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Shoehorned First Letter
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Sometimes a character will need to come up with a word that starts with a certain letter, but wants or needs to say one that doesn't qualify. The solution: stick the necessary letter in front of the desired word and call it a day! Often done to make a word fit into an acronym or Alliterative List. The letters X and Z are the most common victims of this, due to being the least common initial letters in English. Compare Xtreme Kool Letterz, Recursive Acronym. Sub-trope of Shoehorned Acronym. |
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In The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Adrian has to come up with a sermon based around three alliterative bullet points starting with H, but can't think of a third one and keeps getting absurd unrelated suggestions. | |
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From Hiimdaisy's Persona 4 comic: | |
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This is how Fobbies Are Borange got its name. A Starmen.net forum member suggested a mnemonic to tell apart two Palette Swapped enemies in EarthBound (1994): "Foppies are pink, and Fobbies are borange." | |
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In one of The Simpsons comics, Homer tells Bart about the "Three S's of fishing": Silence, Safety and Sssbait. | |
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During a game of "90 Second Alphabet" on Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Greg Proops was made to start his line with the letter X, and spat out, "X-actly no!" even holding up his arms in the shape of an X for emphasis. | |
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In Dance Flick, after one character says there's no 'I' in 'team', the other character suggests some synonyms, none of which have 'I' either, until he gets to 'i-nsemble'. For his efforts, he is responded with a Lampshade Hanging that he mispronounced the word to make it sound like it had an 'I'. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, this is how Riza manages to tell Roy who Pride's true identity is. She signals Roy with a cup, then talks about certain people and other stuff in a certain order so that Roy is able to list them and have them spell out SELIM BRADLEY IS HOMUNCULUS. | |
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1066 and All That gives the two sides in the English Civil War alliterative epithets, one of them forcing the alliteration: The Cavaliers were "Wrong but Wromantic," whereas the Roundheads were "Right but Repulsive." | |
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In Yellow Submarine, Old Fred does a case that's part this, part bad wordplay given how the first can be pronounced starting with an 'e': "H is for hurry...E is for urgent...L is for love me...and P is for please help!" | |
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Tough Guide to Harry Potter: | |
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Penny Arcade, in this comic about Kirby. | |
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In Beach Party, Cappy recites an acrostic for Big Daddy, the mascot of his club: Dallas, Ah, DNicholas, D-Day, and Y Not. | |
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In one Second Sight level, two guards are playing "I Spy" and the letter is "E". The guesser tries "eeediot". | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017) had Carmelita's song and dance routine from the books, where she insists that the "M" in her name stands for "Gorgeous" Count Olaf had a similar song in the first episode that went like this: "C" is for "Courageous" that's another word for "Brave", "O" 's for "Oh my God what a very handsome knave" and actually got worse as it progressed. |
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Two Best Friends Play: A running joke on the podcast is that "MOBA" stands for "Mefense Of Be Ancients." | |
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A series-wide example, the Mortal Kombat series tends to change almost any word that starts with a hard C to a K. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Steven vs. Amethyst", when Pearl explains, with Added Alliterative Appeal of Alliterative Name and Alliterative List: | |
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In the 1965 full-cast audio drama of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when the Dormouse says that the three girls in her story were learning to draw "everything that begins with an M", the March Hare keeps suggesting things that start with the sound "em", such as "empire". | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events has Carmelina Spats singing about herself: ... "R" is for "Ravishing", "M" is for "Gorgeous" | |
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In Billy vs. SNAKEMAN, one of the 11 D's of Pizza Delivery is D-Speed. Parodied in that Cici runs out of D-words halfway through the description and tells you to just go with it. | |
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One episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured the 'bots signing up to walk marathons for various long-winded charities. When Crow stated he was walking for WALKATHON, he had to explain to Mike that it was an acronym, not Walk-A-Thon itself. | |
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"BFE stands for Before First Encounter. Not, as I had first believed, Big Fucking Egun." | |
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H.E.L.P.eR. from The Venture Bros. stands for "Helpful Electronic Lab Partner Robot"—the lowercase "E" is just for aesthetic purposes and doesn't stand for anything. | |
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Subverted in Code Geass, where FLEIJA stood for "Field Limitary Effective Implosion Armament". Yes, they didn't even bother to stick anything to the "J". The shameful thing is, the reason for the name is to keep within the Theme Naming of the series, and the accepted fan-made acronym of FREYA (standing for Fusion REaction Yield Armament) works just as well. | |
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Similarly, in Magic: The Gathering, the colors are represented as B for Black, R for Red, G for Green, W for White, and U for blUe. One explanation for why it's this way round is because Black stole "B" (because it's the colour of selfishness), and "L" is used for "Life". It also helps make the Colour Pie somewhat pronounceable (WUBRG ["woo-burg"] rather than, say, WBKRG). | |
