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

== U ==
* [[Ultimate Evil]] is not necessarily the most evil guy in a series.
* [[Ultimate Gamer 386]] is not the go-to guy for all forms of MS-DOS entertainment.
* The [[Uncanny Valley]] has nothing to do with a creepy geographical location, though I had to visit the page twice before I remembered that.
* [[Undead Horse Trope]] does not deal with [[Horse of a Different Color|Zombie Horses]] ([[Rule of Cool|not that there's anything wrong with them]]).
* [[Unexpected Reactions to This Index]] is ''not'' about the ways we ''didn't'' expect people to react to a certain index.
* [[The Unexpected]] [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|isn't related to]] [[The Spanish Inquisition]].
* [[Unfortunate Implications]] do not refer to the possibility that someone might be so awed by a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] as to get a heart attack.
* [[Un Installment]] doesn't refer to removing a program from a computer.
* [[Unintelligi Ball]] does not describe a plot point that depends on successive characters acting [[Idiot Ball|unintelligently]] or incomprehensibly.
* An [[Unintentional Period Piece]] isn't when a real-life [[Menstrual Menace]] ends up [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Writing the Plot]].
* [[Unit Confusion]] isn't about confused special ops organizations, nor with the apparent standard operating procedure of [[Doctor Who]]'s UNIT. It is also not about the neverending battle between the International System of Units and the Imperial System of Measurement.
* [[Unmoving Pattern]] has nothing to do with a Welsh political party, nor with the superfast speed in ''[[Spaceballs]]'' being much slower than advertised. Or actually impossible-to-move plaids.
** It is also not opposed by Unstoppable Paisley, who lives in [[Stroke Country]].
* [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]] is not related to [[Doctor Who|the TARDIS]] (for that, see [[Bigger on the Inside]])
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]] has nothing to do with ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]].'' Unless you're a rather descriptive roleplayer. Nor does it concern [[Mega Man (video game)|Rock's sister]] being a [[Joke Character]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]''.
** This isn't what you get if you [[Star Fox (series)|press Z or R twice]] when not being shot at.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]] does not imply the existence of [[Unreal Tournament|Godlike Rage]] or [[Unreal Tournament 2004|Wicked Sick Rage]].
* [[UST]] is not short for ''Un''original Sound Track.
** Or Underground Storage Tank.
** Nor is it a time zone.
** Nor does it have anything to do with [[UTAU]] sequence files.(".ust")
* [[Unscaled Merfolk]] is not about the tendency for mermaids to all be human-sized, no matter the size of the actual fish of which they are supposed to be half.
* [[Unwanted Revival]] isn't about... Well, an unwanted [[Revival]].
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] is not saying that [[The Lord of the Rings|Eomer]] is playing Link in the film. Curses.
** On the brighter side, it's not about modernizing the series, either. Though we are eyeing those trains suspiciously...
** Nor does it refer to a hypothetical installment in which the overworld is one big city.
* [[Ur Example]] is not [[LOLcats|lolspeak]] for 'your example'.


== V ==
* [[Various Videogame Views]] is not a page about the differing opinions people have about video games.
* [[Vapor Trail]] is not the trail of information (previews, screenshots, advertisements, etc.) left behind by a [[Vaporware]] product.
* [[Vasquez Always Dies]] is not about what would happen if [[Jhonen Vasquez|Jhonen]] somehow ended up in any of his fictional worlds.
** Nor does it mean [[Ace Attorney|Dee Vasquez]] shows up in a later episode as a murder victim.
* [[Vector Game]] is not referring to ''[[Vectorman]]''. Or ''[[Knuckles Chaotix]]'' or ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' or...
* [[Verbing Nouny]] has nothing to do with the fact that all nouns can be verbed.
* [[The Verse]] isn't about the part of a song that precedes the chorus. It has nothing to do with poetry, either.
* [[Victim of the Week]] is not about a serial killer who makes sure to kill somebody once every seven days.
* [[Video Game Long Runners]] aren't necessarily in the continuous runner genre (e.g. ''[[Canabalt]]'', ''[[Rayman]] Jungle Run'').
* [[Video Game Stealing]] isn't about taking someone else's video games. That's closer to [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]].
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] isn't about shows whose fans are mostly [[Gender Bender]]s.
** Or about productions that cause the audience to question their own genders.
* [[Viewers are Morons]] is sometimes [[Truth in Television]], but that's only partly the point of the trope.
