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First and foremost, this very page is not about being "down to any verb beginning with "f", whether that be facepaint, fence, fish, or...[[AtomicFBomb something rude]]".

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* DadaAd does not refer to that Volkswagen commercial where two guys ride around while listening to Trio's "Da Da Da".
** Nor is it an ad in BabyTalk or a PSA about fatherhood.
** Nor is it a commercial featuring the Indian cricketer Saurav Ganguly.
** Nor is it an advertisement promoting Dada ads.
* DaChief isn't [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates the one you hail to]], nor are they a tribal chief.
* A DaddyDNATest is not a DNA test on a daddy-long-legs. Nor is it about the test itself being the father.
* A DaddySystem is not a prostitution ring.
** Nor is it a set of tools or techniques men use to be better parents.
* A DagwoodSandwich isn't a sandwich made of wood.
* DamageOverTime does not refer to the rate calculated by dividing damage by time.
** In video games, that's instead called Damage-Per-Second.
** Nor does it refer to someone preferring a boost which gives extra damage to one which gives extra time.
** It's three words, not two. So if that guy with HeroInsurance blasts through downtown and Damage Control has to work overtime...that's not this trope.
** It's also not about the {{speedrun}}ning practice of [[ViolationOfCommonSense performing actions that result in player damage because it's faster than non-damaging alternatives]].
* A DamageSpongeBoss is not (necessarily) a boss who uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser a sponge as a weapon]].
%%** Nor is it a boss that damages sponges.
* DamageTyping is not about a hero who [[VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead harms his enemies with the power of keyboards]], or about typing so fast that you get blisters on your fingers.
** Nor is it about typing the amount of damage you want to deal.
* DamselScrappy is not a young woman in scrappy clothes, nor is it WesternAnimation/{{Sc|oobyDoo}}rappy-Doo [[GenderBender turning into a female]].
** Additionally, despite "scrappy" as a regular word being a near synonym for "plucky", a DamselScrappy is pretty much the ''opposite'' of a PluckyGirl.
* DanceBattler is not when you tell the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' to dance.
** Nor is it someone who engages in dance battles... [[WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011 usually]].
* DancingBear is not meant to be followed by [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} Painted Wings]]. Neither is it a dangerous entity who is paraded on the court to show how powerful their captor is.
** Nor does it (necessarily) involve an actual bear or a [[TheBear giant hairy macho gay man]] dancing.
* DancingWithMyself is not about two clones waltzing.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique does not refer to TheLudovicoTechnique.
* DangerousWindows is not about the perils of using Platform/MicrosoftWindows, nor is it about virus-filled windows in any operating system.
* DangerTakesABackseat does not mean that things temporarily become less dangerous. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
** Nor does it mean that a character considers a mundane problem to be more important than a serious danger. That would be SkewedPriorities.
** Nor does it describe the WalkingDisasterArea sitting in the back seat of a vehicle.
* TheDanza has nothing to do with [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Dan]][[VideoGame/{{Smite}} za]][[{{Tanuki}} burou]].
* DarkerAndEdgier does not mean using a recently sharpened knife without turning on the lights. On an unrelated note, [[DontDoThisCoolThing NEVER use a recently sharpened knife without turning on the lights!]]
** Nor is it related to evil dark swords.
** Nor does it refer to someone who has become tanner and more irritable.
* ADarkerMe is not the ambition of someone who's going tanning.
** Dark Yugi, Dark Bakura, and Dark Marik from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' are not examples.
*** Neither is [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Dark Pit.]]
* A DarkFic is not a fanfiction about dark skin, hair, or clothes, or one about nighttime.
* DarkHorseCasting is not a subtype of ComicBookFantasyCasting involving properties published by Creator/DarkHorse Comics.
* A DarkHorseVictory does not necessarily mean the EnsembleDarkhorse wins.
** It also doesn't necessarily involve a victory for Creator/DarkHorseComics.
** It's not a victory for [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]], either.
* DarkIsNotEvil is not a value judgment of the SplitPersonality of ''Manga/DNAngel'''s main character.
** It also isn't about reassuring people that, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast despite her last name sounding kind of intimidating]], [[VideoGame/PerfectDark Joanna Dark]] is a good person.
* TheDarkSide is not about a side dish (a smaller food item meant to accompany the main dish) that is somehow dark (such as being dark-colored, being poorly illuminated, or somehow evil).
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget may have something to do with how a hero turns into a villain, but it's not about him/her forgetting all the good memories he/she had about his/her time as the hero (or his/her former hero identity, for that matter) in the process.
** Nor is it about the aforementioned side dish that somehow makes people forget.
* A DartboardOfHate is not a magic-imbued dartboard that [[HatePlague spreads hatred and anger around]].
* DarthWiki/DarthWiki is not a wiki dedicated to ''Franchise/StarWars''. That would be [[http://starwars.wikia.com Wookieepedia]].
* DashingHispanic does not necessarily refer to a [[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales Hispanic character who runs fast]]. (Speedy himself would be an example of the trope, though, in both senses.)
* DashinglyDapperDerby is not about everyone in [[UsefulNotes/OtherBritishTownsAndCities Derby]] being a QuintessentialBritishGentleman.
** Nor is it a race between very cultured horses
** Nor is it an alternate universe version of [[Series/MrYoung Derby]].
* DastardlyWhiplash does not refer to the consequences of a car accident.
** Nor is it a MoodWhiplash relating to somebody abruptly becoming a CardCarryingVillain.
** It's got jack all to do with whips, too.
** Neither is it an appropriate trope for the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' villain.
** Nor is it in any way related to ''Film/{{Whiplash}}''.
* DatelessGrave is not about someone dying without ever having gone on a date.
** Neither is it about graves with a lack of fruit.
** Nor is it a character whose romantic life is ruined by their taking everything too seriously.
* DatingCatwoman, regrettably, offers no advice on how to date Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry, or Anne Hathaway.
** There's nothing on how to tell how old Catwoman is, either. (We recommend not asking.)
* DatingDoSiDo is not a new dance, nor is it a new flavor of Girl Scout cookie.
** Nor is it about dating someone with that name.
* DawsonCasting has nothing to do with casting people from Dawson City.
** Or [[Series/{{Highlander}} Joe]] or [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Roxann]] going fishing.
* DaydreamSurprise is not about someone having a surprising ImagineSpot.
* [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution DDR]] does not refer to UsefulNotes/EastGermany on this wiki.
** Or [[MediaNotes/RandomAccessMemory DDR RAM]].
*** Neither is it to be mistaken for the noise coming from [[Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault those cracks in the wall]], "[[MemeticMutation DRR DRR DRR]]".
* DeadArtistsAreBetter does not imply that undead have superior artistic skills to living ones.
* DeadDrop has nothing to do with corpses.
* A DeadFic is not fan fiction about a [[DeathFic character dying]], nor is it fiction about any flavor of TheUndead.
* DeadHorseGenre is not about stories that kill off horses for drama.
** DeadHorseTrope is not about killing horses for drama.
** DeadUnicornTrope does not refer to the dead unicorn in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''.
** UndeadHorseTrope is not about zombie horses. That would be HellishHorse.
* [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is not a new show on the Creator/DiscoveryChannel about high-risk truffle hunting.
** Nor is it about the [[PoisonMushroom weirdly-colored shrooms]] in some ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games.
** Or any literal mushroom that can kill you. The actual deadliest mushroom is the destroying angel, but the page is not about those.
* Administrivia/DeadLink is not when Link from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series [[GameOver dies]].
* DeadlyDisc isn't necessarily a computer disk (hard or floppy) or [=CD=] or [=DVD=].
** It also doesn't mean that on Literature/{{Discworld}}, EverythingIsTryingToKillYou. That's only true if you're Rincewind.
* DeadlyDodging is not about killing your attackers by simply dodging their attacks... not usually, anyway.
** Nor is it about designing Dodge automobiles to be as dangerous as Pintos.
** Nor is it about a DeadlyGame of [[DodgeballIsHell Dodgeball]].
* A DeadlyGame is not a hunted animal, or the meat of one, that can cause death.
* A DeadlyHug is not a hug so strong it kills the character being hugged, whether accidentally or on purpose. That's AndCallHimGeorge.
* DeadlyRotaryFan is not about an AxCrazy LoonyFan who is a member ot a Rotary club. Or a similar fan ''of'' a Rotary club. Or a similar fan of rotary-engine vehicles.
* DeadMansChest has nothing to do with {{pirate}}s, the death of someone subjected to MarshmallowHell, nor the literal chest region of a human corpse.
* A DeadMansHand was not once (nor still is) connected to a Dead Man's Wrist.
* A DeadMansSwitch is not the substituting of one corpse for another.
** Nor is it a switch that can be used to either kill or resurrect a given person.
** Nor is it a Platform/NintendoSwitch designed for dead gamers.
* A DeadpanSnarker is not a character who's only trait is making sarcastic remarks about deceased cookware, nor is it about someone who snarks when [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the god of nature dies]].
* DeadPersonImpersonation is impersonation of a ''specific'' dead person, not just pretending to be dead. That would be PlayingPossum.
* A DeadPetSketch is not someone drawing a dead pet.
** Nor is it a zombie pet drawing.
* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise has nothing to do with [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]]. AndThatsTerrible.
* DeadSidekick does not refer to having any variety of zombie, ghost, or other types of TheUndead, for a sidekick.
* A DeadStarWalking is actually 6-feet-under dead - not a vampire, zombie, or any other manner of walking dead thing. Same goes for PosthumousCharacter.
** Nor does it refer to a black dwarf or neutron star walking the streets.
** It also isn’t when a celebrity dies between recording and the show/movie coming out. That's DiedDuringProduction.
* DeadToBeginWith has nothing to do with what happens when [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] kicks your ass.
** It's not about abortions, either.
** It's also got nothing to do with time-traveling to kill someone before the beginning of the series.
* DealWithTheDevil is not about having to put up with Satan, nor is it about playing card games with him.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable is not about [[KillerRabbit cute, harmless-looking animals which turn out to be much more dangerous than they look.]] It's also not about a certain [[Literature/WingsOfFire NightWing]] acting cute.
* DeathByAdaptation is not about an adaptation so bad that [[FranchiseKiller it kills the franchise]].
** Nor is it about natural selection.
* DeathByDespair does not mean [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Zetsubou-sensei]] killed someone.
** Nor does it have anything to do with ''Franchise/DanganRonpa''. The victims of the series' {{Deadly Game}}s may have died in the ''name'' of despair, but that doesn't fit this trope.
** Nor is it when you lose to the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/ZeroRanger''.
** Or [[spoiler:turning into a Void Egg]] in ''VideoGame/VoidStranger''.
* DeathByFallingOver doesn't mean that people have finished dying by falling.
** It's not the same thing as NotTheFallThatKillsYou, either.
* A DeathByFlashback does not mean a living character becomes {{Retcon}}ned as dead via a flashback.
* DeathByLookingUp doesn't mean the person was killed by research.
* DeathByMaterialism does not refer to dying of the philosophical viewpoint that only matter exists and the mind is an illusion.
** Nor is it ''necessarily'' about being crushed to death beneath one's worldly possessions.
* DeathByMocking isn't a form of BreakThemByTalking.
* DeathByNewberyMedal does not mean using the medal as an improvised weapon.
** Nor is there a Newbery Medal Curse where whoever wins one dies shortly afterward in unusual ways.
* DeathByRacism isn't about hate crimes or genocide. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite; the ''victim'' is the one who's racist. (It's also about characters who show racism in-universe and die, not about characters who get killed off because of racist creators/audiences or tropes with UnfortunateImplications.)
* None of the "Death by..." pages are about works titled "Death" which are so numerous they had to be separated by putting the oddly-named author in the title.
* A DeathCourse isn't something you can take for credit at the AcademyOfEvil.
** Nor is it what you serve yourself if [[VideoGame/{{Nethack}} you tin Death]], [[TooDumbToLive then eat him]].
** It's not what a RonTheDeathEater character has for a meal, either.
* DeathDealer isn't a page about Frank Frazetta's character.
** It also has nothing to do with [[Fanfic/MyImmortal Tara Gilesbie's]] versions of [[Literature/HarryPotter the Death Eaters]].
** Not is it about dealers of [[Franchise/StarWars death sticks]].
* A DeathFic isn't one about the GrimReaper necessarily.
* DeathIsALoser is not about the result of winning a game of ChessWithDeath.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist does not involve killing people by slapping them on the wrist.
* DeathIsCheap is not about the Grim Reaper cutting corners on his budget. Well, not directly at least.
** Nor is it about the price of deadly weapons.
** Nor is it instances of said Grim Reaper being ThatOneBoss.
* DeathIsGray is not about monochrome depictions of the Grim Reaper.
* DeathIsDramatic is not about the Grim Reaper being a KnightOfCerebus.
* DeathNotification is not an attempt to make a work more similar to ''Manga/DeathNote''.
** It also isn't a notification that you, [[HaveANiceDeath the player]], have died.
* Although they perfectly rhyme, DeathOfAChild has nothing to do with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts is not when the actors and staff of a movie get so sick of the director constantly asking for retakes of a scene that they kill him.
* DeathOfTheAuthor does not mean the LITERAL death of the author.
* DeathOfTheOldGods is not what VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft players are responsible for. That's DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu.
* A DeathSeeker is not a particularly dangerous [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticon jet]].
