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Stealth Pun
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The writers put in a joke (almost always a pun), but never make or put in a Punch Line or explicit statement, hiding it in the setup of the joke. Some percentage of the audience will "get" the joke, but the rest will know it was there and be going, "What? Why didn't you say it?" There can be several reasons. It's naughty or otherwise not appropriate for this timeslot, in which case this serves the same purpose as a Last-Second Word Swap. It's only remotely funny when realized later; using it in-story would grind everything to a halt. Telling the punch line would keep our lawyers busy for months, so we'll just leave a blank here and let you do the copyright infringement. The pun is in the middle of a song, poem or other rhythmic verse, where using it fully would break the meter. The pun is a form of Foreshadowing, and the audience won't get the joke until later. (It's probably also a spoiler, quite often.) The pun doesn't fit the tone of the work, and making the joke explicit would cause Mood Whiplash. Or simply because they're being clever, or at least trying to. The form can range a bit from a "fill in the blank" stand-up-style jokes to cases where the plot and setting form a pun that you only realise when you try to summarise the situation later. If you're on the Internet, expect someone to respond with, "I see what you did there". Also, as this page is about puns that are intentionally obscured in-work, it is one of the few times when it is good form to explain the joke. Use your judgment to avoid far-reaching examples; almost anything can be turned into a pun with enough thought. We want the ones that were likely intended by the creators. Compare Visual Pun, another form of subtle punning and Subverted Punchline, for when the audience thinks they know what's coming. See Don't Explain the Joke for the complete opposite. Sister Trope of Orphaned Setup. |
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Possibly by Hamburger school band Kettcar in their shout-out-heavy "Ich danke der Academy". After the Star Trek reference "Alle Energie auf die Deflektorschilde" they pull through the Phaser. (Or is it a Flanger? The difference between those effects is subtle...) | |
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The second book of Child of the Storm has Harry and his friends looking at museum exhibitions showing the Avenger's most infamous enemies. In other words, it's a literal Rogues Gallery. | |
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In the late 90's, The Polka Dot Door got a spin-off series called Polka Dot Shorts. While the title was a reflection of how it was shorter than the regular Polka Dot Door series, there would be a Once an Episode gag where a character would find a pair of polka dot shorts for no reason. | |
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Dream Eater Merry: Merry trademark favorite food are doughnuts/donuts. In Brazil (and perhaps other Portuguese speaking countries) the same treat is known as "Sonho". The most general translation for the word "Sonho" is "Dream". | |
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In another, more obscure example, one of the various artbooks features a scene with Haman Karn eating a piece of cake with a candy on top shaped like one of her Humongous Mecha Quebeley's funnels. | |
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A rare unfunny example that's nonetheless good: An arc in The Sandman spin-off The Dreaming was about the loneliness of Matthew the Raven, titled "The Unkindness of One". (According to Victorian animal-group naming, a flock of ravens is called an unkindness, and he is the only raven in the Dreaming.) | |
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Hivefled: Orphaner Dualscar is Killed Mid-Sentence, leaving an Orphaned Punchline. | |
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Shawn Michaels was nicknamed "The Heartbreak Kid"... and his Arch-Enemy was Bret Hart. | |
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In the Deliver Us from Evil Series, the youngest of the Baker Street Irregulars, Kelly, has green eyes. Kelly green, you know? | |
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Die Toten Hosen: In the song "Opel Gang". "Wir brechen den Rekord" simply means "we break the record" but the Rekord is also an Opel model. | |
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Doom Patrol: Monsieur Mallah is a French soldier gorilla — which is to say, he's a guerilla. In Grant Morrison's run, the team's headquarters is a sentient, transvestite street named Danny. Getting the joke requires basic French and a knowledge of British female impersonators of the 1970s. Danny the Street = Danny La Rue. |
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Izetta of Izetta: The Last Witch foregoes the traditional witch's Flying Broomstick for a massive anti-materiel rifle. A flying boomstick, perhaps? | |
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Girls und Panzer: One from OVA 2: While discussing military rations, the topic of Spam comes up. Eventually the freshman girls are reduced to continuously saying the name over and over. Thanks to the censorship of the product name, this gets very annoying. They're spamming the word 'Spam'. While their role was vital in the championship, Anteater Team didn't last long enough to shoot anything. However, in the talent competition, they sang a song, each girl offset by one phrase. Seems they finally got a round off. |
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During the 2010 Winter Olympics, a VISA ad played on TV showing various people carrying the torch through several biomes while music from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly played in the background. The song? "The Ecstasy of Gold", of course! | |
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Runaways (by the above mentioned Brian K. Vaughn) has Karolina Dean, a human-alien hybrid whose powers somehow foreshadow her being a Lipstick Lesbian — as put by her live-action portrayer, "I think that when Karolina starts glowing rainbow colors, that's a way of coming out to her parents". | |
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Like the show, the author of Equestria: A History Revealed seems to love any kind of pun, ranging from horse related puns, to any kind of pun that can be mustered. If there's a word that can be substituted for a horse pun, you can bet it'll be used. Not even the bibliography is exempt from this. The sources are chockfilled with bad puns too. | |
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The Cardiacs song "Dog-Like Sparky" is seemingly about a cult preaching the word of their female canine overlord - or, in other words, a dog ma dogma. | |
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The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged): | |
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Death Parade's OP has a visual Stealth Pun. There's a brief scene of Nona playing a DanceDanceRevolution-style arcade game, but if you look closer, you can see that the game is built out of a Japanese funeral shrine. Thus, Nona is literally dancing on someone's grave. | |
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In the Dangerverse, a prophecy at the start of the series states that after Voldemort is defeated, "Then has the age of hope begun / And peace comes to the man who won". Sounds like it just means that life would be peaceful... except that at the end of the story, babies Nadia and Irina are conceived and their names mean "hope" and "peace", respectively. | |
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The Black Crowes' third album, Amorica. In case you want the formula: America + amor ("love" in Spanish) = Amorica. | |
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The Mechanisms' In Ulysses Dies at Dawn, Ulysses fires a laser at a gemstone and the beam splits along twelve axes. This is an allusion to the scene in The Odyssey where Odysseus shoots an arrow through twelve axes (plural of "axe" rather than of "axis" as here). In High Noon Over Camelot, supplementary fiction reveals that Arthur's weapon is a ten-caliber railgun. Ten can also be rendered as the Roman numeral X, so it's X-Caliber. In The Bifrost Incident, Loki launches a terrorist attack with hijacked missiles. Baldur is killed by "missile 2". In the original myths, Baldur's Achilles' Heel which Loki takes advantage of is mistletoe. |
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Loki: Agent of Asgard: In issue #7, the mischief god gets released from Doctor Doom's trap by Verity (Willis). To put it another way: "Truth set him free." In issue #16, Loki steals the (story of the) Ragnarök (and everyone participating) which they stash away in their inner pocket. Well, we could say that Asgard is truly in Loki's pocket now. |
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Non-profane example: what's the difference between Mike Wazowski and a carrot? One's a bunny feast... | |
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In The JOJOLands, Jodio's Stand, November Rain, causes rain to fall. His goal in life to get rich. Thus, he wants to "make it rain" metaphorically, while his Stand does that literally. | |
