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This work is drowning in puns. The characters are dropping them left and right, and often the narrator (if there is one) will get in on the action, too. Worlds of Pun generally capitalize on a quirky brand of humor, with the puns as an integral, pundamental feature of the work's appeal. Compare World of Ham and World of Snark. Often includes Punny Names and Pun Based Titles. See also Hurricane of Puns. Flintstone Theming is a subtrope, where the puns follow a particular theme. For a character who frequently uses puns, see Pungeon Master. |
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Dork Tower is overflowing with puns, either as punchlines to individual strips, punchlines to gags, or just part of the drive-by snark while other things are happening. Check out a few examples here, here, and here. | |
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Night Watch contains a sequence describing the ornamental armour Sam Vimes has to wear, and how it makes him feel like a class traitor. The pune-chline: "It was gilt by association." | |
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Half of the humor in Bojack Horseman is darkly comedic satire, and the other half are animal puns. Loads and loads of animal puns. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 gets a lot of mileage out of the food-animal hybrids (themselves called "foodimals"). Shrimpanzee, mosquitoast, jellyfish, tacodile (SUPREME!), watermelephants, Hippotatomus, bananostriches, kiwi... It's pretty much Sony giving us an hour and a half worth of food puns. Most combos clearly picked for the name, rather than any connection between the food and animal. (Shrimpanzees are especially weird, as shrimp are already animals.) As Flint says, "It's best we don't think about it too much." Subverted for comic effect with the tomato—it's just a tomato. | |
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Munchkin, in all of its incarnations. Meet monsters such as Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hide, Tequila Mockingbird and Cowthulhu... and that's only the beginning. | |
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The Land of Wisdom in The Phantom Tollbooth is one of these. Milo's companions are Tock, a "watchdog" who is a dog with a clock in his abdomen, and the Humbug, an anthropomorphic insect who brags of his wit and exploits but has nothing to back them up. In the city of Dictionopolis people literally "eat their words" off plates, and for dessert they have half-baked ideas (like "The moon is made of green cheese"), fresh from the half-bakery. King Azaz owns a carriage that "goes without saying" — as soon as the passengers were all quite silent, it starts moving. People who make rash assumptions near the island of Conclusions may find themselves literally jumping to Conclusions. And so on and so forth. | |
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The Dragon Quest franchise is absolutely rife with puns, but up until the release of Dragon Quest VIII, most of them were left out of the English translations. Ever since then, however, the localization team has stepped up their game, with the many of the names of enemies, items, locations and more containing some form of pun, alliteration, or other wordplay. | |
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Puns are The Gungeon's second language. | |
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The Boys' Life comedic comics, including The Wacky Adventures of Pedro, sure love their wordplay. | |
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Dominic Deegan falls under this, especially during the early strips before Cerebus Syndrome set in. For example: Seer's catalog, bookmarking sites... | |
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In Nanny Ogg's Cookbook and Wintersmith, Gytha's cottage is called Tir Nani Ogg, which is translated as "Nanny Ogg's Place". | |
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon: In-universe example: In addition to the puns that litter their ordinary dialogue, the regulars at Callahan's hold regular Punday Night competitions and tell shaggy dog stories where the punchlines are truly horrible. Jake, the series' Narrator, states that the highest compliment one can pay to a pun is to hold one's nose and run screaming into the night. | |
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The band Alkaline Trio lives in one of these. Their albums have titles like Good Mourning and From Here To Infirmary. [1] | |
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Airplane!: loads of them — "Surely you can't be serious", Ted's drinking problem (as in, he has trouble drinking, not that he's a drunk), (literally) smoking tickets. | |
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And the Fat Mines in The Fifth Elephant contained BCBs (Burnt Crunchy Bits - animals caught up when the then-hot fat arrived on the Disc) that Vimes said died because they were battered to death. | |
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Paranoia: While there's no general consensus on when the games jumped the shark, the trend was marked by a decrease in the social satire in game supplements and an increase in the puns. This reached its nadir with Fifth Edition. Since the game's re-release as Paranoia XP, puns have become few and far between. Even older adventures that get updated and repackaged have character names surgically altered to remove any trace of former puns. |
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Almost every episode of House of Mouse used puns, especially in the cartoon shorts but often in the main story as well. Like Mickey saying he had to stop at the bank because he was "overdrawn" and two guests, who are still pencil tests, saying, "He's lucky! We're not done yet!" | |
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In Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, nearly every name is some sort of pun based on food (Goku is the exception, since his name comes from Journey to the West). | |
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Arrested Development took this trope liberally, hiding many of the punny gems for viewers to find. | |