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According to Sue Grafton, the 'N' volume of The Alphabet Mysteries was originally going to be named "N is for Knoxville." | |
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Challenging the rest of the family to guess the name of a big-band leader with the initials "EC", Archie Bunker said the answer was "Xavier Cugat". When Mike told him that "Xavier" begins with an "X," Archie insisted that "No human being begins their name with an 'X'!" and that Xavier was spelled "E-G-Z-A-V-E-R." | |
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TV Tropes' love for Alliterative Name tropes gets us into trouble now and again; witness Pstandard Psychic Pstance, Psmith Psyndrome, Kafka Komedy, and Vampire Vannabe. (The last one is arguably justified by relating to vampires, but it still counts—as does the Vampire Vords trope itself.) | |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants, the "F.U.N. Song" declares that 'F' is for "Friends who do stuff together", 'U' is for "yoU and me", and 'N' is for "aNywhere and any time at all". | |
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Whenever Markiplier uploads a Reading Your Comments video a day late, he'll refer to it as "Markiplier MTuesday". | |
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In his review of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Yahtzee described its predecessor Spider-Man 2 as having a web-slinging mechanic that was "fun, fast, flowing, f... intuitive." "BFE stands for Before First Encounter. Not, as I had first believed, Big Fucking Egun." |
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A last letter case: *NSYNC is both a pun on "in sync" and references JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC...though Jason left before they hit it big, forcing replacement Lance to be nicknamed "LansteN" to keep the theme. | |
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Lampshaded in Impire by the representative of FAKE, the Federation of Abysmal and Kataclysmic Evil. FACE just didn't work as an acronym. | |
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Steven Tyler's (somewhat tasteless) summary of the Rock n' Roll lifestyle is what he calls The Three M's: "Music, Money, and MmmmPussy!" One comedian mocked him thusly: | |
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Ultima IV has both a command and a spell for each letter of the keyboard, leading to some oddities like (z)tats and (k)limb. The "up" and "down" spells are respectively Y and Z, justified in universe by Y being the initial of the wizard who invented the up spell and Z being the initial of the unpronounceable Lord of the Underworld. |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "pizzaz", Strong Bad claims that the secret to his pizzazz involves "the Three Gs": gumption, gum, and "...gargle. Minty gargle." From the sbemail "theme song", "Join the e-niversity e-volution e-day. Uh, well, today. That last one didn't quite work out." In "love poems", Homestar attempts to write an acrostic poem about Marzipan, and uses foodstuffs to begin each line. He tries to get away with "inchiladas" for the "i" and completely fails to come up with anything for the "z". |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer had weapons from A to Z: from Axe to Z Other Axe. | |
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A rare example of AVOIDING repeating a letter, chess annotations use B for Bishop, R for Rook, Q for Queen, K for King, and N for kNight. The more proper abbreviation, Kn, is too easy to confuse for KN, which stands for "King's Knight" (that is, the knight which started on the king's side of the board). | |
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In The Three Stooges short "Sing a Song of Six Pants", the stooges are trying to guess the name of the owner of a suit when they know his initials are TH. They come up with Teddy Hoosevelt and Thomas Hedison. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "pizzaz", Strong Bad claims that the secret to his pizzazz involves "the Three Gs": gumption, gum, and "...gargle. Minty gargle." | |
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In Amazing Spider-Man #264, Red 9 tells Spider-Man that he lives by "the three F's - football, fighting, and women." Spidey hangs a lampshade on it by pointing out that Red 9 can't spell. | |
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Dinosaur Comics: In this comic T-Rex discusses the 10 Fs for living happily: "friendship, fitness, family, financialsuccess, frugality, futrition, flessening salt intake, foderating alcohol intake, fiminishing stress, and fatching your blood pressure." At the end he also answers a question by saying "...FFFROBABLY??" | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: "Destiny Board" puts "Spirit Message" cards onto the field and gives you an automatic win. The former represents a Ouija Board (censored and removed in non-Japanese versions) that shows the letter "D" in the Japanese version and the letter "F" in all other versions. The latter contain the letters "E," "A," "T" and "H" in their names in the Japanese version and the letters "I," "N", "A" and "L" in all other versions. The Moe archetype "Magician Girl" derives from "Dark Magician Girl" (or "Black Magician Girl" in Japan and Korea), and the first letters of their names form the word "Black". The members of the archetype include "(Toon) Dark Magician Girl (the Dragon Knight)," "Berry Magician Girl," "Lemon Magician Girl," "Apple Magician Girl," "Chocolate Magician Girl" and "Kiwi Magician Girl." The card "Hero Flash!!" can only be used by banishing "H - Heated Heart," ""E - Emergency Call," "R - Righteous Justice," "O - Oversoul." Its artwork features all the letters from the artwork of those cards. "True King of All Calamities"'s Japanese name contains "V.F.D." which comes from the Latin phrase Vicarius Filii Dei, read as the "The Beast". Its associated cards have their names contain those letters with meanings: "True King Lithosagym, the '''D'''isaster"; "True King Bahrastos, the Fathomer" (known as "Shinryūō Baharstos Führer" in the Japanese version); "True King Agnimazud, the Vanisher." |
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