I Thought It Meant / D to F

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

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• Dada Ad does not refer to that Volkswagen commercial where two guys ride around while listening to Trio's "Da Da Da".
  • Nor is it an ad in Baby Talk or a PSA about fatherhood.
  • Nor is it a commercial featuring the Indian cricketer Saurav Ganguly.
  • Nor is it an advertisement promoting Dada ads.
• Da Chief isn't the one you hail to, nor are they a tribal chief.
• A Daddy DNA Test is not a DNA test on a daddy-long-legs. Nor is it about the test itself being the father.
• A Daddy System is not a prostitution ring.
  • Nor is it a set of tools or techniques men use to be better parents.
• A Dagwood Sandwich isn't a sandwich made of wood.
• Damage Over Time does not refer to the rate calculated by dividing damage by time.
  • In video games, that's instead called Damage-Per-Second.
  • Nor does it refer to someone preferring a boost which gives extra damage to one which gives extra time.
  • It's three words, not two. So if that guy with Hero Insurance blasts through downtown and Damage Control has to work overtime...that's not this trope.
  • It's also not about the speedrunning practice of performing actions that result in player damage because it's faster than non-damaging alternatives.
• A Damage-Sponge Boss is not (necessarily) a boss who uses a sponge as a weapon.
• Damage Typing is not about a hero who harms his enemies with the power of keyboards, or about typing so fast that you get blisters on your fingers.
  • Nor is it about typing the amount of damage you want to deal.
• Damsel Scrappy is not a young woman in scrappy clothes, nor is it Scrappy-Doo turning into a female.
  • Additionally, despite "scrappy" as a regular word being a near synonym for "plucky", a Damsel Scrappy is pretty much the opposite of a Plucky Girl.
• Dance Battler is not when you tell the protagonist of Umineko: When They Cry to dance.
  • Nor is it someone who engages in dance battles... usually.
• Dancing Bear is not meant to be followed by Painted Wings. Neither is it a dangerous entity who is paraded on the court to show how powerful their captor is.
  • Nor does it (necessarily) involve an actual bear or a giant hairy macho gay man dancing.
• Dancing with Myself is not about two clones waltzing.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique does not refer to The Ludovico Technique.
• Dangerous Windows is not about the perils of using Microsoft Windows, nor is it about virus-filled windows in any operating system.
• Danger Takes a Backseat does not mean that things temporarily become less dangerous. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
  • Nor does it mean that a character considers a mundane problem to be more important than a serious danger. That would be Skewed Priorities.
  • Nor does it describe the Walking Disaster Area sitting in the back seat of a vehicle.
• The Danza has nothing to do with Danzaburou.
• Darker and Edgier does not mean using a recently sharpened knife without turning on the lights. On an unrelated note, NEVER use a recently sharpened knife without turning on the lights!
  • Nor is it related to evil dark swords.
  • Nor does it refer to someone who has become tanner and more irritable.
• A Darker Me is not the ambition of someone who's going tanning.
  • Dark Yugi, Dark Bakura, and Dark Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh! are not examples.
    • Neither is Dark Pit.
• A Dark Fic is not a fanfiction about dark skin, hair, or clothes, or one about nighttime.
• Dark Horse Casting is not a subtype of Comic-Book Fantasy Casting involving properties published by Dark Horse Comics.
• A Dark Horse Victory does not necessarily mean the Ensemble Dark Horse wins.
  • It also doesn't necessarily involve a victory for Dark Horse Comics.
  • It's not a victory for Nightmare Moon, either.
• Dark Is Not Evil is not a value judgment of the Split Personality of D.N.Angel's main character.
  • It also isn't about reassuring people that, despite her last name sounding kind of intimidating, Joanna Dark is a good person.
• The Dark Side is not about a side dish (a smaller food item meant to accompany the main dish) that is somehow dark (such as being dark-colored, being poorly illuminated, or somehow evil).
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget may have something to do with how a hero turns into a villain, but it's not about him/her forgetting all the good memories he/she had about his/her time as the hero (or his/her former hero identity, for that matter) in the process.
  • Nor is it about the aforementioned side dish that somehow makes people forget.
• A Dartboard of Hate is not a magic-imbued dartboard that spreads hatred and anger around.
• Darth Wiki is not a wiki dedicated to Star Wars. That would be Wookieepedia.
• Dashing Hispanic does not necessarily refer to a Hispanic character who runs fast. (Speedy himself would be an example of the trope, though, in both senses.)
• Dashingly Dapper Derby is not about everyone in Derby being a Quintessential British Gentleman.
  • Nor is it a race between very cultured horses
  • Nor is it an alternate universe version of Derby.
• Dastardly Whiplash does not refer to the consequences of a car accident.
  • Nor is it a Mood Whiplash relating to somebody abruptly becoming a Card-Carrying Villain.
  • It's got jack all to do with whips, too.
  • Neither is it an appropriate trope for the Iron Man villain.
  • Nor is it in any way related to Whiplash.
• Dateless Grave is not about someone dying without ever having gone on a date.
  • Neither is it about graves with a lack of fruit.
  • Nor is it a character whose romantic life is ruined by their taking everything too seriously.
• Dating Catwoman, regrettably, offers no advice on how to date Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry, or Anne Hathaway.
  • There's nothing on how to tell how old Catwoman is, either. (We recommend not asking.)
• Dating Do-Si-Do is not a new dance, nor is it a new flavor of Girl Scout cookie.
  • Nor is it about dating someone with that name.
• Dawson Casting has nothing to do with casting people from Dawson City.
  • Or Joe or Roxann going fishing.
• Daydream Surprise is not about someone having a surprising Imagine Spot.
• DDR does not refer to East Germany on this wiki.
  • Or DDR RAM.
    • Neither is it to be mistaken for the noise coming from those cracks in the wall, "DRR DRR DRR".
• Dead Artists Are Better does not imply that undead have superior artistic skills to living ones.
• Dead Drop has nothing to do with corpses.
• A Dead Fic is not fan fiction about a character dying, nor is it fiction about any flavor of The Undead.
• Dead Horse Genre is not about stories that kill off horses for drama.
  • Dead Horse Trope is not about killing horses for drama.
  • Dead Unicorn Trope does not refer to the dead unicorn in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
  • Undead Horse Trope is not about zombie horses. That would be Hellish Horse.
• The Deadliest Mushroom is not a new show on the Discovery Channel about high-risk truffle hunting.
  • Nor is it about the weirdly-colored shrooms in some Super Mario Bros. games.
  • Or any literal mushroom that can kill you. The actual deadliest mushroom is the destroying angel, but the page is not about those.
• Dead Link is not when Link from The Legend of Zelda series dies.
• Deadly Disc isn't necessarily a computer disk (hard or floppy) or CD or DVD.
  • It also doesn't mean that on Discworld, Everything Is Trying to Kill You. That's only true if you're Rincewind.
• Deadly Dodging is not about killing your attackers by simply dodging their attacks... not usually, anyway.
  • Nor is it about designing Dodge automobiles to be as dangerous as Pintos.
  • Nor is it about a Deadly Game of Dodgeball.
• A Deadly Game is not a hunted animal, or the meat of one, that can cause death.
• A Deadly Hug is not a hug so strong it kills the character being hugged, whether accidentally or on purpose. That's And Call Him "George".
• Deadly Rotary Fan is not about an Ax-Crazy Loony Fan who is a member ot a Rotary club. Or a similar fan of a Rotary club. Or a similar fan of rotary-engine vehicles.
• Dead Man's Chest has nothing to do with pirates, the death of someone subjected to Marshmallow Hell, nor the literal chest region of a human corpse.
• A Dead Man's Hand was not once (nor still is) connected to a Dead Man's Wrist.
• A Dead Man's Switch is not the substituting of one corpse for another.
  • Nor is it a switch that can be used to either kill or resurrect a given person.
  • Nor is it a Nintendo Switch designed for dead gamers.
• A Deadpan Snarker is not a character who's only trait is making sarcastic remarks about deceased cookware, nor is it about someone who snarks when the god of nature dies.
• Dead Person Impersonation is impersonation of a specific dead person, not just pretending to be dead. That would be Playing Possum.
• A Dead Pet Sketch is not someone drawing a dead pet.
  • Nor is it a zombie pet drawing.
• The Dead Rise to Advertise has nothing to do with zombies. And That's Terrible.
• Dead Sidekick does not refer to having any variety of zombie, ghost, or other types of The Undead, for a sidekick.
• A Dead Star Walking is actually 6-feet-under dead - not a vampire, zombie, or any other manner of walking dead thing. Same goes for Posthumous Character.
  • Nor does it refer to a black dwarf or neutron star walking the streets.
  • It also isn’t when a celebrity dies between recording and the show/movie coming out. That's Died During Production.
• Dead to Begin With has nothing to do with what happens when Kenshiro kicks your ass.
  • It's not about abortions, either.
  • It's also got nothing to do with time-traveling to kill someone before the beginning of the series.
• Deal with the Devil is not about having to put up with Satan, nor is it about playing card games with him.
• Deathbringer the Adorable is not about cute, harmless-looking animals which turn out to be much more dangerous than they look. It's also not about a certain NightWing acting cute.
• Death by Adaptation is not about an adaptation so bad that it kills the franchise.
  • Nor is it about natural selection.
• Death by Despair does not mean Zetsubou-sensei killed someone.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with Danganronpa. The victims of the series' Deadly Games may have died in the name of despair, but that doesn't fit this trope.
  • Nor is it when you lose to the Final Boss of ZeroRanger.
  • Or turning into a Void Egg in Void Stranger.
• Death by Falling Over doesn't mean that people have finished dying by falling.
  • It's not the same thing as Not the Fall That Kills You…, either.
• A Death by Flashback does not mean a living character becomes Retconned as dead via a flashback.
• Death by Looking Up doesn't mean the person was killed by research.
• Death by Materialism does not refer to dying of the philosophical viewpoint that only matter exists and the mind is an illusion.
  • Nor is it necessarily about being crushed to death beneath one's worldly possessions.
• Death by Mocking isn't a form of Break Them by Talking.
• Death by Newbery Medal does not mean using the medal as an improvised weapon.
  • Nor is there a Newbery Medal Curse where whoever wins one dies shortly afterward in unusual ways.
• Death by Racism isn't about hate crimes or genocide. In fact, it's almost the exact opposite; the victim is the one who's racist. (It's also about characters who show racism in-universe and die, not about characters who get killed off because of racist creators/audiences or tropes with Unfortunate Implications.)
• None of the "Death by..." pages are about works titled "Death" which are so numerous they had to be separated by putting the oddly-named author in the title.
• A Death Course isn't something you can take for credit at the Academy of Evil.
  • Nor is it what you serve yourself if you tin Death, then eat him.
  • It's not what a Ron the Death Eater character has for a meal, either.
• Death Dealer isn't a page about Frank Frazetta's character.
  • It also has nothing to do with Tara Gilesbie's versions of the Death Eaters.
  • Not is it about dealers of death sticks.
• A Death Fic isn't one about the Grim Reaper necessarily.
• Death Is a Loser is not about the result of winning a game of Chess with Death.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist does not involve killing people by slapping them on the wrist.
• Death Is Cheap is not about the Grim Reaper cutting corners on his budget. Well, not directly at least.
  • Nor is it about the price of deadly weapons.
  • Nor is it instances of said Grim Reaper being That One Boss.
• Death Is Gray is not about monochrome depictions of the Grim Reaper.
• Death Is Dramatic is not about the Grim Reaper being a Knight of Cerebus.
• Death Notification is not an attempt to make a work more similar to Death Note.
  • It also isn't a notification that you, the player, have died.
• Although they perfectly rhyme, Death of a Child has nothing to do with Breath of the Wild.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts is not when the actors and staff of a movie get so sick of the director constantly asking for retakes of a scene that they kill him.
• Death of the Author does not mean the LITERAL death of the author.
