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[[I Thought It Meant|Just to clarify]]:
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== A ==
* [[Abandon Shipping]] has nothing to do with using (or not using) UPS, FedEx, or DHL.
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* [[Actor Tips]] are not tips from actors, but tips ''for'' actors, so you weren't that far off.
** It also has nothing to do with compensating for sales tax.
* [[Adam Westing]] has nothing to do with '''Samuel''' Westing of the novel ''[[The Westing Game]]''. Nor does either have anything to do with Wrestling.bac
* [[Affirmative Action Girl]] is not a black [[Action Girl]] (nor, more specifically, a [[Dark Action Girl]]). Sorry.
** It is also not what [[The Spock]] says to an [[Action Girl]].
* [[After the End]] is not [[The Stinger]] happening after [[The End]] is shown or told.
* [[Airplane Arms]] are not weapons installed in an airplane.
** Nor are they part of a [[Transforming Mecha]] that turns into a flying vehicle.
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** ... and neither with making [[Airplane Arms]] because you're in love.
* [[Airport Fantasy]] does not involve goblins checking your luggage - or another kind of fantasy. See [[Airplane of Love]] (or don't).
* [[Akashic Records]] is not
* An [[All Blue Entry]] is not a Wiki entry that is entirely depressed.
** It is not an entry that's covered in [[Blue's Clues|clues]], either.
** Neither is it [[One Piece|Sanji]] finally achieving his dream.
** It is also not about 100% support for the Democratic Party, no matter what [[Conservapedia]] would have you think.
** It is also not a Wiki entry that has been taken over by the [[
** Neither is it [[In the Mouth of Madness|Sutter Cane's]] favorite article.
** It is also not one of [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Battler Ushiromiya's]] murder theories.
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* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]] is not a ruleset for a game that involves crying.
* [[All Trolls Are Different]] is not a speech reaffirming the diversity and individuality of those who have fallen victim to the [[GIFT]].
* [[Almighty Janitor]] is not referring to [[User:Janitor]]. However almighty she might be, she's an admin at [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] and therefore disqualified from the trope.
* [[Alpha Bitch]] is not about a member of a wolf pack.
* [[Already Undone for You]] is [[Freud Was Right|not about clothing]].
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* [[Always Camp]] is not advice about what to do for a holiday. Or in an [[First-Person Shooter|FPS]].
* [[Always Murder]] is not an instruction, no matter what the voices in your head say. Nor does it mean that self-defense and involuntary manslaughter should always count as murder. It is not the opposite of [[Never One Murder]], or synonymous with [[Never Suicide]].
* The [[Amazon Brigade]] doesn't review products on an online marketplace.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]] should not be confused with [[Sesquipedalian Smith]].
* Despite what one might glean from Haley Starshine, [[And Your Little Dog, Too]] is not a villainous version of a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
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* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]] does not refer to knowing a specific strategy that is needed to defeat a given [[Boss Battle|boss]].
* [[And the Rest]] is not about a nap someone takes following a lot of physical activity.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]] has nothing to do with freeing servant spirits, fairy-tale or [[
** Nor is it about subjecting impoverished people in third-world countries to competitions with getting clothes to wear as an incentive.
* [[Angrish]] has nothing to do with Ang Lee.
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* [[Ankle Drag]] has nothing to do with cross-dressing feet.
* [[Annoying Arrows]] are not arrow signs that try to lead you in the wrong direction. Nor are they found anywhere in [[Dance Dance Revolution]] songs, [[That One Level|however annoying they may be]].
* An [[Anti-Christmas Song]] does not (necessarily) celebrate the birth of [[
* [[Anti-Human Alliance]] is not (necessarily) about the
* [[Anvilicious]] is not about the taste of anvils or other metalworking equipment. It also has nothing to do with [[Drop the Cow|dropping anvils]] on cartoon characters, and less than nothing to do with the passages in [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Das Rheingold]]'' scored for 18 anvils.
* [[Anyone You Know]] is a question, not an incomplete statement.
* [[Apocalypse Not]]
* [[Apocalypse of the Week]] is not about shows that [[The World Is Always Doomed|threaten to end existence in a different way every episode]].
* [[Apocalypse Wow]] is not about what happened just before the latest [[World of Warcraft]] expansion (though it might fit).
* [[Apocalyptic Log]] has nothing to do with world-ending lumber, though one could conceivably be created as a result of it.
** Nor is it about the logarithm with base 666.
* [[Apple of Discord]] has little to do with the computer maker or the chat service, though choosing between them and a competitor might count.
* ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge]]'' is not about the author of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' (Hiromu Arakawa) getting drunk or becoming homeless.
