I Thought It Meant/D-F

Just to clarify:

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 * Damage Typing is not about a hero who harms his enemies with the power of keyboards, or about typing so fast that you get blisters on your fingers.
 * Dance Battler is not when you tell the protagonist of Umineko no Naku Koro ni to dance.
 * Dan Browned is not about how various fictional works would be different if they centered around mysterious murders, ancient conspiracies, and brothel visits.
 * It is also not related in any way to Ben Drowned.
 * A Darker Me is not the ambition of someone who's going tanning.
 * A Dark Horse Victory does not necessarily mean the Ensemble Darkhorse wins.
 * Dark Is Not Evil is not a value judgment of the Split Personality of D.N. Angel's main character.
 * Darth Wiki is not a wiki dedicated to Star Wars. That would be Wookieepedia.
 * Dastardly Whiplash does not refer to the consequences of a car accident.
 * Nor is it a Mood Whiplash relating to somebody abruptly becoming a Card-Carrying Villain.
 * It's got jack all to do with Whip It Good, too.
 * Neither is it an appropriate trope for the Iron Man villain.
 * A Date With Rosie Palms is not about showing embarrassment, while dating somebody, with your hand palms turning red. It is also not about hand palms turning red during a date for any other reason.
 * It is also not a day on the calender that has something to do with rosy palms.
 * Nor is it about dating an actual girl named "Rosie Palms".
 * Nor is it about the fruit that grows from a certain variety of tropical palm trees, when said trees' leaves have turned inexplicably pinkish.
 * Dating Catwoman, regrettably, offers no advice on how to date Halle Berry.
 * There's nothing on how to tell how old Catwoman is, either. (We recommend not asking.)
 * Dating Do-Si-Do is not a new dance, nor is it a new flavor of Girl Scout cookie.
 * Dawson Casting has nothing to do with casting people from Dawson City.
 * Or Joe Dawson.
 * Or Roxann Dawson.
 * DDR does not refer to East Germany on this wiki.
 * Or DDR RAM.
 * Dead Man's Chest has nothing to do with pirates, the death of someone subjected to Marshmallow Hell, nor the literal chest region of a human corpse.
 * Dead Person Impersonation is impersonation of a specific dead person, not just pretending to be dead. That would be Playing Possum.
 * And if you pull a Dead-Man Switch, that would also be entirely unrelated to either of the previously-mentioned tropes.
 * A Dead Star Walking is actually 6-feet-under dead - not a vampire, zombie, or any other manner of walking dead thing. Same goes for Posthumous Character.
 * Nor does it refer to a black dwarf or neutron star walking the streets.
 * Dead to Begin With has nothing to do with what happens when Kenshiro kicks your ass.
 * The Deadliest Mushroom is not a new show on the Discovery Channel about high-risk truffle hunting.
 * Nor is it about the weirdly-colored shrooms in some Super Mario Bros. games.
 * Deadly Disc has nothing to do with computer disks (hard or floppy) or CDs or DVDs.
 * It also doesn't mean that on Discworld, Everything Is Trying to Kill You. That's only true if you're Rincewind.
 * Deadly Dodging is not about killing your attackers by simply dodging their attacks... not usually, anyway.
 * Deadly Rotary Fan is not about an Ax Crazy Loony Fan who is a member ot a Rotary club. Or a similar fan of a Rotary club.
 * The Dead Rise to Advertise has nothing to do with zombies. And That's Terrible.
 * Dead Sidekick does not refer to having any variety of zombie, ghost, or other Undead, for a sidekick.
 * Dead Unicorn Trope does not refer to the dead unicorn in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone.
 * Death by Despair does not mean Zetsubou-sensei killed someone.
 * Death by Materialism does not refer to dying of the philosophical viewpoint that only matter exists and the mind is an illusion.
 * Nor is it necessarily about being crushed to death beneath one's worldly possessions.
 * Death by Newbery Medal does not mean using the medal as an improvised weapon.
 * Nor is there a Newbery Medal Curse where whoever wins one dies shortly afterward in unusual ways.
 * Death Dealer isn't a page about Frank Frazetta's character.
 * It also has nothing to do with Tara Gilesbie's Death Eater expies.
 * Death of the Old Gods is not what World of Warcraft players are responsible for. That's Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?.
