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* RecycledTrailerMusic was once "The Elfman Effect". Not a reference to the Music/DannyElfman / TimBurton collaborations nor the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' theme overshadowing his work. Readers who got the right Elfman had to then guess it meant that he is one of a number of composers whose music appears in trailers for films other than the one it was composed for.
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* SpannerInTheWorks started life as Xanatos Gilligan, which required knowledge of [[{{Gargoyles}} two]] specific [[GilligansIsland works]] ''and'' of the once-ubiquitous "Xanatos ____" snowclone in-joke system to understand. As a bonus, the current name is commonly used outside the site as well.
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* TurnTheOtherFist was renamed from "[=McLintock=] Punch" because the old name was obscure and work specific and the trope itself was very underused.
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* QuipToBlack used to be "Grissom One Liner" after Gil Grissom from ''Series/{{CSI}}''. The old name required people to know the Grissom character, who was perhaps not the best known example even within the ''CSI'' universe. In turn, ''CSI'' was not the originator of the trope. Finally, the strong internet meme surrounding the ''CSIMiami'' (Horatio Caine) version makes it all too easy to mistake the trope for the meme and vice versa.
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* RaisedCatholic used to be "Good Catholic", which was noted was a pretty poor description of the trope.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime used to be "Second Chance", which could refer to all sorts of things that are not this trope.
* RandomDrop was "RandomlyDrops", as a noun is more convenient for the trope than a verb.
* RapidFireComedy used to be called "Comedy Through Superior Firepower".
* RapidFireNameGuessing was formerly known as "Tom? Dick?" "My Name is Harry!"
* RascallyRaccoon was formerly "Everything's Rascally with Raccoons". Changed because animal stereotype tropes shouldn't have "Everything's Better With" names.
* RavenHairIvorySkin used to be "Black and White Beauty". The name was changed so it would be more clear that the trope was about a beauty standard.
* ReallyGetsAround used to be called "Miss Yo Yo Knickers", until the prudes found out. Changed to be gender neutral as well.
* RecurringExtra was known by "Yuppie Couple" which sounded like a completely different trope.
* RecycledTrailerMusic was once "The Elfman Effect". Not a reference to the Music/DannyElfman / TimBurton collaborations nor the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' theme overshadowing his work. Readers who got the right Elfman had to then guess it meant that he is one of a number of composers whose music appears in trailers for films other than the one it was composed for.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver was known as "Red and Black, Keep Back". It was renamed to become more clear on what the trope was about.
* RedemptionDemotion was renamed from "Heel Face Downgrade", which itself used to be GoodIsDumb (the latter's meaning changed to fit the title more).
* RegeneratingHealth used to be "Walk It Off". Renamed to make the connection between the trope and name clearer.
* RegionalBonus was once "PAL Bonus", but was renamed to include bonus content from any regional version of a product.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns was "Shur Fine Guns" (which has some meaning, but it's not mentioned anymore on the page).
* TheRemnant was formerly known as "The Undefeated", which sounds like another trope entirely.
* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear was originally named "So What You Are Saying". It was renamed because it had nothing to do with the trope it described and sounded like a generic line of dialogue rather than a legitimate trope.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter was once "The Niles". Renamed for being an obscure and underused character-named trope.
* ResignationsNotAccepted used to be "You Can Never Leave". The "Hotel California" reference obscured the meaning of the trope a little.
* TheRestShallPass was originally "I Got This", a vague StockPhrase that's applicable to far more situations than just this trope.
* RetroactivePreparation was once the opaque "Wyld Stallyns Rule", which was named from ''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' where a case of RetroactivePreparation leads to the principle being arbitrarily after a band. The new name hints at time travel hi-jinx.
* RhetoricalRequestBlunder used to be "Rid Me of This Priest" -- from a famous oral tradition surrounding Henry II. His words were interpreted as an order to kill Thomas Becket -- which they may not have been. The reference was quite opaque to some, others mistook it to mean the trope was about priests. The trope was also clarified as being broader than murders, but always a statement not intended as a request.
* RightfulKingReturns was once "Return of the King" but it was getting confused with Tolkien's work.
* RiseToTheChallenge wasn't really renamed from an existing trope, but a similar trope had existed prior to TheGreatCrash as "Rising Death From Below".
* RogueJuror was formerly known as "Twelve Angry Men", named for [[Film/TwelveAngryMen a work which centered around such a plot]]. It was renamed so that the former name could be used to refer to the work itself.
* RomanticFalseLead was originally "The Paolo", after the character from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Renamed because it required knowledge of a specific work and out of a general trend away from "The X" trope titles.
* RomanticPlotTumor was formerly "George Lucas Love Story" after the poorly received romantic subplot in ''StarWars Episode II: Attack of the Clones''. It was renamed because making titles just to be a TakeThat against a single work (it was determined most GeorgeLucas stories don't suffer from this trope) isn't very good form and it's very likely the name will stop being topical.
* RomanticRunnerup was renamed from "The Baxter" (from ''Film/TheApartment''), to avoid a "The X" name.
* RousingSpeech was formerly two separate tropes, RousingSpeech and DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight, which were merged under the name of the former, until the latter title was made a page about the poem of the same name (sort of).
* RubeGoldbergDevice was renamed from "Robinson Goldberg Contraption" because a.) Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg are two different people known for such devices, and b.) the term "Rube Goldberg Device" is in common use off-wiki, so there was no need to CallARabbitASmeerp.
* RussianNamingConvention was originally "Trope, Son of Trope, Smith". An example of why the use of "trope" in trope names is discouraged.
* RussiansWithRustingRockets was formerly "Tricolours with Rusting Rockets". It was renamed because "Tricolour" can refer to a lot of different nations (esp. France). The new title also allows [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal awesome alliteration]].
* RuthlessModernPirates was renamed from "A Disgrace to Blackbeard" for clarity. The old name was confusing because Blackbeard was ruthless, but also romanticized.
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* SacrificialLion was "The Cedric", which not only spoils the fourth ''Literature/HarryPotter'', but is also not very specific.
* SameContentDifferentRating was "Rated W for Why". Renamed due to overly-wide name.
* SameLanguageDub was "Milli Vanilli", but Milli Vanilli was repurposed for the pop group, then re-cut as a stub that had virtually no effort put into it.
* SarcasmBlind was originally "Does Not Understand Sarcasm".
* SatiatingSandwich used to be called "Everything's Satiating with Sandwiches" according to the discredited and completely unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* {{Scandalgate}} was originally "Gate Construction". It was renamed for the sake of the page having a clearer name.
* SchmuckBanquet used to be "Goldilocks and the Mines of Moria", which did not accurately convey the trope.
* SceneryCensor was [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1301356815029291200&page=1 Peek-A-Boo]], which did not accurately convey the trope.
* ScienceFantasy was once "Science Fiction Versus Fantasy", which was misused for ''literal'' [[TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar conflicts between science fiction and fantasy]] and FandomRivalry. The new name indicates that it is about works incorporating [[SpeculativeFictionTropes science fiction and fantasy elements]] together. The long description about the differences between the two genres was moved to Analysis.SpeculativeFiction.
* ScrabbleBabble was originally [[TheSimpsons Kwyjibo]].
* SealedEvilInADuel was called "Sisyphus vs. Rock" after the legend about the man doomed to eternal toil with no meaning nor respite by having to roll a rock up and hill every day to just see it roll back down in the evening. Notice how that is not really related to the trope.
* SearchingTheStalls used to be "Stalling for Time" -- a name that was mistaken as meaning, well, stalling for time more often than it was used to mean someone searching a series of bathroom stalls.
* SecondSeasonDownfall used to be called "One-Season Wonder", which enjoyed almost 100% misuse (either as "series that lasted one season or less" or "great character who only appeared in one season").
* SeeminglyProfoundFool was previously "Chance the Gardener", but was renamed because it was being used to refer to the character from ''BeingThere''.
* SelectiveEnforcement was once "Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar" (named by something happening on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''). Another case of an incomprehensible trope name, particularly since it wasn't named InUniverse (as evidenced by the use of a British English descriptor based on an American work).
* SelfConstructedBeing was called "Evil Seed Plot" for a short while after launching. We realized that it isn't limited to evil folk, seed-based regeneration or whole plots.
* SendInTheSearchTeam used to be called "Heart of Darkness" after the famous book ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', thereby taking up the name, which has its own page now; and it was decided not to name it after the work ''anyhow'' since [[PopCulturalOsmosis the actual]] book is just as more well known for [[RiverOfInsanity other]] [[DarkestAfrica tropes]].
* SenseiForScoundrels was originally titled "The Tyler Durden". Again, character named trope.
