These tropes concern things that shouldn't or can't be public knowledge or are just straight up impossible to make into a page so they will never happen.
Compare to Too Obscure or Bizarre and Too Ambiguous.
Dishonorable mentions:
- Seen It Exactly Zero Times
- Subversions of this trope abound, however. Played with in Popcultural Osmosis Failure and No Export for You.
- Did The Research At The Last Minute
- Forced Someone To Do The Research For Him
- Didn't Do The Research, But Got It Right By Chance
- Plagiarized The Research, Then Altered The Original Source To Make It Look Like They Plagiarized From Them
- Will Never Be Remade
- Everything that's an Old Shame or Screwed by the Lawyers.
- List of TV Shows That Will Never, Ever Be Released On DVD or Blu-Ray Disc
- List of TV Shows That Will Never, Ever Be Available On Netflix Instant Video
- While not 100% accurate, this is as close as we can get.
- Index Of All Indices That Do Not Contain Themselves (think about it)
- That's not Unknowable so much as Impossible.
- Well, it's possible to make, just not to be complete. But how many pages on a wiki can be said to be complete?
- Index of All Unindexed Indices
- Demonstration of All Articles Which Do Not Self-Demonstrate
- That's not Unknowable so much as Impossible.
- Tropes That Pass In The Night
- Newsreaders Never Wear Underwear
- Naked News. (It's listed on Summary.New Media.)
- Works That Will Never Happen
- Fanwork Ban would be The Same, but More Specific.
- Tropes That Have Never Happened
- Tropes It Didn't Use
- Didn't Use All Possible Existing Tropes
- Did Use All Possible Existing Tropes (this does belong in a different section, but it relates nicely.)
- Didn't Use All Possible Existing Tropes
- We Will Not Have A Future In The Future
- You Don't Know, That Thing Where...
- Does This Remind You Of Anything? No, Not Really
- Precognitive Recognition
- Only I Know That Thing Where...
- Exactly 3 People Know That Thing Where...
- People Who Are Not Currently Sitting In Chairs
- Index Of Tropes That Have Zero Wicks
- We have Permanent Red Link Club.
- Some of them have wicks, either as jokes or because they just never got cleaned up.
- We have Permanent Red Link Club.
- Tropes That Have No Page Views
- Downplayed with Pages Needing Wiki Magic.
- Shows That Nobody Has Ever Complained About
- Enforced with any Sacred Cow.
- Shows That Nobody Has Ever Gushed Over
- Hilarious In Foresight
- Shows Without a Fandom
- See So Bad, It's Horrible, since having one is the criterion for exclusion from that list.
- Downplayed with Needs More Love.
- Shows Without a Fan Dumb
- Again, So Bad, It's Horrible.
- Shows Without a Fan Dumb, But With a Fandom
- Shows Without a Hatedom
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?
- Yotsuba&!?
- Again, enforced with any Sacred Cow.
- Shows Without a Hate Dumb
- Once again, So Bad, It's Horrible, since by definition the haters are justified.
- Shows That Are Watched Only By Their Target Demographic
- Shows That Are Watched Only By A Periphery Demographic
- Shows That Nobody From Their Target Demographic Hates
- Shows That Are Not Opposed By Moral Guardians
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?
- Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training?
- Okay
(probably the reason the Switch entry wasn't released in North America).
- Okay
- Shows That Will Still Be Watched In 100 Years
- Best 100 Shows of the Year 2515
- Future Idealism Filter (the inversion of Nostalgia Filter.)
- Exists as The Future Will Be Better.
- Future Idealism Ain't Like It's Gonna Be (the inversion of Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be)
- Exists as Zeerust?
- Jetpack John (the inversion of Disco Dan)
- Condemned by The Future (the inversion of Condemned by History)
- Vindicated by The Future (the inversion of Vindicated by History)
- Regarding this and the one above, It Will Never Catch On and/or And You Thought It Would Fail, if you squint at it.
- Good Futuristic Ways (the inversion of Good Old Ways)
- Anyone Anticipating Jetpacks? (the inversion of Anyone Remember Pogs?)
- Exists (sort of) as I Want My Jetpack.
- I Want My Pogs Back
- Exists (sort of) as I Want My Jetpack.
- I Love The Future (the inversion of I Love the Exties)
- Nothing But Futuristic Hits (the inversion of Nothing but Hits)
- Popular Future (the inversion of Popular History)
- What Are Jetpacks? (the inversion of What Are Records?)
