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!! Dishonorable mentions:
* Walking Through A Doorway - SeenItAMillionTimes and TruthInTelevision
* BreathingOxygen - So much so that aversions and subversions have become [[SuperNotDrowningSkills tropes in]] [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace their own right]].
* Two Objects Cannot Be In One Place (and its inversion...And no, [[Franchise/StarTrek Teleporter Accidents]] and {{telefrag}}s do not count,)
** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by Quantum Mechanics (by bosons).
* One Object Cannot Be In Two Places
** Also subverted by Copenhagen quantum mechanics, but not other interpretations where a particle only is at one place a time.
* [[OlderThanDirt Older than a newborn]]
** [[OlderThanDirt Younger than dirt]].
* Time Always Moves Forward
** [[TimeTravel Rea]][[TemporalParadox lly]][[TimeyWimeyBall ?]]
*** How time moves and how you move through it are not the same thing.
** [[Film/{{Memento}} Shouldn't]] belong here, methinks.
*** ''How time moves and how you move through it are not the same thing.''
** [[http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time Some]] [[http://www.amazon.com/End-Time-Next-Revolution-Physics/dp/0195145925/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313161295&sr=8-1 scientists]], [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time philosophers]], and [[http://hinduism.about.com/od/basics/a/time.htm religious]] [[http://conscious-universe.blogspot.com/2007/06/time-in-buddhism.html individuals]] strongly disagree.
** One [[http://earthprime.com/episode-guide/as-time-goes-by.html episode of Sliders]] disagrees - on that Earth, time itself moves backwards and the protagonists are still moving forwards.
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Gal Looks Like A Lady]]
** [[TestosteronePoisoning Guy Looks Like A Dude]]
* Small And Completely Inconsequential Bugs (like sprite flickering)
* Three-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry
** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by General Relativity and by [[EpilepticTrees string theory]].
* The Word "The" (except in SpellMyNameWithAThe)
** Subverted by [[UsefulNotes/GrammarInForeignLanguages a bunch of languages]].
* Didnt Get TheCall, Didn't Find the Call, Couldn't Care Less About The Call
** and its subtrope, Didn't Get The Call And Really Are Just As Happy About It; Happier, Maybe.
* People Sit On Chairs
* TheCall Doesn't Want To Contact You And You Don't Really Want To Be Contacted Either And Later TheCall Calls Someone Who Wants To Be Called
* [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guy Fails]]
** The Bad Guy Dies, with subtropes DisneyVillainDeath and DeathEqualsRedemption
** The Bad Guy Fails High School
** The Bad Guy [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Fails Physics Forever]]
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Really As Old As They Look]]
** and its sister trope, [[YoungerThanTheyLook Really As Young As They Look]].
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Exactly As Old As They Think]]
* [[PornWithoutPlot Porn With Porn]]
** Plot With Plot
* Moderately Hard Difficulty
** [[NintendoHard Nintendo Wii Hard?]]
* Steam, of a [[{{Steam}} non-gaming platform]] AND [[SteamPunk non-punk]] kind.
** I'll be surprised if there isn't a trope about steam vents as obstacles in games.
* [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay Windmills Actually Do Work That Way]]
* Everyday Clothing
** It'd be a supertrope of NotWearingTights (for superheroes) and CustomUniform (for plain clothes detectives).
* Pressing the Start Button
** Averted by the {{Wii}}, which lacks a Start button. Generally "+" is pause, and title screens use "press A+B" or "press any button".
** Inverted with Windows, which requires you press the "Start" button in order to shut down.[[note]]Actually, there are steps in between. You click "start", and then "shut down" - you click "start" to do a lot of things.[[/note]]
** The Commodore 64 has no Start key or button.
* Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love
* The Slapwankles Tetra-Inversion Principle:
-->'''[[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Tom Siddell]]:''' It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing.
* Eating Food
* Nose
** We have tropes for exaggerations (GagNose) and aversions (TheNoseless).
* List Of Series That Have Characters
* [[MostWritersAreHuman Most Writers Are Literate]]
** Aversion: Main/MyImmortal
*** ''Functionally'' literate.
**** Fghk ghk hgkjblj hj bghjkbk?
** Unless [[Creator/StephenColbert they]] dictate into a recorder over Columbus Day weekend instead.
* [[TalkingAnimal Talking Humans]] -or- Opening That Giant Hole In Your Face And Having Words And Sounds Come Out
** Played with in various ways: TheSpeechless, TheVoiceless, and TheUnintelligible.
* [[CallASmeerpARabbit Call a Rabbit a Rabbit]]
