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- R-Type is not a Driving Game.
- Nor is it an pun on "our type".
- R-Type Final was going to be the Grand Finale for the series...until two spinoff games happened. It's still the final game that is of the series' primary genre, however.
- And the predessors are not G-Type, PG-Type, and PG-13-Type, and the sucessor is not NC-17-Type.
- Rabi-Ribi does not have any rabbi, frogs, or rabbi frogs in it.
- Rabbit Fire is not about Bugs Bunny committing arson.
- Nor does it refer to Scorbunny, Raboot, or Cinderace.
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown is not a Slasher Movie with the Peanuts gang trying to elude a Serial Killer.
- Radiant Silvergun does feature ships called Silverguns, but they are not silver-colored.
- Radiohead is not the name of a monster from Silent Hill.
- Rage Against the Machine is not about angry people who fights against their robot masters.
- Raid Heroes: Total War isn't a game in the Total War franchise.
- Raid Heroes: Dragon Age isn't a game in the Dragon Age franchise.
- Raiden has nothing to do with a certain white haired Bishōnen protagonist or a certain Thunder God, or a certain thunder goddess. Or an Australian wrestler's heel persona. Or the gestalt form of the Trainbots.
- Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive is not Raiden Fighters IN HELL!
- Raiden Fighters Jet does not star Streets of Rage 2's Stage 2 boss, nor does it star a green hoverboarding hawk.
- Rain (2010) is not about that stuff falling from the clouds that can dampen your mood. That's Cloud. This is lampshaded in the comic's FAQ's.
- Rainbow Sentai Robin is not Batman's sidekick leading the color-coded team.
- Rainbow Six is not about a team of six with a Rainbow Motif. Nor is it about Rainbow Dash being the leader of the Mane Six.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Kokona’s group of friends.
- Rainbow Six Siege does not follow by Rainbow Six Earthrise and Rainbow Six Kingdom.
- Raise the Red Lantern is not the Origins Episode for Atrocitus.
- Ralph Breaks the Internet is not about Ralph Wiggum breaking the Internet.
- Likewise, its predecessor Wreck-It Ralph is not about Wiggum wrecking something.
- Ramona Quimby is not related to Mayor Quimby.
- Randal's Monday isn't about a Monday in the life of Randall Boggs, Randall Weems, Randall Ascot, or Randal Graves.
- Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is not a documentary about former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham's high-school adventures. Or about US Navy fighter ace Randy “Duke” Cunningham being a ninja.
- Ranking of Kings is not about which member of Don King or Martin Luther King Jr.'s families is ranked the best.
- Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace does not involve Lapras, whose Japanese name is Laplace.
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children's author Ransom Riggs of the name, is not inspired by Mel Gibson's two movies. Although that might be awesome if the character appears in his next movie.
CinemaSins: I know he's a real person and all, but doesn't it sound like "Ransom Riggs" is the name of a character Mel Gibson would put in his next movie?
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai does not feature Lola, Honey, or Babs Bunny in an Isekai crossover with The Little Rascals involving Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and/or Spanky suffering from insomnia.
- Nor does it involve Rascal Flatts interacting with any of the above lepine lasses.
- RATUZ is not a pseudo-Slavic word for "town hall".
- Rave Master is not about some cool punk who goes to rave parties. This is not helped by the fact that it's sometimes called Groove Adventure Rave.
- The RAY Series is not the collective group of tropers named Ray.
- It also has nothing to do with Ray Romano.
- Nor is it a spinoff series based upon the Ray Charles biopic.
- It also has nothing to do with Metal Gear Ray or flat cartilaginous fish.
- Rayman isn't a part of it, either. The commercials made that abundantly clear.
- Nor is Rayman a Robot Master who attacks with EM waves in Mega Man (Classic).
- Raya and the Last Dragon does not star a Latina drummer.
- Razing Storm is not about a literal storm that razes cities.
- Neither weather-controlling superheroes nor hoverboarding albatrosses are involved.
- It's not about Geese Howard's Desperation Attack, either.
- Re:CREATORS is not about Dr. Elaki Kalahahaii sending an email regarding what she thinks about the Creators aka the human race.
- Re:Monster is not a sequel or a reboot to Monster.
- Re:Zero is not the answer from an email about Zero.
- Has nothing to do with ReCore either.
- Read or Die is not An Offer You Can't Refuse, nor is it an Edutainment Game from the makers of the EA Sports skateboard game Skate or Die, nor does it have anything to do with the "Vote Or Die" campaign.
- Reading Rainbow is not about literate light from a prism. It is also only tangentially related to a cyan pegasus developing literature as a hobby in that it was the episode's Working Title. It is not about divination through observing rainbows either.
- By the same token, the Reading Rainbowverse has nothing to do with LeVar Burton reading stories in Alternate Universes.
- Ready Jet Go! is not a cartoon spinoff of Ready? Jet Go LLCnote .
- Not is it a spinoff of Taito's Jet de GO! series.
- Nor is it an episode of The Jetsons
- It also has nothing to do with Go Jetters.
- It's not a spinoff of Avatar: The Last Airbender starring Jet.
- Nor is it related to Jet Set Radio.
- The Real Ghostbusters is not a Reality Show about real-life paranormal investigators (it was called that to distinguish it from Filmation's Ghostbusters).
- "Ghosts R Us" is not about a store that sells ghosts.
- "Knock, Knock" is not about "knock knock" jokes.
- "Adventures in Slime and Space" is not a Space Episode.
- "Loathe Thy Neighbour" is not about some villains moving in next door to the firehouse.
- "Big Trouble with Little Slimer" isn't about Slimer being shrunk.
- "Mean Green Teen Machine" isn't about a machine that turns teenagers green and malevolent.
- Rebuild of Evangelion is not about seeing how an EVA is being rebuilt.
- Nor is it a sequel to the original Neon Genesis Evangelion taking place after at least some of humanity had recovered from being turned into LCL and was trying to rebuild civilization.
- Red Ash is not about the protagonist of Pokémon Red and Blue and the various names people call him.
- Red Dawn (1984) is not when a character named Dawn becomes a Communist. Nor is it the sister of Red Nicky, Red Ricky, and Red Dicky. Nor is it a red-colored dish detergent. Or Pokémon protagonists being shipped.
- None of the Red Doors can teleport you to New York City private place.
- Red Dwarf is not a show about a Native-American little person, nor is it about Doc or Grumpy or a red-dwarf star.
- Reddit is not a place where they ask you to paint everything red, hence "you have to red it".
- Nor is it all about frogs, although there is a sub-forum about frogs on it.
- It's also not about books (as in "read it").
- The Red Green Show is not a show dedicated to causing epileptic seizures by rapidly flashing the title colors. They forgot blue.
- Nor is it about traffic lights. They forgot yellow.
- Nor is it unwatchable by people who are red-green color-blind.
- It isn't about Mario and Luigi either.
- Red Orchestra does not include an actual orchestra.
- Red Panda Adventures is not about the adventures of Meilin Lee despite taking place in Toronto, Canada, in a past decade.
- Red Planet is not a sequel to The Blue Planet.
- The Red Pony is not about Big Macintosh. It's not about a Communist pony either, nor is it a pony seen on TV that suddenly lots of people want to have.
- Red Steel is not set in the Cold War.
- Red Tails is not a Sonic the Hedgehog spinoff game featuring his sidekick Tails who has been re-colored red.
- The Red Turtle is not about Raphael. Nor is it about a variety of Koopa that doesn't fall off the edges.
- It is not about a Communist turtle either, nor does is it a turtle seen on TV that suddenly lots of people want to have.
- Red vs. Blue is not about the rivalry of the game counterparts of Ash and Gary.
- Nor is it about Team Fortress 2 or Clash Royale.
- Nor is about the endless political battle between the Democratic and Republican Party in the US.
- Reds is not about a baseball team from Cincinnati.
- Red's Planet is not about communists boldly going where no capitalist has gone before. Nor is it about GOP departing from Earth to found their Jesusland elsewhere.
- Regular Show isn't a show devoid of irregular events. In fact, as evidenced by its "It's anything but." tagline, it's the exact opposite.
- Nor is it a show that teaches how to avoid constipation.
- RefleX has nothing to do with the Duran Duran song.
- Or the 80's One-Hit Wonder ("The Politics of Dancing").
- And while the game does require reflexes to play, that's not the reason behind the title.
- Release the Spyce doesn't take place in Arrakis, albeit it does feature a power-giving spice.
- Remember Me is not a Metroid spin-off starring Anthony Higgs, nor is it about one of the songs from Coco or any songs or movies that predate it.
- Nor is it about the feature websites have to let you skip entering in a password to log in.
- Remember the Titans is not dedicated to the Tennessee Titans, despite being a film about American Football. It's not about Titans of the man-eating variety, either. Or the Teen Titans.
- Remina is not a Portmanteau Couple Name for a Crossover Ship based on the part in the Hot Springs Episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann when Kamina kisses a Rei look-alike.
- Or with Remilia Scarlet.
- Remy & Boo is not a Pixar crossover between Monsters, Inc. and Ratatouille.
- Rental Magica is not about being able to rent a Puella Magi.
- The Replacement Killers aren't targeting Paul Westerberg or his bandmates.
- Repo! The Genetic Opera is not about an opera sung by your own genes.
- Revolt is not an adaptation of Re-Volt.
- Rez is not a Villain Protagonist spinoff of Gex.
- Nor is it about screen resolutions.
- And it doesn't take place on an Indian reservation.
- RG Veda is not a crossover between The World Ends with You and Gundam 00.
- Rhythm Heaven Fever isn't a disease.
- Nor is it a variant of Pac Man Fever involving video games in fiction being portrayed as rhythm games.
- Richard Burns Rally is not about someone named Richard setting fire to a political protest.
- Also, the Richard Burns in the title is the late rally car driver, not the reporter for WCTR.
- Richie Rich is not an unscrupulous 16th-century politician.
- Nor is it about Richie Cunningham becoming wealthy.
- Rick and Morty is not a crossover of Kirby and Pokémon about the hamster and the Johto ghost gym leader.
- Rico Suave is not Lorenzo's Latino cousin.
- Riddle School is not where people learn about riddles, nor is it owned or attended by The Riddler, Tom Riddle, or Xavier Riddle. Most of the puzzles in the games aren't riddles, either.
