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* [[Abandoned Warehouse]]: At least one or two can be found in any larger town or a city.
* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: Britain's Edward VIII, Sweden's Queen Christina, recent Dutch monarchs.
* [[AB Negative]]: AB- really is the rarest common blood type with between .2% and 1% of any given population having it. However, [
** The whole aspect of the [[Trope]] in that AB- can only take AB- blood is false. The positive variant (i.e. AB+) is considered a universal receiver of Red Blood Cells (O- is the universal donor), which makes life much easier for the blood bankers, in that they can usually just grab a bag of any old blood type and they won't reject it. AB- (the [[Trope Namer]]) is only slightly more limited; they can receive any negative red cells but not positive red cells (as opposed to how the inverse is possible and is why AB+ is the universal receiver).
** The "universal donor/receiver" angle only works with components. Whole blood is uncommonly used in transfusion medicine at present; most blood products consist of specific processed components such as red blood cells, plasma, or platelets. O- is the universal donor for red cells; AB+ is the universal recipient for red cells. With plasma it’s basically reversed: O is the universal recipient, AB is the universal donor (Rh+/- doesn’t matter much in plasma). If you had to give someone whole blood it really ought to be exact match.
** You can usually get away with giving Rh+ red cells to an Rh- patient ONCE without ill effects. Most people don’t have Rh antibodies unless they’ve been transfused with Rh incompatible blood (you can get them from pregnancy too). Once a person makes Rh antibodies giving them Rh positive blood can kill them.
** Regardless of the above, it is standard practice to give patients only their own blood type. Even if one is a universal recipient, using another type is done only if you have no choice. Rarity isn't really an issue either, because if one has a common blood type meaning there are plenty of donors, that also means there are plenty of recipients to split it between.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Dragon's Breath pyrotechnic shotgun rounds. Actually most of [
** Name any episode of [[Myth Busters]]. Chances are you will see this [[Trope]] in action with a gun or cannon.
** The blunderbuss will use literally anything you can stuff down the barrel as ammo.
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* [[Afraid of Blood]]: Hemophobia.
* [[Afraid of Needles]]: Trypanophobia, the plague of [[Big Damn Heroes]] for years.
* [[Age
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: Much to our sore toes.
* [[Air Guitar]]: [[Serious Business]] for those who take part in the official air guitar championships. Also, rhythm games like [[Guitar Hero]] made this an acceptable form of entertainment.
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* [[The Alcatraz]]: Where do you think the [[Trope Namer|trope]] title comes from?
* [[Alcohol Hic]]: That said, it's not the surest way to tell if someone is drunk - sober people can get hiccups just as easily.
* [[Alcohol
* [[Alcohol Is Poison]]: Alcohol is toxic to humans, but for most adult humans, in amounts well below the [[LD 50]], the "poisoning" produces enjoyable effects and no lasting damage. Once one gets near the [[LD 50]], one can die or be permanently sickened. In pregnant women and in children, the damage can occur much faster - causing fetal alcohol syndrome or death. Same for pets. And chronic overuse even below the [[LD 50]] can lead to lasting and permanent illness or even cancer.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Chances are, you've either owned one, or you're too young to drive.
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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: The word "shyster" comes to mind.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: As illustrated by anyone citing Romeo and Juliet as happy lovers.
* [[And
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: This is how younger siblings are, in fact, perceived by their older siblings.
* [[Antimatter]]: Is real, albeit in very small quantities.
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* [[Batteries Not Included]]: Children's toys eat batteries the way kids eat candy after Halloween. Which is why Nintendo started making [[Game Boy|GameBoys]] rechargeable in the 2000s.
* [[Battle Cry]]: Some have hypothesized they came into existence as warning or intimidation, but common through the history of warfare.
** [[Remember the Alamo!]]: A quite common casus belli in warfare is remembering a [[Last Stand]] conducted in fighting against or defending against the enemy.