** Call a Smeerp a Smeerp
** [[HorseOfADifferentColour A Horse Of A Color]]
*** That Dog Has Fleas!
* People Who Can Spell Their Own Names
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWK85gJaxc People Who Were Being Trained To Conquer Galaxies While Others Were Taught To Spell Their Own Names]]
* Flip A Switch, The Light Comes On
** Subverted in power cuts
* Use Of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous Matter -or- Materials Made Of Atoms
** Subverted with various degenerate states of matter.
** [[EpilepticTrees Is light a]] [[ZigZaggingTrope wave or a particle]]?
*** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]
** Averted in {{Cyberspace}}.
* Standing On A Planet
** Averted in works set on GenerationShips.
* I Have A Face
** Subverted by [[TheManWithoutAFace Mel Gibson]]?
** Invoked in cases of MyEyesAreUpHere.
* Women Have Boobs
** KeepAbreastOfThisIndex?
*** In Real Life, Women Don't Look [[GenericCuteness Like Anime]]
**** [[BigNo NOOOO!]] Say it's not so!
** [[ACupAngst A]]''[[PetitePride -hem.]]''
*** Not really, they still have boobs. Only... not as... ''[[MostCommonSuperpower common]]''.
** You're also forgetting trans women who have not/will not get breast implants or hormone therapy.
* Moving
* Blinking
** EyeTropes has a few, but not OnceForYesTwiceForNo.
* Existing
* Combustion Fuel
** Zoidberg Fuel
** [[ResourceWar Combustion Fuel as a]] MacGuffin
* My Lower Body From My Waist To My Ankles In My Pants
** [[Creator/MontyPython I've got two legs from my hips to the ground...]]
** [[Music/TheBeatles He got feet down below his knees..]]
** Aversions include some examples of InspirationallyDisadvantaged, SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs, and BizarreAlienLocomotion.
* Person Who Is Moderately Attractive
* [[PuritySue Mediocrity Sue]]
** Realistically Flawed Sue
** [[JustForPun Lawsuit Sue]]
** Runaround Sue
* The Fred
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-423 That's what you think.]]
** Precedent: JackAttack was [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1315914034023323900&page=0 cut]].
* Gravity
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy''.
** Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' and in ''VideoGame/MegaMan5''.
** It might make an index, given all the related tropes in the lead of ArtificialGravity.
* [[GravityIsAHarshSeamstress Gravity Is Not A Seamstress, Harsh Or Otherwise]]
** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is Not A Mistress, Harsh Or Otherwise]]
** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is]] A Harsh {{Dominatrix}}
* Adrenaline Brigade Bait
** See NightmareFuel.
** Dopamine Brigade Bait
** We do have [[LightEmUp Melatonin Brigade Bait]], [[FoodPorn Insulin Brigade Bait]], and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Serotonin Brigade Bait]].
** Endorphin Brigade Bait
** [[OverlyLongGag Triiodothyronine Brigade Bait]]
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Tetrahydrocannabinol Brigade Bait]]
** [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Thiotimoline]] Brigade Bait
* A Creator Announces That It Will Release A Work, Then Later The Work Is Released
** Double subverted with ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' and anything else {{Uncanceled}}.
* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Imagination Writes The Plot]]
* Smarter than [[TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]
** Dumber than [[AlbertEinstein Einstein]]
*** Inverted with [[TheSimpsons Martin Prince]]. Einstein's IQ is 160, while Martin's IQ is 216.
* Movement
** Inertia
* I Know The Limits of My Own Abilities
* Bog-Standard Protagonist
* Plain As A Pikestaff
* Touching an Item with Any Part Of The Character Or Machine Results of it Being Picked up in Video Games
** Subverted by ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': "YOU JUMPED ONTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!"
** Subverted by most {{RPG}}s -- you have to push a button to pick things up.
* If I Set This Match Alight, It May Burn
* [[TheOldestOnesInTheBook Older Than Fusion Power]]
** If TVTropes lasts another 20 years, I'll make you eat your words.
** The Sun would like a word with you, as would its many older cousins. So, how about [[NewerThanTheyThink Newer Than Fusion Power]]?
** Older Than FasterThanLightTravel
*** Both could have in-universe examples.
** Older Than TimeTravel
*** [[TimeyWimeyBall But if a human]] [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble has/will have]] [[TimeyWimeyBall travelled to the past beyond our subjective present, than modern works aren't technically]] Older Than TimeTravel... [[AustinPowers I've gone cross-eyed]].
** Older Than Things That Are Younger Than It
* Dead Historical Figures
* People Who Aren't Dead
** People Who [[Literature/{{Discworld}} AREN'T DEAD]]
** [[Film/TheOthers WE'RE NOT DEAD!]]
** [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I feel happy! I feel happy!]]
* [[PetTheDog Feed the Dog]]
** [[DoctorSteel Feed the hamster, feed the hamster, yeah!]]
* [[EvilIsNotMean Evil Is Not Good]]
** [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Evil]]
** [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Is Not Light]]
*** See CaptainObvious
* [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen Tropes That Have Already Happened]]
** RealLife
* Works That Have An Author
** Works That Don't Exist Because The Person Destined to Become Their Author Decided To Become A Postman Instead
*** [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream]] has a library full of these.
* All First-Person Games Include Killing
** Aversions (NonviolentFirstPersonGame?) include ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', and simulators of paintball and laser tag.
