This page is for maintaining tropes with problematic Real Life sections or are potential candidates for No Real Life Examples, Please! at the "Real Life section maintenance thread".
Now with the all-new Trope Triage system! (more-or-less for Missy's use only.)
- RED: Should be prioritized for being brought up to the NRLEP thread - attracting ROCEJ violations or other serious problems.
- YELLOW: Less problematic than the reds, but still solid candidates to bring up to the thread.
- GREEN: Lower priority for crownering, should only be brought up either as a package deal with a red or yellow trope, or if all those higher are taken care of.
- WHITE: Has very few or largely unproblematic RL examples, should perhaps just get wiped instead of crownered, but still need some work.
- BLACK: Has no RL examples, thus they're ineligable for crownering, but the trope itself is problematic (such as being a morality or sex trope) enough that it should have an eye kept on it.
NRLEP candidates:
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Morality
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work - RED
- Big Bad Friend - BLACK (has no RL examples, but a subtrope of Big Bad)
- Bright Is Not Good - RED (a subtrope of Good Colors, Evil Colors, downgraded from yellow due to continuing to attract poor examples)
- Cain and Abel - YELLOW (only bring to thread if The Bluebeard and Black Widow pass, at which point bump to red)
- Creating Life Is Bad - RED (attracting ROCEJ violating examples, giving platforms to fringe anti-natalist groups and Animal Wrongs Group's.)
- Evil Former Friend - BLACK (no examples, but a morality trope)
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking - GREEN (definitely a morality trope, but only one example.)
- Good Samaritan - GREEN (definitely a morality trope, and attracting poor examples,
- Heroic Dog - RED (is a morality trope, related to the NRLEP Canine Companion, attracting weblinks and straight-up telling people to google something - no dude, either write it out or you leave a link for further reading.)
- Knight in Sour Armor - RED (attracting gushing)
- Morality Chain Beyond the Grave - BLACK (is a Morality trope related to the NRLEP Morality Chain, but has no RL examples.)
- Orphanage of Love - GREEN (It's nice that real world orphanages try to invoke this trope, but it is still morality, that said Orphanage of Fear has no RL examples and I don't really want to try this trope without its Evil Counterpart.)
- Punch-Clock Hero - BLACK (definitely a morality trope but has no examples)
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil - BLACK (a morality trope but has no examples)
- Primary-Color Champion YELLOW (attracting poor examples)
- Reformed, but Rejected - RED (attracting ROCEJ violations)
- Restrained Revenge - GREEN (related to the NRLEP Disproportionate Retribution but examples aren't the worst yet.)
- Snake Oil Salesman - GREEN (usually used as an insult, but the examples aren't as bad as I was worried, I was expecting a long list of accusing genuine products of being snake oil if they don't have a 100% success rate.)
- The Svengali - BLACK (has no RL examples, but is related to the NRLEP Manipulative Bastard.)
- Treacherous Advisor: States that the advisor is a villain in its Laconic.
- Tyrannical Town Tycoon - BLACK (had an ROCEJ violating example on Roger Ailes in the past, but has been removed. We'll keep an eye on it though.)
Sex
- Accidental Pervert - BLACK (has no RL examples, but come on this is a sex trope)
- The Bear
- Beautiful Slave Girl
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction
- Chastity Dagger
- Circassian Beauty
- Dirty Old Monk (was kept once before, maybe next year?)
- Gay Cowboy
- Getting Hot in Here
- Good-Looking Privates
- Hood Ornament Hottie
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold (also characterization)
- X Horny Sailors
- Mistaken for Cheating
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Sexuality trope.
- No-Tell Motel
- Sexy Man, Instant Harem
- Sleeping In The Nude
- Slip into Something More Comfortable (also a stock phrase)
- Snakes Are Sexy
Narrative/Characterization
- Absent-Minded Professor (folder is also very bloated)
- Achievements in Ignorance - GREEN (attracting some snarking, but a lower priority. Also, congrats on the military folder for not being a bloated mess.)
