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18	* FakeInteractivity used to be "Non-Interactivity". It was renamed for being misleading; it wasn't just that you couldn't interact, but that the work pretended you could.
19	* FakeShemp used to be "Invisible Darrin", a reference to TheOtherDarrin. But it was distinct from most other "Darrin"-related tropes, so it was renamed to an existing off-wiki term that relates to ''Film/TheThreeStooges''.
20	* FakeTown used to be "Potemkin Village". Although the old name was a widely used term for this sort of thing, it had additional political connotations that the trope didn't. (Strangely, the old page is marked as cut "for no reason".)
21	* FakeUltimateMook used to be "Level Five Onix", a reference to ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. It suffered from FanMyopia; if you didn't know the work, the name made no sense.
22	* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy used to be "Dan Browned", after Creator/DanBrown, who did this with respect to his works. It was renamed because not everyone knew who he was, many who did associated him with other tropes, and many who ''did'' associate him with the trope used it as license for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike.
23	* FalselyReformedVillain used to be "Civilian Villain", and before that "Civillain". The first rename came to make the pun more obvious. The second rename came due to continued underuse and confusion as to what exactly a "civilian villain" was.
24	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms used to be "Where Did They Get Lasers?" It was renamed to clarify that the trope is not just about lasers.
25	* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo used to be "Are You My Mummy?", a reference to an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho''. Tropers who weren't familiar with said episode took the name to mean ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, which doesn't imply that "mummy" isn't whom you would expect her to be.
26	* "Family Rivalry" used to be "Family Feud". It was renamed because it collided with the name of the TV series ''Series/FamilyFeud''. Even after the rename, it continued to suffer from misuse, leading to a later merger into the much wider-used FeudingFamilies.
27	* FamousFamousFictional used to be "Newton Einstein Surak", the latter name a reference to ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The problem was that people were so unfamiliar with "Surak" that they didn't even realise he was a fictional person.
28	* FandomEnragingMisconception used to be "Fandom Berserk Button". It didn't give any indication that said BerserkButton was for ''common misconceptions'', inviting examples that amounted to ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow. Before then, it was "Gannon-Banned", an obscure reference to ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', whose BigBad is named Ganon (note the spelling); it didn't make any sense if you didn't get the reference. It had also absorbed the trope "Nerd Rage", which needed a rename but was so ambiguous that nobody could really define it.
29	* FanFlattering used to be "Our Fans Are Better". In addition to looking like dialogue and being a bad snowclone from the OurTropesAreDifferent family, it invited tropers to take the name literally, leading to misuse.
30	* FandomVIP used to be "Big-Name Fan". It was frequently mistaken to refer to famous people who like a work, which is at JustForFun/OneOfUs; this is for fans who are famous specifically ''within'' a fandom.
31	* FangThpeak used to be "Whedon'th Thyndrome", after Creator/JossWhedon. Not only is he known for other things (including as the longtime TropeNamer for {{Jossed}}), he didn't really have anything to do with this trope.
32	* FanonDiscontinuity used to be just "Discontinuity". The rename clarified that it was a fan reaction, providing a clear contrast to CanonDiscontinuity. {{Discontinuity}} became an index for tropes about disregarding something from continuity.
33	* FanPreferredCouple used to be "Better than Canon". It was renamed because it didn't clarify that it referred to romantic pairings, and because tropers were using it to refer to anything they thought they could do better than the creators could (a concept that became the new page SugarWiki/BetterThanCanon). Before then, it was "Sasami Syndrome", after a character from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''; in addition to being obtuse, this particular example was ''not'' widely accepted in the fandom (and indeed had some incest/pedophilia {{Squick}} to it in some continuities).
34	* FashionAndModelingTropes was originally a trope called "Fashion Model". It was converted into an index and renamed because fashion models were determined to [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs not be a trope on their own]].
35	* FauxAffablyEvil used to be "Evilly Affable". It wasn't clear how it was actually different from AffablyEvil and often mistaken for it, hence the rename.
36	* FauxComputerCode used to be "Faux HTML Tags". It was considered too narrow in scope and renamed.
37	* FauxHorrific used to be "What Do You Mean, It's Not Horrific?" It was renamed in the general cleanup of gratuitous entries in the WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex snowclone family.
38	* FauxSymbolism used to be "What Do you Mean, It's Not Symbolic?" In addition to being a snowclone in the WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex family, it was easily misinterpreted to mean the opposite of the trope, and it became a magnet for [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike complaining about symbolism you don't like]].
39	* FavouritismFlipFlop used to be "Appeal to Libido". These two names suggest ''completely'' different tropes, so the rename was necessary for obvious reasons.
40	* FearOfThunder used to be "Thundraphobia". It was renamed for not being a real word, which just made it sound even sillier. The technical term is "tonitrophobia", but who could ever remember that?
41	* FeaturelessProtagonist used to be "AFGNCAAP", a reference to ''VideoGame/ZorkGrandInquisitor''. It's an acronym for "Ageless-Faceless-Gender-Neutral-Culturally-Ambiguous-Adventure-Person". It was impenetrable and hard to remember, hence the rename.
42	* FeedItABomb used to be "Dodongo Dislikes Smoke", after an enemy from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' (and specifically the {{memetic\|Mutation}} hint on how to defeat it from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the NES original]]). If you didn't know the reference, you had no idea what it meant.
43	* FemaleRockersPlayBass used to be one half of "The Suzi Quatro Principle", after 80s rocker Music/SuziQuatro. Even if you were familiar with her, which is far from a given, she was ''both'' the bassist and the lead singer with an all-male backing band, leading to a trope that was too narrow. This meant that in the rename process, the trope was spun off into Female Rockers Play Bass and MaleBandFemaleSinger.
44	* FemmeFataleSpy used to be "Mata Hari", after probably the most famous example -- she has [[UsefulNotes/MataHari her own Useful Notes page]]. It was renamed because many links referred to the actual TropeNamer as opposed to the character archetype.
45	* FelonyMisdemeanor used to be "What Do You Mean, It's Not Heinous?" It was renamed in the cleanup of the WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAnIndex snowclone family. It also makes it clear that it's more about legal or regulatory consequences than moral ones (although those do overlap a lot).
46	* FetishizedAbuser was created by merging "Bastard Boyfriend", "Bastard Girlfriend", and "Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend", which went through renames of their own. Bastard Girlfriend used to be "Abusively Sexy Woman", and before that "Abusively Sexy Bitch". The first rename was to make the trope less negative. The second came as part of a general cleanup of SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes following Archive/TheSecondGoogleIncident.\
47	Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend used to be "Spectacled Sadist"; it was renamed because of confusion with FourEyesZeroSoul. Before that, it was the "KichikuMegane", which was horribly obtuse to anyone who didn't know the Japanese names of anime tropes, and also shared a name with a yaoi eroge VisualNovel, though the term was brought back as an MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak page along with {{Kichiku}}, the latter of which redirected to Bastard Boyfriend prior to the main tropes being merged and the FanSpeak terms being spun off.
