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* CapitalCity was originally named after "Shattrath", an Outlands city in ''WorldOfWarcraft''.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed was formerly "Biggus Dickus", a reference to ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. It was renamed because the TropeNamer was not actually an example of the trope in question, leading people to think that the trope was about joke names rather than large penises themselves. It also clarifies that the trope is about the connection between size and sexual performance, not ''just'' large size on its own.
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* DatingDoSiDo was originally "Degrassi Dating". Lack of archived discussion prevents Trope Archaeologists from determining whether it was changed as part of a general purge of show-named tropes, or because it was [[IThoughtItMeant easily mistaken for]] a reference to the [[TotallyRadical totally]] [[TheEighties '80s]] made-on-a-shoestring look of [[DegrassiJuniorHigh early incarnations]] [[DegrassiHigh of the franchise]].
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* DeathOfAThousandCuts used to be known as "One Thousand Needles", until the latter was rewritten to better describe the namesake attack from the ''FinalFantasy'' games (which was ''itself'' renamed; see FixedDamageAttack below).
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* BigDamnMovie was formerly "Why Is Arnold Saving Something" after the occurrence of this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' movie. It was renamed because the name Arnold could refer to multiple people (such as Mr. Schwarzenegger or [[RedDwarf Mr. Rimmer]]).
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* AbandonShipping was "Abandon Ship", and was moved to make room for [[AbandonShip a trope]] better reflecting common use of the term.
* AbstractApotheosis is a character becoming an abstract concept, such as hate or love. As such, the old name of Becoming Hope was too specific.
* AccidentalNightmareFuel was just called "Nightmare Fuel" for a long time, and NightmareFuel was "High Octane Nightmare Fuel" (and even before that, "Nightmare Fuel Unleaded"). The former was renamed since people often kept using it as things intentionally made scary, which was High Octane Nightmare Fuel at the time, or things which they ''personally'' found scary, which really doesn't belong on a general-purpose Nightmare Fuel page. "High Octane" then assumed the old name "Nightmare Fuel" after suffering major TropeDecay.
* ActingInTheDark used to be "Karim the Assassin", a nickname of Karim Zreik, co-executive producer of ''HarpersIsland''. Readers who did not know the story behind his nickname could not link the title to actors being unaware of their character's future.
* ActorAllusion was formerly "The Alkazar" after a ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gag. It was renamed because of obscurity even with fans of the show. Also, the ''Futurama'' character was called Al''c''azar. To understand the gag, you had to remember that the actor playing Leela was also the mom on ''MarriedWithChildren'', and was being paired opposite her character's husband.
* ActorRoleConfusion once was "Your Secret's Safe with Me, Superman". Renamed because the old name referred to an example where the fan even gets the role wrong.
* AdaptiveAbility was previously "Viva la Evolution", but was misnamed because the previous title was non-indicative and misleading.
* AddressingThePlayer used to be "Anyone You Know", after the example of the trope from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
* AdjacentToThisCompleteBreakfast (named after a gag by DaveBarry) once was "Part of a Balanced Breakfast Stone Soup", which is less intuitive. However, it is still used as the name for a TropeCo [[TropeCo/PartOfABalancedBreakfastStoneSoup product]].
* TheAdjectivalSuperhero used to be named "The Egregious Trope-Man", but was renamed because it sounded more like a troper in-joke than a trope and used the word "trope" as a placeholder.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild was once "Cute Shotaro Boy", but because of rampant misuse for "cute little boy", it was changed.
* AdventureDuo was launched as "Adventure Couple", which led even mods to think that the trope was about actual romantic couples adventuring together, rather than describing a particular set of personalities common to [[TheHero Hero]]/[[TheLancer Lancer]] pairs.
* AdvertisingOnlyContinuity used to be "Plot Sold Separately".
* AfterlifeExpress was formerly "Soul Train", but was renamed since it shared its name with the work ''Series/SoulTrain''.
* AgeLift was renamed from "Playing Hamlet" in order to clarify that the trope is about a character's age changing in an adaptation in order to better suit an older actor.
* AirVentPassageway was originally "Air Vent Escape". Renamed because it isn't always used as a way to escape.
* AliceAllusion was renamed from "Go Ask Alice" because the original name is also the name of a work. ''GoAskAlice'' now applies to the Beatrice Sparks novel.
* AlienNonInterferenceClause was renamed from "Prime Directive", because it was ''one'' PrimeDirective in particular. The trope PrimeDirective was renamed to ObstructiveCodeOfConduct, with the page PrimeDirective now redirecting to AlienNonInterferenceClause.
* AllTheLittleGermanies was renamed from "Prussia and All That Lot", as the original name was a bit historically misleading.
* AlphaBitch was originally named "The Libby" after a character in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. This, obviously, was problematic, since she was only around for a few seasons, not to mention it was a character-named trope, which isn't really in this wiki's best's interests. The former TropeNamer also failed the OneMarioLimit for sharing her name with characters from various other works.
* AmbitionIsEvil was named "Slytherin House", after the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' group and its typical portrayal. However, the trope itself was not about groups.
* AmicableExes was originally "Amicably Divorced".
* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex was "Artistic License - Sex Ed", and before that You Fail Sex Ed Forever. It got caught up in the mass rename of the "You Fail X Forever" tropes to "Artistic License - X", even though it didn't fit into the new naming scheme.
* AnatomyOfTheSoul was once "Dream Mirror". It is not about mirrors or about dreams per se. The old title required familiarity with ''Manga/SailorMoon'', using the name of a piece of Soul Anatomy unique to the work.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie was changed from "You Are the Demons", since that was being misused to match the meme that uses it as TomatoInTheMirror.
* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced used to be "Cue Cullen" after [[Film/{{Transformers}} the return of]] PeterCullen, a.k.a. [[TransformersGeneration1 Optimus]] [[TransformersTheMovie Prime]], to the role of the Autobot leader, with the aim of mirroring the name of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn as a pun. Considering the emergence of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} another Cullen]] (and the presence of a [[BillCullen much older one]]), and not being very well-known outside the Transformers fandom, confusion was easy.
* AngerBornOfWorry was renamed from "Fear Leads to Anger" because the trope was fairly unrelated to the phrase from ''StarWars'' that served as its former name.
* AnimalAthleteLoophole used to be "Ain't No Rule", an overly general title that caused it to be routinely mistaken for its supertrope, LoopholeAbuse, rather than twisting the rules to get an animal into a sporting competition. The old name is now an alt-title for LoopholeAbuse.
* AnimalNemesis was renamed from "Pick on Someone Your Own Species" for clarity and in order to discourage misuse of the trope for examples that did not feature a human trying to take revenge on an animal.
* AnimationTropes used to be "Animated Trope". The index got renamed to what people would naturally call its contents in English.
* ArbitraryMaximumRange was once known as Space-Based Weapon Has Cutoff Range. Renamed because someone complained it was ''way'' too long. The funny thing is that the old one was launched for nearly a year before someone started complaining, even though the launcher [[NeedsABetterTitle asked for a better name]] in the YKTTW.
* ArcFatigue was "Are They Still on Namek", which is meaningless for people who didn't see [[DragonBallZ the show]].
* TheArcher was "Straight Arrow", until it was determined that Straight Arrow was better used metaphorically.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking was formerly known as "Bus Full of Nuns", after an incident on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Renamed because it was too obscure, even within ''The Simpsons'' fandom.
* ArtisticLicense - X articles were once "You Fail X Forever" or "X Does Not Work That Way". Renamed to be more neutral.
** ArtisticLicenseShips was previously "Failed to Pay Shipping Charges", and was renamed to make it clearer what the trope was actually about.
** ArtisticLicenseMilitary was originally "You Fail Basic Training Forever" before it got custom titled into "Artistic License - Basic Training". However, because the trope covered more than just Basic Training and the term "Basic Training" failed to specify what type of training, it was changed to the current name.
* TheArtOfBraRemoval used to be "Caught on the Hooks", was renamed for being a bit too inscrutable.
* AsbestosFreeCereal used to be "Made with 100% Pure Grade-A Crap". The title was renamed for being too negative.
* AscendedExtra was formerly known as "Super Grape". Renamed mostly because Super Grape barely made sense even when explained.
* AscendedFanon was renamed from "Sure, Why Not?" because it sounded too similar to SureLetsGoWithThat and/or otherwise sounded like a stock phrase. The new title has the bonus of fitting in nicely with the other "ascended" tropes.
* AshesToCrashes was initially termed "Chekhov's Ashes". As well as being a rather overused snowclone, Chekhov's Gun style tropes need to be a side detail that becomes important later: too many examples have the ashes front and center. The new name gets the idea across directly.
* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy was originally know as "Me Love You Long Time". It was renamed due to the racist connotations of the phrase "Me Love You Long Time" and the trope namer not being an example.
* AssimilationPlot was originally known as "Instrumentality", named after a concept in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', but renamed due to it being affiliated with spoilers for the series.
* AssumedWin was once "And the Winner Is...", which was unclear and led to the rename.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption was renamed from "Appropriate Conversation Interruption" to clarify the trope's meaning.
* AttackItsWeakPoint used to be known by the second part of the MemeticMutation, "For Massive Damage". The former was deemed more appropriate and less misleading. ForMassiveDamage is now a supertrope for all the ways to deal extra damage in video games.
* AuthorityInNameOnly was formerly "The King of Town", after a character from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. The trope was renamed for clarity.
* AwfulWeddedLife was formerly "No Exit" after Sartre's play of the same name, which wasn't even an example.
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* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch used to be "Knifing the Libby in the Back". It was renamed for the same reasons as AlphaBitch: a snowclone of a work-reliant character named trope.
* BaconAddiction was originally called "Everything's Better with Bacon" according to the discredited and completely unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* BadassDecay was formerly known as "Spikeification", after Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It was changed because it required familiarity with the work to be understood (and there were debates over whether Spike was even an example), and because it could easily be assumed to refer to the process of making things spikey.
* BadassInANiceSuit was originally "Dressed to Kill". The word "dressed" was too vague, and the word "kill" was too specific, leading to the misinterpretation that this was about an assassin who wears fancy clothes or a costume when working, rather than being about any ol' badass who wears a business suit or tux to look [[SharpDressedMan sharp]] or professional.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork used to be "Big Damn Villains". Renamed because it was a snowclone of BigDamnHeroes and confusion with VillainousRescue.
