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* VocalDissonance: Radio [=DJs=], Mike Tyson, SteveBlum, and several others do ''not'' look how you would expect them to based on their voice, and vice versa. This was a very real problem back in the days when "talkie" movies were new, and many actors lost their jobs because their voices were so silly.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with UsefulNotes/NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
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* VillainousRescue: There have been quite a few occasions when people who would be seen as "villains" have indeed rescued people - for example, John Rabe, the Nazi who protected people in Nanking from the Imperial Japanese army. TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar actually mandate this in war in some ways - by prohibiting firing on parachuting aircrews or the wounded, and mandating that POW chaplains and medics be allowed to function as medics for ''anyone'' in need of their services.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: Some people have false friends.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Children who go into puberty early can often look several years older than what they are. Less-than-fortunate genetics, poor nutrition, drug/alcohol/tobacco use, frequent sun exposure, stress and hard living in general can cause premature aging in adults.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: While no one is born with an abnormal hair color, they can dye it that way.
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* WeHaveReserves: Extensively used as a tactic by, among ''many'' others, the CSA during the US Civil War, both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese during WorldWarII (the IJA's use of it bringing the word "kamikaze" into common vernacular for a suicidal attacker), and several African warlords who used ChildSoldiers as cannon fodder. It's widely assumed that this + ZergRush + [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is UsefulNotes/NorthKorea's "plan" to fight (more like [[CurbStompBattle lose]]) a war.
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* YourCheatingHeart: One or both significant others cheat in their relationship, which can lead to attempts to reconcile, divorce, or, at worst, murder.
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* VirtualCelebrity: A few of them are around like [[{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloids]].
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* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare UsefulNotes/LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with NorthKorea.UsefulNotes/NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
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* WeHaveReserves: Extensively used as a tactic by, among ''many'' others, the CSA during the US Civil War, both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese during WorldWarII (the IJA's use of it bringing the word "kamikaze" into common vernacular for a suicidal attacker), and several African warlords who used ChildSoldiers as cannon fodder. It's widely assumed that this + ZergRush + [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is NorthKorea's "plan" to fight (more like [[CurbStompBattle lose]]) a war.
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* ValleyGirl: They still exist, although not ''just'' in LosAngeles and nearby environs.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
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* VomitingCop: Many, many RealLife incidents. More frequent on vehicle accidents than violent crime, but it happens.
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* WeReallyDoCare: Announce that you are closing your FaceBook or leaving Twitter. Watch the responses roll in. The AttentionWhore and DramaQueen live for this, and may threaten suicide to accomplish it in its most ultimate way - which makes life just that much worse for the actually suicidal and depressed.
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* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The TouristTrap is infamous for it. "Before and after" ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
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* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The TouristTrap "tourist trap" is infamous for it. "Before and after" ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
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* WorthlessYellowRocks: For most of human history, gold had essentially no practical use, and it wasn't widely seen as valuable until societies started to develop systems of currency (though it now has practical industrial applications as a conductor). Ironically, gold only came to be used for currency and jewelry because it was seen as worthless for everything else--it was too weak and malleable to be used for weapons, tools, armor, or building material, but it came to be seen as an indicator of wealth because it looked pretty.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of friendships can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other, most especially in children and teenagers.
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* VacationEpisode: If someone is middle-class or above (or lucky enough to hit a windfall or be invited somewhere or win a contest or similar), there's a fairly good likelihood they will travel for pleasure. Some places are created solely to rely on this - good examples being Las Vegas, Hawaii, and almost any resort location anywhere.
* VaginaDentata: The Rapex female condom exists to create this as a form of self-defense against male rapists. The sharp plastic teeth detach into a rapist's penis, with the objective being to cause enough pain to stop him from raping the victim and to make him an easy target for police when he goes to a hospital to get the teeth removed.
* VagueAge: Stereotypically common in the US in women over 30. VisualKei artists in Japan of any age tend to do it (younger ones to seem mysterious and older, older ones to seem younger and more relevant)
* ValleyGirl: They still exist, although not ''just'' in LosAngeles and nearby environs.
* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
* VampiresAreSexGods: While ''actual'' vampires probably don't exist (unless the Otherkin are right), thanks to sociocultural memes, playing the role of "vampire" to good effect can tend to make someone appeal sexier than, say, playing the role of a zombie or other undead. Many people in the goth scene and in music use this to their advantage.
* VegetarianVampire: People in the real-life Goth "vampire" subculture are this - human blood is only consumed in small, safely taken amounts as ritual, if at all.