* [[Villain Ball]] isn't a dance for villains, or a sport played by them.
* [[Villain Shoes]] has nothing to do with jackboots.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]] is not limited to [[Vampire Musicals]].
** And "song" is not an [[Unusual Euphemism]].
* [[Villain Team-Up]] is not to be confused with [[Enemy Mine]].
* A [[Villainous Demotivator]] is not a [[Motivational Poster]] with Darth Vader and the words "FAITH: I find your lack of it disturbing."
** But it is to be confused with [[Legion of Doom]].
* [[Viral Marketing]] has nothing to do with [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|a certain Beastman]].
* [[Visual kei]] is not a Microsoft programming tool.
* A [[Vocal Minority]] is not an ethnic stereotype.
* [[The Voice]] is not an article about [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|the philosophy of the Greybeards.]]
* The [[Voice of the Legion]] will not usually say [[Ancient Grome|"Hail Caesar" or "S.P.Q.R"]]
* [[Voices Are Mental]] is not about characters being committed due to hearing (or believing they're hearing) voices; it's not about insane voices, and it's not about your inner monologue either.
* A [[Voodoo Shark]] is not one that is used for [[Jumping the Shark|jumping]].
** But suddenly introducing one may well ''cause'' Shark-Jumping.

== W ==
* [[WAFF]] has nothing to do with the Wife Acceptance Factor (the likelihood that any new tech toy or gadget placed in your home will get you chewed out by your wife). And it's not about waffles, either. Not necessarily, at least.
* [[Waif Fu]] [[Stealth Pun|has nothing to do with]] [[Azumanga Daioh]].
* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]] isn't about calling in sick to work, or an employer who wants to make damn sure you're not late to work again.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]] is not a scene where a person walks shirtless, but a person who ''is'' a shirtless scene.
* [[Wall Banger]] is not about the drink called Harvey Wallbanger, nor is it what you do [[Ceiling Banger|when you want the people in the next room over to quiet down]]. Neither is it the wall-performed variant of headbanging or [[Squick|getting violated by a wall]].
* [[The Walls Have Eyes]] does not refer to walls which have ''pictures'' of eyes painted on them.
** Nor is it a sequel to ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]''.
* [[War Is Hell]] is not about the anti-Valhalla.
* [[The War On Straw]] was not begun by people suffering from hay fever.
** Nor is it when the author stalwartly refuses to [[Did Not Do the Research|use a strawman]] and instead makes a thoughtful character with disagreeable political/religous views.
* [[Warrior Poet]] is not about warriors who write poetry. (Although a couple of examples in the trope page ''do'' involve warriors who write poetry...)
* [[Wasted Song]] isn't [[Drunken Song|a song sung while drunk]].
* [[Watching a Video Game]] is unrelated to the popularity of [[Let's Play]].
** Nor does it refer to video games that have so many cutscenes you feel that you're watching more than you're playing.
* [[Watch It Stoned]] is not a suggestion to watch a show while suffering the Biblical era punishment of stoning.
* You [[Watch the Paint Job]] by being careful around a vehicle, not by watching ''[[Paint Drying]]''.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]] is not about guns powered by [[Hand Wave|vigorous handwaving]], though a lot of them probably ''are''. It is not about guns that make waves move either.
** And it's not the same as the proton packs form ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' or the wiggly rays from ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]].''
* [[Wave Motion Tuning Fork]] is not about the actual tuning forks that [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|Anti-Monitor]] and [[Infinite Crisis|Alexander Luthor]] used to break the universe up into itty bitty pieces.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]] is not what ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' does.
* [[Weapons That Suck]] is not about lousy or useless weapons.
* [[Weapon Tombstone]] is not about using [[Improvised Weapon|tombstones as weapons]] (like that odd [[World of Warcraft]] axe).
* [[We Are Team Cannon Fodder]] is not a [[Redshirt Army]] who created a witty collective name for themselves.
** Nor is it a [[Fan Nickname]] for [[Torchwood]].
* [[Webcomic Time]] is not the time of day when your boss has gone to lunch but you're still at your desk.
* [[Talk:Could Have Avoided This Plot|We Could Have Avoided All This Discussion]] has nothing to do with avoidable conversations.
* [[Weenalized]] is not when a character turns into a big weenie. [[Badass Decay]] is pretty close to that though. It's also not about analyzing the obscure adventure game ''Ween: The Prophecy''.