 * A Death Seeker is not a particularly dangerous Decepticon jet.
 * Nor is a Seeker Archetype of Skywarp, Starscream, or Thundercracker.
 * It's not a seeker missile that only tracks.
 * Debt Detester is not a character with a hatred of mortgages... or a hatred of the Axis Powers Hetalia fanfic... or a hatred of that American gameshow.
 * Decade Dissonance does not involve a distance between viewer and show when watching Kamen Rider Decade
 * Decompressed Comic is about comics getting longer due to more flashy art pages. It's nothing to do with sci-fi, the Comic Relief character and Squick
 * It also doesn't refer to digital comics being unzipped from a .zip or .rar file.
 * Decon Recon Switch is not about decontaminating, doing reconnaissance, or switching up who does either.
 * Defiant to the End is not about refusing to listen to The Beatles' final song.
 * Also doesn't refer to the last scene of the first Defiant ship in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
 * A Demonic Dummy is not a villain or monster who is not very intelligent.
 * Demonic Spiders are not necessarily spiders from hell.
 * A Desk Jockey is not a type of zombie.
 * Nor does it refer to Conan O'Brien being the one Driving a Desk.
 * Destructo-Nookie: the nookie isn't what's causing the destruction (except that one time, but still...)
 * Nor is it Tom Nook gone insane. Although that would be awesome.
 * Detachment Combat is not about tactics for military-units.
 * Nor is it fighting between similar sized military-units.
 * Nor is it fighting by remaining emotionally distant.
 * A Determinator is not a destroyer of Terminators. Although if they want to, nothing's gonna stop them. Neither is it someone who reverses the termination of others, though, again, if they want to...
 * Nor is it the eternal enemy of Free Willy.
 * Detournement has nothing to do with undoing a Tournament Arc.
 * Deus Sex Machina does not mean God Sex Machine (in this case, at least).
 * Or when the writer can't think of a way to resolve a story except for spontaneous sex.
 * Development Hell is not the near-smothering of a person's face in an underdeveloped chest.
 * Nor is it where failed projects, who have commited mortal sin, go when they die.
 * Devour the Dragon is not about a risky but useful way to feed an entire fantasy village.
 * Dialogue Tree is not about talking trees. Well, not necessarily.
 * Nor is it about multiple comic book word balloons connected to each other.
 * Dialogue Trees should really not be epileptic.
 * Did Not Do the Bloody Research is not a Critical Research Failure when filming a graphic death scene.
 * Die, Chair, Die! is not German for "the chair the".
 * Die for Our Ship is not about killing anybody for any kind of vessel.
 * Difficulty Spikes are not Spikes of Doom that only show up on higher difficulty levels, though spikes that only show up on higher stages might be.
 * A Digital Bikini is not when a woman covers her breasts with her fingers.
 * Nor does it refer to a bikini on any video game character.
 * It's not a bikini made of 1's and 0's either.
 * Digital Destruction is not about injuring one's fingers.
 * Directionless Driver is not about device drivers that should have come with instructions, but didn't.
 * A Disc One Nuke is not a nuclear bomb that the local Gadgeteer Genius created from a videogame's first disc.
 * Nor is it about using a nuke as a plot point early in the game.
 * Disc One Final Boss refers to Disc One of a video game, not an early-season Big Bad in a full-season DVD collection.
 * Discount Lesbians are not ten percent off.
 * Nor does it mean straight women who become gay for less of a price than they usually charge.
 * Dish Dash is not about a Middle Eastern ankle-length shirt.
 * Dishing Out Dirt has nothing to do with gossips.
 * It also doesn't refer to dirt being served in a restaurant.
 * Dismissed Gender does not refer to the treatment of the female sex under The Smurfette Principle.
 * Nor does it refer to a gender that has been given permission to leave the office.
 * Dissimile has nothing to do with being dismissed with rockets, cool as that sounds.
 * Dissonant Serenity does not occur when the cast of Firefly spends an episode arguing among themselves. You might want to check here for that.
 * Also has nothing to do with disagreeing Moon Kingdom royalty.
 * Or disliking Lisa Ortiz's voice acting in Yu-Gi-Oh!!
 * Disturbed Doves are not a breed of Angry Birds. Nor are they an Alternative Metal band who have been transformed into birds.
