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== To begin... ==
* This trope is called Lousy Alternate Titles because '''Goofing Around By Spelling Out
** And it's still shorter than '''What If Encyclopedia Dramatica Wrote Our Trope Titles?'''.
** Also, '''Really, Really Lousy Alternate Titles That Are Way Too Long And Usually Complain About Tropes, Tropers, And Pretty Much Everything''' is too hypocritical.
== A ==
* It's called [[A-Cup Angst]] because '''Man, I Wish I Had Big Breasts''' just doesn't have a ring to it.
* It's called [[All Blue Entry]] because '''Fucking Dorks with OCD Using [[Sinkhole]]s to Turn the Entire Bullet Point Blue for No Fucking Reason''' is a bit too much to type, and we don't have the gall to make fun of people with OCD.
* It's called [[America Saves the Day]] instead of '''[[Team America: World Police|America! Fuck Yeah!]]''' because we try to avoid swearing in titles unless it's absolutely necessary.
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== B ==
* [[Beat the Curse Out of Him]] isn't called '''[[Kirby]]'s Solution''' because no amount of possessed bosses in the series will save the title from [[Fan Myopia]].
**
* [[Better Than It Sounds]] is called that because '''Making Good Fiction Seem Like Crap And Making You Guess Which Fiction It Is''' is a lot to type.
** And also because '''Adventure Ho''' is too specific to one show.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]] is not called '''[[Brother Bear]]''' (a [[snowclone]] of [[Mama Bear]]).
* They call it [[Big No]] because '''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!''' is a little ''too'' big and no one will remember how many letters are in it.
** Ditto with the other Big tropes:
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* It's called [[Black Sheep Hit]] because '''If We'd Known This Was Going To Be The Only Song You Remember Us For, We Never Would Have Done It''' is too long and also a little too honest.
* [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]] is slightly nicer than '''F*cking Underage Five-Year-Olds Censoring All the F*cking Curses on This M*therfucking Wiki Either Because They're R*tarded as S*it or Because of Some Stupid F*cking [[Censorware]] Installed By Their Clueless Mother...F*CKER''', which would just be an [[Insult to Rocks|insult to five-year-olds]].
* [[Boomerang Bigot]] isn't
* [[Broken Aesop]] is called that because '''Emoji Movie Syndrome''' would just be beating a dead horse, especially as the trope was around a lot longer than that film.
== C ==
* [[Cassandra Truth]] was chosen over '''Why the Fuck Is No One Believing Me!?!?'''.
* It's called [[Chekhov's Gun]] because '''Look At Me I'm
** And calling it '''[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Naked_Time_(episode) Sulu's Sword]''' would be confusing.
* It's called the [[Chewbacca Defense]] because '''Total Bullshit Argument''' would just be rude. Plus, it would most likely turn into a [[Pothole Magnet]] for complaining.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] is generally easier to remember than '''Fucking Fuckheaded Show That Fucking Likes To Fucking Use The Word "Fuck" All The Fucking Time''', and you couldn't use it in polite company. Also, it's [[pun]]nier.
** We don't call it '''Rapid-Fire Fuck''' either because that sounds like a character having sex many times within a short period.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]] is a long title, but '''Presenting Subjective Opinions of Things You Don't Like As Objective Fact in a Way That Will Just Start an Argument''' is even longer.
* We call it [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]] because '''Don't Read, Don't Dislike''' is a really corny snowclone.
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* It's called [[Darth Wiki]] because on the one hand, someone would have objected to '''This Is Where We Put Our Answer to /b/tards''', and on the other hand, '''B''' is too short.
* It's called [[A Date with Rosie Palms]] because it turns out '''[[G Gundam|This Hand of Mine Glows With an Awesome Power]]''' isn't actually an example.
* [[Decapitated Army]] is a cleverer name than '''Stupid and/or Lazy Minions Who Suddenly Lose the Motivation to Fight When Whoever's in Charge Dies'''.
