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"'When waked, we walked where willows wail, whose withered windings won't wassail.' It's poetry because of W's and shit." An article adds alliterative appeal if it includes identical initial icons in the trope title that the troper thought to try, where words will withoutexception employ equivalent establishing emblems.
... Or if phrased more obviously, the particularly pithy practice of combining common consonants at the beginning of words. It's a specificSub-Trope of two phonetic father phenomena — "consonance" (consonants) and "assonance" (vowels), wherein similar sounds can occur anywhere in the individual words.
Different degrees of alliteration are definitely doable, provided one pays particular ponderance to these specified circumstances:
- Alliteration applies to a particular piece'spronunciation more than its specificspelling. As an easy example, "FatalFamilyPhoto" is obviously indicative of Added Alliterative Appeal ("ph" = "f"), whereas "Combat byChampion" is ...not as much ("c" and "ch" have decidedly different dictations). However, a phrase, name, nickname, or title that is alliterative only in spelling can still be considered an alliteration. One must regard regional pronunciations with proper precaution; "Trial byChampion" allows alliteration in occasional accents ("Chrial"), but decidedlynot in others, and not inRP/Standard. (That is, both words do start with /t/, but the second consonant sound right after it isn't the same in most accents.)
- Alliteration doesn't requireevery individual word shares similar starting sounds and minor words lacking verbal stress are exempted by default. Take "Breaking the Bonds" for example; nobody notices the thorny "the" therein.
It's currently defined in two ways, when alliteration occurs as a quirkyCharacter Tic (which may or may not mean there's somethingoff about them), or when a short phrase or sentence is mainly alliterative, beyond an isolated common phrase like "knobby knees".
Individual interpretation of this purposeful practice varies by viewer: It can range from agood grammar gag to a personal pet peeve. Indeed, it is somewhat susceptible to theRule of Three, so be careful when considering questionable cases.
ConsideringAuthor Appeal,Rule of Funny, orRule of Cool would be a good idea as well.
Sister Trope ofRhymes on a Dime. ATongue Twister often, although not universally, involves this trope, and frequent use may result inPurple Prose.
If you are looking for the list of alliterative trope names that was previously here, they have been moved to subpages ofAlliterative Name.
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Advertising
- In one of theDairy Queen Lips ads, the Lips explain that Dairy Queen is having a sale on their cheeseburgers and, shortly before attempting to bite into a triple cheeseburger, refers to it as a "titanic triple," repeating the letter T.
Anime & Manga
Asian Animation
- Mechamato: Amazeey's final challenge which takes place in the gym is called the "AthleticAgony Challenge."
- Simple Samosa: In the episode "Vinaash Waqt Aur Vacuum Packed", Simplus Maximus' Chatpati Sena card mentions that his takedown is called "Tip Top Tackle," repeating the letter T.
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Comic Books
- Batgirl, specifically the Barbara Gordon version, was sometimes referred to as the "Dominoed Dare-doll" in narration. It, uh,didn't catch on.
- Disney Kingdoms:Figment has the Sound Sprites, who create objects from sound. Because of this, they prize aural perfection and speak entirely in alliteration to reflect this. Anything and anyone that doesn't communicate in this manner is considered imperfect/cacophonic, a source of bad audio, and must be imprisoned.
- Doctor Strange:
- StephenStrange, theSorcererSupreme, resident of theSanctumSanctorum (and Master of the Mystic Arts).
- Pretty much any item and entity he calls upon will be alliterative. This was taken to its most ridiculous extremes in the "Eighth Day" crossover, in which a number of people were empowered by the Octessence, eight principalities typically invoked by Doctor Strange.All of them were empowered by alliterative items, such as the "Blinding Brazier of Balthakk". Not surprising when you consider who hisoriginal writer was.
- During the Sixties, Doctor Strange would spout alliteratives, usually in place of expletives, or as his personal version of "verily, I say unto thee." One of Doc Strange's favorites is "by the hoary hosts of Horgoth!", though he has many others as the Master of Mysticism.
- Empowered The Caged Demonwolf loves speaking with alliterations, and even occasionally comments on how many he managed to queue. Ninjette occasionally does it when talking to him.
- Fantastic Four:Stan Lee worships alliteration, to the point whereDoctor Doom was almost scrapped because Lee couldn't think of a suitable alliterative for Doom; he'd pondered Donald Doom in desperation before hitting uponDoctor Doom.
- Garfield: His 9 Lives: "Bought the farm for failing to field a fetched frap tree."
- "The Ghoul of Death": The opening text introduces Dr. Hastings as "brilliant brain-surgeon Barton Hastings".
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992): As fighting the Trinexx, Link exclaims: "This is one schizoid serpent!"
- Lobo: InLobocop, where Lobo is transformed into an expy ofRoboCop, the titular character guns down a trio of thugs chasing a civilian. Witnessing this, the civilian comments "Holy heck! He hardly hesitated!" Lobocop blasts a hole through the civilian's gut for "unnecessary alliteration."
- Marvel Westerns: AnUnreliable Narrator newspaper clipping about the Masked Raider gives him a number of alliterative appelations, these being, in order: Masquerading Menace, Veiled Villain, Disguised Dastard, Hooded Hooligan, Screened Scalawag, Muffled Miscreant, and Cloaked Cutthroat.
- Misfit City: The town the comic is set in is known as Cannon Cove.
- Robin: Tim Drake and some classmates discuss an assignment on Shakespeare's use of alliteration, and when several of them says they don't understand what alliteration is Tim eventually responds with,"Stupid students stagnantly steeped in stupor", which gets it to click for one of them, who responds with the tongue twister"Sally sells seashells."
- Spider-Man: J. Jonah Jameson,naturally, has a predilection for this in his editorials. He once praised himself for coming up with the phrasing 'blizzard of banal bureaucracy' for an editorial.
- The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot: In the crossover story, a narration box calls Black Flame and Catwoman "the captive crime-chicks".
- Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!: Played straight with MertonMcSnurtle's real name, but subverted with his superhero name, the Terrific Whatzit. It would be "Terrific Turtle" if not for the fact that he removes his shell while in his Terrific Whatzit persona, confusing people.
- V for Vendetta:
- V introduces himself in a speech that is rife with words starting with the letter "V".
- AfterFinch takes acid, V comes up with:
V: Vaulting,veering,vomiting up thevalues thatvictimized me, feelingvast, feelingvirginal... was this how he felt? Thisverve, thisvitality... thisvision... Lavoie... lavverite... lavie.
Comic Strips
- Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin consistently creates added alliterative appeal in his freeform flights of fantasy featuring Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man:
- Zorched byZarches,SpacemanSpiff'scrippledcraftcrashes onPlanetPlootarg!
- Zounds! ThezealousZarches have followed Spiff to the planet's surface to finish him off!
- YES! It's... STUPENDOUS MAN!Friend offreedom!Opponent ofoppression!Lover ofliberty!
- With stupendous powers of reasoning, thecapedcombatantconcludes there's no need for homework ifthere's no school tomorrow!
- STUPENDOUS MAN has the strength of amillionmortalmen! Give up!
