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- Here lie Acceptable Targets and their subtropes — Society marches on, and these targets were never acceptable in the first place.note Turned into a index page after seeing rampant misuse as a pothole magnet and attracting zero context examples. Once Acceptable Targets was turned into a redirect for Values Dissonance. Unacceptable Targets was initially spared, but a later TRS post revealed that it too was redundant with other audience reactions, so that got turned into an index as well.
- Here lies All Guitars Are Stratocasters — Strummed its last rock song, albeit incorrectly.note Guitar Chairs. It was merged with Artistic License – Music.
- Here lies All Love is Unrequited — Alas, Unrequited Love Lasts Forever.note Was supposed to be about the majority of the cast not having their crushes reciprocated by the end of the work, but was used for any instance a character has a crush, which is unrequited chairs. Thus, it was merged into Unrequited Love as a supertrope, which is a redirect to Unrequited Love Tropes.
- Here lies All Men are Rapists — Executed after their perverted behavior went too far.note The Same, but More to All Men Are Perverts.
- Here lies All There Is to Know About The Crying Game — Everyone knows about the sledding accident that killed it.note Supposed to be when a work's twist was better known than the actual contents of the work, but identifying a qualifying work required knowing about the work beyond the twist, causing it to become redundant with It Was His Sled, so it was merged. A disambiguation is left behind as well, as some wicks belonged to Signature Scene instead.
- Eia 'o Aloha Hawaii e moe nei — Even the Hula and Luaus were not entertaining in this Vacation Episode.note Was meant to cover episodes where the characters travel to Hawaii, but the trope decayed into "nā noho" with just references to Hawaii. It was then merged into Vacation Episode, though it was also redirected to Hula and Luaus instead.
- Here lies Ancient Africa — Got lost in the first migration Out of Africa.note The trope read like a Wikipedia article about Africa's ancient history, which we are not. Much of its content was moved over to UsefulNotes.Africa, while the former trope was turned into a disambiguation between that, Fantasy Counterpart Culture, and Bulungi.
- Here lies Anything Can Be Music — Its death was deemed instrumental.note Determined to be redundant with Everything Is an Instrument, since Tropes Are Flexible.
- Here lies Appeal to Consequences — It was killed by someone who believed its death would have a good consequence.note When some Logical Fallacies subtropes were moved to UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies, this was determined to be Too Rare to Trope.
- Here lies Appeal to Fear — Was killed in an attempt to scare people into siding with the killer.note Was an underused subtrope of Logical Fallacies, which had its lesser-used subtropes merged into a single page at UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies, and too similar to Scare 'Em Straight.
- Here lies Appeal to Ignorance — People suspect it was murdered because there is no evidence that it wasn't.note Cut when Logical Fallacies' subtropes were cleaned up by merging ones that weren't thriving into UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies.
- Here lies Appeal to Pity — It tried to make its killer pity it, but was unsuccessful.note Underperforming sub-trope of Logical Fallacies. Was moved to UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies along with several other subtropes.
- Here lies Appeal to Ridicule — It was so ludicrous anyway it's no wonder it died.note When Logical Fallacies' underperformiing subtropes were moved to a separate Useful Notes page, it was determined to not be common enough to be a trope.
- Here lies Appeal to Vanity — Cremated because it was afraid its corpse would look unflattering.note Duplicate of Appeal to Flattery, which is a preexisting name for the Logical Fallacy.
- Here lies Appeal to Wealth — It thought it was always right because it was rich, so it didn't obey the danger sign.note Was cut when Logical Fallacies' underperforming subtropes were merged into a single Useful Note.
- Here lie Arbitrary Maximum Range (and its predecessor Space-Based Weapon Has Cutoff Range) and Arbitrary Minimum Range — Those warnings not to enter the firing range weren't just arbitrary.note Not quite duplicate tropes, but they were deemed to be an artificial split and were merged together. Even earlier, the trope for maximum ranges was renamed because the title was too long and awkward.
- Hic iacet Argumentum Ad Nauseam — It stated its arguments over and over until someone couldn't take it anymore and stabbed it to death.note Cut when Logical Fallacies' underperforming subtropes were moved to UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies.
- Here lie Artistic License - Astronomy and Space Does Not Work That Way — The universe didn't have enough space for both of them.note Merged into a single trope due to redundancy.
- Here lies Artistic License — Traditional Christianity — Was crucified, died, and was buried.
note It was originally just a list of media errors that was split from Artistic License – Religion for becoming excessively long, then was heavily edited by a Single-Issue Wonk into a list of real or imagined "errors" that people make about Christianity in Real Life. It was redirected back to Artistic License – Religion since most of the examples on that page were about Christianity to begin with.
- Here lies Art Major Biology — You fail Artistic License – Biology forever.note Synonymous taxon
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- Here lies Artsy Moon — The paint job was too weird.note Lacked tropes and its tropeworthiness was questioned.
- Here lie Badass Beard and Badass Moustache — They weren't manly enough, so a barber did away with them.note Like what happened with other Badass Tropes, these two attracted examples of characters who merely have facial hair. They were merged into a trope about men whose facial hair is indicative of their masculinity, akin to how Carpet of Virility does the same with chest hair.
- Here lies Badass in Charge — Didn't have the authority to be in charge.note Was misused as a trope when it's an index, but it was deemed redundant with Authority Tropes, so it was merged with it.
- Here lies Bald Black Leader Guy — Stepped down from his position as head barber.note Dupe of Bald of Authority, and thus was merged with it.
- Here lies Bandwagon Fallacy — Everyone else was jumping off a bridge, so it did too.note During the conversion of several of Logical Fallacies' subtropes into a Useful Note, it was considered too uncommon to be tropeworthy.
- Here lies The Barber — He finally retired from the haircut business, but he sure was chatty.note A barber appearing in a work is barbershop chairs. It was merged with Chatty Hairdresser to address tropeworthy concerns.
- Here lie Bastard Boyfriend, Bastard Girlfriend (and her predecessors Abusively Sexy Bitch and Abusively Sexy Woman), and Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend (and his predecessors Spectacled Sadist and Kichiku Megane) — All of them died swooning over their Fetishized Abuser.note Was used for any abusive love interest when the Fanservice part was supposed to be emphasized, so they were merged and redirected. Additionally; the first name of Bastard Girlfriend was deemed too negative, while the second was changed during the cleanup of Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes following The Second Google Incident; and the initial name of Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend was too obtuse (and eventually recreated as an Anime Fanspeak page), while the first rename was confused for Four Eyes, Zero Soul.
- Here lies Bear Trap Bed — Crushed by a bed owned by Murphy. note The Same, but More Specific, as Murphy's Bed examples are not limited to Murphy beds.
- Here lies Beat Bag — Beaten to death by a Con Man after getting caught up in a con.note Merged with The Con as part of an effort to reorganize its subtropes.
- Here lies Big Bra to Fill — Crushed by an insurmountable yet strangely common weight.note Was supposed to be about movie superheroines being less endowed than their comic counterparts, which is the same thing as Most Common Super Power but from a negative and judgy angle.
- Here lies Big Store — After The Con behind the big store failed to materialize, the operation was shut down.note Merged with its supertrope.
- Here lies Biker Babe — The Badass Biker was much cooler than her.note Chairs riding motorcycles.
- Here lies Bikini Bar — Went out of business after the Family-Friendly Stripper refused to take her clothes off.note Found to cover the same subject, just focusing on the location instead of the character working in said location.
- Bishōnen ga koko ni nemuru — This Pretty Boy just wasn't pretty enough.note Was made into a definition-only Fan Speak term and merged with Pretty Boy, which only allows in-universe examples.
- Here lies BLAM Episode — "BLAM!" describes the sound everyone heard when it was hit on the head with a bizarre-looking blunt object.note Duplicate of Bizarro Episode, which itself was renamed from A Day at the Bizarro.
- Here lie Blogosphere, Celebrity Blog, Flog, Link Blog, and Power Law Blogs — Their servers were shut down.note Underperforming, and were all merged into Forum Speak.
- Here lies Bust Chart — Barely made the cut in the round of 32, only to be eliminated at the round of 16 during the model art contest.note Wasn't thriving despite being focused on Japanese media, so it was merged with the Definition only Model Sheet.
- Here lie Butterfly Nets — Nailed to a wall by their killer.note Alternate History duplicate.
- Here lies Canon Wank — Banished to Canon Discontinuity.note Redundant with Fan Wank, as well as less commonly used and more complaint-oriented.
- Here lies Caption Contest — [You could win YOUR epitaph here!]note Merged with Audience Participation since caption contests typically only happen in content that isn't tropable.
- Here lie Cardboard Boxes — Destroyed in a chase scene.note It was cut for being cardboard chairs due to the unclear name. The tropable parts were merged with Chase-Scene Obstacle Course.
- Here lies Catch That Pigeon! — It was finally caught and eaten.note Too close to Road Runner vs. Coyote and not thriving, it was merged with said trope.
- Here lie Character Catchphrase and Index of Catchphrases — Beaten on the head for repeating their catchphrases ad nauseam.note Both were created by a previous Trope Repair Shop project that disambiguated the Catchphrase Super-Trope. By administrator request, this was undone: Character Catchphrase became the main Catchphrase page, and Index of Catchphrases was made an on-page subtrope list.
- Here lies The Chew Toy — Chewed up by even the Butt-Monkey.note Was supposed to be a subtrope of Butt-Monkey where the character constantly being the butt of the joke gets Played for Laughs, but was found to be too similar to most Butt-Monkey examples, so it was merged with said trope.
- Christmas Cake ga koko ni nemuru — Nobody wanted a fruit cake for Christmas.note A Japanese-media specific version of Old Maid, which it was merged with.