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Too many to go into, but during the early years of Dilbert, Scott Adams was really, really into puns (very little office humor was involved, Dilbert was ostensibly an engineer just to provide a context for nerd-jokes and nerdy jokes). | |
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Power Rangers. It's actually quite impressive to see how they can keep the pun ball in the air for long stretches. | |
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Holy Musical B@man! is absolutely full of puns. Batman and Robin almost spend more time making puns than stopping crime when they team up, and the dialogue of the main villain, Sweet Tooth, is almost entirely pun-based! He even has props! The tendency for Batman's villains to be so heavily pun-based is lampshaded in a conversation between Superman and the Green Lantern, who sum up almost all of them as "guys in suits with things on their heads making puns around a theme." | |
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and then World of Warcraft went to Pandaria. Basically everything on the continent is either a pun or an anime joke. Not that things outside of Pandaria aren't: it's Warcraft after all. Most of the quest names in the world are puns, though this is probably simply because they had to write an obscenely large number of quests all with unique names. These range from the terrible, to the actually extremely clever. Most minor NPCs also have a pun for a name, which again is probably mostly because there are a ridiculously huge number of them. A fairly large number of the items you receive in the game are also puns, either just their names or also being visual puns. They used up the possible permutations of actual weapons a long time ago, so a lot of weird items get used as weapon models. Some of the things are extremely clever though: like the fist weapons entitled the Fists of Deity looking suspiciously like a certain god-killing character from another game's weapons. You get the weapons off a god-killing character too. Mounts, pets, and other collectibles have a very strong chance of being a pun (visual, nominal, or both). Tabards are also a frequent source of visual puns. Major characters might also have a pun in their name but it's almost always extremely sophisticated to the point where it counts as an Easter Egg. Like the name Malfurion, originally introduced as Furion. In Greek mythology, the furies were horrific earth deities who punished mortals for their misdeeds. Malfurion is a druid, and if you value your life you don't tick him off (unless of course your name is Illidan). Characters also pun in-universe: usually either because they're joke characters, or for the purposes of smack-talk. Bosses usually do this, since they tend to be canonically smarter: although sometimes major heroic NPCs do it too. There are also a few characters who are walking puns: such as Orkus (who is an orc, obviously: but points here since Orcus is the name of the Archdevil of Undeath in D&D, and Orkus is a Death Knight). The best pun of all has to go to Matthias Lerner (Matthias is the name of a heroic mouse in Brian Jacques Redwall series, he is a novice aka... a "learner"). But this is the best one, because Matthias Lerner is really the Lich King's heart (or soul? the thing you pick up looks more like soul gem than a heart, but the jury is still out on this one). Rearrange the letters, and you get Arthas Menethil. You go on a series of quests as the Lich King with Matthias narrating, that eerily mirror the story of Matthias the mouse. So, it's pun as (childhood ruining) meta-commentary rather than just existing because the devs were bored. | |
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Puns are everywhere in Sarazanmai, especially around the kappa characters, and tie into the work's symbolism. Most episodes are themed around an object which is often used with multiple, punny, meanings (e.g. kisu (fish)/kisses, balls/testicles) etc. Puns are esssential to the characater of Sara, an idol whose name means "dish", has a verbal tic of "~dish", is a Kappa with a dish on her head, provides the "dish" on whatever's going on in the world that week through her news show, and is an object of desire for various characters, consistent with the work's use of dishes as a symbol for desire. | |
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There's a stage in Namco × Capcom where every character is making lame puns. All of the puns are highlighted in red, to boot. | |
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Finnegans Wake. Every sentence. In about sixty different languages (this is not an exaggeration). | |
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Puns related to characters' themes or characterization are something of a tradition with Homestuck's trolls. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold is laden with puns. In fact, it's almost mandated. Batman is instructed during his training that he has to make an entrance with a quip or a pun! |
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Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It is an entire text-based adventure based on wordplay. Throughout the game, you jump out of a cook's frying pan and into the fire, read riddles while foam burns, and wrangle a chocolate moose in the dessert aisle, among many more. | |
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Nobody in the Land of Oz can resist making puns, up to and including the scenery itself. Things are already pretty punny in the books by L. Frank Baum, but when Ruth Plumly Thompson takes over the story, the pun levels go up a notch. | |
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Jade Armor: Everyone, even the villains, can't help but make puns any chance they get. Especially Black Tiger does a lot of cat-related puns. | |
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If the Not Always Right editors can fit a pun into a title, they will. There tend to be long pun chains in the comments as well. | |