- Unborn Horse Trope (tropes that haven't been used yet)
- Aborted Horse Trope (tropes that would have been used, but ultimately weren't)
- Unconceived Horse Trope (tropes that haven't even been thought of yet)
- Unborn Unicorn Trope (tropes that haven't been used yet, except that they never really will be)
- Zebra Trope (What?)
- Future Media Tropes
- Future Media Are Evil (although, chances are quite likely that people who are proponents of New Media Are Evil are not very likely to have an optimistic view about media-to-come.)
- Future Media Are Good (people who are likely to uphold this view would either be [1] progressives who are optimistic that we are on the verge of finally shedding free of our past of repression and bigotry, or [2] conservatives who are anticipating some form of divine act to forcefully "cleanse our society of sin and filth".)
- Distanced from Future Events
- Distanced from Historical Events
- The Taleless Trope
- Almost everything on Too Obscure or Bizarre and Too Specific. Discussed in Too Rare to Trope.
- Shows That Moral Guardians Are Upset About But Are Far Too Embarrassed To Admit They Know Exists
- Video Game Levels Nobody Has Ever Discovered
- List Of Clubs Where The Number One Rule Is Never To Talk About The Club
- Top Ten TV Shows As Selected By The Amish
- Ideas That Writers Discarded Without Ever Telling Anyone About Them
- What Happens When Your Lifeforce Ends And You Are Devoured By The Eternal Void
- We have Afterlife Tropes.
- Chekhov's Gun Of The Future (when the character gets an object in the story that will only be important after the story is finished.)
- It's a MacGuffin.
- Works that would have been So Bad, It's Horrible if they bombed (overlaps with Complaining)
- Media That Never Experienced They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
- Everything on One-Episode Wonder is an example.
- Unless people complain about changes made midway through the episode's script.
- Everything on One-Episode Wonder is an example.
- Tropes That At Least Have a Sliver of Chance Of Happening
- Things That Nobody Has Ever Fapped To
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- What about Rule 34?
- People actually enjoying it aren't relevant to that rule.
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Things That Will Never Be Memes
- Things That Should Be Memes But Aren't
- I think you want Too Subjective.
- Tropes That Are Not in This Index
- That's not Unknowable so much as Impossible.
- Best Hentai on TV Tropes
- Worse If It Did Happen/Worse If It Didn't Happen (Where the more desired outcome in a specific event (either to the audience or the characters) in a work didn't happen, but if it did, it would've impacted future events negatively, causing things to end up worse. Unknowable because the writers could always find a way around the problem if needed.) (Overlaps with Too Subjective.)
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, if Katara used the Spirit Oasis water to save Jet in "Lake Lagoi", Aang would've ended up dead in "Crossroads of Destiny".
- Pretty much any For Want Of A Nail scenario in Tolkien's Legendarium.
- Moral Guardians That Are Against ALL Modern Media In Their Entirety (Film, Television, Video Games, Internet, etc.)
- Moral Guardians That Want Things To Be Like They Were Before The 20th Century
- How is that unknowable?
- Moral Guardians That Want Things To Be Like They Were Before The 19th Century
- Moral Guardians That Want Things To Be Like They Were During The Middle Ages
- Moral Guardians That Want Things To Be Like They Were Before The 20th Century
- A Value on the Evilness of a Complete Monster
- The Credit Score of Bill Gates
- NightmareFuel/BloonsTowerDefense
- SweetDreamsFuel/ASerbianFilm
- Will Never Exist
- What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made?
- Zero Lines, Infinite Waiting
- Infinite Lines, Zero Waiting
- NaN Lines, NaN Waiting
- Line
- AwesomeMusic/4'33"
- Although, there was a compilation of 4'33" covers, some of which were actual ambient pieces, such as Cabaret Voltaire's take.
- Although, there was a compilation
- VisualEffectsOfAwesome/Music
- List of People Genetically Identical to Tommy Wiseau
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Complete Monster
- Ineffectual Magnificent Bastard
- Complete Monster-Face Turn
- Even Complete Monsters Have Standards
- Likable Hate Sink
- List of References That Are From That One Show You Haven't Watched That Everyone Else Has Somehow and It Makes Perfect Sense If You've Seen It
- Simultaneously Fake And Real Shemp
