| 1 | There are OmnipresentTropes, and then there are ''these'': things that are so omnipresent that they're [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs not even storytelling tools]]. They happen so often that they lose all meaning; thus, they [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen will likely never happen]] as tropes. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Compare and contrast TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooObscureOrBizarre and TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooSpecific. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Contrast Administrivia/NoTropeIsTooCommon (there is a meaning, regardless of how often it happens). |
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| 7 | !! Dishonorable mentions: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs |
| 10 | * People Sit at Tables |
| 11 | * Breathing Oxygen - So much so that aversions and subversions have become [[SuperNotDrowningSkills tropes in]] [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace their own right]]. |
| 12 | ** Breathing H₂O a.k.a. [[SuperDrowningSkills Drowning]]... |
| 13 | *** ...Or being a fish |
| 14 | * Two Objects Cannot Be in One Place (and its inversion... And no, [[Franchise/StarTrek Teleporter Accidents]] and {{telefrag}}s do not count). |
| 15 | ** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics (by bosons). |
| 16 | * One Object Cannot Be In Two Places |
| 17 | ** Also subverted by Copenhagen quantum physics, but not other interpretations where a particle only is at one place a time. |
| 18 | * [[OlderThanDirt Older Than a Newborn]] |
| 19 | ** [[OlderThanDirt Younger Than Dirt]] |
| 20 | * [[DudeLooksLikeALady Gal Looks Like a Lady]] |
| 21 | ** [[TestosteronePoisoning Guy Looks Like a Dude]] |
| 22 | ** Human Looks Like a Homo Sapiens |
| 23 | * Small and Completely Inconsequential Bugs (like sprite flickering) |
| 24 | * Three-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry |
| 25 | ** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Subverted]] by General Relativity and by [[EpilepticTrees string theory]]. |
| 26 | * The Word "The" (except in SpellMyNameWithAThe) |
| 27 | ** Averted by [[UsefulNotes/GrammarInForeignLanguages a bunch of languages]]. |
| 28 | ** PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid "Procrastination"]]. |
| 29 | * Didn't Get TheCall, Didn't Find the Call, Couldn't Care Less About The Call |
| 30 | ** And its subtrope, Didn't Get The Call And Really Are Just As Happy About It; Happier, Maybe. |
| 31 | ** And, of course, Didn't Get The Call But It Was Only A Wrong Number Anyway. |
| 32 | * TheCall Doesn't Want To Contact You And You Don't Really Want To Be Contacted Either And Later The Call Calls Someone Who Wants To Be Called |
| 33 | * [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin The Bad Guys Always Fail]] |
| 34 | ** The Bad Guy Dies, with subtropes DisneyVillainDeath and DeathEqualsRedemption |
| 35 | ** The Bad Guy Sins |
| 36 | ** [[HighSchoolRejects The Bad Guy Fails High School]] |
| 37 | ** [[ArtisticLicensePhysics The Bad Guy Fails Physics Forever]] |
| 38 | * [[OlderThanTheyLook Really as Old as They Look]] |
| 39 | ** And its sister trope, [[YoungerThanTheyLook Really as Young as They Look]]. |
| 40 | ** [[OlderThanTheyThink Exactly as Old as They Think]] |
| 41 | ** [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 70 Years Old]]: An elderly person actually looks elderly. |
| 42 | * Cast Full of Lifeforms |
| 43 | ** Averted by ObjectShows. |
| 44 | * [[PornWithoutPlot Porn with Porn]]: Pornography contains sex as its main focus. |
| 45 | ** [[{{Plot}} Plot with Plot]]: A work with a plot features storytelling. |
| 46 | *** StoryWithinAStory? |
| 47 | ** Plot Without Porn: A work that features no explicit sex. |
| 48 | ** Porn Without Porn: A work in which features sex as a major element, but which is never depicted explicitly or directly. |
| 49 | * [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot Poorly Disguised Plot]] |
| 50 | ** Poorly Disguised Porn |
| 51 | ** Well Disguised Pilot |
| 52 | *** Well Disguised Porn -- ItsNotPornItsArt? |
| 53 | * [[Film/{{Babe}} Ferdinand Was Right]] -- people eating animals for Christmas dinner; overlaps with TropesThatWillNeverHappen/TooObscureOrBizarre |
| 54 | * Moderately Hard Difficulty |
| 55 | ** [[NintendoHard Nintendo Wii Hard]]? |
| 56 | ** [[ItsHardSoItSucks It's The Exact Right Difficulty, So It Rocks!]] |
| 57 | * Steam, of a [[Platform/{{Steam}} non-gaming platform]] and [[SteamPunk non-punk]] kind. |
| 58 | ** I'll be surprised if there isn't a trope about steam vents as obstacles in games. |
| 59 | *** [[SteamVentObstacle No need to be surprised]]. |
| 60 | ** There is also CensorSteam, so [[ExactWords this one happened twice, I guess]]. |
| 61 | * Everyday Clothing |
| 62 | ** [[Administrivia/MissingSupertrope Possible supertrope]] of NotWearingTights (for superheroes) and CustomUniform (for plain clothes detectives). |
| 63 | * Pressing the Start Button |
| 64 | ** Starting being averted by MediaNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. For example, the Platform/{{Wii}}, which lacks a Start button, generally has "+" for pausing, and title screens use "press A+B" or "press any button". |
| 65 | ** Inverted with Windows, which prior to ATX required the user to press the "Start" button in order to shut down.[[note]]Actually, there are steps in between. You click "start", and then "shut down" - you click "start" to do a lot of things.[[/note]] |
| 66 | ** The Commodore 64 puts Run and Stop on the same key. |
| 67 | * Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love |
| 68 | ** Two People Who Are Romantically Compatible But Aren't, Like, Destined To Be Together Or Anything, And It Doesn't Matter Anyway Because They Never Meet |
| 69 | *** Both of these could be a supertrope to ShipsThatPassInTheNight. |
| 70 | * The Slapwankles Tetra-Inversion Principle: |
| 71 | -->'''[[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Tom Siddell]]:''' It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing. |
| 72 | ** Over shorter time periods, compare NonSequitur and AttentionDeficitOohShiny. |
| 73 | * Eating Food (that doesn't fall into anything in FoodTropes). |
| 74 | ** Drinking Alcohol (that doesn't fall into HardDrinkingTropes). |
| 75 | *** Drinking Non-Alchoholic Beverages |
| 76 | * Ice Melts in Heat |
| 77 | * Nose |
| 78 | ** We have tropes for exaggerations (GagNose) and aversions (TheNoseless). |
| 79 | ** [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Nose You Don't Like]] |
| 80 | *** [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow Complaining About People Not Liking the Nose]] |
