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This trope is widespread in [[Real Life]], as the [[Real Life]] examples would suggest.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[The Fugitive (Film)|The Fugitive]]'' with [[Tommy Lee Jones]]: "He did a [[Peter Pan]] right off this dam here." Earlier, of a train driver: "Bet he did a Casey Jones."

* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', Neo was "doing his [[Superman]] thang."

* The two protagonists of ''[[Gerry (Film)|Gerry]]'' are both named Gerry. It becomes clear that in the personal argot of their friendship, a "Gerry" has come to mean an incident of getting turned around and hopelessly lost somewhere, and that the film's title actually refers to this term.

* In ''Man of the House'', a pair of the cheerleaders are being dragged back to the house after starting to get in a barfight, and complains about being 'rescued' by saying "I was about to go all [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] on his ass."

* In ''[[Its a Wonderful Life]]'' there's a reference to Clarence having "pulled a Brody" -- period slang for jumping off a bridge, after New York bridge-jumper Steve Brody.

* In ''[[The Gamers]]'':Dorkness Rising, when Flynn is [[Back From the Dead|resurrected]], Lodge (the ''[[Game Master]]'') notes that "Flynn pulls a [[The Bible|Lazarus]]."

 

** [[Truth in Television|Life Imitates Art]], but twisted: "Pulling a Carrie," or "going Carrie on [something]," actually did become synonymous with someone acting crazy after being humiliated.

** This one's become so well-travelled that it even [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kare_kano/v09/c041/4.html appears] in the ''[[Kare Kano]]'' manga as a visual-only metaphor for someone snapping under the strain of having perfectionist, controlling parents.

* In the [[Meg Cabot]] novel ''How to Be Popular,'' the phrase "Don't pull a Steph Landry" is the basis for the entire plot.

* Played with in ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States'', describing the occasion of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the first July Fourth ([[Running Gag|October 8]], 1776): "The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write '[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock John Hancock].'"

*** Not to mention the fact that "To Dresden" means accidentally causing severe property damage, in-universe.

* Towards the end of Rob Grant's ''Colony'', the main character comes up with a plan to save the ship that everyone comes to know as "The Morton Maneuvre." He however believes that if the plan fails, then the term "Morton Maneuvre" will forever be associated with spectacular failures such as the Charge Of The Light Brigade and the Hindenburg (which he reckons should have been called the Mortonburg).

* In ''[[Crysis (Video Game)|Crysis]]: Legion'' Colonel Barclay notes that the Ceph are [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to remove both macrofauna (read: humans and animals) and microbes, obviously having got their tentacles on ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' sometime. Hilariously, Dr Gould the scientist doesn't get it at first.

* ''[[Little Green Men (Literature)|Little Green Men]]'' has a footnote explaining what the neologism "Bobbitting" means.

** In "New Moon Rising", the normally [[Book Dumb]] Buffy threatens to "pull a [[William Telling|William Burroughs]]" on somebody. Nobody gets it.

{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Was I the only one awake in English class that day? I'll. Kill. Him.}}

* Sawyer and Hurley on ''[[Lost]]'' regularly supply such references. In "Eggtown," Kate tricks Hurley into a [[You Just Told Me]] revelation, to which Hurley replies, "You just [[Scooby Doo]]'ed me, didn't you?"

* In the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode "Simon Said," a character uses a mind control on Dean Winchester to take his [[Cool Car|beloved 1967 Chevy Impala]] for a spin. Dean then calls Sam and says, "He full-on [[Jedi Mind Trick|Obi-Wan-ed]] Me!"

* ''[[Married With Children]]''. One episode has Al Bundy attempt to put back a way overdue library book without officially returning it so he won't have to pay a late fee. He ends up being exposed in a very public and humiliating way. At the very end of the episode, a kid catches his friend doing the same thing and remarks "Hey, don't Bundy that book!"

* An in-universe example is found in ''[[The Office]]'' when Andy tries convincing Michael that the employees describe anyone who screws something up horribly as having "Schruted" it.

{{quote| Jack: I've Lemoned the situation with Nancy!<br />

Liz: That's not a thing people are saying now, is it? Lemoned. Doing it awesome. }}

** There is also an episode centered around both Jack's and Liz' reactions to extreme hilarity or excitement. Jack "jacks" which refers to getting so excited that you vomit. Liz "lizzes" which is a also a portmanteau of laugh and whiz.

** Another episode featured a classical example where Jack bases his relationship strategy on Fabius Maximus and at the end of the episode this strategy is countered by one based on Hannibal. Jack says she "Hannibaled" his "Fabius."

* [[Dan Browned]] and [[Encyclopedia Browned]]

* [[Gainaxing]]

* [[Adam Westing]].

* To pull a [[Leeroy Jenkins]] stunt is well-known enough to have a trope named after it!