* [[Bara]] / [[The Bear]] / [[Manly Gay]]: A case of truth becoming trope - a fixture in gay-directed media, and once mainstream media began to portray a wider range of gay men, [[Manly Gay]] men including bears began to be depicted more often in it as well. Contrast [[Camp Gay]] and compare both [[Armored Closet Gay]], [[Macho Camp]], and [[Straight Gay]].
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: People generally do what they're told, and this can be used against them. "Spearphishing" and other social engineering scams feed off of this quality of human beings.
* [[Bedouin Rescue Service]]: In the modern era, this is mandatory. In ages past... not so much.
* [[Beeping Computers]]: They ''used'' to do that in the days of blinkenlights. Now not so much.
* [[The "B" Grade]]: Yes, there are perfectionists out there who will become suicidal because of this. Somewhat justified if they're trying to get into MIT, University of Tokyo, an Ivy League school (and they aren't a Legacy), or either Oxbridge university in the UK. Basically, if you've been in a classroom for any period of time, you've seen it happen - maybe to you.
* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: Especially in the civil service sector, where "too much work, not enough time" seems to be status quo.
* [[Be Quiet Nudge]]: Who hasn't been on the giving or receiving end of one of these?
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* [[Casting Couch]]: [[Real Life]] examples abound from film to fashion and music (where it's more common now). Somewhat subverted in that unlike in fiction, where complying may well benefit the victim, in reality, the victim may very well get nowhere at all for his or her trouble, or end up destroying his or her career doing this for real. Of course, there's also porn staged around the idea with fully willing participants...
* [[Casual Kink]]: In some places far, far more than others. If you're in such a place, you probably either are very aware of it, or don't even recognize it as unusual.
* [[The Catfish]]: The [
* [[CAT Trap]]: If you're suffering from claustrophobia, you don't want to spend too much time in a closed scanner.
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: Because some people [[Your Door Was Open|don't remember to lock the door]], and others are exhibitionists.
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* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: Those who have money often feel the need to display their riches.
* [[Constantly Curious]]: Toddlers are naturally precocious, some more than others. They want to learn about the world around them.
* [[Conveniently
* [[Converting for Love]]: Yes, it happens. Enough that some religious sects will use the promise of a loving relationship to recruit people.
* [[Convicted By Public Opinion]]: [
* [[Cool but Inefficient]]: The Tsar Tank. You could walk faster than it could move at top speed.
* [[Cool Chair]]: Thrones, of course. And someone based a 15K chair off of the one Blofeld had.
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* [[Dance of Romance]]: Sometimes, people do fall in love after dancing with each other. Even people who had no previous romance. Happens with professional dancers and figure skaters, among others.
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: Sometimes happens in sports and politics.
* [[Day Hurts Dark
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: ''Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers'', a picture by Vincent Van Gogh, was never bought when he was alive. In 1987, almost 100 years after his death, that same picture was bought for £24,299,562 ($39,921,750) dollars in an auction at Christie's. This trope also applies to musicians, in part explaining the ongoing popularity of everyone from Elvis to Amy Winehouse.
* [[Deadly Doctor]]: To the surprise (and distress) of many. The reason why malpractice suits (and subsequently, malpractice insurance) exists.
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* [[Depraved Dentist]]: There's been a few cases of [[Real Life]] dentists sexually assaulting unconscious patients, and others doing fraudulent or unnecessary work (especially on low-income children on Medicaid and, conversely, in high-income privately insured patients) to make money, even if said work makes the patient's oral health far worse. And the [[Ur Example]] of the [[Deadly Doctor]], [[Mad Doctor]], and all similar tropes, Josef Mengele, started out as a dentist.
* [[Deserted Island]]: All around the world. And not just in tropical regions as in fiction, but in temperate and polar regions as well.
* [[Diagonal Cut]]: Real-life [
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Many examples in radio and TV interviews, and politics.
* [[Diner Brawl]]: It's not rare for late-night diners to see these happen from time to time. Many of these diners are in areas with a lot of nightlife, resulting in drunk patrons coming in to eat. As with the [[Bar Brawl]], drunk people gathering together in one place can sometimes be dangerous.