| 81 | ** [[AndYourRewardIsClothes And Your Reward Is Nose]] |
| 82 | ** We Have NoseTropes, so... I guess this one happened? |
| 83 | *** [[Administrivia/JustifyingEdit Technically, that's an index.]] |
| 84 | * List Of Series That Have Characters |
| 85 | * [[TalkingAnimal Talking Humans]] -or- Opening That Giant Hole In Your Face And Having Words And Sounds Come Out |
| 86 | ** Played with in various ways: TheSpeechless, TheVoiceless, and TheUnintelligible. |
| 87 | * [[CallARabbitASmeerp Call a Rabbit a "Rabbit"]] |
| 88 | ** [[CallASmeerpARabbit Call a Smeerp a "Smeerp"]] |
| 89 | ** [[CallAHitPointASmeerp Call a Hit Point a "Hit Point"]] |
| 90 | ** [[CallAHumanAMeatbag Call a Human a "Human"]] |
| 91 | ** [[CallAHumanAMeatbag Call a Meatbag a "Meatbag"]] |
| 92 | ** [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff Call a Pegasus a "Pegasus"]] |
| 93 | ** [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff Call a Hippogiff a "Hippogriff"]] |
| 94 | * [[HorseOfADifferentColor A Horse of a Color]] |
| 95 | ** That Dog Has Fleas! |
| 96 | * People Who Can Spell Their Own Names |
| 97 | ** [[Film/BattlefieldEarth People Who Were Being Trained To Conquer Galaxies While Others Were Taught To Spell Their Own Names]] |
| 98 | * Flip A Switch, The Light Comes On |
| 99 | ** [[Music/HilaryDuff If The Light Is Off Then It Isn't On]] |
| 100 | ** [[Creator/{{Nigahiga}} You Turn The Lights Off Then You Turn Them Back On]] |
| 101 | ** Subverted by power outages. |
| 102 | * Use of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous Matter -or- Materials Made of Atoms |
| 103 | ** Subverted with various degenerate states of matter. |
| 104 | ** [[EpilepticTrees Is light a]] [[ZigZaggingTrope wave or a particle]]? |
| 105 | *** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes.]] |
| 106 | ** Averted in {{Cyberspace}}. |
| 107 | * Standing On A Planet |
| 108 | ** Averted in works set on GenerationShips. |
| 109 | * I Have A Face |
| 110 | ** Subverted by [[Film/TheManWithoutAFace Mel Gibson]] and [[FacialHorror others]]? |
| 111 | ** Invoked in cases of MyEyesAreUpHere. |
| 112 | * Moving |
| 113 | * Blinking |
| 114 | ** EyeTropes has a few, but not OnceForYesTwiceForNo. |
| 115 | * Existing |
| 116 | ** Its inversion, Not Existing, is paradoxically universal. |
| 117 | *** Not Existing is used in JustForFun/TheTropelessTale, which [[HoistByHisOwnPetard makes it exist even less]]. |
| 118 | * InsaneTrollLogic/Trolls |
| 119 | * Combustion Fuel |
| 120 | ** [[ResourceWar Combustion Fuel as a]] MacGuffin |
| 121 | ** Machinery Fuel |
| 122 | * My Lower Body From My Waist To My Ankles In My Pants |
| 123 | ** [[Creator/MontyPython I've got two legs from my hips to the ground...]] |
| 124 | ** [[Music/TheBeatles He got feet down below his knees..]] |
| 125 | ** Aversions include some examples of InspirationallyDisadvantaged, DreamCrushingHandicap, and BizarreAlienLocomotion. |
| 126 | * Person Who Is Moderately Attractive |
| 127 | ** Sort of exists as HollywoodHomely. |
| 128 | * [[PuritySue Mediocrity Sue]] |
| 129 | ** [[OxymoronicBeing Realistically Flawed Sue]] |
| 130 | ** Lawsuit Sue |
| 131 | *** [[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Sue]] |
| 132 | ** Runaround Sue |
| 133 | ** Average Sue |
| 134 | ** Hijinxan Sue |
| 135 | * The Fred |
| 136 | ** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-423 That's what you think.]] |
| 137 | ** Precedent: Jack Attack was [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1315914034023323900&page=0 cut]]. |
| 138 | * [[GravityIsAHarshSeamstress Gravity Is Not A Seamstress, Harsh Or Otherwise]] |
| 139 | ** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is Not A Mistress, Harsh Or Otherwise]] |
| 140 | ** [[GravityIsAHarshMistress Gravity Is]] A Harsh {{Dominatrix}} |
| 141 | * Adrenaline Brigade Bait |
| 142 | ** See NightmareFuel. |
| 143 | ** Dopamine Brigade Bait |
| 144 | ** We do have [[LightEmUp Melatonin Brigade Bait]], [[FoodPorn Insulin Brigade Bait]], and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Serotonin Brigade Bait]]. |
| 145 | ** Endorphin Brigade Bait |
| 146 | ** [[OverlyLongGag Triiodothyronine Brigade Bait]] |
| 147 | ** [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs Tetrahydrocannabinol Brigade Bait]] |
| 148 | *** [[WatchItStoned We actually have this one!]] |
| 149 | ** [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Thiotimoline]] Brigade Bait |
| 150 | * A Creator Announces That It Will Release A Work, Then Later The Work Is Released |
| 151 | ** Double subverted with ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' and anything else {{Uncanceled}}. |
| 152 | * [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Writers Write The Plot]] |
| 153 | ** Imagination Writes The Plot |
| 154 | ** Except in cases of RealLifeWritesThePlot, ExecutiveMeddling, DubInducedPlotHole (Translators Miswrite The Plot), WagTheDirector and surely others. |
| 155 | ** VideoGame/SecondLife Writes The Plot |
| 156 | ** [[MonkeysOnATypewriter Monkeys With Typewriters Write The Plot]] |
| 157 | *** One example is ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon''. |
| 158 | * Smarter than [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ralph Wiggum]] |
| 159 | ** Dumber than [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] |
| 160 | *** Inverted with [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Martin Prince]]. Einstein's IQ is 160, while Martin's IQ is 216. |
| 161 | * Movement |
| 162 | ** Inertia |
| 163 | * I Know The Limits of My Own Abilities |
| 164 | * Bog-Standard Protagonist |
| 165 | * Plain As A Pikestaff |
| 166 | * Touching an Item with Any Part Of The Character Or Machine Results of it Being Picked up in Video Games |
| 167 | ** Subverted by ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': "YOU JUMPED ONTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!" |
| 168 | ** Subverted by most {{RPG}}s -- you have to push a button to pick things up. |
| 169 | * Most Books in Video Games Are Unreadable Or At Most Very Short (It'd Be Impractical To Make a Whole Library of Full Length Books in Every Game) |
| 170 | ** PamphletShelf |
| 171 | * There is No Time Limit In Video Games unless Otherwise Stated |
| 172 | ** TakeYourTime |
| 173 | * Video Games Always Give You a Second Chance After You Die, Even if You First Have to Deal with a GameOver |
| 174 | ** Aversions at SingleAttemptGame. |
| 175 | * If I Set This Match Alight, It May Burn |
| 176 | ** [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Matches burn when they are lit]] |
| 177 | * [[TheOldestOnesInTheBook Older Than Fusion Power]] |
| 178 | ** If Website/TVTropes lasts another 20 years, I'll make you eat your words. |
