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7	* VacationEpisode: If someone is middle-class or above (or lucky enough to hit a windfall or be invited somewhere or win a contest or similar), there's a fairly good likelihood they will travel for pleasure. Some places are created solely to rely on this - good examples being Las Vegas, Hawaii, and almost any resort location anywhere.
8	* ValentinesDayVitriol: Not everybody likes Valentine's Day, for various reasons, including spending, lack of dates, or the kitsch.
9	* VagueAge: Stereotypically common in the US in women over 30. VisualKei artists in Japan of any age tend to do it (younger ones to seem mysterious and older, older ones to seem younger and more relevant).
10	* ValleyGirl: They still exist, although not ''just'' in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles and nearby environs.
11	* ValuesDissonance: Lots of it, everywhere and all the time. In the US alone, compare the [[TheDeepSouth The]] [[SweetHomeAlabama South]] with the rest of the country. Compare the [[FlyoverCountry Interior States]] with the Coastal States, or even the East Coast with the West Coasts. Worldwide, compare the Western World with the rest of the planet. Compare [[FreeStateAmsterdam Amsterdam]] with [[UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} Singapore]]. Or UsefulNotes/SouthKorea with UsefulNotes/NorthKorea. Compare also [[TheGenerationGap your parents/children's worldview with your own]]. The upper classes with the lower classes. Or a few centuries, decades, or even ''years'' ago with today.
12	* VegetarianForADay: Catholics and most Mainline Protestants are expected to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent as a commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion on that day. Prior to the 1960s, it was every Friday. "Meatless Monday" is a variation in which a usually omnivorous person goes without meat every Monday (though it doesn't have to be specifically on a Monday) to cut down on their meat consumption. Even among those who genuinely attempt to switch to vegetarian/vegan diets, [[https://www.thecut.com/2014/12/84-percent-of-vegetarians-go-back-to-eating-meat.html the vast majority]] will eventually resume eating animal products, even if it's only semi-regularly.
13	* VerbalTic: It happens, just not with every single person. Francophone Canadians often say "là" ("there") at the end of each sentence, Mexicans do the same with "wey" and "ese" ("dude" and "this", respectively), Argentinians start their phrases with "che", and Americans use "like", like, every five words. And not just, like, the ValleyGirl types (thanks to MTV).
14	** It's become a pastime of many Canadians to use their "eh? verbal tic when around Americans.
15	* VeryFakeResume: Most people pad their resume to make it stand out more amongst the other applicants. It's just they generally stop short of putting BlatantLies on it.
16	* VeryFalseAdvertising: Fast food advertising does this all the time, at any possible chance for it to do so. Vacation rental/timeshare ads are also infamous for it, as are some apartment rentals and similar. The "tourist trap" is infamous for it. [[BeforeAndAfterPictures "Before and after"]] ads for diet products or plastic surgery. Pharmaceutical and medical product ads that depict people healthier and more active than most would be by the time they use the product, anyway.
17	* ViceCity: There are [[CrapsaccharineWorld a fair number of cities around the world with high crime rates]], but special mention goes to UsefulNotes/HongKong's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Kowloon Walled City]], a small but extremely densely populated city that existed outside the legal jurisdictions of both mainland China and Britain, making it a haven for triads, back-alley doctors, and other not-so-legal ventures.
18	* VideoPhone: Many new cellphones have front-facing cameras, allowing users to look at each other while talking. VOIP applications such as Skype and Discord also allow anyone with a webcam and microphone to make video calls.
19	* ViewersAreMorons: Why there needs to be JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs, "DontTryThisAtHome" warnings, the {{Sabotutor}} doing AndSomeOtherStuff needs to exist, and various other means to stop people's stupidity from actually harming them.
20	* VillainDecay: [[ForeverWar Long wars]] tend to do this to both sides involved: the more resources expended on the war(s) and battles within them, both human and otherwise, the less there are to spend next time, and then the next time.
