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Q

• Qipao: Cheongsam
• Queens Puzzle: Eight queens puzzle
• The Quest: [1]*
• Questionable Consent: Gray rape
• Quicksand Sucks: Quicksand#In popular culture
• The Quiet Game: [2]*
• The Quincy Punk: Punk subculture
• The Quisling: [3]* ^note There is also an article on the Trope Namer, Vidkun Quisling.
• Quote Mine: Quoting out of context

R

• Race Fetish: Racial fetishism
• Race Lift: Racebending^note Yes, it's named after The Last Airbender.
• Racial Face Blindness: Cross-race effect
• Rags to Riches: [4]*
• Raijū: Raijū*
• Rail Enthusiast: Railfan
• Rain Dance: Rainmaking (ritual)
• Raised by Wolves: Feral child
• Ramscoop: Bussard ramjet
• Random Encounters: Random encounter
• Rape and Revenge: Rape and revenge film
• Rape as Backstory: Effects and aftermath of rape
• "Rashomon"-Style: Rashomon effect
• Rat King: [5]*
• Ray Gun: [6]*
• Raygun Gothic: [7]*
• Rays from Heaven: Crepuscular rays
• Reactionless Drive: [8]*
• Reaction Shot: [9]*
• Reading Tea Leaves: Tasseography
• Read the Freaking Manual: RTFM
• Realism: [10]*
• Really Gets Around: Slut
• Real-Person Fic: Real person fiction
• Realpolitik: [11]*
• Real Time: [12]*
• Reclusive Artist: List of recluses
• Record Producer: [13]*
• Recurring Dreams: [14]*
• Recursion: [15]*
• Recursive Translation: Round-trip translation
• Red Baron: Epithet
• Red Herring: [16]*
• Red Light District: [17]*
• Red Pill, Blue Pill: [18]*
• Red Scare: [19]*
• Redshirt: [20]*
• Red String of Fate: [21]*
• Reduced to Ratburgers: Famine food
• Regal Ruff: Ruff (clothing)
• Reincarnation: [22]*
• Remake: [23]*
• Remaster: [24]*
• Remittance Man: [25]*
• Renaissance Fair: [26]*
• Renaissance Man: Polymath
• Reptilian Conspiracy: [27]*
• Research, Inc.: Research & Development
• Retcon: Retroactive continuity
• Reset Button: Reset button technique
• Retro Gaming: [28]*
• Retronym: [29]*
• Reveille: [30]*
• Revenant Zombie: Revenant in fiction
• Revenge: [31]*
• Reverse Whodunnit: Inverted detective story
• Reverse Psychology: [32]*
• Rice Burner: [33]*
• Rich Language, Poor Language: Diglossia
• Rickroll: [34]*
• Righting Great Wrongs: [35] *
• Ring of Power: Magic ring
• Roadkill for Dinner: Roadkill cuisine
• Roadside Surgery: Pre-hospital Emergency Surgery
• The Roast: [36]*
• Robinsonade: [37]*
• Robot Dog: List of robotic dogs
• Robot Soldier: Military robot
• Robot War: Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
• Roc Birds: Roc (mythology)
• Rockers Smash Guitars: Instrument destruction
• Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: Rockism and poptimism
• Rock Opera: [38]*
• Rock–Paper–Scissors: [39]*
• Roger Rabbit Effect: Live-action animated film
• Rogue Planet: [40]*
• Roman à Clef: [41]*
• Rōnin: [42]*
• Room Escape Game: Escape Room
• Rope Bridge: Simple suspension bridge
• Roswell That Ends Well: Roswell UFO incident
• Rotoscoping: [43]*
• Royal Inbreeding: Royal intermarriage
• Royal "We": [44]*
• Rube Goldberg Device: Rube Goldberg machine
• Rule of Three: [45]*
• Rule 34: [46]*
• Rules Lawyer: [47]*
• The Runaway: [48]*
• Running Gag: [49]*
• Ruptured Appendix: Appendicitis
• Ruritania: [50]*, also Ruritanian romance for the related genre
• Russian Bear: [51]*
• Russian Humour: [52]*
• Russian Reversal: [53]*
• Russian Roulette: [54]*
• Ryokan Inn: [55]*

