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- Gadget Watches does not imply that she is a Chip/Dale Yaoi Fangirl.
- Nor is it about Inspector Gadget going to the movies.
- Gag Penis is not about poorly executed fellatio.
- Gag Censor is not a censor box used to silence a captive.
- Nor is it what you have to do to make the average stand-up routine safe for television.
- A Gag Echo isn't an echo of someone choking.
- A Gag Dub is not a dub so bad it makes you want to gag.
- Nor is a Gag Series such a series.
- Nor is it Dubstep done as comedy. Or dubstep used as the soundtrack to someone getting gagged.
- Gag Lips is not what happens when a character gets their mouth covered by a gag so they can't talk.
- A Gag Sub is not a Dagwood Sandwich. Nor an over-the-top submarine. Or a popular BDSM dom technique.
- Gainax Ending is not a death by Marshmallow Hell...
- Neither is it an ending where a character gets an ax.
- Neither is it about the bankruptcy of Studio Gainax.
- It's also not about being killed by an axe you have recently bought.
- ...just as Gainaxing is not hastily wrapping up a canceled series with a Mind Screw.
- It's also not gaining an ax.
- Nor is it a Shout-Out to Studio Gainax.
- Gambit Roulette is not a casino owned by that character in X-Men.
- ... nor a gambit involving that toxin-producing lady in Wild Cards.
- The Game is not about video game adaptations of other media. Or the Michael Douglas movie. Also, it does not belong to Ender, nor is it a former member of G-Unit, nor is it Triple H. However, you did just lose it.
- Corollarily, The Game Plays You is not what happens when you think about The Game too frequently and it takes over your life, nor is it a Russian Reversal.
- Headscratchers/The Game does not offer competitive confusion in the comfort of your own home.
- The Game does not refer to fighting monsters with your supersonic wave.
- A Game-Breaker will not ruin the media your game comes in.
- Nor is it a ridiculously powerful spell that Nanoha Takamachi uses, nor is it a powerful attack done by the Dai-Gurren Dan.
- Nor does it have anything to do with awesome boss music.
- Nor is it something in a game so frustrating and infuriating that it makes you want to break your game into pieces. If an opponent uses a Game Breaker against you though, that can still happen.
- A Game-Breaking Bug is not a bug that results in a Game-Breaker.
- Nor is it an insect who hates video games.
- Nor is it what is said when someone announces a game to break an insect or video game glitch.
- Game Face is not the face you make when you lose The Game. You know, like right now.
- It's also unrelated to a Poker Face.
- Nor is it the face of a hunted animal.
- A Game Hunting Mechanic isn't a mechanical technician who goes shopping for video games.
- A Game Mod is not a moderator who is in charge of something related to a video game, tabletop game, or forum game.
- Nor is it a video game mod that adds something related to hunted animals.
- Nor is it a hunted animal as a moderator.
- A Game of Nerds is not about a game actually played by nerds, or the fact that whenever you see nerds in fiction they like to play Tabletop Games.
- It's also not a hatedom nickname for Game of Thrones or Game of Life.
- Nor is it a version of Game of Thrones where everyone's a nerd.
- Nor is it animals hunted by nerds.
- Nor is it a game of any type that is related to the candy.
- A Game-Over Man is not someone who starts saying "Nothing Can Save Us Now!" after a catastrophe. Neither is it someone from Aliens.
- Nor is it a Mega Man boss that attacks by giving you an instant game over
- It's also not a Stock Phrase.
- Nor is it about a game that you prefer over the survival of humanity.
- Nor about a woman who would rather play sports or video games than have a boyfriend.
- It's not someone saying, "Game over, man!" either.
- Gameplay and Story Integration is not something that clever Fan Fic writers try to do to make their fanon seem more realistic or interesting.
- It also isn't how you find the area under the gameplay and story curve.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation is not a type of Fantastic Racism.
- The Game Plays You is not about being conned by Triple H, or being portrayed by him in a show or movie.
- It's also not about being manipulated by Jayceon Taylor.
- Gamer Chick: Beth Kinderman does not edit this wiki and this is not her user page. Nor has Jack Chick suddenly acquired a Wii. It also has nothing to do with baby chickens.
- A Game Within a Game is not a hunted animal that is in a video/tabletop game.
- Nor is it about a video game, tabletop game, or smaller hunted animal that is somehow inside a hunted animal.
- Gangbangers isn't about polyamory.
- A Gang of Hats is not a gang composed of sentient hats.
- Gangsta Style is not a remix of Gangnam Style. At least, not on this wiki.
- Gang Up on the Human isn't about a form of Fantastic Racism where all non-human races have humans as a common enemy.
- A Garbage Hideout isn't a hideout made out of rubbish, or an ineffective one. Nor is it where Shirley Manson’s band would hide out between tours.
- A Garbage Wrestler is not very bad at wrestling.
- The Garden of Eden doesn't belong to anyone named Eden.
- Gas Leak Cover-Up is not about covering up the existence of a gas leak. Unless the cover story is another gas leak.
- Nor is it about blaming someone else for leaking the other kind of gas.
- Gassy Scare is not about scaring someone by burping or farting, nor is it about Deadly Gas.
- Gateway Series is not about the Gateway series.
- Gatling Good is not a subtrope of Good Weapon, Evil Weapon.
- Or a commentary on the morality of Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, the weapon's designer.
- It's also not an assessment of the Governor from Benson.
- And it has nothing to do with Character Alignment. There is no such thing as Gatling Neutral, Gatling Evil, or Gatling Stupid.
- Gattaca Babies are not a little-known example of Spin-Off Babies.
- Gay Cruising is not about cruise ships for gay people.
- A Gayngster is not necessarily someone who Gayngsts.
- The Gay '90s and The '90s take place during two different centuries. It's also not The '90s where everyone is gay, nor is it someone who is between ages 90-99 who is queer.
- A Gay Option is not a sentient power-up found in a certain shmup filled with Les Yay.
- Nor is it exactly a button in an options menu to make everyone gay. Though that would count as an example.
- Nor is it a particularly cheerful romantic option.
- Gay Paree is not about homosexual gentlemen enjoying themselves in the City of Light.
- A Gecko Ending is not the end of those obnoxious GEICO commercials. Unfortunately. Neither is it about the extinction of geckos.
- A Gender Bender is not a type of bender that they left out of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Nor is it a Futurama episode where the larcenous robotic star gains male or female parts.
- Gender-Bender Friendship is not about a friendship which transcends gender boundaries. Nor is it about friendship between crossdressers.
- Nor is it when Nanoha Takamachi befriends you so hard that it changes your gender.
- A Gender-Blender Name is not a company's title for a device made to turn genders into milkshakes.
- Nor is it about giving a blender a gender-specific name.
- Gender Equals Breed does not mean "You have a gender? You must participate in reproduction!"
- A Gender Reveal is not a party where expecting parents announce whether they're having a boy or a girl; the character revealed is usually actually not a newborn baby.
- Gene Hunting is a pun on the name of Gene Hunt, but has nothing else to do with him.
- It also does not refer to the final boss battle of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
- Nor was it named after the act of searching for a specific DNA sequence, although the actual practice of Gene Hunting might involve some of this.
- Nor is it about looking for a pair of trousers to wear.
- A General Failure is not a failure that cannot be categorized into something more specific, at least unless the General Failure fails at many things besides military strategy.
- Generation Ships is not about shipping older and younger characters.
- Genetic Adaptation is not an adaptation of a work that includes more genetics than the original, or is created by genetics.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke is not about using the threat of genetic engineering on your enemy as a means of deterrence in a Cold War situation.
- Gen Fic is not a fiction written by Gen Urobuchi, nor is it a fan fic about him.
- Nor is "gen" short for "genetics" or "generation".
- Nor is it necessarily a Generator Rex fic.
- Genius Bonus is not a pay raise given to an exceptionally intelligent employee.
- Nor is it extra content in a video game that only a genius could find. That would be Guide Dang It!.
- A Genius Bruiser is not someone who selectively beats up smart people.
- Genius Loci is not the intellectual kind of genius. Nor is it about a certain Norse trickster god being exceptionally clever. Or smart locusts. Or locusts belonging to Genis. Or especially hard maths questions. Latin plural for Locution? Totally out, too.
- A Genius Slob is not a highly intelligent Blood.
- It's also not a sarcastic statement a Crip makes to a Blood that made a bad decision.
- A Genius Thriller is not a story designed strictly to thrill geniuses.
- Nor is it a Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody in which every character is a brainiac.
- Genki Girl is not the mascot for the video game developer Genki. Said trope does not have to be a Gamer Chick who's a fan of said company.
- Gentleman Thief will not steal your boyfriend. At least until the Yaoi Fangirls start writing fic.
- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand doesn't refer to different methods of showing physical affection towards someone you're dating.
- Genuine Human Hide is not a command telling the only real human to hide from some threat. It's also not about Hide being an honest person.
- A Genuine Imposter isn't genuinely an imposter.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man is not a superhero (or Dr. Wily robot) with the power to bring panicky people to their senses. Nor is it the first thing a woman does after being turned male, or something a guy does when he doesn't have anywhere to go on a Saturday night.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss You Will Not Evade Me is two tropes, not one.
