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| 18 | * QuestionableCasting used to be "WTH Casting Agency?" but was renamed due to the trope being expanded to allow casting that was well received pre-release, but considered questionable post-release. |
| 19 | * QuicklyDemotedLeader used to be "The Obi-Wrong", a {{pun}} on the former trope "The Obi-Wan", since renamed MentorArchetype. In addition to being based on a renamed trope, it didn't really ''relate'' to the other trope, leading to confusion and misuse. |
| 20 | * QuipToBlack used to be "Grissom One-Liner", after Gil Grissom from ''Series/{{CSI}}''. First, it required familiarity with the work. Second, those familiar with the character associated him with other tropes. Indeed, he wasn't the most prolific user of the trope even within the ''CSI'' universe; in particular, he competed with ''Series/CSIMiami'''s Horatio Caine, whose own version of the trope became a prolific Internet {{meme|tic Mutation}}. |
| 21 | * QuirkyBard used to be "Spoony Bard", after a famous version from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. However, not all quirky bards are "spoony"; most references were to bards who were sentimentally or foolishly in love (which is what "spoony" means), direct references to the {{Trope Namer|s}}, or to GoodBadTranslation (which is how "spoony bard" became a {{meme|ticMutation}}). |
| 22 | * QuirkyWork used to be "Widget Series" ("widget" derives from "WJT", "weird Japanese thing"). The name was changed after the trope was redefined as being more about works in general that the audience finds unusual than about works considered odd strictly because of cultural differences. |
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| 26 | * RacialFaceBlindness used to be "Identical-Looking Asians". It was renamed to broaden it to ethnic groups other than East Asians. |
| 27 | * RadiationInducedSuperpowers used to be "I Love Nuclear Power". It was renamed because the old name didn't make it clear that it was specifically about nuclear radiation granting superpowers. |
| 28 | * RaiseHimRightThisTime used to be "Second Chance". It was misused to refer to all kinds of second chances, as opposed to specifically a second chance to raise a kid. |
| 29 | * RandomDrop used to be "Randomly Drops". It was renamed to be easier to use; we prefer nouns to verbs. |
| 30 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking used to be "Authority Equals Asskicking", and it was briefly known as "Authority Grants Asskicking" after that. It was renamed the first time because its similarity to the old name of AsskickingLeadsToLeadership, "Asskicking Equals Authority", led to the two being confused with each other, while it was renamed a second time after it was determined that the then-new name was inaccurate. |
| 31 | * RapePortrayedAsRedemption used to be just "Rape as Redemption". It was renamed in a general cleanup of SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes to make it clear that it's the characters who have those viewpoints, not the work or the site itself. |
| 32 | * RapidFireComedy used to be "Comedy Through Superior Firepower". It was renamed for being awkward and not clearly representing the trope. |
| 33 | * RapidFireNameGuessing used to be "'Tom? Dick?' 'My Name is Harry!'" It was unclear, awkward to use, and suggested that it was a line of dialogue when it wasn't. |
| 34 | * RascallyRaccoon used to be "Everything's Rascally with Raccoons". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. |
| 35 | * RavenHairIvorySkin used to be "Black and White Beauty". It was renamed to clarify that it's about the perception of this particular appearance, rather than a character who has it. |
| 36 | * RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies used to be "Realistic Humans, Cartoony Animals", and was renamed because the definition was expanded to include examples of a work featuring cartoony humans and realistic animals. |
| 37 | * RealityBreakingParadox used to be "Divide by Zero", after a {{meme|ticMutation}} suggesting that reality would break if you did it. (You can't; it's mathematically impossible.) It was renamed for being ambiguous. |
| 38 | * RealJokeName used to be "Klutz the Surgeon". It was renamed for being totally unclear; one would be forgiven for thinking it was about ComicallyIneptHealing. Before then, it was "Mulligan the Headsman", after a character from ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId''; if you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense. |
| 39 | * ReallyGetsAround used to be "Miss Yo-Yo Knickers". The change made three improvements: it satisfied the prudes, it accomplished gender-neutrality, and it was more comprehensible to tropers who [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage might not have been familiar with the term "knickers"]]. |
| 40 | * RecurringExtra used to be "Yuppie Couple". It was renamed for sounding like a completely separate trope. |
| 41 | * JustForFun/RecycledInSpace used to be just "IN SPACE!" It became a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and saw frivolous overuse; it was renamed to make it too awkward to shoehorn everywhere. The actual trope the original phrase referred to, a series that adds a gimmick to its original premise, is located at the more neutral RecycledWithAGimmick. |
| 42 | * RecycledTrailerMusic used to be "The Elfman Effect", after composer Music/DannyElfman. Even if you knew who he was (or associated the trope with the right "Elfman", as a few tropers thought it was a reference to ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' character Creator/JennaElfman), it was difficult to associate him with this trope. |
| 43 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver used to be "Red and Black, Keep Back". It was renamed to be more specific and clarify the exact nature of the trope. |
| 44 | * RedemptionDemotion used to be "Heel-Face Downgrade"; it was renamed to make it clear what the trope meant and reduce confusion with the regular HeelFaceTurn. Before that, it was "Good Is Dumb", a gratuitous reference to ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' that people thought meant ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; GoodIsDumb is now a page for exactly that. |
| 45 | * RegeneratingHealth used to be "Walk It Off". It was renamed for being very unclear and attenuated from the trope; it was easily mistaken for something like MajorInjuryUnderreaction. |
| 46 | * RegionalBonus used to be "PAL Bonus". It was renamed to include bonus content from any regional version of a product. |
| 47 | * ReliablyUnreliableGuns used to be "Shur-Fine Guns", after an apparently notorious producer of BlandNameProduct foods. No one got the reference, and it was renamed for clarity. |
| 48 | * TheRemnant used to be "The Undefeated". It sounded like another trope entirely and needed a rename. |
| 49 | * Administrivia/RenamedTropes used to be "Former Trope Namer", making this a SelfDemonstratingArticle. It was renamed first to broaden it (as not all former names came from a {{Trope Namer|s}}) and second to put more emphasis on the renaming process than the old names. |
| 50 | * RepeatingAd used to be "Ad Nauseam". It was renamed for two reasons: first, it was mistaken for the literal meaning of the term ''ad nauseam'', such as the UsefulNotes/{{Logical Fallac|ies}}y ''argumentum ad nauseam''; and second, it invited [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Advertisements You Don't Like]]. |
| 51 | * RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear used to be "So, What You Are Saying..." It was mistaken for a generic line of dialogue rather than a trope, and it otherwise had little to do with the trope. |
| 52 | * RepetitiveAudioGlitch used to be "Like a Broken Record". It was mistaken for the regular BrokenRecord, which is a different trope; the latter trope is metaphorical (as the term "broken record" is often used), the former is literal. |
| 53 | * ReplacementFlatCharacter used to be "The Niles", after the character from ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the work, it wasn't clear how the character related to the trope; indeed, the specific example started out as a FlatCharacter but got his own CharacterDevelopment over the course of the series. |
| 54 | * ResignationsNotAccepted used to be "You Can Never Leave", after a lyric from the Music/{{Eagles}} song "Hotel California". The name was only tangentially related to the trope. |
| 55 | * TheRestShallPass used to be "I Got This", a vague {{Stock Phrase|s}} that applies to far more situations than just this trope. |
| 56 | * RetiredMonster used to be "Retired Complete Monster". It was renamed to make it broader; CompleteMonster has a strict definition, and this trope applies to any villain and not just Complete Monsters. |
| 57 | * RetroactivePreparation used to be "Wyld Stallyns Rule", after the protagonists of the film ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''. But not the characters themselves, but rather the band they were planning to form.[[note]]It specifically refers to a scene where the characters break out of a police station by reminding themselves to set things up to help themselves in the future, with the final piece of the puzzle being a trash can that reads "WYLD STALLYNS RULE".[[/note]] If you weren't familiar with the specific scene being referenced, you'd assume it had more to do with the film's musical aspects than its TimeTravel aspects. The rename makes it clearer that it's about time travel. |
| 58 | * RetroactiveRecognition used to be "Hey, It's That Guy!" They were actually separate tropes; the latter was for actors you recognize but whose name you don't know because you always see them in minor roles, whereas the former was for actors whose name you ''do'' know and are seeing in a minor role before they were famous. The latter needed a rename because it was kind of a {{Stock Phrase|s}} and invited misuse as a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet; in the process, it was discovered that the two were often mistaken for each other, and it was decided to merge them under the more indicative "Retroactive Recognition" name. |
| 59 | * ReverseEscortMission used to be "Protectorate Player". It was renamed to clarify that it is the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of EscortMission. |
| 60 | * RhetoricalRequestBlunder used to be "Rid Me of This Priest", after a famous example from oral tradition -- specifically, how [[UsefulNotes/HenryTheSecond King Henry II of England]] complained about Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, and his knights misinterpreted it as a request to kill him. Not everyone knew the reference, and many who did thought it referred specifically to murder, priests, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs murdering priests]]. |
| 61 | * RidiculousExchangeRates used to be "Funny Money". It was misused for any money people thought was funny, regardless of whether it had a ridiculous exchange rate (''e.g.'' Canadian dollars) or was even currency (''e.g.'' Disney dollars). |
| 62 | * RightfulKingReturns used to be "Return of the King", after ''TheReturnOfTheKing'', the third part of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy. It was misused as a reference to the work. |
| 63 | * RiseToTheChallenge used to be "Rising Death from Below". It was lost in Archive/TheGreatCrash, and when it was recreated the opportunity was used to give it a clearer name. |
| 64 | * RogueJuror used to be "Twelve Angry Men", after [[Film/TwelveAngryMen the film of the same name]] which prominently used the trope. It was renamed to avoid collisions with the work's page. |
| 65 | * RoleReprise used to be "Role Reprisal". It was renamed because of an etymology issue; turns out "reprise" and "reprisal" don't mean the same thing, and we were [[YouKeepUsingThatWord using the wrong word all along]]. |
| 66 | * RomanticFalseLead used to be "The Paolo", after a character from ''Series/{{Friends}}''. It required pretty in-depth knowledge of a specific work to understand. |
| 67 | * RomanticizedAbuse used to be "Abusively Sexy". It was renamed in the general cleanup of SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes to clarify that the abuse shouldn't be portrayed positively. |
| 68 | * RomanticPlotTumor used to be "George Lucas Love Story", after [[Creator/GeorgeLucas the director]] of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. It was a gratuitous TakeThat against a single work and named when people still cared enough to complain about it. In any event, Lucas has proven that he can do a better job in some of his other works. |
| 69 | * RomanticRunnerup used to be "The Baxter", after the character from ''Film/TheApartment''. In addition to requiring familiarity with the work, it failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit (including inviting confusion with the former trope "Ted Baxter", which is now SmallNameBigEgo), and it also happened to be [[Film/TheBaxter the name of an unrelated work]]. |