48	* FictionAsCoverUp used to be "Masquerainment", an opaque {{Portmanteau}} of "{{masquerade}}" and "entertainment". In addition to being hard to parse, it was nearly impossible to search for, resulting in severe underuse.
49	* FieldTripToThePast used to be "Excellent Adventure", a reference to ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''. It was renamed for being opaque without familiarity with the TropeNamer.
50	* FighterLaunchingSequence used to be "Take Off Every Zig", a reference to the very {{memetic\|Mutation}} opening sequence of ''VideoGame/ZeroWing''. It required familiarity with the game, or at least the meme, and seemed to exist almost entirely to make the entire sequence an Administrivia/AllBlueEntry.
51	* FightingAShadow used to be "Projected Avatar". It was mistaken for a bevy of other tropes, ranging from just {{Avatar}} to GodInHumanForm to AFormYouAreComfortableWith.
52	* FightUnscene used to be "Audience Sucker Punch". It sounded like it was referring to something completely different, like PlayerPunch.
53	* FilibusterFreefall used to be "The Brain Eater", after the [[Platform/{{Usenet}} rec.arts.sf]] post which seems to be the oldest known acknowledgement of the phenomenon. If you weren't aware of it -- and it's a fair guess you weren't -- you'd probably mistake it for BrainFood.
54	* FillingTheSilence used to be "Lull Destruction". The name sounded like a bad localization technique, and in any event it was more cynical than the trope really was.
55	* FilmingForEasyDub used to be "Don't Look at the Camera". It was renamed to make it clearer that it's about hiding ''mouths'' from the camera.
56	* TheFinalTemptation used to be "The Last Temptation". It collided with a couple of books, like the comic book ''ComicBook/TheLastTemptation'' or the movie ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist''.
57	* FingerInTheMail used to be "Mary Kelly's Kidney", intended to refer to an obscure detail in the investigation of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. Not only did it require deep familiarity with the Ripper case, it didn't get the detail ''right''; the kidney the Ripper mailed didn't belong to Mary Kelly, but another victim, Catherine Eddowes.
58	* FingerlessHands used to be "Powerpuff Girl Hands", after ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', who had hands like this. It was renamed as an obtuse reference.
59	* FingerTenting used to be "Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive". It was renamed for being too long and difficult to remember.
60	* FiringOneHanded used to be "One-Handed Is Cool". It was renamed because it was vague and occasionally mistaken for [[OneHandedZweihander using two-handed swords with one hand]].
61	* FirstEpisodeTwist used to be "First Episode Spoiler". It was renamed because it can't really be considered a ''spoiler'' if you were supposed to see it after one episode; "twist" got the sense across better.
62	* FirstLawOfGenderBending started off as Mandys Law Of Anime Gender Bending[[note]]this was before custom titles, so no apostrophe[[/note]], and went through a couple more names such as Law Of Conservation Of Femininity.
63	* FirstNameBasis used to be "Call Me Little Washuu", a reference to ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. Not only did this require familiarity with the work, it required translation; the nature of UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics means that an anime wouldn't use the trope in exactly the way most English-language works would.
64	* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator used to be "The Ishmael", after the character from ''Literature/MobyDick''. It required familiarity with the reference, which was tricky because it fails the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit. Even then, the name was too vague, inviting misuse and confusion about what exactly the trope meant.
65	* FirstPersonSnapshooter used to be "Amateur Photographer". It was overly vague and attracted examples that amounted to "this guy's a photographer", which is Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.
66	* Administrivia/FirstPersonWriting used to be "This Troper", after a phrase that Tropers used to use to refer to themselves on main pages. They tended to {{pothole}} to "This Troper" when doing this, even though said page told them ''not'' to do that.
67	* FistPump used to be "Fist of Enthusiasm". It was renamed to a more intuitive and widely used term.
68	* FiveSecondForeshadowing used to be "One Second Later". It was renamed to refer more directly to what it meant.
69	* FixedDamageAttack used to be "One Thousand Needles", after a fixed-damage attack in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games. It required familiarity with the franchise to understand. Interestingly, the trope exists out of a rename of a different trope named "One Thousand Needles", which is now DeathByAThousandCuts.
70	* FixedRelativeStrength used to be "Distribution of Ninjutsu", a snowclone of ConservationOfNinjutsu. It was poorly distinguished from the parent trope and suffered from misuse.
71	* FlashbackBPlot very briefly used to be "Two Lines, Different Times", a snowclone of TwoLinesNoWaiting. It was renamed for clarity and to make it more distinct from the latter trope.
72	* FlawlessToken used to be "Positive Discrimination". The old name was a real-life term with a much broader scope than the trope. As such, it was misused to refer to any time a female or minority is shown as superior to a white male.
73	* FleetingDemographicRule was a merger of two tropes that needed a rename pretty badly. One was "Seven-Year Rule", which didn't actually refer to what ''happens'' after seven years. The other was "NOHAMOTYO", a bizarre and obtuse acronym standing for "No One Has a Memory Over Two Years Old". In the renaming process, the two tropes were found to be redundant -- not that anyone could figure that out.
74	* FloatingLimbs used to be "Raymanian Limbs", a reference to the video game character VideoGame/{{Rayman}}. It was renamed for clarity.
75	* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome used to be just "Flowers for Algernon". It needed a rename after colliding with the page for the actual work ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''.
76	* ForcedTransformation used to be "Baleful Polymorph", after a spell from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. It was renamed partly because it required familiarity with the Trope Namer, and partly because it was associated with harmful transformations; the trope was broadened to include beneficial transformations as well.
77	* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne used to be "I Sense a Disturbance in the Force". Both lines come from ''Franchise/StarWars'', but are associated with different things; the former is about sensing a character's potential with the Force, while the latter is about sensing something ''bad'' happening, like Alderaan blowing up. This led to about half of the Administrivia/{{wick}}s to refer to that specific scene. The old name is now a redirect to MySignificanceSenseIsTingling.
78	* ForeignWrestlingHeel used to be "Evil Foreigner". It was not clearly being about ProfessionalWrestling, leading to most references being for any villain who happened to be foreign -- whether to the protagonists, the creators, or the troper writing the example.
79	* ForgotAboutTheMindReader used to be "Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?" Not only was it a StockPhrase, it implied the narrower sub-trope DirtyMindReading.
80	* ForgottenFriendNewFoe used to be "Forgotten Childhood Friend". The old name didn't imply that the forgotten friend was now a villain. Indeed, this was back when one half of ChildhoodFriendRomance was "Unlucky Childhood Friend", suggesting it was about romance rather than rivalry.
81	* ForgotTheCall used to be "I Am Kirok", after an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. It was renamed because it was obtuse, unsearchable, and apparently not even an example.
82	* ForkliftFu used to be "He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift", after a line from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. It was renamed for sounding like a line of dialogue.
