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Sometimes, a rather more direct Shout-Out or name dropping is attempted, but to do so would skirt dangerously close to trademark law. While there are plenty of ways to use substitutes or write around the trademarks, another way is to go ahead with the reference, but deliberately not go through with it, just far enough for the audience to know exactly who or what you're talking about.
There are many ways to get around this visually: Censor mosaic, a black bar over the eyes, or pull back and only make a strong resemblance. But with dialogue, a common way is to have a character obliquely reference the Fourth Wall by stopping the mention before it finishes, directly warning the speaker about getting their makers in trouble. In writing, especially for comics and manga, whatever word they want to say will be said by the character, but the text of the name itself will be partially blanked out or substituted with wingdings.
Subtrope of Think of the Censors!. See also Writing Around Trademarks, Lawyer-Friendly Cameo, Captain Ersatz, Bland-Name Product, Disney Owns This Trope, Our Lawyers Advised This Trope, No Celebrities Were Harmed. Compare The Scottish Trope.
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Faye Jackson got a joking chastisement on Reality Check Radio when she announced Cody Rhodes would be making his ROH debut at Final Battle, being told they can't say "Rhodes".
Jim Ross made the same mistake when calling Cody's debut in NJPW, before grumpily correcting himself.
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Inside Job (2021): At the end of the Moon-Landing Hoax episode (the moon landing was real; the return to Earth was fake as the astronauts formed a sex colony on the moon), the characters confirm that the landings really happened and beg Buzz Aldrin not to sue them.
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In one chapter of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, the characters are in a space opera setting and are being attacked by mechs that are not Zakus. One of the characters warns that they're bordering on copyright infringement here, which is apparently a bigger concern than being killed.
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In the second OVA of Girls und Panzer, during a camping trip, the girls of Rabbit Team start singing about "*pam", while their leader, Azua, repeatedly screams "Shut up!" until she runs out of breath.
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In the third Bottom live show, Eddie and Richie encounter some Welsh cannibals and start quoting lines from The Jungle Book (1967), to which Richie delivers this gem:
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Arrow. In Season 7, A.R.G.U.S. decides to bring back the Suicide Squad from earlier seasons, but calls it the Ghost Initiative instead as Warner Brothers stopped them using the word now it exists in the DCEU. Curtis starts to point out that Ghost Initiative is just a cooler name for the Suicide Squ—, but Lyla cuts him off.
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The Simpsons:
In-universe in "Lisa the Beauty Queen". The school fair includes the tagline "The Happiest Place on Earth," which the blue-haired lawyer says is a Disneyland trademark and threatens to sue Skinner. However, Skinner then uses his Green Beret training to beat up the lawyer and his goons with frightening efficiency.
The Trope Namer is a line from the "Treehouse of Horror V" segment "The Shinning", which parodies The Shining.
In "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", "Sherri Bobbins" is immediately recognized to be an obvious Expy of Mary Poppins, but she explains that she's a wholly original character, like "Ricky Rouse" or "Monald Muck".
"Treehouse of Horror XI" opens with the Simpson family cast as The Munsters. Lisa/Marilyn is carrying a book of copyright law.
"Children of a Lesser Clod" has an in-universe example: Krusty is singing to open an awards ceremony — only to yell for the music to stop after the first line, saying "One more line, and we have to pay for the song."
"The President Wore Pearls" is a spoof of Evita (with Lisa as Eva Peron), but the end credits include the statement "On the advice of our lawyers, we have never heard of any musical about the life of Eva Peron".
In "Four Great Women and a Manicure", Lisa tells the story of Snow White. The blue-haired lawyer guy tells her she can't because the tale belongs to Disney, but Lisa counters this by claiming the tale has been out forever and isn't owned by anyone. Plus, the dwarves were her own creation.
Also, in the comic, everyone is about to sing Happy Birthday to You!, until the blue-haired lawyer advises them against it.
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Curt Hennig, at the time formerly Mr. Perfect in the WWF (now WWE), cut off frequent associate Rick Rude from calling him perfect on WCW television so they wouldn't get sued.
