One Astro Boy story has Astro succumb to this when Ochanomizu says he'll find the authorities who sent Astro to be scrapped and 'grease their palms'.Fortunately, the bag of chili powder was quite small, so while the result is spicier than what they plan to, it's still edible. When Mira asks Ao to 'add all ingredients into the pot', she takes it to mean the entire bag of chili powder. During the Christmas Episode of Asteroid in Love, the cast agrees to make a slightly spicier hotpot to make up for the clubroom's lack of heating, so they purchased a bit of chili powder on top of some off-the-shelf kimchi broth base.This trope does not mean tropes being taken literally, contrary to popular belief. Frequently results in Comically Missing the Point. Compare Literal Metaphor, Shaped Like Itself, Fun with Homophones and Double Meaning.

Literalist Snarking, when done deliberately to mock someone.Ĭharacters who have this as a primary characteristic will occasionally be The Comically Serious.

A reactive form of Spock Speak, to emphasize a character's alienness.

Literal Genie, and its malicious counterpart, Jackass Genie.

Compare Metaphorically True for similar manipulation tactics.

Bothering by the Book and Exact Words, where somebody deliberately uses a literal interpretation in order to gain an advantage, make a point or 'win' an argument, perhaps using Obfuscating Stupidity.

A literal-minded person just doesn't get figurative speech, instead interpreting instructions, idioms, understatement, sarcasm, and so forth completely literally.

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