• Death of the Old Gods is not what World of Warcraft players are responsible for. That's Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?.
• A Death Seeker is not a particularly dangerous Decepticon jet.
  • Nor is a Seeker Archetype of Skywarp, Starscream, or Thundercracker.
  • It's not a seeker missile that only tracks death.
  • Or a murderous Quidditch player.
  • Nor is it someone looking for the Grim Reaper.
  • It also isn't a homing boat-shaped ink bomb that tracks down death.
• Death World isn't a world occupied only by undead (although that would be an example)
• Debt Detester is not a character with a hatred of mortgages... or a hatred of that American gameshow.
• A Debug Room is not the office space where the game testers work. Nor is it a safe place to remove insects or surveillance devices from your person.
• Decade Dissonance does not involve a distance between viewer and show when watching Kamen Rider Decade.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best was not said by a Self-Made Orphan, and does not imply that The Undead are more capable parents than live people.
• A Deckbuilding Game doesn't normally involve constructing a porch.
• Decomposite Character isn't about zombie or undead characters.
• Decompressed Comic is about comics getting longer due to more flashy art pages. It's nothing to do with sci-fi, the Plucky Comic Relief character and Squick.
  • It also doesn't refer to digital comics being unzipped from a .zip or .rar file.
• Decon-Recon Switch is not about decontaminating, doing reconnaissance, or switching up who does either.
• Decoy Damsel is not about substituting the princess with a stand-in so that the bad guy kidnaps the wrong person.
• Default Setting Syndrome isn't about overuse of the Standard Fantasy Setting, or any other Settings tropes.
• People don't utter a Defensive "What?" when you mention defensive ligma.^note That's because they would instead ask "Who the hell is Steve Jobs?!"
• Defiant to the End is not about refusing to listen to The Beatles' final song.
  • Also doesn't refer to the last scene of the first Defiant ship in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
  • It's also not about defying death, either literally or figuratively.
  • It's not about refusing to accept that a series ended, either.
  • It also has nothing to do with defying an aged Russian sniper.
  • Nor is it anything to do with fighting the Ender Dragon
• A Defiant Strip is not a comic strip run in the newspapers because someone else won't let the cartoonist do that.
• Defictionalization does not redirect to either Reality Bleed or The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You.
• Defiled Forever is not about permanently removing someone's records from an archive or about police giving up on a tough case for good.
  • Or a redirect to Ruined FOREVER. It's somewhat more serious than that.
• Defrosting Ice Queen is not about a female monarch with ice powers losing said powers.
• Defying the Censors is not what you have to do in Psychonauts' Mental Worlds.
• A Deliberately Bad Example does not contain any Word Cruft.
• Delirious Misidentification is not when you think you've finally found Delirious but it turns out to be Lil Delirium. Again.
• Demanding Their Head is not about someone who is overly insistent on using somebody's toilet.
• Dem Bones is not a skeleton who votes for Democrats.
• A Demonic Dummy is not a villain or monster who is not very intelligent.
• A Demonic Head Shake is not a milkshake made from the heads of demons. It's also not how the devil says "no".
• Demonic Spiders are not necessarily spiders from hell.
• Denial of Animality is not when your opponent won't let you do an animal-themed Fatality on them.
• Derailing Love Interests is not about how interesting someone finds it to keep a couple apart.
  • Nor is it derailing a train to harm someone's love interest.
• Derivative Differentiation is not about calculating the second derivative.
• Descended Creator is not Fallen Creator.
• A Descent into Darkness Song is not what a character sings as they go downstairs into a poorly lit place. Nor is it exclusive to songs about a character turning evil.
• A Description in the Mirror is not when someone writes notes or etches graffiti onto a mirror, nor is it about notes from the mirror's manufacturer.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with Tomato in the Mirror.
• Designated Hero, despite what Sonic Boom claims, is not a policy where only one person is permitted to be a protagonist at any time.
• A Designated Monkey is not an actor assigned to play a monkey character, unless that role turns out to be extremely unpleasant.
• A Designated Victim is not a bizarre inversion of Designated Survivor, nor is it normally someone who plays the role of a hostage in a crisis simulation. It's certainly not the same thing as a Chronically Killed Actor.
• A Designated Villain is not an actor having to play a villain.
• Designer Babies are not babies that design for a living.
  • Nor is it a Spin-Off Babies cartoon starring a bunch of famous designers through history.
• A Design Student's Orgasm is not about a student from a design school being sexually excited, nor is it about said student having inherent qualities that cause everyone around them to be sexually excited.
• A Desk Jockey is not a type of zombie.
  • Nor does it refer to Conan O'Brien being the one Driving a Desk.
• Destroyer Deity is not about Terrarians worshipping a mechanical worm boss as a god.
• Destructo-Nookie: The nookie isn't what's causing the destruction (except that one time, but still...)
  • Nor is it Tom Nook gone insane.
• Detachment Combat is not about tactics for military-units.
  • Nor is it fighting between similar sized military-units.
    • Nor is it fighting by remaining emotionally distant.
    • Or winning the fight by maiming your opponent.
• A Determinator is not a destroyer of Terminators. Although if they want to, nothing's gonna stop them. Neither is it someone who reverses the termination of others, though, again, if they want to...
  • Nor is it the eternal enemy of Free Willy.
  • Nor is it a Terminator who's been pumped full of determination.
• Determined Doctor is not determining that someone is a doctor.
• A Dethroning Moment of Suck is not a failed attempt to dethrone a king, though depending on the work, that might be an example.
• Détournement has nothing to do with undoing a Tournament Arc.
• Deus Exit Machina is not a Deus ex Machina in which the villain simply decides to get up and leave.
• Deus Sex Machina does not mean God Sex Machine (in this case, at least).
  • Or when the writer can't think of a way to resolve a story except for spontaneous sex.
• Developers' Desired Date has nothing to do with scheduled release dates or set deadlines.
  • It also has nothing to do with dates as a Trademark Favorite Food for the development team.
  • Nor was Kotaro Uchikoshi in a Pygmalion Plot when working on AI: The Somnium Files.
• Developer's Foresight is not a move that allows developers to hit Ghost-type Pokémon
• Development Hell is not the near-smothering of a person's face in an underdeveloped chest.
  • Nor is it where failed projects, who have committed mortal sin, go when they die.
• In Devious Daggers, "daggers" refers to the weapon and not the symbol (†).
• Devour the Dragon is not about a risky but useful way to feed an entire fantasy village.
• A Diabolical Dog Catcher is not someone who catches diabolical dogs.
• Diagnosis of God and Word of Gay are subtropes of Word of God, but Diagnosis of Gay is not
• A Diagonal Cut does not refer to those old movie transitions where one shot is replaced with the next one via a moving diagonal line.
  • Neither is it a kind of haircut.
• Dialogue Tree is not about talking trees. Well, not necessarily.
  • Nor is it about multiple comic book word balloons connected to each other.
  • Dialogue Trees should really not be epileptic.
• Diamonds in the Buff is not about unpolished, uncut diamonds. Those are rather rare in fiction.
• The Diaper Change is not about change you get after paying for a diaper, nor is it about Shapeshifting into a diaper.
• Diaper Check is not what someone might say if they're looking at a checklist of things they need for babysitting a baby.
  • Nor does it refer to a financial check used to give money to pay for diapers.
• Dice Roll Death isn't exclusive to Tabletop Games, so it doesn't refer to those times when your character dies because your dice roll is too low. Actual DiceRollDeaths are very rare in games of any sort, because they take away player agency.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat is not (inherently) an adultery trope. Get your mind out of the gutter.
• Did Not Do the Bloody Research is not a mistake when filming a graphic death scene. (So, Overdrawn at the Blood Bank is not related to it.)
  • Nor is it someone complaining about a research failure.
  • Nor is it about a medical professional who didn't study Hematology.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? is not necessarily about Flipping the Bird or Cthulhu, but flipping the bird to Cthulhu would definitely qualify. It's not about doing a backflip while you're standing on top of Cthulhu either.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? is not about Cthulhu appearing in any of the Punch-Out!! series.
• Die, Chair, Die! is not German for "the chair the".
• Die for Our Ship is not about killing anybody for any kind of vessel.
• "Die Hard" on an X is not about crucifixion. 'X' is also not a placeholder for any type of drug, as in "Die Hard On Crack".
• Difficult, but Awesome is not an Opposite Trope to It's Hard, So It Sucks!.
  • Nor does it mean someone has trouble getting along with other people but is well-liked anyway.
• Difficulty by Region is not about the difficulty being different in different areas of a video game.
  • Nor is it about Pokémon games set in different regions having different difficulty.
• Difficulty Spikes are not Spikes of Doom that only show up on higher difficulty levels, though spikes that only show up on higher stages might be.
• Digital Avatar is not about digital versions of Avatar nor Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• A Digital Bikini is not when a woman covers her breasts with her fingers.
  • Nor does it refer to a bikini on any video game character.
  • It's not a bikini made of 1's and 0's either.
• Digital Destruction is not about injuring one's fingers.
  • Nor about smashing computers.
• Digital Horror is not about the Horrors of having one's fingers cut off.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil his nothing to do with selling other people's fingers and toes for fun and profit.
  • Nor does it mean that it's evil to have a pirate avatar in an online roleplay.
• Dinner and a Show does not refer to the common date night plan of going to dinner and watching a show.
• Dinner with the Boss is not a boss fight in which the player dines with the boss.
  • Nor is it about having dinner with Bruce Springsteen.
• Dinosaur Media does not refer to entire forms of media that are now considered extinct.
• Directionless Driver is not about device drivers that should have come with instructions, but didn't.
• Dirty Communists is about neither horny Soviet agents nor unwashed revolutionaries.
• A Dirty Coward is not about a coward who's lecherous or covered in dirt.
• A Dirty Kid is not about a kid who's covered in dirt, nor is it about an evil kid.
  • Likewise, Dirty Old Man and Dirty Old Woman are not about seniors who are covered in dirt.
  • And a Dirty Cop is neither covered in literal dirt nor dirty in the sense of the above examples; lewdness is far from his only offense.
• A Disability Immunity is not the power of being immune to disabling effects.
• Disaster Dominoes does not refer to a place you should never get pizza from.
  • Nor is it about dominoes that cause disasters.
• A Disc-One Nuke is not a nuclear bomb that the local Gadgeteer Genius created from a videogame's first disc.
  • Nor is it about using a nuke as a plot point early in the game.
• Disconnected by Death is not when his scythe is used for physical cutting.
• Discord Tropes are not tropes gathered for the draconequus Spirit of Chaos, Discord. Though he certainly would approve of most of them.
  • It's also not about tropes that pertain to the messaging app.
• Discotek Media is not a record company trying to bring Disco and LaserDisc back.
• Discount Lesbians are not ten percent off.
  • Nor does it mean straight women who become gay for less of a price than they usually charge.
  • It also is definitely not a command telling people not to listen to what lesbians have to say.
• A Discredited Meme is not a meme that is proven factually inaccurate, nor is it an alleged meme that is proven to not even really be a meme at all.
• Disease Bleach refers to pale hair from sickness, not pale skin. It also isn't about a particular kind of bleach that causes a disease.
• Disease-Prevention Aesop is not about a disease preventing An Aesop from happening. Quite the opposite really.
• Dishing Out Dirt has nothing to do with gossips.
  • It also doesn't refer to dirt being served in a restaurant.
• Disney Death is not about Walt Disney's actual death. Nor is it about Disney going bankrupt.
• Disney Dog Fight is not related to Old-School Dogfight, nor to actual fights between dogs.
• Disneyland Dad does not refer to Disney adults who are also parents.
• Disney Owns This Trope is not about tropes that Disney is extremely good at using or strongly associated with. It's using "trope" as a placeholder, not about tropes themselves. (For that matter, it's using Disney as a placeholder; the actual company owning the trope can be another one, real or fictional.)
• Disney Villain Death is not about a villain having a Disney Death.
