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* SaidBookism does not mean Informed Librarian.
* SaltSolution is not an anger management program for tempermental gamers. Nor is it specifically about salt dissolved in liquid. Nor should it be confused with SaltTheEarth, or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks about disarming nukes between the US and USSR.
* SaltTheEarth is not about honest, hardworking people- that's 'Salt '''of''' the Earth'.
** It's also not about sprinkling literal salt on Earth, though that was the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth original form it took]].
* SameLanguageDub is normally not about dubbing a work into a different accent/dialect of the same language, such as redubbing a British show with American actors.
* SanDimasTime is not the name that the people who live in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomona_Valley mid-eastern suburbs]] (Between L.A. and San Bernardino) of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles use for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone Pacific Time Zone]] (their local time zone).
** Nor is it a time of day to celebrate all things San Dimas.
* SantaAmbiguity is not dog-Spanish for "St. Ambiguity".
** Nor is it about "Santa" having multiple possible meanings.
* SarcasmFailure is not to be confused with SarcasmBlind, CannotConveySarcasm, nor with InsultBackfire.
* SarcasticClapping and SlowClap are separate concepts, though combining them would no doubt be fun.
** For the record [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Bridge Carson]] combined the two at one occasion.
* SarcasticWellWishing is not about snarkily using a WishingWell.
* SatelliteCharacter is not about the Moon, or an artificial satellite, being used as a character in a work.
** Relatedly, a SatelliteLoveInterest does not refer to one who is in love with a literal satellite, either [[ICallItVera man-made]] or [[GeniusLoci natural]]. (Or to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender someone whose girlfriend turned into the Moon]].)
* SavedByTheChurchBell is not about characters being spared thanks to some law stating that executions carried out while the bell is ringing must be postponed if not outright annulled.
* SaveScumming has nothing to do with [[ChronicHeroSyndrome a hero's duty to protect everyone]], including lowlifes.
* SaveTheDayTurnAway is not the thing common in {{Toku}} fights where after the enemy is defeated, the heroes turn towards the camera and pose dramatically while the enemy explodes behind them.
* SawAWomanInHalf does not refer to someone reacting in horror to a woman being ''literally'' [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe split in two]].
* ScalesOfJustice does not refer to a hero or a judge (or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a heroic judge]]) being a reptile.
** Nor is it size comparison being used in justice systems.
** Nor is it about musical scales that are in some way associated with justice.
* ScaledUp is not about [[UnitsNotToScale video game characters being much larger compared to their surroundings]], nor about [[MakeMyMonsterGrow someone suddenly growing drastically in size]].
** Nor is it about someone upgrading their lifestyle with more scales to weigh themselves. Or judicial scales being used more often.
* TheScapegoat is not a goat who is fond of landscape.
* A ScapegoatAd is not an advertisement for a product or service fans blame for their disappointment.
** Nor does it refer to [[InvisibleAdvertising inadequate marketing being blamed for a piece of media's financial failure.]]
* A ScaramangaSpecial is not an [[TripleNipple extra nipple]].
* A ScareCampaign is not [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington's]] bid for re-election.
* ScareEmStraight is not about turning homosexuals into heterosexual, although the method had been used for that.
* ScarTropes aren't tropes about [[Franchise/TheLionKing Simba's uncle]]. [[Characters/TheLionKingScar See here for that]]. Also not about Scar becoming a troper.
** Nor are they about [[Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist a certain Ishvalan]] (see [[Characters/FullmetalAlchemistScar his page]] for those).
* ScaryDogmaticAliens aren't freaky canine robots from outer space. At least, not usually.
* ScaryJackInTheBox is not about nightmarish fast food.
* {{Scatting}} is not...well, let's try not to [[{{Squick}} explain too much]].
** Nor does it mean "leaving".
* SceneryCensor is not censoring out all the scenery.
* SceneryPorn is not when an adult film is shot in the woods. Nor is it [[RuleThirtyFour the various aspects of the environment having an orgy]]. It's not about having a {{fetish}} for it, either. It's also not about [[VisualInnuendo scenery that simply looks suggestive]].
* A SchoolForScheming is not where you learn how to become a ManipulativeBastard, EvilChancellor or any of the other EvilTropes. That's the AcademyOfEvil.
** Nor is it an engineering school that teaches [[MediaNotes/ScriptingLanguage Scheme]].
* SchrodingersButterfly is not about how small changes may or may not have big effects and you need to look to find out.
* A SciFiBobHaircut does not belong to a guy named Sci-Fi Bob.
** Nor is it about a famous hairdresser who is named Bob and lives in a science fiction setting
* SciFiGhetto is not the 'hood in space, nor a place where SpaceJews are forced to live. You may be looking for FantasticGhetto.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors are not doors with WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo painted on them.
* A ScoobyDooHoax is not necessarily a hoax ''about'' Scooby Doo.
* ScoobyStack is not a typical favorite sandwich of Scooby and Shaggy.
* ScooterRidingMod is not a cool new GameMod which adds a scooter vehicle to your beloved game.
* {{Scotireland}} is not about Scots being always tired, or Scotland being a retiree refuge. And while it usually does involve a place full of [[ViolentGlaswegian irate Scottish people]], that's not the reason for the name.
* TheScottishTrope does not have as subtropes ViolentGlaswegian, BraveScot, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}, or GlasgowGrin.
* TheScrappy does not refer to a BoisterousWeakling, and it isn't to be taken literally to mean a feisty character in general.
** Nor does it have have anything to do with the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} ability that allows a Kangaskhan, Miltank, or Mega Lopunny to hit Ghost-types with Normal or Fighting-type moves.]]
** Nor is it a character made of discarded metal.
** Nor is it necessarily a dog.
** Nor is it [[CombiningMecha part]] of [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} The Devastator]]. That'd be The Scrapp''er''.
* ScrappyIndex is not an {{Index|Index}} [[TheScrappy we hate]].
** Nor is it one about [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Scrappy-Doo]].
* [[ThatOneLevel Scrappy Level]] is not about a character's relative level of [[TheScrappy obnoxiousness]], nor is it a natural consequence of a ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' video game forcing you to play as every character. (Although that may happen ''anyway''...)
* ScrappyMechanic is not about auto-repair guys who are fond of fighting and/or hated by fans. It doesn't quite mean [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap fixing a hated-by-the-audience character for the better]], either.
** Nor is this Franchise/{{Sc|oobyDoo}}rappy-Doo's day-job.
* ScreenCrunch is not CameraAbuse, ScreenTap, ShootTheTelevision, or a cereal.
* A ScreenShake is not [[Advertising/WillItBlend putting your monitor in a blender]].
* ScrewballSquirrel is not a squirrel that ReallyGetsAround. Rule34 notwithstanding.
* ScrewDestiny is not related to ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. [[{{Squick}} Thank goodness.]]
** Nor is it the destiny of a screw.
** Or being fed up with ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''.
** Or being fed up with ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''.
** Or something that resulted in Music/DestinysChild.
** Nor is it an insult to (or a command to have sex with) Destiny from ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork is not what latency and packet loss do to you in CompetitiveMultiplayer.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior is not about seniors in high school or college abusing the underclassmen.
** Nor is it the politeness of a screw instant-messaging a senior.
** Nor is it a senior inventing sex etiquette.
* ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot has nothing to do with TheHeist, TheCaper, or any criminal ZanyScheme ever.
* ScrewYouElves is totally not related to Rule34 of [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves.]]
* ScrewYourself is not an insult.
** Or instructions on how to repair yourself if you are a robot.
** Or a situation where SpinAttack goes wrong, resulting the character to be in the ground.
* A ScriptFic is not a fanfiction ''about'' scripts.
* ScriptReadingDoors are most likely not operated by software. Nor is it [[AmbiguousSyntax a script taking input from doors]].
* {{Scrub}}, within TV Tropes, is a noun, not a verb for cleaning.
** Or a show where Creator/ZachBraff is the only actor.
** Or any sort of vegetation.
** Or [[TennisBoss enemies whose shots you have to reflect back]].
** Or [[WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers a tan octopus alien]].
* A ScullyBox is not a box where [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]] sits in, nor where she keeps her stuff.
** Nor is it commanding her to box.
* ScullySyndrome is not a disease that [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]] discovered.
** Nor is it what you say to [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Syndrome]] when he says, "Who's that redheaded scientist lady on ''Series/TheXFiles''?".
* SculptedPhysique is not about people with large muscles.
* SealedEvilInACan isn't (usually) an old can of soup that contains plague-causing bacteria.
* SealedEvilInASixPack doesn't necessarily mean the villain inside is attractively muscular.
** Nor is it someone who turns evil when they're drunk.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan does not involve an actual person-shaped can or other container.
* SeaMine is not about sailors who declare themselves "married to the sea".
** Nor is it about [[OverusedRunningGag learning to work with a hostile ocean for the common good]].
** It also isn't [[Webcomic/VGCats where u mine 4 fish]].
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Seamine this Duel Masters card.]]
** Nor is it about mining for underwater resources.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou is not about a BolivianArmyEnding in a story that has Creator/SeanConnery as the villain.
* SeasonalRot isn't about things expiring in a particular season, or hating a particular season (like summer, autumn, winter, spring).
* SeasonFluidity is not about seamlessly changing from summer to autumn.
* SecondLawMyAss doesn't refer to [[SecondLawOfGenderBending characters who have changed gender emphatically refusing to prefer their new gender]]. Nor does it refer to situations where a genderbent character only prefers their new rear end to their old one.
** Nor is it something that governs robot donkeys.
** Nor is it lampshading scenarios where [[ArtisticLicensePhysics energy is transferred losslessly, or where force is independent of mass or acceleration]].
* SecondVerseCurse is not about swearing in the second verse of a song
** Nor does it describe the tendency of the AlternateUniverse of a series to be significantly worse off than the primary [[TheVerse one]].
* SecretArt is not about hidden paintings.
* SecretaryOfEvil is not a new Cabinet post created by PresidentEvil. Nor is it a cabinet secretary who happens to be evil; they'd actually be an EvilChancellor.
* SecretKeeper isn't about [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac Keeper]] being a SecretCharacter. Or about a soccer or hockey team concealing which member of the team is the goalie.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies does not consist of little-known techniques to lengthen your pork pies.
** And "pork pies" doesn't mean [[BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang lies]], so it's is not about running a successful long con either.
** It's also not the name of a ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' level involving difficult platforming.
* SecretPetPlot is not where your parents didn't tell you they buried your dead pets.
* SedgwickSpeech has nothing to do with [[ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}} henchmen]].
* A SeductiveMummy is not a British MILF.
* The SeekerArchetype has nothing to do with [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticons who turn into airplanes]].
* SeeThruSpecs do not give you XRayVision. Nor are they simply specs [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs you can see through]].
* SelfAbuse is not the same as SelfHarm.
* SelfDefenseless is not about {{Actual Pacifist}}s who won't engage in violence even to defend themselves.
* Administrivia/SelfExplanatory is not about works that need no explanation. [[Administrivia/NotSelfExplanatory Quite the opposite]], in fact.
** It's also not about settings that are [[{{Exposition}} explained by their own characters]].
* SelfFanservice is not about sexually suggestive self-portraits.
* A SelfieFiend isn't a [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei demon of the Fiend race]] who takes selfies.
* SelfInflictedHell is not [[ThePunishmentIsTheCrime the direct consequence of one's sins]], nor is it necessarily a punishment for sin at all.
* SelfInsertFic is not a {{Selfcest}} fanfic (though {{Selfcest}} can be involved in the plot of one).
** It's not fanfic that [[YouBastard tells]] you to [[UnusualEuphemism go insert yourself]].
* A SelfMadeMan is not necessarily a member of TheMafia.
** Nor does it refer to how the almighty Self shaped humankind.
** Nor did he literally create himself.
** Nor is did he undergo a GenderBender.
* A SelfMadeOrphan is not a SelfMadeMan with dead parents, which means that Roman Abramovich is ''definitely not'' one.
** Nor is it a guy who has no parents because he created himself.
* SemanticSuperpower does not describe the three megastates of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.
* SeniorCreep is not about how a character lives his or her life, and before they know it, they've grown old. There is also no trope called Junior Creep.
** Nor does it refer to ''high school'' seniors being creeps.
* SenseFreak is not the ability to tell if there are any freaky people nearby.
* SenseiChan is not what Creator/JackieChan is referred to by those he would teach martial arts to.
* A SenseiForScoundrels is not the {{Mentor}} equivalent of a SchoolForScheming.
* SenselessViolins has nothing to do with [[PsychoStrings the music]] from the much-parodied ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' shower scene, nor with violins being played without there being a point for them, nor about unconscious musical instruments. Musical instruments in a nearly-unusable tuning aren't it, either.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains is not about heroes who stay on healthy diets where villains are anorexic.
* SensitivityTraining won't make a person more emotional, or make your instruments able to measure a greater degree of accuracy.
* SensoryAbuse is not the act of abusing someone in a sensory room.
* {{Sentai}} is not those Japanese cartoons you find in the Adult section of a video store.
* SentencedToDownUnder is not about underground penal colonies. Or hell. We think.
* SequelGoesForeign is not about a sequel making it to a foreign market that its predecessor didn't. That's SequelFirst.
** Nor is it about a sequel available only in a foreign language, or one produced in a different country than the series originated in.
