I Thought It Meant/A-C

Just to clarify:

A

 * Abandon Shipping has nothing to do with using (or not using) UPS, FedEx, or DHL.
 * Absolute Cleavage is not a particularly saucy ad for "Absolut Vodka".
 * Nor is it about thoroughly cutting something or someone with a cleaver.
 * Nor killing a bunch of Goblins using only your Great Cleave feat.
 * The Ace is not referring to cards. For example, there's no trope name called "The Spade".
 * Although there is a page about The King of Queens.
 * Achilles in His Tent has absolutely nothing to do with I'll Be in My Bunk.
 * An Action Bomb is not an action movie that flopped commercially.
 * Actor Tips are not tips from actors, but tips for actors, so you weren't that far off.
 * It also has nothing to do with compensating for sales tax.
 * Adam Westing has nothing to do with Samuel Westing of the novel The Westing Game. Nor does either have anything to do with Wrestling.bac
 * Affirmative Action Girl is not a black Action Girl (nor, more specifically, a Dark Action Girl). Sorry.
 * It is also not what The Spock says to an Action Girl.
 * After the End is not The Stinger happening after The End is shown or told.
 * Airplane Arms are not weapons installed in an airplane.
 * Nor are they part of a Transforming Mecha that turns into a flying vehicle.
 * Airplane of Love has nothing to do with joining the Mile-High Club.
 * ... and neither with making Airplane Arms because you're in love.
 * Airport Fantasy does not involve goblins checking your luggage - or another kind of fantasy. See Airplane of Love (or don't).
 * Akashic Records is not about a record label.
 * An All Blue Entry is not a Wiki entry that is entirely depressed.
 * It is not an entry that's covered in clues, either.
 * Neither is it Sanji finally achieving his dream.
 * It is also not about 100% support for the Democratic Party, no matter what Conservapedia would have you think.
 * It is also not a Wiki entry that has been taken over by the Happy Happy Cult.
 * Neither is it Sutter Cane's favorite article.
 * It is also not one of Battler Ushiromiya's murder theories.
 * All Lesbians Want Kids is not a Sub-Trope of All Gays Are Pedophiles.
 * All-Star Cast is not about stellar objects who can act (even if some solar bodies could actually act).
 * All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game" is not a ruleset for a game that involves crying.
 * All Trolls Are Different is not a speech reaffirming the diversity and individuality of those who have fallen victim to the GIFT.
 * Almighty Janitor is not referring to User:Janitor. However almighty she might be, she's an admin at The Other Tropes Wiki and therefore disqualified from the trope.
 * Alpha Bitch is not about a member of a wolf pack.
 * Already Undone for You is not about clothing.
 * Alternate Reality Game has absolutely nothing to do with Bokurano.
 * Alt-Itis has nothing to do with overuse of Alt Text.
 * Aluminum Christmas Trees is not related to Epileptic Trees. Or is it?
 * Always Camp is not advice about what to do for a holiday. Or in an FPS.
 * Always Murder is not an instruction, no matter what the voices in your head say. Nor does it mean that self-defense and involuntary manslaughter should always count as murder. It is not the opposite of Never One Murder, or synonymous with Never Suicide.
 * The Amazon Brigade doesn't review products on an online marketplace.
 * Ambiguously Brown should not be confused with Sesquipedalian Smith.
 * Despite what one might glean from Haley Starshine, And Your Little Dog, Too is not a villainous version of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
 * Also, And Your Little Dog, Too is not a more Brain Bleach-worthy superlative to I Have You Now, My Pretty. Thank God.
 * Ancient Grome is not a reference to the god of Earth in the Elric of Melnibone universe.
 * And Another Thing is not related in any way to And Some Other Stuff.
 * And Knowing Is Half the Battle does not refer to knowing a specific strategy that is needed to defeat a given boss.
 * And the Rest is not about a nap someone takes following a lot of physical activity.
 * And Your Reward Is Clothes has nothing to do with freeing servant spirits, fairy-tale or otherwise.
 * Nor is it about subjecting impoverished people in third-world countries to competitions with getting clothes to wear as an incentive.
 * Angrish has nothing to do with Ang Lee.
 * An Animal Eye Spy is not a spy with those slit pupils of a cat or the rectangular pupils of a goat, nor is it an I Spy book with a biological theme.
 * The Animation Age Ghetto is not Toon Town. Nor does it refer to Fat Albert's neighbourhood.
 * The word "animate" in Animate Inanimate Object is not a verb, and that trope, therefore, is not the name of a spell.
 * Ankle Drag has nothing to do with cross-dressing feet.
 * Annoying Arrows are not arrow signs that try to lead you in the wrong direction. Nor are they found anywhere in Dance Dance Revolution songs, however annoying they may be.
 * An Anti-Christmas Song does not (necessarily) celebrate the birth of the Antichrist.
 * Anti-Human Alliance is not (necessarily) about the Orcish Horde in Warcraft.
 * Anvilicious is not about the taste of anvils or other metalworking equipment. It also has nothing to do with dropping anvils on cartoon characters, and less than nothing to do with the passages in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold scored for 18 anvils.
 * Anyone You Know is a question, not an incomplete statement.
 * Apocalypse Not doesn't refer to any trope used in a similarly named episode of Charmed.
 * Apocalypse of the Week is not about shows that threaten to end existence in a different way every episode.
 * Apocalypse Wow is not about what happened just before the latest World of Warcraft expansion (though it might fit).
 * Apocalyptic Log has nothing to do with world-ending lumber, though one could conceivably be created as a result of it.
 * Nor is it about the logarithm with base 666.
 * Apple of Discord has little to do with the computer maker or the chat service, though choosing between them and a competitor might count.
 * Arakawa Under the Bridge is not about the author of Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa) getting drunk or becoming homeless.
 * Arc Number is not the integral from a to b of the square root of (1 + f'(x) ^2).
 * Nor is it the telephone number of the local chapter of an organization advocating for people with intellectual disabilities.
 * Arc Welding is not about welding metal using arcing electricity.
 * Arch Enemy is not an example of Malevolent Architecture.
 * Nor someone who opposes building rounded doorways.
 * Nor about malevolent footwear.
 * Nor a Big Bad who lasts through a single season.
 * Armed with Canon is not about usage of Canon cameras as weapons.