** Nor is it about the band ''Ween''
* [[We Have Reserves]] is not an argument against the Peak Oil theory.
* If [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future]], the implication isn't that we've given up Adobe products in favor of free software alternatives such as GIMP.
* A [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]] is not a fat-burner or a weapon used by terrorists to attack Catholic Masses. But some of them do create energy by destroying mass.
* [[Weapons Kitchen Sink]] is not about [[Improbable Weapon User|using things found in a kitchen sink as weapons]], nor is it a sink where you wash your weapons after battle.
* [["Weird Al" Effect]] is not an Artificial Intelligence machine malfunctioning. It's Weird A'''L''', not Weird A'''i'''.
* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]] isn't a little-known ''Welcome Back Kotter'' spinoff where Mr. Kotter returns to his job as a New York teacher after briefly defecting to the Soviet Union.
* [[Welcome to Corneria]] is not what [[Star Fox (series)|Fox McCloud]] giving you welcome. Or what he says [[Independence Day|after taking down your ship]].
* A [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] did not just [[I'm a Humanitarian|cook his male offspring]] for a relatively long time.
** Nor is "Son-Guy" what the father calls his kid, although the familial relationship implied by that trope is often pretty frosty.
* As [[Werewolf Works]] says on its page, it's not about a werewolf that does a job. It's also not a page that says that it's always a good idea to include a werewolf in a story, nor does it say it's a good idea to become a werewolf yourself.
* [[Western Animation]] does not necessarily take place in [[The Wild West]].
* [[Wet Sari Scene]] is not what happens when [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Yuki_Oshima Yuki Oshima] writes an episode of ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. Nor does it have anything to do with ''[[Phantasy Star]] III''. It does have to do with people, usually hot women, getting wet.
* A [[Wham! Episode]] does not guest star George Michael (the singer, not the ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' character), Andrew Ridgeley or Stephen Gaffney. Nor does it necessarily feature music from them.
* [[Whammy]] is not [[Death Note|the old guy who ran the orphanage where Near and Mello lived]].
* [[Talk:What Could Have Been|What Could Have Been Discussion]] has nothing to do with unavoidable conversations.
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]] is not the response when a fan of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|2003 TMNT series]] discovers which company produced it.
** Similarly, [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]] is not the reaction of someone watching ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' for the first time since 2006.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome|The page formerly known as "What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome"]] was not about tropers debating if an entry belongs on [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[What You Are in the Dark]] has jack all to do with monsters that [[One-Winged Angel|attain their "true" forms]] [[Darkness Equals Death|in the absence of light]].
* [[What a Drag]] has nothing to do with [[Crossdresser|crossdressers]].
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] may involve Buddhhist martial arts, but it has nothing with impersonating Guatama Sidartha or any of his most famous apostles and students.
** And it has nothing to do with sincere questions about the martial art a particular character may actually be practicing.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] wasn't that it got replaced with a touch screen.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] is not the brand new game in the ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' series where you play a [[We Need a Distraction|WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!]]
** It's not a [[Moral Dissonance|morally]] [[Anti-Hero|questionable]] [[Designated Hero|hero]] (but rather a reaction thereto).
** It does not describe [[Big Trouble in Little China|Jack Burton]]
* [[What the Hell, Player?]] doesn't mean someone who plays games based on an unenthusiastic "what the hell" whim.
** It is also not about one of [[The Casanova]]'s lovers giving him a [[What the Hell, Hero?]].
* [[Wheel-O-Feet]] is not about the [http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w107/amadeuswindfall/mauler.jpg Roving Mauler] from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
* [[When All Else Fails Go Right]] is not about the popular maze-solving method of following a single wall.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]] is not about trouble locating [[Mahou Sensei Negima|a certain ten-year-old wizard who works as a teacher.]] Or his [[Disappeared Dad]].
* [[Whip It Good]] has nothing to do with attempting to correct behavior.
** It does if you're doing it right...
* A [[Whip Pan]] is not [[Whip Sword|a pan that can separate its handle into sections]] to whack people from afar. And Whip Pan is not a distant relative of [[Peter Pan]].
** It is also not a pan to make delicious desserts in.
* [[White Dude, Black Dude]] is not the same as [[Salt and Pepper]].