** Nor is a SeekerArchetype of Skywarp, Starscream, or Thundercracker.
** It's not a seeker missile that only tracks death.
** Or a murderous [[Literature/HarryPotter Quidditch]] player.
** Nor is it someone looking for the GrimReaper.
** It also isn't [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} a homing boat-shaped ink bomb]] that tracks down death.
* DeathWorld isn't a world occupied only by undead (although that would be an example)
* DebtDetester is not a character with a hatred of mortgages... or a hatred of [[Series/{{Debt}} that American gameshow]].
* A DebugRoom is not the office space where the game testers work. Nor is it a safe place to remove insects or surveillance devices from your person.
* DecadeDissonance does not involve a distance between viewer and show when watching ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest was not said by a SelfMadeOrphan, and does not imply that TheUndead are more capable parents than live people.
* A DeckbuildingGame doesn't normally involve constructing a porch.
* DecompositeCharacter isn't about zombie or undead characters.
* DecompressedComic is about comics getting longer due to more flashy art pages. It's nothing to do with sci-fi, the PluckyComicRelief character and {{Squick}}.
** It also doesn't refer to digital comics being unzipped from a .zip or .rar file.
* DeconReconSwitch is not about decontaminating, doing reconnaissance, or switching up who does either.
* DecoyDamsel is not about substituting the princess with a stand-in so that the bad guy kidnaps the wrong person.
* DefaultSettingSyndrome isn't about overuse of the StandardFantasySetting, or any other {{Settings}} tropes.
* People don't utter a DefensiveWhat when you mention defensive ligma.[[note]]That's because they would instead ask "Who the hell is Steve Jobs?!"[[/note]]
* DefiantToTheEnd is not about refusing to listen to Music/TheBeatles' final song.
** Also doesn't refer to the last scene of the first Defiant ship in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** It's also not about defying death, either literally or figuratively.
** It's not about refusing to accept that a series ended, either.
** It also has nothing to do with defying [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater an aged Russian sniper]].
** Nor is it anything to do with fighting the [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Ender Dragon]]
* A DefiantStrip is not a comic strip run in the newspapers because someone else won't let the cartoonist do that.
* {{Defictionalization}} does not redirect to either RealityBleed or TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
* DefiledForever is not about permanently removing someone's records from an archive or about police giving up on a tough case for good.
** Or a redirect to DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER. It's somewhat more serious than that.
* DefrostingIceQueen is not about a female monarch with [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] losing said powers.
* DefyingTheCensors is not what you have to do in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''' {{Mental World}}s.
* A DeliberatelyBadExample does not contain any Administrivia/WordCruft.
* DeliriousMisidentification is not [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac when you think you've finally found Delirious but it turns out to be Lil Delirium]]. [[ThatOneAchievement Again.]]
* DemandingTheirHead is not about someone who is overly insistent on using somebody's toilet.
* DemBones is not a skeleton who [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem votes for Democrats]].
* A DemonicDummy is not a villain or monster who is not very intelligent.
* A DemonicHeadShake is not a milkshake made from the heads of demons. It's also not how the devil says "no".
* DemonicSpiders are not necessarily spiders from hell.
* DenialOfAnimality is not when [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 your opponent won't let you do an animal-themed Fatality on them]].
* DerailingLoveInterests is not about how interesting someone finds it to keep a couple apart.
** Nor is it derailing a train to harm someone's love interest.
* DerivativeDifferentiation is not about calculating the second derivative.
* DescendedCreator is not DarthWiki/FallenCreator.
* A DescentIntoDarknessSong is not what a character sings as they go downstairs into a poorly lit place. Nor is it exclusive to songs ''about'' a character [[StartOfDarkness turning evil]].
* A DescriptionInTheMirror is not when someone writes notes or etches graffiti onto a mirror, nor is it about notes from the mirror's manufacturer.
** Nor does it have anything to do with TomatoInTheMirror.
* DesignatedHero, despite what ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' claims, is not a policy where [[HonorBeforeReason only one person is permitted to be a protagonist at any time]].
* A DesignatedMonkey is not an actor assigned to play a monkey character, unless that role turns out to be extremely unpleasant.
* A DesignatedVictim is not a bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of [[TwentyFifthAmendment Designated Survivor]], nor is it normally someone who plays the role of a hostage in a crisis simulation. It's certainly not the same thing as a ChronicallyKilledActor.
* A DesignatedVillain is not an actor having to play a villain.
* DesignerBabies are not babies that design for a living.
** Nor is it a SpinOffBabies cartoon starring a bunch of famous designers through history.
* A DesignStudentsOrgasm is not about a student from a design school being sexually excited, nor is it about said student having inherent qualities that cause everyone around them to be sexually excited.
* A DeskJockey is not [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 a type of zombie]].
** Nor does it refer to Creator/ConanOBrien being the one DrivingADesk.
* DestroyerDeity is not about [[VideoGame/{{Terraria}} Terrarians]] worshipping a mechanical worm boss as a god.
* DestructoNookie: The nookie isn't what's causing the destruction (except [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer that one time]], but still...)
** Nor is it [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Tom Nook]] gone insane.
* DetachmentCombat is not about tactics for military-units.
** Nor is it fighting between similar sized military-units.
*** Nor is it fighting by remaining emotionally distant.
*** Or winning the fight by maiming your opponent.
* A {{Determinator}} is not a destroyer of Franchise/{{Terminator}}s. Although if they want to, nothing's gonna stop them. Neither is it someone who reverses the termination of others, though, again, if they want to...
** Nor is it the eternal enemy of ''Film/FreeWilly''.
** Nor is it a Terminator who's been pumped full of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} determination]].
* DeterminedDoctor is not determining that someone is a doctor.
* A DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck is not a failed attempt to dethrone a king, though depending on the work, that might be an example.
* {{Detournement}} has nothing to do with undoing a TournamentArc.
* DeusExitMachina is not a DeusExMachina in which the villain simply [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere decides to get up and leave]].
* DeusSexMachina does not mean [[LoveGoddess God Sex Machine]] (in this case, at least).
** Or when the writer can't think of a way to resolve a story except for spontaneous sex.
* DevelopersDesiredDate has nothing to do with scheduled release dates or set deadlines.
** It also has nothing to do with dates as a TrademarkFavoriteFood for the development team.
** Nor was Creator/KotaroUchikoshi in a PygmalionPlot when working on ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles''.
* DevelopersForesight is not a move that allows developers to hit Ghost-type Franchise/{{Pokemon}}
* DevelopmentHell is not the [[MarshmallowHell near-smothering of a person's face]] in an underdeveloped chest.
** Nor is it where failed projects, who have committed mortal sin, go when they die.
%%Might be better to move to Marshmallow Hell entry as a "Not the opposite of Development Hell"?
* In DeviousDaggers, "daggers" refers to the weapon and not the symbol (†).
* DevourTheDragon is not about a risky but useful way to feed an entire fantasy village.
* A DiabolicalDogCatcher is not someone who catches [[{{Hellhound}} diabolical dogs]].
* DiagnosisOfGod and WordOfGay are subtropes of WordOfGod, but [[https://imgflip.com/i/3k02s1 Diagnosis of Gay]] is not
* A DiagonalCut does not refer to those old movie transitions where one shot is replaced with the next one via a moving diagonal line.
** Neither is it a kind of haircut.
* DialogueTree is not about talking trees. Well, not ''necessarily''.
** Nor is it about multiple comic book word balloons connected to each other.
** {{Dialogue Tree}}s should really not be {{epileptic|Trees}}.
* DiamondsInTheBuff is not about unpolished, uncut diamonds. [[AllNaturalGemPolish Those are rather rare in fiction.]]
* TheDiaperChange is not about change you get after paying for a diaper, nor is it about {{Shapeshifting}} into a diaper.
* DiaperCheck is not what someone might say if they're looking at a checklist of things they need for babysitting a baby.
** Nor does it refer to a financial check used to give money to pay for diapers.
* DiceRollDeath isn't exclusive to TabletopGames, so it doesn't refer to those times when your character dies because your dice roll is too low. Actual {{DiceRollDeath}}s are very rare in games of any sort, because they take away player agency.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat is not (inherently) an adultery trope. Get your mind out of the gutter.
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch is not a mistake when filming a [[{{Gorn}} grap]][[LudicrousGibs hic]] [[DeathTropes death scene]]. (So, OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank is not related to it.)
** Nor is it someone complaining about a research failure.
** Nor is it about a medical professional who didn't study Hematology.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu is not necessarily about FlippingTheBird or Cthulhu, but flipping the bird to Cthulhu would definitely qualify. It's not about doing a backflip while you're standing on top of Cthulhu either.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu is not about Cthulhu appearing in any of the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' series.
* DieChairDie is not [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons German for "the chair the"]].
* DieForOurShip is not about killing anybody for any kind of [[CoolShip vessel]].
* DieHardOnAnX is not about crucifixion. 'X' is also not a placeholder for any type of drug, as in [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs "Die Hard On Crack"]].
* DifficultButAwesome is not an {{Opposite Trope|s}} to ItsHardSoItSucks.
** Nor does it mean someone has trouble getting along with other people but is well-liked anyway.
* DifficultyByRegion is not about the difficulty being different in different areas of a video game.
** Nor is it about Franchise/{{Pokemon}} games set in different regions having different difficulty.
* {{Difficulty Spike}}s are not SpikesOfDoom that only show up on higher difficulty levels, though spikes that only show up on higher stages might be.
* DigitalAvatar is not about digital versions of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' nor ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
* A DigitalBikini is not when a woman [[HandOrObjectUnderwear covers her breasts with her fingers]].
** Nor does it refer to a bikini on any video game character.
** It's not a bikini made of 1's and 0's either.
* DigitalDestruction is not about [[{{Fingore}} injuring one's fingers]].
** Nor about smashing computers.
* DigitalHorror is not about the {{Horror}}s of having one's [[{{Fingore}} fingers cut off]].
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil his nothing to do with [[{{Fingore}} selling other people's fingers and toes for fun and profit]].
** Nor does it mean that it's evil to have a pirate avatar in an online roleplay.
* DinnerAndAShow does not refer to the common date night plan of going to dinner and watching a show.
* DinnerWithTheBoss is not a boss fight in which the player dines with the boss.
** Nor is it about having dinner with Music/BruceSpringsteen.
* DinosaurMedia does not refer to entire forms of media that are now considered extinct.
* DirectionlessDriver is not about device drivers that should have come with instructions, but didn't.
* DirtyCommunists is about neither horny Soviet agents nor unwashed revolutionaries.
* A DirtyCoward is not about a coward who's lecherous or covered in dirt.
* A DirtyKid is not about a kid who's [[ThePigPen covered in dirt]], nor is it about an [[EnfanteTerrible evil kid]].
** Likewise, DirtyOldMan and DirtyOldWoman are not about seniors who are covered in dirt.
** And a DirtyCop is neither covered in literal dirt ''nor'' dirty in the sense of the above examples; lewdness is far from his only offense.
* A DisabilityImmunity is not the power of being immune to disabling effects.
* DisasterDominoes does not refer to a place you should never get pizza from.
** Nor is it about dominoes that cause disasters.
* A DiscOneNuke is not a nuclear bomb that the local GadgeteerGenius created from a videogame's first disc.
** Nor is it about using a nuke as a plot point early in the game.
* DisconnectedByDeath is not when his scythe is used for physical cutting.
* DiscordTropes are not tropes gathered for [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicDiscord the draconequus Spirit of Chaos, Discord.]] Though he certainly would approve of most of them.
** It's also not about tropes that pertain to the messaging app.
* Creator/DiscotekMedia is not a record company trying to bring Disco and Platform/LaserDisc back.
* DiscountLesbians are not ten percent off.
** Nor does it mean straight women who become gay for less of a price than they usually charge.
** It also is definitely not a command telling people not to listen to what lesbians have to say.
* A DiscreditedMeme is not a meme that is proven factually inaccurate, nor is it an alleged meme that is proven to not even really be a meme at all.
* DiseaseBleach refers to pale hair from sickness, not pale skin. It also isn't about a particular kind of bleach that causes a disease.
* DiseasePreventionAesop is not about a disease preventing AnAesop from happening. Quite the opposite really.
* DishingOutDirt has nothing to do with gossips.
** It also doesn't refer to [[EatDirtCheap dirt being served in a restaurant.]]
* DisneyDeath is not about Walt Disney's actual death. Nor is it about Disney going bankrupt.
* DisneyDogFight is not related to OldSchoolDogfight, nor to actual fights between dogs.
* DisneylandDad does not refer to [[PeripheryDemographic Disney adults]] who are also parents.
* DisneyOwnsThisTrope is not about tropes that Disney is [[CharacteristicTrope extremely good at using or strongly associated with]]. It's using "trope" as a placeholder, not about tropes themselves. (For that matter, it's using ''Disney'' as a placeholder; the actual company owning the trope can be another one, real or fictional.)
* DisneyVillainDeath is not about a villain having a DisneyDeath.
* A DisposableWoman is not one who has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]], nor does it cover the mindset of dumping a girlfriend, then immediately moving on and finding another one without any sympathy for the previous one. (''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' combines them both!)
* A DisposablePilot is not a [[{{Pilot}} low-budget mock up of a first episode for pitching an idea]] that is intended to be reshot if picked up.
