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* SpaghettiKiss: [[https://xkcd.com/2938/ "Local Group"]] sees the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies slurping up the same piece of a cosmically-large spaghetti noodle, to eventually kiss in the middle (given 5 billion years).
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** [[http://xkcd.com/555/ This]] strip features an abuse of Bloody Mary. [[DrosteImage Explaining it]] would [[DontExplainTheJoke ruin the joke]].
** [[https://xkcd.com/2364/ And another,]] but for the more serious purpose of co-authoring a paper with Bloody Mary.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2381/ This strip]] references the old superstition that this was true of {{bears|AreBadNews}}, which is why the original English word for it was abandoned in favor of the present one. When [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_McCulloch Gretchen McCulloch]] is asked about this, she hazards a guess as to what the original word was... and is promptly proven right. Cue OhCrap moment...[[labelnote:*]] Funnily enough, the word she guesses '''is''' actually the word for bear... in ''Welsh''.[[/labelnote]]
** [[https://xkcd.com/2364/ And another,]] but for the more serious purpose of co-authoring a paper with Bloody Mary.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2381/ This strip]] references the old superstition that this was true of {{bears|AreBadNews}}, which is why the original English word for it was abandoned in favor of the present one. When [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_McCulloch Gretchen McCulloch]] is asked about this, she hazards a guess as to what the original word was... and is promptly proven right. Cue OhCrap moment...[[labelnote:*]] Funnily enough, the word she guesses '''is''' actually the word for bear... in ''Welsh''.[[/labelnote]]
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** In [[http://xkcd.com/555/ This]] strip features an abuse of this strip,]] Megan speaks Bloody Mary. [[DrosteImage Explaining it]] would [[DontExplainTheJoke ruin the joke]].
Mary's name three times into two mirrors that reflect each other, creating a DrosteImage. This summons seemingly infinite Bloody Maries that jump out at Megan from both mirrors.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2364/And another,]] but for the more serious purpose of co-authoring This strip]] sees Cueball summoning Bloody Mary by saying her name three times. This is so that he can co-author a paper with Bloody Mary.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/2381/ This strip]] references the old superstition thatthis was true of {{bears|AreBadNews}}, saying the name "bear" would summon a bear, which is why the original English word for it was abandoned in favor of the present one.one (which is merely derived from the word "brown"). When [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_McCulloch Gretchen McCulloch]] is asked about this, she hazards a guess as to what guesses the original word was... and is promptly proven right. Cue OhCrap moment...[[labelnote:*]] Funnily enough, the word she guesses '''is''' actually the word name for bear... in ''Welsh''.[[/labelnote]]bears was "arth", which summons a bear.
** [[https://xkcd.com/2364/
** [[https://xkcd.com/2381/ This strip]] references the old superstition that
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* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: [[http://xkcd.com/374/ You could argue that it's subverted in the Alt-text]]... but [[JerkAss not by much]].
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* TimeTravelingJerkass: [[https://xkcd.com/2932/ Randall believes]] that if some random driver waves you out, they are probably an assassin from the future trying to kill you and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
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* CrossoverPunchline: [[https://xkcd.com/1452/ "Jurassic World"]] reveals that the "improved" T-Rex is the one from ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''.
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* ViolationOfCommonSense: [[https://xkcd.com/2929/ "Good and Bad Ideas"]] is about instances of this in RealLife; examples include "always saying what you think"[[note]]being honest all the time sounds like a good idea but will cause a lot of hurt feelings[[/note]] and "crumple zones"[[note]]parts of a car that are intended to collapse in event of a car crash; at face value, making cars less durable sounds like a bad idea, however crumple zones absorb the shock of a crash so that the inhabitants aren't injured[[/note]] among a number of other real life cases.
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* NotIllegalJustification: The AltText of "[[http://xkcd.com/1357/ Free Speech]]" remarks that citing freedom of expression to defend a statement is the ultimate concession: you're basically admitting that the most compelling thing you have to say in its favor is that it isn't literally illegal to make it.
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Fun fact, the explainxkcd for that comic links to This Very Wiki regarding this trope. Hello, explainxkcd!
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* MadnessMakeover: [[https://xkcd.com/2919/ #2919]] depicts Cueball and Megan doing various actions while in a tree. One of those actions ([[BoltOfDivineRetribution smiting people]]) depicts the latter with wild, unkempt hair.
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* AuthorFilibuster: Quite a few on UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}, for example [[http://xkcd.com/488/ here.]] Eventually {{lampshaded}} [[http://xkcd.com/511/ here]] and [[http://xkcd.com/546/ here.]] [[http://xkcd.com/14/ This one]] provides a similar counterpoint, though it's not exactly a lampshade.
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* AuthorFilibuster: Quite a few on UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}, MediaNotes/{{DRM}}, for example [[http://xkcd.com/488/ here.]] Eventually {{lampshaded}} [[http://xkcd.com/511/ here]] and [[http://xkcd.com/546/ here.]] [[http://xkcd.com/14/ This one]] provides a similar counterpoint, though it's not exactly a lampshade.
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* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Inverted with [[http://xkcd.com/506/ 506: Theft of the Magi.]] Black Hat and his girlfriend both sold each others' possessions on the internet (his UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} and her roomba), using the money to buy themselves gifts (a copy of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' for Xbox and a roomba dueling harness) that are useless without the item that the other sold off.
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* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Inverted with [[http://xkcd.com/506/ 506: Theft of the Magi.]] Black Hat and his girlfriend both sold each others' possessions on the internet (his UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Platform/{{Xbox 360}} and her roomba), using the money to buy themselves gifts (a copy of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' for Xbox and a roomba dueling harness) that are useless without the item that the other sold off.
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** While all those are often partially tongue in cheek, UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} [[http://xkcd.com/86/ gets searing loads of venom.]]
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** While all those are often partially tongue in cheek, UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} MediaNotes/{{DRM}} [[http://xkcd.com/86/ gets searing loads of venom.]]
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1933/ "Santa Facts"]] and its AltText mention that Santa's natural diet is actually [[EatTheDog reindeer meat]], and that the milk and cookies are actually integrated to his diet via an aggressive public campaign.
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** [[https://xkcd.com/1933/ "Santa Facts"]] and its AltText mention that Santa's natural diet is actually [[EatTheDog reindeer meat]], meat, and that the milk and cookies are actually integrated to his diet via an aggressive public campaign.
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* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: InUniverse example in "[[https://xkcd.com/2819 Punctuation]]", in which each letter in the word "Tuesday" is explained as being pronounced the same as in another word... which can, in each case, have two different pronunciations, depending on meaning.
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* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: InUniverse example in "[[https://xkcd.com/2819 Punctuation]]", Pronunciation]]", in which each letter in the word "Tuesday" is explained as being pronounced the same as in another word... which can, in each case, have two different pronunciations, depending on meaning.