TNA had another example, when the Planet Jarrett stable had a mock-funeral for Team 3D's career. James Storm started to mock one of the catchphrases they used in WWE as The Dudley Boys, only for Jeff Jarrett to cut him off:
Jarrett has had a moment like that of his own. He defeated Mark Starr on the August 17, 1997 WCW Saturday Night. After the match, "Mean" Gene Okerlund called him "Double..uh, Jeff Jarrett", a reference to Jarrett's WWE Red Baron "Double J."
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In Rosario + Vampire: 2nd Year, when Kokoa magically shrinks into a child's body after one of Yukari's inventions backfires, the girls try to find clothes that would suit her condition. One of them is an Arale cosplay, which she at first takes in stride, but then tears the costume off while citing the trope.
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An issue of Justice League America pointed out that Fire resembled Marvel's Human Torch.
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This and many other references to the fact that these characters are not those other comic book characters are payback for legal threats from DC concerning their previous parody, "Superduperman". Ironically, MAD had predicted they would get sued for their still earlier Dragnet parody, whose opening caption said, "Only the names haven't been changed so as not to protect the writer of this story!"
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In chapter 20 of the spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, a random villain shows up who's a giant turtle that flies by spinning. One of the bystanders starts to identify it as Gamera, but is cut off by a another yelling "Don't say it, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen!"
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Invoked in the name of the Smash Up expansion "Cease and Desist", which includes the factions: "Star Roamers", "Astro Knights", "Changerbots", and "Ignobles".
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Later in the story, Cthu_hu is mentioned. Then Super Sai__n, and then La_uta.
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8-Bit Theater uses this quite a bit with characters like "The Sulk" or "the Mediocre Four" and a few others throughout.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
In one episode the Plutonians use a device called a Fargate to cross time and space.
And the not-Powerpuff Girl (honest!) with a mohawk and in a wheelchair on their T-shirt.
This from "2-and-a-Half-Star Wars Out Of Five".
Hilariously this is the only moment in the episode that invokes this trope while for most the episode and a few moments after this scene the trope is averted.
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In Ratman, Super Zero Fatman is given his own Thememobile — A tumblar called the Fatmobile. An aside is asked to not tell Warner Bros....
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) had an Owlbear appear, Luna briefly considering making it her pet before deciding that might be legally problematic. Ironically enough Luna was mistaken on that point, Hasbro own both properties and many other D&D monsters appear throughout the series.
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Mister Mighty's battle cry has to be approved by his team's lawyers.
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The Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers video "Stupid Mario Bros. Stupid Show", which has SMG4 put together what is a parody of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, has a scene where the intro song for the show plays, only for Mario to crash onto the stage in a kart, abruptly ending the song. SMG4 congratulates Mario for keeping the song under 30 seconds so they don't get a copyright strike.
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In Excel♡Saga there's a seiyuu joke where Excel is dressed similarly to Sailor Moon and does an In the Name of the Moon speech, and the bad guy says, "Hey, that's that anime from awhile ago, Sailor ***, right? Nah, that one's already over..."
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During the Batman: Hush storyline, both Batman and Catwoman at one point say, "Faster than a speeding... you know."
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A Rita and Runt cartoon on Animaniacs features songs that are parodies of the music from Beauty and the Beast. By the end of the cartoon when Rita finishes the last song, Runt comments, "That was nice. I hope we don't get sued."
A commercial for the show on Cartoon Network started with "The REAL reason Cartoon Network baseball cap are $18." This is followed by a montage of all the famous names and works dropped throughout the series' run, with a total of legal fees to be paid tallying up in the corner. At the end, the price of the hat has gone up to $24.
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In Yin Yang Yo!, there's a minor villain named The Puffin. Like The Penguin, he has an umbrella and a top hat, but as Yang points out: As long as they specify that he is a puffin, they can't be sued.
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In the 4th Touhou M-1 Grand Prix, Suwako mentions being a fan of Studio Shibli. A confused Kanako asks why "Shibli" doesn't start with G instead, at which point Suwako responds that the "G" version isn't allowed.
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In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the title characters have a Bongsaber Duel with the Cocknocker in their Bluntcave.
