I Thought That Was/R to Z

R

 * R-Type is not a Driving Game.
 * Nor is it an pun about how it's our type of game.
 * Raiden has nothing to do with a certain White-Haired Pretty Boy or a certain Thunder God.
 * Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive is not Raiden Fighters IN HELL!
 * Raiden Fighters Jet does not star Streets of Rage 2's Stage 2 boss.
 * Rance 5D is not Hentai on motorcycles.
 * Random Doom is not a procedurally generated first-person shooter.
 * RapeLay is not an Hentai spinoff of Axelay.
 * Rave Master is not about some cool punk who goes to rave parties. This is not helped by the fact that it's sometimes called Groove Adventure Rave
 * The Ray Series is not the collective group of tropers named Ray.
 * Rayman isn't a part of it, either. The commercials made that abundantly clear.
 * Nor is it a spinoff series based upon the Ray Charles biopic.
 * Razing Storm is not about a literal storm that razes cities.
 * Read or Die is not An Offer You Can't Refuse. Nor is it Electronic Arts' foray into edutainment along the lines of Skate or Die.
 * Red Dawn is not when a character named Dawn becomes a Communist. Nor is it a red-colored dish detergent. Or Pokémon protagonists being shipped.
 * The Red Green Show is not a show dedicated to causing epileptic seizures by rapidly flashing the title colors. They forgot blue.
 * Red vs. Blue is not about the rivalry of the game counterparts of Ash and Gary.
 * Nor is it about Team Fortress 2.
 * Regular Show. "It's anything but."
 * Remina is not a Portmanteau Couple Name for a Crossover Ship based on the part in the Hot Springs Episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann when Kamina kisses a Rei look-alike.
 * Nor does it refer to a remote desktop client for Linux.
 * Rental Magica is not about being able to rent a Puella Magi.
 * RG Veda is not a crossover between The World Ends With You and Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
 * Richie Rich is not an unscrupulous 16th-century politician.
 * Ringer has nothing to do with school bells, church bells, or any other bells whatsoever.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with The Gong Show.
 * Rise of the Planet of the Apes is not a crossover story about the adventures of a cheerful, persona-summoning teenage pop idol who suddenly finds herself on the Planet of the Apes.
 * Robopon has not a Gaiden Game of Patapon, where you play as one of robopons from the series.
 * Rock Band does not involve a group of sentient (or pet) rocks.
 * Rocket Girls is not a Gender Flipped version of Rocket Boys (aka October Sky).
 * Or a girl-centered spinoff of Rocket Power (even if there was episode titled thus).
 * Rocket Power is not about showing off absolute power by blowing up stuff with rockets.
 * It is also not Team Rocket's long-awaited Spin-Off, unfortunately.
 * The Rocky Horror Picture Show isn't a horror film featuring Rocky Balboa.
 * The Room has nothing to do with Silent Hill.
 * Rygar is not a Dig Dug enemy.

