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- 0% Approval Rating doesn't involve those films that get this critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- 12-Bar Blues doesn't involve depression leading to excessive drinking.
- 13 Is Unlucky does not mean that playing the Vietnamese card game "Thirteen" brings bad luck to its players.
- 2 + Torture = 5 does not mean that Torture = 3.
- Nor is it about a couple who decide to have three children as a consequence of being tortured.
- And it has no relation to E = MC Hammer.
- 20 Bear Asses does not mean a bunch of people mooning passersby on a highway. It also does not refer to a group running a caravan of donkeys, or bear-donkey hybrids. And the trope isn't just limited to bear butts.
- 2-D Space is not related to breast size, or really, breasts at all.
- Nor is it an area where two letter D's are, or a flat area.
- 24-Hour Armor is not a suit of armor that only lasts for a day.
- 24-Hour Party People are not those annoying neighbors who are always partying. Or people who are only in your party for 24 hours.
- 3 + 5 = 4 isn't about writers being very bad at math.
- 419 Scam is not a scam involving northwest Ohio, though there probably are people in that area that have fallen for the scam.
- It also doesn't necessarily take place on Tim Curry's birthday.
- Nor is it a scam that comes right before another scam involving marijuana.note
- 4X is not the classification for particularly squicky porn.
- Nor an Oddly Named Sequel to Xxx HO Li C.
- Nor the Discworld continent known as XXXX or Fourecks.
- Nor is it watching four episodes of The X-Files at once.
- It's also not about two females, four males, or a female and two males (which all add up to four X chromosomes).
- Nor is it about Four and X.
- Nor does it have to do with algebra.
- It also isn't about a team-up between the Fantastic Four and the X-Men.
- Nor is it about Mega Man X4.
- Nor does it relate to a popular Australian beer.
- 555 has nothing do with Kamen Rider 555.
- Nor anything to do with 666.
- Nor is it about the way Thai people laugh through texting.note
- It's not a Useful Notes page about the number 555. Or a timer IC.
- 6 Is 9 is not a spoiler for 9. 6 isn't 9, they're two separate characters.
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- Aardvark Trunks are not animals in swimwear.
- Nor are they Planimals that are half aardvark, half tree.
- Abandoned Mine isn't about a leftover land mine from a previous conflict. Or claiming an unclaimed item for yourself. Or learning to work with a hostile orphan for the common good.
- It's also not about leaving your own people. Or about dumping your team during a difficult fight.
- Abandon Shipping has nothing to do with using (or not using) UPS, FedEx, or DHL.
- Ability over Appearance is not about the common form of Min-Maxing where your character's appearance or charisma is used as a Dump Stat in favor of other skills and advantages. Or about choosing a partner who isn't very good-looking but has talents you like.
- It's also not a magical ability to change your own or other people's looks.
- Nor does it involve controlling when and how someone shows up.
- Nor is it about always using the gear that gives the best stat boosts no matter how ridiculous it looks.
- Abortion Fallout Drama isn’t about abortion related quests in any Fallout game (there aren’t any). Nor is it about any Aborted Arc in those games.
- Above Good and Evil is not the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil we may never get.
- Above the Influence does not mean that someone is too high-and-mighty to get drunk, possessed, or high.
- Abridged for Children is not what happens when 4Kids Entertainment gets LittleKuriboh to script one of the shows they licensed. Although that would have been pretty cool.
- An Absent-Minded Professor does not necessarily teach at a university.
- Absurdly Elderly Mother and Absurdly Youthful Mother have nothing to do with the age of Mother or Mother (HorrorShopGames).
- An Academic Athlete does not teach people how to play sports.
- Nor is it someone whose knowledge and practice of academics is so intense it may qualify as a sport.
- An Academy of Adventure is a school where adventures happen, not one that specifically sets out to teach its students how to be adventurers. In other words, it's not the exact counterpart of the Academy of Evil for heroes, although many heroes are formed in Academies of Adventure.
- Acceptable Targets do not refer to Target stores that you go to, or things you are allowed to fire at in a shooting gallery. Nor does it refer to a Very Punchable Man or Asshole Victim; the acceptable target is not necessarily targeted for a literal physical attack.
- The former trope name of Accidentally-Correct Writing, "Accidentally Accurate", had nothing to do with the ability to land bullets onto anything by complete accident; that's Accidental Aiming Skills.
- Accidentally-Correct Writing itself isn't about unknowingly applying correct grammar and spelling.
- Accordion Man has nothing to do with Weird Al.
- Nor is it a superhero dude or robot master whose power is playing the accordion.
- The Ace is not referring to cards. For example, there's no trope called "The Seven Of Clubs".
- Although there is a page about The King of Queens.
- It also is not about asexuals, but asexuals certainly aren't excluded from this trope.
- Neither is it a page all about Portgas D. Ace.
- Nor is it about Ace Savvy.
- An Ace Custom is not a tradition only The Ace takes part in, nor is it a tradition only asexuals take part in.
- Nor is it a customized edition of Ace Combat.
- An Ace Pilot is not a playing card flying a plane.
- Nor is it a particularly good first episode of a series.
- It is also not about Portgas D. Ace giving up his life as a pirate and joining the air force.
- Nor is it about an asexual pilot.
- Nor is it about Ace Savvy as a pilot.
- Achievements in Ignorance is not about the latest breakthroughs in the science of being uninformed.
- Nor is it about video game achievements relating to ignorance.
- Achilles' Heel is not a villainous pro wrestler who is managed by Achilles.
- Or about Achilles himself becoming a villainous wrestler.
- Achilles in His Tent is not what follows when his heel is hurt.
- Nor is it about Gerald's pet tortoise.
- Achilles' Power Cord is not about a power cord owned by Achilles.
- Acting for Two is not a Pregnancy Trope.
- Nor is it about acting for Thing Two, Numberjack Two, or Two the mouse.
- Acting in the Dark isn't (necessarily) about playing a role in a poorly lit place.
- Acting Out a Daydream isn't necessarily about fulfilling an aspiration.
- An Action Bomb is not an action movie that flopped commercially.
- Action Dad, Action Girl, and Action Mom are not about saying the word, "action" to your parents or a girl.
- An Actor-Muso Show does not involve actors battling hundreds of enemies at once to claim territory for their guild.
- Actor Tips are not tips from actors, but tips for actors, so you weren't that far off.
- It also has nothing to do with compensating for sales tax.
- Nor is it a game similar to Cow Tipping involving actors.
- It also has nothing to do with hair.
- Adam and/or Eve isn't an alternate Bible where one of the first humans might not have been around, nor does it have anything to do with Adam Lyon, Adam Sandler, Adam West, or Adam Taurus.
- Adam Westing has nothing to do with Samuel Westing of the novel The Westing Game. Nor does either have anything to do with Wrestling or "going West". Or The West Wing for that matter.
- An Adaptational Badass is not (necessarily) someone who's very, very good at writing adaptations.
- Nor are they (necessarily) a badass who adapts quickly.
- Adaptational Dumbass isn't someone who's stupid when it comes to writing adaptations.
- Adaptational Modesty does not mean that a character's ego gets toned down for an adaptation.
- An Adaptational Wimp isn't (necessarily) someone who's made into a whiner or scaredy-cat in an adaptation.
- Adaptation Deviation isn't an adaptation that was written on DeviantArt.
- Adaptation Distillation has nothing to do with purifying liquid.
- An Adaptation Dye-Job isn't when someone's occupation gets changed to dyeing things in an adaptation. Nor is it an adaptation of The Bible where Job's hair gets dyed.
- An Adaptation Expansion does not mean certain body parts are larger in an adaptation.
- Adoption Diss is not a You No Take Candle way of saying "adopt this".
- Affirmative Action Girl is not a black Action Girl (nor, more specifically, a Dark Action Girl). Sorry.
- It is also not what The Spock says to an Action Girl.
- After the End is not The Stinger happening after The End is shown or told.
- Nor is it continuing to play Minecraft after slaying the Ender Dragon.
- It is also not when a work takes place right after another work.
- Nor is it the part of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that takes place after killing the boss called The End.
- It's also not about (but is the central premise of) the Crusader Kings III mod.
- An Ageless Birthday Episode isn't a Birthday Episode centered around an example of The Ageless.
- Agent Mulder is not "Agent Murder" in Japanese Ranguage.
- Nor is it necessarily about someone who is male, has fair skin and/or dark hair, works for the F.B.I., or had a relative abducted by aliens.
- Agent Peacock is not about the character from Skullgirls. Nor is it about Captain Peacock now claiming to have been an operative with MI-6. Or about Mrs. Peacock being a secret agent in any version of Clue. Nor about a regular peacock being a secret agent.
- Agent Scully is not necessarily a woman, a redhead, an F.B.I. agent, or a doctor.
- An A.I. Breaker is not a Game-Breaker that's controlled by the CPU.
- It's also not a computer controlled circuit breaker.
- Or a heavy sea wave that breaks into white foam on the shore based on machine learning.
- An A.I.-cronym is not an acronym made with generative A.I.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot is not about computers, robots, or otherwise, doing monkey business.
- Ain't No Rule isn't about the Stock Phrase "Ain't no rule an [animal] can't play [sport]"; that would be Animal Athlete Loophole. (Interestingly enough, that used to be the trope's original name before it was renamed)
- It's also doesn't mean there ain't an absence of rules.
- Airplane Arms are not weapons installed in an airplane.
- Nor are they part of a Transforming Mecha that turns into a flying vehicle.
- They are also not aeroplanes with limbs.
- Airplane of Love has nothing to do with joining the Mile-High Club. Or making Airplane Arms because you're in love.
- Airport Fantasy does not involve goblins checking your luggage - or another kind of fantasy. See Airplane of Love (or don't).
- A.K.A.-47 is not when Agent 47 tells you his real name.
- Akashic Records is not the name of a record label.
- Alas, Poor Scrappy isn't a phrase used to chastise a financially-challenged Scrappy Doo.
- Alchemy Is Magic may or may not be the title of a Crossover Fan Fiction between Fullmetal Alchemist and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but that's not what the trope is about.
- Alien Blood is not strictly about space aliens (though they are a very frequent example), as it refers to any sort of abnormal blood. Even humans can have it.
- It's also not blood coming from outer space.
- Aliens Are Bastards is not about Earth being the only planet where married people have kids. Also, this in no way means that illegal immigrants are bad people (or conceived out of wedlock).
- Alien Fair Folk is not just The Fair Folk, in SPACE!
- Aliens Made Them Do It is specifically about sex. It doesn't refer to any situation where aliens force people to carry out actions against their will.
- Aliens Speaking English is not about illegal immigrants who speak fluent English.
- Aliens Steal Cable is not about aliens taking electrical wires.
- Nor is it about Nathan Summers being abducted by aliens.
- Nor is it about the 1986 movie being adored by every cable channel.
- An All-American Face does not suggest that there is a set of facial features that are uniquely or stereotypically American and commonly used for characters.
- An All-Blue Entry is not a Wiki entry that is entirely depressed.
- It is not an entry that's covered in clues, either.
- Neither is it Sanji finally achieving his dream.
- It is also not filled with dirty jokes. Except this one.
- It is also not about 100% support for the Democratic Party.
- It is also not a Wiki entry that has been taken over by the Happy Happy Cult.
- Neither is it Sutter Cane's favorite article.
- It is also not one of Battler Ushiromiya's murder theories.
- It is also not the page devoted to Eiffel 65's popular song (da ba dee).
- Nor does it have to do with Smurfs or Andorians.
- It's not a page all about Builders League United, either.
- The Alleged Car is actually a car (albeit not a very good one). It is not a trope for when someone states that something is a car when it's clearly not a car (for example, saying "Look, a car!" when pointing at a boat). It also isn't something that someone claims is a car but it's so weird-looking that it's hard to tell.
- It's also not someone who was supposedly in a band with Ric Ocasek.
- Likewise, The Alleged Computer is an actual computer. It's not something that someone says is a computer but it's not or might not be.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys is not a statement on what movie young females want to see.
- Nor is it saying that all girls want to have an evil son when they grow up.
- All Hail the Great God Mickey! is not about Disney taking over the world and becoming a religion, nor is it a parody about working at Disney Theme Parks.
- The Alliance isn't necessarily an enemy of The Horde.
- All Lesbians Want Kids is not a Sub-Trope or Distaff Counterpart of All Gays Are Pedophiles.
- All-Natural Gem Polish is not about crystals from which one can automatically speak Polish.
- Nor is it nail polish made with gems.
- All-Natural Snake Oil does not (usually) come from actual snakes.
- All-Star Cast is not about stellar objects who can act (even if some solar bodies could actually act).
- Nor is it about plaster casts decorated with stars, or casts for stars.
- Nor is it a plaster cast autographed by a lot of celebrities.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the cast of Total Drama All-Stars.
- And while Rat Race is an example of the trope, it has nothing to do with the cast performing "All Star" at the end.
- Nor is it about plaster casts decorated with stars, or casts for stars.
- All the Good Men Are Gay does not mean that every heroic man is gay.
- It also doesn't mean all good men are happy; that would be Good Feels Good.
- All Trolls Are Different is not a speech reaffirming the diversity and individuality of those who have fallen victim to the G.I.F.T.
- All Your Colours Combined does not make black. Or white, for that matter.
- Almighty Idiot does not refer to an idiot who takes Too Dumb to Live to previously unseen heights.
- Almighty Janitor is not referring to Janitor. However almighty she might be, she's an admin and therefore disqualified from the trope.
- Nor does it refer to the one guy at Valve who still works on Team Fortress 2.
- Nor is it using godly abilities to clean up.
- Almost Kiss is not about what would happen if Gene Simmons changed his mind and figured assembling a band was a bad idea.
- Nor is it about when his band was known as "Wicked Lester".
- Nor is it a piece of candy that's almost a Hershey's Kiss or a ginger kiss but not quite.
- Alpha Bitch is not about a member of a wolf pack.
- Nor is it a breakfast cereal by Post, spoken with a cleft palate.
- Nor is it a woman on the way to becoming a Beta Test Baddie.
- Nor is it what would happen if Alpha from Up became female.
- Nor is it telling a woman what the first Greek letter is and then insulting her, or telling a female dog what the first Greek letter is.
- Already Undone for You is not about clothing.
- Altar the Speed is not about placing methamphetamine on an altar.
- Alternate Character Interpretation and Alternate Character Reading are not the same thing.
- Alternate Character Interpretation also does not refer to alternating between two character interpretations.
- Alternate Reality Game has absolutely nothing to do with Bokurano.
- Nor is it a game where you have to travel through alternate realities.
- Alt-itis has nothing to do with overuse of Alt Text.
- Aluminum Christmas Trees is not related to Epileptic Trees. Or is it?
- Nor is it necessarily a literal aluminum Christmas tree.
- Always a Bigger Fish doesn't have anything to do with finding that however large your catch is, there's always a fish you didn't get which was even bigger. Nor is it about how fish look bigger underwater due to refraction. Or about Fisher "Fish" Beaumont's clones being bigger ad infinitum.
- Always Camp is not advice about what to do for a holiday.
- Nor is it a legitimate strategy in an FPS.
- Always Gets His Man is not about gay men always ending up in a relationship.
- Always Murder is not an instruction, no matter what the voices in your head say. Nor does it mean that self-defense and involuntary manslaughter should always count as murder. It is not the opposite of Never One Murder, or synonymous with Never Suicide. Also not a suggestion that Murder Is the Best Solution.
- Nor is it about a character who always gets murdered in every episode of a show. That would be They Killed Kenny Again.
- An Amazon Chaser does not necessarily steal packages by following Amazon delivery trucks, nor would they likely follow them in hopes of suing somebody. Nor do they chase the Amazon rainforest or follow the river's flow.
- An Amazonian Beauty does not necessarily come from the rainforest in South America, nor does she usually work for the Internet retailer.
- Ambiguously Brown should not be confused with Sesquipedalian Smith.
- Nor Encyclopedia Brown.
- Or Doc Brown being ambiguous.
- Nor is it someone who might be a member of the Brown family.
- Nor is it something/somebody who/that might be brown but it's never said so.
- Ambiguously Gay isn't someone who's ambiguously happy, or about a Dalmatian who may or may not be Lucky's wife.
- Ambiguous Robots aren't robots who speak cryptically.
- To be an Ambulance Chaser, once does not need to actually chase ambulances for some reason, although some of them do, and it gets its name from people who do so in order to sue whoever injured the person in the ambulance.
- An Ambulance Cut isn't when you call an ambulance because you cut yourself, nor is it about chopping up an ambulance.
- An Amen break is not an intermission in a Christian mass/sermon after the priest/pastor says "Amen."
- American Robot does not refer to every robot that has ever been made in the United States or belongs to an American.
- Americans Hate Tingle does not mean that Americans dislike the slight sensation of prickling or stinging.
- America Takes Over the World is about when they do it literally. America figuratively taking over the world with its culture and language is Eagleland Osmosis.
- Amicable Exes is not about friendly .exe files
- Am I Just a Toy to You? is not the Driving Question of Toy Story, or its imitators like Army Men or Small Soldiers.
- Amphibian Assault doesn't necessarily have anything to do with transporting ground and air forces via navy ships-that's an amphibious assault-unless it's done by amphibians.
- Nor is it about an amphibian being assaulted. Even if it happens in Amphibia.
- Amphibian at Large doesn't deal with amphibian criminals having escaped prison, nor does it address the biological class Amphibia as a whole. Or, for that matter, an entire amphibian as opposed to a specific part of it.
