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* [[Regenerating Health]] used to be "Walk It Off". Renamed to make the connection between the trope and name clearer.
* [[Regional Bonus]] was once "PAL Bonus", but was renamed to include bonus content from any regional version of a product.
* [[Reindeer Aren't Real]] was renamed from "Eskimos Aren't Real" because "Eskimo" is now considered a racial slur by the Inuit.
* [[Reliably Unreliable Guns]] was "Shur Fine Guns" (which has some meaning, but it's not mentioned anymore on the page).
* [[The Remnant]] was formerly known as "The Undefeated", which sounds like another trope entirely.
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* [[Scandalgate]] was originally "Gate Construction". It was renamed for the sake of the page having a clearer name.
* [[Schmuck Banquet]] used to be "Goldilocks and the Mines of Moria", which did not accurately convey the trope.
* [[Scenery Censor]] was
* [[Science Fantasy]] was once "Science Fiction Versus Fantasy", which was misused for ''literal'' [[The Magic Versus Technology War|conflicts between science fiction and fantasy]] and [[Fandom Rivalry]]. The new name indicates that it is about works incorporating [[Speculative Fiction Tropes|science fiction and fantasy elements]] together. The long description about the differences between the two genres was moved to [[Speculative Fiction/Analysis]].
* [[Scrabble Babble]] was originally [[The Simpsons (animation)|Kwyjibo]].
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* [[Searching the Stalls]] used to be "Stalling for Time"—a name that was mistaken as meaning, well, stalling for time more often than it was used to mean someone searching a series of bathroom stalls.
* [[Second Season Downfall]] used to be called "One-Season Wonder", which enjoyed almost 100% misuse (either as "series that lasted one season or less" or "great character who only appeared in one season").
* [[Seductive Spy]] was renamed from "Mata Hari" to distinguish the trope from the historical personage, who then gained an Useful Notes biography page.
* [[Seemingly-Profound Fool]] was previously "Chance the Gardener", but was renamed because it was being used to refer to the character from ''[[Being There]]''.
* [[Selective Enforcement]] was once "Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar" (named by something happening on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''). Another case of an incomprehensible trope name, particularly since it wasn't named [[In-Universe]] (as evidenced by the use of a British English descriptor based on an American work).
* [[Self-Constructed Being]] was called "Evil Seed Plot" for a short while after launching. We realized that it isn't limited to evil folk, seed-based regeneration or whole plots.
* [[Send in the Search Team]] used to be called "Heart of Darkness" after the famous book ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'', thereby taking up the name, which has its own page now; and it was decided not to name it after the work ''anyhow'' since [[
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]] was originally titled "The Tyler Durden". Again, character named trope.
* [[Sequel Goes Foreign]] was originally called "Third Movie Goes to Asia", renamed to be less restrictive sounding as the location can be anywhere and not just in Asia.
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* [[Supporting Leader]] was "The Aragorn", renamed because it was named after a character.
* [[Surprisingly-Sudden Death]] was formerly "Deadly Guest". It was renamed because the trope is a specific kind of death trope rather than a character one and the previous name was causing some misuse because of that.
* [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]] was formerly named "Palantir Ploy" but was changed due to being rather obscure even to those who have read ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* [[Surveillance Drone]] was formerly "Magic Cam". It was renamed because the trope has nothing to do with magic.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] was "The Jimmy Hart Version" for a ''long'' time, named after a professional wrestling manager who would write those kind of songs. Obviously, it was needlessly obtuse to anyone outside of the wrestling fandom.
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* [[Tangled Family Tree]] was formerly "Summers Family Tree", after the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]] was originally named "Mary Kay Letourneau Teaches Here", after a highly-publicized [[Truth in Television|real-world]] example. It was changed for being long, hard to spell, and difficult to use organically in descriptions. The new name, "Hot for Student", got eventually changed to illustrate it goes both ways.
* [[Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats]] is a double case. It was originally "Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats". This was way too long, cumbersome, and hard-to-remember, so it was changed to "Secret Mutant Hero Team". However, the new name never caught on like the old name had, and
* [[Temporary Substitute]] was formerly known as "Substitute Teacher" but people kept confusing that for tropes about actual substitute teachers.
* [[Ten Little Murder Victims]] is named after ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' (in a fashion) but it used to be given the exact same name which lead to a lot of wicks linking to the wrong page.
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* [[Thememobile]] was originally "Tropemobile". It was renamed because it used "trope" as a placeholder.
* [[The Assimilator]] was "You Will Be Assimilated". The new name more clearly says that it's a character trope.
* [[They Killed Kenny Again]] used to be "They Killed Kenny". The "again" was added to make it clear that this was a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Thing-O-Matic]] was renamed from "Trope-O-Matic" because the previous name used "trope" as a placeholder.
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* [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]] was formerly "Gray's Sports Almanac" after the [[Trope Codifier]], ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]''.
* [[Tin Can Telephone]] was "Tin Can You Hear Me Now". The old name was an overcomplicated "[[Wheel of Fortune|Before & After]]" for something that has a much simpler name in [[Real Life]], so there was no reason to [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]].
* [[Token
* [[Token Minority Couple]] was once "Token Shipping" due to a complete and utter lack of shipping.
* [[Too Awesome to Use]] was renamed from "P Wing Effect" after the item from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''.
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* [[Yuri Fan]] was formerly "Yuri Fanboy". It was changed because too many of the examples and [[Troper Tales]] were female for the male-gendered title to make any sense as the primary title, though the original title was kept as a redirect.
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