S

 * Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is not the end result of Saber and Rider merging together and heading to space.
 * Sousuke Sagara is not a member of The Sagara Family.
 * Neither is Sanosuke.
 * Sailor Moon is not about the moon taking up sailing. Nor it is about a moon where space marines hang out.
 * Not is it the sailing counterpart to Harvest Moon.
 * Neither is it about mooning sailors.
 * It is most especially not about Sun Myong Moon's hyothetical service in the Republic of Korea's navy.
 * Similarity, Sailor Twain is, perhaps unfortunately, not a Sailor Moon fanwork in which Mark Twain or Shania Twain becomes a Sailor Senshi.
 * The Saints of Saints Row don't need to row. They can swim.
 * The movie Salt is not a Genre Shift sequel to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory about the grown-up, Took a Level in Badass adventures of Veruca Salt.
 * Nor is it about sodium chloride. Or ionic compounds in general, for that matter.
 * Samurai Gun is not about the Downer Ending where the swordsman is shot dead, symbolizing the beginning of the Meiji era and the end of the golden age of samurai.
 * Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is not the practice of selling breakfast cereal using characters from Saturday morning cartoons.
 * Scarface is not about Al Capone, nor is it about Andre Norton's book of the same name.
 * Nor is it the biography of a certain Fullmetal Alchemist character
 * The Scarlet Letter is not a letter written by Remilia Scarlet or her sister.
 * Nor is it a letter that reads "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
 * Scatman John was not John Stalvern's zombie form being a turd mutant.
 * The SCP Foundation is not devoted to obsoleting FTP.
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is not a crossover with the band Plumtree and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
 * Nor is it an exceptionally big law case.
 * Nor is it about pilgrims.
 * Shadow Hearts is not a Darker and Edgier spinoff of Kingdom Hearts.
 * Section 8 (video game) is not the Hero of Another Story of Section Nine.
 * It is also not a predecessor to Section 13.
 * Sengoku Otome is not Sengoku Basara
 * Nor does it feature the cast of Mai-Otome as samurai.
 * Shadows are not central to the gameplay of Shadow of the Colossus or Shadow the Hedgehog or Shadows of the Empire.
 * Shattered World is not Michael Reeves' The Shattered World; the latter is only an example of it.
 * Shazam is the Catch Phrase of a character that has nothing to do with Gomer Pyle.
 * Nor a recorded music identification service.
 * The Sheik is not a spin-off of Ocarina of Time about Zelda's seven-year survival, no matter how much we wish for that to happen.
 * SHUFFLE! has nothing to do with card games, especially not children's card games.
 * Shugo Chara has nothing at all to do with Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela.
 * Shut Hell does not involve sealing away Demonic Invaders. Or tersely telling others to be quiet.
 * Sid Meier did not buy the Pittsburgh Pirates.
 * Silent Hill has No Mouth, and it cannot scream.
 * Nor is it related to the Dance Dance Revolution song "Silent Hill", even though they're both published by Konami.
 * Silent Hill 4: The Room does not feature Tommy Wiseau in any capacity.
 * Silent Moebius does not involve Dr. Robotnik SHUTTING UP EVERYONE!
 * Nor is it about Mobius turning into a disturbing and twisted inescapable reality.
 * Silverwing is not about aircrafts with wings made of silver.
 * Sunwing has nothing to do with phoenixes (or with Princess Celestia).
 * Neither does Firewing.
 * Shoot 'Em Up has absolutely nothing to do with a video game genre.
 * Skip Beat! is not about beating up the blond guy from The Electric Company, or ignoring The World Ends With You's skateboarding Idiot Hero.
 * Slash Report is not a news show about Slash Fics.
 * Slayers is not about the Mooks in Krull.
 * Nor is it another Spin-Off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * Sledge Hammer! has nothing to do with Triple H's weapon of choice.
 * Or the song by Peter Gabriel, although both came out the same year.
 * The Slender Man Mythos is not about from Tales of Symphonia.
 * Or Nick and Nora Charles.
 * The Small One is not about the least physically imposing member of a Five-Man Band or a Quirky Miniboss Squad. Or even The Runt At the End, for that matter.
 * Smallville is not about a quirky community of dwarves.
 * The Snakes in Snakes on a Plane are not Naked, Solid, Liquid, Solidus, or Plissken.
 * Nor are they on a two-dimensional surface with indefinite area.
 * The Song of Roland isn't the demonstration tune included with a Linear Arithmetic synthesizer.
 * Sonic and The Black Knight does not end with "and The Dark Knight".
 * Nor is it a crossover with Code Geass.
 * It also does not involve any member of the aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
 * ... who also have nothing to do with the Black Knights in Code Geass.
 * Nor is it a statement that none shall pass the fast-food outlet.
 * And more Black Knights to confuse with. These Black Knight puns sure are easy to make, too.
 * Sonic the Hedgehog is not about a hedgehog with Make Me Wanna Shout and Brown Note powers.
 * Sons of Anarchy is not a Spin Offspring of Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt.
