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* [[The Magic Goes Away]] is not about Magic Johnson quitting pro basketball to become a business head.
* [[Magic Misfire]] is not about the way Greedo missed Han firing at point-blank range in the Special Edition of ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Magic Pants]] has nothing to do with [[Labyrinth
* [[The Magic Poker Equation]] is not a biography on David Williams.
* [[Magic Skirt]] is not a skirt with magical abilities.
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* A [[Man-Eating Plant]] is a plant that eats men, not a man eating a plant. (It also isn't a factory that eats men, nor one that produces man-eaters.)
* [[Mangst]] is not angst about [[Manga]].
* [[Marathon Boss]] and the [[Marathon Level]] are not trademark features of ''[[Marathon
* [[The Mario]] does not involve [[Super Mario Bros Super Show|swinging your arms from side to side]].
* [[Marshmallow Hell]] is not where bad Peeps go when they die. Nor is it greedy people being [[Ironic Hell|force fed marshmallows]].
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* [[Matzo Fever]] is not about an obsession with Jewish crackers.
* [[The Maze]] will leave you confused because it changes direction a lot, [[Maze Megaburst Space|not its gender]].
* [[May Contain Evil]] is not about devices that may be used to produce a [[Sealed Evil in
* [[McLeaned]] does not refer to being turned into [[Total Drama Island
** Or losing weight through [[Super Size Me|eating at McDonald's]].
** Or Don McLean (although American Pie also involves death in a plane crash).
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** Nor is it a new set of goggles made to find cattle.
*** That would explain why [[The Goggles Do Nothing|they do nothing]].
* [[Meddling Parents]] don't need to [[You Meddling Kids|get away with it]], [[Can't Get Away
* [[Medium Awareness]] is not smaller than Large Awareness.
* [[Meet the New Boss]] is not a ''[[
** Nor is it a type of scene you'd expect to find in a [[Work Com]].
** And it isn't about someone being the musical successor to Bruce Springsteen.
* [[Mega Manning]] isn't what you get when you use a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|growth ray]] on Peyton or Eli. Or on [[Alpha Teens On Machines
** It is also not about [[Mega Man (
** Not is about becoming extremely manly.
*** Yes, [[Testosterone Poisoning|We]] [[Rated "M" for Manly|have]] [[Took a Level In Badass|tropes]] [[Memetic Badass|enough]] as it is.
* [[Meganekko]] is not about huge cats. That would be [[Mega Neko]], which is, in turn, not about pretty girls who just wouldn't be the same without their glasses. (And neither of those has anything to do with the character "Big Pussy" from ''[[The Sopranos]]''.)
* [[Memento MacGuffin]] is not when it turns out you already got the [[MacGuffin]], but [[Memento
* A [[Memetic Badass]] is not someone who gains power from memes.
** Though that ''is'' an interesting idea for a super hero.
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* A [[Memetic Outfit]] is not made of memes.
* [[Memetic Sex God]] does not involve deities being remembered only for the sex related parts of their domains.
* [[Men Can't Keep House]] has nothing to with the opposition of [[Yaoi]] involving ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.
* [[The Men First]] has nothing to do with mysogony, nor the [[Sorting Algorithm Of Death]].
* [[Mercurial Base]] has nothing to do with fickle fans.
** 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]].
* [[Me's a Crowd]] has nothing to do with [[Star Wars|Jar Jar Binks's]] [[Mooks]], or those encountered in [[Half Life|Black Mesa]], or the genetic ubermensch planet in the [[
* [[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]].
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* A [[Meteor Move]] is not an attack in which you [[Colony Drop|move a meteor]].
* [[Metroidvania]] is not a crossover between [[Castlevania]] and [[Metroid]], even though that ''should happen''.
* [[Metro Specific Underworld]] has little if anything to do with [[The World Ends With You
* [[Mexico Called They Want Texas Back]] is not a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]].
* [[Mickey Mousing]] is not about creating a [[Funny Animal]] who is an Everyman Hero.
* [[Mighty Whitey]] has nothing to do with [[Captain Underpants]] or Orbit Gum.
* [[Miko]] is not a [[Nuns Are Mikos|nun]]. Nor is it a [[Order of the Stick|paladin]]. Nor does it [[Transformers Prime|hang out with Bulkhead.]]
* [[Mildly Military]] is not about [[Dad's Army
* [[Miles Gloriosus]] is not a Good/[[Evil Counterpart]] to the [[Inglourious Basterds]].
* A [[Military Mashup Machine]] will not, well, mash up the military.
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** Nor is it about racking up tons of points from a giant cow boss in a [[Shoot'Em Up]].
