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1	When picking an image for a trope, it is possible that the image is ''not actually an example'' of the trope. And in several cases, this is perfectly fine.
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3	Images technically aren't even meant to ''be'' example entries--they're just meant to illustrate the trope at a glance. Most importantly, readers are assumed to be ''unfamiliar'' with whatever work the image is from. That means that if a picture ''looks'' like a good example, but fans of the work know it is ''technically'' not, or it gets retconned or subverted later in the work; then it can still be a good image! The reverse is also true; if an image requires knowledge of the work to understand it in the first place, then it is usually [[Administrivia/JustAFaceAndACaption a poor choice]].
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5	For instance, if in issue 4 of a comic, Repus Oreh dies on-panel; then in issue 7 it is revealed that this was actually a hologram made by his mad scientist friend, then panels from issue 4 can still serve as an image for CharacterDeath. Although fans of the comic know that he didn't ''actually'' die in that scene, most tropers or readers will ''not'' know, and need not know.
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7	There are some other cases where the images doesn't portray the trope. Sometimes the image is a VisualPun or other joke. Other times the trope is too {{NSFW}} to portray normally. Other times it's a trope involving plot or characterization that's hard to portray in a picture. Numerous examples are listed below.
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9	This doesn't refer to images that are poor quality, or which barely represent the trope. If the image is completely inaccurate, you should go [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=images to the Image Pickin' forum]]. All the images here are deliberate (non-)examples.
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11	Don't confuse this with TheTreacheryOfImages. In many ways, this is the opposite of Administrivia/JustAFaceAndACaption.
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13	Finally, if an image is ''technically'' not an example, please resist the urge to point out on the page (or even worse, in the image caption) that it doesn't ''"actually"'' illustrate the trope. If you believe some image is bad, take it to the Image Pickin' forum; don't write underneath that [[WeaselWords it's a bad image]].
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15	See also, ThisIndexIsNotAnExample, for TropeNamers.
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18	!!Examples
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20	[[foldercontrol]]
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22	[[folder:Visual Puns]]
23	[[index]]
24	* AccentuateTheNegative: A diacritic above a film negative. The caption complaining about the Visual Pun ''is'' an example, however.
25	* JustForFun/AuxiliaryLaconicTropeLink: It's a bridge that isn't.
26	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: It's a picture of a large cock. "Cock" being the other word for ''roosters'', mind you.
27	* BlackIsBiggerInBed: A straight example is ''[[Main/{{Pun}} black]]''listed thanks to the Content Policy, so we have a black ''obelisk'' being bigger instead.
28	* BlamingTheMan: The image is of a character literally named The Man, rather than the ambiguous authority figure referenced by the trope.
29	* CameraTricks shows a camera juggling chainsaws, not creative ways of manipulating the camera or viewing frame in media.
30	* {{Canon}}: A giant '''cannon'''[[note]]specifically the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Cannon Tsar Cannon]] in the Moscow Kremlin[[/note]], not something that counts in a work's continuity.
31	* ColdSniper: A sniper in the cold, not an emotionally distant sniper.
32	* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: Has a picture of a castle on fire, not the worst moment of a work.[[note]]Although, depending on the viewer, a castle on fire ''could'' be seen as such.[[/note]]
33	* DeadHorseTrope: Literally beating a dead horse is not a trope[[note]]Beating something or someone ''in general'' that's already dead is PummelingTheCorpse[[/note]], just a punny illustration of the phrase from which this form of {{playing with a trope}} derives its name.
34	* DeadUnicornTrope: Actual dead unicorns aren't tropes at all, much less ones that got widely parodied despite never having been played straight.
35	* DiedDuringProduction: A picture of a skeleton at a typewriter, not someone who actually died while working on a project.
36	* TropeCo.FlyingBrick: A real flying brick is a Superhero that combines {{Flight}} with SuperStrength, not an actual brick with wings.
37	* FragileSpeedster: They're fast characters with a glass jaw, which is hard to distinguish from CatchingTheSpeedster. Hence the picture is of a life sized glass sculpture of a motorcycle, symbolizing speed and fragility.
38	* GlassCannon: A literal glass cannon image because you can't really represent someone having strong attack powers and weak defense powers with a single image.
39	* GoingColdTurkey: An image of a turkey in the snow, not an attempt at avoiding an addiction.
40	* {{Hardcore}}: Instead of something extreme or intense, it's a picture of an avocado core that is hard to cut.
41	* {{Hentai}}: As actual pictures of hentai are a no-no, the image is a picture of a hen wearing a necktie.
42	* IronicIndex: The photo depicts a literal iron, rather than an expression with the opposite superficial meaning of what was conveyed, as the latter might be difficult to visually represent in a single image.
43	* ItTastesLikeFeet: Depicts someone eating a literal foot, instead of comparing a food's unpalatability with something no sane person would have eaten/tasted.
44	* KnightInSourArmor: The trope is about a cynical hero. The picture is a knight figure crafted from lemons (thus wearing actual sour armor).
45	* KudzuPlot: It's an actual picture of the Kudzu plant, not a plot that doesn't resolve its questions.
46	* LandslideElection: The trope is about winning an election by a massive margin. The image depicts Quentin Trembley winning by default due to a literal landslide killing all the other candidates.
47	* LegoGenetics: The trope is about the simplified nature of genetics in media, while the image is a Toys/{{Lego}} replica of a DNA strand.
48	* Administrivia/LockedPages: The image is a giant padlock, not a page that is locked.
49	* MauveShirt: Just a mauve shirt with nobody wearing it, not a RedShirt with enough characterization to make them stand out.
50	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: It's literally "(an) old hat", not something that was once considered trendsetting before it loses that appeal after being imitated so often.
51	* PaperTiger: Shows a game card with an actual tiger made of paper, not someone who is proven to be weaker than first looks would hint at.
52	* Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub: A picture of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] in red clothes, not a page this wiki has purged forever (besides, that would kind of defeat the purpose of the club).
53	* {{Power}}: Usually does not involve a button that turns something on or off.
54	* PurpleProse: An image of a purple feather quill, as opposed to an excessive use of florid, nigh-indecipherable writing.
55	* PutOnABus: Being written out of the show without being killed off usually does not involve an actual bus.
56	** TheBusCameBack: Likewise, returning to a show doesn't typically involve departing from an actual bus.