| 179 | ** The Sun would like a word with you, as would its many older cousins. So, how about [[NewerThanTheyThink Newer Than Fusion Power]]? |
| 180 | ** Older Than FasterThanLightTravel |
| 181 | *** Both could have in-universe examples. |
| 182 | ** Older Than TimeTravel |
| 183 | *** But if a human [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble has/will have]] [[TimeyWimeyBall travelled to the past beyond our subjective present, than modern works aren't technically]] Older Than TimeTravel... [[Film/AustinPowers I've gone cross-eyed]]. |
| 184 | ** Older Than Flying Cars |
| 185 | ** Older Than Things That Are Younger Than It: Includes the most recently released work at any given moment. |
| 186 | ** Older Than Ford Fusion |
| 187 | * Dead Historical Figures |
| 188 | * [[UnconventionalLearningExperience Conventional Learning Experience]] |
| 189 | * People Who Aren't Dead |
| 190 | ** NotQuiteDead, at least |
| 191 | ** People Who [[Literature/{{Discworld}} AREN'T DEAD]] |
| 192 | ** [[Film/TheOthers2001 WE'RE NOT DEAD!]] |
| 193 | ** [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I feel happy! I feel happy!]] |
| 194 | ** People Who Survive The Episode. (Zigzagged by [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Kenny]]) |
| 195 | * Kids Who Aren't a Dad |
| 196 | * [[PetTheDog Feed the Dog]] |
| 197 | ** [[Music/DoctorSteel Feed the hamster, feed the hamster, yeah!]] |
| 198 | * [[TheDarkSide Evil Is Bad]], and its sister trope, [[AlwaysLawfulGood Good Is Good]] |
| 199 | ** [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad Good is Good and Bad is Bad]] |
| 200 | ** [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil This Is Your Brain On Good]] |
| 201 | ** [[AffablyEvil Evil Is Not Good]], [[AffablyEvil Evil Is Not Nice]] |
| 202 | *** [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Evil]], [[GoodIsNotNice Good Is Not Mean]] |
| 203 | ** [[VillainByDefault Nazis Are Bad]], and its sister tropes [[NaziHunter Nazis Are Not Good]] and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Nazis Are Not Nice]] |
| 204 | ** [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Is Not Light]], and its sister trope [[LightIsNotGood Light Is Not Dark]] |
| 205 | *** [[EvilIsNotWellLit Good Is Well-Lit]] |
| 206 | *** Midnight Horror, [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Things That Don't Go "Bump" in the Day]] |
| 207 | *** See also: CaptainObvious |
| 208 | ** [[TrueNeutral Neutral Is Neutral]] |
| 209 | * [[DarthWiki/TropesThatWillNeverHappen Tropes That Have Already Happened]] |
| 210 | ** RealLife |
| 211 | ** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pagelist_having_pagetype_in_namespace.php?n=Main&t=trope Exists as an auto-generated list.]] |
| 212 | * Works That Have An Author |
| 213 | ** Works That Don't Exist Because The Person Destined to Become Their Author Decided To Become A Postman Instead |
| 214 | *** [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream]] has a library full of these. |
| 215 | *** Literature/ThursdayNext could probably show you a few. |
| 216 | *** When the copyright industry wants a handout from a government, it plays up the existence of these. |
| 217 | * All First-Person Games Include Killing |
| 218 | ** Aversions (Non-Violent First-Person Game?) include ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', and simulators of paintball and laser tag. |
| 219 | *** All First-Person Games Featuring Guns That Fire Bullets Include Killing. |
| 220 | * [[BannedInChina Banned In North Korean Concentration Camps]] |
| 221 | ** Banned In A Media-less Vacuum |
| 222 | *** Averted by JustForFun/TheTropelessTale. |
| 223 | * Most Women Are Female |
| 224 | ** [[{{GIRL}} A Few Women Are Female, The Rest Are Definitely Men]] |
| 225 | ** Averted by [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet The Internet]]. |
| 226 | * Swords that cut |
| 227 | * Older Than Something That Came After It |
| 228 | ** [[MindScrew Younger Than Something That Came After It]] |
| 229 | *** Possible in real life thanks to special relativity. |
| 230 | * Memes That Failed To Catch On |
| 231 | ** In a sense, ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders''; didn't catch on as a series, but did later become a meme. |
| 232 | ** ForcedMeme, perhaps? |
| 233 | * [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even The Guys]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Want Her]] |
| 234 | ** [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even The Girls]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Want Him]] |
| 235 | * Everybody Has Lots of Something |
| 236 | ** Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me |
| 237 | * Space Has Stars |
| 238 | ** In fact, it was [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey full of stars]] until [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy the King of All Cosmos broke them all.]] |
| 239 | * [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Reliable Narrator]] (How to explain the third-person limited PointOfView.) |
| 240 | * [[AFatherToHisMen A Father To His Sons and Daughters]] |
| 241 | * [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vaguely Similar To What It Says On The Tin]] |
| 242 | ** Presumably What It Says On The Tin, But We Haven't Opened It So There's No Way To Know For Sure |
| 243 | ** [[ShapedLikeItself Shaped Unlike Itself]] |
| 244 | ** Since NeverTrustATitle exists, why not Sliding Scale Of Title Accuracy? |
| 245 | * [[PhysicalGod Physical Dog]] |
| 246 | ** That would be a great name for the "zoomorphic" end capping off the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism. |
| 247 | ** [[CallASmeerpARabbit Unphysical Dog]] |
| 248 | * [[UnwinnableByDesign Winnable By Design]] |
| 249 | ** [[UnwinnableJokeGame Winnable Joke Game]] |
| 250 | ** [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable Unintentionally Winnable]] |
| 251 | * Words With Spaces Between Them |
| 252 | ** Averted in some languages |
| 253 | *** Letters With Tiny Spaces Between Them |
| 254 | ** ...And/Or Visual Representations And/Or Sound |
| 255 | * [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Jimmy Olsen]] Getting Superpowers Only To Have Them Vanish At The End Of The Issue |
| 256 | ** [[SuperDickery Take a shot.]] |
| 257 | ** Twenty Four Hour Superpowers |
| 258 | * [[ActingForTwo Acting For One]] |
| 259 | ** [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Acting For Zero]] |
| 260 | * The Sky is Blue |
| 261 | ** Except sometimes, when it's an AlienSky. |
| 262 | * Carbon Based Terrestrial Lifeforms |
| 263 | * Anterograde Motion |