• A Disposable Woman is not one who has outlived her usefulness, nor does it cover the mindset of dumping a girlfriend, then immediately moving on and finding another one without any sympathy for the previous one. (Sonichu combines them both!)
• A Disposable Pilot is not a low-budget mock up of a first episode for pitching an idea that is intended to be reshot if picked up.
  • Nor does it refer to a first episode that while made was never broadcast and becomes noncanon.
• Dissimile has nothing to do with being dismissed with rockets, cool as that sounds.
• Dissonant Serenity does not occur when the cast of Firefly spends an episode arguing among themselves. You might want to check here for that.
  • Also has nothing to do with disagreeing Moon Kingdom royalty.
  • Or disliking Lisa Ortiz's voice acting in Yu-Gi-Oh!!
• A Distant Finale does not necessarily take place in a location far away from where the rest of the story takes place.
• Distinguishing Mark is not a movie about giving someone named Mark an honorary title.
  • It also isn't when the mark does something to distinguish himself from a criminal's usual targets.
• A Distress Ball is not a ballroom dance that goes horribly wrong and causes its guests to panic.
• Disturbed Doves are not a breed of Angry Birds.
  • Nor are they an Alternative Metal band who have been transformed into birds.
  • Despite working alongside Shuu, Yuuya is not an example.
• Ditto Aliens are not alien shapeshifters.
  • They are also not (necessarily) aliens that always agree with a particular person.
• A Ditto Fighter is not a fan of Rush Limbaugh who also knows kung fu.
  • Nor is it their enemies.
    • Neither is it a person who fights Ditto.
    • Or one who wants to fight the lead singer of Gossip
• Divergent Character Evolution is not about Character Development in the Divergent series.
• A Divine Date is not a day of the year that was declared holy in a religion.
  • Nor is it a fruit declared holy by a religion.
• Diving Save here is not so much about a goalkeeping technique. Nor is it a Save Point Under the Sea.
• Do-Anything Robot is not about that kind of thing, (okay, maybe some times <_< >_> ...) nor is it about cyborg distraction techniques or an instruction for robots to do what they feel like. Or a robot replacement for Pvt. James Ramirez.
• Doctor, Doctor, Doctor is not about people desperate to seek medical help immediately.
  • Nor is it about "Doctor, doctor" jokes.
  • Nor is it about characters with a title identical to their actual name.
  • Nor is it followed by the words "We're in a tangle" ^explanation There's a playground game where people tangle themselves up, then they shout "Doctor, doctor, we're in a tangle" and the "doctor" has to try and untangle them.
  • Nor is it about there being three copies of a doctor or a time lord.
  • Nor is it the name you should know.
• Does Not Like Guns is not about someone on the "Swords" side of the Guns vs. Swords argument.
• Does Not Like Magic isn't about disliking stage magic (unless Magicians Are Wizards) or having Hype Aversion for Magic: The Gathering. Or that you dislike Orlando's NBA team.
• Does Not Like Men is not a character that dislikes hardcore males. Well, not exclusively, that is.
  • Nor is it about lesbians and asexual women. A lot of them do like men, just not in "that way".
• Does Not Like Spam has nothing to do with internet spam (even though most normal people don't like it).
  • It's not only about spam either, it can apply to any food.
• A Dog Pile of Doom does not refer to dog crap.
• Dogs Are Dumb is not about dogs being mute, nor about someone insulting dogs.
• Dogs Love Being Praised is not about critical acclaim for any hypothetical "Dogs Love" genre.
• Doing in the Scientist does not happen when He Knows Too Much or has outlived his usefulness.
• Doing In the Wizard is not part of a Witch Hunt, gender semantics be damned.
  • Nor is it when you flip out and kill Jimmy Woods after hearing him say "Cawwwifffohneeeyaaaa" one too many times.
  • Or about the title character of The Wizard of Oz suffering Death by Adaptation in a reboot.
• Doing It for the Art is not about people being willing to engage in sexual activities on camera or on stage because the scene requires it.
  • Nor is it about performing hard labor for an artist in return for some of his or her artwork.
  • Nor is it a couple having sex because they want to have a son named Arthur.
• A Domain Holder is not a website owner.
• A Dom Com is not a comedy starring a Dominatrix.
• Domesticated Dinosaurs refers only to prehistoric creatures. Modern-day pet birds do not count.
• Dominance Through Furniture is not about fancy furniture presented as status symbols.
• A Domino Mask is not literally made out of dominoes. It's also not made out of Domino's pizza.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul" does not refer to Sir McCartney.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing:
  • It was never said to Mr. Freeze, Iceman, Frozone, Elsa, or The Ice King by anyone pleading for his/her/their life, or pretending to.
  • Nor was it ever said to Alicia Masters by either her dad or Reed Richards after seeing Her and Ben Grimm bust some sweet moves together on the dance floor.
• Do Not Drop Your Weapon is not an instruction to stay alive in combat, nor is it about being able to climb while holding a weapon. Nor is it the aversion of Put Down Your Gun and Step Away.
• Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud isn't about one character telling another not to touch a tornado.
• Don't Ask is not what the director of a certain brawler series wants everyone to do ever again.
• Someone saying "Don't Call Me "Sir"" is probably not a masculine-looking trans woman, cis woman^note one who's not trying to pass as male or nonbinary person.
• Don't Fear the Reaper doesn't refer to Leviathan-class predators, which you definitely should be afraid of.
• Don't Go in the Woods is not an Aesop about Nature Tinkling.
• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! isn't about threatening someone with Fan Disservice.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with seatbelts.
• Don't Split Us Up is not said by the person who doesn't want to split the party, or said to someone who tries to deliberately ruin a relationship.
• Donut Mess with a Cop is not about an anthropomorphic donut messing with a police officer.
  • Nor is it about doing donuts in the police parking lot in order to mess with the department.
• Doom as Test Prize is not about being given the game Doom as prize for acing an exam.
• Doom Doors will not start an apocalypse through their appearance, nor do they take you to your doom by opening one and walking through.
  • Nor are they found in Doctor Doom's castle.
• Doomed by Canon doesn't have to refer to a character who has to die in order to stay true to the canon. Nor does it refer to Fan Fiction doomed to failure because it doesn't stay true to canon.
  • Nor does it refer to a character who dies by being shot by a cannon.
    • Nor to what happens to smaller camera manufacturers whose products can't compete with the larger ones.
• A Doomsayer is not just any character who says pessimistic things or talks about doom.
• A Doorstop Baby is not an infant used to prop a door open.
• Doorstopper does not refer to actual doorstoppers (though they could be used as doorstoppers).
• A Dope Slap is not a Slap Patch laced with a Schedule 2 (or higher) Controlled Substance, nor is it the act of applying such a thing to someone.
  • Nor is it a gangsta's pimp slap (that would have very different connotations).
  • And the dumb person isn't the one doing the slapping.
• Dork Age is not about the movie Idiocracy.
  • Nor was it a particular time in the history of the world. At least, it wasn't named that way.
  • Nor is it about a stage of a person's life when they act dorky.
  • Nor a porn spoof of Brain Age. It also has nothing to do with penises.
• A Double Don't Know isn't a double negative.
• Double Subversion sounds like a practical solution to the Subbing Versus Dubbing debate, but with all that text on the screen, you'd probably have a lot of trouble watching the show.
• Double the Dollars was not the thought process behind naming the currency in Trigun.
• Double Vision isn't when a stunned character 'sees double'. "Hey Mary, since when did you have a twin sister?" Nor is it about receiving a prophetic dream twice. Nor is it the song by Foreigner.
• Double X is not about movies too raunchy to be rated X, but not raunchy enough to be rated triple-X.
  • Nor is it about the sex chromosomes of females.
  • Or arithmetic.
  • It also has nothing to do with the X-Men or Mega Man X.
  • Nor is it what Sam Vincent's character might have been called if the show was titled Ex, Exx n Exxy.
• Down on the Farm is not about depressed farmers.
  • Nor is it about finding feathers at a farm.
• Drabble doesn't refer to the comic strip.
• Draco in Leather Pants does not imply that dragons partake in human fashion, Scaled Up.
  • Nor is it about the Athenian law maker's taste in clothing.
  • It's also not necessarily about Draco Malfoy wearing leather pants.
• Draft Dodging is not about avoiding your old Trope Launch Pad drafts.
  • Nor is it about avoiding air currents that enter from gaps around doors etc.
  • Nor it is about someone throwing an unfinished version of a paper at you.
• The Dragon is rarely a giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizard (though it's not impossible). Though to be fair, real dragons aren't always giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizards, either.
• Dragon Ascendant has nothing to do with their tendency to fly.
  • Nor the Secret Art of Rayquaza.
  • Nor Corrin's Up-Special in the Super Smash Bros. seris.
• A Dragon Hoard is not an exaggeration of Co-Dragons or Big Bad Duumvirate.
  • Nor is it a hoard of dragons. That would most likely be a Zerg Rush. And in both cases, you're looking for a horde, anyway - not a hoard.
  • It's also not about a person hoarding live dragons or dragon-themed collectibles.
• Dragon-in-Chief is not about putting a beast in a position of power, knowingly or otherwise.
• Dragon Lady: not a female Dragon! Not even a literal female dragon, either! And it isn't a better-named spin-off of Devilman Lady or a Distaff Counterpart of Billy or Jimmy Lee. Or a noblewoman associated with dragons (or even being The Dragon or a literal dragon).
• A Dragon Rider isn't sitting on the back of the Big Bad's second-in-command. Unless said second-in-command really is a literal dragon, then maybe.
• Dragons Up the Yin Yang is not about someone getting anally violated by a dragon.
• Dragon Their Feet is not about a claw fetish. It's not about Big Bads whose feet are their Dragon, either.
• The Dragon with an Agenda does not keep timetables of when to attack each village to ensure that they can properly repopulate the villagers and livestock.
• Drag Queen does not describe Ashley Force Hood.
  • Nor is it an order to drag the queen around in any way.
  • It also does not refer to a queen who is The Dragon, or a dragon.
  • Nor is it someone who is a queen of drag racing.
• A Drama Queen is not necessarily an actual queen, a bee, an ant, or a nursing-or-pregnant cat.
• Dramatic Dislocation does not involve a radical shift in setting but popping shoulder joints and the like.
• Dramatic Gun Cock has nothing to do with male genitalia attached to firearms.
  • Nor does it involve a vengeful rooster arming himself.
• Dramatic High Perching has been redefined, meaning it is no longer about having a strategic advantage from higher ground, like the former trope namer, but now refers to simply looking cool on something tall.
• Dramatic Space Drifting does not involve a spaceship performing a turn by intentionally skidding its rear to preserve vehicle control and make a high-speed exit. Though that would go well with some Eurobeat music.
• Dramatic Wind is not about particularly ill-timed flatulence.
• A Dramedy is not a type of camel. You're probably thinking "dromedary."
• Draw Aggro is not a command to make an illustration of Wander's horse from Shadow of the Colossus. (That's "Agro.")
  • It's also not drawing a picture of someone angry, now you're just over analyzing things.
• Draw Sword, Draw Blood doesn't entail something bleeding when a blade is removed from it, nor cutting yourself on your own sword. Nor is it a rule saying you have to put or illustrate blood in a picture of a sword.
  • No, it's definitely not illustrating a sword with blood! Quit having Fun with Homophones!
• Dreaded Kids' Table isn’t where you put evil and scary kids to keep them from terrorizing their more innocent peers in the lunchroom.
• The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party is not about evil portrayals of conservative libertarians in fiction.
• Dream-Crushing Handicap is not said by someone who wants to get rid of their handicap.
• Dream Episode isn't an episode that the fans have been dreaming about.
• Dream Walker is not about a senior citizen's ideal walker.
• Dream Weaver is not about Adobe's web development software.
• Dream Within a Dream is not referring to Marriage. Because that would be a Dweam Wiffin A Dweam.
