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First you say what it isn't. Then you say what it is. Both of them effectively have the same meaning. This is when a character rejects a word in preference of a more colorful (or much blunter) one — with the same practical meaning, given the circumstances, maybe with some extra connotations. In most occasions, it will reflect just how easy, one-sided, or unsporting the thing in question is. A common form is "We're not lost, we just don't know where we are." Sometimes the word being substituted is even worse than the previous while still having technically the same meaning — "I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just gonna kill you!" being a prime example of this. This is a Sub-Trope to Insistent Terminology (any time a character corrects another's terminology) and Super-Trope to "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word, Technical Euphemism, and Less Embarrassing Term (character uses a euphemism for terms with negative connotations). Compare with: By "No", I Mean "Yes": A character agrees, then disagrees; or the reverse. Metaphorically True: A character hides their lies in a change of perspective. Everything Except Most Things: Where conditionals applied are so numerous or so major that the usually-large difference might not be distinctive. Dissimile: Where two things are said to be similar, then a list of how they aren't similar is added. Contrast Both Sides Have a Point. If there is a distinction that would matter to the specific people involved, but not to most people, it's You Keep Using That Word (for instance, the distinction between "murdered" and "killed" is hugely important within the legal system, but in common, casual usage, it's not uncommon for the two words to be used interchangeably). Compare The Horseshoe Effect, where two groups that are ideological opposites act so similarly that there is no practical difference between them. May also relate to Cannot Tell a Lie, Will Not Tell a Lie or Weasel Words, when the wording is very deliberately selected to convey a false impression without technically being a lie in the traditional sense. Can lead to Immediate Self-Contradiction. The equivalent on TV Tropes is Ridiculously Similar Trope. |
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From Misfile: I'm not spying, I'm strategically listening. | |
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Sulley in Monsters University: | |
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In his Super Mario Bros./Super Mario Bros. 2 review, he parodies and quotes near-verbatim what the The Irate Gamer said about Super Mario Bros. 2: | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: After an event that has every reason to have taken an emotional toll on him, Reynir, when asked, insists that he's not depressed, just feeling crushing regret and helplessness. | |
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Jupiter-Men: When Nathan first shows a picture of cosmic energy to the twins, Quintin instantly calls it a cloud. Nathan denies it, calling it a gathering of cosmic energy that builds up until it dissipates by falling to the ground. Jackie points out how it sounds exactly like a cloud, after which Nathan drops the subject. | |
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RWBY shows us this: | |
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In Double Homework, Ms. Walsh has trained to teach children who are "intellectually disabled", not "retarded". Justified in that school systems are more politically correct than most other environments, and in that schools do not want to discourage the parents of children who need special education from eschewing it due to social stigma. | |
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Lock Picking Lawyer: In video 1272 he praises Master Lock for finally fixing a flaw in one of their lines of locks that made it susceptible to unlocking by slipping a thin strip of metal between the codewheels, but then points out that even if they've fixed that issue, they haven't fixed another issue that makes it trivially easy to open by simply pressing on the shackle and whacking it with a mallet. In mid-2021 he did a series of several videos about several bags which advertised themselves as "slash-resistant" yet all proved trivially easy to cut open with knives, to the point that the last one, 1317, joked that "slash-resistant" bags are advertised as such not because they actually resist slashing but specifically because they resist being torn or cut open with a butter knife by Slash, the musician. |
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Jimquisition: In Jim Sterling's second crack at Kobra Studios' Second Warfare (after KS suggested that Jim had been criticising the game "poorly" by missing features like a flashlight and grenade launcher, both of which turned out to be equally hideous-looking and borderline nonfunctional) they make this gem of a comment: | |
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Freefall has Sam Starfall gets talking to a robot modeled after Jar-Jar Binks about copyright laws while speaking of Wookiee opera coming into being. | |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: After Gwen and Miles meet up in Mumbattan, despite Miles not supposed to be there. | |
