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13* AbandonShipping used to be "Abandon Ship". It was mistaken for cases of abandonment of actual, maritime ships instead of {{Shipping}}. The old name was [[AbandonShip reused for a new trope]] reflecting the more common usage.
14* AbridgedForChildren used to be "Dropped Abridged on It", an obscure {{snowclone|s}} of DroppedABridgeOnHim. Since the tropes were not otherwise related, the former trope suffered from underuse.
15* AbstractApotheosis used to be "Becoming Hope", a reference to ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Not only was it obtuse, it was also too specific (the trope includes turning into abstract concepts other than hope, like hate or love) and kind of a {{spoiler}}.
16* AccidentalNightmareFuel used to be just "Nightmare Fuel", and what we now call NightmareFuel was "High Octane Nightmare Fuel" (and even before that "Nightmare Fuel Unleaded"). The former trope is for things that are unintentionally scary, and the latter for things that are ''intentionally'' scary. But plain old "Nightmare Fuel", meant for the former, suffered Administrivia/TropeDecay and became used for the latter. Meanwhile, "High Octane Nightmare Fuel" basically became Administrivia/TheSameButMore.
17* AccidentallyCorrectWriting used to be "Accidentally Accurate". It was being misused in several ways; some Tropers were mistaking it for AccidentalAimingSkills, whereas others were using it for ''anything'' the creators did that might have turned out to be right.
18* ActingInTheDark used to be "Karim the Assassin", a FanNickname for Karim Zreik, co-executive producer of ''Series/HarpersIsland'' who had a habit of making his actors do this. If you didn't know this, the name made no sense.
19* ActorAllusion used to be "The Alkazar", after a minor character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' who was an {{expy}} of Al Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', who was half the show's married sitcom couple alongside Peg Bundy (played by Creator/KateySagal, who plays Leela in ''Futurama''). The former name required you to know ''two'' shows to understand. And what's worse, it wasn't even spelled right; the character's name was Al'''c'''azar. On top of ''that'', Alcazar isn't even voiced by [[Creator/EdONeill Al Bundy's actor]], but series regular David Herman, meaning Alcazar isn't even an example himself -- the episode was an ActorAllusion for ''Leela''.
20* ActorLeavesCharacterDies used to be "[=McLeaned=]", after Creator/McLeanStevenson, whose character on ''Series/{{MASH}}'' was killed off after he left the show. Since Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome made it unclear that it's about characters being killed off when their actor leaves, it was renamed.
21* ActorRoleConfusion used to be "Your Secret's Safe with Me, Superman". Tropers who understood the reference (a line from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Mr. Plow") thought it had to do with a SecretIdentity (or even the more specific trope LovesMyAlterEgo), whereas this has to do with fictional ''actors''. And even then, the joke in the quote the original name comes from was that Barney didn't even get Creator/AdamWest's role right.
22* AdaptationalSelfDefense used to be "The Dog Shot First", a reference to [[Memes/ANewHope a meme]] from ''Film/ANewHope'' which is usually associated with a ReCut rather than an adaptation. It was also thought to have something to do with ShootTheDog, which it didn't.
23* AdaptiveAbility used to be "Viva la Evolution". The previous title was non-indicative and misleading.
24* AddressingThePlayer used to be "Anyone You Know?", after an example of the trope from the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series.
25* AdjacentToThisCompleteBreakfast used to be "Part of a Balanced Breakfast Stone Soup", named after a gag by Creator/DaveBarry. The new name still references the gag but is much more intuitive. The old name is still used for the corresponding [[TropeCo/PartOfABalancedBreakfastStoneSoup TropeCo product]].
26* TheAdjectivalSuperhero used to be "The Egregious Trope-Man". It was renamed because it seemed like a Troper in-joke, using both "trope" and "JustForFun/{{egregious}}" as placeholders.
27* AdorablyPrecociousChild used to be "Cute Shotaro Boy". It was specifically supposed to be a {{Japanese Media Trope|s}}. And its name wasn't a pre-existing Japanese term; it actually came from Shotaro Kaneda ([[DubNameChange known in the West]] as Jimmy Sparks) from ''Anime/{{Gigantor}}''. Despite this, it was used more broadly as "cute little boy", and it was decided to keep the broader definition and change the name to reflect it.
28* AdventureDuo was launched as "Adventure Couple", which led even mods to think that it was about romantic couples adventuring together. It was actually supposed to refer to a [[TheHero Hero]]-[[TheLancer Lancer]] set of personalities adventuring together.
29* {{Advertisements}} used to be "Notable Campaigns". It was renamed because Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability. AdvertisingCampaigns was similarly renamed from "Notable Advertising Campaigns".
30* AdvertisingOnlyContinuity used to be "Plot Sold Separately". It was renamed for being unintuitive.
31* MediaNotes/AdultsOnlyRatingESRB used to be "Adults Only Rating". It was being misused as a duplicate of ExplicitContent. It was eventually determined to be a {{Useful Note|s}} rather than a trope and renamed to reflect the real-life entity that uses the rating "Adults Only".
32* AfterlifeExpress used to be "Soul Train". It was renamed because it shared its name with the series ''Series/SoulTrain''.
33* AgeLift used to be "Playing Hamlet", after the tendency for productions of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' to hire middle-aged actors to play the teenaged title character. This wasn't clear from the trope name; ''Hamlet'' is famous for a lot of other reasons.
34* AirVentPassageway used to be "Air Vent Escape". It was used to refer to using air vents for things other than escaping, and it was renamed to reflect this usage.
35* AliceAllusion used to be "Go Ask Alice". It refers to references to ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', but the old name was also the title of a totally different work [[Literature/GoAskAlice with the same name]].
36* AlienNonInterferenceClause used to be "Prime Directive", after the version of it from ''Franchise/StarTrek''. This was actually the ''second'' time "Prime Directive" was renamed; the original version was a reference to how ''Star Trek'' characters ''treated'' the Prime Directive and renamed to ObstructiveCodeOfConduct. A new "Prime Directive" trope was created but renamed again to allow it to be comprehensible to people not familiar with ''Star Trek''. "Prime Directive" is a redirect to the new trope.
37* AllegedlyDateless was renamed from "Hollywood Dateless" because it was frequently misused to refer to characters who are unable to land a date, when it's actually about characters who are ''claimed to be'' unable to land a date despite having multiple love interests.
38* AlliterationAndAdventurers used to be "Magic Ampersand". It was renamed due to a combination of Administrivia/TropeDecay and the original name being unclear.
39* AllLovingHero used to be "The Messiah". It was renamed due to confusion with MessianicArchetype.
40* UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies used to be "Prussia and All That Lot". The original name was a bit historically misleading.
41* AloofDarkHairedGirl used to be "Tall, Dark and Bishoujo". It was a [[Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones bad snowclone]] of TallDarkAndHandsome and incorrectly presumed to be an exclusively Japanese trope.
42* AlphaBitch used to be "The Libby", after a character in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. In addition to the usual problems with character-named tropes, this character failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit (so Tropers thought it referred to characters from other works) and only appeared for a few seasons anyway.
43* AlternativeRAndB used to be "[=PBR&B=]". It was apparently a joke -- specifically a {{portmanteau}} of "PBR" ("Pabst Blue Ribbon", a beer associated with hipsters) and "R&B". Nobody got it; even its creator [[CreatorBacklash regretted it]]. It was changed to what everyone else calls the subgenre, including Website/{{Wikipedia}}.
44* AlwaysInClassOne used "Class is in Room [=X01=]". The old name was found to be far too vague and non-indicative.
45* UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest used to be called "The Amazon", and was renamed when it was moved to UsefulNotes. The old name became a disambiguation page.
46* AmbitionIsEvil used to be "Slytherin House", after the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' group and its typical portrayal. However, the trope itself was not about groups.
47* AmbushingEnemy used to be "Wall Master", after an example from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''. However, Wall Masters are more known for being {{Mook Bouncer}}s, which led to misuse.
48* AmericaWonWorldWarII used to be "America Wins The War". It was renamed to make it clear that UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was the war in question.
49* AmicableExes was originally "Amicably Divorced". It was renamed to allow it to more broadly refer to couples who didn't necessarily get married to begin with.
50* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex used to be "Artistic License -- Sex Ed", and before that "You Fail Sex Ed Forever". It got caught up in the mass rename of the "You Fail X Forever" tropes to "Artistic License -- X". However, it wasn't actually part of that series of tropes; it wasn't about sex ed so much as basic physics.
51* AnatomyOfTheSoul used to be "Dream Mirror", a reference to a piece of Soul Anatomy from ''Anime/SailorMoon''. The trope itself is not about mirrors or dreams ''per se'', so if you didn't know the work, you wouldn't get the trope.
52* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced used to be "Cue Cullen". It was a twisted double reference; it was a pun on the name of [[Myth/CelticMythology Celtic folk hero Cu Chulainn]] and a reference to ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' -- specifically, Creator/PeterCullen returning to the role of Autobot leader Optimus Prime. It's a pretty sparse venn diagram of people that familiar with both, and it failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, with people thinking it referred to Creator/BillCullen or [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
53* AndThenJohnWasAZombie used to be "You Are the Demons". Both are memes from the SoBadItsGood fanfic ''FanFic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil'', but the former meme referred to TomatoInTheMirror, whereas this trope refers to the inexplicable transition to get there.
54* AngerBornOfWorry used to be "Fear Leads to Anger", a reference to a line from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' that didn't have anything to do with the trope.