* Banned In North Korean Concentration Camps
** Banned In A Media-less Vacuum
* Most Women Are Female
** [[{{GIRL}} A Few Women Are Female, The Rest Are Definitely Men]]
* Older Than Something That Came After It
** [[MindScrew Younger Than Something That Came After It]]
*** Possible in real life thanks to special relativity.
* Memes That Failed To Catch On
** In a sense, ''DinoRiders''; didn't catch on as a series, but did later become a meme.
** ForcedMeme, perhaps?
* [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even The Guys]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Want Her]]
** Even The Girls Want Him
* Everybody Has Lots of Something
** Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
* Space Has Stars
** In fact, it was [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey full of stars]] until [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy the King of All Cosmos broke them all.]]
* [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Reliable Narrator]] (How to explain the Third Person Limited point of view.)
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vaguely Similar To What It Says On The Tin]]
** Presumably What It Says On The Tin, But We Haven't Opened It So There's No Way To Know For Sure
** [[ShapedLikeItself Shaped Unlike Itself]]
* [[PhysicalGod Physical Dog]]
* [[UnwinnableByDesign Winnable By Design]]
* Words With Spaces Between Them
** Averted in some languages
** Letters With Tiny Spaces Between Them
** ...And/Or Visual Representations And/Or Sound
* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of]] [[{{Superman}} Jimmy Olsen]] Getting Superpowers Only To Have Them Vanish At The End Of The Issue
** [[SuperDickery Take a shot.]]
** TwentyFourHourSuperpowers
* [[ActingForTwo Acting For One]]
** [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Acting For Zero]]
* The Sky is Blue
** Except sometimes, when it's an AlienSky.
* Carbon Based Terrestrial Lifeforms
* Anterograde Motion
* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware The]] ObviouslyEvil Ones
* [[CompleteMonster Incomplete Monster]]
** [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings This is awful... You're just some incomplete monster...]]
** When a monster feels psychologically incomplete because he derives no joy from doing the "monstery" things [[AlwaysChaoticEvil associated with his race]], it's MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch.
* Politicians that Lie: Cited as an example of something that might be too PSOC to trope in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1330364315032430200&page=4#76 this forum post]].
* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Dogs Are Animals]]
* [[WaterIsAir Water Is Not Air]]
** Subverted in TowerOfGod, where the air is literally magic water.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Americans Speaking English]]
** Barely, especially one's ImmigrantParents
** English Speaking English
*** Also barely, with [[BritishAccents some accents, especially Geordie]]
** People Speaking Their Own Language
* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Fiction Artists Have No Sense Of Light Pollution]]
** Caused by RealityIsUnrealistic, TheCoconutEffect (if it's night, the stars should be out) or RuleOfCool.
* Tuning A Tuning Fork
** This is done with a tuning fork tuning fork, which has to be tuned with a tuning fork tuning fork tuning fork.
*** [[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, I heard you like tuning forks, so I put a tuning fork in your tuning fork, so you can tune while you tune.]]
* Toenail Cutting
** Cut Toe Nailing
** Is it the same as [[IBrokeANail toenail breaking]]?
* A Story With Tropes
** The opposite of TheTropelessTale
** Exaggerated when it's {{Troperiffic}}.
* If I'm Still Breathing, It's Okay
* [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs People Brushing Their Teeth]]
** [[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} There's a fetish for everything.]]
* [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Guy On Girl Is Hot]]
** Guy On Girl Is Het
** Guy ''In'' Girl Is Het
** Would this be Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs for porn?
* Zeno's RPG - An RPG where leveling goes briskly in the beginning until finally slowing down to a crawl.
** Zeno's MMORPG
** Zeno's FPS (the bullets never quite reach their targets).
** Zeno's Tower Defense (delays between attacks double in length every round).
* [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample This Index Is An Example]] - basically all trope namers that are examples.
* Money For Something
* [[DireStraits And Chicks For]] Time, Money, Care, Love And A Sense Of Humour, ([[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Or For Being]] [[BastardBoyfriend A Bastard]]).
* [[TooDumbToLive Intelligent Enough to Live]]
* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Writers Write The Plot]]
** Except in cases of RealLifeWritesThePlot, ExecutiveMeddling, DubInducedPlotHole (Translators Miswrite The Plot), WagTheDirector and surely others.