S

• Sacred Cow: [56]*
• Sacred Language: [57] *
• Sad Clown: Sad clown paradox
• Safecracking: [58]*
• Safe, Sane, and Consensual: [59]*
• Safe Word: Safeword
• Salaryman: [60]*
• Salem Is Witch Country: Salem witch trials (also see Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials)
• Salt the Earth: [61]*
• Sampling: [62]*
• Samurai: [63]*
• Sand Bridge at Low Tide: Tidal island
• Santa Claus: [64]*
• Sassy Black Woman: Angry Black Woman
• Satan: [65]*
• Satanic Panic: Satanic Ritual Abuse *
• Satire: [66]*
• Savage Wolves: Wolf attack
• Saw a Woman in Half: [67]*
• Sawed-Off Shotgun: [68]*
• Scam Religion: Religious fraud
• Scandalgate: List of "-gate" scandals
• Scanlation: [69]*
• The Scapegoat: Scapegoating
• Scare Quotes: [70]*
• Scary Black Man: Criminal stereotype of African Americans
• Scatting: Scatting* and Non-lexible vocables in music
• School Festival: Cultural festival (Japan)
• School Nurse: School nursing
• School Swimsuit: Sukumizu
• Science Fantasy: [71]*
• Science Is Wrong: Antiscience
• Scooter-Riding Mod: Mod (subculture)
• Scullery Maid: [72]*
• Scunthorpe Problem: [73]*
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Tragedy of the anticommons
• The Scrooge: Miser
• Sdrawkcab Name: Ananym
• Sea Mine: Naval mine
• Sea Monster: [74]*
• Secret Handshake: [75]*
• Secret History: [76]*
• Secret Identity: [77]*
• Secret Ingredient: [78]*
• Secret Level: Level (video gaming): Secret levels
• Secret Police: [79]*
• Secret Santa: [80]*
• Secret Societies: Secret society
• Security Blanket: Comfort object
• Seinen: Seinen manga
• Self-Deprecation: [81]*
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: Self-destruct
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: [82]*
• Self-Harm: [83]*
• Self-Immolation: [84]*
• Self-Made Man: [85]*
• Self-Surgery: [86]*
• Selkies and Wereseals: Selkie
• Sell-Out: Selling out
• Sensitivity Training: [87]*
• Sensory Overload: [88]*
• Sentry Gun: [89]*
• Separated by a Common Language: Comparison of American and British English
• Seppuku: [90]*
• Sequential Art: [91]*
• Serial Killer: [92]*
• Serial Rapist: [93]*
• Serkis Folk: Motion-capture acting
• Seven Deadly Sins: [94]*
• Seven Dirty Words: [95]*
• Seven Heavenly Virtues: Seven virtues
• Sewer Gator [96]
• Sexbot: Sex robot
• Sex Is Evil: Antisexualism, Erotophobia,Genophobia
• Sex Is Good: Sex-positive movement, Erotophilia
• Sex Is Violence: Autassassinophilia
• Sexless Marriage: [97]*
• Sexposition: [98]*
• Sex Sells: Sex in advertising
• Sexy Sweater Girl: [99]*
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: [100]*
• Shaped Like Itself: Tautology (rhetoric)
• Shapeshifting: [101]*
• Shared Universe: [102]*
• Shark Tunnel: [103]*
• Shinigami: [104]*
• Shipping: [105]*
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Shipping discourse
• Shock Collar: [106]*
• Shock Jock: [107]*
• Shock Site: [108]*
• Shoe Shine, Mister?: Shoeshiner
• Shōjo: Shojo manga
• Shōnen: Shonen manga
• Shoot the Messenger: Shooting the Messenger
• Shotgun Wedding: [109]*
• Shout-Out: Allusion, Intertextuality
• Show, Don't Tell: [110]*
• The Show Must Go On: [111]*
• Show Within a Show: Story within a story
