I Thought It Meant/S-T

Just to clarify:

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• Said Bookism does not mean Informed Librarian.
• San Dimas Time is not the name that the people who live in the mid-eastern suburbs (Between L.A. and San Bernardino) of Los Angeles use for the Pacific Time Zone (their local time zone).
• Sarcasm Failure is not to be confused with an Insult Backfire.
• Sarcastic Clapping and Slow Clap are separate concepts, though combining them would no doubt be fun.
  • For the record Bridge Carson combined the two at one occasion.
• A Satellite Character is not the strawman in an ad for cable TV.
  • Nor is he the foil for Cable, The Cable Guy, or Larry the Cable Guy.
• Save Scumming has nothing to do with a hero's duty to protect everyone, including lowlifes.
• Save the Day Turn Away is not the thing common in Toku fights where after the enemy is defeated, the heroes turn towards the camera and pose dramatically while the enemy explodes behind them.
• A Scapegoat Ad is not an advertisement for a product or service fans blame for their disappointment. That would be Scapegoat Creator.
• A Scare Campaign is not Jack Skellington's bid for re-election.
• Scare'Em Straight is not about turning homosexuals into heterosexual, although the method had been used for that.
• A Scarily Competent Tracker has nothing to do with BitTorrent.
• Scary Dogmatic Aliens aren't freaky canine robots from outer space. At least, not usually.
• Scenery Porn is not when an adult film is shot in the woods. Nor is it the various aspects of the environment having an orgy. It's not about having a Fetish for it, either.
• A School for Scheming is not where you learn how to become a Manipulative Bastard, Evil Chancellor or any of the other Evil Tropes. That's the Academy of Evil.
  • Nor is it a university that teaches how to program in a minimalist Lisp derivative. That's MIT.
• Schrödinger's Butterfly is not about how small changes may or may not have big effects and you need to look to find out.
• Scooby Stack is not a typical favorite sandwich of Scooby and Shaggy.
• The Scottish Trope does not have as subtropes Violent Glaswegian, Brave Scot, Bonnie Scotland, or Glasgow Grin
• The Scrappy does not have anything to do with the ability that allows a Kangaskhan or a Miltank to hit Ghost-types with Normal or Fighting-type moves.
• Scrappy Index is not an index we hate.
• Scrappy Level is not about a character's relative level of obnoxiousness, nor is it a natural consequence of a Scooby Doo video game forcing you to play as every character. (Although that may happen anyway...)
• Scrappy Mechanic is not about auto-repair guys who are fond of fighting and/or hated by fans. It doesn't quite mean fixing a hated-by-the-audience character for the better, either.
  • Nor is this Scrappy-Doo's day-job.
• Screw Destiny is not related to The Sandman. Thank goodness.
  • Nor is it the destiny of a screw.
• A Screen Shake is not putting your monitor in a blender, though it could be the result of putting Blender in your monitor.
• Screw Destiny is not how Beyoncé was made.
  • Nor scoring with Miley Cyrus.
  • Nor does it refer to the fate of a piece of hardware to be lodged in a piece of wood.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! is not about seniors in high school or college abusing the underclassmen.
  • Nor is it the politeness of a screw instant-messaging a senior.
• Screw You, Elves is totally not related to Rule34 of elves.
• Screw Yourself is not an insult.
  • Or instructions on how to repair yourself if you are a robot.
  • Or a situation where Spin Attack goes wrong, resulting the character to be in the ground.
• Scrub, within TV Tropes, is a noun, not a verb for cleaning.
  • Or a show where Zach Braff is the only actor.
• Sea Mine is not about sailors who declare themselves "married to the sea". Nor is it about learning to work with a hostile ocean for the common good.
  • It also isn't where u mine 4 fish.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with this Duel Masters card.
• Second Hand Storytelling isn't about narration so detailed you can practically see the Time Bomb counting down.
• Second Verse Curse is not about swearing in the second verse of a song
  • Nor does it describe the tendency of the Alternate Universe of a series to be significantly worse off than the primary one.
• Secret Art is not about hidden paintings.
• Sedgwick Speech has nothing to do with henchmen.
• Sein Language is not spoken by the sixth Numbers Cyborg of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny is not for complaining about Seinfeld.
