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Tradesnarkâ„¢
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A humorous way to make Things™ stand out is to add Random Trademark Symbols® everywhere. May be used as a Social Commentary® on our increasingly homogenized, commercialized World®, but more often than not, done just because of the Rule of Funny℠. They can also be used to point out how Cliche™ something is, or employed in Sarcasm Mode (perhaps in conjunction with Scare Quotes℠) to passive-aggressively imply that something exists only as a Concept™; for example, some people refer to global warming as "Global Warming™". Another sarcastic variation℠is to sprinkle Trade Snark over your paraphrase of an opponent's position to imply that they're using the term in question as a meaningless buzzword®. For added Spice™, try adding Registered Trademark® and Copyright© Symbols®©™. (This is not actually How Copyright Works™.) And of course, it's always fun to have characters with Medium Awareness™ compliment others on their expert use of the "™," especially if the symbol appears on the word as written but not the word as spoken. Compare Stuck on Band-Aid Brand for a similarly awkward attempt to acknowledge ownership of a brand, minus the Lampshade Hanging. Disney Owns This Trope is related; it's when you make a joke that a concept, especially one that shouldn't or couldn't belong to a company, is now a trademark. |
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Used a lot in the Thursday Next series, especially the Goliathâ„¢ Corporation ("for all you'll ever needâ„¢"), but also the Toastâ„¢ Marketing Board and others. In the Bookworld, there's the UltraWordâ„¢ story delivery system. (Earlier systems, such as BOOK 8.3 which the Bookworld returns to at the end of the novel, are not trademarked and are presumably open source). | |
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This exchange from Sonic CD playthrough, describing the race against Metal Sonic: | |
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Munchkin has Professor Tesla's Electrical Protective Device (pat. pending). | |
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The Stanley Parable brings us the Stanley Parable Adventure Lineâ„¢ from the "Confusion" ending, which has the â„¢ symbol stuck on in the subtitles every time The Lineâ„¢ is mentioned, even with pronouns. | |
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Part Right, Half Wrong, a Third Crazy, a Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic, brings us "Epic, life-altering journey®". | |
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Retarded Animal Babies blows this out the window in episode 3. Matt Groening says that he is here to prevent RAB from out-grossing his "vastly superior Simpsons©®™©®©©®©™™©©™™™™™™ movie. (Make sure subtitles are on.)" | |
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The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode featuring the Batman (1966) live-action series cast has Space Ghost look for "Batman. Restricted." (Space Ghost is misidentifying the Registered® symbol.) | |
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The MS Paint Adventures home page used to take the snark approach with their notice of copyright (still legally binding), but it was revised to a more standard approach with the mid-2011 site redesign. | |
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Hilariously, the wrestler Steve Borden actually owns the trademark for his ring name Sting. The musician of the same name has to pay Steve whenever he performs in the U.S. However, Sting the wrestler is very reasonable about it and the fee is extremely low (around $1 and the occasional ticket). | |
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The Simpsons: The theme song for Kamp Krusty manages to jam its copyright disclaimer into the lyrics: The episode "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" features a scene showing some of the items Marge has made practicing woodwork. One of them is a sign which reads "The Simpsons (in the show's trademark font) © 20th Century Fox". In the Episode "Pokey Mom", Homer punctuated any discussion around his accidental invention the "Spine-O-Cylinder" with a stern "patent pending!". |
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Impjak Adventure: Two mentions of Soylent end with â„¢. | |
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1/0: Zadok, when advertising the "Horizonite™" or the "Oil®". | |
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I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: Might Guy is known for stricking the Nice Guy Poseâ„¢. | |
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The Battle Cats features Eraser Cat, which according to its description has "Really Goodâ„¢ Defense". In this case, the Tradesnarked term is completely accurate. | |
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The second Red Dwarf novel Better Than Life insists on referring to Talkie Toaster as "Talkie Toasterâ„¢, patent applied for." Every instance is also present in the audiobook version. | |
