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1	[[JustForFun/LousyAlternateTitles Alternate title]]: [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex What Do You Mean,]] {{Our\|TropesAreDifferent}} UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} [[DidYouJustIndexCthulhu and Cthulhu]] [[OurTropesAreDifferent Are Different]], [[ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes So Screw The]] [[SortingAlgorithmOfTropes Sliding Scale of]] [[WhatMeasureIsAnIndex What Measure Is]] [[GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience Good and Evil]] TrueArt [[SortingAlgorithmOfTropes vs.]] [[ThisIndexWillBeImportantLater Chekhov's]] {{Nightmare\|Fuel}} [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum]]! [[GarnishingTheStory Everything's Better with]] [[AdverblyAdjectiveNoun Adverbly Adjective]] {{Hollywood\|Style}}-{{Gambit\|Index}} [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of]] {{Doom\|yDoomsOfDoom}} [[InDexMachina Ex Machina]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]] [[AC:([[Justforfun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPAAAAACEE!!!!]])]]
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3	It's a fairly common practice in the wiki to make puns based on pre-existing trope titles. Outside of this wiki, this is called a "snowclone", where in a sentence "X is the new Y", anything the speaker wants to use can be substituted for X and Y.
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5	The term "snowclone" originated on [[http://languagelog.com Language Log]], from multiple examples of people claiming "[Culture X] has [Y] words for [concept Z.]" based on the statement that "Eskimos have 50 words for snow."
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7	But very often, this new trope will have nothing whatsoever to do with its namesake. ([[Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones And that's bad]].)
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9	The Title Bin was the place where silly wordplay used to go if it couldn't be justified by the trope description, as more creative ways of Administrivia/NamingATrope should be used. It was eventually deleted as too few of the entries displayed any actual humor.
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11	See also Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones for more reasons that you ''shouldn't'' name tropes this way.
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13	!!Index of Snowclones:
14	[[index]]
15	* AdaptationDeviation (Adaptational X)
16	* AdverblyAdjectiveNoun
17	* AnimeReality
18	* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge (from ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge)
19	* ArtisticLicense
20	* From BizarreAlienBiology:
21	** BizarreAlienLimbs
22	** BizarreAlienLocomotion
23	** BizarreAlienPsychology
24	** BizarreAlienReproduction
25	** BizarreAlienSenses
26	** BizarreAlienSexes
27	* BloodIsSquickerInWater
28	* From ButNotTooBlack:
29	** ButNotTooBi
30	** ButNotTooChallenging
31	** ButNotTooEvil
32	** ButNotTooForeign
33	** ButNotTooGay
34	** ButNotTooWhite
35	* DidYouJustIndexCthulhu
36	* DoomyDoomsOfDoom
37	* FairyDevilmother (from FairyGodmother)
38	* FooFu
39	* From GarnishingTheStory:
40	** EverythingsBetterWithX
41	** GratuitousX
42	* GodKartingWithBeelzebub (from GoKartingWithBowser)
43	* GoodAndEvilForYourConvenience
44	* HeelFaceIndex
45	* HollywoodStyle
46	* HumansAreIndexed
47	* IndExMachina
48	* JustForFun/IndexName
49	* IndexOfTheWeek
50	* InfauxmationDesk (from InformationDesk)
51	* LiteralMoneyMetaphor
52	* MacGuffinSnowclones
53	* MadeOfIndex
54	* From MoralEventHorizon (X Is a Special Kind of Evil):
55	** ChildAbuseIsASpecialKindOfEvil
56	** HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil
57	** KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil
58	** RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
59	** SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil
60	** TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil
61	* NiceJobBreakingItHerod (from NiceJobBreakingItHero)
62	* NoBadgeNoProblem (from NoPlotNoProblem)
63	* NoExportForYou (from ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'''s "no soup for you" {{meme}})
64	** BadExportForYou
65	** BetterExportForYou
66	** LateExportForYou
67	** NoDubForYou
68	* OurTropesAreDifferent
69	** OurMonstersAreDifferent
70	* ThePowerOfIndex
71	* PunkPunk
72	* RealAwardFictionalCharacter (from RealTrailerFakeMovie)
