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1These tropes are [[Administrivia/TooRareToTrope too specific]] [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen so they will never happen]].
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3Compare to TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooObscureOrBizarre, TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TheSameButMore, and TropesThatWillNeverHappen/XMeetsY. Contrast TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooAmbiguous.
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6!! Dishonorable mentions:
7* Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco
8* You Fail Disco Forever
9** Disco Fails Forever
10** Disco [[YouHaveFailedMe Has Failed You]] (Forever)
11** Disco One Nuke
12* [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard The Cheating Bastard is a Computer]]
13** RoboticReveal
14*** Robotic [[RussianReversal Reversal]]
15* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bartman]] [[BatmanGrabsAGun Grabs A Gun]]
16** Bartman Gambit
17** Bartman Can Breathe In Space
18** Bartman in My Basement
19* [[BoyMeetsGirl Boy Eats Girl]]
20** Oral sex? TheBluebeard? Vore?
21** Boy Yeets Girl
22** Boy Seats Girl
23** Boy Beats Girl
24* Boy Meets Robot Girl. Boy Loses Robot Girl. Boy Builds New Robot Girl From Spare Parts.
25** This happened sort of on ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' and more closely on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', although Leela was never a robot.
26** In fairness, this is probably what would have happened if ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' had gotten a third season.
27** [[Series/RedDwarf Droid meets droid, droid becomes chameleon, droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again, blob meets blob, blob runs away with blob and droid loses blob, chameleon and droid]]!
28* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy And His God]]
29** A Yob And His Dog
30** God Sih Dna Yob A
31** [[SignificantAnagram A Body Has Dingo]]
32** MagicalGirlfriend?
33** A Boy And His ShaggyDogStory
34* {{Curse|CutShort}} [[InvertedTrope Cutting Short]]
35** For example...
36-->'''[[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged Anderson]]''': "Well, now that that's over, what do you say we go back to my place for a bowl of my favorite cereal, Frankenber--oh, ''son of a Protestant whore!''"
37* Antidisestablishmentarianism Does Not Work That Way
38* MushroomSamba [[Music/TheGratefulDead in the Rain]]
39* The Password Is Always "W./#K|&c~`3"
40** The Password Is Always [[Series/{{TheSuiteLifeOnDeck}} The Girl Your Twin Brother Lusts After]]
41** [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Dammit, now I have to change my password again.]]
42** Only One Person Knows The Password And He Didn't Write It Down Anywhere.
43*** ...Hey, this might actually work.
44*** NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup?
45*** TheKeyIsBehindTheLock?
46** The Password Is Changed Weekly
47*** ''Film/WarGames'' had this for the school computer system.
48*** Two words: ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. Frequently more often.
49*** Used in adventure games to justify the protagonist finding a note with a password on it.
50** The Password Is Always [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Coelacanth]]
51* Ferris Bueller's Two Week Sick Leave
52** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVABsaA6iL0 It's worst than we thought]].
53* Watching Paint Dry
54** Classic, tropable catch phrase.
55** Also the basis of a FanFiction title and storyline.
56*** Watching Grass Grow
57*** Watching Paint Grow
58*** Watching Grass Dry: When people are underwhelmed by or cynical towards the beauty of a sunrise.
59*** People Who Are Dead Inside
60*** People Who Are Dead Outside
61*** Should be 'Too Universal' since almost everyone is covered by dead skin cells.
62*** Wouldn't be as funny there.
63** IdleGame
64* Jumped On The Caller
65* The Character That Is Never Mentioned, Hinted At, Or Relevant To The Plot In Any Way, Shape, Or Form
66** Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?
67*** You Know, That Non-Entity Where...
68* Weapons-Induced Artificial Stupidity
69** Would the [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank Infector]] count?
70*** I suppose so.
71* You Can Argue With Elves And Prove Your Point.
72** ScrewYouElves!
73** You Can Sit Down And Have A Nice Calm Discussion With Elves
74** You Can Argue With Elves And Reach A Reasonable Agreement That Benefits Both Parties
75*** TakeAThirdOption?
76** Trying To Argue With Elves While Watching Them Bathe
77*** That's the trope ''Elminster in Myth Drannor'' is built upon...
78* Sliding Scale Of Sepia - an index of tropes dedicated to how [[RealIsBrown brown]] the director makes a film
79* Cassandra Was Wrong And The Truth Isn't Out There
80* The Political Leader That Everyone Likes, Always Does Right, And Isn't Secretly {{Satan}}, {{God}} And/Or TheAntichrist
81** RealLife doesn't even have any of these.
82*** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Why? Are all real people secretly Satan, God, and/or the Antichrist?]]
83** For a given value of "everyone": [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]].
84*** And for a given value of "political".
85** The Jellyman from Creator/JasperFforde's ''Literature/NurseryCrime'', maybe.
86** Um, Dumbledore. Duh.
87*** Somewhat deconstructed in DH, though it was made pretty clear that after his childhood he was a very good person.
88** See also:[[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President Mary Sue]]
89* The one where you don't make a stupid forum thread
90* [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Journey to the Center of]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Pendleton Ward's]] [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Mind]]
91* The Buffalos From Buffalo That Buffalos From Buffalo Intimidate Intimidate Buffalos From Buffalo.