 * An Arm Cannon is not a cannon that shoots arms at people.
 * Likewise, a Shoulder Cannon is not a cannon that shoots shoulders and Leg Cannon for legs.
 * And a Hand Cannon is not...well, you get the point.
 * Meanwhile, an Armed Blag is not a weblog with a gun. Nor even a weblog with limbs.
 * Armor-Piercing Slap is not literally an Armor-Piercing Attack, because that would hurt a lot. (except for Ms Mowz in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
 * Armor-Piercing Question is not a particularly inquisitive case of Make Me Wanna Shout.
 * Nor is it about asking a question about how to pierce armour, or about asking how someone's armour was pierced.
 * An Arms Dealer probably doesn't sell Artificial Limbs.
 * Artificial Brilliance has nothing to do with Polishing The Turd.
 * Artistic License is not a card that says someone is part of a painter's guild.
 * Nor does it mean you need a license to be an artist.
 * Nor is it about the free software license of the Perl programming language.
 * Art Style Dissonance is not about a single visual work using several art-styles that do not match. That's Art Shift or Non-Standard Character Design.
 * An Ascended Extra most likely did not Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence.
 * Similarly, Ascended Fanboy is not about Fanboy doing exactly that.
 * Ash Face is not someone whose face has a resemblence of a certain deciduous tree. Or S-Mart employee. Or a Pokémon trainer.
 * Ass in a Lion Skin is not about covering one's derrière with a mane.
 * Ass Kicks You is not about a donkey kicking someone.
 * Nor is it merely the act of a complete jerk who kicks you.
 * Asshole Victim is not about what Borat's producer did to him during the infamous naked fight.
 * Also, Asshole Victim is not the same thing as Ungrateful Bastard.
 * Nor is it the victim of an asshole.
 * Ass Pull is not about carts pulled by donkeys.
 * Ass Shove is similarly not about a donkey shoving people. Nor is it about using your butt to shove people.
 * A-Team Firing is not an occasion where everyone on the team gets fired.
 * Ate His Gun is not about monsters eating your weapons.
 * Or about where Sergent Schlock stores his plasma cannon
 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever is not The Stoic's response to the Big No.
 * Nor is it a boss battle with a giant version of Mother 3's "Whatever" enemy.
 * Attention Whore is not commanding a hooker to listen to you.
 * Nor it is a warning to other people that a woman of low morality is approaching.
 * The Artifact is not about the contents of Section 5.
 * Nor is it your reward for sucking up to your god in a Roguelike.
 * Author Appeal does not necessarily encompass everything an author likes.
 * Nor is it about appealing to an author to get Fanon to get included in the Canon.
 * Nor is it about an author attempting to have a legal case reviewed by a higher court.
 * Auto Doc has little-to-nothing to do with Ratchet. And he'd resent you for thinking of him like that.
 * Auto Erotica is not about having sex with a Transformers. If you want that, it's not hard to find on the Internet... or official merchandise.
 * It also has nothing to do with masturbation.
 * Or with anthropomorphic cars making out.
 * Awesome Moment of Crowning has nothing to do with giving birth.
 * Or dentistry.
 * Awesomeness By Analysis doesn't mean scientifically proving that something is awesome.
 * An Axe to Grind doesn't mean Forced Level Grinding to be able to carry an axe.
 * Axes At School has nothing to do with Cartesian Geometry. Or bringing guitars to class.

B

 * The "B" Grade is not about B Movies. It is also not a trope about the use of Grade B milk, eggs or meat. Or bees.
 * Babies Ever After are not young children who never age.
 * Nor is it about constantly having kids.
 * Baby Boomers are not the people that are born just after World War II.
 * Nor does it mean the baby was away, and has just returned.
 * It's not about an infant's vengeance, either.
 * Back for the Dead is not about retrieving corpses or sacrificing people's backs to the deceased.
 * Background Halo doesn't mean an Xbox first-person shooter or a Beyoncé song is playing behind the dialogue.
 * Back-to-Back Badasses is not a sex position.
 * Back to School is not about what happens every year when annual school break ends, such as September in USA.
 * The Backwards R is not about stereotypical kids-style writing where the letters are backwards (like the Toys "R" Us logo).
 * A Badass is not how a stereotypically weight-conscious woman sees her behind.
 * Neither is it about a dumb and uncooperative farm animal.
 * Although Granny Weatherwax lives in the village of Bad Ass, which is named for said animal. She fits the original trope too.
 * Badass Abnormal is not about an abnormal badass. That would be Crazy Awesome.
 * Badass Creed is not a Fan Nickname for Assassin's Creed. Though the titular assassin is badass.
 * Nor does it insinuate that Scott Stapp has somehow become awesome.
 * And however bad ass he might be, it also has nothing to do with Apollo Creed.
 * A Badass Driver is not the low-level program allowing for the communication between the hardware and software of a Super Robot. Nor is it the incompetent controller of a donkey. And it's certainly not a particularly awesome golf club.
 * A Badass Longcoat is not about the piece of attire. It is not used to cover a particularly unattractive butt, either.
 * Similarly, Badass Long Hair is not Godiva Hair that covers an unattractive butt.
 * Badass Normal is not about having so many badasses to the point of being the norm.
 * Badass Transplant is not about getting a transplanted posterior that is rather unattractive, nor is it about said posterior being "bad" in the Michael Jackson sense, either. Nor does it have anything to do with transplanting a butt that May Contain Evil.
 * A Bad Boss doesn't mean he's That One Boss or the boss of a Scrappy Level, nor is he an Anticlimax Boss or a Warmup Boss.
 * Bad Future is not synonymous with Future Imperfect.
 * Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work does not imply a correlation between villains and blue collar employees.
 * Bad Impressionists are not painters who failed miserably at painting pictures in the art style popularized by Claude Monet.
 * Badly-Battered Babysitter is not about Rosalyn and other babysitters whom children love to abuse, nor is it a badly-prepared pastry mixture that somehow managed to get a job concerning childcare (nor the other way round).
 * Bad Present has nothing to do with giving gifts.
 * Bad Powers, Bad People is not about how being evil functions as a source of energy for villains.
 * Bait the Dog does not involve covering a dog with something to lure out something else, nor does it involve obscene acts.
