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• Said Bookism does not mean Informed Librarian.
• Salt Solution is not an anger management program for tempermental gamers. Nor is it specifically about salt dissolved in liquid. Nor should it be confused with Salt the Earth, or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks about disarming nukes between the US and USSR.
• Salt the Earth is not about honest, hardworking people- that's 'Salt of the Earth'.
  • It's also not about sprinkling literal salt on Earth, though that was the original form it took.
• Same Language Dub is normally not about dubbing a work into a different accent/dialect of the same language, such as redubbing a British show with American actors.
• San Dimas Time is not the name that the people who live in the mid-eastern suburbs (Between L.A. and San Bernardino) of Los Angeles use for the Pacific Time Zone (their local time zone).
  • Nor is it a time of day to celebrate all things San Dimas.
• Santa Ambiguity is not dog-Spanish for "St. Ambiguity".
  • Nor is it about "Santa" having multiple possible meanings.
• Sarcasm Failure is not to be confused with Sarcasm-Blind, Cannot Convey Sarcasm, nor with Insult Backfire.
• Sarcastic Clapping and Slow Clap are separate concepts, though combining them would no doubt be fun.
  • For the record Bridge Carson combined the two at one occasion.
• Sarcastic Well Wishing is not about snarkily using a Wishing Well.
• Satellite Character is not about the Moon, or an artificial satellite, being used as a character in a work.
  • Relatedly, a Satellite Love Interest does not refer to one who is in love with a literal satellite, either man-made or natural. (Or to someone whose girlfriend turned into the Moon.)
• Saved by the Church Bell is not about characters being spared thanks to some law stating that executions carried out while the bell is ringing must be postponed if not outright annulled.
• Save Scumming has nothing to do with a hero's duty to protect everyone, including lowlifes.
• Save the Day, Turn Away is not the thing common in Toku fights where after the enemy is defeated, the heroes turn towards the camera and pose dramatically while the enemy explodes behind them.
• Saw a Woman in Half does not refer to someone reacting in horror to a woman being literally split in two.
• Scales of Justice does not refer to a hero or a judge (or a heroic judge) being a reptile.
  • Nor is it size comparison being used in justice systems.
  • Nor is it about musical scales that are in some way associated with justice.
• Scaled Up is not about video game characters being much larger compared to their surroundings, nor about someone suddenly growing drastically in size.
  • Nor is it about someone upgrading their lifestyle with more scales to weigh themselves. Or judicial scales being used more often.
• The Scapegoat is not a goat who is fond of landscape.
• A Scapegoat Ad is not an advertisement for a product or service fans blame for their disappointment.
  • Nor does it refer to inadequate marketing being blamed for a piece of media's financial failure.
• A Scaramanga Special is not an extra nipple.
• A Scare Campaign is not Jack Skellington's bid for re-election.
• Scare 'Em Straight is not about turning homosexuals into heterosexual, although the method had been used for that.
• Scar Tropes aren't tropes about Simba's uncle. See here for that. Also not about Scar becoming a troper.
  • Nor are they about a certain Ishvalan (see his page for those).
• Scary Dogmatic Aliens aren't freaky canine robots from outer space. At least, not usually.
• Scary Jack-in-the-Box is not about nightmarish fast food.
• Scatting is not...well, let's try not to explain too much.
  • Nor does it mean "leaving".
• Scenery Censor is not censoring out all the scenery.
• Scenery Porn is not when an adult film is shot in the woods. Nor is it the various aspects of the environment having an orgy. It's not about having a fetish for it, either. It's also not about scenery that simply looks suggestive.
• A School for Scheming is not where you learn how to become a Manipulative Bastard, Evil Chancellor or any of the other Evil Tropes. That's the Academy of Evil.
  • Nor is it an engineering school that teaches Scheme.
• Schrödinger's Butterfly is not about how small changes may or may not have big effects and you need to look to find out.
• A Sci-Fi Bob Haircut does not belong to a guy named Sci-Fi Bob.
  • Nor is it about a famous hairdresser who is named Bob and lives in a science fiction setting
• Sci Fi Ghetto is not the 'hood in space, nor a place where Space Jews are forced to live. You may be looking for Fantastic Ghetto.
• Scooby-Dooby Doors are not doors with Scooby-Doo painted on them.
• A "Scooby-Doo" Hoax is not necessarily a hoax about Scooby Doo.
• Scooby Stack is not a typical favorite sandwich of Scooby and Shaggy.
• Scooter-Riding Mod is not a cool new Game Mod which adds a scooter vehicle to your beloved game.
• Scotireland is not about Scots being always tired, or Scotland being a retiree refuge. And while it usually does involve a place full of irate Scottish people, that's not the reason for the name.
• The Scottish Trope does not have as subtropes Violent Glaswegian, Brave Scot, Scotland, or Glasgow Grin.
• The Scrappy does not refer to a Boisterous Weakling, and it isn't to be taken literally to mean a feisty character in general.
  • Nor does it have have anything to do with the ability that allows a Kangaskhan, Miltank, or Mega Lopunny to hit Ghost-types with Normal or Fighting-type moves.
  • Nor is it a character made of discarded metal.
  • Nor is it necessarily a dog.
  • Nor is it part of The Devastator. That'd be The Scrapper.
• Scrappy Index is not an Index we hate.
  • Nor is it one about Scrappy-Doo.
• Scrappy Level is not about a character's relative level of obnoxiousness, nor is it a natural consequence of a Scooby-Doo video game forcing you to play as every character. (Although that may happen anyway...)
• Scrappy Mechanic is not about auto-repair guys who are fond of fighting and/or hated by fans. It doesn't quite mean fixing a hated-by-the-audience character for the better, either.
  • Nor is this Scrappy-Doo's day-job.
• Screen Crunch is not Camera Abuse, Screen Tap, Shoot the Television, or a cereal.
• A Screen Shake is not putting your monitor in a blender.
• Screwball Squirrel is not a squirrel that Really Gets Around. Rule 34 notwithstanding.
• Screw Destiny is not related to The Sandman. Thank goodness.
  • Nor is it the destiny of a screw.
  • Or being fed up with Destiny.
  • Or being fed up with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
  • Or something that resulted in Destiny's Child.
  • Nor is it an insult to (or a command to have sex with) Destiny from Finding Dory.
• Screwed by the Network is not what latency and packet loss do to you in Competitive Multiplayer.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! is not about seniors in high school or college abusing the underclassmen.
  • Nor is it the politeness of a screw instant-messaging a senior.
  • Nor is it a senior inventing sex etiquette.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Plot! has nothing to do with The Heist, The Caper, or any criminal Zany Scheme ever.
• Screw You, Elves! is totally not related to Rule 34 of elves.
• Screw Yourself is not an insult.
  • Or instructions on how to repair yourself if you are a robot.
  • Or a situation where Spin Attack goes wrong, resulting the character to be in the ground.
• A Script Fic is not a fanfiction about scripts.
• Script-Reading Doors are most likely not operated by software. Nor is it a script taking input from doors.
• Scrub, within TV Tropes, is a noun, not a verb for cleaning.
  • Or a show where Zach Braff is the only actor.
  • Or any sort of vegetation.
  • Or enemies whose shots you have to reflect back.
  • Or a tan octopus alien.
• A Scully Box is not a box where Dana Scully sits in, nor where she keeps her stuff.
  • Nor is it commanding her to box.
• Scully Syndrome is not a disease that Dana Scully discovered.
  • Nor is it what you say to Syndrome when he says, "Who's that redheaded scientist lady on The X-Files?".
• Sculpted Physique is not about people with large muscles.
• Sealed Evil in a Can isn't (usually) an old can of soup that contains plague-causing bacteria.
• Sealed Evil in a Six Pack doesn't necessarily mean the villain inside is attractively muscular.
  • Nor is it someone who turns evil when they're drunk.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can does not involve an actual person-shaped can or other container.
• Sea Mine is not about sailors who declare themselves "married to the sea".
  • Nor is it about learning to work with a hostile ocean for the common good.
  • It also isn't where u mine 4 fish.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with this Duel Masters card.
  • Nor is it about mining for underwater resources.
• Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You is not about a Bolivian Army Ending in a story that has Sean Connery as the villain.
• Seasonal Rot isn't about things expiring in a particular season, or hating a particular season (like summer, autumn, winter, spring).
• Season Fluidity is not about seamlessly changing from summer to autumn.
• "Second Law" My Ass! doesn't refer to characters who have changed gender emphatically refusing to prefer their new gender. Nor does it refer to situations where a genderbent character only prefers their new rear end to their old one.
  • Nor is it something that governs robot donkeys.
  • Nor is it lampshading scenarios where energy is transferred losslessly, or where force is independent of mass or acceleration.
• Second Verse Curse is not about swearing in the second verse of a song
  • Nor does it describe the tendency of the Alternate Universe of a series to be significantly worse off than the primary one.
• Secret Art is not about hidden paintings.
• Secretary of Evil is not a new Cabinet post created by President Evil. Nor is it a cabinet secretary who happens to be evil; they'd actually be an Evil Chancellor.
• Secret-Keeper isn't about Keeper being a Secret Character. Or about a soccer or hockey team concealing which member of the team is the goalie.
• The Secret of Long Pork Pies does not consist of little-known techniques to lengthen your pork pies.
  • And "pork pies" doesn't mean lies, so it's is not about running a successful long con either.
  • It's also not the name of a Super Mario Sunshine level involving difficult platforming.
• Secret Pet Plot is not where your parents didn't tell you they buried your dead pets.
• Sedgwick Speech has nothing to do with henchmen.
• A Seductive Mummy is not a British MILF.
• The Seeker Archetype has nothing to do with Decepticons who turn into airplanes.
• See-Thru Specs do not give you X-Ray Vision. Nor are they simply specs you can see through.
• Self-Abuse is not the same as Self-Harm.
• Self-Defenseless is not about Actual Pacifists who won't engage in violence even to defend themselves.
• Self-Explanatory is not about works that need no explanation. Quite the opposite, in fact.
  • It's also not about settings that are explained by their own characters.
• Self-Fanservice is not about sexually suggestive self-portraits.
• A Selfie Fiend isn't a demon of the Fiend race who takes selfies.
• Self-Inflicted Hell is not the direct consequence of one's sins, nor is it necessarily a punishment for sin at all.
• Self-Insert Fic is not a Selfcest fanfic (though Selfcest can be involved in the plot of one).
  • It's not fanfic that tells you to go insert yourself.
• A Self-Made Man is not necessarily a member of The Mafia.
  • Nor does it refer to how the almighty Self shaped humankind.
  • Nor did he literally create himself.
  • Nor is did he undergo a Gender Bender.
• A Self-Made Orphan is not a Self-Made Man with dead parents, which means that Roman Abramovich is definitely not one.
  • Nor is it a guy who has no parents because he created himself.
• Semantic Superpower does not describe the three megastates of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Senior Creep is not about how a character lives his or her life, and before they know it, they've grown old. There is also no trope called Junior Creep.
  • Nor does it refer to high school seniors being creeps.
• Sense Freak is not the ability to tell if there are any freaky people nearby.
• Sensei-chan is not what Jackie Chan is referred to by those he would teach martial arts to.
• A Sensei for Scoundrels is not the Mentor equivalent of a School for Scheming.
• Senseless Violins has nothing to do with the music from the much-parodied Psycho shower scene, nor with violins being played without there being a point for them, nor about unconscious musical instruments. Musical instruments in a nearly-unusable tuning aren't it, either.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains is not about heroes who stay on healthy diets where villains are anorexic.
• Sensitivity Training won't make a person more emotional, or make your instruments able to measure a greater degree of accuracy.
• Sensory Abuse is not the act of abusing someone in a sensory room.
• Sentai is not those Japanese cartoons you find in the Adult section of a video store.
• Sentenced to Down Under is not about underground penal colonies. Or hell. We think.
• Sequel Goes Foreign is not about a sequel making it to a foreign market that its predecessor didn't. That's Sequel First.