21	* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: How many of the more sophisticated criminals who do manage to get caught/arrested do so - they don't keep informed of law enforcement tactics or change their own tactics or ideas, doing the same thing while the cops understand how it's done or that it's being done/infiltrate thoroughly with informants. Or they use tactics that are amateurish enough or obvious enough to guarantee police attention such as open violence, even when they should know better from experience.
22	* VillainousBreakdown: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, at the end of his life in the bunker. Averted with Hirohito, who was either a KarmaHoudini or far less involved than his military was, but either way, ''didn't'' have a breakdown despite far worse happening to his country. Quite a few dictators or other failed leaders in general decide to destroy as much of their own country with them on their way out. Also, Narcissistic rage - when a narcissist's plans have failed and/or he or she has lost control.
23	* VillainousRescue: There have been quite a few occasions when people who would be seen as "villains" have indeed rescued people - for example, John Rabe, the Nazi who protected people in Nanking from the Imperial Japanese army. UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar actually mandate this in war in some ways - by prohibiting firing on parachuting aircrews or the wounded, and mandating that POW chaplains and medics be allowed to function as medics for ''anyone'' in need of their services.
24	* VillainsOutShopping: Even UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had some innocuous hobbies, and most criminals/dictators/etcetera tend to have ''some'' interests or hobbies that don't revolve around killing people and committing crime.
25	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Some criminals are able to keep their dark side hidden for years and be known as good people. Perhaps the best example of this is Sir Jimmy Savile.
26	* VindicatedByHistory: More than a few people. There are several politicians who were widely hated during their term but are now fondly remembered by history books, for example.
27	* ViolationOfCommonSense: Happens quite often in RealLife.
28	* ViolentGlaswegian: Glasgow is the murder capital of Western Europe.
29	* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: These tend to start anything from the BarBrawl to MaliciousSlander if even slightly upset by someone as much as flirting with their man. Beware.
30	* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Only true in a very limited circumstance: virginity plus/as a result of abstinence-only religious education combined with being very sheltered or isolated from outside information ''can'' make someone ignorant or even willfully stupid in regard to things related to sex (especially how it works, how to do it in a safer way, etcetera). A bit more true historically in societies when young women weren't educated in regard to ''anything'' aside from keeping the home.
31	* VirginSacrifice: Some cultures throughout history have done this.
32	* VirginShaming: Anyone in the West who is a virgin past college-age (especially if they're male) has likely experienced this at some point.
33	* VisibleInvisibility: There are quite a few interfaces that require a visible or audible token of action for something that is invisible to convince the user that something is indeed happening. A couple of examples are the hourglass (in Windows) and the spinny candy disc (in OSX), and hold music or recordings instead of dead air so people stay on the phone on hold rather than assume the call has ended.
34	* VisualKei: Some artists and fans dress in the style and/or even maintain complete personas offstage.
35	* VirtualAssistantBlunder: Your smart device doesn't always understand what you are trying to say.
36	* VirtualCelebrity: A few of them are around like [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloids]].
37	* VirtualGhost: Programmers working with the band Music/XJapan made a hologram of a late member (lead guitarist [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]) that was both a VirtualCelebrity and very, very close to this idea from the realism INA and the other programmers achieved with the image. Programmers also did this to bring Music/TupacShakur to Coachella 2012.
38	* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of apparent friendships, or at least instances of people remaining on generally good terms, can involve in playful insults, bickering, and just plain fighting each other.
39	* VocalDissonance: Radio [=DJs=], Mike Tyson, Creator/SteveBlum, and several others do ''not'' look how you would expect them to based on their voice, and vice versa. This was a very real problem back in the days when "talkie" movies were new, and many actors lost their jobs because their voices were so silly.
40	* VodkaDrunkenski: Russia and the former Soviet republics ''still'' maintain the world's highest rates of alcohol abuse and alcoholism per capita. So while it is a stereotype, it's also unfortunately a true one in many ways.
41	* VomitingCop: Many, many RealLife incidents. More frequent on vehicle accidents than violent crime, but it happens.
42	* VoteEarlyVoteOften: Election fraud is a problem in many places, though ''voter fraud'' (e.g. voters actually committing the fraud as opposed to parties or institutions or something else along the line) is far less common in the US than people who want to restrict or limit voting might suggest.
