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• Obake is not an Omake about baking.
• The Obi-Wannabe is not someone who impersonates Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Object-Tracking Shot is not about firing a Homing Projectile at a moving object.
• Obvious Beta is not the obvious influence of a preview reader on a fanfic.
  • Nor is it a Siamese fighting fish with no sense of subtlety.
  • It's also not about players immediately knowing who Gamma's Final Boss was.
• Oceanic Airlines is not an airline company that can fly planes underwater.
• O.C. Stand-in is not a placeholder for The O.C.'s cast.
  • Nor indeed is it a subtrope of California Doubling, specifically for Orange County.
• While Odd Job Gods might exist in James Bond universe, Oddjob certainly does not worship them.
  • They're also not necessarily all the Cloud Cuckoolander, and it is possible to have an even number of them.
• Oddly Common Rarity isn't about the number of times Rarity shows up in an episode.
  • Nor is it about opening blister packs for a collectible card game and finding many of the same (supposedly) rare card.
    • Or about opening packs for the My Little Pony CCG and getting more cards of Rarity than would be reasonable to expect.
• Offer Void in Nebraska is not Exdeath's directive to give a "gift" to the state of Nebraska…that "gift" being to suck it into THE VOID!^note Or The other Void, or the OTHER other Void. Nor is it about Shu Ouma offering to pull CGI weapons out of the Cornhuskers, or Nef Anyo scamming people in this state.
• An Officer and a Gentleman describes one person who is both, not two different people, one of whom is in the police force or the military and the other one a classy, dignified man.
  • In a similar vein, Gentleman and a Scholar does not describe two different characters, one a gentleman and the other a scholar-it describes one who's both.
• Offing the Offspring is not shutting down devices playing The Offspring nor about murdering the band themselves.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter is not about Dark Matter or Dark Matter being offscreen.
• Off the Rails is not like Railing Kill.
• Off with His Head! isn't about the head of a man's penis being cut off, nor is it about a boy's headmaster running away.
• Oh, Crap! is not a situation when the viewer/player/reader of the work says, "Oh crap!"
  • Nor is it about crap being accidentally found.
  • Nor is it about someone who delights over defecate. Thank god for that.
  • Nor is it just anyone saying that phrase, that'd be People Sit on Chairs, although it might overlap.
• Oh Great, a Snark Index is not an index about the different species of Snark.
• Oh God, with the Verbing! is not a prayer to the God of Verbs.
• Oh, My Gods! is not Zeus talking to his family.
• Older Is Better is not about senior citizens being more competent.
• Older Than Dirt is not about old geezers who are over the hill.
  • And nor does it literally mean "Older Than Dirt". Dirt predates life, so since life is required for tropes to even exist, there were no tropes back then except a handful of Unbuilt Tropes which have nothing to do with any form of life, or dirt of course.
• Older Than Steam does not reference things that are of a greater age than gaseous water or Valve's online content delivery service.
• Older Than They Think is not about characters with the mindset of someone younger than they actually are. Nor does it refer to characters who are much older than they seem to be.
• The Oldest Ones in the Book is not about someone who gets fooled or tricked by something that should be common knowledge.
  • Nor is it about the most elderly inmates in a given institution.
  • It's also not about the oldest characters in a novel.
• Old Media Are Evil is not about books like the Necronomicon. Try Tome of Eldritch Lore.
• Old Money is not about Old British Money.
• An Old Retainer is not an orthodontic device that you've long since ceased to use.
• An Old School Building is not about an old-fashioned but cool building.
  • On the other hand, an Old School Introductory Rap is an old-fashioned introductory rap, not (necessarily) a rap to introduce you to an old educational institution.
• Olympus Mons is not about the mountain on Mars.
  • It's not about Greek goddesses' private parts, either.
• Ominous Crack does not cause a bad trip, proceed a horrendous fart, or be part of a wrong interpretation of a badass (see above).
• Ominous Hair Loss isn't what happens when a man with a sinister hairdo starts going bald.
• Once-Green Mars doesn't mean the War God of ancient Rome used to be environmentally friendly.
• Once is Not Enough is not about orgasms.
• One Bad Mother is not talking about Shaft. Nor does it have anything to do with "this badass mother".
  • It also isn't the token follower of a Religion of Evil in an otherwise good-aligned convent.
    • Nor is it talking about a Mother game that you didn't like or depressed you.
• One Bullet Clips do not apply exclusively to single-shot guns.
  • Nor is it about a single bullet that glitches even though all the rest don't.
• One Character, Multiple Lives is not about reviving after death in a manner similar to video games.
• One Curse Limit is not about how you can only get away with one F-Bomb in a PG-13 movie.
• One Degree of Separation is not necessarily related to college degrees.
  • Nor is it about temperature. Or angles.
• One-Episode Fear is not about how one episode of the show was scary.
  • Nor is it the staff of a TV show fearing that it'll get canceled after only one episode.
• A One-Episode Wonder is not a TV show well-known or fondly remembered for one really good episode. Or about a character who's popular despite only appearing in a single episode.
  • Nor is it when a character wonders about something for one episode then forgets about it.
• One Extra Member is not about a man who has an extra schlong.
• One-Eyed Shot isn't about shooting with one eye closed for better aim. Nor is it about shooting a one-eyed person.
• One-Gender Race isn't about how there are different events for men and women in athletics.
• The One Guy is not The Guy You Wanna Be.
  • Nor is he That One Boss.
• One Judge to Rule Them All is not about a judge of any kind becoming a dictator.
• The One-Man Army does not serve the One World Order. Not yet anyway, but it's only a matter of time before someone makes this reality.
  • Yes he does! Or did. Sephiroth did it before he became a Big Bad.
    • So...the One-Winged Angel served the One World Order as a One-Man Army?
  • Nor is it a bunch of soldiers all cloned from the same guy.
• A One-Man Band is not someone who is all five members of the Five-Man Band at once.
  • Nor is it a bunch of musicians all cloned from the same guy.
• The One-Mario Limit does not involve the reduced use of the two-players-alternating option in modern video games.
  • Nor is it about playing a Super Mario Bros. game on one life.
• One Password Attempt Ever does not involve being eliminated during tryouts for Password and not being allowed to try again.
• One Riot, One Ranger is not "RAMIREZ! Quash that riot!"
  • Nor is it about distribution of Power Rangers when multiple riots occur around the world.
    • The first episode of Kyoryuger wants to talk with you.
  • Nor is it a band containing a guy from Quiet Riot and another from Night Ranger.
• The One-Steve Limit is not the reason Joe replaced Steve.
  • Nor is it about only having one red leaf Pikmin.
  • Nor is it why someone's not allowed to create two or more generic player dudes in Minecraft.
• A One-Time Dungeon is not (necessarily) a location that was once a dungeon but has been rebuilt into something else since.
• One, Two, Three, Four, Go! does not refer to the comedy trope in which characters have trouble giving and following some simple instructions along the lines of "pull this rope when I count to three." That one is called On Three.
  • It also doesn't mean that on the count of five, everyone will start playing Go.
• The One Where Everyone Dies is not the last episode of Friends.
• One-Winged Angel is not about Angel gaining wings. It's not a cousin to Solo Wing Pixy either.
• Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap does not refer to the sleeping habits of androids.
  • It also does not refer to the ease with which one can find the Mareep evolution family in Pokémon games.
  • Nor is it saying that the Mareep evolution family are Game-Breakers.
• Only I Can Make It Go is not about something that won't go away unless someone specific orders it to do so.
• Only in America is not about works that are only available in the US. That would be No Export for You.
• Only Mostly Dead isn't about batteries with a tiny bit of juice left, or about when most of the characters die.
• Only One Female Mold does not mean that the Smurfette Principle applies to the fungus.
• Only One Who Likes Spam does not refer to someone who admires Spammers.
• Only Serves for Life does not refer to prison inmates sentenced to multiple life sentences but got them reduced to just one.
• Only Shop in Town is not an order commanding you to limit your shopping to urban outlets.
• Only Six Faces is not a trope about cubes. Or even crates. No, not dice, either. For that matter, it's also not about a character who has way too many alternate identities.
  • Nor is it an insult used by hydras.
  • Or about a small wrestling promotion that only has six good-guy wrestlers attached to it.
• Only the Chosen May Ride is not sexual.
  • Nor is it about an extremely selective roller coaster.
• On The Next Episode Of Catchphrase is not about a preview of the game show Catchphrase
• Ontological Mystery does not redirect to Why Won't You Die?.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business is not about the internet drama that occurs when a Fan Fic writer portrays a character differently from canon.
  • Nor is it a rule that means "don't tell jokes while talking to roleplayers OOC".
  • Nor is it a fanfic author that always makes their characters uncharacteristically serious.
• Oop North is not the Great White North.
  • It also has nothing to do with Object-oriented programming.
• Open Heart Dentistry is not about creatures with teeth in their hearts.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot is not a fetish trope.
  • Nor is it about getting kicked in the face.
  • Nor is it what babies do.
  • Nor is it about eating feet.