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Kamen Rider Zero-One distinguishes the protagonist's company, Hiden Intelligence, from their rival ZAIA Enterprise in part by having ZAIA miss no opportunity to loudly promote their brand as part of their Corporate-Sponsored Superhero. Not only does Thouser's transformation jingle end in "Presented by ZAIA!", the special effects that accompany his Finishing Move emblazon the screen itself with © ZAIA Enterprise. For extra Jerkass points, Thouser is a copyright troll - most of his technology is stolen from others, and his main weapon (the Thousand Jacker) even lets him steal and copyright the heroes' attacks during a fight. ZAIA, the jet-black soldier from Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai, takes this trope to an extreme: Not only is he named after the company, he also announces (verbally) "Presented by ZAIA!" after transforming in front of Jin. Even in death, he still gets one last chance to promote not only his brand, but also glorify himself with two simple words, in his dying breath: "ZAIA...forever!" | |
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Also used in Paranoia, with one secret society using "The Force is with us, Tee-Em" as part of its recognition symbol. And then there's the Semantics Control firms, which actively try to inflict this upon everyone in Alpha Complex (leading to much hilarity and no small number of weapons discharges). | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES): FREDDY'Sâ„¢ COMING! | |
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From the Animaniacs videotape "You Will Buy This Video": | |
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SCP Foundation: A common feature of Dr. Wondertainment® entries. There's also SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics®: In the "What a Wonderful World" canon, characters even explicitly make sure to include a proper "tee emm" for everything in conversations. |
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SCP Foundation (Website) | hasFeature |
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The Whateley Universe doesn't bother with a lot of trademark and copyright symbols, but Phase routinely puts the trademark and copyright symbols on every (mythical) Goodkind Industries product that gets mentioned, in large part because he is one of the Goodkinds. | |
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Princess Pi introduces Pi's archival as, "Princess Ip!® Princess Pi's greatest enemy!™" | |
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The BEYOND Corporation© from Nextwave. | |
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The Love Guru: Guru Pitka uses these on advice-giving acronyms. And on the posters for the film itself, the title has a "TM" by it. |
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The World of Warships community frequently jokes that Wargaming (the company that owns WoWS) has trademarked the word "Soon" since that is typically the only response that was ever given when the playerbase inquired as to when a new feature (usually a premium ship or tech tree line) would come out. | |
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The Daily Show: While reporting on Disney applying for a trademark on the name "SEAL Team 6" just days after the death of Osama bin Laden, Jon Stewart tried to beat them at their own game by trademarking The Lion King (1994). When he found out it's already trademarked, he trademarked the "TM" on the Lion King logo. | |
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On an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Howard uses Google Street View to find the location of the set of America's Next Top Model. He reacts, "God bless you, Google Street View Registered Trademark!" | |
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One issue of normalman had a field day with this. Whenever a comic-book company's lawyers get skittish about protecting their intellectual property, you'll see a flurry of issues where little ™ or ® signs appear next to the main characters' names (and, sometimes, the main characters' vehicle names, e.g. "Batmobile™"). So, in the normalman issue in question, he put a ™ after everything. | |
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Destroyer Duck has Vanilla Cupcakeâ„¢, a thinly disguised Strawberry Shortcake parody who even has a â„¢ symbol tattooed on her cheek. | |
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Undertale has a couple of fans of Mettaton who each describe their "fave Mettaton Moment(TM)." There's also MTT-Brand Burger Emporium's slogan, "Sparkle up your day (TM)," though this is a somewhat plausible-sounding trademark. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: In one episode, Brainiac forces Lex Luthor to build him a new body. Once Brainiac is defeated, Superman wants the military to examine Brainiac, but Lex claims that the body belongs to him because every piece used in its construction is trademarked to LexCorp. | |
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Daniel Hardcastle, or Nerd³, has a video known as Nerd³ Plays Barbie™ Dreamhouse™ Party™™™. Made funnier by the fact that "Barbie" only has one trademark but "party" has three. | |
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More than one wag has pointed out that, for half a century, Robin® the Boy Wonder™ wore something that looked uncannily like a Registered Trademark symbol on his chest. | |
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xkcd: Discussed. (Or is that Invoked, since the trademark is real, but the snark is snark?) | |
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It shows up on The Lord of the Rings Online forums, as well. One of the bluenames made a list over all the various trademarks used, which details the difference between a patch arriving Soonâ„¢, "Soon", Soon, soon, and other similar trademars. Most of which, of course, doesn't give you any clue whatsoever to how long you'll have to wait for the patch. | |
