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** The Front Door, Nothing, The House, The Will... he murders it.
* The Fence of [[The Amory Wars]] is another name for Heaven, where the Prise hang out (another name for angels).
* In ''[[
* The <<Sword>>, The <<Blood>>, and to <<See>> in [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Akai Ito]]'' and its sort-of sequel ''[[Aoi Shiro]]''. {{spoiler|The <<Sword>> [[Subverted Trope|has a proper name]] though, it's [[Orochi|Ame-no-Murakumo]].}}
* Doesn't enter the above category for being a group instead of a race: ''[[Lost]]'' has the Others.
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* [[Discworld]]'s Death {{smallcaps|always speaks in small caps.}}
* "The Change" in ''[[The Last Dove]]'' to refer to the ability of all the characters to shapeshift.
* [[Christianity|Christians]], and some editions of [[The Bible]], often capitalize pronouns that refer to [[God]] or [[Jesus]] to show reverence to Him. Other editions of the Bible drop the practice except to distinguish between God or Jesus and another male character in the same scene.
* People draw a distinction between ideologies and the political parties that have appropriated the names of the ideologies. For example, there are "small-l libertarians" and "big-L Libertarians".
* In ''[[Who Moved My Cheese?]]'', "Cheese" and "New Cheese" are written with initial caps when referring to the littlepeople because "Cheese" represents what people desire in life.
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg, the first pages of the story lampshade the practice of writing "Cheese" with initial caps for extra symbolism.
* There's a conspiracy theory about the [http://activistnyc.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/united-states-corporation-and-the-district-of-columbia-organic-act-of-1871-more-anti-banker-misinfo-disinfo/ DC Organic Act of 1871], a law passed soon after the Fourteenth Amendment that reorganized the government of [[Washington, DC]], claiming that the United States has been [http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm transformed into a corporation] called "THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT" under control of foreign bankers, which is somehow distinct from the "united States of America" under the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
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