** Nor is it about, well, [[Captain Obvious|milking a giant cow]].
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: If you've read [[Playing
* [[Mind Rape]] is not when a [[Mind Screw]] is forced upon you.
** Nor is it sexual intercourse with a brain.
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* [[Misplaced Nationalism]] is not to be confused with [[Mistaken Nationality]], even though the latter does sometimes trigger the former.
* [[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.
* [[Miss Kitty]] is not the page for the actress who plays Trixie from ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'' and Taranee from ''[[WITCH (
* [[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 [[
* [[Misty May]] is not about [[Pokémon|Ash's female sidekicks]]. Nor a particularly foggy month in spring.
* [[Mnogo Nukes]] has nothing to do with [[Flash Gordon (
* The [[Moebius Neighborhood]] is not the surroundings of the house belonging to the Oracle of Nosgoth. Nor is it where [[
** Nor is it about a neighborhood in [[Fresh Pretty Cure|Labyrinth]].
* [[Mock Cousteau]] is not our suggestion that you make fun of Jacques Cousteau, as he was actually really cool.
* [[Mode Lock]] does not describe mode-toggle buttons such as caps lock, scroll lock, etc. It also has nothing to do with [[wikipedia:Mode-locking|lasers]].
* [[Modesty Shorts]] are not short stories or cartoon shorts featuring [[
* [[Moe Couplet]] does not necessarily involve very cute poetry. Although there's no rule saying that it ''doesn't''.
** Neither it nor [[Moe Moe]] refer to a [[Crack Pairing]] involving Moe from ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Moe]] is not about ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Moe Moe]] is not about a [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|flying lemur]].
** Nor is it a mispelled command to hastily cut grass.
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** It's also not an acronym for [[Pokémon]], either.
* A [[Monster Protection Racket]] doesn't involve trying to pull a [[Shame If Something Happened|protection racket]] [[Mugging the Monster|on a monster]].
* A [[Monumental Battle]] is, sadly, not when [[Rule of Cool|two statues come to life and start fighting each other.]] [[
* "[[Mooks]]" is not the nickname for followers of the webcomic artist/writer behind ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''.
** Nor does it have anything to do with the co-hosts of ''[[
** Or [[Transformers Animated|Dirt Boss]]
* [[The Moorcock Effect]] is not the [[Spear Counterpart]] of the [[Scunthorpe Problem]].
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* [[Morph Weapon]] is not what the [[Power Rangers]] beat you up with.
** Well, the first season ''did'' have those pistols that turned into swords...
* The [[Most Common Card Game]] is not ''[[Magic:
** It's not a card game about large breasts either.
** Or Poker, Bridge, Hearts, Spades, Rummy, Cribbage, Pinochle, Skat, Canasta, Klondike, Freecell, or Crazy Eights.
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* [[Mundanger]] is not the name of a new [[Super Sentai]] series starring boring people.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] is not what a mathematically-incapable [[Book Dumb]] character wants to do before moving on to the rest of the subject.
** Nor is it what [[The World Ends With You
* [[Musical Gag]] is not how the "serious" film viewer reacts as soon as the first notes of the opening number play.
* A [[Musical Spoiler]] is not telling your friend who hasn't seen ''[[Wicked (
* [[Music Video Credits Sequence]] is not a credits sequence of a music video, but a film credits sequence which is done in a form of a music video.
* [[Must Seek Leek]] ''could'' be about watching ''[[William Shakespeare|Henry V]]'' for the "eat my leek" line, but that's not what it's named for. Nor is it about [[Pokémon|Farfetch'd]] desperately searching for a weapon.
* Although [[Multi Platform]] is a [[Video Game Tropes|video game trope]], it has nothing to do with the [[Platformer]] genre of video games.
* [[My Beloved Smother]] is not about being a [[Stalker
* [[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
** While we're on the subject, it has nothing to do with ''[[
* [[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]].
* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]] is not about changing your name to [[The Princess Bride (
* [[My Own Grampa]] is not about someone really proud of his or her grandfather, and it's not related to the [[Grandfather Clause]].
* [[My Own Private I Do]] is not about gay marriage in fiction, much less with one or both <s>underground like a wild potato</s> closeted.
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* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]] is not about moral relativism.
** It is not a refusal to share your measuring devices.
* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]] has nothing to do with robots playing [[
* [[My Skull Runneth Over]] is not about the improvised goblet used by the [[I'm a Humanitarian|humanitarian]] who likes [[A Glass of Chianti]] after dinner.