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EVE Online: CCP hf is known for having patches that will be released "Soonâ„¢". And not just patches: planetary interaction, atmospheric flight, walking in stations, and numerous other promised features have been coming Soonâ„¢ for years. Even admittedly unfinished COSMOS sites have agents handing you missions with the helpful and in-depth description of "Soonâ„¢". The symbol for one of the factions — Caldari State — is a giant ©-Symbol |
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Hellfire Commentaries: This exchange from Sonic CD playthrough, describing the race against Metal Sonic: Also, during the Dramatic Reading of the Total Justice miniseries, every mention of 'Fractal Tech Gear' is followed by an interjection of 'trademark' by Helldragon. |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Precocious: Mommy Relaxation Timeâ„¢ | |
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Precocious / Web Comic | hasFeature |
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In What If? #108, an expensive software called Adobe®©™ Photoshop®©™ CS®™ 5™ is mentioned. | |
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The Colbert Report: The last line of Stephen Colbert's "Another Christmas Song" is "Copyright Stephen Colbert!" He occasionally adds "Trademark" after made-up words, with one note directed specifically at Fox News stating that he held the copyright on the phrase "No Fact Zone". |
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The Colbert Report | hasFeature |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Some Simpsons comics have Homer using these in his speech bubbles. | |
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Every time someone mentions the term RPG in Segagaga, there's a disclaimer that pops out to tell us that "RPGs are a trademark of Bandai" note Allegedly a jab to Bandai's unsuccessful attempt to trademark the acronym. | |
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SsethTzeentach uses the â„¢ symbol in the titles of his videos as a Running Gag. Examples include his Morrowind review ("A Moon-Sugar Fortified Experienceâ„¢"), his STALKER review ("Soviet Survival Simulatorâ„¢"), his Deus Ex review ("Stop Globalistsâ„¢ | Tase Childrenâ„¢"), and his God Hand review ("Beat Thugsâ„¢ | Demonsâ„¢ | Womenâ„¢"). | |
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Kaeloo has "Time Machine Expressâ„¢", a company that sells time machines. | |
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Paradigm has The Cone TM | |
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Viva Reverie does this in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood But Really Really Fast, when Dire (aka slow kick guy) attempts his Thunder Cross Split Attack on Dio. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland puts a superscript OMT (Offical Management Term) on words or phrases that are, in the author's opinion, particularly overused in Extruded Fantasy Product. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland | hasFeature |
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In The Ditty of Carmeana, video game clichés such as Rescue the Princess™ and The Chosen One™ are trademarked, even in the dialogue captions. | |
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One issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac involves Johnny meeting Godâ„¢. | |
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The old gamer legend that back in the day of their apparently short-lived Indiana Jones role-playing game, TSR (then-owners of Dungeons & Dragons) actually claimed a trademark on the term "Nazi". While names of characters were trademarked all through the short run of the role-playing game, "Naziâ„¢" can be found on the fold-up 'miniatures' included in module IJ 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the character sheets for NPC Nazi's in the same module. |
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America (The Book) has a number of "Were You Aware?" facts in the margins, but what pushes it into this territory appears midway through. | |
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Paradox Space: In "Fiduspawn", the company spokesman at Fiduspawn Headquarters tends to put a â„¢ superscript in front of almost every specific noun he mentions. | |
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RedLetterMedia: Mr. Plinkett does use this to great effect on his Attack of the Clones Review. He also uses it in his Avatar review. The Nerd Crew podcast also does this, with the Star Warsâ„¢ Backpack Pack Nerd Boxâ„¢. |
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Sonic X: Eggman intruduces a robot version of himself called Egg-Gantor in issue #6 - and then, in small print: "â„¢ Eggman Corporation, all rights reserved! So there!" | |
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Bug Fables: One of the items from the Termite Kingdom, the Mega Rushâ„¢, is always written with a trademark symbol next to it. The song that plays on Metal Island is titled "Summer Holiday at the Metal Islandâ„¢," with a trademark symbol in its name, even when selecting the song from Samira's list. |
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC: "Copyright Deadpool... Copy and I'll sue..."'' | |
