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  • List of YMMV tropes with their own pages, giving you a pretty good idea at a glance of what types of fights the fandom regularly gets into or how many tropers on this site engage with the work and want to add their opinions on it.

General

  • Example that leaves a twist scene completely unspoilered, even though it's spoilered out on other parts of the page.
  • Misplaced Trivia which should be moved to the appropriate sub-page.
  • YMMV, but example beginning or ending in "YMMV" — YMMV, though.
  • Example using a Flame Bait trope as a YMMV trope. Probably a Mary Sue accusation.
  • Example that buries a Flame Bait trope in the text in an attempt to circumvent the ban on them.
  • Example that uses the [[invoked]] tag to suppress the Flame Bait warning on something like Mary Sue or Fan Dumb, even though that is definitely not allowed.
  • An example that was put here simply for being YMMV, even though it occurs In-Universe and is therefore acceptable to put on the main page.
  • Baseless assumption about a fanbase’s general consensus about a topic.
  • Examples wrongfully using Playing with a Trope on something that is Not a Trope:
    • Example that claims to be downplayed so it can be shoehorned in even though the opinion isn't widespread enough to merit listing here.
    • Averted example of a negative audience reaction added to defend the work.
    • Inverted example of a positive audience reaction, used to sneak in complaints about the work.
    • Subverted example because everybody thought prior to release that people would have this reaction, but it ended up not happening.
  • Example that not only wrongly refers to an audience reaction as a trope, but actually makes the word "trope" into a wick for some reason.
  • Objective trope that describes the fandom's reaction to the work or out-of-universe happenings.
  • Objective trope that doesn't really apply to the work, but some people think it should so it's shoehorned in here.
  • Objective comedy trope that is listed here because maybe some people didn't laugh when it happened.
  • Regular ordinary objective trope example misplaced here. There is no subjectivity in the trope name or description nor the example text; it has seemingly been misplaced for no reason whatsoever.
  • Objective trope that has been placed here to circumvent a lock on the main page.
  • Objective trope listed here because This Troper isn't sure if it's actually an example and doesn't want to ask other people for their thoughts.
  • Objective trope that used to be YMMV, but is now objective and in-universe only, such as Dude, Not Funny! or Ear Worm. It's still here because nobody got around to cleaning it up yet or because the person who added the example didn't notice the trope no longer allows subjective examples. Or maybe they did know it and wanted to sneak in their opinions anyway.
  • Objective trope such as Jerkass Has a Point, Offscreen Moment of Awesome, or Alas, Poor Villain that was mistaken for YMMV because some audience reactions have similar-sounding names.
  • Objective trope that depends on a specific interpretation of a character or event to qualify.
  • An It Sucks audience reaction added to push This Troper's opinions, not to accurately report on the general audience's reception of the work.
  • An It Sucks audience reaction added to complain about people not liking the work.
  • A negative reaction added after a Caustic Critic reviewed the work and their fanbase started to take the critic's word for it.
  • A Just for Fun page such as X Meets Y or Surprisingly Similar Characters, listed as an Audience Reaction.
  • Non-YMMV trope used in a YMMV way.
  • An In-Universe Examples Only trope used as an Audience Reaction.
  • Example based on the opinion of a single Caustic Critic.
  • Example of a positive audience reaction to an amateur work, added by the work's creator despite our rules forbidding this.
  • Example of a negative audience reaction to an amateur work, deleted by the work's creator despite our rules forbidding this.
  • Legitimate YMMV example that was removed because This Troper disagreed with it.
  • Example that potholes to a No Real Life Examples, Please! page to sneak in This Troper's thoughts on something the creator did or said or something that happened behind the scenes.
  • Example that contains an interpretation That Troper disagrees with.
    • Long, angry response that tries to argue that the above interpretation is completely wrong. It just raises the question of why That Troper didn't just change a few words instead, or even delete the example if they think it's unsalvageable.note  If you visit the page history, you'll find a snarky edit reason like "were we reading the same book?"
  • A bunch of random shipping examples you don't care about.
  • An example that spoilers a twist scene, even though it's unspoilered on other parts of the page.
  • A thousand examples about incest.