- Afraid of Their Own Strength
- All American Boy
- Allergic to Love
- Allergic to Routine
- All Love Is Unrequited
- Almighty Janitor
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
- Apron Matron (might just need a wipe though)
- Arcadia
- Bad Guy Bar
- Beleaguered Assistant
- Big Damn Heroes (also attracting military natter)
- Blue Blood
- Boisterous Bruiser
- Bookends
- Bruce Lee Clone
- Character Catchphrase (some examples are a better fit for Advertising)
- A Child Shall Lead Them - GREEN* (a meaningless list of ages, but not attracting trouble)
- Christmas Miracle
- Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: Is specifically about mergers in the future. Also, many examples are just "Companies merging", which is chairs.
- The Comically Serious
- Competence Zone
- Cool Horse (also Too Common)
- X Cute Clumsy Girl: also too common.
- Deus Angst Machina: The Evil Counterpart of Deus ex Machina, which is NRLEP.
- Earn Your Happy Ending
- Easter Egg
- Empathy Doll Shot
- Most, if not all, Episodes tropes (only these have RL sections though):
- Beach Episode: An episode set at the beach.
- Door-to-Door Episode
- Paintball Episode
- Everything Is Online - No, no it isn't.
- Exotic Eye Designs
- Expectation Lowerer
- Extra Curricular Enthusiast
- The Fighting Narcissist (also gossip?)
- Funny Background Event (also attracting weblinks)
- Fun Personified
- The Gadfly
- The Good King
- Gut Punch (Compare Wham Episode)
- Horror Hunger
- Improbable Age: YELLOW (attracting examples that encourage trope decay)
- Island of Mystery
- Ironic Name (compare Meaningful Name)
- It's Personal
- Love at First Sight (maybe not impossible per se, but definitely Characterization.)
- Love Dodecahedron
- Marijuana Is LSD
- Military Maverick
- Mutually Exclusive Power Ups
- Mysterious Waif
- Polar Opposite Twins
- The Prankster (also Too Common)
- Prom Baby
- Quirky Miniboss Squad
- "Ray of Hope" Ending
- Real Joke Name
- Retool
- The Reveal
- Rich Genius
- Road Trip Plot (also too common, as "road trips" are Chairs.)
- Rock Bottom (it's even on the Narrative Devices index!)
- Saved by the Awesome
- Schizo Tech
- Social Semi-Circle
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Surprise Multiple Birth
- There Are No Girls on the Internet
- Together in Death: Debatably also Impossible, and "lovers/friends/siblings/whatever die not far apart from each other" is Chairs.
- Tomato in the Mirror
- X Unknown Character: An unseen character has a major impact on the plot. The Real Life section consisted mostly of Zero-Context Examples.
- X Wham Shot (Wham Episode and Wham Line are already NRLEP)
- What If the Baby Is Like Me
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway??
- Wild Card
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Also attracting gushing.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: Usually used as a plot device. Also, very disgusting.
Impossible
- The Ageless
- Aliens Speaking English: It is unlikely that aliens would speak human languages. The Real Life example obviously belongs under an "Other" tab.
- All of Time at Once: Dubious examples, or belong under "Other".
- Banana Republic: Also, like the NRLEP Bulungi, Qurac, and Ruritania, it should only apply to fictional countries.
- Blank Slate: No person can truly be one.
- Blood Magic: The "magic" part is impossible in real life.
- Chemistry Can Do Anything: Suspected misuse.
- Coincidence Magnet: Probability math cannot be manipulated.
- Cool Chair
- Countrystan: See Banana Republic above, also "countries that end in the -stan suffix", which a lot of the countries are, is People Sit In Chairs.
- Crop Circles (alien crop circles are impossible, human made crop circles are Chairs)
- Ditto Aliens
- Flash Step
- Food Chain of Evil (should only be for monsters; real animals aren't in a food chain of evil.)
- Forever War: No war has actually gone on forever, and a lot of the current examples are "War (or even just hostilities) that have gone on for a long time." (has been kept before, but could get retried.)
- Goal-Oriented Evolution
- Hellevator
- Hidden Elf Village
- Immune to Drugs
- Impossible Theft
- Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!
- Light 'em Up: Superhuman power over light.
- Lunacy: NOT Truth in Television, just a myth.
- Made of Plasticine
- Magnetism Manipulation: Dubious example.
- Several Our Monsters Are Different subtropes:
- The Most Dangerous Video Game: No real game is malicious and actively kills its users, games who claim this about themselves belong in the Video Games section
- Parts Unknown
- The Power of Love
- Pure Energy: The existence of a Real Life section is incongruent with the trope description.