  • Nor is it about a sequel available only in a foreign language, or one produced in a different country than the series originated in.
• Sequel Hook is not about a sequel to the movie where Robin Williams is a grown up Peter Pan. (It's already a sequel on its own anyway.) It's not a particular type of hooked pole used to grab particularly bad sequels, either (however, we may need those).
  • Nor is it about an actual hook only present in the sequel.
• Sequelitis is not a disease that makes you compulsively watch sequels, nor is it when a sequel is expanded unnecessarily to the point of being called "inflamed".
• A Serial Tweaker is not a meth addict.
• Making something Serious Business will not make The Joker ask its practitioners "Why So Serious?" At least we hope so...
  • Nor is it about Lord Business being serious.
• Serpent Staff isn't about having a bunch of snakes, whether literal or figurative as your employees. Nor is it a stick Steve Irwin or one of his imitators uses to handle dangerous snakes.
• Settings has nothing to do with option menus in video games.
• Settled for Gay is not when someone decides to be idealistic instead of cynicistic. Wait, is that meaning obsolete?
• Seven Is Nana is not about Seven of Nine becoming a grandma.
  • Nor is it about Nana Visitor or the Darling family's dog being cast as the lead in Se7en.
• Seven Minute Lull is not about the 14th episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, or the gap in the Nixon tapes.
• The Seven Mysteries is not about seven types of plots for mystery stories. Or a rule that only seven mystery shows can be on TV in a given season.
• Sex God is not about deities of sex, although they very often qualify.
• Sexy Cat Person isn't about someone who's sexually attracted to cats (thank goodness), nor is it about someone who's sexy and likes cats.
• Sexy Coat Flashing is not about seductive light-up jackets.
• Sexy Man, Instant Harem isn't about getting an instant harem of men. *sigh* But a woman can dream, can't she?
• A Sexy Mentor doesn't usually give you advice on how to be sexy.
• Shades of Conflict is not about the cause of that really long fight scene in They Live!. Nor is it when the Fifty Shades of Grey start infighting. It isn't about characters picking fights upon putting on sunglasses either.
• Shadow Archetype does not mean that Shadow the Hedgehog has become the source of a Fountain of Expies. Or any other character named Shadow, for that matter.
• A Shadow Pin cannot be found on a ninja's bulletin board, nor does knocking down 10 of them at once constitute a Shadow Strike.
  • It's also not about magically pinning down someone's shadow, stalking a pin, trying to trap someone's shadow with a pin, the dark area created when a light source is blocked by a pin, or an alternate form of a pinworm boss.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story is not how one would describe Scooby-Doo in three words.
  • It isn't an episode in which Shaggy and Scooby switch their bodies either.
  • Nor is it giving a synopsis to the 2006 Disney film starring Tim Allen.
• A Shameful Strip is not a comic strip that the author now considers an Old Shame.
• Shamu Fu is not a martial art practiced by orca trainers, as cool as that would be.
• Shapeshifter Baggage does not describe The Luggage.
• Shapeshifting Lover is not someone who's really fond of shapeshifting.
• Shared Universe is not about life on other planets.
  • Nor is it Steven Universe sharing his body with someone else. He does, occasionally, but that's not what the trope is about.
• Shattered World is not Michael Reeves' The Shattered World; the latter is only an example of it.
  • Nor is it where Transformers: Shattered Glass takes place.
• Shattering the Illusion is not what Touma Kamijou does to his enemies.
• Shear Menace is not about shearing a sheep called Menace.
• Sheathe Your Sword is not a euphemism. Nor is it about an Iaijutsu Practitioner.
• She Cleans Up Nicely is not the reason the maid deserves that raise she's been asking for. Unless she's really in a French Maid Outfit.
• Shed Armor, Gain Speed isn't about selling your plate mail for drug money, or about finding a shed filled with armour and methamphetamine.
• She's a Man in Japan is not about crossdressers of any stripe. Well, maybe a little, but not really.
  • It is also not about female characters who literally Gender Bender into men the moment they set foot in Japan.
• Ship Level is not about romantic pairings between locations in video games, nor an order to do so.
  • Nor is it a measure of how shiplike something is. Nor even how frequently a pairing is shipped.
  • Nor is it a level where the main goal is to get two characters to love each other.
  • Nor is it about sending a level to another player or another game.
• Ship Of Theseus is not about a vessel that sends messages by changing the color of its sail. Nor is it about Asterius's portrayal in Hades.
• Shipped in Shackles has nothing to do with our kind of shipping. This is for the best, trust me.
• Shipper on Deck does not necessarily happen on a boat.
  • Nor is the trope exclusive to shipping in The Suite Life on Deck.
  • Nor are they necessarily sitting on a porch or a deck of cards.
• Shipping is not about importing.
• Ship Tease is not about floating vessels poking fun at others, nor is it about revealing only some details about a still-secret Cool Boat to excite fans of them.
  • Nor is it teasing while on a ship.
• Shockwave Clap is not a venereal disease caught from a one-eyed Decepticon.
  • But claiming that you caught one from him might make Shockwave Stomp.
• Shōjo is not the crazy old dude with the cat.
• Shoo Out the Clowns is not about eradicating circus clowns. Not even evil ones.
  • It also does not refer to the opening scene of The Dark Knight.
• Shoo the Dog is not what you should do if a dog is trying to eat your sub.
• Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! is not a response to Screw the Rules, I Have Money!.
  • Nor is it what the Dirty Communists would say upon finding anyone who participates in a capitalist society.
• Shooting Superman is not done with cameras, camcorders, cell phones, or any other recording device, unless it's part of a Scaramanga Special.
  • Nor does it involve using supeheroes as ammo.(Wonder Green take note)
  • Or even the superhero himself doing the shooting.
• Shoot the Bullet is not about Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet.
• Shoot the Dog is not about what Duck Hunt players want to do.
  • Nor is it about filming a dog.
  • Nor is it Kick the Dog The Same, but More. You're looking for Moral Event Horizon.
  • It also isn't an alternate request of a villain who loves cats checking the evilness of the hero.
  • Nor about launching a dog from a cannon.
  • Nor about the dog named Shoot.
  • Nor is it what you should do if you don't want to get the 'Fiesta' ending.
• Shoot the Money is not the Coin Launcher mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
  • Nor does it involve firing bullets at banknotes.
    • Or is it the old gunslinger trick of tossing a coin in the air and shooting a hole straight through the center of it.
  • Specifically, it's not done as the opposite of Shoot the Dog, to indicate a character has done away with his greed.
  • And it's not about filming money, either.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog is not a subtrope of Shoot the Dog.
  • Nor is it what a really evil villain would order Scooby-Doo to do after mind-controlling him.
    • Nor is it what an anti-fur radical tells his underlings.
    • Nor is it a subtrope of Kick the Dog, referring specifically to Scooby-Doo villains.
• Shoot Your Mate isn't necessarily about shooting your spouse or lover, although that could count as an example.
• Shorter Means Smarter is not about short people being smartly-dressed.
• Short Run in Peru is not about works that were released in another country only to be left unfinished there.
• A Short-Runner is not a vertically-challenged athlete.
• A Short Tank is not a Protection specced gnome warrior. That's a Cute Bruiser.
  • Nor is it a tank that is of shorter stature or length than average tanks.
  • It's also not about Rainbow Dash's tortoise shrinking.
• Short Titles is not the opposite of Long-Runners.
  • It's not about the titles of short films or cartoon shorts either. The work can be any length; the title is short.
• Shotacon is not short for Shotaro Convention.
• Shotgun Wedding does not mean we are gathered here today, to join this 12 gauge, and this pump action, in holy matrimony.
• Shotoclone does not explicitly refer to the playable kid version of an existing character.
  • Nor is it a clone of someone named Shoto.
  • Nor is it about a young male clone used to make child porn because they don't have legal rights.
  • It's also not a copy of a short lightsaber.
• Shot to the Heart doesn't have anything particularly to do with giving love a bad name.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with shooting a bullet at someone's heart.
• Shoulders of Doom is not about horrific accidents occurring on the sides of highways.
• Shout-Out does not have as subtropes Atomic F-Bomb, Big "NO!", Big "YES!", Big "OMG!", Careful with That Axe, Death Wail, Say My Name, or Skyward Scream. It is also not a redirect to a trope called Big "OUT!"
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the Shouts from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
  • That said, usages of a Stock Scream may be an example.
• Shout Out Literature is not a surefire way to get thrown out of the library. Okay, it is, actually, but the page has nothing to do with that.
• Shown Their Work is about creators and designers who show off their work. Boom mic operators and visual effects artists aren't encouraged to do the same.
• Show Parts is not an instruction. Put your pants back on.
• Show Stopper is not about the final round of The Great British Bake Off.
• A Shrine to the Fallen is not dedicated to a Fallen Angel. Or Megatronus, AKA The Fallen. Nor is it about falling off a cliff and discovering a shrine beneath it.
• The Shrink is not what happened to The Twits after they were tricked by Mugglewump.
• Shrinking Violet is not about Violet Parr gaining Ant-Man's powers.
  • Nor does it apply to flowers which inexplicably keep getting smaller.
  • It's also not what had to be done to Violet Beauregarde after she turned into a blueberry.
  • Nor is it about Violet from Midnight shrinking.
  • Nor is it Violet Gray shrinking.
  • Or, for that matter, Violet Evergarden shrinking.
• Shrunken Organ is not about a wind instrument with a keyboard that someone has used a Shrink Ray on.
• "Shut Up!" Gunshot is not about when someone wants people to stop firing their guns so they can speak.
  • Nor is it about shooting someone because they told you to shut up.
  • It's also not about telling an actual gunshot to shut up.
• Shut Up, Hannibal! is not when B.A. Baracus tells his boss to shove it after a plan doesn't come together.
  • Nor is it what Scipio did at the Battle of Zama.
• "Shut Up" Kiss is not about what people are saying to Gene Simmons and the others these days.
• Siblings Wanted is not a "Wanted!" Poster with the Dalton brothers.
• Sick Episode is not an episode based from the Slasher Movie Sick basis.
• Sickeningly Sweet is not a certain taste that indicates a food dish is a Nutritional Nightmare.
• Side Boob is not the result of a birth deformity.
• A Sideways Smile is not the following symbol :-)
  • Nor is it the look on the face of a very happy minion of Unicron.
• Sigil Spam is not about someone spamming an ability that generates a sigil every time they use it, although that would have a similar effect to the actual trope.
  • It is also not about playing as LeBlanc.
• Signature Line is not the line on a contract or check people sign their name on.
• Signature Mon is not a West Indian asking you for your autograph or to complete a contract.
• Likewise, Signature Scene is not a scene of anyone signing something, even if it's something important like the Declaration of Independence.
• Signature Style is not about methods in which you can write your name, nor is it about particularly stylish ways of writing one's name.
• A Silliness Switch isn't like a Berserk Button, where a certain trigger causes a character to suddenly start acting silly. It's also not a ridiculous Nintendo Switch.
• A Silly Spook is a ghost being silly, not a spy.
• Silly Will isn't about a Plucky Comic Relief character named Will.
• Silver Fox is definitely not about Silver Fox Foxy.
  • Nor is it about literal melanistic foxes.
• Silver Has Mystic Powers is not about Silver the Hedgehog and his telekinetic abilities.
  • It's also not a Watership Down spinoff where Silver has Fiver's powers.
  • And while Orion, the Silver Ranger in Power Rangers Megaforce, does have access to powers from Power Rangers Mystic Force, he ends up in a gold-colored form when he uses them.
• Similarly Named Works is not about the effectiveness of two things sharing a name.
• Simultaneous Arcs is not about holding down multiple Arc Notes at the same time.
• Sincerity Mode is not a setting on a machine, nor a relative of Edna Mode.
• There may be only one of the town that Ash Ketchum comes from, but that's not what Single-Palette Town refers to. (They're spelled differently; his hometown is Pallet Town.)
• A Single-Stroke Battle does not mean it ends with one of the combatants having a stroke.
