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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.
* [[Absolute Cleavage]] is not a particularly saucy ad for "Absolut Vodka".
** Nor is it about thoroughly cutting something or someone with a cleaver.
** Nor killing a bunch of Goblins [[The Order of the Stick
* [[The Ace]] is not referring to cards. For example, there's no trope name called "The Spade".
** Although there is a page about [[The King of Queens]].
* [[Achilles in His Tent]] has absolutely nothing to do with [[
* An [[Action Bomb]] is not an action movie that flopped commercially.
* [[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.
* [[Airplane of Love]] has nothing to do with joining the [[Mile
** ... 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 [[
** Neither is it [[One Piece
** 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
** It is also not one of [[Umineko no Naku Koro
* [[All Lesbians Want Kids]] is ''not'' a [[Sub
* [[All
* [[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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* [[Alt-Itis]] has nothing to do with overuse of [[Alt Text]].
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]] is not related to [[Epileptic Trees]]. Or is it?
* [[Always Camp]] is not advice about what to do for a holiday. Or in an [[First
* [[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]].
** Also, [[And Your Little Dog, Too]] is not a more [[Brain Bleach]]-worthy superlative to [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]. [[But You Screw One Goat!|Thank God]].
* [[Ancient Grome]] is not a reference to the god of Earth in the [[Elric of Melnibone]] universe.
* [[And Another Thing]] is not related in any way to [[And Some Other Stuff]].
* [[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.
* An [[Animal Eye Spy]] is not a spy with those [[Hellish Pupils|slit pupils of a cat]] or the rectangular pupils of a goat, nor is it an ''I Spy'' book with a biological theme.
* The [[Animation Age Ghetto]] is not [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Toon Town]]. Nor does it refer to [[Fat Albert]]'s neighbourhood.
* The word "animate" in [[Animate Inanimate Object]] is not a verb, and that trope, therefore, is not the name of a spell.
* [[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
* [[Anti
* [[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 [[
* [[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 (
* [[Arc Number]] is not [
** 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
* An [[Arm Cannon]] is not a cannon that shoots [[Abnormal Ammo|arms]] at people.
** Likewise, a [[Shoulder Cannon]] is not a cannon that shoots shoulders and [[Leg Cannon]] for legs.
** And a [[Hand Cannon]] is not...well, you get the point.
** Meanwhile, an [[Armed Blag]] is not a [http://xkcd.com/181 weblog with a gun]. Nor even a weblog with limbs.
* [[Armor
** [[Armor
*** 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
** 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 (
* [[Ass in
* [[Ass Kicks You]] is not about a donkey kicking someone.
** Nor is it merely the act of a complete jerk who kicks you.
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* [[Ass Pull]] is not about carts pulled by donkeys.
* [[Ass Shove]] is similarly not about a donkey shoving people. Nor is it about [[Ass Kicks You|using your butt to shove people]].
* [[A
* [[Ate His Gun]] is not about monsters eating your weapons.
** Or about where [[Schlock Mercenary
* [[Attack of the 50
** Nor is it a boss battle with a [[Giant Mook|giant version]] of ''[[
* [[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
** It also has nothing to do with masturbation.
** Or with anthropomorphic cars making out.
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* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]] doesn't mean [[Mad Scientist|scientifically proving that]] [[Pure Awesomeness|something]] is [[So Cool Its Awesome|awesome]].
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Back for
* [[Bad Future]] is not synonymous with [[Future Imperfect]].▼
* [[Background Halo]] doesn't mean an [[Halo (series)|Xbox first-person shooter]] or a [[Beyoncé]] song is playing behind the dialogue.
* [[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.
* [[Back to School]] is not about what happens every year when annual school break ends, such as September in USA.
▲* [[Back to Back Badasses]] is not a sex position.
* [[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.
** Neither is it about a dumb and uncooperative farm animal.
*** Although [[Discworld
* [[Badass Abnormal]] is not about an [[Cloudcuckoolander|abnormal]] [[
* [[Badass Creed]] is not a [[Fan Nickname]] for ''[[
** Nor does it insinuate that [[Creed
** And however bad ass he might be, it also has nothing to do with [[Rocky (
* A [[Badass Driver]] is not the low-level program allowing for the communication between the hardware and software of a [[Super Robot]]. Nor is it the [http://xkcd.com/37/ incompetent controller of a donkey]. And it's certainly not a particularly awesome golf club.