- Anachronism Stew is not a type of stew made from beef from cows born in 2050 and then cooked in 1800.
- Nor is it made with vegetables grown in 3040 and harvested in the year 1456.
- Anatomy Arsenal has nothing to do with the English football team called Arsenal.
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent does not refer to Jerkass fish.
- Ancient Astronauts are not spacefaring ancient Romans or Egyptians. (Well, where the Earthlings discovered space travel on their own.) And certainly not The Bible in Space.
- And it has even less to do with the premise of Space Cowboys.
- Ancient Grome is not a reference to the god of Earth in the Elric of Melnibone universe.
- And Another Thing... is not related in any way to And Some Other Stuff.
- And Call Him "George" is not, I repeat not simply about naming someone (or something) George.
- It's also not about instructing George to call some guy.
- And Knowing Is Half the Battle does not refer to knowing a specific strategy that is needed to defeat a given boss.
- Android Games are not (all) games featuring humanoid robots.
- Androids Are People, Too is not asserting that devices that run on the Android platform are actually humans.
- And Some Other Stuff is not the sequel to the movie about sentient ice-cream.
- And the Rest is not about a nap someone takes following a lot of physical activity.
- Nor does it have anything to do with musical rests.
- Nor is it saying this phrase at the end of a list of ingredients. That would be And Some Other Stuff.
- Despite what one might glean from Haley Starshine, And Your Little Dog, Too! is not a villainous version of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Also, And Your Little Dog, Too! is not a more Brain Bleach-worthy superlative to I Have You Now, My Pretty. Thank God.
- Nor is it what the vet says after, "Can you bring your big dog in next week?".
- And Your Reward Is Clothes has nothing to do with freeing servant spirits, fairy-tale or otherwise.
- Nor is it about subjecting impoverished people in third-world countries to competitions with getting clothes to wear as an incentive.
- It also has very little to do with Kleptomaniac Hero Found Underwear (other than both involving clothing).
- And You Thought It Was a Game is not about thinking It or any of its adaptations is a video game.
- Nor is it about confusing something for a hunted animal or the meat of one.
- Likewise, And You Thought It Was Real is not about thinking It is a true story.
- Nor is it about thinking a number is a real number when it is actually a Complex number or even a completely different type of number.
- Angels, Devils and Squid is not about religion in Splatoon.
- It's not about the cult Squidward joined in "Cephalopod Lodge".
- Nor is it an example of Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking. The squid are Eldritch Abominations, not normal squid.
- Angrish has nothing to do with Ang Lee.
- It's also not an emotion somewhere between anger and anguish.
- An Animal Chick Magnet does not draw baby birds towards themself.
- Nor are they a Little Bit Beastly woman who has the power to attracts metal.
- An Animal Eye Spy is not a spy with those slit pupils of a cat or the rectangular pupils of a goat, nor is it an I Spy book with a biological theme.
- An Animal Gender-Bender is not an animal, anthropomorphic or otherwise, that actually undergoesnote a Gender Bender as part of the plot. Nor is it a case when people in the story get an animal's sex wrong. Or an Avatar: The Last Airbender character with the power to change animals' gender. Nor does it involve Bender turning into a male or female animal.
- Just because Animal Is the New Man does not mean Animal is now The Man™.
- Animal Lover is not, thank God, about someone's lover being an animal, nor is it about Animal's lover.
- Animals Hate Him isn't about a suburban dad who learned this one weird trick to... what would animals even hate? Locking trash cans more effectively? Well, it doesn't matter, because the article isn't about that.
- Nor is it necessarily Him with a capital H. Or HIM, for that matter.
- Animals Lack Attributes is not about animal Bakugan without elemental powers.
- It also doesn't mean that every animal is a Featureless Protagonist.
- An Animal Wrongs Group does not murder animals just for the fun of it. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
- Nor is it a group of incompetent animals.
- Nor is it about Animal wronging a group.
- Nor is it a group that punishes naughty animals.
- Animated Actors is not about animated characters that resemble their voice actors or any other actor.
- Nor is it the people who voiced Transformers: Animated.
- It is also not about animated characters who happen to be In-Universe actors.
- Nor is it energetic actors.
- Animated Armor is not just about armor that appears in any form of animation.
- The word "animate" in Animate Inanimate Object is not a verb, and that trope, therefore, is not the name of a spell or an order to an animator to make animations about inanimate objects.
- Nor is it about objects that somehow move and yet don't move simultaneously. That would be Oxymoronic Being.
- Animating Artifact isn't how an animator makes a series about an Animate Inanimate Object.
- The Animation Age Ghetto is not Toon Town. Nor does it refer to Fat Albert's neighborhood.
- It also does not refer to some "Animation Age" when animated works were the dominant media output.
- Anime First is not what an Otaku says when he needs to decide what to save in a house fire.
- Animorphism isn't a religion based around Animorphs.
- Ankle Drag has nothing to do with cross-dressing feet.
- Annoying Arrows are not arrow signs that try to lead you in the wrong direction. Nor are they found anywhere in DanceDanceRevolution songs, however annoying they may be.
- Antagonistic Offspring isn't about an antagonist being a member of The Offspring.
- Antepiece is not someone who supports war.
- The Anthropic Principle is not that Most Writers Are Human.
- Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation is not about how animals might evolve to be more humanlike.
- An Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag isn't a wiggly line that acts like a human.
- Nor does it refer to a specific tiger-skunk from the Furry Fandom. Or ''that'' Zigzag.
- Anti-Air is not about the Antimatter version of air.
- Nor it it about someone who is against air.
- Nor is it when water acts like air.
- The Anti-Anti-Christ is not Jesus Christ, nor is it anyone who opposes The Antichrist.
- An Anti-Christmas Song does not (necessarily) celebrate the birth of the Anti-Christ.
- Nor is it someone who dislikes Christmas songs, although someone who dislikes Christmas songs might write such a song.
- It's also not necessarily a song opposed to Christmas itself.
- Anti-Climax is not about people morally opposed to either orgasms or the most exciting part of a story.
- Nor is it when the climax is at the beginning of the story rather than the end.
- The Anti-Grinch doesn't literally invert the story arc of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by starting out with a lot of generosity and holiday spirit then turning into a Christmas-hating curmudgeon.
- Nor is it another name for The Cat in the Hat.
- Nor is it someone who searches for stolen Christmas items and returns them.
- An Anti-Hero isn't someone who is against heroes, though you can be sure somewhere out there is a story of a jaded mercenary travelling to stop heroic wannabes and their misguided attempts at saving the world. Similarly an Anti-Villain isn't someone who's against villains, or a member of the Anti-Villain League.
- It's also not a hero made of Antimatter.
- Anti-Human Alliance is not (necessarily) about Warcraft's Orcish Horde.
- Anti Poop-Socking is not about people who are morally opposed to punching turds, or about punching people who don't like poop. And while pooping in a sock is one thing this trope tries to prevent, it's not the only obsession-based habit being addressed.
- Anti-Vehicle is not a work produced to prove to the industry that its star should never receive a leading role again.
- Nor does it refer to people against any mode of transportation besides walking (and perhaps horseback).
- Anvilicious is not about the taste of anvils or other metalworking equipment. It also has nothing to do with dropping anvils on cartoon characters, and less than nothing to do with the passages in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold scored for 18 anvils.
- Anyone Can Die is not an obvious fact of life, nor is it an indirect way of indicating a fictional setting lacks total immortality.
- Nor is it about Chef Gusteau trying to say his catchphrase but being interrupted by someone shouting, "Die!".
- Anyone You Know is a question, not an incomplete statement.
- Apocalypse Day Planner is not about someone who prepares for an apocalypse.
- It's also not about a day planner with pictures of En Sabah Nur.
- Apocalypse How is not someone wondering "What makes this qualify as an apocalypse?!".
- Apocalypse Not is also the title of one of Charmed's episodes, but it's not even close to an example.
- It's also not about yelling, "NOT!!" so loud you cause an apocalypse.
- Or simply any time there is not an apocalypse. That would be a People Sit on Chairs.
- Apocalypse Wow is not about what happened just before the latest World of Warcraft expansion (though it might fit).
- Nor is it about a musical starring Marlon Brando.
- It's not a sarcastic remark to state how mediocre said apocalypse is either (Just like how many internet forums use the word "wow").
- Apocalyptic Log has nothing to do with world-ending lumber, though one could conceivably be created as a result of it.
- Nor is it about the logarithm with base 666.
- Most especially it is not the latest gimmick toy from Blamo.
- Apothecary Alligator is not the Alligator working the cash register at a folk healer's shop or medicine show.
- Appeal to Force has little to do with Star Wars, unless you're a Sith.
- Appeal to Obscurity does not describe someone who only likes obscure things, nor is it the reason why mascot games mix forgotten characters with the popular ones.
- Apple for Teacher is not about having a sapient apple as a teacher. It also doesn't imply that Macs are better for educators to use than PC's.
- An Apple of Discord is not shipping one of the Mane Six with a draconequus. And while it's bad, it's not that kind of bad apple.
- Nor is it the effect of throwing an iOS device into a world full of Google Android phones and tablets. Unless you're Nokia.
- Nor is it about said draconequus eating an actual apple.
- Nor is it about him ruining Applebucking Day.
- Nor is it Apple being bought out by the company that owns a popular gaming-focused chat app.
- Applied Mathematics is not about the use of mathematical models in real-world problems.
- Arch-Enemy is not an example of Malevolent Architecture.
- Nor is it about malevolent footwear or architecture.
- Nor is it a Big Bad who lasts through a single season (see Arc Villain for that).
- Archnemesis Dad is only used when the father is the villain. For examples where the child is the villain, see Antagonistic Offspring, even if the heroic father is the child's Arch-Enemy.
- Arc Number is not the integral from a to b of the square root of (1 + f'(x) ^2).
- It also has nothing to do with Jaune Arc's ability to count.
- It also isn't returned by std::sync::Arc::strong_count in Rust.
- Arc Welding is not about welding metal using arcing electricity.
- It's not about boats. That would be Ark Welding.
- No, it has nothing to do with Jaune using a blowtorch.
- Argument of Contradictions is not about lawyers trying to achieve Conviction by Contradiction, nor about people pointing out contradictions in the other's argument in any other context.
- The Aristocrats is not, we repeat, NOT related to The Aristocats.
- Nor is it about nobility in general.
- An Arm and a Leg is not about a character having one broken arm and one broken leg. If they were broken off, however, then that may count as an example of the trope.
- Nor is it about something expensive.
- Nor is it someone who was born with only one arm and only one leg.
- An Arm Cannon is not a cannon that shoots arms at people.
- Likewise, a Shoulder Cannon is not a cannon that shoots shoulders and Leg Cannon for legs.
- And a Hand Cannon is not...well, you get the point.
- Meanwhile, an Armed Blag is not a weblog with a gun. Nor even a weblog with limbs.
- An Armchair Military is not a military force whose troops ride weaponized armchairs into battle, nor is it a military force made up entirely of armchairs that walk and talk. Nor is it about people in the military slacking off, or having a role that allows/requires them to sit.
- Armed Legs is not about people with a second pair of arms where their legs would be.
- Armed with Canon is not about usage of Canon cameras as weapons.
- Nor is about someone who takes embarrassing photographs of people.
- Armored Coffins will not secure anyone's corpse from being stolen.
- Armor-Piercing Question is not about asking a question about how to pierce armor, or about asking how someone's armor was pierced. Nor is it a faceless vigilante who can pierce armor.
- An Arranged Marriage is not a marriage in Arrange Mode.
- The Artful Dodger is not about a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers who's particularly artistic or art-loving. It is not about skillful evaders either.
- The Artifact is not about the contents of Section 5.
- Nor is it your reward for sucking up to your god in a Roguelike.
- Nor are any stored in Warehouse 13.
- Nor does it have anything to do with compressing files.
- Artifact Domination is not about JPEG compression that's so bad, compression artifacts take up most of the image.
- An Artifact of Death isn't owned by The Grim Reaper.
- An Artifact of Doom does not necessarily belong to Doctor Doom. It is also not specifically an artifact found in the Temple of Doom, nor a well-known vertical line rendering glitch in the first level of the video game Doom.
- Nor is it the very first copy of the aforementioned game from back in 1993.
- An Artifact Title is not (necessarily) a work named after some ancient thing found in some ruins.
- Artificial Atmospheric Actions are not actions taken by atmospheres that are created artificially. Nor is it about artificial weather.
- Artificial Brilliance has nothing to do with Polishing The Turd.
- Nor is it about pretending to know it all.
- Artificial Stupidity is not about people pretending they're stupid.
- Nor is it a stupid robot.
- Artistic Age doesn't refer to the time of somebody's life when they were artistic, only to cease being so after getting older. Nor is it the name of an era in history where art first originated or was very important.
- Artistic License is not a card that says someone is part of a painter's guild.
- Nor does it mean you need a license to be an artist.
- Nor is it a painting on a driver's license.
- Nor that you're distributing a Perl interpreter.
- Nor is it a license that's a work of art.
- Artistic License – Ships does not refer to an author ignoring the way Shipping works.
- Artistic License – Law is not about governmental regulation on what kinds of artistic licenses are allowed.
- Artistic License – Linguistics isn't about a language made up by authors who invoke Artistic License.
- Artistic Licence Paleontology isn't about somebody owning copyrights over paleontology or any known prehistoric species such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, Brontosaurus, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Pteranodon, Mamenchisaurus, etc.
- Art-Style Dissonance is not about visual works using several art-styles that do not match.
- An Ascended Demon is not a normal human who has risen to demonhood.
- An Ascended Extra most likely did not Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence.
- Similarly, Ascended Fanboy is not about Fanboy doing exactly that.
- An Ascended Glitch is not a robot stuck in Medieval Stasis committing ritualistic suicide by jumping off a tower, that is, a Glitch becoming an Ascendant.
- Ash Face is not someone whose face has a resemblance of a certain deciduous tree. Or S-Mart employee. Or Pokémon Trainer (although said trainer is a frequent victim of the trope). Or the female soldier squadmate from Mass Effect. Or a "different" fox cub.
- Assimilation Plot is not about Immigrant Patriotism.
- Assassin Outclassin' is not about a classy assassin, nor someone who is even classier than him.
- Asshole Victim is not about what Borat's producer did to him during the infamous naked fight.
- Also, Asshole Victim is not the same thing as Ungrateful Bastard.
- Nor is it the victim of an asshole.
- Nor is it any Jerkass who suffers misfortune - the misfortune has to be something beyond their control to count for this trope.
- Nor is it the victim of an Ass Shove.
- "Ass" in Ambassador is not an ambassador with Hartman Hips.
- Ass in a Lion Skin is not about covering one's derrière with a mane.
- Nor about a Jerkass furry.
- Ass Kicks You is not about a donkey kicking someone.
- Nor is it merely the act of a complete jerk who kicks you.
- It's not about asses with legs. Egad.
- Ass Pull is not about carts pulled by donkeys.
- Nor is it about stretching the anus by pulling.
- Nor is it about pulling the buttocks.
- Nor is it a particularly obnoxious term for a wedgie.
- Nor is it about pulling a jerk along.
- Ass Shove is similarly not about a donkey shoving people. Nor is it about using your butt to shove people.
- And to combine the above two, Ass Pull and Ass Shove are not opposite tropes.
- As the Good Book Says... is not about quotes from "The Good Book" by AC Grayling.
- An Astro Clone is not a genetic duplicate or expy of The Jetsons' family dog.
- Nor are the clones necessarily generated in space.
- Nor is it about people like Nolan Ryan, Jeff Bagwell, or José Altuve getting cloned.
- An Asymmetric Dilemma is not a problem caused by a lack of symmetry.
- Nor is it a problem that's more troublesome for one side than another.
- At Arm's Length is not about holding dirty/disgusting objects far away from your body so you don't smell them or get dirty.
- A-Team Firing is not an occasion where everyone on the team gets fired.
- Nor is it about firing the cast or crew of The A-Team.
- Ate His Gun is not about monsters eating your weapons.
- Or about where Sergent Schlock stores his plasma cannon.
- Ate the Spoon does not involve people mistaking a spoon for food, nor is it about edible spoons.
- The "F" in Atomic F-Bomb does not stand for fission or fusion.
- Atomic Hate is not the smallest indivisible particle of Hate.
- Nor is it about Fantastic Racism towards atoms.
- Attack! Attack! Attack! is not when you keep inaccurately hitting notes in CHUNITHM.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever is not The Stoic's response to the Big "NO!".
- Nor is it a boss battle with a giant version of Mother 3's "Whatever" enemy.
- Nor is it a closing number of The Muppet Show that involves Gonzo becoming huge.
- Nor is it the scenario where The Stoic is attacked by or with their own Speech Bubble.
- The "50-foot whatever" also wasn't always huge, nor does it necessarily attack people.
- Attack Pattern Alpha is not telling Alpha to attack a pattern.
- Attack Reflector does not involve fighting a Decepticon who turns into a camera.
- Attack the Tail is not what a spy does when he's sick of being followed.
- It's also not about kittens chasing their tails.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! isn't (just) about being distracted by the Villain Song from Moana.
- Attention Whore is not commanding a hooker to listen to you.
- Nor it is a warning to other people that a woman of low morality is approaching.
- Nor is it someone acting lusty to get attention, although an Attention Whore might do that.