- Here lies Claremont Coefficient — Buried in a plot of kudzu.note The trope namer, X-Men writer Chris Claremont, was too obscure. It was also discovered that this trope was a duplicate of Kudzu Plot during the renaming process, so it was merged.
- Here lie Classic Video Game "Screw You"s - Got screwed over by the Scrappy Mechanics. note The page was determined to border on complaining about retro games, in addition to being redundant with Scrappy Mechanic, which it is now a redirect for.
- Here lies The Commies Made Me Do It — The CIA weren't looking for excuses.note Pertained to characters turning traitor as a result of coercion, but was more-or-less forgotten and the idea subsumed by I Have Your Wife.
- Here lie Common Hollywood Sex Traits — Weren't ideal for sex.note Wasn't tropeworthy and was merged with Analysis.Idealized Sex.
- Here lies Contemptible Cover — It was caught lying under oath and held in contempt of court.note Frequently used to complain about covers tropers don't like, and examples that weren't like that were already covered by tropes like Covers Always Lie (which it was redirected to) and Sexy Packaging.
- Here lie Continuity Editing, Linear Edit, Non-Linear Edit, Offline Edit, and Online Edit — Cut in the editing process.note Each had a low wick count, so they were merged together into Video Editing Terminology.
- Here lies The Con Within a Con — It's now the con within a grave.note Merged with The Con as part of an effort to reorganize that trope.
- Here lies Credits Brand Products — The funeral's program was sponsored by Trope Co.note Wasn't thriving, but was noted to be a more specific version of Creative Closing Credits. It was merged with the latter as a result, while Creative Credits and Creative Opening Credits were made redirects.
- Here lies The Creepy Undertaker — Buried alongside his clients.note Too similar to Creepy Mortician with only a (supposed) played-for-drama difference, they were stitched together like Dr. Frankenstein's monster.
- Here lies Crime and Punishment Series — It was the culprit in a Detective Drama.note Was deemed redundant with the latter trope, so it was merged with it to reduce index bloat.
- Here lie Crossover Works — Crossed over to the afterlife.note Was deemed redundant with Crossover, so it was merged with that trope to reduce index bloat.
- Here lie Crusading Widower and Vengeful Widow — They may have lost their loved ones, but at least they're together now.note Duplicate tropes that were unnecessarily separated by gender. They were merged together under a new name.
- Here lie Dancing Pants — A certain Mrs. Judy Neutron ordered her son to pick those pants up after his experiments went awry. She then commented that the full ensemble had better moves, anyway.note Too similar to Living Clothes to stand on its own, so it was merged.
- Ici repose Date Crepe — The service was great, but the crepes, not so much.note Concerns were raised over the name sounding like a tasteless rape joke, plus redundancy with Spaghetti Kiss and Sweetheart Sipping, so Date Crepe was merged into Indirect Kiss.
- Here lies Dead Baby Comedy — Comedians were asked to wear black for its funeral.note The name was better known as a term for Vulgar Humor, so a lesser-known trope called Black Comedy merged with it.
- Here lies Defend Pop Punk — Left defenseless and got popped by a punk.note Supposedly a subgenre of Pop Punk, but it was poorly defined and wasn't used anywhere but this wiki.
- Here lies Delayed Wire — The Grim Reaper didn't delay when taking its life.note Deemed redundant with The Con.
- Here lie Determined Homesteader's Children and Determined Homesteader's Wife — Life is hard on the homestead.note Needlessly specific subtropes that were merged back into their supertrope.
- Here lie Dewey Defeats Truman and The Great Politics Mess-Up — They were both failures.note Both were ultimately deemed redundant with Failed Future Forecast. In addition, The Great Politics Mess-Up was frequently misused as a term for the end of the Cold War, regardless of whether it had to do with inaccurate predictions or Alternate History.
- Here lie Dinosaur Media and Caveman Media — Their existence is history... prehistory.note Were merged into a setting-focused index as per the cleanup on Works by Subject for index bloat.
- Here lie The Dish Rattler and Basso Profundo — Tired of being typecast.note Failed to thrive for over a year with the old name, and determined to not be a trope a while after being renamed, leading to it being merged with MediaNotes.Voice Types.
- Here lies Domestic Abuser — Jailed after beating his wife.note Abusive duplicate
- Here lies Do They Know It's Christmas Time? — Forgot about the true meaning of an episode set on Christmas.note Heavily misused, and found to be instances of Status Quo Is God meeting Christmas aesops, so it was merged with Christmas Episode.
- Here lie Double Don't Know and One-Liner, Name... One-Liner — Failed to beat Frigate on 00 Agent difficulty, on 00 Agent Difficulty.note The latter trope suffered from Trope Namer Syndrome which led to most examples turning into Secret Agent Chairs. Both were also The Same, but More Specific to Repeated for Emphasis, plus tropeworthy concerns were raised due to both being Stock Phrases. Examples from them were moved to the latter as a result, with the former tropes turning into redirects.
- Here lies Down to the Last Match — It was extinguished when trying to light a Hard-to-Light Fire.note Rarely used compared to its supertrope.
- Here lie Dr. Pedia and Mr. Trope, Wikipedia Syntaxer, and Wikipedia Updater — Neither This Very Wiki nor The Other Wiki wanted to put up with their behavior.note Were originally classified as Wiki Tropes, but were rarely used and determined to work better as a single Just for Fun page due to their tongue-in-cheek nature.
- Here lies Dug in Deeper — Dug a grave too deep that ended up in a massive pile of lies.note Lacked off-page wicks and deemed to be redundant with Snowball Lie and Digging Yourself Deeper.
- Here lies Eaten by a Snake — Three guesses as to what happened to it, and the first two don't count. note Merged into Deus Exit Machina; previously the tropes were distinguished by happening to main vs supporting characters, but this was deemed redundant.
- Here lies Election Night — Impeached.note A mess of natter, weblinks, and sinkholes that did a poor job of covering elections and election-related tropes. Rather than being cut entirely, it was turned into a redirect for Election Day Episode.
- Here lie Empowering Lake Lady and Strange Pond Woman — Drowned by an Enigmatic Empowering Entity.note Both tropes were thought to be too specific, so they were broadened. After broadening their definitions, the two tropes turned out to be redundant to each other.
- Here lies Epic Song — Electrocuted when its microphone malfunctioned.note Already covered by Epic Rocking (which can refer to genres other than rock, since Tropes Are Flexible), which it was turned into a redirect to.
- Here lies Everyone Gets Their Turn — It was their turn to die.note Redundant with Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic, which it was merged with.
- Here lies Everyone Is Gay — What else should we say? Married, buried, and cast out of the mortal coil. note The Same, but More Specific to Cast Full of Gay, due to being fanfic-specific; even then, the fanfic-specific aspect was often overlooked.
- Here lies Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry — Couldn't resist touching the shiny, cursed jewel.note Everything's Worse with Snowclones, and the intended definition wasn't found to be tropeworthy. Turned into a redirect for Bejeweled Tropes.
- Here lie Evil Albino and Heroic Albino — Other people's deaths paled in comparison.note Merged into Albinos Are Freaks due to the existence of albino chairs.
- Here lie Exposed Eyeballs as Eyes — Pushed back into their sockets.note Was merged with Cartoony Eyes due to heavy misuse, lack of wicks, and redundancy.
- Here lies Fallacy Fallacy — The person who reported its death used bad logic, but that doesn't mean it's not dead.note After Logical Fallacies' underperforming subtropes were moved into the Useful Notes namespace, it was determined not to be a trope.
- Here lies Fallacy of Composition — Drowned due to believing that, being 60% water, it couldn't drown.note It wasn't common enough to be a trope, so it was moved to UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies along with several other underperforming subtropes of Logical Fallacies.
- Here lie Famous Last Words — There were some Last Words that aren't that famous.note The main page was moved to a Just For Fun page and the old main page now redirects to Last Words.
- Here lies Fashion Designer — Closed down their boutique after suffering creative block.note Designer chairs, so it was made into a redirect to Fashion and Modeling Tropes.
- Here lies Fat Cat — Became too lazy to live.note Fat and fuzzy feline furniture. Merged with and redirected to Cats Are Lazy since a cat being fat tends to go hand in hand with it being lazy, while some examples were covered by Lazy Neutered Pet since neutering can cause weight gain.
- Here lies Flagship Franchise — Flown at half-mast by a cash cow.note Misuse, ZCE attraction, and overlap with Cash-Cow Franchise led to this trope being merged with it.
- Here lie Four Equal Payments Of and Just Pennies a Day — Fired over their failed Payment Plan Pitch.note Both had low wick counts and were deemed not distinct enough from each other to be separate tropes.
- Here lies From Clones to Genre — Death decided to purge the cheap knockoffs.note Was a Pothole Magnet to Follow the Leader, so it was merged with that trope after tropeworthy concerns were brought up.
- Here lies "Funny Aneurysm" Moment — Those jokes we made about it dying aren't so funny anymore.note Had too much misuse confusing it with Harsher in Hindsight, thus the two were merged.
- Here lie Furry Webcomic and Furry Comic — They forgot that this week was duck season.note These two were The Same, but More Specific to each other, but were a bit on the short side, and also suffered from confusion over which works should or shouldn't be listed, since plenty of works prominently feature Funny Animal characters without being considered "furry". MediaNotes.Furry Fandom is now used to list works (of all types) that are specifically made by and for the community.
- Here lies Genre Adultery — Got caught cheating with the Creator's Oddball.note The former was redundant with the latter, so it was merged under that.
- Here lies Girl Powered — Had its abilities restricted.note It was The Same, but More Specific.