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And the not-Powerpuff Girl (honest!) with a mohawk and in a wheelchair on their T-shirt.
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In Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit comments that the Komaytos look a lot like Metroids. Viridi is not pleased and insists that "this game universe and that game universe have nothing to do with each other!" Both are owned by Nintendo.
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Happens every five minutes in Hayate the Combat Butler; every single trademarked name is bleeped out, which leads to some pretty bleep-heavy sentences where otaku Nagi is involved.
A particularly funny example shows up when Hayate is about to use a sword technique whose name starts with "Hiten--" His opponent cuts him off, saying they can't risk that kind of reference, even with bleeps.
In the manga, this is even lampshaded in the one instance it was actively avoided — when the Sega game Mushiking was mentioned without editing, one character wondered aloud about whether it should be. It was pointed out that they got permission to use it, and thus needed to repeat the game's name as much as possible.
The anime's second season averts all this, with barely any lack of pop culture references.
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Clerks: The Animated Series dealt with this a few times.
During Episode 3's spoof of Outbreak, the show stops to explain that all references to Dustin Hoffman will be replaced with Al Pacino (due to a recent lawsuit by Hoffman).
In Episode 4's "animated by a Korean studio" sequence, the appearance of a small mouse-like creature that shoots lightning is soon advised by the narrator as "NOT PIKACHU PLEASE DON'T SUE!"
Even more hilarious since the same company that distributed Clerks the movie also distributed the 4th through 7th Pokemon movies in the States. Said studio's former parent company now also owns the network the Pokemon anime has aired on since 2017.
In Episode 5, Randall's high school yearbook photo has his head placed over the famous photo of General Nguyen. For reasons that eluded the writers, adding a fictional character to a cartoon version of a copyrighted photo didn't legally constitute parody - until they added a caption.◊.
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The first few minutes of Student Council's Discretion contain so many blatant Shout Outs the characters themselves start warning each other over the legal trouble they might suffer. This continues throughout the series only less concentrated.
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The Muppet Show:
Camelot must be a particularly good target because we get this gag in the Animaniacs episode "Sir Yaksalot":
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From the Freakazoid! episode "Nerdator": "Soon after, the following incident occurred in the office of computer whiz, Bill Gates, whom I can mention by name because he happens to be a close, personal friend of Steven Spielberg, the executive producer of this fine program, so he probably won't sue us."
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Static Shock: In "Frozen Out", Virgil says "This is a job for..." but Richie interrupts him out of fear Superman will sue if Virgil finishes the sentence.
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Westeros: An American Musical: The play's entire idea is to retell the plot of A Song of Ice and Fire with Hamilton song parodies. One of the songs gets interrupted because a certain Lord Lin-Manuel from House Miranda sends a "cease and desist" notice due to too many similarities with its Hamilton counterpart.
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The Order of the Stick:
Lawyers from Wizards of the Coast intervene in a battle to remove their intellectual property. The printed version of those comics actually removed the names "mind flayer" and "illithid" from the earlier strips featuring the Squid Thingy, replacing them with "brain eater" and "illithoid".
This is later used to Vaarsuvius's advantage when they end up in a fight with a Drizzt knock-off. Later we discover that he's protected by parody clause and allowed to return.
The print version of Book 1 features a new, print-exclusive prologue, explaining that the story takes place in the world of a popular roleplaying game — though they can't say which one because it would be a trademark violation. Cut to a panel with players at a table suggesting they play three Bland-Name Product knockoffs of the actual name of the game.
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Adam Warren ran this joke into the ground for his Gen¹³ limited series Magical Drama Queen Roxy. Usually said by the "fairy god critter" (who also apologizes for saying "bibbity boppity boo" and mentioning Whitney Houston's Cinderella). Toward the end he does the death scene from Titanic with a large sign in front of "Jack's" face, saying "not really (a series of increasingly silly misspellings of Leo's name), really!!"
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In one episode the Plutonians use a device called a Fargate to cross time and space.
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Used in the classic MAD parody "Bat Boy and Rubin!", with signs visible in nearly every page about how they shouldn't be sued over this parody. Also:
This and many other references to the fact that these characters are not those other comic book characters are payback for legal threats from DC concerning their previous parody, "Superduperman". Ironically, MAD had predicted they would get sued for their still earlier Dragnet parody, whose opening caption said, "Only the names haven't been changed so as not to protect the writer of this story!"