55* AngryBlackManStereotype used to be "Angry Black Man". It was renamed because the trope was being misused for any angry black man as opposed to black characters who resent the government for holding black people down.
56* AnimalAthleteLoophole used to be "Ain't No Rule". It was too general, leading to misuse of the trope to refer to its supertrope, LoopholeAbuse. The old name is now an alt-title for Loophole Abuse.
57* AnimalNemesis used to be "Pick on Someone Your Own Species". It was too broad, leading to examples that did not feature a human trying to take revenge on an animal.
58* AnimatedShockComedy used to be "All Adult Animation is ''South Park''". The former name unfortunately was an invitation to complain about ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; the examples were all phrased negatively, and the aversions all phrased positively. When it was renamed, several examples had to be rewritten to be more objective.
59* AnimationTropes used to be "Animated Trope". This index was renamed to what people would naturally call its contents in English.
60* AnimeChineseGirl used to be "Chinese Girl". It was renamed to clarify that it's a {{Japanese Media Trope|s}}.
61* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper used to be "Stop Helping Me!" The old name wasn't clear that it referred to video games, and it attracted a lot of complaining to boot. The former trope was split into Annoying Video Game Helper, in the spirit of the old trope, and UnwantedAssistance, for general InUniverse examples.
62* AnswersToTheNameOfGod used to be "Smith Will Suffice", after an exchange to that end from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''. There are so many Smiths out there that you had to be familiar with the movie.
63* AnthropomorphicVice used to be "John Barleycorn and Friends", after the character John Barleycorn of British folklore, who in later centuries was co-opted as the embodiment of alcohol abuse. Interestingly, the current title was suggested while the trope was still in the TropeLaunchPad, but the sponsor insisted on John Barleycorn.
64* AnthropomorphicTypography used to be "Talking Typography", but it wasn't thriving under that name. It was cut and recreated on the TropeLaunchPad under a new, broader title.
65* AppealToForce used to be "Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke!" It was renamed as a [[Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones bad snowclone]] from ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes.
66* ArbitraryWeaponRange used to be two separate tropes, "Arbitrary Minimum Range" and "Arbitrary Maximum Range", and the latter was originally "Space-Based Weapon Has Cutoff Range". It was a long and awkward title, and everyone knew it; even in the TropeLaunchPad, the sponsor [[Administrivia/NeedsABetterName asked for a better name]], but it was launched anyway. It lasted a year before someone noticed and took it to the Trope Repair Shop, and later on, its counterpart for minimum ranges was merged with it into a single trope.
67* ArcFatigue used to be "Are They Still on Namek", a reference to a particularly fatiguing arc from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. If you didn't know the show, the name was meaningless.
68* AloofArcher used to be "Archer Archetype", and before that "The Archer", and before that "Straight Arrow", a term more often used metaphorically for someone who's very direct and follows all expectations. The name was originally changed to refer to weapon usage rather than character traits, then changed again to make it look less like a character-named trope, then changed again to further clarify the character traits involved.
69* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking used to be "Bus Full of Nuns", after an incident on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. It was too obscure even within ''The Simpsons'' fandom, and the unfamiliar also mistook it for BusFullOfInnocents.
70* "ArtisticLicense -- X" articles were created from a series of snowclones that invited complaining, like "You Fail X Forever", "Somewhere, an X Is Crying"[[note]]with the one exception of SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying[[/note]] and "X Does Not Work That Way", the latter a ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' reference. The new name was designed to make things more objective. A couple of other tropes also got an "Artistic License" rename:
71** ArtisticLicenseShips used to be "Failed to Pay Shipping Charges", which was mistaken to refer to {{Shipping}}.
72** ArtisticLicenseMilitary was renamed twice. It was originally "You Fail Basic Training Forever", then was renamed to "Artistic License -- Basic Training", but this was far too narrow for the trope.
73** ArtisticLicenseMusic was merged with All Guitars Are Stratocasters, a similar trope that was commonly mistaken to be about works or even real-life bands/artists that feature a Fender Stratocaster. The trope was considered for renaming, but once it was determined that there wasn't enough to differentiate it from ArtisticLicenseMusic, it was merged into that trope instead.
74* AsbestosFreeCereal used to be "Made with 100% Pure Grade-A Crap". Not only was the old name too negative, it was mistaken for OurProductSucks.
75* AscendedExtra used to be "Super Grape". Apparently, it's a reference to a character who used to be "as nondescript as one grape in a bunch" but emerges as a distinct character in their own right. Even when explained, it barely made any sense.
76* AscendedFanon used to be "Sure, Why Not?" It sounded too much like a {{Stock Phrase|s}} and was often mistaken for SureLetsGoWithThat. The new title has the added benefit of fitting in with the other "Ascended" tropes.
77* AshesToCrashes used to be "Chekhov's Ashes". It was a non-indicative snowclone suggesting a relation to ChekhovsGun, and while ''some'' examples were foreshadowed like the latter trope would imply, many wouldn't. It was renamed to be broader.
78* AsianFoxSpirit used to be "Kitsune". It was renamed because despite the original name, it covers East Asian fox spirits other than the Japanese ''kitsune'', such as the Chinese ''huli jing'' and the Korean ''kumiho''.
79* AskAStupidQuestion used to be "Here's Your Sign", after a RunningGag by comedian Creator/BillEngvall. "Was it changed for being opaque?" "[[SelfDemonstratingArticle No, it was changed for having an apostrophe in it.]]"
80* AssimilationPlot used to be "Instrumentality", after a concept in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. It was not only a little obscure, it was also kind of a {{spoiler}}.
81* TheAssimilator used to be "You Will Be Assimilated", after the trademark line of the Borg in ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The new name makes it clearer that it's a character trope.
82* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership used to be "Asskicking Equals Authority". It was renamed because its similarity to the old name of RankScalesWithAsskicking, "Authority Equals Asskicking", led to the two being confused with each other.
83* AssumedWin used to be "And the Winner Is..." It was considered unclear and renamed.
84* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption used to be "Appropriate Conversation Interruption". It was considered not ''quite'' descriptive enough and renamed.
85* AtrociousAlias used to be "Fail O'Suckyname". It was too negative and mistaken for UnfortunateNames.
86* AttackItsWeakPoint used to be "For Massive Damage". Both names come from the same {{memetic|Mutation}} line from Creator/{{Sony}}'s presentation at [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] 2006. The trope is about weak points, not massive damage. ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage is now an index of tropes for dealing extra damage in video games.
87* AudienceAlienatingEnding used to be "Ending Aversion". It was misused to refer to any ending people disliked, regardless of whether it turned anyone away from the work as a result.
88* AudienceAlienatingEra used to be "Dork Age". It was renamed to reduce confusion with related AudienceReactions like {{Sequelitis}} and SeasonalRot.
89* AudienceAwarenessAdvantage used to be "Viewer Myopia". It was renamed because it didn't make it clear that it's the ''creators'' who are being myopic, not the viewers.
90* AudienceColoringAdaptation used to be "Ink-Stain Adaptation". It was renamed and reworked as the trope was mostly complaining.
91* AustralianMedia (an index) was previously "Australian Culture" and UsefulNotes/AustralianMassMedia (a UsefulNotes page) used to be "Australian Media". They were renamed for parity with other WorksByNationality indexes, and to reduce confusion with each other.
92* AuthorityInNameOnly used to be "The King of Town", after a character from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. It was renamed for clarity.
93* The UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} page of UsefulNotes used to be called "High-Functioning Autism". It was renamed to refer to the autism spectrum in general; the old name also generated controversy with respect to the propriety of "functioning" labels in the autistic community.
94* AwesomeMcCoolname used to be "Perdita X Dream", after a character from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. In addition to suffering from Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome, people who ''did'' get the reference didn't always assume it had to do with the name; it was a self-applied appelation which later became used for a sort of SplitPersonality.
95* AwesomenessIsAForce used to be "Pure Awesomeness". The old name didn't clearly refer to awesomeness being described like a physical ability.
96* AwfulWeddedLife used to be "No Exit", after [[Theatre/NoExit the play of that name]] by Creator/JeanPaulSartre. First, it was renamed to make room for the page on the play. Second, the play doesn't have anything to do with marriage ''specifically''; people who got the reference thought it had to do with a SelfInflictedHell. And third, as Music/{{Blondie|Band}} fans might tell you, "No Exit" is also the title of at least one other work.
97* AwkwardlyGayDream used to be "Homoerotic Dream". Its name was changed to better indicate that the trope is more specific than simply being about same-sex {{Erotic Dream}}s. In addition, the definition was adjusted when it was renamed.
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101* BabyDollBaby used to be "My Baby Doll". It was renamed after people thought it just referred to the toy in general (or perhaps the film ''Film/BabyDoll''), not specifically a character deluded into thinking the toy is actually a baby.
102* BackingIntoDanger used to be "Walking Backwards". It was mistaken for something much more general, leading to examples of anyone walking backwards [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs regardless of its relevance to the story]].
103* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch used to be "Knifing the Libby in the Back". It was a snowclone of "The Libby", which was itself renamed to AlphaBitch; this trope was similarly renamed to reflect the change.
104* BadassDecay used to be "Spikeification", after Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Not only did this require familiarity with the work, there were debates as to whether the trope namer was even an example. Others didn't realise that the trope was named for a character and thought it had to do with adding SpikesOfDoom to things.
105* BadassInANiceSuit used to be "Dressed to Kill". The trope is more about the "dressed" than the "kill", but people thought the opposite and assumed it was about assassins who happen to wear fancy clothes when working. It's really about any badass who's also a SharpDressedMan.
106* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork used to be "Big Damn Villains". It was a snowclone of BigDamnHeroes but wasn't strictly related to it, leading to confusion with VillainousRescue.
107* BadNewsIrrelevantNews used to be "Switching to Geico", after a pervasive U.S. advertising campaign that used the trope prominently. It used to be even worse; the title used to use the full line from the ad, "I Just Saved a Bunch of Money on My Car Insurance by Switching to Geico", which was changed just for being overly long.
108* BaitAndSwitchGunshot used to be "False Gunshot". It was renamed to more clearly distinguish it from StagedShooting.
109* BaitAndSwitchSentiment used to be "Mawkish Mistake". It was renamed almost immediately after launch after it was discovered that Americans didn't know what "mawkish" meant (sentimental in a feeble or sickly way, but [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage usually only used in Britain]]). The title was even changed to "mawkish" right before launch.
110* BaitAndSwitchTyrant used to be "Bait-and-Switch Umbridge", a snowclone of the former name "The Umbridge". The latter trope was renamed to TyrantTakesTheHelm, and this trope was renamed to reflect the change.
111* BarbieDollAnatomy used to be "Anime Anatomy". It was renamed because ''(a)'' it's not exclusive to anime, ''(b)'' it's not the only kind of odd anatomy you find in anime, and ''(c)'' the old name fell into many of the same stereotypes as AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles.
112* BarefootCartoonAnimal used to be "Barefoot Funny Animal". It was renamed to better align it with its {{Sister Trope}}s: AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal, HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, and FullyDressedCartoonAnimal.
113* BaseBreakingCharacter used to be "Base Breaker". It was renamed because it invited tropers to apply it to anything, character or not, that causes a BrokenBase.
114* BearsAreBadNews used to be "Everything's Worse With Bears", a snowclone of the discredited "Everything's Better with X" family. Under the former name, it was misused to refer to bears in any context, regardless of the threat they pose.
115* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest used to be "Bechdel's Rule". They're both named after the creator of the comic strip ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'' -- while it's never named in the work, the character who describes it calls it a personal rule, which led to it being mistaken for an ''actual'' rule. This led to the trope being used as an endorsement of works that passed and an indictment of works that failed. The rename, aside from matching off-wiki usage, came as a way of enforcing that it's not about passing judgment on a work (and it was also moved to UsefulNotes).
116* BeenThereShapedHistory used to be "The Gump", named after the title character of ''Film/ForrestGump''. It was renamed because this wasn't the character's most memorable trait.
117* {{Beergasm}} used to be "Best Beer Ever". Tropers mistook it for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin really good beer]], leading to effectively [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike gushing about beer you like]]. The rename made it clear that it's about a ''character's'' over-the-top reaction to beer.
118* BeerGoggles used to be "Ten With a Two", after a song by Music/WillieNelson. People were mistaking it for other tropes, and it was also pointed out that "beer goggles" was already a widely used term for the concept.
119* BehindAStick used to be "Narrow Escape". People assumed the trope referred to the name's common meaning, when it had nothing to do with escapes at all.
120* BelatedInjuryRealization used to be "I Ain't Got Time to Bleed", after a line from ''Film/{{Predator}}''. It was often mistaken for other InjuryTropes like MajorInjuryUnderreaction and OnlyAFleshWound.
121* BelligerentSexualTension went through ''three'' renames. It started out at "Takahashi Couple", after mangaka Creator/RumikoTakahashi, whose works are known for prominently featuring such relationships. That name was popular enough that it's still a redirect, but it fell afoul of the usual problems of Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome -- not everyone was familiar with Takahashi, or they mistook it to refer to a different person like Creator/KazukiTakahashi. So it was renamed to "Tsunderes in Love", but that implied that both parties were {{Tsundere}}, so it was quickly renamed again to "When a Jerk Loves a Tsundere". It was given its current name to express the idea more broadly.
122* BespectacledCutie used to be "{{Meganekko}}", and was renamed because it was frequently misused to refer to any girl with glasses, which isn't a trope. The original name was reused for an UsefulNotes/AnimeFanspeak Administrivia/DefinitionOnlyPage related to the trope.
123* BestHerToBedHer used to be "The Red Sonja", after the film ''Film/RedSonja''. It was renamed due to misuse and because the trope only constitutes one of the traits of the TropeNamer.
124* BestialityIsDepraved used to be "But You Screw One Goat". It was misleading because it was the punchline of a joke about OnceDoneNeverForgotten.
125* BestKnownForTheFanservice used to be "Everyone Remembers the Stripper". It was mistaken for something that happened InUniverse, like when a stripper shows up at a party.
126* BetterWithNonHumanCompany used to be "Not Good with People", and was renamed because the old name didn't indicate that examples of the trope ''are'' good with beings/lifeforms other than other humans, leading to confusion with NoSocialSkills.
127* BigBadWannabe used to be "Evil Frog Who Wants to Be an Ox". In addition to the title being long and unwieldy, it wasn't easily connected to its subject; you had to know the specific [[AnAesop Aesop]] and apply it correctly.
128* BigBulkyBomb used to be "BFB", a snowclone of {{BFG}}. It was renamed for being totally unintuitive.
129* BigDamnMovie used to be "Why Is Arnold Saving Something?", a reference to TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. "Arnold" here badly fails the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit -- in particular, people mistook it for Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, who tends to save things in his movies and also has [[TheAhnold a trope named after him]].
130* BigDisasterPlot used to be "Trainwreck Episode". It suffered from underuse, and the name was both too narrow (it refers to disasters other than trainwrecks) and too broad (if tropers were taking "trainwreck" figuratively rather than literally).
131* BiggerIsBetterInBed used to be "Biggus Dickus", a reference to ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. However, that joke wasn't about the character actually having a big dick, but rather having a RealJokeName, so people mistook it for the latter trope. The rename also clarifies that the trope isn't just about the size -- it has to correlate to sexual performance.
132* BizarreInstrument used to be "Xenophone". It was renamed for being unclear and non-indicative of the trope, leading to misuse.
133* BizarroEpisode used to be "BLAM Episode", a reference to the acronym for BigLippedAlligatorMoment. Not everyone understood the acronym, so it was renamed. In the process, it also got merged with the related trope "A Day at the Bizarro".
134* BlackComedy used to be "Dead Baby Comedy". It was renamed because the old name was better known as a term for VulgarHumor. "Black Comedy" also existed briefly as a lesser-known trope and was absorbed into the older one in the renaming process.
135* BlackComedyRape used to be "Rape as Comedy". It was renamed in the process of cleaning up the SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes to make it more clear that the trope doesn't necessarily ''condone'' rape.
136* BlackShirt used to be "Jackals", an artefact of its split from the one-time trope JustForFun/DyingLikeAnimals. The latter page still exists as JustForFun and recognises the Black Shirt under its former name.
137* BlamingTheMan used to simply be called "The Man", and was renamed because the original defiinition was unclear. The trope was renamed when the definition was refined into a trope about characters blaming ambiguous authority figures for perceived problems.
138* BlasphemousBoast used to be "More Tropes than God". It was renamed as part of a general deprecation of "trope" as a placeholder.
139* BloodyMurder used to be "Weaponized Blood". It was lost in Archive/TheGreatCrash and happened to get a new name when it was relaunched.
140* BluffTheImpostor used to be "Cry Wolfie", a pun on CryingWolf and a reference to a scene from ''Film/{{Terminator 2|JudgmentDay}}''. It was mistaken for the latter trope as a result.
141* BluntYes used to be "Flat Yes". It was changed for clarity, as it was sometimes mistaken as related to FlatJoy.
142* BoisterousBruiser used to be "The Toblerone", after the character Dablone from ''Film/Escape2000'' and the obscure nickname he was given on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. It was obtuse, but delightfully so; we couldn't keep it, but we kept it as a disambiguation and a [[SugarWiki/{{Toblerone}} Sugar Wiki page]].
143* BonusEpisode used to be "Baker's Dozen", a colloquial term for the number thirteen. It required you to assume it referred to the TwelveEpisodeAnime format, which not everyone even knew existed.
144* BonusMaterial used to be "Omake". It was renamed so that it wasn't GratuitousJapanese.
145* BonusStageCollectables used to be "Chaos Emeralds", after the {{MacGuffin}}s from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''. The Chaos Emeralds are known for a lot of things aside from being collected in bonus stages (more famously being {{Plot Coupon}}s and GreenRocks), which caused a lot of confusion, so the trope was renamed for clarity.
146* BoobBasedGag was previously named "Gag Boobs", but the old name led to the use of large breasts in general, when the trope is about jokes about breasts.
147* BoobsAndButtPose used to be "Over the Shoulder Pose". It was renamed for being too broad and not clarifying that it's a {{Fanservice}} pose.
148* BorrowedBiometricBypass used to be "Bloody Biometric". It was renamed for clarity.
149* BoyfriendBlockingDad used to be "Overprotective Dad". It was renamed because the old name made the trope sound broader than it actually is, leading to misuse. The old name became a disambiguation for various tropes relating to overprotective dads.
150* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill used to be "Lisa Needs Braces", from a mildly {{Memetic|Mutation}} line to that effect from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. It wasn't a particularly well-known meme, and the new name is much more descriptive of the trope.
151* Series/BradyBunchSpinoffs used to be "Jim Henson's Muppet Bradys", a reference to a RunningGag on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' where they would characterize some scene or other as "Jim Henson's [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 [whatever] Babies]]!" It amounted to a work page referencing another work, which just sends the wrong message.