43	* VotOcksent: Many people think of their own accent as "unaccented", even though that's not a real thing, simply because it's the accent they're used to hearing.
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47	* WackyCravings: Many people have them and not always as a result of pregnancy.
48	* WackyMarriageProposal: Geeks love asking their soulmates in ways like that. And people take great lengths (e.g. ball games, fireworks, et cetera).
49	* WalkAndTalk: Some people like to have discussions this way. Also a way to have discussions without being observed by Big Brother: turn off all mobile devices and go for a walk in an area where the nearest bugs are far away.
50	* WalkingTheEarth: Being a hobo is about Walking the Earth for a while, finding all sorts of small jobs, with nothing but a backpack, enough money to stay fed, groomed and with a place to sleep. Pre-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and modern Travellers also are similar. Touring bands or artistic acts are similar, though their Walking the Earth is generally planned and limited to the tour. Some journalists do this on purpose, as well. The concept of "location independent living" is this, albeit with more comforts, and once someone reaches a certain level of wealth, they are free to walk the earth in as much comfort and pleasure as is possible.
51	* WanderingCulture: Nomadic people and cultures really do exist.
52	* {{Wangst}}: Because not all angst is appropriate to age or situation. Often a frequent cause of conflict when someone suffering from {{wangst}} expresses it in a way that insults more legitimate angst (e.g. someone posting to a forum to whine about a thief stealing their [=iPod=] and how that makes them understand someone whose house just burned down) or is extremely inappropriate (threatening suicide over a broken toe or common cold).
53	* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Sometimes the award/reward/certificate/degree/trophy/etc is not worth the effort of getting there. Other times it is worthless or useless. In the worst cases (the reward being a high-maintenance house or vehicle, some animals) the reward is itself demanding of resources and time and effort, or (the reward being an ArrangedMarriage or the like) life-changing in an unwanted way.
54	* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Yes, there are some people like this in real life. This is a common excuse used by many real-life {{domestic abuse}}rs: "Yes, I horribly mistreated my son, but I also gave him a roof over his head and fed him. He should be grateful!" This is also the mentality behind "virtue signaling", or loudly and publicly moral grandstanding in a way that makes it clear that the speaker views those attitudes as a ticket to personal gain. It's also common among the "Nice Guy" and "incel"-types who believe that merely doing nice things for women entitles them to sex/a relationship with her.
55	* WarriorPoet: Yes, there are some creative and artistic people in the militaries of the world. Also describes people who write about wars/military fiction and the like.
56	* WarComesHome: Every war in history has seen a conflict spread to at least somebody's native homeland and become more significant for certain people as a direct result.
57	* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: Yes, many of those war crime scenes you see in movies ''actually happened'' (or were based on true events) and were most likely ''toned down'' for viewers.
58	* {{Warhawk}}: More hardline politicians, and political parties, will advocate for going into war in order to destroy perceived threats over advocating for a peaceful solution.
59	* WarIsGlorious: This trait is more associated with the Axis Powers ([=WWII=]) and the Axis of Evil (present-day successor of the old) - through hopping them in propaganda, vilifying and demonizing their opponents, viewing war as a rite of passage for manhood (and true strength), and their desire to subjugate and conquer other nations for the sake of conquest and personal glory.
60	* WarIsHell: Most soldiers are traumatized and injured as a result of a war - therefore, real life examples are not wanted. This trait is generally associated with NATO and the Free World.
61	* WarRefugees: Probably every war in history has produced ''some''. Some have produced ''a lot''.
62	* WartsAndAll: How most real-life heroic people are, because they are indeed human. However, there are many people who are idolized by society as heroes that were in fact horrible human beings in real life -- such as Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. If you want to find out more about that, look it up yourself.
63	* WasTooHardOnHim: Parents will often feel hurt in punishing or use other forms of discipline on their children, especially if the child is very young.
64	* WaterIsBlue: But only a ''very'' slight amount. Go look at pictures of tropical beaches. It's either blue or green.
65	* WeakButSkilled: Mileage may vary as to the definition(s) thereof, but many things don't require anywhere near extreme physical 'perfection' or strength.
