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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|As the title implies]], this index is for pages that have been subject to [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] [[Pothole|potholing]]. This has a tendency to happen to [[
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 [[About/Permanent Red Link Club|horrible, painful deaths]] due to Pothole Magnetism gone mad. In less extreme cases, it can cause a trope to be [[Renamed Tropes|renamed]].
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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-Universe]], it continues to be used as a mainstream pothole for puns due to that being the article's original intended purpose. The article was created because [[
* [[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 with Fire]]: Tropers pothole this when any use of fire as an attack occurs, and even in cases where literal fire wasn't involved, such as when tropers are screaming for an [[Example Sectionectomy]].
* [[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-Demonstrating Article
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Tropers tend to pothole this whenever the F-word is used. [[Cluster F-Bomb]] and [[Atomic F-Bomb]] are also used as alternatives to this.
* [[Rule of Cool]]
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* [[Understatement]]: Formerly used by editors to point proudly at their own understatement - or, worse, [[
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[If You Know What I Mean]]: Formerly known as Nudge Nudge, and before that, If You Know What I Mean. Because of that, [[Double Entendre|double entendres]] that pothole to this article were more common than grass. This led to a cleanup effort dedicated to removing these sinkholes.
* [["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! For! Emphasis!]]: Was originally named This! Is! SPARTA! Statements. Like. This. Are almost guaranteed to be potholed to this article. Even entries that should have been potholed to the movie ''[[300]]'' were potholed to this trope.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Originally Beyond The Impossible. It got a [[Trope Transplant]] due to massive misuse as a pothole for anything that seemed impossible.
* [[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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* [[Do Not Want]]: The original name of [[Translation Train Wreck]].
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