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[[Exactly What It Says
Normally, this is [[Rule of Fun|all in good fun]], but Pothole Magnetism does, indeed, have its [[Sinkhole|dark side]]. There have been tropes that have died
See also: [[Overdosed Tropes]], [[Tropes of Legend]].
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* [[And I Must Scream]]
* [[And That's Terrible]]
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Users put or pothole this to a page whenever something is announced that makes the fandom rejoice. [[Big Yes]] and [[Squee]] are also used as alternatives to this.
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]
* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]] (also known as [[Crowning Music of Awesome]])
* [[Better Than It Sounds]]: Frequently potholed as a way of saying that a work is better than what a short summary of its premise would lead one to believe. This is bad because not only is it [[Gushing About Shows You Like (Sugar Wiki)|Gushing About Shows You Like]], it's misuse because the page itself is a [[Just for Fun]] game where tropers come up with summaries of works that make them sound worse than they actually are.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Used to indicate or exaggerate how "awesome" or "insane" something is. Given that the original definition was "escalating within a series" one could say it [[Gone Horribly Right|succeeded in a horrific way]]. That plus confusion with [[Up to Eleven]] led to a
* [[Big No]]
* [[Blatant Lies]]: This article is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|absolutely, positively,
* [[Buffy
* [[Captain Obvious]]: This is used as a pothole for obvious statements.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Redundant statements are potholed to this article about redundant statements.
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* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: A [[Running Gag]] on this site is to explain jokes and pothole the explanation to this article. It's often a misuse, because the trope is actually telling you what the punchline means, not merely giving context to the joke.
* [[Epic Fail]]: Often used for things that fail annoyingly in general.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Used to pothole executive names to or refer to a certain company's management. [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and [[Evil Overlord]] are also used as alternatives to this.
* [[Face Palm]]
* [[From Bad to Worse]] (also known as [[It Got Worse]])
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* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Often potholed when an observation is made in a trope. Usually as a result of natter.
* [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]] (also known as [[Crowning Moment of Funny]])
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Despite the article's description defining the trope as puns found lame [[In
* [[I Thought It Meant]]: Frequently potholed when contrasting two things that sound similar.
* [[Justified Trope]]: Usually potholed to note that the usage of a trope is justified and makes sense. Unfortunately subjected to heavy misuse as many of these “justified” usages are actually [[Justifying Edit
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: In Soviet Russia, Pothole Magnets pothole to YOU.
* [[Kill It
* [[Love It or Hate It]]: Tropers would pothole this to indicate that a work had polarizing opinions or as an alternate way of saying [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. It's a bad idea to do this outside of YMMV pages unless it's [[In-Universe]].
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: There are [[Readings Are Off the Scale|over 9000]] instances of memes being potholed to this article.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Whenever tropers make screwy statements or point at someone's messed up mind.
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] (also known as [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]])
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* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]
* [[Oh Crap]]
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: This page is a popular pothole target in [[Self
* [[Precision F
* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[Rule of Three]]: Inevitable pothole for the third use of a [[Running Gag]] on a page.
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: This trope should ALWAYS be potholed, there's never any misuse! <ref>That's sarcasm, you idiot!</ref>
* [[Self
* [[Squee]]: Tropers tend to pothole this when it comes to moments that make them overjoyed.
* [[Squick]]: Tropers tend to pothole this when it comes to moments that make them cringe.
* [[Take That]]: A number of insults, both [[In
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Tropers tend to pothole this whenever the word "bitch" is used.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]
* [[Title Drop]]: Most trope articles with a [[Title Drop]] have a pothole to this article.
* [[Trope Namers]]: Anytime that a [[Trope Namer]] is quoted in a trope's description, it will be potholed to this article.
* [[Up to Eleven]]
* [[What an Idiot!]]
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: If a pun isn't potholed to [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], it's most likely potholed to this.
* [[Your Mileage May Vary]]: Unfortunately, a lot of tropers feel the need to pothole this as some kind of bizarre excuse to shoehorn their opinion into an example on the main page. Personal opinions do not belong on the main page, and neither do [[Your Mileage May Vary]] potholes. If you come across any instances of this, please remove them.
* [[Understatement]]: Formerly used by editors to point proudly at their own understatement - or, worse, [[
▲=== Former Pothole Magnets that had their wicks cleaned up: ===
▲* [[Understatement]]: Formerly used by editors to point proudly at their own understatement - or, worse, [[Sinkhole|sinkholed]] into lines which demonstrated the polar opposite of understatement. Was incorrectly potholed on over 8700 pages before a concerted effort to clean it up was made between August and October of 2011. When the clean-up was done, the correct wicks numbered about 600. A second clean-up begain in May of 2012 when incorrect potholes began to increase the total wicks above 900 again.
* [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]]: Originally, this trope was simply called Nightmare Fuel. This has led an absolutely massive amount of potholes involving things that the [[
▲=== Tropes that have been renamed due to misguided Pothole Magnetism: ===
▲* [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]]: Originally, this trope was simply called Nightmare Fuel. This has led an absolutely massive amount of potholes involving things that the [[TROPER]] who posted them found scary.
* The "Artistic License - X" tropes were like this because they used to be known as "You Fail X Forever" and "X Does Not Work That Way."
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Formerly known as Completely Missing The Point. This caused the trope to be [[Square Peg, Round Trope|misused]] as a pothole for any statement that missed the point.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: Its original title was simply Or Is It?, which attracted misuse as a [[Stock Phrase]] and [[Verbal Tic]]. The old name is now a deliberate redlink.
* [[
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: Formerly known merely as No. Just... No, renamed because it was often potholed for when tropers' responses to something were a strong "NO", when it was supposed to refer to ''[[In-Universe]]'' instances of the [[Stock Phrase]] in reaction to a [[Squick
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Originally Beyond The Impossible. It got a
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Originally Incredibly Lazy Pun. The old name saw a lot of misuse as a generic pun pothole, resulting in the trope being renamed and the old name being permanently redlinked.
* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: Formerly known as Do Not Want. The article was cut and moved due to pothole misuse for things tropers found [[
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Formerly known as I Got Better. The old name attracted a lot of misuse as a pothole for people or things "getting better" in general.
* [[Zero Context Example]]: Formerly known as X, Just...X, after a common format associated with this type of example. This, however, had the unfortunate side effect of having tropers ''potholing'' these examples to the page, despite the fact that [[Comically Missing the Point|the article's very purpose was to discourage them]]. This led to the article being deliberately redlinked, and later, renamed.
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