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[[I Thought It Meant|Just to clarify]]:

== M ==
* A [[MacGuffin]] does not refer to [[Oop North|Scottish]] Muffins. Even if recipes for such things do indeed exist.
* [[Macho Camp]] is not a camp where the macho guys are residing. Although a [[Macho Camp]] would probably like to visit such a camp.
* [[Madden Into Misanthropy|Madden Into Madness]] does not involve [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|torture]] with [[Noodle Implements|clips of John Madden]], using him to narrate a descent into madness, an ill conceived game with him as a psychatrist, nor John Madden going [[Axe Crazy]].
** Nor even a person becoming crazy from playing too much of his games. [[Take That|That would be the executives that greenlighted]] ''[[Madden Nation]]''.
* [[Made of Iron]] is not [[Artificial Human|someone constructed]] of the 26th element of the periodic table. It does not refer to [[Iron Man|Tony Stark's]] armor, either.
** Well, that was a gold-titanium alloy, anyway.
*** The previous poster has been brutally murdered. Nothing to see here, folks...
* [[Made of Plasticine]] is not a description of claymation.
* [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]] <s>is not</s> <s>kinda is</s> ''is'' about something constructed of awesome. ''Examples made by Tropers'' constructed of awesome.
* [[Maechen Period]] was not a period in Chinese history that has been popularized in historical dramas (though it can be as boring as that sounds).
* [[Mage in Manhattan]] is not about the premise of ''The Wizard on 4th Street''.
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]: not a [[Magitek]] defibrillator powered by [[Final Fantasy|Bolt2]] ...as nifty as that may be.
* [[Magic Feather]] actually has ''nothing'' to do with ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''. Or ''[[Mario|Super Mario World]]''.
* [[The Magic Goes Away]] is not about Magic Johnson quitting pro basketball to become a business head.
* [[Magic Misfire]] is not about the way Greedo missed Han firing at point-blank range in the Special Edition of ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Magic Pants]] has nothing to do with [[Labyrinth|Jareth]]'s tights, nor [[Xenosaga|chaos']].
* [[The Magic Poker Equation]] is not a biography on David Williams.
* [[Magic Skirt]] is not a skirt with magical abilities.
** That's arguable...
* A [[Magic Tool]] is not a tool used to do magic. Nor is it a mage who's also a [[Jerkass]].
* A [[Magnificent Bitch]] will not nescessarily win a dog show, unless maybe it's in a [[Funny Animal]] cartoon anyway.
* [[Magnum Opus]] is not about [[Bloom County|a penguin]] with a gun.
* A [[Malcolm Xerox]] is not a brand of photocopiers.
* [[Malevolent Architecture]] is not a subtrope of [[Genius Loci]].
* A [[Man-Eating Plant]] is a plant that eats men, not a man eating a plant. (It also isn't a factory that eats men, nor one that produces man-eaters.)
* [[Mangst]] is not angst about [[Manga]].
* [[Marathon Boss]] and the [[Marathon Level]] are not trademark features of ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]''.
* [[The Mario]] does not involve [[Super Mario Bros Super Show|swinging your arms from side to side]].
* [[Marshmallow Hell]] is not where bad Peeps go when they die. Nor is it greedy people being [[Ironic Hell|force fed marshmallows]].
** Nor is it a cartoon interpretation of 'hell' that really [[A Hell of a Time|isn't all that bad]]. Quite comfortable, really.
** Nor is it a [[Sugar Bowl]] so extreme it comes off as creepy.
** Nor has it to do with the giant, demonic Marshmallow Man from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
** Nor is it about the premise of that one [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] episode where Homer is sent to Hell.
* [[Mary Tzu]] is not about a [[Mary Sue]] whose only defining characteristic is that she's Asian.
** Nor is it some special genetic engineering project to create the first ever [[Half-Human Hybrid|dog-human hybrid]].
* A [[Masquerade Ball]] is not what you [[Idiot Ball|give]] [[Distress Ball|to]] [[Villain Ball|a]] [[Conflict Ball|character]] when you need them to uphold [[The Masquerade]], when they usually don't.