• Self Explanatory is not about works that need no explanation. Quite the opposite, in fact.
• Self-Insert Fic is not a Selfcest fanfic.
  • It's not fanfic that tells you to go insert yourself.
• A Self-Made Man is not necessarily a member of The Mafia.
  • Nor does it refer to how the almighty Self shaped humankind.
• A Sensei for Scoundrels is not the Mentor equivalent of a School for Scheming.
• Senseless Violins has nothing to do with the music from the much-parodied Psycho shower scene, nor with violins being played without there being a point for them, nor about unconscious musical instruments. Musical instruments in a nearly-unusable tuning aren't it, either.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains is not about heroes who stay on healthy diets where villains are anorexic.
• Sentai is not those Japanese cartoons you find in the Adult section of a video store.
• Sentimental Graffiti is a Works Page, not a trope about people writing their initials and the initials of the one they love on a desk, wall, or tree. (That's Sweetie Graffiti.)
• Sequel Hook is not about a sequel to the movie where Robin Williams is a grown up Peter Pan. (It's already a sequel on its own anyway.) It's not a particular type of hooked pole used to grab particularly bad sequels, either (however, we may need those).
• Serendipity Writes the Plot has nothing to do with a pink sea dragon.
• Making something Serious Business will not make the Joker ask its practitioners "Why So Serious"? At least we hope so...
• Settings has nothing to do with option menus in video games.
• Settled for Gay is not what happens when someone's so fed up with their lack of success with the opposite gender that they decide to try their luck with the same sex instead.
• Seven Minute Lull is not about the 14th episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, or the gap in the Nixon tapes.
• Sex Changes Everything is not about ubiquitous gender reassignment surgery.
• Sexiled is not being forced to sleep on the couch.
• Sexy Man, Instant Harem isn't about getting an instant harem of sexy men. *sigh* But a woman can dream, can't she?
• SF Debris is not about the remains of explosions in space.
  • Nor is it what you get when you smash a Super Famicom system with a sledgehammer.
• Shades of Conflict is not about the cause of that really long fight scene in They Live!.
• Shaggy Dog Story is not how one would describe Scooby-Doo in three words.
  • Nor is it giving a synopsis to the 2006 Disney film starring Tim Allen.
• Shapeshifter Baggage does not describe The Luggage
• Shapeshifting Lover is not about Power Perversion Potential. Though, you know...
• Shark Pool doesn't involve fish playing billiards.
• Sheathe Your Sword is not a euphemism. Nor is it about an Iaijutsu Practitioner.
• She Cleans Up Nicely is not the reason the maid deserves that raise she's been asking for.
• She's a Man In Japan is not about Crossdressers of any stripe. Well, maybe a little, but not really.
• Ship Level is not about romantic pairings between locations in video games, nor an order to do so.
  • Nor is it a measure of how shiplike something is. Nor even how frequently a pairing is shipped.
• Shipped in Shackles has nothing to do with our kind of shipping. This is for the best, trust me.
• Shojo is not the crazy old dude with the cat.
• Shoo Out the Clowns is not about eradicating circus clowns. Not even evil ones.
  • It also does not refer to the opening scene of The Dark Knight.
• Shoot Him! He Has a Wallet! is not a response to Screw the Rules, I Have Money
• Shooting Superman is not done with cameras, camcorders, cell phones, or any other recording device, unless it's part of a Scaramanga Special.
• Shoot the Dog is not about what Duck Hunt players want to do.
  • Nor is it about filming a dog.
  • Nor is it Kick the Dog Only More So.
• Shoot the Money is not the Coin Launcher mode in Super Smash Bros.. Brawl.
  • Nor does it involve firing bullets at banknotes.
    • Or is it the old gunslinger trick of tossing a coin in the air and shooting a hole straight through the center of it.
  • Specifically, it's not done as the opposite of Shoot the Dog, to indicate a character has done away with his greed.
  • And it definitely not related to cum shots either.
  • And it's not about filming money, either.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog is not a subtrope of Shoot the Dog.
  • Nor is it what a really evil villain would order Scooby Doo to do after mind-controlling him.
    • Nor is it what an anti-fur radical tells his underlings.
