Non-Indicative Name/Web Original

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Examples of Non-Indicative Names in Web Original works include:

Troping Wikis

  • The Other Tropes Wiki is neither about television nor tropes, and this wiki is not about tropes either - at least, not what your literature professor would think of first when he heard the word.
  • TV Tropes, as stated in Hypocritical Humor, as they're not just about TV.
  • The Mexican Standoff trope wasn't coined in Mexico, but in Australia. Read the article for more information.
  • Quite a few examples in Non-Indicative Name are indeed indicative, just not literal.

Other Works

  • Deviant ART isn't really deviating from anything these days since it became an art community. And of those who question True Art, it doesn't have that all that either.
    • It does still have the computer theme deviations for which it was named (I assume). And art is in the eye of the beholder, so unless you are snarky and against photography, poetry, animesque illustrations, or the Furry Fandom, the name still holds. It's still an Artifact Title, though.
  • Facebook isn't really a book full of faces.
  • Chinese Troper Teslashark wrote a webfic that's called Time to Shoot Down the Moon. The rock-satellite of Earth suffers nothing in the story. In fact, the author did it on purpose, to mock sci-fi series and war fictions with outrageous names.
  • Marble Hornets is certainly not about hornets made of marble.
    • In-universe, "Marble Hornets" is the name of the student film project that Alex Kralie came up with that got interrupted after Alex's run-in with you-know-what. Whether or not the title actually had some significance to the plot of the project is never explained.
  • The "Cheat Commandos O's" cereal pieces from Homestar Runner are actually not "O"-shaped, but rather nugget-shaped. This was even lampshaded on the box art where Fightgar was actually telling the other Commandos that the cereal pieces "aren't 'Os!"
  • The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) contains information about TV shows, individual episodes and video games.
  • Leekspin uses a Bleach clip in which Orihime spins what is clearly indicated in the show to be a scallion.
  • No Right Answer uses this for some episodes (Best Anime Ever should really be called Pokemon vs Digimon). Used deliberately for publicity.
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