* SequelGoesForeign was originally called "Third Movie Goes to Asia", renamed to be less restrictive sounding as the location can be anywhere and not just in Asia.
* SerialEscalation was originally "Beyond the Impossible". Renamed because it was being widely misused to mean anything that was impossible, or as a synonym for UpToEleven. BeyondTheImpossible has been redefined to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* SetSwordsToStun was formerly "Reverse Blade Sword" which has nothing to do with the trope.
* ShallowLoveInterest was formerly "Shallow Female Love Interest". It was renamed because the latter had kind of a sexist ring to it and it being anywhere close to "female only" has been discredited time and again.
* ShapeshifterModeLock was expanded from simply "Mode Lock" to help clarify that it is specific to {{Shapeshifting}}, and to prevent future confusion with BalefulPolymorph and/or PowerIncontinence. It was being misused for these in approximately 25% of wikilinks.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct used to be "POP Station" after an example of the trope. Not something ordinary readers could be be expected to know. The new name tells it as it is.
* ShooOutTheNewGuy was once "The Poochie", after the character from a ShowWithinAShow in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Renamed for clarification.
* ShopliftAndDie was once known as "Easily Angered Shopkeeper" before it was renamed to clarify that action was specifically caused by player shenanigans. Even before that, it was named "Izchak's Wrath" after one of the shopkeepers of ''NetHack''.
* ShortLivedAerialEscape was formerly "Renny Harlin Helicopter Explosion".
* ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource was renamed from "Gorgon Gazing" since it is not about a deadly stare or one that turns you into stone.
* SickbedSlaying was renamed from "If You Should Die Before You Wake" because the previous name was unclear and made finding a fairly common trope rather difficult.
* SideEffectsInclude was renamed from "Yes, But What Does Zataproximetacine DO?" for ease of spelling reasons.
* SidekickSong used to be "Hakuna Matata" after a song in ''Disney/TheLionKing''. People were using it for Hakuna Matata (the life attitude) which is what the phrase is best known for, not for songs sung by sidekicks. HakunaMatata, meanwhile, was recycled as a different trope.
* TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Silver Age". It was renamed because not only did it need to be changed to match the new names for Golden Age and Dark Age, but there were also references to the concept of a Silver Age independent of comic books.
* SimultaneousWarningAndAction was once Stand Back Hello, which required knowledge of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' to understand.
* SixthRangerTraitor was once "Sixth Column". It was an exact duplicate of a work title. The work was not an example. The protagonist refers to the resistance movement as a Sixth Column: loyalists -- the opposite of a traitorous fifth column. The new title clarifies the SixthRanger reference and avoids the indirect fifth column conflation by just saying they are a traitor.
* SkywardScream was originally known as "The Khan". It was changed because all other "The X" tropes were character tropes (the trope is a [[CameraTricks camera trick]]), and the TropeNamer [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example of the trope]]. As a result, TheKhan is now a redirect for SayMyName.
* SlaveCollar used to be called "Chain of Command". It was renamed because it has nothing to do with chains and could be confused with TheChainsOfCommanding... or, for that matter, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_command#Chain_of_command chain of command]], or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296GRzyN2t4 the chain of command]].
* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification was once the negative "Sliding Scale Of Adaptation Decay"
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism used to be "...Versus Realism". It was changed by idealists. To be fair, it was probably named by the cynics.
* SlowElectricity was named "Power Slows" for about 30 minutes.
* SmallNameBigEgo was formerly known as "Ted Baxter". The former was originally meant to be a RealLife counterpart of the latter, but that turned out to be a bad idea, so it was locked and kept exampleless for a long time. Eventually the two were merged using the definition of Ted Baxter and the more descriptive title of SNBE.
* SmashMook used to be "The Ogre". It was changed so TheOgre could redirect to OurOgresAreHungrier.
* SmellySkunk used to be "Everything's Smellier with Skunks". Changed because animal stereotype tropes shouldn't have "Everything's Better With" names.
* TheSnarkKnight was originally "The Daria" after [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} the eponymous show]]. It was renamed and slightly redefined after some confusion as to what the trope actually was, and the relative obscurity of the Daria character outside of the show's target demographic.
* SoapWithinAShow used to be "All My Circuits", after the ShowWithinAShow soap opera in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' (whose title is a parody of ''AllMyChildren''). Renamed for requiring familiarity with ''Futurama''.
* SofterAndSlowerCover used to be "The Vonda Shepard Treatment", after a singer who performed some SofterAndSlowerCover versions of popular songs for ''AllyMcBeal''. It read like a character named trope and required specific fan-knowledge to work.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear was originally "Wutai Theft", after an incident in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Renamed to avoid the specific reference and because the trope is general enough to include cases that aren't deliberate theft.
* SolveTheSoupCans was "Soup Cans" after a puzzle in ''TheSeventhGuest'' where a message must be spelt out using soup cans. It was renamed to give the sense of a weird puzzle to those unfamiliar with the reference.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting was renamed from CavalierConsumption to be more clear, with AppetiteForApathy as an additional redirect.
* TheSomethingForce was formerly "Troper Force", but was renamed to not use the placeholder "troper".
* TheSomethingSong was renamed from "The Trope Song" for the same reason as the above.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay was "As You Wish" after a quote from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Changed to avoid mistaking the trope for "a declaration of love that doesn't include the word 'love'", which is what the quote is more commonly known for.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot used to be just "Sorcerers Apprentice", but when it wasn't being confused for a trope about TheApprentice to a sorcerer, it was being confused for the title of [[Film/TheSorcerersApprentice the film]] or [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} the Disney animated short]]. Sharing the same title as a work was the nail in the coffin for the old name.
* SpaceZone was once "Lylat System", a non-descriptive title that gave no clues to those who did not know the reference (the setting from ''VideoGame/StarFox'').
* SpannerInTheWorks started life as Xanatos Gilligan, which required knowledge of [[{{Gargoyles}} two]] specific [[GilligansIsland works]] ''and'' of the once-ubiquitous "Xanatos ____" snowclone in-joke system to understand. As a bonus, the current name is commonly used outside the site as well.
* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen was once "Get a Load of That Square". Renamed because the old title sounded like a line of dialogue and was hard to search for.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal was formerly "The Dr. Dolittle". It was renamed for being character-named and not thriving.
* SplashDamageAbuse was formerly "Hit the Helpless Hex". It was renamed for being an obscure term and having extremely poor performance, overall.
* SpokenWord was renamed from "Plain Song" to reflect the prexisting term.
* SpotlightStealingSquad was formerly named "Uchiha Syndrome" due to a commonly held belief that Sasuke Uchiha of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' derailed the series away from the title character.
* SprintShoes was formerly named "Bunny Hood" after the item from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' (which appeared in ''Ocarina of Time'' but wasn't an example then).
* SproutingEars was formerly named "Hyperspace Ears". Renamed after consensus that sprouting was a more appropriate description.
* SquareRaceRoundClass was renamed from "Rogue Elephant" to clarify the trope's meaning and to try to deal with a lack of usage.
* StagedShooting was renamed from "Fake Gunshot" in order to clarify the distinction between it and FalseGunshot.
* StalkingIsLove was formerly known as "Edward Cullen Syndrome" after a character from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
* StandardFiftiesFather was formerly "Mister Cleaver" (from ''LeaveItToBeaver'').
* StatingTheSimpleSolution used to be known as "Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?" The trope was renamed, and the old name reworked into a supertrope, because the name was far too easy to use as a troper {{Catchphrase}}, leading to massive amounts of misuse.
* StatusQuoGameShow was originally named "You Can't Win" after an in-universe game show from the John Ritter movie ''StayTuned'' which [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example]].
* StealthPun was formerly "Incredibly Lazy Pun", renamed to avoid misusage considering the similarly-named IncrediblyLamePun.
* StoppedCaring was formerly "I Don't Even Care". It was renamed for sounding like a line of dialogue and being non-indicative of the trope.
* StopTrick was changed from "Jeannie Cut", due to the latter being a work-based name and the former being an established term.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike was formerly named "Did a Korean Person Die?" after a single episode gag from ''Series/ThirtyRock''.
* StrangeSecretEntrance was renamed from "Platform Nine and Three Quarters" to avoid FanMyopia.
* StrawmanHasAPoint was formerly named "The Strawman Strikes Back".
* StupidityInducingAttack was stagnating under the name "Idiot Cannonball".