• A Short Con is not a midget who lives a life of crime. His last name is not Smith, either.
  • It's also not a short convention of RPG / comics / anime fans.
  • Nor is it a term for a fraudulent midget.
  • It's not some kind of underage fetish, either.
• A Shorttank is not a Protection specced gnome warrior. That's a Cute Bruiser.
• Shotacon is not short for Shotaro Convention.
• Shotgun Wedding does not involve marrying a shotgun.
• Shotoclone does not explicitly refer to the playable kid version of an existing character.
  • Nor is it a clone of someone named Shoto.
• Shout-Out/Literature is not a surefire way to get thrown out of the library. Okay, it is, actually, but the page has nothing to do with that.
• Shut UP, Hannibal is not when B.A. Baracus tells his boss to shove it after a plan doesn't come together.
  • Nor is it what Scipio did at the battle of Zama.
• "Shut Up" Kiss is not about what people are saying to Gene Simmons and the others these days.
• A Sick Sad World is not a world literally in need of medication and love. At least, we hope not.
• A Sideways Smile is not the following symbol :-)
  • Nor is it the look on the face of a very happy minion of Unicron.
• Siege Engines were not used to build the video game Dungeon Siege.
• Silver Has Mystic Powers is not about |Silver the Hedgehog and his telekinetic abilities.
• Siren is not a page dedicated to a very loud Autobot.
• Sir Swearsalot is not a knight who keeps shifting his allegience between various Feudal Lords.
• Simple Staff is not the inversion of Pointy-Haired Boss.
• A Single-Stroke Battle does not mean it ends with one of the combatants having a stroke.
• A Sitcom Arch Nemesis is not one of two Dueling Shows.
• The Situation has nothing to do with Jersey Shore.
• A Skeleton Key Card is not found by searching a dead guard, and probably isn't designed to unlock the closet.
  • Nor it's the key Skeleton King uses to open doors with.
• A Sky Pirate isn't someone who accesses subscription satellite TV programming without paying.
• A Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke is not a slap on the wrist that explodes with the force of a nuclear bomb. It's not about slapping nukes off people's wrists.
• Slap Slap Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is not a single trope about extremely violent or unusually fast-paced romantic relationships.
• Slash Command is not the "basic attack" command for a swordsman in an RPG, nor is it an order from the dominant half of a slash pairing. Also has nothing to do with Macintosh keyboard shortcuts.
  • Likewise, a Slasher Smile is not one a Slash Fic writer gets when their OTP receives a Relationship Upgrade.
• Slash Fic does not necessarily involve a Yandere.
  • Slash Fic also doesn't refer to fanfiction based on slasher movies. (Usually, at least.)
  • Nor are fictitious UNIX file paths or URLs involved in any way.
  • Nor does it necessarily involve a character named Slash.
  • Nor does it involve the brutal murder of a hated character.
• Slashers Prefer Blondes has nothing to do with Ho Yay.
• The Sliding Scale of Turn Realism is not about plausibility of characters turning to the evil or good side.
• The Slipknot Ponytail is not how Corey Taylor and the boys wear their hair.
• Slippery Soap has nothing to do with Blue's Clues.
• Slipping a Mickey does not relate to placing Hidden Mickeys around the Disney Theme Parks.
• Slurpasaur does not describe Yoshi.
• Smash Cut is not what you do with a club-sword (or similar).
• Smashing Watermelons is not an Unusual Euphemism for really big breasts.
• Smash Mook is not The Incredible Hulk's view of Mooks.
  • Nor does it describe Primids.
• Smoke Out is not about flushing dem terrorists out of their hiding places by filling it with smoke. Nor is it a reminder that you're not allowed to smoke inside.
• Smug Snake has nothing to do with the protagonist of the Metal Gear series or any of his Evil Twins.
  • Nor does it necessarily have to do with actual snakes.
  • Nor the Pokémon commonly known as "Smugleaf."
• Snark Bait is not a decoy meant to attract SM-62 Snark missiles. Or alien biological bombs. Or a difficult-to-describe, fantastic creature.
• So Bad It's Good is not about a villain becoming so evil that he overflows into becoming good.
• The Social Expert isn't necessarily an expert in marketing on Twitter and Facebook.
