I Thought It Meant / U to W

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U

• Übermensch is not a man who uses the Uber transportation app.
• The "Ugly American" Stereotype is not the idea that people from the USA are unattractive.
• UltimateGamer386 is not the go-to guy for all forms of MS-DOS entertainment.
  • Nor is it the processor counterpart to a Magic Floppy Disk.
  • Despite her title, Chiaki Nanami is not an example.
• Despite what this video would have you believe, the Ultimate Lifeform is not the title of a student at Hope's Peak Academy, and is not called the "Super High School Level Lifeform" in Japanese.
• Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 isn't a type of killing machine, a death metal band, or the 3000th installment in a slasher series.
• The Uncanny Valley has nothing to do with a creepy geographical location. Or one where the Uncanny X-Men live.
• Uncanny Valley Girl is not a subtrope of Valley Girl.
• Uncatty Resemblance isn't about how uncatlike a character looks.
• Undead Horse Trope does not deal with Zombie Horses (not that there's anything wrong with them).
• Underground City is not a city where a lot of people engage in illegal activities.
• An Underground Monkey is not a primate who prefers to live in subterranean spaces. Nor is it a primate who enjoys subversive entertainment.
• Underground Railroad is not how New Yorkers get to work.
• Under the Truck isn't where you supposedly find Mew.
• Underwear of Power isn't necessarily about actual underwear. Most of the classic comic book superheroes actually wore trunks or, in the case of females, bikinis. Most of the literal uses are done as a parody or by joke characters.
• Undressing the Unconscious does not refer to using psychic powers to reveal a person's unconscious mind.
• Undying Loyalty doesn't necessarily mean that the character is so loyal, not even death can prevent them from serving their master.
• Unexpectedly Dark Episode is not about an episode where nobody turns the lights on.
• An Unexpected Positive is not a surprising upside of a situation.
• Unexpected Reactions to This Index is not about the ways we didn't expect people to react to a certain index.
• Unfortunate Character Design is not about the design of a Woobie.
• Unfortunate Implications do not refer to the possibility that someone might be so awed by a Crowning Moment of Awesome as to get a heart attack.
  • Nor is it when someone's implied to be a Butt-Monkey, although that could qualify.
• An Unhappy Medium isn't a compromise that pleases nobody.
• Uninhibited Muscle Power does not say "NUMBAH ONE!" more often than previously thought possible.
• Un-Installment does not mean removing a work from something.
• Unintentionally Unwinnable is not explicitly about a game that becomes unwinnable if you, the player, do something wrong.
• Unit Confusion isn't about confused special ops organizations, nor with the apparent standard operating procedure of Doctor Who's UNIT. It is also not always about the neverending battle between the International System of Units and the Imperial System of Measurement.
• United Nations Is a Superpower does not refer to a superhero having the power to unite nations.
• Unlikely Spare has nothing to do with bowling.
• Unmoving Plaid has nothing to do with a Welsh political party, nor with the superfast speed in Spaceballs being much slower than advertised. Or actually impossible-to-move plaids.
  • It is also not opposed by Unstoppable Paisley, who lives in Northern Ireland.
• Unnecessarily Large Interior is not related to the TARDIS. (for that, see Bigger on the Inside)
• Unnecessary Combat Roll has nothing to do with Dungeons & Dragons. Unless you're a rather descriptive roleplayer. Nor does it concern Rock's sister being a Joke Character in Marvel vs. Capcom.
  • This isn't what you get if you press Z or R twice when not being shot at.
  • It's also not about eating an unnecessary sandwich in the middle of a fight.
• Un-person is unrelated to the French for "a person"
  • Nor is it about someone who works for the United Nations.
  • Nor is it about a human turning into something non-human.
• Unreliable Narrator is not a Character Narrator who is also The Load.
• Unscaled Merfolk is not about mermaids not to scale.
  • Nor is it about the tendency for mermaids to all be human-sized, no matter the size of the actual fish of which they are supposed to be half.
• Unseen Prototype has nothing to do with blind playthroughs of [PROTOTYPE] or with how Experiment 1006 has never been shown on screen.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal doesn't refer to people making the announcement of the gender of their new baby in the form of a horror movie.
  • Nor does it refer to a gender reveal party that's Gone Horribly Wrong.
• An Unsound Effect isn't an effect that isn't any good.
  • It is also not an effect that will probably collapse if you stand on it.
• Unstoppable Rage does not imply the existence of Godlike Rage or Wicked Sick Rage.
• Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born is not about an obscure Christian heresy which insists that Jesus had a similarly divine twin sister.
• Untrusting Community has nothing to do with the sitcom. (Unless you factor in what NBC did to them.)
• An Unusual Euphemism is not a Cloud Cuckoo Lander relative of Thaddeus Euphemism.
