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Sometimes, stating something plainly is not a good option. When that's the case, and simply leaving it unstated won't work either, you must resort to using double meanings. For a statement to have a double meaning, it must have one obvious meaning and one deliberate meaning, concealed so that only those "in the know" will understand that second meaning. This is frequently used to pass secret messages along, as it is often more subtle than using an obvious code. Alternatively, a sub-culture may adopt a phrase from the main culture, but assign their own meaning to it, understood only within that sub-culture. Other times a double meaning is intended to be understood by everyone, but either the speaker has trouble saying it directly, or wants to be able to deny saying it later. And sometimes it's intended by the writer, but unintended by the speaker. Subtropes Ambiguous Syntax Code Emergency Covert Distress Code Double Entendre Double-Meaning Title Double Speak Dual-Meaning Chorus Exact Words False Reassurance Multiple Reference Pun Multitasked Conversation No Man of Woman Born One Dialogue, Two Conversations Public Secret Message Pun Riddle Spy Speak Trouble Entendre Sister tropes include Literal Genie, Literal-Minded, Literal Metaphor, Prophecy Twist, Subtext, and Talking through Technique. Examples that fit into one of the subtropes should be placed on the appropriate page; this page is for examples that don't fit elsewhere. |
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Dune. In the greenhouse room Jessica finds a note from Lady Fenring, a fellow Bene Gesserit. The last line of the message is "On that path lies danger", a secret warning code that there was a hidden message nearby. Jessica finds the hidden message as a series of dots on the underside of a nearby leaf. | |
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In Helm, in Denesse Sensei's first conversation with Leland, his comments about the tea are simultaneously commentary on the effects of the Helm. | |
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In Jason and the Argonauts, Jason tells a camp's general that he is visiting Thessaly to reclaim his rightful throne from Pelias, who had usurped it twenty years before. The general tells Jason, "When your father defended his throne, no man fought harder than I." Of course, the general is secretly Pelias himself, so the second meaning is, in a sense, "truer" than the seemingly straightforward one (he fought hard enough to win, after all). | |
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Much Ado About Nothing: Benedick thinks Beatrice is in love with him (she isn't), and when she is sent to bring him in to dinner he thinks she's sending him secret signals; he cites this trope by name. | |
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Many Cogs and cog attacks in Toontown Online have double meanings to fit corporate terms. For example, a Double Talker, a cog with two faces for one in order to double talk, can use the attack Bounce Check, where they literally bounce a check at you. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: At a funeral for his friend Maes Hughes, Col. Roy Mustang comments on how it's a "terrible day for rain" as he weeps. In truth, it was a sunny day at the funeral. In addition to having a Sand In My Eyes moment, the scene also references the Achilles' heel of his flame alchemy: he cannot use his power if he or his target are wet. In other words, he feels completely helpless and powerless. | |
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Lois greeting Clark on his first day working at the Daily Planet with "Welcome to the Planet" as she already knows he's a Human Alien. | |
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Attack on Titan: In a flashback of Annie and Eren sparring together, Mikasa's implied to be jealous through interrupting them and challenging Annie to fight her instead. The other trainees gather in excitedment at who will win, while Reiner asks: "Which one would you pick, Eren?" (note the choice of words). In response, he stares at them while thinking "Which one..." and the flashback fades out on that line, making it seem like the narrative was hinting towards more than just the outcome of the fight. While likely meant as pure Ship Tease in canon, it might have been a nod to official parodies where Mikasa and Annie are really portrayed as Eren's Betty and Veronica. When Reiner calls out Annie as a slacker during training, Annie seems quite annoyed by this and, after beating Eren, challenges Reiner to spar with her, and beats him just as easily as she does Eren. While this can be merely interpreted as Reiner teaching Eren about "being a soldier" and/or teasing Annie, the fact that Annie and Reiner are both traitors, but don't seem on the best terms means this scene can be interpreted as Reiner challenging Annie to prove her loyalty. Though why this involves beating up Eren is not yet clear. |
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The Dresden Files: In Turn Coat, Harry fights a Skinwalker when the pixie Toot-Toot had a Little Damn Heroes moment by attacking the skinwalker to give him a moment to recover. After one of the Senior Council gave him assistance and drove it away, he commented about Toot Toot throwing himself into danger to help him commenting, "Little guy like that, taking on something so far out his weight class. That was a sight to see.", but he was also commenting about Dresden as well. | |