* SuddenDownerEnding was formerly "Cerebus Ending" from CerebusSyndrome. Renamed, because the TropeNamer wasn't an example.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat was formerly named "I Know Kung-Fu". It was renamed because it had nothing to do with knowing kung fu, which was confusing especially since we have the trope IKnowKarate. IKnowKungFu is now a redirect to IKnowKarate.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish was formerly "Talks to Squirrels" and got confused with SpeaksFluentAnimal, which is the ability to talk to animals in general.
* SuggestiveCollision used to be "Gravity Is a Harsh Seductress", an overdone snowclone of GravityIsAHarshMistress. Gravity is not luring people to a harsh fate.
* SuperHeroGods used to be "Super Gods". It was renamed for clarity.
* SuperheroTrophyShelf was once "Super Trophy Super Rack", which was unclear about the meaning.
* SuperpowerSillyPutty once was "Twenty Four Hour Super Power". That page is now a redirect to SuperpowersForADay.
* SupportingLeader was "The Aragorn", renamed because it was named after a character.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath was formerly "Deadly Guest". It was renamed because the trope is a specific kind of death trope rather than a character one and the previous name was causing some misuse because of that.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands was formerly named "Palantir Ploy" but was changed due to being rather obscure even to those who have read ''LordOfTheRings''.
* SurveillanceDrone was formerly "Magic Cam". It was renamed because the trope has nothing to do with magic.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong was "The Jimmy Hart Version" for a ''long'' time, named after a professional wrestling manager who would write those kind of songs. Obviously, it was needlessly obtuse to anyone outside of the wrestling fandom.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute used to be "Jonas Quinn", after a ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' example.
* SwarmOfRats was formerly known as "Squeaking Carpet" and was renamed for clarity.
* SwissCheeseSecurity used to be "Lex Luthor Security". It was named for a character in a shared universe that only sometimes displayed this trope.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist was "Inspector Zenigata", changed because it was named after a character.
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* TailorMadePrison was once "Oubliette".
* TakingUpTheMantle was formerly known as "You Are Batman".
* TalkAboutThatThing was formerly known as "The Thing", after an episode of ''FamilyTies'' which used the phrase "the thing" in the service of the RoomShuffle. It was changed because the title wasn't the slightest bit descriptive of the trope, and too easily confused with [[Film/TheThing the classic horror film]]. (Or the [[Comicbook/FantasticFour comic book character]]. Or [[Series/TheAddamsFamily that other character]].)
* TalkingWithSigns was formerly "Sign Language", but was renamed to avoid confusion with literal [[SignedLanguage Signed Languages]].
* TangledFamilyTree was formerly "Summers Family Tree", after the ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' character.
* TeacherStudentRomance was originally named "Mary Kay Letourneau Teaches Here", after a highly-publicized [[TruthInTelevision real-world]] example. It was changed for being long, hard to spell, and difficult to use organically in descriptions. The new name, "Hot for Student", got eventually changed to illustrate it goes both ways.
* TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats is a double case. It was originally "Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats". This was way too long, cumbersome, and hard-to-remember, so it was changed to "Secret Mutant Hero Team". However, the new name never caught on like the old name had, and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1306370920074231900 a subsequent revisiting of the discussion]] decided to rename it ''again'', keeping the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' reference, but in a more concise, easier-to-remember package.
* TemporarySubstitute was formerly known as "Substitute Teacher" but people kept confusing that for tropes about actual substitute teachers.
* TenLittleMurderVictims is named after ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (in a fashion) but it used to be given the exact same name which lead to a lot of wicks linking to the wrong page.
* TennisBoss was once named "Playing Tennis with the Boss". Was probably renamed since it sounded too similar to GoKartingWithBowser.
* TerribleTrio was formerly named "Team Rocket" after a [[{{Pokemon}} well-known trio]] -- although Jessie, James, and Meowth aren't known for villainy effectiveness.
* ThanksgivingEpisode used to be ThanksgivingDay. ThanksgivingDay was a duplicate page with {{Thanksgiving}}, because the two pages had both factual information about the holiday and examples of the use of the holiday in fiction. The historical information was moved to UsefulNotes.ThanksgivingDay, and all the fictional examples were moved to ThanksgivingEpisode.
* ThatOneLevel was previously "Scrappy Level" but was changed due to it being a closer parallel to ThatOneBoss than TheScrappy and relying on another trope reference.
* ThatOnePlayer was called "That One Guy", but was renamed to avoid confusion with TheOneGuy.
* {{Thememobile}} was originally "Tropemobile". It was renamed because it used "trope" as a placeholder.
* TheAssimilator was "You Will Be Assimilated". The new name more clearly says that it's a character trope.
* ThemeTuneCameo was formerly "Name That Tune". It was changed for being named for [[Series/NameThatTune a show]] and not clearly suggesting an in-world cameo of a theme tune.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain used to be "They Killed Kenny". The "again" was added to make it clear that this was a RunningGag.
* ThingOMatic was renamed from "[=Trope-O-Matic=]" because the previous name used "trope" as a placeholder.
* ThirdOptionAdaptation was formerly "The Pikachu Effect" but was renamed because everyone who attempted to guess the trope based on the former name failed to get it even close.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest was formerly "Cheryl Blossom", changed for being named after a character (from ''ArchieComics'').
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch was formerly "This Is a Sentence, Bitch!"
* ThisLoserIsYou was "You Suck" for a very long time, but was changed because far too many people thought it meant "when a show gives a TakeThat to its audience".
* ThisProductWillChangeYourLife was originally "This Trope Will Change Your Life". Changed because of the word "trope" as a placeholder.
* ThoseTwoActors was formerly "Bogart-Bacall Syndrome", playing on the medical condition of the same name. It was renamed because it didn't really describe anything.
* ThreeMonthOldNewborn used to be "Dawson Babies" which was a bad snowclone of DawsonCasting.
* ThreesomeSubtext was renamed from "Three Yay" for the same reason HomoeroticSubtext was split off of "HoYay".
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin was formerly "Gray's Sports Almanac" after the TropeCodifier, ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* TinCanTelephone was "Tin Can You Hear Me Now". The old name was an overcomplicated "[[Series/WheelOfFortune Before & After]]" for something that has a much simpler name in RealLife, so there was no reason to CallARabbitASmeerp.
* TokenMiniMoe was once called "Token Loli", and was renamed due to the rather {{squick}}y [[{{Lolicon}} sexual connotations]] of the word.
* TokenMinorityCouple was once "Token Shipping" due to a complete and utter lack of shipping.
* TooAwesomeToUse was renamed from "P Wing Effect" after the item from ''SuperMarioBros'' (twice, thanks to TheGreatCrash).
* ToplessnessFromTheBack used to be "Sexy Back"; it was renamed because people were assuming it meant "back that is sexy". The "backless dress" subtrope put on the page because of the confusion was split to SexyBacklessOutfit.
* TrainingMontage was "Gonna Fly Now Montage". It was renamed because most people were using the redirect TrainingMontage instead of the main name.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement was originally "I Am Hero Hear Me Roar". Renamed for being incomprehensible and completely unintuitive.
* TranslationTrainWreck was formerly "Do Not Want". Renamed because it was being very frequently misused for the meme. Do Not Want was later redirected to {{Squick}}, then moved to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
* TransplantedCharacterFic was formerly "Cookie Cutter Fic". Renamed due to the unclear meaning of "Cookie Cutter".
* TrappedInThePast was formerly "Connecticut Yankee", after the MarkTwain story. Moved at the same time as GivingRadioToTheRomans was created, to help distinguish the two tropes.
* TraumaticHaircut used to be "Rape of the Lock", named after [[TheRapeOfTheLock a literary work]]. It was renamed so that the original name could be used for the work itself.
* TrojanPrisoner was formerly known as "Wookiee Gambit" after the scene in ''StarWars'' where Luke and Han infiltrate the Death Star's prison deck by bringing in Chewie in chains.
* TroubleMagnetGambit was "Vasor Gambit". The fact that you'll probably have to mouseover or click [[Series/DoctorWho this link]] to find out where Vasor came from, never mind who he is, provides the reason for the change.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior used to be the more grammatically baffling "Troubling Unchildhood Behavior".
* TrueCompanions was formerly known as "Nakama". It was renamed for clarity and because the old name was incorrect.
* TrustPassword was formerly "I Am John Smith", named for a specific example of the trope from a multi-format Japanese series. It was changed mostly because "I Am John Smith" is a massive spoiler. In case you're wondering and can't resist finding out, said series is [[spoiler:the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' franchise, during an event in which Kyon travels back in time to meet Haruhi in the past, and identifies himself as John Smith to keep his cover when he meets her]].
* TsurimeEyes and TaremeEyes used to just be "Tsurime" and "Tareme". They were renamed to clarify that they are about eye shapes.
