I Am Not Shazam/Literature: Difference between revisions

*** ''Frankenstein'' as a brand name? I don't buy the cheap reanimated corpse monsters. No, sir, I'm getting an authentic top-of-the-line Frankenstein! I'll teach it how to drive my Ford, and fix my Maytag, and I'll get him some Jordans to wear.

*** This was the argument used to justify the title of the movie ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'' in the comic ''Major Bummer'' (itself an example of the trope, as the title sounds like the super-hero name of the slacker main character but isn't). One character points out that Frankenstein doesn't even appear in the movie.

'''Lou''': C'mon, use your head! Did Michelangelo need a first name? Did Liberace? }}

*** Of course, "Michelangelo" ''was'' his first name; his last name was Buonarotti.

** Parodied in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YptTtb4VPA Mitchell and Webb sketch]. Hitchcock's [[Film of the Book]] is being made, but [[Executive Meddling]] demands that if it's named Rebecca, it has to be about Rebecca. They don't change the names, though, they just replace all instances of "first wife" with "second wife" and vice versa.

* A variation of this would be the fact ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' is not an instruction manual for mockingbird hunters. There weren't even any mockingbirds. It's a reference to a metaphor used throughout the story. There was even a [[Title Drop]] in which mockingbirds were referenced directly, and they're a symbol for one of the growing-up lessons Scout learns.

Jays-- and rabid dogs. And he ''does'' shoot a rabid dog... and it wasn't even mocking him (intentionally, anyhow). }}

** At the end, when Scout agrees not to reveal {{spoiler|Boo Radley's heroism}}:

** Does anyone ''really'' [[Too Dumb to Live|think that it's an instruction manual for mockingbird hunters?]]

** [[How to Kill a Mockingbird|Yes.]]