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A joke, especially in Sit Coms, wherein a character consistently refers to something embarrassing by what they hope is a more dignified name. A more specific form of Insistent Terminology. See also Unusual Euphemism when very unpleasant things are concerned. Real Men Wear Pink is the standard subversion. A character may use this to try to cover up an Unmanly Secret. Action Figure Justification is related, for when toys are insistently referred to as action figures rather than dolls (despite the actual difference between the two being rather superficial and along gender lines). For instances where an evildoer insists on a more 'civil' description of his rank villainy, see "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word. Can overlap with Technical Euphemism if they use technical words. |
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Hark! A Vagrant: | |
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If you call that copy of Watchmen a Comic Book, you throw yourself into the Animation Age Ghetto. If you call it a Graphic Novel, you are seen as needlessly pretentious. There's really no way to win. And it gets really complicated if you point out that Watchmen was published as a limited series of comic books with no intention on the creators' part to have it packaged in the familiar collection. Occasionally inverted when serious comics are treated as the only kind: Those ones in the newspapers and on the web are "the funnies", "strips" maybe, but never "comics". | |
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Real Life Comics: When questioned about his new "murse" by his girlfriend, Greg answered it was a "side-sack". | |
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The Smurfs: King Smurf's costume is not yellow but gold. Though to be fair, the suit does sparkle when he first shows it off, so it may simply be factual. | |
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist: Adrian considers himself a cartoonist, but when he's invited to a literature festival, the obviously embarrassed moderator uses the term "graphic author" to talk about him. The term "graphic novel" is frequently brought up as a mature alternative to "comics" or "cartoons", which people still think are for kids. |
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X-Men: Jean Grey once asked Jubilee if she still has nightmares. Jubilee responds that nightmares are for babies; she has "traumatic evening episodes". | |
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Gilmore Girls pseudo-subverts the trope: | |
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In That '70s Show, Eric has a collection of G. I. Joe and Star Wars toys. He calls them "action figures"; everybody else calls them "dolls." | |
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In the Wings episode "Just Call Me Angel", Joe carries around what looks very much like (and what the other characters keep referring to as) a makeup case. However, he keeps insisting it's a man's travel bag. | |
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Averted in Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, where when someone questions Donovan's pink shirt he just tropenames that "Real Men Wear Pink." | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: King Candy insists that the candy-pink throne room of his castle is "salmon". This counts as foreshadowing, since it turns out the entire castle isn't exactly his. | |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: "It's not a dress! It's a kilt, sicko!" | |
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In Neon Metathesis Evangelion, Touji calls what he wears over his plugsuit (when he's outside the entry-plug) a coat - it isn't a bathrobe, as Asuka calls it. | |
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Inverted in Community, when Dean Pelton's assistant prefers not to use the term "secretary" because it's degrading to women; instead, she "helps the Dean do office-y things." | |
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In Midnight, Violet says, "They aren't dolls, they're models!" about her sewn dummy fairies. She's technically correct, since she uses them for decoration rather than to play with, but her reason for saying so is still to avoid embarrassment. | |
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Often when a genre becomes a trend, many originators from the trend distance themselves from the trendy genre name. Motörhead and Suzi Quattro both made "Rock & Roll", not Heavy Metal or Glam Rock, respectively. The Sisters of Mercy are post-punk, not Gothic. N.W.A make Reality Rap, not Gangsta Rap. And My Chemical Romance isn't Emo, they're Punk Rock. | |
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Sunrise, the company responsible for the Gundam franchise, may have been having some fun with this in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. When one of the show's aces (in this case a female) receives their own "Ace Custom" mech, it's very blatantly pink, and it is called the "Tieren Taozi". "Taozi" is, for the uninformed, Chinese for "peach". Later on, all of the lead Gundams become capable of going into Trans-Am mode where they become sparkly, pink and, of course, three times faster. | |
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In Jim Sterling's second crack at Kobra Studios' Second Warfare, made as an extremely sarcastic response to the studio essentially calling him incompetent following his initial coverage, Jim decides to subvert this. | |
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In a Scrubs episode, Cox meets a doctor who likes to collect dolls. Did I say dolls? It's a collectible! | |