** SecondLife Writes The Plot
** Monkeys With Typewriters Write The Plot
*** MyImmortal
* People Use Umbrellas When It Rains
** Only averted by natives of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}.
* Shining Yellow Orb In The Sky
** Averted by sunset and by any story taking place [[TropesInSpace IN SPACE]].
* Children Are Smaller Than Adults
** We do have TeensAreShort, which is about when this wrong. But we don't yet have one about exaggerations, such as school age kids being less half the height of adults.
** Children Are Younger Than Adults
* The Alien is An Alien
* [[IncurableCoughOfDeath The Man Who Had A Cough]] [[ThatMitchellAndWebbLook And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine]]
* [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I Did What I Didn't Really Have To Do, But Really Wanted To]]
** ItAmusedMe
* One Game for the Price of One
** Increasingly averted with DLC.
* Greetings!
* [[spoiler:Censorship]]
** Sensorship
** Censor-shipping: when MoralGuardians meet and fall in love.
** [[ProductPlacement Sponsorship]]
* Heroes Vs. Villains
* {{Animesque}}/Anime and Manga
* [[TheSimpsons Liminal Advertising]]
* [[NearlyNormalAnimal Truly Normal Animal]]
* [[GoodIsNotNice Evil Is Not Nice]]
** [[EvilIsNotMean Good Is Not Mean]]
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With A Letter]]
** Briefly subverted by {{Prince}}.
** Spell My Name The Same Way That Its Normally Spelled
* [[RealTrailerFakeMovie Real Trailer Real Movie]]
* [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Better Than Death]]
* [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Nowhere]]
** Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Somewhere
** Ordinary-Sized Regular Fleas From Everywhere
** Giant Nowhere Flea From Space
** [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat Flee From Giant Flea From Space]]
* Everyone Wears Underwear
** aversions include going commando.
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks It's Terrible, Now It Sucks.]]
* [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Absurdly Low Stakes Game]]
** That might happen.
--> "''Alright, I see your quarter and raise you a stick of gum''."
--> "''Ooh, high roller!''"
* [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Pinto Is A Car]]
** Unless it's a horse or a bean.
* [[SoBeautifulItsACurse So Ugly, It's A Curse]]
* [[PottyFailure Potty Success]]
** Do we have a trope for the feeling of incredible relief when you make it to the toilet just in time?
* Possible, But Quite Hard To Pull Off
** Within The Possible
* Someone Helping You Learn Your New Power
* [[BadassNormal Regular-Ass Normal]]
* [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep His Name Isn't Really Barkeep]]
* [[ThirdPersonPerson First Person Person]]
* [[{{Omniglot}} Monoglot]]
* RealityEnsues[=/=]RealLife
* [[CrackIsCheaper Crack Is More Expensive]]
* [[UnorthodoxReload Orthodox Reload]]
** Orthodoxy: Reloaded
* [[EasierThanEasy Easier th]][[HarderThanHard an Hard]]
* [[RealityIsUnrealistic Reality Is Realistic]]
* [[BaldOfEvil Bald of Baldness]]
* [[RougeAnglesofSatin Rogue Angels of Satan]], a trope for completely correct spelling.
* Rape Is Okay When It Is Consensual
* [[MusicalEpisode Non-Musical Episode]]
* Big Breasted Girl
* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocently Clothed Girl]]
* [[BadBadActing Actors Acting The Way They Were Trained To]]
** Correct Line Reading Reel
* [[SpeciesSurname Animals Without Surnames]]
* [[ShowWithinAShow Show Not Within a Show]]
** Show Outside Of A Show
** Show Within Itself
* [[KillItWithFire Kill It With Bullets]]
* Dead Animals As Food
* [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex Anatomically Easy Sex]]
* Conflict As Drama
* [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Authority Equals Power]]
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Fixing It Hero]]
* [[FasterThanLightTravel Slower Than Light Travel]]
* [[TrailersAlwaysLie Trailers Often Tell The Truth]]
* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Trailers Don't Usually Spoil]]
* [[NamesTheSame Name's Not The Same]]
** Because we need to catalog instances of two or more famous people being easy to distinguish from one another. 19th Century physicist '''James Clerk Maxwell''' is not to be confused, ever, with ''{{Scrubs}}'' actress '''Sarah Chalke'''.
* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Germans Love]] {{Kraftwerk}}
* [[CoitusEnsues Coitus Doesn't Ensue On This Disney Channel Show]]
* [[MsFanservice Ms. Average Looking Girl]]
* Cat Making a Meowing Noise
** Dog Making a Barking Noise
* [[IFellForHours I Fell For Seconds]]
* [[RootingForTheEmpire Rooting For The Rebels]]
* [[OppositeSexClone Same Sex Clone]]
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!! Dishonorable mentions:
* Walking Through A Doorway - SeenItAMillionTimes and TruthInTelevision
* BreathingOxygen - So much so that aversions and subversions have become [[SuperNotDrowningSkills tropes in]] [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace their own right]].