- Get Back in the Closet is not when someone is told that it's not yet safe to stop hiding in a closet, nor about a gay person who has already come out wanting to go back on it.
- Nor does it have anything to do with the premise of Monsters, Inc.
- Nor does it have anything to do with entering and exiting Narnia.
- Get on the Boat has nothing to do with issues present in pirated copies of Deus Ex, nor with Shipping.
- Nor is it what you do when you see a lion swimming towards you.
- Nor is it about deportation of immigrants.
- Nor is it a spinoff of Fresh Off the Boat.
- Nor is it a quote from Predator ... AT SEA!
- Get Out! is not when someone attempts to warn people in a crowded room or building of impending disaster.
- It's also not exclusively about the Hello Neighbor song.
- It's also not about the common idiom for "I don't believe you"; most often people saying Get Out! are literally ordering you out.
- Nor is it about the film.
- Get Thee to a Nunnery is not about becoming a nun.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar is not about aircraft stealth technology. It doesn't usually involve actual fecal matter, either.
- Getting Suspended Is Awesome is not about being able to get your life on track because you're suspended on TVTropes. Nor is it about dangling in the air and pretending you're flying.
- A Ghetto Name is not a nickname for a local inner-city area.
- Maserati does not own the Ghibli Hills.
- The Ghost does not refer to the ship from Star Wars Rebels. Nor is it about literal ghosts and spirits.
- The Ghost Butler will not carry your bags to your tomb.
- Nor is he a butler who works for ghosts, unless he is a ghost himself.
- Ghost in the Machine is not about machines literally possessed by ghosts.
- Ghost Leg Lottery does not refer to works where some deceased people keep their lower bodies and others have Fog Feet.
- A Ghost Planet is not a planet whose hat is Haunted Houses.
- A Giant Flyer is not an absurdly large piece of paper informing of a yard sale or lost dog.
- Giant Food is not necessarily about an American supermarket chain.
- Nor is it about food from said supermarket chain.
- Just because Giant Robot Hands Save Lives, it doesn't mean they store video game save states.
- G.I.F.T is not something you get for Christmas.
- It's also not about the German word for "poison", although toxicity is a common result of it.
- Gift Shake is not a milkshake made from gift wrappers or giving a milkshake as a gift.
- Gimmick Matches are not Trick Matches.
- The Girl Next Door does not actually live next door or two doors down from your house, and before you ask, her name is not Patty Loveless either.
- Girl-Powered is not an Always Female subtrope of Powered by a Forsaken Child.
- Girls Behind Bars is not about female bartenders.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals is not related to Girls' Love.
- Nor is it girls loving taxidermied animals.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon is not about femme fatales wielding Improbable Weapons or about women with weapons that are themselves crazy.
- Nor is it about girls with weapons with psychokinetic powers.
- Giving Up on Logic is not about Fan Disillusionment regarding the biracial rapper from Maryland.
- Glacial Apocalypse is not a gradual apocalypse.
- Glacier Waif isn't a redirect for Yuki Onna.
- Nor does it refer to graceful and delicate women who use a ice motif.
- Glad I Thought of It is not about being glad that you thought of something.
- Nor is it being glad that the prissy Alphablock thought of something.
- Glamour is not about being good looking. Or bands from The '80s.
- A Glamour Failure does not usually involve poorly-applied makeup.
- Or T. Rex falling down the charts.
- Or failing in a glamorous way.
- A Glasgow Kiss is not about Glaswegians kissing, or a Scottish version of a French kiss.
- The Glasses Come Off not because The Glasses Gotta Go.
- It also isn't specifically a time when The Nostalgia Critic or Linkara take off their eyewear for any reason, such as to get "serious" about something.
- Nor is it about an action figure with removable glasses.
- The Glasses Gotta Go is not about someone telling another person not to wear dark glasses in a bank.
- Nor is it about a sale on glasses.
- Global Ignorance is not about information unknown to the entire world or complete ignorance of world issues. That would be quite a bit more controversial. It's also not about people that don't know or believe that the world is round.
- A Glory Hound isn't a canine Glory Seeker. It's also not about Glory (or that other Glory) undergoing an Adaptation Species Change into a dog.
- A Glory Seeker isn't trying to find a certain RainWing, nor is it necessarily a Decepticon fighter plane.
- Glurge does not refer to moments of such heartstring-tugging sappiness that you throw up a little in your mouth just trying to process it, although they're often associated with one another.
- God Before Dogma isn't about getting the Dead God achievement before fighting Dogma (which is impossible without cheats).
- God Created Canon Foreigner is not a Canon Foreigner brought into a work of fiction via divine intervention, nor is it the idea that God created the idea of the Canon Foreigner.
- Goddamned Bats is not about The Goddamn Batman, nor baseball bats or any other kind. Or necessarily about actual bats, either. (The tendency to portray literal bats as creepy or evil goes under Bat Out of Hell.)
- Goddamned Boss isn't about a Bad Boss or Mean Boss whose employees wish he'd go to hell.
- God Job is not a Pun on the phrase "good job."
- God Never Said That is not about theological disputes concerning which books belong in The Bible and which are merely apocryphical.
- Or about characters mis-quoting/interpreting a religious text (real or otherwise) to 'justify' their fanatic mindset.
- God Save Us from the Queen! is not about the slavering queen of the zombies (Yet).
- Nor is someone being attacked by a weaponized remix of Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Nor is it a dangerous queen bee/ant, or a dangerous cat who is nursing or pregnant.
- Godwin's Law is not about how challenging (a) "God" will cause a One-sided victory for that god.
- It also has no relation to those FILTHY GODWIN DEVILS!
- The opposite is not called Godwin's Chaos.
- Godzilla Threshold isn't necessarily a threshold at which your current situation is so bad that you have to get help from Godzilla to be able to successfully take care of it.
- Goggles Do Nothing does not refer to sights that make you want to gouge out your eyes or use Brain Bleach.
- Go-Go Enslavement is not one of Inspector Gadget's lesser-known abilities. Nor is it about someone enslaving Inspector Gadget.
- It also does not necessarily involve Involuntary Dance.
- It's never happened to GoGo Tamago.
- Going Commando is not about Going Postal WITH AN ARMY COMMANDO!
- For that matter, it has nothing to do with joining any military's special forces units whatsoever.
- Nor is it turning into Sweet Commando.
- Going Critical does not involve telling someone why their book, movie, etc. is utter crap.
- Nor is it a Skill Point Reset to raise your Critical Hit chance.
- Going Down with the Ship is not about a fan getting depressed because his favorite character pairing has been ruined forever.
- Nor is it a special "affection" somebody may have for boats, If You Know What I Mean.
- Going to See the Elephant is not about parents taking their kids to the zoo, though the kids might feel something similar to this trope.
- It is also not about a blind person undergoing an operation to gain sight with the promise of knowing what an elephant looks like. Nor is the elephant a doctor.
- Nor is it slang for “going to an illegal bar”, like “going to see a blind pig”.
- Gold Digger is not about someone who literally mines for gold, nor does it have to do with the the nose-picking microgame from WarioWare.
- Nor an excavator made of gold.
- The Golden Age of Piracy is not the time when Napster was free.
- A Golden Snitch will not tattle on the villain (or any other character) and then be held up as a paragon of virtue.
- Gold Fever is not a disease contracted by touching gold, though keeping too much gold nearby can cause Gold Fever.
- A Goldfish Poop Gang is not (necessarily) a Gang of Hats whose theme is cleaning aquariums.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny does not mean you can polish anything by rubbing gold on it.
- Nor is it a statement that all Pokémon in Pokémon Gold have their alternate colorations.
- Or, for that matter, saying that Gold makes all his Pokémon shiny.
- Go Mad from the Revelation is not what happens after reading The Bible.
- Gonk is not about droids that resemble garbage cans from Star Wars. Nor is it related to a popular 60s and 70s toy, which are more Ugly Cute. Nor is this to be confused with the Gonk and Geefle from Sesame Street. Or the Herbert Chappell composition that was best used in Dawn Of The Dead. Or a bang from outside.
- Gonna Need More X is not what Dr. Gonzo might have said to his companion while inspecting the amount of recreational drugs they'd packed.
- It's also not about Professor Utonium deciding that The Powerpuff Girls need more Chemical X.
- Just so we're clear, it's not about having a playlist consisting solely of songs from either Xzibit, DMX, X (US Band) or X Japan.
- It also has nothing to do with fans requesting that Capcom make more Mega Man X games.
- Gonzo Journalism has nothing to do with Gonzo the Great writing newspaper articles.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel is not about the duality of Angel and Angelus.
- It is also not an angelic version of the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine to interrogate demons.
- Good Bad Bugs are not Big Creepy-Crawlies that are really just trying to help (unfortunately), nor is it about early Looney Tunes cartoons.
- Nor are they about insects that are pretending to be good, but are actually bad, or vice versa.
- Most especially it isn't about the premise of Mushihime-sama and sequels.
- It also doesn't refer to bugs that reverse characters' views on good and bad, though at least one did.