* SequelHook is not about a sequel to the movie where Creator/RobinWilliams is a grown up Literature/PeterPan. (It's already a sequel on its own anyway.) It's not a particular type of hooked pole used to grab particularly bad sequels, either (however, we may need those).
** Nor is it about an actual hook only present in the sequel.
* {{Sequelitis}} is not a disease that makes you compulsively watch sequels, nor is it when a sequel is expanded unnecessarily to the point of being called "inflamed".
* A [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Serial Tweaker]] is not a meth addict.
* Making something SeriousBusiness will not make ComicBook/TheJoker ask its practitioners [[Film/TheDarkKnight "Why So Serious?"]] At least we hope so...
** Nor is it about [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Lord Business]] being serious.
* SerpentStaff isn't about having a bunch of snakes, whether [[TalkingAnimal literal]] or [[SmugSnake figurative]] as your employees. Nor is it a stick [[Series/TheCrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] or one of his imitators uses to handle dangerous snakes.
* {{Settings}} has nothing to do with option menus in video games.
* SettledForGay is not when someone decides to be [[HaveAGayOldTime idealistic]] instead of [[TheCynic cynicistic]]. Wait, is that meaning obsolete?
* SevenIsNana is not about [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Seven of Nine]] becoming a grandma.
** Nor is it about [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Nana Visitor]] or [[Franchise/PeterPan the Darling family's dog]] being [[ActorIsTheTitleCharacter cast as the lead]] in ''Film/Se7en''.
* SevenMinuteLull is not about the 14th episode of ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', or the gap in the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon tapes]].
* TheSevenMysteries is not about seven types of plots for mystery stories. Or a rule that only seven mystery shows can be on TV in a given season.
* SexGod is not about deities of sex, although they very often qualify.
* SexyCatPerson isn't about someone who's sexually attracted to cats (thank goodness), nor is it about someone who's sexy and likes cats.
* SexyCoatFlashing is not about seductive light-up jackets.
* SexyManInstantHarem isn't about getting an instant harem of men. *sigh* But a woman can dream, can't she?
* A SexyMentor doesn't usually give you advice on how to be sexy.
* ShadesOfConflict is not about the cause of that really long fight scene in ''Film/TheyLive''. Nor is it when the Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey start infighting. It isn't about characters picking fights upon putting on sunglasses either.
* ShadowArchetype does not mean that [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]] has become the source of a FountainOfExpies. Or any other character named Shadow, for that matter.
* A ShadowPin cannot be found on a ninja's bulletin board, nor does knocking down 10 of them at once constitute a Shadow Strike.
** It's also not about magically pinning down someone's shadow, stalking a pin, trying to trap someone's shadow with a pin, the dark area created when a light source is blocked by a pin, or an alternate form of a [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac pinworm boss]].
* ShaggyDogStory is not how one would describe ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' [[LaconicWiki in three words]].
** It isn't an episode in which Shaggy and Scooby [[FreakyFridayFlip switch their bodies]] either.
** Nor is it giving a synopsis to [[Film/TheShaggyDog the 2006 Disney film]] starring Creator/TimAllen.
* A ShamefulStrip is not a comic strip that the author now considers an OldShame.
* ShamuFu is not a martial art practiced by orca trainers, as cool as that would be.
* ShapeshifterBaggage does not describe [[Literature/{{Discworld}} The Luggage]].
* ShapeshiftingLover is not someone who's really fond of shapeshifting.
* SharedUniverse is not about life on other planets.
** Nor is it WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse [[SharingABody sharing his body]] with someone else. He does, occasionally, but that's not what the trope is about.
* For that matter, SharingABody is a completely family-friendly trope, involving neither cannibalism nor anything NSFW.
* ShatteredWorld is not Michael Reeves' ''The Shattered World''; the latter is only an example of it.
** Nor is it where ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'' takes place.
* ShatteringTheIllusion is not what [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex Touma Kamijou]] does [[AntiMagic to his enemies]].
* ShearMenace is not about shearing a sheep called Menace.
* SheatheYourSword is not a euphemism. Nor is it about an IaijutsuPractitioner.
* SheCleansUpNicely is not the reason the maid deserves that raise she's been asking for. Unless she's really in a FrenchMaidOutfit.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed isn't about selling your plate mail for drug money, or about finding a shed filled with armour and methamphetamine.
* ShesAManInJapan is not about {{crossdresser}}s of any stripe. Well, maybe a little, but not really.
** It is also not about female characters who literally GenderBender into men the moment they set foot in Japan.
* ShipLevel is not about romantic pairings between locations in video games, nor an order to do so.
** Nor is it a measure of [[AbstractScale how shiplike something is]]. Nor even how frequently a pairing is shipped.
** Nor is it a level where the main goal is to get two characters to love each other.
** Nor is it about sending a level to another player or another game.
* ShipOfTheseus is not about a vessel that sends messages by changing the color of its sail. Nor is it about Asterius's portrayal in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}''.
* ShippedInShackles has nothing to do with [[ShippingTropes our kind of shipping.]] This is for the best, trust me.
* ShipperOnDeck does not necessarily happen on a boat.
** Nor is the trope exclusive to {{shipping}} in ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]''.
** Nor are they necessarily sitting on a porch or a deck of cards.
* {{Shipping}} is not about importing.
* ShipTease is not about floating vessels poking fun at others, nor is it about revealing only some details about a still-secret CoolBoat to excite fans of them.
** Nor is it teasing while on a ship.
* ShockwaveClap is not a venereal disease caught from a [[CyberCyclops one]]-eyed [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Decepticon]].
** But claiming that you caught one from him might make ShockwaveStomp.
* {{Shojo}} is not [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick the crazy old dude with the cat]].
* ShooOutTheClowns is not about eradicating circus clowns. Not even [[MonsterClown evil ones]].
** It also does not refer to the opening scene of ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
* ShooTheDog is not what you should do if a dog is trying to eat your sub.
* ShootHimHeHasAWallet is not a response to ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney.
** Nor is it what the DirtyCommunists would say upon finding anyone who participates in a capitalist society.
* ShootingSuperman is not done with cameras, camcorders, cell phones, or any other recording device, unless it's part of a ScaramangaSpecial.
** Nor does it involve using supeheroes as ammo.([[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 Wonder Green]] take note)
** Or even [[SuperheroPackingHeat the superhero himself doing the shooting.]]
* ShootTheBullet is not about VideoGame/TouhouBunkachouShootTheBullet.
* ShootTheDog is not about what ''VideoGame/DuckHunt'' players want to do.
** Nor is it about filming a dog.
** Nor is it KickTheDog Administrivia/TheSameButMore. You're looking for MoralEventHorizon.
** It also isn't an alternate request of a [[RightHandCat villain who loves cats]] checking the [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten evilness of the hero]].
** Nor about launching a dog from a cannon.
** Nor about the dog named Shoot.
** Nor is it what you should do if you don't want to get [[VideoGame/DuckSeason the 'Fiesta' ending]].
* ShootTheMoney is not the Coin Launcher mode in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.
** Nor does it involve firing bullets at banknotes.
*** Or is it the old gunslinger trick of tossing a coin in the air and shooting a hole straight through the center of it.
** Specifically, it's not done as the opposite of ShootTheDog, to indicate a character has done away with his greed.
** And it's not about filming money, either.
* ShootTheShaggyDog is not a subtrope of ShootTheDog.
** Nor is it what a ''really'' evil villain would [[ShootYourMate order]] Franchise/ScoobyDoo to do after mind-controlling him.
*** Nor is it what an anti-fur radical tells his underlings.
*** Nor is it a subtrope of KickTheDog, referring specifically to Franchise/ScoobyDoo villains.
* ShootYourMate isn't necessarily about shooting your spouse or lover, although that could count as an example.
* ShorterMeansSmarter is not about short people being smartly-dressed.
* ShortRunInPeru is not about works that were released in another country only to be left unfinished there.
* A ShortRunner is not a vertically-challenged athlete.
* A ShortTank is not a [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Protection specced gnome warrior]]. That's a CuteBruiser.
** Nor is it a {{tank|Goodness}} that is of shorter stature or length than average tanks.
** It's also not about [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash's tortoise]] shrinking.
* ShortTitles is not the opposite of LongRunners.
** It's not about the titles of short films or cartoon shorts either. The work can be any length; the ''title'' is short.
* [[LoliconAndShotacon Shotacon]] is not short for [[Anime/MazingerZ Shotaro]] Convention.
* ShotgunWedding does not mean [[CargoShip we are gathered here today, to join this 12 gauge, and this pump action, in holy matrimony]].
* {{Shotoclone}} does not explicitly refer to the playable kid version of an existing character.
** Nor is it a clone of someone named Shoto.
** Nor is it about a young male clone used to make [[LoliconAndShotacon child porn]] because they don't have legal rights.
** It's also not a copy of a [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shoto_lightsaber short lightsaber]].
* ShotToTheHeart doesn't have anything particularly to do with [[Music/BonJovi giving love a bad name]].
** Nor does it have anything to do with shooting a bullet at someone's heart.
* ShouldersOfDoom is not about horrific accidents occurring on the sides of highways.
* ShoutOut does not have as subtropes AtomicFBomb, BigNo, BigYes, BigOMG, CarefulWithThatAxe, DeathWail, SayMyName, or SkywardScream. It is also not a redirect to a trope called Big "OUT!"
** Nor does it have anything to do with the Shouts from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''.
** That said, usages of a StockScream may be an example.
* ShoutOutLiterature is not a surefire way to get thrown out of the library. Okay, it ''is'', actually, but the page has nothing to do with that.
* ShownTheirWork is about ''creators'' and ''designers'' who show off their work. [[VisibleBoomMic Boom mic operators]] and [[SpecialEffectsFailure visual effects artists]] aren't encouraged to do the same.
* ShowParts is not an instruction. Put your pants back on.
* ShowStopper is not about the final round of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff''.
* A ShrineToTheFallen is not dedicated to a FallenAngel. Or [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatronus, AKA The Fallen]]. Nor is it about [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild falling off a cliff and discovering a shrine beneath it]].
* TheShrink is not what happened to Literature/TheTwits after they were tricked by Mugglewump.
* ShrinkingViolet is not about [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet Parr]] gaining Film/AntMan1's powers.
** Nor does it apply to flowers which inexplicably keep getting smaller.
** It's also not what had to be done to [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Violet Beauregarde]] after she turned into a blueberry.
** Nor is it about Violet from ''Literature/{{Midnight}}'' shrinking.
** Nor is it [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Violet Gray]] shrinking.
** Or, for that matter, ''Literature/VioletEvergarden'' shrinking.
* ShrunkenOrgan is not about a wind instrument with a keyboard that someone has used a ShrinkRay on.
* ShutUpGunshot is not about when someone wants people to stop firing their guns so they can speak.
** Nor is it about shooting someone [[DisproportionateRetribution because they told you to shut up]].
** It's also not about telling an actual gunshot to shut up.
* ShutUpHannibal is not when [[Series/TheATeam B.A. Baracus]] tells his boss to shove it after a plan doesn't come together.
** Nor is it what Scipio did at the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Battle of Zama]].
* ShutUpKiss is not about what people are saying to Gene Simmons and the others these days.
* SiblingsWanted is not a WantedPoster with [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke the Dalton brothers]].
* SickEpisode is not an episode based from the SlasherMovie ''Film/{{Sick}}'' basis.
* SickeninglySweet is not a certain taste that indicates a food dish is a NutritionalNightmare.
* SideBoob is not the result of a birth deformity.
* A SidewaysSmile is not the following symbol :-)
** Nor is it the look on the face of a very happy [[Anime/TransformersArmada minion of Unicron]].
* SigilSpam is not about someone spamming an ability that generates a sigil every time they use it, although that would have a similar effect to the actual trope.
** It is also not about playing as [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends [=LeBlanc=]]].
* SignatureLine is not the line on a contract or check people sign their name on.
* SignatureMon is not a [[UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean West Indian]] asking you for your autograph or to complete a contract.
* Likewise, SignatureScene is not a scene of anyone signing something, even if it's something important like the Declaration of Independence.
* SignatureStyle is not about methods in which you can write your name, nor is it about particularly stylish ways of writing one's name.
* A SillinessSwitch isn't like a BerserkButton, where a certain trigger causes a character to suddenly start acting silly. It's also not a ridiculous Platform/NintendoSwitch.
* A SillySpook is a ''ghost'' being silly, not a ''spy''.
* SillyWill isn't about a PluckyComicRelief character named Will.
* SilverFox is ''[[{{Gonk}} definitely]]'' not about [[Manga/OnePiece Silver Fox Foxy]].
** Nor is it about [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_fox_(animal) literal melanistic foxes.]]
* SilverHasMysticPowers is not about [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Silver the Hedgehog]] and his telekinetic abilities.
** It's also not a ''Literature/WatershipDown'' spinoff where [[TheReliableOne Silver]] has [[WaifProphet Fiver's powers.]]
** And while Orion, the Silver Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', does have access to powers from ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', he ends up in a gold-colored form when he uses them.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks is not about the effectiveness of two things sharing a name.
* SimultaneousArcs is not about holding down multiple [[VideoGame/{{Arcaea}} Arc Notes]] at the same time.
* SincerityMode is not a setting on a machine, nor a relative of [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Edna Mode.]]
* There may be only one of the town that [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum comes from]], but that's not what SinglePaletteTown refers to. (They're spelled differently; his hometown is Pallet Town.)
* A SingleStrokeBattle does not mean it ends with one of the combatants having a stroke.
