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Scare Quotes
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A form of "Sarcasm Mode" whereby a writer encloses a term in quotation marks. The "aim" is to typically make it clear that the term is one the writer would not typically use, and that they are, "for that term", speaking with a voice which is not their own. The typical implication is that the term is some manner of "euphemism" that the writer finds "obnoxious", but uses anyway because it is widely understood. It can also be used to disparage a particular claim. If a work or person claims to be something, a person would put that in "Scare Quotes" to suggest, without explicitly stating it, "This is what they say they are but they are really not." May or may not be used in conjunction with "Inappropriate Capitalization", which makes a general concept sound like a "Trademarked Product". In "non-text" media, may be indicated by a sarcastic emphasis, but more likely will be indicated by so-called "Air Quotes". May overlap with Sarcastic Title if used in a work's title. |
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City Nerd: The quotations used in the title of "We "Honored" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With These Travesties" make Ray's opinion on honoring Dr. King with stroads quite clear. | |
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Awful Hospital: In comic 637, Scissie and Scissane use winks along with scare quotes to indicate that they know "Tori" is not really "Tori": | |
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The Simpsons: In "Special Edna", one of the ads Bart used to pad out his ten-page essay is for Moe's Tavern, with the phrase "We 'Check' IDs" and an image of Moe winking at the reader. | |
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SiIvaGunner: (Metal) Ajit Pai's lone promotional rip in the first tournament has a pair in the description: | |
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Dungeonmans: Mage-type armor, robes and cloaks and the like, are referred to as Light 'Armor'. | |
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Demon Street: When Essie tells Norn that she's been collecting "physical objects", the speech bubble includes quote marks around her words to emphasize her strangeness and for Rule of Funny. | |
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The Black Pirate: Fairbanks, improvising madly after Dove is discovered on the ship they just seized, proclaims her a princess and convinces the other pirates to hold her for ransom. He's making this up, as shown when he uses scare quotes to refer to the "princess" when sending a note calling for help. | |
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: The entry for Ran refers to its runtime as a "mere" two hours and forty minutes. | |
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Zootopia: Nick's pawpsicle stand is labeled "organic", complete with scare quotes. | |
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The American Friend: Nicholas Ray's character is identified in the credits with scare quotes as "Derwatt", because he's forging Derwatts. | |
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RuneScape has Braindeath 'rum', an incredibly toxic beverage that gives actual rum a bad name: it's brewed from such ingredients as stagnant water (collected from a dormant volcano), sluglings (young sea slugs), blindweed (an inedible herb with a foul smell), and the corpse of a fever spider (a Slayer monster that is riddled with disease and infects its victims by biting them). For whatever reason, pirates across Gielinor are addicted to the stuff. Examining a bottle of 'rum' indicates that the stuff eats through the bottle, and drinking it has the game point out how the player character is trying very hard not to die. | |
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'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess: In nearly all instances, up to and including the manga's title, the word "Torture" is depicted in quotation marks. This is because the "tortures" used to force the Princess to talk would be cases of Poke the Poodle if they didn't regularly work and make the Princess give up a secret. Such "tortures" include delicious food the Princess has never eaten before, delicious food she has eaten before with a new twist, playing with cute and cuddly animals, playing with cute and cuddly kids such as the Hell-Lord's preschool daughter Mao-Mao-chan, and playing games with other demons as her friends. | |
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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny: Starring JAY CLARK as SANTA, and "KIDS" from RUTH FOREMAN'S PIED PIPER PLAYHOUSE, implying that whoever did the opening titles was skeptical of their ages or acting ability. | |
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Spectrum Pulse: Expect any country song Grondin dislikes to have its genre listed in the subtitles as 'Pop "country"'. | |
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Trustfell: Walter White is an "entrepreneur," not an entrepreneur. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The season 14 episode "The "Mission"" has scare quotes in the title to indicate that the main characters' assignment is not a real mission, but just an excuse to get rid of them. | |
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Futurama: In "The Tip of the Zoidberg", the M in M.D. on Zoidberg's office door is in quotation marks. | |
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Foolish Wives: Just in case the audience was wondering, one title refers to one of the fake princesses as Sergius's "cousin". | |
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Chick Tracts: In case you didn't get that Chick doesn't view Catholicism as legitimate, in "Papa" he makes a reference to "Saint" Augustine. | |
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Questionable Content: When Bubbles says slang terms, her speech bubbles include quote marks around them. Faye says she can hear the quote marks, and Bubbles says it's because of micro-pauses. | |
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The LEGO Movie: Done around the number 10 in the "10 Seconds Later" screen, which happens after Vitruvius directs the party upstairs in said time...before slamming into a door. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Applejack's 'Day' Off", the quotes around "Day" in the episode title refer to Rarity and Applejack's "spa day", which is only an hour's break from one chore... and Applejack ends up spending that hour fixing a leaky pipe. | |
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My Little Pony (Gameloft): In "The Pinkie Parents Problem" event, Lyra tells Pinkie a "hypothetical" story about "two totally made-up twin ponies" and their parents to get around not being able to directly tell her about the Cakes' future. At the end of the story, Pinkie's playing along with the charade is indicated through the use of scare quotes around her words. | |
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The Half-Breed: A title card promises a "specimen of the 'Superior' white man", and then the film cuts to a shot of the town drunk. | |
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Strong Bad Email: In "Magic Trick", on the sign advertising Strong Bad's street magic performance: | |
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"The Craft of the Adventure": From the closing section discussing how games are never truly finished: | |
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