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It's a fairly common practice in the wiki to make puns based on pre-existing trope titles. Outside of this wiki, this is called a "snowclone", where in a sentence "X is the new Y", anything the speaker wants to use can be substituted for X and Y.
The term "snowclone" originated onLanguage Log
, from multiple examples of people claiming "[Culture X] has [Y] words for [concept Z.]" based on the statement that "Eskimos have 50 words for snow."
But very often, this new trope will have nothing whatsoever to do with its namesake. (And that's bad.)
The Title Bin was the place where silly wordplay used to go if it couldn't be justified by the trope description, as more creative ways ofNaming a Trope should be used. It was eventually deleted as too few of the entries displayed any actual humor.
See alsoEverything's Worse with Snowclones for more reasons that youshouldn't name tropes this way.
Bear in mind thatTropes are Tools, so not every examplegiven below is bad. Subtropes named after pre-existing trope titles or supertropes can make it easier to remember what those subtropes are.
