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A literal-minded person just doesn't get figurative speech, instead interpreting instructions, idioms, understatements, sarcasm, etc. completely literally. Some of the ways this trope is played: Bothering by the Book and Exact Words, where somebody deliberately uses a literal interpretation in order to gain an advantage, make a point or "win" an argument, perhaps using Obfuscating Stupidity. Often used in Loophole Abuse. Compare Metaphorically True for similar manipulation tactics. Literal Genie, and its malicious counterpart, Jackass Genie. Mathematician's Answer A reactive form of Spock Speak, to emphasize a character's alienness. Literalist Snarking, when done deliberately to mock someone. To set up Entendre Failure. Someone who is Sarcasm-Blind. The product of a "Blind Idiot" Translation, where the phrase is translated word-for-word instead of into a foreign equivalent. Characters who have this as a primary characteristic will occasionally be The Comically Serious. Compare Literal Metaphor, Shaped Like Itself, Fun with Homophones and Double Meaning. Frequently results in Comically Missing the Point. This trope does not mean tropes being taken literally, contrary to popular belief. |
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In the Sherlock fanfic Baker School Blitz, Sherlock will answer all of John's hyperbolic questions literally, without fail. He'll also deliver nothing but facts when questioned, something John discovers is a mixed bag. | |
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Early in Shin Megami Tensei IV, you go visit a baker with companions Jonathan and Walter, and Walter asks the baker for loaves that are "still kicking", i.e. fresh. The baker responds by saying that he doesn't know of any "bread that kicks". | |
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In The Trip (1967), this is a side effect of the LSD Paul takes. | |
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Early in Kanon, Ayu comes charging at Yuichi, who tells her to move to the side, specifying the hand one holds their chopsticks in. She moves to the left, crashes into him, and specifies when asked why that she's left-handednote While not as common at the time the story was released, using chopsticks with one's left hand used to be regarded as bad manners, with natural lefty children forced by their parents to use their right hands.. | |
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One Astro Boy story has Astro succumb to this when Ochanomizu says he'll find the authorities who sent Astro to be scrapped and "grease their palms". He then uses a rapid-fire sequence of these to make a computer implode. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): It turns out that the alien three-headed Titan Ghidorah lacks a concept of dishonesty, and even metaphors allude it. According to Word of God, this has caused Ghidorah to take humanity's mythology and allegories literally when it gained access to our socio-cultural knowledge through the Many's Hive Mind. | |
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: In one scene, Choo Choo suggests drawing straws to decide who goes up the ladder to rescue Benny. Brain, not understanding the concept, literally draws one on a pad of paper. | |
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A Bug's Life: Dot can't make sense of Flik's seed story that's meant to encourage her as he uses a rock to represent the "seed" in question. She finally comes to appreciate what he meant and uses this to convince Flik to return home. | |
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The Far Side: A witch realizes that when another witch says she "has one in the oven", she actually meant she was pregnant. Justified, given what stereotypical witches do. | |
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Zero Time Dilemma: Mira is The Sociopath who doesn't feel or understand emotions the way normal people do, a fact which bothers and perplexes her to no end. She recalled her mother once saying that emotions come from the heart, thus she became the Heart Ripper, a Serial Killer who cuts out her victims' hearts unfer the belief that studying them will help her understand how emotions work. | |
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This trope is lampshaded in a cutscene from Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell | |
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In LEGO Island, when Mama Brikolini is asked what it was that brought her to the island, she replies "The boat, silly." | |
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In the Jreg video "A Neo-Nazi With They/Them Pronouns," the titular character goes by they/them pronouns not because they reject the gender binary, but because they have five entities possessing their body. | |
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The Viz character Mr Logic takes everything said literally. For example when he is asked to boil the kettle he points out that the kettle is made out of stainless steel and he can't produce a temperature high enough to boil stainless steel. | |
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Get Fuzzy: Almost everything Satchel says. Another honorable mention is the zookeeper in this strip. |
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Stunt Dawgs: As far as Badyear in concerned in the comics, to hog-tie someone means to tie a hog to someone. | |
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In "The Cameo," he misunderstands Blaze's The Empire Strikes Back I-am-your-father quote (wondering instead why he just called him Luke), as well as misconstruing his father's description of his girlfriend as a "two-bagger" by thinking this means she plays baseball. Earlier, Bolt is thoroughly confused by the suggestive teasing from Penny and her friend in connection with a smut fic featuring him and his master. | |
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In Hercules, when Hercules gets knocked around by Nessus, Phil tells him to use his head to fight back. Hercules then sends Nessus flying with a charging headbutt. | |
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In the A Certain Magical Index fic Clash of the unlikely lovers, Accelerator and Vento of the Front have sex, with Vento eventually screaming, "My pussy is on fire!" Last Order, who was outside, is traumatized, thinking Vento was talking about an actual cat that was on fire. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II: Auron (in the Underworld of the Colosseum), final plot-mandated interaction, assuming he's not just messing with Sora to prove a point. | |
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Missing Link: Mr. Link does this on occasion: | |
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Lucky Star: Yutaka is known to ramble to Minami about how she wishes she could grow as tall as her. In one such instance, after Minami assures her that she will grow taller, Hiyori imagines her suddenly growing, first just in height and then becoming an actual giantess, before freaking out at her own ideas. In an earlier episode, Miyuki describes her mother to Konata as an open book, in answer to her question about how she just answered her on the phone. Konata asks a few days later what that has to do with opening books, to which Miyuki explains that it means she is not good at containing her emotions. |
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The Bugger Anthology: Dalek Sec proudly boasts that one Dalek could wipe out five million Cybermen, only for Caan to volunteer to be that one Dalek. | |
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The Boov from Home (2015). In just one example, Oh finds a cookbook as he sets up his housewarming party. He cooks it. | |
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Miss Congeniality: During the pageant, the M.C. (William Shatner) asks a contestant "Please describe your idea of a perfect date.", to which the contestant responds "I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket!". | |
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1/0: An early strip has Manny ask Tailsteak to create a running gag for the comic. The gag, however, turns out to be literal — it's a character that looks like the word "gag" and runs around. Tailsteak usually doesn't take everything literally, but he acts this way just to be a smartass. And then attempts to catch the running gag became... take a wild guess. | |
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Dicey Dungeons: When Lady Luck asks the Inventor what brought her to the show, she replies by describing the make and model of the train she and the others took there. When Thief is surprised at the "dice thing" being literal, Lady Luck says: |