66	* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: Many women don't necessarily seek strength or physical power. A Domme might wish to have a more submissive partner, while someone else might find the idea of the 5"6 waifish nerd that happens to be a multimillionaire far more appealing than that of the 6"5 muscled-out ex-soldier with no job and a criminal record for beating people up.
67	* WeaponForIntimidation: The reason most people in RealLife that have weapons do. On a larger scale, nuclear weapons are this.
68	* WeaponJr: A child who frequently plays with a child's bow and arrow is a lot likely to take well to archery, and anyone who wants their kid to become comfortable with shooting for hunting or sport purposes will usually buy them toy guns starting fairly early on, because aiming and sighting skills don't need to be taught with a real gun and can therefore be learned fairly early.
69	* WeAllDieSomeday: It's not so much that it goes by current medical standards and at this level of reality, or by whoever will one day 'have to' recognize why they probably shouldn't take time for granted - but by the trope itself, in how people say this phrase in some way.
70	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: This in regard to Naziism and to a lesser degree Nazi-style fascism is why GodwinsLaw has the power it does, why "Nazi" is ''still'' something few people want to seriously be seen as or identify as, and why even the slightly softpedaled Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement eventually faced its own downfall - ''very few'' but actual Neo-Nazis or the absolutely insane want to go through ''that'' again.
71	* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The political spectrum is a line, not a circle. A very ''long'' line. But still a line.
72	* WeCanRuleTogether: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler used this on a few occasions - but those who agreed, aside from Mussolini, usually found themselves invaded and occupied by the Nazis ''anyway.''
73	* WeHaveReserves: Extensively used as a tactic by, among ''many'' others, the CSA during the US Civil War, both the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (the IJA's use of it bringing the word "kamikaze" into common vernacular for a suicidal attacker), and several African warlords who used ChildSoldiers as cannon fodder. It's widely assumed that this + ZergRush + [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons The Deadliest Mushroom]] is UsefulNotes/NorthKorea's "plan" to fight (more like [[CurbStompBattle lose]]) a war.
74	* WeHaveThoseToo: Quite a few people have assumed others to be more backward than them technologically or intellectually, only to realize they are the truly backward ones.
75	* WeightLossSalad: Many people go on vegetarian or vegan diets for the purpose of losing weight. Some people even eat nothing but raw vegetables and/or fruit as a lifestyle choice and advocate that it's more healthy.
76	* WelcomeBackTraitor: Has happened, and tends to happen in places and situations where the prevailing rules of politics involve lots of betrayal and odd alliances, or where the person's information or skills or connections are worth the risk that he or she will betray again like with some spies and informants.
77	* WellDoneDadGuy: The stereotypical "Disneyland Dad," a divorced father who hopes to earn his children's love by financial support and lavishing expensive gifts and vacations on them. Fathers who were abusive or addicted or absent or something similar but recovered/got help/reformed somehow and hope their children can forgive them.
78	* WellDoneSonGuy: There's plenty of men who are seeking the approval of a father or father figure or older brother or a coach or teacher or similar.
79	* WellExcuseMePrincess: Relationships where one partner seeks to "improve" or "motivate" the other by making them aware of how much of a loser they are do exist. Unfortunately, most of these relationships in RealLife aren't anything ''near'' romantic, and it's a major red flag of DomesticAbuse, at least of the emotional and/or financial types.
80	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The real world version is a lot scarier, actually.
81	* WeReallyDoCare: Announce that you are closing your Website/{{Facebook}} or leaving Twitter. Watch the responses roll in. The AttentionWhore and DramaQueen live for this, and may threaten suicide to accomplish it in its most ultimate way - which makes life just that much worse for the actually suicidal and depressed.
82	* WeSellEverything: Wal-Mart and Target and other wholesellers, who were steamrolling the competition for a while, until they began to destroy their own markets and lose space to online and home shopping... as shopping malls, which had been another example, and the department store, which had been another example before that, had done before them. (And ironically enough, it was the first department store, Sears-Roebuck, that first popularized the same home shopping using catalog and post/phone that Amazon and Ebay now dominate using the internet.) It is only a good business model in the short term, and as you can see from the pattern, cyclically.
