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• A MacGuffin does not refer to Scottish Muffins. Even if recipes for such things do indeed exist.
  • Nor is it a variation of the Egg McMuffin.
  • Nor is it someone related to that guy from Brave.
• Macho Camp is not a camp where the macho guys are residing. Although a Macho Camp would probably like to visit such a camp.
• A Macro Zone is not necessarily the part of a work where one collects screengrabs to caption and put on the internet.
  • Nor is it a part of Cyberspace where you're surrounded by program code.
• Madden Into Madness does not involve torture with clips of John Madden, using him to narrate a descent into madness, an ill conceived game with him as a psychiatrist, nor John Madden going Axe-Crazy.
  • Nor even a person becoming crazy from playing too much of his games. That would be the executives that greenlighted Madden Nation.
  • Similarly, Madden Curse is not intense swearing upon losing one's sanity or becoming sufficiently crazy.
    • Or spewing profanity at a football announcer.
  • Or people spamming "John Madden!" in Moonbase Alpha's text-to-voice chat until everyone else on the server goes crazy.
• Madden Into Misanthropy does not involve John Madden descending into misanthropy.
• Made of Bologna has nothing to do with the use of "bologna/baloney" as an Unusual Euphemism for "bullshit"—someone can be Made of Bologna and entirely honest.
  • It's also not about something made in, or made out of, an Italian city.
• Made of Iron is not someone constructed of the 26th element of the periodic table. It does not refer to Tony Stark's armor, either.
• Made of Plasticine is not a description of claymation.
• Made of Win is not kinda is is about something constructed of awesome. Examples made by Tropers constructed of awesome.
  • It is not, however, something constructed out of victory.
• Mad Eye is not a page about Alastor Moody.
• A Madness Mantra isn't "Our house in the middle of a street."
• The Madness Place is not a land where everyone is mad.
• The Madonna-Whore Complex is not about accusations of Madonna being incredibly promiscuous. Nor is it a brothel run by Madonna.
• A Mad Scientist is not an angry scientist.
  • And a Mad Doctor is not an angry doctor. Nor is a Mad Bomber an angry bomber (though usually, this one is mad in both senses of the word).
• Maechen Period was not a period in Chinese history that has been popularized in historical dramas (though it can be as boring as that sounds).
  • Nor is it about a punctuation mark.
• Magica Is Magica is not a Captain Obvious spoiler for DuckTales (2017).
• Mage in Manhattan is not about the premise of The Wizard on 4th Street.
• Magical Asian, Magical Negro, and Magical Queer are not about Asian/African/LGBTQ people with magical powers (see Ethnic Magician for the former two). Hence, Sailors Uranus and Neptune and Albus Dumbledore are not Magical Queers.^note Dumbledore fits the "wise" part of the trope, but doesn't count since his sexuality was only confirmed by Word of Gay. Michael Carbonaro may be a gay magician, but he doesn't qualify as a Magical Queer either.
  • On the other hand, Magical Native American actually is about Native Americans with magical powers.
• A Magical Computer is not (necessarily) one that a wizard uses, nor is it a computer that Kyubey made a contract with.
• Magical Defibrillator: not a Magitek defibrillator powered by Bolt2 ...as nifty as that may be.
• A Magical Gesture is not usage of magic to get someone's attention.
• A Magical Security Cam is not necessarily made by wizards for places requiring surveillance, nor is it a security camera that has learned magic.
• Magic Eye is not about those pictures which become 3D when you look at them a certain way.
• Magic Feather actually has nothing to do with Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- or Super Mario World.
• The Magic Goes Away is not about Magic Johnson quitting pro basketball to become a business head.
  • Nor is it someone losing their magical powers.
• A Magician Detective is a stage magician who also works as a detective. Harry Dresden would not be an example of one - he is an Occult Detective, which is completely different.
• Magic Misfire is not about the way Greedo missed Han firing at point-blank range in the Special Edition of A New Hope.
• Magic Pants has nothing to do with Jareth's tights, nor Chaos's. Nor with Trucy Wright's magic panties, for that matter.
• The Magic Poker Equation is not a biography on David Williams.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with any common strategies for both Poker and Magic: The Gathering.
• A Magic Skirt is not a skirt which casts spells or grants the wearer magic powers, and it is not necessarily worn by a Cute Witch.
  • Furthermore, Magic Pants and Magic Skirt are not the same trope applying to different items of clothing.
• A Magic Tool is not a tool used to do magic. Nor is it a mage who's also a Jerkass.
  • Nor is it a new name for Mr. Happy.
• Magnet Hands is not about Fingerless Hands.
• A Magnetic Hero is not necessarily a heroic character with magnet-related powers, nor is it based on an observation that characters with such powers tend to be heroic.
• A Magnetic Medium is not about any magnetic materials, nor is it about magnetic storage media such as hard drives.
• A Magnificent Bastard is not necessarily an illegitimate child.
• A Magnificent Bitch will not necessarily win a dog show, unless maybe it's in a Funny Animal cartoon anyway.
• Magnum Opus is not about a penguin with a gun.
  • It's also not about a brand of ice cream.
• A Major Injury Underreaction isn't someone not reacting as seriously as they should to a major in the army being injured.
• Make My Index Live! is not about hitting the "Save" button on the bottom of the editor on an index page.
  • Nor is it some work of ficton called Make My Index performed live on television.
• Make the Bear Angry Again isn't about a literal bear, but you shouldn't make one of those angry either. It's also not about pushing the Berserk Button of a big Manly Gay man.
  • Also is not about trying to make a badass-turned-pacifist use their badass abilities again right when you need them.
  • Nor is it when you anger the NCR.
  • Nor is it related to the slogan that Donald Trump uses. (In fact, the trope page was around long before Trump ran for president.)
  • It's also not about seeing the reactions of Chicago Bears fans seeing their team lose. It also doesn't count for fans of Baylor or California.
  • Nor is it about pissing off the chefs at The Beef.
• A Malcolm Xerox is not a brand of photocopiers.
• A Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor does not allow a man's private parts to function like a woman's.
• Malevolent Architecture is not a subtrope of Genius Loci. It's also not to be confused with the real-life concept of hostile architecture, which is architecture intended to prevent homeless people from loitering or sleeping there.
• A Malevolent Mugshot is not found on a wanted poster.
• Malfunction Malady is not about robots getting sick like biological organisms.
• The Mama Bear does not necessarily prefer her porridge cold.
• Mana shouldn't be confused with the holy sustenance rained from the heavens in the Bible. That's manna, with two Ns.
• The Man Behind the Man is not necessarily about anal penetration.
• The Man Behind the Monsters is not a special effects guy skilled in animatronics or rubber suits.
• Man Bites Man is about biting in combat, not cannibalism.
• A Manchurian Agent is not necessarily a Qing-era Imperial Chinese secret agent drawn from the ranks of the Manchu bannermen. Nor does it refer to a Chinese secret agent from Heilongjiang.
• A Mandatory Line isn't a Catchphrase. Nor is it when the line you shouldn't cross or the line dividing two people's property is mandated by law.
• A Man-Eating Plant is a plant that eats men, not a man eating a plant. (It also isn't a factory that eats men, nor one that produces man-eaters.)
  • It's also not a plant that Does Not Like Men.
• Mangst is not angst about Manga.
• The Man Is Sticking It to the Man is not about men sticking "kick me" signs to each other's backs.
• The Man Makes the Weapon is not about literally forging weapons nor about the fact that doing so was usually the province of men. Nor does it refer to universes where humans have weapon-crafting abilities and other sentient species don't. Nor is it about arms manufacturers being capitalist.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is not necessarily about a robot and a woman made of paper.
• The Many Deaths of You has nothing to do with Agrajag, nor other such constant reincarnation-death cycles.
• Many Spirits Inside of One has nothing to do with blended whiskeys, or other liquors.
• Marathon Boss and the Marathon Level are not trademark features of Marathon.
