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{{Useful Notes}}
== Q ==
* [[Quip to Black]] used to be "Grissom One Liner" after Gil Grissom from ''[[
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* [[Really Gets Around]] used to be called "Miss Yo Yo Knickers", until the prudes found out. Changed to be gender neutral as well.
* [[Recurring Extra]] was known by "Yuppie Couple" which sounded like a completely different trope.
* [[Recycled Trailer Music]] was once "The Elfman Effect". Not a reference to the [[
* [[Red and Black
* [[Redemption Demotion]] was renamed from "Heel Face Downgrade", which itself used to be [[Good Is Dumb]] (the latter's meaning changed to fit the title more).
* [[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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* [[Resignations Not Accepted]] used to be "You Can Never Leave". The "Hotel California" reference obscured the meaning of the trope a little.
* [[The Rest Shall Pass]] was originally "I Got This", a vague [[Stock Phrase]] that's applicable to far more situations than just this trope.
* [[Retroactive Preparation]] was once the opaque "Wyld Stallyns Rule", which was named from ''[[Bill and Ted (
* [[Rhetorical Request Blunder]] used to be "Rid Me of This Priest"
* [[Rightful King Returns]] was once "Return of the King" but it was getting confused with Tolkien's work.
* [[Rise to
* [[Rogue Juror]] was formerly known as "Twelve Angry Men", named for [[12 Angry Men
* [[Romantic False Lead]] was originally "The Paolo", after the character from ''[[
* [[Romanticized Abuse]] was formerly "Abusively Sexy". It was renamed because the original name suggested that the abuse could be a good thing.
* [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] was formerly "George Lucas Love Story" after the poorly received romantic subplot in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode II: Attack of the Clones''. It was renamed because making titles just to be a [[Take That]] against a single work (it was determined most [[George Lucas]] stories don't suffer from this trope) isn't very good form and it's very likely the name will stop being topical.
* [[Romantic Runner-Up]] was renamed from "The Baxter" (from ''[[
* [[Rousing Speech]] was formerly two separate tropes, [[Rousing Speech]] and [[Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night]], which were merged under the name of the former, until the latter title was made a page about the poem of the same name (sort of).
* [[Rube Goldberg Device]] was renamed from "Robinson Goldberg Contraption" because a.) Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg are two different people known for such devices, and b.) the term "Rube Goldberg Device" is in common use off-wiki, so there was no need to [[Call a Rabbit
* [[Russian Naming Convention]] was originally "Trope, Son of Trope, Smith". An example of why the use of "trope" in trope names is discouraged.
* [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]] was formerly "Tricolours with Rusting Rockets". It was renamed because "Tricolour" can refer to a lot of different nations (esp. France). The new title also allows [[
* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]] was renamed from "A Disgrace to Blackbeard" for clarity. The old name was confusing because Blackbeard was ruthless, but also romanticized.
== S ==
* [[Sacrificial Lion]] was "The Cedric", which not only spoils the fourth ''[[Harry Potter (
* [[Same Content, Different Rating]] was "Rated W for Why". Renamed due to overly-wide name.
* [[Same Language Dub]] was "Milli Vanilli", but Milli Vanilli was repurposed for the pop group, then re-cut as a stub that had virtually no effort put into it, then brought back as a page original to All The Tropes.
* [[Sarcasm Blind]] was originally "Does Not Understand Sarcasm".
* [[Satiating Sandwich]] used to be called "Everything's Satiating with Sandwiches" according to the discredited and completely unrelated [[Everything's Better
* [[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]].
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Searching the Stalls]] used to be "Stalling for Time"
* [[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 (
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Serial Escalation]] was originally "Beyond the Impossible". Renamed because it was being widely misused to mean anything that was impossible, or as a synonym for [[Up to Eleven]]. [[Beyond the Impossible]] has been redefined to be [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Set Swords to Stun]] was formerly "Reverse Blade Sword" which has nothing to do with the trope.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]] was formerly "Shallow Female Love Interest". It was renamed because the latter had kind of a sexist ring to it and it being anywhere close to "female only" has been discredited time and again.
* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]] was expanded from simply "Mode Lock" to help clarify that it is specific to [[Shapeshifting]], and to prevent future confusion with [[Baleful Polymorph]] and/or [[Power Incontinence]]. It was being misused for these in approximately 25% of wikilinks.