57	** BusCrash: Offscreen deaths do not normally involve a literal bus crash.
58	** LongBusTrip: It's about characters who depart the show for long stretches of time, not lengthy buses.
59	** PutOnABusToHell: It's about being written out of the show in an especially mean-spirited way, not about taking an actual bus to {{Hell}}.
60	** PutOnAPrisonBus: It's about characters being written out of a story by being arrested, and doesn't necessarily involve an actual prison bus.
61	* SacredCow: An actual sacred cow, not a work that no one dares criticize.
62	* Administrivia/{{Sinkhole}}: Shows cars collapsing into a hole on a street, rather than a misused PotHole.
63	* SockPuppet: Sockpuppet accounts on forums and wikis are usually not controlled by actual sockpuppets.
64	* SourGrapesTropes: The index is about tropes demonstrating that what you desire doesn't always turn out well. The image is a literal picture of grapes.
65	* Administrivia/SquarePegRoundTrope: Since it's impossible to actually illustrate trope misuse without using [[WallOfText a lot of text]], the image just shows a square peg being pushed into a round hole.
66	* StrawFan: A hand fan made of straw instead of how the makers of a work view the UnpleasableFanbase.
67	* {{Ubermensch}}: A joke based on Creator/FriedrichNietzsche's memetic appearance and Franchise/{{Superman}}'s transhuman nature. The canonical Superman follows a conventional good/evil morality, he does not transcend societal norms to create his own.
68	* UndeadHorseTrope: A skeletal horse isn't really a trope, much less one that's seen as clichéd to the point of frequent parody but somehow without the death of straight examples. Though it might fall under HorseOfADifferentColor.
69	* WalkingSpoiler: Jason Fox's costume will spoil the heck out of the other characters, sure, but ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' is too light on plot to have any characters that would spoil it.
70	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's a picture of a mouse, not a plot point that isn't resolved.
71	* WritersBlock: It's a block that you put on your desk and you can't write anymore! ...at least according to ComicStrip/{{Calvin\|AndHobbes}}. The actual trope is about the phenomenon where writers can't think of material.
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75	[[folder:Not Really an Example]]
76	They might look like an example at first glance, but they really don't fit.
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78	[[index]]
79	* AdaptedOut: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film is indeed absent from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' aside from the gag depicted in the image, but he is not based on anyone from the Myth/ArthurianLegend, nor is he meant to reference characters who don’t make it in to adaptations.
80	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[CoversAlwaysLie Jim Stark is portrayed as violent and menacing, if not downright villainous, in promotional posters]] for ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'', but in the film, he's actually a sensitive, kindhearted boy; Judy becomes attracted to him because he's kind to her.
81	* AssimilationAcademy: The sequence shown is actually a fantasy of the main character in ''Music/TheWall''. While [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors he doesn't have many fond memories of his school years]], it was not outright totalitarian.
82	* TheBadGuyWins: This trope is a specific type of DownerEnding. While [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hank Scorpio]] does win, he's not the antagonist of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice the episode]], and the actual plot, the Simpson family being unable to adjust to life in a new city, is resolved happily by the end. The depicted image is just the punchline to a RunningGag.
83	* BigBrotherIsWatching: The image is a real public safety poster that [[PoesLaw unintentionally]] looks very sinister.
84	* BileFascination: [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho]] isn't buying ''[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk: RIDE]]'' to see how bad it is, the comic is making fun of claims that the game's negative reception was caused by people deciding to hate it before they even bought it.
85	* ABirthdayNotABreak: The Birthday Boy acts as if he's celebrating the birthday party of his victims before killing them as his M.O, but there's no implication that it's actually the victim's birthday.
86	* BlindWeaponmaster: Demon Hunters in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' aren't actually blind. They replaced their eyes with demonic orbs of fire that are actually ''better'' than normal vision. They wear blindfolds optionally and only as a courtesy.
87	* BollywoodNerd: The character in the image is actually a nerd from an Indian movie and not just a stereotypical nerdy Indian from a Western work.
88	* BoomerangBigot: The image comes from a scene in ''Series/ThirtyRock'' where Tracy Jordan is dressed up as Hitler for a sketch in the ShowWithinAShow ''TGS With Tracy Jordan''. The character himself does not exhibit any particularly racist traits.
89	* {{Bulungi}}: The Wakanda that's shown in the page is actually just a façade to maintain its isolation; beneath it, Wakanda is actually the most advanced country in the world because of the [[{{Unobtanium}} Vibranium]] deposits they're sitting on.
90	* CalmingTea: [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Jack]] isn't preparing the tea for himself. He's actually preparing it for a monk who's assisting him in regaining his spiritual balance to get his sword back.
91	* CardCarryingVillain: [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Moe]] isn't actually a villain, and is always a sympathetic character even in episodes where he is an antagonist.
92	* CastingCouch: The comic that the panel comes from is a subversion. The producer just makes the actress carry some boxes to help him move.
93	* CharacterDerailment: While Diesel 10 ''did'' become nicer in ''WesternAnimation/CallingAllEngines'', characters can only be "derailed" in the same continuity; his debut, ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', is non-canon.
94	* ColorCodedSecretIdentity: The [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Shinkengers]] are color-coded, but they don't have secret identities.
95	* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Shows a black screen with the ''real'' Earth and Moon to scale to demonstrate how the fictional depiction of celestial bodies' closeness is inaccurate.
96	* DadTheVeteran: The dad in this poster is not an example; the propaganda here is "when all the other lads have stories of heroism for their kids and your kids ask you for war stories, how well is 'Daddy was a coward' gonna play?" However, it does a marvelous job of showing the cultural assumption of that era that most men of child-raising age would be veterans--in this case, of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
97	* DasherDancerPrancerAndNixon: The image shows some made-up reindeer in addition to the real ones, while the trope is about a character misremembering the names.
98	* DefconFive: Shows the real-life Defense Readiness Condition numbers, not how they are often ordered in fiction.
99	* DemotedToComicRelief: [[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder Lord Hater]] was already a LaughablyEvil villain who actually becomes more prominent to the story in Season 2.
100	* DeployableCover: In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', Tassadar's Force Wall stops enemies from walking past, but they can shoot through it just fine. It's used to trap enemies rather than hide behind.
101	* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'', the ''audience'' knows that the characters didn't have sex (they did [[ComicRolePlay take photos of simulated sex poses for art reference]]), but the characters speculating don't know that.