  • Nor is the Marathon Boss a monster you must fight after running a marathon.
  • Nor is it about the CEO or president of the American gasoline company.
  • Nor is it the mayor of the Greek town.
• Mark of Shame is not about Mark being considered an Embarrassing First Name.
• Marry the Nanny is not a story about a nanny named Marry.
• A Marshmallow Dream isn't any old dream about marshmallows. It also isn't about an aspiration.
  • It doesn't involve dreaming about being the recipient of a Marshmallow Hell.
• Marshmallow Hell is not where bad Peeps go when they die. Nor is it greedy people being force fed marshmallows.
  • Nor is it a cartoon interpretation of 'hell' that really isn't all that bad. Quite comfortable, really.
  • Nor is it a Sugar Bowl so extreme it comes off as creepy, or one that actually is creepy under the surface.
  • Nor is it the home of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters (1984).
  • Nor is it about the premise of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer is sent to Hell.
  • Nor is it Bullet Hell with marshmallows for bullets.
  • Nor is it tormenting someone using songs made by Marshmello.
• Mars Wants Chocolate is not the reason the corporation places orders for it.
  • Nor does it imply that you can placate the Roman War God by giving him chocolate. You probably can't.
• Marty Stu is not a mook from Super Mario Sunshine.
  • Nor is he a cross between Marty the zebra (or the Marty whose sister acts like a stereotypical girl her age) and Stu Pickles.
• A Mascot with Attitude is not always in a bad mood and complaining about everything.
  • Stone Cold is also not an example.
• A Masquerade Ball is not what you give to a character when you need them to uphold The Masquerade, when they usually don't.
• Mass Hypnosis is not about being hypnotized at church.
• Massive Numbered Siblings is not about very large siblings who have numbers assigned to them or physically on them.
• A Mass "Oh, Crap!" is not about an Oh, Crap! situation happening during a church service.
• Master Forger is not what you would call Agent Twilight if the two of you were undercover as a rich man and his butler.
• A Master of the Mixed Message does not do remixes.
  • Nor is it someone who is really good at anagrams.
• A Master of Unlocking does not earn characters, stages, equipment, and game modes with ease and in record time.
• Matchlight Danger Revelation is not a warning about a gas leak.
• A Match Made in Stockholm doesn't necessarily happen in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, nor does it cover all romances made there.
  • Nor is it about wooden matches from Stockholm.
• The Matchmaker doesn't manufacture firestarting tools.
• Match Maker Quest is not a quest to manufacture matches of the firestarting variety.
• A Maximum Fun Chamber is not actually fun to enter. Unless you like being tortured.
• May Contain Evil is not about devices that may be used to produce a Sealed Evil in a Can effect.
  • It's also not commentary on the lack of morality of the month of May, or a command for an individual named May to contain evil.
• A May–December Romance is not one that only lasts for those seven months. Nor is it one between Anthropomorphic Personifications of months or a person named May falling in love during December.
• A Mayfly–December Romance is not two actual mayflies falling in love in December.
• The Maze:
  • It will leave you confused because it changes direction a lot, not its gender.
  • Or which side it's on.
• The McCoy is not a brand of crisps.
• A McNinja is not employed by Apple Computer, or used against that company.
  • Nor is s/he employed by McDonald's.
  • And unless the story takes place in the wackiest Alternate History universe possible, a McNinja will not explicitly be a member of an ancient clan of Scottish and/or Irish contract assassins.
  • And s/he will know real ninjitsu, not the alleged version taught at a McDojo.
• Meadow Run is not about a video game speedrun with a restriction involving meadows.
• A Meal Ticket is not a piece of paper that gives you access to food.
• A Mean Boss is not a Video Game Big Bad, even if one typically would expect for them to be mean.
• A Meaningful Rename is done within the same universe; it's not an Adaptation Name Change that stays or becomes a Meaningful Name.
• Meaningless Lives is not a Take That! against losers like you. We promise.
  • Of course. Why would we lie to you?
  • It's also not about the attitude of a Straw Nihilist, or that of a villain who doesn't care how many of his mooks die.
• Meat Moss is not a subspecies of Bryophyta that grows on dead animal flesh.
• Meat-O-Vision is not how burger ads are filmed.
  • Nor is it a new set of goggles made to find cattle.
    • That would explain why they do nothing.
  • And it is also not about how Fuminori in Saya no Uta sees everything as made of rancid flesh, bones, and blood.
• Media Scrum is not when a bunch of people and demons gather and generously cast Media.
• A Media Watchdog is not one of Lord Hater's Adorable Evil Minions who's gone into broadcasting.
• Medicate the Medium is not This Is Your Premise on Drugs applied to an entire medium.
• Medium Awareness is not a size between Small Awareness and Large Awareness. It is not Leaning on the Fourth Wall. Nor is it about when characters realize they've met an oracle.
  • It's also not about awareness of the series Medium.
• Medium Blending is not about making coffee.
• Meet the New Boss is not a Team Fortress 2 parody.
  • Nor is it a type of scene you'd expect to find in a Work Com.
  • And it isn't about someone being the musical successor to Bruce Springsteen.
  • Nor is it encountering the next Boss Battle in a video game.
• Mega Manning isn't what you get when you use a growth ray on Peyton or Eli. Or on Axel. No Katies, either. Or Chelsea.
  • It is also not about Mega Man, Mega Man X, Mega Man Volnutt-Trigger, MegaMan.EXE or Mega Man Geo-Omega growing to a giant size, though it has to do with them.
  • Nor is about becoming extremely manly.
    • Yes, We have tropes enough as it is.
  • It's also not about Alona Tal's character on Veronica Mars. For starters, it was never established if her middle initial was "A".
  • It's not about manning something with one million men, either.
• Meganekko is not about huge cats. That would be Mega Neko, which is, in turn, not about pretty girls who just wouldn't be the same without their glasses. (And neither of those has anything to do with the character "Big Pussy" from The Sopranos.)
• Megaton Punch does not have to have the force of one million tons. Nor is it a drink weighing one million tons.
• Meido isn't about the seventh planet in Nanairo.
• Memento MacGuffin is not when it turns out you already got the MacGuffin, but forgot about it.
• A Memetic Badass is not someone who gains power from memes.
  • Though that is an interesting idea for a super hero.
• A Memetic Molester will not molest you using a leek.
  • Nor is it about someone who completely misuses memes by either saying them wrong or using in a nonsensical context.
  • Nor someone who molests people while Rick Astley is playing.
  • Nor does it involve a character who is memetically annoying.
• Memetic Mutation is about things turning into memes, not memes mutating or mutation caused by memes.
• When Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus, women are not buying from the BEMANI unit VENUS, nor are men only buying Mars Bars.
• Men Can't Keep House has nothing to with the opposition of Yaoi involving House.
  • Nor is it about men being kicked out of their own homes.
• The Men First has nothing to do with misogyny, nor with Men Are the Expendable Gender.
• The Men in Black are not the SS.
  • Nor are they Johnny Cash clones.
  • They aren't male Goths, either.
  • They also don't have to be Black.
• Men Like Dogs, Women Like Cats doesn't mean that men are similar to dogs while women are similar to cats, though that is a possible justification for the trope's actual meaning.
• Menstrual Menace isn't about a woman being cranky at that time of the month, although said crankiness may cause a menstrual menace.
• The Menswear Ghetto is not a stigma against works in which men swear.
  • Nor is it a neighborhood known for its fashionable men.
• Mercurial Base has nothing to do with fickle fans.
  • Or Freddie Mercury fans.
  • It's also not what spills out of a Broken Base. (You're thinking "thermometer".)
  • It's also not about using mercury to neutralise an acid.
• Mercy Kill is not the ritualized removal of merciful second-thoughts that a character undergoes before going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Nor is it when Mercy scores a kill.
• Mercy Mode is not a mode in which you can play as Mercy.
  • Nor is it a mode that encourages you to avoid killing enemies. That's a Pacifist Run.
