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== L ==
* [[If You Know What I Mean]] had previously been "Nudge Nudge", and before that Nudge, and even and before that "If You Know What I Mean". If You Know What I Mean had "I" in the title, which signals conversation in the main article and [[Pothole Magnet|attracts potholes]]. Nudge was used as a temporary replacement. It was changed to Nudge Nudge to be a little more clear. The current name came about to point out that the trope is about the [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] of [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]], not the entendres themselves.
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* [[Late to the Punchline]] used to be "Swiss Moment" from a relatively minor association of the Swiss with being slow to get jokes rather than the major associations with chocolate, money, cheese or neutrality.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]] was previously known as "Little Black Dress" (since such characters "go with everything"). This was renamed since it has nothing to do with dresses and the fact that there were many male examples fitting the trope too. [[Little Black Dress]] now covers [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* [[Legendary Catfish]] was renamed from "The Catfish" because it was deemed too generic and not indicative of what the trope was actually about.
* [[Lesser Star]] was originally "Garfunkel". Not only was it commonly misused as [[Stuck in Their Shadow]], it wasn't even an example.<ref>Art Garfunkel was very important in [[Simon and Garfunkel]]'s harmonies.</ref>
* [[Light'Em Up]] used to be "Light the Way". It was renamed since the old name was getting confused for ''literally'' lighting the way, not light as an elemental power.
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* [[Little Bit Beastly]] was once known as "Kemonomimi". However, the former title was very hard to search. Before that it was named [[Petting Zoo People]] which became entirely a new trope.
* [[Little Guy, Big Buddy]] was formerly "Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot", characters from an old [[Feed the Kitty|cartoon]]. The name was being used for the characters, and was also being mistaken for a trope about a dog and a cat, instead of a broad trope about a relationship between two people.
* [[Little Miss Badass]] was formerly known as "Badass Lolita". The name was changed due to the original's reference to a character with major unrelated connotations, and because "loli" hit some sort of filter and caused Google to refuse to support the page with ads on [[TV Tropes]]. This is not a concern on All The Tropes, since we do not run ads, but the name change has stuck.
* [[Little Miss Snarker]] was originally known as "The Ruri" (named after Hoshino Ruri of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''), but then it was changed to "Deadpan Loli". Now it has been renamed for the same reasons as the above trope.
* [[Loan Shark]] was shortened from "All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks", the name of a company in ''[[Pikmin 2]]''.
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* [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop]] was previously "Uncle Ned", a character reference (from ''[[Family Ties]]'') nobody connected to and which obscured the point of the trope, leading to confusion with [[Remember the New Guy?]].
* [[Look Behind You!]] was "Hey, What's That?" Renamed in the dark days before punctuated titles, when apostrophes where frowned upon.
* [[Loot Drama]] was "The Ridill". Which it was. Few people outside the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' fandom will know of this sword -- but [[Loot Drama]] in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
* [[Lost in Medias Res]] once was "Hold Your Horses", where it wasn't that obvious that ''the author'' was meant.
* [[Loudness War]] was "Record of Loudness War". The old name was an awkward pun off of ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' and there was no reason to use it over the pre-existing term.
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* [[Lover Tug of War]] used to be "Tug Lover War". It was not widely used, though it's a moderately common trope, so it was given a clearer/less bizarre name.
* [[Loves My Alter Ego]] was formerly "The Lois Lane". Not only was the first non-descriptive, many thought it was a separate trope, and many linked to it as Lois Lane the character.
* [[Low-Angle Shot]] was formerly "Hitler Cam", and was renamed to reflect the real-world term for this camera angle (as opposed to [[TV Tropes]]' jargon), and to avoid invoking [[Godwin's Law]] for no good reason.
* [[Lyrics Video Mismatch]] was renamed from "Narrative Non Sequitur" to clarify its meaning as a trope exclusive to music videos.
== M ==
* [[Machine Worship]] was "Ave Machina". It was changed because many people thought "Ave" was a religious term<ref>No doubt because of the hymn "Ave Maria" ("Hail, Mary", which also named the "Hail Mary Pass").</ref>, when it's actually a
* [[Magical Girl Warrior]] was
* [[Make Room for the New Plot]] was renamed from "Got a Bigger Problem Now" to clarify the trope's meaning and to rid it of a line of dialogue title.
