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1	'''Basic Trope''': A title that used to apply to a work, but no longer does so.
2	* '''Straight''': The show ''Alice the Teenage Troper'' keeps its title long after Alice turns twenty years old and troping stops being the main focus of the show.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** ''Alice the Teenage Troper and the Search for {{Power Crystal}}s'' is a {{Long Runner\|s}} that keeps its title, even though Power Crystals became irrelevant by the first season, Alice is thirty-three, has changed her name to Bella, and has been PutOnABus. Oh, and no one is a troper.
5	** Alice turns twenty in the middle of the first season.
6	** Alice turns twenty in the pilot episode.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** The show keeps its title, even though [[BreakoutCharacter Carlos starts getting more attention]] (but not enough to threaten Alice's role as the main character).
9	** Over time, one of the meanings of a DoubleMeaningTitle becomes less relevant.
10	* '''Justified''': Alice may be over nineteen, [[ManChild but still acts like a teenager]].
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** ''Alice the Teenage Troper'' begins with Alice being a ten-year-old non-troper, but in the second-season finale, she becomes a Troper and is now fourteen years old.
13	** ''Alice the Teenage Troper'' began with the WorkingTitle of ''Alice the Young Woman'', but somehow the series got its name changed -- yet Alice remains twenty years old and the series has nothing to do with tropes.
14	* '''Subverted''': Alice celebrating her twentieth birthday turns out to be AllJustADream.
15	* '''Double Subverted''': The real Alice is now a thirty-year-old who dreams of her past as a Troper.
16	* '''Parodied''': "On this episode of ''[[WordSaladTitle Chocolate Deodorant of Alice the Teenage Troper and the Origami Cat Food]]'': Alice celebrates her twentieth birthday... and we ruin the only meaningful part of the title!"
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': The show jumps back and forth in time and Alice can never decide whether she wants to continue troping.
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** The show stops before Alice's twentieth birthday.
20	** The show uses ComicBookTime.
21	** When Alice turns twenty, the new season gets a [[NewSeasonNewName new name]], and the "Teenage Troper" part of the title is {{retcon}}ned into being a subtitle.
22	** After Alice moves out to go off to college, she leaves the show (despite the character still being a teenager for at least another year). The show now focuses on her younger cousin, also named Alice.
23	** The title was a WordSaladTitle or NeverTrustATitle. It ''never'' accurately described the work.
24	* '''Enforced''':
25	** "If we change the title, moronic viewers won't understand that we're still doing the same show."
26	** The show has a [[invoked]]FanDumb. Changing the title will result in TheyChangedItNowItSucks.
27	* '''Lampshaded''': "Hey, wasn't our title more accurate before Alice turned twenty?"
28	* '''Invoked''': Bob tries to persuade Alice to cease troping.
29	* '''Exploited''': ???
30	* '''Defied''':
31	** Alice refuses to stop troping and gets the show trapped in a time loop.
32	** MeaningfulRename
33	* '''Discussed''': ???
34	* '''Conversed''': "When was ''Alice the Teenage Troper'' about a teenager named Alice that tropes?"
35	* '''Implied''': Alice's age is not mentioned directly, but the show has gone on for eight years, so if Alice started the series as a teenager, she isn't any more.
36	* '''Deconstructed''': The audience wants nothing to do with a work whose title has nothing to do with it any more.
37	* '''Reconstructed''': However, they get curious about the earlier seasons and watch them instead.
38	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
39	* '''Played For Laughs''': The characters intentionally try to make the work's title obsolete, with various results.
40	%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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