83	* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch used to be "Libby My Old Friend", after the trope formerly known as "The Libby". After "The Libby" was renamed to AlphaBitch, this trope was renamed to match.
84	* FormulaBreakingEpisode used to be "Something Completely Different". Although it was meant to be for a shift from the work's usual formula, it was misused to refer to any shift to something completely different, as it was famously used on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. SomethingCompletelyDifferent was repurposed as an index for tropes that involve other ways a work can do something different from the norm.
85	* TheFourLoves used to be "I Just Want to Be Loved". The new name accomplished two goals: first, it sounded less like dialogue, and second, it reinforced that there's more to love than just romantic love.
86	* FourthWallGreeting used to be "Oh, Hi There". It was renamed for being misused as a StockPhrase and not being clear that it's about addressing the viewer.
87	* FramedForHeroism used to be "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", after [[Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance the film of the same name]]. It was renamed to avoid conflict with the work's page.
88	* FreakinessShame used to be "But Your Wings Are Beautiful". It was both too narrow (the freakiness doesn't have to come from wings) and too broad (it was misused to refer to ''any'' pretty WingedHumanoid, regardless of how they felt about it).
89	* FreudianTrio used to be "Power Trio". It was too broad, referring to any three-person {{ensemble\|s}}. PowerTrio was repurposed as a {{supertrope}} encompassing these ensembles.
90	* FrictionlessReentry used to be "No Kind of Atmosphere", after a song lyric from ''Series/RedDwarf''. It was too generalized to associate with the specific trope and renamed.
91	* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin used to be just "Playful Dolphin". It was renamed to make it a little broader.
92	* FromBadToWorse used to be "It Got Worse". The old name was a whole sentence in itself. As such, it became a prolific Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and attracted a ton of misuse, especially given that it didn't specify that it had to refer to things that weren't very good to begin with.
93	* FromCataclysmToMyth used to be "AndManGrewProud". It was frequently misused to refer to civilizations that collapsed due to hubris; the trope was actually about civilizations that ended long ago, for whatever reason, and became the subject of mythology. AndManGrewProud was launched as a new trope for the former definition.
94	* UsefulNotes/FromRussiaWithNukes used to be "Mnogo Nukes". It didn't make much sense unless you understood the GratuitousRussian.
95	* FullCircleRevolution used to be "The Thermidor". Although it sounds like a character-named trope, it was actually a ''calendar''-named trope -- specifically, the Thermidorian Reaction of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, so named because it took place in the month of "Thermidor" per the [[AlternativeCalendar new Revolutionary calendar]]. And even then, it wasn't an example of the trope, as the Thermidorian Reaction led to the end of the Great Terror and the downfall of UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre, which implies the ''opposite'' of what the trope is (the people who overthrew him weren't ''great'', but it wasn't really a "full circle").
96	* FunnyFanVoice used to be "Breathe on the Fan". It was commonly misused for any character talking into a fan, which [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs is not a trope in itself]]. The rename specified that it had to make the character's voice sound funny.
97	* FutureFoodIsArtificial used to be "Soylent Soy", a muddled pun on ''Film/SoylentGreen''. The "soy" part was redundant, and the "soylent" part added unnecessary and misleading connotations of [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], which isn't what the trope is about.
98	* FutureSocietyPresentValues used to be "Society Marches On". It was often mistaken for a sister trope to ValuesDissonance, when it's actually about the values of the present being applied to works set in the future, making it the inverse of PoliticallyCorrectHistory.
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102	* GambitIndex used to be "Xanatos Planned This Index", after XanatosGambit, named after a character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. "Xanatos Gambit" still exists with that name, as it was a ''very'' common trope which had leaked into our [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary unique vocabulary]], so it didn't matter anymore that nobody knew the reference. But other tropes named after Xanatos Gambit were much less intuitive, and many of them were renamed. Xanatos Gambit itself escaped renaming only by being heavily tweaked to refer to a very specific gambit (all possible outcomes are a win in some way), as many Administrivia/{{wick}}s were for different gambits; renaming the other tropes was the best way for the original Xanatos Gambit to keep its name. The other renamed tropes:
103	** GambitPileup used to be "Thirty Xanatos Pileup". Renaming it ensured that it was a pileup of ''any'' gambit, while Xanatos Gambit wasn't ''just'' any gambit.
104	** GambitRoulette was "Xanatos Roulette". Before then, it was "Yagami Gambit" after the protagonist of ''Manga/DeathNote''; however, the only reason Xanatos was better known was the prevalence of XanatosGambit.
105	** OutGambitted was originally named "Vizzini Gambit" after a character in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. It was changed due to the opacity and to make it clear the trope is trying a gambit and failing, not another kind of gambit.
106	** SpannerInTheWorks used to be "Xanatos Gilligan", combining it with ''Series/GilligansIsland'' and requiring familiarity with two works. It doesn't have anything to do with gambits, anyway.
107	** ThanatosGambit used to be "Xanatos Funeral". It was renamed after the Greek personification of death. It wasn't really a better-known reference, but it did emphasize the point that it was ''not'' a Xanatos Gambit.
108	** UnwittingPawn used to be "Xanatos Sucker". The rename allowed the name to be used more broadly.
109	* {{Gamebooks}} used to be "Choose Your Own Adventure". While the genre is known by that term in some parts of the English-speaking world, it isn't in all of them. Some tropers mistook it for StoryBranching in video games. And it shared a name with the ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' series, including some subpages colliding.
110	* GameFavoredGender used to be "Minus Four Strength", after a {{meme\|ticMutation}} from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Even if you were familiar with the game, you had to be familiar with the meme and connect it with the trope.
111	* GameplayRoulette used to be "Genre Roulette". It was too broad for the trope, leading to examples of rotating story genres as opposed to specifically ''gameplay'' genres. GenreRoulette was repurposed for story genres.
112	* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga used to be "Gaming Anime". It was renamed as too narrow; it included manga, too, and sports and games aren't the same thing.
113	* GarnishingTheStory used to be "Everything's Better with Indexes". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with Indexes" snowclone family.
114	* {{Gaslighting}} used to be "Insanity Ploy". It was renamed in the course of a top-to-bottom rewrite, and given the pre-existing literary term. Interestingly enough, this ''gave'' it a new TropeNamer: the film ''Film/{{Gaslight}}''.
115	* GenderBlendingTropes used to be "Transgender Tropes". It was renamed because it wasn't about transgender people.
116	* GenderNormativeParentPlot used to be "Billy Elliot Plot", after the film ''Film/BillyElliot''. It was unclear and required familiarity with a fairly obscure film.
117	* TheGenericGuy used to be "The Freddy", after Fred Jones from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. "Freddy" badly fails the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, and the former TropeNamer himself was not an example in later installments.
118	* GentileJewChaser used to be "Matzo Fever". The trope is about a non-Jewish character who finds a Jewish character inherently attractive because of their Jewishness; before the rename, it attracted misuse for any kind of character finding a Jew attractive for any reason.