• Dress Hits Floor is not when a fancy garment fights a wood floor.
  • Or beats on it.
  • Nor is it what might happen when someone is throwing clothes around.
• Dr. Feelgood is not a doctor who takes too much pleasure feeling his patients.
  • Nor is it about any Gorillaz member becoming a doctor.
• The Drifter has nothing to do with being a Badass Driver, or Multi-Track Drifting.
• Driven to Suicide should not be considered literally an event where a suicidal person is driven in a vehicle to a place where they can perform said act.
• Driver Faces Passenger is not when the driver and the passenger get in a fistfight.
• Drives Like Crazy doesn't mean someone drives a lot. Not necessarily, at least.
  • Nor does it mean they should say "FORE!"
• Driving into a Truck is not about rear-ending or T-boning semis.
• A Driving Question is not a question commonly asked while driving. (Are We There Yet? is not an example, nor is a Directionless Driver someone who needs to ask such a question.)
• Driving Stick is a verb phrase. It is not used to discipline "stubborn" livestock, nor is it any sort of throttle.
  • Nor does it refer to a literal wooden stick driving in a vehicle.
• Dr. Jerk does not give his patients handjobs.
  • Nor is he particularly good at Jamaican cuisine.
• Drone of Dread is not related to an Attack Drone or to the Bee People, unless they can make such a noise. Nor is it about The Dreaded.
  • Nor is it about a character whom others dread being around because he constantly drones on about the dullest topics. That would be The Bore.
• *Drool* Hello is not about meeting someone extremely attractive and salivating over them.
• Drop-In Character is not when a previously interesting person gets Flanderized into a Flat Character. Nor is about someone who tends to enter scenes from above. Nor is it about a work whose cast gets smaller as time goes on.
  • Nor is it about having to drop a conversation because you remembered that you're supposed to be pretending to be someone else.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him does not involve using bridges as weapons, although it may very well involve a bridge anyways.
• Dropping the Bombshell is not about dumping an attractive woman, or about dropping an actual bomb or the Insecticon who transforms into a rhino beetle.
• Drop Ship is not the thing that shippers do when a recent event reveals how Squicky their ship is. Nor is it about causing a boat or other craft to fall on someone.
  • Nor is our version a supply chain management technique in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer.
• Drought Level of Doom isn't about a Doom level that's undergoing a drought.
  • Nor is it about devastating degrees of drought. Sorry, California.
• Drowning Pit is not about "finishing" a certain angel by submerging him. Nor does it have anything to do with Drowning Pool. Or a pit bull who's drowning.
  • Nor is it about overwatering peach seeds.
• Drunk Rolling is not about intoxicated people rolling around on the floor.
• Drunk on Milk is not about a drunk person on top of a container of milk.
  • Nor is it the result of a special kind of lactose intollerance that causes inebriation.
  • Nor does it mean the drunk person has gone missing and is now featured on cartons of milk.
• Drunk on the Dark Side does not mean inebriated on the far side of the moon, unless we're possibly talking about the Pink Floyd album.
  • Nor is it about getting drunk by drinking an alcoholic drink called "The Dark Side."
• Drunk with Power is not when you become powerful by getting drunk.
  • It also isn’t about having too many beers with the Blood Fiend at the izakaya after work.
• A Dry Crusader is not someone who's suffering from dehydration while fighting in the Crusades.
  • Nor is it one who took a wrong turn and wound up in the Sahara Desert.
• Dry Docked Ship is not the USS Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nor Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
• Dubstep is not adding sound effects for walking in post-production.
• A Dubtitle is not when a dub adds a subtitle to the original title.
• Duck! does not apply when someone is told to duck and they do it. Nor is it about the presence of ducks in a work. That is, unless someone mixes up those two definitions.
  • Nor is it about a batter going out for zero in cricket.
• Duck Season, Rabbit Season is not about the drawing that's sometimes a duck and sometimes a rabbit depending on when you look at it.
  • Nor does it necessarily mean the times of year when ducks and rabbits come out, although that is what the people in the trope namer were arguing about.
  • It's also not about whether a certain type of seasoning goes better with duck meat or rabbit meat.
• Dude, Not Funny! is not a Hulk Speak description of The Comically Serious.
  • Nor is it about works that portray men in general as having bad senses of humour.
  • Nor is it when Luna Loud doesn't find Luan's joke funny.^note OK, Luan is known for making jokes in inappropriate situations, and Luna probably does think this, but hasn't directly said it to her face.
• Dude, She's A Lesbian is not a gender-bending trope (the comma is important).
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma is not about a hippie observing a woman in a coma, nor does "like" mean "almost".
• Dueling Games does not refer to swordfighting-based games, although if two of that type are released against each other, then they will become Dueling Games.
• Dueling Scar isn't about the ending of The Lion King.
• Due to the Dead is not a parody of House of the Dead or Shaun of the Dead starring Due.
  • It also does not imply that a problem was caused by the dead. ^note As in, "Due to the dead, there is now a Zombie Apocalypse"
• Dug Too Deep is not about when characters dig through the Earth and find themselves in upside-down China. Nor is it about Dug from Up being too philosophical.
• Dull Surprise is not a claim that Surprise is dull.
  • Nor is it the same as The Un-Twist.
  • Or a Captain Obvious Reveal.
  • Or owning a blade and being surprised that it's not very sharp.
• Dumb Struck is not about hitting an idiot or a mute person.
  • Nor does it necessarily involve idiots getting struck by lightning.
• Dump Months are not times of the year when sanitation workers or romance counselors get more work.
  • Nor are they months in which people poop often.
• A Dump Stat does not determine the quality of excrement.
  • Nor does it determine someone's likelihood of being dumped by their significant other.
• Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend is not about sadomasochistic sex in fiction.
  • They're not necessarily dating the Dungeon Master, either.
• Dunking the Bomb does not involve playing an explosive version of basketball.
• During the War is not when a character references/has flashbacks to a war they were in.
• A Dutch Angle is not about news oriented toward the people of the Netherlands.
• Dying Curse is not about someone being cursed to die.
• A Dying Race is not a competition to see who can die first.
• Dynamic Akimbo does not refer to someone with their arms akimbo that's constantly shifting, nor is it a flashy, showy attack done with the user's arms akimbo.
  • Also not a Double Entendre.
• A Dynamic Character is not a very animated and enthusiastic character.
  • Nor is it necessarily about a character from the production company founded by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa.
  • Nor is it about inverting an existing character dynamic.
• Dynamic Entry: aren't most entries on this wiki dynamic?
• Dystopian Oz is not about writing a Bad Future for Australia, or about implying the continent is already a hellish place to live.
  • Nor is it about Dr. Oz ruling over a dystopia.

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• Eagleland is not a country populated exclusively by large predatory birds.
  • Nor is it a town where Eagles aficionados go when they retire.
  • Nor an EarthBound (1994) spin-off.
  • Nor does it the name of the fanbases of Philadelphia's NFL team, Boston College's athletic program, or the Eastern Michigan University athletic program.
• Ear Cleaning is not about when characters clean out their ears after hearing something unbelievable. Nor is it a reminder to wash behind your ears.
• Early Game Hell does not refer to a Planet Heck level early in a video game. Except for Kid Icarus. Nor is it a bad afterlife where you're punished by playing betas and retro games.
• Early-Installment Weirdness isn't about a computer program that acts oddly when you first install it.
• Earth Drift is not about the Earth drifting through space along its orbit. Or even when it gets derailed. Or is it about how Earth turns tight corners when racing other planets.
• Earth That Was is not about how Yoda would say "that was Earth".
• Ear Worm does not refer to that thing they put in Chekhov's ear in Wrath of Khan. Nor does it refer to parasites in general.
• Easier Than Easy is not about sexual promiscuity.
• An Easter Egg is not a literal one.
• Eating Machine is not about what the Extreme Omnivore does to a robot.
• Eating the Eye Candy is not about *literally* eating the eye candy.
  • Nor, less gruesomely, is it about eating candies resembling eyeballs.
• Eat That is not related to Take That!.
  • Nor is it related to the Eat This, Not That! books.
• Eccentric A.I. is not the upper-class way to refer to Weird Al.
• Ecchi may make you go "Ecch!", but that's not why we call it that.
• An Economy Is You isn't about supervising your nation's economy in a civilization game.
• Education Mama is not part of the Cooking Mama series (yet.)
• E = MC Hammer does not refer to a Hyperspace Mallet being converted to energy when not in use, nor does it cause Hammerspace compression.
  • It is also not the mathematical way of saying HIKARI NI NARE!
  • Nor is it about Steve Urkel, Digital Underground or any other Nerd as a rapper or rap group.
• An Egomaniac Hunter isn't someone who hunts and kills egotistical people.
• The Eight Deadly Words won't kill anyone.
  • Its actual meaning (I don't care what happens to these people) is not about a superhero's Refusal of the Call either.
  • They're not a more extreme version of The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television, either.
• Elaborate Equals Effective isn't about inversions of the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, where elaborating the details of a plan actually makes it more likely to work.
• Elaborate University High isn't about taking drugs at a fancy uni, or about a university which is very tall or up a mountain.
  • Nor is it about using Hulk Speak to tell someone to elaborate about the concept of universities (or a specific university) to a high degree of detail. Or about a drug high that is somehow related to university.
• An Eldritch Location is not necessarily a Genius Loci Eldritch Abomination, but that would be an example.
• An Elemental Punch isn't a drink served at parties held for Elementals.
  • Nor as a punch came from that film.
• Element No. 5 is not boron.
• An Elevator Action Sequence is not, specifically, a sequence from Elevator Action, though that could be an example of one.
• While Elevator Escape involves an actual elevator, it is not about escaping from a stuck elevator.
• An Elevator School is not a school housed in a building with so many stories that you need an elevator to get to the top.
  • It's also not a school where one learns how to make or operate elevators.
  • It's also not a (very small) school inside an elevator.
• Elimination Houdini is not the name of a Reality Show in which aspiring Stage Magicians compete to avoid getting eliminated. However, if one of the magicians makes it far into the competition without demonstrating much skill, they would be an example of this trope.
• Elites Are More Glamorous is not about any sorting hierarchy of beauty among the Covenant Forces.
  • Nor is it the same as The Beautiful Elite.
• "Elvis Impersonator" is not an episode of Fireman Sam concerning an imposter posing as Fireman Elvis Cridlington.
• An Embarrassing Cover Up isn't a cover-up for something embarrassing, nor is about using Hand-or-Object Underwear to cover yourself.
• Embarrassing Damp Sheets are not caused by a leaky roof, nor is it about finding the certain Generation O! episode embarrassing.
• Mega Man might refuse to do the slide move because it's stupid, but that doesn't make it an Embarrassing Slide.
  • It's also not a slide someone pushed you down when you were a kid.
  • Nor is it a slide considered an Old Shame by its builder.
• An Embarrassment Plot is not a flowerbed where embarrassing things keep happening.
• Emergency Transformation is not a Eleventh Hour Super Mode As The Plot Demands.
• You will not find an Embedded Precursor inside Lost Technology.
• Empathy Doll Shot is about the doll that is shot by a cameraperson with a camera, not by a character with a gun (or a syringe). It is also not at all about destroying a Morality Chip; the doll inspires empathy in viewers, not for a character in the story.
• An Empty Chair Memorial is not a memorial for an empty chair.
• An Empty Cop Threat is an empty threat made by the police, not a threat to call the police that is empty because the threatener doesn't know how to call, would get in trouble himself, or would only get useless police.
  • Nor is it a threat involving policemen who are Empty Shells, or who forgot to have any breakfast that day.
  • It's also not a threat to make the police empty their bowels.
• An Empty Elevator is not just any elevator with no people or things in it. That would be a People Sit on Chairs.
• Empty Levels are not dungeon levels full of empty rooms.
  • Nor are they varying degrees of emptiness.
• An Empty Quiver is not a subversion of Bottomless Magazines that takes place in a Standard Fantasy Setting.
