History TruthInTelevision / SToU

* SuperPersistentPredator: Humans with their persistence hunting during the majority of the stone age.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Some people are treated with less respect or assumed to be hired based on appearance if their appearance is incredibly beautiful. Also, some beautiful people who ''aren't'' necessarily interested in dating other perfectly beautiful people (e.g. a [[TheTwink twink]] that finds fat [[TheBear bears]] attractive) are often limited to them, either due to the disbelief less than perfect people would have at being approached by them or the social stigma that comes from "trading down" to a person viewed as less desirable than oneself.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Some people are treated with less respect or assumed to be hired based on appearance if their appearance is incredibly beautiful. Also, some beautiful people who ''aren't'' necessarily interested in dating other perfectly beautiful people (e.g. a {{twink}} that finds fat [[TheBear bears]] attractive) are often limited to them, either due to the disbelief less than perfect people would have at being approached by them or the social stigma that comes from "trading down" to a person viewed as less desirable than oneself.

* {{Spammer}}: Unwanted commercial or promotional messages, fraud, harassment with multiple unwanted messages, ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ad nauseum]]'' happens to ''any'' new method of communication once people figure out how to do it - and then it becomes a LensmanArmsRace between people wanting to spread tons of crap and people wanting to stop it or not recieve it. It happened with mail (junk mail), phones (telemarketers, various con artists, crank calls), and then reached e-mail, instant messages, text messages, and any other source it possibly could. If someone ever were to develop a form of cybernetic telepathy, it would be highly likely that within weeks, people would be getting overloaded with telepathic spam. The aggressive commercialization and exploitation of ''any'' available means of communication in real life is, in fact, what made the trope.

* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Some students and teachers just don't get along. There are SadistTeachers, there are troublemaking students, and sometimes a student and a teacher aren't even trying to antagonize each other, but have a personality clash anyway. Some children also have easily hurt feelings and may feel like a teacher is picking on them even if they're not trying to.

* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Some students and teachers just don't get along. There are SadistTeachers, there are troublemaking students, and sometimes, a student and a teacher will have a personality clash.

* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Narcissists tend to live off of this. Unfortunately, that view can make people who are justly concerned with the opinions of others seem narcissistic when they want to be not sure they are universally loved, but sure that they are not universally or offensive.

* SelectiveEnforcement: It happens by any law enforcement agency ever. Sometimes, it's a good thing (if every petty law was enforced to its full extent at every possible moment in the most literal way, there would be ''no one'' who was not a criminal, which is actually why Zero Tolerance is such a bad idea), and other times not so much (when money or political influence allows people who ''should'' be arrested and prosecuted to get away with their crimes, while poorer or more stupid people are vacuumed up for doing far less and sentenced far more harshly to fill the jails, e.g. someone who shoplifts $50 worth of food or clothes is arrested and jailed, someone who steals five billion dollars is a bank CEO given a congratulatory pat on the back and a bailout)

* SillyReasonForWar: ''Quite'' a few feudal and medieval wars (and ancient wars) were for reasons that most people looking back today would find silly or outright stupid and pointless.

* {{Tsundere}}: Most cats fall into the "tsun-tsun" category. Special mention goes to tortoiseshell cats; anyone who has owned a tortie cat can attest to the fact that they are major mood swingers.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Look
at the news and you’ll see this happening a lot.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: There are many cases when it has happened. See the article.