• Open the Iris is not an order to lower the Stargate's defenses to allow travelers into Stargate Command, nor about doing naughty things to a◊ girl◊ named◊ Iris◊. Nor is it about time-lapse photography of flowers blooming.
  • It's also not about performing surgery on a particular nun in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations.
  • Its also not a strange command to get people to open their eyes.
  • Nor does it refer to using a camera, where opening the variable aperture (often a mechanical iris) allows more light to fall onto the sensor at the cost of Depth of Field.
  • Nor is it about the planet like being at the center of all the terrifying things in Gemini Home Entertainment opening when it makes demonic noises.
• Operation: Jealousy is not a version of the Operation electronic children's game where you operate on a personification of jealousy nor where you surgically remove jealousy from the patient.
• The Ophelia isn't necessarily about Morticia Addams's sister, although she could be an example.
• Opinion Flip Flop isn't a page of people's thoughts on footwear.
• Optional Boss is not about the self-employed turning down commissions, nor about a union-owned company firing managers and executives for violating the line workers' and/ or rank and file office employees' rights, or behaving like a Pointy-Haired Boss.
• An Orbital Kiss is not a kiss that occurs in a planet's orbit, or one that is planted on the eyebrow ridge. Not necessarily, at least (in Farscape it may well be both).
  • Nor is it launching KISS into orbit.
• Similarly, an Orbital Shot has nothing to do with shooting at something from orbit.
  • Nor are they shots of Earth (or some other planet) in which the camera theoretically has to be in orbit.
• An Orchestral Bombing is not when planes fly over a concert hall and drop bombs down on the musicians.
  • Nor is it a particularly bad orchestral performance.
• Orcus on His Throne is not a trope about royals sitting on a throne for the majority of their time.
  • It also has nothing to do with having to use the toilet.
  • Or about a dwarf planet sitting on a throne.
• An Organ Dodge is not when someone steps aside in response to an organ (whether the musical or anatomical kind) approaching at high speed.
  • Nor is it moving a pipe organ out of the way of something that would otherwise harm it.
• Organ Drops are not a variation of a Piano Drop.
• An Organ Grinder is unlikely to hurt any part of your body other than maybe your eardrums. It also won't mince up musical instruments. Nor is it someone who farms for Organ Drops.
• Organ Theft is not about stealing a wind instrument with a keyboard (a pipe organ).
• An Orifice Invasion is not an army of mouths, nostrils, or even possibly belly buttons, attacking another country.
• An Original Character is not one who necessarily has no overused traits.
• The Original Generation is not about the first group of Pokémon or first incarnation of Transformers.
• Original Position Fallacy is not a fallacy that changing one's position in the face of new evidence makes one a hypocrite or flip-flopper.
• An Orphaned Punchline isn't a joke about someone being made an orphan.
• Orphean Rescue has nothing to do with saving orphans.
  • Nor is it about rescuing, or being rescued by, Doctor Orpheus.
• OSS does not stand for Operate Shooting Star or open-source software.
• The Other Darrin is not about a character named Darrin's alternate universe counterpart, nor is it averting One-Steve Limit by having two characters called Darrin.
• The Other Marty has nothing to do with Ernest Borgnine.
  • Nor is it when someone named Marty is cloned, when there's more than two characters named Marty, or anything to do with Marty from Madagascar or The Worst Thing About My Sister.
• OTP is not about a person with a big ass doing the Pose of Supplication.
  • Its non-abbreviated form, One True Pairing, does not mean the only pairing that's actually canon.
  • It does not stand for Outside the Perimeter, the term used in Atlanta to refer to suburbs outside of I-285.
  • It also has nothing to do with One-time passwords.
• The related OT3 has nothing to do with Scientology.
  • Its non-abbreviated form, One True Threesome, is not about the only three characters who are actually in a polyamory together.
• Our Better Is Different is not about believing something is better because it's different.
• Our Dragons Are Different has nothing to do with the diversity of Big Bads' second-in-commands.
• Our Hippocamps Are Different isn't about abnormalities in the hippocampus that don't yet have diagnoses in the field of Neurology.
• Our Sirens Are Louder is a redirect to Our Sirens Are Different and is therefore about the mythical being, not about police/fire departments engaging in a Loudness War with their alarms.
• Our Spirits Are Different is not about different types of liquor.
• Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future is not related to Catie Wayne, or so we hope.
• Out-Gambitted has nothing to do with the Cajun mutant.
• An Out-of-Clothes Experience is not the result of Clothing Damage or The Nudifier.
  • Nor does it mean when a character looks into a closet and finds either nothing good or nothing at all.
  • Nor is it the moment when you realize you need to do laundry.
• Out of Focus is not a camera technique (or issue).
  • Nor is it when someone is unable to concentrate on something.
  • Or an instance where you are playing a video game that has a focus meter, and said meter is empty.
• Out of Order is not when the toilet, vending machine, or some other device stops working.
  • Nor is it about a person who acts inappropriately or breaks the rules.
• Out of the Ghetto is not about moving out of the 'hood.
• Outrun the Fireball is not about the Fighting Game tactic where one shoots out a Kamehame Hadoken, then runs ahead of it to attack the opponent.
• Out with a Bang does not mean going out with an explosion.
  • Or making one's death a memorable one.
  • Or Spike's death in Cowboy Bebop.
  • Or making something explode and then walking out of the room.
  • Or when the work ends with an explosion or sex.
• Oven Logic is not related in any way to Fridge Logic, although it's possible for an occurrence of the former to trigger the latter.
  • It is also unrelated to electronics used to control oven in some way.
• Overlord Jr. is not about the Transform Jr. toy version of Overlord. There are no Megatron Junior, Galvatron Junior, Deathsaurus Junior, Violen Jiger Junior, or Skyquake Junior tropes.
• Overly Long Fighting Animation doesn't refer to the battle of Namek, or any other cases of Shounen Anime resorting to Padding to avoid overtaking the manga.
• Overly Long Gag isn't about someone gagging or being gagged for a long time.
  • Nor is it about a gag which is too long to be put in a person's mouth.
  • nor is it the potential pitfall of fellatio with a well-endowed partner.
• Over-the-Top Roller Coaster is not a roller coaster that goes over the top of something, such as a building (although such a roller coaster may be an example).
• Overturned Outhouse is not a result of unilaterally removing an outhouse that was approved by popular vote.
• The Owl-Knowing One is not an ornithologist specializing in owls.

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• Pacifist Run is not what happens after discovering that the other guy has a gun and intends to use it.
• Pac Man Fever is not about a character who is obsessed with video games, nor is it about contracting a disease from playing Pac-Man.
  • It is also not a disease that will turn you into Pac-Man or make you start acting like Pac-Man.
• Padding has absolutely nothing to do with diapers, owning an iPad, or Fake Boobs.
• The Painfully Slow Projectile is not a video game attack that deals multiple ticks of damage as it crosses the opponent's hitbox ie. its slowness is what causes its painfulness.
• Painful Rhyme is not about rhyming couplets that cause excruciating pain to anyone who reads them.
  • Nor is it about Beat's little sister being in terrible pain.
    • Or the sister of Reason.
• Painted-On Pants aren't literally made of paint.
• Painting the Medium has nothing to do with putting makeup on a clairvoyant.
• The Palantir Ploy is not about diverting the Big Bad's attention with a obvious nemesis.
  • Nor is it about the actions of a company founded by Peter Thiel.
• A Palette Swap is not when two artists decide to trade their art supplies.
• Palmtree Panic is not about reactions when someone realizes a palm tree or a coconut is about to fall on their head.
  • Nor is it about an irrational and overwhelming fear of palm trees. And it's not the inverse either, where palm trees are terrified of someone or something.
• Panspermia is not when someone ejaculates into a frying pan.
• Panthera Awesome is not when a Pantera song plays during an awesome moment, but the end credits spell the band's name wrong. Or if Plantera has a cameo.
• Pants-Free isn't about getting a free pair of pants.
• A Panty Fighter is not someone who goes about destroying panties or a sentient pair of panties beating people up.
  • Nor someone who fights Panty.
  • Nor a Distaff Counterpart to the Foo Fighters.
  • Or even an Improbable Weapon User whose weapon of choice is underwear.
• A Paper Master is not an apparent Old Master who is a Fake Ultimate Hero.
  • Nor is it someone who is really good at playing Paper Mario.
• Paper Tiger is not what a Paper Master might make to defend him or herself.
• The Paragon Always Rebels is not Shepard's choice about the Collector Base during the ending of Mass Effect 2.
• Paranoia Fuel is not a DanceDanceRevolution-themed energy drink, nor is it an energy drink that will help you clear the game's song "Paranoia."
  • Nor is it the GM's preparations for a certain dystopian tabletop game.
• A Parasol of Pain is not normally made of French breads.
• Pardon My Klingon, but don't let him out of the pokey early or clear him of all charges by executive fiat.
• Pardo Push is not getting shoved by the former announcer for Saturday Night Live.
• Parents as People is not about people raising an animal for their kid.
• Parent Service is not a company you can pay to raise your kid for you.
• The Parent Trope doesn't reference Super Tropes.
• Parody Sue is not what happens when a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo isn't lawyer-friendly enough.