* A [[Badass Longcoat]] is not about the piece of attire. It is not used to cover a particularly unattractive butt, either.
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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
* [[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
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Bare Fisted Monk]] is not the result of [[Monk (TV)|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 (Video Game)|charge into combine ambushes]] and make you lose the [[Escort Mission]].▼
* [[Bar Sinister]] is not [[Bad Guy Bar|a place where villains meet to drink and scheme]].
** Nor is it the arch nemesis of [[Underdog (
▲* [[Bare
▲*** Nor does he [[Half-Life 2
* [[Bare-Handed Truck Stop]] is not a place where you can get fuel and a quick lunch even if you aren't wearing gloves.
* [[Basic Commercial Types]] doesn't refer to classes in a library that [[Programming Language|Visual Basic]] programmers have to pay for.
* [[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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* A [[Bavarian Fire Drill]] is not a [[Incendiary Exponent|flaming]] [[This Is a Drill|drill]] from that German state.
** 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
* [[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
* [[Beard of Sorrow]] has nothing to do with the fact that [[Castlevania|Julius Belmont]] has more facial hair than the rest of his family.
* A [[Beat Panel]] may have masturbation in it, but it is not what the trope is about.
** It may also involve the skateboarding [[Idiot Hero]] from ''[[
** It also doesn't involve popular music from the sixties.
* [[The Beautiful Elite]] are not synonymous with [[The Fair Folk]]. Confuse the two at your peril.
** Nor is it [[Marilyn Manson|all relative to the size of your steeple]].
* [[Becoming the Mask]] has nothing to do with the movie ''[[The Mask (
* [[Beef Gate]] is not a scandal in the meat-packing industry.
** Nor is it a gate made out of meat.
* [[Beehive Barrier]] is not about [[Pokémon Black and White
* [[Beergasm]] is not about alcohol getting sexually aroused.
** Nor does it refer to beer as [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[Beeping Computers]] is not what what a character might say after deleting an important file, on a show that [[Sound Effect Bleep|censors swearing]].
* [[Behind the Black]] is not about standing behind a [[Token Minority]].
** Nor is it about standing behind [[Harry Potter (
* [[Being Human Sucks]] does not reflect our opinion on [[Being Human (
* [[
* [[Belly of the Whale]], despite the [[Trope Namer]], is not about [[Womb Level|the common destination]] of [[Just Eat Him|being swallowed]].
* A [[Berserk Button]] is not a button you press to start watching ''[[Berserk]]''.
* [[The Berserker]]'s love for you is in no conceivable way like a truck...unless you're the type who likes to [[Look Both Ways|play in highway traffic at rush hour]].
* [[Best Friends
* [[Best Served Cold]] is about revenge, not about the argument over whether beer should be drunk at room temperature or chilled.
* [[Better
** Nor is it the claim that any sitcom was [[Better
* [[Better Than It Sounds]] is not about great music recorded on very poor media.
** Nor, despite Bill Nye, is it about [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's music]].
* [[Beware the Superman]] doesn't necessarily involve [[Superman]].
* The [[Big Bad]] [[Adipose Rex|is]] [[The Napoleon|not]] [[Mister Big|necessarily]], well, [[Large and In Charge|"big"]].
* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] is not about a [[Cool Ship]] from ''[[
* A [[Big Ball of Violence]] is not a rolling object players chase after in a [[Blood Sport]], nor is it about when one character becomes uncharacteristically violent.
* A [[Big Brother Mentor]] is not about a mentor that uses Orwellian means. Nor is it about [[Big Brother]]'s [[The Obi
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] are not necessarily the protagonists of works in the [[Kaiju]] or [[Humongous Mecha]] genres.
** Nor is it a moment when you feel like uttering a big "damn" to the heroes. That would be [[What the Hell, Hero?]] or [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
* 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 [[
* [[Big OMG]] is not about considering [[The Big O
** Nor is it a big [
* The [[Bishonen Line]] is not a [[Spin
** In a similar vein, [[Bishonen]] is not asking to make their series [[Shonen]].
* [[Black and Grey Morality]] does not refer to the ambiguous morality in some film noir.
