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[[Exactly What It Says
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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* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: A [[Running Gag]] on this site is to explain jokes and pothole the explanation to this article. It's often a misuse, because the trope is actually telling you what the punchline means, not merely giving context to the joke.
* [[Epic Fail]]: Often used for things that fail annoyingly in general.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Used to pothole executive names to or refer to a certain company's management. [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and [[Evil Overlord]] are also used as alternatives to this.
* [[Face Palm]]
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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
* [[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|Justifying Edits]], which are, ironically enough, anything but justified.
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: In Soviet Russia, Pothole Magnets pothole to YOU.
* [[Kill It
* [[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. <ref>There aren't actually that many.</ref>
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* [[Squee]]: Tropers tend to pothole this when it comes to moments that make them overjoyed.
* [[Squick]]: Tropers tend to pothole this when it comes to moments that make them cringe.
* [[Take That]]: A number of insults, both [[In
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Tropers tend to pothole this whenever the word "bitch" is used.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]
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* The "Artistic License - X" tropes were like this because they used to be known as "You Fail X Forever" and "X Does Not Work That Way."
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Formerly known as Completely Missing The Point. This caused the trope to be [[Square Peg, Round Trope|misused]] as a pothole for any statement that missed the point.
* [[The End -
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: 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|Squicky]] moment.
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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.
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* [[Incredibly Lazy Pun]]: Former name of [[Stealth Pun]].
* [[No Just No]]: Deliberate redlink. The old name for [["No. Just... No" Reaction]].
* [[Or Is It]]: Deliberate redlink. The old name for [[The End -
* [[So Yeah]]: A pothole target that was used as an excuse for lazy writing.
* [[This Troper]]. Deliberate redlink. Was constantly being used as an alternative for "I". The article still exists as a history of the use of "This troper" in articles, but is flagged to discourage potholing.
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