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Just to clarify:

O

• Obake is not an Omake about baking.
• Obvious Beta is not the obvious influence of a preview reader on a fanfic.
  • Nor is it a Siamese fighting fish with no sense of subtlety.
• An Obvious Trap is not about men with Paper Thin Disguises as women.
• OC Stand In is not a placeholder for The OC's cast.
• Octopussy is not about the Distaff Counterpart of Doctor Octopus, nor is it about a woman with eight vaginas.
  • No matter how cool that might be...
• While Odd Job Gods might exist in James Bond universe, Oddjob certainly does not worship them.
  • Nor are they players who are experts with the smallest character in GoldenEye 007 multiplayer.
• Oddly Common Rarity isn't about the number of times Rarity shows up in an episode.
• Off the Rails is not like Railing Kill.
• Offer Void in Nebraska is not Exdeath's directive to give a "gift" to the state of Nebraska... that "gift" being to suck it into THE VOID!
  • Nor is it about Shu Ouma offering to pull CGI weapons out of the cornhuskers.
• Offing the Offspring is not shutting down devices playing The Offspring.
• 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.
• Oh, Mr. Grant!, despite being found among the Sex Tropes, is not about the police interrupting a suspect who's soliciting a prostitute and then realizing that he's a famous celebrity.
• 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 its online video game store.
• Older Than They Think is not about characters with the mindset of someone younger than they actually are. Nor does it refer to characters who are much older than they seem to be.
• The Oldest Ones in the Book is not about someone who gets fooled or tricked by something that should be common knowledge.
• Old Media Are Evil is not about books like the Necronomicon. Try Tome of Eldritch Lore.
• An Old Retainer is not an orthodontic device that you've long since ceased to use.
• Olympus Mons is not about the mountain on Mars.
• Ominous Crack does not cause a bad trip, proceed a horrendous fart, or be part of a wrong interepretation of a Badass (see above).
• Once Is Not Enough is not about orgasms.
• One Bad Mother is not talking about Shaft. Nor does it have anything to do with "this badass mother".
  • It also isn't the token follower of a Religion of Evil in an otherwise good-aligned convent.
    • nor is it talking about a Mother game that you didn't like or depressed you.
• One Bullet Clips do not apply exclusively to single-shot guns.
• One Curse Limit is not about how you can only get away with one F-Bomb in a PG-13 movie.
• One, Two, Three, Four, Go does not refer to the Comedy Tropes in which characters have trouble giving and following some simple instructions along the lines of "pull this rope when I count to three." That one is called On Three.
• The One Guy is not The Guy You Wanna Be.
• The One-Man Army does not serve the One World Order. Not yet anyway, but it's only a matter of time before someone makes this reality.
  • Yes he does! Or did. Sephiroth did it before he became a Big Bad.
    • 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. on one life.
• One Riot, One Ranger is not "RAMIREZ! 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 gaining wings. It's not a cousin to 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 cubes. Or even crates. No, not dice, either.
  • 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.
  • Nor is it a contrast to Loads and Loads of Heels.
• OOC Is Serious Business is not about the Internet Backdraft that occurs when a Fanfic writer portrays a character differently from canon.
• Open the Iris is not an order to lower the Stargate SG-1's defenses to allow travelers into Stargate Command, nor about doing naughty things to a girl named Iris. (Which is a shame, 'cause she's cute.) Nor is it about time-lapse photography of flowers blooming.
  • It's also not about performing surgery on a particular nun in Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations.
  • Its also not a strange command to get people to open their eyes.
• 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.
• 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.
  • The related OT3 has nothing to do with Scientology.
    • Likewise OSS does not stand for Operate Shooting Star.
• Orphean Rescue has nothing to do with saving orphans.
  • Nor is it about rescuing, or being rescued by, Doctor Orpheus.
• The Other Marty has nothing to do with Ernest Borgnine.
• Out, Damned Spot! is not about angrily kicking the family dog out of the house.
• Out-Gambitted has nothing to do with the Cajun mutant.
• An Out-of-Clothes Experience is not the result of Clothing Damage or The Nudifier.
  • Nor does it mean when a character looks into a closet and finds either nothing good or nothing at all.
• Out of Focus is not a camera technique (or issue).
• Outrun the Fireball is not about the Fighting Game tactic where one shoots out a Kamehame Hadoken, then runs ahead of it to attack the opponent.
• Out with a Bang does not mean going out with an explosion.
