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18	* LamePunReaction used to be "Incredibly Lame Pun". It was a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for tropers to refer to puns they themselves didn't like (which was indeed its ''intended'' purpose, in the heady early days of the wiki). It was renamed to clean up all the potholes, most of which were gratuitous complaining, and allow for an InUniverse trope that wasn't overshadowed by out-of-universe uses. "Incredibly Lame Pun" is now a redirect to the more neutral {{Pun}}.
19	* LampshadedDoubleEntendre used to be "Nudge Nudge", and before that just "Nudge", and before that "If You Know What I Mean". The first rename was necessary because the "I" in the title turned it into a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and encouraged tropers to talk about themselves. The second rename came because "Nudge" was unclear (and indeed it was a temporary replacement). The third rename came because "Nudge Nudge" was ''still'' unclear -- although more people understood it (perhaps because it was more reminiscent of a famous use of the trope from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', although it's unclear if it was meant to be the TropeNamer), it was still not thriving. The final rename not only made it clear what it was, it also made it clear that it wasn't about the DoubleEntendre itself, but a character {{lampshad\|ed}}ing it.
20	* LargeHamAnnouncer used to be "Anything's Awesome with Announcers". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Awesome with X" snowclone family. And in any event, it used "anything" rather than "everything", which confused some tropers, and it also wasn't clear that it referred to a specific kind of announcer.
21	* TheLastStraw used to be "Wafer Thin Mint", after a scene from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did associated the scene with a different trope like DeathByGluttony or LudicrousGibs (it's a pretty disgusting scene). The term "last straw" was a longstanding idiom for the concept -- even the trope's description acknowledged it as a more common name for it.
22	* LateArrivalSpoiler used to be "You Should Know This Already". Many tropers interpreted it literally and {{pothole}}d it when they wanted to tell the ''reader'' that they "should know" something, even as an excuse not to use spoiler tags. The new name clarifies that it's the ''creator'' who's thinking this.
23	* LateToThePunchline used to be "Swiss Moment", after a not very widespread association of the Swiss with being slow to get jokes. UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} is generally associated with other tropes, like [[YodelLand yodeling]], [[SwissBankAccount opaque banking practices]], and [[TeamSwitzerland neutrality]].
24	* LateToTheRealization used to be "The Last Horse Crosses the Finish Line", a reference to an idiom that may not even exist. It was essentially a long and unwieldy WordSaladTitle and needed a rename.
25	* LateToTheTragedy used to be "Late to the Party". It was misused for pretty much any use of "party", such as an adventure, a fight, or a literal party.
26	* LauncherOfAThousandShips used to be "Little Black Dress", the idea being that such characters "go with everything". Other than that, it had nothing to do with dresses. It also gave the impression that the trope was AlwaysFemale when it wasn't. LittleBlackDress now covers ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
27	* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid was formed from the merger of "Lava is Red Hot Water" and "Lava is Kool-Aid". They were so often confused with each other that a rename was needed, and in the process, it was decided that even if they were distinct tropes, they happened together so often that they may as well be part of the same trope.
28	* LeadPoliceDetective used to be "The Inspector". It was considered too narrowly defined -- not all Lead Police Detectives are inspectors.
29	* LegacyCharacter used to be "Dread Pirate Roberts", after an example from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. It required familiarity with the reference to understand.
30	* LegFocus used to be "She's Got Legs". It's supposed to be for when the camera and/or a character in a work draws attention to a character's legs, but it was frequently misused for creepy gushing.
31	* LessEmbarrassingTerm used to be "The European Carry-All", after a reference from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did thought it was specific to "man-purses".
32	* LesserStar used to be "Garfunkel", after one half of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel. It was commonly misused for StuckInTheirShadow, of which it was a much better example -- Art Garfunkel wasn't a Lesser Star, being a key component of the duo's harmonies.
33	* LessonOfTheDaySpeech was renamed from "Script Wank" partially to reduce complaining, and partially to clarify the definition.
34	* LevelInTheClouds used to be "Bubbly Clouds", after a level from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series. It was renamed to clarify that it's about video game levels.
35	* LGBTFanbase used to be "Fan Yay", an opaque snowclone of HoYay. It was renamed because not everyone got that said fans had to be LGBT; in other words, not everyone got that the "Ho" part was what carried over.
36	* LightEmUp used to be "Light the Way". It was misused to refer to literal lighting of a path; the rename clarified that it was about an elemental power.
37	* LightFlickerTeleportation used to be "Blackout Blink". It was renamed to clarify that it meant "blackout" in a literal sense, not in a metaphorical sense like "[[WhatDidIDoLastNight blackout drunk]]".
38	* LikeADuckTakesToWater used to be "The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer". It was renamed because it wasn't clear that the caveman became a lawyer ''after'' being unfrozen, and because it was mistaken for referring specifically to lawyers (leading to occasional confusion with SimpleCountryLawyer). In the process, it absorbed the existing trope "Like a Fish Takes to Water", which was poorly defined to begin with.
39	* LikesOlderWomen used to be "Cake Eater", after the Japanese idiom "Christmas cake" for women considered too old to date -- which used to be its own trope, but was merged in with OldMaid.[[note]]The analogy refers the Japanese tradition to eat cake on Christmas; the idea is that a woman becomes undesirable after she turns 26, the same way a Christmas cake becomes undesirable on December 26th. A better-known equivalent in the west would be Valentine's chocolates or Halloween candy.[[/note]] Not everyone got the reference, leading to the rename.
40	* LiteralMinded used to be "Amelia Bedelia", after the title character of the ''Literature/AmeliaBedelia'' series of children's books. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did mistook the trope for the work's page.
41	* LiteralSplitPersonality used to be "Starfish Character", a reference to ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', where this happened to a character after they were cut in half while transformed into a starfish. It was renamed to make it clearer what it meant.
42	* LittleBitBeastly used to be "Kemonomimi". It was renamed for being GratuitousJapanese and very hard to search. The Japanese name came from an attempt to refine the former trope "Petting Zoo People", which wound up being merged with BeastMan.
43	* LittleGuyBigBuddy used to be "Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot", characters from the old cartoon ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did thought it was limited to dogs and cats, as opposed to any two characters.
44	* LittleMissBadass used to be "Badass Lolita". It's not a direct reference to ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', but rather the derivative FanSpeak term "loli" for sexualized underage characters. Naturally, this became a big issue after Archive/TheGoogleIncident. In any event, there was no requirement that such characters had to be sexualized.
45	* LittleMissSnarker used to be "Deadpan Loli", again a reference to sexualized underage characters and renamed for the same reason as LittleMissBadass. Before then, it was "The Ruri", after the character from ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', but was renamed for being an opaque reference.
46	* LoanShark used to be "All-Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks", a reference to a company from ''VideoGame/Pikmin2''. Although it did get the point across, it was long, unwieldy, and difficult to remember.
47	* LondonGangster used to be "Kray Winstone". It was a bizarrely oblique reference; the first name was the surname of an iconic pair of RealLife London gangsters, and the second was the surname of an actor whose performance they inspired. Many tropers didn't get either reference, let alone both. In any event, the Krays are commonly associated with TheDon, whereas the current trope encompasses a variety of gangster archetypes.
48	* LonelyFuneral used to be "Tragic Funeral". It was renamed for clarity, as not all tragic funerals are lonely affairs.
49	* LongingForFictionland used to be "Longing for Pandora", after the setting of the movie ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. Not everyone got the reference, and many tropers mistook it to refer to other uses of Pandora, mostly Pandora's Box from Myth/ClassicalMythology.
50	* LongLostUncleAesop used to be "Uncle Ned", after such a character from ''Series/FamilyTies''. Few got the reference, and many who did mistook it for the broader trope RememberTheNewGuy.
51	* LongSongShortScene used to be "Wasted Song". It was renamed to make it less negative.