 * Sophie's Choice and Sophie's World are not parts of a series.
 * The Sopranos probably wouldn't appreciate it if you asked them to sing you a song
 * Soul Eater is not the True Rune from Suikoden.
 * Or the cannibal counterpart to the 1990 movie Soultaker and/or the anime series The Soul Taker (note the capitalization).
 * Soul Nomad and The World Eaters is not a crossover with Warhammer 40,000. Neither does it have anything to do with soul-playing nomads.
 * Space Ghost and Space Ghost Coast to Coast are not animated adaptations of Event Horizon.
 * Space Invaders Extreme is not Space Invaders WITH EXTREME SPORTS!
 * Special A is not related to Special K cereal.
 * Spice and Wolf is not a Crack Pairing between Wolf O'Donnell (or Wolf Blitzer) and a Spice Girls.
 * Neither is this a documentary of canines on Arrakis.
 * Spice World has nothing to do with Arrakis, either.
 * Spiral actually has nothing to do with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's also unrelated to Uzumaki.
 * Spiral Knights is not a Gurren Lagann game. Unfortunately.
 * Spy Hunter is not a crossover Gaiden Game of Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress.
 * Spot the Dog is not a canine version of Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo?
 * Spyro the Dragon is not a furry fusion of the Spy and the Pyro.
 * Nor is it about a former US vice president being a dragon, or being The Dragon.
 * STALKER does not follow people to sexually harass them, and is not a cyborg either.
 * StarCraft is not about crafting stars. You want Katamari Damacy. Nor is it about stars, either celebrity or stellar, taking up arts and crafts.
 * Star Fleet is not a Star Trek game.
 * Stargate is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, involved in a political scandal. Nor is it about the Andre Norton book of the same name.
 * Star Trek is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, going on a trek neither.
 * Star Wars is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, warring against each other.
 * Mark Hamill himself said that back in 1976, people thought Star Wars was about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's divorce.
 * It isn't about politics and war among the Maya during the Preclassic and Classic Periods, either.
 * Starship Troopers are not fans who are militant about their Real Person Fic pairings.
 * Nor are they spacecraft-borne contributors to This Very Wiki with dyslexia.
 * Nor is it a merger of the bands Starship and Trooper.
 * Stephen King's The Stand isn't about the horror writer discovering that he has psychic/summoning superpowers.
 * Strangers with Candy has nothing to do with strangers offering candy to children.
 * Strawberry Marshmallow features strawberries as a motif, but try and find a marshmallow one.
 * Strawberry Panic isn't about people panicking over strawberries.
 * Some of them do, however, panic over cherries.
 * Street Fighter III: Third Strike is not about "three strikes" laws.
 * And Street Fighter III: Second Impact does not take place in Neon Genesis Evangelion canon.
 * Strider is not about a Half Life creature.
 * Nor is it about Aragorn.
 * Or Dave. (OR his bro.)
 * Strikers 1945 is not Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS IN World War II!
 * Or Super Mario Strikers IN THAT SAME TIME PERIOD!
 * Strike Witches isn't about a work stoppage by the magical labor union.
 * Stromberg is not a Spin-Off show featuring the Big Bad from the James Bond-movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
 * Strontium Dog is not a rejected member of the Defenders of Dynatron City.
 * The movie Submarine doesn't have any.
 * The Hidamari Sketch manga's localization, Sunshine Sketch, is not a book collecting concept art for Sunshine, nor is it Super Mario Sunshine with the gameplay of Epic Mickey.
 * Summer Carnival '92: Recca is not when the eponymous protagonist of Flame of Recca goes to a carnival in summer of 1992.
 * Super Buster Bros. is not a Super Mario Bros.. parody starring Buster Bunny or Buster Baxter. Super Plucky-o Bros., on the other hand...
 * Superfriends is not Friends WITH SUPER POWERS.
 * It's also not a Friends video game for the SNES with a Super Title 64 Advance title.
 * Nor is it a spinoff title for Super GALS!!
 * Supernatural is not told from the monsters' points of view.
 * And it has nothing to do with the Santana album. Alas, not even the opening.
 * Super Robot Wars has nothing to do with regular Robot Wars.
 * Super Smash Bros. is not about Mario and Luigi getting drunk.
 * However, the fan game Super Smashed Bros. is.
 * Super Why! is not the inquisitive form of the Big No.
 * Survival of the Fittest is not a gaming show whereupon overweight contestants must compete in a variety of physical challenges to be declared 'the fittest' and hence, the winner.
 * Suzuka is not a Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha spinoff starring one of Those Two Girls.
 * The Sweeney and Sweeney Todd are mostly unrelated, except for the fact that the title for the former is derived from the latter, as it is the Cockney rhyming slang for "Flying Squad".
 * The Switch is not a 90-minute commercial for a Nintendo video game system.
 * Nor is The Switch Glitch about hacking said system.
 * The Sword of Shannara does not belong to Shana. (You want "Nietono no Shana".) Nor Shanana. Nor Sha Na Na.