- It's not about a Good Bad Girl who's a bug, either.
- A Good Bad Girl is not about a girl who keeps swapping sides.
- Goodbye, Cruel World! isn't about someone leaving a Dark World to enter this world.
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion doesn't imply that Sanae Kochiya ever had sex.
- Good Hurts Evil is not about a hero fighting a villain. That's just too generic.
- Goodies in the Toilets is not about the good guys going to the bathroom, nor is "goodies" a euphemism for something unpleasant. Nor is it Toilet Humour featuring Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
- Good Is Impotent is not about when The Loins Sleep Tonight for the hero.
- Good Is Not Soft does not mean pillows are evil.
- Good-Looking Privates is definitely not about well-groomed... well...
- Nor is it about attractive private investigators.
- A Good Name for a Rock Band is, regrettably, not about trope titles that would be. This is.
- It is not, however, about suggestions that Harmomix change the name of their game.
- A Good Ol' Boy doesn't have to be drinking whiskey and rye, and probably isn't singing that this'll be the day that he'll die.
- Good Princess, Evil Queen is about two different characters, not a princess who does a Face–Heel Turn upon ascending the throne.
- Good Samaritan does not refer to good members of a certain Middle Eastern ethnoreligious group. Nor is it saying that a suicide prevention charity is good.
- A Good Shepherd is not someone who is good at herding sheep.
- A Good Troi Episode is not an episode where Troi stops being a Jerkass for once.
- Goofy Print Underwear does not necessarily have Goofy on it, although it can.
- A Goofy Suit doesn't necessarily have to show the suit's wearer as Goofy. Nor is it just another name for a Tacky Tuxedo.
- It is also not a particularly ridiculous Frivolous Lawsuit.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike is not about poorly designed, overpowered M.U.G.E.N. characters. Nor it it about how John Rzeznik is God! Nor is it about godlike goo.
- Gorgeous Garment Generation is not about a generation of people who all dress gorgeously.
- Gorn is not about vicious yet civilised lizard aliens.
- Nor about vicious yet civilized orc-like creatures on the world of Lost Guardia.
- Nor about vicious yet civilized large men wielding giant axes in the mines of Khorinis.
- Nor the king of Saronia.
- It also has nothing to do with woody and tinny words.
- Goth is not about the Germanic tribe.
- Or the Evil Chancellor in Doctor Who episode "The Deadly Assassin."
- Therefore, Goth Girls Know Magic does not imply that the tribe's women were witches.
- And Goths Have It Hard doesn't mean that life was hard for the tribe's people (though it was) or that playing as them in historical strategy games equates to a hard mode.
- Gotta Catch Them All is not what someone says after all the animals at the zoo escape, nor is it what an anti-vaxxer says is the best way to get immunity from preventable diseases.
- Gotta Kill Them All has nothing to do with Metallica.
- Nor Pokémon.
- Götterdämmerung is not how someone who doesn't know German says "goddamn" in German. That would be "Verdammt!"
- Its English translation is not about a supernatural romance novel series written for deities. Nor a description of Alicorn!Twilight Sparkle.
- Grande Dame is not Dizzy and Robo-Ky's version of Big "NO!", no matter how many times they said it in-game.
- No, the Grandfather Clause as the law in the antebellum South to prevent blacks from voting is not that popular as to get its own page. Nope, it's only one item on the list.
- A Grand Inquisitor Scene does not usually involve a spinning double-bladed lightsaber.
- Grand Theft Prototype is not a crossover between Grand Theft Auto and [PROTOTYPE]. Though that may be awesome. It's also not the beta version of Grand Theft Auto.
- Granola Girl is not someone who eats too much candy or a girl made of granola.
- Gratuitous French is not about people from France or French kissing that exists for no reason.
- Gratuitous Panning is not about:
- Multiple critics complaining about shows they don't like.
- Unnecessary overuse of the Frying Pan of Doom.
- Using a wooden rectangular frame with a steel mesh bottom to sift through soil looking for specks of gold for longer than necessary.
- Begging for spare change on the street corner when you don't really need the money.
- Moving the camera left and right for no reason.
- Gravity Sucks is not a criticism of a certain Alfonso Cuarón film set in Earth orbit.
- Nor is it the opinion of someone who hates seriousness in works.
- Grayscale of Evil is not related to Shades of Conflict.
- Grease Monkey is not Grease remade WITH MONKEYS.
- It also has nothing to do with the Firefox add-on for injecting custom javascript into web pages.
- Or of a monkey literally made out of grease.
- Great Balls of Fire! is not about flaming testicles. Nor is it about fireballs in general - it's specific to pyrotechnics in music videos and performances.
- Greater-Scope Paragon is not the name for the Sniper Monkey paragon.
- A Greater-Scope Villain does not necessarily have superior mouthwash.
- Great Gazoo is not about gushing over Toyota's performance and racing subsidiary.
- Great White Hunter is not a mighty person who hunts white people. Or someone who hunts great white sharks.
- Also not the nickname of Captain Ahab.
- Nor is it a hunter whose gimmick is that they only kill albino animals.
- Greek Chorus is not a chorus sung in Greek.
- Green Aesop is not about Aesop going Green Around the Gills, nor about eating vegetables, nor gardening.
- Green Around the Gills is not about fish and their colouring.
- Green Boy Color isn't about green being a masculine colour, nor is it about the colour of a green boy.
- Green-Eyed Monster does not mean the beast has a leaf colored iris.
- Similarly, Significant Green-Eyed Redhead is not about a jealous redhead.
- Nor is it a villain with green eyes.
- Green Is Blue has nothing to do with colorblindness.
- Nor is it Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad applied to Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- Green Rocks is not about green color being cool.
- Nor is it about environmental friendliness being portrayed in a positive light.
- It's also not about non-magical green rocks such as emeralds or malachite.
- Grenade Spam is not about explosive pork.
- Grenade Tag is not about spraying graffiti with a grenade, nor is it a paper label with instructions and warning attached to a grenade.
- Grew a Spine has nothing to do with the evolution of vertebrate animals.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality does not discuss whether British or American spelling is more ethical.
- A Grief Song is not a song someone sings incessantly to piss you off.
- Nor is it a musical number sung by a griefer about his or her techniques of annoying people.
- Grievous Harm with a Body has no relation to the cyborg general.
- Grimmification does not mean the process of turning into The Grim Reaper. Or turning into that kind of Grimm.
- Grim Up North does not refer to Oop North.
- Nor is it a Northern area where those scary black dogs live.
- Grind Boots are not for Level Grinding, or for putting out cigarettes.
- Nor is it an order to turn some boots into powder.
- Groin Attack is about attacking groins, not attacks made by groins.
- The Grotesque is not a gargoyle without a rainspout.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop has nothing to do with the "Ground Loop" that taxiing airplanes with tail-dragger landing gear can find themselves performing when they turn too quickly.
- It's also not about watching Groundhog Day over and over.
- Groundhog Peggy Sue isn't about groundhogs named Peggy Sue.
- Ground Punch is neither when Ground Punches You nor when somebody punches upwards when lying down on the ground.
- Nor is it powder you mix with water to make fruit punch.
- Growing the Beard has nothing to do with homosexual men who train women to be their fake girlfriends.
- Nor is it related to Beard of Sorrow.
- Nor is it about season-long changes to a character's hairstyle or personal appearance.
- Guile Hero does not reflect the American viewpoint regarding the main protagonist of the Street Fighter series. And no, a Guile Hero's theme does not go with everything. Nor is it a Guitar Hero spinoff where the only track available is Guile's theme.
- Guilt Complex is not when you have both real guilt and imaginary guilt.
- Guilty Pleasures are not pleasures that are against the law to enjoy, though there are people who think they should be.
- Guinea Pig Family is not about Caviidae, nor is it about an actual family of guinea pigs.
- A Guinness Episode is not an episode in which everyone drinks beer and gets drunk.
- Nor is it an episode with Sir Alec Guinness as a guest star.
- Gundam Jack is not a character in any hypothetical Gundam/Tekken crossover game.
- Gun Fu is not about having a gun for a waifu. That would be "raifu".
- Gunman with Three Names does not refer to a certain line of mechs that run on fighting spirit.
- Gun Porn is not about using weapons as sex toys.
- It also doesn't refer to Upotte!! or Girls' Frontline hentai. Not usually, anyway.
- The Gunslinger is not about the Engineer's robotic hand.
- Guns in Church does not refer to the climax of every John Woo movie ever.
- Gutted Like a Fish isn't about being as disappointed as a sea creature.
- A Guyliner is not a cruise liner where women are not allowed to get onboard.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot doesn't mean that men have sex while women do all the fighting.
- Gym Bunny is not about scantily-clad women in gyms. Try Sensual Spandex.
- Nor is it a rabbit on a treadmill.
- Or a Bridge Bunny relaxing while off duty.
- Or a Gym Leader using Pokémon such as Buneary and Lopunny.
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- Hacked by a Pirate is not about a peg-legged swashbuckler chopping up a scalawag with a cutlass.
- Nor is it about being hacked by a digital pirate. It is related to hackers, but it's more specific than that.