- Really 700 Years Old
- Social Circle Filler
- Starfish Aliens
- Super-Soldier
- Time Crash: Entry doesn't sound like this trope.
- "Truman Show" Plot (some of the examples could more to TV)
- Unbreakable Weapons
- Uniqueness Value
- Used Future: Future speculation trope
Too Common
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council (also attracting natter and complaining about these groups)
- Achilles' Heel
- Acrofatic - RED* (Attracting a bloated list, it's more common than you think, and calling people fat is mean.)
- A Dog Named "Dog"
- Affectionate Nickname
- Afraid of Blood
- Afraid of Needles
- The Alcatraz ("big prisons" are Too Common)
- Analogy Backfire
- Angrish
- The Apprentice
- Artifact Collection Agency
- Back-Alley Doctor (compare Dr. Feelgood)
- Badass Biker
- Badass Bookworm: Also has a bit of a gushing and ZCE problem.
- Badass Preacher
- Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Attracting anecdotal examples.
- Becoming the Mask
- Bifauxnen (also a Personal Appearance trope)
- Big Brother Instinct
- Most of the Big Word Shout tropes:
- Big "NO!" (compare He's Back!)
- Big Ol' Eyebrows (However, this is another shitty appearance trope that might get TRS'd out of existence soon)
- Billions of Buttons: A necessary feature of anything complex. Note that the page image comes from real life.
- Black Box
- Blackmail (also Too Controversial)
- Blood on the Debate Floor: Attracting some soapboxing and a lot of weblink only examples. This trope is probably better served by the Wikipedia list.
- Bounty Hunter
- X Boss's Unfavorite Employee
- The Care Taker
- Cement Shoes
- Chained by Fashion
- Childhood Best Friends
- Christmas Creep (also attracting some complaining)
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa
- City Mouse
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: All social constructs behave like this.
- Class Representative
- Classically-Trained Extra
- Clothing Damage (also a fanservice trope)
- Collector of the Strange
- Computer Equals Monitor: Most computers today have built-in monitors, either as an all-in-one desktop or a laptop.
- Coolest Club Ever
- Cute Bruiser: Also all of the examples are ZCE's.
- Dad the Veteran
- Danger Deadpan (also attracting some gushing)
- Daytime Drama Queen
- Death by Falling Over
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Something is defeated by many small attacks.
- Death Seeker
- Dented Iron: Someone being too weak to do the things they used to do when they were younger.
- Didn't See That Coming: Supertrope of Didn't Think This Through.
- Directionless Driver
- Don't Go in the Woods: Forests being dangerous.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty (as the first example says, this is literally what a drill sergeant is supposed to be like)
- Drowning My Sorrows (also gossip)
- Dry Crusader
- Dude, Where's My Respect?
- Enraged by Idiocy
- Entendre Failure
- Evil Elevator
- Exact Words (also attracting a lot of WWII natter.)
- Failsafe Failure: The Real Life section is longer than all the fictional on-page examples combined.
- Fairytale Wedding Dress
- First Love
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
- Forest Ranger
- Forgot I Couldn't Swim
- Full-Name Ultimatum
- G.I.R.L.
- Hell-Bent for Leather
- Hungry Jungle
- Identical Grandson
- Imperiled in Pregnancy
- Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! (compare Cyberbullying
- Intimidating Revenue Service (also too controversial?)
- Intoxication Ensues
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy
- Long Neck
- Malaproper: Also attracting political ROCEJ problems.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
- Manly Facial Hair
- Manly Tears
- Missing Child
- Mistaken for Servant: YELLOW (attracting anecdotes)
- More Deadly Than the Male
- Motor Mouth
- Multiple Gunshot Death
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Stock phrase.
- Nailed to the Wagon
- Named After Somebody Famous
- Named Like My Name (compare Almost Famous Name)
- No Indoor Voice: Also attracting actor nonsense.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Attracting general and Weblink only examples as well.
- Oh, No... Not Again!!
- Our Founder: Just a list of statues of founders.
- Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Also attracting some complaining, oddly enough.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Lots of examples which don't fit the trope.
- Painted-On Pants
- Panthera Awesome
- Passed-Over Promotion
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Profane Last Words
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
- Rambling Old Man Monologue
- Revenge Is a Dish Best Served (attracting anecdotal examples too)
- Secret Government Warehouse (I work in DC, these things are everywhere and most of them are actually really boring.)
