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This happens when a [[Trope]] is so ridiculously specific that it would only really have an example from that one show, where it didn't have any real meaning anyway. So it's [[Not a Trope]], but because it's too rare to have [[Three Rules of Three|enough examples]] (at least at the moment).
A very rare trope is still a trope, but, by definition, a trope still needs to represent some sort of meaningful pattern as opposed to a coincidence. For an example, if a pattern is only visible in Ugandan literature in the 1970s,<ref>Presumably something specific to the Second Republic of Uganda, Idi Amin, or both.</ref> it's still a trope. However, narrowly defined YKTTW for which only two or three examples can be found are much more likely to be coincidences than those with a similar degree of specificity and many examples.
"Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco", for example, would not be a trope even if three examples of it could be found.
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