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Deadpool 2: Weasel gets oddly angry about Cable's "utility bag." | |
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King of the Hill: When Bobby gives Hank "circular saw cozy", Hank suggests renaming it to a "circular saw buddy". In another episode Hank gets a box so Bobby can hide his Treasure Troll "action figures" from people coming to tour the house, Dale points out "Aren't they called troll "dolls"?", and Hank sighs and says "yes". |
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In Birthday Breakfast, Lana Loud, upon being called fat, claims that girls like her who aren't stereotypically feminine don't get fat, they get "pudgy". | |
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The White Lotus's Lucia is a prostitute. When Bert (who knows that his son had already booked her for a couple of nights and is trolling said son) asks what she does for a living, she diplomatically says she works in hospitality. | |
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: The Flavor Text for a Bandit's Coinpurse is "Shut up, it's a wallet!" | |
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In Paranorman, a bully tells Norman's Best Friend Neil to keep out of his way or he'll punch him in the "boobs" and Neil claims they are not boobs, they're pectorals. However, when the bully punches him in the chest, he still shouts, "Ow, my boobs!". | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Star-Lord insists to Rocket that his bag isn't a purse, it's a knapsack. | |
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Danny, the Champion of the World: Danny's father doesn't steal pheasants, he poaches them. | |
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Averted in Melody. When she starts her tutoring sessions under the protagonist, Melody calls him a “stand-in,� meaning that he wasn’t talented enough to be a more regular performer. He ignores it rather than trying to correct her. | |
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In Peppa Pig, one of the grandfathers owns a fake ride-on train with wheels (essentially like a miniature railway but with wheels) called "Gertrude". When people call Gertrude a toy, he insists it's a "miniature locomotive" and pronounces "miniature" as "minny-a-ture". | |
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In Resident Evil 6, the Trophy for collecting three figures is titled "They're ACTION Figures!" | |
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One alien from The Petri Dish is technically Gwog's pet but insists it's a symbiotic relationship. | |
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In Everybody Loves Raymond, Robert insists for several episodes that a bull gored him in the "upper thigh". | |
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Also, none of this "it's not yellow, it's gold!" business kept Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa from calling one of his most famous songs/tribute to his hometown "Black and Yellow." | |
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The "doll vs. action figure" variant shows up on both PB&J Otter and Arthur Flick Duck does this at the end of "Flick's Big Fakeout" on Otter after he is caught drawing a heart with a picture of himself inside it on Pinch's cast. "It's not a heart. It's a circle. See? It doesn't close in here." "It's a heart!" |
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In an episode of The X-Files, Scully has a vibrator which she calls her "personal massager". | |
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In Fallout 3, former childhood bully Butch becomes the hairdresser for Vault 101 (which is the job he got on his G.O.A.T. exam), though he insists that he's not a hairdresser, but a barber. | |
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The Venture Brothers: Dean: "My big gift is a jumpsuit???". Dr.Venture: "Speedsuit Dean, Speedsuit. I don't ever want to hear you say jumpsuit again." In season six it's seen that Dr. Venture is not alone. His tailor Enzo will literally spit in someone's face for saying "jumpsuit". | |
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Dan from Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures wears a robe, not a dress! | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Describing Zuko. Later on, Aang and Zuko learn an ancient technique that amplifies their fire powers. Zuko insists it's not a SYNCHRONIZED DANCE! It just happens to be called "The Dancing Dragons"... |
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During the series finale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles and his daughter Molly disagree on the definition of the scale model of the Alamo that Miles and Julian had built. Molly insists it was a toy, while Miles favors the term "model". Additionally, in an earlier episode, Worf observes Julian and Miles working on this model and laments Ezri Dax's affection for Julian. | |
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If you play Phantasy Star Online, try telling a western FOmar that they're wearing a dress. Then sit back and watch the flames rise. | |
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In Seinfeld, Jerry buys a "European men's carry-all" from the J. Peterman catalogue — but essentially, it's a purse. "It's not a purse! It's European!" This could also be a Shout-Out to a dialect difference. In Britain (which is English-speaking Europe), a purse isn't a "carry-all", it's considerably smaller. To a European, a bag like that is... a bag, or a handbag. Though the joke could be tweaked by referring to a recent fashion for "manbags". In another episode, Kramer and Frank Costanza try to sell bras for men with man-boobs. It falls through because they keep arguing over what less embarrassing name to call it: "Bro" or "Manssiere". |