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During Episode 3's spoof of Outbreak, the show stops to explain that all references to Dustin Hoffman will be replaced with Al Pacino (due to a recent lawsuit by Hoffman).
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Celebrity Name Game cannot use the term *bleep* Bowl. But Craig manages to get around it.
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Also, they referenced Dragon Quest V and how the player has a choice of which woman the main character can marry. "A childhood friend? Or a rich lady? One has lots of money... And the ability to cast Boho_mi and I___zun." (Bohoimi = Midheal and Ionazun = Kaboom)
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In Monster Musume the monster heroines are at a hot spring resort trying to think up ways to attract customers. One suggests Yukio the Yuki-onna, who works there, star as a character who freezes things with her power. In the background is an Imagine Spot Yukio striking a pose ripped directly from a very, very, very popular piece of media about a character who does exactly that.
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In BlazBlue, one episode of "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!" has Litchi comparing Ragna to Chipp Zanuff, prompting the former to yell "Gauntlet Hades!" to "obscure" the meaning. (In the English dub of that episode, she's just interrupted while mentioning Chipp's name by Taokaka loudly entering Litchi's clinic.)
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Cardfight!! Vanguard (V Series): Said word for word by Kanzaki when Tonori and Nanami suggest that their new mascot should be a robot cat from the future. The drawing of said mascot comes with a Gag Censor.
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Bob and George has a... well. It's not a holodeck, and it's certainly not a danger room, so obviously it's just a holographic training simulator. Which still malfunctions every time they use it.
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Coga Suro has Steve announcing that he's found a name for his Ridiculously Human Robot -as it changes into a costume resembling that of Marvel's The Vision, Steve has enough time to announce it as 'The Vis-' before Jerry interrupts him by smiting him with an object.
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In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, after one character produces a lightsaber from "the trunk", he's informed that "he can't use a lightsaber, it's not even the right system!"
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Lucky Star:
"Don't you have any special talents?" "Talents, hmm... I can name every single Po__mon!"
They actually took this to the point where it verged on parody in one scene: Konata and her dad were talking about Gundam... while avoiding any names, images blurred, and censor bars over their eyes.
Another episode censors Code Geass and Lelouch's name. Ironically, Bandai would later get the rights to license both Code Geass and Lucky Star.
Also, the Image Song "Yuuchou Sentai Dararenjaa" cut short a reference to Kamen Rider 555. Also ironically, Bandai has the license to produce Kamen Rider merchandise.
Thus they can make references to other properties they own. There's several references to Kamen Rider Den-O instead throughout, almost all of them being catchphrases of Momotaros. (And obviously Super Sentai as a whole with the name, and a couple veiled referencess to Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger thrown in.)
Also, they referenced Dragon Quest V and how the player has a choice of which woman the main character can marry. "A childhood friend? Or a rich lady? One has lots of money... And the ability to cast Boho_mi and I___zun." (Bohoimi = Midheal and Ionazun = Kaboom)
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Haruhi Suzumiya, in a Shout-Out to the Gundam series. (There were Gundams shooting, but heavily censored!)
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This is later used to Vaarsuvius's advantage when they end up in a fight with a Drizzt knock-off. Later we discover that he's protected by parody clause and allowed to return.
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Pinky and the Brain: Brain once tries to raise money in the theater world. The producer he tries to pitch his play to says he wants something different from the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber Expy Albert Floyd Webster, but only different enough to avoid being sued.
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The Colbert Report's Vancouverage (which is so not Olympic coverage).
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This is a frequent joke on Car Talk due to Tom and Ray's unabashed negative opinions of certain companies *coughGMChryslerFordcough*, though there have been several occasions when they've actually gotten in trouble.
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Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General: One chapter has Black General suddenly very worried about the series' future when Braveman (a superhero whose costume looks like Batman's) encounters a new enemy who looks like a playing card, laughs all the time, and reveals his name is Jester. She spells out the resemblance and tells him to get away before they're sued.