  • Example that generalizes an entire era of the show.
  • Example complaining about "recent seasons" that are over 10 years old.
  • Audience Reaction "example" describing objective work elements and absolutely no description of audience's reaction.
  • Example that spoilers the existence of a character that can be clearly seen in all promotional material, appears in the first 5 minutes of the first episode and had multiple merchandise even before the show started.

Specific items

  • Acceptable Targets entry that nobody bothered to delete when it was changed to an index.
  • Accidental Aesop entry that belongs under Alternate Aesop Interpretation because the work already has an intended aesop.
  • Accidental Innuendo:
    • Blatant Double Entendre in a work not aimed at kids.
    • Any instance of the words "balls", "nuts", "wet", and "come" being used in a work regardless of context.
    • Taking a scene or quote out of context to make an interpretation nobody experiencing the work would reach.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: Long entry full of fan theories and Wild Mass Guessing
    • Description of something that happened in the This Troper's favorite fanfic.
    • Draco in Leather Pants entry place as a sub-bullet
    • Very long Wall of Text entry designed to justify an individual troper's theory about how a character is actually evil and the worst.
    • Entry that shamelessly plugs a fanfic that was obviously added by the fic's author.
    • Is this character genuinely a Nice Guy, or are they secretly evil in a way the show has never even implied?
    • A misreading of a character's actions as an excuse to complain about the work.
  • Americans Hate Tingle: This work wasn't very well known in Tropetania, which automatically means it's hated. What do you mean, the trope name is Americans Hate Tingle and not Americans Are Ambivalent to Tingle or Americans Don't Know Tingle?
  • Angst? What Angst?:
    • Complaining that a moment in a lighthearted work did not spiral into being grimdark.
    • Why did this character react in a completely in-character way? They should be moping around for the rest of the episode.
  • Anvilicious example that complains about the work's Aesop.
  • Ass Pull: Complaint about a plot twist someone didn't like. Assertion that it was Ascended Fanon despite the fan theory being referenced having developed from all the Foreshadowing in the first place.
  • Audience-Alienating Premise: A work is commercially successful and has a fanbase, but still, some people don't like it.
  • Base-Breaking Character: Entry bashing a character that one troper hates but admits probably doesn't count as The Scrappy.
  • Bile Fascination: If ANYONE watches this show I hate, they're just doing it to see how bad it is! It's not like anyone genuinely likes this thing! My opinion is factually correct!
  • Broken Base:
    • Shoehorned example listing every single minor disagreement within the fanbase, some of which almost certainly being nonexistent.
    • One-sided complaining disguised as a two-sided debate.
    • Example from something with a genuine Broken Base, written in a highly diplomatic and value-neutral way, using phrases like "this upset some of the fans". This example probably replaced several paragraphs worth of argument from opposite sides of the schism, possibly between the same two people.
    • Follow up post by someone who didn't get the memo, continuing the argument by saying how much that usage of the trope sucked.
      • Rebuttal from someone else who didn't get the memo, responding to the above, which eventually gets the page locked and possibly deleted.
  • Best Known for the Fanservice:
    • A creepily detailed description of a female character, with little or no evidence that said character actually overshadowed other elements of the work.
    • An example of what could be seen as someone's fetish briefly appearing in the work/episode and the troper who added it to make it seem that they're not the only one they know with said fetish.
  • Broken Base or Base-Breaking Character example that tries to be balanced (or at least look balanced), but makes it obvious which side This Troper is on.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: A description of the work's primary Reveal followed a laundry list of all the hints Foreshadowing it, clearly written by a troper with too much hindsight and no grasp of the vast gradient between the unsurprising and the Ass Pull.
  • Character Alignment trope that attempts to deduce what alignments the characters would have if they were Dungeons & Dragons characters based on their actions, leading to endless edit warring and the eventual deletion of all such examples.
  • Cliché Storm:
  • Condemned by History:
    • Example that was once considered an Even Better Sequel, but now a few people see it as a Contested Sequel, which is apparently enough to count as condemned.
    • Work that was already extremely divisive in the past, but most of its defenders have since become more critical.
  • Contested Sequel:
    • Example of straightforward Sequelitis.
