I Thought It Meant/G-I

Just to clarify:

G

• Gadget Trial is not a court procedure involving Inspector Gadget, or, for that matter, any of the Rescue Rangers.
  • Somewhere, a fanfic writer is reading this and getting an idea.
• Gadget Watches does not imply that she is a Chip/Dale Yaoi Fangirl.
• Gag Boobs is not about someone who finds breasts disgusting, nor is it about a pair of fake breasts that work like those surprise snake cans when you try to remove the bra, (although, that would be awesome) nor using breasts to silence a captive.
  • Gag Penis, by the same token, is not the male equivalent of any of those, nor is it about poorly-executed fellatio.
• A Gag Dub is not a dub so bad it makes you want to gag.
• Gainax Ending is not a death by Marshmallow Hell...
  • Neither is it an ending where a character gets an ax.
  • Neither is it about the bankruptcy of Gainax.
• ...just as Gainaxing is not hastily wrapping up a canceled series with a Mind Screw.
  • It's also not gaining an ax.
• The Game is not about video game adaptations of other media. Or the Michael Douglas movie. Also, it does not belong to Ender, nor is it a former member of G-Unit, nor is it Triple H. However, you did just lose it.
  • Corollarily, The Game Plays You is not what happens when you think about The Game too frequently and it takes over your life.
  • Headscratchers/The Game does not offer competitive confusion in the comfort of your own home.
  • The Game does not refer to fighting monsters with your supersonic wave.
• A Game Breaker will not ruin the media your game comes in.
  • Nor is it a ridiculously powerful spell that Nanoha Takamachi uses, nor is it a powerful attack done by the Dai-Gurren Dan.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with epic boss music.
• A Game Breaking Bug is not a bug that results in a Game Breaker.
• A Game Over Man is not someone who starts saying "Nothing Can Save Us Now!" after a catastrophe. Neither is it someone from Aliens.
• The Game Plays You is not about being conned by Triple H, or being portrayed by him in a show or movie.
• A Game Shark is not someone who breaks into your house and gives you the newest game/console in exchange for weekly 'protection' fees. (You're looking for PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold.)
  • It is also not a shark that can be hunted for sport.
• Gameplay and Story Integration is not something that clever Fanfic writers try to do to make their Fanon seem more realistic or interesting.
  • It also isn't how you find the area under the gameplay and story curve.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation is not a type of Fantastic Racism.
• Gamer Chick: Beth Kinderman does not edit this wiki and this is not her user page. Nor has Jack Chick suddenly acquired a Wii. It also has nothing to do with baby chickens.
• Gateway Series is not about the Gateway series. Nor about PCs in Holstein-spotted packaging.
• Gatling Good is not a subtrope of Good Weapon, Evil Weapon.
  • Or a commentary on the morality of the weapons designer.
• Gattaca Babies are not a little-known example of Spinoff Babies.
• The Gay Nineties and The Nineties take place during two different centuries. It's also not The Nineties where everyone is gay.
• A Gay Option is not a sentient power-up found in a certain shmup filled with Les Yay.
• A Gender Bender is not a type of bender that they left out of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
  • Nor is it a Futurama episode where the larcenous robotic star gains male or female parts.
• Gender Bender Friendship is not about a friendship which transcends gender boundaries. Nor is it about friendship between crossdressers.
• Gene Hunting is named after Gene Hunt, but has nothing else to do with him.
  • It also does not refer to the final boss battle of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
  • Nor was it named after the act of searching for a specific DNA sequence, although the actual practice of Gene Hunting might involve some of this.
• Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke is not about using the threat of genetic engineering on your enemy as a means of deterrence in a Cold War situation.
• Genius Loci is not the intellectual kind of genius. Nor is it about a certain Norse trickster god being exceptionally clever. Or smart locusts. Or locusts belonging to Genis. Latin plural for Locution? Totally out, too.
• Gentleman Thief will not steal your boyfriend. At least until the Yaoi Fangirls start writing fic.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! is not a superhero (or Dr. Wily robot) with the power to bring panicky people to their senses. Nor is it the first thing a woman does after being turned male, or something a guy does when he doesn't have anywhere to go on a Saturday night.
• Get Back Here Boss You Will Not Evade Me is two tropes, not one.
• Get on the Boat has nothing to do with issues present in pirated copies of Deus Ex, nor with Shipping.
  • Nor is it what you do when you see a lion swimming towards you.