102	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The bottom panels aren't a different adaptation of the top, but a WhatIf scenario in the same series.
103	* DomesticatedDinosaurs: The dinosaurs in ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'' are sapient beings and live as equals with humans in a multi-species society. However, at first glance, the image shows people riding around on decorated and tame dinosaurs, which visually fits the trope.
104	* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Although [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Pearl]] is smitten with the mystery girl due to her resembling her late lover, their relationship is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never followed up on]] after Pearl gets her number so the girl never advances to a love interest.
105	* DyingClue: Dustin Prince from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' did not write the message, it was written by the killer in order to pin the blame on someone else.
106	* EasySexChange: Teddy in ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'' did not go through a sex change in one weekend like he claims, he was under a GenderBender spell and was using ImplausibleDeniability.
107	* EvilCostumeSwitch: The second [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Mary Marvel]] in the evil costume is from a MirrorUniverse, not Mary herself after she performed a FaceHeelTurn, making it closer to SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains.
108	* EyeRecall: The actual scene in ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'' is an inversion, as the shot of the flashback zooms ''out'' from within Mara's eye.
109	* GayCowboy: Jack and Ennis from ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' are shepherds and ([[AmbiguouslyBi likely]]) bisexual.
110	* GigglingVillain: Cronus from ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'' usually gives a full-blown EvilLaugh rather than just a giggle. In fact, the picture itself (from [=S1E2=]) is just the first frame of a scene of him laughing.
111	* GlassWeapon: The sword in the image, Callandor, is actually made of [[CrystalWeapon clear crystal]] instead of glass.
112	* GodOfEvil: There is no single god in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' who embodies evil, although all but one of them (Isha) are JerkassGods. Khorne is a Chaos WarGod who also embodies positive traits such as strength, victory, and courage just as much as he does senseless violence and carnage.
113	* GunNut: Frank Castle (aka ComicBook/ThePunisher) isn't really a gun fanatic -- his true passion is killing criminals, a task for which guns are, obviously, very useful tools. As a former Marine with no superpowers, they show up more often in his stories than most Marvel heroes (although he's also killed people with knives, his fists, a bear, explosives, big rocks, cars, a fat man...).
114	* HollywoodHypeMachine: Creator/MNightShyamalan is a movie director, not an actor.
115	* HollywoodTourettes: The letter in the image is written by [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Cartman]], who was faking having Tourette's. The episode itself actually depicted Tourette's Syndrome quite accurately.
116	* ImpededCommunication: The [[VisualPun "jamming"]] is actually of ''[[Film/{{Spaceballs}} Spaceball One]]'''s radar dish, not its communications array.
117	* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: There is UnresolvedSexualTension between them, but Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter never actually dated during the course of ''Series/StargateSG1'' (aside from alternate universes and the like).
118	* InjuredLimbEpisode: While it certainly looks like an example, Angelica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' was only [[PrankInjuries faking]] her broken leg.
119	* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The image is just a zany visual from the opening theme. While at one point her nightmare was investigated through a magical monitor, Syalis doesn't have an established DreamLand or MentalWorld.
120	* KnockingTheKnockoff: It's a joke comic by a freelance artist. The ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' creators have never officially insulted the [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Batman Who Laughs]] for obviously copying [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]], only referenced him neutrally in a ShoutOut.
121	* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: The image depicts the "Lava Lagoon" stage in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''. The catch is that, despite the level's name, the "lava" is actually implied to be super-hot water instead, since it can be turned into normal water with Clapper's help. Other levels in [[LethalLavaLand Crocodile Cauldron]] have actual lava which isn't depicted this way.
122	* LavaPotVolcano: The volcano in the image isn't an actual volcanic crater, but a prop used in a game show.
123	* LightLiegeDarkDefender: The Phantom isn't Zelda's defender, but rather summoned by one of her attacks.
124	* LipstickLesbian: In ''Film/MulhollandDrive'', Rita (the woman on the left) dumps her girlfriend for a male director, which implies that she's more likely bisexual.
125	* LiteralGenie: The genie in ''Webcomic/ThePrincessPlanet'' isn't just LiteralMinded, but an outright JackassGenie that enjoys twisting wishes as much as she can.
126	* LoonyLaws: Though they are initially believed to be laws, the signs in the strip are quickly revealed to actually be loony ''curses''.
127	* LotusEaterMachine: ''Film/MinorityReport'' does contain an actual Lotus-Eater Machine in the CryoPrison for pre-crime arrestees, but the image actually shows a different virtual reality machine that paying customers enter voluntarily for a brief period.
128	* MamaBear: [[Film/{{Aliens}} Ripley]] is not Newt's mother. She is, however, very caring of small children, and ''very'' deadly when one is in danger.
129	* MeatVersusVeggies: The scene from ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' uses the image of a conflict between meat-eaters and vegetarians to portray war as unjustified. The soldiers are not really fighting each other over dietary preferences.
130	* MentalMonster: The fanart depicts a popular fan interpretation of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4''; however, there's no concrete proof in the game that the child is the one having the nightmare or that the nightmare is caused by the depicted prank. Future installments add more ambiguity, with many fan theories generally agreeing that this interpretation is unlikely the case.
131	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: In ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Tai-Pan]]'', May-May (the Chinese woman from the poster) is a manipulative, well-educated and strong-willed DragonLady, something that Dirk Struan (the white man) is fully aware of and adores in her, while unknowingly doing all her biddings. She quite literally strikes a submissive pose in-universe in the scene from which the poster image comes.
132	* MinusWorld: Despite its odd appearance, Level -0 in ''VideoGame/Stinkoman20X6'' is a SecretLevel that was deliberately programmed and accessible without glitches.
133	* MustHaveCaffeine: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Fry]] isn't usually a huge coffee drinker. He just was doing a stupid SelfImposedChallenge to drink one hundred cups of coffee in a day, and was too jittery to react to the fire by that point.
134	* NapoleonDelusion: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] didn't really ''think'' he was UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, he was merely pretending to be so he could [[InsanityDefense get away with a crime on grounds of insanity]].
135	* NoEnding: On top of the fact that ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' consists of ''several'' {{Story Arc}}s and would continue even after the end of Tarquin's, the nature of Tarquin as a WrongGenreSavvy ControlFreak means abandoning him without a satisfactory conclusion to what ''he thinks'' his story is makes a perfect ending to what his story ''actually'' is.