| 70 | * RubeGoldbergDevice used to be "Robinson/Goldberg Contraption". The term "Rube Goldberg device" is a well-known term off-wiki, but for whatever reason we had to [[CallARabbitASmeerp reinvent the wheel]] and throw in the name of someone else known for such devices, Heath Robinson. |
| 71 | * TheRuinsICaused used to be "Above the Ruins". It was mistaken for a {{Stock Pose|s}}; the rename clarifies that it's not about the the character's position so much as their thoughts. |
| 72 | * RuleBreakerRuleNamer used to be "Skippy Rules", after ''Literature/SkippysList''. It was renamed due to ambiguity. |
| 73 | * UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention used to be "Trope, Son of Trope, Smith". It was renamed in part to clarify that it's pretty unique to Russia, and also to avoid using "trope" as a placeholder. |
| 74 | * RussianReversal used to be "In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You!" It was misused as a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and also made use of "trope" as a placeholder. |
| 75 | * UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets used to be "Tricolours with Rusting Rockets". It was intended to emphasize that this was post-Soviet Russia, which had transitioned to a tricoloured flag, but "tricolour" could refer to the flag of a number of different countries, especially France. The new name has the advantage of AddedAlliterativeAppeal. |
| 76 | * RuthlessModernPirates used to be "A Disgrace to Blackbeard". It was renamed to clarify that it's about modern-day pirates. And in any event, it's kind of hard to be a disgrace to the historical UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, who was quite ruthless in his day; most portrayals of him are romanticized. |
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| 80 | * SacrificialLion used to be "[[spoiler:The Cedric]]", after a character from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. It was a big {{spoiler}} for the book, and it also failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit. |
| 81 | * SameContentDifferentRating used to be "Rated W for 'Why?'" It was misused to refer to odd ratings in general and renamed to make it more specific. |
| 82 | * SameLanguageDub used to be "Milli Vanilli", after [[Music/MilliVanilli the pop group]], who actually weren't an example -- they were infamous for [[ThatSyncingFeeling lip-syncing to other singers' voices]], not overdubbing them. It was mistaken to refer to the group rather than the trope. (Interestingly, this prompted the creation of a page for the group -- which was cut as a poorly written stub and then recreated.) |
| 83 | * SarcasmBlind used to be "Does Not Understand Sarcasm". It was renamed to clarify that it's about ''inability'' to get sarcasm, not just refusal. |
| 84 | * SatelliteLoveInterest used to be "Shallow Love Interest", and before that "Shallow Female Love Interest". The first rename came because the trope was not AlwaysFemale (and it's kinda sexist to suggest it is). The second rename came because it invited [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike complaining]] about love interests tropers didn't like; the new name made it less negative and clear that it's less about a character flaw than about a writing convention. |
| 85 | * SatiatingSandwich used to be "Everything's Satiating with Sandwiches". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. |
| 86 | * ScammingTheBereaved used to be "Bibles from the Dead". It was unclear, had unnecessary religious connotations, and attracted underuse. |
| 87 | * {{Scandalgate}} used to be "Gate Construction". It was renamed for being thoroughly unintuitive, leading tropers to think it was about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin building literal gates]]. It was meant to be a reference to the Watergate scandal and how so many scandals since then are referred to with the "-gate" suffix. |
| 88 | * ScaryStingingSwarm used to be "Bee Afraid". It was misused to refer to ''individual'' antagonistic bees, whereas this one is about a swarm; BeeAfraid was repurposed for individual bees. Before then, the trope was formed from the merger of "Everything's Worse with Bees" and "Gosh Hornet", both of which needed a rename as obtuse names (and the former of which was part of the discredited "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family). |
| 89 | * SceneryCensor used to be "Peek-a-Boo". It was renamed as unintuitive and failing to convey the sense of the trope. |
| 90 | * ScenicTourLevel used to be "Black Mesa Commute", a reference to the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' games. Even if you were familiar with the work, it wasn't a given that you'd understand how it relates to the trope. |
| 91 | * SchmuckBanquet used to be "Goldilocks and the Mines of Moria". The name was obtuse and didn't convey the trope at all; the latter bit was a gratuitous reference to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 92 | * ScienceFantasy used to be "Science Fiction Versus Fantasy". It was misused in two ways; some thought it was out-of-universe and referred to a specific FandomRivalry, whereas others thought it was in-universe but mistook it for TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar. The rename clarified that it was for incorporating both science fiction and fantasy elements into the same work. The Analysis page for [[Analysis/SpeculativeFiction Speculative Fiction]] now houses the long discussion of the differences between the two that used to be in the former trope's page description. |
| 93 | * ScrabbleBabble used to be "Kwyjibo", after an example from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Although it didn't necessarily require familiarity with the work to understand, it was still obtuse and difficult to remember how to spell. |
| 94 | * SealedEvilInADuel used to be "Sisyphus vs. Rock", after the character from Myth/ClassicalMythology. The trope had little to do with the legend, which was about a man doomed to push a rock up a hill forever; every time he finished, the rock would just roll back down the hill, and he'd have to do it again. That kind of thing is associated with different tropes like FailureIsTheOnlyOption or AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker. |
| 95 | * SearchingTheStalls used to be "Stalling for Time". It was misused for the actual idiomatic meaning of the phrase "stalling for time"; the former name was a {{pun}} on it that few people picked up on. |
| 96 | * SeaSinkhole used to be "Circular Waterfall". It was renamed for clarity. |
| 97 | * SecondSeasonDownfall used to be "One-Season Wonder". It was mistaken for shows that were cancelled after one season (rather than those that stuck around but got worse), or else for characters who were great but only appeared in one season. |
| 98 | * SecretHistory used to be "Plausible Deniability". Both phrases are widely used off-wiki, but the trope is about the former. The sense of the latter can now be found at PlausibleDeniability. It's kinda weird; "Plausible Deniability" didn't go through the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop, but someone redefined the trope to mean "plausible deniability". Only problem is that they didn't change the Administrivia/{{wick}}s, meaning that many of them were still written as if the definition were "secret history". This lasted six years before we cleaned it up. (This is why we have TRS, people.) |
| 99 | * SeeminglyProfoundFool used to be "Chance the Gardener", after the protagonist of ''Film/BeingThere''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did mistook the page as a reference to the character rather than the trope. |
| 100 | * SeinfeldianConversation used to be "Chocolate Cornet", a reference to ''Manga/LuckyStar''. If you weren't familiar with the work, the name made no sense. |
| 101 | * SelectiveEnforcement used to be "Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar", after a scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. It required close familiarity with the work, ''and'' it required you to parse the British phrase "sugar cellar" to describe the event (not so likely given that ''The Simpsons'' is an American work). If you didn't pick up on all that, it was effectively a WordSaladTitle. |
| 102 | * SelfCensoredRelease used to be "Bleached Underpants", which was an unclear play on the phrase "dirty laundry". In addition, the definition was adjusted to refer to later versions of adult-oriented works being cleaner instead of focusing primarily on characters from adult-oriented works appearing in cleaner works. |
| 103 | * SelfConstructedBeing used to be "Evil Seed Plot". It was renamed to clarify that it's not limited to evil folk, seed-based regeneration, or whole plots. |
| 104 | * SendInTheSearchTeam used to be "Heart of Darkness", after the [[Literature/HeartOfDarkness book of the same name]]. First, it collided with the work's page. Second, those unfamiliar with the work wouldn't get it. And third, those who ''were'' familiar with the work tended to associate it with other tropes, like RiverOfInsanity or DarkestAfrica. |
| 105 | * SenseiForScoundrels used to be "The Tyler Durden", after the character from ''Film/FightClub''. If you weren't familiar with the work, the name made no sense. |
| 106 | * SentimentalMusicCue used to be "Full House Music", after the series ''Series/FullHouse''. Not everyone got the reference; indeed, not everyone got that it ''was'' a reference, instead parsing it as the idiom "full house". |
| 107 | * SequelGoesForeign used to be "Third Movie Goes to Asia". In addition to being more concise, the new name clarifies that it's not limited to third installments, movies, or specifically Asia. |
| 108 | * SerialEscalation used to be "Beyond the Impossible". It was misused to refer generally to things that were impossible, or as a synonym for [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. BeyondTheImpossible now has its literal meaning. |
| 109 | * SetBehindTheScenes used to be "Company Town". Apparently, it required tropers to connect it specifically to ''production'' companies (and SoCalization -- the "town" in this case is usually Los Angeles). It was misused to refer to ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, which is what CompanyTown now describes. |
| 110 | * SetSwordsToStun used to be "Reverse Blade Sword", which had nothing to do with the trope. |
| 111 | * SexSignalsDeath used to be "Death by Sex". It was renamed because it's a {{foreshadowing}} trope for when characters who have sex are more likely to be killed off, but it was frequently being misused for when characters die during or after sex, which is covered by OutWithABang. |
| 112 | * SexStartsStoryStops used to be "Coitus Ensues". It was frequently misused for sex scenes in general, when it's supposed to specifically be for when sex scenes interrupt the plot. |
| 113 | * SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes used to be just "Rape Tropes". It was renamed to make it broader, and also to avoid thorniness with respect to the exact definition of "rape". |
| 114 | * SexySweaterGirl used to be "Sweater Girl", and was renamed because the {{fanservice}} aspect was often ignored, leading to misuse to refer to any girl wearing a sweater. |
| 115 | * TheShangriLa used to be "Shamgri-La". It was renamed to clarify that it's not ''fake'' Shangri-La analogues. |
| 116 | * ShapeshifterModeLock used to be just "Mode Lock". It was renamed to clarify that it is specific to {{Shapeshifting}}; under the old name, a good chunk of Administrivia/{{wick}}s mistook it for Baleful Polymorph (now ForcedTransformation) or PowerIncontinence. |
| 117 | * ShockValueRelationship used to be "Shock and Aww Couple", a snowclone of ShockAndAwe. No one could parse it, and it suffered severe underuse. |
| 118 | * ShoddyKnockoffProduct used to be "POP Station", after a specific example that WebVideo/StuartAshen liked to complain about. Few people got the reference; the new name makes it much clearer. |
| 119 | * ShooOutTheNewGuy used to be "The Poochie", after the character from a ShowWithinAShow in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did mistook him for a CreatorsPet (and his ouster for TakeThatScrappy). It was renamed to clarify the nature of the trope. |
| 120 | * ShootTheDangerousMinion used to be "Shoot the Dragon". It was renamed to broaden it beyond just cases involving TheDragon. |
| 121 | * ShopliftAndDie used to be "Easily Angered Shoplifter"; it was renamed to make it more precise. Before that, it was "Izchak's Wrath", after one of the shopkeepers from ''VideoGame/NetHack'', which suffered from all the hallmarks of Administrivia/TropeNamerSyndrome. |
| 122 | * ShortLivedAerialEscape used to be "Renny Harlin Helicopter Explosion", after director Creator/RennyHarlin, who liked doing this kind of thing. Few got the reference, and in any event, it's not limited to helicopters. |
| 123 | * ShortTeensTallAdults was previously "Teens Are Short". It was renamed because it was misused for any instance of a teenager being short, even though it's about a work generally depicting teenagers as shorter than adults, particularly compared to real life. |