* VerbalTic: It happens, just not with every single person. Francophone Canadians often say "lá" ("there") at the end of each sentence, Mexicans do the same with "wey" and "ese" ("dude" and "this", respectively), Argentinians start their phrases with "che", and Americans use "like", like, every five words. And not just, like, the ValleyGirl types (thanks to MTV). [[CanadaEh Most famously...]]
** It's become a pastime of many Canadians to use [[CanadaEh their verbal tic]] when around Americans.
* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The TouristTrap is infamous for it. "Before and after" ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
* ViewersAreMorons: Why there needs to be TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs, "DontTryThisAtHome" warnings, the {{Sabotutor}} doing AndSomeOtherStuff needs to exist, and various other means to stop people's stupidity from actually harming them.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: How many of the more sophisticated criminals who do manage to get caught/arrested do so - they don't keep informed of law enforcement tactics or change their own tactics or ideas, doing the same thing while the cops understand how it's done or that it's being done/infiltrate thoroughly with informants. Or they use tactics that are amateurish enough or obvious enough to guarantee police attention such as open violence, even when they should know better from experience.
* VillainousBreakdown: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, at the end of his life in the bunker. Averted with Hirohito, who was either a KarmaHoudini or far less involved than his military was, but either way, ''didn't'' have a breakdown despite far worse happening to his country. Narcissistic rage - when a narcissist's plans have failed or he or she has lost control. Dictators or other failed leaders who decide to destroy as much of their own country with them on their way out.
* VillainousRescue: There have been quite a few occasions when people who would be seen as "villains" have indeed rescued people - for example, John Rabe, the Nazi who protected people in Nanking from the Imperial Japanese army. TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar actually mandate this in war in some ways - by prohibiting firing on parachuting aircrews or the wounded, and mandating that POW chaplains and medics be allowed to function as medics for ''anyone'' in need of their services.
* VillainsOutShopping: Even UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had some innocuous hobbies, and most criminals/dictators/etcetera tend to have ''some'' interests or hobbies that don't revolve around killing people and committing crime.
* VindicatedByHistory: More than a few people. There are several politicians who were widely hated during their term but are now fondly remembered by history books, for example.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Happens quite often in RealLife.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Glasgow is the murder capital of Western Europe.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: These tend to start anything from the BarBrawl to MaliciousSlander if even slightly upset by someone as much as flirting with their man. Beware.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Only true in a very limited circumstance: virginity plus/as a result of abstinence-only religious education combined with being very sheltered or isolated from outside information ''can'' make someone ignorant or even willfully stupid in regard to things related to sex (especially how it works, how to do it in a safer way, etcetera). A bit more true historically in societies when young women weren't educated in regard to ''anything'' aside from keeping the home.
* VirginSacrifice: Some cultures throughout history have done this.
* VisibleInvisibility: There are quite a few interfaces that require a visible or audible token of action for something that is invisible to convince the user that something is indeed happening. A couple of examples are the hourglass (in Windows) and the spinny candy disc (in OSX), and hold music or recordings instead of dead air so people stay on the phone on hold rather than assume the call has ended.
* VisualKei: Some artists and fans dress in the style and/or even maintain complete personas offstage.
* VirtualCelebrity: A few of them are around like [[{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloids]].
* VirtualGhost: Programmers working with the band Music/XJapan made a hologram of a late member (lead guitarist [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]) that was both a VirtualCelebrity and very, very close to this idea from the realism INA and the other programmers achieved with the image. Programmers also did this to bring Music/TupacShakur to Coachella 2012.
* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of friendships can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other, most especially in children and teenagers.
* VocalDissonance: Radio [=DJs=], Mike Tyson, SteveBlum, and several others do ''not'' look how you would expect them to based on their voice, and vice versa. This was a very real problem back in the days when "talkie" movies were new, and many actors lost their jobs because their voices were so silly.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Russia and the former Soviet republics ''still'' maintain the world's highest rates of alcohol abuse and alcoholism per capita. So while it is a stereotype, it's also unfortunately a true one in many ways.
* VoteEarlyVoteOften: Election fraud is a problem in many places, though ''voter fraud'' (e.g. voters actually committing the fraud as opposed to parties or institutions or something else along the line) is far less common in the US than people who want to restrict or limit voting might suggest.
* WackyCravings: Many people have them and not always as a result of pregnancy.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Geeks love asking their soulmates in ways like that. And people take great lengths (e.g.: ball games, fireworks, et cetera)
* WalkAndTalk: Some people like to have discussions this way.
** Also a way to have discussions without being observed by Big Brother: turn off all mobile devices and go for a walk in an area where the nearest bugs are far away.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Beaches, though often this is FanDisservice more than sexy. Bodybuilding contests, male models, and musicians also provide them.