    • Example of a sequel that just about everyone loved, but the troper adding it didn't for whatever reason.
  • Crazy Awesome example that just describes a totally awesome fight scene involving giant robots and dinosaurs fighting IN SPACE!!! with The Power of Rock and causing tons of large explosions, completely misunderstanding that the "crazy" in Crazy Awesome refers to literal mental illness and isn't an intensifier. Wait, what do you mean this is now an objective trope named Success Through Insanity? And what's Crazy Is Cool anyway?
  • Creator's Pet:
    • Angry rant about an unpopular character.
    • Complaining about a creator's favorite character getting more screentime than they should because the troper who added the example doesn't like the character and/or the creator in question.
  • Critical Research Failure: Wait, what do you mean it's a disambiguation now? It's still perfectly fine to use, right?
    • The creator got some obscure factoid that nobody cares about incorrect. Heinous! I bet I'd win against them at trivia night.
    • The work contains a minor inaccuracy for the sake of the story.
    • A work that never tried to pass itself off as realistic or accurate did something unrealistic due to Rule of Fun or Rule of Cool.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Gruesome situation? Horrible. Gruesome situation with an additional detail present? Rolling on the floor hilarious.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome example that still uses the old name, forgets the Sugar Wiki namespace, and is listed here even though there's already a subpage.
  • Dethroning Moment of Suck that (a) doesn't belong here in the first place, and (b) is so tame that it barely deserves a mention in Headscratchers.
  • Designated Hero example complaining about the heroes not being 100% goody-two-shoes 100% of the time and/or demonizing the heroes to make the villains look better. Or one that just claims that they're "less likeable" than the the antagonists without any further elaboration.
  • Designated Villain example that tries to make a genuinely unsympathetic character seem more sympathetic than they were in canon.
    • A character made an out-of-character decision that one time.
  • Diagnosed by the Audience:
    • A meticulous list of the character's eccentricities with no mention of a disorder those would suggest.note 
    • A hundredth example hypothesizing a socially-awkward character with a hobby must be autistic.
    • Description of a character with a canon disorder.
    • Description of a character with a Delayed Diagnosis. The audience's diagnosis is exactly the same as the canon diagnosis; the canon diagnosis may even be Ascended Fanon, but you're late to this fandom so you don't know how to check that.
    • Description of a character with a Delayed Diagnosis. The canon diagnosis doesn't resemble the fanon diagnosis at all, and you're left wondering if the audience and the writer(s) are even thinking about the same character.
  • Draco in Leather Pants:
    • Example that's very obviously trying to be a substitute for the disambiguated Evil Is Sexy.
    • An incredibly reprehensible villain who everyone knows and treats as evil, but the troper adding them likes them enough to put them here.
  • Easily Forgiven:
    • Character A should totally just hate Character B for the rest of the series, that'd be better. I don't know what Status Quo Is God is.
    • Complaining about a character someone doesn't like not being treated worse.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Even Better Sequel:
    • A work that is also listed under Sequelitis.
    • A work that has a Rotten Tomatoes score that's 1% higher than the previous one, which had a percentage score that wasn't in the single digits.
  • Evil Is Sexy:
    • Example that has yet to be removed after the trope became disambiguated.
    • A female villain who's not a Gonk and gets added for that, as even though she's nothing too special, she's a woman, so she's automatically considered sexy.
    • Example for a confirmed underage villain that goes into disturbing detail as if they were an adult.
  • Fandom-Enraging Misconception:
  • Fanon Discontinuity: Fans pretend this episode doesn't exist because it sucks. This is despite it having a Never Live It Down reputation on the show.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: These characters didn't get together when the fandom wished they would...except they didn't get paired with anyone else in the work.
  • Foe Yay: Example added years after the page was disambiguated.
    • Example saying how the antagonist and the protagonist have these moments sometimes and giving no further context.
    • Example that could potentially fit in Foe Yay Shipping or Foe Romance Subtext, but that doesn't have enough context to tell.
    • Example mentioning any confront between two enemies.
  • Fountain of Memes: A declaration that the work has produced many memes, even though you've never seen any of them and the ones listed under Memetic Mutation never really became memes, and even though the trope is supposed to apply only to a specific character.