- Here lies Glorified Sperm Donor — Disappeared after a one-night stand.note Was supposed to be about the father coming back to his family and being accepted by them, thus being someone who only provided his sperm and left being glorified. However, many examples ignored that positive aspect of the trope and only described any father who impregnated the mother and left. Thus, it was merged with Disappeared Dad since it was redundant with any absent father in a character's life. The original page was repurposed into Biological Parent Reunion.
- Here lies Going to Be One of Those Days — Going to be yet another funeral for a meaningless Stock Phrase.note Wasn't thriving, and also a meaningless stock phrase. Redirected to This Is Gonna Suck.
- Here lies Good for Bad — Things went bad for it.note Merged with The Con.
- Here lies Good Troi Episode — She got A Day in the Limelight, but too few fans considered her The Scrappy.note "A Day in the Limelight with The Scrappy but it's good" is just The Same, but More Specific to A Day in the Limelight.
- Here lies Gosh Hornet — Exterminated by someone who wasn't afraid of them.note A duplicate of Bee Afraid, which itself was renamed from Everything's Worse with Bees. Despite the name, it was already about bees and not actual hornets.
- Here lies Grammar — The Illiteracy Communist who killed it used just the tip of their weapon.note Determined to be redundant with Tips on Grammar, which itself was cleaned up and moved to Administrivia.
- Here lies Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have! — All the more to burn with, my dear.note Deemed redundant to Silver Fox, which is not gender-exclusive.
- Here lie Hair Intakes — They got removed and died from overheating.note Chair Intakes. It was redirected to Anime Hair.
- Here lie Handguns — The revolver was better, but they both got removed from Trope-tan's arsenal.note Pistol Chairs. It also had significant overlap to the now disambiguated Revolvers Are Just Better, which it was redirected to.
- Here lies Heel-Face Mole — Caught by the good guys.note An Evil Counterpart to Fake Defector that was deemed redundant.
- Here lie Heroic Sacrifices — Did a Heroic Sacrifice for the singular form.note An unnecessary split of a list of subtropes to Heroic Sacrifice.
- Here lies Heroism Addict — He engineered his own demise.note Both are deemed redundant to each other, but as Engineered Heroics was healthier in wicks, the other was merged into it.
- Here lies Hero-Killing Community — The residents drove out the Hero Killers.note Underused duplicate of Ungrateful Townsfolk.
- Here lies Hey, It's You! — Hey, it's The Grim Reaper! He's Back for the Finale!note An underused duplicate.
- Here lies H-Game POV Character — Decided to cheat on his girlfriend, making her lead him to an early Bad End. note Deemed not a trope in itself so much as a collection of tropes common in the H-Game genre, and was merged into said article.
- Here lie Holding It for a Friend, I Have to Wash My Hair, and Lame Excuse — Singed while ironing the dog.note The first one was a stock phrase deemed redundant with the expanded I Need to Go Iron My Dog, the middle one was deemed to be too similar to it, and the last one was The Same, but More Specific with an ambiguous name.
- Here lies Hollywood Dress Code — The costume store was out of stock.note Both pages were used as pseudo-indexes for Personal Appearance Tropes.
- Here lies Home Version Soundtrack Replacement — Further airings of the funeral will replace the bagpipe performance of "Amazing Grace" with a rendition of "Yakety Sax" played on the kazoo.note Determined to be too similar to Re-Release Soundtrack.
- Here lies Hot Linked — Caught in the cold.note Merged into Forum Speak.
- Here lies House Inspection — The Inspector Is Coming... to condemn it for failing health inspection.note Was deemed redundant with the latter trope.
- Here lies Human Mom, Non-Human Dad — Survived by their Half-Human Hybrid offspring.note Was declared to be redundant with Half-Human Hybrid, as gender inverted examples have weakened its distinction.
- Here lies Iconic Logo — Jake wasn't available that day, so State Farm needed to oust the worker closest in personality to "a bad neighbor".note Lacked criteria for what would be "iconic", which quickly led to the duties of chairpeople before, during, and after a meeting. Was made a redirect to Trademark.
- Here lie I Have a Bridge to Sell You and Landmark Sale — The bridge collapsed and it got crushed to death.note Merged with its supertrope, The Con, due to a lack of examples.
- Here lies Informed Power — Wasn't powerful enough.note Was determined to be too redundant with Informed Ability, so the trope was expanded, and Informed Power was merged into it.
- Here lies Ironic Inversion — Lost to Rocky after a sudden injury.note Lacked edits despite barely qualifying as a healthy trope in wicks and found to be redundant with Crack Defeat, so it was merged.
- Here lie I Will Protect Her and I Will Definitely Protect You — Slain in battle with their protectees.note Stock phrases (the latter of which was intended as a Japanese Media Trope) that were merged to form Declaration of Protection.
- Here lies Jerkass Façade — Its killer lacked a heart, let alone a hidden one.note Determined to be too similar to Hidden Heart of Gold and Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Here lies Jerk-to-Nice-Guy Plot — The real kindness was in his heart all along.note Duplicate of Took a Level in Kindness except over an entire work, so it was merged. Also rogue-launched.
- Here lies "Join the Army," They Said — "Those drafters always lie," they said...note Saw overlap with Recruiters Always Lie, but the latter trope suffered from misuse. It was merged with that trope and had its definition expanded to cover misleading advertisements that the former trope covered.
- Here lies Juggalo — STOP! STOP! ENOUGH WITH THE CLOWN WANNABES!note Only listed characters that are fans of Insane Clown Posse, which is the Insane Chairs Posse. It was merged with its Useful notes page on the same topic.
- Kansai Regional Accent, Keigo, to Tohoku Regional Accent ga koko ni nemuru — They weren't even bothering on sticking to Japanese accents.note Read like Useful Notes pages on Japanese accents, which we already have. They were merged with UsefulNotes.Japanese Dialects, while Keigo was merged with UsefulNotes.Japanese Language. All three were also disambiguated. A character speaking in Keigo was still a valid trope, so it was reworked into Formal Characters Use Keigo.
- Here lies Kewpie Doll Surprise — Broke its arms flailing them too fast.note Wasn't thriving and its definition was deemed to be redundant with Human Hummingbird.
- Here lie Lava is Kool-Aid and Lava is Red Hot Water — At that temperature, they tasted the same anyway.note Two tropes about unrealistic lava appearance and behavior which were deemed to be pointing at the same phenomenon and merged under the name Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid.
- Here lies Legacy Implosion — Its name was not Legion, for it actually inverted The Chosen Many.note Underused, and examples were determined to simply be inversions of The Chosen Many.
- An seo tha Let's Have A Cèilidh — 'Twas a wonderful purvy, with a well decorated funeral ball.note Wasn't thriving, and deemed to be a Scottish variant of Dances and Balls, so it was merged with that trope.
- Here lies Light Gun — It had a tendency to game the system.note Redundant with Light Gun Game.
- Here lies Like a Fish Takes to Water — Eaten by a duck in its new pond.note A poorly defined trope that was merged with Like a Duck Takes to Water during its rename from The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
- Here lies Like That Show, but With Mecha — Was recycled with a new gimmick that didn't involve mechas.note Wasn't thriving.
- Here lies Literary Necrophilia — We have been told that the book certainly outlived them.note Wasn't thriving, Flame Bait magnet, library chairs, and deemed redundant with Outlived Its Creator. Was merged with the latter.
- Here lies A Little Help from My Friends — The Production Posse was more helpful when the crew was fixing a hole.note Duplicated help.
- Here lies Live-Action Escort Mission — The person they were escorting was Too Dumb to Live.note A pointless media-specific split of Escort Mission, not helped by the fact that the latter trope already allowed examples from non-video games to begin with.
- Here lie Loads and Loads of Roles — Two wasn't enough, and dozens of them were too much for their voice box.note Was The Same, but More to Acting for Two, but wasn't a Trivia trope despite several wicks landing in the Trivia/ namespace. It was merged to catch the existing Trivia/ wicks.
- Here lies Locked In — Finally escaped the closet only to find themselves locked in another room.note Deemed to be redundant with Locked in a Room and wasn't thriving.
- Here lie Long Con and The Tale — It lived a short life, and dead tropes tell no tales.note Determined to be redundant with The Con itself.
- Here lies Long Form Promo — You're now listening to Graveyard TV, where tropes go to die.note Wasn't thriving and was deemed The Same, but More Specific to Station Ident, so it was merged with that trope and the concept yarded.
- Here lies Loud Last Name — They didn't shout their names loud enough.note Wasn't thriving, so it was merged with Say My Name
- Here lies The Love Slap Of Epiphany — Was KO'd at first punch.note Wasn't thriving and was a duplicate of Love at First Punch, so it was merged with that trope while the original name was disambiguated.
- Here lies Love You and Everybody — They always loved them... for cheering them up at the funeral.note Meant to be for instances where a declaration of love is backpedaled to a generalized conversation, but it was continuously getting potholed for instances of All-Loving Hero. The original definition was salvaged by merging it with Bait-and-Switch Sentiment, while any misused examples were moved to All-Loving Hero.
- Here lies Lowest Cosmic Denominator — Its cry of "Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter" was responded to with a quick death, courtesy of the celestial overseers.note Sometimes misused to refer to cosmic balance, including having an inaccurate "Cosmic Balance" redirect for a while, when it actually referred to works using in-universe names for mythological beings rather than their real life names. It was deemed redundant with Not Using the "Z" Word, which isn't restricted to monsters (such as zombies, which "the Z word" refers to in that trope's Trope Namer, Shaun of the Dead).
- Here lies Madden Curse — Hit by a stray football.note Merged with Pop-Culture Urban Legends. While Pop-Culture Urban Legends was launched after Madden Curse, the latter didn't have many examples before it was cut, making it redundant with the former.