92** [[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, I heard you like buffalos, so I put a buffalo on your buffalo, so you can buffalo while you buffalo!]]
93* Every Thirtieth Point In Base Thirteen
94** Thirty points is thirty points, no matter what base you're counting in.
95* Shoot The Dog Out Of A Cannon
96** Shoot The Shaggy Dog Out Of A Cannon
97*** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Rinoa's Angelo Cannon]].
98*** [[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Dobie-O-Matic?]]
99* Shoot The Dog Out Of Canon
100** OrwellianRetcon?
101** Seems like a combination of TheScrappy and {{Retcon}}.
102* Shoot [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Shaggy's Dog]]
103* Shaving The Shaggy Dog
104** Isn't that EarnYourHappyEnding?
105** Or RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap?
106* Sliding Scale Of A Snake's Underside
107** Sliding Scale Of A Moving Piano Playing Scales
108* The '''''[[YourOtherLeft OTHER]]''''' [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Other Wiki]]
109** Encyclopaedia Dramatica
110** It could also be Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}
111*** Or maybe The [[http://1d4chan.org/ Other]] Other Other Wiki?
112** [[Myth/ArthurianLegend The Uther Wiki]]
113** The Udder Wiki
114** [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Wikis]]
115** [[{{Hell}} The Under Wiki]]
116** [[{{Ubermensch}} The Über Wiki]]
117** [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland The Ulster Wiki]]
118** The Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other [[OverlyLongGag Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other-]] [[LampshadeHanging *Deep breath*]] [[OverlyLongGag Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other]] [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wiki]]
119* List of video games for the Xbox named ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''
120** That Don't Have Numbers or Other Words Attached to the Title
121** List of video games for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 named ''Halo''.
122*** List of video games for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 named ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''
123** List of video games for the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' named Xbox
124** [[Music/NineInchNails List of things I can play on a Dreamcast named "Halo"]]
125* Freud Was Mostly Just Projecting His Own Insecurities Onto Other People
126** Freud Just Had A Really Hot Mom
127*** [[StacysMom Freud's Mom]] [[Music/FountainsOfWayne Has Got it Going On]]
128** This Is Your Freud On Drugs
129*** RealLife.
130*** Freud Knew Oedipus, And He LIKED Him
131** This Is Your Freud On Phlebotinum
132* The Comrade Syndrome, in which all socialists and communists say "Comrade" and, shortly afterwards, are brutally [[spoiler:censored, and I don't mean like normal censorship, where the things being censored are only relatively gruesome, or not safe for work, I mean the stuff being censored is so gruesome that even the censor covering it is not safe for work]] before being beaten to near death with their dead pet, child, friend, and/or genitalia, before their body is [[spoiler:relax, I am only doing this for your sanity, you'll thank Administrivia/ThisTroper someday, think of kittens, or flowers, or even less brutal violence]].
133** TheAristocrats.
134* All Writers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
135** [[EpilepticTrees This could be true, considering the things they come up with.]]
136** All Tropers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
137*** [[BrokenMasquerade Well, it's not a masquerade]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if you go around telling people.]]
138*** All Tropers Are {{Dirty Old M|an}}en Masquerading As Young Nerds
139*** All Tropers Are Young Nerds Masquerading As {{Dirty Old M|an}}en
140* Next-Door Neighbor Is Planning To Go To The Beach On A Sunday With His Family Of Four
141** SliceOfLife
142* You Fail Third Period Gym Class Forever
143** ArtisticLicenseBiology badly enough to be a Critical Research Failure?
144* You Fail Third Period Lunch Forever
145** ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra''?
146* [[NoPeriodsPeriod You Fail Having a Period Forever]]
147** [[LethalChef You Fail Cooking Forever?]]
148* A Slight Itch In Your Left Ear
149* Kick The Dog Then Feel Bad About It Later And Give The Dog Some Bacon To Make Up For It, Provided The Dog Isn't Still Pissed Off, In Which Case You'll Probably Have To Wait Until He Comes Out From Under The Bed
150** Subtrope: And When He Does Give Him Facon For Being Such A Drama Queen
151* Dropped A Bridget Fonda On Him
152** ...well, Creator/StephenColbert had a Jane Fonda dropped on him...
153*** How about Dropped a Bridget Moynahan on him, then? However in that case we could make the Colbert argument for Tom Brady.
154* Our Senior IV Nurses Are Different
155* Real Men Don't Care If People Shoot Them While They Aren't Wearing Pants Because Damnit They're Hungry And Want Some Cheerios
156* Chekhov's Custom .50 Cal Desert Eagle
157** Sounds like a cross between ChekhovsGun, and DescriptionPorn.
158* Chekhov's Lightsaber - where you come up with random explanations for things that drew attention to themselves earlier, like the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse
159* Chekhov's Slingshot
160* Chekhov's rubber band
161* Not The Same Gun That Chekhov Had In The First Act, But It'll Do
162* Chekhov's Gnu
163** Chekhov's [[VideoGame/{{Zork}} Grue]]
164** Chekhov's [[Franchise/DespicableMe Gru]]
165* Useful Notes: I-88 in Illinois Between Mile Markers 42 and 43
166* [[BigYes Big]] [[BigNo Maybe]]
167** Big Meh
168*** SoOkayItsAverage
169** Big Dunno
170*** ShrugOfGod, people.