** Nor is it about cats who want to be petted, or anything to do with painting.
** And it's unlikely to happen while you're swimming.
* A SingleTear is not a tear who can't get a date.
** Nor is about only ripping a piece of paper once.
* A SinkOrSwimMentor is not a swimming instructor, or a mentor with SuperDrowningSkills.
* {{Siren}} is not a page dedicated to [[NoIndoorVoice a very]] loud [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Autobot]].
* SirensAreMermaids is not about police, fire, or ambulance sirens sprouting fishtails.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer is not about a knight called Sir Not Appearing featuring in a trailer.
* SirSwearsALot is not a knight who keeps shifting his allegiance between various feudal lords.
** Or a Knight who keeps making oaths to every person he meets.
** or a would-be [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Knight Radiant]] who is playing GottaCatchEmAll with surge-granting spren.
* SisterTrope isn't a very odd name for a nun.
** Nor is it how the SassyBlackWoman addresses other tropes.
** Or a page for tropes ''about'' sisters (whether female siblings or nuns). You want SiblingTropes for the former.
* A SistineSteal isn't literally stealing Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's artwork from the Art/SistineChapel. That would take a MonumentalTheft to accomplish.
* The "sit" in {{Sitcom}} has nothing to do with sitting down, so {{Sitcom}} is not the opposite of StandUpComedy.
* A SitcomArchNemesis is not one of two DuelingShows.
* Archive/TheSituation has nothing to do with ''Series/JerseyShore''.
* A SkeletonGovernment is not run by ''literal'' [[DemBones skeletons]]; for that, see TheNecrocracy.
* A SkeletonKeyCard is not found by searching a dead guard, and probably isn't designed to unlock the closet.
** Nor it's the key [[WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo Skeleton King]] uses to open doors with.
* SkillShot is not another name for ''VideoGame/ShmupsSkillTest''.
* A SkywardScream is not when Link screams in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''.
* A SlapOnTheWristNuke is not a slap on the wrist that [[MadeOfExplodium explodes with the force of a nuclear bomb]]. It's not about slapping nukes off people's wrists. And it does not refer to the act of equipping a nuclear weapon that fits on your wrist.
* SlapSlapKiss doesn't refer to the act of slapping someone twice before kissing them once.
* SlashCommand is not the "basic attack" command for a swordsman in an RPG, nor is it an order from the dominant half of a [[HoYay slash pairing]]. Also has nothing to do with Macintosh keyboard shortcuts. Nor are they orders given to (or by) a famous guitarist.
** Likewise, a SlasherSmile is not one a SlashFic writer gets when their {{OTP}} receives a RelationshipUpgrade.
* SlashersPreferBlondes has nothing to do with {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s.
* SlashFic does not necessarily involve a {{Yandere}}.
** SlashFic also doesn't refer to fanfiction based on {{slasher movie}}s. (Usually, at least.)
** Nor are fictitious Platform/{{UNIX}} file paths or [=URL=]s involved in any way.
** Nor does it necessarily involve a character named Slash.
** Nor does it involve the brutal murder of a hated character.
** Nor is it a fic about "taking a slash" or punctuation marks.
* SlaveToPR is not about ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' hiring slaves [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude with attitude]].
* SleepCute isn't about [[BeautifulDreamer one person looking cute while asleep]], or about aliens that don't sleep as often as humans thinking humans are cute because we sleep more.
* A SleeperHit is not about an assassination of someone while they're sleeping.
** It's also not an attack that renders the victim unconscious like a sleeper hold.
* A SleeperShip is not a fan pairing of two characters from Creator/WoodyAllen's movie ''Film/{{Sleeper}}''.
* A SleepingDummy isn't an idiotic {{Sleepyhead}}.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop does not refer to a situation where someone has to fall asleep in order to progress.
* SleepingWithTheBoss is not when you sleep with a {{boss|Battle}} instead of fighting them.
** Nor with Music/BruceSpringsteen or [[Series/WhosTheBoss Tony Danza]].
** Or [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater The Boss]].
* TheSleepless does not reside in ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain''. [[note]]Quite the opposite, really -- after all, a good night's sleep is the first step to kicking ass.[[/note]]
* SlidingScaleLongName is not a sliding scale of the length of titles of works.
* The SlipknotPonytail is not how [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Corey Taylor and the boys]] wear their hair.
* The SlipperySlopeFallacy does not mean "You were on a slope and then you lost your footing, therefore your argument is invalid."
* SlipperySoap has nothing to do with WesternAnimation/BluesClues.
* SlippingAMickey does not relate to placing [[EasterEgg Hidden Mickeys]] around the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
** Nor is it making Mickey Mouse slip.
** Nor is it subtly taking the mickey.
* SlippingIntoStink isn't about becoming more smelly as you go down the [[SlipperySlopeFallacy slippery slope]].
* Under most circumstances, SlouchOfVillainy does not mean a character is ObviouslyEvil just because the character in question has bad posture.
* A SlowClap does not refer to that golf clap snooty people use.
* {{Slurpasaur}} does not describe [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Yoshi]], nor is it a dinosaur-themed slushie or milkshake.
* SmallNameBigEgo does not mean a person has a short name and a big ego, or is both TheBigGuy and TheKirk and has a short name.
* Just because a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bob-Omb]] received a Harvard education, it does not make it a SmartBomb.
** Nor is it a movie that [[BoxOfficeBomb bombed at the box office]] because [[ViewersAreGeniuses it was too smart for its audience]].
* A SmartGun is not an Internet-of-things gun.
* SmartMark is not about someone named Mark who is smart. Or someone who's [[TheCon targeted by a con artist]] but can outsmart them. Or some kind of mark on someone's face that shows they're smart.
* SmartPeopleShoot does not claim that the CombatPragmatist is more intelligent than other characters because they are willing to KillHimAlready
* SmashCut is not what you do with a [[MixAndMatchWeapon club-sword]] (or similar).
** Nor is it when a scene [[SexStartsStoryStops cuts to characters smashing]] (though it may overlap).
** Nor is it about [[{{Bowdlerize}} cutting out the sex scenes.]]
* SmashingSurvival does not directly insinuate that [[Memes/SuperSmashBros you must recover!]]
** Nor is it when a character survives being smashed.
* SmashingWatermelons is not an UnusualEuphemism for really big breasts.
** Nor are they a knockoff of Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
* SmashMook is not ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk's [[HulkSpeak view]] of {{Mook}}s.
** Nor does it describe [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Primids.]]
** Nor is it when you have sex with a mook.
* SmokeOut is not about flushing dem terrorists out of their hiding places by filling it with smoke. Nor is it a reminder that you're not allowed to smoke inside.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[Franchise/MortalKombat a gray ninja.]][[note]] Lin Kuei![[/note]]
* SmokingHotSex is not about having sex while [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]] or [[ConvectionSchmonvection in a volcano or other very hot place]].
* SmokyGentlemensClub is not a superhero team where all members are male and have SuperSmoke powers.
* SmugSnake has nothing to do with the protagonist of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series or any of his {{Evil Twin}}s.
** Nor does it necessarily have to do with actual snakes.
** Nor the Generation V grass starter Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** Although he is an example, it's not about Kaa from The Jungle Book, either.
* {{Smurfing}} regards to the language of the TropeNamer and their habit of randomly swapping out words with "smurf". Its more known description is the practice of people playing ranked online games like ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' or ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' to make a new account in order to dominate players lower on the ladder, or get back in practice after a hiatus.
** It's not about Resistance players in ''VideoGame/{{Ingress}}'', either.
* SnailMail does not involve WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}} or [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Escargoon]] getting a job in postal service.
** Nor does it refer to the season 9 [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] episode of the same name.
* SnakeCharmer is not a character who's TheCharmer and also a member of a SnakePeople species or even just [[TalkingAnimal an anthropomorphic snake]].
* SnarkBait is not a decoy meant to attract [[UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerIntercontinentalBallisticAndCruiseMissiles SM-62 Snark missiles]]. [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Or alien biological bombs.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark Or a difficult-to-describe, fantastic creature.]]
* SneakingSnacks is about sneaking to get snacks,[[{{Snacksploitation}} not smuggling them into a place they’re not allowed like a movie theater]]. Nor is it about snacks that are fit to consume on covert ops, or that actually [[PowerUpFood improve your sneaking ability]].
** Nor are they small pieces of food that move about when no one's looking.
* A SneezeOfDoom is not one that transmits deadly diseases.
** Nor is it about [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] or [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]] sneezing.
* An SNKBoss is not a manager or executive of SNK[=/=]Playmore, and they do not appear in ''[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Shingeki no Kyojin]]''.
* A SnowballLie is not necessarily about a ball made out of snow, or about [[WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood Snowball the bunny]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Snowball II]].
* {{Snowclones}} does not refer to [[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} Chrissy, Kirsten and Kristen]] shoveling their driveways in winter.
** Nor is it about cloning yourself or someone else with snow.
* A SoapOpera is not an {{Opera}} [-WITH SOAP!-]
* A SoapOperaDisease is not one you contract from watching soap operas or singing operas and using soap.
* SoBadItsGood is not about a villain becoming so evil that he overflows into [[HeelFaceTurn becoming good]].
* SoccerHatingAmericans does not mean that the sport itself dislikes Americans or is about disliking Americans, or even specifically the people of the United States.
* SoftRock is not sandstone or other easily malleable stone.
* SoftWater does not refer to water low in calcium and magnesium ions.
** Or without alcohol.
* A SoiledCityOnAHill is not full of faeces.
* SoLastSeason is not about [[PreviouslyOn recapping the events of the previous season]].
* SoleEntertainmentOption has nothing to do with foot fetishes.
** Nor fish.
* SolidGoldPoop is not a YouTubePoop involving the old show ''Solid Gold.'' Or what you call a successful attempt to PolishTheTurd.
* SoloCharacterRun is not when the one cowardly character flees in the face of danger while his braver companions stand their ground. Nor is it [[Franchise/StarWars done in under twelve parsecs]].
* SoloClass is not a type of class that [[Franchise/StarWars a certain smuggler]] took.
* SolomonDivorce is not a divorce between [[Literature/TheBible two men]] named [[Franchise/YuGiOh Solomon]].
** Nor does it refer to [[Literature/SolomonKane Robert Howard's Puritan swordsman]] arbitrating a divorce.
* SoloSequence does not refer to a scene involving [[Franchise/StarWars the aforementioned smuggler]].
* SolveTheSoupCans is not a trope about Creator/AndyWarhol. Even if Creator/DanBrown wrote his take on the man's work.
* SomeDexterityRequired is not about prerequisites for [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons multiclassing]].
* SomethingAboutARose is not the Laconic page for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.
** Nor does it have to do the [[Music/TheGratefulDead ribbons in her long, brown hair]].
* SomethingElseAlsoRises is not referring to anything related to Bruce Wayne's return to form as Batman in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* SomethingItis isn't about not knowing where the inflammation is.
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein is not about Leonard Bernstein being next to two unknown objects.
* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring does not describe works that [[SlowPacedBeginning take several minutes]] to truly become interesting, ''or'' the initial story arc of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann.''
** Nor is it a heist that starts by drilling a tunnel underneath a building.
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying does not refer to an expert on word origins; that would be an ''etymologist''.
* SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying does not mean that something sad happened on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
* A SongFic is not a fanfiction ''about'' singing.
* The SongOfCourage is not (necessarily) about or sung by WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog.
* SoOkayItsAverage is not somebody uttering a bored comment that that a work piece is relatively adequate, such as saying "So, okay, it's AVERAGE." (It is actually a subjective rating simply meaning that a work is not horrible or [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome awesome]] but "just okay".)
* SophisticatedAsHell is not about how Satan is WickedCultured.
* SophomoreSlump isn't about students in their second year of high school or college becoming depressed or getting worse grades.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot isn't just about [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic someone learning how to do magic]]; it has to go horribly wrong to qualify. Nor is it about an apprentice [[TheStarscream plotting to overthrow]] his master.
* The SortingAlgorithmOfEvil may be a scale of evil, but that doesn't mean [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/746347/comedian_bill_bailey_the_scale_of_evil/ Chris de Burg is high C]].
* SoullessShell has nothing to do with the evils of [[VideoGame/MarioKart Blue Shells]].
* TheSoulsaver does not store all your spare souls for later use.
* SoulsLikeRPG does not mean that ghosts, phantoms, and other assorted spirits enjoy playing {{Role Playing Game}}s.
** Nor does it have to do with ghosts liking rocket powered grenades.
* A SoundOff is not a competition for sound-effects creators. Nor is it [[LoudnessWar trying to make the loudest sound]]. Or turning off the sound on a device that's producing one.
* SoundtrackDissonance isn't about [[PsychoStrings discordant musical cues]].
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny is not about TheUnfunny.
* While [[SourGrapesTropes Sour Grapes]] can turn to whine, they don't have to involve alcohol.
* A SourSupporter is not a fan who is an anthropomorphic lemon, nor are they someone who likes eating sour foods.
* SouthernBelle does not imply the existence of a ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' adaptation [[SettingUpdate set in the South]].
* SouthernFriedGenius is not a fast food restaurant that fries up geniuses.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: To quote the page, "Despite the title, this trope is not a cross between GroinAttack and KillItWithFire."
* SouthernGothic is not about {{Goth}}s from [[DeepSouth the South]].
** Nor is it about the southern regions of the territories of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
* SpaceBase is not about alkalis on a rocket.