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Death's Head isn't a Bounty Hunter, he's a freelance peacekeeping agent, yes? | |
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The 1974 National Lampoon album Missing White House Tapes features a spoof of Sesame Street called "Pennsylvania Avenue." The main character is Big Dick (Nixon) who gives the Watergate tapes to Shredder Monster. When Sirica the Grouch investigates, Big Dick said the tapes were suddenly missing and is accused of lying about them. | |
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In Hunter: The Parenting, the vampire Kevin hates vampiric blood bonds, calling them effectively slavery. The blood-bonded detective Chapman disagrees, because he prefers to call it "indentured servitude". | |
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Sweetheart in Skin Horse knew her creator was a homicidal maniac. She just didn't think he was the kind of homicidal maniac who went crazy and killed people. | |
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"Only on Days That End in 'Y'" by Clay Walker: | |
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Robin Hood (1973), the Disney version: | |
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From the Something Awful review of the movie The House That Screamed: "I'm not saying I disliked the film, I'm just saying that I'd rather rip all of my teeth out with rusty pliers, make them into a comb, and use the comb made of my own teeth to scrape all of my skin off than watch it again." | |
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In The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, when Batman agrees to marry Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, she asks him if he wants to have the wedding in 15 minutes. Batman tells her to make it a quarter of an hour. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Haley isn't a thief; she's a "freelance wealth redistribution specialist." She also describes Elan thus: "He's not useless, he's... use-impaired." Vaarsuvius insists they did NOT sell their soul to fiends but merely negotiated an exchange with three gentlemen from other planes of existence, specifically planes in the ventral direction, involving a fixed-term lease with an occupancy date yet to be determined. The distinction between a sale and a lease is important (to the story if not to the conversation), the attempt to imply that the other parties in the agreement were anything other than fiends not so much. Because clean-up dutynote "finish off those V and [Haley] don't kill" sounds lame, Belkar becomes Doomsealernote "seeking out those who defiantly cling to life after surviving lesser horrors and ruthlessly snuffing out their futures in a cruel mockery of their perseverance". Lampshaded in the last panel — Haley didn't trick Belkar into doing the same job with a more hardcore description, he tricked her into coming up with a more hardcore description for a job he was already interested in. |
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Schlock Mercenary got a lot of this: Like this one, on which our amorph answers: Andy is not bait. He is flypaper. |
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The Last Days of FOXHOUND has Ocelot insist that he's not a "torture expert", but that he performs art. By torturing people. | |
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The Warp Zone: In "Mandalorian Couples Therapy", when Boba Fett accuses the Mandalorian of being part of a cult. | |
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In the fourth case of Spirit of Justice, Blackquill doesn't think Nahyuta knows enough about rakugo, but due to politeness, we get this exchange: | |
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From Three Panel Soul: "They're not replacements. They're just going to do the same job as you, and eventually you won't work here anymore." | |
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Daughter for Dessert: Mortelli claims that his tryst with a prostitute in Las Vegas isn't a secret. Lainie, Cecilia, and their family hate when people call them "rich". They prefer to say that they own a lot. |
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Girl Genius: Vipsania Perrault insists that she's not a thief (well, not... professionally). Lumi suggest they'd call her "burglar" or "rogue", to her distress. (Her introduction is a clear shout-out to The Hobbit scene between Bilbo and Smaug.) Meanwhile in the main story, Princess Neena is very much not a "stowaway". She's a "surprise, freelance member of Agatha's expedition to Mechanisburg, joining quietly to avoid undue fuss." |
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Monsters vs. Aliens: | |
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When the Game Grumps are attempting the Green Demon Challenge of Super Mario 64, Arin balks at Danny implying he can't do it. Danny tries to say that's not the case and explain that he just meant the level is hard, but Arin points out that's the same thing: | |
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Red vs. Blue: There's Sarge's "We're not retreating; We're advancing, towards future victory!" Also: "It's not pink, it's lightish red!" Which gets the appropriate response: "They have a word for that. PINK!" "I wouldn't really use the word 'replace', but there's no word for 'take over for you and make everything better almost immediately', so we just say 'replace'." |
