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Malaproper
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The distinguishing characteristic of the Malaproper is that they constantly replace words with similar-sounding but wrong ones. A common form of this is for the Malaproper to mangle proverbs, idioms, and other figures of speech. They may use overly complicated synonyms that make them sound wrong; e.g., "The cat's out of the bag" becomes "The feline has been released from the sack!" Alternatively, they may use words that sound almost right — "Let's get this shoe on the toad!" for "Let's get this show on the road!" They may also nonsensically combine figures of speech ("You can't cross the same river without breaking a few eggs"). (See Mixed Metaphor.) This character will sometimes be corrected, not that this does any good. The term "malaproper" comes from "malapropism", a reference to Mrs. Malaprop, a character from the 1775 play The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan whose name, in turn, is derived from malapropos, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately". Mrs. Malaprop's name and character were based on the idea of making malapropos statements. (Although the trope can be found in earlier works — for instance, it is also exemplified by Sergeant Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.) Injuries to certain parts of the brain can produce aphasia, loss of speech or speech impediment. Damage to Broca's Area can cause a complete inability to form words at all, while damage to Wernicke's Area can produce complete loss of comprehensible speech (the words come out okay but don't mean anything in relation to each other). This is one cause of malapropism. That and liquor. Another very rare condition — proxyglossoriasis — (according to the Duckman television show) has the sufferer replace the intended word with a nearby word in the dictionary. The effect is often hysterical. Often used by those speaking Poirot Speak. Can also be used to indicate one who is Raised by Wolves, an Alien Speaking English, or else a Cloudcuckoolander, whose sense of reality isn't affected (or effected, as the case may be) by actual reality. May be used to set up an Expospeak Gag. Compare and contrast with Delusions of Eloquence, Blunt Metaphors Trauma, Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee, Freudian Slip, [Popular Saying], But..., and My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels. Compare and contrast also with the Spoonerism, where the first letter or syllable is transposed for comedy effect. If the speaker uses the apparently correct words instead but gets hopelessly lost in their train of thought, that's Metaphorgotten. If using the wrong word is the result of mishearing the correct word, that's a Mondegreen Gag. Rouge Angles of Satin is this trope in written form. See here for a self-demonstrating version of this page. |
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The title character of Megamind has trouble uttering certain words, such as "shool" instead of "school", "spyider" instead of "spider", and most importantly, "Metrocity" (rhymes with "atrocity") instead of "Metro City," which becomes particularly important at the climax, as it allows Titan to uncover Megamind when posing as Metro Man. | |
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On The Pajanimals, Squacky is at times. | |
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Molly Hayes from Runaways sometimes mixes up her words. | |
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Ernest from the comic strip Frank and Ernest is a master malaproper. Occasionally, he even appears as superhero Malaprop Man ("It's absurd! It's inane! It's Malaprop Man!"). | |
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Beeserker, big time. He has a tendency to misconstrue turns of phrase in a Bloody Hilarious way, but there are also a great many times when he mishears those words, meaning even compliments can turn into a hazard. | |
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In Everyday Heroes, Goldie described Jane as having "a black belt in takemdown" (taekwando). | |
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In Die Liewe Heksie, Lavinia the witch has difficulty with long words and peoples' names. Her sophisticated friend Karel Kat has to gently correct her about his helicopter, for instance, not a mielecopter as she describes it. | |
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences: "Thanks I could help bro!" Of course, it being a Troll Fic, there's plenty of malapropos gems laying about. Or is lying about? | |
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The Beast is prone to this in X-Men Noir because he tries to sound smart but reaches farther than his vocabulary can vouch for. He's a very bright kid, though. | |
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50% of the humor of The Family Circus is this. | |
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Although Total Drama's Lindsay does this mainly with names in the show (typically in a mondegreen style), fanfic writers often flanderize her into a full-fledged malaproper. Speaking of which, in Total Drama Legacy, using similar-sounding words instead of the correct word is a common Running Gag used to show stupidity. The character who does this the most is Wayne (the Fan-Created Offspring of Lindsay and Tyler), but it's also frequently done by Lightning, Sugar, and, yes, Lindsay. |
