These tropes are too specific so they will never happen.
Compare to Too Obscure or Bizarre, The Same, but More, and X Meets Y. Contrast Too Ambiguous.
Dishonorable mentions:
- Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco
- You Fail Disco Forever
- Disco Fails Forever
- Disco Has Failed You (Forever)
- Disco One Nuke
- The Cheating Bastard is a Computer
- Robotic Reveal
- Robotic Reversal
- Robotic Reveal
- Bartman Grabs A Gun
- Bartman Gambit
- Bartman Can Breathe In Space
- Bartman in My Basement
- Boy Eats Girl
- Oral sex? The Bluebeard? Vore?
- Boy Yeets Girl
- Boy Seats Girl
- Boy Beats Girl
- Boy Meets Robot Girl. Boy Loses Robot Girl. Boy Builds New Robot Girl From Spare Parts.
- This happened sort of on My Life as a Teenage Robot and more closely on Futurama, although Leela was never a robot.
- In fairness, this is probably what would have happened if Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had gotten a third season.
- Droid meets droid, droid becomes chameleon, droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again, blob meets blob, blob runs away with blob and droid loses blob, chameleon and droid!
- A Boy And His God
- A Yob And His Dog
- God Sih Dna Yob A
- A Body Has Dingo
- Magical Girlfriend?
- A Boy And His "Shaggy Dog" Story
- Curse Cutting Short
- For example...
Anderson: "Well, now that that's over, what do you say we go back to my place for a bowl of my favorite cereal, Frankenber—oh, son of a Protestant whore!" - Antidisestablishmentarianism Does Not Work That Way
- Mushroom Samba in the Rain
- The Password Is Always "W./#K|&c~`3"
- The Password Is Always The Girl Your Twin Brother Lusts After
- Dammit, now I have to change my password again.
- Only One Person Knows The Password And He Didn't Write It Down Anywhere.
- ...Hey, this might actually work.
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup?
- The Key Is Behind the Lock?
- The Password Is Changed Weekly
- WarGames had this for the school computer system.
- Two words: Harry Potter. Frequently more often.
- Used in adventure games to justify the protagonist finding a note with a password on it.
- The Password Is Always Coelacanth
- Ferris Bueller's Two Week Sick Leave
- Watching Paint Dry
- Classic, tropable catch phrase.
- Also the basis of a Fan Fiction title and storyline.
- Watching Grass Grow
- Watching Paint Grow
- Watching Grass Dry: When people are underwhelmed by or cynical towards the beauty of a sunrise.
- People Who Are Dead Inside
- People Who Are Dead Outside
- Should be 'Too Universal' since almost everyone is covered by dead skin cells.
- Wouldn't be as funny there.
- Idle Game
- Jumped On The Caller
- The Character That Is Never Mentioned, Hinted At, Or Relevant To The Plot In Any Way, Shape, Or Form
- Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?
- You Know, That Non-Entity Where...
- Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?
- Weapons-Induced Artificial Stupidity
- Would the Infector count?
- I suppose so.
- Would the Infector count?
- You Can Argue With Elves And Prove Your Point.
- Screw You, Elves!!
- You Can Sit Down And Have A Nice Calm Discussion With Elves
- You Can Argue With Elves And Reach A Reasonable Agreement That Benefits Both Parties
- Trying To Argue With Elves While Watching Them Bathe
- That's the trope Elminster in Myth Drannor is built upon...
- Sliding Scale Of Sepia - an index of tropes dedicated to how brown the director makes a film
- Cassandra Was Wrong And The Truth Isn't Out There
- The Political Leader That Everyone Likes, Always Does Right, And Isn't Secretly Satan, God And/Or The Antichrist
- Real Life doesn't even have any of these.
- For a given value of "everyone": Optimus Prime.
- And for a given value of "political".
- The Jellyman from Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime, maybe.
- Um, Dumbledore. Duh.
- Somewhat deconstructed in DH, though it was made pretty clear that after his childhood he was a very good person.
