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== Too Universal / [[People Sit on Chairs]] ==

* [[Tropes That Will Never Happen (Darth Wiki)|Tropes That Will Happen]]

* [[Breathing Oxygen]] - So much so that aversions and subversions have become [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|tropes in]] [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|their own right]].

* Two Objects Cannot Be In One Place (and its inversion...And no, [[Star Trek|Teleporter Accidents]] do not count,)

** What about [[Tele Frag]]?

** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Subverted]] by Quantum Mechanics (by bosons).

** Also subverted by Quantum Mechanics.

*** Only in the Copenhagen interpretation, there are other interpretations where a something only is at one place a time<ref>particles that is, as most other stuff is made of multiple particles.</ref>

** The Bad Guy Fails High School

** The Bad Guy [[You Fail Physics Forever|Fails Physics Forever]]

** and its sister trope, [[Younger Than They Look|Really As Young As They Look]].

* Porn With Porn

** The Commodore 64 has no Start key or button.

* Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love

{{quote|'''[[Gunnerkrigg Court|Tom Siddell]]:''' It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing.}}

* Eating Food

** Averted in works set on [[Generation Ships]].

* I Have A Face

** Invoked in cases of [[My Eyes Are Up Here]].

* Women Have Boobs

* I Know The Limits of My Own Abilities

* Bog-Standard Protagonist

* Touching an Item with Any Part Of The Character Or Machine Results of it Being Picked up in Video Games

** Subverted by ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'': "YOU JUMPED ONTO A SWORD! YOU RETARD!"

** Subverted by most [[RPG|RPGs]] -- you have to push a button to pick things up.

* [[Older Than Dirt|Older Than Fusion Power]]

** If [[TV Tropes]] lasts another 20 years, I'll make you eat your words.

** People Who [[Discworld|ATEN'T DEAD]]

** [[The Others (film)|WE'RE NOT DEAD!]]

* [[Pet the Dog|Feed the Dog]]

** [[Doctor Steel|Feed the hamster, feed the hamster, yeah!]]

*** Also barely, with [[British Accents|some accents, especially Geordie]]

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|Fiction Artists Have No Sense Of Light Pollution]]

* Tuning A Tuning Fork

** This is done with a tuning fork tuning fork, which has to be tuned with a tuning fork tuning fork tuning fork.

* [[Crack is Cheaper|Crack Is More Expensive]]

* [[Unorthodox Reload|Orthodox Reload]]

 

 

** The Ocean Child Was Yoko

** Hey Jude Was Julian

** The Nowhere Man Was [[Yellow Submarine|Jeremy]]

*** The Nowhere Man Was [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]]

*** <s>Don't Mind If I Do!</s> Wait, Russel's Grope Paradox ?

** [[The Tropeless Tale]]

** [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] or [[You Know That Show]]? [[The Colbert Report|Pick a side, we're at war]].

** [[Discworld|Did it have a red cover and it turned out they were twins]]?

** [[The Problem with Pen Island|Girl on Girl I Shot]]?

** Sounds like [[Death by Sex]] {{smallcaps|with lesbians!}}

** Wouldn't that be a form of [[Reality Ensues]]?

*** No, it's a subtrope of Sometimes You Don't Win A Game.

* [[Everything's Better with Indexes|Everything's Better With Buttered Shark Fins]]

** [[This Is Spinal Tap|Shark sandwiches]] are!

* No Manga Author Is In Any Way A Raging Pervert

* All Novelists Are Sane

* [[Straw Feminist|Straw Nazist]]

* [[Kill It with Fire|Kill Your Strawman With Fire]]

* [[Squirrels in My Pants|Shiny Inventive Term That Plays With Words In Your Pants]]

* Retreating Wall Of Shyness

** What about this [http://xkcd.com/175/ xkcd]?

** [[Changeling: The Lost|The True Fae.]]

** [[My Immortal|We already have this]].

*** [[Crack Pairing]]

* [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaw]] Neutral, Chainsaw Evil

*** ''[[Homestuck]]'': Unireal Air.

** Actually, I thought [[Transformers Cybertron|Crumplezone]] was cool..

** Again, desperately needs to be an actual work.

*** ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'', Peter/Emma/Sean love triangle.

* [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|Rape Is Funny When Its Hermaphrodite On Male]]

* Jumped At [[The Call]] But Hit The Ceiling And Knocked Yourself Unconscious

* Five-Point Landing

** Nul Point Landing

* [[Everything's Better with Indexes|Everything's Better With Sparks]]

** ''[[Girl Genius]]'' would be a lot less interesting without them. Though Othar Tryggvasen would disagree.

* List Of Shows That Demonstrate Successful Ways Of Violating The First Law of Thermodynamics