• Get Out! is not when someone attempts to warn people in a crowded room or building of impending disaster.
• The Ghost Butler will not carry your bags to your tomb.
• GIFT is not something you get for Christmas.
• Gimmick Matches are not Trick Matches.
  • Nor are they competitions in a certain Sunsoft game for Famicom. Mr. Gimmick doesn't even have multiplayer.
• The Girl Next Door does not actually live next door or two doors down from your house, and before you ask, her name is not Patty Loveless either.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon is not about femme fatales wielding Improbable Weapons or about women with weapons that are themselves crazy.
  • Nor is it about girls with weapons with psychokinetic powers..
• Girls Behind Bars is not about female bartenders.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals is not related to Girls Love.
• Glamour is not about being good looking. Or bands from The Eighties.
• A Glamour Failure does not usually involve poorly-applied makeup.
  • Or T. Rex falling down the charts.
  • Or failing in a glamorous way.
• The Glasses Come Off not because The Glasses Gotta Go.
  • It also isn't specifically a time when That Guy With The Glasses takes off his eyeware for any reason, such as to get "serious" about something...At least, not yet.
• Glurge does not refer to moments of such heartstring-tugging sappiness that you throw up a little in your mouth just trying to process it, although they're often associated with one another.
• Go-Go Enslavement is not one of Inspector Gadget's lesser-known abilities.
• Go Mad from the Revelation is not what happens after reading The Bible.
• God Guise is not using profanity out of exasperation with your teammates.
• God Mode Sue is not a Mary Sue who can clear Mushihime-sama Futari Black Label's God mode.
  • It's not a nickname for someone called Sue that always uses invincibility cheats in video games.
• God Never Said That is not about theological disputes concerning which books belong in The Bible and which are merely apocryphical.
• God Save Us From the Queen is not about the slavering queen of the zombies (Yet).
• Goddamned Bats is not about The Goddamn Batman, nor baseball bats or any other kind. Or necessarily about actual bats, either.
• Godwin's Law is not about how challenging (a) "God" will cause a One-sided victory for that god.
• Goggles Do Nothing does not refer to sights that make you want to gouge out your eyes.
• Going Commando is not about Going Postal WITH AN ARMY COMMANDO!
• Going Critical does not involve telling someone why their book, movie, etc. is utter crap.
• Going Down with the Ship is not about a fan getting depressed because his favourite character pairing has been ruined forever.
  • Nor is it a special "affection" somebody may have for boats, If You Know What I Mean.
• A Golden Snitch will not tattle on the villain (or any other character) and then be held up as a paragon of virtue.
• Gonk is not about droids that resemble garbage cans from Star Wars.
• Gonna Need More Trope isn't about the need for a trope wiki to expand.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel is not about the duality of Angel and Angelus.
• Good Bad Bugs are not Big Creepy-Crawlies that are really just trying to help (unfortunately), nor is it about early Looney Tunes cartoons.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion doesn't imply that Sanae Kotiya ever had sex.
• Good Hurts Evil is not about a hero fighting a villain. That's just too generic.
• Good Is Impotent is not about when The Loins Sleep Tonight for the hero.
• Good-Looking Privates is definitely not about well-groomed... well...
• A Good Name for a Rock Band is, regrettably, not about trope titles that would be. This is.
  • It is not, however, about suggestions that Harmonix change the name of their game.
• A Good Troi Episode is not an episode where Troi stops being a Jerkass for once.
• Gorgeous Garment Generation is not about a generation of people who all dress gorgeously.
• Gorn is not about vicious yet civilised lizard aliens.
  • Nor about vicious yet civilized orc-like creatures on the world of Lost Guardia.
  • Nor about vicious yet civilized large men wielding giant axes in the mines of Khorinis.
  • Nor the king of Saronia.
• Gosh Hornet is not about an insect deity.
• Gosick isn't about someone who contracts an illness.
• Goth is not about the Germanic tribe.
  • Or the Evil Chancellor in Doctor Who episode "The Deadly Assassin."
• Gotta Kill Them All and Kill'Em All have nothing to do with Metallica.
  • Nor Pokémon.
• Gotterdammerung is not how someone who doesn't know German says "goddamn" in German.
  • That would be "Verdammt!"
• No, the Grandfather Clause as the law in the antebellum South to prevent blacks from voting is not that popular as to get its own page. Nope, it's only one item on the list.
