Aerith and Bob/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Characters with Plain Names live alongide characters with weird names

  • Straight: Joe has a friend named kunashi
  • Exaggerated: Joe has a friend named Bulx'a7ʘ̃ ahshi
  • Justified: Joe and kunashi are from different cultures
  • Inverted: The village has lots of name like Kunashi, Watashi, or something of that sort, but there is that one Joe.
  • Subverted: Joes name is short for Joznaku
  • Double Subverted: But Joznaku is the local transliteration of Joseph
  • Parodied: Joe and his friend n!qgamnognx'klxoqaidrothʘnotha7akloʘ̃ nayrethonothaeogijsifngirsifkbnjrsghtsgbngt live in the same secluded village, no one notices the contrast
  • Deconstructed: kunashi is made fun of because no one can pronounce his name and later he and his family are purged from the village
  • Reconstructed: kunashi and his family are accepted because the community believes diversity is good.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Joe has a friend with a name that isn't particularly unusual.
  • Enforced: The head writer thinks that kunashi is a cool name.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Joe and kunashi's parents introduce them to each other to help them grow into tolerant human beings to help build the global community
  • Defied: kunashi's parents rename her Alice
  • Exploited: Joe moves to this village to improve his pronounciation of foreign words
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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