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Alice uses a figure of speech. Bob reiterates the usual metaphorical meaning. Alice says no, she meant it literally.
There's also a variation in which Bob questions the metaphor, and Alice responds sarcastically that she meant it literally. See also Visual Pun (when a play on words is given literal visualization), Not Hyperbole (where what seems like an exaggeration isn't) and Made from Real Girl Scouts (where the literal meaning is true... and you really wish it wasn't).
A common way to lampshade the trope is "I've heard of [X], but this is ridiculous!".
Compare Double Meaning, Not Hyperbole, No Longer with Us, Exact Words, Metaphoric Metamorphosis. Contrast Literal-Minded, where someone mistakes a metaphor for its literal meaning.
The following tropes either have Literal Metaphors in their name or are about common Literal Metaphors:

Bastard Bastard: The apparent tautology of the title indicates someone born out of wedlock who is also awful.
Joke Title, Real Role: A made-up title that is metaphorical, satirical or hyperbolic in real life is treated as real and literal in the work.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Someone literally lost half of his body.
Having a Heart: Talking about a body part in a way that seems like a metaphor, but is actually literal.
Kitchen Sink Included: Spoofing the phrase "Everything but the kitchen sink" by including a kitchen sink with a bunch of other random stuff.
Literal Ass-Kicking: Kicking someone's ass generally means that you're going to beat up or defeat the person, but in this case you actually are kicking a person in (or inflicting another injury upon) their rear end.
Literal Ass-Kissing: Kissing someone's ass means that you're acting overly sycophantic towards someone, but in this case you actually are puckering up and pressing your lips against another person's backside.
Literal Bookworm
Literal Change of Heart
Literal Cliffhanger
Literal Disarming: Preventing a person from using weapons by cutting off the arms holding the weapons instead of disabling or taking away the actual weapons.
Literal Maneater
Literal Money Metaphor: A person thinks they're getting money when "bucks", "dough" or some other euphemism is being offered, only to reveal that it isn't.
Literally Shattered Lives: A shattered life means one has experienced a horrific, if not traumatic, setback that is life-changing. The trope involves one's body literally shattering into pieces, with "lives" referring to their mortal state.
Literal Split Personality: Instead of alternating between different personalities, this refers to a character being split into two or more individuals who each represent a different aspect of the character's personality.
Literal Surveillance Bug: Surveillance bugs are tiny devices used for spying undetected. The tropes is about either devices that are designed to resemble bugs, or actually using living bugs to perform surveillance.
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Pun-Based Creature: Creatures with Punny Names, or based on literal interpretations of wordplay and jokes.
Visual Pun: A sight gag involving a play on words, many of which may reference metaphors.
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Mrs. Doubtfire: Daniel (as Mrs. Doubtfire) tells Miranda that the (fictional) Mr. Doubtfire was killed by the drink. Miranda assumes this means he was an alcoholic and drank himself to death, but Daniel clarifies that he was hit by a Guinness truck.
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From Hark! A Vagrant: Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war!
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Watchmen: Night Owl comments that in the early years, Rorschach "...was quiet, he was grim, but he still had all the buttons on his overcoat". And in fact, in flashbacks to those early years, Rorschach's trench coat has all its buttons — in the "present day" storyline, his coat is missing one.
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Towards the beginning of Enter the Dragon, Lee's shaolin master tells him "Remember: the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.". Later, when Lee tries to fight Han in a Hall of Mirrors, he remembers his master's advice and starts smashing the mirrors so that he can draw Han out.
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In Jago, one of the first signs that Anthony Jago's arrival in the village is warping reality is a small girl, whose grandfather says "Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle!" when he's upset, meeting Jesus Christ in the flesh... and riding a bicycle.
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The Far Side: "Henry never knew what hit him." The "what" being an alien in a flying saucer that landed in front of him, punched him in the face, then flew off.
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): During Sonic's trial after the Mecha Madness storyline, Antoine has Amy Rose on the stand and holding up a badger, demanding to know if she invited said badger to join her Sonic fan club. Sally promptly orders Antoine to "stop badgering the witness."
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Devil May Cry 5:
In her Weapon Report, Nico makes a metaphor wordplay out of the Overture and its electric functions:
A double meaning of the word "sucker" is mentioned in Nico's Report for the Empusa demons that literally suck blood.
The Pyrobats resemble the ordinary bats of the human world in terms of shape and size, but because they are from the Demon World, they have otherworldly abilities and body parts upon closer inspection. Nico's Report on them begins by mentioning the closest metaphor she can think of and identifying them as its literal examples.
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In a four-page comic book story from The Smurfs regarding Smurfette's visit to the Smurf Village, when Smurfette tells her fellow Smurfs that she wants them to "bring her the moon," the Smurfs take to fulfilling this request rather literally — one Smurf tries to pole-vault up to the sky and grab the moon, another Smurf tries to scoop up the moon's reflection in the water with a net, a third Smurf tries with an arrow and gets another Smurf Shot in the Ass, a fourth Smurf tries to build a rocket, a fifth Smurf makes a cutout of a moon shape, and so on.
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Sluggy Freelance:
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What is either Bun-bun himself or Gwynn's internal representation of Bun-bun mocks her current problems (possessed by a demon, imprisoned in a sort of fantasy world within her mind) by playing the world's smallest violin. Then he drops it down his ear.
Elsewhere, the invention of the Chick Magnet. So yes, it pulls baby chickens to you.
In "Freelance Bums — Broke", Torg and Riff think they've accidentally ended up working for a criminal boss when Mr. Middleman orders them to give someone a "dirt nap" and fit someone else with "cement shoes". The dirt nap turns out to be for a vampire (who rejuvenates by sleeping in a grave in his native soil), and the cement shoes are for working out her calves.
In the Years of Yarncraft game, Torg was once handed his ass by the Forest Yetis of Black Rook Caverns. First literally, and then figuratively too in all likehood.
In "Wayang Kulit", Bun-bun and Torg are driving in a car together. Torg tries to open up about his problems and it interferes with his driving. Bun-bun says "Eyes on the road!" and clarifies it's a threat about what he'll do to Torg's eyes if he doesn't shut up.
In "Anima: Culmination":
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The Colour of Magic has the world's first tourist attempting to convince a bunch of brawling heroes to pose for a picture. He barely speaks their language and none of them have ever seen a camera before. His guide tells them that the box the man is carrying has a little imp inside who will draw them really quickly, in an obvious attempt to keep them from getting confused or asking too many questions. The guide is as surprised as the reader when the imp turns out to be real.
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Hercules had one when Hades' coup on Mt. Olympus was foiled by Hercules.
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In Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, Police Chief Masters threatens to dance on Stubbs' grave. When you finally confront him, Chief Masters prepares to take this literally by challenging Stubbs to a dance contest that takes the form of a "Simon Says" Mini-Game.
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The boss of Mummy's Tummy in Ni no Kuni has an attack called Baby Shower... which has it spawn a ton of baby versions of itself, which rain down from the sky.
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The Phantom Tollbooth is loaded with these types of jokes. It starts with Milo literally going beyond Expectations on his way to the Land of Wisdom, and includes moments like him and his companions jumping to Conclusions (a small Deserted Island off the coast) and having to swim back to the mainland.
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In The Invisible Library, dragons have innate Elemental Powers. In the second book, The Masked City, when Irene says the wrong thing to a dragon king, the temperature in the room really does drop a couple of degrees. And when he gets really angry, the atmosphere does indeed start to thicken.
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Blade Bunny: Bunny proudly states to her latest employer that she isn't tripped up easily. Then a bystander points out that her bootlaces are untied (again). Bunny trips and faceplants.
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Enter the Gungeon states outright that words have power in the Gungeon so puns, idioms and metaphors can eventually become literal and be weaponized. The entry that mentions this is for the Barrel weapon, which shoots high velocity fish, as in "Shooting fish in a barrel".
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In Skylanders: Return to the Ruins, Cali says her Spiderling sense is tingling. Flynn asks if she means that literally, pointing to an island being attacked by Spiderlings.
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Kevin & Kell:
Bruno's friends discovered he was trans-diet when they found him in a closet. Eating hay.
A 2004 comic shows Kell shining a projector in a deer's eyes to make it freeze like a Deer in the Headlights.
In a storyling in 2006, Aby was telling Kell about another in a series of terrible dates. She admitted that the big problem with her love life is the fact that she's Married to the Job. Kell asked if she had a ceremony for that. The last frame shows a wedding announcement, which is now the trope image for that trope.
In the strip's take on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, instead of (allegedly) using Facebook data to manipulate voters, "Carnage Analytica" manipulates "Snoutbook" users to make them easier for predators to catch. The user really is the product.
In another one for Aby, when she and Mark got married, they did so during a pit stop for one of Mark's MOUSCAR races. Took all of 20 seconds. Altar the Speed, indeed.
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I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: During his travels as an adult, Sasuke listens to the sermon of some priest from a faraway land saying it is better to rip off an eye or an arm if it causes you to sin rather than be condemned with all your parts intact. Said priest immediately stops when he sees Sasuke about to actually tear off his left arm.
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Nightmares II: Gone to Pieces revolves around one. As Larry says in-story, "You can close it off, say you're not in pain, but you're going to fall apart sooner or later, in one way or another." This is what happens to Roy's friend Scott, who tries to hold in the pain from his parents' divorce and say it doesn't bother him, but ends up with his body parts falling off.
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Set Piece, the Doctor explains to Ace that he had to pull a Memory Gambit to stop the Big Bad discovering his plan, but not only has he forgotten the plan, he's also forgotten what the mnemonic trigger that would restore it was. He tells her "I've completely lost my marbles", and she remembers that earlier, he gave her a bag of marbles...
In the short story "Timevault" by Ben Jeapes, the eponymous timevault is described by the Doctor as essentially the space equivalent of a Swiss bank. As such, the aliens who run it are determinedly neutral and never ask questions. Later, the Doctor finds a young member of the race on Punishment Detail, who explains that he asked his senior father what kind of day he'd had. The Lorq really do believe in never asking questions.
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Nobilis:
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Being a game about Anthropomorphic Personifications in an animistic world, this comes up constantly. The corebook also discusses an infectious laugh (it spreads to anyone who hears it, and makes them keep laughing until they pass out from lack of oxygen), and one of the supplements contains this little gem:
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In allegorical film Hypocrites the character of the Naked Truth is portrayed by a nude woman.