* [[Shoddy Knockoff Product]] used to be "POP Station" after an example of the trope. Not something ordinary readers could be be expected to know. The new name tells it as it is.
* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]] was once "The Poochie", after the character from a [[Show Within a Show]] in ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Shoplift and Die]] was once known as "Easily Angered Shopkeeper" before it was renamed to clarify that action was specifically caused by player shenanigans. Even before that, it was named "Izchak's Wrath" after one of the shopkeepers of ''[[Nethack]]''.
* [[Short-Lived Aerial Escape]] was formerly "Renny Harlin Helicopter Explosion".
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* [[Sickbed Slaying]] was renamed from "If You Should Die Before You Wake" because the previous name was unclear and made finding a fairly common trope rather difficult.
* [[Side Effects Include]] was renamed from "Yes, But What Does Zataproximetacine DO?" for ease of spelling reasons.
* [[Sidekick Song]] used to be "Hakuna Matata" after a song in ''[[
* [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]] was formerly known as "Silver Age". It was renamed because not only did it need to be changed to match the new names for Golden Age and Dark Age, but there were also references to the concept of a Silver Age independent of comic books.
* [[Simultaneous Warning and Action]] was once Stand Back Hello, which required knowledge of ''[[Half
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] was once "Sixth Column". It was an exact duplicate of a work title. The work was not an example. The protagonist refers to the resistance movement as a Sixth Column:
* [[Skyward Scream]] was originally known as "The Khan". It was changed because all other "The X" tropes were character tropes (the trope is a [[Camera Tricks|camera trick]]), and the [[Trope Namer]] [[This Index Is Not an Example|wasn't even an example of the trope]]. As a result, [[The Khan]] is now a redirect for [[Say My Name]].
* [[Slave Collar]] used to be called "Chain of Command". It was renamed because it has nothing to do with chains and could be confused with [[The Chains of Commanding]]... or, for that matter, the [[wikipedia:Chain of command#Chain of command|chain of command]], or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296GRzyN2t4 the chain of command].
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* [[Smash Mook]] used to be "The Ogre". It was changed so [[The Ogre]] could redirect to [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier]].
* [[Smelly Skunk]] used to be "Everything's Smellier with Skunks". Changed because animal stereotype tropes shouldn't have "Everything's Better With" names.
* [[The Snark Knight]] was originally "The Daria" after [[Daria
* [[Soap Within a Show]] used to be "All My Circuits", after the [[Show Within a Show]] soap opera in ''[[
* [[Sobriquet]] was named "Red Baron", which made as much sense as it would have to call Aristocrats Are Evil "Richard III". It also meant we had no place to put a page for the historical [[Red Baron]], so the trope was renamed to its Real Life name.
* [[Softer and Slower Cover]] used to be "The Vonda Shepard Treatment", after a singer who performed some [[Softer and Slower Cover]] versions of popular songs for ''[[Ally McBeal]]''. It read like a character named trope and required specific fan-knowledge to work.
* [[So Long and Thanks For All
* [[Solve the Soup Cans]] was "Soup Cans" after a puzzle in ''[[The
* [[The Snack Is More Interesting]] was renamed from [[Cavalier Consumption]] to be more clear, with [[Appetite for Apathy]] as an additional redirect.
* [[The Something Force]] was formerly "Troper Force", but was renamed to not use the placeholder "troper".
* [[The Something Song]] was renamed from "The Trope Song" for the same reason as the above.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]] was "As You Wish" after a quote from ''[[The Princess Bride (
* [[Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot]] used to be just "Sorcerers Apprentice", but when it wasn't being confused for a trope about [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]] to a sorcerer, it was being confused for the title of [[The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* [[Space Zone]] was once "Lylat System", a non-descriptive title that gave no clues to those who did not know the reference (the setting from ''[[Star Fox (
* [[Spanner in
* [[Speaking, Like, Totally Teen]] was once "Get a Load of That Square". Renamed because the old title sounded like a line of dialogue and was hard to search for.
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]] was formerly "The Dr. Dolittle". It was renamed for being character-named and not thriving.
* [[Special Person, Normal Name]] was renamed from "Plain Name" as the latter was [[People Sit
* [[Splash Damage Abuse]] was formerly "Hit the Helpless Hex". It was renamed for being an obscure term and having extremely poor performance, overall.