- An Attract Mode is not when you switch your electromagnet on, nor is it when you're in a mood to find a date. There is also no opposing Repel Mode.
- Audience-Alienating Premise isn't about shows that literally turn everyone who watches them into an alien.
- Audience Surrogate has nothing to do with surrogate pregnancy.
- Audio Erotica is not about having sex with a radio or even a singer.
- Author Appeal does not necessarily encompass everything an author likes.
- Nor is it about appealing to an author to get Fanon to get included in the Canon.
- Nor is it about an author attempting to have a legal case reviewed by a higher court.
- Nor is it a type of logical fallacy (like Appeal to Emotions and Appeal to Nature).
- Author Avatar is not James Cameron. Nor Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino.
- Author Phobia isn't the persistent fear of authors.
- An Author Tract isn't a plot of land where authors live.
- Auto Cannibalism is not about cars eating cars, or even salvaging one car for parts for others.
- Auto-Doc has little-to-nothing to do with Ratchet. And he'd resent you for thinking of him like that.
- It's also not a tool to generate documentation automatically.
- Auto Erotica is not about having sex with a Transformer, or even AUTO. If you want that, it's not hard to find on the Internet... or official merchandise.
- It also has nothing to do with masturbation.
- Or with anthropomorphic cars making out.
- It's not automatically-generated pornography, either.
- It's also completely unrelated to Self-Fanservice, despite the names having the same meaning.
- Automobiles Are Alien does not mean that extraterrestrials are posing as cars.
- Awesome Anime & Manga (Or any of the other pages in this family) does not inherently imply that the anime or the manga is awesome. Just bits of it.
- Awesome Ego has nothing to do with really great waffles.
- Nor is it Anton Ego being awesome.
- Awesome McCoolname is not an Irish '90s Anti-Hero.
- It is also about people who actually go by names like that; it is not about names The Nicknamer gives people.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning has nothing to do with giving birth.
- Or dentistry.
- Awesomeness by Analysis doesn't mean scientifically proving that something is awesome.
- Awesomeness Is Volatile doesn't mean that awesomeness evaporates easily.
- Awful Truth is not the opinion of someone who really hates top quarks.
- Or about disappointing plot reveals.
- A Wild Rapper Appears! has never happened in any Pokémon canon. And even if it did, the phrase would be "a wild rapper appeared".
- Ax-Crazy doesn't refer strictly to using axes as weapons.
- Axes at School has nothing to do with Cartesian Geometry. Or bringing guitars to class. Or wearing a certain cologne to school.
- Axis Mundi is not about Ki-Adi-Mundi joining the Axis powers.
- Nor is it a vegetable shop in India where axes are sold.
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- Babies Ever After are not young children who never age.
- Nor is it about constantly having kids.
- It is also not when a character gets turned into a baby at the end.
- Baby Planet does not refer to planets that have only infants on them. Nor does it refer to young planets.
- Baby See, Baby Do is not about a baby observing another baby.
- The Baby Trap is not about a trap designed to catch babies.
- It is also not a sequel to The Parent Trap.
- Or a trap that hasn't grown up yet.
- Baby Talk does not refer to infants being able to speak words.
- Babysitter's Nightmare is not about a babysitter having a bad dream, unless it's about their charge(s) harassing them. Nor is it a nightmare you have after you sit on a baby.
- Back Blocking is not about turtles or similar entities using their backs as shields.
- Back for the Dead is not about retrieving corpses or sacrificing people's backs to the deceased.
- Nor does it involve returning for Jerry Garcia and his bandmates.
- A Background Boss is not an office boss who's merely a secondary character.
- Back Stab is not necessarily about betrayal.
- Back-to-Back Badasses is not a sex position.
- Back to School is not about characters returning to school after summer break. The period of time the character was out of school has to be significantly longer than just the summer break or even a gap year.
- Nor does it have to do with facing away from a school building so that one's back faces toward it.
- The Backwards Я is not about stereotypical kids-style writing where the letters are backwards (like the Toys "Я" Us logo).
- Nor is it when a Nissan Skyline GT-R drives in reverse.
- A Badass Bureaucrat is not a bureaucrat who works for a badass, nor is it one who is a bad donkey or has a bad butt.
- Badass Creed is not a Fan Nickname for Assassin's Creed. Though the eponymous assassin is badass.
- Nor does it insinuate that Scott Stapp has somehow become awesome.
- And however bad ass he might be, it also has nothing to do with Apollo Creed.
- Nor is it about a certain tactical genius from Warhammer 40,000.
- A Badass Driver is not the low-level program allowing for the communication between the hardware and software of a Super Robot. Nor is it the incompetent controller of a donkey. And it's certainly not a particularly awesome golf club. Nor is it about Minnie Driver or Adam Driver being a badass.
- A Badass Fingersnap is not about looking like a badass by breaking someone's fingers (either someone else's or your own).
- A Badass Longcoat is not about the piece of attire. It is not used to cover a particularly unattractive butt, either.
- Badass Normal is not about having so many badasses to the point of being the norm.
- Nor is it about normal difficulty in video games being suited for badasses.
- Badass Transplant is not about getting a transplanted posterior that is rather unattractive, nor is it about said posterior being "bad" in the Michael Jackson sense, either. Nor does it have anything to do with transplanting a butt that May Contain Evil.
- A Bad Boss doesn't mean they're That One Boss or the boss of That One Level, nor are they an Anticlimax Boss or a Warmup Boss. Nor are they any other low-quality video game boss.
- There's also cruel, not just incompetent. Though it's certainly possible for them to be both cruel and incompetent.
- Badbutt isn't about somebody's butt being ugly.
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop is not the combination of Good Cop/Bad Cop and Good Is Dumb. The trope has nothing to do with teaming the two up.
- Bad Future is not synonymous with Future Imperfect.
- Nor is it scolding a dog named Future.
- Nor is it a criticism of Arcaea Future-difficulty charts.
- A Bad Girl Song is not scolding a girl in song. It's also not a poorly-written song about a girl. Or just a Villain Song by a female villain; though some could qualify, not all do.
- Bad Guy Bar is not about a Censor Box covering up a villain who's too evil to be shown on-screen, used humorously or otherwise.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work does not imply a correlation between villains and blue collar employees.
- Bad Habits has nothing to do with sucking one's thumb, picking one's nose, compulsive gambling, or other such behaviors.
- A Bad Humor Truck is not a truck that tells low-quality jokes, nor does it contain drivers or passengers who make for terrible comedians.
- A Bad Influencer isn't just anyone who's a bad influence on others, unless they're on social media. Nor is it someone who is bad at influencing others.
- Bad Impressionists are not painters who failed miserably at painting pictures in the art style popularized by Claude Monet.
- Badly Battered Babysitter is not a badly-prepared pastry mixture that somehow managed to get a job concerning childcare (nor the other way round).
- Bad News in a Good Way is not an even-more-oddly-named relative of Ebony Way, nor is it someone who's evil but whose evil acts help somehow.
- Bad News, Irrelevant News is not about bad news that is irrelevant.
- Bad Powers, Bad People is not about how being evil functions as a source of energy for villains.
- Bad Present has nothing to do with giving horrible gifts.
- Nor is it a criticism of Arcaea charts on Present difficulty.
- Bad Samaritan does not refer to evil members of a certain Middle Eastern ethnoreligious group. Nor is it saying that a suicide prevention charity is actually evil.
- Bad Santa is not about the film.
- Bait-and-Switch Credits isn't about when the work rolls credits to fake the viewer into thinking it's over, then continues afterwards.
- Nor does it have anything to do with a currency called "credits".
- A Bait-and-Switch Performance is not when somebody unexpectedly plays Never Gonna Give You Up in the middle of a performance.
- Bait the Dog does not involve covering a dog with something to lure out something else, nor does it involve obscene acts.
- Baku is not about the capital of Azerbaijan.
- Balanced Harem is not about a harem with the same number of males as females, nor a harem performing balancing acts.
- Balloon Belly is not about pregnancy, though someone could get Mistaken for Pregnant if they get one.
- Or about eating balloons.
- Nor is it when someone's belly always looks like that.
- "Balls" Gag is not someone gagging at balls. Nor is it about ball gags.
- Balls of Steel have nothing to do with the steel balls used in pinball.
- Nor does it describe the testicles of an android, and it also has nothing to do with the pill that gives you two soul hearts.
- Bamboo Technology is not always literally made from bamboo.
- Banana in the Tailpipe is not a Double Entendre. Not intentionally, anyway.
- A Banana Peel is not any instance of one, it has to be slipped on to qualify.
- Our Banana Republic will not sell you apparel at moderately high prices. It is likely, however, that our Banana Republic will make the apparel that your Banana Republic will sell you at moderately high prices.
- Nor is it a nation of bananas.
- The Band Minus the Face is not a band in which every member is The Faceless or The Blank, nor does it describe a band lacking a heroic wrestler.
- Bang, Bang, BANG is not the anime trope where an intense collision is shown three times in rapid succession. Nor is it about an increasingly frantic knock at one's door. Or, you know, sex. Neither is it about the Mozambique Drill - you want Finishing Move for that. It's most certainly not about Bang Shishigami.
- Banging for Help does not mean having sex to summon aid. Though that certainly would be something.
- Banging Pots and Pans does not involve any intimate contact.
- Banjo Ginga is not about Kazooie being replaced by a certain character from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS in the next Banjo game...but I want to play it anyways.
- A Bank Toaster will not turn your financial institutions warm and crispy.
- Nor is it about someone putting their money in a toaster instead of a piggybank.
- It has nothing to do with literally burning money, either, whether accidentally or purposely. (Or setting a bank on fire, either.)
- It's also not a toaster that makes a "ka-ching" sound like a cash register when the toast pops up.
- Bar Brawl is not the sentiment that most Super Smash Bros. Melee players show towards its sequel.
- Nor is it a knockdown, dragged-out fight between pieces of metal, establishments that serve alcohol, and organizations that provide various professional licenses.
- It also has nothing to do with one of the Combaticons.
- The Bard on Board is not a specific type of Writer on Board done by a musician or poet, or a Character Filibuster by a character who is one. It is related to William Shakespeare, but is not about using the Bard as a character in your work.
- Bare-Fisted Monk is not the result of a certain OCD-suffering detective getting fed up with the unsightly hair on his hands.
- It's also not a Fisted Monk that took his clothes off.
- Nor does he charge into Combine ambushes and make you lose the Escort Mission.
- It's also not a Fisted Monk that took his clothes off.
- Barefoot Sage is not about herbs with no footwear.
- A Barefoot Suicide isn't the event of a bare foot killing itself for any number of potential reasons.
- Barrier Maiden is not a female Barrier Warrior, though both tropes can overlap in a single character.
- Bar Sinister is not a place where villains meet to drink and scheme.
- Nor is it the arch nemesis of Underdog.
- Base-Breaking Character is not necessarily a guy who demolishes the headquarters after an instance of All Your Base Are Belong to Us or Storming the Castle.
- Based on a Great Big Lie is not a level on Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness.
- Bash Brothers is not a command to attack some siblings.
- The Basilisk is a redirect to Brown Note. It is not about the actual mythological creature called the basilisk, or about harmless South American lizards that can run on water.
- For that matter, it has nothing to do with feuding ninjas in early Tokugawa-era Japan. Or the thought experiment involving an AI that examines the past.
- Bastard Angst isn't about suffering angst because you acted like a metaphorical bastard.
- A Bastard Bastard isn't about an unpleasant bastard sword.
- A Bastard Understudy isn't (necessarily) an understudy who was born to unmarried parents.
- A Bat Deduction does not come off Bruce Wayne's taxes.
- Or off a bat's taxes, for that matter.
- Nor it is a clause in Batman's Hero Insurance policy. That'd be a Bat Deductible.
- Batman Cold Open does not necessarily refer to a Cold Open with Batman in it, though it can be like that at times.
- Nor does it normally involve Batman opening the door to a refrigerator.
- A Bat Family Crossover does not crossover with an actual family of bats. Thus, Silverwing is not an example.
- Bathos is not a software operating system for bathrooms.
- A Bathroom Break-Out is not when a bathroom becomes unexpectedly popular and well-liked.
- Nor is it when a teenager breaks out in pimples or hives while in the bathroom.
- Baths Are Fun has nothing to do with anything sexual, if you were thinking that. It's not about anything "dirty" - this is characters having fun while getting clean in the bath.
- Bathtub Bonding is not about attaching bathtubs together.
- Nor is it about bathtubs befriending each other.
- Nor is it about getting fused to a bathtub.
- Nor is it what happened in the teaser to Goldfinger.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space is not a sister trope of Batman Can Breathe... except IN SPACE!
- Nor is it about a superhero who's supposed to not have powers but can breathe in space.
- Nor is it about a Commonwealth nation's military officer's personal attendant being able to breathe in space.
- Batman Gambit is not a DC / Marvel crossover comic. But it should be.
- Batman Grabs a Gun is not the same as Superhero Packing Heat. Nor is it about a Commonwealth nation's military officer's personal attendant grabbing a weapon.
- Batman in My Basement is not an Unusual Euphemism. Nor is it the result of a Commonwealth country military officer sending his personal attendant to his house's basement.
- Bat Out of Hell is not one of Batman's tools.
- Nor is it a baseball bat given to a player who makes a Deal with the Devil to become better at the sport.
- Or a baseball player in Hell scoring a home run that leaves the underworld.
- Nor is it about the Meat Loaf album.
- Bat People is not about Batman, or expies thereof.'
- Nor is it about baseball players.
- Bat Scare is not the Batman/Scarecrow pairing. Egad.
- Nor does it refer to threatening someone with a baseball bat.
- It isn't startling a bat either.
- Batter Up! does not refer to an improper method of coating deep fried foods.
- Battle atop the Poles is not an umpteenth time Poland got invaded by its neighbours.
- Nor is it a battle that takes place on the North or South Pole.
- Battleaxe Nurse isn't necessarily about nurses wielding battleaxes.
- Nor does it involve using a battleaxe to give milk to a baby.
- Nor is it about nurses who Minored in Ass-Kicking.
- Battle Butler is not telling the butler to fight or telling someone to fight the butler.
- Battle Rapping does not refer to when Battle Theme Music is rap.
- The Battlestar is usually not a star suited for space battles.
- Battle Strip is not a duel to see who could do the best striptease.
- It also does not involve a strip version of Battleship.
- And it's not a comic strip about war.
- Nor a place in Vegas where there's a lot of expensive combat.
- A Bavarian Fire Drill is not a flaming drill from that German state.
- It is also not the act of dousing a fire by dumping Bavarian cream on it, or cream-filled donuts for that matter. It's a waste of good cream.
- Nor is it about an actual exercise to train people what to do in case of a real fire that is either performed in Bavaria or is based on the ones performed in Bavaria, the German state.
- The BBC Quarry is not a large hole dug in the ground where BBC shows are found and unearthed. Nor is it something hunted by BBC.
- Beam Me Up, Scotty! is not a Teleportation Trope. Nor is it about asking Scotty to Kamehameha you either.
- Beam-O-War is not a wargame featuring the talking video game console from Adventure Time.
- Beam Spam is not beams (either the laser kind or the metal kind) in the form of canned luncheon meat.
- Nor is it a way to send unwanted advertising messages over a directional wireless link or with an Exposition Beam.
- The Beard is not about Growing the Beard, nor is it about growing an actual beard.
- On the other hand, Beard of Evil for instance, is about an actual beard, not people who are The Beard and also evil/badass.
- Beard of Evil is not Lucy Saxon's Fan Nickname...
- Beard of Sorrow has nothing to do with the fact that Julius Belmont has more facial hair than the rest of his family.
- Nor is it a sequel to Inside Out about Sadness growing a beard.
- And neither of the above two have anything to do with The Beard.
- Bears Are Bad News has nothing to do with Manly Gay men being dangerous.
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible is the driving goal of an Obstructive Bureaucrat, but that is not what the trope is about.
- Beat is not about winning, heartbeats, or music.
- It also has nothing to do with Mega Man's bird sidekick or a rollerblading graffiti artist.
- A Beat 'em Up is not Shoot 'Em Up meets Rhythm Game.
- Beating A Dead Player is not playing a game against a corpse and winning.
- Beat It by Compulsion does not, in fact, refer to... beating it... by compulsion.
- Nor is it about being compelled to dance by Michael Jackson.
- A Beat Panel may have masturbation in it, but it is not what the trope is about.
- It also doesn't involve a comic panel containing a certain Sega character either.
- Nor is it about a comic panel involving characters from The World Ends with You, Mega Man (Classic), or Eternal Sonata, unless you happen to be reading Square Root of Minus Garfield. Why are there so many characters named Beat?
- It also doesn't involve popular music from the sixties.
- Nor are the note marks in beatmania called "panels".
- And it's not a panel in which someone receives a beating, either.
- The Beautiful Elite are not synonymous with The Fair Folk. Confuse the two at your peril.
- Nor is it all relative to the size of your steeple.
- It's not about the Elite Four in Pokémon, either.
- Or the Elite Guard in Transformers: Animated
- Nor is it about particularly pretty enemies from Halo.
- The Beautiful Game is not a competition about being as beautiful as possible. Nor is it about hunting beautiful animals...or people.
- Beauty Breeds Laziness is not when a beautiful person becomes a parent of a Lazy Bum.
- A Beauty Inversion is not a bottom antiquark.
- Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, but neither Beast nor Bobobobo nead rescue their respective beloveds from an Eye Tyrant.