136	* NotScreenedForCritics: ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' was making fun of Creator/KevinSmith[='=]s quote that ''Film/JerseyGirl'' was "not for critics", meaning that he thought [[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars they wouldn't like it]], not that they wouldn't get a private screening.
137	* OneHitKill: The image is of the "Bloody Mess" perk from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. Said perk doesn't actually let you kill enemies in one hit; rather, it gives you bonus damage and makes death animations [[LudicrousGibs gorier]], regardless of whether the enemy was defeated in one hit.
138	* OneSceneWonder: The image is a poster highlighting Creator/ChristopherWalken's tendency for that kind of scene-stealing small part. However, the picture of Walken is taken from ''Film/TheRundown'', where he has a large role as the main villain.
139	* OneSteveLimit: Since depicting a straight example would be nearly impossible, the image instead depicts an aversion. Ditto for OneSteveLimit.ComicBooks and OneSteveLimit.VideoGames.
140	* {{Otaku}}: The image is a sight gag from an episode of ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'', illustrating what the character in the image imagines an otaku looks like. Sasshi, the aforementioned character, is not actually an otaku, nor does he look anywhere near that disgusting in any other scene.
141	* PantyShot: The trope is about panties being shown ''to the audience'' for {{fanservice}}, but showing that is a no-no on TV Tropes, so it instead shows another character getting an eyeful of a girl's panties.
142	* PlantAliens: The VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} are from Earth in the distant future.
143	* PretentiousPronunciation: The gag from ''Film/AChristmasStory'' about a character mispronouncing "fragile" was because of his own ignorance, not because he was trying to be pretentious.
144	* PrincessStories: ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' features the Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es in an extended cameo, but the film isn't about them.
145	* QuicksandBox: ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', despite its scope, has well-defined goals and quests.
146	* RandomizedTransformation: The transmogrification gun isn't random, it turns the target into whatever you're imagining. ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes had gotten into a fight and were zapping each other repeatedly.
147	* RecycledWithAGimmick: ''Angry Birds Space'' is not a rip-off or case of FollowTheLeader, it's a direct sequel by the creators of the original game.
148	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: The image is a subversion, showing [[Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes the Bulk]] lacking the "required secondary powers" to lift a giant robot without sinking into the ground.
149	* RobotMaster: The "Robot Master" is actually [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel an actor named Donny Finkleberg]], who doesn't really know anything about creating or repairing robots.
150	* RomanAClef: Despite the text claiming otherwise, ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' is entirely fictional.
151	* RomanticRibbing: Despite the ShipTease and HomoeroticSubtext between them, [[Anime/BangDream Ran and Moca]] are officially just friends and are not together romantically.
152	* ScientificallyUnderstandableSorcery: The actual way magic functions in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' isn't very well understood, although it does have very clear rules that can be studied and manipulated. That makes it SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic rather than this trope.
153	* ScunthorpeProblem: The sign in front of Scunthorpe is not censored, and it wouldn't be subjected to an automatic filter anyway.
154	* ShapeshifterBaggage: The image defies the trope by showing a giant shapeshifting monster being unable to shrink down to the small size of an actual human baby.
155	* SinisterMinister: While he is a minister, [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} Jesse Custer]] isn't evil, but rather an AntiHero.
156	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Webanimation/HomestarRunner is TheDitz, and Strong Bad only gave him glasses because he wanted him to say something smart.
157	* SnuffFilm: Because of how ungodly an actual snuff film would be ([[UrbanLegends if it does exist]]), we decided to use a cover of a documentary film ''about'' snuff films.
158	* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' isn't usually considered horrible, and is on none of the subpages, but rather SoBadItsGood.
159	* SpoilerTitle: John [[NeverTrustATitle doesn't actually die at the end]] of ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''.
160	* StrandedInvader: [[ComicBook/ResidentAlien Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle]] is a benevolent alien that's trapped on Earth, not an invader.
161	* StylizedForTheViewer: We see a character's POV in which they see everything in a SuperDeformed art style. The trope is actually about what the characters see being different than what the viewers see, and the viewers are able to see the above.
162	* SugarBowl: While the Glade of Dreams from ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' is a bright and surreal land, it is not exactly a [[CrapsaccharineWorld happy-go-lucky place]], as it is full of terrifying monsters, dangerous and dark locales, and is threatened by villains on a regular basis. Later games beginning with ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' would also shift away from the bright and colorful look of the first game in favor of a DarkerAndEdgier (but still surreal and fantastical) aesthetic.
163	* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The image defies the trope, showing what would have happened in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' if Superman ''didn't'' stay out of Gotham. The film itself isn't an example either, since Superman doesn't exist in the setting.
164	* ATankardOfMooseUrine: With a name like ''Buffalo Butt'', you gotta wonder -- but that beer is in fact a microbrew, making it one of the better beers available.
165	* TeenGenius: [[ComicBook/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur Lunella Lafayette]] is only nine years old, making her a ChildProdigy instead.
166	* TrueLovesKiss: In WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the Beast's curse has already been broken by Belle's LoveConfession by the time they kiss.
167	* UnendingEndCard: The end card ''was'' unending in ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'', but the screenshot is from the localized version, ''Tetris Attack'', which removed the trope [[LostInTranslation while leaving in all the text referring to it]].
168	* {{Wangst}}: The image is of ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' protagonist Kei Kurono with tears streaming down his face. The scene follows the ending of the Buddha alien arc, where [[EverybodysDeadDave all of his teammates (including his childhood best friend and love interests)]] are horribly killed off. He's got every right to be upset and crying after that.
169	* WastefulWishing: Since one of the rules in ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' is that wishes cannot affect the djinn, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110701181001/http://thewotch.com/?epDate=2003-04-07 Jason's wish to make the djinn a redhead]] is not granted and doesn't count toward his three wishes.
170	* WeddingEpisode: Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'s wedding to Iris West ends less than a quarter of the way through ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX''. The real plot is an invasion of alternate-universe Nazis who happened to crash the wedding. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And it technically took place on]] ''Series/{{Supergirl\|2015}}''.
171	* WhenHarryMetSvetlana: [[Series/TheAmericans Elizabeth and Philip Jennings]] are both KGB {{Deep Cover Agent}}s operating in the U.S. disguised as a normal married couple, not agents from different sides getting romantically involved.