• The "Grand Theft Auto" Effect is not an occurrence of increased carjackings and car thefts caused by the introduction of the Grand Theft Auto series.
  • Nor is it a sudden desire to get out a firearm and start shooting at cars driving by just because you saw it in Grand Theft Auto. (It actually happened!)
  • It is also not the former driver of a carjacked vehicle shouting and swearing at the carjacker as the villain makes a get-a-way.
• Granola Girl is not someone who eats too much candy or a girl made of granola.
• Gratuitous Panning is not about multiple critics complaining about shows they don't like.
• Grease Monkey is not Grease remade WITH MONKEYS.
• Great Balls of Fire is not about flaming testicles.
• Great White Hunter is not a mighty person who hunts white people. Or someone who hunts Great White sharks.
  • Also not the nickname of Captain Ahab.
• Green Christmas has nothing to do with the lack of snow on Christmas or being eco-friendly.
• Green-Eyed Monster does not mean the beast has a leaf colored iris.
  • Similarly, Green Eyed Red Head is not about a jealous redhead.
• Green Is Blue has nothing to do with colorblindness.
• Grey and Gray Morality does not discuss whether British or American spelling is more ethical.
• Grew a Spine has nothing to do with the evolution of vertebrate animals.
• A Grief Song is not a song someone sings incessantly to piss you off.
• Grind Boots are not for Level Grinding.
• Groin Attack is about attacking groins, not attacks made by groins.
• Groundhog Day Loop has nothing to do with the "Ground Loop" that taxiing airplanes with taildragger landing gear can find themselves performing when they turn too quickly.
• Growing the Beard has nothing to do with homosexual men who train women to be their fake girlfriends.
  • Nor is it about season-long changes to a character's hairstyle or personal appearance. If I could just find that damn trope.
• Grumpy Bear is not the reason Everything's Worse with Bears.
• Grumman did not create the F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, TBF Avenger, F-14 Tomcat, A-6 Intruder, or other famous "Iron Works" products.
• Guile Hero does not reflect the American viewpoint regarding the main protagonist of the Street Fighter series.
• Guilty Pleasures are generally not pleasures that are against the law to enjoy, though there are people who think they should be, and some are.
• A Guinea Pig Family usually isn't furry.
• A Guinness Episode is not an episode in which everyone drinks beer and gets drunk.
• Gundamjack is not an attempt to combine two tragic fates by invoking "It's a Gundam!" and Candle Jack at the same time. *explo
• Gunman with Three Names does not refer to a certain line of mechs that run on fighting spirit.
• Gunnm is not someone mumbling "Gundam.
• Guns in Church does not refer to the climax of every John Woo movie ever.
• Gym Bunny is not about scantily-clad women in gyms. Try Sensual Spandex.
  • Nor is it a rabbit on a treadmill.
  • Or a Bridge Bunny relaxing while off duty.
  • Or a Gym Leader using Pokémon such as Buneary and Lopunny.

H

• Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah is apparently not about a Middle Eastern guy in your car.
• Hailfire Peaks is not just an active volcano. (Actually, only half of it is a volcano.)
• Hairy Hammerspace is a lot less nasty than it sounds.
• Hard on Soft Science is not anything pornographic. Though if you are imagining physics roughly taking psychology, then the Internet has clearly desensitized you to retarded sexualization.
• Has Two Mommies is not about when someone's father gets a Gender Bender, nor does it mean that the mother has the ability to clone herself.
• Hate Dumb is not about frustration at being Surrounded by Idiots.
• Hate Sink is not about someone who dislikes washing hands.
• Have a Nice Death is not about The Grim Reaper being friendly.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? is not about a character whose sexual orientation changes constantly.
• He Didn't Make It is not what Mario said to Yoshi concerning Luigi and his stone.
• He-Man Woman Hater does not mean someone who hates female characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, although one probably would.
• He's Back has nothing to do with bus trips, believe it or not. It does usually lead to an Oh Crap moment for baddies, though.
• He Who Fights Monsters is not a Monster Hunter. Well, actually, he is, but there's a bit more to the trope-naming quote than that. He also does not have relatives who are Those Who Hunt Elves.
• Head Bob is not the leader of a group of Roberts.
  • Or the leader of the Bobs in Mirror Mask.
  • Nor does it mean a haircut that goes way too far.
• Headbutt of Love has nothing to do with the final scene of A Dirty Shame. It also isn't a literal headbutt, as in one that leaves a dent in the recipient's skull.