• An Unwanted Gift Plot is not a plot about The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, that the audience wishes hadn't happened.
  • Nor is it about the audience not liking stories about giving gifts.
  • Nor is it a plot about getting yet another Gift dragon.
  • Nor is it a plot about someone having a talent they don't want.
• Unwanted Revival isn't about... Well, an unwanted Revival.
• Unwilling Suspension is not about breaking the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
• Unwinnable by Design is not about a game that is always impossible to win by design. That would be Unwinnable Joke Game.
• An Upper-Class Twit might be nobility using Twitter, but it isn't a requirement.
• Uranus Is Showing is not about seeing that planet in the sky.
  • It isn't about seeing the Greco-Roman god of the sky either.
• Urban Legend of Zelda is not saying that Éomer is playing Link in the film. Curses.
  • On the brighter side, it's not about modernizing the series, either, despite all the anachronisms present in the series.
  • Nor does it refer to a hypothetical installment in which the overworld is one big city.
  • Nor is it an urban legend about someone called Zelda.
  • Nor is it an urban legend about Fenneko, who was called Zelda in the subs of the TBS version of the show.
• Ur-Example is not lolspeak for 'your example'.
  • Nor is it an example that was discovered by the University of Rochester.
  • Nor is it (necessarily) an example from Mesopotamian Mythology, even if the page image is.
  • It's not an "ultra rare" example you can pull from a Gacha Game, either.
• Urine Trouble is not about forgetting how to urinate. Also, it's not about getting into trouble for urinating in the wrong place, although a dog who pees on someone could get into trouble.
• Useful Notes is not about musical notes that are useful, nor are they about useful notes from people.
  • Likewise, Useless Notes are not musical notes or notes from someone that is useless.
  • Nor is it about the abundance of Death Note-style notebooks used in Fanfic (For example, the Life Note).
• UST is not short for Unoriginal Sound Track.
  • Or Underground Storage Tank.
  • Nor is it a time zone.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with UTAU sequence files.(".ust")

V

• Vagueness Is Coming does not indicate things are going to get more ambiguous before long. It also isn't what the announcer says if George R.R. Martin is asked to discuss the release date for the next Game of Thrones novel.
• Values Dissonance is not about people who appreciate the presence of dissonance (of any kind) wherever it may appear.
• Values Resonance isn't somebody who likes vibrations.
• Vampire Vords are not what you get when a member of the bodysnatching race from the Codex Alera series takes over a bloodsucker. (The plural of "Vord" is "Vord", anyway.)
• Vanilla Protagonist does not mean Vanilla the Rabbit is finally getting her own game.
• Various Video Game Views is not a page about the differing opinions people have about video games.
• Vapor Trail is not the trail of information (previews, screenshots, advertisements, etc.) left behind by a Vaporware product.
  • Nor is it related to The Oregon Trail.
• Vasquez Always Dies is not about what would happen if Jhonen somehow ended up in any of his fictional worlds.
  • Nor does it mean Dee Vasquez shows up in a later episode as a murder victim.
• Vector Game is not referring to Vectorman. Or Knuckles Chaotix or Sonic Heroes or...
  • It also does not refer to a game that stars the orange-clad antagonist from Despicable Me.
  • It also has nothing to do with Vector Sigma, Vector Prime, or Vic Vector.
• Vehicle Title is not the document you obtain when you purchase a car.
• Vehicular Turnabout is not the name of an Ace Attorney case involving a vehicular homicide.
  • Nor is it Dad's threat to turn this car around if you kids don't knock it off.
• Venus Is Wet: Could you PLEASE Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter? Stop quipping "That's What She Said" and laughing! Also, it's not about the Roman goddess either (doesn't help she's a deity of sex...).
• Verbing Nouny has nothing to do with the fact that all nouns can be verbed.
• The 'Verse isn't about the part of a song that precedes the chorus. It has nothing to do with poetry, either.
• Vice President Who? is not a Spin-Off of Doctor Who in which the Doctor regenerates as vice presidents.
• Victim of the Week is not about a serial killer who makes sure to kill somebody once every seven days.
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers is not about someone named Victor who steals powers from social outcasts.
• A Victorian Novel Disease can't be caught from reading too much Victorian literature. It's also not a disease that first appeared in the Victorian era.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment isn't about using your lingerie drawer or shopping bag as a hiding place for something. Nor does it have anything to do with Queen Victoria or with a state in Australia.
• Video-Game Lives are not the lives of gamers who build their careers and families entirely around video games.
  • It's also not a statement that video games are not dead.
• Video Game Movies aren't movies about Video Games. You're looking for Video Game Stories.
• Video Game Stealing isn't about taking someone else's video games.
  • Nor is it the reason Digital Piracy Is Evil.
• Video Game Stories doesn't list the plots of Video Games. That's what Recap.Video Games does.