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In Moriarty the Patriot, William dared Sherlock to catch him, and Sherlock swore to do it...but William certainly didn't mean catching William as he fell to his death like Sherlock did. | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: At some point, plans are made to use a hairnet to smuggle a small item into an event without the person actually wearing the hairnet being aware of it. As the female character meant to wear the hairnet receives it at is asked to wear it at the event in question, the orchestrator of the smuggling says "That hairnet is meant to go over her head"; it can be read both as an idiosyncratic way of saying "on her head" and an allusion to the fact that the wearer must have no idea that she's being used as a smuggler. | |
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Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!: "The Unmoving" is a title Takuma received both because of his prowess in battle and because of his apparent impotence. | |
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Undertale: Near the end of a neutral or pacifist run, monsters in the New Home area tell you a story about their king, Asgore. Asgore had adopted a child that had fallen into the monster world and he raised him as his own. When the child had fallen ill and died, his son by blood, Asriel, took his fallen brother's body back to the village where had came from, but was attacked by the humans instead and he wound up dying as a result. Asgore flew into a fit of rage and vowed to obtain seven human souls in order to break the barrier that kept his people trapped so that he could extract revenge. With six souls already obtained, yours is the last one he needs to succeed. The last group of monsters tell you that you should be excited and happy because you will be "free" very soon. While the monster's version of "free" means that you will soon be killed and be freed from the physical world, it can also take on another meaning where you will be free from the underground and finally return home. Either version can fit depending on if you been playing peacefully or if you had killed a handful of monsters along the way. In the Genocide route, Asgore will ask the player upon their arrival what kind of monster they are. It can be seen as either A) he believes he's looking at another monster in the underground, but can't identify it, or B) a What the Hell, Hero? moment. |
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The Handbook of Heroes: In "You Are Too Prepared!", where Quest Giver is writing an illuminated manuscript and says, "The illumination must be perfect!", he's referring to the visual flourishes must be perfect. But the Alt Text uses "illumination" as in the amount of light: | |
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Evolution: The ruler of Cata Huuk is known as the Potus. While a passable cognate for potentate, it also shares a spelling with the acronym POTUS for President of the United States. | |
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In Supergirl story Young Love, Dick Malverne's "You really are super, Linda" is intended as this, in that he is either flattering his girlfriend or alternatively implying he knows she is Supergirl. | |
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In the 1995 film of Jane Austen's Persuasion, Wentworth says a great many things that only thinly veil references to the pain of his and Anne's broken engagement from eight years ago. He apologizes for the shock she must have seeing him again... here in Bath, after what happened in Lyme. He has so many regrets... over encouraging Louisa to be impetuous until her fall. Heartbroken men never truly get over their loss... Benwick, of course, not himself. | |
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Paranatural: In Chapter 5. When Hijack is surprised that Isabel isn't going to destroy him, Isaac starts reaching for her from behind with an alarmed expression. Then Isabel asks Hijack, "Is that really who you think I am?" Isaac stops, looking surprised, then pulls his hand back, crossing his arms and looking away. Though the words are directed at Hijack, they are also applicable to Isabel's recent conflict with Isaac, and he has realized he's been unfair to her. At the end of Chapter 5. As Garcia and Spender watch the kids walk home, Garcia asks Spender if he wants to give them a ride. Spender says sombrely that they're fine on their own, reflecting his own feelings about being useless to them as an adult figure. With more assurance, he says, "They're together. They'll be just fine," reflecting how the kids' bonds have been repaired and strengthened, giving them the power to face things together. At the end of Chapter 6, DJ Mothman invites Professor Bigfoot out for beef wine. They have the following exchange: They are not talking just about beef wine, but also about their relationship. They shared some experience in the past, and Mothman is inviting Bigfoot to rekindle their relationship. |
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Nightmare Time: In the episode "Honey Queen," the winner of the titular Honey Queen pageant is described as "the sweetest woman in Hatchetfield." In this case, "sweetest" doesn't refer to the winner's personality, but to her literal taste. The winner is sacrificed to an ancient god, Nibblenephim, who has a taste for those with a desire to win. | |