* [[Arc Number]] is not [[wikipedia:Arc length|the integral from a to b of the square root of (1 + f'(x) ^2)]].
** Nor is it the telephone number of the local chapter of an [[wikipedia:Arc of the United States|organization advocating for people with intellectual disabilities]].
* [[Arc Welding]] is not about welding metal using arcing electricity.
* [[Arch Enemy]] is not an example of [[Malevolent Architecture]].
** Nor
** Nor about malevolent footwear.
** Nor
* [[Armed with Canon]] is not about usage of Canon cameras [[Improvised Weapon|as weapons]].
* An [[Arm Cannon]] is not a cannon that shoots [[Abnormal Ammo|arms]] at people.
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* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] is not literally an [[Armor-Piercing Attack]], because that would hurt a lot. (except for Ms Mowz in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'')
** [[Armor-Piercing Question]] is not a particularly inquisitive case of [[Make Me Wanna Shout]].
*** Nor is it about asking a question about how to
* An [[Arms Dealer]] probably doesn't sell [[Artificial Limbs]].
* [[Artificial Brilliance]] has nothing to do with [[Polish the Turd|Polishing The Turd]].
* [[Artistic License]] is not a card that says someone is part of a painter's guild.
** Nor does it mean you need a license to be an artist.
** Nor is it about the free software license of the Perl programming language.
* [[Art Style Dissonance]] is not about a single visual
* An [[Ascended Extra]] most likely did not [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]].
** Similarly, [[Ascended Fanboy]] is not about [[Fanboy and Chum Chum|Fanboy]] doing exactly that.
* [[Ash Face]] is not someone whose face has a resemblence of a certain deciduous tree. Or [[Evil Dead|S-Mart employee]]. Or a [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon
* [[Ass in a Lion Skin]] is not about covering one's ''derrière'' with a mane.
* [[Ass Kicks You]] is not about a donkey kicking someone.
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* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]] is not [[The Stoic]]'s response to the [[Big No]].
** Nor is it a boss battle with a [[Giant Mook|giant version]] of ''[[Mother 3]]'''s "Whatever" enemy.
* [[Attention Whore]] is not commanding a [[The Oldest Profession|hooker]] to listen to you.
** Nor it is a warning to other people that a woman of low morality is approaching.
* [[The Artifact]] is not about the [[Eureka|contents of Section 5]]. {{spoiler|Well, former contents, anyways...}}
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** Nor is it about appealing to an author to get [[Fanon]] to get [[Ascended Fanon|included in the Canon]].
** Nor is it about an author attempting to have a legal case reviewed by a higher court.
* [[Auto Doc]] has little-to-nothing to do with [[Transformers|Ratchet
* [[Auto Erotica]] is not about having sex with a [[Transformers]]. If you want that, it's not hard to find [[Rule 34|on the Internet...]] [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kiss_Players_(franchise) or official merchandise].
** It also has nothing to do with masturbation.
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* [[An Axe to Grind]] doesn't mean [[Forced Level Grinding]] to be able to carry an axe.
* [[Axes At School]] has nothing to do with Cartesian Geometry. Or bringing guitars to class.
== B ==
* [[The "B" Grade]] is not about [[B-Movie|B Movies]]. It is also not a trope about the use of Grade B milk, eggs or meat. Or bees.
* [[Babies Ever After]] are not young children who
** Nor is it about constantly having kids.
* [[Baby Boomers]] are not the people that are born just after [[World War II]].
** Nor does it mean the baby was away, and has just returned.
** It's not about an infant's vengeance, either.
* [[Bad Future]] is not synonymous with [[Future Imperfect]].▼
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]] is not about how being evil functions as a source of energy for villains.▼
* [[Back for the Dead]] is not about retrieving corpses or sacrificing people's backs to the deceased.
* [[Background Halo]] doesn't mean an [[Halo (series)|Xbox first-person shooter]] or a [[Beyoncé]] song is playing behind the dialogue.
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]] is not a sex position.
* [[Back to School]] is not about what happens every year when annual school break ends, such as September in USA.
* [[The Backwards R]] is not about stereotypical kids-style writing where the letters are backwards (like the Toys "R" Us logo).
* A [[Badass]] is not how a stereotypically weight-conscious woman sees her behind.
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* [[Badass Transplant]] is not about getting a transplanted posterior that is rather unattractive, nor is it about said posterior being "bad" in the [[Michael Jackson]] sense, either. Nor does it have anything to do with transplanting a butt that [[May Contain Evil]].
* A [[Bad Boss]] doesn't mean he's [[That One Boss]] or the boss of a [[Scrappy Level]], nor is he an [[Anticlimax Boss]] or a [[Warmup Boss]].