* [[Myth Arc]] has nothing to do with Robert Asprin's ''Myth'' series.
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* [[Napier]] has nothing to do with the actor who plays [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Conner McKnight]]
** It also has nothing to do with Jack Napier, alias [[The Joker]].
* [[Narm]] is not something [[Pinky and The Brain|Pinky]] says. Nor is [[Nerf]] or [[
* [[Near Villain Victory]] is not a spoiler for the end of ''[[
** [[Near-Death Experience]] is not {{spoiler|The 40 seconds Near waited to see Light and Mikami fail in killing them.}}
** As for [[Near-Rape Experience]], we're not going to [[Squick|go on that subject]].
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* The [[Nerf Arm]] is not a foam limb, it's not necessarily made by NERF, and isn't the arm with which game designers depower otherwise [[Game Breaker]] functionality.
* [[Never Recycle a Building]] is not advice to game developers to avoid overdoing [[Copy and Paste Environments]].
* [[Never Say "Die"]] does not refer to never using the singular form of "dice."
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]] has nothing to do with personal suspicion of those things that trucks drag behind them. Where ''does'' [[Transformers|Optimus]]' go?
** [[Memetic Badass|Wherever the hell it wants!]]
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** 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.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] has nothing to do with [[Tales
* A [[Nightmare Sequence]] is not part of the gameplay of a [[Nintendo Hard]] game which motivates [[Sequence Breaking]].
* ''[[
* [[Ninja Butterfly|Ninja Butterflies]] are, sadly, not... well... butterflies who are [[Ninja|Ninjas]]. Nor ninjas who use butterflies as shurikens.
* A [[Ninja Log]] is not the logbook of a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] Captain's journeys.
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* [[Nobody Can Die]] is not an alternate name for [[Death Takes a Holiday]] (the former describes settings wherein people ''should'' die, they just never seem to, while the latter describes situations in which nobody can die for good, in-universe reasons.)
* [[No Bra]] does not mean not wearing underwear. That would be [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[No Can Opener]] isn't a situation where the villain is having trouble unleashing a [[Sealed Evil in
* [[No Casualties Run]] is not the next line from the mouth of the guy who declared that [[No One Could Survive That]].
* [[No Conservation of Energy]] is not about someone who makes no attempt to reduce his or her power bill.
* [[No Cure for Evil]] is not a proclamation that evil people are beyond redemption. Neither does it have to do with [[As Long
** It's also not about a rule that states that the bad guys of ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' series can't have a Cure of their own. ([[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|They had]], [[Darker and Edgier|and HOW!]])
* [[No Ending]] is not when a fictional work ends with a [[Big No]].
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* [[No Flow in CGI]] is not about CGI characters who can't have their periods.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]] is not about guys hating being the one being chased in a car chase, nor is it about [[I Wanna Be the Guy|The Guy]] not liking those [[Advancing Wall of Doom]] segments.
* [[No Honor Among Thieves]] is not [[David Weber]] saying that there will be no ''[[
* [[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]].
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]] is not how [[
* [[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]].
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* [[Noodle Incident]] has nothing to do with the guitarist of [[Gorillaz]].
* [[Noodle Implements]] is not about tools made out of pasta. Believe me, I tried, don't ask.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]] is not about policies that forbid [[Street Fighter Alpha
** Nor does it refer to [[Game of Thrones|Osha refusing to submit to Theon Greyjoy]].
* [[No Party Given]] is not about a disappointing birthday.
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* [[No Sell]] is not about when a sales clerk has to open up a cash register just to make small change.
* [[No Sex Allowed]] is not a proclamation that a certain person will never, ever get laid.
* [[Nostalgia Filter]] is not a search engine exclusive to [[That Guy With
* [[No Such Thing
* [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]] has nothing to do with cheating on your significant other.
* [[Not Completely Useless]] is not about backhanded compliments given to [[The Load]] after a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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** Nor is it about the [[Always Accurate Attack]].
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]] is not about the ultimate scare.
* [[Nothing Left to
* [[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 Now, Kiddo]] is not related to [[Kill Bill]] or [[Soul Eater|Death the Kid]].
* [[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 (
* [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]] has nothing to do with ''[[Strike Witches]]''.
* [[Not Wearing Tights]] is not about a male character or tomboyish female refusing to wear "girly" clothes.
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* A [[Nuclear Option]] is not what Utsuho Reiuji's power-up would be if she became playable in the next ''[[Touhou]]'' game.
* [[Number Two]] is not related to [[Potty Emergency]] or [[Bring My Brown Pants]]. Or, for that matter, [[Oh Crap]].
* [[Nu
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