152* BrainFood used to be "No Brainer", among other titles. It was renamed to more clearly describe the trope.
153* BreakoutCharacter used to be "The Fonzie", after said character from ''Series/HappyDays''. While Fonzie was an example, he was too good of one -- few people were even aware that he was ever a minor character to begin with.
154* BreakoutMookCharacter used to be "A Day in the Slimelight", a snowclone of ADayInTheLimelight, and specifically named after Lime the Slime from the ''VideoGame/{{Lunia}}'' games. Other than the name, it had little to do with the latter trope. And it wasn't a given that you'd get the reference; indeed, many didn't realise it was meant to be a reference at all, and some who did assumed it referred to the more famous Slimes from ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''.
155* BreakoutVillain used to be "Moriarty Effect", after the ArchEnemy of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''. Since Moriarty was deliberately introduced as Holmes' arch-enemy, he wasn't really an example. He was better known as a criminal mastermind anyway, leading to misuse.
156* BreakTheScientist used to be "The Professor Is Crying Again", after an opaque reference to a one-shot joke from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Most people didn't even realise it was supposed to be a reference, and those who did assumed it was one of any number of characters who could be fairly called TheProfessor.
157* BreakupBreakout used to be "The Jannetty", after pro wrestler Wrestling/MartyJannetty who had this happen to him. If you didn't know wrestling -- and sometimes even if you did -- the name was just too obtuse to work.
158* BreathWeapon used to be "Beaming Grin". People assumed it referred to the facial expression, but it was actually a pun on turning it into a beam weapon.
159* BringIt used to be "Bring It On". Nothing wrong with the name itself, but it had to be disambiguated from the movie ''Film/BringItOn''.
160* BringMyRedJacket used to be "Bring My Brown Pants". They both come from the same joke, and BringMyBrownPants is still a trope, but now it means what people expect -- the first is for characters who wear red to hide blood, and the second is for people who have a PottyFailure from fear.
161* BritsLoveTea used to be "Spot of Tea". It was misused to refer to any character who drinks tea, regardless of nationality. The rename made it clearly a trait of a [[IAmVeryBritish very British character]].
162* BrokenWindowWarning used to be "Window Pain". While it was a pretty cool {{pun}}, it invited misuse to refer to any time a window breaks, which [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't tropable on its own]]. The rename was an attempt to salvage it to refer to the specific trope of someone breaking a window as a warning to the building's occupant.
163* BrokenWinLossStreak used to be "Broken Streak". It was renamed for being too broad and referring to any recurring trend. The Administrivia/MissingSupertrope was eventually created as BreakingOldTrends.
164* MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Bronze Age". It gave no indication that it had anything to do with comic books, and it also needed to match the new names for MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
165* BubblegloopSwamp used to be "Krem Quay", after a stage from ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country 2|DiddysKongQuest}}''. It was renamed for being non-descriptive and unintuitive. The trope was renamed after a stage from another Creator/{{Rare}} game, ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''.
166* BuildingOfAdventure used to be "Xanadu", after the big mansion from ''Film/CitizenKane''. It was renamed in part for confusion with the film ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', and not everyone got the original reference, either.
167* BuiltWithLEGO used to be "Everything's Built with LEGO". It was renamed in the cleanup of the "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family.
168* BulkBuyOnly used to be "Midnight Bakery Trip". It was misused to refer to literal midnight bakery trips; it's actually a reference to how some bakeries will sell leftover goods really early the next morning, but only in dozens.
169* BumblingSidekick used to be "The Baldrick", after the character from ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. It was renamed in part because not everyone got the reference, and partly because even if you did, not all incarnations of Baldrick really fit the trope (although the most famous ones certainly did).
170* BunnyTropes used to be "Everything's Better with Bunnies". In the process of the "Everything's Better with X" snowclone cleanup, this one was broken up into several tropes and turned into an index.
171* ButNotTooForeign used to be "Charlie Dog", after the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character. Only diehard ''Looney Tunes'' fans would easily recognise the character, and even then it's not the trope they would usually associate with him.
172* BuxomBeautyStandard was renamed from "Buxom Is Better" because the Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly aspect was often overlooked because of the old name, leading to creepy gushing.
173* BystanderSyndrome used to be "Somebody Else's Problem", but it was renamed to make it sound less like a StockPhrase and to align it with a better-known RealLife term.
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177* TheCakeIsALie used to be "There Will Be Cake". It was misused for pretty much any situation in which cake was involved. Interestingly, this rename was to a very {{Memetic|Mutation}} phrase in itself, this one from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
178* CampFollower used to be "Bring Your Halter to the Slaughter", a rather obscure pun on a song by Music/IronMaiden. In addition to its obscurity, it was also unwieldy. "Camp Follower" is a known RealLife term to refer to such people.
179* CantRefuseTheCallAnymore used to be "Belly of the Whale". It was commonly taken literally and misused to refer to a common appearance of the MonsterWhale.
180* CapeSnag used to be "No Capes", after a line from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Incredibles|1}}''. It was renamed for clarity.
181* CaptainMorganPose used to be "Riker Pose", after the character from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Riker was not commonly associated with the trope, hence the rename. The new TropeNamer is the Captain Morgan brand of rum, whose logo is of a pirate captain making the pose.
182* CareerBuildingBlunder used to be "House Hiring Heuristic", after the title character of ''Series/{{House}}''. However, people didn't get the reference and thought it referred to actual houses. And the trope wasn't about hiring; it's about promotion or otherwise building trust and respect. And some people weren't familiar with the word "heuristic" either.
183* CasanovaWannabe used to be "The Leisure Suit Larry", after the protagonist of ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry''. Originally, it didn't even have a "the", leading to collisions with the page on the video game. Even after adding a "the", about half of the links to it mistook it for the game. And in any event, Larry himself isn't a CasanovaWannabe; he always ends up with several conquests, making him much closer to a KavorkaMan.
184* CastFullOfPrettyBoys used to be "Blue Bishōnen Ghetto", a snowclone of "Pink Bishōnen Ghetto", itself renamed to ImprobablyFemaleCast. Not only did it not make much sense (even though we've kept {{Bishonen}} as a trope in itself), it implied that it was the SpearCounterpart to the latter trope, when it isn't exactly.
185* CasualDangerDialogue used to be "Casual Danger Dialog" and was changed because "dialogue" is the more common spelling of the two outside the context of dialog boxes on computers.
186* CatastrophicCountdown used to be "Metroid Bomb", after its common appearance in the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series. However, there are other types of bombs in ''Metroid'', and this name was unclear as to which one it referred to.
187* TheCatchphraseCatchesOn used to be "Sein Language", after ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and its ability to introduce neologisms into the English language. Problem was that people were mistaking it for the different but similarly-named SeinfeldianConversation.
188* CategoryTraitor used to be "Straw Traitor". It was renamed as too vague for the concept.
189%%* CATTrap used be named something ghost related although references aren't found.
190* CavalryOfTheDead used to be "Army of the Dead". It was renamed to clarify that it's a form of TheCavalry and not about [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead armies in general]].
191* CellPhonesAreUseless used to be "Can You Hear Me Now?". It was an ambiguous StockPhrase and renamed to clarify that the answer is ''no''.
192* CelShading used to be "For the Cel of It". It was renamed to use the common term for the phenomenon.
193* CensoredForComedy used to be "This Trope is [BLEEP]". It was often mistaken for the more general SoundEffectBleep or related tropes; the rename made it clearer and more distinct.
194* ChangedMyMindKid used to be "Abandoned by the Cavalry". It was renamed because the name usually failed to suggest that the abandoner was coming back at the last minute; indeed, it sometimes suggested the opposite.
195* CharacterAgedWithTheActor used to be "Getting Too Old for This". It was mistaken for a StockPhrase and renamed.
196* CharacterOutlivesActor used to be "Died on a Bus". It was renamed after confusion for related tropes like BusCrash or other TropesOnABus.
197* CheerfulFuneral used to be "Fun in the Funeral". And it ''wasn't'' TheFunInFuneral, for which many tropers mistook this trope. That's what led to the rename.
198* ChessmasterSidekick used to be "Puss in Boots". It was renamed both for being character-named and colliding with two works, ''Literature/PussInBoots'' and ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots''.
199* ChewingTheScenery used to be "Feed Me", after a longstanding actor's reference to the CatchPhrase of the ManEatingPlant from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''. It was often mistaken for an InUniverse trope rather than a style of acting.
200* ChildhoodFriendRomance came from the merger of "Unlucky Childhood Friend" and "Victorious Childhood Friend", a pair of tropes that needed a rename anyway because they did not clarify that the "luck" was in romance.
201* ChildPopstar used to be "Little Boy Blue Note". It was a very unclear title, and it wasn't thriving until the rename.
202* ChokepointGeography used to be the "Third Law of Travel", after the corresponding item on Website/TheGrandListOfConsoleRolePlayingGameCliches. It made no sense unless you were versed in all the items on the list, and on its own it made no indication as to what it was actually about.
203* TheChosenMany used to be "Green Lantern Corps", after the group from ''Franchise/GreenLantern''. If you didn't know ''Green Lantern'', the name made no sense. Accordingly, slightly over half of the links to it assumed it was an article on the fictional organisation rather than about the broader trope. "Green Lantern Corps" now redirects to ''Franchise/GreenLantern''.
204* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome used to be "Brother Chuck", named as a counterpart to CousinOliver. While the reference is preserved (after Chuck from ''Series/HappyDays'', who's a very good example of the trope), the new name more clearly refers to the specific TropeNamer (as opposed to any other Chucks) and also clarifies that it's more about the phenomenon than a character type.