• Mercy Rewarded is not when Mercy gets rewarded for healing her allies. Yeah, these "Mercy" puns are too easy.
  • Nor are they conditions required to unlock her in games other than Overwatch.
  • It's also not about being rewarded by being shown mercy.
• A Merging Machine is not a big robot made by linking up smaller robots.
• Me's a Crowd has nothing to do with Jar Jar Binks's Mooks, or those encountered in Black Mesa, or the genetic ubermensch planet in the Honor Harrington books.
• A Messiah Creep is not a paragon of virtue who performs miracles but is nevertheless suspicious enough in his appearance and behavior that people keep away from him.
  • Nor is it about Jesus spawning liquid on the floor.
• A Meta Fic is not a fanfiction about Meta Knight, who is also not an example of Meta Guy.
  • And it's certainly not about Meta Ridley, either.
• The Metagame will not be lost by thinking about thinking about it.
• Metal Gearing is not entering an Humongous Mecha. Nor is it about anything having gears made of metal.
• A Metal-Poor Planet is not about a planet that is made almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium.^note The astronomical definition of “metal” refers to any element above helium on the periodic table.
  • Nor does it refer to planets with a lack of metal music.
• Metal Slime has nothing to do with steel Jello.
  • It is not a Blob Monster that just wants to rock out hard.
  • It is not the trail left by a Metal Slug.
  • It is not the natural state of the T-1000.
  • It is not a magnetic putty you can drop a neodymium cube into for YouTube views.
• Metaphorical Marriage is not when two unmarried people just behave like a married couple, or when the state of matrimony is used as an allegory for another type of relationship, like an alliance between countries or companies, or someone being Married to the Job.
• Metaphysical Fuel does not describe works that inadvertently inspire philosophizing.
• A Meteor Move is not an attack in which you move a meteor.
• Method Acting is not when you do object-oriented filmmaking where each actor is an object each with a set of methods they execute as part of their acting.
• Metroidvania is not a game where Samus Aran kills Dracula, as awesome as that would be.
  • It's also not a Metroid themed Megalovania parody.
• Metro-Specific Underworld has little if anything to do with Shibuya's UG. It is also not where old Geos go to die. Nor is it a land of the dead only accessible by public transportation. Nor is it where Metroplex will go when he dies. Nor does it have anything to do with Magic Knight Rayearth character Geo Metro. Nor is it about a hell focused on fashion trends. Neverwhere is right out.
• Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back is not a Subtrope of X Called; They Want Their Y Back.
• Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody IS a parody of "Thriller," but it's not about Michael Jackson parodying his own music video.
• Mickey Mousing is not about creating a Funny Animal who is an Everyman Hero.
  • Neither is it dressing up and/or imitating ol' Michael.
• Mighty Whitey has nothing to do with Captain Underpants or Orbit Gum.
  • It's also not a page praising the white rat from Flushed Away, the albino guy from Me, Myself & Irene, or anyone else named Whitey.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds is not a destructive villain with a normal-sounding name. That would be Tom the Dark Lord.
• Miko is not a nun. Nor is it a paladin. Nor do they hang out with Bulkhead. Nor do they catch escaped glitches. Toyosatomimi no Miko is not one of them. Nor does it have to do with the number 35.
• Mildly Military is not about Sergeant Wilson.
• The Mile-High Club does not involve celebrating the history and culture of the Mile-High City.
  • It does not refer to a club that flies high in the air.
  • Nor is it a club for drug addicts.
  • It's also not a giant's club that's a mile long.
• Mile-Long Ship does not refer to a long-distance fan-made romance.
• Miles Gloriosus is not a Good/Evil Counterpart to the Inglourious Basterds.
• Miles to Go Before I Sleep isn't someone going on a long journey just before going to bed, nor is it Keiko O'Brien noting that her husband will go away before she goes to bed.
• A Military Mashup Machine will not, well, mash up the military.
  • Nor is it a machine that will make mashups of different armies' themes.
• Military Moe has nothing to do with The Three Stooges shorts involving the boys serving in the armed services. Nor is it about Moe Szyslak being conscripted for the military.
• Milking the Giant Cow is not about a company devoting all its assets and workforce to its most profitable venture.
  • Nor is it about racking up tons of points from a giant cow boss in a Shoot 'Em Up.
  • It's not an Unusual Euphemism for playing with a woman's boobs, either.
  • Nor is it about, well, milking a giant cow.
• Milking the Monster is not a Hentai trope.
  • It does not mean literally obtaining milk from a monster.
• Milkman Conspiracy: If you've read Playing with a Trope, you might think it contains something like "The milkmen are really a front for an ancient conspiracy dedicated to impregnating the world's housewives."
• Millennium Bug is not a bug that lives for a millennium.
  • Nor is it an addition to the Millennium Items from Yu-Gi-Oh! that's insect themed, a surveillance device, or both.
• A Million Is a Statistic is not about any time the number 1,000,000 turns up in statistics - it has to refer specifically to deaths. It also doesn't have to be exactly a million - the trope applies whenever a huge number of people die and the emotional impact is less than a single specific person dying.
• A Million Mook March is not about a Weird Trade Union on strike against the Evil Overlord for better pay, equipment, or medical plan.
  • It's also not a month-long celebration of Mooks.
• Mills and Boon Prose is not about how beneficial windmills or watermills are.
• Mind-Control Eyes refer to when you can tell that a person is under mind control by their eyes, not being able to cast mind control by staring at them. That would be Hypnotic Eyes.
• Mind over Manners isn't about someone who is very smart, but has no social skills. Or about choosing Intelligence instead of Charisma in an RPG.
• Mind over Matter isn't about valuing intelligence over material possessions.
• Mind Rape is not necessarily when a Mind Screw is forced upon you.
  • Nor is it about sexual intercourse with a brain.
  • It's also not a question (as in, "Would you mind it if I raped you?").
• Mind Screw is not Mind Rape, on the same note.
  • Nor is it about an oddly shaped brain.
  • Nor a tool for removing brains.
  • Nor is it a more polite way of referring to a character from Empowered.
  • Nor is it imagining screwing.
• Mini-Game Credits is not about mini-games with their own sets of credits nor about obtaining the means to be able to play a mini-game a certain number of times.
• Minion Shipping is about two minions, not shipping a minion with his/her master. It's also not when a villain reacts to a minion failing him by putting the minion in a crate and shipping him far away.
  • Also, it has nothing to do with Despicable Me yaoi.
  • It's also unrelated to a Pokémon ship. ^note It's the ship of Buck (from Sinnoh), Lance, Paul (from the anime), and Silver (from Special). In case anyone wanted to know that...
• Mink Becomes This Index Most does not mean "mink transforms into this index most".
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot is not about a kid committing a crime and revealing either a large plot or a plot about soldiers.
• Minor Injury Overreaction isn't necessarily someone overreacting to a kid being injured.
• Minority Show Ghetto does not refer to a fake poor, minority-dominated neighborhood created as part of an Astroturfing campaign. Not that we're saying that such a thing actually exists.
• A Minsky Pickup is not a truck.
• Minus World is not where Grandma Georgina went after de-aging herself to -2.
• Miranda Rights has nothing to do with The Tempest.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the moon of Uranus named after the character from that play.
  • It's also not a warning not to watch Miranda (2009).
  • Nor is it about a plot point in Serenity.
• Despite there being many variations on the Mirror Monster, an animate mirror that itself tries to attack you is not one of them.
• Misaimed Fandom is not about people trying to be fans of one series and ending up becoming fans of another. (How do you even do that?)
  • Oh, ve haf our vays.
  • Perhaps by getting confused between two works on the sister page?
• Miscarriage of Justice is not about a female villain losing her baby.
  • Nor is it a miscarriage caused by Captain Falcon's knee.
  • Nor is it about stopping a future villain by messing up his or her birth.
  • Nor is it how you could defeat Rosemary's Baby.