- Be Careful What You Wish For is not exclusively about making sure you word your wishes correctly when faced with a Literal Genie or worse, a Jackass Genie.
- Because Destiny Says So isn't about following the orders of a whale shark.
- The Bechdel Test isn’t an entrance test for a civil engineer looking to join Bechtel Corporation.
- Become a Real Boy is not about a girl who wants to turn male achieving her goal.
- Becoming the Mask has nothing to do with the movie The Mask, nor does it involve a mask fusing to your face. Nor does it actually involve literally becoming a mask.
- A Bed Trick will not be a part of any magic act on stage.
- Bee Afraid doesn't refer to an individual who's afraid of bees. It refers to bees almost anyone should be afraid of.
- Nor is it someone talking in Hulk Speak that a nearby bumblebee is scared of something.
- A Beef Bandage is not used to treat an injured steak, nor is it wrapping an injury in a very long, thin, floppy strip of beef.
- Beefgate is not a scandal in the meat-packing industry.
- Nor is it a gate made out of meat.
- Beehive Barrier is not about the Castelia City gym.
- Bee People doesn't necessarily refer to a race composed of humanoid bees.
- Beeping Computers is not what a character might say after deleting an important file, on a show that censors swearing.
- Beergasm is not about alcohol getting sexually aroused.
- Behemoth Battle is not the combination of Out-of-Genre Experience and Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, despite Mario Sports Mix. Also, there must be at least two opposing behemoths to qualify.
- It may or may not involve The Behemoth.
- Behind the Black is not about standing behind a Token Minority.
- Being Human Sucks does not reflect our opinion on the BBC supernatural soap opera.
- Bellisario's Maxim is not a quote by the Byzantine general. Nor is it about a Maxim machine gun owned by Donald Bellisario.
- A Benevolent Boss is not a Boss Battle in which the boss helps you.
- A Berserk Button is not a button you press to start watching Berserk.
- It's also not a very angry button.
- It's not a button you press to make someone insane, either, although that's sorta close.
- The Berserker's love for you is in no conceivable way like a truck...unless you're the type who likes to play in highway traffic at rush hour.
- Best Friend Manual is not about having a manual as your best friend.
- Best Friends-in-Law has nothing to do with Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth.
- It's also not about your partner's best friend, like how your partner's mother is your mother-in-law.
- Best Served Cold is about revenge, not about the argument over whether beer should be drunk at room temperature or chilled.
- It’s also not about foods that are better when served cold, like pizza.
- A Beta Bitch is not a bitch (of any sort) who's being tested for unexpected bugs, glitches, and server issues and not yet ready for public release.
- Nor is it a sidekick who's a female dog.
- Nor is it a Gender Flip of Alpha's next-in-command.
- Nor is it a mean female beta fish.
- A Beta Test Baddie is not a boss fight that was removed from the final game.
- Better as Friends does not refer to how the careers of Friends' cast went downhill after it ended.
- Nor is it the claim that any sitcom was Better by a Different Name.
- It is also not for when the quality of a show goes downhill after two or more characters stop being platonic friends (one way or another).
- Better Than It Sounds is not about great music recorded on very poor media.
- Nor, despite Bill Nye, is it about Wagner's music.
- Between My Legs is not about giving instructions on how to have sex to one's partner.
- Nor is it a response to "Where are your private parts?".
- Beware My Stinger Tail does not redirect to The Stinger.
- Beware the Superman doesn't necessarily involve Superman.
- Nor is it a spin-off of Beware the Batman.
- Bewitched Amphibians were something else to begin with and bewitched into amphibians. They are not amphibians that were transformed into something else.
- It's also not a version of Bewitched where the main characters are replaced with amphibians.
- BFG is not about the giant.
- BFS is not an algorithm for searching TV Tropes for a particular page. Similarly, BFG does not stand for "Breadth-First Gun".
- The B Grade is not about B Movies. It is also not a trope about the use of Grade B milk, eggs or meat.
- Big Applesauce is not about a notably large quantity of the apple dessert.
- The Big Bad is not necessarily, well, "big".
- Nor is it about The Big Bad Wolf, though he counts as an example.
- Nor is it a statement about how much Big the Cat sucks.
- Nor Big from Big and Small.
- Nor is it a Hulk Speak warning about obesity.
- Nor is about yelling the word "Bad" very loud and long.
- Nor is it when you're playing a Rhythm Game, hit a note poorly, and the game flashes the word BAD in large-point font on the screen.
- The Big Bad Shuffle is not the Big Bad Wolf's take on the Super Bowl Shuffle.
- Nor is it a very evil way of shuffling cards.
- Nor is it a form of tap-dancing commonly practiced by Big Bads.
- A Big Ball of Violence is not a rolling object players chase after in a Blood Sport, nor is it about when one character becomes uncharacteristically violent.
- Nor is a dance that has gotten out of hand.
- A Big Beautiful Woman is not about an attractive Giant Woman.
- Big Brother Bully is not a contestant on Big Brother who is The Bully.
- Nor it a bully who uses Orwellian methods in his bullying.
- Nor is it someone who bullies your big brother.
- Big Brother Instinct has nothing to do with the dictator of Oceania from Nineteen Eighty-Four, nor with the reality TV series.
- Big Brother Is Employing You is not about Nepotism.
- Nor is it about production staff on Big Brother.
- Big Brother Is Watching is not about an overprotective older brother.
- A Big Brother Mentor is not about a mentor that uses Orwellian means. Nor is it about Big Brother's mentor.
- Big Brother Worship is not what an Orwellian dictator forces their people to do.
- Nor is it about people who are obsessed with Big Brother.
- Big Damn Fire Exit is not about a large door used to escape a building during a fire or another emergency.
- Big Damn Heroes are not necessarily the protagonists of works in the Kaiju or Humongous Mecha genres.
- Nor is it a moment when you feel like uttering a big "damn" to the heroes. That would be What the Hell, Hero? or Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
- Big Dumb Body is not about dysmorphia.
- Despite the names, a Big Eater probably won't eat a Large Ham, a Lemon, a Lime, or a Tomato Surprise.
- You should keep the Humanitarian away from the Large Ham, however.
- A big eater is not necessarily a large person (though big people can be big eaters). Also, Big Eaters are not people who eat large objects.
- The Big Fun is, conversely from the Big Bad example above, not (necessarily) the character behind all the humor in a story.
- Nor is it about the fictional music band from Heathers, nor is it about the song from the musical version.
- Big Game is not what a big game hunter hunts.
- Nor does it refer to a video game or tabletop game that has a lot of content or is physically large.
- Big Good does not mean Bigger Is Better in Bed.
- Nor is it someone who can't speak English very well saying that giants are cool, or that they like chubby people.
- It also has nothing to do with yelling the word "good".
- Big Guy, Little Guy does not end with 'cardboard box'.
- A Big Head Mode doesn't make all the characters into Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls.
- Big Man on Campus isn't about the manta ray from Deep Cut going to school.
- Big "NO!" is not a teamup between Dr. No and Mr. Big. It'd be pretty awesome, although Big's still in the little league.
- It has nothing to do with the grandest traditional Japanese One-Person Drama Ever. That would be Big Noh!
- And "No" is not short for number, so it doesn't mean "big number".
- Nor is it telling Big from Big and Small not to do something.
- Big "OMG!" is not about considering a megadeus to be, well, a mega deus.
- Nor is it a big Operational Manoeuvre Group.
- Nor is it being surprised to see Big from Big and Small.
- Big Prick, Big Problems is not about how acting like a massive Jerkass will ruin your life in the end.
- The Big Race has nothing to do with Race Tropes.
- Big Rock Ending is not the climax of the time Killer Croc almost got Batman. Or any instance of Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.
- It's not about asteroids hitting the Earth, either. Though it could be.
- Or a WWE main event featuring Dwayne Johnson.
- Nor is it a movie which ends on a shot of a large stone.
- It's also not about a movie that has a rock song over the credits, or a Dance Party Ending to a rock song, or one that ends with an epic rock 'n' roll performance from the main characters that wins them the Battle of the Bands.
- The Big Rotten Apple does not refer to a literal apple.
- Big "SHUT UP!" is not telling Big from Big and Small to shut up, nor is it when everyone goes quiet, or an epic scene involving a house being locked up.
- Big Sleep is not another name for Deep Sleep.
- Nor is it about a Rip Van Winkle situation.
- Nor is it telling Big from Big and Small to sleep.
- A Big Storm Episode is not an episode of X-Men: The Animated Series where Storm grows really huge.
- A Big "WHAT?!" is not some kind of giant object you can't identify. Nor is it being confused by someone, or yourself, suddenly becoming big.
- Big Word Shout doesn't necessarily mean you are shouting big words.
- Bile Fascination is not having an interest in the alkali emulsifier produced by the liver.
- Bilingual Dialogue isn't when a character speaks in mixed languages.
- Billions of Buttons isn't about elaborate pieces of clothing with many buttons on them.
- Billy Needs an Organ does not mean he has a recital of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" coming up and nothing to play it on.
- Nor does it require the character to be named Billy, or to be a billy goat.
- Nor does it have anything to do with requiring genitals.
- Bird-Poop Gag is not about someone being grossed out by bird poop.
- A Birthday Episode is not an episode of a show called Birthday.
- Birthday Suit Surprise Party does not involve a fancy suit, or any items of clothing for that matter.
- The Bishōnen Line is not a Spin-Off of The Onedin Line.
- Nor is it the level of attractiveness a character must achieve to be a Bishōnen, or a train full of bishonen, or a particularly attractive line.
- In a similar vein, Bishōnen is not asking to make their series Shōnen. Nor is it a person named Shonen who's bisexual.
- Bit-by-Bit Transformation has nothing to do with bitwise operations.
- A Bitch Alert is not someone warning somebody else that a dog who's arriving is female.
- A Bit Character is not necessarily a 0 or 1, nor a character who has been bitten by something.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing does not describe a female Puli, Kommodor, Poodle, or any such fluffy, woolly dog breed, at least not usually.
- Nor is it about either a mean lady or a female dog wearing a sheep suit.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor is not a form of Amusing Injuries, and Books That Bite is not an example.
- As weird as exploding infants might be, a Bizarre Baby Boom is something entirely different. It also has nothing to do with the period after World War II.
- Bizarre Human Biology is not about aliens observing humans and making notes on how physically weird they are.
- Bizarro Episode is not an episode focusing on Superman's Bizarro reverse counterpart.
- Black-and-Grey Morality does not refer to the ambiguous morality in some film noir.
- Nor is it an ethical person who's black and has grey hair.
- Black and Nerdy is not a parody of a Chamillionaire song.
- Nor is it about a nerd who's related to Sirius.
- Black-and-White Insanity does not refer to the use of Deliberately Monochrome to indicate a character's mental imbalance.
- Black-and-White Morality is not about the morality of chess.
- Nor does it have anything to do with interracial relations, thankfully.
- It doesn't have anything to do with morals in Pokémon Black and White.
- Nor is it a film in black-and-white that's ethical.
- Nor is it a tuxedo cat named Morality.
- Black Blood is not specifically about blood that is literally black. It refers to any instance where blood is a different color than red strictly as a form of censorship. It can overlap with Alien Blood if the character is not a human and it would therefore be logical to be a different color but the actual reason is still censorship.
- A Black Bug Room is not a room that is literally filled with black bugs. Well, it might be if you have insect phobia.
- It is also not the location where the plot of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis takes place.
- Nor is it a black room that you can only get to by exploiting a bug.
- Nor is it a room that IS a bug and has no wall textures.
- A Black Cap of Death is not the black bag traditionally placed over the head of a condemned prisoner, nor is it about the fact that The Grim Reaper traditionally wears a black head covering.
- Black Comedy is not comedy only amusing to blacks. Promise.
- Nor is it a comedy with an all black cast.
- And Tyler Perry does not specialize in it, at all.
- Nor is it comedy based around Sirius and his family.
- The Black Death has nothing to do with how the Black Dude Dies First.
- Black Eyes of Evil are not the result of punching villains in the face.
- Nor are Black Eyes of Crazy the result of picking on someone three times your size.
- The Black Hole is not the main title for Black Holes, although the subject is similar. The main entry for Black Holes is Unrealistic Black Hole.
- A Black Knight is not The Dark Knight. The latter however is meant to be a protagonist character who instills fear.
- Nor is a black knight an African-American in shining armor. Except in the case of one particular Martin Lawrence movie.
- Nor does it start on b8 or g8 in chess.
- A Black Mage doesn't necessarily use Black Magic and isn't necessarily African-American. The page also isn't exclusively about the Final Fantasy job or Black Mage Evilwizardington.
- Black Magic is not used by black people, unless you count 8-bit black mages and Disney villains from New Orleans. More specifically, a Black Magician Girl is not a female Magical Negro.
- A Black Magician Girl is not a female African-American magic user.
- It's not specifically about the Black Magician's female counterpart either, although she is an example of one.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word is not because the person saying it doesn't want to offend African-Americans.
- Black Sheep Hit is not about "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)". Nor does it refer to a song by Metric.
- Nor is it about hitting a sheep with black wool or the odd one out. Or hiring a hitman to whack them.
- Black Speech is not about how the overly stereotypical black person talks.
- Nor is it an aversion of Rainbow Speak.
- Black Widow is not a page listing fictional appearances of Latrodectus spiders; those would mostly be covered under Spiders Are Scary or Animal Assassin. Moving to the slightly less literal, it's certainly not exclusive to black women.
- A Bladder of Steel has nothing to do with Balls of Steel. Nor is it part of a Cyborg.
- A Blade-of-Grass Cut is not about weaponizing grass plucked from the ground. But that would be awesome.
- A Blade Run is not executed by a Blade Runner, in either the Ridley Scott or Alan E. Nourse senses of the title.
- It's also not a Minimalist Run in which one uses only a sword.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Emo Teens.
- Nor is it an unplanned trip to the store to pick up more blades.
- Bland-Name Product is not about a product with a dull name.
- Nor is it a mistranslation of "Brand Name Product" in Japanese Ranguage, though anime does use it extensively.
- The Blank is not a character with generic looks and without personality.
- Nor is it a Final Fantasy IX character.
- Nor the type of gun cartridge.
- Blasting Time is not about destroying time, or the right time to blow something up.
- Bleed 'Em and Weep is not about Tears of Blood.
- *Bleep*-dammit! is not about editors messing up or getting frustrated trying to censor some rough language. It is also not about double-standards between television viewers and swearing. Or about swearing at someone/something that refuses to bleep. Nor is it telling someone to bleep the word "dammit".
- Blessed with Suck is in fact about Rogue (along with others), but not in the sense of being able to suck out someone's powers/lifeforce/whatever.
- It is not about Kirby — or even Kirby.
- It is not about God giving a vacuum cleaner greater power.
- Or when BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!... uh, no.
- Nor is it when God blesses someone with a lollipop or when God blesses a baby with a pacifier.
- Blind Bashing is not about making fun of blind people. Nor getting beat up by them (presumably due to the aforementioned insults).
- A Blind Black Guy is not a blind man who's related to Sirius.
- Blinded by the Light is not about being fooled by a Light Is Not Good enemy.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the Final Fantasy XIII battle music.
- Nor is it a song by Bruce Springsteen.
- Nor is it about being blinded by The Light.
- Nor is it about going blind as a result of taking DPT.
- Nor is it about being blinded by light faeries.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation does not involve the blind idiot god, Azathoth. It's not a translation by blind idiots either, although it might as well be.
- Nor is it a phrase that translates to "blind idiot".
- Blind Justice is not about torn souls and hurt faiths. Nor is it when you get an ALL JUSTICE while blind(folded).
- Blind Shoulder Toss is not about a shoulder throw done by a blind wrestler.
- Bling-Bling-BANG! is not a sexual trope.
- It is now.
- It is also not about using jewelry as ammunition.
- Blood Lust is not another name for Blood Knight.
- A Bloody Mess is not about actual blood. Nor is it a British Neat Freak complaining.
- Bloody Murder is not simply a particularly gory murder. And while it is something a British person might say at a crime scene, that's not what the title means either.
- Bloody Tropes is not a British expletive regarding tropes.
- Blooper does not refer to the squid enemy in Super Mario Bros. For that matter, it's not referring to Super Mario 64 Bloopers, either.
- Nor does it refer to the mascot of the Atlanta Braves.
- Blowing a Raspberry does not involve exhaling onto fruit.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality is not about the in-game coloration of Mass Effect's moral choice system. Nor is it a discussion of the ethics of using Portal guns or an Orange/Blue Contrast.
- The Bluebeard doesn't mean a literal blue colored beard.
- Blue Blood is about aristocrats, not about characters who actually bleed blue. Unless, of course, the character is an aristocratic crustacean. Or a hole in the heart baby.
- Blue Is Calm does not refer to Blue, who certainly isn't calm.
- Board to Death has nothing to do with the Ending Fatigue of a Tabletop Game or beating someone to death with a wooden plank. However, if you brought a plank to a meeting (for some reason) and proceeded to bludgeon someone with it, it would be an example.
- Nor is it about using the Afterlife Express.
- It's not about getting bored to death at an executive's board meeting.
- Nor does it involve sending a board to The Grim Reaper.
- A Bob Ross Rib is not a piece of Bob Ross's ribcage.
- Bo Diddley Beat is not a declaration that Bo Diddley has been defeated in a fight.
- Nor is it a subtrope of Beat.
- Bodyguard Crush is not a quote from a bodyguard who talks in the third person and in Hulk Speak, nor does it involve the act of crushing bodyguards.
