Too Specific / Tropes That Will Never Happen

These tropes are too specific so they will never happen.

Compare to Too Obscure or Bizarre, The Same, but More, and X Meets Y. Contrast Too Ambiguous.

Dishonorable mentions:

Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco
You Fail Disco Forever
- Disco Fails Forever
- Disco Has Failed You (Forever)
- Disco One Nuke
The Cheating Bastard is a Computer
- Robotic Reveal
  - Robotic Reversal
Bartman Grabs A Gun
- Bartman Gambit
- Bartman Can Breathe In Space
- Bartman in My Basement
Boy Eats Girl
- Oral sex? The Bluebeard? Vore?
- Boy Yeets Girl
- Boy Seats Girl
- Boy Beats Girl
Boy Meets Robot Girl. Boy Loses Robot Girl. Boy Builds New Robot Girl From Spare Parts.
- This happened sort of on My Life as a Teenage Robot and more closely on Futurama, although Leela was never a robot.
- In fairness, this is probably what would have happened if Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had gotten a third season.
- Droid meets droid, droid becomes chameleon, droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again, blob meets blob, blob runs away with blob and droid loses blob, chameleon and droid!
A Boy And His God
- A Yob And His Dog
- God Sih Dna Yob A
- A Body Has Dingo
- Magical Girlfriend?
- A Boy And His "Shaggy Dog" Story
Curse Cutting Short
- For example...
Anderson: "Well, now that that's over, what do you say we go back to my place for a bowl of my favorite cereal, Frankenber—oh, son of a Protestant whore!"
Antidisestablishmentarianism Does Not Work That Way
Mushroom Samba in the Rain
The Password Is Always "W./#K|&c~`3"
- The Password Is Always The Girl Your Twin Brother Lusts After
- Dammit, now I have to change my password again.
- Only One Person Knows The Password And He Didn't Write It Down Anywhere.
  - ...Hey, this might actually work.
  - No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup?
  - The Key Is Behind the Lock?
- The Password Is Changed Weekly
  - WarGames had this for the school computer system.
  - Two words: Harry Potter. Frequently more often.
  - Used in adventure games to justify the protagonist finding a note with a password on it.
- The Password Is Always Coelacanth
Ferris Bueller's Two Week Sick Leave
- It's worst than we thought.
Watching Paint Dry
- Classic, tropable catch phrase.
- Also the basis of a Fan Fiction title and storyline.
  - Watching Grass Grow
  - Watching Paint Grow
  - Watching Grass Dry: When people are underwhelmed by or cynical towards the beauty of a sunrise.
  - People Who Are Dead Inside
  - People Who Are Dead Outside
  - Should be 'Too Universal' since almost everyone is covered by dead skin cells.
  - Wouldn't be as funny there.
- Idle Game
Jumped On The Caller
The Character That Is Never Mentioned, Hinted At, Or Relevant To The Plot In Any Way, Shape, Or Form
- Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?
  - You Know, That Non-Entity Where...
Weapons-Induced Artificial Stupidity
- Would the Infector count?
  - I suppose so.
You Can Argue With Elves And Prove Your Point.
- Screw You, Elves!!
- You Can Sit Down And Have A Nice Calm Discussion With Elves
- You Can Argue With Elves And Reach A Reasonable Agreement That Benefits Both Parties
  - Take a Third Option?
- Trying To Argue With Elves While Watching Them Bathe
  - That's the trope Elminster in Myth Drannor is built upon...
Sliding Scale Of Sepia - an index of tropes dedicated to how brown the director makes a film
Cassandra Was Wrong And The Truth Isn't Out There
The Political Leader That Everyone Likes, Always Does Right, And Isn't Secretly Satan, God And/Or The Antichrist
- Real Life doesn't even have any of these.
  - Why? Are all real people secretly Satan, God, and/or the Antichrist?
- For a given value of "everyone": Optimus Prime.
  - And for a given value of "political".
- The Jellyman from Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime, maybe.
- Um, Dumbledore. Duh.
  - Somewhat deconstructed in DH, though it was made pretty clear that after his childhood he was a very good person.