 * Balloon Belly is not about pregnancy fetishes.
 * Our Banana Republic will not sell you apparel at moderately high prices. It is likely, however, that our Banana Republic will make the apparel that your Banana Republic will sell you at moderately high prices.
 * Nor is it a nation of bananas.
 * Banana In the Tailpipe is not a Double Entendre. Not intentionally, anyway.
 * Bang Bang BANG is not the anime trope where an intense collision is shown three times in rapid succession. Nor is it about an increasingly frantic knock at one's door. Or, you know, that. Neither is it about the Mozambique Drill - you want Finishing Move for that. It's most certainly not about Bang Shishigami.
 * Banging Pots and Pans is not a subtrope of Cargo Ship.
 * Banjo Ginga is not about Kazooie being replaced by a certain character from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS in the next Banjo game...but I want to play it anyways.
 * Bar Brawl is not the sentiment that most Super Smash Bros.. Melee players show towards its sequel
 * In particular, it's not preceded by Bar Melee nor followed by Bar For.
 * Nor is it a knockdown, drag-out fight between pieces of metal, establishments that serve alcohol, and organizations that provide various professional licences.
 * Bar Sinister is not a place where villains meet to drink and scheme.
 * Nor is it the arch nemesis of Underdog.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk is not the result of a certain OCD-suffering detective getting fed up with the unsightly hair on his hands.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk is also not a Fisted Monk that took his clothes off.
 * Nor does he charge into combine ambushes and make you lose the Escort Mission.
 * Bare-Handed Truck Stop is not a place where you can get fuel and a quick lunch even if you aren't wearing gloves.
 * Basic Commercial Types doesn't refer to classes in a library that Visual Basic programmers have to pay for.
 * The Basilisk is a redirect to Brown Note. It is not about the actual mythological creature called the basilisk, or about harmless South American lizards that can run on water.
 * For that matter, it has nothing to do with feuding ninjas in early Tokugawa-era Japan
 * Bathtub Bonding is not about attaching bathtubs together.
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space is not a sister trope of Batman Can Breathe... except
 * Batman in My Basement is not an Unusual Euphemism.
 * Batman Gambit is not a DC/Marvel crossover comic. But it should be.
 * Battle Strip is not a duel to see who could do the best striptease.
 * It also does involve a strip version of Battleship.
 * A Bavarian Fire Drill is not a flaming drill from that German state.
 * It is also not the act of dousing a fire by dumping Bavarian cream on it, or cream-filled donuts for that matter. It's a waste of good cream.
 * Beam-O-War is not a wargame featuring the talking video game console from Adventure Time.
 * Beam Spam is not using an Exposition Beam to deliver unwanted ads. Neither is it unsolicited email advertising for construction materials, nor structural members made from canned, seasoned pork product...
 * Beard of Evil is not Lucy Saxon's Fan Nickname...
 * Beard of Sorrow has nothing to do with the fact that Julius Belmont has more facial hair than the rest of his family.
 * A Beat Panel may have masturbation in it, but it is not what the trope is about.
 * It may also involve the skateboarding Idiot Hero from The World Ends With You, but that isn't what the trope's about, either.
 * It also doesn't involve popular music from the sixties.
 * The Beautiful Elite are not synonymous with The Fair Folk. Confuse the two at your peril.
 * Nor is it all relative to the size of your steeple.
 * Becoming the Mask has nothing to do with the movie The Mask, nor does it involve a mask fusing to your face. Nor does it actually involve literally becoming a mask.
 * Beef Gate is not a scandal in the meat-packing industry.
 * Nor is it a gate made out of meat.
 * Beehive Barrier is not about the Castelia City gym.
 * Beergasm is not about alcohol getting sexually aroused.
 * Nor does it refer to beer as Fetish Fuel.
 * Beeping Computers is not what what a character might say after deleting an important file, on a show that censors swearing.
 * Behind the Black is not about standing behind a Token Minority.
 * Nor is it about standing behind Sirius or Jacob.
 * Being Human Sucks does not reflect our opinion on BBC supernatural soap opera
 * Bellisario's Maxim is not a quote by the Byzantine general.
 * Belly of the Whale, despite the Trope Namer, is not about the common destination of being swallowed.
 * A Berserk Button is not a button you press to start watching Berserk.
 * The Berserker's love for you is in no conceivable way like a truck...unless you're the type who likes to play in highway traffic at rush hour.
 * Best Friends-in-Law has nothing to do with Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth.
 * Best Served Cold is about revenge, not about the argument over whether beer should be drunk at room temperature or chilled.
 * Better as Friends does not refer to how the careers of a certain sitcom's cast went downhill after it ended.
 * Nor is it the claim that any sitcom was Better by a Different Name.
 * Better Than It Sounds is not about great music recorded on very poor media.
 * Nor, despite Bill Nye, is it about Wagner's music.
 * Beware the Superman doesn't necessarily involve Superman.
 * The Big Bad is not necessarily, well, "big".
 * Big Badass Bird of Prey is not about a Cool Ship from Star Trek.
 * A Big Ball of Violence is not a rolling object players chase after in a Blood Sport, nor is it about when one character becomes uncharacteristically violent.
 * A Big Brother Mentor is not about a mentor that uses Orwellian means. Nor is it about Big Brother's Obi Wan.
 * Big Damn Heroes are not necessarily the protagonists of works in the Kaiju or Humongous Mecha genres.
 * Nor is it a moment when you feel like uttering a big "damn" to the heroes. That would be What the Hell, Hero? or Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
 * Despite the names, a Big Eater probably won't eat a Large Ham, a Lemon or a Tomato Surprise.
 * You should keep the Humanitarian away from the Large Ham, however.
 * Big Game is not what a big game hunter hunts.
 * Big No is not a teamup between Dr. No and Mr. Big. It'd be pretty awesome, although Big's still in the little league.
 * Big OMG is not about considering a megadeus to be, well, a mega deus.
 * Nor is it a big Operational Manoeuvre Group.
 * The Bishonen Line is not a Spin-Off of The Onedin Line.
 * In a similar vein, Bishonen is not asking to make their series Shonen.
 * Black and Grey Morality does not refer to the ambiguous morality in some film noir.
 * Black and Nerdy is not a parody of a Chamillionaire song.