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Futurama Momcorp apparently holds the trademarks on "screen door" and "love", among other words. The Nimbus's laser cannon has a maximum power setting labeled Hyperdeathâ„¢. Trespassers will be "deathsecutedâ„¢". |
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Jackson Stewart and Oliver Oken of Hannah Montana ended their (in)famous cheese jerky rap with "Sizzlin' Stewart & Smokin' Oken Enterprises. Patent pending." Also, Rico owns the North American rights to his catch phrases "Hey-O!" and "Muahahahaha!" | |
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Hannah Montana | hasFeature |
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The Final Fantasy fanfic This Army Life has Sephiroth's Evil Smileâ„¢. | |
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Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Portal 2 has some of this in the game, but it mostly shows up in the promotional material. | |
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Portal 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
Tradesnarkâ„¢ / int_abdc1a89 | comment |
In Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman, at a New Years Eve party, Reid gets trapped by a droning bore who starts explaining that he lives by thirty different principles. "They help me define my Head Spaceâ„¢". | |
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Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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In Questionable Content, Faye and Bubbles' repair shop has a custom polymer that displays the Wendy's logo when dry, given to them by the Wendy's marketing department. When Bubbles is explaining this, she feels obliged to say "trademark" quietly every time she says "Wendy's". | |
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One FoxTrot strip (March 23, 2014) has Peter playing an Allegedly Free Game titled "Candyâ„¢ Farmâ„¢ Dungeonâ„¢." This may be a reference to Candy Crush Saga and its attempt to trademark the word "candy." | |
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The "The Incredible Hulk" Hogan gained ire from Marvel, and, under the threat of a lawsuit, the WWE had to pay residuals to Marvel every time the name was used. Pointedly, when Hogan went to the WCW, he quickly changed his character to "Hollywood Hogan", presumably because TBS wasn't thrilled about paying. Hogan later personally bought out Marvel's claim on his ring name. | |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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The sequel to Daniel Suarez' Daemon, titled Freedomâ„¢ | |
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Daemon | hasFeature |
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In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, a Bat-signal appears in the air, with a "TM" quickly flying up next to it. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures | hasFeature |
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All over the place in American Flagg!; in fact, the issue of normalman mentioned above was the one which parodied this series. | |
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AmericanFlagg | hasFeature |
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El Goonish Shive: Sarah declares "I want Fancy Feast!®" while in a cat form. Grace asks if they are a sponsor but Sarah says they're just hoping to get free samples for the kitties. | |
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The miracle plastic Boing® in Judge Dredd — great for trapping alien fiends of mass destruction! | |
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Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Done for The Supervillainy Saga with its titular character being Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercyâ„¢. It is a Running Gag by the second book and continues throughout. At one point, Merciless is asked who he trademarked the name with. | |
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The Supervillainy Saga | hasFeature |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Bronies use the phrase "Do Not Steal" like this when mocking poorly designed Original Characters. It's even a tag, along with the even worse "Donut Steel", on Derpibooru. In Seeking Power, the Tradesnark is an actual spell. Fortunately, it hasn't been used much. Used as part of a gag◊ on Ask King Sombra. |
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The Doctor Who tie-in website for Cybus Industries includes an interview with John Lumic which is dotted with ®s, ©s and ™s, including Cybus Industries©, Cybusnet™, Upgrade™, Sleep Replacement System® and Czechoslovenia™. | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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Tradesnarkâ„¢ | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Seriesâ„¢: "...with my all-new DUEL DISK SYSTEM! ...Trademark." | |
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On Twitter it is not uncommon to see people add a "â„¢" after a phrase for ironic reasons, such as proclaiming something frivolous and trivial as extremely important, for example when referring to The Discourseâ„¢ (i.e. pointless and tedious political debate on minor factional disagreements), or when being ironic or sarcastic, such as referring to something very bad as Extremely Goodâ„¢. | |