* [[Black and Nerdy]] is not a [["Weird Al" Yankovic|parody of a Chamillionaire song]].
* [[Black and White Insanity]] does not refer to the use of [[Deliberately Monochrome]] to indicate a character's mental imbalance.
* [[Black and White Morality]] is not about the morality of chess.
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* [[Black Comedy]] is not comedy only amusing to blacks. Promise.
** Nor is it a comedy with an [[Blaxploitation|all]] [[Uncle Tomfoolery|black]] cast.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]] are not the result of [[Talk to
** Nor are [[Black Eyes of Crazy]] the result of picking on someone three times your size.
* A [[Black Knight]] is ''not'' [[The Dark Knight]]. The latter however is meant to be a protagonist character who instills fear.
** Nor is a black knight an African-American in shining armor. Except in the case of one particular Martin Lawrence movie.
* [[Black Magic]] is not used by [[Magical Negro|black people]], unless you count [[Final Fantasy
** And [[The Princess and
* 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
** Neither is it ''[[Blade]]... [[Recycled in Space|ON A STICK]]''!
* A [[Blade Run]] is not executed by a ''[[
** 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
** Nor is it a mistranslation of "Brand Name Product" in [[Japanese Ranguage]].
* [[The Blank]] is not a character with generic looks and without personality.
** Nor is it a ''[[
** Nor the type of gun cartridge.
* [[Bleed
* [[Blessed
** 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 [[
* [[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.
** [[Rule
* [[Bloody Tropes]] is not a British expletive regarding tropes.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]] is not about the in-game coloration of ''[[
* [[Blue Fever]] does not mean that the [[Avatar (
** Nor is it an illness that turns you blue.
* A [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]] is not a bowdlerizer from Nova Scotia.
** Well, not necessarily, anyway...
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[One Piece
* [[Blue Velvet]] is not about the room [[Persona 3|Ig]][[Persona 4
* [[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 [[
* [[Body Surf]] does not refer to the ability of the protagonist of ''[[Prototype (
* [[Bokukko]] is not a sexual act found in Japanese porn.
* [[Boldly Coming]] is not about brazenly orgasming. That would be [[The Immodest Orgasm]].
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** It's not [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[Duke Nukem]]'s [[Balls of Steel]].
* [[Book Ends]] is not a way to say a story had [[No Ending|no resolution]]. Neither is saying it a way of invoking the spirit of [[Captain Obvious]].
** It also has nothing to do with Shepherd from ''[[
* [[Boom Up and Over]] has nothing to do with [[Rocket Jump|rocket jumping]].
* [[Boom Stick]] has nothing to do with Ash's shotgun from ''Army of Darkness.''
* A [[Boring Insult]] is not an insult that is boring, but insulting someone by saying ''they'' are boring.
** It's also not insulting a drill that doesn't work properly.
* [[Born in
* [[Boss Game
* [[Boss Rush]] is not what happens when [[Mega Man (
** Nor does it have to do with a particularly awesome Canadian band.
** Nor does it have to do with a certain right-wing pundit.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]] are not about how fashion magazines have a hell of a lot of pages.
** Nor is it a magazine with the bottom half missing.
*** Nor is it a swimsuit edition with [[Double Entendre|the bottom half missing]].
* [[Bowel
* [[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
* A [[
* [[Brand X]] does not refer to the [
* [[Breaking the Bonds]] does not, infact, refer to a [[Face Heel Turn]] that involves alienating all your friends.
** Nor is it [[Break the Haughty]] applied to a baseball player.
** 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".
* [[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.
▲* [[BFS]] is not an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search algorithm] for searching [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|TV Tropes]] for a particular page.
* [[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]].▼
▲* [[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)|sleeping beauty]].
* [[Brick Break]] has nothing to do with video games like ''Breakout''.
* [[Brick Joke]] is not making fun of
* [[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
* [[Bright Is Not Good]] does not refer to Dr. Bright from [[
* [[Bring My Red Jacket]] doesn't involve getting a [[Red Shirt]] ready for a mission.
