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* [[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 (Music)|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.
* [[Light Flicker Teleportation]] was renamed from "Blackout Blink" to clarify the trope's meaning since "blackout" was being used in a non-traditional way in the old name.
* [[Likes Older Women]] used to be "Cake Eater". It was renamed to clarify what the trope means.
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* [[Lonely Funeral]] was "Tragic Funeral" before. The previous title wasn't clear enough.
* [[Longing for Fictionland]] was "Longing for Pandora" (after the setting of the movie ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]''). There was too much scope for confusion with the character from Greek myth / Pandora's box.
* [[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|Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games]] is fairly common and this is usual term for it. The term gives good clues to those outside this broader camp, too.
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* [[Man Child]] was originally named "The Oscar" after a character from ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|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]].
* [[Meaningful Echo]] was once "You Are with Me", after a line from ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]''. [[Fan Myopia]] at its finest.
* [[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.
* [[Metronomic Man Mashing]] was formerly "Metronomic Mook Massacre", but was renamed because it had little to do with [[Mooks]] or massacres.
* [[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 [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Indexes]] family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all pigs regardless of portrayal.
* [[Minigame Zone]] was "Golden Saucer", after the amusement park in ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]''. It got renamed because the true name is Gold Saucer, and the name wasn't working well enough (not enough wicks and inbounds).
* [[Minimalist Cast]] was renamed from "Omega Cast" to help encourage use for an underused trope and to clarify its meaning.
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* [[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.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]] was formerly known as "Rape the Dog", but had to be renamed due to it being treated as [[Kick the Dog]], [[The Same but More|But More Evil!]] (Also, [[TV Tropes]] is the wrong place for bestiality. [[But You Screw One Goat!|Usually]].)
* [[More Friends More Benefits]] used to be known as "Mambo Intimacy 5", but was renamed for clarity because the original name was obscure and somewhat unrelated to video games anyway.
* [[Mr. Alt Disney]] was formerly "Dis Not". It was renamed for clarity, partly to make it more apparent that the trope is about a parody of [[Walt Disney]] the person.
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* [[Multicultural Alien Planet]] used to be "Lots of Planets Have a North". Created around a line from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|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.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]] was originally "What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome". It was changed to be clearer, and to get away from the tired [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not an Index?|What Do You Mean, It's Not X?]] snowclone family.
* [[Muppet Cameo]] was renamed from "Everything's Better with Muppets" to cut ties with the discredited and only tenuously connected [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Indexes]] snowclone family.
* [[Mutant Draft Board]] used to be called "The Corps Is Mother", after the slogan of the infamous Psi Corps from ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|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.
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* [[Naked Freak Out]] used to be "Unmentionable BSOD", implying a connection between the trope and [[Heroic BSOD]] that wasn't really evident.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]] used to be called "Surname First Name Surname". It was changed because the use of technical words (forename, surname) made the trope title unwieldy. This is one of the few trope names that was changed from something extremely generic to a specific series reference.
* [[Narrating the Obvious]] was "This Just In", which was easily confused for being a [[News Tropes]]. The latter is now used as such.
* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]] was "Night Nurse" but kept getting confused for a character type instead of a costume trope.
* [[Nested Story]] was once "Push Pop Plot" after the Computer Science abstraction known as a stack. Most readers do not know how push and pop operations apply to a stack and so found the title opaque. Of the few who did make a link, some made the link to ''candy'' rather than data structures. One wonders what a hash table would conjure.
* [[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 ''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 (Comic Strip)|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!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''. Renamed because the old name was clumsy, hard to remember, and unintuitive. Was first renamed "Screw The Rules, I Have Plot" but renamed again since it had nothing to do with other "Screw The Rules" tropes.
* [[Nightmare Fuel StationattendantStation Attendant]] used to be "Nightmare Dispenser", and before that it was... [[Nightmare Fuel StationattendantStation 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 StationattendantStation 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.
* [[No Biological Sex]] was formerly "No Gender". It was renamed in order to stop misuse of the trope for situations in which a character has no gender identity, but still has a biological sex.
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* [[No Delays for The Wicked]] used to be "The Trains Run on Time". Changed because it misused the idiom.
* [[No Except Yes]] was originally named "This Is Pest Control" after a ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' quote. Renamed because it made no sense to anyone outside the fandom.
* [[No Export for You]] originally bore the [[LO LcatsLOLcats]]-ish title "Our Country Is Speshulz". Funny, but hard to remember the exact spelling for, not to mention mistakable for other nationalism tropes.
* [[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". 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.
* [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]] used to simply be Not Wearing Pants. It was renamed because it was being misused for non-dream examples.
* [[No Sidepaths No Exploration No Freedom]] was formerly "Pipe Shooter" (which remains as a redirect). The original name was ostensibly a nickname from Finnish media, but was judged too obscure; also, it was intended to invoke images of the early videogame ''Tempest'', which is technically not an example but rather a [[Rail Shooter]].
* [[Not Growing Up Sucks]] was formerly "Can't Grow Up". Too general for the specific trope at hand, and a ptitle to boot.
* [[No Time to Think]] was originally known as "Red Wire Blue Wire", which led far too many people to confuse it with the [[Wire Dilemma]].
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]] had to be renamed from "Not Now Bernard" since it was named exactly after a work.
* [[Not Quite Forever]] used to be "You Fail Forever Forever", a snowclone made in error from the You Fail X family -- it was never related.
* [[Not -So -Harmless Villain]] used to be simply "Not So Harmless". It was renamed because it sounded far broader than the trope actually is and was used for anything that seemed harmless but wasn't rather than a [[Harmless Villain]] specifically.
* [[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 [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Indexes]] family. As with several similarly named tropes, the earlier name encouraged a list of all squirrels regardless of portrayal.
 
 
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* [[Off the Table]] was formerly "Pound of Flesh".
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]] was originally called "Missed Moment of Awesome", and took the name of "Epic Fail" even longer ago. The latter was because of conflicting with the more widespread meaning "a complete catastrophe of a failure", which [[Epic Fail]] is now about. The former was because people kept mistaking it for something they thought would have been awesome.
* [[Oh God, With the Verbing!]] used to be "Oh God, with the Troping!" until it was changed to be a bit more specific.
* [[Older Alter Ego]] was formerly "Glam of Shazam", named for [[Shazam|the comic that featured a major example]].
* [[The Old Convict]] was once "The Old Con", which didn't thrive and got confused for [[The Con]].
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* [[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", 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).
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* [[Outlaw Couple]] was formerly "Bonnie and Clyde", but was renamed because it shared a name with the film ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (Film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'' and was being used to refer to the people/characters Bonnie and Clyde rather than the trope itself.
* [[Out of Genre Experience]] was once "Unexpected Genre Change". When the latter was changed to [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]], the former also got changed, presumably to avoid confusion.
* [[Overnight Age Up]] used to be "Thirteen Going on Thirty". It was changed due to being named after [[Thirteen13 Going On Thirty30 (Film)|a work]].
* [[Overshadowed By Awesome]] used to be "The Krillin", named after Krillin from ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]''.
* [[Overused Copycat Character]] used to be [[Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game)|Drizzt]] Syndrome.
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* [[Powerup Mount]] was formerly "The Yoshi". Was being shoehorned into ''every'' use of the [[Super Mario Bros|Mario]] character even when he wasn't a mount, and had a low inbound count.
* [[Pre Approved Sermon]] used to be named "Ecumenical Meddling", but was renamed because the word "ecumenical" was being used in very different way from its dictionary and common use definition.
* [[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 [[EverythingsEverything'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 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 [[EverythingsEverything'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 (TV)|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.
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