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In one of Adam Warren's Dirty Pair stories, a villain introduces a clone of "good girl" Yuri into the convention the girls are hosting to shake things up. We first hear about "clone-Yuri's" antics from one of the con-goers (much to real Yuri's distress). Then we cut to Clone Yuri's room and we can clearly see (though the words are never spoken) that she has been literally "screwed, blued, and tattooed". | |
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Naruto: A flashback has someone hearing what Sasuke's name is, and commenting that's also the name of the Third Hokage's father. The Third Hokage's real name is Hiruzen Sarutobi, thus making his father... During one of the filler episodes, Naruto has to sit at a funeral and not laugh the entire time, or else the person they're doing the mission for will not get the inheritance. So naturally everyone is trying to make him laugh the entire time. One of the gags involved a guy having a flower coming out of his nose. In Japanese, the word 'hana' can mean either "nose" or "flower". "Kakashi" means "scarecrow," and the ninja with that name is one of the best in the world. In other words, he's outstanding in his field. note Sorry. |
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One of the Kryptonian criminals working for General Zod to fight and defeat Superman and Supergirl in The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, The Phantom Zone and other stories, is one who -in addition to being their first cousin once removed-, had the misfortune of being named Kru-el, so he was sadly doomed by his parents to be suited for villainy. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Possibly unintentional, but Edward Elric's attempts at human transmutation literally cost him An Arm and a Leg. Greed claims both that he wants everything in the world and that he never lies. Thus he always keeps his word. |
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In Of Thee I Sing, in the Senate scene, the Senator from Massachusetts rises to demand a governmental pension for Jenny, Paul Revere's horse. Another Senator points out that Jenny died in 1805, and after an observed minute of silence the matter is declared finished. To put it literally: it's a dead horse. | |
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At one point in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW), one of the minor characters was given an (unrequited) infatuation with Big Macintosh. Since said character had not yet spoken in the show, and when she did was nothing like that, it can only be assumed that it was solely for the pun. That character? Fleetfoot the Wonderbolt. This would make their Portmanteau Couple Name Fleetfoot Mac. | |
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: What Came After: Why are three Klefki the ones who rob Ferrothorn Bank? One reason is that they're themed after keys, which open locks, and another is that they're Steel-type. | |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Nanoha is pursuing Jewel Seeds. One such Jewel Seed had possessed a tree that was near a couple's confession of love, and it responded by turning into a massive murdering monster, trapping them inside itself and trying to consume everything. The pun comes when you realise that they pined for each other. (This pun actually works in Japanese, too.) | |
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In the original Transformers: Generation 1 franchise, Perceptor is a highly intelligent scientist who turns into a microscope. A secondary alternative mode, however, actually lets him take the form of a tracked vehicle, with his microscope acting as a laser cannon because of its lenses. This, combined with his highly analytical nature, means he is a think tank. Jetfire's often one of the larger Autobots in several continuities. He's a jumbo jet. The original four Autobot Headmasters and two of the original three Decepticon Headmasters all had head-related names: Brainstorm, Chromedome, Hardhead, Highbrow, Skullcruncher, and Mindwipe. Optimus Prime, Rodimus Prime, Nemesis Prime, and some versions of Sentinel Prime are all semi-trucks, or, in other words, they're prime movers. Grimlock often likes to declare himself a "king" of sorts. Naturally, considering his alt-mode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, "rex" being Latin for "king." The Cybertron and EarthSpark versions of Soundwave have him turn into a supersonic jet. Cybertron Soundwave specifically talks like a DJ or a rapper. He's fly. Tidal Wave debuted in Armada and can not only turn into a giant battleship, but also three smaller ships. He's literally a Transformer armada. |
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In Toriko, whenever the Nightmare Heracles, a horse with godlike powers, gives birth, solid rainbow bridges appear that allow her offspring to run over to other continents. In other words, we have ponies doing literal rainbow dashes. | |
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The Rush song "Roll the Bones" deals with questions of existence and causation in a funkier style than the band's usual prog-rock fare. In other words, it's existential funk. | |
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Ace formed the Spade Pirates. Would that make him The Ace of Spades? | |
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Then there's the Gundam ZZ, which is composed of two (or three, depending on how you count) fighters. One forms the legs, the other goes on top. | |
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In the Medaka Box fanfic World as Myth, Hinokage mentions that Maguro thought Unknown Hero deserved analysis. Analysis is also the name of Maguro's own Abnormality. | |
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They're opposed by a knightly order of falcons based on an island and inspired by the Knights Hospitaller. Yes, they're Maltese falcons. | |
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In The Seven Deadly Sins, after a long arc leading to the rescue of Ban from Baste Prison, the head of the Weird Fang Holy Knights erects a magic force field that is said to be completely indestructible with the intent to trap the heroes (who went in to retrieve Ban) in there forever. Then Ban and Meliodas meet up and act like a couple of frat boys only with super powers and bring the whole prison down, force field and all. To Wit; the barrier was broken with The Power of Friendship. | |
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At the end of the first episode of Gankutsuou, Albert is making out with Peppo, the local "Bridget" (although he doesn't know that yet), when she stops him, points a gun at him, and helps kidnappers take him hostage (thus, she had a pistol in her pocket, but might have been happy to see him as well). Also, it really was a trap. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: Spike goes out with a bang. | |
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Lampshaded somewhat in a vintage Sesame Street short where Kermit the Frog reports live from the court of Old King Cole, just as he's about to call for his pipe, his bowl, and his fiddlers three. Another episode has Elmo leading the children in a game about who can cry the loudest. |
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In Mary Poppins, the villainous nanny Miss Andrew is sent by Mary to a place, shown as below the stage, which glows red and smoky. While it's never specified where it is, in theatrical jargon, the area just below the stage is referred to as, yes, Hell. | |
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Cindy Rogers is from Hartford Connecticut, which explains many of her preferences. | |
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In 2014, "Los Templarios" Superestrella ASH and Lord William de la Vega won WWC's tag team title belts. Evil Dead fans couldn't resist. | |
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One commercial for Halos, a brand of Mandarin orange, has a girl encounter a witch in the forest who offers her an apple. (Think Snow White.) After realizing the apple is poisoned, the girl has the witch arrested and continues eating the orange. So basically, the commercial compares apples to oranges. | |
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In Ulysses Dies at Dawn, Ulysses fires a laser at a gemstone and the beam splits along twelve axes. This is an allusion to the scene in The Odyssey where Odysseus shoots an arrow through twelve axes (plural of "axe" rather than of "axis" as here). | |
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One episode of The Muppet Show opened with the Bug Band, a group of four insects, singing "She Loves You". Backstage after the song, Kermit says that the group needs a name and instead of the obvious suggestion they come up with The Who and The Grateful Dead. In the "Bear on Patrol" segments, Patrolman Fozzie Bear's superior officer is Link Hogthrob, a "pig". Think about that for a second. In an "At the Dance" segment, a pig Miss Piggy is dancing with reveals that he's a garbageman. Thinking that to be fantastic, she asks if he delivers, and he says that he does. Funny, I thought most garbagemen specialized in takeaway... |
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The Young Bucks's Bullet Club theme is called "Double Barrel". | |