  • Also, it doesn't refer to Justin Law's particular attack on Giriko, even though it had the same name.
• Headbutt Thermometer, for that matter, has nothing to do with potential cross-contamination from forgetting which measurement device goes in which orifice.
• A Head Pet isn't about the leader of a group of pets or when the one in charge of a family is their pet.
• Healing Spring is not about suddenly getting well when the season of the year called "spring" comes around.
  • Nor is it an item that functions as a combination health pack and springboard.
• Hearing Voices does not mean being able to hear what people are actually saying.
• The Heartless has nothing to do with that pink haired woman from Mega Man Star Force 3.
• Heavy Mithril is not about the mass of fictional metals or minerals.
• Heel Face Mind Screw does not mean that you haven't a clue which side So-And-So is really on.
• Heel Face Turn does not refer to twisting your ankle. Nor is it a spinning kick.
• Heir Club for Men is not the father or obstetrician standing at the business end of a birthing table and getting knocked out by the baby's explosive birth.
• Heinz Hybrid is not a Prius painted to look like a giant ketchup bottle.
• Hell Is That Noise is not short for "What the hell is that noise?"
• Hellfire is not a page dedicated to the Villain Song from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The song is that awesome, but we don't give pages to individual songs. (Much.)
• Hellish Pupils has nothing to do with demonic students (well, unless you count that one game that features hellish pupils with Hellish Pupils, but that's stretching it).
• Hello, Sailor! has nothing to do with the official slogan of Antharia.
  • It's not Hello, Nurse! applying to Sailor Moon either.
• He-Man Woman Hater is not a redirect for Manly Gay.
• Here There Be Lions does not describe a place where you're likely to find big cats.
• Hero Insurance is not what you file a claim with after your doomsday satellite gets totaled yet again.
• Should we have to tell you that Hero Unit isn't about a guy hero's wing-wong?
• Heroic Bastard is not about heroes who are jerks, although it's certainly possible to have a bastard who is a Heroic Bastard.
  • Likewise, Magnificent Bastard is not usually about awesome extramarital children (usually).
• Heroic BSOD is not filled with examples of heroes inducing driver conflicts or installing unstable versions of Windows to foil the villain's plot.
  • Further, it isn't about Blue Screens of Death fighting evil. But it SO should be!
• Het is not about a definite article in Dutch.
  • Likewise, Het Is Ew is not about the answer to Wat magazine is dat?, even if you are holding a copy of Entertainment Weekly.
• Hidden Agenda Villain is not about the bad guy from the Dolph Lundgren film Hidden Agenda.
• Hide Your Lesbians isn't about actual hiding or stealth.
• A High Concept is not one you think was made on drugs. Or, despite both being about pitching new concepts, is it another name for This Is Your Premise on Drugs.
• High Fantasy is not about drug trips.
  • And Puff the Magic Dragon is not an example.
• High Heel Face Turn is not about going to the good side while under the influence of drugs.
• The High Queen is not a queen who does drugs.
  • Nor is it about Freddie Mercury on drugs.
• High-Speed Missile Dodge does not have a corresponding High Speed Missile Plymouth.
• Hijacked by Ganon is not a crisis where Ganon literally takes control of a vehicle of any kind. Neither does it have to do with being hijacked by any super-villain who resembles Ganon, or James Guckert for that matter.
• Hijacked by Jesus does not mean Jesus likes to steal vehicles.
  • It's also not about Hispanic Marxists in a Cold War era movie who hold up guns and/or bombs and exclaim that they are going to to "hijack this plane to Cuba!"
• Sued for Superheroics is not about joke overpowered author inserts.
• A Hime Cut is not produced from Mikoto's sword. Nor is it a type of Camera Trick.
• Hippie Teacher is not a teacher with with big hips.
• His Name Is-- not Slim Shady. Nor is it Nobody.
  • It also does not have a female counterpart called Her Name Is
• Historical Hero Upgrade is not aboout Shonen manga or anime or Henshin Toku shows set in the historical past.
• Hit Flash is not advice given to a DC supervillain.
• Ho Yay is not a statement of support for prostitutes, well, except for Inara.
  • It's also not about support of the ukulele maestro, but it may be about support of the Uke.
  • It's not a Hip Hop slang either.
  • It's also not a nickname for Erstin's fan club (though she's involved in some).
• Hobbes Was Right is nothing to do with the accuracy of the philosophy of stuffed tigers.