* [[Major Misdemeanor]] was renamed from "Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life" for conciseness and clarity.
* [[Maligned Mixed Marriage]] was "Mixed Marriage". It was changed because people kept using the old name for interracial relationships in general.
* [[Man Bites Man]] was once "Take a Bite Out of Crime" from an unrelated [[Public Service Announcement]] where it was the slogan of McGruff the Crime Dog.{{who}} Didn't make it clear who was biting who and gave the misleading impression it was something to do specifically with crimefighting.
* [[Man Child]] was originally named "The Oscar" after a character from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' who didn't even fit the trope.
* [[Mandarin]] was renamed from "Chinese Language" because the page was about Mandarin and not any of the other languages generally called "Chinese".
* [[Mandatory Motherhood]] was once "Childfree Is Not Allowed". It was renamed because childfree is not synonymous with "childless"; it is the name of a somewhat controversial movement. The old name caused some misuse, and carried unnecessary connotations that other, clearer names could avoid.
* [[Manipulative Mentor]] was renamed from "The Svengali", in part because of the general shift away from tropes named for specific characters and in part because the metaphoric use of the specific character to indicate this trope seems to be fading from pop culture.
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]] was originally "Pink Boy, Blue Girl". It was changed due to the old name being misused as an inversion of [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]].
* [[Meaningful Echo]] was once "You Are with Me", after a line from ''[[
* [[Meddlesome Patrolman]] was formerly "The Longtarin" after a character from ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' which few people knew about.
* [[Media Scrum]] was formerly just "Scrum". It was renamed because Scrum is broader term and the media version isn't the predominant use of it.
* [[Men Buy From Mars, Women Buy From Venus]] was renamed from the even longer and harder to remember "Men Are from Candy Bars Women Are from Shaving Products".
* [[The Men in Black]] was MIB. We generally don't like acronym trope names unless the spelled out title contains profanity.
* [[Merged Reality]] was renamed from "Make a Better World" because it was being misused for characters who want to make the world a better place rather than for examples of parallel worlds being merged.
* [[Messy Pig]] was originally titled "Everything's Messier with Pigs", 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 pigs regardless of portrayal.
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* [[Moe]] was formerly "Moe Moe" because of a now-obsolete minimum on how long trope names could be. It was changed to [[Moe]] because that is the correct term for the trope and less confusing (except for all the Western-media characters named "Moe"). As they say, mo' moe, mo' problems.
* [[Moe Stare]], which easily rolls off the tongue, used to be "Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stare", which... doesn't.
* [[Moment of Awesome]] was "Crowning Moment of Awesome" (and shortly before, "Awesome Moments"). Renamed due to trope decay, as the name implied a singled
* [[Money Making Shot]] was renamed from "Money Shot" due to the latter's porn connotations.
* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]] used to be "See the Sailboat", after a Magic Eye puzzle in the movie ''[[Mallrats]]''. Since it isn't about sailboats and the somewhat obscure reference leads to a figurative link with [[Moon Logic Puzzle|Moon Logic Puzzles]] (something you stare at fruitlessly), it was changed to a descriptive title.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]] used to be "Estrogen Brigade Bait". It was changed because it's supposed to be a [[Spear Counterpart]] to [[Ms. Fanservice]] and kept getting misused to mean any male character that the troper thought was sexy. Also, not everyone attracted to men produces estrogen.
* [[Mrs. Hypothetical]] spent maybe a few hours as "Thinking of Changing Her Name to His" before being changed. The name it launched under was intolerably wordy and didn't quite outline the general concept.
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]] used to be "McDuck", but was renamed since it was unclear, lacked "The", and was being linked to by tons of articles referencing the [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]] character rather than the trope.
* [[Multicultural Alien Planet]] used to be "Lots of Planets Have a North". Created around a line from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' that wasn't an example for the sake of the reference, this misleading title suggested it was [[Aliens of London]] i.e. aliens with real life accents rather than, well, a [[Multicultural Alien Planet]] -- an alien planet with distinct ethnicities, cultures, and traditions. Misuse followed.