171** Big Mu
172*** Big Mumu [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons - "Marge, have you seen my fat-guy dress?"]]
173*** Big Moo
174*** Non-bovine example: Maureen's Over the Moon in ''Theatre/{{RENT}}''.
175* Big Bro
176* Gushing About [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Mr Krabs's]] CharacterAlignment
177* Crowning Moment of Drycleaning
178* Crowning Microwavable Giraffe Just Add Potato Salad of Shiny Leather Floating Pokemon-Filled Taco, anyone?
179** [[FlatWhat No thanks.]]
180** WordSaladTitle
181* Our Vampires Are The Same
182* Everything's Better With Pope Innocent VIII
183* Dropped A Literature/BridgetJones' Diary On Him
184** Unsettling Bridget Jones reveal
185** "You said this wasn't a ChickFlick! I want explosions!"
186* All Trans Women are [[VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive Bridget Mains]]
187** All Trans Women are Bridget Mains Except for One who Plays I-No
188* Synonyms For The World Plimsoil - Consisting of pages [=AA-ABA, ABA to ABB, ABB to ABBA=]...
189* Goddammit Jim I Told You I Don't Like Boiled Peas
190* Music/LinkinPark Makes An Honest Man Of Ray
191* Pantry Shot
192** I'm pretty sure this one's been done in a [[Series/GoodEats cooking show]]...
193** Creator/NigellaLawson. Without a doubt.
194** Possibly related to FoodPorn.
195* Kung Fu Guy With A Reasonable And Objective Assessment of His Own Capabilities
196** HumbleHero
197* Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Soundtrack With Founder's Copyright
198* Not So Hopeless - Seemingly HopelessAuditionees that turn out to be really talented once they start performing.
199** {{Hopeless Auditionee|s}} [[HopeSpot Spot]]: "You know, I think one might be bearable... No, he's rubbish." Alternatively, "[Contestant], I think you have real talent. In scaring away animals and terrifying small children. That was ''hideous''."
200* What Do You Mean Its Political For The Other Side (There actually ''is'' a statue in Kansas that fits this trope: Initially protesting the occupation of the Panama Canal, its current owner says the sculptor saw into the future and protested ''giving away'' the Panama Canal.)
201** Some forms of PoesLaw might count, as well as some forms of MisaimedFandom.
202* {{Go|MadFromTheRevelation}} [[JustHereForGodzilla Straight To]] "[[Literature/TheBible Revelation]]"
203** [[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Do not collect $200.]]
204* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For]] The Cute Female Protagonist
205** ''Franchise/TouhouProject''?
206** Every {{Moe}} anime
207** By extension, Just Here For The Cute Male Protagonist
208* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For]] The [[PerverseSexualLust Hot]] Female Protagonist
209** ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures''
210** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''
211** ''Anime/FairyTail''
212*** Just Here For The [[PapaWolf Guy]] With A [[TeamPet Bird]] In His [[HammerspaceHair Hair]]
213** Every Creator/DisneyChannel KidCom
214** By extension, Just Here For the [[MrFanservice Hot Male]] Protagonist
215* Just Here For the Cute/Hot Female (And, By Extension, Male) Antagonist
216** Series/ANTFarm
217* Apple Stem Pulling Teeth
218* Tiddlywinks At Noon
219* Screw The Rules I Have Pot
220** Wouldn't that be TheStoner?
221* Spin To Deflect Criticism
222* [[RealityIsUnrealistic Batman Is Unrealistic]]
223** [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOO]]!
224* [[{{Gonk}} Nobody Wants To Remember The Stripper]]
225** FetishRetardant
226* Norbert's Scale Of Gameplay And Story Segregation
227* Radiantophilia
228* Massively Multiplayer Online H-Game
229** ''VideoGame/SecondLife''.
230* What Do You Mean, It's Not Locupletative?
231* Big Yo
232** Big Yo-Yo
233*** [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Cylon Basestars]]
234* Aesop Unfriendly Family
235** ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Home".
236** AbusiveParents and EnfantTerrible combined?
237* Medium-Heavy Sleet Equels Death
238* The Author Reads Website/TVTropes Because He Wants To Eliminate Any Tropes From His Work But It Turns Out Everything Is A Trope So He Sinks Into Despair And Kills Himself And The Thing He Was Writing Is Never Written So Wait How Do We Even Have A Page On This Thing Anyway?
239** It was ghostwritten, obviously.
240** That's just JustForFun/TheTropelessTale GoneHorriblyWrong.
241* Ominous Latvian Chanting
242* [[BestialityIsDepraved But You Screw One]] [[ILoveTheDead Dead]] [[PaedoHunt Kid]] [[BestialityIsDepraved Goat]] [[IncendiaryExponent While On Fire]] aka necropedopyrobestiality
243** A man decided to seek therapy for his sadonecrobestiality fetish, because he realized he was just beating a dead horse.
244*** This is simultaneously awesome and awful. We present you with this medal and then wield it for a merciless flogging.