* [[Spoken Word]] was renamed from "Plain Song" to reflect the prexisting term. Also, [[w:plainsong|plainsong]] is not an example of spoken word.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] was formerly named "Uchiha Syndrome" due to a commonly held belief that Sasuke Uchiha of ''[[
* [[Sprint Shoes]] was formerly named "Bunny Hood" after the item from ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* [[Sprouting Ears]] was formerly named "Hyperspace Ears". Renamed after consensus that sprouting was a more appropriate description.
* [[Square Race, Round Class]] was renamed from "Rogue Elephant" to clarify the trope's meaning and to try to deal with a lack of usage.
* [[Staged Shooting]] was renamed from "Fake Gunshot" in order to clarify the distinction between it and [[False Gunshot]].
* [[Stalking Is Love]] was formerly known as "Edward Cullen Syndrome" after a character from ''[[Twilight (
* [[Standard Evil Organization Squad]] was known as "Generic Evil Organization Squad". It was changed so the trope would sound less negative.
* [[Standard Fifties Father]] was formerly "Mister Cleaver" (from ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'').
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* [[Stopped Caring]] was formerly "I Don't Even Care". It was renamed for sounding like a line of dialogue and being non-indicative of the trope.
* [[Stop Trick]] was changed from "Jeannie Cut", due to the latter being a work-based name and the former being an established term.
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]] was formerly named "Did a Korean Person Die?" after a single episode gag from ''[[30 Rock
* [[Strange Secret Entrance]] was renamed from "Platform Nine and Three Quarters" to avoid [[Fan Myopia]].
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]] was formerly named "The Strawman Strikes Back".
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* [[Super-Hero Gods]] used to be "Super Gods". It was renamed for clarity.
* [[Superhero Trophy Shelf]] was once "Super Trophy Super Rack", which was unclear about the meaning.
* [[Supernatural
* [[Superpower Silly Putty]] once was "Twenty Four Hour Super Power". That page is now a redirect to [[Superpowers for A Day]].
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] used to be "Jonas Quinn", after a ''[[
* [[Swarm of Rats]] was formerly known as "Squeaking Carpet" and was renamed for clarity.
* [[Swiss Cheese Security]] used to be "Lex Luthor Security". It was named for a character in a shared universe that only sometimes displayed this trope.
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]] was "Inspector Zenigata", changed because it was named after a character.
== T ==
* [[Tailor-Made Prison]] was once "Oubliette".
* [[Taking Up the Mantle]] was formerly known as "You Are Batman".
* [[Talk About That Thing]] was formerly known as "The Thing", after an episode of ''[[Family Ties]]'' which used the phrase "the thing" in the service of the [[Room Shuffle]]. It was changed because the title wasn't the slightest bit descriptive of the trope, and too easily confused with [[The Thing (
* [[Talking
* [[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 ''[[
* [[Tennis Boss]] was once named "Playing Tennis with the Boss". Was probably renamed since it sounded too similar to [[Go-Karting
* [[Terrible Artist]] used to be known as "Hollywood Scribbling". It was renamed because it didn't really belong in with the [[Hollywood Style]] tropes and most of the wicks referred to a character who draws bad art.
* [[Terrible Trio]] was formerly named "Team Rocket" after a [[Pokémon|well-known trio]]
* [[Thanksgiving Episode]] used to be [[Thanksgiving Day]]. [[Thanksgiving Day]] was a duplicate page with [[Thanksgiving]], because the two pages had both factual information about the holiday and examples of the use of the holiday in fiction. The historical information was moved to [[
* [[That One Level]] was previously "Scrappy Level" but was changed due to it being a closer parallel to [[That One Boss]] than [[The Scrappy]] and relying on another trope reference.
* [[That One Player]] was called "That One Guy", but was renamed to avoid confusion with [[The One Guy]].
* [[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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* [[Three-Month-Old Newborn]] used to be "Dawson Babies" which was a bad snowclone of [[Dawson Casting]].
* [[Threesome Subtext]] was renamed from "Three Yay" for the same reason [[Homoerotic Subtext]] was split off of "[[Ho Yay]]".
* [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]] was formerly "Gray's Sports Almanac" after the [[Trope Codifier]], ''[[Back to
* [[Tin Can Telephone]] was "Tin Can You Hear Me Now". The old name was an overcomplicated "[[Wheel of Fortune
* [[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.]]''
* [[Toplessness From the Back]] used to be "Sexy Back"; it was renamed because people were assuming it meant "back that is sexy". The "backless dress" subtrope put on the page because of the confusion was split to [[Sexy Backless Outfit]].