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In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2, Sleigh Presty pilots a red mech that goes very fast. When one character suggests calling her the "Red Comet", his familiars break out this line.
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Dr. Doofenshmirtz in one of his Vlogs said that he can't legally say iPhone on the show, so he called it an iDoo-hickey.
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Nearly every episode of The Allen And Craig Show involves a scheme that revolves around Allen copying a popular television show, movie, or internet meme/trend in his attempts to gain notoriety, including but not limited to House, Hell's Kitchen, and the popular Diet Coke and Mentos YouTube video.
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In Gintama, during the Bentendo Owee arc, Katsura makes a showy entrance in a costume that's obviously based on that of certain plumber, which prompts an onlooker to ask whether he's Mario, though he cuts them off before they can say the "o"...but he goes ahead and says, "It's not Mario, it's Katsu--", which gets him a kick in the face from Shinpachi. Subverted when it turns out he just was annoyed at Katsura's stupidity for appearing directly in front of Shinsengumi when they intend to arrest him (though Hijikata is stupid enough to think he's actually Mario).
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Garfield and Friends: When a cricket volunteered himself to be Garfield's conscience, he offered a Pinocchio book and Garfield started reading it until the cricket warned him about being sued by Disney.
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In NEO: The World Ends with You, the Roller Skates equipment features the following flavour text:
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In the Mappy web series, Indy Borgnine from The Tower of Babel remarks that the episode can't be a Whole-Plot Reference to Indiana Jones or they would get sued.
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In TRULY OUTRAGEOUS: A Jem Fan Film!, Jem and the Hologram's get cut off mid-sentence when they start to sing a copyrighted Jem song with this excuse. They don't want the video to get taken down.
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From Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, there is a comment from an employee that says she will be punished, and will end up working on Taco Bell. On a little footnote, it says Don't sue me, I'm funny!.
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In Gems of War, the fact that the elven Glade Warden troop is pretty clearly Orlando Bloom's Legolas is lampshaded by the card text this way.
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Times Like This: This trope is invoked while Cassie's trying to name her newly-hatched dinosaur.
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In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter has this reaction after Spider-Ham says That's All, Folks! before returning to his universe.
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The Glee third season Christmas Episode "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" has this. Justified in that both properties were (at the time) owned by Fox.
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In Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, the Indian chief sweetens his offer to sell New York to the Dutch by adding Staten Island to the package, and the real estate agents exclaims, "Is that a generous Indian? You'll have Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island too!" He then gets a phone call (presumably from Richard Rodgers's lawyer) with the message that they'll have to pay royalties if they quote any more. The Indian threatens to bring on another phone call by mentioning his wife's preference for "baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads."
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In Professional Wrestler Mick Foley's Autobiography Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, in response to his back injury in WCW in 1994, he refers to one of the doctors as "Dr. Rosenrosen".
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In one chapter of My Hero Academia, the students of Class 1-A are tasked with coming up with their superhero names. Mina, whose power is generating Hollywood Acid, wants to call herself "Heroine of Ridley: Alien Queen".note In his notes, the author mentions that "Heroine of Cameron" would have been more appropriate. Professional heroine Midnight, who's rating the names, points out that using the name could get Mina in trouble and has her think of another one.
In chapter 20 of the spin-off My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, a random villain shows up who's a giant turtle that flies by spinning. One of the bystanders starts to identify it as Gamera, but is cut off by a another yelling "Don't say it, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen!"
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Another Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged example was, strangely enough, a retroactive instance of this trope. Tea said "It is on in a matter similar to that of Donkey Kong." Shortly after the episode was released, by complete coincidence, Nintendo filed a trademark on the real phrase, "It's on like Donkey Kong."
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From Mystery Science Theater 3000, we get:
The 10th volume of the DVD collections of the series was originally released with Godzilla vs. Megalon; unfortunately, the rights fell through, and the future releases of volume "10.2" had an extra skit on the replacement The Giant Gila Monster disk where Dr. Forrester scolds TV's Frank for not getting the rights to the "Japanese Giant Monster Movie" (or as Frank and Joel put it, "(Mumble) vs. (Unintelligible)").