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Between Dreams and Memories Universe: Each fanfiction in the series is titled "Between [X] and [Y]", with "The [X]" being the title of the first chapter and "The [Y]" being that of the last chapter… so the story is quite literally between [X] and [Y]. | |
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Tiger & Bunny: Nathan's name, when pronounced in Japanese ("Nee-San"), sounds eerily like the role he plays in the series. There's also Kotetsu/Wild Tiger's eye color, which shifts between brown, gold, and something in between. There's actually a gemstone with the same sort of coloring◊. It's called tiger's eye. Fire Emblem is a Camp Gay who has fire-based powers. This makes him a flamer. |
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During a Robin (1993) issue during Infinite Crisis, the Teen Titans are in a secret lab looking for a cure for Superboy, after his first beating by Superboy-Prime. Speedy, who is a recovering drug addict, asks for everyone to look out for a "Speedy Fix". | |
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The main character of Wicked is called “Elphaba�. The author of the original Land of Oz novels was L. Frank Baum. | |
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Near the end of Children of Eden, Noah is asking his children where they plan to go. Shem says that he plans to go "East ... towards the rising sun" and his wife, Aysha, says that they'll bring along "The tigers, the pandas, the elephants with little ears". Ham plans to go "South ... across the desert which no one has cross, to seek the great land beyond" and his wife, Afrash, plans to take "The lions, the ostriches, the elephants with the big ears". One can guess which two continents they plan to settle... | |
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Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker: One of the characters in the movie is Butler. He's a villain. In other words? The Butler Did It. | |
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There's one that's true of both RahXephon and Occult Academy. Both series make reference to the whole "2012 End of the World" idea, and it's probably no coincidence that both also have characters named Maya. | |
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The waste disposal robot in The Smurfs story "You Don't Smurf Progress" would eat garbage and turn them into bricks that he would expel from his rear hatch. In essence, he was shitting bricks. | |
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Somewhat obvious, but in Space☆Dandy, Gentle is a Cloudian who keeps his memories and thoughts in a mist that surrounds him — he is, in other words, a living cloud data storage system. Towards the end of the episode, his ship, surrounded by his cloud, is destroyed in a collision — a system crash — and loses his data, forcing him to go through lengthy data recovery. | |
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Metal Gear fanfic The Joy of Battle: Historical Espionage Action is full of stealth puns, especially in the chapter titles. The second chapter is called "Schadenfreude" which includes the word "joy" (freude in German), also the main character's name. The most bizarre is probably the chapter "Stained Glass" in which there is a moment near the end where a grassy lawn is stained with blood. Stained grass... incredibly lame and probably entirely on purpose. | |
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First Kiss at a Spooky Soiree: Marzipan is attracted to people of all genders pretty much equally. In other words, Marzipan is panromantic. | |
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In Black Butler, demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis' catchphrase is "I'm just one hell of a butler." This has the bonus of working perfectly in Japanese as well; since the Japanese language can differ in meaning based on subtle inflection, Sebastian's catchphrase is either "I am a devil and a butler" or the more subtle "I am a devilishly good butler." The series' title itself is a bit of one - the Japanese word for "butler" (shitsuji) is almost identical to the word for "sheep" (hitsuji). In other words... |
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Soul Eater: The Thompson sisters. They turn into pistols, thus making them Tommy guns. They're also supposed to be twins but are not identical, much like the Thompson Twins who are not actual twins. This one ties into the various musical references of the title. Soul describes the Little Red Demon that lives in his head as dancing a weird dance out of time with the background music. In other words, he's dancing to his own tune. This is likely meant to convey the message that while the rest of the scenery is part of his inner psyche (including the dime-store jazz music in the background), the Demon (representing his contamination with Black Blood) is not. The finale of the manga involves the moon being covered by Crona's Mad Blood. So, in other words, they made a blood moon. |
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Turnabout Storm: While Phoenix and Pinkie are investigating the victim's hotel room, she starts to wonder what they are looking for exactly, undirectly mentioning several Harry Potter MacGuffins one after the other, and then asking "Maybe something you ordered?". Hmm... something Phoenix ordered... Before leaving the courtroom, the half-eagle Gilda Griffon flips out, going in a Mood Whiplashing fit of rage, complete with extending her middle talon at Phoenix. Flipping the Bird anyone? |
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In Exalted, the Yozi Hegra, the Typhoon of Nightmares, produces hallucinogenic weather...or acid rain. Malfeas, the Demon City, has a charm called Nightmare Fugue Vigilance, which means he doesn't have to sleep. That's right, Malfeas is The City That Never Sleeps. |
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The Evangelion fic Nobody Dies casts Mana from the first official Evangelion spin-off game as a cyborg who has had a lot of her body replaced. This would make her a Girlfriend of Steel. | |
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Swedish children's comic Bamse has an anthropomorphic wolf named Virginia. Note that to make the originally intended pun work, you need to speak Swedish.note The Swedish word for wolf is "varg", so her name is basically "wolfina". In English, you get a Lucky Translation instead in the form of a shout out to Virginia Woolf | |
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PS238 is filled with these, especially whenever the Revenant (the series' Batman Expy appears: When we first meet the Revenant, he's perched on top of a light pole with two captured villains on either side of him. The one hanging on his left side (panel right) is a clown, and we find out a bit later that Rev's a huge fan of classic rock. All together now: "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck In the Middle With You..." Rev gets a lot of mileage with classic rock puns throughout the series. When he first takes Tyler on a mission, Rev gives his new sidekick the name "Moonshadow". When Tyler asks what it means, Rev just says he's been listening to a lot of Cat Stevens lately. The opening lyrics to Stevens's song "Moon Shadow"? Being a Batman Expy, Revenant spends a lot of time swinging through the city and looking over the area from the rooftops. The logo on his uniform is a stylized R, combined with the logo from an old Alan Parson's Project album. The name of said album? Eye In The Sky. |
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The video for Hal Ketchum's "Small Town Saturday Night" features footage from The Terror of Tiny Town, a 1938 Western known for having an entirely dwarf cast (i.e., a "small town"). | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, White has a Sandile actor trained to cry for any sad scene. Crocodile Tears. | |
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Havenfall Is for Lovers: On Diego's route, considering whether Victor's company might be a front makes the protagonist concerned about the possibility of having to fight more vampires — "a whole corporation of them". In other words, corporate vampires. | |
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The fanfic Azuvengers gives the Azumanga Daioh girls the powers of different Marvel Comics characters — Sakaki is the Sentry, Yomi is the Hulk, and so forth. Osaka learns magic, gets a flying umbrella, and communicates clairaudibly with a man named Steve. She's Dr. Strange. | |
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Monster Musume: why is Mero dressed like that? Because she's a mermaid. | |
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The soundtrack albums for the Witch Craft Works anime all have covers spoofing the cover art of various albums by the techno group Kraftwerk making them witch Kraftwerks. | |
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RahXephon: Because of their Magic Music powers, those operating the Dolems (sort of living mecha) are termed instrumentalists. Although the series involves an "End of the World" Special rather than an Assimilation Plot, there's probably a deliberate allusion to "Instrumentality", given that RahXephon is sort of a Lighter and Softer Neon Genesis Evangelion. There's one that's true of both RahXephon and Occult Academy. Both series make reference to the whole "2012 End of the World" idea, and it's probably no coincidence that both also have characters named Maya. |