* [[Bring News Back]] is not a complaint about the quality of modern journalism.
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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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* [[Brother Chuck]] has nothing to do with [[Fastball Special|throwing your siblings around]].
** Nor is it Aaron Norris's [[Chuck Norris|motivation for directing]].
* [[Brought to You
* A [[Brown Note]] is not a version of the ''[[
** 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.
* [[Bullet Holes and Revelations]] is not about having a religious epiphany as a result of [[Pulp Fiction|seeing bullet holes in the wall behind you]].
* The Bumblebee (now [[Kid Appeal Character]]) is not the leader of [[Teen Titans (
** The Bumblebee is also not the [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word|translated]] [[The Dumbledore]].
* In terms of tropes, Whatever-Bunnies do not refer to [[Fan Community Nicknames|fans]] of [[El Goonish Shive
* [[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 [[
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[The Venture Brothers
*** It has absolutely nothing to do with [[Touhou
** [[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. [[
** Nor is it someone's frustration over somebody who screwed ''two'' goats when he was only supposed to screw one.
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]] has nothing to do with the ''Pyramus and Thisbe'' [[Show Within a Show|play performed by the artisans]] in ''[[A Midsummer
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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.
* [[Camera Abuse]] is not about the 60's cinema overuse of the "zoom" feature. It is not about applying [[Rule
* [[Camera Screw]] is also not about applying [[Rule
** 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 does it involve setting up a tent.
* [[Camp Gay]] is not a summer camp full of gay people. It is also not how a less-than-bright person would describe a dreadful ([[Have a Gay Old Time|or joyous]]) time at camp to his parents.
** Nor does it involve standing in one spot and waiting for homosexuals.
* [[Camp Straight]] does not refer to summer camps designed to "cure" homosexuality.
** 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.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]
* [[Canon]] is not about a camera company.
* [[Canon Defilement]] is not a butchering of Pachelbel's ''Canon in D Major'', no matter what your uppity "cultured" relatives may say about ''Canon Rock''.
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* [[Canon Wank]], [[Fan Wank]], and [[Script Wank]] have nothing to do with masturbation.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] does not mean characters who keep fumbling their drink glasses and bottles.
* [[The Cape (trope)]] has nothing to do with the place where the Kennedy Space Center is located.
* [[Cape Wings]] is not when having a cape is what allows a character to fly.
* A [[Captain Ersatz]] is not a person who only pretends to have military rank.
* [[Card
** 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
** [[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.]]
* [[Car Meets House]] is not a [[X Meets Y|mashup]] between a show about a [[House (TV series)|medical jerkass]] and anything else.
* A [[Carpet of Virility]] refers to a man's ''chest'' hair. It does ''not'' refer to any other area of body hair.
* [[Carried
* [[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
** Neither is is the inevitable fight against [[World of Warcraft
** It is also not an orgasm that causes a disaster.
* [[Catgirl]] is not the younger version of [[Catwoman (
* [[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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** Nor is it a cross between [[Stupid Good]] and [[Ax Crazy]].
* [[Challenging the Chief]] has nothing to do with the contents of a typical episode of ''[[Retro Game Master]]''.
* [[
* [[Changed My Jumper]]: you may find this hard to believe, but there was this movie called ''[[Jumper (
** Also nothing to do with changing settings on a computer motherboard.
** Also nothing to do with jumper cables.
** Nor is it particularly about cleaning up after an episode of [[Bring My Brown Pants]].
** This has nothing to do with [[Jumper (
* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]] has a comma in its name: it is not the name of a [[Kid Sidekick|sidekick]] with psychic powers.
* [[Changeling Fantasy]] has little to do with [[The Fair Folk]], or [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]. In particular, it has nothing whatsoever to do with [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Beast Boy's]] idle daydreams.
* [[Character Calculus]] has nothing to do with fictional math classrooms.
* [[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 [[
* [[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.]]
** Nor is it about a throwaway, groan-worthy joke that turns out to be [[Chekhov's Gun|important to the plot.]]
* [[Cherry Tapping]] is not about deflowering virgins (don't worry, we all made that mistake).