52	* LookBehindYou used to be "Hey, What's That?" It might seem like a lateral move now, but back in the day we didn't have [[Administrivia/HowToMakeACustomTitle custom titles]], and we didn't like names with punctuation in them.
53	* LootDrama used to be "The Ridill", after a sword from ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. It was an opaque reference, and "loot drama" was a pre-existing term in the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]] community which was clear enough to be understood by a wider audience.
54	* LostInMediasRes used to be "Hold Your Horses". It was a StockPhrase that wasn't clear that it was directed at the ''author''.
55	* LoudnessWar used to be "Record of Loudness War", a pun on the title of ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''. It required familiarity with the work, which had nothing to do with the trope. The new name appears to preserve the pun, but it's actually a pre-existing term.
56	* LovableAlphaBitch used to be "Lovable Libby", after the former trope "The Libby". When the supertrope was renamed to AlphaBitch, this trope was renamed to match.
57	* LovedOnesMontage used to be "Nakamania", a reference to the former trope "Nakama". It didn't make much sense to begin with, and it made much less sense once "Nakama" was renamed to TrueCompanions.
58	* LovelyAssistant used to be "The Vanna", after the hostess from ''Series/WheelOfFortune''. Not everyone got the reference, and the rename allowed the page's scope to be expanded beyond just game shows.
59	* LoverTugOfWar used to be "Tug Lover War". The rename kept the essence of the old name but arranged it in a much more logical way.
60	* LovesMyAlterEgo used to be "The Lois Lane", after the LoveInterest from ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''. Lois was associated with a few other tropes, and in any event many Administrivia/{{wick}}s were references to the character and not the trope.
61	* LuckBasedSearchTechnique used to be "Shaggy Search Technique", after the character from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. Although it ''was'' clearly a search technique, it required familiarity with the work. Those who didn't have it occasionally mistook "Shaggy" for something else, like ShaggyDogStory and its derivatives.
62	* LyricsVideoMismatch used to be "Narrative Non Sequitur". It was renamed to clarify that it's specifically a {{Music Video Trope\|s}}.
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66	* MachineWorship used to be "Ave Machina", a reference to the Latin salute ''Ave'' (''e.g.'' the famous ''Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant''[[note]]"''Ave'' Caesar, those who will die salute you," spoken by gladiators to the watching Emperor before the matches[[/note]]). Not everyone got that it was a salute. And it was quite similar to the Latin ''Ave Maria'', a reference to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, leading to people thinking it had a different kind of religious element than it did.
67	* MagicalEye used to be "Evil Eye". It was a pre-existing term for a plethora of tropes which weren't this one. EvilEye is now an index page for such tropes, including Magical Eye.
68	* MagicalGirlWarrior used to be just "Magic Warrior". It was renamed to clarify that it was about {{Magical Girl}}s and not {{Magic Knight}}s.
69	* MagpiesAsPortents used to be "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy", a reference to a nursery rhyme which turned out to be unfamiliar to many outside the British Isles.
70	* MakeRoomForTheNewPlot used to be "Got a Bigger Problem Now". It was misused as a line of dialogue and not clear that it the "bigger problem" would be the new plot.
71	* MaleBandFemaleSinger used to be one half of "The Suzi Quatro Principle", after 80s rocker Music/SuziQuatro, who often used an all-male backing band. The other half of the trope became FemaleRockersPlayBass. When they were the same trope, it was considered too narrow, leading to the split. In any event, not everyone was familiar with the TropeNamer, which would have necessitated a rename anyway.
72	* MalignedMixedMarriage used to be just "Mixed Marriage". It was misused to refer to ''any'' interracial relationship. The new name clarified that said relationship had to be seen negatively.
73	* ManBitesMan used to be "Take a Bite Out of Crime", a reference to the slogan of "[=McGruff=] the Crime Dog" from a series of American {{Public Service Announcement}}s. It was often mistakenly for a trope about fighting crime, and it also wasn't clear that a ''human'' had to do the biting -- especially since the TropeNamer wasn't a human.
74	* {{Manchild}} used to be "The Oscar", after a character from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. It failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, especially with respect to [[MediaNotes/AcademyAward the Oscars]]. And the TropeNamer wasn't even an example himself.
75	* MandatoryMotherhood used to be "Childfree Is Not Allowed". In this case, "childfree" is the name of a somewhat controversial movement; those who picked up on it gave it unnecessary connotations. It's entirely possible to be childless without identifying with the movement.
76	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy used to be "Pink Boy, Blue Girl". It was mistaken for an inversion of PinkGirlBlueBoy, which it wasn't -- it didn't have to do with colors and motifs, but rather character types.
77	* MeaninglessVillainVictory used to be "Pound of Flesh Twist", after Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. Although Shakespeare is far from obscure (there's a reason for JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples), it was renamed to combat underuse from suspected lack of clarity. There was also a conflict with the similarly named "Pound of Flesh", which was itself renamed to OffTheTable. See what happens when you name two tropes after the same scene?
78	* MeaningfulEcho used to be "You Are with Me", after a line from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. Even if you were familiar with the work, you'd have to be ''really'' familiar with it to know the line. And if you weren't familiar with the line, there was no way to know it was said twice. FanMyopia at its finest.
79	* MeddlesomePatrolman used to be "The Longtarin", after a character from ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense.
80	* MediaScaremongering used to be "You Can Panic Now". It was renamed because the old name didn't communicate that it was related to news media, and it also read like a stock phrase, resulting in it frequently being confused with ThisIsNoTimeToPanic and other tropes related to panicking, when it wasn't just taken to mean [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any sort of panic]].
81	* MediaScrum used to be just "Scrum". It was renamed to clarify which kind of scrum it's about.
82	* MenBuyFromMarsWomenBuyFromVenus used to be "Men Are from Candy Bars, Women Are from Shaving Products". It was long, opaque, and hard to remember.
83	* TheMenInBlack used to be "MIB". First, initialisms are difficult to parse and disfavored for trope names, and second, the initialism invited accidental references to the work ''Franchise/MenInBlack''.
84	* MentorArchetype used to be "The Obi-Wan", after the character from ''Franchise/StarWars''. Although most tropers knew who Obi-Wan was, he was associated with a plethora of other tropes, making the name unintuitive.
85	* MetaphoricallyTrue had three previous names. First, it was "Jedi Truth", a reference to ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- specifically the exchange from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' where Obi-Wan explains to Luke that he didn't technically lie about [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader being his father]]. It was renamed because even if you knew the exchange, the name wasn't clearly ''about'' it, so it became "From a Certain Point of View" (a direct quote from the exchange). Then it was renamed for still being unclear, so it became "Half Truth". Finally, it was renamed to "Metaphorically True" as part of a split that still hasn't been implemented.
86	* MetronomicManMashing used to be "Metronomic Mook Massacre". It was renamed because it had little to do with {{mooks}} or massacres. And we found a way to keep the AddedAlliterativeAppeal, to boot.
87	* MergedReality used to be "Make a Better World". It was misused for characters who just had the desire to make the world better, rather than a merger with a parallel world, regardless of the motivation for it.
88	* MessyPig used to be "Everything's Messier with Pigs". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. To wit, even though the old name had "messier" in it, not everyone understood that it was essential to the trope, leading to effectively a list of pigs in media.
89	* MidBattleTeaBreak used to be "Crocker Tea Breaker", after a scene from the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe''. It was renamed for being a gratuitous reference to a character not everyone was familiar with. The TropeNamer is still the page image, though.
90	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow used to be "Asian Gal with White Guy". It was misused as a list of any relationship between a Western man and an Asian woman, which amounts to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. Before then, it was "Me Love You Long Time", after a scene from ''Film/FullMetalJacket''; in addition to being [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish kinda racist]], it wasn't even an example -- it's a [[AsianHookerStereotype hooker]] propositioning a soldier in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]], leading to the idea that the trope referred to that scenario.
