These tropes actually have happened, but will lead to misfortune or confusion if their pages ever self-demonstrated so they will never do so.
Compare to TropesThatWillNeverHappen.Echo Chamber.
Dishonorable mentions:
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Against the rules
- 4chan
- Belief Makes You Stupid
- Brown Note
- Well, if you try to open it, the computer crashes, and you get a seizure, it will be. We can't control that one...
- Conversation in the Main Page
- It will not always be self-demonstrating, but sure thing it will keep happening on any non-locked page in the future.
- Edit War
- Epileptic Flashing Lights
- Fandom Heresy
- Fan Dumb
- Fan Hater
- Fan Myopia
- Flame Bait
- Giftedly Bad
- I also wrote the self-demonstrating versions of Epic Fail and So Bad, It's Horrible.
- Gorn
- Hate Dumb
- Humans Are Bastards
- Image Boards
- Internet Counterattack
- The Internet Is for Porn
- Jumping the Shark (You could try, but the page would just be brought to TRS.)
- Lemon
- Lolicon and Shotacon
- Obvious Beta
- One-Word Vocabulary
- People Sit on Chairs (Either the literal or the figurative version. Though we have JustForFun.People Sit On Chairs)
- Porn with Plot
- Porn Without Plot
- Rule 34
- It already is, apparently...
- Scenery Gorn
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!… unless Fast Eddie decides to.
- Sensory Abuse
- Shock Site
- If it were possible, this would perhaps be more comforting.
- SiIvaGunner
- So Bad, It's Horrible
- If the Permanent Red Link Club is any indication, there were pages that were indeed So Bad, They Were Horrible themselves, but through their self-demonstration, they reduced the quality of the wiki, some of which, like Horrible/Fanfic violated content rules and the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement, so they had to be cut.
- Something Awful
- Squick
- Sturgeon's Law
- Not if 90% of the page is poorly written.
- Suicide Dare
- Too Rare to Trope
- Translation with an Agenda (Translating the page into other languages, while ignoring the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment)
- Troll
- The Ultimate Troll Entry is on the Permanent Red Link Club for a reason.
- Trumplica
- Writing Pitfall Index
- Yiff
- Your Mom
Impossible for a TV Tropes page
- Ax-Crazy
- Bladder of Steel
- You will need one to read the entire page in one go though.
- Bloodless Carnage (would only be possible if text had blood)
- Boom, Headshot!
- Brother–Sister Incest
- The Casanova
- Copycat Cover (there aren't really covers for pages)
- Death Trap (In the long run, maybe.)
- Distaff Counterpart
- Eats Babies
- Eating Machine
- Expansion Pack
- Unless replies count as expansions, or the original poster edits something to add more...
- Fate Worse than Death
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
- The page constantly scrolls down, and when it gets to the bottom it ''crashes.''
- Groin Attack
- Humanoid Aliens
- I Banged Your Mom
- Subverted when I did, in fact, bang your mom.
- Iris Out
- Unless the page was animated or something.
- Jump Scare
- Just One Second Out of Sync
- Except if there is lag on the connection.
- Lotus-Eater Machine, hopefully.
- Made of Explodium
- More than Three Dimensions
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Parental Incest
- Planet Eater
- Potty Failure
- Powered by a Forsaken Child (The dark secret behind the entire wiki!)
- Psycho Knife Nut
- Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason
- Sealed Evil in a Can
- Self-Destruct Mechanism
- Says you. I clicked on it and my hard drive started smoking!
- Synthetic Plague
- Tech-Demo Game (make the page so long and fill it with so many images that only the most high-end PCs can load it)
- Technicolor Toxin
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill
- Tomato in the Mirror
- Unwinnable
- How do you win TV Tropes, anyway?
- The same way you win The Game.
- How do you win TV Tropes, anyway?
- World's Most Beautiful Woman
- Zombo.com (You can do anything at Zombo.com. Anything at all.)
Impossible in real life
- Anachronism Stew
- Attractive Bent Species
- A Wizard Did It (Unless if someone from Wizards of the Coast made the page)
- Eldritch Abomination
- TV Tropes isn't one?
- Mind Rape
- Painted Tunnel, Real Train
- Reality-Breaking Paradox
- Ret-Gone
- Nope, I looked in the histories. Didn't happen.
