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* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: A fictional setting has a taboo against the use of nuclear weapons. There is absolutely no chance that this trope could possibly about the taboo against depictions of nuclear warfare in Japanese media.
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Keeping it listed here, without a link, is part of the joke.

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* Kill 'Em All:
** A character kills lots of people or orders a massacre. It's not like it was renamed to EverybodyDiesEnding precisely because people kept using it this way.
** One or two main characters die.
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* Kill 'Em All:
** A character kills lots of people or orders a massacre. It's not like it was renamed to EverybodyDiesEnding precisely because people kept using it this way.
** One or two main characters die.
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** This is not a trope at all. It's actually the SigningOffCatchPhrase that must be used at the end of every DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck example regarding any usage of BlackComedyRape.
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* TheAlcoholic: Any character who has ever consumed alcohol ever.
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* ToiletHumour: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Urine, faeces, and/or flatulence exist]].
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever:
** Any extremely large creature.
** A GiantMook.
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* TheDriver: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Anyone who drives]].
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Forget this is a dialogue trope, and list examples for any broken trend.
** One part of a group isn't like the rest.
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** A character is a BellyDancer. Make sure to claim that your example is therefore a Justified trope. What do you mean there's a [[FailedASpotCheck giant inflated bold warning at the top of the page]] that says actual belly dancers should be listed under BellyDancer?
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* SmellySkunk: [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Skunks exist]].
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* CampGay:
** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs flamboyant gay people exist]].
** Be sure to automatically list this as a trope for any {{Camp}}y man in any work released before 1995 regardless of their actual sexuality.
** Pothole to this trope instead of {{Camp}}. You know, because campiness and gayness are inextricably intertwined with one another.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: A character is romantically/sexually interested in someone who doesn't reciprocate. Ignore the "abhorrent" part; that's just a fancy word we used to make the trope name alliterative.



* AbhorrentAdmirer: A character is romantically/sexually interested in someone who doesn't reciprocate. Ignore the "abhorrent" part; that's just a fancy word we used to make the trope name alliterative.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: A character is romantically/sexually interested in someone who doesn't reciprocate. Ignore the "abhorrent" part; that's just a fancy word we used to make the trope name alliterative.
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I’ve seen it misused this exact way twice in two different works.

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* TragicDropout: A character doesn’t finish secondary school, even if they go on to have a successful adult life and career.
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* StatuesqueStunner:
** Any tall female character you think is attractive. Being intentionally portrayed as such is optional.
** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Tall women exist]].
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** You happen to be a fan of name etyomology, so feel free to use this trope to construct the most [[InsaneTrollLogic hackneyed, obviously conjecture-based explanation]] for why the a character has the name the have beyond "the author thought it fit them". If you don't pothole to at least three off-site links, one of which is Wikipedia, you're doing it wrong.

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** You happen to be a fan of name etyomology, etymology, so feel free to use this trope to construct the most [[InsaneTrollLogic hackneyed, obviously conjecture-based explanation]] for why the a character has the name the have beyond "the author thought it fit them". If you don't pothole to at least three off-site links, one of which is Wikipedia, you're doing it wrong.

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* MeaningfulName: A work's title is representative of its content.

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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
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A work's title is representative of its content.content.
** You happen to be a fan of name etyomology, so feel free to use this trope to construct the most [[InsaneTrollLogic hackneyed, obviously conjecture-based explanation]] for why the a character has the name the have beyond "the author thought it fit them". If you don't pothole to at least three off-site links, one of which is Wikipedia, you're doing it wrong.
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* InconsistentSpelling: A name is spelled differently from how you expect it to be spelled, even if the spelling is consistent in the work.
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Broken Aesop is YMMV now.


* BrokenAesop:
** Complain about works that give "wrong" morals. The "broken" in the title refers to the aesop being bad, not the aesop being contradicted by the narrative.
** An anti-capitalism message is “broken” because it was made for profit and consumption. This is unheard of for art, so be sure to always point it out.

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Trope has been renamed, but examples still apply.


* CanadaEh:
** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Canadians exist]].
** Any CanadianMedia or CanadianSeries regardless of whether it deals with Canadian stereotypes or not


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* MooseAndMapleSyrup:
** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Canadians exist]].
** Any CanadianMedia or CanadianSeries regardless of whether it deals with Canadian stereotypes or not.
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: {{Narm}}, except you can put it on objective pages.
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the usage of this trope doesn't at all reflect the description, huh

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* GoodOldFisticuffs: A character punches any other character at any time for any reason.

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** Any parent who makes even one mistake or lets their flaws get the better of them even just once.

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** Any parent who makes even one mistake or lets isn't a 100% flawless {{Good Parent|s}}. If they lose their flaws get temper once, or make a well-intentioned but ultimately harmful parenting decision, that counts as abuse. Be sure to play up how this pushes the better of them parent over the MoralEventHorizon even just once.if they immediately apologize to their child.



** CompleteMonster, except you can put it on objective pages.

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** CompleteMonster, except you can put it on objective pages.pages, the character doesn't need to be exceptionally heinous, and there's no approval process.



** Use this to get around CompleteMonster requiring an approval process.
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** Use this to sneak {{Narm}} in horror onto objective pages.
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* {{Familiar}}: Something that reminds you of something else.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Use this to complain about your least favorite author being a hack that doesn't care about making quality stories.
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* StraightMan: A heterosexual male character.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: A straight couple that lives together.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: A hero that you think isn't very heroic.

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