| 264 | * [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware The]] ObviouslyEvil Ones |
| 265 | * [[BusesAreForFreaks Buses Aren't For Freaks]] |
| 266 | ** [[BusesAreForFreaks Buses Are For Transportation]] |
| 267 | * Politicians That Lie: Cited as an example of something that might be too PSOC to trope in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1330364315032430200&page=4#76 this forum post]]. |
| 268 | * [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Dogs Are Animals]] |
| 269 | * [[WaterIsAir Water Is Not Air]] |
| 270 | ** Subverted in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', where the air is literally magic water. |
| 271 | * [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Americans Speaking English]] |
| 272 | ** Barely, especially one's ImmigrantParents |
| 273 | ** English Speaking English |
| 274 | *** Also barely, with [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents some accents, especially Geordie]] |
| 275 | ** People Speaking Their Own Language |
| 276 | ** Not common at all, according to [[Theatre/MyFairLady Henry Higgins]]: "In America, they haven't used it for years!" |
| 277 | ** Canadians Speaking English or French |
| 278 | * [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Fiction Artists Have No Sense Of Light Pollution]] |
| 279 | ** Caused by RealityIsUnrealistic, TheCoconutEffect (if it's night, the stars should be out) or RuleOfCool. |
| 280 | * Tuning A Tuning Fork |
| 281 | ** This is done with a tuning fork tuning fork, which has to be tuned with a tuning fork tuning fork tuning fork, with a chain of frequency references up to the atomic clock. |
| 282 | *** [[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, I heard you like tuning forks, so I put a tuning fork in your tuning fork, so you can tune while you tune.]] |
| 283 | * Toenail Cutting |
| 284 | ** Cut Toe Nailing |
| 285 | ** Is it the same as [[IBrokeANail toenail breaking]]? |
| 286 | * A Story With Tropes |
| 287 | ** Averted by JustForFun/TheTropelessTale |
| 288 | ** Exaggerated when it's {{Troperiffic}}. |
| 289 | * If I'm Still Breathing, It's Okay |
| 290 | * [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs People Brushing Their Teeth]] |
| 291 | ** [[{{Literature/Bakemonogatari}} There's a fetish for everything.]] |
| 292 | * [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Guy On Girl Is Hot]] |
| 293 | ** Guy On Girl Is Het |
| 294 | ** Guy ''In'' Girl Is Het |
| 295 | ** Would this be Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs for porn? |
| 296 | *** Not quite; InUniverseExamplesOnly. |
| 297 | ** Girl On Guy Is Hot |
| 298 | * Zeno's RPG - An RPG where leveling goes briskly in the beginning until finally slowing down to a crawl. |
| 299 | ** Zeno's MMORPG |
| 300 | ** Zeno's FPS (the bullets never quite reach their targets). |
| 301 | ** Zeno's Tower Defense (delays between attacks double in length every round). |
| 302 | * [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample This Index Is An Example]] - basically all trope namers that are examples. |
| 303 | * Money For Something |
| 304 | * Golfing With Clubs |
| 305 | * [[Music/DireStraits And Chicks For]] Time, Money, Care, Love And A Sense Of Humour, ([[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Or For Being A Bastard]]). |
| 306 | * [[TooDumbToLive Intelligent Enough to Live]] |
| 307 | * People Use Umbrellas When It Rains |
| 308 | ** Only averted by natives of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}. |
| 309 | * [[TheCapitalOfBrazilIsBuenosAires The Capital of Brazil Is Brasília]] |
| 310 | ** The Capital of Argentina Is Buenos Aires |
| 311 | * Shining Yellow Orb In The Sky |
| 312 | ** Averted by sunset and by any story taking place [[TropesInSpace IN SPACE]]. |
| 313 | * Children Are Smaller Than Adults |
| 314 | ** We do have ShortTeensTallAdults and PintSizedKid about exaggerations. |
| 315 | ** Children Are Younger Than Adults |
| 316 | *** Unless the child is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld |
| 317 | * The [[TheIllegal Alien]] is An [[AlienTropes Alien]] |
| 318 | ** ''Film/{{Coneheads}}''? ''Film/MenInBlack''? |
| 319 | ** Someone should take this to YK'''[[Wrestling/MuhammadHassan AN ALIEN, ALIEN, ALIEN]]...''' |
| 320 | * [[IncurableCoughOfDeath The Man Who Had A Cough]] [[Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine]] |
| 321 | * [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I Did What I Didn't Really Have To Do, But Really Wanted To]] |
| 322 | ** Exists as ItAmusedMe. |
| 323 | * One Game for the Price of One |
| 324 | ** Increasingly averted with DLC. |
| 325 | * Greetings! |
| 326 | * [[spoiler:Censorship]] |
| 327 | ** Sensorship |
| 328 | ** Censor-shipping: when MoralGuardians meet and fall in love. |
| 329 | ** [[ProductPlacement Sponsorship]] |
| 330 | ** [[Website/SCPFoundation [DATA EXPUNGED] ]] |
| 331 | * Heroes Vs. Villains |
| 332 | * [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains Villains Are Worse Than Jerks]] |
| 333 | ** Villains Are Worse Than Heroes |
| 334 | ** Jerks Are Worse Than Nice Guys |
| 335 | * {{Animesque}}/Anime and Manga |
| 336 | ** Inverted by ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', an anime designed to look like WesternAnimation. |
| 337 | * [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Liminal Advertising]] |
| 338 | * [[NearlyNormalAnimal Truly Normal Animal]] |
| 339 | * [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With A Letter]] |
| 340 | ** Briefly averted by Music/{{Prince}}. |
| 341 | ** Spell My Name The Same Way That It's Normally Spelled |
| 342 | * [[RealTrailerFakeMovie Real Trailer Real Movie]] |
| 343 | ** Subverted with NeverTrustATrailer? |
| 344 | * [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Better Than Death]] |
| 345 | ** Could be subverted in the case of {{immortality}} with the tropes NotGrowingUpSucks and WhoWantsToLiveForever |
| 346 | * [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Nowhere]] |
| 347 | ** Ordinary-Sized Regular Flea From Somewhere: Annoying parasites that feed on pets and wildlife. |
| 348 | ** Ordinary-Sized Regular Fleas From Everywhere: Includes both the cause of the bubonic plague's spread and a good reason to call an exterminator. |
| 349 | ** Giant Nowhere Flea From Space |
| 350 | ** [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat Flee From Giant Flea From Space]] |
| 351 | * Everyone Wears Underwear |
| 352 | ** Averted by anyone GoingCommando. |
| 353 | * [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks It's Terrible, Now It Sucks]]. |
| 354 | * [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame Absurdly Low Stakes Game]] |
| 355 | ** That could happen. |