• Shrines and Temples: Shinto shrine and Buddhist temples in Japan
• Shrinking Violet: Shyness
• Shrink Ray: [112]*
• Shrunken Head: [113]*
• Shy Bladder: Paruresis
• Siamese Twin Songs: Segue
• Sibling Murder: Fratricide and Sororicide
• Sibling Rivalry: [114]*
• Sidekick: [115]*
• Siege Engines: [116]*
• Signature Song: [117]*
• Silent Treatment: [118] *
• Silicon-Based Life: Hypothetical types of biochemistry: Silicon biochemistry
• Singer-Songwriter: [119]*
• The Singularity: Technological singularity
• Sinister Shiv: Shiv (weapon)
• Sinister Surveillance: Mass surveillance
• Sins of Our Fathers: Ancestral sin
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Coprolalia
• Situational Sexuality: Situational sexual behavior
• Sizable Semitic Nose: Jewish nose
• Skeleton Key: [120]*
• Skinny Dipping: Nude swimming
• Skin Walker: [121]*
• Skull Cups: [122]*
• Sky Pirate: Air pirate
• Slash Fic: Slash fiction
• Slave Collar: Collar (BDSM)
• Slapstick: [123]*
• Sleeper Hit: [124]*
• Sleeper Starship: [125]
• Sleep Paralysis Creature: Night Hag
• Sleepwalking: [126]*
• Slipping a Mickey: [127]
• Slumber Party: Sleepover
• Slut-Shaming: [128]*
• Smart Gun: [129]*
• Smart House: Home automation
• Smash Cut: [130]*
• Smoke Out: Smoke screen
• Smoking Gun: [131]*
• Smug Snake: Dunning–Kruger effect
• Snake Charmer: Snake charming
• Snake Pit: [132]*
• Snipe Hunt: [133]*
• Sniper Rifle: [134]*
• Snowball Fight: [135]*
• Snowclone: [136]*
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: [137]*
• Soap Punishment: Washing out mouth with soap
• The Social Darwinist: Social Darwinism
• Social Deduction Game: [138] *
• Socialite: [139]*
• The Sociopath: Antisocial personality disorder, Psychopathy
• Sock Puppet: [140]*
• Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Burning glass
• Solar Punk: [141]*
• Solar Sail: [142]*
• Some of My Best Friends Are X: [143]
• Sonic Stunner: Sonic weapon
• Sound-Effect Bleep: Bleep censor
• Sound Test: [144]*
• Southern Belle: [145]*
• Space Elevator: Space elevators in fiction
• Space Marine: [146]*
• Space Pirates: [147]*
• Spaceship Slingshot Stunt: Gravity assist
• Space Station: [148]*
• Spear Carrier: [149]*
• Speculative Fiction LGBT: LGBT themes in speculative fiction, List of LGBT-themed speculative fiction^note There's also a whole article series on Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, many discussing this
• Speech Bubbles: Speech balloon, whose forerunner was the speech scroll
• Speech Impediment: Speech disorder
• Speedrun: [150]*
• Spelling Bee: [151]*
• Spiders Are Scary: Arachnophobia
• Spinning Paper: Spinning newspaper
• Spinoff Babies: List of younger and junior versions of cartoon characters
• Spin the Bottle: [152]*
• Spirit Cultivation Genre: Xianxia (genre)
• Spiritual Successor: [153]*
• Spit Take: [154]*
• Splash of Color: [155]*
• Split Personality: Dissociative identity disorder
• Split Screen: [156]*
• Spoiler: [157]*
• Spoiled Brat: Spoiled child
• Spontaneous Generation: [158]*
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: [159]*
• Spooky Photographs: Spirit photography
• Spoon Bending: [160]*
• Spree Killer: [161]*
• Spring-Heeled Jack: [162]*
• Sprite Comic: [163]*
• Spy Cam: Hidden camera
