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* HopelessSuitor used to be called "The Daisuke". It was renamed because: [[Anime/GhostInTheShell There's]] [[Manga/KodomoNoJikan more]] [[Manga/DNAngel than]] [[Anime/HeatGuyJ one]] [[Manga/LupinIII Daisuke]] [[Manga/{{X1999}} in]] anime, it was a "The X" title, and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 The Daisuke in question]] was named Davis in the English dub. The Davis was suggested as one of the alternative names, but this was shot down for still being a "The X" title.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl was known as "Bottle Fairy" but was changed due to the name being unclear and could be easily confused for a literal bottled fairy or the anime, ''Anime/BottleFairy''. The trope was also getting misuse for any girl that drank or partied regardless rather it actually fit the trope's description.
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo was renamed from "Are You My Mummy" in order to clarify the meaning of the trope that would otherwise be difficult to figure out if one was not familiar with the ''Series/DoctorWho'' reference in its first name.
* FakeShemp was originally "Invisible Darrin", but it wasn't much of an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]], so it changed to an already existing ThreeStooges-related term.
* FakeUltimateMook was originally "Level 5 Onix" from ''{{Pokemon}}''; changed for FanMyopia concerns. The picture is still about the former trope namer, however.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms was originally "Where Did They Get Lasers" -- changed since the trope is not just about lasers.
* FamousFamousFictional was "Newton Einstein Surak". It was renamed because nothing indicated that Surak is a fictional person.
* FamilyRivalry was renamed from "Family Feud" because the original name was also the name of [[Series/FamilyFeud a TV series]], and literally all incoming links were in reference to the TV series.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop was originally "Warped Aesop", and its scope narrowed considerably from the original "Aesop [[AC:That's BAD]]" meaning. The former name lives on in DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop.
* FanFlattering was renamed from "Our Fans Are Better" because the old title looked like dialogue and was a bad snowclone off of the "[[OurTropesAreDifferent Our X Are Different]]" family.
* FanPreferredCouple used to be called "Better than Canon", and was "Sasami Syndrome" (after ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'') before that. The reason for renaming from Sasami Syndrome is because it was advocating a specific opinion that a lot of people just didn't agree with (plus had some incest/pedophilia {{Squick}} to it in some continuities), while the rename from BetterThanCanon was because it was both suggesting fault in the creators while also sounding vague enough to just be any fan talking about how they can supposedly make something better (which is what the current page is about).
* FangThpeak was originally titled "Whedon'th Thyndrome", which was changed after it was noted that JossWhedon didn't really have anything to do with what it was about.
* FauxAffablyEvil was "Evilly Affable". Renamed to help avoid confusion with AffablyEvil.
* FauxHorrific was originally "What Do You Mean, It's Not Horrific?" Renamed to get away from the overdone [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex What Do You Mean, It's Not X?]] snowclone family.
* FauxSymbolism used to be called "What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?", which caused problems with being easily interpreted as the opposite of the actual trope and fueling mere complaining about symbolism you don't like.
* FavouritismFlipFlop was formerly "Appeal to Libido". The fact that it's hard to tell that the two names were even for the same trope is a big part of the change reason.
* FearOfThunder was formerly known as "Thundraphobia", which is a portmanteau but not a real word. (The actual phobia is "Tonitrophobia", but who could ever remember that?)
* FeaturelessProtagonist was "AFGNCAAP". It was renamed because the old name was an impenetrable and hard-to-remember acronym.
* FeedItABomb was renamed from "Dodongo Dislikes Smoke" from being work/fandom dependent and being misleading.
* FictionAsCoverUp was originally "Masquerainment", an opaque {{portmanteau}} of "masquerade" and "entertainment". A name like this is impossible to search for, and as a result it saw severe underuse.
* FighterLaunchingSequence used to be "Take Off Every Zig", a too-obscure reference to the game ''ZeroWing''.
* FightingAShadow was renamed from "Projected Avatar" because people were confusing it with generic cases of GodInHumanForm and/or AFormYouAreComfortableWith and/or a generic {{Avatar}} trope.
* FightUnscene was changed from "Audience Sucker Punch" for sounding like it was referring to something completely different.
* FilmingForEasyDub was renamed from "Don't Look at the Camera" to make it clearer that the trope is about mouths being hidden from view.
* TheFinalTemptation was renamed from "The Last Temptation" to separate it from the work of the same name.
* FingerInTheMail was renamed from "Mary Kelly's Kidney", an obscure detail from one of JackTheRipper's murders.
* FiringOneHanded was formerly "One Handed Is Cool", but was renamed because it was vague and was being used to refer to [[OneHandedZweihander using two-handed swords with one hand]].
* FirstPersonSnapshooter was formerly the overly-vague "Amateur Photographer"
* FirstNameBasis was originally "Call Me Little Washuu" (another ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' reference).
* FiveSecondForeshadowing started life as "One Second Later", in reference to the information in the foreshadowing being relevant soon afterwards. Changed to say what it means more directly.
* FixedDamageAttack was once "One Thousand Needles", a reference to a fixed damage attack in ''FinalFantasy'' that was opaque to a general audience.
* FleetingDemographicRule is a merge of "Seven Year Rule" and NOHAMOTYO, since those two referred to this phenomenon in professional wrestling and other media, respectively.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome was "Flowers for Algernon", renamed for being a work.
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne was originally called "I Sense a Disturbance in the Force", but it was misused in between 40% and 60% of cases to mean either a reference to that scene in ''StarWars'', or for when someone senses that something has gone horribly wrong. "I Sense a Disturbance in the Force" is now a redirect to MySignificanceSenseIsTingling.
* ForgotTheCall used to be "I Am Kirok" after a ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode. It was renamed because it was obtuse, unsearchable, and apparently not even an example.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe used to be "Forgotten Childhood Friend". The old name hardly implied that it defined a type of villain.
* ForkliftFu was "He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift" after a line from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Renamed because the old name sounded like a line of dialogue.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch used to be "Libby My Old Friend". After The Libby was renamed, the snowclone title no longer made sense.
* TheFourLoves used to be "I Just Want to Be Loved", but the original was more a dialogue than a trope name. The new name also denotes the fact that the trope is no longer just specific to romance.
* FramedForHeroism was "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". It was renamed because it conflicted with the page for [[Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance the film of the same name]].
* FreudianTrio was originally "Power Trio", which is now a SuperTrope encompassing all {{ensembles}} with 3 persons.
* FrictionlessReentry used to be "No Kind of Atmosphere", after a ''Series/RedDwarf'' lyric. Changed for being too generalized to connect with the intended trope.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin used to be "Playful Dolphin". It was renamed to make it a little broader.
* FromACertainPointOfView used to be "Jedi Truth". Renamed to make the reference more direct, and thus the meaning clearer. JediTruth is now a redirect to HalfTruth.
