Administrivia / Split Tropes

Many trope pages come to be from a troper writing up and drafting their idea at the Trope Launch Pad. Others however, are mandated by discussions in the Trope Repair Shop (TRS), major clean-up threads, and other authoritative forums on the site with the express purpose of splitting existing tropes. This index covers all tropes created for such a reason.

A trope is eligible for this index if it was created:

• As a result of a TRS crowner or moderator in such a thread calling for its creation without a crowner.
• In accordance with one of the major Project Threads through consensus.
• From a concept that was sent to the Trope Idea Salvage Yard by one of the above forums.

This is not an index for tropes that were renamed because of a Trope Repair Shop decision. Those belong on Renamed Tropes. See also Launch Displacement, a sub-index for tropes whose definitions and contents were moved to new pages so a more appropriate article could take the old name's place.

Note: If adding to the index, remember to add a link to the TRS or project thread that led to the trope's creation at the end of your summary for referencing.

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Tropes:

# - B

• '20s Bob Haircut: Created after Bob Haircut was considered too wide to be tropeworthy, along with Sci-Fi Bob Haircut. [1]

• Accidental Misnaming: Created after the unclearly named My Name Is Not Durwood was noted as covering two separate situations of accidental and intentional misnaming. [2]

• Adoptive Peer Parent: Split off from Absurdly Youthful Mother by taking the soft-splits already existing on the page and making them hard splits. [3]

• Albinos Are Freaks: Launched as part of the effort to dewick Heroic Albino and Evil Albino, which have attracted large numbers of Zero Context Examples and generally degenerated into lists of fictional albinos. [4]

• Annoying Video Game Helper: Created once it was noted that Stop Helping Me was covering two separate tropes. [5][6]

• Asians Love Tea: Created during the TRS that disambiguated Spot Of Tea, after its original definition of a British National Stereotype is moved to Brits Love Tea, to catch usage for the East Asian counterpart of the latter. [7]

• Bald Head of Toughness: Created to preserve a tropeworthy aspect of Bald Women, which was turned into a disambiguation. [8]

• Bald Mystic: Created to preserve a tropeworthy aspect of Bald Women, which was turned into a disambiguation. [9]

• Baldness Means Sickness: Created to preserve a tropeworthy aspect of Bald Women, which was turned into a disambiguation. [10]

• Bald of Authority: Created to replace Bald Of Awesome, which had experienced Trope Decay due to an unclear description. [11]

• Better Off Sold: Created after Vendor Trash was disambiguated into two tropes. [12]

• Blade Enthusiast: Created to preserve a tropeworthy aspect of Knife Nut, which was turned into a disambiguation because of misuse and Trope Decay. [13]

• Bloody Hallucinations of Guilt: Spun out of the misuse for Out, Damned Spot! [14]

• Blue Is Calm: Created as part of a TRS effort that cleaned up Blue Is Heroic misuse to catch the usage of the color blue symbolizing calmness. [15]

C - D

• Calming Tea: Created during the TRS that disambiguated Spot Of Tea, after its original definition of a British National Stereotype is moved to Brits Love Tea, to catch usage of the beverage being used to help a character calm down from a stressful or traumatic ordeal. [16]

• Cell Phones Are Useless: Created to house the originally intended meaning of the old trope Can You Hear Me Now, after it was hard-split along the lines of the soft split the trope once had. [17]

• Character Catchphrase: Split from Catchphrase along with Index of Catchphrases. [18]

• Cinderella Plot: Part of an effort to deal with Cinderella Circumstances, which was later disambiguated. [19]

• Coming Of Age Queer Romance: Split off from Schoolgirl Lesbians during a TRS thread that declared the latter too broad a trope and elected to split it into two narrower tropes. [20]

• Constellations as Locations: Created as part of an attempt to extract valid tropes from Constellations, now a disambiguation, due to the latter having been judged not to have been a valid trope. [21]

• Court Jester: Split from The Jester to cover literal court jesters. [22]

• Courtroom Antics: Created to house misuse of Courtroom Antic (which is now a redirect) to mean unusual court proceedings, with the original definition being clarified and moved to Unconventional Courtroom Tactics. [23]

• Crazy Is Cool: Created to cover the "characters thought to be awesome because they're crazy/weird" definition of the frequently-misused and since-disambiguated Crazy Awesome. [24]

• The Day the Dinosaurs Died: Split from The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed along with Law of Time Travel Coincidences due to differing usages of the original trope. [25]

• Death of a Child: Infant Immortality was mostly a list of aversions and partial aversions, so they were broken out into two tropes, this being one of them. [26]

• Demographically Inappropriate Humour was created as part of repairing Getting Crap Past the Radar. [27]

• Demon of Human Origin: Launched as part of the Badass Tropes Clean-Up Project to deal with Like A Badass Out Of Hell. [28]