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In Lovelyss Johnny Teflon isn't really familiar with idioms. | |
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Tales Series: Tales of the Abyss: Tear Grants. She at one point takes Luke telling her she "hasn't changed" in reference to her still donning her uniform after the time skip. Tales of Vesperia: Estelle tends to take a lot of sayings quite literally, to the confusion of her teammates. This is the result of her living in a castle her entire life. She does eventually get a bit better about this. |
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From Tumblr's 2016 April Fools' Day event (a faux election involving fictional lizard candidates), there's one reply from candidate Mop to a user-submitted question: | |
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An equal parts hilarious and adorable example exists in Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, who exhibits literal-mindedness in several situations: Once she rejects the prospect of marrying Simon because she doesn't get how two people could be physically merged after he says he wants to "become one" with her, and her voicemail has her saying "I can't use the phone right now" before feeling the need to clarify that she can physically use a phone, just that she's not near hers at the moment. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness does it all the time. Also, furries. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara has an... interesting definition of "alcohol abuse". Cue 30 seconds of insulting a beer bottle. In a later episode, told to "deck yourselves with boughs of holly" by a Christmas comic, he hits himself in the face with a wreath. |
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A feature of Cake Wrecks is "Literal LOLs," when the cake decorators took their instructions too literally, with absurd results. One of the most infamous such is when a customer left a USB thumb drive, thinking the decorator would know to plug it into their computer and download the image for a reference. Instead they created a very detailed cake version of said thumb drive. | |
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The Flash: Bart Allen alias Impulse/Kid Flash is pretty literal-minded, though it could be justified in his case: not only is he from the future, but he grew up in virtual reality. | |
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Dekar from Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals and the remake Curse of the Sinistrals completely fails to understand Idura's taunts, and in both versions takes Idura's "nameless master" comment to mean that Idura's master literally has no name. | |
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Airplane! abuses this trope relentlessly throughout the film: Dr. Rumack does this frequently, embodied in one of the most famous lines of the film: Johnny, the Cloudcuckoolander flight controller, is another prominent example. When asked what he makes of a weather report, he describes all the fun origami shapes he can fold its paper into. When Ted Striker describes piloting a jet as "An entirely different kind of flying altogether," the other characters repeat "It's an entirely different kind of flying" all together. One Running Gag throughout the film is characters interpreting "[X]? What is it?" as a request for a definition. It's used for numerous visual gags, such as "they're flying on instruments" cutting to the pilots playing saxophones in the cockpit, or "I want every light poured on that runway" cutting to a dump truck dumping a bunch of lamps. |
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Beeserker: Beeserker is this to a tee, interpreting common figures of speech as commands. This usually ends in a Scienceman being "up and split" (in half), or being given a break (in their spinal cord), among other forms of well-meaning brutalization. | |
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Parodied in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "In this part of Manhattan, 'Kill my mom' was slang for 'Kill my dad.'" (This was what someone took too literally.) | |
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Tales of Vesperia: Estelle tends to take a lot of sayings quite literally, to the confusion of her teammates. This is the result of her living in a castle her entire life. She does eventually get a bit better about this. | |
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In one Snuffy Smith comic, Snuffy landed a Precision F-Strike when asked to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then lampshades this trope after being reprimanded: | |
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Vision of Escaflowne Abridged: Van Fanel, to the point that when his older brother Folken tries to invoke That Man Is Dead, Van takes several tries to get it. | |
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The Boss in the Saints Row series occasionally shows signs of this. Take this instance in Saints Row, for example: This trope is lampshaded in a cutscene from Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell |
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One Calvin and Hobbes strip sees Calvin take the box a bar of soap comes in and stand on it, his reasoning being that "when you harangue the multitudes, you stand on a soap box". | |
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The Pet Girl of Sakurasou: When asked for the reasons behind her actions ("What are you thinking?!"), resident Idiot Savant Mashiro answers instead with exactly what is she thinking at the moment: ("Of the Earth"). | |
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Garfield : Believing that "You can't know someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes", Jon's Uncle Forrest had three hundred pairs when they caught him. When Jon asks Irma what's new on the menu, she describes the new stains on it. |
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Tower of God: When the dwarvish Evan complains about the Big Guy Kurdan looking down on him, he literally gets down on his belly (and still reaches to Evan's hips). | |
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Sesame Street: Played with but averted during a "News Flash" segment involving Old King Cole: In a Twiddlebugs sketch, the Twiddlebug family decide to go to the zoo. After deciding against walking (as it would take three days to walk there due to their diminutive size and Tina had to be back to school the next day), swimming (as there's no water), and flying (as they need wings to do it), they decide to take the family car to the zoo... as in each of them lifting up part of the car and carrying it with them to the zoo. |
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Door from Hunter: The Parenting inherits Rogal Dorn's literal-mindedness. In the first episode, he responds to the idea of "burning Boy's fear away" with "We are not throwing my son into a fire". Cue Big D threatening to make a metaphor physical and beat him with it. | |
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Mortadelo from Spanish comic book Mortadelo y Filemón has this trait, which often leads to funny accidents (usually at Filemón's expense). | |
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In Pebble and Wren, Pebble occasionally takes things literally, such as thinking You Are Grounded! meant nailed to the ground. | |
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Final Fantasy XVI's protagonist, Clive Rosfield, can be this from time to time. Upon encountering the first of the Mothercrystals, Cid tries to destroy it by hitting it with his sword, only to find it ineffective. | |
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According to Jessica of Fat, French and Fabulous, the poor are not unlike horseshoe crabs and the purpose of a robust social safety net is to flip them over and thereby put them back on their feet. | |
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In Red Heat, when Ridzik tells Danko about the Miranda Act, and tells Danko that he "can't touch [Rosta's] ass". Danko responds that he does not want to touch his ass, but make him talk. | |
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The Muppet Show: The Swedish Chef is often this way, such as when he makes chocolate mousse by rubbing chocolate on a moose, and his "chicken in a basket" involves him bouncing a chicken and then throwing it through a basketball net. In addition, Gonzo. Once, when asked by Joel Grey if he wanted to go for a spin, he began spinning. Statler can be like this. When Waldorf decided it was time for a tea break, Statler knocked the teacup off the edge of the theater box, breaking it. Animal. In the Zero Mostel episode, there's a knock and Kermit asks him to "get the door". Animal responds by ripping it off its hinges and bringing it over to Kermit. |