* FullCircleRevolution was once "The Thermidor", probably as a reference to some aspects of the French revolutionary government's behavior once in power. Not helped by the Thermidorian Reaction being the most common meaning of The Thermidor -- something which was the opposite of the trope.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial was known as "Soylent Soy", a muddled snowclone of Soylent Green. The "soy" part was redundant and the cannibalism connotations were just misleading.
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* GambitIndex was originally "Xanatos Planned This Index". The name was changed because not everyone knows ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', where the character Xanatos hails from. In addition, several tropes under GambitIndex used to have Xanatos in their names as well, and tropers are concerned that an excessive number of Xanatos-named tropes can lead to the TropeDecay of XanatosGambit by overuse of the Xanatos meme causing it to become a byword for EvilPlan or a generic ThePlan rather than a distinct trope of its own.
** GambitPileup was originally "Thirty Xanatos Pileup". That was renamed because Gambit Pileup doesn't have to include gambits of which lead to success no matter what the other person tries.
** GambitRoulette was "Xanatos Roulette".
** SpannerInTheWorks was formerly "Xanatos Gilligan", changed for being for being rather impenetrable without considerable prior knowledge of the site and being vague with it.
** ThanatosGambit was "Xanatos Funeral".
** UnwittingPawn was "Xanatos Sucker".
* GameFavoredGender was originally called "Minus Four Strength" after a particularly non-intuitive ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' meme.
* GameplayRoulette was originally called "Genre Roulette". Renamed because the use of Genre made it sound much broader than was intended; it's a trope specifically about gameplay styles in video games, but the title gave no indication that it's specifically about video games, or that meaning of "genre".
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga was renamed from Gaming Anime since it wasn't Anime-only and because sports and games aren't included into each other.
* {{Gaslighting}} used to be called "Insanity Ploy", but it was renamed when it was given a top-to-bottom rewrite. It is now named after the literary term.
* GenderBlendingTropes was renamed from Trans Gender Tropes as it wasn't about transgenderism.
* TheGenericGuy was originally "The Freddy", which referred to the Freddy from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', not the one from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' or the one from ''Series/ICarly''. No prizes for guessing why it was changed...
* The GenteelInterbellumSetting used to be "Christie Time", but was changed since not everybody has read enough Agatha Christie to get the reference.
* GenuineHumanHide was formerly "Cruelty Rich Leather", but was renamed for clarity.
* GloriousMotherRussia was originally "In Soviet Russia Trope Mocks You". Usage just to make Yakov Smirnoff jokes led to them being separated, the former to fictional portrayals of Russia, the latter for the original joke.
* GodsHandsAreTied was formerly titled "The Gods Must Be Lazy"...
* ...and TheGodsMustBeLazy was formerly titled "God's Hands Are Tied". Two separate articles, whose titles were switched because they'd somehow originally been titled backwards. Apparently, the article now known as GodsHandsAreTied was written first, and was given a punny title rather than a thoroughly accurate one. And then whoever wrote the article now known as TheGodsMustBeLazy was simply unaware of the other article's existence.
* TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Golden Age". It was renamed because not only are there golden ages for other media, but there were also references to the concept of a GoldenAge independent of comic books.
* GoLookAtTheDistraction was formerly known as "Crummies", after a phrase which induced this reaction in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Renamed for being thoroughly unintuitive.
* GoodColorsEvilColors was previously known as "Color-Coded for Your Convenience". However, the latter was used in many different ways and then it became a supertrope for it.
* GratuitousAnimalSidekick was renamed from "Wonder Dog" because it was being misused for HeroicDog, because the TropeNamer is not really an example, and because that usage of WonderDog is much narrower than its normal meaning.
* GratuitousDiscoSequence was intially launched as "Everything's Funkier with Disco"; it was renamed as part of the general effort to get ride of "Everything's Better with" snowclones.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter was "Pardon Me, Stewardess, I Speak Iambic Pentameter". The old name was too long ''and'' an unnecessary ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', which doesn't even have any examples of the trope (though it does have its "Pardon me, I speak [[JiveTurkey Jive]]" moment).
* GreatBigBookOfEverything used to be "Book of Shadows" which sounds just like a TomeOfEldritchLore. To understand the title the reader needed to know that there was a book of that name in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' and recall it contained an vast amount of oddly pertinent information.
* GreatGazoo was originally TheOzmodiar, renamed because Ozmodiar was a one-shot joke Gazoo ripoff.
* GreenEyedEpiphany was once "Skater Boy Syndrome" since the trope appears in a AvrilLavigne song. It gave no information to non-fans and the song isn't a typical example, with a nonstandard viewpoint and outcome. The new title features jealousy and realisation.
* GuiltByAssociationGag was originally named "Did Not Eat the Mousse" after ''MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''.
* GunshipRescue used to be called "Big Damn Gunship", since it was related to BigDamnHeroes. Was changed since people thought it was literally about big gunships.
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* HairDecorations was originally "Every Girl Is Cuter with Hair Decs". Renamed because it sounded too similar to the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* HairTriggerTemper was once "The Pesci" after the actor JoePesci who famously played characters with {{Hair Trigger Temper}}s in ''{{Goodfellas}}'' and ''{{Casino}}''. In both cases, there were maiming and death that isn't essential to the trope. Those who didn't get the reference or got the wrong reference from one of his other roles weren't informed as to the nature of the trope.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch used to be called "From Dusk Til Dawn" [sic] after [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn the film of the same name]]. It was changed to reclaim the title for the actual film.
* HandCannon was changed from "Really Big Gun" to point out that it is by definition a one-handed weapon, even if it's as powerful as a {{BFG}}.
* HappyEndingOverride was previously named "What Were We Fighting For?", but was renamed for being non-indicative and leading to misuse about people with unclear goals. What Were We Fighting For? is now a redirect to WasItReallyWorthIt.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl was known as "Bottle Fairy" but was changed due to the name being unclear and could be easily confused for a literal bottled fairy or the anime, ''Anime/BottleFairy''. The trope was also getting misuse for any girl that drank or partied regardless rather it actually fit the trope's description.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight was once called "The Krusty" after the character from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
* {{Headdesk}} was "Wall Bang"; renamed for {{Headdesk}} being the more common term for the concept, as well as to avoid confusion with DarthWiki/WallBanger.
* HeadInTheSandManagement was "The Chamberlain", and was renamed both due to the trope namer not being an example, and "Chamberlain" being vague enough that it could refer to more than one person besides NevilleChamberlain.
* {{Headscratchers}} was once known as "Just Bugs Me". Renamed to make it clear that it's about "About what happens there" instead of "I can't believe X is that stupid".
* HeartwarmingMoments was once "Crowning Moment of Heartwarming". Renamed due to definition drift.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing was once "Heel Face Mind Screw", but changed because "Heel Face Mind Screw"... is not a MindScrew.