** Nor does it refer to a first episode that while made was never broadcast and becomes noncanon.
* {{Dissimile}} has nothing to do with being dismissed with rockets, cool as that sounds.
* DissonantSerenity does not occur when the cast of ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' spends an episode arguing among themselves. You might want to check [[OnceAnEpisode here]] for that.
** Also has nothing to do with disagreeing [[Franchise/SailorMoon Moon Kingdom royalty]].
** Or [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries disliking Lisa Ortiz's voice acting]] in ''Anime/YuGiOh''!
* A DistantFinale does not necessarily take place in a location far away from where the rest of the story takes place.
* DistinguishingMark is not [[VerbingNouny a movie about]] giving someone named Mark an honorary title.
** It also isn't when [[TheCon the mark]] does something to distinguish himself from a criminal's [[AssholeVictim usual]] targets.
* A DistressBall is not a ballroom dance that goes horribly wrong and causes its guests to panic.
* DisturbedDoves are not a breed of ''VideoGame/AngryBirds''.
** Nor are they an AlternativeMetal [[Music/{{Disturbed}} band]] who have been [[ForcedTransformation transformed into birds]].
** Despite working alongside [[DeadlyDoctor Shuu,]] [[VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend Yuuya]] is not an example.
* DittoAliens are not alien [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} shape]][[DittoFighter shifters]].
** They are also not (necessarily) aliens that always agree with a particular person.
* A DittoFighter is not a fan of Rush Limbaugh who also knows kung fu.
** Nor is it their enemies.
*** Neither is it a person who fights [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Ditto]].
*** Or one who wants to fight the lead singer of Music/{{Gossip}}
* DivergentCharacterEvolution is not about CharacterDevelopment in the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' series.
* A DivineDate is not a day of the year that was declared holy in a religion.
** Nor is it a fruit declared holy by a religion.
* DivingSave here is not so much about a goalkeeping technique. Nor is it a SavePoint UnderTheSea.
* DoAnythingRobot is not about ''that'' kind of thing, (okay, maybe ''[[RuleThirtyFour some]]'' times <_< >_> ...) nor is it about [[LogicBomb cyborg distraction]] techniques or an instruction for robots to do what they feel like. Or a robot replacement for [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Pvt. James Ramirez]].
* DoctorDoctorDoctor is not about people desperate to seek medical help immediately.
** Nor is it about "Doctor, doctor" jokes.
** Nor is it about characters with a title identical to their actual name.
** Nor is it followed by the words "We're in a tangle" [[labelnote:explanation]] There's a playground game where people tangle themselves up, then they shout "Doctor, doctor, we're in a tangle" and the "doctor" has to try and untangle them. [[/labelnote]]
** Nor is it about there being three copies of a doctor or a [[Series/DoctorWho time lord]].
** Nor is it [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa the name you should know.]]
* DoesNotLikeGuns is not about someone on the "Swords" side of the GunsVsSwords argument.
* DoesNotLikeMagic isn't about disliking stage magic (unless MagiciansAreWizards) or having HypeAversion for ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. Or that you dislike Orlando's NBA team.
* DoesNotLikeMen is not a character that dislikes hardcore males. Well, not exclusively, that is.
** Nor is it about lesbians and asexual women. A lot of them do like men, just not in "that way".
* DoesNotLikeSpam has nothing to do with [[{{Spammer}} internet spam]] (even though most normal people don't like it).
** It's not only about spam either, it can apply to any food.
* A DogPileOfDoom does not refer to [[RoadApples dog crap]].
* DogsAreDumb is not about dogs being mute, nor about someone insulting dogs.
* DogsLoveBeingPraised is not about critical acclaim for any hypothetical "Dogs Love" genre.
* DoingInTheScientist does not happen when HeKnowsTooMuch or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness has outlived his usefulness]].
* DoingInTheWizard is not part of a WitchHunt, gender semantics be damned.
** Nor is it when you flip out and kill [[Film/TheWizard Jimmy Woods]] after hearing him say [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound "Cawwwifffohneeeyaaaa"]] one too many times.
** Or about the title character of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' suffering DeathByAdaptation in a reboot.
* DoingItForTheArt is not about people being willing to engage in sexual activities on camera or on stage because the scene requires it.
** Nor is it about performing hard labor for an artist in return for some of his or her artwork.
** Nor is it a couple having sex because they want to have a son named Arthur.
* A DomainHolder is not a website owner.
* A DomCom is not a comedy starring a {{Dominatrix}}.
* DomesticatedDinosaurs refers only to ''prehistoric'' creatures. Modern-day pet birds do not count.
* DominanceThroughFurniture is not about fancy furniture presented as status symbols.
* A DominoMask is not literally made out of dominoes. It's also not made out of Domino's pizza.
* DoNotCallMePaul does not refer to [[Music/TheBeatles Sir McCartney]].
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing:
** It was never said to [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]], [[ComicBook/XMen Iceman]], [[Franchise/TheIncredibles Frozone]], [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], or [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime The Ice King]] by anyone pleading for his/her/their life, or pretending to.
** Nor was it ever said to [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Alicia Masters]] by either her dad or Reed Richards after seeing Her and Ben Grimm bust some sweet moves together on the dance floor.
* DoNotDropYourWeapon is not an instruction to stay alive in combat, nor is it about being able to climb while holding a weapon. Nor is it the aversion of PutDownYourGunAndStepAway.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud isn't about one character telling another not to touch a tornado.
* DontAsk is not what the [[Creator/MasahiroSakurai director]] of [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros a certain brawler series]] wants everyone to do ever again.
* Someone saying "DontCallMeSir" is probably not a masculine-looking trans woman, cis woman[[note]]one who's ''not'' trying to pass as male[[/note]] or nonbinary person.
* DontFearTheReaper doesn't refer to [[VideoGame/{{Subnautica}} Leviathan-class predators]], which you definitely ''should'' be [[SuperPersistentPredator afraid of]].
* DontGoInTheWoods is not an {{Aesop}} about NatureTinkling.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff isn't about threatening someone with FanDisservice.
** Nor does it have anything to do with seatbelts.
* DontSplitUsUp is not said by the person who doesn't want to [[NeverSplitTheParty split the party]], or said to someone who tries to deliberately ruin a relationship.
* DonutMessWithACop is not about an anthropomorphic donut messing with a police officer.
** Nor is it about doing donuts in the police parking lot in order to mess with the department.
* DoomAsTestPrize is not about being given the game ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' as prize for acing an exam.
* DoomDoors will not start an [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]] through their appearance, nor do they take you to your doom by opening one and walking through.
** Nor are they found in ComicBook/DoctorDoom's castle.
* DoomedByCanon doesn't ''have'' to refer to a character who has to die in order to stay true to the canon. Nor does it refer to FanFiction doomed to failure because it doesn't stay true to canon.
** Nor does it refer to a character who dies by being shot by a cannon.
*** Nor to what happens to smaller camera manufacturers whose products can't compete with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28company%29 larger]] ones.
* A {{Doomsayer}} is not just ''any'' character who says pessimistic things or [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom talks about doom]].
* A DoorstopBaby is not [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood an infant used to prop a door open.]]
* {{Doorstopper}} does not refer to actual doorstoppers (though they could be used as doorstoppers).
* A DopeSlap is not a [[TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} Slap Patch]] laced with a Schedule 2 (or higher) Controlled Substance, nor is it the act of applying such a thing to someone.
** Nor is it a gangsta's pimp slap (that would have very different connotations).
** And the dumb person isn't the one ''doing'' the slapping.
* DorkAge is not about the movie ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}''.
** Nor was it a particular time in the history of the world. At least, it wasn't named that way.
** Nor is it about a stage of a person's life when they act dorky.
** Nor a [[ParallelPornTitles porn spoof]] of ''VideoGame/BrainAge''. It also has nothing to do with penises.
* A DoubleDontKnow isn't a [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives double negative.]]
* DoubleSubversion ''sounds'' like a practical solution to the SubbingVersusDubbing debate, but with [[WallsOfText all that text on the screen]], you'd probably have a lot of trouble watching the show.
* DoubleTheDollars was not the thought process behind naming the currency in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''.
* DoubleVision isn't when a [[CirclingBirdies stunned]] character 'sees double'. [[NonSequiturThud "Hey Mary, since when did you have a twin sister?"]] Nor is it about receiving a prophetic dream twice. Nor is it the song by Foreigner.
* DoubleX is not about movies too raunchy to be rated X, but [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/porn-director-fights-ratings-board-for-singlex-rat,826/ not raunchy enough]] to be rated triple-X.
** Nor is it about the sex chromosomes of females.
** Or arithmetic.
** It also has nothing to do with the ComicBook/XMen or VideoGame/MegaManX.
** Nor is it what Sam Vincent's character might have been called if the show was titled ''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ex, Exx n Exxy]]''.
* DownOnTheFarm is not about depressed farmers.
** Nor is it about finding feathers at a farm.
* {{Drabble}} doesn't refer to the comic strip.
* DracoInLeatherPants does not imply that dragons partake in human fashion, ScaledUp.
** Nor is it about the Athenian law maker's taste in clothing.
** It's also not necessarily about [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] wearing leather pants.
* DraftDodging is not about avoiding your old TropeLaunchPad drafts.
** Nor is it about avoiding air currents that enter from gaps around doors etc.
** Nor it is about someone throwing an unfinished version of a paper at you.
* TheDragon is rarely a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizard]] [[ScaledUp (though it's not impossible)]]. Though to be fair, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent real dragons aren't always giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizards]], either.
* DragonAscendant has nothing to do with their tendency to fly.
** Nor the SecretArt of [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Rayquaza]].
** Nor [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin's]] Up-Special in the VideoGame/SuperSmashBros seris.
* A DragonHoard is not [[ExaggeratedTrope an exaggeration]] of CoDragons or BigBadDuumvirate.
** Nor is it a hoard of dragons. That would most likely be a ZergRush. And in both cases, you're looking for a ''horde'', anyway - not a hoard.
** It's also not about a person [[CrazyCatLady hoarding live dragons]] or dragon-themed collectibles.
* DragonInChief is not about putting a beast in a position of power, knowingly or otherwise.
* DragonLady: not a female [[TheDragon Dragon]]! Not even a literal female [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]], either! And it isn't a better-named spin-off of ''Manga/DevilmanLady'' or a DistaffCounterpart of [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Billy or Jimmy Lee]]. Or a noblewoman associated with dragons (or even being TheDragon or a literal dragon).
* A DragonRider isn't sitting on the back of the BigBad's [[TheDragon second-in-command]]. Unless said second-in-command really is a literal dragon, then maybe.
* DragonsUpTheYinYang is not about someone getting anally violated by a dragon.
* DragonTheirFeet is not about a claw fetish. It's not about {{Big Bad}}s whose feet are their Dragon, either.
* The DragonWithAnAgenda does not keep timetables of when to attack each village to ensure that they can properly repopulate the villagers and livestock.
* DragQueen does not describe [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Force_Hood Ashley Force Hood]].
** Nor is it an order to drag the queen around in any way.
** It also does not refer to [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a queen]] who is TheDragon, or a dragon.
** Nor is it someone who is a queen of drag racing.
* A DramaQueen is not necessarily an actual queen, a bee, an ant, or a nursing-or-pregnant cat.
* DramaticDislocation does not involve a radical shift in setting but popping shoulder joints and the like.
* DramaticGunCock has nothing to do with [[{{Squick}} male genitalia attached to firearms.]]
** Nor does it involve a vengeful rooster arming himself.
* DramaticHighPerching has been redefined, meaning it is no longer about having a strategic advantage from higher ground, like the former [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith trope]] [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample namer]], but now refers to simply [[RuleOfCool looking cool]] on something tall.
* DramaticSpaceDrifting does not involve a spaceship performing a turn by intentionally skidding its rear to preserve vehicle control and make a high-speed exit. Though that would go well with some {{Eurobeat}} music.
* DramaticWind is not about particularly ill-timed flatulence.
* A {{Dramedy}} is not a type of camel. You're probably thinking "dromedary."
* DrawAggro is not a command to make an illustration of Wander's horse from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''. (That's "Agro.")
** It's also not drawing a picture of someone angry, now you're just over analyzing things.
* DrawSwordDrawBlood doesn't entail something bleeding when a blade is removed from it, nor cutting yourself on your own sword. Nor is it a rule saying you have to put or illustrate blood in a picture of a sword.
** No, it's definitely not illustrating a sword with blood! Quit having FunWithHomophones!
* DreadedKidsTable isn’t where you put [[EnfantTerrible evil and scary kids]] to keep them from terrorizing their more innocent peers in the lunchroom.
* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty is not about evil portrayals of conservative libertarians in fiction.
* DreamCrushingHandicap is not said by someone who wants to get rid of their handicap.
* DreamEpisode isn't an episode that the fans have been dreaming about.
* DreamWalker is not about a senior citizen's ideal walker.
* DreamWeaver is not about Adobe's web development software.
* DreamWithinADream is not referring to [[Film/ThePrincessBride Marriage]]. Because that would be a [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Dweam Wiffin A Dweam]].
* DressHitsFloor is not when a fancy garment fights a wood floor.
** Or beats on it.
** Nor is it what might happen when someone is throwing clothes around.
* DrFeelgood is not a doctor who takes too much pleasure feeling his patients.
** Nor is it about any Music/{{Gorillaz}} member becoming a doctor.
* TheDrifter has nothing to do with being a BadassDriver, or MultiTrackDrifting.