91	* MindControl used to be "Mind Manipulation". Not all manipulation involves control, but we went with an alliterative name over the pre-existing term. "Mind Control" was already a redirect to it but had far more Administrivia/{{wick}}s than the actual name. Even then, the trope was retooled as a {{supertrope}} for a bunch of other types of mind control, of which there are many.
92	* MinigameZone used to be "Golden Saucer", after the amusement park in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. It required familiarity with the game and suffered from underuse. And in any event, in the game itself it's called the "''Gold'' Saucer".
93	* MinimalistCast used to be "Omega Cast". The reference to "omega" was unclear (is it like "alpha and omega", or does it come after BetaCouple?), leading to no one understanding what kind of cast it actually was. As such, it suffered from underuse.
94	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot used to be "Gonna Need a Bigger Warrant", a snowclone from the GonnaNeedMoreX family. It suffered from underuse and was renamed to clarify that it was not limited to official investigations that would require a warrant.
95	* MinorFlawMajorBreakup used to be "Man Hands", a reference to ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Not everyone understood the reference, and many who did thought it was about a woman with freakishly big hands, not making the connection that it's about Jerry breaking up with such a woman for it.
96	* MisaimedMerchandising was renamed from "Misaimed Marketing" because the trope is supposed to be a trope about the marketing for merchandise for a work missing the point of said work, but it was often misused in place of tropes for advertisements unrelated to merchandise, such as NeverTrustATrailer.
97	* MissingStepsPlan used to be "Step Three: Profit", after a {{memetic\|Mutation}} scene from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. It was renamed to broaden it from specific uses of the memetic format -- it can have more than three steps, the last step can be things other than "profit", and the missing steps don't need to be denoted with question marks.
98	* MistakenForPedophile used to be "Little Kid Lover". It was misused as a general list of pedophiles; the rename made it clear that the character is ''not'' a pedophile, just mistaken for one.
99	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal used to be "Help-Face Turn", a [[Administrivia/EverythingsWorseWithSnowclones bad snowclone]] of HeelFaceTurn. It was entirely misleading, sounding more like the HeelFaceTurn happened because TheHero helped them rather than because their BadBoss mistreated them.
100	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold used to be "The Boo Radley", after a character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''. If you were unfamiliar with the work, you wouldn't get it. If you ''were'' familiar with the work but hadn't finished it, it was a {{Spoiler}}.
101	* MockGuffin used to be "Golden Helmet of Mambrino", after an example from ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense.
102	* ModelScam used to be "You Would Make a Great Model". It was mistaken for a StockPhrase and used for any invitation to be a model. The rename clarified that such invitations are dishonest -- those who accept don't end up doing any modeling at all.
103	* MediaNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Modern Age". It was renamed because it gave no indication that it had anything to do with comic books, leading to Administrivia/{{wick}}s about all kinds of eras known as the "modern age".
104	* {{Moe}} used to be "Moe Moe". Back in the day, there used to be a minimum character length for trope names; "Moe" was too short, so it had to be doubled. Once that limit was removed, it was renamed after the proper term. It does cause confusion with Western media characters named "Moe", but it's a legit name for a legit trope. As they say, mo' moe, mo' problems.
105	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome used to be "Awesome Moments" and before then "Crowning Moment of Awesome". It was originally intended to be for each work's single most awesome moment (hence "crowning moment"), but it quickly metastasized to include ''every'' awesome moment in the work. Unable to stem the tide, we capitulated and renamed it "Awesome Moments" to reflect its longstanding usage. Then we renamed it "Moment of Awesome" because it was such a well-known trope under its former name that it seemed unfair to change it too much. We did the same thing for the related tropes snowcloned from it, like SugarWiki/FunnyMoments (formerly "Crowning Moment of Funny") and SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments (formerly "Crowning Moment of Heartwarming").
106	* MoneyMakingShot used to be "Money Shot". It was renamed because the term is widely associated with a specific shot in pornography.
107	* MonsterOrganTrafficking used to be "Mainlining the Monster". The definition was unclear, and the trope was given a new name when the definition was refined.
108	* MoonLogicPuzzle used to be "See the Sailboat", after a Magic Eye puzzle in the movie ''Film/{{Mallrats}}''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the work and having nothing to do with sailboats, it was something you stare at fruitlessly trying to decipher -- an example of its own trope.
109	* MooseAndMapleSyrup was renamed from "Canada, Eh?" to make it more clear that it's specfically for stereotypical depictions of Canada.
110	* MoralEventHorizon used to be "Rape the Dog", after KickTheDog. It was commonly misused to mean "Kick the Dog, [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore but more evil]]". (Also, Website/TVTropes is [[BestialityIsDepraved the wrong place for bestiality]].)
111	* MoreFriendsMoreBenefits used to be "Mambo Intimacy 5". Not only was it unclear what it referred to, those who understood the naming convention (the same one for LevelUpAtIntimacy5) thought it had to do with video games when it didn't necessarily.
112	* MosesInTheBulrushes used to be "Moses in the Bullrushes". It was renamed to correct the spelling. (How embarrassing!)
113	* MovesetClone used to be "Ryu and Ken", after a pair from the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' games. They failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit and it wasn't always clear how they related to the trope.
114	* MrAltDisney used to be "Dis Not". It was renamed to be a clearer reference and to make it apparent that it's a parody of Creator/WaltDisney himself and not his creations.
115	* MrFanservice used to be "Estrogen Brigade Bait". It was supposed to be a SpearCounterpart to MsFanservice, but it was misused for any male character whom tropers thought was sexy. Its relation to EstrogenBrigade suggested it was a form of MultipleDemographicAppeal. Instead, it was renamed to reflect the trope it's ''actually'' related to.
116	* MrsHypothetical used to be "Thinking of Changing Her Name to His". It was intolerably wordy and didn't quite outline the general concept. Tellingly, it lasted only a few hours after launch before the name change.
117	* MrViceGuy used to be "[=McDuck=]", after the character Scrooge [=McDuck=] from the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the work, the TropeNamer is associated with several other tropes. And the lack of a "the" meant invited tropers to mistake the trope for a page about the character, not helped by how "[=McDuck=]" is easy to accidentally format as a Administrivia/WikiWord.
118	* MulticulturalAlienPlanet used to be "Lots of Planets Have a North", after a line from ''Series/DoctorWho''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the work, it wasn't even an example -- it was more about AliensOfLondon, in that aliens have accents that Earth people recognize.
119	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable used to be "Norma Bates", after a character from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. If you weren't familiar with the work, it made no sense; if you were, it was a {{spoiler}}. Before then, it was "Last Dance with Mary Jane", a reference to Music/TomPetty's song Music/MaryJanesLastDance (or rather [[RefrainFromAssuming a lyric therefrom]]), which gave the impression that it was specifically about [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]].
120	* MundaneMadeAwesome used to be "What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?" It was renamed in the cleanup of the WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex snowclone family.
121	* MuppetCameo used to be "Everything's Better with Muppets". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family, and to clarify that it's about Franchise/TheMuppets ''outside'' of their home franchise.
122	* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine used to be "Crush, Kill, Destroy". It was renamed to clarify that it was about ''defective'' machines, not machines programmed to crush, kill, and destroy.
123	* MustBeInvited used to be "Vampire Invitation". It was renamed to clarify that it wasn't exclusive to vampires and applied to other supernatural beings.
124	* MustNotDieAVirgin used to be called "You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?" It was mistaken for a line of dialogue and misused to refer to any life-or-death situation.
125	* MutantDraftBoard used to be "The Corps Is Mother", after the slogan of the infamous Psi Corps from ''Series/BabylonFive''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense.
126	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg used to be "And Zoidberg". Both refer to the character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', but the rename clarified how he related to the trope. It also avoided the issues of starting the trope with "and", making it easy to tack on to the end of a sentence as a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet. In between, it was briefly "Ladies and Alice", but we found a way to preserve the TropeNamer in a way that made a lot more sense.