| 124 | * SickbedSlaying used to be "If You Should Die Before You Wake". It was renamed for being long, awkward, unclear, and conducive to underuse. |
| 125 | * SideEffectsInclude used to be "Yes, But What Does Zataproximetacine DO?" It was long and unwieldy, and no one could remember how to spell "Zataproximetacine", which was a word we just made up. |
| 126 | * SidekickSong used to be "Hakuna Matata", after the song from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. It was misused to refer to "hakuna matata" the life attitude, which is what HakunaMatata now refers to. |
| 127 | * SillySimian used to be "Everything's Better with Monkeys". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. Indeed, before the rename, it was commonly misused as a list of monkeys in fiction, which amounted to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. |
| 128 | * MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks used to be just "Silver Age". It was renamed to clarify that it was specific to comic books. There aren't ''too'' many "silver ages" out there, but we had to rename the former tropes "Golden Age" and "Dark Age" for the same reasons, and those ''were'' commonly used for things other than comic books; this rename aligned the trope to the others' new names. |
| 129 | * SimultaneousWarningAndAction used to be "Stand Back Hello", a reference to ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. If you weren't familiar with the work, the name made no sense. |
| 130 | * SixthRangerTraitor used to be "Sixth Column". It was intended to be a reference to the idiom "fifth column", referring to a traitorous segment of society.[[note]]It's actually a [[{{Metaphorgotten}} bit of a misnomer]]; the term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column fifth column]]" comes from the Siege of Madrid in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, in which the four "columns" of the invading army were undermined by a series of [[TheMole moles]] who defected ''en masse'' -- so it refers to invaders rather than defenders.[[/note]] It otherwise doesn't have to do with the SixthRanger. The new name clarifies the trope's relation to SixthRanger. |
| 131 | * SkywardScream used to be "The Khan", a reference to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. First, it required familiarity with the work. Second, it was named as if it were a character trope, when it's really a {{Camera Trick|s}}. And third, the {{Trope Namer|s}} was [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not an example]]; it was much more associated with SayMyName, to which "The Khan" is now a redirect. |
| 132 | * SlaveCollar used to be "Chain of Command". It was misused to refer to its common idiomatic meaning, or the trope related to it, TheChainsOfCommanding. |
| 133 | * SleuthDatesCop used to be "Cop Boyfriend". It was renamed to clarify that the cop doesn't strictly have to be AlwaysMale, that the other half of the relationship has to be an unofficial investigator of some sort, and that it's more about the relationship than the character types in it. |
| 134 | * SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification used to be "Sliding Scale of Adaptation Decay". It was renamed to be less negative and to broaden it from instances of AdaptationDecay. |
| 135 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism used to be "Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Realism". It was renamed once we recognised that realism is the ''middle ground'' between idealism and cynicism. |
| 136 | * SlipstreamGenre used to be just "Slipstream". It was renamed to clarify that it's about a subgenre and not literal slipstreams. |
| 137 | * SlowElectricity used to be "Power Slows", a snowclone of PowerGlows. It didn't have to do with the latter trope and wasn't clear that it was about electricity. Funnily, it was renamed only about half an hour after it was launched. |
| 138 | * SlowLaser used to be "Frickin' Laser Beams", a reference to ''Film/AustinPowers''. It was renamed to clarify that it's about lasers that travel slower than the speed of light. The old name was commonly misused for EnergyWeapon (to which it's now a redirect), or occasionally to WeaponizedAnimal (because the {{Trope Namer|s}} wanted the "frickin' laser beams" attached to [[ThreateningShark sharks]]). |
| 139 | * SlowPacedBeginning used to be "It Gets Better". It was mistaken for an in-universe trope (akin to an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of FromBadToWorse), as opposed to an out-of-universe trope about PacingProblems. Before then, it was "Get on with It, Already!", which was too negative, misused as a {{Stock Phrase|s}}, and didn't specify that it even had to do with pacing. |
| 140 | * SmallNameBigEgo used to be "The Ted Baxter", after the character from ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow''. If you weren't familiar with the show, the name meant nothing. The new name "Small Name, Big Ego" had been used for a different trope, which was for ''out'' of universe examples and became magnet for [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike complaining]]; it was locked and made a Administrivia/{{Definition Only Page|s}} before it was discovered that the name could be repurposed for the former "The Ted Baxter". |
| 141 | * SmallTownTyrant used to be called "Corrupt Hick". It was renamed because it was thought to be about any rural villain, when it's specifically about corrupt authority figures in rural settings. |
| 142 | * SmashMook used to be "The Ogre". It was mistaken for ogres in general, which was already at OurOgresAreHungrier; TheOgre is now a redirect to the latter trope. |
| 143 | * SmellySkunk used to be "Everything's Smellier with Skunks". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family; indeed, instead of [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs a list of skunks]], it was repurposed for skunks that smell bad. |
| 144 | * TheSnackIsMoreInteresting used to be "Cavalier Consumption". It was renamed to make it clearer. "Appetite for Apathy" had the advantage of AddedAlliterativeAppeal but wasn't quite as clear; it did get to be a redirect, though. |
| 145 | * TheSnarkKnight used to be "The Daria", after the title character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. Few got the reference, and those who did get it didn't necessarily connect the name with the trope. |
| 146 | * SneezeCut used to be "Sneezing". It was incredibly imprecise, leading to misuse; in addition to being [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs a list of sneezes]], it was occasionally mistaken for a few other sneezing tropes, like PepperSneeze, FreezeSneeze, or SneezeOfDoom. |
| 147 | * {{Snowclones}} used to be "Chekhov's Pun", a reference to ChekhovsGun. Everybody thought it related in some way to the latter trope, when it really didn't. |
| 148 | * SoapWithinAShow used to be "All My Circuits", after an example from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' (itself a parody of the real-life soap ''Series/AllMyChildren''). If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense. Many who did thought it was a reference to the {{Trope Namer|s}} rather than a trope in itself. |
| 149 | * SoBadItWasBetter used to be "I Liked It Better When It Sucked". It was renamed to combat misuse and make it ''slightly'' less negative. |
| 150 | * SofterAndSlowerCover used to be "The Vonda Shepard Treatment", after a singer who performed several of them for ''Series/AllyMcBeal''. It was a particularly obtuse reference, requiring specific fan-specific knowledge. |
| 151 | * SoleEntertainmentOption used to be "Easily Amused". It was mistaken as a trope ''far'' broader than it really was. |
| 152 | * SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear used to be "Wutai Theft", after an incident in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Not everyone got the reference, and the trope is broader than just theft. |
| 153 | * SolveTheSoupCans used to be just "Soup Cans", after a puzzle in ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''. It was totally obtuse -- but famously so, to the point that it became a bit of an internal {{meme|ticMutation}}, especially given that there's a nice parallel with an unintuitive name for a trope about unintuitive puzzles. That's why we kept the "soup cans" reference, but added the bit that you had to "solve" them, making it clear that it's about puzzles. |
| 154 | * TheSomethingForce used to be "Troper Force". It was renamed to avoid using "troper" as a placeholder. |
| 155 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay used to be "As You Wish", after a line from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Those who didn't get the reference didn't get the name. Those who ''did'' get the reference more associated the scene with TheILoveYouStigma (or something like it) than with the trope. |
| 156 | * TheSomethingSong used to be "The Trope Song". It was renamed to avoid using "trope" as a placeholder. |
| 157 | * SongAssociation was "''Grand Theft Auto'' Effect", after the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games. The series is better known for other tropes, and the name didn't indicate that it was an AudienceReaction. |
| 158 | * SorcerersApprenticePlot used to be just "Sorcerer's Apprentice". It was mistaken for either lists of TheApprentice to a sorcerer; it's actually a reference to an OlderThanFeudalism story that's been adapted several times. Indeed, several Administrivia/{{wick}}s mistook it for similarly named works, including the film ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'' and the animated short from the Disney film ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. The rename clarified that it's a WholePlotReference trope. |
| 159 | * SoulSuckingRetailJob used to be "Super Slave Market". It was renamed to clarify that it had nothing to do with slave markets or people with superpowers. |
| 160 | * SoYouWantTo.WriteAGoodSummary used to be "I Suck at Summaries". It was originally meant to be a {{Stock Phrase|s}} encountered in FanFic summaries, but it was decided that the content was more suited for a [[SoYouWantTo/SeeTheIndex So You Want To]] page, and it was moved there. |
| 161 | * SpaceZone used to be "Lylat System", after the setting of the ''VideoGame/StarFox''. Not everyone got the reference, and most who did couldn't figure out how it related to the trope. |
| 162 | * SpaghettiAndGondolas used to be "Olive Garden", after a KitschyThemedRestaurant chain with an Italian theme. Many didn't get the reference, and many who did associated it with the latter trope. |
| 163 | * SpannerInTheWorks used to be "Xanatos Gilligan", a {{snowclone|s}} of XanatosGambit. It required knowledge of two works: ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and ''Series/GilligansIsland''. It was one of many "Xanatos" snowclones, but this one in particular didn't have much to do with XanatosGambit to begin with. The current name is a commonly used term for the trope off-wiki. |
| 164 | * SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen used to be "Get a Load of That Square". It was mistaken for a line of dialogue, difficult to search, and gave the impression that it was about someone who was uncool rather than about the language being used to describe that uncoolness. |
| 165 | * SpeaksFluentAnimal used to be "The Dr. Dolittle", after [[Literature/DoctorDolittle the work of that name]] and its protagonist who has that skill. It had all the problems of a character-named trope and wasn't thriving. |
| 166 | * SpecialPersonNormalName used to be "Plain Name". It was a little too negative, and without the "special person" bit, it was also Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. |
| 167 | * SpectacularSpinning used to be "Everything's Better with Spinning". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. |
| 168 | * SplashDamageAbuse used to be "Hit the Helpless Hex". It was an obscure term, and if you weren't familiar with it, it amounted to a WordSaladTitle. Accordingly, it suffered from severe underuse. |
| 169 | * SpokenWord used to be "Plain Song". The former name didn't adequately explain the song's nature, while the new name is a preexisting term. |
| 170 | * SpookyAnimalSounds used to be "Howling to the Night". It was renamed partially because it was being confused with WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon and partially because the defintion was expanded to cover the sounds of animals other than wolves. |
| 171 | * SpotlightStealingSquad used to be "Uchiha Syndrome", after the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' character Sasuke Uchiha, who was accused of doing this to the title character. Not only was it a character-named trope who required familiarity with the work ''and'' that one associated the character with the correct trope, such an opinion was far from universally held among the fanbase. |
