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So, you're a Filmmaker. You're sitting down with a Scriptwriter between the Water-cooler and the Coffee-maker, trying to decide on a name for your epic story about a guy who [[Calvin and Hobbes|verbs nouns]]. Yeah, he verbs them till they're adjective. Wait, that's it! He's the '''Noun Verber!'''
This isn't a very popular trope for the actual titles of movies or TV shows, but it's an old standby for lazy fantasy and science fiction authors who need a name that sounds detached from the real world and yet is immediately understandable. For some reason, a very common verb for this is "stalk." The most common noun is probably "death."
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Compare [[Luke Nounverber]], when the same principle is applied to character names. See also [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future]].
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== Anime
* ''[[Airmaster]]''
* ''[[Kemono no Souja Erin]]'': Translates to Beast Player Erin.
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* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has Dragon Slayers.
* ''[[Princesss Lover]]''
* ''[[Gunbuster|GunBuster]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Nightrider in [[Mad Max]]
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''
* ''[[Wolfwalkers]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[David Gemmell]]'s Druss the Legend is known as "Deathwalker" to his enemies. Well, one nation of his enemies.
* In the comic book tradition of doing this with super-person codenames, the [[Whateley Universe]] has one of its heroines named Bladedancer. Not to mention side characters like Shadowdancer.
* In ''
* Less often done in the "hero pulps", but often in the paperback original series of the 1960's to 1980's. The Executioner, the Penetrator, the Sharpshooter, the Liquidator, the Destroyer, the Butcher, the Nazi Hunter, the Terminator, the Revenger, the Avenger, the Protector, etc. stand as examples. Many retrospectives on the paperback original trend (e.g. Jeff Siegel's The American Detective: An Illustrated History, Sons of Sam Spade, Geherin in American Private Eye, Warren Murphy's article in The Fine Art of Murder, Murder Off the Rack's Matt Helm article) derisively point out how common the agent noun series title turned out.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia
* In the ''[[Black Company]]'' series by Glen Cook, most of the original Ten Who Were Taken with the exception of the Limper and the Howler. (Stormbringer, Soulcatcher, Bonegnasher, Moonbiter...the list goes on. Most are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], too.)
* And another ''[[Deathstalker (novel)|Deathstalker]]'', [[Rule of Three|just to prove a point]].
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* "Star Star", by the [[Rolling Stones]] fits this trope in its [[Censored Title|original form]] {{spoiler|of "Starfucker"}}
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is positively brimming with Nounverbers, such as the famous Planeswalkers. Many of their nounverbers verb nouns with verbs that don't even make sense. How does one [
** Aw, c'mon, at least ''one'' of those is an Adjective Verber. Also, I think it is a creature made of gristle that is grinning.
* ''[[Dungeons
** Not to mention the D&D supplement ''[[Spelljammer]]''.
* ''[[Warhammer
** As does the Imperium. The Blood Drinkers and Flesh Tearers. Yes, those are the good guys (relatively speaking, of course).
== [[This Very Wiki]] ==
* '''[[Trope Namer]]'''
* ''Noun Verber'', this very page
* [[Ambulance Chaser]]
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== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* The U.S. Military has often utilized Code Talkers, Native American servicemen and women who use their native language as part of an unbreakable radio cypher. The most famous of these were the Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific theater during [[World War II]].
* [[Jon Stewart]] made a [[David Letterman|Letterman]] appearance where he claimed this was George Bush's favorite speech pattern. "I A B -- I'm a B A-er. I make decisions -- I'm a decision maker!"
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