- Here lie Magic Bullets and its successor, Bullets Do Not Work That Way — Sniped down by a physics-defying gunner.note Originally renamed to combat misuse, it was discovered that an index covers the gist of the trope, and has since been merged.
- Here lies The Male Ingenue Must Be a Tenor — At least his swan song was beautiful.note Deemed redundant with Tenor Boy and made a redirect.
- Here lies The Mark — Ended up falling for a particularly deadly con.note Merged with its supertrope as part of an effort to reorganize The Con's subtropes.
- Here lies Martial Arts Headband — Lost a duel to a badass in a bandana.note The Same, but More Specific, plus the trope often came down to "martial arts headbands exist".
- Here lies The Mean Brit — Stuffed with the rest of the caustic, evil Brits.note Its overly specific and narrow name led to misuse since it overlapped with the other British stereotype tropes, so it was merged with British Stuffiness, with the original name being disambiguated.
- Here doth lie Medieval Universal Literacy — Couldn't read the signs warning it was about to walk off a cliff.note Had an unfocused and complainy definition about unrealistically high levels of literacy in historical settings, and much of the example list consisted of aversions and non-historical settings. Low Literacy Setting was created by a thread participant to cover affirmative examples of settings where illiteracy is common, and MUL was ultimately merged into it to preserve inbounds.
- Here lies Megalodon — Couldn't outswim the meteor 66 million years ago.note A Megalodon appearing in a work is primodial sea chairs. It was merged with Threatening Shark to prevent more chairsy examples from showing up, while the former name was disambiguated between various prehistoric sea creatures and sea monster tropes for more concise usage in works.
- Here lies Midflight Water Touching — Drowned after dropping too close to the water in their wonderous maiden flight.note Flying Chairs. It was also The Same, but More Specific to The Joy of First Flight, so it was easily merged due to it not thriving.
- Here lie Minorly Mentioned Myths and Monsters — Were seldom mentioned, and eventually became not mentioned at all.note Suffered from Fan Myopia, gushing, and misuse in the downfalls after Seldom-Seen Species was merged. It was merged and redirected to Small Reference Pools as a result. Any salvageable soft splits were deemed a job for the Trope Launch Pad.
- Here lies Misty May — We've switched to the metric system for measuring bosom bouncing.note Was an obscure in-joke that wasn't thriving, so it was redirected to Gainaxing. However, the latter had many examples that were just jiggling breasts and nothing else, so it was made definition-only.
- Here lies Mixed Ancestry — Interracial and interspecies couples had better love than this one.note Multiracial chairs, so it was merged into Interracial and Interspecies Love Index.
- Moe Stare ga koko ni nemuru — Was staring straight ahead while it crossed the street.note Full of Zero Context Examples and questionable as a distinct trope. Merged into Moe.
- Here lies Name-Face Name — Its face was deemed meaningless.note Attracted ZCEs and had a low wick count.
- Here lies Narrow Parody — Drowned in shallow waters.note Redundant with Shallow Parody and wasn't tropeworthy on its own, so it was merged with it.
- Here lies Necessary Weasel — The weasel somehow found a way to break the space-time continuum in an acceptable manner.note Had a unclear description that led to it being confused with Acceptable Breaks from Reality, so it was merged with that trope.
- Here lies Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly — Listeners got tired of all the remixes and mashups.note Was being used as a duplicate of either Genre Mashup or Genre-Busting, but for music.
- Here lies Nice Hat — The one who sarcastically complimented it had his face stolen for it.note Chairs with hats on them, so it was disambiguated into tropeworthy examples of hats such as Hat of Authority and Hat of Power. The disambiguation was later merged with the Cranium Coverings index of hat tropes because it got so long it was practically duplicating it.
- Here lie Nightmare Fuel Unleaded and High-Octane Nightmare Fuel — Had an accidental massive leakage, forcing us to revert to standard Nightmare Fuel.note Originally intended to segregate intentional horror from unintentional horror, but a combination of Trope Decay, difficulty determining creator intent, and The Same, but More led to the two being merged under the name Nightmare Fuel, with High-Octane Nightmare Fuel being turned into a redirect and Accidental Nightmare Fuel being turned into a Fan Speak page.
- Here lie Non-Identical Twins — Buried in the correct caskets despite alleged similarities in appearance.note "Identical twins that don't actually look identical" was deemed redundant.
- Here lies Non Sequitur Fallacy — It died from falling out of a bouncing UFO, therefore the curfew should be set later.note Once underperforming subtropes of Logical Fallacies were merged into UsefulNotes.Logical Fallacies and cleaned up, this was cut due to being underperforming and too similar to Non Sequitur and Chewbacca Defense.
- Here lies Not So Fast, Bucko! — Their princess is in another castle.note A not-so-fast duplicate in another castle.
- Here lie Nuns n' Rosaries — The Last Rites administered by the Catholic church on a November rain.note Catholic church pews; alongside being redundant to Christianity Is Catholic.
- Oba-san ga koko ni nemuru — Ma'am Shock was too much for her. note The Same, but More Specific to Ma'am Shock. Both covered people interpreting the use of certain honorifics as calling them old, but Oba-san was specific to the Japanese language, while Ma'am Shock covers words other than the English word "ma'am", despite its name. Oba-san was repurposed as an exampleless fan speak page, while examples were moved to Ma'am Shock.
- Here lies Once More with Endnotes — Never used again after the release of The Annotated Edition.note Annotated duplicate.
- Here lies One Born Every Minute — It died after a few minutes.note Determined to not be distinct enough from The Con.
- Here lies the Only Law Firm in Town — Closed and its spot was filled in by the second branch of the Only Shop in Town. note Redundant with Only Shop in Town and its examples were transplanted to aforementioned trope.
- Here lies Outgrow the Trope — Couldn't grow enough to meet the demanded trends.note Originally a YMMV item in which a series stops using a trope, but the use questions the subjectivity. It was merged into the healthier Breaking Old Trends, which already covers the objective part.
- Aquí yace Overly Long Spanish Name — Funeral to be overseen by Padre José Pedro Sánchez Francisco del Nombre Largo.note Lo Mismo, Pero Más Específico a Nombre Demasiado Largo, plus often La Gente se Sienta en las Sillas due to Spanish-speaking people usually having at least four names.
- Here lie Petting Zoo People — Weren't beastly enough to survive.note Deemed redundant with Funny Animal and Beast Man.
- Here lies Pig in a Poke — Sent to the butcher.note Redundant with The Con.
- Qui giace Pinocchio Syndrome — He finally wished upon that star and became a real boy.note Deemed redundant with Become a Real Boy.
- Here lies Planet of Dunce Caps — It was old hat.note Lacked wicks, so it was merged.
- Here lies Pre-Ass-Kicking Mutter — They never spoke up when the villain told them to. note Rare, seldom used sub-trope of Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
- Here lies Prince of Pranksters — He fell for a Deadly Prank pulled by a different prankster.note The Same, but More to The Prankster, due to its definition being identical to exaggerations of The Prankster, to the point that the "Exaggerated" entry on PlayingWith.The Prankster used to list a wick to it and nothing else.
- Here lies Probability Pileup — It was an oddly common chance that this trope was merged.note Was underused and redundant with Oddly Common Rarity, so it was merged with it.
- Here lies Prosecutor's Fallacy — It refused to believe it was being fought by aliens, so they killed it.note Determined Too Rare to Trope after Logical Fallacies' underperforming subtropes were merged into a single Useful Notes page.
- Here lies Pyrrhic Villainy — Lost all of their mooks to a Pyrrhic Victory.note Was a duplicate of Pyrrhic Victory except for villains, so it was merged.
- Here lies Quick Change — It died a slow and painful death.note Merged with The Con along with other subtropes.
- Here lies The Rain Man — An Idiot Savant rained on his parade.note Named after the eponymous Rain Man, but was merged with Idiot Savant to avoid collision with the film title. The original name was then disambiguated into tropes about stereotypical portrayals of autism.
- Here lies Ralph Wiggum — Too airheaded.note Supposed to be a mixture of Cloudcuckoolander, The Fool, and The Ditz, but did not have a sensible unification. Examples were moved to The Ditz, because a lot of examples were duplicates of examples of that trope, while others were sometimes The Same, but More for that trope.
- Here lies Real Estate Scam — Driven out of the housing market.note Merged with its supertrope, The Con, because it was relatively underused.
- Here lies Reality Bleed — Injured in a collision with Another Dimension and bled out.note Determined to not be distinct enough from When Dimensions Collide and was merged with it.
- Here lies Real Men Love Jesus — They went out fighting for their God.note The vague name caused the trope to be used as "character is religious", and the definition itself was eventually deemed to be redundant to Religious Bruiser, so it was merged into the latter.
- Here lies Redheaded Hero — It got shaven.note Merged into Red Is Heroic.
- Here lies Refuge in Cool — It was uncool.note Duplicate of Rule of Cool.
- Ĉi tie ripozas Re Lex — It fell for a deadly con.note A constructed lexical duplicate.
- Here lies Replacement Love Interest — Something was fishy about her.note Determined to not be distinct enough from Replacement Goldfish, especially since there were already romantic examples of that trope.
- Here lie The Reptilians — Supplanted by the ancient Lizard Folk, or so they'd like you to think.note Was found to be equivalent to Lizard Folk in use; Reptilian Conspiracy was created to cover the cases specifically tied to conspiracy theories.
- Here lies Results Not Typical — They may be atypical, but This Product Will Change Your Life.note Lacked wicks and concerns about its redundancy were brought up, so it was redirected to that trope.
- Here lies Reverse Mole — Exposed by the group and eliminated.note Was advertised as a Good Counterpart to The Mole, but it was decided that the distinction is irrelevant, so The Mole became more neutral and the tropes were merged.
- Here lies Rock Paper Switch — Was switched out for a better opponent.note Overlap between the two tropes, the former one not thriving in definition and examples.