 * Black and White Insanity does not refer to the use of Deliberately Monochrome to indicate a character's mental imbalance.
 * Black and White Morality is not about the morality of chess.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with interracial relations, thankfully.
 * A Black Bug Room is not a room that is literally filled with black bugs. Well, it might be if you have insect phobia.
 * It is also not the location where the plot of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis takes place.
 * Black Comedy is not comedy only amusing to blacks. Promise.
 * Nor is it a comedy with an all black cast.
 * Black Eyes of Evil are not the result of punching villains in the face.
 * Nor are Black Eyes of Crazy the result of picking on someone three times your size.
 * A Black Knight is not The Dark Knight. The latter however is meant to be a protagonist character who instills fear.
 * Nor is a black knight an African-American in shining armor. Except in the case of one particular Martin Lawrence movie.
 * Black Magic is not used by black people, unless you count 8-bit black mages. More specifically, a Black Magician Girl is not a female Magical Negro.
 * And Disney villains from New Orleans.
 * A Black Magician Girl is not a female African-American magic user.
 * Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word, but not because the preferred term is "African-American man".
 * Black Speech is not about how the overly stereotypical black person talks.
 * The Black Hole is not the main title for Black Holes, although the subject is similar. The main entry for Black Holes is Black Holes Suck.
 * A Blade of Grass Cut is not about weaponizing grass plucked from the ground.
 * A Blade on a Stick is not a form of snack food that caters to one's masochistic desires, or to those with suicidal tendencies. Also, since they swallow blades vertically, sword-swallowers will be unable to properly partake of this without removing the blades from the stick. The stick will also have to be particularly strong or the blades very light, to prevent the stick from snapping. (Yup...)
 * Neither is it Blade... ON A STICK!
 * A Blade Run is not executed by a Blade Runner, in either the Ridley Scott or Alan E. Nourse senses of the title.
 * It's also not a Minimalist Run in which one uses only a sword.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with Emo Teens.
 * Bland-Name Product is not about a product with a dull name.
 * Nor is it a mistranslation of "Brand Name Product" in Japanese Ranguage.
 * The Blank is not a character with generic looks and without personality.
 * Nor is it a Final Fantasy IX character.
 * Nor the type of gun cartridge.
 * Bleed'Em and Weep is not about Tears of Blood.
 * Blessed with Suck is in fact about Rogue (along with others), but not in that way.
 * It is not about Kirby—or even Kirby.
 * It is not about god giving a vacuum cleaner greater power.
 * Blind Bashing is not about making fun of blind people. Nor getting beat up by them (presumably due to the aforementioned insults).
 * Blind Idiot Translation does not involve the blind idiot god, Azathoth. It's not a translation by blind idiots either, although it sure sounds like it could be.
 * Blinded by the Light doesn't involve being wrapped up like a douche. Or being cut loose like a deuce either.
 * Blinding Bangs is not about flash grenades going off and causing temporary blindness.
 * Bling Bling Bang is not a sexual trope.
 * It is now.
 * Bloody Tropes is not a British expletive regarding tropes.
 * Blue and Orange Morality is not about the in-game coloration of Mass Effect's moral choice system. Nor is it a discussion of the ethics of using Portal guns.
 * Blue Fever does not mean that the Na'vi, The Smurfs or the Bolians and Andorians are Fetish Fuel for you.
 * Nor is it an illness that turns you blue.
 * A Bluenose Bowdlerizer is not a bowdlerizer from Nova Scotia.
 * Well, not necessarily, anyway...
 * Nor does it have anything to do with a certain reindeer pirate.
 * Blue Velvet is not about the room Igor hangs out in.
 * Bob Haircut is not a hairstylist with a suspiciously-fitting name.
 * A Body Count Competition isn't to see who estimates an event's crowd size from photos most accurately.
 * Bodyguard Crush is not a quote from a bodyguard who talks in the third person and in Hulk Speak, nor does it involve the act of crushing bodyguards.
 * Nor is it a soda that's been flavored with bodyguards.
 * Body Surf does not refer to the ability of the protagonist of Prototype to use random citizens and soldiers as skateboards.
 * Bokukko is not a sexual act found in Japanese porn.
 * Boldly Coming is not about brazenly orgasming. That would be The Immodest Orgasm.
 * You're on the right track, though.
 * It's not about bold introductions, unfortunately.
 * Bolero Effect has nothing to do with open-fronted jackets.
 * Bond Breaker is not a person who tries to break James Bond by torturing him.
 * Bond Creatures is not about anything that has to do with James Bond (which tends to be a bit short on Creatures in general).
 * Boob Bite is not about breasts that bite.
 * Boobs of Steel is just a figure of speech; calm down. It is also not Breast Plate, nor is it a comment on the logic of the Robot Girl fetish.
 * It's not Distaff Counterpart to Duke Nukem's Balls of Steel.
 * Book Ends is not a way to say a story had no resolution. Neither is saying it a way of invoking the spirit of Captain Obvious.
 * It also has nothing to do with Shepherd from Firefly.
 * Boom Up and Over has nothing to do with rocket jumping.
 * Boom Stick has nothing to do with Ash's shotgun from Army of Darkness.
 * A Boring Insult is not an insult that is boring, but insulting someone by saying they are boring.
 * It's also not insulting a drill that doesn't work properly.
 * Born in the Theatre has nothing to do with the stage.
 * Boss Games actually do tend to be pretty boss, but that's not what the trope is about. Nor is it about the longer minigames you encounter at certain intervals in Wario Ware.
 * Boss Rush is not what happens when Dr. Wily reprograms him.
 * Nor does it have to do with a particularly awesome Canadian band.
 * Nor does it have to do with a certain right-wing pundit.
 * Bottomless Magazines are not about how fashion magazines have a hell of a lot of pages.
 * Nor is it a magazine with the bottom half missing.
 * Nor is it a swimsuit edition with the bottom half missing.
 * Bowel-Breaking Bricks are not turds that have learned powerful karate chops.
 * Boxed Crook is not about prizefighting ex-cons.
 * Boys Love Game is not about how males are much more interested in hunting or picking up.
 * Boys Love Notes is not an invitation to shower male classmates with pieces of notebook paper with "DO YOU LOVE ME Y/Y?" written on them.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with boys obsessed with music theory.