  • Nor is it a parody of suing.
• Parrot Exposition is not an Info Dump about parrots.
  • Nor is it one given by a parrot.
• Parts Unknown is not about a hero or heroine always hiding their private parts from the viewers.
  • Nor is it a failure to identify the components of something.
• Party in My Pocket does not refer to an erection. And if you invite a hot chick along, it's just to help you fight monsters.
  • It is also not where the devil hosts a dancing party in your pocket.
• Passed in Their Sleep does not refer to the apocalypse.
  • Nor does it refer to taking a test while sleepwalking and passing. Or passing a ball while asleep.
• Passed-Over Inheritance isn't about ignoring all the hype over Inheritance Cycle and deciding not to read it.
• Pass Fail does not refer to taking college classes that have only two possible grades. Nor does it refer to failing at an attempt to flirt with someone.
  • Nor does it refer to an unsuccessful football pass.
• Path of Inspiration isn't about a way to become inspired as a writer. Well except in the case of the game Bucket Detective which manages to be both a straight example and this trope.
• A Patient Zero isn't usually an example of My Hero, Zero.
  • Neither is it a a number who's happy to wait for a long time.
• Peacock Girl isn't about gender-bent peafowl.
• Peggy Sue is not about suing someone called Peggy or every character named Peggy Sue.
  • Nor is it about a Mary Sue named Peggy.
• A Peking Duck Christmas is not how a duck in China celebrates Christmas.
• Pen Pals aren't writing utensils who are friends with each other.
• A Pen-Pushing President is not one who's always pushing for more prisons in his country. Or encouraging his people to keep pigs. Nor is it the president of a writing implements company.
• People in Rubber Suits sounds hot, but it isn't. ...unless it is.
  • Nor is it people in Hazmat suits.
• The People's Republic of Tyranny is not a country populated entirely by tyrants, or those with tyrannical attitudes for that matter. Or Tyrannosaurs.
• Percussive Maintenance doesn't usually involve playing drums, cymbals, and the like.
• A Percussive Pickpocket will not knock you out with a punch, then empty your pockets and bags while you're lying on the floor unconscious.
  • Nor do they play drums, cymbals, tambourines, maracas, and the like to distract you while they rob you.
• Percussive Prevention doesn't mean "Friends don't let friends play drums".
• Percussive Therapy is not about playing drums/cymbals/etc to feel better.
  • It's also not about beating someone to cure them of their mental illness.
• Periphery Hatedom is not about people who hate a certain progressive metal band.
• The Perishing Alt-Rock Voice does not mean that Alternative Rock as a genre is losing its relevance.
• A Perky Goth is not a Goth girl (or guy for that matter) with caffeine jitters.
  • It's also not about someone from the Germanic tribe being perky.
• Permanent Red Link Club is not a fanclub for people who think that their favorite Link from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords is the red one and want him to become a permanent recurring character in the series.
  • Nor is it a group of people who are doomed to never be able to properly link to articles.
• Personal Dictionary is not when someone jokingly gives a character (or something else)'s name as a definition for a dictionary.
  • Nor is it a dictionary you keep on hand if you quickly want to know what a word means.
• Personal Seals is not about pinnipeds as pets.
• Personal Space Invader is not about having a little green pixelated alien as a pet. (Awww...)
  • Nor is it about people who invade your personal space.
• A Person of Holding is not a party member who's made to carry everyone's stuff.
• Person of Mass Destruction is not about fat characters being more likely to get killed off.
  • Or about a person who specifically destroys Catholic church services.
• Person with the Clothing is not when one member of a group of lookalikes wears something that makes it easy to identify the individual.
  • Nor is it the only member of the cast or group that is wearing any clothes.
• Perspective Flip is not a form of Camera Screw.
• A Perverse Puppet is not too interested in looking up women's skirts.
• Petite Pride is not being proud of being short, a short person bragging, or a tiny pride of lions.
• Pet Rat is — bizzarely and unfortunately — not about domesticated rodents.
• Pettanko is not the Japanese interpretation of Pinball.
  • Nor does it have to do with having a pet that can tank for your party. Nor, for that matter, having a pet that's a literal tank.
• Pet the Dog does not assess any Crowning Moments of Heartwarming in Martha Speaks.
• A Phantom Thief does not steal ghosts.
  • Nor is it about Erik, The Phantom of the Opera having taken up a career in burglary.
  • Nor is it about someone who stole a F-4 Phantom.
    • …Or a Rolls-Royce Phantom, for that matter.
  • Nor is it specifically about THOSE Phantom Thieves, though they are examples.
  • Nor is the thief necessarily a ghost themself.
• Phlebotinum Muncher is not an educational computer game that teaches you how the Applied Phlebotinum works by having you run around a board eating things.
• Phlegmings is not about anthropomorphic bits of phlegm. Nor are they creatures with runny noses who walk off cliffs (or even who don't walk off cliffs but people say they do).
• A Phone-In Detective might be hired by calling them over the phone, but it's not their primary characteristic. Nor is it a detective who has swallowed a phone.
  • Nor is it necessarily a detective who's incredibly lazy and puts little effort into their work.
• Phoning the Phantom does not involve making phone calls to The Phantom. Or an actual ghost. Or The Phantom of the Opera.
• Physical Pinball Tables are not ones that come to life and beat you up if you annoy them or play particularly badly. (It would be an interesting tilt mechanism though.)
• Piano Cover Slam doesn't mean playing a cover version of "Slam" by Onyx on the piano.
• Pickup Hierarchy has nothing to do with which truck is better.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with electric guitars.
  • Nor does it have to do with ranking pickup lines.
• A Picky People Eater doesn’t eat picky people although that would be an example.
• Piggybacking on Hitler is not about getting a piggyback ride from Adolf Hitler.
• A Piggy Bank isn't a bank run by pigs.
  • Nor is it a bank where all the employees are The Pig-Pen.
• The Pig-Pen is not a setting trope.
  • Nor do farm animals use it to write with.
  • Nor is it about the pig-pen cipher.
• A Pillow Pistol is not a pillow that can shoot bullets.
• A Pillow Pregnancy doesn't involve literally being impregnated with a pillow.
• Pilot Movie is not the latest pop-culture lampooning movie by the Seltzer and Friedberg directing team. Nor does it generally involve pilots.
• Pimp Duds are not incompetent panderers and procurers.
• Pimped-Out Dress is not about pimps who like to crossdress. Nor is it about ball gowns with hydraulics and rims (but this would be AWESOME). It's not even about clothing worn by prostitutes.
• A Piñata Enemy is not the stick used to hit the piñata with.
• Pinball Protagonist is not what happens when you make arcade games the main character. It also doesn't involve the tendency to turn popular characters such as Sonic, Kirby, Mario and Samus into balls and smack them with flippers.
  • Nor does it refer to the Player Character of a pinball game.
• Pineapple Surprise is not edible.
  • Nor is it related to Pickle Surprise.
  • Nor is it a more exotic version of a Tomato Surprise.
  • It's also not about finding out someone put pineapple on your pizza.
• Ping Pong Naïveté has nothing to do with a game of ping-pong. Nor does it imply that Ping Pong from either Camp Lazlo or Xiaolin Chronicles is naïve (especially not the latter, who is nothing compared to Omi when it comes to naïvity).
• Pink Mist is not a Distaff Counterpart to Red Mist.
  • Nor is it pink-colored German manure.
• Pirate Booty is not about sexy pirates. Or pirate shoes. Or illegally downloading pornography. Or pirates Shaking the Rump.
• Pirate Parrot doesn't imply that birds can be illegally downloaded.
• A Pirate Song isn't one that's illegally downloaded.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything is not a criticism of people who engage in online piracy, accusing them of not contributing towards the fields they're pirating from. Nor is it a pirate who's a Lazy Bum or celibate. Nor is it about the Pittsburgh Pirates, even if such an assertion isn't inacurrate.
• A Piss-Take Rap is not a rap song about taking a piss. Well, the bathroom rap in PaRappa the Rapper could be both this and its proper definition.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy is not about underage relationships between dogs.
• Pitiful Worms are not earthworms, snakes, or Big Creepy-Crawlies you feel sorry for.
• A Planetary Romance is not shipping planets together.
• Planet England is not about what would happen had the British Empire succeeded in taking over the world. England is only one part of the UK anyway.
• A Planet of Hats is not where Team Fortress 2 takes place.
  • Nor is it necessarily a planet where everyone wears a hat or a planet of sentient hats.
• Planetville is not a town full of astronomy nerds.
• A Planimal is not about creatures who spend their time scheming things.
• Plato Is a Moron is not about fictional events that contradict the Platonic Cave allegory or any of the philosopher's other teachings.
• Platonic Caves are not rocky caverns in which hotly debated couples protest that they're Just Friends.
  • Or caves that are harmless.
  • Or caves themselves being Platonic Life-Partners.
  • Or Cave Johnson entering a platonic relationship with one of his Alternate Selves from the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC.
• A Player Nudge is not that thing little kids (and particularly immature teenagers and adults) do where they intentionally bump up against the players next to them while playing local multiplayer to mess them up.