* Two Objects Cannot Be In One Place (and its inversion...And no, [[Franchise/StarTrek Teleporter Accidents]] and {{telefrag}}s do not count,)
** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by Quantum Mechanics (by bosons).
* One Object Cannot Be In Two Places
** Also subverted by Copenhagen quantum mechanics, but not other interpretations where a particle only is at one place a time.
* [[OlderThanDirt Older than a newborn]]
** [[OlderThanDirt Younger than dirt]].
* Time Always Moves Forward
** [[TimeTravel Rea]][[TemporalParadox lly]][[TimeyWimeyBall ?]]
*** How time moves and how you move through it are not the same thing.
** [[Film/{{Memento}} Shouldn't]] belong here, methinks.
*** ''How time moves and how you move through it are not the same thing.''
** [[http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time Some]] [[http://www.amazon.com/End-Time-Next-Revolution-Physics/dp/0195145925/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313161295&sr=8-1 scientists]], [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time philosophers]], and [[http://hinduism.about.com/od/basics/a/time.htm religious]] [[http://conscious-universe.blogspot.com/2007/06/time-in-buddhism.html individuals]] strongly disagree.
** One [[http://earthprime.com/episode-guide/as-time-goes-by.html episode of Sliders]] disagrees - on that Earth, time itself moves backwards and the protagonists are still moving forwards.
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Gal Looks Like A Lady]]
** [[TestosteronePoisoning Guy Looks Like A Dude]]
* Small And Completely Inconsequential Bugs (like sprite flickering)
* Three-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry
** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by General Relativity and by [[EpilepticTrees string theory]].
* The Word "The" (except in SpellMyNameWithAThe)
** Subverted by [[UsefulNotes/GrammarInForeignLanguages a bunch of languages]].
* Didnt Get TheCall, Didn't Find the Call, Couldn't Care Less About The Call
** and its subtrope, Didn't Get The Call And Really Are Just As Happy About It; Happier, Maybe.
* People Sit On Chairs
* TheCall Doesn't Want To Contact You And You Don't Really Want To Be Contacted Either And Later TheCall Calls Someone Who Wants To Be Called
* [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guy Fails]]
** The Bad Guy Dies, with subtropes DisneyVillainDeath and DeathEqualsRedemption
** The Bad Guy Fails High School
** The Bad Guy [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Fails Physics Forever]]
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Really As Old As They Look]]
** and its sister trope, [[YoungerThanTheyLook Really As Young As They Look]].
** [[OlderThanTheyThink Exactly As Old As They Think]]
* [[PornWithoutPlot Porn With Porn]]
** Plot With Plot
* Moderately Hard Difficulty
** [[NintendoHard Nintendo Wii Hard?]]
* Steam, of a [[{{Steam}} non-gaming platform]] AND [[SteamPunk non-punk]] kind.
** I'll be surprised if there isn't a trope about steam vents as obstacles in games.
* [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay Windmills Actually Do Work That Way]]
* Everyday Clothing
** It'd be a supertrope of NotWearingTights (for superheroes) and CustomUniform (for plain clothes detectives).
* Pressing the Start Button
** Averted by the {{Wii}}, which lacks a Start button. Generally "+" is pause, and title screens use "press A+B" or "press any button".
** Inverted with Windows, which requires you press the "Start" button in order to shut down.[[note]]Actually, there are steps in between. You click "start", and then "shut down" - you click "start" to do a lot of things.[[/note]]
** The Commodore 64 has no Start key or button.
* Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love
* The Slapwankles Tetra-Inversion Principle:
-->'''[[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Tom Siddell]]:''' It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing.
* Eating Food
* Nose
** We have tropes for exaggerations (GagNose) and aversions (TheNoseless).
* List Of Series That Have Characters
* [[MostWritersAreHuman Most Writers Are Literate]]
** Aversion: Main/MyImmortal
*** ''Functionally'' literate.
**** Fghk ghk hgkjblj hj bghjkbk?
** Unless [[Creator/StephenColbert they]] dictate into a recorder over Columbus Day weekend instead.
* [[TalkingAnimal Talking Humans]] -or- Opening That Giant Hole In Your Face And Having Words And Sounds Come Out
** Played with in various ways: TheSpeechless, TheVoiceless, and TheUnintelligible.
* [[CallASmeerpARabbit Call a Rabbit a Rabbit]]