• Spy Satellites: Reconnaissance satellite
• Spy Ship: [164]*
• Square-Cube Law: [165]*
• Squib: [166]*
• Squick: Disgust
• Squiggle Vision: [167]*
• The Squire: [168]*
• Stable Time Loop: Predestination paradox
• Staff of Authority: Staff of office
• Stage Mom: Stage mother
• Stage Names: [169]*
• Stag Party: Bachelor party
• Stanford Prison Experiment: [170]*
• Starcrossed Lovers: Star-crossed
• Staring Contest: Staring: Staring contests
• Star of Bethlehem: [171]*
• The Stateless: Statelessness
• Starving Artist: [172]*
• The Stateless: Statelessness
• Static Stun Gun: Electroshock weapon
• Statute of Limitations: [173]* ^note Related or similar but different are laches, the statute of repose, acquiescence, adverse possession, usucapio, usucaption, desuetude and a sunset provision. The time of the statute of limitations may be frozen due to tolling.
• Stealing from the Till: Embezzlement
• Stealth Insult: Insult: Backhanded compliments
• Steampunk: [174]*
• Steel Mill: [175]*
• Sticky Bomb: [176]*
• Sticky Fingers: Kleptomania
• The Stinger: Post-credits scene
• Stingy Jack: [177]*
• Stink Bomb: [178]*
• Stock Character: [179]*
• Stock Footage: [180]*
• Stock Ness Monster: Loch Ness Monster
• Stock Sound Effects: [181]*
• Stockholm Syndrome: [182]*
• The Stoic: Stoicism
• Stop Being Stereotypical: Respectability politics
• Stop Motion: [183]*
• Story Arc: [184]*
• Storyboard: [185]*
• Straight Gay: Straight-acting
• Straight Man: [186] *
• Strategy Guide: [187]*
• Straw Feminist: Straw feminism and Feminazi
• Street Performer: Street performance
• Streisand Effect: [188]*
• Strictly Formula: Formula fiction
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Onryō
• Strip Poker: [189]*
• Studio Audience: [190]*
• Stuffed into the Fridge: Women in Refrigerators Syndrome
• Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: Category:Songs about buttocks
• Stunt Casting: [191]*
• Stunt Double: [192]*
• Sturgeon's Law: [193]*
• Subbing Versus Dubbing: The "Global Use" section of the article on dubbing features a lengthy overview of subbing vs. dubbing preferences by country.
• Subspace Ansible: [194]
• Subspace or Hyperspace: Hyperspace (science fiction)
• Subtext: [195]*
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Subverted rhyme
• Succubi and Incubi: Succubus and Incubus
• Suffer the Slings: Sling (weapon)
• Suicide Attack: [196] *
• Suicide by Cop: [197] *
• Suicide Pact: [198]*
• Sunday Strip: [199]*
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Escalation of commitment
• Super Breeding Program: Eugenics
• Supercouple: [200]*
• Super-Deformed: Chibi (slang)
• Superhero: [201]*
• Super Registration Act: Registration acts (comics)
• Super-Soldier: [202]*
• Superstitious Sailors: Sailors' superstitions
• Supervillain: [203]*
• Surprise Incest: Accidental incest
• Surprise Pregnancy: Unintended pregnancy
• Surreal Humor: [204]*
• Survivor Guilt: [205]*
• SWAT Team: SWAT
• The Swear Jar: [206]*
• Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Lesbian kiss episode
• Switched at Birth: Babies switched at birth
• Sword and Sorcery: [207]*
• Sword Cane: Swordstick
• Sympathetic Magic: [208]*
• Symploce: [209]*
• Synchro-Vox: [210]*