| 172 | * SpotTheVictim used to be "Where's Deado?", an opaque reference to the ''[[Literature/WheresWally Where's Waldo?]]'' books. Although the phrase was apparently known among mystery aficionados who like to do this, it was far from clear to everyone else. |
| 173 | * SprintShoes used to be "Bunny Hood", after an item from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. If you didn't know this, the name made no sense. And even then, the Bunny Hood item appeared in other games but didn't always confer super-speed (''e.g.'' its appearance in ''Ocarina of Time''). |
| 174 | * SproutingEars used to be "Hyperspace Ears". The idea was to align it with {{Hammerspace}}, some of whose constituent tropes use "hyperspace" as a descriptor (''e.g.'' HyperspaceMallet), but it suffered from underuse, and consensus decided that it would be more appropriate to describe the ears as "sprouting" to help tropers make the connection. |
| 175 | * SquareRaceRoundClass used to be "Rogue Elephant". It has nothing to do with {{elephant|Tropes}}s; it instead has to do with game classes, and was meant to be a play on the common class "Rogue". Nobody made that connection (and it was pointed out that the convention in games is to put the race ''first'', meaning it would be "Elephant Rogue" in any event). |
| 176 | * StagedPedestrianAccident used to be "Flopsy". It was claimed to be a common slang term for the con, but not only did no one get it, no one could even find any evidence off-wiki for the term. |
| 177 | * StagedShooting used to be "Fake Gunshot". It was commonly mistaken for FalseGunshot and renamed to clarify the distinction. |
| 178 | * StalkerWithACrush used to be "Bunny Boiler", after a character from ''Film/FatalAttraction''. Those who didn't get the reference didn't get the trope; those who did usually associated the character more with {{Yandere}}. |
| 179 | * StalkingIsLove used to be "Edward Cullen Syndrome", after the character from ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. Not everyone got the reference; while many did (at least more so than with other character-named tropes), they did so mostly because Internet people liked to complain about the work a ''lot''. The rename helped the trope sound a ''bit'' less negative and also avoid {{Flame War}}s with respect to the specific work. |
| 180 | * StandardEvilOrganizationSquad used to be "Generic Evil Organization Squad". Seems like a lateral move, but changing "generic" to "standard" made it sound less negative. |
| 181 | * StandardFantasyRaces used to be "Five Races". It was originally designed as a fantasy race analogue for FiveManBand, but after it was determined to be Administrivia/TooRareToTrope, it was no longer related to FiveManBand and needed a rename. |
| 182 | * StandardFiftiesFather used to be "Mister Cleaver", after the father character from ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver''. While he was certainly a good example of the trope, not everyone was sufficiently familiar with the work to know the character's name (even if they could easily picture him in their heads). Without that connection, one would think AsianCleaverFever (or perhaps something [[PsychoKnifeNut more sinister]]). |
| 183 | * StandardHumanSpaceship used to be "ISO Standard Human Spaceship". The "ISO" part was wholly unnecessary and was dropped. |
| 184 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution used to be "Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?" It became a {{Pothole}} magnet and was misused for ''any'' situation in which a character is missing a simple solution, regardless of whether or not another character points it out. The old name was repurposed for the Administrivia/MissingSupertrope. |
| 185 | * StatusQuoGameShow used to be "You Can't Win". It was not specific to game shows and thus used for any situation in which winning is impossible, or even [[IShallTauntYou taunts to that effect]]. The name actually came from ''Film/StayTuned'' and a ShowWithinAShow therein which [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example]]. |
| 186 | * StealthPun used to be "Incredibly Lazy Pun". It was for puns that were difficult to understand, but it was misused to refer to any pun tropers thought was stupid. The initial solution was to create the new trope "Incredibly Lame Pun" to catch the misuse, but tropers kept mistaking the two and the latter was poorly defined. "Incredibly Lazy Pun" was renamed StealthPun to emphasise that it's hard to pick up on (regardless of its quality), whereas "Incredibly Lame Pun" was redirected to the main trope {{Pun}}. |
| 187 | * SternNun used to be "Mother Penguin", after an example from ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. If you didn't get the reference, the trope made no sense. |
| 188 | * StewedAlive used to be "Cannibal Cauldron". It was renamed to clarify that whoever was doing the stewing didn't necessarily have to ''eat'' the poor victim afterwards. |
| 189 | * StockSuperpowersIndex used to be just "Stock Superpowers". People were linking to it as if it were a trope; it was renamed to clarify that it was indeed an index. |
| 190 | * StoppedCaring used to be "I Don't Even Care". It was mistaken for a line of dialogue, and indeed the two names don't mean ''exactly'' the same thing; the new name captures the trope better. |
| 191 | * StopTrick used to be "Jeannie Cut", after ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', which employed it frequently. It was obtuse and required knowledge of a specific work; the new name was an established term off-wiki. |
| 192 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike used to be "Did a Korean Person Die?", after a single gag from ''Series/ThirtyRock''. If you weren't familiar with it, the trope name made no sense. |
| 193 | * StrangeSecretEntrance used to be "Platform Nine and Three Quarters", after an example from ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. It required familiarity with the franchise, and those who had it didn't always pick up on how it related to the trope. |
| 194 | * StrawCharacter used to be "Strawman Political". It was renamed because not every debate is necessarily political. (And we don't necessarily believe that AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues.) |
| 195 | * StrawmanBall used to be "Idiot of the Week". It was originally derived from the IndexOfTheWeek, but that's more associated with characters who show up once and then leave. It's more in line with the BallIndex, in which a recurring character holds the "ball" for one episode and behaves unusually to advance the plot; in this case, the character serves as a StrawCharacter. |
| 196 | * StrawmanHasAPoint used to be "The Strawman Strikes Back". It was mistaken for any instance in which a strawman gets his revenge; the rename clarifies that the strawman hits back in the argument which the author intends for him to lose. |
| 197 | * StrawNihilist used to be "Nietzsche Wannabe". It was renamed because Creator/FriedrichNietzsche's philosophy was pretty damn complicated, and if anything he was TheAntiNihilist. Reducing his philosophy to "nihilism" is indeed the kind of mistake a StrawNihilist would make, but it's not one ''we'' should make on the wiki. |
| 198 | * StuffyOldTropesAboutTheButtocks used to be "Nothing Butt an Index". It was originally cut amid Archive/TheSecondGoogleIncident for being too lewd; eight years later, a troper who wasn't aware of this put the trope on the TropeLaunchPad; although we figured out what was up, it was decided that it was safe to relaunch. Its new name comes from its most prominent subtrope, StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks. |
| 199 | * StupidityInducingAttack used to be "Idiot Cannonball". It was renamed for being unintuitive and causing serious underuse. |
| 200 | * SuccubiAndIncubi used to be called "Horny Devils", which used a pun on the sexual slang term "horny" at the expense of clarity. The definition was also expanded into a more general OurMonstersAreDifferent subtrope that includes depictions of succubi and incubi in general regardless of whether they drain life force via sex, which is another reason why the name was changed to something more general-sounding. |
| 201 | * SuddenDownerEnding used to be "Cerebus Ending", after CerebusSyndrome. It was renamed because ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' wasn't an example of this trope, even if it was an example of the trope it was named after. |
| 202 | * SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat used to be "I Know Kung-Fu". It was mistaken for the trope IKnowKarate, which is about people revealing that they know a martial art; this one's actually about people revealing that they know something (not necessarily a martial art) that they never previously showed because YouDidntAsk. The trope name came from ''Film/TheMatrix'', which [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't an example to begin with]]; the protagonist learns kung-fu through an UpgradeArtifact, which is more InstantExpert than anything else. "I Know Kung-Fu" now redirects to IKnowKarate. |
| 203 | * SuddenlyFluentInGibberish used to be "Talks to Squirrels". It was mistaken for SpeaksFluentAnimal, which is about the ability to talk to animals in general. |
| 204 | * SuggestiveCollision used to be "Gravity Is a Harsh Seductress", an overdone snowclone of GravityIsAHarshMistress. The trope has nothing to do with gravity, hence the rename. |
| 205 | * SultryBellyDancer was renamed from "Belly Dancer" to put more emphasis on the {{fanservice}} aspect due to Administrivia/ZeroContextExample problems with the old name. |
| 206 | * {{Superboss}} used to be "Bonus Boss". It's about optional bosses which are much harder than anything else you'd encounter, but it was frequently mistaken for any optional boss, which turned out to be a Administrivia/MissingSupertrope for which we created the new OptionalBoss. |
| 207 | * SuperheroGods used to be "Super Gods". It was renamed for clarity. |
| 208 | * SuperheroTrophyShelf used to be "Super Trophy Super Rack". It didn't roll very well off the tongue and was unclear as to what it meant. |
| 209 | * SupermodelStrut was renamed from "Sexy Walk" because the fact that it has to be intentional on the character's part was often overlooked, leading to inappropriate gushing. |
| 210 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes used to be "Eyes of Gold". It was misused to refer to any character with golden eyes, regardless of whether they have anything to do with the supernatural. It was part of our general cleanup of PersonalAppearanceTropes, even though you don't see gold eyes too often in RealLife. |
| 211 | * SupernaturalLight used to be "Ghost Lights". It was renamed to broaden the trope beyond just ghosts. |
| 212 | * SupernaturalProofFather used to be "Dad's Afraid of No Ghosts", a reference to the ThemeTune from ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''. It was misused as a {{Stock Phrase|s}}, and it's not about not being ''afraid'' of ghosts, it's about not even ''believing'' in them. |
| 213 | * SuperpowerSillyPutty used to be "Twenty-Four-Hour Super Power". It was mistaken to superpowers that wear off after twenty-four hours, as opposed to superpowers that ''change'' after that time. The former name became a redirect to SuperpowersForADay. |
| 214 | * SuperScream was "Make Me Wanna Shout" (A reference to Music/TheIsleyBrothers song), and was renamed due to misuse in place of other sound-based powers, such as those covered by MakeSomeNoise. |
| 215 | * SuperSwimmingSkills used to be "Olympic Swimmer". It was misused to refer to ''actual'' Olympic swimmers, regardless of whether they exhibited super swimming skills. |
| 216 | * SupportingLeader used to be "The Aragorn", after the character from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. It suffered from the usual problems of a character-named trope, including a lack of clarity as to how the character related to the trope. |
| 217 | * SurpriseIncest used to be "Incest Is Relative". Although it was a nice pun, it was mistaken for any instance of incest; the name IncestIsRelative was repurposed as an index for such tropes. |
| 218 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome used to be "Reality Ensues", a snowclone of HilarityEnsues. It was a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet that invited extensive misuse; the rename ensured that it was used for ''surprisingly'' realism. |
| 219 | * SurprisinglySuddenDeath used to be "Deadly Guest". It was renamed to clarify that it's a {{Death Trope|s}} rather than a character trope. |
| 220 | * SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands used to be "Palantir Ploy", after a magical surveillance device from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Even if you were familiar with the work, it was kind of an obscure reference, and it wasn't clear how it related to the trope anyway. |
| 221 | * SurveillanceDrone used to be "Magic Cam". It was renamed because the trope has nothing to with magic. |