- Nor is it a soda that's been flavored with bodyguards.
- Nor is it a bodyguard crushing something.
- Body Surf does not refer to the ability of the protagonist of [PROTOTYPE] to use random citizens and soldiers as skateboards.
- Nor does it have anything to do with crowd surfing.
- Body Sushi is not about sushi made from corpses.
- Bohemian Parody is not a parody made in Bohemia in the Czech Republic, nor is it a parody of that region.
- Bokukko is not a sexual act found in Japanese porn - that would be "bukkake".
- Bold Inflation is not about the government bravely printing more and more money.
- Nor does it involve courageously filling up a balloon, or any other inflatable structure.
- Boldly Coming is not about brazenly orgasming. That would be The Immodest Orgasm.
- You're on the right track, though.
- It's not about bold introductions, unfortunately.
- Nor is it a risque Star Trek parody, though it might feature in a risque Star Trek parody.
- Boléro Effect has nothing to do with open-fronted jackets.
- Bond Breaker is not a person who tries to break James Bond by torturing him.
- It's also not someone or something with the power to disintegrate objects by breaking the bonds between their atoms (such as the M.D. Device in the Enderverse.)
- Nor is it about someone who tears up government issued financial instruments.
- Bond Creatures is not about anything that has to do with James Bond (which tends to be a bit short on Creatures in general).
- Bond Gun Barrel is not a barrel where James Bond keeps his guns.
- A Boob-Based Gag is not about literally being smothered by boobs and gagging.
- Book Ends is not a way to say a story had no resolution. Neither is saying it a way of invoking the spirit of Captain Obvious.
- A Book Safe is not where you put valuable books.
- Boomerang Bigot isn't someone who is prejudiced against Australians.
- It also has nothing to do with the channel that airs classic Turner animation.
- Nor is it a sentient boomerang that considers itself superior to humans.
- Boom Stick has nothing to do with Ash's shotgun from Army of Darkness. That's This Is My Boomstick.
- Nor is it dynamite.
- It also has nothing to do with a pole used to position a microphone or camera to the correct location.
- It is also not about the similarly named character from DEATH BATTLE! named Boomstick.
- A Boom Town does not necessarily house a lot of explosives, nor is it when an entire town is wiped out in an explosion.
- Boots of Toughness do not allow the wearer to walk on otherwise uncrossable terrain.
- Border Patrol are not police that prevent people from entering a country illegally (the trope for them is Checkpoint Charlie).
- Boring, but Practical does not suggest that making holes is usually impractical.
- A Boring Insult is not an insult that is boring, but insulting someone by saying they are boring.
- It's also not insulting a drill that doesn't work properly.
- Born in the Theatre has nothing to do with the stage.
- Nor is it about someone having a baby in a theater, whether it be for a movie or a play.
- Born Lucky isn't about the birth of anyone named or nicknamed Lucky.
- Borrowin' Samedi is not about somehow borrowing Saturday in French.
- Boss Button does not refer to a button used to summon or defeat a boss in a video game.
- Nor is it when one's supervisor is a Berserk Button.
- Boss Games actually do tend to be pretty boss, but that's not what the trope is about. Nor is it about the longer minigames you encounter at certain intervals in WarioWare.
- A Boss Remix is not about a Voice Clip Song made by your boss.
- Or even the Final Boss.
- It's also not (necessarily) a remix of a Bruce Springsteen song.
- Nor is it when DJ Octavio "remixes" Callie's brain in the Final Boss fight of Splatoon 2.
- Boss Rush is not what happens when Dr. Wily reprograms Mega Man's dog.
- Nor is it about enforcing orders on Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson.
- Nor is it about a Wolfpack Boss against Rush (Band).
- Nor does it have to do with a certain right-wing pundit.
- Nor a boss who rushes his/her work.
- It isn’t speedrunning a boss. (Though you CAN speed run a Boss Rush.)
- Nor is it what you'd get if Bruce Springsteen joined Rush.
- A Boss Warning Siren won't tell you when the manager is coming back from break so you can stop slacking and get on with your work. It's also not a warning that the next boss you fight will be the Siren.
- Both Sides Have a Point is not about moments in first or third-person shooter games where both factions own a single control point. Nor is it about some weapon that has a sharp point on both ends.
- A Bottle Episode is not about finding a valuable bottle, a genie in a bottle, drinking, sending a message in a bottle, or a baby being given formula.
- A Bottomless Bladder is not about someone whose bladder is confirmed to be literally bottomless.
- Bottomless Magazines are not about how fashion magazines have a hell of a lot of pages.
- Nor is it a magazine with the bottom half missing.
- Nor is it a swimsuit edition with the bottom half missing.
- Nor is it a magazine with the bottom half missing.
- Bottomless Pits aren't the armpits of someone who's not wearing anything below their waist.
- Nor are they Pit and Dark Pit going commando.
- Bound and Gagged is not about someone who tied something/somebody up, and then made a gagging noise.
- Bourgeois Bohemian is not about middle-class capitalists from the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic.
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks are not turds that have learned powerful karate chops.
- Nor is it a person somehow managing to use their lower intestine to break bricks.
- Nor is it when someone gets injured in the abdomen as a result of bricks falling on them.
- Boxed Crook is not about prizefighting ex-cons.
- Box Office Bomb is just a page about movies that aren't financial successes, not a trope about bombs being set at theaters.
- Boyfriend Bluff is not about someone having a boyfriend named Bluff.
- Nor is it about having a hill for a boyfriend.
- Boys Love Game is not about how males are much more interested in hunting, gambling, or playing Video Games and/or Tabletop Games.
- Boys' Love Genre isn't about how males are interested in some guy named Genre. Girls probably love Genre as well.
- Nor is it a genre which is much more popular among members of the male gender.
- Boys' Love Notes is not an invitation to shower male classmates with pieces of notebook paper with "DO YOU LOVE ME Y/Y?" written on them.
- Nor does it have anything to do with boys obsessed with music theory or Lotus groupware.
- Bragging Rights Rewards aren't rewards that have absolutely no use other than allowing you to brag; those are Cosmetic Awards.
- Brain Bleach is not a Shōnen Anime IN YOUR MIND. Nor is it Alan Powers or the evil lab rat bleaching or being bleached.
- Brain Freeze is not about a Brain in a Jar being cryonically preserved.
- A Brain in a Jar is generally a working brain. It does not refer to simply having a brain in a jar; that would be Having a Heart.
- Brand X does not refer to the jazz/fusion band featuring Phil Collins.
- Nor is it a command to burn a word or symbol onto the target.
- Nor has it anything to do with Elon Musk's renaming of Twitter.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick is not about someone finding grocery lists disgusting.
- Break Him By Talking is not about the use of Super-Scream powers on people to cause injury.
- Or driving someone to insanity by refusing to shut up.
- Breaking Bad News Gently does not mean gently reciting news about Walter White.
- Breaking Out the Boss is not a video game boss that is first seen in containment before it frees itself and attacks you. Nor is it about fighting Doh, or freeing Bruce Springsteen from imprisonment.
- Breaking the Bonds does not, infact, refer to a Face–Heel Turn that involves alienating all your friends.
- Nor is it Break the Haughty applied to a baseball player.
- Neither has it to do with chemistry... Most of the time anyway.
- It's got nothing to do with the usual goal of villains putting 007 in a Death Trap. (Except Goldfinger.) Neither does it have to do with "breaking" him via Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique.
- Or tearing up government issued financial instruments.
- Breakout Character has more examples than just "the paddle and the ball".
- Nor is it (necessarily) a character who are skilled at escaping from secure locations.
- Nor a character with pimples or hives.
- Nor is it a character who breaks out of the story they're in and escapes to the real world.
- Break Out the Museum Piece isn't about stealing art or artifacts from museums.
- Breakout Villain isn't about a bad guy who keeps getting out of jail. Nor is it a villain in Breakout.
- Break the Comedian is not necessarily about a comedian with a broken bone.
- Break the Cutie is not necessarily about injuring The Cutie, nor is it about a pony breaking their cutie mark.
- Break the Haughty is not necessarily about physically injuring an arrogant person.
- Breakup Breakout isn't when getting dumped somehow causes you to get acne or escape from prison. Or when playing Breakout becomes such Serious Business that it ends your relationship.
- Breather Boss isn't a boss with a Breath Weapon. Or one with Vader Breath.
- A Breather Episode is not an episode about taking breaks or breathing.
- Briar Patching has nothing to do with fixing particularly thorny problems in a game's programming, nor with administering first aid to a Sleeping Beauty.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory is not when you bribe your opponents in a competitive event.
- Brick Break has nothing to do with video games like Breakout.
- It's also not the gap between the setup and payoff of a Brick Joke.
- Nor is it a bathroom break where you, well, emit "bricks."
- Nor is it about the idiot character from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy taking a break.
- Brick Joke is not making fun of toys with poor articulation. Or video games and MP3 players that stopped working. Or Eighties era cell phones.
- It doesn't necessarily involve a brick, either.
- Nor is it about a wannabe superhero.
- Bridezilla is not about the bride growing to gigantic size. Okay, that might have happened in one example, but that's just a coincidence.
- She also isn't Godzilla's bride, nor is she simply a kaiju-sized bride.
- The Bridge is not to do with an actual bridge over a body of water.
- Bridge Bunnies is not about anthropomorphic rabbits playing cards or playing around bridges. Nor should one assume that it applies to fans of a certain webcomic in any way, shape, or form.
- It is also not about a group of Killer Rabbits lurking around a Troll Bridge.
- Nor are they a bunch of bunnies who hang out regularly by a bridge.
- Briefcase Blaster is not a gun that shoots briefcases.
- Nor does it at all involve Blaster in any way.
- The Brigadier will not be promoted to a Modern Major General, thank you.
- Bright Is Not Good does not refer to Dr. Bright from the SCP Foundation (even though it's very much true).
- It's also unrelated to Dumb Is Good.
- Bright Slap is not the visualized fight sound effects you see in the Batman (1966) TV show.
- Bring My Brown Pants is not simply requesting someone bring you a pair of pants that happen to be brown.
- Bring My Red Jacket doesn't involve getting a Red Shirt ready for a mission.
- Nor is it about telling your assistant to pass you your red jacket.
- Bring News Back is not a complaint about the quality of modern journalism.
- It is not a command you issue to a dog that has stolen your paper.
- British Brevity is not about Brits supposedly being Terse Talkers.
- British Coppers has nothing to do with the metal, or money made from it.
- The British Invasion is not about British imperialism, for some reason.
- British Nazis is not about Oswald Mosely's mob or their successors.
- British Stuffiness is not a trope about British houses (real or fictional) that have no air conditioning. Nor is it what happens to Englishmen during allergy season.
- British Unis are not about sea urchin sushi served in Great Britain or made by British chefs. Or a new paintbrush color exclusively for the Uni that gives them a top hat, a mustache and a monocle.
- A Broke Episode is not an episode that is broken.
- Nor is it an episode made on No Budget.
- Nor is it an episode about breaking something.
- While Portgas D. Ace is an example of a Broken Ace, this wasn't what happened to him when he died.
- It's also not about a playing card that's broken or an injured asexual.
- A Broken Aesop is not an Aesop that manages to go Over Nine Thousand.
- Nor is it about Aesop being broken, either physically or mentally.
- Broken Base is not an architectural fault. Not yet, anyway.
- You are unlikely to reach it using a Broken Bridge.
- And not for the obvious reason either.
- It also has nothing to do with a sodium hydroxide tablet being broken in half.
- You are unlikely to reach it using a Broken Bridge.
- Broken Bird doesn't mean you fractured your middle finger. It also doesn't have anything to do with actual birds.
- Also, despite the slang use of "bird", they are not Always Female, though many are.
- Broken Heel isn't what happens when a villain's been through so much shit they decide to give up.
- It's also not what happened to Achilles.
- Broken Record does not refer to a record that has since been surpassed.
- None of the above are "broken" in the sense of game-breakingly overpowered (even if it's possible for a Broken Ace or Broken Bird who happens to be a Game-Breaker to cause a Broken Base).
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu is not (necessarily) about literal Self-Damaging Attack Backfires against Eldritch Abominations.
- Bros Before Hoes does not mean prioritizing your brother before a certain farming implement.
- Nor is it about what brotherhood was like in the age prior to the invention of the hoe.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S" has little if anything to do with Sesame Street.
- A Brown Note is not a version of the Death Note that instead of killing the victim, gives them bowel attacks.
- It is also not related to Editorial Synesthesia.
- Nor is it a note made by Doc Brown.
- Nor is it a note written in brown pencil/crayon/whatever or on brown paper.
- Nor it's a note belonging to someone named Brown like Charlie Brown.
- B-Team Sequel is not specifically about sequels that focus on minor characters from the original, or replacements for the main cast. Nor is it a sequel to The A-Team.
- Nor is it a sequel featuring an Operational Detatchment Bravo of the US Army Special Forces.
- Though Woody and some of the other toys do Bug Buzz, the trope title is a noun phrase, not a verb and its object. Nor is it about Buzz Lightyear as a bug.
- Bug Catching is not about catching contagious diseases, nor is it about trying to find out where surveillance devices are hidden.
- Nor is it about debugging.
- A Bug War is not a war between different species of insect, nor is it a war which is fought by placing surveillance devices on people.
- Nor is it about the everlasting battle to get rid of glitches in video games.
- Bug Works is not about glitches that are somehow fully functional. Nor is it what the spy says when a surveillance device is operational.
- Building Swing is not about swinging a building around, though it is about swinging around a building.
- Nor is it about a swing hung from a building.
- Bullet Hell is not the afterlife for sinful bullets.
- Nor is it a component of an abysmal powerpoint presentation.
- Nor is it a circle of Hell where people are punished for all time with More Dakka.
- Bullet Holes and Revelations is not about having a religious epiphany as a result of seeing bullet holes in the wall behind you.
- Nor is it when someone shoots the hero but they're okay because they kept a Bible where the bullet would have penetrated them.
- Nor is it about the thematic significance of bullet holes in The Book of Revelation.
- A Bulletproof Human Shield isn't a shield for a bulletproof human. That would be kind of redundant anyway.
- A Bullet Seed will not sprout into a bullet plant.
- Nor is it the ammo of a gun that shoots seeds.
- Bullying a Dragon is not about bullying The Dragon, and it isn't even necessarily about bullying an actual dragon.
- The Bumblebee (now Kid-Appeal Character) is not the leader of Titans East. Nor is it a fuzzy stinging insect that lives in hives.
- The Bumblebee is also not the translated the Dumbledore.
- In addition, it has nothing to do with Transformers.
- Also has no relation to Blake and Yang.
- In terms of tropes, Whatever-Bunnies do not refer to fans of El Goonish Shive, unless they do in fact fit the correct trope...
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer is not about lawyers who do the "bunny ears" against people of the side when pictures/sketches are taken.
- Nor is it necessarily a lawyer with rabbit ears.
- Burger Fool isn't (necessarily) the name of a fast food place.
- Nor is it a foolish hamburger or a fool who works with burgers.
- Burn Baby Burn is not literally about burning babies.
- Burning the Ships doesn't mean causing Ship Sinking by having one or both sides Killed Off for Real in a fire. Or to someone mercilessly insulting other ships. Or even to someone mercilessly insulting literal ships. It means burning (symbolically or literally) your own ships, not burning the enemy's ships (you may be looking for Sink the Lifeboats).
- Burn the Undead has nothing to do with "Burn My Dread". Nor is it about insulting the undead.
- The Bus Came Back is not necessarily an actual bus returning.
- A Bus Crash does not involve a Bus Full of Innocents.
- Nor does it involve computer crashes... usually.
- Nor does it involve the failure of a spacecraft's power distribution network (again, usually).
- A Bust Chart isn't broken, nor does it measure how damaged an object is.
- Nor is it a comparative chart of breast sizes.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday is not about people in different time zones.
- Nor is it about people who follow days of the week in a different order than normal.
- The Butler Did It is not a handwave that explains away inconsistencies as being the work of butlers.
- The Butler Did It, A Wizard Did It, Cassandra Did It, The Dead Guy Did It and Everybody Did It thankfully do not involve anyone seducing Pennywise. Nor are they about a lot of people claiming to have written It.
- But Not Too White is not typically about a light-skinned Soul Brotha.
- But Now I Must Go is not about getting a Potty Emergency in the middle of a conversation.
- Butterface is not about throwing butter in people's faces during a Food Fight.
- Nor is it Butters's face.
- Butterfly of Doom is not what Nozomi Yumehara produces to defeat the Monster of the Week. It's also not a new evolutionary level for Joachim Valentine...or the Papillon Mask creator... or Mothra... or Wormy. Nobody ever suspects it, either. And it's certainly not a referece to the One-Winged Angel form of 52's Big Bad. Or the Hell Butterflies in Bleach. Or Vivillon, even if its Pokédex number is 666.
- Nor does it have anything to do with The Mighty Monarch.
- Dream Apocalypse is not a ridiculously over-the-top powered-up version of the non-Butterfly of Doom thing Nozomi uses to defeat the Monster of the Week.
- Schrödinger's Butterfly is not about when it's unclear whether a character is a Magical Girl or not.
- And none of the above have anything to do with Madame Butterfly.
- It's not a Superboss remix of "Butterfly" by Smile.dk either.
- Nor is it about the butterflies featured in the artwork and music video for Morimori Atsushi's "PUPA", which is frequently That One Song in Rhythm Games.