  • Nor is it about cats who want to be petted, or anything to do with painting.
  • And it's unlikely to happen while you're swimming.
• A Single Tear is not a tear who can't get a date.
  • Nor is about only ripping a piece of paper once.
• A Sink or Swim Mentor is not a swimming instructor, or a mentor with Super Drowning Skills.
• Siren is not a page dedicated to a very loud Autobot.
• Sirens Are Mermaids is not about police, fire, or ambulance sirens sprouting fishtails.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer is not about a knight called Sir Not Appearing featuring in a trailer.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot is not a knight who keeps shifting his allegiance between various feudal lords.
  • Or a Knight who keeps making oaths to every person he meets.
  • or a would-be Knight Radiant who is playing Gotta Catch 'Em All with surge-granting spren.
• Sister Trope isn't a very odd name for a nun.
  • Nor is it how the Sassy Black Woman addresses other tropes.
  • Or a page for tropes about sisters (whether female siblings or nuns). You want Sibling Tropes for the former.
• A Sistine Steal isn't literally stealing Michelangelo Buonarroti's artwork from the Sistine Chapel. That would take a Monumental Theft to accomplish.
• The "sit" in Sitcom has nothing to do with sitting down, so Sitcom is not the opposite of Stand-Up Comedy.
• A Sitcom Arch-Nemesis is not one of two Dueling Shows.
• The Situation has nothing to do with Jersey Shore.
• A Skeleton Government is not run by literal skeletons; for that, see The Necrocracy.
• A Skeleton Key Card is not found by searching a dead guard, and probably isn't designed to unlock the closet.
  • Nor it's the key Skeleton King uses to open doors with.
• Skill Shot is not another name for Shmups Skill Test.
• A Skyward Scream is not when Link screams in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• A Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke is not a slap on the wrist that explodes with the force of a nuclear bomb. It's not about slapping nukes off people's wrists. And it does not refer to the act of equipping a nuclear weapon that fits on your wrist.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss doesn't refer to the act of slapping someone twice before kissing them once.
• Slash Command is not the "basic attack" command for a swordsman in an RPG, nor is it an order from the dominant half of a slash pairing. Also has nothing to do with Macintosh keyboard shortcuts. Nor are they orders given to (or by) a famous guitarist.
  • Likewise, a Slasher Smile is not one a Slash Fic writer gets when their OTP receives a Relationship Upgrade.
• Slashers Prefer Blondes has nothing to do with Yaoi Fangirls.
• Slash Fic does not necessarily involve a Yandere.
  • Slash Fic also doesn't refer to fanfiction based on slasher movies. (Usually, at least.)
  • Nor are fictitious UNIX file paths or URLs involved in any way.
  • Nor does it necessarily involve a character named Slash.
  • Nor does it involve the brutal murder of a hated character.
  • Nor is it a fic about "taking a slash" or punctuation marks.
• Slave to PR is not about Power Rangers hiring slaves with attitude.
• Sleep Cute isn't about one person looking cute while asleep, or about aliens that don't sleep as often as humans thinking humans are cute because we sleep more.
• A Sleeper Hit is not about an assassination of someone while they're sleeping.
  • It's also not an attack that renders the victim unconscious like a sleeper hold.
• A Sleeper Ship is not a fan pairing of two characters from Woody Allen's movie Sleeper.
• A Sleeping Dummy isn't an idiotic Sleepyhead.
• Sleeping Their Way to the Top does not refer to a situation where someone has to fall asleep in order to progress.
• Sleeping with the Boss is not when you sleep with a boss instead of fighting them.
  • Nor with Bruce Springsteen or Tony Danza.
  • Or The Boss.
• The Sleepless does not reside in Sleepless Domain. ^note Quite the opposite, really — after all, a good night's sleep is the first step to kicking ass.
• Sliding Scale Long Name is not a sliding scale of the length of titles of works.
• The Slipknot Ponytail is not how Corey Taylor and the boys wear their hair.
• The Slippery Slope Fallacy does not mean "You were on a slope and then you lost your footing, therefore your argument is invalid."
• Slippery Soap has nothing to do with Blue's Clues.
• Slipping a Mickey does not relate to placing Hidden Mickeys around the Disney Theme Parks.
  • Nor is it making Mickey Mouse slip.
  • Nor is it subtly taking the mickey.
• Slipping into Stink isn't about becoming more smelly as you go down the slippery slope.
• Under most circumstances, Slouch of Villainy does not mean a character is Obviously Evil just because the character in question has bad posture.
• A Slow Clap does not refer to that golf clap snooty people use.
• Slurpasaur does not describe Yoshi, nor is it a dinosaur-themed slushie or milkshake.
• Small Name, Big Ego does not mean a person has a short name and a big ego, or is both The Big Guy and The Kirk and has a short name.
• Just because a Bob-Omb received a Harvard education, it does not make it a Smart Bomb.
  • Nor is it a movie that bombed at the box office because it was too smart for its audience.
• A Smart Gun is not an Internet-of-things gun.
• Smart Mark is not about someone named Mark who is smart. Or someone who's targeted by a con artist but can outsmart them. Or some kind of mark on someone's face that shows they're smart.
• Smart People Shoot does not claim that the Combat Pragmatist is more intelligent than other characters because they are willing to Kill Him Already!
• Smash Cut is not what you do with a club-sword (or similar).
  • Nor is it when a scene cuts to characters smashing (though it may overlap).
  • Nor is it about cutting out the sex scenes.
• Smashing Survival does not directly insinuate that you must recover!
  • Nor is it when a character survives being smashed.
• Smashing Watermelons is not an Unusual Euphemism for really big breasts.
  • Nor are they a knockoff of The Smashing Pumpkins.
• Smash Mook is not The Incredible Hulk's view of Mooks.
  • Nor does it describe Primids.
  • Nor is it when you have sex with a mook.
• Smoke Out is not about flushing dem terrorists out of their hiding places by filling it with smoke. Nor is it a reminder that you're not allowed to smoke inside.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with a gray ninja.^note  Lin Kuei!
• Smoking Hot Sex is not about having sex while on fire or in a volcano or other very hot place.
• Smoky Gentlemen's Club is not a superhero team where all members are male and have Super Smoke powers.
• Smug Snake has nothing to do with the protagonist of the Metal Gear series or any of his Evil Twins.
  • Nor does it necessarily have to do with actual snakes.
  • Nor the Generation V grass starter Pokémon.
  • Although he is an example, it's not about Kaa from The Jungle Book, either.
• Smurfing regards to the language of the Trope Namer and their habit of randomly swapping out words with "smurf". Its more known description is the practice of people playing ranked online games like StarCraft or League of Legends to make a new account in order to dominate players lower on the ladder, or get back in practice after a hiatus.
  • It's not about Resistance players in Ingress, either.
• Snail Mail does not involve Turbo or Escargoon getting a job in postal service.
  • Nor does it refer to the season 9 SpongeBob episode of the same name.
• Snake Charmer is not a character who's The Charmer and also a member of a Snake People species or even just an anthropomorphic snake.
• Snark Bait is not a decoy meant to attract SM-62 Snark missiles. Or alien biological bombs. Or a difficult-to-describe, fantastic creature.
• Sneaking Snacks is about sneaking to get snacks,not smuggling them into a place they’re not allowed like a movie theater. Nor is it about snacks that are fit to consume on covert ops, or that actually improve your sneaking ability.
  • Nor are they small pieces of food that move about when no one's looking.
• A Sneeze of Doom is not one that transmits deadly diseases.
  • Nor is it about Doctor Doom or Doomguy sneezing.
• An SNK Boss is not a manager or executive of SNK/Playmore, and they do not appear in Shingeki no Kyojin.
• A Snowball Lie is not necessarily about a ball made out of snow, or about Snowball the bunny or Snowball II.
• Snowclones does not refer to Chrissy, Kirsten and Kristen shoveling their driveways in winter.
  • Nor is it about cloning yourself or someone else with snow.
• A Soap Opera is not an Opera WITH SOAP!
• A Soap Opera Disease is not one you contract from watching soap operas or singing operas and using soap.
• So Bad, It's Good is not about a villain becoming so evil that he overflows into becoming good.
• Soccer-Hating Americans does not mean that the sport itself dislikes Americans or is about disliking Americans, or even specifically the people of the United States.
• Soft Rock is not sandstone or other easily malleable stone.
• Soft Water does not refer to water low in calcium and magnesium ions.
  • Or without alcohol.
• A Soiled City on a Hill is not full of faeces.
• So Last Season is not about recapping the events of the previous season.
• Sole Entertainment Option has nothing to do with foot fetishes.
  • Nor fish.
• Solid Gold Poop is not a YouTube Poop involving the old show Solid Gold. Or what you call a successful attempt to Polish the Turd.
• Solo-Character Run is not when the one cowardly character flees in the face of danger while his braver companions stand their ground. Nor is it done in under twelve parsecs.
• Solo Class is not a type of class that a certain smuggler took.
• Solomon Divorce is not a divorce between two men named Solomon.
  • Nor does it refer to Robert Howard's Puritan swordsman arbitrating a divorce.
• Solo Sequence does not refer to a scene involving the aforementioned smuggler.
• Solve the Soup Cans is not a trope about Andy Warhol. Even if Dan Brown wrote his take on the man's work.
• Some Dexterity Required is not about prerequisites for multiclassing.
• Something about a Rose is not the Laconic page for RWBY.
  • Nor does it have to do the ribbons in her long, brown hair.
• Something Else Also Rises is not referring to anything related to Bruce Wayne's return to form as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises.
• Something Itis isn't about not knowing where the inflammation is.
• Something Something Leonard Bernstein is not about Leonard Bernstein being next to two unknown objects.
• Something That Begins with "Boring" does not describe works that take several minutes to truly become interesting, or the initial story arc of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
  • Nor is it a heist that starts by drilling a tunnel underneath a building.
• Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying does not refer to an expert on word origins; that would be an etymologist.
• Somewhere, an Equestrian Is Crying does not mean that something sad happened on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• A Song Fic is not a fanfiction about singing.
• The Song of Courage is not (necessarily) about or sung by Courage the Cowardly Dog.
• So Okay, It's Average is not somebody uttering a bored comment that that a work piece is relatively adequate, such as saying "So, okay, it's AVERAGE." (It is actually a subjective rating simply meaning that a work is not horrible or awesome but "just okay".)
• Sophisticated as Hell is not about how Satan is Wicked Cultured.
• Sophomore Slump isn't about students in their second year of high school or college becoming depressed or getting worse grades.
• Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot isn't just about someone learning how to do magic; it has to go horribly wrong to qualify. Nor is it about an apprentice plotting to overthrow his master.
• The Sorting Algorithm of Evil may be a scale of evil, but that doesn't mean Chris de Burg is high C.
• Soulless Shell has nothing to do with the evils of Blue Shells.
• The Soulsaver does not store all your spare souls for later use.
• Souls-like RPG does not mean that ghosts, phantoms, and other assorted spirits enjoy playing Role Playing Games.
  • Nor does it have to do with ghosts liking rocket powered grenades.
• A Sound Off is not a competition for sound-effects creators. Nor is it trying to make the loudest sound. Or turning off the sound on a device that's producing one.
• Soundtrack Dissonance isn't about discordant musical cues.
• So Unfunny, It's Funny is not about The Unfunny.
• While Sour Grapes can turn to whine, they don't have to involve alcohol.
• A Sour Supporter is not a fan who is an anthropomorphic lemon, nor are they someone who likes eating sour foods.
• Southern Belle does not imply the existence of a Beauty and the Beast adaptation set in the South.
• Southern-Fried Genius is not a fast food restaurant that fries up geniuses.
• Southern-Fried Private: To quote the page, "Despite the title, this trope is not a cross between Groin Attack and Kill It with Fire."
• Southern Gothic is not about Goths from the South.
  • Nor is it about the southern regions of the territories of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths.
• Space Base is not about alkalis on a rocket.
  • Nor is about Home Bases which are especially roomy.