• Video Game Time is not about time you have dedicated to playing video games. Nor is it about a period of time when you allowed to play video games.
• Video Game Tools isn't a list of annoying characters or gamers. Nor does it imply that Sonic 2 handles stubborn stains.
• The Vietnam Vet is not a veterinarian.
• Viewer Gender Confusion isn't about shows whose fans are mostly Gender Benders.
  • Or about productions that cause the audience to question their own genders.
• Viewer Name Confusion isn't about not knowing the names of your viewers.
• Viewers Are Goldfish is not about letting your pet goldfish watch TV.
• Viewers Are Morons is sometimes Truth in Television, but that's only partly the point of the trope.
• Viewer Species Confusion isn't someone who doesn't know if their viewers are even human.
• Viewers Like You are not characters who watch TV and are like you. It's also not Breaking the Fourth Wall to tell the characters that viewers like them.
• A Vigilante Execution is actually the exact opposite of executing a vigilante.
• Villain Ball isn't a dance for villains, or a sport played by them.
  • Nor is it a spherical evildoer.
• Villain Has a Point does not mean that said bad guy is wielding a spear or other polearm or a pointed stick.
• A Villain Opening Scene is not a scene where a villain gets opened up, whatever that means.
  • Nor is it a scene where a villain opens something, like a door or a package. However, if there's a scene where a door opens to reveal the villain walking through, it would be an example of this trope.
• Villainous Valor is not about demonising one of the teams in Pokémon GO.
• Villain Shoes has nothing to do with jackboots.
  • Nor is it a villain who owns a shoe store.
  • Nor is it a list of shoes more likely to be worn by villains than other characters.
• "The Villain Sucks" Song is not limited to vampires.
  • And "song" is not an Unusual Euphemism.
  • It's not about the villain giving oral sex to Song or River Song.
  • Nor is it about a villain who sucks on random objects like a baby, or one who sucks their thumb.
• Villain Sue is not about a villain filing a lawsuit against a hero, or vice versa. That's what Hilarity Sues is about.
  • It also isn't about Sue Storm becoming a villain.
• Villain Team-Up is not to be confused with Enemy Mine.
  • But it is to be confused with Legion of Doom.
• Villains Want Mercy, but they may or may not have the hots for Mercy Graves. Or Dr. Angela "Mercy" Ziegler.
• Villain World is not an amusement park.
• A Villainous Crush isn't when a hero is attracted to a villain, nor is it about a villain being Squashed Flat. It's also not about Crush being a villain.
• A Villainous Demotivator is not a Motivational Poster with Darth Vader and the words "FAITH: I find your lack of it disturbing." "Don't Forget: You're Here Forever" does count, though.
• A Villainous Widow's Peak is not a mountain where a villainous widow lives.
• Viral Marketing has nothing to do with a certain Beastman.
• A Viral Transformation is not a virus mutating and becoming immune to drugs used to treat it. Nor is it a trendy and popular kind of transformation.
  • It's also not a typo of the Mahavishnu Orchestra song.
• Virgin Vision is not some Aura Vision that tells you whether or not if someone is still a virgin. Although one example in the page is.
  • It's also not something Richard Branson came up with.
• The Virus isn't a normal virus like a cold or the flu. Or a computer virus.
• Virus-Victim Symptoms are not symptoms of a normal virus like the flu, nor are they signs that someone's computer has a virus.
• Visionary Villain is not limited to the Darkling Lords.
• Vision Quest does not involve going on a quest to cure your blindness.
• Visual Kei is not a programmer tool made by Microsoft.
• A Vocal Minority is not an ethnic stereotype.
• The Voice is not an article about the philosophy of the Greybeards.
  • Nor is it about voice actors.
  • Nor is it about accents, tones of voice, voice pitch, etc.
  • Nor is it the narrator from There Is No Game, although he probably qualifies.
• The Voice of the Legion will not usually say "Hail Caesar" or "S.P.Q.R".
• Voices Are Mental is not about characters being committed due to hearing (or believing they're hearing) voices; it's not about insane voices, and it's not about your inner monologue either.
  • Likewise, Voices Are Not Mental is not about any of the above not applying.
• Voice Changeling is not a command to do voice work for a changeling character, regardless of what franchise it is.
• A Vomit Chain Reaction is not a reaction to someone vomiting up a chain.
• A Vomit Discretion Shot is not someone's puke covering the screen while an inappropriate scene happens.
• The Von Trope Family is not about plots that are a Whole-Plot Reference to The Sound of Music.
  • Nor are they a family of gothic writers.
• A Voodoo Shark is not one that is used for jumping.
  • But suddenly introducing one may well cause Shark-Jumping.
  • Nor is it necessarily a literal shark that is summoned by, or used in, voodoo (though yes, the trope namer was exactly that.)