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EarthBound: The Perpetual Adventures: At one point, Ness tells Poo that he's free to "crash" at his house whenever he'd like. Poo asks why he'd want to do something like slam into his house, before Ness clears it up. | |
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The Ready Jet Go! fanfic Nurse Jet has a moment where Jet is confused by the phrase "under the weather", thinking that everyone is under the weather all the time because weather comes from the sky. | |
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This memorable dialogue from Star Trek IV: | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie visits the Ink and Paint Club and orders a Scotch on the rocks, and one of the penguin waiters returns to him with a glass of Scotch... filled with rocks. Despite Genre Savvy Eddie having told the penguin that he meant ice. | |
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Madam & Eve: In one strip, Thandi hears President Donald Trump complain about being the victim of "the biggest witch hunt ever", then imagines him being chased down by a coven of flying witches. | |
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Spy X Family: When being interrogated by Yuri, Loid says that he would take a bullet or even a nuke to save his wife, Yuri's sister. Yuri is shocked—he'd take a bullet for his sister of course, but how could anyone take a nuke for her? The narration helpfully reminds us that he's drunk. When someone tries to sell Yor eyeliner, saying "cutting eyes are all the rage now", Yor assumes she's selling a concealed eye gouging weapon. |
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Also from Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket Raccoon occasionally encounters this problem, especially when he tries to pun, as in his own miniseries: | |
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Stars Above (Lucky Star & Puella Magi Madoka Magica): During the endgame, Konata refers to everything that's gone on lately as bullshit. Kyubey asks what actually involves male cow feces. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): As mentioned in the page quote, Drax's entire species is Literal-Minded and have difficulty understanding metaphors, which goes to show that while Drax is a big intimidating warrior, he's just as nuts as the other members of the team. Gamora has a moment herself when she thinks people having sticks up their butts meant somebody had literally inserted said sticks, rather than them being uptight. Of course, in this case, she has no choice but to be literal-minded because she has no familiarity with Earth's specific idioms. |
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The Order of the Stick: Veldrina the elven priestess has trouble with metaphors. When Roy asks her to "just put a good word" for the Order with her fellow priests, she starts searching for the best word, saying at first she was going to use several. Thrym, the Frost Giants demigod, takes a metaphor Hel makes about "pulling their own weight" literally. A Running Gag since the introduction of Minrah has been her stepping on her own lines like this. |
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Sinfest: Criminy has something like a bullet-proof glass wall between him and any, even the most corny innuendo. He doesn't even notice anything is amiss when they fall by scores. Including his own Accidental Innuendo. Even during a discussion of his Chaste Hero status. God can be one too. |
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Coffee Talk: Even if Neil's informed of the meaning of idioms, they have a hard time getting them because they take them literally. Same goes for Amanda in Episode 2, who asks Lua to clarify what she meant when she asked them what "brought them here". | |
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Eternal Sonata: Polka, judging by the first two cutscenes with her in it. Good job, Solfege. | |
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In Super Robot Wars 30, in the DLC mission "Parisian Cherry Blossoms", after rescuing and recruiting Sakura and Erica, Oogami tries to explain to the two teammates what happened when we get this exchange: | |
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: Marigold Heavenly Nostrils is both a unicorn and very literal minded. She reacts with horror when Phoebe says she's going to rub Marigold in Dakota's snotty face, and when Phoebe's mom says she has to paint her, Marigold is game, but wants to know which color, first. | |
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Several characters in Nancy. Taken to ridiculous lengths with Pee-Wee during Olivia Jaimes' run, where he's so literal-minded that Nancy has to be careful with how she words her statements whenever he's around. | |
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Turnabout Storm (Ace Attorney & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Every metaphor Phoenix uses inevitably flies over Pinkie's head. For example, she says she missed the part where Sonata was throwing daggers out of her eyes, and wishes she could do that. | |
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On several occasions in Sasmira, a character will take literally a figurative turn of phrase by another character. | |
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Heroic Myth: Archer hosts a cooking class. When he tells his students it is time to beat the eggs, Tiona and another student immediately start punching their eggs, which of course makes a big mess. They get embarrassed when they are told they were supposed to crack the eggs into a bowl and stir them with a whisk. According to Karen Morris, Dia tends to take sayings literally and does not grasp their true meanings. For example, she does not understand that "The early bird gets the worm." applies to people and not just birds. |
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Mon Colle Knights: In one episode during the Utopian Eagle/Stove Dragon takeoff sequence, Mondo says "Let's get this popcorn-popper poppin'!" Ichirobei comments popcorn being a good idea, and Rockna tells him it's a figure of speech. (Dub only; usually, the sequence is completely silent, save for Mondo's one line that got translated as something else in each dub episode.) | |
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xkcd: In strip #1261 "Shake That", Megan hears "shake what your mama gave you" and goes and shakes a coffee mug that she received from her mother. | |
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Hector's World: In one episode, Tama thinks Constable Solosolave will inspect Ranjeet's foot when he says that something is "afoot". Sprat the fish thinks "strong passwords" have big muscles and "viruses" make computers sick. |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Sten from Dragon Age: Origins is a partial example. Sometimes, he's genuinely literal-minded because he doesn't get the local culture and its metaphors. Often, however, he feigns being literal-minded because he finds it funny. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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One Azumanga Daioh episode had the main characters planning for an event and running behind schedule. Chiyo comments that she wishes they could turn back the clock. Cue Osaka standing on a chair trying to wind the clock backwards. | |
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Justified example in Heart of Dragon with Dodo, an autistic man in his thirties, who runs away from home after quarelling with his brother-slash-caretaker. Looking for a job, Dodo tried applying for a job application in a restaurant, and when the restaurant owner's wife asks Dodo if he knows how to wait at tables, Dodo did literally that by standing on a nearby table and waiting. | |
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When Delirious debuted for Elite Wrestling, he tried to eat Cheeseburger, his opponent for the night (who had been nicknamed such by Charlie Haas on the grounds he needed to eat one). | |
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Literal-Minded / int_65ccb34a | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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In Bob and George, Megaman interprets a comment about his being an idiot to mean that is his function. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Sanders Sides: This is one of Logan's defining traits, especially in later episodes. This makes sense, considering he is a metaphyisical manifestation of logic. | |