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In the "Prologue to Grisaia" short story in The Eden of Grisaia Yumiko, Amane and Michiru are told to expect a new honor student transfer student at Mihama, a school for students with severe psychological issues that interfere with their ability to attend normal schools. When Sachi shows up, she's intelligent, dutiful, athletic, friendly and more. Following a flippant suggestion about cleaning the school, Michiru comes back the next morning to find that she stayed the entire evening and into the morning, working nonstop to clean the school. It's not that Sachi happens to be an honor student but rather that she's here because she's an "honor student" and obsessively follows all orders, no matter how absurd or destructive. | |
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In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Puss is first accosted by the Wolf bounty hunter in the bar, who makes the boast that "Everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat (him), but no one has ever escaped (him) yet." Puss at first takes this at face value, even yawning, but considering the Wolf's true identity, this statement has a much deeper meaning. | |
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Law & Order. When DA Jack is accused of prosecutorial misconduct regarding a past case, ADA Claire goes to interview the former ADA who worked with him at the time. When the woman mentions that she and Jack had been having an affair at the time, Claire gently suggests "maybe that's affecting your judgement." The other woman bluntly replies "And it's not affecting yours?, referring either to the fact that either Claire's jealousy over the previous relationship or Claire's own relationship with Jack is keeping her from being objective. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: At the recruiting booth in "Reflections", Mariner encourages passersby to join Starfleet to "experience Warp 10 excitement!" and "discover the undiscovered country!" Appealing-sounding slogans, based on famous/notorious references to Star Trek's history - but travelling at Warp 10 evolves people into salamanders, and the undiscovered country is a Shakespearian metaphor for death (although Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country used it to mean the future). | |
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In Brave, to undo a spell, the witch tells Merida that she and her mother must mend what was torn by pride. Merida assumes this means a tapestry she slashed open during a fight between her and her mother; however, it's left ambiguous whether the witch really meant the tapestry or the relationship between Merida and her mother. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: A possibly unintentional one in A Game of Thrones: Jorah's last reply could equally well mean "Alright, let's drop the subject," or "You, too, will be dead one day" — although the intonation of the spoken words would point to one meaning or the other. The so-called "Hand of the King" has a figurative meaning akin to "right arm of someone", the name of the office indicating that he's acting as if the actual hand of the king was doing tasks, that is, he's working in his stead. This is open to some puns, like "when the king shits, it is the hand that cleans", which can be taken literally in the actual situation, but also figuratively according to the context (when the king makes mistakes, it is the duty of the Hand to solve them before things become troublesome). |
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Longsummer Nights: At the end of "Seeds of Solace", River tells Alessia that they'll tend the garden to give her collection a better display area. Alessia pulls their hand over her heart and says there are a lot of things that need tending, and they assure her they can handle it. The two are not just referring to the garden, but also personal healing. | |
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The English dub of Pokémon 2000 has an ancient prophecy which states that if the balance between Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres is disrupted, "The earth shall turn to Ash". It is initially believed that the prophecy fortells The End of the World as We Know It, but the heroes realize that there is another way the prophecy could be interpreted: that if the world was imperiled, it would turn to someone named Ash for salvation — someone like Ash Ketchum. | |
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The Foundation Trilogy: A deliberate In-Universe version is when Hari Seldon admits during Foundation (1951) that he created two Foundations at 'opposite ends of the galaxy'; one at a remote backwater planet at the edge of the galactic arms called Terminus, and the other at Star's End. During Foundation and Empire, characters start trying to discover the location of the Second Foundation that Hari Seldon keeps mentioning. In Second Foundation, characters use 'the other end of the galaxy' as a clue. Some are doing it spatially (i.e. a planet on the opposite edge of the galaxy), others temporally (i.e. Terminus was the last planet to be settled by that point; by that logic, the Second Foundation must be on the first planet — Earth That Was). Some of these suggestions were deliberately misleading ideas by the Second Foundation in order to maintain their secrecy. Hari Seldon meant Trantor, whose archaic nickname was Star's End, was at the galactic core (in a spiral, the opposite ends are the centre and the far arms), and was the sociological opposite of Terminus (the centre of galactic business/government versus a remote backwater). | |