* WalkingTheEarth: Being a hobo is about Walking The Earth for a while, finding all sorts of small jobs, with nothing but a backpack, enough money to stay fed, groomed and with a place to sleep. Pre-war Gypsies and modern Travellers also are similar. Touring bands or artistic acts are similar, though their WalkingTheEarth is generally planned and limited to the tour. Some journalists do this on purpose, as well.
** The concept of "location independent living" is this, albeit with more comforts, and once someone reaches a certain level of wealth, they are free to walk the earth in as much comfort and pleasure as is possible.
* {{Wangst}}: Because not all angst is appropriate to age or situation. Often a frequent cause of conflict when someone suffering from {{wangst}} expresses it in a way that insults more legitimate angst (e.g. someone posting to a forum to whine about a thief stealing their [=IPod=] and how that makes them understand someone whose house just burned down) or is extremely inappropriate (threatening suicide over a broken toe or common cold).
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Sometimes the award/reward/certificate/degree/trophy/etc is not worth the effort of getting there. Other times it is worthless or useless. In the worst cases (the reward being a high-maintenance house or vehicle, some animals) the reward is itself demanding of resources and time and effort, or (the reward being an ArrangedMarriage or the like) life-changing in an unwanted way.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Yes, there are some people like this in real life.
* WarriorPoet: Yes, there are some creative and artistic people in the militaries of the world. Also describes people who write about wars/military fiction and the like.
* WarRefugees: Probably every war in history has produced ''some''. Some have produced ''a lot''.
* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human.
* WasTooHardOnHim: Parents will often feel hurt in punishing or use other forms of discipline on their children, especially if the child is very young.
* WaterIsBlue: But only a ''very'' slight amount. Go look at pictures of tropical beaches. It's either blue or green.
* WeakButSkilled: Many people, especially because many things don't require extreme physical perfection or strength.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Many women don't necessarily seek strength or physical power. A Domme might wish to have a more submissive partner, while someone else might find the idea of the 5"6 waifish nerd that happens to be a multimillionaire far more appealing than that of the 6"5 muscled-out ex-soldier with no job and a criminal record for beating people up.
* WeaponForIntimidation: The reason most people in RealLife that have weapons do. On a larger scale, nuclear weapons are this.
* WeaponJr: A child who frequently plays with a child's bow and arrow is a lot likely to take well to archery, and anyone who wants their kid to become comfortable with shooting for hunting or sport purposes will usually buy them toy guns starting fairly early on, because aiming and sighting skills don't need to be taught with a real gun and can therefore be learned fairly early.
* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: This in regard to Naziism and to a lesser degree Nazi-style fascism is why GodwinsLaw has the power it does, why "Nazi" is ''still'' something few people want to seriously be seen as or identify as, and why even the slightly softpedaled Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement eventually faced its own downfall - ''very few'' but actual Neo-Nazis or the absolutely insane want to go through ''that'' again.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The political spectrum is a line, not a circle. A very ''long'' line. But still a line.
* WeCanRuleTogether: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler used this on a few occasions - but those who agreed, aside from Mussolini, usually found themselves invaded and occupied by the Nazis ''anyway.''
* WeHaveReserves: Extensively used as a tactic by, among ''many'' others, the CSA during the US Civil War, both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese during WorldWarII (the IJA's use of it bringing the word "kamikaze" into common vernacular for a suicidal attacker), and several African warlords who used ChildSoldiers as cannon fodder. It's widely assumed that this + ZergRush + [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is NorthKorea's "plan" to fight (more like [[CurbStompBattle lose]]) a war.
* WeHaveThoseToo: Quite a few people have assumed others to be more backward than them technologically or intellectually, only to realize they are the truly backward ones.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Has happened, and tends to happen in places and situations where the prevailing rules of politics involve lots of betrayal and odd alliances, or where the person's information or skills or connections are worth the risk that he or she will betray again like with some spies and informants.
* WellDoneDadGuy: The stereotypical "Disneyland Dad," a divorced father who hopes to earn his children's love by financial support and lavishing expensive gifts and vacations on them. Fathers who were abusive or addicted or absent or something similar but recovered/got help/reformed somehow and hope their children can forgive them.
* WellDoneSonGuy: There's plenty of men who are seeking the approval of a father or father figure or older brother or a coach or teacher or similar.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Relationships where one partner seeks to "improve" or "motivate" the other by making them aware of how much of a loser they are do exist. Unfortunately, most of these relationships in RealLife aren't anything ''near'' romantic, and it's a major red flag of DomesticAbuse, at least of the emotional and/or financial types.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The real world version is a lot scarier, actually.