▲* [[Bad Future]] is not synonymous with [[Future Imperfect]].
* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]] does not imply a correlation between villains and blue collar employees.
* [[Bad Impressionists]] are not painters who [[Brown Note|failed miserably]] at painting pictures in the art style popularized by Claude Monet.
* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]] is not about [[Calvin and Hobbes|Rosalyn]] and other babysitters whom children love to abuse, nor is it a badly-prepared pastry mixture that somehow managed to get a job concerning childcare ([[I'm a Humanitarian|nor the other way round]]).
* [[Bad Present]] has nothing to do with giving gifts.
▲* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]] is not about how being evil functions as a source of energy for villains.
* [[Bait the Dog]] does not involve covering a dog with something to lure out something else, nor does it involve [[Squick|obscene acts
* [[Balloon Belly]] is not about pregnancy fetishes.
* Our [[Banana Republic]] will not sell you apparel at moderately high prices. It is likely, however, that our [[Banana Republic]] will ''make'' the apparel that your [[Banana Republic]] will sell you at moderately high prices.
** Nor is it a nation of bananas.
* [[Banana In the Tailpipe]] is not a [[Double Entendre]]. [[Freud Was Right|Not intentionally, anyway.]]
* [[Bang Bang BANG]] is not the anime trope where an intense collision is [[Repeat Cut|shown three times]] in rapid succession. Nor is it about an increasingly frantic knock at one's door. Or, you know, ''that''. Neither is it about the Mozambique Drill - you want [[Finishing Move]] for that. It's most certainly not about [[
* [[Banging Pots and Pans]] is not a subtrope of [[Cargo Ship]].
* [[Banjo Ginga]] is not about [[Banjo-Kazooie|Kazooie]] being replaced by a certain character from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' in the next [[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo]] game...but I want to play it anyways.
* [[Bar Brawl]] is not the sentiment that most ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee'' players show towards its sequel
** In particular, it's not preceded by Bar [[Super Smash Bros.|Melee]] nor followed by Bar For.
** Nor is it a knockdown, drag-out fight between pieces of metal, establishments that serve alcohol, and organizations that provide various professional licences.
* [[Bar Sinister]] is not [[Bad Guy Bar|a place where villains meet to drink and scheme]].
** Nor is it the arch nemesis of [[Underdog (animation)|Underdog]].▼
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] is not the result of [[Monk|a certain OCD-suffering detective]] getting fed up with the unsightly hair on his hands.
** [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] is also not a Fisted Monk that took his clothes off.
*** Nor does he [[Half-Life 2|charge into combine ambushes]] and make you lose the [[Escort Mission]].
* [[
* [[Basic Commercial Types]] doesn't refer to classes in a library that [[Programming Language|Visual Basic]] programmers have to pay for.
▲** Nor is it the arch nemesis of [[Underdog (animation)|Underdog]].
* [[The Basilisk]] is a redirect to [[Brown Note]]. It is not about the actual mythological creature called the basilisk, or about harmless South American lizards that can run on water.
** For that matter, it has nothing to do with [[Basilisk|feuding ninjas in early Tokugawa-era Japan]]
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** It is also not the act of dousing a fire by dumping Bavarian ''cream'' on it, or cream-filled donuts for that matter. It's a waste of good cream.
* [[Beam-O-War]] is not a wargame featuring the talking video game console from ''[[Adventure Time]]''.
* [[Beam Spam]] is not using an [[Exposition Beam]] to deliver unwanted ads. Neither is it unsolicited email advertising for construction materials, nor structural members made from canned, seasoned pork product...
* [[Beard of Evil]] is not [[Doctor Who|Lucy Saxon]]'s [[Fan Nickname]]...
* [[Beard of Sorrow]] has nothing to do with the fact that [[Castlevania|Julius Belmont]] has more facial hair than the rest of his family.
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* Despite the names, a [[Big Eater]] probably won't eat a [[Large Ham]], a [[Lemon]] or a [[Tomato Surprise]].
** You should keep the [[I'm a Humanitarian|Humanitarian]] away from the [[Large Ham]], however.
* [[
* [[Big Game]] is not what a [[Egomaniac Hunter|big game hunter]] hunts.
* [[Big No]] is not a teamup between [[Dr. No]] and [[Live and Let Die (film)|Mr. Big]]. It'd be pretty awesome, although Big's still in the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|little league]].
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** And [[The Princess and the Frog|Disney villains from New Orleans]].
* A [[Black Magician Girl]] is not a female African-American magic user.
* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]], but not because the preferred term is "African-American man".
* [[Black Speech]] is not about how the [[Uncle Tomfoolery|overly stereotypical]] black person [[Jive Turkey|talks]].
