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* Another poetry example, from ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'': "So."

* [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]]:

** Killed By A Curtain

*** [[Big No|Nooooo!]] You bitch! [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|YOU BITCH!]]

** {{spoiler|Hedwig}} is not dead. [[Pani Poni Dash!|Dot com.]] Can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20121220083228/http://hedwigisnotdead.com/ here].

** "''Anvil-sized,''" "''delusional,''" and the coming of [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|Potterdammerung]], thanks to what is known as simply [https://web.archive.org/web/20121128062148/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/THE_INTERVIEW THE INTERVIEW].

** [[Large Ham|NYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAA!]]

** JK Trolling

** [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp|The Furry Old Lobster]], which even got its own song by [[Jonathan Coulton]].

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

** Writing or typing everything related to {{smallcapssmall-caps|Death}} in the required font.

** Five exclamation marks!!!!! The sure sign of an insane mind!!!!!

* [[Thomas Pynchon]]:

** [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|We Await]] [[Ancient Conspiracy|Silent]] [[Arc Words|Trystero's]] [[Mind Screw|Empire]].

** [[Post Modernism|Don't]] [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Ever]] [[Broken Masquerade|Antagonize]] [[Milkman Conspiracy|The]] [[Conspiracy Placement|Horn]].

* ''[[Dune]]'':

* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'':

* "5. Thus, they at once began to quarrel about the nut." (From ''McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107031334/http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume8/v8i6/air_vents_4.html via] the ''Annals of Improbable Research''.)

* In [[Snark Bait|snarky discussions]] of anything related to ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', copious amounts of [[Bishie Sparkle]] must be used. This is also considered a case of [[Never Live It Down]], since beyond the romantic plot between Edward and Bella, the only thing most snarkers (care to) remember is the fact that [[Our Vampires Are Different|Their Vampires Are Different]]... and Extra Shiny.

** The chagrinning books also suffer from the [[SMURFINGSmurfing|chagrinning]] act of shoehorning the word ''chagrin'', no matter how chagrinningly innapropriate, into every chagrinning sentence, much to the chagrin of many.

** [http://oxymoronassoc.livejournal.com/462027.html#cutid1 "EMMETT CAN YOU KEEP IT DOWN I AM READING PROUST!"]{{Dead link}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-turfrcQY-w&feature=channel_page UHMAAAAZING] [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20170525165529/https://encyclopediadramatica.comrs/Nuttymadam BUUUUUUUK!]

** [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GHp3tbQtz24/S859kwACkfI/AAAAAAAAA0I/ewk598M6oKM/s1600/633846888594267210-Twilight.jpg They don't turn into werewolves.]{{Dead link}}

** Still a better love story than Twilight. <ref>Special bonus if said subject was ''outside'' the romance genre.</ref>

** [[The Lord of the Rings|One does not simply warg into Hodor.]]

* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[GhostPaladin (Literature)of Shadows|Ghost]]''

** [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html OH JOHN RINGO NO].<ref> The phrase comes from a [[Live JournalLiveJournal]] review of ''[[GhostPaladin of (Literature)Shadows|Ghost]]'', wherein the reviewer is reading along and finding something interesting, then runs into something totally, brain-breakingly wrong, prompting the uttering of the phrase. Given that the book, an exercise in letting loose some demons in Ringo's head that were blocking his writing other stories, was originally to be titled "The Wanker Piece" until [[Baen Books]] marketing convinced Ringo otherwise, it goes without saying this was a frequent utterance on the reviewer's part.</ref>

** Ringo had the review pointed out to him, and in the journal he replied with praise for it as the most accurate review of the book he had ever seen. Later, the phrase was used as part of a t-shirt design for a garment whose proceeds were to be sent to an organization helping sexually exploited women around the world, many in the situation of pretty much all the prostitutes in the ''[[Paladin of Shadows (Literature)|Paladin of Shadows]]'' series.

* ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'':

** ...mostly harmless.

* CS Multilaser, author of several multilasers in the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' multilaser, is an example of this multilaser.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120108162037/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/The_Venom_Cock "That'th a cock, hey-o!"]

** Women do not rever [sic] the venom cock as men do.

* Don't like [[Anne Rice]]? Clearly, you are [https://web.archive.org/web/20121206022347/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Interrogating_the_text_from_the_wrong_perspective interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.]

* The phrase ''[[Catch-22]]'' is an interesting example. In the book the expression Catch-22 means an unwritten-yet-applied dumb rule with many uses, but due to memetic mutation it quickly became known as nothing more than the no-win situation it's known as today.

** Samson killed a thousand Philistines [[The Bible (Literature)/Awesome|with the jawbone]] ''[[The Bible (Literature)/Awesome|of an ass]]''!

** As for the fate of Dagon... ''Is The Lord Thy God [[ChappellesChappelle's Show|gonna have to choke a bitch]]?''

** Why is [[The Messiah|Jesus]] better than [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]]? Because when Jesus {{spoiler|came back from the dead}}, He stayed that way.

* [[It Was a Dark Andand Stormy Night|It was a dark and stormy night.]]