245** [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} But You Screw One Dead Thirteen-Year-Old Frog Robot Girl While She Beats You Up]] aka [[EarWorm sadomasopedorobonecrobestiality]].
246*** [[http://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/track/sadomasopedorobonecrobestiality It's a cover/remix/something of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, if anyone cares]].
247* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, In Oklahoma!]]
248* Everything's Better With The Golomyunka Fish That Lives In Lake Baikal And Is Preyed Upon By The Baikal Seal
249* {{Most Writers Are|Human}} Vampires
250** Most Writers Are {{Emotion Eater}}s (MuseAbuse?)
251* [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier METAL BAWKSES]] [[TakeCover in which our enemies hide]], [[DirtyCoward the cowards, the FOOLS]]!
252** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindy SINDY!!!]]
253** [[Music/ThePolice Shiny metal boxes, contestants in a suicidal race?]]
254* Artistic License - Lithuanian Forest Site Types
255** [[StylisticSuck Artistic License - Art]].
256* Black-With-A-Couple-Of-Grey-Splotches-And-This-Weird-Purple-Bit-In-The-Corner And Bluish-Greeny-White-With-One-Thouroughly-Irritating-Black-Spot-Nothing-Else-Goes-With Morality
257** Black and Blue Morality, or White and Gold Morality?
258* Knight In Slightly Rusted And Blood-Spattered Armour That Needs A Good Polish
259** ''Franchise/DragonAge''
260* Everything's Better With Mutant Elves With Glasses Who Ride Piggyback On Anthropomorphic Goats Who Shoot Lasers From Their Eyes
261** To which even ''[[http://www.c64gg.com/GameInfo/MetaLlamas.html Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time]]'' is a step down.
262** [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity With Great Power Comes A Great Likelihood Of Getting Half Your Face Blackened]]
263** With Great Power Comes Great Likelihood Of [[Series/MythBusters Losing An Eyebrow]]
264*** With Great Power Comes Grated Cheese
265*** With Great Power Comes [[Manga/SoulEater Great Inanity]]
266* [[Series/CriminalMinds Hey It's That Girl Who May Or May Not Be Hotchner's Wife.]]
267* [[Series/DoctorWho Dropped a TARDIS on him]]
268* [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein Something Something Leonard]] [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Hofstadter]]
269** Something Something [[IAmNotSpock Leonard Nimoy]]
270** Something Something Leonard Cohen
271*** Something Something [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} David X. Cohen]]
272** Something Something The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
273* Fridge Fridge
274** When you're watching a show, and the entire episode focuses on this bizarre alien machine. The protagonists have no idea what it is, yet they manage to harness its powers to win before finally deciding that the world is not ready for it, leaving it behind. Then, after the episode is over, it hits you -- it was a ''fridge!''
275* True Art Involves Cutting Up Sharks
276** Physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living is the closest we're ever going to get.
277* [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin The Good Guys Always Get Captured, Violated Sexually, Stabbed, Thrown in a River, Trampled by Wildebeests, and Eaten Alive by 26 3/4 Rabid Chipmunks.]]
278* Dropped Creator/RaquelWelch On Him ([[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "She's got a big bottom!"]])
279* [[DamselInDistress Eustressed Damsel]]
280* [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Your Life Will Ruin TV Tropes]]
281* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Zecora Was Right]]
282* [[UngratefulBastard Grateful Bastard]]
283** AffablyEvil? Or NiceJobBreakingItHero for situations where the villain thanks the hero for playing into their plans
284* Jerk Butt
285** The {{Jerkass}} in a work where GoshDangItToHeck is enforced.
286** Jerk Bum
287* Beef Jerkyass
288* Failed A Girdle Check (which does happen in the ''Series/PanAm'' pilot)
289* I Got A Good Laugh From Reading This Page Thanks Guys You Rock
290* LohengrinAndMendelssohn [[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Are Dead]]
291* {{Music/M|aroon5}}oves like [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok]]
292** a subtrope of [[{{WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows}} Schmogerty]] like [[{{Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival}} Fogerty]]
293* Our Anglicans Are Different
294* [[AllAnimationIsDisney All Disney Is Animation]]
295* All Animation Is Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}}
296* All Animation Is Creator/HannaBarbera
297* All TV Animation Is Nickelodeon
298* All Animation Is [=CalArts=]
299* All Animation Is Anime Is Web Animation Is Stop-Motion Animation Is A Slide Show
300* All Anime Is Creator/StudioGhibli
301* All Stop-Motion Animation Is Creator/AardmanAnimations
302* All Web Animation Is Newgrounds
303* ArtisticLicense - Moldovan Transportation
304* {{Significant|GreenEyedRedhead}} [[TechnicolorEyes Red-Eyed]] Greenhead
305** Oh wait, we have that now; [[VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize meet Rina Shinomiya.]]
306* [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]] [[HarpoDoesSomethingFunny Does Something Funny]]
307* Rocks Fall, But Thankfully No One Is Hurt
308* [[Manga/LuckyStar Preparation of Salted Tongue With Green Onions Does Not Work That Way]]
309* [[TheButlerDidIt The Butler's Wife's Brother Did It]]
310* The Butler May Or May Not Have Done It
311* The Butler Kicked His Master's Butt
312* Multiplayer Imposed Challenge - This is when you're forced to use a SelfImposedChallenge when you don't want to, because the friend you're playing with in multiplayer wants it.