- Riddle Transfer is not about any of the aformentioned three characters transferring to another school.
- Ridge Racer Revolution is not a crossover with DanceDance Revolution. Nor is it a Ridge Racer game set during a revolt.
- R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 is not a Ridge Racer-branded Nintendo DS flashcard.
- Ridge Racer 7 does not feature someone being dramatically murdered, nor does it have a transformation mechanic, nor does it have hang gliders.
- Ri ME is unrelated to the icy Age from Myst.
- RimWorld is not about a world full of literal professional butt-kissers.
- The Ring has nothing to do with the One Ring or the birth control method.
- Ring Fit Adventure does not utilize smart doorbells as fitness devices.
- Ringer has nothing to do with school bells, church bells, or any other bells whatsoever.
- Nor does it have anything to do with The Gong Show.
- And it's not the television adaptation of The Ringer, either.
- Ring of Red is not about that problem your Xbox 360 has hanging over its head.
- "Ringo" by Lorne Greene has nothing to do with Ringo Starr. That didn't stop of the song from being a #1 hit during the height of Beatlemania in 1965.
- Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages is not a cryptically titled Sonic the Hedgehog game.
- Rio is not a Juken Sentai Gekiranger spinoff.
- It also has nothing to do with Duran Duran.
- Rip Kirby isn't about Kirby dying.
- The Rise of Darth Vulcan is not a crossover between Star Wars and Star Trek.
- Rise of the Guardians is not about parents or mysterious owls or creepy fish-things rising.
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes is not a crossover story about the adventures of a cheerful, persona-summoning teenage pop idol who suddenly finds herself on the Planet of the Apes.
- Rise of the Triad does not involve The Triads and the Tongs. (At least, not in the game's final form.)
- Nor does it have anything to do with musical chords with three notes.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero is not the Japanese version of Captain America, that would be Battle Fever J.
- Riven is not about the exile from League of Legends, as the game predates LoL by over a decade.
- River City Ransom and all the games that follow, like River City Girls, are not Sequel in Another Medium to The Music Man nor River City 2002 nor River City 2011.
- Road Rash is not about having a serious case of rash in the middle of the road.
- One of the shows created by Shotaro Ishinomori, Robocon, is not a convention that focuses on robots and robotics.
- Robopon has not a Gaiden Game of Patapon, where you play as one of the Robopons from the series.
- There are no robotic Nopon in it either.
- Robot Chicken has nothing to do with Burn Rooster.
- The Robot Romance Trilogy does not consist of S1m0ne, WALL•E, and Ex Machina
- Rock Band does not involve a group of sentient (or pet) rocks.
- Rocket-bye Baby is not about Jessie and James having a child.
- Rocket Girls is not a Gender Flipped version of Rocket Boys (aka October Sky).
- Or a girl-centered spinoff of Rocket Power (even if there was episode titled thus).
- Or a Pokémon: The Series special about the ladies of Team Rocket.
- Or a work centered around a gender flipped Rocket Raccoon.
- Rocket League doesn't involve actual rockets.
- It also isn't an alternate name for Team Rocket.
- Rocket Power is not about showing off absolute power by blowing up stuff with rockets.
- It is also not Team Rocket's long-awaited spinoff, unfortunately.
- Likewise, neither is Rocket Squad.
- It is also not Team Rocket's long-awaited spinoff, unfortunately.
- Rockman does not involve the Rockmen from FTL: Faster Than Light.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show isn't a horror film featuring Rocky Balboa. Nor Rocky and Bullwinkle.
- Romancing the Stone is not about seducing rocks.
- The VOCALOID song "Romeo and Cinderella" is not a crossover between Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella.
- The Room (2003) has nothing to do with Silent Hill.
- Nor does it include characters trapped in a room (nor about the relationship between a woman and her son trapped in a room), or take place entirely in one room (although apparently, it was originally going to be the latter case).
- Rooster Teeth is not a company full of birds with teeth.
- Rotary Park is not safe after dark.
- Roundhouse is not about martial arts.
- The Royal Tenenbaums does not have a character named Brigid who's a scientist in Rapture.
- RT Game is not the gaming channel of Russia Today.
- Ruby Gloom is not about the Pokémon Gloom or YouTuber Gloom finding or turning into a ruby, nor is it about any character named Ruby feeling sad.
- Ruby on Rails is not a Rail Shooter featuring Ruby Gloom, Ruby Pinch, a Pokémon trainer named Ruby, Ruby Rose, the other Ruby Rose, Ruby the rabbit, Garnet's twin sister, Ruby Moonnote , the one from Steven Universe, Ruby the oviraptor, the only girl of the Goose Eggs, Ruby Anderson, Ruby Kurosawa, Ruby Trollman or anybody named Ruby.
- Ruby Quest does not involve one of Eriol's guardians/servants, one of the twin protagonists in Double Act, or the leader of Team RWBY. And while the main protagonist is a rabbit, it's not the one from Max and Ruby.
- Rugrats is not about rats who dwell on rugs.
- Rugrats S 3 E 7 When Wishes Come True Angelica Breaks A Leg is not an episode where Angelica breaks a leg because someone's wishes came true. Also, despite its being called "Angelica Breaks a Leg", she doesn't actually break a leg.
- Chuckie does not actually become a cop in "Officer Chuckie".
- "Accidents Happen" is not about a car accident.
- "Chuckie's a Lefty" is not about Chuckie being a Democrat.
- "Ruthless Tommy" is not about Tommy becoming impolite.
- Rugrats Go Wild! is thankfully not a subreddit dedicated to Rugrats Rule 34.
- Run–D.M.C. is not what your video game system should do if you pop in Devil May Cry. It's also not what John DeLorean tried to do. note
- Run Lola Run is not about Lola Loud, or Bunny, or Caricola, or Sonnor running away from trouble, or the subject of the 1970 hit by The Kinks. And her last name isn't Gump.
- The Running Man is not about the unbeatable jogger in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, nor the second boss in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
- Run Sweetheart Run is not a sequel to Run Lola Run.
- Nor as Sweetheart. (despite the same company Blumhouse did it)
- RuPaul's Drag Race is not about guys working on and racing hot rods.
- Rush is not the movie about Formula 1 racing. Or of Mega Man's robot dog.
- Rust is not about the orange-brown stuff that forms when iron oxidizes.
- Rygar is not a Dig Dug enemy.
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- Saban's Masked Rider does not belong to college football coaching great Nick Saban.
- Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is not the end result of Saber and Rider merging together and heading to space.
- Nor is it a crossover between the Nasuverse and Metal Heroes.
- Saberspark is not a channel devoted to building lightsabers.
- Sabrina Online is not about Sabrina Spellman or Sabrina from Pokémon using the Internet.
- Safe Cracker is not a poor white man or a crispy snack who's well-protected.
- The Saga of Tanya the Evil is not the Japanese Translation, Edition, or Adaptation of G.I. Joe. This cannot be emphasized enough.
- Reading Saikano will not teach you How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.
- Sailor Moon is not about the moon taking up sailing. Nor it is about a moon where space marines hang out.
- Nor is it the sailing counterpart to Harvest Moon.
- Neither is it about mooning sailors.
- It is most especially not about Sun Myong Moon's hypothetical service in the Republic of Korea's navy.
- It's also not a specific month, like a harvest moon.
- Similarity, Sailor Twain is, perhaps unfortunately, not a Sailor Moon fanwork in which Mark Twain or Shania Twain becomes a Sailor Senshi.
- The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent is not about Simon Templar gaining magical power.
- The Saints of Saints Row don't need to row. They can swim.
- Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo has absolutely no connection to One-Punch Man.
- Sakura Quest does not involve Sakura Haruno, Sakura Kasugano, Sakura Kinomoto, Sakura Nishihori, or anybody named Sakura.
- Sakura Wars is not a Fighting Game where you play as Sakura Ogami to become the Ultimate Martial Artist. Nor is it a version of Star Wars with that character as the star.
- The movie Salt is not a Genre Shift sequel to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory about the grown-up, Took a Level in Badass adventures of Veruca Salt. Nor is it a sequel to the 2005 remake, or the original book.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the rock band named after the character. Or Pepa’s partner.
- Nor is it about sodium chloride. Or ionic compounds in general, for that matter.
- Nothing to do with a talking French salt shaker, either.
- Or angry video game players. Or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Saltburn is not about incinerating ingredients or a copy from the movie.
- It also does not include Veruca Salt, the rock band, Pepa's partner or talking French salt shaker.
- Nor is it set in the North East England seaside town.
- Salute Your Shorts does not pay tribute to short subject movies. Nor is it about the Youngsters from Pokémon.
- Sam & Cat isn't a Spin-Off of Sam & Max: Freelance Police where our favorite hyperkinetic rabbity-thing is replaced by a cat.
- It's also not a spin-off of The Loud House focusing on Luna's girlfriend and Lincoln's raven-haired female classmate (the latter is spelled Kat, anyway).
- Sam and Friends is not about Sam the dog, Sam Sharp, Sam Manson, or Sam Puckett. And while it's a Muppet franchise, the titular character is not an eagle. Also, to clear up any misconceptions, the "Sam" in Sam and Friends was not the name of Kermit the Frog (he was always called Kermit from that series forward), but rather an unrelated human muppet.
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police isn't about Nova and Electro.
- The Samsung Galaxy Note series of smartphones are not used to kill people. At least not intentionally.note
- Samsung Galaxy A24 is not a crossover between the Samsung Galaxy and the company A24.
- Samurai Flamenco is not about a samurai who likes to dance flamenco in his free time.
- Samurai Gun is not about the Downer Ending where the swordsman is shot dead, symbolizing the beginning of the Meiji era and the end of the golden age of samurai.
- Nor is it a gun from which samurai are shot out of it.
- San Andreas does not have CJ and Big Smoke, sadly.
- Sandra on the Rocks is not related to Sandra and Woo.
- Santa's Little Helper does not star the Simpsons' pet greyhound.
- Santiago of the Seas does not involve Bobby or Ronnie Anne, although they're both Nickelodeon shows.
- It also has nothing to do with a certain murderous Father Grigori lookalike.
- The movie Sarafina is not a prequel or sequel to The Lion King (1994) focusing on Nala's family. Even though both movies were produced by Disney and star Whoopi Goldberg.
- sasakure.UK is not a British website.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is not the practice of selling breakfast cereal using characters from Saturday morning cartoons, or the cereal commercials that ran during said cartoons.