• A Vortex Barrier isn't the type of barrier the Combaticon helicopter would put up.
• Vote Early, Vote Often is not said in in a political PSA to encourage more (legitimate) participation in elections.

W

• W.A.F.F. has nothing to do with the Wife Acceptance Factor (the likelihood that any new tech toy or gadget placed in your home will get you chewed out by your wife). And it's not about waffles, either. Not necessarily, at least. Nor is it about the noise a dog makes.
• Wacky Wayside Tribe has nothing to do with that school that was accidentally built 30 stories tall.
• Waif-Fu has nothing to do with Azumanga Daioh.
• Waiting for a Break isn't about workers literally waiting to take a break because it's busy or because they have a Mean Boss. Nor is it about detectives waiting for a break in their case.
• Waiting Skeleton is not about being served food by the undead.
• A Waking Non Sequitur is not a Non Sequitur said while awake unless you've only just woken up. It's also not about waking up a person named Non Sequitur.
  • Nor a non-sequitur about wakefulness.
• Wake-Up Call Boss isn't about calling in sick to work, or an employer who wants to make damn sure you're not late to work again.
  • Nor is it a boss you defeat by waking it up. Unless it's an early Puzzle Boss and that's the solution.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World is not about characters who save the world at school, or save the world by going to school.
• Wake Up Make Up is not waking up and then getting over an argument, or waking up and then putting makeup on, or telling anthropomorphic makeup to wake up.
• Walk the Plank does not mean someone is walking on Jonny 2x4's best friend.
• Walking Shirtless Scene is not a scene where a person walks shirtless, but a person who is a shirtless scene.
  • It also doesn't refer to a scene without any walking shirts.
• A Walking Spoiler is not a method to change how aerodynamic your shoes are.
  • Nor is a car spoiler that walks.
  • Nor is it about people who go around explaining important plot points and twists without concern for if they actually want to hear it.
• A Walking Swimsuit Scene does not depict a swimsuit walking around.
  • Nor is it a scene where a person walks in a swimsuit.
• A Walking Tank is a literal walking mechanical tank - it has very little at all to do with the splat commonly referred to as a "tank".
  • Nor is it what Rainbow Dash does to keep her tortoise from peeing on her floor.
• Wall Bang Her does not involve furniture porn.
  • It's also not about exploding buildings.
• Wallpaper Camouflage is not wallpaper with a camouflage pattern.
• The Walls Have Eyes does not refer to walls which have pictures of eyes painted on them.
  • Nor is it a sequel to The Hills Have Eyes.
  • Nor is it about empty buildings having sight range in video games.
• The Walrus Was Paul is not when you find out that a walrus was actually a biblical apostle.
  • Nor is it the reason behind Do Not Call Me "Paul".
  • Nor is it about a walrus being named Paul.
• Wangst is not angst on the Wangan expressway, nor is it getting angsty over reading, watching, or playing Wangan Midnight.
  • Nor is it angsting about your wang.
• A Wanted Meter is not a meter many people desire to have. A few people would probably prefer to have one though.
• Wardens Are Evil is not about the blind, powerful, hostile creatures from Minecraft being evil.
• Wardrobe Malfunction is not about people with no fashion sense.
• A War Hawk is not a Noble Bird of Prey used for warfare.
• War Is Hell is not about the anti-Valhalla.
• A Warm-Up Boss isn't necessarily a boss who has fire-based powers, nor necessarily one made of ice which you have to melt to defeat.
  • Nor is it about a boss from Up which has a high temperature.
• Warm Water Whiz is not someone who accomplishes feats of genius using warm water.
• The War on Straw was not begun by people suffering from hay fever.
  • Nor is it when the author stalwartly refuses to use a strawman and instead makes a thoughtful character with disagreeable political/religious views.
  • Nor is it related to the various 2018 campaigns to end the use of plastic straws.
• Warrior Poet is not about warriors who write poetry. (Although a couple of examples in the trope page do involve warriors who write poetry...)
  • Nor is it a spin-off of Warrior Cats where the characters write poetry.
• Wasted Song, the old name of Long Song, Short Scene, isn't a song sung while drunk.
• Was Once a Man has nothing to do with Gender Bender.
• Was Too Hard on Him has nothing to do with accidentally squishing someone.
  • It also has nothing to do with Guy on Guy Is Hot.
• Watch It Stoned is not a suggestion to watch a show while suffering the Biblical era punishment of stoning.
  • Nor does the film/show being watched have to be titled It.
• Water Is Air is not about water vapor.
• Water Is Blue is not about water being sad or raunchy.
• Water Is Dry is not about water evaporating.
• Watershed is not a shed that stores water.
• Wave-Motion Gun is not about guns powered by vigorous handwaving, though a lot of them probably are. It is not about guns that make waves move either.