* [[The Black Hole]] is not the main title for ''Black Holes'', although the subject is similar. The main entry for Black Holes is [[
* A [[Blade of Grass Cut]] is not about [[Improbable Weapon User|weaponizing grass plucked from the ground]].
* A [[Blade on a Stick]] is not a form of snack food that caters to one's masochistic desires, or to those with suicidal tendencies. Also, since they swallow blades ''vertically'', sword-swallowers will be unable to properly partake of this without removing the blades from the stick. The stick will also have to be particularly strong or the blades very light, to prevent the stick from snapping. ([[Deconstruction|Yup...]])
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* A [[Blade Run]] is not executed by a ''[[Blade Runner]]'', in either the Ridley Scott or [[Older Than They Think|Alan E. Nourse]] senses of the title.
** It's also not a [[Minimalist Run]] in which one uses only a sword.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[Emo Teen
* [[Bland-Name Product]] is not about a product with a dull name.
** Nor is it a mistranslation of "Brand Name Product" in [[Japanese Ranguage]].
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* [[Bleed'Em and Weep]] is not about [[Tears of Blood]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]] ''is'' in fact about [[X-Men|Rogue]] (along with others), but ''not in that way''.
** It is not about [[The Brave Little Toaster|Kirby]]
** It is not about god giving a vacuum cleaner greater power.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|Blind Bashing]] is not about making fun of blind people. Nor getting beat up by them (presumably due to the aforementioned insults).
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]] does not involve the [[H.P. Lovecraft|blind idiot god, Azathoth]]. It's not a translation by blind idiots either, although it sure sounds like it could be.
* [[Blinded by the Light]] doesn't involve being [[Mondegreen|wrapped up like a douche]]. Or being [[Covered Up|cut loose like a deuce]] either.
* [[Blinding Bangs]] is not about flash grenades going off and causing temporary blindness.
* [[Bling Bling Bang]] is not a sexual trope.
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* [[Blue Velvet]] is not about the room [[Persona 3|Ig]][[Persona 4|or]] hangs out in.
* [[Bob Haircut]] is not a hairstylist with a suspiciously-fitting name.
* A [[Body Count Competition]] isn't to see who estimates an event's crowd size from photos most accurately.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]] is not a quote from a bodyguard who talks in the third person and in [[Hulk Speak]], nor does it involve the act of crushing bodyguards.
** Nor is it a soda that's been [[wikipedia:Crush (beverage)|flavored with bodyguards]].
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** It's also not insulting a drill that doesn't work properly.
* [[Born in the Theatre]] has nothing to do with the stage.
* [[Boss Game
* [[Boss Rush]] is not what happens when [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]] reprograms him.
** Nor does it have to do with a particularly awesome Canadian band.
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* [[Bowel-Breaking Bricks]] are not turds that have learned powerful karate chops.
* [[Boxed Crook]] is not about prizefighting ex-cons.
* [[Boys Love Game]] is not about how males are much more interested in hunting or picking up.
* [[Boys Love Notes]] is not an invitation to shower male classmates with pieces of notebook paper with "DO YOU LOVE ME Y/Y?" written on them.
** Nor does it have anything to do with boys obsessed with music theory.
* [[Boys Love Tropes]] is not how boys are fascinated with tropes.
* [[Bragging Rights Reward
* [[Brain Bleach]] is not a [[Shonen]] [[Anime]] '''{{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|IN]] [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|YOUR MIND]]}}'''.
* A [[Brain In a Jar]] is generally a ''working'' brain. It does not refer to simply having a brain in a jar; that would be [[Having a Heart]].
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** Neither has it to do with chemistry... Most of the time anyway.
** It's got nothing to do with the usual goal of villains putting [[James Bond|007]] in a [[Death Trap]]. (Except Goldfinger.) Neither does it have to do with "breaking" him via [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]].
* [[Breaking in Old Habits]] doesn't refer to b-boy dancing in a nun uniform.
* [[Breakout Character]] has more examples than just "the paddle and the ball".
▲* [[BFS]] is not an [[wikipedia:Breadth-first search|algorithm]] for searching [[TV Tropes]] for a particular page.
* [[Breakup Breakout]] isn't when getting dumped somehow causes you to get acne. Or when playing [[Breakout]] becomes such [[Serious Business]] that it ends your relationship.
* [[Briar Patching]] has nothing to do with fixing particularly thorny problems in a game's programming, nor with [[The Medic|administering first aid]] to a [[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|sleeping beauty]].
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* [[Brick Joke]] is not making fun of [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brick_%28term%29 toys with poor articulation.] Or [[wikipedia:Brick (electronics)|video games and MP3 players that stopped working]].