- A Butt-Monkey is not necessarily one of those primates with the bright bare butts, nor to characters who frequently get anally assaulted by other characters.
- But We Used a Condom! is not what someone says after "We had sex in a very dangerous way".
- Buy or Get Lost is not about some item like a map or GPS that you'll literally be lost without.
- Bystander Syndrome is not about the villain of The Incredibles passing by.
- By Wall That Is Holey has nothing to do with the Pyramus and Thisbe play performed by the artisans in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- It has absolutely nothing to do with the Wailing Wall.
- Nor is it when people with automatic weaponry aim vaguely at a wall attempting to shoot someone on the other side, riddling it with holes and bullets.
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- Cain and Abel and Seth is, obviously, based on the same Trope Namer as Cain and Abel. But in the case of Cain and Abel and Seth, there is no implication that the "Cain" and the "Abel" are enemies, nor any indication about what side the "Seth" will take in any conflicts or alliances that do exist within his family.
- It's also not about choosing which cavalry unit do you prefer in Fire Emblem.
- Nor is it a variant of Aerith and Bob where for every character that has a normal name, two have obscure or unusual names.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" is not naming your rabbit "A. Smeerp".
- Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" has nothing to do with SME ERP (small to medium enterprise enterprise resource planning), despite what Google search results might lead you to believe.
- Call-Back has nothing to do with voicemail or being summoned for a second interview after an audition.
- Calling Your Attacks has jacksquat to do with giving salutations to your moves.
- Calling Your Nausea is not about labelling how severe your nausea is.
- Calling Your Orgasms is not about a character announcing what their signature orgasms are called while performing them.
- Call It Karma isn't about the creators of Reddit naming their points system.
- Calvinball does not refer to a game where the outcome is predestined.
- Nor is it related to the Ball Index where a character starts acting like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.
- Nor is it a ball game invented by Calvin Coolidge, despite Hooverball being invented by his successor Herbert Hoover.
- Came Back Wrong has nothing to do with That Came Out Wrong.
- And neither has anything to do with sex gone awry.
- Nor is it to do with someone leaving an area and returning in an incorrect way, nor is it coming back with misinformation.
- It is also not about someone traveling to someplace else and coming back in abnormal form, which might happen while traveling between dimensions.
- It is also not about an attempt to reverse someone's Forced Transformation transformation going wrong.
- It's also not about poorly-chosen comeback lines.
- Camera Abuse is not about the 60's cinema overuse of the "zoom" feature. It is not about applying Rule 34 to videocameras, either.
- It is also not about when a character takes pictures, only to have someone come in and stomp on the camera to stop them from taking any more pictures.
- Camera Screw is also not about applying Rule 34 to videocameras. Nor does it describe the making of a sex tape.
- It's not about the components of camera.
- Nor about masturbating with a camera.
- Camp is not about standing on one spot and waiting for the kill.
- Nor does it involve setting up a tent.
- A Campaign Comic is not a comic done to promote a political campaign.
- A Camp Cook is not a cook who is Camp.
- A Camp Follower is not an effeminate Fanboy, nor are they someone who is a fan of sleeping in tents.
- Camp Gay is not the name of a summer camp full of gay people.
- It is also not a military camp named after Gay.
- It is also not how a less-than-bright person would describe a dreadful (or joyous) time at camp to his parents.
- Nor does it involve standing in one spot and waiting for homosexuals.
- Nor is it a gay person who camps in First Person Shooters.
- Camp Straight does not refer to summer camps designed to Cure Your Gays.
- Nor is it about standing on one spot and waiting for the kill without crouching or proning.
- Nor does it involve the challenges of setting up a tent while suffering from OCD.
- Nor does it involve standing in one spot and waiting for heterosexuals.
- Nor is it a summer camp for just straight people.
- Camp Wackyname is not about Camp characters with strange names.
- Canada Does Not Exist is not one of the Alternate History Tropes.
- Nor is it about someone who truly does not believe in the existence of Canada. That's Eskimos Aren't Real.
- Candle Jack is not about "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick".
- Canis Latinicus has nothing to do with Latino talking dogs. Nor did it ever appear as a fake Linneaean classification for Wile E. Coyote.
- Cannibalism Superpower is about consuming others to gain their powers. It doesn't necessarily involve eating the same species.
- Cannot Spit It Out is not about finding out your girlfriend is a Lethal Chef the first time she cooks for you.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong.
- Nor is it about a baby who won't give up their pacifier.
- Canon is not about a camera company. Or artillery.
- Canon Defilement is not a butchering of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, no matter what your uppity "cultured" relatives may say about Canon Rock.
- Or smashing a camera with a hammer.
- Or sabotaging Civil War era artillery. That's Cannon Defilement.
- Canon Discontinuity is not about discontinued Canon products.
- Can't Catch Up does not mean dropping a long-running series because it is too long.
- Can't Drop the Hero does not mean you're not allowed to let him fall to the floor.
- Can't Hold His Liquor does not mean characters who keep fumbling their drink glasses and bottles.
- A Cap does not refer to headgear of any sort, unless it refers to the limit of how much stuff you can put onto a video game character's head. Nor does it refer to Captain America, or any other captain.
- The Cape has nothing to do with geographical locations such as the one where the Kennedy Space Center is located. Nor does it refer to the item of clothing.
- Cape Punk is not a hybrid of Glam Rock and Punk Rock.
- Cape Swish is not the name of a promontory.
- Cape Wings is not when having a cape is what allows a character to fly.
- Nor is it about a geographical cape which is known for its chicken wings.
- A Captain Ersatz is not a person who only pretends to have military rank.
- Nor is it someone who commands a fake ship.
- A Captain Obvious is not necessarily an actual captain of something and is certainly not someone who's obviously the captain.
- The Captain's Log is not what The Kirk leaves in the toilet. Ew.
- Nor is it what The Kirk puts on his fire.
- Nor does it have to do with logarithms.
- A Carbuncle Creature is not a monster that grows out of a Staphylococcus-induced boil.
- A Cardboard Prison is not where bad cardboard boxes are locked up.
- Card-Carrying Villain is not about villains who carry actual cards with them. Not even if it's their whole motif.
- It is also not about a villain who has a metaphorical ace up his sleeve.
- Also not to be confused with a villain who metaphorically carries all the cards.
- It's not about Moe Szyslak either.
- Nor is it necessarily The Joker, although he is often an example.
- It is also not about a villain who has a metaphorical ace up his sleeve.
- Careful with That Axe has to do with Rock and Roll, but it doesn't mean that a note played on a particular electric guitar could be a Brown Note.
- It's also not about telling someone wielding an actual axe to be careful with it.
- Car Fu is not a Greek island made of cars. It is also not what you say to your car after it breaks down one too many times. Nor is it the martial arts discipline Jazz is a master of. It's not about vandalizing cars using Kung Fu, either.
- Cargo Envy is not about truck drivers looking with jealousy upon the heavily loaded vehicles of their colleagues.
- Nor is it about having Envy as your cargo. Or Envy Adams, for that matter.
- Cargo Ship, Ship-to-Ship Combat (and — well, pretty much anything listed under Shipping Tropes) have nothing to do with actual sea vessels or naval transportation. But with this in mind, there are exceptions:
- Cool Ship is not about pairing two Ensemble Dark Horse characters together.
- Ghost Ship is not when someone from your OTP departs their mortal coil.
- Nor is it shipping actual ghosts or a ship full of ghosts.
- Cargo Ship doesn't have to be about boats, but it very well could be.
- Car Meets House is not a mashup between a show about a medical jerkass and anything else. Nor is it about Mr House getting hit by a car.
- Nor is it about Shipping between a car and a house.
- A Carpet of Virility refers to a man's chest hair. It does not refer to any other area of body hair.
- Nor is it an actual carpet.
- Carried by the Host has nothing to do with diseases.
- Nor is when the host of a party carries a woman.
- Carry a Big Stick is not about Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy, though that's the Trope Namer.
- Carry the One has nothing to do with transporting The Chosen One.
- Nor is it about carrying the second-youngest of the Numberjacks, or the Borg boy from that one episode of Star Trek: Voyager, or one of Martins Mice.
- A Cartoon Bomb is not a cartoon that's bombed, either violently or financially.
- Nor is it a cartoon that was a Creator Killer or Genre-Killer, or a weaponized cartoon that's a Brown Note.
- Nor is it about any instance of a bomb appearing in a cartoon, it has to be an Incredibly Obvious Bomb to count.
- Cartoon Cheese isn't a cheesy cartoon.
- Cartridges in Flight is not when you Rage Quit an old video game and go a step further.
- Nor is it about taking a cartridge on a plane.
- Cartwright Curse is not named after Nancy Cartwright. (¡Ay, caramba!)
- Carved Mark has nothing to do with con victims or anyone named Mark.
- It's also not about runes carved into wood or stone.
- The Casanova is not a wife or daughter of Mr. Casanov.
- Cash Gate is not about a scandal involving money.
- Cassandra Did It is not the trope wherein a character always predicting some particular brand of doom, but who is never believed, actually does implement said doom themself because they're tired of being made fun of and wants to be right for once.
- Nor is it someone named Cassandra having sex.
- Nor is it necessarily blaming someone named Cassandra.
- Nor is it about when Lady Cassandra did it.
- A Cassandra Truth is not a truth about Lady Cassandra, or that other Lady Cassandra.
- Cast Calculus isn't about using magic based on integrals, derivitives, or limits (and no, not those limits) and the like.
- Cast from Hit Points doesn't mean molded out of hit points. That's Made of Iron.
- It also doesn't refer to the actors from a work called Hit Points.
- Cast Incest is not when actors who are related have to play romantic partners. It's the opposite, actually.
- Casting a Shadow is not when an actor is cast solely because the shadow of their face in profile looks cool. It also doesn't mean that an actor is hired without anyone checking beforehand how they look like.
- It's also not when an actor projects a field of darkness as a result of standing in front of a light source. That would be a People Sit on Chairs example.
- Nor is it about choosing a voice actor for Shadow.
- A Casting Gag is not a physical reaction to a particularly bad example of Questionable Casting.
- It also has nothing to do with fishing.
- Cast of Snowflakes usually don't have anthropomorphic snowflakes (or people who are "snowflakes" in the other metaphorical sense of being overly sensitive—they're just unique) as characters. It's also not about using magic powered by snowflakes.
- Casts No Shadow is not about being unwilling or unable to use darkness-based magic.
- Casual-Competitive Conflict is not about a type of conflict that can be either casual or competitive, but rather about conflict between these two groups.
- Casual Danger Dialogue is not one character surreptitiously threatening another one.
- Casual Kink does not imply the existence of ranked/competitive kink.
- Casualty in the Ring does not refer to the characters killed by Sadako/Samara in The Ring movies.
- Cataclysm Climax isn't what happens when you decide to take the world with you while going Out with a Bang.
- Neither is is the inevitable fight against Deathwing.
- It is also not an orgasm that causes a disaster.
- A Catapult Nightmare is not a bad dream about catapults, unless it's woken up from in a particular way.
- The Cat Came Back is not necessarily about a cat, and though a cat can be an example of the trope, if they wanted the cat to come back, it's not.
- It also isn't the name of a certain Studio Ghibli movie.
- A Catch-22 Dilemma is not a problem caused by a runaway number.
- Catch and Return isn't about catching fish, or wild animals, and returning them to the wild instead of keeping them.
- Catch Your Death of Cold is not about dying from a cold, catching a deadly disease which makes you cold, dying from hypothermia, or using something cold to catch the Grim Reaper.
- A Cat Concerto is not a concerto that sings about cats.
- It also has nothing to do with the cat characters in Tail Concerto.
- A Cat Fight is not about actual cats fighting. It's also not about people fighting over a cat.
- Cat Girl is not the younger version of Catwoman, nor is it her younger sidekick. Nor is it one that is both female and feline. It only applies to a female Little Bit Beastly with cat ears and sometimes a tail, but otherwise are look mostly like a normal person. Characters with fur all over should be under other tropes.
- Catholic School Girls Rule does not describe a particular form of matriarchal theocracy where the leaders are always children.
- With Cats Are Mean, "cats" isn't slang for "jazz musicians". Same applies with Cats Are Snarkers, Cats Are Superior, Cats Hate Water, and others.
- Cat Scare is not where a cat scares a person by popping out of a drawer.
- Nor is it about scaring cats.
- Caught in the Rain has to always lead to kissing or sex. If one or more people get caught in the rain and it does not lead to kissing or sex, then it's not this trope.
- It's also not about being busted in the rain.
- Nor is it about Pokémon that can only be caught when it's raining.
- It's also not about catching a cold in the rain.
- A "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate is not an argument between two people on the extreme ends of appreciation of technology. Nor is it when cavemen debate against astronauts.
- Ceiling Banger is not the audience version of Head Desk, or about a woman trying to break through the proverbial Glass Ceiling, or about people reaching up and accidentally hitting their head on the ceiling.
- Nor is it about when a Gravity Screw causes people to have sex on the ceiling.
- And it's certainly not about hanging sausages from the ceiling.
- Celebrity Paradox is not a page about the most famous paradoxes.
- Celebrity Toons is about real celebrities getting cartoons based on them, not cartoon characters who become celebrities.
- Celestial Body is not about naturally occurring objects in space.
- A Celestial Deadline need not be a condition placed upon a Celestial Bureaucracy. They wouldn't follow it anyway.
- Nor is it a deadline set by Princess Celestia.
- Censor Shadow, but not because a black hedgehog is doing something inappropriate.
- The trope is also not about censoring a literal shadow.
- Censorship Bureau is not about the drawers in which you hide your porn.
- Censor Steam is not about censoring Steam.
- Or censoring gaseous H2O.
- Censor Suds isn't censoring either soap suds or the episode of SpongeBob SquarePants that airs with "Sleepy Time".
- Centipede's Dilemma has nothing to do with The Human Centipede (who has a much, much worse dilemma).
- Nor does it involve difficulty playing an arcade game where you shoot at bugs.
- Centrifugal Farce is not about how the centrifugal force is actually a fictitious force rather than a real one. note
- Cerebus Syndrome is not named after Cerberus, so it is not about The Illusive Man's idea to recruit Syndrome. Or about a Multiple Head Case.
- Similarly, a Cerebus Retcon isn't about how Mass Effect 2 retconned Cerberus from an Alliance black ops group that went rogue, to being an N.G.O. Superpower. That would be a Cerberus reckon.
- A Knight of Cerebus isn't a moniker used to describe Shepard, Miranda, Jacob Kai Leng or the Phantoms. That would be Knight of Cerberus.
- Chain Lightning is not about a chain made out of lightning, nor an electrified chain. Nor is it about putting Lightning in shackles.
- Nor is it telling Mater in Cars to go tow Lightning McQueen.
- Chainsaw Good is not about Character Alignment of chainsaws.
- Nor is it a cross between Stupid Good and Ax-Crazy.
- Nor is it about an economic good in any way related to chainsaws.
- A Chair Reveal is about revealing the person sitting in the chair, not revealing the chair itself.
- Nor is it about when a trope is revealed to be a chair following a Trope Repair Shop discussion.
- Challenging the Chief has nothing to do with the contents of a typical episode of Retro Game Master.
- Chandelier Swing is not a subgenre of Swing music involving chandeliers.
- Chandler's Law is not "When in doubt, have a man burst into the room and be funny."
- Nor is it "When in doubt, have Sonichu burst into the room".
- Nor is it "When in doubt, have Corn Nuts burst into the room". Also, there are no sister tropes called McNamara’s Law and Duke’s Law.
- Nor is it "When in doubt, have a man burst into the room with no money because he lost a challenge".
- Changed My Jumper: you may find this hard to believe, but there was this movie called Jumper...
- Also nothing to do with changing settings on a computer motherboard.
- Also nothing to do with jumper cables.
- Nor is it particularly about cleaning up after an episode of Bring My Brown Pants.
- This has nothing to do with changing Ogmo's skin or hat for that matter.
- It also has nothing to do with remixes of the song Jumper by Waterflame.
- Changed My Mind, Kid has a comma in its name: it is not the name of a sidekick with psychic powers.
- Nor is it a child who keeps changing their mind.
- Changeling Fantasy has little to do with The Fair Folk, or Voluntary Shapeshifting. In particular, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Beast Boy's idle daydreams, nor those of Queen Chrysalis and her minions or ex-minions, nor those of Odo or his people.
- A Channel Hop is not a hop across the English Channel. Not very many people short of Superman can accomplish that.
- Chaos Architecture has nothing to do with buildings affected by Chaos. Most of the time, anyway.
- Nor is it a power granted by the Chaos Emeralds to magically build things.
- Chaotic Good, Chaotic Evil and Chaotic Neutral are not opinions of the card game or the tie-in TV show known as Chaotic.
- Character Calculus has nothing to do with fictional math classrooms.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the character named Professor Calculus.
- Character Derailment does not involve a character in a Train Crash.
- Character Shilling is about characters on a show going out of their way to convince each other (and the audience) that another character is awesome. A Character Shill, on the other hand, is a character who advertises for a real-life sponsor during a commercial break on their own show.
- Character Shilling, furthermore, does not involve characters appearing on historical British currency.
- Charity Ball is not about a character who becomes briefly and unexpectedly generous, à la Idiot Ball.
- Charlie Brown from Outta Town is not when a work brings in the Peanuts for a crossover. Nor will the character necessarily get caught, just you wait and see.