T

• Tableau: Tableau vivant
• Tagline: [211]*
• Taken for Granite: Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
• Take Over the World: World domination
• The Talk: The birds and the bees
• Talking Animal: Talking animals in fiction
• Talking in Your Sleep: Somniloquy
• Talk to the Hand: [212]*
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: [213]*
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: [214]*
• Tan Lines: [215]*
• Taps: [216]*
• Tastes Like Chicken: [217]*
• Tattooed Crook: Criminal tattoo
• The Taxi: Taxicab
• Tears of Blood: Haemolacria
• The Teaser: [218]*
• Techno Babble: [219]*
• Technophobia: [220]*
• Tech Tree: Technology tree
• Teen Idol: [221]*
• Teen Pregnancy: Teenage pregnancy
• The Teetotaler: Teetotalism
• Telenovela: [222] *
• Telepathy: [223]*
• Teleportation: [224]*
• Temporal Paradox: [225]*
• Tengu: [226]*
• Terraform: Terraforming
• Terrified of Germs: Mysophobia
• Teru-Teru Bōzu: [227]*
• Testosterone Poisoning: [228]*
• "Test Your Strength" Game: High striker and Strength tester machine
• The Tetris Effect: [229]*
• Text Parser: [230]*
• That Russian Squat Dance: Hopak
• That Was Objectionable: Objection (law) and List of objections
• Theme Tune: Theme music
• The Theocracy: [231]*
• Theremin: [232]*
• Theseus' Ship Paradox: Ship of Theseus
• Think of the Children!: [233]*
• Third Eye: [234]*
• Third-Person Person: Illeism
• This Is a Work of Fiction: All persons fictitious disclaimer
• Thought-Aversion Failure: Ironic process theory
• Thoughtcrime: [235]*
• 1000 Origami Cranes: One thousand origami cranes
• Thousand-Yard Stare: [236] *
• Threatening Shark: Shark attack (see also Sharks in popular culture)
• Three Laws-Compliant: Three Laws of Robotics
• The Three Wise Men: Biblical Magi
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Grenade
• Throw It In!: Ad-lib
• Thunderbolt Iron: Meteoric iron
• Tickle Torture: [237]*
• Tidally Locked Planet: Tidal locking
• Tiebreaker Round: [238]*
• Tightrope Walking: [239]*
• Time Bomb: [240]*
• Time Capsule: [241]*
• Time Dilation: [242]*
• Time Out: [243]*
• Time Skip: [244]*
• Time Travel: [245]*
• Tin-Can Telephone: [246]*
• Tinfoil Hat: [247]*
• Title Card: Intertitle
• Title Drop: Title drop
• Title Sequence: [248]*
• To Hell and Back: Katabasis
• Too Smart for Strangers: Stranger danger
• To Serve Man: Man-eater
• Toilet Humour: [249]*
• Token Minority: Tokenism
• Tokyo Tower: [250] *
• Tomboy: [251]*
• Tongue Twister: [252]*
• Tontine: [253]*
• Toon Physics: Cartoon physics
• Tooth Fairy: [254]*
• Torture Cellar: Torture chamber
• Torture Is Ineffective: Effectiveness of torture for interrogation
• Tough Love: [255]*
• The Tourney: Tournament (medieval)
• Towers of Hanoi: Tower of Hanoi
• Tractor Beam: [256]*
• Tragic Hero: [257]*
• Transhuman: Transhumanism
• Translation Convention: [258]*
• Tranquillizer Dart: [259]
• Trap Door: [260]*
• Trapped in Another World: Isekai
• Trash Talk: [261]*
• Trashy Trailer Home Trailer trash
• Trauma Button: Trauma trigger
• Treasure Map: [262]*
• Treehouse of Fun: Tree house
• Trekkie: [263]*
• The Triads and the Tongs: Triad (organized crime), Tong (organization), List of Chinese criminal organizations
• The Trickster: [264]*
• Trick-Taking Card Game: Trick-taking game
• Trojan Horse: [265]*
• Troll: [266]*
• Trope: [267]*
• Trophy Wife: [268]*
• Troubled Fetal Position: Fetal position
• Truck Driver's Gear Change: Modulation (music)
• True-Breeding Hybrid: Hybrid speciation
• True Meaning of Christmas: [269]*
• "Truman Show" Plot: Truman Show delusion
• Truth Serums: [270]*
• Tsuchigumo and Jorogumo: [271] and [272]*
• Tsuchinoko: [273]*
• Tsundere: [274]*
• Tuckerization: [275]*
• Tulpa: [276]*
• The Tunguska Event: Tunguska event in popular culture
• Turing Test: [277]*
• Turn Coat: [278]*
• Turtle Island: Aspidochelone
• The Twelve Principles of Animation: 12 basic principles of animation
• 25th Amendment: Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Twincest: Incest between twins
• Twinking: [279]*
• Twitchy Eye: Blepharospasm
• Typhoid Mary: Asymptomatic carrier ^note There is also an article on the Trope Namer, Mary Mallon.
• Tzadikim Nistarim: [280]*

U

• Übermensch: [281]*
• "Ugly American" Stereotype: Ugly American (pejorative)
• Uncanny Valley: [282]*
• Uncommon Time: List of musical works in unusual time signatures
• Unconventional Formatting: Ergodic literature
• The Undead: Undead
• Underground City: [283]*
• Understatement: [284]*
• Unicorn: [285]*
• Unlockable Content: Unlockable (gaming)
• Unobtainium: [286]*
• Un-person: Damnatio memoriae
• Unreliable Narrator: [287]*
• Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Irresistible force paradox
• Unusual Dysphemism: [[Dysphemism
• Uplifted Animal: Uplift (science fiction)
• Up Through the Ranks: Mustang (military officer)
• Urban Fantasy: [288]*
• Urban Legends: [289]*
• Urban Warfare: [290]*
• U.S. Marshal: United States Marshals Service
• Uterine Replicator: Artificial uterus
• Utopia: [291]*