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Cuphead combines this with Visual Pun. The opening narration describes The Devil's casino as "on the wrong side of the tracks". The boss blocking the entrance to the casino in the game proper is The Soul Train, and you have to cross over its train tracks afterwards, making the opening's description literal.
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Atop the Fourth Wall: "Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn." This is usually a figure of speech referring to the comic being critically roasted, but on three occasions thus far he has literally set the comics on fire once he's finished reviewing them. It is important to note that he only used this AFTER setting a comic on fire....
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Borderlands 2:
After completing a quest given to you by Patricia Tannis, she states that she has "a pile of blood money with your name on it" with her. She soon assures you that wasn't a metaphor.
Inverted later, when Sir Hammerlock promises to pay you "a pretty penny" if you do a favor for him. He immediately clarifies that he's not talking about just giving you a literal penny, seemingly under the assumption that you're unfamiliar with the expression.
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Scott Pilgrim:
Ramona says that her last ex-boyfriend Gideon has a way of getting inside her head. Scott agrees, prompting Ramona to tell him that she means Gideon has a way of literally invading her subconscious.
Todd (another evil ex) is called incorrigible, to which he replies that "[he] doesn't know the meaning of the word." A caption then pops up telling the reader that Todd really doesn't know what it means.
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At one point during the Star Trek: The Lost Era novel The Buried Age, Picard recalls an incident aboard the Stargazer where an unfortunate interaction between their warp engines and a singularity created a temporal anomaly that literally blew the ship into the middle of the next week. (Apparently, getting everything back in temporal sync proved to be a real challenge.)
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency had a Language Equals Thought gag running into this, which doubles as a Brick Joke to a moment when Dirk's secretary rips a handful of pages out of a dictionary in order to make it fit in a desk drawer:
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In The Shawshank Redemption, Red says his famous speech about "crawling through a river of shit and coming out clean on the other end" during the moment Andy makes his escape through the sewer pipe and is greeted outside by a heavy rain.
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Airplane!: The series is fond of this trope in general, usually accompanies by the appropriate Visual Pun. Some examples:
As a visual gag, when someone is warned about the shit hitting the fan. Cut to a view of the fan.
"Pour every light you've got on that runway!". Cut to a dump truck filled with light fixtures.
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The last words King Yemma has for Cell in HFIL are "Enjoy the barbecue in Hell." before dumping Cell into the titular location. Cell arrives at a cul-de-sac... while a barbecue party is ongoing.
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Shrek:
At the end of the Shrek 2 DVD version, Shrek and Fiona judge a sing-off with Simon Cowell. Donkey and Dragon decide to sing "Disco Inferno.
In Shrek Forever After, after a demonstration of the Pied Piper's abilities, Rumplestiltskin ominously states that it's time to pay the piper. He then yells at his witches that he literally has to pay the Piper and to go get his checkbook.
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Paranoia: In the adventure Orcbusters (a parody of Dungeons & Dragons), there is a wandering monster table — it's the table where the monsters sit around playing poker with each other when it's not their turn to wander...
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Transolar Galactica's first episode revolves around Captain Trigger ordering his helmsman to steer to "the second star to the right, straight on 'til morning."
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Kind of a lot of these in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal; usually Surreal Humor because you really wouldn't expect those things to be said literally.
Subverted: His "ass is on fire," which refers to some pain in his backside — the flaming donkey standing next to him is quite coincidental.
"Don't do it! It's suicide!" But he refused to listen and hanged himself anyway.
"I was always sorry you had nothing but a piece of granite for a father." That's not a gravestone they're looking at, it's her father, who's somehow an anthropomorphic stone.
2010-11-14: "You know what none of you 'genius' economists account for in your equations?! The fact that you're fucking over the poor!" He may have meant it less literally, but the economists stop worrying over it when they find a literal equation in their theory that accounts for just that.
"Your grandfather would be rolling in his grave!" — an expression of enthusiasm for an automatic coffin tumbler.
"Lies": A man complains about women "lying through makeup," which some men say to mean women are misrepresenting their appearance. However, he's referring to a woman who had literally written a falsehood on her face with makeup.
"Guys! This is a gamechanger!" But nobody appreciated the invention that transforms all games into checkers. (Alt Text: "C'mon, I can't do induction jokes for an entire week.")
"Sports Journalism", now only using the expression "physics-defying" when it's literally applicable.
"So you're a dog person?"
"A watched pot never boils," which leads the kid to conclude her gaze can exert enormous pressure on things — and weirdly, she's right.
"What if programmer's Bibles were actually Bibles written by programmers?"
"The only thing I'm high on is life." Oh, he really is getting high,note in the "doing drugs" kind of sense, it's not so literal as to be about altitude but toads and mushrooms are life forms.
"Progress": "Get off your high horse," and she's really riding a giant, really high horse... okay, you'd really need to read that one in context to see how it can be at least a little funny.
A woman explains to another how a guy's just a human peacock. None of it is metaphorical.
Inverted in "Virus". "Do you think viruses are truly alive?"note Scientifically (and literally) speaking, they're a bit borderline between living and nonliving things because they're inert until they get into a cell. "Nah. They're just barely getting by." This, with its metaphorical interpretation of "alive", turns out to be the truth.
"Silver Lining": "They say every cloud has a silver lining. That's because of all the mercury pollution. Your generation will probably need to do something."
Somebody's date "threw up a lot of red flags." Like, vomited literal flags. Turns out it was an intentional Visual Pun.
"Reptile Brain": "It wasn't me, it was my reptile brain." This would be at least somewhat metaphorical, even though the other character responds there's no good evidence for the theory that we have such a brain region. But of course it's not metaphorical if you have a reptile brain you keep in a jar that you think talks to you.
"I think women should form into a single political monolith and take control of the government." This results in an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever.
"The Lord": "I never found God in a temple. For me, it's those long rambles in the woods that show me where the Lord is." Because He's hiding in the forest because He doesn't want to meet people because they keep asking for stuff.
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In the Pillars of Eternity series, the [[Reincarnation complicated cycle of death and rebirth]] is referred to euphemistically as the Wheel. Then in the second game it's revealed that the Wheel is a literally wheel-shaped machine hidden in an ancient city.
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Isle of Dogs has Chief (a dog) calling Spots (another dog and his brother) a "son of a bitch" when the latter wants to leave his post as Atari's guard dog to lead his pack in peace.
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In The Zero Context Series: Woolgathering, Bahija's offer to act as a bodyguard to her boss is turned down, with Missy her telling that she would like her "to tackle something" that day. Bahija is led to believe that she was asked to do something important, but the next scene at a department store shows that she had been told to actually tackle something, the resulting attempt getting her caught in a leglock.
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Everyday Heroes:
Jane confesses to her neighbor Joan that she used to be a villain. When Joan expresses doubt, Jane assures her it's true; "Been there, done that, got the T-shirt!" And to prove it, she shows Joan the T-shirt. (Also a Shout-Out to Narbonic.)
Also, it's not polite to say "don't get all bent out of shape" to a man with a spinal injury.
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In Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth, Reisen asks her mentor Eirin if she could be a bit nicer and adopt a "whip and candy" approach (the Japanese equivalent of "carrot and stick"). Eirin takes her suggestion... which, naturally, involves whipping Reisen, then pelting her with hard candy.
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In The Legacy of the Glorious, the part where the Spanish-American War begins is called "The Boiler Explodes", which is what literally happens to be what starts the war, as an American ship's boiler's explosion makes the Americans believe the Spanish are attacking them.
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Dilbert:
One of Dogbert's stints as a consultant has him declare that the only things that matter are social networks, games, and phones. Since Dilbert's company isn't working on anything like that, he arranges for a literal "dustbin of history" to do curbside pickup of all the employees.
In one strip, Dilbert has been given the pink slip by his boss. He's unhappy about it because it's not his style.
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Freefall:
Yes, when it comes to "bugs in the system" 2000 crickets would indeed be the stuff of legend.
An earlier strip has a joke about a prototype reactor that lost its plasma containment, becoming literal Vapor Ware.
When a robot shakes hands with Lovable Rogue Sam, he really does have to count his fingers afterwards.
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Calvin and Hobbes: Several of Calvin's Fantasy Sequences involve this, sometimes in an inverted order, as in a frog entering his mouth and being swallowed before his mother comments that he has a frog in his throat. Many other comics have since picked up on this and done it ad nauseam.
In one case, Calvin and Hobbes' playing cowboys has to resort to this because mom won't let them play with guns.
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The Dresden Files. Inverted in Death Masks: Dresden tells Molly she's sounding all grown up, and Molly snarks that "The breast fairy came to visit and everything." Quoth Dresden, to the reader, "Some might find it significant that it took me a second to realize she wasn't being literal about the faerie. Sometimes I hate my life."
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From Birds of Prey #93:
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Rhythm of War: Early on in the story, multiple characters are asked to speculate on the Ghostbloods' ultimate goal for meddling with Roshar, and cannot come up with anything better than "power". According to Mraize, the Ghostbloods are in part interested in power in the literal sense: they're trying to find a way to transport Stormlight out of the Rosharan system so they can sell it on other Shardworlds where raw Investiture is much harder to find.
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Garfield:
In an early strip, Garfield wakes up, and steps out of bed, not realizing it's at the edge of the table, which he falls off of. Jon frantically asks what happens, and Garfield replies, "I got up on the wrong side of the bed."
Garfield wants to "put a smile on Jon's face". He draws a smile on it.
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In the final story in Angels of Music Irene Adler calls Olympia "a real doll", Kate Reed chides her for using Americanisms; Irene replies she wasn't.
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, the last half of the episode is set to a backdrop of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". When Kaworu enters Heaven's Door to merge with Adam (and destroy humanity), they sing a part with two of these metaphors:
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Discworld:
The Truth, about the Discworld's first newspaper, begins with someone yelling "Stop the presses!"... because the cart carrying the printing press in question has come loose and is careening down the street.
The Colour of Magic has the world's first tourist attempting to convince a bunch of brawling heroes to pose for a picture. He barely speaks their language and none of them have ever seen a camera before. His guide tells them that the box the man is carrying has a little imp inside who will draw them really quickly, in an obvious attempt to keep them from getting confused or asking too many questions. The guide is as surprised as the reader when the imp turns out to be real.
In Guards! Guards!, Nobby Nobbs tries to kicked a downed troll "in the stones", and nearly breaks his foot when it turns out those parts are made of rock, as well.
In Moving Pictures, characters affected by the magic of Holy Wood really do have stars in their eyes.