- See also:President Mary Sue
- The one where you don't make a stupid forum thread
- Journey to the Center of Pendleton Ward's Mind
- The Buffalos From Buffalo That Buffalos From Buffalo Intimidate Intimidate Buffalos From Buffalo.
- Every Thirtieth Point In Base Thirteen
- Thirty points is thirty points, no matter what base you're counting in.
- Shoot The Dog Out Of A Cannon
- Shoot The Shaggy Dog Out Of A Cannon
- Shoot The Dog Out Of Canon
- Orwellian Retcon?
- Seems like a combination of The Scrappy and Retcon.
- Shoot Shaggy's Dog
- Shaving The Shaggy Dog
- Isn't that Earn Your Happy Ending?
- Or Rescued from the Scrappy Heap?
- Sliding Scale Of A Snake's Underside
- Sliding Scale Of A Moving Piano Playing Scales
- The OTHER Other Wiki
- Encyclopaedia Dramatica
- It could also be Uncyclopedia
- Or maybe The Other
Other Other Wiki?
- Or maybe The Other
- The Uther Wiki
- The Udder Wiki
- Those Two Wikis
- The Under Wiki
- The Über Wiki
- The Ulster Wiki
- The Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other- *Deep breath* Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Wiki
- List of video games for the Xbox named Halo
- That Don't Have Numbers or Other Words Attached to the Title
- List of video games for the PlayStation 3 named Halo.
- List of video games for the Xbox 360 named God of War
- List of video games for the Halo named Xbox
- List of things I can play on a Dreamcast named "Halo"
- Freud Was Mostly Just Projecting His Own Insecurities Onto Other People
- Freud Just Had A Really Hot Mom
- This Is Your Freud On Drugs
- Real Life.
- Freud Knew Oedipus, And He LIKED Him
- This Is Your Freud On Phlebotinum
- The Comrade Syndrome, in which all socialists and communists say "Comrade" and, shortly afterwards, are brutally censored, and I don't mean like normal censorship, where the things being censored are only relatively gruesome, or not safe for work, I mean the stuff being censored is so gruesome that even the censor covering it is not safe for work before being beaten to near death with their dead pet, child, friend, and/or genitalia, before their body is relax, I am only doing this for your sanity, you'll thank This Troper someday, think of kittens, or flowers, or even less brutal violence.
- All Writers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
- This could be true, considering the things they come up with.
- All Tropers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
- Well, it's not a masquerade if you go around telling people.
- All Tropers Are Dirty Old Men Masquerading As Young Nerds
- All Tropers Are Young Nerds Masquerading As Dirty Old Men
- Next-Door Neighbor Is Planning To Go To The Beach On A Sunday With His Family Of Four
- You Fail Third Period Gym Class Forever
- Artistic License – Biology badly enough to be a Critical Research Failure?
- You Fail Third Period Lunch Forever
- You Fail Having a Period Forever
- A Slight Itch In Your Left Ear
- Kick The Dog Then Feel Bad About It Later And Give The Dog Some Bacon To Make Up For It, Provided The Dog Isn't Still Pissed Off, In Which Case You'll Probably Have To Wait Until He Comes Out From Under The Bed
- Subtrope: And When He Does Give Him Facon For Being Such A Drama Queen
- Dropped A Bridget Fonda On Him
- ...well, Stephen Colbert had a Jane Fonda dropped on him...
- How about Dropped a Bridget Moynahan on him, then? However in that case we could make the Colbert argument for Tom Brady.
- ...well, Stephen Colbert had a Jane Fonda dropped on him...
- Our Senior IV Nurses Are Different
- Real Men Don't Care If People Shoot Them While They Aren't Wearing Pants Because Damnit They're Hungry And Want Some Cheerios
- Chekhov's Custom .50 Cal Desert Eagle
- Sounds like a cross between Chekhov's Gun, and Description Porn.
- Chekhov's Lightsaber - where you come up with random explanations for things that drew attention to themselves earlier, like the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- Chekhov's Slingshot
- Chekhov's rubber band
- Not The Same Gun That Chekhov Had In The First Act, But It'll Do
- Chekhov's Gnu
- Useful Notes: I-88 in Illinois Between Mile Markers 42 and 43
- Big Maybe
- Big Meh
- Big Dunno
- Shrug of God, people.