• Soft Water does not refer to water low in minerals.
• Solomon Divorce is not a divorce between two men named Solomon
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped is not what Bugs Bunny will say after he takes a level in badass. Neither is it the realisation of a General Ripper-type that anvils will succeed where Nuking 'Em failed.
• Something That Begins With Boring does not describe works that take several minutes to truly become interesting, or the initial story arc of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
  • Nor is it a heist that starts by drilling a tunnel underneath a building.
• Somewhere an Equestrian Is Crying does not mean that something sad happened on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Sophisticated As Hell is not about how Satan is Wicked Cultured.
• The Sorting Algorithm of Evil may be a scale of evil, but that doesn't mean Chris de Burg is high C.
• Soundtrack Dissonance isn't about discordant musical cues.
• So Okay It's Average is not somebody uttering a bored comment that that a work piece is relatively adequate, such as saying "So, okay, it's AVERAGE." (It is actually a subjective rating simply meaning that a work is not horrible or awesome but "just okay".)
• So Unfunny It's Funny is not about The Unfunny.
• Solve the Soup Cans is not a trope about Andy Warhol.
• Southern-Fried Private: To quote the page, "Despite the title, this trope is not a cross between Groin Attack and Kill It with Fire."
• Space-Filling Path does not mean a strategy to beat Snake and its likes.
• A Space Master is not about a kung-fu mentor in outer space. It's also not about someone who's become very good at organizing things in a container, unless it becomes supernatural.
• Space Mines are not about exploiting the ore in space. Nor do they have anything to do with learning to work with a hostile universe for the common good.
• A Space Opera is not an Opera being Recycled in Space.
• The Space Race does not have Space Jews as a subtrope.
• Space Whale only has to do with outer space, not inner space, Myspace, or the space bar on a keyboard.
  • Nor is it what you might see if a hypothetical merger of Myspace and Twitter was over capacity.
• Alien MDMA tabs would be an example of Space X, but they're not specifically what the trope is about.
  • Nor is it about Elon Musk's rocket company.
• Spam Attack has nothing to do with canned lunchmeat, possibly unless you end up fighting in a supermarket. Nor does it have anything to do with the Spam song. Neither does it have to do with how the Big Bad of the first Digimon movie was weakened. On a more serious note, it is about attacks that hit many times, not reusing one attack many times over.
  • It also has nothing to do with a Troll bombarding an internet forum with spam.
• The Spartan Way is not about YELLING! EVERY! WORD!
  • Conversely, This Is Sparta is not a study of The Spartan Way, although laconic speech is involved.
• Spell Construction has nothing to do with spelling the word "construction".
• Spin to Deflect Stuff is not another way of saying Do A Barrel Roll. It also has nothing to do with how politicians evade answering inconvenient questions.
• A Spin-Off is not a trope about how cordless drills were first developed for astronauts or that sort of stuff.
  • It's not a political public-relations contest.
  • And it's certainly not something the alternate future version of Simon would say to halt Gurren Lagann's attacks.
• A Spirit Bomb is nearly the polar opposite of a Molotov cocktail.
• Spit Take is not part of the solution to an early puzzle in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, nor is it a common thing to do to suspects in a Police Procedural. It also cannot be used to cure a Cannot Spit It Out.
• The Spotlight-Stealing Squad is not made up of guys from your high school who used to bully the AV Club.
• Spot Monkey doesn't ask you to identify a monkey within a large crowd of people.
• A Sprite Comic is not a comic that has been officially endorsed by the Coca-Cola corporation to promote that clear lemony-lime softdrink.
  • And it hasn't anything to do with that kind of sprites and pixies either.
• A Squash Match, surprisingly, is not a squash match. It doesn't even involve racquets of any kind.
• Squeaky Eyes is not what happens when a character is squeezed like one of those squeaky toys.
• Squirrel Girl and Squirrel Boy are not even remotely related.
• Stab the Salad isn't how you beat Saladron in Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. Nor how kids who don't like vegetables react to the sight of a salad.
• Stab the Scorpion does not refer to what happens to the yellow-clad zombie ninja from Mortal Kombat when you FINISH HIM!