83	* WereLiveRealization: In the age of visual media, people can make blunders and forget that the camera is rolling.
84	* WesternTerrorists: The Irish Republican Army had a few people that could be considered this (even if you believe that YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters). Various types of the MadBomber including the Unabomber and Timothy Mc Veigh, both of whom caused the most deaths on US soil via acts of terrorism before a certain day in 2001. Members of some types of the AnimalWrongsGroup and similar environmental groups, although they tend to limit their violence and destruction to property and to releasing animals (which can be problematic in and of itself in some conditions). Some far-right/racist groups such as the Golden Dawn in Greece and the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the US. "Enforcers" for TheCartel, TheMafia, and TheMafiya.
85	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sometimes friendships end amicably or drift apart or at least end without drama. Other times, ex-friends do become bitter enemies.
86	* WeWantOurJerkBack: Fairly common in a variety of ways: for example, the jerk was the one who bothered flaming trolls or spammers enough that the trolls or spammers finally left the community alone, or his/her misanthropic attitude allowed him or her to write far better stuff than he/she wrote as a happy StepfordSmiler, or the change in attitude is insincere/creepy, and/or the result of a conversion to a philosophy or religion no one in the group believes or shares.
87	* WhaleEgg: There are some products made for humans to approximate the feeling of laying an egg, and we'll just leave it at that. Also, there are the echidna and platypus, which lay eggs instead of having live births.
88	* WhammyBid: People make these in auctions. Sometimes, because they really, really want what's for sale and are willing to pay any price. Other times, it is done as a form of {{Troll}}ing, to ''ruin the auction,'' or being a ManipulativeBastard to drive down bids when the fake is found and everything is reset.
89	* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Older vehicles (anything made before around The80s) are impervious to EMP. If a nuke ever goes off or a Carrington Event happens again, they are likely the only vehicles that will be capable of running. Also, if a car has existed and is still working despite being built more than 30 years ago, it's a quality vehicle no matter what it looks like.
90	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There's more than enough of this to go around, for ''every single person in the world.'' In fact, some metaphysical theories claim that our lives are split into many different paths of what could have been.
91	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: How about the ambitious person asking this question unironically is overconfident that their plans will succeed and [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think to take precautions]] for anything that could go wrong?
92	* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Often money, power, connections. Sometimes he's just good in bed, or at something else that makes up for his general loser self.
93	* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: The usual result of someone trying to invoke IKnowMortalKombat.
94	* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet?: Cruciverbalists of the world have been through this all too much. Which is why there's a huge market for CrosswordPuzzle-[[http://www.amazon.com/Million-Word-Crossword-Dictionary/dp/0060517565 specific dictionaries]].
95	* WhenIWasYourAge: Older generations have been complaining about younger generations for nearly 4,000 years and counting.
96	* WhiteAndGreyMorality: According to a few psychological studies, most neurotypical children start out as this. The only reason we put up with {{jerkass}}es or break the rules is that we have significantly more to gain.
97	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Plenty of people, including scientists and theologians, see the prospect of eternal life as less than pleasing.
98	* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Many parents of special needs children often feel this way, especially if it's their first child. This trope is why 4 out of 5 parents of autistic children divorce. Even if they don't outwardly say it to the degree it's portrayed in fiction, they often feel this way inside, because, yes, life ''would'' be a lot simpler and cheaper if their kid were different. Or if society changed so that autistic children and otherwise disabled children were valued for themselves rather than seen as problems or burdens...
99	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Phobias are common, even silly ones (like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Az10dr0xZY peaches]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjJVN_RkbTw balloons]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-FGE7QELQ pickles]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf8FQYv9lD4 chickens]]), etc. If it exists, someone in the world has a phobia of it.
100	* WhyWeNeedGarbagemen:
101	** Politically, a major strike by waste disposal workers in the winter of 1978-79 was one of the triggers that saw the UK's election of Prime Minister UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher later in the year. Aided by right-wing newspapers publishing graphic photos of uncollected waste piling up in the streets and attracting rats -- which became iconic images -- Thatcher would be elected PM on an anti-union ticket.