A variant in Feet of Clay, where the literal interpretation leads to the metaphorical one: Early in the book Chalky the Troll examines some clay and says it's crank (a coarse clay) with a lot of grog (pre-fired clay) in it. It's also been sort of heated, but not baked properly, leaving it crumbly. When the insane Golem King appears, he's cranky, groggy, half-baked and cracking up.
One of the possible results of dark-light photography, as seen in The Truth, is that the resulting photo will show a metaphor as if it were literal. For instance, someone whose father looms high in their life is pictured with their father standing behind them and looking down over their shoulder.
In The Wee Free Men, the boots of both Tiffany and her granny receive some attention. Tiffany's are old hand-me-down boots that are too big for her. As the successor of her grandma as protector of The Chalk, Tiffany has big shoes to fill.
In Going Postal, Moist's reaction to seeing the once-proud Post Office is "Oh, shit!" Mr Pump reproves him for his language, but he explains it was a statement of fact: the place is filled with pigeon droppings. Then he finds out they're actually piles of dead letters covered in pigeon droppings. Near the end of the book, Reacher Gilt is forced to go on the run, but not before mailing his pet cockatoo Alphonse to Moist, which as Adora points out is Gilt literally giving Moist the bird on his way out.
It's a minor Running Gag that Corporal Nobbs has the body of a twenty-year-old, though "nobody's quite sure where he keeps it."
Igors are experts at organ transplants and don't believe in letting useful body parts go to waste. If an Igor says he has his grandfather's hands, he isn't being metaphorical.
"Seamstresses" has long been the Unusual Euphemism of choice for sex workers in Ankh-Morpork. This leads to occasional confusion, and so most brothels now keep a couple of non-euphemistic seamstresses on staff.
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Elden Ring: Malenia's katana is known as the Hand of Malenia... because it literally is; she has the sword built into her prosthetic arm.
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Occurs in Bugsy Malone. One of Fat Sams workers says he can't stop Dandy Dan's gang because "he's all tied up" (he's actually tied up). Fat Sam replies "I don't care how busy you are."
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The Muppets (2015) series:
In the episode "Swine Song", Kermit remarks that he's got butterflies in his stomach... because he eats a lot of butterflies when he's stressed.
In "A Tale of Two Piggies", Big Mean Carl is revealed to have a sister who's in real estate.
In the same episode, the day after Miss Piggy's Wardrobe Malfunction on the red carpet, Yolanda warns Kermit that Sam the Eagle, who's in charge of Standards and Practices, is waiting in Kermit's office to talk to him, and he has steam coming out of his ears. Cut to a very angry Sam with what appears to be actual steam coming out of his ears. Turns out he was just sitting in front of Kermit's humidifier.
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Skin Horse:
One comic does it with a metaphor that doesn't even exist.
In another comic, Tigerlily Jones talks about how Tip is "always covered in hot chicks." In the next panel, Tip is covered in hot chicks, but they're literal baby chickens and he's checking the temperature on their incubator.
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In his tribute to Siskel & Ebert, the Nostalgia Critic mentions that, for a time, Gene Siskel was "phoning it in". Thing was, Mr. Siskel was in the hospital and literally on the phone to do his part, making this an example of dedication rather than apathy.
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In the Past Doctor Adventures novel Dying in the Sun, Golden Age Hollywood is secretly invaded by Emotion Eater aliens made out of starlight, who give the humans they possess a powerful Glamour. The movie director facilitating their takeover really can make you a star.
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All Mixed Up! has an example of this with fruit flies. There are two kinds — the little insects, and the fruits with small wings. When Olive and Otto meet up with Larry and Phyllis on a case about fruit flies targeting Laralisa, they initially believe the couple is talking about the former, when in reality, they're talking about the latter.
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Topper Harley says he has his father's eyes in Hot Shots!. He carries them in a glasses case.
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: La Capitan, a Pirate Girl using Time Travel to plunder riches from history, delivers this gem of an order in the Flavor Text of one of her cards:
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The show's director described the deuteragonists' arc as "Utena is the vehicle through which Anthy escapes from Ohtori." Which is one explanation for why she suddenly turns into a sports-car near the end of Adolescence of Utena.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.: Kay and Harry are going boating. She admits that she thought a man was going to sweep her away, only for him to dump her. Then she remembers Harry's breakup with his girlfriend Marvin and says "I guess we're both in the same boat." Harry looks down at the actual boat that they're actually in, chuckles, and says "Yes, well, we're in the same boat."
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Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball: In "Blue Harvest", Chris/Luke's fellow pilot Dack tells him "I feel like I can take on the whole Empire today!" Chris/Luke shouts to everyone in the hangar "Hey guys, Dack says he's got this one!" In The Empire Strikes Back the same conversation happened with Dack's statement being taken for the metaphor you'd expect. In "Blue Harvest", we see Dack fly solo against a star destroyer and get nonchalantly one-shotted.
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The Cobbler revolves around a magical shoe-stitching machine that lets the main character turn into his customers by trying on their shoes, i.e. literally letting him walk a mile in their shoes.
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Ayakashi Triangle: After Matsuri gets a Literal Split Personality, the two halves argue the other is a fake and eventually physically fight over it. Their grandfather response "Now, now. Don't literally fight with yourself."
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At the beginning of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World when Jimmy Durante's character dies, his leg spasms - and kicks a bucket.
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EarthBound (1994) has a pair of inventors in Twoson. One is unpopular with the town but useful to the player, while the other is popular with the town but useless to the player. Their names are Apple Kid and Orange Kid, meaning that you're literally comparing apples and oranges.
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Homestuck: In the Intermission, Spades Slick comments that he made the town what it is today. When Die tries to teleport to an alternate timeline where Slick is dead, he finds out Slick was being extremely literal, as the manor is an empty wasteland in said timeline.
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Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It is a game loaded with wordplay-based puzzles, including at least two whole sections devoted to literal versions of idioms and metaphors. While fixing up an old farm in "Buy the Farm" you have to "TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS", "SOW YOUR WILD OATS", and "PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE". Later, while having lunch at the Teapot Cafe in "Eat Your Words", a cranky waitress makes you "SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE" and "EAT CROW", so you get back at her by doing things like "CALL WAITRESS OUT ON THE CARPET" and "READ WAITRESS THE RIOT ACT".
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
R.K. Maroon claims that Dumbo "works for peanuts". Meaning Maroon literally pays Dumbo with peanuts, seeing as he's an elephant.
While walking through the lot of Maroon Cartoons studio, Eddie Valiant passes by some toon bovines getting ready for a "cattle call".
Eddie later takes pictures of Jessica Rabbit and Marvin Acme literally "playing patty-cake".
Dolores catches Eddie with his pants down (he had just gotten out of the shower and was getting dressed) when Jessica Rabbit tries to seduce/sweet-talk him into helping Roger.
Near the end of the movie, Roger tells Judge Doom and his goons that the real meaning of justice "would probably hit you like a ton of bricks!" Then one of the weasels drops an actual ton of bricks on Roger's head.
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Penny Arcade: Gabe expresses concerns that a mutual friend might be dating a "fake geek girl". Tycho berates him for gatekeeping nerdhood, but his tone changes (to annoyance) when the girl turns out to be literally fake, a mannequin made out of twigs.
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Happens in My Favorite Year. Alan Swan is drunk, and hanging off a building by a fire hose.
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The Simpsons Movie: When Homer tries to operate a wrecking ball he accidentally knocks himself over and gets tossed between a rock and a hard place — meaning an actual giant rock and a saloon-style bar called A Hard Place.
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VG Myths: "Can You Beat Bowser's Fury Without Jumping?":
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Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: According to "Face It", Pacifica's mom Priscilla Northwest is a literal Trophy Wife; her father Preston won Priscilla's hand in marriage in a yacht race.
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The Order of the Stick: A fairly common gag.
Celia's ex-boyfriend is caught "slipping the wood" to some dryad hussy. At least it was a potted wood.
When leaving Azure City, Roy states that they are on "the road to Adventure". And indeed, it's the name of Gate 6 (between Gate 5, the Road to Morocco, and Gate 7, the Road to Perdition).
"The Test of the Heart" is another blatant case. "The truths that are in your heart will be laid bare for all to know." Through a cardiac exam.
Sabine makes one in "Every Couple Has Their Quirks":
"Their Concierge Service is Heavenly":
And "Final Review":
Inverted in "Those Don't Take Over Until the Graveyard Shift":
In "Something Blue", Tarquin mention that some of his previous wives got cold feet before the marriage. The flashback reveals that it is quite literal.
A delayed action one: In "Make It Three, Just to Be Safe", Haley asks Elan if he needs "200-foot-tall flaming letters" to see Tarquin is evil. In "Yes, Apparently", he's given some.
Sabine gets one turned on her in "We Recommend Tsukiko":
"Where Her Loyalties Lie": Saying "Go to Hell" to an Infernal being just doesn't have the same weight...
"The Soul of Discretion":
In "Half Expected", upon revealing herself, Serini Toormuck mentions that she has "firsthand experience" about Xykon. "As in, he's the reason I don't have my first hand." She ended up mutilated by an encounter with Xykon, and had her torn flesh regenerated into troll flesh, meaning she has a "new" hand.
Elan gets easily tripped by them, as seen in "Changed Circumstances":
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Sinfest:
Done occasionally by playing off sexual euphemisms, such as "wax my missile" and "sowing wild oats."
Back on the wagon.
Slick decides to stand up to live, on reading of it.
And a fish finds a bicycle. Is assured that it doesn't need it, and doesn't care.
And the misery of being the Elephant in the Living Room.
When God says "And now I rock your world." — thy world will be... rocked.
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At the end of The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling gets a call from the recently-escaped Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who's at an airport in Bimini. He lets her know that he won't be pursuing her, as he thinks she's a Worthy Opponent, and bids farewell as his Arch-Enemy, Dr. Frederick Chilton, gets off a newly-arrived plane:
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Persona 4, a game whose theme is reaching out for the truth, has the party wear glasses in the Shadow world so they can literally see through the fog blocking what's really in their path.
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In Wilde Life, Barbara tells Oscar not to be late with the rent, as "I'm a real witch." He naturally assumes she means witch in the spelled with a B sense, but she's being entirely literal. The fact that her full name is Barbara Yaga is a bit of a hint.
