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{{quote|"''I was just thinkin'. About goldfish. Even though they are called 'goldfish' they aren't gold-colored, are they? They are red, right? [[Green Is Blue|The 'blue light' on traffic lights too, aren't they green]]? Things like that make me sick...''"

|'''Yuno''', ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''}}

|'''Yuno'''|''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''}}

Have you ever noticed how sometimes, pickles are ''really'' salty?

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** Also, the title of ''Return to Deathworld'' (co-authored by [[Ant Skalandis]] and never published in English) is misleading, in that no one has actually left Deathworld to return to it.

* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Night Watch|The Last Watch]]'', Merlin's ultimate artifact is called the Crown of All. It's not a crown or anything even remotely close.

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[~~Discworld/Lords and Ladies|~~Lords and Ladies]]'', mention is made of the Carter family, who named their daughters after virtues and their sons after vices. They turned out to be non-indicative: Charity Carter grew up to be greedy and Prudence Carter wound up the mother of fourteen kids, while Anger Carter is known for being even-tempered, and Bestiality Carter is known for being kind to animals.

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'', mention is made of the Carter family, who named their daughters after virtues and their sons after vices. They turned out to be non-indicative: Charity Carter grew up to be greedy and Prudence Carter wound up the mother of fourteen kids, while Anger Carter is known for being even-tempered, and Bestiality Carter is known for being kind to animals.

* The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel have as many examples as the films - in addition to those mentioned already in the film section above, there's also the Sun Crusher, which doesn't crush suns but instead forces them to go supernova and rip apart in a violent explosion.

* Arthur Phillips' 2003 novel ''Prague'' takes place entirely in Budapest = the characters think everything is happening in Prague and talk about it, but never go there.