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Batman: Spoiler's costume is not purple, it's eggplant. "Purple would've looked stupid" This example on superdickery.com shows how Robin doesn't even want to think about Batman wearing pink. (Be careful going to Superdickery: the site has a lot of viruses.) |
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In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush requisitions a ship, only to be given a bright pink vessel called The Dainty Lady. If he complains to the Harbormistress, she will suggest other terms for the color, such as "magenta." In a bit of a subversion, one of her suggestions, "Flaming Popsicle," is even more embarrassing. Interestingly, the ship's figurehead, when animated, is decidedly unladylike and is in no way dainty. |
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In Bloom County, Opus takes a job as a garbageman and demands to be called a "waste management artisan." Milo refuses to do this, until Opus successfully argues that if Ronald Reagan's arms shipments to Iran can be called "goodwill gifts", he can be a "waste management artisan." | |
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In The Glass Scientists, Doctor Jekyll doesn't like the term "Mad" Science, he much prefers "Rogue" Science. "Takes the edge off," in his opinion. | |
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In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Ned carries a pillow—an ordinary bedroom pillow, with plain white pillowcase—around in "Guide to: Friends Moving". He refers to it as a "cushion protector", and it saves him from several head injuries and a Pie in the Face . And his 'leftie-shirt', which was a blouse.note Shirts designed for men usually have their buttons on the right-hand side, while blouses designed for women usually have them on the left. No one really knows why. Ned noticed that the buttons were inverted, but didn't realize what that meant. It had been left in the Men's section, presumably by a girl who wanted to come back and buy it later, and Ned picked it up without realizing what it was. Even when informed it was a woman's garment, he insisted that it was just a "cool leftie shirt." | |
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In Girl Genius, when the various Sparks of the Queen's Society are being interviewed about the boilerghast, one of them is showing off her collection of Eldritch Abomination figures and insisting "And they're not dolls! They're research manikins." | |
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Gundam: In a sort of meta-example from Mobile Suit Gundam, fans always insist on referring to Char Aznable's Ace Custom color scheme as "red" when, to many people, it looks suspiciously pink, especially in the original TV series. Never commented on in-show, but an occasional source of minor Flame Wars in the fandom. Sunrise, the company responsible for the Gundam franchise, may have been having some fun with this in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. When one of the show's aces (in this case a female) receives their own "Ace Custom" mech, it's very blatantly pink, and it is called the "Tieren Taozi". "Taozi" is, for the uninformed, Chinese for "peach". Later on, all of the lead Gundams become capable of going into Trans-Am mode where they become sparkly, pink and, of course, three times faster. Lampshaded in the author's notes of the official parody manga Kidō Senshi Gundam-san. The author mentions how, when he was a kid, he painted many of his other model kits (fighter jets, cars, castles) in "Char Custom" colours (read: pink), leading his mother to an entirely erroneous conclusion. |
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In "Rockin' Rocko" from Bear in the Big Blue House, Ojo, Treelo, Pip & Pop, and Tutter declare their intention to play "The Further Adventures of Snowbear, Rockboy, Clammy and Mr. Cheese". Rocky asks what those are, if they're dolls or something. Ojo replies that Snowbear is a stuffed animal, Pip says that the rest of them prefer the term "action figures." | |
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Clerks II One character insists that something is not bestiality porn, it's "inter-species erotica". | |
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In Red vs. Blue, once Donut is stuck in a suit of pink armor, he insists it's "light-ish red". "Guess what? They already have a color for lightish-red. You know what it's called? Pink!" |
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Kim Possible: In one episode, Professor Dementor responds to Ron's comment about the "dress" he's wearing by shouting "It's a HOUSECOAT!" Wade: "Don't call it sci-fi, it demeans the genre!" |
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In WWE, it's not Professional Wrestling either, it's Sports Entertainment. They're not fans, they're the WWE Universe. They're not wrestlers, they're Superstars, unless you're a woman, then you're a Diva. | |