* HeroicPetStory was "Heroic Pet", generating misuse as a character type rather than the genre.
* HeroOfAnotherStory was originally "Colonel Makepeace", after the ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' character. It was renamed because the name was confusing to anyone who hadn't seen the show and many people who had.
* HeroicSecondWind used to be "My Name Is Inigo Montoya", but now they're separate tropes.
* HeroismIncentive was formerly "Would You Do It for a Scooby Snack?", but was renamed for being non-indicative and creating misuse of the trope for ComicallySmallBribe.
* HesJustHiding used to be known as [[spoiler:"Dumbledore Lives"]]. Both are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' references, but the latter one is a considerably more blatant spoiler.
* HighSchoolHustler was once "Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller". It was renamed since the old title was too long, depended on people getting the references, didn't have as much immediate meaning, and didn't work as well in a sentence. In part, it replaces potholes redirecting "high school hustler" to the old title.
* HilariousInHindsight used to be "Reverse Funny Aneurysm" (derivative of another ''Buffy'' reference, FunnyAneurysmMoment).
** As was HarsherInHindsight, which used to be "Unfunny Aneurysm Moment". (Both had been changed to avoid confusion between the types.)
* HolidayMode used to be "Christmas Mode", but was being mistaken for a Christmas-specific feature, and was underused.
* HollerButton was "Press X to Jason", a meme from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Changed [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=dee3rk0jihjuc4wzfavw0800&page=1 by consensus]] for being obtuse and not well defined.
* HollywoodNewEngland used to be "Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah", corruption of a standard "spot a New England accent" phrase. Changed because it was possibly too difficult to spell or remember.
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders was "Personality Disorders". The rename is to make it clear it's part of the Hollywood family of tropes.
* HollywoodTourettes was once called "Tourettes Shit Cock Syndrome", which itself was renamed from "Tourettes Fucking [[CountryMatters Cunt]] Syndrome". The reasoning behind both renames should be obvious.
* HolyBurnsEvil was named "It Burns", leading to a lot of misuse as a StockPhrase or confusion with WeakenedByTheLight. It was also named by the ''TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'', so getting the reference was dependent on either playing the games or watching {{YouTube Poop}}s.
* HomosexualReproduction used to be "Lesbian Mouse Babies". It was changed for being too obtuse.
* HonestJohnsDealership was formerly a subtrope of "CMOT Dibbler" (named for a character from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''). Dibbler was put up for rename because it's unintuitive for anyone who hasn't read ''Discworld''. The rename discussion led to both tropes being merged under the Honest John name.
* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy was once "Washington Gambit" after the story of GeorgeWashington and the cherry tree. Washington was known for many things, honesty being only one: this gambit could have been a wartime strategy. Others thought it referred to federal politics, and honesty isn't the first association.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold used to be known as "Pretty Woman", after [[PrettyWoman the film of the same name]]. Changed for being a work title, and for being non-indicative if the right connection wasn't made.
* HopelessSuitor used to be called "The Daisuke". It was renamed because: [[Anime/GhostInTheShell There's]] [[Manga/KodomoNoJikan more]] [[Manga/DNAngel than]] [[Anime/HeatGuyJ one]] [[Manga/LupinIII Daisuke]] [[Manga/{{X1999}} in]] anime, it was a "The X" title, and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 The Daisuke in question]] was named Davis in the English dub. The Davis was suggested as one of the alternative names, but this was shot down for still being a "The X" title.
* HotbloodedSideburns was "Go Nagai Sideburns". It was renamed, because not everybody knows what a GoNagai is (The creator who popularized this trope).
* HotMom and HotDad were both originally "Hot Shonen Mom" and "Hot Shojo Dad", but were renamed to make the title shorter, and because the trope names were made to seem anime-exclusive tropes.
* HotPaintJob used to be "Everything's Hotter with Flames". Renamed since the previous title wasn't specific enough, plus it was named according to the discredited and unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* HubLevel was previously "The Hub", but was renamed in order to not conflict with Hasbro's TheHub, a TV network.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters was "Humans Are Bastards" but was renamed due to continuous misuse.
* HumansAreWhite used to be "Least Common Skin Tone", but was renamed because the original title was a snowclone that was unclear and led to misuse of the trope outside of its specific definition of people who are white being dominant for no real reason in futuristic, fantasy, and alternate universe settings.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame was "The Most Dangerous Game". ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame'' now applies to the work.
* HyperCompetentSidekick was formerly "The Radar". It was renamed not only because it was an obtuse reference to ''Series/{{Mash}}'', but also because it was rather misleading, as "radar" is a rather generic noun.
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* IconicCharacterForgottenTitle was renamed from "Reverse Shazam" in order to clarify the trope's meaning.
* IdentityAmnesia was formerly named "The Chazz" after an incident on ''CharlesInCharge''. Besides just being really opaque and obscure, it was also misspelled.
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam was expanded from just "Green Eggs and Ham" to avoid confusion with the work.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance was previously "King of Pointland", named after the work ''{{Flatland}}''.
* IgnoredExpert was renamed from "The Jor-El" to clarify the trope and because the former name was a work-specific and character-named trope title.
* IgnoreTheDisability was "Sammy's Glass Eye", after a scene in ''AllInTheFamily''. Sammy, for Sammy Davis, Jr. has no relevance, it's all in the glass eye. But that still didn't convey the idea that it is trying to leave someone's disability[[hottip:*:or a similarly taboo topic related to a personal attribute, such as a very large nose]] out of a conversation (then making an embarrassing slip.)
* ILetGwenStacyDie once simply was "The Gwen Stacy". Changed because a) it's a character name and b) the trope, as the current name says, is about letting her die, not about the living Gwen Stacy.
* ImAHumanitarian used to be "Soylent Green Is People". This may confuse people who don't get the former joke.
* ImMelting used to be "What a World, What a World!"; it was changed because the original name [[ItMakesSenseInContext needed context in order to make sense]]. The new name comes from the same quote; specifically, the part with the context.
* ImminentDangerClue was originally named The Telltale Drapes, and then renamed, cut, and then sent back to YKTTW ''twice'' before being launched under a much clearer name.
* ImmortalitySeeker was renamed from "So You Want to Live Forever" in order to make it clear that the trope was about a character archetype rather than a SoYouWantTo page.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure was originally "Hourglass Hottie". Renamed because the old name led to misuse for any woman with an hourglass figure.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail was renamed from "Imposter Jamie Has No Accent" to avoid using a name that was work-specific and to help encourage uses of the trope that feature more than just accents.
* ImprobableAntidote was briefly "Baigar Is the Antidote".