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Arne Anka, has an episode where the titular character, an anthropomorphic duck for the record, has been invited to a wedding but has a problem finding anything formal to wear for it. After digging through his wardrobe, all he is able to find is an old sailor suit, but after trying it on, Arne observes that he cannot not show himself in public wearing it as it makes him look highly reminiscent of a certain other anthropomorphic duck, and he would likely get sued. And indeed, Disney had previously threatened the comic with a lawsuit.
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One chapter of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple has Akisame sculpturing cotton-candy treats after other manga characters, like fellow Shonen Sunday star Conan Edogawa. When Kenichi calls him out on it, Akisame claims he's covered because the hairstyle is different.
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A similar joke was used/expanded on in a one-panel gag in Marvel's What If? #34, which asked the musical question, "What if Wonder Man was a woman, and Power Man was a girl?" The panel is partially covered up by a note from "Your Distinguished Competition" advising against printing the gag.
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In Episode 4's "animated by a Korean studio" sequence, the appearance of a small mouse-like creature that shoots lightning is soon advised by the narrator as "NOT PIKACHU PLEASE DON'T SUE!"
Even more hilarious since the same company that distributed Clerks the movie also distributed the 4th through 7th Pokemon movies in the States. Said studio's former parent company now also owns the network the Pokemon anime has aired on since 2017.
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One of Futurama's "Tales of Interest" episodes features the cast in a The Wizard of Oz parody, and includes a group of people who "resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollipop Guild".
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Before Heather Brown settles on her superhero name of Spinnerette, she starts calling herself the "Black Widow" after an encounter with a group of drunk fratbros. Sahira is quick to point out that the Black Widow name was already taken by Marvel Comics.
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Kyle Baker's run on Plastic Man includes a similar example:
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: In the movie, when Italy, Germany, Japan, America, England, France, China, and Russia are discussing how to deal with the Pictonians, Italy suggests that Japan could do the job, referring to Evan*** and Gun***. Japan states that those are anime, prompting China to give his anime character: a mosaiced Goku expy, calling out "HAME-KAME-HA!!!".
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From an old Wonder Man one-shot that featured Simon Williams ending up in the Mojo verse. Mojo's lackey points out that Marvel owns the Wonder Man copyright:
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The Fairly OddParents!. When The Three Musketeers were given mice-like features, Wanda said they became the three Mous... Timmy interrupted her. While "Mouseketeer" was a word used in some Tom and Jerry cartoons, a different group of Mouseketeers were a Disney property, and perhaps a bit more likely to get someone sued.
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Hogan Vs Flair bills a number of WWE and TNA wrestlers under other names, ostensibly for just this reason. For example The Dudley Boyz/Team 3D are called "Team 3rd Dimension", with Bubba Ray billed as "Bowling Shirt" and D-Von called "Camo Pants".
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In Arfenhouse Teh Movie Too, "LAWSUIT" stamps are displayed after segments ripping off Excel♡Saga and Boxer Man.
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Also, in the comic, everyone is about to sing Happy Birthday to You!, until the blue-haired lawyer advises them against it.
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This exchange from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves:
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Lunar: Eternal Blue, when asked about the birds pulling a wagon. "These? They're Choc... uh... Chuckaboos!"
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Super Robot Wars W when Lowe from Gundam SEED Astray accidentally re-routes all the Red Frame's power to one of its hand plugs, and attacks an enemy with it. While this attack is known in its original series as the "Thunder Ball", Gai Daigoji is cut off before he can suggest calling it the "Shining Finger" - by a character who shares the same voice actor as Ryusei Date, in a bit of creative irony (Ryusei's own R-1 has the completely original T-Link Knuckle).
In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2, Sleigh Presty pilots a red mech that goes very fast. When one character suggests calling her the "Red Comet", his familiars break out this line.
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In a scene in Muppet Babies (1984), Gonzo appears in the Batmobile, Scooter comments, "Hey, you're not Batman!"
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When Sora and Shiro see the Flugels' castle, they try to bring it down with "Ba*se", but fail.