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The Boondocks: Gangstalicious starts a new line of "Gangsta" clothing and accessories, which includes a purse...er...gangsta man bag, a tank top...er...bulletproof vest, a skirt...er...shorts for thugs, and a dress with the back cut out, advertised as a "long tee". The joke being that the most hyper-masculine aspects of hip-hop culture are themselves extremely effeminate and homoerotic, and that kids who buy into it will essentially wear a skirt and purse if they're told it it's "gangsta." Gangstalicious, of course, turns out to be "On the Down Low", as it were, and the entire episode is spent deconstructing his Armored Closet Gay persona. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Dewey carries a handbag that he insists is a bookbag. When a group of kids make fun of him for it, he hits them with it. This is quite effective as he had filled it with bricks. | |
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There's this exchange from Despicable Me: | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: Kronk has a Good Angel, Bad Angel routine, and the Bad Angel, ever the troll, makes Good Angel walk right into this trope. | |
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flint is about to ask Sam on a date, but he gets too nervous and asks her on an "activity" instead. | |
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In The Boondocks a strip has Granddad defending his "Man-Bag" as being manly in a strip introducing the Unusual Euphemism "Brokeback", for something of dubious masculinity. | |
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In All in the Family, Mike defends his habit of carrying what Archie calls a purse by insisting it's actually a "shoulder-bag for men". | |
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Luke Cage: Luke has been known to defend the tiara he wore back in the 70s by saying it's a headband. | |
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Agent 57 shows Danger Mouse what he really looks like in "The Spy Who Stayed In With A Cold", and DM is repulsed: | |
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Bobo the sentient primate in Generator Rex is always peeved whenever anyone refers to his "simian undergarment" as a diaper. | |
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Harley Quinn (2019): In her own words, Poison Ivy is not a supervillain, she prefers the term "eco-terrorist''. | |
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In another episode, Rodney tries to convince Sheppard to escape by calling it "effecting a strategic retreat". Likely homaging Dr. Smith from Lost in Space who said the same thing. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Bubble Bass Reviews", when Mama Bass calls her son's outfit (which resembles The Nostalgia Critic) a "costume", he insists that it's a uniform and he's making art. | |
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In The Hangover, Alan refers to his man purse as a satchel ("Indiana Jones has one!"). Later, it turns out that both Alan and Mr. Chow own the same satchel, except Chow insists that his is NOT a satchel, but is indeed a purse. | |
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Much of the plot of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness revolves around the author's first time visiting a brothel, though in its early web-publication, she referred to sex in very clinical words. Comments on this were so widespread that she not only changed this, but acknowledged the terminology switch in the print version. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Nanase can make fairy doll versions of herself in whatever form she happens to be in at the time. In a side story, Susan discovers how posable they are, notably while holding one in Tedd's form and then wonders about outfits for them. Tedd notes her wanting to dress up the doll. Susan's reply: 'It's an action figure.' | |
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From Ze Frank's True Facts video "Snake and Lizard Tongues", regarding scientist Dr. Kurt Schwenk: | |
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In This Bites!, during the Enies Lobby arc, "Red-Haired" Shanks goes on a 'rampage' in the New World to help distract the Marines from the Straw Hats' assault on the Judicial Island. A later omake chapter revealed that what the WG and the Marines call a 'rampage', the Red-Hair Pirates call a party. To be fair, they did destroy a city as part of said party. | |
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In The Railway Children: When Peter takes coal from the middle of the coal heap at the station, he calls it "mining" rather than stealing. | |
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Rarity of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is generally adverse to calling something "old"; she prefers to say it's "vintage". Shining Armor also calls his tears "liquid pride". |
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Lampshaded in the author's notes of the official parody manga Kidō Senshi Gundam-san. The author mentions how, when he was a kid, he painted many of his other model kits (fighter jets, cars, castles) in "Char Custom" colours (read: pink), leading his mother to an entirely erroneous conclusion. | |
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From a sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus: And what about Brave Sir Robin? He's not running away. He's not! A vox populi interviewee: |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: The villain Himcules doesn't take kindly to those who say he wears a skirt. | |
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On Cutthroat Kitchen, sometimes, if the chefs are sabotaged to the point where they couldn't quite make the dish described, they may try using a fancy term to describe it, such as a "deconstructed omelet." | |