- See also:President Mary Sue
The one where you don't make a stupid forum thread
Journey to the Center of Pendleton Ward's Mind
The Buffalos From Buffalo That Buffalos From Buffalo Intimidate Intimidate Buffalos From Buffalo.
- Yo dawg, I heard you like buffalos, so I put a buffalo on your buffalo, so you can buffalo while you buffalo!
Every Thirtieth Point In Base Thirteen
- Thirty points is thirty points, no matter what base you're counting in.
Shoot The Dog Out Of A Cannon
- Shoot The Shaggy Dog Out Of A Cannon
  - Rinoa's Angelo Cannon.
  - Dobie-O-Matic?
Shoot The Dog Out Of Canon
- Orwellian Retcon?
- Seems like a combination of The Scrappy and Retcon.
Shoot Shaggy's Dog
Shaving The Shaggy Dog
- Isn't that Earn Your Happy Ending?
- Or Rescued from the Scrappy Heap?
Sliding Scale Of A Snake's Underside
- Sliding Scale Of A Moving Piano Playing Scales
The OTHER Other Wiki
- Encyclopaedia Dramatica
- It could also be Uncyclopedia
  - Or maybe The Other Other Other Wiki?
- Too many! Tooo maaany!
- The Uther Wiki
- The Udder Wiki
- Those Two Wikis
- The Under Wiki
- The Über Wiki
- The Ulster Wiki
- The Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other- *Deep breath* Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Other Wiki
List of video games for the Xbox named Halo
- That Don't Have Numbers or Other Words Attached to the Title
- List of video games for the PlayStation 3 named Halo.
  - List of video games for the Xbox 360 named God of War
- List of video games for the Halo named Xbox
- List of things I can play on a Dreamcast named "Halo"
Freud Was Mostly Just Projecting His Own Insecurities Onto Other People
- Freud Just Had A Really Hot Mom
  - Freud's Mom Has Got it Going On
- This Is Your Freud On Drugs
  - Real Life.
  - Freud Knew Oedipus, And He LIKED Him
- This Is Your Freud On Phlebotinum
The Comrade Syndrome, in which all socialists and communists say "Comrade" and, shortly afterwards, are brutally censored, and I don't mean like normal censorship, where the things being censored are only relatively gruesome, or not safe for work, I mean the stuff being censored is so gruesome that even the censor covering it is not safe for work before being beaten to near death with their dead pet, child, friend, and/or genitalia, before their body is relax, I am only doing this for your sanity, you'll thank This Troper someday, think of kittens, or flowers, or even less brutal violence.
- The Aristocrats.
All Writers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
- This could be true, considering the things they come up with.
- All Tropers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
  - Well, it's not a masquerade if you go around telling people.
  - All Tropers Are Dirty Old Men Masquerading As Young Nerds
  - All Tropers Are Young Nerds Masquerading As Dirty Old Men
Next-Door Neighbor Is Planning To Go To The Beach On A Sunday With His Family Of Four
- Slice of Life
You Fail Third Period Gym Class Forever
- Artistic License – Biology badly enough to be a Critical Research Failure?
You Fail Third Period Lunch Forever
- Muv-Luv Extra?
You Fail Having a Period Forever
- You Fail Cooking Forever?
A Slight Itch In Your Left Ear
Kick The Dog Then Feel Bad About It Later And Give The Dog Some Bacon To Make Up For It, Provided The Dog Isn't Still Pissed Off, In Which Case You'll Probably Have To Wait Until He Comes Out From Under The Bed
- Subtrope: And When He Does Give Him Facon For Being Such A Drama Queen
Dropped A Bridget Fonda On Him
- ...well, Stephen Colbert had a Jane Fonda dropped on him...
  - How about Dropped a Bridget Moynahan on him, then? However in that case we could make the Colbert argument for Tom Brady.
Our Senior IV Nurses Are Different
Real Men Don't Care If People Shoot Them While They Aren't Wearing Pants Because Damnit They're Hungry And Want Some Cheerios
Chekhov's Custom .50 Cal Desert Eagle
- Sounds like a cross between Chekhov's Gun, Cool Guns, and Description Porn.