- Withmuscles ofmagnitude, STUPENDOUS MAN fights with heroic resolve!
- Dykes to Watch Out For: Bechdel sometimes indulges in this. Take these examples using the letter "P":
- Thenarrative caption "Mo'spulchritudinouspalperforms herpuerilepoetry"
- The title of one of Sydney's papers, "PolysemousPerversity:Paradigms ofPleasure in thePornographicPurview".
- FoxTrot: Inan arc
◊ where Jason tries to draw strips forThe Boondocks, he does this after hearingAaron McGruder likes to use"N" words.
Fairy Tales
Fan Works
- The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan: Invoked when the narrator refers to Ponyville's Premier Party Planning Pony.
- The Archmage's Last Bow: In anAfter-Action Patch-Up, the alpaca guide Huati engages in some alliteration to lift Nova's spirits after a tumultuous few minutes.
- InBest of My Love, Meng Yao and Qin Su got a car from Jin Corporation in a peacock pattern. The narrative calls it "the peacock print Peugeot" at one point.
- Boldores and Boomsticks:
Weiss: Do you know any irresponsible, immature, incoherent, inconsiderate, idiotic imbeciles with a penchant for pyromania and property damage?
- The Bolt Chronicles:
- In "The Cakes," Rhino tries to intimidate Mittens away from her post as cake guardian byreferring to himself as "Arthur, King of the Britons! Ruler of the Saxons! Caliph of the Celts and Potentate of the Picts!" The last phrase contains two alliterative title entries, which serves to enhance the comical absurdity of his claim.
- In "The Insomniac," Mittens wryly muses that constellations never look like the thing they're supposed to represent. When she lists some examples of these things, she does so using alliteration, saying "What were those ancient Greek guys thinking? Bulls and bears. Wolves and water carriers. Dragons, dippers, and damsels in distress. They sure had one weird imagination back then, didn't they?" It's done to help support the droll nature of her observation.
- The Bugger Anthology: The Death Squad Daleks address the Defence Drone Daleks as "B&M Bargain Bin Boys".
- In "Cannonball Run 7: High Speed Heroes",The Simpsons reach Antarctica and find out that Homer and his friends engineered their car so that it could be disassembled and reassembled into a snowmobile. The reassembly process is supposed to be easy to remember as each part is labelled with a letter. Unfortunately, Homer (beingThe Ditz) forgets what comes after B.
Lisa: Uh, Dad? The next letter is...
Homer: Not now, Lisa. I can't concentrate on correctly combining these components into creating a cool cold weather contraption.
- The Compendium of Forgotten Secrets: The words associated with the Serpent Empress in her introduction all start with the letter S.
- Curiousity Maintentance Crew:"Examination of Truths":
focus on the purple unicorn who had just made what in retrospect would be considered the worst mistake ever. Namely, she has agreed to attend a Party. Not simply a party, but a Party Planned by the Pony Proletariat of Perpetual Positivity.
- A Dream: Valiant once describes himself as an "absolutely asinine alliteration activist".
Valiant: Don't snub the SNUT, you slut.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: Zarekos uses it often, like in "Counter-Invasion":
Her determination was not lacking, but the delicious dilemma of having to defend a dozen directions from the diligent depredations of his minions divided her attention and slowed her responses.
- The Echo Ranger: While contemplating how to fight Izuku, Katherine hadn't "factored for her frequently forgotten fifth feline form."
- Elementals of Harmony:
- Elementals of Harmony: "Plight of Foal's Betrayal":
Swoosh! Pinkie Pie, having swathed herself in the smoldering, sulfurous embrace of Shiv
...
Where was I? Oh, right! That delightful dear Pinkie Pie delivering deadly draconic doom to a dreadful danger to darn near everypony!
- Sideboard of Harmony - "Spectrometer of Worlds":
Pinkie paused, perceiving pluripotent perplexing pronoun potential.
- Hc Svnt Equus Pinnis:
"It's not so much that I'm uncomfortable with the neuroplex as..." Fluttershy shifted, awkwardly. "Well... as the thought that you, Twilight, might be a touch too comfortable with the concept."
"OOOOooooo," Pinkie Pie breathed. "Twilight tempted by technology totally transported from territory not traveled to terrible and terrific tendencies? Now you HAVE to tell us what a neuroplex is!"
- If Wishes Were Ponies...: In chapter 107, "Bight Star"(AKA) Starlight Glimmer, is fuming over her defeat by Twilight and Co.
And this time MissPrissy Prying Perfect Princess Twilight Sparkle would not get to interfere. Nor would her meddling friends.
- Kedabory's Muppet Mania: In "Muppets' Funniest Home Videos", Scooter describes Kermit as "the feisty folk from funky '55".
- Laserllama: All of the Machinist's Automaton models start with the letter A.
- InThe Legend of Total Drama Island, the Storyteller shows some fondness for alliteration (which is, after all, a basic poetic device) in the narrative. The dialogue includes a full-fledged alliteration "duel" between two contestants (full text on the Quotes page), with evenChris getting into the act as he interrupts it.
- A Little Light Reading:
Harry: ...or whichever slimy Slytherin snake told you I did something.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Bonnie Rockwaller's pen name for the dating service is "Bodacious Bonnie".
- In theTurning Red/Futari wa Pretty Cure crossover fanficMaple Sugar Pretty Cure, Mei is paired with Mepple.
- More Fragging Paperwork: A hypothetical epitaph for Brawn includes the phrase "He might have been a bitkeen tokickkeister..."
- My Little Denarians:
- From "But Thou Must!": Harry notes with dismay that his stay in cartoon-land may have changed his thinking process somewhat:
The peppy pink party pony pounced playfully upward.
Harry: Wait... Why am I thinking in alliteration? Being in cartoon-land is really starting to mess with my brain.
- In "Harry Tries to Break the Multiverse": After Pinkie Pie escapes from being imprisoned in a "near-perfect Pinkie Pie ice sculpture":
Pinkie's mouth opened up impossibly wide and she swallowed the entire ice sculpture in a single gulp. "Mmm! Chilly." The pony let out another excited squeal. "After I kill you, I can use the leftover ice and meat to make a frozen chili dish. Chilly Chili! And then I can add chocolate and cherries and chives! Chilly Cherry Chocolate Chive Chili! Doesn't that just sound delicious?"
- Oversaturated World: In the description forBlue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade:
Lemon Zest: Crystal Prep's looniest lover of ludicrousness and local lady of looking after lackies.
- The Palaververse:Winterheart: A hunter speaking to its prey:
At last. Alone, hissedthe windigo, its voice a saw blade drawn gently across the eardrum.Afraid. It leaned towards her.A feast.
- Shinji and Warhammer40k: "Dark figures with dark designs deigned to discuss their dire directives despite the distance."
- somanyrobots: All of the Troubadour's Mystic Songs are titled with two words that start with the same letter, such as theDeflectingDance,StunningSolo, andWitheringWaltz.
- Steel Soul Saga: In"Steel Soul", aTongue Twister:
“Right! So stop all that mopy dopy nonsense and let me fix you up!” The party pony grinned tapping her belt. “It’ll hurt a bit but you’ll be running round with the other crusaders before you can say Chipper Chanter chases Cherry Chimichangas!”