* [[Deconstructed Trope]] is the name. '''Played Painfully Straight''' would be fine...if not for the vicious [[Pothole Magnet]] monster rampaging this site that would [[All The Tropes:Not a Deconstruction|twist its meaning]] into "[[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|secretly complaining]] about [[Tropes Are Not Bad|tropes you don't like]]".
* It's called [[Demonization]] because '''Lying About Shows You Don't Like''' is only part of it.
** And also because '''Complaining About Satanic Strawmen of Shows You Don't Like That You Pulled Straight Out Your Fucking Ass Because You're a Fucking Rabid [[Moral Guardian]] with Literally NO Fucking Self-Awareness At Fucking All''' is kind of hard to read.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] is called Department of Redundancy Department because '''Redundancy''' is too boring of a name for [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Department of Redundancy Department, which is called Department of Redundancy Department instead]] because if we call Department of Redundancy Department '''Redundancy''', [[Overly Long Gag|it'd be a boring title for Department of Redundancy Department.]] That's why it's called [[Department of Redundancy Department]].
* [[Dethroning Moment of Suck]] isn't exactly the shortest title, but neither is '''That One Moment in the Show That Completely Jumps the Shark, Leaves a Bitter Taste in Your Mouth and Proves That the Show Is Ruined FOREVER''', which isn't necessarily true either.
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]] is infinitely better than '''Arson, Murder, and Jailbreaking''', as not all jailbreakers are pirates and not all pirates mod consoles.
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* '''Remember That Scene in That Disney Movie Where the Chick Sings and Animals Come Out to Join Her? Well Look We're Parodying That! Aren't We Clever?''' is a little too cheeky for its own good. [[Disney Creatures of the Farce]] works a lot better.
* We went with [[Dissimile]] because it's shorter, catchier, and more punny than '''"[[Futurama|And By 'Metaphorically', I Mean 'Get Your Coat.']]"'''
* It's called [[The Dog Bites Back]] because '''Russian Dog''' wouldn't make sense to the majority of people unfamiliar with [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]].
* It's called [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]] because '''The Dog That You Saw On the Way to the Crime Scene and Was the Least Likely Being to Do It Got You Into This Mess''' can cause breathlessness by itself.
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** '''Harder Better Faster Stronger Flyer''' is a better alternate title, but a bit long.
* It's called [[Franchise Zombie]] because '''[[Fan Hater|I Hate All of You For Liking This]] But I Have to Make More of It!''' sounds downright insulting.
** And it's not called '''Oh God, I'm So Tired of Working On This Show, I Really Want to Move On to Something Else, But I've Still Got Two Years On My Contract, and I Can't Afford to Break It.''' [[Comically Missing the Point|
* [[Funbag Airbag]] makes [[Sublime Rhyme|a nice rhyme]], unlike '''Clash On the Big Breasts''', which would make anyone familiar with ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' groan.
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* [[Jerkass Ball]] is called that instead of '''That Mind-Numbingly Idiotic and Clichéd Moment Where One Character Suddenly Becomes a Fucking Asshole for the Purpose of a [[Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure]]''' because honestly, we're not here to [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|bitch about tropes we don't like]].
* [[Jizzed in My Pants]] is just slightly clearer than '''Bring My White Pants''' or '''UGGGHHHHHHH!!!'''.
* [[Jumping the Shark]] is not called
== K ==
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* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]] isn't an in-joke, unlike '''Word Craft'''.
* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] is just slightly catchier than '''What Kind of Pervert Am I, Getting Turned on By a Fucking Cartoon Character?'''.
* We call it [[Petite Pride]] because '''Why the Hell Is She Boasting When You Could Calibrate a
* We went with [[Planet Eater]] because '''World Hunger''' [[Dude, Not Funny|is an actual real-life problem that has nothing to do with the trope and is actually kind of serious]].
* [[Plot Hole]] is a better title than '''Voodoo Plot''' since the trope has nothing to do with voodoo.