• Homemade Sweater From Hell is not what Satan's mother knits him. Although it could be.
• Holding the Floor is not what you only need to do if you're too drunk. Nor, for that matter, is it what you might need to do in a level wherein the floors are constantly rotating.
• Hollywood California is not about the actual location - but is in the same league as Hollywood Atheist, Hollywood Nerd, Hollywood Voodoo, and the myriads of other related tropes.
• Hollywood Cuisine is not about fine dining in Hollywood or how American media presents fine dining.
• Hollywood Tactics is not a strategy RPG using celebrities.
• In an inversion, Hollywood Homicide is not about how Hollywood views murders.
• Holy Hand Grenade is not about what Robin would say to Batman against an explosives-themed villain.
  • Holy Burns Evil doesn't mean Robin has been watching The Simpsons.
• Honest Axe is about a tale, but not the one about George Washington cutting a cherry tree. It is also not about Abraham Lincoln going Ax Crazy.
• The Holy Shit Quotient is not part of a Holy Shit Long Division.
• Honor Among Thieves and Honor Before Reason are not Honor Harrington titles. Yet?
• Horse of a Different Color does not actually refer to colorful horses. Not even Rainbow Dash.
• Hostage Spirit Link does not involve the ghost of the protagonist of The Legend of Zelda being held for ransom.
  • Nor does it involve a Magic: The Gathering creature enchantment that debuted in 4th Edition and costs one white mana to play.
• A Host Club doesn't talk about using DNS override files to block ads and malware on the Internet.
  • Nor is a Hostess Club themed around Twinkies and other baked confections.
• Hostile Show Takeover is not about actors buying a controlling share in a show and then using the power of Executive Meddling to make themselves leads.
  • It's also not about a benevolent executive stepping in to prevent a show from physically attacking its audience.
• Hot-Blooded doesn't mean what it means in the song by Foreigner. (Check it and see.) Nor is it about warm-blooded animals Up to Eleven.
• Hot Chick in a Badass Suit does not refer to Samus Aran.
• Hot Chick with a Sword is not the Distaff Counterpart to Hobo With A Shotgun.
  • Or fried chicken with a side of STABBITY!
• Hot Librarian is not a librarian working in a very warm library. (Though the resulting sweating and having to take off some clothes may invoke this trope.)
• Hot Sub-On-Sub Action is not actual submarine sex. Or submarine sandwich sex (Subway/Quiznos FTW!). Or a trope about two "submissives" together.
  • Or substitute teachers.
• Hot Wings is not about wings that are Fetish Fuel (although some would be turned on anyway). Nor is it about chicken. (Aww...)
• House Amnesia does not occur when a certain Dr. Jerk gets a tap on the head and forgets everything.
• House Rules is probably this wiki's consensus regarding Hugh Laurie's show, but the page isn't about that.
• How Did We Miss This One? is not a statement that an exasperated Giant Mook berates his Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy-trained underlings with, or a spymaster to his incompetent agents.
• How Did You Know? I Didn't. is not what you might ask when someone catches you pretending you'd done something.
• How Unscientific is not expressed on the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl refers to body height, and not, er, another kind of length.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters is not about a Bad Future where marriage between humans is banned, forcing all subsequent births to be illegitimate.
• A Hurricane of Euphemisms does not refer to bad weather in Britannia.
• Hybrid Monster does not refer to a highly modified Prius with enormous tires that's capable of crushing a row of junked gas-guzzlers down at the arena on SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
• Hyperspace Arsenal is not what happens when a certain soccer team gets a hyperdrive.
• Hypno Fool is not about a Jester who specializes in that.
  • Or a stupid specimen of a Psychic Pokémon variety.
  • Or a Burger Fool that hypnotizes its customers to make them feel full.
• Hypnotize the Princess is not a very limited variation of the Dungeons & Dragons spell "Charm Person".

I

• "I Am Becoming" Song is not an unusual case of Involuntary Shapeshifting.
  • Nor does it mean turning into a Korean person with a common family name.
• I Am Big Boned has nothing to do with Biggus Dickus.
• I'm a Humanitarian is most definitely not about Humanist Atheist characters or charity workers. Though this troper isn't taking any chances.
• "I Am Legion" will not be said by Roman Millitary Tribunes or Strategoi.
• I Am Not Left-Handed has little to do with left-handedness.
• I Am Not My Father does not regard a man who's rumored to be his own parent.