* BadNewsIrrelevantNews used to be "Switching to Geico", which itself was shortened from "I Just Saved a Bunch of Money on My Car Insurance by Switching to Geico" because overly-long titles are hard to type right.
* BadWritingIndex was formerly "Bad Writing", which enjoyed massive misuse for complaining.
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot was renamed from "False Gunshot" to clarify the difference between it and StagedShooting.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant was formerly "Bait-and-Switch Umbridge". After TheUmbridge was renamed to TyrantTakesTheHelm, Bait-and-Switch Umbridge was renamed for the sake of clarity.
* BarbieDollAnatomy used to be "Anime Anatomy", but was renamed because it is a) also common outside of anime and b) not the only kind of odd anatomy found in anime.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal was originally "Barefoot Funny Animal". It was renamed to match up with its {{Sister Trope}}s AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal, HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, and FullyDressedCartoonAnimal.
* BassoProfundo was originally named "The Dish Rattler". It was renamed due to failure to thrive after over a year.
* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest was formerly known as "Bechdels Rule". Arguments over whether the "rule" was being broken in various works got the name changed to emphasize the testing of a work. Now moved to UsefulNotes.
* BehindAStick used to be "Narrow Escape". It was renamed for having nothing to do with the common meaning of that phrase, or, for that matter, with escapes at all.
* BelligerentSexualTension was known for a while as "When a Jerk Loves a Tsundere". Before that, it was briefly known as "Tsunderes in Love" before it was decided as a misleading title since a jerk is not a Tsundere. ''Before that'', it used to be called a "Takahashi Couple", named for mangaka RumikoTakahashi (whose works are known for prominently featuring such relationships), a name dropped when specific references in titles fell out of fashion.
* BespectacledBastardBoyfriend used to be "Spectacled Sadist"; it was renamed because of confusion with FourEyesZeroSoul. Before that, it used to be "Kichiku Megane". That title gave no information to those outside the anime/manga fandom, or to those within the anime/manga fandom who hadn't come across the trope. It was also the name of a yaoi eroge VisualNovel, necessitating a rename to avoid confusion.
* BestHerToBedHer used to be "The Red Sonja". It was renamed due to misuse, and because the trope only constitutes one of the traits of the TropeNamer.
* BigBadWannabe was "Evil Frog Who Wants to Be an Ox", a title that is quite awkward in a sentence due to its length, requires more typing than ideal, and is not immediately connected to its subject unless the reader knows the specific [[AnAesop Aesop]] and applies it correctly.
* BigBulkyBomb used to be "BFB". It was renamed for being a confusing snowclone of {{BFG}}.
* BigDamnMovie was formerly "Why Is Arnold Saving Something" after the occurrence of this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' movie. It was renamed because the name Arnold could refer to multiple people (such as Mr. Schwarzenegger or [[RedDwarf Mr. Rimmer]]).
* BiggerIsBetterInBed was formerly "Biggus Dickus", a reference to ''MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. It was renamed because the TropeNamer was not actually an example of the trope in question, leading people to think that the trope was about joke names rather than large penises themselves. It also clarifies that the trope is about the connection between size and sexual performance, not ''just'' large size on its own.
* BlackComedy was originally "Dead Baby Comedy". The latter name is better known as a term for RefugeInVulgarity, leading to confusion.
* BlackComedyRape was originally "Rape As Comedy".
* BlackShirt was formerly known as "Jackals", since it was originally split off from DyingLikeAnimals, which still recognizes it under that name.
* BlasphemousBoast was formerly "More Tropes than God", renamed to get away from "trope" as a placeholder.
* BloodyMurder was originally known as "Weaponized Blood" before it was lost in TheGreatCrash. It got its new title when it was relaunched.
* BluffTheImpostor was formerly "Cry Wolfie", after a scene in ''Film/{{Terminator}} 2'' and as a pun on CryingWolf.
* BluntYes was once "Flat Yes". It was changed to be clearer.
* BoisterousBruiser was formerly "The Toblerone" after the obscure nickname of a character from a ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' movie, who was in turn named after a Swiss candy bar. The title was so beloved that it still exists as a separate, JustForFun page, as well as being the TropeNamer for [[SugarWiki/{{Toblerone}} a Sugar Wiki page]].
* BonusMaterial used to be called "Omake". It wasn't easy to search it for a person who wasn't familiar with the term.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass used to be "Bloody Biometric". It was renamed for clarity.
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill was formerly "Lisa Needs Braces" for a mildly memetic early ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' quote. It was changed because the latter is somewhat obscure and the former much more descriptive of what the trope is about.
* Series/BradyBunchSpinOffs was for a short time "Jim Henson's Muppet Bradys"; a title referring to the cartoon ''MuppetBabies'' and the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheatre3000'' running joke of saying "It's ''Jim Henson's _________ Babies''!"
* BrainFood used to be "No Brainer", among other titles.
* BreakoutCharacter was formerly "The Fonzie". It was changed because most people aren't aware that Fonzie was ever just a minor character.