• A Player Party will probably not run candidates for public office.
  • Nor is it about the premise of the Mass Effect 3 DLC Citadel.
• A Player Punch is not a brand of fruit juice made by Nintendo. Or any other video game company, for that matter.
  • Nor does it involve the protagonist opening up a can of Whoop-Ass.
  • Nor is it when players get so mad that they punch their TV screens.
• Playing a Tree is not scamming plant life.
  • Nor does it involve using a tree as a musical instrument.
  • Nor is it about a video game with a tree as the protagonist.
• Playing Doctor is not about any instance of pretending to be a doctor. Nor is it a doctor playing games or acting as a doctor. Nor using a doctor as a musical instrument. Nor is it related to I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV. Nor playing *The* Doctor.
• Playing Drunk is not playing an Ode to Intoxication titled "Drunk".
• Playing House is not what Hugh Laurie did.
• Playing Sick is not playing a song called "Sick".
• Playing Tennis With the Boss is not a reference to the Tennis Scene from Taking Care of Business. It is also not about playing tennis, or indeed any other game, with Bruce Springsteen.
  • It doesn't (usually) involve a literal game of tennis with the Big Bad.
  • The Boss isn't generally the person you work for.
• Playing with Character Type was not made by accident when making a PlayingWith/ subpage.
• Playing with Fire is not the Playing With Wiki subpage for "Fire".
  • Nor is it about risky situations, nor about toying with the possibility of firing someone, nor about literally playing with fire.
• Playing With Wiki does not refer to what you are probably doing at this very moment. Nor is it Zack's treasure-hunting strategy.
  • Nor does it have any relation to Playing With Mah Wii.
• Please Select New City Name, but not because another city has already claimed it.
  • It's also not about being forced to select the name 'New City'.
• Plot Allergy is not being allergic to flowerbeds or storylines.
• Plot Armor is not a protective equivalent of Sword of Plot Advancement.
  • It is also not a name for armor for "plot". That falls under Chainmail Bikini.
• Plot-Based Voice Cancellation has nothing to do with voice actors being fired due to character death.
• Plot-Driven Breakdown is not when a character suffers a breakdown to advance the plot.
• A Plot Hole is not a pit dug in a flowerbed, or a plot which involves the characters escaping from a hole.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure is not about Mortal Kombat characters messing up their Lighter and Softer Finishing Moves.
• Plot-Triggering Death is not a death which triggers a cutscene in video games.
  • Nor is it a storyline or plan that offends The Grim Reaper.
• Plot Tumor is not about The Scrappy, a Creator's Pet, or any other type of character—although it could be if they turn out to be the Chosen One.
  • Nor is it a Tear Jerker story about a cancer sufferer.
    • Or for that matter, a story about a patient with a tumor thought to be cancerous but it wasn't.
• Plucky Girl does not refer to applying Rule 63 to Plucky Duck, though arguably that could be the result.
• Plumber's Crack does not refer to a plumber's supply of crack cocaine.
• Pluto Is Expendable. Mickey Mouse's dog, however, is irreplaceable, even if he keeps wandering off on his own, getting into trouble, and returning to Mickey without him ever noticing.
  • It is also not a Take That! against Naoki Urasawa's Pluto.
  • Nor is it a Sister Trope to Everybody Hates Hades. Or Death Is a Loser.
  • It also doesn't mean that Pluto is one of The Expendables.
• The Pocket Protector is not part of the attire of the nerd. One could invoke the trope, but it's not what the trope means.
• Poetic Serial Killer does not refer to a Serial Killer who is also a Warrior Poet, or one who kills poets, but a Serial Killer who kills people he considers sinful, as in, a Serial Killer who delivers Poetic Justice (a redirect to Laser-Guided Karma).
  • Nor do they leave notes with famous poetry written on them as a Calling Card.
  • Nor do they kill their victims in ways that are references to literature.
• Points of Light Setting is not something you will find in video game options alongside shadow quality, screen resolution, framerate and such.
• Point That Somewhere Else is about weapons, not your fingers, though you should probably point those somewhere else too.
• You probably don't get to fight the Pointy-Haired Boss.
  • It also has nothing to do with Yomiel, Phoenix Wright, or any employer with Spiky Hair.
• Poison and Cure Gambit is not a command to do those two things to a particular card-slinging superhero. Nor is it a gambit involving the bands fronted by Bret Michaels and Robert Smith.
• A Poisonous Person is literally toxic, not just someone who's a bad influence.
• Poke in the Third Eye isn't how Combustion Man met his end.
• Poke the Poodle has absolutely nothing to do with Captain John Hart.
  • Nor is it an Unusual Euphemism for an Ass Shove.
  • Nor is it bestiality porn. You sicko. That is, if you actually thought that. If you didn't, sorry for the mental image.
  • Nor is it poking an actual poodle, though that could qualify.
• Police Brutality Gambit is not about Cowboy Cops using Police Brutality to get information from suspects because they think that people will believe them over suspects. It is actually the opposite.
  • It's also not about Gambit causing Police Brutality.
• Polish the Turd is not about the turd learning language of a certain European country.
  • Nor it it about slightly improving a bad film or video game through Re Cuts or patches. That would fall under Author's Saving Throw.
• Politically Correct History is not when the People’s Republic of Tyranny rewrites the history books.
• The Politically Incorrect Villain is not one whose characterization is based on offensive stereotypes, but one who's applying the offensive stereotypes himself.
  • Similarly a Politically Incorrect Hero is not someone like Captain Ethnic who's heroic, but a bad stereotype of his people.
    • And neither trope refers to villains or heroes who get their facts wrong about politics.
  • Plus, a Politically Correct Villain is not one whose characterization avoids offensive stereotypes, or is particularly knowledgeable about politics.
• Pom-Pom Girl is not about one of the many ladies the Homestar Runner character seems to attract. Nor is it about ninja distaff counterparts.
• Pooled Funds is not about when multiple investors combine their funds into the same account.
• A Pool Scene isn't an event that draws attention to someone at a swimming pool. Or a game of pool.
• Pooping Where You Shouldn't isn't about taking a dump in a toilet meant for the wrong gender or one for authorised personell only.
• A Poorly Disguised Pilot isn't someone who flies planes while wearing a Paper-Thin Disguise.
• Popular Is Dumb is not about how popular shows, movies, etc. are often viewed as unintelligent. Nor, for that matter, is it complaining about the show Popular.
  • Or the song from Wicked. Or Nada Surf's early Black Sheep Hit.
• Popularity Power is not the power to make everyone like you, nor is it about getting superpowers from being popular.
• Portal Cut is not about Dummied Out content from Portal.
• Portal Network is not a multiplayer version of Portal.
• Portal Picture is not about what you see when you look at a portal, nor is it about screenshots of the game Portal.
  • Nor is it a photo of a portal.
  • And Portal Pool isn't a variant of pool played using the Portal engine. Though it should be.
  • Portal Splat is also not a Splat based around having the Aperture Science Portal Device. Nor is it what would happen if Chell fell without Long Fall Boots. It also is not Fan Nickname for Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative, nor is it about eliminating an opponent in Splatoon using portals.
• Porting Disaster is not what happens when a Ship docks, and one of the two characters cannot perform. It's also not about an unfortunate collision or destruction of a sea vessel, or what happens after a miscalculation during teleportation.
• A Portmanteau Couple Name is not a portmanteau of the words "couple" and "name".
• A Portmantitle is not a title starring Natalie Portman.
• The Pose of Silence is not an index finger raised to the lips in a shushing gesture.
• Possessing a Dead Body is not about owning a corpse.
• Possession Implies Mastery doesn't mean that you can become a master at whatever you choose by .allowing a demon to possess you.
• Possession Presumes Guilt does not mean that if you are possessed, you must be the culprit.
• Possession Sue is not about owning or magically possessing a girl called Sue, or about suing someone for taking your possessions.
• A Post-Climax Confrontation isn't a climatic confrontation with a sentient fence-post or really any kind of sentient normally nonliving post, for that matter. It also isn't a confrontation you have with someone after having an orgasm.
• A Potty Dance is not an insane dance.
• A Potty Emergency does not refer to the toilet physically harming you. Or even to being attacked by someone else in the restroom. Nor is it what The Stoner says he has when his supply of pot runs out.
• A Potty Failure doesn't mean that the toilet fails. It means you fail in getting there.
  • It's also not a crazy person who fails a lot, or when The Stoner's pot fails to make him high.
• Poverty Porn is not about the fetishization of impoverished people, or poor people making Home Porn Movies as a last-ditch attempt to make money. Nor is it related to Poor Man's Porn.
• Power at a Price has very little if anything to do with electricity utility rates, or political corruption.
• A Power Creep is not a creepy guy who can punch holes through concrete.
• A Power Crutch is not an electrically powered crutch used to help people to walk.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child does not mean the device or magical periapt in question had once been charged by Elan Morin Tedronai, Barid Bel Medar, or Tel Janin Aellinsar when any of them had been wee lads.
• Power Equals Rarity doesn't mean that getting electricity in your home will cause a certain fashion-designing unicorn to show up.