- Saturday Night Fever is not a disease contracted only on Saturday nights, nor is it a disease whose symptoms only manifest on Saturday nights, or a fever from watching too much Saturday Night Live.
- Saw:
- Saw is not a prequel to See.
- Saw 3D predecessor is not Saw II or Saw Number Two, it's Saw VI.
- Jigsaw has no relation to Jigsaw or Jigsaw (1979).
- Spiral (2021) is not an live-action adaption of the horror manga Uzumaki, or Spiral... in Saw universe!!!
- Saw X does not have arts trap (although the trap have styles), and it's not called Saw Generations outside of Japan.
- Scarface is not about Al Capone, nor is it about Andre Norton's book of the same name.
- Nor is it the biography of a certain Fullmetal Alchemist character.
- Nor is it about someone who's ace at scarfing down food.
- It's also not about Portgas D. Ace wearing a scarf.
- It's also not a lot about someone who owns a lot of scarves.
- The Scarlet Letter is not a letter written by Remilia Scarlet or her sister.
- Nor is it a letter that reads "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
- Scatman John was not John Stalvern's zombie form being a turd mutant.
- The Scissor Sisters are mostly a group of openly gay men.
- Scorpion is not about a yellow ninja, some masked shirtless wrestler, a German rock band, or one of Spider-Man's enemies.
- The SCP Foundation is not devoted to obsoleting FTP. And the SCP doesn't stand for "Snap Crackle Pop", either.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World:
- It is not a crossover with the band Plumtree and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- And the members of Plumtree do not live in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.
- Nor is it an exceptionally big law case.
- Nor is it about pilgrims.
- Scrubs is not about people who complain about other people's gaming strategies.
- Nor is it about Deku Scrubs.
- Or scrubbing things with sponges.
- The Sea Beast is not about Belle's love interest, Maggie's beastly friend, or the villain of Over the Garden Wall spending time on the sea.
- Seal Online is not in a sea lion setting.
- Nor you can play as them except when using the polymorph potion of the Bale Q.
- Nor is it a webcast hosted by Seal.
- The Season to Be Wary can be Paranoia Fuel, but it is not Christmas-themed.
- The Secret of NIMH is not about the hidden power within nickel metal-hydride batteries.
- Secretariat isn't the Defictionalization of BoJack Horseman's dream movie.
- The Secrets of Isis is not an undercover look into the inner workings of a terrorist organization.
- Section 8 is not the Hero of Another Story of Section Nine.
- It is also not a predecessor to Section 13.
- The Secret Life of Bees is not The Secret Life of Pets with bees. note
- Seduce Me is not about Spy/Scout (see "Expiration Date" for context.)
- See No Evil and Speak No Evil are not related to each other. And neither of them has a character called "No Evil".
- Seeker Bears isn't about hypothetical Beast Wars versions of Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Slipstream, Nova Storm, Ramjet, Thrust, Dirge, Acid Storm, Hotlink, Bitstream, etc.. It's more likely that they'd turn into flying creatures instead.
- The Sega Dreamcast cannot broadcast dreams. Nor can it broadcast signals directly into your dreams.
- The Sega Genesis is not Sega's retelling of the Book of Genesis. Nor is it a partnership between Sega and Phil Collins.
- The Sega Mega Drive is not a million-mile road trip sponsored by Sega. Nor is it a Sega-branded storage drive with a capacity on the order of megabytes. And it's not called Sega Rock Drive in Japan. Its successor isn't called the Giga Drive and its predecessor isn't called the Kilo Drive.
- Sega Mega CD games don't come in discs that are bigger than the usual.
- The Sega 32X does not multiply Sega by a factor of 32. Nor is it a collection of 32 Sega games.
- The Sega Saturn is not the end result of Sega being rich enough to buy and put their name on a planet.
- Sega Hard Girls is not about girls who work at Sega or are featured in their games who are known for their erections. (Don't think too much on this one.)
- Nor is it about girls playing Sega games that are ridiculously difficult.
- The Sega Master System is not a Master Computer.
- It also has nothing to do with texting.note
- The Sega NAOMI is not named after Naomi. Or this Naomi. Or that Naomi. Or this Naomi. Or that Naomi. Or Naomi Osaka, the tennis player. Or country singer Naomi Judd.
- Segagaga is not a collaboration between Sega and Lady Gaga. Nor is is Sega’s take on an Israeli ball game.
- Sengoku Basara is not the game of Basara.
- And it has nothing to do with a certain SNK game or a Samurai Shodown character who wields a Fuma Shuriken on a chain.
- They also have nothing to do with Bane's chant, Basara Nekki, nor garbage.
- Sengoku Otome is not Sengoku Basara For Girls!
- Nor does it feature the cast of My-Otome as samurai.
- Nothing to do with the otome game Ikemen Sengoku.
- Sentai School is not a school where people train to become Super Sentai heroes.
- Sentimental Graffiti is not a trope about people writing their initials and the initials of the one they love on a desk, wall, or tree. (That's Sweetie Graffiti.)
- Serena does not star a mysterious blonde woman, Williams or Pokémon X and Y female protagonist.
- Sesame Street has nothing to do with sesame seeds.
- Se7en is not meant to be pronounced "se-seven-en". It's also not about the Seven Dirty Words, and has nothing to do with the Alton Towers rollercoaster Th13teen.
- SEVEN's CODE is not a spinoff of 7th Dragon. Or Se7en. Nor is it about video game cheat codes.
- Seven Days is in no way related to 7 Days to Die.
- The Seven Deadly Sins is not a spin-off series about the bad guys from Fullmetal Alchemist.
- The Seven-Ups is not about a certain soft drink. It's also not about Up getting six sequels.
- SF Debris is not about the remains of explosions in space.
- Nor is it what you get when you smash a Super Famicom system with a sledgehammer.
- Nor is it debris in San Francisco.
- More recent printings of Shades of Grey have expanded the title to Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron specifically to avoid being mistaken for anything connected to Fifty Shades of Grey.
- Shadow Hearts is not a Darker and Edgier spinoff of Kingdom Hearts.
- Shadows are not central to the gameplay of Shadow of the Colossus or Shadow the Hedgehog or Shadows of the Empire.
- Shamo is not a killer whale.
- Shampoo is not a Ranma ½ spinoff about a purple-haired girl, nor is it followed by Hairspray.
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is not an adaptation of Legend of the Five Rings but with twice as many rings.
- And Shang-Chi is not the Deadly Alliance being shipped together.
- The Shape of Water is not a cover of Ed Sheeran's popular song “Shape of You”, but about a body of water.
- It's also not about the structure of water molecules.
- Sharin no Kuni is not a game where you share copies of Ni no Kuni with your friends.
- Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights is not related to the fourth Ace Combat game.
- Shaun of the Dead isn't about Shaun the Sheep or Shaun Murphy dying.
- Nor is it a The Good Doctor season in which all of Shaun's patients die.
- Shaun the Sheep:
- "Shaun Shoots the Sheep" does not involve the titular sheep using a gun to kill sheep.
- "Shaun Goes Potty" has nothing to do with using the toilet.
- The film Farmageddon, has not involved The Farmer's farm is going to the end, and is not a sequel to Armageddon.
- While the word is the character's Catchphrase Shazam! has nothing to do with Gomer Pyle.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the Smartphone app.
- The Sheik is not a spin-off of Ocarina of Time about Zelda's seven-year survival, no matter how much we wish for that to happen. Nor does it have anything to do with pro wrestlers.
- Shelter is not The Anime of the Game of Fallout.
- Sheriff Callie's Wild West is not a spinoff of Splatoon in which the setting is The Wild West. (That is the setting of the TV show though.)
- Sherlock Hound isn't a Transplanted Character Fic where a certain hologram-projecting Cybertronian jeep is placed in the role of Mr. Holmes.
- She's All That does not feature any of the female cast members of All That.
- Shimmer and Shine is not a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic spinoff featuring Sunset Shimmer and Twinkleshine.
- Most of the time, Shin Megami Tensei (lit. "Reincarnation of the True Goddess") doesn't actually involve the reincarnation of a "true" goddess of some sort.
- Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is not the full title of Shin Megami Tensei IV.
- Conversely, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne is not the sequel to a game simply titled Shin Megami Tensei III. Nor does the game star a League of Legends champion.
- Shin Megami Tensei if... does not have sequels named Shin Megami Tensei else if... and Shin Megami Tensei else... Nor is it an SMT game where you have to pick between your Law family or your Chaos family and has two versions that represent these two choices.
- The Shipping Forecast is not about predicting eventual character pairings.
- Shipping Wars isn't a feud between fans of fictional character pairings (That's Ship-to-Ship Combat.)
- Shirokuma Cafe is not about the robotic teddy bear from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls opening a cafe.
- Shokugeki no Soma is not set in San Francisco's SoMa district.
- Shonen Jumpnote is not about jumping boys.
- Jump Square is not about jumping on a city square or over Square Enix's headquarters.
- Akamaru Jump is not about Kiba Inuzuka's eponymous dog jumping.
- Business Jump is not the pseudo-Japanese anglicism for jumping to your death after being fired from your job.
- Super Jump and Ultra Jump is not about jumping really high.
- Shoot 'Em Up has absolutely nothing to do with the video game genre.
- A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian is not a historical book about tractors, and is not in Ukrainian (although it has been translated into said language).
- Shorts is not about an article of clothing known for being comfy and easy to wear.
- Shonen Note is not about a notebook in which the title of any series written in it becomes a Shōnen.
- Shovel Knight is not an example of Shovelware. Far from it actually. Nor does it involve fighting Shovelware creators.
- Show by Rock!! is not a show starring Dwayne Johnson or written by him.
- Nor is it a request to explain something by singing.
- Shrek the Third is not about the title character's grandson.
- Nor is it about gentleman thieves.
- SHUFFLE! has nothing to do with card games, especially not children's card games.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the Shuffle Alliance.
- Shugo Chara! has nothing at all to do with Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela. Or the Fallen Child, whose true name is Chara.
- Shut Hell does not involve sealing away Demonic Invaders. Or tersely telling others to be quiet.
- Sid Meier did not buy the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Silent Hill has No Mouth, and it cannot scream.
- Nor is it related to the DanceDance Revolution song "Silent Hill", even though they're both Konami's franchises.