119	* GenreThrowback used to be "George Lucas Throwback", after director Creator/GeorgeLucas. It was renamed for not being clear (indeed, Lucas's success at the genre in ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' led some viewers not to realise that they ''were'' Genre Throwbacks), and Lucas is also a bit of a divisive creator, leading to complaining (along the lines of the GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion or the former "George Lucas Love Story", now RomanticPlotTumor).
120	* GenteelInterbellumSetting used to be "Christie Time", after author Creator/AgathaChristie. Not everyone knew Christie, and not everyone who did associated Christie with this trope.
121	* GenuineHumanHide used to be "Cruelty Rich Leather". It was renamed for clarity; it didn't specify that it had to come from ''humans''.
122	* GlassesAreSexy was used to be "Sexy Spectacles". It was often misused to refer to glasses-wearing characters Tropers thought were sexy; the rename clarified it's the ''work'' that has to characterize the character that way.
123	* GlitchEntity used to be "The Missingno.", after one such glitch in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. While this was a famous glitch, it was misused to refer to the glitch itself rather than the entity it creates. In other cases, it was {{pothole}}d for any reference to the actual Missingno.
124	* GlobalCurrencyException used to be "Your Money Is No Good Here". It was renamed for sounding like a StockPhrase and causing confusion over whether the trope was medium-specific.
125	* GloriousMotherRussia used to be "In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You!", a snowclone of Yakov Smirnoff's famous RussianReversal joke. Most cases were just references to the joke, leading to a rename and the creation of RussianReversal for the joke.
126	* GodsHandsAreTied used to be "The Gods Must Be Lazy", after the film ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy''. Other than the "god" bit, the TropeNamer had nothing to do with the trope. Bizarrely, "God's Hands Are Tied" had already been the name of a trope, which was renamed to... TheGodsMustBeLazy. Apparently, the article now known as GodsHandsAreTied was written first and given a {{pun}} title rather than an accurate one, and the other article was written later by someone who didn't know of the first one's existence.
127	* MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Golden Age". It was renamed because it didn't specify that it was specific to comic books, leading to misuse referring generally to a "golden age". GoldenAge is now for the latter use.
128	* GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals used to be "Species-Coded for Your Convenience", a snowclone of ColourCodedForYourConvenience. It was renamed for not really having anything to do with the latter trope.
129	* GoodColorsEvilColors used to be "Colour-Coded for Your Convenience". It was misused to refer to all manner of chromatic arrangements, leading to the rename. ColourCodedForYourConvenience was repurposed as a {{supertrope}} for it.
130	* TheGoodKingdom used to be just "The Kingdom". It was renamed to clarify that it's not just about ''any'' monarchy, but specifically the fantasy archetype that's the opposite of TheEvilEmpire.
131	* GrammarCorrectionGag used to be "You Make Me Sic". It was misused to refer to ''any'' instance of poor spelling or grammar, making it a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for meta examples.
132	* GrandTheftPrototype used to be "Gundamjack", after the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. Although many were familiar with the trope namer, they misunderstood it to be about hijacking any kind of HumongousMecha, as opposed to specifically a prototype.
133	* GratuitousAnimalSidekick used to be "Wonder Dog". It was misused for a variety of other tropes, like HeroicDog and our passel of metaphorical dog tropes like KickTheDog. It was also named after the comic book ''ComicBook/RexTheWonderDog'', which was from UsefulNotes/TheFifties and had been so parodied that few even knew that there ''was'' a TropeNamer (and Rex wasn't an example anyway). TropeyTheWonderDog was repurposed as an index of the latter kind of trope.
134	* GratuitousDiscoSequence used to be "Everything's Funkier with Disco". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family.
135	* GratuitousIambicPentameter used to be "Pardon Me, Stewardess, I Speak Iambic Pentameter". In addition to being a long title, it was also a reference to ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Those who got the reference knew that in the original, it was "Pardon me, I speak jive," leading to the film's famous JiveTurkey exchange, so it wasn't an example -- it was just a gratuitous reference.
136	* GratuitousLatin used to be "Altum Videtur", from the Latin saying ''quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur'', meaning "anything said in Latin seems profound." It was renamed for clarity -- you shouldn't need to ''know'' Gratuitous Latin to get the sense of the trope -- as well as to bring it in line with other GratuitousForeignLanguage subtropes.
137	* GratuitousNinja used to be "Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja". It was renamed as a gratuitous entry in the InstantIndexJustAddWater snowclone family, and also to alleviate misuse to the general {{Ninja}} trope.
138	* GreatBigBookOfEverything used to be "Book of Shadows". From the name, most people assumed it referred to a TomeOfEldritchLore. It was actually a reference to a book from ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'', which contained a vast amount of oddly pertinent information.
139	* GreaterScopeVillain used to be "Bigger Bad". While it was related to BigBad, tropers weren't always clear ''how''. This led to misuse to refer to "the real Big Bad" (which is TheManBehindTheMan), "the more dangerous Big Bad" (which is just the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil at work), or "the Big Bad who starts the conflict" (which is usually [[VillainsActHeroesReact something the Big Bad does anyway]]).
140	* GreatGazoo used to be "The Ozmodiar". While Great Gazoo is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', "Ozmodiar" is a reference to a one-shot TakeThat against the Great Gazoo on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. A reference to a reference is perhaps a reference too far.
141	* GreenEyedEpiphany used to be "Skater Boy Syndrome", after a song by Music/AvrilLavigne. Even if you were familiar with the song, it was an unusual instance of the trope, both in the viewpoint character and in the outcome. (And the song is spelled "[[XtremeKoolLetterz Sk8er Boi]]" anyway.)
142	* GuiltByAssociationGag used to be "Did Not Eat the Mousse", after a line from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''. Even those who got the reference understood it to refer more specifically to food-borne illness than guilt by association.
143	* GunshipRescue used to be "Big Damn Gunship", in alignment with BigDamnHeroes. While the tropes ''are'' related, in the sense that they both involve a dramatic last-minute intervention, tropers focused on the "big" part and used it to refer to any big gunship.
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147	* HairDecorations used to be "Every Girl Is Cuter with Hair Decs". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family, then retooled to be a disambiguation of other tropes related to hair decorations.
148	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold used to be just "Hair of Gold". It was renamed in the cleanup of PersonalAppearanceTropes, as tropers were misusing it for any character with blond hair, which amounts to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.
149	* HairTriggerTemper used to be "The Pesci", after the actor Creator/JoePesci, who famously played characters like this in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' and ''Film/{{Casino}}''. Not everyone knew who he was, and many who did thought the trope referred to one of his other roles. And both of the roles after which the trope ''was'' named included maiming and death that isn't essential to the trope.
150	* HalfwayPlotSwitch used to be "From Dusk Til Dawn" (sic), after [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn the film of the same name]]. It was renamed to reclaim the title for the film's work page.
151	* HammerspaceHair used to be "Hairy Hammerspace". It was renamed after the original "Hyperspace Hair" trope was itself renamed to CompressedHair.