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]] started life as "Last Dance With Mary Jane", then was changed to [[Norma Bates]] to to make it clear that it covered more than necrophilia, then was changed again when it was pointed out that "Norma Bates" was misleading to people who were familiar with ''[[Psycho]]'', opaque to people who weren't, and was a spoiler, to boot.
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* [[Mutant Draft Board]] used to be called "The Corps Is Mother", after the slogan of the infamous Psi Corps from ''[[Babylon 5]]''. The original title was another victim of the move away from referencing specific series.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]] was changed from "And Zoidberg" (via "Ladies and Alice") after significant statistically verified misuse of the name for any broad use involving "and", with "And Zoidberg" not having much to help it distinguish itself from other "and" tropes except for a very specific show reference.
== N ==
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* [[Neutron Bomb]] was formerly known as "Kill the Poor" (after the [[Dead Kennedys]] song of the same name). [[Kill the Poor]] has since been redefined to mean [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* [[Never a Self-Made Woman]] was changed from "Female Success Is Family", due to the sheer amount of people misunderstanding it for [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]], [[Career Versus Man]], [[Family Versus Career]] and other tropes of that ilk.
* [[Never Live It Down]] was formerly known as "Jean Grey Escalation" -- referring to the fact that Jean Grey's{{who}} ''one'' [[Comic Book Death]] was blown out of proportion by writers and fans. This same mischaracterization plagued the trope name, with tropers using Jean Grey Escalation as a synonym for [[Death Is Cheap]]. Oh, the irony.
* [[Never My Fault]] used to be "You Blockhead", which referenced the [[Catch Phrase]] in ''[[Peanuts]]'' -- which wasn't always used in conjunction with unfair blame shifting .
* [[New Rules as the Plot Demands]] used to be named "The Catapult Turtle Flying Castle Gambit", named from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] used to be "Nightmare Dispenser", and before that it was... [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]. The first change happened after 1. someone tried to YKTTW a "High Octane Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant" trope (which basically amounted to "NFSA, ''[[The Same but More|but scarier!]]''") and 2. someone else pointed out that unlike [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] is ''not'' a subjective trope. So divorcing the two only made sense. <ref>Wait, what?</ref> Later it was reverted back.
* [[Nightmare Sequence]] was previously "Nightmare Dreams", considering to be unwieldy with obscurification.
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* [[No-Gear Level]] was renamed from "Warring Without Weapons" in order to stop misuse for [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] and to deal with underuse.
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]] was originally named "No Just No". Renamed to make it clear that it is an in-universe trope.
* [[Non-Action Snarker]] was originally named "The Shelton".{{who}} It was changed because the character it was named for is from an obscure work.
* [[Non Sequitur Distraction]] used to be named "Forget It, He's Rolling", but was renamed because the original trope title was misleading as it was alluding to the opposite reaction of the one the trope describes.
* [[Not-So-Phony Psychic]] was once "Phony Phony Psychic", which was rather ambiguous.
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* [[Not with Them for the Money]] used to be "Gold Burier", an opaque snowclone of [[Gold Digger]].
* [[Nutty Squirrel]] was originally titled "[[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]", 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 squirrels regardless of portrayal.
== O ==
* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]] was originally "Obstructive Vigilance", and was renamed for greater clarity.
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]] was originally "Weekend at Bernies", a prominent [[Weekend at
* [[Offscreen Inertia]] was once "Tethercat Principle", a rather obscure name. The porn-specific form "No End In Sight" was alos merged there.
* [[Off the Table]] was formerly "Pound of Flesh".
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* [[The Old Convict]] was once "The Old Con", which didn't thrive and got confused for [[The Con]].
* [[Old Cop, Young Cop]] used to be "Somerset and Mills", but was changed because the old name was named after a pair of characters and required knowledge of [[Se7en|a particular movie]] to understand.
* [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement]] used to be "Once Noodled a Man to Death". Turning the murder implement into a verb was judged confusing. Plus it was [[YKTTW
* [[One Judge to Rule Them All]] was once "Aoyama Panel Judge", changed to be less obscure to anyone not in the fairly narrow demographic of [[Shoujo]] manga fans.