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The Baker's Wife: After his wife has returned, the baker says that he forgives her, but then chews out their female cat for having left their male cat. His true meaning is not lost on his wife, who bursts into tears. | |
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Man of Steel: Not only does Zod's message ("You Are Not Alone") inform humans that aliens exist, it lets Superman know he's not the last Kryptonian. Lois greeting Clark on his first day working at the Daily Planet with "Welcome to the Planet" as she already knows he's a Human Alien. |
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I Love Yoo: Used several times. One of the most notable examples is the use of the word "nobody" or "no-one" as a way to refer to the character Nol. | |
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In her monologue when she hosted Saturday Night Live in 2024, Sydney Sweeney said "You might've seen me in Anyone but You or Euphoria...You definitely didn't see me in Madame Web," a double dig at the latter, since it can either be interpreted as Sweeney slamming the weak performance of Madame Web at the box office, or trying to gaslight the ones who did see it out of remembering that she was in the movie. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Spice King of Qarth deftly counters Daenerys' accusation that the Thirteen have broken their promise to receive her by noting that they have indeed "received" (i.e. met with) her. After reminiscing that his father was a kind and loving man who nearly led his family to ruin, Tywin states that he is cold. After a palpable silence, Arya decides on the less personal interpretation and offers to gather more wood for the fire. When Lysa asks if he remembers their "wedding night" many years ago, Littlefinger replies, "Like it was yesterday." Lysa doesn't notice, perhaps because she's so obsessed, but it's clear from his face that it's not a happy memory. |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: Outwardly, Apex Cybernetics call themselves such because they're a company which specializes in developing leading hi-tech and pride themselves on pioneering new advances. The hidden second meaning of the name is that they intend to usurp the Alpha Titans, with a particular focus on getting rid of Godzilla (thereby becoming the new King of the Monsters, essentially the "Apex" lifeform on Earth), with "Cybernetics" being the means they plan to use to achieve this aim. It's also hinted in the movie (and more heavily implied in the novelization and the movie art book One Will Fall), that Apex head Walter Simmons' comment to Ren Serizawa about making humanity "the apex species" has a double meaning of its own – it refers to Apex's Muggle Power justification for their plans, but also refers to how Simmons intends for the Apex company to essentially rule all of humanity once they've turned the world into their own corporate dystopia. | |
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In Gensokyo 20XXV, an age-regressed Reimu's "Am I dying?" is supposed to be intended as this, in that she is either asking if she is actually dying or, alternatively, asking why is someone is so sad about the situation she's accepted or, she could be asking both. | |
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In the Left Behind books, after Carpathia's resurrection, the standard greeting becomes "He is risen," with the response being "he is risen indeed": the "he" refers to Carpathia. The Christians reclaim the greeting (since it was originally the Paschal greeting), placing a slight emphasis on the "he" to indicate that they are referring to Jesus instead of Carpathia. This allows the Christians to interact with the rest of the world without drawing suspicion to themselves, while at the same time not violating their beliefs. | |
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A possibly unintentional one in A Game of Thrones: Jorah's last reply could equally well mean "Alright, let's drop the subject," or "You, too, will be dead one day" — although the intonation of the spoken words would point to one meaning or the other. | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Hat Luncheon", when Helen meets a former maid named Lucy who inherited everything from her previous employer, Lucy gives Helen advice on waiting to inherit's Bitsy's fortune by telling her "Where there's a will, there's way", and then whispers to her to make sure she's in Bitsy's will. The phrase means to have determination to overcome a difficult obstacle, which Helen is going to need if she continues to be Bitsy's assistant, and if Bitsy has a will then there's a way to inherit everything from her. The double meaning is used again in Helen's Villain Song "If There's a Will". | |