- It also isn't about a hill that doesn't make any noise.
- Silent Hill 4: The Room does not feature Tommy Wiseau in any capacity.
- Silent Hill: Homecoming is not about going to a homecoming event in Silent Hill, nor is it related to Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Silent Hills is not a Compilation Re-release of Silent Hill games, nor is it about the original name of New Bark Town.
- Silent Möbius does not involve Dr. Robotnik SHUTTING UP EVERYONE!
- Nor is it about Mobius turning into a disturbing and twisted inescapable reality.
- It also isn't a version of Morbius (2022) where the titular character doesn't say "It's morbin' time!" at all.
- Silent Scope: Bone Eater is not about eating bones. Or "eating bones". Nor is it related to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, despite both games coming from the same company. Nor does it have anything to do with God Eater.
- Silver Spoon is not a side-story revolving arond Diamond Tiara's Beta Bitch.
- Silversun Pickups are not trucks.
- Silverwing is not about aircrafts with wings made of silver.
- Sunwing has nothing to do with phoenixes (or with Princess Celestia).
- Neither does Firewing.
- Simon's Cat:
- The series as a whole is not a spin-off of The Loud House focusing on Sam's brother getting a cat. Nor is it about Paul Simon getting a cat.
- "Bed Head" is not about Simon with messy hair in the morning.
- "Fly Guy" is not about Simon getting fly-related superpowers. Nor is it about a Shy Guy with a propeller on it's head.
- The Simpsons:
- "Large Marge" is not about Marge growing to be a giant.
- It's also not about the truck driver from Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
- "Sleeping with the Enemy" is not about having sex with Sideshow Bob or Mr. Burns, thank goodness.
- "Lisa Goes Gaga" is not about Lisa turning into a baby or going senile. And while it involves Lady Gaga, Lisa doesn't turn into Lady Gaga.
- "Better Off Ned" is not about Ned Flanders trying to change his name, but then deciding against it.
- "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badaassssss Song" is not about Skinner writing a song.
- "The Frying Game" is not about a cooking competition, nor does it have anything in common with the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Fry Cook Games".
- "The Burns and the Bees" is not about Mr. Burns giving anyone The Talk.
- "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" is not Marge joining a group of moms who use Red Hat Linux.
- "Smoke on the Daughter" is not about Lisa taking up smoking (though it does involve secondhand).
- "The Great Louse Detective" is not about the entire school getting lice and Skinner having to figure out where they all came from.
- "Stealing First Base" has no involvement in baseball.
- "Lisa The Greek" is not one of those episodes where the family visit a foreign country, this time being Greece.
- "The Blue and the Gray" is not about the colors of Batman.
- "Large Marge" is not about Marge growing to be a giant.
- Sin City does not take place in Las Vegas. Nor does it have spinoffs named Cos City and Tan City; you're thinking about a different kind of "sin". Also, no relation to ‘’SimCity’’.
- Sing Street is not where Sing or Sing (2016) take place.
- It is also not only available to sing in the street.
- Singularity (video game), Singularity (roleplay), and Singularity (novel) do not feature a girl who appears before you and says "If you can".
- Sinkin' in the Bathtub is not about drowning in a bathtub.
- Nor is it about a sink taking a bath.
- Sisu is not about Raya's dragon.
- Skip Beat! is not about beating up the blond guy from The Electric Company (1971), or ignoring The World Ends with You's skateboarding Idiot Hero.
- Nor is it about purposefully underperforming in a DanceDance Revolution game.
- Skydance is not about Dame Skyla's High Hope Dance Academy.
- There is also no dances being preformed in the sky.
- Skyfall is not what happens after walking off the Skyrim.
- Spectre have nothing to do with Alan Walker big hit.
- Sky High is not about a stoned aviator.
- Slap Slap Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is not a single film about an extremely violent or unusually fast-paced romantic relationship.
- Slayers is not about the Mooks in Krull.
- Nor is it another Spin-Off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Nor they don't came into Ninja, Goblin, Ogre, Demon or Doom varieties.
- Nor is a series involving a Thrash Metal band
- Sledge Hammer! has nothing to do with Triple H's weapon of choice, although a drawing of it is on the handle of his gun.
- Or the song by Peter Gabriel, although both came out the same year, the promos for the former featuring the latter.
- Sleepless does not take place in Seattle.
- The Slender Man Mythos is not about Yggdrasill from Tales of Symphonia.
- Sluggy Freelance isn't about a gastropod who works at a variety of companies at different times.
- The Small One is not about the least physically imposing member of a Five-Man Band or a Quirky Miniboss Squad. Or even The Runt at the End, for that matter.
- Smallville is not about a quirky community of dwarves.
- The burger chain Smashburger does not use the Super Smash Bros. brand.
- The subject of Smash TV is not Super Smash Bros. It's not even a TV channel or series.
- It does not ask you to smash your television, either.
- The Snakes in Snakes on a Plane are not Naked, Solid, Liquid, and/or Solidus.
- Nor are they on a two-dimensional surface with indefinite area.
- Nor is it the name of an Air Crash Investigation episode.
- Nor are Snake Plisskin, Snake Jailbird, Jake Roberts, or Ken Stabler, among the passengers.
- Snatched is not a sequel to Snatch.
- Sniper Elite V2 and Danganronpa V3 are not related in any way, and thus Sniper Elite V2 is not actually Sniper Elite 52.
- Sniper Elite V2 also should not be confused with the similarly named Bloons Tower Defense 6 Upgrade
- The company known as SNK has nothing to do with Attack on Titan (its Japanese title being Shingeki no Kyojin).
- Likewise, the non-Capcom side in the SNK vs. Capcom series is not Shingeki no Kyojin.
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos does not have an alternate version called SVC Law.
- Snoop Dogg is not the upgrade of a Scopedog.
- Snowden is not about being "snowed in". Nor is it the town where Sans and Papyrus live; that's Snowdin.
- It's also not Stampy and Sqaishey's new Den series.
- The Snow Queen, as written about in this wiki, has nothing to do with the Joan Vinge science fiction Green Aesop novel about a binary star system, and the female dictator of the title.
- Snow-White-Fire-Red is not a story in which Snow White becomes a Pokémon trainer and travels the Kanto region.
- Snow-White and Rose-Red is not about that Snow White. Nor is it about Ruby and Weiss.
- Soap's genre not a Soap Opera.
- Solatorobo: Red the Hunter doesn't have much to do with the sun. It also isn't about a certain Pokémon trainer being turned into a reptilian monster by the Umbrella Corporation, nor is it about him being a Smite character with ranged physical attacks (there actually is a skin based on Red in Smite, but it's for Erlang Shen, a Warrior).
- Soma Bringer is not a lure to bring over Soma Yukihira. Nor is it the solar eclipse of 2035.
- Soma Spirits are not the souls that Soma Cruz collects and equips.
- Son of Zorn's father is not musician John Zorn or former NFL quarterback Jim Zorn.
- Sonic and the Black Knight does not end with "and The Dark Knight".
- Nor is it a crossover with Code Geass.
- It doesn't have Martin Lawrence in it.
- It also does not involve any member of the aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
- ... who also have nothing to do with the Black Knights in Code Geass.
- It also has nothing to to with black knights having lunch at Sonic.
- Or with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- It's not a crossover with Fire Emblem.
- And more Black Knights to confuse with. These Black Knight puns sure are easy to make, too.
- Sonic Blast Man is not about Sonic the Hedgehog as a human.
- Nor is it a sequel or spinoff of Sonic Blast. Or how a surfer refers to the game.
- Nor is it about Sonic Man starring in his own game.
- Nor is it a crossover with Mega Man.
- Sonic Boom is not a series about Guile. And while the 1987 shmup arcade game was developed by Sega, it has nothing to do with the blue hedgehog, since it came out four years apart.
- It is not about Sonic dying in an explosion, nor does it refer to Sonic causing explosions, and it doesn't star a certain Skylander.
- It also isn't about violent and loud shockwaves.
- Sonic Colors is not mostly blue.
- Its Updated Re-release Sonic Colors Ultimate is not called Sonic Colors XX (Double Cross) in Japan.
- Sonic Crackersnote is not a Sonic-themed brand of cracker snacks. Nor is it Sonic AS A WHITE PERSON!
- Sonic the Hedgehog is not about a hedgehog with Super-Scream and Brown Note powers, nor a hedgehog form of Sonic Drive-In.
- Nor is it an instruction to use a sonic screwdriver on a hedgehog.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) is not the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Sonic Mania is not a Sonic-themed beatmania spinoff game. Nor is it a mode in NullpoMino.
- Nor is it a psychological condition in which people become incredibly obsessed with Sonic (in any sense of the word).
- Sonic: Mega Drive is not what they called Sonic Genesis outside North America.
- Sonic R does not follow by S and Super S.
- Sonic X is not the official Twitter / X account of the Sonic franchise. If you're looking for that, go here or here.
- It's not a crossover with Mega Man X, either (Though the two did crossover in the comics).
- Sons of Anarchy is not a Spin-Offspring of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
- Sophie's Choice and Sophie's World are not parts of a series.
- Nor do they star a mysterious girl named after a flower or a space police cadet who's really an android.
- The Sopranos probably wouldn't appreciate it if you asked them to sing you a song.
- Soul Eater is not the True Rune from Suikoden.
- Or the cannibal counterpart to the 1990 movie Soultaker and/or the anime series The SoulTaker (note the capitalization).
- Its theme tracks do not have the line "I'm still in a dream, SOUL EATER!"
- It also has nothing to do with Soul Nomad & the World Eaters.
- Nor is it when you perform a Pacifist Run in Ikaruga but the bullets are souls.
- Soul Nomad & the World Eaters is not a crossover with Warhammer 40,000. Neither does it have anything to do with soul-playing nomads.
- Speaking of Soul Nomad, the name is not based from the crossover between Soul and Nomadland/Nomad of Nowhere. Or Nomad Of Nowhere's title character becomes a deadly man.
- The Soul Series does not involve James Brown, nor is it a franchise based on Soul or Soul Nomad & the World Eaters.
- Sound of Horror isn't an alternate name for Hell Is That Noise. Instead, it's a 1966 Spanish horror film centered around an invisible dinosaur known for constantly emitting loud screeches as he stalks unsuspecting humans across a remote countryside.
- A Sound of Thunder did not accompany The Sound of Music.