* [[One of the Kids]] used to be "Adult Child". It was renamed after people kept confusing it for [[Man Child]].
* [[One-Scene Wonder]] was originally "Cardinal Wolsey",{{who}} after such a scene-stealing role.
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]] was formerly "Sword in the Stone". It was renamed in order to encourage broader usage of the trope outside of just swords in stones and to avoid misuse for simple references to [[King Arthur]].
* [[Only the Pure of Heart]] was renamed from "Nimbus Privileges" for being work dependent (also got used as a redundancy for [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] quite a bit).
* [[Only Sane Employee]] used to be "Liz Lemon{{who}} Job", which, in addition to being a character named trope, was also incredibly indirect.
* [[Opaque Nerd Glasses]] used to be "[[Nerd Glasses]]"; it was
* [[Organization Index]] was renamed from "The Organization" because the former name made it sound like a trope itself rather than an listing of multiple different organization tropes.
* [[Ostentatious Secret]] was once "Meghan Box", after a high-profile secret on ''[[Felicity]]''. The name was changed since without the reference the title was opaque.
* [[The Other Darrin]] was originally "Sister Becky",{{who}} referring to the ''second'' most well-known instance of the trope (and falling in line nicely with [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|Brother Chuck]], which has also been renamed).
* [[Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future]] was formerly "We Will Use Micros in the Future", changed because it's not clear what the "micros" in the title are (most people would immediately think microwaves, which is wrong).
* [[Outlaw Couple]] was formerly "Bonnie and Clyde", but was renamed because it shared a name with the film ''[[Bonnie and Clyde]]'' and was being used to refer to the people/characters Bonnie and Clyde rather than the trope itself.
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* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]] used to be "The Krillin", named after Krillin from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.
* [[Overused Copycat Character]] used to be [[Forgotten Realms|Drizzt]] Syndrome.
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* [[Parrot Exposition]] used to be "Metal Gearing", which used to be "Prince of Space Sir". ''[[Prince of Space]]'' was too obscure, and ''[[Metal Gear]]'' is famous for far more than just repeating stuff.
* [[Past Victim Showcase]] was originally "Not Very Pretty Now, Is He?", a dialogue title that had absolutely nothing to do with the trope at all.
* [[Patient Childhood Love Interest]] was originally "Osananajimi", but was renamed for being too hard to remember<ref>though it may be fun to say while you do</ref>, meaning just "childhood friend" with ''zero'' romantic connotations whatsoever (
* [[Pendulum War]] was originally "One-Sided Battle", but was renamed because the trope is actually a series of alternating [[Curb Stomp Battle
* [[Percussive Maintenance]] was formerly "Fonzarelli Fix" after a ''[[Happy Days]]'' character, but revelations of the widespread use of the term Percussive Maintenance in [[Real Life]] made the new name far more viable and less dependent on a reference.
* [[Perfect Play AI]] was renamed from "MK Walker" to discourage non-video game uses of the trope and to clarify its meaning.
* [[Periphery Hatedom]] was formerly "The Barney" after a prominent example: the eponymous character from ''[[Barney and Friends]]''. Changed to indicate that it was more about an audience reaction than a particular character type. Additionally, wiki trends disfavor "The <character>" trope names, not to mention the possibility for confusion with other characters named Barney (such as the ones from ''[[The Flintstones]]'', ''[[Barney Miller]]'', ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', and ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'').
* [[Persona Non Grata]] was "Banned from Argo". After some discussion, it was changed due to the [[Trope Namer]] being obscure and the new name being the technical term for the trope.
* [[Person as Verb]] was originally "I Pulled a 'Weird Al'". Renamed because this trope wasn't something [["Weird Al"
* [[Pink Is for Sissies]] was "Pink Is for Girls", which was easy to interpret as "pink as a girls' color" rather than "boys wearing pink getting labeled as effeminate".
* [[Planet Heck]] was formerly known as "Bonus Level of Hell", but was renamed since the original name both implied the subject was always a bonus level (not necessarily) and was getting confused with tropes like [[That One Level]]. For hard bonus levels, the page [[Brutal Bonus Level]] was created, which [[Bonus Level of Hell]] now redirects to.