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* We ended up going with [[Rambling Old Man Monologue]] because it's a little bit more concise than the title we wanted to use, which was '''Stories Old Men Tell to Youngsters Which Don't Really Go Anywhere But for Some Reason Nobody Interrupts. Why I Remember One of These Stories... Boy It Was a Doozy... It Started When My Uncle Sammy, or Sambo as We Used to Call Him, But You Can't Call Him That Anymore Because of Those Damn PC Police... Anyway Sambo Was Riding a Chicken Down to the General Store Because Our Horse Was Laid Up with the Flu...'''
* [[Reality Ensues]] is a little more polite and way shorter than '''They May Use This Trope a Million Times in Fiction, But This is What Would ''Really'' Happen in [[Real Life]]'''.
* We went with [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] because '''Roast Person for Dinner''' wouldn't make sense to anyone
* [[Refrain From Assuming]] is much better, shorter, punnier, and more polite than '''I Know They Repeat That Phrase a Thousand Times In The Chorus, But For The Last Time, ''It's Not The Name Of The Fucking Song''!'''
** '''Teenage Wasteland''', while shorter than the current title, is a victim of [[Fan Myopia]] and [[Teenage Wasteland|already a trope.]]
* [[Renamed Tropes]] is more to-the-point than '''What Were They Smoking When Naming These Tropes!?'''. Besides, we don't want to wantonly accuse people of smoking.
** And '''I Can't Believe It's Not an LAT!''', obtuse acronym aside, is equally bitchy-sounding.
* Although [[Reviews Are the Gospel]] and '''He Panned It, Now It Sucks''' are both short and concise, using the latter would mean having to redirect to it from '''He Praised It, Now It Rocks''' as the trope works both ways. Also, it's only one different pronoun from [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]].
* It's called [[Rhyming with Itself]] because honestly, '''Instead Of Using A Word That Rhymes, They Just Repeated The Original Word''' takes way too much time to type out. Also, not everyone would get '''[[Red Dwarf|I Used Underpantski Three Times]]'''.
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* It's [[Screaming At Squick]] because '''Scrick''' is an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]].
* [[Seasonal Rot]] isn't called '''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] Syndrome''' because that's an unnecessary [[Take That]].
* [[Sex Is Evil]] is less of a [[snowclone]] than '''Arson, Murder, and Ejaculation'''.
* [[Shark Pool]] is called that because '''You Could Just Shoot Him, Y'Know''' is kind of [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|already a trope]].
* [[Shockwave Stomp]] is a better name than '''[[Soul Series|Night Terror's]] Fury''' due to [[Fan Myopia]].
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* It's called [[SNK Boss]] because some would object to '''Total Bullshit Boss Who Uses Cheap Moves All the Time'''.
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]] was chosen because '''Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Standing on a Chair, Giving the Middle Finger, and Screaming "FUCK YOU!"''' was deemed a little ''too'' manly.
* Although [[Spear Counterpart]] ''did'' get its name ultimately because [[Freud Was Right]], calling it '''Recycled WITH A DICK!''' is a little too explicit.
* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]] was chosen because '''The''', being too common a word, would be a horrible title for a trope.
* [[Springtime for Hitler]] is a little more poetic than '''You Fail Failing Forever''', especially after the big [[Artistic License]] rename.
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* [[Weak-Willed]] is not called '''[[Kirby|King Dedede]] Syndrome''' [[Trope Namer Syndrome|for obvious reasons.]]
** And it's more polite than '''Good God, Could You Not Get Fucking Mind Controlled [[Shrek 2|for Five Minutes!?!]]'''.
* [[Welcome to Corneria]] is the name, as no one had the foresight to call it (or the [[Take That|bitterness]] to rename it to) '''Animal Crossing: New Horizons Syndrome'''.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]] beat '''Well I Guess ''I'm'' The Asshole For Caring About This Plot Point''' in a runoff.
* We have [[Wild Mass Guessing]] because '''Off-The-Cuff Predictions and Obsessively Detailed Fanwank''' puts rather ''too'' fine a point on it.
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