 * Boys Love Tropes is not how boys are fascinated with tropes.
 * Bragging Rights Rewards aren't rewards that have absolutely no use other than allowing you to brag; those are Cosmetic Awards.
 * Brain Bleach is not a Shonen Anime .
 * A Brain In a Jar is generally a working brain. It does not refer to simply having a brain in a jar; that would be Having a Heart.
 * Brand X does not refer to the jazz/fusion band featuring Phil Collins.
 * Breaking the Bonds does not, infact, refer to a Face Heel Turn that involves alienating all your friends.
 * Nor is it Break the Haughty applied to a baseball player.
 * Neither has it to do with chemistry... Most of the time anyway.
 * It's got nothing to do with the usual goal of villains putting 007 in a Death Trap. (Except Goldfinger.) Neither does it have to do with "breaking" him via Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique.
 * Breaking in Old Habits doesn't refer to b-boy dancing in a nun uniform.
 * Breakout Character has more examples than just "the paddle and the ball".
 * BFS is not an algorithm for searching a trope wiki for a particular page.
 * Breakup Breakout isn't when getting dumped somehow causes you to get acne. Or when playing Breakout becomes such Serious Business that it ends your relationship.
 * Briar Patching has nothing to do with fixing particularly thorny problems in a game's programming, nor with administering first aid to a sleeping beauty.
 * Brick Break has nothing to do with video games like Breakout.
 * Brick Joke is not making fun of toys with poor articulation. Or video games and MP3 players that stopped working.
 * Bridge Bunnies is not about anthropomorphic rabbits playing cards. Nor should one assume that it applies to fans of a certain webcomic in any way, shape, or form.
 * It is also not about a group of Killer Rabbits lurking around a Troll Bridge.
 * Briefcase Blaster is not a gun that shoots briefcases.
 * The Brigadier will not be promoted to a Modern Major-General, thank you.
 * Bright Is Not Good does not refer to Dr. Bright from SCP Foundation (even though it's very much true.)
 * Bring My Red Jacket doesn't involve getting a Red Shirt ready for a mission.
 * Bring News Back is not a complaint about the quality of modern journalism.
 * It is not a command you issue to a dog that has stolen your paper.
 * British Coppers has nothing to do with the metal, or money made from it.
 * British Stuffiness is not a trope about British houses (real or fictional) that have no air conditioning. Nor is it what happens to Englishmen during allergy season.
 * A Broke Episode is not an episode that is broken.
 * A Broken Ace is not a torn playing card.
 * A Broken Aesop is not an Aesop that manages to go Over Nine Thousand.
 * Broken Base is not an architectural fault. Not yet, anyway.
 * You are unlikely to reach it using a Broken Bridge.
 * And not for the obvious reason either.
 * It also has nothing to do with a sodium hydroxide tablet being broken in half.
 * A Broken Bird isn't an injured avian or a fractured middle finger.
 * Broken Heel isn't what happens when a villain's been through so much shit they decide to give up.
 * None of the above are "broken" in the sense of game-breakingly overpowered.
 * Bros Before Hoes does not mean prioritizing your brother before a certain farming implement.
 * Brother Chuck has nothing to do with throwing your siblings around.
 * Nor is it Aaron Norris's motivation for directing.
 * Brought to You by The Letter "S" has little if anything to do with Sesame Street.
 * A Brown Note is not a version of the Death Note that instead of killing the victim, gives him bowel attacks.
 * It is also not related to Editorial Synesthesia.
 * Though |Woody and some of the other toys do Bug Buzz, the trope title is a noun phrase, not a verb and its object.
 * Bullet Hell is not the afterlife for sinful bullets.
 * Nor is it a component of an abysmal powerpoint presentation.
 * Bullet Holes and Revelations is not about having a religious epiphany as a result of seeing bullet holes in the wall behind you.
 * The Bumblebee (now Kid Appeal Character) is not the leader of Titans East. Nor is it a fuzzy stinging insect that lives in hives.
 * The Bumblebee is also not the translated The Dumbledore.
 * In terms of tropes, Whatever-Bunnies do not refer to fans of a certain webcomic, unless they do in fact fit the correct trope...
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer is not about lawyers who do the "bunny ears" against people of the side when pictures/sketches are taken.
 * Butterfly of Doom is not what Yumehara Nozomi produces to defeat the Monster of the Week. It's also not a new evolutionary level for Joachim Valentine...or the Papillon Mask creator... or Mothra... or Wormy. Nobody ever suspects it, either. And it's certainly not a referece to the One-Winged Angel form of 52's Big Bad. Or the Hell Butterflies in Bleach.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with The Mighty Monarch.
 * It has absolutely nothing to do with Yuyuko and her butterfly-danmaku, either.
 * Dream Apocalypse is not a ridiculously over-the-top powered-up version of the non-Butterfly of Doom thing Nozomi uses to defeat the Monster of the Week.
 * Schrödinger's Butterfly is not about when it's unclear whether a character is a Magical Girl or not.
 * But You Screw One Goat! is not under any circumstances to be interpreted as a set of instructions. TV Tropes holds no legal responsibility for the consequences if you do.
 * Nor is it someone's frustration over somebody who screwed two goats when he was only supposed to screw one.
 * By Wall That Is Holey has nothing to do with the Pyramus and Thisbe play performed by the artisans in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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 * Caffeine Bullet Time is not a version of Bullet Time exclusive to bullets made of or containing caffeine.
 * Call Back has nothing to do with voicemail.
 * A Calling Card is not a prepaid card used to place long distance or payphone calls.
 * Calling Your Attacks has jacksquat to do with giving salutations to your moves.
 * Calling Your Orgasms is not about a character announcing what his or her signature orgasms are called while performing them.
 * Camera Abuse is not about the 60's cinema overuse of the "zoom" feature. It is not about applying Rule 34 to videocameras, either.
 * Camera Screw is also not about applying Rule 34 to videocameras. Nor does it describe the making of a sex tape.
 * It's not about the components of camera.
 * Nor about masturbating with a camera.
 * Campbellian Hero is not related to either Bruce or Joseph Campbell, and is unlikely to operate in Campbell Country... for long.
 * Nor does he necessarily have anything to do with a need to Solve the Soup Cans.
 * Nor with anything involving a certain Afro-British super-model.