- Nor is it about hacked by Pittsburgh's baseball team or by East Carolina University's athletic department.
- Had to Be Sharp is not about someone forcing your musical instrument to play too high.
- It also has nothing to do with an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
- Haggis Is Horrible is not a parody of Hägar the Horrible.
- Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah is apparently not about a Middle Eastern guy in your car.
- Hailfire Peaks is not just an active volcano. (Actually, only half of it is a volcano.)
- Hail to the Thief is not about a thief being treated as a leader or hero, in-universe or out. Or about freezing rain that only falls on thieves.
- A Hair Reboot does not have to do with a hypothetical reboot of Hair.
- Nor is it a version of the TV show ReBoot where everyone has fabulous hair.
- Hairy Hammerspace is a lot less nasty than it sounds.
- Hand of Glory isn't a Wings of Fire spinoff where Glory turns human and grows hands.
- Handshake Substitute isn't about shaking the hand of a supply teacher.
- Hands Off My Fluffy! is not what Angelica Pickles or Mr. Lopart or that one grumpy lady and her daughter says when somebody steals their cat.
- Hand Wave is not about people literally waving their hands around. That's Milking the Giant Cow.
- A Hannibal Lecture almost certainly will not end with "I love it when a plan comes together."
- Nor is it a history lesson about the Carthaginian general who tried to invade Rome.
- A Happy-Ending Massage is not when a story ends on a high note with someone getting a massage, nor does it imply that massages tend to accompany happy endings.
- Nor is it someone being happy that the massage is over.
- Harder Than Hard is not about getting an even bigger erection than usual.
- Nor is it about physical hardness.
- Hard Light isn't more scientifically accurate or internally consistent than Soft Light.
- Conversely, Hard Magic isn't magic that has a solid physical form.
- Hard on Soft Science is only tangetially related to Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness, nor is it anything pornographic. Though if you are imagining physics roughly taking psychology, then the Internet has clearly desensitized you to retarded sexualization.
- Nor is it about fans of humanities, biological sciences and such (in fact, it's the opposite).
- Nor is it about the study of how hard objects interact with soft ones.
- Hassle-Free Hotwire is not an improved version of a hotel booking agency.
- Nor is it someone stealing KITT after Michael Knight goes missing.
- Hate Dumb is not about frustration at being Surrounded by Idiots.
- Nor is it the view that feeling hatred is stupid.
- Nor is it hating not being able to speak.
- Hate Sink is not about someone who dislikes washing hands.
- Nor is it disliking boats sinking (who likes that?).
- Nor is it about a hateful sink.
- Nor is it about sinking hate.
- Haunted Castle is not a reference to The Punisher's psychological problems (though Frank Castle certainly is a haunted man).
- It's also not about mystery writer Richard being harassed by ghosts.
- Haunted House has nothing to do with the TV show House.
- Have a Nice Death is not about The Grim Reaper being friendly.
- Have I Mentioned I Am a Dwarf Today? isn't about people with dwarfism, and is also not about shapeshifters who constantly change species.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? is not about a character whose sexual orientation changes constantly.
- Hazy-Feel Turn is not about trying to turn by feeling your way around because it's too foggy to see anything.
- Head Bob is not the leader of a group of Roberts.
- Or the leader of the Bobs in Mirrormask.
- Nor does it mean a haircut that goes way too far.
- Also not about the head of anyone named Bob, in any sense of the word "head".
- Headbutting Heroes does not describe Urdnot Wrex, or any other krogan on Commander Shepard's team.
- Headbutt of Love has nothing to do with the final scene of A Dirty Shame. It also isn't a literal headbutt, as in one that leaves a dent in the recipient's skull.
- Also, it doesn't refer to Justin Law's particular attack on Giriko, even though it had the same name.
- Headbutt Thermometer, for that matter, has nothing to do with potential cross-contamination from forgetting which measurement device goes in which orifice.
- It also doesn't refer to people headbutting thermometers. No one wants mercury on their foreheads, and it also doesn't refer to sentient thermometers headbutting people.
- A Head Desk is not a desk for your head. Nor the desk that belongs to whoever's in charge, nor a desk that is itself in charge of other furniture. It also doesn't involve using someone's head as a desk.
- A Head Pet isn't about the leader of a group of pets or when the one in charge of a family is their pet.
- Nor does it refer to affectionate stroking of the cranial region.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose does not involve a victory against a two-tailed fox with some heads of any kind as the prize.
- Head-Turning Beauty is not about someone turning their head in a beautiful way.
- Healing Spring is not about suddenly getting well when the season of the year called "spring" comes around.
- Nor is it an item that functions as a combination health pack and springboard.
- He Also Did has nothing to do with sexual exploits.
- Hearing Voices does not mean being able to hear what people are actually saying.
- The Heart is not about the body part or the middle of something.
- A Heart Beat-Down doesn't involve attacking a heart, or beating someone up using a heart as a weapon.
- Heart Beats out of Chest isn't about hearts that continue to beat even when they're removed from the body.
- The Heartless has nothing to do with that pink haired woman from Mega Man Star Force 3.
- Heaven's Devils does not suggest that angels are just as bad as demons.
- Nor does it have anything to do with "Heavenly Demon" Donquixote Doflamingo.
- It's not a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo for the Hell's Angels either. (Though it would make a cool name.)
- The Heavy does not refer to the Husky Russkie of Team Fortress 2.
- And Playing With/The Heavy does not mean you are playing a game of sandviches (or poker) with said Heavy.
- Heavy Meta is not about Agent Maine's weight in general.
- Nor is it making serious use of the Metagame. Or a metagame that uses heavyweight characters.
- Heavy Mithril is not about the mass of fictional metals or minerals.
- He Didn't Make It is not what Mario said to Yoshi concerning Luigi and his stone.
- Nor is it a response to Wrongfully Attributed.
- Nor is it said when someone got rejected when auditioning for It.
- Heel Face Mind Screw does not mean that you haven't a clue which side So-And-So is really on.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door is not a particularly stubborn revolving door that keeps hitting people that try to go through it in the face and the heel.
- Heel–Face Turn does not refer to twisting your ankle. Nor is it a spinning kick.
- Heh Heh, You Said "X" is not about finding the 24th letter of the alphabet funny. (Unless it's the letter X three times in a row.)
- Nor is it when someone refers to the 280-character social media site as "X" instead of "Twitter".
- Heinz Hybrid is not a Prius painted to look like a giant ketchup bottle.
- Heir Club for Men is not the father or obstetrician standing at the business end of a birthing table and getting knocked out by the baby's explosive birth.
- He Knows About Timed Hits is not a subtrope of He Knows Too Much involving the accidental knowledge of activities of supervillains or their henchmen, nor of a conspiracy among record labels to deliberately delay the release of songs they know will become popular.
- Helicopter Parents is not about literal helicopters that have children.
- A "Hell, Yes!" Moment isn't when a Hell Seeker finally reaches their destination.
- Hellfire is not a page dedicated to the Villain Song from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The song is that awesome, but we don't give pages to individual songs. (Much.)
- Nor it's related to a certain missile.
- It also isn't a demonic version of Jetfire/Skyfire or Starfire.
- And if you're looking for the page on the Toaplan video game, it's over here.
- Hellgate is not a scandal taking place in or involving Hell.
- A Hell Hotel doesn't have to actually be located in Hell.
- "Hellhound" is not another name for a U.S Marine, although it could've been, nor is it another name for a Devil Dog.
- Hellish Pupils has nothing to do with demonic students (well, unless you count that one game that features hellish pupils with Hellish Pupils, but that's stretching it).
- Hell Is That Noise is not "terrifying noise".
- It is also not a question, as in "what the hell is that noise?"
- Nor is it a version of Hell where sinners are punished with annoying noises.
- Hell of a Heaven is not about a really impressive Heaven.
- Hello, Sailor! has nothing to do with the official slogan of Antharia.
- Nor is it Hello Nurse as a sailor. Or her as one of the Sailor Senshi.
- A Hell Seeker isn't an evil Quidditch player, nor is it a player who's trying to get to the final level in Spelunky.
- It also isn't a Decepticon jet that's also a demon.
- Help Yourself in the Future is not about a future in which There Are No Therapists or social services. Or about a buffet or self-service gas station that's not open yet.
- He-Man Woman Hater is not a redirect for Manly Gay.
- Nor does it mean someone who hates female characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), although one probably would.
- Nor is it a He Man spinoff where the titular hero is an example of this trope.
- Hermetic Magic is not magic cast by Hermes.
- Nor is it magic cast by the Hermes from Futurama.
- The Hermit is not about the tarot card.
- The Hero Ball is not about morally-dubious characters suddenly becoming heroic for a short time. It's also not a party thrown for a hero. It's also not about a spherical hero. It's not a sport played by heroes, either.
- Heroes Act, Villains Hinder is not specifically about heroes who are trying to perform when antagonists decide to inflict The Show Must Go Wrong on them.
- The Heroes' Frontier Step is not how the hero in a Western walks, nor is it the first step a hero takes into the wilderness as part of their quest.