“Chipper Chant cherry chimi...?” The little unicorn’s eyes spun in confusion.
“See what I mean?”
- TheStory Shuffle series:
- Tactical Espionage Fashion:
"Trust me: when the Pinkie Pie Palate pines for pastry, it pines profoundly!"
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- The Amazing Spider Man:
- Attack of the Killer Donuts:John works with Michelle at a place called Dandy Donuts.
- Battle of Britain: "Leave the flaming fighters! It's the bloody bombers we want!"
- Broadcast News:Lampshaded by Aaron when Tom starts alliterating.
Aaron:[half-drunk] A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!
- Doctor... Series:
- Doctor in Love:
- At the Haystack Club, Dawn introduces Leonora as the "lovely,luscious,lovableLeonora".
- When trying to get Dr. Hare to operate on him, Sir Lancelot remarks that he's being offered the chance to "slice up one of thebest-knownbreadbaskets inBritain".
- Doctor in Distress (1963):
- When Dr. Sparrow mentions how Sir Lancelot doesn't know about ladies' hearts, he admits he does know about theirlungs, theirlights, and theirlivers.
- Dr. Sparrow doesn't have a high opinion of Mr. Heilbronn, calling him a "midgetmoviemagnate".
- Doctor in Clover:
- Sir Lancelot trains his students to go out into the world and make use of the "mostmodernmedicalmethods" science can devise.
- When Sir Lancelot tells off Miss Rubikov for having visitors outside of visiting hours, she remarks that "lovelaughs atlocksmiths".
- Harry Potter: MinervaMcGonagall occasionally uses this as something of aRunning Gag.
- InGoblet of Fire, as she announces preparations for the Yule Ball she warns her students that she doesn't want them "besmirching [their house] by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons".
- InDeathly Hallows Part 2, as they're preparing for battle, she recommends burning the bridge as a defensive measure, and recalls Seamus's "particular proclivity for pyrotechnics".
- House Shark: The realtor trying to sellFrank's house is Regan Realtors.
- The Hug: TheShort Film is set inPandory's Pan Pizza Palace.
- More Dead Than Alive: showmanMark Ruffalo speaks this way when drumming up business for his Shooting Show & Death Display:
Mark: Step right up and see the spectacular shooting show and death display. See the world's greatest gunslinger. He's sharp. He's a shootin' shark. So step right up and get your tickets here, ladies and gentlemen.
- No Kidding:
- Dandy Big mutters "Leapin'lizards" as he heads up the stairs to see his room at Chartham Place for the first time.
- David calls Chartham Place a "happyholidayhome".
- The Producers — The musical and 2005 version:
Roger: This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us.
Carmen: Oh, Roger, what alliteration!
- Shock Treatment: "First and Foremost, Farley Flavors' Fabulous Fast Foods Feed and Fortify Families for a Fabulous Future!"*FUCK THE FABULOUS FUTURE!
- So I Married an Axe Murderer, Charlie recites a poem describing Harriet as a "hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."
- Ten Little Mistresses's trailer gleefully calls the film it's advertising a "murderous mistress mystery".
- V for Vendetta:
V:Voila! Inview, a humblevaudevillianveteran castvicariously as bothvictim andvillain by thevicissitudes of Fate. Thisvisage, no mereveneer ofvanity, is avestige of thevox populi, nowvacant andvanished. However, thisvalorousvisitation of a bygonevexation standsvivified and hasvowed tovanquish thesevenal andvirulentverminvanguardingvice andvouchsafing theviolentlyvicious andvoraciousviolation ofvolition![slashes a largeV through a propaganda poster] The onlyverdict isvengeance; avendetta held as avotive, not invain, for thevalue andveracity of such shall one dayvindicate thevigilant and thevirtuous.[giggles]Verily, thisvichyssoise ofverbiageveers mostverbose, so let me simply add that it's myvery good honor to meet you and you may call me'V'.
- The Wizard of Oz: The Wizard's infamous greeting to the Tin Man
Oz: "You DARE to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caligenous junk!"
- xXx: Early on, Agent Gibbons points out that their agent was killed because he didn't fit in with Anarchy 99 and suggests finding someone who does. When he shows off the chosen candidates, he calls them "the best and the brightest from the bottom of the barrel."
Literature
- The Alice Network: Eve calls René a cut-pricecollaborating cunt. This is a rare serious example — the alliteration is done solely to add some punch and isn't commented on by the narrator.
- An Elegy for the Still-living:
A slim shoddy stalk shaded as silver steel shot shyly slantwise, and sundered the soil.
- "Beowulf":
Old English verse such as the example was built on this; stressed syllables would start with the same consonant sounds to help make phrases stand out and stick in listeners' memory more (especially in a time where most of its audience will have been illiterate). It's similar to the ubiquity of rhyming in modern English poetry.
- The BFG: The names of some of the giants: theBloodbottler, theButcherBoy, theChildchewer. Also, the giants' misnaming of girls' and boys' schools: a gigglehouse for girls, and a bogglebox for boys.
- The Cat In The Hat Beginner Book Dictionary: The words in the books use a sentence with alliterative words to illustrate a word for humor. For example, for the word "Owl", the description reads "We own our own owl".
- Dr. Seuss'sOh Say Can You Say's "Never buy your Daddy a Walrus":
A walrus with whiskers is not a good pet.
And a walrus which whispers is worse even yet.
When a walrus lisps whispers through tough rough wet whiskers,
your poor daddy's ear will get blispers and bliskers.
- The Famous Five:
- InFive Get Into Trouble, George asks the names of Richard's dogs: he tells her they are Bunter, Biscuit, Brownie, Bones, Bonzo. George is unimpressed by these names, especially Biscuit.
- Lots of descriptions contain alliteration: there is something at Owl's Dene that issecret andsinister, and Dick wonders if Faynights Castle containsdungeons:damp,dark anddreadful.
- The Fourth Bear: Has a long gag about office gossip about someone named Pippa Piper that references the "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" tongue-twister. The whole thing ends with a glorious, paragraph-long cascade of alliteration for humorous effect, which is lampshaded by the characters:
"Pippa Piper picked Peck over Pickle or Pepper? Which of the Peck pair did Pippa Piper pick?" "Peter 'Pockmarked' Peck of Palmer Park! He was the Peck that Pippa Piper picked!" "No, no! You've got it all wrong! Paul Peck is the Palmer Park Peck. Peter Peck is the pockmarked Peck from Pembroke Park. Pillocks! I'd placed a pound on Pippa Piper picking P.C. Percy Proctor from Pocklington."
[pause] "It seems a very laborious setup for a very lame joke, doesn't it?" "Yes", said Mary, shaking her head sadly, "I really don't know how he gets away with it".
- The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England:Skops' boasts are heavily based on it — no wonder, as they are based on Old English poetry, which often used this device.
- Girls Kingdom: Has the academy and the various salons named alliteratively. Some examples:
- AmonotsukaAcademy
- SkySalon
- ParadisePalace
- MauveManor
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
- Dr Ubbly's Oblivious Unction is medicine used to reduce the appearance of scars.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
- Chapter 11 is titled Hermione's Helping Hand.