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Strong from Fallout 4 is a mutant who has heard about the "Milk of Human Kindness" and believes it to be an actual beverage. | |
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Literal-Minded / int_6c1d09b4 | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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In Yakuza 0, Naoya Kawahashi, one of the two "Mr. Shakedowns" of Sotenbori, claims the reason he goes around shaking people down for cash is that his dad always told him to be self-sufficient and never rely on anyone else, therefore he can't get a real job, because having a boss give him a paycheck would be relying on someone else. Probably not what his dad meant by that. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Baymax from Big Hero 6 is a somewhat limited artificial intelligence. When he startles Hiro and Hiro snaps "You gave me a heart attack!", Baymax prepares to fire up his built-in defibrillator. | |
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In "The Wedding Reception," he misconstrues a joke by Mittens regarding "Pachelbel's Canon" and steps all over the punch line. He thinks Mittens's parodied title, "Taco Bell Canon," was the work's title all along after her quip. | |
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The Cry of Mann: Jouglat asked a caller what to say to make someone like them: | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Cesar has some difficulty with the rhetorical question "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" | |
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Literal-Minded / int_72a1ac51 | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: During the group's beach vacation, Nagato follows a party game instruction to turn away, face back, and say "I love you," to the letter, with about as much emotion as she displays in general. Also, when Kyon and Haruhi go out to investigate a staged murder, she extends Haruhi's order not to open the door to anyone to include her when they come back; Haruhi actually calls her out on this trope after Kyon specifies said order revoked. | |
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The Palaververse: Literal Minded, pony explorer, and ponies usually have Meaningful Names. He's mentioned in the first chapter of Wedding March and his skill with names implies that his name is one of the meaningful ones: | |
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The rule of funny in several Eddie at The LMV musical cover videos. A particular one is in the Need You Now video, in which the lyric "Another shot of whiskey" has a visual of Eddie pointing a pistol at a man (presumably called Whiskey). | |
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Batman: In his introductory storyline Henri Ducard is called back to Gotham to testify against Bruce Wayne. His hosts send a limo to pick him up and ask what name he'll go by. He tells them to pick one at random. The chauffeur stands at the airport holding a sign that reads "Random". | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Tang often doesn't understand the nuances of flirting and gives scientific responses to them. For example: | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Jensen, the school custodian, makes a few radio appearances. He insists on interpreting figures of speech and phrases literally. Thus, to Miss Brooks' consternation (i.e. School Safety Advisor) any attempt at conversation with him quickly becomes a chore. | |
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In one 2006 strip of Opus, Opus is sitting with several stuffed animals while wearing chef's hats and carrying baking equipment, and says "I think we're 'The Baker Commission.'" | |
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Literal-Minded / int_7d20ef2c | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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And in Brawl of the Objects, Boat is known to take breaking the fourth wall literally, as she doesn't talk to the viewers, she breaks a wall with the number four on it. Yes, really. | |
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In Frozen (2013), when Anna tells Kristoff and Olaf to give her a minute alone with Elsa, Olaf starts counting. Bonus Points: We next see Olaf exactly one minute after he starts counting too. | |
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Literal-Minded / int_7e9d1a6c | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Cloudpunk: Androids and automata tend not to get figurative speech. Camus, given that he's with you the entire game, is particularly prone to this. | |
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When Peter tries to question Roy and Karen in Return of the Cartoon Man, they take expressions like "the elephant in the room" and "cut to the chase" literally. Visual Puns ensue. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Picpak Dog: The title character, a pink dog, falls into this trope. A specific example occurs when he is told to clean his cache; that meant the website but he interprets that as "cash" and is shown burning his money. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny has Levi the Slasher, the Material of Power who prefers to leave the thinking to Stern and Lord Dearche. When Fate explains to her that the dead Alicia is now "beyond the skies", she interprets this to mean that she's currently abroad in another world. | |
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In Girl Genius, Gil is revealed to have invented a robot for picking up girls. As in grabbing them and lifting them up into the air. | |
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When Steven instructs White Pearl on doing something in Ask White Pearl and Steven (almost!) anything, she always takes it literally. For instance, when he said that she had to eat (not knowing that gems do not need to eat), she responds by trying to eat the box (this including the box itself) of crackers she was holding. | |
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The Sphynx from Subnormality also seems to suffer from this. But let's be fair, who wouldn't go looking for the Fire Department when they want to heat their house? | |
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In Space Jam: A New Legacy, while trying to see if the Tunes remember how to play basketball, Daffy passes a ball to Yosemite Sam and tells him to "shoot the ball". Sam proceeds to unload his revolvers into the basketball... and Daffy's face. | |
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In the short film Falling Leaves, a woman is dying of consumption. The doctor mentions that she will die "when the last leaf falls". Her kid sister misunderstands this and decides to tie up the leaves in their backyard so that her older sister doesn't die. The young woman ends up saved by a new vaccine. | |
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Bear in the Big Blue House: In "Worth the Wait," Tutter the mouse is making some ice cheese pops and is tired of waiting for them to freeze. Bear sets him up with a timer, telling him that "When the timer dings, the pops will be done." Tutter manually resets the timer to zero. Bear is forced to explain to him that it doesn't work this way. In "Let's Hit the Road," Tutter tells the other kids of the Big Blue House that he's going on a school field trip, but that he doesn't know where, that it's a surprise. Pip and Pop figure that if he's going on a field trip, he must be going to a field. Amusingly enough, it turns out that they're right. Tutter and the other kids at Mouse School are going to a field to observe nature. |
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Cheating Death: Those That Lived: Woof Casino has a learning disorder that makes him feel unable to act without receiving orders. Once he gets orders, though, he takes them to the extreme. He volunteers when his disabled younger brother is reaped, not so much out of love and affection, but because he interprets the pleas to "save me" as a command. When his mentor orders him to "learn everything", he goes to every training station in the gymnasium, picking up the skills to earn a training score of 11. This takes a darker turn when his last opponent in the arena mutters, "Aw, fuck me." Then, after his victory, Duke Saint-Rose tells Woof to "Stop obeying everybody's damn orders" and he does that without a second's pause. Blinded by greed, Hessian Leblanc, the Head Gamemaker for Snag's Games, responds to the President's orders for an "explosive" Hunger Games by only supplying hand grenades as weapons at the Cornucopia, which ends just as well as you'd expect. Deconstructed when Hessian ends up getting executed painfully over this blunder. |