* A [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]] is not a type of [[Allegedly Free Game]].
* You can't access the [[Master Console]] using the [[Sega Master System]].
* A [[Master of the Mixed Message]] does not do remixes.
** Nor is it someone who is [[Dave Barry|really good at anagrams]]
* [[Master Race]] is not about [[PC vs. Console|PC gamers becoming masters of their own gaming experience]].
* [[Matchlight Danger Revelation]] is not a warning about a gas leak.
** It ''is'', however, the [[Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven|title]] of the new anime series I just started creating just now!
*** All royalties payable to the site, I assume?
* [[Matzo Fever]] is not about an obsession with Jewish crackers.
* [[The Maze]] will leave you confused because it changes direction a lot, [[Maze Megaburst Space|not its gender]].
* [[May Contain Evil]] is not about devices that may be used to produce a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] effect.
* [[McLeaned]] does not refer to being turned into [[Total Drama Island|Chris McLean]].
** Or losing weight through [[Super Size Me|eating at McDonald's]].
** Or Don McLean (although American Pie also involves death in a plane crash).
* A [[McNinja]] is not employed by Apple Computer, or used against that company
** Nor is s/he employed by [[McDonald's]].
** And unless the story takes place in the wackiest [[Alternate History]] universe possible, a [[McNinja]] will not explicitly be a member of an [[Scotireland|anciant clan of Scottish and/or Irish contract assassins]].
* [[Meaningless Lives]] is not a [[Take That]] against [[You Suck|you]]. We promise.
** Of course. [[Villains Never Lie|Why would we lie to you]]?
* [[Meat-O-Vision]] is not how burger ads are filmed.
** Nor is it a new set of goggles made to find cattle.
*** That would explain why [[The Goggles Do Nothing|they do nothing]].
* [[Meddling Parents]] don't need to [[You Meddling Kids|get away with it]], [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin'|and they certainly won't let you, either]].
* [[Medium Awareness]] is not smaller than Large Awareness.
* [[Meet the New Boss]] is not a ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' parody.
** Nor is it a type of scene you'd expect to find in a [[Work Com]].
** And it isn't about someone being the musical successor to Bruce Springsteen.
* [[Mega Manning]] isn't what you get when you use a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|growth ray]] on Peyton or Eli. Or on [[Alpha Teens On Machines|Axel]]. Or, well, a man. No Katies, either.
** It is also not about [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]], [[Mega Man X]], [[Mega Man Legends|Mega Man Volnutt-Trigger]], [[Mega Man Battle Network|MegaMan.EXE]] or [[Mega Man Star Force|Mega Man Geo-Omega]] [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|growing to a giant size]], though it has to do with them.
** Not is about becoming extremely manly.
*** Yes, [[Testosterone Poisoning|we]] [[Rated "M" for Manly|have]] [[Took a Level in Badass|tropes]] [[Memetic Badass|enough]] as it is.
* [[Meganekko]] is not about huge cats. That would be [[Mega Neko]], which is, in turn, not about pretty girls who just wouldn't be the same without their glasses. (And neither of those has anything to do with the character "Big Pussy" from ''[[The Sopranos]]''.)
* [[Memento MacGuffin]] is not when it turns out you already got the [[MacGuffin]], but [[Memento|forgot about it]].
* A [[Memetic Badass]] is not someone who gains power from memes.
** Though that ''is'' an interesting idea for a super hero.
* A [[Memetic Molester]] will not molest you using a leek.
** Nor is it about someone who completly misuses memes by either saying them wrong or using in a nonsensical context.
** Nor someone who molests people while Rick Astley is playing.
* [[Memetic Mutation]] is about things turning into memes, not memes mutating or mutation caused by memes.
* A [[Memetic Outfit]] is not made of memes.