 * Distinguishing Mark is not a movie about giving someone named Mark an honorary title.
 * Divide by Zero does not refer to being sliced in half by a certain video game character with a beam saber.
 * A Ditto Fighter is not a fan of Rush Limbaugh who also knows kung fu.
 * Nor is it their enemies.
 * Neither is it a person who fights Dittoes.
 * Diving Save here is not so much about a goalkeeping technique. Nor is it a Save Point Under the Sea.
 * Do-Anything Robot is not about that kind of thing, (okay, maybe some times <_< >_> ...) nor is it about cyborg distraction techniques or an instruction for robots to do what they feel like.
 * Does Not Like Spam has nothing to do with internet spam (even though most normal people don't like it).
 * Doing It for the Art is not about people being willing to engage in sexual activities on camera or on stage because the scene requires it.
 * Do Not Drop Your Weapon is not an instruction to stay alive in combat. Nor is it about being able to climb while holding a weapon.
 * Do Not Want Discussion does not mean that the decision is made and the conversation is over.
 * Doing In the Wizard is not part of a Witch Hunt, gender semantics be damned.
 * Do Not Call Me "Paul" does not refer to Sir McCartney.
 * A Doomsayer is not just any character who says pessimistic things or talks about doom.
 * Doomed by Canon doesn't have to refer to a character who has to die in order to stay true to the canon. Nor does it refer to Fan Fiction doomed to failure because it doesn't stay true to canon
 * A Dope Slap is not a Slap Patch laced with a Schedule 2 (or higher) Controlled Substance, nor is it the act of applying such a thing to someone.
 * Dork Age is not about the movie Idiocracy, or a porn spoof of Brain Age.
 * Nor was it a particular time in the history of the world. At least, it wasn't named that way.
 * Double Jeopardy refers to the film, not the Daily Double questions in Jeopardy!
 * Double Subversion sounds like a practical solution to the Subbing Versus Dubbing debate, but with all that text on the screen, you'd probably have a lot of trouble watching the show.
 * Double Vision isn't when a stunned character 'sees double'. "Hey Mary, since when did you have a twin sister?" Nor is it about receiving a prophetic dream twice. Nor is it the song by Foreigner.
 * Draco in Leather Pants does not imply that dragons partake in human fashion, Scaled Up.
 * The Dragon is rarely a giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizard (though it's not impossible). Though to be fair, real dragons aren't always giant, scaly, fire-breathing lizards, either.
 * Dragon Ascendant has nothing to do with their tendency to fly.
 * Dragon-in-Chief is not about putting a beast in a position of power, knowingly or otherwise.
 * Dragon Lady: not a female Dragon! Not even a literal female dragon, either! And it isn't a better-named spin-off of Devilman Lady or a Distaff Counterpart of Billy or Jimmy Lee.
 * Dragons Up the Yin-Yang is not about someone getting anally violated by a dragon.
 * Dragon Their Feet is not about a claw fetish. It's not about BigBads whose feet are their Dragon, either. Although that would be awesome.
 * The Dragon with an Agenda does not keep timetables of when to attack each village to ensure that they can properly repopulate the villagers and livestock.
 * Drag Queen does not describe Ashley Force Hood
 * Dramatic Dislocation does not involve a radical shift in setting but popping shoulder joints and the like.
 * Dramatic Gun Cock has nothing to do with male genitalia attached to firearms.
 * Nor does it involve a vengeful rooster arming himself.
 * Dramatic Space Drifting does not involve a spaceship performing a turn by intentionally skidding its rear to preserve vehicle control and make a high-speed exit.
 * Dramatic Wind is not about particularly ill-timed flatulence.
 * Dream Within a Dream is not referring to Marriage. Because that would be a DweamWiffinADweam.
 * Driven to Suicide should not be considered literally an event where a suicidal person is driven in a vehicle to a place where they can perform said act.
 * Drives Like Crazy doesn't mean someone drives a lot. Not necessarily, at least.
 * A Driving Question is not a question commonly asked while driving. (Are We There Yet? is not an example, nor is a Directionless Driver someone who needs to ask such a question.)
 * Driving Stick is a verb phrase. It is not used to discipline "stubborn" livestock.