* TurnTheOtherFist was renamed from "[=McLintock=] Punch" because the old name was obscure and work specific and the trope itself was very underused.
* TwoDecadesBehind was renamed from "Still the Eighties" in order to encourage uses of the trope for works that depict any settings that seem to take place two decades before the work was created despite supposedly representing the present.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm was formerly "The Umbridge". It was renamed due to the TropeNamer being known for several other things than just the trope content, leading to confusion and misuse in examples and potholes.
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* UncannyVillage was formerly "The Village". It was renamed as per new policy that trope and media should not share titles whenever possible.
* UnconfessedUnemployment was formerly I Can't Tell The Wife I Got Laid Off, which was a line-of-dialogue title, and an overly long one, at that.
* UndesirablePrize was formerly "Flokati Rug", and renamed for greater recognition outside the fandom.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange was originally "Unexpected Genre Change". Changed to make it clear that the trope is specifically about gameplay styles in video games. However, the latter would get changed to OutOfGenreExperience, possibly to avoid confusion.
* UnexplainedRecovery was originally "I Got Better". It was renamed because it was being constantly misused as a StockPhrase and a generic pothole for "getting better" in general rather than the actual trope.
* UnfazedEveryman was "The Arthur Dent". Renamed because it was named after a character.
* UniversalAdaptorCast used to be "Commedia dell'Arte Troupe".
* UnkemptBeauty was formerly "The Benson", renamed to avoid a character/actor-named trope.
* UnnaturallyBlueLighting used to be "Bad Blue Lighting", which sounded too much like a negative subjective trope.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal was "Dropped a [[GuiltyGear Bridget]] on Him", a snowclone of the completely unrelated DroppedABridgeOnHim which was unclear and was being misused for the (as of then uncreated) supertrope.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating was formerly "Victory Gloating". It was renamed to clarify that the trope is about gloating after a contest, not just gloating in general.
* UnwantedGiftPlot was "The Zotz". It was renamed for being a character-named trope and for not thriving.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation was once "The Kobayashi Maru", but it was deemed opaque and hard to spell.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was formerly known as "Swiss Messenger". Renamed due to being a named after a rather obscure character from ''SherlockHolmes''.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda was once "Schala Lives"; however, problems with the examples obscurity for some and lack of comfornment to the trope for other ([[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Schala]] actually [[VideoGame/ChronoCross ends up living]]) led to the change.
* TheUsualAdversaries used to be "Goddamn Orks". The old name was funny but had devolved into a verbal tick game.
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* VampireDance used to be "Blood on the Dance Floor", but since blood is related to more than just vampires (and didn't have much to do with the trope, anyway), the trope was renamed.
* VanishingVillage used to be "Brigadoon", after the musical play of that name. Changed to avoid conflicting with the work title.
* VerbalTic used to be known as "Spoon Speaker", after the catchphrase of ''TheTick'', who [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't actually an example]].
* VerbThis was "Dodge This" after a line in ''Film/TheMatrix'', but some examples missed that the emphasis is on the second word, and were about dodging instead of "___ this!".
* VetinariJobSecurity was "Vetinari Paradox", which wasn't that paradoxical if you think about it -- only hard to pull off at the start.
* VFormationTeamShot was formerly "Justice League Shot" but was renamed to be less work-specific and less opaque.
* VictimFallsForRapist used to be Rape Is Love, changed presumably due to the old title being full of UnfortunateImplications.
* VictorGainsLosersPowers was "Your Defeat Means I Obtain Your Powers". The original name was created with only clarity in mind, but many people thought it could be easily improved.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind was launched as "The Viral", after a character in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. The page was renamed because the word "Viral" has meanings which are more common than the the character name.
* VillainsBlendInBetter was "Antagonists Assimilate", name was stretched to keep unused ''Transformers'' Quote.
* VillainsDyingGrace was renamed from the unundicative "My Revenge Is Mercy".
* TheVillainMakesThePlot was once "The Law of Bruce", which failed the OneMarioLimit. [[hottip:*:Are we talking Lee, Springsteen, Willis, Banner, Campbell, Almighty or Robert the Bruce? (answer is the third)]] The title failed to provide context: readers who guessed the Bruce were no nearer to the trope.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid used to be "Innocence Virgin on Stupidity". It was changed to be more transparent, as most people didn't get the pun and simply thought the title had bad grammar.
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf was originaly masquerading as "Flashback Echo"; the new name is much more accurate to the description and allows a broader interpretation of the trope. A relaunched FlashbackEcho ought to refer to the flashback version of IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho, which is what some people thought this trope was under the old name.
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* {{Wackyland}} was once called "Magicant", an area from EarthBound. It was renamed to be less obtuse and more encompassing.
* WakeUpFighting was once called "Rude Awakening". Another case of taking a commonly used phrase and using it as something that ''wasn't'' the trope, causing underuse and misuse.
* WakingUpElsewhere was renamed from "Waking Up in Vegas" because the trope was much broader than the former name made it seem... and because the TropeNamer wasn't even an example.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency was once "Virtue Is Its Own Reward", which sounded too much like another name for ThinkNothingOfIt.
* WatchItStoned used to be called "Everything's Better on Drugs", which implied a connection to the unrelated and discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family.
* TheWatson was formerly both "The Sarah Jane" ''and'' "The Rick", named after a companion from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and a character from ''MagnumPI'', respectively. They were merged and renamed because "The Rick" is just flat out too vague, the distinction between the two was too subtle, and Watson from ''SherlockHolmes'' is well-known outside of ScienceFiction and Eighties TV fandom.
* WaxingLyrical was formerly "Don't Sing Along If You Don't Know the Words". It was changed because it was too long and not at all descriptive of what the trope was actually about.
* WebcomicTime has been itself for quite some time, but "That Night Felt Like Months" was lumped with it.
* WhatWereTheySellingAgain was once known as "Distracted by the Shiny". It was changed because the trope name led people to believe this was a trope about characters being distracted by shiny things, which AttentionDeficitOohShiny now covers.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad was originally "Cat's in the Cradle"; the new title is a lyric from the song which also provided the name of the old title. It was changed to clarify the meaning of the trope.
* WhiteMagicianGirl was originally "Staff Chick", which underwent ''lots'' of misuse with people adding examples that played the role of ''healers'' but didn't match the personality (you might be looking for HealingHands, TheMedic or WhiteMage for more general cases) or worse, people assuming the ''staff'' to be the crucial aspect of this trope. The new name also matches this trope's BlackMage counterpart, BlackMagicianGirl.
* WickedWeasel was originally titled "Everything's Better with Weasels", a snowclone of the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all weasels regardless of portrayal.
* WifeHusbandry was originally titled "[[Literature/TaleOfGenji Hikaru Genji]] Plan" but was changed since the latter was too obscure to those not knowing said work.
* WimpFight used to be called "Zero Chops".
* {{Wimpification}} was originally called "Ukefication"; it was changed to remove GratuitousJapanese and because the trope was not actually about relative positions in a relationship as much as the stereotypes that went with them.
* WindowsOfTheSoul was originally "She Then Saw the Glint of Triumph in His Eyes", which was too long and unwieldy.
* WordSaladTitle is now the primary name for "Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven" instead of a redirect. This is because the original name was too hard to remember and spell, couldn't be used in a sentence, and didn't make all that much sense (which was both a problem and [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself the entire point]]).
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* TheXOfY was originally "The Noun of Adjective", but was changed due to [[JustAMinute deviation from the English language as we know it]].
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* {{YMMV}} used to be called "Subjective Tropes". It was renamed to Subjectives when someone pointed out that tropes are not subjective, and renamed again because people say "YMMV" more than "it is subjective", and because YMMV is an easy to remember namespace.
* YouAreTooLate was formerly "Thirty Five Minutes Ago" after a line from a [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} comic book series]]. It was renamed because it was not only completely opaque and unsearchable, but also a major spoiler.
* YouJustToldMe was originally named "Rumplestiltskin Ploy"; renamed because the former TropeNamer is not an example.
* {{Youkai}} was formerly "Yokai", with the latter now redirecting to the former, because the latter is wrong according to standard transliteration conventions.
* YouKnowWhoSaidThat was renamed from "And Now You Know the Rest of the Story" because the trope name was an obscure reference that didn't even fit the definition.
* YoungConqueror was renamed from "The Alexander" because the name "Alexander" alone was not distinctive enough to clearly refer to Alexander the Great. Further, while AlexanderTheGreat is noted for conquering a large part of the (known to him) world, the fact that he started out as a teenager is less widely known.
