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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.
- A character assumes the bird's name is "Tuhinga",since that's the only thing it 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."
- A character assumes the bird's name is "Tuhinga",since that's the only thing it says. turns out it's a parrot,but then it is revealed that "Tuhinga" is maori for parrot and the locals speak maori.
- 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:
Pokémon-Speak-Poké-Mon-Pokémon-Speak!