 * Camp is not about standing on one spot and waiting for the kill.
 * Nor does it involve setting up a tent.
 * Camp Gay is not a summer camp full of gay people. It is also not how a less-than-bright person would describe a dreadful (or joyous) time at camp to his parents.
 * Nor does it involve standing in one spot and waiting for homosexuals.
 * Camp Straight does not refer to summer camps designed to "cure" homosexuality.
 * Nor is it about standing on one spot and waiting for the kill without crouching or proning.
 * Nor does it involve the challenges of setting up a tent while suffering from OCD.
 * Candle Jack is not about "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick."
 * Canis Latinicus has nothing to do with Latino talking dogs. Nor did it ever appear as a fake Linneaean classification for Wile E. Coyote.
 * Cannot Spit It Out is not about finding out your girlfriend is a Lethal Chef the first time she cooks for you.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with Face Full of Alien Wingwong
 * Canon is not about a camera company.
 * Canon Defilement is not a butchering of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, no matter what your uppity "cultured" relatives may say about Canon Rock.
 * Or smashing a camera with a hammer.
 * Canon Sue is not the reaction to Canon Defilement (though the former may be involved in the latter).
 * Nor is it about a person named Sue who uses Canon brand products.
 * Canon Wank, Fan Wank, and Script Wank have nothing to do with masturbation.
 * Can't Hold His Liquor does not mean characters who keep fumbling their drink glasses and bottles.
 * The Cape (trope) has nothing to do with the place where the Kennedy Space Center is located.
 * Cape Wings is not when having a cape is what allows a character to fly.
 * A Captain Ersatz is not a person who only pretends to have military rank.
 * Card-Carrying Villain is not about villains who carry actual cards with them. Not even if it's their whole motif.
 * It is also not about a villain who has a metaphorical ace up his sleeve.
 * Also not to be confused with a villain who metaphorically carries all the cards.
 * It's not about Moe Szyslak either.
 * Car Fu is not a Greek island made of cars. It is also not what you say to your car after it breaks down one too many times. Nor is it the martial arts discipline Jazz is a master of.
 * Cargo Envy is not about truck drivers looking with jealousy upon the heavily loaded vehicles of their colleagues.
 * Cargo Ship, Ship-to-Ship Combat (and—well, pretty much anything listed under Shipping Tropes) have nothing to do with actual sea vessels or naval transportation. But with this in mind, there are exceptions:
 * Cool Ship is not about pairing two Ensemble Darkhorse characters together.
 * Ghost Ship is not when someone from your OTP departs their mortal coil.
 * Car Meets House is not a mashup between a show about a medical jerkass and anything else.
 * A Carpet of Virility refers to a man's chest hair. It does not refer to any other area of body hair.
 * Carried by the Host has nothing to do with diseases.
 * Carry the One has nothing to do with transporting The Chosen One.
 * Cartwright Curse: Not named after Nancy Cartwright. (¡Ay, caramba!)
 * Cassandra Did It is not the trope wherein a character always predicting some particular brand of doom, but who is never believed, actually does implement said doom himself because he's tired of being made fun of and wants to be right for once.
 * Cast from Hit Points: Doesn't mean molded out of hitpoints. That's Made of Iron.
 * Casting a Shadow is not when an actor is cast solely because the shadow of his/her face in profile looks cool. It also doesn't mean that an actor is hired without anyone checking beforehand how he/she looks like.
 * A Casting Gag is not a physical reaction to a particularly bad example of What the Hell, Casting Agency?.
 * Cataclysm Climax isn't what happens when you decide to take the world with you while going Out with a Bang.
 * Neither is is the inevitable fight against Deathwing.
 * It is also not an orgasm that causes a disaster.
 * Catgirl is not the younger version of Catwoman. Nor is it one that is both female and feline. It only applies Little Bit Beastly with cat ears and sometimes a tail, but otherwise are look mostly like a normal person. Characters with fur all over should be under other tropes.
 * Cat Scare is not where a cat scares a person by popping out of a drawer.
 * Ceiling Banger is not a more extreme Wall Banger, or about a woman trying to break through the proverbial Glass Ceiling, or about people reaching up and accidentally hitting their head on the ceiling.
 * Censor Steam is not what Valve does, except when it is.
 * Censorship Bureau is not about the drawers in which you hide your porn.
 * Chain Lightning is not about a chain made out of lightning, nor an electrified chain.
 * Chainsaw Good is not about Character Alignment of chainsaws.
 * Nor is it a cross between Stupid Good and Ax Crazy.
 * Challenging the Chief has nothing to do with the contents of a typical episode of Retro Game Master.
 * Chandler's Law is not "When in doubt, have a man burst into the room and be funny
 * Changed My Jumper: you may find this hard to believe, but there was this movie called Jumper...
 * Also nothing to do with changing settings on a computer motherboard.
 * Also nothing to do with jumper cables.
 * Nor is it particularly about cleaning up after an episode of Bring My Brown Pants.
 * This has nothing to do with changing Ogmo's skin for that matter.
 * Changed My Mind, Kid has a comma in its name: it is not the name of a sidekick with psychic powers.
 * Changeling Fantasy has little to do with The Fair Folk, or Voluntary Shapeshifting. In particular, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Beast Boy's idle daydreams.
 * Character Calculus has nothing to do with fictional math classrooms.
 * Character Derailment does not involve a character in a Train Crash.
 * Charity Ball is not about a character who becomes briefly and unexpectedly generous, à la Idiot Ball.
 * Charlie Brown From Outta Town is a wrestling storyline, not a Peanuts storyline.
 * Chekhov's Gun has nothing to do with Chekov's Gun, and vice versa. We apologise sheepishly for any confusion.
 * Chekhov's Pun does not refer to a long story-spanning build-up that leads to a terrible pun.
 * Nor is it an alternate title for A Worldwide Punomenon. If it were, the title would be an example of the original trope.
 * Nor is it about a throwaway, groan-worthy joke that turns out to be important to the plot.
 * Cherry Tapping is not about deflowering virgins (don't worry, we all made that mistake).
 * Nor is it about drawing juice from small red fruits.
 * Neither does it refer to a British schoolboy prank where you ring a person's doorbell and then run away very fast.
 * A Cheshire Cat Grin is not one that remains in the air after the person who grinned goes away.