* [[Memetic Sex God]] does not involve deities being remembered only for the sex related parts of their domains.
* [[Men Can't Keep House]] has nothing to with the opposition of [[Yaoi]] involving ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.
* [[The Men First]] has nothing to do with mysogony, nor the [[Sorting Algorithm Of Death]].
* [[Mercurial Base]] has nothing to do with fickle fans.
** It's also not what spills out of a [[Broken Base]]. (You're thinking "thermometer".)
* [[Mercy Kill]] is not the ritualised removal of merciful second-thoughts that a character undergoes before going on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* [[Me's a Crowd]] has nothing to do with [[Star Wars|Jar Jar Binks's]] [[Mooks]], or those encountered in [[Half Life|Black Mesa]], or the genetic ubermensch planet in the [[Honor Harrington]] books.
* [[The Messiah]] is not a [[Messianic Archetype]] or even [[The Chosen One]]. As the page says, "we need to choose these names better."
* A [[Meta Fic]] is not a fanfiction about [[Kirby|Meta Knight]], who is also not an example of [[Meta Guy]].
* The [[Metagame]]  {{spoiler|will not be lost by thinking about thinking about it.}}
* [[Metal Gearing]] is not entering an [[Humongous Mecha]].
* [[Metal Slime]] has nothing to do with steel jello. Or heavy metal. Nor is it the trail left by a [[Metal Slug]].
* [[Metaphysical Fuel]] does not describe works [[Unexpected Reactions to This Index|that inadvertently inspire philosophizing]].
* A [[Meteor Move]] is not an attack in which you [[Colony Drop|move a meteor]].
* [[Metroidvania]] is not a crossover between [[Castlevania]] and [[Metroid]], even though that ''should happen''.
* [[Metro Specific Underworld]] has little if anything to do with [[The World Ends With You|Shibuya's UG]]. It is also not where old Geos go to die. Nor is it a land of the dead [[Afterlife Express|only accessible by public transportation]]. Nor is it where [[Transformers|Metroplex]] will go when he dies. Nor does it have anything to do with ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' character [[Theme Naming|Geo Metro]]. Nor is it about a hell focused on fashion trends. ''[[Neverwhere]]'' is right out.
* [[Mexico Called. They Want Texas Back.]] is not a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]].
* [[Mickey Mousing]] is not about creating a [[Funny Animal]] who is an Everyman Hero.
* [[Mighty Whitey]] has nothing to do with [[Captain Underpants]] or Orbit Gum.
* [[Miko]] is not a [[Nuns Are Mikos|nun]]. Nor is it a [[Order of the Stick|paladin]]. Nor does it [[Transformers Prime|hang out with Bulkhead.]]
* [[Mildly Military]] is not about [[Dad's Army|Sergeant Wilson]].
* [[Miles Gloriosus]] is not a Good/[[Evil Counterpart]] to the [[Inglourious Basterds]].
* A [[Military Mashup Machine]] will not, well, mash up the military.
* [[Milking the Giant Cow]] is not about a company devoting all its assets and workforce to its most profitable venture.
** Nor is it about racking up tons of points from a giant cow boss in a [[Shoot'Em Up]].
** Nor is it about, well, [[Captain Obvious|milking a giant cow]].
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: If you've read [[Playing with a Trope]], you might think it contains something like "The milkmen are really a front for an ancient conspiracy dedicated to impregnating the world's housewives."
* [[Mind Rape]] is not when a [[Mind Screw]] is forced upon you.
** Nor is it sexual intercourse with a brain.
* [[Mind Screw]] is not [[Mind Rape]], on the same note. Nor is it about an oddly shaped brain, or a tool for removing brains.
** Nor is it a more polite way of referring to a character from ''[[Empowered]]''.
* [[Minion Shipping]] is about two minions, not shipping a minion with his/her master. It's also not when a villain reacts to a minion [[You Have Failed Me...|failing him]] by putting the minion in a crate and shipping him far away.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]] is not about people trying to be fans of one series and ending up becoming fans of another. (How do you even ''do'' that?)