* BreakoutVillain was formerly The "Moriarty Effect". It was renamed because the first association with Professor Moriarty is criminal masterminds. Also, Moriarty was deliberately introduced as an archenemy, making him a less than ideal example. Finally, any Breakout Villain has a tendency not to be known as one because they are one -- see BreakoutCharacter.
* BreakTheScientist was originally "The Professor Is Crying Again" after an opaque reference to a one-shot joke from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''.
* BreakupBreakout once was "The Jannetty", but you know -- character-named trope.
* BreastSponge was "Body Sponge". It was renamed for clarity.
* BreathWeapon was formerly "Beaming Grin" after a pun on the facial expression.
* BringIt used to be "Bring It On", but was shortened to distinguish it from the movie ''Film/BringItOn''.
* BringMyRedJacket was formerly "Bring My Brown Pants". The name was changed to use the line from the joke/song that actually applied to the trope, and to free up BringMyBrownPants for use on the trope that it fits: soiling or wetting oneself from fear.
* TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Bronze Age". It was renamed because not only did it need to be changed to match the new names for GoldenAge and DarkAge, but there were also references to the concept of a Bronze Age independent of comic books.
* BubblegloopSwamp used to be "Krem Quay", after a stage from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2''. It was renamed for being non-descriptive and unintuitive. A {{Rare}} [[BanjoKazooie game]] is still the TropeNamer, however.
* BuildingOfAdventure was once "Xanadu", from a large mansion in ''Film/CitizenKane''. This somewhat obscure reference was not an example of the trope, since the film has several settings. Additionally, many folks assumed it linked to ''Film/{{Xanadu}}''.
* BuiltWithLEGO was originally called "Everything's Built With LEGO", according to the discredited and completely unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* BulkBuyOnly was "Midnight Bakery Trip". The name neither indicated the trope nor fit the TropeNamer (some bakeries sell goods at lowered cost the next morning, but only if bought in dozens).
* BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay used to be "Magic Bullets", but it kept getting confused for actual magical bullets.
* BumblingSidekick used to be named "The Baldrick" after a particular example, but this was impenetrable to non-''{{Blackadder}}'' fans.
* BunnyTropes used to be Everything's Better With Bunnies. It was broken up into several tropes and turned into an index of rabbit related tropes.
* ButNotTooForeign was originally known as "Charlie Dog", after the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character.
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* TheCakeIsALie was "There Will Be Cake", but issues about the name having no indication of the actual trope content, resulting in misuse for just any cake related situation, led to a rename.
* CampFollower was once "Bring Your Halter to the Slaughter", a rather obscure pun on an Music/IronMaiden song. Camp Follower is the term used in RealLife to refer to such people.
* CapeSnag was "No Capes". Renamed for clarity.
* CapitalCity was originally named after "Shattrath", an Outlands city in ''WorldOfWarcraft''.
* CaptainMorganPose was originally called "Riker Pose", renamed for greater recognition.
* CareerBuildingBlunder was "House Hiring Heuristic", after the lead of medical drama ''Series/{{House}}'' who followed the trope several times. But it's not hiring: it's promotion or other increases in trust and responsibility following a bad mistake -- something not apparent from the title. It also required specific work knowledge of the word "heuristic" for rule of thumb, which was tripping some folks up.
* CasanovaWannabe used to be "The Leisure Suit Larry", from ''LeisureSuitLarry''. The too-close names led to roughly half the ''LeisureSuitLarry'' links mistaking the game for the trope. (Originally the trope name was actually the same as the game, without the definite article.) Also, Larry is not a CasanovaWannabe: he always ends up with many conquests. He has to be the ''opposite'', a KavorkaMan, for the games to work.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys was originally "Blue Bishōnen Ghetto", {{snowclone}}d from "Pink Bishōjo Ghetto" (which itself [[ImprobablyFemaleCast has been renamed]]). It was renamed for not actually being the SpearCounterpart to that trope.
* CatastrophicCountdown used to be "Metroid Bomb", providing no information to those outside a very specific fandom. Even within the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' fandom, there are several bombs it could be, whereas this trope refers to the interesting kind of timebomb that causes the surrounding area to join in with sympathy explosions even before it goes off.
* CelShading was formerly "For the Cel of It".
* CensorshipBureau was formerly mashed into the historical article of ComicsCode.
* ChangedMyMindKid was renamed from "Abandoned by the Cavalry" because it usually failed to suggest a last minute save by a returning abandoner. Worse: it sometimes suggested the opposite.
* CharacterAgedWithTheActor was formerly "Getting Too Old for This". It was renamed to reduce misuse for that stock phrase.
* CharacterOutlivesActor was formerly "Died On A Bus".
* ChewingTheScenery was once "Feed Me", after an actor's joke in reference to an [[LittleShopOfHorrors 80s movie]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance was the result of a quick merge of "Unlucky Childhood Friend" and "Victorious Childhood Friend", since they were inverse tropes of each other. The page and its subpages are soft split into examples of the respective subtropes.
* ChokepointGeography got pushed through as the "Third Law of Travel", for the item on TheGrandListOfConsoleRoleplayingGameCliches.
* TheChosenMany used to be "Green Lantern Corps". Slightly over half the uses of it assumed it was an article on the the fictional organisation rather than the trope centering on a band of chosen ones. Additionally, the old title didn't convey much to those unfamiliar with Green Lantern works. GreenLanternCorps now redirects to ''Comicbook/GreenLantern''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome was originally "Brother Chuck", changed to indicate that it was more about a phenomenon than an actual character type.