| 356 | --> "''Alright, I see your quarter and raise you a stick of gum''." |
| 357 | --> "''Ooh, high roller!''" |
| 358 | ** Does ''Film/TradingPlaces'' count? |
| 359 | * [[SoBeautifulItsACurse So Ugly, It's A Curse]] |
| 360 | * [[PottyFailure Potty Success]] |
| 361 | ** Do we have a trope for the feeling of incredible relief when you make it to the toilet just in time? |
| 362 | * Possible, But Quite Hard To Pull Off |
| 363 | ** Within The Possible |
| 364 | * [[BadassNormal Regular-Ass Normal]] |
| 365 | ** Exists as {{Muggle}}? |
| 366 | ** Badass Super |
| 367 | * [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him By His Name]] |
| 368 | ** [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep His Name Isn't Really Barkeep]] |
| 369 | * [[ThirdPersonPerson First Person Person]] |
| 370 | * [[{{Omniglot}} Monoglot]] |
| 371 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome[=/=]RealLife |
| 372 | ** [[RealityIsUnrealistic Reality Is Realistic]] |
| 373 | * [[CrackIsCheaper Crack Is More Expensive]] |
| 374 | * [[UnorthodoxReload Orthodox Reload]] |
| 375 | ** Orthodoxy: Reloaded |
| 376 | * [[EasierThanEasy Easier th]][[HarderThanHard an Hard]] |
| 377 | ** Harder than Easy |
| 378 | * [[RealityIsUnrealistic Reality Is Realistic]] |
| 379 | * [[BaldOfEvil Bald of Baldness]] |
| 380 | * [[DevilsAdvocate Angel's Advocate]] |
| 381 | * [[RougeAnglesofSatin Rogue Angels of Satan]], a trope for completely correct spelling. |
| 382 | ** Averted with newer spelling books, because they completely change the rules upon how something has to be written. |
| 383 | * [[RapeTropes Rape]] Is Okay When It Is Consensual |
| 384 | ** Rape Is Not Okay |
| 385 | * [[MusicalEpisode Non-Musical Episode]] |
| 386 | * [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocently Clothed Girl]] |
| 387 | ** If YourNormalIsOurTaboo, it could happen. |
| 388 | * [[BadBadActing Actors Acting The Way They Were Trained To]] |
| 389 | ** Correct Line Reading Reel |
| 390 | * [[SpeciesSurname Animals Without Surnames]] |
| 391 | * [[InexplicablyTailless Explicably Tailless]] |
| 392 | * [[ShowWithinAShow Show Not Within a Show]] |
| 393 | ** Show Outside Of A Show |
| 394 | *** A specific type of FramingDevice. |
| 395 | * Dead Animals As Food |
| 396 | ** Averted by vegetarians and vegans |
| 397 | * [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex Anatomically Easy Sex]] |
| 398 | * Conflict As Drama |
| 399 | * Authority Equals Power |
| 400 | * [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Fixing It, Hero]] |
| 401 | ** [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job Breaking It, Villain]] |
| 402 | * [[FasterThanLightTravel Slower Than Light Travel]] |
| 403 | * [[TrailersAlwaysLie Trailers Often Tell The Truth]] |
| 404 | ** [[CoversAlwaysLie Covers Often Tell The Truth]] |
| 405 | ** [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Trailers Don't Usually Spoil]] |
| 406 | * Name's Not The Same |
| 407 | ** Because we need to catalog instances of two or more famous people being easy to distinguish from one another. 19th Century physicist '''James Clerk Maxwell''' is not to be confused, ever, with ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' actress '''Sarah Chalke'''. |
| 408 | ** [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant I Didn't Think It Meant]] |
| 409 | * [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Germans Love]] Music/{{Kraftwerk}} |
| 410 | * [[MsFanservice Ms. Average Looking Girl]] |
| 411 | * [[MrFanservice Mr. Average Looking Guy]] |
| 412 | * [[IFellForHours I Fell For Seconds]] |
| 413 | ** I Fell For You |
| 414 | ** [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs Which would likely cause injuries if not death.]] |
| 415 | * [[RootingForTheEmpire Rooting For The Rebels]] |
| 416 | * [[OppositeSexClone Same Sex Clone]] |
| 417 | * [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy Masculine Boy, Feminine Girl]] |
| 418 | ** Masculine Girl and Manly Man |
| 419 | ** Sensitive Gal, Feminine Boy |
| 420 | * [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Moron, Hidden Dumbass]] |
| 421 | * {{This Is Your Premise On|Drugs}} Medication Used Legally |
| 422 | * [[CreatorsCultureCarryover We All Live in the Universe]] |
| 423 | * [[WeaksauceWeakness Weak]] [[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences Against Rockets]] |
| 424 | * Trope Names from the English |
| 425 | * [[TheWallsAreClosingIn The Walls Are Remaining Still]] |
| 426 | * [[NobodyPoops Everybody Poops]] |
| 427 | ** [[Music/BadLipReading And if they don't]] they're an android [[FantasticRacism and should be destroyed!]] |
| 428 | * {{All Gays Are|Promiscuous}} [[ShapedLikeItself Homosexual]] |
| 429 | ** [[BuryYourGays Bury Your Gays After they Die of Natural Causes]] |
| 430 | * LoveItOrHateIt [[TakeAThirdOption Or Think]] [[Creator/MitchHedberg It Was]] [[SoOkayItsAverage OK]] |
| 431 | * [[ShapedLikeItself Humans Are Humans]] |
| 432 | * Nations Fight Wars To Win |
| 433 | * No Different In Hindsight |
| 434 | * [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Through The Eyes Of Sanity]] |
| 435 | * [[ICallItVera I Don't Call It Vera Because That Would Be Silly]] |
| 436 | ** [[Film/FullMetalJacket You Will Not Give Your Rifle A Girl's Name!]] |
| 437 | *** [[Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName Vera Is Not A Boy's Name]] |
| 438 | * [[YoureDrinkingBreastMilk You're Not Drinking Breast Milk]] |
| 439 | ** Your Baby is Drinking Breast Milk |
| 440 | * [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Fictitious Events Write The Plot]] |
| 441 | * [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Moderate Injury,]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction Moderate Reaction]] |
| 442 | ** No Injury, No Reaction |
| 443 | * [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY Come for the X, Stay for the X]] |
| 444 | * [[MeanCharacterNiceActor Criminal Character, Law Abiding Actor]] |
| 445 | ** Check the tabloids to see when this isn't played straight or inverted. |
| 446 | * [[AluminumChristmasTrees Evergreen Christmas Trees]] |
| 447 | * Watching Shows You Don't Complain About |
| 448 | * [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses Real Women Can Wear Dresses If They Wish]] [[StayInTheKitchen But Are Not Required To]] |
| 449 | * [[RealMenWearPink Real Women Wear Pink]] (although PinkGirlBlueBoy sort of does cover that) |
| 450 | * [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses Real Men Never Wear Dresses]] |
| 451 | * [[WholesomeCrossdresser Transvestite Men Often Wear Dresses]] |
| 452 | ** Wholesome Dresser |
| 453 | * [[OfferVoidInNebraska Offer Valid In Nebraska]] |
| 454 | * [[TheDogWasTheMastermind The Dog Wasn't The Mastermind]] |