- SOUND VOLTEX is not about voltages.
- Sound Voltex Booth is not when you play Sound Voltex in a booth.
- Sound Voltex Floor is not an actual game.
- Sound Voltex II -infinite infection- is not about a disease that cannot be eradicated.
- Sound Voltex III: Gravity Wars does not involve Gravity Screws.
- Sound Voltex IV: Heavenly Haven is not what Sound Voltex players play in the afterlife.
- Sound Voltex Vivid Wave does not have the "Vivid" or "Wave" modifiers.
- Sound Voltex Exceed Gear is not a collaboration with Symphogear.
- The Soundwave Series in Fortnite has nothing to do with a certain Decepticon tape deck/car/stealth bomber/satellite/drone/comms truck.
- South Park is located in Colorado, not in New York.
- Space Ace and Ace in Space aren't in the same continuity because they're talking about two different aces.
- Spaceballs is not a porno.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Buckminsterfullerine.
- SpaceEngine has nothing to do with Spacecraft propulsion. It also isn't about Space Engineers.
- Space Ghost and Space Ghost Coast to Coast are not animated adaptations of Event Horizon.
- Space Hulk has absolutely nothing to do with Planet Hulk.
- Space Invaders Extreme is not Space Invaders WITH EXTREME SPORTS!
- Nor does it star a '90s Anti-Hero.
- Space Jam does not accompany Space Peanut Butter on your Space Sandwich.
- Sprout Diner is not a diner that only serves sprouts.
- Sprout House is not about the Sprout House band.
- The Sprout Sharing Show is about sharing as in videos and artwork, not sharing as in snacks and toys.
- Space Megaforce is not Power Rangers Megaforce IN SPACE! (You were probably looking for Power Rangers in Space instead.)
- Spec Ops: The Line is not a spinoff of the Spec Ops series starring a certain elderly Time Master from Furi.
- Nor is it a spinoff to an unfinished M.U.G.E.N game.
- Special A is not related to Special K cereal.
- Spice and Wolf is not a Crack Pairing between Wolf O'Donnell (or CNN's Wolf Blitzer) and a Spice Girl, neither is this a documentary of canines on Arrakis.
- Spider-Verse is not a part of a song/poem about spiders.
- Spiral actually has nothing to do with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's also unrelated to Uzumaki (or Naruto).
- It also doesn't have anything to do with a certain six-armed Mojoworlder.
- Spiral Knights is not a Gurren Lagann game. Unfortunately.
- Spirit of 76 is not the pinball spinoff of Fallout 76. Nor is it a pinball game in which we're all soldiers now.
- Splatoon is not the sequel of Platoon AS AN ANIMATED MOVIE!
- Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion does not expand dong. It's a video game Expansion Pack.
- Splicers is not about the genetically modified inhabitants of Rapture.
- Spliced is not a sequel to Splice.
- Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is not a crossover with Avatar or Borderlands or Pandora: First Contact.
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye is not about how people imagine the mentor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to look like.
- ''SpongeBob SquarePants:
- SpongeBob SquarePants S2 E15 "The Secret Box" / "Band Geeks" is not about a secret society of geeks who enjoy boxes and bands. While the first of two sub-episodes does have a secret box, it does not double as band geeks.
- "Squidferatu" is not about Squidward becoming a vampire.
- "Salty Sponge" is not about SpongeBob getting covered in salt.
- "SquidBird" is not about Squidward turning into a bird.
- "Hot Crossed Nuts" is not about testicular torsion.
- "Don't Make Me Laugh" is not about the viewers trying not to make SpongeBob laugh.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Is not a crossover between Spongebob Squarepants and Battle for Dream Island
- Spy X Family isn't about a romance between a spy and their family.
- Nor is about either the White Spy or the Black Spy having to fighting against their each other's relatives.
- Nor is about the Spy having to kill an entire family.
- Spy Hunter is not a crossover Gaiden Game of Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress.
- Spyro the Dragon is not a furry fusion of the Spy and the Pyro.
- Nor is it about a former US vice president being a dragon, or being The Dragon.
- He's not the mascot for a hormone replacement therapy drug, either.
- There are no square pegs in Square Pegs.
- Squirrel and Hedgehog is not about Sally Acorn and Sonic the Hedgehog.
- The Squid and the Whale is not a crossover between Squid Game/Squid Girl/Splatoon and The Whale.
- There are no Squids in Squid Game.
- It is also not a Spin-off of Splatoon.
- Nor is the game that Squid Girl plays.
- Nor is it a Spin-off of Dinosaur Game set underwater where you control a squid.
- In the Season 1 Episode 8 “Front Man”, there's no relation with the plural version of 442oons the same series, also, it's not a crossover with these animated football series characters appears at the same universe as a cameo, though the latter made that parody based from the former premise.
- Squid Girl is not Rule 63 applied to Squidward Tentacles.
- Nor is it about the female Inklings, though they did have a crossover once◊.
- SSSS.GRIDMAN is not about the titular hero becoming a Nazi.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does not follow people to sexually harass them, and is not a cyborg either, or Protoss.
- It's also not a spinoff of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero focusing on the original ranger.
- The Stand is not about the Fighting Spirit from Jojos Bizarre Adventure.
- Starbound is not a Perspective Flip showing EarthBound (1994) from a Starman's point of view. Nor is it a Lucky Star fix aiming to parody EarthBound.
- Starcraft is not about crafting stars. You want Katamari Damacy. Nor is it about stars, either celebrity or stellar, taking up arts and crafts. Nor is it Minecraft IN SPACE!
- Star Falls is not a crossover between Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Gravity Falls.
- Speaking of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, its protagonist is not a certain pink starfish.
- Star Fleet has nothing to do with Star Trek.
- Stargate is not about stars—either celebrity or stellar—involved in a political scandal. Nor is it about the Andre Norton book of the same name.
- A Star Is Born: The 1937, 1954, 1976, or 2018 versions—none are about protostars forming within a nebula, or anyone's actual birth.
- Star Trek is not about stars—either celebrity or stellar—going on a trek.
- Star Trek: Titan is not a crossover between Star Trek and Attack on Titan.
- SF Debris originally thought Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis were respectively rebelling against and the enemy of Star Trek. But given the fate of the franchise not long afterwards, he found them appropriate.
- Star Trek: Enterprise is not about a business to do with Star Trek. Or Star Trek car rentals.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation is not all about genetics or procreation, although those things do crop up in Star Trek the Next Generation. It's not called Star Trek: Bloodlines in North America, either.
- "Angel One" isn't about an actual angel.
- While "The Loss" does mention a death, that's not what the episode is mostly about.
- "Masks" isn't about someone hiding their identity, nor about protective masks or mud masks.
- "The Big Goodbye" isn't about a breakup or a death.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is not about Star Trek characters finding the number nine in space. Neither is it the ninth installment of the Star Trek: Deep Space series.
- Star Trek S3 E24 "Turnabout Intruder" is not a crossover with Ace Attorney.
- Star Trek: Voyager:
- "The Disease" is not a Sick Episode.
- Neither "Heroes and Demons" nor "Demon" star actual demons.
- "Lineage" isn't about the crew discovering their ancestors.
- Star Wars is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, warring against each other.
- Mark Hamill himself said that back in 1976, people thought Star Wars was about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's divorce. That would be Liz and Dick.
- It isn't about politics and war among the Maya during the Preclassic and Classic Periods, either.
- The Phantom Menace is not about Menace becoming a ghost. Or Dennis the Menace (US) playing◊ The Phantom of the Opera. Or Danny Phantom becoming a villain.
- Star Wars Force Of Nature is a crossover between Star Wars Rebels and Godzilla, not a crossover between Star Wars franchise and Mel Gibson's film. Or the second novel and the film adaptation follow-up to The Dry.
- Starship Troopers are not fans who are militant about their Real-Person Fic pairings.
- Nor are they spacecraft-borne contributors to This Very Wiki with dyslexia.
- Station Square is not set in the city in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe.
- Stealth Symphony is not about playing classical music extremely quietly.
- Steam is not a Steampunk movie, nor is it about the game distribution platform of the same name.
- Although it is available there, SteamWorld Dig is not named after Steam.
- Steel Dawn is not a sequel to Red Dawn (1984), despite Patrick Swayze starring in both films.
- Steel Diver isn't about John Henry Irons taking up scuba diving.
- Stellaluna isn't about Lincoln Loud's rocker sister and his IT nerd friend doing the Fusion Dance.
- StepManiaX is not StepMania's attempt to copy the DanceDance Revolution series' sequel naming scheme.
- Stephen King's The Stand isn't about the horror writer discovering that he has psychic/summoning superpowers.
- Steven Universe is not about a universe where everyone is named Stevennote , nor is about what's inside Steven Spielberg's head. And even though the main characters are aliens and the titular protagonist is a Half-Human Hybrid, the vast majority of it takes place on Earth.
- The episode "Bubble Buddies" is thankfully not a crossover between Steven Universe and the Air Bud franchise, nor does Steven befriend the bubble itself.
- The Story of Luke is not a Working Title for A New Hope.
- The Straight Story is not about heterosexuality, poker, nor about only being able to move in a straight line.
- The Strangers: Prey at Night doesn't involve a giant rat that makes all of the rules.
- Strangers with Candy has nothing to do with strangers offering candy to children.
- Strawberry 100% is not the acquisition, reading, and watching of all Strawberry Marshmallow merchandise.
- It also has nothing to do with compiling every possible paring in Strawberry Panic!, as the series does that well enough on its own.
- Strawberry Marshmallow features strawberries as a motif, but try to find a marshmallow one.
- Strawberry Panic! isn't about people panicking over strawberries.
- Strawberry Crisis!! is not a continuation of the aforementioned work.
- It also has nothing to do with The Caine Mutiny.
- Some of them do, however, panic over cherries.
- TheStrawhatNO! is not the Straw Hat Pirates' take on the Big "NO!", though that's not far from how they came up with the name.
- Strays (2023) isn't the Sequel to Stray (2022) despite them featuring Lost Animals.
- it is also not the Film Adaptation of the Webcomic of the same name.
- Stray Dog Records is not about a record label.
- Speaking of certain Street Fighter titles:
- Not all of the fighting takes place on a street.
- Super Street Fighter II wasn't just released on Super NES.
- Street Fighter Zeronote is not the sequel series to the nonexistent Street Fighter X.