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The Avengers (2012): The Other tells Thanos that to fight Humans would be "to court death" (a common phrase meaning incredibly dangerous). Fans of the comics know that Thanos literally wants to date the incarnation of Death. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Arnim Zola, trying to kill Cap, Natasha and himself with a missile strike, tauntingly tells Cap that the two of them are both "out of time". Not only has he been stalling for time while the missile is incoming, but a shared trait between him and Cap is that both of them are living, displaced relics of WWII which have only survived to see the present day due to abnormal or outright unnatural means. | |
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Deep in the first Eye of the Beholder game, at the start of the Mind Flayer level, a wall engraving reads "Alignment must be true." Since this is a D&D game, you'd expect it to be a cryptic mention about Character Alignment. In truth, it's a hint about how to open the next secret passage, which is at the end of an alignment of hidden doors. | |
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Jhin from League of Legends is an assassin who uses murder as a form of artwork, claiming that each kill is special 'performance'. One of his battle quotes is "When they see you, they will cry" - whether this is from being moved or horrified is unsaid and, quite possibly for Jhin, is not seen as important. | |
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Rakuen: The lyrics of "Walking Through The Night" can be interpreted as a lullaby the Mom wrote to help the Boy go to sleep. But in the context of the scene it's sung in, the Mom is comforting her dying son, encouraging him to not fear passing on to the afterlife and leaving her behind. | |
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Niko cooks up a false resume for a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV when he needs to secure an interview at a particular law firm. While there are some outright lies on it (like saying he went to college and graduated in the top 1% of his class), a lot of the other things are just his actual qualifications as a criminal, but phrased in such a way they seem like his specialties as a lawyer. "Dealing with emerging markets in the West Indies, particularly Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Instrumental in the trading of commodities from those emerging markets." | |
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In a twist, in Tara's song, "Under Your Spell", in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More with Feeling", the metaphorical meaning is the more obvious and positive one, about how much she loves Willow, and Willow has brought her out of her shell and introduced her to happiness. However, if the lyrics are taken completely literally, they're about how Willow has been magically manipulating Tara's mind and memories. | |
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A sad version in the Stargate Atlantis episode McKay and Mrs. Miller. Rodney and his sister Jeannie are having an argument about how they haven't talked in four years since Rodney decided that Jeannie quitting physics to raise her daughter was a mistake. "Rod", an alternate universe version of Rodney, hears them talking and asks, "Hey, you guys got something over there?" Jeannie averts her eyes and says "No, we don't" as she walks away. Fortunately, they make up by the end of the episode. | |
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NieR: while fighting the boss Shade in the Aerie, Kaine calls out the Shade's attempt to lull her into accepting her death by imitating her beloved Grandma, stating that her grandmother inspired her to continue to live on and come to terms with her "mutated body". This refers both to her nature as a half-Shade and as an intersex woman. | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: During the Mass Super-Empowering Event, Hyeon discovers that a fire extinguisher is effective at driving off the smoke-like apparitions that attack them. Later on, when he's with Nadine, he asks his friend (who doesn't know about the superpowers) to fetch three extinguishers for him. When Nadine asks him why, he couches the real answer in a common phrase so that Nadine is the only one to pick it up: "Where's there fire, there's smoke." Ciro tries the same thing with Nadine later, when she asks him what he was talking to the principal about. The real answer is that he and the principal were discussing events related to the superpowers- since Nadine's lackeys are nearby, and Ciro doesn't want them clued in, he instead tells Nadine that the principal was merely hoping that the exams didn't go up in smoke. Nadine doesn't catch on this time, however, leading the gang to instead believe that Ciro had gotten caught for dealing drugs. |
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In Time of Eve, a character is asked why she frequents an establishment where revealing whether one is a human or an android is not allowed. Her answer is carefully ambiguous enough to work whether she is a human or an android, even though those two perspectives would normally be quite distinct. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Robin follows her boyfriend Ted to a nightclub and asks the bouncer about him. We are shown the event, in which Ted, who has been acting unlike himself, is flirting with another woman and agreeing to go to her apartment. Ted is confronted by Marshall, who says "Aren't you afraid a certain someone will find out about this? This isn't you, Ted." It turns out that Barney had been calling himself "Ted Mosby", so that's who the bouncer thought he was; we were shown Ted instead of Barney because that's how Robin would have imagined the bouncer's account. Meanwhile, Marshall's "certain someone" was the real Ted, and "This isn't you" was meant literally. | |