| 455 | * [[CensoredForComedy Bleeping]] [[BeepingComputers Computer]] |
| 456 | ** Is the name of a forum about PC and operating system repair. |
| 457 | * [[AntiHero Anti-Anti-Hero]] |
| 458 | * [[RealityWarper Fiction Warper]] |
| 459 | ** IntrepidFictioneer |
| 460 | * [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy A Conspiracy Theorist Thinks Beethoven Was An Alien Spy]] |
| 461 | ** Beethoven Wasn't An Alien Spy |
| 462 | ** Mata Hari Was A Human Spy |
| 463 | * [[RecycledInSpace Recycled ON EARTH!]] |
| 464 | ** Examples would be works in a [[ModernAUFic Modern A.U.]] or a HighSchoolAU. |
| 465 | * Amazing Technicolor World |
| 466 | ** WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine |
| 467 | * [[ItsAllAboutMe It's Partly About Me]] |
| 468 | * [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Untroubling Childlike Behavior]] |
| 469 | * [[TheUnfought The Fought]] |
| 470 | * No BerserkButton Is Pressed |
| 471 | * [[ViewersAreMorons Viewers Vary]] [[ViewersAreGeniuses In Intelligence]] |
| 472 | * And Now For Someone Exactly The Same |
| 473 | ** Exists as MeetTheNewBoss. |
| 474 | * People Wearing Warm Clothes In Winter (Without [[PrettyInMink Fur]], [[StylishProtectionGear Style]], Or [[HappyHolidaysDress Holiday Themes]]) |
| 475 | * [[HypnotizeTheCaptive A Captive Is Not Hypnotized]] |
| 476 | * [[FantasyKitchenSink Reality Kitchen Sink]] |
| 477 | ** [[AllMythsAreTrue All Facts Are True]] |
| 478 | * [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Everyone Is Some Guy On Earth]] |
| 479 | ** Averted by [[UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin Yuri Gagarin]]. |
| 480 | ** Jesus Is Jesus In Purgatory (Except When He's Not In Purgatory) |
| 481 | * [[CriticalDissonance Critical]] [[ValuesResonance Resonance]] |
| 482 | * Everyone Is Right-Handed |
| 483 | * [[Administrivia/PermanentRedlinkClub Permanent]] [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Blue Link]] [[Administrivia/PermanentRedlinkClub Club]] |
| 484 | ** Check the TV Tropes section of GrandfatherClause. |
| 485 | * [[InformedJudaism Informed Christianity]] |
| 486 | * Insects Do Not Collect Wigs |
| 487 | * Things |
| 488 | * [[TheAdjectivalMan The Adjectiveless Man]] |
| 489 | * [[AndIMustScream I Have A Mouth, And I Feel Fine]] |
| 490 | ** [[Music/{{REM}} Because it's]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 491 | * [[CrackIsCheaper Lollipops Are Cheaper]] |
| 492 | * We Were Relevant When We First Came Out, Dammit |
| 493 | * [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts Adam Smith Is Perfectly Fine With You]] |
| 494 | * [[YouCantGetYeFlask You Can Get Ye Flask]] |
| 495 | * [[BetterOnDVD The Same on DVD]] |
| 496 | * [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Romance]] |
| 497 | * [[WordOfGod Word of the Devil]] |
| 498 | ** Things said about a work by the archnemesis of its creator? |
| 499 | *** The whole "Creator/{{Nintendo}} is for kids" thing pushed by Creator/{{SEGA}} back in the 90's. |
| 500 | * [[UnratedEdition Rated Edition]] |
| 501 | * [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Who Wants to Die Immediately?]] |
| 502 | ** DrivenToSuicide, or DeathSeeker |
| 503 | * [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Reptiles Aren't Abhorrent]] |
| 504 | * [[AllMythsAreTrue Not All Myths Are True]] |
| 505 | ** All Myths Are False |
| 506 | * [[UnreliableNarrator Reliable Narrator]] |
| 507 | * [[CharacterOutlivesActor Actor Outlives Character]] |
| 508 | * [[BoringButPractical Boring And Impractical]] |
| 509 | ** [[UselessUsefulSpell Useless Useless Spell]] |
| 510 | * [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using The]] [[NWordPrivileges N Word]] |
| 511 | * [[MeaningfulName Meaningless Name]] |
| 512 | * [[MeaningfulReleaseDate Meaningless Release Date]] |
| 513 | * [[SceneryPorn Sex Porn]] |
| 514 | * [[EveryoneIsBi Everyone Is Straight]] |
| 515 | * [[PraisingShowsYouDontWatch Praising Shows You Watch]] |
| 516 | * [[EverybodyLives Someone Dies]] |
| 517 | * [[CouldntFindAPen Found A Pen]] |
| 518 | * [[ArtisticLicense Artistic License - Art]] |
| 519 | * [[ThreeWaySex Two-Way Sex]] |
| 520 | * [[TheImmodestOrgasm Pleasurable Orgasm]] |
| 521 | * [[BlackIsBiggerInBed Hard Is Bigger In Bed]] |
| 522 | * [[ShowerOfLove Shower Of Washing]] |
| 523 | * [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Department of Redundancy]] |
| 524 | * [[DeletedScene Scene]] |
| 525 | * [[DayOldLegend Ancient Legend]] |
| 526 | * [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent And Now For Something Only Somewhat Different]] |
| 527 | ** And Now For Absolutely Nothing |
| 528 | *** Played straight at certain points in ''VideoGame/Mother3'' and VideoGame/{{Undertale}}. |
| 529 | * [[RoomFullOfCrazy Room Full of Sane]] |
| 530 | * [[BlessedWithSuck Blessed With Awesome]] |
| 531 | * [[CursedWithAwesome Cursed with Suck]] |
| 532 | * [[BrilliantButLazy Fairly Intelligent and Reasonably Industrious]] |
| 533 | * Walking |
| 534 | ** Again, averted in some examples of InspirationallyDisadvantaged, DreamCrushingHandicap, and BizarreAlienLocomotion. |
| 535 | ** This one actually [[{{Walking}} DID happen]], although it will never happen again. |
| 536 | * [[OutOfOrder In Order]] |
| 537 | * [[PerfectlyCromulentWord Perfectly Acceptable Word]] |
| 538 | * [[BooksThatBite Books That Don't Bite]] |
| 539 | * [[AWizardDidIt A Wizard Didn't Do It]] |
| 540 | * Something Happens |
| 541 | * [[AsHimself As Someone Else]] |
| 542 | * Set Before The Year 9000 |
| 543 | ** Made Before The Year 9000 |
| 544 | * Someone's Name Isn't Bob |
| 545 | * [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow These Are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, But He Can If He Wants To. It's Really Not That Big A Deal]] |
| 546 | * [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Rodents Of The Usual Size]] |
| 547 | * [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Plausibly Specific Denial]] |
| 548 | * [[EveryoneChasingYou No One Chasing You]] |
| 549 | * [[CreatingLifeIsBad Creating Life Is Hard]] |
| 550 | * [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They Changed It, Now It's Different!]] |
| 551 | * [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER Ruined TEMPORARILY]] |
| 552 | * [[SelectiveGravity Consistent Gravity]] |
| 553 | * [[TropesInSpace Tropes On Earth]] |
| 554 | * [[PressXToNotDie Press X to Do Something, If the Button Has an Assigned Function in the Given Game, That Is]] |
| 555 | ** [[PressXToNotDie Press X to Add The Letter X To A Text Document]] |
| 556 | *** [[PressXToNotDie Press Backspace If You Didn't Mean to Type An X]] |
| 557 | * [[DeaderThanDead Deader Than Alive]] |