** Call a Smeerp a Smeerp
** [[HorseOfADifferentColour A Horse Of A Color]]
*** That Dog Has Fleas!
* People Who Can Spell Their Own Names
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWK85gJaxc People Who Were Being Trained To Conquer Galaxies While Others Were Taught To Spell Their Own Names]]
* Flip A Switch, The Light Comes On
** Subverted in power cuts
* Use Of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous Matter -or- Materials Made Of Atoms
** Subverted with various degenerate states of matter.
** [[EpilepticTrees Is light a]] [[ZigZaggingTrope wave or a particle]]?
*** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]]
** Averted in {{Cyberspace}}.
* Standing On A Planet
** Averted in works set on GenerationShips.
* I Have A Face
** Subverted by [[TheManWithoutAFace Mel Gibson]]?
** Invoked in cases of MyEyesAreUpHere.
* Women Have Boobs
** KeepAbreastOfThisIndex?
*** In Real Life, Women Don't Look [[GenericCuteness Like Anime]]
**** [[BigNo NOOOO!]] Say it's not so!
** [[ACupAngst A]]''[[PetitePride -hem.]]''
*** Not really, they still have boobs. Only... not as... ''[[MostCommonSuperpower common]]''.
** You're also forgetting trans women who have not/will not get breast implants or hormone therapy.
* Moving
* Blinking
** EyeTropes has a few, but not OnceForYesTwiceForNo.
* Existing
* Combustion Fuel
** Zoidberg Fuel
** [[ResourceWar Combustion Fuel as a]] MacGuffin
* My Lower Body From My Waist To My Ankles In My Pants
** [[Creator/MontyPython I've got two legs from my hips to the ground...]]
** [[Music/TheBeatles He got feet down below his knees..]]
** Aversions include some examples of InspirationallyDisadvantaged, SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs, and BizarreAlienLocomotion.
* Person Who Is Moderately Attractive
* [[PuritySue Mediocrity Sue]]
** Realistically Flawed Sue
** [[JustForPun Lawsuit Sue]]
** Runaround Sue
* The Fred
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-423 That's what you think.]]
** Precedent: JackAttack was [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1315914034023323900&page=0 cut]].
* Gravity
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy''.
** Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' and in ''VideoGame/MegaMan5''.
** It might make an index, given all the related tropes in the lead of ArtificialGravity.
* [[GravityIsAHarshSeamstress Gravity Is Not A Seamstress, Harsh Or Otherwise]]
** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is Not A Mistress, Harsh Or Otherwise]]
** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is]] A Harsh {{Dominatrix}}
* Adrenaline Brigade Bait
** See NightmareFuel.
** Dopamine Brigade Bait
** We do have [[LightEmUp Melatonin Brigade Bait]], [[FoodPorn Insulin Brigade Bait]], and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Serotonin Brigade Bait]].
** Endorphin Brigade Bait
** [[OverlyLongGag Triiodothyronine Brigade Bait]]
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Tetrahydrocannabinol Brigade Bait]]
** [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Thiotimoline]] Brigade Bait
* A Creator Announces That It Will Release A Work, Then Later The Work Is Released
** Double subverted with ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' and anything else {{Uncanceled}}.
* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Imagination Writes The Plot]]
* Smarter than [[TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]]
** Dumber than [[AlbertEinstein Einstein]]
*** Inverted with [[TheSimpsons Martin Prince]]. Einstein's IQ is 160, while Martin's IQ is 216.
* Movement
** Inertia
* I Know The Limits of My Own Abilities
* Bog-Standard Protagonist
* Plain As A Pikestaff
* Touching an Item with Any Part Of The Character Or Machine Results of it Being Picked up in Video Games
** Subverted by ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': "YOU JUMPED ONTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!"
** Subverted by most {{RPG}}s -- you have to push a button to pick things up.
* If I Set This Match Alight, It May Burn
* [[TheOldestOnesInTheBook Older Than Fusion Power]]
** If TVTropes lasts another 20 years, I'll make you eat your words.
** The Sun would like a word with you, as would its many older cousins. So, how about [[NewerThanTheyThink Newer Than Fusion Power]]?
** Older Than FasterThanLightTravel
*** Both could have in-universe examples.
** Older Than TimeTravel
*** [[TimeyWimeyBall But if a human]] [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble has/will have]] [[TimeyWimeyBall travelled to the past beyond our subjective present, than modern works aren't technically]] Older Than TimeTravel... [[AustinPowers I've gone cross-eyed]].
** Older Than Things That Are Younger Than It
* Dead Historical Figures
* People Who Aren't Dead
** People Who [[Literature/{{Discworld}} AREN'T DEAD]]
** [[Film/TheOthers WE'RE NOT DEAD!]]
** [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I feel happy! I feel happy!]]
* [[PetTheDog Feed the Dog]]
** [[DoctorSteel Feed the hamster, feed the hamster, yeah!]]
* [[EvilIsNotMean Evil Is Not Good]]
** [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Evil]]
** [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Is Not Light]]
*** See CaptainObvious
* [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen Tropes That Have Already Happened]]
** RealLife
* Works That Have An Author
** Works That Don't Exist Because The Person Destined to Become Their Author Decided To Become A Postman Instead
*** [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream]] has a library full of these.
* All First-Person Games Include Killing
** Aversions (NonviolentFirstPersonGame?) include ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', and simulators of paintball and laser tag.
