defictionalization
n. When a product or object from a movie, book, or other fictional source is made in the real world.
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Example Citation:
Defictionalization isn’t nearly so common. Not yet.
Consider the energy drink Brawndo, “the thirst mutilator.” It first emerged in the blackly comic, 2006 cult film Idiocracy, directed by Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill.
The movie is set in a future where stupid people have outbred…