• Devious Daggers: Created to preserve a tropeworthy aspect of Knife Nut, which was turned into a disambiguation. [29]

• Devil's Job Offer: Launched as part of the Badass Tropes Clean-Up Project to deal with Like A Badass Out Of Hell. [30]

• Devil's Pitchfork: Split from Prongs of Poseidon to house examples of tridents and similar weapons being associated with evil, particularly demons and Satan, while reserving Prongs of Poseidon for examples related to the sea and sea gods. [31]

• Disco Sucks: Created because Condemned by History, which was originally called Deader Than Disco, was a Pothole Magnet for sentences that were merely about the downfall of disco instead of works that became widely hated over time. [32]

• Dying Smirk: For sneering smiles upon death, taken from Go Out with a Smile. [33]

E - F

• Elongating Arm Gag: Was made to house the old "Toon Physics gag" definition of Extendable Arms after the latter was converted to fit the "character with extendable limbs" misuse. [34]

• Emasculated Cuckold: Created as part of a TRS effort for a handful of tropes related to infidelity, including the now definition-only page Cuckold when the latter was deemed not tropeworthy. [35]

• Enchanted Forest: Split from The Lost Woods in response to the latter trope's focus issues due to being used as both "magical forest" and "video game forest level". [36]

• Endearingly Dorky: Created as part of the Adorkable TRS project for in-universe characters finding someone's dorkiness charming, while Adorkable was retooled into an Audience Reaction for when the audience finds a character's dorkiness charming. [37][38] [39]

• Escaped from Hell: Launched as part of the Badass Tropes Clean-Up Project to deal with Like A Badass Out Of Hell. [40]

• Ethereal White Dress: Created as part of a TRS that turned Woman In White into a disambiguation page to catch the usage of supernatural being dressed in white. [41][42][43]

• Everyone Must Be Paired: Created to catch misuse from Pair the Spares where the majority of the cast are given love interests even though they are not a part of any Love Triangle. [44]

• Fan-Created Offspring: Created as part of repairing the now disambiguated Next Gen Fic. [45]

• Feral Villain: Created to split off one possible meaning for Generic Doomsday Villain. [46]

• Fire Keeps It Dead: Among the tropes identified by the Kill It with Fire TRS thread. [47]

• Flowers of Femininity: Created after The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up thread decided to axe all tropes that once populated Personal Appearance Tropes, which included Flowers In Her Hair, before it became a Super Index. [48]

• Flowers of Nature: Created after The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up thread decided to axe all tropes that once populated Personal Appearance Tropes, which included Flowers In Her Hair, before it became a Super Index. [49]

• Freshman Fears: Made as part of a thread for Second Year Protagonist to catch aversions of that trope. [50]

• Funny Octopus: Launched as part of the Ganishing The Story clean up project to cover tropeworthy aspects of Everythings Squishier With Cephalopods. [51]

G - H

• "Gaining Confidence" Song was created to house one of the concepts originally covered by Small Start, Big Finish. [52]

• Gay Romantic Phase: Split off from Schoolgirl Lesbians during as it was declared the latter to be too broad. [53][54][55]

• Gender-Concealing Writing was split from Gender Neutral Writing because the latter was determined to be too broad to be meaningful. In addition, Gender Misdirection was merged with the former. [56]

• Gender-Inclusive Writing was split from Gender Neutral Writing because the latter was determined to be too broad to be meaningful. [57]

• Gold Tooth of Wealth: Split from Gold Tooth after it was shown that the trope was being used to cover multiple different ideas as well as general untropeworthy "character has a gold tooth" examples. [58]

• Good Princess, Evil Queen: Created from a thread about Everythings Better With Princesses, which is now a disambiguation. [59]

• Gratuitous Princess was created from a thread about Everythings Better With Princesses, which is now a disambiguation. [60]

• Helicopter Parents was created from a thread about Meddling Parents, which has since been disambiguated. [61]

• Hell Has New Management: Launched as part of the Badass Tropes Clean-Up Project to deal with Like A Badass Out Of Hell. [62]

• Heroism Motive Speech: Created to catch misuse from "No More Holding Back" Speech (which used to be "World of Cardboard" Speech). [63][64][65]

• High-Tier Scrappy: Split from Tier Induced Scrappy as part of the latter's TRS cleanup. [66]

• Hobo Gloves: Created after The Grand Unified Appearance Trope Clean-up thread decided to axe all tropes that once populated Personal Appearance Tropes, which included Fingerless Gloves, before it became a Super Index. [67]

I - L

• Ill-Timed Sneeze: Launched because Sneeze of Doom was being misused for unusually powerful sneezes when it was intended for badly timed sneezes causing problems. A Trope Transplant resulted in Sneeze of Doom being redefined to match misuse, while the original definition was moved to a new name. [68]