- When the pupils learn to Apparate, they are taught by Wilkie Twycross, whose motto is the three D's: destination, determination, deliberation. When Apparation proves very difficult to learn, there is a certain ill-feeling towards Twycross and his three D's, which inspire nicknames such as dung-head and dog turd.
- Irene Iddesleigh byAmanda McKittrick Ros:
"pillaged pillow of poverty"
"linen of loose lore and lengthy wear"
"pebbled with principle, piety, purity and peace."
- The Kalevala: In Finnish, alliteration is one of the main characteristics of theKalevala meter. For example, the first lines:
Mieleni minun tekevi,
Aivoni ajattelevi
lahteani laulamahan,
saa'ani sanelemahan,
sukuvirtta suoltamahan,
lajivirtta laulamahan.
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse: Lilly brings her new purple plastic purse to school and really wants to show it off.
- "Lukundoo": Singleton describes his stay in the Great Forest of the Congo Basin as having "the deepest, dankest, drippingest forest all about."
- Lyttle Lytton Contest: It's a humor contest. As part of the2017 submissions:
It was autumn, and the last leaf of liberty had fallen from the tree of tyranny onto the dirt of destruction.
- Malediction Trilogy:Troll twins Vincent and Victoria love puns and alliteration and Cecile plays along with them.
Cecile: The perfectly pretty porcupine perfumed the palace with the putrescence of a porky pig.
- Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time: When Mumblin' the Magician shows theFantasy World Map, several places on the map have names like...
- BlisteringBay.
- FearlessForest.
- Kingdom ofKlunk.
- SeventhSea.
- StoneSea.
- WanderingWoods.
- Mrs. Smith's Spy School For Girls: Power Play: A newPokémon GO knockoff has debuted in this book that is very popular. It's called "Monster Mayhem".
- One of the monsters you can capture in the game is the Mogollon Monster.
- "Pigeons from Hell (1938)": Branner's blood "dripped darkly down" from his lethal head injury.
- Potluck by Anne Shelby: Each guest contributes both alliteration and food to the gathering. For example, Christine came with carrot cake and corn on the cob and June joined in with jelly rolls.
- Saintess Summons Skeletons isn't just anAlliterative Name, or a story about Sofia the Saintess of Scriptures, it also has chapter titles like "Special Self-Service Scribe Shop", "Skeleton Soldier Showdown", or "Sherlock Sofia Sunders System Secrets". Her System scribe also has fun rating poisons with labels like "Sufficiently safe" or "Potentially painful product".
You know, Mr. Scribe, I'm sensing a pretty predictable pattern in the way you write these safety ranks. Did you add them only so you could play around with words?
- A Song of Ice and Fire: The Third High Septon'sviews on women are expressed this way.
High Sparrow: The wickedness of widows is well-known, and all women are wantons at heart, given to using their wiles and their beauty to work their wills on men.
- Togetherly Long: Used in two ways:
- First, the names for each of the individual storylines are always something like, "Starry Story Start" or, "Wheel Wackiness".
- Second, almost all of the named locations in the story have a name like, "Sparkle Slope" or, "Dangerous Drop".
- Vigilauntie Justice: The BBC refers to the unknownSerial Rapist as the Goldsmiths Groper.
- Whateley Universe: From"Jade 8: Exams":
Toni chortled. "I can just see it as Nikki, also known as super-fairy, goes to stop her first bank robbery." She waved her hands in the air as she described the scene. "Nikki stays back, casting her strange magic. As the bank robbers appear, she gestures, shouting, ‘Pixie Patrol! Pursue and Punish with Pugilistic Power!’ And while the elf queen sits back, her hoard of insect-size minions grab the robbers, giving them flips, socks to the jaw, and carrying them off to the paddy wagon! What a triumph to see on the evening news, except for the fact that the pixies are too small to show up on camera."
" ‘Pugilistic Power’?" Nikki frowned at her roommate. "Sounds like someone’s aching for a little magic right now!"
Toni gave a sheepish grin, but didn’t look like she regretted it.
- A Wish for Wings that Work: The ducks, bursting into Opus's house with the news thatSanta has crashed into the lake.
Duck 1: Calamity!
Duck 2: Catastrophe!
Duck 3: Cataclysm!
Live-Action TV
- The Big Bang Theory: "The Spock Resonance":Invoked in this following exchange:
Sheldon:[shows contents of his personal safe] My Wil...
[showsWesley Crusher action figure] My 1/8 scale Wil Wheaton action figure. I also have the other kind of will. And in it I will my Wil back to Wil.
Leonard: Will Wil want it?
Wil Wheaton: Wil won't.
- The Brady Bunch: "A Fistful of Reason": Little Cindy is attempting to get rid of her lisp:
Cindy: She sells seashells by the seashore. She sells seashells by the seashore. She sells seashells by the seashore.
Marcia: Cindy, would you mind practicing somewhere else? Arithmetic is kind of hard.
Cindy: So are S's.
- Community: "Paranormal Parentage": When Jeff runs away from Britta when she's trying totherapize him.
Britta: Help me heal your heart hole!
- CSI: NY: "Heart of Glass": Mac has the night off so Don expresses surprise to see him at a crime scene. Mac replies, "My dinner date dumped me for a dead body."note He was dating an M.E. at the time.
- Horrible Histories: In the music video to queen Mary Tudor's song, she sings about "Throughout myreign, itrained andrained / Itpoured upon thepoor."
- It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling...:
- "A New Lease": When Virginia asks if there has been any post, Pudding tells Samantha that she's expecting another "passion-packedpostcard".
- "A New Lease": Clover tells Hugo that Pudding's been having the most "terribletime with hertummy".
- Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth had a proclivity for these.
Hyacinth: Beautiful day, Elizabeth...completely conducive to contemplating cosy charismatic country cottages.
- The transformation announcement for Kamen Rider Zein inKamen Rider Outsiders:
Zein Driver:Justice.Judgment.Jail. Zein. Salvation of humankind.
- Kingdom (2007): Lyle, being flippant, calls Peter "P.K."
Peter: Call me "P.K." again and I'll pull your pancreas out with a pair of pliers.
- Letterkenny: Seasons two and three begin with Wayne delivering a series of statements describing what happened immediately after last season's cliffhanger. Most of the words in each sequence begin with the same letter, and he progresses through the alphabet in order, from A to Z. Between each sequence, Daryl makes an single-word interjection that starts with the next letter.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: In episode 8, while saying their goodbies, Poppy calls Nori her "best friend in thiswhole wide, wild world."
- Murdoch Mysteries: "Code M for Murdoch": When they realise James Prendrick was researching rabies after having to put his dog down, Detective Watts says "Perhaps the passing of his pup prompted Prendrick to pursue a ...cure", as he fails to think of an appropriate p-word.
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Some places in Wonderland, like Mallow Marsh, Whisperer Woods, the Towering Tum-Tum Tree...
- Occasionally used byStephen Fry, and later Sandi Toksvig, to introduce episode ofQi:
"Welcome to QI, where we have an ill-assorted imbroglio of interesting items initiated by I."