- Heroic Bastard is not about heroes who are jerks, although it's certainly possible to have a bastard who is a Heroic Bastard.
- Likewise, Magnificent Bastard is not usually about awesome extramarital children (usually).
- Heroic Bloodshed is not about any situation in which a hero sheds blood.
- Heroic BSoD is not filled with examples of heroes inducing driver conflicts or installing unstable versions of Windows to foil the villain's plot.
- Further, it isn't about Blue Screens of Death fighting evil.
- Likewise, Heroic RRoD isn't about broken Xbox consoles fighting evil.
- Heroic Host isn't about superheroes with their own talk shows.
- Heroic Mime is not the Good Counterpart of Enemy Mime.
- A Heroic Red Ring of Death is not a piece of red jewellery worn by the hero which allows them to kill whoever they touch.
- The Heroic Spirit trope has nothing to do with servants from the Fate Series as well as literal Heroic Spirits.
- It's also not about alcohol being heroic or being drunk by heroes.
- Hero Insurance is not what you file a claim with after your doomsday satellite gets totaled yet again.
- Hero Shooter has nothing to do with Hero Killer.
- It also doesn't refer to the Hero Shot from Splatoon.
- Hero Unit is not a unit used in your Karma Meter.
- It is also not a measurement for quantifying good.
- He's Back! has nothing to do with bus trips, believe it or not. It does usually lead to an Oh, Crap! moment for baddies, though.
- He's Just Hiding is a plot that causes fans to believe that a character isn't really dead. It's only very tangentially related to tropes like King in the Mountain.
- Het isn't about one of the Dutch words for "the".
- He Who Fights Monsters is not a Monster Hunter. Well, actually, he is, but there's a bit more to the trope-naming quote than that. He also does not have relatives who are Those Who Hunt Elves.
- A man is not He Who Must Not Be Seen because he will get shot if he stands up.
- "Hey, You!" Haymaker is not how you say hello to a farmer.
- Hidden Agenda Villain is not about the bad guy from the Dolph Lundgren film Hidden Agenda.
- The Hidden Elf Village is not one of the hidden ninja villages in Naruto.
- Hidden Eyes is not about having extra eyes where other people can't see them.
- Hidden Mechanic is not about an automobile engineer under a vehicle...
- Hide Your Lesbians isn't about actual hiding or stealth, nor is it a command to hide lesbians inside your closet.
- High-Class Glass indicates an upper class standing, but it is not about wine glasses. Nor about fancy glass windows in rich people's houses.
- A High Concept is not one you think was made on drugs. Or, despite both being about pitching new concepts, is it another name for This is Your Premise on Drugs.
- High Fantasy is not about drug trips.
- And Puff the Magic Dragon is not an example.
- Nor does it need to take place on a mountain.
- High-Heel–Face Turn is not about going to the good side while under the influence of drugs.
- High Priest (while we're on a roll, here) is (probably) not your clergy on drugs.
- Nor does it refer to a hermit who lives on a mountain.
- The High Queen is not a queen who does drugs.
- Nor is it about Freddie Mercury on drugs.
- It's also not a Distaff Counterpart to The High King.
- A High School AU is not an astronomical unit that has not yet graduated.
- It's also not an alternate universe where everyone gets stoned at school.
- It's also not an Australian high school.
- High-Speed Missile Dodge does not have a corresponding High Speed Missile Plymouth, despite one of Chrysler's 1950s side businesses.
- It's also not about dodging bullets while high on speed.
- A High Turnover Rate does not necessarily mean numerous fruit pastries are produced somewhere.
- Nor does it refer to a team or quarterback that commonly fumbles or throws interceptions.
- Hijacked by Ganon is not a crisis where Ganon literally takes control of a vehicle of any kind. Neither does it have to do with being hijacked by any super-villain who resembles Ganon.
- Hijacked by Jesus does not mean Jesus likes to steal vehicles.
- It's also not about Hispanic Marxists in a Cold War era movie who hold up guns and/or bombs and exclaim that they are going to to "hijack this plane to Cuba!"
- The Hilarious Table isn't in itself funny, it's the people sitting at it who make the jokes.
- Hilarity Sues is not about joke overpowered author inserts.
- A Hime Cut is not produced from Mikoto's sword. Nor is it a type of Camera Trick.
- Nor does it refer to princesses being fired.
- Hint Dropping is not a mechanic in a puzzle game where you can defeat monsters and they'll randomly drop hints. It is definitely also not a Hint System involving animal dung.
- Hippie Parents are not parents OF a hippie, just the opposite.
- Hippie Teacher is not a teacher with with big hips.
- It's also not someone who only teaches hippies, or teaches people how to become hippies.
- His Name Is... not Slim Shady. Nor is it Nobody.
- It also does not have a female counterpart called Her Name Is.
- His Quirk Lives On has nothing to do with the legacy of One For All following Yoichi Shigaraki's death. Nor is it about a ghost or zombie retaining a quirk they had in life.
- Historical Hero Upgrade is not aboout Shōnen manga or anime or Henshin Toku shows set in the historical past.
- Nor is it about Ben 10 taking on his Upgrade form and traveling to the past to become a hero.]
- Historical Rap Sheet has nothing to do with Epic Rap Battles of History.
- Hit Flash is not advice given to a DC supervillain.
- Nor is it about creating a blinding flash to stop people attacking you, or advice on how to use a camera.
- Hitler Ate Sugar is not Hitler on a sugar high.
- Nor is it Hitler with a Sweet Tooth.
- Hitler Cam is not the name of a live video feed showing what Hitler is doing at the moment.
- Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act is not a law passed during Nazi Germany stating who is allowed or not allowed to travel through time.
- Nor does it ban Hitler from time-traveling.
- Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It is not about someone whose punches are so strong they transcend physical force and alter time.
- Nor is it the more mundane instance of punching someone such that they collide with a wall and dislodging a calendar hung on it.
- The "Your X" in Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It! does not refer to your ex-spouse. Much as you might like him/her to feel it.
- Hobbes Was Right is nothing to do with the accuracy of the philosophy of stuffed tigers.
- Hoist by His Own Petard is not a Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe form of Rocket Jump.
- Holding the Floor is not what you only need to do if you're too drunk. Nor, for that matter, is it what you might need to do in a level wherein the floors are constantly rotating.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs is not about having to hold on really tight when you ride them. Nor about hugging them, or having really tiny hippogriffs you can hold in your hands.
- A Holler Button is not a button that screams back at you when you press it, nor is it a button you press to be given permission to scream.
- It's also not a command to shout 'BUTTON!'.
- Hollywood Atlas has most likely never held the world on its shoulders.
- Hollywood Board Games does not include a Hollywood edition of Monopoly.
- Hollywood California is not about the actual location - but is in the same league as Hollywood Atheist, Hollywood Voodoo, and the myriad other related tropes.
- Hollywood Cuisine is not about fine dining in Hollywood or how American media presents fine dining.
- Hollywood Darkness has nothing to do with Black-and-White Morality, and Card-Carrying Villain is not an example.
- Hollywood History is not about the History of Hollywood.
- Hollywood Natives is not about people growing up near Los Angeles, unless the story takes place After the End.
- Hollywood Old is not about how Hollywood portrays all old people as Grumpy Old Men on zimmer frames who shout at the kids on their lawn and rant about how "When I Was Your Age......".
- Hollywood Pudgy isn't about a fat person from LA.
- Hollywood Psych is not The Movie of that show about a fake psychic.
- Or about techniques movies use to psych out viewers, like the Cat Scare or Red Herring.
- Hollywood Style is not an American knockoff of Gangnam Style.
- Hollywood Tactics is not a strategy RPG using celebrities.
- Hollywood Undead is not a trope about inaccuracies in depiction of undead. It is a band.
- Holy Halo has nothing to do with the Covenant's religion.
- Holy Hand Grenade is not about what Robin would say to Batman (1966) against an explosives-themed villain.
- It's also not a hand grenade worshipped by a Cargo Cult. Thank god.
- The "Holy Shit!" Quotient is not part of a Holy Shit Long Division. It also has nothing to do with sacred faeces.
- Home Base is not about baseball, and it also has nothing to do with the British DIY store.
- Homemade Sweater from Hell is not what Satan's mother knits him. Although it could be.
- Honest Axe is about a tale, but not the one about George Washington cutting a cherry tree. It is also not about Abraham Lincoln going Ax-Crazy. Or about an axe that is honest.
- Nor is it about a marketing shift of Axe body spray commercials to be more truthful about its effects on women.
- Honey Trap is not what they used to catch Winnie the Pooh or Br'er Rabbit.
- It's also not about a device to lock up jars of honey.
- Honor Among Thieves and Honor Before Reason are not Honor Harrington titles. Yet?
- Hooks and Crooks is not a list detailing different types of criminals.
- Hope Is Scary has nothing to do with how terrifying the Xena: Warrior Princess villain is.
- A Hopeless Boss Fight is not a battle against a boss who sucks at his/her job.
- Hopeless with Tech is not about being bad at using Tech X.
- Hope Spot isn't a location filled with hope.
- Nor is it about a certain yellow dog or Data's cat being hopeful.
- Nor is it a place where a woman named Hope lives.