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The calligraphy wyrm of Pathfinder is type of tiny dragon created by sovereign dragons to serve as lorekeepers in their lairs, that can also transform into writing instruments. It's both a book wyrm and a pen dragon. | |
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The Beyblade sub-line "Stealth Battlers" includes the clock-themed Tempo Hammer Hit. Hammer time. | |
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An "inventory issue" of Deadpool had a retroactive tie-in to the famous Demon in a Bottle Iron Man story - the Very Special Episode where Tony deals with his alcohol problem. What kicks off the plot of the former is Deadpool being hired to encourage Stark to keep drinking... by a literal demon. Unusually for Deadpool, the reference isn't pointed out. | |
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One-Punch Man has the protagonist Saitama drawn in a very distinct style compared to all the other characters — not many details, few edges and lots of rounded lines compared to the rest of the cast, and of course, bald as a billiard ball. He's also known for being clueless, tactless, and a bit dense. He's simple, blunt, and not the sharpest one in the room. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons The material components of spells can be quite varied. Some are straightforward, some are quite esoteric, some are costly just for the sake of limiting usage... and some have their justification into hidden puns. ESP (detect thoughts in later editions) has for component a copper piece. That is to say, a penny for your thoughts. The feeblemind spell requires "a handful of clay, crystal, glass, or mineral spheres" which disappears when cast. What does it do? Make you lose your marbles. The solid fog spell requires powdered peas and an animal hoof. You're literally creating pea soup fog. Meanwhile, the spell minor illusion requires you to have a bit of fleece as its material component. Since the most common purpose of the spell is a visual deception, you are pulling the wool over their eyes. Similarly, the material components for fireball are bat guano, brimstone, and charcoal — that is to say, the ingredients of primitive gunpowder. Many of the material components of D&D spells are less magic and more primitive chemistry and physics of the type that would be far advanced for a pseudo-medieval setting. The whole thing is a stealth pun of the Arthur C. Clarke concept that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Tooth beasts are ursine monsters whose damp pink flesh is covered in teeth rather than fur, even in their eye sockets. Or, in other words, they're gummy bears. Mephits are small, weak humanoid creatures made from one or more elemental types. Steam mephits are known to be especially arrogant and self-important — they're full of hot air. Copper dragons have a combination of this and Visual Pun, they are described as witty and acerbic, and have an acid based Breath Weapon. Additionally, in earlier editions, they had a scientific name, like most dragons—in their case, "Draco comes stabuli." "Comes stabuli" is the Latin word that evolved into "constable." Another term for a constable? A copper. Beholders are supremely xenophobic beings, especially towards each other — each considers themselves the epitome of beholderkind, and will kill other beholders for looking "wrong," even if the differences are all but impossible for outsiders to see. Their goddess, the Great Mother, is said to embody the perfect beholder form, but when she manifests before lesser beholders, they all perceive her with their own features, scaled up. Or in other words, true beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. |
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Yureka: The Running Gag of Woon-Ha cycling through the Greek alphabet for pseudonyms on Lost Saga was introduced long before his Cyber Quest screenname was confirmed to be Omega. Thinking back to his original Lost Saga screenname, his two personas were likely meant to be...the Alpha and the Omega. | |
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In Legally Blonde, Elle's sorority sisters refer to themselves as a Greek Chorus. Get it? | |
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Stone Ocean: Enrico Pucci, a Catholic priest, is a loyal servant of God...if you use the Italian word for God, that is. Later on, he manages to kill Jotaro by throwing knives at Jolyne in stopped time, forcing him to choose between finishing Pucci off and saving his daughter. In other words, he put Jotaro in checkmate. |
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Queen of Shadows: The Kamikiri (Mantis Khan) are the priests of the Shadowkhan. Yes, they're praying mantises. | |
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In Henchgirl, a mysterious androgynous character saves Mary from being taken to prison in Issue 9, from being attacked by Consuelo in Issue 10, and from the wrath of Amelia in Issue 11. This character is a boyish character wearing a red wig with straight hair on the sides and bangs. A pageboy wig. Mary's sister Paige as a boy. | |
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In the Haruhi Suzumiya/TV Tropes crossover Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Chapter Eleven's name is "Yeah, It Went There". It's saying this chapter will get up to eleven. | |
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The Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl episode that introduced Barry is titled "Barry's Busting Out All Over!" Even if you get the reference, it sounds inexplicable, unless you are aware that Barry's Japanese name is Jun. | |
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In New Getter Robo, there's a pun in the first episode. When Ryouma is told by Professor Saotome that he is to be one of the pilots of the Getter Robo, Ryoma replies "Getter?" With the scene being shot at floor level, focusing on Saotome's "geta". | |
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Shaman King: Lyserg Diethyl, one of Yoh's allies who eventually joins the X-Laws. People from the 60's or familiar with the Hippies may be able to pick it up, but it's a reference to Lysergic Acid Diethylamide...aka LSD, the infamous hallucinogen that supposedly let you talk with spirits. Spirits are the whole premise of the series. Then there's his spirit partner Morphine, if you want to get really blatant. And a shaman named Peyote. |
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The Confessor. Vampires are stereotypically associated with bats, making him a literal Batman. | |
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Judge Grams of Fleuret Blanc, usually a Jerkass, has a soft spot for redheads, and her Trademark Favorite Food is ginger root. Redheads can also be called "gingers" — Grams does this herself at some points. | |
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In Earth 2, this world's Lois Lane was killed in the backstory to create drama for Superman. When Tom Taylor took over as writer, he established that the Red Tornado was Lois, Back from the Dead. In Lois/Tornado's first appearance in Taylor's run, she's stepping out of a refrigeration unit: she's no longer Stuffed in the Fridge. | |
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J. Jonah Jameson was mutated in Earth X. It wasn't revealed until the end that he had a donkey's head. That's right, he became a jackass. | |
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Aggretsuko: Hog Honcho/Director Ton is a pig who believes women should Stay in the Kitchen and not have office jobs. He's a male chauvinist pig. Also from the series is Retsuko's friend Eaglette/Washimi, a secretarybird who's also the company's president's secretary. |
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At one point, the various Clayfaces (who, as the name suggests, are made of living clay) teamed up to take on Batman. Two of them fell in love, married and had a child. What was his name? Cassius. | |
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Tidal Wave debuted in Armada and can not only turn into a giant battleship, but also three smaller ships. He's literally a Transformer armada. | |
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Jewel of Darkness: During the Final Battle of the Jump City Arc, Beast Boy turns into a bat just before the Titans' literal Batman Gambit against Midnight. | |
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While certainly not intentional, one of the largest elevator manufacturers in the world is the Schindler group. Schindler's Lift. | |
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The Muppet Christmas Carol. In order to get both Statler and Waldorf into the movie, they had to invent a brother for Jacob Marley. They called him Robert. Think about that for a second. Get up, stand up... One person on the IMDB message board wondered if that was a coincidence or if it was done on purpose. | |