** Oh, ve haf our vays.
* [[Miscarriage of Justice]] is not about a female [[Complete Monster]] [[Convenient Miscarriage|losing her baby]].
** Nor is it a miscarriage caused by [[Super Smash Bros.|Captain Falcon's]] [[Memetic Mutation|knee.]]
* [[Misplaced Nationalism]] is not to be confused with [[Mistaken Nationality]], even though the latter does sometimes trigger the former.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]] is not about animals "liberated" by [[Animal Wrongs Group|PETA]] and released in the wrong habitat afterwards.
* [["Mission Impossible" Cable Drop]] is not about dropping an USB cable on the floor, despite it not seeming possible.
* [[Miss Kitty]] is not the page for the actress who plays Trixie from ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' and Taranee from ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', nor for the [[One-Scene Wonder]] from ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''.
* [[Mister Cleaver]] is apparently not an [[Axe Crazy]] psychopath who cuts people up with a meat cleaver.
* [[Mister Seahorse]] is not the name for anyone in [[The Little Mermaid]], [[Finding Nemo]] or [[SpongeBob SquarePants]].
* [[Misty May]] is not about [[Pokémon|Ash's female sidekicks]]. Nor a particularly foggy month in spring.
* [[Mnogo Nukes]] has nothing to do with [[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]. Unless a "Typhoon" class submarine turns up.
* The [[Moebius Neighborhood]] is not the surroundings of the house belonging to the Oracle of Nosgoth. Nor is it where [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] used to live. Nor is it a town that [[World Shapes|keeps looping back on itself]].
** Nor is it about a neighborhood in [[Fresh Pretty Cure|Labyrinth]].
* [[Mock Cousteau]] is not our suggestion that you make fun of Jacques Cousteau, as he was actually really cool.
* [[Mode Lock]] does not describe mode-toggle buttons such as caps lock, scroll lock, etc. It also has nothing to do with [[wikipedia:Mode-locking|lasers]].
* [[Modesty Shorts]] are not short stories or cartoon shorts featuring [[Modesty Blaise]].
* [[Moe Couplet]] does not necessarily involve very cute poetry. Although there's no rule saying that it ''doesn't''.
** Nor [[Rhymes on a Dime|two lines of verse]] uttered by a [[The Three Stooges|Stooge]].
** Neither it nor [[Moe Moe]] refer to a [[Crack Pairing]] involving Moe from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', a Stooge, or both.
* [[Moe]] is not about ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' character. [[Brain Bleach|Oh dear God, no!]]
* [[Moe Moe]] is not about a [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|flying lemur]].
** Nor is it a mispelled command to hastily cut grass.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]] does not refer to mineral substances. That's the original scale.
* [[The Mole]] is not related to [[Mole Men]].
* A [[Moment Killer]] is not an object that stops another object from [[wikipedia:Moment (physics)|rotating]]. Nor is it someone determined to [[Time Stands Still|stop time]].
* [[Monopoly]] isn't about companies that are the exclusive producer of a particular commodity.
* The [[Mons]] can be shown on TV without censorship.
** It's also not an acronym for [[Pokémon]], either.
* A [[Monster Protection Racket]] doesn't involve trying to pull a [[Shame If Something Happened|protection racket]] [[Mugging the Monster|on a monster]].
* A [[Monumental Battle]] is, sadly, not when [[Rule of Cool|two statues come to life and start fighting each other.]] [[Dexter's Laboratory|Whether or not two Preteen Geniuses are involved.]]
* "[[Mooks]]" is not the nickname for followers of the webcomic artist/writer behind ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''.
** Nor does it have anything to do with the co-hosts of ''[[The Stephanie Miller Show]]''.
** Or [[Transformers Animated|Dirt Boss]]
* [[The Moorcock Effect]] is not the [[Spear Counterpart]] of the [[Scunthorpe Problem]].