* WeReallyDoCare: Announce that you are closing your FaceBook or leaving Twitter. Watch the responses roll in. The AttentionWhore and DramaQueen live for this, and may threaten suicide to accomplish it in its most ultimate way - which makes life just that much worse for the actually suicidal and depressed.
* WeSellEverything: Wal-Mart and Target and other wholesellers, who were steamrolling the competition for a while, until they began to destroy their own markets and lose space to online and home shopping... as shopping malls, which had been another example, and the department store, which had been another example before that, had done before them. (And ironically enough, it was the first department store, Sears-Roebuck, that first popularized the same home shopping using catalog and post/phone that Amazon and Ebay now dominate using the internet.) It is only a good business model in the short term, and as you can see from the pattern, cyclically.
* WesternTerrorists: The Irish Republican Army had a few people that could be considered this (even if you believe that YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters). Various types of the MadBomber including the Unabomber and Timothy Mc Veigh, both of whom caused the most deaths on US soil via acts of terrorism before a certain day in 2001. Members of some types of the AnimalWrongsGroup and similar environmental groups, although they tend to limit their violence and destruction to property and to releasing animals (which can be problematic in and of itself in some conditions). Some far-right/racist groups such as the Golden Dawn in Greece and the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the US. "Enforcers" for TheCartel, TheMafia, and TheMafiya.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sometimes friendships end amicably or drift apart or at least end without drama. Other times, ex-friends do become bitter enemies.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Fairly common in a variety of ways: for example, the jerk was the one who bothered flaming trolls or spammers enough that the trolls or spammers finally left the community alone, or his/her misanthropic attitude allowed him or her to write far better stuff than he/she wrote as a happy StepfordSmiler, or the change in attitude is insincere/creepy, and/or the result of a conversion to a philosophy or religion no one in the group believes or shares.
* WhaleEgg: There are some products made for humans to approximate the feeling of laying an egg, and we'll just leave it at that. Also, there are the echidna and platypus, which lay eggs instead of having live births.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Older vehicles (anything made before around TheEighties) are impervious to EMP. If a nuke ever goes off or a Carrington Event happens again, they are likely the only vehicles that will be capable of running. Also, if a car has existed and is still working despite being built more than 30 years ago, it's a quality vehicle no matter what it looks like.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There's more than enough of this to go around, for ''every single person in the world.'' In fact, some metaphysical theories claim that our lives are split into many different paths of what could have been.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Often money, power, connections. Sometimes he's just good in bed, or at something else that makes up for his general loser self.
* WildChild: There's a few examples: Kaspar Hauser, Genie, and a feral French boy. None of them ended up that well off.
* WhammyBid: People make these in auctions. Sometimes, because they really, really want what's for sale and are willing to pay any price. Other times, it is done as a form of {{Troll}}ing, to ''ruin the auction,'' or being a ManipulativeBastard to drive down bids when the fake is found and everything is reset.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: The usual result of someone trying to invoke IKnowMortalKombat.
* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet?: Cruciverbalists of the world have been through this all too much. Which is why there's a huge market for [[http://www.amazon.com/Million-Word-Crossword-Dictionary/dp/0060517565 Crossword Puzzle-specific dictionaries]].
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Many parents of special needs children often feel this way, especially if it's their first child. This trope is why 4 out of 5 parents of autistic children divorce. Even if they don't outwardly say it to the degree it's portrayed in fiction, they often feel this way inside, because, yes, life ''would'' be a lot simpler and cheaper if their kid were different. Or if society changed so that autistic children and otherwise disabled children were valued for themselves rather than seen as problems or burdens...
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Phobias are common, even silly ones (like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Az10dr0xZY peaches]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjJVN_RkbTw balloons]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-FGE7QELQ pickles]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf8FQYv9lD4 chickens]]), etc. If it exists, someone in the world has a phobia of it.
* WikiWalk: If you're reading this, then chances are good that you're participating in an example of this trope!
* WillNotTellALie: Very uncommon, but definitely real. This was ostensibly true in ancient Persia, since it was a religious edict of Zoroastrianism. They throw around the word "truth" like Americans do with "freedom".
** Might also be your experience of cultures where the idea of little white lie does not exist.
* WindTurbinePower: Wind turbines sprout like mushrooms all over the planet because they work.
** The real question is: do they work good enough? Also, lots of lobbying tends to muddy the issue.
* WiperStart: To the embarrassment of many a new driver.
* WishfulProjection: Another Freudian trope.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Turkmenbashi was a very... eccentric ruler. Yes, he was a dictator. But he didn't have gulags. He was primarily weird.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: The need for food is universal among animals and humans, and larger amounts of and specific kinds (more nutritious in specific ways, or providing of certain ingredients) of food are needed for those whose occupations or hobbies are physically (and in some cases mentally) demanding.