- Shaking the Rump (it gets bonus points for having the stupidest, most hilariously bizarre description of twerking I've ever seen)
- She-Fu
- The Sheriff
- Silk Hiding Steel: Also has a bit of gushing.
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
- Sorry Ociffer (also might have some ROCEJ-violating unwarranted legal advice?)
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job
- Soul Crushing Retail Job
- Spectacular Spinning
- Surfer Dude
- Swamps Are Evil
- Talk to the Fist
- Technicolor Science: Despite being an Artistic License – Chemistry trope, such compounds are actually very common in real life.
- Textile Work Is Feminine (also a gender stereotype, but the examples moreso make me think "women who work with textiles" is Chairs).
- This Is a Drill
- This Is Gonna Suck
- Trophy Room
- UltimateGamer386
- Ultimate Job Security
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
- Wacky Cravings (Also a characterization trope)
- Weaksauce Weakness
- We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Just a long list of WikiWord expressions.
- Why Won't You Die?
- Wild Teen Party
Too Controversial
- Accomplice by Inaction: Too controversial for the same reason as Bystander Syndrome.
- Afraid of Doctors
- Apathetic Citizens: See Accomplice by Inaction.
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible
- Bedlam House (also has a lot of anecdotes, see also the NRLEP Boarding School of Horrors)
- Best Served Cold (a Revenge trope)
- Better with Non-Human Company (compare the NRLEP No Social Skills)
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good
- Brotherhood of Funny Hats
- Callousness Towards Emergency
- Childless Dystopia
- Children Forced to Kill
- Child Soldiers
- China Takes Over the World
- Church Militant
- Cowboy Cop (also characterization)
- Crazy Survivalist (possibly also a stereotype?)
- Crooked Contractor
- Cycle of Revenge
- Disgusting Vegetarian Food (also attracting complaining)
- Drugs Are Good (to go with Drugs Are Bad)
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture
- Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
- Equal-Opportunity Offender
- False Utopia
- Fiction as Cover-Up - A Conspiracy Theories trope
- Genetic Abomination
- "Get Out of Jail Free" Card
- A God Am I: Mostly discusses people like cult leaders and serial killers (or joking examples).
- Gravity Is Only a Theory: Claiming that a scientific theory is false.
- Had To Go To Prison To Become A Crook
- Hanlon's Razor
- Hope Is Scary
- If It Bleeds, It Leads (also a stereotype of news reporters, and Too Common)
- Information Wants to Be Free
- In the Original Klingon
- Internalized Categorism
- It Gets Easier
- "It" Is Dehumanizing (a subtrope of the NRLEP Dehumanization)
- Just Following Orders
- Kent Brockman News: Also attracting complaining.
- Mad Scientist: See Science Is Bad
- Men Don't Cry
- Men Get Old, Women Get Replaced
- My Little Panzer
- New Technology Is Evil
- Neutrality Backlash
- Nice Guys Finish Last
- No Party Like a Donner Party
- No Place for Me There (keeps attracting ROCEJ violations)
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
- Not Helping Your Case
- Nothing Personal
- Offing the Annoyance
- Only Useful as Toilet Paper
- Puppet State
- The Quisling (is named after an RL person, but so is The Caligula and that's also NRLEP)
- Relative Button (A Kick the Dog trope)
- Stalker without a Crush (Stalker with a Crush is NRLEP on sex)
- Super Breeding Program
- Threat Backfire (attracting nothing but ROCEJ violations)
- Traumatic C-Section: Too graphic as well. Fictional examples are already terrifying enough.
- Tough Love
- Turned Against Their Masters
- Turn Out Like His Father
- Vast Bureaucracy: Attracting ROCEJ violations and complaining.
- Vigilante Man
- The Wicked Stage
Gossip and Stereotypes
- Africa Is a Country
- Age Insecurity
- All Muslims Are Arab
- Arab Oil Sheikh
- Awful Wedded Life
- Badass Native (also Too Common)
- Braids of Barbarism
- Britain Is Only England
- Britain Is Only London (this one is weirdly massive)
- But Not Too White
- Childhood Brain Damage (also Too Common)
- Cloudcuckooland (Cloudcuckoolander is already NRLEP)
- Deep South (RL examples are in "Other"
- Drives Like Crazy
- The Eeyore (also too common)
- Ethnic Magician (see the NRLEP tropes Magical Negro and Magical Native American)
- Fag Hag
- Freakiness Shame
- Girls with Moustaches
- Give the Baby a Father
- Hairy Girl
- Haute Cuisine Is Weird
- Henpecked Husband: As well as being gossipy, it's related to NRLEP tropes like Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream
- Househusband: Also Too Common.