- Street Fighter EX is not when your significant other breaks up with you because you play too much Street Fighter.
- Street Fighter III: Second Impact does not take place in Neon Genesis Evangelion canon.
- Street Fighter III: Third Strike is not about baseball or "three strikes" laws.
- Street Fighter II V is not the fifth Street Fighter II, nor was the title conceived by someone with no clue on how Roman numerals work.
- Plus, there hasn't been Street Fighter V II as of yet.
- Strider is not about a Half-Life 2 creature. Nor is it about Aragorn, or Dave (OR his bro).
- It also has nothing to do with the rideable creatures from Minecraft that walk on lava.
- Strike Witches is not about witches playing baseball and always getting struck out, nor are they very good at bowling.
- They're also not witches hired by labor unions to enforce picket lines and cast spells on replacement workers, nor are they witches on strike.
- Strikers 1945 is not Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS IN WORLD WAR II!
- Or Super Mario Strikers IN THAT SAME TIME PERIOD!
- Stromberg is not a Spin-Off show featuring the Big Bad from the James Bond-movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
- Strontium Dog is not a rejected member of the Defenders of Dynatron City.
- Regarding Japanese and Korean animation studios:
- GONZO is not owned by that Gonzo.
- Studio Mir is not located either in Russia or in space; they are from South Korea.
- Studio TRIGGER is not a studio full of trigger-happy maniacs.
- Studio Pierrot is not owned by French clowns.note
- The movie Submarine doesn't have any (submarines).
- Suddenly Susan is not when people spontaneously turn into someone named Susan.
- Sugar Rush is not about the Japanese title of Wreck-It Ralph.
- It's also not a cooking show that focuses on desserts.
- Suite Pretty Cure ♪ does not involve the characters renting a suite. That's the wrong definition of the word.
- It also does not involve the cast of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody becoming Precures
- SukaSuka is not about Russian prostitutes,note nor is about Russian Counter-Strike players swearing like sailors against each other, or a vinegar or puking in Filipino word.
- Sully is not about Monsters, Inc. or Avatar main character.
- Summer Carnival '92: Recca is not when the eponymous protagonist of Flame of Recca goes to a carnival in the summer of 1992.
- Summer with Monika is not a side story featuring the Doki Doki Literature Club!'s Club President.
- Sunny Day is not a fire-type power up technique.
- The Sunny Side Up Show is not mainly about sunny side up eggs.
- And it does not star that Sunny Side Up.
- Sunset Grill is not a miniseries featuring Sunset Shimmer's outdoor cooking.
- Sunset Overdrive is not a racing spin-off featuring Sunset Shimmer. Though that would be cool.
- The Hidamari Sketch manga's localization, Sunshine Sketch, is not a book collecting concept art for Sunshine, nor is it Super Mario Sunshine with the gameplay of Epic Mickey.
- Super 8 is not about a motel chain or a supermarket. Nor is it a fusion of Android 8 and the non-existant Hell-Fighter 8.
- The Super Bowl is not an interesting piece of crockery.
- Super Buster Bros. is not a Super Mario Bros. parody starring Buster Bunny or Buster Baxter. Nor does it have anything to do with Michael and Gob. Super Plucky-o Bros., on the other hand...
- Super C is not a brand of cough syrup, energy supplements, or juice concentrate.
- Super Drags is not about drag racing.
- Super Fly is not a biopic about Jimmy Snuka.
- nor is it a Spin off of Daikatana.
- Superfriends is not Friends WITH SUPER POWERS.
- It's also not a Friends video game for the SNES with a Super Title 64 Advance title.
- Nor is it a spinoff title for Super GALS!
- Although it is a parody, Superhero Movie is not made by Seltzer and Friedberg despite sharing their naming style.
- Super Hexagon is not a Super NES game.
- Superman is not a Mega Man robot master, and once again it's not a Super NES game.
- Superman vs. the Elite is not a Halo crossover. Nor is it about Superman helping Occupy fight the Elite of society.
- Super Mario 64 does not mean there were 63 Super Mario games before that one. Same goes with any other Nintendo 64 game with a "64" in the title.
- Super Mario Bros. 35 is not a 35th mainline entry in the series. However, it was released for the series' 35th anniversary.
- Super Mario Bros. X isn't a Mario game that takes place in the Kalos region, nor is it a prequel to Super Mario Bros. Z. Nor is it the tenth game in the series.
- Super Mario Land is not a theme park (yet).
- There are waaaay more than just 6 coins in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. They just don't look gold-colored (it's understandable) and the ones you have to collect are a little bigger than usual.
- SuperMarioLogan does not feature the Wolverine.
- Nor is Logan Paul involved in any way.
- Super Mario Odyssey is not a crossover between Super Mario Bros. and Etrian Odyssey.note
- It's also not a Mario game on Magnavox Odyssey. Mario came way after that system was supported, and all its games were built-in anyway.
- Nor is it related to Homer 's The Odyssey.
- Super Mario RPG does not involve Mario blowing up Bowser's army with a rocket launcher.
- Super Mario USA is not Super Mario Bros. IN AMERICA! Nor does it have a theme song with over-the-top Takenobu Mitsuyoshi vocals.
- Super Milk Chan is not about Charlie Chan or Jackie Chan obtaining super powers by drinking milk.
- Supernanny is not a nanny with superpowers.
- Its spin-off series, Supermanny, is not anybody named Manny with superpowers.
- Supernatural is not told from the monsters' points of view.
- And it has nothing to do with the Santana album. Alas, not even the opening.
- The Super Nintendo is not a superhero.
- Super Robot Wars has nothing to do with regular Robot Wars. And Mini Robot Wars is not a chibi-fied version of either of them.
- Super Sized Family is not about a family of giants.
- Super Smash Bros. is not about Mario and Luigi getting drunk. The fan game Super Smashed Bros., however...
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does not have a G-rank mode (you will find a Rathalos in it, if that's a consolation).
- Super Sonico is not about the Mexican Spanish dub name for George Jetson or Super Sonic.
- Super Time Force is not a Sequel Series to Power Rangers Time Force.
- Supervision is not about watching over other individuals to make sure they stay safe, nor is it about super-powered seeing.
- Super Why! is not the inquisitive form of the Big "NO!". Please come this way instead.
- Super Wings is not Wings for the Super NES, or the characters from that show gaining superpowers.
- Survival of the Fittest is not a gaming show whereupon overweight contestants must compete in a variety of physical challenges to be declared 'the fittest' and hence, the winner.
- Survivor Dogs isn't a version of Survivor where everyone is a dog.
- Not is it a band with dogs.
- Survivor: Fire is not about firing someone who survived a disaster.
- And it's not about a Chicago rock band covering the big hit by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
- Suzuka is not a Lyrical Nanoha spinoff starring one of Those Two Girls (or Nanoha's). Nor is it an adaptation of the racing game Suzuka 8 Hours based on a real life Suzuka Circuit.
- The Sweeney and Sweeney Todd are mostly unrelated, except for the fact that the title for the former is derived from the latter, as it is the Cockney rhyming slang for "Flying Squad".
- Even though both movies are slasher genre, Sweet Sixteen of the killer does not relate to The Sweet Sixteen Killer from Totally Killer.
- Sweet Tooth is not about a psychotic clown driving a weaponized ice cream truck.
- Sword Art Online is not about using a sword for doing art and selling it online.
- It has nothing to do with sword forms videos and swordsmanship lessons on YouTube either.
- It's not an actual game either. Not originally, at least.
- It also isn't a website where you can view artwork of swords.
- The Swords of Ditto don't copy other characters' fighting styles.
- Nor do the swords belong to an amorphous blob Pokémon.
- The Sword of Shannara does not belong to Shana. You want "Nietono no Shana".
- The sword doesn't belong to this Shana either. Or that Shananote .
- Sword of the Stars is not a Transformers spinoff helmed by Star Saber.
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is not a Looney Tunes short about Sylvester the Cat finding a magic pebble.
- Symphogear is not a Super Sentai season, but you would be forgiven for thinking it was.
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- T2 Trainspotting should not be read as Terminator 2: Trainspotting.
- Taiko no Tatsujin is not called Taiko no Truxton outside of Japan.
- Tails Linux is not a Linux distro used by Miles "Tails" Prower.
- Tak and the Power of Juju
- It is not an Invader Zim spinoff. Both franchises are owned by Nickelodeon and have crossed over on one occasion, though.
- Nor does it have anything to do with that Juju.
- The Take is a Youtube channel that produces video essays and reviews. It should not be confused with...
- The Taken King is not a crossover with Taken.
- Takeshi's Castle is not owned by Chairman Kaga.
- TAKUMI³ is not a 3D model of Takumi Fujiwara. Nor is it the 2D Shoot 'Em Up-focused developer Takumi making three-dimensional games.
- None of the games of the Tales Series is a tale about:
- Tales of Phantasia: ...the creation of the film Fantasia.
- Tales of Destiny: ...the 2014 sci-fi shooter by Bungie or a certain whale shark.
- Tales of Eternia: ...that Eternia.
- Tales of Symphonia: ...classical music.
- Tales of the Abyss: ... that Abyss or either that one.
- Tales of Vesperia: ...a place full of Vespoids, a Spinoff of Miraculous Ladybug starring Zoe Lee or ruled by Princess Vespa.
- Tales of Hearts: ...real hearts.
- Tales of Berseria: ...Midland.
- Tales of the Tempest: ...a literal tempest, the William Shakespeare play, or Tempest Shadow.
- Tales of Link: ...a crossover between The Legend of Zelda and the Tales Series.
- Tales Of The Rays: ...cosmic rays, manta rays, or baseball players from Tampa Bay.
- Tales of the World: ...the history of the world, or how DIO got his Stand.
- Tales of Xillia: ...Godzilla.note
- Tales of Graces: ...Will & Grace.
- Tales of Zestiria: ...the brand of bar soap named Zest.
- Tales of Crestoria: ...a land where everyone brush their teeth with Crest toothpaste.
- Tales of Arise: ...people with erectile dysfunction problems.
- Tales of MU is not part of the Tales Series. Neither are Tales of Arcadia, Tales of Wedding Rings, Tales of Monkey Island, or Tales of Demons and Gods.
- Tanguy is not about a guy with tan skin, nor is it about someone who works at a tanning salon.
- Or a trigonometry teacher.