* CirclingMonologue was "Circle of Extinction". It was changed to improve its clarity in hopes of attracting better usage.
* CivilianVillain was previously named "Civillain" and was renamed for clarity since the pun in its title was far from obvious.
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity was renamed from "Cliffs of Insanity" to point out that [[PeopleSitOnChairs it isn't just about tall cliffs]].
* CloserToEarth was renamed from WomenAreWiser, as it is a supertrope to that and other tropes.
* CoatFullOfContraband used to be "You Wanna Buy a Watch", which was deemed too narrow and a StockPhrase.
* CoincidentalDodge was originally "Gardener Contract". It was named after Chance, the gardener from ''BeingThere'', despite not actually having a failed assassination attempt foiled by coincidence in the movie. [[hottip:*:The link was Chance being a very lucky fool mistaken for someone important -- the type of character who is sometimes subject to CoincidentalDodge comic scenes.]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint used to be "Completely Missing the Point". It was changed because too many people misunderstood the intention of the trope (a character missing something obvious for comic effect) and would use it in an accusatory manner against anyone or anything they disliked or disagreed with.
* TheComicallySerious used to be "Unfunny". It was changed to more clearly indicate that the trope is about a serious-minded person being put into comical situations, and the contrast being PlayedForLaughs, rather than something or someone which tries to be funny and fails.
* CombinedEnergyAttack used to be "Spirit Bomb", named after a technique used by Goku in ''Manga/DragonBall''. Renamed because the trope namer caused the definition to be too narrow and some tropers thought the trope was "a weapon to attack someone's spirit" instead of "group pools their [[{{Mana}} energy]] for a attack or other purpose".
* ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow was originally named "Shit Flies from the Fans" for a couple days.
* ConfettiDrop was renamed from "Tickertape Parade" because the trope was about confetti/balloon drops on {{game show}}s, not tickertape parades. TickertapeParade is now about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ConfirmationBias was renamed from "Preaching to the Choir" because the trope was using that phrase different than how it is commonly used and was encouraging misuse for the normal meaning.
* ConfusionFu used to be "Schrödinger Fu", which was named from Schrödinger's Cat -- a thought experiment from quantum mechanics where a macroscopic object is in two states simultaneously while unobserved. The idea was to suggest randomness via quantum randomness. But the trope is a fighting style built from erratic, unpredictable movements: the fighter isn't splitting into multiple versions which influence one another while unseen.
* ConstantlyCurious used to be "Elephant's Child". It was named after the main character in a short story by Kipling, and not very descriptive.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet used to be "Consulting Mr. Flibble" -- a name with little meaning to those unfamiliar with ''Series/RedDwarf''. The new name invokes the most common scenario directly.
* ConsummateLiar was renamed from "Liar Liar" to avoid confusion with the movie of the same name and as a side benefit to be more specifically connected to the trope.
* ContractualPurity used to be "Prisoners of Pollyanna", but was too easy to confuse with ThePollyanna and also assumed that people understood to which Pollyanna the name referred.
* ConvictionByContradiction was formerly "Bugs Meany Is Gonna Walk", but people were being misled into thinking it dealt with different parts of criminal conviction tropes.
* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue used to be called "Encyclopedia Browned", after DanBrowned. Renamed because ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' is known for more than just the one thing. Like, say, the trope one line up from this one.
* CosmicHorrorStory used to be "Cosmic Horror" (the proper term), but people kept using it to refer to the monsters that usually inhabit them, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. CosmicHorror is now a redirect to EldritchAbomination.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot was once "We Could Have Avoided All This", but you know - StockPhrase.
* CounterpartComparison used to be "Why Does Everyone Think I'm Deadpool?" It was renamed because the trope name was needlessly wordy, in addition to being from an obscure source.
* CoverBlowingSuperpower used to be named "Awkward Ability", but was renamed because the previous name created confusion about the power itself being awkward rather than the cover-blowing effect of that power.
* CrapsackWorld was formerly "Sick Sad World", which is from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''.
* CreatingLifeIsBad was formerly "Creating Life", which is now a neutral supertrope and index.
* CreatorsPet was "The Wesley" for a long time. Renamed for being a character-named trope, as well as failing the OneMarioLimit.
* CreditsRunningSequence used to be "Running Sequence". It was renamed to clarify that the trope occurs during the credits.
* CreepyCockroach was originally titled "Everything's Creepier with Cockroaches", a snowclone of the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all roaches regardless of portrayal.
* CreepyCrossdresser used to be "Villainous Crossdresser", so the definition could be expanded.
* CriminalMindGames was renamed from "Along Came a Spider" so as to avoid having a trope named after a work.
* CrowdedCastShot was renamed from "Everyone Get in Here" for clarity and in order to avoid using a stock phrase.
* CruellaToAnimals was renamed from "The Cruella" to emphasize which aspect of Cruella [=DeVil=]'s character exemplified the trope. As a valuable bonus, those who know not of [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella]] shall gain purchase on the meaning via the pun.