• I Am Not Shazam is not the phrase someone says when they are asked to identify a piece of music.
• "I Am" Song is not a grammatically questionable statement of identity (and hence not usually a musician's Badass Boast).
  • Nor is it an assertion that one is the Korean person being inquired after.
• I Am Spartacus is not usually followed by This Is SPARTA.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate does not refer to someone who's unable to send a Terminator robot back in time to kill his or her younger self.
• Adventure Narrator Syndrome is not about the problems gamers face when confronted with way too many buttons to press at the same time.
• I Do Not Own is not about admitting one's inferiority, unless you count lack of originality.
• I Got Bigger is not boasting about expansion of a man's base organs.
• I Have Boobs - You Must Obey! involves obeying the person who has the boobs, not the boobs themselves.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty is rarely ever followed up with the phrase "And Your Little Dog, Too".
• I Have Your Index does not actually have Index. Everything's Better with Indexes does, though.
• I Kiss Your Foot is not about foot fetish.
• I Know You Know I Know is not about orgies.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog is not about a Shar Pei. Nor is it about a compulsion to abuse animals.
• I Need You Stronger is not a plea for assistance from Kamen Rider Stronger.
• Improbably Predictable has nothing to do with Strictly Formula.
• I Read That As Discussion does not involve misreading non-discussion topics as discussion.
• I Remember Because is not the next addictive TV Tropes Just for Fun fad next to I Read That As and I Thought It Meant.
  • Though it should be.
• I Say What I Say has nothing to do with Foghorn Leghorn's Verbal Tic.
• I Thought It Meant isn't I Thought They Said, and vice-versa. Bonus points for recursivness!
• I Thought It Meant Discussion isn't a response to some comment resulting in immediate and drastic action.
• I Want My Jetpack isn't about the solution to a particularly Guide Dang It puzzle in the first Space Quest game.
• "I Want" Song is not about a king demanding minstrels. Nor is it about a big, dumb, mean captor who is sedate as long as there's music playing.
  • Nor is it the song "I Want It Now!" sung by Veruca Salt (the character, not the band) from that movie (no, the other one).
  • It's also not a LOLcat. (Not yet, anyway.)
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming is not about how actual vessels are given clever or thematic names (such as Imperial warships in Star Wars sounding very nasty, cruel, and/or violent).
• Idiot Ball is not a nickname for a sport given by the sport's Hatedom.
• The Idiot Hero is not necessarily the star of an Idiot Plot.
• For that matter, an Idiot Plot is not a story written for morons.
  • Nor is it a scheme that only an idiot could come up with.
• If It's You It's Okay is, surprisingly, not a Porn Tropes.
• If Jesus, Then Aliens is not the argument that if you let one (or a few) foreigners from Mexico and points south, you're opening it up to all of them.
• If You Call Before Midnight Tonight is not an argument over when "tonight" becomes "tomorrow morning".
• If You Thought That Was Bad isn't about confusing "Fat" by "Weird Al" Yankovic with the song it parodies.
• If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him is not about using Klingon Promotion to take over the position of your favourite idol.
• IKEA Erotica is not a trope about people having sex with furniture, though a fic about people having sex with furniture can be IKEA Erotica. Nor, on a related note, is it necessarily set in a labyrnthine Scandinavian furniture store.
• Ill Girl is not the third of her kind.
  • Becoming an IV Girl isn't out of the question, though.
• Illogical Safe is not a subtrope of Solve the Soup Cans relating to boxes with bizarre locking mechanisms.
  • Nor is it about The McCoy being in no danger.
• Immune to Bullets Made of Iron is two tropes, not one. (Blame the quote in I Cannot Self-Terminate.)
• Implacable Man -- "implacable" not in the sexual sense.
• Implausible Fencing Powers is in no way a ludicrously overpowered ability to build fences.
  • Nor is it a ludicrously overpowered ability to resell stolen property.
• An Important Haircut is not (necessarily) highly unusual and unique that people can easily identify an individual with it.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes and Impossibly Cool Weapon are not about clothes or weapons at temperatures below absolute zero.
• Improbable Age has nothing to do with Really 700 Years Old.
• Improbable Cover isn't about an image that, against all odds, was put on the front of a book.
• In Love with the Mark is an assassination trope. It is not about conmen falling in love with The Mark.
• In Name Only is not about situations that technically fit title of a trope without actually being an example of that trope.