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Undertale occasionally features this as humorous Narrative Filigree:
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Rusty and Co.:
At the beginning of a Level 6 strip, Y.T. warns Mimic: "Don't crossss me." At the end of the strip, Mimic does exactly that (using Y.T.'s stretched body to cross a chasm); the lamia ain't happy about it.
During the Gnomish Baseball game, when Dirk says that Robespierre won a face-off in the third inning, he means it quite literally, as we see the barbarian holding the ripped-off face of one of their troll opponents.
Level 10: After Stabs says she got a lead on where to find the Black Market, she warns Tarta that she doesn't think she'll fit in. The dwarf woman is offended, until she realizes Stabs is talking about a halfling-sized secret passage, that she indeed doesn't fit in.
Upon finding said Black Market...
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In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Vergil's attempt at unsealing Temen-ni-gru fails and he assumes that he needs more of a Sparda descendant's blood, specifically his brother Dante's. Upon realizing this plan, Dante mentions that his brother literally "wants a piece of [him]" to summarize things up.
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In Sam & Fuzzy, Mr. Sin has Mr. X 'dealt with' and 'sent to a nice farm with lots of fields to run around in'.
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Many in Neverwhere, mostly involving stations on the London Underground. There's a bridge with a knight at Knightsbridge, a creature called the Gap you have to beware of, black friars at Blackfriar's, an earl and his court at Earl's Court...and more.
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JesuOtaku often says metaphorical-sounding things in his anime reviews immediately before showing clips of those exact things happening — for instance, that one villain crushes the heroes' lives like marbles, or that another abandons the goals for which his sister sacrificed everything and screws her.
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In Puck, Phoebe tries to tell Puck she's pregnant and says "You have a bun in the oven." Puck opens the oven and finds a cheese-onion bun.
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xkcd:
One comic features a scene where the political website PolitiFact is an actual person which goes around annoying people by rating their sentences as True or False. At one point, PolitiFact shouts their harshest rating, "PANTS ON FIRE," but not as a rating of truth; someone hit them with a smoke bomb and presumably ignited their pants.
In one instance, Black Hat instantly believes one of Megan's alternative scientific theories without even hearing the explanation, because he's "been looking for a weird hill to die on," then adds, "and all the real ones are too far from my house."
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The Nostalgia Critic:
Probably the most famous example is the recurring character known as "the Elephant in the Room", a cartoon elephant who shows up expecting the Critic to address the viewers' thoughts, usually on a touchy subject. He first appears in his review of The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, coercing the Critic into addressing the suicide of the film's lead actor Jonathan Brandis.
Top 11 Best Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes. After Dante Basco as Zuko punches down the Critic out of the video player and into the YouTube comments section below, the Nostalgia Critic retaliates by calling out a "Flame War". That is, he grabs negative comments and throw them at the firebender. And when low on ammunition, he yells "Joss Whedon is overrated!" to make more appears.
In his review of The Master of Disguise, the Critic repeatedly begs for someone to kill him in increasingly over-the-top ways to express how much he hates the movie, only to be disturbed when Rachel always happens to have just the tools on hand (and that she is willing to use them).
In his tribute to Siskel & Ebert, the Nostalgia Critic mentions that, for a time, Gene Siskel was "phoning it in". Thing was, Mr. Siskel was in the hospital and literally on the phone to do his part, making this an example of dedication rather than apathy.
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A variation occurs in an episode of Azumanga Daioh, when Chiyo, overwhelmed at the preparations for the Culture Fest, begs someone to turn back the clock before it's too late. Osaka takes this as literal instruction.
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OSMU: Fanfiction Friction: In Chapter 9, Elon Muskrat has Opal milk a literal cash cow, with the cow made of dollar bills in various origami shapes.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe:
The Avengers:
Avengers: Age of Ultron:
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The Hero of Three Faces: In one strip, two characters are imprisoned in a gray-walled chamber with no apparent exits. One character remarks that there's a silver lining, the other says "Finally, some good news", and the first clarifies that there isn't any good news, he was just making an observation about the composition of the walls.
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Used as a gag in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. One issues starts with Scrooges father and Uncle in Scotland reading a letter from Scrooge and reminiscing about all his adventures around the world when:
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In Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign mode, on Christie's stage. Her universal dialogue with whoever the player's character is, involves her asking for the whereabouts of Eddy, with the player's character telling her they honestly don't know. Christie believes they're lying, calls them a Mishima devil, and tells them not to play dumb with her. Possibly using the term devil in a number of ways: being an afro latina character and accusing the player of taking advantage of her as a minority (i.e. white devil), or maybe just accusing the player of being deceptive and evil. Either way, her irrationality to find Eddy automatically assumes the player to be working for the Mishimas, which leads to the metaphor she uses. However, you can actually play as Devil Jin, who is a literal devil transformed version of one of the Mishima characters.
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Big Finish Doctor Who:
In "The Whispering Forest", Turlough and Nyssa are wandering through tunnels, and Turlough says the hairs on the back of his neck are sticking up. Nyssa assumes he means the caves are spooky, but he actually means they're filled with static electricity.
In "The Destroyer of Delights", Amy tells Nisrin, a slave in "Arabian Nights" Days, that she saw a blue man in a cave, and Nisrin seems remarkably unfazed by this. Later Amy tries to tell the Doctor, who misunderstands who saw what and explains to Amy that Nisrin is of Scandinavian origin and the medieval Norse used "blue men" to describe the people of Africa. He's still explaining this when the actual blue man shows up.
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In West of Loathing, you'll occasionally be given a chance to say some form of "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name. If you check your character sheet afterward, you'll find that the word in question is, in fact, now your middle name.
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The Treeminders of Fallout 3 constantly mistake Harold's requests for a Mercy Kill for some sort of riddle.
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From Skulduggery Pleasant:
Skulduggery states in the first book that his skull was stolen several years ago by goblins - or, as Valkyrie puts it, he lost his head.
In the fifth book, Skulduggery gets an artificial, magic face to cover his skull. Unfortunately, it starts malfunctioning, and at one point his face starts drifting across the skin on his head, leading to Valkyrie saying "You've got eyes on the back of your head, and I don't mean that as a compliment."
When the title character's subconscious becomes a physical, evil being the main characters have to fight.
In Dying of the Light, Clarabelle makes up a story about a mage who fought a warlock after losing all his limbs - making him a master of "unarmed combat".
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act VI: In chapter 35, while explaining why they don't want Talon to free them from their servitude, Jovian and Jacqueline say that they'll die without him. Talon assumes that they're just being dramatic, until they explain that part of their summoning spell includes a curse that will eventually kill them unless they have a master to serve.
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In Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard recounts his first meeting with Christine by saying "the roof fell in on me." Meaning, Love at First Sight, right? Well, the flashback does show them being pretty into each other from the get-go... and then he knocks over a makeshift support in her half-ruined apartment, causing the roof to actually fall on him.
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures can be literal at times:
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In The Hazard Squad: Into the Void, the 12th entry in the La Fuerza Series of superhero short stories, it’s revealed that Camilla’s superpower is a specialized low-level variant of Reality Manipulation that subtly alters reality so that the odds are always slightly in her favor. Since superpowers in the La Fuerza series are genetic, this means that she was literally born lucky.
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In Little Shop of Horrors, Mr. Mushnick sarcastically asks Audrey why she's late for work (he knows her boyfriend is abusive, but she's reluctant to admit it):
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In Hocus Pocus, the witches sing "I Put a Spell on You" to a crowd of party-goers. It puts them into a trance.
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In Grim Fandango, Glottis complains that being fired is like they reached into his chest, tore out his heart, and tossed it into the woods, while doing exactly that to himself. This is rather too serious for Manny to bother questioning the odd choice of metaphor or why he's bothering to act it out literally at the same time.
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In Going Postal, Moist's reaction to seeing the once-proud Post Office is "Oh, shit!" Mr Pump reproves him for his language, but he explains it was a statement of fact: the place is filled with pigeon droppings. Then he finds out they're actually piles of dead letters covered in pigeon droppings. Near the end of the book, Reacher Gilt is forced to go on the run, but not before mailing his pet cockatoo Alphonse to Moist, which as Adora points out is Gilt literally giving Moist the bird on his way out.
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In The Legend of Zelda fanfic Tangled In Time, Fyrus recalls his mother calling him "a little prince" when he was younger. After being crowned King of the Gerudo, he realizes that she was dropping hints about his heritage.
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In Holmes & Watson, Klinger has a His Name Is... moment were he is about to tell Holmes the details of the conspiracy, but instead announces that he has a knife in his back. Holmes thinks this metaphorical, i.e. he his partners have betrayed him or 'stabbed him in the back'. But then Klinger keels over with a literal knife in his back.
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One scenario in What If? involves glasses literally half empty. As in, glasses with one half containing only vacuum like space.
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An early episode of The Hidden Almanac ends with a sponsor message from the city library: "Have you gotten lost in a book lately?" Later episodes make it clear that the question is neither rhetorical nor metaphorical, with accounts of people being lost in books and having to eat their shoes to survive until help came.
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Zootopia:
On Judy's first day in the police headquarters, Chief Bogo says he needs to address the elephant in the room... then looks at an elephant officer. "Francine? Happy birthday."
Tundratown crime-lord Mr. Big tries to "ice" Judy and Nick... in this case, it literally involves dropping them into a tank of ice water.
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In one episode of Johnny and the Sprites, Johnny says "Take it to the bridge!" during a song. So he and the sprites go to Grotto's Grove's actual bridge.
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Gunnerkrigg Court has Coyote and Renard referring to Annie as "fire-headed girl" and telling her "there's a fire in you... fire that belonged to your mother!" — repeatedly. She takes all these mentions as cringe-worthy attempts at being poetic in regards to how much she is like her mother, Surma. It's not the case. This wasn't about her temper or anything, at least not directly. They said what they meant, as straightforward as possible. By her basic nature she is a fire creature, part-human part-fire-elemental, which means her mother's fire/soul was literally passed to her, resulting in Surma's death as Antimony matured.
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Re: My Hostage, Not Yours: When Dib tells Zim that Gaz needs some space to process her feelings over whatever's going on between the two of them, Zim responds by taking her into a holographic chamber displaying deep space, thinking that's what Dib meant.
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No Straight Roads: The 2nd highest top artists are 1010, a boy band made out of robots, with duplicates of them being produced by a drone every time one of them is destroyed. They are a literal manufactured boy band.
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Fallout:
The "bloody mess" trait/perk from the series leaves a literal bloody mess of organs whenever you kill an enemy if you have it.