172	* [[WordOfGay/WesternAnimation Word of Gay.Western Animation]]: Matt Brely's statement confirming Sasha's bisexuality was posted shortly after the DistantFinale aired, where there is an actual indication of her bisexuality via a sticker depicting the bisexual pride flag on her car.
173	* YouCantFightFate: Shows a NonStandardGameOver from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' displayed if the party dies to Lavos. Defeating Lavos and preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is certainly possible, though, and in fact the main goal of the game.
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177	[[folder:Parodies]]
178	These images aren't played seriously. Instead, they come from parodies.
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180	[[index]]
181	* AllegedLookalikes: Kermit and Fozzie are regularly noted to look nothing like each other, their supposed similarity coming only when both or neither of them are wearing a hat being part of the joke.
182	* AnimationBump: ShowWithinAShow ''[[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Dedede: Comin' at Ya!]]'' is StylisticSuck because the townsfolk who made it [[TerribleArtist don't have any animation experience]], and the bottom image comes from a frame of said show where the animation suddenly becomes realistic and detailed.
183	* BehindTheBlack: ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' depicts a subversion of the concept, since a straight use would be non-illustrative.
184	* TheButlerDidIt: The maid accuses the butler to [[NeverMyFault get out of trouble for breaking a vase]], not because the butler committed a murder.
185	* ByTheBookCop: More a parody of the CowboyCop than the typical By-the-Book Cop.
186	* CreatorsCultureCarryover: The image is clearly a joke; the creators do not think other countries' presidents and prime ministers are also of the United States.
187	* CryingWolf: In a straight example, the boy would've learned AnAesop about lying when he tried to tell the truth and no one believed him. In ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'''s version, he's always lying and the villagers kill him because he's annoying.
188	* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' has always been family friendly. The unofficial art used as the page image is a satire of MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
189	* [[DarkerAndEdgier/ComicBooks Darker and Edgier.Comic Books]]: ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' is also parodying the Dark age.
190	* DesignatedHero: The image comes from ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', a channel that parodies bad writing, including Designated Heroes.
191	* DirtyCommunists: ''Film/NationalLampoon'' is mocking heavy-handed RedScare plots, not a straight example of such.
192	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Comes from a non-canon joke ending of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', in which a Shiba Inu is revealed to have masterminded the game's events.
193	* EthnicScrappy: [[ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese Chin-Kee]] is an intentional parody of every negative Asian stereotype ever. ItMakesSenseInContext as [[spoiler:he turns out to be the Monkey King, who deliberately put on this act to convince Jin Wang, who transformed himself into a white boy named Danny, to re-embrace his heritage]].
194	* FanCreatedOffspring: The original Sonichu from his [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} eponymous webcomic]] resulted from an ordinary [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] absorbing too much [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Energy]], not from Sonic and Pikachu [[HomosexualReproduction reproducing]] as ''Webcomic/BooksOfAdam'' depicts.
195	* TheFilmOfTheBook: The ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' comic is mocking the practice of adapting books to film by depicting it as [[FauxHorrific a grisly fate from the books' perspective]].
196	* TheGamePlaysYou: The pictured board game comes from a FakeOutOpening in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E15TheLastMabelcorn The Last Mabelcorn]]". Dipper and Mabel are about to play it before getting interrupted, and the box is never even opened.
197	* HeroicSacrifice: The ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' comic is a parody of a heroic sacrifice that is implied by the comic's caption to be propaganda [[WrittenByTheWinners added by the dinosaurs after taking over the school board]].
198	* IncestuousCasting: Not a real movie poster starring Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal and Creator/JakeGyllenhaal as lovers, but a Website/{{Cracked}} photoplasty.
199	* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: ''Film/TropicThunder'' is mocking {{glurg\|e}}y Inspirationally Disadvantaged works with its FilmWithinAFilm ''Simple Jack'', not a straight example (even if it still garnered protests among release for this).
200	* InvincibleHero: [[ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug God-Man]] is a [[ComicallyInvincibleHero parody of overpowered heroes]], not a straight example.
201	* ItCanThink: ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' is parodying the example from ''{{Film/Jurassic Park\|1993}}''. The Velociraptors did possess unusual problem-solving skills, but they weren't WickedCultured {{Evil Genius}}es.
202	* LighterAndSofter: The real ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is a fairly dark game. The logo was created by Creator/BlizzardEntertainment to {{troll\|ing Creator}} their fans who thought initial screenshots "weren't dark enough". However, the game does include the hidden Lighter and Softer JokeLevel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgOeK72jSs Whimsyshire]].
203	* LikeParentLikeSpouse: ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' parodies the stereotype as part of a larger lampooning of marriage archetypes.
204	* Subtropes of MarySue:
205	** BlackHoleSue: ''Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie'' mocks the entire MarySue phenomenon, and Ensign Sue herself actually receives CharacterDevelopment that turns her into a compelling character rather than having the plot bend sideways just to show how awesome she is.
206	** CommonMarySueTraits: Not a serious character, but rather a ParodySue.
207	** GodModeSue: [[ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug God-Man]] is more of a ParodySue.
208	** MarySueClassic: ''Webcomic/HeadTrip'' making fun of [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Bella Swan]] (not actually intended for the original plot).
209	** SympatheticSue: ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'' is a parody channel, and thus this is more of a ParodySue.
210	* MascotFighter: Comes from Website/DeviantArt; there isn't an actual game pitting fast food mascots against each other.
211	* MaskOfSanity: [[Film/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]] is ultimately a parody. His mask of sanity is not convincing at all, but everyone around him is so self-absorbed that they never notice all his weird tangents about torture and murder.
212	* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' is mocking ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. The words make no sense, because they [[IceCreamKoan are meant to make no sense]].
213	* MisaimedMerchandising: The image is a troper-made parody of the phenomenon. Slavoj Žižek's books have yet to be marketed to elementary school children.
214	* NostalgiaFilter: The "Nostalgia Goggles" are just a satire of this trope and are not worn by anyone, real or fictional.
215	* PartingWordsRegret: The person in the comic strip tells his loved one that they are in his heart always [[DefiedTrope out of fear that they'll die while they're out and his last words to them will be something inane]].
216	* PlayingTheVictimCard: The image is parodying the chance cards from ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}''. The actual game doesn't have a card that allows players to pretend to be a victim.