* [[Moral Event Horizon]] is not about [[An Aesop|any aesops]] in the film ''[[Event Horizon]]''.
* [[Moral Guardians]] are not a [[Superhero]] team where all the members are [[The Cape (trope)]].
* [[The Moral Substitute]] is not a substitute teacher with high moral standards.
* [[More Criminals Than Targets]] doesn't necessarily mean they've run out of department stores to rob.
* [[Morph Weapon]] is not what the [[Power Rangers]] beat you up with.
** Well, the first season ''did'' have those pistols that turned into swords...
* The [[Most Common Card Game]] is not ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''...or [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Duel Monsters]]... Or ''[[Duel Masters]]''... or ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''.
** It's not a card game about large breasts either.
** Or Poker, Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Rummy, Cribbage, Pinochle, Skat, Canasta, Klondike, Freecell, or Crazy Eights.
* The [[Most Common Superpower]] is not the ubiquitous combination of [[Flying Brick|super strength, super speed, flight and nigh invulnerability]]. (You'd be forgiven for thinking it is, though.)
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|The Most Dangerous Game]] is not [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1488#comic Dynamite-Bear-Tennis].
** Simply thinking about it will not put you in peril.
* [[Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki)|Most Triumphant Example]] is not an example written by [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure|Bill and Ted]]. That would be most excellent, however.
* [[Motive Decay]] has nothing to do with [[The Sims]].
* [[Moustache De Plume]] is not about drawing moustaches on pictures of people as vandalism.
** It is not a bird's facial feathers.
* [[Mr. Smith]] did not necessarily go to [[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington|Washington]].
* [[Mr. Starship]] doesn't refer to Mickey Thomas, the [[Face of the Band|lead singer and face]] of [[Jefferson Airplane|Starship]].
* A [[All The Tropes:Multi-Part Picture|Multi-Part Picture]] is not [[Movie Multipack|a film serial]].
* A [[Multiple Head Case]] is not where the [[Serial Killer]] keeps his trophies.
* That [[Mummy]] is not [[Your Mom|yours]].
* [[Mundanger]] is not the name of a new [[Super Sentai]] series starring boring people.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] is not what a mathematically-incapable [[Book Dumb]] character wants to do before moving on to the rest of the subject.
** Nor is it what [[The World Ends With You|Minamimoto]] does after killing all the "radians".
* [[Musical Gag]] is not how the "serious" film viewer reacts as soon as the first notes of the opening number play.
* A [[Musical Spoiler]] is not telling your friend who hasn't seen ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' that Elphaba lives.
* [[Music Video Credits Sequence]] is not a credits sequence of a music video, but a film credits sequence which is done in a form of a music video.
* [[Must Seek Leek]] ''could'' be about watching ''[[William Shakespeare|Henry V]]'' for the "eat my leek" line, but that's not what it's named for. Nor is it about [[Pokémon|Farfetch'd]] desperately searching for a weapon.
* Although [[Multi Platform]] is a [[Video Game Tropes|video game trope]], it has nothing to do with the [[Platformer]] genre of video games.
* [[My Beloved Smother]] is not about being a [[Stalker with a Crush]] to [[The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour|Dick and Tommy Smothers]].
* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]] is not an author's attempt to make a female character less [[Stripperiffic]].
* [[My Hero Zero]] is not a trope about [[Fan of Underdog|someone who perceives a feeble, klutzy zero to be a steeled, gutsy hero]]. Nor is it about [[The Hero]] losing badly at sports. And although somewhat related, it is not about being rescued from certain death at the hands of [[Mega Man X|Vile]], [[Code Geass|the Britannian Empire]] or [[Pilot Candidate|Zero Enna]] either.
** While we're on the subject, it has nothing to do with ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'' or prequels to ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'', either.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]] is not a declaration of a type of martial art being inherently and objectively superior in combat to another.
* [[My Little Panzer]] is not the [[Rated "M" for Manly]] version of [[My Little Pony]].
* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]] is not about changing your name to [[The Princess Bride (film)|Inigo Montoya]].
* [[My Own Grampa]] is not about someone really proud of his or her grandfather, and it's not related to the [[Grandfather Clause]].
* [[My Own Private I Do]] is not about gay marriage in fiction, much less with one or both <s>underground like a wild potato</s> closeted.
** It does not refer to marrying one's own genitals.
** And definitely not sex with the soldiers under your command.
* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]] is not about moral relativism.
** It is not a refusal to share your measuring devices.
* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]] has nothing to do with robots playing [[Magic: The Gathering]].
* [[My Skull Runneth Over]] is not about the improvised goblet used by the [[I'm a Humanitarian|humanitarian]] who likes [[A Glass of Chianti]] after dinner.
* [[Myth Arc]] has nothing to do with Robert Asprin's ''Myth'' series.
* [[Mythology Gag]] is not the result of reading about the [[Mythology|birth]] of Odin's horse.
** Nor is it when you make a joke about mythology, though in an adaptation of a myth, a joke about the original might be a [[Mythology Gag]].

== N ==
* [[Naming Conventions]] is not about deciding what to call your fan get-togethers.
* [[Nanomachines]] are not typical implements used by [[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]]. Those would be [[Magic Wand]]s and [[Attack Drone]]s.
* [[Napier]] has nothing to do with the actor who plays [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Conner McKnight]]
** It also has nothing to do with Jack Napier, alias [[The Joker]].
* [[Narm]] is not something [[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky]] says. Nor is [[Nerf]] or [[Zork]].
* [[National Stereotypes]] aren't models of audio equipment made in a country, no matter what [[Cyanide & Happiness|Rob]] [http://explosm.net/comics/2862/ thinks]. Particularly not [[wikipedia:National (brand)|Panasonic]].
* [[Near Villain Victory]] is a [[Eucatastrophe|miracle for the heroes]], not a spoiler for the end of ''[[Death Note]]''. {{spoiler|Even if it's arguably correct.}}
** [[Near-Death Experience]] is not {{spoiler|The 40 seconds Near waited to see Light and Mikami fail in killing them.}}
** As for [[Near-Rape Experience]], we're not going to [[Squick|go on that subject]].
* A [[Neck Lift]] will not make you look 10 years younger.
* [[Necessary Weasel]] has nothing to do with [[Weasel Words]].
* [[The Needless]] isn't a character or element the work could do without.
* [[Needs More Love]] isn't about the poor [[Woobie]]s and similar characters.
* A [[NEET]] is not a [[Keet]] who has [[Super OCD]].
* [[Nerf]] has nothing to do with the creatures from ''[[Star Wars]]'' known for their scruffy herders.
* The [[Nerf Arm]] is not a foam limb, it's not necessarily made by NERF, and isn't the arm with which game designers depower otherwise [[Game Breaker]] functionality.
* [[Never Recycle a Building]] is not advice to game developers to avoid overdoing [[Copy and Paste Environments]].
* [[Never Say "Die"]] does not refer to never using the singular form of "dice."
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] has nothing to do with personal suspicion of those things that trucks drag behind them. Where ''does'' [[Transformers|Optimus]]' go?
** [[Memetic Badass|Wherever the hell it wants!]]
* [[Never Trust a Trope]] doesn't refer to the opinion of those who have failed to understand that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* If you work in the catalogue industry and you get a lot of impatient people who can't seem to read the date on which a book or sale starts, you may start to mutter that [[New Media Are Evil]], but this page isn't about that.
* [[The New Rock and Roll]] is not about trying to find a successor to that genre.
* [[News Monopoly]] is not about how, when characters watch [[24-Hour News Networks]], if it's a Fox show it'll be Fox News, and if it's an NBC show it'll be MSNBC.
** It's also not among the [[Recycled Premise|hundreds of versions]] of [[Monopoly]].
* [[Newspaper Dating]] has nothing to do with personal ads in the classifieds.
