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1st Feb '13 12:01:00 PM SeptimusHeap

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Everythings Better With Indexes is now Garnishing The Story

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9th Jan '13 11:04:58 AM StFan

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2nd Jan '13 2:24:58 AM SeptimusHeap

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1st Dec '12 12:29:21 AM GoldenSandslash

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21st Nov '12 11:26:09 PM justanid

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->''On my deathbed I will mumble, "[[BadassDecay Spikeification]]."''
-->-- '''Tropers/{{idledandy}}'''

NamingATrope can be difficult. Generally, there is a trade-off between descriptive naming and clever naming, as many clever names only make sense to members of a particular fanbase. This page is here as an archive of names that were just a little bit too obscure to stay, too easy to misinterpret, too similar to an unrelated trope, not sounding neutral enough, or otherwise deemed unworthy.

Trope names based on a character (or other reference to a specific work) have fallen out of fashion, because [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure not everyone watches the same shows]]. Some other common themes in renames are:
* Titles based on a character's name, but not making it clear [[OneMarioLimit which character with that name was meant]].
* EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones, so they're used less and less nowadays. Notable example: the [[EverythingsBetterWithIndexes "Everything's better with..."]] titles.
* TropeDecay, where an otherwise appropriate name was being used "wrong", constantly. Eventually it becomes clear that the real demand is for the "wrong" use. Notable example: MomentOfAwesome used to be "''Crowning'' Moment of Awesome", but it wasn't being used for single superlative moments.
* Using "Trope" as a placeholder.
* Tropes that had the same name as a work that later got an article.
* Names that simply don't indicate what the trope is all about. Especially if it suggests something unrelated to most people.
* And then there are titles that [[NeedsABetterTitle nobody ever really liked, even the original author]].

See also TropeTransplant, a special case of renaming where the old title is commandeered to make room for a separate trope.
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!!Examples

[[index]]
* RenamedTropes/AToE
* RenamedTropes/FToK
* RenamedTropes/LToP
* RenamedTropes/QToZ
[[/index]]
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