• Misery Builds Character does not mean that reading Stephen King's Misery will make you a better person.
• Similarly, Misery Lit is not about Misery, and definitely not about what happens to Misery's Return. Nor does it mean that any kind of misery is cool.
• Misery Poker is not a card game that upsets everyone who plays it.
• Misplaced Nationalism is not to be confused with Mistaken Nationality, even though the latter does sometimes trigger the former.
• Misplaced Wildlife is not about animals "liberated" by PETA and released in the wrong habitat afterwards.
• Miss Conception is not about a beauty contest in the Vortex World.
  • Nor is it a post-menopausual woman being nostalgic for when she could conceive.
  • Nor is it a girl or unmarried woman with a strange surname.
  • Nor is it when a couple fail to conceive because they missed the woman's ovulation.
• Missing Mom is not feeling sad because your mother's not around (that's I Miss Mom), although that could be the result.
• Missing the Good Stuff is not about how The Stoner feels when they use up their drug supply.
• A Missing Trailer Scene is not a moment in a movie or a TV show in which a truck driver, going down the road, discovers the trailer has been stolen and has been unwittingly driving the truck head by itself.
• "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop is not about dropping an USB cable on the floor, despite it not seeming possible.
• Miss Kitty is not the page for the actress who plays Trixie from American Dragon: Jake Long and Taranee from W.I.T.C.H., nor for the One-Scene Wonder from The Great Mouse Detective.
  • Nor is it about Cat Girls, or about feeling sad when your cat goes away.
• Mistaken for Cheating isn't about players of sports/games being suspected of cheating when they're actually playing fairly.
• Mistaken for Gay is not about being mistaken for being happy, or mistaken for Lucky's wife.
• Mistaken for Quake is not what happens when you see someone playing a First-Person Shooter and assume they're playing Quake
  • It's also not about when you see a Crystal dragon egg, but assume it's a Quake dragon egg due to both types of egg having similar colours.
• Mister Big is not about the band Mr. Big, the James Bond villain, some bald-headed Escrima stick-wielding Australian, or the Canadian police procedure in which undercover cops trick a suspect into confessing or Big the Cat.
  • It's also not about people who are physically big. Quite the opposite, actually.
• Mister Cleaver is apparently not an Axe-Crazy psychopath who cuts people up with a meat cleaver.
• "Mister Sandman" Sequence is not about Mr. Sandman's sequence of uppercuts.
• The Mistress does not mean that kind of mistress.
• Mnogo Nukes has nothing to do with Flash Gordon. Unless a "Typhoon" class submarine turns up.
• Mobile Shrubbery is not a bunch of twigs and leaves that functions like a smartphone.
• The Mockbuster is not what Gob and Lindsey do to their brother.
• Mock Cousteau is not our suggestion that you make fun of Jacques Cousteau, as he was actually really cool.
• Mock Millionaire is not a command to poke fun at a rich guy.
• Mockspiracy isn't a conspiracy involving teasing.
  • It doesn't mean, "scorns the activities of pirates".
• Mode Lock does not describe mode-toggle buttons such as caps lock, scroll lock, etc. It also has nothing to do with lasers.
• Modest Royalty isn't why the author is a Starving Artist.
  • It is not the opposite of royalty that runs around in skimpy clothing.
• Modesty Shorts are not short stories or cartoon shorts featuring Modesty Blaise.
• Moe is not about The Simpsons character. Oh dear God, no!
  • Nor is it about a certain bowlcut-wearing would-be leader, Moe Yukky, Moe Pukka, the ditzy bully from Calvin and Hobbes, a clam, or a clownfish.
  • It's also not connected to, a town in Victoria, Australia. Also no connection to the Dutch word for "sleepy" (despite what The Advertisement Server thinks).
• Moe Couplet does not necessarily involve very cute poetry. Although there's no rule saying that it doesn't.
  • Neither it nor Moe refer to a Crack Pairing involving Moe from The Simpsons, a Stooge, or both.
• Moe Greene Special is not A Very Special Episode about a Moe character named Greene. Most likely.
• Moe Moe is not about a flying lemur.
  • Nor is it a misspelled command to hastily cut grass.
• Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness does not refer to mineral substances. That's the original scale.
• The Mole is not related to Mole Men.
  • Nor is it related to the Mexican sauce.
  • Nor is it about a spot on the skin.
  • Nor is it related to chemistry.
• A Mole Miner isn't a miner who mines an amount of each substance which contains exactly 6.02*10 ²³ separate particles. Nor are they The Mole.
• A Molotov Truck isn't necessarily found in MotorStorm.
• A Molten Date with Death is not a night out with The Grim Reaper or a similar Psychopomp that ends with an act of sexual congress.
• A Moment Killer is not an object that stops another object from rotating. Nor is it someone determined to stop time.
  • It's also not someone who eats a lot of Thorntons Moments
• A Moment of Weakness is not an example of Cutscene Incompetence, or at least not usually.
  • It's also not about when spinning someone around makes them too dizzy to attack.
• Money, Dear Boy is not a quote from King Harkinian. That would be, "Mai boi, this money is what all true actors strive for!"
• Money for Nothing, despite the Trope Namer, doesn't usually mean getting money by doing nothing (or even by doing something that isn't perceived as "hard work.") It's in effect when you already have the money and can't do anything with it.
  • It also doesn't mean paying money and receiving nothing in return.
• A Money Sink is not a kitchen or bathroom sink constructed from money.
• Money Spider does not refer to Linyphiidae.
• Monkey King Lite is not Sun Wukong's favorite beer.
  • Nor is it an abridged version of the story, nor a version of the character that isn't very heavy.
• Mono no Aware is not when you're aware that your audio is monoaural.
• Monochromatic Eyes is not about eyes where both irises are the same colour, nor is it about eyes shown in black and white.
• Monochrome Casting should not be confused with the desaturation of colour in early movies and TV shows (and is still occasionally done today, for artistic reasons), even though '50s sitcoms were typically both.
• The Mons can be shown on TV without censorship.
  • It's also not an abbreviation for Pokémon.
  • Nor does it have any relation whatsoever to stereotypical Jamaican accents.
• A Monster Closet is not a smaller-scale version of Monster House.
  • Nor is it a closet that children believe have monsters hiding in them (the closets as described in the trope really do have monsters in them), nor does it refer to a monster trying to hide his or her homosexuality.
• Monster Delay isn't about an ordered pet monster's delayed arrival over at somebody's house or really any officially designated delivery location, for that matter. Nor an aversion of No Delays for the Wicked.
• A Monster Fangirl is a fangirl of the monster, not a Cute Monster Girl being a fan.
  • And the monster is a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk, not the subject of cringe-girl compilations.
• Monster Mash is not about liquors that May Contain Evil.
  • It's also not a movie or television series about monsters running an army hospital during The Korean War.
  • Nor is it Mash Kyrielight as a Cute Monster Girl.
  • It's not about what monsters eat for dinner, nor is it about pulverising a monster.
• Monster Munch is not a terrifying Edvard Munch.
  • Nor is it about the brand of crisps.
• A Monster Protection Racket doesn't involve trying to pull a protection racket on a monster.
  • It's also not what you use for Playing Tennis with the Boss.
• A Monster Roommate is not necessarily extremely unpleasant to be around.
• Monsters Anonymous is not saying that monsters do not get Nominal Importance.
  • Nor is it saying that the Anonymous hacker group are monsters.
• Monstrous Cannibalism is not about the fact most cultures see cannibalism as monstrous. Well, okay, not just about that.
• A Monumental Battle is, sadly, not when two statues come to life and start fighting each other. Whether or not two Preteen Geniuses are involved.
• Mood Whiplash isn't about Dastardly Whiplash sulking.
• Mook Chivalry isn't about mooks who Wouldn't Hit a Girl. They might, but they'd wait for their turn.
• Mook Horror Show is not Nadsat for "mook good".
• "Mooks" is not the nickname for followers of the webcomic artist/writer behind Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the co-hosts of The Stephanie Miller Show.
