WordSaladTitle
#140564
@/{{Andyzero}}: Way back, I recall a game a message board was playing where we'd take ridiculous titles to series and actually come up with a paragraph or two of a story where said title would actually be accurate. For example, Main/GalaxyAngel ended up looking like C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, where Heaven and Hell are struggling throughout the solar system. Main/SailorMoon became a tale of Main/SpaceMarines who were stationed on the moon, etc.
#140565
@/SabreJustice: Let's go. Make sense of ''Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly''.
#140566
@/SeanTucker: It's about sentient semen trying to pick up girls. Duh.
#140567
This troper likes to play a similar game, but in reverse--come up with crazy, anime-style titles for ordinary shows/movies/video games/whatever. However, it still has to be justified, in a distant sense, in the text. Without looking at the spoilers, can ''you'' guess what the following shows, movies, and games are?
#140568
''''[[ExcitedEpisodeTitle Bang Bang! Fablemen''
#140569
''[[spoiler:{{WALL-E}}]]'' ''Lonely Robo''
#140570
''[[spoiler:{{Psychonauts}}]]'' ''Memory Boy Hyperdream''
#140571
''[[UsefulNotes Yatta! Change King''
#140572
''Digital Factory [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess''
#140573
''{{Bioshock P-E-R-F-E-C-T Eden: Fountain Square''
#140574
...so if the names actually do have something to do with show/movie/game/whatever, how does it follow this trope?
#140575
This troper likes to suggest these kinds of names whenever people are coming up with a name for a team in some contest. Sadly nobody has so far agreed to name a team "Asskicking Hyper Team Doom Legion Go!".
#140576
This troper has fun thinking of what really would happen if we make these games.
#140577
Somebody actually turned a game name from that generator into a real game: Planet of the Forklift Kid. It's BetterThanItSounds.
#140578
There was also a competition based around it. My favourites are ''ROM CHECK FAIL'' and ''Viking Bazooka Bloodbath''.
#140579
This troper used a bit of free generator code to build an "anime name generator" once. It came up with a few interesting ones, such as "Rocket Hellish Eyes," "Uno Dos Young Seven," "Underneath Logical 12," "Waltzing the Devil's Winter," and "Rocket Kid Science" (which would also work as a WesternAnimation show title, come of think of it). It also produced a few patently absurd ones. They included "Eat Your New Jelly," "Cowboy Day-Glo Method," "Happy Abnormal Heartburn," and this troper's personal favorite, "Destiny Meat Riders."
#140580
There were also two which this troper came up with genuine plots for: "Red Hot Pointy Combat Boots," and "BountyHunter-chan."
#140581
"Cowboy Day-Glo Method" and "Destiny Meat Riders" would be AGoodNameForARockBand.
#140582
...and "Waltzing the Devil's Winter" would be an awesome name for a song.
#140583
Or a shoujo manga. "A young dancer girl captures the heart of the devil himself by waltzing on the snow..." would be overly stereotypical, but better than some. Then he either saves her from the snow, of he's actually more like a supernatural being who's been really lonely from the beginning of time because he's called a devil (and acts the part, because All Girls Want Bad Boys, but he also has to be a bishie and wear an awesome white kimono) and the winter follows him wherever he goes, but she, being a Genki Girl or The Messiah, isn't afraid of him and sees his good side, and in the last page of this beautiful would-be one shot they're dancing out on the snow together and he's smiling for the first time. I think I got carried away.
#140584
...AWESOME!
#140585
This troper had a friend who would come with deliberately nonsensical names for his characters in tabletop games that seemed to be made of this trope. Examples include Rip Kong, Casual Metworst, Professor Grunthos, Brutus Clodpopper Maximus, Taphult Spring and the infamous Field Marshall Doctor Sinn I. By the way, that was his name, not his title. He was a corporal in the army... and a doctor. His full name was thus ''Corporal Field Marshall Doctor Sinn I, MD''. His son would have been Field Marshall Doctor Sinn I Jr.