127	* Mystical108 used to be just "One Hundred and Eight". It was renamed to clarify that it relates to its relevance to Dharmic religions. Without it, it was just appearances of the number 108 in fiction, which amounted to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.
128	* MysticalIndia used to be "Sim Sim Salabim", which was named after a magic phrase said by Hadji Singh from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''. It was renamed because the old name was a gibberish phrase, had nothing to do with India, and might have contributed to the trope's relatively low wick count.
129	* MysticalWhiteHair used to be "White-Haired Pretty Girl". It was renamed in the cleanup of the PersonalAppearanceTropes; now, it's clearer that it's about a mystical character rather than just a beautiful one. It's also now gender-neutral.
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133	* NakedApron used to be "Hadaka Apron", which means the same thing but in GratuitousJapanese. Even if you understood it -- which is not something that the wiki should expect -- it gave the impression that it was specifically a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}}, which it isn't.
134	* NakedFreakOut used to be "Unmentionable BSOD". Not everyone made the right connection with the word "unmentionable" (which can refer to {{Unmentionables}}, which wouldn't be present on a character who's naked), and it also implied a connection with HeroicBSOD that didn't really exist.
135	* TheNameIsBondJamesBond used to be "Surname First Name Surname". It was unwieldy and difficult to parse (the dialogue is three words, but the trope name has four), and not everyone picked up on what "surname" meant. It then became one of the few tropes that didn't have a TropeNamer to pick one up in a rename; in this case, it's quite obviously ''Franchise/JamesBond''.
136	* NarratingTheObvious used to be "This Just In". It was mistaken for a {{News Trope\|s}} about announcing breaking news, and indeed ThisJustIn is now the name of such a trope.
137	* NaughtyNurseOutfit used to be "Night Nurse". It was mistaken for a character type rather than a costume trope.
138	* NavelDeepNeckline used to be "Absolute Cleavage". It was renamed because the word "absolute" didn't clearly indicate that part of the woman's abdomen has to be visible, leading to misuse to refer to cleavage in general.
139	* NestedStory used to be "Push Pop Plot", after the computer science abstraction known as a "stack". Most readers don't know anything about stacks, and many who did weren't familiar with how push and pop operations apply to a stack. Some tropers thought it [[IsItSomethingYouEat was a kind of candy]] (if you're wondering, it is). (One wonders what they think [[TheStoner a "hash table" might be]].)
140	* NeutronBomb used to be "Kill the Poor", after a song of that name by the Music/DeadKennedys. The song was only connected in that it suggested that the former was a good way to accomplish the latter; other than that, there was no link. Tropers thought it referred to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin killing the poor]], and KillThePoor is now a trope about it.
141	* NeverASelfMadeWoman used to be "Female Success Is Family". It was mistaken for a wide array of related tropes like AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits, CareerVersusMan, and FamilyVersusCareer.
142	* NeverLiveItDown used to be "Jean Grey Escalation", after the ''ComicBook/XMen'' character. The idea was that she had ''one'' ComicBookDeath which the writers and fans both blew out of proportion to the point that it helped define her character. This same mischaracterisation plagued the trope name, with tropers using "Jean Grey Escalation" as a synonym for DeathIsCheap.
143	* NeverMyFault used to be "You Blockhead", after Lucy's CharacterCatchphrase in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Even though the character is the type to never admit fault, the catchphrase wasn't always used in that context. In any event, the name was also a line of dialogue and occasionally used as a way of tropers expressing their own opinion about things.
144	* NeverWinTheLottery used to be "Lottery Ticket". It was used too broadly; the rename clarifies that ''(a)'' you have to ''win'', and ''(b)'' it [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor doesn't work out the way you think]].
145	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands used to be "Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?", after a line from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. It was misused as a line of dialogue and listed any character changing jobs multiple times for any reason.
146	* NewRulesAsThePlotDemands used to be "Screw the Rules, I Have Plot!". It was renamed because it didn't really relate to the other "[[ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes Screw the Rules]]" tropes. Before then, it was "The Catapult Turtle Flying Castle Gambit", after a scene from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''. It was renamed for being clumsy, hard to remember, and unintuitive -- but it was renamed to a "Screw the Rules" snowclone because that family of tropes has the same TropeNamer.
147	* NextTierPowerUp used to be "Shōnen Upgrade". It was mistaken for a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}} when it really isn't.
148	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant used to be "Nightmare Dispenser", and before that it was... "Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant". The first rename was back when we distinguished between "Nightmare Fuel" and "High Octane Nightmare Fuel", and someone [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/tlp_activity.php proposed]] a trope called "High Octane Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant" just to make it match. The definition never got farther than "NFSA, [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore but scarier]]", leading to the idea that the original trope name was misleading (especially since NightmareFuel is a {{Subjective Trope\|s}}, but NFSA was not). Then when we cleaned up NightmareFuel (and deleted High Octane in favour of AccidentalNightmareFuel), we decided to change it back.
149	* NightmareSequence used to be "Nightmare Dreams". It was renamed for being unwieldy and obscure.
150	* NoBiologicalSex used to be "No Gender". Gender identity and biological sex are not the same thing. By focusing on gender rather than sex, the trope collected examples of characters with a biological sex but no gender identity.
151	* NobleMaleRoguishMale used to be "Light Masculine and Dark Masculine", after the trope LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine. However, they were more different than the name indicated, and the rename made that clear.
152	* NoDeadBodyPoops used to be "Bowel Existence Failure", an awkward snowclone of "Author Existence Failure" (the old name for DiedDuringProduction). In addition to being less awkward, the rename matches with the more closely-related NobodyPoops, and clarifies that it's about dead bodies, preventing confusion with PottyFailure.
153	* NoDelaysForTheWicked used to be "The Trains Run on Time". The idiom after which it's named was more commonly used for RepressiveButEfficient, for which "The Trains Run on Time" is now a redirect.
154	* NoExportForYou used to be "Our Country Is Speshulz". It was difficult to remember how to spell its WebOriginal/LOLCats-inspired title, and it was also mistaken for other nationalism tropes.
155	* NoGearLevel used to be "Warring Without Weapons". It wasn't clear that it was about video games, leading to underuse and confusion with GoodOldFisticuffs.
156	* NoJustNoReaction used to be "No, Just... No". The old name was a line of dialogue that became a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for tropers to react that way themselves. The new name makes it clear that it's an InUniverse trope.
157	* NoLoveForTheWicked used to be called "Villainous Aromantic Asexual" and was renamed partially because the definition was refined to focus less on sexual and romantic orientation and more on the villain's inability to feel love, and partially because the aspect of the trope that requires the villain's lovelessness to be used to portray them as freakish was frequently ignored.
158	* "Nominal Parody" used to be "Parody Failure". It was renamed to make it less negative. Didn't exactly work, which is why it was since merged into RedundantParody.
159	* NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech used to be "'World of Cardboard' Speech", after a scene from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' in which Superman threatens Darkseid with the fullest extent of his power. The trope was meant to be about the hero overcoming obstacles and finally giving it their all. But it was misused to mean "[[HeroismMotiveSpeech this is why I'm the hero]]," "[[BadassBoast I could destroy this world without difficulty]]," or "[[TheGlovesComeOff I was holding back on purpose, but you're too big a threat]]" (which is kind of what the TropeNamer was about).
160	* NonActionSnarker used to be "The Shelton", after Dr. Shelton from the roleplay ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers''. It was too obscure to be a good TropeNamer, meaning that almost no one could tell what the trope meant.
161	* NonPoweredCostumedHero used to be "Costumed Non-Superhero". It was renamed because it implied that it wasn't about heroes at all; the "non" qualifier was confusing as to how it related to {{Super Hero}}es.