* DrivenToSuicide should not be considered literally an event where a suicidal person is driven in a vehicle to a place where they can perform said act.
* DriverFacesPassenger is not when the driver and the passenger get in a fistfight.
* DrivesLikeCrazy doesn't mean someone drives a lot. Not necessarily, at least.
** Nor does it mean [[BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame they should say "FORE!"]]
* DrivingIntoATruck is not about rear-ending or T-boning semis.
* A DrivingQuestion is not a question commonly asked while driving. (AreWeThereYet is not an example, nor is a DirectionlessDriver someone who needs to ask such a question.)
* DrivingStick is a verb phrase. It is ''not'' used to discipline "stubborn" livestock, nor is it any sort of throttle.
** Nor does it refer to a literal wooden stick driving in a vehicle.
* DrJerk does not give his patients handjobs.
** Nor is he particularly good at Jamaican cuisine.
* DroneOfDread is not related to an AttackDrone or to the BeePeople, unless they can make such a noise. Nor is it about TheDreaded.
** Nor is it about a character whom others dread being around because he constantly drones on about the dullest topics. That would be TheBore.
* DroolHello is not about meeting someone extremely attractive and salivating over them.
* DropInCharacter is not when a previously interesting person gets {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed into a FlatCharacter. Nor is about someone who [[DynamicEntry tends to enter scenes from above.]] Nor is it about a work whose cast gets smaller as time goes on.
** Nor is it about having to drop a conversation because you remembered that you're supposed to be pretending to be someone else.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim does not involve using bridges as weapons, although it may very well involve a bridge anyways.
* DroppingTheBombshell is not about dumping an attractive woman, or about dropping an actual bomb or [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Insecticon who transforms into a rhino beetle]].
* DropShip is not [[AbandonShipping the thing that shippers do]] [[ShipSinking when a recent event reveals]] how {{Squick}}y their ship is. Nor is it about causing a boat or other craft to [[ColonyDrop fall on someone]].
** Nor is our version [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shipping a supply chain management technique in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer]].
* DroughtLevelOfDoom isn't about a ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' level that's undergoing a drought.
** Nor is it about devastating degrees of drought. Sorry, California.
* DrowningPit is not about [[GameOver "finishing"]] [[VideoGame/KidIcarus a certain angel]] by submerging him. Nor does it have anything to do with Music/DrowningPool. Or a pit bull who's drowning.
** Nor is it about overwatering peach seeds.
* DrunkRolling is not about intoxicated people rolling around on the floor.
* DrunkOnMilk is not about a drunk person on top of a container of milk.
** Nor is it the result of a special kind of lactose intollerance that causes inebriation.
** Nor does it mean the drunk person has [[FaceOnAMilkCarton gone missing and is now featured on cartons of milk]].
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide does not mean inebriated on the far side of the moon, unless we're possibly talking about the Music/PinkFloyd [[Music/DarkSideOfTheMoon album]].
** Nor is it about getting drunk by drinking an alcoholic drink called "The Dark Side."
* DrunkWithPower is not when you [[BoozeBasedBuff become powerful by getting drunk]].
** It also isn’t about [[Manga/ChainsawMan having too many beers with the Blood Fiend at the izakaya after work]].
* A DryCrusader is not someone who's suffering from dehydration while fighting in the Crusades.
** Nor is it one who took a wrong turn and wound up in the Sahara Desert.
* DryDockedShip is not the USS ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' at the beginning of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', nor ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
* {{Dubstep}} is not adding sound effects for walking in post-production.
* A {{Dubtitle}} is not when a dub [[DubNameChange adds a subtitle to the original title.]]
* {{Duck}} does not apply when someone is told to duck and they do it. Nor is it about the presence of ducks in a work. That is, unless someone mixes up those two definitions.
** Nor is it about a batter going out for zero in cricket.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason is not about the drawing that's sometimes a duck and sometimes a rabbit depending on when you look at it.
** Nor does it necessarily mean the times of year when ducks and rabbits come out, although that is [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes what the people in the trope namer were arguing about.]]
** It's also not about whether a certain type of seasoning goes better with duck meat or rabbit meat.
* DudeNotFunny is not a HulkSpeak description of TheComicallySerious.
** Nor is it about works that portray men in general as having bad senses of humour.
** Nor is it when [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Luna Loud doesn't find Luan's joke funny]].[[note]]OK, Luan ''is'' known for making jokes in inappropriate situations, and Luna probably does think this, but hasn't directly said it to her face.[[/note]]
* DudeShesALesbian is not a [[GenderBlendingTropes gender-bending]] trope (the comma is important).
* DudeShesLikeInAComa is not about a hippie observing a woman in a coma, nor does "like" mean "almost".
* DuelingGames does not refer to swordfighting-based games, although if two of that type are released against each other, then they will become DuelingGames.
* DuelingScar isn't about the ending of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.
* DueToTheDead is not a parody of ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' or ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' starring [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Due]].
** It also does not imply that a problem was caused by the dead. [[note]]As in, "Due to the dead, there is now a ZombieApocalypse"[[/note]]
* DugTooDeep is not about when characters dig through the Earth and find [[DiggingToChina themselves in upside-down China]]. Nor is it about Dug from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' being too philosophical.
* DullSurprise is not a claim that [[Franchise/MyLittlePony Surprise]] is dull.
** Nor is it the same as TheUntwist.
** Or a CaptainObviousReveal.
** Or owning a blade and being surprised that it's not very sharp.
* DumbStruck is not about [[DopeSlap hitting an idiot]] or a mute person.
** Nor does it necessarily involve idiots getting struck by lightning.
* DumpMonths are not times of the year when sanitation workers or romance counselors get more work.
** Nor are they months in which people poop often.
* A DumpStat does not [[ToiletHumour determine the quality of excrement]].
** Nor does it determine someone's likelihood of being dumped by their significant other.
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend is not about sadomasochistic sex in fiction.
** They're not necessarily dating the DungeonMaster, either.
* DunkingTheBomb does not involve playing an explosive version of basketball.
* DuringTheWar is not when a character references/has flashbacks to a war they were in.
* A DutchAngle is not about [[LocalAngle news oriented toward the people of the Netherlands]].
* DyingCurse is not about someone being [[YourDaysAreNumbered cursed to die]].
* A DyingRace is not a competition to see who can die first.
* DynamicAkimbo does not refer to someone with their arms akimbo that's constantly shifting, nor is it a flashy, showy attack done with the user's arms akimbo.
** Also not a DoubleEntendre.
* A DynamicCharacter is not a very animated and enthusiastic character.
** Nor is it necessarily about a character from the production company founded by Creator/GoNagai and Creator/KenIshikawa.
** Nor is it about inverting an existing character dynamic.
* DynamicEntry: aren't most entries on this wiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page dynamic]]?
* DystopianOz is not about writing a BadFuture for UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, or about implying the continent is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou already a hellish place to live.]]
** Nor is it about [[Series/TheDoctorOzShow Dr. Oz]] ruling over a dystopia.
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[[folder:E]]
* {{Eagleland}} is not a country populated exclusively by [[GiantFlyer large predatory birds.]]
** Nor is it a town where Music/{{Eagles}} aficionados go when they retire.
** Nor an ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' spin-off.
** Nor does it the name of the fanbases of [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Philadelphia's NFL team]], [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences Boston College]]'s athletic program, or the [[UsefulNotes/GroupOfFiveConferences Eastern Michigan University]] athletic program.
* EarCleaning is not about when characters clean out their ears after hearing something unbelievable. Nor is it a reminder to wash behind your ears.
* EarlyGameHell does not refer to a PlanetHeck level early in a video game. Except for ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''. Nor is it a bad afterlife where you're punished by playing betas and retro games.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness isn't about a computer program that acts oddly when you first install it.
* EarthDrift is not about the Earth drifting through space along its orbit. Or even when it gets derailed. Or is it about how Earth turns tight corners when racing other planets.
* EarthThatWas is not about how [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker Yoda]] would say "that was Earth".
* EarWorm does not refer to that thing they put in Chekhov's ear in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]].'' Nor does it refer to parasites in general.
* EasierThanEasy is not about sexual promiscuity.
* An EasterEgg is not a literal one.
* EatingMachine is not about what the ExtremeOmnivore does to a robot.
* EatingTheEyeCandy is not about *literally* [[ImAHumanitarian eating the eye candy]].
** Nor, less gruesomely, is it about eating candies resembling eyeballs.
* EatThat is not related to TakeThat.
** Nor is it related to the ''Eat This, Not That!'' books.
* EccentricAI is not the upper-class way to refer to [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]].
* {{Ecchi}} may make you go [[{{Squick}} "Ecch!"]], but that's not why we call it that.
* AnEconomyIsYou isn't about supervising your nation's economy in a civilization game.
* EducationMama is not part of the ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' series ([[CashCowFranchise yet.]])
* EEqualsMCHammer does not refer to a HyperspaceMallet being converted to energy when not in use, nor does it cause {{Hammerspace}} compression.
** It is also not the mathematical way of saying '''[[Anime/GaoGaiGar HIKARI NI NARE!]]'''
** Nor is it about [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]], Digital Underground or any other Nerd as a rapper or rap group.
* An EgomaniacHunter isn't someone who hunts and kills egotistical people.
* The EightDeadlyWords won't kill anyone.
** Its actual meaning (I don't care what happens to these people) is not about a superhero's RefusalOfTheCall either.
** They're not a more extreme version of [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television]], either.
* ElaborateEqualsEffective isn't about inversions of the UnspokenPlanGuarantee, where elaborating the details of a plan actually makes it more likely to work.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh isn't about taking drugs at a fancy uni, or about a university which is very tall or up a mountain.
** Nor is it about using HulkSpeak to tell someone to elaborate about the concept of universities (or a specific university) to a high degree of detail. Or about a drug high that is somehow related to university.
* An EldritchLocation is not necessarily a GeniusLoci EldritchAbomination, but that would be an example.
* An ElementalPunch isn't a drink served at parties held for Elementals.
** Nor as a punch came from [[WesternAnimation/Elemental2023 that]] film.
* ElementNumberFive is not boron.
* An ElevatorActionSequence is not, ''specifically'', a sequence from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action Elevator Action]], though that could be an example of one.
* While ElevatorEscape involves an actual elevator, it is not about escaping ''from'' a stuck elevator.
* An ElevatorSchool is not a school housed in a building with [[Literature/WaysideSchool so many stories]] that you need an elevator to get to the top.
** It's also not a school where one learns how to make or operate elevators.
** It's also not a (very small) school inside an elevator.
* EliminationHoudini is not the name of a RealityShow in which aspiring {{Stage Magician}}s compete to avoid getting eliminated. However, if one of the magicians makes it far into the competition without demonstrating much skill, they ''would'' be an example of this trope.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous is not about any sorting hierarchy of beauty among the [[{{Franchise/Halo}} Covenant Forces]].
** Nor is it the same as TheBeautifulElite.
* "ElvisImpersonator" is not an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' concerning an imposter posing as Fireman Elvis Cridlington.
* An EmbarrassingCoverUp isn't a cover-up for something embarrassing, nor is about using HandOrObjectUnderwear to cover yourself.
* EmbarrassingDampSheets are not caused by a leaky roof, nor is it about finding the certain ''WesternAnimation/GenerationO'' episode embarrassing.
* Mega Man might [[Webcomic/BobAndGeorge refuse to do the slide move because it's stupid]], but that doesn't make it an EmbarrassingSlide.
** It's also not a slide someone pushed you down when you were a kid.
** Nor is it a slide considered an OldShame by its builder.
* An EmbarrassmentPlot is not a flowerbed where embarrassing things keep happening.
* EmergencyTransformation is not a [[EleventhHourSuperpower Eleventh Hour]] SuperMode [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands As The Plot Demands]].
* You will not find an EmbeddedPrecursor inside LostTechnology.
* EmpathyDollShot is about the doll that is shot by a cameraperson with a camera, not by a character with a gun (or a syringe). It is also not at all about destroying a MoralityChip; the doll inspires empathy in ''viewers'', not for a character in the story.
* An EmptyChairMemorial is not a memorial ''for'' an empty chair.
* An EmptyCopThreat is an empty threat made ''by'' the police, not a threat to ''call'' the police that is empty because the threatener doesn't know how to call, would get in trouble himself, or would only get [[PoliceAreUseless useless police.]]
** Nor is it a threat involving policemen who are {{Empty Shell}}s, or who forgot to have any breakfast that day.
** It's also not a threat to make the police [[BringMyBrownPants empty their bowels]].
* An EmptyElevator is not just any elevator with no people or things in it. That would be a Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.
* EmptyLevels are not dungeon levels full of empty rooms.
** Nor are they varying degrees of emptiness.
* An EmptyQuiver is not a subversion of BottomlessMagazines that takes place in a StandardFantasySetting.
** It is not when a character is quivering with DullSurprise.
* EmptyRoomPsych is not a psychology class in college that deals specifically with how people behave in empty rooms.
** Nor is it a psychology class in college held in a room with no furniture, equipment, or office supplies.
* EmptyShell is not about literal empty seashells or bombshells.
* EndingTropes is not what would happen if Website/ThisVeryWiki closed down. Nor is it when everyone stops using tropes in their works.
* TheEndIsNigh has nothing to do with the sniper from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
* EndlessGame is not about a never-ending supply of hunted animals.