• Improbable Infant Survival: Infant Immortality was mostly a list of aversions and partial aversions, so they were broken out into two tropes, this being one of them. [69]

• Index of Catchphrases: Split from Catchphrase along with Character Catchphrase. [70]

• Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Created after All Asians Are Alike was split into two tropes to confrom to misuse. [71]

• Late Pregnancy Realization: Drafted and launched for more-specific misuse on Surprise Pregnancy and is now a subtrope for Surprise Pregnancy. [72]

• Law of Time Travel Coincidences: Split from The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed along with The Day the Dinosaurs Died due to differing usages of the original trope. [73]

• Low-Tier Letdown: Split from Tier Induced Scrappy as part of the latter's TRS cleanup. [74]

M - O

• Magic Fire: Was identified as part of a TRS thread about Kill It with Fire and identifying different fire-based tropes. [75]

• Malicious Misnaming: Created after the unclearly named My Name Is Not Durwood was noted as covering two separate situations of accidental and intentional misnaming. [76]

• Manly Facial Hair: Created after merging Badass Beard and Badass Mustache when the two were decided to be rife with ZCE and misuse. [77]

• Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes: Created from a TRS decision to split Martial Arts and Crafts. [78]

• Martial Arts Staff: Created as the remaining tropeworthy concept of Simple Staff, when the latter trope was deemed Not Tropeworthy and disambiguated. [79]

• Mirth to Power: Split from The Jester to cover characters who use comedy to criticize authority figures, a role traditionally held by court jesters. [80]

• Mixed Ancestry Is Attractive: Created after Mixed Ancestry was merged into the Interracial and Interspecies Love Index in an attempt to salvage some tropeworthy usage of the trope. [81]

• Mondegreen Gag: Created in an attempt to preserve the trope concept from Mondegreen, which itself became a Definition Only Page. [82].

• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Split off from Absurdly Youthful Mother by taking the soft-splits already existing on the page and making them hard splits. [83]

• Natural Elements: Split off from Elemental Powers when issues with that trope's examples raised questions about its usefulness [84].

• Neglected Rez: Split out of The Rez as the previous trope's definition was determined to be so broad as to not be tropeworthy [85]

• Nerds Are Naïve: Split out of Nerds Are Innocent after it was pointed out that Nerds Are Innocent was Not Thriving, had an unclear description, and suffered misuse because of an unnoticed premature launch. [86]

• Not Always Evil: Created to deal with a misuse issue Good All Along was suffering from to focus on Always Chaotic Evil groups being revealed to not be so evil. [87]

• Old People are Nonsexual was launched from the thread that cut Nobody Over Fifty Is Gay, with the new trope focusing on elderly people not having sex lives instead of just gay elderly people not having sex lives. [88]

• Optional Boss: Split off from the now-defunct Bonus Boss trope during a TRS thread in order to resolve persistent misuse of the latter trope. [89]

P - R

• Perennially Overshadowed Birthday: Taken from the Trope Idea Salvage Yard from one of the concepts yarded after the "Leap Day" trope page was converted into a useful notes page. [90]

• Political Correctness Is Evil: Created to house the original definition of Political Correctness Gone Mad (that being works treating political correctness as a bad thing), which is now a disambiguation. [91]

• Political Overcorrectness: Created to house parodies of political correctness as decided by the thread for Political Correctness Gone Mad. [92]

• Princess Protagonist was created from a thread about Everythings Better With Princesses, which is now a disambiguation. [93]

• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Created to encompass the original intention of Brainy Specs after it was noted that the latter trope has suffered Trope Decay to cover any smart person wearing glasses. [94]

• Racial Face Blindness: Was originally called Identical-Looking Asians and came from the splitting of All Asians Are Alike into two separate tropes. However, it was later broadened and expanded to be less Asian-focused. [95][96]

• Renamed to Avoid Association: Created after One Mario Limit was moved to "Just For Fun," to cover creators who believed in that "limit" renaming their own characters to avoid using names associated with more popular characters. [97][98]

• Reptilian Conspiracy: Sandboxed and then swapped to catch conspiracy examples of The Reptilians, which is a redirect to Lizard Folk now. [99]

S

• Sacred Flames: Among the tropes identified by the Kill It with Fire TRS thread. [100]

• Scary Stinging Swarm: Split from Bee Afraid to cover the "chased by a swarm of bees" usage. [101]

• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Created after Bob Haircut was considered too wide to be tropeworthy, along with '20s Bob Haircut. [102]

• Senior Year Struggles was made as part of a thread for Second Year Protagonist to catch aversions of that trope. [103]

• Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes was made as part of a thread for Evil Is Sexy due to most examples of the latter being discovered to be written objectively, despite previously being categorized as subjective. [104]