162	* NonSequiturDistraction used to be "Forget It, He's Rolling", after a scene in ''Film/AnimalHouse''. Said scene didn't relate to the trope, because it wasn't really in response to a non-sequitur. Indeed, those familiar with the scene thought the trope meant the exact opposite, because (as the name suggests) the characters there were able to shrug off the distraction.
163	* NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom used to be "Pipe Shooter", apparently a nickname in [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish]] media (not that we could verify that), which was too obtuse for anyone to understand. The name, when taken literally, also invoked images of the early video game ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}}'', which is actually a RailShooter.
164	* NotActuallyCosmeticAward used to be "What Do You Mean, It's Not Cosmetic?" It was renamed in the cleanup of the WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex snowclone family; its dialogue title invited misuse.
165	* NotAlwaysEvil used to be "Good All Along". It did a poor job describing the trope, especially as it doesn't require being good. GoodAllAlong is now a page for ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
166	* NotBadassEnoughForFans used to be "What Measure Is a Non-Badass?". It was renamed because the fact that it's about fans disliking a character because they don't think they're badass enough by the standards of the work and/or genre was often overlooked, particularly because the naming scheme "What Measure Is a(n) X?" usually refers to characters being treated as disposable instead of simply unlikable.
167	* NotGrowingUpSucks used to be "Can't Grow Up". Not only was it too broad for the trope at hand, it's apparently also the title of a work.
168	* NoTimeToThink used to be "Red Wire, Blue Wire". It was very frequently mistaken for the WireDilemma.
169	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer used to be "I Am Not Making This Up", after a line by Creator/DaveBarry. It was an ''incredible'' Administrivia/PotholeMagnet; the "I" invited tropers to link to it as a way of commenting on the example. And since tropers like to one-up each other, this led to tropers linking to this page any time anything mildly extraordinary happened. Needless to say, it was extremely annoying. The rename clarifies that it's an InUniverse trope.
170	* NotNowKiddo used to be "Not Now, Bernard", after [[Literature/NotNowBernard the work of the same name]]. Not everyone got the reference, and it collided with the work's page.
171	* NotQuiteForever used to be "You Fail Forever Forever", a snowclone from the now-deprecated "You Fail X Forever" family. Even before those tropes were cleaned up, it was realized that this one didn't really relate to them.
172	* NotSoDifferentRemark used to be just "Not So Different". It was renamed to clarify that it's an InUniverse trope -- someone in-story has to make the observation.
173	* NotSoForgottenBirthday used to be just "Forgotten Birthday". It was too broad; it's not enough for the birthday to be apparently forgotten, but someone has to eventually remember it. ForgottenBirthday is now a trope about the broader meaning.
174	* NotSoHarmlessVillain used to be just "Not So Harmless". It was ''way'' too broad, being used for anything that was "not so harmless" as opposed to villains specifically.
175	* NotSoPhonyPsychic used to be "Phony Phony Psychic". It was renamed for being rather ambiguous (do the "phonies" cancel each other out, or do they double?).
176	* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay used to be "Dead Ex Machina", a confusing snowclone of DeusExMachina. The tropes aren't really related, as the former trope doesn't necessarily have to involve an intervention that hasn't been built up beforehand.
177	* NotUsingTheZWord used to be "Not Using the Zed Word". The TropeNamer is ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', a British film; it was launched by an American who didn't realise that "zed" is just how the British (and the rest of the Commonwealth) say the letter "Z".
178	* NotWearingPantsDream used to be just "Not Wearing Pants". It was renamed to clarify that it has to be in a dream.
179	* NotWithThemForTheMoney used to be "Gold Burier", an opaque snowclone of GoldDigger. In addition to not everyone getting the reference, the tropes aren't opposites of each other.
180	* NPCRoadblock used to be "Dronejam", after ''Website/TheRPGClichesGame''. Few got the reference, and it led to underuse.
181	* NuclearMutant used to be "Nuclear Nasty", and was renamed because it was retooled into a trope about radioactive mutants in general, rather than just villainous ones.
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185	* ObsessivelyOrganized used to be "Super OCD". It was renamed because it was frequently mistakenly used to refer to actual UsefulNotes/ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder despite being about characters obsessed with rule and order, regardless of whether they have OCD.
186	* ObstructiveVigilantism used to be "Obstructive Vigilance". It was renamed for greater clarity; not all vigilant characters are engaged in vigilantism.
187	* OddLastItemIndex was previously a trope titled "The Last of These is Not Like the Others", but was converted to an index due to heavy misuse and redundancy issues with related tropes such as ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and BreadEggsMilkSquick.
188	* OfCorpseHesAlive used to be "Weekend at Bernie's", after [[Film/WeekendAtBernies the film of the same name]]. Although the film is a very prominent example of the trope, the trope conflicted with the work's page and needed a rename.
189	* OffBridgeOntoVehicle used to be "Jump off a Bridge". It was mistaken for several other tropes, like CarCushion and JumpOffABridgeRebuttal.
190	* OffscreenInertia used to be "Tethercat Principle", after a particular strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense. In the process, it also absorbed the trope "No End in Sight", which itself was in dire need of a rename because it gave no indication that it was specific to ''porn''.
191	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome used to be "Missed Moment of Awesome", and before then "Epic Fail". The first rename was a result of misuse to mean "any complete catastrophe or failure", which EpicFail is now about. The second rename was a result of misuse to mean "things that didn't happen but really should have" as opposed to "things that ''did'' happen but we didn't get to see".
192	* OffTheTable used to be "Pound of Flesh", after Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''. It was mistaken for the similarly named "Pound of Flesh Twist", named after the same play and since renamed to MeaninglessVillainVictory.
193	* OhGodWithTheVerbing used to be "Oh God, with the Troping!" A bit of a lateral move, but a useful one; first, it made it more specific, and second, it removed "trope" as a placeholder.
194	* OjouRinglets used to be "Princess Curls". It was mistaken for RegalRinglets, which is the {{supertrope}}. It's actually a specific hairstyle primarily associated with the {{Ojou}} archetype.
195	* TheOldConvict used to be "The Old Con". It was renamed because not everyone got that "con" was short for "convict"; a few mistook it for TheCon.
196	* OldCopYoungCop used to be "Somerset and Mills", after a pair of characters from the movie ''Film/{{Se7en}}''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense.
197	* OlderAlterEgo used to be "Glam of Shazam", after the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}''. The name was opaque and wasn't clear how the work related to the trope, and not everyone was that familiar with the work anyway (which is indeed how it became the TropeNamer for IAmNotShazam).
198	* OldFriendNewGender used to be "Something's Different About You Now". It was a classically ambiguous StockPhrase, failing to clarify that the "something" is a GenderBender.
199	* OminousOwl used to be "Owl Be Damned". It was renamed as obtuse and too "clever" for its own good. Indeed, it wasn't clear that said owls have to be ''ominous''; we've already got other owl tropes like CuteOwl and TheOwlKnowingOne.
200	* OmniscientDatabase used to be "Magical Database". It was misused as a list of literal magical databases, which is what MagicalDatabase is now.
201	* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement used to be "Once Noodled a Man to Death". Both come from NoodleIncident, but the old name was confusing because of the use of "noodle" as a verb. Interestingly, it was drafted with its current name but launched with the other name.
202	* OnceOriginalNowCommon was renamed from "''Seinfeld'' Is Unfunny" because it was often misused in place of other AudienceReactions, such as CondemnedByHistory and ValuesDissonance, when it's specifically about once-innovative works being seen as unoriginal by newer audiences due to other works imitating the original works.
203	* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby used to be "Alcohol Is Poison". It was misused to refer to any instance of alcohol being poisonous or dangerous, as opposed to specifically for pregnant women. The rename also captured how it just has to be ''perceived'' as super-dangerous.
204	* OneJudgeToRuleThemAll used to be "Aoyama Panel Judge", after a particular example from ''Manga/KanonChihoSaito''. If you didn't know the reference -- and odds are you wouldn't unless you were a particularly keen fan of {{Shoujo}} manga -- the name made no sense.
