All The Tropes:Renamed Tropes

On my deathbed I will mumble, "Spikeification." —idledandy

Naming a Trope can be difficult. Generally, there is a trade-off between descriptive naming and clever naming, as many clever names only make sense to members of a particular fanbase. This page is here as an archive of names that were just a little bit too obscure to stay, too easy to misinterpret, too similar to an unrelated trope, not sounding neutral enough, or otherwise deemed unworthy.

Trope names based on a character (or other reference to a specific work) have fallen out of fashion, because not everyone watches the same shows. Some other common themes in renames are:

• Titles based on a character's name, but not making it clear which character with that name was meant.
• Everything's Worse With Snowclones, so they're used less and less nowadays. Notable example: the "Everything's better with..." titles.
• Trope Decay, where an otherwise appropriate name was being used "wrong", constantly. Eventually it becomes clear that the real demand is for the "wrong" use. Notable example: Moment of Awesome used to be "Crowning Moment of Awesome", but it wasn't being used for single superlative moments.
• Using "Trope" as a placeholder.
• Tropes that had the same name as a work that later got an article.
• Names that simply don't indicate what the trope is all about. Especially if it suggests something unrelated to most people.
• And then there are titles that nobody ever really liked, even the original author.

See also Trope Transplant, a special case of renaming where the old title is commandeered to make room for a separate trope.

Examples of Renamed Tropes include:

• A to E
• F to K
• L to P
• Q to Z