Chekhov's Lightsaber - where you come up with random explanations for things that drew attention to themselves earlier, like the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Chekhov's Slingshot
Chekhov's rubber band
Not The Same Gun That Chekhov Had In The First Act, But It'll Do
Chekhov's Gnu
- Chekhov's Grue
- Chekhov's Gru
Useful Notes: I-88 in Illinois Between Mile Markers 42 and 43
Big Maybe
- Big Meh
  - So Okay, It's Average
- Big Dunno
  - Shrug of God, people.
- Big Mu
  - Big Mumu - "Marge, have you seen my fat-guy dress?"
  - Big Moo
  - Non-bovine example: Maureen's Over the Moon in RENT.
Big Bro
Gushing About Mr Krabs's Character Alignment
Crowning Moment of Drycleaning
Crowning Microwavable Giraffe Just Add Potato Salad of Shiny Leather Floating Pokemon-Filled Taco, anyone?
- No thanks.
- Word Salad Title
Our Vampires Are The Same
Everything's Better With Pope Innocent VIII
Dropped A Bridget Jones' Diary On Him
- "You said this wasn't a Chick Flick! I want explosions!"
Synonyms For The World Plimsoil - Consisting of pages AA-ABA, ABA to ABB, ABB to ABBA...
Goddammit Jim I Told You I Don't Like Boiled Peas
Linkin Park Makes An Honest Man Of Ray
Pantry Shot
- I'm pretty sure this one's been done in a cooking show...
- Nigella Lawson. Without a doubt.
- Possibly related to Food Porn.
Kung Fu Guy With A Reasonable And Objective Assessment of His Own Capabilities
- Humble Hero
Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Soundtrack With Founder's Copyright
Not So Hopeless - Seemingly Hopeless Auditionees that turn out to be really talented once they start performing.
- Hopeless Auditionee Spot: "You know, I think one might be bearable... No, he's rubbish." Alternatively, "[Contestant], I think you have real talent. In scaring away animals and terrifying small children. That was hideous."
What Do You Mean Its Political For The Other Side (There actually is a statue in Kansas that fits this trope: Initially protesting the occupation of the Panama Canal, its current owner says the sculptor saw into the future and protested giving away the Panama Canal.)
- Some forms of Poe's Law might count, as well as some forms of Misaimed Fandom.
Go Straight To "Revelation"
- Do not collect $200.
Just Here For The Cute Female Protagonist
- Touhou Project?
- Every Moe anime
- By extension, Just Here For The Cute Male Protagonist
Just Here For The Hot Female Protagonist
- Star Fox Adventures
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Fairy Tail
  - Just Here For The Guy With A Bird In His Hair
- Every Disney Channel Kid Com
- By extension, Just Here For the Hot Male Protagonist
Just Here For the Cute/Hot Female (And, By Extension, Male) Antagonist
- A.N.T. Farm
Apple Stem Pulling Teeth
Tiddlywinks At Noon
Screw The Rules I Have Pot
- Wouldn't that be The Stoner?
Spin To Deflect Criticism
Batman Is Unrealistic
- NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Nobody Wants To Remember The Stripper
- Fetish Retardant
Norbert's Scale Of Gameplay And Story Segregation
Radiantophilia
Massively Multiplayer Online H-Game
- Second Life.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Locupletative?
Big Yo
- Big Yo-Yo
  - Cylon Basestars
Aesop Unfriendly Family
- The X-Files episode "Home".
- Abusive Parents and Enfant Terrible combined?
Medium-Heavy Sleet Equels Death
The Author Reads TV Tropes Because He Wants To Eliminate Any Tropes From His Work But It Turns Out Everything Is A Trope So He Sinks Into Despair And Kills Himself And The Thing He Was Writing Is Never Written So Wait How Do We Even Have A Page On This Thing Anyway?
- It was ghostwritten, obviously.
- That's just The Tropeless Tale Gone Horribly Wrong.
Ominous Latvian Chanting
But You Screw One Dead Kid Goat While On Fire aka necropedopyrobestiality
- A man decided to seek therapy for his sadonecrobestiality fetish, because he realized he was just beating a dead horse.
  - This is simultaneously awesome and awful. We present you with this medal and then wield it for a merciless flogging.