 * Dronejam is not a new electronic music genre.
 * Nor is it a kind of royal jelly that drone bees produce.
 * Drool Hello is not about meeting someone extremely attractive and salivating over him or her.
 * Drop-In Character is not when a previously interesting person gets Flanderized into a Flat Character. Nor is about someone who tends to enter scenes from above.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him does not involve using bridges as weapons, although it may very well involve a bridge anyways.
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him is not about throwing Bridget onto somebody, but may involve the resulting discovery. Nor does it refer to writing a character out of a series by having him choose to stay or leave with a Girl of the Week, as this troper assumed when he saw the entry name.
 * Also, it does not refer to dropping a very small bridge on someone.
 * Drop Ship is not the thing that shippers do when a recent event reveals how Squicky their ship is. Nor is it about causing a boat or other craft to fall on someone.
 * Nor is our version a supply chain management technique in which the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead transfers customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer or a wholesaler, who then ships the goods directly to the customer.
 * Drop the Hammer is not about using the Goldion Crusher in a Colony Drop. Neither is it about making MC Hammer a Person of Mass Destruction. Nor is the answer to "How did you hurt your foot?" It also has nothing to do either with Captain Hammer's arm, nor any of his other body parts. Or Batman's fists.
 * "A-Amy, wait! Drop the hamme- NOTHAT'SNOTITARRRRRRGH!"
 * Dry Docked Ship is not the USS Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nor Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan.
 * A Dubtitle is not when a dub adds a subtitle to the original title.
 * Duck Season! Rabbit Season! is not about the drawing that's sometimes a duck and sometimes a rabbit depending on when you look at it.
 * Dude, Not Funny is not a Hulk Speak description of The Comically Serious.
 * Due to the Dead is not a parody of House of the Dead or Shaun of the Dead starring Due.
 * Dueling Games does not refer to swordfighting-based games, although if two of that type are released against each other, then they will become Dueling Games.
 * Dull Surprise is not a claim that Surprise is dull.
 * Nor is it the same as The Untwist.
 * A Dump Stat does not determine the quality of excrement.
 * Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend is not about sadomasochistic sex in fiction.
 * During the War is not when a character references/has flashbacks to a war they were in.
 * Dye or Die isn't hair coloring AS EXTREME SPORTS!
 * Nor is it said by Ganon.
 * Dynamic Entry: aren't most entries on this wiki dynamic?
 * Also not a Double Entendre.

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 * Eagle Land is not a country populated exclusively by large predatory birds.
 * Although that would be awesome.
 * Ear Cleaning is not about when characters clean out their ears after hearing something unbelievable. Nor is it a reminder to wash behind your ears.
 * Ear Worm does not refer to that thing they put in Chekhov's ear in Wrath of Khan. Nor does it refer to parasites in general.
 * Easier Than Easy is not about sexual promiscuity.
 * Eat the Dog is not part of the Pet the Dog-Kick the Dog-Shoot the Dog hierarchy. Except in some countries, apparently.
 * Ecchi may make you go "Ecch!", but that's not why we call it that.
 * An Economy Is You isn't about supervising your nation's economy in a civilization game.
 * Education Mama is not part of the Cooking Mama series (yet.)
 * E=MC Hammer does not refer to a Hyperspace Mallet being converted to energy when not in use, nor does it cause Hammerspace compression.
 * It is also not the mathematical way of saying HIKARI NI NARE!
 * Nor is it about Steve Urkel, Digital Underground or any other Hollywood Nerd as a rapper or rap group.
 * An Elevator Action Sequence is not, specifically, a sequence from Elevator Action, though that could be an example of one.
 * An Elevator School is not a school housed in a building with so many stories that you need an elevator to get to the top.
 * It's also not a school where one learns how to make or operate elevators.
 * It's also not a (very small) school inside an elevator.
 * Emergency Transformation is not a Eleventh Hour Super Mode As The Plot Demands.
 * Empty Levels are not dungeon levels full of empty rooms.
 * The End Is Nigh has nothing to do with the sniper from Metal Gear Solid 3.
 * The End of the World as We Know It has nothing to do with The World either being finally defeated or transforming into something completely different.