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In The Looney Tunes Show, one episode has Daffy carry what he calls a handbag, and everyone else calls a purse. Presumably he doesn't know "handbag" is just the British term for what Americans call a purse. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley, the main character of the series, insists that what he's writing is not a diary, it's a journal. In the first book, Greg says that he doesn't want to take Home Ec. 2, even if he was good at Home Ec. 1, because he had to keep telling everyone his purse was an "embroidered bookbag." A student's response? "Okay, pursie." |
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Erfworld: The "they're not dolls, they're action figures" routine is referenced in the form of Ace Hardware (yes, that's his name). Ace is a Dollamancer, which is a spellcasting discipline usually used to make cloth golems and custom clothes. Ace can't stand that, though, and prefers to use his talents to make "accessories", such as a jet pack, and a laser pistol. Erfworlders also near-universally use the term "croak" or "croaked" where Stupidworlders say "kill" or "dead". They still know what "kill" means, but if someone uses it they find the term highly vulgar. |
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In Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot, Grumpy Bear has a "care-y-all." | |
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Mercenaries: | |
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In Stargate Atlantis, Rodney insists that he did not faint, but "passed out from manly hunger." In another episode, Rodney tries to convince Sheppard to escape by calling it "effecting a strategic retreat". Likely homaging Dr. Smith from Lost in Space who said the same thing. In another, Rodney gets shot with an arrow in his butt. When he asks Carson for the details, Carson tries to be tactful and says that the arrow is in his "gluteus maximus", which doesn't fool Rodney for a second. |
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Ace Attorney: It's averted with Miles Edgeworth, who fully admits that the show Steel Samurai (which he is secretly a fanboy of) is a kid's show—but then goes on to give a long caveat that the show is accessible to people of all ages and is very mature. | |
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In a sort of meta-example from Mobile Suit Gundam, fans always insist on referring to Char Aznable's Ace Custom color scheme as "red" when, to many people, it looks suspiciously pink, especially in the original TV series. Never commented on in-show, but an occasional source of minor Flame Wars in the fandom. | |
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Hey Arnold!: Arnold inverts this: he's wearing a long shirt, even though some say he's wearing a kilt. | |
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Doug keeps a journal. Not a diary. Which is funny, because one early episode began with him writing "Dear Diary." | |
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In Baldur's Gate 2 the Player is lucky enough to meet up with Drizz't (again), Wulfgar and their heroic friends. When you encounter them, they are searching the undergrowth for a misplaced magical hammer that is absolutely NOT 'pink' — it's 'light red'! | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "do over", Strong Bad gets asked what he would do differently if given the chance for a do-over. He insists he's never made a mistake in his life... but he has made a few "stnanks" that might be worth fixing. | |
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Then there's Akito Tenkawa's Aestivalis in Martian Successor Nadesico, which is very blatantly pink, in both the show and merchandise. It is never commented on, but is especially obvious when all the female pilots (who always outnumber the male) have decidedly more masculine colors. | |
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In Radio Free Roscoe Lily threatens to tell everyone that Robbie played with a doll until he was six, which he insists was a female action figure. Apparently the "female action figure" came with a dream house. | |
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Friends Ross refers to his shirt as being "sort of a faded salmon color", when it's actually pink. Joey, based on fashion advice from Rachel started carrying a "unisex bag". Everyone else called it a purse. Also subverted as Joey loved his "man's bag" despite what others think, he only got rid of it because it started to affect his work (and switches to a backpack instead). Monica, in flashbacks, always refers to sex/virginity as her "flower." Derived from "deflowered", such a widespread euphemism for "non-virgin" woman, that the term even appeared in formal Anatomy books (even late 1990's editions). |
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In the animated series Mighty Max, bird-like scholarly mystic Virgil is constantly correcting people that he is a "fowl", not a "chicken". | |
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Deadpool: | |
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In one of the Kamen Rider Decade gag shorts created for The Movie, Tsukasa's rival Daiki mocks his suit for being pink; Decade angrily responds that it's magenta. He's right, because the show has photography as a major theme and results in a CMYK colour scheme: his Rival's Rider form is coloured cyan, Decade is magenta, and Kuuga Rising Ultimate form is black and yellow. But magenta is a shade of pink, so bad luck for Tsukasa. | |
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On Gravity Falls, Robbie wasn't wearing make-up on his band's poster, he was wearing "eye paint for men." | |
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