| 222 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong used to be "The Jimmy Hart Version", after a ProfessionalWrestling [[Wrestling/JimmyHart manager]] who would write those kinds of songs. If you didn't know wrestling, the name made no sense. (It stuck around with that name for a surprisingly long time, though.) |
| 223 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute used to be "Jonas Quinn", after an example from ''Series/StargateSG1''. If you didn't know the reference, the name made no sense. |
| 224 | * SwarmOfRats used to be "Squeaking Carpet". It was understood literally; few made the connection of "squeaking" to rats, hence the rename. |
| 225 | * SwissCheeseSecurity used to be "Lex Luthor Security", after Franchise/{{Superman}}'s ArchEnemy on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. However, that character resides in a shared universe and wasn't an example in every continuity. |
| 226 | * SwornBrothers was renamed from "Blood Brothers" because the trope is about two characters making an oath or explicit bonding activity/scene to be brothers/sisters/siblings/family in spirit, but it was often misused for close non-familial relationships that don't involve an oath or pact. |
| 227 | * SympatheticInspectorAntagonist used to be "Inspector Zenigata", after the example from ''Franchise/LupinIII''. It was renamed for requiring familiarity with the work. |
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| 231 | * TailorMadePrison used to be "Oubliette". It was renamed because an oubliette is, roughly, a big hole in the ground, which is thematically pretty much the exact opposite of the trope. |
| 232 | * TakingUpTheMantle used to be "You Are Batman". It was renamed as being obtuse and having a gratuitous {{Trope Namer|s}} (it may have been a reference to the "[[Quotes/{{Batman}} I'm Batman]]" meme). |
| 233 | * TalkAboutThatThing used to be "The Thing", after an episode of ''Series/FamilyTies'' which used the phrase "the thing" in the service of the RoomShuffle. Even those who did know the reference mistook it for the latter trope. Those who didn't had no idea what it meant and often confused it with other things called "The Thing", like [[Film/TheThing1982 the classic horror film with that name]], the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' member with that name, or the character from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' with that name. |
| 234 | * TalkingWithSigns used to be "Sign Language". It was renamed to avoid confusion with literal UsefulNotes/{{Signed Language}}s. |
| 235 | * TangledFamilyTree used to be "Summers Family Tree", after the ''ComicBook/XMen'' character better known as Cyclops. While said character is a very good example, he failed the JustForFun/OneMarioLimit, leading to particular confusion with Buffy Summers, protagonist of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It led to the not infrequent suggestion that the trope was implying that [[{{Crossover}} Buffy and Scott were distant relatives somehow]]. (Makes sense -- [[Website/TVTropes This Very Wiki]] originated from a debate on a ''Buffy'' fansite.) |
| 236 | * TeacherStudentRomance used to be "Hot for Student"; it was renamed to clarify that the relationship goes both ways. Before then, it was "Mary Kay Letourneau Teaches Here", after a highly publicized RealLife example; that one was changed because not only did few get the reference, it was long, hard to spell, and difficult to use organically in descriptions. |
| 237 | * TeamPowerWalk used to simply be called "Power Walk", and was renamed because the fact that it only applies to group shots was often overlooked. |
| 238 | * TechnicolorMagic used to be two tropes, "Supernatural Is Green" and "Supernatural Is Purple", before it was decided that the distinction between the two wasn't significant enough. Even earlier than that, "Supernatural Is Green" was known as "Green Is Unnatural", which was renamed because the old name sounded more like it referred to toxic/dangerous substances rather than the supernatural. |
| 239 | * TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats used to be "Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats". While it kinda got the point across in the vein of the NinjaPirateZombieRobot and evoked the name of its most prominent example, ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', it was just too long, cumbersome, and hard to remember. But when it was initially changed to "Secret Mutant Hero Team", it suffered from underuse because the new name just never caught on like the old one. It was eventually decided to adopt the current name, which more directly referenced the ''Ninja Turtles'' but was short enough to remember. |
| 240 | * {{Teleportation}} used to be "Teleporters and Transporters". It was renamed to broaden the trope to all forms of instant travel, including those which don't use technology like magic or [[NegativeSpaceWedgie natural phenomena]]. |
| 241 | * TeleportationMisfire used to be "Random Teleportation". It was mistaken for RandomTransportation and renamed to clarify its meaning. |
| 242 | * TemporarySubstitute used to be "Substitute Teacher". In spite of the name, it's not ''actually'' about substitute teachers, which is a trope in itself (or at least [[TeasingTheSubstituteTeacher making their lives difficult is]]). This one's a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot wherein an actor can't appear for one installment and a new character is hastily written to do what the actor's character was supposed to do for that installment. The rename at least makes it clearer and aligns it more with the trope's permanent equivalent, SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute. |
| 243 | * TenLittleMurderVictims used to be "And Then There Were None", after the Creator/AgathaChristie story of [[Literature/AndThenThereWereNone the same name]]. It was renamed to avoid collisions with the work's page. The new name is still a kind of reference to the story, which at one time was called ''Ten Little Indians'', both being lyrics from the same nursery rhyme. |
| 244 | * TennisBoss used to be "Playing Tennis with the Boss". It's a boss you have to beat by reflecting their attacks like you're playing tennis, but the longer title led tropers to mistake it for a variant of GoKartingWithBowser -- ''i.e.'' taking time off from fighting the BigBad to play friendlier competition with them in a spinoff game. |
| 245 | * UsefulNotes/{{Tenses}} used to be "How Do I Used Tense?" It's currently a UsefulNotes page about how to write tense properly on the wiki (and elsewhere), but it was originally a catalogue of places in writing where the tense unintentionally shifts. It turned out that there were no such examples on the actual page (making it read like a UsefulNotes page long before it became one), but it still became a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for tropers looking to accuse someone else of poor grammar. |
| 246 | * TerribleArtist used to be "Hollywood Scribbling". It didn't really belong in the HollywoodStyle index, though; this is about a character archetype, whereas the HollywoodStyle tropes are about writing conventions. In other words, "Hollywood Scribbling" should be about scribbling consistently portrayed incorrectly in fiction, whereas the trope is actually about a character who draws bad art. Most wicks were to the latter definition, and the rename reflected common usage. |
| 247 | * TerribleTrio used to be "Team Rocket", after an example from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Not everyone knew the reference, and they [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample weren't really an example anyway]]; especially in [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the anime]], they were more of a GoldfishPoopGang. (Indeed, their reputation for not being a real threat led them to name a trope to that effect that we ''did'' keep: TeamRocketWins.) |
| 248 | * TerrifyingTyrannosaur was renamed from "King of the Dinosaurs" partially because it was used for any appearance of a ''T. rex'', which [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs isn't a trope on its own]], and partially because the trope was expanded to include other tyrannosaur species. |
| 249 | * TerrorDactyl was renamed from "Ptero Soarer" because the old name caused it to be misused for any [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology inaccurate]] portrayal of pterosaurs, when the trope is supposed to be about portrayals of pterosaurs as monstrous, and often bat-like or dragon-like. |
| 250 | * ThanksgivingEpisode used to be "Thanksgiving Day". It was mistaken for a {{Useful Note|s}} about the holiday, which existed at the page "Thanksgiving". Both wound up being renamed; the latter was moved to UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay, taking up the former's wicks, while the former accumulated instances of the holiday in fiction as it was supposed to. |
| 251 | * ThatOneLevel used to be "Scrappy Level". It was renamed because its relation to TheScrappy was a little too negative -- for some gamers, being frustrated is just part of the experience. And we already had ThatOneBoss, which reflected that mindset, so this trope was renamed to align it to a closer parallel. |
| 252 | * ThatOnePlayer used to be "That One Guy". It was renamed to avoid confusion with TheOneGuy, which is a totally different trope. |
| 253 | * {{Thememobile}} used to be "Tropemobile". It was renamed after "trope" was deprecated as a placeholder. |
| 254 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain used to be just "They Killed Kenny". It preserved the reference to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', but adding "again" made it clear that it's supposed to be a RunningGag. |
| 255 | * ThingOMatic used to be "[=Trope-O-Matic=]". It was renamed after "trope" was deprecated as a placeholder. |
| 256 | * ThirdOptionAdaptation used to be "The Pikachu Effect". While Pikachu is probably the single most famous ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' out there, no one had any clue how Pikachu related to the trope. It was ''supposed'' to be a reference to ''Pokemon Yellow'', a remake of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' which introduced Pikachu as the starter 'mon because he filled that role in [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries the anime adaptation]] which had gotten popular in the intervening years, but nobody guessed that. |
| 257 | * ThirdOptionLoveInterest used to be "Cheryl Blossom", after a character from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics''. The expectation was to emphasize the parallel to BettyAndVeronica, which is named after the franchise's first two "options". But it took a ''lot'' of persistent use and PopCulturalOsmosis for the latter to gain currency as a trope name, and it was too much of a stretch to expect people unfamiliar with the work to connect the two tropes, hence the rename. |
| 258 | * ThisIndexFightsDirty used to be "Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty". It was renamed to clarify that it is indeed an index; too many wicks treated it as if it were a trope in itself. |
| 259 | * ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage used to be just "For Massive Damage". The name "For Massive Damage" had previously been used for a different trope which was renamed to AttackItsWeakPoint, both being references to Creator/{{Sony}}'s {{memetic|Mutation}} 2006 E3 presentation. The community wanted to preserve the meme and repurposed the page as an index for extra damage in video games, but it wasn't clear that it ''was'' an index, and most wicks treated it as if it were a trope. The rename clarified that it was an index, but it kept its {{Trope Namer|s}}. |
| 260 | * ThisIndexTouchesItself was previously a trope called "A Date with Rosie Palms". It was converted into an index and renamed because masturbation was determined to [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs not be a trope on its own]]. |
| 261 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch used to be "This Is a Sentence, Bitch!" The rename made it less awkward to use in examples and clarified that the "Bitch!" is for emphasis as opposed to an integral part of the sentence. |
| 262 | * ThisLoserIsYou used to be "You Suck". It was an irresistible Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and attracted misuse. Indeed, while most tropers understood that it was directed from a show to its audience, they used it for just about any TakeThat against said audience, as opposed to specifically doing so by depicting a highly unflattering character whom the audience is nevertheless expected to identify with. The broader sense of the trope was repurposed as TakeThatAudience. |
| 263 | * ThisProductWillChangeYourLife used to be "This Trope Will Change Your Life". The rename served two purposes; first, to remove "trope" as a placeholder, as the practice was now discredited; and second, to emphasize that it's an {{Advertising Trope|s}}. |