* [[Bridge Bunnies]] is not about [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic rabbits]] playing cards. Nor should one assume that it applies to [[Fan Community Nicknames|fans of a certain webcomic]] in any way, shape, or form.
** It is also not about a group of [[Killer Rabbit
* [[Briefcase Blaster]] is not a gun that shoots briefcases.
* [[The Brigadier]] will not be promoted to a [[Modern Major-General]], thank you.
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* [[British Stuffiness]] is not a trope about British houses (real or fictional) that have no air conditioning. Nor is it what happens to Englishmen during allergy season.
* A [[Broke Episode]] is not an episode that is broken.
* A [[Broken Ace]] is not a torn playing card.
* A [[Broken Aesop]] is not an Aesop that manages to go [[Over Nine Thousand]].
* [[Broken Base]] is not an architectural fault. Not yet, anyway.
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*** And not for the obvious reason either.
** It also has nothing to do with a sodium hydroxide tablet being broken in half.
* A [[Broken Bird]] isn't an injured avian or a fractured [[Flipping the Bird|middle finger]].
* [[Broken Heel]] isn't what happens when a [[Villainous Breakdown|villain's been through so much shit they decide to give up]].
* None of the above are "broken" in the sense of [[Game Breaker|game-breakingly overpowered]].
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* A [[Brown Note]] is not a version of the ''[[Death Note]]'' that instead of killing the victim, gives him bowel attacks.
** It is also not related to [[Editorial Synesthesia]].
* Though [[Toy Story (franchise)||Woody]] and some of the other toys ''do'' [[Bug Buzz]], the trope title is a noun phrase, not a verb and its object.
* [[Bullet Hell]] is not the afterlife for sinful bullets.
** Nor is it a component of an abysmal powerpoint presentation.
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* In terms of tropes, Whatever-Bunnies do not refer to [[Fan Community Nicknames|fans]] of [[El Goonish Shive|a certain webcomic]], unless they do in fact fit the correct trope...
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] is not about lawyers who do the "bunny ears" against people of the side when pictures/sketches are taken.
* [[Butter Face]] does not refer to a character with a face as smooth as butter. Quite the opposite, in fact.
* [[Butterfly of Doom]] is not what [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Yumehara Nozomi]] produces to defeat the [[Monster of the Week]]. It's also not a new [[Evolutionary Levels|evolutionary level]] for [[Shadow Hearts|Joachim Valentine]]...or the [[Busou Renkin|Papillon Mask creator]]... or [[Godzilla|Mothra]]... or [[SpongeBob SquarePants|Wormy]]. [[The Simpsons (animation)|Nobody ever suspects it, either]]. And it's certainly not a referece to the [[One-Winged Angel]] form of ''52'''s [[Big Bad]]. Or the Hell Butterflies in ''[[Bleach]]''.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[The Venture Brothers|The Mighty Monarch]].
*** It has absolutely nothing to do with [[Touhou|Yuyuko]] and her butterfly-danmaku, either.
** [[Dream Apocalypse]] is not a ridiculously over-the-top powered-up version of the non-[[Butterfly of Doom]] thing Nozomi uses to defeat the [[Monster of the Week]].
** [[
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]] is ''not'' under any circumstances to be interpreted as a set of instructions. [[TV Tropes]] holds no legal responsibility for the consequences if you do.
** Nor is it someone's frustration over somebody who screwed ''two'' goats when he was only supposed to screw one.
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* [[Caffeine Bullet Time]] is not a version of [[Bullet Time]] exclusive to bullets made of or containing caffeine.
* [[Call Back]] has nothing to do with voicemail.
* A [[Calling Card]] is not a prepaid card used to place long distance or payphone calls.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]] has jacksquat to do with giving salutations to your moves.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]] is not about a character announcing what his or her signature orgasms are called while performing them.
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** It's not about the components of camera.
** Nor about masturbating with a camera.
* [[Campbellian Hero]] is not related to either [[Evil Dead|Bruce]] or [[
** Nor does he necessarily have anything to do with a need to [[Solve the Soup Cans]].
** Nor with anything involving a certain Afro-British super-model.
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** Nor is it about standing on one spot and waiting for the kill without crouching or proning.
** Nor does it involve the challenges of setting up a tent while suffering from OCD.
* [[
* [[Canis Latinicus]] has nothing to do with Latino [[Funny Animal|talking dogs]]. Nor did it ever appear as a fake Linneaean classification for [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]].
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]] is not about finding out your girlfriend is a [[Lethal Chef]] the first time she cooks for you.
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** It is also not about a villain who has a metaphorical ace up his sleeve.
