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* ''Raiden'' has nothing to do with a [[Metal Gear|certain]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] or [[Mortal Kombat|a certain Thunder God]].
** ''Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive'' is not ''Raiden Fighters'' <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN HELL!]]</small>
** ''Raiden Fighters Jet'' does not star ''[[Streets of Rage]] 2'''s [["Wake -Up Call" Boss|Stage 2 boss]].
* ''[[Rance]] 5D'' is not [[Hentai]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|on motorcycles]].
*''[[Random Doom]]'' is not a [[Procedural Generation|procedurally generated]] [[Doom (series)|first-person shooter]].
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* ''[[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]]''.
* ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' is not an [[wikipedia:Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich|unscrupulous 16th-century politician]].
* ''[[Ringer]]'' has nothing to do with school bells, church bells, or any other bells whatsoever.
** Nor does it have anything to do with ''[[The Gong Show]]''.
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* Similarity, ''[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 The Chocolate Factory]]'' about the grown-up, [[Took a Level Inin 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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** Neither does ''Firewing''.
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[Slayers]]'' is not about the [[Mook]]s in ''[[Krull]]''.
** Nor is it another [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
* ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'' has nothing to do with [[Triple H]]'s weapon of choice.
** Or the song by [[Peter Gabriel]], although both came out the same year.
* ''[[The Slender Man Mythos]]'' is not about {{spoiler|Yggdrasill}} from ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''.
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* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is not the True Rune from ''[[Suikoden]]''.
** Or the cannibal counterpart to the 1990 movie ''[[Soultaker]]'' and/or the anime series ''The [[Soul Taker (anime)|Soul Taker]]'' (note the capitalization).
* ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' is not a crossover with ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''. Neither does it have anything to do with soul-playing nomads.
* ''[[Space Ghost]]'' and ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' are not [[Animated Adaptation|animated adaptations]] of ''[[Event Horizon]]''.
* ''[[Space Invaders]] Extreme'' is not ''[[Space Invaders]]'' <small>WITH EXTREME SPORTS!</small>
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** Nor is it about a former US vice president [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|being a dragon]], or being [[The Dragon]].
* ''[[STALKER]]'' does not follow people to [[Stalker with a Crush|sexually harass them]], and is not [[Half Life|a cyborg]] either.
* ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' is not about crafting stars. You want ''[[Katamari Damacy]]''. Nor is it about stars, either celebrity or stellar, taking up arts and crafts.
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[Superfriends]]'' is not ''[[Friends]]'' [[Recycled in Space|WITH SUPER POWERS]].
** It's also not a ''[[Friends]]'' video game for the [[SNES]] with a [[Super Title 64 Advance]] title.
** Nor is it a spinoff title for ''[[Super GalsGALS!]]!''
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' is not told from the monsters' points of view.
** And it has nothing to do with the Santana album. Alas, not even the opening.
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** It's also not a [[Bloodier and Gorier]] spoof of [[Portal (series)|"There Will Be Cake"]].
* ''The Thin Red Line'' is not [[Prototype (video game)|the one you will burn your own to hold, and not the last line to ever hold either]].
** Nor is it a reference to [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Arakune]]'s theme song.
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' are not stinging insects, though [[Evil Chancellor|certain factions]] at [[Deadly Decadent Court|court]] do regard them as [[Cowboy Cop|bloodthirsty nuisances]].
* ''[[The Transporter]]'' does not have an [[Evil Counterpart]] called [[Teleporters and Transporters|the Teleporter]].
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* ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' 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 LOVE-Ru]]'' is not a quest for gaining the love of [[To Heart 2|Ruuko]], who keeps saying "ruu~".
** It's not about Ronald McDonald's love for [[Memetic Mutation|RAN RAN RUU!]], either.
** And its complete title is not ''[[To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar|To Love Ru, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar]]''.
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** ''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]].
* ''[[Tron]]'' is not a spinoff of ''[[Mega Man Legends]]''; you are probably thinking about ''[[wikipedia:The Misadventures of Tron Bonne|this game]]''
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** Neither it's a suggestion about playing [[Real Time Strategy]] games.
* ''[[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 4000040,000]]'' (or ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'').
** ''[[Twilight 2000]]'' isn't either.
*** And neirther of the above involve [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilght Sparkle]], either.
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* ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' is not a [[Lifetime]] [[Medical Drama]].
* ''[[Vicky Cristina Barcelona]]'' is not an alias used by voice actress [[Cristina Valenzuela]].
** It's not [[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents|Vicky the Babysitter]]'s full name either.
* ''[[Victorious]]'' is not a Disney adaptation of an album by the Swedish indie band The Perishers. Nor is it based on the Biggie Smalls' track "Victory", nor does it use the song "Uprising" by Muse as its opening, no matter how appropriate the chorus line "we will be victorious" would seem.
* ''[[A View from the Bridge]]'' is not about what you can see from the captain's chair on [[Star Trek|the ''Enterprise'']].
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** Or [[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire|this one]].
* ''[[Wanted]]: Weapons of Fate'' is not about wanting to gain [[Lyrical Nanoha|Bardiche]] or [[Mahou Sensei Negima|the powers of Fate Averruncus]], nor is it a crossover between ''[[Wanted]]'' and those series.
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' is not [[Crack is Cheaper|an estimate for how much money you'll spend on the game]].
** It is also not a retirement plan.
** Nor is it how many [[Drop the Hammer|battle hammers]] are used. It uses a hell of a lot more weapons than that.
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* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' is not how [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|the Wicked Witch of the West]] responded to Dorothy when she asked "So do I cure some of them? And if so, how many?"
* ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'' is not the [[Spear Counterpart]] to the [[Final Girl]].
* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' is not a [[Ramones]] tribute album.
* [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]] is not about videos of [[Nausea Fuel|excrement]] on [[YouTube]].
** Neither is it about blowing shit up... literally. [[Interrupting Meme]] aside.<ref>"Tube" can mean using a [[Grenade Launcher]].</ref>
* ''[[Young Dracula]]'' is, sadly, not a sequel to ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''.
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