- Here lies The Roper — It was last seen with a noose around its neck.note Redundant with The Con.
- Here lies Rules Are For Humans — My Rules Are Not Your Rules, and neither is this one.note The former lacked wicks and wasn't distinct enough from the latter.
- Here lies Scapegoat Creator — Mis-blamed for a crime it didn't commit and executed.note Misused to complain about creators without explaining why the complaints are unfair.
- Here lies Scary Animal Title — Lost the leading role of Evulz: The Movie.note Wasn't thriving, and found to be The Same, but More Specific to Antagonist Title, so it was merged.
- Here lies Sci-Fi — Was filed under Science Fiction for better alphabetization.note Was redundant with Science Fiction despite being a disambig, so it was merged with it, with the old trope's contents moved to Analysis.Science Fiction.
- Here lies Screwy Squirrel — Got payback via a Karmic Trickster.note Was too similar to The Prankster, so it was merged.
- Here lies Seldom-Seen Species — No-one noticed their extinction until it was too late.note Deemed to be seldom-seen seating, so it was turned into a redirect for Small Taxonomy Pools.
- Here lies Self-Damaging Attack Backfire — No points for guessing how it died.note Took over the original Attack Backfire name after that trope was renamed to Accidentally Beneficial Attack.
- Here lies Self-Deprecating Humor — It tore itself to shreds.note The Same, but More Specific to Self-Deprecation, intended for humorous examples. It was merged with and redirected to Self-Deprecation, and examples were moved thusly.
- Senpai/Kōhai ga koko ni nemuru — Died together honorably after Senpai finally noticed Kōhai.note Was merged with Japanese Honorifics due to tropeworthiness concerns, but the idea behind the dynamic was yarded.
- Here lie Seven Year Rule and NOHAMOTYO — Their demographics didn't care about them being repeated in a new trope.note The latter was an unwieldy acronym, while the former was the same, but applied to professional wrestling.
- Here lie Shark Stories — The numerous Sea Stories proved to be too vast for them.note Largely determined to be shark chairs. It became a redirect to Sea Stories.
- Here lies The Shill — It paid the ultimate price.note Merged with The Con.
- Here lies Shiny Sense — Nobody noticed it in time.note Non-thriving duplicate of Notice This, so it was merged.
- Shiritori ga koko ni nemuru — Unusually bad at Parlor Games, so it failed to entertain.note Eventually determined to be redundant with the main Parlor Games page and redirected to it as a result.
- Here lies Short Con — Long story short, it's dead.note Determined to be redundant with The Con.
- Here lies Sidekick Ex Machina — This sidekick was kicked to the side.note The Same, but More to Hyper-Competent Sidekick, since it was used for exaggerated examples of that trope.
- Here lies Slapstick Knows No Gender — And not just the men I slapped. But the women...and the coroner, too!note Was deemed a gendered version of Slapstick and was merged with that trope. Not helping matters is that the trope was defined as an aversion to something.
- Here lies Sliding Bike Stop — Suffered a involuntary ejection while trying to recreate the AKIRA Homage Shot.note Trope Namer Syndrome that made it a ZCE magnet. Was merged with ReferencedBy.Akira, while the former name was made a disambiguation page.
- Here lies Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped — The anvil was dropped into a volcano because the blacksmith who owned it thought that needed to be done.note The Same, but More to Anvilicious due to it being defined as "Anvilicious, but done well".
- Here lies Somewhere, This Index is Crying — It had no more tears to shed.note The Same, but More Specific to the Artistic License, as it was defined as "Artistic License taken to its logical extreme".
- Here lie Sonic Syndrome and its successor, Polygon Ceiling — They decided to leap off a cliff.note The original name was an unnecessary Take That! at Sonic the Hedgehog, and even without that, the trope was determined to be The Same, but More to Video Game 3D Leap due to being reserved for badly executed examples of that trope.
- Here lies Souvenir Edition — Discontinued.note The Same, but More Specific to Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition.
- Aquí yace Spanish Prisoner — Executed.note Merged with its supertrope, The Con.
- Here lies Species Lost and Found — It turned out to be extinct after all.note Merged with Not So Extinct after it was determined that their distinction — Species Lost and Found was applied to real extinct species and Not So Extinct to fictional ones — was artificial and unnecessary.
- Here lie Spex and Mummers — Were closed down for being amateur.note Weren't thriving, so they were merged into a Media Note.
- Here lies Status Ailment — Its death had no effect on us.note Determined to be redundant with its supertrope, Status Effects.
- Here lie Stock Dinosaurs — The Cretaceous was doomed, and so were they.note Was merged with Small Taxonomy Pools because it was The Same, but More Specific and not tropeworthy.
- Here lie Stock Kisses — Given the Kiss of Death.note Wasn't thriving due to being declared definition-only long ago and was also romance chairs. Merged with Kissing Tropes.
- Here lie Stock Shticks — They were not funny any more.note Was redundant with the Stock Jokes index, so it was merged.
- Here lies Super Coach — They failed to Save Our Team.note Lacked wicks and was redundant with the latter.
- Here lies Surprisingly Good English — Unfortunately, wasn't good at other foreign languages.note Redundant with Surprisingly Good Foreign Language, and merged into it when the latter was moved to the Sugar Wiki.
- Takahashi Couple ga koko ni nemuru — They broke up.note The Same, but More Specific to Belligerent Sexual Tension, only covering examples from some of Rumiko Takahashi's works. The page claimed to be an Anime Fanspeak term, despite lots of evidence pointing toward the term being created by TV Tropes itself.
- Here lies Taste the Rainbow — The failed attempt at appealing to multiple demographics was Rainbow Puke-inducing.note Was merged into Multiple Demographic Appeal due to redundancy.
- Here lie Tax Deductions — Taken by the taxman.note Wasn't thriving and was misusing a pre-existing term, so it was merged while the proper definition was yarded.
- Here lies Teaching Through Accident — Forgot that their happy little trees appeared from not-so-happy big accidents.note Wasn't thriving and found to be The Same, but More Specific to Instructive Level Design, so it was merged.
- Here lies Ted Baxter — He had such a small name, but a big ego.note "Ted Baxter" and "Small Name, Big Ego" were pointing at roughly the same phenomenon, but divided into characters versus creators. We felt you cringing at the blatant Flame Bait from here. "Ted Baxter" was deemed to have a bad case of Trope Namer Syndrome right about the same time "Small Name, Big Ego" was deemed far too complainy, and a transplant was done to solve both issues.
- Here lies That Night Felt Like Months — Died over the course of ten episodes covering ten minutes.note A Stock Phrase used to lampshade Webcomic Time, deemed to not be its own trope and merged.
- Here lies They Do — 'Til death did they part... from the world together.note Was declared redundant with Relationship Upgrade, so it was merged.
- Here lie They Fight Crime! — Wunza trope, the other a page, they couldn't solve the case of the missing wicks.note Was a rampant Pothole Magnet to Wunza Plot, so it was merged with that trope on doubts of tropeworthiness.
- Aqui yacen Three Amigos! — Decided to split up and ride into the sunset for greener pastures.note Kept getting confused with Power Trio due to suffering from Trope Namer Syndrome, so it was merged with that trope. The former name was turned into a disambiguation.
- Here lies Tonka Tough — A manufacturing defect prevented it from being Made of Indestructium.note Determined to work better as a Real Life subpage of Made of Indestructium, which it was determined to be redundant with, particularly due to a lack of fictional examples.
- Here lies To The Bat-Noun! — Holy meaningless stock phrase, Batman!note Another meaningless Stock Phrase that lacked wicks. Merged with Hyperaffixation.
- Here lies Triang Relations — The open relationship didn't work out.note Was really an analysis page of how Love Triangle could be played with, as well as violating Type Labels Are Not Examples. It was redirected to Love Triangle, while any remaining examples were transplanted over to the analysis page for Love Triangle.
- Here lies Tri County Area — Kept being confused for the Tri State Area by a certain scientist.note Wasn't thriving and found to be The Same, but More to Everytown, America, so it was redirected to that trope.
- Here lies Turtle Power — Tonight we dine on turtle soup.note Inconsistent use including cases of turtleshell chairs, so it was merged into Index in a Half Shell.
- Here lies Twenty Minutes into the Present — Its funeral won't be held until Next Sunday A.D..note Duplicate whose name was a bad snowclone of 20 Minutes into the Future.
- Here lie Typical Tentacle Tactics — Strangled by an octopus.note Wick-starved duplicate of Combat Tentacles, so it was cut and merged with it.
- Here lies Undisclosed Native — Was discovered to be a former uncontacted citizen shortly before their demise.note Disclosed chairs. Also wasn't thriving, so it was merged with Non-Specifically Foreign.
- Here lies Un-Entendre — Looks like we were just imagining it.note Found to be redundant with Imagined Innuendo when handling the disambiguation for "Is That What They're Calling It Now?", so it got merged.
- Here lie Unlucky Childhood Friend and Victorious Childhood Friend — Their romance wasn't so victorious after all and left them so unlucky that they both died.note Two tropes that were opposite situations about childhood friends hooking up, it was decided they'd work better as one, so they were merged into Childhood Friend Romance.
- Here lie Unwinnable by Insanity and Unwinnable by Mistake — Their deaths, which happened at the same time, were determined to be unintentional.note Both were determined to be too similar to be separate tropes, and were merged into a single trope.
- Here lie Uplifted Side Story and Sidenote Full Story — They could have been resolved, but alas, they shall remain on the cutting room floor.note Both of them lacked wicks and were possibly Too Rare to Trope.
- Here lies Virus Misnomer — Died of a misidentified pathogen.note Underperforming, merged into Artistic License – Biology.
