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This is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to certain tropes that will never be agreed upon by the community, either due to being absolutely universal, [[People Sit on Chairs|pointless]], far too [[Your Mileage May Vary|subjective]], [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]], or [[The Same but More]].
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** [[Memento|Shouldn't]] belong here, methinks.
*** ''How time moves and how you move through it are not the same thing.''
** [http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time Some] [http://www.amazon.com/End-Time-Next-Revolution-Physics/dp/0195145925/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313161295&sr=8-1 scientists], [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time philosophers], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131126150930/http://hinduism.about.com/od/basics/a/time.htm religious] [http://conscious-universe.blogspot.com/2007/06/time-in-buddhism.html individuals] strongly disagree.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Guy Looks Like A Dude]]
** Gal Looks Like A Chick
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* Pressing the Start Button
** Averted by the [[Wii]], which lacks a Start button. Generally "+" is pause, and main screens use "press A+B" or "press any button".
** Inverted with Windows, which requires you press the "Start" button in order to shut down.<ref>Actually, there are steps in between. You click "start", and then "shut down" - you click "start" to do a lot of things. You can also use ALT+F4, the <code>shutdown</code> command, etc.</ref>
** The Commodore 64 has no Start key or button.
* Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love
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* My Lower Body From My Waist To My Ankles In My Pants
** [[Monty Python|I've got two legs from my hips to the ground...]]
** [[The Beatles (band)|He got feet down below his knees..]]
** Aversions include some examples of [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]], [[Sorry, Billy, But You Just Don't Have Legs]], and [[Bizarre Alien Locomotion]].
* Person Who Is Moderately Attractive
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* The Fred
** [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-423 That's what you think.]
** Precedent: [[Jack Attack]] was
* Gravity
** Inverted in ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''.
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* [[Complete Monster|Incomplete Monster]]
** When a monster feels psychologically incomplete because he derives no joy from doing the "monstery" things [[Exclusively Evil|associated with his race]], it's [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]].
* Politicians that Lie: Cited as an example of something that might be too
* [[All Animals Are Dogs|All Dogs Are Animals]]
* [[Water Is Air|Water Is Not Air]]
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* [[Too Dumb to Live|Intelligent Enough to Live]]
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Writers Write The Plot]]
** Except in cases of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]], [[Executive Meddling]], [[Dub
** [[Second Life]] Writes The Plot
* People Use Umbrellas When It Rains
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*** The Nowhere Man Was [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]]
** The Walrus Was [[Sonic Sat AM|Rotor]] and the Eggman Was Dr. Robotnik
** The Walrus Was [[
* [[Dr. Seuss|Green Eggs And Ham]] [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|Is A Harsh Mistress]]
* [[Big Brother Is Watching|You Are Watching Big Brother]]
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** Someone has never seen [[Braindead]].
** Immortal Baby Comedy
*** Or the ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' remake.
** Immoral Baby Comedy
** Perfectly Healthy Baby Comedy
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** Someone's obviously never been to a voraphilia website.
*** You mean it '''doesn't''' work like that?
* [[You Fail Indexes Forever|You]] [[You Have Failed Me...|Fail]] The [[Evil Overlord]] Forever
** [[The Blofeld Ploy]]? [[Killed Off for Real]]?
* Giant Flying Puppet Socks That Like Cold Breakfast Cereal
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* [[You Fail Biology Forever|You Fail Biology For A Short Period Of Time]]
** Given how quickly biological [[Science Marches On]], surely someone who [[Did Not Do the Research]] got lucky and was later proven right.
* [[Beavis and
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Names To]] [[
* [[You Fail Biology Forever|You Pass Biology But Your Grades Are Not Good Enough For Your Parents To Get You A Car Like They Promised]]
* List Of Writers Who Are Neither [[Most Writers Are Male|Male]], [[Most Writers Are Adults|Adults]], [[Most Writers Are Human|Human]] Nor [[Most Writers Are Writers|Writers]]
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*** ''[[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.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Monkeys With Typewriters Write The Plot]]
* [[Bring My Brown Pants|Take Away My Brown Pants]]
* [[Call
* [[Fanfic|Fan Nonfic]]
* [[Headphones Equal Isolation|Headphones Equal Physic Powers]] [[Big Eater|and Abnormal Eating Habits]].
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** To the Bat Interjection!
