History TruthInTelevision / SToU

* SillyReasonForWar: ''Quite'' a few feudal and medieval wars (and ancient wars) were for reasons that most people looking back today would finds silly or outright stupid and pointless.

* TheScapegoat:Sadly true and happens in real life to people or groups, hell you may have even been one at one time.

* SensualSpandex: Played with by the recent vogue for compression wear to reinforce and stabilize muscles, which can either enforce or subvert this trope depending upon how the materials are patterned. Also, "Leggings as pants". The look certainly has its opponents.

* STDImmunity: Some 10% of Scandinavians bear a gene mutation which makes them immune to HIV. Even having that mutation as a single gene reduces dramatically the chances of catching HIV or already caught to worsen into AIDS.

* SorryOccifer: The reason why, if you are drunk or high, not talking to the police by stating your right to silence and need for a lawyer, and then ''shutting up'' (if you live somewhere where you have this right) is the best legal advice you can possibly ever follow. And you got it here free.

* ScaryAmoralReligion: Some followers of monotheistic legalistic beliefs believe any religion that doesn't have a strict law code and a deity that enforces it is this, because "how can you be good without (our) God?" Alternately, some atheists and followers of religions with a hedonistic, humanistic, polytheistic, or pantheistic view view monotheistic religion with strict law codes as this - "if we rely on a book to always give us our ethics and morals, we are giving up our responsibility as individual moral beings to those who interpret that book."

* SexIsEvil: Believed by some people (be it for religious or secular reasons) to be a necessary evil for procreation alone, or evil unless kept within very strict rules and bounds.

* SexIsEvil: Believed by some religious people to be a necessary evil for procreation alone, or evil unless kept within very strict rules and bounds.

* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Some students and teachers just don't get along.

* {{Sabotutor}}: Sometimes happens in abusive relationships. In a more benign case, happens when the teacher realizes the person he's teaching is not going to use the skill for anything good (e.g. a gun instructor realizes his student is planning on committing a murder) and tries to make sure the person will be as ineffective as possible, while also likely notifying authorities if need be. Also an EnforcedTrope (sometimes by MoralGuardians and other times by law) in almost all televised or otherwise demonstrated drug chemistry, explosive chemistry, and similarly dangerous activities that require a process of steps or ingredients or the like - even in depictions intended for adults' eyes only. Important ingredients, process steps, etcetera ''will'' be left out, in the hopes that, say, people ''can't'' learn how to make methamphetamine from ''Series/BreakingBad'' or that kids watching an educational show about science won't accidentally create a bomb with mentos and Coke. Famously {{Lampshaded}} by the Series/{{Mythbusters}} when cooking up Thermite: "[[AndSomeOtherStuff don't mix blur with blur]]."

* TrojanVeggies: Hiding vegetables in other food is one method employed by parents to get reluctant children to eat them. Some adults also use this strategy on themselves due to personal preference--for some, eating vegetables is just easier when they're mixed in with something else, whether you're a child or adult.

* TrojanVeggies: Hiding vegetables in other food is one method employed by parents to get reluctant children to eat them.

* {{Sabotutor}}: Sometimes happens in abusive relationships. In a more benign case, happens when the teacher realizes the person he's teaching is not going to use the skill for anything good (e.g. a gun instructor realizes his student is planning on committing a murder) and tries to make sure the person will be as ineffective as possible, while also likely notifying authorities if need be.
** Also an EnforcedTrope (sometimes by MoralGuardians and other times by law) in almost all televised or otherwise demonstrated drug chemistry, explosive chemistry, and similarly dangerous activities that require a process of steps or ingredients or the like - even in depictions intended for adults' eyes only. Important ingredients, process steps, etcetera ''will'' be left out, in the hopes that, say, people ''can't'' learn how to make methamphetamine from ''Series/BreakingBad'' or that kids watching an educational show about science won't accidentally create a bomb with mentos and Coke. Famously {{Lampshaded}} by the Series/{{Mythbusters}} when cooking up Thermite: "[[AndSomeOtherStuff don't mix blur with blur]]."

* TooDumbToLive: Everyone has met them at some point, have they not? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG_Vbh8arNM Rad Girls.]] ({{NSFW}})
** The whole point behind the Darwin Awards website: [[http://www.darwinawards.com/ darwinawards.com]]

* SingleTargetSexuality: Not heard often, but there ''are'' people who have had only one true love in their life. * SingleTaskRobot: Most real-life robots only have as many functions as certain people ''need'' from them.

* SingleParentsAreUndesirable: It's quite common for single parents to have a hard time dating, especially when there are some people who have no interest in children.

* SpeedSex: According to [[https://9gag.com/gag/axM8yjY 9GAG]] a couple from Yucatan, Mexico got the Guiness World Record for fastest sexual intercourse at 7.8 seconds.
* SpellingForEmphasis: Sometimes, people do emphasise words by spelling them.

* StatusQuoIsGod: To some people in real life,

* {{Slurpasaur}}: Many RealLife living ''and'' extinct species such as Komodo Dragons, [[LovableLizard frilled lizards]], [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile salt-water crocodiles]], Jackson's Chameleons, ''Dimetrodon'', ''Edaphosaurus'', [[SeldomSeenSpecies Shringasaurus]], ''Postosuchus'', and ''Moschops'' physically resemble famous fictional examples of this trope to varying extents.

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Sometimes, many mundane details are seen throughout our daily lives such as a starry night sky with a full moon shining, warm food or drinks, mounted dinosaur fossils in a natural history museum, visiting the zoo to see cute captive animals, domestic cats [[TummyCushion sleeping on top of one of their owners' abdomens]], and a woman hugging a young boy all tend to make us inexplicably smile.

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Sometimes, many mundane details seen throughout our daily lives such as a starry night sky with a full moon shining, mounted dinosaur fossils in a natural history museum, domestic cats [[TummyCushion sleeping on top of one of their owners' abdomens]], and a woman hugging a young boy all tend to make us inexplicably smile.

* StockDinosaurs: UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex, ''Stegosaurus'', [[TemperCeratops Triceratops]], [[GentleGiantSauropod Brontosaurus]], ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', [[SavageSpinosaurs Spinosaurus]], and the like all get much more representation in museums and the fictional media than countless other dinosaur species known to science.
* StoneWall: A military tactic used if defenses are better than anything else. Also common in sports if the defense is better than the offense.

* TranquilFury: Yes, some people do get calmer the angrier they become. There can be a phase when they first yell and shout and ‘’then’’ go still and cold.