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* [[Door Step Baby]]: Less common nowadays because hospitals will take abandoned babies, no questions asked. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Practically the stock in trade of anyone who uses [[Twitter]], headline writers, and pretty much anyone in some situations.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)]]: In some countries, rape is actually defined as unconsented ''male-on-female'' sex.
* [[Dramatic Shattering]]: Glass tends to break in accidents, crimes, and disasters. Also, in a form of [[Defictionalization]], people being dramatic or wanting to destroy something will often break whatever glass is nearby.
* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: ''Incredibly'' common.
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* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Texas is a pretty damn big state.
* [[Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry]]: Because bright colors or unusual colors attract the human eye.
** [[Gem
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: [http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/ Australia.] For the immunocompromised, life.
* [[Evil Debt Collector]]: <s>Most</s> '''All''' of them. No exceptions. See Palisade Collections or the collections department of Wachovia Dealer Services as typical examples.
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* [[Fan Boy]]: To an even ''more'' annoying degree.
* [[Fashion Show]]: Another one that's existed in real life long before it was a trope.
* [[Faster
* [[Fast Roping]]: Lifted directly from a standard (if somewhat dangerous) Real Life rappelling technique.
* [[Fatal Flaw]]: <s>Lots of people</s> ''Everyone'' will have one. Some have more than one.
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* [[Foreign Queasine]]: There's a whole show based around it called ''Bizarre Foods'' on the Travel Channel. And while most of it is in Asia, there are episodes that take place in North America, believe it or not. Anyone for fried nutria on a stick?
* [[Forgets to Eat]]: Every gamer has done this. This can also be applied to workaholics.
* [[
** The name actually comes from the section of the Nigerian criminal code pertaining to wire fraud, so it's also [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].
* [[Freeze Sneeze]]: Cold really does make some people sneeze.
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* [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]: The "leg of mutton" sleeves of the 19th century. The puff-and-slash sleeve of the Renaissance. The revival of leg o' mutton sleeves in the 1980's.
* [[Gilded Cage]]: Getting or being rich has its own concerns and problems - and some people do feel trapped by their upper-class status, and in some cases are prohibited from things they want to do due to maintaining decorum or out of self-protection.
* [[Girl
* [[Going Postal]]: We have a word for this: "massacre".
* [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny]]: Golden items are a status symbol.
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: Learning a foreign language. Cooking. Almost anything involving computers, though this may change. Pretty much anything related to repairs.
* [[Halfway Plot Switch]]: [[Real Life]] takes some wild, surprising, 90 degree turns due to both tragedy and luck.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: [
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Lots of people.
* [[Happily Married]]: Many, MANY couples.
* [[Hate Plague]]: Mob mentality and methamphetamine abuse are on one end of the spectrum in that while neither are actual "disease," they spread virally and produce hatred, paranoia, and violence. On the other end, for actual disease, we have [[Nightmare Fuel|rabies]] and possibly [[Paranoia Fuel|toxoplasmosis]].
* [[Hates Small Talk]]: [[Myers
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]: Baseball player Mike Piazza once called a press conference to announce he's not gay.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: Ahh, the [[Coming Out Story]]...
* [[Heads
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The reason the FBI has the Witness Protection Program.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Real people who did good things feel bad about themselves, especially if the "good things" came at a cost of human life or suffering or even property or money, or if they weren't done soon enough... among many other reasons.
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* [[I Hate Past Me]]: Everyone at one point or another has looked back on their life and asked at different points "What was I thinking?!".
* [[Idle Rich]]: Because for some people, being rich ''is'' their life's accomplishment. Aversions, however, do exist.
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]: Several good foods are actually quite bitter or almost disgustingly bland.
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in The Face]]: Every 12 seconds, a kid accidentally fires a gun and hurts someone. <ref>Someone needs to take the gun off that fucking kid, then.</ref>
* [[I Know Karate]]: Because some people do, indeed, know karate and other martial arts.
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Because even more people know no martial arts but think they do. The reason Bullshido and the [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] trope exist.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her]]: Anyone with a younger sister has said this.
* [[The Illegal]]: Illegal immigrants are a large portion of many populations, and a hot-button political issue for nativists in said countries.