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Legion: In "Chapter 22", the first thing Gabrielle says to Charles Xavier is that it's a nice day, and he replies, "Beautiful." What he's also conveying is that he thinks she's beautiful. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": Lestat de Lioncourt tells Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lily that he disembarked in New Orleans because of the music and dancing, "but then there was food." While the local cuisine was served at this public gathering, as a vampire, Lestat would've eaten a couple of humans that night for his meal. Because of the homophobia which existed in 1910, Lestat can't overtly flirt with Louis during their first meeting, but he still conveys his interest in roundabout ways. Lestat is outright leering at Louis and speaking with a sultry voice while recounting how he had "sampled" many New Orleans women, including those with "cinnamon" skin tones. Lestat is subtly expressing his desire to "taste" Louis because the latter is a "cinnamon" Creole. Later, when Lestat says that he and Louis are "Destined to be very good friends," what he really means is that they're "Destined to be lovers." While reminiscing about a young violinist he once knew, Lestat describes him as "a boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity" as he looks Louis straight in the eye and hands him a drink. It's apparent that Lestat deems Louis to be equally beautiful and sensitive as the violinist. Whenever Lestat and the topic of home (e.g. "I said to myself, 'Lestat, unpack your trunks, you're home'"; "Yes, I feel quite at home here") or New Orleans (e.g. "[Lestat] was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it"; "There's no place for me other than New Orleans") are mentioned together, it indirectly points to Louis — not New Orleans — being Lestat's beloved home. Episode 7 features Lestat soulfully monologuing about New Orleans to Louis on the balcony, its connotation being that Louis is the product of the environment he grew up in, and Lestat finds him beautiful because of it. "Like Angels Put in Hell by God": Lestat is looking at a dog when he says, "Back in your cage, sweetheart," but the person he's truly addressing is Claudia, who is a stowaway on a train heading to New York. He won't allow her to leave New Orleans because he's concerned about Louis' deteriorating mental and physical state, so he has boarded the baggage car to forcibly take her back home. "The Thing Lay Still": Louis quips, "The king's hair (heir) has betrayed the king" when he spots Lestat's discarded powdered wig, who is garbed as a French king at the Mardi Gras ball. Louis can be regarded as Lestat's heir because he's Lestat's vampire son (the French monarchy had practiced Salic law, so women were excluded from inheriting the throne), and Louis is indeed conspiring to murder his despotic maker during the after-party feast. |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): In "Check Yourself", the supercomputer LOS-307 introduces themself as a non-binary operating system, which doubly refers to their gender identity and how they compute information. | |
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Fellow Travelers: When Hawkins Fuller returns to Washington, D.C. after visiting his estranged father at their family home, he goes straight to Timothy Laughlin's apartment. Tim asks "Where have you been?", and Hawk answers "Doesn't matter. I'm home now." For Hawk, his lover Tim is his home, much more so than the house he grew up in or his own apartment in the city. While dictating a fake breakup letter that Tim must jot down and then send to Mary in order save her career while she's under suspicion by the government for being a lesbian, the first half of it actually reflect Hawk's true feelings for Tim. |
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The Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" has quite a few: When Dipper and Mabel get back to the present, but are unsure of which timeline they are in, they soon see Wendy holding the stuffed animal Dipper won for her and saying, "This is the best present ever!" When Dipper makes a speech to Wendy about how people make mistakes and tight pants are overrated, she tells him, "Dude, you lost me." For her, it just means she's confused, but to Dipper it's a reminder of what he has to sacrifice in order for Mabel to be with Waddles: he's going to ruin his chances with Wendy, and essentially "lose" her to Robbie. |
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Law & Order: UK. The detectives and prosecutors watch a tape of CP Alesha Philips being raped by her doctor, who caps it off by tauntingly asking her, "Didn't that feel good?" Later, when the detectives arrest the man, he whines that Matt's hurting him when he handcuffs him. Matt responds by sneering, "Yeah, I know. Didn't that feel good?", not only effectively telling him that (a) They have irrefutable proof of his assault on Alesha, but also (b) that he enjoyed inflicting pain on him, much as he'd enjoyed doing to his victims. | |
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