- The Red Green Show has "Rothschild'ssewage andsepticsuckingservices."
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996): "Terrible Things": Drell, the head of the witch's council, refers to Sabrina's high school classmates as "pimply, pubescent, peers."
- Shoresy: After the Sudbury Bulldogs get sponsored by the Sudbury Blueberry Festival they become the "Blueberry Bulldogs". The citizens of Sudbury find the alliterative name change degrading, and are sure to let the team know. It's a treat to watch Shoresy get a taste of his own medicine from high school hockey players Corey and Riley while he's trapped by his reffing job.
Shoresy: May as well be called the fucking Sudbury Banana Boat Bulldogs. Fucking Sudbury Nectarine Neapolitan Mastiffs.
- The Suite Life on Deck: Moseby: "I've been punched and pummeled by a pack of peeved Parisians!" and "Please place the parasailing pamphlets properly in the pamphlet podium!"
- At the beginning of every episode ofWhere in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? had the Chief use massive alliteration to describe Carmen's rogues gallery of thugs.
Chief: Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's covey of cretinous creeps has created another crime.
- On one episode ofWKRP in Cincinnati, Les tries to deliver news reports this way. He later tells Johnny that he's trying to establish a distinct style for himself. Johnny points out he already has a "style": mispronouncing Hispanic names.
Mnemonics
Alliteration is often used to help remember things:
- Physics: downplayed in "Speed is a scalar. Velocity is a vector." The initial consonant sounds in speed and scalar aren't really the same. Despite this, the definition doesn't stick: "velocity" is routinely used for "speed".
- Seen in a chemistry text: "Electrons leave the left." The initial "e" in "electron" has the same weight as "the".
- Anatomy: While the rods in your eyes detect light, thecones detectcolors.
Music
- Aftermath (Album): "Stupid Girl":
She purrs like a pussy-cat
- AJJ: There are 28 words in the first stanza of "A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit", and 19 of them begin with F:
For four fortnights I have fled from my fortress
Foraging forests five footsteps in length
Fortitude found within forty-ounce bottles
Flowing like flies from your face
From your face
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The song lyrics to "Helplessly Hoping" from the group's first album (as Crosby, Stills, and Nash) are loaded with alliterative examples.
Helplessly hoping
Her harlequin hovers nearby
Awaiting a word.
- Gang of Youths: "Achilles Come Down" features a couple. For instance, "crazy-assedcosmonaut", "Loathe the way theylight candles in Rome, butlove [...]", "Soself-indulgent andself-referential", "Don't listen to what you'veconsumed. It'schaos,confusion and wholly unworthy", "You may feelnopurposenor apoint for existing", and "Crowned by an overturebold andbeyond".
- Jhariah: "DEBT COLLECTOR" contains the line "Dollars andcoinscan'tcut yourcheck this time around!"
- Joni Mitchell has a famous example in "Big Yellow Taxi":
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
- In tribute to theV for Vendetta example,the great Luke Ski's "It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus" features: "Fantastic fen, file in fast for this fanciful frolicking through fandom's fabulous frivolities of festive times of the fantastic future! While first and foremost a fallacy, fear not as this farcical fop felicitates to you, 'It's a Fanboy Christmas 2: The Wrath of Claus'!"
- Rush (Band): From "The Spirit of Radio":
- "...and the magic music makes your morning mood."
- "Machinery making modern music".
- InSecond Person's "Wood":
Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer
- In "I Am a Rock" bySimon & Garfunkel:
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing through my window to the street below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
- Dan Bull uses this pretty frequently:
- It appears throughout almost every bar of his "Fallout 4Special Rap", with each letter matching the letter of the associated S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat (Strength uses S, Perception uses P, and so on).
- He holds a very long one in the last verse of the "GTA V Epic Rap". Here's a snippet:
Sinning with aseriouslysymbioticsynergy
We're the threesimilarlysinister Gs
Eachsending thecinemascreen into thecemetery
- Also done in the "Dishonored 2 Epic Rap":
Illumination withimmolation
Incineration andinhalation of the vapour'sincapacitation
I'mimpudentindemnification'sinsolentincarnation
Your argument justisinvalidation
- Again in the "Horizon Zero Dawn Epic Rap":
LikeRomanroads are eroded
Aroninrode arodeo
Rewrote therule; werowed arowboat
Overrows ofrapidriver flows
- Lovebites' first album isAwakening from Abyss. Their fourth album,Judgement Day contains the tracks "Wicked Witch" and "Soldier Stands Solitarily"
- Milena Warthon: One of the verses of "Ojos negros" pairs together the Andean mountainsHuáscar (aka, the Huascarán) andHua'ndoy. Their first syllable is pronounced the same in both Ancashin Quechua and Spanish. It's aJustified Trope because the Huandoy stands just north of the Huascarán.note which, by the way, is where the deadliest avalanche in human history originated; the song is about this tragedy
Pinball
- The Uncanny X-Men: If Stern Inside Connected is active, getting the highest-tier mystery award from Beat awards an achievement called "A Positively Perfectly Processed Perquisite."
Podcasts
Tabletop Games
- Atmosfear has the phrase the Gatekeeper comes up with that a player has to repeat three times fast: "I'm a miserable maggot-munching mongrel".
- Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game: In line with Dr. Strange's trademark invocations of alliterated, eldritch names, many of the spells from the Magic power set follow the same convention, like "Bolts of Balthakk" or "Flames of the Faltine."
Theater
Video Games
- Ace Attorney: Franziska in all of her appearances, often with some good ol' rhyming added for good measure:
Franziska: You huffy, puffy, loosey-goosey excuse for a whimpering whining wuss of a witness.
- Ad Verbum is anInteractive Fiction game built aroundConstrained Writing and wordplay. On the initial floor of the house, each room has an alliterative name and description, as does each of the objects within; the game's status messages within each of the rooms is also alliterative... and so too must be the commands you enter if you want them to be understood.
- Alekon: Lands in the Realm of Fiction have names such as...
- Dream'sDoorstop.
- SnowdropSlopes.
- Well ofWhimsy.
- The Bard's Tale: This is theVerbal Tic of theKunal Trow Fnarf, whom the eponymous Bard had to subdue in order to acquire his Ornate Lute.
Narrator:[after Fnarf's death] Our begrudgingly brave but bedraggled Bard set out to return to the pleasingly pert Princess Caleigh.
Bard: I've had just about enough of these atrocious alliterative announcements...
Now I'm doing it! - InBear & Breakfast, Fin's ad for the A24 Motel goes like this:
"Be pat of the next Exciting Experience, Enticing Escape, ELECTRIFYING ENTERPRISE!"
- A Bear's Night Out: Tasks described in the score breakdown are described alliteratively.
- Candies 'n Curses: The name of the final room, Shudder Shade Story.
- The Cat in the Hat (2003): Most of the levels, including Boiler Bonanza, Wishy Washy, and Chemical Chaos.
- Cookie Clicker: At the end of the "Taller Tellers" upgrade description:
"Able to process a higher amount of transactions. Careful though, as taller tellers tell tall tales."