  • Or Dirt Boss.
• Moonburn isn't about setting fire to celestial bodies.
• The Moorcock Effect is not the Spear Counterpart of the Scunthorpe Problem.
• Moose and Maple Syrup is not just when a moose and some maple syrup appear in a work, but that is part of the idea.
• Moral Event Horizon is not about any aesops in the film Event Horizon.
  • Nor is it the eponymous sentient spaceship refusing to break any laws or commit any societal taboos.
• Moral Guardians are not a Super Hero team where all the members are The Cape.
  • Nor is it about SJ type people being morally superior to everyone else.
  • Nor is it about the moral from Legend Of The Guardians or Rise of the Guardians.
• The Moral Substitute is not a substitute teacher with high moral standards.
• Morph Weapon is not what the Power Rangers beat you up with.
  • Well, the first season did have those pistols that turned into swords...
• Morton's Fork is not an eating utensil belonging to Morton Downey, Jr., Morton Koopa, Jr., Horton's friend, or the Morton salt company.
• The Most Common Card Game is not Magic: The Gathering...or Duel Monsters... Or Duel Masters... or Baten Kaitos.
  • It's not a card game about large breasts either.
  • Or Poker, Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Rummy, Cribbage, Pinochle, Euchre, Skat, Canasta, Klondike, Freecell, or Crazy Eights.
• The Most Common Super Power is not the ubiquitous combination of super strength, super speed, flight and nigh invulnerability. (You'd be forgiven for thinking it is, though.)
  • Neither does it refer to the ability of flying by itself. Or anything from the Stock Superpowers Index.
• The Most Dangerous Game is not Dynamite-Bear-Tennis.
  • Simply thinking about it will not put you in peril.
• Most Definitely Not Accompanying Us is not about characters poorly attempting to lie about coming alone.
• Most Triumphant Example is not an example written by Bill and Ted. That would be most excellent, however.
• Motive Decay has nothing to do with The Sims.
• Moving the Goalposts is not about Crisis City Act 1's gimmick from Sonic Generations.
• Mouse World is not a Bland-Name Product way of referring to Disney theme parks.
• Moustache de Plume is not about drawing moustaches on pictures of people as vandalism.
  • It is not a bird's facial feathers.
• Mouthful of Pi is not what happens when Richard Parker the tiger decides to Just Eat Him.
• Mr Fix It is not a man with "Fix It" as his last name.
• Mr. Seahorse is not the name for anyone in The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo or Spongebob Squarepants.
• Mr. Smith did not necessarily go to Washington.
• Mr. Vice Guy is not necessarily the vice president. He's also not necessarily a man who carries a clamp around. Nor is he the vice principal or someone with "Vice guy" as his last name.
  • He also is not a Grand Theft Auto fan whose favorite game in the series is Vice City.
• Ms. Fanservice usually doesn't actually have that as her surname. She also isn't a character who is nice to the fans via Shout Outs, Breaking the Fourth Wall or whatever. Same applies for Mr. Fanservice. They also aren't characters that the fans like (although they might be, but that's not the trope.)
  • Often Mr. and Ms. aren't necessarily related, by blood or marriage.
  • She also doesn't fix the kind of fans that cool you down.
• Ms. Red Ink is not a teacher who writes lots of corrections of her students' work with a red pen. Nor is she a student who receives a lot of such corrections.
• MST has nothing to do with enzymes. ^note  MST is one of the initialisms used for 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase
  • Nor is it a time zone ^note  MST is also the initialism for Mountain Standard Time (the time zone the Denver uses).
• Muck Monster is not about a red dump truck going on a rampage.
  • Nor is it about cleaning up after your pet monster.
• Muggles Do It Better does not (necessarily) mean that they provide better sex than wizards.
• A Multi-Part Picture is not a film serial.
• Although Multi-Platform is a video game trope, it has nothing to do with the Platformer genre of video games.
• Multiple-Choice Future isn't an inversion of Multiple-Choice Past where a character has many potential futures, any of which may be canon. Similarly, Multiple-Choice Past isn't when a character is given options of how they want their past to play out.
• A Multiple Head Case is not where the Serial Killer keeps his trophies.
• A Multi-User Dungeon is not one where different people can come down and take turns whipping and lashing the prisoners chained up at the bottom.
• Mummies at the Dinner Table has nothing to do with inviting the parents over for dinner.
• That Mummy is not yours.
• Mundane Afterlife doesn't refer to Muggles having a separate heaven or hell from wizards/supers.
• Mundane Made Awesome has nothing to do with Simon Lewis, or any other human character from the series.
• A Mundane Solution isn't a boring dissolved substance.
• Mundanger is not the name of a new Super Sentai series starring boring people.
• murder.com is not the order to kill someone from 30 Rock.
• A Murderous Mask is not used by the wearer to murder people. In fact, it's the reverse.
• Murder the Hypotenuse is not what a mathematically-incapable Book Dumb character wants to do before moving on to the rest of the subject.
  • Nor is it what Minamimoto does after killing all the "radians".
• Murphy's Bed is not where Milo Murphy sleeps.^note Which is actually kind of surprising.
  • Nor is it about Murphy beds, although they are frequently an example of this trope.
  • Nor is it where Rowan's best friend sleeps.
  • Nor is it the hospital bed in which Bleeding Gums Murphy died.
• Murphy's Law is not "When your squad is in trouble, jump on a tank, grab a machine gun, and start shooting Nazis."
  • Nor is it "When crosses grow on Anzio, charge and attack, going to Hell and back."
• The Muse isn't about the band, and Muse Abuse isn't about mistreating its members.
• Musical Chores do not refer to the tedious preparation work for a concert or the cleanup work thereafter.
  • It's also not about practice exercises that a musician or music student sees as tedious and wants to get over with so they can get on to the interesting pieces of music.
• Musical Gag is not how the "serious" film viewer reacts as soon as the first notes of the opening number play, nor is it when someone is gagged to keep them from singing.
• A Musical Nod is not when someone nods their head to some song playing nearby.
• Musical Number Annoyance isn't being annoyed by a singing numeral.
  • It's also not an entire musical about how much someone hates maths.
• A Musical Spoiler is not telling your friend who hasn't seen Wicked that Elphaba lives.
  • It's also not a wing on the back of a car with a built-in stereo. (Although someone should really get to work on that.)
  • It's also not a musical sequence whose lyrics directly give away a later plot point.
• Musical World Hypotheses isn't about scientists trying to figure out why music is so ubiquitous in all of Earth's cultures.
• Music Video Credits Sequence is not a credits sequence of a music video, but a film credits sequence which is done in a form of a music video.
• Must Be Invited is not about invitation-only events, nor is it about conversations at parties about why some weirdo is there. It's also not about an exclusive club where you must be invited by a member to become a member yourself.
• Must Seek Leek could be about watching Henry V for the "eat my leek" line, but that's not what it's named for. Nor is it about Farfetch'd desperately searching for a weapon. Nor is it when a chef is missing an ingredient for his or her soup.
• Mutual Kill doesn't necessarily involve an insurance company. (Except for the life insurance payouts.)
• My Beloved Smother is not about being a Stalker with a Crush to Dick and Tommy Smothers.
• My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting is not about bees, hornets, or other related insects who have gained citizenship in the countries where they live.
• My Eyes Are Up Here is not about conversing with a creature whose eyes are on stalks about its head or with false eyespots below its actual eyes.
• My Girl Is a Slut is not someone finding out that their daughter or girlfriend is promiscuous.
• My Girl Is Not a Slut is not an author's attempt to make a female character less Stripperiffic.
  • Nor is it denying that one's girlfriend or daughter has a libido.
• My God, What Have I Done? rarely, if ever, involves someone consulting the Bible or praying to God. (Or whatever deity they worship.)
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the Linkin Park song "What I've Done".
  • Nor is it someone who has no idea what they just did, so they're praying to find out. (Most people who use this trope know exactly what they did.)