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The third episode of To Belong begins with brothers Jim and Sinbad getting into an argument on whether an insult is "fanny-pants" or "fany-pants". Charming, the one they were insulting, cuts in and tells them the correct term is "fancy-pants". | |
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The AFR Universe has made this an Once A Fic gag for Ryuji, who'll use the wrong word for what he's trying to say and be corrected by one of his friends. For example, in "Boys and Queens", Ryuji calls Ren and Makoto about how he appeared in a tabloid article because his picture was taken by a "pop rat". | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The head weasel is prone to these. Roger himself has a memorable one as well when, in the search for Marvin Acme's will, Eddie tells Dolores that she should "check the probate": |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar mishears "sextant" as "sex taint," which results in him taking Roy to see prostitutes instead of a cartographer. When Roy tries to correct him, Belkar then sources a cart of gophers. Also, when hyperactive eight-year-old Greta is being restrained, she claims that "This is a vibration of my silly rights!" (violation of civil rights) |
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The Persona 5 fic Nudist Queen (NSFW) features the scene from the game where Eiko says her opinion of Makoto has "done a complete 360", obviously meaning a 180. The story turns this into a Running Gag when Ren tells her she means a 540, pointing out to Makoto it is technically correct. Eiko is fooled, using 540 in the same context later. | |
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Last Chance in Xollywood: At times Uz the stunt coordinator uses Malaproper language, because her universal translator isn't really good at translating her dialect. This causes her some grief, since people usually already look down on her for being from Zoberon: a backwater, war-mongering, "fifth-rate" planet. | |
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Ed Crankshaft, eponymous grumpy old man of Crankshaft tends to be of the "mixing metaphors" type, but occasionally strays into more improper malaprops, such as using "philanderer" for "philatelist". | |
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In The Rod Squad, Dale refers to England Dan and John Ford Coley as England Jim and John Wilkes Booth. | |
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The villain For Whom the Death Tolls in Grrl Power continuously corrects people by stating that his name is a malaproper. Everyone else points out that not only does it sound really lame, but also doesn't make sense. And, in keeping with thinking he's an ineffective villain, ends up with googly eyes on his mask and then ignored. | |
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Sin City: Stubb and Krunk. | |
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Doc from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs does this when he gets flustered. This was a specialty of comedian Roy Atwell, who voiced the character for the film, and adopted the trademark after a real-life screw-up on Broadway. This even gets Exploited when the dwarfs let Snow White sleep in their bedroom for the night. When Doc assures her that they'll be comfortable, Grumpy interjects "In a pig's eye!" This throws off Doc to the point where he calls the cottage a "pig sty". |
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In Rise of the Minisukas, Zefron's inability to not mix up words constantly drives its partner Azrael up the wall. | |
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: As Beren and Finrod are talking about the latter possibly running into hostile people while wandering around the Halls of Mandos, Beren subtly hints that Finrod's estranged fiancee has just arrived. | |
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Coyote from Gunnerkrigg Court seems incapable of pronouncing Antimony Carver's name, rendering it as Abalone, Acrimony Barber, or just Firehead Girl. By this point, it may be more of an in-joke than anything else. | |
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Opus of Bloom County is very fond of this. | |
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Migration: For the final leg of the journey, Dax is put in charge, and has Gwen run through the pre-flight checklist. She mispronounces "take-off" as "bake-off". | |
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Mike Awesome would call WCW interviewer Pamela Paulshock "Paula Pamshock." | |
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The Lion King (1994) has Pumbaa, who attempts to quote his cleverer friend, Timon: "You gotta put your behind in your past!" Even better, when Pumbaa learns that Simba is the king, he gets down on his knees and says, "I gravel at your feet." Timon corrects him there, too. It's even funnier in the Japanese dub. Pumbaa wants to say something about being Simba's servant, "shimobe." Instead he says he is his "shimobukure," which means "fat face" or "abdominal swelling." | |
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Waffles in Rango: "It's a puzzle. It's like a big ol' mammogram!" | |