* ImprobablyFemaleCast was "Pink Bishōjo Ghetto" for a very long time. Anyone who didn't know what the word "bishōjo" meant wouldn't understand the title. On top of that, it was a poor snowclone of the term "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ghetto pink ghetto]]", which aside from being a fairly obscure term to begin with, the actual definition of "pink ghetto" is the ''opposite'' of what the trope is about.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms was renamed from "I Know That Gun" in order to clarify the trope's meaning and decrease misuse for trivia and examples of prop guns being based on real guns.
* InactionSequence was formerly known as "Not So Fast", but it was easy to confuse with the mostly unrelated "Not So Fast Bucko" (which has itself since been merged with YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle). Spent some time as Midstrike Monologue in between.
* InadvertentEntranceCue was "Something Wicked This Way Comes" but it was being confused with the novel.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog used to be "Helicopter Sounds" after a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' scene. It was changed because the trope has nothing to do with helicopters nor sounds and the ''Friends'' reference itself didn't quite fit.
* IncestSubtext used to be "Incest Yay". Renamed due to [[ThatCameOutWrong sounding just plain wrong]] if you didn't recognize it as a bad snowclone of HoYay.
* InexplicablyAwesome was "The Frizzle". It was renamed due to being a character-named trope whose name was causing a great deal of confusion over what it actually meant.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals was originally "Nurse Jenny". Renamed due to its obscurity to anyone outside of the fandom (especially since it was actually a portmanteau of two ''different'' characters) and the misleading link to the various Nurse tropes.
* InfiniteOneUps was "One Up Sampo". There was slim to zero chance the reader would know one of the many, many meanings of the word "sampo" in ancient Finnish mythology is "mill".
* InformedObscenity was formerly "Snugglebunnies", after a gag in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', which was too obscure.
* InnocentProdigy was renamed from "The Linus" since there are a number of possible character traits associated with [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus]] that are outside the specific definition of that trope.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode was "Midnight on the Firing Line" after the name of an episode in ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' which was an example. Outside that audience the phrase was opaque.
* TheInsomniac was originally "No Rest for the Wicked" -- a phrase that usually refers to people with a guilty conscience. The new name indicates it is all insomniacs, not just wicked ones.
* InspectorLestrade is a clarifying expansion of the original title, "Lestrade".
* InstantChucks was once "Sword Chucks", from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. SwordChucks was MixAndMatchWeapon [[TheSameButMoreSpecific but with only two weapons]], but since ninety percents of examples were about ridiculous things made into nunchucks just by sticking a chain inbetween, it became specifically about that, with the title change to boot
* InstantWinCondition used to be "The Enemy Gate Is Down", after the quote from ''Literature/EndersGame''. Renamed because it doesn't necessarily relate to enemies, gates, or gates being down. Also, "down" referred to the direction, not "[[ItsGoingDown going down]]".
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny was previously "Trahison des Clercs", but was renamed to clarify the meaning of the trope using an English term.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny was formerly "Zero Wingrish", but the TropeNamer was actually an ''unintentional'' bad translation.
* IntendedAudienceReaction was originally "They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste", an awkward snowclone of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot, to which it had no relation.
* InterruptedCooldownHug was renamed from "Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary" in order to clarify the trope's meaning and to rid it of a unnecessary character-named title.
* IntoxicationEnsues was formerly named "Lemon Wacky Hello" after an opiate-laced candy from ''JustShootMe'' Changed because it was non-indicative, an obscure WordSaladTitle, and could be confused with {{Hello}} tropes.
* InUniverseCamera was once "First Person Camera"; this changed because FirstPersonCamera better describes POVCam (and, indeed, now redirects there).
* InventedIndividual was "The Ernest". It was supposed to refer to a character from ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', but it was myopic and unclear, and the trope was suffering for it.
* InvincibilityPowerUp used to be "Super Star", but it was renamed due to the word superstar having a different meaning, a successful performer or athlete.
* InvincibleHero was once named "Boring Invincible Hero". Renamed to sound more neutral.
* InVinoVeritas was formerly "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels". Renamed for being a little too complex, especially with a handy widely-known ancient phrase available.
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation was once "Thank You Mister Evil". Renamed from StockPhrase.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit was renamed from "Rocks Fall Party Splits" in order to clarify that it's about all sorts of obstacles, not just rocks.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter used to be called "Involuntary Shapeshifting", but the term was frequently misused for any arbitrary transformation (e.g: BalefulPolymorph) instead of a {{Shapeshifter}} who has no control over their own transformations.
* IReadItForTheArticles used to be known as "I Watch It for the Economics", at least partly based off a [[MemeticMutation online meme]] that arose from the anime ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf''. The original name was not general enough to describe the trope, though, hence the change. It helps that the current name is also a meme, but one much older and more widespread.
* UsefulNotes/IQTesting was once "You Fail the IQ Test". The actual trope has since been split into ImprobablyHighIQ and ImprobablyLowIQ.
* ItGetsBetter used to be "Get on with It Already". Renamed because the original name is solely indicative of pacing problems, and not the specific type of pacing problem the trope is about.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest used to be "Take This". Was renamed due to "take this" being a StockPhrase.
* ItsBeenDone used to be known as "The Simpsons Did It", named after an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' which deals with this trope. It was renamed because the trope seemed to be affiliated with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' exclusively.
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* JackOfAllStats was "The Mario", after Mario's tendency to be a JackOfAllStats in his spinoff games. It was renamed because this is not a trait Mario is particularly well-known for, it didn't catch on outside TVTropes as much as other CompetitiveBalance tropes and people were mistaking it for a generic "Jack of All Trades" trope without CompetitiveBalance context.
* JadedWashout was "Al Bundy", but it was renamed because [[MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]] is known for more than just what the trope is about and how Al Bundy may be unfamiliar to many people.
* JapaneseSchoolClub used to be "Club President", even though the trope was almost entirely about the clubs themselves and not the president in particular.
* JustTrainWrong was "Did Not Choo the Research": "Choo" wasn't clearly evoking trains for all readers (not to mention that it just sounded dumb). The replacement title has "train" and "wrong": errors depicting trains.
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* KarmicThief was renamed from Half Robin Hood, because the latter was prematurely launched with a poor name and few examples.
* KarmicTrickster used to be "Bugs Bunny", after the most famous example. Out of 292 BugsBunny wicks, roughly 240 were intended specifically as links to the BugsBunny character article but wrongly directed to the KarmicTrickster article.
* KarmicTwistEnding was formerly "Twilight Zone Twist". It was renamed because that type of ending wasn't the only one ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' was known for and to make it parallel to CruelTwistEnding.
* {{Kiai}} was "Wryyyyyy" until someone noticed that it was impossible to remember how many "Y's" there were in the word (there are six).
* KidAppealCharacter was originally "The Bumblebee", after the ''{{Transformers}}'' character. Renamed for being a character-named trope.
* KlutzTheSurgeon was renamed from "Mulligan the Headsman" because the meanings of Mulligan and Headsman are not quite as obvious as Klutz and Surgeon to most people.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll was formerly "The Clavin", after the ''{{Cheers}}'' character.