 * Enemy Mine is neither a mine intended to kill people, nor is it a mine that spews enemies. It is also not where the Big Bad digs up precious stones that are his main source of funding. Nor is it a foe that explodes when touched. Nor is it a Bob-Omb.
 * Although due to Executive Meddling, one of the first instances of this trope does feature a mine, precisely because the executives thought the trope maker meant something else.
 * Engaging Conversation is not a subtrope of Engaging Chevrons, which in turn is not about hiring ex-NCOs or renting gas stations.
 * Epic Fail is not when a work seems to be building towards some climactic event or confrontation that is then briefly and offhandedly wrapped up. That would be silly.
 * Epic Flail is not when a story's grand scale causes the author to lose track of the original vision, so that the plot begins to thrash around wildly.
 * Epic Hail is not about hail bigger than a human head.
 * Equivalent Exchange is not about currency exchange and Funny Money is not an aversion or subversion of it.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with An Eye For An Eye.
 * Erection Rejection is not when the little troper doesn't answer the call to duty. That's The Loins Sleep Tonight.
 * Nor is it the result of a failed penis transplant.
 * An Ermine Cape is not The Cape (trope) with Royal Blood.
 * Ermine Cape Effect does not mean Ermine Capes have magical powers. Although in some works they do.
 * Nor is it the result of an Ermine Cape Cause.
 * Escalating Brawl is not about battling on Rumble Falls.
 * Escapist Character does not refer to Yahtzee, the Unskippable guys or the cast of There Will Be Brawl. At least, not specifically.
 * Escort Mission has nothing to do with that kind of escort.
 * Esoteric Motifs has nothing to do with the funeral doom metal band Esoteric.
 * Eunuchs Are Evil isn't about Microsoft's marketing strategy against UNIX in the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt era.
 * Everybody Must Get Stoned is not the answer to Jesus saying "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
 * Everyone Is Armed isn't the aversion of An Arm and a Leg or Armless Biped.
 * Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory is not about people being equivalent to Jesus when they go to Purgatory. Neither is it about convicted people pretending to be shining beacons of innocence.
 * Everyone Is Satan in Hell is not an Evil Counterpart to Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory, nor does it have much in common, except the name. Everyone Is God In Heaven...doesn't exist yet.
 * Everyone Join the Party is not a piece of propaganda you would expect to see in Soviet Russia or Nineteen Eighty-Four.
 * Everyone Knows Morse does not mean that a certain Oxford-based detective is known across the whole of time-space (though the possibility exists. Everyone Knows Agatha Christie, after all...).
 * Everything's Better with Bob has nothing to do with restyling one's hair into a bob cut.
 * Everything's Better with Indexes does not involve Index.
 * Everything Is Worse With Bears does not actually involve the Tu-95.
 * Evil Brit has nothing to do with Britney Spears' mental breakdown.
 * Evil Is Deathly Cold Discussion is not about extreme sarcasm.
 * Evil Power Vacuum is not about a energy-draining device used by villains. Nor is it about the latest Hoover being sold to overlords everywhere.
 * Evil Overlord List is not a list of Evil Overlords.
 * Evil Smells Bad is not about villains who don't bathe.
 * Evil Sounds Deep is not about Wicked Cultured chaps (ab)using Fauxlosophic Narration or Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
 * Evil Tropes does not refer to tropes themselves being evil. Tropes Will Ruin Your Life does that.
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin does not mean the Tin Woodsman always saying it like it is.
 * Excessive Steam Syndrome is not a Take That at Steam.
 * Expecting Someone Taller has nothing to do with Yai Ayano or Zack Temple.
 * An Exposition Break is not a break from giving exposition (hard luck, Hermione). In fact, it's almost the exact opposite.
 * An Exposition Party is not an adventuring party in which every member is Mr. Exposition.
 * An Explosive Breeder is not something that actually breeds by exploding.
 * Nor does it breed explosives.
 * Explosive Instrumentation is not about the old cartoon gag where a bomb is detonated by a piano key. (That's the Xylophone Gag.)
 * Exquisite Corpse is not about bodies that look "beautiful even in death" a la Snow White. There will not be a page quote by They Might Be Giants.
 * Hey! What did I just say?
 * The Extranormal Institute is not known for its normalcy; quite the opposite, in fact.