• In Which a Trope Is Described is not about patent applications.
• Incredibly Lame Pun does not refer to a pun walking with a pronounced limp.
  • It is also not a pun that cannot stand on its own without the aid of other linguistic devices.
• An Incredibly Obvious Bomb is not the producer's description of a particularly bad work.
• An Incredibly Obvious Bug is not a glitch that really should have been discovered during the first round of testing. Nor is it about an easily-noticed insect, or, for that matter a prominently positioned Volkswagen.
• Incredibly Obvious Tail is nothing to do with prehensile growths from the lower back, nor with an obsolete and somewhat derogatory term for woman, nor a big butt (male or female).
• Inescapable Net is not about how pervasive or addictive the Internet has become in our lives.
• Inflation Negation is not about deflating or popping.
• An Ink Stain Adaptation is not one based on a Rorschach test.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl is not about a female character who's sexually suggestive in a family-friendly way.
• Insane Troll Logic is not necessarily employed by Trolls, insane or otherwise.
• An Insignia Rip Off Ritual is not a ritual to appease those whose trademarked insignia you've just ripped off.
• Inspirationally Disadvantaged is not a politically correct term for writer's block.
• Instant Index, Just Add Water is not about a freeze-dried or minuscule index that can be made into a normal index by getting it wet.
• Instant Mass, Just Add Water is not about characters or monsters that gain size by absorbing nearby liquids. It also doesn't suggest a nonalcoholic version of Catholic communion.
• Instrumentality has little usefulness.
  • It is not a fatality performed with a tuba.
    • But it should be!
• Insult Backfire is not about making fun of the Tu-22M.
• Insult Tropes is not an instruction.
• An Intellectual Animal is not a human being. Take That, Aristotle!
• Intercourse with You isn't about wanting to communicate with someone.
• Internet Cold Reader is not a person who is a Deadpan Snarker on the internet.
• An Internet Tough Guy is not someone who creates a real-life underground fighting competition, and then posts his victories there on You Tube.
• Interrupted by the End is not about fighting The End from Metal Gear Solid 3.
• Interservice Rivalry isn't between pay TV services or game consoles' online services.
• Invulnerable Knuckles is not about Knuckles the Echidna who just got an Invincible Barrier out of an item box. His namesakes, the knuckles that he sends, don't quite qualify in some versions of the character, considering what he's expected to fight, but they come close.
• Iron Lady has nothing to do with robots. Nor maids, for that matter.
  • It is also neither a command nor an implication that Margaret Thatcher has access to Tony Stark's armor.
    • Nor the band Iron Maiden
• Ironic Hell is not about being condemned to an eternity full of hipsters. Nor is it about an afterlife run by hipsters.
  • Although if you went to hell for harm you had done to hipsters, and hell was full of hipsters, that would be an Ironic Hell.
• It Gets Better and It Gets Worse are not opposites.
• It Gets Easier is not about how Nintendo Hard games get easier the more you practice them.
  • Similarly, It Never Gets Any Easier is not about games that don't get easier with practice, or to the fact that games never decrease in difficulty as you proceed.
• Item Get does not precede ability program.
• An Item number is not the value in a video game's saved campaign file referring to a particular inventory object or Event Flag.
  • Nor is it a brief musical interlude after obtaining such an item. That's Item Get.
• It's a Costume Party, I Swear has absolutely nothing to do with furry gatherings and the denial thereof.
• It's a Wonderful Failure is not It's a Wonderful Plot where the protagonist kills himself at the end.
  • Nor when somebody fails and the story portrays it in a cheerful tone.
• It's Easy, So It Sucks isn't about genderless entities that are very easy to seduce and therefore, uh, nevermind.
  • And It's Popular, Now It Sucks is not about said entities becoming sluttier as they become more popular.
    • Usually it's the reverse...
• It's Hard, So It Sucks is not about having a fetish for flaccid penises, or fans of soft science fiction.
• It's Raining Men is neither about disco, nor homosexuality.
• It's Short So It Sucks is not about penis sizes.
  • Nor is it mean Little People prefer fellatio.
• It's Up to You generally doesn't give you a choice in the matter.
• It Sucks is not for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
  • Nor does it describe what a vampire, a leech, or a vacuum cleaner do.
• It Was His Sled And Your Little Dog, Too isn't a massive paranoia trope.
  • Nor is it about riding a Monster Clown down a snowy mountain.
  • Nor about How the Grinch Stole Christmas.