jul 17th 2023 at 2:38:24 PM

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#22: Jul 17th 2023 at 12:15:44 PM

[up] Has a pun in it, I like.

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#23: Jul 17th 2023 at 2:26:23 PM

[up][up]I like your suggestion[tup].

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#24: Jul 17th 2023 at 3:47:54 PM

[up][up][up]Add to the crowner I guess cause this is a pretty decent suggestion

Edit: By add to the crowner, I mean the next crowner. Sorry about that.

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jul 17th 2023 at 7:40:00 PM

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#25: Jul 17th 2023 at 4:28:45 PM

Do not add name suggestions to the current crowner. The current crowner is for deciding whether to rename, not deciding on which name to go with; deciding on a name will use a separate crowner if renaming has consensus (which it currently does, but the decision hasn't been finalized yet).

The name suggestions that have been given (including that one) will be included in the next crowner if the current option (renaming and changing the namespace) still have consensus when the crowenr is ready to call.

Edit: Thank you for clarifying that post.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 17th 2023 at 7:20:54 AM

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Consensus was to move Just For Pun to the JustForFun/ namespace and rename it. What should its new name be?

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