- Donkey Kong 64: All eight levels are alliteratively named:Jungle Japes,Angry Aztec,Frantic Factory,Gloomy Galleon,Fungi Forest,Crystal Caves,Creepy Castle, andHideout Helm.
- The Elder Scrolls Online: In-game books are grouped into collections, and many of the collections that group books together based on location are named alliteratively. This includes Anequina Archives, Books of Blackwood, Dispatches from the Deadlands, Moawita Mysteries, Pellitine Postings, Solitude Soliloquies, Summerset Scrolls, Telvanni Tomes, The Reach Reader, Vvardenfell Volumes, and Wrothgar Writings.
- Eternal Senia 1: The Jack-in-the-Chest, a talking chest that's trying to be funny:
Hum hum! Hammer!
Bom bom! Boomerang!
Dom dom! Senia Dumb!
- Final Fantasy XIV:
- LalafellNPCs frequently indulge in alliteration in their dialogue.
- The Moggle Mogweapons from Good King Moggle Mog XII are all alliterative with the "Mog" sound. Even their crafted versions use qualitive adjectives that have that sound.
- Friday Night Funkin': Week 1 is titledDaddyDearest, while Week 4 is titledMommyMustMurder.
- Fox n Forests: Most of the levels in the game have alliterative names, likeRevolvingRiver andGorgeousGorge.
- Gone Golfing is set in a miniature golf course called "Cozy Cove".
- A Happy Place: Almost all of the worlds follow this theme: Fern Fields, Coastal Cliffside, Cinnamon City, Hyper Heights, Fever Freeway, Rigged Ridge, Calcium Catacombs, Flooded Fortress, and Insomnia Island. The only exceptions are Misty Grove and, technically, Castle Kitt.
- Each member of the Kitt Corp also has an alliterative name: Baron Bear, Officer Olaf, Colonel Cali, and King Kitt.
- Haunted Halloween 85: TheVideo-Game Lives in this game and its sequel are cans of Serum Soda.
- The Logomancer: The Tongue Twister skill'sFlavor Text is:
Examples of egregious edicts elicit extraneous enunciations and elaborate elocution ending in enemy's eradication.
- Love & Pies: Eve likes to come up with alliterative headlines for her articles on the Appleton Times.
- Her article on the café arson is entitled "Deluded Daughter in Desperate Denial!"
- When Eve tries coming up with a title for the news that Amelia rightfully owns the café, she suggests "Deluded Daughter Gets the Deed!" and "Kooky Café Cooks Up Conundrum!" However, they're declined in favor of Joe's: "Born andBread for Success in the Café!"
- Eve comes up with "Fruitcake Seeks Fake Fortune!" when Amelia tells her about the treasure hunt, albeit jokingly. After the treasure is found, she writes, "Precious Painting Found in Precious Pastry Café!"
- Amelia suggests "Crash Chaos Can't Curb Café!" for Eve's article about Esme's van crash into the café.
- ONRUSH: A few courses are so named: Big Dune Beach, Freightyard Forest, Red Rock Refinery and Sanctuary Shore.
- Persona 5 Tactica: All of theMooks in the Third Kingdom follow this: Hostile Husk, Hollow Hellion, Devoid Drummer, Missing Madam, and Nonexistent Ninja.
- Power Bomberman: Several stages have alliterative names, such as Circus Caper, Manic Mine, Freezing Frenzy, Pollen Poppers, Splish Splash, Midtown Madness, Clitter Clatter, Soccer Stadium, Temple Tempest and Galvanized Generator.
- Poptropica: Very common.Plenty of characters names are this (Captain Crawfish, Binary Bard, Ned Noodlehead, Gretchen Grimlock, and oh so many more) and can even apply if your character's name begins with the same letter (such as Bendy Bug). A few of the island names can also apply such as Wimpy Wonderland and Twisted Thicket, as well as location names such as Hemlock Harbor and Parrot Port.
- The Roottrees are Dead:
- One 1932 newspaper article says "RED ROOTTREE RALEIGH RALLY RACKET REVEALED".
- The vintage ad for 5Pieces says that the Miracle Berry flavor is a "burst of beautiful blossoming blended berries".
- TheShantae series:
- Skully has the titular character's golem forms, Strong Silent, Fleet Footer and Jolly Jumper.
- InStrange Brigade, theLarge Hamnarrator likes adding alliterative description during action scenes.
"RivetingRivets!SinisterScarabs!MysteriousMummies!LovelyLoot!"
- Tavern Talk has this review from the Guestbook:
I came for a AAA-meeting. Ale. Adventure. Atmosphere. The ale was an adventure, alright! - Mr. Bland
- Warhammer 40000 - Dawn of War: Soulstorm gives us this line from CommanderIndrick Boreale:
Boreale: We have placed numerous beacons, allowing for multiple, simultaneous anddevastating defensive deep strikes.
- World of Horror: Every potential case/episode you can face has an alliterative title such as "Eerie Episode of Evolving Eels", "Freaky Feature of Found Footage", and "Spine-Chilling Story of School Scissors". The one exception is "Sorrowful Saga of the Moonlight Sailors", even though "Starlight Sailors" was right there.
- The box art forYoshi refers to it as "Pure Puzzle Panic", repeating the letter P.
Web Animation
- Extra Credits: "The Dodo Bird: What ACTUALLY Happened" describes the eponymous bird as "a dawdling dumpy little dolt doomed to be devoured by Dutch deckhands until demographic decline destroyed it within decades."
- Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures: Some of the episode titles, such as:
- "Kuromi's Conspiracy Cruise"
- Wherein she takes her friends to the Terrible Tropic Triangle.
- "Badtz-Maru's Manga Mania"
- JoCat
- In the Crap Guide to Barbarian, he describes the Barbarian's rage as "A Ferocious Frenzy of Force that Foes will Fear For all their Fannies".
- JoCat also has a series titled "Character Creator Critique", where he... well, critiques video games' character creator options.
- In the "Melee DPS" guide toFinal Fantasy XIV,JoCrap starts the video with a long alliterative sentence about melee classes using multiple words that start with the letter "P". He eventually starts putting a lot of emphasis on each "P" sound, and by the end of the sentence, he's resorted to making spitting noises.
JoCrap: And you bet your precious patoot the progress preventors will be promptly pounded, because this potent projector of pain will be peppering those peasties until your pack is paved with enough resulting pellets that every peddler will pray to be pampered by a more-palatable pacifist.(makes several "P"-like spitting sounds with his mouth)
- TheOdd1sOut: The "My Poetry Teacher" video:
James: Well, freakin...why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poem?
Pterodactyl! - Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee has employed this a few times.
Webcomics
- Astray 3:Fidolus's first words are thisandSesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Most of his words areSesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
Fidolus: Desist you ponderous pile of perfidious filth!
- Darths & Droidsepisode 692:
GM: Delivered to this dark, dank den of despair, you discern a disarray of disheartened, disfigured, and dismembered droids.
Pete: You've been practising that sentence, haven't you?
GM: Definitely.
- Everyday Heroes: Mr. Mighty will occasionallybreak into bombastic bluster.
- Paranatural: Max does this at one point:
Max: I possess a plethora of popularity prerequisites.