- Charm Person is a verb and named after a D&D spell, not a literal living charm or a person who charms.
- A Chase Scene does not necessarily involve a robot who turns into a police car. (Though he does get involved in quite a few.) Or Chevy Chase. (Although it has happened.) Or the police dog from PAW Patrol. (Although that has happened too.)
- Cheap Heat is not an inexpensive way to keep oneself warm.
- A Cheated Angle is not a wrestling plot in which one of the wrestlers is having an affair.
- Nor does it refer to an answer to a math problem involving angles that was obtained by cheating.
- Cheaters Never Prosper is not about the tendency of relationshps that began with one partner being unfaithful to their previous partner to not last.
- Checkpoint Charlie is not about Charlie Brown's day job as an adult. It also does not come after Checkpoint Bravo nor does it come before Checkpoint Delta, although it did in the Trope Namer.
- A Cheeky Mouth won't usually shout insults at you.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys is not one of those Classic Cheat Codes used to summon a cheat code unit.
- Nor does it refer to actual monkeys eating cheese and surrendering, nor a newly discovered simian, nor Cheese eating surrender monkeys, nor a command for primates to surrender and eat cheese (or surrender by eating cheese).
- A Cheese Strategy rarely involves any dairy products.
- A Cheesy Moon is not a moon that's corny. Or about cheesy acts of Mooning.
- Chekhov's Gun has nothing to do with Chekov's Gun. We apologise sheepishly for any confusion.
- Nor is it anything to do with the Star Trek: The Original Series character.
- Chekhov's News is not news presented by the Star Trek: The Original Series character.
- Chekhov's Pun (now called Snowclones) does not refer to a long story-spanning build-up that leads to a terrible pun.
- Nor is it about a throwaway, groan-worthy joke that turns out to be important to the plot.
- Chekhov's Skill is not a skill that Ensign Chekov has.
- Chekhov's Volcano is not about a volcano named after the guy from Star Trek: The Original Series.
- Cherry Tapping is not about deflowering virgins (don't worry, we all made that mistake).
- Nor is it about drawing juice from small red fruits.
- Neither does it refer to a British schoolboy prank where you ring a person's doorbell and then run away very fast.
- Nor is it Plausibell and Shawn's sister tapdancing.
- A Cheshire Cat Grin is not one that remains in the air after the person who grinned goes away.
- A Chest Blaster is not a gun made specifically for opening treasure chests. It also has nothing to do with Blaster's chest.
- A Chest Insignia does not depict the pectoral area.
- Nor is one found on a treasure chest, and they do not generally depict Pirate Booty.
- Chest Monster is not about off-puttingly creative romantic language. It isn't about Chestbursters from Alien either. Nor is it about creatures without a head that have a face on their torso. It is neither a particularly large pair of breasts that entrap unwitting persons within nor the pectoral area of an especially hirsute man. It's not a shirt that is fearsome, either. It's also got nothing to do with the enemies found in the Chest.
- A Chest of Medals did not get any awards for protecting treasure from pirates.
- Nor is this treasure chest full of medals for anyone who opens it and claims its contents.
- The Chewbacca Defense does not involve winning a board game through the implied threat of ripping your opponent's arms out of their sockets should you lose.
- Nor is it about defending Han Solo's best friend.
- Chewing the Scenery is not the modus operandi of the Big Eater or Extreme Omnivore. Though both may involve ham.
- It is also not about people masticating parts of the environment around them. That's This Billboard Needs Some Salt.
- Chickification is sadly not affiliated with poultry...or launching frozen chickens out of a gun.
- Nor does it involve turning a work into a vehicle for Christian fundamentalism.
- Chick Lit is not literature read by baby birds, nor does it deal with books written by Jack Chick.
- Chick Magnets are not people or things that attract the attention of poultry, or the ire of Jack Chick.
- The Chief's Daughter isn't the daughter of Da Chief.
- The Chikan is not a nickname for a responsible 12-year-old girl who alternately finds herself playing reluctant partner and tsukkomi to her friend's antics.
- It also does not refer to the creature people commonly eat eggs of or make into nuggets.
- Child Ballads are not coming of age stories told in song form, nor any other lengthy songs sung by or about children.
- Child Marriage Veto, unfortunately, isn't about someone objecting to children getting married.
- Children Raise You does not only apply to parents in Soviet Russia, and neither does Dog Walks You or The Game Plays You.
- Nor does the latter involve giant robots guiding your movement.
- Nor is it about getting lifted into the air by groups of children.
- Not is it about people raising their parents from the dead.
- Chinese Launderer is not about Chinese people committing money laundering.
- Chocolate Baby is not necessarily found in Level Ate or the Sugar Bowl, and probably won't be the victim of a Humanitarian either.
- Christmas Creep does not mean a person who acts like a creep at Christmas.
- Nor is it about a certain Radiohead song played at Christmas.
- Nor is it about being creeped out by Christmas.
- Nor is it a Christmas tradition of creepers.
- A Christmas Episode is not necessarily of a show called Christmas, nor is it necessarily an episode that aired on Christmas.
- Christmas Rushed is not about the crunch time at Santa Claus's workshop as Christmas draws near. Nor is it about Santa falling behind delivering presents causing him to cut corners and get sloppy.
- A Chrome Champion is not someone who champions the use of Google Chrome.
- Nor is it Orianna's character page (we don't actually know if she's made of chrome or not).
- Chronic Hero Syndrome is not about an Alternate Timeline in which Syndrome becomes a hero rather than a villain.
- A Chubby Chaser is not a fat person trying to catch up with someone. Or vice-versa.
- Nor is it something that a fat person gets at the bar.
- Nor is it a fat version of the dog who knows the names of 1,022 toys.
- The Church of Happyology is not specifically devoted to the Mass Effect Happy Ending Mod.
- Nor is it about the study of positive emotional states in a house of worship either.
- Despite the similar name, the Happy Happyists aren't an example.
- Nor is it about religious optimists.
- Chutney Music isn't songs about condiments.
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting is not about lighting a cigar using a fuse.
- A Circular Drive is not referring to the fact that the hearts of warp drives always seem to be spherical.
- Nor is it referring to a CD-ROM drive.
- Nor is it about a cul-de-sac in your typical American suburban subdivision. Nor, for that matter, driving around a traffic circle or modern roundabout (though a Circular Drive may be executed on one of the latter two).
- Civil Warcraft is not a World of Warcraft game (or the original Warcraft, for that matter) where every player is respectful and polite towards each other.
- Classic Disney Shorts is not a subtrope of Goofy Print Underwear, nor vice versa.
- A Class Representative is not a character who embodies the upper-class, working-class, etc.
- Nor is it a Dungeons & Dragons campaign where you have one wizard in a party of fighters.
- It's also not about choosing a specific element from an equivalence class in mathematics.
- A Classy Cat-Burglar doesn't steal cats (unless they're made of gold or gems), or steal from cats.
- She also isn't a cat herself. Usually.
- Claustrophobia does not mean you're afraid of Santa Claus.
- Cliché Storm is not about the overuse of the It Was a Dark and Stormy Night trope.
- It also has nothing to do with cliches regarding a certain weather-controlling superheroine or a certain hoverboarding albatross.
- *Click* Hello is not an instruction to press the button labeled "Hello".
- A Cliffhanger Wall is not the side of a mountain that someone dramatically holds onto.
- A Climax Boss does not have to involve Orgasmic Combat.
- Nor is it necessarily a boss that has to be beaten with a Climax Attack or an Umbran Climax.
- A Climbing Climax is not an orgasm that just keeps getting more and more intense.
- Cloneopoly is not about a game Professor Scudworth would make. Nor is it making a business to compete with a monopoly.
- Nor is it an R&B album made by Khaki Barn employees.
- It is also not about Piper creating clones of the Sole Survivor.
- Nor is it about ripping off blues songs.
- A Closet Geek is not an obsessive fan of clothes storage or similar cupboard spaces.
- Nor is it a geek who's secretly gay.
- A Closet Punishment isn't about being forced to pretend that you're straight, or a punishment for pretending that you're straight.
- Closet Shuffle is not a dance move conceived by Closet Gays.
- A Clothing Switch isn't a lever that changes people from being fully clothed to being naked.
- Cloudcuckooland is not a country populated by water vapor and clocks with birds in them. Yet...
- A Cloudcuckoolander isn't an Apollo Moon Lander touching down in Fluffy Cloud Heaven.
- Nor is it about Cloud landing into a world of insane people.
- Nor is it (necessarily) a resident of Cloudcuckooland.
- A Clown-Car Grave isn't where you bury a dead Clown Car, nor is it an upset clown car.
- Club Kid is not about hitting kids with clubs, a kid with a club, using a kid as a club, children in very adult clubs, kids sneaking into clubs, club houses or the youngest person in an organization.
- Clueless Aesop is not about the Aesop of the movie Clueless.
- Cluster F-Bomb is not when you repeatedly press F to pay respects.
- Coat, Hat, Mask isn't about dressing to go out in the Coronavirus pandemic.
- The reason The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes isn't because they don't like them.
- A Cock Fight is not about two roosters fighting. Nor is it about two people fighting over a rooster or a penis, or two men arguing over which one's penis is better (although the latter does come close).
- Nor is it between two or more men who are using their penises as weapons.
- Nor is it a fight between two people who are both massive jerks.
- A Code Emergency isn't necessarily an urgent need for Hollywood Hacking.
- Code Silver: Let's not summon the elderly superheroes, shall we? Elderly barbarians will suffice, thank you.
- Let's not summon that shiny pale-colored hedgehog with psychic powers, either.
- Nor the Lone Ranger's horse, for that matter.
- Nor the Threarah's nephew.
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise is not what happens in Night Watch to give Keel's scar and eyepatch to Vimes (Try Timey-Wimey Ball).
- Coincidental Dodge (usually) doesn't involve a car.
- A Colbert Bump isn't the main focus of a Stephen Colbert MPreg fanfiction.
- A Cold Reading does require some ad-libbing, but it is not an audition using an unfamiliar script.
- It does not involve perusing literature in the polar regions.
- Nor does it involve any kind of instrument used to measure temperature.
- Nor is it about reading a book while you have a cold.
- A Cold Sniper may be stationed in regions featuring extreme temperature, but that isn't what the trope is referring to.
- Cold-Blooded Whatever doesn't mean that the villain is also The Stoic.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere is not about the ease of finding a turkey deli sandwich.
- Nor is it many turkeys with hypothermia.
- College Is "High School, Part 2" is not the second part of a "College is High School" trope page.
- Colon Cancer is not actually about cancer of the colon.
- A Colony Drop isn't edible.
- A Colorful Song is not one whose lyrics have remarkably colorful language.
- Nor does it involve people with synaesthesia.
- Colossus Climb is not when the colossus is the one doing the climbing. Nor does it involve a certain member of the X-Men.
- A Colour Failure is not a failure to see or identify colours.
- Colour Wash isn't about washing coloured and white clothes together.
- Comatose Canary is not about how canary birds are used as an early warning system for the presence of toxic gas in mines. That'd be Canary in a Coal Mine.
- Combat by Champion isn't just about all combat done by the person who's the best at combat.
- Combat Clairvoyance isn't about ways to fight against clairvoyance.
- A Combat Referee won't (necessarily) come over and physically assault anyone they suspect is breaking the rules.
- Combat Stilettos is not about knives used in combat, nor is it about high heels that are actual stiletto blades (though it can overlap with the latter).
- Combinatorial Explosion is not another name for binary munitions
- Nor is it a Combining Mecha blowing up.
- The Combo does not refer to a pretzel snack with cheese or cream filling, nor does it refer to ordering a fast food item with a side and a cold drink.
- A Comeback Mechanic will not help you in making an instant witty retort.
- Nor is it about a Mr Fix It character who had a Heroic BSoD or Achilles in His Tent situation but recovered. Or a successful return to business for a repair shop.
- Nor is it a mechanic who has come Back from the Dead.
- Comedic Lolicon is a character type, not a Sex Comedy about young girls.
- A Comedy Ghetto isn't a hilarious part of the inner city.
- Nor is it a comedic portrayal of life in a ghetto.
- Come for the X, Stay for the Y is not about people intending to get Pokémon X Version but wind up playing Y Version instead.
- Nor is it about people who go to a comic shop in search of X-Men comics, but wind up being sidetracked by the fact that they have Y: The Last Man.
- Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are is not connected to the Coming-Out Story.
- Come to Gawk is not an invitation to visit or live in some location named Gawk.
- Comfort Food isn't about trying to cheer up a loaf of bread.
- Comforting Comforter is not an example of Department of Redundancy Department, though it sounds like it to non-Americans.
- Nor is it synonymous with Security Blanket.
- Comic Books Are Real isn't an insinuation against them not existing.
- Comic-Book Limbo doesn't mean that the plot of Limbo (2010) or Limbo (2014) got turned into a comic book.
- Comic Role Play isn't about role playing as a comic book character.
- Comic Sutra is not a particularly funny Hindu or Buddhist scripture.
- Coming and Going is not about randomly entering and exiting, nor is it someone who has an orgasm and leaves.
- Coming in Hot ... um, yeah...
- Nor is it about entering a room while being burned.
- Command & Conquer Economy is not a suggestion or a tactic.
- Nor is it a country with an economy based around playing Command & Conquer.
- A Commander Is You is not some sort of Unexpected Gameplay Change to Kingdom of Loathing, it is only named from An Adventurer Is You - neither is it related to the Player Character of Mass Effect.
- Commuting on a Bus is not necessarily about commuting on an actual bus.
- Compensating for Something is always about penises. It's not for anytime someone compensates for anything because that'd be People Sit on Chairs.
- A Competence Zone is not an area where a character is competent only if he or she stands within it. It's also not a stage in a Sonic the Hedgehog game where Sonic can accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently than normal.
- Competing with a Corpse is not about trying to outrun a zombie. Nor does it refer to love triangles where one of the subjects is an actual corpse, rather than just a memory.
- Nor is it coaching a sports team where one of the players is a zombie.
- Complacent Gaming Syndrome does not refer to the villain of The Incredibles content to sit in his lair and play games instead of trying to attack Mr. Incredible.
- Complete Monster isn't a Dungeons & Dragons book about playing as a monster (though the franchise does have numerous examples).
- Nor is it about Victor Frankenstein finishing his most iconic creation.
- Nor is it about a monster who is confirmed not to be a hybrid.
- Nor is it about the universe of Monsters, Inc., which is only inhabited by monsters. That is, unless you're talking about Randall Boggs.
- A Composite Character is not what you get after a composite event. Nor does it involve diacritics to Unicode symbols.
- It's not an alias for Frankenstein's Monster.
- Nor is it a character generated by Fusion Dance or Merging Machine, or one who is a Combining Mecha.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard has nothing to do with your AI boy/girlfriend cheating on you. Well, unless maybe it's an elaborate Lampshade Hanging....
- The Computer Is Your Friend is not where a game's AI helps you at every opportunity rather than screws you over.
- Nor is it related to Robot Buddy.
- And neither of these are a sequel to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
- The Computer Is Your Friend is not where a game's AI helps you at every opportunity rather than screws you over.
- The Computer Shall Taunt You is not a story where one of the characters is a wisecracking AI that likes to make fun of the heroes.
- Nor is it the Russian Reversal version of a game where you mock the AI.
- It's also not about your PC making fun of you.
- Concentration-Bound Magic is not (necessarily) magic that works better when densely packed into a small space, nor is it magic that can only work by playing a game involving matching face-down cards, nor is it magic located strictly within a concentration camp.
- Concepts Are Cheap is not about how the production of storyline and character concepts require almost no budget.
- A Cone of Shame is not a Dunce Cap.
- A Confirmed Bachelor is not someone who is confirmed to have received their university degree.
- Conflict is not about the Middle East Political Simulator.
- Nor is it about being in a desperate conflict with a ruthless enemy.
- Conflict Ball isn't about an aggressive sport or dance.
- Nor is it a sport played while singing the aforementioned "conflict". Or a dance event involving said song.
- Confucian Confusion is not when Confucius was confused about a particular question.
- Congestion Speak is not about talking while being stuck in traffic.
- Nor does it refer to talking about traffic jams or any other type of congestion.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu is not an attempt to save a dying band of Japanese mythological assassins from extinction.
- It is also not about saving your ninja as a last resort.
- Conspicuous Consumption is not a particularly symptomatic case of Incurable Cough of Death.
- Nor does it necessarily involve eating food.
- The Constant has nothing to do with proportionality.
- A Constructed World is not a manmade planet or Another Dimension.
- While stoners may enjoy both activities, Contemplate Our Navels and Contemplating Your Hands are entirely unrelated tropes.
- Continuing is Painful is not about someone contemplating suicide, thankfully. It's also not related to We Cannot Go On Without You.
- Continuity Creep is not that creepy guy you keep seeing in the background throughout the series.
- A Continuity Lockout does not happen when the cast and crew of a long running movie or television franchise are happy with their salaries but Management isn't.
- Nor is it what happens when labor disputes in the middle of production result in things like The Other Darrin, Writer on Board, The Scrappy, Creator's Pet, and/or Cerebus Syndrome.
- Continuity Porn does not involve Rule 34. Then, again...
- Nor is it about a series of porn films with an overarching plot.
- Continuity Snarl is not an oddly named Dinobot toy. There is no such thing as a Continuity Grimlock; you're probably thinking of Continuity Lockout (which in turn is not to be mistaken for Continuity Lockdown).