- Husky Russkie
- Intimacy Via Horror and Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films
- Lesbian Jock (also too common)
- Lovecraft Country (also impossible?)
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple
- Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty
- Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Also attracting Complaining about Celebrities You Don't Like
- Mistaken for Pregnant
- Mood-Swinger
- My Secret Pregnancy
- Operator from India (was kept before but was a long time ago)
- Pottery Barn Poor
- Premature Birth Drama
- Racial Face Blindness
- Red-Headed Stepchild
- Remarried to the Mistress
- Rummage Sale Reject
- Sad Clown: Also probably too common.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Also a characterization trope.
- Shed the Family Name
- Stage Mom (also Too Controversial)
- Starving Artist
- Stoners Are Funny (probably Too Common too)
- Tears of Joy
- Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak
- Toros y Flamenco
- Twice Shy
Military Natter gets its own folder (usually these are Too Common or Narrative/Characterization
- Abnormal Ammo - GREEN* (Page is an impenetrable wall of military natter, and attracting misuse - "a slightly large bullet" is not abnormal, guys - but isn't attracting ROCEJ violations so I'm putting it lower than others.)
- Amazon Brigade
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership
- Attack Its Weak Point
- Badass Creed
- Batman Gambit
- BFG
- BFS
- The Captain
- A Father to His Men
- Leeroy Jenkins: Might also be Too Controversial.
- Let's Get Dangerous!
- Mêlée à Trois: Also Too Common, as "conflict with >2 belligerents" is Chairs.
- Military Moonshiner (may not be NRLEP worthy, but definitely attracting military natter)
- Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future: Most heavy-duty military firearms have a boxy design.
- Outranking Your Job
Anatomy Agony subtropes also get their own folder (Too Common, attracting gross anecdotes
- An Arm and a Leg
- Butt Biter
- By the Hair
- Crushing Handshake
- Glasgow Grin
- Go for the Eye
- Half the Man He Used to Be (STOP LINKING TO AUTOPSY PHOTOS OF THE BLACK DAHLIA. NOW.)
- Impaled Palm
- Jawbreaker
- Kill It Through Its Stomach
- Knee Capping
- Lip Losses
- Literal Ass-Kicking
- Mouth Stitched Shut
- Nasal Trauma
- Neck Snap
- Nose Shove
- Off with His Head!
- "Pop!" Goes the Human
- Pretty Little Headshots
- Put Their Heads Together
- Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
- Shot in the Ass
- Slashed Throat
- Tear Off Your Face
- Teeth Flying
- Tongue Trauma
- The Tooth Hurts
- Your Head A-Splode
- There's also these animal-exclusive tropes, which could still get NRLEP'd but are lower priority (GREEN)
- Aim for the Horn
- Attack the Tail
- Chest Burster (not, strictly speaking, animal exclusive, but all current examples are animals)
- Who Needs Their Whole Body? (ditto)
- There's also these animal-exclusive tropes, which could still get NRLEP'd but are lower priority (GREEN)
Multiple
- Accidental Innuendo - RED* (Too Common, Sex-adjacent, attracting weblinks)
- Action Dad - RED* (Too common, attracting anecdotal examples and examples where the dad isn't "action" all the time)
- Actually Pretty Funny - RED* (Too common, attracting ROCEJ violations)
- Adipose Rex: Too Common, and calling people fat.
- Adults Dressed as Children: Too common as a concept, attracting poor examples
- Against My Religion: Really bloated RL section makes me think it's too common, also Too Controversial
- Badass Adorable: Has a lot of the same problems Little Miss Badass and Action Girl had - lots of weblink only and/or ZCE examples, too much gushing.
- X Bad Future: Its sister tropes, Bad Present and Crapsack World, are NRLEP, potential for complaining and ROCEJ violations.