- Schlock Mercenary:Strip 2015-03-10:
For the detailed dirt on this disaster, drop a decicred in the hyperbucket here at aPay-4-News.
- Sleepless Domain: Team Outrageous uses alliteration in several of their flashyattack names, such as "Lemon Lace Laceration" and "Awesome Apple Ollie". Undine lampshades that Outrageous Lime's "Lime Home Run"doesn't seem to fit the pattern.
- Sluggy Freelance: The stories in chapter 25: Changes are called:
- The Odd Show: In episode 21, The title and what the charaters say are alliteratives.
- Thinking Too Much to Think Positively: A rather sombre example in the "Dial D for Dysphoria" four-parter, where all of the words Xan uses to describe the feelings gender dysphoria gave her all begin with the letter D. Examples include "dissociation", "disgust", "distress" and "disgraceful". However it ends on a happy note where the last word is "discovery".
Websites
- TV Tropes: We use it every once in a while, when writing examples and in trope descriptions:
- Tropes:
- This trope is aSelf-Demonstrating Article:
An article adds alliterative appeal
if it includes identical initial icons in
the trope title that the troper thought to try,
where words will without
exception employ equivalent establishing emblems.
- Puppet Permutation: "Sometimes, something strange happens."
- Alphabet Architecture: The caption of the picture of theTeen Titans' T-shaped tower:
Titans Tower, territory tailored to the Teen Titans' tastes.
- Ass Kicks You:
- Bee Afraid: Both pre- and post-Trope Transplant image captions employ the alliteration:
Bee-ware of the wicked warrior wasps wildly waving warlike weapons! (pre-transplant)
Bee-ware of the scary stinging swarm soaring straight into the slaughter with spears and swords and shields! (post-transplant)
- Blatant Burglar: Used in the caption's image.
Beagle Boys bungle burglaries bearing bright, blatantly bad boy baggage.
Web Videos
- Acquisitions Incorporated: Season 7 gave us the gem "You bluntly bash her bark-covered body".
- Binging with Babish has numerous examples:
- In episode 23, "Rick and Morty Szechuan Sauce", Andrew describes Szechuan as having "fruity floral flavors".
- Episode 61 (The Wire) stands out.
At this point, you can keep these fries frozen for up to three months, so you can have fresh fries whenever you fancy. But for now, I want fries in my face forthwith.
- Epic Rap Battles of History:
- From "Benjamin Franklin vs Billy Mays":
"Hi! Billy Mays here, with a special TV offer! Watch me crush this bald,fat,foppishfoundingfather!"
- From "Edgar Allan Poe vs Stephen King":
"Your flow's so-so,Poe'spoemspwnposers!"
- In "Napoleon vs Charlemagne", Napoleon makes his first line memorable by filling it with two pairs of alliteration (double "ch" and double "c"). Bonus point for making "r" the second syllable for all four of them.
Napoleon: Oh, Charlemagne, you cringe Carolingian charlatan.
- Excelblem uses this theme in titles for several videos covering individual chapters of hisRevelation playthrough.
Revelation Step 5: Shovel snow to salvage statboosters by slaying surreptitiously submerged soldiers
Revelation Step 8: Fight five false-flagging phantoms for a futile faith in familial friendship
- Fixed Fairy Tales perfectly punctuates 'Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers' with properly placed Ps until the poor presentor passes out from being properly pooped.
- Freshy Kanal:
- "Monika vs. Harley Quinn" has this in Monika's first verse:
Okay, everyone! Watch me roast a giggling gullible gauthy Gotham goth!
- AgainstMcDonald's Big Mac, Little Mac adds four words staring with "b" in a row to his lines, and the first two specifically starts with "br".
Bronx Bruiser beating burgers? That's a B-KO!
- In "Norman Bates vs. Jack Torrance", Norman does a triple "f" in one of his lines.
Now I'll make this the Part 2 of ridding frantic frivolous fathers
- "King Dice vs. Oogie Boogie" has the latter proclaiming he is "decking dicey devil-dealing douches dead", then lampshading it while making a pun on dice terms by calling it a d6.
- Guy Fawkes vs. The Joker: Guy Fawkes threatens to "violently violate the Joker's vagina".
- Hatchetfield: In the various media, words and names beginning with the letter "W" are bizarrely common in relation to the paranormal phenomena throughout the series: theBig Bad Wiggly, his nemesis Webby, and his servant Wiley; theWitchwood Forest, the amusement parkWatcher World, the evil Witch in the Web, andthe ape-man Wooly-Foot.
- Seen in theHow It's Actually Made episode on soap bars:
Steel plates shape, stamp, and sort the soap cylinders, shipping their supple slippery soft bodies to be sensationally sent skyward. See?
- Map Men does this in a few of their episodes:
- In "How did triangles shrink France?":
Mark: Napoleon milked the map for magnificent military manoeuvres.
Jay: Bof.
- In "The world's silliest time zones":
Jay: And their time-travelling tactic triggered a trend.
Mark:
Bof.
- In "How many continents are there?":
Mark: But complicated culture can't be conveniently cut into clear categories.
- The episode on the longitude problem showcases a humorous take on the pamphlet announcing the Longitude Prize, which includes the phrase "Solve the Longitude — And Stop Silly Sailors Sinking at Sea, Somehow".
- In "Why British cities make no sense":
Mark: The citizens insisted that the Synod slanted system that saw sensible cities for several consecutive centuries suddenly seemed silly.
Jay: Well done.
- "Weird maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained" describes the United States Congress as "the powerful people who pick the policies the President can pass."
- The Misadventures of Skooks uses this in Episode 3, complete with an "Alliteration Counter" hanging in the top right of the screen: "I wonder where this fat fuck floated in from?"
- Every video fromTHE MONUMENT MYTHOS uses alliteration in its title, be it partial (ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY,AIRFORCEONEANGEL) or complete (WASHINGTONWORMHOLE,MAIZEMOVIEMAKER,LIBERTYLURKER, and so on).
- The Nostalgia Critic: When mocking Michael Crawford's exaggeratedlytrilled r's inOnce Upon a Forest:
NC: Yes, what is "rrrrrheumatism"? Is it why Rrrrruffles have rrrrrridges? I'd rrrrreally, rrrrrreally,rrrrreally like to know!
- Party Crashers:Discussed in "Mario Party but SECOND Wins", where the crew (excluding Vernias) find "Vern Virus" so funny due to having alliteration. Vernias tries to get back at them by creating "Nick Nitochondria" and "Brent Bronchitis",both of which fall flat. The "Brent Bacteria" was more successful though, with the variants for Nick and Sophist often cited as the "Nick Nausea" and "Sophisticated Sickness" respectively.
- TheRerez review ofMorphman has them explain that it was a game "Designed by Dynamic Dimensions Development that was Distributed Directly on Digital Disc".
- SMPLive has the Wacky Wheel at spawn.
- Tucker Budzyn: The videos of Tuckeras a puppy are usually posted with the title "Tiny Tucker Tuesday".
Western Animation
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog features theSuperSpecialSonicSearch andSmashSquad (The S.S.S.S.S. Squad for short).