  • And it's not the same as the proton packs form Ghostbusters or the wiggly rays from Mom and Dad Save the World.
• Wave-Motion Tuning Fork is not about the actual tuning forks that Anti-Monitor and Alexander Luthor used to break the universe up into itty bitty pieces.
  • Nor is it about the motion of the sound waves produced when a tuning fork is struck.
• Waxing Lyrical is not what Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha does.
• Wax On, Wax Off is not about what Johnny from Fantastic Four would say to use his powers if he generated wax instead of fire.
  • Nor is it how to remove body hair in a nutshell.
• The We Are Not Alone Index is not the index of Alien Tropes.
• We Are "Team Cannon Fodder" is not a Redshirt Army who created a witty collective name for themselves.
  • Nor is it a Fan Nickname for Torchwood.
• Weaksauce Weakness has yet to define a person who is harmed by mild hot sauce.
• Weapons Kitchen Sink is not about using things found in a kitchen sink (or the sink itself) as weapons, nor is it a sink where you wash the blood off your weapons after battle.
• Weapons That Suck is not about lousy or useless weapons, or weapons that video game players dislike using.
• Weapon Tombstone is not about using tombstones as weapons (like that odd World of Warcraft axe). Nor does it mark a grave where weapons are buried.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head does not mean balancing a small flag upright, pole and all, as if it were a hat.
• Weather Dissonance is not the opposite of Empathic Environment, when the weather doesn't fit the mood.
• Weather Report is not about a certain amnesiac prisoner.
  • Nor is it about that jazz fusion group with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, and Joe Zawinul.
• Webcomic Time is not the time of day when your boss has gone to lunch but you're still at your desk.
  • Or a webcomic starring Finn and Jake.
• We Can Rebuild Him is not about being able to fix a male robot.
• We Could Have Avoided All This Discussion has nothing to do with avoidable conversations.
  • Nor is it a "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
• A Wedding Ring Defense is not about using a ring to defend against, say, arrows or bullets, merely unwanted advances.
• We Didn't Start the Führer is not when Those Wacky Nazis forget to warm him up in the morning so he can function.
• We Don't Suck Anymore isn't said by recently converted vegetarian vampires. Nor by broken-down vacuum cleaners. Nor is it when someone stops having oral sex.
• We Have Reserves is not an argument against the Peak Oil theory.
• A Weapon of Mass Destruction is not a fat-burner or a weapon used by terrorists to attack Catholic Masses.
• A Weighty Aesop is not An Aesop about getting over Weight Woe (although Weight Woe may be involved in a story that uses one), about how fat people should be treated, or about "pulling one's weight".
  • It's also not an Aesop that's lain on thick.
• A Weird Beard is not someone eccentric who fulfills the role of The Beard.
• A Weird Moon is not about mooning someone in a weird way.
• A Weirdness Censor does not work for a TV network to remove any story content deemed too weird.
• Welcome Back, Traitor isn't a little-known Welcome Back Kotter spinoff where Mr. Kotter returns to his job as a New York teacher after briefly defecting to the Soviet Union.
  • Nor is What If? Finn rejoined The First Order.
• Welcome to Corneria is not Fox McCloud giving you welcome. Or what he says after taking down your ship.
• A "Well Done, Son" Guy did not just cook his male offspring for a relatively long time.
  • Nor is "Son-Guy" what the father calls his kid, although the familial relationship implied by that trope is often pretty frosty.
  • Nor is it related to "Stop Having Fun" Guy.
• Well, This Is Not That Trope is not solely about instances where it looks like the work is going to use one trope, but then uses a different one.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack" isn't about Jack Spicer's monkey form when he uses the Monkey Staff.
• Went Crazy When They Left is not about characters who wind up in some other location and lose their sanity from it.
• Weredragons aren't necessarily humans that change into dragons on full-moon nights.
• As Werewolf Works says on its page, it's not about a werewolf that does a job. It's also not a page that says that it's always a good idea to include a werewolf in a story, nor does it say it's a good idea to become a werewolf yourself. Nor is it a factory where werewolves are stamped out of a mold.
• We Sell Everything doesn't refer to when Jay Bonci bought Everything2.
• Western Animation does not necessarily take place in The Wild West.
• Likewise with Western RPG... Meaning no, Wild ARMs is not a western RPG series.
• The Western Union Man is not a superhero or Robot Master sponsored by Western Union.
• A Wet Dream isn't a dream that you're going swimming.
  • Nor is it a dream that contains lots of watery imagery which leads to Embarrassing Damp Sheets.
• Wet Sari Scene is not what happens when Yuki Oshima writes an episode of Transformers: Animated. Nor does it have anything to do with Phantasy Star III. It does have to do with people, usually hot women, getting wet and wearing see-through clothes in Bollywood films.