205	* OneMythToExplainThemAll used to be "One Myth to Rule Them All". Both come from the famous ring inscription in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', but the new name clarifies what the myth is there to do.
206	* OneNeighborNeighborhood used to be "Möbius Neighborhood", apparently a metaphor for how a Möbius strip has only one side. Other than that, it had nothing to do with Möbius strips and attracted confusion with AlienGeometries.
207	* OneOfTheKids used to be "Adult Child". It was renamed after persistent confusion with ManChild.
208	* OneSceneWonder used to be "Cardinal Wolsey", after Creator/OrsonWelles' role in ''Film/AManForAllSeasons''. Not everyone got the reference, especially given that Cardinal Wolsey is a HistoricalDomainCharacter, leading tropers to get the wrong impression.
209	* OneTractMind used to be "Carthaginian Conclusion", a rather opaque allusion to Cato the Elder, the Roman senator who famously ended every meeting with ''Carthago delenda est'' ("Carthage must be destroyed"), regardless of whether it had anything to do with the meeting.
210	* OnlySaneEmployee used to be "Liz Lemon Job", after the character from ''Series/ThirtyRock''. Even those who were familiar with the TropeNamer couldn't figure out what she had to do with the trope.
211	* OnlyTheChosenMayWield used to be "Sword in the Stone", after a famous example from Myth/ArthurianLegend. It was misused to refer specifically to swords in stones or other Arthurian elements, and it was also occasionally mistaken for the work page for ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', Creator/{{Disney}}'s take on the mythos.
212	* OnlyThePureOfHeart used to be "Nimbus Privileges", after an example from ''Manga/DragonBall''. Not only did it require familiarity with the work, many who had it mistook it for IncorruptiblePurePureness.
213	* OpaqueNerdGlasses used to be just "Nerd Glasses". It was misused to refer to any example of nerdy glasses; the name got a Administrivia/TropeTransplant to [[NerdGlasses a new supertrope]].
214	* OpinionFlipFlop used to be "Like a Weasel". It was tremendously opaque; even if you associated "weasel" with "shifty" (as in the common idiom WeaselWords), it wasn't clear that it was about an opinion that was shifting.
215	* OralFixation used to be "Oral Fixation Fixation". The second "fixation" was redundant. We're not sure what it was doing there to begin with.
216	* OrganizationIndex used to be "The Organization". It was renamed because it didn't indicate that it was an index, leading it to be mistaken for a trope in itself.
217	* OstentatiousSecret used to be "Meghan Box", after a high-profile secret on ''Series/{{Felicity}}''. If you weren't familiar with the work -- and in many cases even if you were -- it made no sense.
218	* TheOtherDarrin used to be "Sister Becky". The new name comes from ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', the most well-known example. The old name comes from ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', the ''second'' most well-known example. The rename happened a long time ago, so by now, "the Other Darrin" is stuck as [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary one of our pervasive and unique turns of phrase]]. The new name has the advantage of making it clear that it's about a replacement (hence the "''other'' Darrin"). The old name had the advantage of falling in line nicely with the trope "Brother Chuck" -- but that one got renamed to ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.
219	* OurGodsAreDifferent used to be "Our Gods Are Greater". It was renamed to fit in with the OurTropesAreDifferent snowclone family, one of the few successful snowclones.
220	* OurGraphicsWillSuckInTheFuture used to be "We Will Use Micros in the Future". It was renamed because many people didn't know what "micros" meant in this context. (If you're wondering, it doesn't have to do with microwaves.)
221	* OurMinotaursAreDifferent used to be "A Load of Bull". It was renamed because bulls are not minotaurs; it was frequently confused with BrutishBulls.
222	* OurSirensAreDifferent used to be "Enthralling Siren", and before that "Our Sirens Are Louder". The first rename came as a result of people thinking the name referred to police sirens. The second name more clearly referred to creatures, but it was mistaken to refer to ''any'' enthralling creature. The second rename made it a snowclone again, but at least that snowclone family makes it clear that it's about a specific creature (y'know, once you get rid of the "louder" bit).
223	* OutlawCouple used to be "Bonnie and Clyde", after a notorious real life example. The old name overlapped with [[Film/BonnieAndClyde the film of the same name]] and was frequently misused to refer to the actual people regardless of context.
224	* OutOfCharacterAlert used to be "Something They Would Never Say". It was misused to include cases where a character just doesn't want to say something, as opposed to someone figuring out something is wrong ''because'' they said something they wouldn't normally say.
225	* OutOfGenreExperience used to be "Unexpected Genre Change". It was originally a Administrivia/TropeTransplant from the trope that was renamed UnexpectedGameplayChange, but it still got a rename to avoid confusion with the latter trope.
226	* OvernightAgeUp used to be "Thirteen Going on Thirty", after [[Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty the film of the same name]]. It was renamed to avoid collisions with the work's page.
227	* OvershadowedByAwesome used to be "The Krillin", after the character from ''Franchise/DragonBall''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did associated the character with other tropes.
228	* OverusedCopycatCharacter used to be "Drizzt Syndrome", after the most famous ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' dark elf. Those who didn't get the reference couldn't understand the name, and those who did couldn't tell how the character related to the trope.
229	* OverworldNotToScale used to be "World Map". It was too broad and consequently misused for maps in general, or other world map formats like the PointAndClickMap.
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233	* PaedoHunt used to be "All Pedophiles are Child Molesters". It was renamed because actual pedophiles discovered the page, took it personally, and started defending themselves on the page, fighting the moderators all the way.
234	* Administrivia/PagesNeedingABetterDescription used to be "Needs a Better Description". It was misused as a PredefinedMessage at the end of work descriptions. It's supposed to be a directory of tropes needing help, not an accusation on the page itself. It was used so prolifically for the latter that the old name was sent to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
235	* Administrivia/PagesNeedingWikiMagic used to be "Needs Wiki Magic Love". In addition to being a little obtuse, it was misused as a PredefinedMessage in the descriptions of unfinished pages, rather than as a directory of tropes that need help. The misuse was bad enough that the old name was sent to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
236	* PainfulBodyWaxing used to be "Wax On, Wax Scream", a snowclone from the trope WaxOnWaxOff. It otherwise has nothing to do with the latter trope. No, not even the "wax" bit; the latter trope is about mundane-looking training regimens and named after a particularly famous example from ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
237	* PainMistakenForSex used to be "Looks Like She Is Enjoying It". It was intended as an InUniverse trope, but it was flagrantly misused for tropers' own opinions of a given sex scene. About 80% of the examples were wrong in some way.
238	* PaintballEpisode used to be "Paintball Error". It was too negative, essentially being a list not of paintball antics in fiction but of everything fiction got ''wrong'' about it.
239	* PairTheSmartOnes used to be "Genius Breeding Act". The rename was to clarify it was more about the entities being paired together than the government or some other entity forcing them to do it (which isn't even necessary for the trope).
240	* PaletteSwappedAlienFood used to be "Green Eggs". It was renamed for being unintuitive and occasionally mistaken for the unrelated trope IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam (both having [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam the same work]] as their TropeNamer).
241	* PanUpToTheSkyEnding used to be "Look Up the Sky Ending". No, there's no "to" in the old name; it's not about endings where someone looks up the word "sky" in the dictionary.
242	* ParityProductParadox used to be "Best Is Average, Better Is Best". It was renamed for the sake of clarity when it was retooled into a Administrivia/{{Definition Only Page\|s}}.
243	* ParodiesForDummies used to be "Tropes for Dummies". It was renamed to get away from using "trope" as a placeholder.
244	* ParodyDisplacement used to be "'Weird Al' Effect", after Music/WeirdAlYankovic, who has a habit of causing this. It was renamed for clarity; indeed, sometimes Weird Al was so good at this that it wasn't exactly what he was associated with as a musician.