• Space Compression is a video game trope about an Acceptable Break from Reality. It is not a science fiction trope about one of the common ways Faster-Than-Light Travel is achieved, through creative uses of general relativity to temporarily compress two locations close together that are usually far apart. It's also not about an object that's Bigger on the Inside, nor is it an inversion of Explosive Decompression.
• Space Fighter is not Street Fighter IN SPACE!
• Space-Filling Empire is not about Space Empires.
• Space-Filling Path does not mean a strategy to beat Snake and its likes.
  • Nor is it about space-filling curves.
• Space Friction is not an Unusual Euphemism for sex in space.
• Space Is Magic is not My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic IN SPACE!
• Space Jews is not about Jewish astronauts.
• Space Management Games aren't Management Games IN SPACE!, although some of them do take place there.
• A Space Master is not about a kung-fu mentor in outer space. It's also not about someone who's become very good at organizing things in a container, unless it becomes supernatural.
• Space Mines are not about exploiting the ore in space. Nor do they have anything to do with learning to work with a hostile universe for the common good.
• A Space Opera is not an Opera Recycled In Space.
• The Space Race does not have Space Jews as a subtrope.
• Space Sector is not the part of the national economy devoted to space travel.
• Space Whale only has to do with outer space, not inner space, MySpace, personal space, or the space bar on a keyboard.
  • Nor is it what you might see if a hypothetical merger of MySpace and Twitter was over capacity.
• Space Whale Aesop is not about Aesop being a space whale, nor is it necessarily a moral about space whales.
• Alien MDMA tabs would be an example of Space "X", but they're not specifically what the trope is about.
  • Space "X" also has nothing to do with the actual company named SpaceX.
  • Nor is it particularly applicable to Alien X.
  • Nor is it X chromosomes or The X-Files in space.
  • It also isn't about Mega Man X or the X-Men going to space.
  • It's not about using Twitter / X in space, either.
• Spaghetti Western has nothing to do with pasta.
• Spam Attack has nothing to do with canned lunchmeat, possibly unless you end up fighting in a supermarket. Nor does it have anything to do with the Spam song. Neither does it have to do with how the Big Bad of the first Digimon movie was weakened. On a more serious note, it is about attacks that hit many times, not reusing one attack many times over.
  • It also has nothing to do with a Troll bombarding an internet forum with spam.
• El Spanish "-o" is not The Big O themed on the country of Spain.
  • Nor is it related in any way to El Goonish Shive.
• The Spartan Way is not about YELLING! EVERY! WORD!
• Speaks in Shout-Outs is not the same as No Indoor Voice.
• Spectacle isn't about glasses.
• A Speech-Impaired Animal isn't just a Talking Animal with a speech impediment, so Additives the rat is not an example.
• Speed Sex is not about having sex while under the effects of amphetamine (which is most definitely not a good idea).
• Spell Construction has nothing to do with spelling the word "construction".
• Spelling Bee isn't about a bee who spells words, or spelling the word "bee" (though it could include the latter).
  • It's also not about a bee casting spells.
• A Spelling Song is not necessarily about a song about magic spells or about spelling the word “song”.
• Spexico is not a MegaCorp or Peace & Love Incorporated equivalent to Zeiss, Buach and Lomb, or Dr. Bizer's Value Vision.
• A Spike Shooter is not a First-Person Shooter where you play as or shoot at any character who is named Spike. As popular as Barney Blaster was back in its day, there isn't any need to vent one's frustration at another happy purple-and-green reptilian.
  • Nor it's a way of describing the 3rd person shooter Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Published by Spike Chunsoft
  • Nor does it describe the Brute Spiker or the Spike Rifle from Halo.
  • And it most especially does not refer to anyone who would shoot Spike, not even to put him out of his memory.
  • It's also not an alcoholic beverage with something pointy in it, nor one served to someone named Spike.
  • Nor is it about Slipping a Mickey into the alcoholic beverage.
• Likewise, Spiking the Camera is not about Slipping a Mickey into a camera.
  • Nor is it about using a big spike to break security cameras.
• A Spinoff is not a trope about how cordless drills were first developed for astronauts or that sort of stuff.
  • It's not a political public-relations contest.
  • It's also not a contest where two people compare spinning moves, akin to a Dance-Off.
• Spinoff Babies is not another name for Spin-Offspring. It's also not about using babies as props to perform spinning tricks.
• Spin-Offspring is not a command to make your children dizzy.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff is not another way of saying Do A Barrel Roll. It also has nothing to do with how politicians evade answering inconvenient questions.
• A Spirit Bomb is nearly the polar opposite of a Molotov cocktail.
• The Spirit World is not a subtrope of Level Ate based around distilled liquors.
• Spiteful Will is not the name of a Horrid Henry character (it couldn't be, since it doesn't alliterate).
• Spit Take is not part of the solution to an early puzzle in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, nor is it a common thing to do to suspects in a Police Procedural. It also cannot be used to cure a Cannot Spit It Out.
  • It's also not about a slightly Squicky form of Item Get!.
• A Splat has no relation to Splatoon.
  • Nor to the Chunky Salsa Rule. Hopefully.
• The Spock does not necessarily have an alien for a dad, work on a star ship, have a dynamic action hero for a boss, have pointy ears or green blood, have a habit of raising their eyebrows when intrigued, or say, "Fascinating" a lot.
• Spock Speak is not what someone yells when they want Captain Kirk's first officer to talk.
• A Spoiler Opening is not when someone opens a gift to find a spoiler inside, nor is it the act of turning on the spoiler tags on this site.
• Spoof Aesop is not necessarily a parody of Aesop's Fables.
• Spoofing in the Rain does not mean walking into the rain and making parodies of just about anything.
  • Nor does it mean making a parody of rain itself.
• Spoon Bending isn't an elemental power along the lines of airbending.
• The Spotlight-Stealing Squad is not made up of guys from your high school who used to bully the AV Club.
• Spot Monkey doesn't ask you to identify a monkey within a large crowd of people.
  • It's not a monkey with spots, either.
• Spot the Imposter is not a dog, or pretending to be one.
• Spotting the Thread does not involve looking for a Special Effects Failure.
  • Or looking for a specific thread in the forums.
• Springtime for Hitler does not describe Operation Sickle-Slice.
• A Sprint Meter is not a device made by the Sprint phone service that keeps track of your time on the phone.
  • It also does not refer to the unit in the metric system (which is equal to approximately 40 inches) related to the act of sprinting or the cell phone company.
• A Sprite Comic is not a comic that has been officially endorsed by the Coca-Cola corporation to promote that clear lemony-lime softdrink.
  • And it hasn't anything to do with that kind of sprites and pixies either.
• A Spy at the Spa is not just ogling naked people—they're an actual spy, seeking information.
• A Spy Catsuit is not an Animal Mascot Suit used in surveillance, infiltration, or other deep cover operations. In other words, Bonta-Kun is not an example, and wouldn't be even if it was actually feline.
• A Square Race, Round Class is not a group of characters of a race associated with Square Enix taking lessons in a circular lecture hall. Nor is it about a square racetrack in a circular P.E. class.
• A Squash Match, surprisingly, is not a squash match. It doesn't even involve racquets of any kind.
  • Nor is it a puzzle involving pairing up gourds.
  • It is also not a competition where people drop heavy objects on their opponent, and it has nothing to do with fruit-flavoured syrup drinks.
  • Nor is it a Mirror Match between two Sasquatches.
  • It is also not about squishing Match.
• Squeaky Eyes is not what happens when a character is squeezed like one of those squeaky toys.
• Squirrels in My Pants is not about Interspecies Romance in the park.
  • Or rodents stealing and wearing your clothing.
  • The squirrels aren't in someone's pants to steal Ariadne Threads.
• Squishy Wizard isn't about a baby jellyfish gaining magic powers.
• Stab the Salad isn't how you beat Saladron in Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. Nor how kids who don't like vegetables react to the sight of a salad.
  • Nor does the salad have to be evil or have weird suspicious effects when eaten.
  • It also isn't anything dirty.
  • It's also not about eating salad using a knife.
• Stab the Scorpion does not refer to what happens to the yellow-clad zombie ninja from Mortal Kombat when you FINISH HIM!
  • Nor does it refer to the ending of The Mummy Returns.
  • It's also not about a scorpion named Stab.
• Staff of Authority are not people who work for an authority figure.
• Staged Shooting has nothing to do with any conspiracy theories you might have heard about shooting rampages.
• Stage Fatality is not someone dying on a theater stage; that falls under Fatal Method Acting.
  • It's also not a Mortal Kombat fatality performed on a show stage. Hopefully.
• Stage Names is not about what the people who make Video Games call their stages/levels/worlds/whatever.
• The Stakeout does not refer to the Yungoos line^note  despite that fact that Gumshoos is the Stakeout Pokemon, contrary to memes, nor their signature Ability^note  which makes them do double damage to foes who switch into its attacks, or an Ithaca 37 variant.
• Staking the Loved One doesn't mean that a character will use them for betting in a poker game.
• Stalker with a Crush doesn't mean the ranger from G.I. Joe is in love.
• Stalking Mission is not a guide on how to secretly observe and follow around that fourteen year-old Twi'lek orphan girl. Besides, she's probably already following you around, so that's kind of pointless.
• The Standard Female Grab Area is not the anatomical location where women grab men; quite the opposite. Furthermore, it is not anywhere inappropriate.
• Starboarding is not what the Silver Surfer does for fun.
  • Nor is it a variation of waterboarding that is only carried out on famous people.
  • It's also not about riding around on your Celestial Starboard.
• The Starbucks Skin Scale doesn't measure the weight of the top layer of a premium coffee drink.
  • Nor does it mean that drinking Starbucks will cause your skin to grow scales.
• Stargate City is a real-world city, and doesn't have any Stargates in it, apart from props.
• Star-Making Role is not about someone whose role is creating stars.
• The Stars Are Going Out is not about celebrities dating each other.
• The Starscream is not Ness and Lucas calling their Final Smash.
  • Nor is it about Skyward Screams at the night sky.
  • Nor is it someone who travels to Hollywood to go yell at celebrities.
• Starting a New Life isn't what you do when you die in a video game, or a bizarre term for pregnancy.
• Static Stun Gun does not refer to stun guns that aren't even animated when used and thus look like the wielder is too stupid to activate it before using. Nor does it refer to stun weapons that don't have any visible effect in the first place. Nor is it a stun gun used by Static, not that he needs one.
• Stationary Boss does not mean that your boss never leaves his desk, nor does it mean that he sends you notes on fancy paper or in fancy envelopes (the latter would be Stationery Boss).
• The Stations of the Canon has nothing to do with religious broadcasting channels, therefore CBN, ETWN, and Faith TV are not examples.
• Status Cell Phone is not using a cellphone as a Diegetic Interface for stats.
• Status Quo Is God is not meant to imply that the band behind "Rockin' All Over The World" are worthy of worship. They're good, but not that good. Nor is it sucking up to the fictional rapper from Off Centre.
• Stay Frosty is not why Elsa gave Olaf his own personal flurry. Nor is it advice to Pvt. James Ramirez as he DOES EVERYTHING!
• Staying Alive is not about disco music, dancing, John Travolta, or really outdated dancing fads.
• A Stealth Expert is not someone who feigns ignorance of something but eventually reveals that they were an expert in it all along.
• The Stealth Mentor does not silently sneak up on people, grab them from behind, then whisper advice in their ears before fading back into the shadows.
  • Nor is he a wise old ninja who trains heroes in the art of invisibility.
• Stealth Parody does not involve making fun of Metal Gear Solid, Thief, Splinter Cell or similar games.
• Stealth Sequel is not when a non-stealth game gets a Genre Shift to Stealth-Based Game for its sequel.
• Steam has nothing to do with water vapor.
  • It's not what you use to cook hams, either.
• Steam Never Dies is not about the belief that the online gaming service will last forever, or about someone who dislikes the online gaming service complaining that it's lasted for so long.
  • Nor is it about gaseous water which will exist forever.