The Treeminders of Fallout 3 constantly mistake Harold's requests for a Mercy Kill for some sort of riddle.
The Lady Killer perk is a Zig-Zagging Trope. It is both taken as a metaphor (as several female characters can be seduced with it) and literally (as it gives bonus damage against female targets).
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Shows up in Far Cry 3:
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In Heinlein Glory Road:
They're on a quest, when Star says that after a few hazards involving blood kites, their way is easy because they come to a nice brick road. "A yellow brick road?", Oscar asks. "Yes. That's the clay they have. Does it matter?" Star replies.
Later, a host greets them for breakfast with a dagger slammed into a leftover joint of meat (to show his disdain for his guests). Star stalks out, saying she's not going to be given cold shoulder.
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There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: From the chapter, "Delta" When talking about betrayal and weaponry leading to this literally stabbing people In the Back:
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In the book Anansi Boys, Tiger is trapped in a cave with the thoroughly annoying Grahame Coats. Tiger warns him to not be irritating or he will bite Coats's head off.
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In Paper Towns, Margo leaves a clue by highlighting a line from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": "Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" The gang considers various metaphorical meanings, but the actual clue meant that there was another clue hidden inside one of Q's door hinges.
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Iznogoud: In "Incognito", Iznogoud is said to be "cold and calculating". He mentally calculates that 5,763,257*312,418=1,800,545,225,426 .
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Girl Genius,
When he was young, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach built a clank for "picking up girls".
When something is pounding on the gates of Mechanicsburg, a soldier reports that "It's a ram." Agatha is still surprised when she sees the ovine monstrosity butting the gate and realizes, "AAH! It's a RAM!"
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The campy 1992 movie Highway to Hell has a scene where the old proverb "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" very literally; in the scene, the souls of good-intentioned sinners are ground into pavement by a team of workers who look like Andy Warhol, from the Good Intentions Paving Company. "I was only sleeping with my husband's boss to advance his career", one of them says sadly.
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Monsters vs. Aliens:
At their wedding, Derek tells Susan that she's glowing, by which he means she's actually glowing green.
The President defiantly fires at a huge alien robot that's Immune to Bullets, shouting "Eat lead, alien robot!" Then there's a gulping noise from offscreen.
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In Time, with its premise of using the time of your life as currency, regularly features phrases such as "spending time", "out of time", and "give me a minute" used in a literal sense.
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In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:
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Glass Onion: Towards the beginning, vapid and scandal-prone supermodel Birdie talks on the phone to her friends, who inquire about the whereabouts of her Beleaguered Assistant, Peg. Birdie explains Peg is busy "putting out a fire." Since Birdie is prone to making accidentally racist remarks and overall having a bad case of Open Mouth, Insert Foot syndrome, leaving Peg to handle the damage control, Claire asks what she said this time, but Birdie says that's not what she meant. Cue Peg running past Birdie with the fire extinguisher.
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The Rolling Stones' "Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" opens with a literal heartbreaker, the police shooting a boy in the chest by mistake.
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In the Axe Cop story "The Songster", there's a two-part song sung by the Songster called "Tortured Past". In the first part, it's a Start of Darkness story for the Torture Master, detailing his numerous very minor Freudian Excuses, with the refrain "that's how a monster is made." In the second part, it turns out that the Songster is literally creating a monster out of the Torture Master's past. That's how a monster is made, apparently.
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Oddly Enough: Lampshaded in "In Our Own Hands" — the Lyrans inform mankind that if mankind agrees, they'll take total control of the planet, but they're placing that choice in humanity's hands... literally, as the narrator notes, when he finds a strip of alien material attached to his hand with a button for "Yes" and a button for "No", letting the user vote to either let the Lyrans take over Earth or reject their offer at the right time.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
Tom Riddle tells Wormtail he will get to "perform a task most [his] followers would give their right hand to perform" — little does Wormtail know that to perform the task you literally have to sacrifice your right hand as a flesh offering for Dark Magic.
Combined with Literal-Minded; when the trio is trying to figure out how tabloid reporter Rita Skeeter is getting information when she's not allowed on the Hogwarts grounds, Harry brings up the possibility that she has a bug in the castle, leaving Ron to wonder what insects have to do with it, leading Harry to explain about Hidden Wires, something Hermione immediately shoots down as electrical devices don't work around Hogwarts. The conversation does inspire a "Eureka!" Moment for Hermione when she realizes that Rita is an Animagius that can turn into a beetle, allowing her to infiltrate the castle undetected.
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In Super Mario RPG, After the Mine Cart Madness mini-game, Ma Mole comments her belief that Mario (who is saving her children) will drop in on them any minute. Just as Pa Mole is telling her that Mario still has to use the door, Mario and co. do drop in- through the roof.
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Persona:
Throughout the series, Personas were described as metaphorical "masks", as a tie to Jungian psychology. Persona 2 had the masks the main cast used as children become catalysts for their Ultimate Personas, while in Persona 5, the party's Personas literally transform into personalized masks when not in use.
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In Liar Liar, Fletcher tells his ex-wife that he's too busy at the office to be with his son. His exact words are "The boss is really riding me"; he's actually having sex with his boss, who is literally grinding on top of him as he says it.
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Arrow: Rebirth: Cannibalistic Psycho for Hire The Huntsman finds killing Felicity "distasteful", warns that the "delicious" Thea "will be next on the menu", and later "gets a piece" of Laurel.
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Evil Genius has a brainwashing device for restoring a minion's smarts. How does it restore smarts, you ask? It sucks the patient's brain out through their ear, washes it with a special chemical concoction, then sticks it back in again.
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Just before the Sun impales him with light, the narrator of The Great Divorce is reminded of the errors that could arise from assuming his vision of Heaven encompasses the entire unending super-nature of God and says "God forbid." The narrator's guide says, "He has forbidden it. That's what I'm telling ye."
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At the end of the Shrek 2 DVD version, Shrek and Fiona judge a sing-off with Simon Cowell. Donkey and Dragon decide to sing "Disco Inferno.
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Red Witch's The Misfits Series: After being introduced, the mutant Unicorn (no relation to any canon version from the comics), weapons master of Factor Three (the heads of the European branch of the Hellfire Club) is noted as having a "terrible power". It's eventually revealed as Unicorn is dying, and turns out to be literally terrible because it's completely useless in battle: Unicorn can change the color of flowers. Deadpool, who's the one who shot and fatally wounded him, is surprised by how useless it is; Unicorn's last words, responding to him, are "I know... Isn't it... a terrible power?"
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In The Gay Divorcee, the title of "Let's K-nock K-nees" appears to be a sexual innuendo, as the song is filled with them. In the ensuing dance number, Egbert, the singer, and the chorus members repeatedly tap their knees against their partners'.
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In Shrek Forever After, after a demonstration of the Pied Piper's abilities, Rumplestiltskin ominously states that it's time to pay the piper. He then yells at his witches that he literally has to pay the Piper and to go get his checkbook.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena:
These pop up everywhere in Ohtori Academy, often adding a Mind Screw to even the simplest conversations. Phantom baseball games, transforming statues, moving photographs, and invisible press conferences all appear and disappear in the background without comment by the characters, usually as Foreshadowing or to underscore Dramatic Irony. It's anyone's guess just how much of this is intended to be taken as literal fact, some kind of Imagine Spot, or both.
The show's director described the deuteragonists' arc as "Utena is the vehicle through which Anthy escapes from Ohtori." Which is one explanation for why she suddenly turns into a sports-car near the end of Adolescence of Utena.
In the show, Nanami thinks she's (literally) laid an egg and asks her brother how he feels about girls who lay eggs. "Do you know why we've been able to live together so happily? It's because you aren't the type of girl who lays eggs."
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R.K. Maroon claims that Dumbo "works for peanuts". Meaning Maroon literally pays Dumbo with peanuts, seeing as he's an elephant.
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In Rango, when they're exploring the tunnels, Rango has the idea of putting the torches out so they can see where daylight is coming from, snuffing his own one with his hat. Beans jokes that if he keeps having smart ideas, his head will catch fire, and it immediately does, because his hat was still smoldering from the torch.
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Archie Comics:
The not-too-bright "Big Moose" sometimes has these. For instance, he once wrote Santa Claus for a pair of shoes with suction-cups so he can stay "on the ball", like his teacher is always telling him to do.
There's one story in which Archie tells one and all that he's going to mop the floor with Reggie after a school dance, and he's determined to do so, no matter how often his friends beg him not to try. Several guys from another fraternity show up to witness this—and are promptly handed mops and buckets. Archie and Reggie—who were asked to clean the floor with mops following the aforementioned dance—are laughing their heads off and wonder where on Earth these guys got the idea there was going to be a fight.
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In Faux Pas, waiting all morning to say "A little birdie told me."
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Telling Tyrion his answer to the riddle of the sellsword and the three powerful men, Varys says political power is a "shadow on the wall... yet shadows can kill." Later in the same volume, both Ser Cortnay Penrose and self-styled King Renly Baratheon are literally killed by a shadow.
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In One Piece, the country of Zou is ruled by the Minks. Their leaders are Duke Dogstorm and Master Cat Viper, who are so antagonistic that they can't even be awake at the same time; they literally fight like cats and dogs.
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In Card Force Infection, being around Yuu makes Naota sick. It's not that his presence is upsetting, but there's a curse that makes Naota physically ill around Yuu, because they're magically forbidden from being near him.
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In The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign, a bored Aoi complains that Kyousuke isn't interested in her, and the fish aren't biting. That's not repetition- she's actually fishing in her spare time.
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The Pokémon Farfetch'd is a duck carrying a leek, a literal version of a Japanese figure of speech used to indicate something absurdly convenient.
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Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure: Screwy Squirrel defends the sleazy way he runs his pie stand by saying that his overhead is ginormous. A second later, the ground starts thundering as a Protection Racket running giant whose name is Ginormous arrives.
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Muppets Tonight: During Tony Bennett and Kermit's duet of "Firefly" Spamela has a firefly costume, completely with electric bulb. Mid-way through the song, it starts to short-circuit, leading Nigel to cry, "Oh my goodness, Spamela's smoking!"
The Muppets (2015) series:
In the episode "Swine Song", Kermit remarks that he's got butterflies in his stomach... because he eats a lot of butterflies when he's stressed.
In "A Tale of Two Piggies", Big Mean Carl is revealed to have a sister who's in real estate.
