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You know how a trope needs to be common enough to be a trend on multiple pieces of media, but also have enough meaning to affect the story in a way that defines it? Well, not on my watch, it doesn’t. Post the name and description, and maybe even some examples, of a trope you’d never want to see on this wiki. It can be People Sit On Chairs, Too Rare To Trope, The Same But More (Specific), or any other violation of wiki policy. It can even be YMMV or Trivia, too!

Also, no references to Mario Pissing or Gay—especially not the latter. If you do that, I will holler your post. Please be original.

Without further ado, let’s begin.


Toriyama Art Style: The work was drawn by Akira Toriyama or someone impersonating his art style.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Nov 16th 2022 at 1:27:10 PM

Lumberwood Outdated af account from Wouldn't you like to know? Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Outdated af account
#8401: Sep 7th 2025 at 9:19:33 PM

Word Of Saint Thomas: When someone who helped produce a work says something about it, but people are doubtful of their claim's veracity and choose to treat it as apocryphal, regardless of if the work's creator denied it or not.

Sincerely, Lumberwood
FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#8403: Sep 7th 2025 at 10:53:54 PM

Word of Straight: We only know a character is straight cause the creator said so.

Edit: I can't believe that's a legitimate redirect to Word of Gay.

Edited by BackSet1 on Sep 7th 2025 at 1:54:18 PM

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
Yamanekko it's TIIIIIIIIIME from Mariah Carey’s evil lair (at the North Pole) Since: Sep, 2024 Relationship Status: Whoa, they're bisexual! I didn't know that!
it's TIIIIIIIIIME
#8404: Sep 8th 2025 at 12:08:59 AM

Word of Brian: The creator has explicitly stated a popular headcanon not to be true, but fans keep believing it anyway.

Edited by Yamanekko on Sep 8th 2025 at 12:09:24 PM

i just want you for my own. more than you could ever know.
Ratatoskr Feast your eyes on that limp Hand of Glory... from Yggdrasil (Plucky Ensign) Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
SeaMonkey851 Autistic Gamer from Topeka, Kansas (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
Autistic Gamer
#8406: Sep 8th 2025 at 5:28:39 AM

Word Of Jesus: Things said about a work by an offspring of the creator.

My mother nicknamed me, hence the username.
callmeamuffin Just getting into Utena... (he/they) from the kitchen (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Thinkin' about you, muffin
Just getting into Utena... (he/they)
#8407: Sep 8th 2025 at 7:45:25 AM
Mildude A Member of the Midnight Crew from the you-know-what Since: Sep, 2021 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#8409: Sep 8th 2025 at 10:30:57 AM

Word Of The Pantheon: When Word of God comes from multiple different creators. This does not necessarily mean they agree and they may make conflicting statements.

Actually, a Trvia or YMMV trope about when two creators who can be considered to have an equal amount of authority over what is and is not true about a work make conflicting statements isn't a half bad idea.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
oaiM_awgaS The Soft-Souled, Fluffy-Furred School Idol from Nijigasaki High (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
The Soft-Souled, Fluffy-Furred School Idol
#8410: Sep 8th 2025 at 10:33:49 AM

Word Of Santa Christ: When someone with more authority than God says something about a work

"The dream of tomorrow and the sky of today, expanding in unison"
CosmosAndChaos Shigaraki from Brazil (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Shigaraki
#8411: Sep 8th 2025 at 11:42:55 AM

All Gen Z People Are SJWs - Self-explanatory.

I never watched My Hero Academia, but his Death Battle with Mahito made me like him.
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#8412: Sep 8th 2025 at 11:54:33 AM

World Of God: The world is made by God. Truth in Television if you believe in that sort of thing.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
iwantedtoaddsomething Since: Feb, 2015
#8413: Sep 8th 2025 at 12:50:29 PM

Word Of Satan: When an assertion made by TV Tropes is treated as canon.

cornyfield256 about to kidnap from Yoshi's Island Since: Dec, 2022 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
about to kidnap
#8414: Sep 8th 2025 at 12:54:12 PM

Word Of You: It was you who said that Word of God.

Hot take: I actually like Yoshi's New Island and it's soundtrack.
FireArrowEightSeventy The murderer. 🗾🇯🇵 from John Gutter Since: Apr, 2024 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
The murderer. 🗾🇯🇵
#8415: Sep 8th 2025 at 1:56:01 PM

Word Of Scientists: Someone who has researched a work writes a statement about anything in the work.

Edited by FireArrowEightSeventy on Sep 8th 2025 at 3:56:09 AM

Character in Avatar: Shouki Naifunage, OC. She has killed at least 99 people. I'm a man. NEW ADDITION TO AVATAR: COUNTRY FLAGS
CallMeVbuck Diplomat from go figure Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?
#8416: Sep 8th 2025 at 3:09:43 PM

Word Of Dog: A dog confirms a theory.

I will never get tired of watching Home Alone or its sequel.
wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#8417: Sep 8th 2025 at 3:28:01 PM

Word Of Nobody: God Never Said your headcanon, but for no particular reason we're choosing to assert that this somehow makes it more valid.

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#8418: Sep 8th 2025 at 3:29:34 PM

Word Of Agnostics: Someone who isn't sure whether the work's creator even exists makes a statement on it.

For every low there is a high.
Sourguy Doesn't do much (He/Him) from The Peach State Since: Oct, 2021 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Doesn't do much (He/Him)
#8419: Sep 8th 2025 at 4:22:27 PM

Word Of TV Tropes: When fans take everything that TV Tropes says about a work as gospel.

Currently Reading: N/A
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#8420: Sep 8th 2025 at 5:37:31 PM

Word Of Tumblr: The work becomes nigh unrecognizable, dare we say, better than the original.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
FSharp Resisting a rest Since: Jan, 2019 Relationship Status: I wanna know what love is
#8421: Sep 8th 2025 at 6:14:27 PM

Word of Mouth: False rumors about what's in a work. This isn't a duplicate of Common Knowledge!

Edit: Turns out it's a legitimate redirect to Viral Marketing. Of course, it's a different meaning from the one I suggested, so it's not as impressive as the Word of Straight redirect.

Edited by FSharp on Sep 8th 2025 at 9:16:03 AM

I don't just Wiki Talk the talk. I Wiki Walk the walk.
Lumberwood Outdated af account from Wouldn't you like to know? Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Outdated af account
#8422: Sep 8th 2025 at 6:22:40 PM

[up] Maybe not a duplicate of Common Knowledge, but it sounds eerily similar to Pop-Culture Urban Legends! Speaking of which...

Urban Legend Of God: When the creator of a work spreads around false rumors about it.

Sincerely, Lumberwood
callmeamuffin Just getting into Utena... (he/they) from the kitchen (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Thinkin' about you, muffin
Just getting into Utena... (he/they)
#8424: Sep 8th 2025 at 11:32:18 PM

Don't You Know About The Bird?: When a character is asked if they know about the bird.

Working on Sandbox.The Amazing Race TV Tropes Edition.
ArgoTheBlank from Colony 9 Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!

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