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While in the office for the volunteer service animal charity "Little Cherry Blossoms" in "The Service Dog," Bolt misconstrues Ulgine Barrows's query if he'd "like to be a Little Cherry Blossom today." He reacts with confusion, whining bemusedly, "No thanks. I didn't realize turning into a cherry blossom would be a prerequisite to being a seeing-eye animal for a couple hours. But if you think it’s a requirement… " Later in the same story, he tells Mittens and Rhino that the name of the private investigator he and Penny went to was named "Adrian Chipmunk" — and when his friends tease him by asking if his middle name might have been Alvin, Simon, or Theodore, he replies, "How would I know what his middle name was? Even when I thought I had superpowers, being psychic wasn’t one of them." | |
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Sparadrap from Noob. A guildmate mentioning a Pick-Up Group will conjure the image of a pick-up truck to his mind. In addition, he has trouble understanding that the same word can have a very different meaning in MMORPG and real life. | |
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The Lion King: Pumbaa and Timon occasionally. In fact, this becomes a plot point in The Lion King 1 ½; Rafiki advises Timon to "go beyond what you see" in order to find "Hakuna Matata", and Timon interprets this to mean he should leave home to find a place where he'll be happy. Timon's mother is understandably annoyed when she finds out what happened: The remake of the first film has Azizi taking Kamari's puns literally, at one point taking his "staying for dinner" line for "inviting the cubs to have dinner with them". |
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The remake of the first film has Azizi taking Kamari's puns literally, at one point taking his "staying for dinner" line for "inviting the cubs to have dinner with them". | |
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In Red vs. Blue, O'Malley had Lopez build a robot army to destroy the Reds and Blues. When he activates them and sends them off, they're moving incredibly slow. As it turns out, O'Malley had told Lopez to build the robots so he would have a "day of victory", Lopez took this to build them so that they could only move no faster than one mile an hour, thus achieve victory in 24 hours. | |
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Lightning McQueen in Cars, particularly during the part where Doc Hudson tells him some advice: turn right to go left. Lightning, after sarcastically thanking Doc, proceeds to turn right, leading to him driving off a ledge and landing in a cactus patch. It later turns out this is literally true in the original context (racing on a dirt track). | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, this results in Pearl Fey pouring a roast's gravy on a picture, as she was ordered to "gravely roast" (i.e., in Hell) the person it depicted — and she was too young to understand. This is a Woolseyism — in the original Japanese, the order is something along the lines of "Give Misty Fey magnificent burial rites" — in kanji. Pearl can't read kanji very well, because she's only eight, so she reads "magnificent" as "curry" (they're pronounced the same) and covers the picture in it. | |
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U.S. Acres: Bo once went ice fishing and caught a block of ice. | |
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One Archie Comics story was about a new foreign transfer student attending Riverdale High. The concept was that every time a character used a figure of speech, she would confuse it for what it would mean in a literal sense. | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: When her roommates declare that Misaka-11111 looks like a drowned kitten, 11111 is appalled at the rampant animal cruelty in the city. | |
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Werner has lots and lots of examples of this, even whole stories based on being literal-minded. However, most of them are impossible to translate to English for demonstration purposes. | |
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In the Pokémon fanfic Contrast, when N goes to a shopping mall with White, he is horrified when he finds a store selling stuffed Pokémon, because he thinks they're actually the bodies of dead Pokémon filled with soft stuffing. | |
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Mr. Lamb in The Men from the Ministry is prone to these. | |
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Shiawase Tori-mingu: After art student Suzu's paintings are panned for "lacking color", she whines that she made sure they were "super colorful". As Suzu and birdwatching otaku Tsubasa cement their unlikely friendship, Suzu makes a quip about looking for the Bluebird of Happiness. Tsubasa says if she wants to find a kingfisher (a literal blue bird), she should look around for the giant mounds of poop they leave behind. When Suzu compares ducks losing their bright colors to humans "letting themselves go", Tsubasa says that ducks don't need to be let go since they already live in the wild. |
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Toy Story 2: Before setting out to save Woody, Buzz and Bo Peep share this bit of dialog: | |
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Peter in Finding Neverland. At the very least, he can't (or won't) imagine that a dog is a bear, for instance. | |
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Denis Norden did a piece on My Word! about "Literalism", a condition he suffered from, and which could lead to embarrassment, for example upon seeing a sign reading "Urinal out of order. Please use floor below." | |
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After Jim Cornette prevented Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles from taking physical retribution against Gail Kim for repeatedly attacking them to preserve the NWA Tag Team Title reign of America's Most Wanted, Styles and Daniels decided they'd just hire a very large woman to take out Kim instead. Sirelda took this job literally by forcibly carrying a protesting Kim out of the Impact Zone. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd: When reviewing Winter Games, he wonders about what "Hot Dog Aerials" could be, and imagines a flying hot dog (as in, food) as well as a flying hot dog (as in, animal on fire). In the Bible Games 3 episode, when he decides to "give his heart to Jesus". You can guess what happens. |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: | |
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Haikyuu!!: Kageyama and Ushijima are this due to their relatively stoic nature and inability to understand figurative speech. | |
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Youmu Konpaku from Touhou Project has some shades of this going for her. Considering that her mistress is Saigyouji Yuyuko, Cryptic Conversationalist and Obfuscating Cloudcuckoolander extraordinaire, taking things at face value is likely an adaption/resignation to the fact that poor Youmu has seldom, if ever, been able to understand what she is told anyway and, as such, has given up on even bothering to read into what's being said. | |
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Various Characters in Chick Tracts are literal-minded, but we're supposed to agree with them on every single issue in The Bible. But then again, Jack Chick is a Fundamentalist IRL. | |
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Knorkator's Wie weit ist es bis zum Horizont (How Far Is It To The Horizon): Turns out the solution to this problem is the Pythagorean theorem, which results in an average distance of 4650m for a person whose eye level is 1,70m above the ground. | |
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Bicentennial Man: Andrew doesn't quite understand certain behaviours. Mix that in with occasionally getting words wrong and you have a person who objects "chickens don't have lips" when they're told that their dinner sucks. It causes him trouble when learning humour, especially with knock-knock jokes, leading to deadpan delivery. | |
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Motu from Motu Patlu has a tendency to take metaphors too literally, such as in the episode "Fire Ball Aliens" when he literally tries to fly upon Patlu telling him they should "fly away" (that is, run away) from the incoming horde of fireball aliens. | |
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Sumomo/Plum from Chobits can only take questions literally, according to Shinbo, due to her lack of processing power as a "laptop" Persocom. | |