• Steampunk is not a type of punk centered around Valve's digital content distribution service.
• A Stellar Name may be an Awesome McCoolname, but it's not just another name for that trope.
• Stepford Smiler is not a Serial Killer who goes around Stepford Suburbia with a Slasher Smile killing people. Unless he acts like a nice, cheerful person when he's not killing people.
• Stereo Fibbing is not lying about an audio system, or a stereo recording of someone telling an untruth.
• A Stern Chase is not a Chase Scene where everyone involved is The Stoic. Nor are you pursued by Evil Otto.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero is not a reference to James Joyce's wandering hero.
• Sticks to the Back doesn't involve the old trick of poking someone with a stick while bluffing that it's a gun. Nor is it beating people up with cricket bats. Nor does it have anything to do with putting the White and Black Mages and Squishy Wizards in the back of the party so they take less damage.
  • It's also not about characters with adhesive backsides.
  • It also doesn't involve sending Sticks the Badger to the back of a queue.
  • Nor is it about that prank where someone sticks a "Kick me" sign onto someone's back.
• Sticky Fingers does not follow masturbating.
  • Nor does the trope refer to The Rolling Stones album with "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses".
  • It also doesn't have anything to do with the stand that has zipper powers.
• The Stinger is not a reason to Bee Afraid.
  • It also has nothing to do with Red Stinger.
• Stock Animal Diet is not necessarily what livestock eats.
  • And Stock Animal Name is not necessarily about livestock being named.
• Stock Desert Interstates aren't necessarily freeways that can be found in deserts, nor are they dioramas of desert freeways that can be found in stock at supermarkets.
• Stock Dinosaurs aren't Domesticated Dinosaurs that a supermarket currently has in stock.
• Stocking Filler is not about those tchotchkes generally only bought as small gifts, that nobody would actually ever use for anything.
  • Or the act of collecting parts of anime series that don't further the plot at hand.
  • Nor filling up Stocking, despite the fact that she wears her namesake and it has happened before.
• Stocking Mask is not a latex mask used to make the wearer look like a certain anime character.
  • Nor is it about stockpiling masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Stock Ness Monster is not about any monster from EarthBound (1994), though Tessie from that game is an example.
• Stock Parodies are not parodies about preparing a food in flavored water.
• Stock Punishment is not about punishing a stockbroker or investor, nor is it about punishing someone by throwing soup onto them or making them eat bad soup. Also, unlike other Stock tropes, it's not about commonly seen forms of punishment.
• Stock Scream has little to do with Monsters, Inc..
• Stock Sound Effects are not noises made by livestock or vegetable stock.
• None of the "Stock" tropes necessarily have anything to do with the stock market.
• The Stoic does not refer to an Expy of Stoick the Vast from How to Train Your Dragon.
• Stood Up is not about standing up. That would be a case of People Sit on Chairs.
• The Stool Pigeon isn't a bird that poops on people. Nor is it a pigeon on a stool, for that matter.
• Stop Drowning and Stand Up does not mean you can avert drowning by being defiant towards it.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guys is not the ungrammatical plea from a little sibling for your mother to stop cooking mushrooms.
  • Nor is it a sentence that could be followed up with "and start getting bored".
  • Nor is it a plea against the proliferation of useless characters in Chrono Cross.
  • Nor is it someone telling a writer to only have serious characters.
• A Stopped Clock is not the figurative one that is right twice a day.
• Storm in a Teacup is not necessarily an actual storm in an actual teacup.
  • It's also not the Red Hot Chili Peppers song.
  • Nor the video game.
  • Nor the Rome-based video game developer, for that matter.
  • Nor the Porridge episode.
  • It's not about Ororo Monroe shrinking either.
• Story Branch Favoritism is not about the character from Trolls being Loved by All.
• Story-Breaker Power is not the same as Living Lie Detector, and doesn't usually have to do with the ability to automatically see through false alibis either.
  • Nor is it necessarily the ability to destroy one of the floors in an apartment building.
  • Nor should it be confused with Author Powers that let a character send the plot Off the Rails.
• Stout Strength does not involve beer.
• The Straight and Arrow Path is not about arrows flying in a straight line. That's No "Arc" in "Archery".
  • Nor does it mean that archers are always heterosexual, that they don't take drugs, or that they're the foil to jokes made by non-archers.
• Straight for the Commander does not describe the Male Shepard/Diana Alliers or Female Shepard/Kaiden Alenko Pairings, or any other example of a commanding officer's presence turning a homosexual character bisexual.
• Straight Gay is not someone indecisive about his/her sexuality.
  • Nor is it when the character providing setup for the joke is the gay character.
  • Nor is it about flamboyant heterosexual people, that's Camp Straight.
  • It's also not "gay" meaning "happy".
  • It's not about Lucky's wife either.
• Straight Man is not a superhero with a notable lack of Ho Yay. Nor is it dealing exclusively with heterosexual men.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy is not a heterosexual and his Magical Queer, nor does it imply that heterosexuals cannot be wise.
  • It's also not a comedy duo where one person sets up the jokes, and the other is in The Mafia.
• Strange Pond Woman is not Amy from Doctor Who.
• Strangled by the Red String has absolutely nothing to do with The Tale of Despereaux.
  • Nor is it a menstrual obstacle to intimacy.
  • It ain't about being strangled by actual red string, either.
• A Straw Fan is not (necessarily) someone dedicated to drinking from straws or who thinks a lot about hay.
  • Nor is it a fan made of straw.
• A Straw Feminist isn't necessarily a feminist who's a scarecrow or someone who thinks there should be as many female scarecrows as there are male ones.
• Straw Loser is not an accurate description of the Scarecrow after someone cuts him open. Nor is it the guy who draws the short straw. Or the one who misplaces a drinking straw.
• A Strawman is not a man made out of drinking straws. Nor is it a man who's had the last straw. Nor is it a Robot Master who attacks by shooting straw or by invoking the Strawman Fallacy.
• Strawman Has a Point is not about a scarecrow who made a valid argument.
• Strawman Political is not what happens when the Scarecrow runs for a government position.
• Straw Vegetarian has nothing to do with literally eating straw as a vegetarian statement, though of course that would be a good example and the trope is about having ideas which may be equally silly. Nor is it a vegetarian who eats straw-shaped chips.
  • Nor is it about anthropomorphic drinking straws which refuse to eat meat.
• A Straw Vulcan is not a scarecrow with pointy ears, a straw version of a British bomber aircraft, a Vulcan rotary gun made of straw, a Roman god made of straw, a lame knockoff of an early Super Sentai team and most definitely not a person who bursts out easily.
• The Streisand Effect is not about how angrily reacting to someone making fun of you makes people want to make fun of you more. It is loosely related though.
• Strictly Formula is not about a mother refusing to breast-feed a baby.
  • Nor is it about the slightest error when mixing things causing everything to be destroyed.
  • It's also not exclusively about Strictly Come Dancing.
• A Strike Episode has nothing to do with the sports of baseball or bowling, unless you're talking about what ended up canceling the 1994 World Series.
• String Theory is not about actual particle physics.
• A Stripping Snag is not about problems encountered by people trying to strip.
• Strobing is not Epileptic Flashing Lights or a sequel/parody the deadmau5 song.
• Stroke Country is not called that because of a high rate of cerebral aneurysms.
• Strong Family Resemblance isn't how similar the Strongs Bad, Mad, and Sad look. (Which is to say, not very.)
  • It's also not about how much the Velaryon princes look like Harwin Strong.
• Stuck on Band-Aid Brand does not refer to difficulty choosing between different brands of plasters.
  • Nor is it about a plaster stuck on a branding iron.
• Stuffed into the Fridge is not a variation of Stuffed into a Locker.
• Stunt Casting is not about the process of casting stunt doubles.
• Stupid Crooks will not nescessarily enguage in Stupid Evil.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler is not how someone feels who keeps getting interfered by Adolf Hitler flying around on a jetpack.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders is not about how northern Belgium is a thick but attractive area.
  • Nor is it the profile of an Hetalia: Axis Powers character.
  • Nor is it necessarily about having Perverse Sexual Lust for Flandre Scarlet.
  • And while it is named after Ned Flanders, it's not about him holding the Idiot Ball and being strangely lustful.
    • Nor is it a relative of his with a rather unfortunate name.
• Sturgeon's Law is not a Scottish law passed by Nicola Sturgeon.
• Stylistic Suck is not about porn, trendy ways to opperate vaccum cleaners, or fashionable ways for vampires, leaches, or spiders to feed.
• Styrofoam Rocks is not an opinion about how nifty the substance is, not about how well it plays the guitar.
• Subbing for Santa is not about being dominated by St. Nicholas in BDSM.
• Sublime Rhyme is not about vaporizing a poem.
  • Nor does it require the rhyme to be good.
• Sub-Trope is not a trope related to submarines or long sandwiches.
  • Nor is it a list of tropes related to the Uke in a BDSM relationship.
• Subways Suck is not the Catchphrase of The "I Like Trains" Kid's Evil Counterpart.
  • It's also not a Take That! at a chain of sandwich shops.
• Such A Lovely Noun is not about complimenting pieces of grammar.
• Sucking-In Lines is not about rows of cannon fodder.
  • Or about incompetently riding inline skates.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with snorting drugs.
• Sudden Anatomy is not about flashing people.
  • Nor is it when a TV show you're watching spontaneously turns into Grey's Anatomy.
• Suddenly Shouting is not about Brooke Shields raising her voice.
• Sue Donym is not about giving your Self-Insert another name you go by.
  • Nor is it about characters whose real names are identical to their authors' obviously pseudonymic pen-names (à la Anne Onymous).
• Sugar Bowl is not a mysterious MacGuffin, the purpose of which is left to reader speculation, nor is it an American college football game.
  • Or about doing cocaine.
  • Nor is it an unusual storage container for sweets, or the bowl the sugar cubes are put in at a cafe.
  • Nor is it an actual bowl of sugar.
  • Also unrelated to the Local Hangout in Arthur and the California ski resort.
• A Suggestive Collision thankfully does not involve someone who has a fetish for car crashes.
• Summon Magic is about using magic to summon things, not about summoning magic itself or summoning anyone named Magic (although Summon Magic could be used to accomplish the latter).
• Super Breeding Program is not about eugenics programs where supers are encouraged to have lots of children. Nor is it a program meant to increase the birth rate.
• Super Cell Reception is not people talking about how cool Dr. Gero's final creation is.
  • Nor is it about people who really like microscopy.
• A Super Couple is not a pair of romantically-involved superheroes.
• A Super Doc is not (necessarily) a doctor who's also a superhero, or how [1] addresses people he thinks are really good.
  • Nor is it a document that is super in some way.
• Super Drowning Skills is not about people who are very good at causing other people to drown, nor is it someone who specializes in drowning superpowered individuals.
• Super Fly Reflexes is not about flies possessing Super-Reflexes. On the contrary!
• Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom does not come from Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game.
• A Super Gender-Bender is not when a male changes to something beyond female or when a female changes to something beyond male or about someone turning into a hyperbole of the opposite gender. It is also not about someone going from a regular gender to a Super Gender.
• A Superboss is not upper management. Nor is it a manager/supervisor with superpowers.
• A Superhero Episode is not an episode of a show called Superhero.
• Superheroes Wear Tights is not the same as Clothes Make the Superman.
• Superhero Packing Heat has nothing to do with Either version of the Human Torch, Firestorm, Fire or any other character who's main power is Playing with Fire.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham, but he doesn't avoid a village in Nottinghamshire.
• Supermarionation is one word and not the title of the next Super Mario Bros. game. It isn't this, either.
• The Super Move Portrait Attack is not what Relm is especially known for using.
• Supernatural Phone is not a phone owned by one of the Winchester brothers.
• Supernatural Sensitivity is not the same as Super-Senses.
• Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven is not about an octopus with a mohawk whose pudding-induced flatulence propels him faster than a fighter jet. Nor is it the seventh version of an eight-legged Humongous Mecha powered by highly filling puddings. Nor is it about... well, it would be quicker to just say that any possible meaning you could wring out of those seven words would have nothing whatsoever to do with that article. That's the entire point.
• Super-Speed is not the opinion of someone who thinks Drugs Are Good, nor is it about especially potent methamphetamine. It's also not the name of a drug-addicted superhero. ^note  These "speed" puns are very easy to make.
• Super-Trope is not what Trope-tan's superhero alter ego is called. But it SHOULD be.
  • Nor is there a corresponding Bat Trope or Spider Trope.
  • Nor does it imply being more awesome than the average trope.
  • Nor is it necessarily a trope about superheroes.
• A Superweapon Surprise is not a resolution in which everyone in the story knew about the existence of a superweapon, but the audience didn't.
• Super Weight is not a sign that Superman needs to go on a diet.
  • It's not when someone has fatness as an actual superpower (I.E. The Blob).
  • It's also not about people who can manipulate gravity to change their weight.
• Super Window Jump is not the SNES sequel of an NES game called "Window Jump".
• Sure, Let's Go with That is not synonymous with Throw It In! or Ascended Fanon.
• Surf Rock is not a stone surfers use to practice surfing on by balancing themselves atop it.
• Surprise Tropes is not an alternative name for the "Random Trope" button.
• You do not get Survivor Guilt after the contestant you bitched about for 6 weeks is voted off the island. Neither is it feeling your participation in a Survivor season to be an Old Shame.
  • Also doesn't refer to someone who is the only survivor because he killed everyone else.
  • Nor is it remorse you feel over singing "Eye of the Tiger".
• Suspect Is Hatless is not about people you think may not be wearing a hat.
• Sweeps are not a group of identical Transformers created by Unicron.
• Sweetie Graffiti is not graffiti depicting (or left by) Sweetie Belle.
  • Or lollipops.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel isn't literal fuel that makes one have sweet dreams, nor is it any type of fuel that merely appears within one's sweet dreams.
• Sweet Home Alabama isn't that joke about incest.
• Sweet Polly Oliver is not Sweet Polly Purebred's real name.
• Sweet Sheep doesn't refer to flavoring a lamb dish with something sweet.
• A Sweet Tooth isn't one of those jelly teeth sweets that people give out on Halloween.
• Swiper, No Swiping! is not about being banned from Tinder.
  • Nor is it necessarily about telling a fox not to steal, although that could be the result.
• Swiss-Army Tears are not what happens when your Swiss Army Knife has become so blunt that it merely tears paper instead of cutting it.
• Swiss-Army Superpower is not about superpowers possessed by members of the Swiss Armed Forces, nor is it stating that the Swiss Armed Forces are powerful enough to be classed as a superpower.
• Swiss-Army Weapon is not about weapons used by the Swiss Armed Forces.
• Swiss-Cheese Security is not whom you hire if you want to make sure no one steals your Swiss cheese.
• Sword Chucks is not about instances where someone chucks a sword. Nor about strapping blades to a style of Converse sneakers.
• Sword Drag is not about sword-wielding transvestites.
  • Nor is it about the air resistance of a sword.
• Sword over Head is not about how hitting things with a sword is better than thinking (or headbutting, for that matter. Or... anything else).
• Sword Plant is sadly not about plants that grow swords, nor the aquatic "sword plant".
  • Nor a factory that produces swords.

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• Tactical Door Use is not a supertrope of Door Judo, nor is it about using doors as shields.
• Tagalong Kid is usually not a Girl Scout selling cookies nor a Filipino child (that would be a Tagalog Kid).
• A Tailor-Made Prison is not a straitjacket.
• The Take is about an actor reacting to a situation, not a single filming run of a scene. (I.e. "take" as in "Double Take", not as in "Scene 20, Take 12".) Nor is it about a Dirty Cop.
• Take a Moment to Catch Your Death is not a reminder to obtain Yveltal before proceeding.
• Take a Third Option does not involve the Options in Gradius.
• Take Me Out At The Ballgame doesn't involve playing Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" at a ballgame.
• Taken for Granite is not when a character is pretending to be a statue. (Unless they start out by pretending and then turn into statues for real.)
  • Nor is it ignoring stones.
• Take That! is not about Phoenix Wright's Catchphrase for when he presents crucial evidence. Nor the band.
  • Nor is it related to the common saying people say when they attack others.
  • It's also not about giving something to someone.
• Take That, Audience! is not about giving an audience to someone or when Oprah gives freebies to the live audience.
  • It's also not about people who listen to Take That (Band).
• "Take That!" Kiss is not about when someone forcibly kisses someone else. Nor a Take That! directed at KISS. Nor is it a kiss between members of Take That (Band).
• Take That Me is not Self-Harm.
• Take That, Scrappy! is not a demand of those meddling executives.
  • Also, it doesn't describe a character who is The Scrappy because he issues a Take That! to the audience.
  • Nor is it exactly someone attacking The Scrappy.
  • Nor is it forcing someone to take Scrappy-Doo.
  • It's also not about giving something to The Scrappy.
  • Nor is it the most disliked member of Take That (Band).
• Taking the Bullet is not about thieves stealing bullets from peoples' guns. Nor is it about giving another person a bullet.
  • Nor is it taking Bullet home with you.
• Talk About That Thing is not about the sentence used to test whether a word is a noun or not. ^note The sentence is: "Let's talk about (the) ______." If a word makes sense in the blank, it is a noun.
  • Nor is related to Thing.
  • Or Ben Grimm.
  • Or Thing One or Thing Two.
  • It also has nothing to do with ancient Scandinavian parliaments.
• Talking Animal is not about Animal from The Muppets talking, nor is it talking in animal noises.
• Talking Is a Free Action is not set in a Dystopia in which you have to pay money to do other basic things in life like breathing or sitting.
• Talking Poo isn't a Bowdlerized version of talking crap.
• Talking with Signs isn't about using sign language or hand signals, nor is it about having a conversation with an animate signpost.
• Talk to Everyone is about when video games encourage a player to hear what every non-player character has to say, not about gamers who will do it anyway.
• Talk to the Hand is not about people who communicate via Sign Language.
  • Nor is it about talking to Thing.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome is not about the character from Trolls getting taller due to a health condition.
  • Nor is it about the villain of The Incredibles making her taller.
• Tame Maverick Exposition is not backstory provided by a Rule-Abiding Rebel.
  • Nor is it an explanation from a Reploid cured of the Maverick Virus.
• A Tandem Parasite is not two or more little creatures taking turns inhabiting and feeding off a larger one.
  • Nor is it a parasite that feeds off two or more hosts at once.
• Tangled Family Tree is not about Rapunzel discovering her royal ancestry.
• Tank Goodness is not how nice it is that there's someone in your party taking damage for you. Nor is it a measure of how well geared that person is. Nor is it about tank engines, no matter how much of a Cool Train the tank engine may be.
  • It's also not about how good the tortoise is in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • And it's also not about aquariums.
• Tanks, but No Tanks is not about tanks with no fuel in their tanks. It's also not about tanks that simultaneously do and don't exist.
• Tanks for Nothing doesn't refer to getting tanks for free, although if Tanks for Nothing is in effect you might not want to pay for them. Nor does it refer to fishtanks that don't or can't yet have fish living in them.
  • Nor is it about Rainbow Dash not having to pay for her turtle^note Tortoise! Whatever..
• Tap on the Head is not a sex act, unless your idea of great sex involves being unconscious. Nor is it a way to make someone's head dispense beer.
• Taps is not about tapping on hard surfaces in Morse Code, about water or other beverages obtained from a tap, about activating mana in Magic: The Gathering, about anything sexual, or a type of consonants.
• Tastes Like Friendship is not something actually tasting like friendship. If that's possible.
• Taste the Rainbow is not about eating Rainbow Brite. Or Rainbow Randolph. Or Rainbow Dash. Or fruit-flavored candies.
  • Nor is it about the time Pinkie Pie literally tried to drink out of a rainbow.
    • And just so we're clear, it doesn't involve gay oral sex.
• Taught by Television is not related to Raised on Radio.
• A Team Killer is not a work that destroys a production team, nor someone who massacres an entire team, nor a hitman who is part of a team.
• A Team Pet is not a team composed entirely of dogs and cats.
  • It has no relation to Pokémon teams.
• Tear Jerker is not the short name for a game with inconsistent framerate and screen tearing.
  • Nor is it a man who pleasures himself when watching people cry.
    • Nor would he pleasure himself while he himself is crying.
  • Nor is it that incredibly sour ice pop.
  • It is also not a sad, erotic work.
  • Nor is it someone who'll rip you in half for being a jerk.
  • It is also not someone who pours tears from a tap, like a soda jerk.
  • Also not about jerking off into a pool of children's tears.
• Tears from a Stone isn't about getting a tears upgrade from Small Rock. Or Rock Bottom.
• Tears of Fear are not tears which terrify anyone who sees them.
  • Nor is it necessarily when Fear from Inside Out cries, unless it's because he's frightened.
• Tears of Joy is definitely not about when Joy from Inside Out cries. Or a Nurse Joy. Unless the reason is that either of them are happy.
  • Nor is it tears made of Joy brand detergents.
• Despite the existence of The Tease and The Teaser there is no such thing as The Teasest, nor are the first two tropes mentioned related.
• Technicolor Death is not the death of Technicolor.
• Technicolor Wind is not colour-coded flatulence.
• Techno Babble is not someone's incoherent ramblings mixed to a phat beat.
• A Technological Pacifist is not a robot who refuses to fight.
• Technology Porn is not pornography that comes from the Internet and/or is computer-generated. Nor does it refer to dirty pictures of robots (though it admittedly doesn't exclude them either.)
• Technopath is about neither technology-obsessed psychopaths, paths of technological development, nor anyone who just loves that electronic-sounding dance-party music. Nor is it about someone who hates machines to the point of becoming violent and irrational around them. It is also not about a trail that will lead you to the Lost Technology.
• A Tech Tree is not what Bamboo Technology grows on. Nor does it refer to Botanica.
• Teens Are Monsters is not the Revised Ending to "Dude of the Living Dead."
  • Nor is it a teenage Cute Monster Girl, unless she was a huge jerk.
  • Nor is it when teenagers are behind the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax, or when monsters pretend to be teens.
  • And the teens definitely aren't pulling off a Monster Façade. If they did, then the trope would be subverted.
• A Telephone Polearm does not require the use of an extremely long and sturdy phone.
• Teleport Spam does not involve moving canned meat around with your mind.
• Telescoping Staff is not about hiring astronomers.
  • Nor is is about ledger lines above or below the musical staff.
• Television Is Trying to Kill Us is not about killer TVs. Or about Persona 4, for that matter. Or the band.
• Televisually Transmitted Disease is not about diseases that are actually spread by television transmissions.
• Telly Tropes involves Kojak and Blofeld to some extent, but he's not the main focus.
  • It's also not a list of tropes that specify a certain purple monster.
  • Although it is in there, it's not mainly about a certain spinning surveillance robot.
  • It's also in not exclusively about Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po.
• Temporarily a Villain is not the same thing as a Heel–Face Turn. (The former describes a hero who turns evil and back really quickly, while the latter describes a character who has been a villain for a relatively long time turning good.)
  • It also has to be quick - the hero can't preform a Face–Heel Turn and eventually pull a Heel–Face Turn, and Darth Vader is not actually an example.
• Temporary Scrappy isn't a character the audience hates for a short period of time. The closest we have for that situation is Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
• Tempting Fate does not involve Nanoha in a bikini.
  • Nor is it a death that a character is considering taking.
  • Or about Tempest Shadow suffering Death by Adaptation.
• Tender Tears are not tears used as currency.
• Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity does not (necessarily) refer to a Tomboy who's sensitive to touch and a Girly Girl who smells bad.
• Ten Minutes in the Closet is not about someone who very quickly comes out as gay.
  • It also has nothing to do with Year Inside, Hour Outside. You can thank The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for that misconception.