* Banned In North Korean Concentration Camps
** Banned In A Media-less Vacuum
* Most Women Are Female
** [[{{GIRL}} A Few Women Are Female, The Rest Are Definitely Men]]
* Older Than Something That Came After It
** [[MindScrew Younger Than Something That Came After It]]
*** Possible in real life thanks to special relativity.
* Memes That Failed To Catch On
** In a sense, ''DinoRiders''; didn't catch on as a series, but did later become a meme.
** ForcedMeme, perhaps?
* [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even The Guys]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Want Her]]
** Even The Girls Want Him
* Everybody Has Lots of Something
** Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
* Space Has Stars
** In fact, it was [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey full of stars]] until [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy the King of All Cosmos broke them all.]]
* [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Reliable Narrator]] (How to explain the Third Person Limited point of view.)
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vaguely Similar To What It Says On The Tin]]
** Presumably What It Says On The Tin, But We Haven't Opened It So There's No Way To Know For Sure
** [[ShapedLikeItself Shaped Unlike Itself]]
* [[PhysicalGod Physical Dog]]
* [[UnwinnableByDesign Winnable By Design]]
* Words With Spaces Between Them
** Averted in some languages
** Letters With Tiny Spaces Between Them
** ...And/Or Visual Representations And/Or Sound
* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of]] [[{{Superman}} Jimmy Olsen]] Getting Superpowers Only To Have Them Vanish At The End Of The Issue
** [[SuperDickery Take a shot.]]
** TwentyFourHourSuperpowers
* [[ActingForTwo Acting For One]]
** [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Acting For Zero]]
* The Sky is Blue
** Except sometimes, when it's an AlienSky.
* Carbon Based Terrestrial Lifeforms
* Anterograde Motion
* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware The]] ObviouslyEvil Ones
* [[CompleteMonster Incomplete Monster]]
** [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings This is awful... You're just some incomplete monster...]]
** When a monster feels psychologically incomplete because he derives no joy from doing the "monstery" things [[AlwaysChaoticEvil associated with his race]], it's MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch.
* Politicians that Lie: Cited as an example of something that might be too PSOC to trope in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1330364315032430200&page=4#76 this forum post]].
* [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Dogs Are Animals]]
* [[WaterIsAir Water Is Not Air]]
** Subverted in TowerOfGod, where the air is literally magic water.
* [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Americans Speaking English]]
** Barely, especially one's ImmigrantParents
** English Speaking English
*** Also barely, with [[BritishAccents some accents, especially Geordie]]
** People Speaking Their Own Language
* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Fiction Artists Have No Sense Of Light Pollution]]
** Caused by RealityIsUnrealistic, TheCoconutEffect (if it's night, the stars should be out) or RuleOfCool.
* Tuning A Tuning Fork
** This is done with a tuning fork tuning fork, which has to be tuned with a tuning fork tuning fork tuning fork.
*** [[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, I heard you like tuning forks, so I put a tuning fork in your tuning fork, so you can tune while you tune.]]
* Toenail Cutting
** Cut Toe Nailing
** Is it the same as [[IBrokeANail toenail breaking]]?
* A Story With Tropes
** The opposite of TheTropelessTale
** Exaggerated when it's {{Troperiffic}}.
* If I'm Still Breathing, It's Okay
* [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs People Brushing Their Teeth]]
** [[{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}} There's a fetish for everything.]]
* [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Guy On Girl Is Hot]]
** Guy On Girl Is Het
** Guy ''In'' Girl Is Het
** Would this be Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs for porn?
* Zeno's RPG - An RPG where leveling goes briskly in the beginning until finally slowing down to a crawl.
** Zeno's MMORPG
** Zeno's FPS (the bullets never quite reach their targets).
** Zeno's Tower Defense (delays between attacks double in length every round).
* [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample This Index Is An Example]] - basically all trope namers that are examples.
* Money For Something
* [[DireStraits And Chicks For]] Time, Money, Care, Love And A Sense Of Humour, ([[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Or For Being]] [[BastardBoyfriend A Bastard]]).
* [[TooDumbToLive Intelligent Enough to Live]]
* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Writers Write The Plot]]
** Except in cases of RealLifeWritesThePlot, ExecutiveMeddling, DubInducedPlotHole (Translators Miswrite The Plot), WagTheDirector and surely others.