* WolverineClaws: Ninjas used the [[http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D0510121-0-large.jpg Nekode]] and Indians used the Tiger's Claw for fighting
* TheWorfEffect: Used by police to break up fights and riots before they really start.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: Sadly true.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: See ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Happens a fair bit online, more rarely but scarily in real life.
* WretchedHive: Somalia. The slums of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lagos. West Africa. A few very bad neighborhoods in the United States. Look hard enough, and you ''will'' find them all over the world.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: What kind of schmuck needs this one explained, anyhow?
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Examples can range from personal to those which affect the entire countries.
* YouCanPanicNow: Locked-In Syndrome. [[strike:Global Warming]] Climate change. Nuclear war. Leprosy. Jack the Ripper. ''The goblin's gonna getcha if you don't... watch... OUT!''
* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Safety regulations require that you be tall enough and large enough to be secure in the safety harnesses and not risk injury or death.
* YourOtherLeft: The bane of those giving directions over a mobile phone.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Against professional advice, people have paid ransoms to international terrorists to have their family members released. At this point, the terrorists decide that they can get even more money from the families of these hostages and demand even more payment. Also, it has happened in reality for a criminal or terrorist to state they are going to free someone, be it to the family of the hostage or to other captives, only to execute that person, or for that person to already be dead.
* ZettaiRyouiki are a very popular fashion item among girls and young women in Japan.
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* VacationEpisode: If someone is middle-class or above (or lucky enough to hit a windfall or be invited somewhere or win a contest or similar), there's a fairly good likelihood they will travel for pleasure. Some places are created solely to rely on this - good examples being Las Vegas, Hawaii, and almost any resort location anywhere.
* VaginaDentata: The Rapex female condom exists to create this as a form of self-defense against male rapists. The sharp plastic teeth detach into a rapist's penis, with the objective being to cause enough pain to stop him from raping the victim and to make him an easy target for police when he goes to a hospital to get the teeth removed.
* VagueAge: Stereotypically common in the US in women over 30. VisualKei artists in Japan of any age tend to do it (younger ones to seem mysterious and older, older ones to seem younger and more relevant)
* ValleyGirl: They still exist, although not ''just'' in LosAngeles and nearby environs.
* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere. In the US, compare LosAngeles with anywhere other than Austin in Texas for example. Or worldwide, [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with Tehran or Vatican City. Or SouthKorea with NorthKorea. Or fifty years ago with today.
* VampiresAreSexGods: While ''actual'' vampires probably don't exist (unless the Otherkin are right), thanks to sociocultural memes, playing the role of "vampire" to good effect can tend to make someone appeal sexier than, say, playing the role of a zombie or other undead. Many people in the goth scene and in music use this to their advantage.
* VegetarianVampire: People in the real-life Goth "vampire" subculture are this - human blood is only consumed in small, safely taken amounts as ritual, if at all.
* VerbalTic: It happens, just not with every single person. Francophone Canadians often say "lá" ("there") at the end of each sentence, Mexicans do the same with "wey" and "ese" ("dude" and "this", respectively), Argentinians start their phrases with "che", and Americans use "like", like, every five words. And not just, like, the ValleyGirl types (thanks to MTV). [[CanadaEh Most famously...]]
** It's become a pastime of many Canadians to use [[CanadaEh their verbal tic]] when around Americans.
* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/time share ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The TouristTrap is infamous for it. "Before and after" ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
* ViewersAreMorons: Why there needs to be TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs, "DontTryThisAtHome" warnings, the {{Sabotutor}} doing AndSomeOtherStuff needs to exist, and various other means to stop people's stupidity from actually harming them.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: How many of the more sophisticated criminals who do manage to get caught/arrested do so - they don't keep informed of law enforcement tactics or change their own tactics or ideas, doing the same thing while the cops understand how it's done or that it's being done/infiltrate thoroughly with informants. Or they use tactics that are amateurish enough or obvious enough to guarantee police attention such as open violence, even when they should know better from experience.
* VillainousBreakdown: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, at the end of his life in the bunker. Averted with Hirohito, who was either a KarmaHoudini or far less involved than his military was, but either way, ''didn't'' have a breakdown despite far worse happening to his country. Narcissistic rage - when a narcissist's plans have failed or he or she has lost control. Dictators or other failed leaders who decide to destroy as much of their own country with them on their way out.