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: And/or downloading music. And/or, according to some, buying drugs.
* [[In
* [[Is That Cute Kid Yours]]: Check the discussion page for examples.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: The reason why police officers will keep one gun pointed at a dangerous suspect at all times until his arms are fully handcuffed.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Narcissists and sociopaths on the more extreme end, individual survival and forgetfulness on the more benign.
* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: In Mexico, ''everybody'' uses MSN Hotmail, MSN Spaces, and MSN Messenger, thanks to an alliance between Microsoft and Telmex, the latter a nigh-monopolic telco led by Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world.
* [[
* [[Its Raining Salesmen]]: Sometimes they do this to people coming in with bags (or in cases with far more [[Unfortunate Implications]], because you're poor or [[Profiling|a minority]], because they want to make sure you're not a shoplifter). Also can happen if the sales staff needs to look busy.
* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: The easiest way to get people to show up to an event is to provide free food.
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* [[The
* [[Jerkass]]: Who hasn't met at least one in real life? If you haven't, you may want to look in the mirror.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: ... On the other hand, you've probably met one of these as well. But if you consider yourself one you probably aren't.
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* [[Killer Rabbit]]: A great many animals are meaner, sharper, or more poisonous than they look. This is why you don't play with wild animals.
* [[Kill Sat]]: The Strategic Defense Initiative, more commonly known as Project Star Wars. Similar projects are in the works, mostly because [[Frickin' Laser Beams|lasers are cool]].
* [[Knocking On Heathens' Door]]: Door-to-door proselytizing does exist, most infamously with the Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.
* [[La Résistance]]: The French and Dutch Resistances were notoriously violent and strong, as were the Soviet and Yugoslav partisans, and the Polish Home Army.
** Krav Maga, the deadliest martial art, was made specifically for Jews getting accosted by the SS.
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* [[Leonine Contract]]: Not only exists, but is called that in courts of law.
* [[Level Grinding]]: Sheer repetition is the best form of improvement. Well, most effective form, anyway.
* [[Living Lie Detector]]: [
* [[Living Motion Detector]]: True for several animal species, which is why said species are so hard to film.
* [[Loan Shark]]: Why do people use their services instead of a, you know, bank? Bad credit, my dear Watson. Bad credit.
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* [[Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal]]: The families of real life criminals do indeed live in this sort of denial sometimes, even when confronted with overwhelming evidence of criminal behavior.
* [[Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe]]: Men do wonder. DNA testing has shown that sometimes, they have reason.
* [[
* [[Man in A Bikini]]: How often have you seen one, and the reaction it gets?
* [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]]: Will almost inevitably be claimed as this by anyone invoking it.
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* [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: Far more common but also far more mild than TV would make you think.
* [[Might As Well Not Be in Prison At All]]: If you're not claustrophobic, house arrest.
* [[Mile
* [[Military Brat]]: There is a whole subculture surrounding the family of military personnel.
* [[Military Maverick]]: For every Colonel O'Neill you see on TV, there's far worse in real life.
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* [[Mission From God]]: From Joan of Arc to Osama bin Laden, religion has been a powerful motivator.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Many times, a result of the conflation of traits attributed to binary gender and sexuality. Yes, [[Captain Obvious|feminine men and masculine women can be straight]].
* [[Mistaken for Special Guest]]: See [
* [[Mistakenly Banned]]: Spend enough time on the Internet and it will happen somewhere.
* [[Mistaken Nationality]]: Far too common simply because many people don't care to learn geography or about nations.
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* [[The Mistress]]: Divorce lawyers and journalists alike make a huge part of their living because this is [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Modesty Towel]]: Force of habit and shyness will often lead to this being used even when there is no reason for it. Paranoia can also be a factor, if your room has a window.
* [[Monster Clown]]: [
* [[Moral Guardians]]: ''Futurama'' parodied PETA's practice of trying to get "liberated" carnivores to live on a vegetarian diet.
** The FCC and "concerned mothers". Both are also [[Acceptable Targets]].
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* [[Nice Guy|Nice Guy/Gal]]: Lots of them, and far more than a pessimist can ever think.