217	* ThePhilosopherKing: ''Webcomic/ExistentialComics'' parodies the idea of a Philosopher-King, since Creator/{{Plato}} turns out not to be a particularly wise ruler, who prefers musing over actual ruling.
218	* PunyEarthlings: Kang and Kodos in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]] only invade Earth after humanity has voluntarily dissolved its militaries and destroyed all its weapons, leaving them helpless against the aliens' arsenal of wooden clubs and slingshots. They flee the planet when one human thinks to attack them with a wooden board that has a nail sticking out of it.
219	* RememberTheNewGuy: Larry is a deliberate mockery of the network wanting the writers to shoe-horn a third character into the show. By the end of the episode, Brain promptly kicks him out of the group due to him having no role to fulfill.
220	* RPGElements: Comes from a boss in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' that parodies the RPG genre -- there are no actual elements of it present in the game, and in the VideoGameRemake of the game, newly added text shown immediately after what's in the screenshot states that the ExperiencePoints don't actually matter.
221	* SelfFanservice: An image mocking the phenomenon, not a straight example.
222	* ShipSinking: The comic is just mocking the concept, and since it's not canon, it doesn't qualify for the trope.
223	* SNKBoss: The strip makes fun of how blatantly boxers in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' break the rules of boxing. In the actual game, Von Kaiser fights rather normally, and with Little Mac being the only playable character, the game doesn't have any competitive balance to break to begin with.
224	* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: The comic is in its original language and is mocking how ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' uses this trope.
225	* TooDumbToLive: The image comes from ''Film/ScaryMovie'', which mocks the clichés of horror movies, such as idiotic victims.
226	* ViewersAreGoldfish: ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is making fun of overused flashbacks in shōnen anime.
227	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' writers are obviously spoofing this phenomenon; they do not genuinely think that ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' is an allegory for the Second Gulf War.
228	[[/index]]
229	[[/folder]]
230
231	[[folder:Zig-Zaggers]]
232	These images might have qualified at one point, but not another. It might be a case of SubvertedTrope, DependingOnTheWriter, UnbuiltTrope or ZigZaggingTrope.
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234	[[index]]
235	* AdaptationalNationality: Flintheart Glomgold plays up his Scottish heritage in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', but is later revealed to actually still be South African as in the comics.
236	* AllLovingHero: [[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaa]] is a compassionate hero, but she is not entirely ''all-loving'', as she downright ''slaughters'' most of the soldiers in a rage after they murdered her father.
237	* [[AlphaBitch/{{Webcomics}} Alpha Bitch.Webcomics]]: While Pyper in ''Webcomic/MagicalBoy'' started out as a bitch, she has a change of heart after being saved by the heroes relatively early in the story, and eventually joins them, even becoming a target of bullying herself.
238	* AlternateContinuity: For the most part, the Creator/MarvelComics and Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse exist as two separate continuities, with the latter being an adaptation of the former. However, there are some works, such as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', that treat these continuities as existing within a single canon as {{Alternate Universe}}s. The designations "Earth-616" and "Earth-199999" come from these interdimensional stories and refer to universes rather than continuities. The numbering is [[DependingOnTheWriter also inconsistent]], as the main MCU is shown to be Earth 616 (sharing the earth designation as the comics) in films like ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' and ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', while it's designated as Earth-199999 in works made outside of the MCU (such as the aforementioned ''Across the Spider-Verse''); see [[AlternateUniverse/MarvelUniverse Alternate Universe.Marvel Universe]] for more information.
239	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: While all hyenas seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' are indeed ChaoticEvil, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' introduces good hyenas.
240	* AmbulanceCut: The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' scene shown in the image is a DoubleSubversion. Mr. Krabs attempts to eat the rotten patty in order to prove that it’s still good to eat, and the scene cuts to a speeding ambulance - only for it to revealed that said ambulance was just a random ambulance passing the Krusty Krab, which Mr. Krabs remarks on. He then takes a bite out of the patty, and it immediately cuts to a sickly Mr. Krabs being rushed into the hospital.
241	* AnimalsHateHim: The image is from the intro of ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', the first season of the show, where animals generally get along well with DJ, and even within the intro, were perfectly docile around him until they got startled. However, the third season of the series, ''World Tour'', plays this straight regarding the character.
242	* AntiAdvice: In the ''Webcomic/{{Swords}}'' strip the image is taken from, the adventurer mistakes the Sword of Truth for the Sword of Lies, so the trope doesn't really apply, the adventurer only ''thinks'' it does.
243	* AntiHero: Whether Franchise/{{Batman}} counts as an anti-hero varies depending on the writer and portrayal, with him being a more traditional hero in many incarnations.
244	* AuthorTract: ''[[ComicBook/TreasureChest The Godless Communism]]'' does qualify as an Author Tract, but it is in fact an ''[[DirtyCommunists anti]]''-communist message.
245	* BadassPacifist: While Tank Man's actions weren't violent, we don't know if he was actually a pacifist, and it's not like violence was an option when faced with tanks.
246	* BasementDweller: While Jenkins, the nerd in question, is repeatedly stated to have no social life, there's no implication that he still lives with his parents.
247	* BeingEvilSucks: Dr. Robotnik's "realization" that his villainy is the reason for his lack of friends in "[[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Season of Goodwill]]" is an IgnoredEpiphany that goes completely ignored immediately afterwards. Otherwise, he [[EvilFeelsGood loves being evil and the power that comes with it]].
248	* BrooklynRage: The character depicted doesn't actually come from New York City (or [[FictionalEarth Liberty City]] rather), but the San Francisco analogue San Andreas. However, the stereotype is still very much present throughout ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''.
249	* ButNotTooBlack: In context, the black girl is actually editing ''her own'' picture to better fit Caucasian beauty standards; the white girl is likewise editing her own picture. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16804857790.18442400 We changed this in the Image Pickin' thread to get the trope across better.]] In other words, it ''is'' an example, but the context in the original ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode differs.
250	* CelibateHero: While Sasuke shows no interest in romance for most of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', by the epilogue and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', he is [[spoiler:in a romantic relationship with Sakura and has a child with her in the form of Sarada]].
251	* CrapsaccharineWorld: While the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Sunnyside Daycare Center]] starts off played straight, the ending makes it an actually happy place.