* YourMom was originally named "Yo Mommas a Trope", which was perhaps the ugliest use ever of the word "trope" as a placeholder in a trope name.
* YuriFan was formerly "Yuri Fanboy". It was changed because too many of the examples and TroperTales were female for the male-gendered title to make any sense as the primary title, though the original title was kept as a redirect.
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* QuipToBlack used to be "Grissom One Liner" after Gil Grissom from ''Series/{{CSI}}''. The old name required people to know the Grissom character, who was perhaps not the best known example even within the ''CSI'' universe. In turn, ''CSI'' was not the originator of the trope. Finally, the strong internet meme surrounding the ''CSIMiami'' (Horatio Caine) version makes it all too easy to mistake the trope for the meme and vice versa.
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* RaisedCatholic used to be "Good Catholic", which was noted was a pretty poor description of the trope.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime used to be "Second Chance", which could refer to all sorts of things that are not this trope.
* RandomDrop was "RandomlyDrops", as a noun is more convenient for the trope than a verb.
* RapidFireComedy used to be called "Comedy Through Superior Firepower".
* RapidFireNameGuessing was formerly known as "Tom? Dick?" "My Name is Harry!"
* RascallyRaccoon was formerly "Everything's Rascally with Raccoons". Changed because animal stereotype tropes shouldn't have "Everything's Better With" names.
* RavenHairIvorySkin used to be "Black and White Beauty". The name was changed so it would be more clear that the trope was about a beauty standard.
* ReallyGetsAround used to be called "Miss Yo Yo Knickers", until the prudes found out. Changed to be gender neutral as well.
* RecurringExtra was known by "Yuppie Couple" which sounded like a completely different trope.
* RecycledTrailerMusic was once "The Elfman Effect". Not a reference to the Music/DannyElfman / TimBurton collaborations nor the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' theme overshadowing his work. Readers who got the right Elfman had to then guess it meant that he is one of a number of composers whose music appears in trailers for films other than the one it was composed for.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver was known as "Red and Black, Keep Back". It was renamed to become more clear on what the trope was about.
* RedemptionDemotion was renamed from "Heel Face Downgrade", which itself used to be GoodIsDumb (the latter's meaning changed to fit the title more).
* RegeneratingHealth used to be "Walk It Off". Renamed to make the connection between the trope and name clearer.
* RegionalBonus was once "PAL Bonus", but was renamed to include bonus content from any regional version of a product.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns was "Shur Fine Guns" (which has some meaning, but it's not mentioned anymore on the page).
* TheRemnant was formerly known as "The Undefeated", which sounds like another trope entirely.
* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear was originally named "So What You Are Saying". It was renamed because it had nothing to do with the trope it described and sounded like a generic line of dialogue rather than a legitimate trope.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter was once "The Niles". Renamed for being an obscure and underused character-named trope.
* ResignationsNotAccepted used to be "You Can Never Leave". The "Hotel California" reference obscured the meaning of the trope a little.
* TheRestShallPass was originally "I Got This", a vague StockPhrase that's applicable to far more situations than just this trope.
* RetroactivePreparation was once the opaque "Wyld Stallyns Rule", which was named from ''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' where a case of RetroactivePreparation leads to the principle being arbitrarily after a band. The new name hints at time travel hi-jinx.
* RhetoricalRequestBlunder used to be "Rid Me of This Priest" -- from a famous oral tradition surrounding Henry II. His words were interpreted as an order to kill Thomas Becket -- which they may not have been. The reference was quite opaque to some, others mistook it to mean the trope was about priests. The trope was also clarified as being broader than murders, but always a statement not intended as a request.
* RightfulKingReturns was once "Return of the King" but it was getting confused with Tolkien's work.
* RiseToTheChallenge wasn't really renamed from an existing trope, but a similar trope had existed prior to TheGreatCrash as "Rising Death From Below".
* RogueJuror was formerly known as "Twelve Angry Men", named for [[Film/TwelveAngryMen a work which centered around such a plot]]. It was renamed so that the former name could be used to refer to the work itself.
* RomanticFalseLead was originally "The Paolo", after the character from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Renamed because it required knowledge of a specific work and out of a general trend away from "The X" trope titles.
* RomanticPlotTumor was formerly "George Lucas Love Story" after the poorly received romantic subplot in ''StarWars Episode II: Attack of the Clones''. It was renamed because making titles just to be a TakeThat against a single work (it was determined most GeorgeLucas stories don't suffer from this trope) isn't very good form and it's very likely the name will stop being topical.
* RomanticRunnerup was renamed from "The Baxter" (from ''Film/TheApartment''), to avoid a "The X" name.
* RousingSpeech was formerly two separate tropes, RousingSpeech and DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight, which were merged under the name of the former, until the latter title was made a page about the poem of the same name (sort of).
* RubeGoldbergDevice was renamed from "Robinson Goldberg Contraption" because a.) Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg are two different people known for such devices, and b.) the term "Rube Goldberg Device" is in common use off-wiki, so there was no need to CallARabbitASmeerp.
* RussianNamingConvention was originally "Trope, Son of Trope, Smith". An example of why the use of "trope" in trope names is discouraged.
* RussiansWithRustingRockets was formerly "Tricolours with Rusting Rockets". It was renamed because "Tricolour" can refer to a lot of different nations (esp. France). The new title also allows [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal awesome alliteration]].
* RuthlessModernPirates was renamed from "A Disgrace to Blackbeard" for clarity. The old name was confusing because Blackbeard was ruthless, but also romanticized.
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* SacrificialLion was "The Cedric", which not only spoils the fourth ''Literature/HarryPotter'', but is also not very specific.
* SameContentDifferentRating was "Rated W for Why". Renamed due to overly-wide name.
* SameLanguageDub was "Milli Vanilli", but Milli Vanilli was repurposed for the pop group, then re-cut as a stub that had virtually no effort put into it.
* SarcasmBlind was originally "Does Not Understand Sarcasm".
* SatiatingSandwich used to be called "Everything's Satiating with Sandwiches" according to the discredited and completely unrelated EverythingsBetterWithIndexes snowclone family.
* {{Scandalgate}} was originally "Gate Construction". It was renamed for the sake of the page having a clearer name.
* SchmuckBanquet used to be "Goldilocks and the Mines of Moria", which did not accurately convey the trope.
* SceneryCensor was [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1301356815029291200&page=1 Peek-A-Boo]], which did not accurately convey the trope.
* ScienceFantasy was once "Science Fiction Versus Fantasy", which was misused for ''literal'' [[TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar conflicts between science fiction and fantasy]] and FandomRivalry. The new name indicates that it is about works incorporating [[SpeculativeFictionTropes science fiction and fantasy elements]] together. The long description about the differences between the two genres was moved to Analysis.SpeculativeFiction.
* ScrabbleBabble was originally [[TheSimpsons Kwyjibo]].
* SealedEvilInADuel was called "Sisyphus vs. Rock" after the legend about the man doomed to eternal toil with no meaning nor respite by having to roll a rock up and hill every day to just see it roll back down in the evening. Notice how that is not really related to the trope.
* SearchingTheStalls used to be "Stalling for Time" -- a name that was mistaken as meaning, well, stalling for time more often than it was used to mean someone searching a series of bathroom stalls.
* SecondSeasonDownfall used to be called "One-Season Wonder", which enjoyed almost 100% misuse (either as "series that lasted one season or less" or "great character who only appeared in one season").
* SeeminglyProfoundFool was previously "Chance the Gardener", but was renamed because it was being used to refer to the character from ''BeingThere''.
* SelectiveEnforcement was once "Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar" (named by something happening on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''). Another case of an incomprehensible trope name, particularly since it wasn't named InUniverse (as evidenced by the use of a British English descriptor based on an American work).
* SelfConstructedBeing was called "Evil Seed Plot" for a short while after launching. We realized that it isn't limited to evil folk, seed-based regeneration or whole plots.
* SendInTheSearchTeam used to be called "Heart of Darkness" after the famous book ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', thereby taking up the name, which has its own page now; and it was decided not to name it after the work ''anyhow'' since [[PopCulturalOsmosis the actual]] book is just as more well known for [[RiverOfInsanity other]] [[DarkestAfrica tropes]].
* SenseiForScoundrels was originally titled "The Tyler Durden". Again, character named trope.
* SequelGoesForeign was originally called "Third Movie Goes to Asia", renamed to be less restrictive sounding as the location can be anywhere and not just in Asia.
* SerialEscalation was originally "Beyond the Impossible". Renamed because it was being widely misused to mean anything that was impossible, or as a synonym for UpToEleven. BeyondTheImpossible has been redefined to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* SetSwordsToStun was formerly "Reverse Blade Sword" which has nothing to do with the trope.