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Chuggaaconroy's Let's Plays are full of these, Chugga being the Pungeon Master he is. | |
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Undertale loves puns almost as much as it loves dogs. Not only are there multiple Pungeon Master characters, Punny Names are everywhere and puns are also common in Flavor Text. | |
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Hybrid webcomic/browser game Demon Thesis does this constantly when in game mode, as virtually any action you have the characters take is accompanied by a pun or reference. For example, give Clady the spear and let her attack with it, and the attack is called "Clad the Impaler". Give Val, the sole American, the axe, and it's called "American Chopper" when she uses it. If Alain, a french-Canadian, goes into a defensive mode to take less damage, it's Block Quebecois, and so on and so forth. | |
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Perky once visited Pun Land, where the laws of physics are completely ignored in favor of puns. Although, given how much of a Hurricane of Puns the series is, one could argue that every land Perky visits is its own World Of Pun- Pun Land is just the only one to go for general puns instead of having its own Flintstone Theming. | |
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Pretty much all of the on-screen text in The Owl House that isn't directly related to the plot will be some sort of magic based pun. The show also gets a lot of mileage out of its Giant Corpse World setting by giving things body part themed Punny Names. | |
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When Hejibits isn't doing a comic about Video Games, it's almost always a comic about a terrible pun of some sort. | |
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AdventureQuest is infamous for this, and they tend to be so spectacularly lame that they end up So Bad, It's Good. Or, as Artix described it: | |
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Hanna-Barbera's The Impossibles is loaded with puns! | |
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In Equal Rites Granny Weatherwax's lodgings in the Shades are made are all the better for being next door to a notorious reseller of stolen items. Because good fences make good neighbours. | |
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All over the place in Archer. It's pun for the whole family! | |
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There are a good plenty of food puns to be found in Bread Barbershop, ranging from character names like Bread Pitt and Bun Iger, to jokes about Bread being "toast" once Chip defeats him, to mentions of foodified versions of well-known works and events such as Panc-Mannote a portmanteau of "Pac-Man" and "pancake" and the Cornvid virus. | |
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Bakemonogatari: Puns, often elaborate and multi-layered with meaning, inform a lot of the story, starting from the name itself (combining <bakemono>, "ghost/monster", and <monogatari>, "story". Senjougahara wished to get rid of her feelings of guilt, and a minor god made her weightless, because "weight" and "emotions" are homophones. Senjougahara and Kanbaru were called the "Valhalla Combo" because the last two syllables of their names make "Valhalla" transcribed in katakana (<Baruhara>). The whole series is like this. | |
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Paranatural derives much humor from puns and portmanteaus, especially in more recent chapters. | |
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Surprisingly one of the tragedies, Romeo and Juliet, has the most by far, with an average of one pun every 4 lines. The opening scene starts off with Gregory and Sampson, two of the Capulets' servants, before they encounter Abraham and Balthazar: | |
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Super Mario Bros. loves to use puns, especially the RPG titles (with some Lampshade Hanging on the particularly bad ones). | |
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The same could be said of Total Television's works: Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, Underdog and a few others. | |
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Final Fantasy X-2: As an aid to the game's much lighter tone, puns are all over the place in this game, and virtually any ability any of the three main characters use has a good chance to lead them to quip one before firing it off (in contrast to the original, where puns were only heard when Lulu or Tidus used magic, and even then, only the first time they used it in a random encounter). | |
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The Mashin Hero Wataru Series runs them off the charts. The usage of punny names in particular are there to help children learn Japanese phrases, historical figures, celebrities, and important cultural references. The examples listed below are the most commonly used. The name of Mashins are a play on words "Ma (Demon)", "Shin (God)", and "Machine." Wataru the "savior" is always mistaken as an "emergency vehicle." note "Kyuseishu (Savior)" vs. "Kinkyusha (Emergency Vehicle)." |
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Evil, Inc. can barely go a strip without puns. | |
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Among the Outside Xbox crew, Ellen is probably the champion, but her colleagues can dish the puns out too—sometimes to the point of making her groan. | |
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If any given strip of Doc Rat isn't part of a larger dramatic storyline, chances are it'll contain at least one pun (frequently acknowledged as terrible in-universe). | |
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There's the "Oh God of Hangovers" in Hogfather — not a god, or the god, but Oh, GOD of Hangovers. | |
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Kim Possible is notorious for this, as Kim herself has noted once or twice. | |
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Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There are both famous for their wordplay and allusions. | |