** Nor is about {{Home Base}}s which are especially roomy.
* SpaceCompression is a video game trope about an AcceptableBreakFromReality. It is ''not'' a science fiction trope about one of the common ways FasterThanLightTravel is achieved, through [[OurWormholesAreDifferent creative uses of general relativity]] to temporarily compress two locations close together that are usually far apart. It's also not about an object that's BiggerOnTheInside, nor is it an inversion of ExplosiveDecompression.
* SpaceFighter is not ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' [[foldercontrol]]

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* SpaceFillingEmpire is not about [[GalacticSuperpower Space Empires]].
* SpaceFillingPath does not mean a strategy to beat ''VideoGame/{{Snake}}'' and its likes.
** Nor is it about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve space-filling curves.]]
* SpaceFriction is not an UnusualEuphemism for sex in space.
* SpaceIsMagic is not ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
* SpaceJews is not about Jewish astronauts.
* {{Space Management Game}}s aren't Management Games [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: [[Just For Fun/Recycled In Space IN SPACE! ]]
]], although [[VideoGame/{{IXION}} some]] [[VideoGame/OxygenNotIncluded of]] [[VideoGame/XCom them]] do take place there.
* A SpaceMaster is not about a kung-fu mentor [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in outer space]]. It's also not about someone who's become very good at organizing things in a container, unless it becomes supernatural.
* SpaceMines are not about [[AsteroidMiners exploiting the ore in space]]. Nor do they have anything to do with [[AWorldHalfFull learning to work with a hostile universe for the common good]].
* A SpaceOpera is not an {{Opera}} JustForFun/RecycledInSpace.
* UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace does ''not'' have SpaceJews as a subtrope.
* SpaceSector is not the part of the national economy devoted to space travel.
* SpaceWhale only has to do with outer space, not inner space, Website/MySpace, personal space, or the space bar on a keyboard.
** Nor is it what you might see if a hypothetical merger of [=MySpace=] and Website/{{Twitter}} was over capacity.
* SpaceWhaleAesop is not about Creator/{{Aesop}} being a space whale, nor is it necessarily a [[AnAesop moral]] about space whales.
* Alien MDMA tabs would be an ''example'' of SpaceX, but they're not specifically what the trope is about.
** SpaceX also has nothing to do with the actual company named [[UsefulNotes/SpaceExplorationTechnologiesCorporation SpaceX]].
** Nor is it particularly applicable to [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 Alien X.]]
** Nor is it X chromosomes or ''Series/TheXFiles'' in space.
** It also isn't about VideoGame/MegaManX or the ComicBook/XMen going to space.
** It's not about using Website/TwitterX in space, either.
* SpaghettiWestern has nothing to do with pasta.
* SpamAttack has nothing to do with canned lunchmeat, possibly unless you end up fighting in a supermarket. Nor does it have anything to do with [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus the Spam song.]] Neither does it have to do with how the BigBad of the first ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' movie was weakened. On a more serious note, it is about attacks that hit many times, not reusing one attack many times over.
** It also has nothing to do with a {{Troll}} bombarding an internet forum with spam.
* ElSpanishO is not ''Anime/TheBigO'' themed on the country of Spain.
** Nor is it related in any way to ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive''.
* TheSpartanWay is not about [[Film/ThreeHundred YELLING]]! [[NoIndoorVoice EVERY]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WORD!]]
* SpeaksInShoutOuts is not the same as NoIndoorVoice.
* {{Spectacle}} isn't about glasses.
* A SpeechImpairedAnimal isn't just a TalkingAnimal with a speech impediment, so [[Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents Additives the rat]] is not an example.
* SpeedSex is not about having sex while under the effects of amphetamine (which is most definitely ''not'' a good idea).
* SpellConstruction has nothing to do with spelling the word "construction".
* SpellingBee isn't about a bee who spells words, or spelling the word "bee" (though it could include the latter).
** It's also not about a bee casting spells.
* A SpellingSong is not necessarily about a song about magic spells or about spelling the word “song”.
* {{Spexico}} is not a MegaCorp or PeaceAndLoveIncorporated equivalent to Zeiss, Buach and Lomb, or Dr. Bizer's Value Vision.
* A SpikeShooter is not a FirstPersonShooter where you play as or shoot [[Franchise/TomAndJerry at]] any [[Anime/CowboyBebop character]] who [[Series/{{Angel}} is]] named [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Spike]]. As popular as Barney Blaster was back in its day, there isn't any need to vent one's frustration at another [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic happy purple-and-green reptilian]].
** Nor it's a way of describing the 3rd person shooter VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Published by Spike Chunsoft
** Nor does it describe the Brute Spiker or the Spike Rifle from {{Franchise/Halo}}.
** And it most especially does not refer to anyone who would shoot [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Spike]], not even [[ShootTheDog to put him out of his memory]].
** It's also not an alcoholic beverage with something pointy in it, nor one served to someone named Spike.
** Nor is it about SlippingAMickey into the alcoholic beverage.
* Likewise, SpikingTheCamera is not about SlippingAMickey into a camera.
** Nor is it about [[DestroyTheSecurityCamera using a big spike to break security cameras]].
* A {{Spinoff}} is not a trope about how cordless drills were first developed for astronauts or that sort of stuff.
** It's not a political public-relations contest.
** It's also not a contest where two people compare spinning moves, akin to a DanceOff.
* SpinoffBabies is not another name for SpinOffspring. It's also not about using babies as props to perform spinning tricks.
* SpinOffspring is not a command to make your children dizzy.
* SpinToDeflectStuff is not another way of saying [[VideoGame/StarFox64 Do A Barrel Roll]]. It also has nothing to do with how politicians evade answering inconvenient questions.
* A [[CombinedEnergyAttack Spirit Bomb]] is nearly the ''polar opposite'' of a Molotov cocktail.
* The SpiritWorld is not a subtrope of LevelAte based around distilled liquors.
* SpitefulWill is not the name of a ''Literature/HorridHenry'' character (it couldn't be, since it doesn't [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal alliterate]]).
* SpitTake is not part of the solution to an early puzzle in ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', nor is it a common thing to do to suspects in a PoliceProcedural. It also cannot be used to cure a CannotSpitItOut.
** It's also not about a slightly {{Squick}}y form of ItemGet.
* A {{Splat}} has no relation to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}''.
** Nor to the ChunkySalsaRule. Hopefully.
* TheSpock does not necessarily [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries have an alien for a dad, work on a star ship, have a dynamic action hero for a boss, have pointy ears or green blood, have a habit of raising their eyebrows when intrigued, or say, "Fascinating" a lot.]]
* SpockSpeak is not what someone yells when they want [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk's first officer]] to talk.
* A SpoilerOpening is not when someone opens a gift to find a spoiler inside, nor is it the act of turning on the spoiler tags on this site.
* SpoofAesop is not necessarily a parody of ''Literature/AesopsFables''.
* SpoofingInTheRain does not mean walking into the rain and making parodies of just about anything.
** Nor does it mean making a parody of rain itself.
* SpoonBending isn't an elemental power along the lines of [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender airbending]].
* The SpotlightStealingSquad is not made up of guys from your high school who used to bully the AV Club.
* SpotMonkey doesn't ask you to identify a monkey within a [[Literature/WheresWaldo large crowd of people]].
** It's not a monkey with spots, either.
* SpotTheImposter is not [[StockAnimalName a dog]], or pretending to be one.
* SpottingTheThread does not involve looking for a SpecialEffectsFailure.
** Or looking for a specific thread in the forums.
* SpringtimeForHitler does not describe [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Operation Sickle-Slice]].
* A SprintMeter is not a device made by the Sprint phone service that keeps track of your time on the phone.
** It also does not refer to the unit in the metric system (which is equal to approximately 40 inches) related to the act of sprinting or the cell phone company.
* A SpriteComic is not a comic that has been officially endorsed by the Coca-Cola corporation to promote that clear lemony-lime softdrink.
** And it hasn't anything to do with that kind of [[TheFairFolk sprites and pixies]] either.
* ASpyAtTheSpa is not just [[OutdoorBathPeeping ogling naked people]]--they're an actual spy, seeking information.
* A SpyCatsuit is not an [[GoofySuit Animal Mascot Suit]] used in surveillance, infiltration, or other deep cover operations. In other words, [[Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu Bonta-Kun]] is not an example, and wouldn't be even if it was actually feline.
* A SquareRaceRoundClass is not a group of characters of a race associated with Creator/SquareEnix taking lessons in a circular lecture hall. Nor is it about a square racetrack in a circular P.E. class.
* A SquashMatch, surprisingly, is not a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_%28sport%29 squash match]]. It doesn't even involve racquets of any kind.
** Nor is it a puzzle involving pairing up gourds.
** It is also not a competition where people drop heavy objects on their opponent, and it has nothing to do with fruit-flavoured syrup drinks.
** Nor is it a MirrorMatch between two [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Sasquatches]].
** It is also not about squishing [[WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland Match]].
* SqueakyEyes is not what happens when a character is squeezed like one of those squeaky toys.
* SquirrelsInMyPants is not about InterspeciesRomance in the park.
** Or rodents stealing and wearing your clothing.
** The squirrels aren't in someone's pants [[VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey to steal Ariadne Threads]].
* SquishyWizard isn't about [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo a baby jellyfish]] gaining magic powers.
* StabTheSalad isn't how you beat Saladron in ''VideoGame/PrincessTomatoInTheSaladKingdom.'' Nor how kids who don't like vegetables react to the [[StockYuck sight of a salad]].
** Nor does the salad have to be evil or [[Memes/JoJosBizarreAdventure have weird suspicious effects when eaten]].
** It also isn't anything dirty.
** It's also not about eating salad using a knife.
* StabTheScorpion does not refer to what happens to the yellow-clad [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie ninja]] from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' when you [[FinishingMove FINISH HIM!]]
** Nor does it refer to the ending of ''Film/TheMummyReturns''.
** It's also not about a scorpion named Stab.
* StaffOfAuthority are not people who work for an authority figure.
* StagedShooting has nothing to do with any conspiracy theories you might have heard about shooting rampages.
* StageFatality is not someone dying on a theater stage; that falls under FatalMethodActing.
** It's also not a ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fatality performed on a show stage. Hopefully.
* StageNames is not about what the people who make VideoGames call their stages/levels/worlds/whatever.
* TheStakeout does not refer to [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon the Yungoos line]][[note]] despite that fact that Gumshoos is the Stakeout Pokemon, [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign contrary]] to [[MemeticMutation memes]][[/note]], nor their signature Ability[[note]] which makes them [[SituationalDamageAttack do double damage to foes who switch into its attacks]][[/note]], or an Ithaca 37 variant.
* StakingTheLovedOne doesn't mean that a character will use them for [[LostHimInACardGame betting]] in a TabletopGame/{{poker}} game.
* StalkerWithACrush doesn't mean the ranger from ''Franchise/GIJoe'' is in love.
* StalkingMission is not a guide on how to secretly observe and follow around [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic that fourteen year-old Twi'lek orphan girl]]. Besides, she's probably already following ''[[PlayerCharacter you]]'' around, so that's kind of pointless.
* The StandardFemaleGrabArea is not the anatomical location where women [[GroinAttack grab men]]; quite the opposite. Furthermore, it is not anywhere inappropriate.
* {{Starboarding}} is not what the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' does for fun.
** Nor is it a variation of waterboarding that is only carried out on famous people.
** It's also not about riding around on your [[VideoGame/{{Terraria}} Celestial Starboard]].
* The StarbucksSkinScale doesn't measure the weight of the top layer of a premium coffee drink.
** Nor does it mean that drinking Starbucks will [[ScaledUp cause your skin to grow scales]].
* UsefulNotes/StargateCity is a real-world city, and doesn't have any Stargates in it, apart from props.
* StarMakingRole is not about someone whose role is creating stars.
* TheStarsAreGoingOut is not about celebrities dating each other.
* TheStarscream is not [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness]] and [[VideoGame/MOTHER3 Lucas]] calling their [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Final Smash.]]
** Nor is it about {{Skyward Scream}}s at the night sky.
** Nor is it someone who travels to Hollywood to go yell at celebrities.
* StartingANewLife isn't what you do [[VideoGameLives when you die in a video game]], or a bizarre term for pregnancy.
* StaticStunGun does not refer to stun guns that aren't even animated when used and thus look like the wielder is too stupid to activate it before using. Nor does it refer to stun weapons that don't have any visible effect in the first place. Nor is it a stun gun used by [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]], not that he needs one.
* StationaryBoss does not mean that your boss never leaves his desk, nor does it mean that he sends you notes on fancy paper or in fancy envelopes (the latter would be '''Stationery''' Boss).
* TheStationsOfTheCanon has nothing to do with religious broadcasting channels, therefore CBN, ETWN, and Faith TV are not examples.
* StatusCellPhone is not using a cellphone as a DiegeticInterface for stats.
* StatusQuoIsGod is not meant to imply that the band behind "Rockin' All Over The World" are worthy of worship. They're good, but not ''that'' good. Nor is it sucking up to the fictional rapper from ''Series/OffCentre''.
* StayFrosty is not why [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]] gave Olaf his own personal flurry. Nor is it advice to [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Pvt. James Ramirez]] as he DOES EVERYTHING!
* StayingAlive is not about disco music, dancing, Creator/JohnTravolta, or really outdated dancing fads.