* [[No Can Opener]]: Can openers weren't even ''invented'' until several decades after tin cans. Before then, they used bullets.
* [[No Fame, No Wealth, No Service]]: Members-only or restricted entry clubs, restaurants, and other venues. Anything that will only provide service to celebrities.
* [[Non Sequitur]]: "No, I don't think the mailbox needs painting."
* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: Human beings can survive quite a lot, but see [[Cherry Tapping]] and [[Made of Plasticine]] above too...
* [[No Sex Allowed]]: Some religious systems that impose celibacy or heavily restrict sex. Also applies to minors for obvious reasons.
* [[No
* [[Not in My Back Yard]]: And ''another'' one used in [[Real Life]] long before it was a trope.
* [[No You Hang Up First]]: A manifestation of the "sunk cost" fallacy in that someone who is speaking in such a conversation will want to stay on as long as they can even if it would be better to stop talking.
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** Fortunately, [[Happily Adopted|the other way around]] also happens.
* [[Obsolete Mentor]]: Because [[Science Marches On]], [[Society Marches On]], and [[Technology Marches On]], and some people don't bother to catch up with them, even if they're the best of a specific art or the best at a specific time.
* [[Occupiers Out of Our Country!]]: The reason [[La Résistance]] tends to exist in [[Real Life]] and one reason [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]] exists as a trope.
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]: Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
** It was once common practice to photograph someone post-mortem after posing them in a chair as if they were alive. The [[Uncanny Valley|results are somewhat disconcerting]].
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* [[Pink Elephants]]: That said, alcohol-related hallucinations are usually due to withdrawal or alcohol poisoning (or that your drink has been spiked with something other than alcohol, if you're not in withdrawal and haven't drank more than three or four drinks at least.)
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Bosozoku and ''yankii'' in Japan, 99 percent of motorcycle clubs elsewhere in the world, punk rockers and black metallers for the most part, the list goes on. The most harm members of such groups likely do on average is creating noise, minor illicit drug use or petty fraud or shoplifting, if that. They normally get hated either for the more outrageous crimes (and incredibly rare) crimes that show up in their midst, or for being nuisances with the extent of petty crimes in a more law-oriented and business-oriented mainstream culture.
* [[The Plague]]: [
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: [[CS Lewis (Creator)|CS Lewis]] made a note in the "friendship" section of ''The Four Loves'' that platonic friendship between members of the opposite sex happened a lot in academia. (He ignored the gay angle, though.) It's called the Westermarck Effect, and it's why most brothers and sisters raised together aren't romantically interested in each other.
* [[Playing Sick]]: Don't tell me you've never done it.
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* [[Primal Scene]]: Walking in on parents (or other adult relatives) having sex has happened to a lot of people.
* [[Prison Rape]]: It only became a trope relatively recently because it was TIT
* [[Privately
* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: The mad scientist stories had to come from ''somewhere'', and OSHA regulations tended to be a bit loose when science was in its infancy. The mad scientist stories, and the stereotype we associate them with, came from Nikola Tesla. Those lightning bolts in the background were Tesla coils. In Europe, abandoned castles were squatted in because (since there wasn't a UNESCO back then) there was a lot of free space and they wouldn't disturb anyone. Scientists back in the day really ''were'' experimenting with electrobiology.
* [[Profiling]]: Racial and otherwise.
* [[Punch, Spin, Gape]]: Its actually a legitimate theatrical technique for faking fistfights.
* [[The Purge]]: How most people kick off dictatorships.
* [[Push Polling]]: If you've ever taken a survey, you've probably been a victim and don't even know it.
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* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: ''Everyone'' has had this happen to them. There are thousands of examples to be found every day. NEW examples.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Prior to the 20th century, this was almost mandatory for women in just about any culture. Also the natural result of a baptized Sikh's obedience to the requirement to keep kesh. There are also multiple people who just happen to have this or who are trying to achieve this. Also pretty common among [[Visual Kei]] artists, especially from earlier times.