| 264 | * ThoseTwoActors used to be "Bogart-Bacall Syndrome", after Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/LaurenBacall, a CreatorCouple who often appeared on screen together. It was renamed because it didn't really describe anything, and the "syndrome" bit suggested it was a problem or medical condition of some kind. |
| 265 | * ThreateningShark used to be "Everything's Even Worse with Sharks". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family. |
| 266 | * ThreeMonthOldNewborn used to be "Dawson Babies", a snowclone of the trope DawsonCasting. However, this didn't get the point across very effectively, as the age difference usually seen in DawsonCasting would imply toddlers playing newborns (or even three-month-olds). The rename clarifies the convention and how it's not immediately obvious. |
| 267 | * ThreesomeSubtext used to be "Three Yay", a snowclone of the trope HoYay. The problem is that HoYay was never very well defined and eventually split; HoYay became for fans seeing subtext where none was there, and the new trope HomoeroticSubtext was for ''intentional'' subtext. This trope followed the latter and was renamed accordingly. |
| 268 | * TimelineAlteringMacGuffin used to be "Gray's Sports Almanac", after the TropeCodifier from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did took the trope too narrowly and thought it was specific to books or information sources that alter the timeline. |
| 269 | * TinCanTelephone used to be "Tin Can You Hear Me Now". Rather than use the simple, RealLife name for the device, we [[CallARabbitASmeerp overcomplicated it]] and named it in reference to the former trope "Can You Hear Me Now?" (apparently a reference to a {{memetic|Mutation}} series of American cell phone ads), since split into SuperCellReception and CellPhonesAreUseless. |
| 270 | * TokenBlackFriend used to be "Black Best Friend". It was renamed to emphasize the "token" aspect of the trope; the old name caused the trope to clutter up with Administrivia/{{Zero Context Example|s}} of best friends who happen to be black. |
| 271 | * TokenMiniMoe used to be "Token Loli", the term "[[LoliconAndShotacon loli]]" referring to sexualized underaged girls. That came with obvious UnfortunateImplications and necessitated a rename. |
| 272 | * TokenMinorityCouple used to be "Token Shipping". It was renamed because {{Shipping}} is for couples that ''aren't'' (but the fanbase wishes they were), and this is a trope about couples that ''are''. |
| 273 | * TooAwesomeToUse used to be "P-Wing Effect", after a particular item from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. It required particular familiarity with the ''Mario'' franchise to understand and had to be renamed. (Twice, thanks to Archive/TheGreatCrash.) |
| 274 | * TooBleakStoppedCaring used to be "Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy". It was often misued to complain about any dark elements in a work, rather than specifically about elements ''so'' dark that viewers stopped caring about the protagonists' success. It was initially renamed to "So Bleak, It's Boring", but it was very quickly determined to be no less confusing (and a pointless snowclone to boot, from the "So X, It's Y" family). The new name is its own play on the meme "Too Long, Didn't Read". |
| 275 | * Administrivia/TooRareToTrope used to be "Chairs Sit on People", a RussianReversal of Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. However, tropers thought it was a JustForFun page rather than an actual policy page. The joke was preserved in the page image, though; it's the only example we could find of a chair sitting on a person, courtesy of the prolifically bizarre ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. |
| 276 | * ToplessnessFromTheBack used to be "Sexy Back", after a song by Music/JustinTimberlake which otherwise doesn't have to do with the trope. It was commonly mistaken for a "back that is sexy" rather than a sexy thing shown from the back. It was also commonly mistaken for SexyBacklessOutfit, which was split from the former trope to collect those examples. |
| 277 | * TorturedMonster used to be "Tortured Abomination". It was renamed to broaden it beyond just {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. |
| 278 | * TortureForFunAndInformation used to be "Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique". It was a snowclone of JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, this time changing the reference to ''Series/AshesToAshes2008''. While Jack Bauer from ''Series/TwentyFour'' successfully wormed his way into our troping [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary vocabulary]], no such luck for the more obscure Gene Hunt, hence the rename. |
| 279 | * TotallyNotACriminalFront was renamed from "Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club" because it was often misused, particularly where CovertGroupWithMundaneFront would be more appropriate. |
| 280 | * ToughLeaderFacade was previously called "The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask", and was renamed when the definition was broadened into a gender-neutral trope for leaders who project a tough public appearance for their subjects' sake. |
| 281 | * TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest used to be "Disabled Love Interest", and it was renamed after it was retooled to refer to tragic characters. Before that, it was "Disabled Hottie, and it was renamed after misuse of the trope to mean "attractive disabled person". |
| 282 | * TrainingMontage used to be "Gonna Fly Now Montage", after a particularly famous example from ''Film/{{Rocky}}''. Most uses of the name were specific to ''Rocky'' or homages thereof (there are plenty, but the trope is not that narrow). And many uses of the trope were using TrainingMontage as a redirect anyway. |
| 283 | * TransformationNameAnnouncement used to be "I Am Hero, Hear Me Roar!" It was renamed for being incomprehensible and completely unintuitive. |
| 284 | * TranslationTrainWreck used to be "Do Not Want", after a very {{memetic|Mutation}} line from the prominent example ''WebVideo/BackstrokeOfTheWest''. Most uses of the name referenced the meme itself, which in common usage wasn't about translation but more akin to a {{Squick}} reaction. Accordingly, after the rename, "Do Not Want" was repurposed as a redirect for the latter trope. That was a bad idea; it turned into such a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet that it was cut and moved to the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub. |
| 285 | * TransplantedCharacterFic used to be "Cookie Cutter Fic". It was renamed because no one could agree on what the "cookie cutter" part meant. |
| 286 | * TrappedInThePast used to be "Connecticut Yankee", after the Creator/MarkTwain story ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did associated it with a different trope, which was created as GivingRadioToTheRomans after the rename. |
| 287 | * TraumaticHaircut used to be "Rape of the Lock", after [[Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock the work of the same name]]. It was renamed to prevent collisions with the work's page. And in any event, the work itself isn't the best example; the hair in question was a trivial amount, but it was ''treated'' [[SeriousBusiness like a Traumatic Haircut]] (it's [[MundaneMadeAwesome that kind of work]]). |
| 288 | * TrojanPrisoner used to be "Wookiee Gambit", after ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- and specifically a scene in ''Film/ANewHope'' in which Chewbacca is used in this manner. While many people are familiar with ''Star Wars'', the name wasn't clear exactly how it related to the trope. (You'd be forgiven for thinking it related to the wholly unrelated ChewbaccaDefense.) |
| 289 | * TropesAboutPerverts used to be "This Index Is Full of Perverts". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "This Index Is X" snowclone family. |
| 290 | * TroubleMagnetGambit used to be "Vasor Gambit", after a one-off character from ''Series/DoctorWho'' (and specifically from the first season of a ridiculous LongRunner). If you weren't a Whovian with encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise, there was no way you were getting what the trope meant. |
| 291 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior used to be "Troubling Unchildhood Behavior". It was renamed to make it slightly less grammatically baffling. |
| 292 | * TrueCompanions used to be "Nakama". And it was a contentious name in its day. The word is simply GratuitousJapanese for "friends" or "companions", but many tropers insisted that it meant something deeper and more nuanced. The idea was that even though it wasn't a {{Japanese Media Trope|s}}, the only way to properly express the concept was with its Japanese name, like what we did with {{Tsundere}}. Discussion revealed otherwise, but not before accusations were thrown around of {{Occidental Otaku}}dom. (They fought ''really'' hard to keep that name.) In any event, the supposed deeper meaning of "friends with ties stronger than anything" amounted to Administrivia/TheSameButMore. |
| 293 | * TrueFinalBoss used to be "Perfect Run Final Boss". It was renamed because not all such bosses require a perfect run to access. |
| 294 | * TrustPassword used to be "I Am John Smith", after a specific example from [[spoiler:''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'']] which also happened to be a massive {{Spoiler}}. If you weren't familiar with it, there was no way to understand what the trope meant. |
| 295 | * TsurimeEyes and TaremeEyes used to be just "Tsurime" and "Tareme". Although they were JapaneseMediaTropes, they still have to be ''somewhat'' comprehensible to non-speakers of Japanese. The rename clarified that they are about eye shapes. |
| 296 | * TurnTheOtherFist used to be "[=McLintock=] Punch", after the Creator/JohnWayne [[TheWestern Western]] comedy film ''Film/McLintock''. If you didn't know the reference, the trope was impenetrable, and accordingly it suffered from severe underuse. |
| 297 | * TwoBeingsOneBody used to be "Biological Mash-Up". It was renamed after extensive confusion with MixAndMatchCritters, which is more like "one being, two half-bodies". |
| 298 | * TwoDecadesBehind used to be "Still the Eighties". It was renamed to broaden the pool of examples to any work that's two decades behind the times, both where that's before and after UsefulNotes/TheEighties. |
| 299 | * TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects used to be "3D Effects, 2D Cartoon"; it was renamed to broaden it beyond traditional animation. Before then, it was "Conspicuous CG", but that name didn't indicate that it was a stylistic choice and led to tropers using it to Administrivia/{{complain|ingAboutShowsYouDontLike}} about CG elements they didn't like. |
| 300 | * TwoWordsAddedEmphasis used to be "Two Words: Obvious Trope". It was renamed in the cleanup of use of "trope" as a placeholder; furthermore, the "obvious" caused confusion and misuse. |
| 301 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm used to be "The Umbridge", after a character from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did associated the character with other tropes. |
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| 304 | [[folder:U]] |
| 305 | * {{Ukefication}} used to be "Wimpification" -- and before then "Ukefication". It's a fun story, too. It was originally renamed for being GratuitousJapanese, which was unfortunately a problem in the early days of the wiki (''e.g.'' TrueCompanions being called "Nakama"). But it wasn't just the Japanese that was the problem -- its reference to the [[MediaNotes/BoysLoveNotes "seme/uke" paradigm]] suggested that the trope was about the relative positions in the relationship as opposed to the stereotypes associated with them. But changing "uke" to "wimp" didn't get across the sense of the word, and indeed it led to frequent confusion with BadassDecay and related tropes. Turns out that despite being MediaNotes/AnimeFanSpeak, "uke" at least got across that it's about a gay relationship, and the userbase got a lot better about GratuitousJapanese than they were before. |
| 306 | * UnabashedBMovieFan used to be "There's No 'B' in 'Movie'". It was misused to refer to [[BMovie B-movies]] in general and renamed. |
| 307 | * UncannyVillage used to be just "The Village". It was renamed to specify the ''kind'' of village, and also to avoid collisions with the variety of works called ''The Village''. |
| 308 | * UnconfessedUnemployment used to be "I Can't Tell the Wife I Got Laid Off". It was renamed for being too long, looking like a line of dialogue, and implying that it was exclusive to {{Sitcom|Tropes}} husbands. |
| 309 | * UnconvincinglyUnpopularCharacter used to be "Cool Loser". It was moved to YMMV and renamed after it was determined this was based on audience reaction. |
| 310 | * UndesirablePrize used to be "Flokati Rug", after an example from ''Series/PressYourLuck''. If you didn't know the reference, the name was impenetrable. |
| 311 | * UnexpectedCharacter used to be "The Unexpected". It was renamed to narrow it specifically to characters, as opposed to ''anything'' unexpected. |