** Nor does it refer to a hunted animal which is infinitely long.
** It also has nothing to do with ''Literature/EndersGame''.
* EndOfSeriesAwareness is not when the characters stop being aware of the series.
** Nor is it what would happen if [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The End]] broke the fourth wall.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has nothing to do with [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure The World]] either being finally defeated or transforming into something completely different.
** Nor is it [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The End]] learning how to use [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure The World]].
* An EndOfTheWorldSpecial is not a discount or menu item that becomes available only in the moments before the Earth's destruction.
* TheEndOrIsIt is not about showing TheEnd to trick the audience into thinking the story is over, but it isn't.
** Nor is it when you mistake someone for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The End]].
* EnemyMine is neither a mine intended to kill people, nor is it a mine that [[MookMaker spews enemies]]. It is ''also'' not where the BigBad digs up [[MineralMacguffin precious stones]] that are his main source of funding. Nor is it a foe that explodes when touched. Nor is it a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bob-Omb]].
** Although due to ExecutiveMeddling, one of the first instances of this trope ''does'' feature a mine, precisely because the executives thought the trope maker meant something else.
* EngagingConversation is not a subtrope of EngagingChevrons, which in turn is not about hiring ex-[=NCOs=] or renting gas stations.
* TheEngineer is not about engineers in the ''Film/TokyoGorePolice'' sense.
* EnlightenmentSuperpower does not refer to the most powerful countries during the Enlightenment era.
* An EnormousEngine is not a very large locomotive.
* An Administrivia/EntryPimp is not a pimp who has just gotten started in the business.
** It's also not a pimp who hangs around the entrances of hotels, bars or other places to solicit customers.
* EntertaininglyWrong is not entertainingly ''[[SoBadItsGood bad]]''.
* An {{Ephebophile}} is not a Literature/{{Discworld}}er who admires the people and society of the Greek FantasyCounterpartCulture.
* EpicFail is not when a work seems to be building towards some climactic event or confrontation [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome that is then briefly and offhandedly wrapped up]]. That would be ''[[Administrivia/RenamedTropes silly]]''.
** Nor is it an epic about someone's failure.
* EpicFlail is not when a story's grand scale causes the author to lose track of the original vision, so that the plot begins to thrash around wildly.
* EpicHail is not about hail bigger than a human head.
** Nor is it an extremely [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass long pass]] in American football.
* An EpicTrackingShot involves shooting a ''scene''; it is not even remotely the epic use of a HomingProjectile. It's also not a dramatic shot of a hunter tracking down their quarry.
* EqualOpportunityEvil is not about evil communist leaders who view ending democracy and trampling on human rights as a worthy sacrifice for achieving equality..
* EquivalentExchange is not about currency exchange and RidiculousExchangeRates is not an aversion or subversion of it.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[CycleofRevenge An Eye For An Eye]].
* An [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia Ermine Cape]] is not TheCape with RoyalBlood.
* ErmineCapeEffect does not mean {{Ermine Cape}}s have magical powers. Although in some works they do.
** Nor is it the result of an Ermine Cape Cause.
* ErrorIndex is specifically about computer glitches, not errors committed by [[FailureIndex people in the story]] or [[WritingPitfallIndex creators]].
* EruditeStoner isn't a person who stones smart people to death.
* EscalatingBrawl is not about [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl battling on]] [[AutoScrollingLevel Rumble Falls]].
** Nor is it about [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} a Combaticon tank]] taking an escalator.
* EscalatingWar doesn't have anything to do with an actual military war escalating.
** Nor is it a conflict where both sides react by moving to higher elevations.
* EscapistCharacter does not refer to [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], the ''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}'' guys or the cast of ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl''. At least, not specifically.
** Nor is it, at least not specifically, a character who is [[EscapeArtist very good at escaping]].
* EscortMission has nothing to do with [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold that kind of escort]].
** Neither does EscortDistraction. You might be looking for HoneyTrap instead.
* EsotericMotifs has nothing to do with the funeral doom metal band Esoteric.
* EspeciallyZoidberg is not what comes after the phrase "alien doctors are funny".
* EskimosArentReal isn't about a setting where eskimos literally are not real.
* EskimoLand isn't {{Ride/Disneyland}}, but run by or themed after the Inuit and/or Iñupiaq.
* ETGaveUsWiFi isn't about [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T. installing Wi-fi in one house]].
* {{Eurobeat}} does not refer to [[BeatEmUp Beat-'Em-Ups]] made by European developers.
* {{Euroshlock}} is not another term for what the ShootEmUp community calls "euroshmups".
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer isn't a {{western}}, lesbian porno.
* EverybodyCries is not an aesop about how crying is nothing to be ashamed of.
* EverybodyDidIt is not the same as EverybodyHasLotsOfSex.
* EverybodyHatesHades is not the public reaction to [[VideoGame/{{Hades}} a certain video game]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Some people enjoyed it.]]
* EverybodyLovesZeus does ''not'' refer to the fact that the Greek TopGod ReallyGetsAround in original myths. It's not primarily about romantic love at all, in fact.
** Nor is it about [[Film/TheSmurfs2 Zeus the parrot]].
* EverybodyMustGetStoned is ''not'' the answer to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} saying [[Literature/TheFourGospels "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."]] Or about a law that sets stoning as the punishment for all crimes. Or even a law that requires marijuana use, although such a law would ''result'' in EverybodyMustGetStoned.
* EveryBulletIsATracer does not refer to [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Lena Oxton]] in any way.
* EveryCarIsAPinto is not a ridiculously specific version of EverybodyOwnsAFord. Or some breed of horse.
* EveryEpisodeEnding is not a list of the endings of every episode of every TV show ever made.
** Nor is it when every episode of a series gets banned.
* TheEveryman has nothing to do with WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID or any other [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman]] Alternate Reality Game. At least, we don't think it does...
* EveryManHasHisPrice is not about slave trading.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep and HisNameReallyIsBarkeep has nothing to do with a dog-like Pokémon who didn't even exist yet.
** Everyone Calls Him Barkeep is also not about a man who gets mistaken for the bartender all the time.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt is not about reactions to a WardrobeMalfunction. Has nothing to do with [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Cousin It]]'s visibility either.
** Nor does it mean that ''[[Film/It2017 It]]'' is rated E for everyone, or that the titular monster is visible to everybody.
* EveryoneHasStandards is not about everyone having the standard model or trim line of a given product, nor about the International Standards Organization.
* EveryoneHatesFruitcakes is about literal fruitcakes, not the idiom for [[CloudCuckoolander amusingly crazy people]].
* EveryoneIsASuper does not mean all the main characters own apartment buildings.
* EveryoneIsATomato is not [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin where everybody is a tomato]].
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory is not about people being equivalent to Jesus when they go to Purgatory. Neither is it about convicted people pretending to be shining beacons of innocence.
** EveryoneIsSatanInHell is not an EvilCounterpart to EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory, nor does it have much in common, except the name. (Well, they are both about bizarre theories, but EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory is a theory that the characters will be revealed InUniverse to be something else, while EveryoneIsSatanInHell is literally about accusing random imagery of being Satanic symbolism.) Everyone Is God In Heaven...doesn't exist yet.
* EveryoneJoinTheParty is not a piece of propaganda you would expect to see in [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Russia]] or Literature/NineteenEightyFour.
** Nor is it about inviting everyone to a WildTeenParty.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse does not mean that a certain Oxford-based detective is known across the whole of time-space (though the possibility exists. [[Series/DoctorWho Everyone Knows Agatha Christie]], after all...).
** It's ubiquity also didn't make Morse Code during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar [[CodeOfHonor The Code Of The West]].
* EveryoneOwnsAMac is not about how insecure Macs prove to be in the [=PWN2OWN=] contests.
** Nor is it when UsefulNotes/McDonalds becomes so popular that everyone eats Big Macs.
** It's also not about how everyone owns a MAC-10 or a variant thereof.
* EveryonesBabySister is not the result of some massive-scale incest.
* EverythingButTheGirl does not mean [[NightmareFuel someone went on a power-mad spree and destroyed everything in their way, leaving no survivors excepting for one young woman.]]
** Nor is it the same as WouldntHitAGirl.
* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture is not how Apple keeps growing once EveryoneOwnsAMac.
* [[BearsAreBadNews Everything's Worse With Bears]] does not actually involve the [[UsefulNotes/MnogoNukesBombers Tu-95]].
** Nor is it an insult to Film/TheBadNewsBears.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom doesn't involve growing mushrooms.
** Or some weird thing that turns random items into mushrooms.
* EvidenceDungeon is not a RolePlayingGame combined with a LawProcedural in which player character lawyers need to traverse dungeons and fight monsters to find evidence for their cases.
* EvilBrit has nothing to do with Music/BritneySpears' mental breakdown.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood does not refer to [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil]] attempting to figure out the meaning behind the biggest hit of Music/BetterThanEzra.
* An EvilDiva is an actual musician, not just an evil DramaQueen or LargeHam.
* EvilFeelsGood is not about a villain groping a hero or heroine.
* EvilIsBigger does not refer to any cases where the villain is more endowed than the hero.
* EvilIsEasy isn't about slutty villains.
* EvilIsHammy is not like CatsAreMean, but [[SinisterSwine for pigs]].
* EvilIsNotAToy has nothing to do with [[VideoGame/EarthWormJim Evil the Cat]] [[TheMerch Merchandise]].
** Nor is it about [[KillerRabbit actual toys that are evil]], or denying the existence thereof.
* EvilIsPetty does not mean that Music/TomPetty is an embodiment of evil or the source of all evil in the world.
* EvilIsSterile can apply to SuccubiAndIncubi even if they ''can'' reproduce with mortals.
* EvilLaugh is not [[AnimateInanimateObject a living laugh]] that is [[MadeOfEvil evil]].
* EvilMatriarch is not about ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' fanbase's opinion of [[ThatOneBoss The Matriarch]].
* EvilOverlordList is not a list of {{Evil Overlord}}s.
* An EvilPhone is not, well, a telephone with villainous intent.
* EvilPowerVacuum is not about a energy-draining device used by villains.
** Nor is it about the latest Hoover being sold to overlords everywhere.
** It is also not a heroic weapon used to drain evil power from villains.
** Nor is it the Negativitron from ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 2''.
* EvilSmellsBad is not about villains who don't bathe. UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness is.
** It also does not mean that villains are bad at smelling.
* EvilSoundsDeep is not about WickedCultured chaps (ab)using FauxlosophicNarration or SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
* EvilTastesGood is not about villains who consider eating the heroes.
** Nor does it advocate eating the villains after defeating them.
** Nor is it about villains who are good at tasting.
* EvilTropes does not refer to tropes themselves being evil. JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife does that.
** Nor do they fight Good Tropes.
* EvilVirtues are not the opposite of Good Virtues, and aren't a counterpart to GoodFlawsBadFlaws.
* EvilWearsBlack doesn't assert that goths and emos are scum, though it would carry the [[UnfortunateImplications connotations]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin does not mean [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Tin Woodsman]] always saying it like it is.
* Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent has nothing to do with Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease.
* ExcusePlot is not an apology for a rude flowerbed. Nor is it a plot that revolves around a character making an excuse.
* ExecutiveVeto is not about the president vetoing a bill.
* TheExIndex has not [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.]]
** Nor is it no longer an index.
** It also is not stronger version of Index that you will fight in [[NewGamePlus EX mode]] of ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''.
* ExoticEquipment does not refer to [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon exotic weapons]], [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes clothes]], or [[KingpinInHisGym gym equipment]].
* ExpandedUniverse has nothing to do with cosmic inflation.
** Nor is it about WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse getting larger.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller has nothing to do with [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Yai Ayano]] or [[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Zack Temple]].
* ExperimentedInCollege has nothing to do with science experiments.
** Nor is it about doing drugs in college, but that may go hand-in-hand with this trope.
* An ExplodingCalendar is not a calendar that gets blown up by a bomb, nor is it a bomb that also serves as a calendar.
* ExplodingCloset has nothing to do with particularly spectacular [[ComingOutStory Coming-Out Stories]]. And it doesn't involve any bombs, either.
* ExplodingFishTanks is not about about undersea warfare.
* An ExplosiveBreeder is not something that actually breeds by exploding.
** Nor does it breed explosives.
* ExplosiveInstrumentation is not about the old cartoon gag where a bomb is detonated by a piano key. (That's the XylophoneGag.)
* ExplosiveStupidity is not about someone who is so stupid, [[YourHeadAsplode their brain explodes]] when they try to comprehend a simple fact.
* {{Expo Label}}s are not stickers and signs denoting certain things as the property of convention operators, though they can be if they're glaringly obvious.
* ExposedExtraterrestrials is not about finding out that some people are aliens.
* ExposedToTheElements does not refer to the elements of the periodic table.
* An ExpositionBreak is not a break ''from'' giving exposition (hard luck, [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione]]). In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
* An ExpositionParty is not an adventuring party in which every member is MrExposition.
** Nor is it a political party focused on exposition.
* An EXSpecialAttack is not an attack that used to be special but no longer is.
** It isn't your former twosome's special attack either.
* The ExtranormalInstitute is not known for its extreme normalcy; quite the opposite, in fact.
* An ExtraStrengthMasquerade is not a costume ball for [[FlyingBrick Flying Bricks]] and/or other types of superhumans. Nor is a reference to a Cajun-style Mardi Gras.