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There is an eight-part comic in Werner – Oder was? about a guy named Günter who is sent to the pharmacy by his mother to get a pack of Spironolactonil-ratiopharm for his father. Not only can't he get the name right — it ends up as things like "Spironalin Resopal", "Spironolocktan Ratiniloplan" or "Spiranol-Naploram" —, but it drives him insane enough to end up in a hospital. When he is ordered to be treated with Spironolactonil-ratiopharm himself, he escapes in sheer panic. | |
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Tintin: Thompson and Thomson mix up their words at times. To be precise, at times they're wordy and mixed-up. | |
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Jim, who plays Qui-Gon Jinn in Darths & Droids. As often as not, that's from pretending to know what a word means, often in spite of the fact that the word was made up for the setting. A good example is believing that Jedi is a kind of cheese (which eventually turned Jedi Knights into Cheddar Monks). | |
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Peanuts: Sally often commits malapropisms in her school reports (such as the "Bronchitis", a dinosaur which became extinct from coughing too much, and "Santa Claus and his Rain Gear" instead of "reindeer"). | |
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Jason, of all people, did this in not one, but two FoxTrot comics. He and his friend Marcus, on March 15th, dressed up as giant eyeballs while chanting "Beware the eyes of March" in an attempt to scare Paige. Paige just corrected them, saying that it was supposed to be the "Ides of March". Another time, he and Marcus were dressed for Halloween as "country pumpkins", with the pumpkins' holes shaped like Italy and Lithuania, but Paige told them "It's country bumpkins. And shouldn't you have southern accents then?" | |
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A popular feature in Punch! throughout its run, sometimes attributed to the original Mrs Malaprop herself as a columnist. | |
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One of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's many Ensemble Dark Horses, Derpy Hooves, is portrayed in Fanon as falling into malapropisms, especially when stressed or anxious. | |
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Dean & Nala + Vinny: A Running Gag with Nala. For instance, she play acts that she is Princess Mononoke but pronounces the name as "Princess Mononucleosis". | |
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Malaproper | |
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In the Ma Fille chapter "Sleepover", six-year-old Claire mispronounces "anime" and "amine". | |
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From Another Monty Python Record: | |
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Phil Harris became one of these when he was on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Because of their malfunctioning translator collars bought at a bargain-basement store, the aliens in "The Spaceship" misspeak a lot when they talk to Rhino. | |
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Senor Cardgage on Homestar Runner, who can just never decide on what to say. This originated from his conception as "creepy-comb-over Strong Bad", which was Strong Bad's imagination of what he would be like if he wasn't the "stylish, buff, handsome man in a wrestling mask" that he is. One of CCOSB's character tics was that he would "say some cool phrase that's almost one word and not quite another". And then there's Strong Bad, who frequently uses portmanteaus by accident, and mixes up phrases in mid-speech: In fact, this has become such a Running Gag on the website that the Wiki site has an article devoted to it. |
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In Huckleberry, the eponymous protagonist sometimes mixes up words and sayings, like saying "armordingo" instead of "armadillo", or "who in tarantula" instead of "who in tarnation". | |
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Goblins: Minmax has a habit of misunderstanding words, such as interpreting "therapeutic" as "Sara puked it" or "pendulum" as "panda lung". | |
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Speaking of which, in Total Drama Legacy, using similar-sounding words instead of the correct word is a common Running Gag used to show stupidity. The character who does this the most is Wayne (the Fan-Created Offspring of Lindsay and Tyler), but it's also frequently done by Lightning, Sugar, and, yes, Lindsay. | |
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The Bob & Ray character of "Word Wizard" Elmer Stapley was given to this trope. | |
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In the Alternate Tail Series, while Levy rambles of how Gajeel's inability to regain magic from his own iron is in accords to the Laws of Thermodynamics, Gajeel states he stopped listening after she said "Thermos-Dynamite." | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: | |
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Nick Depopoulous, the Greek restaurateur on Fibber McGee and Molly. Fibber himself was also given to these on occasion. |
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In Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, Jack sometimes mixes up his words. | |
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