152	* HandCannon used to be "Really Big Gun". It was misused to mean simply {{BFG}}; the rename makes it explicit that it's a one-handed weapon.
153	* HandGagging used to be "Putting a Hand Over His Mouth". It was renamed for being a mouthful and not being that intuitive.
154	* HandshakeRefusal used to be "Hand Off". It was considered confusing and renamed to be clearer.
155	* HappyEndingOverride used to be "What Were We Fighting For?" It was non-indicative and misused for anything about unclear goals. The former name is now a redirect to WasItReallyWorthIt
156	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl used to be "Bottle Fairy", after the anime ''Manga/BottleFairy'' -- which otherwise didn't have anything to do with the trope. As such, it was mistaken for the anime, to the point that the ''work'' page was re-titled "Bottle Fairies" to avoid conflict with the trope. (What were we thinking?) Those who didn't understand the reference instead mistook it for FairyInABottle. And even those who did understand that it had to do with drinking and partying used it far too broadly, referring to any girl (and even a few ''guys'') who drank or partied regardless of whether they fit the character archetype.
157	* HardTruthAesop used to be "Family-Unfriendly Aesop", and before that "Warped Aesop". The first rename came to make the trope sound less negative; it's telling that we've got a "fun" [[DarthWiki/ThisExists Darth Wiki]] page called DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop. That rename didn't help, though; tropers were still using it for "any Aesop that's bad or wrong", leading to the second rename.
158	* HarsherInHindsight used to be "Unfunny Aneurysm Moment", after the former trope "Funny Aneurysm Moment", itself a reference to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It was renamed because the two tropes were poorly defined; one was "bad, then looks worse", and the other was "not bad, then looks worse". They were eventually merged together under the former "Unfunny Aneurysm", whose definition was expanded.
159	* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight used to be "The Krusty", after the character from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Even those who understood the reference didn't understand which aspect of the character the trope referred to.
160	* {{Headdesk}} used to be "Wall Bang". It was mistaken for the former non-trope "Wall Banger" (now a member of the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub), and "headdesk" was a more common term for the concept anyway.
161	* HeadInTheSandManagement used to be "The Chamberlain", after former British Prime Minister UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain. First, it required you to guess which Chamberlain it meant (and it wasn't a fictional character). And second, it was highly contentious whether Chamberlain -- who was long accused by history of appeasing UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler -- was actually an example.
162	* [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]] used to be "It Just Bugs Me". It was meant to be for tropers asking fellow tropers for answers to nagging questions about a work. But with the former name, tropers were basically asking fellow tropers [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike why a particular work was so stupid]].
163	* HeadTurningBeauty used to be "Hello, Nurse!", after a RunningGag from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. It was renamed due to confusion with HospitalHottie.
164	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments used to be "Crowning Moment of Heartwarming". It was renamed along with the other "Crowning Moment" tropes to reflect definition drift; it had gone from the ''funniest'' moment to ''all'' the funny moments.
165	* HeavenVersusHell used to be "Heaven and Hell". It was renamed to clarify that the two didn't just have to exist; they had to be in conflict with each other.
166	* HeelFaceBrainwashing used to be "Heel-Face Mind Screw". It was renamed because the trope wasn't actually related to MindScrew.
167	* HeroicPetStory used to be just "Heroic Pet". It was misused to refer to the character type rather than the genre.
168	* HeroOfAnotherStory used to be "Colonel Makepeace", after the character from ''Series/StargateSG1''. Even if you did know the reference, it didn't make much sense.
169	* HeroicSecondWind used to be "My Name Is Inigo Montoya", after a {{memetic\|Mutation}} line from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. It was misused to refer to characters announcing their name before a fight, which can be found at the trope now named MyNameIsInigoMontoya.
170	* HeroismIncentive used to be "Would You Do It for a Scooby Snack?", after a RunningGag from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''. It was non-indicative and often mistaken for ComicallySmallBribe.
171	* HerosFirstRescue used to be "Burning Building Rescue". It was mistaken for ''actual'' rescues from burning buildings, which can be found at HeroicFireRescue.
172	* HeroTropes used to be "Heroes". It was renamed to more clearly indicate that it's an index.
173	* HesitantSacrifice used to be "I Don't Want to Die". It was renamed because it sounded like a line of dialogue and was misused as such. It also wasn't clear that it was about ''sacrifices'', as opposed to just any near-death experience.
174	* HesJustHiding used to be "[[spoiler:Dumbledore Lives]]". Both are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' references, but the old name is a considerably more blatant {{spoiler}}.
175	* HideYourOtherness used to be "Masquerade Maintenance". It was renamed because it's not actually about TheMasquerade.
176	* HighDiveEscape used to be "Prisoner of Zenda Exit", a reference to ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense.
177	* HighSchoolHustler used to be "Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller", after the respective protagonists of ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'' and ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''. In addition to requiring familiarity with two different works, it was also long and difficult to work into sentences. Indeed, it was so awkward that people were {{pothol\|e}}ing "high school hustler" to the old title.
178	* HilariousInHindsight used to be "Reverse Funny Aneurysm", after the former trope "Funny Aneurysm Moment", itself a reference to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In addition to being an oblique reference, it was poorly defined with reference to the parent trope, leading to misuse.
179	* HolidayMode used to be "Christmas Mode". It was assumed to refer only to Christmas and not other holidays, and thus suffered underuse.
180	* HoldTheUnsolicitedIngredient used to be "Least Common Pizza Topping". It was poorly defined, with some tropers thinking it had to do with pizza, and others thinking certain examples like anchovies didn't count because that's more "least accepted common pizza topping".
181	* HollerButton used to be "Press X to Jason", after a {{meme\|ticMutation}} from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. In addition to being opaque, it was poorly defined and suffered underuse.
182	* HollywoodMedievalJapan used to be just "Medieval Japan". It was renamed to clarify that it's not about ''any'' Medieval Japanese setting, but rather its HollywoodHistory portrayal.
183	* HollywoodNewEngland used to be "Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah", a phrase meant to evoke an exaggerated [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents New England accent]]. It was changed because neither the phrase nor the FunetikAksent spelling were easy to remember.
184	* HollywoodPrehistory used to be "1 Million BC". It was renamed because it's supposed to be stereotypical depictions of prehistory that are inaccurate, such as featuring humans and dinosaurs existing alongside each other, but it was often misused for non-stereotpyical (and possibly even realistic) prehistoric settings.
185	* HollywoodTourettes used to be "Tourette's Shit Cock Syndrome", and before then "Tourette's Fucking Cunt Syndrome". The first rename was to tone down the swearing a little bit. The second rename was to emphasize that it's about inaccurate portrayals of Tourette's. Indeed, both former names do exactly what the trope accuses Hollywood of doing: trivializing the condition.
186	* HolyBurnsEvil used to be "It Burns!" Although it was often understood as a StockPhrase, it was actually a specific reference to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames'', made {{memetic\|Mutation}} by YouTubePoop. Those who didn't get the reference often mistook it for WeakenedByTheLight.