• We Want Our Jerk Back! is not what Jamaican restaurant patrons say when someone takes their meals.
• We Will Not Use an Index in the Future does not mean a decision has been made on TV Tropes to get rid of every index.
• A former trope name of Ten Little Murder Victims, "Whack-a-Mole" is not a game where you hit moles with a mallet. Nor about a team deciding to beat up or assassinate someone they discovered is a double agent. Nor is it about whacking Avogrado's number of something or the number
• A Wham Episode does not guest star George Michael (the singer, not the Arrested Development character), Andrew Ridgeley or Stephen Gaffney. Nor does it necessarily feature music from them. It need not involve the referientally-named Wamuu.
• Wham Line is not necessarily "Wake me up before you go go."
  • Nor is it when it's holiday season and you hear the line "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."
• Whammy is not the old guy who ran the orphanage where Near and Mello lived, nor is it Princess Flurry Heart's favourite toy.
• What a Drag has nothing to do with crossdressers.
  • Or auto races involving driving in a straight line.
  • Or Shikamaru's catchphrase.
  • Or air resistance.
• What Could Have Been Discussion has nothing to do with unavoidable conversations.
  • Nor does it mean diplomacy was rejected in favor of violence.
• The page formerly known as "What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome" was not about tropers debating if an entry belongs on Moment of Awesome.
  • Nor is it what you say when you realized you mistook someone for The Miz.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? is not the response when a fan of the 2003 TMNT series discovers which company produced it.
• And What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? is not the reaction of someone watching Pokémon: The Series for the first time since 2006.
• Nor do either of these tropes concern what media is and isn't for baby goats.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls? isn't combatting sexism in children's toys.
• What Happened to the Mouse? is not the question of why Disney hasn't used Mickey or Minnie Mouse in an animated feature in quite a while.
  • Nor is it the question of why the keyboard works, but the computer's other input device doesn't.
  • Nor is it someone whose pet mouse went missing.
• What Have I Become? has nothing to do with My God, What Have I Done?, though the two can overlap. It also doesn't usually mean someone's transformed into something so bizarre they can't actually identify it.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? is not asked by an alien species which does not understand the function of the heart.
• What Measure Is a Mook? is not a question about the use of Mooks as a unit of measurement.
• What Other Galaxies? is not about asking someone to clarify which other galaxies they're referring to.
• What's Up, King Dude? is not about a king named "Dude".
• What the Hell Are You? is not how someone might address a character of an indeterminate species, at least unless that indeterminate-species character is a lot harder to kill than they look.
• What the Fu Are You Doing? may involve Buddhist martial arts, but it has nothing to do with impersonating Guatama Sidartha or any of his most famous apostles and students.
  • And it has nothing to do with sincere questions about the martial art a particular character may actually be practicing.
• What the Hell, Hero? is not the brand new game in the Guitar Hero series where you play a WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
  • It's not a morally questionable hero (but rather a reaction thereto).
  • It does not describe Jack Burton.
• What the Hell, Player? doesn't mean someone who plays games based on an unenthusiastic "what the hell" whim.
  • It is also not about one of The Casanova's lovers giving him a What the Hell, Hero?.
    • Nor does it refer to anyone named "Hell Player".
  • And it isn't what you use for records that really do have hidden satanic messages.
• What You Are in the Dark has jack all to do with monsters that attain their "true" forms in the absence of light.
• Wheel o' Feet is not about the Roving Mauler◊ from Dungeons & Dragons.
• When All Else Fails, Go Right is not about the popular maze-solving method of following a single wall. Nor does it mean that if you've got no other ideas, you should listen to your conscience.
• Where da White Women At? is not about a jive-talking person noticing an absence of Caucasian women.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? is not about those sorts of toys, nor is it about where Santa sources his gifts from.
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame is not the bar where Both Human Torches, Firestar, Firestorm, Fire from Brazil, Firefly, Iroh, a grown up Flame Princess, and Hades or anyone else whose schtick is Playing with Fire hang out to enjoy drinks and shoot the breeze.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield? is not about trouble locating a certain ten-year-old wizard who works as a teacher, or his Disappeared Dad. Neither is it about trying to find a certain anthropomorphism of the M1903 Springfield.
• A Whip Pan is not a pan that can separate its handle into sections to whack people from afar. And Whip Pan is not a distant relative of Peter Pan.
  • It is also not a pan to make delicious desserts in.
• A White Bunny is not a tongue-in-cheek slang term to describe a Caucasian woman.
• White Dude, Black Dude is not the same as Salt And Pepper.
• A White-Dwarf Starlet is not an actress who is small, hot and dense (not for another twenty or thirty years, at least). Nor is she necessarily White or have dwarfism.
• White Gangbangers is probably the name of a porn series somewhere, but you won't find that on this page (or anywhere on this wiki).