 * A Chest Insignia does not depict the pectoral area.
 * Chest Monster is not about off-puttingly creative romantic language. It isn't about Chestbursters from Alien either. Nor is is it about creatures without a head that have a face on their torso. It is neither a particularly large pair of breasts that entrap unwitting persons within nor the pectoral area of an especially hirsute man. It's not a shirt that is fearsome, either.
 * The Chewbacca Defense does not involve winning a board game through the implied thread of ripping your opponent's arms out of their sockets should you lose.
 * Chewing the Scenery is not a Big Eater masticating parts of the environment around him. Though both may involve ham.
 * Nor is it about a giant (a literal big eater) eating the environment. That's This Billboard Needs Some Salt.
 * Chew Toys are not Pokémon that result from hot Pikachu-on-Blastoise action.
 * Chick Magnets are not people or things that attract the ire of Jack Chick. (The trope's examples would be OVER NINE THOUSAAAAANND!)
 * And on the other hand, Chick Tract has nothing to do with chicks, or even The Chick.
 * Surely, you can't mean that. All chicks are going to Hell.
 * Jack Chickification?
 * Nor does it refer to a fridge magnet with a Jack Chick panel on it.
 * Chick Magnets certainly do not attract attention of poultry.
 * Chickification is sadly not affiliated with poultry...or launching frozen chickens out of a gun. Or Chick tracts.
 * The Chikan is not a nickname for a responsible 12-year-old girl who alternately finds herself playing reluctant partner and tsukkomi to her friend's antics.
 * It also does not refer to the creature people commonly eat eggs of or make into nuggets.
 * Children Raise You does not only apply to parents in Soviet Russia, and neither does Dog Walks You or The Game Plays You.
 * Nor does the latter involve giant robots guiding your movement.
 * Chocolate Baby is not necessarily found in Level Ate or the Sugar Bowl, and probably won't be the victim of a Humanitarian either.
 * Christmas Cake is not about something edible. Unless you mean the other kind of edible.
 * A Chrome Champion is not someone who champions the use of Google Chrome.
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome is not Hero Syndrome WITH MARIJUANA!
 * A Chubby Chaser is not a fat person trying to catch up with someone. Or vice-versa.
 * A Class Representative is not a character who embodies the upper-class, working-class, etc.
 * If you're thinking of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign when you have, say, one wizard in a party of fighters, you're still off.
 * Cloning Blues is not about making duplicates of Blues (a.k.a. Proto Man) from the Mega Man series
 * A Cloudcuckoolander isn't an Apollo Moon Lander touching down in Fluffy Cloud Heaven.
 * Nor is it about Cloud landing into a world of insane people.
 * Club Kid is not about hitting kids with clubs, a kid with a club, children in very adult clubs, kids sneaking into clubs, club houses or the youngest person in an organization.
 * Code Silver: Let's not summon the elderly superheroes, shall we?
 * Let's not summon that white hedgehog with psychic powers, either.
 * Coincidental Accidental Disguise is not what happens in Night Watch to give Keel's scar and eyepatch to Vimes (Try Timey-Wimey Ball).
 * A Cold Reading does require some ad-libbing, but it is not an audition using an unfamiliar script.
 * A Cold Sniper may be stationed in regions featuring extreme temperature, but that isn't what the trope is referring to.
 * Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere is not about the ease of finding a turkey deli sandwich.
 * College Is High School Part 2 is not the sequel to a Stoner Flick titled College Is High School.
 * Comatose Canary is not about how canary birds are used as an early warning system for the presence of toxic gas in mines.
 * A Combat Referee won't (necessarily) come over and physically assault anyone he suspects is breaking the rules.
 * Come Alone isn't about A Date With Rosie Palms.
 * Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are is not connected to the Coming Out Story.
 * Comic Dish is not about entertaining meals, nor is it a plate made of newspaper comics.
 * Coming in Hot .... um, yeah.....
 * Command and Conquer Economy is not a suggestion or a tactic.
 * A Commander Is You is not some sort of Unexpected Gameplay Change to Kingdom of Loathing, it is only named from An Adventurer Is You - neither is it related to the Player Character of Mass Effect.
 * A Compilation Movie doesn't show the build process for a computer program.
 * Complacent Gaming Syndrome does not refer to the villain of The Incredibles content to sit in his lair and play games instead of trying to attack Mr. Incredible.
 * Complete Monster is not about scenes where the mad scientist cackles "IT'S ALIVE!"
 * Nor is it what you get when you solve a Puzzle Boss.
 * Nor is it the 3.5 update to Savage Species.
 * A Composite Character is not what you get after a composite event. Nor does it involve diacritics to Unicode symbols.
 * The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard has nothing to do with your AI boy/girlfriend cheating on you. Well, unless maybe it's an elaborate Lampshade Hanging....
 * The Computer Is Your Friend is not where a game's AI helps you at every opportunity rather than screws you over.
 * Concepts Are Cheap is not about how the production of storyline and character concepts require almost no budget.
 * Conflict is not about the Middle East Political Simulator.
 * Conservation of Ninjutsu is not an attempt to save a dying band of Japanese mythological assassins from extinction.
 * It is also not about saving your ninja as a last resort.
 * A Constructed World is not a manmade planet.
 * While stoners may enjoy both activities, Contemplate Our Navels and Contemplating Your Hands are entirely unrelated tropes.
 * Contemptible Cover is not about scantily-clad characters covering their bodies in shame. (For those, see Naked Freak-Out or Hand or Object Underwear.) Neither is it a So Bad It's Horrible rendition of your favourite piece that the newly-formed neighbourhood garage band is playing.
 * Continuity Creep is not that creepy guy you keep seeing in the background throughout the series.
 * It's not an argumentative fanatic obsessed with continuity issues.
 * A Continuity Lock Out does not happen when the cast and crew of a long running movie or television franchise are happy with their salaries but Management isn't.
 * Nor is it what happens when labor disputes in the middle of production result in things like The Other Darrin, Writer on Board, The Scrappy, The Wesley, and/or Cerebus Syndrome.
 * Continuity Porn does not involve Rule 34. Then, again...
 * Nor is it about a series of porn films with an overarching plot.
