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* [[Everything's Better With Indexes|Everything's Better With X]]: This family is about things that are '''gratuitously''' inserted into works because their mere existence makes it more awesome; it's '''not''' just for works with X in them, that's [[Not a Trope]].
* [[What Measure Is an Index?|What Measure Is an X]]: This family of tropes is about characters of type X giving off a "this is a nobody and you should not care about them" vibe to some degree, as portrayed in the work or as perceived by the fans. Usually this has to do with them not living up to some standard that plays to a form of [[Wish Fulfillment]]. It's suffered a lot of [[Trope Decay]], so don't just slap something random or grammatically inappropriate instead of the X there just because it sounds vaguely related to your idea of the trope.
* [[Screw This Index, I Have Tropes|Screw X I have Y]]: This is pretty much [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]], and as such it works very well (e.g. [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]). The problem starts when the X and the Y mutate into metaphors and it's not entirely clear anymore what is being screwed, for what reason, in what sense does the person doing the screwing "have" the Y and what part the Y plays in the screwing of the X. Usually at that point it becomes clear that the trope is being shoehorned into a snowclone and you should start looking for a better title.
* [[Schrodingers Cat|Schrödinger's X]]: Based on the famous thought experiment, these are about cases where one choice can ''retroactively'' change whether something was true or false all along, so until then, it is both true and false at the same time. These can only happen in interactive fiction (or in passive media, if it is based on the writer's choices caused by audience reaction). DO NOT use it for "until something happens, it might turn out either ways". That's just plain, old, obviously logical uncertainity.
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