*** Also not to be confused with a villain who metaphorically carries all the cards.
** It's not about [[The Simpsons (animation)|Moe Szyslak]] either.
* [[Car Fu]] is not a Greek island made of cars. It is also not what you say to your car after it breaks down one too many times. Nor is it the martial arts discipline [[Transformers Animated|Jazz]] is a master of.
* [[Cargo Envy]] is not about truck drivers looking with jealousy upon the heavily loaded vehicles of their colleagues.
* [[Cargo Ship]], [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] (
** [[Cool Ship]] is not about pairing two [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] characters together.
** [[Ghost Ship]] is not when someone from your [[OTP]] [[Never Say "Die"|departs their mortal coil.]]
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* [[Carried by the Host]] has nothing to do with diseases.
* [[Carry the One]] has nothing to do with transporting [[The Chosen One]].
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Not named after Nancy Cartwright. ([[The Simpsons (animation)|¡Ay, caramba!]])
* [[Cassandra Did It]] is not the trope wherein a character always predicting some particular brand of doom, but who is never believed, actually ''does'' implement said doom himself because he's tired of being made fun of and wants to be right for once.
* [[Cast
* [[Casting a Shadow]] is not when an actor is cast solely because the shadow of his/her face in profile looks cool. It also doesn't mean that an actor is hired [[
* A [[Casting Gag]] is not a physical reaction to a particularly bad example of [[
* [[Cataclysm Climax]] isn't what happens when you decide to take the world with you while going [[Out with a Bang]].
** Neither is is the inevitable fight against [[World of Warcraft|Deathwing]].
** It is also not an orgasm that causes a disaster.
* [[Catgirl]] is not the younger version of [[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]]. Nor is it one that is both female and feline. It only applies [[Little Bit Beastly]] with cat ears and sometimes a tail, but otherwise are look mostly like a normal person. Characters with fur all over should be under other tropes.
* [[Cat Scare]] is not where a cat scares a person by [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113134540/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1988/07/24/ popping out of a drawer].
* [[Ceiling Banger]] is not [[The Same but More|a more extreme]] [[
* [[Censor Steam]] is not what [[Valve]] does, except when [http://kotaku.com/the-sex-games-that-steam-censors-1680718912 it is].
* [[Censorship Bureau]] is not about the drawers in which you hide your porn.
* [[Chain Lightning]] is not about a chain made out of lightning, nor an electrified chain.
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* [[Character Derailment]] does not involve a character in a [[Bus Crash|Train Crash]].
* [[Charity Ball]] is not about a character who becomes briefly and unexpectedly generous, à la [[Idiot Ball]].
* [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town]] is a wrestling storyline, not a ''[[Peanuts]]'' storyline.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]] has nothing to do with [[Chekov's Gun]], and vice versa. We apologise sheepishly for any confusion.
* [[Chekhov's Pun]] does not refer to [[Shaggy Dog Story|a long story-spanning build-up that leads to a terrible pun.]]
** Nor is it an alternate title for [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]. If it were, [[Mind Screw|the title would be an example of the original trope.]]
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* [[Chest Monster]] is not about [[Harry Potter (novel)|off-puttingly creative romantic language.]] It isn't about [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|Chestbursters]] from ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' either. Nor is is it about creatures without a head that have a face on their torso. It is neither a [[Gag Boobs|particularly large]] pair of breasts that [[Marshmallow Hell|entrap unwitting persons within]] nor the pectoral area of an especially hirsute man. It's not a shirt that is fearsome, either.
* The [[Chewbacca Defense]] does not involve winning a board game through the implied thread of ripping your opponent's arms out of their sockets should you lose.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]] is not
**
* [[Chick Magnet|Chick Magnets]] are not people or things that attract the ire of [http://www.chick.com Jack Chick]. (The trope's examples would be [[Over Nine Thousand|OVER NINE THOUSAAAAANND]]!)▼
* [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toys]] are not [[Pokémon]] that result from hot Pikachu-on-Blastoise [[Improbable Species Compatibility|action]].
▲* [[Chick Magnet
** And on the other hand, [[Chick Tract]] has nothing to do with chicks, or even [[The Chick]].
*** Surely, you can't mean that. All [[The Chick|chicks]] are going to Hell.
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*** Nor does it refer to a fridge magnet with a Jack Chick panel on it.
** Chick Magnets certainly do ''not'' attract attention of poultry.
* [[Chickification]] is sadly not affiliated with ''[[Nobody Here but Us Chickens|poultry]]''...or [[
▲* [[Chewing the Scenery]] is not about people masticating parts of the environment around them. That's [[This Billboard Needs Some Salt]].
▲* [[Chickification]] is sadly not affiliated with ''[[Nobody Here but Us Chickens|poultry]]''...or [[Myth Busters|launching frozen chickens out of a gun]].