  • Nor does it mean acquiring lots of power will result in you being equal to said fashion-designing unicorn.
• Power High is not a powerful high school or a high school where you learn how to be powerful.
• Power Incontinence has nothing to do with getting a severe case of dysentery. Or urinary incontinence for that matter. Nor is it when being incontinent makes you powerful.
  • It's also not about having the power to give other people Potty Failures
  • Nor is it about superpowered Dung Fu.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow isn't when a horned blonde-haired girl forces your hair to become longer.
• The Power of Cheese isn't when cheese is a Power-Up Food.
  • Nor is it what the guy from Misfits who could control dairy products had.
• The Power of Rock is (probably) not about the force strong against The Power Of Scissors and weak against The Power Of Paper. It's also not related to the The Power of Friendship. The Power of Love could be, but only when talking about the Huey Lewis song (possibly including covers and homonym songs).
  • It's also not about the power of rocks, except those that function as instruments.
  • Nor is it the power possessed by Mega Man.
  • If you're looking for a literal power of rock, see Dishing Out Dirt or Extra-ore-dinary.
  • It's not possessing more health than usual and immunity to fire.
  • It's also not about the type advantages of using only Rock-type Pokemon in battle.
  • It's not about how strong the Gym Leader in the anime that trains Rock-type Pokemon is, either; that would be "The Power Of Brock".
• Powers of Two Minus One are not the powers of one.
• A Power Stable is not where the Power Ponies live.
• Powers via Possession aren't powers you get from simply owning an object.
• Power-Up Food is not about giving powers to food.
• A Power Up Mount is not a mountain that contains a power-up at its peak.
  • Nor is it what you use to attach a power-up to the wall.
  • Nor is it about giving your horse the power to shoot lasers out of their eyes.
• Practically Different Generations is not an aversion of Generation Xerox or about different generations having different skill sets. Nor is it about generating things (Procedural Generation, electricity, works or otherwise).
• A Prank Date is not about a couple of practical jokers pranking third parties during their date. Nor is it April Fools' Day or another day of the year where pranks are encouraged. It's also not a non-existent date used to trick people (as in "Hey, wanna come to my party on Feb 30?")
• A Precision F-Strike is not when a Teachers Union decides to selectively (and otherwise unfairly) fail students as a form of collective bargaining with the school board.
• Pre-Insanity Reveal does not refer to going insane right after The Reveal.
• Prenatal Possessions is not about Demonic Possession of fetuses.
• In Prescience Is Predictable, prescience does not refer to pre-science, something that somehow is before science.
• The Presents Were Never from Santa is not about children literally finding out Santa Claus doesn't exist. At least, not primarily.
• President Evil is not a Resident Evil game where a country's national leader is the Big Bad.
• Press Hat is not about pushing down on headwear like it was a button.
• Prestige Peril is not about how dangerous it is to be a magician.
• Pretender Diss is not an insult made by or even aimed at The Pretenders. Or The Pretender.
  • Nor does it deride the Transformer inside.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy is not about a Caucasian man's attractive pet flying insect or trouser zipper. Nor is it exclusively about the The Offspring song, although it is the Trope Namer.
• Pretty in Mink is not about how attractive the main character of Dragon Half is.
  • Nor is it about how attractive Marie Itami is.
• Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy is neither about uncharacteristically fast moving undead nor a certain musical fencing skeleton.
• A Priceless Ming Vase always breaks for it to be this trope. If it doesn't break, it's not this trope, even if it's a literal priceless ming vase.
  • Nor is it a priceless vase with a picture of Ming (nor that Ming) on it.
• Primal Fear is not about things that frighten the leader of the Maximals, nor about being frightened by him.
• A Primal Scene is unlikely to be seen in Beast Wars
• Primal Stance is not how Optimus Primal stands.
• Princess Classic was not merely called "Princess" until there was a backlash against "New Princess".
  • Nor is it a classic story about a princess.
  • In a similar vein, Mary Sue Classic, Witch Classic, Granny Classic, and Wizard Classic aren't the same things with a Mary Sue, a witch, a grandma, or a wizard respectively.
• Princesses Prefer Pink does not mean Princesses like that singer over others.
  • Or that they prefer to wear clothing from a Victoria's Secret spin-off brand.
• Princesses Rule is not a general statement about princesses being awesome. Nor is it an actual rule or law that applies to princesses.
• A Princess Phase is not someone who goes through a phase of being an actual princess.
• Prison Ship is not about fans imagining two prison inmates as lovers.
• Private Eye is not about Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe or Ace Hart. Try Private Detective.
  • Nor is it about eyeballs that you're unusually protective of.
• The Problem with Fighting Death is not those damn sickles.
• The Problem with Pen Island is not about an island that has a culture around pens having trouble.
• A Pro Bono Barter is not a barter in favor of U2's lead singer. Or Sonny Bono.
• The Producer Thinks of Everything is not about how Sanae Hanekoma from The World Ends with You has multiple overlapping plans in motion to save Shibuya.
• Product Placement has nothing to do with where you put the answer to a multiplication problem.
• A Professional Killer does not kill professionals. Not necessarily, at least.
• Professor Guinea Pig is not a Guinea Pig that becomes a college professor and it's also not what happens to Kanoi Watanabe in the first episode of Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
• A Progressive Era Montage doesn't necessarily show the period of American history from 1900-1920.
• A Progressive Jackpot is not one that keeps up with recent trends in culture and politics. Nor is it when your insurance pays out.
• Protection from Editors is not when the footage shot at random becomes a long take instead of being edited.
• Protagonist and Friends is not a Lighter and Softer spin-off anime of Interlude about the unnamed protagonist and his school friends, nor it isn't about the unnamed protagonist hosting his very own preschool show gone wrong.
• Pro Wrestling Is Real is not about characters (or people in real life) who are completely unaware of kayfabe and genuinely believe the wrestling matches they see are 100% genuine.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide isn't about a psychic helping a Death Seeker find peace.
• A Psychic Block Defense won't protect you against psychic blocks.
• Psychic Link is not about the protagonist of The Legend of Zelda gaining the ability to read minds.
• Psychic Powers is not the result of the Brain's parents having another baby and naming him or her "Psychic", or a psychic who's a member of the Powers family.
• Psycho for Hire is not a temp agency for out of work lunatics.
  • Nor is it renting out copies of Psycho.
• Psychological Torment Zone is not a really traumatic level of Sonic.
• The Psycho Rangers are not a group of multicolored (not) spandex-clad heroes who defeat evil through psychological means rather than violence.
  • It's also not about people who play for the Glasgow football team being Violent Glaswegians.
• "Psycho" Strings is not necessarily related to Razor Floss wielded by a Girl with Psycho Weapon.
• A Puberty Superpower is not the ability to invoke puberty onto children. That would be disturbing.
• Public Medium Ignorance isn't about the general public being unaware of the existence of psychics. Nor is it about the public having an average level of ignorance of things in general.
• Pull the Plug on the Title has nothing to do with cancellations.
• Punch-Clock Villain is not about villains who are so evil that they punch out clock faces.
  • Nor is it about evil bureaucrats who keep checking if you made it to your job on time and didn't leave early.
  • Nor is it what Batman does to the Clock King.
• Punch Parry is not an order to go find someone named Parry and punch him.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... is not what someone who does not like punch says.
• Pungeon Master isn't about the stereotype of RPG players having difficulty with hygiene.
• Puni Plush is not about a plushie of a small, insect-like creature from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
• A Punk in the Trunk does not have to be a Punk, nor are they inside a tree trunk.
• Punk Punk is not about criminals with mohawks and nose piercings, nor about people with mohawks and nose piercings going through a further punk phase (Nosehair mohawks and hair piercings?).
  • Nor is it an example of Department of Redundancy Department.
• Pupating Peril is not about how the Morimori Atsushi song "PUPA" is That One Boss in many Rhythm Games.
• A Puppet King is not King Goshposh from The Muppets or King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Or the Puppet King from Teen Titans.
• Pure Is Not Good is not when you avoid getting Pure hits in Arcaea.
• Purely Aesthetic Gender doesn't refer to species that only look like they have multiple genders, when they actually don't.
• The Purge has nothing to do with bulimia (and neither does the movie).
• Purple Is the New Black is not an Orange Is the New Black spoof starring Twilight Sparkle. You're thinking of this.
• Purple Prose is not what happens when an author decides to get creative regarding font colors.
  • Nor is it (necessarily) the result of Prince writing a story.
• Put Me In, Coach! is not what happens when someone doesn't want to fly first class.
• Put Their Heads Together is not about solving the problems together.
• Putting the Pee in Pool is not about dumping a urine sample into a pool, or about urinating while playing pool.
• Puzzle Pan is not related to Peter Pan or Pan's Labyrinth.
  • Nor is it what you cook puzzles with.
• Pygmalion Snap Back is not about injuries incurred when attempting to treat a statue like a person. And Pygmalion Plot is not where the victim is buried afterward.
• Quacking Up is not when Up is edited into duck language.
• Quad Damage is not about a Groin Attack to a krogan. Or what happens when Kevin Nash takes a step. Or attacking using quad tenor drums.
