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* ''[[Regular Show]]''. [[Lampshade Hanging|"It's anything but."]]
* ''[[Hellstar Remina|Remina]]'' is not a [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] for a [[Crossover Ship]] based on the part in the [[Hot Springs Episode]] of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' when Kamina kisses a [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei]] look-alike.
** Nor does it refer to a [https://web.archive.org/web/20170108154140/http://www.remmina.org/wp/ remote desktop client] for [[Linux]].
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' is not about being able to rent a [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Puella Magi]].
* ''[[RG Veda]]'' is not a crossover between ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
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* [[Full Metal Panic!|Sousuke Sagara]] is not a member of ''[[The Sagara Family]]''.
** Neither is [[Rurouni Kenshin|Sanosuke]].
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is not about the moon taking up sailing. Nor it is about a moon where [[Space Marine|space marines]]s hang out.
** Not is it the sailing counterpart to ''[[Harvest Moon]]''.
** Neither is it about [[Mooning|mooning sailors]].
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* Similarity, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100225051959/http://sailortwain.com/ Sailor Twain]'' is, [[Rule of Funny|perhaps unfortunately]], not a ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanwork in which [[Mark Twain]] or [[Shania Twain]] becomes a Sailor Senshi.
* The Saints of ''[[Saints Row]]'' don't need to row. They can [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|swim]].
* The movie ''[[Salt]]'' is not a [[Genre Shift]] sequel to ''[[Willy Wonka and& Thethe Chocolate Factory]]'' about the grown-up, [[Took a Level in Badass]] adventures of Veruca Salt.
** Nor is it about sodium chloride. Or ionic compounds in general, for that matter.
* ''[[Samurai Gun]]'' is not about the [[Downer Ending]] where the swordsman is shot dead, symbolizing the beginning of the Meiji era and the end of the golden age of samurai.
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* ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot 'Em Up]]'' has absolutely nothing to do with a [[Shoot'Em Up|video game genre]].
* ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' is not about beating up the blond guy from ''[[The Electric Company]]'', or ignoring ''[[The World Ends With You]]'''s skateboarding [[Idiot Hero]].
* ''[[Slash Report]]'' is not a news show about [[Slash Fic]]s.
* ''[[Slayers]]'' is not about the [[Mook]]s in ''[[Krull]]''.
** Nor is it another [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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* ''[[The Small One (Disney)|The Small One]]'' is not about the least physically imposing member of a [[Five-Man Band]] or a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]. Or even [[The Runt At the End]], for that matter.
* ''[[Smallville]]'' is not about a quirky community of dwarves.
* The Snakes in ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' are not [[Metal Gear|Naked, Solid, Liquid, Solidus]], and/or Solidus[[Escape From New York|Plissken]].
** Nor are they [http://sciencefun.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/snakes-on-a-plane/ on a two-dimensional surface with indefinite area].
* ''[[The Song of Roland]]'' isn't the demonstration tune included with a Linear Arithmetic synthesizer.
* ''[[Sonic and The Black Knight]]'' does ''not'' end with "and [[The Dark Knight]]".
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** It also does not involve any member of the [[wikipedia:RSAF Black Knights|aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.]]
*** ... who ''also'' have nothing to do with the Black Knights in ''[[Code Geass]]''.
** Nor is it a statement that [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|none shall pass]] the [[w:Sonic Drive-In|fast-food outlet]].
** And more [[Black Knight]]s to confuse with. These [[Black Knight]] puns sure are easy to make, too.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' is not about a hedgehog with [[Make Me Wanna Shout]] and [[Brown Note]] powers.
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* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' is not a [[Crack Pairing]] between [[Star Fox (series)|Wolf O'Donnell]] (or [[CNN|Wolf Blitzer]]) and a [[Spice Girls]].
** Neither is this a documentary of canines on [[Dune|Arrakis]].
* ''[[Spice World]]'' has nothing to do with [[Dune|Arrakis]], either.
* ''[[Spiral]]'' actually has nothing to do with ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. It's also unrelated to ''[[Uzumaki]]''.
* ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' is not a ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' game. Unfortunately.
* ''Spy Hunter'' is not a crossover [[Gaiden Game]] of ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' and ''[[Team Fortress 2|Team]] [[Team Fortress Classic|Fortress]]''.
* ''[[Spot the Dog]]'' is not a canine version of ''[[Where's Wally?|Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo?]]''
* ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' is not a furry fusion of [[Team Fortress 2|the Spy and the Pyro]].
** Nor is it about a former US vice president [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|being a dragon]], or being [[The Dragon]].
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* ''[[Star Fleet]]'' is not a ''[[Star Trek]]'' game.
* ''[[Stargate]]'' is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, involved in a political scandal. Nor is it about the [[Andre Norton]] book of the same name.
* ''[[Stargate Verse]]'' is not poetry about any version of ''[[Stargate]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, going on a trek neither.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' is not about stars, either celebrity or stellar, warring against each other.
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* ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' are not fans who are militant about their [[Real Person Fic]] pairings.
** Nor are they spacecraft-borne contributors to [[This Very Wiki]] with dyslexia.
** Nor is it a merger of the bands [[Starship (band)|Starship]] and [[Trooper]].
* ''[[The Stand|Stephen King's The Stand]]'' isn't about the horror writer discovering that he has [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|psychic/summoning superpowers]].
* ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' has nothing to do with [[Too Smart for Strangers|strangers offering candy to children]].
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* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has nothing to do with regular ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]''.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' is not about Mario and Luigi getting drunk.
** However, the fan game ''[http://www.twinskygames.com/?page_id=97 ''Super Smash]{{Dead link}}'''''''[http://www.twinskygames.com/?page_id=97 ed]{{Dead link}}''''' Bros.''[http://www.twinskygames.com/?page_id=97 Bros.]{{Dead link}}'' is.
* ''[[Super Why!]]'' is not the inquisitive form of the [[Big No]].
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' is not a gaming show whereupon overweight contestants must compete in a variety of physical challenges to be declared 'the fittest' and hence, the winner.
* ''[[Suzuka]]'' is not a ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' spinoff starring one of [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]].
* ''[[The Sweeney]]'' and ''[[Sweeney Todd]]'' are mostly unrelated, except for the fact that the title for the former is derived from the latter, as it is the Cockney rhyming slang for "Flying Squad".
* [[The Switch (2010 film)|The Switch]] is not a [[The Wizard (film)|90-minute commercial for a Nintendo video game system]].
** Nor is ''[[The Switch Glitch]]'' about hacking said system.
* ''The Sword of [[Shannara]]'' does not belong to [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana]]. (You want "Nietono no Shana".) Nor [[Makyou no Shanana|Shanana]]. Nor [[wikipedia:Sha Na Na|Sha Na Na]].
 
== T ==
* ''[[Tak and the Power of Juju]]'' is not an ''[[Invader Zim]]'' spinoff. Both franchises are owned by [[Nickelodeon]] and have crossed over on [[Nicktoons Unite!|one occasion]], though.
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** ''Tetris Attack'' and ''[[Tetrisphere]]'' are [[Dolled-Up Installment|not actually Tetris games]].
* ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'' is not [[The Short Guy with Glasses|short]].
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' isn't ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''. Or ''[[All in The Family]]'', or ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'', or ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'', or ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'', [[Overly Long Gag|or...]] well, [[:Category:Live-Action TV of the 1970s|any of these]].
* ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' is not related to the ''[[Saw]]'' series in any way. Neither is it related to ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''.
** It's also not a [[Bloodier and Gorier]] spoof of [[Portal (series)|"There Will Be Cake"]].
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* ''[[Thunder Force]]'' is not about the product of a thunderstorm's mass and acceleration.
* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is not a fable involving a tiger and a cute little rabbit. Though it should be.
* ''[[ToA AruCertain Magical Index|Toaru Majutsu no IndexIndekkusu]]'' is not an [[Index Index|index]] page for [[Gratuitous Japanese|trope titles that are entirely in Japanese]], though you might [[Everything's Better with Indexes|feel better]] once you get to know the title character.
* ''[[Todd Allison and The Petunia Violet]]'' is not about [[Todd in the Shadows]] trying to woo [[Obscurus Lupa|Allison Pregler]] with petunias.
* ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' is not a quest for gaining the love of [[To Heart 2|Ruuko]], who keeps saying "ruu~".
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** ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' doesn't involve [[Demonic Possession]] in its plot.
** ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' isn't a bizarre crossover between ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' and [[Queen]]'s ''Bohemian Rhapsody''.
** ''Double Spoiler'' isn't about using the now-defunct supersecretspoiler tag on [[TV Tropes|this very wiki]].
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' is not what a [[Totally Radical]] person says when spotting a Spy in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''.
* [[Transformice]] has nothing to do with [[Transformers]].
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* ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' is unrelated to any arguments about the origin of the world and the origin of the origin.
** Neither it's a suggestion about playing [[Real Time Strategy]] games.
* ''[[Tweeny Witches]]'' is not a prequel to ''[[Teen Witch (film)|Teen Witch]]''.
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' does not take place in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. And neither of them involve [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight Sparkle]] (though the former does [[Give a Whole New Meaning]] to that phrase).
* ''[[Twilight Imperium]]'' is not a crossover [[Fanfic]] between ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' (or ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'').
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* ''Xexex'' is not [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|xtreme sex]], nor is it related to the [[No Pronunciation Guide|similarly hard-to-pronounce]] NES action-adventure game ''[[Xexyz]]''.
* [[X-Men]] is not a [[Gender Bender]] story about some former men.
* ''[[xxxHolic×××HOLiC]]'' is not about fans of [[Vin Diesel]] and [[Ice Cube]].
** Nor is it about a porn addict; for that see ''[[Don Jon]]''.
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* ''[[Young Dracula]]'' is, sadly, not a sequel to ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''.
* ''[[Young Justice]]'' is not about a child appointed to the Supreme Court.
* None of ''[[Yume Nikki]]''{{'}}s and ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''{{'}}s protagonists [[I Am Not Shazam|are named Nikki]].
** The two also have nothing to do with each other.
* ''[[Yo Yogi!]]'' does not take place in [[Wikipedia:Yoyogi Park|Yoyogi Park]].
* ''[[Yuri!!! on Ice]]'' is not an example of the [[Yuri Genre]].
 
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