    • Ditto for Year Outside, Hour Inside.
• A Tennis Boss is not someone who is really good at tennis.
• Terra Deforming does not involve pink Esper forms.
  • Nor is it about Deathstroke brainwashing Terra into becoming evil.
• Terrifying Pet Store Rat isn't about a character in-universe walking into a pet store and finding a terrifying rat. Nor is it about terrifying a pet store rat.
• Testosterone Brigade is not about gay pride parades.
• Testosterone Poisoning isn't a special method of killing that only works on males.
  • Nor does it refer to poison made from testosterone.
  • Nor is it hormone therapy for transgender men Gone Horribly Wrong.
• The Tetris Effect is not about when you just can't stop playing. That's Just One More Level!.
  • Nor is it the the tendency for people to compare every Falling Blocks game to Tetris.
• Text-Formatting Rules is about how to use text formatting, not how awesome it is.
• Thank the Maker is not about expressing gratitude towards a craftsperson giving away their wares for free.
  • And it has nothing to do with that Maker, either.
  • Nor that other Maker.
  • Or Mr Maker.
  • Or even the Ultimate Marvel version of Mister Fantastic.
• That Came Out Wrong has nothing to do with Enfant Terrible or breach births, not for that matter Came Back Wrong.
  • Nor does it necessarily involve putting your foot in your mouth while attempting to tell someone that you're gay, although it certainly could.
• That Didn't Happen has nothing to do with Canon Discontinuity or Fanon Discontinuity, nor with Narrative Backpedaling.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry does not redirect to Berserk Button.
• That Man Is Dead is not the same as He's Dead, Jim. It is not what Captain Obvious says when he sees a dead person.
  • And it is most certainly not about the death of a superhero named That Man.
• That One Boss: Strategy is not a list of particularly clever methods that have been used to defeat bosses.
• That One Case is not an especially difficult part of Ace Attorney.
• That One Level isn't the only level in the entire game. Similarly...
  • That One Attack isn't the only attack in the entire game. Though you'd probably get sick of it after a while.
    • Nor is it when you play CHUNITHM and you're one note away from an All Justice. Though if it's one very specific note that you always get an Attack on, you might be looking at an example of this trope.
  • That One Boss isn't the only boss in the entire game. Nor does it refer to particularly harsh or cruel supervisors; you're thinking of Bad Boss or Mean Boss.
  • That One Player isn't the only player of the entire game.
  • That One Sidequest isn't the only sidequest in the entire game.
  • That One Rule isn't the only rule.
• That Poor Cat is not each and every case where a cat is a Woobie, nor is it jazz talk for a Butt-Monkey, nor is it someone pointing out an impoverished cat.
• That Reminds Me of a Song is not about what Professor Layton would say if he took up spontaneous singing as a hobby instead of solving puzzles.
• That Russian Squat Dance does not refer to the "Slav Squat" meme.
• That's What She Said and What He Said are not Distaff Counterpart tropes.
  • Nor is it about women's dialogue in general.
• Then Let Me Be Evil is not about frustration at heroes who keep saying that evil must exist in the world but beat up bad guys anyway. Or the heroes constantly talk about how they let their villains be as evil as they want to be but are forcing them to be good.
• Theotech isn't analogous to Magitek; it's not about a setting where technology is literally powered by divinity of some kind.
• There Are No Therapists is not talking about items in Disgaea that fail to grant resistance to status ailments.
  • It also has nothing to do with Sean Connery having his mind in the gutter again.
• There Is No Try is not about rugby.
  • Or code that doesn't deal with exceptions correctly.
  • It is also not what the Nietzsche Wannabe says.
• There Is Only One Bed is not about the One Bed to Rule Them All. Nor is it about limited art assets in a video game meaning that all beds look the same.
• There Was a Door does not automatically lead to the assumption that it's gone now.
• There Will Be Cake is a lie, even though the trope namer wasn't. Nor does it necessarily have to be about cake. It's also not to be confused with I Was Told There Would Be Cake, which is specifically about cake and has nothing to do with this trope.
• There Will Be Toilet Paper is not about what happens after relieving oneself in the bathroom.
  • Nor is it a promise that a restroom is well-stocked.
• A Thermometer Gag is not when someone is unable to speak due to having a thermometer in their mouth.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know does not refer to Women's Mysteries.
  • Nor do they only drive men insane and leave women alone.
• These Hands Have Killed is not an introduction to some disembodied hands that kill for a living.
• The "The" Title Confusion is not about the band "The The", or other such intentionally confusing band names (The Who, Yes, etc.).
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks! does not mean that someone upgraded a weapon to have suction capabilities, unless the suction ability is overpowered or replaces a better ability.
  • Nor is it a description of someone's transformation into a vampire.
• They Look Like Us Now has nothing to do with the point of the song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin, nor does it have anything to do with Generation Xerox or Clone by Conversion.
• They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste is not an ecological complaint against the development of desert areas.
  • Nor is it about finding new landfill sites.
  • Nor is it about fans of a landfill complaining that it's getting appropriated for gardening.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character is not about a character literally being thrown in the trash.
  • Nor is it about a character dying in Grand Theft Auto.
  • Nor is it when a well-liked character gets incredibly drunk or stoned.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot is not about complaining that a gardening plot is being unused.
• Thicker Than Water isn't just a list of fluids which are more viscous than water. It's also not a description of The Ditz, no matter how stupid they are.
• Thieves' Cant is not about revoking the rights of criminals.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave is a guest, not an object. Also, it doesn't necessarily apply to The Addams Family's hand not going away.
  • Nor is it about Ben Grimm buying a house, settling in, and not moving again.
• Things Get Real is not what people shout when Things is acting foolish.
  • It's also not the same as Fake–Real Turn.
• Thinking Up Portals is not about coming up with fan levels or equipment hacks for the Portal series.
• Thinking Wheels isn't about anthropomorphosised vehicles, or about having an Imagine Spot involving wheels.
• A Thinly Disguised Pilot does not fly an airplane.
• A Third-Person Seductress is not a Ms. Fanservice who is a Third-Person Person.
• Thirty Minutes Or It's Free! is not about sex.
• This Index Broke Up does not involve literal breaking.
• The tropes listed in This Index Has A Point are not about Scoring Points.
  • It's also not an index about needles, pins, swords and other pointy things.
• This Index Is Better is not full of subjective tropes.
• This Index Means Trouble is not about Giving Someone the Pointer Finger.
• This Index Will Kill You is not about a Finger Poke of Doom.
• This Is a Drill is not "Crocodile" Dundee's supposed response to This Is Not a Drill. It's also not about announcing that a training exercise is occurring, so This Is a Drill and This Is Not a Drill are not Opposite Tropes.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! is not what one says when avenging Emphasis Bitch. Or delivering a package for her.
• This Is Going to Be Huge is not about hyping up an erection.
• This Is Gonna Suck is not a warning label put on vacuum cleaners. Or on Weapons That Suck.
• This Is My Boomstick has absolutely nothing to do with shotguns. Most of the time. And even less to do with the Boom Stick trope.
• This Is Not a Drill is not said to clarify that something is not a tool for making holes or driving nails.
• This Is Wrong on So Many Levels! isn't about a Plot Hole, Scrappy Mechanic, or Game-Breaking Bug that spans a large chunk of a video game.
  • It's also not about a decorating mistake on multiple floors of a building.
• This Loser Is You is not the inverse of A Winner Is You.
• This Might Be an Index is not a list of tropes related to They Might Be Giants.
• A Thong of Shielding does not necessarily protect anyone from attack.
• Those Two Guys aren't necessarily the only ones that exist in canon. Neither are they related to That One Boss.
• Threatening Shark is a noun, not a verb—the trope is not about yelling at sharks when they misbehave or when you want to force a shark to do something against its will.
• Three Minutes of Writhing is not about very quick torture or a very short time spent in Hell.
  • Nor is it about having a seizure, though some poorly executed examples might look like one.
• Three Shorts is not related to Limited Wardrobe.
• Three-Strike Combo is not about pitching an out or bowling a turkey.
• Thriving Ghost Towns are not ghost towns that are mysteriously clean and well-kept in spite of years of abandon.
  • Nor is it a town full of well-to-do undead.
• Through His Stomach is not about a character getting shot or stabbed there.
  • It's also not about where you go after getting swallowed by a whale.
• "Throw-Away Guns" is a verb phrase, not a noun phrase. It does not necessarily imply that the guns are of low quality and deserve their fate of being tossed out.
• Throw It In! is not the objective of basketball.
• Characters are not Thrown from the Zeppelin because they have no ticket. Or because they keep calling it a balloon.
  • They're also not fired from Led Zeppelin. (In reality, no one was.)
  • They're not Thrown Down a Well because THIS IS SPARTAAAA!, either.
• Thunder Shock does not refer to finding thunder shocking. Despite what you may think, this never happens to Pikachu.
• Thundraphobia, the old name for Fear of Thunder, is not a fear of the Marvel character, although that fear would not be unreasonable. Nor is it a fear of the ThunderCats' homeworld; that's Thundera. Sadly, these two fears caused the page to be renamed, as these were far scarier than starships and sauropods.
  • It also wasn't fear of the phoenix character from the Aladdin: The Series. Though there were some episodes where fear of her would make sense.
• Tiered by Name is not about players assigning Character Tiers in a video game purely by their names.
• Time Abyss is not where sinful moments go after they die.
• Time and Relative Dimensions in Space is not necessarily about The Doctor's time machine, although it can be.
• A Time Bomb is not a bomb that blows up time.
• A Time-Compression Montage is not a montage depicting Ultimecia doing her stuff (that would be time kompression anyway).
• Time Crash is not an instruction to measure how long it takes for a crash to occur.
• Timeline-Altering MacGuffin is not about items containing infallible predictions about the future that people use to get rich quick by placing their bets accordingly.
• Time-Travel Tense Trouble is not about how problems time-travelling can make people anxious.
• Tired of Running is not about panting and sweating after having expended too much energy jogging or sprinting.
• Title Drop is not when a character stops using another character's title, for dramatic effect.
  • Oh, and it's not when a title drops from the sky.
• Title of the Dead is not when a work is named for a Posthumous Character. Nor is it about the distribution of noble titles or deeds to property when a character passes away.
• Toasted Buns is not about cinnamonny breakfast food.
• To the Future, and Beyond is not when you play Arcaea and play a song's Future chart followed by its Beyond chart.
• To Hell and Back has nothing to do with Audie Murphy, or the Sabaton song about him.
• Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag is not about jokes involving toilets that drink dogs. Nor is it about people who find dogs drinking out of toilets disgusting.
• Toilet Humour isn't about toilets becoming sentient and telling jokes.
• Toilet Teleportation does not refer to teleporting toilets, nor does it (usually) refer to toilets being used as literal teleporters.
• Token Evil Teammate does not describe members of the Order of the Blackened Denarius, though it could describe one of their holders if they had to team up with Harry in an Enemy Mine situation.
  • Nor is it about Token Minority characters who are evil.
    • And Token Good Teammate doesn't describe good Token Minority characters.
• The Token Mini-Moe is only sometimes a Tagalong Kid who's also a Token Minority.
  • Nor is it a token miniature version of Moe from The Simpsons, a certain Stooge, or any of the characters named Moe from Moshi Monsters.
• A Token Romance does not necessarily involve two Token Minorities.
• The Tokyo Fireball is not an alcoholic drink, nor is it one of those candies with lots of cinnamon extract to make it feel spicy.
• Tom Hanks Syndrome is not a reference to Tom Hanks being one of the first known celebrities to be infected with COVID-19.
• Tomato in the Mirror rarely involves tomatoes or mirrors.
  • Nor is it a VeggieTales version of Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror".
• Tomato Skunk Stink Cure is not a parody of Pretty Cure. It also doesn't imply the existence of tomato skunks.
• A Tomato Surprise is not a specialty soup.
  • Nor is it about unexpectedly having a tomato thrown at your face.
• A Tomboy is not a boy named Tom. Nor a guy named Tom whose surname is Boy.