  • Nor is it someone being surprised that "What Have I Done?" from The Loud House episode "Really Loud Music" is playing.
  • And it's usually not a case of not knowing what you had sex with.
• My Hero, Zero is not a trope about someone who perceives a feeble, klutzy zero to be a steeled, gutsy hero. Nor is it about The Hero losing badly at sports. And although somewhat related, it is not about being rescued from certain death at the hands of Vile, the Britannian Empire or Zero Enna either.
  • While we're on the subject, it has nothing to do with Schoolhouse Rock! or prequels to My Hero, either.
  • It's most definitely not about Zero from Kirby's Dream Land 3.
• My Horse Is a Motorbike doesn't refer to a person or work treating horses like motor vehicles. In fact, it's the other way around.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels is not about people discovering that eels had taken up residence inside their aquatic vehicles while docked near the shore.
• My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours is not a declaration of a type of martial art being inherently and objectively superior in combat to another.
• My Little Panzer is not the Rated M for Manly version of My Little Pony.
  • Neither is it a crossover with Girls und Panzer.
• My Little Phony isn't about parenting a young Con Man.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya is not about changing your name to Inigo Montoya.
• My Nayme Is not Slim Shady. Nor is it “Slymm Shaydee”, though that would make it an example of this trope.
• Myopic Conqueror is not about a nearsighted conqueror.
• My Own Grampa is not about someone really proud of his or her grandfather, and it's not related to the Grandfather Clause.
• My Own Private "I Do" is not about gay marriage in fiction, much less with one or both underground like a wild potato closeted.
  • It does not refer to marrying one's own genitals.
• My Real Daddy is not what an adopted child calls his/her biological father.
• My Rules Are Not Your Rules is not about moral relativism. (It is thus nothing at all like Blue-and-Orange Morality.)
  • It is not a refusal to share your measuring devices.
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That has nothing to do with robots playing Magic: The Gathering.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits is not about a guy's inability to commit Brother–Sister Incest. He's saying the trope name to someone else.
  • Nor is it a girl's sibling announcing that she's getting a restraining order against you.
• My Skull Runneth Over is not about the improvised goblet used by the humanitarian who likes A Glass of Chianti after dinner.
  • It's also not about a skull causing driving accidents.
  • Nor does it refer to Vikings or other barbarians drinking out of the skulls of their enemies.
  • Nor does it refer to a ghost emerging from a goblet made from their skull.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much, but it doesn't necessarily gather together, hold up picket signs, and chant slogans all that often.
• A Mystery Episode is not an episode that's so ambiguous, you can't tell what television series it comes from.
• A Mystery Magnet is not a chunk of metal that pulls in unidentifiable objects, nor is it a chunk of metal that's unpredictable in what it'll pull in.
• Myth Arc has nothing to do with Robert Asprin's Myth series.
  • Nor is it the first generation of hololive English's Virtual YouTubers.
• Mythology Gag is not the result of reading about the birth of Odin's horse.
  • Nor is it when you make a joke about mythology, though in an adaptation of a myth, a joke about the original might be a Mythology Gag.

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• Nanomachines are not typical implements used by Nanoha. Those would be Magic Wands and Attack Drones.
  • They're not an even smaller version of Micro Machines.
• Narm is not something Pinky says. Nor is Nerf or Zork.
• A Nasty Party is not a team of Jerkass adventurers. It is also not a party that turns merely obscene.
  • Nor is it a party that is interrupted by the Nasty.
  • It's also not about the nickname given to the Conservative Party of the UK by its detractors.
• Nature Lover isn't about someone whose lover has nature-related superpowers.
• Nature Tinkling isn't about Mother Nature peeing or making a tinkling noise.
• Nature vs. Nurture isn't a story about a parent having to care for their child while surviving in the wild.
• Naughty Birdwatching isn't about observing sex and misbehavior among actual wild birds, nor is it about pet-sitting for the Feathered Fiend.
• Naughty by Night is not about well-behaved straight-A model students who are absolute mischief-makers out of school hours.
• Naughty Is Good is not about characters with a lewd disposition being good.
• Naughty Nuns aren't nuns who misbehave (except perhaps for breaking the celibacy rules).
• A Naughty Nurse Outfit isn't what disobedient nurses wear, nor is the outfit itself misbehaving.
  • Nor is it necessarily worn by sexually provocative nurses.
• Naughty Tentacles are not tentacles that are mischievous.
• Naughty Under the Table isn't about causing mischief under a table, unless it's sexual.
• A Nautical Knockout is not the Navy's version of a Good-Looking Private.
  • Nor is it the end result of a boxing match between two sailors.
  • It also isn't about a version of the Transformers character Knockout who has an aquatic vehicle alt-mode.
• Near-Villain Victory is not a spoiler for the end of Death Note. Even if it's arguably correct.
  • Neither was there a Near Victory Fanfare.
  • Near-Death Experience is not The 40 seconds Near waited to see Light and Mikami fail in killing them.
    • It's not about gaining Experience Points from killing Near, either.
    • Nor is it being next to the Grim Reaper.
  • Near-Death Clairvoyance is not about Near's death granting people psychic powers.
  • Near Misses is also not about Near firing again, but missing.
    • Nor is it when "Near" notes in Arcaea are considered mistakes.
  • As for Near-Rape Experience, we're not going to go on that subject.
• A Neat Freak is not a freak of nature that is either tidy or cool.
• Necessarily Evil is not the opposite of Possibly Evil
• A Necessary Fail is not a failure to be necessary.
• A Neck Lift will not make you look 10 years younger.
• A Necromancer is not, we repeat, not a necrophile.
• The Need for Mead is not when class is about to begin and you don't have a notebook. Or about needing to consult the works of a famous anthropologist.
• The Needless isn't a character or element the work could do without.
  • Nor is it someone who's not needy because they have money.
• Needs More Love isn't about the poor Woobies and similar characters.
• A Neet is not a keet who is a Neat Freak.
• A Nerdgasm is not what happens when a nerd watches porn.
• Nerd Nanny is not a nanny who is a nerd.
• Nerf has nothing to do with the creatures from Star Wars known for their scruffy herders.
  • It's not about NERF, although that is the Trope Namer.
• The Nerf Arm is not a foam limb, it's not necessarily made by NERF, and isn't the arm with which game designers depower otherwise Game-Breaker functionality.
• Neurodiversity Is Supernatural does not refer to an alternate title of the titular series.
• Neutral Female is not a Character Alignment.
• Never Live It Down isn't about Stephen King only being remembered for writing It and not any of his other books.
• Never My Fault is not someone who never makes mistakes. In fact, it's usually the other way around.
• Never Recycle a Building is not advice to game developers to avoid overdoing Copy-and-Paste Environments.
• Never Say "Die" does not refer to calling dice "Number Cubes" in school math classes due to dice being associated with gambling. Mario Party's "Dice Block" is listed on the page, though.
  • Nor is it about not using the singular form of dice because of its association with death.
  • Nor is it about determination.
• Never Suicide isn't about suicide prevention messages.
• Never Trust a Trailer has nothing to do with personal suspicion of those things that trucks drag behind them. Where does Optimus' go?
  • Wherever the hell it wants!
• A Newbie Boom doesn't refer to causing newbies to explode, although some "Stop Having Fun" Guys would like that to happen. Nor is it the part of the ship most likely to cause a Nautical Knockout to novice sailors.
• New Eden usually has nothing to do with the world after the Second Coming of Christ.
  • Even through "Prophet" Zachary Hale Comstock calls Columbia a "new Eden," Columbia is not an example in the slightest.
  • Nor is it about a replacement for a character called Eden.
• If you work in the catalogue industry and you get a lot of impatient people who can't seem to read the date on which a book or sale starts, you may start to mutter that New Media Are Evil, but this page isn't about that.
• The New Rock & Roll is not about trying to find a successor to that genre.
  • It also isn't about the latest versions of Mega Man and his sister.