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Swordsaint: Cardinal has moments of this. For example, Kayaba tells it to give Kirito, Asuna, and Joan useful items after defeating the Gleam Eyes. It did so for Kirito and Joan, but because Asuna was spending more after she started dating Kirito, it gave her a shield, counter to her fighting style, so she could sell it for funds. | |
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In What About Bob?, neurotic pantophobe Bob (Bill Murray) literally walks in small steps when his psychiatrist Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) presents him with his published "Baby Steps" approach to life and seems to think it's helping. | |
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No Future: Aeon is relearning everything from scratch after his memories were wiped. As a result, while he has a good grasp on language, metaphors tend to escape him. For example, after being told he sent someone running "with their tail between their legs", he'll exclaim that he didn't notice his opponent had one. He also has trouble with double meanings. | |
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In the SuperMarioLogan video "Bowser's Salad Wrap", Bowser and Bowser Junior says they are so hungry they could eat a horse. Chef Pee Pee, their personal chef, incorporates horse into the salad wrap. note Though, considering throughout this era of the channel, Chef Pee Pee is known for cooking random animals (primarily cats) this wouldn't be literal in his mind. | |
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New Stars (The Orville & Star Wars: The Clone Wars): Isaac is shown to be this. When John states that Maxx and the other clones had been gaslighted by the Kaminoans into thinking they could never be anything but soldiers, Isaac asks if John believes that the clones were regularly set on fire. | |
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In one ASDF Movie, a person is told that carrots are good for your eyesight. The person promptly shoves carrots into his eyes before turning to the person and growling "YOU LIED TO ME." | |
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In "Changeling Tale" by Heather Dale The Fair Folk are portrayed this way. Either due to ignorance of human language or pure malice, the fairies give an infertile woman a child when she asks for one. The child however cannot age as her Exact Words were for an infant. | |
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In Superman: The Movie, when Eve is fawning over Lois Lane's description of Superman. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Kitten has such a literal-minded moment in the "Ask Questions!" video that it counts as an Idiot Ball unless he's being secretly sarcastic, which would be even more out of character. When the Emperor tells him in so many words to stop using his mouth to say stupid works, he says: Rogal Dorn is so literal it hurts, and completely oblivious to the fact, driving the Emperor crazy. Apparently justified even while it's exaggerated: When the Emperor asks whether it's because of brain damage, he says yes. The Skitarii on Mars also have issues with figurative speech. |
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One Pinky and the Brain story in the Animaniacs comic had Pinky ruining Brain's plan (as usual) for this: while they were trying to get into production special basketball shoes ("I didn't know basketballs had feet!") that would propel its wearers into the stratosphere, Brain noted "all they want is bells and whistles". So when the shoes have been made and are in everyone's feet, Brain activating them had the sneakers instead emitting loud noises of bells and whistles, because Pinky took that comment as an advice for design changes. | |
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FoxTrot: In one strip, Roger sits in front of the family computer for a moment, then slowly pushes it away from himself until it falls off the desk. Because someone mentioned it "needed backing up." In a similar strip, Roger complained a program he installed isn't working. Jason pointed out the program is the Windows version and they don't have Windows. Roger immediately pointed to an actual window and said "Are you nuts? There's a window right there!" Cue Jason facepalming. One Sunday strip saw Paige (after something involving Britney Spears and Prince William) attempt to use a CD burner to literally torch a CD. |
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TV Tropes: Most trope names are confusing for many reasons and might get different interpretations (usually literal ones) from readers. This is partly why the I Thought It Meant page exist. | |
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White Sheep: Jaune, due to being raised completely away from human civilization with only his family around. He does get better eventually, but it takes him a while to learn that "sleep with" is a euphemism for sex (since sex doesn't involve much sleeping), and mistakes Yang's joking "it's a date!" for an actual invitation to a date. Jaune's sisters are at least as bad. Though his eldest sister, Sapphire, does seem to have a bit more experience in human civilization, and correctly uses the phrase "there are plenty of fish in the sea" instead of "there are plenty of nevermore in the sky" that the rest of the family uses. |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Reflecting Balance: Frederick the Deino occasionally has moments of this, such as responding to a comment about having difficulty "breaking the ice" with someone by recommending fire or fighting moves, or when he responds to Azure commenting that she has an itch for adventure by asking if said itch is in a spot she can't reach. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Xenk is a Proud Warrior Race Guy who has a straight moral codex of speaking clear and direct. He has serious problems catching up with the other party members' way of speaking, being not only Sarcasm-Blind but also misinterpreting figures of speech like "son of a bitch" or "having something off his sleeve" by taking them literally. | |
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In an episode of Suite Pretty Cure ♪, Kanade tells Ellen, who's getting ready for her first day of school (ever), to write her name on the board big so the others can see it. She writes her name on the board big, taking up the entire board. | |
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Sagittarius from Fairy Tail. At one point, Lucy asks him to make a fire, but he replies that he doesn't have pyrokinesis. A few minutes later, he figures out what she really wanted and makes a fire by launching his arrows at some machines and making them explode. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Due to their Undying Loyalty and near religious belief in the chain of command, ogryns will follow any order given without question; due to their less-than-stellar intelligence, they will also do so in the most literal manner possible, because it honestly doesn't occur to them that their order could have anything more than their immediate surface meaning. In the background book Liber Xenologica, the narrator recounts two incidents where this led to serious issues for order-givers; one where a rogue commissar order his ogryn troops to cover him, leading to a fatal dog-piling, and another where an officer ordered a group of ogryns watching over some prisoners to present arms, with... unfortunate results for the prisoners. | |
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Zero in Beetle Bailey lives this trope. Honorable mention: | |
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Team Fortress 2: In Meet the Spy, the BLU Spy spents a few minutes telling everyone exactly how dangerous the RED Spy is, finalizing with "He could be in this very room! He could be you... He could be me!". The BLU Soldier takes this last bit a little too literally and shoots his head off with a shotgun on the spot. In the short cartoon "Expiration Date", Soldier takes an offhand comment that he can teleport bread if he wants as an instruction to spend three days doing nothing but. |
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This kickstarts the entire plot of the 1994 version of Angels in the Outfield. Roger asks his Disappeared Dad when they'll be a family again, to which his dad replies "I'd say when the Angels win the pennant."note At that point in-universe, the Angels were in last place in their division and on a 15-game losing streak Roger takes this literally, praying to God for help. It turns into a Tear Jerker later when Roger finally figures out his dad was being sarcastic, which only happens when Roger's dad forfeits custody of him to the state. | |