• Shocking Moments: Created as part of turning the "Just For Fun" page Holy Shit Quotient into a fanspeak page. [105][106][107]

• Shop Fodder: Created after Vendor Trash was disambiguated into two tropes. [108]

• Sickeningly Sweet: Created when Tastes Like Diabetes was split in two tropes, in-universe and Audience Reaction, to deal with misuse. [109]

• A Side Order of Romance came out of a failed TRS attempt to split Service Sector Stereotypes into subtropes. [110]

• Situational Hand Switch: Split off of The Southpaw, which was later reworked into Southpaw Advantage, after the latter suffered immense Trope Decay in order to capture one of the common forms of misuse. [111]

• Smart People Wear Glasses: Split out of Brainy Specs to cover the "smart people wear glasses" misuse of that trope. [112]

• Stellification: Created as part of an attempt to extract valid tropes from Constellations, now a disambiguation, due to the latter having been judged not to have been a valid trope. [113]

• Stereotypical Nerd: Created after Nerd was turned into a redirect to Indexed and Nerdy when Trope Decay made it a ZCE magnet with significant misuse. [114]

• Stern Old Judge: Created to salvage the core idea of The Judge before the latter became a disambiguation. [115]

• Success Through Insanity: Created during the disambiguation of Crazy Awesome to cover the "character's effective at what they do because of their insanity" aspect of the latter trope. [116]

• Superboss: Split off from the now-defunct Bonus Boss trope during a TRS thread in order to resolve persistent misuse of the latter trope. [117]

• Super Cell Reception: Created because Can You Hear Me Now, apart from being a stock phrase, was covering two distinct enough concepts. [118]

• Superior Twin Teamwork: Created to replace Think Twins as it had an unclear definition, leading to misuse. [119]

• Supernaturally Young Parent: Split off from Absurdly Youthful Mother by taking the soft-splits already existing on the page and making them hard splits. [120]

• Surprisingly Lenient Censor: Created as part of repairing Getting Crap Past the Radar. [121]

• Sweetness Aversion: Created when Tastes Like Diabetes was split in two tropes, in-universe and Audience Reaction, to deal with misuse. [122]

• Symbolic Hero Rebirth: Created to house the original definition of Can't Refuse the Call Anymore after that name was reused for a supertrope. [123]

T - Z

• Tea Is Classy: Created during the TRS that disambiguated Spot Of Tea, after its original definition of a British National Stereotype is moved to Brits Love Tea, to catch usage of tea being used as a sign of a character's wealth and class. [124]

• Technicolor Magic: Created after Supernatural Is Green and Supernatural Is Purple were disambiguated after similar "Supernatural is Color" tropes were being proposed at the Trope Launch Pad. [125]

• Tentacled Terror: Launched as part of the Ganishing The Story clean up project to cover tropeworthy aspects of Everythings Squishier With Cephalopods. [126]

• Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Created after Tyrannosaurus Rex was deemed not tropeworthy and made into a Useful Notes page to capture some of the tropeworthy aspects of the old trope. [127]

• These Tropes Are Evil and Sexy was made as part of a thread for Evil Is Sexy to hold the index originally located on the latter page. [128]

• Trans Chaser was made as part of a thread that spun new tropes off Transgender Fetishization to due to issues with the latter's scope and usage. [129]

• Trans Equals Hypersexual was made as part of a thread that spun new tropes off Transgender Fetishization to due to issues with the latter's scope and usage. [130]

• Transformation Horror: Created to host the original definition of Body Horror. [131]

• T. Rexpy: Trope for T. rex like monsters created after Tyrannosaurus Rex was deemed not tropeworthy and made into a Useful Notes page to capture some of the tropeworthy aspects of the old trope. [132]

• Unconventional Courtroom Tactics: A clarified version of the original definition of Courtroom Antic (which was turned into a redirect to a new trope, Courtroom Antics), which refers to the use of unorthodox methods during court proceedings. [133]

• Unwanted Assistance: Created once it was noted that Stop Helping Me was covering two separate tropes. [134][135]

• Villain in a White Suit: First created as a rename of Man In White to catch the classy villain in a white fancy suit usage of the latter. Man In White eventually was redirected to Woman In White, which itself became a disambiguation page. [136]

• Villainous Gold Tooth: Split from Gold Tooth after it was shown that the trope was being used to cover multiple different ideas as well as general untropeworthy "character has a gold tooth" examples. [137]

• Waterfront Boss Battle: Created when Underwater Boss Battle visited the repair shop, and there was enough of a narrative difference between battles occurring underwater and battles occurring atop or at the water's edge to split the concepts. [138]

• Wedding Episode: Launched after Wedding Day was disambiguated for being not tropeworthy. [139]

• Wedding Finale: Launched after Wedding Day was disambiguated for being not tropeworthy. [140]

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