* A StealthExpert is not someone who [[ObfuscatingStupidity feigns ignorance of something]] but eventually reveals that they were an expert in it all along.
* The StealthMentor does not silently sneak up on people, grab them from behind, then whisper advice in their ears before fading back into the shadows.
** Nor is he a wise old ninja who trains heroes in the art of invisibility.
* StealthParody does not involve making fun of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'', ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' or similar games.
* StealthSequel is not when a non-stealth game gets a GenreShift to StealthBasedGame for its sequel.
* Platform/{{Steam}} has nothing to do with water vapor.
** It's not what you use to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons cook hams]], either.
* SteamNeverDies is not about the belief that the online gaming service will last forever, or about someone who dislikes the online gaming service complaining that it's lasted for so long.
** Nor is it about gaseous water which will exist forever.
* SteamPunk is not a type of punk centered around Valve's digital content distribution service.
* A StellarName may be an AwesomeMcCoolname, but it's not just another name for that trope.
* StepfordSmiler is not a SerialKiller who goes around StepfordSuburbia with a SlasherSmile killing people. Unless he [[FauxAffablyEvil acts like a nice, cheerful person when he's not killing people.]]
* StereoFibbing is not lying about an audio system, or a stereo recording of someone telling an untruth.
* A SternChase is not a ChaseScene where everyone involved is TheStoic. Nor are you [[VideoGame/{{Berzerk}} pursued by Evil Otto]].
* StevenUlyssesPerhero is not a reference to James Joyce's wandering hero.
* SticksToTheBack doesn't involve the old trick of poking someone with a stick while bluffing that it's a gun. Nor is it beating people up with cricket bats. Nor does it have anything to do with putting the {{White|Mage}} and {{Black Mage}}s and {{Squishy Wizard}}s in the back of the party so they take less damage.
** It's also not about characters with adhesive backsides.
** It also doesn't involve sending [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom Sticks the Badger]] to the back of a queue.
** Nor is it about [[KickMePrank that prank where someone sticks a "Kick me" sign onto someone's back]].
* StickyFingers does not follow masturbating.
** Nor does the trope refer to Music/TheRollingStones album with [[Music/StickyFingers "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses"]].
** It also doesn't have anything to do with the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind stand that has zipper powers]].
* TheStinger is not a reason to BeeAfraid.
** It also has nothing to do with [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime Red Stinger]].
* StockAnimalDiet is not necessarily what livestock eats.
** And StockAnimalName is not necessarily about livestock being named.
* {{Stock Desert Interstate}}s aren't necessarily freeways that can be found in deserts, nor are they dioramas of desert freeways that can be found in stock at supermarkets.
* StockDinosaurs aren't DomesticatedDinosaurs that a supermarket currently has in stock.
* StockingFiller is not about those tchotchkes generally only bought as small gifts, that nobody would actually ever ''use'' for anything.
** Or the act of collecting [[{{Filler}} parts of anime series that don't further the plot at hand]].
** Nor [[BalloonBelly filling]] up [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Stocking]], despite the fact that she wears her namesake and it has happened before.
* StockingMask is not [[LatexPerfection a latex mask]] used to make the wearer look like [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt a certain anime character]].
** Nor is it about stockpiling masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
* StockNessMonster is not about any monster from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', though Tessie from that game is an example.
* StockParodies are not parodies about preparing a food in flavored water.
* StockPunishment is not about punishing a stockbroker or investor, nor is it about punishing someone by throwing soup onto them or making them eat bad soup. Also, unlike other Stock tropes, it's ''not'' about commonly seen forms of punishment.
* StockScream has little to do with ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.
* StockSoundEffects are not noises made by livestock or vegetable stock.
* None of the [[StockRoom "Stock" tropes]] necessarily have anything to do with the stock market.
* TheStoic does not refer to an {{Expy}} of Stoick the Vast from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''.
* StoodUp is not about standing up. That would be a case of Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.
* TheStoolPigeon isn't [[BirdPoopGag a bird that poops on people]]. Nor is it a pigeon on a stool, for that matter.
* StopDrowningAndStandUp does not mean you can avert drowning by being defiant towards it.
* StopHavingFunGuys is not the ungrammatical plea from a little sibling for your mother to stop cooking mushrooms.
** Nor is it a sentence that could be followed up with "and start getting bored".
** Nor is it a plea against the proliferation of useless characters in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''.
** Nor is it someone telling a writer to only have serious characters.
* A StoppedClock is [[CompleteTheQuoteTitle not the figurative one]] that is [[DumbassHasAPoint right twice a day]].
* StormInATeacup is not necessarily an actual storm in an actual teacup.
** It's also not the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers [[Music/StadiumArcadium song]].
** Nor the [[VideoGame/StormInATeacup video game]].
** Nor the Rome-based video game [[Creator/StormInATeacup developer]], for that matter.
** Nor the ''{{Series/Porridge}}'' episode.
** It's not about [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Ororo Monroe]] shrinking either.
* StoryBranchFavoritism is not about the character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' being LovedByAll.
* StoryBreakerPower is not the same as LivingLieDetector, and doesn't usually have to do with the ability to automatically see through false alibis either.
** Nor is it necessarily the ability to destroy one of the floors in an apartment building.
** Nor should it be confused with AuthorPowers that let a character send the plot OffTheRails.
* StoutStrength does not involve beer.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath is not about arrows flying in a straight line. That's NoArcInArchery.
** Nor does it mean that archers are always heterosexual, that they don't take drugs, or that [[StraightMan they're the foil to jokes made by non-archers]].
* StraightForTheCommander does not describe the [[Franchise/MassEffect Male Shepard/Diana Alliers or Female Shepard/Kaiden Alenko]] Pairings, or any other example of a commanding officer's presence turning a homosexual character bisexual.
* StraightGay is not someone indecisive about his/her sexuality.
** Nor is it when the [[StraightMan character providing setup for the joke]] is the gay character.
** Nor is it about flamboyant heterosexual people, that's CampStraight.
** It's also not "gay" meaning "happy".
** It's not about [[Literature/TheHundredAndOneDalmatians Lucky's wife]] either.
* StraightMan is not a superhero with a notable lack of HoYay. Nor is it dealing exclusively with heterosexual men.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy is not a heterosexual and his MagicalQueer, nor does it imply that heterosexuals cannot be wise.
** It's also not a comedy duo where one person sets up the jokes, and the other is in TheMafia.
* StrangePondWoman is not Amy from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* StrangledByTheRedString has absolutely nothing to do with ''Literature/TheTaleOfDespereaux''.
** Nor is it a menstrual obstacle to intimacy.
** It ain't about being strangled by actual red string, either.
* A StrawFan is not (necessarily) someone dedicated to drinking from straws or who thinks a lot about hay.
** Nor is it a fan made of straw.
* A StrawFeminist isn't necessarily a feminist who's a scarecrow or someone who thinks there should be as many female scarecrows as there are male ones.
* StrawLoser is not an accurate description of [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Scarecrow]] after someone cuts him open. Nor is it the guy who draws the short straw. Or the one who misplaces a drinking straw.
* A {{Strawman}} is not a man made out of drinking straws. Nor is it a man who's [[RageBreakingPoint had the last straw]]. Nor is it a [[Franchise/MegaMan Robot Master]] who attacks by shooting straw or by invoking the [[UsefulNotes/LogicalFallacies Strawman Fallacy]].
* StrawmanHasAPoint is not about a scarecrow who made a valid argument.
* StrawmanPolitical is not what happens when the Scarecrow runs for a government position.
* StrawVegetarian has nothing to do with literally eating straw as a vegetarian statement, though of course that would be a good example and the trope is about having ideas which may be equally silly. Nor is it a vegetarian who eats straw-shaped chips.
** Nor is it about anthropomorphic drinking straws which refuse to eat meat.
* A StrawVulcan is not a scarecrow [[Franchise/StarTrek with pointy ears]], a straw version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan a British bomber aircraft]], a [[GatlingGood Vulcan rotary gun]] made of straw, a Roman god made of straw, a lame knockoff of [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan an early Super Sentai team]] and most definitely ''not'' a person who [[StrawmanEmotional bursts out easily]].
* The StreisandEffect is not about how [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark angrily reacting to someone making fun of you makes people want to make fun of you more]]. It is loosely related though.
* StrictlyFormula is not about a mother refusing to breast-feed a baby.
** Nor is it about the slightest error when mixing things causing everything to be destroyed.
** It's also not exclusively about ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing''.
* A StrikeEpisode has nothing to do with the sports of baseball or bowling, unless you're talking about [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_Major_League_Baseball_strike what ended up canceling the 1994 World Series]].
* StringTheory is not about actual particle physics.
* A StrippingSnag is not about problems encountered by people ''trying'' to strip.
* {{Strobing}} is not EpilepticFlashingLights or a sequel/parody the ''Music/Deadmau5'' song.
* [[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]] is not called that because of a high rate of cerebral aneurysms.
* StrongFamilyResemblance isn't how similar [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner the Strongs Bad, Mad, and Sad]] look. (Which is to say, not very.)
** It's also not about [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire how much the Velaryon princes look like Harwin Strong]].
* StuckOnBandAidBrand does not refer to difficulty choosing between different brands of plasters.
** Nor is it about a plaster stuck on a branding iron.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge is not a variation of StuffedIntoALocker.
* StuntCasting is not about the process of casting stunt doubles.
* StupidCrooks will not nescessarily enguage in StupidEvil.
* StupidJetpackHitler is not how someone feels who keeps getting interfered by [[GodwinsLaw Adolf Hitler]] flying around on a jetpack.
* StupidSexyFlanders is not about how northern Belgium is a thick but attractive area.
** Nor is it the profile of an ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' character.
** Nor is it necessarily about having PerverseSexualLust for [[Franchise/TouhouProject Flandre Scarlet]].
** And while it is named after [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]], it's not about him holding the IdiotBall and being strangely lustful.
*** Nor is it a relative of his with a rather unfortunate name.
* SturgeonsLaw is not a Scottish law passed by Nicola Sturgeon.
* StylisticSuck is not about porn, trendy ways to opperate vaccum cleaners, or fashionable ways for vampires, leaches, or spiders to feed.
* StyrofoamRocks is not an opinion about how nifty the substance is, not about how well it plays the guitar.
* SubbingForSanta is not about being dominated by St. Nicholas in BDSM.
* SublimeRhyme is not about vaporizing a poem.
** Nor does it require the rhyme to be good.
* SubTrope is not a trope related to submarines or long sandwiches.
** Nor is it a list of tropes related to the {{Uke}} in a BDSM relationship.
* SubwaysSuck is not the CatchPhrase of [[WebAnimation/{{Asdfmovie}} The "I Like Trains" Kid]]'s EvilCounterpart.
** It's also not a TakeThat at a chain of sandwich shops.
* SuchALovelyNoun is not about complimenting pieces of grammar.
* SuckingInLines is not about rows of cannon fodder.
** Or about incompetently riding inline skates.
** Nor does it have anything to do with snorting drugs.
* SuddenAnatomy is not about flashing people.
** Nor is it when a TV show you're watching spontaneously turns into ''Series/GreysAnatomy''.
* SuddenlyShouting [[Series/SuddenlySusan is not about]] Creator/BrookeShields raising her voice.
* SueDonym is not about giving your SelfInsert another name you go by.
** Nor is it about characters whose real names are identical to their authors' obviously pseudonymic pen-names (à la [[Webcomic/TheWotch Anne Onymous]]).
* SugarBowl is not a mysterious MacGuffin, [[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents the purpose of which is left to reader speculation]], nor is it an American college football game.
** Or about doing cocaine.
** Nor is it an unusual storage container for sweets, or the bowl the sugar cubes are put in at a cafe.
** Nor is it an actual bowl of sugar.
** Also unrelated to the LocalHangout in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' and the California ski resort.
* A SuggestiveCollision thankfully does not involve someone who has a fetish for car crashes.
* SummonMagic is about using magic to summon things, not about summoning magic itself or summoning anyone named Magic (although SummonMagic could be used to accomplish the latter).
* SuperBreedingProgram is not about eugenics programs where supers are encouraged to have lots of children. Nor is it a program meant to increase the birth rate.
* SuperCellReception is not people talking about how cool [[Anime/DragonballZ Dr. Gero's final creation]] is.
** Nor is it about people who really like microscopy.
* A SuperCouple is not a pair of romantically-involved superheroes.
* A SuperDoc is not (necessarily) a doctor who's also a superhero, or how [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny]] addresses people he thinks are really good.
** Nor is it a document that is super in some way.
* SuperDrowningSkills is not about people who are very good at causing other people to drown, nor is it someone who specializes in drowning superpowered individuals.
* SuperFlyReflexes is not about flies possessing SuperReflexes. On the contrary!
* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom does not come from ''[[VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game]]''.
* A SuperGenderBender is not when a male changes to something beyond female or when a female changes to something beyond male or about someone turning into a hyperbole of the opposite gender. It is also not about someone going from a regular gender to a Super Gender.
* A {{Superboss}} is not upper management. Nor is it a manager/supervisor with superpowers.
* A SuperheroEpisode is not an episode of a show called ''Superhero''.
* SuperheroesWearTights is not the same as ClothesMakeTheSuperman.
* SuperheroPackingHeat has nothing to do with [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 Either]] version [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour of]] the [[Creator/MarvelComics Human Torch]], [[Creator/DCComics Firestorm, Fire]] or any other character who's main power is PlayingWithFire.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham, but he doesn't avoid [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire a village in Nottinghamshire]].