• White Hair, Black Heart is not about Black Heart from the Neptunia series, who has white hair, but isn't an example of that trope.
• A White Magician Girl isn't necessarily a magician girl who is Caucasian.
• The Whitest Black Guy is not about albino people of African descent.
• The White Void Room is not located near the cold steel room or the just sword room.
• Whoring isn't about prostitution, though we honestly can't blame you for the confusion.
• Who Needs Enemies? isn't about stories with No Antagonist or something a Punch-Clock Villain asks when looking for a new job.
• Who Needs Overtime? isn't one of the work tropes.
• Who Wants to Live Forever? is not a spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? where answering questions correctly increases your lifespan and answering the final question correctly grants immortality.
  • It's not an actual question either. Now please put your hand down and read the rest of the article.
  • Nor is it about a Who who wants to live forever.
• Who Watches the Watchmen? is not a request for the audience demographics of the movie adaptation of Alan Moore's comic.
  • It has next to nothing to do with the similarly-named Star Trek episode.
• Who Would Want to Watch Us? is not about people dismissing the possibility that they're being spied on. Or about who's interested in watching a hit 2019 horror movie.
• Who You Gonna Call? is not someone questioning who someone else is phoning.
• The Wicked Stage is not about where Wicked is performed.
  • It's also not a stagecoach used by the villain (or one that is wicked on its own) or a stage in someone's life where they're wicked.
  • Nor is it a particularly ill-intentioned video game level.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist is not about an idealist who literally has wide eyes.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises is not about reactions from characters who screw up at gardening.
• Wiki Walk does not fall under the jurisdiction the Ministry of Silly Walks.
• William Telling is not about events done to the William Tell Overture, nor is it when characters named William behave as tattletales.
• Wind Is Green has nothing to do with wind-power being the main source of energy in The Future. Nor is it what happens when a fart joke needs a visual component.
• Window Love has nothing to do with falling in love with Microsoft Windows or a piece of window.
• Wingman is not the paladin star of The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, as pronounced by Elmer Fudd.
  • It also has nothing to do with that gun in Apex Legends.
  • It's also not an uncreatively-named superhero with the power of flight.
  • Nor is it a guy who assists you in picking up women.
• Winning Over the Kids is not about being victorious over your children.
• Wipe the Floor with You isn't using a person as a cleaning tool. Also isn't a sign that a Curb-Stomp Battle is coming.
• Wire Fu is not a waifu made of wires.
• Wishing Well isn't about hoping good fortune will come to someone else.
• Wishplosion does not refer to how objects materialized through magic wishing seem to appear from a small harmless flash.
• Witch Classic isn't a work of fiction that's a classic among witches.
  • Nor is it a golf tournament specifically for witches.
• Witch with a Capital "B" has nothing to do with the villains of Banjo-Kazooie and Yooka-Laylee teaming up.
  • Nor is it a witch carrying a capital B.
• With Catlike Tread is not about someone who can walk like a cat.
• With Friends Like These... Who Needs Enemies? is two tropes, not one.
• With This Herring doesn't involve slapping people with fish, nor does it advocate replacing a wedding ring with one.
  • Nor is it at all related to Red Herring.
  • It is also not about solving a problem with a herring.
  • It's also not about having a herring for a sidekick.
• A Wizard Did It doesn't mean the phenomenon was the product of a system administrator or a set-up program, unless all of this happened in a Magical Computer, that is.
  • It's also not wat is said just before the big reveal in any Garret PI or The Dresden Files novel.
  • Nor does "did it" mean "had sex".
• Wizard Mode is not a subtrope of Super Mode, Hour of Power, or Powers as Programs.
• Wizard Needs Food Badly is not about wizards who are bad at needing food.
• WMG does not stand for Wave-Motion Gun. Though the effect some WMG have on your sanity may be similar.
  • Nor is it the company who wants to remove their and their artists' existence from YouTube and therefore popularity and real life.
• A Wolf Whistle isn't a whistle that can be heard by wolves while being inaudible to humans, nor is it a wolf doing a Not-So-Innocent Whistle.
• Wolverine Publicity has nothing to do with the University of Michigan, Calumet High School, or any other school with a wolverine as its mascot. Or about trying to make actual wolverines popular.
• A Womb Level is not a home base. Although they occasionally throw players into the fetal position, it's generally not a good place for the player character to assume one.
• Women's Mysteries are not mystery stories aimed at women.
• A Wondrous Ladies Room is not about a roomful of wondrous ladies.
• Woobie is not what you frequently hear in Splatoon. That'd be "Woomy."
  • Nor is it what Huxley calls Elmo's blanket.
• Wooden Ships and Iron Men is not about Marvel 1602. Or about a world where robots were invented, but metal ships weren't. Or about carrying men in iron armor on wooden ships.
