History Administrivia / TooRareToTrope

A very rare trope is still a trope, but, by definition, a trope still needs to represent some sort of ''meaningful'' pattern (as opposed to a coincidence). For an example, if a pattern is only visible in Ugandan literature in the 1970s, it's still a trope as long as it conveys some sort of message (even if that message is only understandable to readers of 1970s Ugandan literature), but a narrowly-defined TLP for which only two or three examples can be found is much more ''likely'' to be coincidences than those with a similar degree of specificity and many examples.

[[caption-width-right:350:Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"... [[VisualPun literally]].\\

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This is related to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs, where there may be enough instances to establish a pattern, but the pattern isn't meaningful enough to be a {{trope}} on its own. "People Cutting Their Fingers With An 80s Nail Clipper" is an example of something that's both People Sit on Chairs and Too Rare to Trope at the same time, as it's not specific-to-fiction, doesn't convey any meaning and has practically no examples to speak of.

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It's [[UpToEleven even more rare]] to use a slice of pizza as a phone to order phones to eat.[[note]]This does, however, fit tropes like JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites and AnimateInanimateObject.[[/note]]]]

This is related to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs, where there may be enough instances to establish a pattern, but the pattern isn't meaningful enough to be a {{trope}} on its own. "People Cutting Their Fingers With An 80s Nail Clipper" is an example of something that's both People Sit On Chairs and Too Rare To Trope at the same time, as it's not specific-to-fiction, doesn't convey any meaning and has practically no examples to speak of.

This is related to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs, where there may be enough instances to establish a pattern, but the pattern isn't meaningful enough to be a {{trope}} on its own. "People Cutting Their Fingers With An 80s Nail Clipper" would be one of examples which exhibits both People Sit On Chairs and Too Rare To Trope category as it is not specific-to-fiction, doesn't convey any meaning and has practically no examples to speak of.

[[caption-width-right:350:Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"... [[VisualPun literally]]. It's [[UpToEleven even more rare]] to use a slice of pizza as a phone to order phones to eat.[[note]]This does, however, fit tropes like JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites and AnimateInanimateObject.[[/note]]]]

[[quoteright:346:[[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chairs_sit_on_people_3482.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:346:[[Administrivia/FormerTropeNamer Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to use a slice of pizza as a phone.]][[note]] Although this does fit several tropes including JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites and AnimateInanimateObject. [[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:346:[[Administrivia/FormerTropeNamer Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to use a slice of pizza as a phone.]][[note]]Although the trope JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites applies here.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:346:[[RenamedTropes Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to use a slice of pizza as a phone.]][[note]]Although the trope JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites applies here.[[/note]]]]

"Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco", for example, would not be a trope even if three examples of it could be found. An example like this, if it's not mere coincidence, may be a direct ShoutOut if the work draws particular attention to the similarity.

"Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco", for example, would not be a trope even if three examples of it could be found.

[[caption-width-right:346:[[RenamedTropes Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to call using a slice of pizza.]][[note]]Although the trope JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites applies here.[[/note]]]]

A very rare trope is still a trope, but, by definition, a trope still needs to represent some sort of ''meaningful'' pattern (as opposed to a coincidence). For an example, if a pattern is only visible in Ugandan literature in the 1970s, it's still a trope as long as it conveys some sort of message (even if that message is only understandable to readers of 1970s Ugandan literature), but a narrowly-defined YKTTW for which only two or three examples can be found is much more ''likely'' to be coincidences than those with a similar degree of specificity and many examples.

If you're not sure whether your YKTTW falls into this category, try asking "Administrivia/IsThisTropable".

[[caption-width-right:346:[[RenamedTropes Also known as "Chairs Sit On People"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to call using a slice of pizza.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:346:[[RenamedTropes Also known as "People Sit On Chairs"]]...[[VisualPun literally]]. [[UpToEleven It's even more rare to call using a slice of pizza.]]]]

Sometimes, it can be combined with TheSameButMoreSpecific, when an existing trope has a specification so rare, that it can't be tropable beyond a few existing examples. "DroppedABridgeOnHim, But On A Thursday", is an example.

A very rare trope is still a trope, but, by definition, a trope still needs to represent some sort of ''meaningful'' pattern (as opposed to a coincidence). For an example, if a pattern is only visible in Ugandan literature in the 1970s, it's still a trope as long as it conveys some sort of message, but a narrowly-defined YKTTW for which only two or three examples can be found is much more ''likely'' to be coincidences than those with a similar degree of specificity and many examples.

This happens when a {{trope}} is so ridiculously specific that it would only really have an example from that one show, where it didn't have any real meaning anyway. So it's NotATrope, but because it's too rare to have [[Administrivia/ThreeRulesOfThree enough examples]] (at least at the moment).

This is related to PeopleSitOnChairs, where there may be enough instances to establish a pattern, but the pattern isn't meaningful enough to be a {{trope}} on its own. "People Cutting Their Fingers With An 80s Nail Clipper" would be one of examples which exhibits both People Sit On Chairs and Too Rare To Trope category as it is not specific-to-fiction, doesn't convey any meaning and has practically no examples to speak of.

If you're not sure whether your YKTTW falls into this category, try asking "IsThisTropable".