* KnuckleCracking was renamed from "Cracking Up" in order to discourage misuse for the other meanings of Cracking Up and to clarify the trope.
* KudzuPlot used to be separate from "Claremont Coefficient", named for ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' writer Chris Claremont, who left so many plot threads dangling, for so long, that many had to be resolved by other writers after he left.
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo was renamed from "Are You My Mummy" in order to clarify the meaning of the trope that would otherwise be difficult to figure out if one was not familiar with the ''Series/DoctorWho'' reference in its first name.
* FakeShemp was originally "Invisible Darrin", but it wasn't much of an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]], so it changed to an already existing ThreeStooges-related term.
* FakeUltimateMook was originally "Level 5 Onix" from ''{{Pokemon}}''; changed for FanMyopia concerns. The picture is still about the former trope namer, however.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms was originally "Where Did They Get Lasers" -- changed since the trope is not just about lasers.
* FamousFamousFictional was "Newton Einstein Surak". It was renamed because nothing indicated that Surak is a fictional person.
* FamilyRivalry was renamed from "Family Feud" because the original name was also the name of [[Series/FamilyFeud a TV series]], and literally all incoming links were in reference to the TV series.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop was originally "Warped Aesop", and its scope narrowed considerably from the original "Aesop [[AC:That's BAD]]" meaning. The former name lives on in DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop.
* FanFlattering was renamed from "Our Fans Are Better" because the old title looked like dialogue and was a bad snowclone off of the "[[OurTropesAreDifferent Our X Are Different]]" family.
* FanPreferredCouple used to be called "Better than Canon", and was "Sasami Syndrome" (after ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'') before that. The reason for renaming from Sasami Syndrome is because it was advocating a specific opinion that a lot of people just didn't agree with (plus had some incest/pedophilia {{Squick}} to it in some continuities), while the rename from BetterThanCanon was because it was both suggesting fault in the creators while also sounding vague enough to just be any fan talking about how they can supposedly make something better (which is what the current page is about).
* FangThpeak was originally titled "Whedon'th Thyndrome", which was changed after it was noted that JossWhedon didn't really have anything to do with what it was about.
* FauxAffablyEvil was "Evilly Affable". Renamed to help avoid confusion with AffablyEvil.
* FauxHorrific was originally "What Do You Mean, It's Not Horrific?" Renamed to get away from the overdone [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex What Do You Mean, It's Not X?]] snowclone family.
* FauxSymbolism used to be called "What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic?", which caused problems with being easily interpreted as the opposite of the actual trope and fueling mere complaining about symbolism you don't like.
* FavouritismFlipFlop was formerly "Appeal to Libido". The fact that it's hard to tell that the two names were even for the same trope is a big part of the change reason.
* FearOfThunder was formerly known as "Thundraphobia", which is a portmanteau but not a real word. (The actual phobia is "Tonitrophobia", but who could ever remember that?)
* FeaturelessProtagonist was "AFGNCAAP". It was renamed because the old name was an impenetrable and hard-to-remember acronym.
* FeedItABomb was renamed from "Dodongo Dislikes Smoke" from being work/fandom dependent and being misleading.
* FictionAsCoverUp was originally "Masquerainment", an opaque {{portmanteau}} of "masquerade" and "entertainment". A name like this is impossible to search for, and as a result it saw severe underuse.
* FighterLaunchingSequence used to be "Take Off Every Zig", a too-obscure reference to the game ''ZeroWing''.
* FightingAShadow was renamed from "Projected Avatar" because people were confusing it with generic cases of GodInHumanForm and/or AFormYouAreComfortableWith and/or a generic {{Avatar}} trope.
* FightUnscene was changed from "Audience Sucker Punch" for sounding like it was referring to something completely different.
* FilmingForEasyDub was renamed from "Don't Look at the Camera" to make it clearer that the trope is about mouths being hidden from view.
* TheFinalTemptation was renamed from "The Last Temptation" to separate it from the work of the same name.
* FingerInTheMail was renamed from "Mary Kelly's Kidney", an obscure detail from one of JackTheRipper's murders.
* FiringOneHanded was formerly "One Handed Is Cool", but was renamed because it was vague and was being used to refer to [[OneHandedZweihander using two-handed swords with one hand]].
* FirstPersonSnapshooter was formerly the overly-vague "Amateur Photographer"
* FirstNameBasis was originally "Call Me Little Washuu" (another ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' reference).
* FiveSecondForeshadowing started life as "One Second Later", in reference to the information in the foreshadowing being relevant soon afterwards. Changed to say what it means more directly.
* FixedDamageAttack was once "One Thousand Needles", a reference to a fixed damage attack in ''FinalFantasy'' that was opaque to a general audience.
* FleetingDemographicRule is a merge of "Seven Year Rule" and NOHAMOTYO, since those two referred to this phenomenon in professional wrestling and other media, respectively.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome was "Flowers for Algernon", renamed for being a work.
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne was originally called "I Sense a Disturbance in the Force", but it was misused in between 40% and 60% of cases to mean either a reference to that scene in ''StarWars'', or for when someone senses that something has gone horribly wrong. "I Sense a Disturbance in the Force" is now a redirect to MySignificanceSenseIsTingling.
* ForgotTheCall used to be "I Am Kirok" after a ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode. It was renamed because it was obtuse, unsearchable, and apparently not even an example.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe used to be "Forgotten Childhood Friend". The old name hardly implied that it defined a type of villain.
* ForkliftFu was "He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift" after a line from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Renamed because the old name sounded like a line of dialogue.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch used to be "Libby My Old Friend". After The Libby was renamed, the snowclone title no longer made sense.
* TheFourLoves used to be "I Just Want to Be Loved", but the original was more a dialogue than a trope name. The new name also denotes the fact that the trope is no longer just specific to romance.
* FramedForHeroism was "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". It was renamed because it conflicted with the page for [[Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance the film of the same name]].
* FreudianTrio was originally "Power Trio", which is now a SuperTrope encompassing all {{ensembles}} with 3 persons.
* FrictionlessReentry used to be "No Kind of Atmosphere", after a ''Series/RedDwarf'' lyric. Changed for being too generalized to connect with the intended trope.
* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin used to be "Playful Dolphin". It was renamed to make it a little broader.
* FromACertainPointOfView used to be "Jedi Truth". Renamed to make the reference more direct, and thus the meaning clearer. JediTruth is now a redirect to HalfTruth.
* FullCircleRevolution was once "The Thermidor", probably as a reference to some aspects of the French revolutionary government's behavior once in power. Not helped by the Thermidorian Reaction being the most common meaning of The Thermidor -- something which was the opposite of the trope.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial was known as "Soylent Soy", a muddled snowclone of Soylent Green. The "soy" part was redundant and the cannibalism connotations were just misleading.