- Big Mu
- Big Mumu - "Marge, have you seen my fat-guy dress?"
- Big Moo
- Non-bovine example: Maureen's Over the Moon in RENT.
- Big Bro
- Gushing About Mr Krabs's Character Alignment
- Crowning Moment of Drycleaning
- Crowning Microwavable Giraffe Just Add Potato Salad of Shiny Leather Floating Pokemon-Filled Taco, anyone?
- Our Vampires Are The Same
- Everything's Better With Pope Innocent VIII
- Dropped A Bridget Jones' Diary On Him
- Unsettling Bridget Jones reveal
- "You said this wasn't a Chick Flick! I want explosions!"
- All Trans Women are Bridget Mains
- All Trans Women are Bridget Mains Except for One who Plays I-No
- Synonyms For The World Plimsoil - Consisting of pages AA-ABA, ABA to ABB, ABB to ABBA...
- Goddammit Jim I Told You I Don't Like Boiled Peas
- Linkin Park Makes An Honest Man Of Ray
- Pantry Shot
- I'm pretty sure this one's been done in a cooking show...
- Nigella Lawson. Without a doubt.
- Possibly related to Food Porn.
- Kung Fu Guy With A Reasonable And Objective Assessment of His Own Capabilities
- Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Soundtrack With Founder's Copyright
- Not So Hopeless - Seemingly Hopeless Auditionees that turn out to be really talented once they start performing.
- Hopeless Auditionee Spot: "You know, I think one might be bearable... No, he's rubbish." Alternatively, "[Contestant], I think you have real talent. In scaring away animals and terrifying small children. That was hideous."
- What Do You Mean Its Political For The Other Side (There actually is a statue in Kansas that fits this trope: Initially protesting the occupation of the Panama Canal, its current owner says the sculptor saw into the future and protested giving away the Panama Canal.)
- Some forms of Poe's Law might count, as well as some forms of Misaimed Fandom.
- Go Straight To "Revelation"
- Just Here For The Cute Female Protagonist
- Touhou Project?
- Every Moe anime
- By extension, Just Here For The Cute Male Protagonist
- Just Here For The Hot Female Protagonist
- Star Fox Adventures
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Fairy Tail
- Every Disney Channel Kid Com
- By extension, Just Here For the Hot Male Protagonist
- Just Here For the Cute/Hot Female (And, By Extension, Male) Antagonist
- Apple Stem Pulling Teeth
- Tiddlywinks At Noon
- Screw The Rules I Have Pot
- Wouldn't that be The Stoner?
- Spin To Deflect Criticism
- Batman Is Unrealistic
- Nobody Wants To Remember The Stripper
- Norbert's Scale Of Gameplay And Story Segregation
- Radiantophilia
- Massively Multiplayer Online H-Game
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Locupletative?
- Big Yo
- Big Yo-Yo
- Aesop Unfriendly Family
- The X-Files episode "Home".
- Abusive Parents and Enfant Terrible combined?
- Medium-Heavy Sleet Equels Death
- The Author Reads TV Tropes Because He Wants To Eliminate Any Tropes From His Work But It Turns Out Everything Is A Trope So He Sinks Into Despair And Kills Himself And The Thing He Was Writing Is Never Written So Wait How Do We Even Have A Page On This Thing Anyway?
- It was ghostwritten, obviously.
- That's just The Tropeless Tale Gone Horribly Wrong.
- Ominous Latvian Chanting
- But You Screw One Dead Kid Goat While On Fire aka necropedopyrobestiality
- A man decided to seek therapy for his sadonecrobestiality fetish, because he realized he was just beating a dead horse.
- This is simultaneously awesome and awful. We present you with this medal and then wield it for a merciless flogging.
- But You Screw One Dead Thirteen-Year-Old Frog Robot Girl While She Beats You Up aka sadomasopedorobonecrobestiality.