313* ZettaiRyouiki Does Not Work That Way
314* Zoidberg Fuel
315* Franchise/{{Superman}} [[BatmanGrabsAGun Grabs a Gun]]
316** Because he ForgotAboutHisPowers?
317** ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd''
318* Creator/ErrolFlynn [[AmericaWonWorldWarII Won World War II]] ([[Film/ThankYourLuckyStars "He's won the war! He's won the war!"]])
319* Ambiguously Ambidextrous
320** [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Way too common.]] When was the last time you knew that a character was distinctly right or left handed [[ChekhovsSkill and it had importance to the plot?]] [[UniversalTropes Wait, don't answer that.]]
321* [[Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies Pierre Kirby]] [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore Is Hardcore]] (even if WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob thinks so)
322** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_%28attorney%29 John Kirby]] [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore Is Hardcore]] (he even was responsible for a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome)
323* [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Dropped A]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Sheik]] [[UnsettlingGenderReveal On Her]]
324* Shows That Air On CBS on Tuesdays at 7PM
325* Books That Are Commonly Read On Wednesday While Sitting in a Red Chair and Drinking a Diet Coke
326* Recommended Long Canadian Indie Rap Songs From June 2016 to Listen On Fridays at Noon As You Walk Up and Down Main Street While Wearing a Dirty Red Jacket, Reading ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' On Your iPad Mini 2, and Eating Green M&Ms
327* The World is Always Having an Affair with Mars
328* Amazing Technicolor Car
329* They Hit Exactly The Right Balance Between [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Changing It]] and [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks Keeping It The Same]], But It Still Sucks
330** Sonic?
331** HateDumb?
332** It Sucked in The First Place
333* Administrivia/{{People Sit on|Chairs}} [[Series/TheVoice Big Red Turning Chairs]]
334* That One Fuckin' Guy Who Keeps Reverting My Edits Even Though He's Totally Wrong About Rainbow Dash And I Know The Character Much Better Than That Faggot Does, Anyway
335* {{Something Something|Leonard Bernstein}} [[Music/{{Macklemore}} Shark Week]]
336** Something Something [[Music/JayZ Fish]] [[Music/KanyeWest Filet]]
337* [[GreaterScopeVillain Bigger Than The Big Bad But Not Quite As Big As The Bigger Bad... Bad]]
338* Nobody Performs Titration
339* Useful Notes/Wars Finland Was Not Involved In
340* Hey, Who's That Guy? (Cases where someone considered to be a rising star has a bit part in a popular TV show or movie. However their star fails to rise, [[{{Irony}} and the bit part ends up being the only thing they're remembered for]].)
341** OneHitWonder
342* [[ButNotTooForeign But Not Foreign Enough]]
343* MilesGloriosus With A Gold Katana
344* Fire And Ice Personality: Sometimes a character is stoic or indifferent, sometimes they're very emotional. Basically the "kuu" of {{Kuudere}} plus the "tsun" of {{Tsundere}} (Aloof and apathetic plus harsh and flying-off-the-handle-y.) Alt. titles: Tsun-Kuu.
345* Mohs Scale Of KnightTemplar
346* [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs There Are Chairs And People Are Clearly Aware That There Are Chairs, And Yet The People Do Not Sit On Or Even Openly Acknowledge The Chairs For Reasons That Are Never Made Clear]]
347* Vampire VampireHunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters.
348** Vampire Vampire VampireHunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters that are also vampires
349* Titanium Lady: What you get when you blend the IronLady and the LadyOfWar.
350** Music/{{Sia}}?
351** [[Anime/KillLaKill Satsuki]]?
352** [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Kuvira]]?
353* [[StarsAreSouls Stars Are]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]]
354* [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Returned To The Scrappy Heap]]
355* Vampire Luddites: Supernatural beings ''really'' don't like new technology.
356* [[AmericaSavesTheDay America Needs To Be Saved By A Foreign Power]]
357** In said foreign power, this is probably an inevitable trope.
358* Save The Savior: The one who was supposed to do the saving now needs to be saved.
359* The BigBad Who Lacks A [[TheDragon Dragon]], Isn't AffablyEvil Or A CompleteMonster, Isn't A [[TheMole Mole]], Isn't EvilAllAlong, And Never Pulled A FaceHeelTurn
360* [[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath Daleks]] [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Sit On Chairs]]
361* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee-Downer_College Downer College]] Ending
362* [[StepfordSmiler Stepford]] [[TheStoic Stoic]]: A character with little to no emotion... On the outside, anyway. On the inside, they're hurting.
363* [[WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire Who Wants To Be]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Beat_Up_a_Millionaire%3F Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire]]
364* [[NonMammalianHair Non-Avian Feathers]]
365* [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Cut-And-Run]] {{Climax}}: The story's reaching its most dramatic point, where a character will die dramatically. Or so it seems... Because instead of dying, the character chooses to cut and run.
