Pokémon-Speak/Playing With

Basic Trope: Fictional creatures are only able to say their own name.

• Straight: The Tropana is a species of birds only able to say their name, "Tropana".
• Exaggerated: Everything in this universe communicates by only saying their name. EVERYTHING.
• Justified: Tropanas were named after the sound they made.
• Inverted: Tropanas are capable of full human speech, but they are forbidden to say their own name.
• Subverted: A character assumes the bird's name is "Tropana", since it's the only thing is says. Turns out it's a Parrot.
• Double Subverted: A character assumes the bird's name is "Tropana", since it's the only thing is says. Turns out it's a Parrot, but the locals call it a "Tropana."
• Parodied: A new species of Tropana-mon is named %&$#?@!. The researcher explains that that's the sound they make.
  • All animals in the work vocalize their names, so dogs go "Dog!" and pigeons coo "Pigeon".
• Deconstructed: A new Tropana-mon species can speak English, because its name contains the entire English language.
• Reconstructed: A little girl points at a Tropana and calls it a Parrot; all the Tropanas start saying "Parrot" instead, and the bird is later renamed.
• Zig Zagged: On some episodes, Tropanas can only say their name; others, they make normal animal sounds and in yet others they speak English.
• Averted: Tropanas make regular bird sounds.
• Enforced: In the original dub, the Tropanas only said the Japanese word for something icky. Rather than translate, the American distributor dubbed the harmless nonsense word used for the bird's name.
• Lampshaded: "How come all that bird ever says is its own name?"
• Invoked: Bob purposely only says the word "Bob".
• Exploited: Alice grabs a Tropana and gets it to speak its name, which happens to be the password to the secret base.
• Defied: One of the Tropanas teaches himself how to speak fluent Japanese.
• Discussed:
• Conversed:
• Played For Laughs: The Chrononhotonthologos is a species of birds only able to say their name, "Chrononhotonthologos"
• Played For Drama:

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