- A man decided to seek therapy for his sadonecrobestiality fetish, because he realized he was just beating a dead horse.
- Dude, She's Like, In Oklahoma!
- Everything's Better With The Golomyunka Fish That Lives In Lake Baikal And Is Preyed Upon By The Baikal Seal
- Most Writers Are Vampires
- Most Writers Are Emotion Eaters (Muse Abuse?)
- METAL BAWKSES in which our enemies hide, the cowards, the FOOLS!
- Artistic License - Lithuanian Forest Site Types
- Black-With-A-Couple-Of-Grey-Splotches-And-This-Weird-Purple-Bit-In-The-Corner And Bluish-Greeny-White-With-One-Thouroughly-Irritating-Black-Spot-Nothing-Else-Goes-With Morality
- Black and Blue Morality, or White and Gold Morality?
- Knight In Slightly Rusted And Blood-Spattered Armour That Needs A Good Polish
- Everything's Better With Mutant Elves With Glasses Who Ride Piggyback On Anthropomorphic Goats Who Shoot Lasers From Their Eyes
- To which even Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time is a step down.
- With Great Power Comes A Great Likelihood Of Getting Half Your Face Blackened
- With Great Power Comes Great Likelihood Of Losing An Eyebrow
- With Great Power Comes Grated Cheese
- With Great Power Comes Great Inanity
- To which even Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
- Hey It's That Girl Who May Or May Not Be Hotchner's Wife.
- Dropped a TARDIS on him
- Something Something Leonard Hofstadter
- Something Something Leonard Nimoy
- Something Something Leonard Cohen
- Something Something David X. Cohen
- Something Something The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
- Fridge Fridge
- When you're watching a show, and the entire episode focuses on this bizarre alien machine. The protagonists have no idea what it is, yet they manage to harness its powers to win before finally deciding that the world is not ready for it, leaving it behind. Then, after the episode is over, it hits you — it was a fridge!
- True Art Involves Cutting Up Sharks
- Physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living is the closest we're ever going to get.
- The Good Guys Always Get Captured, Violated Sexually, Stabbed, Thrown in a River, Trampled by Wildebeests, and Eaten Alive by 26 3/4 Rabid Chipmunks.
- Dropped Raquel Welch On Him ("She's got a big bottom!")
- Eustressed Damsel
- Your Life Will Ruin TV Tropes
- Zecora Was Right
- Grateful Bastard
- Affably Evil? Or Nice Job Breaking It, Hero for situations where the villain thanks the hero for playing into their plans
- Jerk Butt
- The Jerkass in a work where Gosh Dang It to Heck! is enforced.
- Jerk Bum
- Beef Jerkyass
- Failed A Girdle Check (which does happen in the Pan Am pilot)
- I Got A Good Laugh From Reading This Page Thanks Guys You Rock
- Lohengrin and Mendelssohn Are Dead
- Moves like Orlok
- a subtrope of Schmogerty like Fogerty
- Our Anglicans Are Different
- All Disney Is Animation
- All Animation Is DreamWorks
- All Animation Is Hanna-Barbera
- All TV Animation Is Nickelodeon
- All Animation Is CalArts
- All Animation Is Anime Is Web Animation Is Stop-Motion Animation Is A Slide Show
- All Anime Is Studio Ghibli
- All Stop-Motion Animation Is Aardman Animations
- All Web Animation Is Newgrounds
- Artistic License - Moldovan Transportation
- Significant Red-Eyed Greenhead
- Oh wait, we have that now; meet Rina Shinomiya.
- Oprah Does Something Funny
- Rocks Fall, But Thankfully No One Is Hurt
- Preparation of Salted Tongue With Green Onions Does Not Work That Way
- The Butler's Wife's Brother Did It
- The Butler May Or May Not Have Done It
- The Butler Kicked His Master's Butt
- Multiplayer Imposed Challenge - This is when you're forced to use a Self-Imposed Challenge when you don't want to, because the friend you're playing with in multiplayer wants it.