* VillainousRescue: There have been quite a few occasions when people who would be seen as "villains" have indeed rescued people - for example, John Rabe, the Nazi who protected people in Nanking from the Imperial Japanese army. TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar actually mandate this in war in some ways - by prohibiting firing on parachuting aircrews or the wounded, and mandating that POW chaplains and medics be allowed to function as medics for ''anyone'' in need of their services.
* VillainsOutShopping: Even UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had some innocuous hobbies, and most criminals/dictators/etcetera tend to have ''some'' interests or hobbies that don't revolve around killing people and committing crime.
* VindicatedByHistory: More than a few people. There are several politicians who were widely hated during their term but are now fondly remembered by history books, for example.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Happens quite often in RealLife.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Glasgow is the murder capital of Western Europe.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: These tend to start anything from the BarBrawl to MaliciousSlander if even slightly upset by someone as much as flirting with their man. Beware.
* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Only true in a very limited circumstance: virginity plus/as a result of abstinence-only religious education combined with being very sheltered or isolated from outside information ''can'' make someone ignorant or even willfully stupid in regard to things related to sex (especially how it works, how to do it in a safer way, etcetera). A bit more true historically in societies when young women weren't educated in regard to ''anything'' aside from keeping the home.
* VirginSacrifice: Some cultures throughout history have done this.
* VisibleInvisibility: There are quite a few interfaces that require a visible or audible token of action for something that is invisible to convince the user that something is indeed happening. A couple of examples are the hourglass (in Windows) and the spinny candy disc (in OSX), and hold music or recordings instead of dead air so people stay on the phone on hold rather than assume the call has ended.
* VisualKei: Some artists and fans dress in the style and/or even maintain complete personas offstage.
* VirtualCelebrity: A few of them are around like [[{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloids]].
* VirtualGhost: Programmers working with the band Music/XJapan made a hologram of a late member (lead guitarist [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]) that was both a VirtualCelebrity and very, very close to this idea from the realism INA and the other programmers achieved with the image. Programmers also did this to bring Music/TupacShakur to Coachella 2012.
* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of friendships can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other, most especially in children and teenagers.
* VocalDissonance: Radio [=DJs=], Mike Tyson, SteveBlum, and several others do ''not'' look how you would expect them to based on their voice, and vice versa. This was a very real problem back in the days when "talkie" movies were new, and many actors lost their jobs because their voices were so silly.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Russia and the former Soviet republics ''still'' maintain the world's highest rates of alcohol abuse and alcoholism per capita. So while it is a stereotype, it's also unfortunately a true one in many ways.
* VoteEarlyVoteOften: Election fraud is a problem in many places, though ''voter fraud'' (e.g. voters actually committing the fraud as opposed to parties or institutions or something else along the line) is far less common in the US than people who want to restrict or limit voting might suggest.
* WackyCravings: Many people have them and not always as a result of pregnancy.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Geeks love asking their soulmates in ways like that. And people take great lengths (e.g.: ball games, fireworks, et cetera)
* WalkAndTalk: Some people like to have discussions this way.
** Also a way to have discussions without being observed by Big Brother: turn off all mobile devices and go for a walk in an area where the nearest bugs are far away.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Beaches, though often this is FanDisservice more than sexy. Bodybuilding contests, male models, and musicians also provide them.
* WalkingTheEarth: Being a hobo is about Walking The Earth for a while, finding all sorts of small jobs, with nothing but a backpack, enough money to stay fed, groomed and with a place to sleep. Pre-war Gypsies and modern Travellers also are similar. Touring bands or artistic acts are similar, though their WalkingTheEarth is generally planned and limited to the tour. Some journalists do this on purpose, as well.
** The concept of "location independent living" is this, albeit with more comforts, and once someone reaches a certain level of wealth, they are free to walk the earth in as much comfort and pleasure as is possible.
* {{Wangst}}: Because not all angst is appropriate to age or situation. Often a frequent cause of conflict when someone suffering from {{wangst}} expresses it in a way that insults more legitimate angst (e.g. someone posting to a forum to whine about a thief stealing their [=IPod=] and how that makes them understand someone whose house just burned down) or is extremely inappropriate (threatening suicide over a broken toe or common cold).
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Sometimes the award/reward/certificate/degree/trophy/etc is not worth the effort of getting there. Other times it is worthless or useless. In the worst cases (the reward being a high-maintenance house or vehicle, some animals) the reward is itself demanding of resources and time and effort, or (the reward being an ArrangedMarriage or the like) life-changing in an unwanted way.
* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Yes, there are some people like this in real life.
* WarriorPoet: Yes, there are some creative and artistic people in the militaries of the world. Also describes people who write about wars/military fiction and the like.
* WarRefugees: Probably every war in history has produced ''some''. Some have produced ''a lot''.
* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human.