* The "Y" in ExtraYExtraViolent refers to the Y chromosome [[ThisTropeIsX and cannot be substituted for anything like a variable in algebra]]. So it does not refer to adding more of something to work (or anything else) and making it more violent, nor does it mean increasing the level of something causes an increase in violence.
* An ExtremeDoormat is not a Welcome rug that spends its weekends doing street luge.
** Nor does it refer to [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall 90s Kid's]] own doormat.
* ExtremelyColdCase is not a freezer for things not even Antarctic is cold enough for.
* ExtremelyLengthyCreation is not about video games or tabletop [=RPGs=] where it takes a long time to create your character.
** Nor does it about a CreationStory or CreationMyth that is very long or takes place over a very long time.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge is not a DarkerAndEdgier GameMod of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee''.
* An ExtremeOmniGoat is not an all-powerful, all-knowing goat.
* ExtremeOmnivore is not about an omnivorous creature with an extreme personality.
* EyeAmWatchingYou is not what [[Franchise/TouhouProject Cirno]] says when she's peeping on you. Nor is it about some kind of all-seeing eye, like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]], or when people spy on others through the eyes of paintings.
* EyeBeams are not steel girders used in skyscraper construction. Nor is it when an expression of joy can even be seen in a character's eyes.
* EyeCatch isn't when you throw your glass eye and your dog retrieves it.
* EyeContactAsProof isn't about someone's contact lens being used as evidence in court.
* EyeOfProvidence is not about a ferris wheel in the capital of Rhode Island. Or an optometrist clinic or private detective based there.
* EyesAlwaysAverted does not describe characters without eyes.
* EyeScream is not related to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu0H4UD-1sQ this]] scene from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere is about actual eyes, not where they're looking; it is not in any way related to MyEyesAreUpHere.
** It is also not about a witch berating her assistant for misplacing her cauldron brew ingredients.
* An EyeOfNewt is not necessarily an actual newt's eye. Nor an eye of [[Film/FantasticBeasts Newt Scamander]], Creator/NewtGingrich, a certain girl from ''{{Film/Waterworld}}'', or anyone else named Newt.
* EyeShine is not about Creator/JohnnyYongBosch's band.
* EyeTake is ''not'' EyeScream crossed with ItemGet.
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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong is not the oddly-named relative of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Amy Wong]], nor is it about someone being disgusted by walking in on an alien in the shower. It also has nothing to do with alien wings.
* FaceHeelTurn is not about looking at your feet. Nor is it something that only contortionists can do.
** Nor is it a snappy dance move used to represent the ease with which some characters change sides.
** Nor is it about leaving Website/{{Facebook}} for a ShoddyKnockoffProduct called Faceheel.
* TheFaceless was not "created" by [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Optimus Prime]]. They're also not [[TheBlank literally faceless]].
* FacelessGoons usually aren't members of Website/SomethingAwful.
* FaceMonsterTurn is not a variation of FaceHeelTurn, where a good guy becomes a CompleteMonster.
** Nor is it when someone's face [[ForcedTransformation transforms into a monster's]].
** It's also not about someone turning around so they can face the monster that's [[LookBehindYou crept up behind them]].
** Nor is it (necessarily) about someone becoming [[{{Cephalothorax}} a face monster]].
* FacePalm is not about drawing faces on your palms.
** Nor is it [[Literature/VampireHunterD actually having a face on your palm]].
** It doesn't describe [[Film/PansLabyrinth The Pale Man]], either.
** And it ''certainly'' doesn't involve palm trees growing on your face.
** Nor is it facing a palm tree or your palm.
* FacePalmOfDoom is not when your FacePalm kills all the [[SurroundedByIdiots idiots surrounding you]]. Although, I think some of them wish they could.
** Nor is it what happens when Doctor Doom is frustrated.
* A FacePlant is not about a plant growing out of someone's face.
** Or about anthropomorphic flowers.
** Nor is it a factory that makes faces.
* FaceRevealingTurn isn't about when an apparent villain reveals that they were on the good guys' side all along.
* A FagHag is not an old woman who smokes.
** It is also not about an ugly lesbian.
** Nor does it have to do with actual hags.
* FailingATaxi isn't about [[DrivesLikeCrazy failing at driving one]]. Nor is it about an air pilot failing to taxi down the runway.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption doesn't mean the only musicians you could book for your show were the band Music/{{Failure}}.
* A FailureToSaveMurder is not when the DM murders your character on account of it having failed its [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons saving throw]].
** Nor does it mean when a video game kills you (the player character) for not saving the game.
* {{Fainting}} is not a redirect for NonLethalKO.
* FairCop is not about an enforcer of the law who can see past the justice system to give a fair penalty to someone. Or just about the "good cop" part of GoodCopBadCop.
* TheFairFolk cannot be counted upon to make an unbiased, objective, impartial judgment. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality By your culture's standards, at least]].
** It is also not the people you always see hanging around a county fair.
** Nor are they people who refuse to compete or fight with any sort of advantage or disadvantage.
** Nor is it people who are white and/or blond.
** Nor is it about the people who are "fairest in the land" like Snow White.
* FairForItsDay does not mean a competition used to not favor any one group over another but now does.
** It also has nothing to do with county fairs.
* A FairyBattle is not a battle between actual fairies, nor is it battling a fairy.
* FakeBrit isn't actually for non-British actors faking British accents. It's only for any actor who is not from the South-East of England who has to fake an accent found in the South-East of England (usually Received Pronunciation or Cockney). That means British actors from elsewhere in the UK (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) ''also'' count as FakeBrit when playing such characters.
* TheFakeCutie is ''only'' faking being TheCutie. She is almost always still female, not a crossdresser.
** Neither is it a blank flank from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' faking having a cutie mark.
* FakeDifficulty isn't about feigning a difficult moment to make yourself look challenged, or difficulty that you are just imagining in your mind.
* FakeHigh is not a HighSchool that's [[SchoolForScheming really a front for something]] more [[{{Masquerade}} mysterious]]. It's also not deliberately pretending to be high.
* FakeInTheHole doesn't refer to doing HandInTheHole with a robot arm or other replacement so that whatever's in the hole doesn't hurt you.
* FakeLoud is not a ConMan pretending to be a LongLostRelative of [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse the Loud family]]. Nor is it a situation where a person pretending to be someone else, or a ShoddyKnockoffProduct, makes more noise than the real person or object does.
* FakePlatform is not about the [[{{Vaporware}} Phantom]] console. (Or any other software platform that doesn't actually exist.)
* A FakeRealTurn isn't about a RefugeeFromTVLand, YourMindMakesItReal, or BecomeARealBoy. It's not even about {{Defictionalization}}, but that's closer. It's specifically about fake products or works InUniverse whose creators end up having to actually make them.
** It also isn't the classic cartoon gag where one character paints a fake bend in the road onto a wall, and another character, believing it to be a real bend in the road, [[RuleOfPerception drives through the wall]].
* FakeRussian isn't about fake Russian text, that's TheBackwardsR. It's also not about characters pretending that they are from Russia.
* FakingAnotherPersonsIllness is not pretending you have a disease that another person has.
* [[UsefulNotes/LogicalFallacies Fallacy Fallacy]] does not mean "Yo dawg, I heard you like logical fallacies, so I put a fallacy in my fallacious argument so you can prove my point invalid while you prove my point invalid."
* A FallenHero is not a hero who has fallen to their death. Nor any sort of hero who has died.
** They might get a DisneyVillainDeath, but it's not neccessary.
* FalseFlagOperation is not about triggering an EventFlag at a point clearly not intended by the developers.
** Nor is it about a decoy mission involving a squad of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 SVMS-01 Flag]]s.
* FalseFriend is not a trope about words in one language that [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike look like words in a different language]] but have unrelated meanings.
* FalseRoulette isn't a case in which a video game series pretends to [[GameplayRoulette change its gameplay genre several times]] while actually playing the same. Nor is it [[GambitRoulette a plan that seems to involve an inordinate amount of luck]] but actually does not.
** Nor is it an object disguised as a roulette wheel.
* FameGate is not a [[{{Scandalgate}} scandal]] involving celebrities.
* The page for {{Familiar}} is not a list of people, places, and objects that are vaguely recalled.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily is not about family-friendly works about families, nor about the premise of ''Film/NextOfKin1989'', ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'', ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'', or anything else involving blood feuds, [[CycleOfRevenge An Eye For An Eye]], or {{Badass Famil|y}}ies, quite the opposite, in fact. It has nothing to do with EquivalentExchange, either.
* FamilyValuesVillain is not about a family who holds a villain in high esteem. Nor is it necessarily a villain who does everything for the sake of their family, although a FamilyValuesVillain who ''has'' a family of their own will likely care about them. They also don't necessarily have to be socially conservative, although many are.
* TheFamine is not about the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse horseman of the apocalypse]].
* FanDisservice is not about hating on a fandom or breaking a fan.
* FanDumb is not a [[HulkSpeak comment]] by {{Hatedom}}.
** Nor is it a reaction to a failed attempt at a FunnyFanVoice.
** Nor is it fanning TheDitz.
* [[FanFicRecs/WebOriginal FanficRecs: Web Original]], despite what you'd think, is not about recommendations for {{fan fic}}s based on WebOriginal works.
* {{Fan Hater}}s are not air conditioner supremacists. Nor is it warning a fan that haters are approaching or telling someone to fan some haters.
* {{Fanime}} is not about an anime convention. Nor is it a misspelling of “famine”.
* FanOfUnderdog has nothing to do with an old 60's cartoon about a superheroic dog.
* FanService is not about providing customer service to people who like the work.
** Nor is it about repairing broken fans.
* FanserviceExtra doesn't refer to a situation where you have to pay extra to get a version of the show that includes more fanservice than the TV version.
* FanservicePack is not about DownloadableContent or a GameMod that makes characters sexier. Nor is it about attractive six-packs.
* FanSub is not a particularly kinky {{Uke}} fan.
** {{Fandom}} is not the opposite of FanSub.
** FanSub also has nothing to do with subway. Nor is it a phrase to describe a submarine with an external propeller.
* FantasticAesop doesn't refer to AnAesop that is incredibly cool. Nor is it the only sort of Aesop that people in {{Fantasy}} fiction learn, although it ''can'' be.
** Nor is it the sort of Aesop that [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny]] learn, although it can be.
* FantasticArousal is not about ''really good'' sexual activity ''or'' an unusually potent fetish.
** It also has nothing to do with a certain group of Superheroes.
** Nor does it have anything to do with waking up.
* FantasticComedy isn't a really really good comedy. Not necessarily at least.
* FantasticDrug isn't about a really awesome drug.
** Nor is it about special pills that the ComicBook/FantasticFour use to augment their powers.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables is not an {{Aesop}} about having a healthy diet.
** It's also not about really, really delicious fruits and vegetables.
* A FantasticGhetto is ''definitely'' not a fantastic place to live in.
* FantasticNuke is not about really really good nukes.
** Nor is it about nukes developed by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]].
* FantasticRacism is not some sort of Nazi plot to justify racial hatred, nor does it refer to [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny]] all being white, [[note]] Unless it's [[Film/FantasticFour2015 the 2015 film]] [[/note]] nor is it about particularly [[NobleBigot awesome racism]].
* FantasticScience isn't the opinion of someone who thinks ScienceIsGood.
* A FantasyForbiddingFather won't stop you from reading ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Well, he might, but the trope's not exclusively about that.
* FantasyGunControl actually has very little to do with the plot, or {{Aesop}}, of the Discworld book ''Literature/MenAtArms.''
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement is not about the inverse of HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic in the fantasy genre.
** Nor is it enforcing magical helmets.
* A FantasyKitchenSink is not where wizards, dwarves and dragons do the dishes. It's also not a place to wash fantasy novels.
* FanVerse is not about an Ode to a Flabellum. Nor is it about fan works in musical form. For that you'd want to see FilkSong.
* FanWank is ''not'' about RuleThirtyFour, though not everyone who engages in FanWank is above the occasional literal non-example, either. It's also not about using a fan as a masturbation aid, whether that's the fan that creates wind or the fan who really likes something.
* FanworkOnlyFans is not a term for [[RuleThirtyFour fanwork hosted on the website OnlyFans]].
* TheFarmerAndTheViper is not a tale about a fight between a [=MiG-19=] and an F-16.
** Nor is it a crossover between ''Riverworld'' and ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''.
** Nor is it a story about an agriculturist buying a sports car.
** It's also not anything to do with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' or [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books it's based on]]. ''That'' Viper [[ADeathInTheLimelight would probably have been better off fighting a farmer.]]
* The FascinatingEyebrow is not an eyebrow that happen to be very interesting.
* FastRoping is not about tying things up especially quickly.
* TheFatalist is not someone who plays ''FATAL'', neither he is obsessed with [[Franchise/MortalKombat Fatalities]]. He does have (usually morbid) obsession with Fate.
* A FatBastard is overweight, but wasn't (necessarily) conceived out of wedlock.
* FateWorseThanDeath is not about [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Fate Testarossa]] (or that other [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Fate]]) being even harder to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Punch Out]] than [[GrimReaper Death]]. Nor is it an installment in the ''[[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Fate]]'' series that's so bad you'd rather die than read/play it.
* FatherNeptune is ''not'' about [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the actual god Poseidon/Neptune]]. Nor about the planet.