* ShallowLoveInterest was formerly "Shallow Female Love Interest". It was renamed because the latter had kind of a sexist ring to it and it being anywhere close to "female only" has been discredited time and again.
* ShapeshifterModeLock was expanded from simply "Mode Lock" to help clarify that it is specific to {{Shapeshifting}}, and to prevent future confusion with BalefulPolymorph and/or PowerIncontinence. It was being misused for these in approximately 25% of wikilinks.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct used to be "POP Station" after an example of the trope. Not something ordinary readers could be be expected to know. The new name tells it as it is.
* ShooOutTheNewGuy was once "The Poochie", after the character from a ShowWithinAShow in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Renamed for clarification.
* ShopliftAndDie was once known as "Easily Angered Shopkeeper" before it was renamed to clarify that action was specifically caused by player shenanigans. Even before that, it was named "Izchak's Wrath" after one of the shopkeepers of ''NetHack''.
* ShortLivedAerialEscape was formerly "Renny Harlin Helicopter Explosion".
* ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource was renamed from "Gorgon Gazing" since it is not about a deadly stare or one that turns you into stone.
* SickbedSlaying was renamed from "If You Should Die Before You Wake" because the previous name was unclear and made finding a fairly common trope rather difficult.
* SideEffectsInclude was renamed from "Yes, But What Does Zataproximetacine DO?" for ease of spelling reasons.
* SidekickSong used to be "Hakuna Matata" after a song in ''Disney/TheLionKing''. People were using it for Hakuna Matata (the life attitude) which is what the phrase is best known for, not for songs sung by sidekicks. HakunaMatata, meanwhile, was recycled as a different trope.
* TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks was formerly known as "Silver Age". It was renamed because not only did it need to be changed to match the new names for Golden Age and Dark Age, but there were also references to the concept of a Silver Age independent of comic books.
* SimultaneousWarningAndAction was once Stand Back Hello, which required knowledge of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' to understand.
* SixthRangerTraitor was once "Sixth Column". It was an exact duplicate of a work title. The work was not an example. The protagonist refers to the resistance movement as a Sixth Column: loyalists -- the opposite of a traitorous fifth column. The new title clarifies the SixthRanger reference and avoids the indirect fifth column conflation by just saying they are a traitor.
* SkywardScream was originally known as "The Khan". It was changed because all other "The X" tropes were character tropes (the trope is a [[CameraTricks camera trick]]), and the TropeNamer [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example of the trope]]. As a result, TheKhan is now a redirect for SayMyName.
* SlaveCollar used to be called "Chain of Command". It was renamed because it has nothing to do with chains and could be confused with TheChainsOfCommanding... or, for that matter, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_command#Chain_of_command chain of command]], or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296GRzyN2t4 the chain of command]].
* SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification was once the negative "Sliding Scale Of Adaptation Decay"
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism used to be "...Versus Realism". It was changed by idealists. To be fair, it was probably named by the cynics.
* SlowElectricity was named "Power Slows" for about 30 minutes.
* SmallNameBigEgo was formerly known as "Ted Baxter". The former was originally meant to be a RealLife counterpart of the latter, but that turned out to be a bad idea, so it was locked and kept exampleless for a long time. Eventually the two were merged using the definition of Ted Baxter and the more descriptive title of SNBE.
* SmashMook used to be "The Ogre". It was changed so TheOgre could redirect to OurOgresAreHungrier.
* SmellySkunk used to be "Everything's Smellier with Skunks". Changed because animal stereotype tropes shouldn't have "Everything's Better With" names.
* TheSnarkKnight was originally "The Daria" after [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} the eponymous show]]. It was renamed and slightly redefined after some confusion as to what the trope actually was, and the relative obscurity of the Daria character outside of the show's target demographic.
* SoapWithinAShow used to be "All My Circuits", after the ShowWithinAShow soap opera in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' (whose title is a parody of ''AllMyChildren''). Renamed for requiring familiarity with ''Futurama''.
* SofterAndSlowerCover used to be "The Vonda Shepard Treatment", after a singer who performed some SofterAndSlowerCover versions of popular songs for ''AllyMcBeal''. It read like a character named trope and required specific fan-knowledge to work.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear was originally "Wutai Theft", after an incident in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Renamed to avoid the specific reference and because the trope is general enough to include cases that aren't deliberate theft.
* SolveTheSoupCans was "Soup Cans" after a puzzle in ''TheSeventhGuest'' where a message must be spelt out using soup cans. It was renamed to give the sense of a weird puzzle to those unfamiliar with the reference.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting was renamed from CavalierConsumption to be more clear, with AppetiteForApathy as an additional redirect.
* TheSomethingForce was formerly "Troper Force", but was renamed to not use the placeholder "troper".
* TheSomethingSong was renamed from "The Trope Song" for the same reason as the above.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay was "As You Wish" after a quote from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Changed to avoid mistaking the trope for "a declaration of love that doesn't include the word 'love'", which is what the quote is more commonly known for.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot used to be just "Sorcerers Apprentice", but when it wasn't being confused for a trope about TheApprentice to a sorcerer, it was being confused for the title of [[Film/TheSorcerersApprentice the film]] or [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} the Disney animated short]]. Sharing the same title as a work was the nail in the coffin for the old name.
* SpaceZone was once "Lylat System", a non-descriptive title that gave no clues to those who did not know the reference (the setting from ''VideoGame/StarFox'').
* SpannerInTheWorks started life as Xanatos Gilligan, which required knowledge of [[{{Gargoyles}} two]] specific [[GilligansIsland works]] ''and'' of the once-ubiquitous "Xanatos ____" snowclone in-joke system to understand. As a bonus, the current name is commonly used outside the site as well.
* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen was once "Get a Load of That Square". Renamed because the old title sounded like a line of dialogue and was hard to search for.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal was formerly "The Dr. Dolittle". It was renamed for being character-named and not thriving.
* SplashDamageAbuse was formerly "Hit the Helpless Hex". It was renamed for being an obscure term and having extremely poor performance, overall.
* SpokenWord was renamed from "Plain Song" to reflect the prexisting term.
* SpotlightStealingSquad was formerly named "Uchiha Syndrome" due to a commonly held belief that Sasuke Uchiha of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' derailed the series away from the title character.
* SprintShoes was formerly named "Bunny Hood" after the item from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' (which appeared in ''Ocarina of Time'' but wasn't an example then).
* SproutingEars was formerly named "Hyperspace Ears". Renamed after consensus that sprouting was a more appropriate description.
* SquareRaceRoundClass was renamed from "Rogue Elephant" to clarify the trope's meaning and to try to deal with a lack of usage.
* StagedShooting was renamed from "Fake Gunshot" in order to clarify the distinction between it and FalseGunshot.
* StalkingIsLove was formerly known as "Edward Cullen Syndrome" after a character from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
* StandardFiftiesFather was formerly "Mister Cleaver" (from ''LeaveItToBeaver'').
* StatingTheSimpleSolution used to be known as "Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?" The trope was renamed, and the old name reworked into a supertrope, because the name was far too easy to use as a troper {{Catchphrase}}, leading to massive amounts of misuse.
* StatusQuoGameShow was originally named "You Can't Win" after an in-universe game show from the John Ritter movie ''StayTuned'' which [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example]].
* StealthPun was formerly "Incredibly Lazy Pun", renamed to avoid misusage considering the similarly-named IncrediblyLamePun.
* StoppedCaring was formerly "I Don't Even Care". It was renamed for sounding like a line of dialogue and being non-indicative of the trope.
* StopTrick was changed from "Jeannie Cut", due to the latter being a work-based name and the former being an established term.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike was formerly named "Did a Korean Person Die?" after a single episode gag from ''Series/ThirtyRock''.
* StrangeSecretEntrance was renamed from "Platform Nine and Three Quarters" to avoid FanMyopia.
* StrawmanHasAPoint was formerly named "The Strawman Strikes Back".
* StupidityInducingAttack was stagnating under the name "Idiot Cannonball".
* SuddenDownerEnding was formerly "Cerebus Ending" from CerebusSyndrome. Renamed, because the TropeNamer wasn't an example.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat was formerly named "I Know Kung-Fu". It was renamed because it had nothing to do with knowing kung fu, which was confusing especially since we have the trope IKnowKarate. IKnowKungFu is now a redirect to IKnowKarate.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish was formerly "Talks to Squirrels" and got confused with SpeaksFluentAnimal, which is the ability to talk to animals in general.
* SuggestiveCollision used to be "Gravity Is a Harsh Seductress", an overdone snowclone of GravityIsAHarshMistress. Gravity is not luring people to a harsh fate.
