History SquarePegRoundTrope / EToK

** The Five-Bad Band was created as a villainous counterpart to the Five-Man Band, consisting of the BigBad, TheDragon, TheBrute, the EvilGenius and the DarkChick. Eventually, it was determined that ''nearly every example on the entire site'' (as in, the number of correct examples was in the single digits out of hundreds) was misuse, due to having more or less than five members, at least one member not fitting any of the roles, male villains being labelled the DarkChick or the villains not actually working together as a team. This led to the trope being cut.

* EasySexChange refers to a form of ArtisticLicense regarding gender transition for transgender people, where the process is depicted as quick, easy, and relatively painless, generally being simplified to a single surgery with little-to-no recovery period. If the process involves magic, BizarreAlienBiology, or sci-fi technology so advanced that the process has no resemblance to real-life gender transition, then the actual trope is GenderBender.

* FanDislikedExplanation gets shoehorned to anything disliked by fans, forgetting the "explanation" part. The disliked thing has to be [[TheReveal a reveal]] about how or why X happened or works/worked. A popular {{Fanon}} being {{Jossed}} is not this trope unless the work give a specific alternate explanation.

* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' isn't even a trope, yet it is occasionally used as one. We ''do'' have {{t|heGodsMustBeLazy}}wo {{t|heGuardsMustBeCrazy}}ropes that are {{pun}}s based on it, but ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' itself is a movie. You might be thinking of MadGod.

* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' isn't even a trope, yet it is occasionally used as one. We ''do'' have {{t|heGodsMustBeLazy}}wo {{t|heGuardsMustBeCrazy}}ropes that are [[{{Pun}} puns]] based on it, but ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' itself is a movie. You might be thinking of MadGod.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tropers have a tendency to shoehorn this. For the record, the trope only applies when an otherwise-remorseless villain refuses to do something especially evil ''because'' they think it's too evil. EEHS has been misused for characters who aren't really evil (where EveryoneHasStandards would apply instead), a standard that they only have for pragmatic reasons (PragmaticVillainy), or a standard that opposes weaksauce villainy (EvilerThanThou, which is the complete ''inverse'' of the trope).

* HeroKiller seems to be falling into this, being used as a blanket term for any character that has managed to kill a hero, regardless of how major a role they had. One of the key elements of the HeroKiller is that he is so effective and so dangerous that even the protagonists are terrified of him; someone who appeared for one episode, had a fairly even-sided battle with the protagonists, and managed to take down a hero before being killed in the climax is not a HeroKiller.

* ItsAllAboutMe is often taken as when someone only cares about themselves and their own needs and doesn't care about the lives they ruin in their endeavors, which is usually applied to villains. This is actually an example of a {{narcissist}}, someone who has too high an opinion of themselves to see value in other people, to the extent of seeing them as expendable, which is also included as part of TheSociopath, something of which is also frequently misused. It's All About Me is about general self-centeredness where someone prioritizes their own issues above everyone else's and believes themselves to matter more than others regarding those issues, or they're desperate for people to pay attention to them, the latter of which goes under AttentionWhore if it's the character's defining quirk, which is completely different from being a {{narcissist}}.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes is when the loved ones are an ''exception'' the villain's personality, if they're otherwise too selfish to be expected to love other people. It's often misinterpreted as when love is the villain's motive for their own villainy, which is actually an example of LoveMakesYouEvil.

* FridgeBrilliance isn't "My favorite show is awesome and makes no mistakes". All series have plot holes and issues, even if insignificant, and trying to deny it with an "ICanExplain" won't change this. That'll just lead to [[invoked]]FanDumb. A lot of people don't understand the line between Fridge Brilliance and WildMassGuessing. Fridge Brilliance is "Oh, X is Y because Z", WildMassGuessing is "Why is X Y?"

* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' isn't even a trope, yet it is occasionally used as one. We ''do'' have {{t|heGodsMustBeLazy}}wo {{t|heGuardsMustBeCrazy}}ropes that are [[JustForPun puns]] based on it, but ''The Gods Must Be Crazy'' itself is a movie. You might be thinking of MadGod.

* FourIsDeath is not simply [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any time the number four is used in a work]]. It is meant for instances where that number signifies something bad that is happening or about to happen, usually in reference to an Asian superstition rooted in the words for "four" and "death" being homophones in some Asian languages. The same applies to ThirteenIsUnlucky and the number thirteen.

* An IdiotPlot is a plot that only hangs together due to the characters behaving like idiots, requiring more than one idiot or moment of idiocy. Before it was made FlameBait, it was often used to complain about bad writing in general. This likely stemmed from tropers mistaking the meaning of the name as 'plot written by an idiot' rather than 'plot where the characters are idiots'.

* EvenBetterSequel is a sequel to a work ''that was already good'', but manages to be better; not just every sequel that just so happens to be better than the last one, good or otherwise. Sequels that are unexpectedly better than ''actually mediocre'' predecessors have its own trope as well: SurprisinglyImprovedSequel.

* ForWantOfANail is about a story examining how a seemingly-small change might have major effects on an established timeline. But much like FridgeHorror, it's frequently misused as an excuse to point out something that ''might'' have substantially changed a story, even when the work doesn't discuss this alternative scenario in any way.

* An IdiotPlot is a plot that only hangs together due to the characters behaving like idiots. Before it was made FlameBait, it was often used to complain about bad writing in general. This likely stemmed from tropers mistaking the meaning of the name as ‘plot written by an idiot’ rather than ‘plot where the characters are idiots’.

* EscapeSequence is a sequence where the player must flee from undefeatable enemy, not a sequence where the player must escape from CollapsingLair.