* [[Idea Bulb|Insecurity Tuning Fork]] - A tuning fork which appears over character's hand when the character feels insecure.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Screw The Rules]], [[Winnie the Pooh|I Have Honey]]

** [[Save the Girl Screw The World]] (assuming that saving the world is some sort of duty)

* The Password Is Always "W./#K|&c~`3"

** [[Strange Minds Think Alike|Dammit, now I have to change my password again.]]

*** ...Hey, this might actually work.

**** [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]?

*** Used in adventure games to justify the protagonist finding a note with a password on it.

** The Password Is Always [[Animal Crossing|Coelacanth]]

* Watching Paint Dry

*** Watching Grass Grow

**** Watching Paint Grow

****** Wouldn't be as funny there. :P

* Jumped On The Caller

** Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?

*** You Know, That Non-Entity Where...

** [[Screw You, Elves]]!

** Fuck Your Elves!

** Trying To Argue With Elves While Watching Them Bathe

*** that's the trope ''Elminster in Myth Drannor'' is built upon...

** This might not be a bad idea, especially as a way of quantifying [[Real Is Brown]].

* The Political Leader That Everyone Likes, Always Does Right, And Isn't Secretly [[Satan]], [[God]] And/Or [[The Antichrist]]

** [[Real Life]] doesn't even have any of these.

** You Can Argue With Elves And Be One Hundred Percent Correct

* All Writers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans

** All Tropers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans

*** [[Broken Masquerade|Well, it's not a masquerade]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|if you go around telling people.]]

** [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Soviet Russia, Shows Like You!]]

** [[Big Brother]] is [[Big Brother Is Watching|watching you.]]

** ''Twilight''?

*** And here I was thinking the ones who ''liked'' Twilight were the trolls.

** '''''My Immortal'''''

** [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]

** [[Truth in Television]]: "sloppily placed" mines with extra [[Booby Trap|Booby Traps]] are an old way to target guys whose job is to remove them. Or [[Sea Mine|sea mines]] complemented with anti-trawl devices.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' Really Isn't That Great

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' Really Isn't That Bad

** Episode 24 Really Isn't That Gay

*** [[Ho Yay|Yes it is]].

* Fapping To Shows You Made Just So You Could Fap To Them

* So Average It's Good

* It Actually Does Suck

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|And The Fandom Wept]] (AKA Cue Werehog)

 

== Too Subjective ==

** [[Fridge Brilliance]]

* TV Tropes Will Not Affect Your Life In Any Way Whatsoever

** [[Crowning Moment of Indifference]]?

* Tropes We Really Should Not Have But Do

** Tropers We Really Should Not Have But Do

* Originality Storm

** [[Widget Series]] for the good ones, [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]] for the bad ones or when they get ''too'' original.

** [[So Bad It's Good]]

* [[Ruined FOREVER|Perfected FOREVER]]

* They Were Going Change it, [[Overly Long Gag|but then it was close to quitting time so they went home instead]]

* Tropers Are Not Good

** All Tropers Are [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]

*** [[He Knows Too Much|You know too much]]. I'm afraid we're going to have to kill you.

 

== [[The Same but More]] ==

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]]

** [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]

* Crowning Moment Of Heartburning

** I would have thought that would go under to obscure.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department|Department Of Redundancy Department Of Redundancy Department]]

** [[The Same but More|Redundant Department Of Department Of Redundancy Department Of Redundancy Department Departments]]

* Memetic Molestee

** [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Mikuru Asahina]]?

** The Same

* Trope Tropes Tropes

** [[Hotel Mario|You Know What They Say, All Tropers Trope Tropes]]

* Every Googolplex Points

** The replay values of modern pinball games?

** Rape the [[Moral Event Horizon]]

* TV Tropes Will End Your Life

* Nothing Is Better With Anything

* Up To Eleventy-[[Readings Are Off the Scale|Thousaaaaand]]

* [[And Zoidberg|Except Zoidberg]]

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, Nausea Fuel]]

* [[Big No|Big Oh No]]

 

== [[X Meets Y]] Tropes ==

*** [[Star Wars|...Before They Were Suddenly Silenced]]

* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|Everything's Better With]] [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Smeerps]]

** [[Eats Babies]]

* Boredom Fuel

* Crowning Moment of Average

* What Do You Mean Its Not Stupid? Something is portrayed as idiotic, but falls short on the idiocy.

* Third Person Promoter: you try to promote yourself, but in third Person.

** {{spoiler|This Troper}}

** "[[Astroturf|AstroTurfing]]" and of use of [[Sock Puppet|Sockpuppets]].

*** [[Rape Is Love]] in general.

*** [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|Hilariously Abusive Relationship]]

** [[Dude, Not Funny|Funny Moment of Rape]]

*** [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]

* Crowning Moment of Crowning {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}}

** Pretty much any movie that centers around a character's pregnancy, then shows the actual childbirth during the climax has one of these. (Example: ''Knocked Up'')

* Snark Incontinence, although it's certainly [[Truth in Television]].