- Zettai Ryouiki Does Not Work That Way
- Zoidberg Fuel
- Superman Grabs a Gun
- Because he Forgot About His Powers?
- Superman: At Earth's End
- Errol Flynn Won World War II ("He's won the war! He's won the war!")
- Ambiguously Ambidextrous
- Way too common. When was the last time you knew that a character was distinctly right or left handed and it had importance to the plot? Wait, don't answer that.
- Pierre Kirby Is Hardcore (even if The Cinema Snob thinks so)
- John Kirby Is Hardcore (he even was responsible for a Moment of Awesome)
- John Kirby
- Dropped A Sheik On Her
- Shows That Air On CBS on Tuesdays at 7PM
- Books That Are Commonly Read On Wednesday While Sitting in a Red Chair and Drinking a Diet Coke
- Recommended Long Canadian Indie Rap Songs From June 2016 to Listen On Fridays at Noon As You Walk Up and Down Main Street While Wearing a Dirty Red Jacket, Reading Garfield On Your iPad Mini 2, and Eating Green M&Ms
- The World is Always Having an Affair with Mars
- Amazing Technicolor Car
- They Hit Exactly The Right Balance Between Changing It and Keeping It The Same, But It Still Sucks
- Sonic?
- Hate Dumb?
- It Sucked in The First Place
- People Sit on Big Red Turning Chairs
- That One Fuckin' Guy Who Keeps Reverting My Edits Even Though He's Totally Wrong About Rainbow Dash And I Know The Character Much Better Than That Faggot Does, Anyway
- Something Something Shark Week
- Bigger Than The Big Bad But Not Quite As Big As The Bigger Bad... Bad
- Nobody Performs Titration
- Useful Notes/Wars Finland Was Not Involved In
- Hey, Who's That Guy? (Cases where someone considered to be a rising star has a bit part in a popular TV show or movie. However their star fails to rise, and the bit part ends up being the only thing they're remembered for.)
- But Not Foreign Enough
- Miles Gloriosus With A Gold Katana
- Fire And Ice Personality: Sometimes a character is stoic or indifferent, sometimes they're very emotional. Basically the "kuu" of Kuudere plus the "tsun" of Tsundere (Aloof and apathetic plus harsh and flying-off-the-handle-y.) Alt. titles: Tsun-Kuu.
- Mohs Scale Of Knight Templar
- There Are Chairs And People Are Clearly Aware That There Are Chairs, And Yet The People Do Not Sit On Or Even Openly Acknowledge The Chairs For Reasons That Are Never Made Clear
- Vampire Vampire Hunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters.
- Vampire Vampire Vampire Hunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters that are also vampires
- Titanium Lady: What you get when you blend the Iron Lady and the Lady of War.
- Stars Are Angels
- Returned To The Scrappy Heap
- Vampire Luddites: Supernatural beings really don't like new technology.
- America Needs To Be Saved By A Foreign Power
- In said foreign power, this is probably an inevitable trope.
- Save The Savior: The one who was supposed to do the saving now needs to be saved.
- The Big Bad Who Lacks A Dragon, Isn't Affably Evil Or A Complete Monster, Isn't A Mole, Isn't Evil All Along, And Never Pulled A Face–Heel Turn
- Daleks Sit On Chairs
- Downer College Ending
- Stepford Stoic: A character with little to no emotion... On the outside, anyway. On the inside, they're hurting.
- Who Wants To Be Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire
- Non-Avian Feathers
- Cut-And-Run Climax: The story's reaching its most dramatic point, where a character will die dramatically. Or so it seems... Because instead of dying, the character chooses to cut and run.
- Survival Scrappy: A character hated because due to their survival. This can be because: 1) are nigh-unkillable in a world where Anyone Can Die, 2) survive when a beloved character dies, 3) repeatedly survive things that they logically wouldn't survive, 4) are repeatedly saved in contrived ways, 5) survive an "Everybody Dies" Ending (especially when beloved characters don't survive the ending), or 6) something weirder.