• A Woolseyism is not a peculiar habit of the current commander of the Atlantis Expedition.
• Word of Dante is not about witting lines from a certain Devil May Cry protagonist.
  • Nor is it Word of God from Prince Zuko's Voice Actor.
    • Nor is it about something said by Dante. Or any other Dante, for that matter.
• Word of Gay does not kill, confuse, stun and/or deafen non-gay creatures that hear it depending on their Hit Dice.
  • Nor is it what Lucky's wife says.
• Word of God is not about The Bible. Or about actual words said by God.
  • And that was not a Take That!.
• Word of Saint Paul did not come from the other city in the Twin Cities besides Minneapolis.
• Words Can Break My Bones is not about what happens when the Dragonborn uses the Fus Ro Dah shout on his/her enemies. Nor about bludgeoning someone with a book.
• The Worf Effect does not imply that Klingons were violent because their language lacked the word for "Peace".
  • It has nothing to do with the place you park a boat. That would be the wharf effect.
• Worf Had the Flu is not about an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where Worf gets influenza.
• Working Through the Cold is not about working in an area with low ambient temperature.
• Workplace Horror isn't simply how many people feel about their stressful hectic jobs. Rather, it's specific to the horror genre.
• The World's Expert on Getting Killed doesn't refer to a character who repeatedly comes back from the dead (because Immortal Life Is Cheap.)
  • Nor is it someone who researches death.
  • Nor is it someone deliberately gets themselves killed, usually in a difficult way.
  • Nor is it what you would call Dio Brando after he is Killed Off for Real.
• A World-Healing Wave probably doesn't have anything to do with the Babylon Rogues' tech expert.
• The World Is Always Doomed does not mean that Dio Brando will lose every time.
• The World Is Just Awesome is not about thinking that Dio Brando and/or his Stand is cool.
• World of Chaos is not a planet that is inhabited by the god of destruction and/or its artificial clones. Nor is it inhabited by a bookworm that works for Hilda.
  • Nor is it saying You're Insane! to Dio Brando. Ditto for World of Weirdness.
• A World of Ham is not a form of Level Ate.
  • Nor is it the planet of the pigs.
  • Nor is it Dio Brando's Trademark Favorite Food.
• World Half Empty is not a world where half of the human population has been zapped out of existence. It's also got nothing to do with the hollow Earth theory.
  • The same goes for A World Half Full.
• World of Jerkass is not a planet that is inhabited by donkeys and/or people Shaking the Rump.
  • Nor is it Dio Brando's lack of manners.
• World of Pun is not What If? Dio Brando was a Pungeon Master.
• The Worm Guy is not The Worm That Walks. Nor is it about calling someone a worm. Finally, neither Wormtail nor Wormtongue are examples.
  • Nor is it a nickname for Mannimarco, King of Worms.
  • Nor is it how every breakdancing scene must include someone doing The Worm.
  • It's got nothing to do with the worm guys from Men in Black, either.
• Wormsign is something that lets you know where the worm is, but it's not a literal sign.
  • Nor is it when a worm certifies a document.
• The Worm That Walks is not a caterpillar, centipede, or any other crawly thing with a bazillion little legs.
  • And it certainly has nothing to do with Earthworm Jim, even though he is a worm that can walk.
• Worthless Yellow Rocks are not those fear inducing crystals no one in the Corps has a use for. Besides, those actually have some use by other aliens.
  • It's also not about the relatively low value of sulphur, though it could be if sulphur turned out to be valuable to some alien race or other.
  • It's not a statement that worthless yellow is really cool.
  • Nor do they necessarily have a lemon behind them.
• Would Hurt a Child: Is about child physical abuse and possibly Death of a Child. It doesn't encompass psychological or verbal abuse.
  • Would Harm a Senior is also about physical abuse of and possibly killing the elderly, not psychological or verbal abuse. It also has nothing to do with hurting high school or college seniors, especially the former.
• A Wrap-Up Song isn't one of those Christmas songs you listen to while wrapping up presents, nor is it a command to gift-wrap a piece of music.
• A Wretched Hive isn't necessarily a wasp nest.
• The Writer on Board doesn't make wooden signs.
• Writing for the Trade has nothing to do with writing something for someone because they wrote something for you.
  • It doesn't refer to writing for your industry peers instead of the fans, either.
• Writing Indentation Clue isn't a clue resulting from whether or not someone indents the beginning of their paragraphs when writing.
• Written-In Absence and Written-In Infirmity don't refer to the state the author was in when writing the episode.
• Writing Lines isn't about writing dialogue, or writing down the word "lines", or dialogue about writing.
• Wrong Guy First isn't about how in crime shows, the detectives will suspect the wrong person first before targeting the real criminal.
  • Nor is it Not Me This Time.
• Wrong On So Many Levels isn't usually a criticism of RPGs or video games.

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