* FaustianRebellion is not about a [[Creator/LaurenFaust certain animator]] rebelling against [[GirlShowGhetto the clichéness of girl-targeting media]].
* The FauxInterracialRelationship is not when someone's [[GirlfriendInCanada fake partner]] is claimed to be a different race or when people of different races go UndercoverAsLovers--the ''relationship'' is actually real, only the difference in race is not.
* {{Fauxshadow}} is not a [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog fake hedgehog]], nor will he [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI slit his grandma's throat for a wooden nickel.]] Nor is it about fake shadows or fake eyeshadow.
* A FawltyTowersPlot isn't a story about building mishaps, nor is it a garden plot in Series/FawltyTowers.
* FearTropes is not an order, no matter how much they may [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruin your life]].
* A FeatherBoaConstrictor is not a [[FeatheredSerpent Quetzalcoatl-like creature]].
** It's not about restricting the movement of a scarf, either.
* The FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue is not where [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward ended up when his time machine broke.]]
** It's neither an airplane nor a plane of existence.
* FeedTheMole is not about giving the animal some food.
* {{Feelies}} is not an UnusualEuphemism.
** Nor are they what you get after a TearJerker moment.
* FeetOfClay does not refer to feet that have gotten dirty.
** Nor is it referring to literal feet sculpted out of clay.
* FelonyMisdemeanor is not the name for a class of crimes under California state law. (California state law spells it "[=Felony/Misdemeanor=]", with a slash or a hyphen between the two words. It means a crime that can be treated as either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the severity, such as drunk driving or theft.)
* FelonyMurder doesn't indicate that there is some form of Misdemeanor Murder. Nor does it refer to [[SerialKillerKiller people being murdered because they were felons]].
* FellOffTheBackOfATruck is not about someone or something falling off a moving truck.
* {{Feminazi}}s usually aren't [[ThoseWackyNazis actual Nazis]], nor do they [[PuttingOnTheReich act like them]]. [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Usually.]]
** Nor is it about saying that the Nazi [[HitlerAteSugar were feminists]].
* TheFettered isn't about the alternate name for [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Tainted Forgotten]].
* {{Fetish}} does not refer to the original definition of fetishism. You may be looking for CargoCult, GoodLuckCharm, BadLuckCharm, or AncientArtifact.
* Fiction500 is not [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces a car race of all fictional characters]].
* A FiendishFraternity does not involve [[InfernalTropes literal demons]].
* The FifteenPuzzle did not have fourteen puzzles before it.
* FighterMageThief is not a summary of the main cast of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. Nor is it [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot someone who's a fighter, a mage AND a thief all at the same time.]] Or someone who kidnaps people who are just fighters and mages at the same time.
* FightingAShadow isn't the opposite of LovingAShadow. It also doesn't usually involve attacking a LivingShadow, and is definitely not about fighting ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''.
* FightInTheNude is not about characters battling in their birthday suits. In most video games to which that would apply, the complete opposite of this trope is in play. Thus, it being renamed to InformedEquipment.
** Nor is it advice to fight completely naked.
* FightLikeACardPlayer is not what ComicBook/TheJoker does with his razor cards while fighting ComicBook/{{Batman}}. It also has nothing to do with arguments that lead to fighting amongst poker players.
** Nor is it someone who plays a game called "Fight Like A Card".
** Nor is it [[Franchise/YuGiOh settling any and all conflicts through a card game]].
* FilibusterFreefall is not about giving a long speech while falling from a high altitude.
* FilmAtEleven does not mean that a TV station will broadcast a movie at 11pm (or 11am for that matter). In fact, it doesn't have to do with "film" in the sense of "movie" at all!
** Nor is it telling a film crew to start working 1 hour before noon or midnight.
** Nor is about eleven-year-olds working in the filming industry or doing any other sort of filming.
** Nor is it an [[MediaNotes/MotionPictureAssociation MPAA rating]] for films that can be watched by anyone over age 11.
* FilmFelons is not a general trope about [[CrimeAndPunishmentTropes criminals in films.]]
** Nor are they about criminals who go into filmmaking or get hired as movie actors.
* A FinalExamFinale is not necessarily one where student characters literally take their final exams.
* A FinalGirl is not a female VideoGame/SuperSmashBros player who likes to always pick [[Memes/SuperSmashBros Final Destination]].
** Or a girl who helps you study for final exams.
** Nor does it refer to when the only female villain in a video game is also the FinalBoss.
* FindingTheBug is not about finding bugs in software.
** Nor is it about finding any kind of insects.
* FindTheCure is not related to ''Anime/PrettyCure'', nor is it related to ''Music/{{The Cure|Band}}''
* A FingerGun will not necessarily shoot [[{{Fingore}} fingers]].
* FingerInABarrel is a finger in a gun barrel, not any other kind of barrel.
** Also isn't a severed finger inside a barrel.
* A FingerInTheMail is not about someone opening a letter by running a finger through the top of the envelope.
** Nor is it about entering cyberspace by putting a finger in a e-mail.
** Nor does it mean someone opening someone else's mailbox and rummaging through their mail.
** Nor is it part of a chainmail gauntlet.
* FingerPokeOfDoom is not the same as GoForTheEye.
* A FingerSnappingStreetGang will not break your fingers if you cross them.
* A FingerTwitchingRevival does not mean that finger-twitching was once popular, then fell out of use, and is currently popular again.
* FinishingMove is for killing things, not completing your homework or work assignment.
* UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests is not about the character from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (or ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' or anyone else named Finn) claiming ownership of dangerous and spooky woods.
** Nor does it have anything to do with WhenTreesAttack.
* FireBreathingDiner is not about [[UnsatisfiableCustomer very angry people at restaurants]]. Nor is it about [[SapientHouse diner restaurants that can breathe fire]].
* FireIsRed, WaterIsBlue, but those are tropes, not poetry too.
* FiremenAreHot, but not because they're on fire.
* FiringOneHanded doesn't mean you're using the other hand for other purposes.
** Nor that the person firing [[OneArmedWarrior only has one hand]], though that would be a JustifiedTrope example of it.
** Nor is it [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger aggressively using one hand]] to [[FiringDay dismiss an employee]], or illegally firing someone for being an amputee.
* FirstBlood is not about the ''Rambo'' movies. Neither does it refer to the first victim of an AntiHero or a villain, much as ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' and other things using its voiceovers -- ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' for one -- would have you believe.
* FirstChurchOfMecha is not about the Wicca stand-in from ''Literature/TalesOfMU''.
* FirstPeriodPanic has nothing to do with the first period of school nor punctuation.
* The FisherKing does not fish. It also isn't the page about that Creator/TerryGilliam movie where Creator/RobinWilliams [[{{Squick}} gets naked]]. Nor does it refer to whoever's in charge of Fisher-Price.
** Also, the FisherKing is not (usually) the king over the FisherKingdom.
* FishEyes aren't an [[EyeOfNewt ingredient in a witch's potion]].
* FishingForMooks is not when you go fishing and somehow pluck a hostile enemy out of water.
* FishOutOfWater has nothing to do with a game of Marco Polo.
** Nor does it refer to fishing while you are not in the water, which is normal. Or a fish made out of water.
** Nor does it refer to a fish having used the last of their limited water supply.
* FissionMailed has nothing to do with illegal (not to mention [[LethallyStupid stupid]]) methods of nuclear waste disposal.
** Nor is it about mailing.
** Nor is it about Spoonerism.
* A FistPump will not inflate your fist [[Characters/OnePieceMonkeyDLuffy so you can throw a bigger punch]].
* FiveFingerDiscount is not a benefit given by stores to cartoon characters drawn with more than {{four finger|edHands}}s.
%%* StandardFantasyRaces has nothing to do with sporting events.
* FiveRoundsRapid is not something done in a DrinkingGame, although its presence may inspire one.
* FiveYearPlan is not about the economic policies developed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* TheFixer is not the same as MrFixIt--the former fixes problems, the latter repairs objects.
* FixerSue is not about a repairwoman named Sue. Nor is it about bringing a lawsuit to “fix” something.
* FixFic is not a campaign to reduce the influence of SturgeonsLaw on fanfiction. Although such a campaign is sorely needed.
** Nor is it HurtComfortFic where the Hurt is canon.
** Nor is it a fanfic about repairing or neutering.
* FlagDrop is not about [[GangBangers gang members]] severing ties with their crew.
** Nor is it lowering a raised flagpole.
* FlairBartending is not Wrestling/RicFlair mixing a drink for you. It's also not about having the word 'bartending' after your ''Website/{{Reddit}}'' username.
* FlameBait is NOT about something that is [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 flammable or inflammable]]. That would be MadeOfIncendium.
* A FlameWar is not a war between two {{pyromaniac}}s.
* A FlamingDevil is not a devil who's WreathedInFlames or is a ManOnFire. Nor is it a devil that [[FlameWar makes angry posts online]].
* FlamingHair is not about popular hairstyles for gay people. Nor is it about someone whose hair catches fire.
* A FlamingSword is not a euphemism for a CampGay guy's wing wong.
** Nor is it a sentient sword that is camp gay.
* {{Flanderization}} is not the assimilation in to the culture of Flanders[[note]]actually, it could be in theory, but that's not how we use the term on this wiki[[/note]].
** Nor is it the act of turning a character into [[Franchise/TouhouProject Flandre Scarlet]].
** Nor is it turning into [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]].
* FlashbackStares is about stares that induce flashbacks, not flashbacks where everyone just stares blankly at each other (or at the viewer).
* A FlashInThePanFad isn't a trend for cookery.
* A FlashMob is not a branch of the Mafia known for exposing their private parts in public or for being particularly good at using Adobe Flash.
** It is not about any hypothetical cartel monopolizing the production or distribution of Flash RAM either.
* FlashOfPain does not refer to [[ComicBook/TheFlash the fastest man alive]] being influenced by Music/MotleyCrue's 1985 album.
** It also has nothing to do with an Adobe Flash animation that contains large amounts of SensoryAbuse, or anger caused by Flash Player's tendency to hog resources.
** Or [[BlindedByTheLight a flash that causes pain]].
* FlashSideways is not about ComicBook/TheFlash lying down.
** Nor is it exposing one's private parts in public while facing perpendicular to the intended target.
* FlashStep is not a [[ReportingNames reporting name]]. Nor is it when the floor lights up under someone's feet disco-style. And although ComicBook/TheFlash could, in theory, put the move to good use, it's not something he does very often. It's also not when you advance through a web animation one frame at a time.
* A FlatCharacter is not necessarily flat chested, or what happens after AmusingInjuries involving steamrollers.
** It also does not have to be about depressed or bored characters.
** It's also not about characters who are [[PaperPeople literally flat]].
** It also not necessarily related to a British apartment.
* A FlatEarthAtheist is not an atheist who believes that the Earth is flat.
* {{Flatline}} isn't every instance of a straight line.
** It also has nothing to do with a certain assault rifle in ''VideoGame/ApexLegends''.
* FlatScare is not about being startled by an apartment. Nor is it synonymous with DullSurprise; the action used to scare someone is flat, not their scared reaction.
* FlawlessToken is not a [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering creature token]] or a [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh monster token]] with no weaknesses.
** It's not used as a special currency at Chuck E Cheese's either.
* FliesEqualsEvil has nothing to do with {{flight}} as a [[AntagonistAbilities power of villains but not heroes]].
** Nor is it an example of ChewbaccaDefense.
* FlipFlopOfGod is not what the Almighty wears at the beach.
** Nor is it an UnusualEuphemism for [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy His Royal Thing]].
** Nor is it about what God, in works where God can only breathe underwater, does when he washes up on land.
** Nor is it about a digital latching circuit used by a god.
* FlippingTheBird doesn't involve [[VideoGame/AngryBirds slingshotting an angry avian at the house of a kidnapper]].
** Nor is it grabbing a bird and [[FlippingTheTable flinging it on its side or upside down in rage.]]
* FlippingTheTable is not FlippingTheBird '''[-WITH YOUR WHOLE HAND-]'''.
** Nor is it reversing the order of the rows on a scorecard or in a database.
** Nor is it buying a table with the intent to resell it for a profit.
* A FloatingAdviceReminder is not a text box you'd see in a video game telling you basic information after the tutorial has already ended. Nor does it give you advice on how to float.
* FloatingHeadSyndrome does not refer to the side effects of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Zordon's communication tube]], nor the result of [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Megaton's attempts to remove his organic components]].
* A FlockOfWolves is not the proper "group term" to define them; that would be "pack".
* A FlowerMouth isn't a flower with a face or someone with a flower in place of their mouth. Nor is it someone who [[PurpleProse only speaks in flowery language]].
* A FloweryInsult is not just calling someone a pansy, although calling someone a pansy can be part of a FloweryInsult. It's not an insult in the language of flowers either.
* FluffyCloudHeaven is not where good fluffy clouds go after death. Similarly, FireAndBrimstoneHell is not where fires and brimstones that have sinned go to.
** Nor is it in any way a counterpart to MarshmallowHell.
* A FluffyDryCat is not a fluffy cat who is thirsty, has a dry sense of humor, is emotionless, or simply isn't wet.
* FluffyTamer is not about a tamer who is fluffy.
** Nor do they necessarily tame [[Literature/HarryPotter Hagrid's dog]] (although they might) or [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Angelica's cat]].
* FluffyTheTerrible does not refer to Creator/GabrielIglesias.
