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* [[Oh Crap]] is not a situation when the viewer/player/reader of the work says "Oh crap!"
* [[Oh God, with the Verbing!]] is not a prayer to the God of Verbs.
* [[Older Than Dirt]] is not about old geezers who are over the hill.
* [[Older Than Steam]] refers to 1712, not 2004 when Valve introduced ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' and [[Steam|its online video game store]].
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*** So...the [[One-Winged Angel]] served the [[One World Order]] as a [[One-Man Army]]?
* A [[One-Man Band]] is not someone who is all five members of the [[Five-Man Band]] at once.
* The [[One Mario Limit]] does not involve the reduced use of the two-players-alternating option in modern video games. Nor is it about playing ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' on one life.
* [[One Riot, One Ranger]] is not "[[Modern Warfare|RAMIREZ!]] [[Memetic Mutation|Quash that riot!]]"
** Nor is it about distribution of [[Power Rangers]] when multiple riots occur around the world.
* [[One-Winged Angel]] is not about ''[[Angel]]'' [[Power Gives You Wings|gaining wings]]. It's not a cousin to [[Ace Combat|Solo Wing Pixy]] either.
* [[Only in America]] is not about works that are only available in the US. That would be [[No Export for You]].
* [[Only Six Faces]] is not a trope about
** For that matter, it's also not about a character who has way too many alternate identities.
** Nor is it an insult used by hydras.
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* An [[Orbital Kiss]] is not a kiss that occurs in a planet's orbit, or one that is planted on the eyebrow ridge. Not necessarily, at least (in ''[[Farscape]]'' it may well be both).
* [[Orcus on His Throne]] is not a trope about royals sitting on a throne for the majority of their time.
* [[Organ Drops]] aren't related to [[Piano Drop]]s.
* An [[Orifice Invasion]] is not an army of mouths, nostrils, or even possibly belly buttons, attacking another country.
* [[OTP]] is not about a girl with a big ass doing the [[Pose of Supplication]].
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* [[Passed Over Inheritance]] isn't about [[Hype Aversion|ignoring all the hype]] over ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' and deciding not to read it.
* [[Pass Fail]] does not refer to taking college classes that have only two possible grades. Nor does it refer to failing at an attempt to flirt with someone.
* [[Pass the Popcorn]] isn't about a private BitTorrent tracker.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]] doesn't have anything to do with surprise sex while playing Marco Polo or Hide and Seek.
* [[Peggy Sue]] is not when [[Peggy]] is used as a [[Mary Sue]].
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* [[Pilot Movie]] is not the latest pop-culture lampooning movie by the [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] directing team. Nor does it generally involve pilots.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]] is not about pimps who like to crossdress. Nor is it about ball gowns with hydraulics and rims (but this would be AWESOME). It's not even about clothing worn by prostitutes.
* [[Pinball Protagonist]] is not what happens when you make arcade games the main character. It also doesn't involve the tendency to turn popular characters such as [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], [[Kirby]], [[Super Mario (franchise)|Mario]] and [[Metroid|Samus]] into balls and smack them with flippers.
* [[Pirate Booty]] is not about sexy pirates. Or pirate shoes.
* [[Pitch Testing Zone]] is not where people make up comedic advertisements for ridiculous fictional products. Although that would be awesome.
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* [[Playing Tennis With the Boss]] is not a reference to the Tennis Scene from ''Taking Care of Business''. It is also not about playing tennis, or indeed any other game, with [[Bruce Springsteen]].
** It doesn't ([[Go-Karting with Bowser|usually]]) involve a literal game of tennis with the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Playing the Victim Card]] is not something you do in [[:Category:Collectible Card Game|''Magic'' or ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'']].
* [[Playing with Wiki]] does not refer to what you are probably doing at this very moment. Nor is it [[Zack and Wiki|Zack's treasure-hunting strategy]].
* [[Plot-Triggering Death]] is not a death which triggers a cutscene in video games.
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* [[Polygon Ceiling]] is not about scenarios built with CGI.
* a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] isn't someone who flies planes while wearing a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]].
* [[Pop]] isn't about carbonated soft drinks or vinyl dolls with big squarish heads.
* [[Popular Is Dumb]] is not about how popular shows, movies, etc. [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|are often viewed as unintelligent]]. Nor, for that matter, is it [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|complaining about]] the show ''[[Popular]]''.
** Or the song from ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]''. Or Nada Surf's early [[Black Sheep Hit]].
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* A [[Possession Sue]] is not a [[Mary Sue]] with powers to take over other people's minds and/or bodies (though that'd be far from unlikely a power for a Mary Sue to have).
** Nor is it what you do when you take the person who took over your body to court. After all, possession is nine points of the law.
* [[Post Rock]] isn't what Cocoa Pebbles cereal was called early in development.
* A [[Potty Emergency]] does not refer to [[The Can Kicked Him|the toilet physically harming you.]]