• News Monopoly is not about how, when characters watch 24-Hour News Networks, if it's a Fox show it'll be Fox News, and if it's an NBC show it'll be MSNBC.
  • It's also not among the hundreds of versions of Monopoly.
• Newspaper Dating has nothing to do with personal ads in the classifieds. It also doesn't mean that sentient newspapers are dating, either, although Rule 34 says someone has written an explicit version of that.
• News Tropes have little to do with Huey Lewis and the News.
• Next Sunday A.D. is not an advertisement previewing next Sunday's newspaper or promotions that will begin next Sunday.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero is not an expression of appreciation when admiring the pyrokinetics after the Supervillain Lair and/or the Death Ray have been blown up by The Hero.
  • Likewise, Nice Job Fixing It, Villain is not a similar expression for the Big Bad repairing said lair or Death Ray.
• A Nice Guy or Girl isn't necessarily from the French city Nice (which is pronounced differently, by the way). Nor is it about saying "nice" to someone.
• Nice Kitty... is not about averting Cats Are Mean, nor is it a Nice Girl named Kitty.
  • Nor is it about a cat or a girl named Kitty from Nice.
• A Nietzsche Wannabe is not some random forum poster who thinks s/he's so damn clever for abusing Nietzsche's famous "He Who Fights Monsters" quote against someone s/he doesn't like.
  • Nor is it someone who believes themself to be Frederick Nietzsche.
• Night Swim Equals Death is not if you watch the first 2024 movie about haunted pool, you'll be dead.
• Nightmare Face is not a scene where a character has to face their worst nightmare, though such a scene may include one.
  • Nor is it a face you get when you have a nightmare, but rather, a face that gives you one.
  • It's also not another name for a Terror Hero, either, nor does it imply the existence of a trope called "Nightmare Heel".
• A Nightmare Fetishist doesn't necessarily have a fetish for nightmare creatures, though that would qualify.
• Nightmare Fuel isn't fuel for Knightmare Frames or mythical horses. Nor is it a nightmarish version of the video game Fuel, or a nightmarish version of Fuel from Mother 3. It also has nothing to do with the crafting material from Don't Starve or Calamity. It also isn't literal fuel that makes one have nightmares, nor is it any type of fuel that merely appears within one's nightmares.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book is not the example page for Nightmare Fuel from coloring books.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant has nothing to do with the Cryptkeeper or Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, having to get a new job.
• A Nightmare Sequence is not part of the gameplay of a Nintendo Hard game which motivates Sequence Breaking.
• Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree does not refer to ten incarnations of a Time Lord.
• A Ninja Log is not the logbook of a Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot Captain's journeys.
  • Nor is it a piece of wood that's a ninja.
  • It's also not the log from Naruto: The Abridged Series.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot is not a knock off of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • Nor does it describe HK 47. Even though, depending on your playstyle, all of those worlds might describe it.
• Ninja Prop is not a subtrope of When Props Attack.
  • Also isn't a stage prop (nor an airplane propeller) that vanishes into the night undetected.
  • Nor is it what you use if your ninja keeps falling over.
• Ninja Run is not about the recommended course of action if you see one. (Don't bother; either you're too late, or they're not a very good ninja.)
  • It also has very little in common with a Stealth Run.
  • It's not a spinoff of Cookie Run, either.
• Ninja Tropes are not appreciably stealthier or deadlier than any other tropes.
• Nintendo Hard is not about getting a hard-on while playing Nintendo games. Nor is it about how Nintendo's products were physically durable.
• No "Arc" in "Archery" does not refer to works not having plots involving archery.
  • Nor does it refer to people spelling the word 'archery' wrong.
• No Bikes in the Apocalypse refers to bicycles, not motorcycles.
• No Biological Sex does not mean that only sex between robots can be shown.
• Nobody Can Die is not an alternate name for Death Takes a Holiday (the former describes settings wherein people should die, they just never seem to, while the latter describes situations in which nobody can die for good, in-universe reasons.)
• Nobody Poops is not about a ban on YTP.
• No Campaign for the Wicked is not about preventing evil people from running for political office, even if such a thing is sorely needed.
• No Canon for the Wicked is not about banning and/or burning "holy books" of the Religion of Evil.
  • Neither does it mean that the bad guys do not have any artillery. That would be No Cannon For The Wicked. Nor does it mean that Canon refused to sell their cameras to these bad guys.
• No Can Opener isn't a situation where the villain is having trouble unleashing a Sealed Evil in a Can.
  • Nor is it when The Smart Guy is not present to help Solve the Soup Cans.
  • Nor is it a You No Take Candle way of saying "I can't open it".
• No Casualties Run is not the next line from the mouth of the guy who declared that No One Could Survive That!.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed is not a disclaimer saying that no members of a movie's All-Star Cast were hurt during its production.
• No Conservation of Energy is not about someone who makes no attempt to reduce their power bill.
• No Control Group isn’t about a group that has gone completely out of control. Nor is it about a fictional engineering firm which has no team dedicated to designing and tuning control systems.
• No Cure for Evil is not a proclamation that evil people are beyond redemption. Neither does it have to do with As Long as There Is Evil.
  • It's also not about a rule that states that the bad guys of Pretty Cure series can't have a Cure of their own. (They had, and HOW!)
  • It's not a rule saying that evil people can't listen to the band The Cure.
• No-Damage Run is also not the next line from the mouth of the guy who declared that No One Could Survive That!.
• No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me is not about any changes No Doubt has made to you over the years.
• No Dub for You is not about characters failing to receive knighthoods.
• No Ending is not when a fictional work ends with a Big "NO!".
• No Export for You does not mean "come back, one year! Next!"
• No Fair Cheating is rarely invoked when someone is fighting dirty.
  • Nor does it mean that only unfair cheating is allowed.
  • It's not about the other kind of cheating (infidelity).
• No Fame, No Wealth, No Service is not about the inability of poor/non-famous people to get service on their cell phones. Nor is it about having no memorial service when a person dies broke. Nor is it a phrase that is followed up with "Fox only! Final Destination!"
• No Final Boss for You is not about games that don't have final bosses when released in other parts of the world.
• No Flow in CGI is not about CGI characters who can't have their periods.
• No Fourth Wall isn't about a room with only three walls.
• No-Gear Level doesn't mean a game has no technology-theme level in it.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased is not about guys hating being the one being chased in a car chase, nor is it about The Guy not liking those Advancing Wall of Doom segments, or S4 League's Chaser mode.
• No Honor Among Thieves is not David Weber saying that there will be no Honor Harrington books called Honor Among Thieves.
• No Hugging, No Kissing is not part of a Super Smash Bros. tournament ruleset with Final Destination as the map.
  • Neither is No Item Use for You, even if it really sounds like it.
  • Nor is it where romance exists, but nobody expresses it.
  • Nor is it what an Affection-Hating Kid yells at their parents.
• Noisy Guns are not firearms that are running around hooting and hollering.
  • Nor are they guns that are unrealistically noisy when shot; that's Bang, Bang, BANG.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction is not how Dr. No introduces himself.
• Nom de Mom doesn't mean that a character's alias or only name is Mom. Nor does it refer to mothers getting eaten.
• Nominal Hero is not a list of works named after their protagonists.
• Nominal Importance is not about audiences expecting the title character to be the most important.
  • Nor is it about something the story considers important that really isn't important.
• No More Emperors is not a spinoff of No More Heroes in which you run a country.
• No Mouth And I Must Scream seem to be one trope, but they're not.
• Non-Action Guy is not about if Might Guy has a brother at Mission Control. (They wouldn't get along well.)
• A Non-Actor Vehicle is not a car in Transformers that isn't a robot at all. Nor is it when a vehicle won't start.
• Non-Dubbed Grunts does not mean that lines from mooks aren't dubbed.
• A Non-Elemental isn't someone who doesn't like chemistry.