- Tropers Cannot Do Math
- Writers Cannot Do Physics
- Writers Cannot Do Algebra
- Writers Cannot Do Your Homework
- Writers Cannot Die
- The Man Exactly Thirty-Eight And A Half Miles Behind the Man, Slightly To The Left, On A Sort Of Elevated Terrace That Looks To Be About Maybe Ten To Twenty Feet High, And Facing Away From Him
- Ever-Shifting Character: A character whose personality keeps changing for no good reason, most likely because the writers can't figure out what to do with the character.
- Covert Group Of The National Front
- Covert Group Of The People's Front
- Covert Group Of The People's Front
- Legitimate Businessmen's socialist club.
- The Cobbler's Children Have Yiff Fetishes
- Long-haired Rocker Gives Neon Pink Girlfriend a Band T-Shirt and is Surprised When She Actually Wears It That's right, I'm looking at you, Rebecca Sugar
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Old People?
- Cruel, Karmic Comedy: Bad stuff happening to bad people is funny!
- People Of Native American Race Sit On Megenta, Cirular Chairs With No Padding And A Built In Cupholder
- Tropes That Batman Hasn't Used
- Tropes That Batman (the Character) Hasn't Used
- The Welsh Trope
- The Irish Trope
- The Northern Irish Trope
- The Channel Islands Trope
- The Sealandish Trope
- The Isle of Man Trope
- The Gibraltar Trope
- The Falkland Islands Trope
- The Bermudan Trope
- The Buddy Sorrell: Any character who is Buddy Sorrell from The Dick Van Dyke Show. (Not to be confused with Buddy Picture, Buddy Cop Show, or any other characters named Buddy.)
- Deciding To Assassinate The Italian Prime Minister As Revenge For Killing The Potential Father Of Your Son, So You Spend Decades Having Kinky Sex With Him Once A Year, Then One Day You Shoot Him, Deliberately Shoot Yourself In The Arm, Call Over Employees From Your Spy Agency To Dispose Of The Body, Come Up With A Fake Cover Story And Use Your Arm Injury As Proof Of It Being True So They Will Help You, Then Call A Detective To Come To The House, So That When They See No Evidence Of A Crime Haven Taken Place They Will Leave You Alone Gambit
- They Changed It Back, So It Sucks
- Murder by Liquefaction: A death famously reserved for wicked witches.
- "Truth In Television/Idiocracy" Bait
- Chewing the Duwang
- Eccentric Karma Meter: Karma Meter that uses a morality scale other than good versus evil.
- Machina Ex Deus: An intelligent machine on a Mission from God.
- Big "YOPP!"
- Malfunctioning Diarrhea Moose (when somebody sticks robots up moose rectums, and it upsets their digestive systems)
- List Of Caustic Critics That Don't Use The Berserk Button Trope
- Not as Good as It Could Have Been, but Still Pretty Good
- Not as Bad as It Could Have Been, but Still Pretty Bad
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot Sean Connery
- TV Tropes Website appears For More Than One Time in Three Episodes in a Series Every Season
- People Use Toilets and Don’t Wash Their Hands After Upsetting People Who See Them Do It
- A Recyle Bin Is Used As A Garbage Can
- People Bleed When Wounded
- Britain Is The Eighties: British characters are shown as having traits associated with British popular culture in the 1980s, even when it doesn't make sense.
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Sex Life
- TV Tropes Ruined Your Sex Life
- TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Sex Life (yeah, I don't get it either)
- Gretzky Has Lots of Sex
- Gretzky Has Two Thumbs and... Lots of Sex (And its subtropes: Gretzky Has Two Thumbs and No Sex, Gretzky Has No Thumbs and Lots of Sex, and Gretzky Has Sex and Lots of Thumbs)
- Pre-Chop Sockey One Liner
- All Germans Love David Hasselhoff
- Justified Double Entendre
- Defied the Obscure Reference ("Funny story: so I was alone in a crowd, on a bus after w—" "MAN! Shut the FUCK up with your stupid FUCKING references to FUCKING 70s music! I FUCKING MEAN IT!!!")