** It also doesn't mean that sentient newspapers are dating, either, although [[Rule 34]] says [[Squick|someone has written an explicit version of that]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] is not an expression of appreciation when admiring the pyrokinetics after the [[Supervillain Lair]] and/or the [[Death Ray]] have been blown up by [[The Hero]].
* A [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] is not some random forum poster who thinks s/he's so damn clever for abusing Nietzsche's famous "he who hunts monsters" quote against someone s/he doesn't like.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]] is not [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fuel for]] [[Code Geass|Knightmare Frames]].
** The "Nightmare Fuel" trope itself has had numerous problems in the past, because it wasn't obvious by its name that it meant ''unintentional'' nightmare fuel. This potential for confusion got so bad that eventually the page was transplanted to [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] and a more general "scary things" trope plugged into its place.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]] is not the example page for [[Nightmare Fuel]] from coloring books.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] has nothing to do with [[Tales from the Crypt|the Cryptkeeper]] or Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, having to get a new job.
* A [[Nightmare Sequence]] is not part of the gameplay of a [[Nintendo Hard]] game which motivates [[Sequence Breaking]].
* ''[[The 99]]'' has nothing to do with [http://www.99restaurants.com/ the restaurant],[[Ninety-Nine Nights|Nights]], or [[Jay Z|the problems of which a woman is not included among]].
* [[Ninja Butterfly|Ninja Butterflies]] are, sadly, not... well... butterflies who are [[Ninja]]s. Nor ninjas who use butterflies as shurikens.
* A [[Ninja Log]] is not the logbook of a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] Captain's journeys.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] is not a [[Follow the Leader|knock off]] of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.
* [[Ninja Run]] is not about the recommended course of action if you see one. (Don't bother; either you're too late, or they're not a very good ninja.)
** It also has very little in common with a [[Stealth Run]].
* [[Ninja Tropes]] are not appreciably stealthier or deadlier than any other tropes.
* [[Nintendo Hard]] is not about getting a hard-on while playing Nintendo games.
* [[wikipedia:Nipah virus#Nipah virus|Nipah Virus]] will not cause you to become a cute child forced to [[Groundhog Day Loop|relive the same]] [[The Eighties|1980s summers]] [[Alternate Universe|over and over again]].
* [[Nippon Ichi]] is not about [[Fatal Fury|Mai Shiranui]] or her [[Gainaxing|most valuable pair]]. Or Japan being itchy.
** It's not "Me Bouncy!", by the way.
* [[Nobody Can Die]] is not an alternate name for [[Death Takes a Holiday]] (the former describes settings wherein people ''should'' die, they just never seem to, while the latter describes situations in which nobody can die for good, in-universe reasons.)
* [[No Can Opener]] isn't a situation where the villain is having trouble unleashing a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]].
* [[No Casualties Run]] is not the next line from the mouth of the guy who declared that [[No One Could Survive That]].
* [[No Conservation of Energy]] is not about someone who makes no attempt to reduce his or her power bill.
* [[No Conservation of Mass]] is not a subversion of [[Christianity is Catholic]].
* [[No Cure for Evil]] is not a proclamation that evil people are beyond redemption. Neither does it have to do with [[As Long as There Is Evil]].
** It's also not about a rule that states that the bad guys of ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' series can't have a Cure of their own. ([[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|They had]], [[Darker and Edgier|and HOW!]])
* [[No Ending]] is not when a fictional work ends with a [[Big No]].
* [[No Fair Cheating]] is rarely invoked when you are [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]].
* [[No Final Boss for You]] is not about games that [[Bad Export for You|don't have final bosses when released in other parts of the world]].
* [[No Flow in CGI]] is not about CGI characters who can't have their periods.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]] isn't about the failure of the Fire Phone to sell.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]] is not about guys hating being the one being chased in a car chase, nor is it about [[I Wanna Be the Guy|The Guy]] not liking those [[Advancing Wall of Doom]] segments.