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* GambitIndex was originally "Xanatos Planned This Index". The name was changed because not everyone knows ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', where the character Xanatos hails from. In addition, several tropes under GambitIndex used to have Xanatos in their names as well, and tropers are concerned that an excessive number of Xanatos-named tropes can lead to the TropeDecay of XanatosGambit by overuse of the Xanatos meme causing it to become a byword for EvilPlan or a generic ThePlan rather than a distinct trope of its own.
** GambitPileup was originally "Thirty Xanatos Pileup". That was renamed because Gambit Pileup doesn't have to include gambits of which lead to success no matter what the other person tries.
** GambitRoulette was "Xanatos Roulette".
** SpannerInTheWorks was formerly "Xanatos Gilligan", changed for being for being rather impenetrable without considerable prior knowledge of the site and being vague with it.
** ThanatosGambit was "Xanatos Funeral".
** UnwittingPawn was "Xanatos Sucker".
* GameFavoredGender was originally called "Minus Four Strength" after a particularly non-intuitive ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' meme.
* GameplayRoulette was originally called "Genre Roulette". Renamed because the use of Genre made it sound much broader than was intended; it's a trope specifically about gameplay styles in video games, but the title gave no indication that it's specifically about video games, or that meaning of "genre".
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga was renamed from Gaming Anime since it wasn't Anime-only and because sports and games aren't included into each other.
* {{Gaslighting}} used to be called "Insanity Ploy", but it was renamed when it was given a top-to-bottom rewrite. It is now named after the literary term.
* GenderBlendingTropes was renamed from Trans Gender Tropes as it wasn't about transgenderism.
* TheGenericGuy was originally "The Freddy", which referred to the Freddy from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', not the one from ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' or the one from ''Series/ICarly''. No prizes for guessing why it was changed...
* The GenteelInterbellumSetting used to be "Christie Time", but was changed since not everybody has read enough Agatha Christie to get the reference.
* GenuineHumanHide was formerly "Cruelty Rich Leather", but was renamed for clarity.
* GloriousMotherRussia was originally "In Soviet Russia Trope Mocks You". Usage just to make Yakov Smirnoff jokes led to them being separated, the former to fictional portrayals of Russia, the latter for the original joke.
* GodsHandsAreTied was formerly titled "The Gods Must Be Lazy"...
* ...and TheGodsMustBeLazy was formerly titled "God's Hands Are Tied". Two separate articles, whose titles were switched because they'd somehow originally been titled backwards. Apparently, the article now known as GodsHandsAreTied was written first, and was given a punny title rather than a thoroughly accurate one. And then whoever wrote the article now known as TheGodsMustBeLazy was simply unaware of the other article's existence.
* TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Golden Age". It was renamed because not only are there golden ages for other media, but there were also references to the concept of a GoldenAge independent of comic books.
* GoLookAtTheDistraction was formerly known as "Crummies", after a phrase which induced this reaction in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Renamed for being thoroughly unintuitive.
* GoodColorsEvilColors was previously known as "Color-Coded for Your Convenience". However, the latter was used in many different ways and then it became a supertrope for it.
* GratuitousAnimalSidekick was renamed from "Wonder Dog" because it was being misused for HeroicDog, because the TropeNamer is not really an example, and because that usage of WonderDog is much narrower than its normal meaning.
* GratuitousDiscoSequence was intially launched as "Everything's Funkier with Disco"; it was renamed as part of the general effort to get ride of "Everything's Better with" snowclones.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter was "Pardon Me, Stewardess, I Speak Iambic Pentameter". The old name was too long ''and'' an unnecessary ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', which doesn't even have any examples of the trope (though it does have its "Pardon me, I speak [[JiveTurkey Jive]]" moment).
* GreatBigBookOfEverything used to be "Book of Shadows" which sounds just like a TomeOfEldritchLore. To understand the title the reader needed to know that there was a book of that name in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' and recall it contained an vast amount of oddly pertinent information.
* GreatGazoo was originally TheOzmodiar, renamed because Ozmodiar was a one-shot joke Gazoo ripoff.
* GreenEyedEpiphany was once "Skater Boy Syndrome" since the trope appears in a AvrilLavigne song. It gave no information to non-fans and the song isn't a typical example, with a nonstandard viewpoint and outcome. The new title features jealousy and realisation.
* GuiltByAssociationGag was originally named "Did Not Eat the Mousse" after ''MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''.
* GunshipRescue used to be called "Big Damn Gunship", since it was related to BigDamnHeroes. Was changed since people thought it was literally about big gunships.
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* HairDecorations was originally "Every Girl Is Cuter with Hair Decs". Renamed because it sounded too similar to the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* HairTriggerTemper was once "The Pesci" after the actor JoePesci who famously played characters with {{Hair Trigger Temper}}s in ''{{Goodfellas}}'' and ''{{Casino}}''. In both cases, there were maiming and death that isn't essential to the trope. Those who didn't get the reference or got the wrong reference from one of his other roles weren't informed as to the nature of the trope.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch used to be called "From Dusk Til Dawn" [sic] after [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn the film of the same name]]. It was changed to reclaim the title for the actual film.
* HandCannon was changed from "Really Big Gun" to point out that it is by definition a one-handed weapon, even if it's as powerful as a {{BFG}}.
* HappyEndingOverride was previously named "What Were We Fighting For?", but was renamed for being non-indicative and leading to misuse about people with unclear goals. What Were We Fighting For? is now a redirect to WasItReallyWorthIt.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl was known as "Bottle Fairy" but was changed due to the name being unclear and could be easily confused for a literal bottled fairy or the anime, ''Anime/BottleFairy''. The trope was also getting misuse for any girl that drank or partied regardless rather it actually fit the trope's description.
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight was once called "The Krusty" after the character from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
* {{Headdesk}} was "Wall Bang"; renamed for {{Headdesk}} being the more common term for the concept, as well as to avoid confusion with DarthWiki/WallBanger.
* HeadInTheSandManagement was "The Chamberlain", and was renamed both due to the trope namer not being an example, and "Chamberlain" being vague enough that it could refer to more than one person besides NevilleChamberlain.
* {{Headscratchers}} was once known as "Just Bugs Me". Renamed to make it clear that it's about "About what happens there" instead of "I can't believe X is that stupid".
* HeartwarmingMoments was once "Crowning Moment of Heartwarming". Renamed due to definition drift.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing was once "Heel Face Mind Screw", but changed because "Heel Face Mind Screw"... is not a MindScrew.
* HeroicPetStory was "Heroic Pet", generating misuse as a character type rather than the genre.
* HeroOfAnotherStory was originally "Colonel Makepeace", after the ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' character. It was renamed because the name was confusing to anyone who hadn't seen the show and many people who had.
* HeroicSecondWind used to be "My Name Is Inigo Montoya", but now they're separate tropes.