* MediaNotes/{{Supermarionation}} is one word and not the title of the next ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' game. It isn't [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQO2VtV1PNg this,]] either.
* The SuperMovePortraitAttack is not what [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Relm]] is especially known for using.
* SupernaturalPhone is not a phone owned by one of the [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Winchester brothers]].
* SupernaturalSensitivity is not the same as SuperSenses.
* [[WordSaladTitle Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven]] is not about an octopus with a mohawk whose pudding-induced flatulence propels him faster than a fighter jet. Nor is it the seventh version of an eight-legged HumongousMecha powered by highly filling puddings. Nor is it about... well, it would be quicker to just say that any possible meaning you could wring out of those seven words would have nothing whatsoever to do with that article. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's the entire point.]]
* SuperSpeed is not the opinion of someone who thinks DrugsAreGood, nor is it about especially potent methamphetamine. It's also not the name of a [[FunctionalAddict drug-addicted]] {{superhero}}. [[note]] These "speed" puns are very easy to make.[[/note]]
* SuperTrope is not what JustForFun/TropeTan's superhero alter ego is called. But it SHOULD be.
** Nor is there a corresponding Bat Trope or Spider Trope.
** Nor does it imply being more awesome than the average trope.
** Nor is it necessarily a trope about superheroes.
* A SuperweaponSurprise is not a resolution in which everyone in the story knew about the existence of a superweapon, but the [[TomatoSurprise audience didn't]].
* JustForFun/SuperWeight is not a sign that Franchise/{{Superman}} needs to go on a diet.
** It's not when someone has fatness as an actual superpower (I.E. [[ComicBook/XMen The Blob]]).
** It's also not about people who can [[GravityMaster manipulate gravity]] to change their weight.
* SuperWindowJump is not the SNES sequel of an NES game called "Window Jump".
* SureLetsGoWithThat is not synonymous with ThrowItIn or AscendedFanon.
* SurfRock is not a stone surfers use to practice surfing on by balancing themselves atop it.
* SurpriseTropes is not an alternative name for the "Random Trope" button.
* You do not get SurvivorGuilt after the contestant you bitched about for 6 weeks is voted off the island. Neither is it feeling your participation in a Survivor season to be an OldShame.
** Also doesn't refer to someone who is the only survivor because he killed everyone else.
** Nor is it remorse you feel over singing "Eye of the Tiger".
* SuspectIsHatless is not about [[FauxHorrific people you think may not be wearing a hat]].
* MediaNotes/{{Sweeps}} are not a group of identical Franchise/{{Transformers}} created by Unicron.
* SweetieGraffiti is not graffiti depicting (or left by) [[Characters/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Sweetie Belle]].
** Or lollipops.
* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel isn't literal fuel that makes one have sweet dreams, nor is it any type of fuel that merely appears within one's sweet dreams.
* SweetHomeAlabama isn't that [[MemeticMutation joke]] about incest.
* SweetPollyOliver is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}} Sweet Polly Purebred's]] real name.
* SweetSheep doesn't refer to flavoring a lamb dish with something sweet.
* A SweetTooth isn't one of those jelly teeth sweets that people give out on Halloween.
* SwiperNoSwiping is not about being banned from [[DatingServiceDisaster Tinder]].
** Nor is it necessarily about [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer telling a fox not to steal]], although that could be the result.
* SwissArmyTears are not what happens when your Swiss Army Knife has become so blunt that it merely tears paper instead of cutting it.
* SwissArmySuperpower is not about superpowers possessed by members of the Swiss Armed Forces, nor is it stating that the Swiss Armed Forces are powerful enough to be classed as a superpower.
* SwissArmyWeapon is not about weapons used by the Swiss Armed Forces.
* SwissCheeseSecurity is not whom you hire if you want to make sure no one steals your Swiss cheese.
* [[InstantChucks Sword Chucks]] is not about instances where [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks someone chucks a sword]]. Nor about [[ArmedLegs strapping blades to a style of Converse sneakers]].
* SwordDrag is not about sword-wielding transvestites.
** Nor is it about the air resistance of a sword.
* SwordOverHead is not about how hitting things with a sword is better than thinking (or headbutting, for that matter. Or... anything else).
* SwordPlant is sadly not about plants that grow swords, nor the aquatic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinodorus "sword plant"]].
** Nor a factory that produces swords.
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* TacticalDoorUse is not a supertrope of DoorJudo, nor is it about using doors as shields.
* TagalongKid is usually not a Girl Scout selling cookies nor a Filipino child (that would be a ''Tagalog'' Kid).
* A TailorMadePrison is not a straitjacket.
* TheTake is about an actor reacting to a situation, not a single filming run of a scene. (I.e. "take" as in "DoubleTake", not as in "Scene 20, Take 12".) Nor is it about a DirtyCop.
* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath is not a reminder to [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY obtain Yveltal before proceeding]].
* TakeAThirdOption does not involve the [[AttackDrone Options]] in ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}''.
* TakeMeOutAtTheBallgame doesn't involve playing Music/FranzFerdinand's "Take Me Out" at a ballgame.
* TakenForGranite is not when a character is {{p|aperThinDisguise}}retending to be a statue. (Unless they [[BecomingTheMask start out by pretending and then turn into statues for real]].)
** Nor is it ignoring stones.
* TakeThat is not about [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]'s CatchPhrase for when he presents crucial evidence. ''Nor'' [[Music/TakeThatBand the band]].
** Nor is it related to the common saying people say when they attack others.
** It's also not about giving something to someone.
* TakeThatAudience is not about giving an audience to someone or when Oprah gives freebies to the live audience.
** It's also not about people who listen to ''Music/TakeThatBand''.
* TakeThatKiss is not about when someone [[ForcefulKiss forcibly kisses]] someone else. Nor a TakeThat directed at Music/{{KISS}}. Nor is it a kiss between members of ''Music/TakeThatBand''.
* TakeThatMe is not SelfHarm.
* TakeThatScrappy is not a demand of [[YouMeddlingKids those]] meddling [[ExecutiveMeddling executives]].
** Also, it doesn't describe a character who is TheScrappy because he issues a TakeThat to the audience.
** Nor is it ''exactly'' someone attacking TheScrappy.
** Nor is it forcing someone to take [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Scrappy-Doo.]]
** It's also not about giving something to TheScrappy.
** Nor is it the most disliked member of ''Music/TakeThatBand''.
* TakingTheBullet is not about thieves stealing bullets from peoples' guns. Nor is it about giving another person a bullet.
** Nor is it taking [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Bullet]] home [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe with you]].
* TalkAboutThatThing is not about the sentence used to test whether a word is a noun or not. [[note]]The sentence is: "Let's talk about (the) ______." If a word makes sense in the blank, it is a noun.[[/note]]
** Nor is related to [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Thing]].
** Or [[ComicBook/TheThing Ben Grimm.]]
** Or [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat Thing One or Thing Two]].
** It also has nothing to do with ancient Scandinavian parliaments.
* TalkingAnimal is not about Animal from ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' talking, nor is it talking in animal noises.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction is not set in a {{Dystopia}} in which you have to pay money to do other basic things in life like breathing or sitting.
* TalkingPoo isn't a {{Bowdlerized}} version of talking crap.
* TalkingWithSigns isn't about using sign language or hand signals, nor is it about having a conversation with an animate signpost.
* TalkToEveryone is about when video games encourage a player to hear what every non-player character has to say, not about gamers who will do it anyway.
* TalkToTheHand is not about people who communicate via UsefulNotes/SignLanguage.
** Nor is it about talking to [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Thing]].
* TallPoppySyndrome is not about the character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' getting taller due to a health condition.
** Nor is it about the villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' making her taller.
* DarthWiki/TameMaverickExposition is not backstory provided by a RuleAbidingRebel.
** Nor is it an explanation from [[VideoGame/MegaManX a Reploid cured of the Maverick Virus]].
* A TandemParasite is not two or more little creatures taking turns inhabiting and feeding off a larger one.
** Nor is it a parasite that feeds off two or more hosts at once.
* TangledFamilyTree is not about [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel discovering her royal ancestry]].
* TankGoodness is not how nice it is that there's someone in your party taking damage for you. Nor is it a measure of how well geared that person is. Nor is it about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_locomotive tank engines]], no matter how much of a CoolTrain the tank engine may be.
** It's also not about how good the tortoise is in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** And it's also not about aquariums.
* TanksButNoTanks is not about tanks with no fuel in their tanks. It's also not about [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat tanks that simultaneously do and don't exist.]]
* TanksForNothing doesn't refer to getting tanks for free, although if TanksForNothing is in effect you might not want to pay for them. Nor does it refer to fishtanks that don't or can't yet have fish living in them.
** Nor is it about [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] not having to pay for her turtle[[note]]Tortoise! Whatever.[[/note]].
* TapOnTheHead is not a sex act, unless your idea of great sex involves being unconscious. Nor is it a way to make someone's head dispense beer.
* {{Taps}} is not about tapping on hard surfaces [[EveryoneKnowsMorseCode in Morse Code]], about water or other beverages obtained from a tap, about activating mana in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', about anything sexual, or a type of consonants.
* TastesLikeFriendship is not something ''actually'' [[AbstractEater tasting like friendship]]. [[MindScrew If that's possible.]]
* TasteTheRainbow is not about eating WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite. Or [[Film/DeathToSmoochy Rainbow Randolph]]. Or [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]]. Or fruit-flavored candies.
** Nor is it about the time [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] literally tried to drink out of a rainbow.
*** And just so we're clear, it doesn't involve gay oral sex.
* TaughtByTelevision is not related to ''[[Music/JourneyBand Raised on Radio]]''.
* A TeamKiller is not [[CreatorKiller a work that destroys a production team]], nor someone who massacres an entire team, nor a hitman who is part of a team.
* A TeamPet is not a team composed entirely of dogs and cats.
** It has no relation to Franchise/{{Pokemon}} teams.
* TearJerker is not the short name for a game with inconsistent framerate and screen tearing.
** Nor is it a man who pleasures himself when watching people cry.
*** Nor would he pleasure himself while he himself is crying.
** Nor is it that incredibly sour ice pop.
** It is also not a sad, erotic work.
** Nor is it someone who'll rip you in half for being a jerk.
** It is also not someone who pours tears from a tap, like a soda jerk.
** Also not about [[TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity jerking off into a pool of children's tears.]]
* TearsFromAStone isn't about [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac getting a tears upgrade from Small Rock. Or Rock Bottom]].
* TearsOfFear are not tears which terrify anyone who sees them.
** Nor is it necessarily when Fear from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' cries, unless it's because he's frightened.
* TearsOfJoy is ''definitely'' not about when Joy from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness cries]]. Or [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} a Nurse Joy]]. Unless the reason is that either of them are happy.
** Nor is it tears made of Joy brand detergents.
* Despite the existence of TheTease and TheTeaser there is no such thing as The Teasest, nor are the first two tropes mentioned related.
* TechnicolorDeath is not the death of Technicolor.
* TechnicolorWind is not [[VisibleOdor colour-coded flatulence]].
* TechnoBabble is not someone's incoherent ramblings [[VoiceClipSong mixed to a phat beat]].
* A TechnologicalPacifist is not a robot who refuses to fight.
* TechnologyPorn is not pornography that comes from the Internet and/or is computer-generated. Nor does it refer to dirty pictures of robots (though it admittedly doesn't exclude them either.)
* {{Technopath}} is about neither technology-obsessed psychopaths, [[TechTree paths of technological development]], nor anyone who just ''loves'' that electronic-sounding dance-party music. Nor is it about someone who hates machines to the point of becoming violent and irrational around them. It is also not about a trail that will lead you to the LostTechnology.
* A TechTree is not what BambooTechnology grows on. Nor does it refer to [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Botanica.]]
* TeensAreMonsters is not the RevisedEnding to [[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} "Dude of the Living Dead."]]
** Nor is it a teenage CuteMonsterGirl, unless she was a huge jerk.
** Nor is it when teenagers are behind the ScoobyDooHoax, or when monsters pretend to be teens.
** And the teens definitely aren't pulling off a MonsterFacade. If they did, then the trope would be subverted.
* A TelephonePolearm does not require the use of an extremely long and sturdy phone.
* TeleportSpam does not involve moving canned meat around with your mind.
* TelescopingStaff is not about hiring astronomers.
** Nor is is about ledger lines above or below the musical staff.
* JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs is not about [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever killer TVs]]. Or about ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', for that matter. Or [[Music/{{Television}} the band]].
* TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease is not about diseases that are actually spread by television transmissions.
* TellyTropes involves Kojak and Blofeld to ''some'' extent, but he's not the main focus.
** It's also not a list of tropes that specify a [[Series/SesameStreet certain purple monster]].
** Although it is in there, it's not mainly about a [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 certain spinning surveillance robot]].
** It's also in not exclusively about [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po]].
* TemporarilyAVillain is not the same thing as a HeelFaceTurn. (The former describes a hero who turns evil and back really quickly, while the latter describes a character who has been a villain for a relatively long time turning good.)
** It also has to be quick - the hero can't preform a FaceHeelTurn and eventually pull a HeelFaceTurn, and [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] is not actually an example.
* TemporaryScrappy isn't a character the audience hates for a short period of time. The closest we have for that situation is RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap.
* TemptingFate does not involve [[Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] in a bikini.