245	* ParrotExposition used to be "Metal Gearing", and before them "Prince of Space Sir". The first name was a reference to ''Film/PrinceOfSpace'', which was considered too obscure (most people only knew about it from its appearance on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''). The second name came from the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, but it gave no indication of what the trope is about, and the franchise is associated with many other things.
246	* PastExperienceNightmare used to be "Bad Dreams". It was misused as a list of any time a character has a bad dream, whereas this is specifically about dreams regarding a bad past experience.
247	* PastVictimShowcase used to be "Not Very Pretty Now, Is He?" It was mistaken for a StockPhrase, and it wasn't clear ''why'' the character's not pretty anymore, suggesting disfigurement rather than preservation.
248	* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest used to be "Osananajimi", which is GratuitousJapanese for exactly the same thing. In addition to being mistaken for a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}}, it was also hard to remember and spell (although it can be fun to say once you do).
249	* PaymentPlanPitch used to be two tropes, "Four Equal Payments Of" and "Just Pennies a Day". They were merged because they were determined to not be distinct enough from each other and because they had low wick counts.
250	* PendulumWar used to be "One-Sided Battle". It was mistaken for a single CurbStompBattle, whereas it's actually a series of alternating Curb-Stomp Battles. OneSidedBattle is now a redirect to the latter trope.
251	* PercussiveMaintenance used to be "Fonzarelli Fix", after the character from ''Series/HappyDays''. It suffered from underuse, and there was a perfectly good pre-existing term for it. And the TropeNamer isn't ''that'' famous; they even replaced him with another page image.
252	* PerfectPlayAI used to be "[=MK Walker=]", an obtuse reference to ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. Those who didn't get the reference couldn't parse the trope (maybe it was someone's name?). The trope also wasn't clear that it was specific to video games.
253	* PerilousPowerSource used to be "Gorgon Gazing", and before that "Showing Off the Perilous Power Source". The first name was considered too long, but for whatever reason we gave it a totally different [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal alliterative]] name that gave the wrong impression (since it's not about [[{{Medusa}} a deadly stare or one that turns you into stone]]).
254	* PeripheryHatedom used to be "The Barney", after the title character of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', who's a prominent example. First, it fails the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit. And second, it's an AudienceReaction rather than a character trope.[[invoked]]
255	* {{Permadeath}} used to be "Final Death". It was renamed because it was not clear that it applied to video games, with tropers thinking it was a general {{Death Trope\|s}}. The former name became a disambiguation for tropes related to permanent deaths both in and outside of video games.
256	* PermanentlyMissableContent used to be "Lost Forever". It was mistaken for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin anything that's been lost forever]], including non-video game tropes like MissingEpisode and KeepCirculatingTheTapes.
257	* PersonaNonGrata used to be "Banned from Argo", after a FilkSong that's impliedly about ''Franchise/StarTrek''. It was considered too obscure and renamed after the pre-existing term for the phenomenon in international diplomacy. Music/BannedFromArgo is now a page about the song.
258	* PersonAsVerb used to be "I Pulled a 'Weird Al'". It was mistaken for something specific to Music/WeirdAlYankovic, like [[ParodyDisplacement the trope]] formerly named "'Weird Al' Effect".
259	* PhallicWeapon used to be "Gun in My Pocket". It was mistaken for OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, which is about pockets but not necessarily weapons.
260	* PhotofloodLighting used to be "Hollywood Lightbulb". The old name suggested it was part of the HollywoodStyle index, when it isn't; it's a real light bulb, just very different from what you usually see.
261	* PinkIsForSissies used to be "Pink Is for Girls". It was interpreted as "pink is a girls' color" (the kind of thing you'd see at PinkGirlBlueBoy), when it's really more "boys who wear pink are considered effeminate".
262	* PlanetHeck used to be "Bonus Level of Hell". However, it's not specifically about bonus levels, and it sounded like it was a hellishly ''hard'' level (which is at ThatOneLevel). BonusLevelOfHell is now a redirect to the new page BrutalBonusLevel.
263	* PlanetOfSteves used to be "Welcome to Marklar", a reference to an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. In addition to being an opaque reference, it wasn't even really an example; the more obvious gag with Marklar was {{Smurfing}}, which isn't quite the same thing.
264	* PlatonicLifePartners used to be "The Straight Will and Grace", after ''Series/WillAndGrace''. It was confusing, oblique, and suggested a dynamic specifically similar to those characters.
265	* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading was briefly known as "Friendship Writing Fumble", and was renamed because, despite the previous name, it can apply to platonic relationships other than friendships, such as familial relationships.
266	* PlayableMenu used to be "Walk Over Here for Options". It was renamed for clarity.
267	* PlayerPersonalityQuiz used to be "Test of Character". It was mistaken for character tests in all media, leading to confusion with the largely unrelated trope SecretTestOfCharacter.
268	* PlayerVersusEnvironment used to be "[=PvE=]", after the common acronym [=PvP=] for PlayerVersusPlayer. Note how the latter trope is ''not'' an acronym. It was renamed to make the tropes match and make the name clearer.
269	* PlayfulCatSmile used to simply be called "Cat Smile". It was renamed because the old name did not properly indicate that the facial expression is supposed to indicate playfulness or mischievousness, rather than referring to any use of the facial expression.
270	* PlayfulOtter used to be "Everything's Wetter with Otters". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. Indeed, the new name clarifies that it's about a specific kind of otter.
271	* PlayingATree used to be "You Are a Tree, Charlie Brown", after the character from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. And it was a gratuitous reference; this never happened in the franchise.
272	* PlayingCyrano used to be just "The Cyrano". Both are a reference to ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', but the rename made it clearer that it's less about the character archetype than about the scheme he concocts.
273	* PlotCouponThatDoesSomething used to be "Gameplay and Story Integration", after the existing trope GameplayAndStorySegregation. It was ''far'' narrower than the name implied. It was made a redirect to the latter trope, then re-redirected to the newly created supertrope SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration.
274	* PlotIrrelevantVillain used to be "Villain Who Doesn't Do Anything", a snowclone of ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything. The new name better reflects the trope.
275	* PlotPoweredStamina used to be "Marathon Man". It was renamed to make it clearer and to avoid confusion with [[Film/MarathonMan the work of the same name]].
276	* PlotTailoredToTheParty used to be "Eigen Plot", an apparent reference to the mathematic concept to the eigenvector that otherwise had little to do with the trope.
277	* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory used to be "Waste of Time Story". It was renamed to be less negative and avoid misuse; it was intended to suggest that the developers wasted their time writing the story, but it was used to suggest that the ''player'' would be wasting their time getting into the story.
278	* PlummetPerspective used to be "The Apple Falls Far". It was mistaken for something specific to do with apples, or referring to an idiom that has more to do with GenerationXerox.
279	* PolarOppositeTwins used to be "Different as Night and Day". It was misused as a list of any two things that are very different. The rename clarifies that it's specific to twins.
280	* PolishedPort used to be "Porting Distillation", a snowclone of AdaptationDistillation. It was renamed because the latter trope is a little controversial, and not all Polished Ports are necessarily distillations.
281	* PompousPoliticalPundit used to be "Neocon Newscaster". It was both too broad (the newscaster has to be ''pompous'') and too narrow (it doesn't have to be a newscaster or a neoconservative -- or even a conservative at all).
282	* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure used to be "What Was Whose Sled?", an awkward snowclone of ItWasHisSled. Even if you could parse it, tropers thought it was more about the TwistEnding than about PopCulturalOsmosis.
283	* PornWithPlot used to be "Plot Without Porn". It was quite misleading -- indeed, the vast majority of works qualify as "plot without porn".
284	* PortalSlam used to be "Portal Splat". It was mistaken for the similar but different tropes TeleFrag and TeleporterAccident, which tend to evoke "splat" more than the Portal Slam.
285	* PostDefeatExplosionChain used to be "Chain Reaction Destruction". It was misused as "DisasterDominoes, [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore but more]]".