  • It is not when a character is quivering with Dull Surprise.
• Empty Room Psych is not a psychology class in college that deals specifically with how people behave in empty rooms.
  • Nor is it a psychology class in college held in a room with no furniture, equipment, or office supplies.
• Empty Shell is not about literal empty seashells or bombshells.
• Ending Tropes is not what would happen if This Very Wiki closed down. Nor is it when everyone stops using tropes in their works.
• The End Is Nigh has nothing to do with the sniper from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
• Endless Game is not about a never-ending supply of hunted animals.
  • Nor does it refer to a hunted animal which is infinitely long.
  • It also has nothing to do with Ender's Game.
• End-of-Series Awareness is not when the characters stop being aware of the series.
  • Nor is it what would happen if The End broke the fourth wall.
• The End of the World as We Know It has nothing to do with The World either being finally defeated or transforming into something completely different.
  • Nor is it The End learning how to use The World.
• An "End of the World" Special is not a discount or menu item that becomes available only in the moments before the Earth's destruction.
• The End... Or Is It? is not about showing The End to trick the audience into thinking the story is over, but it isn't.
  • Nor is it when you mistake someone for The End.
• Enemy Mine is neither a mine intended to kill people, nor is it a mine that spews enemies. It is also not where the Big Bad digs up precious stones that are his main source of funding. Nor is it a foe that explodes when touched. Nor is it a Bob-Omb.
  • Although due to Executive Meddling, one of the first instances of this trope does feature a mine, precisely because the executives thought the trope maker meant something else.
• Engaging Conversation is not a subtrope of Engaging Chevrons, which in turn is not about hiring ex-NCOs or renting gas stations.
• The Engineer is not about engineers in the Tokyo Gore Police sense.
• Enlightenment Superpower does not refer to the most powerful countries during the Enlightenment era.
• An Enormous Engine is not a very large locomotive.
• An Entry Pimp is not a pimp who has just gotten started in the business.
  • It's also not a pimp who hangs around the entrances of hotels, bars or other places to solicit customers.
• Entertainingly Wrong is not entertainingly bad.
• An Ephebophile is not a Discworlder who admires the people and society of the Greek Fantasy Counterpart Culture.
• Epic Fail is not when a work seems to be building towards some climactic event or confrontation that is then briefly and offhandedly wrapped up. That would be silly.
  • Nor is it an epic about someone's failure.
• Epic Flail is not when a story's grand scale causes the author to lose track of the original vision, so that the plot begins to thrash around wildly.
• Epic Hail is not about hail bigger than a human head.
  • Nor is it an extremely long pass in American football.
• An Epic Tracking Shot involves shooting a scene; it is not even remotely the epic use of a Homing Projectile. It's also not a dramatic shot of a hunter tracking down their quarry.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil is not about evil communist leaders who view ending democracy and trampling on human rights as a worthy sacrifice for achieving equality..
• Equivalent Exchange is not about currency exchange and Ridiculous Exchange Rates is not an aversion or subversion of it.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with An Eye For An Eye.
• An Ermine Cape is not The Cape with Royal Blood.
• Ermine Cape Effect does not mean Ermine Capes have magical powers. Although in some works they do.
  • Nor is it the result of an Ermine Cape Cause.
• Error Index is specifically about computer glitches, not errors committed by people in the story or creators.
• Erudite Stoner isn't a person who stones smart people to death.
• Escalating Brawl is not about battling on Rumble Falls.
  • Nor is it about a Combaticon tank taking an escalator.
• Escalating War doesn't have anything to do with an actual military war escalating.
  • Nor is it a conflict where both sides react by moving to higher elevations.
• Escapist Character does not refer to Yahtzee, the Unskippable guys or the cast of There Will Be Brawl. At least, not specifically.
  • Nor is it, at least not specifically, a character who is very good at escaping.
• Escort Mission has nothing to do with that kind of escort.
  • Neither does Escort Distraction. You might be looking for Honey Trap instead.
• Esoteric Motifs has nothing to do with the funeral doom metal band Esoteric.
• Especially Zoidberg is not what comes after the phrase "alien doctors are funny".
• Eskimos Aren't Real isn't about a setting where eskimos literally are not real.
• Eskimo Land isn't Disneyland, but run by or themed after the Inuit and/or Iñupiaq.
• E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi isn't about E.T. installing Wi-fi in one house.
• Eurobeat does not refer to Beat-'Em-Ups made by European developers.
• Euroshlock is not another term for what the Shoot 'Em Up community calls "euroshmups".
• Even the Girls Want Her isn't a western, lesbian porno.
• Everybody Cries is not an aesop about how crying is nothing to be ashamed of.
• Everybody Did It is not the same as Everybody Has Lots of Sex.
• Everybody Hates Hades is not the public reaction to a certain video game. Some people enjoyed it.
• Everybody Loves Zeus does not refer to the fact that the Greek Top God Really Gets Around in original myths. It's not primarily about romantic love at all, in fact.
  • Nor is it about Zeus the parrot.
• Everybody Must Get Stoned is not the answer to Jesus saying "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Or about a law that sets stoning as the punishment for all crimes. Or even a law that requires marijuana use, although such a law would result in Everybody Must Get Stoned.
• Every Bullet is a Tracer does not refer to Lena Oxton in any way.
• Every Car Is a Pinto is not a ridiculously specific version of Everybody Owns a Ford. Or some breed of horse.
• Every Episode Ending is not a list of the endings of every episode of every TV show ever made.
  • Nor is it when every episode of a series gets banned.
• The Everyman has nothing to do with Everyman HYBRID or any other Slenderman Alternate Reality Game. At least, we don't think it does...
• Every Man Has His Price is not about slave trading.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" and His Name Really Is "Barkeep" has nothing to do with a dog-like Pokémon who didn't even exist yet.
  • Everyone Calls Him Barkeep is also not about a man who gets mistaken for the bartender all the time.
• Everyone Can See It is not about reactions to a Wardrobe Malfunction. Has nothing to do with Cousin It's visibility either.
  • Nor does it mean that It is rated E for everyone, or that the titular monster is visible to everybody.
• Everyone Has Standards is not about everyone having the standard model or trim line of a given product, nor about the International Standards Organization.
• Everyone Hates Fruitcakes is about literal fruitcakes, not the idiom for amusingly crazy people.
• Everyone Is a Super does not mean all the main characters own apartment buildings.
• Everyone Is a Tomato is not where everybody is a tomato.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory is not about people being equivalent to Jesus when they go to Purgatory. Neither is it about convicted people pretending to be shining beacons of innocence.
  • Everyone Is Satan in Hell is not an Evil Counterpart to Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory, nor does it have much in common, except the name. (Well, they are both about bizarre theories, but Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory is a theory that the characters will be revealed In-Universe to be something else, while Everyone Is Satan in Hell is literally about accusing random imagery of being Satanic symbolism.) Everyone Is God In Heaven...doesn't exist yet.
• Everyone Join the Party is not a piece of propaganda you would expect to see in Soviet Russia or Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  • Nor is it about inviting everyone to a Wild Teen Party.
• Everyone Knows Morse does not mean that a certain Oxford-based detective is known across the whole of time-space (though the possibility exists. Everyone Knows Agatha Christie, after all...).
  • It's ubiquity also didn't make Morse Code during the Cold War The Code Of The West.
• Everyone Owns a Mac is not about how insecure Macs prove to be in the PWN2OWN contests.
  • Nor is it when McDonald's becomes so popular that everyone eats Big Macs.
  • It's also not about how everyone owns a MAC-10 or a variant thereof.
• Everyone's Baby Sister is not the result of some massive-scale incest.
• Everything but the Girl does not mean someone went on a power-mad spree and destroyed everything in their way, leaving no survivors excepting for one young woman.
  • Nor is it the same as Wouldn't Hit a Girl.
• Everything Is an iPod in the Future is not how Apple keeps growing once Everyone Owns a Mac.
• Everything's Worse With Bears does not actually involve the Tu-95.
  • Nor is it an insult to The Bad News Bears.
• Everything Makes a Mushroom doesn't involve growing mushrooms.
  • Or some weird thing that turns random items into mushrooms.
• Evidence Dungeon is not a Role-Playing Game combined with a Law Procedural in which player character lawyers need to traverse dungeons and fight monsters to find evidence for their cases.
• Evil Brit has nothing to do with Britney Spears' mental breakdown.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good does not refer to Dr. Evil attempting to figure out the meaning behind the biggest hit of Better Than Ezra.
• An Evil Diva is an actual musician, not just an evil Drama Queen or Large Ham.
• Evil Feels Good is not about a villain groping a hero or heroine.
• Evil Is Bigger does not refer to any cases where the villain is more endowed than the hero.
• Evil Is Easy isn't about slutty villains.
• Evil Is Hammy is not like Cats Are Mean, but for pigs.
• Evil Is Not a Toy has nothing to do with Evil the Cat Merchandise.
  • Nor is it about actual toys that are evil, or denying the existence thereof.
• Evil Is Petty does not mean that Tom Petty is an embodiment of evil or the source of all evil in the world.
• Evil Is Sterile can apply to Succubi and Incubi even if they can reproduce with mortals.
• Evil Laugh is not a living laugh that is evil.
• Evil Matriarch is not about The Binding of Isaac fanbase's opinion of The Matriarch.
• Evil Overlord List is not a list of Evil Overlords.
• An Evil Phone is not, well, a telephone with villainous intent.
• Evil Power Vacuum is not about a energy-draining device used by villains.
  • Nor is it about the latest Hoover being sold to overlords everywhere.
  • It is also not a heroic weapon used to drain evil power from villains.
  • Nor is it the Negativitron from LittleBigPlanet 2.
• Evil Smells Bad is not about villains who don't bathe. Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness is.
  • It also does not mean that villains are bad at smelling.
• Evil Sounds Deep is not about Wicked Cultured chaps (ab)using Fauxlosophic Narration or Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Evil Tastes Good is not about villains who consider eating the heroes.
  • Nor does it advocate eating the villains after defeating them.
  • Nor is it about villains who are good at tasting.
• Evil Tropes does not refer to tropes themselves being evil. TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life does that.
  • Nor do they fight Good Tropes.
• Evil Virtues are not the opposite of Good Virtues, and aren't a counterpart to Good Flaws, Bad Flaws.
• Evil Wears Black doesn't assert that goths and emos are scum, though it would carry the connotations.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin does not mean the Tin Woodsman always saying it like it is.
• Examples Are Not Recent has nothing to do with No Recent Examples, Please!.
• Excuse Plot is not an apology for a rude flowerbed. Nor is it a plot that revolves around a character making an excuse.
• Executive Veto is not about the president vetoing a bill.
• The Ex Index has not kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.
  • Nor is it no longer an index.
  • It also is not stronger version of Index that you will fight in EX mode of Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
• Exotic Equipment does not refer to exotic weapons, clothes, or gym equipment.
• Expanded Universe has nothing to do with cosmic inflation.
  • Nor is it about Steven Universe getting larger.
• Expecting Someone Taller has nothing to do with Yai Ayano or Zack Temple.
• Experimented in College has nothing to do with science experiments.
  • Nor is it about doing drugs in college, but that may go hand-in-hand with this trope.
• An Exploding Calendar is not a calendar that gets blown up by a bomb, nor is it a bomb that also serves as a calendar.
• Exploding Closet has nothing to do with particularly spectacular Coming-Out Stories. And it doesn't involve any bombs, either.
• Exploding Fish Tanks is not about about undersea warfare.
• An Explosive Breeder is not something that actually breeds by exploding.
  • Nor does it breed explosives.
• Explosive Instrumentation is not about the old cartoon gag where a bomb is detonated by a piano key. (That's the Xylophone Gag.)
• Explosive Stupidity is not about someone who is so stupid, their brain explodes when they try to comprehend a simple fact.
• Expo Labels are not stickers and signs denoting certain things as the property of convention operators, though they can be if they're glaringly obvious.