* [[The Chikan]] is not a nickname for a [[Ichigo Mashimaro|responsible 12-year-old girl]] who alternately finds herself playing reluctant partner and [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|tsukkomi]] to her friend's antics.
** It also does not refer to the creature people commonly eat eggs of or make into nuggets.
* [[Children Raise You]] does not ''only'' apply to parents [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|in Soviet Russia]], and neither does [[Dog Walks You]] or [[The Game Plays You]].
** Nor does the latter involve [[Half-Life (series)|giant robots]] guiding your movement.
* [[Her Child, but Not His|Chocolate Baby]] is not
* [[Christmas Cake]] is not about something edible. [[Double Entendre|Unless you mean the other kind of edible]].
* A [[Chrome Champion]] is not someone who champions the use of Google Chrome.
* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] is not [[Hero Syndrome]] WITH MARIJUANA!
* A [[Chubby Chaser]] is not a fat person trying to catch up with someone. Or vice-versa.
* A [[Class Representative]] is not a character who embodies the upper-class, working-class, etc.
** If you're thinking of a ''[[Dungeons
* [[Cloning Blues]] is not about making duplicates of Blues (a.k.a. Proto Man) from the [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] series
* A [[Cloudcuckoolander]] isn't an Apollo Moon Lander touching down in [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]].
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* [[Code Silver]]: Let's ''not'' summon the elderly superheroes, shall we?
** Let's not summon [[Sonic the Hedgehog|that white hedgehog with psychic powers]], either.
* [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise]] is not what happens in ''[[
* A [[Cold Reading]] does require some ad-libbing, but it is not an audition using an unfamiliar script.
* A [[Cold Sniper]] may be stationed in regions featuring extreme temperature, but that isn't what the trope is referring to.
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]] is not about the ease of finding a turkey deli sandwich.
* [[College Is High School Part 2]] is not the sequel to a [[Stoner Flick]] titled ''College Is High School''.
* [[Comatose Canary]] is not about how canary birds are used as an early warning system for the presence of toxic gas in mines.
* A [[Combat Referee]] won't (necessarily) come over and physically assault anyone he suspects is breaking the rules.
* [[Come Alone]] isn't about [[A Date With Rosie Palms]].
* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]] is not connected to the [[Coming Out Story]].
* [[Comic Dish]] is not about entertaining meals, nor is it a plate made of newspaper comics.
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* [[Command and Conquer Economy]] is not a suggestion or a tactic.
* [[A Commander Is You]] is not some sort of [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] to [[Kingdom of Loathing]], it is only named from [[An Adventurer Is You]] - neither is it related to the [[Player Character]] of [[Mass Effect]].
* A [[Compilation Movie]] doesn't show the build process for a computer program.
* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]] does not refer to the villain of [[The Incredibles]] content to sit in his lair and play games instead of trying to attack Mr. Incredible.
* [[Complete Monster]] is not about scenes where the mad scientist cackles "IT'S ALIVE!"
** Nor is it what you get when you solve a [[Puzzle Boss]].
** Nor is it the [[Dungeons
* A [[Composite Character]] is not what you get after a [[Dollhouse|composite event]]. Nor does it involve [[wikipedia:Unicode#Ready-made versus composite characters|diacritics]] to Unicode symbols.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]] has nothing to do with your AI boy/girlfriend cheating on you. Well, unless maybe it's an elaborate [[Lampshade Hanging]]....
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* [[Concepts Are Cheap]] is not about how the production of storyline and character concepts require almost no budget.
* [[Conflict]] is not about the Middle East Political Simulator.
* [[Conservation of
** It is also not about saving your ninja as a last resort.
* A [[Constructed World]] is not a manmade planet.
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* [[Conversation in the Main Page]] doesn't refer to people editing [[Home Page|the home page]] to have a conversation. It ''could'', if it happened, but [[Locked Pages|it's locked now]], so it doesn't.
* A [[Conveyor Belt Video]] is not [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI a video that has conveyor belts in it].
* A [[Cool Car]] or [[Cool Ship]] usually isn't made of ice. Nor is the former the move [[
** And a pet made of ice wouldn't be a very [[Cool Pet]] at all, since it couldn't do anything.
** A [[Cool Ship]] also isn't about how awesome it would be if those two characters hooked up.
* [[Cool, Clear Water]] is not the cool Florida hometown of the [[Church of Happyology]].
* [[Coolest Club Ever]] is not about bludgeons, and has nothing to do with golf.
* [[Cosplay]] does not (usually) involve people dressing up as [[Bill Cosby]].
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* A [[Country Switch]] is not about two students enrolled in the [[Foreign Exchange Student|Foreign Exchange Program]].