#140586
There is a site that keeps generating Word Salad Titles for videogames and most of them are hilarious:
#140587
Morbidly Obese Soccer Lord
#140588
Return of the Amish GT
#140589
Dynamite Rabbit Princess
#140590
Kamikaze Surgery Quest
#140591
Teenage Tetris Attack
#140592
This troper and her mother once spent a good hour discussing how strange some anime and manga names are, which led to us trying to make up some titles of our own. We came up with gems like "Tiger Roaming Sideways".
#140593
This troper started an {{Animesque}} play-by-post RP with the title "Let's Go Ultra Hero Super Burning Dimension Force!"
#140594
This Troper decided to name her imaginary anime show (or more accurately, never-written doujinshi) "Hard Love Messenger". It's supposed to be a reference to the song "Roses Are Red" by Aqua. The original lyric is actually "Heart Love Messenger", but replacing "heart" with "hard" makes it sound cooler. Anyway, the "show" has nothing to do with hardness or messengers, but there is quite a bit of romance in it.
#140595
Er... you do realize what that sounds like, right?
#140596
This troper does this with the titles on his college papers, just to make his professors ask questions. A recent paper on Voltaire's Candide was subtitled: "Glossy Pans and Turkish Delight Packed into Can D and Distributed Wherever the Cune Had Gonde, Except the Bulgarians."
#140597
@/CrashGordon94 is developing a series called "End Of The Shape" which is about street racing (Think ForzaMotorsport + NeedForSpeed + {{Burnout}} + Weed) and a Mercenary team called MERSECT (which consists of teenagers) that save the world. The name actually has a story behind it if anyone's interested.
#140598
One of This Troper's ''nicknames'' is this. This one guy at high school calls me "Giant Alien Chicken Giraffe". I am honestly as baffled as you.
#140599
This Troper has a friend called 'Wokka Flocka'. Don't ask.
#140600
For a review game in This Troper's History class, a friend of her's wanted to call their team Super Awesome Ninjatastic hamster force 7. They were NONE of these things.
#140601
This Swedish troper and her scout patrol called themselves "Herrarnas hemmafruförening" for a while. (It roughly translates to: "The Gentlemen's housewife association.") We weren't men and we weren't housewives. We weren't even really an association.
#140602
A friend of this troper made up a superhero team called, Team-Alpha-Falcon-Dynamite!
#140603
This troper and her friend both write stories. Mine are mostly short fantasy ones with titles that make sense in (a very twisted kind of) context while trying to sound cool. She has written a total of 3 stories, mostly romance and fantasy, with titles that are Exactly What It Says On The Tin with a touch of Mind Screw and Symbolic.
#140604
My titles would be the following: Thrill Garden, Nightmare’s Princess, Pure White Heard, Bounty Eater, Half Death Crisis and Bitter Method.
#140605
And Hers: Standard Yellow Acid Galaxy, Seventh Wish Goes Boom (basically a way to say Be Careful With What You Wish For, but not if you stop at the sixth wish), and my personal favorite, Lethal Death Left Bladeless (thankfully, this one is a parody).
#140606
And then there’s our collaboration, a three-part story which had “Metha-Revived Archer Luck” as a title. It’s hard to explain since everything is made up of Hebrew puns, but “Metha” is similar to a word that means “she is dead” and is also the beginning of Methadone, “Luck” would also mean “a sign of the zodiac”, and “Archer” is also Sagittarius. The story begins with a girl who is tortured and raped until her pain is removed by an arrow and she’s revived as one of twelve zodiac people, thus getting lucky for the first time. The one who saved her is Sagittarius (who is ‘’not’’ half-horse, that would be disturbing), and they have a nice love story where she’s emotionally depending on him to squick levels, until he dies toward the end of the story and Methadone comes in again, as a way to symbolically say that she was addicted to him and now has to get over it, as methadone is often used as a replacement for Heroin-addicts. Needless to say, the story is full of deliberate squickness. And we also made the title up first, the story came later.