• Quarter Hour Short is not about needing fifteen more minutes.
  • Nor is it a period of a time where you experience life as a little person.
• The Queenpin is not a gay kingpin or gangster.
• The Queen's Latin is not about Elizabeth II knowing that language.
  • Neither does it mean that the Queen is a Spicy Latina.
  • It's not about any use of Gratuitous Latin in Queen songs, either, even if there were examples of such.
• Queens of the Stone Age is not a nickname for Bedrock.
• Quick Draw is not about the old Apple Macintosh graphics library. (As if that would be a trope…) Nor is it about what comics artists have to do to meet their deadline.
• Quick Nip is not about those little quick pecks birds do to people or other living beings.
  • Nor is it a racist way to describe a fast Japanese person.
• The Quisling is not a baby quiz. Nor is it a quiz that evolved into a humanoid form and can turn back into a quiz to swim through ink.
• Quote Mine is not a Stock Phrase for when you want your words to be at the top of someone's trope. Nor does it describe a situation in which you must learn to work with a hostile quote for the common good.
  • It is not a quote that explodes when stepped on (although the effects can still be devastating).
  • It certainly has nothing to do with mute war-machines.
  • It's not an underground mine filled with quotes either.
• Qurac has nothing to do with ducks, and very little, if anything, about medical imposters or medical pseudoscience.

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• Race Fetish isn't about being turned on by racing.
• Race for Your Love is not about needing to prove your love to someone by beating them in a race.
  • Nor is it about posing as a different ethnicity because it turns someone on.
• Race Lift isn't when a character rushes to get on an elevator before the doors close, or when a character tries to beat an elevator to a certain floor by running up the stairs.
• Race Tropes is not an index of such things as "the villain sabotages the hero's vehicle", "the hero builds enough speed to catch up but the race is neck and neck after he does", and "the hero wins by a nose, complete with freezeframe".
  • Nor does it mean that Dr. Quest's bodyguard uses this website.
• Rack Focus does not refer to a guy looking at a girl's big boobs, nor a closeup of a Nut Shot. Nor is it about being obsessed with a specific torture device.
• Radish Cure does not refer to radishes being used as medicine.
  • Nor is it a Pretty Cure series with vegetable themed Cures.
• Rage Breaking Point is not the same thing as a Rage Quit.
  • Nor does it necessarily involve breaking something.
• Rage Quit is not about Rage from DanceDanceRevolution quitting video games.
  • Nor is it about a Red Lantern leaving the corps.
• Raging Stiffie doesn't mean an erection from anger, nor that an erection itself is feeling anger.
  • Nor is it about an angry dead person.
  • It's also not the Parallel Porn Title for Raging Bull.
• Ragnaroof Proofing is not about making the roof giant spider resistant.
  • Nor it has anything to do with Ragnarok's roof. Or Ragna's.
• A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits aren't necessarily from Misfits.
  • Nor The Misfits.
• A Railing Kill is not necessarily done with a railgun, and is almost never done on train tracks. It's not about killing those damn railings to make the work environment significantly more dangerous.
• The Railroad Employee Roundhouse is not a spinning kick done by someone who works at a railroad.
• Railroading is not constructing trains and similar vehicles in a Simulation Game.
• A Railroad Plot is not a plot of land where a railroad is built. Nor is it the same as Railroading. It's not even a story that takes place on a train.
• Rainbow Lite is not about using prisms to separate light.
• Rainbow Pimp Gear is not about the tendency of peddlers of prostitution to wear extremely colorful Pimp Duds, or that those duds are somehow made from rainbows.
  • Nor is it about a possible alternative job for the Sixth Doctor.
  • Nor is it work clothes from Rainbow Dash's second job.
• Rainbow Speak is not a language used exclusively by iridescent arcs. Nor is it what either Rainbow Brite or Rainbow Dash speaks.
  • Nor is it about language so colorful, it can only be compared to rainbows.
  • Nor is it the speech patterns of a stereotypically gay person.
• Random Drops is not about particularly clumsy characters trying to carry things or walk a tightrope, nor about eye drops that need to be administered at random intervals.
• Rank Inflation is not giving grandiose, but meaningless, titles to military ranks.
  • Nor is it about using foul smelling gas to fill balloons.
• Rape by Proxy is not what happened to Jay in that one entry after Masky broke into his bedroom while he was sleeping. Nor is it about hiring someone to rape someone.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy does not involve jokes about people quickly losing their jobs or about fires that spread alarmingly fast.
• Rapid-Fire "No!" isn't about someone yelling a Big "NO!" in response to a fast-spreading fire, or about when someone can't be fired quickly.
• Rapid-Fire "Yes!" isn't about quickly firing a Yes-Man, or being excited by fast-moving fire.
• Raptor Attack is about dinosaurs, not modern birds of prey. See here if one of those attacks.
  • It isn't about the F-22 fighter plane, either.
• Rarity Tropes are not tropes gathered specifically for a certain white unicorn from My Little Pony. She already has a page for that.
• The Rashomon is not a Digimon. (Not yet, anyway). Nor is it throwing someone into the air and then double palm thrusting them before they land.
• Ratchet Scrolling has nothing to do with a Transformer that turns into an ambulance.
  • Nor is it about a certain Lombax or a villain from Robots scrolling up or down on a webpage, or writing scrolls.
• Rated G for Gangsta is not a subtrope or even particularly related to Rated M for Manly.
• For that matter, Rated M for Manly isn't strictly about the M rating and its equivalents; while certain things associated with masculinity also up the rating of your work (violence, sexual content, coarse language) there are both manly works more appropriate for general audiences and mature-rated works that aren't very manly.
• And Rated M for Money doesn't imply that discussion of money isn't fit for younger audiences.
• A Ray Gun isn't a gun that shoots stingrays.
• Raygun Gothic is not Gothic Horror in the future. But that would be awesome.
  • It also has nothing to do with Ronnie Raygun. But that would also be awesome.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending isn't about a work that ends on a stingray, or a guy named Ray, being hopeful.
• A Reactor Boss is not a boss that just sits there until you attack it, nor is it a boss who attacks only by reacting to your attacks.
  • Nor is it a manager at a nuclear power company.
• "Reading Is Cool" Aesop is not a lesson about how great a certain Berkshire town is, nor about how cold it is.
• Realism isn't the idea that our perceptions reflect reality.
• Reality Is Out to Lunch, but not because it's on a regularly scheduled breaktime.
• Reality Is Unrealistic is not an event where the laws of physics just suddenly become broken in Real Life.
• Really Gets Around is not about The Flash or someone who travels a lot.
• Really 17 Years Old is neither about Kikuko Inoue nor Knives Chau.
• Real Men Take It Black is not about men hooking up with black women.
  • Or taking it from black men, either.
• Real Men Wear Pink isn't necessarily about wearing pink, though it could qualify.
• The Real Robot Genre is not a group of stories about robots that currently exist in the real world, nor is it a No True Scotsman statement against other genres of stories about robots.
• The Real Spoofbusters isn't a group that's specifically formed to fight against parodies. (By the nature of things, they do often end up doing so, though.)
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech is not the reason you talk while inhaling rather than breathing out your words.
  • And while it might be delivered by an Elder Vampire to a fledgeling, it has nothing to do with explaining the Facts of Unlife.
  • It's also not about the reason you suck on speeches. Though it may be about the reason you suck at speeches.
  • Nor is it about the reason you suck on lollipops, or telling a baby why they suck on their thumbs/pacifiers/etc.
• Reassignment Backfire does not involve sending a character over to an air force unit that flies Tu-22Ms, which would be a clear promotion. Unless you were previously a fighter pilot.
• A Rebellious Princess is not necessarily one who joins La Résistance or any other organized rebellion, and Leia is actually not an example.
• Rebellious Rebel is not an example of Department of Redundancy Department.
• Rebel Relaxation is not about the party after the Death Star is blown up.
• Rebel Tropes are not necessarily tropes used in Star Wars Rebels.
• Reconstructed Trope isn't about what happens to Trope-tan after the Pigmask Army gets its hands on her. Nor is it about the postbellum period in the American South known as Reconstruction.
• A Record Needle Scratch is not necessarily worthy of the Guinness World Records.
• Recruit Teenagers with Attitude is not about using your attitude to recruit teenagers.
• Recurring Riff is not the on-again-off-again secondary lead character of Sluggy Freelance. Except, arguably, when the zombies kept saying his name.
• Recycled In Space is not about interstellar environmentalism, unless it's just a rehash of Earth environmentalism.
• A Red-and-White Comedy Poster is not usually eerie all over.
• Red Baron: An all-powerful villain that is most likely just a figment of the hero's imagination? Sadly, no. Frozen pizza? Not quite, either.
  • It's not the English name for Brazillian band Barão Vermelho^note And the Spanish band Barón Rojo either.
  • Nor is it about a nobleman ranking below a count and above a knight, who's a communist.
  • Nor is it about the actual Manfred von Richtoffen, except as one of its examples.
  • Nor is it about having both buffs Blessing of the Lizard Elder and Exalted with Baron Nashor.