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Gundam: A particularly painful one is the Mobile Suit Gundam MSV model MS-07H-4 Gouf Flight Test Type, a prototype Zeon mobile suit adorned with their iconic mono-eye camera and forehead-mounted communications antenna, and painted in outrageous magenta demo-colors. An early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a flight-capable Humongous Mecha, it was scrapped for its unfortunate tendency to kill its test pilots. Long story short, it's a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people-eater. In another, more obscure example, one of the various artbooks features a scene with Haman Karn eating a piece of cake with a candy on top shaped like one of her Humongous Mecha Quebeley's funnels. Then there's the Gundam ZZ, which is composed of two (or three, depending on how you count) fighters. One forms the legs, the other goes on top. |
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Beyblade: Shogun Steel has two characters, Shinobu Hiryuin and Eight Unabara, whose Beyblades — Shinobi Saramanda and Pirates Orojya, respectively — can be Synchromed (as in combined) with the Beyblades of the two main characters (Zyro Kurogane and Kite Unabara), making the two indirect rivals of sorts. As for the Beyblades themselves... Pirates vs Ninjas? | |
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The Squadron Supreme member Wyatt McDonald is the Golden Archer. | |
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Gladiator, the Superboy counterpart in Marvel's Captain Ersatz Legion of Super-Heroes comes from the planet Strontia. While his Kryptonite Factor is actually self-doubt, it's probably not a coincidence that Strontianite is a real mineral. | |
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Superman: One of the Kryptonian criminals working for General Zod to fight and defeat Superman and Supergirl in The Girl with the X-Ray Mind, The Phantom Zone and other stories, is one who -in addition to being their first cousin once removed-, had the misfortune of being named Kru-el, so he was sadly doomed by his parents to be suited for villainy. A story featuring the Hiro Okamura incarnation of Toyman had one of his creations be a Kaiju that looked like a sperm whale with the arms and legs of a great ape. "Whale-Ape" is a literal translaton of "Gojira". |
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In Darker than Black, April has the power to create real hurricanes that make it rain. No one refers to "April Showers" though. | |
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BattleTech features the largely unremarkable J. Edgar tank, and makes no explanation for why it has that name, until you realize that it's not a tracked vehicle but a Hover Tank. J. Edgar Hoovertank. | |
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Dual Destinies alludes to the biggest plot twist in the game with a silly pun. When Jinxie Tenma first meets Bobby Fulbright, she says "eek! a ghost!" and slaps a curse seal on his forehead. This is bizarre, because Jinxie is afraid of demons, not ghosts. But Bobby Fulbright is a ghost - also known as the phantom, the culprit of the last two cases. Not to mention the real Bobby Fulbright has been dead for a year. | |
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While Stardust Crusaders hadn't yet settled on giving every Stand Musical Theme Naming, DIO's The World still has a nod to what is probably Ronnie James Dio's most iconic song. Specifically, it has what appear to be a set of small scuba tanks on its back, not to mention having a color scheme typically associated with holiness. | |
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My Hero Academia has a scene where Present Mic punches someone in the face just to make sure they aren't a doppleganger, and loudly states he's doing it to "check for authenticity." The obvious joke that it's a mic check goes unspoken. | |
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Between the Lions: The title has the obvious pun of reading "between the lines", but there's a stealth pun involving the lion statues at the entrance to the library where it's set: to enter it, you go "between the lions". During the song "Ten Little Words," which focuses on ten of the most common words in the English language, there is a line about how the words were "partying on." The obvious meaning is that the partying continued; the subtle meaning is mentioned in the next line: "They danced on the table, they danced on the lawn!" The segment "Fun With Chicken Jane" is a pun based on Fun With Dick and Jane. The segment is basically a parody of the books, but with two children being accompanied by a clumsy chicken who's always getting hurt saving them from danger. |
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There's a Daria fanfic where it turns out that Tiffany's biological father is one of the actors from Osamu Tezuka's Star System. Specifically, Lampe. | |
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In case 1 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, when a certain character's true nature is revealed, the little butterflies that surround her are incinerated by her hatred. Like moths to a flame. | |
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In one issue of Top 10, a bunch of stretchy heroes gawk at a teleporting accident as they drive by. Yes – those Rubber Men are rubbernecking. | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man updates Peter Parker's status quo; he still works for the Daily Bugle in this version, but he helps manage their Internet site instead of taking pictures. That's right, Spider-Man's a webmaster. | |
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Usually, the first word out of an infant's mouth is "Mama" or "Dada/Papa". In Archie Comics, what is the first word uttered by scientific genius Dilton? Pythagoras, the father of geometry. Moose, a Literal-Minded individual, provides lots of these. In one story, he was selected as an election candidate. When he appears at the pre-meeting, Mr. Weatherbee asks Moose why he was wearing a track outfit, Moose replies that it's because people are telling him that he should "run for office". In another, Dilton's advice to Moose is that he should put his money in the bank to make it grow. Moose decides to grow the money himself, and instead goes home, puts the money in a flowerpot and begins to water it. note If the joke wasn't obvious: He's trying to make a money tree. |
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"Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)" by Big & Rich has two. The first is "Charley Pride was the man in black / Rock & roll used to be 'bout Johnny Cash", and the other is "I'm a crazy son of a [bad word] / But I know I'm gonna make it big and rich". | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: Misaka-11111 is forced to come up with a name to interact with society. Her psychiatrist denies her initial ideas of "11111" or "Mikoto-1," so she goes with "Misaka Yui." The psychiatrist misses the pun; "Misaka Yui" can be read as "Just Misaka." | |
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Miraculous City: The story has Tomoe Tsurugi taking the role of The Dragon to Gabriel Agreste. Her own Miraculous Power is the Dragon, like her daughter Kagami. | |
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One Piece: The main character is named Monkey D. Luffy, and his first appearance in the anime was breaking out of a small barrel. Perhaps the implication is that the show will be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Mr. 1's Devil Fruit is called the Supa-Supa Fruit, it gives him super powers and his secret dream is to be a super hero. The obvious one is "super" a play on "Supa", his Devil Fruit name. The second not quite pun is he is literally a Man of Steel. A "Supaman" if you will.. Sanji uses a move called the "Parage Shot" to change people's looks by kicking them in the face. In other words, he can literally "rearrange your face". Bepo is a human sentient bear who goes from a vicious kung fu brawler to an apologetic depressive the next. In short, he's a bipolar bear. Arlong is a great white shark Fishman who used an impossible loan to enslave Nami. Truly a loan shark for the ages. Treból is fat, ugly, unkempt, has No Social Skills, and is frequently condescending. He is also assigned to guard Dressrosa's underground areas at all times. Hence, he is a Basement-Dweller in both the social and the literal sense. In the Thriller Bark arc, Luffy chases Gekko Moriah through a forest. A while later, Moriah (who has the power to manipulate shadows) reveals that he was standing at the edge of the forest all along — Luffy was literally chasing shadows. Also, in an earlier encounter, he managed a single hit by kicking through a floor and connecting with Moria's kiester. Meaning Luffy had literally kicked his ass. Impel Down is a prison with a Hell-based theme, from the Satan-like appearance of its warden to the different layers with punishment not unlike those from Dante's Inferno. In an attempt to rescue Ace, Luffy broke into the prison and then broke out of it. Luffy went to Hell and back to try to save Ace. Ace formed the Spade Pirates. Would that make him The Ace of Spades? Boa Hancock considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world has the ability to turn any man who lusts after her to stone. She literally makes them rock hard. The cover of Chapter 766 is a tribute to Naruto, which ended in the same issue the chapter ran in. The three One Piece characters featured are Nami, Luffy (pronounced Rufi in Japanese), and Tony Tony Chopper. Wano Country is one of the more colorful arcs. This is also the arc where Kanjuro is revealed to be a traitor, hiding the extent of his abilities and artistic talent. One could say that Kanjuro showed their true colors. |