  • Friendly Fandoms: Example detailing how fans of this work happen to also be fans of this other work, sometimes using incredibly thin logic such as sharing a single actor, or a plot detail that the two works being discussed are far from the only ones to use.
  • Genius Bonus:
    • A basic fact anyone with a surface-level knowledge on the subject would know, added because This Troper wants to look smart for enjoying this show.
    • Usage of an obscure reference or piece of slang that wasn't obscure when the work released.
    • Duplicate Shown Their Work entry.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This work is popular in Tropestan, since it was made there. A work being popular in its country of origin? What a surprise!
  • Hilarious or Harsher in Hindsight example that compares the work's characters to current political figures. It's easy to determine the political views of the troper who wrote the example based on who is compared to the hero or villain.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Work contains [political topic which is still relevant today], which in [current year] is uncomfortably relevant to [current event that literally just happened before someone added this entry].
    • Example about an actor who passed away years after having played a character who died in a completely different way.
    • It's harder to [character]'s death after the death of [actor].
    • It's harder to watch this work after the death of [actor], who died in a manner completely unrelated to the work.
    • The antagonist at one point attacked or threatened the World Trade Center. Bear in mind that the installment in question was released just hours before 9/11.
    • Example about a very loose resemblance to Real Life disaster. Possibly as loose as "there's an explosion in scene X, and many people recently died in an explosion under otherwise completely different circumstances", ignoring other similar events in media and real life.
    • It became a lot harder to watch (“corona” something/Person washing his hands/disease/quarantine) after the COVID Pandemic, ignoring the fact that those things existed years before the pandemic/virus.
    • The work features an actor who got caught in a scandal that has no resemblance to their role.
    • A scene about bigotry (probably related to Police Brutality) is harsher in light of "recent" movements against bigotry, even though people were fully aware that bigotry existed when the work was written.
    • This scene was cool, right? Come the sequel..
    • The characters discussing the Seasonal Rot of their once-favorite Show Within a Show would sadly become this when the show itself fell into Seasonal Rot.
    • Wrong-way hindsight that amounts to "After this episode/installment, it's harder to watch the previous one(s), due to [reasons]".
    • [Actor] plays a character who committed some crime or wrongdoing (or was just a jerk). This gets uncomfortable with the later revelation that [actor] was revealed to have committed [insert completely unrelated felony, misdemeanor, or offensive social media post here].
    • Foreshadowing disguised as hindsight.
    • An example that "can also be seen as Hilarious, depending on your views".
    • Example stating that a scene becomes worse following "recent revelations". These revelations are not elaborated on.
  • He Really Can Act: Example gushing about the performance of a critically acclaimed actor who already won multiple awards before this movie.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Example stating that an event or character in this work is similar to something in another, completely unrelated work.
    • Bud Budson played a character named Bob. Many years later, he would go on to play another character whose name begins with the letter "B".
    • Wrong-way hindsight that amounts to "this episode/installment isn't the first time [something happened]".
    • Foreshadowing disguised as hindsight.
    • An example that fits better under Harsher in Hindsight to the point that even calling it "hilarious" would invoke all kinds of negative reactions from other tropers, crowbarred in by saying, "However, it can also be seen as Harsher, depending on your views".
  • Jerkass Woobie entry for a character who is a genuine woobie, but the troper who added the entry dislikes the character for irrational reasons.
  • "Holy Shit!" Quotient: A trailer revealed that something (epic, presumably) is in the work. No further elaboration. The example will never be edited again, even years after the work has been released. After the page is made Just for Fun and examples moved to Shocking Moments, no one will notice that HSQ has been turned into a disambiguation page.
  • It Was His Sled: Example that casually spoils something that happens a third of the way into the story, even though it's not widely known outside of the fandom, probably because the troper adding it has been part of the fandom for so long that they've spent nearly as much time knowing the spoiler than not, which affected their perception of what counts as a spoiler.
  • LGBT Fanbase:
  • Narm example listing something that was intended to be funny.
  • Les Yay example listed separately from the Ho Yay subpage even though it redirects to Ho Yay.