  • Or making one's death a memorable one.
  • Or Spike's death in Cowboy Bebop.
• Oven Logic is not related in any way to Fridge Logic, although it's possible for an occurrence of the former to trigger the latter.
• Overly-Long Fighting Animation doesn't refer to the battle of Namek, or any other cases of Shounen Anime resorting to Padding to avoid overtaking the manga.

P-Q

• Pacifist Run is not what happens after discovering that the other guy has a gun and intends to use it.
• A Pain Center is not a clinic that specializes in treating pain.
• Painful Rhyme is not about rhyming couplets that cause excruciating pain to anyone who reads them.
  • Nor is it about Beat's little sister being in terrible pain.
• The Palantir Ploy is not about diverting the Big Bad's attention with a obvious nemesis.
• A Panty Fighter is not someone who goes about destroying panties or a sentient pair of panties beating people up.
• A Panty Shot is not what happens when someone shoots a pair of panties with a firearm. A camera, OTOH...
  • Nor is it when a character from a certain anime gets shot.
• Paranoia Fuel is not a Dance Dance Revolution-themed energy drink, nor is it an energy drink that will help you clear the song "Paranoia."
  • It is not the GM's preparations for a certain dystopian tabletop game.
• A Parasol of Pain is not normally made of French breads.
• The Parent Trope doesn't reference Super Tropes.
• Parody Sue is not what happens when a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo isn't lawyer-friendly enough.
• Parrot Exposition is not an Info Dump about parrots.
  • Nor is it one given by a parrot.
• Parts Unknown is not about a hero or heroine always hiding their private parts from the viewers.
• Party in My Pocket does not refer to an erection. And if you invite a hot chick along, it's just to help you fight monsters.
  • It is also not where the devil hosts a dancing party in your pocket
• Passed Over Inheritance isn't about 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.
• 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.
• People in Rubber Suits sounds hot, but it isn't. ...unless it is.
• Percussive Prevention doesn't mean "Friends don't let friends play drums".
• Person with the Clothing is not when one member of a group of lookalikes wears something that makes it easy to identify the individual.
  • Nor is it the only member of the cast or group that is wearing any clothes.
• Personal Dictionary is not when someone jokingly gives a character (or something else)'s name as a definition for a dictionary.
• Personal Space Invader is not about having a little green pixelated alien as a pet. (Awww...)
• Pettanko is not the Japanese interpretation of Pinball.
• Phantom Thief does not steal ghosts.
  • Nor is it about Erik, The Phantom of the Opera having taken up a career in burglary.
• Phlebotinum Muncher is not an educational computer game that teaches you how the Applied Phlebotinum works by having you run around a board eating things.
• Phlegmings is not about anthropomorphic bits of phlegm.
• Pickup Hierarchy has nothing to do with which truck is better.
  • nore does it have anything to do with electric guitars.
• Piggybacking on Hitler is not about getting a piggback ride from Adolf Hitler.
• 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, Mario and 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.
• Pixar Shorts is not about short-sleeved legwear with Pixar characters on them.
• Planet Eris is not a trope about the actual dwarf planet Eris. Though, before the disclaimer was added, the troper Egak came up with an insanely convoluted explanation for the apparent namesaking involving the dwarf planet's former name and a specific episode of The Simpsons.
• A Planimal is not about creatures who spend their time scheming things.
• Plato Is a Moron is not about fictional events that contradict the Platonic Cave allegory or any of the philosopher's other teachings.
• Platonic Caves are not rocky caverns in which hotly debated couples protest that they're Just Friends.
  • Or that caves that are harmless.
• A Player Punch is not a brand of fruit juice made by Nintendo.
• 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 (usually) involve a literal game of tennis with the Big Bad.
• Playing with Wiki does not refer to what you are probably doing at this very moment. Nor is it Zack's treasure-hunting strategy.
• Plot-Triggering Death is not a death which triggers a cutscene in video games.
• Plot Tumor is not about The Scrappy, a Creator's Pet, or any other type of character—although it could be if they turn out to be the Chosen One.
• Pluto Is Expendable. Mickey's dog, however, is irreplaceable.
  • It is also not a Take That against Naoki Urasawa's Pluto.
  • Nor is it a Sister Trope to Everybody Hates Hades.
• The Pocket Protector is not part of the attire of the Hollywood Nerd. One could invoke the trope, but it's not what the trope means.
• Poke the Poodle has absolutely nothing to do with Captain John Hart.