187	* HomosexualReproduction used to be "Lesbian Mouse Babies", after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaguya_(mouse) a real-life example]]. It was changed for being too obtuse.
188	* HonestJohnsDealership used to be "CMOT Dibbler"... kinda. It was actually the former {{supertrope}} of the latter, but the latter was an opaque reference to a character from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' and needed a rename anyway. In the renaming process, it was discovered that it wasn't even really distinct from its supertrope, so the tropes were merged together.
189	* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy used to be "Washington Gambit", after the story of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the cherry tree. First, the story was likely apocryphal, and second, Washington was famous as both a general and the first of UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates, leading tropers to think the "gambit" related to war or politics.
190	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold used to be "Pretty Woman", after [[Film/PrettyWoman the film of the same name]]. In addition to colliding with the work's page, the name was non-indicative; even those familiar with the work didn't always make the connection with the right trope.
191	* HopelessSuitor used to be "The Daisuke", after a character from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. First, it was a character-named trope which required you to be familiar with the work; second, the name failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, so some tropers associated it with the wrong character; third, the character in question was [[DubNameChange named "Davis" in the English dub]]; and fourth, being a Hopeless Suitor was hardly his defining character trait.
192	* HotBloodedSideburns used to be "Go Nagai Sideburns", after mangaka Creator/GoNagai, who popularized the trope. It was renamed because not everyone knew who he was.
193	* HotPaintJob used to be "Everything's Hotter with Flames". In addition to being part of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family, it wasn't clear that it was about paint jobs.
194	* HubCity used to be "Capital City"; it was renamed because it didn't have to be an administrative capital. Before then, it was named "Shattrath City", after an Outlands city in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''; it was renamed because it required familiarity with the game to understand.
195	* HubLevel used to be "The Hub". In addition to not clearly being about video game levels, it also conflicted with the page for (now renamed) Hasbro's TV channel Creator/TheHub.
196	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters used to be "Humans Are Bastards". It was about humans being monstrous relative to other, non-human species, but was understood to refer to humans being monstrous just in general. HumansAreBastards was repurposed for a new trope about the latter concept.
197	* HumansAreWhite used to be "Least Common Skin Tone". It was an unclear snowclone from the "Least Common X" family and didn't specify that it referred to white-skinned humans being dominant for no real reason in futuristic, fantasy, and AlternateUniverse settings.
198	* HumanizingTears used to be "Cry Cute". It was renamed due to rampant misuse because people were using the trope for any cute character who cries even though the trope was supposed to be for harsh characters who finally display their vulnerability by breaking down into tears. The old name is now a disambiguation.
199	* HunterOfMonsters used to be just "The Hunter". It was misused to refer to any hunter, as opposed to one who hunts supernatural creatures specifically.
200	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame used to be just "The Most Dangerous Game", after [[Literature/TheMostDangerousGame the work of the same name]]. It was renamed for conflicting with the work's page, in a way that preserved the TropeNamer.
201	* HypercompetentSidekick used to be "The Radar", after the character from ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Not only was it a character-named trope, it wasn't even clear that it was a ''character'', as "radar" is a rather generic noun.
202	* HypnoticCreature used to be "The Hypnotoad", after a side character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made little sense.
203	* HypnotizeTheCaptive used to be "Hypnotize the Princess". It was misused to focus on the "princess" part rather than the "hypnotize" part, leading people to think the trope was specific to royalty.
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207	* IconicCharacterForgottenTitle used to be "Reverse Shazam", a reference to the trope IAmNotShazam. The tropes were not exact opposites, though, hence the rename to clarify the trope's meaning.
208	* IconicOutfit used to be "Memetic Outfit". It was renamed because "{{memetic\|Mutation}}" is subjective and has a connotation of "bizarre in-joke" that made the trope a bit narrower than it really was.
209	* IdealizedSex used to be "Hollywood Sex", putting it in the HollywoodStyle index. This was misleading, as this trope can be used more productively than most tropes in that index.
210	* IdentityAmnesia used to be "The Chazz", after an incident on ''Series/CharlesInCharge''. Besides just being really opaque and obscure, it was also misspelled.
211	* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam used to be just "Green Eggs and Ham", after [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam the work of the same name]]. It was renamed to avoid conflict with the work's page, but the TropeNamer was preserved in the process.
212	* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance used to be "King of Pointland", after the work ''Literature/{{Flatland}}''. If you didn't know the work -- and sometimes even if you did -- the trope made no sense.
213	* IgnoredAesop used to be "Aesop Ju Jitsu". It was renamed for being opaque (and also because the accepted spelling for the martial art is "''jiu'' jitsu").
214	* IgnoredExpert used to be "The Jor-El", after the character from ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''. It required familiarity with the work, and the character was also associated with other tropes as well.
215	* IgnoreTheDisability used to be "Sammy's Glass Eye", after a scene in ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' involving Creator/SammyDavisJr. Not only did it require familiarity with the work, those who ''did'' get the reference mistook it for a reference to Davis himself, or else thought it had to do with the disability itself rather than other characters' inability to avoid bringing it up.
216	* IKnowYouKnowIKnow used to be "Wine in Front of Me", after a scene in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Not only did it require familiarity with the work, those who had it often associated that particular scene with PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo.
217	* ILetGwenStacyDie used to simply be "The Gwen Stacy". Both refer to the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' character, but the former name could refer to anything about the character, whereas the new name specifically refers to Spidey's inability to save her life.
218	* ImAHumanitarian used to be "Soylent Green Is People", after the big PlotTwist from ''Film/SoylentGreen''. It was renamed because not everyone was familiar with the TropeNamer.
219	* ImMelting used to be "What a World, What a World!" Both come from the same quote from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', but the former name was impossible to understand if you didn't [[ItMakesSenseInContext know the context]]. The new name is... well, the bit with the context.
220	* ImminentDangerClue used to be "The Telltale Drapes". In the rename process, it was cut and sent back to the TropeLaunchPad ''twice'' before being relaunched with its newer, clearer name.
221	* ImmortalitySeeker used to be "So You Want to Live Forever". It was mistaken for one of the [[SoYouWantTo/SeeTheIndex So You Want to...]] pages; the rename clarifies that it's about a character archetype.
222	* ImpactSilhouette used to be "Efficient Displacement". It was unintuitive and led to underuse.
223	* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin used to be "I Am He As You Are He", a reference to a song by Music/TheBeatles. In addition to being a line of dialogue and difficult to parse, the song has nothing to do with the trope; indeed, its lyrics are [[WordSaladLyrics deliberately nonsensical]].
224	* ImpossibleHourglassFigure used to be "Hourglass Hottie". It was misused to refer to any woman with an hourglass figure; it refers to a woman with an ''impossible'' hourglass figure, meaning it's an {{Animation Trope\|s}}.
