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* A [[Malcolm Xerox]] is not a brand of photocopiers.

* [[Malevolent Architecture]] is not a subtrope of [[Genius Loci]].

* [[Mangst]] is not angst about [[Manga]].

* [[Marathon Boss]] and the [[Marathon Level]] are not trademark features of ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]''.

** Nor is it about the premise of that one [[The Simpsons|Simpsons]] episode where Homer is sent to Hell.

* [[Mary Tzu]] is not about a [[Mary Sue]] whose only defining characteristic is that she's Asian.

* A [[Masquerade Ball]] is not what you [[Idiot Ball|give]] [[Distress Ball|to]] [[Villain Ball|a]] [[Conflict Ball|character]] when you need them to uphold [[The Masquerade]], when they usually don't.

* A [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]] is not a type of [[Allegedly Free Game]].

** Or Don McLean (although American Pie also involves death in a plane crash).

* A [[McNinja]] is not employed by Apple Computer, or used against that company

** And unless the story takes place in the wackiest [[Alternate History]] universe possible, a [[McNinja]] will not explicitly be a member of an [[Scotireland|anciant clan of Scottish and/or Irish contract assassins]].

* [[Meaningless Lives]] is not a [[Take That]] against [[You Suck|you]]. We promise.

** Nor is it a new set of goggles made to find cattle.

*** That would explain why [[The Goggles Do Nothing|they do nothing]].

* [[Medium Awareness]] is not smaller than Large Awareness.

* [[Meet the New Boss]] is not a ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' parody.

** It's also not what spills out of a [[Broken Base]]. (You're thinking "thermometer".)

* [[Mercy Kill]] is not the ritualised removal of merciful second-thoughts that a character undergoes before going on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].

* [[The Messiah]] is not a [[Messianic Archetype]] or even [[The Chosen One]]. As the page says, "we need to choose these names better."

* A [[Meta Fic]] is not a fanfiction about [[Kirby|Meta Knight]], who is also not an example of [[Meta Guy]].

* A [[Military Mashup Machine]] will not, well, mash up the military.

* [[Milking the Giant Cow]] is not about a company devoting all its assets and workforce to its most profitable venture.

** Nor is it about, well, [[Captain Obvious|milking a giant cow]].

* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: If you've read [[Playing With a Trope]], you might think it contains something like "The milkmen are really a front for an ancient conspiracy dedicated to impregnating the world's housewives."

* [[Misplaced Wildlife]] is not about animals "liberated" by [[Animal Wrongs Group|PETA]] and released in the wrong habitat afterwards.

* [[Mission Impossible Cable Drop]] is not about dropping an USB cable on the floor, despite it not seeming possible.

* [[Mister Cleaver]] is apparently not an [[Axe Crazy]] psychopath who cuts people up with a meat cleaver.

* [[Mister Seahorse]] is not the name for anyone in [[The Little Mermaid]], [[Finding Nemo]] or [[Spongebob SquarePants]].

* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]] is not an author's attempt to make a female character less [[Stripperiffic]].

* [[My Hero Zero]] is not a trope about [[Fan of Underdog|someone who perceives a feeble, klutzy zero to be a steeled, gutsy hero]]. Nor is it about [[The Hero]] losing badly at sports. And although somewhat related, it is not about being rescued from certain death at the hands of [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Vile]], [[Code Geass|the Britannian Empire]] or [[Pilot Candidate|Zero Enna]] either.

* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]] is not a declaration of a type of martial art being inherently and objectively superior in combat to another.

* [[My Little Panzer]] is not the [[Rated M for Manly]] version of [[My Little Pony]].

* If you work in the catalogue industry and you get a lot of impatient people who can't seem to read the date on which a book or sale starts, you may start to mutter that [[New Media Are Evil]], but this page isn't about that.

* [[The New Rock and Roll]] is not about trying to find a successor to that genre.

** It's also not among the [[Recycled Premise|hundreds of versions]] of [[Monopoly]].

* A [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] is not some random forum poster who thinks s/he's so damn clever for abusing Nietzsche's famous "he who hunts monsters" quote against someone s/he doesn't like.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]] is not [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fuel for]] [[Code Geass|Knightmare Frames]].

** The "Nightmare Fuel" trope itself has had numerous problems in the past, because it wasn't obvious by its name that it meant ''unintentional'' nightmare fuel. This potential for confusion got so bad that eventually the page was transplanted to [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] and a more general "scary things" trope plugged into its place.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]] is not the example page for [[Nightmare Fuel]] from coloring books.

* A [[Nightmare Sequence]] is not part of the gameplay of a [[Nintendo Hard]] game which motivates [[Sequence Breaking]].

* ''[[The 99 (Comic Book)|The 99]]'' has nothing to do with [http://www.99restaurants.com/ the restaurant],[[Ninety Nine Nights|Nights]], or [[Jay Z|the problems of which a woman is not included among]].

* [[Noisy Guns]] are not firearms that are running around hooting and hollering.

** Nor are they guns that are unrealistically noisy when ''shot''; that's [[Bang Bang BANG]].

* [[Nom De Mom]] doesn't mean that a character's alias or [[Unnamed Parent|only name]] is Mom. Nor does it refer to [[Monster Misogyny|moms getting eaten]].

* [[Nominal Hero]] is not a list of [[Character Title|works named after their protagonists]].

* [[Nothing Left to The Imagination]] is not a description of the outfit [[Ms. Fanservice]] is wearing.

* [[The Not Love Interest]] isn't the person that's [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|accused of being your boyfriend/girlfriend all the time]].

* [[Not Quite Daily Comic]] isn't about [[Schedule Slip|Schedule Slips]] of [[Web Comics]].

* [[Not Using the Zed Word]] does not involve refusal to talk about a certain ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villain or ignoring the boss of the ''[[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black]]''.

* [[Not Wearing Tights]] is not about a male character or tomboyish female refusing to wear "girly" clothes.

* [[No U]] is not a [[Constrained Writing|lipogram]] lacking the letter after T.

* [[No Yay]] is not a moment in sports where the crowd boos.

* A [[Nuclear Family]] has nothing to do with nuclear power. Well, except for [[The Simpsons]].

* A [[Nuclear Option]] is not what Utsuho Reiuji's power-up would be if she became playable in the next ''[[Touhou]]'' game.

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