* CruelTwistEnding was renamed from "Outer Limits Twist", not only because the original name came from a work, but to prevent confusion between the two versions of that work.
* CrutchCharacter was renamed from "Jeigan Character" since Jeigan is not well known outside the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' fandom. The old title essentially conveyed no information to readers outside this community, not to mention SpellMyNameWithAnS issues (since the character's "official" English name is Jagen).
* CryonicsFailure used to be "Popsicle Splat", referring to {{Human Popsicle}}s, but was renamed for clarity.
* CrypticBackgroundReference was originally "What's a Secret Four", referring to the kids' detective novel series ''Literature/TheThreeInvestigators''; the old name was impenetrable to non-fans and, since it ''was'' one and all, sounded like it was about {{Henway}}-type plays on words.
* CulturalStereotypes was renamed from Acceptable Cultural Targets to make it objective.
* CutASliceTakeTheRest was formerly "Improper Fraction", but was renamed for clarity.
* CutawayGag used to be "Manatee Gag". It was renamed for several reasons (it was a TakeThat on a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode that parodied ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''; the name was incomprehensible to anyone who never watched said episode, and the term "cutaway gag" is commonly used elsewhere). Funnily, the trope actually ''was'' YKTTW'd as CutawayGag, but somehow got launched with that name.
* CuteAndPsycho was originally "Yangire", which is used by the anime fandom to describe this kind of character and is not an actual Japanese word.
* CuteClumsyGirl was formerly "Dojikko", the term used within anime fandom to mean the same thing. As of this writing, {{Dojikko}} is an official subtrope of CuteClumsyGirl, with its own trope page.
* CuteKitten was originally titled "Everything's Cuter with Kittens", a snowclone of the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all kittens regardless of portrayal.
* CuttingOffTheBranches used to be named "Road Cone", but the old title was deemed too opaque.
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* DamselScrappy was formerly known as "The Kimberly", named for Kim Bauer, designated DistressedDamsel from ''Series/TwentyFour''.
* DangerDeadpan used to be called "Chuck Yeager". It was changed due to being a character named trope and for being opaque.
* DangerRoomColdOpen was called the long and unwieldy "Professor X Likes to Watch Teenagers Sweat", which was also loaded with (probably not unintentional) implications that make you think of a different trope.
* DatingDoSiDo was originally "Degrassi Dating". Lack of archived discussion prevents Trope Archaeologists from determining whether it was changed as part of a general purge of show-named tropes, or because it was [[IThoughtItMeant easily mistaken for]] a reference to the [[TotallyRadical totally]] [[TheEighties '80s]] made-on-a-shoestring look of [[DegrassiJuniorHigh early incarnations]] [[DegrassiHigh of the franchise]].
* DatingServiceDisaster was renamed from "matchmaker.com" since it was the name of an existing company and was too broad leading to misuse.
* TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Dark Age". It was renamed because not only are there dark ages for other media, but there were also references to the concept of a Dark Age independent of comic books.
* DarkHorseVictory was formerly "Zmelik", after an Olympic athlete (namely, the one that actually won the Decathlon gold in 1992, the year of "Dan vs. Dave").
* DarkMistress was formerly "Doctor Girlfriend" after the character from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Renamed due to the fact that there are several qualities of the "good" Doctor that could've attached to the trope and no way to figure out which was applicable from just a glance.
* DeadPersonImpersonation was originally "Martin Guerre", which was rewritten to cover the specific work of that title. [[MadMen The Don Draper]] may or may not have been considered.
* DeathByWomanScorned used to be "He Had It Coming".
* DeathOfAThousandCuts used to be known as "One Thousand Needles", until the latter was rewritten to better describe the namesake attack from the ''FinalFantasy'' games (which was ''itself'' renamed; see FixedDamageAttack below).
* DebutQueue was "Ducks in a Row". The link between getting organized when starting a new project and introducing characters one by one was too much of a stretch for most readers; and the related meaning of the expression, to line things up one after another (like duck-pins), was easily confused with AllInARow.
* DecapitatedArmy was formerly "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead", and was renamed for frequent use as a reference to either the [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz trope namer]] or confused for AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
* DecapitationRequired was formerly Vorpal Weakness. Renamed for clarity.
* DecoyTrial was formerly known as "Trial of Someone Besides the Defendant", which was a mouthful.
* DeepFriedWhatever was originally titled "Everything's Better Deep Fried", a snowclone of the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all deep fried things regardless of portrayal.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit was formerly "I Have Two Kidneys". It was renamed because the old title did a poor job of describing what it was about.
* DelusionsOfEloquence was "Shlubb and Klump English", but got a rename due to it being a character-named trope.
* DemotedToExtra was formerly "Isn't It Sad", which originated in a meme among fans of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', in reference to the character Sacchin. Renamed because it was too obscure, not to mention that the trope title could easily be assumed to refer to any kind of sad situation in general.
* {{Demythtification}} was "Low Low Fantasy", which makes it look like a direct extension of LowFantasy: it is not. These stories aren't intended as members of the fantasy genre, but as an ExternalRetcon of a myth to strip it of fantasy elements and render it as historical fiction.
* DesignatedVillain was formerly named "Designated Antagonist". It was renamed because being an antagonist [[HeroAntagonist does not always mean being a villain]].