205* CirclingMonologue used to be "Circle of Extinction". The name was obtuse, and the trope was not thriving.
206* ClassicalElementsEnsemble used to be "Four Element Ensemble". Not only was it being mistakenly applied to any mention of the NaturalElements, regardless of whether or not it was an actual team/group of people, it was also misleading as the four elements in the title specifically referred to the ClassicalElements and the classical elements were not always a set of four (sometimes it's a set of five). The old name remains as a redirect.
207* ClimacticBattleResurrection used to be "Battle Royale with Cheese". Not only was the name misleading, it was an obscure reference (probably -- but not certainly -- from a side exchange from ''Film/PulpFiction'' that had nothing to do with the trope). The old name was redirected to the disambiguation BattleRoyale.
208* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity used to be just "Cliffs of Insanity". It was misused simply to refer to the existence of tall cliffs, which [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs is not a trope in itself]].
209* CloneAngst was previously "Cloning Blues". It was renamed because it was frequently misused to refer to the general concept of cloning, when it's specifically about clones feeling angst over the fact that they're not the originals.
210* CloserToEarth used to be "Women Are Wiser". It was too broad of a trope; the name WomenAreWiser is now used for its Administrivia/MissingSupertrope.
211* CoatFullOfContraband used to be "You Wanna Buy a Watch?" It was considered too narrow and a StockPhrase.
212* CoincidentalDodge used to be "Gardener Contract", an oblique reference to Chance the Gardener from ''Film/BeingThere''. While the character might be the ''kind'' who would do a Coincidental Dodge, nothing like that happens in the movie. And even if you did get the reference, there was no way to figure out what exactly the trope was.
213* ComedicLolicon used to be just "lolicon", a general term for persons attracted to prepubescent girls and the media aimed at them. The general term didn't fit the narrower trope, which was renamed.
214* ComedicUnderwearExposure used to be "I See London", a reference to a children's rhyme ("I see London, I see France, I see someone's underpants!") which naturally not everyone would be familiar with.
215* CombinedEnergyAttack used to be "Spirit Bomb", after a technique from ''Franchise/DragonBall''. People mistook it for a weapon that attacks the opponent's spirit, rather than [[{{Mana}} drawing from the spirit of a group of people]]. And even among ''Dragon Ball'' fans, the attack was more associated with TheWorfBarrage.
216* ComicallyMissingThePoint used to be "Completely Missing the Point". It was misused as an out-of-universe StockPhrase; rather than referring to a character missing the point for RuleOfFunny, it was used in an accusatory manner against anyone or anything people disagreed with.
217* TheComicallySerious used to be "Unfunny", and before then "The Unfunny". Interestingly, the older name was technically the better one; at least it was clearly about a character rather than just an accusation. But even then, neither older name indicated that it was about a serious-minded person who doesn't find anything funny rather than a character [[CannotTellAJoke trying to be funny and failing.]]
218* CommercializedChristmas used to be "Green Christmas", a play on "White Christmas". It wasn't clear what "green" was supposed to be, and the trope suffered underuse.
219* CompanyTown used to be "Set Behind the Scenes". It was mistaken to refer to works about production of other fictional works. The latter name was reused for [[SetBehindTheScenes a trope to that effect]].
220* ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow used to be "Shit Flies from the Fans". It lasted only a couple of days before a rename.
221* CompressedHair used to be "Hyperspace Hair". It was renamed in part from confusion with "Hairy Hammerspace" (since renamed HammerspaceHair).
222* ConcealedCustomization used to be "Only Six Helmets", a snowclone of OnlySixFaces. Other than that, it had little to do with the latter trope.
223* CondemnedByHistory used to be "Deader than Disco". It was renamed because tropers were arguing about what exactly qualified; "Deader than Disco" implied that the average "man on the street" determined what was no longer popular, which was found to be too restrictive against things that were considered niche. Indeed, by the time of the rename, [[DiscreditedTrope the anti-disco backlash had faded from popular culture]] and disco had [[PopularityPolynomial gotten a little bit popular again]]. It was also misused for characters who hated disco or thought it was hopelessly dated, for which the new trope DiscoSucks was created.
224* CondescendingCompassion used to be "Pitying Perversion". It was renamed for being misleading; it's not about perversion.
225* ConfettiDrop used to be "Tickertape Parade". The trope is not about parades, but about confetti or balloon drops on {{Game Show}}s. TickertapeParade is now ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
226* ConfirmationBias used to be "Preaching to the Choir". The two are both common terms but don't mean exactly the same thing; the rename made it more accurate.
227* ConfrontingYourImposter used to be "Because I'm Jonesy", an obscure reference from ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''. The old title was ambiguous and attracted misuse.
228* ConfusionFu used to be "Schrödinger Fu", a reference to UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat. The reference implied that it was about the fighter splitting into multiple simultaneous versions rather than simply being erratic and unpredictable.
229* ConstantlyCurious used to be "Elephant's Child", after the main character in a short story by Creator/RudyardKipling. It was renamed as not very descriptive.
230* ConsultingMisterPuppet used to be "Consulting Mr. Flibble", after the example from ''Series/RedDwarf''. The new name kept its essential character but was much clearer as to what it meant.
231* ConsummateLiar used to be "Liar Liar". In addition to not very well describing the trope, it collided with [[Film/LiarLiar the film of the same name]].
232* ContractualPurity used to be "Prisoners of Pollyanna". It was too easily confused with ThePollyanna and otherwise wasn't clear.
233* ConvenientReplacementCharacter used to be "Welcome to the Liberator", apparently a reference to ''Series/BlakesSeven'', where this kind of thing happened once. Even if you ''were'' familiar with the show, there was no way you were getting what the name meant.
234* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding used to be "Abandoned Warehouse District", after a line from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. It was renamed because it was broader than just warehouses, groups of buildings, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs groups of warehouses]].
235* ConvictionByContradiction used to be "Bugs Meany is Gonna Walk", a reference to ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'', where this kind of thing happened a lot. However, even if you got the reference, it wasn't clear which specific part of the criminal process it was referring to, leading to misuse.
236* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue used to be called "Encyclopedia Browned", ''also'' a reference to ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' and doubling as a reference to the original name of FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy, "Dan Browned". However, much like with "Bugs Meany is Gonna Walk", the series is known for several courtroom tropes, and it wasn't clear what this one referred to.
237* CosmicHorrorStory used to be just "Cosmic Horror". The latter is actually the proper term, but people weren't aware of that and used it to refer to the monsters that usually inhabit them -- what we call an EldritchAbomination. CosmicHorror is now a redirect to the latter trope.
238* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot used to be "We Could Have Avoided All This". It was a gratuitous StockPhrase and accordingly attracted misuse.
239* JustForFun/CounterpartComparison uesd to be "Why Does Everyone Think I'm ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}?" Even if you knew ''Deadpool'', the trope name was too long and unwieldy. Then people mistook it for JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters, and it was made a redirect to the latter page.
240* CoverBlowingSuperpower used to be "Awkward Ability". It was commonly mistaken for the power itself rather than its cover-blowing properties.
241* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront used to be "Spy from Weights and Measures". It was renamed for being completely unclear.
242* CreatingLifeIsBad used to be just "Creating Life". It was renamed because it didn't clarify that it was meant to be a negative trope. CreatingLife still exists as an index and neutral supertrope.
243* CreatorsApathy used to be "They Just Didn't Care", after a gag from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. It attracted rampant misuse, as people were linking it to complain about anything they didn't like, regardless of whether the creator cared or not.
244* CreatorsCultureCarryover used to be "We All Live in America". It was renamed because the old name didn't clearly indicate the trope's meaning.
245* CreatorsPet used to be "The Wesley", after Wesley Crusher from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Not only did not everyone get the reference (and it also failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit), its similarity to TheScrappy led to it being commonly mistaken for "the Scrappy, [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore but more]]".
246* CreatorViewerReactionsIndex used to be "Viewers Are Indexed". It was renamed after it was retooled to cover opinions creators can have about the audience other than ones related to viewers' intelligence.
247* CreditsRunningSequence used to be "Running Sequence". It was renamed to clarify that it occurs during the credits.
248* CreepyCockroach used to be "Everything's Creepier with Cockroaches". It was renamed in the cleanup of the discredited "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family.
249* CreepyCrossdresser used to be "Villainous Crossdresser". It was renamed as too narrow; creepy crossdressers aren't always villains.
250* CreepyCrosses used to be "Creepy Cool Crosses". It was renamed as too narrow; creepy crosses aren't always cool.
251* CriminallyAttractive used to be "Fatal Attraction", and was renamed due to frequent misuse. The definition was expanded slightly and the trope was renamed.
252* CriminalMindGames used to be "Along Came a Spider". It was renamed to avoid collisions with the film ''Film/AlongCameASpider''.
253* CriminalProcedural used to be "Crime Time TV". It suffered from underuse and was unnecessarily medium-specific.
254* CrowdedCastShot used to be "Everyone Get in Here", after a line from ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''. It was renamed because it was unclear, it was a StockPhrase, and it didn't even get the quote right (it's "''Everybody'' get in here").
255* CruelCheerleader used to be "The Cheerleader". The trope was renamed due to being misused for all cheerleaders portrayals in fiction instead of the negative ones the trope was supposed to be about. The old name is now a disambiguation page.
256* CruellaToAnimals used to be "The Cruella". Both are named for the character from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', but the new name clarifies which aspect of her character the trope refers to and also helps people unfamiliar with the work understand the trope.