- A Horn Attack has nothing to do with attacking someone with a trumpet.
- Horny Vikings (usually) have nothing to do with sex.
- Horrible History Metal does not involve metal songs about Horrible Histories. Nor is it about metals which were historically considered useless before becoming valued in modern times.
- Horse of a Different Color does not actually refer to colorful horses. Not even Rainbow Dash. Heck, not even the trope namer.
- Hospital Hottie is not an expansion of the Hotti Clinic from Ace Attorney. However, "Director Hotti" certainly would like having some Hospital Hotties at such a hospital.
- The Host is not a member of a Host Club. Nor do they have a parasite.
- Hostage Spirit-Link does not involve the ghost of the protagonist of The Legend of Zelda being held for ransom.
- Nor is it about communicating with a hostage telepathically.
- Nor does it involve a Magic: The Gathering creature enchantment that costs one white mana to play and has appeared in every numbered edition since 4th as well as in Legends.
- It's also not a Tabletop Game/Pokemon trainer card that attaches to a Pokémon called "Hostage" and keeps your turn from ending if it Mega Evolves.
- Hostile Show Takeover is not about actors buying a controlling share in a show and then using the power of Executive Meddling to make themselves leads.
- It's also not about a benevolent executive stepping in to prevent a show from physically attacking its audience.
- Hot as Hell isn't about the temperatures in the afterlife, nor is it how you describe the weather during a heatwave.
- A Hot Bar isn't a bar filled with Fanservice.
- Nor is it a bar whose air conditioning broke down.
- It's also not a particularly attractive metal rod, or a molten one.
- Hot-Blooded doesn't mean what it means in the song by Foreigner. (Check it and see.) Nor is it about warm-blooded animals up to eleven.
- Nor is it when a character is covered in blood for Fanservice.
- A Hot Coffee Minigame will most definitely not be found in any of the Cooking Mama video games.
- Hot Librarian is not a librarian working in a very warm library. (Though the resulting sweating and having to take off some clothes may invoke this trope.)
- Nor does it describe a Space Marine Psyker specializing in Playing with Fire.
- Hot Sub-on-Sub Action is not actual submarine sex. Or submarine sandwich sex (Subway/Quiznos FTW!) (nor a battle between them). Or a trope about two "submissives" together.
- Or substitute teachers.
- Or mixing two fan subs together (sexily).
- Or subreddits.
- A Hot Wind is not a wind with a high temperature. Nor has it got anything to do with farting and the wind itself is not sexy.
- Hot Wings is not about wings that are fetish fuel (although some would be turned on anyway). Nor is it about chicken. (Aww...)
- It also doesn't refer to a stolen airplane.
- A Hot Witch doesn't necessarily specialize in Playing with Fire.
- Nor does this trope have any connection to Burn the Witch!; ironically, a Hot Witch usually has enough magic to avoid becoming that kind of "hot witch."
- Hourglass Plot has nothing to do with a My Little Pony character having a plotnote shaped like an hourglass, nor is it a point in the story where the characters are racing against time.
- Nor is it a plot where a character has to stop their Death's Hourglass from shattering, or complete some task before it runs out.
- Nor is it a plot with a lot of content at the beginning and end but not a lot in the middle.
- House Amnesia does not occur when a certain Dr. Jerk gets a tap on the head and forgets everything.
- Nor is it about a sentient house that forgets everything.
- House Fey is not about the practitioners of the Kurain Channeling Technique. Or finding the aforementioned Dr. Jerk suspiciously charming.
- House Rules is probably this wiki's consensus regarding Hugh Laurie's show, but the page isn't about that. Nor is it about Mr. House taking over the Mojave wasteland.
- House System is not about dividing students at a school into houses.
- How Did We Miss This One? is not a statement that an exasperated Giant Mook berates his Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy-trained underlings with, or a spymaster to his incompetent agents.
- How Did You Know? I Didn't is not what you might ask when someone catches you pretending you'd done something.
- How Unscientific! is not expressed on the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness.
- Nor is it someone failing miserably to use the scientific method.
- It's also not a question.
- Ho Yay is not a statement of support for prostitutes, well, except for Inara.
- Hub City is not that suburban area where bumpers and promos for The Hub takes place.
- Nor is it Boston, in spite of one of the nicknames for that city.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl refers to body height, and not, er, another kind of length.
- Hugh Mann is not an heir to Mann Co. It's also not about A Lizard Named "Liz" being applied to humans.
- Hulking Out involves more than just tearing off your tee-shirt to give to the crowd.
- And if you think it involves doing a Face–Heel Turn to increase your celebrity status, you're even further off the mark.
- Hulk Speak is not about The Incredible Hulk giving speeches or going into politics. Or ending sentences with "brother".
- Human Alien Discovery isn't about humans discovering the existence of aliens. Or, for that matter, aliens discovering the existence of humans.
- Humanity Is Infectious does not mean that a human who physically touches extraterrestrials or other creatures will turn them into humans too.
- Nor does it refer to humanity being considered a literal carrier of diseases.
- Human Mail refers to mailing an entire, alive (at least to begin with) human. Mailing body parts is a different trope. It's also not about chainmail that's exclusively for human use.
- Nor is it about letters sent and received by humans.
- A Human Popsicle isn't an ice lolly for cannibals.
- Human Resources has nothing to do with actual H.R. departments.
- Humans Are Bastards is not about a Bad Future where marriage between humans is banned, forcing all subsequent births to be illegitimate.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters is not particularly related to the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax.
- It's also not about seeing humans as literal monsters.
- Humans Are Ugly is not about the stereotype that otaku hate real-life people and prefer idealized 2D depictions.
- Human Shield isn't a shield made of human leather.
- Humans Need Aliens is not an inversion of Mars Needs Women.
- Humble Pie is not Pinkie Pie's other sister. Nor is it something you can eat (although the Trope Namer was an actual type of pie).
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game is not about trying to find somewhere that still sells Lawn Darts.
- Hurl It into the Sun is not about throwing up on the sun.
- A Hurricane of Euphemisms does not refer to bad weather in Britannia.
- Hybrid Monster does not refer to a highly modified Prius with enormous tires that's capable of crushing a row of junked gas-guzzlers down at the arena on SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
- Hype Aversion is not an Aversion of hype.
- A Hyperactive Sprite isn't a fairy-type character with lots of energy, nor is it a lemon-lime soda that makes you hyperactive.
- Hyperspace Arsenal isn't what happens when a certain soccer team gets a hyperdrive.
- Hyperspace Mallets aren't mallets that travel through hyperspace.
- A Hyperspace Wardrobe isn't a wardrobe that travels through hyperspace.
- Hypno Fool is not about a Jester who specializes in that.
- Or a stupid specimen of a Psychic Pokémon variety.
- Or a Burger Fool that hypnotizes its customers to make them feel full—or, better, hungry so they'll buy more.
- Hypnotize the Captive is not a very limited variation of the Dungeons & Dragons spell "Charm Person".
- Hypno Trinket is not a trinket in the shape of the aforementioned Psychic Pokemon.
- It's also not the swinging pendulum that is stereotypically used in hypnosis.
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- I Am a Monster is not how half the cast of Sesame Street introduces themselves.
- It's also not about someone self-identifying as a Complete Monster.
- "I Am Becoming" Song is not an unusual case of Involuntary Shapeshifting.
- Nor does it mean turning into a Korean person with a common family name.
- Likewise, "I Am Great!" Song is not either of the above two after having accepted oneself as a song or Song and really enjoying it.
- I Am Big Boned has nothing to do with Bigger Is Better in Bed.
- "I Am Legion" will not be said by Roman Millitary Tribunes or Strategoi.
- I Am Not Left-Handed has little to do with left-handedness. And it's not a defensive response to A Sinister Clue.
- I Am Not My Father does not regard a man who's rumored to be his own parent.
- I Am Not Shazam is not the phrase someone says when they are asked to identify a piece of music.
- I Am Not Your Father is not about what a man says when a baby who's not his keeps calling him "daddy".
- "I Am" Song is not a grammatically questionable statement of identity (and hence not usually a musician's Badass Boast).
- Nor is it an assertion that one is the Korean person being inquired after.
- It's not specifically about the song "I Am... All of Me" from Shadow the Hedgehog either, although that is an example.
- By definition, a song about “the great I Am” would not qualify unless God himself was the one singing it.
- I Am Spartacus is not usually followed by This Is SPARTA, nor is it related to Say My Name. Nor is this about saying that you are a particular gladiator.
- I Am What I Am is not a subtrope of the Department of Redundancy Department.
- I Ate WHAT?! is not what someone said when they unknowingly were fed the 2nd baseman of the Lou Costello baseball team.
- I Believe I Can Fly is not about people who think they can fly when they can't. Nor is it about when your belief gives you the ability to fly. Or about someone's confidence in their ability to pilot planes or other air vehicles.
- I Call Him "Mister Happy" has nothing to do with naming a certain Mr. Men character.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate does not refer to someone who's unable to send a Terminator robot back in time to kill his or her younger self.
- Nor is it a rule that a manager can only resign, not fire themselves.