252	* CreatingLifeIsAwesome: While ''Film/JurassicPark'' starts portraying this idea by showing the wonder of dinosaurs, the park soon starts to fall apart when the unpredictable nature of the cloned creatures, the ''Velociraptors'' in particular, leads to tragedy. Overall, across the franchise, it is not the act of creating life itself that is bad, but only the act of arrogantly trying to control that life to suit particular needs.
253	* CreatingLifeIsBad: This trope is present in the modern public consciousness and in some adaptations of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', but the original novel was more ambiguous over portraying the artificial creation of life on itself as evil, as it was the act of Frankenstein abandoning his creation and the rejection of humanity that drove the initially benevolent and well-intentioned Creature to villainy and wickedness. Thus, the novel isn't exactly a cautionary tale about the dangers of creating life as much as it is one about humanity's refusal to take responsibility for its actions and ambition and arrogance over nature.
254	* CriticalExistenceFailure: ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' is not a video game, so the car does not have any hit points as the image suggests. However, it fits the trope aside from that.
255	* DeadGuyJunior: [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Philip J. Fry]] was ''presumed'' to be dead by his family, hence why his brother named his son "Philip J. Fry" in turn. However, Fry survived frozen in a cryogenic chamber for a thousand years, hence why he's able to see his own dedication on his nephew's tomb.
256	* DisgustingVegetarianFood: While the image looks like an example, [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]]'s disgust for his mother's cooking is a RunningGag and he'd react the same way no matter what she made.
257	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The cast of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' doesn't usually perform the theme song; the image is from a single SpecialEditionTitle in which they do. However, the show's creators are in the band that ''does'' perform the theme song, so the song is an example, just not in the way the image suggests.
258	* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna]] used to fit the item, as she became extremely popular from her first short appearance in the second episode, and for the next few seasons she was relegated to small appearances alongside Celestia, barring one ADayInTheLimelight episode. However, she [[BreakoutCharacter became a more prominent character as the seasons progressed]], getting more focus episodes, likely because of this popularity. The page image is from a Season 2 episode, which is before Luna became more prominent in the series. Doubles as a visual pun, due to Luna's dark coloration compared to [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation the rest of the characters]] in the image.
259	* ExiledFromContinuity: While the ComicBook/XMen, the ComicBook/FantasticFour, and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} did qualify for years, Creator/{{Disney}} would buy Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and the film rights to those characters in 2019, bringing the once-exiled teams/characters back under Marvel's full control for the first time in years and allowing them to appear in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (which they have or are planning to).
260	* ExpansionPackWorld: While it looks like ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' was making up new continents with each expansion, most of these areas had been established in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''. They just weren't accessible yet, and therefore had no reason to be on the map. However, all of those were examples in ''Warcraft III'' itself, and the Dragon Isles can be considered a straight example in ''World of Warcraft'' as they had only been given brief mentions before the ninth expansion.
261	* FakeUltimateMook: Brock had his Onix [[ThrowingTheFight pretend to faint]] in order to rake in money from the bets that the audience placed against Squirtle. However, in [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the game the comic is based on]], Brock’s Onix is an actual example.
262	* FauxHorrific: Subsequent panels of this ''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'' comic show that the CD killed all the occupants in the car, making it an ArtifactOfDeath.
263	* FreudianExcuse: The validity of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker's]] past has been been called into question [[MultipleChoicePast and acknowledged as contradictory]] multiple times. Whether or not The Joker truly has a traumatic incident that led to his descent into insanity tends to vary between works.
264	* HotBlooded: ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s Shirou Emiya isn't normally hot-blooded, but is ''very'' passionate about his cooking in the gag manga.
265	* HotSauceDrinking: The "hot sauce" in question is actually ketchup with a swapped label, done so [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Jackie and her son Tobias]] could win a competition without going through the immense pain of downing an actual bottle.
266	* {{Humanshifting}}: [[Webcomic/ElGoonishShive Elliot]] can only shapeshift into girls specifically (and has a hard time perfectly mimicking a specific person's appearance), making him closer to a SexShifter.
267	* IneptMage: [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ron Weasley]] was only inept in the first couple of books/movies thanks to his wand being a secondhand wand that originally belonged to Charlie, which then got broken during the car ride to Hogwarts, meaning he wasn't able to utilize his magic properly. He becomes far more competent once he gets a wand that chooses him in the third book/movie.
268	* IronicName: While {{WesternAnimation/Courage\|TheCowardlyDog}} does show a lot of fear, he overcomes it to stop the threat in every episode, so it's more like a MeaningfulName.
269	* KidDetective: [[Manga/CaseClosed Conan Edogawa]] is actually a 17-year-old [[FountainOfYouth de-aged down to seven]].
270	* KnightOfCerebus: Death does, in fact, darken the tone of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', and Puss' panic attack in the third panel was caused by an encounter with him. However, it was not caused by the encounter in the second panel, which happened at the start of the film.
271	* LawfulEvil: While he plays this straight throughout most of the plot, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] eventually ditches the "evil" part after he performs a HeelFaceTurn.
272	* LawfulGood: While the mainstream Franchise/{{Superman}} usually fits this alignment, there are other versions that are more chaotic, and some that are [[Franchise/{{Injustice}} downright evil]].
273	* LittleUselessGun: J certainly ''treats'' the Noisy Cricket like a little useless gun when he first gets it, but when he actually ''fires'' it, it [[SubvertedTrope blasts a hole bigger than him in the wall and knocks him flat on his ass]]. Which still makes it useless on a practical level, but not in the way the trope is typically about. Background materials also suggest that K gave it to J in an absurdly overpowered state as a hazing prank, and when used properly it serves its intended purpose as a [[HiddenWeapons holdout gun]] just fine.
274	* LovesOnlyGold: [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]] is indeed in love with gold and obsessed with being and remaining the Richest Duck in the World, but he also has a rigid moral compass and loyalty to his family and [[InterclassFriendship staff/friends]]. His EvilCounterpart Flintheart Glomgold is a straighter example.
275	* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: While the soundtrack of WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's ''Borderline Forever'' references ''Star Wars'' in its cover art, the special itself isn't specifically a ''Star Wars'' homage or parody. The album cover is just playing off the AstralFinale.
276	* NoNameGiven: The ''VisualNovel/HiveswapFriendsim'' character pictured didn't have his name revealed in promotional material, but his name ''was'' revealed in the game.
277	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 Mojo Jojo]] is portrayed this way at times, but the image is not narratively an example, since the bottom image is set before the episode the top image is from.
278	* OmnicidalManiac: ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has varying motivations. While he is omnicidal in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', most of the time he just wants to remove free will or take over the universe.
279	* OneNoteCook: [[VideoGame/BurgerRush Heidi]] can only serve burgers at first, but she gains access to a machine that adds fries early in the game. She also cooks lots of different dishes in the sequel.
280	* OutOfCharacterMoment: While Jesus always teached His followers about the importance of forgiveness, peace and loving others above everything, he also heavily criticized the pharisees for hypocritically calling themselves followers of God despite refusing to give forgiveness to the ones who needed it the most and giving more value to material gains and ornaments than to the core of the message. The event in which Jesus shoos away tradesmen from a temple while accusing them of turning a house of prayer into a den of thieves only looks shocking in comparison to more modern images of Him.
281	* PlatformActivatedAbility: Shock Spring Jump is a perfect example of the trope in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. However, the page image is from the titular duo’s appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', in which the move is reworked to be usable regardless of where Banjo’s standing, or even when he’s midair.
282	* PowerCreep: Ice Rager is strictly better than Magma Rager, making it Power Creep in a literal sense. However, Magma Rager is a bottom-of-the-barrel card in ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' and Ice Rager isn't that much better, and doesn't actually creep the game's overall power level.
283	* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: While it's an InvokedTrope on his part, [[Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019 Sir Reginald Hargreeves]] isn't even human, let alone British, actually being an alien wearing a HumanDisguise.
284	* RandomDrop: Like most enemies in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, it is indeed random what you get from a defeated Spiderchest. However, the pictured pie chart is completely false; it always drops something, but never Potions, Ethers, or the InfinityPlusOneSword.
285	* [[RedOniBlueOni/ComicBooks Red Oni, Blue Oni.Comic Books]]: The image is taken from the 2005-6 ''Invincible Iron Man'', where Dr. Strange occasionally shows up to give Tony exposition, but the two otherwise don't work together as [[HeroOfAnotherStory Strange has his hands full with other things]].
286	* ScoobyDooHoax: Fanart of both a straight example from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' and an inversion from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
287	* SickbedSlaying: Elle Driver wants to kill the Bride in ''Film/KillBill'' while she's bedridden and in a coma, but Bill calls Elle up to stop her because he considers such a method to be [[EvenEvilHasStandards beneath them]].
288	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Despite being the TropeNamer, ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' has zig-zagged this trope starting in TheEighties with the introduction of characters such as Sassette and Nanny Smurf. In particular, the image on the trope's page comes from ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', which initially plays the trope straight by having Smurfette as the sole female smurf, but then subverts this after introducing the whole tribal village of female smurfs.
289	** [[TheSmurfettePrinciple/LiveActionTV The Smurfette Principle.Live-Action TV]]: Penny ''was'' the only female character in the main cast of guys, until Bernadette and Amy joined in.
290	* SnowySabertooths: The cold snowy weather [[WesternAnimation/IceAge1 Diego]] is dealing with is the result of an impeding ice age, not because he lives in a permanently cold climate, and the sequels do away with this entirely. However, he does interact with woolly mammoths, implying he does live somewhat far north.
291	* SouthernGentleman: [[Film/DjangoUnchained Big Daddy]] is a deconstruction; he may ''look'' like an archetypical southern gentleman, but it's just a superficial veneer that does little to mask his deplorable racism and elitism.
292	* SpareAMessenger: [[Webcomic/{{Oglaf}} Kronar]] does initially let the guy in question get away, but it later becomes a subversion when he gets so pissed off at being mocked for being a "wimp" that he chooses to LeaveNoSurvivors instead.
293	* StockShonenRival: One of the characters shown is Takumi Aldini from ''Manga/FoodWars'' who is a ''self-proclaimed'' rival to the protagonist, but lacks the skill, privilege and dignity to be considered as one by the narrative and [[UnknownRival even the protagonist himself]]. He's only there to mirror Soma's inclusion on the StockShonenHero image.
294	* TagalongKid: The page image is taken moments before Steven breaks into a sprint to get in front of the group, {{foreshadowing}} his growth over the series from [[TheBabyOfTheBunch a kid that needs to be saved]] to a formidable and valued member of the Crystal Gems.
295	* ThreePointLanding: While Black Widow (and pretty much everyone in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]]) has done a three-point landing before, that particular screenshot is of her standing up after sliding across the ground.
296	* TokenGoodTeammate: While Flonne was initially the only one of the main characters to be a truly moral person, the Defenders of Earth later join the party, who similarly have a strong sense of morality.
297	* TwoferTokenMinority: [[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} Conway Stern]] was a DoubleAgent, and given that Archer said he wasn't circumcised, probably wasn't really Jewish. Later played straight when he loses both of his hands.
298	* VampireVords: The vampire in the image turns out later to be just a normal guy shooting a very elaborate sleep medicine commercial.
299	* VanillaEdition: ''Film/BladeRunner'' was the second DVD release ''ever'' after ''Film/{{Twister}}'', so being bare-bones was to be expected.
300	* VillainExitStageLeft: Subversion; ComicBook/RedSkull attempts to flee from ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, but the latter captures him before he can get away.
301	* VillainousFriendship: While ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'' initially plays this trope straight, Wily and Eggman's friendship falls apart later in the story.
302	* VirtueIsWeakness: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach here is [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080303 complaining about how other people seemingly hold]] the attitude that virtue is weakness, rather than expressing the attitude himself.
303	* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield/WesternAnimation Where the Hell Is Springfield?.Western Animation]]: The pic comes from the [[Recap/TheGhostAndMollyMcGeeS1E1TheCurse first episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', which leaves it unclear where exactly Brighton is, but later episodes confirm that it's near the Illinois-Iowa area.
304	* WordOfGay: While [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dumbledore]] was initially an example of this, he was eventually made explicitly gay in ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore,'' which is a canon work in the franchise.
305	* XenophobicHerbivore: While the fear of "the other" is at play, ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' is more about how a crisis can create a fear that can be manipulated instead of a specific type of citizen (i.e., herbivores) always being naturally xenophobic.
306	[[/index]]
307	[[/folder]]

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