T

 * Tak and the Power of Juju is not an Invader Zim spinoff. Both franchises are owned by Nickelodeon and have crossed over on one occasion, though.
 * Tales of MU is not part of the Tales (series).
 * Neither is Tales of Monkey Island.
 * Taltos is not the book by Anne Rice.
 * Taz-Mania is not a Bemani game in which you use tassles, nor is it a mode in NullpoMino.
 * Technic History isn't about LEGO.
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is not about a giant robot who plays giant robot cricket with Mighty Whitey to evade his taxes. As awesome as giant robot cricket sounds.
 * It also has nothing to do with the opening lines from Def Leppard's song "Rock of Ages".
 * Nor the home entertainment division of Atari Games.
 * Nor the company that published the Zorro comics.
 * Terminator 2: Judgement Day is not about anyone put on trial.
 * Terraria is not Aquaria underground! . You might be looking for Cave Story in that case.
 * Tetris Splash is not about playing the world-famous tetromino game at a water theme park. Or with Tom Hanks and a mermaid.
 * Tetris the Grand Master 2 - The Absolute PLUS is not about adding the absolute value of 2.
 * Tetris: The Grand Master 3 - Terror-Instinct is not a survival-horror game. (But it is a survival game, and the high speeds might horrify you.)
 * No characters from Killer Instinct or Power Instinct make cameos, either.
 * Tetris: The Grand Master 4 - The Masters of Round is not about the 2-minute-long Infinity Plus One Summon you can get on Round Island.
 * Tetris Attack and Tetrisphere are not actually Tetris games.
 * That Guy With The Glasses is not short.
 * That '70s Show isn't The Brady Bunch. Or All in The Family, or Mash, or Welcome Back, Kotter, or Starsky and Hutch, or... well, any of these.
 * There Will Be Blood is not related to the Saw series in any way. Neither is it related to Portal.
 * It's also not a Bloodier and Gorier spoof of "There Will Be Cake".
 * The Thin Red Line is not the one you will burn your own to hold, and not the last line to ever hold either.
 * Nor is it a reference to Arakune's theme song.
 * The Three Musketeers are not stinging insects, though certain factions at court do regard them as bloodthirsty nuisances.
 * The Transporter does not have an Evil Counterpart called the Teleporter.
 * Thirty Hs is not what you get when you multiply Triple H by ten. It is also not related to AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity or VVVVVV.
 * This Is Spinal Tap is not a documentary about the medical test
 * Those Who Hunt Elves does not have an Alternate Universe called He Who Fights Monsters.
 * Threads is not about Internet forums.
 * Thunder Force is not about the product of a thunderstorm's mass and acceleration.
 * Tiger and Bunny is not a fable involving a tiger and a cute little rabbit. Though it should be.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Indekkusu is not an index page for trope titles that are entirely in Japanese, though you might feel better once you get to know the title character.
 * Todd Allison and The Petunia Violet is not about Todd in the Shadows trying to woo Allison Pregler with petunias.
 * To LOVE-Ru is not a quest for gaining the love of Ruuko, who keeps saying "ruu~".
 * It's not about Ronald McDonald's love for RAN RAN RUU!, either.
 * And its complete title is not To Love Ru, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
 * And it is not a Russian dating site either.
 * Toradora! is not a cave complex related to Tora Bora or an island related to Bora Bora.
 * Or a Lighter and Softer spin-off of the 1970 war film Tora! Tora! Tora!
 * Tora! Tora! Tora! itself is not a spinoff of Mega Man Battle Network that focuses on Torakichi and Kingman.EXE
 * Torchwood is not about Flame Bait.
 * Nor is it about a support group for pyromaniacs.
 * Touhou has not ever licensed any of the Godzilla movies.
 * It's also never published Space Megaforce.
 * It is also not an anime about a team of girls shrinking themselves so that they may enter their friends' bodies and fight off their ailments.
 * The objective of Shoot the Bullet is not to fire bullets at bullets.
 * Embodiment of Scarlet Devil doesn't involve Demonic Possession in its plot.
 * Scarlet Weather Rhapsody isn't a bizarre crossover between The Scarlet Letter and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
 * Double Spoiler isn't about using the now-defunct supersecretspoiler tag on TV Tropes.
 * Totally Spies! is not what a Totally Radical person says when spotting a Spy in Team Fortress 2.
 * Transformice has nothing to do with Transformers.
 * Tron is not a spinoff of Mega Man Legends; you are probably thinking about this game
 * Nor is it about any incarnation of Megatron before he rose to power.
 * Trope-tan is not a trope with a tan.
 * Similarly, Wikipe-tan is not Wikipedia with a tan.
 * Turtles Forever is unrelated to any arguments about the origin of the world and the origin of the origin.
 * Neither it's a suggestion about playing Real Time Strategy games.
 * Tweeny Witches is not a prequel to Teen Witch.
 * Twilight does not take place in The Twilight Zone. And neither of them involve Twilight Sparkle (though the former does Give a Whole New Meaning to that phrase).
 * Twilight Imperium is not a crossover Fanfic between Twilight and Warhammer 40,000 (or Ciaphas Cain).
 * Twilight 2000 isn't either.
 * And neirther of the above involve Twilght Sparkle, either.
 * Twin Peaks has nothing to do with breasts.
 * Twin Spica does not involve the duplication of one of three catholic schools in Japan.
 * It's also not a remix of a Beatmania IIDX song.