• Redemption Promotion isn't about getting a prize for sending in three proofs of purchase plus shipping and handling.
• A Red-Headed Stepchild doesn't have to be a stepchild.
• A Red Herring is not a specific type of communist fish.
  • Nor necessarily a fish that is red.
  • Nor does it have to do with that bully from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, though he qualifies.
• A Red Link is not Link wearing a Goron Tunic, nor the Red Link in games where there are [1] multiple Links wearing differently-colored tunics. Nor is it Link as a communist.
• The Red Mage does not specialise in fire magic, and is not usually a Cloudcuckoolander who thinks the world runs on RPG logic. Nor is it about anyone named Red gaining magic powers. Nor is it a communist mage.
• Red Ones Go Faster is not an innuendo. It's also not about communists running or getting things done faster.
• Red Pill, Blue Pill isn't necessarily about meds.
• Red-plica Baron is not the same as Red Baron.
• We will not have Red Right Hand Versus Blue Left Hand.
  • A Red Right Hand isn't what you get if The Dragon is a communist, either.
    • Nor might you have one if you've been caught red-handed.
    • It also has nothing to do with playing Twister.
    • Nor is it what Ghirahim uses to block Link's sword bare-handed in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• Red Shirt isn't part of the Bring My Brown Pants joke, apparently.
  • Nor is it the Red Coats more casual uniforms.
    • It also does not come in yellow, blue or purple◊.
• The Red Shirt Army is not about the anti-military side of the 2006 Thai coup d'êtat.
• A Red Skies Crossover is not specifically a crossover with Crimson Skies
• Reds with Rockets does not refer to the Soviet space program.
  • It also doesn't refer to Red from Pokémon joining Team Rocket.
  • Nor is it about Red XIII taking over Cid's love of space.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the RED Soldier or his rocket launcher.
  • Nor does it have to do with the Cincinnati Reds.
• Reduced to Ratburgers is thankfully not about being reduced to burgers for rats.
  • Nor is it when a thief enters a library and steals all the books except the copies of Ratburger.
• Reed Richards Is Useless does not define who is the least effective member of the Fantastic Four.
• The ReferencedBy/ namespace is not for listing works referenced by the work the page is about. That's what ShoutOut/ is for.
• Reformed Rakes has nothing to do with restoration rakes, though they may overlap. It also has nothing to do with The Rake making a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Nor is it about yard tools that have been redesigned not to hit you in the face, or that were somehow bad (nevermind how a rake can have morality) and are now good.
• Refrain from Assuming is not general advice against making unjustified assumptions.
• A Refrigerator Ambush is not about being attacked by your fridge. Or ambushing your fridge.
• Refuge in Audacity is not about using the music authoring software of that name to get better after encountering the Darkest Hour. Or when you're tired of dealing with ProTools or Soundbooth.
• A Regal Ruff is not a dog that is or is owned by someone of nobility.
• Reinforce Field has nothing to do with Reinforce Eins or Zwei.
• A Relationship-Salvaging Disaster is not an attempt to fix a relationship that goes horribly wrong.
• Releasing from the Promise does not mean being released from the Lotus-Eater Machine called the Promise in Guardians of the Galaxy (2021).
• A Relative Button is not a button that only appears that way when compared to other things, nor is it a button you push to summon a family member over.
• Religion is Magic is not The Moral Substitute for Friendship Is Magic.
• The Remnant is not a remnant from an early stage of production.
• The Renamed Tropes: A to E section isn't just a list of tropes whose names used to begin with A but now begin with E, such as [2], though it does include those. The same goes for the other sections.
• Rent-a-Zilla is not about providing Kaiju for the general public's use. Aww… Nor is it about renting an entire “Zila” (county or district) from a state in India.
• A Repeat Cut isn't the end result of a Flechette Storm.
• Replacement Flat Character does not mean a generic character who replaces one with a personality who had an essential role.
  • It is also not a replacement for someone who has been Squashed Flat.
• A Replacement Goldfish isn't (usually) about replacing a fish, or replacing something with a fish.
• Replacement Scrappy does not mean The Scrappy is being replaced with a better character. Quite the opposite, unfortunately.
  • The original doesn't have to be The Scrappy, either.
• Reporting Names may be a Soviet-era trope, but it doesn't involve the Secret Police.
• A Reset Button is not an actual (physical or virtual) button that resets something when pressed. Usually.
• Resistance Is Futile has nothing to do with superconductors.
• Resist the Beast does not involve refusing to carry a lantern.
  • Nor is it what Gaston was trying to do.
  • It most especially doesn't involve forming a picket line right next to King's Island's most famous roller coaster.
  • And it's definitely not an attempted aversion to You Sexy Beast.
• Restraining Bolt has nothing to do with… restraining Bolt.
  • Nor Olympic runner Usain Bolt, though his competitors might like to see him restrained.
• Retraux does not mean "to traux again".
• A Revealing Cover Up is not when someone is told to Please Put Some Clothes On, but doesn't do a very good job of it.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with a cover of a song that overshadows the original that is somehow revealing.
• A Revealing Hug is not a hug that causes Clothing Damage.
• Revenge by Proxy is not about using a third party to get even on your target.
  • Nor is it about using a proxy server in order to get revenge.
• A Revenge Fic is not necessarily a fanfiction based on Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, Revenge of the Sith, the 2011 American television series Revenge, or any other work that has the word "Revenge" in its title. Nor is it necessarily about characters getting revenge on each other, although since it is about the author hating a character an in-universe revenge plot is plausible.
• Revenge Is a Dish Best Served doesn't mean that it doesn't matter whether revenge is Best Served Cold or Best Served Hot as long as you actually serve it.
• Revenge is Sweet is not about a character getting revenge on another by poisoning a sweet.
• Reverse Psycho isn't about getting killed by someone taking a shower. Nor is it "ohcysp".
• Reverse Psychology isn't doing the opposite of what a psychologist does, nor is it "ygolohcysp".
• Reverse Shrapnel is not an Insecticon going backwards. Nor is it "lenparhs". Nor is it magically undoing the effects of an explosion.
  • It also rarely involves any actual shrapnel.
• Reverse Whodunnit isn't when someone says, "?tinnudohW". Nor is it a story about a criminal trying to discover which detective solved their crime.
• Revolving Door Revolution is not about coming out of the doorway on the same side you went in. It is also not about having to position oneself in the vestible of such a door at the exact moment dictate by arrows.
  • Nor is it Konami's next music-based arcade game.
• A Ribcage Stomach is not when a character's torso flesh has been removed, like with zombies and their decomposition, exposing their ribcages.
  • Nor is it a ribcage that works like a stomach, or a stomach that specifically digests ribs.
• A Rice Burner is not a rice cooker that overcooks your rice.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman is not about Richard Nixon selling used cars to make ends meet after Watergate.
• A Rich Bitch is not a lady dog who inherited a fortune. Except Brandy.
• The Rich Have White Stuff, but they don't buy all their clothes from that brand. "White stuff" is also not an Unusual Euphemism. It also has nothing at all to do with race.
• A Riddle for the Ages is not about a riddle that involves finding the ages of anyone.
• A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma is not a sequence of puzzles or riddles where the answer to one is another puzzle or riddle.
• Ridiculous Future Inflation has nothing to do with the creation of a Balloon Belly through the use of SCIENCE!.
  • Nor is it, at least not specifically, the ridiculous inflation of futures.
  • Nor it's related to a future inflationary event that may occur in our Universe.
• Ridiculously Human Robot isn't necessarily a robot who looks very humanlike.
• Ridiculous Repossession isn't about getting rid of a demon or spirit possessing you only to be taken over by a Silly Spook instead.
• Righteous Rabbit is not a superhero at odds with Killer Rabbit.
• A Right-Hand Hottie is not a cute girl who literally replaces your right hand.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand has nothing to do with masturbation. The trope also has nothing to do with the legal jargon about the right hand not needing to know what the left is doing to consist a conspiracy charge. No arm-wrestling tournaments, either.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with an epic battle between people of left or right-handedness.
  • Or about baseball or cricket, where there are a lot of professional lefties.
• Right on the Tick is not correctly answering questions about The Tick.
• Right Through His Pants is not about an Armor-Piercing Attack or Depleted Phlebotinum Shells that defeat Magic Pants.
  • It is also not about erections so powerful that they tear holes in a man's pants.
  • Nor is it a particularly gruesome Groin Attack.
  • Nor is it about a man wetting his pants and soaking through them.
• Right Through the Wall is neither about characters entering or exiting through a wall, nor about monsters grabbing a hero through one, nor about someone being launched through one.
• Ring of Fire has absolutely nothing to do with the series of tectonic fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean, home to over 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes.
  • It also isn't a euphemism for having diarrhoea.
• Ring-Ring-CRUNCH! is not when somebody is on the phone with a friend who gets eaten/destroyed/whatever in the middle of the conversation, nor is it a brand of cereal made of telecommunication parts. Although once, long ago...
  • It also has nothing to do with a Planet Eater eating Saturn.
