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== Film ==

* [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Earth#Animal_species Wookieepedia] has an exhaustive list of this trope as it applies to ''[[Star Wars]]''. Dice, for example, are called "chance cubes". ...Although actual dice with pips instead of colors have appeared and gone by "dice" in the EU.

** ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' complained that ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] writers take this kind of thing to ridiculous extremes:

* In the ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' series, the sworn enemies of the vampires are not werewolves, they're Lycans (though Selene does call them werewolves in the first film when telling Michael about the centuries old conflict that he has just found himself in the middle of). Justified in the sequel and the prequel, which both feature first generation werewolves that are related to Lycans, but do have a few key differences. First generation werewolves retain very little, if any, of their original human minds, have longer snouts and are covered nearly head-to-toe with fur in their wolf forms, and are permanently stuck in their wolf forms, unable to ever revert back to human form. Lycans, on the other hand, retain all of their original human minds, have shorter snouts and very little fur in their wolf forms, and are able to shift back and forth between wolf and human forms at will.

* In the ''[[Cars]]'' series films, forklifts are referred as "pitties" because in the first film, they all served as the pit crews for the racecars.

 

== Literature ==