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Bee Movie is shameless in using as many bee puns as possible - Barry getting all B's on a report card, Barry being referred to as a "newbie" ("new bee") by one of the pollen jocks, and the musician Sting showing up since bees sting, are just the tip of the iceberg. | |
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Bob's Burgers is full of it. It starts with the names of the burgers of the day, the (changing) names of the neighbour shop and the van appearing in the intro and continues with names of various businesses. | |
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There's also an example of him being entirely unable to stop himself with the story of Fingers Mazda in Men at Arms, who stole the secret of fire from the gods. He was unable to fence it, it was too hot. He really got burned on that deal. | |
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One Piece lives and breathes puns. Attack names (most of Zoro's sword moves, notably, also resemble types of sushi when written), character names (The Seven Warlords of the Sea all have animals in their names), and in the seventh movie over half the lines of the plot-central prophecy were puns. | |
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+EV is full of them, mostly Poker-related. Big Blind, Pocket Pear... | |
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Shows up regularly in Magic: The Gathering. The Werebear "exercises his right to bear arms". Wheel and Deal. See, it makes your opponents get the effects of "Wheel of Fortune" and gives you a card draw... Unglued and Unhinged are about 50% puns (the other half is a mixture of cardpaper and in-jokes that only players of the game will get). Unhinged had Donkey Folk, which only existed to make puns on "ass". There was Smart Ass, Dumb Ass, Fat Ass, Cheap Ass and Bad Ass. (Who all have fractional numbers, specifically those involving 1/2, in their power, toughness, and effects because they're half-assed.) The Clay Pigeon (a 1/1 flying artifact creature that has an effect which involves throwing it in the air). The Rock Lobster (it wasn't a rock, and many take it for granite), the Paper Tiger (who burns bright and folds easily), and the Scissors Lizard (who has a lot of shear power), which prevent the counterparts which are weak to them from attacking or blocking. Fowl Play turns things into chickens. The Man of Measure is better at offense or defense depending on whether you're measured as taller or shorter than an opponent. The Standing Army doesn't tap when it attacks, because they're always standing... but only as long as you are too. |
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Godville goes a step further by integrating puns into the local laws of physics. Items like a Token of Gratitude and a Green Thumb, monsters like the dreaded Wedding Knight and the vile Turncoat of Arms, and even events like your hero literally slamming a window of opportunity shut in the enemy's face. | |
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King of Tokyo: The "Evolution" add-on uses numerous punny titles for the new powers a player's Kaiju can acquire. | |
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Practically all the lines in Batman & Robin are "plant" or "ice" puns, due to its villains being Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze. | |
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Wonder Woman and the Star Riders: The Star Rider's only known villain Purrsia seems to be incapable of communicating in anything but puns and insults, or punny insults. The Star Riders themselves are also frequent users of puns, mainly cat puns directed at or when talking about Purrsia. | |
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Trulli Tales: Most of the episode names are puns. | |
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Arthur in Arthur, King of Time and Space is the setting's Pungeon Master, but most other characters get in on it occasionally, especially Merlin, who is fond of future pop-culture puns. One one occasion, when a new knight immediately made a pun about the Round Table, Mordred demanded to know where Arthur kept finding these people. | |
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Splatoon has a ton of this. Nearly every character and location has a Punny Name based around marine life, and puns constantly show up in just about everybody's dialogue. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic loves puns, especially horse-related ones, both noticeable and stealthy. | |
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On her YouTube channel, Malinda Kathleen Reese posted a video of a song composed of puns. She extended the puns in a sponsor segment. | |
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Essentially every name in the Ace Attorney series is a pun. Most of them are just terrible— highlights include detective Dick Gumshoe, Attention Whore Luke Atmey, noodle vendor Guy Eldoon, bomb disposal specialist Ted Tonate, and a victim literally just named Deid Mann. Others are a little more well thought out: mob doctor Pal Meraktis, for instance, becomes "malpractice" when you switch the first letters of the first and last names. All, however, are corny as hell and stupidly fun to figure out. They're even more on-the-nose in the original Japanese version. | |
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The Wayside School books are full of puns, both stealth and otherwise. | |
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The Cool Kids Chronicles' tagline states it outright: | |
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Pearls Before Swine: The Sunday strips, especially, which are often nothing more than elaborate setups for atrocious puns, like this one. The final panel often has the characters confronting the cartoonist, Stephan Pastis. | |
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Practically everything in The Adventures of Square is some sort of pun, including names of the enemies, the pickups, the levels, the dialogues, and even the difficulty levels. | |