* DespairEventHorizon was formerly "Morale Event Horizon". It was renamed because it was considered much too [[RougeAnglesOfSatin easy to mistake]] with MoralEventHorizon (which was what inspired its creation in the first place, JustForPun).
* DeusExitMachina was merged with "Eaten by a Snake". The latter was a reference to an arc from ''Manga/OnePiece'', and was deemed too unintuitive.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters used to be "Twenty Minutes with Jerks". It was renamed for being too negative.
* DiabolusExNihilo used to be "Diabolus Ex Vacuus". We were mixing up our nominative declension with the ablative. Who knew? Also, there is a common preexisting term: ex nihilo. So we use that.
* DidntWantAnAdventure used to be "I Wanted to Go Bowling". The old name was trying to be a stock phrase and failed.
* DieHardOnAnX was just named "Die Hard" for a really long time. It was renamed because it made searching for the trope as opposed to [[Film/DieHard the movie]] next to impossible.
* DiesWideOpen was renamed from "Dies Wide Shut" in order to be less confusing and misleading.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper was formerly "Bucket of Ears". However, that ''{{Coupling}}'' reference was just too unintuitive and resulted in most references all being related to Jeff from the show.
* DigitizedHacker was formerly "Malus Ex Machina", a GratuitousLatin phrase meaning "evil out of the machine", in a failed imitation of DeusExMachina.
* DisabledLoveInterest was originally "Disabled Hottie", which encouraged misuse of the trope to mean "attractive disabled person".
* DisappointingLastLevel was once the completely nonindicative "Xen Syndrome", named for the area that the final levels of ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life| 1}}'' take place in.
* DiscoDan was very briefly (one full day) named "JoeQuesada Reality", after the MarvelComics executive who has acquired quite a hatred from the fans. It was changed because some people disapproved of the "bitter fan" vibe of the inherent TakeThat, and others said that the trope namer ''barely'' even fit the trope.
* DiscOneFinalBoss was once "Fake Boss".
* DisconnectedByDeath was once "Murdered in a Phone Booth", but got renamed and expanded to include other phone-based murders as well.
* DisguisedInDrag was formerly "Bosom Buddies". Being titled after a show was grounds enough for a rename, but also the "obvious allusion to female anatomy" wasn't that obvious.
* DistressedDude was formerly "James Bondage". It was changed so that it wouldn't sound porn-related.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution was formerly known as "Luigification". It was changed because Luigi of ''SuperMarioBros'' is more known for other traits than this characteristic.
* DividedWeFall was "Hanging Separately". Not everyone is familiar with the quote, so the name was changed to a better known phrase.
* DivineRaceLift was formerly "Token Deity", a bad snowclone on Token that misrepresented the trope, since it isn't about tokens.
* DocumentaryEpisode was known as "The Documentary". It was changed because it was unclear and easily confused with the actual {{Documentary}}.
* DodgeByBraking was renamed from "Top Gunned" since ''Film/TopGun'' is known for a variety of things besides that particular aerial evasive technique.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength was formerly known as "Ace Lightning Syndrome". Renamed because the eponymous ''AceLightning'' was considered too obscure.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing was originally named "Pink Lipstick Aesop" after a scene in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', which [[FanMyopia made no sense to anyone who didn't get the reference]]. The name was changed to "Truffaut Was Right", referring to a quote from French director FrancoisTruffaut about anti-war movies. However, not everyone knows who he is, and aside from that he is also known for proposing the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory auteur theory]]. The new name gets the point across.
* DontExplainTheJoke was very briefly "Yes Ted, That's the Joke" after an obscure ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Ted Turner reference.
* Double Standard Rape: X were once Rape Is OK When. Renamed as part of an effort to remove "<obviously bad thing> is OK" names.
* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs was known as "Pandora Plea". It was renamed for clarity since Pandora's box does not clearly bring to mind using dangerous weapons.
* DownToTheLastPlay was formerly "The Casey Effect". It was changed because it implied the protagonist team always losing, and because it suggested that the trope was baseball-specific.
* DoWrongRight used to be "This Is Not El Alamein", but the name was too obscure (El Alamein is a town in Egypt and a battle of WorldWarII -- what it has to do with this trope is further info that is required to understand it; thus the change).
* DramaticSlip was renamed from "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up" to discourage misuse for the stock phrase and to encourage use for an otherwise underused trope.
* DrivenByEnvy was "Salieri Syndrome", but the old name was too opaque and failed to attract {{wick}}s.
* DrunkOnMilk was formerly "Drunk on Malts". It was renamed because of the possible confusion of malts with malted hops when malts are meant to refer to a clearly non-alcoholic drink like milk.
* DubInducedPlotHole was originally "My Name Is Prince Darien", after a certain happening in the dub of ''Manga/SailorMoon''. It also spent some time hitchhiking cross-country under the alias "Errors Through Localization".
* DuelingHackers was renamed from "Dot Combat" for a clearer name.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove was known as "Going Down with the Ship". It was renamed so that the title could be used for the "captain goes down with his ship" trope.
* DyingToBeReplaced previously had the name of "Klingon Promotion", but was continuously misused to mean YouKillItYouBoughtIt and what is now KlingonPromotion (even in its own Laconic and Quotes pages).