* WasTooHardOnHim: Parents will often feel hurt in punishing or use other forms of discipline on their children, especially if the child is very young.
* WaterIsBlue: But only a ''very'' slight amount. Go look at pictures of tropical beaches. It's either blue or green.
* WeakButSkilled: Many people, especially because many things don't require extreme physical perfection or strength.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Many women don't necessarily seek strength or physical power. A Domme might wish to have a more submissive partner, while someone else might find the idea of the 5"6 waifish nerd that happens to be a multimillionaire far more appealing than that of the 6"5 muscled-out ex-soldier with no job and a criminal record for beating people up.
* WeaponForIntimidation: The reason most people in RealLife that have weapons do. On a larger scale, nuclear weapons are this.
* WeaponJr: A child who frequently plays with a child's bow and arrow is a lot likely to take well to archery, and anyone who wants their kid to become comfortable with shooting for hunting or sport purposes will usually buy them toy guns starting fairly early on, because aiming and sighting skills don't need to be taught with a real gun and can therefore be learned fairly early.
* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: This in regard to Naziism and to a lesser degree Nazi-style fascism is why GodwinsLaw has the power it does, why "Nazi" is ''still'' something few people want to seriously be seen as or identify as, and why even the slightly softpedaled Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement eventually faced its own downfall - ''very few'' but actual Neo-Nazis or the absolutely insane want to go through ''that'' again.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The political spectrum is a line, not a circle. A very ''long'' line. But still a line.
* WeCanRuleTogether: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler used this on a few occasions - but those who agreed, aside from Mussolini, usually found themselves invaded and occupied by the Nazis ''anyway.''
* WeHaveReserves: Extensively used as a tactic by, among ''many'' others, the CSA during the US Civil War, both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese during WorldWarII (the IJA's use of it bringing the word "kamikaze" into common vernacular for a suicidal attacker), and several African warlords who used ChildSoldiers as cannon fodder. It's widely assumed that this + ZergRush + [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is NorthKorea's "plan" to fight (more like [[CurbStompBattle lose]]) a war.
* WeHaveThoseToo: Quite a few people have assumed others to be more backward than them technologically or intellectually, only to realize they are the truly backward ones.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Has happened, and tends to happen in places and situations where the prevailing rules of politics involve lots of betrayal and odd alliances, or where the person's information or skills or connections are worth the risk that he or she will betray again like with some spies and informants.
* WellDoneDadGuy: The stereotypical "Disneyland Dad," a divorced father who hopes to earn his children's love by financial support and lavishing expensive gifts and vacations on them. Fathers who were abusive or addicted or absent or something similar but recovered/got help/reformed somehow and hope their children can forgive them.
* WellDoneSonGuy: There's plenty of men who are seeking the approval of a father or father figure or older brother or a coach or teacher or similar.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Relationships where one partner seeks to "improve" or "motivate" the other by making them aware of how much of a loser they are do exist. Unfortunately, most of these relationships in RealLife aren't anything ''near'' romantic, and it's a major red flag of DomesticAbuse, at least of the emotional and/or financial types.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The real world version is a lot scarier, actually.
* WeReallyDoCare: Announce that you are closing your FaceBook or leaving Twitter. Watch the responses roll in. The AttentionWhore and DramaQueen live for this, and may threaten suicide to accomplish it in its most ultimate way - which makes life just that much worse for the actually suicidal and depressed.
* WeSellEverything: Wal-Mart and Target and other wholesellers, who were steamrolling the competition for a while, until they began to destroy their own markets and lose space to online and home shopping... as shopping malls, which had been another example, and the department store, which had been another example before that, had done before them. (And ironically enough, it was the first department store, Sears-Roebuck, that first popularized the same home shopping using catalog and post/phone that Amazon and Ebay now dominate using the internet.) It is only a good business model in the short term, and as you can see from the pattern, cyclically.
* WesternTerrorists: The Irish Republican Army had a few people that could be considered this (even if you believe that YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters). Various types of the MadBomber including the Unabomber and Timothy Mc Veigh, both of whom caused the most deaths on US soil via acts of terrorism before a certain day in 2001. Members of some types of the AnimalWrongsGroup and similar environmental groups, although they tend to limit their violence and destruction to property and to releasing animals (which can be problematic in and of itself in some conditions). Some far-right/racist groups such as the Golden Dawn in Greece and the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the US. "Enforcers" for TheCartel, TheMafia, and TheMafiya.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sometimes friendships end amicably or drift apart or at least end without drama. Other times, ex-friends do become bitter enemies.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Fairly common in a variety of ways: for example, the jerk was the one who bothered flaming trolls or spammers enough that the trolls or spammers finally left the community alone, or his/her misanthropic attitude allowed him or her to write far better stuff than he/she wrote as a happy StepfordSmiler, or the change in attitude is insincere/creepy, and/or the result of a conversion to a philosophy or religion no one in the group believes or shares.