* HeroismIncentive was formerly "Would You Do It for a Scooby Snack?", but was renamed for being non-indicative and creating misuse of the trope for ComicallySmallBribe.
* HesJustHiding used to be known as [[spoiler:"Dumbledore Lives"]]. Both are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' references, but the latter one is a considerably more blatant spoiler.
* HighSchoolHustler was once "Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller". It was renamed since the old title was too long, depended on people getting the references, didn't have as much immediate meaning, and didn't work as well in a sentence. In part, it replaces potholes redirecting "high school hustler" to the old title.
* HilariousInHindsight used to be "Reverse Funny Aneurysm" (derivative of another ''Buffy'' reference, FunnyAneurysmMoment).
** As was HarsherInHindsight, which used to be "Unfunny Aneurysm Moment". (Both had been changed to avoid confusion between the types.)
* HolidayMode used to be "Christmas Mode", but was being mistaken for a Christmas-specific feature, and was underused.
* HollerButton was "Press X to Jason", a meme from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Changed [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=dee3rk0jihjuc4wzfavw0800&page=1 by consensus]] for being obtuse and not well defined.
* HollywoodNewEngland used to be "Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah", corruption of a standard "spot a New England accent" phrase. Changed because it was possibly too difficult to spell or remember.
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders was "Personality Disorders". The rename is to make it clear it's part of the Hollywood family of tropes.
* HollywoodTourettes was once called "Tourettes Shit Cock Syndrome", which itself was renamed from "Tourettes Fucking [[CountryMatters Cunt]] Syndrome". The reasoning behind both renames should be obvious.
* HolyBurnsEvil was named "It Burns", leading to a lot of misuse as a StockPhrase or confusion with WeakenedByTheLight. It was also named by the ''TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'', so getting the reference was dependent on either playing the games or watching {{YouTube Poop}}s.
* HomosexualReproduction used to be "Lesbian Mouse Babies". It was changed for being too obtuse.
* HonestJohnsDealership was formerly a subtrope of "CMOT Dibbler" (named for a character from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''). Dibbler was put up for rename because it's unintuitive for anyone who hasn't read ''Discworld''. The rename discussion led to both tropes being merged under the Honest John name.
* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy was once "Washington Gambit" after the story of GeorgeWashington and the cherry tree. Washington was known for many things, honesty being only one: this gambit could have been a wartime strategy. Others thought it referred to federal politics, and honesty isn't the first association.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold used to be known as "Pretty Woman", after [[PrettyWoman the film of the same name]]. Changed for being a work title, and for being non-indicative if the right connection wasn't made.
* HopelessSuitor used to be called "The Daisuke". It was renamed because: [[Anime/GhostInTheShell There's]] [[Manga/KodomoNoJikan more]] [[Manga/DNAngel than]] [[Anime/HeatGuyJ one]] [[Manga/LupinIII Daisuke]] [[Manga/{{X1999}} in]] anime, it was a "The X" title, and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 The Daisuke in question]] was named Davis in the English dub. The Davis was suggested as one of the alternative names, but this was shot down for still being a "The X" title.
* HotbloodedSideburns was "Go Nagai Sideburns". It was renamed, because not everybody knows what a GoNagai is (The creator who popularized this trope).
* HotMom and HotDad were both originally "Hot Shonen Mom" and "Hot Shojo Dad", but were renamed to make the title shorter, and because the trope names were made to seem anime-exclusive tropes.
* HotPaintJob used to be "Everything's Hotter with Flames". Renamed since the previous title wasn't specific enough, plus it was named according to the discredited and unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* HubLevel was previously "The Hub", but was renamed in order to not conflict with Hasbro's TheHub, a TV network.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters was "Humans Are Bastards" but was renamed due to continuous misuse.
* HumansAreWhite used to be "Least Common Skin Tone", but was renamed because the original title was a snowclone that was unclear and led to misuse of the trope outside of its specific definition of people who are white being dominant for no real reason in futuristic, fantasy, and alternate universe settings.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame was "The Most Dangerous Game". ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame'' now applies to the work.
* HyperCompetentSidekick was formerly "The Radar". It was renamed not only because it was an obtuse reference to ''Series/{{Mash}}'', but also because it was rather misleading, as "radar" is a rather generic noun.
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* IconicCharacterForgottenTitle was renamed from "Reverse Shazam" in order to clarify the trope's meaning.
* IdentityAmnesia was formerly named "The Chazz" after an incident on ''CharlesInCharge''. Besides just being really opaque and obscure, it was also misspelled.
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam was expanded from just "Green Eggs and Ham" to avoid confusion with the work.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance was previously "King of Pointland", named after the work ''{{Flatland}}''.
* IgnoredExpert was renamed from "The Jor-El" to clarify the trope and because the former name was a work-specific and character-named trope title.
* IgnoreTheDisability was "Sammy's Glass Eye", after a scene in ''AllInTheFamily''. Sammy, for Sammy Davis, Jr. has no relevance, it's all in the glass eye. But that still didn't convey the idea that it is trying to leave someone's disability[[hottip:*:or a similarly taboo topic related to a personal attribute, such as a very large nose]] out of a conversation (then making an embarrassing slip.)
* ILetGwenStacyDie once simply was "The Gwen Stacy". Changed because a) it's a character name and b) the trope, as the current name says, is about letting her die, not about the living Gwen Stacy.
* ImAHumanitarian used to be "Soylent Green Is People". This may confuse people who don't get the former joke.
* ImMelting used to be "What a World, What a World!"; it was changed because the original name [[ItMakesSenseInContext needed context in order to make sense]]. The new name comes from the same quote; specifically, the part with the context.
* ImminentDangerClue was originally named The Telltale Drapes, and then renamed, cut, and then sent back to YKTTW ''twice'' before being launched under a much clearer name.
* ImmortalitySeeker was renamed from "So You Want to Live Forever" in order to make it clear that the trope was about a character archetype rather than a SoYouWantTo page.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure was originally "Hourglass Hottie". Renamed because the old name led to misuse for any woman with an hourglass figure.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail was renamed from "Imposter Jamie Has No Accent" to avoid using a name that was work-specific and to help encourage uses of the trope that feature more than just accents.
* ImprobableAntidote was briefly "Baigar Is the Antidote".
* ImprobablyFemaleCast was "Pink Bishōjo Ghetto" for a very long time. Anyone who didn't know what the word "bishōjo" meant wouldn't understand the title. On top of that, it was a poor snowclone of the term "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ghetto pink ghetto]]", which aside from being a fairly obscure term to begin with, the actual definition of "pink ghetto" is the ''opposite'' of what the trope is about.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms was renamed from "I Know That Gun" in order to clarify the trope's meaning and decrease misuse for trivia and examples of prop guns being based on real guns.
* InactionSequence was formerly known as "Not So Fast", but it was easy to confuse with the mostly unrelated "Not So Fast Bucko" (which has itself since been merged with YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle). Spent some time as Midstrike Monologue in between.