- Mathematicians Cannot Write (possibly Complaining also)
- Noun Trouble (Buffy Speak?)
- Lightning Can Do Anything at Zombocom!
- murder.zombo.com (Just one of Zombocom's many services)
- Complaining About Shows You DO Like (Ironically!)
- Played Straight by a lot of memes.
- They Sucked It, Now It Changes! (Some color-changing jawbreaker-type thing. Or an extremely bizarre porno trope)
- Death by Provocative Wager ("Why, if Alice's date goes well, I'll jump off London Bridge wearing a gorilla suit!" It subsequently goes well.)
- Don't Shoot the Message OR the Messenger, Seriously, Please Put That Gun Down You're Scaring Us
- Anti-Anti-Love Song (I'm Not in Love?)
- “I Won't Say I'm in Love” from Hercules
- Anti-Anti-Christmas Song
- Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianism (so anti-establishment)
- Sorting Algorithm of Sorting Algorithms
- Rule of 576
- Subverted in Workville, where a viewer expected this number to appear, but it did not.
- Actually 30 to 50 Feral Hogs
- Latino and Nerdy
- Bisexual, 5'9.5" tall, Black, Irish, and German, Middle-Class, Agnostic, South Carolinian, and Nerdy
- Swabians Love David Hasselhoff
- Nebraskans Hate Tingle
- Pueblans Love Speedy Gonzales
- Tuba on Fire
- 68000 Heart on Fire
- Alexisonfire on Fire
- OK, Maybe I Actually AM Making This Up. What Are You Gonna Do About It? What? Oh, Crap! I Meant That as a Rhetorical Question! Oh Nooooo-
- Scratching Is Feminine: Attacking with your nails is a fighting tactic used by girls (and sometimes girly guys).
- Well, given Feline Female, yes.
- Alabama Ski Resort Episode
- They Changed It, Now Everything Sucks!: A trope for when a small change to a particular piece of media causes absolutely all of life to become terrible, for everyone, forever.
- Accidental Ambiguous Ending
- Accidental Bittersweet Ending
- Accidental Cruel Twist Ending
- Accidental Dance Party Ending
- Accidental "Everybody Dies" Ending
- Accidental "Everybody Laughs" Ending
- Accidental Karmic Twist Ending
- Ambiguous Ending Override
- Audience-Alienating Ending Override
- Bittersweet Ending Override
- Cruel Twist Ending Override
- Dance Party Ending Override
- Downer Ending Override
- Accidental Downer Ending Override
- Sudden Downer Ending Override
- See Belated Happy Ending for this (and the 5 before it).
- "Everybody Dies" Ending Override
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending Override
- Fly-at-the-Camera Ending Override
- Focus Group Ending Override
- Gainax Ending Override
- Gecko Ending Override
- Go-to-Sleep Ending Override
- Technically overlaps with Too Universal...
- Karmic Twist Ending Override
- Moving-Away Ending Override
- No Ending Override
- Invoked when there's a Cliffhanger.
- Off-into-the-Distance Ending Override
- "Ray of Hope" Ending Override
- Reset Button Ending Override
- Shock-and-Switch Ending Override
- Surprisingly Happy Ending Override
- Trauma Button Ending Override
- "What Now?" Ending Override
- Win-Win Ending Override
- What Do You Mean, It's for Little Girls?
- What Do You Mean, "But The Little Girls Understand"?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Boys?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Parents?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Teenagers?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Aliens?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Robots?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Babies Inside Wombs?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For The Only 122-Year-Old Jeanne Calment?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Cavemen In The Afterlife?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Me?
- What Do You Mean, It's Not For Dogs?
- Accidental Villain
- Obliviously Evil
- Occidential Villain, for an inversion of a Yellow Peril villain.
- Never Seen a Kano Transformation
- Never Heard a Kano Sample
- Space Jews IN SPACE!
- And Then Jeff Was a Potato
- Three Season Curse (when a show gets cancelled after exactly three seasons)
- The Computer Is A Brutally Honest Bastard.