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On Celebrity Deathmatch, Tobey Maguire battles Jake Gyllenhaal with a box from which spring forth giant metal tentacles which are clearly not Doctor Octopus's arms from Spider-Man 2 because that, points out the announcer, would be copyright infringement.
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Tiny Toon Adventures has done this quite a few times. In "Best O' Plucky Duck Day":
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Inverted in Blazing Saddles:
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This exchange from Harley Quinn & Power Girl #3:
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The 10th volume of the DVD collections of the series was originally released with Godzilla vs. Megalon; unfortunately, the rights fell through, and the future releases of volume "10.2" had an extra skit on the replacement The Giant Gila Monster disk where Dr. Forrester scolds TV's Frank for not getting the rights to the "Japanese Giant Monster Movie" (or as Frank and Joel put it, "(Mumble) vs. (Unintelligible)").
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair:
Implied with Nezumi Castle in the amusement park on the Fourth Island, which is a large, mouse-themed castle. Hajime says, "There's a lot of things I could say about this building, but it's probably better if I say nothing at all", and Monokuma and Monomi reveal that they're both terrified of mice.
In the final trial, Monokuma threatens to reveal his true form to the remaining survivors:
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In Yu-Gi-Oh Cr@psule Monsters when Tristan finds a Pikachu-like mon:
Another Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged example was, strangely enough, a retroactive instance of this trope. Tea said "It is on in a matter similar to that of Donkey Kong." Shortly after the episode was released, by complete coincidence, Nintendo filed a trademark on the real phrase, "It's on like Donkey Kong."
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Variations would occasionally be lampshaded by Kawachi in Yakitate!! Japan.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns teases Superman's appearance with news stories of people being saved by a red/blue blur. The news anchor keeps trying to say lines from the opening of the Fleischer Brothers cartoons, but is warned against finishing them each time due to legal concerns.
During the Batman: Hush storyline, both Batman and Catwoman at one point say, "Faster than a speeding... you know."
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Thus they can make references to other properties they own. There's several references to Kamen Rider Den-O instead throughout, almost all of them being catchphrases of Momotaros. (And obviously Super Sentai as a whole with the name, and a couple veiled referencess to Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger thrown in.)
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TNA had another example, when the Planet Jarrett stable had a mock-funeral for Team 3D's career. James Storm started to mock one of the catchphrases they used in WWE as The Dudley Boys, only for Jeff Jarrett to cut him off:
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Godziban's retelling of "The Tortoise and the Hare" has a moment where Godzilla-kun (playing the hare) worries that his brothers's turtle costumes are too close to Gamera, only to be stopped before he can finish saying the name with a "Don't worry about it!" from Little Godzilla and Minilla. The story ends with the two "tortoises" starting to spin in the air while Godzilla-kun starts to freak out.
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Hilariously toyed with by James May on an episode of Top Gear where, while cooking during a camping episode, he spends about 2 minutes trying to describe a particular treat whose name can't be specifically used for legal reasons...but then finishes up with, "but of course you know they're Jaffa Cakes."
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One South Park ends with a fourth-wall lean about how the characters (i.e. creators) are free to exercise their freedom of speech regarding Scientology being a scam and are not afraid of being sued. Cue a credits roll entirely consisting of John and Jane Smiths.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, after the chapter's end, you can still go hide by the birds in Twilight Town and listen to them talk. One of the birds wants to open a pay site for real estate called "Luigi's Mansion". The other bird thinks he's heard the name somewhere before and warns him against using it, lest he get sued. (They go ahead and say the name because again, both are by Nintendo.)
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In the Japanese version of Mega Man 7, Mega Man will sometimes converse with Roll or Auto instead of Dr. Light after acquiring a new weapon (screenshots with translations here). One of these is likely meant as a parody of the trope since it references a property jointly-owned by Capcom:
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In The Wotch, Anne attempts to make Jason's comics into moving pictures, but instead brings them to life... as obvious Expy clones. When Jason suggests that magic has to obey copyright laws, Robin points out that even he, a non-comic fan, can tell which character is which, and starts to name them, to be quickly interrupted with:
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Jim Ross made the same mistake when calling Cody's debut in NJPW, before grumpily correcting himself.