U

 * Ultimate Crab Battle has nothing to do with Cancer Bubble or Krabby.
 * And it is not a revamped version of MGS3: Crab Battle neither.
 * Nor is it the Up to Eleven counterpart to Giant Enemy Crab.
 * On the same note, Ultimate Crab Battle, Ultimate Girls and Ultimate Muscle are not Ultimate Marvel mini-series.
 * And Ultimate Fallout is not an Ultimate Universe of the Fallout games, nor is it an Updated Rerelease of any particular game in the series.
 * Ultra Maniac is not a wacky or otherwise subversive pastiche of Ultraman.
 * Ultraviolet isn't about the buy-DVD-get-streaming-free platform.
 * Umineko no Naku Koro ni Is not about the sea, cats, or sea kittens.
 * The Unit is not about UNIT.
 * Unity isn't about a video game engine or a desktop environment for Linux.
 * Unskippable isn't about those anti-piracy warnings on DVDs which you can't skip even if you want to.
 * The Untouchables is not a documentary about the lower class caste of India.
 * Uzumaki has absolutely nothing to do with Naruto.

V

 * Valley of the Dolls is not set in the Uncanny Valley. Nor a nursery.
 * Venus in Furs is not about fur coats or wraps that are large enough for the second planet in our system to wear.
 * Nor does it imply the goddess Aphrodite likes to wear fur, although she might.
 * Venus Versus Virus is not a Lifetime Medical Drama.
 * Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not an alias used by voice actress Cristina Valenzuela.
 * It's not Vicky the Babysitter's full name either.
 * Victorious is not a Disney adaptation of an album by the Swedish indie band The Perishers. Nor is it based on the Biggie Smalls' track "Victory", nor does it use the song "Uprising" by Muse as its opening, no matter how appropriate the chorus line "we will be victorious" would seem.
 * A View from the Bridge is not about what you can see from the captain's chair on the Enterprise.
 * The gimmick of Violent Shit isn't explosive diarrhea.
 * The Vor Game is not an eating contest.
 * VVVVVV is not an Engine Sentai Go-onger Spin-Off about BearRV.