* A [[White Dwarf Starlet]] is not an actress who is small, hot and [[The Ditz|dense]] (not for another twenty or thirty years, at least). Nor is she necessarily White or have dwarfism.
* [[White Gang-Bangers]] is probably the name of a porn series somewhere, but you won't find that on this page (or anywhere on this wiki).
* A [[White Magician Girl]] isn't a magician girl who is caucasian.
* The [[White Void Room]] is not located near the [[BlazBlue|cold steel room or the just sword room]].
* [[Whoring]] isn't about prostitution, though we honestly can't blame you for the confusion.
* [[Who Needs Overtime]] isn't one of the [[:Category:White Collar Tropes|work tropes.]]
* [[Who Watches the Watchmen?]] is not a request for the audience demographics of the movie adaptation of [[Watchmen (comics)|Alan Moore's comic]].
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]] is not about job systems in RPGs that let you do that.
* Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things is not about users of the website [[Wikia|FANDOM]] not having have nice things.
* [[Widget Series]] has nothing to do with ''Widget the World Watcher''.
** Nor does it have anything to do with a bunch of small programs that can be downloaded and used by the Opera Web Browser or that Vista sidebar.
** Nor does it have to do with anything else that's called a [[wikipedia:widget|widget]] in Real Life.
* The rival of a [[WikiPuma]] is not a WikiAdidas.
* [[William Shatner Speech]] isnotabout... people... speakingjust... like... THIS.
* [[Wind Is Green]] has nothing to do with wind-power being the main source of energy in [[The Future]].
* [[With Friends Like These...]] [[...Who Needs Enemies?]] is two tropes, not one.
* [[With This Herring]] doesn't involve [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|slapping people with fish]], nor does it advocate replacing a wedding ring with one.
* [[WMG]] does not stand for [[Wave Motion Gun]]. Though the effect some [[WMG]] have on your sanity may be similar.
** Nor is it the company who wants to remove their and their artists' existence from [[YouTube]] and therefore popularity and real life.
* [[Wolverine Publicity]] has nothing to do with the University of Michigan, Morris Brown College, or any other school with a wolverine as its mascot.
* A [[Womb Level]] is not a home base. Although they occasionally throw ''players'' [[Nightmare Fuel|into the fetal position]], it's generally not a good place for the player character to assume one.
* [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]] is not about ''[[Marvel 1602]]''.
* A [[Woolseyism]] is not a peculiar habit of the current commander of the [[Stargate Atlantis|Atlantis Expedition]].
* [[Word of Dante]] is not about witting lines from a [[Devil May Cry|certain]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]].
** Nor is it [[Word of God]] from [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Prince Zuko's]] [[Voice Actors|Voice Actor]].
*** [[Overly Long Gag|Nor is it]] about something said by [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Dante]]. Or any other Dante, for that matter.
* [[Word of God]] is not about [[The Bible]].
** And that was not a [[Take That]].
* The [[Worf Effect]] does not imply that Klingons were violent because their language [[Language Equals Thought|lacked the word]] for "Peace".
* [[The World Is Always Doomed]] does not mean that [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Dio Brando will lose every time]].
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]] is not about thinking that [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Dio Brando and/or his Stand]] [[Evil Is Cool|is cool]].
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]] is not a speech about a world constructed, literally or metaphorically, of cardboard; nor is it a world in which speech is so constructed.
** Nor does it indicate universally bad dialogue/acting.
** It also has nothing to do with a particularly bizarre [[Hannibal Lecture]] from a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] who is [[Cloudcuckoolander|just downright weird]].
* A [[World of Ham]] is not a form of [[Level Ate]].
* [[World Half Empty]] is not a world where [[Gendercide|half of the human population]] has been zapped out of existence. It's also got nothing to do with the hollow Earth theory.
** The same goes for [[A World Half Full]].
* [[The Worm That Walks]] is not a caterpillar, centipede, or any other crawly thing with a bazillion little legs.
** And it certainly has nothing to do with [[Earthworm Jim]], even though he is a worm that can walk.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Is about child ''physical'' abuse and the aversion of [[Infant Immortality]]. It doesn't encompass psychological or verbal abuse.
* [[Writing for the Trade]] has nothing to do with writing something for someone because they wrote something for you.
** It doesn't refer to writing for your industry peers instead of the fans, either.
* [[Written-In Absence]] and [[Written-In Infirmity]] don't refer to the state the author was in when writing the episode.

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