102	** Another noteworthy example is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_sanitation_strike Memphis Sanitation Strike]] of 1968, in which the city's sanitation workers — many of whom were black — went on strike after two black garbagemen [[CruelAndUnusualDeath were killed in their truck's trash compactor]][[note]]They'd been trying to shelter from the rain and couldn't go into a nearby building due to segregation laws, so they went into their truck instead[[/note]]. Memphis's mayor, Henry Loeb, was a white supremacist who opposed the then-ongoing UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement and refused to recognize the union or make any concessions and had the police brutally suppress a pro-strike demonstration, resulting in a teenage boy being killed by police. Infamously, UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr was assassinated in Memphis while supporting the strike.
103	** In Lebanon, especially Beirut, trash collection has been a chronic problem owing to a decades-old system that has gone unreformed due to [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/world/middleeast/lebanon-protests-corruption.html abysmal corruption and vested political interests]]. The problem [[https://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/24/middleeast/lebanon-garbage-crisis-river/index.html worsened significantly in the 2010s]], leading to many protests that, unfortunately, failed to change things for the better. In hindsight, the garbage crisis was one of the heralds of the country's economic collapse which took off in earnest in the late-2010s. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Beirut port explosion - which knocked out two garbage processing facilities - only served to exarcebate the crisis. [[https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/11/17/state-of-decay-how-garbage-became-lebanons-latest-dumpster-fire As of the 2020s]], Lebanon's garbage crisis shows no signs of abating. But then, neither do the [[CrapsackWorld country's many other crises]].
104	* WickedStepmother: Unfortunately, many women just aren't cut out to take care of children they don't give birth to.
105	* WidowMistreatment: Widows have historically been a very vulnerable position in many societies, especially misogynistic ones, and have been treated pretty poorly because of their widow status.
106	* WikiWalk: If you're reading this, then chances are good that you're participating in an example of this trope!
107	* WildChild: There's a few examples: Kaspar Hauser, Genie, and a feral French boy. None of them ended up that well off.
108	* WillNotTellALie: Very uncommon, but definitely real. This was ostensibly true in AncientPersia, since it was a religious edict of Zoroastrianism. They throw around the word "truth" like Americans do with "freedom".
109	** Might also be your experience of cultures where the idea of little white lie does not exist.
110	* WindTurbinePower: Wind turbines sprout like mushrooms all over the planet because they work.
111	** The real question is: do they work good enough? Also, lots of lobbying tends to muddy the issue.
112	* WinterOfStarvation: Winter is the harshest season for living things--all the plants and foliage die, and prey hides in their burrows, meaning no food for either them or their predators. Cold and hunger can swiftly kill humans too, especially those without easy access to shelter and food, like the homeless or wilderness travelers.
113	* WiperStart: To the embarrassment of many a new driver.
114	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Some children can be more adult than some or even most adults, but circumstances for their maturity aren’t always a positive one. While a child showing signs of maturity can be a sign of a loving and responsible parent; it can also be a sign of a neglectful or abusive parent since the child is essentially raising themselves. And for children living in impoverished and/or war-torn parts of the world, having growing up fast is a necessity since those who don’t often end up dead or worse.
115	* WishfulProjection: Another Freudian trope.
116	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Some people have {{false friend}}s. Or at least there are friendships that are so dysfunctional that it's hard to consider them friends.
117	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Many dictators are known for doing bizarre things with their power, aside from the usual oppression and [[FinalSolution genocide]] business. There are entire lists online, like [[https://www.cracked.com/article_18850_7-modern-dictators-way-crazier-than-you-thought-possible.html this one]] from Website/{{Cracked}}, compiling the craziest tyrants. UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi, for example, is known for his eccentricities, such as his outlandish outfits and BodyguardBabes. Meanwhile, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov Turkmenbashi]] was a very... eccentric ruler. Yes, he was a dictator. But he didn't have gulags. He was primarily weird.