| 558 | * [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Usually Uninteresting Sight]] |
| 559 | * [[CanadaDoesNotExist Narnia Does Not Exist]] |
| 560 | ** Canada Exists |
| 561 | * [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Not Everything is Trying to Kill You]] |
| 562 | * [[BigCreepyCrawlies Small Creepy-Crawlies]] |
| 563 | * Everything's More Average With Humans |
| 564 | * [[BattleDiscretionShot Battle]] [[VomitIndiscretionShot Indiscretion Shot]] |
| 565 | * [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Normal People Wear Glasses]] |
| 566 | * [[RaceLift Race Non-Lift]] |
| 567 | * Fictional Trope Index |
| 568 | * Stubbing Your Toe is Painful |
| 569 | * "This work does ''not'' provide examples of..." |
| 570 | * [[HomosexualReproduction Heterosexual Reproduction]] |
| 571 | * [[RandomEventsPlot Sequential Events Plot]] |
| 572 | * [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim Both Actor And Character Are Still Alive]] |
| 573 | * [[CrossesTheLineTwice Does Not Cross The Line]] |
| 574 | * [[YouNoTakeCandle Please Don't Take The Candle]] |
| 575 | * [[NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs This Town IS Big Enough For The Two Of Us]] |
| 576 | * [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Vampires Are The Real Monsters]] |
| 577 | ** [[ShapedLikeItself Monsters Are The Real Monsters]] |
| 578 | * [[NeverTrustATitle You Can Trust This Title]] |
| 579 | * [[WhatCouldHaveBeen What Couldn't Have Been]]: A page for listing every single possibility that a work was never intended to be and never had any chance of being. Did you know that ''{{Series/Friends}}'' was never planned to be a love story between a tired, by-the-book time-traveling cowboy and a magical alien wizard who was actually Shakespeare? |
| 580 | * Making Someone Suffer AFateWorseThanDeath [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Is a Special Kind of Evil]] |
| 581 | * [[TheUnpronounceable The Pronounceable]] |
| 582 | * [[TheUnintelligible The Intelligible]]: Understanding a character's speech is effortless. |
| 583 | ** Subverted by viewers who don't speak the work's language. |
| 584 | * [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption]] Equals [[DeathEqualsRedemption Redemption]] |
| 585 | ** [[DeathEqualsRedemption Death]] Equals [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Death]] |
| 586 | ** [[GoodRunningEvil Good]] Running [[EvilRunningGood Good]]; [[EvilRunningGood Evil]] Running [[GoodRunningEvil Evil]] |
| 587 | ** [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad Bad is Bad and Good is Good]] |
| 588 | * [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even The ISO Has Standards]] |
| 589 | * [[RealitySubtext Reality Supertext]]: When a work is created and set inside the larger context of reality and must be viewed in that light. |
| 590 | * [[FirstEpisodeTwist Last-Episode Twist]] |
| 591 | * [[SoYouWantTo/SeeTheIndex So You Want To]]/Drive A Car |
| 592 | * [[TheMountainsOfIllinois The Hills and Flat Terrain of Illinois]]: A work set in Illinois averts ArtisticLicenseGeography. |
| 593 | * [[SlouchOfVillainy Slouch of Bad Posture]]: Someone is always slumped over for no clear reason. |
| 594 | * Works set in space |
| 595 | * [[TheMario Mario]] [[XanatosGambit Gambit]]: A plan that is completely average and unremarkable in every possible way. |
| 596 | * [[UnrealisticBlackHole Horrifyingly Realistic Black Hole]]: An aversion of UnrealisticBlackHole in a game or setting where it wouldn't be expected, so the player or a character casts a spell to create one, or fires a black hole gun or whatever, only to have the entire planet destroyed. |
| 597 | ** In ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'', black holes can be summoned but doing so pretty much immediately results in death and the level resetting. (Except in the level where you must [[PhlebotinumKilledtheDinosaurs kill the dinosaurs]], where it's a valid solution.) |
| 598 | * People ''Don't'' Sit on Chairs: There are chairs, but nobody sits on them. See, it's the ''opposite'' of People Sit on Chairs, so by definition it will be a relevant and thriving trope. |
| 599 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology[=/=]Rule34 |
| 600 | * [[ShapedLikeItself Shaped Like A Shelf]]: A trope page listing every work that contains at least one shelf-shaped object, regardless of whether or not the object in question is actually a shelf. |
| 601 | * Found on DarthWiki/AllRedEntry: They Didn't Change It, So It's the Same! |
| 602 | * [[SugarWiki/SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage Unsurprisingly Good Native Language]]: TruthInTelevision in public. |
| 603 | * [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Sorting Algorithm of Writing Systems]]: Subtropes include Administrivia/HowToAlphabetizeThings. |
| 604 | * [[MostGamersAreMale Most Gamers]] [[MostWritersAreWriters Are Gamers]] |
| 605 | * [[TheWalrusWasPaul The Walrus Was John]] |
| 606 | * Administrivia/{{People|SitOnChairs}} [[PrecisionFStrike Shit]] [[ToiletHumor in Toilets]] |
| 607 | * [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker Normal Syntax Speaker]] |
| 608 | * [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange]] [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity Insanity]]: A character espouses a completely bizarre, alien moral framework... because they are insane. |
| 609 | * [[Administrivia/LockedPages Unlocked Pages]] |
| 610 | * [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness IC Is Serious Business]]: A serious scene happens and a characters holds to their characterization during it. |
| 611 | ** [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness ICU Is Serious Business]]: Who knew that getting rushed to the emergency room was a big deal? |
| 612 | *** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The intensive care unit and the emergency room are not the same.]] |
| 613 | * [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil Sorting Algorithm of Algorithms]] |
| 614 | * [[CatsHaveNineLives Cats Have One Life]] |
| 615 | ** Humans Have One Life |
| 616 | ** All Organisms Have One Life |
| 617 | *** Inverted with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii Turritopsis Dohrnii, otherwise known as the Immortal Jellyfish]]. |
| 618 | * It Has Context In Context |
| 619 | * Name's Different: A listing of all pairs of characters, across all works and mediums, whose names are ''not'' the same. |
| 620 | * [[SoBeautifulItsACurse So Beautiful, It's Nothing Out Of The Ordinary]] |
| 621 | * [[MostWritersAreMale Most Writers Are Mammals]] |
| 622 | * {{Screwed by the|Network}} [[DistractedByTheSexy Sexy]] |