- But You Screw One Dead Thirteen-Year-Old Frog Robot Girl While She Beats You Up aka sadomasopedorobonecrobestiality.
  - It's a cover/remix/something of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, if anyone cares.
Dude, She's Like, In Oklahoma!
Everything's Better With The Golomyunka Fish That Lives In Lake Baikal And Is Preyed Upon By The Baikal Seal
Most Writers Are Vampires
- Most Writers Are Emotion Eaters (Muse Abuse?)
METAL BAWKSES in which our enemies hide, the cowards, the FOOLS!
- SINDY!!!
- Shiny metal boxes, contestants in a suicidal race?
Artistic License - Lithuanian Forest Site Types
- Artistic License - Art.
Black-With-A-Couple-Of-Grey-Splotches-And-This-Weird-Purple-Bit-In-The-Corner And Bluish-Greeny-White-With-One-Thouroughly-Irritating-Black-Spot-Nothing-Else-Goes-With Morality
- Black and Blue Morality, or White and Gold Morality?
Knight In Slightly Rusted And Blood-Spattered Armour That Needs A Good Polish
- Dragon Age
Everything's Better With Mutant Elves With Glasses Who Ride Piggyback On Anthropomorphic Goats Who Shoot Lasers From Their Eyes
- To which even Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time is a step down.
- With Great Power Comes A Great Likelihood Of Getting Half Your Face Blackened
- With Great Power Comes Great Likelihood Of Losing An Eyebrow
  - With Great Power Comes Grated Cheese
  - With Great Power Comes Great Inanity
Hey It's That Girl Who May Or May Not Be Hotchner's Wife.
Dropped a TARDIS on him
Something Something Leonard Hofstadter
- Something Something Leonard Nimoy
- Something Something Leonard Cohen
  - Something Something David X. Cohen
- Something Something The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Fridge Fridge
- When you're watching a show, and the entire episode focuses on this bizarre alien machine. The protagonists have no idea what it is, yet they manage to harness its powers to win before finally deciding that the world is not ready for it, leaving it behind. Then, after the episode is over, it hits you — it was a fridge!
True Art Involves Cutting Up Sharks
- Physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living is the closest we're ever going to get.
The Good Guys Always Get Captured, Violated Sexually, Stabbed, Thrown in a River, Trampled by Wildebeests, and Eaten Alive by 26 3/4 Rabid Chipmunks.
Dropped Raquel Welch On Him ("She's got a big bottom!")
Eustressed Damsel
Your Life Will Ruin TV Tropes
Zecora Was Right
Grateful Bastard
- Affably Evil? Or Nice Job Breaking It, Hero for situations where the villain thanks the hero for playing into their plans
Jerk Butt
- The Jerkass in a work where Gosh Dang It to Heck! is enforced.
- Jerk Bum
Beef Jerkyass
Failed A Girdle Check (which does happen in the Pan Am pilot)
I Got A Good Laugh From Reading This Page Thanks Guys You Rock
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn Are Dead
Moves like Orlok
- a subtrope of Schmogerty like Fogerty
Our Anglicans Are Different
All Disney Is Animation
All Animation Is DreamWorks
All Animation Is Hanna-Barbera
All TV Animation Is Nickelodeon
All Animation Is CalArts
All Animation Is Anime Is Web Animation Is Stop-Motion Animation Is A Slide Show
All Anime Is Studio Ghibli
All Stop-Motion Animation Is Aardman Animations
All Web Animation Is Newgrounds
Artistic License - Moldovan Transportation
Significant Red-Eyed Greenhead
- Oh wait, we have that now; meet Rina Shinomiya.
Oprah Does Something Funny
Rocks Fall, But Thankfully No One Is Hurt
Preparation of Salted Tongue With Green Onions Does Not Work That Way
The Butler's Wife's Brother Did It
The Butler May Or May Not Have Done It
The Butler Kicked His Master's Butt
Multiplayer Imposed Challenge - This is when you're forced to use a Self-Imposed Challenge when you don't want to, because the friend you're playing with in multiplayer wants it.
Zettai Ryouiki Does Not Work That Way
Zoidberg Fuel
Superman Grabs a Gun
- Because he Forgot About His Powers?