  • Nor is it an Unusual Euphemism for an Ass Shove.
• Police Brutality Gambit is not about Cowboy Cops using Police Brutality to get information from suspects because they think that people will believe them over suspects. It is actually the opposite.
• Polish the Turd is not about the turd learning language of a certain European country.
• The Politically-Incorrect Villain is not one whose characterization is based on offensive stereotypes, but one who's applying the offensive stereotypes himself.
• 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.
• Popular Is Dumb is not about how popular shows, movies, etc. are often viewed as unintelligent. Nor, for that matter, is it complaining about the show Popular.
  • Or the song from Wicked. Or Nada Surf's early Black Sheep Hit.
• Portal Network is not a multiplayer version of Portal.
• Portal Picture is not about what you see when you look at a portal, nor is it about screenshots of the game Portal.
  • And Portal Pool isn't a variant of pool played using the Portal engine. Though it should be.
• Porting Disaster is not what happens when a Ship docks, and one of the two characters cannot perform. It's also not about an unfortunate collision or destruction of a sea vessel, or what happens after a miscalculation during teleportation.
• A Portmantrope need have nothing to do with Natalie Portman.
• The Pose of Silence is not an index finger raised to the lips in a shushing gesture.
• 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.
• A Potty Emergency does not refer to the toilet physically harming you.
• A Pound of Flesh Twist is not the ultimate candy bar for carnivores.
  • Or a variant on the Indian burn prank.
• Power Equals Rarity doesn't mean that getting electricity in your home will cause a certain fashion-designing unicorn to pop up.
• Power Incontinence has nothing to do with getting a severe case of dysentery.
• The Power of Rock is (probably) not about the force strong against The Power Of Scissors and weak against The Power Of Paper. It's also not related to the The Power of Friendship. The Power of Love could be, but only when talking about the Huey Lewis song (possibly including covers and homonym songs).
• A Precision F-Strike is not when a Teachers Union decides to selectively (and otherwise unfairly) fail students as a form of collective bargaining with the school board.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy is not about a caucasian man's attractive pet flying insect or trouser zipper. Nor is it exclusively about the The Offspring song, although it is the Trope Namer.
• Pretty in Mink is not about how attractive the main character of Dragon Half is.
• Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy is not about uncharacteristically fast moving undead.
  • Nor is it about a certain musical fencing skeleton.
• Primal Fear is nor about things that frighten the leader of the Maximals.
• A Primal Scene is unlikely to be seen in Beast Wars
• Primal Stance is not how Optimus Primal stands.
• Prince of Nothing is not a trope for princes who lost their kingdom but struggle to regain it. Do we have this?
• Princess Classic was not merely called "Princess" until there was a backlash against "New Princess".
• Princesses Prefer Pink does not mean Princesses like that singer over others.
• Prison Ship is not about fans imagining two prison inmates as lovers.
• Private Eye is not about Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe or Ace Hart. Try Private Detective.
  • Nor is it about eyeballs that you're unusually protective of.
• The Problem with Fighting Death is not those damn sickles.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Psycho Rangers are not a group of multicolored (not) spandex-clad heroes who defeat evil through psychological means rather than violence.
• Psycho Strings is not necessarily related to Razor Floss wielded by a Girl with Psycho Weapon.
• Punch Clock Villain is not about villains who are so evil that they punch out clock faces.
  • Nor is it about evil bureaucrats who keep checking if you made it to your job on time and didn't leave early.
  • Nor is it what Batman does to the Clock King.
• Pungeon Master isn't about the stereotype of RPG players having difficulty with hygiene.
• 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 is not what happens when someone doesn't want to fly first class.
• Put Their Heads Together is not about solving the problems together.
• Puzzle Pan is not related to Peter Pan or Pan's Labyrinth.
• Quad Damage is not about a Groin Attack to a krogan. Or what happens when Kevin Nash takes a step.
• The Queen's Latin is not about Elizabeth II knowing that language.
  • Neither does it mean that the Queen is a Spicy Latina.
• Quick Draw is not about the old Apple Macintosh graphics library. (As if that would be a trope...)
• The Quisling is not a baby quiz.
• Quote Mine is not a Stock Phrase for when you want your words to be at the top of someone's trope. Nor does it describe a situation in which you must learn to work with a hostile quote for the common good.
  • It is not a quote that explodes when stepped on (although the effects can still be devastating).
  • It certainly has nothing to do with mute war-machines.