W

 * Waiting for Godot has nothing to do with that Godot.
 * Or this one.
 * Wanted: Weapons of Fate is not about wanting to gain Bardiche or the powers of Fate Averruncus, nor is it a crossover between Wanted and those series.
 * Warhammer 40,000 is not an estimate for how much money you'll spend on the game.
 * It is also not a retirement plan.
 * Nor is it how many battle hammers are used. It uses a hell of a lot more weapons than that.
 * Warrior Cats is not in any way related to Thundercats.
 * The Warriors are not shooting at the walls of heartache. That would probably be the Lizzies instead.
 * Nor are they cats.
 * Warriors Orochi is not a PC Port of The Warriors optimized for AMD's Bulldozer Architecture.
 * Nor is it about the Hidden Sound Village setting up shop in late '70s/early '80s New York City and playing the Riffs and Rogues against each other.
 * Warrior U is not about The Ultimate Warrior's short-lived wrestling dojo.
 * Watchmen is not about men who possess the power to... tell time.
 * Nor is it the Watcher forming a superhero team.
 * And if you think it's about Superpowered Rent-A-Cops you're still off, but at least you have the right publisher.
 * Watership Down is not about an ocean-faring vessel that sinks.
 * Wedding Peach is not about peaches getting married. In fact, there is probably not a single mention of actual peaches in the show.
 * Nor is it about Princess Peach's Wedding...
 * Weeds is not a spinoff of Veggie Tales or Flower Pot Men.
 * Welcome to The Dollhouse was not the unaired pilot of Dollhouse.
 * Welcome to The NHK isn't a typo for an anime series about professional hockey players.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with NHK.
 * Welkin Weasels is not a Valkyria Chronicles Hate Fic.
 * West Side Story is not Tupac Shakur's side of the feud with Biggie Smalls.
 * Wet has nothing to do with water.
 * What About Mimi has nothing to do with Mimi Tachikawa or the Mimi from The Drew Carey Show. Or the one from Duel Masters.
 * Whateley Universe has nothing to do with Portal 2.
 * What's Eating Gilbert Grape is not a horror movie.
 * Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? does not involved a Fantastic Voyage into Dio Brando's stand.
 * Wild n' Out is not an all-gay version of Road Rules or Wild Boys.
 * The Wild Thornberrys is not about Thornberrys gone wild.
 * Winky Dink is not another nickname for a penis.
 * Witch Hunter Robin is not about everyone's favorite comedian as a witchfinder during the Salem Witch Trials. Or The Boy Wonder doing the same for that matter. Or a certain former SEMME agent who now works in a toy store doing it, either.
 * Wonder Boy is not a Spear Counterpart to Wonder Woman.
 * Or a Spinoff Babies version of Wonder Man.
 * It's not the Tenacious D song either.
 * Squirrel Boy is not a Spear Counterpart to Squirrel Girl, either.
 * And it's not a prequel to the movie Wonder Boys
 * Wonderella is not Wonder Woman going to the royal ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Nor is she Barbarella's cousin.
 * The World Only God Knows is not when Word of God is being annoyingly secretive. Neither is it a crossover between JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Haruhi Suzumiya.
 * The World Ends With You is the name of a game. It is not a scaled-up, heroic version of Load-Bearing Boss. Neither does it have to do with being The Chosen One who will defeat Dio Brando and The World.
 * And in case you use the Japanese title (It's A Wonderful World), it also has nothing to do with either the song by Louis Armstrong, or the movie in which a man is convinced the world is better off without him. (And no, the Trope based on it doesn't apply, either.)
 * The World Is Not Enough is not Dio Brando's realisation that he needs a stronger technique than The World to defeat Jotaro. These "The World" puns are pretty dang easy to make too.
 * Wormy is not about the SpongeBob SquarePants episode.
 * Nor is it related to Worms
 * Nor is it Luke Skywalker's nickname.

X

 * Xexex is not xtreme sex, nor is it related to the similarly hard-to-pronounce NES action-adventure game Xexyz.
 * X-Men is not a Gender Bender story about some former men.
 * ×××HOLiC is not about fans of Vin Diesel and Ice Cube.
 * Nor is it about a porn addict; for that see Don Jon.

Y

 * Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is not how the Wicked Witch of the West responded to Dorothy when she asked "So do I cure some of them? And if so, how many?"
 * Y: The Last Man is not the Spear Counterpart to the Final Girl.
 * Yo Gabba Gabba! is not a Ramones tribute album.
 * YouTube Poop is not about videos of excrement on YouTube.
 * Neither is it about blowing shit up... literally. Interrupting Meme aside.
 * Young Dracula is, sadly, not a sequel to Young Frankenstein.
 * Young Justice is not about a child appointed to the Supreme Court.
 * None of Yume Nikkis and Mirai Nikkis protagonists are named Nikki.
 * The two also have nothing to do with each other.
 * Yo Yogi! does not take place in Yoyogi Park.
 * Yuri!!! on Ice is not an example of the Yuri Genre.

Z

 * Zap is not about the ersatz version of PBS's Zoom depicted in the music video for Hard 'n Phirm's "Pi".
 * Zero Punctuation is not a writing style comprised of only letters and numbers. He just sounds that way when he talks.
 * Zero Wing is not a Gundam, no matter how many times you watch that AMV.
 * Nor is it an aircraft with a problem in aerodynamic faculties. (Wing Damage!)
 * It's not a documentary about flightless birds.
 * Nor is it a sequel to Zero Hour.
 * Zeta Project has nothing to do with Anaheim Electronics' R&D of variable mobile suit technology.
 * Zettai Karen Children is not a spinoff series about the children of Karin.
 * Ziggy is not a spinoff of Power Rangers RPM centering around the life of the Green Ranger, as entertaining as that might be.
 * Or a smaller Zig model.
 * Nor is it David Bowie's alter-ego.
 * Nor is it a spinoff show starring Sam Beckett's sentient computer.
 * Nor is it a hilarious sitcom starring the spawn of a famous reggae singer.
 * Or the character from LazyTown
 * Nor is it about the character from Xenosaga (you want Xenosaga: Pied Piper, which looks more unlikely to be released outside Japan every day)
 * Zoids is not the story of the family of Dr. Zoidberg.
 * Zombo has nothing to do with a similarly named parody of website intro pages. That's Zombo.com.