- Adventures of the Gummi Bears: The theme song.
Dashing anddaring,courageous andcaring
Faithful andfriendly withstories toshare
[...]
Magic andmystery are part of their history
- Nelvana'sBabar animated series:
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
- Batman appears to be taking speech lessons fromThe Crimson Chin.
- Joker picks it up while he's theprotagonist in "Joker: The Vile and the Villainous".
- Aquaman actually gets into an alliteration battle with Penguin in "Night of the Batmen!".
- Taken to the extreme when Captain Atom has anImagine Spot of what Batman does when he fights: "Your deluge of destruction is over, Despero", "Your wicked winds wane tonight, Weather Wizard", "Your sinister subterfuge ceases now, Star Sapphire", and lastly, "Your titanic tantrum of terror terminates tonight, Giganta."
- Big City Greens:
- From "Cricket's Shoes":
Cricket: They've gone mad with meat fever!
- From "Harvest Dinner":
Tilly: Paprika for Papa... Paprika for Papa... Paprika for Papa...
- From "Green Streets":
Tilly: My own brother. A bonafide boy of the badge. A boy in blue. A blue boy.
- From "Football Camp":
Tilly: Let's see if you can resist the tuneful tune of tuna.
- From "Bill-iever":
Cricket: Now let's see if my big Billy fish is bitin'.
- "Shark Objects" has five of them:
- "Not so proud now that I've plucked you from the sky, huh?"
- "I could've pulled off the perfect prank!"
- "You're sure bein' particular about my playtime, Papa."
- "Care to join our beachside boogie?"
- "Not to worry, son! The chances of a shark showing up on this beach are incredibly slim!"
- From "Level Up":
Tilly: Papa, we've come to pry you loose from this polygon prison!
- In "Junk Mountain", Cricket's has the title ofCricket theCrusher in his "Junk Mountain" game, while his old friend Hector wasHector theHeathen; after passing his old position to his sister Lupita, she becomesLupita theLegendary. Slightly subverted with Remy's titleRemy theWrecker, which does not use the same letters but have the same beginning sound.
- Biker Mice from Mars: Lawrence Lactavius Limburger uses it, and it lends a lovely layer to Limburger's loquacious lambasting of his lackeys.
- Classic Disney Shorts:
- TheGoofyWartime Cartoon "Victory Vehicles" begins with a montage satirizing the then shortage of rubber. One such gag has this bit:
Narrator:(reading newspaper headline) "Pumping Politician Polls Precinct in Public Primaries – Pumps as He Stumps." Eh, this popular public personality predicts...
Politician: It is a pleasure and a privilege to personally point the pride and praise the perfect performance of this pump perambulator.
- Danger Mouse in "The Great Bone Idol" when he sees the Idol among a pack sleeping elephants:
Positively packed to the portals with prostrate pachyderms!
- Darkwing Duck has an affinity for alliteration.
- DuckTales:
- Family Guy had aCutaway Gag mockingTV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, with a blooper fromJoanie Loves Chachi, with Chachi attempting to say, "She sells seashells by the seashore".He gets attacked by a bear.
- Frankenstein Jr.: Almost every sentence out of the Mad Inventor's mouth in his second appearance. His "menacing Monstermobile" is a "mechanical marvel" and "vicious vehicle" filled with "dozens of destructive devices". Buzz himself is no slouch.
- Laff-A-Lympics: Two of the teams are the Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens.
- Looney Tunes:
- Bugs Bunnyaddresses the audience from the pitcher's mound in "Baseball Bugs":
Bugs: Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful, paralyzing, perfect, pachydermous percussion pitch.
- "This Is a Life?" is brought to you by the Wishy Washy washing machine company of Walla-Walla, Washington.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- ThePhineas and Ferb episode"Day of the Living Gelatin" has Dr. Doofenshmirtz rattling off a series of words starting with a hard "C" sound when describing the gelatin monster that has arrived to his aid.
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Now you can kowtow before my cartilaginous creation! It's so corrupt and cantankerous and... carnivorous, and, uh, um, low in... calories! And, um... cow, couch... eh, that's all I got.
- Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?: The Amalgamated Do-Gooding Fairies:
have branches from Boston to Bannock, Baltimore, Bangledesh to even down to Buenos Aires.
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
- The episode "Powerpuff Bluff" has this exchange done while three thugs hold the Mayor and Ms. Bellum captive at his home and rob it, prompting the girls to intervene:
Blossom: Put down the priceless porcelain poodle, you punks!
Lead Thug: P-p-p-Powerpuffs!
Blossom: Precisely![beatdown ensues]
- In "Buttercrush", the narrator does this at one point.
Narrator: Oh, no! Blossom and Bubbles' screams are being drowned out by thisrogueRomeo'srambunctiousrock!
- The Raccoons: Cyril Sneer often talks like this.
- In theRocko's Modern LifeChristmas Episode, Rocko notices that it's hard to believe it's Christmas Eve in O-Town, and asks Spunky, "Where's thewinterwonderland?Where's thewarm, friendly gatherings?"
- The Simpsons:
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- Steven Universe: Happens in multiple episodes:
- Thomas & Friends:
- This shows up every now and then, usually narration-wise (ie. "popped a piston", "rattled his/her rods", "boiler bubbled", "firebox fizzed", "wheels whirred", etc.). Seasons 13-16 have this occur at leastOnce per Episode.
- Gordon, James, and Henry's "Disgraceful! Disgusting! Despicable!" catchphrase dates back to the Season 2 episode "Dirty Work," or in the US version "Diesel's Devious Deed."
- Some catchphrases often make examples of this, specifically "Bust my buffers/boiler!", "Rattle my rods!", and "Flatten my funnel!".
- Total Drama:
- When seagulls ruin the Screaming Gaffers' sandcastle in "Beach Blanket Bogus", Harold exclaims: "No, there's birds in my belfry! Dang, they busted my buttresses!"
- In "Finders Creepers", Chris summarizes the events of the previous episode with an emphasis on the letter B on account of the camper B's elimination: "Eleven bumbling buffoons battled it out in a brutal buffet of bombastica. Why all the B words? Because B proved he was a brave and brilliant improviser who scored big time for his team. Until his bitter teammate Scott fudged it on purpose and B got the boot."
- Wander over Yonder:
- From "The Greatest":
Lord Hater: I havemangled theminds ofmillions, I havetempted forthtorrentialtides oftears, I havereduced therichest ofrepublics torevel andruin! Because I... am thegreatest in all thegalaxy!
- From "The Fugitives":
Wander: Gentle-mants, please. Might I propose a proposition to your perplexing and ponderous peanut problem?
- From "The Boy Wander":
- Wandering Wenda is all about this. Each of the show's 26 episodes is themed around a letter of the alphabet, and the writers clearly go out of their way to include as many words that start with (or at least produce the sound of) the episode's focus letter as possible in names and places, the characters' dialogue (including that of theNarrator), and every episode's title. The result is probably the most alliteration you'll ever hear in the span of 8 minutes.
Something's starting to show atthe Stinger.
◊ where Jason tries to draw strips forThe Boondocks, he does this after hearingAaron McGruder likes to use"N" words.