In the same episode, the day after Miss Piggy's Wardrobe Malfunction on the red carpet, Yolanda warns Kermit that Sam the Eagle, who's in charge of Standards and Practices, is waiting in Kermit's office to talk to him, and he has steam coming out of his ears. Cut to a very angry Sam with what appears to be actual steam coming out of his ears. Turns out he was just sitting in front of Kermit's humidifier.
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In Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, Mallow warns Lillie that gifting her brother orange gladiolus lilies, which symbolizes how she hates her brother, would send one of them into a "bad place". Lillie states that she was already in a bad place with her brother running away and leaving her behind. We later learn that Mallow was once a passenger on the Infinity Train, which is set in a wasteland, a bad place.
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In Toy Story, Woody asks Buzz to give him a hand, and Buzz throws his detached arm at him. Woody isn't amused.
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Defenders (2021): In the second issue, as the non-team is entering Taaia's home, Betty Ross comments that "something stinks". Dr. Strange thinks she's talking about the situation (stuck in the multiverse before the current one with the devourer of worlds hovering over it), but then Betty clarifies that no, something literally smells; there's a baby in the next room, they've soiled themselves and she can smell it.
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Apollo 13: In both Real Life and the film, the carbon dioxide levels aboard the Lunar Module rose faster than anticipated, because the LM's air filters weren't designed to support all three crew members at once. (The LM was only designed to support the two crew who would land on the moon, while the third would have stayed in orbit in the Command Module.) The Command Module's filters were up to the task (after all, it was the crew's main living space), but the CM was deactivated and its air filters were not compatible with the LM's ports- because the CM's units were square and the LM's were round. Flight Director Gene Kranz promptly Facepalms and lampshades it (they manage it).
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Command & Conquer: Renegade had a cutscene where Havoc is escaping from a Nod compound with Sydney Mobius, who is driving the truck. They start arguing, and Havoc then calmly says "cow". She blows up, assuming he called her a cow. A little more urgently, he points forward, "No, cow!" They end up almost hitting an actual cow crossing the road.
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In Scooby-Doo Gold Key issue #15 (when the gang started to become ghostbusters for hire), the gang's client is haunted while he's sleeping. Fred says "Let's go over this room with a finetooth comb." Scooby takes out a hair comb.
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One of the possible results of dark-light photography, as seen in The Truth, is that the resulting photo will show a metaphor as if it were literal. For instance, someone whose father looms high in their life is pictured with their father standing behind them and looking down over their shoulder.
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In one of the funniest moments in the Magic: The Gathering Pro-scene, Eric Taylor swore that if Kai Budde won the Pro-tour that he was competing in, he would eat his hat. And when Kai Budde won the tournament, Eric proved to everyone he was a man of his word.
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In Plume, when clotheslined, Dom runs into an actual clothes line rather than the wrestling move.
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Questionable Content:
In an early comic, Marten describes his job as being "the office bitch". This is his official job title.
When dealing with a depressed robot trying to spill his problems to anyone who is willing to listen, Faye says, "I'm not touchin' that with a 10-foot pole." Bubbles' response? "Agreed. I will go fetch our 12-foot pole."
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Skullgirls: Sekhmet's 'Signature Attack' move creates a large hieroglyph that spells her name.
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A double example occurs in the 1973 film of Jesus Christ Superstar: After Pilate has Jesus whipped, he holds him in his arms, getting Jesus' blood on his hands. After sentencing him to death, he washes his hands of Jesus' blood.
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Chicken Run:
Nick and Fetcher steal items for Ginger and the other chicken for payment. When Ginger tosses him a bag, it's filled with birdseed. Fetcher complains that "It's chicken feed!", normally a metaphor for insultingly low pay.
Rocky and Ginger are trying to escape from the chicken-pie-making machine. When they get pushed into one chamber, Rocky exclaims, "Whew! It's like an oven in here..." A second later, gas flames shoot up on all sides and the door starts to close.
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One patron in Unshelved runs into a problem like this when his girlfriend wants to close the book on their relationship.
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device:
Kitten accuses Magnus of inviting some daemons over for a party. Immediately afterward the camera shows 4 daemons who came for a literal party, with hats, a grill and everything.
In the spinoff focusing on Vulkan and Corvus Corax, the Attilans have only one astropath, and "she's an ass". They aren't trying to say she has an unpleasant personality — Astropath Starass is a donkey.
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A variant in Feet of Clay, where the literal interpretation leads to the metaphorical one: Early in the book Chalky the Troll examines some clay and says it's crank (a coarse clay) with a lot of grog (pre-fired clay) in it. It's also been sort of heated, but not baked properly, leaving it crumbly. When the insane Golem King appears, he's cranky, groggy, half-baked and cracking up.
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Due to the growing overseas popularity of hololive, and the creation of branches in China and Indonesia, fans asked the group's owner Cover Corp to consider launching an American division as well (with Generation 4's Kiryu Coco likewise advocating for the idea). When the official response from Cover was (paraphrased) "Hololive English is a myth", fans interpreted them saying "It's never gonna happen". Some time later, Cover officially announced hololiveEN, revealing that "Myth" was its overarching theme — the group's members included the Grim Reaper's apprentice, a phoenix, an Atlantean, a girl possessed by Lovecraftian creatures, and a time traveler.
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In Hook, Tootles, a former Lost Boy and now elderly man, complains that he has “lost his marbles.� It turns out he actually had a bag of marbles, which were his “happy thought,� but he left them in Neverland. Once they are returned to him he is able to fly (with the help of pixie dust).
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TV Tropes: Sometimes a trope is played in a way that its title is taken literally.
Lethal Chef: When someone's cooking results in death.
Typhoid Mary was a cook who carried Typhoid, but showed no symptoms of it. She's said to have spread typhoid to several households, and is known to have killed at least 3 people.
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me discussed a recipe from a British chef once called for "henbane". What he meant was fat hen, a pleasant herb. Henbane is poisonous.
Lethal Eatery: Health inspections exist for a reason. Poorly-cooked food, or making uncooked food like nachos right after handling something that SHOULD be cooked can lead to food poisoning, which can be deadly.
Oh, Crap!: Bring My Brown Pants (it's even lampshaded in the description).
Backseat Driver: The driver's seat is in the back (see page image for a cartoon example). It also happened in real life (such as the Woods Spider).
Mama Bear: When this trope meets Bears Are Bad News.
Papa Wolf: When the father is indeed a wolf.
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: The "Myths & Religion" section of Doorstopper mentions The Codex Gigas a book 3 feet long, 20 inches wide, more than 8 inches thick (yes, the book is as THICK as a regular sheet of paper is wide) and weighs 166 pounds (that's 92cm × 50cm × 22cm, weighing 74.8 kg). This trope is namechecked in a note that says even lifting it would be difficult.
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In Singin' in the Rain, Don Lockwood has escaped his adoring fans by jumping into Kathy Sheldon's car. After suggestive dialog, Don must tearfully depart. He inadvertently closes the car door on his (already-ruined) suit.
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: Tryce describes the Franks as a group with "mixed roots". As in, they're Mix-and-Match Men whose parts originate from different people, with their favored donors being famous athletes.
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Laff-A-Lympics: Yogi says his team "doesn't know the meaning of the word defeat... Several of them don't even know the meaning of the word cabbage! Boy, are they dumb!".
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Zits: Pierce tells Jeremy that he is sure he flunked that last exam because he couldn't "regurgitate the answers". Jeremy sympathetically asks him if he had a mental block, and Pierce replies that he accidentally swallowed his cheat sheet.
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Summer in Orcus: In the fantasy land of Orcus, "house hunting" is the profession of tracking and trapping wild houses, and breaking them in to be sold on the domestic market.
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Towards the beginning of The Jerk, Navin Johnson literally learns the difference between shit and Shinola from his adoptive father.
Navin then steps in the manure anyway.
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Mother Chef: The Musical! turns the concept of a "Food Baby" into a literal baby, created when Mother Chef eats food.
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Steven He: At the end of "How Asian Parents Flex 2", the two parents start telling their kids to do increasingly impossible things...and then Steven's dad won the argument by tell his son to cook minute rice in 58 seconds.
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Going Under: Tappi uses "put fires out" as a metaphor, in the conversation that gives her first Level 3 task. She literally says its a metaphor. But Jackie and the task interpret it literally, to put 5 fires out, with water.
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From The Wizard of Id, this one takes the term "hung jury" a little too far...
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The Wicked + The Divine has the gods/artists that Ananke had more trouble controlling, Baphomet and the Morrigan, described as "underground" and given a more indie vibe... while also generally being located underground, with the Morrigan preferring subway tunnels and abandoned stations. Persephone takes it up a notch by being able to sink herself and her allies directly under the earth, while also having the same indie flavor of the other two.
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The makers of the infamously bad adaptations of the Left Behind series of books were actually sued by original series authors because of the film's poor quality. And the original authors won. That's right, we have a literally criminally bad movie.
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Welcome to Night Vale:
A recurring bit of weirdness when comments are made by a group. When Cecil says "The City Council said...", he probably doesn't mean that they released a statement, or used a spokesman, but that the whole Council spoke as one in hive-minded unison.
Also, metaphor in general. There's a really, really good chance that its meant 100% literally. (e.g. "Home is where the heart is. You'll never guess where we hid it, though.")
"And now, a word from our sponsors. That word... is carp."
At one point when Cecil says he will take a look at the traffic, he proceeds to do so... without particularly describing it to the listeners, but mutters a few observations to himself.
After StrexCorp takes over Night Vale, Tamika leads an attack (among other things) of the Book Club. They club people with books.
When Cecil was anxious to learn more about Carlos from the representative of the University of What It Is, he told her: "Tell me everything." She answered that would take an awfully long time, and would probably include lots of things Cecil already knows. Cecil then narrowed down his question to information about Carlos.
During the mayoral election, Marcus Vansted throws his hat in the ring by having a large boxing ring constructed and throwing one of his hats into it.
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Beetle Bailey:
Pretty much any metaphor after processing through Zero.
Many of the other jokes as well:
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Team Fortress 2:
The Spy's main attack is "backstabbing" his "teammates" by literally stabbing them in the back with a knife while disguised as someone on their team.
In the TF2 comic "A Cold Day in Hell", the Soldier, the Scout and the Pyro kill three Siberian bears, before the Heavy Weapons guy came along and told them those bears were babies. Heavy calls anyone or anything weaker than him a baby, but this time it's literally. He then proceeds to take on the much larger literal Mama Bear.