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Storks: Junior (stork) responding to Tulip (human) about the baby they are trying to deliver. | |
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When Nin Wah is found guilty of a crime in Commander Kitty, it's decided by the court of the planet Gazelle that she won't be getting the death sentence, but get off with community service. Said community service is to clean the space station, from the outside, without a spacesuit. (She survives anyway, through luck.) | |
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In its early days, Pointless Waste of Time published an excerpt of the supposed script for the then-unmade The Matrix Reloaded. A warning read "it doesn't contain spoilers, but it does contain details about the plot that may ruin the film if you read them." | |
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In the first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, prosecutor Winston Payne asks defendant Larry Butz if his ex-girlfriend, Cindy Stone (the murder victim in the case), broke up with him: | |
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X in X Minutes: Stroheim isn't a "Nazi". He's simply a "German soldier from the late 1930s". | |
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The American Civil War OverSimplified gives us this gem: | |
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In one episode of The Men from the Ministry the General Assistance Department is given the task of distributing Culture Ministry's yearly Art's Council Grants for the entire Britain's artists. After giving most of it away to small-time no-names and simple con-men, Sir Gregory angrily calls and asks Lennox-Brown if he's forgotten annual grants for all the national organisations. He immediately states that he definitely hasn't, since he's never even heard of them. | |
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Another video, dealing with The Last Airbender, backs down from a section title card saying that one of the problems is M. Night Shyamalan, deciding to look at the department heads and see if there's a weak link. Cue the amended title card, which reads "M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN IS THE WEAK LINK." | |
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With the Philadelphia Eagles one of the teams that were playing in Super Bowl LII (held in 2018), the team itself having last won an NFL championship in 1960, and Philadelphia itself infamous for its sports fans' reputation for unruly behavior, UrinatingTree's "The Hater's Guide to Super Bowl 52" summed up the situation as "Will we see Philadelphia joyously rioting in the streets, or Philadelphia angrily rioting in the streets?" It ended up being a joyous rioting. | |
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Unknown Lands: When his name is questioned Mischief agrees that it's not his real name, and when subsequently asked what his name is replies Mischief. | |
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Chick Tracts: In "Four Angels", Henry, the youngest of the four brothers, and the only one Chick believes remained a Bible-believing Christian, refuses to eat with his elder brother Charlie because Charlie is a fornicator. When Henry shows up after dinner, he condemns Charlie's lifestyle, calling him "a friend of the world and an enemy of God." When their brother Bobby asks Henry if he's saying Charlie's going to Hell, Henry says "I didn't say it. The Word of God does." | |
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Dregs: Mags's collection isn't of guns, it's of pneumatic weapons. That fire bullets. Hard enough to kill. | |
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Questionable Content: Marten pulls this when he's in denial about his First Gray Hair. | |
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In Peanuts when Linus develops a Precocious Crush on his teacher, Miss Othmar, Lucy exclaims, "It's ok to like a teacher, but it's wrong to worship her!" Linus retorts, "I never said I worship her. I just said I was very fond of the ground she walked on." | |
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Spider-Man: Averted whenever John Jonah Jameson (Jr.) is accused of Malicious Slander against the titular hero, he usually retorts with an accurate relevant legal distinction: "It is NOT! Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel." A humorous double page splash◊ in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) of Peter's sixties Local Hangout, the Coffee Bean Barn, has a sign over the counter reading "FREE ESPRESSO TO ALL! (+50¢ rental for the cup and saucer!)" |
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Vincent from My Life In Blue: | |
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From Unsounded, a rewording of the page image: | |
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The Republican and Democratic Parties in the United States respectively use the term RINO and DINO (Republican/Democrat In Name Only) to describe members who strike them as this trope (identifying with one party while seemingly promoting the values of the other), particularly when they support the entire party platform except for one item. | |