• Rings of Death aren't the places where death matches occur. Neither does it have to do with a defective Xbox 360. It's also not when there is more than one Ominous Ring of Land, or a deadly videotape. And we know you feel clever for thinking back to that moment in the mid-nineties where you finally reached Knuckles's final boss in Sonic & Knuckles and he started firing deadly rings at you, and you're getting warmer, but no, that's still not quite it. What, murderous crop circles? Oh, for crying out loud. And if you're thinking of a circular Artifact of Doom, you're still off the mark.
  • Oh, and if The Grim Reaper wears rings, they're still not examples.
• Ripped from the Phone Book is not a variation on Ripped from the Headlines where a creator gets inspiration for character names by randomly searching the phone book.
• Rip Van Tinkle is not instructions to tear apart a van and then tinkle on it.
• Rip Van Winkle is not related to Rob.
  • It's not about the bourbon whiskey brand.
• Rise to the Challenge has nothing to do with Nergal's battle theme from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.
  • It is also not merely accepting a dare to perform a difficult act.
  • It's also not about the ROM hack of Super Mario World.
• "Risky Business" Dance is not a corporate strategy with a high chance of failure that involves breaking out the turntables and showing off your awesome moves. Or the opposite of "Safety Dance".
• River of Insanity does not involve any member of the Serenity crew.
  • It also isn't a river that literally causes insanity in anyone who drinks from it, the way Lethe causes amnesia, or a Fountain of Youth causes de-aging.
• Road Apples are not a type of fruit.
  • Nor is it Applejack's family on the road.
  • Or fruit or computers sold on the side of the road.
• Road Runner PC is not about censoring Wile E. Coyote's "deaths". Nor is it a Licensed Game for home computers. Nor is Time Warner Cable offering a free computer in exchange for a 24-month contract, as some ISPs did during the dial-up era. It's also not about Road Runner's computer.
• Road Trip Plot isn't a plot of dope plants near a road, nor when the plot revolves around getting high while driving.
• While there is a Robeast, there is no Robwest, Robnorth or Robsouth.
• Robinsonade is not an energy drink. Nor is it a Robinson's fruit drink.
• Robosexual is not about people who are sexually attracted only to robots.
• Robot Girl is not a Distaff Counterpart to Robotboy.
• Robot Hair is not small robots used as toupees.
  • If you're expecting a mechanical bunny, that would actually be a robot hare.
• A Robot Maid isn't a maid who works for a robot, unless she's a robot herself.
• A Robotic Torture Device can be used to torture things other than robots.
• Robot Roll Call is nothing to do with the Enjin from Engine Sentai Go-onger performing a Roll-Call.
  • Or Roll from Mega Man talking over the phone.
• Rock does not refer to chunks of mineral being present in a story.
• Rock Beats Laser is not about Rockman.EXE defeating Laserman.EXE.
• Rock Bottom is not about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Finishing Move. Or about his butt. It's also not about the underside of a stone, a boulder in the shape of a butt, Shaking the Rump, rock music reaching an all-time low or the item that prevents your stats from decreasing.
• A Rocket Punch is not a "Quarian Thruster Fuel" or any other sort of Gargle Blaster.
  • It also isn't about being punched by a member of a Kantonian crime syndicate, an alien raccoon superhero, or a pink-clad gorilla superhero.
• Rocket-Tag Gameplay does not describe a theoretical Pokémon game where you play tag with Team Rocket.
• Rock Trio isn't about the three kinds of rocks, though Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic would make Good Names for a Rock Band.
  • It's also not the name of a rock-type regional form of Dugtrio.
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies is not about any situation in which everyone is killed in a landslide.
• Rockstar Parking is not about parking in Grand Theft Auto.
  • Nor it's related to the parking of the factory where said energy drink is made.
  • Nor is it about parking reserved for famous musicians.
• Rocky Roll Call is not about yelling, "Adriaaaaaaaan!".
  • Nor is it calling out the names of different types of rock and expecting the rocks to reply.
• Roguelike isn't a term for southern belles who can drain your life energy with a touch. Nor is it about a character who is similar to a rogue.
• A Rogue Protagonist isn't literally a protagonist who's a rogue, lovable or otherwise. That's another trope. Or this other trope.
  • Nor is Jyn Erso an example.
  • It's also not about the protagonist of Rogue.
• Role Called, but he doesn't necessarily want his pun back.
• A Role-Playing Game 'Verse is not a portion of a song that's about role-playing games where the rest of the song isn't.
• A Rollercoaster Mine is not a mine on a rollercoaster track, nor is it a mine that when stepped on lobs the person in question into the air. Nor does it involve a young child who insists that only he can ride it.
  • Nor does it describe a situation in which you must learn to work with a hostile roller coaster for the common good.
  • Or a roller coaster that blows up.
  • Nor is it a place where they dig up roller coasters.
• A Roman à Clef is not a music notation symbol from Rome.
• Romanticism has nothing to do with love.
  • Or Romans, for that matter.
• A Romantic Plot Tumor is not a plot tumor that's particularly smooth with the ladies. Nor is it about romancing a cancer sufferer.
• Ron the Death Eater is not a article referring to this◊.
  • Nor is it Ron eating the Grim Reaper.
  • It also has nothing to do with Fluffy the Terrible.
• Room 101 is not an introductory class in which you learn about rooms, nor is it a room along U.S. Route 101.
  • It's not related to Wizard101 or The Wonderful 101.
  • Nor does it necessarily have a room number of 101.
• Room Full of Crazy is not about a room filled with Cloudcuckoolanders, nor is it about where the Only Sane Man believes himself to be.
  • Nor (necessarily) a room that will drive you crazy.
• Rooting for the Empire is not what imperial truffle-sniffing pigs do.
  • Nor what military hackers do to the enemy's computer systems.
  • Nor (if you use the Australian meaning of "root") is it about being a state-sanctioned prostitute.
  • Most especially it has nothing to do with Austin Powers.
• Rotten Rock & Roll does not necessarily involve the Sex Pistols.
  • It also has nothing to do with evil (or decayed) versions of Mega Man and his sister.
  • Or (necessarily) the music decaying, causing things to decay, or symbolizing decay.
• Rouge Angles of Satin is not a description of how shapely a certain Classy Bat Burglar looks in finery.
• A Roundabout Shot is not the "To Be Continued" screen from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • Nor is it when someone shoots around corners and objects to hit their target.
• A Round Table Shot is not an anachronistic closed-room murder case involving King Arthur and his knights.
• Royal Blood is not a Slasher Movie involving a royal family.
  • It also has nothing to do with vampire royalty.
• Rule 34 is not an article about those specific rules of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates within Schlock Mercenary, nor is it related to BFGs, air support or the use of force.
  • Nor is it necessarily related to Takano Miyo.
  • Nor, unless you're xkcd, does it involve cellular automata.
  • It's not part of The Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition (unless you interpret "War is good for business" in a very dirty way).
  • Furthermore, it does not refer to a Request For Production in the US federal court system.
• Rule-Abiding Rebel is not about Raspberyl from Disgaea 3.
  • Nor is it someone on the Ghost who does all their chores.
• The Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment does not concern the final round of Iron Cautious Editor.
• Rule of Cool is not one of the laws of thermodynamics. It also doesn't mean that the ruler of a country is a badass. That's Rank Scales with Asskicking.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with Elsa.
• Rule of Funny is not when a clown and a stand-up comedian take over a monarchy.
• The Rule of Index isn't "The limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief for a given trope is directly proportional to the number of indices it is in".
• The Rule of Pool isn't that bad guys play it. Nor is it an actual rule in the game of pool, or a rule governing conduct at a swimming pool. It's also not about a common form of death in The Sims.
• Rule of Seven is not about a heptarchy, nor is it a rule for seven-year-olds.
  • It's also not a rule created, enforced, or followed by Seven of Nine.
  • Nor about how many times the number 7 appears in a story.
• Rule of Three isn't about putting a Power Trio or Terrible Trio in charge. Nor is it a rule for three-year-olds.
• Rule of Two is not about the number two having some sort of significance within a work, so it is not related to Rule of Three. It's also not a set of rules created by or applying to two people.
• For that matter, neither Rule of Two nor Rule of Three are about the limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief being proportional to the number of times the number 2 or 3 appears in the work.
• Running Gag has nothing to do with jogging. Unless one involves a recurring jogger.
  • Nor is it about gagging while running.
• Running Over the Plot is not about driving through someone's garden.
• Running the Asylum isn't literally about being in charge of managing an asylum.
  • Nor is it about the people who run The Asylum.
• Run or Die is not a Le Parkour game from the makers of the EA Sports skateboard game Skate or Die.
  • Or an anime about a paper-bending retired schoolteacher seeking public office.
  • Or the flip side of the "Vote or Die" campaign aimed at disinterested potential candidates.
• Rush Boss is not what happens when Dr. Wily reprograms him either.
  • Has nothing to do with Rush, either.
• A Russian Reversal is not a Professional Wrestling move.
• Russian Roulette is not a game offered in Russian casinos. Well, assuming the casino is operating legally, anyway.
• The Ruthless Modern Pirates don't (necessarily) exclude people named Ruth.
  • They also aren't people who ruthlessly distribute copyrighted material.

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