* The phrase "Yngvi is a louse!" from ''[[Harold Shea|The Roaring Trumpet]]'' became a meme among science fiction fandom before the Internet existed. [http://fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/YNGVI\]

* ''[[The Princess Bride (Literaturenovel)|The Princess Bride]]'' has generated many memes, but they're all under [[Memetic Mutation/Film|Film]]. No point in duplicate entries.

* ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'':

** "Making an effort" has become a bit popular with the [[Slash Fic|slashers]].

** Oh Lord, heal this bike.

* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'':

* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'':

** ''[[Animorphs (Literature)/Characters|My name is]]''

** Sam Carsten has blonde hair and freckles and burns extremely easily in the sun, which is a very bad trait for a sailor in the Navy. It doesn't matter how much zinc he slathers on, he still gets sunburnt. Also, General Clarence Potter sounds like a Yankee since he went to Yale.

* ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'': Don't get The Wife of Bath angry.

* Dorothy Parker told us that "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." (Hey, she was an American and she died in [[The Sixties]]--she—she was unfamiliar with the concept of a [[Meganekko]].)

* [[Ogden Nash]]'s idea of how to win over a girl: "[[Everything's Better Withwith Chocolate|Candy]] is dandy, [[But Liquor Is Quicker|but liquor is quicker]]."

* ''[[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]]'': The first rule of [[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]] is you do not talk about [[Fight Club (Literaturenovel)|Fight Club]].

** [[Invisible Monsters (Literaturenovel)|Birds ate my face.]]

* ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'':

* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': This book [[Older Than Steam|generated various memes that have survived for more than four hundred years]], and even are words recognized by the Spanish Royal Language Academy’s dictionary:

** '''"¿Leoncitos a mi?" ''' Could be translated as [[Badass Boast|"Do they want to scare me with those little lions?" ]]

** '''Quixote''': Man who fightfights for love of the ideal. Man who fightfights for noble causes.

{{quote| ''" by heart by people of all sorts, that the instant they see any lean hack, they say, 'There goes Rocinante.' "''}}

** Maybe they're just windmills, but [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]]...

* ''[[Fear and Loathing Inin Las Vegas]]'': "Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..."

** Cliegg: Your son's dead, son. Accept it. <ref>In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', we see Luke as a ghost. Yes, he'd be over 150 now, but we have proof of Jedi living hundreds of years, even human Jedi. LFL won't say if Luke's alive or dead.</ref>

*** Your Wookiee's dead son. Accept it. <ref>They killed Chewbacca at the beginning of the [[New Jedi Order]], making all those heartwarming moments in the Holiday Special and the like turn into a huge [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].</ref>

** Destroy your planet. <ref>No, not the Death Star. This one comes from the Marvels: "If Lando dies, I'll destroy your planet."</ref>

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' fandom:

** All hail [[Memetic Badass|Purdystar!!]] .<ref>Purdy has become a popular character in the fandom</ref>.

** Every last part of the fanfic ''[[Starkits Prophecy (Fanfic)|StarkitsStarkit's Prophecy]]''.

** "I must take... the challenge!" <ref>This is a line from the "[[SSS Warrior Cats (New Media)|SSS Warrior Cats]]" fanimation that fans found a bit narmy.</ref>

** Sol is trollin'. <ref>Sol's [[Affably Evil]] attitude has led to fans comparing him to an internet [[Troll]]. [http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo247/rykerzero/Random%20Stuff/skyclanSol.png This image macro] is an example.</ref>

* This trope becomes a lot less funny and gets a rather large serving of [[Nightmare Fuel]] when ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' enters the picture. Their [[Sarcasm Mode|beautiful]] universe has the Celestis, a group of Homeworld agents who foresaw a monstrous Time War, and obsessed with preventing the destruction of their bodies, they destroy them themselves, and leaving their ''meaning'' behind, making them sentient ideas, the literal physical incarnation of this trope. After they [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]], it becomes painfully obvious they're still the same fearful, backstabbing [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]]s they were, and they find about [[Oh Crap|their new cool powers]]...

* [[Maradonia Saga (Literature)|Maradonia Saga]]: 2 dislikes. Gloria and her mom have been here. <ref> Inevitably, whenever a video criticizes Team Tesch, 2 dislikes will appear. Because fandom for Tesch's books is literally nonexistent, youtubers took to saying they had to be Gloria and her mom. It's not clear where this first surfaced.</ref>

** "Appolyon's Club of Evil": "''The powers of evil believe in teamwork''!" .<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20101216165035/http://impishidea.com/Humor/615/maradonia-sporkings-part-fifteen Actual excerpts from the book] about the ''villains'', in a clear case of "I don't think those words mean what you think they mean" by Tesch. Now used to show how much of [[Designated Villain|Designated Villains]]s Apollyon and co. are</ref>.

* ''[[Faust]]'':

** A Faustian pact or bargain as a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]], or anyone else who probably should have been avoided.

* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' has several, mostly originating from the [[Live JournalLiveJournal]] badfic-sporking community, Phanwank: