I Thought It Meant / X to Z

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X

• First of all, this folder isn't about the website where you make posts of 280 characters or less each.
• Xanatos Gambit is not about the real name of one of the X-Men.
• Xanatos Speed Chess is not about a game of chess that goes as fast as Xanatos wants it to.
• X Days Since is not however many days since X did something
• The "X" in "X" Makes Anything Cool is not meant for you to substitute with anything you'd like. Not everything can make anything cool.
  • It also isn't a more hardcore version of Smoking Is Cool, but for MDMA.
  • And it doesn't mean that X chills (or heats) anything to just above the freezing temperature of water.
  • And it doesn't mean that putting something on Elon Musk's social media platform automatically makes it cool.
• X Meets Y is not a more flexible version of Boy Meets Girl.
  • Nor is it Shipping applied to the alphabet.
  • It's not an origin story, either.
  • It is also not a crossover between X-Men and Y: The Last Man.
  • No, it's not the third Gen VI Pokémon game after Pokémon X and Y.
  • Nor is it a boy being conceived.
• Sigma might hold the opinion that X Must Not Win, but "X" is not limited to the protagonist of this game.
  • Nor is it about people not wanting Twitter to be rebranded as X.
• X-Pac Heat is not what is given off when you burn Sean Waltman to a crisp, though it does describe the feeling of wanting to burn Sean Waltman to a crisp.
  • It also has nothing to do with Pac-Man porn.
  • Neither is it about disliking an Expansion Pack.
  • And neither does it mean that it's mating season for Sean Waltman.
• The Xylophone Gag is an old cartoon gag, but it's not the one where a character rams into a piano or xylophone head-first, and, upon looking up, has the instrument's keys sticking out of their mouth as a sort of prop-induced Wild Take of pain.
  • It's also not about shoving a xylophone into someone's mouth to shut them up.
  • Nor is it someone being disgusted by xylophones.

Y

• Yamato Nadeshiko is not about the battleship Yamato.
  • And it has nothing to do with the premise of Super Robot Wars V.
• Yandere is not about a dere girl named Yan.
• Yank the Dog's Chain is not the same as Kick the Dog, except in certain Looney Tunes shorts. Specifically, it involves the creative team inflicting pain and distress on a character, not necessarily another character.
• "YEAH!" Shot is not a reply to Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?.
  • It is not being shot after a successful escape attempt.
  • It's not an appropriate response to a Quip to Black.
• Years Too Early has nothing to do with The Jailbait Wait, or Born in the Wrong Century.
  • Nor is it about showing up to an event that will happen years into the future.
  • Nor does it about accidentally time-traveling to a time that's years before the time you wanted to go to.
• Yellow Peril is not about your Life Meter turning yellow when you are low on health.
  • Nor is it about Minions or anyone from The Simpsons being or putting others in danger.
  • Nor does it refer to Peril changing color to yellow.
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe is not nearly as relevant to Sweeney Todd as you might think.
• Yellowface should never, ever be mistaken for Yellow Face from Battle for Dream Island.
  • It's also not an insult directed to someone from The Simpsons.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with jaundice.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with emojis.
  • Nor does it refer to Yellowfang, if she got a different name.
  • Nor does it have to do with Lego.
• Yes, We DO Have This One is not a waiter telling a customer that a particular dish is on the menu, nor is it a police officer telling other police officers that a particular criminal is imprisoned.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol isn't about being frustrated with your local radio station for playing too much Christmas music in December...or October. Nor is it a page listing musicians who've covered Christmas songs.
• A Yin-Yang Bomb is not what the Chinese use to fight Mighty Whiteys, Scary Black Men and... Oh dear, Unfortunate Implications anyone?
• Yoko Oh No is not the sound you make when Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann kisses someone, and the recipient dies a very, very manly death at episode's climax.
  • Or the reaction when Graham Jones stabs her.
  • Nor is it what someone says who hates Yoko the cat.
• Yo Momma is not related to a musician.
• You Are Already Dead is not when a character discovers that they were actually Dead All Along.
• You Are Not Alone doesn't refer to moments when there are hidden enemies preparing to ambush you in an Abandoned Area.
• You Are Number 6 doesn't necessarily mean being assigned number 6, unless it's as a name. Nor is it being chosen to go sixth in something.
• You Bastard! is not one of the Insult Tropes.
  • It's also not about whoever killed Kenny.
  • It does not refer to the camel from Pyramids.
  • Nor is it about illegitimate children.
• You Can Always Tell a Liar is not about how liars make the best confidants.
• You Can Leave Your Hat On is not about when some rich person decides guest etiquette is overrated.
  • It's also not a tactful way to tell someone to Please Keep Your Hat On.
• You Can't Fight Fate is regularly disproved on Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, but not because people go around successfully picking fights with the Dark Magical Girl. Incidentally, these Fate puns are way too easy to make.
  • If you're Negi Springfield on the other hand... good luck.
• You Can't Get Ye Flask is not an example of Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe.
• You Can't Make an Omelette... is not a criticism on someone's cooking skills.
  • Nor does it mean someone is prohibited from cooking omelettes.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One is not a criticism of a player's skill at Nintendo Hard games, nor is it a case of a game's first stage being Unwinnable.
• You Don't Want to Catch This isn't a description of Hot Potato, and does not refer to useless Pokémon.
• "You!" Exclamation is not an Unusual Euphemism.
• You Got Guts isn't Item Get! crossed with Ludicrous Gibs. Nor is it about obtaining Monster Guts in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. And it has nothing to do with the main character of Berserk.
• You Have Researched Breathing is not about doctors and scientists who specialize in how breathing works or breathing-related disorders.
• You Have to Burn the Web is not about setting fire to the internet (even though we wish it was).
  • Nor is it about attempting to fit the entire contents of the internet onto dvds.
• You Know What They Say About X... is not about rumors on the third-to-last letter of the alphabet, rumors about a certain Maverick Hunter nor the EgoSoft space flight simulator series.
• You Lose at Zero Trust is not a double negative about excessive naivete.
  • Nor is it about how your Zero-Approval Gambit failed because for some reason people still like you.
  • Nor is it about a game where you have to prevent a company called Zero from becoming a monopoly.
  • Or one where you lose when a blonde, sword-wielding Reploid trusts you.
• You No Take Candle is not a subtrope of You Can't Get Ye Flask where you actually can pick up the item, but doing so triggers every NPC in the area to turn hostile.
  • While it does involve bad grammar, it's also not specifically someone telling you in bad grammar not to take a candle.
• You Put the "X" in "XY" is unrelated to female genetic material, or by extension someone being In Touch with His Feminine Side.
  • And you would be completely and utterly wrong if you thought it had anything to do with a Coldplay album or Gen VI of Pokémon.
  • It also has absolutely nothing to do with hyperbolae, though the trope does often create hyperbole.
• You Require More Vespene Gas is not about tibanna, which would be Bespin gas anyway.
• Your Mom is not about an Everyman's mom.
• You Shouldn't Know This Already is not a redirect to "Early Arrival Spoiler".
• You Wanna Get Sued? is a warning, not an offer.
• Your Days Are Numbered is not about calendars.
• Your Secret's Safe With Me, Superman is not what Lois Lane said to Superman when he told her that he was an alien from outer space.
• Your Size May Vary has nothing to do with any sort of "male enlargement."
  • Nor should it be confused with Sizeshifter.
  • It isn't a trope for which "Your Mileage May Vary".
• Your Television Hates You isn't the equivalent of My Car Hates Me; that is, it's not about a TV that breaks down when it's needed the most. It's also not to be confused with Television Is Trying to Kill Us.
• Your Vampires Suck does not necessarily have to do with the way that they feed.
• A YouTube War Expert is not someone who's very good at decisively winning Flame Wars on YouTube, though your typical example is quite experienced at being in flame wars.
• Young Gun is about young people using guns to protect themselves. Young Guns is the name of a movie.
  • Neither is it about a recently manufactured firearm.
• You Wanna Get Sued? is not spoken between people whose hobby is getting themselves sued.
• You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses is not about hitting, or not hitting, someone with drinking glasses or glass bottles during a Bar Brawl.
  • It's also not about targeting a person who's carrying drinking glasses in a fight.
  • Nor is it about using a pair of glasses as a weapon. Except for when it is.
• Yo Yo Plot Point is not about the author stopping to greet the viewer to remind him/her about plot points.
  • Nor is it about a rap song concerning story structure.
  • Nor is it necessarily about a yo-yo that happens to be a plot point.
• Yuri Fan is not in any way related to the villain from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, the hero from Shadow Hearts, the guy who spends half of Planetes looking for a compass, the voice actor that plays Sasuke and Suzaku in English, the male lead of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, or the titular doctor in Doctor Zhivago. Or at the very least, we hope it isn't... It does, however, occasionally describe some fans of The Dirty Pair. Or even the lead character of Tales of Vesperia.
  • Or somebody who's a fan of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, though he does have a lot of fans.
  • Not a trope namer for one of the Art of Fighting characters or one of the Mystic Warriors.
  • Nor is it a female desk fan who loves other female desk fans.
  • Nor is it someone who likes Yuri Vilenemi.
• Yuri Genre is still not about Yuri Gagarin.

Z

• A Zany Scheme Chicken is not when someone uses a chicken (whether rubber or alive) in a Zany Scheme, a chicken that frequently engages in Zany Schemes, nor is it chicken eaten by characters before they engage in a Zany Scheme.
  • Nor is it a character who starts a zany scheme, but chickens out before it's completed.
• A Zen Survivor probably did not survive Zen the Tiger Lily. It also has nothing to do with those who have survived Xen.
• Zeppelins from Another World has absolutely nothing to do with Led Zeppelin.
• A Zerg Rush has nothing to do with the tactics of the woman who broke Ken Jennings' win streak on Jeopardy!.
  • Nor Emperor Zurg.
• A Zero-Approval Gambit does not involve getting the favour of the leader of the Black Knights.
  • Nor is it a gambit that none of the higher-ups give permission to use.
  • It's also not when nobody agrees with a particular card carrying X-Men.
  • Nor is it a gambit where the end goal is getting people to approve of X's sidekick.
• Zero-Effort Boss is not a boss who puts zero effort into his job.
• Zero-G Spot is not a woman lacking one. Nor is it proof that a particular Mega Man X character is actually a girl.
  • It's also not a localized area on Earth not bound by gravity.
• The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples is not "protecting humanity as a whole trumps obeying the Three Laws of Robotics".
• Zeroth Law Rebellion does not involve going back in time and writing something that becomes the Trope Codifier for a trope Shakespeare currently codified, nor does it have to do with Lelouch piloting a copy of the Wing Zero Custom in Super Robot Wars DD.
• Zig-Zagged tropes are not to do with that Zigzag.
• Zillion-Dollar Bill isn't about Bill Gates' net worth, nor is it an example of a Shockingly Expensive Bill.
• A Zombie Advocate is not necessarily an undead lawyer. Nor is it a lawyer without a soul (we have other tropes for that).
  • Nor is it necessarily a zombie who advocates for a certain cause.

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