257* CruelTwistEnding used to be "Outer Limits Twist". It was renamed in part because not everyone understood the reference, and partly because ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' was remade into ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', and the revival series didn't use the trope as often.
258* CrutchCharacter used to be "Jeigan Character", after a character from ''Franchise/FireEmblem''. Even if you were familiar with the series ''and'' associated the trope to this aspect of his character, you ran into spelling issues -- the character's "official" English name is Jagen.
259* CryonicsFailure uesd to be "Popsicle Splat", a reference to the HumanPopsicle. While people might have gotten that, it was unclear as to what exactly the trope did with said popsicles.
260* CrypticBackgroundReference used to be "What's a Secret Four", a reference to the kids' detective novel series ''Literature/TheThreeInvestigators''. The old name impenetrable to non-fans -- which you'd expect from a cryptic background reference. People thought it might have been a {{Henway}}.
261* CulturallyReligious used to be "Raised Catholic". It was renamed because the trope is broader than Catholicism and doesn't clearly indicate the character's relationship to their religion. Before then, it was called "Good Catholic", which was even less indicative of its meaning.
262* CulturalStereotypes used to be "Acceptable Cultural Targets". It was renamed to make it more objective.
263* CutASliceTakeTheRest used to be "Improper Fraction". It was renamed for clarity.
264* CutawayGag used to be "Manatee Gag", a reference to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which is famous for them. But not a direct reference -- it actually draws from a TakeThat from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' against ''Family Guy'''s love for the practice. This just layered on the confusion. "Cutaway Gag" is an accepted term for the trope off-wiki. Funnily, the trope was actually ''drafted'' as "Cutaway Gag" but somehow got launched as "Manatee Gag".
265* CuteAndPsycho used to be "Yangire", a term in the anime fandom to describe this kind of character. Not only is it not exclusively a {{Japanese Media Trope|s}}, it's not even a real Japanese word.
266* CuteClumsyGirl used to be "Dojikko", a term in the anime fandom to describe this kind of character. Even though such characters are ''real'' common in anime, they're far from exclusive to it. {{Dojikko}} still exists as a subtrope of CuteClumsyGirl, but it's a Administrivia/{{Definition Only Page|s}}.
267* CuteKitten used to be "Everything's Cuter with Kittens". It was renamed in the cleanup of the discredited "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family.
268* CutShort used to be "Woody's Finest Hour", a reference to the ShowWithinAShow from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. Not only was it an unclear reference, it might not even be an example (a MeaningfulBackgroundEvent implies that the show ''wasn't'' cut short).
269* CuttingOffTheBranches used to be "Road Cone". It was renamed as very opaque.
270* CynicismCatalyst used to be "Dead Little Sister". It was commonly used to refer more generally to dead siblings and renamed to be clearer.
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274* DamageProofVehicle used to be "Not a Scratch on It". It was considered too ambiguous and renamed.
275* DamselInDistress used to be "Distressed Damsel". It doesn't look like a significant change, but the new name is the term much more widely used for this character type off-wiki.
276* DamselOutOfDistress used to be "Badass Damsel". It was renamed to more clearly link it to the DamselInDistress trope.
277* DamselScrappy used to be "The Kimberly", after Kim Bauer, the designated DamselInDistress from ''Series/TwentyFour''. It was renamed for badly failing the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit.
278* DangerDeadpan used to be "Chuck Yeager", after the RealLife pilot who was the first to break the sound barrier and was renowned for talking like this. It sounded like a character-named trope, was opaque, and implicitly narrow (suggesting it only applied to pilots).
279* DangerousKeyFumble used to be "Oops, I Dropped the Keys". It was renamed to sound less like dialogue.
280* DangerRoomColdOpen used to be called "Professor X Likes to Watch Teenagers Sweat", after the ''ComicBook/XMen'' character who caused many such cold opens. In addition to being long and unwieldy, it was loaded with implications that made you think of [[DirtyOldMan a different trope]].
281* MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Dark Age". It was renamed for not having any indication that it had to do with comic books, leading to it being mistaken for the trope TheDarkTimes.
282* DarkHorseVictory used to be "Zmelik", after Czechoslovak decathlete Robert Změlík, who won the decathlon gold in the 1992 Olympics after Americans hyped up the race as being primarily between Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson. It was renamed for being really opaque.
283* DarkMistress used to be "Doctor Girlfriend", after the character from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Even if you got the reference, the character was known for several different traits.
284* DashingHispanic used to be "Badass Spaniard". It was simultaneously too narrow (not every Hispanic is a Spaniard) and too broad (it implies simple badassery without the specifics of honour, wit, grace in battle, and romance).
285* DatedHistory used to be "History Marches On". It attracted widespread misuse for any history-related inaccuracy, regardless of whether it was accepted knowledge when the work was made.
286* DatingDoSiDo used to be "Degrassi Dating", after the ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' franchise. In addition to requiring familiarity with the series, it was also mistaken for a reference to the TotallyRadical [[TheEighties '80s]] aesthetic of the franchise's earliest and most famous incarnations.
287* DatingServiceDisaster used to be "Matchmaker.com", after an online dating website. In addition to being confused for a reference to the actual company, it was also too broad, not specifying that the dating experience had to be ''bad''.
288* DeadPersonImpersonation used to be "Martin Guerre", after [[Theatre/MartinGuerre a musical of that name]]. In addition to being opaque, the name collided with the name of the play. "[[Series/MadMen The Don Draper]]" may or may not have been considered, but it wouldn't have been much better.
289* DeathByNewberyMedal used to be "Dog Dies at the End", a common rendition of the trope. It was renamed to be easier to understand.
290* DeathByWomanScorned used to be "He Had It Coming". Although it sounds like a StockPhrase, it doubles as a reference to ''Film/{{Chicago}}''. It was renamed for clarity.
291* DeathOfAThousandCuts used to be "One Thousand Needles", after an attack from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games that did this. It was renamed to make it clearer that it's an attack. "One Thousand Needles" was repurposed for a different trope which was itself renamed to FixedDamageAttack.
292* DebutQueue used to be "Ducks in a Row". Even if you were familiar with the expression, it was easily mistaken for AllInARow and gave no indication that it was for a way of introducing characters to a story.
293* DecadentCourt used to be "Deadly Decadent Court". It was considered too narrow; it's about the court, not about its occasional murderous tendencies.
294* DecapitatedArmy used to be "Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead" after ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. It was used either as a reference to the work or mistaken for AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
295* DecapitationRequired used to be "Vorpal Weakness", after the Vorpal Blade's ability to instantly decapitate enemies in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. However, that name was completely unclear if you didn't know the reference, was possibly confused with OneHitKill since that's the more known part of Vorpal weapons, and wasn't clear that this was a ''requirement'' even if you did understand it.
296* DeclarationOfProtection was formed from the merger of "I Will Protect Her" and "I Will Definitely Protect You". Both were StockPhrases and necessitated a rename; the latter was apparently designed as a {{Japanese Media Trope|s}}, being a translation of a common UsefulNotes/{{Stock Japanese Phrase|s}}.
297* DecoyTrial used to be "Trial of Someone Besides the Defendant". It was renamed for being a mouthful.
298* DeepFriedWhatever used to be "Everything's Better Deep Fried". It was renamed in the cleanup of the discredited "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family, and it was also misused to refer to anything that was deep fried regardless of whether or not it was unusual.
299* DefectingForLove used to be "Capulet Counterpart", a reference to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. While that ''is'' a well-known work, it's often associated with a plethora of other tropes like StarCrossedLovers, WarShip, or DatingCatwoman.
300* DeliberateInjuryGambit used to be "I Have Two Kidneys". It was renamed for being opaque.
301* DelicateAndSickly used to be "Ill Girl". It was frequently misused to describe any character with an illness (if not mistaken for the LittlestCancerPatient), rather than the character type the trope actually describes.
302* DelusionsOfEloquence used to be "Shlubb and Klump English", after ThoseTwoGuys from ''ComicBook/SinCity''. It had the usual problems of character-named tropes; many users didn't get the reference, and many who did associated them with a different trope.
303* DemotedToExtra used to be "Isn't It Sad", a reference to a {{Meme|ticMutation}} from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' about a character who had this happen to her. Few got the reference, or even that it ''was'' a reference, instead believing that it had to do with any sad situation in general.
304* {{Demythification}} used to be "Low Low Fantasy". It looked like LowFantasy, [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore but moreso]], and it was mistaken as such. It's actually about stories that are stripped of fantastic elements and presented as HistoricalFiction. The rename hit a snag, too, as it was briefly "Demyth'''t'''ification" -- apparently, it was a {{Pun}} on "demystification", which mostly went unnoticed and was assumed to be a typo.
305* DesignatedVillain used to be "Designated Antagonist". It was renamed because not all antagonists are villains (''e.g.'' the HeroAntagonist).
306* DespairEventHorizon used to be "Morale Event Horizon". It was created as a pun on MoralEventHorizon, but this left it poorly defined. And people who saw it mistook it for a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled version]] of the original trope.
307* DeusExitMachina used to be "Eaten by a Snake", a reference to an arc from ''Manga/OnePiece''. Few got the reference and assumed it referred to being SwallowedWhole by a snake.
308* DevelopersForesight used to be "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything", a reference to a {{Meme|ticMutation}} about ''VideoGame/NetHack''. It was commonly mistaken to refer to any instance of developers paying attention to detail, as opposed to actually predicting the bizarre things a player might do.