366* [[TheScrappy Survival Scrappy]]: A character hated because due to their survival. This can be because: 1) are nigh-unkillable in a world where AnyoneCanDie, 2) survive when a beloved character dies, 3) repeatedly survive things that they logically wouldn't survive, 4) are repeatedly saved in contrived ways, 5) survive an EverybodyDiesEnding (especially when beloved characters don't survive the ending), or 6) something weirder.
367** EliminationHoudini
368* [[WritersCannotDoMath Tropers Cannot Do Math]]
369* Writers Cannot Do Physics
370* Writers Cannot Do Algebra
371* Writers Cannot Do Your Homework
372* Writers Cannot Die
373* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man Exactly Thirty-Eight And A Half Miles Behind the Man, Slightly To The Left, On A Sort Of Elevated Terrace That Looks To Be About Maybe Ten To Twenty Feet High, And Facing Away From Him]]
374* Ever-Shifting Character: A character whose personality keeps changing for no good reason, most likely because the writers can't figure out what to do with the character.
375** DependingOnTheWriter
376* [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront Covert Group]] Of The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_%28UK%29 National Front]]
377** {{Covert Group|WithMundaneFront}} Of The [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Front_(Ukraine) People's Front]]
378* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Legitimate Businessmen's]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} socialist]] club.
379* The Cobbler's Children Have Yiff Fetishes
380* [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Long-haired Rocker Gives Neon Pink Girlfriend a Band T-Shirt]] [[Recap/AdventureTimeS3E10WhatWasMissing and is Surprised When She Actually Wears It]] That's right, I'm looking at you, Creator/RebeccaSugar
381* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean, It's Not for Old People?]]
382** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids What Do You Mean, It's For Old People?]]
383* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Cruel]], [[LaserGuidedKarma Karmic]] [[ComedicSociopathy Comedy]]: Bad stuff happening to bad people is funny!
384** ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''?
385* People Of Native American Race Sit On Megenta, Cirular Chairs With No Padding And A Built In Cupholder
386* Tropes That Franchise/{{Batman}} [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed Hasn't Used]]
387** Tropes That Batman (the Character) Hasn't Used
388* [[TheScottishTrope The Welsh Trope]]
389** The Irish Trope
390** The Northern Irish Trope
391** The Channel Islands Trope
392** The Sealandish Trope
393** The Isle of Man Trope
394** The Gibraltar Trope
395** The Falkland Islands Trope
396** The Bermudan Trope
397* The Buddy Sorrell: Any character who is Buddy Sorrell from ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow''. (Not to be confused with BuddyPicture, BuddyCopShow, or any other characters named Buddy.)
398* [[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} Deciding To Assassinate The Italian Prime Minister As Revenge For Killing The Potential Father Of Your Son, So You Spend Decades Having Kinky Sex With Him Once A Year, Then One Day You Shoot Him, Deliberately Shoot Yourself In The Arm, Call Over Employees From Your Spy Agency To Dispose Of The Body, Come Up With A Fake Cover Story And Use Your Arm Injury As Proof Of It Being True So They Will Help You, Then Call A Detective To Come To The House, So That When They See No Evidence Of A Crime Haven Taken Place They Will Leave You Alone Gambit]]
399* [[TheyChangedItSoItSucks They Changed It]] [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks Back, So It Sucks]]
400* [[KillItWithWater Murder by Liquefaction]]: A death famously reserved for [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz wicked witches]].
401* [="Truth In Television/=]Film/{{Idiocracy}}" Bait
402* [[ChewingTheScenery Chewing the]] [[Memes/JoJosBizarreAdventure Duwang]]
403* Eccentric KarmaMeter: KarmaMeter that uses a morality scale other than good versus evil.
404* [[DeusExMachina Machina Ex Deus]]: [[ReligiousRobot An intelligent machine]] on a MissionFromGod.
405* {{Big|Yes}} [[Literature/HortonHearsAWho "YOPP!"]]
406** {{Big|Yes}} [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Eeeyup!"]]
407** {{Big|No}} [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "Nope!"]]
408* Malfunctioning Diarrhea Moose (when somebody sticks robots up moose rectums, and it upsets their digestive systems)
409* List Of Caustic Critics That Don't Use The BerserkButton Trope
410* Not as Good as It Could Have Been, but Still Pretty Good
411** Not as Bad as It Could Have Been, but Still Pretty Bad
412* {{Sean Connery Is About to Shoot|You}} [[DrivenToSuicide Sean Connery]]
413* Website/TvTropes Website appears For More Than One Time in Three Episodes in a Series Every Season
414* People Use Toilets and Don’t Wash Their Hands After Upsetting People Who See Them Do It
415* A Recyle Bin Is Used As A Garbage Can
416* People Bleed When Wounded
417* Britain Is The Eighties: British characters are shown as having traits associated with British popular culture in the 1980s, even when it doesn't make sense.