* Evangelion Really Isn't [[That Troper (Darth Wiki)|That Troper]]

* Cute [[Complete Monster]] Girl

** [[Evil Is Sexy]]?

* [[I Will Fight Crime No More]] Forever

** I Will Fight [[The Forever War]] No More

** Some harem anime might qualify... [[Higurashi]] almost does...

* Crowning Moment Of [[Ho Yay]]

* Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped On The Dog

* Shaggy Xanatos Story

** [[Spanner in the Works]]

* [[Big No|Big]] [[Narm]]

* It's Your Mileage, Now It Sucks

* Holding Out For Someone Taller

* Earth Shattering <big>'''''Kawaii!'''''</big>

* [[Fridge Logic|Fridge]] [[Weirdness Magnet|Magnet]]

* Everthing is [[Better Than Canon]]

** [[So Bad It's Horrible]]

** Everything Sounds Sexier In Simlish

* [[Continuity Porn|Continuity]] [[Gorn]]

* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two]] [[Yaoi Guys]]

** [[Those Two Bad Guys]] [[Yaoi Guys]]

** Eww.

* [[Executive Meddling|Executive]] [[Author Avatar|Avatar]]: When a big-shot executive forces writers to insert him into their work.

 

== ABC Meets XYZ ==

** [[Flat What]]

** Sliding Scale of Troperiffic Versus Cliche Storm

** Mohs Scale of [[Cliché Storm]] Hardness

* Eighty Seven Point Five Percent Of The Way Between Troperriffic And Cliche Storm

** Which way?

** So Cool Its Dethroning Moment Of Suck Is Awesome

** So Cool Its Crowning Moment of Awesome Is [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Doctor Horrible]]

** Okay, I SERIOUSLY need to write one of these.

* Just for Nightmare Moment of Laconic Darth Sugar Tropes Wiki

* Fridged A Bridget On Xanatos' Dog

* What Do You Mean It's Not So Bad It's Good?

* Scary Shiny Idiot Rabbit

* Crowning Moment of [[VG Cats|Nerd Rage]]

* Tsunyandere: Being obsessively in love with you, bordering on mental illness, an denying it constantly.

** Played straight by [[Hey Arnold!|Helga]]

** Probably would be a subtrope of [[Depraved Homosexual]].

* Family Unfriendly Death By G Rated Sex

* They Changed It Now It's So Cool It's Awesome

* Crowning Moment Of Dude, Not Funny

** ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''

** [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] / [[Hope Spot]]

* Everyone Is A Time Lord On TV Tropes

* Discredited Tropes Whose Time Has Come Again

** [[Cyclic Trope]]

* Made Of Vin (Diesel)

* The Trope [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Never Happen]]

* Network Executives Are Experienced Professionals And The Shows They Kill Were Usually Flopping Anyway

** Blasphemy!

** Shortened from ...It Was A Terrible Name That Everyone Constantly Misuses Which Only Caught On By A Fluke And Is Still Always Misused To Mean Crowning Moment of Planning Even Though That's Not What It Is, Because Most People Have No Idea Who Xanatos Is Aside From The Trope Itself And Therefore Haven't The Foggiest Idea What Sort Of Plans He Made Beyond The Implict Assumption Of 'Clever' Which Is All Anyone Ever Ever Ever Takes The Trope To Mean Outside [[TV Tropes]], And Slapping Xanatos On Every Trope About Clever Planning Only Makes It Worse And Also Also While I'm On The Subject--

* Rape Is Funny When [[Sexual Karma|It's Happening To People Who Think Rape Is Funny]]

** Rape Is Funny When It Is [[The Scrappy]] On [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]

*** Rape Is Okay When It's [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] On [[The Scrappy]].

** Rape Is Funny When It's Male on Male on Male on Female on [[But You Screw One Goat!|Horse]] on [[Author Avatar]] on Female on IED on [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Overly Long Gag|on pre-op transvestite]] on [[Perverse Sexual Lust|aubergine]] on nuke on Male on [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking|housefly]]. [[The Aristocrats]].

** Rape is Okay When It's [[Fanfic]] Author [[Canon Defilment|on Canon]].

* [[Zapped (wiki)]]

* [[Speaking Simlish]]

** [[Averted Trope|I wish]] [[Cupcakes|it didn't.]]

* [[This Troper]]

* [[Internet Counterattack]]

* [[Role Ending Misdemeanor]]

* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]

** Says you. I clicked on it and my hard drive started smoking!