* [[Planet of Steves]] was formerly called "Welcome to Marklar", a reference to an episode of ''[[South Park]]''. Renamed since the more obvious gag with Marklar was [[
* [[Platonic Life Partners]] was renamed from "The Straight Will and Grace" due to the old name being confusing and oblique.
* [[Playable Menu]] was once called "Walk Over Here for Options", but was renamed for clarity.
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* [[Plot Irrelevant Villain]] was "Villain Who Doesn't Do Anything". The new term better reflects the trope.
* [[Plot-Powered Stamina]] was originally "Marathon Man", but was changed to avoid confusion with [[Marathon Man|the novel and film of the same name]].
* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]] was changed from "Eigen Plot" because the trope doesn't really have much to do with the
* [[Plummet Perspective]] used to be "The Apple Falls Far".
* [[Polar Opposite Twins]] was "Different As Night And Day". It was renamed because the original name wasn't clear that the trope only applies to twins and was getting misuse for people who are not twins.
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* [[Porn with Plot]] was formerly "Plot With Porn", which sounded too much like [[Explicit Content]] and was misleading.
* [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons]] was "Pounds Are Doggy Prison". It was renamed because the trope is not limited to dogs.
* [[Power Copying]] was "Mega Manning". It was renamed because of it being named after a character.{{who}} Even if the name was known he's a character with many incarnations, something that could lead to confusion.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]] was formerly "Soylent Green" (that name now reserved for [[Soylent Green|the film]]), which carried too many connotations of [[Human Resources]]. It is worth noting that before some trope derailment, [[Aesoptinium]] was called "Powered by a Forsaken Child".
* [[Power Levels]] used to be "Over Nine Thousand". The latter has long been a redirect, but its destination was changed to [[Readings Are Off the Scale]] in early 2010.
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* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] used to be "Chew Bubblegum", which much later became [[Chew Bubblegum|its own trope]].
* [[Precious Puppy]] was originally titled "Everything's Precious with Puppies", 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 puppies regardless of portrayal.
* [[Predatory Business]] was "VoldeMart", but the namer{{who}} had nothing to do with the trope.
* [[Preemptive Declaration]] was formerly "Your ____ Is Broken", but very few of the examples used the form "Your x is broken", apart from being completely unindicative.
* [[Pretty Butterflies]] was originally titled "Everything's Prettier with Butterflies", a snowclone of the discredited{{verify}} [[Everything's Better with Indexes]] family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all butterflies regardless of portrayal.
* [[Primal Scene]] was formerly "Oh Kitty", a line from ''[[That '70s Show]]''. Non-indicative.
* [[Product Facelift]] was originally "Plastic Surgery" and was renamed in order to discourage confusion between it and the kind of plastic surgery that actually could give you a real facelift.
* [[Progressively Prettier]] was formerly "Fail Polish", but was renamed because it was non-indicative and might lead people to think it was about someone becoming more ugly or that it was related to stereotypes about people from Poland.
* [[Prolonged Prologue]] was renamed from "Longest Prologue Ever" due to the latter's negative tone.
* [[Promethean Punishment]] was renamed from its original name "The Punishment" because it was too vague and generic, and we had tropers thinking it was for any kind of punishment, however trivial.
* [[Prophet Eyes]] was originally "Milky White Eyes". It was probably changed since the new name specifically addresses the psychic/prophetic aspect of the eyes, not just having them.
* [[Psychotic Love Triangle]] was originally "Yandere Love Triangle", was renamed due to the old name being too Japan-centric.
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]] was renamed from "This! IS! SPARTA!" because the old name is a widespread meme that was prone to [[Pothole Magnet|pothole abuse]]. (Also, it never showed up properly since it was a custom title on a ptitled page.)
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]] was
* [[Puppy Love]] was renamed from "Toy Ship" in order to make it objective and because the former is what people outside the wiki call it.
* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] was formerly known as "Brainy Specs". It was changed because editors keep mistaking characters who wear fake glasses just to look smarter for smart characters who wear them. The latter part eventually has into a more appropriate trope called [[Smart People Wear Glasses]].
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* [[Psycho Supporter]] used to be called "Crouching Support Hidden Batshit". Changed to remove the family-unfriendly word.
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