** To The Bat Gerund!
* [[Curves in All the Right Places|Curves
* [[In the Future We Still Have Roombas|In the Future We Still Have]] Rhubarb
== Too Specific ==
* You Fail Disco Forever
** Disco Fails Forever<ref>[[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|No it doesn't.]]</ref>
** Disco [[You Have Failed Me...|Has Failed]] [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|You]] (Forever)
* [[The Reveal|The Cheating Bastard is a Computer]]
** [[Robotic Reveal]]
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**** [[The Key Is Behind the Lock]]?
** The Password Is Changed Weekly
*** ''[[
*** Two words: ''[[Harry Potter]]''. Frequently more often.
*** Used in adventure games to justify the protagonist finding a note with a password on it.
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* Shaving The Shaggy Dog
** Isn't that [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]?
** Or [[Rescued
* Sliding Scale Of A Snake's Underside
** Sliding Scale Of A Moving Piano Playing Scales
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* List of video games for the Xbox named ''[[Halo]]''
** That Don't Have Numbers or Other Words Attached to the Title
** List of video games for the [[
** List of video games for the ''[[Halo]]'' named Xbox
* Freud Was Mostly Just Projecting His Own Insecurities Onto Other People
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** [[Hopeless Auditionees|Hopeless Auditionee]] [[Hope Spot|Spot]]: "You know, I think one might be bearable... No, he's rubbish." Alternatively, "[Contestant], I think you have real talent. In scaring away animals and terrifying small children. That was ''hideous''."
* What Do You Mean Its Political For The Other Side (There actually ''is'' a statue in Kansas that fits this trope: Initially protesting the occupation of the Panama Canal, its current owner says the sculptor saw into the future and protested ''giving away'' the Panama Canal.)
* [[Go Mad
** [[Monopoly|Do not collect $200.]]
* [[Just Here for Godzilla|Just Here For]] The Cute Female Protagonist
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** ''[[Dragon Age]]''
* Everything's Better With Mutant Elves With Glasses Who Ride Piggyback On Anthropomorphic Goats Who Shoot Lasers From Their Eyes
** To which even ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100817092042/http://www.c64gg.com/GameInfo/MetaLlamas.html Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time]'' is a step down.
** [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|With Great Power Comes A Great Likelihood Of Getting Half Your Face Blackened]]
** With Great Power Comes Great Likelihood Of [[
* [[Criminal Minds|Hey It's That Girl Who May Or May Not Be Hotchner's Wife.]]
* [[Doctor Who|Dropped a TARDIS on him]]
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* Tropers Are Not Good
** All Tropers Are [[Ax Crazy]]
*** All Tropers Are [[
** All Tropers Are [[Eldritch Abomination]]s
*** [[He Knows Too Much|You know too much]]. I'm afraid we're going to have to kill you.
* Most Tropers Are Copyleftists
* [[YKTTW]] [[
* Mohn's Scale Of [[Ear Worm]] Catchiness
* Most Tropers Hate [[Moral Guardians]]
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** Yellowcard—Fighting
* [[TV Tropes]] Ruined My Wife
* [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] Except For [[Back
* Fan Hyperopia
* [[Sdrawkcab Name|Sotanax]] [[Xanatos Gambit|Gambit]]
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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment Of]] [[Squick]]
* Deader Than [[Deader Than Dead]]
* [[Toy Story (franchise)|To Infinity And]] [[Beyond the Impossible]]
* [[You Can't Fight Fate|You Can't Fight]] [[Tempting Fate]]
* Harder Than [[Harder Than Hard]] {{spoiler|Impossible Mode in ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''}}
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* Everything's Better With Zoidberg
* Sliding Scale Of Incest
** That's a perfectly sensible sliding scale, ranging from screwing your [[Opposite
*** Does the clone even have to be opposite-sex?
*** For maximum Squick, yes, because then you could concieve a horribly inbred baby.
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* [[I Will Fight Crime No More]] Forever
** I Will Fight [[The Forever War]] No More
* Thirty [[
** Some harem anime might qualify... [[Higurashi]] almost does...
* Crowning Moment Of [[Ho Yay]]
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* Everything's Better With Dead Babies Raping The Doomity Dog Of Doom
** [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... [[Up to Eleven]] and then [[Beyond the Impossible]]!
*** Isn't that the humor of ''[[Warhammer
* Everything's Better With Crowning Moments Of Badass
** We need this, but it would just be binned and put back here under "Too Dangerous".
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* It's Not You It's Me Too Good To Last Disc Magic A Is Magic A Wizard Did It's Not You It's Me
* Scrappy's Gambit
** Cunningly arranging to [[Rescued
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Punch Out]] [[Scrappy]]?