* SuperHeroGods used to be "Super Gods". It was renamed for clarity.
* SuperheroTrophyShelf was once "Super Trophy Super Rack", which was unclear about the meaning.
* SuperpowerSillyPutty once was "Twenty Four Hour Super Power". That page is now a redirect to SuperpowersForADay.
* SupportingLeader was "The Aragorn", renamed because it was named after a character.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath was formerly "Deadly Guest". It was renamed because the trope is a specific kind of death trope rather than a character one and the previous name was causing some misuse because of that.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands was formerly named "Palantir Ploy" but was changed due to being rather obscure even to those who have read ''LordOfTheRings''.
* SurveillanceDrone was formerly "Magic Cam". It was renamed because the trope has nothing to do with magic.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong was "The Jimmy Hart Version" for a ''long'' time, named after a professional wrestling manager who would write those kind of songs. Obviously, it was needlessly obtuse to anyone outside of the wrestling fandom.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute used to be "Jonas Quinn", after a ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' example.
* SwarmOfRats was formerly known as "Squeaking Carpet" and was renamed for clarity.
* SwissCheeseSecurity used to be "Lex Luthor Security". It was named for a character in a shared universe that only sometimes displayed this trope.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist was "Inspector Zenigata", changed because it was named after a character.
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* TailorMadePrison was once "Oubliette".
* TakingUpTheMantle was formerly known as "You Are Batman".
* TalkAboutThatThing was formerly known as "The Thing", after an episode of ''FamilyTies'' which used the phrase "the thing" in the service of the RoomShuffle. It was changed because the title wasn't the slightest bit descriptive of the trope, and too easily confused with [[Film/TheThing the classic horror film]]. (Or the [[Comicbook/FantasticFour comic book character]]. Or [[Series/TheAddamsFamily that other character]].)
* TalkingWithSigns was formerly "Sign Language", but was renamed to avoid confusion with literal [[SignedLanguage Signed Languages]].
* TangledFamilyTree was formerly "Summers Family Tree", after the ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' character.
* TeacherStudentRomance was originally named "Mary Kay Letourneau Teaches Here", after a highly-publicized [[TruthInTelevision real-world]] example. It was changed for being long, hard to spell, and difficult to use organically in descriptions. The new name, "Hot for Student", got eventually changed to illustrate it goes both ways.
* TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats is a double case. It was originally "Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats". This was way too long, cumbersome, and hard-to-remember, so it was changed to "Secret Mutant Hero Team". However, the new name never caught on like the old name had, and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1306370920074231900 a subsequent revisiting of the discussion]] decided to rename it ''again'', keeping the ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' reference, but in a more concise, easier-to-remember package.
* TemporarySubstitute was formerly known as "Substitute Teacher" but people kept confusing that for tropes about actual substitute teachers.
* TenLittleMurderVictims is named after ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (in a fashion) but it used to be given the exact same name which lead to a lot of wicks linking to the wrong page.
* TennisBoss was once named "Playing Tennis with the Boss". Was probably renamed since it sounded too similar to GoKartingWithBowser.
* TerribleTrio was formerly named "Team Rocket" after a [[{{Pokemon}} well-known trio]] -- although Jessie, James, and Meowth aren't known for villainy effectiveness.
* ThanksgivingEpisode used to be ThanksgivingDay. ThanksgivingDay was a duplicate page with {{Thanksgiving}}, because the two pages had both factual information about the holiday and examples of the use of the holiday in fiction. The historical information was moved to UsefulNotes.ThanksgivingDay, and all the fictional examples were moved to ThanksgivingEpisode.
* ThatOneLevel was previously "Scrappy Level" but was changed due to it being a closer parallel to ThatOneBoss than TheScrappy and relying on another trope reference.
* ThatOnePlayer was called "That One Guy", but was renamed to avoid confusion with TheOneGuy.
* {{Thememobile}} was originally "Tropemobile". It was renamed because it used "trope" as a placeholder.
* TheAssimilator was "You Will Be Assimilated". The new name more clearly says that it's a character trope.
* ThemeTuneCameo was formerly "Name That Tune". It was changed for being named for [[Series/NameThatTune a show]] and not clearly suggesting an in-world cameo of a theme tune.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain used to be "They Killed Kenny". The "again" was added to make it clear that this was a RunningGag.
* ThingOMatic was renamed from "[=Trope-O-Matic=]" because the previous name used "trope" as a placeholder.
* ThirdOptionAdaptation was formerly "The Pikachu Effect" but was renamed because everyone who attempted to guess the trope based on the former name failed to get it even close.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest was formerly "Cheryl Blossom", changed for being named after a character (from ''ArchieComics'').
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch was formerly "This Is a Sentence, Bitch!"
* ThisLoserIsYou was "You Suck" for a very long time, but was changed because far too many people thought it meant "when a show gives a TakeThat to its audience".
* ThisProductWillChangeYourLife was originally "This Trope Will Change Your Life". Changed because of the word "trope" as a placeholder.
* ThoseTwoActors was formerly "Bogart-Bacall Syndrome", playing on the medical condition of the same name. It was renamed because it didn't really describe anything.
* ThreeMonthOldNewborn used to be "Dawson Babies" which was a bad snowclone of DawsonCasting.
* ThreesomeSubtext was renamed from "Three Yay" for the same reason HomoeroticSubtext was split off of "HoYay".
* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin was formerly "Gray's Sports Almanac" after the TropeCodifier, ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
* TinCanTelephone was "Tin Can You Hear Me Now". The old name was an overcomplicated "[[Series/WheelOfFortune Before & After]]" for something that has a much simpler name in RealLife, so there was no reason to CallARabbitASmeerp.
* TokenMiniMoe was once called "Token Loli", and was renamed due to the rather {{squick}}y [[{{Lolicon}} sexual connotations]] of the word.
* TokenMinorityCouple was once "Token Shipping" due to a complete and utter lack of shipping.
* TooAwesomeToUse was renamed from "P Wing Effect" after the item from ''SuperMarioBros'' (twice, thanks to TheGreatCrash).
* ToplessnessFromTheBack used to be "Sexy Back"; it was renamed because people were assuming it meant "back that is sexy". The "backless dress" subtrope put on the page because of the confusion was split to SexyBacklessOutfit.
* TrainingMontage was "Gonna Fly Now Montage". It was renamed because most people were using the redirect TrainingMontage instead of the main name.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement was originally "I Am Hero Hear Me Roar". Renamed for being incomprehensible and completely unintuitive.
* TranslationTrainWreck was formerly "Do Not Want". Renamed because it was being very frequently misused for the meme. Do Not Want was later redirected to {{Squick}}, then moved to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
* TransplantedCharacterFic was formerly "Cookie Cutter Fic". Renamed due to the unclear meaning of "Cookie Cutter".
* TrappedInThePast was formerly "Connecticut Yankee", after the MarkTwain story. Moved at the same time as GivingRadioToTheRomans was created, to help distinguish the two tropes.
* TraumaticHaircut used to be "Rape of the Lock", named after [[TheRapeOfTheLock a literary work]]. It was renamed so that the original name could be used for the work itself.
* TrojanPrisoner was formerly known as "Wookiee Gambit" after the scene in ''StarWars'' where Luke and Han infiltrate the Death Star's prison deck by bringing in Chewie in chains.
* TroubleMagnetGambit was "Vasor Gambit". The fact that you'll probably have to mouseover or click [[Series/DoctorWho this link]] to find out where Vasor came from, never mind who he is, provides the reason for the change.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior used to be the more grammatically baffling "Troubling Unchildhood Behavior".
* TrueCompanions was formerly known as "Nakama". It was renamed for clarity and because the old name was incorrect.
* TrustPassword was formerly "I Am John Smith", named for a specific example of the trope from a multi-format Japanese series. It was changed mostly because "I Am John Smith" is a massive spoiler. In case you're wondering and can't resist finding out, said series is [[spoiler:the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' franchise, during an event in which Kyon travels back in time to meet Haruhi in the past, and identifies himself as John Smith to keep his cover when he meets her]].
* TsurimeEyes and TaremeEyes used to just be "Tsurime" and "Tareme". They were renamed to clarify that they are about eye shapes.
* TurnTheOtherFist was renamed from "[=McLintock=] Punch" because the old name was obscure and work specific and the trope itself was very underused.
* TwoDecadesBehind was renamed from "Still the Eighties" in order to encourage uses of the trope for works that depict any settings that seem to take place two decades before the work was created despite supposedly representing the present.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm was formerly "The Umbridge". It was renamed due to the TropeNamer being known for several other things than just the trope content, leading to confusion and misuse in examples and potholes.