 * An Extra-Strength Masquerade is not a costume ball for Flying Bricks and/or other types of superhumans. Nor is a reference to a Cajun-style Mardi Gras.
 * An Extreme Doormat is not a Welcome rug that spends its weekends doing street luge. Although that would be awesome.
 * Nor does it refer to 90s Kid's own doormat.
 * An Extreme Omni Goat is not an all-powerful, all-knowing goat.
 * Eyecatch isn't when you throw your glass eye and your dog retrieves it.
 * Eye of Newt does not appear in a photo of U.S. House Speaker Gingrich (R-Georgia).
 * Eyes Do Not Belong There is about actual eyes, not where they're looking; it is not in any way related to My Eyes Are Up Here.
 * Eye Take is not Eye Scream crossed with Item Get.

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 * Fable Remake doesn't contain information about Fable: The Lost Chapters.
 * Face Heel Turn is not about looking at your feet. Nor is it something that only contortionists can do.
 * Nor is it a snappy dance move used to represent the ease with which some characters change sides.
 * Although that would be awesome.
 * The Faceless was not "created" by Optimus Prime.
 * Face Palm is not about drawing faces on your palms.
 * Nor is it actually having a face on your palm.
 * It doesn't describe The Pale Man, either.
 * Face Palm of Doom is not when your Face Palm kills all the Idiots Surrounding you.
 * Nor is it what happens when Doctor Doom is frustrated.
 * A "Failure to Save" Murder is not when the DM murders your character on account of it having failed its saving throw.
 * The Fair Folk cannot be counted upon to make an unbiased, objective, impartial judgement.
 * Fake Difficulty isn't about feigning a difficult moment to make yourself look challenged, or difficulty that you are just imagining in your mind.
 * Fake High is not a High School that's really a front for something more mysterious.
 * Fake Platform is not about the Phantom console. (Or any other software platform that doesn't actually exist.)
 * Fake Trap is not about a female character who might really be male... who turns out to be really female all along.
 * False-Flag Operation is not about triggering an Event Flag at a point clearly not intended by the developers.
 * False Friend is not a trope about words in one language that look like words in a different language but have unrelated meanings.
 * The Family for the Whole Family is not about the premise of Next of Kin, Boondock Saints, Last House On The Left, or anything else involving blood fueds, An Eye For An Eye, or Badass Families, quite the opposite, in fact.
 * It has nothing to do with Equivalent Exchange, either.
 * Family Values Villain is not about a family who holds a villain in high esteem.
 * Fan Dumb is not a comment by Hatedom.
 * FanficRecs: Web Original, despite what you'd think, is not about reccomendations for fan fics based on Web Original works.
 * Fan Haters are not air conditioner supremacists.
 * Fan of Underdog has nothing to do with an old 60's cartoon about a superheroic dog.
 * Fan Service is not about providing customer service to people who like the work.
 * Nor is it about repairing broken fans.
 * Fan Sub is not a particularly kinky Uke fan.
 * Fandom is not the opposite of Fan Sub
 * Fan Sub also has nothing to do with subway.
 * Fanime, much to the disappointment of this troper from Northern California, is not about the anime convention.
 * Fantastic Aesop doesn't refer to An Aesop that is incredibly cool. Nor is it the only sort of Aesop that people in Fantasy fiction learn, although it can be.
 * Nor is it the sort of Aesop that Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny learn, although it can be.
 * Fantastic Racism is not some sort of Nazi plot to justify racial hatred, nor does it refer to Reed, Ben, Sue, and Johnny all being white, nor is it about particularly awesome racism.
 * Fantastic Drug isn't about a really awesome drug.
 * Nor is it about special pills that the Fantastic Four use to augment their powers.
 * Fantastic Nuke is not about really really good nukes.
 * Nor is it about nukes developed by Reed Richards.
 * Fantasy Gun Control actually has very little to do with the plot, or Aesop, of the Discworld book Men At Arms.
 * Fan Verse is not about an Ode to a Flabellum.
 * Fan Wank is not about Rule 34, though not everyone who engages in Fan Wank is above the occasional literal non-example, either.
 * The Farmer and the Viper is not a tale about a fight between a MiG-19 and an F-16.
 * Nor is it a crossover between Riverworld and Battlestar Galactica.
 * Nor is it a story about an agriculturist buying a sports car.