309* DevelopingDoomedCharacters used to be "Twenty Minutes with Jerks". It was renamed for being too negative.
310* DevilishHairHorns was previously "Horned Hairdo", and was renamed because the fact that it's supposed to indicate that a character is evil was frequently overlooked, leading to misuse to mean [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any character with horn-shaped hair]].
311* DiabolusExNihilo used to be "Diabolus Ex Vacuus". It was renamed once we discovered that there was a common preexisting term we weren't using. (Also, [[YouMakeMeSic we were mixing up our nominative declension with the ablative]]. Who knew?)
312* DiagnosedByTheAudience used to be "Ambiguous Disorder". It was renamed because the concept was determined to be subjective and was already used for speculation that a given character has a disorder that isn't either mentioned in the work or via DiagnosisOfGod, so the definition was retooled to fit how it was commonly used and renamed to fit the retooled definition.
313* DidntWantAnAdventure used to be "I Wanted to Go Bowling", a reference to ''WesternAnimation/{{The Incredibles|1}}''. It was renamed as an opaque reference and StockPhrase.
314* DiedDuringProduction used to be "Author Existence Failure". It was misused to refer to creators who died ''after'' the work was released, which [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs literally every creator has done or will do]].
315* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage used to be "Theme Tune Cameo", and before that "Name That Tune". The first name was a reference to the show ''Series/NameThatTune'', but the name was unclear and collided with the show's page. The second name led to misuse, as tropers thought it referred to music from other media making a cameo, and there was confusion as to whether it allowed InUniverse appearances of other music from the soundtrack.
316* DieHardOnAnX used to be just "Die Hard" for an embarrassingly long time. Naturally, it made searching for the trope as opposed to the movie ''Film/DieHard'' next to impossible.
317* DiesWideOpen used to be "Dies Wide Shut", a pun on ''Film/EyesWideShut'', which otherwise has nothing to do with the trope. This also made the name misleading, hence the change.
318* DiggingYourselfDeeper used to be "Bucket of Ears", after a reference from ''Series/{{Coupling}}''. It was so opaque that almost all references to it related to the former TropeNamer.
319* DigitizedHacker used to be "Malus Ex Machina", a GratuitousLatin phrase meaning "evil out of the machine" in a failed imitation of DeusExMachina. In addition to requiring a little knowledge of Latin, it had nothing to do with hacking.
320* DisabledLoveInterest used to be "Disabled Hottie". It was renamed after misuse of the trope to mean "attractive disabled person".
321* DisappointingLastLevel used to be "Xen Syndrome", named for the location of the final levels of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''. In addition to being horrendously opaque, it also suggested that everyone held the same opinion about the finale of ''Half-Life'', when it's really a {{YMMV}} trope.
322* DiscoDan used to be "Joe Quesada Reality", after the much-disliked Creator/MarvelComics executive Creator/JoeQuesada. It had a "bitter fan" vibe with its inherent TakeThat, and in any event Quesada ''barely'' was an example himself. Thankfully, it was renamed after only one day (and not [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay one day more]]).
323* DiscOneFinalBoss used to be "Fake Boss". It was renamed after being mistaken for BaitAndSwitchBoss.
324* DisconnectedByDeath used to be "Murdered in a Phone Booth". It was considered too narrow and renamed as a way to include other phone-based murders.
325* DisguisedInDrag used to be "Bosom Buddies", after the series [[Series/BosomBuddies of the same name]]. It collided with references to the show and wasn't obvious anyway.
326* DistancedFromCurrentEvents used to be "Too Soon". The term was widely used off-wiki, but there it meant something different -- a DudeNotFunny reaction to a recent tragedy. A plurality of the examples used the latter definition. The trope doesn't have to do with people being offended, but rather changes in content to ''avoid'' potential references to a recent tragedy. TooSoon is now a disambiguation between DistancedFromCurrentEvents and DudeNotFunny.
327* DistinctionWithoutADifference used to be "No Except Yes", which was mistaken for ByNoIMeanYes. Before then, it used to be "This Is Pest Control", after a line from ''Series/DoctorWho'' which was otherwise impenetrable.
328* DistressedDude used to be "James Bondage". It was renamed so that it wouldn't sound porn-related.
329* DivergentCharacterEvolution used to be "Luigification", after Luigi from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. It was renamed because Luigi is more commonly associated with several other tropes, perhaps demonstrating the success of his divergent character evolution.
330* DividedWeFall used to be "Hanging Separately", after a quote to this effect by Creator/BenjaminFranklin. Not everyone was familiar with the quote, so it was changed to a better-known phrase.
331* DivineRaceLift used to be "Token Deity". It was renamed because the trope isn't really about {{Token|Index}}s.
332* DocumentaryEpisode used to be "The Documentary". It didn't clearly refer to a particular episode of a show and was mistaken for the more general page {{Documentary}}.
333* DodgeByBraking used to be "Top Gunned", after ''Film/TopGun''. The film is known for a variety of things besides that particular aerial evasive technique.
334* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength used to be "Ace Lightning Syndrome", after ''Series/AceLightning''. It was renamed as too obscure a reference.
335* DoesntTrustThoseGuys used to be "Never Trust a Trope". It was renamed both for being a StockPhrase and using "trope" as a placeholder.
336* DoNotDoThisCoolThing used to be "Truffaut Was Right", after a quote from French director Creator/FrancoisTruffaut about anti-war movies. Unfortunately, not many tropers were familiar with Truffaut, and those who were associated him more with MediaNotes/TheAuteurTheory, which he proposed. Before then, it used to be "Pink Lipstick Aesop", after a scene in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', a reference that eluded everyone unfamiliar with it.
337* DontExplainTheJoke used to be "Yes Ted, That's the Joke", after an obscure reference to UsefulNotes/TedTurner on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Although you didn't strictly speaking need to know who "Ted" was, the new name was much cleaner and more descriptive.
338* DoofyDodo used to be "Dumb Dodo Bird". It was misused to refer to [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any appearance of a dodo]]. The rename allowed a retool to clarify that it's about ''funny'' dodo birds.
339* Many DoubleStandard tropes with the format "Double Standard: X, Y" used to be "X is OK When It's Y" (''e.g.'' DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale used to be "Rape is OK When It's Female on Male"). They were all renamed because tropers mistook the "X is OK" to mean ''we're'' saying it's okay, not that the ''character'' thinks it's okay. (There's one survivor, though: StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale).
340* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs used to be "Pandora Plea", a reference to Pandora's Box. It was renamed for clarity, since Pandora's Box doesn't clearly bring to mind dangerous weapons.
341* DownToTheLastPlay used to be "The Casey Effect", after the poem ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat''. Few were familiar with the poem in question, and those who were mistakenly believed that the protagonist always ''loses'' on the last play, or that the trope was specific to UsefulNotes/{{baseball}}.
342* DoWrongRight used to be "This Is Not El Alamein", an oblique reference to the Battle of El Alamein which took place in Egypt during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Even if you were familiar with the battle, its association with the trope was a story in itself, being named after a quote from ''Series/SevenPeriodsWithMrGormsby''.
343* DramaticHighPerching used to be "I Have the High Ground", and was renamed because the fact that the original TropeNamer was actually an example of GeoEffects often led to this trope being confused with that one.
344* DramaticSlip used to be "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up", after a BreakawayAdvertisement that went {{Memetic|Mutation}} because of that line. It was misused as a StockPhrase and a reference to the meme, which led it to struggle.
345* DreamCrushingHandicap used to be "Sorry, Billy, but You Just Don't Have Legs". It was too long, unclear, and mistaken for a line of dialogue.
346* DreamRealityCheck used to be "Pinch Me". While this is a common expression of the trope, it also commonly expresses a wide variety of other related tropes, leading to misuse.
347* DrinkBasedCharacterization used to be "Drink Order". It was renamed to clarify that the trope isn't about the drink so much as the person who orders it.
348* DrivenByEnvy used to be "Salieri Syndrome", after ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}''. It was renamed for being opaque and failing to attract Administrivia/{{wick}}s.
349* DriverFacesPassenger used to be "Hollywood Driving". It was considered too broad for the trope and renamed.
350* DrunkOnMilk used to be "Drunk on Malts". It attracted occasional confusion over the definition of "malt" -- in this context, it refers to a clearly non-alcoholic drink, but some alcoholic drinks are made with malted hops.
351* DubInducedPlotHole used to be "Errors Through Localization", but it was considered too negative and was renamed. Before that, it was "My Name Is Prince Darien", after an event in the Creator/DiC dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon''; this was considered too obtuse.
352* DubInducedPlotlineChange used to be "Cut-and-Paste Translation", and was renamed because the original name didn't clearly indicate that it was about a translation changing a work's plot. In addition, it was often used to refer to translations that were made from parts of multiple works due to the "cut-and-paste" part of the name; {{Frankenslation}} was launched to cover these examples.
353* DuelingHackers used to be "Dot Combat". It was renamed to make it clearer.
354* DyingCurse used to be "A Plague on Both Your Houses", after a line from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. It was renamed to make it clearer that it was a ''curse'', not just being really mad.
355* DyingDeclarationOfLove used to be "Going Down with the Ship", a reference to {{Shipping}}. It was frequently mistaken for maritime captains who literally go down with the ship. GoingDownWithTheShip was repurposed for ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
356* DyingToBeReplaced used to be "Klingon Promotion", after the Klingons from ''Franchise/StarTrek''. However, it had very little to do with Klingons and was often mistaken for YouKillItYouBoughtIt, or for the Klingon practice of killing someone and taking their place in the hierarchy -- a trope that didn't exist back then but now uses the name KlingonPromotion.