* [[Training Montage]] was "Gonna Fly Now Montage". It was renamed because most people were using the redirect [[Training Montage]] instead of the main name.
* [[Transformation Name Announcement]] was originally "I Am Hero Hear Me Roar". Renamed for being incomprehensible and completely unintuitive.
* [[Translation Train Wreck]] was formerly "Do Not Want". Renamed because it was being very frequently misused for the meme. Do Not Want was later redirected to [[Squick]], then moved to the
* [[Transplanted Character Fic]] was formerly "Cookie Cutter Fic". Renamed due to the unclear meaning of "Cookie Cutter".
* [[Trapped in
* [[Traumatic Haircut]] used to be "Rape of the Lock", named after [[The Rape of the Lock|a literary work]]. It was renamed so that the original name could be used for the work itself.
* [[Trojan Prisoner]] was formerly known as "Wookiee Gambit" after the scene in ''[[Star Wars]]'' where Luke and Han infiltrate the Death Star's prison deck by bringing in Chewie in chains.
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* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]] used to be the more grammatically baffling "Troubling Unchildhood Behavior".
* [[True Companions]] was formerly known as "Nakama". It was renamed for clarity and because the old name was incorrect.
* [[Trust Password]] was formerly "I Am John Smith", named for a specific example of the trope from a multi-format Japanese series. It was changed mostly because "I Am John Smith" is a massive spoiler. In case you're wondering and can't resist finding out, said series is {{spoiler|the ''[[
* [[Tsurime Eyes]] and [[Tareme Eyes]] used to just be "Tsurime" and "Tareme". They were renamed to clarify that they are about eye shapes.
* [[Turn the Other Fist]] was renamed from "McLintock Punch" because the old name was obscure and work specific and the trope itself was very underused.
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* [[Uncanny Village]] was formerly "The Village". It was renamed as per new policy that trope and media should not share titles whenever possible.
* [[Unconfessed Unemployment]] was formerly I Can't Tell The Wife I Got Laid Off, which was a line-of-dialogue title, and an overly long one, at that.
* [[
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] was originally "Unexpected Genre Change". Changed to make it clear that the trope is specifically about gameplay styles in video games. However, the latter would get changed to [[Out-of-Genre Experience]], possibly to avoid confusion.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]] was originally "I Got Better". It was renamed because it was being constantly misused as a [[Stock Phrase]] and a generic pothole for "getting better" in general rather than the actual trope.
* [[Unfazed Everyman]] was "The Arthur Dent". Renamed because it was named after a character.
* [[Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway]] was formerly *But Sir, It's Not Yet Ready". Renamed for being an underused [[Stock Phrase]].
* [[Universal Adaptor Cast]] used to be "Commedia dell'Arte Troupe".
* [[Unkempt Beauty]] was formerly "The Benson", renamed to avoid a character/actor-named trope.
* [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting]] used to be "Bad Blue Lighting", which sounded too much like a negative subjective trope.
* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]] was "Dropped a [[Guilty Gear|Bridget]] on Him", a snowclone of the completely unrelated [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]] was formerly "Victory Gloating". It was renamed to clarify that the trope is about gloating after a contest, not just gloating in general.
* [[Unwanted Gift Plot]] was "The Zotz". It was renamed for being a character-named trope and for not thriving.
* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]] was once "The Kobayashi Maru", but it was deemed opaque and hard to spell.
* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]] was formerly known as "Swiss Messenger". Renamed due to being a named after a rather obscure character from ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] was once "Schala Lives"; however, problems with the examples obscurity for some and lack of comfornment to the trope for other ([[Chrono Trigger
* [[The Usual Adversaries]] used to be "Goddamn Orks". The old name was funny but had devolved into a verbal tick game.
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* [[Vampire Dance]] used to be "Blood on the Dance Floor", but since blood is related to more than just vampires (and didn't have much to do with the trope, anyway), the trope was renamed.
* [[Vanishing Village]] used to be "Brigadoon", after the musical play of that name. Changed to avoid conflicting with the work title.
* [[Verbal Tic]] used to be known as "Spoon Speaker", after the catchphrase of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', who [[This Index Is Not an Example|wasn't actually an example]].
* [[Verb This]] was "Dodge This" after a line in ''[[
* [[Vetinari Job Security]] was "Vetinari Paradox", which wasn't that paradoxical if you think about
* [[V-Formation Team Shot]] was formerly "Justice League Shot" but was renamed to be less work-specific and less opaque.