- Here lies Visual Novel Shot — Shot in 1st person in a First-Person Shooter.note Was merged with P.O.V. Cam due to being The Same, but More Specific.
- Here lies What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? — Killed by The Aggressive Drug Dealer for being too quirky.note The name attracted snark and Zero Context Examples, and was misused for works that really were made on drugs. Plus, it was found to be The Same, but More Specific to the newly-expanded definition of Quirky Work (previously called Widget Series).
- Here lies What Happened to the Pet? — Mysteriously went absent.note Duplicate trope, and wasn't thriving.
- Here lies Wing Pull — Fell to its death after its wings were clipped.note Was redundant with New Powers as the Plot Demands and the name was a poor snowclone of Ass Pull, so it was merged with the former trope.
- Here lies Wrong Wire — Obviously used incorrectly in the making of this epit- KABOOM!!!note Was The Same, but More Specific to Wire Dilemma and was merged with that trope after overlap was discovered.
- Here lies Xenofictional Literature — Got eaten by wild animals.note Was deemed an unnecessary split from Xenofiction and merged into it.
- Here lies Yes, Virginia — There is a Santa's Existence Clause.note Redundant with the latter trope.
- Here lies You Can Verb My Noun Any Day — It has verbed its last noun.note Underused stock phrase that's The Same, but More Specific for Double Entendre, so it was merged.
- Here lies You Gotta Have Blue Hair — It dyed until it died.note Was just a list of characters with abnormal hair colours. It was changed into a redirect for the Hair Colors index while World of Technicolor Hair was salvaged out of the concept through TLP.
- Here lies You Got Spunk! — Wasn't impressed by the Badass in Distress.note Found to be redundant with Baddie Flattery and was merged with that trope to prevent misuse.
- Here lies You Have to Have Jews — It might succeed on Broadway, but it didn't succeed on TV Tropes.note Was used for any instance of a Jewish character in a work, which is Bar Mitzvah Boys Sitting On Chairs. Merged into A Nice Jewish Index.
Split Tropes
- Here lies All Asians Are Alike — The cultures seemed interchangeable, so they all looked identical.note Trope Decay led to the creation of a trope where a character cannot tell the difference between East Asian individuals, though it was later broadened and renamed to cover any race.
- Here lies An Axe To Grind — Axed out of the weaponry list.note Was split into different axe-related tropes, with the original name being disambiguated, due to its unclear and untropeworthy definition attracting ZCEs.
- Here lie Bald Women — There was hell toupée for them.note Chairs without hair. This trope has been split into the more tropeworthy Bald Head of Toughness, Bald Mystic, and Baldness Means Sickness.
- Here lies Beneath the Earth — It was buried 6,000 feet under.note A trope seemingly referring to either people living underground, notable underground environments, or both. It was found to have focus problems and to both overlap with existing tropes and to include several distinct concepts within itself, which were split into new tropes.
- Here lie Big Breasts, Big Deal — Prideful at first, but ultimately distressed.note A character having an opinion on large breasts wasn't a trope by itself. It was split between Big-Breast Pride and D-Cup Distress.
- Here lies Bob Haircut — Cut short by the past and the future.note Split due to the covered uses being distinct enough to warrant their own tropes.
- Here lies Bonus Boss — If you don't want to call it superb, that's completely optional.note Bonus Boss was specifically defined as optional bosses that are more difficult than mandatory bosses, but it was frequently misused for any boss that isn't mandatory. The original definition was moved to Superboss and the misuse was moved to Optional Boss, the latter of which was originally a disambiguation page.
- Here lie Brainy Specs — Smart People Wear Glasses, but since their glasses were purely aesthetic, they walked right into a pothole.note Originally defined as "character wears fake glasses to look smart," it was misused for smart characters who really did wear glasses. The trope was renamed to Purely Aesthetic Glasses to cover the "fake glasses" part while the misuse was split into Smart People Wear Glasses.
- Here lies Can You Hear Me Now? — The answer depends on whether the recipient has Super Cell Reception or whether Cell Phones Are Useless.note Determined to be covering two distinct concepts (cell phones working unusually well, and cell phones being completely useless).
- Here lie Cool Old Guy and Cool Old Lady — Weren't seen as spry or charismatic by the young'uns, but at least they were Together in Death.note Not only was the trope virtually the same regardless of gender, but its unclear description attracted examples that both covered elders who were physically capable or seen as charismatic/"cool" despite their age. Thus, they were deprecated and split off into Spry Old Guy and Charismatic Old Folks.
- Here lies Courtroom Antic — Held in contempt for antics deemed too unconventional for any court.note Originally meant for strategic antics performed in the name of obtaining a favorable verdict, its vague name led to misuse for any ridiculous antics performed in a courtroom regardless of reason. The original definition was moved to Unconventional Courtroom Tactics, while the misuse was moved to Courtroom Antics (plural).
- Here lies The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed — Wiped out in multiple time travel incidents on an oddly specific day, including being struck by a meteor.note Attracted misuse in the form of time travelers arriving at historical events other than the K-Pg extinction event. It was split up into The Day the Dinosaurs Died for settings based around the K-Pg event in fiction, and Law of Time Travel Coincidences to broaden it for other historical events. The former trope was also disambiguated between the two.
- Here lies Deader Than Disco — Once considered groovy, now it sucked far worse than when disco sucked and was Condemned by History. note Misused for any work that declined in popularity, even if it didn't specifically go from popular to despised. It also was sometimes misused for the bad reputation of disco; Disco Sucks was launched to cover this.
- Here lies Everything's Better With Bunnies — Hopped to their graves.note Was part of the "Everything's X with Y" family which nearly always led to People Sit on Chairs. Split into an index of Bunny Tropes.
- Here lies Everything's Better With Princesses — The Evil Queen managed to defeat them.note Royal chairs, and redundant to other princess tropes, which it was turned into a disambiguation page for. More tropeworthy concepts, such as Princess Protagonist and Good Princess, Evil Queen, were launched as part of the cleanup effort and examples that had meaning behind them were moved to them instead of deleted.
- Here lies Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods — No wonder the calamari tasted funny and terrifying.note Among the snowclones that led to the Everything's Worse with Snowclones policy. It has been split into comedic and dramatic depictions.
- Here lie Fingerless Gloves — Their killer didn't treat them with kid gloves.note Fingerless furniture. It was decided to split off non-Chairs examples into Meaningful Appearance subtropes like Hobo Gloves.
- Here lies Flower In Her Hair — It withered away and was replaced by newly bloomed flowers representing femininity and nature.note Fragrant floral furniture. Flowers of Femininity and Flowers of Nature were created to cover the use of flowers as accessories and clothing in addition to other forms of Flower Motifs related to femininity and nature, respectively (in both cases, by combining the trope(s) with Signature Headgear).
- Here lies Gold Tooth — Wasn't covered by Evulz's dental care, so it was melted into a casing.note Golden chairs. It was split between Villainous Gold Tooth and Gold Tooth of Wealth to cover its symbolism of greed.
- Here lies Hot Mom — A true MILF (Mother I'd Like to... Forget).note People couldn't seem to grasp the concept of In-Universe Examples Only, instead continuing to flood thus with ZCEs and creepy gushing, necessitating a deliberate redlinking. Since even in-universe examples proved to be redundant with tropes like Stacy's Mom and Mrs. Robinson, it was cut.
- Here lies Infant Immortality — Its odds of surviving were improbable, so we witnessed the Death of a Child.note It was a Trope In Aggregate, but the vast majority of examples were Aversions, which are not examples, and one section was dedicated to "partial aversions", which isn't a valid way of Playing with a Trope. This led to Death of a Child being created to cover said aversions and this one being renamed to discourage misuse.
- Katanas Are Just Better ga koko ni nemuru — Tried to bring a katana to a gun fight.note Had a vague definition and was misused for characters just using katanas. Main trope was renamed Katana Superiority, and Gratuitous Katana was split off of it.
- Here lies Like a Badass Out of Hell — Cast right back into the fiery pit.note Badly-named combination of different tropes, which were all split off from it.
- Hear lyes Mondegreen — Some people may have misheard its last requests.note Turned into a Definition-Only Page after being split off into I Heard That As as well as the more tropeworthy Mondegreen Gag and Lady Mondegreen.
- Here lies My Name Is Not Durwood — Through Hanlon's Razor, its malice was discovered to be accidental.note Unclear name, combined with covering two distinct concepts (characters getting names wrong by accident, and characters getting names wrong out of spite).
- Here lies Next Gen Fic — If we flash forward a few years, nobody will remember it except its children.note Unclear description made it ambiguous whether it referred to any fanfic that took place after a Time Skip or fanfics that specifically included Original Characters who are offspring of canon characters. It was disambiguated into two new tropes that each covered one of those ideas.
- Here lies Political Correctness Gone Mad — Political Correctness Is Evil, so we had to write this epitaph carefully so as not to offend anyone.note Unclear name led to the trope being used for different definitions and also attracted "political correctness exists" entries, which are political chairs.
- Here lie Prongs Of Poseidon — Stabbed by Satan with his Devil's Pitchfork.note Was misused for any character who uses a trident as a weapon, and thus was split. The original name now covers tridents used by marine-themed characters while Devil's Pitchfork covers those used by infernal ones.
- Here lie Schoolgirl Lesbians — Expelled.note Frequently misused to simply refer to lesbians in school. The page was turned into a disambiguation page between various tropes, with Coming-of-Age Queer Romance and Gay Romantic Phase being launched to cover non-Chairs examples that weren't already covered by other tropes.
- Here lies The Southpaw — Amputated.note Left-handed armchairs. The page was turned into a disambiguation page for proper tropes related to left-handedness, some of which were launched as part of the effort to clean up The Southpaw.