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Pokémon: The Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl episode that introduced Barry is titled "Barry's Busting Out All Over!" Even if you get the reference, it sounds inexplicable, unless you are aware that Barry's Japanese name is Jun. Pokémon: Jirachi: Wish Maker: One of the characters in the movie is Butler. He's a villain. In other words? The Butler Did It. Charles Goodshow is the president of the Pokémon League and appears in the episodes pertaining to the larger tournaments. He is a short elderly man with a large beard, bright-colored shorts and a backwards cap, giving the visible impression that he is still a child at heart. Goodshow, old boy? Alternately, Jolly Goodshow. In the Johto arc; Ash's Chikorita had a major crush on Ash and would often tackle him. As a Bayleaf she would tackle Ash and crush him. In the episode "The Wayward Wobbuffet," Wobbuffet and Wynaut get into an argument of an unknown topic. The joke? Wobbuffet's japanese name translates to "That's the way it is," while that of Wynaut translates to, "Really?" In Pokémon Adventures, White has a Sandile actor trained to cry for any sad scene. Crocodile Tears. A baseball-themed episode of Sun and Moon has a Scyther as the umpire. Scyther's Japanese name is Strike, making it perfect for calling any missed swings. |
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In the English translation of Tartuffe, which is not a direct translation of the French (the lines rhyme in both versions) we get this after Elmire convinces Orgon, her husband and the head of the household, that Tartuffe is evil, so that he will not entrust him with the family's fortunes. She finally convinces him that Tartuffe is corrupt by seducing him while Tartuffe is under a table, and he must believe her. Later, he tries to convince his mother: This changes based on the performance. |
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The segment "Fun With Chicken Jane" is a pun based on Fun With Dick and Jane. The segment is basically a parody of the books, but with two children being accompanied by a clumsy chicken who's always getting hurt saving them from danger. | |
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Game Theory has a fight between Linith and Lotte; since both of them are Catgirls, it's a Cat Fight. | |
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In April 2024, the Hadestown touring company posted a video celebrating the musical's fifth anniversary on Broadway, showing the current cast lip-syncing to "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor. While this may strike some as an odd song choice, it becomes morbidly hilarious to those who know about the show's plot, or for that matter the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus was told not to look at Eurydice as they made their way out of the Underworld. Just as he reached the end, he looked back at her, sending her back to the Underworld for good. | |
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In Preacher, two minor villains list their "services" as Sexual Investigators. Or to put it another way, private dicks. | |
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Code Geass: Suzaku was Private 404 in the army. Given his status for most of the series, it fits. Here's a much subtler one. Lelouch's Geass allows him to command anyone to do anything, but it only works once per person, and it can't be undone, which means that they'll still be doing that command until they die, or get un-Geassed by someone with an ability to do so. Lelouch Geassed Suzaku commanding him to "Live." Given the nature of his Geass, Suzaku's gonna Live until he dies. |
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Cards Against Humanity expansions sometimes contain cards that seem irrelevant to the theme of the expansion. For example, there's the white card "Pandora's Vagina" in the Box Expansion, and the white card "Gender Equality" in the Fantasy pack. | |
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Magic: The Gathering's Unhinged joke set features a couple. All creatures with the subtype "donkey" have fractional numbers for their power and toughness. Why? Because they're half-assed. Yes, this was confirmed as intentional. City of Ass comes into play tapped. A spell having the word Charm in its name usually indicates that it's a cheap spell, usually an Instant, that allows you to choose between one of three effects. In the fairytale-themed Throne of Eldraine set, there's a card called Charming Prince, who is a two mana creature that allows you to choose between one of three effects. |
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Chobits features one that can be appreciated in both sub and dub. Hideki is searching desperately for the on switch for the female robot he's discovered, and eventually says there's only one place left he hasn't checked. Cut outside to a mewing cat. Sure enough, it's in her pussy. | |
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One issue of Private Eye, covering the scandal after Jacqui Smith's husband used her expense account to buy adult films, ran with the joke "At least he's not a banker!", the unspoken pun being that he is however (literally) a wanker. Private Eye also often refer to themselves as an "organ". On the obvious level, it's a pun on the fact that the eye is an organ, the Stealth Pun comes in with the fact that this then makes them a "Private Organ". Stealth Running Gag — A Private Eye caption competition photo showed Chris Woodhead (former Chief School Inspector, who had a relationship with an ex-student) and a teenage girl looking at a large book. The winning caption was "Look, there it is, next to Kenya." - the suggestion being that they really were "discussing Uganda," a long-time running gag for an excuse they took as an Unusual Euphemism. |
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Two issues of James Robinson's Firearm involved the title character entering a virtual world based on Glasgow, mostly as a gift to Glaswegian artist Gary Erskine. In one panel, Erskine drew a figure that resembled Alex from A Clockwork Orange outside an underground station. The local nickname for Glasgow's underground railway is "the clockwork orange". | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: While Stardust Crusaders hadn't yet settled on giving every Stand Musical Theme Naming, DIO's The World still has a nod to what is probably Ronnie James Dio's most iconic song. Specifically, it has what appear to be a set of small scuba tanks on its back, not to mention having a color scheme typically associated with holiness. Diamond is Unbreakable: The villain, Kira Yoshikage, has abilities named after Queen songs. Originally, he has his Stand, Killer Queen, and a secondary bomb, Sheer Heart Attack. He later gains a third ability, which he names "Bites the Dust". In other words, he had two abilities, then he got another one, Bites the Dust. On top of that, "Bites the Dust" causes what can easily be described as a sadistic "Groundhog Day" Loop: violently murdering people who set it off, then turning back time to before it was triggered. It's a time bomb. Kishibe Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door, allows him to turn people into books and read their memories. This means that he can literally read you like an open book. Keicho Nijimura's Stand, Bad Company, is renamed to "Worse Company" in the anime's official English subtitles. His Stand's name changed From Bad to Worse. Stone Ocean: Enrico Pucci, a Catholic priest, is a loyal servant of God...if you use the Italian word for God, that is. Later on, he manages to kill Jotaro by throwing knives at Jolyne in stopped time, forcing him to choose between finishing Pucci off and saving his daughter. In other words, he put Jotaro in checkmate. In The JOJOLands, Jodio's Stand, November Rain, causes rain to fall. His goal in life to get rich. Thus, he wants to "make it rain" metaphorically, while his Stand does that literally. |
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What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? Well, one's a sick duck... I forget the rest Trebek, but your mother's a whore. | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: The villain, Kira Yoshikage, has abilities named after Queen songs. Originally, he has his Stand, Killer Queen, and a secondary bomb, Sheer Heart Attack. He later gains a third ability, which he names "Bites the Dust". In other words, he had two abilities, then he got another one, Bites the Dust. On top of that, "Bites the Dust" causes what can easily be described as a sadistic "Groundhog Day" Loop: violently murdering people who set it off, then turning back time to before it was triggered. It's a time bomb. Kishibe Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door, allows him to turn people into books and read their memories. This means that he can literally read you like an open book. Keicho Nijimura's Stand, Bad Company, is renamed to "Worse Company" in the anime's official English subtitles. His Stand's name changed From Bad to Worse. |