* [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] used to be Rape Is Love, changed presumably due to the old title being full of [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* [[Victor Gains Loser's Powers]] was "Your Defeat Means I Obtain Your Powers". The original name was created with only clarity in mind, but many people thought it could be easily improved.
* [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind]] was launched as "The Viral", after a character in ''[[
* [[Villains Blend in Better]] was "Antagonists Assimilate", name was stretched to keep unused ''Transformers'' Quote.
* [[Villain's Dying Grace]] was renamed from the unundicative "My Revenge Is Mercy".
* [[The Villain Makes the Plot]] was once "The Law of Bruce", which failed the [[One Mario Limit]].
* [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]] used to be "Innocence Virgin on Stupidity". It was changed to be more transparent, as most people didn't get the pun and simply thought the title had bad grammar.
* [[Visions of Another Self]] was originaly masquerading as "Flashback Echo"; the new name is much more accurate to the description and allows a broader interpretation of the trope. A relaunched [[Flashback Echo]] ought to refer to the flashback version of [[Ironic Echo]] or [[Meaningful Echo]], which is what some people thought this trope was under the old name.
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== W ==
* [[Wackyland]] was once called "Magicant", an area from [[
* [[Wake Up Fighting]] was once called "Rude Awakening". Another case of taking a commonly used phrase and using it as something that ''wasn't'' the trope, causing underuse and misuse.
* [[Waking Up Elsewhere]] was renamed from "Waking Up in Vegas" because the trope was much broader than the former name made it seem... and because the [[Trope Namer]] wasn't even an example.
* [[Wants a Prize For Basic Decency]] was once "Virtue Is Its Own Reward", which sounded too much like another name for [[Think Nothing of It]].
* [[Watch It Stoned]] used to be called "Everything's Better on Drugs", which implied a connection to the unrelated and discredited [[Everything's Better
* [[The Watson]] was formerly both "The Sarah Jane" ''and'' "The Rick", named after a companion from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and a character from ''[[Magnum,
* [[Waxing Lyrical]] was formerly "Don't Sing Along If You Don't Know the Words". It was changed because it was too long and not at all descriptive of what the trope was actually about.
* [[Webcomic Time]] has been itself for quite some time, but "That Night Felt Like Months" was lumped with it.
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* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]] was originally "Cat's in the Cradle"; the new title is a lyric from the song which also provided the name of the old title. It was changed to clarify the meaning of the trope.
* [[White Magician Girl]] was originally "Staff Chick", which underwent ''lots'' of misuse with people adding examples that played the role of ''healers'' but didn't match the personality (you might be looking for [[Healing Hands]], [[The Medic]] or [[White Mage]] for more general cases) or worse, people assuming the ''staff'' to be the crucial aspect of this trope. The new name also matches this trope's [[Black Mage]] counterpart, [[Black Magician Girl]].
* [[Wicked Weasel]] was originally titled "Everything's Better with Weasels", a snowclone of the discredited [[Everything's Better
* [[Wife Husbandry]] was originally titled "[[The Tale of Genji
* [[Wimp Fight]] used to be called "Zero Chops".
* [[Wimpification]] was originally called "Ukefication"; it was changed to remove [[Gratuitous Japanese]] and because the trope was not actually about relative positions in a relationship as much as the stereotypes that went with them.
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== Y ==
* [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] used to be called "Subjective Tropes". It was renamed to Subjectives when someone pointed out that tropes are not subjective, and renamed again because people say "YMMV" more than "it is subjective", and because YMMV is an easy to remember namespace.
* [[You Are Too Late]] was formerly "Thirty Five Minutes Ago" after a line from a [[Watchmen (
* [[You Just Told Me]] was originally named "Rumplestiltskin Ploy"; renamed because the former [[Trope Namer]] is not an example.
* [[Youkai]] was formerly "Yokai", with the latter now redirecting to the former, because the latter is wrong according to
* [[You Know Who Said That]] was renamed from "And Now You Know the Rest of the Story" because the trope name was an obscure reference that didn't even fit the definition.
* [[Young Conqueror]] was renamed from "The Alexander" because the name "Alexander" alone was not distinctive enough to clearly refer to Alexander the Great. Further, while [[Alexander the Great]] is noted for conquering a large part of the (known to him) world, the fact that he started out as a teenager is less widely known.
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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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