- Here lies Stop Helping Me! — Its help was unwanted, and it became annoying.note Split due to covering two distinct concepts related to receiving help in video games — an objective trope covering intentional portrayals of helpers as annoying, and a YMMV concept for when fans find the helpers annoying.
- Here lies Surprise Creepy — Jumpscared by someone in a disguise, but the heart attack was more than momentary.note The trope was covering two different concepts at the same time, so it was split accordingly.
- Here lies The Suzi Quatro Principle — Split up and became the bassist and vocalist for different bands.note The former trope namer (with whom not everyone was familiar) filled both roles in her all-male backing bands, a fact which led to an overly narrow trope, necessitating the split into two separate tropes about female rockers (one about singers and the other about bass guitarists).
- Here lies Tier Induced Scrappy — Ascended to a better (or maybe worse) place.note Kept attracting gushing rather than the intended audience reaction, so it was split into examples aimed at the current metagames.
- Here lies Transgender Fetishization — Got tired and lost its libido from chasing a trans person.note Was supposed to be about the tendency for trans/gender nonconforming characters to be hypersexualized, but its broad definition attracted examples where a trans/GNC character is involved in a sexual situation regardless. Thus it was split into Trans Equals Hypersexual and Trans Chaser, while the old name was disambiguated into those and other related tropes such as Attractive Bent-Gender.
- Here lies Tyrannosaurus Rex — Wiped out by a meteor.note A T. rex appearing in a work is dinosaur chairs. It was split into Terrifying Tyrannosaur (formerly King of the Dinosaurs) for the T. rex being the most powerful dinosaur in a work, T. Rexpy for animals based off the T. rex, and a Useful Notes page for the real-life T. rex species.
- Here lies Vendor Trash — Players went to the shop and sold it for something better.note Had an ambiguous trope name that led to a lot of misuse, so it was split into two separate, but related concepts: an objective trope for video game items whose only purpose is being sold, and an Audience Reaction for video game items that do have an actual purpose (unrelated to being sold) but are usually sold regardless.
- Here lies Weapon Of Choice — Wasn't chosen because it didn't fit the wielder's personality or specialty.note Was supposed to be about weapons used to indicate a character's personality, but was misused for characters preferring certain weapons or just having them, the latter which is weaponized chairs. Thus, it was split into Weapon-Based Characterization, Weapon Specialization, and Weapons and Wielding Tropes.
- Here lies Wedding Day — Objections were raised during both the episode and the finale.note Original was ceremonial chairs, so tropeworthy concepts were split off.
- Here lies You Fail the IQ Test — Its IQ was too high/low for Mensa.note The old name was made into a Useful Notes page while the the trope was split into Improbably High I.Q. and Improbably Low I.Q..
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- Here lies Accidental Nightmare Fuel — It was prone to accidents, so ordinary Nightmare Fuel replaced it.note Originally intended to cover unintentionally scary moments, while reserving High-Octane Nightmare Fuel (originally called Nightmare Fuel Unleaded) for intentionally scary moments. Due to Trope Decay and problems with differentiating intentional examples from unintentional ones, the two were determined to be redundant with each other and Nightmare Fuel ended up being used for both. High-Octane Nightmare Fuel was turned into a redirect, and Accidental Nightmare Fuel was turned into a Fan Speak page, with examples for both intentional and unintentional horror being listed under Nightmare Fuel.
- Here lies The Archive of Bellicose Lexicon Entities — Mealtime is over. note A page about troper groups whose philosophies of categorising tropes were named after dining room items; factionalism and figurative foodfights among tropers led to the dish-continuation of these groups.
- Yahaan nihit the namespace Bollywood/ hai — Off to Mumbai for its next big role.note Essentially The Same, but More Specific to the Film/ namespace, and we don't have enough pages for Indian cinema to have its own namespace like the Anime/ and Manga/ namespace.
- Here lie Character-Named Tropes — Their names won't live on.note The page was supposed to encourage the removal of character-based names, but unintentionally did the opposite. As such, it was added to the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lies Complain About Shows You Don't Like — Died of complications related to Complaining About People Not Liking the Show.note Exactly what it sounds like — a repository for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. Since its brand of complaining was too heated even for Darth Wiki, it was added to the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lie Counterpart Comparison and its former name Why Does Everyone Think I'm Deadpool? — Its death was surprisingly similar to another one.note Meant to list character comparisons shared among fanbases. The old name was long and unwieldy, and in addition to frequently being misused, it was deemed redundant with and thus redirected to Surprisingly Similar Characters.
- Here lies Creator Bashing — This headstone could be self-demonstrating, but let's not Speak Ill of the Dead.note Before it was deemed redundant with and redirected to Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, the page was nothing but a warning not to do it. The original version of the page actually encouraged bashing creators, provided you did so in the form of pointing out a different creator that did it better — or were bashing Uwe Boll or Seltzer and Friedberg. Modern wiki policies are super against this kind of negativity.
- Here lies Dethroning Moment of Suck: Death Battle — Lost the fight and its life.note While all Dethroning Moment pages are meant for Tropers to air their grievances, this particular one for DEATH BATTLE! had every single episode listed, making it redundant. As a result, it joined the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lie the namespaces Disney/ and Discworld/ — Loss of namespace ownership.note Franchise-based namespaces were deprecated in early 2020, as title disambiguation by year can distinguish works with the same title and medium from each other if necessary, and many pages in these namespaces didn’t even share their titles with anything else. Any works still listed under them were moved to the relevant media namespaces.
- Here lie Fanfic Ideas — Died from hurt-no-comfort.note A sandbox of ideas for fanfiction someone could write, it blew up to a whole unapproved namespace before people remembered to Take It to the Forums. To this thread
, specifically.
- Here lie Fantasy Character Classes — Their society collapsed due to a lack of important classes such as farmers.note Lacked any on-page examples and was more in line with an Analysis page than a Trope page, resulting in the page's content being transplanted to Analysis.Character Class System.
- Here lies Fetish Fuel — Vehicles powered by arousal were deemed hazardous to the environment.note The whole concept was a violation of the content policy, and even without that, major Too Much Information.
- Here lies Five-Man Band Classic — The five men were banned. note One of the most strictly-defined and misused tropes in the wiki's history, Five-Man Band used to be defined as a group of exactly five character tropes: The Leader, The Lancer, The Big Guy, The Smart Guy, and The Chick (with The Chick needing to be female to count). Most examples either had more than five members or did not follow the exact role setup, most commonly by replacing The Chick with The Heart, which The Chick turned out to be redundant to. The misuse was so severe that the trope was broadened to be about how five is the perfect number of members to create a variety of possible dynamics and interactions without having too many possibilities.
- Here lie Forum Games: Pitch Bad Forum Game Ideas and Forum Games: Bad Ideas For Forum Games V1 — Had a lethally bad game idea.note Was intended for tropers to post ideas for forum games that could never happen. The game got squicky and tasteless far too fast, leading it to be closed. A remake was attempted but it suffered the same pitfalls and got locked, so another one
was made with stricter rules to ensure that it doesn't happen again.
- Here lies Forum Games: The CM Massacre — Jack Horner's rampage is over. note This forum game focused on finding ways to kill villains who were classified as a Complete Monster. Due to how graphic the thread was getting (as well as one of the targets being subjected to a Karmic Rape, which many of the participants felt was going too far), it was cut permanently.
- Here lies Forum Games: What Offends You About The Previous Post? V1.0 — Was too offensive for this wiki. note The game was supposed to be about tropers finding a way to be offended by the post before them. It eventually turned into tropers throwing personal insults at each other and other tropers making nonsensical joke posts, making the mods lock it for good. The game was revived
a few months later, albeit with stricter rules to ensure the same mistakes won't happen.
- Here lie Free Potholing Phrases — They were far too costly.note A deliberate Pothole Magnet constructed from pothole-magnet redirects (yes, really
), it lasted approximately one month before the obvious realization kicked in that it was a terrible idea.
- Here lies The Hero — Their Heroic Sacrifice will be remembered.note Had an unclear definition that overlapped with other hero and protagonist tropes, with the majority of the examples just listing protagonists without further context, and it was decided individual examples are too common to list due to the trope's near-omnipresent status. Thus, it was made into a definition-only supertrope.
- Here lie "Hey, It's That Guy!" and "Hey, It's That Voice!" — Their killer was the same guy who starred in... you know, that show.note Meant to be for actors or voices who were not as recognizable on their own as they were for a specific role they played (e.g. "that guy from [show X] who played [well-known character]"); eventually mutated into basically listing other roles the actor did, regardless of how recognizable the role or the actor in question was. Actors having multiple roles is a case of People Sit on Chairs. These two also kept getting used as a Verbal Tic when Role Association could do instead, thus placing them in the Permanent Red Link Club to prevent people from recreating them.
- Here lie Home Pages and Language Indices — Per their living will, everything said at their funeral will be multilingual.note Back in the day, Home Pages used to list all non-English versions of the wiki and Just For Fun pages. Updates to the site over the years led to the page eventually breaking and caused all foreign language Home Pages to redirect to the English Home Page instead. To fix this issue, it was decided to merge all the home pages and language indices into a single Administrivia page for future-proofing.
- Here lie Home Video Distributors — Went out of business.note Home video distributors are neither creators nor tropes, so they were deemed to be outside the scope of the wiki. It was replaced by MediaNotes.Home Video Distributors, while the old contents were migrated off-site. Some articles about specific home video distributors were moved to the Creator namespace.
- Here lie Hyphenated Titles — Their hopes were dashed.note While the wiki supports the creation of hyphenated titles, they cause issues with linking and formatting and are thus deprecated.