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The Monkey Island games have them in the dialog text, but not the voice acting in the later games. Some characters seem to notice their presence even so; in Escape from Monkey Island, a lawyer complements Guybrush on "Nice use of the â„¢" in Melee Islandâ„¢. Even Guybrush says the word "â„¢" while he summons his wife Elaine to the Flotsam Island Courthouse in Tales of Monkey Island. | |
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In Unnatural Acts, Senator Balfour's Unnatural-hating supporters evidently trademarked the phrase "You are Damned!" as a political slogan. | |
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In Hack/Slash, Cassie uses this to lampshade all the Slasher Movie cliches in "Campfire Stories": | |
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When appearing in WWE, David Heath initially wrestled under the name Gangrelâ„¢, a name taken from Vampire: The Masquerade and a trademark of White Wolf.note The writers were given RPG books as reference material, and didn't twig that "Gangrel" was not a public domain name like, say, "Nosferatu". They settled for a 5-year agreement which White Wolf would be credited in any material in which Gangrel was used. Cue WWE flashing the trademark notice upon returning from commercial every time Gangrel was about to appear, in video games where the character featured, etc. | |
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After taking over Fox News' "Fair And Balanced" slogan for his own show, Some More News, anytime Cody now mentions this slogan, he will add ™©® after. | |
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The Nameless Mod: The subtitles for the speech of Goats shows that they trademarked slightly misspelled versions of every other word. The most important one is "Melkâ„¢", which they use as a drug for some reason. | |
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Bucky Bailey's Bully Buckersâ„¢ in the South Park episode "Butterballs" is pronounced, verbatim, "Bully Buckers, trademark," every single time. | |
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One of the Royal Sides in Erfworld is actually named Hobbittm, with "tm" being part of the word, as a parody of the Tolkien Estate's zealous enforcement of their right (and particularly their trademarking of the word "hobbit"). | |
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The Unidentified by Rae Mariz has intouch® (basically an iPhone) and notebook®. Considering the book takes place in a school in a mall owned by a corporation, consumerism is a big theme. | |
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Homestar Runner has Sbemailiarized Entertainment™ © ® LLC,,. Esq., which becomes Sbemailiarized Entertainment™ © ® LLC,,. GQ and Sbemailiarized Entertainment™ © ® LLC,,. FHM. | |
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One page at the end of the Principia Discordia uses a circled K (similar to that used to mark Kosher products, but in this case standing for "Kallisti") followed by the phrase "All Rites Reversed", to indicate that it was being released into public domain. Which was (alongside the Illuminatus! trilogy, itself inspired by the Principia Discordia) part of the inspiration for acidhouse band The KLF (aka Kopyright Liberation Front, aka K Foundation, aka The JAMS) and some of their more controversial work. | |
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I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator had the final boss a giant (Mario) with a trademark symbol hanging in mid air next to him at all times. | |
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Hidamari Sketch commonly has the sound effects trademarked. | |
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Destroy the Godmodder®: the Curse of Repetition™ has been trademarked by twin. | |
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Kingdom Hearts fanfic Those Lacking Spines has Overly Detailed Purple Description Modeâ„¢, as well other examples throughout the literature. | |
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In one episode of Sgt. Frog, Fuyuki worries that Saburo might be a Man in Black. The Gag Dubtitles are quick to point out, "Fuyuki is using the generic 'Men in Black,' not the trademarked 'Men in Blackâ„¢'." | |
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Spongebob Squarepants The Frisbee™ flying disk is referred to as "small plastic disk that you throw". At one point, SpongeBob and Patrick discuss how clunky the name is and try to come up with something shorter and snappier. They eventually settle on "small plastic disk that you toss." In the episode describing Krabs and Plankton's past together, Krabs introducing his to-be-signature burger has the words "Krabby Patty®" appear in an arc above the sandwich. |
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Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded: The â„¢ symbol has itself been trademarked! | |
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Deadpoolâ„¢ had a field day with this. | |
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Old Man's War brings us two of the many technological advances which make the Colonial Defense Union's Super-Soldier program so effective, a highly adaptive nanomachine replacement for blood called SmartBloodâ„¢, and a combination computer and wireless communications device implanted in the brain known as a BrainPalâ„¢. The narration even pauses at one point to Lampshade the inappropriate levity of the branding used for a computer exclusively used by soldiers in combat. | |
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