• Exposed Extraterrestrials is not about finding out that some people are aliens.
• Exposed to the Elements does not refer to the elements of the periodic table.
• An Exposition Break is not a break from giving exposition (hard luck, Hermione). In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
• An Exposition Party is not an adventuring party in which every member is Mr. Exposition.
  • Nor is it a political party focused on exposition.
• An EX Special Attack is not an attack that used to be special but no longer is.
  • It isn't your former twosome's special attack either.
• The Extranormal Institute is not known for its extreme normalcy; quite the opposite, in fact.
• An Extra-Strength Masquerade is not a costume ball for Flying Bricks and/or other types of superhumans. Nor is a reference to a Cajun-style Mardi Gras.
• The "Y" in Extra Y, Extra Violent refers to the Y chromosome and cannot be substituted for anything like a variable in algebra. So it does not refer to adding more of something to work (or anything else) and making it more violent, nor does it mean increasing the level of something causes an increase in violence.
• An Extreme Doormat is not a Welcome rug that spends its weekends doing street luge.
  • Nor does it refer to 90s Kid's own doormat.
• Extremely Cold Case is not a freezer for things not even Antarctic is cold enough for.
• Extremely Lengthy Creation is not about video games or tabletop RPGs where it takes a long time to create your character.
  • Nor does it about a Creation Story or Creation Myth that is very long or takes place over a very long time.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge is not a Darker and Edgier Game Mod of Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• An Extreme Omni-Goat is not an all-powerful, all-knowing goat.
• Extreme Omnivore is not about an omnivorous creature with an extreme personality.
• Eye Am Watching You is not what Cirno says when she's peeping on you. Nor is it about some kind of all-seeing eye, like Sauron, or when people spy on others through the eyes of paintings.
• Eye Beams are not steel girders used in skyscraper construction. Nor is it when an expression of joy can even be seen in a character's eyes.
• Eye Catch isn't when you throw your glass eye and your dog retrieves it.
• Eye Contact as Proof isn't about someone's contact lens being used as evidence in court.
• Eye of Providence is not about a ferris wheel in the capital of Rhode Island. Or an optometrist clinic or private detective based there.
• Eyes Always Averted does not describe characters without eyes.
• Eye Scream is not related to this scene from SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There is about actual eyes, not where they're looking; it is not in any way related to My Eyes Are Up Here.
  • It is also not about a witch berating her assistant for misplacing her cauldron brew ingredients.
• An Eye of Newt is not necessarily an actual newt's eye. Nor an eye of Newt Scamander, Newt Gingrich, a certain girl from Waterworld, or anyone else named Newt.
• Eye Shine is not about Johnny Yong Bosch's band.
• Eye Take is not Eye Scream crossed with Item Get!.

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• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong is not the oddly-named relative of Amy Wong, nor is it about someone being disgusted by walking in on an alien in the shower. It also has nothing to do with alien wings.
• Face–Heel Turn is not about looking at your feet. Nor is it something that only contortionists can do.
  • Nor is it a snappy dance move used to represent the ease with which some characters change sides.
  • Nor is it about leaving Facebook for a Shoddy Knockoff Product called Faceheel.
• The Faceless was not "created" by Optimus Prime. They're also not literally faceless.
• Faceless Goons usually aren't members of Something Awful.
• Face–Monster Turn is not a variation of Face–Heel Turn, where a good guy becomes a Complete Monster.
  • Nor is it when someone's face transforms into a monster's.
  • It's also not about someone turning around so they can face the monster that's crept up behind them.
• Face Palm is not about drawing faces on your palms.
  • Nor is it actually having a face on your palm.
  • It doesn't describe The Pale Man, either.
  • And it certainly doesn't involve palm trees growing on your face.
  • Nor is it facing a palm tree or your palm.
• Facepalm of Doom is not when your Face Palm kills all the idiots surrounding you. Although, I think some of them wish they could.
  • Nor is it what happens when Doctor Doom is frustrated.
• A Face Plant is not about a plant growing out of someone's face.
  • Or about anthropomorphic flowers.
  • Nor is it a factory that makes faces.
• Face-Revealing Turn isn't about when an apparent villain reveals that they were on the good guys' side all along.
• A Fag Hag is not an old woman who smokes.
  • It is also not about an ugly lesbian.
  • Nor does it have to do with actual hags.
• Failing a Taxi isn't about failing at driving one. Nor is it about an air pilot failing to taxi down the runway.
• Failure Is the Only Option doesn't mean the only musicians you could book for your show were the band Failure.
• A Failure-to-Save Murder is not when the DM murders your character on account of it having failed its saving throw.
  • Nor does it mean when a video game kills you (the player character) for not saving the game.
• Fainting is not a redirect for Non-Lethal K.O..
• Fair Cop is not about an enforcer of the law who can see past the justice system to give a fair penalty to someone. Or just about the "good cop" part of Good Cop/Bad Cop.
• The Fair Folk cannot be counted upon to make an unbiased, objective, impartial judgment. By your culture's standards, at least.
  • It is also not the people you always see hanging around a county fair.
  • Nor are they people who refuse to compete or fight with any sort of advantage or disadvantage.
  • Nor is it people who are white and/or blond.
  • Nor is it about the people who are "fairest in the land" like Snow White.
• Fair for Its Day does not mean a competition used to not favor any one group over another but now does.
  • It also has nothing to do with county fairs.
• A Fairy Battle is not a battle between actual fairies, nor is it battling a fairy.
• Fake Brit isn't actually for non-British actors faking British accents. It's only for any actor who is not from the South-East of England who has to fake an accent found in the South-East of England (usually Received Pronunciation or Cockney). That means British actors from elsewhere in the UK (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) also count as Fake Brit when playing such characters.
• The Fake Cutie is only faking being The Cutie. She is almost always still female, not a crossdresser.
  • Neither is it a blank flank from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic faking having a cutie mark.
• Fake Difficulty isn't about feigning a difficult moment to make yourself look challenged, or difficulty that you are just imagining in your mind.
• Fake High is not a High School that's really a front for something more mysterious. It's also not deliberately pretending to be high.
• Fake in the Hole doesn't refer to doing Hand in the Hole with a robot arm or other replacement so that whatever's in the hole doesn't hurt you.
• Fake Loud is not a Con Man pretending to be a Long-Lost Relative of the Loud family. Nor is it a situation where a person pretending to be someone else, or a Shoddy Knockoff Product, makes more noise than the real person or object does.
• Fake Platform is not about the Phantom console. (Or any other software platform that doesn't actually exist.)
• A Fake–Real Turn isn't about a Refugee from TV Land, Your Mind Makes It Real, or Become a Real Boy. It's not even about Defictionalization, but that's closer. It's specifically about fake products or works In-Universe whose creators end up having to actually make them.
  • It also isn't the classic cartoon gag where one character paints a fake bend in the road onto a wall, and another character, believing it to be a real bend in the road, drives through the wall.
• Fake Russian isn't about fake Russian text, that's The Backwards Я. It's also not about characters pretending that they are from Russia.
• Faking Another Person's Illness is not pretending you have a disease that another person has.
• Fallacy Fallacy does not mean "Yo dawg, I heard you like logical fallacies, so I put a fallacy in my fallacious argument so you can prove my point invalid while you prove my point invalid."
• A Fallen Hero is not a hero who has fallen to their death. Nor any sort of hero who has died.
  • They might get a Disney Villain Death, but it's not neccessary.
• False Flag Operation is not about triggering an Event Flag at a point clearly not intended by the developers.
  • Nor is it about a decoy mission involving a squad of SVMS-01 Flags.
• False Friend is not a trope about words in one language that look like words in a different language but have unrelated meanings.
• False Roulette isn't a case in which a video game series pretends to change its gameplay genre several times while actually playing the same. Nor is it a plan that seems to involve an inordinate amount of luck but actually does not.
  • Nor is it an object disguised as a roulette wheel.
• Fame Gate is not a scandal involving celebrities.
• The page for Familiar is not a list of people, places, and objects that are vaguely recalled.
• The Family for the Whole Family is not about family-friendly works about families, nor about the premise of Next of Kin (1989), The Boondock Saints, The Last House on the Left, or anything else involving blood feuds, An Eye For An Eye, or Badass Families, quite the opposite, in fact. It has nothing to do with Equivalent Exchange, either.
• Family-Values Villain is not about a family who holds a villain in high esteem. Nor is it necessarily a villain who does everything for the sake of their family, although a Family-Values Villain who has a family of their own will likely care about them. They also don't necessarily have to be socially conservative, although many are.
• The Famine is not about the horseman of the apocalypse.
• Fan Disservice is not about hating on a fandom or breaking a fan.
• Fan Dumb is not a comment by Hatedom.
  • Nor is it a reaction to a failed attempt at a Funny Fan Voice.
  • Nor is it fanning The Ditz.
• FanficRecs: Web Original, despite what you'd think, is not about recommendations for fan fics based on Web Original works.
• Fan Haters are not air conditioner supremacists. Nor is it warning a fan that haters are approaching or telling someone to fan some haters.
• Fanime is not about an anime convention. Nor is it a misspelling of “famine”.
• Fan of Underdog has nothing to do with an old 60's cartoon about a superheroic dog.
• Fanservice is not about providing customer service to people who like the work.
  • Nor is it about repairing broken fans.
• Fanservice Extra doesn't refer to a situation where you have to pay extra to get a version of the show that includes more fanservice than the TV version.
• Fanservice Pack is not about Downloadable Content or a Game Mod that makes characters sexier. Nor is it about attractive six-packs.
• Fan Sub is not a particularly kinky Uke fan.
  • Fandom is not the opposite of Fan Sub.
  • Fan Sub also has nothing to do with subway. Nor is it a phrase to describe a submarine with an external propeller.
• Fantastic Aesop doesn't refer to An Aesop that is incredibly cool. Nor is it the only sort of Aesop that people in Fantasy fiction learn, although it can be.
  • Nor is it the sort of Aesop that Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny learn, although it can be.
• Fantastic Arousal is not about really good sexual activity or an unusually potent fetish.
  • It also has nothing to do with a certain group of Superheroes.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with waking up.
• Fantastic Comedy isn't a really really good comedy. Not necessarily at least.
• Fantastic Drug isn't about a really awesome drug.
  • Nor is it about special pills that the Fantastic Four use to augment their powers.
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables is not an Aesop about having a healthy diet.
• A Fantastic Ghetto is definitely not a fantastic place to live in.
• Fantastic Nuke is not about really really good nukes.
  • Nor is it about nukes developed by Reed Richards.
• Fantastic Racism is not some sort of Nazi plot to justify racial hatred, nor does it refer to Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny all being white, ^note  Unless it's the 2015 film nor is it about particularly awesome racism.
• Fantastic Science isn't the opinion of someone who thinks Science Is Good.
• A Fantasy-Forbidding Father won't stop you from reading The Lord of the Rings. Well, he might, but the trope's not exclusively about that.
• Fantasy Gun Control actually has very little to do with the plot, or Aesop, of the Discworld book Men at Arms.
• Fantasy Helmet Enforcement is not about the inverse of Helmets Are Hardly Heroic in the fantasy genre.
  • Nor is it enforcing magical helmets.
• A Fantasy Kitchen Sink is not where wizards, dwarves and dragons do the dishes. It's also not a place to wash fantasy novels.
• Fan Verse is not about an Ode to a Flabellum. Nor is it about fan works in musical form. For that you'd want to see Filk Song.
• Fan Wank is not about Rule 34, though not everyone who engages in Fan Wank is above the occasional literal non-example, either. It's also not about using a fan as a masturbation aid, whether that's the fan that creates wind or the fan who really likes something.
• Fanwork-Only Fans is not a term for fanwork hosted on the website OnlyFans.
• The Farmer and the Viper is not a tale about a fight between a MiG-19 and an F-16.