- Also, there is no Transformers series named "Transformers: Continuity" which includes Snarl (or Drift) as a cast member. No-one would be that cruel.
- It's not when a fanboy snarls at you because you are confused by the show's confusing plot.
- Contractual Boss Immunity is not a clause in an employment contract that says that one isn't allowed to harm their boss, or vice versa.
- Contractual Immortality is not about when a character is immortal as long as certain conditions are met.
- Nor is it about a contract that lasts forever.
- Convection, Schmonvection isn't about a character scoffing at the concept of convection.
- A Conversation Hog is not a discussion about pigs, nor is it a talkative anthropomorphic pig.
- Conversation in the Main Page doesn't refer to people editing the home page to have a conversation. It could if it happened, but it is locked now, so it doesn't.
- A Converse Error is not a mistake at a factory making Converse shoes.
- A Conveyor Belt Video is not a video that has conveyor belts in it.
- Cooking Stories is not about frying a book.
- A Cool and Unusual Punishment is not a punishment the person being punished found cool and not a real punishment. It is supposed to be seen as cool for everyone but the person/people getting punished.
- Nor is it necessarily a punishment involving low temperatures.
- A Cool Car or Cool Ship usually isn't made of ice. Nor is the former the move Jin Kisaragi spams to win matches.
- A Cool Board isn't a chopping board made of ice, or one with an awesome design.
- A Cool Ship also isn't about how awesome it would be if those two characters hooked up.
- Coolest Club Ever is not about bludgeons, and has nothing to do with golf.
- Cool Gate does not refer to an architectural feature, even if it is cool-looking or cold because it's winter.
- It has nothing to do with political scandals or a certain toothpaste company, either.
- It is not an obstacle you can only pass once you're sufficiently cool.
- A Cool Mask isn't necessarily well-ventilated.
- Cool Old Guy does not describe The Ice King, but once upon a time it used to describe Simon Petrikov. Nor is it Guy Smiley or Eep's boyfriend growing old and being cool, though they'd qualify.
- Cool Shades are not about particularly awesome-looking shades of a color.
- Cool Starship has nothing to do with the band formerly known as Jefferson Airplane.
- Copycat Mockery isn't mocking someone for being a copycat.
- Copycat Sue is not a response to copyright, trademark, or patent infringement.
- Nor is it someone named Sue who mimics people, or copying someone named Sue.
- The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much, but not because s/he's on strike.
- Corrupted Data is not about a certain android from Star Trek: The Next Generation doing a Face–Heel Turn.
- The Corruption is not purple and full of giant worms.
- Corruption by a Minor is not about a musical chord that can turn you evil.
- It often involves a minor who is themselves corrupt, but that's not what it's about either.
- Nor does it involve a child carelessly damaging data.
- A Cosmetic Award is not necessarily given to those who revolutionize the field of make-up.
- Cosmetic Horror is not H. P. Lovecraft's attempt at writing a Chick Lit (amusing as that would be).
- Nor does it refer to things that look scary but are actually nice.
- Nor does it refer to works of fiction that use Gothic Horror aesthetics but aren't actually in the horror genre.
- Nor does it refer to scary makeup.
- A Cosmic Horror Story is not per definition Horror IN SPACE, though it can be that too in some cases (eg. Event Horizon).
- It also doesn't need to star Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
- It almost certainly has a Cosmic Horror in it, but not any story about a Cosmic Horror counts.
- Cosmic Plaything does not describe Buzz Lightyear.
- Cosplay does not (usually) involve people dressing up as Bill Cosby.
- A Costume Copycat is not a character who likes to dress up like other characters, whether in-universe or from other franchises. They're actually doing it for a purpose other than for fun.
- Costume Porn isn't about costumes so revealing that you might as well be naked.
- Nor are they sex scenes between people in costume, or for that matter, the costumes themselves making love.
- Cosy Catastrophe is not a disaster caused by Cozy Glow.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot is not about someone realizing they didn't need to trample all over someone else's vegetable garden to get to their destination. Of course, if the garden's owner notices and gets annoyed, then it WOULD become an example of this trope.
- Counter-Earth is not a counterattack against Dishing Out Dirt.
- When Counting to Potato, the noun being counted to is not an unknown algebraic variable.
- Country Matters are not exclusive to rural areas. Nor do they refer to nations. Nor to a certain music genre. And it definitely isn't reminding people to be patriotic, either.
- Nor is it Family Matters... With Country Music!
- Countrystan doesn't refer to a Hetalia fangirl.
- A Country Switch is not about two students enrolled in the Foreign Exchange Program.
- It also doesn't have anything to do with changing a song's genre.
- Nor does it turn a nation on and off.
- Nor does it require changing the setting of the series.
- Nor is it a switch the size of a country.
- Nor is it a Nintendo Switch that can only be used in a particular country.
- Courtly Love has nothing to do with Ace Attorney Ho Yay. Don't tell that to the Slash Fic writers, though.
- Nor is it Courtney Love's similarly-named sister.
- Cousin Oliver is not a relative of Tommy.
- Or Polly.
- Nor is it someone's actual cousin named Oliver.
- The Cover Changes the Gender is not about book or album covers that inflict a Gender Bender on anyone who looks at them. It's also not about book/album covers that for some reason portray a character or artist as a different gender.
- The Cover Changes the Meaning is not when you derive a different interpretation of the contents from taking a good look at a book, DVD / VHS, video game, or even album cover.
- Nor is it about when the fact that something is covered up gives it an entirely different significance.
- Covers Always Lie isn't about artists recording pre-existent songs and making it completely different from the original. And/or eclipsing the first recording.
- Covert Pervert is not about a pervert who spies upon people changing with camouflage and binoculars. Nor is it about soldiers on covert ops carrying arround porn.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer is not about watching anime on a computer as opposed to a VCR or DVD/Blu Ray Player.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Orcus on His Throne.
- And no, Cowboy Bebop has never eaten his computer.
- A Cowboy Cop is not necessarily in a Western. Nor is he bovine.
- Cower Power is not about gaining strength by crouching in fear.
- Cow Tools aren't used on or by cows.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable has nothing to do with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- A Crack Defeat is not a defeat caused by a character being slipped cocaine before the fight, nor is it a character losing because they tripped and fell in a crack. Nor is it a souped-up Game Mod of Under Defeat.
- The Cracker isn't a savoury biscuit or a Christmas decoration, nor a derogatory term synonymous with white trash. Nor do they remove copy protection on files to enable digital piracy.
- A Crack Fic is not a fanfiction about cocaine or about someone acquiring bad luck from stepping on a crack.
- Nor is it about Yaoi. Hopefully.
- Crack is Cheaper has nothing to do with pirated Video Games, although you may as well buy pirated video games because of it.
- It is also not about how Cracked, now an online magazine, is free to read and is thus cheaper than its print competitors.
- A Crack Pairing is not about what might taste good with cocaine.
- Nor is it about what a romantic pair might be like if they were on crack.
- It is also not about pressing your bum crack up against someone else's.
- Cradling Your Kill has nothing to with necrophilia or with killing babies.
- Cranial Eruption is not about when a character's face turns red and steam shoots from their ears.
- Nor is it about having an active volcano for or on a head.
- Crappy Holidays is not about having diarrhoea either at Christmas or while away on holiday.
- Crapsack World is not about a world filled with actual bags of crap (although that would count as one).
- Nor is it a world where spitoons and toilets were never invented and everybody craps into sacks (but that would also count as one).
- It's also not about a planet which is a giant bag of poop (but again, that would probably count as one as well.)
- Crashing Dreams is not about stories where aspirations and life goals become shattered, nor is it about two or more characters with mutually exclusive aspirations and life goals. It is also not necessarily about characters who dream (in any sense) about crashing.
- Crazy Cat Lady is not an insane Cat Girl.
- Crazy Consumption isn't about when contracting an Incurable Cough of Death makes you go insane.
- Crazy-Prepared is not about planning to go insane. Some of those who are Crazy-Prepared are insane to begin with, though.
- It's also not about preparing for insane people to visit.
- Crazy Sane does not mean "very sane".
- Create Your Own Hero is not about a mail-order kit that, once fully assembled, becomes a customized and personalized hero of your own.
- Nor is Create Your Own Villain the same thing except with a villain.
- Also, neither one is about video games in which you can customize the appearance and name of the hero or the villain .
- Creative Sterility is not about the brainstorming that went into Genophage and its improvement.
- Creator Backlash is (ideally) not about creators getting their backs lashed.
- Nor is it about fans lashing out against creators.
- Creator Killer is not a mad robot who murders his own inventor. Nor does it have anything to do with killing God/the gods.
- A Creator's Favorite Episode doesn't have to focus on the Creator's Favorite, though it might.
- Creator Speak is not a Super-Trope of Buffy Speak, for writers other than Joss Whedon.
- Nor is it about attempts to get information out of a quiet creator.
- Creator's Pet is not an animal that lives with the creator.
- Creepypasta did not come from the fridge, nor does it (usually) have anything to do with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
- Creepy Ballet is not about ballets taking place at a haunted house. Nor is it about perverts running the world of ballet, although it could include this.
- Creepy Cave is not about horror games made by CAVE.
- Cricket Rules is not a page that gushes about Cricket. Or the insect.
- It's also not a guideline on how you should use the Chirping Crickets trope.
- Crime and Punishment Tropes are not tropes that feature in the Dostoyevsky novel.
- Crimefighting with Cash is not about shooting money at the villain.
- Nor is it using Johnny Cash's music to fight crime.
- Nor is it about partnering up with him to fight crime.
- Nor is it what Tango does.
- Criminal Amnesiac is not a character who forgot they used to be evil. If anything, it's the opposite.
- Criminal Mind Games is not a list of game adaptations of the TV show Criminal Minds.
- Critical Annoyance is not frustration at your luck stat failing to check out right when you needed it.
- Critical Backlashes are not natural 20 Backlash Checks.
- Critical Existence Failure is not what happens to a work when an author has Protection from Editors.
- Critical Hit is not a work getting praise from critics.
- Nor is it about attacking people who criticise you.
- It's also not about a popular deconstruction.
- And a Critical Hit Class is not where you and a bunch of other students learn how to deal (or defend from) critical hits.
- Nor is it about scoring a Critical Hit against a bunch of students.
- Crocodile Tears is not about weeping reptiles.
- Cross Counter is not repelling demons or undead with crosses or other holy symbols.
- It's not someone counting crosses in any work under any context for any reason, either.
- Nor does it count how many times someone double-crosses you.
- It also isn't about angry people who count things.
- Cross-Dressing Voices doesn't refer to characters attempting to sound like the opposite sex while cross-dressing, nor is it a list of voice actors who cross-dress.
- Nor is it about what angry condiments sound like.
- Crosses the Line Twice doesn't mean it crosses back over the first line to become inoffensive.
- Has nothing to do with the naval tradition.
- Crossover Ship is not a dimension-travelling naval ship used as a plot basis for a crossover.
- Cross Playing does not mean you're role-playing Jesus. Or Alex Cross.
- A Cross Player is also not what you are after encountering That One Level or That One Boss.
- Neither is Cross Playing about Multi-Platform games allowing players on different systems to share multiplayer sessions.
- A Crowbar Combatant isn't about a crow who gets involved in a Bar Brawl.
- Crowd Hockey is not a game of hockey with far too many players at once.
- On that note, Crowning Music of Awesome is not limited to music playing during crowning ceremonies.
- Crucified Hero Shot does not refer to the hero of a work being crucified and then shot with a gun or other weapon. That would just be a waste of time for the villain.
- A Crusading Lawyer isn't a lawyer who wants to conquer Jerusalem.
- Cruel and Unusual Death is not a Psycho for Hire Dog-Kicker Bunny-Ears Lawyer Eldritch Abomination of a Grim Reaper or Shinigami. Though Final Destination kinda blurs them together.
- Cruel Mercy is not about how sadistic a given version Mercy Graves could be.
- Nor is it when Mercy really dips into the Deadly Doctor motif.Mercy: On a scale of 1 to 10, how is your pain?
- Nor is it when Mercy really dips into the Deadly Doctor motif.
- Cruise Episode isn't an episode that guest-stars Tom Cruise.
- Crush Blush isn't someone blushing before getting crushed.
- Nor is it about the object of someone's crush blushing.
- A Crush Parade is not a parade in honor of orange soda. Nor is it a parade of fangirls/fanboys following their Celeb Crush.
- Nor is it about concert seating crushes, like the one The Who experienced in Cincinnati.
- A Crutch Character is not someone who aids a person's walking, nor someone who needs help walking.
- Nor is it related to Living Emotional Crutch.
- Nor is it a sentient pair of crutches.
- Crying a River isn't River Song crying.
- Crying Critters is not about shouting to warn someone that there are animals.
- Crying Indian is not what the boy was supposed to do when his sheep are stolen.
- It's also not done in Sanskrit, Hindi, Pali, Bengali, Marathi, or any other language from the Subcontinent.
- Nor is it someone from India crying.
- It's also not about an Indianapolis Indians player or Mumbai Indians player crying.
- Nor was it about a Cleveland Guardians player, a Stanford Cardinal player, or a Dartmouth Big Green player crying back in the day.
- Crying Wolf is a verb phrase. It has nothing to do with a sad Canis lupus.
- It is also not related to one of Snake's adversaries in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
- Nor is it a trope about stock portrayals or naming conventions of Native Americans.
- Cry into Chest is not an instruction on how to get the treasure to appear inside of it.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus is not an Unusual Euphemism, although some people might use it the way the Christian Jesus is invoked. Nor is it a name for an actual character, although it should be.
- Nor it's about a dragon of crystal or a crystal dragon called Jesus.
- Nor does it refer to Walking Wake, a Dragon-type Pokémon who can turn into crystal and walk on water like Jesus.
- A Crystal Prison isn't a prison where criminal crystals are locked up.
- Crystal Spires and Togas doesn't mean the togas are made of crystal.
- Cub Cues Protective Parent isn't about a young animal attacking their parents with a pool cue. Nor is it about kids finding a baby animal, only for their parents to show up and warn them to leave it alone.
- Cue the Flying Pigs does not mean Waddles about to reenact a scene from Top Gun.
- Nor is it about starting the Cincinnati Marathon.
- Nor does it signal the arrival of police in helicopters.
- Cue the Rain is not about the woman Tom Paris meets while time-traveling.
- Cue the Sun does not refer to a game of pool of cosmic proportions.
- It's also not a signal for a notorious tabloid newspaper to appear.
- Cult Classic is not necessarily a work that is endorsed by a group fitting into the criteria of Steven Hassan's BITE Model of Authoritarian Control
- Nor is it a work which spawns such a group.
- Nor is it a popular single by The Cult.
- Culture Chop Suey has nothing to do with American culture as described in "Chop Suey" from Flower Drum Song.
- It doesn't describe the song by System of a Down either.
- Nor is it about mold growing on chop suey.
- Culture Justifies Anything is not another way to say "Screw the rules, The Culture is on my side!"
- Nor is it a way of saying you can get away with anything so long as you're classy about it.
- Nor is it "we're fighting the Culture, anything is justifiable if it lets us win!"
- Culture Police is not people who call you "uncultured" because you haven't read a 35,460,291-page True Art novel in the original Russian edition. It also has nothing to do with The Culture, which doesn't actually have much of a police force. It isn't about policing up "cleaning" mold growing in petridishes, nor is it a band featuring Boy George and Sting.
- Cunning Linguist isn't a linguist who's deliberately mistranslating things as part of a scheme.
- Curb-Stomp Battle is usually not about fighting by stomping on curbs or using a curbstomp as a Finishing Move.
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot does not mean that a certain Mars rover is not functioning well (it actually has been working fine since 2012).
- Curse Cut Short is not when a magical curse is broken earlier than expected.
- Cursed with Awesome is not about being awesome to the point of thinking you're cursed. That's something else altogether.
- Nor is it swearing in an awesome way.
- Curse of The Ancients is not about Mummy curses, nor is it about horrors that wiped out the Precursors.
- Curtains Match the Window has nothing to do with interior decoration.
- Cute as a Bouncing Betty is not related to Betty Boop, Betty DeVille or anyone else named Betty bouncing up and down.
- Cute 'em Up is not a subgenre of Beat 'em Up. Nor does it refer to making characters or creatures cuter within a series.
- Cute Mute is not a button for toggling cuteness, nor is it a way to get the kittens to shut up.
- Cutlass Between the Teeth is not about holding a car between your teeth.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check does not mean sending a money order to Superman's arch-nemesis.
- A Cutscene Drop is not an item that appears from an enemy during a cutscene.
- Cut Short is not about targeting smaller characters in a fight.
- It's also not about omitting short people from a work.
- A Cut Song is not what the director of a musical sings when they want the camera to stop rolling (except perhaps in RENT).
- Nor a song about self-harm.
- Nor hurting oneself by accident.
- Nor a song about self-harm.
- Cut the Juice is not about diluting fruit juice.
- Cutting the Knot is not about getting divorced after tying the knot.
- Nor is it about literally cutting a knot.
- Cyber Cyclops has nothing to do with Scott Summers, although his visor DOES kind of make him look like a robot.
- Neither does Classical Cyclops.
- Cyborg is not necessarily the dude from Teen Titans (2003), although he counts.
- Cycle of Hurting is not about hitting someone with a bike.
- Similarly, Cycle of Revenge is not about bicycles hunting down motorists for having dominated roadways in much of the world.