** Nor is it when [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Angelica's cat]] turns from mischievous to evil.
* A FlyAtTheCameraEnding does not involve any insects or trouser zippers.
* FlyCrazy is not the airplane piloting counterpart of DrivesLikeCrazy.
** It's also not about people who love flies. In fact, it's the polar opposite.
* FlyingBrick is not about a block of ceramic material hurling toward a person's head. Or a block of ceramic material that is also a superhero. (Although it ''is'' related to superheroes.) Or the brick from the BrickJoke. And under no circumstances should you compare them to [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogon ships]]. It also does not refer to [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wing_Saber#Energon Wing Saber]].
** It's also not about aircrafts or spacecrafts BuiltWithLego. ''Superheroes'' [[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame made of Lego]], possibly.
** Nor does it refer to [[https://www.loonyparty.com/4912/3671/nick-the-flying-brick-in-the-newark-by-election-3/ Nick the Flying Brick from the Monster Raving Looney Party.]]
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial isn't one of [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger ShinkenGold]]/[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Gold Samurai Ranger's]] attacks, or a Japanese action flick parody about seafood that can fly.
** Nor is it a sub trope of AnthropomorphicFood.
* FlyInTheSoup isn't an instruction to pilot a helicopter through some stew.
* {{Flynning}} has nothing to do with [[{{Franchise/Tron}} computers]].
** It's named after Errol Flynn, but it's not about his romantic exploits.
** [[Characters/TangledFlynnRider Flynn Rider]] never does it; his [[FryingPanOfDoom unusual fight]] against [[HorsingAround an equally unusual opponent]] is much too chaotic.
* FoeTossingCharge is not about an explosive charge that will send foes flying, nor is it about a foe who is tossing an explosive charge.
** Nor is it about having an electrical charge that repels all your enemies.
* FollowTheMoney bears no relation to its use as a cliche, i.e. discovering secrets by tracing finances. That's ForensicAccounting.
** Nor is it about that trick where someone ties a coin or a stack of bills to a string and pulls it along with someone following behind trying to grab it.
** It actually ''could'' be considered a sub trope of FollowTheLeader, but the money itself isn't a leader.
** It's not about [[MoneyDearBoy going to projects where you'll be paid well]], either.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit is not about getting [[Music/JeffersonAirplane high on acid]]. It is also not ''necessarily'' about following a WhiteBunny.
** Nor is it a subtrope of FantasticRacism specifically relating to anthropomorphized rabbits.
* FoodChains has nothing to do with predation, and also isn't about tying someone up with a string of sausages.
* TheFoodPoisoningIncident is not a subtrope of NoodleIncident for when the incident is implied to be disgusting.
** It's also not about adding poison to someone's dinner.
* FoodPorn is not about pornography depicting [[LetsMeetTheMeat anthropomorphic food]], food companies' mascots, or even cooking show personalities, although [[RuleThirtyFour such things most likely exist]]. It's not even about use of food in literal pornography; in fact, it's usually safe for work, unless perhaps you work at a weight-loss clinic.
** So just being clear: it's not about the ending of ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty''.
** Nor is it related to EroticEating or OrgasmicallyDelicious, though they can definitely overlap.
* FooFu is not a martial art practiced by the Music/FooFighters.
* TheFool is not a trope about the [[TarotMotifs tarot card]] of the same name, or [[Anime/KaleidoStar that one guy with the mask who can only be seen by Sora Naegino]].
** Nor does it reference the objects of Creator/MrT's pity.
** It is not a trope about stupid people in general. Or [[Manga/StardustCrusaders Iggy's Stand]].
* FootPopping is not when somebody's foot bursts, nor is it a literal case shooting oneself in the foot.
** It also isn't KnuckleCracking but applied to feet.
* UsefulNotes/FootyRules is not a treatise on the superiority of soccer over all other sports, or about one's favorite pajamas.
* ForceFeeding is not a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]] ability to prevent starvation. There's no such ability among the Sith, either.
** It also is not about giving [[DonutMessWithACop donuts to the police]], or any kind of food.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls does not denote the [[IncomingHam entrance]] of Doctor Doom.
* A ForeheadOfDoom is not about particularly destructive foreheads, nor is it about Doctor Doom's forehead.
* A ForeignWrestlingHeel is not a high-heeled shoe from another country becoming a wrestler. Nor does it refer to Achilles becoming a wrestler in a country other than Greece (albeit he might count for the trope if he's villainous).
* ForgedByTheGods was not started by any deity.
** Nor is it a counterfeit made by said gods.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat is not about [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson being unable to remember his neighbor's talents]]. Nor is it about forgetting what can be done by a part of Belgium.
* ForgotHeWasARobot is not about robots so sentient, they convince themselves to be human (or whatever they're modeled after) and have to be reminded they are, in fact, automatons. That would be TomatoInTheMirror.
* ForgottenFallenFriend is not a ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' fanfic where the Fallen and the Forgotten become friends.
* A ForgottenTrope isn't [[MemoryTropes a trope about amnesia]].
* ForScience is not the motto of the scientific faction of the "[[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Science Faction]]" of Academy City.
* FountainOfMemes is not literally a fountain that has [[MemeticMutation memes]] coming out of it.
** Nor is it about a literal fountains that went MemeticMutation.
* FountainOfYouth is not literally a fountain that spews youths.
* FourEyesZeroSoul is not a subtrope of ExtraEyes.
** Nor does it ever describe [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] or the characters in the "Blacks Without Soul" sketch from ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''.
* FourIsDeath does not necessarily mean you will die at age four. Nor is it a version of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_strikes_law three strikes law]] in which a fourth "strike" nets the death penalty. (Although both of these ''could'' be true given the nature of the trope in question...) Nor does it mean the Grim Reaper is only four years old. Nor does it have it have to with [[{{WesternAnimation/Numberjacks}} Numberjack Four]].
* TheFourLoves has nothing to do with [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} the four romances]].
** Nor does it invlove the {{shipping}} of [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Agent 4]], [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Numbah Four]], or anyone else [[YouAreNumberSix whose name is the number four]].
** Nor is it anything to do with having four couples in a work.
* FourStarBadass is not a discussion of the most badass characters in the works of Creator/TeamFourStar.
** It is also not a badass character with rave reviews.
** Or a particularly effective Level 4 ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card.
** Or a badass whose epicness still remains overshadowed by an even cooler, five-star badass.
* The FourTermsFallacy wasn't committed by UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt when he decided to run for a fourth term in office.
** Nor is it an error frequently committed by schools and universities on the quarter system.
** It is also not about lists with four entries always being wrong.
* FourthWallPsych is not about the psychological effects of BreakingTheFourthWall or being a FourthWallObserver, nor is it about a video game psychoanalyzing the player.
* FourthWallShutInStory doesn't refer to a story that initially has NoFourthWall, only for events within the story to close the fourth wall and end any interaction with the real world.
* A FrameUp is not about hanging a picture frame on a wall.
* A FramingDevice is not a machine that allows you to frame pictures or [[FrameUp set people up for crimes]] quickly and easily.
* FranchiseKiller is not a fictional character that [[NoticingTheFourthWall notices the fourth wall]], [[GoneMadFromTheRevelation goes mad from the revelation]], and [[HostileShowTakeover kills]] [[MindScrew the franchise itself]].
* FranchiseOriginalSin is not when the franchise was originally a right triangle and you measured the ratio of the lengths of the side opposite an angle and the hypotenuse.
* FranchiseZombie is not the curiously-named daughter to Music/RobZombie.
** ...And it does not necessarily involve TheUndead, although [[Film/TheMummyTrilogy there are some that do.]]
* FrankenX is not a variable subtracted from Creator/AlFranken.
* A FreddieMercopy isn't a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merman]] version of Music/{{Queen}}.
* You don't get a FreezeFrameBonus by playing ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' as [[AnIcePerson Frost]].
** It is not about making the opponent lag in a video game to win, either.
* A FreezeSneeze is not a sneeze that causes everyone to stop moving, or one that turns people into a HumanPopsicle.
* FrenchJerk is not about Jamaican cuisine from, or influenced by the culture of, France.
** Nor is it about saying "French" to a jerk.
** It is also not masturbation involving a [[EveryonesSexierIfFrench French person]].
* FreudianCouch is not about phallic furniture.
** It is also not a FreudianTrio made of couches.
* A FreudianExcuse has nothing to do with using FreudWasRight as an excuse.
* The FreudianTrio has nothing to do with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock doctor Benjamin]] [[TheSpock Spock]], [[TheKirk Kirk]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Franklin Franklin]], or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRon_McCoy LeRon]] [[TheMccoy McCoy]].
** Nor is it three perverted psychologists.
* FrictionlessReentry is not a porn maneuver.
* FridgeBrilliance has nothing to do with [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull climbing into a fridge to survive a nuclear explosion]], or with particularly well-lit refrigerators.
** The fridge itself is not brilliant, in any sense of the word.
* FridgeHorror is not about [[ItCameFromTheFridge the foul leftover beasts that lurk within]].
** Nor was it how [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] [[StuffedIntoTheFridge reacted to his girlfriend's murder]].
** Nor is it a phobia of refrigerators.
* FridgeLogic has nothing to do with sentient cooling devices, or freezers [[InstantAIJustAddWater suddenly acquiring intelligence]].
** Would those be defeated via Fridge LogicBomb?
** Nor does it involve a fridge being needed to stop [[ExplosiveOverclocking digital logic circuits from overheating]].
** Nor is it logical deductions about refrigerators.
* FriendlyFandoms are not individual fandoms that are full of nice people.
* FriendOnTheForce does not refer to having a friend who is [[Franchise/StarWars a Jedi]].
* A FriendOrIdolDecision won't come up in a ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' level where you have to choose between taking the damsel or the golden idol with you.
* FriendsRentControl is named after [[Series/{{Friends}} the series]], and does not refer to characters who get a deal on the rent because the landlord is their friend.
* FriendsWithBenefits are not necessarily on welfare.
* FriendToAllLivingThings is not about characters who are friendly to ''all'' living things. Trope names can be so misleading.
* FrillsOfJustice is not the fancy robes judges wear in the British Commonwealth.
** [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They've got rid of them nearly everywhere now,]] [[BritishStuffiness and we want them back!]]
** Nor is it a trope specifically about heroic frilled lizards.
* FromDressToDressing is not about using a dress as salad dressing.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes doesn't cover the filthy things sexy babes might say.
* Front13Back9 is not a sports score.
* FrozenFashionSense isn't about [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Anna and Elsa]]'s taste in clothes.
* FrozenInTime is not what happens when you cause one [[TemporalParadox paradox]] too many and the TimePolice start getting angry. Nor does it involve freezing that must be done before it's too late.
** Nor is it ''Film/{{Frozen|2010}}''... [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN TIME!]]-]
*** Or for that matter, ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}''... [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN TIME!]]-]
*** And it's not ''Film/InTime''... BUT FROZEN!
** It does not involve literally [[TimeStandsStill freezing time]], though that could be used to justify it.
** Or being frozen just in time.
* FryingPanOfDoom is not what [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Sauron]] cooks breakfast with.
** Nor Doctor Doom, for that matter.
* A FukuFic is not a {{Troll}}'s [[RougeAnglesOfSatin badly misspelled attempt]] of a TakeThat directed to a reader of fan stories. Nor is it a fanfic involving sushi prepared from a poisonous blowfish.
* FullFrontalAssault actually ''is'' referring to nudity, not tactics (though it can be employed in a manner that really does help one fight).
** It also does not involve vaginal rape. (most of the time...)
** It does not involve Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn's residential [[{{Franchise/Gundam}} Char]] clone Full Frontal, too.
** Nor is it referring to violence perpetrated by or against Creator/SamanthaBee’s [[Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee TBS show]].
* FultonStreetFolly is not about the inventor of the steam engine doing something stupid in public.
* FunbagAirbag is not about the type of airbag found in cars.
** Nor is it a type of airbags that makes funny noises when activating.
* FunnyAnimal is not about animals acting funny, unless they're anthropomorphic. Nor is it about [[Franchise/TheMuppets Animal]] acting funny.
* A FunnyFanVoice has nothing to do with a comedian mocking their fanbase by jokingly pretending to be one of them.
* FunnyForeigner has nothing to do with [[Music/ForeignerBand the band.]]
* FurAgainstFang does not mean [[WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian Dave's little sister became a pet groomer.]]
* FurAndLoathing has nothing to do with attacks on [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]]
* FurBikini is not a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] in a swimsuit, [[Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats unless the swimsuit is made of fur]].
* FurriesAreEasierToDraw doesn't mean that people who like to dress as animals are easier to draw.
* FurryConfusion is neither a description of someone who isn't sure whether he's a furry or not, nor the furry equivalent of MistakenForGay.
** Neither is it a creature with fur that nobody can identify.
* FurryReminder is not about reminding someone that you're furry or a furry.
* FusionDance is not dance music mixed with [[GenreMashup one or more other genres]].
** It's also not a dance involving the Ford Fusion.
** Or a dance about nuclear fusion.
** Nor is it a dance involving ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' or ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} Fusion''.
* A FusionFic is not fanfiction specifically about ''VideoGame/FusionFall'', nor is it fanfiction about nuclear scientists.
* FutureImperfect does not refer to a tense.
** Nor is it when you fail to get a perfect score on a [[VideoGame/{{Arcaea}} Future chart]].
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