• Non-Lethal K.O. has nothing to do with how Mork says, "OK".
• No Nudity Taboo is not about characters with a taboo against not being nude.
• A Noob Cave is not a cave where clueless newcomers live or originate from. It does not have a Noob Bridge...well, well-designed Noob Caves don't, anyway.
  • Nor is it an accusation that a certain shmup development company are a bunch of noobs.
• Noodle Implements is not about tools made out of pasta. Believe me, I tried, don't ask.
• Noodle Incident has nothing to do with the guitarist of Gorillaz.
  • Nor is it necessarily an incident involving noodles.
• No OSHA Compliance is not about policies that forbid Dan from taunting.
  • Nor does it refer to Osha refusing to submit to Theon Greyjoy.
• No Party Given is not about a disappointing birthday.
  • It's also not about a Role-Playing Game in which the player does not get an adventuring party.
• No Periods, Period most certainly has nothing to do with punctuation. (You want No Punctuation Period.) Nor does it have anything to do with a grammatical Logic Bomb.
  • No Periods, Period (and No Punctuation Period) aren't periods of time. Therefore, the No Punctuation Period isn't another name for the time before writing was invented, and the No Periods, Period isn't the pre-menarche and post-menopause stages of a woman's life.
• No Recent Examples, Please! has nothing to do with Examples Are Not Recent.
• No Recycling is not an aversion of Copy-and-Paste Environments.
• A No Saving Throw is not what happens when an Author's Saving Throw doesn't happen to a work.
• Nose Art is not about painting your nose, art depicting noses or pictures painted using your nose.
• No-Sell is not about when a sales clerk has to open up a cash register just to make small change.
• Nose Nuggets isn't a literal interpretation of the phrase "Diggin' for gold."
  • Nor does it have to do with chicken nuggets.
• No Sex Allowed is not a proclamation that a certain person will never, ever get laid.
  • Nor is it a requirement that everyone must have No Biological Sex.
• No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom does not end with "story/main objectives only, Final Destination".
• No Snack for You is not about being Denied Food as Punishment. Nor is it snacks that don't get exported outside of their home countries.
• No Song for the Wicked isn't refusing permission for your song to be used by an evil character in a film, a declaration that nobody evil is allowed to sing, or a Cut Song from Wicked.
• Nostalgia Filter is not a search engine exclusive to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.
  • Nor is it about a color filter used in a Happy Flashback.
  • Nor is it about a filter that makes a game retraux (or a Video Game Remake look like the original), or The Other Wiki's nostalgia skin.
  • Nor is it when you filter the songlist in Konami's Nostalgia Rhythm Game.
• No Straight Examples, Please! is not Het Is Ew as a wiki policy.
• No Such Thing as H.R. is not about denying the existence of Homestar Runner. ^note Because that would be "No Such Thing as H*R".
• No Such Thing as Space Jesus is not about Space Jews.
• No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus is not telling Jesus that wizards don't exist, or about taking His name in vain while declaring that wizards don't exist.
• "Not a Date" is not what you have to tell Microsoft Excel whenever you type in a fraction.
• If someone says this is Not a Game, chances are it's not Allen Iverson talking about practice.
  • Nor does it refer to apps on game consoles, despite what the box of Videomation for Nintendo Entertainment System says.
  • Nor is it said when you're not allowed to hunt an animal.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up is not about parents deliberately preventing their children from maturing.
• Not Always Evil has nothing to do with a website featuring bad customers or bad coworkers. Nor is it about someone who's only a villain part of the time (that would be Heel–Face Revolving Door).
• Not Brainwashed is only the specific trope where a character looks like they've been brainwashed, but has actually changed sides for real. If they're simply not brainwashed, that's not that trope. (Though if they're pretending to be that trope as part of a Fake Defector ploy, that would probably count as a subversion.)
• Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught has nothing to do with cheating on your significant other.
• Not Completely Useless is not about backhanded compliments given to The Load after a Moment of Awesome.
• A Note from Ed. does not necessarily come from someone named Ed.
• Not Even Bothering with an Excuse is not referring to plots that didn't.
• Nothing but Hits apparently doesn't refer to a soundtrack comprising entirely of orchestral hits.
  • Nor does it refer to someone with really good aim.
  • Nor is it about the Always Accurate Attack.
• Nothing Is Scarier is not about the ultimate scare.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore isn't a stock phrase uttered whenever people experience either irreversable, life-changing, inevitable, or traumatic events.
• Nothing Left To The Imagination is not about stories that give too much Exposition.
• Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice isn't about sugar and spice being bad for your health.
• Notice This is not "Notice me, Senpai!" when spoken by inanimate objects.
• The Not-Love Interest isn't the person that's accused of being your boyfriend/girlfriend all the time.
• Not My Driver does not refer to a golf club belonging to someone else.
• Not Now, Kiddo is not related to Kill Bill or Death the Kid.
• No True Scotsman is not about people who wear underwear under their kilt. Or about a non-Scottish actor playing a Scot in a film.
• Not Safe for Work is not about places that are unsafe to work at.
• Not So Crazy Anymore isn't about an insane character regaining sanity.
• Not the Fall That Kills You… has nothing to do with autumn.
• Not Using the Zed Word does not involve refusal to talk about a certain Power Rangers villain or ignoring the boss of the Men in Black.
  • It also doesn't imply that any words beginning with Z have become profane and need to be omitted or censored.
  • Nor is it about Americans refusing to use the British pronunciation of the letter 'Z'.
• "Not Wearing Pants" Dream has nothing to do with Strike Witches.
  • Nor is it about someone who hopes one day to never have to wear pants.
  • It's also not about people who sleep naked.
• Not Wearing Tights is not about a male character or tomboyish female refusing to wear "girly" clothes.
• Notzilla is not related to the Mozilla Foundation.
• No U is not a lipogram lacking the letter after T.
  • And it doesn't mean you don't have a Wii U either.
  • Nor is it the Chinese clown.
• No Woman's Land is not a place with no female population. Nor is it a Distaff Counterpart of No Man's Land.
• No Yay is not a moment in sports where the crowd boos. It is also not an anti-crack cocaine statement.
  • Nor is it someone telling another person not to cheer.
  • Nor is it when someone lets out a Big "NO!" before realizing that what happened was actually good, and saying "yay!".
• No, You does not exclude the target.
  • Nor is it about anywhere where the second-person pronoun is not included.
• NPC Roadblock does not mean there's a G.I. Joe game where Roadblock is in it but you can't play as him.
• NTR does not have to do with the Nintendo DS's Working Title of Nitro (NTR), nor is it a motorsport brand.
• A Nuclear Candle does not use nuclear power as a light source.
• A Nuclear Error is not about someone making an error which leads to a meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or accidentally launching nuclear weapons. Or constantly pronouncing the word "nucular".
• A Nuclear Family has nothing to do with nuclear power. Well, except for The Simpsons.
• A Nuclear Option is not what Utsuho Reiuji's power-up would be if she became playable in the next Touhou game.
  • Nor is it a Gradius Attack Drone that fires nuclear weapons.
  • Nor is it a method the U.S. Senate can use to prevent filibusters.
  • It's also not the option to use nuclear power or have a Nuclear Family.
• Number of the Beast has nothing to do with a certain cursed Disney prince. Or a blue-haired intellectual mutant.
• Number Two is not related to Potty Emergency or Bring My Brown Pants. Or, for that matter, Oh, Crap!.
  • Nor is it that KND operative.
• Number Two for Brains is not about cases where The Smart Guy is the second in command. Nor is it about the second most intelligent person in a group.
• Nu Metal is not what BlazBlue's Robot Girl is built with.
  • It's also not Leet Speak for "No metal".
• A Nurse with Good Intentions has to be not very good at their job despite their good intentions. It is not any nurse who intends to do good, as that'd be People Sit on Chairs.
• Nutritional Nightmare is not a nightmare after eating bad food.
  • Nor is it having a nightmare about bad food or not getting enough food.

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