History RenamedTropes / QToZ

* VerbalTic used to be "Spoon Speaker", after a CatchPhrase from ''ComicBook/TheTick''. In addition to requiring knowledge of a specific work, the work [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example itself]].

* YouKnowWhoSaidThat used to be "And Now You Know the Rest of the Story". It was renamed for being long, awkward, and difficult to use in a sentence. It also had an obscure {{Trope Namer|s}}, being a CatchPhrase of American radio personality Radio/PaulHarvey, whose use of it [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example of the trope]].

* {{Ukefication}} used to be "Wimpification" -- and before then "Ukefication". It's a fun story, too. It was originally renamed for being GratuitousJapanese, which was unfortunately a problem in the early days of the wiki (''e.g.'' TrueCompanions being called "Nakama"). But it wasn't just the Japanese that was the problem -- its reference to the [[UsefulNotes/BoysLoveNotes "seme/uke" paradigm]] suggested that the trope was about the relative positions in the relationship as opposed to the stereotypes associated with them. But changing "uke" to "wimp" didn't get across the sense of the word, and indeed it led to frequent confusion with BadassDecay and related tropes. Turns out that despite being MediaNotes/AnimeFanSpeak, "uke" at least got across that it's about a gay relationship, and the userbase got a lot better about GratuitousJapanese than they were before.

* UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Silver Age". It was renamed to clarify that it was specific to comic books. There aren't ''too'' many "silver ages" out there, but we had to rename the former tropes "Golden Age" and "Dark Age" for the same reasons, and those ''were'' commonly used for things other than comic books; this rename aligned the trope to the others' new names.

* {{Ukefication}} used to be "Wimpification" -- and before then "Ukefication". It's a fun story, too. It was originally renamed for being GratuitousJapanese, which was unfortunately a problem in the early days of the wiki (''e.g.'' TrueCompanions being called "Nakama"). But it wasn't just the Japanese that was the problem -- its reference to the [[UsefulNotes/BoysLoveNotes "seme/uke" paradigm]] suggested that the trope was about the relative positions in the relationship as opposed to the stereotypes associated with them. But changing "uke" to "wimp" didn't get across the sense of the word, and indeed it led to frequent confusion with BadassDecay and related tropes. Turns out that despite being UsefulNotes/AnimeFanSpeak, "uke" at least got across that it's about a gay relationship, and the userbase got a lot better about GratuitousJapanese than they were before.

* TangledFamilyTree used to be "Summers Family Tree", after the ''ComicBook/XMen'' character better known as Cyclops. While said character is a very good example, he failed the OneMarioLimit, leading to particular confusion with Buffy Summers, protagonist of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It led to the not infrequent suggestion that the trope was implying that [[{{Crossover}} Buffy and Scott were distant relatives somehow]]. (Makes sense -- [[Website/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] originated from a debate on a ''Buffy'' fansite.)

* SuperScream was "Make Me Wanna Shout", and was renamed due to misuse in place of other sound-based powers, such as those covered by MakeSomeNoise.

* WeatherManipulation used to be "Power of the Storm". It was renamed to clarify that it's about a superpower, not generally about destructive weather.

* RoadTripPlot used to be "Road Trip Episode". It was renamed to include non-episodic works.

* RetroactiveRecognition used to be "Hey, It's That Guy!" They were actually separate tropes; the latter was for actors you recognise but whose name you don't know because you always see them in minor roles, whereas the former was for actors whose name you ''do'' know and are seeing in a minor role before they were famous. The latter needed a rename because it was kind of a {{Stock Phrase|s}} and invited misuse as a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet; in the process, it was discovered that the two were often mistaken for each other, and it was decided to merge them under the more indicative "Retroactive Recognition" name.

* UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets used to be "Tricolours with Rusting Rockets". It was intended to emphasise that this was post-Soviet Russia, which had transitioned to a tricoloured flag, but "tricolour" could refer to the flag of a number of different countries, especially France. The new name has the advantage of AddedAlliterativeAppeal.
* RuthlessModernPirates used to be "A Disgrace to Blackbeard". It was renamed to clarify that it's about modern-day pirates. And in any event, it's kind of hard to be a disgrace to the historical UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, who was quite ruthless in his day; most portrayals of him are romanticised.

* TotallyNotACriminalFront was renamed from "Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club" because it was often misused, particularly where CovertGroupWithAMundaneFront would be more appropriate.

* RetroactivePreparation used to be "Wyld Stallyns Rule", after the protagonists of the film ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''. But not the characters themselves, but rather the band they were planning to form. This meant that even if you were familiar with the work, you'd assume it had more to do with its music aspects than its TimeTravel aspects. The rename makes it clearer that it's about time travel.

* SlowPacedBeginning used to be "It Gets Better". It was mistaken for an in-universe trope (akin to an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of FromBadToWorse), as opposed to an out-of-universe trope about PacingProblems. Before them, it was "Get on with It, Already!", which was too negative, misused as a {{Stock Phrase|s}}, and didn't specify that it even had to do with pacing.

* SexySweaterGirl used to be "Sweater Girl", and was renamed because the {{fanservice}} aspect was often ignored, leading to misuse to refer to any girl wearing a swaeter.