225	* ImposterForgotOneDetail used to be "Imposter Jamie Has No Accent", after an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho''. Not only did it require familiarity with the work, it's not limited to accents. And in any event, nobody has ''no'' accent.
226	* ImprobableAccessoryEffect used to be "Horse Wiener", after an equippable accessory in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the trope, the name gave the wrong impression about the trope, which was especially concerning after Archive/TheGoogleIncident.
227	* ImprobableAntidote used to be "Baigar Is the Antidote", a reference to ''Manga/CaseClosed''. If you weren't familiar with the work, it made no sense. It was renamed pretty quickly after launch.
228	* ImprobableInfantSurvival used to be "Infant Immortality". The name made it seem like an absolute rule that it is simply '''impossible''' for infants to die in any work of fiction. Tropers presumably trying to prove this trope wrong started listing aversions until most examples on the page weren't even straight uses. DeathOfAChild was made as a new trope for these examples and the original was renamed to clarify that it is a trend in fiction, not a dictate.
229	* ImprobablyFemaleCast used to be "Pink Bishōjo Ghetto". First, the title required familiarity with the word "[[{{Bishoujo}} bishōjo]]". Second, the term implied that it's a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}}, when it isn't necessarily. And third, it's a reference to the relatively obscure term [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ghetto "pink ghetto"]], which is actually the ''opposite'' of the trope -- it refers to relatively low-paying jobs being dominated by women, while the higher-paying jobs are dominated by men, whereas this trope is about the ''entire'' cast being dominated by women.
230	* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms used to be "I Know That Gun". In addition to sounding like a line of dialogue, it essentially encouraged tropers to insert trivia about any gun in fiction that's based on a real gun.
231	* InadvertentEntranceCue used to be "Something Wicked This Way Comes", a reference to ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' that was repurposed as the name of more than one work. It was renamed to avoid collisions and clarify what it meant.
232	* IncestSubtext used to be "Incest Yay", a snowclone of HoYay. If you weren't familiar with the snowclone, it [[ThatCameOutWrong sounded just wrong]].
233	* IncidentalMultilingualWordplay used to be "Lucky Translation". It was renamed to clarify that the translation was "lucky" because it required little or no translation to preserve the wordplay.
234	* IncoherenceIndex used to be "Word Salad Index". It was renamed because it wasn't restricted to just "word salad".
235	* InconsistentSpelling was previously "Spell My Name with an 'S'". It had its definition adjusted and its name changed because the trope is about official spellings, but it was commonly misused for fan spellings (which belong under ViewerNameConfusion and not this trope).
236	* INeedToGoIronMyDog used to be "Helicopter Sounds", after a scene from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. Not only did this require familiarity with the work, it had nothing to do with helicopters or sounds. And people who ''were'' familiar with the scene associated it more with PrivacyByDistraction, so it wasn't even an example.
237	* IneptTalentShowContestant used to be "Pif Paf Pof", a reference to ''Series/TheHighLife'', a 1994 BritCom that [[ShortRunners lasted six episodes]]. Even then, it had little relation to the trope (it was about entries in the ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'', who are plenty weird but usually aren't inept amateurs). As you'd expect, the page suffered from serious underuse.
238	* InexplicablyAwesome used to be "The Frizzle", after Ms. Frizzle from ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus''. Even if you were familiar with the work, the character was associated with a plethora of other tropes; no one could agree on the trope's definition.
239	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals used to be "Nurse Jenny", after two different characters from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the series, it was mistaken for tropes involving nurses like HospitalHottie.
240	* InfiniteOneUps used to be "One-Up Sampo". Apparently, ''sampo'' means (among many, many other things) "mill" in [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Finnish mythology]], something you'd only know if you were familiar with ''Literature/TheKalevala'' (or ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', which riffed on [[Film/TheDayTheEarthFroze an adaptation of it]]). This was nearly impossible to understand and needed a rename.
241	* InformedEquipment used to be "Fight in the Nude". It was mistaken for characters actually fighting naked, which is covered at FullFrontalAssault.
242	* InformedObscenity used to be "Snugglebunnies", after a gag in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''. If you weren't familiar with the work, the name made no sense.
243	* InformingTheFourthWall used to be "I Can't Use These Things Together". It was ambiguous and misused for tropes relating to ItemCrafting.
244	* InnocentProdigy used to be "The Linus", after the character from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. It required familiarity with the work, the character was associated with many more tropes, and "Linus" fails the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit.
245	* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode used to be "Midnight on the Firing Line", after the name of an episode of ''Series/BabylonFive''. This required familiarity with not just the work, but the names of its episodes, which was just too much.
246	* TheInsomniac used to be "No Rest for the Wicked". The phrase usually refers to people with a guilty conscience. The new name makes it clear that it's about insomniacs of all stripes, not just the wicked ones.
247	* InspectorLestrade used to be just "Lestrade". The new name preserves the TropeNamer, the character from ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', but makes it clear what his role in the story is.
248	* InstantBirthJustAddLabor used to be "Instant Birth: Just Add Water!" It was originally about giving birth in the water, but this was too narrow a trope and was broadened to all kinds of "instant birth".
249	* InstantChucks used to be "Sword Chucks", from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. The trope was originally essentially MixAndMatchWeapon, but [[Administrivia/TheSameButMoreSpecific with only two weapons]]. Ninety percent of examples were about ridiculous things made into nunchucks just by sticking a chain in between them. This was considered far more tropeable, and the trope was given a rename to match.
250	* InstantWinCondition used to be "The Enemy Gate Is Down". Most tropers assumed it was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- the enemy's gate has fallen, and now you can go through it. It was actually an oblique reference to ''Literature/EndersGame'' -- "down" is not "fallen", but "down directionally" (it was a trick Ender used to orient himself in zero gravity), and even then tropers who guessed that this was what the name referred to assumed it had to do with zero-gravity orientation rather than winning the battle.
251	* {{Intangibility}} used to be "Intangible Man". It was renamed to shift the focus from the character to the ability.
252	* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny used to be "Trahison des Clercs" after [[GeniusBonus the essay by Julien Benda]]. It was considered GratuitousFrench and thus too opaque to understand.
253	* IntentionalEngrishForFunny used to be "Zero Wingrish", after ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' and its highly {{memetic\|Mutation}} opening sequence. Even if you understood the meme, it wasn't even an example, as it was an ''uninentional'' bad translation.
254	* IntendedAudienceReaction used to be "They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste", an awkward snowclone of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot. Other than that, it had no relation to the latter trope.
255	* InterruptedCooldownHug used to be "Hulk's Cooldown Hug Corollary", after ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk''. In addition to being a character-named trope, the name was also kind of awkward, not describing exactly what it is about the CooldownHug that's different (leading to mistaking it for the latter trope).
256	* IntimacyViaHorror used to be "Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies". The old title made the trope sound more broad than it really is; it actually has to do with scary entertainment being used as a form of romantic bonding (the archetypal example being a boy taking a girl on a date to see a horror movie), not just [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs any example of girls being scared of horror movies]]. Additionally, the trope was redefined to not be exclusive to horror movies.