- Superman: At Earth's End
Errol Flynn Won World War II ("He's won the war! He's won the war!")
Ambiguously Ambidextrous
- Way too common. When was the last time you knew that a character was distinctly right or left handed and it had importance to the plot? Wait, don't answer that.
Pierre Kirby Is Hardcore (even if The Cinema Snob thinks so)
- John Kirby Is Hardcore (he even was responsible for a Moment of Awesome)
Dropped A Sheik On Her
Shows That Air On CBS on Tuesdays at 7PM
Books That Are Commonly Read On Wednesday While Sitting in a Red Chair and Drinking a Diet Coke
Recommended Long Canadian Indie Rap Songs From June 2016 to Listen On Fridays at Noon As You Walk Up and Down Main Street While Wearing a Dirty Red Jacket, Reading Garfield On Your iPad Mini 2, and Eating Green M&Ms
The World is Always Having an Affair with Mars
Amazing Technicolor Car
They Hit Exactly The Right Balance Between Changing It and Keeping It The Same, But It Still Sucks
- Sonic?
- Hate Dumb?
- It Sucked in The First Place
People Sit on Big Red Turning Chairs
That One Fuckin' Guy Who Keeps Reverting My Edits Even Though He's Totally Wrong About Rainbow Dash And I Know The Character Much Better Than That Faggot Does, Anyway
Something Something Shark Week
- Something Something Fish Filet
Bigger Than The Big Bad But Not Quite As Big As The Bigger Bad... Bad
Nobody Performs Titration
Useful Notes/Wars Finland Was Not Involved In
Hey, Who's That Guy? (Cases where someone considered to be a rising star has a bit part in a popular TV show or movie. However their star fails to rise, and the bit part ends up being the only thing they're remembered for.)
- One-Hit Wonder
But Not Foreign Enough
Miles Gloriosus With A Gold Katana
But Not Too Weird: Nonhuman characters have to look human-ish. The Fantastic Racism equivalent of But Not Too Black.
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Fire And Ice Personality: Sometimes a character is stoic or indifferent, sometimes they're very emotional. Basically the "kuu" of Kuudere plus the "tsun" of Tsundere (Aloof and apathetic plus harsh and flying-off-the-handle-y.) Alt. titles: Tsun-Kuu.
Mohs Scale Of Knight Templar
There Are Chairs And People Are Clearly Aware That There Are Chairs, And Yet The People Do Not Sit On Or Even Openly Acknowledge The Chairs For Reasons That Are Never Made Clear
Vampire Vampire Hunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters.
- Vampire Vampire Vampire Hunter Hunter: A vampire who hunts vampire hunters that are also vampires
Titanium Lady: What you get when you blend the Iron Lady and the Lady of War.
- Sia?
- Satsuki?
- Kuvira?
Stars Are Angels
Returned To The Scrappy Heap
Vampire Luddites: Supernatural beings really don't like new technology.
America Needs To Be Saved By A Foreign Power
- In said foreign power, this is probably an inevitable trope.
Save The Savior: The one who was supposed to do the saving now needs to be saved.
The Big Bad Who Lacks A Dragon, Isn't Affably Evil Or A Complete Monster, Isn't A Mole, Isn't Evil All Along, And Never Pulled A Face–Heel Turn
Daleks Sit On Chairs
Downer College Ending
Stepford Stoic: A character with little to no emotion... On the outside, anyway. On the inside, they're hurting.
Who Wants To Be Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire
Non-Avian Feathers
Cut-And-Run Climax: The story's reaching its most dramatic point, where a character will die dramatically. Or so it seems... Because instead of dying, the character chooses to cut and run.
Survival Scrappy: A character hated because due to their survival. This can be because: 1) are nigh-unkillable in a world where Anyone Can Die, 2) survive when a beloved character dies, 3) repeatedly survive things that they logically wouldn't survive, 4) are repeatedly saved in contrived ways, 5) survive an "Everybody Dies" Ending (especially when beloved characters don't survive the ending), or 6) something weirder.
- Elimination Houdini
Tropers Cannot Do Math
Writers Cannot Do Physics
Writers Cannot Do Algebra