286	* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons used to be "Pounds Are Doggy Prison". It was renamed to clarify that the trope is not limited to dogs.
287	* PowerCopying used to be "Mega Manning", after the ''Franchise/MegaMan'' games. It was difficult to pin down exactly how the trope related to the character, especially given that said character has several distinct incarnations across the franchise.
288	* PoweredByAForsakenChild used to be "Soylent Green". In addition to being [[Film/SoylentGreen the name of a work]], it carried connotations of HumanResources -- it was about paying a human cost to run something rather than consuming humans. Its new name came from the former name of what's now {{Aesoptinum}}, and it comes from an exchange on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.
289	* PowerLevels used to be "Over Nine Thousand", after a ridiculously {{memetic\|Mutation}} power level on ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Most Administrivia/{{wick}}s were to the meme rather than the trope. The former name was long a redirect to this trope, but then its destination was changed to the point of the original scene: ReadingsAreOffTheScale.
290	* PowerupMount used to be "The Yoshi", after the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' character. It wasn't clear which aspect of the character the trope was about, he's not a Powerup Mount in every game, and most Administrivia/{{wick}}s were references to the character, regardless of whether or not he was being used as a mount.
291	* PreApprovedSermon used to be "Ecumenical Meddling". It was considered too broad, and in any event the word "ecumenical" was being used in a very different way from its dictionary and common-use definition.
292	* PreAssKickingOneLiner used to be "Chew Bubblegum", after a famous example from the film ''Film/TheyLive'': "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." Most references were to the specific format of the TropeNamer, which ChewBubblegum is now for.
293	* PreciousPuppy used to be "Everything's Precious with Puppies". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. Indeed, as with several similarly named tropes, the old name encouraged a list of all puppies, regardless of portrayal.
294	* PrecisionFStrike was briefly renamed to "Breaking-Point Swearing" before being renamed back to PrecisionFStrike. The trope had seen gradual decay and misuse, straying from meaning "a sudden, uncharacteristic use of profanity for emphasis" to instead highlight ''any'' kind of profanity, and it was briefly argued to be the result of the name being too vague on depicting what scenario it's meant to describe. The trope was renamed to "Breaking-Point Swearing" to de-emphasize the "F-Strike"/implied "F-bomb" that was believed to be the reason why the trope was such a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet, as well as to narrow down the scenario in question. However, this new title was quickly deemed to be ''too'' narrow as it only implies uncharacteristic profanity from angry outbursts (making several examples, such as a character casually swearing out of nowhere for comedic MoodWhiplash, no longer counting despite fitting the trope's original point), and it quickly became subject to misuse in its own right (by the title's implication, a character reaching their RageBreakingPoint and releasing [[ClusterFBomb a long stream of profanity]] would count, despite ClusterFBomb being almost the opposite of the intended idea). After further reconsideration, the original PrecisionFStrike title was restored as it was deemed the least problematic and confusing option, with the growing misuse being less because of the title itself and more general user error.
295	* PredatoryBusiness used to be "[=VoldeMart=]" an obtuse and irrelevant pun on the BigBad from ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' that otherwise has nothing to do with the trope.
296	* PreemptiveDeclaration used to be "Your ____ Is Broken". First, the underscores made searching for it awkward. Second, it wasn't clear that it was a ''preemptive'' announcement, leading it to be used as a StockPhrase for broken things.
297	* PrefersGoingBarefoot used to be "Does Not Like Shoes." It was widely misused to denote ''any'' time an anthropomorphic/human(oid) character is shown barefooted (regardless of the circumstances leading up to such an event), and the idea of a character literally not liking shoes was an additional source of the aforementioned "example misuse."
298	* PretentiousPronunciation used to be "It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY". It was misused for any alternative pronunciation, regardless of whether it was created specifically to make it sound fancier. In some cases tropers used it as a patronizing way to teach others how to pronounce a character's name when it's not obvious.
299	* PrettyButterflies used to be "Everything's Prettier with Butterflies". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. Indeed, as with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all butterflies, regardless of portrayal.
300	* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse used to be "Badass Princess". It was renamed to clarify that it's not enough for her to be tough and capable; she also has to ''look'' as dainty as your typical princess.
301	* PrimalScene used to be "Oh, Kitty", after a scene from ''Series/That70sShow''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense. You'd be forgiven for thinking it had to do with cats.
302	* PrivacyByDistraction used to be "Go Look at the Distraction". It was misused to refer to any distraction, when it's for distractions designed to give characters privacy. Before that, it was called "Crummies", after a phrase that induced this reaction in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}''; it was renamed for being thoroughly unintuitive.
303	* ProductFacelift used to be "Plastic Surgery". It was mistaken for ''actual'' cosmetic surgery and wasn't clear that it referred to items rather than people.
304	* ProductionLeadTime was renamed from "Animation Lead Time" because it isn't animation-specific.
305	* ProductPlacementName used to be "Trope Co. Trope of the Week". It was renamed partially for clarity's sake and partially because its scope was expanded.
306	* ProgressivelyPrettier used to be "Fail Polish". First, it was non-indicative. Second, the "fail" gave it a needlessly negative connotation. And third, not everyone got the pun on "nail polish", thinking it had to do with people from UsefulNotes/{{Poland}}.
307	* ProjectileSpell used to be "Magic Missile". It was renamed to focus on the "magic" part rather than the "missile" part.
308	* ProlongedPrologue used to be "Longest Prologue Ever". It was renamed to make it sound less negative.
309	* ProneToTears used to be "Fragile Flower". It was misused as a synonym for ShrinkingViolet; the trope is less about shyness than it is about crying.
310	* ProphetEyes used to be "Milky White Eyes". It was renamed to shift the emphasis from the eye color to the fact that they change when the character is using them for prophetic purposes.
311	* {{Pseudolympics}} used to be "Ridiculympics". It was renamed for being awkward, negative, narrow, and misleading; it's broader than just spoofs of the Olympics.
312	* PseudoRomanticFriendship used to be "'Romantic Two-Girl Friendship". It was misused to refer to girls in an ''actual'' romantic relationship, and it also implied that it was AlwaysFemale when it wasn't necessarily.
313	* PsychoKnifeNut used to be "Knife Nut". The old name was unclear that it was about psychopaths who prefer knives, leading to it being misused for any character with a knife.
314	* PsychoSupporter used to be "Crouching Support Hidden Batshit", an awkward snowclone of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. In addition to being awkward, the word "batshit" didn't sit well with a number of people.
315	* PsychoticLoveTriangle used to be "Yandere Love Triangle". It was renamed to clarify that it's not a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}} and not exclusive to {{Yandere}}s.
316	* PsychologicalTormentZone used to be "Epiphanic Purgatory". It was renamed to make it narrower and more distinct from EpiphanicPrison.
317	* PunctuatedForEmphasis used to be "This! Is! SPARTA!", after a {{memetic\|Mutation}} instance of it from the film ''Film/ThreeHundred''. Most references were to the meme, and [[Administrivia/PotholeMagnet there were quite a lot of them]]. And it also never displayed properly, since it was a custom title on a ptitled page.
318	* PuppeteerParasite used to be "The Puppet Masters", after the [[Literature/ThePuppetMasters work of the same name]]. In addition to colliding with the name of the work, it was frequently mistaken for other puppet tropes like MarionetteMaster.
319	* PuppyLove used to be "Toy Ship". It was renamed to make it more objective and less prone to confusion with maritime shipping, and also to use a pre-existing off-wiki term for the phenomenon. ToyShip is now the name of its AudienceReaction counterpart, and is a no-examples FanSpeak page.
320	* PurelyAestheticGlasses used to be "Brainy Specs". It was intended to be for characters who don't need glasses but wear them to make people think they're smart; tropers were using it for ''actually'' smart characters who wear glasses, a concept which became the trope SmartPeopleWearGlasses.
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