  • Mainstream Obscurity: I haven't read this classic novel, so clearly nobody else in the world has either.
  • Memetic Badass: Overly gushy list of character's canonical accomplishments with no explanation how the fandom exaggerates this character's badassery. In fact, it will probably emphasise how the character is recognized In-Universe as a total badass.
  • Memetic Loser:
    • Objective description of character's canonical failures with no explanation how the fandom unfairly exaggerates their ineptitude.
    • Description of a canonically inept character being ironically exaggerated by fandom into a total badass (which is incidentally what Memetic Badass was supposed to be about).
  • Memetic Troll: Objective description of character's canonical mischievious behaviour with no explanation how the fandom exaggerates their mischief.
  • Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:
  • Misaimed Fandom:
    • Example describing the audience being angry the work made them react the way author intended.
    • Example which is a thinly-veiled excuse for the editor to complain about how some other fans interpret the work's message in a way they don't like.
    • Example describing reasons why people hate the work for the wrong reasons, or "Misaimed Hatedom", if you will. A trope that doesn't exist for very obvious reasons.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • List of every bad thing the villain has done.
    • Example complaining about the hero doing something dubious and not atoning well enough for it (in this troper's opinion)
    • Meta-example about the creator doing something in real life.
    • Example about the villain doing something extremely spoileriffic, such as killing several major characters or destroying a planet or devouring a puppy, written with no spoiler markup whatsoever.
    • Example describing a genuinely shocking and heinous action that gets undone by Negative Continuity.
    • In-Universe example of someone being declared Beyond Redemption.
    • A character doing something like stealing, insulting someone, or another act that shouldn't be enough to make them completely irredeemable, but is listed to either make the work seem more edgy and mature, or because the troper adding it has a bone to pick with the character.
  • Most Annoying Sound:
    • Example added before Most Annoying Sound was moved to Darth Wiki, that complains about a non-video game character's voice and should be removed but hasn't been yet.
    • Hyperbolic example that uses Bold Inflation, All Caps, and/or italics.
    • Weblink to a Youtube video playing the sound in question. It's:
  • Narm:
    • Example written by a troper who refuses to take any work seriously on its own terms.
    • An example of Nightmare Retardant.
    • An example that's just blatant complaining and isn't even attempting to hide it.
    • One single solitary actual real example of Narm as defined by the page nestled in with all the other bloated misuse.
    • An example overanalyzing a scene way too hard that would probably fit better under Fridge Logic or What an Idiot!.
    • An example describing anything that's not a single dramatic moment (e.g. a character's name or costume).
    • "This moment becomes super hilarious if you realize that it kind of reminds you of another completely irrelevant work that has nothing to do with this one".
    • An example of something intentionally funny.
    • An example along the lines of "the entire work, full stop".
  • Narm Charm:
    • Example that thinks that Narm Charm is defined as "An officially sanctioned Justifying Edit to a Narm entry"("Um Actually, one of the above Narm examples is totally missing the point of that scene and This Troper thought that it was awesome as hell!")
    • Example that makes you realize how goofy some aspect of a work you like is, but then also makes you appreciate how it doesn't suffer anything from that.
  • Never Live It Down:
  • Obvious Judas: A description of how The Mole betrays the team, followed by a laundry list of all the hints Foreshadowing the betrayal, clearly written by a troper with too much hindsight.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy:
    • Example that started way before the work was released, and has completely died out by the time the work has come out.
    • Something so controversial, the fandom just can't stop talking about it! ... Because it happened yesterday!
    • The author expressed some unpopular political views on social media. The example repeatedly emphasizes how evil and bad these views and anybody who agrees with them are, possibly to the extent of demanding that this work's page be cut to avoid giving a platform to the author to express their views.
    • List of Transgressions about the work and/or creator's wrongdoings or shortcomings.
    • Example of a minor controversy that only a few dedicated circles care about.
    • You can't talk about this work without talking about its Audience-Alienating Premise! In other words, it's overshadowed by the fact it exists.