 * The Fascinating Eyebrow is not an eyebrow that happen to be very interesting.
 * Fate Worse Than Death is not about Fate Testarossa (or that other Fate) being even harder to Punch Out than Death.
 * Fauxshadow is not a fake hedgehog, nor will he skut his grandma's throat for a wooden nickel.
 * A Feather Boa Constrictor is not a Quetzalcoatl-like creature.
 * The Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue is not where Squidward ended up when his time machine broke.
 * Feelies is not an Unusual Euphemism.
 * Fetish Fuel is not a sex store next to a gas station. Nor is it an erotic propellant that would be available from said gas station/sex store combo. Well, not really...
 * I dunno. For some people...
 * Neither is it a substance used to power a magical totem. Although that would be sort of cool.
 * A Fetish Fuel Station Attendant is not someone who works at the gas station in the last panel of this (NSFW) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic.
 * Fiction 500 is not a car race of all fictional characters.
 * Fight in The Nude is not about characters battling in their birthday suits.
 * Fight Like a Card Player is not what The Joker does with his razor cards while fighting Batman. It also has nothing to do with arguments that lead to fighting amongst poker players.
 * Fighter, Mage, Thief is not a summary of the main cast of 8-Bit Theater.
 * Nor is it someone who's a fighter, a mage AND a thief all at the same time.
 * Find the Cure isn't about locating Robert Smith's band.
 * A Finger in the Mail is not about someone opening a letter by running a finger through the top of the envelope.
 * Nor does it mean someone opening someone else's mailbox and rummaging through their mail.
 * Fingerless Gloves is not about mittens.
 * Finishing Move is for killing things, not completing your homework or work assignment.
 * Fire-Breathing Diner is not about very angry people at restaurants.
 * First Blood is not about the Rambo movies. Neither does it refer to the first victim of an Anti-Hero or a villain, much as Unreal Tournament and other things using its voiceovers -- Defense of the Ancients for one—would have you believe.
 * First Church of Mecha is not about the Wicca stand-in from Tales of MU.
 * Fish Out of Water has nothing to do with a game of Marco Polo.
 * The Fisher King does not fish. It also isn't the page about that Terry Gilliam movie where Robin Williams gets naked. Nor does it refer to whoever's in charge of Fisher-Price.
 * Fission Mailed has nothing to do with illegal methods of nuclear waste disposal.
 * 555 has nothing do with Kamen Rider 555 (Faiz).
 * Nor anything to do with 666.
 * Five Rounds Rapid is not something done in a Drinking Game, although its presence may inspire one.
 * Fix Fic is not a campaign to reduce the influence of Sturgeon's Law on fanfiction. Although such a campaign is sorely needed.
 * Nor is it Hurt/Comfort Fic where the Hurt is canon.
 * Fixer Sue is not about a repairwoman named Sue.
 * A Flaming Sword is not a euphamism for a Camp Gay guy's wing wong.
 * Flanderization is not the assimilation in to the culture of Flanders.
 * Nor is it the act of turning a character into Flandre Scarlet.
 * Flash Step is not a reporting name. Nor is it when the floor lights up under someone's feet disco-style. And although The Flash could, in theory, put the move to good use, it's not something he does very often. It's also not when you advance through a web animation one frame at a time.
 * A Flat Character is not necessarily flat chested, or what happens after Amusing Injuries involving steamrollers.
 * Flip-Flop of God is not what the Almighty wears at the beach.
 * Nor is it an Unusual Euphemism for His Royal Thing.
 * Nor is it about what God, in works where God can only breathe underwater, does when he washes up on land.
 * Flipping the Bird isn't about launching feathered friends with a ballista.
 * Nor does Flipping the Table mean Flipping the Bird .
 * Floating Head Syndrome does not refer to the side effects of Zordon's communication tube, nor the result of Megaton's attempts to remove his organic components.
 * A Flowery Insult is not just calling someone a pansy, although calling someone a pansy can be part of a Flowery Insult.
 * Fluffy Cloud Heaven is not where good fluffy clouds go after death. Similarily, Fire and Brimstone Hell is not where fires and brimstones that have sinned go to.
 * Nor is it in any way a counterpart to Marshmallow Hell.