418** [[ElectricTorture "Electric Avenue" Torture]]
419* TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Sex Life
420** TV Tropes Ruined Your Sex Life
421* TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Sex Life (yeah, I don't get it either)
422* {{Gretzky|HasTheBall}} [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex Has Lots of Sex]]
423** {{Gretzky|HasTheBall}} {{Has Two Thumbs and}} [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex Lots of Sex]] (And its subtropes: Gretzky Has Two Thumbs and No Sex, Gretzky Has No Thumbs and Lots of Sex, and Gretzky Has Sex and [[BodyHorror Lots of Thumbs]])
424* [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Pre-]]ChopSockey [[PreAsskickingOneLiner One Liner]]
425** [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Pre-]][[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace Shooting Marvin in the Face]] [[PreAsskickingOneLiner One Liner]]
426* [[NationalStereotypes All]] GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff
427* [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Justified Double Entendre]]
428** [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Enforced Double Entendre]]
429** [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Exploited Double Entendre]]
430* [[LampshadedTheObscureReference Defied the Obscure Reference]] ("Funny story: so I was alone in a crowd, on a bus after w--" "'''MAN!''' Shut the ''[[ObligatorySwearing FUCK]]'' up with your '''''stupid FUCKING''''' references to '''FUCKING''' 70s music! '''I ''FUCKING'' MEAN IT!!!'''")
431* [[WritersCannotDoMath Mathematicians Cannot Write]] (possibly TropesThatWillNeverHappen/{{Complaining}} also)
432* [[PronounTrouble Noun Trouble]] (BuffySpeak?)
433** [[PronounTrouble Proverb Trouble]] (IceCreamKoan?)
434* LightningCanDoAnything [[http://zombo.com at Zombocom!]]
435** [[MurderDotCom murder.zombo.com]] (Just one of Zombocom's many services)
436* [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Shows You DO Like]] (Ironically!)
437** PlayedStraight by a lot of [[MemeticMutation memes]].
438* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Sucked It, Now It Changes!]] (Some color-changing jawbreaker-type thing. Or an extremely bizarre porno trope)
439** [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks It's the Same, so They Sucked It]]
440* Death by Provocative Wager ("Why, if Alice's date goes well, I'll jump off London Bridge wearing a gorilla suit!" It subsequently goes well.)
441* DontShootTheMessage OR [[ShootTheMessenger the Messenger]], Seriously, Please Put That Gun Down You're Scaring Us
442* [[AntiLoveSong Anti-Anti-Love Song]] ([[Music/TenCC I'm Not in Love]]?)
443** “I Won't Say I'm in Love” from WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}
444** [[AntiChristmasSong Anti-Anti-Christmas Song]]
445** [[{{Antidisestablishmentarianism}} Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianism]] (so anti-establishment)
446* [[SortingAlgorithmOfTropes Sorting Algorithm of Sorting Algorithms]]
447* [[RuleOfThree Rule of 576]]
448** Subverted in ''Workville'', where a viewer expected this number to appear, but it did not.
449* {{Actually|FourMooks}} [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs 30 to 50 Feral Hogs]]
450* [[HispanicAndLatinoIndex Latino]] [[IndexedAndNerdy and Nerdy]]
451** Bisexual, 5'9.5" tall, Black, Irish, and German, Middle-Class, Agnostic, South Carolinian, and Nerdy
452* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Swabians Love David Hasselhoff]]
453* [[AmericansHateTingle Nebraskans Hate Tingle]]
454* [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Pueblans Love Speedy Gonzales]]
455* [[Creator/ReneMagritte Tuba on Fire]]
456** [[VideoGame/AlienSoldier 68000 Heart on Fire]]
457** Music/{{Alexisonfire}} on Fire
458* OK, Maybe [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I Actually AM Making This Up]]. What Are You Gonna Do About It? What? OhCrap [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder I Meant That as a Rhetorical Question!]] Oh Nooooo-
459* Scratching Is Feminine: Attacking with your nails is a fighting tactic used by girls (and sometimes girly guys).
460** Well, given FelineFemale, yes.
461* [[SkiResortEpisode Alabama Ski Resort Episode]]
462* [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed It, Now Everything Sucks!]]: A trope for when a small change to a particular piece of media causes absolutely all of life to become terrible, for everyone, forever.
463* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] AmbiguousEnding
464* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] BittersweetEnding
465* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] CruelTwistEnding
466* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] DancePartyEnding
467* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] EverybodyDiesEnding
468* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] EverybodyLaughsEnding
469* [[AccidentalDownerEnding Accidental]] KarmicTwistEnding
470* AmbiguousEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
471* AudienceAlienatingEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
472* BittersweetEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
473* CruelTwistEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
474* DancePartyEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
475* DownerEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
476** AccidentalDownerEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
477** SuddenDownerEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
478** See BelatedHappyEnding for this (and the 5 before it).
479*** BelatedHappyEnding [[DoubleSubverted Override]]
480* EverybodyDiesEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
481* EverybodyLaughsEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
482* FlyAtTheCameraEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
483* FocusGroupEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
484* GainaxEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
485** MindScrewdriver
486* GeckoEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
487** DoomedByCanon?
488* GoToSleepEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
489** Technically overlaps with TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooUniversal...
490* KarmicTwistEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
491* MovingAwayEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
492* NoEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
493** Invoked when there's a {{Cliffhanger}}.
494* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
495* RayOfHopeEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
496* ResetButtonEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
497* ShockAndSwitchEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
498* SurprisinglyHappyEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
499* TraumaButtonEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
500* WhatNowEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
501* WinWinEnding [[HappyEndingOverride Override]]
502* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls What Do You Mean, It's for Little Girls?]]