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DevilBear uses puns frequently. The characters Bearalzebub and Lucy Fur in particular make puns the most in the series. Ursa, the Daiva of Wrath, however, indicates that she hates puns. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is full of puns: | |
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Wild Wild West. Particularly the scenes where James West (black) and Arliss Loveless (has no legs) throw double entendre insults on each other's conditions. | |
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World of Pun doesn't even begin to describe the MMORPG Dofus. If the developers found a way to add a pun, it absolutely is in the game. Examples include the Sword Hikk, a very small sword whose description reads : "Like Brice said: "It's not the size that counts, it's the sharpness."" or the spell Rhol Bak ... which resets everyone's position on the battlefield to where they were on their previous turn. It also applies to the NPC names, the locations to visit, the in-game dialogues, the class names, ... | |
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You'd be extremely hard-pressed to find a hero in Dota 2 that doesn't have at least one or two puns in their voice responses. | |
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Unsong is set in a universe where There Are No Coincidences - not even in language. One side effect of this is that puns are absolutely vital to the study of Functional Magic. | |
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Defense of the Ancients: technically found in Warcraft but in Defense of the Ancients the hero responses are heard constantly. Nearly every hero with a voice says some sort of pun. Nearly every response by the Pandaren Brewmaster is a pun. and then World of Warcraft went to Pandaria. Basically everything on the continent is either a pun or an anime joke. Not that things outside of Pandaria aren't: it's Warcraft after all. Most of the quest names in the world are puns, though this is probably simply because they had to write an obscenely large number of quests all with unique names. These range from the terrible, to the actually extremely clever. Most minor NPCs also have a pun for a name, which again is probably mostly because there are a ridiculously huge number of them. A fairly large number of the items you receive in the game are also puns, either just their names or also being visual puns. They used up the possible permutations of actual weapons a long time ago, so a lot of weird items get used as weapon models. Some of the things are extremely clever though: like the fist weapons entitled the Fists of Deity looking suspiciously like a certain god-killing character from another game's weapons. You get the weapons off a god-killing character too. Mounts, pets, and other collectibles have a very strong chance of being a pun (visual, nominal, or both). Tabards are also a frequent source of visual puns. Major characters might also have a pun in their name but it's almost always extremely sophisticated to the point where it counts as an Easter Egg. Like the name Malfurion, originally introduced as Furion. In Greek mythology, the furies were horrific earth deities who punished mortals for their misdeeds. Malfurion is a druid, and if you value your life you don't tick him off (unless of course your name is Illidan). Characters also pun in-universe: usually either because they're joke characters, or for the purposes of smack-talk. Bosses usually do this, since they tend to be canonically smarter: although sometimes major heroic NPCs do it too. There are also a few characters who are walking puns: such as Orkus (who is an orc, obviously: but points here since Orcus is the name of the Archdevil of Undeath in D&D, and Orkus is a Death Knight). The best pun of all has to go to Matthias Lerner (Matthias is the name of a heroic mouse in Brian Jacques Redwall series, he is a novice aka... a "learner"). But this is the best one, because Matthias Lerner is really the Lich King's heart (or soul? the thing you pick up looks more like soul gem than a heart, but the jury is still out on this one). Rearrange the letters, and you get Arthas Menethil. You go on a series of quests as the Lich King with Matthias narrating, that eerily mirror the story of Matthias the mouse. So, it's pun as (childhood ruining) meta-commentary rather than just existing because the devs were bored. |
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Happy Endings: Although there are other kinds of humor in the show, the main characters all engage in puns at least once an episode, usually in a volley across characters. | |
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Spaceballs. The radar gets jammed (with actual jam), they comb the desert (with actual combs), and of course there's the Druish princess (a play on the phrase "Jewish Princess"). | |
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Overcooked! is chock-full of cooking puns, such as the moldy Unbread being summoned out of the Necro-nomnom-icon. The achievements go ham on them as well. | |
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When Kingdom of Loathing isn't making random references to song lyrics, it's hitting you over the head with puns of varying quality. | |
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Thanks to its preposterous nature of a show about a family of three witches and a wiseass talking cat, the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch got away with arrays of puns. In fact, various incidents were incited solely by puns, to the point that Sabrina had to comment "There aren't metaphors in the other realm, are there?". There was a literal mill that churned out rumors in the other realm. Sabrina did some community service here. Chain mail isn't what you wear, it's what you send to other people if you don't want bad things to happen to you. And yes, it's a mail with chain attached to it. To combat a devious person who had sent chain letters to them, Hilda resorted to using Zelda's labtop (uh-huh!) to produce a chain of a, b, c, and d among others and sending them away. One of Sabrina's cousins, Aunt Dorma, was an actual black sheep. |
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