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Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest: When Waechter tells Helen and Troy to "look for a sign" at the beginning of their quest, they find an actual street-sign labeled "Augury Avenue", "Augury" meaning "sign" (as in "a sign from above" or "an omen"). Since both Troy and Helen know the obscure phrase, they both agree that it's the sign they're looking for.
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In The Wee Free Men, the boots of both Tiffany and her granny receive some attention. Tiffany's are old hand-me-down boots that are too big for her. As the successor of her grandma as protector of The Chalk, Tiffany has big shoes to fill.
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Whenever a metaphor is used in Hamish and Dougal there's a good chance that either someone will take it literally or it was meant literally. (Rarely both at once, for maximum miscommunication.)
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In Brawl in the Family, Kingsonnn Dededoo is here to clean your clock.
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Her Royal Morning Coffee, at one point Dry Roast demands that Princess Luna stop giving him "that Cat Who Ate The Canary look".
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In Finder's Keepers (2008), Death sends Cailyn Asher a knife after Card asks for her (Death's) help. When Cailyn, Card, and Lady Scarring examine the knife later, Scarring calls it "the cutting edge." Cailyn of course asks what it is the cutting edge of, only to be told that the knife is the Cutting Edge, and it literally cuts theory from reality.
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In MeatShield, Leonid the pseudo-lich once did a bit of soul-searching. Since at the time he was a disembodied head that had been stuffed inside his Soul Jar, this didn't take very long. (For that matter, the fact that this particular phylactery is indeed a jar may fall into Literal Metaphor too.)
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In Moving Pictures, characters affected by the magic of Holy Wood really do have stars in their eyes.
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In Super Surprise Party, it rains literal cats and dogs from the sky- along with gumdrops.
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In the Camp Camp episode "Cult Camp", the brainwashed campers are prepping for a "killer" party featuring poisoned flavor-aid à la The Peoples Temple, which has all been organized by the secret Cult Leader Daniel.
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In Village of the Damned, the protagonist focuses on the words "brick wall" to hide how he plans to kill the psychic children. We see their attempts to break through his Psychic Static as a literal brick wall, which slowly falls to pieces as they force their way in. By the time they finish breaking through, there isn't enough time left to stop the explosives from going off.
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In his review of The Master of Disguise, the Critic repeatedly begs for someone to kill him in increasingly over-the-top ways to express how much he hates the movie, only to be disturbed when Rachel always happens to have just the tools on hand (and that she is willing to use them).
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In Mélusine, the village pastor is always trying to burn the eponymous witch at the stake. At one point, thinking he finally caught her for good, he tells her, "If you escape me this time, I'll eat my cassock!" Mélusine does escape and, being a helpful girl, turns him into a moth (but sparing his cassock) so he can uphold his vow.
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me discussed a recipe from a British chef once called for "henbane". What he meant was fat hen, a pleasant herb. Henbane is poisonous.
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In one scene of DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, we learn that the film's villain, sleazy fitness mogul White Goodman, has a painting of himself riding a wild bull hanging in his office. He helpfully states that it's a metaphor for how he runs his business ("Taking the bull by the horns,"). Then he adds that, even though it's a metaphor, the scene in the painting actually happened to him. (It probably didn't.)
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The Avengers:
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Monkey Island: The recipe for a Hideous Hangover Cure in The Curse of Monkey Island includes "Hair of the Dog that bit you". Literally. You need to take some hair from a dog that bit you.
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In Siren Queen, becoming a movie star means actually becoming a star—once someone achieves a certain critical mass of artistry and celebrity, they light up and ascend into the sky. (Likewise, should someone turn out to be a One-Hit Wonder, their star falling is completely literal.)
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In Kitty Powers' Love Life, when a villager tries to make amends with their partner regarding their secret lover, the minigame involves them literally crossing thin ice.
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Pearls Before Swine has a strip where somebody says that "if that guy doesn't stop talking, my ears are literally going to fall off." Rat chastises him for misusing the word "literally", at which point his ears literally fall off.
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In Giraffes On Horseback Salad, when Jimmy finally meets the Surrealist Woman, she points to a picture of herself from a flashback and says "You wanted to see me. So, here I am."
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In Nomine: Most celestials assume Asmodeus, Prince of the Game, treating the world as a game is an elaborate metaphor. It isn't, at least from his perspective — he genuinely considers the Symphony a literal game. Among other things, this means its rules are completely arbitrary, based on nothing, and can be changed by whoever's running it. To him, God is literally just the universe's GM, and there's no reason anyone else can't take the role and retcon the campaign.
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Get Smart: One of the characters uses this as a Public Secret Message to tell Max where the villain planted the warhead they intend to use in the finale. Max, at that moment, is in a holding cell with only a radio to pass the time. So the other character (it's hard to tell whether it's another CONTROL agent or one the sympathetic enemy minions he met) puts in a request on the radio station.
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CTGP-7 takes Jumping Off the Slippery Slope Literally — at ridiculously high ccs, everyone goes so fast they go flying off the track the moment they press A. The computers are so stupid they go flying off the track within the first few seconds of the race.
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At the end of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, while Whitmore is going over the gang's cover story:
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In Being There, Chance the gardener's comments about plants are mistaken for profound metaphorical statements about the economy.
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Trolling the Toad: From Chapter 4:
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In the Rivers of London novel Lies Sleeping, a character tells Peter (a very proud Londoner) "London sucks". While she means it the way it sounds, she also means that London sucks everything out of the rest of the country.
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People unfamiliar with Portal may hear the song "Still Alive" and not realize that the lines "Even though you broke my heart and killed me/and tore me to pieces/and threw every piece into a fire" are not a metaphor.
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The Finishing School Series: When Monique De Pelouse left the school between the first and second books, she bequeathed her favourite fancy shoes to Preshea Buse. Preshea also assumed Monique's position in the school hierarchy, literally and metaphorically stepping into Monique's shoes.
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Total Drama Legacy has two examples:
In "Did Somebody Say Pancakes?", Cody Jr., after realizing he still has time left on the clock, eats more pancakes even though he's full, causing him to vomit without even doing the obstacle course. He literally bit off more than he could chew.
Lydia's Hairstyle Malfunction in "A Shocking Twist" ends up revealing her identity, surprising both Lydia and everyone around her. She literally had her wig snatched.
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Shark Tale: Oscar realizes just what he's gotten himself into when Lenny, the brother of the shark he took credit for killing, tells him that his father is none other than Don Lino.
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Done in the narration in Star Carrier: Earth Strike during a Xenofiction moment.
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A variant, making it part of the mystery, in a Mickey Mouse comics story that casts Mickey as a professional detective: A man accused of destroying evidence against the local mob boss is in a mentally unstable condition, and some of his ravings include the mention of "the monkey on my back". It turns out this refers to the actual pet monkey of the mob boss, who likes to jump down to the backs of intruders and tear them with his claws.
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In Episode 10 of Space Patrol Luluco Nova breaks Luluco's heart and stomps on her feelings both figuratively and literally.
The finale has Luluco literally firing her heart right back at Nova to make him feel.
Also from the finale: Luluco pulls the trigger on a magic bullet filled with memories of her and Nova (some of which are crossovers with other series by the studio that animated it).
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In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the expedition is descending the Andes, having already had some difficulties. One character says optimistically, "It can only go up from here!" Another looks at the slope they're on and corrects him literally, "No, down." Actually, the second character is also metaphorically right: things got worse drastically.
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anti-HEROES: In "Ineffective Roadblock", Kaalinor proudly states "If you're trying to get inside this tower, you'll have to go through me first!" Brave of him, true, but since he's a ghost and his opponent a lich, Finx has absolutely no trouble just walking through Kaal's incorporeal body.
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In X-Ray & Vav, Flynt Coal is doing a Private Eye Monologue when we get this gem:
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Jim in Becoming the Mask (Trollhunters) never questioned Gunmar's plan to bring on Eternal Night, thinking it was a metaphor for trolls conquering human territory on the surface. He doesn't take it well when he finds out Gumnar really means it.
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Tangled:
When Mother Gothel is outside Rapunzel's tower, waiting for her to let down her hair, she impatiently shouts, "Rapunzel, I'm not getting any younger down here!" Gothel uses Rapunzel's Magic Hair to maintain her youth and if she's away from Rapunzel for too long, she starts aging noticeably.
Rapunzel interrogates Flynn about what does he want with her hair. He says, "All I want to do with your hair is to get out of it!" as he is tied to a chair with said hair.
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Lady Bird: Discussed when Kyle, who comes from a rich family, visits Lady Bird's middle-class family and notes how she told him that she "lives on the wrong side of the tracks," and he actually did cross railroad tracks on the way to their house. Lady Bird's family are visibly pained by his Innocently Insensitive statements.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Indy and Henry Sr. argue over traveling to Berlin to get the Grail diary or going to Iskenderun to save Marcus, they're at a literal crossroads, with the road sign shaped like a cross.
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In one John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme sketch, John plays a diplomat dealing with a very tough team of negotiators. The one in the middle is "slightly to the right of Genghis Khan", the one next to him is "far to the right of Genghis Khan", and the one on other side is, of course, Genghis Khan.
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After clearing the Mysterious Island War quest in Kingdom of Loathing, either the Orcish Frat House or the Hippy Camp (or possibly both) will be bombed back to the Stone Age... as in, the monsters will be replaced by more powerful cave-man versions of the enemies normally found there.
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The Muppet Movie features jokes about "starting off with a bang", "drinks on the house", and a "fork in the road".
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All Night Laundry: On their second meeting, Josephine says that she was "just killing time" waiting for Bina. Bina, who already had her share of time travel shenanigans, warily asks if she meant it literally.
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BlazBlue:
Mai's "supertaste" ability is so potent she can literally taste the love that Noel puts into her cooking. This is coincidentally the best way to enjoy Noel Vermillion's cooking.
Hot-blooded ninja Bang describes the giant nail he carries on his back as 'the symbol of my people, and the spirit of my master!'. In the third game, it's revealed that this is more accurate than he realised - Lord Tenjo literally put his soul into the artefact, and Bang has kept it with him without knowing the truth for years.
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In Rocket Girls, Yukari is offered a job that's "so simple even a monkey could do it" — an astronaut.
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Literal Metaphor
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Over the course of the first several chapters of The Dragon King's Temple, Toph and Zuko repeatedly ask to be allowed to "see sunlight". SGC refuses the request, thinking that it's just a metaphor for feeling confined (similar to "wanting some fresh air" in English). It isn't: As a firebender, Zuko will literally die if cut off from Sun for long enough.