503** What Do You Mean, [[Music/TheKnack "But The Little Girls Understand"]]?
504* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForLittleGirls What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Boys?]]
505* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Parents?
506* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Teenagers?
507* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Aliens?
508* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Robots?
509* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Babies Inside Wombs?
510* What Do You Mean, It's Not For The Only 122-Year-Old Jeanne Calment?
511* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Cavemen In The Afterlife?
512* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Me?
513* What Do You Mean, It's Not For Dogs?
514* [[AccidentalHero Accidental Villain]]
515** ObliviouslyEvil
516** Occidential Villain, for an inversion of a YellowPeril villain.
517* [[Memes/MortalKombat Never Seen a Kano Transformation]]
518** Never Heard a Kano Sample
519* SpaceJews [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]-][[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment !]]
520* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then]] Literature/{{Jeff|TheKiller}} [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Was a]] [[MemeticMutation Potato]]
521** [[ToHellAndBack To Potato and Back]]
522* Three Season Curse (when a show gets cancelled after exactly three seasons)
523* [[TheComputerIsALyingBastard The Computer Is A Brutally Honest Bastard]].
524* [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer Radical Ed at a Computer That isn't Hers]]
525* [[EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop Everybody]] [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Do the La La La]]
526* Complexity-Canonicity Connection: [[CuttingOffTheBranches When a video game has multiple endings]]; the more convoluted getting a certain ending is, the more likely it is to be affirmed as the canon ending.
527* ChildByRape [[RapeByProxy by Proxy]]: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A character is conceived through RapeByProxy.
528* [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse They Look Just Like Shia Labeouf]]: A trope about the fact that every monstrous person throughout history, without exception, looked ''exactly'' like Shia Labeouf.
529* [[DelayedReleaseTieIn Delayed Release]] TieInCereal
530* [[EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop Everybody Do The Loop That Seems Endless But Actually Ends After 30 Minutes]]
531* [[NoSocialSkills Some Social Skills But Still Not Enough]]
532* And They All Lived HappilyEverAfter, Except For One Guy Who Died Offscreen
533* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Yvan Eht Nioj," They Said]]
534* From Likable Good Guy to HateSink Bad Guy: Where a character after being revealed to be EvilAllAlong turns out to have committed a number of awful acts and/or whose true personality makes them entirely unlikeable.
535* Great Villain, Horrible Person: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Where a character that's a villain is considered a good villain, but as simply a person, they're purely terrible and loathsome.
536** The page description for JerksAreWorseThanVillains touches on this idea, though not so much the trope itself.
537* AbusiveParents Are {{Hate Sink}}s: Where a character being an {{Abusive Parent|s}} automatically makes them an unlikeable character.
538** {{Domestic Abuse}}rs Are {{Hate Sink}}s (similar to the above trope)
539* [[ItsPopularNowItSucks It's Popular But Less So Than Another Work, So It Sucks!]] (overlaps with TropesThatWillNeverHappen/{{Complaining}})
540* [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Evil Cannot Comprehend Basic Mathematics]]
541* From Optional to Required: Where something that was once considered optional for someone to do, such as a task, a test, meeting a certain condition, etc. (in some cases highly recommended or expected of them to do) then becomes required for them to do.
542** Happens all the time in RealLife.
543** ObviousRulePatch could be a subtrope.
544* Random Abuse Moment/Surprise Abuse Moment
545** Several ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' {{Cutaway Gag}}s employ this.
546* [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Other Article-Demonstrating Article]]
547* Unparodiable Tropes (An index of tropes that are so meta, ironic, and detached, that it's impossible to parody them and have anyone know what you're doing.)
548* "Shaggy Dog" Story but the Shaggy Dog was the right amount of shaggy when he brings it to the rich English family and he gets a million dollars.
549* Seemingly Random In-Game Tournament: A moment in a video game where there's a tournament the player character takes part in that involves other characters, only for your opponents to be the same each and every time.
550** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'''s Champion Cup, despite the second day involving all the Gym Leaders partaking in the tournament, you always fight Nessa first, Bea/Alister second, and Raihan third.
551* A Beloved Character Won't Remain Universally Beloved Forever (where no matter who the character is, over time, that character [[ItsPopularNowItSucks will gain more]] [[CharacterPerceptionEvolution and more detractors]]; overlaps with TropesThatWillNeverHappen/{{Complaining}})
552* {{Mistaken for|Gay}} Music/MarvinGaye
553** Obvious Music/RobinThicke joke goes here...
554* [[GreenAesop Orange Aesop]]: Protect the orange trees.
555* [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} The final boss of a game is a soulless vessel with the memories of a character who]] [[VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet died before the events of the game, with a battle theme composed by Toby Fox.]]
556* {{Britain Is Only|London}} UsefulNotes/TheMidlands
557* {{Britain Is Only|London}} OopNorth
558* [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Fifth Cousins Four Times Removed in the Adaptation]]
559* ContinuitySnarl Where A Specific Event Outright Calls Other Canonical Events Lies
560** ...Perpetrated By A Tabloid Magazine
561** [[EveryoneHatesHades Everyone Hates You]]: The recurrent trope of you specifically being portrayed as a dangerous villian in works based your life.

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