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* 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-Christmas Song]] does not (necessarily) celebrate the birth of [[The Antichrist|the Anti-Christ]].
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*** Nor is it about asking a question about how to peirce armour, or about asking how someone's armour was peirced.
* [[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.
* [[Art Style Dissonance]] is not about visual works using several art-styles that do not match.
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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-Movie|B Movies]]. It is also not a trope about the use of Grade B milk, eggs or meat.
* [[Babies Ever After]] are not young children who [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|never age]].
** Nor is it about constantly having kids.
* [[Baby Boomers]] are not the people that are born just after [[World War II]].
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* [[Badass Creed]] is not a [[Fan Nickname]] for ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''. Though the titular assassin ''is'' [[Memetic Badass|badass.]]
** Nor does it insinuate that [[Creed|Scott Stapp]] has somehow become awesome.
** And however bad ass he might be, it also has nothing to do with [[Rocky (film)|Apollo Creed]].
* 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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* [[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
** 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|a certain OCD-suffering detective]] getting fed up with the unsightly hair on his hands.
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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]]''.
* [[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.
* A [[Beat Panel]] may have masturbation in it, but it is not what the trope is about.
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* [[Being Human Sucks]] does not reflect our opinion on [[Being Human (UK)|BBC supernatural soap opera]]
* [[Bellisario's Maxim]] is not a quote by [[wikipedia:Belisarius|the Byzantine general]].
* [[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]].
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* 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|8-bit black mages]]. More specifically, a [[Black Magician Girl]] is not a female [[Magical Negro]].
** And [[The Princess and the Frog|Disney villains from New Orleans]].
* A [[Black Magician Girl]] is not a female African-American magic user.
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** 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]].
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* [[Bragging Rights Reward|Bragging Rights Rewards]] aren't rewards that have absolutely no use other than allowing you to brag; those are [[Cosmetic Award|Cosmetic Awards]].
* [[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]].
* [[Brand X]] does not refer to the [[wikipedia:Brand X|jazz/fusion band featuring Phil Collins]].
* [[Breaking the Bonds]] does not, infact, refer to a [[Face Heel Turn]] that involves alienating all your friends.
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* [[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]].
* [[Brick Break]] has nothing to do with video games like ''Breakout''.
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* The Bumblebee (now [[Kid Appeal Character]]) is not the leader of [[Teen Titans (animation)|Titans]] [[West Coast Team|East]]. Nor is it a fuzzy stinging insect that lives in hives.
** 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|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.
* [[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|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]]''.
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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.
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* [[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.
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** It's not about [[The Simpsons|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]] (and -- well, pretty much ''anything'' listed under [[Shipping Tropes]]) have [[Shipping|nothing]] to do with actual sea vessels or naval transportation. But with this in mind, there are exceptions:
** [[Cool Ship]] is not about pairing two [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] characters together.
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* [[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]].
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** 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.
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** 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.
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** Nor is it what you get when you solve a [[Puzzle Boss]].
** Nor is it the [[Dungeons and Dragons|3.5 update]] to ''Savage Species''.
* 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]]....
** [[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]].
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** 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-Out]] or [[Hand or Object Underwear]].) Neither is it a [[So Bad It's Horrible]] rendition of your favourite piece that the newly-formed neighbourhood garage band is playing.
* [[Continuity Creep]] is not [[Recurring Extra|that creepy guy you keep seeing in the background throughout the series]].
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* [[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 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].
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* [[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.]]
* [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer]] is not about watching anime on a computer as opposed to a VCR or DVD/Blu Ray Player.
* 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|Video Games]], although you may as well ''buy'' pirated video games ''because'' of it.
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* [[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 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]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome Anime]] (Or any of the other pages in this family) does not inherently imply that the anime is awesome. Just bits of it.
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