| 623 | ** [[NerdsAreVirgins For Tropers, that's probably far from universal.]] |
| 624 | * [[HateSink Love Sink]] |
| 625 | * [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically]] [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain Correct]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Hero]] |
| 626 | * [[VillainousFriendship Heroic Friendship]] |
| 627 | * [[ActionGirl Action Guy]] |
| 628 | ** [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]] |
| 629 | * [[LoveToHate Love to Love]] |
| 630 | * [[UsefulNotes Useless Notes]] |
| 631 | ** [[DarthWiki/UselessNotes We actually have those]]. |
| 632 | * [[SignificantAnagram Meaningless Anagram]]: A word's letters can be rearranged to form a meaningless jumble of letters. |
| 633 | * [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]] [[DracoInLeatherPants in Leather Pants]] |
| 634 | ** [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy Ron]] |
| 635 | ** SelfFanservice? |
| 636 | * [[WouldHitAGirl Would Hit A Boy]] |
| 637 | * [[WouldHurtAChild Would Hurt An Adult]] |
| 638 | * [[RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions Rule 34 – Audience Reactions]] |
| 639 | * [[ConnectedAllAlong Disconnected All Along]]: A number of recurring characters have absolutely no connection to each other or specific events. |
| 640 | * [[SmallRoleBigImpact No Role, No Impact]]: A character never appears in the story, never gets mentioned, and has no impact on it whatsoever. |
| 641 | ** Invoked by Sir Not Appearing In This Film from Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail. |
| 642 | * [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Continued Existence of the World as We Know It]] |
| 643 | * [[MentalWorld Physical World]] |
| 644 | * [[DarkIsNotEvil Dark Is Not Light]] |
| 645 | * [[LightIsNotGood Light Is Not Dark]] |
| 646 | * [[FanDislikedExplanation Fan Beloved Explanation]]: An answer to a plot thread which the fanbase ends up seeing as a great reveal or logical explanation. |
| 647 | ** [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Darth Vader being revealed to be Luke Skywalker's father is considered to be a great twist.]] |
| 648 | * [[HarmlessVillain Harmful Villain]] |
| 649 | ** [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Effectual Unsympathetic Villain]] |
| 650 | * [[AmbiguouslyHuman Unambiguously Human]] |
| 651 | * [[HousepetPig Housepet Dog]] |
| 652 | * DiscussedTrope[=/=]Website/TVTropes |
| 653 | * [[SatanIsGood Satan Is Evil]] |
| 654 | * [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous Named After Nobody In Particular]] |
| 655 | * [[MaleBandFemaleSinger Male Band, Male Singer]] |
| 656 | * [[NoExportForYou The Same]] [[BadExportForYou Export]] [[BetterExportForYou For You]] |
| 657 | * [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously Took the Good Film Seriously]] |
| 658 | * [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms Family Unfriendly Firearms]] |
| 659 | * [[BlindWithoutEm Can See Just Fine Without 'Em]] |
| 660 | * [[OneLetterName Multi-Letter Name]] |
| 661 | * [[LeadBassist Rhythm Bassist]] |
| 662 | * [[LeadDrummer Rhythm Drummer]] |
| 663 | * [[GRatedDrug R-Rated Drug]] |
| 664 | * [[FrothyMugsOfWater Frothy Mugs of Beer]] |
| 665 | * [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou The Fourth Wall Will Protect You]] |
| 666 | * [[SoundtrackDissonance Soundtrack Resonance]] (The soundtrack fits the scene.) |
| 667 | ** [[SceneryDissonance Scenery Resonance]] (The scenery matches the events happening.) |
| 668 | ** [[MoodDissonance Mood Resonance]] |
| 669 | ** [[LyricalDissonance Lyrical Resonance]] |
| 670 | ** Soundtrack Sonance (When the soundtrack sonates, but doesn't necessarily ''re''sonate.) |
| 671 | * [[TwoLinesNoWaiting One Line, Waiting]] |
| 672 | * Circle (When there's a circle.) |
| 673 | ** Semi-Circle (SocialSemiCircle but without the social part.) |
| 674 | * Does Not Contradict the Existence of [[Music/TenCc Hotlegs']] 1970 Single "Neanderthal Man" |
| 675 | * [[TruthInTelevision Falsehood in Television]] |
| 676 | ** [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Real Life]]: [[DoubleSubversion Double-Subverted]] by AluminumChristmasTrees and RealityIsUnrealistic. They are true, even if it's not what we expect. |
| 677 | * [[TheMultiverse The Universe]] |
| 678 | * [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Removed Allerative Charm]]: A trope for every single name or phrase that is not alliterative. |
| 679 | * [[MisplacedWildlife Properly Placed Wildlife]] |
| 680 | ** [[MisplacedVegetation Properly Placed Vegetation]] |
| 681 | ** [[IncorrectAnimalNoise Correct Animal Noise]] |
| 682 | ** [[SeldomSeenSpecies Regularly Seen Species]] |
| 683 | * {{Marth Debuted in|SmashBros}} "VideoGame/{{Fire Emblem|1}}" |
| 684 | * [[OldFriendNewGender Old Friend, Old Gender]] |
| 685 | ** [[OldFriendNewGender New Friend, New Gender]]: Befriending a new person with a different gender than yours. |
| 686 | * [[InconsistentSpelling Consistent Spelling]] |
| 687 | * [[SuperheroesWearTights Superheroes Wear Clothes]] |
| 688 | ** [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack Movie Superheroes Wear Clothes]] |
| 689 | * [[SuperheroMovieVillainsDie Superhero Movie Villains Fight Superheroes]] |
| 690 | * [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Early-Installment Consistency]] |
| 691 | ** [[LaterInstallmentWeirdness Later Installment Consistency]] |
| 692 | * [[BigEater Moderate Eater]] |
| 693 | * NiceGuy [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a Heart of Gold]] |
| 694 | * Human Character, Human Actor |
| 695 | * {{Longest Song Goes|First}} [[LongestSongGoesLast Somewhere in the Middle]] |
| 696 | * [[SurprisinglyGentleSong Unsurprisingly Gentle Song]]: An acoustic song by a folk musician. |
| 697 | * [[AdoptionConflict Adaptation Conflict]]: Conflict exists in an adaptation. |
| 698 | * [[InconsistentColoring Consistent Coloring]] |
| 699 | * [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Morally Incorrect Villain]] |
| 700 | ** [[EqualOpportunityEvil Equal-Opportunity Good]] |
| 701 | * [[HeavierThanItLooks As Heavy As It Looks]] |
| 702 | ** [[FasterThanTheyLook As Fast As They Look]] |
| 703 | * [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Hair]]: Works where most characters are not bald. |
| 704 | * [[MisaimedMerchandising Properly Aimed Merchandising]] |
| 705 | * [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]] [[DracoInLeatherPants in Leather Pants]] |
| 706 | * [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]] [[RonTheDeathEater the Death Eater]] |
| 707 | * [[LifeImitatesArt Life Imit]][[ArtImitatesLife ates Life]] |
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