** Nor is it a death that a character is considering taking.
** Or about [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Tempest Shadow]] suffering DeathByAdaptation.
* TenderTears are not tears used as currency.
* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity does not (necessarily) refer to a {{Tomboy}} who's sensitive to touch and a GirlyGirl who smells bad.
* TenMinutesInTheCloset is not about someone who very quickly comes out as gay.
** It also has nothing to do with YearInsideHourOutside. You can thank Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe for that misconception.
*** Ditto for YearOutsideHourInside.
* A TennisBoss is not someone who is really good at tennis.
* TerraDeforming does not involve [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI pink Esper forms]].
** Nor is it about [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Deathstroke brainwashing Terra into becoming evil]].
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat isn't about a character in-universe walking into a pet store and finding a terrifying rat. Nor is it about terrifying a pet store rat.
* TestosteroneBrigade is not about gay pride parades.
* TestosteronePoisoning isn't a special method of killing that only works on males.
** Nor does it refer to poison made from testosterone.
** Nor is it hormone therapy for transgender men GoneHorriblyWrong.
* TheTetrisEffect is not about when you just can't stop playing. That's JustOneMoreLevel.
** Nor is it the the tendency for people to compare every FallingBlocks game to ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.
* Administrivia/TextFormattingRules is about how to use text formatting, not how awesome it is.
* ThankTheMaker is not about expressing gratitude towards a craftsperson giving away their wares for free.
** And it has nothing to do with [[Franchise/DragonAge that Maker]], either.
** Nor that [[Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker other Maker]].
** Or [[Creator/{{CBeebies}} Mr Maker.]]
** Or even the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel [[ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour version of]] ComicBook/MisterFantastic.
* ThatCameOutWrong has nothing to do with EnfantTerrible or breach births, not for that matter CameBackWrong.
** Nor does it necessarily involve putting your foot in your mouth while attempting to tell someone that you're gay, although it certainly could.
* ThatDidntHappen has nothing to do with CanonDiscontinuity or FanonDiscontinuity, nor with NarrativeBackpedaling.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry does not redirect to BerserkButton.
* ThatManIsDead is not the same as HesDeadJim. It is not what CaptainObvious says when he sees a dead person.
** And it is most certainly not about the death of a superhero named That Man.
* [[ThatOneBoss/{{Strategy}} That One Boss: Strategy]] is not a list of particularly clever methods that have been used to defeat bosses.
* ThatOneCase is not an [[ThatOneLevel especially difficult part]] of ''Franchise/AceAttorney''.
* ThatOneLevel isn't the only level in the entire game. Similarly...
** ThatOneAttack isn't the only attack in the entire game. Though you'd probably get sick of it after a while.
*** Nor is it when you play ''VideoGame/{{CHUNITHM}}'' and you're one note away from an All Justice. Though if it's one very specific note that you always get an Attack on, you might be looking at an example of this trope.
** ThatOneBoss isn't the only boss in the entire game. Nor does it refer to particularly harsh or cruel supervisors; you're thinking of BadBoss or MeanBoss.
** ThatOnePlayer isn't [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove the only player of the entire game.]]
** ThatOneSidequest isn't the only sidequest in the entire game.
** ThatOneRule isn't the only rule.
* ThatPoorCat is not each and every case where a cat is a {{Woobie}}, nor is it jazz talk for a ButtMonkey, nor is it someone pointing out an impoverished cat.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong is not about what VideoGame/ProfessorLayton would say if he took up [[VideoGame/RhythmThiefAndTheEmperorsTreasure spontaneous singing as a hobby instead of solving puzzles]].
* ThatRussianSquatDance does not refer to the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-do-slavs-squat-slav-squat Slav Squat]]" meme.
* ThatsWhatSheSaid and WhatHeSaid are not DistaffCounterpart tropes.
** Nor is it about women's dialogue in general.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil is not about frustration at heroes who keep saying that [[BalanceOfGoodAndEvil evil must exist in the world]] but beat up bad guys anyway. Or the heroes constantly talk about how they let their villains be as evil as they want to be but are forcing them to be good.
* {{Theotech}} isn't analogous to {{Magitek}}; it's not about a setting where technology is literally powered by divinity of some kind.
* ThereAreNoTherapists is not talking about items in ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' that fail to grant resistance to status ailments.
** It also has nothing to do with [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Sean Connery having his mind in the gutter again]].
* ThereIsNoTry is not about rugby.
** [[https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/try.html Or code that doesn't deal with exceptions correctly]].
** It is also not what the NietzscheWannabe says.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed is not about the [[Literature/LordOfTheRings One Bed to Rule Them All]]. Nor is it about limited art assets in a video game meaning that all beds look the same.
* ThereWasADoor does not automatically lead to the assumption that [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 it's gone now]].
* ThereWillBeCake is a lie, even though the [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} trope namer]] wasn't. Nor does it necessarily have to be about cake. It's also not to be confused with IWasToldThereWouldBeCake, which is specifically about cake and has nothing to do with this trope.
* ThereWillBeToiletPaper is not about what happens after relieving oneself in the bathroom.
** Nor is it a promise that a restroom is well-stocked.
* A ThermometerGag is not when someone is unable to speak due to having a thermometer in their mouth.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow does not refer to WomensMysteries.
** Nor do they only drive men insane and leave women alone.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled is not an introduction to some [[HelpingHands disembodied hands]] that kill for a living.
* TheTheTitleConfusion is not about the band "The The", or other such [[WhosOnFirst intentionally confusing band names]] (The Who, Yes, etc.).
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks does not mean that someone upgraded a weapon to have [[WeaponsThatSuck suction capabilities]], unless the suction ability is [[GameBreaker overpowered]] or [[PowerUpLetdown replaces a better ability]].
** Nor is it a description of [[ViralTransformation someone's transformation into a vampire.]]
* TheyLookLikeUsNow has nothing to do with the point of the song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin, nor does it have anything to do with GenerationXerox or CloneByConversion.
* TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste is not an ecological complaint against the development of desert areas.
** Nor is it about finding new landfill sites.
** Nor is it about fans of a landfill complaining that it's getting appropriated for gardening.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter is not about a character literally being thrown in the trash.
** Nor is it about a character dying in VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto.
** Nor is it when a well-liked character gets incredibly drunk or stoned.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot is not about complaining that a gardening plot is being unused.
* ThickerThanWater isn't just a list of fluids which are more viscous than water. It's also not a description of TheDitz, no matter how stupid they are.
* ThievesCant is not about revoking the rights of criminals.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave is a guest, not an object. Also, it doesn't necessarily apply to ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'''s hand not going away.
** Nor is it about [[ComicBook/TheThing Ben Grimm]] buying a house, settling in, and not moving again.
* ThingsGetReal is not what people shout when Things is acting foolish.
** It's also not the same as FakeRealTurn.
* ThinkingUpPortals is not about coming up with fan levels or equipment hacks for the ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'' series.
* ThinkingWheels isn't about anthropomorphosised vehicles, or about having an ImagineSpot involving wheels.
* A ThinlyDisguisedPilot does not fly an airplane.
* A ThirdPersonSeductress is not a MsFanservice who is a ThirdPersonPerson.
* [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree Thirty Minutes Or It's Free!]] is not about sex.
* ThisIndexBrokeUp does not involve ''literal'' breaking.
* The tropes listed in ThisIndexHasAPoint are not about ScoringPoints.
** It's also not an index about needles, pins, swords and other pointy things.
* ThisIndexIsBetter is ''not'' full of subjective tropes.
* ThisIndexMeansTrouble is not about GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger.
* ThisIndexWillKillYou is not about a FingerPokeOfDoom.
* ThisIsADrill is not Film/CrocodileDundee's [[BeamMeUpScotty supposed]] response to ThisIsNotADrill. It's also not about announcing that a training exercise is occurring, so ThisIsADrill and ThisIsNotADrill are not OppositeTropes.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch is not [[AndThisIsFor what one says when avenging Emphasis Bitch.]] Or delivering a package for her.
* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge is not about hyping up an erection.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck is not a warning label put on vacuum cleaners. Or on WeaponsThatSuck.
* ThisIsMyBoomstick has absolutely nothing to do with shotguns. Most of the time. And even less to do with the BoomStick trope.
* ThisIsNotADrill is not said to clarify that something is not a tool for making holes or driving nails.
* ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels isn't about a PlotHole, ScrappyMechanic, or GameBreakingBug that spans a large chunk of a video game.
** It's also not about a decorating mistake on multiple floors of a building.
* ThisLoserIsYou is not the [[OppositeTropes inverse]] of AWinnerIsYou.
* ThisMightBeAnIndex is not a list of tropes related to Music/TheyMightBeGiants.
* A ThongOfShielding does not necessarily protect anyone from attack.
* ThoseTwoGuys aren't necessarily [[TheOneGuy the only ones that exist in canon]]. Neither are they related to ThatOneBoss.
* ThreateningShark is a noun, not a verb--the trope is not about yelling at sharks when they misbehave or when you want to force a shark to do something against its will.
* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing is not about very quick torture or a very short time spent in Hell.
** Nor is it about having a seizure, though some poorly executed examples might look like one.
* ThreeShorts is not related to LimitedWardrobe.
* ThreeStrikeCombo is not about pitching an out or bowling a turkey.
* {{Thriving Ghost Town}}s are not ghost towns that are mysteriously clean and well-kept in spite of years of abandon.
** Nor is it a town full of well-to-do undead.
* ThroughHisStomach is not about a character getting shot or stabbed there.
** It's also not about [[WombLevel where you go]] after getting swallowed by a whale.
* "ThrowAwayGuns" is a verb phrase, not a noun phrase. It does not necessarily imply that the guns are of low quality and deserve their fate of being tossed out.
* ThrowItIn is not the objective of basketball.
* Characters are not ThrownFromTheZeppelin because they have [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade no ticket]]. Or because they [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus keep calling it a balloon]].
** They're also not fired from Music/LedZeppelin. (In reality, no one was.)
** They're not ThrownDownAWell because '''''[[Film/ThreeHundred THIS IS SPARTAAAA!]]''''', either.
* ThunderShock does not refer to [[FearOfThunder finding thunder shocking]]. Despite what you may think, this never happens to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]].
* {{Thundraphobia}}, the old name for FearOfThunder, is not a fear of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundra the Marvel character]], although that fear would not be unreasonable. Nor is it a fear of the WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}' homeworld; that's Thund'''e'''ra. Sadly, these two fears caused the page to be renamed, as these were far scarier than starships and sauropods.
** It also wasn't fear of the phoenix character from the WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries. Though there were some episodes where fear of her would make sense.
* TieredByName is not about players assigning CharacterTiers in a video game purely by their names.
* TieredBySize is not about a game where CharacterTiers are assigned based on magnitude, either due to BiggerIsBetter or the inverse.
* TimeAbyss is not where sinful moments go after they die.
* TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace is not necessarily about [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor's time machine]], although it can be.
* A TimeBomb is not a bomb that [[TimeCrash blows up time]].
* A TimeCompressionMontage is not a {{montage}} depicting [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Ultimecia]] doing [[TimeCrash her stuff]] (that would be time ''kompression'' anyway).
* TimeCrash is not an instruction to measure how long it takes for a crash to occur.
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin is not about items containing infallible predictions about the future that people use to get rich quick by placing their bets accordingly.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble is not about how problems time-travelling can make people anxious.
* TiredOfRunning is not about panting and sweating after having expended too much energy jogging or sprinting.
* TitleDrop is not when a character stops using another character's title, for dramatic effect.
** Oh, and it's not when a title drops from the sky.
* TitleOfTheDead is not when a work is named for a PosthumousCharacter. Nor is it about the distribution of noble titles or deeds to property when a character passes away.
* ToastedBuns is not about cinnamonny breakfast food.
* ToTheFutureAndBeyond is not when you play ''VideoGame/{{Arcaea}}'' and play a song's Future chart followed by its [[HarderThanHard Beyond]] chart.
* ToHellAndBack has nothing to do with Creator/AudieMurphy, or the Music/{{Sabaton}} song about him.
* ToiletDrinkingDogGag is not about jokes involving toilets that drink dogs. Nor is it about people who find dogs drinking out of toilets disgusting.
* ToiletHumour isn't about toilets becoming sentient and telling jokes.
* ToiletTeleportation does not refer to teleporting toilets, nor does it (usually) refer to toilets being used as literal teleporters.
* TokenEvilTeammate does not describe members of the [[Literature/DresdenFiles Order of the Blackened Denarius]], though it could describe one of their holders if they had to team up with Harry in an EnemyMine situation.
** Nor is it about TokenMinority characters who are evil.
*** And TokenGoodTeammate doesn't describe good TokenMinority characters.
* The TokenMiniMoe is only sometimes a TagalongKid who's also a TokenMinority.
** Nor is it a token miniature version of Moe from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Film/TheThreeStooges a certain Stooge]], or any of the characters named Moe from ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters''.
* A TokenRomance does not necessarily involve [[TokenMinorityCouple two Token Minorities.]]
* TheTokyoFireball is not an alcoholic drink, nor is it one of those candies with lots of cinnamon extract to make it feel spicy.
* TomHanksSyndrome is not a reference to Creator/TomHanks being one of the first known celebrities to be infected with [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]].
* TomatoInTheMirror rarely involves tomatoes or mirrors.
** Nor is it a ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' version of Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror".
* TomatoSkunkStinkCure is not a parody of ''Anime/PrettyCure''. It also doesn't imply the existence of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot tomato skunks]].