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Silver Surfer once explained to Dawn Greenwood that the inhabitants of the Giraud Expanse only sound French due to their Universal Translator, and that they are actually speaking Space-French. | |
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In Sorcery 101, Asagi states he doesn't make threats since he lacks the reputation to make them effective. "For that sort of reputation, one must occasionally leave survivors." | |
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Devin Grayson stated that Nightwing's... unfortunate encounter with Tarantula "wasn't rape, just nonconsensual"—a feat roughly on par with saying "not the ocean, just a really big sea." | |
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On the DVD commentary for G.I. Joe: The Movie, it was mentioned that while Cobra retreats, the Joes withdraw. | |
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The Ultimates: Nick Fury tells Stark that he's a strange man. Stark replies that he hopes with his fortune in the billions, he'd qualify as eccentric. | |
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From The Sanity Circus, as Attley and Fletch quiz Donovan Sparc for answers to some of their problems: | |
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Portia Perez was highly displeased when her long time rivals Sara Del Rey and Courtney Rush won SHIMMER's Tag Team Title belts despite being a barely functional team. To Perez Rush and Del Rey were NOT a tag team but co corner wrestling partners. | |
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Ace Attorney: In the first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, prosecutor Winston Payne asks defendant Larry Butz if his ex-girlfriend, Cindy Stone (the murder victim in the case), broke up with him: A truly dark example shows up in Justice for All. When questioning Matt Engarde about his innocence regarding the current trial, he declares "I didn't kill anyone"; this doesn't set off Phoenix's lie-detecting Magatama, so he (and the player) believes it to be true. It's later revealed that while Engarde didn't actually kill the victim, he did hire an assassin to do it. What makes it frightening is that anyone with a shred of morality would see that this trope applies, but Engarde doesn't, letting the players know just how twisted he really is. In the fourth case of Spirit of Justice, Blackquill doesn't think Nahyuta knows enough about rakugo, but due to politeness, we get this exchange: |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Simon's mother gets angry with him after she finds out that he hasn't taken his medication. When he points it out, she rebuts that she isn't angry, she's just pissed off. Sebastian freaks out upon discovering that Daigo has murdered two people. Fesxis 'helpfully' clarifies that it's only attempted murder, since neither of them is dead yet, which doesn't make Sebastian feel any better. |
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Third Rate Gamer: In his Daze Before Christmas review: In his Super Mario Bros./Super Mario Bros. 2 review, he parodies and quotes near-verbatim what the The Irate Gamer said about Super Mario Bros. 2: |
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In Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Kowalski's latest invention powering the Penguin-Mobile... Skipper corrects Gloria in a way that makes you wonder how he made it. | |
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The Procrastination Song from John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is all about this. | |
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From Vexxarr, a variation. | |
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FTL: Kestrel Adventures: "We prefer the term 'laborers who only accept payment in terms of food, shelter, and water'." — A rock slaver on slavery. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: One scene in Lilly's route has her object to Hisao calling her dirty-minded, insisting she instead has "a healthy adolescent sex drive." Hisao immediately points out that that's basically the same thing in different words. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): When Rarity apologizes to Applejack for a "raised in a barn" comment, Applejack replies that no apology is needed because she wasn't, although her family did have one where she was born and spent most of her childhood... | |
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In The LEGO Batman Movie, when Dick Grayson discovers the Batcave and sees Batman: | |
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In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Whirl uses this, although he's not arguing for something: | |
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Folding Ideas: When discussing Uwe Boll, Foldable Human flies in the face of conventional wisdom by saying he isn't a terrible director... he's a mediocre director and a terrible producer. Another video, dealing with The Last Airbender, backs down from a section title card saying that one of the problems is M. Night Shyamalan, deciding to look at the department heads and see if there's a weak link. Cue the amended title card, which reads "M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN IS THE WEAK LINK." |
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