| 312 | * UnexpectedGameplayChange used to be "Unexpected Genre Change". It was meant to be a {{Video Game Trope|s}}, but it was mistaken for a much broader one. Accordingly, it was renamed to clarify its scope, and the broader examples were moved to the new trope OutOfGenreExperience. |
| 313 | * UnexplainedRecovery used to be "I Got Better", after a line from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. While enough people appeared to get the reference (the film is ridiculously {{memetic|Mutation}}, after all), it was misused as a {{Stock Phrase|s}} and a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet for anyone and anything who "gets better", regardless of whether or not there was a satisfactory explanation for it. |
| 314 | * UnintentionallyUnwinnable used to be just "Unwinnable". Well, kinda -- "Unwinnable" was split into three tropes. Two of them -- "Unwinnable by Mistake" and "Unwinnable by Insanity" -- were determined to be redundant and merged together into what's now UnintentionallyUnwinnable, which was the original sense of "Unwinnable". The third, UnwinnableByDesign, is still its own trope. {{Unwinnable}} is now an index containing those two tropes plus UnwinnableJokeGame. |
| 315 | * UnfazedEveryman used to be "The Arthur Dent", after the character from ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy''. Not everyone got the reference, and many who did associated him with other tropes. |
| 316 | * UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway used to be "But Sir, It's Not Yet Ready". It was mistaken for a Stock Phrase, and the "sir" bit suggested a specific kind of master-servant relationship (or perhaps waiter-diner), which made it seem narrower than it was. Accordingly, it suffered from underuse. |
| 317 | * UngratefulTownsfolk used to be "What the Hell, Townspeople?" It was renamed because WhatTheHellHero and its snowclones are for AudienceReactions, and this one was an InUniverse reaction. |
| 318 | * UniqueEnemy used to be "The Red Snifit", after an example from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. Not only did it require familiarity with a specific work, it wasn't the clearest example; while there's only one red Snifit in that game, ''all'' Snifits are red in later ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' games. |
| 319 | * UniquenessDecay used to be "Novelty Decay"; it was renamed because "novelty" is quite subjective, it attracted too much complaining, and "uniqueness" fits the trope better anyway. Before then, it was "Everyone Has a Power Ring"; that one was renamed as a gratuitous reference to ''ComicBook/GreenLantern''. |
| 320 | * UniquenessValue used to be "What Measure Is a Non-Unique?". Seems like a lateral move, but it's not exactly aligned with the WhatMeasureIsAnIndex trope, and it was more awkward than the rest of them to boot. |
| 321 | * UniversalAdaptorCast used to be "Commedia dell'Arte Troupe", after CommediaDellArte, a specific genre from the Italian Renaissance that relied heavily on the trope. Not everyone was familiar with the genre, and those who were mistook it to refer to the genre itself rather than to the specific trope, which is not unique to it anyway. |
| 322 | * UniversallyBelovedLeader used to be "100% Adoration Rating", but the name didn't clearly get across the fact that it's specifically about widely loved leaders, leading to confusion with LovedByAll. |
| 323 | * UnkemptBeauty used to be "The Benson", after Creator/AmberBenson, who played Tara Maclay on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Not only was it an obscure reference, it appeared to be a character trope when it was actually a reference to the actress who played her, which even back then was not our style. |
| 324 | * UnknownRelative used to be "Relative Unknown". It was renamed within two weeks of its creation, out of fear that the name would be confusing and prone to misuse. |
| 325 | * UnnaturallyBlueLighting used to be "Bad Blue Lighting". It was renamed to make it sound more objective and less negative. |
| 326 | * UnseenEvil used to be "Ultimate Evil". It was renamed to clarify the "unseen" part; without that, it was frequently misused as "the BigBad, but [[Administrivia/TheSameButMore more so]]". |
| 327 | * UnseenPenPal used to be "Mailer Daemon", a reference to an obscure computing term. It was renamed partly because the reference was impenetrable, and partly to expand the trope beyond electronic messages. |
| 328 | * UnsettlingGenderReveal used to be "Dropped a Bridget on Him", a reference to ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and a snowclone of the otherwise unrelated trope DroppedABridgeOnHim. Many didn't get the reference, assuming it had something to do with bridge-dropping. Many who did mistook it for the broader GenderReveal supertrope (which [[Administrivia/MissingSupertrope didn't exist yet]]) or other related tropes; the "unsettling" bit helped narrow the definition. (Long after the trope was renamed, the eponymous Bridget came out as a trans woman in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive''.) |
| 329 | * UnspecifiedRoleCredit used to be "Now Which One Was That Voice?". It was renamed for clarity's sake. |
| 330 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating used to be "Victory Gloating". It was misused for gloating in general, whereas the rename clarified that it had to relate to a competition of some sort. |
| 331 | * UnwantedAssistance used to be "Stop Helping Me!". It was unclear whether it was an InUniverse reaction or a {{YMMV}} trope and collected examples of both. The rename made it an InUniverse trope, whereas the {{YMMV}} tropes were split into the new trope AnnoyingVideoGameHelper. |
| 332 | * UnwantedGiftPlot used to be "The Zotz", after ''Film/{{Zotz}}'', an obscure Creator/WilliamCastle film. Nobody understood the name or how it related to the trope, which isn't even really an example. It needed a rename ''badly''. |
| 333 | * UnwinnableTrainingSimulation used to be "The ''Kobayashi Maru''", after a prominent example from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (first introduced in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]''). Not everyone got the reference, and it wasn't very easy to spell, to boot. |
| 334 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom used to be "Swiss Messenger". While it might seem like a reference to the former "Swiss Moment" (since renamed to LateToThePunchline), it's actually a reference to an obscure character from the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story ''The Final Problem''. Accordingly, no one got it, and the trope suffered from underuse. |
| 335 | * UrbanLegendOfZelda used to be "Schala Lives", after an example concerning ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Few got the reference, even those familiar with other examples of the trope, hence the rename. |
| 336 | * UrgentMedicalAlert used to be "Grey's Anatomy Emergency Medical Response". It was renamed as too long and awkward to use; it was also named after ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' but unclear as to how the show related to the trope. |
| 337 | * TheUsualAdversaries used to be "Goddamn Orks", after the race from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Although it didn't rely as much on the {{Trope Namer|s}} as it did its similarity to tropes like GoddamnedBats, it still suffered from underuse and was mostly used as a VerbalTic among tropers who got the reference. |
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| 340 | [[folder:V]] |
| 341 | * VampireDance used to be "Blood on the Dance Floor". It was renamed to clarify that it had to do with vampires (and not necessarily blood), with the added advantage of avoiding collisions with the page for [[Music/BloodOnTheDanceFloor the musical duo with the same name]]. |
| 342 | * VanillaProtagonist used to be "Designated Protagonist Syndrome". It was renamed because "syndrome" made it sound too negative and "designated" made it sound like you wouldn't even be able to tell this character's the protagonist unless you were told, which isn't ''quite'' what the trope means. |
| 343 | * VanishingVillage used to be "Brigadoon", after [[Theatre/{{Brigadoon}} the musical of the same name]]. In addition to requiring knowledge of a specific work, the name also led to collisions with the work's page. |
| 344 | * VerbalTic used to be "Spoon Speaker", after a CharacterCatchphrase from ''ComicBook/TheTick''. In addition to requiring knowledge of a specific work, the work [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example itself]]. |
| 345 | * VerbThis used to be "Dodge This", after a line from ''Film/TheMatrix''. Tropers mistook it to be about dodging rather than the specific "___ this!" sentence construction. |
| 346 | * VerticalMechaFins used to be "Eva Fins", after ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Not everyone got the reference, especially as it required you to understand "Eva" as a shorthand for this work and not something else. Those who did get that it had to do with HumongousMecha misused it for ''all'' mecha fins and not specifically vertical ones like ''Evangelion'' had. |
| 347 | * VetinariJobSecurity used to be "Vetinari Paradox". Oddly enough, the {{Trope Namer|s}} survived (Patrician Havelock Vetinari from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''); the rename clarifies which aspect of his character relates to the trope. In any event, it's not that paradoxical if you think about it; it's just hard to pull off at the start. |
| 348 | * VFormationTeamShot used to be "Justice League Shot", after the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''. It was renamed for being opaque and requiring familiarity with a specific work. |
| 349 | * VictorGainsLosersPowers used to be "Your Defeat Means I Obtain Your Powers". It was renamed to make it more concise and clarify that the powers go to the one responsible for the victim's defeat. |
| 350 | * VillainForgotToLevelGrind used to be "The Viral", after a character from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Not everyone got the reference, or indeed figured out that it was a character, thinking it instead had to do with TheVirus or other uses of the word "viral". Accordingly, it was opaque and needed a rename. |
| 351 | * VillainInAWhiteSuit used to be "Man in White". It was misused to be far more broad, referring to any man wearing white, regardless of whether or not they were a villain or the outfit was a suit. |
| 352 | * VillainOverForDinner used to be "Did Mom Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?" It was renamed because it didn't really belong with the DidYouJustIndexCthulhu tropes; it doesn't require a powerful being, just a villain. The new name also had the advantage of sounding less like a line of dialogue. |
| 353 | * VillainsBlendInBetter used to be "Antagonists Assimilate", apparently a line from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' that was never actually used. Not only was it opaque, it didn't have anything to do with assimilation, leading to misuse to mean TheAssimilator or similar tropes. |
| 354 | * VillainsDyingGrace used to be "My Revenge Is Mercy". It suffered from underuse and was renamed to clarify that ''(a)'' it's a villain's revenge and ''(b)'' they give it when they die. |
| 355 | * VirginityMakesYouStupid used to be "Innocence Virgin on Stupidity". It was renamed because not everyone got the {{Pun}} ("verging" turned into "virgin") and thought the title was misspelled or [[WordSaladTitle a string of random words]]. |
| 356 | * VisionsOfAnotherSelf used to be "Flashback Echo". It was mistaken for a {{flashback}} version of an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho, when it's both broader (it doesn't have to be an echo ''or'' a flashback) and narrower (it has to be one's other self). FlashbackEcho was repurposed for all the former examples. |
| 357 | * VulgarHumor used to be "Refuge in Vulgarity", in parallel with RefugeInAudacity and similar tropes. For whatever reason, tropers used it to complain about works which used it; the rename cut down on the complaining. |
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| 361 | * {{Wackyland}} used to be "Magicant", after an area from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. Most tropers didn't get the reference, and for those who did, it implied a trope narrower than it actually was; Magicant is a MentalWorld in addition to being surreal. |
| 362 | * WakeUpFighting used to be "Rude Awakening". Tropers took the idiomatic meaning directly and didn't figure out the gist of the trope, leading to underuse and misuse. |
| 363 | * WakingUpElsewhere used to be "Waking Up in Vegas". It was renamed because "elsewhere" by no means has to be Las Vegas (although [[VivaLasVegas it happens often enough]]). It appears to have been named after ''Film/TheHangover'', which [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample isn't even an example]] because they were in Las Vegas to begin with. |