* A TomatoSurprise is not a specialty soup.
** Nor is it about unexpectedly having a tomato thrown at your face.
* A {{Tomboy}} is not a boy named Tom. Nor a guy named Tom whose surname is Boy.
* TomTheDarkLord has no relation to RonTheDeathEater.
* TooCoolToLive does not describe [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Nora Fries]], [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Olaf, Princess Anna]], or (usually) any other victim of hypothermia.
* TooDumbToLive is not about people whose physical inability to speak costs them their lives.
* TooImportantToWalk is not about needing to get somewhere as quickly as possible, nor is it about why one does not simply WalkIntoMordor.
** Nor is it about a DiabolicalMastermind who is too important to their criminal organization to let him not go to prison.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously is not about watching critically panned movies and treating them like masterpieces while expecting others to do the same.
* TooLongDidntDub doesn't mean someone was working on a {{dubstep}} track and it got so long they didn't want to add the "wubwub" effects anymore.
* TooManyBabies is not a ''Videogame/{{Overwatch}}'' team composition warning indicating that there are too many infant Heroes on your team. Or too many immature players on your team, either.
* TooManyBelts is not about a particular martial art or style having an excess of KyuAndDanRanks for its learning curve or number of official practitioners..
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth has nothing to do with a BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce that not even an EldritchAbomination would use to season his/her/its food.
* TheToothHurts is about someone's ''own'' teeth hurting, not about someone being hurt by the teeth of another person or a creature.
* TheTopicOfCancer isn't about star signs or lines of longitude.
* A TorchSong does not (necessarily) have lyrics about setting things on fire.
* TotallyRadical has little to do with extremists and fundamentalists.
** Or, for that matter, [[Anime/CowboyBebop Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV]].
** Or with mathematics.
** Or with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(chemistry) atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons.]]
* A TotalPartyKill isn't something that dampens the mood of your social gathering.
** It might, though, if your social group is playing D&D.
** Nor does it refer to someone killing everyone that belongs to a certain political party.
* ToTheBatpole does not refer to a baseball bat.
* ToThePain is not the last words of anyone on ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.
** It's also not a toast made by a sadist.
** It's also not a math term.
** Nor is it about dedicating yourself to French breads.
* TouchedByVorlons has nothing to do with Naughty Tentacles. [[{{Squick}} Thankfully]].
* TouchOfDeath is not a mechanic in video games where you die instantly if you touch an enemy.
* A TourGuideDetective is not a detective who also works as a tour guide.
* A ToughRoom is not a particularly difficult room in a video game.
* TownGirls is not the concept of "[[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers country girls]]" or "[[VideoGame/KanColle ship girls]]" applied to towns.
* A ToxicDinosaur isn't a dinosaur who is a {{Jerkass}} or ManipulativeBastard.
* ToyotaTripwire is not the name of an actual car.
* ToyShip is not when [[ShipTease the writers of a work "toy" with readers by hinting at a relationship that may never happen]]. It's not about a plastic buoyant vessel, either.
** Or about shipping ''Franchise/ToyStory'' characters.
** Or about sending toys from one place to another.
* TradeYourPassionForGlory does not mean there is someone out there who can make you famous if you give him a passionfruit.
** Nor would he make you famous if you give him your desire to accomplish your dreams.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil is not about non-RagnarokProofing enabled trailers.
** Nor is it advice to never transport groceries via cargo trucks or freight trains.
* TraitorShot does not mean RewardedAsATraitorDeserves.
* TranquilFury is not about ComicBook/NickFury being calm.
* {{Transflormation}} is not about turning into a [[VideoGame/DontStarve Merm]] and adopting their distinctive speech patterns.
* TransformationConventions does not mention [[MediaNotes/FurryFandom AnthroCon and similar gatherings]].
** Or [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Botcon.]]
* {{Transhuman}}s are not to be mistaken for {{UsefulNotes/Transgender}} people.
** Nor are they animals or aliens who identify as human.
* TranslationByVolume does not mean SwapTeleportation.
* A TranslationConvention not a gathering of translators and translation enthusiasts.
* TranslationYes is not about confirmation that a translation exists.
* TransparentCloset is not an actual closet with a see-through door.
* TransTribulations has nothing to do with the problems caused by trans fats or any other (E)-isomers for that matter.
** It's also not about the tribulations involved in becoming {{transhuman}}.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption does not mean the only genre of music you can listen to is trap.
* TrapMaster is not a shop (or franchise) that sells booby traps. Nor trap music.
* TrapMusic is not [[VideoGame/LaMulana the music that plays when you set off a trap.]]
** Nor is it a genre of music defined by its use of samples of Admiral Ackbar from Franchise/StarWars.
* TheTrapParents is not about the Creator/{{Disney}} [[Film/TheParentTrap1961 movie]]. Nor are the parents especially fond of listening to trap music.
* TrappedByMountainLions does not involve WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}}.
* TrashOfTheTitans does not involve a disagreement between [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Cyborg and Beast Boy]] over whose turn it is to do chores.
** Not is it about [[Literature/HiddenTalents a telekinetic teenager]] becoming a titan [[OurTitansAreDifferent of any kind]].
** It is most definitely not about either the garbage generated by, or failed players of Tennessee’s NFL team.
* TraumaButtonEnding isn't when someone's TraumaButton stops working.
* A TraumaCongaLine is not a conga line that, once finished, leaves every participant terrified and emotionally scarred.
* TrashyTrueCrime is not a TakeThat toward [[Film/TrueCrime the movie]] or [[VideoGame/TrueCrime the video game]].
* TraumaInn is not when [[InnSecurity the stay at the inn gives you trauma]].
** It is also not related to HellHotel.
* And a TraumaSwing is not a swing at the playground that inflicts trauma on anyone who sits on it, nor is it about rapidly shifting feelings of trauma.
** Nor is it incredibly horrible golf skills.
* Furthermore, a TraumaticHaircut does not refer to children who become frightened the first time visiting a barbershop, what with all those metal blades and weird buzzing machines.
* A TreacherousAdvisor is not to be confused with an EvilChancellor, although it's possible characters that are both exist.
* TrenchcoatBrigade is the description of an archetype of OccultDetectives. It is not about an army of flashers.
* A TrendAesop is not AnAesop that appears in a large number of works at once before becoming less popular.
* A TrialBalloonQuestion is not about offering free balloons preceding a subscription.
* A TrialByFriendlyFire is not when the judge is a good-natured living flame.
* TribalCarry is not a law allowing members of a tribe to carry guns.
* TrickedOutTime does not involve putting spinning rims on your grandfather clock.
* TrilogyCreep is not a creepy protagonist of a trilogy, or a creepy fanboy who only reads trilogies.
* TripleShifter does not have to do with the Triple Changers from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Nor is it about pressing the Shift key three times, which doesn't do anything (although pressing it five times triggers Sticky Keys).
* TripodTerror is not a horrified reaction to a camera being difficult to move.
** Nor someone who menaces a web hosting service.
* TrojanGauntlet is not a piece of armor from the ancient city of [[UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar Troy]].
** Or from the modern city of [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState Troy]], for that matter.
** Nor is it about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet running through two lines of Trojan soldiers while they beat you]].
** Not is it about having to deal with a bunch of computer viruses pretending to be helpful programs at once.
* TrojanVeggies aren't vegetables from the city of [[UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar Troy]].
* A TrollBridge isn't a bridge that [[{{Troll}} provokes you to amuse itself]].
* A TrollFic is not a ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic about the aliens from Alternia, although such a fic ''can'' be a TrollFic.
** The MSPA fan community decided to call fan adventures about the aliens from Alternia "trollventures" and fan adventures made to be deliberately offensive "trollingventures" because of that.
* TronLines is not about the particular style of dialog in ''Film/{{Tron}}''.
** Nor is it an alternative to Ley Lines.
* TropaholicsAnonymous is not an actual support group for breaking your [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife addiction to "tropahol"]]. [[EvilLaugh Mwahaha.]]
* Administrivia/TropeDecay is not an index of tropes about decomposition.
* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX is not a list of Administrivia/RenamedTropes.
* Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome isn't about the villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' having tropes named after him, even if [[CaughtMonologuing there is one]].
* JustForFun/TropeOverdosed is not about absorbing lethal levels of trope knowledge. But [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife be careful.]]
* TropeReport isn't where you report a problem with a trope.
* Administrivia/TropesAreTools is not a way of expressing contempt whenever Tropes Are Not Good.
* TropesInSpace is not tropes... [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]].
* TropesToCope is not about finding TV Tropes therapeutic.
* TropeTalk is not about the video series by Creator/OverlySarcasticProductions.
* JustForFun/TropeTan does not describe a change in skin tone from spending too much time editing the wiki. But be careful. (Nor is Trope-tan herself Chinese.)
* A TroubledButCute character is cute in the "attractive" sense, not the "adorable" sense. It has no overlap with EnfantTerrible.
* TheTroubleWithTickets isn't about characters having trouble receiving admission passes to a movie, concert or attraction.
* {{Truck}} is not a transport vehicle.
** It also does not refer to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_wages illegal currencies]] used in some {{CompanyTown}}s.
* A TruckDriversGearChange is not about operators of massive transportation machines shifting their transmissions.
* TrueArt does not mean "the real Arthur".
* TrueBlueFemininity does not mean being feminine will turn any part of your body blue.
** Nor is it about how the titular dog from ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' is [[ViewerGenderConfusion actually female]].
** Nor does it mean that you must be feminine to be patriotic.
* TrueLovesKiss does not mean that Series/TrueJackson is a Music/{{KISS}} {{Fangirl}}.
* TrustMeImADoctor is not about the TV programme.
* TryEverything is not about the song from ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. Or about trying new things in general, or the attitude of a BigEater at a buffet.
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard is not about business cards which are so small you can't even fit the word 'that' on them.
* {{Tsundere}} is not a tsunami's derriere.
* {{Tuckerization}} is not about becoming more like Trip Tucker from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.
** Nor is it becoming more like Tucker Carlson from Fox News Channel.
** It's also thankfully not about [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist being combined with your pet]].
* TunelessSongOfMadness is not about disliking a [[Music/{{Madness|Band}} ska band]].
* A TunnelNetwork is not a computer network where the nodes are connected via [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol tunnelling]].
** Nor is it a [[NicheNetwork TV channel entirely about tunnels]].
** Nor is it a TV channel [[NicheNetwork dedicated to shows about tunnels]].
* TurnsRed is not a FaceHeelTurn where the villain is a [[RedScare commie]].
** Nor is it what happens to people who don't use sunscreen.
** Nor is it about people [[LuminescentBlush blushing]] when they are embarrassed.
** Nor is it about [[WesternAnimation/TurningRed a girl who transforms into a red panda]].
* TurnUndead is an ability to get rid of things that are already undead, ''not'' [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie to turn things that are alive undead]].
** No pimps are involved, either, [[{{Squick}} thankfully.]] Unless you're into that sort of thing.
** Nor does it involve voluntarily becoming an undead, or switching between life and unlife.
** Nor is it changing the direction undead beings are facing.
* TurtleIsland is not an island inhabited by turtles. It also hasn't anything to do with the Caribbean island [[BilingualBonus Tortuga]].
** Nor does it have anythinng to do with the Galapagos islands. Besides, [[IAmNotWeasel those are tortoises]].
** It's also not about a term used by some Native Americans to refer to North America, although that term did arise from an example.
* TutorialFailure does not necessarily refer to a tutorial in a video game that becomes unfinishable due to a GameBreakingBug.
* A TVGenius does not necessarily know a lot about TV shows, nor would he or she necessarily be any good at repairing televisions.
* TwerpSweating has nothing to do with Team Rocket making things warm for [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the twerps]].
* TwiceShy has nothing to do with being bitten, and does not necessarily require either person to overcome past traumas.
* A TwiceToldTale is not a tale that is told, and then [[RashomonStyle immediately told again only differently]].
** Nor is it a story that has only ever been told twice.
* TwilightOfTheOldWest isn't about wangsty vampire cowboys. Or [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] moving to Appleloosa.
* A TwistedKneeCollapse isn't when someone injures their knee and falls over in agony.
* A TwistEnding shouldn’t necessarily involve the characters engaging in a game of Twister, but it ''could'' count if it comes out of left field
** It's also not a more specific form of the DancePartyEnding where everyone does The Twist.
* Someone who is TwoFaced literally has visually distinct sides of their face, and doesn't necessarily [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretend to be nice while having ulterior motives]], though they often overlap.
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad does not mean that every third character is a villain.
** Nor does it mean that one third of all media is bad, or that two thirds of a product pass its company's standards.
* TWordEuphemism is not about using other terms to refer to [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed tuberculosis.]]
** Nor is it implying that [[Webcomic/ThePetriDish Thaddeus Euphemism]]'s middle name is "Word" (it isn't, it's John).
* A {{Tykebomb}} is rarely a child suicide bomber.
* TyopOnTheCover does not mean that it features a person or band you ought to know named Tyop.
* TypewriterEating does not promote the consumption of word processors.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm is not about a tyrant obtaining a piece of headgear.
* TheTysonZone is not a remake of ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'' sponsored by a frozen chicken company, nor is it a Sonic the Hedgehog stage themed on frozen chicken. Nor is it about naming a region of space after UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson.
** And even though it is named for Creator/MikeTyson, it is definitely ''not'' where ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'' take place, at least not literally.
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