YMMV, but example beginning or ending in "YMMV" — YMMV, though.
Example using a Flame Bait trope as a YMMV trope. Probably a Mary Sue accusation.
Example that buries a Flame Bait trope in the text in an attempt to circumvent the ban on them.
Example that uses the [[invoked]] tag to suppress the Flame Bait warning on something like Mary Sue or Fan Dumb, even though that is definitely not allowed.
An example that was put here simply for being YMMV, even though it occurs In-Universe and is therefore acceptable to put on the main page.
Baseless assumption about a fanbase’s general consensus about a topic.
Objective trope that describes the fandom's reaction to the work or out-of-universe happenings.
Objective trope that doesn't really apply to the work, but some people think it should so it's shoehorned in here.
Objective comedy trope that is listed here because maybe some people didn't laugh when it happened.
Regular ordinary objective trope example misplaced here. There is no subjectivity in the trope name or description nor the example text; it has seemingly been misplaced for no reason whatsoever.
Objective trope that has been placed here to circumvent a lock on the main page.
Objective trope listed here because This Troper isn't sure if it's actually an example and doesn't want to ask other people for their thoughts.
Objective trope that used to be YMMV, but is now objective and in-universe only, such as Dude, Not Funny! or Ear Worm. It's still here because nobody got around to cleaning it up yet or because the person who added the example didn't notice the trope no longer allows subjective examples. Or maybe they did know it and wanted to sneak in their opinions anyway.
Example based on the opinion of a single Caustic Critic.
Example of a positive audience reaction to an amateur work, added by the work's creator despite our rules forbidding this.
Example of a negative audience reaction to an amateur work, deleted by the work's creator despite our rules forbidding this.
Legitimate YMMV example that was removed because This Troper disagreed with it.
Example that potholes to a No Real Life Examples, Please! page to sneak in This Troper's thoughts on something the creator did or said or something that happened behind the scenes.
Example that contains an interpretation That Troper disagrees with.
Long, angry response that tries to argue that the above interpretation is completely wrong. It just raises the question of why That Troper didn't just change a few words instead, or even delete the example if they think it's unsalvageable.note We're talking about That Troper, so they'd probably nuke the example just because they disagree with it. However, nuking a truly unsalvageable example is the right call. If you visit the page history, you'll find a snarky edit reason like "were we reading the same book?"
A bunch of random shipping examples you don't care about.
An example that spoilers a twist scene, even though it's unspoilered on other parts of the page.
A thousand examples about incest.
Example that generalizes an entire era of the show.
Example complaining about "recent seasons" that are over 10 years old.
Specific items
Acceptable Targets entry that nobody bothered to delete when it was changed to an index.
Accidental Aesop entry that complains about how bad the aesop is, probably added as a way to circumvent the retooling and renaming of Family Unfriendly Aesop.
Very long Wall of Text entry designed to justify an individual troper's theory about how a character is actually evil and the worst.
Entry that shamelessly plugs a fanfic that was obviously added by the fic's author.
Americans Hate Tingle: This work wasn't very well known in Tropetania, which automatically means it's hated. What do you mean, the trope name is Americans Hate Tingle and not Americans Are Ambivalent to Tingle or Americans Don't Know Tingle?
Ass Pull: Complaint about a plot twist someone didn't like. Assertion that it was Ascended Fanon despite the fan theory being referenced having developed from all the foreshadowing in the first place.
Shoehorned Broken Base example listing every single minor disagreement within the fanbase, some of which almost certainly being nonexistent.
Example from something with a genuine Broken Base, written in a highly diplomatic and value-neutral way, using phrases like "this upset some of the fans". This example probably replaced several paragraphs worth of argument from opposite sides of the schism, possibly between the same two people.
Follow up post by someone who didn't get the memo, continuing the argument by saying how much that usage of the trope sucked.
Rebuttal from someone else who didn't get the memo, responding to the above, which eventually gets the page locked and possibly deleted.
Best Known for the Fanservice: A creepily detailed description of a female character, with little or no evidence that said character actually overshadowed other elements of the work.
Captain Obvious Reveal: A description of the work's primary Reveal followed a laundry list of all the hints foreshadowing it, clearly written by a troper with too much hindsight and no grasp of the vast gradient between the unsurprising and the Ass Pull.
Crazy Awesome example that just describes a totally awesome fight scene involving giant robots and dinosaurs fighting IN SPACE!!! with The Power of Rock and causing tons of large explosions, completely misunderstanding that the "crazy" in Crazy Awesome refers to literal mental illness and isn't an intensifier. Wait, what do you mean this is now an objective trope named Success Through Insanity? And what's Crazy Is Cool anyway?
Critical Research Failure: Wait, what do you mean it's a disambiguation now? It's still perfectly fine to use, right?
The creator got some obscure factoid that nobody cares about incorrect. Heinous! I bet I'd win against them at trivia night.
A meticulous list of the character's eccentricities with no mention of a disorder those would suggest.note See, it's a leftover from when Diagnosed by the Audience was an objective trope called Ambiguous Disorder.