** Nor is it about drawing juice from small red fruits.
** Neither does it refer to a British schoolboy prank where you ring a person's doorbell and then run away very fast.
* A [[Cheshire Cat Grin]] is not one that remains in the air after the person who grinned goes away.
* A [[Chest Insignia]] does not depict the pectoral area.
* [[Chest Monster]] is not about [[Harry Potter (
* 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.
*** Jack Chickification?
*** 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 (TV)|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 (
* [[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 (
* A [[Cloudcuckoolander]] isn't an Apollo Moon Lander touching down in [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]].
** Nor is it about [[Final Fantasy VII
* [[Club Kid]] is not about [[Abusive Parents|hitting kids with clubs]], a kid with a club, [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior|children in very adult clubs]], [[Totem Pole Trench|kids sneaking into clubs]], club houses or the youngest person in an organization.
* [[Code Silver]]: Let's ''not'' summon the elderly superheroes, shall we?
** Let's not summon [[Sonic the Hedgehog
* [[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
* [[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.
* [[Coming in Hot]] .... [[Freud Was Right|um, yeah.....]]
* [[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 [[
* 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 [
* [[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]]....
** [[The Computer Is Your Friend]] is not where a game's AI helps you at every opportunity [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|rather than screws you over]].
* [[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.
* While stoners may enjoy both activities, [[Contemplate Our Navels]] and [[Contemplating Your Hands]] are entirely unrelated tropes.
* [[Contemptible Cover]] is not about scantily-clad characters covering their bodies in shame. (For those, see [[Naked Freak
* [[Continuity Creep]] is not [[Recurring Extra|that creepy guy you keep seeing in the background throughout the series]].
** It's not [[Fan Dumb|an argumentative fanatic obsessed with]] [[Continuity Snarl|continuity issues]].
* A [[Continuity Lock Out]] does not happen when the cast and crew of a long running movie or television franchise are happy with their salaries but Management isn't.
** Nor is it what happens when labor disputes in the middle of production result in things like [[The Other Darrin]], [[Writer
* [[Continuity Porn]] does not involve [[Rule
** Nor is it about a series of porn films with an overarching plot.
* [[Continuity Snarl]] is not an oddly named [[Transformers Generation 1|Dinobot]] toy. There is no such thing as a Continuity Grimlock; you're probably thinking of [[Continuity Lock Out]].
** Also, there is no [[Transformers]] series named "Transformers: Continuity" which includes Snarl (or [[Continuity Drift|Drift]]) as a cast member. No-one would be that cruel.
** It's not when a [[Fan Boy]] snarls at you because you are confused by the show's confusing plot.
* [[Conversation in
* 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:
* [[Corruption
* [[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.
* [[Courtly Love]] has nothing to do with ''[[
* [[Cousin Oliver]] is not a relative of [[Power Rangers|Tommy]].
** Or [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Polly]].
* [[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
* A [[Crack Pairing]] is not about what might taste good with freebase cocaine.▼
* [[Cranial Eruption]] is not about [[High
▲* 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
* [[The Creeper]] is an eccentric [[DC Comics]] superhero, not that green walking timebomb from ''[[
* [[Crimefighting
** Nor is it using Johnny Cash's music to fight crime.
** 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 [
* [[Crossover
* [[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 (
* [[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]]''.
* [[Culture Justifies Anything]] is not another way to say "[[Screw the Rules, I Have
** Nor is it a way of saying you can get away with anything so long as you're ''classy'' about it.
* [[Culture Police]] is not people who call you "uncultured" because you haven't read a 35,460,291-page [[True Art]] novel in the original Russian edition.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]] is usually not about fighting by stomping on curbs or using a curbstomp as a [[Finishing Move]].
* [[Curse of the Ancients]] is not about [[Mummy]] curses, nor is it about horrors that wiped out the [[Precursors]].
* [[Cursed
* [[Curtains Match the Window]] has nothing to do with interior decoration.
* [[Cute Mute]] is not a button for toggling cuteness, nor is it a way to get the [[Cute Kitten|kittens]] to shut up.
* [[Cutlass Between the Teeth]] is not about holding [
* 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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