V

• Vagina Dentata: [292]*
• Valkyries: [293]*
• Valley Girl: [294]*
• Vanity License Plate: Vanity plate
• Vaporware: [295]*
• Variable Mix: Adaptive music
• Vengeful Ghost: [296]*
• Ventriloquism: [297]*
• Vertigo Effect: Dolly zoom
• Very Special Episode: [298]*
• The Vicar: [299]*
• Video-Game Lives: Life (gaming)
• Video Game Remake: [300]*
• Video Phone: [301]*
• Viewers Like You: Underwriting spot
• Vigilante Man: Vigilante
• Villains: Villain
• Virtual Ghost: Digital immortality
• Vision Quest: [302]*
• Visual Pun: [303]*
• Voiceover Translation: [304]*
• The Von Trope Family: Von and Van
• Voodoo Doll: [305]*
• V-Sign: [306]*
• Vulgar Humor: Off-color humor

W

• Wainscot Society: Wainscot (fiction)
• Walk and Talk: [307]*
• Walk the Plank: Walking the plank
• Walk This Way: [308]*
• Walkthrough: Video game walkthrough
• Wall Pin of Love: Kabedon
• Wandering Culture: Nomad
• "Wanted!" Poster: [309]*
• Wardrobe Malfunction: [310]*
• War Elephants: [311]*
• War God: List of war deities
• The Warlord: Warlord
• The War on Straw: Straw man
• War Refugees: Refugee and Asylum seeker
• Warp Zone: Warp (gaming)
• "Wash Me" Graffiti: Reverse graffiti
• Water Torture: [312]*
• We ARE Struggling Together: Narcissism of small differences
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: [313]*
• Weasel Words: [314]*
• Webisode: [315]*
• Wedgie: [316]*
• We Have Reserves: Human wave attack
• The Weird Sisters: Three Witches
• Weird West: [317]*
• Wendigo: [318]*
• The Western: Western (genre)
• Western Zodiac: Sun sign astrology
• Wet Sari Scene: [319]*
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Bambi effect
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Anthropocentrism
• When the Planets Align: Syzygy (astronomy)
• White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: [320]*
• White-Collar Crime: [321]*
• White Collar Worker: [322]*
• White Flag: [323]*
• White Guilt: [324]*
• White Magic: [325]*
• White Man's Burden: Civilizing mission (in historic settings), White savior (in narrative context)
• White Stallion: White horse (mythology)
• Whoopee Cushion: [326]*
• Who Shot JFK?: John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories
• Who Watches the Watchmen?: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Who Will Bell the Cat?: Belling the cat
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Phobia
• Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Communist nostalgia (also nostalgia for the Soviet Union and nostalgia for East Germany)
• Wick: What links here
• The Wicked Stage: Antitheatricality
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Ideal (ethics)
• Wiki Walk: Wiki rabbit hole
• Wild Child: Feral child
• The Wild Hunt: [327]*
• William Telling: Shooting an apple off one's child's head
• Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Suspension of disbelief
• Will-o'-the-Wisp: [328]*
• Windmill Scenery: Windmill
• Winged Unicorn: [329]*
• Winter Warfare: [330]*
• Witch Doctor: [331]*
• With Us or Against Us: You're either with us, or against us
• Witness Protection: [332]*
• Women Are Delicate: Femininity
• Word, Schmord!: Shm-reduplication
• Workaholic: [333]*
• Worldbuilding: [334]*
• World Tree: [335]*
• World War III: [336]*
• The Worm That Walks: Colony (biology) and Superorganism
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Genocide denial and genocide justification
• Wound Licking: [337]*
• Wound That Will Not Heal: Dolorous Stroke
• Writer's Block: [338]*
• Writing Lines: [339] *
• Wuxia: [340]*

X

• Xeno Nucleic Acid [341]*
• X-Ray Vision: [342]*
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: Sensational spelling

Y

• Yakuza: [343]*
• Yamato Nadeshiko: [344]*
• Yaoi Fangirl: Fujoshi
• Yaoi Genre: [345]*
• The Yardies: Yardie
• Yellowface: Portrayal of East Asians in Hollywood
• Yellow Peril: [346]*
• You Are Grounded!: Grounding (discipline technique)
• You Can Leave Your Hat On: Striptease
• You Can't Get Ye Flask: Syntax guessing
• Youkai: [347]*
• Youngest Child Wins: Youngest son
• Your Mom: Maternal insult
• Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My: Yowie, Bunyip, and Drop bear
• Yubitsume: [348]*
• Yuki-onna: [349]*
• Yuri Genre: [350]*

Z

• Zashiki-warashi: [351]*
• Zeerust: Retrofuturism
• Zero-G Spot: Sex in space
• Zettai Ryouiki: [352] *
• Zigzag Paper Tassel: Shide (Shinto)
• Zombie Apocalypse: [353]

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