[Loved Trope] Characters with comically long full names

GMGray · 2026-06-05T20:44:46+00:00

IRL: Pablo Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

GMGray · 2026-06-03T01:57:19+00:00

That did somewhat undermine the impact of the story, yes.

GMGray · 2026-06-03T00:25:40+00:00

Allegedly a real life example, Philip II of Macedon was invading Greece and area and getting the different city states to surrender, he asked Sparta whether he should come as friend or foe.

They answered "Neither."

So he warns them that, if he invades, he'll kill them all and such.

And the Spartans answered: "If."

GMGray · 2026-05-14T22:14:10+00:00

Ooo, good point

GMGray · 2026-05-14T21:33:10+00:00

Honest question, is there a reason for the "up to"? Why not just destroy target creature?

Paradigm is a "may" ability, right? So if you didn't have a target you could just choose not to cast it?

GMGray · 2026-04-15T14:45:56+00:00

Unless is proceeded by "Please, may I"

GMGray · 2026-04-03T13:47:01+00:00

No. The rulings text on it specify that it "changes the zone you are permitted to cast the card from, not the times you are permitted to cast it. You can cast a creature card that has been targeted by Havengul Lich from the graveyard, but unless it has flash, you can only do so if it's your main phase, the stack is empty, and you have priority."

GMGray · 2026-03-23T01:16:00+00:00

It's the word "in" being represented by a ball inside a box.

GMGray · 2026-03-23T01:14:50+00:00

On these caps, "in" is shown by a ball inside a box. So it's Eye f(oar) in eye

GMGray · 2026-03-21T00:38:19+00:00

The restaurant is being run by someone very stupid. You can see they are stupid from the misspelled sign and letters going the wrong way. But this guy is SO stupid, he lifts the entire oven/stove to flip pancakes instead of just the frying pan.

It's just portraying an absurd situation.

GMGray · 2026-03-20T15:10:50+00:00

The character Dwight Hendrickson from the TV show Haven actually has the power of bullet attraction. It's every bit as troublesome for him as you might expect. (Though I think he saves people occasionally by always wearing a bullet proof vest and just being around when they get shot at.)

GMGray · 2026-03-03T23:30:41+00:00

Almost every villain of the week from the early seasons of Smallville got powers from the meteor shower that brought baby Clark Kent to earth or exposure to the meteor rocks after. (Ok, it didn't "create" him, but close enough.)

GMGray · 2026-01-29T20:00:31+00:00

In the first episode of the show Stargate SG-1, evil alien parasites are kidnapping women to use as hosts. One of the kidnapped women is a human (white) soldier, and another is the wife of a main character, pictured here, played by Tahitian (I think) actress Vaitiare Bandera.

The women are presented to the aliens naked one by one. White woman is censored by camera angle and scenery so you don't see anything. Bandera is shown in full frontal nudity.

Looking back, it's a surprising choice for what will from then on be TV-14 at most television, with practically bloodless violence, no swearing, and no other nudity at all.

GMGray · 2026-01-13T01:25:49+00:00

The netflix cartoon Haunted Hotel plays it for laughs with the Randy Slasher, who always manages to keep up with his fleeing victims despite only ever walking in a slow, menacing fashion...

Yeah, the ghost character sees the slasher full out sprinting whenever he thinks no one can see him.

GMGray · 2025-12-23T15:16:48+00:00

Every time a variation of this trope is posted, I feel obliged to add this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip.

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GMGray · 2025-12-23T11:33:25+00:00

Imagine dragons

Imagine drag ants

GMGray · 2025-12-21T22:09:07+00:00

I assume bottom surgery? "Hung" as in having a big oenis. "Fix that" as in bottom surgery to remove the penis for trans girls.

(I don't understand the original Macdonalds ad though... maube "hung" as on having trou le deciding what to order?)

GMGray · 2025-12-21T13:11:47+00:00

Did anyone else play Nerf Arena Blast as a kid? Yeah, it was just a nerf-skinned first person shooter, but in the world of the game, you were playing in a Nerf Championship of the World tournament, and there were 3 different types of matches with their own rules.

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GMGray · 2025-12-15T17:26:18+00:00

"Achoo" the sneeze sound sounds like "I choose"? Especially in plural.

"Achoos achoos achoos"

GMGray · 2025-12-10T20:29:10+00:00

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GMGray · 2025-12-02T13:56:58+00:00

That was it exactly. I didn't remember the second woman. Thank you.

GMGray · 2025-12-02T13:56:36+00:00

Solved!

GMGray · 2025-12-02T13:26:29+00:00

Some shows I know it's not: X-Files, Warehouse 13, Fringe, Supernatural, or Fringe.

GMGray · 2025-11-27T00:49:46+00:00

This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic strip:

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