118	* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: The need for food is universal among animals and humans, and larger amounts of and specific kinds (more nutritious in specific ways, or providing of certain ingredients) of food are needed for those whose occupations or hobbies are physically (and in some cases mentally) demanding.
119	* WolverineClaws: Ninjas used the [[http://www.freepatentsonline.com/D0510121-0-large.jpg Nekode]] and Indians used the Tiger's Claw for fighting
120	* TheWoobie: Anybody can be a woobie in his or her lifetime. This may be why some people would say that everybody needs therapy.
121	* TheWorfEffect: Used by police to break up fights and riots before they really start.
122	* {{Workaholic}}: There are people who will put their work above all else, even their own well being. This is a big problem in some countries, especially Japan, which coined the term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi karoshi]]", meaning literally "Death by overworking".
123	* WorkingOutTheirEmotions: This is a fairly common way people work out their stress. Getting enough exercise will build a healthier body and vastly reduces the chance of future heart problems. A healthier body can also build self confidence, which further reduces stress.
124	* WorthlessForeignDegree: Sadly true.
125	* WorthlessYellowRocks: For most of human history, gold had essentially no practical use, and it wasn't widely seen as valuable until societies started to develop systems of currency (though it now has practical industrial applications as a conductor). Ironically, gold only came to be used for currency and jewelry because it was seen as worthless for everything else--it was too weak and malleable to be used for weapons, tools, armor, or building material, but it came to be seen as an indicator of wealth because it looked pretty.
126	* WouldHitAGirl: Something that people can do when other options would be in vain, especially as a way of self defense.
127	* WouldHurtAChild: Yes, there are some teenagers and adults out there who are depraved enough to hurt or even kill innocent children, such as AbusiveParents. It's also very common in nature where animals eat the children of their own species.
128	* WouldntHurtAChild: Common in gangs and mafias. Even people like {{Serial Killer}}s and mass murderers often have rules against killing kids.
129	* WouldNotShootACivilian: See ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.
130	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Happens a fair bit online, more rarely but scarily in real life.
131	* WretchedHive: Somalia. The slums of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lagos. West Africa. A few very bad neighborhoods in the United States. Look hard enough, and you ''will'' find them all over the world.
132	* WritingAboutYourCrime: Real criminals have written about their crimes in uncanny detail.
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136	* XenomorphXerox: The closest thing RealLife has to a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] analog is a parasitic wasp. A parasitic wasp's life cycle entirely revolves around stinging other invertebrates, paralyzing them, laying eggs inside their bodies, and having its young eat their way out of the paralyzed invertebrates. Once the parasitic wasp's young grow up, they begin the hellish life cycle anew. In terms of ''appearance'', scorpions may lack the elongated head, but some species have a dark exoskeleton to go with their barbed tails.
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140	* {{Yandere}}: Sadly, there are people who take their obsession with certain individuals to unhinged levels.
141	* YankTheDogsChain: This can happen often. A good scenario can be dealing with a health problem that is cured only for it to come back.
142	* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: What kind of schmuck needs this one explained, anyhow?
143	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: When your significant other calls you your given name instead of the usual endearing nickname, they're probably working up to "the talk".
144	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Examples can range from personal to those which affect the entire countries.
145	* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Safety regulations require that you be tall enough and large enough to be secure in the safety harnesses and not risk injury or death.
146	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Children who go into puberty early can often look several years older than what they are. Less-than-fortunate genetics, poor nutrition, drug/alcohol/tobacco use, frequent sun exposure, stress and hard living in general can all cause premature aging in adults.
147	* YourOtherLeft: The bane of those giving directions over a mobile phone.
148	* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Against professional advice, people have paid ransoms to international terrorists to have their family members released. At this point, the terrorists decide that they can get even more money from the families of these hostages and demand even more payment. Also, it has happened in reality for a criminal or terrorist to state they are going to free someone, be it to the family of the hostage or to other captives, only to execute that person, or for that person to already be dead.
149	* ZergRush: Many species of ants attack their prey by swarming and crawling over them in massive numbers to overwhelm them in a very short period of time.
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Context TruthInTelevision / VToZ