- The Beard: Sexuality related, Gossip
- The Berserker: Its Laconic connects it to two NRLEP tropes - Ax-Crazy (NRLEP for Gossip) and Unstoppable Rage (NRLEP for Too Common), this trope is also a Characterization trope
- The Chain of Harm: Too common, potential for ROCEJ violations.
- Chastity Couple: Sex-related, Gossip, Too Common, related to NRLEP tropes like Chastity Hero, has another "general autism" example.
- Companion Cube: Too Common, might be Characterization, attracting anecdotal examples
- X Cousin Oliver: A narrative trope (Cousin Oliver has to be brought in during later seasons of a show), related to NRLEP tropes like Bratty Teenage Daughter and Dumbass Teenage Son)
- Crack Ship: A Shipping trope, attracting misuse
- Dating Catwoman: Possibly Morality, definitely Gossip
- Denied Food as Punishment: Too common, controversial
- Determinator - RED* (One of the most bloated subpages I've ever seen, making me say Too Common, also Characterization and maybe Too Controversial, attracting gushing)
- Explosive Decompression: Too common, attracting grossness
- X False Friend: Too Common, gossip, related to the NRLEP Broken Pedestal.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: Too Common, relies on Stereotypes
- Foreign Fanservice: Sex and Stereotypes, together at last!
- Friendly Rivalry: Too Common, probably Characterization
- Gadgeteer Genius: Characterization, Too Common
- Harmful to Minors: Too Controversial, Too Common
- Hates Being Touched: Most examples are general, is too common.
- Humans Are Flawed: Too Controversial, Too Common (in the sense that everyone is flawed), Gossip
- I Ate WHAT?!: Too Common, attracting anecdotes
- Inherently Funny Words: Too Subjective to be worth RL troping, attracting Stereotyping.
- Intrepid Reporter: Characterization, Too Common, also, Press Hat of all tropes is already NRLEP
- It's All My Fault: Too Common, Too Controversial, maybe Narrative, also a stock phrase
- It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Narrative/Plot, Impossible (no city is actually always hosting their iconic festival), being used for complaining
- Kid Hero: Morality (a "hero" trope), Characterization
- Late Pregnancy Realization: Too Common, attracting anecdotes and ROCEJ-violating medical advice
- Laser Sight: Probably Too Common, but definitely attracting military natter.
- Loving a Shadow: Might be Narrative, might be Too Common, not sure on this one.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: Too Common, attracting Gossip
- Miles Gloriosus: Morality and passing judgment on the "Gloriosus".
- X Misery Poker: Too common in theory, Too Controversial (complaining about "the oppression olympics" is often a tactic used by anti-woke activists),
- Misplaced Vegetation: I'm not sure if invasive species are a correct interpretation of this trope. It's either too common in real life, or impossible.
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: Sexuality, attracting gossip.
- Mysterious Antarctica: Attracting controversial conspiracy theories; as a part of the Hollywood Atlas it might count towards Stereotypes despite the lack of "Antarcticians"
- Nebulous Evil Organisation: Morality, Characterization, has an "other" section disguising RL examples
- The Neidermeyer: Morality trope, possibly too common, and attracts military natter.
- Never Be a Hero: Attracting a menagerie of misuse, some Too Controversial, some anecdotal, some ROCEJ violating for being unwarranted medical advice
- Never Going Back to Prison: Attracting poor examples, a stock phrase
- No MacGuffin, No Winner: If you consider all MacGuffin tropes Narrative by default then Narrative, maybe Too Common?
- Not Good with Rejection - YELLOW - too controversial and too common, but only 4 examples.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Characterization, attracting poor examples, might be Impossible
- One of the Kids: Too Common, Characterization, related to the NRLEP Friend to All Children
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Too Common, possibly Too Controversial
- Only Sane Employee: Too Controversial, Characterization
- Overly-Long Tongue: "Overly" is the imperative word, animals that have a naturally long tongue are not this trope, so long as it's natural for their species. Might not be crownerable though?
- Public Execution: Too Controversial, Too Common
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Too Common, gross, attracting anecdotes.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Invites complaining about the mindset, as well as general examples.
- Recruiters Always Lie: Single example is a weblink only example, also could invite complaining.
- Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: Too common, Controversial, Characterization
- The Shangri-La: Impossible 'cause magic, attracting examples that are just places named Shangri-La.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Characterization, Gossip
- Smug Straight Edge: Characterization, attracting celeb examples that either aren't smug (like Mr. T) or are complaining about the celeb (like Ted Nugent)
- Social Media Before Reason: Gossip, Too Common, needless pointing and laughing
- Take a Third Option: Narrative, attracting edits that are Too Controversial and anecdotes.
- Tampon Run: Too Common, attracting anecdotes, genitalia-related
- Think of the Children!: Too Controversial, attracting ROCEJ violations, also a stock phrase.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: Too Controversial, Gossip about real peoples' mental disorders.
- Uncertain Doom: Narrative, Too Common
- Unknown Rival: Too Common, Gossip, attracting ZCE and anecdotal examples
- The Unpronounceable: Technically Impossible (everyone has a name that is pronounceable in their native tongue), Stereotyping
- X Unstable Powered Child: The younger equivalent to the NRLEP Unstable Powered Woman.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Too Common, Narrative/Characterization, probably Gossip
- Wicked Witch: Morality, Impossible, Gossip
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Sexuality trope, characterization, attracting gushing.
- You're Drinking Breast Milk: Gross, probably Too Common
Other
- Adam and Eve Plot: Probably doesn't need to be NRLEP, but all of the current examples are misuse.
- Amusement Park of Doom: Teeters on Narrative/Characterization but might have some clout to stay (I'd be lying if I said Action Park didn't really count), but a lot of the examples are "fatal accident happened at a theme park once" which isn't this trope.
- Androids Are People, Too
- Awesome, but Impractical: Wall of text problems.
- Baths Are Fun
- Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Attracting anecdotes, and possibly Narrative? But maybe not quite NRLEP worthy.
- Bizarre Alien Locomotion: Some real-life examples (like humans hopping with one leg) should be deleted for misuse.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Doesn't has to be fully NRLEP, but only if the dimorphism in a species is the most extreme.
- Calling Your Attacks
- Cardboard Prison: Might not be NRLEP worthy, but the examples are a lot of "people escaping from well built prisons" which is not this trope. They might be "Inescapable" Prison Easily Escaped but then again, a lot of these escapes weren't easy
- Eat the Rich: Fed to Pigs failed, so I doubt this would pass NRLEP, but it could get a cleanup.
- Femme Fatale Spy: Although a sexy trope, this might have some clout to stay KRLE (ie Mata Hari), but it's attracting weblink only examples.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Maybe not quite Too Controversial enough for NRLEP, but I don't think any current examples work.
- Gold Fever
- Greeting Gesture Confusion
- Hesitation Equals Dishonesty (maybe not NRLEP worthy, but attracting general and weblink examples)
- Inventory Management Puzzle
- Know Your Vines (not NRLEP worthy but examples suck)
- Life-or-Limb Decision: One of the only Anatomy Agony tropes to probably be okay with RL examples, but there's a lot of lame weblinks. Also, re: Aron Ralston - having an Oscar nominated film made about him is more relevant than being number six on a shitty Cracked article, so it should be listed first.
- Loved I Not Honor More: All examples are general.
- Magic Wand: Neither Too Common nor Impossible enough to NRLEP, but needs a cleanup.
- Medieval Stasis: Maybe not NRLEP worthy (some examples are more valid than others), but needs cleanup
- Morton's Fork: Originally pitched for being common, but some suggest that the subpage needs a cleanup instead.
- Multi-Track Drifting: Not NRLEP worthy, but has a lot of general/weblink examples
- Peace Conference: Probably not NRLEP worthy on its own, but attracting ROCEJ violations. Might bring this up on that thread.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kept three times by the thread, but still needs cleanup for wall of text quotes, ROCEJ violating examples, and stuff that's better suited for Shut Up, Hannibal!.
- The Runt at the End: Most examples aren't runts.
- This Song Goes Out to TV Tropes: Examples are Anecdotal.
- Shooting Lessons From Your Parents (general examples)
- Soapbox Square (maybe it's narrative, maybe it's too common, either way the current examples suck)
- Steal the Surroundings
- The Genie in the Machine (prolly doesn't need to be NRLEP but examples suck)
- Wallpaper Camoflauge
- Worst News Judgment Ever: Kept at least twice at the thread; needs cleanup for complaining.
- Zerg Rush: Maybe not Too Common enough to go, but needs a cleanup