All The Tropes:Renamed Tropes/A to E: Difference between revisions

== A ==

* [[Abandon Shipping]] was "Abandon Ship", and was moved to make room for [[Abandon Ship|a trope]] better reflecting common use of the term.

* [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] was just called "Nightmare Fuel" for a long time, and [[Nightmare Fuel]] was "High Octane Nightmare Fuel" (and even before that, "Nightmare Fuel Unleaded"). The former was renamed since people often kept using it as things intentionally made scary, which was High Octane Nightmare Fuel at the time, or things which they ''personally'' found scary, which really doesn't belong on a general-purpose Nightmare Fuel page. "High Octane" then assumed the old name "Nightmare Fuel" after suffering major [[Trope Decay]].

* [[Actor Allusion]] was formerly "The Alkazar" after a ''[[Futurama]]'' gag. It was renamed because of obscurity even with fans of the show. Also, the ''Futurama'' character was called Al''c''azar. To understand the gag, you had to remember that the actor playing Leela was also the mom on ''[[Married... with Children]]'', and was being paired opposite her character's husband.

* [[Adaptive Ability]] was previously "Viva la Evolution", but was misnamed because the previous title was non-indicative and misleading.

* [[Addressing the Player]] used to be "Anyone You Know", after the example of the trope from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.

* [[The Adjectival Superhero]] used to be named "The Egregious Trope-Man", but was renamed because it sounded more like a troper in-joke than a trope and used the word "trope" as a placeholder.

* [[Adorably Precocious Child]] was once "Cute Shotaro Boy", but because of rampant misuse for "cute little boy", it was changed.

* [[Adventure Duo]] was launched as "Adventure Couple", which led even mods to think that the trope was about actual romantic couples adventuring together, rather than describing a particular set of personalities common to [[The Hero|Hero]]/[[The Lancer|Lancer]] pairs.

* [[Afterlife Express]] was formerly "Soul Train", but was renamed since it shared its name with the work ''[[Soul Train]]''.

* [[Age Lift]] was renamed from "Playing Hamlet" in order to clarify that the trope is about a character's age changing in an adaptation in order to better suit an older actor.

* [[Authority in Name Only]] was formerly "The King of Town", after a character from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. The trope was renamed for clarity.

* [[Awful Wedded Life]] was formerly "No Exit" after Sartre's play of the same name, which wasn't even an example.

 

== B ==

* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]] was originally "Barefoot Funny Animal". It was renamed to match up with its [[Sister Trope|Sister Tropes]] [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]], [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]], and [[Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal]].

* [[Basso Profundo]] was originally named "The Dish Rattler". It was renamed due to failure to thrive after over a year.

* [[Behind a Stick]] used to be "Narrow Escape". It was renamed for having nothing to do with the common meaning of that phrase, or, for that matter, with escapes at all.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] was known for a while as "When a Jerk Loves a Tsundere". Before that, it was briefly known as "Tsunderes in Love" before it was decided as a misleading title since a jerk is not a Tsundere. ''Before that'', it used to be called a "Takahashi Couple", named for mangaka [[Rumiko Takahashi]] (whose works are known for prominently featuring such relationships), a name dropped when specific references in titles fell out of fashion.

* [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] used to be "Spectacled Sadist"; it was renamed because of confusion with [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]. Before that, it used to be "Kichiku Megane". That title gave no information to those outside the anime/manga fandom, or to those within the anime/manga fandom who hadn't come across the trope. It was also the name of a yaoi eroge [[Visual Novel]], necessitating a rename to avoid confusion.

* [[Best Known for the Fanservice]] used to be "Everyone Remembers the Stripper".

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]] was "Evil Frog Who Wants to Be an Ox", a title that is quite awkward in a sentence due to its length, requires more typing than ideal, and is not immediately connected to its subject unless the reader knows the specific [[An Aesop|Aesop]] and applies it correctly.

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]] used to be "BFB". It was renamed for being a confusing snowclone of [[BFG]].

* [[Black Shirt]] was formerly known as "Jackals", since it was originally split off from [[Dying Like Animals]], which still recognizes it under that name.

* [[Blasphemous Boast]] was formerly "More Tropes than God", renamed to get away from "trope" as a placeholder.

* [[Bluff the Impostor]] was formerly "Cry Wolfie", after a scene in ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]] 2'' and as a pun on [[Crying Wolf]].

* [[Blunt Yes]] was once "Flat Yes". It was changed to be clearer.

* [[Capital City]] was originally named after "Shattrath", an Outlands city in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.

* [[Captain Morgan Pose]] was originally called "Riker Pose", renamed for greater recognition.

* [[Career-Building Blunder]] was "House Hiring Heuristic", after the lead of medical drama ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' who followed the trope several times. But it's not hiring: it's promotion or other increases in trust and responsibility following a bad mistake -- something not apparent from the title. It also required specific work knowledge of the word "heuristic" for rule of thumb, which was tripping some folks up.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]] used to be "The Leisure Suit Larry", from ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]''. The too-close names led to roughly half the ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' links mistaking the game for the trope. (Originally the trope name was actually the same as the game, without the definite article.) Also, Larry is not a [[Casanova Wannabe]]: he always ends up with many conquests. He has to be the ''opposite'', a [[Kavorka Man]], for the games to work.