- Task Master is not the host of a comedy show about a taskmaster setting weird tasks for comedians/ presenters/ tall people. It's also not referring to Kevin Sullivan. You can also be forgiven for thinking they have relations to the video game of an extremely similar name.
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is not about an opera when Sherlock Holmes is milking a cow.
- Taz-Mania is not a Bemani game in which you use tassles, nor is it a mode in NullpoMino. Nor is it about Peter Senerchia.
- Teamo Supremo is not a (poorly-spelt) show entirely about how incredibly freaking frustrating it is to try and fight a well-prepared Teemo.
- Ted Lasso is not a cowboy and does not take place in The Wild West.
- Teen Titans is not those Titans as teenagers. Or the OG ones either.
- Teen Titans Go! is not an augmented-reality game of Teen Titans.
- The Television Ghost is not about a ghost that comes out of a television.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is not about a giant robot who plays giant robot cricket with Mighty Whitey to evade his taxes. As awesome as giant robot cricket sounds.
- It also has nothing to do with the opening lines from Def Leppard's song "Rock of Ages".
- The Terminator isn't about someone who fires people from their jobs. Instead, what he does to them is much deadlier.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day isn't about anyone put on trial, nor is it about the biblical judgment day.
- Terminator Salvation isn't about John Connor rescuing humanity from the eponymous killing machines. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
- Terminator Genisys isn't a crossover between the Terminator franchise and the Book of Genesis or the band. And it's not called Terminator Mega Dryve outside North America.
- Terminator: Dark Fate isn't set at the really darker of Fate Series in this universe, nor is it about any of the eponymous cyborgs meeting gruesome ends.
- Terraria is not Aquaria BUT UNDERGROUND!. You might be looking for Cave Story in that case.
- Tetris Splash is not about playing the world-famous tetromino game at a water theme park. Or with Tom Hanks and a mermaid.
- Tetris: The Grand Master 2 - The Absolute PLUS is not about adding the absolute value of 2.
- Tetris: The Grand Master 3 - Terror-Instinct is not a survival-horror game. (But it is a survival game, and the high speeds might horrify you.)
- No characters from Killer Instinct or Power Instinct make cameos, either.
- Tetris: The Grand Master 4 - The Masters of Round is not about the 2-minute-long Infinity Plus One Summon you can get on Round Island.
- Tetris: The Grand Master ACE is not a TGM game designed specifically for asexual people.
- Tetris Attack is not actually a Tetris game.
- Tetris 99 is not a 1999 game. Nor is it a crossover with the 99 Ranch grocery store chain. And it won't let you party like it's 1999 either.
- TFWiki.net is not a wiki about Team Fortress. Incidentally, TF2Wiki.net was a wiki about Team Fortress 2.
- That Guy With The Glasses is not short. Nor is it The Guy but with glasses on.
- That '70s Show isn't The Brady Bunch. Or All in the Family, or M*A*S*H, or Welcome Back, Kotter, or Starsky & Hutch, or...
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is not about some dude, in a drunken tirade, said: "Hey guys! Do you remember that time when I got reincarnated as a slime? No? Well, screw you, guys!" Or being reincarnated as the Dragon Quest slime.
- The show's protagonist is not one the slimes that was killed by Azusa Aizawa.
- There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom is not about the "moral" panic surrounding trans women using gender-segregated toilets.
- There Will Be Blood is not related to the Saw series in any way.
- It's also not a Bloodier and Gorier spoof of "There Will Be Cake".
- They Hunger is not the sequel to They Live!, and neither one is related to Sinistar.
- The Thin Red Line is not the one you will burn your own to hold, and not the last line to ever hold either.
- Nor is it a reference to Arakune's theme song.
- 13 Ghosts is not a horror remake of Thirteen Lives where Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell were frighten by ghosts in the cave. Nor do they belong to Scooby-Doo.
- Thirteen, Thirteen, Thirteen Days, Thirteen Storeys and the above of these two films are nothing to do with 13 Is Unlucky trope series.
- Thirty Hs is not what you get when you multiply Triple H by ten. It is also not related to AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity or VVVVVV.
- This is Spın̈al Tap is not a documentary about the medical test
- This Is Us is not what you say when you're watching Us and someone asks you what it is.
- Thomas & Friends is not about an engine specced to absorb damage and hold aggro in a MMORPG.
- Nor is it about an engine on a tank.
- Those Who Hunt Elves does not have an Alternate Universe called He Who Fights Monsters.
- Threads is not about Internet forums.
- The films Thr3e and Se7en and the rollercoaster Th13teen are unrelated.
- The Three Musketeers are not stinging insects, though certain factions at court do regard them as bloodthirsty nuisances. And it also has nothing to do with the candy bar.
- Three's Company is not the Spin-Off sequel to Two's Company.
- Neither is it an spin-off to Seven Little Monsters starring Three.
- Thugs With Dirty Mugs is not about thugs who really need to wash their dishes.
- Thunder Force is not about the product of a thunderstorm's mass and acceleration.
- Thunder Hoop is not a basketball game.
- Tiberian Twilight is not about Tiberium crystals infiltrating and infecting the world of the The Twilight Saga books or Equestria.
- Tiger & Bunny is not a fable involving a tiger and a cute little rabbit. Though it should be.
- TikTok the mobile app does not necessarily involve clocks, the Kesha song, rooibos tea, any character with that name, or any other tick-tocks.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has nothing to do with Team Fortress 2. Or Taylor Hebert becoming a Tinker.
- Nor is it an improper recitation of Captain America's statusnote .
- Titan Quest does not involve those Titans.
- It also does not involve the largest moon of Saturn or Thanos's home planet.
- Titanfall is not about falling Titan. Though it is technically about destroying Titans, and similarities have been noted with that other Titan-killing work.
- T.J. Hooker does not star a prostitute.
- TLC does not perform songs about thin-layer chromatography. Nor does it stand for "Tiny Loser Chamber". And it is absolutely not related to the TV channel of the same name.
- Toad Patrol is not a Super Mario Bros. spinoff focusing on the Mushroom Kingdom's royal guards.
- Nor is it PAW Patrol... WITH TOADS!
- The page for To Aru Majutsu No Index should, in fact, be indexed.
- To Love Ru is not a quest for gaining the love of Ruuko, who keeps saying "ruu~".
- It's not about Ronald McDonald's love for RAN RAN RUU!, either.
- And its complete title is not To Love Ru, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
- And it is not a Russian dating site either.
- And don't even think it has anything to do with a certain baby kangaroo.note
- To the Moon and To the Stars are not in the same continuity.
- Also, To the Moon does not feature Ralph Kramden. Nor does it have anything to do with Princess Celestia and bananas.
- Today is not the greatest day you've ever known.
- Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet is not about Todd in the Shadows trying to woo Allison Pregler with petunias.
- For that matter, Todd in the Shadows is not a Spin-Off of What We Do in the Shadows about someone named Todd.note
- Tokyo Drifter has nothing to do with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
- Tokyo Godfathers isn't about Yakuza bosses, although one is a secondary character.
- Nor is it a Japanese remake of The Godfather series.
- Tokyo Mew Mew is not about Mew and Mewtwo in Tokyo.
- Tokyo Revengers is not a cheap Japanese rip-off of The Avengers, either the Americans or the British ones.
- Tokyo Xanadu is most certainly not a rehash of Xanadu set in Japan.
- Tom Waits is a name, not a sentence fragment.
- Too Many Cooks is not an Overwatch team composition warning that you get when too many players have picked Heroes with cooking-related abilities.
- Topless Robot is not a Sexbot.
- Toradora! is not a cave complex related to Tora Bora or an island related to Bora Bora.
- Nor does it have anything to do with Dora the Explorer.
- Or a Lighter and Softer spin-off of the 1970 war film Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Tora! Tora! Tora! itself is not a spinoff of Mega Man Battle Network that focuses on Torakichi and Kingman.EXE.
- Torchlight is not an experimental game in which you explore a dark cave where you can see only thanks to a torch you must relight regularly (if you can at all).
- Torchwood is not about Flame Bait.
- Nor is it about a support group for pyromaniacs.
- And it's not a Plants vs. Zombies spinoff starring Torchwood.
- Tosh.0 is not about Peter Tosh.
- Totally Spies! is not what a Totally Radical person says when spotting a Spy in Team Fortress 2.
- The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is not a burly man who hosts tours around Disney Theme Parks.
- Touhou has not ever licensed any of the Godzilla movies.
- It's also never published Space Megaforce.
- It is also not an anime about a team of girls shrinking themselves so that they may enter their friends' bodies and fight off their ailments.
- It is also not a term for someone with a foot fetish, despite what Ghost believes.
- The objective of Shoot the Bullet is not to fire bullets at bullets.
- Embodiment of Scarlet Devil doesn't involve Demonic Possession in its plot.
- Scarlet Weather Rhapsody isn't a bizarre crossover between The Scarlet Letter and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Double Spoiler isn't about using the now-defunct supersecretspoiler tag on this very wiki. Nor is it a Nintendo DS game.
- Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, acronymed as LoLK, has nothing to do with people who answer messages with "LOL, K".
- Tower of God has nothing to do with the story of Babel except for the use of Babel Fish.
- Transformers isn't about trans people who form things, people who used to be trans, or electrical transformers.
- Transformers: ★Headmasters has nothing to do with school principals.
- "Carnage in C-Minor" doesn't feature Cletus Kasady.
- Nor does "The God Gambit" feature Remy LeBeau becoming or being worshipped as a god.
- "Prime Target" isn't a place where Optimus and/or Rodimus go shopping. Nor is there a merger between Amazon Prime and Target in the episode.
- "Blaster Blues" isn't about Blaster playing blues music in his boombox form, cosplaying as Proto Man, or painting himself blue.
- Transformers: Prime isn't a first-person Transformers game where the player can scan things.
- Beast Wars Neo has nothing to do with The Matrix (well, not THAT one, anyway) or the "Neo" weapon variants in Splatoon.
- Transformers: Shattered Glass doesn't literally involve broken glass.
- The Robotmasters toyline has nothing to do with Mega Man.
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron isn't about what autumn is like on the Transformers' home planet.
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon has nothing to do with Pink Floyd.
- Transformers: Rescue Bots isn't a directive for the Transformers to rescue other robots.
- Transformers: Animated isn't the only animated Transformers series, nor does it mean that the Transformers used to be animators.