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No Game No Life:
When Sora and Shiro see the Flugels' castle, they try to bring it down with "Ba*se", but fail.
Upon seeing that the video game in which they're fighting against the Warbeasts' representation looks like it's in Tokyo, Sora and Shiro are briefly thrown into a crippling Heroic BSoD, believing that it's their world, where they're NEETs unable to go outside. After snapping out of it, Sora tries to convince Shiro that it's a video game, like "Pers*na or Stein's G*te or Akiba Str*p", while characters from the games (Chie, Kurisu and Kati) appear with black strips over their eyes. More subtly, before the characters appear, there's a mostly yellow background that's highly reminiscent of the menu screens in Persona 4.
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In Kick-Ass the superhero Big Daddy is described several times as looking like Batman, almost always followed by a panicked "I never said he looked like Batman!!!"
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Our Little Adventure had a harpy who looked like Medli from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. She is killed after a couple of pages, and Rocky points out that if she stayed around any longer they'd have to pay a royalty to Nintendo.
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Homestar Runner: In "Strong Bad Classics", Strong Bad couples a Garfield reference with a joke about being visited by "Jim Davis' lawyers".
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Nanbaka does this a lot in the episode where Upa faces Nico. Nico being an anime fan, he has lots of things he wants to say that correspond to his hobby, such as how Upa did the Kame*bleep*meha. Then again, he also wanted to do (and successfully pulled off) a R*bleep*der *bleep*ick. The other prisoners of cell 13 have to censor his references, although they let more slippery ones like "Balse!" go scot-free.
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Echocalypse: One easter egg is an obvious reference to the Pirahna plant, looking just like one carved in red gemstone, with cat ears coming out of a cylinder that looks suspiciously like a warp pipe. Kiki says it best in the comments:
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
When some Humongous Mecha emerge during the battle of Mahora: "Is that a Gu_dam? It must be a Gun_am!" Elsewhere in the book, they're refered to as Ky_sh_nhei
Another one when Nodoka performs a Mind Probe on Mei: "C-C-Could that be that that legendary Death No-!? I mean that artifact that reads..."
Later in the story, Cthu_hu is mentioned. Then Super Sai__n, and then La_uta.
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One character in Goblins is named "Drasst Don'tsue"
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Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!: During episode 7 (the summer camp episode) the boys get to take a dip in an open air hot spring. Suddenly...
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Another episode censors Code Geass and Lelouch's name. Ironically, Bandai would later get the rights to license both Code Geass and Lucky Star.
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At one point in Goblin Slayer, the party comes across what is clearly a Beholder. However, when one of the party asks what it is, another member says it's a being that cannot be named. On one hand, it implies the monster is a horrifying Eldritch Abomination that should be feared. On the other hand, it pokes fun at the fact that Wizards of the Coast, the creators of DnD, take the copyrights on their original monsters very seriously and seldomly let them be properly used in other properties.
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During the Midwest Militia (Sassy Stephanie/Allysin Kay)-KOA (Sugar Dunkerton/Aaron Epic) match at WSU vs. Beyond Wrestling, October 13, 2012, while Stephanie had Dunkerton in a hammerlock, Epic tried starting a "YES! YES! YES!" chant, and Stephanie said, "That's trademarked."
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Family Guy
Notably averted in the Stephen King parody, which ends with this nonchalant line:note Though according to the DVD commentary, the creators did obtain King's approval.
In another episode, the characters refer a few times to McDaniels and various generic-sounding expies of McDonald's products, followed each time by a frustrated lampshade by Quagmire.
Yet another episode has Brian and Stewie sharing candy they got for Halloween over the ending credits, but as Stewie says, they're not allowed to use real-world candy names and instead come up with various names that are almost but not quite the same. It ends with Stewie muttering, "God, I hate television."
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A particularly funny example shows up when Hayate is about to use a sword technique whose name starts with "Hiten--" His opponent cuts him off, saying they can't risk that kind of reference, even with bleeps.
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Minilife TV: In "Starsaber Duel", when Chris asks Ian if he wants to have a Starsaber duel, he tries to correct him when he asks if he means lightsabers.
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Deadpool Vol 7 #13:
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