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FoxTrot sometimes has the characters making references to Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity being on TV — which of course means that the Fox family is watching Fox News. | |
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TV Tropes: Spanner in the Works: Aside from being a wrench, "spanner" is also British slang for a stupid person. Donut Mess with a Cop: A "mess" is a shared eating space. |
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From The Very World of Milton Jones: The correct punchline is, of course, "the deputy head". |
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The main chord sequence for AC/DC's "High Voltage" is A, C, D, C. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossomverse: Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: After Specter's original trip on the Infinity Train went horribly, horribly wrong — necessitating a memory wipe for one thing — one of the signs that something is wrong with him is freaking out at his reflection and mirrors. A fear of mirrors is usually called spectrophobia. After Easter gets slammed into the sand by one of Ai's monsters, there are fireflies circling their head. Another term for fireflies is lightning bugs. Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria: Warbler is a mouse-like music note denizen who can't speak. So this makes her as quiet as a mouse. |
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In 2020, Jeffrey from Non Sequitur introduces Danae to his younger brother who's "on the spectrum". Danae mentions that he wonders where his brother's mind takes him. We then see this imagination, represented by a toy train, going off to investigate her father's adventure. So, it's a train of thought. | |
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In the Ninjago LEGO sets, the blue ninja's name is Jay which makes him a Blue Jay, like the bird. It gets even better. His last name is Walker. | |
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What's the difference between the manager of Barclays having a fight and Inspector Fowler having a conversation? Well, one's a warring banker... | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Khorne, the Chaos god of anger, rage, and bloodlust has demonic servants called Flesh Hounds...or, in other words, Khorne dogs. And also "the dogs of war" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. When you're playing the game, all distances are measured in inches. Or, rather, Imperial units. Orks, due to how they reproduce, are known to have left their spores on a world that utterly defeated them, and their descendants will rise—but without the infrastructure or know-wots of their ancestors, meaning they become primitive Feral Orks. In other words, the Imperium can congratulate themselves on having bombed them back to the Stone Age. One of the oddities in the Space Wolf geneseed is that it causes their canines to slowly but steadily grow as they age. The Wolves' seasoned veterans are called Long Fangs, and since they've been around for a few centuries, they have, well, long fangs. Because of their age, you could also say they're long in the tooth. |
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Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: After Specter's original trip on the Infinity Train went horribly, horribly wrong — necessitating a memory wipe for one thing — one of the signs that something is wrong with him is freaking out at his reflection and mirrors. A fear of mirrors is usually called spectrophobia. After Easter gets slammed into the sand by one of Ai's monsters, there are fireflies circling their head. Another term for fireflies is lightning bugs. |
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In The Wizard of Id, a visitor to the untrustworthy King's castle notices that the King's flag consists of a pair of black X's on a white background. The visitor asks for the name of this emblem. The king moves on to another pun before it is mentioned that the king is represented by Double Crosses. Charlie Chaplin did that joke earlier in The Great Dictator, where Adenoid Hynkel's movement is also referred to as the Sons (and Daughters) of the Double Cross. By the way, a different type of double cross (two horizontal bars) was used in heraldry centuries before the term "to double-cross" was invented (it comes from horse racing). |
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The English title of Delicious in Dungeon abbreviates to D&D, e.g. Dungeons & Dragons. | |
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This Bites!: In Chapter 16, after Luffy plows through a dozen or so buildings to get to a restaurant, sending Smoker and Ace flying in the process: The MI4 leaders and Cross all have code names based on the western zodiac. Smoker's? Cancer. |
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Asterix The Legionary has the Egyptian tourist Ptenisnet, who is accidentally drafted into the Roman army as part of a Legion of Lost Souls. He has a Running Gag of mocking the Drill Sergeant Nasty by means of hieroglyphs which spell out "Old Hairy <body part>" as a rhyme on the sergeant's various lines. At one point the (by now very demoralized) sergeant tells the new legionnaires that they'll get their "tot of rum" in port...then immediately interrupts himself with "And if that Egyptian speaks another hieroglyph I will personally throw him overboard!" before Ptensisnet can get a word in edgewise. Old Hairy Bum. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: In the Virtual World arc, Noah, the arc villain chooses Shinato's Ark for his Deckmaster. It is never mentioned that this would make it Noah's Ark. As another layer, fans tend to refer to this whole arc as Noah's Arc. Used in part 3 of "Dungeon Dice Monsters": |
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While Phoenix and Pinkie are investigating the victim's hotel room, she starts to wonder what they are looking for exactly, undirectly mentioning several Harry Potter MacGuffins one after the other, and then asking "Maybe something you ordered?". Hmm... something Phoenix ordered... | |
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In There's Something About Marinette, Heart Baker is a villain who eats pastries symbolizing the love her victims feel for her, and she cannot get enough to satisfy her. She is literally love-hungry. She also plays the seductive role for her victims before attacking, making her a man-eater. | |
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Mr. 1's Devil Fruit is called the Supa-Supa Fruit, it gives him super powers and his secret dream is to be a super hero. The obvious one is "super" a play on "Supa", his Devil Fruit name. The second not quite pun is he is literally a Man of Steel. A "Supaman" if you will.. | |
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The second year of the Beast Wars toyline introduced the Transmetals, with mechanical beast modes that can be turned into a more-or-less vehicular "transport" mode. Rattrap's third mode had him tuck away his feet and and deploy wheels and exhaust pipes, making him a rat rod. | |
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Pokémon Crossing: Holly, the main character, is a transgender girl and anthropomorphic chicken. Because when an egg hatches, a chick comes out! | |
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On Eureeka's Castle the character Batley wore big glasses and crashed while he landed from flying. Playing on the phrase "blind as a bat" | |
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In Marvel Apes, the Wrecker's simian counterpart wields a giant wrench instead of a crowbar. A monkey wrench. | |
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Iron Maiden has an insulting version in "El Dorado", with the line "I'm a clever banker's face, with just a letter out of place". Live, Bruce Dickinson would downright spell it out ("I'm a clever wanker's face, just a banker out of place"). | |
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The Codename: Kids Next Door fic Operation WAR contains Numbuh 417, an alien dragon-like creature who has a machine gun mounted to the end of her tail, meaning she's a literal tail gunner. | |
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In the song "Necessity" from Finian's Rainbow, the lines quoted below provoke the shouted question "Do you mean he's a —?", which is answered in the affirmative (the implied statement being that Necessity is a bastard): It also seems to be a stealth pun on the saying "Necessity is the mother of invention." |
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Death from The Sandman (1989) makes a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo during Peter David's run of The Incredible Hulk. She visits Marlo Chandler's wedding and gives her a brush as a wedding present. Marlo had recently died and come back to life. Get it? She had a brush with death. A rare unfunny example that's nonetheless good: An arc in The Sandman spin-off The Dreaming was about the loneliness of Matthew the Raven, titled "The Unkindness of One". (According to Victorian animal-group naming, a flock of ravens is called an unkindness, and he is the only raven in the Dreaming.) Why are Cain and Abel in the Dreaming? Because the Bible says Cain was banished to "the land of Nod". |