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360* EarthAllAlong used to be "Planet of the Apes Ending", after ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''. While the ending is [[ItWasHisSled well-known]], most entries referred to the specific example or homages to it.
361* EasilyOverheardConversation used to be "The First Law of Sitcom Acoustics". First, the name was too long; second, it implied there were other "laws of sitcom acoustics" when there weren't; and third, it wasn't limited to sitcoms. The trope suffered underuse and was renamed.
362* EatingTheEyeCandy used to be "Female Gaze". This implied that it was a DistaffCounterpart to MaleGaze, but it wasn't; it's actually used InUniverse. FemaleGaze was then created to be an ''actual'' DistaffCounterpart to MaleGaze.
363* EccentricMentor used to be "The Dumbledore", after the character from ''Literature/HarryPotter''. It was renamed because the character was known for several things other than this trope.
364* EchoingAcoustics used to be "Live from Khazad-dûm", after an underground location from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. It required familiarity with the work, and even then it didn't have anything to do with the work anyway.
365* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette used to be just "Pale-Skinned Brunette". It was renamed in the cleanup of the PersonalAppearanceTropes; like many of them, this trope was misused to refer to just light-skinned, dark-haired people, which amounted to [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs people sitting on chairs]]. The "eerie" changed it to a genuine character archetype.
366* EggMacGuffin used to be "Egg [=McGuffin=]". The generally accepted spelling of "MacGuffin" is with an "a", but this trope was a pun on the Egg [=McMuffin=] from UsefulNotes/McDonalds, which ''doesn't'' have an "a". After some confusion, it was decided to align it with the spelling of MacGuffin.
367* EgocentricallyReligious used to be "Spoiled Brat of the Lord". The first problem is that not every troper associated "Lord" with a deity. The second is that those who ''did'' limited the trope to the Abrahamic deity, when it's not specific to those religions. And third, it implied that it was about a spoiled adherent to a religion, when it's really more about self-serving religious belief.
368* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas used to be "The Vodka Is Good But the Meat Is Rotten". Not only was it opaque, it was an example to the wrong trope -- it's actually the result of a RecursiveTranslation.
369* ElegantClassicalMusician used to be "Air in a G-String", an obtuse {{pun}} that didn't convey the definition of the trope at all.
370* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement used to be "Ding! Sportswear, Pantyhose and Tropes". The old name was more evocative, but harder to remember, and the trope suffered from underuse.
371* EloquentInMyNativeTongue used to be "I Sound Like a Retard in English". The former name not only didn't convey the trope very well, it also rubbed more than a few people the wrong way with its casual use of the word "retard".
372* EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal used to be "Eat the Dog". It was renamed because the [[Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones bad snowclone]] of KickTheDog resulted in misuse related to either that trope or misuse related to pets being eaten in contexts unrelated to emergency rations.
373* EmergencyImpersonation used to be "Guise Will Be Guise", a {{pun}} on a phrase that otherwise had nothing to do with the trope.
374* EmpoweredBadassNormal used to be "Badass Abnormal". People focused on the "abnormal" part of it and gave examples that were pretty much the ''opposite'' of a BadassNormal.
375* TheEndingChangesEverything used to be "[[spoiler:Film/TheUsualSuspects Ending]]", which was a reference to a specific film which revealed nothing but still managed to be a big {{spoiler}}. It was impossible to talk about without spoiling the film; the trope description even said to watch the movie before reading the rest of it.
376* EndlessGame used to be "Kobayashi Mario", a {{pun}} on ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' and the then-named trope "Kobayashi Maru", which was itself later renamed to UnwinnableTrainingSimulation. In addition to drawing from two different works, it sent the wrong impression; the ''Kobayashi Maru'' scenario wasn't endless, just unwinnable.
377* EndOfEpisodeSilliness used to be "Uncle Herbie", after a RunningGag involving this trope on ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter''. If you weren't familiar with it, you were totally lost.
378* TheEndOrIsIt used to be just "Or Is It?" It was renamed to prevent misuse not just as a StockPhrase, but as a VerbalTic; the old name was a prolific Administrivia/PotholeMagnet, and not in a good way.
379* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity was formed from an awkward partial merger of "Empowering Lake Lady" and "Strange Pond Woman". Both were in need of a rename, being a reference to the Lady of the Lake from the Myth/ArthurianLegend; this led to both tropes being thought of as overly specific, and when they were broadened they were redundant to each other.
380* EpicBattleBoredom used to be "Kicking Ass and Taking Names". It was renamed due to being unclear and falling into disuse.
381* EpicMovie used to be "BFM", an incomprehensible initialism that was effectively a snowclone of {{BFG}}. It was renamed to a generally used term for the concept.
382* EroticEating used to be "Yum Yum". It was renamed as ambiguous (possibly -- people are weird, so it was understood correctly surprisingly often).
383* EtherealWhiteDress used to be "Woman in White". It was misused to refer to the clothes rather than the character archetype, and it attracted examples that amounted to just [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs a lady wearing white]].
384* EurekaMoment used to be "Creek Moment", after the British TV detective series ''Series/JonathanCreek''. Few got the reference, with many mistaking it for a different "Creek" like ''Series/DawsonsCreek''. Even those who did get the reference had no idea what it was supposed to be. "Eureka" was far more searchable as well.
385* EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes used to be "Even Evil Has Loved Ones". It was misused to mean any instance in which an evil person demonstrates genuine love for one another; this accounted for more than 80% of its Administrivia/{{wick}}s. It actually has to do specifically with {{Mook}}s. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes was repurposed for a trope covering the original misuse.
386* EverybodyDiesEnding used to be "Kill 'Em All". It was renamed because the name doesn't say that it's an EndingTrope and was thus frequently confused with several other tropes about killing people, and the old name later became a disambiguation.
387* EverybodyKnewAlready used to be "The Not-Secret". It was renamed after confusion with the similar-but-different OpenSecret.
388* EverythingExceptMostThings used to be "Overwhelming Exception". The former title ''is'' a pre-existing term for a fallacy described in the article, but tropers misused it to mean a ''singular'' exception that is somehow "overwhelming" when it's actually about exceptions that ''outnumber'' straight cases.
389* EveryYearTheyFizzleOut used to be "The Peyton Manning" after the Hall of Fame quarterback whose college career and first decade in the NFL saw him develop a reputation for great regular season performances but failing to win a championship. The trope name was understandably unclear. The new name comes from a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch during an episode hosted by Manning after he finally won a Super Bowl, poking fun at the idea behind the trope.
390* EvilColonialist used to be "Mister Danger", after a character from the little-known ''Literature/DonaBarbara''. As such, nobody understood the reference, and nobody made the connection to colonialism.
391* EvilStoleMyFaith used to be "There Is No God". It was renamed for being a StockPhrase and for being mistaken for other tropes about atheism like HollywoodAtheist and ReligionIsWrong.
392* ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName used to be "Excited Episode Title!" However, it was about a particular episode naming convention that was more than just a title with an exclamation point (which ''used'' to be a separate trope called "Excited Show Title!", but was cut due to amounting to, well, [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs "titles with exclamation points"]]).
393* ExpendableAlternateUniverse used to be "All the Myriad Ways", after [[Literature/AllTheMyriadWays a work of the same name]]. It was quite opaque and collided with the page on the work.
394* ExperimentalArcheology used to be "Kon Tiki Plot", after a famous example in the 1947 voyage of the ''Kon-Tiki'' which was later the subject of the documentary ''Film/KonTiki''. But not enough tropers got the reference, leading to underuse. The rename also allowed it to be broader and clearer than just the specific ''Kon-Tiki'' voyage.
395* ExplainingTheSoap used to be "Soap on a Trope". In addition to being non-indicative, it made use of the deprecated convention of using "trope" as a placeholder.
396* ExponentialPlotDelay used to be "Zeno's Race", after an early mathematical theory of limits. The idea was that a story that showed increasing plot delay could be metaphorically represented by Zeno's theory. Most readers didn't make the connection; even if they understood the theory, they didn't link it to plot pacing.
397* ExpositingTheMasquerade used to be "We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum for Years". In addition to being unwieldy and a StockPhrase, it didn't necessarily have to do with AppliedPhlebotinum, leading to underuse.
398* ExpositionFairy used to be "Ninja Butterfly", after the video game ''VideoGame/RedNinjaEndOfHonor''. If you weren't familiar with the work, you wouldn't assume "friendly advice-giving character"; you'd assume "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin stealth lepidopteran assassins of shadow]]".
399* ExtranormalInstitute used to be "Wizarding School". It was renamed because it didn't specifically have to do with wizardry. WizardingSchool is now the name of a trope that's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
400* ExtraYExtraViolent used to be "XYY". It was renamed because even if one understood the reference to chromosomes, it didn't clarify that the extra Y-chromosome leads to violent behavior.
401* ExtremeSportsPlot used to be "Extreme Sport Excuse Plot", but was renamed to make it less negative. Before then, it was "Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot", but the XtremeKoolLetterz made it hard to find and led to underuse.
402* TheExtremistWasRight used to be "And It Worked". It was renamed as a StockPhrase that wasn't very clear.
403* ExtyYearsFromPublication used to be "Exty Years from Now". It was renamed after frequent confusion for ExactlyExtyYearsAgo and YearX.
404* EyelidPullTaunt used to be "Red Eye". It was mistaken for other instances of red eyes, like RedEyesTakeWarning. It also collided with the film ''Film/RedEye''.
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