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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]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Lyrics Video Mismatch]] was renamed from "Narrative Non Sequitur" to clarify its meaning as a trope exclusive to music videos.

 

* [[Magical Girl Warrior]] was originally "Magic Warrior", and was changed to make it obvious that the trope was about [[Magical Girl]]s and not [[Magic Knight]]s.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.)

* [[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]].