    • Not the series/franchise itself, but a single episode/work in the series/franchise was overshadowed by a a controversy. This is otherwise a well-written example and would probably be completely valid on a YMMV page for the episode/work (which either didn't exist when this was added or still doesn't) but is inherently misuse here because the example itself states it didn't overshadow the series/franchise.
  • Paranoia Fuel: Forget about any description of how the work can make you distrust anyone. A contextomized quote in bold text is all you will get.
  • Popular with Furries:
    • This work features anthropomorphic animals, so there might be furries who like this work because of them. Maybe.
    • Mention of a scene that features an animal character subjected to something that lines up with a niche fetish, even though the scene in-work isn't sexual and the character it happens to might not even be anthropomorphic.
  • The Scrappy:
    • Character who is hated by the community. Example explains why they are like that, and gives some evidence of unpopularity.
    • Says character is awful, doesn't explain why.
    • Base-Breaking Character added by someone who doesn't like them.
    • Character who has a fanbase in their home country, but Americans Hate Tingle.
    • Characters hated in home country, but Germans Love David Hasselhoff.
    • Character who is clearly meant to be a Hate Sink, and the example reads like it should belong there.
    • Hate Sink who got too much hate for all the wrong reasons.
    • Example comparing scrappy to a different scrappy.
    • Character based on a real life person who's listed here because of the real life person's controversial status. Nothing about the character is stated.
    • Typically fan-favourite character that just has a group of people who think they're overrated.
    • Most of the work's main characters, added by a member of the work's hatedom, even though the trope is about characters that fans of the work dislike.
    • A character who is also listed as an Ensemble Dark Horse.
  • Scrappy Mechanic:
    • Elaborate description of an incredibly annoying-sounding game mechanic, ending in a declaration that you will be seeing "system message associated with this mechanic" a lot.
    • Nearly every mechanic is listed, making you wonder if these tropers liked anything about the game.
  • Sequelitis:
    • A work that is also listed under Even Better Sequel.
    • A work that has an ever-so-slightly lower Rotten Tomatoes score than the previous one.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: Thinly-veiled attempt to bash one popular ship while lionizing another based on the tropers' personal opinion. Includes overly-detailed explanation for why Ship X is not canon or shouldn't be canon.
  • Shocking Moments:
    • Predictable plot twist.
    • An Ass Pull, added by someone who doesn't follow continuity all that closely and experienced it as a legitimate twist.
    • "Wham Line."note 
    • A mundane-sounding event with no explanation as to why this is shocking.
    • A fan theory is confirmed.
    • Many examples of trailers revealing details about the upcoming sequel, with no explanation as to why these reveals are shocking, so once the work comes out this example will just be a list of well-known facts.
  • Signature Line:
    • "QUOTE ONLY FANS HAVE HEARD OF THAT HAS ZERO CONTEXT!"
    • A Forced Meme.
  • Signature Scene:
    • Every
    • single
    • mildly
    • interesting
    • moment
    • is
    • listed
    • here.
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Example that has yet to be removed after the trope was redirected.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games
    • An example added even though the licensed game isn't that bad but has a few problems that make it So Okay, It's Average.
    • Example that mentions that Work: The Game exists, and it's so bad that no further elaboration is needed.
    • List
    • Of
    • Every
    • Trope
    • In
    • The
    • Game
    • Added
    • Here
    • Because
    • It
    • Doesn't
    • Have
    • Its
    • Own
    • Page.
  • So Bad, It's Good:
    • An entry for a work with a So Bad, It's Horrible entry that the troper who added it still enjoyed.
    • An entry for a work with a So Okay, It's Average entry that the troper who added it didn't enjoy.
    • An entry that consists entirely of "[This is] the general consensus/reaction to/of the work".
  • So Bad, It's Horrible entry for a work that's So Bad, It's Good or even So Okay, It's Average, but the troper who added the entry despises it for whatever reason, even if they weren't the target audience.:
  • So Okay, It's Average:
    • An entry for a work with a So Bad, It's Good entry that's "not unbearable if you can get past its many many flaws".
    • An entry for a work that most people loved, but the troper who added it thought it was overrated.
    • An entry with the word "Mid" in it.
    • An entry that consists entirely of "[This is] the general consensus/reaction to/of the work".