* InadvertentEntranceCue was "Something Wicked This Way Comes" but it was being confused with the novel.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog used to be "Helicopter Sounds" after a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' scene. It was changed because the trope has nothing to do with helicopters nor sounds and the ''Friends'' reference itself didn't quite fit.
* IncestSubtext used to be "Incest Yay". Renamed due to [[ThatCameOutWrong sounding just plain wrong]] if you didn't recognize it as a bad snowclone of HoYay.
* InexplicablyAwesome was "The Frizzle". It was renamed due to being a character-named trope whose name was causing a great deal of confusion over what it actually meant.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals was originally "Nurse Jenny". Renamed due to its obscurity to anyone outside of the fandom (especially since it was actually a portmanteau of two ''different'' characters) and the misleading link to the various Nurse tropes.
* InfiniteOneUps was "One Up Sampo". There was slim to zero chance the reader would know one of the many, many meanings of the word "sampo" in ancient Finnish mythology is "mill".
* InformedObscenity was formerly "Snugglebunnies", after a gag in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', which was too obscure.
* InnocentProdigy was renamed from "The Linus" since there are a number of possible character traits associated with [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus]] that are outside the specific definition of that trope.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode was "Midnight on the Firing Line" after the name of an episode in ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' which was an example. Outside that audience the phrase was opaque.
* TheInsomniac was originally "No Rest for the Wicked" -- a phrase that usually refers to people with a guilty conscience. The new name indicates it is all insomniacs, not just wicked ones.
* InspectorLestrade is a clarifying expansion of the original title, "Lestrade".
* InstantChucks was once "Sword Chucks", from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. SwordChucks was MixAndMatchWeapon [[TheSameButMoreSpecific but with only two weapons]], but since ninety percents of examples were about ridiculous things made into nunchucks just by sticking a chain inbetween, it became specifically about that, with the title change to boot
* InstantWinCondition used to be "The Enemy Gate Is Down", after the quote from ''Literature/EndersGame''. Renamed because it doesn't necessarily relate to enemies, gates, or gates being down. Also, "down" referred to the direction, not "[[ItsGoingDown going down]]".
* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny was previously "Trahison des Clercs", but was renamed to clarify the meaning of the trope using an English term.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny was formerly "Zero Wingrish", but the TropeNamer was actually an ''unintentional'' bad translation.
* IntendedAudienceReaction was originally "They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste", an awkward snowclone of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot, to which it had no relation.
* InterruptedCooldownHug was renamed from "Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary" in order to clarify the trope's meaning and to rid it of a unnecessary character-named title.
* IntoxicationEnsues was formerly named "Lemon Wacky Hello" after an opiate-laced candy from ''JustShootMe'' Changed because it was non-indicative, an obscure WordSaladTitle, and could be confused with {{Hello}} tropes.
* InUniverseCamera was once "First Person Camera"; this changed because FirstPersonCamera better describes POVCam (and, indeed, now redirects there).
* InventedIndividual was "The Ernest". It was supposed to refer to a character from ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'', but it was myopic and unclear, and the trope was suffering for it.
* InvincibilityPowerUp used to be "Super Star", but it was renamed due to the word superstar having a different meaning, a successful performer or athlete.
* InvincibleHero was once named "Boring Invincible Hero". Renamed to sound more neutral.
* InVinoVeritas was formerly "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels". Renamed for being a little too complex, especially with a handy widely-known ancient phrase available.
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation was once "Thank You Mister Evil". Renamed from StockPhrase.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit was renamed from "Rocks Fall Party Splits" in order to clarify that it's about all sorts of obstacles, not just rocks.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter used to be called "Involuntary Shapeshifting", but the term was frequently misused for any arbitrary transformation (e.g: BalefulPolymorph) instead of a {{Shapeshifter}} who has no control over their own transformations.
* IReadItForTheArticles used to be known as "I Watch It for the Economics", at least partly based off a [[MemeticMutation online meme]] that arose from the anime ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf''. The original name was not general enough to describe the trope, though, hence the change. It helps that the current name is also a meme, but one much older and more widespread.
* UsefulNotes/IQTesting was once "You Fail the IQ Test". The actual trope has since been split into ImprobablyHighIQ and ImprobablyLowIQ.
* ItGetsBetter used to be "Get on with It Already". Renamed because the original name is solely indicative of pacing problems, and not the specific type of pacing problem the trope is about.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest used to be "Take This". Was renamed due to "take this" being a StockPhrase.
* ItsBeenDone used to be known as "The Simpsons Did It", named after an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' which deals with this trope. It was renamed because the trope seemed to be affiliated with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' exclusively.
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* JackOfAllStats was "The Mario", after Mario's tendency to be a JackOfAllStats in his spinoff games. It was renamed because this is not a trait Mario is particularly well-known for, it didn't catch on outside TVTropes as much as other CompetitiveBalance tropes and people were mistaking it for a generic "Jack of All Trades" trope without CompetitiveBalance context.
* JadedWashout was "Al Bundy", but it was renamed because [[MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]] is known for more than just what the trope is about and how Al Bundy may be unfamiliar to many people.
* JapaneseSchoolClub used to be "Club President", even though the trope was almost entirely about the clubs themselves and not the president in particular.
* JustTrainWrong was "Did Not Choo the Research": "Choo" wasn't clearly evoking trains for all readers (not to mention that it just sounded dumb). The replacement title has "train" and "wrong": errors depicting trains.
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* KarmicThief was renamed from Half Robin Hood, because the latter was prematurely launched with a poor name and few examples.
* KarmicTrickster used to be "Bugs Bunny", after the most famous example. Out of 292 BugsBunny wicks, roughly 240 were intended specifically as links to the BugsBunny character article but wrongly directed to the KarmicTrickster article.
* KarmicTwistEnding was formerly "Twilight Zone Twist". It was renamed because that type of ending wasn't the only one ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' was known for and to make it parallel to CruelTwistEnding.
* {{Kiai}} was "Wryyyyyy" until someone noticed that it was impossible to remember how many "Y's" there were in the word (there are six).
* KidAppealCharacter was originally "The Bumblebee", after the ''{{Transformers}}'' character. Renamed for being a character-named trope.
* KlutzTheSurgeon was renamed from "Mulligan the Headsman" because the meanings of Mulligan and Headsman are not quite as obvious as Klutz and Surgeon to most people.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll was formerly "The Clavin", after the ''{{Cheers}}'' character.
* KnuckleCracking was renamed from "Cracking Up" in order to discourage misuse for the other meanings of Cracking Up and to clarify the trope.
* KudzuPlot used to be separate from "Claremont Coefficient", named for ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' writer Chris Claremont, who left so many plot threads dangling, for so long, that many had to be resolved by other writers after he left.