A hundredth example hypothesizing a socially-awkward character with a hobby must be autistic.
Example about something subjective, such as shipping the wrong pairings or liking the inferior sequels. Probably The Artifact from when this was called "Fandom Berserk Button".
Example about something that would only enrage the work's hatedom.
Example about a mistake that is very rarely made and usually brushed off when it does happen.
Foe Yay: Example added years after the page was disambiguated.
Example saying how the antagonist and the protagonist have these moments sometimes and giving no further context.
Example mentioning any confront between two enemies.
Fountain of Memes: A declaration that the work has produced many memes, even though you've never seen any of them and the ones listed under Memetic Mutation never really became memes, and even though the trope is supposed to apply only to a specific character.
Friendly Fandoms: Example detailing how fans of this work happen to also be fans of this other work.
Hilarious or Harsher in Hindsight example that compares the work's characters to current political figures. It's easy to determine the political views of the troper who wrote the example based on who is compared to the hero or villain.
Example about an actor who passed away years after having played a character who died in a completely different way.
It's harder to watch this work after the death of XYZ actor. Their character didn't die or anything, we apparently just feel bad thinking about dead people.
The antagonist at one point attacked or threatened the World Trade Center. Bear in mind that the installment in question was released just hours before 9/11.
Example about a very loose resemblance to Real Life disaster. Possibly as loose as "there's an explosion in scene X, and many people recently died in an explosion under otherwise completely different circumstances", ignoring other similar events in media and real life.
Example used to complain about Real Life politics and current events.
It became a lot harder to watch (“corona” something/Person washing his hands/disease/quarantine) after the COVID Pandemic, ignoring the fact that those things existed years before the pandemic/virus.
The work features an actor who got caught in a scandal that has no resemblance to their role.
A scene about bigotry (probably related to Police Brutality) is harsher in light of "recent" movements against bigotry, even though people were fully aware that bigotry existed when the work was written.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Example stating that an event or character in this work is similar to something in another, completely unrelated work.
"Holy Shit!" Quotient: A trailer revealed that something (epic, presumably) is in the work. No further elaboration. The example will never be edited again, even years after the work has been released. After the page is made Just for Fun and examples moved to Shocking Moments, no one will notice that HSQ has been turned into a disambiguation page.
LGBT Fanbase: Gushing about the attractive characters (most likely very hunky men, because lesbians attracted to conventionally attractive women don't exist apparently), with no mention of how these characters have attained a LGBT following.
Narm example listing something that was intended to be funny.
Narm example complaining about a moment that falls flat, but still doesn't manage to be funny.
Narm Charm example that tries to defend the above examples.
Memetic Badass: Overly gushy list of character's canonical accomplishments with no explanation how the fandom exaggerates this character's badassery. In fact, it will probably emphasise how the character is recognized In-Universe as a total badass.
Objective description of character's canonical ineptitude with no explanation how the fandom unfairly exaggerates their ineptitude.
Description of a canonically inept character being ironically exaggerated by fandom into a total badass (which is incidentally what Memetic Badass was supposed to be about).
Memetic Troll: Objective description of character's canonical mischievious behaviour with no explanation how the fandom exaggerates their mischief.
Example added before Most Annoying Sound was moved to Darth Wiki, that complains about a non-video game character's voice and should be removed but hasn't been yet.
Obvious Judas: A description of how The Mole betrays the team, followed by a laundry list of all the hints foreshadowing the betrayal, clearly written by a troper with too much hindsight.
The author expressed some unpopular political views on social media. The example repeatedly emphasizes how evil and bad these views and anybody who agrees with them are, possibly to the extent of demanding that this work's page be cut to avoid giving a platform to the author to express their views.
Elaborate description of an incredibly annoying-sounding game mechanic, ending in a declaration that you will be seeing "system message associated with this mechanic" a lot.
Nearly every mechanic is listed, making you wonder if these tropers liked anything about the game.
Many examples of trailers revealing details about the upcoming sequel, with no explanation as to why these reveals are shocking, so once the work comes out this example will just be a list of well-known facts.
Several examples that just describes the work's Aesops without explaining how they fit.
Example about the work's anti-[insert Acceptable Target here] Aesop that is supposedly "necessary" considering the "recent" rise in popularity of said group in real life.
An example reacting with (fridge) horror that a scene depicting an unpleasant situation would be seen as very traumatic for the characters if it happened today, because apparently nobody thought kidnapping/murder/abuse/bullying/slapstick was bad twenty years ago or that these situations aren't still mined for comedy.
Country-based example from an anime, talking about how westerners are too stupid to understand to understand Japanese culture.
A description of a situation that a character is facing. You'd Expect: The character takes a course of action that is smart or at least sensible. Instead: The character does a stupid thing that results in consequences.
A much less charitable description of another scenario. You'd Expect: The character would basically read the script and act on information only the audience has. Instead: The character makes the most reasonable decision based on the incomplete information they have, and it goes badly. To make matters worse: Here is some natter.
Mary Sue accusation.
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