73	* RevolutionariesWhoDontDoAnything (from ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything)
74	* RuleOfIndex
75	* ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes
76	* SettingGimmicks (Kitchen Sinks / World of X)
77	* SortingAlgorithmOfTropes (Mohs Scales / Sliding Scales)
78	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong (from SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute)
79	* ThatOneIndex
80	* "This Index" Indices
81	** ThisIndexBarks -- tropes about dogs
82	** ThisIndexBlows -- tropes about air and wind
83	** ThisIndexBrokeUp -- tropes about break-ups
84	** ThisIndexDoesNotExist -- tropes on existence
85	** ThisIndexEarth -- tropes about earth
86	** ThisIndexFightsDirty -- tropes about fighting dirty
87	** ThisIndexGlows -- tropes about light, glowing, or illumination
88	** "This Index Has" Indices
89	*** ThisIndexHappenedOffscreen -- tropes about things that happened offscreen
90	*** ThisIndexHasAMindOfItsOwn -- tropes about 'living' inanimate objects
91	*** ThisIndexHasAPoint -- tropes about characters that make a good point
92	*** ThisIndexHasHadAHardLife -- tropes about characters who have had a hard life
93	*** ThisIndexHasLeftTheBuilding -- tropes about character exits
94	*** ThisIndexHasMagicProperties -- tropes about magic items and their properties
95	*** ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage -- tropes about massive damage attacks or weak-point exploitation
96	** "This Index Is" Indices
97	*** ThisIndexIsABitch -- tropes about antagonistic or villainous women
98	*** ThisIndexIsAClue -- tropes about clues
99	*** ThisIndexIsAnachronistic -- tropes about anachronisms
100	*** ThisIndexIsAJoke -- tropes about jokes
101	*** ThisIndexIsARealPain -- tropes about pain
102	*** ThisIndexIsBrown -- tropes about brown things
103	*** ThisIndexIsCopypasted -- tropes about copycats
104	*** ThisIndexIsCursed -- tropes about curses
105	*** ThisIndexIsExpendable -- tropes about the expendable
106	*** ThisIndexIsHavingACowMan -- tropes about cows
107	*** ThisIndexIsInTheWay -- tropes about object, place, and character obstacles and methods
108	*** ThisIndexIsNotAnExample -- tropes with names that differ from their meanings
109	*** ThisIndexIsNotMyGirlfriend -- tropes about insisting characters are not in a relationship
110	*** ThisIndexIsNotToScale -- tropes about the scale of things in real life
111	*** ThisIndexIsOnFire -- tropes about fire or combustion
112	*** ThisIndexIsOnPurpose -- tropes about deliberate authorial choices
113	*** ThisIndexIsReadyToRumble -- tropes about boxing, fists, or fistfights
114	*** ThisIndexIsStuck -- tropes about being stuck somewhere or with something/someone
115	*** ThisIndexIsUseless -- tropes about things that are useless in fiction though probably not RealLife
116	*** ThisIndexIsUnstoppable -- tropes on characters who are tough to stop or slow down
117	*** ThisIndexIsNotLikeHisFamily -- tropes about familial differences
118	** ThisIndexKnowsKungFu -- tropes about InUniverse martial arts
119	** ThisIndexKnowsWhatItsTalkingAbout -- tropes about experts in their fields of knowledge
120	** ThisIndexMeansTrouble -- tropes that almost always lead to conflict
121	** ThisIndexMeows -- tropes about cats
122	** ThisIndexQuacks -- tropes about waterfowl
123	** ThisIndexTouchesItself -- tropes about masturbation
124	** ThisIndexWillBeImportantLater (ChekhovsTropes) -- tropes about foreshadowing
125	** ThisIndexWillKillYou -- tropes about things that can injure or kill
126	** ThisIndexWillLiveForever -- tropes about immortality and cheating death
127	* ThisTropeIsX
128	* ATroperIsYou
129	* TropesOnABus
130	* TropeyTheWonderDog
131	* JustForFun/TVTropesHowToGuides
132	* WeWillNotUseAnIndexInTheFuture
133	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex
134	* WhatMeasureIsAnIndex
135	* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame (from the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' ThemeSong, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name")
136	* WingsDoNothing (from GogglesDoNothing)
137	* WithGreatPower Comes Great X:
138	** WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness
139	** WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
140	** WithGreatPowerComesGreatOpposition
141	** WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks
142	** WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility
143	[[/index]]

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