257	* IntoxicationEnsues used to be "Lemon Wacky Hello", after a scene involving opiate-laced candy from ''Series/JustShootMe''. If you weren't familiar with the reference, the WordSaladTitle would lead you to think it involved bizarre greetings. If you ''were'' familiar with the reference, it implied that it had to be drug-induced intoxication, when it didn't necessarily.
258	* InUniverseCamera used to be "First-Person Camera". It was mistaken to refer to the work itself showing something from a character's perspective, which is covered by POVCam. FirstPersonCamera is now a redirect to the latter trope.
259	* InUniverseGameClock used to be "Time Keeps On Slipping", a lyric from the Music/SteveMillerBand. Other than that, it had little to do with the trope.
260	* InventedIndividual used to be "The Ernest", after ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest''. It was unclear not just for requiring familiarity with the work, and not just for failing the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, but for the TropeNamer not really being an example, given that technically he ''did'' exist -- he just wasn't named "Ernest". ("The Bunbury" would be a better name if you ''really'' needed a TropeNamer from that work.)
261	* InvincibilityPowerUp used to be "Super Star", after an item from the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games. However, not everyone understood it to mean that, as "superstar" is a generic word that can mean something else.
262	* InvincibleHero used to be "Boring Invincible Hero". It was renamed to make it sound less negative. Its opposite InvincibleVillain was renamed from "Boring Invincible Villain" for the same reason.
263	* InVinoVeritas used to be "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels", after ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''. While this ''is'' a well-known reference -- see our trope JekyllAndHyde -- the name was too long and unwieldy, and there was a long-standing existing term for the trope.
264	* InvoluntaryCharityDonation used to be "Thank You, Mister Evil". In addition to being a StockPhrase, it gave little indication as to what the trope was about.
265	* InvoluntaryGroupSplit used to be "Rocks Fall, Party Splits", a snowclone of RocksFallEveryoneDies. Unlike the latter trope, people were focused on the "rocks" bit, and the trope was renamed to clarify that it includes obstacles other than rocks.
266	* InvoluntaryShapeshifter used to be "Involuntary Shapeshifting". Tropers mistakenly used it to refer to the ability rather than the character. They also mistook it for ''any'' arbitrary transformation, including {{forced transformation}}s, rather than an ability that a character has but can't control.
267	* UsefulNotes/IQTesting used to be "You Fail the IQ Test". The latter used to actually be a trope, but in the renaming process it became a {{Useful Note\|s}}; the trope was split into ImprobablyHighIQ and ImprobablyLowIQ.
268	* IReadItForTheArticles used to be "I Watch It for the Economics", after a {{meme\|ticMutation}} about ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf''. The new name, in addition to better describing the tropes, happens to be an older and more widespread off-wiki term.
269	* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest used to be "Take This". Not only was the old name a StockPhrase, it meant something completely different.
270	* ItsBeenDone used to be "''The Simpsons'' Did It", after an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. It was widely misused for "things ''The Simpsons'' did" -- we already had a page for that, and it's called ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
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274	* JackOfAllStats used to be "The Mario", after the protagonist of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games -- specifically, his tendency to have balanced stats in his spinoff games. Since this is not a trope for which Mario was well-known, it was essentially mistaken for "Jack of All Trades", without the CompetitiveBalance context.
275	* JadedWashout used to be "Al Bundy", after the character from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. It required familiarity with the work, the character was associated with many other tropes, and since it lacked a "the", it invited Administrivia/{{wick}}s that referred to the character and not the trope.
276	* JailbaitTaboo was just "Jail Bait". It was used for general references to {{ephebophilia}} rather than a specific trope referring to the taboo surrounding such relationships. JailBait is now a disambiguation page for this and other related tropes.
277	* JapaneseSchoolClub used to be "Club President". It's actually a {{Japanese Media Trope\|s}}, but the title was too generic and didn't get the point across.
278	* JournalRoleplay used to be "Livejournal Roleplay", after the website Platform/LiveJournal. The name was considered dated as of at least 2012; most roleplays of this kind are hosted on other websites.
279	* JustTrainWrong used to be "Did Not Choo the Research", a snowclone of the former trope "Did Not Do the Research". In addition to sounding pretty dumb and being a snowclone of a deprecated name, few associated "choo" with trains.
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283	* {{Kaiserreich}} used to be "Fatherland". It was misused as referring to ''any'' fatherland, as opposed to specifically TheThemeParkVersion of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany.
284	* KangaroosRepresentAustralia used to be "Everything's Better with Kangaroos". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" family.
285	* KarmicThief used to be "Half Robin Hood". It was unintuitive and unclear in how it related to Myth/RobinHood, which led to underuse and a dearth of examples. Understandable, given its premature launch.
286	* KarmicTrickster used to be "Bugs Bunny", after [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny the most famous example]]. It was a character trope without a "the", which invites misuse to refer to the character itself. Case in point -- out of 292 Administrivia/{{wick}}s to the former "Bugs Bunny" trope, roughly 240 were clearly meant for the ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' article.
287	* KarmicTwistEnding used to be "Twilight Zone Twist", after ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone''. It was renamed because that wasn't the only type of ending ''The Twilight Zone'' was known for, and the new name also made a nice parallel to CruelTwistEnding.
288	* {{Kiai}} used to be "Wryyyyyy", after a {{memetic\|Mutation}} rendition of it from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Even if you got the reference, it was impossible to remember how many "Y"s there were in the word. (Six, if you're counting.)
289	* KidAmidTheChaos used to be "Crying Little Kid". It was misused for any crying kid, regardless of context.
290	* KidAppealCharacter used to be "The Bumblebee", after the character from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Not everyone got the reference, leading to misuse to refer to actual bees.
291	* KitchenChase used to be "Foot Chase with a Side Order of Chef". It was too long and difficult to remember, and it didn't make all that much sense, either.
292	* KitschyThemedRestaurant used to be "T.G.I.O'Chili Bees", a reference to four different American restaurants (TGI Fridays, O'Charleys, Chili's, and Applebees). Not everyone was familiar with all four of them, even though they can be found outside the United States (although they're far more common in the U.S., given the country's love of such restaurants). If you didn't know them, the name was a WordSaladTitle. And even if you knew all four, you had to ''remember'' which ones they were, and in which order, making the name too big and unwieldy.
293	* KnowNothingKnowItAll used to be "The Clavin", after the character from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. It was an opaque reference, and not everyone even associated the character with this particular trope.
294	* KnuckleCracking used to be "Cracking Up". It was misused to refer to other meanings of the phrase "cracking up", like {{Corpsing}}.
295	* KudzuPlot absorbed the former trope "Claremont Coefficient", named for ''ComicBook/XMen'' writer Chris Claremont, who had a tendency to write Kudzu Plots. Since few knew who he was, the trope needed a rename; in the process, it was discovered to be pretty much the same as Kudzu Plot, hence the merger.
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