- Subverted if the trope is ever renamed. note
- Wouldn't it only be subverted if there is no redirect?
- Talking Animal
- This Index Happened Offscreen
- Time Master
- Year Inside, Hour Outside - if only TV Tropes was like this.
Removes or hides information
- Blank Book
- The Illegible (Unless something really goes wrong with the code.)
- Pingu (Although there is a mini version somewhere on How Not to Write an Example)
- Speaking Simlish
- The Unintelligible
- Hmrufshblemanoto. Bufr, mulnunm flrg.
- White Void Room
- The closest thing we have to that is Empty Room Psych.
Requires a future event
- Banned in China
- Subverted if the Chinese government gets ever pissed off with this site or decides to restrict the internet even more.
- Dethroning Moment of Suck
- Disney Owns This Trope
- Don't jinx it…
- The End of the World as We Know It
- So far, so good.
- Subverted when Cuthulu raises from the underworld to seize all things and drag them back to the depths of Oblivion.
- Fountain of Memes
- C'mon! The xkcd meme density record can't be unbeatable!
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
- If a subtrope led to an issue with the parent trope that resulted in the parent trope getting cut, this might count.
- Overshadowed by Controversy
- Given that some pages were so controversial they were eventually cut forever, this isn't entirely out of the question.
- Porting Disaster (unless version 2.0 messes it up)
- Really 700 Years Old
- Give it time.
- Ruined FOREVER
- Wall of Text
- Give it time until people adds enough examples...
- We Are Not Alone Index: Wikipedia most likely isn't interested in documenting their overlap with TV Tropes. Or any other wiki for that matter.
Requires a past event
- Development Hell (Todo: write description, add examples.)
- Older Than Television (We do have this one, but you have to send a postal address to get it.)
- The Oldest Ones in the Book
- Schedule Slip
- Time Abyss
- Time Immemorial Index
Requires page removal
- Deader than Dead
- The wiki is technically not alive, and due to resurrection being impossible for now and the site being not organic or even material...
- Destruction Equals Off-Switch (If this were self-demonstrating, the page would automatically be cut if anyone blanks it.)
- Killed Off for Real
- Permanent Red Link Club (where would you say "do not recreate"?)
- Role-Ending Misdemeanor
- Screwed by the Lawyers
- This Page Will Self-Destruct
Title and name tropes
- Artifact Title (unless everyone decides it's spelled "artefact")
- Censored Title
- Foreign Language Title
- Initialism Title
- In Name Only (If so, it would be about stuff that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.)
- Invisible Writing
- Metafictional Title
- Never Trust a Title
- No Name Given
- Non-Indicative Name
- No Title
- Officially Shortened Title: Shortening it would be a violation of Clear, Concise, Witty.
- Wasn’t the wiki’s name originally “Television Tropes and Idioms”?
- One-Letter Title
- One-Word Title
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Overly Long Name
- Parallel Porn Titles: Replace the TV Tropes logo in the header with a "TV Gropes" logo.
- This Index Is Not an Example
Other
- Ben Drowned
- Better than Sex
- It's TV Tropes; of course it's better than sex!
- Cats Are Mean
- Rrrrr!! Meow meow MEOWR!!!
- Connected All Along
- I guess this page cannot have a single link inside and no page is allowed to link or redirect to it then?
- Continuity Reboot
- Cosmic Horror Story
- Creepypasta
- Data Vampires
- Fictional Document (so long as it's a TV Tropes page, even if featured in fiction.)
- Gambit Roulette
- Go Mad from the Revelation
- We just need to copy the format of These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
- Luke, You Are My Father (Even if contributing to a page counts as being its "father", which is a bit weird, people who see this page for the first time obviously won't have contributed to it yet.)
- Narm
- National Stereotypes
- Public Medium Ignorance
- Revenue-Enhancing Devices
- Secret Test of Character
- Self-Demonstrating Article
- Isn't it impossible for that to not self-demonstrate? I mean, it exists, and it's about self-demonstrating pages, so that makes it a self-demonstrating page in itself...doesn't it?
- It logically can either self-demonstrate or not self-demonstrate, but distinguishing between the two is impossible because either can only be proven by tautology.note
- Any non-self-demonstrating article listed on the page will eventually be corrected and made self-demonstrating or deleted, so...
- TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life (Autsch!)
- Unfortunate Implications