 * Continuity Snarl is not an oddly named Dinobot toy. There is no such thing as a Continuity Grimlock; you're probably thinking of Continuity Lock Out.
 * Also, there is no Transformers series named "Transformers: Continuity" which includes Snarl (or Drift) as a cast member. No-one would be that cruel.
 * It's not when a Fan Boy snarls at you because you are confused by the show's confusing plot.
 * Conversation in the Main Page doesn't refer to people editing the home page to have a conversation. It could, if it happened, but it's locked now, so it doesn't.
 * A Conveyor Belt Video is not a video that has conveyor belts in it.
 * A Cool Car or Cool Ship usually isn't made of ice. Nor is the former the move Jin Kisaragi spams to win matches.
 * And a pet made of ice wouldn't be a very Cool Pet at all, since it couldn't do anything.
 * A Cool Ship also isn't about how awesome it would be if those two characters hooked up.
 * Cool, Clear Water is not the cool Florida hometown of the Church of Happyology.
 * Coolest Club Ever is not about bludgeons, and has nothing to do with golf.
 * Cosplay does not (usually) involve people dressing up as Bill Cosby.
 * Costume Inertia does not simply refer to never changing your costume. In fact, Costume Inertia often starts when someone changes their costume.
 * A Country Switch is not about two students enrolled in the Foreign Exchange Program.
 * Covert Pervert is not about a pervert who spies upon people changing with camouflage and binoculars. Nor is it about soldiers on covert ops carrying arround porn.
 * Corrupted Data is not about a certain android from Star Trek: The Next Generation doing a Face Heel Turn.
 * Corruption by a Minor is not about a musical chord that can turn you evil.
 * Country Matters are not exclusive to rural areas. Nor do they refer to nations. Nor to a certain music genre. And it definitely isn't reminding people to be patriotic, either.
 * Courtly Love has nothing to do with Ace Attorney Ho Yay. Don't tell that to the Slash Fic writers, though.
 * Cousin Oliver is not a relative of Tommy.
 * Or Polly.
 * The Cover Changes the Meaning is not when you derive a different interpretation of the contents from taking a good look at a book, DVD/VHS, video game, or even album cover.
 * Covers Always Lie isn't about artists recording pre-existent songs and making it completely different from the original. And/or eclipsing the first recording.
 * Media Research Failure is not about watching anime on a computer as opposed to a VCR or DVD/Blu Ray Player.
 * A Cowboy Cop is not necessarily in a Western.
 * CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable has nothing to do with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
 * Crack is Cheaper has nothing to do with pirated Video Games, although you may as well buy pirated video games because of it.
 * A Crack Pairing is not about what might taste good with freebase cocaine.
 * Cranial Eruption is not about when a character's face turns red and steam shoots from their ears.
 * Crapsack World is not about a world filled with actual bags of crap (although that would count as one).
 * Crazy Prepared is not about planning to go insane. Some of those who are Crazy Prepared are insane to begin with, though.
 * Creator Killer is not a mad robot who murders his own inventor.
 * Creator Speak is not a Super-Trope of Buffy-Speak, for writers other than Joss Whedon.
 * The Creeper is an eccentric DC Comics superhero, not that green walking timebomb from Minecraft or the Scooby Doo villain.
 * Crimefighting with Cash is not about shooting money at the villain.
 * Nor is it using Johnny Cash's music to fight crime.
 * Nor is it about partnering up with him to fight crime.
 * Nor is it what Tango does.
 * Critical Backlashes are not natural 20 Backlash Checks.
 * Critical Existence Failure is not what happens to a work when an author has immunity from editors.
 * Critical Hit is not a work getting praise from critics.
 * If The Croc Is Ticking, the messenger isn't necessarily a native speaker of the Japanese Ranguage.
 * Cross Counter is not repelling demons or undead with crosses or other holy symbols.
 * It's not someone counting crosses in any work under any context for any reason, either.
 * Crosses the Line Twice doesn't mean it crosses back over the first line to become inoffensive.
 * Has nothing to do with the naval tradition.
 * Crossover isn't about left or right arrows in Dance Dance Revolution pressed with the opposite foot.
 * Crossover Ship is not a dimension-travelling naval ship used as a plot basis for a Crossover.
 * Cross Playing does not mean you're role-playing Jesus.
 * Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)/Anime and Manga (Or any of the other pages in this family) does not inherently imply that the anime is awesome. Just bits of it.
 * On that note, Crowning Music of Awesome is not limited to music playing during crowning ceremonies.
 * Crucified Hero Shot doesn't mean use of firearms against someone whom crucifixion fails to kill.
 * Cruel and Unusual Death is not a Psycho for Hire Dog-Kicker Bunny Ears Lawyer Eldritch Abomination of a Grim Reaper or Shinigami. Though Final Destination kinda blurs them together.
 * Crying Freeman is not about a sad, goateed, badass scientist.
 * Crying Wolf is a verb phrase. It has nothing to do with a sad Canis lupus.
 * It is also not related to one of Snake's adversaries in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
 * Crystal Ball isn't about a commentator for MSNBC.
 * Crystal Dragon Jesus is not an Unusual Euphemism, although some people might use it the way the Christian Jesus is invoked. Nor is it a name for an actual character, although it should be.
 * Culture Chop Suey has nothing to do with American culture as described in "Chop Suey" from Flower Drum Song.
 * Culture Justifies Anything is not another way to say "Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke The Culture is on my side!"
 * Nor is it a way of saying you can get away with anything so long as you're classy about it.
 * Culture Police is not people who call you "uncultured" because you haven't read a 35,460,291-page True Art novel in the original Russian edition.
 * Curb Stomp Battle is usually not about fighting by stomping on curbs or using a curbstomp as a Finishing Move.
 * Curse of the Ancients is not about Mummy curses, nor is it about horrors that wiped out the Precursors.
 * Cursed with Awesome is not about being awesome to the point of thinking you're cursed. That's something else altogether.
 * Curtains Match the Window has nothing to do with interior decoration.
 * Cute Mute is not a button for toggling cuteness, nor is it a way to get the kittens to shut up.
 * Cutlass Between the Teeth is not about holding a car between your teeth.
 * A Cut Song is not what the director of a musical sings when he wants the camera to stop rolling (except perhaps in Rent).
 * Cycle of Hurting is not about hitting someone with a bike.