- I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! is not a reaction to a Faux Action Girl.
- I Come in Peace is not about spending some me-time without interruptions.
- Idealism Tropes are not about reality being mind-dependant and composed of ideas and sense impressions.
- An Identical Twin ID Tag is not an ID tag that looks exactly the same as another ID tag.
- I Didn't Mean to Turn You On is not what you say when you accidentally hit the power button on your computer.
- I Did What I Had to Do is not related to It's What I Do.
- And neither has anything to do with sex.
- Idiosyncratic Ship Naming is not about how actual vessels are given clever or thematic names (such as Imperial warships in Star Wars sounding very nasty, cruel, and/or violent).
- Idiot Ball is not a nickname for a sport given by the sport's hatedom.
- Nor is it a literal, physical device that makes people stupid (i.e. the Orb of Confusion from SpongeBob SquarePants).
- Nor is it a ball game with nonsense rules, or a dance attended by a bunch of idiots.
- Nor is it (usually) about Wheatley.
- Idiot Crows is not the opposite of Clever Crows.
- The Idiot Hero is not necessarily the star of an Idiot Plot.
- For that matter, an Idiot Plot is not a story written for morons.
- Nor is it a scheme that only an idiot could come up with.
- It's also not a piece of land owned by an idiot.
- I Do Not Own is not about admitting one's inferiority, unless you count lack of originality.
- It's also not what a pet says to aliens who Mistook the Dominant Lifeform and assumed that pets own their humans.
- If I Had a Nickel... is not a centuries-old precursor to the song "If I Had $1000000". The minimum value in a song like that would be "If I Had $81149.62".*
- If It Bleeds, It Leads is not about injuring someone so that you can follow their blood trail back to their base.
- If It's You, It's Okay doesn't apply to when you are reluctant to open the door or pick up the phone, but are fine with it when you realize it's your friend.
- If Jesus, Then Aliens is not the argument that if you let one (or a few) foreigners from Mexico and points south, you're opening it up to all of them.
- Nor is it saying aliens will arrive during the Second Coming.
- I Fought the Law and the Law Won has nothing to do with getting your ass kicked by a particular Tekken character.
- It's also not about a politician or lobbyist fighting to block a new law and the law getting enacted anyway.
- If You Call Before Midnight Tonight is not an argument over when "tonight" becomes "tomorrow morning".
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! is not about using Klingon Promotion to take over the position of your favourite idol.
- I Got Bigger is not boasting about expansion of a man's base organs.
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey! involves obeying the person who has the boobs, not the boobs themselves.
- The boobs belong to said person; it's not a hostage situation.
- I Have No Son! is not what someone says if they have no kids or only daughters.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty is rarely ever followed up with the phrase "And Your Little Dog, Too!".
- I Have Your Index does not actually have Index.
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face, but not because he was trying to claim this planet in the name of Mars.
- I Just Want to Be Normal is not a reason your Eevee doesn't want to evolve.
- I Just Want to Have Friends is not about wanting a volume of Friends on DVD, nor is it about wanting the distribution rights for the show.
- IKEA Erotica is not a trope about people having sex with furniture, though a fic about people having sex with furniture can be IKEA Erotica. Nor, on a related note, is it necessarily set in a labyrnthine Scandinavian furniture store.
- I Kiss Your Foot is not specifically about foot fetish. Which doesn't mean that these two things cannot be combined, of course. Like when e.g. a certain gothic lolita vampire is involved.
- I Know Mortal Kombat isn't about people who simply have a lot of knowledge about the game series. And I Don't Know Mortal Kombat isn't just about people who don't know anything about Fighting Games.
- I Know You Know I Know is not about orgies.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight is not a phrase displayed onscreen (and spoken aloud by the announcer) before a round begins in a Fighting Game.
- An Illegal Guardian is not a nanny whose only crime is being undocumented.
- An Illness Blanket is not a blanket that makes people sick.
- Illogical Safe is not a subtrope of Solve the Soup Cans relating to boxes with bizarre locking mechanisms.
- Nor is it about The McCoy being in no danger.
- It's also not about using strange objects to store valuables.
- Nor is it a living safe that spouts Insane Troll Logic.
- I'll Take Two Beers Too is not what Lex Luthor said after he took 40 cakes. note
- In I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder, "placeholder" does not necessarily mean a person who takes the place of another person.
- Image Macro is not about Belloc, even though he is an Image macro.
- Imagine Spot is not a command. "Imagine Spot running! Run, Spot, Run!"
- Nor is it an area where people go to imagine.
- I'm a Humanitarian is most definitely not about Humanist Atheist characters or charity workers. Though this troper isn't taking any chances.
- Immigrant Patriotism is not about immigrants flaunting their home countries at everybody and expressing its supposed superiority over the country they moved to, but the exact opposite mindset.
- Immune to Bullets Made of Iron is two tropes, not one. (Blame the quote in I Cannot Self-Terminate.)
- Immune to Fate does not meant that Fate Testarossa's attacks cannot effect you.
- I'm Not Hungry isn't what someone says when they're Too Unhappy to Be Hungry.
- Nor what someone says if they're put off their food.
- Or when they've just eaten.
- Impaled Palm involves the impaling the palm of one's hand, not a palm tree.
- Implacable Man — "implacable" not in the sexual sense.
- Implausible Boarding Skills is not when the heros get onto their jet faster than realistically possible.
- Implausible Fencing Powers is in no way a ludicrously overpowered ability to build fences.
- Nor is it a ludicrously overpowered ability to resell stolen property.
- An Important Haircut is not (necessarily) highly unusual and unique that people can easily identify an individual with it.
- An Impossible Item Drop is not an item dropped by an enemy that has a zero chance of dropping but still left in the code (or just an extremely low chance if used hyperbolically).
- Impossibly Cool Clothes and Impossibly Cool Weapon are not about clothes or weapons at temperatures below absolute zero.
- Improbable Age has nothing to do with Really 700 Years Old.
- Nor is it another name for the era described by The Time of Myths.
- Improbable Cover isn't about an image that, against all odds, was put on the front of a book.
- Nor is it about a cover of a song which is in a completely different style to the original song.
- Improbably Predictable has nothing to do with Strictly Formula.
- Improperly Placed Firearms are not usually firearms that are stashed improperly, and the Pants-Positive Safety is not a subtrope.
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me! has nothing to do with Taking You with Me.
- In a World… is not specifically a Speculative Fiction Trope.
- Nor is every example set underground or in Hell.
- Incompatible Orientation does not mean you can fit a square peg into a round hole if you just turn the square peg sideways. Unless, of course, you read that first sentence entirely as euphemisms, in which case it IS that trope.
- An Inconvenient Summons is not telling you that you have to report to Jury Duty when you're busy.
- Nor is it a particularly bad time to be told that you're being sued.
- Incredibly Lame Pun does not refer to a pun walking with a pronounced limp.
- It is also not a pun that cannot stand on its own without the aid of other linguistic devices.
- It also doesn't necessarily play on the double meanings of either "lame" or incredible".
- An Incredibly Obvious Bomb is not the producer's description of a particularly bad work.
- An Incredibly Obvious Bug is not a glitch that really should have been discovered during the first round of testing. Nor is it about an easily-noticed insect, an insect who constantly states the obvious, or, for that matter a prominently positioned Volkswagen. Nor is it a disease.
- Incredibly Obvious Tail is nothing to do with prehensile growths from the lower back, nor with an obsolete and somewhat derogatory term for woman, nor a big butt (male or female).
- It is also not about a beastkin and such trying to disguise themselves, only for their tail to stick out like a sore thumb.
- An Incurable Cough of Death is not about The Grim Reaper catching a cough that won't go away.
- An Indecisive Medium isn't someone who can't make up their mind whether they can see dead people or not.
- Indexitis isn't about inflammation of the index finger.
- An Indian Burial Ground is not found in India.
- An Indie Game doesn't have to be from the Indies, West or East.
- Industrialized Mercury is not about using the metal or the Roman god of communication in industry.
- Nor is it the name of an Industrial Metal Queen Tribute Album (though it should be).
- I Need a Freaking Drink is always to do with alcohol. If The Teetotaler is really thirsty and says this phrase but is thinking more along the lines of water, juice, Coke or tea, then it's not this trope.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog is not about a Shar Pei. Nor is it about a compulsion to abuse animals.
- Nor is it about Tony Stark being too busy for distractions as he adopts a dog and makes some specialized Powered Armor for it.
- I Need You Stronger is not a plea for assistance from Kamen Rider Stronger. Nor is it about trying to train someone on your own side, or bring out someone's superpower.
- An Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain is not typically Unintentionally Sympathetic or Unintentionally Unsympathetic.
- Inescapable Net is not about how pervasive or addictive the Internet has become in our lives.
- Infernal Background is not about having demonic ancestry.
- Inflation Negation is not about deflating or popping.
- Info Dump isn't explaining why you dumped someone or took a dump.
- Informed Flaw isn't explaining an imperfection.
- An Informed Species isn't a whole species of Intellectual Animals.
- Informed Wrongness isn't telling someone they were wrong.