• Tom the Dark Lord has no relation to Ron the Death Eater.
• Too Cool to Live does not describe Nora Fries, Olaf, Princess Anna, or (usually) any other victim of hypothermia.
• Too Dumb to Live is not about people whose physical inability to speak costs them their lives.
• Too Important to Walk is not about needing to get somewhere as quickly as possible, nor is it about why one does not simply Walk into Mordor.
  • Nor is it about a Diabolical Mastermind who is too important to their criminal organization to let him not go to prison.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously is not about watching critically panned movies and treating them like masterpieces while expecting others to do the same.
• Too Long; Didn't Dub doesn't mean someone was working on a dubstep track and it got so long they didn't want to add the "wubwub" effects anymore.
• Too Many Babies is not a Overwatch team composition warning indicating that there are too many infant Heroes on your team. Or too many immature players on your team, either.
• Too Many Belts is not about a particular martial art or style having an excess of Kyu and Dan Ranks for its learning curve or number of official practitioners..
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth has nothing to do with a Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce that not even an Eldritch Abomination would use to season his/her/its food.
• The Tooth Hurts is about someone's own teeth hurting, not about someone being hurt by the teeth of another person or a creature.
• The Topic of Cancer isn't about star signs or lines of longitude.
• A Torch Song does not (necessarily) have lyrics about setting things on fire.
• Totally Radical has little to do with extremists and fundamentalists.
  • Or, for that matter, Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV.
  • Or with mathematics.
  • Or with atoms or molecules with unpaired electrons.
• A Total Party Kill isn't something that dampens the mood of your social gathering.
  • It might, though.
  • Nor does it refer to someone killing everyone that belongs to a certain political party.
• To the Batpole! does not refer to a baseball bat.
• To the Pain is not the last words of anyone on Naruto.
  • It's also not a toast made by a sadist.
  • It's also not a math term.
  • Nor is it about dedicating yourself to french breads.
• Touched by Vorlons has nothing to do with Naughty Tentacles. Thankfully.
• Touch of Death is not a mechanic in video games where you die instantly if you touch an enemy.
• A Tour Guide Detective is not a detective who also works as a tour guide.
• A Tough Room is not a particularly difficult room in a video game.
• A Toxic Dinosaur isn't a dinosaur who is a Jerkass or Manipulative Bastard.
• Toyota Tripwire is not the name of an actual car.
• Toy Ship is not when the writers of a work "toy" with readers by hinting at a relationship that may never happen. It's not about a plastic buoyant vessel, either.
  • Or about shipping Toy Story characters.
    • Or about sending toys from one place to another.
• Trade Your Passion for Glory does not mean there is someone out there who can make you famous if you give him a passionfruit.
  • Nor would he make you famous if you give him your desire to accomplish your dreams.
• Trailers Always Spoil is not about non-Ragnarök Proofing enabled trailers.
  • Nor is it advice to never transport groceries via cargo trucks or freight trains.
• Traitor Shot does not mean Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.
• Tranquil Fury is not about Nick Fury being calm.
• Transflormation is not about turning into a Merm and adopting their distinctive speech patterns.
• Transformation Conventions does not mention AnthroCon and similar gatherings.
  • Or Botcon.
• Transhumans are not to be mistaken for Transgender people.
  • Nor are they animals or aliens who identify as human.
• Translation by Volume does not mean Swap Teleportation.
• A Translation Convention not a gathering of translators and translation enthusiasts.
• Translation: "Yes" is not about confirmation that a translation exists.
• Transparent Closet is not an actual closet with a see-through door.
• Trans Tribulations has nothing to do with the problems caused by trans fats or any other (E)-isomers for that matter.
• Trap Is the Only Option does not mean the only genre of music you can listen to is trap.
• Trap Master is not a shop (or franchise) that sells booby traps. Nor trap music.
• Trap Music is not the music that plays when you set off a trap.
  • Nor is it a genre of music defined by its use of samples of Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars.
• The Trap Parents is not about the Disney movie. Nor are the parents especially fond of listening to trap music.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions does not involve Snagglepuss.
• Trash of the Titans does not involve a disagreement between Cyborg and Beast Boy over whose turn it is to do chores.
  • Not is it about a telekinetic teenager becoming a titan of any kind.
  • It is most definitely not about either the garbage generated by, or failed players of Tennessee’s NFL team.
• Trauma Button Ending isn't when someone's Trauma Button stops working.
• A Trauma Conga Line is not a conga line that, once finished, leaves every participant terrified and emotionally scarred.
• Trashy True Crime is not a Take That! toward the movie or the video game.
• Trauma Inn is not when the stay at the inn gives you trauma.
  • It is also not related to Hell Hotel.
• And a Trauma Swing is not a swing at the playground that inflicts trauma on anyone who sits on it, nor is it about rapidly shifting feelings of trauma.
  • Nor is it incredibly horrible golf skills.
• Furthermore, a Traumatic Haircut does not refer to children who become frightened the first time visiting a barbershop, what with all those metal blades and weird buzzing machines.
• A Treacherous Advisor is not to be confused with an Evil Chancellor, although it's possible characters that are both exist.
• Trenchcoat Brigade is the description of an archetype of Occult Detectives. It is not about an army of flashers.
• A Trend Aesop is not An Aesop that appears in a large number of works at once before becoming less popular.
• A Trial Balloon Question is not about offering free balloons preceding a subscription.
• A Trial by Friendly Fire is not when the judge is a good-natured living flame.
• Tribal Carry is not a law allowing members of a tribe to carry guns.
• Tricked Out Time does not involve putting spinning rims on your grandfather clock.
• Trilogy Creep is not a creepy protagonist of a trilogy, or a creepy fanboy who only reads trilogies.
• Triple Shifter does not have to do with the Triple Changers from Transformers. Nor is it about pressing the Shift key three times, which doesn't do anything (although pressing it five times triggers Sticky Keys).
• Tripod Terror is not a horrified reaction to a camera being difficult to move.
  • Nor someone who menaces a web hosting service.
• Trojan Gauntlet is not a piece of armor from the ancient city of Troy.
  • Or from the modern city of Troy, for that matter.
  • Nor is it about running through two lines of Trojan soldiers while they beat you.
  • Not is it about having to deal with a bunch of computer viruses pretending to be helpful programs at once.
• Trojan Veggies aren't vegetables from the city of Troy.
• A Troll Bridge isn't a bridge that provokes you to amuse itself.
• A Troll Fic is not a Homestuck fanfic about the aliens from Alternia, although such a fic can be a Troll Fic.
  • The MSPA fan community decided to call fan adventures about the aliens from Alternia "trollventures" and fan adventures made to be deliberately offensive "trollingventures" because of that.
• Tron Lines is not about the particular style of dialog in TRON.
  • Nor is it an alternative to Ley Lines.
• Tropaholics Anonymous is not an actual support group for breaking your addiction to "tropahol". Mwahaha.
• Trope Decay is not an index of tropes about decomposition.
• The Trope Formerly Known as X is not a list of Renamed Tropes.
• Trope-Namer Syndrome isn't about the villain of The Incredibles having tropes named after him, even if there is one.
• Trope Overdosed is not about absorbing lethal levels of trope knowledge. But be careful.
• Trope Report isn't where you report a problem with a trope.
• Tropes Are Tools is not a way of expressing contempt whenever Tropes Are Not Good.
• Tropes in Space is not tropes... IN SPACE.
• Tropes to Cope is not about finding TV Tropes therapeutic.
• Trope Talk is not about the video series by Overly Sarcastic Productions.
• Trope-tan does not describe a change in skin tone from spending too much time editing the wiki. But be careful. (Nor is Trope-tan herself Chinese.)
• A Troubled, but Cute character is cute in the "attractive" sense, not the "adorable" sense. It has no overlap with Enfant Terrible.
• The Trouble with Tickets isn't about characters having trouble receiving admission passes to a movie, concert or attraction.
• Truck is not a transport vehicle.
  • It also does not refer to the illegal currencies used in some CompanyTowns.
• A Truck Driver's Gear Change is not about operators of massive transportation machines shifting their transmissions.
• True Art does not mean "the real Arthur".
• True Blue Femininity does not mean being feminine will turn any part of your body blue.
  • Nor is it about how the titular dog from Blue's Clues is actually female.
  • Nor does it mean that you must be feminine to be patriotic.
• True Love's Kiss does not mean that True Jackson is a KISS Fangirl.
• Trust Me, I'm a Doctor is not about the TV programme.
• Try Everything is not about the song from Zootopia. Or about trying new things in general, or the attitude of a Big Eater at a buffet.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card is not about business cards which are so small you can't even fit the word 'that' on them.
• Tsundere is not a tsunami's derriere.
• Tuckerization is not about becoming more like Trip Tucker from Star Trek: Enterprise.
  • Nor is it becoming more like Tucker Carlson from Fox News Channel.
  • It's also thankfully not about being combined with your pet.
• Tuneless Song of Madness is not about disliking a ska band.
• A Tunnel Network is not a computer network where the nodes are connected via tunnelling.
  • Nor is it a TV channel entirely about tunnels.
  • Nor is it a TV channel dedicated to shows about tunnels.
• Turns Red is not a Face–Heel Turn where the villain is a commie.
  • Nor is it what happens to people who don't use sunscreen.
  • Nor is it about people blushing when they are embarrassed.
  • Nor is it about a girl who transforms into a red panda.
• Turn Undead is an ability to get rid of things that are already undead, not to turn things that are alive undead.
  • No pimps are involved, either, thankfully. Unless you're into that sort of thing.
  • Nor does it involve voluntarily becoming an undead, or switching between life and unlife.
  • Nor is it changing the direction undead beings are facing.
• Turtle Island is not an island inhabited by turtles. It also hasn't anything to do with the Caribbean island Tortuga.
  • Nor does it have anythinng to do with the Galapagos islands. Besides, those are tortoises.
  • It's also not about a term used by some Native Americans to refer to North America, although that term did arise from an example.
• Tutorial Failure does not necessarily refer to a tutorial in a video game that becomes unfinishable due to a Game-Breaking Bug.
• A TV Genius does not necessarily know a lot about TV shows, nor would he or she necessarily be any good at repairing televisions.
• Twerp Sweating has nothing to do with Team Rocket making things warm for the twerps.
• Twice Shy has nothing to do with being bitten, and does not necessarily require either person to overcome past traumas.
• A Twice-Told Tale is not a tale that is told, and then immediately told again only differently.
  • Nor is it a story that has only ever been told twice.
• Twilight of the Old West isn't about wangsty vampire cowboys. Or Twilight Sparkle moving to Appleloosa.
• A Twisted-Knee Collapse isn't when someone injures their knee and falls over in agony.
• A Twist Ending shouldn’t necessarily involve the characters engaging in a game of Twister, but it could count if it comes out of left field
  • It's also not a more specific form of the Dance Party Ending where everyone does The Twist.
• Someone who is Two-Faced literally has visually distinct sides of their face, and doesn't necessarily pretend to be nice while having ulterior motives, though they often overlap.
• Two out of Three Ain't Bad does not mean that every third character is a villain.
  • Nor does it mean that one third of all media is bad, or that two thirds of a product pass its company's standards.
• T-Word Euphemism is not about using other terms to refer to tuberculosis.
  • Nor is it implying that Thaddeus Euphemism's middle name is "Word" (it isn't, it's John).
• A Tyke-Bomb is rarely a child suicide bomber.
• Tyop on the Cover does not mean that it features a person or band you ought to know named Tyop.
• Typewriter Eating does not promote the consumption of word processors.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm is not about a tyrant obtaining a piece of headgear.
• The Tyson Zone is not a remake of The Twilight Zone sponsored by a frozen chicken company, nor is it a Sonic the Hedgehog stage themed on frozen chicken. Nor is it about naming a region of space after Neil deGrasse Tyson.
  • And even though it is named for Mike Tyson, it is definitely not where Mike Tyson Mysteries take place, at least not literally.

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