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Zoolander: In one of the more memetic scenes from the film, Mugatu shows Derek with a model of a projected construction project, and proclaims that it's a center to help child literacy dedicated to Derek (which has been his dream for much of the film). Derek fails to connect the dots that Mugatu doesn't mean the tiny model is the actual building, and destroys it before declaring that the center needs to be "at least three times bigger." Mugatu decides to just run with it rather than try to explain the issue to Derek. "The files are inside the computer..." Derek and Hansel physically steal Mugatu's computer. Later, trying to get the files, Hansel smashes the computer on the floor, destroying them. |
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Blinded by greed, Hessian Leblanc, the Head Gamemaker for Snag's Games, responds to the President's orders for an "explosive" Hunger Games by only supplying hand grenades as weapons at the Cornucopia, which ends just as well as you'd expect. Deconstructed when Hessian ends up getting executed painfully over this blunder. | |
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At one point in Penguins of Madagascar, Corporal the polar bear mistakes a part of Classified's ultimate plan as a knock-knock joke. | |
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Used in Gunslinger Girl for their Creepy Child moments, as they've been brainwashed to obey their handlers without question. When one handler first starts instructing a girl, he's annoyed at her inability to hit the target (actually because she's not become used to her cyborg implants) and tells her not to leave the range until she can consistently hit the target. The next day it's pouring down rain and the handler grouches that he hasn't seen any sign of the girl he's supposed to be teaching. He's told to go to the firing range where he finds her cold and shivering, still trying to hit the target as instructed after practicing all night. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Equestria: A History Revealed: The Lemony Narrator certainly fits this well. She tends to analyze minute details behind word choice in an attempt to find some hidden meaning. However, this is not always the case, as sometimes she ignores the literal meaning for a more symbolic one. She really tends to go either way depending on what supports her way of thinking the best at the moment. | |
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Men in Black: | |
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In Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, when Terrance is telling Silvermist about how Tink lost her temper at him, at first she thinks Tink literally exploded. | |
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In Ma Fille, Joe thinks that a swim class being named "Mommy and Me" means that only mothers can attend. The instructor explains this is not the case, and the class is later renamed "Baby and Me". | |
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In The Spy Fights Godzilla ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵒᵐᵉ ʳᵉᵃˢᵒⁿ, the Spy orders his troops to "fire broadside BATTERIES!" at Godzilla. The Soldier interprets it as firing actual batteries (as in, cell batteries) from cannons at Godzilla, who ends up laughing at BLU team's stupidity, much to the Spy's frustration. | |
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In a scene from Tears to Tiara 2, after a heartwarming You Are Not Alone moment with Hamil, Tart tells him that eventually he has to be able to shoulder her weight as well. Hamil smiles and says that's quite a burden. Tart replies saying how can Hamil be so weak when the little girl Charis can do it, surprising Hamil who was just wondering a moment ago where Tart and Charis were. Cuts to Charis shaking and limping up the rest of the mountain. She said she could, and in a moment of Literal Minded Tart has Charis carry her up the mountain. And The Plucky Girl actually tried, and evidently got quite far. And she remained as cheerful as ever, determined to get stronger so next time she could do it all the way, leaving Hamil to facepalm and explain to the Goddess the actual physical limitations of a human girl. | |
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Laff-A-Lympics: Upon reading from a cook book that he must add a "can of tomato paste", Huckleberry Hound literally throws an unopened can into the pot. | |
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Gramble falls into this in ''Bugsnax during The War Sequence. When Wiggle sees the spike-covered combat Buggy Ball for Sprout and comments that she never knew Gramble was "so punk rock", Gramble insists that he's neither a punk, nor a rock. | |
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Goku from Dragon Ball was like this as a child, like thinking that Bulma really turned into a turtle because she was moving too slow. Once, when he challenged the demon Shula to a fight, Shula said he must be either brave or stupid. Goku thinks Shula got his name wrong and says his name is Goku. | |
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TRON: Legacy: Kevin Flynn orders Clu, a computer program, to create the perfect system. Living beings aren't perfect. | |
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Pearls Before Swine has a Running Gag that's sort of an inverse as this trope: Pig will use a figure of speech but he means it literally, and another character (usually Goat) will take it figuratively. There's an example here. | |
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In Temple Grandin we see the autistic Temple's interpretation of idioms (Temple's Aunt: "We wake up with the chickens around here!" Temple: (after imagining her relatives perched on a fence in their PJs) *laughing* "That's ridiculous!"). This gets her in a bit of trouble when she builds a hugbox and a psychiatrist asks her if she gets a release from it and she says yes (because if there wasn't a release lever she couldn't get out). Unfortunately, she doesn't clarify that part and her hugbox gets taken away. | |
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Big Nate: Head upstairs and hit the books. | |
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A popular form of joke in Pokémon: The Series, although some jokes get Lost in Translation in English. One that survived in episode 1 involved Satoshi asking Pikachu to "tell him his story", which Pikachu interprets as "showing him his teeth"; this survived as Ash asking him to open his mouth, which he does literally. | |
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Die Anstalt: When told that he is an eagle by a motivational tape, Kroko really attempts to fly. The help guide even lampshades this: "The patient's infra-logical-predicative thinking hinders him to decipher metaphors." | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Bolt often misunderstands the concept of figurative speech in these fics, usually resulting in his Comically Missing the Point. In "The Makeover," he misunderstands what Mittens means when she refers to "doggy lipstick," resulting in Bolt giving himself a hideously garish makeover. His thinking is that if Mittens enjoys doggy lipstick, she'll like him even better if he's wearing several other kinds of makeup as well. In "The Wedding Reception," he misconstrues a joke by Mittens regarding "Pachelbel's Canon" and steps all over the punch line. He thinks Mittens's parodied title, "Taco Bell Canon," was the work's title all along after her quip. In "The Cameo," he misunderstands Blaze's The Empire Strikes Back I-am-your-father quote (wondering instead why he just called him Luke), as well as misconstruing his father's description of his girlfriend as a "two-bagger" by thinking this means she plays baseball. Earlier, Bolt is thoroughly confused by the suggestive teasing from Penny and her friend in connection with a smut fic featuring him and his master. In "The Gift," he misconstrues Mittens's question "How about sex?" as a come-on rather than an inquiry about whether beings in Nirvana have sex or not. In "The Seven," young Bolt misunderstands when one of his friends says that "even 'Citizen Kane' is no 'Citizen Kane'." His reaction is to ask "How can 'Citizen Kane' not be 'Citizen Kane' if that's what it is?" In "The Cakes," Bolt misconstrues Mittens's evasiveness regarding her having gone to use the litter box, taking her "making a cake" euphemism literally. While in the office for the volunteer service animal charity "Little Cherry Blossoms" in "The Service Dog," Bolt misconstrues Ulgine Barrows's query if he'd "like to be a Little Cherry Blossom today." He reacts with confusion, whining bemusedly, "No thanks. I didn't realize turning into a cherry blossom would be a prerequisite to being a seeing-eye animal for a couple hours. But if you think it’s a requirement… " Later in the same story, he tells Mittens and Rhino that the name of the private investigator he and Penny went to was named "Adrian Chipmunk" — and when his friends tease him by asking if his middle name might have been Alvin, Simon, or Theodore, he replies, "How would I know what his middle name was? Even when I thought I had superpowers, being psychic wasn’t one of them." |