** SecondLife Writes The Plot
** Monkeys With Typewriters Write The Plot
*** MyImmortal
* People Use Umbrellas When It Rains
** Only averted by natives of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}.
* Shining Yellow Orb In The Sky
** Averted by sunset and by any story taking place [[TropesInSpace IN SPACE]].
* Children Are Smaller Than Adults
** We do have TeensAreShort, which is about when this wrong. But we don't yet have one about exaggerations, such as school age kids being less half the height of adults.
** Children Are Younger Than Adults
* The Alien is An Alien
* [[IncurableCoughOfDeath The Man Who Had A Cough]] [[ThatMitchellAndWebbLook And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine]]
* [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I Did What I Didn't Really Have To Do, But Really Wanted To]]
** ItAmusedMe
* One Game for the Price of One
** Increasingly averted with DLC.
* Greetings!
* [[spoiler:Censorship]]
** Sensorship
** Censor-shipping: when MoralGuardians meet and fall in love.
** [[ProductPlacement Sponsorship]]
* Heroes Vs. Villains
* {{Animesque}}/Anime and Manga
* [[TheSimpsons Liminal Advertising]]
* [[NearlyNormalAnimal Truly Normal Animal]]
* [[GoodIsNotNice Evil Is Not Nice]]
** [[EvilIsNotMean Good Is Not Mean]]
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With A Letter]]
** Briefly subverted by {{Prince}}.
** Spell My Name The Same Way That Its Normally Spelled
* [[RealTrailerFakeMovie Real Trailer Real Movie]]
* [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Better Than Death]]
* [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Nowhere]]
** Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Somewhere
** Ordinary-Sized Regular Fleas From Everywhere
** Giant Nowhere Flea From Space
** [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat Flee From Giant Flea From Space]]
* Everyone Wears Underwear
** aversions include going commando.
* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks It's Terrible, Now It Sucks.]]
* [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Absurdly Low Stakes Game]]
** That might happen.
--> "''Alright, I see your quarter and raise you a stick of gum''."
--> "''Ooh, high roller!''"
* [[EveryCarIsAPinto Every Pinto Is A Car]]
** Unless it's a horse or a bean.
* [[SoBeautifulItsACurse So Ugly, It's A Curse]]
* [[PottyFailure Potty Success]]
** Do we have a trope for the feeling of incredible relief when you make it to the toilet just in time?
* Possible, But Quite Hard To Pull Off
** Within The Possible
* Someone Helping You Learn Your New Power
* [[BadassNormal Regular-Ass Normal]]
* [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep His Name Isn't Really Barkeep]]
* [[ThirdPersonPerson First Person Person]]
* [[{{Omniglot}} Monoglot]]
* RealityEnsues[=/=]RealLife
* [[CrackIsCheaper Crack Is More Expensive]]
* [[UnorthodoxReload Orthodox Reload]]
** Orthodoxy: Reloaded
* [[EasierThanEasy Easier th]][[HarderThanHard an Hard]]
* [[RealityIsUnrealistic Reality Is Realistic]]
* [[BaldOfEvil Bald of Baldness]]
* [[RougeAnglesofSatin Rogue Angels of Satan]], a trope for completely correct spelling.
* Rape Is Okay When It Is Consensual
* [[MusicalEpisode Non-Musical Episode]]
* Big Breasted Girl
* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocently Clothed Girl]]
* [[BadBadActing Actors Acting The Way They Were Trained To]]
** Correct Line Reading Reel
* [[SpeciesSurname Animals Without Surnames]]
* [[ShowWithinAShow Show Not Within a Show]]
** Show Outside Of A Show
** Show Within Itself
* [[KillItWithFire Kill It With Bullets]]
* Dead Animals As Food
* [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex Anatomically Easy Sex]]
* Conflict As Drama
* [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Authority Equals Power]]
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Fixing It Hero]]
* [[FasterThanLightTravel Slower Than Light Travel]]
* [[TrailersAlwaysLie Trailers Often Tell The Truth]]
* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Trailers Don't Usually Spoil]]
* [[NamesTheSame Name's Not The Same]]
** Because we need to catalog instances of two or more famous people being easy to distinguish from one another. 19th Century physicist '''James Clerk Maxwell''' is not to be confused, ever, with ''{{Scrubs}}'' actress '''Sarah Chalke'''.
* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Germans Love]] {{Kraftwerk}}
* [[CoitusEnsues Coitus Doesn't Ensue On This Disney Channel Show]]
* [[MsFanservice Ms. Average Looking Girl]]
* Cat Making a Meowing Noise
** Dog Making a Barking Noise
* [[IFellForHours I Fell For Seconds]]
* [[RootingForTheEmpire Rooting For The Rebels]]
* [[OppositeSexClone Same Sex Clone]]
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