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Astro City: The supervillain Slamburger appears to be made of ground beef. See also the Crossbreed: David (the giant), Daniel (the lion-man), Peter (rock-skinned stone manipulator), Mary (winged flyer), Joshua (sonic screams) and Noah (commands rain and lightning). Though in this case, the characters make it deliberately clear that these are religious references, not much stealth utilized. And the astronauts-turned superheroes in the Apollo Eleven. Why, yes, they did land on the moon. The name came first (from Alex Ross), and the characters followed. The Confessor. Vampires are stereotypically associated with bats, making him a literal Batman. The main prison is Astro City is Biro Island Correctional Facility. In British English, a "biro" is a generic term for a pen. |
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In Three Messengers, one of the fortune-tellers is Old Woman Riley — in Japanese, this would be Riley-obaba. The author is a fan of The Who. | |
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Ironclaw has a few, pertaining to the World of Funny Animals setting, in the slightly less serious Book of Horn and Ivory for Second Edition. The Anatolians, local Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Turkey (they have janissaries, conquered the Egyptian equivalent, etc.), are ruled by otters. Why, when they're usually seen as a friendly species that doesn't fit Central Asian Turkish culture? Because it's an Otter-man Empire. They're opposed by a knightly order of falcons based on an island and inspired by the Knights Hospitaller. Yes, they're Maltese falcons. |
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Porco Rosso is about when pigs fly. | |
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In DARLING in the FRANXX, the pilots' "names" are all Goroawase Number readings of their numerical designations. The exception is Horned Humanoid Code:002, who simply goes by Zero Two. Applying the naming convention to her, however, gives the highly appropriate moniker Oni. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has a character (actually, several) named Klein. Calvin & Klein, anyone? | |
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Charlie Chaplin did that joke earlier in The Great Dictator, where Adenoid Hynkel's movement is also referred to as the Sons (and Daughters) of the Double Cross. By the way, a different type of double cross (two horizontal bars) was used in heraldry centuries before the term "to double-cross" was invented (it comes from horse racing). | |
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Watchmen: Rorschach breaks Nite-Owl's lock to get into his apartment. It gets replaced. Then he does it again. It gets replaced. Then the police break in. The lock holds but the door is destroyed. The pun? The lock company was called Gordian Knot Lock Company. Rorschach's foe in prison is short, and his two henchmen are, respectively, nasty and brutish. All three of them perceive Rorschach's comments ("small world", "fat chance", etc.) as being snide remarks about them.... Hrm... possibly true. Must look into later. |
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In the Homestuck fan adventure Alabaster: The Doomed Session, there are a lot of hidden jokes about various stories, such as "Beros-Keros" for a giant doghouse, in reference to Keros-Beros from Cardcaptor Sakura. However, most of the jokes are Homestuck-focused. The [LE] arc is nothing but a giant pileup of Homestuck stealth puns, down to its title. | |
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At one point in "Handy", the repairman narrator refers to his "bag of tricks", a Felix the Cat reference that is reaffirmed by the video. It is not mentioned that this would make him Fix-It Felix. | |
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Probably unintentional, but the bishop in a game of Chess moves diagonally, or to use another word, crosswise. | |
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The Ace Attorney series is famous for giving the characters incredibly punny names. Like Shelly de Killer, the assassin who leaves cards with the images of shells at the scene of the crime to draw suspicion from his clients. The killer with the conches. | |
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In Demon: The Descent, the titular beings are sentient programs, agents of a nigh-omnipotent hypercomputer, the God-Machine, that have broken free of its control. The game terminology includes a lot of programming terms, and the City of Adventure for the game is Seattle. So perhaps the Unchained are not demons, but daemons. | |
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A particularly painful one is the Mobile Suit Gundam MSV model MS-07H-4 Gouf Flight Test Type, a prototype Zeon mobile suit adorned with their iconic mono-eye camera and forehead-mounted communications antenna, and painted in outrageous magenta demo-colors. An early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a flight-capable Humongous Mecha, it was scrapped for its unfortunate tendency to kill its test pilots. Long story short, it's a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people-eater. | |
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Another episode has Elmo leading the children in a game about who can cry the loudest. | |
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When Mick Foley entered the 2012 Royal Rumble, Jerry Lawler said it wasn't a cheap pop, but a real pop. | |
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In the Sherlockian fic The Ghost Map, Colonel Moran has a Side Kick/Dragon named Yorick. In the Sequel Hook at the end of the story, guess who bites the dust? That's right. Alas, poor Yorick! | |
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Hidamari Sketch: When the residents of the Hidamari Apartments go to a sent� following the cultural festival, they relate things that they did and experienced. For example, during a Cinderella play they put on, Miyako did the voice of a horse; while in the baths, Hiro asks her to replicate it. Miyako refuses, not wanting to sell herself cheap, but an unspoken reason is that horseplay is against bathhouse etiquette. (Probably not intended...) | |
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New Vegas Showtime, a fanfic set in the Mojave Wasteland, has a trio of Great Khans based on Ed, Edd n Eddy's Lee, May and Marie Kanker - which would make them Khankers. It's not a coincidence; a different crossover fic by the same author that puts the Kankers themselves in the Mojave makes the exact same joke, but spells it out. | |
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Ejector, a transforming toaster from the Revenge of the Fallen toyline, is a small toaster with a maxed out Courage rating. | |
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In Katawa Shoujo, the protagonist Hisao is hospitalized after a confession of love provokes his arrythmia and gives him a heart attack. The girl in question eventually breaks ties with Hisao, which is one of the many reasons he's depressed at the start of the game. In other words, Hisao's got a broken heart. Lilly Satou, who is blind, says "I don't see why it matters" when asked to make a name for her team in the fishing competition. Keep in mind that people often say things such as "I see" around her, only to sheepishly apologize, and she is amused by their apologies. In Shizune's route, in the final part of Act 3, you learn that Misha has had the thought: "wouldn't it be better if I just died?" Earlier in that scene, you see what she looked like last year: she's already dyed. |
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The Cybertron and EarthSpark versions of Soundwave have him turn into a supersonic jet. Cybertron Soundwave specifically talks like a DJ or a rapper. He's fly. |
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The Tatami Galaxy represents the protagonist's libido via a cowboy with a phallic-looking nose called "Johnny". The intent becomes clearer when you realize that he looks a whole lot like Woody from Toy Story. | |
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Rev gets a lot of mileage with classic rock puns throughout the series. When he first takes Tyler on a mission, Rev gives his new sidekick the name "Moonshadow". When Tyler asks what it means, Rev just says he's been listening to a lot of Cat Stevens lately. The opening lyrics to Stevens's song "Moon Shadow"? | |
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In The Transformers: Lost Light, Rodimus paints himself purple after vowing to kill Getaway for double-crossing the crew and leaving the main cast to die. But when he finally gets to confront Getaway, Getaway chooses to throw himself into a furnace to be melted than let Rodimus kill him. Rodimus responds by jumping into the furnace after him and pull him to safety. In the process, his purple paint burns off, revealing his original red. When saving the traitor, Rodimus showed his true colors. | |
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Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria: Warbler is a mouse-like music note denizen who can't speak. So this makes her as quiet as a mouse. | |
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Where do you practice your Deathstroke? In the Deadpool, of course. | |
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