  • Spiritual Successor: Example that has been moved to YMMV, even though it's completely intentional and should have instead been replaced with a different trope like Homage or Creator-Driven Successor.
  • That One Boss: A description of every single boss in the game, expressed in complaining tones.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Character who already got a complete story arc on the show and there would be no reason to bring them back at that point.
    • A character who only appeared in the background and had no actual dialogue or characterization, but I have a Fanon portrayal of them that I think is really cool, you see...
    • A character's flat Satellite Love Interest who disappeared after one episode because Status Quo Is God.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Entry that says the premise of the work would be pretty cool if it didn't suck.
    • Detailed writeup of someone's Fix Fic for the work.
    • This show would be really good if it had a different setting, different characters, different style of humor, and a different premise.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring example explaining how unlikable and mean the characters are (including those who aren't actually that cruel, except some infamous episode the fandom won't let go), reading more like an explanation for Eight Deadly Words. Naturally, there's no citation for this opinion either.
  • Uncertain Audience:
    • Example listing a long-running and massively profitable property that is not liked by everyone on Earth.
    • Example describing a sequel/reboot that has a clear target audience, but boils down to "It alienated old fans because it wasn't exactly like the previous work, and it alienated new fans because it sucks".
  • Unfortunate Implications example that hasn't been removed now that it is Flame Bait.
  • Example that potholes to Unfortunate Implications to sneak in an uncited example.
  • Unintentional Period Piece example regarding a single dated reference.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
    • Example used to complain about the work's art style, animation, or a character design.
    • Example of intentional Uncanny Valley, likely as The Artifact when both cases were one uniform YMMV trope.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Values Dissonance:
    • This work uses a slur! Thank god this kind of bigotry is a thing of the past, and definitely doesn't still exist in the exact same forms today.
    • Poorly-indented Fair for Its Day example that attempts to defend the above example.
    • An example from an episode that only came out last year.
    • Any depiction of a marginalized group from an older work, even if it genuinely was Fair for Its Day or if Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales.
    • An example trying to use Values Dissonance as an uncited Unfortunate Implications.
    • An example reacting with (fridge) horror that a scene depicting an unpleasant situation would be seen as very traumatic for the characters if it happened today, because apparently nobody thought kidnapping/murder/abuse/bullying/slapstick was bad twenty years ago or that these situations aren't still mined for comedy.
    • Country-based example from an anime, talking about how westerners are too stupid to understand to understand Japanese culture.
  • Values Resonance:
    • An example that involves gushing, lionizing extremist groups the work itself wasn't necessarily endorsing, and probably breaking the ROCEJ.
    • Another example from an episode that only came out last year.
    • Praising the work for pushing a milquetoast but Captain Obvious Aesop like "Be Yourself".
    • If it's a super-super-old work, praising it for having a moral that is even comprehensible.
  • Vindicated by History: Entry that details that Work: The Bad Sequel was considered bad, but now that Work: The Even Worse and More Recent Sequel is more controversial, Work: The Bad Sequel is now considered good. Reasons for the work the vindicated work being "not so bad" read like an unintentional case of Damned by Faint Praise.
  • Watched It for the Representation: Example describing every character that isn't a white, allistic, heterosexual, cisgender, Christian man. No word on if those characters have attracted an audience.
  • What an Idiot!: Examples that haven't been removed now that it is Flame Bait.
    • A description of a situation that a character is facing.
      You'd Expect: The character takes a course of action that is smart or at least sensible.
      Instead: The character does a stupid thing that results in consequences.
    • A much less charitable description of another scenario.
      You'd Expect: The character would basically read the script and act on information only the audience has.
      Instead: The character makes the most reasonable decision based on the incomplete information they have, and it goes badly.
      To make matters worse: Here is some natter.
    • An entry that doesn't even follow the "You'd expect X, instead Y happens" format.
  • A What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs? entry with basically no context that can be moved to Quirky Work.
  • Example of The Woobie for every single character who has ever had a few bad things happen to them, including characters who are strong enough to deal with the hardships on their own or keep their issues to themselves, all of which were posted here without asking on the trope's thread.

Alternative Title(s): Work Name Injokes

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