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* UncannyVillage was formerly "The Village". It was renamed as per new policy that trope and media should not share titles whenever possible.
* UnconfessedUnemployment was formerly I Can't Tell The Wife I Got Laid Off, which was a line-of-dialogue title, and an overly long one, at that.
* UndesirablePrize was formerly "Flokati Rug", and renamed for greater recognition outside the fandom.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange was originally "Unexpected Genre Change". Changed to make it clear that the trope is specifically about gameplay styles in video games. However, the latter would get changed to OutOfGenreExperience, possibly to avoid confusion.
* UnexplainedRecovery was originally "I Got Better". It was renamed because it was being constantly misused as a StockPhrase and a generic pothole for "getting better" in general rather than the actual trope.
* UnfazedEveryman was "The Arthur Dent". Renamed because it was named after a character.
* UniversalAdaptorCast used to be "Commedia dell'Arte Troupe".
* UnkemptBeauty was formerly "The Benson", renamed to avoid a character/actor-named trope.
* UnnaturallyBlueLighting used to be "Bad Blue Lighting", which sounded too much like a negative subjective trope.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal was "Dropped a [[GuiltyGear Bridget]] on Him", a snowclone of the completely unrelated DroppedABridgeOnHim which was unclear and was being misused for the (as of then uncreated) supertrope.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating was formerly "Victory Gloating". It was renamed to clarify that the trope is about gloating after a contest, not just gloating in general.
* UnwantedGiftPlot was "The Zotz". It was renamed for being a character-named trope and for not thriving.
* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation was once "The Kobayashi Maru", but it was deemed opaque and hard to spell.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was formerly known as "Swiss Messenger". Renamed due to being a named after a rather obscure character from ''SherlockHolmes''.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda was once "Schala Lives"; however, problems with the examples obscurity for some and lack of comfornment to the trope for other ([[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Schala]] actually [[VideoGame/ChronoCross ends up living]]) led to the change.
* TheUsualAdversaries used to be "Goddamn Orks". The old name was funny but had devolved into a verbal tick game.
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* VampireDance used to be "Blood on the Dance Floor", but since blood is related to more than just vampires (and didn't have much to do with the trope, anyway), the trope was renamed.
* VanishingVillage used to be "Brigadoon", after the musical play of that name. Changed to avoid conflicting with the work title.
* VerbalTic used to be known as "Spoon Speaker", after the catchphrase of ''TheTick'', who [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't actually an example]].
* VerbThis was "Dodge This" after a line in ''Film/TheMatrix'', but some examples missed that the emphasis is on the second word, and were about dodging instead of "___ this!".
* VetinariJobSecurity was "Vetinari Paradox", which wasn't that paradoxical if you think about it -- only hard to pull off at the start.
* VFormationTeamShot was formerly "Justice League Shot" but was renamed to be less work-specific and less opaque.
* VictimFallsForRapist used to be Rape Is Love, changed presumably due to the old title being full of UnfortunateImplications.
* VictorGainsLosersPowers was "Your Defeat Means I Obtain Your Powers". The original name was created with only clarity in mind, but many people thought it could be easily improved.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind was launched as "The Viral", after a character in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. The page was renamed because the word "Viral" has meanings which are more common than the the character name.
* VillainsBlendInBetter was "Antagonists Assimilate", name was stretched to keep unused ''Transformers'' Quote.
* VillainsDyingGrace was renamed from the unundicative "My Revenge Is Mercy".
* TheVillainMakesThePlot was once "The Law of Bruce", which failed the OneMarioLimit. [[hottip:*:Are we talking Lee, Springsteen, Willis, Banner, Campbell, Almighty or Robert the Bruce? (answer is the third)]] The title failed to provide context: readers who guessed the Bruce were no nearer to the trope.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid used to be "Innocence Virgin on Stupidity". It was changed to be more transparent, as most people didn't get the pun and simply thought the title had bad grammar.
* VisionsOfAnotherSelf was originaly masquerading as "Flashback Echo"; the new name is much more accurate to the description and allows a broader interpretation of the trope. A relaunched FlashbackEcho ought to refer to the flashback version of IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho, which is what some people thought this trope was under the old name.
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* {{Wackyland}} was once called "Magicant", an area from EarthBound. It was renamed to be less obtuse and more encompassing.
* WakeUpFighting was once called "Rude Awakening". Another case of taking a commonly used phrase and using it as something that ''wasn't'' the trope, causing underuse and misuse.
* WakingUpElsewhere was renamed from "Waking Up in Vegas" because the trope was much broader than the former name made it seem... and because the TropeNamer wasn't even an example.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency was once "Virtue Is Its Own Reward", which sounded too much like another name for ThinkNothingOfIt.
* WatchItStoned used to be called "Everything's Better on Drugs", which implied a connection to the unrelated and discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family.
* TheWatson was formerly both "The Sarah Jane" ''and'' "The Rick", named after a companion from ''Series/DoctorWho'' and a character from ''MagnumPI'', respectively. They were merged and renamed because "The Rick" is just flat out too vague, the distinction between the two was too subtle, and Watson from ''SherlockHolmes'' is well-known outside of ScienceFiction and Eighties TV fandom.
* WaxingLyrical was formerly "Don't Sing Along If You Don't Know the Words". It was changed because it was too long and not at all descriptive of what the trope was actually about.
* WebcomicTime has been itself for quite some time, but "That Night Felt Like Months" was lumped with it.
* WhatWereTheySellingAgain was once known as "Distracted by the Shiny". It was changed because the trope name led people to believe this was a trope about characters being distracted by shiny things, which AttentionDeficitOohShiny now covers.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad was originally "Cat's in the Cradle"; the new title is a lyric from the song which also provided the name of the old title. It was changed to clarify the meaning of the trope.
* WhiteMagicianGirl was originally "Staff Chick", which underwent ''lots'' of misuse with people adding examples that played the role of ''healers'' but didn't match the personality (you might be looking for HealingHands, TheMedic or WhiteMage for more general cases) or worse, people assuming the ''staff'' to be the crucial aspect of this trope. The new name also matches this trope's BlackMage counterpart, BlackMagicianGirl.
* WickedWeasel was originally titled "Everything's Better with Weasels", a snowclone of the discredited EverythingsBetterWithIndexes family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all weasels regardless of portrayal.
* WifeHusbandry was originally titled "[[Literature/TaleOfGenji Hikaru Genji]] Plan" but was changed since the latter was too obscure to those not knowing said work.
* WimpFight used to be called "Zero Chops".
* {{Wimpification}} was originally called "Ukefication"; it was changed to remove GratuitousJapanese and because the trope was not actually about relative positions in a relationship as much as the stereotypes that went with them.
* WindowsOfTheSoul was originally "She Then Saw the Glint of Triumph in His Eyes", which was too long and unwieldy.
* WordSaladTitle is now the primary name for "Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven" instead of a redirect. This is because the original name was too hard to remember and spell, couldn't be used in a sentence, and didn't make all that much sense (which was both a problem and [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself the entire point]]).
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* TheXOfY was originally "The Noun of Adjective", but was changed due to [[JustAMinute deviation from the English language as we know it]].
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* {{YMMV}} used to be called "Subjective Tropes". It was renamed to Subjectives when someone pointed out that tropes are not subjective, and renamed again because people say "YMMV" more than "it is subjective", and because YMMV is an easy to remember namespace.
* YouAreTooLate was formerly "Thirty Five Minutes Ago" after a line from a [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} comic book series]]. It was renamed because it was not only completely opaque and unsearchable, but also a major spoiler.
* YouJustToldMe was originally named "Rumplestiltskin Ploy"; renamed because the former TropeNamer is not an example.
* {{Youkai}} was formerly "Yokai", with the latter now redirecting to the former, because the latter is wrong according to standard transliteration conventions.
* YouKnowWhoSaidThat was renamed from "And Now You Know the Rest of the Story" because the trope name was an obscure reference that didn't even fit the definition.
* YoungConqueror was renamed from "The Alexander" because the name "Alexander" alone was not distinctive enough to clearly refer to Alexander the Great. Further, while AlexanderTheGreat is noted for conquering a large part of the (known to him) world, the fact that he started out as a teenager is less widely known.
* YourMom was originally named "Yo Mommas a Trope", which was perhaps the ugliest use ever of the word "trope" as a placeholder in a trope name.
* YuriFan was formerly "Yuri Fanboy". It was changed because too many of the examples and TroperTales were female for the male-gendered title to make any sense as the primary title, though the original title was kept as a redirect.
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