* [[Covert Pervert]] is not about a pervert who spies upon people changing with camouflage and binoculars. Nor is it about [[Metal Gear Solid|soldiers on covert ops carrying arround porn.]]
* [[Corrupted Data]] is not about a certain android from ''[[Star Trek: The
* [[Corruption by a Minor]] is not about [[Brown Note|a musical chord that can turn you evil]].
* [[Country Matters]] are not exclusive to rural areas. Nor do they refer to nations. Nor to [[Country Music|a certain music genre]]. And it definitely isn't reminding people to be patriotic, either.
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* [[The Cover Changes the Meaning]] is not when you derive a different interpretation of the contents from taking a good look at a [[Literature|b]][[Manga|oo]][[Comics|k]], [[Western Animation|D]][[Anime|VD]]/[[Film|V]][[Live Action TV|HS]], [[Video Games|video game]], or even [[Music|album]] cover.
* [[Covers Always Lie]] isn't about artists recording pre-existent songs and making it [[The Cover Changes the Meaning|completely]] [[The Cover Changes the Gender|different]] from the original. [[Covered Up|And/or eclipsing the first recording.]]
* [[
* A [[Cowboy Cop]] is not necessarily in a [[The Western|Western]].
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]] has nothing to do with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
* [[Crack is Cheaper]] has nothing to do with pirated [[Video Game
* A [[Crack Pairing]] is not about what might taste good with freebase cocaine.▼
▲* A [[Crack Pairing]] is not about what might taste good with cocaine.
* [[Cranial Eruption]] is not about [[High-Pressure Emotion|when a character's face turns red and steam shoots from their ears]].
* [[Crapsack World]] is not about a world filled with actual bags of crap (although that would count as one).
* [[Crazy Prepared]] is not about planning to go insane. Some of those who are [[Crazy Prepared]] are insane to begin with, though.
* [[Creator Killer]] is not a [[
* [[Creator Speak]] is not a [[Super-Trope]] of [[Buffy-Speak]], for writers other than [[Joss Whedon]].
* [[The Creeper]] is an eccentric [[DC Comics]] superhero, not that green walking timebomb from ''[[Minecraft]]'' or the [[Scooby Doo]] villain.
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** Nor is it about partnering up with him to fight crime.
** Nor is it what [[Tango and Cash|Tango]] does.
* [[Critical Backlash
* [[Critical Existence Failure]] is not what happens to a work when an author has immunity from editors.
* [[Critical Hit]] is not a work getting praise from critics.
* If [[The Croc Is Ticking]], the messenger isn't necessarily a native speaker of the [[Japanese Ranguage]].
* [[Cross Counter]] is not repelling demons or [[Turn Undead|undead]] with crosses or other holy symbols.
** It's not someone counting crosses in any work under any context for any reason, either.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]] doesn't mean it crosses back over the first line to become inoffensive.
** Has nothing to do with [[wikipedia:Line-crossing ceremony|the naval tradition]].
* [[Crossover]] isn't about left or right arrows in ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' pressed with the opposite foot.
* [[Crossover Ship]] is not a dimension-travelling naval ship used as a plot basis for a [[Crossover]].
* [[Cross Playing]] does not mean you're role-playing [[Jesus]].
* [[
* On that note, [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] is not limited to music playing during [[Awesome Moment of Crowning|crowning ceremonies]].
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]] doesn't mean use of firearms against someone whom crucifixion fails to kill.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]] is not a [[Psycho for Hire]] [[Kick the Dog|Dog-Kicker]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] [[Eldritch Abomination]] of a [[The Grim Reaper|Grim Reaper]] or [[Shinigami]]. Though ''[[Final Destination]]'' kinda blurs them together.
* [[Crying Freeman]] is not about a sad, [[Half-Life (series)|goateed, badass scientist.]]
* [[Crying Wolf]] is a verb phrase. It has nothing to do with a sad ''Canis lupus.''
** It is also not related to one of Snake's adversaries in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''.
* [[Crystal Ball]] isn't about a commentator for [[MSNBC]].
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] is not an [[Unusual Euphemism]], although some people might use it the way the Christian Jesus is invoked. Nor is it a name for an actual character, although it ''[[Rule of Cool|should be]]''.
* [[Culture Chop Suey]] has nothing to do with American culture as described in "Chop Suey" from ''[[Flower Drum Song]]''.
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* [[Cutlass Between the Teeth]] is not about holding [[wikipedia:Oldsmobile Cutlass|a car]] between your teeth.
* A [[Cut Song]] is not what the director of a musical sings when he wants the camera to stop rolling (except perhaps in ''[[Rent]]'').
* [[Cycle of Hurting]] is not about [[
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