* [[No Honor Among Thieves]] is not [[David Weber]] saying that there will be no ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' books called ''[[Honor Among Thieves]]''.
* [[Noisy Guns]] are not firearms that are running around hooting and hollering.
** Nor are they guns that are unrealistically noisy when ''shot''; that's [[Bang Bang BANG]].
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]] is not how [[Dr. No]] [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|introduces]] himself.
* [[Nom De Mom]] doesn't mean that a character's alias or [[Unnamed Parent|only name]] is Mom. Nor does it refer to [[Monster Misogyny|moms getting eaten]].
* [[Nominal Hero]] is not a list of [[Character Title|works named after their protagonists]].
* [[No Mouth]] [[And I Must Scream]] seem to be one trope, but they're not.
* [[Noodle Incident]] has nothing to do with the guitarist of [[Gorillaz]]. (Necessarily.)
* [[Noodle Implements]] is not about tools made out of pasta. Believe me, I tried, don't ask.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]] is not about policies that forbid [[Street Fighter Alpha|Dan from taunting]].
** Nor does it refer to [[Game of Thrones|Osha refusing to submit to Theon Greyjoy]].
* [[No Party Given]] is not about a disappointing birthday.
* [[No Periods, Period]] most certainly has nothing to do with punctuation.
* [[No Recycling]] is not an aversion of [[Copy and Paste Environments]].
* [[No Saving Throw]] is not a place to complain about authors who didn't do an [[Author's Saving Throw]].
* No Sell (now known as [[Won't Work On Me]]) is not about when a sales clerk has to open up a cash register just to make small change.
* [[No Sex Allowed]] is not a proclamation that a certain person will never, ever get laid.
* [[Nostalgia Filter]] is not a search engine exclusive to [[That Guy With The Glasses]].com.
* [[No Such Thing as Space Jesus]] is not about [[Space Jews]].
* [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]] has nothing to do with cheating on your significant other.
* [[Not Completely Useless]] is not about backhanded compliments given to [[The Load]] after a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Not Enough to Bury]] does not mean "it's not enough to bury this person's remains; [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|let's grind their corpse in a shredder]]".
* [[Nothing but Hits]] apparently doesn't refer to a soundtrack comprising entirely of orchestral hits.
** Nor does it refer to someone with [[Improbable Aiming Skills|really good aim]].
** Nor is it about the [[Always Accurate Attack]].
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]] is not about the ultimate scare.
* [[Nothing Left to the Imagination]] is not a description of the outfit [[Ms. Fanservice]] is wearing.
* [[The Not Love Interest]] isn't the person that's [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|accused of being your boyfriend/girlfriend all the time]].
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]] is not related to [[Kill Bill]] or [[Soul Eater|Death the Kid]].
* [[Not Using the Zed Word]] does not involve refusal to talk about a certain ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villain or ignoring the boss of the ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''.
* A [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]] isn't a longing to make [[Man in a Kilt|the kilt]] more accepted.
** Nor does it have anything to do with ''[[Strike Witches]]''.
* [[Not Wearing Tights]] is not about a male character or tomboyish female refusing to wear "girly" clothes.
* [[No U]] is not a [[Constrained Writing|lipogram]] lacking the letter after T.
* [[No Yay]] is not a moment in sports where the crowd boos.
* [[No, You]] does not exclude the target.
* A [[Nuclear Family]] has nothing to do with nuclear power. Well, except for ''[[The Simpsons]]''. And ''[[PS238]]''.
* A [[Nuclear Option]] is not what Utsuho Reiuji's power-up would be if she became playable in the next ''[[Touhou]]'' game.
* [[Number Two]] is not related to [[Potty Emergency]] or [[Bring My Brown Pants]]. Or, for that matter, [[Oh Crap]].
* [[Nu-metal]] is not what ''[[BlazBlue]]'s'' [[Robot Girl]] is built with.

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