  • Nor is it a crossover between Riverworld and Battlestar Galactica.
  • Nor is it a story about an agriculturist buying a sports car.
  • It's also not anything to do with Game of Thrones or the books it's based on. That Viper would probably have been better off fighting a farmer.
• The Fascinating Eyebrow is not an eyebrow that happen to be very interesting.
• Fast-Roping is not about tying things up especially quickly.
• The Fatalist is not someone who plays FATAL, neither he is obsessed with Fatalities. He does have (usually morbid) obsession with Fate.
• A Fat Bastard is overweight, but wasn't (necessarily) conceived out of wedlock.
• Fate Worse than Death is not about Fate Testarossa (or that other Fate) being even harder to Punch Out than Death. Nor is it an installment in the Fate series that's so bad you'd rather die than read/play it.
• Father Neptune is not about the actual god Poseidon/Neptune. Nor about the planet.
• Faustian Rebellion is not about a certain animator rebelling against the clichéness of girl-targeting media.
• The Faux Interracial Relationship is not when someone's fake partner is claimed to be a different race or when people of different races go Undercover as Lovers—the relationship is actually real, only the difference in race is not.
• Fauxshadow is not a fake hedgehog, nor will he slit his grandma's throat for a wooden nickel. Nor is it about fake shadows or fake eyeshadow.
• A "Fawlty Towers" Plot isn't a story about building mishaps, nor is it a garden plot in Fawlty Towers.
• Fear Tropes is not an order, no matter how much they may ruin your life.
• A Feather Boa Constrictor is not a Quetzalcoatl-like creature.
  • It's not about restricting the movement of a scarf, either.
• The Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue is not where Squidward ended up when his time machine broke.
  • It's neither an airplane nor a plane of existence.
• Feed the Mole is not about giving the animal some food.
• Feelies is not an Unusual Euphemism.
  • Nor are they what you get after a Tear Jerker moment.
• Feet of Clay does not refer to feet that have gotten dirty.
  • Nor is it referring to literal feet sculpted out of clay.
• Felony Misdemeanor is not the name for a class of crimes under California state law. (California state law spells it "Felony/Misdemeanor", with a slash or a hyphen between the two words. It means a crime that can be treated as either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the severity, such as drunk driving or theft.)
• Felony Murder doesn't indicate that there is some form of Misdemeanor Murder. Nor does it refer to people being murdered because they were felons.
• Fell Off the Back of a Truck is not about someone or something falling off a moving truck.
• Feminazis usually aren't actual Nazis, nor do they act like them. Usually.
  • Nor is it about saying that the Nazi were feminists.
• The Fettered isn't about the alternate name for Tainted Forgotten.
• Fetish does not refer to the original definition of fetishism. You may be looking for Cargo Cult, Good Luck Charm, Bad Luck Charm, or Ancient Artifact.
• Fiction 500 is not a car race of all fictional characters.
• A Fiendish Fraternity does not involve literal demons.
• The 15 Puzzle did not have fourteen puzzles before it.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief is not a summary of the main cast of 8-Bit Theater. Nor is it someone who's a fighter, a mage AND a thief all at the same time. Or someone who kidnaps people who are just fighters and mages at the same time.
• Fighting a Shadow isn't the opposite of Loving a Shadow. It also doesn't usually involve attacking a Living Shadow, and is definitely not about fighting Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Fight In The Nude is not about characters battling in their birthday suits. In most video games to which that would apply, the complete opposite of this trope is in play.
  • Nor is it advice to fight completely naked.
• Fight Like a Card Player is not what The Joker does with his razor cards while fighting Batman. It also has nothing to do with arguments that lead to fighting amongst poker players.
  • There is no game called "Fight Like A Card".
• Filibuster Freefall is not about giving a long speech while falling from a high altitude.
• Film at 11 does not mean that a TV station will broadcast a movie at 11pm (or 11am for that matter). In fact, it doesn't have to do with "film" in the sense of "movie" at all!
  • Nor is it telling a film crew to start working 1 hour before noon or midnight.
  • Nor is about eleven-year-olds working in the filming industry or doing any other sort of filming.
  • Nor is it an MPAA rating for films that can be watched by anyone over age 11.
• Film Felons is not a general trope about criminals in films.
  • Nor are they about criminals who go into filmmaking or get hired as movie actors.
• A Final Exam Finale is not necessarily one where student characters literally take their final exams.
• A Final Girl is not a female Super Smash Bros. player who likes to always pick Final Destination.
  • Or a girl who helps you study for final exams.
  • Nor does it refer to when the only female villain in a video game is also the Final Boss.
• Finding the Bug is not about finding bugs in software.
  • Nor is it about finding any kind of insects.
• Find the Cure! is not related to Pretty Cure, nor is it related to The Cure
• A Finger Gun will not necessarily shoot fingers.
• Finger in a Barrel is a finger in a gun barrel, not any other kind of barrel.
  • Also isn't a severed finger inside a barrel.
• A Finger in the Mail is not about someone opening a letter by running a finger through the top of the envelope.
  • Nor is it about entering cyberspace by putting a finger in a e-mail.
  • Nor does it mean someone opening someone else's mailbox and rummaging through their mail.
  • Nor is it part of a chainmail gauntlet.
• Finger Poke of Doom is not the same as Go for the Eye.
• A Finger-Snapping Street Gang will not break your fingers if you cross them.
• A Finger-Twitching Revival does not mean that finger-twitching was once popular, then fell out of use, and is currently popular again.
• Finishing Move is for killing things, not completing your homework or work assignment.
• Finns with Fearsome Forests is not about the character from Adventure Time (or Finding Nemo or anyone else named Finn) claiming ownership of dangerous and spooky woods.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with When Trees Attack.
• Fire-Breathing Diner is not about very angry people at restaurants. Nor is it about diner restaurants that can breathe fire.
• Fire Is Red, Water Is Blue, but those are tropes, not poetry too.
• Firemen Are Hot, but not because they're on fire.
• Firing One-Handed doesn't mean you're using the other hand for other purposes.
• First Blood is not about the Rambo movies. Neither does it refer to the first victim of an Anti-Hero or a villain, much as Unreal Tournament and other things using its voiceovers — Defense of the Ancients for one — would have you believe.
• First Church of Mecha is not about the Wicca stand-in from Tales of MU.
• First Period Panic has nothing to do with the first period of school nor punctuation.
• The Fisher King does not fish. It also isn't the page about that Terry Gilliam movie where Robin Williams gets naked. Nor does it refer to whoever's in charge of Fisher-Price.
  • Also, the Fisher King is not (usually) the king over the Fisher Kingdom.
• Fish Eyes aren't an ingredient in a witch's potion.
• Fishing for Mooks is not when you go fishing and somehow pluck a hostile enemy out of water.
• Fish out of Water has nothing to do with a game of Marco Polo.
  • Nor does it refer to fishing while you are not in the water, which is normal. Or a fish made out of water.
• Fission Mailed has nothing to do with illegal (not to mention stupid) methods of nuclear waste disposal.
  • Nor is it about mailing.
  • Nor is it about Spoonerism.
• A Fist Pump will not inflate your fist so you can throw a bigger punch.
• Five-Finger Discount is not a benefit given by stores to cartoon characters drawn with more than four fingers.
• Five Rounds Rapid is not something done in a Drinking Game, although its presence may inspire one.
• Five-Year Plan is not about the economic policies developed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• The Fixer is not the same as Mr Fix It—the former fixes problems, the latter repairs objects.
• Fixer Sue is not about a repairwoman named Sue. Nor is it about bringing a lawsuit to “fix” something.
• Fix Fic is not a campaign to reduce the influence of Sturgeon's Law on fanfiction. Although such a campaign is sorely needed.
  • Nor is it Hurt/Comfort Fic where the Hurt is canon.
  • Nor is it a fanfic about repairing or neutering.
• Flag Drop is not about gang members severing ties with their crew.
• Flair Bartending is not Ric Flair mixing a drink for you. It's also not about having the word 'bartending' after your Reddit username.
• Flame Bait is NOT about something that is flammable or inflammable. That would be Made of Incendium.
• A Flame War is not a war between two pyromaniacs.
• A Flaming Devil is not a devil who's Wreathed in Flames or is a Man on Fire. Nor is it a devil that makes angry posts online.
• Flaming Hair is not about popular hairstyles for gay people. Nor is it about someone whose hair catches fire.
• A Flaming Sword is not a euphemism for a Camp Gay guy's wing wong.
  • Nor is it a sentient sword that is camp gay.
• Flanderization is not the assimilation in to the culture of Flanders^note actually, it could be in theory, but that's not how we use the term on this wiki.
  • Nor is it the act of turning a character into Flandre Scarlet.
  • Nor is it turning into Ned Flanders.
• Flashback Stares is about stares that induce flashbacks, not flashbacks where everyone just stares blankly at each other (or at the viewer).
• A Flash In The Pan Fad isn't a trend for cookery.
• A Flash Mob is not a branch of the Mafia known for exposing their private parts in public or for being particularly good at using Adobe Flash.
  • It is not about any hypothetical cartel monopolizing the production or distribution of Flash RAM either.
• Flash of Pain does not refer to the fastest man alive being influenced by Mötley Crüe's 1985 album. It also has nothing to do with an Adobe Flash animation that contains large amounts of Sensory Abuse, or anger caused by Flash Player's tendency to hog resources.
• Flash Sideways is not about The Flash lying down.
  • Nor is it exposing one's private parts in public while facing perpendicular to the intended target.
• Flash Step is not a reporting name. Nor is it when the floor lights up under someone's feet disco-style. And although The Flash could, in theory, put the move to good use, it's not something he does very often. It's also not when you advance through a web animation one frame at a time.
• A Flat Character is not necessarily flat chested, or what happens after Amusing Injuries involving steamrollers.
  • It also does not have to be about depressed or bored characters.
  • It's also not about characters who are literally flat.
  • It also not necessarily related to a British apartment.
• A Flat-Earth Atheist is not an atheist who believes that the Earth is flat.
• Flatline isn't every instance of a straight line.
  • It also has nothing to do with a certain assault rifle in Apex Legends.
• Flat Scare is not about being startled by an apartment. Nor is it synonymous with Dull Surprise; the action used to scare someone is flat, not their scared reaction.
• Flawless Token is not a creature token or a monster token with no weaknesses.
  • It's not used as a special currency at Chuck E Cheese's either.
• Flies Equals Evil has nothing to do with flight as a power of villains but not heroes.
  • Nor is it an example of Chewbacca Defense.
• Flip-Flop of God is not what the Almighty wears at the beach.
  • Nor is it an Unusual Euphemism for His Royal Thing.
  • Nor is it about what God, in works where God can only breathe underwater, does when he washes up on land.
  • Nor is it about a digital latching circuit used by a god.
• Flipping the Bird doesn't involve slingshotting an angry avian at the house of a kidnapper.
  • Nor is it grabbing a bird and flinging it on its side or upside down in rage.
• Flipping the Table is not Flipping the Bird WITH YOUR WHOLE HAND.
  • Nor is it reversing the order of the rows on a scorecard or in a database.
  • Nor is it buying a table with the intent to resell it for a profit.
• A Floating Advice Reminder is not a text box you'd see in a video game telling you basic information after the tutorial has already ended. Nor does it give you advice on how to float.
• Floating Head Syndrome does not refer to the side effects of Zordon's communication tube, nor the result of Megaton's attempts to remove his organic components.
• A Flock of Wolves is not the proper "group term" to define them; that would be "pack".
• A Flower Mouth isn't a flower with a face or someone with a flower in place of their mouth. Nor is it someone who only speaks in flowery language.
• A Flowery Insult is not just calling someone a pansy, although calling someone a pansy can be part of a Flowery Insult. It's not an insult in the language of flowers either.
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven is not where good fluffy clouds go after death. Similarly, Fire and Brimstone Hell is not where fires and brimstones that have sinned go to.