- Inhuman Resources is not the opposite of Human Resources and not the department that hires elves, vampires, and Eldritch Abominations.
- Nor is it about the type of resources Black Bolt, Crystal, and other such characters would use.
- The Inkblot Cartoon Style isn't based on giving people Inkblot Tests and animating whatever they see.
- An Ink-Suit Actor is not one who performs in a (theoretical) live-action adaptation of Splatoon.
- In Love with the Mark is an assassination trope. It is not about conmen falling in love with the mark. Nor is it about being in love with someone whose name happens to be Mark.
- Or about having a Money Fetish for pre-Euro German currency, or the mindset of Germans unwilling to change their currency.
- In Name Only is not about situations that technically fit title of a trope without actually being an example of that trope.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl is not about a female character who's sexually suggestive in a family-friendly way, nor does it involve crime investigations where the attractive female suspect turns out not to be the culprit.
- Inn of No Return is not about a Trauma Inn at the Point of No Return.
- Inn Security is not about security guards who work at an inn.
- The Inquisitor General is not literally the person in charge of the Inquisition, Spanish or otherwise.
- Insane Troll Logic is not necessarily employed by Trolls, insane or otherwise.
- Nor is it about a fabless semiconductor company.
- An Insignia Rip-Off Ritual is not a ritual to appease those whose trademarked insignia you've just ripped off.
- Inspirationally Disadvantaged is not a politically correct term for writer's block.
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! does not mean that pouring water into your computer will produce an AI. At best it will ruin your computer and at worst you will be electrocuted.
- Instant Chucks is not about Chuck Norris making copies of himself. It's also not about instantly throwing something across a room.
- Instant Expert is not a cheat code to unlock a Harder Than Hard difficulty that otherwise has to be earned.
- Instant Index: Just Add Water! is not about a freeze-dried or minuscule index that can be made into a normal index by getting it wet.
- Instant Mass: Just Add Water! is not about characters or monsters that gain size by absorbing nearby liquids. It also doesn't suggest a nonalcoholic version of Catholic communion.
- Instrumentality has little usefulness.
- It is not a fatality performed with a tuba. (That would be fun to watch, though.)
- Insult Backfire is not about making fun of the Tu-22M.
- Insult Tropes is not an instruction.
- An Intellectual Animal is not a human being. Take That!, Aristotle!
- An Interactive Narrator does not interact with the audience.
- Intercourse with You isn't about wanting to communicate with someone.
- Nor is it asking someone for sex.
- The International Date Line is not a telephone service to get dates with foreigners.
- The Internet Is for Cats does not mean that it's for things related to the musical, nor that only cats should go on the Internet.
- Interplay of Sex and Violence is not what Moral Guardians call Interplay Entertainment.
- Interrupted by the End is not about fighting The End from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
- In the Back is not a Sex Trope.
- An Introverted Cat Person is not a shy Cat Girl.
- Invisible Advertising isn't normal advertising that happens to be invisble. Nor is it written in invisible ink.
- Also isn't any ad that is on a medium without any viisual componenent at all like radio.
- Invisible Aliens is not about Spiridons, shrouded Jem'Hadar, or any other aliens that are clearly present, but actually invisible.
- Invocation isn't about a religious figure leading a prayer at the start of some event.
- Invulnerable Knuckles is not about Knuckles the Echidna becoming invulnerable. His namesakes, the knuckles that he sends, don't quite qualify in some versions of the character, considering what he's expected to fight, but they come close.
- In Which a Trope Is Described is not about patent applications.
- Nor is it an index for articles whose descriptions begin with "In which..."
- I Reject Your Reality doesn't mean you hate the song Your Reality.
- I Remember Because... is not the next addictive TV Tropes Just for Fun fad next to I Read That As and I Thought It Meant.
- Though it should be.
- It is also not about Peter Griffin's thought process.
- Irishman and a Jew is not about Irish Jews.
- An Ironic Birthday isn't when a character has a birthdate that doesn't fit their personality, such as The Grinch having a birthday on Christmas day.
- Ironic Hell is not about being condemned to an eternity full of hipsters. Nor is it about an afterlife run by hipsters.
- Although if you went to hell for harm you had done to hipsters, and hell was full of hipsters, that would be an Ironic Hell.
- Iron Lady has nothing to do with robots. Nor maids, for that matter.
- It is also neither a command nor an implication that Margaret Thatcher has access to Tony Stark's armor.
- Nor the band Iron Maiden.
- It is also neither a command nor an implication that Margaret Thatcher has access to Tony Stark's armor.
- Irony is not the opposite of wrinkly.
- Irregular Series does not lampshade Regular Show's Ironic Name.
- I Say What I Say has nothing to do with Foghorn Leghorn's Verbal Tic.
- An iSophagus is not a device released by Apple that swallows food on behalf of its owner.
- Nor is it an episode of iCarly.
- Is This Thing On? doesn't have much to do with Is This Thing Still On?.
- I Surrender, Suckers involves neither handing over your lollipops, nor your tentacles.
- It Amused Me is not a Pungeon Master's response to a Lame Pun Reaction. It's also not about Funny Moments in It.
- It Came from Beverly Hills is not about things manufactured there, nor does it mean that Stephen King wrote It there.
- It Can't Be Helped isn't about the hero when they have something they have to do themselves.
- An Item Caddy doesn't have anything to do with a certain Internet video game reviewer.
- Item Get! does not precede ability program.
- The Item Number is not about cataloguing inventory.
- It Gets Easier is not about how Nintendo Hard games get easier the more you practice them.
- Similarly, It Never Gets Any Easier is not about games that don't get easier with practice, or to the fact that games never decrease in difficulty as you proceed.
- I Thought It Meant isn't "I Thought They Said", and vice-versa. Bonus points for recursivness!
- Nor is it about possible interpretations of the movie It.
- I Thought That Was isn't about misreading something. That's I Read That As.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing is not about how rudely Pennywise conducts himself around others.
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear! has absolutely nothing to do with furry gatherings and the denial thereof.
- It's All Junk is not about opening your mail or e-mail and realizing only spam is in it.
- Nor is it about what's in your pants.
- It's Always Sunny in Miami is not a spinoff of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- It's A Small Net After All, does not involve animatronic children of the world singing a song that takes seven years to get out of your head.
- Nor is it about being surprised to find that your fishing net is too small.
- It's a Small Ride is not a scale model of a park attraction. Nor is it a particularly cramped mode of transportation.
- It's a Wonderful Failure is not It's a Wonderful Plot where the protagonist kills himself at the end.
- Nor when somebody fails and the story portrays it in a cheerful tone.
- It's a Wonderful Plot isn't about how great some story is. See Gushing About Shows You Like.
- Nor is it about a particularly great flowerbed.
- It's Easy, So It Sucks! isn't about genderless entities that are very easy to seduce and therefore, uh, nevermind.
- And It's Popular, Now It Sucks! is not about said entities becoming sluttier as they become more popular.
- Usually it's the reverse...
- And It's Popular, Now It Sucks! is not about said entities becoming sluttier as they become more popular.
- It's Hard, So It Sucks! is not about having a fetish for flaccid penises, or fans of soft science fiction. Or fans of soft science, for that matter, getting back at the hard sciences.
- Nor is it about giving blowjobs to people with erections.
- It's Not Porn, It's an Index has nothing to do with It's Not Porn, It's Art.
- It's Personal with the Dragon is not about Interspecies Romance. Or being a designated Dragon Rider duo.
- Nor is it about the hero having a romantic relationship with the Big Bad's second in command.
- It's Raining Men is neither about disco, nor homosexuality.
- It's Short, So It Sucks! is not about penis sizes.
- Nor is it synonymous with "It's small, so it fellates."
- Nor is it about short people sucking on things.
- It Sucks is not for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
- Nor does it describe what a vampire, a leech, or a vacuum cleaner do.
- Nor is it a page explaining why It is bad.
- It's Up to You generally doesn't give you a choice in the matter.
- It Was His Sled isn't about riding a Monster Clown down a snowy mountain.
- Nor about How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.
- Also isn't dedicated solely to the end of Citizen Kane.
- It Won't Turn Off is not a guarantee that something won't act as Fetish Retardant.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It? is not a Lampshade Hanging of As You Know, though the former can be used to justify the use of the latter.
- I Want My Jetpack isn't about the solution to a particularly Guide Dang It! puzzle in the first Space Quest game.
- It's also not a demand to have one's jetpack given to them.
- I Want My Mommy! is not about an Oedipus complex.
- "I Want" Song is not about a king demanding minstrels. Nor is it about a big, dumb, mean captor who is sedate as long as there's music playing.
- Nor is it the song "I Want It Now!" sung by Veruca Salt (the character, not the band) from that film.
- It's also not a LOLcat. (Not yet, anyway.)
- It also isn’t the song “I Want” from The Idolmaster.
- Nor is it asking for a Korean person with a common family name.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine has nothing to do with "Say hello to my little friend!"
- Someone with occasion to say I Was Beaten by a Girl is not (usually) a victim of Domestic Abuse by a female partner. He is typically the loser of a fair fight or an athletic contest.
- I Was Just Passing Through is not about talking neutrinos.