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In The Apple Dumpling Gang, dim-witted crooks Theodore and Amos are scouting out the bank, making plans to steal the gold. This exchange ensues: | |
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Dr. Wright in Captain SNES: The Game Masta is quite literal-minded, much to the chagrin of the other characters who must deal with him. | |
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Freddy Got Fingered: "You must get inside the animal." Context: Heroic Comedic Sociopath protagonist Gord has been informed that, to truly make his Deranged Animation successful, he must flesh out his cartoon animal characters by putting himself in their shoes, hence "get inside the animal." Gord being who he is, he assumes this literally means to become one with an animal. Thus, after finding a roadkill deer on the side of the road, he proceeds to skin it with a pocketknife, wear said skin like a cloak, and gad about wildly in the road before being hit by a log truck. | |
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What Tomorrow Brings: Gafinilan and Mertil are both unfamiliar with human terms. The former thinks that the "ladies" sign on a block of toilets is misleading because it may have one lady in it or none at all; and when Loren is disappointed that the neurobot mat can't cure her mental traumas and "save [her] some money on therapy", Mertil assures her that it doesn't run on money. | |
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The LEGO Movie: Emmet, upon being told to act like a stool, barges into a saloon and loudly declares that the patrons should come sit on him. In the climactic scene, while Emmet is trying to make peace with Lord Business: |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Petra is a Foreign Exchange Student from/princess of Brigid, an island nation that speaks a different language than in Fodlan. As such, many idioms and slang terms tend to go over her head, since her mastery of Fodlan's language is a work in progress. | |
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Done sometimes by Wally Wood's Sally Forth whenever it's funny. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: | |
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Pupster: Pupster tells Danny to "look at the bright side" and Danny looks into the sun in the sixth page of Pup, Pup, And Away. Danny continues to be like that for the rest of the comic. | |
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The Fruit of Grisaia: Sachi has a way of reading everything in a very direct way. Considering she also has an unrelated issue with following every order she’s told to follow, she can end up doing some pretty strange things that no one intended. She refuses to call Michiru anything but her name with a -sama on it much to her horror since she hadn’t been serious when she made the request but phrased it too strongly. | |
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The Bridge: Godzilla Junior in only barely grasps figurative meaning in a lot of sayings. Hilarity ensues. | |
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Spaceballs: President Skroob orders his minions to "comb the desert" to find the heroes; cut to the Mooks dragging gigantic combs through the sand. Colonel Sandurz asks if they're being too literal, and Dark Helmet responds "No, you fool! We're following orders. We were told to comb the desert, so we're combing it!" | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Ziz is a drone with limited artificial intelligence, and so can struggle with common turns of phrases. While at her high school, Ivy sends it a text telling it to "go to the school's roof and don't move", then tells it again to "come here", which leaves it confused as to whether she wants it to move or stay still. Jemimah is somewhat of a ditz, so can have issues with missing the obvious. Ivy needs a bucket of water to put out a fire, sees an empty one right next to a tap, and points it out to Jemimah. Jem then retrieves the bucket and only the bucket. |
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In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy and his father Henry Sr. are flying in a biplane when they see some Nazi fighter planes approaching. | |
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Mr and Mrs Gold: Belle decides not to use metaphor when planning to tell Mr. Gold that she is pregnant because of this (though it might be a side-effect of hundreds of years of bending the wording of his deals to his advantage). | |
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Tales of the Abyss: Tear Grants. She at one point takes Luke telling her she "hasn't changed" in reference to her still donning her uniform after the time skip. | |
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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, when the T-850 needs to take the clothes of a male stripper. | |
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Tetsuma Joe from Eyeshield 21 always follows directions. Exactly. When his coach warned him not to overeat before a game, he didn't eat for three days. And at one point, The Kid tells Joe "wake me up in about three hours". Exactly three hours later, and despite the fact that Kid is nowhere nearby, Joe leaps out the window of a moving bus just to go find Kid and wake him up. On another occasion, Kid asks Tetsuma to get him up at eight AM. So Tetsuma actually counts down the seconds until 8 AM IN HIS SLEEP. | |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Haruhi Suzumiya & TV Tropes; author Died During Production): Kyon starts chatting with Sasaki, who brings up that most of his events were most probably organized by someone else. His PDA, being able to learn and adapt, brings up his event planner immediately. He then tries to avoid meetings with her with lame excuses that Skynet (his PDA) obligingly fills his schedule with as it doesn't understand Kyon is lying. | |
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In "The Seven," young Bolt misunderstands when one of his friends says that "even 'Citizen Kane' is no 'Citizen Kane'." His reaction is to ask "How can 'Citizen Kane' not be 'Citizen Kane' if that's what it is?" | |
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Eastern Starlight Romance: As part of Nitori's six hundred and fifty seventh plan to have Marisa reciprocate her love, she takes the comparison of love as a fire a little too seriously by making a large paper fan with a mechanical arm to "fan the flames of the heart" by creating strong winds towards Marisa. Played With, in that she seems to know of the saying as a metaphor, but seems to have stuck with the literal interpretation anyways, as lampshaded by Beleaguered Assistant Momiji. | |
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TheOdd1sOut made the comic "Head Over Heels", which features a co-worker that doesn't understand his peer's figurative speech. | |
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In Faded Blue, Greg notes this is a problem with Gems, and tries to avoid figures of speech with them. One instance being that when asked "What's up?", Blue Pearl refers to the branches above her. | |
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S�suke Sagara from Full Metal Panic!. His literal-mindedness provides a lot of humor in quite a few serious situations (as well as not-serious situations). One funny moment in the novels comes during the Behemoth arc. S�suke defeated Takuma, which is supposed to result in a Tear Jerker moment, where the dying Takuma moans, "I lost, sister. Why'd I lose?..." S�suke proceeds to take the question literally, and tactlessly attempts to explain to Takuma why he failed so miserably in an "I-told-you-so, but did you listen?" sort of way. Needless to say, Kaname tells him to shut up, and Tessa tries to repair the dramatic atmosphere. | |
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In Solid jj's Stoogeposting series: "The Three Stooges don't have Uno": "The Three Stooges run for office": |
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In Week 1 of Friday Night Funkin' HD, when Daddy Dearest tells Boyfriend he'll have to go through him in order to date Girlfriend (as in, participate in a rap battle), Boyfriend takes this to mean he has to actually fight Daddy Dearest, which he has no problems with. | |
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