  • Nor is it in any way a counterpart to Marshmallow Hell.
• A Fluffy Dry Cat is not a fluffy cat who is thirsty, has a dry sense of humor, is emotionless, or simply isn't wet.
• Fluffy Tamer is not about a tamer who is fluffy.
  • Nor do they necessarily tame Hagrid's dog (although they might) or Angelica's cat.
• Fluffy the Terrible does not refer to Gabriel Iglesias.
  • Nor is it when Angelica's cat turns from mischievous to evil.
• A Fly-at-the-Camera Ending does not involve any insects or trouser zippers.
• Fly Crazy is not the airplane piloting counterpart of Drives Like Crazy.
  • It's also not about people who love flies. In fact, it's the polar opposite.
• Flying Brick is not about a block of ceramic material hurling toward a person's head. Or a block of ceramic material that is also a superhero. (Although it is related to superheroes.) Or the brick from the Brick Joke. And under no circumstances should you compare them to Vogon ships. It also does not refer to Wing Saber.
  • It's also not about aircrafts or spacecrafts Built with LEGO. Superheroes made of Lego, possibly.
  • Nor does it refer to Nick the Flying Brick from the Monster Raving Looney Party.
• Flying Seafood Special isn't one of ShinkenGold/Gold Samurai Ranger's attacks, or a Japanese action flick parody about seafood that can fly.
  • Nor is it a sub trope of Anthropomorphic Food.
• Fly in the Soup isn't an instruction to pilot a helicopter through some stew.
• Flynning has nothing to do with computers.
  • It's named after Errol Flynn, but it's not about his romantic exploits.
  • Flynn Rider never does it; his unusual fight against an equally unusual opponent is much too chaotic.
• Foe-Tossing Charge is not about an explosive charge that will send foes flying, nor is it about a foe who is tossing an explosive charge.
  • Nor is it about having an electrical charge that repels all your enemies.
• Follow the Money bears no relation to its use as a cliche, i.e. discovering secrets by tracing finances. That's Forensic Accounting.
  • Nor is it about that trick where someone ties a coin or a stack of bills to a string and pulls it along with someone following behind trying to grab it.
  • It actually could be considered a sub trope of Follow the Leader, but the money itself isn't a leader.
  • It's not about going to projects where you'll be paid well, either.
• Follow the White Rabbit is not about getting high on acid. It is also not necessarily about following a White Bunny.
  • Nor is it a subtrope of Fantastic Racism specifically relating to anthropomorphized rabbits.
• Food Chains has nothing to do with predation, and also isn't about tying someone up with a string of sausages.
• The Food Poisoning Incident is not a subtrope of Noodle Incident for when the incident is implied to be disgusting.
  • It's also not about adding poison to someone's dinner.
• Food Porn is not about pornography depicting anthropomorphic food, food companies' mascots, or even cooking show personalities, although such things most likely exist. It's not even about use of food in literal pornography; in fact, it's usually safe for work, unless perhaps you work at a weight-loss clinic.
  • So just being clear: it's not about the ending of Sausage Party.
  • Nor is it related to Erotic Eating or Orgasmically Delicious, though they can definitely overlap.
• Foo Fu is not a martial art practiced by the Foo Fighters.
• The Fool is not a trope about the tarot card of the same name, or that one guy with the mask who can only be seen by Sora Naegino.
  • Nor does it reference the objects of Mr. T's pity.
  • It is not a trope about stupid people in general. Or Iggy's Stand.
• Foot Popping is not when somebody's foot bursts, nor is it a literal case shooting oneself in the foot.
  • It also isn't Knuckle Cracking but applied to feet.
• Footy Rules is not a treatise on the superiority of soccer over all other sports, or about one's favorite pajamas.
• Force Feeding is not a Jedi ability to prevent starvation. There's no such ability among the Sith, either.
  • It also is not about giving donuts to the police, or any kind of food.
• For Doom the Bell Tolls does not denote the entrance of Doctor Doom.
• A Forehead of Doom is not about particularly destructive foreheads, nor is it about Doctor Doom's forehead.
• A Foreign Wrestling Heel is not a high-heeled shoe from another country becoming a wrestler. Nor does it refer to Achilles becoming a wrestler in a country other than Greece (albeit he might count for the trope if he's villainous).
• Forged by the Gods was not started by any deity.
  • Nor is it a counterfeit made by said gods.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That is not about Homer Simpson being unable to remember his neighbor's talents. Nor is it about forgetting what can be done by a part of Belgium.
• Forgot He Was a Robot is not about robots so sentient, they convince themselves to be human (or whatever they're modeled after) and have to be reminded they are, in fact, automatons. That would be Tomato in the Mirror.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend is not a The Binding of Isaac fanfic where the Fallen and the Forgotten become friends.
• A Forgotten Trope isn't a trope about amnesia.
• For Science! is not the motto of the scientific faction of the "Science Faction" of Academy City.
• Fountain of Memes is not literally a fountain that has memes coming out of it.
  • Nor is it about a literal fountains that went Memetic Mutation.
• Fountain of Youth is not literally a fountain that spews youths.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul is not a subtrope of Extra Eyes.
  • Nor does it ever describe Steve Urkel or the characters in the "Blacks Without Soul" sketch from Amazon Women on the Moon.
• Four Is Death does not necessarily mean you will die at age four. Nor is it a version of the three strikes law in which a fourth "strike" nets the death penalty. (Although both of these could be true given the nature of the trope in question...) Nor does it mean the Grim Reaper is only four years old. Nor does it have it have to with Numberjack Four.
• The Four Loves has nothing to do with the four romances.
  • Nor does it invlove the shipping of Agent 4, Numbah Four, or anyone else whose name is the number four.
  • Nor is it anything to do with having four couples in a work.
• Four-Star Badass is not a discussion of the most badass characters in the works of Team Four Star.
  • It is also not a badass character with rave reviews.
  • Or a particularly effective Level 4 Yu-Gi-Oh! card.
  • Or a badass whose epicness still remains overshadowed by an even cooler, five-star badass.
• The Four Terms Fallacy wasn't committed by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he decided to run for a fourth term in office.
  • Nor is it an error frequently committed by schools and universities on the quarter system.
  • It is also not about lists with four entries always being wrong.
• Fourth Wall Psych is not about the psychological effects of Breaking the Fourth Wall or being a Fourth-Wall Observer, nor is it about a video game psychoanalyzing the player.
• Fourth Wall Shut-In Story doesn't refer to a story that initially has No Fourth Wall, only for events within the story to close the fourth wall and end any interaction with the real world.
• A Frame-Up is not about hanging a picture frame on a wall.
• A Framing Device is not a machine that allows you to frame pictures or set people up for crimes quickly and easily.
• Franchise Killer is not a fictional character that notices the fourth wall, goes mad from the revelation, and kills the franchise itself.
• Franchise Original Sin is not when the franchise was originally a right triangle and you measured the ratio of the lengths of the side opposite an angle and the hypotenuse.
• Franchise Zombie is not the curiously-named daughter to Rob Zombie.
  • ...And it does not necessarily involve The Undead, although there are some that do.
• Franken-X is not a variable subtracted from Al Franken.
• A Freddie Mercopy isn't a merman version of Queen.
• You don't get a Freeze-Frame Bonus by playing Warframe as Frost.
• A Freeze Sneeze is not a sneeze that causes everyone to stop moving, or one that turns people into a Human Popsicle.
• French Jerk is not about Jamaican cuisine from, or influenced by the culture of, France.
  • Nor is it about saying "French" to a jerk.
• Freudian Couch is not about phallic furniture.
• A Freudian Excuse has nothing to do with using Freud Was Right as an excuse.
• The Freudian Trio has nothing to do with doctor Benjamin Spock, Kirk Franklin, or LeRon McCoy.
  • Nor is it three perverted psychologists.
• Frictionless Reentry is not a porn maneuver.
• Fridge Brilliance has nothing to do with climbing into a fridge to survive a nuclear explosion, or with particularly well-lit refrigerators.
  • The fridge itself is not brilliant, in any sense of the word.
• Fridge Horror is not about the foul leftover beasts that lurk within.
  • Nor was it how Kyle Rayner reacted to his girlfriend's murder.
  • Nor is it a phobia of refrigerators.
• Fridge Logic has nothing to do with sentient cooling devices, or freezers suddenly acquiring intelligence.
  • Would those be defeated via Fridge Logic Bomb?
  • Nor does it involve a fridge being needed to stop digital logic circuits from overheating.
  • Nor is it logical deductions about refrigerators.
• Friendly Fandoms are not individual fandoms that are full of nice people.
• Friend on the Force does not refer to having a friend who is a Jedi.
• A Friend-or-Idol Decision won't come up in a Spelunky level where you have to choose between taking the damsel or the golden idol with you.
• "Friends" Rent Control is named after the series, and does not refer to characters who get a deal on the rent because the landlord is their friend.
• Friends with Benefits are not necessarily on welfare.
• Friend to All Living Things is not about characters who are friendly to all living things. Trope names can be so misleading.
• Frills of Justice is not the fancy robes judges wear in the British Commonwealth.
  • They've got rid of them nearly everywhere now, and we want them back!
  • Nor is it a trope specifically about heroic frilled lizards.
• From Dress to Dressing is not about using a dress as salad dressing.
• From the Mouths of Babes doesn't cover the filthy things sexy babes might say.
• Front 13, Back 9 is not a sports score.
• Frozen Fashion Sense isn't about Anna and Elsa's taste in clothes.
• Frozen in Time is not what happens when you cause one paradox too many and the Time Police start getting angry. Nor does it involve freezing that must be done before it's too late.
  • Nor is it Frozen... IN TIME!
    • Or for that matter, Frozen... IN TIME!
    • And it's not In Time... BUT FROZEN!
  • It does not involve literally freezing time, though that could be used to justify it.
  • Or being frozen just in time.
• Frying Pan of Doom is not what Sauron cooks breakfast with.
  • Nor Doctor Doom, for that matter.
• A Fuku Fic is not a Troll's badly misspelled attempt of a Take That! directed to a reader of fan stories. Nor is it a fanfic involving sushi prepared from a poisonous blowfish.
• Full-Frontal Assault actually is referring to nudity, not tactics (though it can be employed in a manner that really does help one fight).
  • It also does not involve vaginal rape. (most of the time...)
  • It does not involve Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn's residential Char clone Full Frontal, too.
  • Nor is it referring to violence perpetrated by or against Samantha Bee’s TBS show.
• Fulton Street Folly is not about the inventor of the steam engine doing something stupid in public.
• Funbag Airbag is not about the type of airbag found in cars.
  • Nor is it a type of airbags that makes funny noises when activating.
• Funny Animal is not about animals acting funny, unless they're anthropomorphic. Nor is it about Animal acting funny.
• A Funny Fan Voice has nothing to do with a comedian mocking their fanbase by jokingly pretending to be one of them.
• Funny Foreigner has nothing to do with the band.
• Fur Against Fang does not mean Dave's little sister became a pet groomer.
• Fur and Loathing has nothing to do with attacks on furries
• Fur Bikini is not a furry in a swimsuit, unless the swimsuit is made of fur.
• Furries Are Easier to Draw doesn't mean that people who like to dress as animals are easier to draw.
• Furry Confusion is neither a description of someone who isn't sure whether he's a furry or not, nor the furry equivalent of Mistaken for Gay.
  • Neither is it a creature with fur that nobody can identify.
• Furry Reminder is not about reminding someone that you're furry or a furry.
• Fusion Dance is not dance music mixed with one or more other genres.
  • It's also not a dance involving the Ford Fusion.
  • Or a dance about nuclear fusion.
  • Nor is it a dance involving Metroid Fusion or WipEout Fusion.
• A Fusion Fic is not fanfiction specifically about FusionFall, nor is it fanfiction about nuclear scientists.
• Future Imperfect does not refer to a tense.
  • Nor is it when you fail to get a perfect score on a Future chart.

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