| 364 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency used to be "Virtue Is Its Own Reward". It was mistaken for its literal meaning and as a positive trope, akin to ThinkNothingOfIt. |
| 365 | * WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism used to be "Obligatory War Crime Scene". It was kind of confusing, because even in WarMovies and the like, war crime scenes aren't really "obligatory". Indeed, the "obligatory" part suggests that it's for villains who commit war crimes, which ''might'' be obligatory if you're aiming for BlackAndWhiteMorality and need the villain to KickTheDog; but this trope is actually for ''heroes'' who commit war crimes so as to show that WarIsHell and it's EvilVersusEvil. The rename makes that much clearer. |
| 366 | * WatchItForTheMeme used to be "Must Seek Leek", after the Loituma Girl meme from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Even as {{meme|ticMutation}}s go, it was pretty damn obscure, and in any event, the {{Trope Namer|s}} is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not really an example]], because the meme isn't the reason most people have heard of ''Bleach''. The rename made it much clearer. |
| 367 | * WatchItStoned used to be "Everything's Better on Drugs". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone family, and it didn't even fit into that family anyway. |
| 368 | * TheWatson was formed from the merger of "The Sarah Jane" and "The Rick". Both were character-named tropes in dire need of a rename; "The Sarah Jane" came from ''Series/DoctorWho'', and "The Rick" came from ''Series/MagnumPI''. "The Rick" was particularly obtuse; while "Sarah Jane" isn't ''too'' uncommon a name (especially if you're familiar with ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', which being a {{spinoff}} of a badly JustForFun/TropeOverdosed show will pop up on the wiki every now and then), "Rick" could be from anywhere. Once the rename process started, it was discovered that there wasn't much distinction between the two, and they were merged together. Curiously, TheWatson is ''still'' a character-named trope, but Dr. Watson from ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' is a well-known character archetype. |
| 369 | * WaxingLyrical used to be "Don't Sing Along If You Don't Know the Words". In addition to being very long and unwieldy, it didn't describe the trope; it's about characters reciting song lyrics (not necessarily singing them), whereas it gave the impression of singing -- and getting the lyrics ''wrong''. Misuse to mean the latter was a meaner version of either RefrainFromAssuming or SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein. |
| 370 | * WayPastTheExpirationDate used to be "Best Before Decade". The new name got across the gist of the old one in a much less awkward and meaningless way. The old name wasn't even the name its draft had in the TropeLaunchPad. |
| 371 | * WeatherManipulation used to be "Power of the Storm". It was renamed to clarify that it's about a superpower, not generally about [[HostileWeather destructive weather]]. |
| 372 | * WebcomicTime was merged together with "That Night Felt Like Months". The latter gave the impression that it was about time compression shenanigans, like IFellForHours or YearInsideHourOutside. In the rename process, it was found to be indistinguishable from WebcomicTime and merged into it. |
| 373 | * WhatWereTheySellingAgain used to be "Distracted by the Shiny". It was misused for characters being distracted by shiny things, which is totally different from what the trope is about. The "distraction" angle was repurposed for the trope AttentionDeficitOohShiny. |
| 374 | * WhenYouComingHomeDad used to be "Cat's in the Cradle", after the song by Music/HarryChapin. The new name gets the sense of the trope across much better, but it retains the {{Trope Namer|s}}, as it's a lyric from the song. |
| 375 | * WhiteBreadAndBlackBrotha used to be "Salt and Pepper". It was renamed to emphasize the White half as [[StraightMan straight-laced]] and [[ByTheBookCop by-the-book]] and the Black half as [[StreetSmart street-wise]] and [[JiveTurkey loud-mouthed]], as it was misued to include any White-Black pair, running risk of Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. |
| 376 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart used to be "White-Haired Pretty Boy". It was renamed in the cleanup of the PersonalAppearanceTropes; while PrettyBoy is a longstanding character trope (avoiding the usual problems of tropers just adding every character with a certain hair color), this isn't actually a character trope and is more about traits. |
| 377 | * WhiteMagicianGirl used to be "Staff Chick". It was mistaken for a skill trope rather than a character trope; rather than characters who matched a specific archetype, tropers were adding characters who did what chicks do with a staff: healing. This led to serious overlap with such tropes as HealingHands, TheMedic, and WhiteMage. The rename clarified that it's a character trope ''and'' that it doesn't strictly require a staff. The new name also matches the trope's BlackMage counterpart, BlackMagicianGirl. |
| 378 | * Administrivia/WickCleaningProjects used to be "TRS Wick Cleaning". It was renamed because "TRS" implied that the projects all came from the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop, when they could come from other places as well. |
| 379 | * WickedWeasel used to be "Everything's Better with Weasels". It was renamed in the cleanup of the deprecated "Everything's Better with X" snowclone. As if to illustrate the problem, the trope amounted to a list of weasels in fiction, regardless of portrayal. |
| 380 | * WifeHusbandry used to be "Hikaru Genji plan", after ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji''. It was renamed for relying too much on a relatively obscure work of literature. |
| 381 | * WimpFight used to be "Zero Chops". "Chops" is a not-terribly-obscure term meaning "skills", but usually only makes sense in context ("working their acting chops"); here, where "zero" was the only word with it, it was meaningless. Perhaps it was also an oblique description of the technique involved in a WimpFight. |
| 382 | * WindowsOfTheSoul used to be "She Then Saw the Glint of Triumph in His Eyes". It was renamed for being long, unwieldy, and a line of dialogue. It doesn't even appear to have a {{Trope Namer|s}}, and the new name is a common idiomatic expression for the concept, which makes one wonder where the heck the old name even came from. |
| 383 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility used to be "Comes Great Responsibility". Both come from the same line from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''; the old name was trying to be concise, but the truncated version failed to convey the full meaning of the trope. |
| 384 | * WordSaladTitle used to be "Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven". The idea was for the name to be [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself self-referential]], and it did so magnificently -- so much so that no one could actually remember the name or easily use it in a sentence. We gave up on the self-reference and renamed it to its more mundane and descriptive redirect. |
| 385 | * WorldOfPun used to be "A Worldwide Punomenon". In addition to being a Administrivia/PotholeMagnet and mistaken for the other {{pun}}-related tropes, it gave the impression that it applied to a single character rather than an entire setting. The name change also allowed the definition to be clarified and tightened. |
| 386 | * WorldOfWeirdness used to be "Planet Eris", after the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek goddess]] of strife and discord, but more specifically after her incarnation as the goddess of chaos in ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia''. The rename made it much clearer. |
| 387 | * TheWorldsBreastTropes used to be "Keep Abreast of This Index". It was cut after Archive/TheSecondGoogleIncident by admin fiat for lewdness. Eight years later, it was suggested on the TropeLaunchPad by a troper who was unaware of the old index; the community was, but decided that enough time had passed that it was safe to create (although it was locked upon launch). In the process, it got a new name from the troper unfamiliar with the old one. |
| 388 | * WritingPitfallIndex used to be "Bad Writing Index"; it was renamed for attracting Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike and recast as a sort of how-to guide rather than an indictment-fest. Before then, it was just "Bad Writing", but it was renamed to clarify that it was an index. Interestingly, the first rename led to ''worse'' complaining, as tropers started arguing about which tropes qualified. |
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| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:X]] |
| 392 | * TheXOfY used to be "The Noun of Adjective". It was renamed for clarity and to align it with our other uses of "X" and "Y" as placeholders. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Y]] |
| 396 | * {{Yarling}} used to be "Nose Yodeling". It's actually ''more'' obtuse if you're not familiar with it, but it's an accepted term off-wiki and thus a technical term, so we use that one. |
| 397 | * [[YMMV/HomePage YMMV]] (short for "Your Mileage May Vary") used to be "Subjective Tropes". It was decided that tropes are not subjective at all, by definition; it was briefly renamed "Subjectives" as a way of showing that they're not tropes at all, but this wasn't really true, either. The rename to "YMMV" was easy to remember, having already used for the page that became LoveItOrHateIt. It also made debates easier to stomach; "it's subjective" is more inflammatory than "it's YMMV", which sounds more like a technical term ''and'' had long been preferred in [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary wiki parlance]] anyway. |
| 398 | * YouAreTooLate used to be "Thirty-Five Minutes Ago", after a line from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. If you weren't familiar with it, the name made no sense; if you were, it was a major {{spoiler}}. |
| 399 | * YouJustToldMe used to be "Rumplestiltskin Ploy". First, it relied on knowledge of the {{Trope Namer|s}} (although being a story by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, it's not too obscure); second, the Trope Namer was spelled incorrectly (it's ''Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}'', spelled the German way... 'cuz he's German); and third, the Trope Namer is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not an example]]. |
| 400 | * {{Youkai}} used to be "Yokai". It was renamed to match the accepted standard for UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization. While "Yokai" is a longstanding spelling, it's been relegated to redirect status. |
| 401 | * YouKnowWhoSaidThat used to be "And Now You Know the Rest of the Story". It was renamed for being long, awkward, and difficult to use in a sentence. It also had an obscure {{Trope Namer|s}}, being a catchphrase of American radio personality Radio/PaulHarvey, whose use of it [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample wasn't even an example of the trope]]. |
| 402 | * YoungConqueror used to be "The Alexander", a reference to UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Not everyone got the reference, thinking it referred to a fictional character named "Alexander". And even if you did know it was about Alexander the Great, the first thing most people know about him is that he conquered a large part of the world as known to his contemporaries; fewer people know that he started out his conquests as a teenager. |
| 403 | * YourMom used to be "Yo Momma's a Trope". It was renamed for using "trope" as a placeholder; it was deprecated site-wide, but this might have been its ugliest use. It also avoided the racial connotations of the specific formulation "yo momma" (as well as ambiguity as to how to spell it). |
| 404 | * YouShouldntKnowThisAlready used to be "Ocarina Playlist", a reference to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Even among those familiar with the reference, it was unclear what exactly it meant, especially as encountering the trope required you to have played the game more than once and done things with the Ocarina that most players wouldn't try. |
| 405 | * YouWillKnowWhatToDo used to be "When the Time Comes, You Will Know What to Do". It was determined that the "When the Time Comes" bit was unnecessary for understanding the trope, and it was renamed to be more concise. |
| 406 | * YuriFan used to be "Yuri Fanboy", as it was originally defined as a gender-flipped counterpart to YaoiFangirl. It was renamed to make it more gender-inclusive. Indeed, to make it more ''sensical''; the old name suggested that the fan had to be male, when the majority of examples were female (to say nothing of the former TroperTales entries). The original title was kept as a redirect for compatibility with the longstanding term {{Fanboy}}. |
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| 409 | [[/index]] |
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