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{{quote|''The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.''|''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''}}

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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: when a name is a transparent and pathetic attempt, if an attempt is made at all, to make something look good, but it still looks glaringly suspicious.

* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: for broader cases of name not matching reality.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: also a trope where something fearsome has a harmless name; generally, though, [[Fluffy the Terrible]] tends to be silly or goofy, while [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom]] tends to be a lot darker.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: also a trope where something fearsome has a harmless name; generally, though, [[Fluffy the Terrible]] tends to be silly or goofy, while '''Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom''' tends to be a lot darker.

* [[Happy Fun Ball]]: a trope where something's ''appearance'' doesn't match its function.

* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]

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* ''[[The Hunger Games]]''. Gather round, everybody! Celebrate! We're going to take your children and make them kill each other. Brutally! And you will have to watch every second of it! And you will enjoy it!

* ''[[Animorphs]]'' gives us The Sharing, an organization full of nice, friendly people who do charity work and have a great time doing it. And after you are initiated, a parasitic alien crawls into your ear and you are a slave to the invading alien race.

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'': [[Town with a Dark Secret|Harfang]] is said to be the home of the only "[[Gentle Giant~~|Gentle Giants~~]]" of the far north. [[To Serve Man|Don't believe it]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|for one second]].

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'': [[Town with a Dark Secret|Harfang]] is said to be the home of the only "[[Gentle Giant]]s" of the far north. [[To Serve Man|Don't believe it]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|for one second]].

** The "Island Where Dreams Come True." [[Nightmare Fuel|Night]][[Nightmare Sequence|mares]] are dreams.

* In "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" from ''[[Godel Escher Bach]]'', the Tortoise was promised by a fortune teller "a stroke of Good Fortune," and it happens to him and Achilles in the form of one "Hexachlorophene J. Goodfortune, Kidnapper-At-Large, and Devourer of Tortoises par Excellence."

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' spell "Nybor's Joyful Voyage". That Nybor also devised whole ''line'' of [[Agony Beam]] spells can be counted as a subtle hint. It [[Tele Frag|unsafely teleports]] one victim to random place ~~1-100~~ miles away from the point of origin (including straight up and down).

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' spell "Nybor's Joyful Voyage". That Nybor also devised whole ''line'' of [[Agony Beam]] spells can be counted as a subtle hint. It [[Tele Frag|unsafely teleports]] one victim to random place 1–100 miles away from the point of origin (including straight up and down).

{{quote|The "joyful" nature of Nybor's voyage refers to the joy of the spell's caster rather than that of its target.}}

** The [[Agony Beam]] spells also fall into this trope. "Gentle reminder," which inflicts intense pain, "mild admonishment," which causes prolonged torture, and "stern reproof," which is so painful it can kill its target. By the time you get to wrathful castigation, it's time to be afraid.

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** In recent years there has also been a trend in the U.S. toward informally assigning girl's names to legislation (usually laws concerning punishment and/or registration of convicted sex offenders), i.e., "Megan's Law," "Jessica's Law." (Combines this trope with [[Think of the Children]] as well as [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]).

*** The girl's name thing tends to be that the law is named after a girl who fell victim to the specific thing the law is addressing (for example, "Amber Alert" isn't specifically named after the color "amber", but Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered).

* In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) decides whether or not a drug should be provided by the ~~NHS -- so~~ NICE can be responsible for denying life-prolonging treatments for reasons of expense...although sometimes they do this to avoid having to shut down care in areas that affect more people, so [[Your Mileage May Vary]], lets [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|leave it there.]]

* In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) decides whether or not a drug should be provided by the NHS—so NICE can be responsible for denying life-prolonging treatments for reasons of expense...although sometimes they do this to avoid having to shut down care in areas that affect more people, so [[Your Mileage May Vary]], lets [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|leave it there.]]

* A "screw you, [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|M.A.F.I.A.A.]]" project, mass implementation of which would cause the litigous sort of publishers either lobby prohibition of WiFi as we know it or weep in futility?

{{quote|...[http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/27/piratebox-anonymous-1.html#comment-1008662 it should probably be called a "Togetherness Unicorn Pony Box" and be painted pink and blue to soothe the billy club bunch and avoid unfortunate incidents].}}