* A [[Pound of Flesh Twist]] is not the ultimate candy bar for carnivores.
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* [[Princess Classic]] was not merely called "Princess" until there was a backlash against "New Princess".
* [[Princesses Prefer Pink]] does not mean Princesses like [[P!nk|that singer]] over others.
* [[Print Long Runners]] doesn't mean to use additive manufacturing to build replacement parts for a large sled.
* [[Prison Ship]] is not about fans imagining [[Situational Sexuality|two prison inmates as lovers]].
* [[Private Eye]] is not about Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe or Ace Hart. Try [[Private Detective]].
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* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]] doesn't contrast with unlicensed console games such as ''[[Action 52]]''.
* [[Product Placement]] has nothing to do with where you put the answer to a multiplication problem.
* [[Progressive Rock]] and [[Progressive Metal]] aren't the opposite of Conservative Rock and Conservative Metal.
* [[Prop Recycling]] refers to reuse, not literal recycling of the materials.
* [[Psychic Link]] is not about the protagonist of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' gaining the ability to read minds.
* [[Psychological Torment Zone]] is not a really traumatic level of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]].
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* [[Punk Punk]] is not about criminals with mohawks and nose piercings, nor about people with mohawks and nose piercings going through a further punk phase (Nosehair mohawks and hair piercings?).
* [[Purple Prose]] is not what happens when an author decides to get creative regarding font colors.
* [[Put Me In, Coach|Put Me in Coach]] is not what happens when someone doesn't want to fly first class. (Although, without a comma, it should be.)
* [[Put Their Heads Together]] is not about solving the problems together.
* [[Puzzle Pan]] is not related to [[Peter Pan]] or [[Pan's Labyrinth]].
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* [[Recurring Riff]] is not the [[Out of Focus|on-again-off-again]] secondary lead character of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Except, arguably, when the zombies kept saying his name.
* [[Recycled in Space]] is not about interstellar environmentalism, unless it's just a rehash of Earth environmentalism.
* [[Red Baron]]:
** Frozen pizza? Sadly, no.
** It's not the English name for Brazillian band Barão Vermelho either.
** Nor is it about a nobleman ranking below a count and above a knight, who's a communist.
** Nor is it
* [[Redemption Promotion]] isn't about getting a prize for sending in three proofs of purchase plus shipping and handling.
* We will not have [[Red Right Hand]] [[Red vs. Blue|Versus Blue]] [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand|Left Hand]].
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* [[Reporting Names]] may be a Soviet-era trope, but it doesn't involve the [[Secret Police]].
* A [[Revealing Hug]] is not a hug that causes [[Clothing Damage]].
* [[Reverse Shrapnel]] is not an [[Transformers|Insecticon]] going backwards. Nor is it "lenparhs". Nor is it magically undoing the effects of an explosion.
* A [[Rich Bitch]] is not a lady dog who inherited a fortune. (Except in [[Funny Animal]] works.)
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* [[Rise to the Challenge]] has nothing to do with Nergal's battle theme from the 7th ''[[Fire Emblem]]''.
** It is also not merely accepting a dare to perform a difficult act.
* [[River of Insanity]] does not involve any member of the [[Firefly (TV series)|crew of ''Serenity'']].
* [[Road Movie]] is not the latest film by [[Seltzer and Friedberg]]. That would be ''Vampires Suck''.
* [[Road Runner PC]] is not about censoring Wile E. Coyote's "deaths".
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* [[Ron the Death Eater]] is not a article refering to [[wikia:c:harrypotter:File:Deathearter_ron.PNG|this pic]].
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] is not a description of how shapely [[Sonic the Hedgehog|a certain]] [[Classy Cat Burglar|Classy Bat Burglar]] looks in finery.
* A [[Round Table Shot]] is not an [[Anachronism Stew|anachronistic]] closed-room murder case involving [[King Arthur]] and his knights.
* [[Royal Blood]] is not a [[Slasher Flick]] involving a royal family.
* An [[RPG Episode]] usually doesn't feature a grenade launcher.
** Nor is [[RPGs Equal Combat]]
* [[Rule 34]] is not an article about those specific rules of ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates'' within ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', therefore, nor is it related to [[
** Nor is it necessarily related to [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Takano Miyo]].
** Nor, unless you're ''[[
** It's not part of [[Star Trek|The Ferengi]] Rules Of Aquisition (unless you interpret "War is good for business" in a very dirty way).
** Furthermore, it does not refer to a [[wikipedia:Request for production|Request For Production]] in the US federal court system.
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* [[Ryu and Ken]] is not named after [[Breath of Fire|Ryu the dragon]], [[Mega Man Star Force|Ken Suther]] or [[Digimon Adventure 02|Ken Ichijouji]]. It also doesn't involve [[Ninja Gaiden|ninja families]], or even two members of the [[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Science Ninja Team]].
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