  • It's not an underground mine filled with quotes either.

R

• Race For Your Love is not about needing to prove your love to someone by beating them in a race.
  • Nor is it about posing as a different ethnicity because it turns someone on.
• Race Tropes is not an index of such things as "the villain sabotages the hero's vehicle", "the hero builds enough speed to catch up but the race is neck and neck after he does", and "the hero wins by a nose, complete with freezeframe".
• Rack Focus does not refer to a guy looking at a girl's big boobs, nor a closeup of a Nut Shot. Nor is it about being obsessed with a specific torture device.
• Rage Quit is not about Rage from Dance Dance Revolution quitting video games.
• Ragnaroof Proofing is not about making the roof giant spider resistant.
  • Nor it has anything to do with Ragnarok's roof. Or Ragna's.
• A Railing Kill is not necessarily done with a railgun, and is almost never done on train tracks. It's not about killing those damn railings to make the work environment significantly more dangerous.
• Railroading is not constructing trains and similar vehicles in a Simulation Game.
• Rainbow Pimp Gear is not about the tendency of peddlers of prostitution to wear eye-scarringly loud outfits.
  • Nor is it about a possible alternative job for the Sixth Doctor.
• Rainbow Speak is not a language used exclusively by iridescent arcs. Nor is it what Rainbow Brite speaks.
• Randomly Drops is not about particularly clumsy characters trying to carry things, nor about eye drops that need to be administered at random intervals.
• Rank Inflation is not giving grandiose, but meaningless, titles to military ranks.
  • Nor is it about using foul smelling gas to fill balloons.
• Rare Guns is not about Klobb, peanut popguns or a hand-held Kazooie.
  • And Rare Vehicles isn't about Diddy Kong Racing or Nuts and Bolts, either.
• The Rashomon is not a Digimon. Yet.
• Rated "G" for Gangsta is not a subtrope or even particularly related to Rated "M" for Manly.
• Raygun Gothic is not Gothic Horror IN SPACE. But that would be awesome.
  • It also has nothing to do with Ronnie Raygun. But that would also be awesome.
• A Reactor Boss is not a boss that just sits there until you attack it, nor is it a boss who attacks only by reacting to your attacks.
• Reality Is Unrealistic is not an event where the laws of physics just suddenly become broken in Real Life.
• Really Gets Around is not about The Flash or someone who travels a lot.
• Really Seventeen Years Old is neither about Kikuko Inoue nor Knives Chau.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech is not the reason you talk while inhaling rather than breathing out your words.
  • And while it might be delivered by an Elder Vampire to a fledgeling, it has nothing to do with explaining the Facts of Unlife.
  • It's also not about the reason you suck on speeches.
• Reassignment Backfire does not involve sending a character over to an air force unit that flies Tu-22Ms, which would be a clear promotion.
• Rebel Relaxation is not about the party after the Death Star is blown up.
• Reconstructed Trope isn't about what happens to Trope-tan after the Pigmask Army gets its hands on her.
• Recurring Riff is not the 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: An all-powerful villain that is most likely just a figment of the hero's imagination? Sadly, no. Frozen pizza? Not quite, either.
  • 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 about the actual Manfred von Richtoffen, except as one of its examples.
• 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 Versus Blue Left Hand.
  • A Red Right Hand isn't what you get if The Dragon is a communist, either.
    • Nor might you have one if you've been caught red-handed.
    • It also has nothing to do with playing Twister.
    • Nor is it what Ghirahim uses to block Link's sword Barehanded Blade Block-handed in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• Red Shirt isn't part of the Bring My Brown Pants joke, apparently.
  • Nor is it the Red Coats more casual uniforms.
    • It also does not come in yellow, blue or purple.
• The Redshirt Army is not about the anti-military side of the 2006 Thai coup d'êtat.
• A Red Skies Crossover is not specifically a crossover with Crimson Skies
• Reds with Rockets does not refer to the Soviet space program.
  • It also doesn't refer to Red from Pokémon joining Team Rocket.
  • Nor is it about Red XIII taking over Cid's love of space.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with the RED Soldier or his rocket launcher.
• Refuge in Audacity is not about using the music authoring software of that name to get better after encountering the Darkest Hour.
• Refuge in Cool doesn't mean a character is trying to be sufficiently cool to gain Plot Armor. Not that that works, anyway.
  • It doesn't involve hiding in Antarctica.