 * Flying Brick is not about a block of ceramic material hurtling toward a person's head. Or a block of ceramic material that is also a superhero. (Although it is related to superheroes.) Or the brick from the Brick Joke. And under no circumstances should you compare them to Vogon ships. It also does not refer to Wing Saber.
 * Flying Seafood Special isn't one of ShinkenGold/Gold Samurai Ranger's attacks, or a Japanese action flick parody about seafood that can fly.
 * Flynning has nothing to do with computers.
 * Nor does it have anything to do with Michael Flynn.
 * A Focus Group Ending isn't a Yeah! Shot that initially appears blurry.
 * Foe Yay is not a statement of support for villains. Though the implication is that the good guys support the villains... that way.
 * The Fool is not a trope about the tarot card of the same name, or that one guy with the mask who can only be seen by Sora Naegino.
 * Nor does it reference the objects of Mr T's pity.
 * Footy Rules is not a treatise on the superiority of soccer over all other sports, or about one's favorite pajamas.
 * For Doom the Bell Tolls does not denote the entrance of Doctor Doom.
 * Forged by the Gods was not started by any deity.
 * Nor is it a counterfeit made by said gods.
 * Fountain of Memes is not a fountain that has memes coming out of it.
 * Fountain of Youth is not Exactly What It Says on the Tin; that is currently part of Public Domain Artifacts. It's actually the trope for de-aged character(s).
 * Four Is Death does not necessarily mean you will die at age four. Nor is it a version of the three strikes law in which a fourth "strike" nets the death penalty. (Although both of these could be true given the nature of the trope in question)
 * The Four Loves has nothing to do with the four romances.
 * Four-Star Badass is not a discussion of the most badass characters in Dragon Ball Abridged by Team Four Star.
 * It is also not a badass character with rave reviews.
 * Or a particularly effective Level 4 Yu-Gi-Oh! card.
 * 4X is not the classification for particularly squicky porn.
 * Nor an Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo to ×××HOLiC.
 * Nor the Discworld continent known as XXXX or Fourecks.
 * Franchise Zombie is not the curiously-named daughter to Rob Zombie.
 * ...And it does not necessarily involve The Undead, although there are some that do.
 * Freeze Ray doesn't mean to use one on someone named Ray.
 * Fridge Brilliance has nothing to do with climbing into a fridge to survive a nuclear explosion, or with particularly well-lit refrigerators.
 * Fridge Horror is not about the foul leftover beasts that lurk within.
 * Nor was it how Kyle Rayner reacted to his girlfriend's murder.
 * Fridge Logic has nothing to do with sentient cooling devices, or freezers suddenly acquiring intelligence.
 * Would those be defeated via Fridge Logic Bomb?
 * Friend to All Living Things is not about characters who are friendly to all living things. Trope names can be so misleading.
 * Frills of Justice is not the fancy robes judges wear in the British Commonwealth.
 * They've got rid of them nearly everywhere now, and we want them back!
 * Frozen Fashion Sense isn't about what Elsa and Anna wear, or cold weather in general for that matter.
 * Frozen in Time is not what happens when you cause one paradox too many and the Time Police start getting angry. Nor does it involve freezing that must be done before it's too late.
 * Frying Pan of Doom is not what Sauron cooks breakfast with.
 * A Fuku Fic is not a Troll's badly misspelled attempt of a Take That directed to a reader of fan stories. Nor is it a fanfic involving sushi prepared from a poisonous blowfish.
 * A Full-Circle Revolution doesn't refer to completing all 360 degrees of a low-eccentricity orbit.
 * Full-Frontal Assault actually is referring to nudity, not tactics (though it can be employed in a manner that really does help one fight).
 * It also does not involve vaginal rape. (most of the time...)
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment is not about schadenfreude nor is it about Narm from bad acting when a character is suffering an aneurysm.
 * Fur and Loathing has nothing to do with attacks on furries
 * Fur Bikini is not a furry in a swimsuit, unless the swimsuit is made of fur.
 * Furry Confusion is neither a description of someone who isn't sure whether he's a furry or not, nor the furry equivalent of Mistaken for Gay.
 * Furry Webcomics are not webcomics made out of fur. Nor do their print editions have covers made out of fur.
 * Fusion Dance is not dance music mixed with one or more other genres.