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Basic Trope: Changing an everyday phrase or proverb to make it sound older and/or more whimsical.

  • Straight: A few characters in a Fantastical Fantasy Book say, "What the Hades[1]?" or "I'm so hungry I could eat a pegasus[2]."
  • Exaggerated: Literally every sentence in the Fantastical Fantasy Book is a Mythology-Based Incredibly Lame Pun on cliches.
  • Downplayed: The phrase "What the Hades" shows up once, and only once, in the entire series.
  • Justified: People actually talk like that in the FFB universe, due to not knowing what Hell or horses are.
  • Inverted: The mythical creatures use human related puns.
  • Subverted: Other characters say "What the Hell?" frequently...
  • Double Subverted: Only to be corrected by their peers.
  • Parodied: We get people actually eating pegasi and hold hippogriffs.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: They use modern slang with no puns whatsoever.
  • Enforced: "We can't have normal slang in Fantastical Fantasy Book! make it sound, you know, more older and stuff!"
  • Lampshaded: "Why can't we just say 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.'?"
  • Invoked: A character only uses "So hungry I could eat a pegasus" when other people are eating pegasi.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Remember those characters we mentioned that use the actual phrase? They tell the people correcting them "Shut up, I know what I'm talking about!"
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "Yeah, I have to admit it's a little cheesy how Fantastical Fantasy Book use all those mythology-based cliches, isn't it?"

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  1. Hell
  2. horse