- Radical Ed at a Computer That isn't Hers
- Everybody Do the La La La
- Complexity-Canonicity Connection: When a video game has multiple endings; the more convoluted getting a certain ending is, the more likely it is to be affirmed as the canon ending.
- Child by Rape by Proxy: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A character is conceived through Rape by Proxy.
- They Look Just Like Shia Labeouf: A trope about the fact that every monstrous person throughout history, without exception, looked exactly like Shia Labeouf.
- Delayed Release Tie-In Cereal
- Everybody Do The Loop That Seems Endless But Actually Ends After 30 Minutes
- Some Social Skills But Still Not Enough
- And They All Lived Happily Ever After, Except For One Guy Who Died Offscreen
- "Yvan Eht Nioj," They Said
- From Likable Good Guy to Hate Sink Bad Guy: Where a character after being revealed to be Evil All Along turns out to have committed a number of awful acts and/or whose true personality makes them entirely unlikeable.
- Great Villain, Horrible Person: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Where a character that's a villain is considered a good villain, but as simply a person, they're purely terrible and loathsome.
- The page description for Jerks Are Worse Than Villains touches on this idea, though not so much the trope itself.
- Abusive Parents Are Hate Sinks: Where a character being an Abusive Parent automatically makes them an unlikeable character.
- Domestic Abusers Are Hate Sinks (similar to the above trope)
- It's Popular But Less So Than Another Work, So It Sucks! (overlaps with Complaining)
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Basic Mathematics
- From Optional to Required: Where something that was once considered optional for someone to do, such as a task, a test, meeting a certain condition, etc. (in some cases highly recommended or expected of them to do) then becomes required for them to do.
- Happens all the time in Real Life.
- Obvious Rule Patch could be a subtrope.
- Random Abuse Moment/Surprise Abuse Moment
- Several Family Guy Cutaway Gags employ this.
- Other Article-Demonstrating Article
- Unparodiable Tropes (An index of tropes that are so meta, ironic, and detached, that it's impossible to parody them and have anyone know what you're doing.)
- "Shaggy Dog" Story but the Shaggy Dog was the right amount of shaggy when he brings it to the rich English family and he gets a million dollars.
- Seemingly Random In-Game Tournament: A moment in a video game where there's a tournament the player character takes part in that involves other characters, only for your opponents to be the same each and every time.
- In Pokémon Sword and Shield's Champion Cup, despite the second day involving all the Gym Leaders partaking in the tournament, you always fight Nessa first, Bea/Alister second, and Raihan third.
- A Beloved Character Won't Remain Universally Beloved Forever (where no matter who the character is, over time, that character will gain more and more detractors; overlaps with Complaining)
- Mistaken for Marvin Gaye
- Obvious Robin Thicke joke goes here...
- Orange Aesop: Protect the orange trees.
- The final boss of a game is a soulless vessel with the memories of a character who died before the events of the game, with a battle theme composed by Toby Fox.
- Britain Is Only The Midlands
- Britain Is Only Oop North
- Fifth Cousins Four Times Removed in the Adaptation
- Continuity Snarl Where A Specific Event Outright Calls Other Canonical Events Lies
- ...Perpetrated By A Tabloid Magazine
- Everyone Hates You: The recurrent trope of you specifically being portrayed as a dangerous villain in works based your life.
- Works That Used To Be Classified As Troperiffic, But Nowadays Those Tropes Have Been Found To Be Not True Tropes, And Are Now Tropeless
- Living in the Basement of a Swedish Discount Used Furniture Store During a Clearance Sale
- Magical MENA: A person of Middle Eastern/North African ethinicity whose task is to give advice to white characters.
- Totally 18, Except That Character's Sister Then States Reality Isn't A Game And They Are Only 17
- Gun Gun Pixies
- Power Makes You Bald: A trope to describe One-Punch Man and literally nothing else.
- Repeated Six Times for Emphasis
- But They Don't Know/Remember: A character is (usually harshly) questioned about something they have no knowledge about or don't remember (possible due to Easy Amnesia).