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* EarthAllAlong was "Planet of the Apes Ending", after a [[ItWasHisSled well-known]] [[PlanetOfTheApes example]].
* EasilyOverheardConversation was formerly "The Firstlaw of Sitcom Acoustics". Was renamed due to disuse and not being limited to sitcoms.
* EatingTheEyeCandy was originally called "Female Gaze", but it was agreed that it is not a variation of MaleGaze and shouldn't sell itself that way. [[hottip:*: FemaleGaze is now its own trope page by its proper definition as the DistaffCounterpart to MaleGaze.]]
* EccentricMentor was originally named "The Dumbledore" after the character from ''Literature/HarryPotter''. It was renamed because the character it was named after was known for other things than just the trope he was named for.
* EchoingAcoustics was the obscure "Live from Khazad Dum", named from a underground location in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Old name was work-specific and unclear.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette was simply "Pale-Skinned Brunette", which gathered many examples that were just light-skinned, dark-haired people; these were determined to be PeopleSitOnChairs. The "eerie" clears that up.
* EgocentricallyReligious used to be "Spoiled Brat of the Lord". Rather than a character actively being spoiled, this one is more about a egocentric mindset in worship. For some, Lord evokes nobility rather than a religious figure -- and it's not specific to Abrahamic religions in any case. The new name presents both elements of the trope more clearly.
* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas used to be "The Vodka Is Good But the Meat Is Rotten", which, aside from being opaque, was also an example of the wrong trope (namely RecursiveTranslation).
* ElegantClassicalMusician was originally "Air in a G-String", an obtuse pun that didn't convey what the trope was actually ''about'' very well.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement was changed from "Ding! Sportswear, Pantyhose and Tropes" thanks to under use.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue was originally "I Sound Like a Retard in English". It was changed to be a wee bit more politically-correct.
* EmergencyImpersonation was once "Guise Will Be Guise". Renamed for being a pun that hadn't anything to do with the trope and not being descriptive at all.
* TheEndingChangesEverything used to be [[spoiler:"The Usual Suspects Ending"]], a name based around a specific movie, which revealed nothing to those unfamiliar with the movie and constituted a spoiler. Worse, the trope itself told readers '''at the very beginning''' ''not to read the rest of the trope description unless they had seen the movie first''.
* EndlessGame was "Kobayashi Mario" (KobayashiMaru + {{Mario}}). Changed partly because the Kobayashi Maru scenario wasn't endless, just unwinnable.
* EndOfEpisodeSilliness was "Uncle Herbie", after a running gag example of this trope on ''WelcomeBackKotter''.
* TheEndOrIsIt was originally simply "Or Is It?" It was changed because the old name was highly prone to misuse as a StockPhrase and VerbalTic.
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity used to be "Empowering Lake Lady" and, in part, "Strange Pond Woman": the partial merge was rather involved. The old names were a reference to a famous example, the Lady of the Lake from the KingArthur mythos. The title was changed for being overly specific. Probably.
* EnthrallingSiren was renamed from "Our Sirens Are Louder" due to bad snowclone application.
* EpicMovie was previously "BFM". Renamed for being an incomprehensible initialism and because EpicMovie is the generally used term for the concept.
* EroticEating was formerly "Yum Yum", which (possibly) sounded too ambiguous.
* EurekaMoment was originally named the "Creek Moment" after the British TV detective Series/JonathanCreek. Renamed because the term "Eureka" was far more searchable, "creek" will never be immediately known as a character name, and even those who knew of Creek didn't understand what a Creek Moment was.
* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes was originally called "Even Evil Has Loved Ones". However, it was misused in over 80% of wicks on works and character pages as "evil person demonstrates genuine love for another" (which is what EvenEvilHasLovedOnes now covers).
* ExperimentalArcheology was renamed from "Kon Tiki Plot" in order to broaden the meaning of the trope, clarify it, and encourage use for an otherwise underused trope.
* ExplainingTheSoap was formerly "Soap on a Trope", but was renamed because it used "trope" as a placeholder and was overall non-indicative.
* ExponentialPlotDelay used to be "Zeno's Race", after an early mathematical theory of limits. The idea was a story that showed ever-greater plot delay could be metaphorically represented by Zeno's theory. In the theory, movement is impossible since no matter how many times you travel half a distance, you have an infinite number of half-distances to go. This was too much of a stretch for general readers.
* ExpositionFairy was originally named "Ninja Butterfly", after the game ''Red Ninja''. It was changed because Ninja Butterfly sounded like it's about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stealth lepidopteran assassins of shadow]], instead of "friendly advice-giving character who commonly makes you yell, 'StopHelpingMe!'"
* ExtranormalInstitute was formerly known as "Wizarding School". People were taking the name literally, so EI was split off as the supertrope.
* ExtravertedNerd was formerly "The Urkel", and was renamed for being a character-named trope.
* ExtraYExtraViolent was once "XYY", which didn't demonstrate the trope of an additional Y-chromosome leading to violent behaviour.
* TheExtremistWasRight used to be "And It Worked", but was renamed to discourage misuse of the trope for the stock phrase itself.
* EyelidPullTaunt was once "Red Eye", which could refer to both the movie ''Film/RedEye'' and simple red eyes.
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