- Here lie Imminent Arrivals — Death is inevitable for everyone, including this page.note Used to list upcoming works that don't have a page, but are expected to get one at some point. Due to policy changes regarding troping of unreleased works, it was cut in favor of using a sandbox and the List of Shows That Need Summary page to track upcoming works.
- Here lies Just For Fun: Skyrim Guide — Took an arrow to the knee. note Was meant to be a guide giving advice for Skyrim, but was deleted due to it bordering on Walkthrough Mode.
- Here lies Just For Fun: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Died while fighting in the Bajoran resistance.note Was meant to be a list of which Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes were plot-relevant, but it also involved complaining in the form of listing some episodes under "not recommended".
- Here lies Just For Fun: Steven Universe — All we wanted to do was see it turn into a member of the Permanent Red Link Club.note Was meant to list which Steven Universe episodes were plot-relevant, but had the same problem as Deep Space Nine's JFF page.
- Here lies Just For Fun: Troper Dating Service — Fell victim to a Romantic False Lead.note Moderators felt that such a page would be too problematic to keep around, especially with some tropers being minors.
- Here lies the namespace LetsPlay/ — Playtime is over.note After concerns were raised about whether let's plays count as tropable works, it was determined that the namespace for them is redundant with other namespaces, primarily WebVideo/ since most Let's Play pages are for video-based let's plays, though the presence of text-based let's plays in the namespace led to some being migrated to namespaces for text-based works instead (with said namespace migrations being decided on a case-by-case basis), such as Blog/.
- LightNovel/ namae kūkan ga koko ni nemuru — Was too light of a read and tore easily.note Was deemed redundant to the Literature namespace and was often a source of confusion between that and Anime and Manga namespaces on where examples off page should be listed in.
- Here lies the namespace Machinima/ — Was bought out by a big company and had all their videos privated before ceasing operations.note Redundant to the Web Video and Web Animation namespaces.
- Here lies Neutral Wiki — Eh... it existed.note Intended as a neutral counterpart to Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki, mostly for the purpose of a "neutral Janet" gag page but extended to things like Boil That Aesop. Determined to be an invalid namespace and redundant with the Just for Fun namespace.
- Here lies Our Super Strict Language Policy — It was condemned for not being Family Friendly.note It was originally a quirky, tongue-in-cheek guideline regarding the site's policy on language and imagery. It was mildly tweaked when the first Google Incident occurred and, for the longest time, turned into a redirect to the Family Friendly meta page after the second Google Incident. Now it redirects to No Lewdness, No Prudishness, an actual serious policy about what kinds of content are allowed.
- Here lie Pages Needing Images — The gravestone has been declared BUPKIS.note A former component of Pages Needing Wiki Magic, until it was declared that images aren't required for pages (in fact, there are pages that don't allow images), rendering this sub-index moot and sent to the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lie Personal Appearance Tropes — Tropes are too meaningful to be judged by their appearance, but the same isn't true of chairs.note Tropes related to appearance were discovered to largely be devoid of meaning in addition to being Zero-Context Example magnets, to the point that a dedicated cleanup project (which was retired in 2022 in favor of TRS) was created to reduce the amount of Trope Repair Shop threads. The Personal Appearance Tropes index itself was later retooled into a hub for other indexes in hopes of further emphasizing the problematic nature of appearance tropes.
- Here lies Please Elaborate — Its not-so-elaborate schemes were its undoing.note Intended to draw attention to Zero Context Examples so someone can salvage them. The standard procedure for ZCEs is to comment them out, expand upon them, or delete them, not add sub-bullets that act as natter. Please Elaborate was added to the Permanent Red Link Club after being cut.
- Here lies the Ptitle system — It wasn't full of crap; it was full of P.note The Ptitle system allowed special characters like punctuation and accented letters, as well as special formatting, in titles, but it came at the cost of human-readable URLs. They were replaced with the custom title system, which allows special characters and formatting to be applied to plain-text wiki words.
- Here lie Snowclone-based names — Everything's Better Without Them.note Names snowcloned from other names, particularly the infamous "Everything's [adjective] with [noun]" family that used to be common for Garnishing the Story (itself renamed from Everything's Better with Indexes) tropes, became deprecated due to issues with clarity, with several even determined to not be tropes at all. Some have stuck around due to the Grandfather Clause, with others have been renamed or even cut after being taken to the Trope Repair Shop.
- Here lie Stock Phrases — No more of them coming.note A great deal of stock phrases were discovered to have no meaning on their own, plus example lists for them tend to end up being lists of unrelated quotes.
- Here lies Synopsis — To recap on what happened, it retired.note The Synopsis namespace was determined to be redundant with the Recap namespace. The former was merged with the latter as a result. It stayed around as a page type for a time, but that too was deprecated eventually.
- Here lies Title Bin — They're not even in the recycle bin anymore. note Originally intended to suggest new names for pages, but attracted pointless injokes, defeating the purpose of that page. These were moved to Tropes That Will Never Happen.
- Here lies Trivia: Math — Died without ever solving Fermat's Last Theorem. note This page was originally the Math subpage of I Am Not Making This Up, and when that trope was cut it was moved to the Trivia/ namespace. It was later cut for having no parent page and for being merely a list of math facts with no relevance to media.
- Here lie Trope Names for a Porn Parody — Drowned while taking the cold shower that they very much needed.note Was meant to be a joke page similar to Trope Title Shows and Trope Names for a Band, but was determined to be too NSFW.
- Here lie Trope Pantheons: Disgraces — Proof that even the lowest can descend.note Attracted huge amounts of work and character bashing that was deemed unnecessarily toxic and inappropriate for the Pantheon.
- Here lie Trope Pantheons: Fallen — They won’t be rising up again.note Was meant to be a place for characters who had tropes considered bad, but was eventually deemed redundant to the Pantheon.
- Here lie Troper Tales — There are some things people should really take only to their graves.note Far too NSFW for the site even before the Content Policy was instituted, they attracted massive amounts of derision towards the community, with some commenting that TV Tropes was essentially /b/ 2.0.
- Here lie Tropes Needing TRS — Ignored warning signs that it needed help itself.note Originally an Administrivia page for ideas on tropes to bring to the Trope Repair Shop, but tropers rarely used it for its intended purpose. TRS reform efforts would also disqualify some tropes, leading to its retirement.
- Here lie the TRS Queue and TRS Batch Drop Queue — Waited so long in line, they died.note The former was intended as a queue for future Trope Repair Shop threads during a time when the subforum had a lowered thread cap; it instead was suspected of leading to lower-quality and rushed TRS jobs, along with becoming unneeded after said thread cap was raised. When the reforms of TRS took place, it was phased out and the Batch Drop Queue was created to wrap up all pending threads that merited a proper TRS discussion, while also discarding the ones that didn't. Both sandboxes were cut afterwards.
- Here lie Useful Notes: Avoiding Sexual Harassment — It may have avoided sexual harassment, but it was executed for a different crime.note It was meant as an advice page for how to avoid harassing people sexually, which was considered too heavy and off-mission for the wiki.
- Here lie Useful Notes: Conspiracy Theories — Were they knocked off by The Reptilians for revealing the truth? No, they just strangled themselves with the string from their corkboard.note Attracted ROCEJ violations for long enough that the Works that Promote Bigotry thread had to take it out and send it to the Permanent Red Link Club. It was decided that enough of the theories listed were too fringe to show up in any non-ROCEJ violating works, and that the Conspiracy Theories that did show up in normal fiction, like Who Shot JFK? and The Bermuda Triangle, already had their own separate pages.
- Zheli anxizhe Useful Notes: Digging to China — Found dead in a hole. Scientists are running an analysis on its remains.note Was moved to the Analysis namespace as it seemed more like an analysis on the trope than a Useful Notes page.
- Here lie Useful Notes: Staying Out of Legal Trouble — Spent its last years serving a life sentence.note TV Tropes is not qualified to give legal advice, and having such a page could potentially cause legal trouble for this site. Now a member of the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lie Useful Notes: Suicide Prevention — Driven to Suicide after finding out nobody was suicidal.note Suffered from the same issues as the Staying Out of Legal Trouble page, as TV Tropes is not qualified to give medical advice. This meant it also became a member of the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Here lie Video Ideas — Got the idea to make a Snuff Film.note A sandbox listing ideas for video examples, essentially meant as a request list for people with time/software from people without. It was decided that it wasn't needed.
- Here lies the Video Source/ namespace — The radio star's death will not be forgotten either.note Was declared redundant to the Video Examples auto-index, plus videos need mod/engineer approval anyways, rendering it too time consuming to update.
- Here lies Wall Banger — Idiotic moments should not cause so much self-inflicted trauma.note Was determined to be redundant with Dethroning Moment of Suck, and what's worse, had no restrictions or guidelines like that page has, leading to it being nothing but endless complaining and even outright retreads of Dethroning Moment.
- Eia 'o the Wiki/ namespace e moe nei — There's a wiki for everything but death, which has no living witnesses.note Was deemed redundant to have over the Website/ namespace on here after The Wiki Rule's examples got cut. Additionally, listing every wiki as their own namespace would be internet chairs.
- Here lies The Wiki Rule — Died fighting too many edit wars.note Wikipedian chairs, so it was made definition-only and all wicks on the works' Trivia pages (which only consisted of links to the respective fan wikis) were excised.
- Here lies WMG: She's Got Legs — Amputated.note It was a WMG page for a trope, which are not allowed.
- Here lies the You Keep Using That Word/ namespace — Someone had to point out that there could only be one true meaning.note Instead of being used to list in-universe cases of someone insisting that a word can only have "one true meaning" (its original one) and "calling out" someone else for using a secondary definition, it was a list of words that see common misuse in real life, which meant that it was misusing the trope by definition and redundant with Commonly Misused Words and The Big List of Booboos and Blunders.