This is a listing of tropes with very few examples listed on the page. Feel free to add any you come across that need to be on here, and please remove any that have enough examples filled in. If a page has fewer than three examples, it may be a stub, in which case please Cut List it and send it through the Trope Launch Pad.
- About the Author
- Absolute Comparative
- Alan Fridge
- Ammunition Conservation
- Ancient Artifact (due to its role as index/supertrope being taken over by Artifact of Power)
- Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction
- Awesomeness Withdrawal
- Band Geek
- Best is Average, Better is Best (2 examples)
- Bit Character
- Blank Stare
- Blue Liquid Absorbent
- Butt Brand
- Cantata
- Cloudcuckoolanguage
- Chaos While They're Not Looking
- Cheer Them Up with Laughter
- Chutney Music
- Confiscated Phone
- Confound Them with Kindness
- Consuming Passion
- Covert Emergency Call (can't get off the Pages Needing Wicks list without more examples)
- Crowd Pleaser
- Crowd Surfing
- Cucoloris
- Cut the Fuse
- Dancing Royalty
- Dancing with Myself
- Death Equals Emotion
- Delusions of Local Grandeur
- Dog-Kicking Excuse
- Door Focus
- Dying for Symbolism
- Dynamic Character
- En Route Sum-Up
- Evil Hero
- Expositing the Masquerade
- Externally Validated Prophecy
- Fall Guy
- Faux Interracial Relationship
- Feeling Their Age
- Finger-Suck Healing (Examples from manga and anime abound, but it needs examples from other media.)
- Funny Robot
- Gaita Zuliana
- Game Gourmet (about food variety. Multiple folders are lacking, but more gachapon games in particular would be nice.)
- Gender-Neutral Narrator
- Glass Slipper
- Gratuitous Use of the Tallit (14 examples)
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: For some reason the page didn't list examples for a long time, meaning a lot of the possibly 500+ examples on work pages need crosswicking here.
- The Ham Squad
- Hanahaki Disease
- Head-and-Hip Pose
- Helpless Good Side
- High Heel Hurt
- High-Heel Power
- Hit the Ground Harder
- Hive City (10 examples, of which 4 are Real Life)
- Hold On to My Hat
- Hollywood Board Games
- Homegrown Hero
- Hostage-Handler Huddle (can't get off the Pages Needing Wicks list without more examples)
- How About a Smile?
- Hypnotic Head
- Impossibly Mundane Explanation
- In Case of X, Break Glass
- Instant Illness
- Intimate Telecommunications
- Just Take the Poster
- Kewpie Doll Surprise
- Killer Robot
- Kindness Ball
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Kung-Fu Kid
- Last Confession Wins
- Laugh Themselves Sick
- Lazy Neutered Pet
- Literal Maneater
- PlayingWith.Literal Maneater (the Playing With page needs more examples of how the trope can be played with)
- Living Forever Is No Big Deal
- Living Museum Exhibit
- Loaded Words
- Love Can Make You Gonk
- Lying to Protect Your Feelings
- Magical Guide
- Medium Two-Shot
- Metaphoric Metamorphosis
- Mother Makes You King
- Mouthscreen
- Nerds Are Innocent
- No, You Go First
- One Side of the Story
- Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag
- Pedestal
- Perp and Weapon
- Player Inventory
- Plot-Induced Illness
- Plot-Sensitive Items
- Power-Upgrading Deformation
- Projectile Pocketing
- Psychedelic Comedy Bromance
- Puzzlement About Payment
- Rebuff the Amateur (can't get off the Pages Needing Wicks list without more examples)
- Rimshot
- Roadshow Theatrical Release
- Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow
- Satyr Play
- Scenic Route
- Sci Fi Name Buzz Words
- School of No Studying
- Send Me Back
- Shower Shy
- Sliding Scale of Content Density vs. Width
- Song Association
- Spit Out a Shoe
- Standardized Space Views
- Starter Marriage
- Starting From
- Stripped Drama
- Strobing
- Testes Test (can't get off the Pages Needing Wicks list without more examples)
- Theme Pairing
- Think in Text
- This Is a Competition
- Transition Track
- Uncool Undies
- Up to __ or More
- Vanity Window
- Video Collage
- Wet Means Defeated
- Weak Boss, Strong Underlings
- A Weighty Aesop
- What Measure Is a Mook? (the webcomic example page, because I just literally emptied it in ridding it of irrelevant examples)
- What Other Galaxies?
- Winning Over the Kids
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Wooden Stake