• Reinforce Field has nothing to do with Reinforce Eins or Zwei.
• Rent-A-Zilla is not about providing Kaiju for the general public's use. Aww...
• A Repeat Cut isn't the end result of a Flechette Storm.
• Replacement Scrappy does not mean The Scrappy is being replaced with a better character. Quite the opposite, unfortunately.
  • The original doesn't have to be The Scrappy, either.
• 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 Psycho isn't about getting killed by someone taking a shower.
• Reverse Shrapnel is not an 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.)
• Ridiculous Future Inflation has nothing to do with the creation of Gag Boobs or a Balloon Belly through the use of SCIENCE!.
• A Right-Hand Hottie is not a cute girl who literally replaces your right hand.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand has nothing to do with masturbation. The trope also has nothing to do with the legal jargon about the right hand not needing to know what the left is doing to consist a conspiracy charge. No arm-wrestling tournaments, either.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with an epic battle between people of left or right-handedness.
  • Or about baseball or cricket, where there are a lot of professional lefties.
• Right Through His Pants is not about an Armor-Piercing Attack or Depleted Phlebotinum Shells that defeat Magic Pants.
• Rings of Death aren't the places where death matches occur. Neither does it have to do with a defective Xbox 360. It's also not when there is more than one Ominous Ring of Land, or a deadly videotape. And we know you feel clever for thinking back to that moment in the mid-nineties where you finally reached Knuckles's final boss in Sonic & Knuckles and he started firing deadly rings at you, and you're getting warmer, but no, that's still not quite it. What, murderous crop circles? Oh, for crying out loud. And if you're thinking of a circular Artifact of Doom, you're still off the mark.
• Ring Ring CRUNCH is not when somebody is on the phone with a Too Dumb to Live friend who gets eaten/destroyed/whatever in the middle of the conversation, nor is it a brand of cereal made of telecommunication parts. Although once, long ago...
• Rio is not a Juken Sentai Gekiranger spinoff.
• Rise of the Triad Actually has nothing to do with telling about the history of the Chinese Triad gang. (At least, not in the game's final form.)
• 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 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".
  • Nor is it a licensed game for home computers, though a licensed game is an example.
  • Nor did Time Warner Cable offer computers on contract with purchase of Internet service. That was PeoplePC.
• There is no Robwest to the Robeast.
• Robot Roll Call is nothing to do with the Enjin from Engine Sentai Go-onger performing a Roll-Call.
  • Or Roll from Mega Man talking over the phone.
• Rock Beats Laser is not about Rockman.EXE defeating Laserman.EXE.
• Rock Star Parking is not about parking in Grand Theft Auto.
• Rocky Roll Call is not about yelling "Adriaaaaaaaan!".
• Roguelike isn't a term for southern belles who can drain your life energy with a touch.
• Role Called, but he doesn't necessarily want his pun back.
• A Rollercoaster Mine is not a mine on a rollercoaster track, nor is it a mine that when stepped on lobs the person in question into the air. Nor does it involve a young child who insists that only he can ride it.
  • Nor does it describe a situation in which you must learn to work with a hostile roller coaster for the common good.
• A Roman à Clef is not a music notation symbol from Rome.
• Ron the Death Eater is not a article refering to this pic.
• Rouge Angles of Satin is not a description of how shapely a certain Classy Bat Burglar looks in finery.
• Round Bushy Hair isn't a huge afro.
• A Round Table Shot is not an anachronistic closed-room murder case involving King Arthur and his knights.
• Royal Blood is not a Slasher Flick involving a royal family.
• 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 BFGs, air support or the use of force.
  • Nor is it necessarily related to Takano Miyo.
  • Nor, unless you're Xkcd, does it involve cellular automata.
  • It's not part of 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 Request For Production in the US federal court system.
• Rule-Abiding Rebel is not about Raspberyl from Disgaea.
• Rule of Cool is not one of the laws of thermodynamics.
• The Rule of Index isn't "The limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief for a given trope is directly proportional to the number of indices it is in".
• Rule of Three isn't about putting a Power Trio or Terrible Trio in charge.
• Run or Die is not a parkour simulation in the vein of EA's Skate or Die.
• Running the Asylum Isn't literally about being in charge of managing an asylum.
  • Nor is it about the people who run The Asylum.
• Ryu and Ken is not named after Ryu the dragon, Ken Suther or Ken Ichijouji. It also doesn't involve ninja families, or even two members of the Science Ninja Team.