** [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]
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* Tsunyandere: Being obsessively in love with you, bordering on mental illness, an denying it constantly.
** Played straight by [[Hey Arnold!|Helga]]
* [[Ho Yay|Ho]] [[
** Probably would be a subtrope of [[Depraved Homosexual]].
* [[Family
** Yes, I like it: our unfortunate character tried the magic fairy sex from ''[[Fern Gully]]'', but he was overloaded was pleasure and [[Your Head Asplode|his head exploded]].
* [[Draco in Leather Pants|Draco in]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Earth Shattering]] [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Over Nine Thousand]] [[0% Approval Rating|Percent Approval]] [[Xanatos Gambit|Gambit]] [[Ruined FOREVER]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] [[Road Runner vs. Coyote|Vs Coyote]] [[
* Sliding Scale of Sliding Scale [[Abstract Scale|Abstractness]].
* Plucky Strange Genki Fat Girl
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* Absurdly Specious Sewer
* [[wikipedia:Macaronic language|Macaronic]] and Cheese
* Spotlight-Stealing Squid (probably also Too Rare to trope)
== Too Dangerous ==
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*** Do you ''really'' want to cause an [[SCP Foundation|XK-class]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|End-of-the-world]] scenario???
**** Darth''iest'' Wiki
** [[Warhammer
**** Sugarier Wiki
* Crowning Abortion Of Awesome
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* Complaining About Ethnicities You Don't Like
* Some Nukes Need To Be Dropped
** [[
* Nukes That Needed To Be Dropped
** [[
* [[Dude, Not Funny|Rape Is Okay When It's This Troper On Female]]
* Everything's Better With The Words "Everything's Better" Jammed In Front Of It
* [[Slash Fic|Slash]] [[Shipping|shippers]] are [[Complete Monster|horrible people]].
* [[Real Life]] / [[War Has Never Been So Much Fun]]
* Homophobia Is Okay When It's [[Beyond the Impossible|Gay on Straight]]
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* Necrophilia [[Needs More Love]]
* Fast Eddie Was Wrong
** '''''[[Warhammer
* Some Dogs Need To Be Kicked
** Well, there's [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]...
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** [[Protection From Editors]]
* Most Writers Are White
*
** [[Asperger's Syndrome]], maybe.
* Molestation is Okay When It's Child on Child
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== Attracts
''Because '''somebody''' is going to disagree.''
* And How
* Explanation is in my head
* I Wish I Was Making This Up▼
** I Am Totally Making This Up▼
* No Explanation Needed
* No Points For Guessing
* Nuff Said
* That's What Nuff Said
* That Is All▼
** Except that it is a [[Blue Link]], a works page for ''[[That Is All]]'', the last instalment of ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]''. When it becomes [[sinkhole]]d, we will [[Serious Business|seek vengeance]] upon John Hodgman and the author of the page. Damn you, Hodgman!▼
* I Would Rather Not Discuss It▼
* And That's All You Need to Know▼
* Do I Need To Say It?▼
== Attracts Pot Holes ==
▲* I Wish I Was Making This Up
▲** I Am Totally Making This Up
* Oh, and ...
* Quipping - Because [[You Fight Like a Cow]] really shouldn't be the trope's name.
* So There You Go
▲* That Is All
▲** Except that it is a [[Blue Link]], a works page for ''[[That Is All]]'', the last instalment of ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]''. When it becomes [[sinkhole]]d, we will [[Serious Business|seek vengeance]] upon John Hodgman and the author of the page. Damn you, Hodgman!
* The - with specific instructions to link to [[The]] page every time you use [[The]] word "[[The]]" on [[The]] wiki.
* Full Stop
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* Overstatement
* I Know Already!
▲* I Would Rather Not Discuss It
* What a Shame
▲* And That's All You Need to Know
* The Best
* The Worst
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* Think again!
* Brutal Subversion
▲* Do I Need To Say It?
== Unknowable ==
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* Tropes That Pass In The Night
* Tropes in Ultraviolet
== Articles That Will Never Self-Demonstrate ==
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* [[Narm]]
* [[Jump Scare]]
* [[
* [[Your Mileage May Vary]]
* [[In Name Only]] (If so, it would be about stuff that is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].)
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]
* [[Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason]]
* [[Go Mad
* [[Killed Off for Real]]
* [[Internet Counterattack]]
* [[Role
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]
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