* [[Recursive Ammo]]: The[
* [[Red Light District]]: There's quite a few in the world.
* [[Relative Error]]: Siblings get mistaken for lovers in real life a lot, oftentimes to the [[Squick|disgust]] of the siblings. Sometimes [[Inverted Trope|the opposite happens]]. Just as squicky.
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* [[Retirony]]: Rare cases are present. See the page for examples.
* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]: See [[Pimped-Out Dress]].
* [[Ribbon
* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: This is so common, there are actually products to prevent this: Meet [http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/ Clocky] and the [http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder50/8f1a/ Sonic Bomb].
* [[Roboteching]]: Many guided weapons actually do this.
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* [[Snipe Hunt]]: A very common form of hazing or practical joke is to send someone on a search for something nonexistent.
* [[Something's Different About You Now]]: People change over time. That fat nerd you knew? Dropped the weight and became hot. That man you knew? Was actually [[Transsexual|a woman.]]. The [[Hollywood Atheist]] you remembered from college? Is now a devout churchgoer. Can be very difficult, especially if the changes make your relationship now incompatible.
* [[Solar
* [[Solid Gold Poop]]: Ambergris is whale vomit. It's also extremely valuable for use in perfumes. Guano. Not as valuable now as it used to be. For centuries, it was used to make saltpeter and phosphorous, which was used for explosives and gunpowder. Now, it's mostly used for fertilizer, and some of the world's ''best'' coffees owe their rich flavor to this particular fertilizer.
* [[Sorry Occifer]]: The reason why, if you are drunk or high, not talking to the police (if you live somewhere where you have this right) is the best legal advice you can possibly ever follow. And you got it here free.
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* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Since not everyone always lets you know everything they know.
* [[Suicide Attack]]: Kamikaze and suicide bombers.
* [[Super
* [[Sure Let's Go With That]]: You've said it and you know it.
* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: Everyone who's ever had a day job can attest to this. Or been in <s>Public</s> <s>High</s> School.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Joan of Arc, Mulan (the REAL one).
* [[Tail Slap]]: Even horses can makes use of it to an extent. With elephants, it can be fatal.
* [[Take This Job and Shove It]]: [
* [[A Taste of the Lash]]: Flogging was a commonly used punishment in many real-world cultures.
* [[Taught By Experience]]: You know that your mistakes have left a mark on you, probably a scar.
* [[Technical Virgin]]: It happens, ironically enough, often due to abstinence-only education.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Some teens can be amoral and scary. Not all are, though.
* [[Televisually
* [[That Poor Car]]: Disasters will cause this.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: One of the most common passwords is... "password" or "password1" (since now most registrars require letters and numbers). The most common varies in length but is some form of ascending number sequence -- i.e., "12345."
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** Go look at pictures of tropical beaches. It's either blue or green.
* [[Weapon for Intimidation]]: The reason most people in [[Real Life]] that have weapons do. On a larger scale, nuclear weapons are this.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: The political spectrum is a line, not a circle. A very ''long'' line. But still a line.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The real world version is a lot scarier, actually.
* [[We Sell Everything]]: Wal-Mart and Target and other wholesellers, who are steamrolling the competition.
* [[Wild Child]]: There's a few examples: Kaspar Hauser, Genie, and a feral French boy. None of them ended up that well off.
* [[Whammy Bid]]
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]]: The usual result of someone trying to invoke [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]
* [[What the Heck Is An Aglet]]?: Cruciverbalists of the world have been through this all too much. Which is why there's a huge market for [http://www.amazon.com/Million-Word-Crossword-Dictionary/dp/0060517565 Crossword Puzzle-specific dictionaries].
* [[Whoa, Bundy!]]
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Many parents of special needs children often feel this way, especially if it's their first child. This trope is why 4 out of 5 parents of autistic children divorce. Even if they don't outwardly say it to the degree it's portrayed in fiction, they often feel this way inside, because, yes, life ''would'' be a lot simpler and cheaper if their kid were different.
** Or if society changed so that autistic children and otherwise disabled children were valued for themselves rather than seen as problems or burdens...
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