* WhaleEgg: There are some products made for humans to approximate the feeling of laying an egg, and we'll just leave it at that. Also, there are the echidna and platypus, which lay eggs instead of having live births.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Older vehicles (anything made before around TheEighties) are impervious to EMP. If a nuke ever goes off or a Carrington Event happens again, they are likely the only vehicles that will be capable of running. Also, if a car has existed and is still working despite being built more than 30 years ago, it's a quality vehicle no matter what it looks like.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There's more than enough of this to go around, for ''every single person in the world.'' In fact, some metaphysical theories claim that our lives are split into many different paths of what could have been.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Often money, power, connections. Sometimes he's just good in bed, or at something else that makes up for his general loser self.
* WildChild: There's a few examples: Kaspar Hauser, Genie, and a feral French boy. None of them ended up that well off.
* WhammyBid: People make these in auctions. Sometimes, because they really, really want what's for sale and are willing to pay any price. Other times, it is done as a form of {{Troll}}ing, to ''ruin the auction,'' or being a ManipulativeBastard to drive down bids when the fake is found and everything is reset.
* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: The usual result of someone trying to invoke IKnowMortalKombat.
* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet?: Cruciverbalists of the world have been through this all too much. Which is why there's a huge market for [[http://www.amazon.com/Million-Word-Crossword-Dictionary/dp/0060517565 Crossword Puzzle-specific dictionaries]].
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Many parents of special needs children often feel this way, especially if it's their first child. This trope is why 4 out of 5 parents of autistic children divorce. Even if they don't outwardly say it to the degree it's portrayed in fiction, they often feel this way inside, because, yes, life ''would'' be a lot simpler and cheaper if their kid were different. Or if society changed so that autistic children and otherwise disabled children were valued for themselves rather than seen as problems or burdens...
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Phobias are common, even silly ones (like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Az10dr0xZY peaches]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjJVN_RkbTw balloons]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-FGE7QELQ pickles]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf8FQYv9lD4 chickens]]), etc. If it exists, someone in the world has a phobia of it.
* WikiWalk: If you're reading this, then chances are good that you're participating in an example of this trope!
* WillNotTellALie: Very uncommon, but definitely real. This was ostensibly true in ancient Persia, since it was a religious edict of Zoroastrianism. They throw around the word "truth" like Americans do with "freedom".
** Might also be your experience of cultures where the idea of little white lie does not exist.
* WindTurbinePower: Wind turbines sprout like mushrooms all over the planet because they work.
** The real question is: do they work good enough? Also, lots of lobbying tends to muddy the issue.
* WiperStart: To the embarrassment of many a new driver.
* WishfulProjection: Another Freudian trope.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Turkmenbashi was a very... eccentric ruler. Yes, he was a dictator. But he didn't have gulags. He was primarily weird.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: The need for food is universal among animals and humans, and larger amounts of and specific kinds (more nutritious in specific ways, or providing of certain ingredients) of food are needed for those whose occupations or hobbies are physically (and in some cases mentally) demanding.
* WolverineClaws: Ninjas used the [[http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D0510121-0-large.jpg Nekode]] and Indians used the Tiger's Claw for fighting
* TheWorfEffect: Used by police to break up fights and riots before they really start.
* WorthlessForeignDegree: Sadly true.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: See ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Happens a fair bit online, more rarely but scarily in real life.
* WretchedHive: Somalia. The slums of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lagos. West Africa. A few very bad neighborhoods in the United States. Look hard enough, and you ''will'' find them all over the world.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: What kind of schmuck needs this one explained, anyhow?
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Examples can range from personal to those which affect the entire countries.
* YouCanPanicNow: Locked-In Syndrome. [[strike:Global Warming]] Climate change. Nuclear war. Leprosy. Jack the Ripper. ''The goblin's gonna getcha if you don't... watch... OUT!''
* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Safety regulations require that you be tall enough and large enough to be secure in the safety harnesses and not risk injury or death.
* YourOtherLeft: The bane of those giving directions over a mobile phone.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Against professional advice, people have paid ransoms to international terrorists to have their family members released. At this point, the terrorists decide that they can get even more money from the families of these hostages and demand even more payment. Also, it has happened in reality for a criminal or terrorist to state they are going to free someone, be it to the family of the hostage or to other captives, only to execute that person, or for that person to already be dead.
* ZettaiRyouiki are a very popular fashion item among girls and young women in Japan.
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