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Deadpool: Deadpool getting hired by a demon from hell to prevent Tony Stark from kicking his alcohol addiction is this close to being this, due to the storyline that associated Iron Man with alcoholism being titled "Demon in a Bottle".
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In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Set Piece, the Doctor explains to Ace that he had to pull a Memory Gambit to stop the Big Bad discovering his plan, but not only has he forgotten the plan, he's also forgotten what the mnemonic trigger that would restore it was. He tells her "I've completely lost my marbles", and she remembers that earlier, he gave her a bag of marbles...
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Happy Heroes: In Season 8 episode 2, the King explains that the old grandmaster Xiao Haha swept the nation with his token... which is a broom. He literally swept the nation to clean it up.
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In Guards! Guards!, Nobby Nobbs tries to kicked a downed troll "in the stones", and nearly breaks his foot when it turns out those parts are made of rock, as well.
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The Muppets seem to love jokes like this:
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Defending Your Life
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Truth and Lies
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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Literal Metaphor
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type
Literal Metaphor
 The Suicide Squad / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Wizard of Oz / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Theatre of Blood / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Triangle of Sadness / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Twister / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Warm Bodies / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Witness for the Prosecution / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Young Frankenstein / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 B Daman (Franchise) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Street Fighter (Franchise) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Canticle for Leibowitz / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Hippie in the House of Mouse / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Line to Kill / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 An Acceptable Time / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 B to the F: The Novelization of the Feature Film / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Bruce Coville's Book of... / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Clue / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dungeon Crawler Carl / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Eric / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Everybody Loves Large Chests / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Falling Up (Silverstein) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Father Brown / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Forgotten Gods / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Guards! Guards! / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Hench / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 His Dark Materials / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Journey to the Dream Land / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Just After Sunset / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 La Fuerza Series / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Left Behind / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mary Poppins / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Odd Squad Agent's Handbook / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Oddly Enough / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Otherland / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Overheaven / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Peter Pan in Scarlet / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Reaper Man / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Rhythm of War / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Siren Queen / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Skulduggery Pleasant / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Star Carrier / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Star Trek: The Lost Era / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Summer in Orcus / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Sweet Pickles / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Tales Of The Long Bow / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Tamara / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 That Hideous Strength / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Fall of the House of Cabal / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Fourth Law of Robotics / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Great Divorce / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Legacy of the Glorious / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Other Side of Silence / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Phantom Tollbooth / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Three Investigators / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Truth / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Wee Free Men / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Thief of Time / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Trainspotting / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Unsong / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 What If? 2 / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Wyrd Sisters / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 You're Only Human: A Guide to Life / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Amiga Power (Magazine) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 MAD (Magazine) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 MAD (Magazine) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 ItsASpongebobChristmas
seeAlso
Literal Metaphor
 Russian Proverbs and Expressions
seeAlso
Literal Metaphor
 SplitPersonalityTakeOver
seeAlso
Literal Metaphor
 TheInterferenceLegends
seeAlso
Literal Metaphor
 Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Gintama (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Pop Team Epic (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Sketchbook (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Hunters Guild: Red Hood (Manga) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Alice's Restaurant (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cry-Baby (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dirty Work (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 JT Music (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Nanobots (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 reputation (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Running with Scissors (Music) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Acquisitions Incorporated (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Big Grande Teachers' Lounge (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Hello, from the Magic Tavern (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Odd Squadcast (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The First Podcast (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Adventures in Odyssey (Radio) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mean Character, Nice Actor / Real Life / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues / Role Play / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Trustfell 4 Trust Fall Or Die Hard (Roleplay) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Bit of Fry and Laurie / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Black Lady Sketch Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 A Touch of Cloth / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Agent Carter / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Air Crash Investigation / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 American Gods (2017) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 American Vandal / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 America's Funniest Home Videos / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Atlanta / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Bodyguard (UK 2018) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Born To Be A Flower / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Brass Eye / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Canada's Worst Driver / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Charmed (2018) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Constantine / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Constantine (2014) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Corner Gas / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Crisis on Earth-X / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Designated Survivor / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Fleabag / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Good Omens (2019) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Herman's Head / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 History of the World Part II / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Horrible Histories / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 House of Cards (US) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Jane the Virgin / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Key & Peele / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Kim's Convenience / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 La Révolution / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Legacies / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Lewis / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Little Lunch / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Married... with Children / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mayday / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mighty Med / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mimpi Metropolitan / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Modern Family / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mozart in the Jungle / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 MythBusters / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 No Soap, Radio / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Odd Squad / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Parks and Recreation / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Pushing Daisies / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Recht Op Recht / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Revenge (2011) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Richie Rich / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Sabrina the Teenage Witch / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Schmigadoon! / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Scrubs / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Silicon Valley / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Tales from the Crypt / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Basil Brush Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Benny Hill Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Colbert Report / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Cosby Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Golden Girls / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Good Place / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Gruen Transfer / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Magicians (2016) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Middleman / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Ministry of Time / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Red Green Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Sketch Show / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Trip / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 3rd Rock from the Sun / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 30 Rock / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Turn / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Wings / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Wynonna Earp / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cards Against Humanity (Tabletop Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 JAGS Wonderland (Tabletop Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Rock of Ages (Theatre) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Seascape (Theatre) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Spamalot (Theatre) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Starship (Theatre) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (Theatre) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Afterlife (1996) (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Altered Destiny (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Arcade Paradise (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Arknights (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Breach: Archangel Series (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cube Escape (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Darkest Dungeon II (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dauntless (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Deponia (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Devil May Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dino Crisis (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Drakensang (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Evil Genius (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Going Under (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Grim Fandango (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 High on Life (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 IMMORTALITY (2022) (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Inscryption (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Kitty Powers' Matchmaker (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Lil Guardsman (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Limbo of the Lost (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Little Nightmares (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Medieval Cop (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mistful Crimson Morning (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mother Chef: The Musical! (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Nifty (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Overload (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Paper Mario: The Origami King (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Puzzle & Dragons (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Ratchet & Clank (2016) (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Redfall (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Remember Me (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Skylanders (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Spooky's Saturday Scare (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Streets of Rogue (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Super Surprise Party (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Superhero League of Hoboken (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Messenger (2018) (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 3D Dot Game Heroes (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Suibotsushita Chinshuu Jigoku (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Sunken Fossil World (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Undertale 2: Revenge of the Robots (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Vanquish (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Vine Realms (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 WWE Video Games (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Yakuza 0 (Video Game) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Coμ - Black Dragon in a Gentle Kingdom (Visual Novel) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Monster Prom (Visual Novel) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Unexpected Heiress (Visual Novel) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 asdfmovie (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Camp Camp (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Chikn Nuggit (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Gamer Poop (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Ghost House (2014) (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 HFIL (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 HourofPoop (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 MeatCanyon (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Pokémon Rusty (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 PONY.MOV (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 RWBY Chibi (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Hejibits (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Yumi's Cells (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Arlo (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Atun-Shei Films (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Caddicarus (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Checkmate, Lincolnites! (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dark Side of the Toon (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dr. Crafty (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dream (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Friendship is Witchcraft (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Hardly Working (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Jake and Amir (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 JonTron (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Kurtis Conner (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 MalsWRLD (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Mega CD Fan 235 (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Philosophy Tube (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Real-Time Fandub (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Sarah Z (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Scootertrix the Abridged (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Scott The Woz (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Smosh (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Sorry (2023) (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 StacheBros (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 The Try Guys (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 VG Myths (Web Video) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 All Night Laundry (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 anti-HEROES (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Awful Hospital (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Beanies Comics (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Better Days (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Blade Bunny (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Cyanide and Happiness (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Damaged Goods (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Faux Pas (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Goober Grove (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Magical Girl Neil (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Nedroid (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Nerd & Jock (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Nuzlocke Comics Fan Works (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Out-of-Placers (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Paradox Space (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Paranatural (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Polandball (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Problem Sleuth (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 Puck (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
type
Literal Metaphor
 qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Rebirth (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Rusty and Co. (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Super Effective (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Swords (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Two Guys and Guy (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Unshelved (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Unwinder's Tall Comics (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Vegan Artbook (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Whomp! (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Wilde Life (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Zebra Girl (Webcomic) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Onion (Website) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 WrestleCrap (Website) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Animal Behaviour / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Apple & Onion / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Arcane / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Batman: The Killing Joke / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Blue Eye Samurai / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Bugs and Thugs / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Bugs Bunny Builders / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Bugs Bunny Rides Again / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Casper's Scare School / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Chicken Run / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Chowder / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Danger Mouse / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Dawn of the Croods / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Dilbert / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Donald's Dilemma / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Dumbo / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Elemental (2023) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Freakazoid! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Green Eggs and Ham (2019) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hailey's On It! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Histeria! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hockey Homicide / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hoodwinked! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hot Wheels / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Hotel Transylvania: Transformania / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 How to Play Football / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Human Resources (2022) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 ItsASpongebobChristmas
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 Jackie Chan Adventures / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Kamp Koral / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Knighty Knight Bugs / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 My Little Pony: Pony Life / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Pantheon / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Paradise PD / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Peepoodo & the Super Fuck Friends / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Pinocchio / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Rabbit Punch / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Rabbit Rampage / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Ralph Breaks the Internet / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Ratchet & Clank (2016) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Ready Jet Go! Space Camp / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Ruby Gloom / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Rupert / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Sally Bollywood / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Sausage Party / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Shrek Forever After / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Smallfoot / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Smiling Friends / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Sport Goofy in Soccermania / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Super Duper Sumos / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Super Why! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 TaleSpin / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Tangled / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Teacher's Pet / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Teen Titans Go! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The 7D / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Adventures of Puss in Boots / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Backyardigans / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Bad Guys / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Bad Guys (2022) / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Boss Baby / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Funny Company / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The LEGO Ninjago Movie / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Million Dollar Cat / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Patrick Star Show / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Penguins of Madagascar / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Simpsons Movie / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 The Spirit of '43 / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Toy Story / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Toy Story 4 / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Treasure Planet / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Trollhunters / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Turbo F.A.S.T. / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Twice Upon a Time / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 WordWorld / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Zootopia / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Singin' in the Rain / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Enoch Arden / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Grandpa Gray / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Wizards of Waverly Place / int_8cf6aa
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Literal Metaphor
 Ever17 (Visual Novel) / int_8cf6aa
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