- Transformers: Go! isn't a Transformers-themed version of Pokémon GO (Niantic was working on a similar game called Transformers: Heavy Metal, but it got cancelled).
- Transformers: Deviations isn't about Transformers-related posts on DeviantArt.
- Transformers Zone isn't a Transformers-themed world in a Sonic the Hedgehog game.
- Transformers Unite Warriors isn't a statement that Cybertronians bring fighters together to work towards a common goal.
- Transformers: Kiss Players is not a statement that they kiss people who play games or devices that can play certain types of media.
- Nor is it a crossover with Music/Kiss, thankfully.
- The Transformers: Power of the Primes has nothing to do with exponents that are prime numbers.
- Transformice is not about Transformers who can turn into mice.
- The Transformers in question aren't electrical equipment.
- The Transporter does not have an Evil Counterpart called the Teleporter.
- Trials of Mana is not a crossover between the World of Mana and the Ace Attorney series.
- Trigun is not called Lightning Fighters in the US.
- TRON is not a spinoff of Mega Man Legends; you are probably thinking about The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.
- Nor is it about any incarnation of Megatron before he rose to power.
- Trope-tan is not a trope with a tan.
- Similarly, Wikipe-tan is not Wikipedia with a tan.
- Triple H is not the name of a extra-strong medicine for hemorrhoids. Nor is it a triple-X hentai series.
- Trolls is not about Internet Trolls. And they don't live in Arcadia either.
- Nor is Trolls Holiday about Internet Trolls celebrating christmas.
- Nor is Trolls World Tour about Internet Trolls going on a concert tour across the world.
- Nor is TrollsTopia a city that only has Internet Trolls as residents.
- Trollhunters does not feature people who hunt living examples of the G.I.F.T..
- The Truman Show is not a TV show starring the 33rd President of the United States.
- Nor is it a spin-off of The X's starring the youngest child.
- T.U.F.F. Puppy isn't about a nigh invulnerable puppy.
- Tumblr in and of itself does not have to do with a particular type of mug, though the userbase is more than happy to post pictures of them.
- Turbo is not about the life of the Big Bad of Wreck-It Ralph, or that of a certain GoBot.
- Nor is it about turbochargers.
- It's also not about the 1981 arcade game or the spin-off board game.
- The Turner Diaries is not a diary by Ted Turner, Tina Turner, or Timmy Turner. We cannot stress this enough.
- Turning Red is not about a video game boss that Turns Red, nor is it about communists, nor is it about Carnage (he already had his own film, after all), nor is it about Reddit eithernote .
- Turtles Forever is unrelated to any arguments about the origin of the world and the origin of the origin.
- Neither is it a suggestion about playing Real-Time Strategy games.
- Or a campaign to further the conservation of turtles.
- Or a tribute to the 60's pop band.
- Nor is it about immortal turtles, or even the fact that turtles are long-lived animals.
- Tusk (2014) is not a biopic about the Polish politician Donald Tusk.
- TV Trash is not a wiki indexing the various types of garbage in media.
- Nor is it a MAD parody of TV Tropes itself.
- While Tweetie Pie does star Tweety Bird, it is not about him being baked into a pie.
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea does not feature twenty-thousand aquatic sports leagues. Nor is it 20,000 games of League of Legends played underwater.
- The Twilight Saga does not take place in The Twilight Zone. And neither of them involve Twilight Sparkle.
- Twilight Imperium is not a crossover Fan Fic between The Twilight Saga and Warhammer 40,000 (or Ciaphas Cain), or what's going to happen to Equestria now that Twilight Sparkle has been crowned alicorn princess.
- Twilight: 2000 isn't about Twilight Sparkle in the year 2000.
- Twilight: Los Angeles does not have either Edward or Bella moving to Beverly Hills, or a purple unicorn trying to make it big in Hollywood. (That latter one's probably better suited for Trixie, anyway.)
- Twilight Struggle is not about the rivalry between Team Edward and Team Jacob. Neither is it about Twilight Sparkle trying to wiggle her way out of trouble.
- Nor is it any of the above when they run out of moves to use.
- Twilight Unbound is not about Stephenie Meyer's or Tara Strong's biography.
- Twin Peaks has nothing to do with breasts.
- Twin Spica does not involve the duplication of one of three catholic schools in Japan.
- It's also not a remix of a beatmania IIDX song.
- Twisted Metal is not a subgenre of Heavy Metal known for deranged lyrics.
- Twisted Metal Black has nothing to do with Black Metal. Or metal that is black.
- Twisted Metal: Head On is not applied directly to the forehead.
- Twister has nothing to do with the Board Game where people have to put themselves in awkward and embarrassing positions.
- It's also not a spinoff of Lark Rise to Candleford starring Twister Turrill.
- Two and a Half Men is not a sequel to Ranma ½.
- There are movies out there called Two Can Play That Game and Three Can Play That Game, but there isn't One Can Play That Game.
- Two More Eggs is not what someone wants when they finish their first serving of their breakfast.
- Typing of the Dead is not about categorizing people who have passed away.
- It's also not a course offered at Highschool of the Dead.
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- Übel Blatt is not about an European comic book artist. Maybe you're trying to find Hugo Pratt.
- Ultimate Crab Battle has nothing to do with Cancer Bubble or Krabby.
- And it is not a revamped version of MGS3: Crab Battle neither.
- Nor is it the up to eleven counterpart to Giant Enemy Crab.
- And it doesn't take place in Kitchen Stadium.
- You don't fight the EX Deviant or Anomaly Special Investigation versions of Daimyo Hermitaur or Shogun Ceanataur in it.
- On the same note, Ultimate Crab Battle, Ultimate Girls and Ultimate Muscle are not Ultimate Marvel mini-series.
- And Ultimate Fallout is not an Ultimate Universe of the Fallout games, nor is it an Updated Re-release of any particular game in the series.
- None of them are odd Danganronpa Talents as well.
- Ultra Maniac is not a wacky or otherwise subversive pastiche of Ultraman. It's also not the name of DanceDance Revolution 4thMIX's harder-than-Maniac chart difficulty.
- Nor is it about Ultra Magnus going insane.
- The Ultraverse is not about the Ultra Series and vice versa.
- Uma Musume has absolutely nothing to do with Uma Thurman.
- The Umbrella Academy is not a school established by the Umbrella Corporation.
- Umineko: When They Cry is not about the sea, cats, or sea kittens.
- Unbreakable film series:
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is not related to Unbreakable.
- Split doesn't take place at the Croatian City.
- Glass (2019) is not about the window and Glassware.
- Nor as it related to Glass Onion.
- Speaking of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is also not related to About Schmidt.
- Uncle Grandpa is not a spinoff of Perfect Hair Forever and cannot be confused with Bad Grandpa either.
- He isn't a sentient Macintosh SE either.
- Nor is he a man who committed incest (despite what the Crystal Gems think in the crossover with Steven Universe).
- Under Defeat is not the Inverted Trope to There Is No Kill Like Overkill.
- Under Night In-Birth is not a crossover between Undertale and NiGHTS into Dreams… made by the same developers of the Konami ReBirth series, nor is about a woman who gives birth in the middle of the night.
- The Underground is set in the universe of Portal 2, not Undertale, or Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (that would be the Sinnoh Underground), or even the London Underground.
- Underhell is not a Darker and Edgier Undertale fan game, or a sadistically hard Game Mod of such.
- Show Within a Show of tv series Unfiction from actual movie Missing (2023), have nothing to do with that trope.
- The Unit is not about UNIT.
- The Urinal Game is not about a literal pissing contest.
- Unskippable isn't about those anti-piracy warnings on DVDs which you can't skip even if you want to.
- The Untouchables is not a documentary about the lower class caste of India.
- Up in the Air isn't Up in the air! That would be redundant, really.
- UQ Holder! has nothing to do with Noddy Holder.
- Us is set in the United States, but it's not about the country.
- Uzumaki has absolutely nothing to do with Naruto.
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- Vagrant Story is not a story about a hobo.
- Valley of the Dolls is not set in the Uncanny Valley. Nor a nursery.
- Vampire's Kiss is not related to The Twilight Saga, and is not a Paranormal Romance. Nor should it be confused with the European title of Castlevania: Dracula X.
- Vee is Calling is not about getting a phone call from Cristina Vee or Vampirina.
- VeggieTales in the House is not a crossover between VeggieTales and Cory in the House.
- Venus in Furs is not about fur coats or wraps that are large enough for the second planet in our system to wear.
- Nor does it imply the goddess Aphrodite likes to wear fur, although she might.
- It also does not star the BEMANI unit VENUS in fur coats.
- Venus Versus Virus is not a Lifetime Medical Drama. VENUS does not appear here either.
- It also has nothing to do with Versus.
- Vermeil in Gold is not about NFL coaching great Dick Vermeil getting the Goldfinger treatment.
- Veronica's Closet does not belong to Veronica Lodge or Veronica Mars.
- The "VG" in VG Cats does not refer to a certain part of the female anatomy.
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not an alias used by voice actress Cristina Valenzuela.
- It's not Vicky the Babysitter's full name either.
- Victorious is not a Disney adaptation of an album by the Swedish indie band The Perishers. Nor is it based on the Biggie Smalls' track "Victory", nor does it use the song "Uprising" by Muse as its opening, no matter how appropriate the chorus line "we will be victorious" would seem.
- Between Vigilante and Vigilante 8, there is no Vigilante 2 through 7.
- Vinland Saga is not a saga in the Dragon Ball series with Vikings.
- Violence Jack is not an Actionized Sequel to Black Jack. Nor is it a Darker and Edgier remake of Samurai Jack. Nor is it even remotely related to Bloody Jack.
- A Virtual Boy is not a boy who doesn't exists, nor is about a kid on a virtual reality scenario.
- Void Stranger does not mean "Void Dark is a stranger." Nor is it a programming function/method "stranger()" that does not return any value.
- Volbeat is not about the Pokémon species.
- The Vor Game is not an eating contest. Nor is it a Warframe spinoff. It's not a game about flight navigation, either.
- Vulcan Venturenote does not star a species of human-like aliens who operate on logic.
- It also has nothing to do with the Roman god of fire, metal, and technology.
- None of Sega's Virtua games (Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter, etc.) actually use VR gaming technology.
- VVVVVV is not an Engine Sentai Go-onger spinoff about BearRV.