* [[Catastrophic Countdown]] used to be "Metroid Bomb", providing no information to those outside a very specific fandom. Even within the ''[[Metroid]]'' fandom, there are several bombs it could be, whereas this trope refers to the interesting kind of timebomb that causes the surrounding area to join in with sympathy explosions even before it goes off.

* [[Cel Shading]] was formerly "For the Cel of It".

* [[Cute Kitten]] was originally titled "Everything's Cuter with Kittens", a snowclone of the discredited [[Everything's Better with Indexes]] family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all kittens regardless of portrayal.

* [[Cutting Off the Branches]] used to be named "Road Cone", but the old title was deemed too opaque.

 

 

== D ==

* [[Danger Room Cold Open]] was called the long and unwieldy "Professor X Likes to Watch Teenagers Sweat", which was also loaded with (probably not unintentional) implications that make you think of a different trope.

* [[Dating Do-Si-Do]] was originally "Degrassi Dating". Lack of archived discussion prevents Trope Archaeologists from determining whether it was changed as part of a general purge of show-named tropes, or because it was [[I Thought It Meant|easily mistaken for]] a reference to the [[Totally Radical|totally]] [[The Eighties|'80s]] made-on-a-shoestring look of [[Degrassi Junior High|early incarnations]] [[Degrassi High|of the franchise]].

* [[Dark Horse Victory]] was formerly "Zmelik", after an Olympic athlete (namely, the one that actually won the Decathlon gold in 1992, the year of "Dan vs. Dave").

* [[Dark Mistress]] was formerly "Doctor Girlfriend" after the character from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Renamed due to the fact that there are several qualities of the "good" Doctor that could've attached to the trope and no way to figure out which was applicable from just a glance.

* [[Dead Person Impersonation]] was originally "Martin Guerre", which was rewritten to cover the specific work of that title. [[Mad Men|The Don Draper]] may or may not have been considered.

* [[Death by Woman Scorned]] used to be "He Had It Coming".

* [[Didn't Want an Adventure]] used to be "I Wanted to Go Bowling". The old name was trying to be a stock phrase and failed.

* [[Die Hard on an X]] was just named "Die Hard" for a really long time. It was renamed because it made searching for the trope as opposed to [[Die Hard|the movie]] next to impossible.

* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]] was formerly "Bucket of Ears". However, that ''[[Coupling]]'' reference was just too unintuitive and resulted in most references all being related to Jeff from the show.

* [[Digitized Hacker]] was formerly "Malus Ex Machina", a [[Gratuitous Latin]] phrase meaning "evil out of the machine", in a failed imitation of [[Deus Ex Machina]].

* [[Driven by Envy]] was "Salieri Syndrome", but the old name was too opaque and failed to attract [[Wick|wicks]].

* [[Drunk on Milk]] was formerly "Drunk on Malts". It was renamed because of the possible confusion of malts with malted hops when malts are meant to refer to a clearly non-alcoholic drink like milk.

* [[Dueling Hackers]] was renamed from "Dot Combat" for a clearer name.

* [[Dying Declaration of Love]] was known as "Going Down with the Ship". It was renamed so that the title could be used for the "captain goes down with his ship" trope.

* [[Dying to Be Replaced]] previously had the name of "Klingon Promotion", but was continuously misused to mean [[You Kill It, You Bought It]] and what is now [[Klingon Promotion]] (even in its own Laconic and Quotes pages).

 

== E ==

* [[Earth All Along]] was "Planet of the Apes Ending", after a [[It Was His Sled|well-known]] [[Planet of the Apes|example]].

* [[Eating the Eye Candy]] was originally called "Female Gaze", but it was agreed that it is not a variation of [[Male Gaze]] and shouldn't sell itself that way. <ref> [[Female Gaze]] is now its own trope page by its proper definition as the [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[Male Gaze]].</ref>

* [[Eccentric Mentor]] was originally named "The Dumbledore" after the character from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. It was renamed because the character it was named after was known for other things than just the trope he was named for.

* [[Exponential Plot Delay]] used to be "Zeno's Race", after an early mathematical theory of limits. The idea was a story that showed ever-greater plot delay could be metaphorically represented by Zeno's theory. In the theory, movement is impossible since no matter how many times you travel half a distance, you have an infinite number of half-distances to go. This was too much of a stretch for general readers.

* [[Exposition Fairy]] was originally named "Ninja Butterfly", after the game ''Red Ninja''. It was changed because Ninja Butterfly sounded like it's about [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|stealth lepidopteran assassins of shadow]], instead of "friendly advice-giving character who commonly makes you yell, '[[Stop Helping Me!]]!'"

* [[Extranormal Institute]] was formerly known as "Wizarding School". People were taking the name literally, so EI was split off as the supertrope.

* [[Extra Y, Extra Violent]] was once "XYY", which didn't demonstrate the trope of an additional Y-chromosome leading to violent behaviour.

* [[The Extremist Was Right]] used to be "And It Worked", but was renamed to discourage misuse of the trope for the stock phrase itself.

* [[Eyelid-Pull Taunt]] was once "Red Eye", which could refer to both the movie ''[[Red Eye (film)|Red Eye]]'' and simple red eyes.

 

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