  • Nor does it refer to the ending of The Mummy Returns.
• Stage Names is not about what the people who make Video Games call their stages/levels/worlds/whatever.
• Stalking Mission is not a guide on how to secretly observe and follow around that fourteen year-old Twi'lek orphan girl. Besides, she's probably already following you around, so that's kind of pointless.
• The Standard Female Grab Area is not the anatomical location where women grab men; quite the opposite. Furthermore, it is not anywhere inappropriate.
• Starboarding is not what the Silver Surfer does for fun.
  • Nor is it a variation of waterboarding that is only carried out on famous people.
• Stargate City is a real-world city, and doesn't have any Stargates in it, apart from props.
• The Stars Are Going Out is not about celebrities dating each other.
• The Starscream is not Lucas and Ness calling their Final Smash.
• Static Stun Gun does not refer to stun guns that aren't even animated when used and thus look like the wielder is too stupid to activate it before using. Nor does it refer to stun weapons that don't have any visible effect in the first place.
• Status Quo Is God is not meant to imply that the band behind "Rockin' All Over The World" are worthy of worship. They're good, but not that good. Nor is it sucking up to the fictional rapper in the show Off Center.
• Staying Alive is not about disco music, dancing, John Travolta, or really outdated dancing fads.
• The Stealth Mentor does not silently sneak up on people, grab them from behind, then whisper advice in their ears before fading back into the shadows.
  • Nor is he a wise old ninja who trains heroes in the art of invisibility.
• Stealth Parody does not involve making fun of Metal Gear Solid, Thief, Splinter Cell or similar games.
• Steam Never Dies isn't about the uptime of a PC app store operated by Valve.
• Stephen Ulysses Perhero is not a reference to James Joyce's wandering hero.
• Sticks to the Back doesn't involve the old trick of poking someone with a stick while bluffing that it's a gun. Nor is it beating people up with cricket bats. Nor does it have anything to do with putting the White and Black Mages and Squishy Wizards in the back of the party so they take less damage.
• Stocking Filler is not about those tchotchkes generally only bought as small gifts, that nobody would actually ever use for anything.
  • Or the act of collecting parts of anime series that don't further the plot at hand.
• Stock Parodies are not parodies about preparing a food in flavored water.
• "Stop Having Fun!" Guys is not the ungrammatical plea from a little sibling for your mother to stop cooking mushrooms.
  • Nor is it a sentence that could be followed up with "and start getting bored".
  • Nor is it a plea against the proliferation of useless characters in Chrono Cross.
• Story-Breaker Power is not the same as Living Lie Detector, and doesn't usually have to do with the ability to automatically see through false alibis either.
• Stout Strength does not involve beer.
• The Straight and Arrow Path is not about arrows flying in a straight line. That's No Arc in Archery.
• Straight Man is not a superhero with a notable lack of Ho Yay. Nor is it dealing exclusively with heterosexual men.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy is not a heterosexual and his Magical Queer, nor does it imply that heterosexuals cannot be wise.
• Strangled by the Red String has absolutely nothing to do with The Tale of Despereaux.
• Straw Loser is not an accurate description of the Scarecrow after someone cuts him open. Nor is it the guy who draws the short straw.
  • Strawman Political is not what happens when the Scarecrow runs for a government position.
• Strawman U is not where scarecrows get a brain.
• A Straw Vulcan is not a scarecrow with pointy ears, a straw version of a British bomber aircraft, a Vulcan rotary gun made of straw, or a lame knockoff of an early Super Sentai team.
• The Streisand Effect is not about how angrily reacting to someone making fun of you makes people want to make fun of you more. It is loosely related though.
• Strictly Formula is not about a mother refusing to breast-feed a baby.
  • Nor is it about the slightest error when mixing things causing everything to be destroyed.
• Stroke Country is not called that because of a high rate of cerebral aneurysms.
• Strong Family Resemblance isn't how similar the Strongs Bad, Mad, and Sad look. (Which is to say, not very.)
• Stuffed Into the Fridge is not a variation of Stuffed Into a Locker.
• Stunt Casting is not about the process of casting stunt doubles.
• Stupid Good isn't about a slang term for extremely good.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler is not how someone feels who keeps getting interfered by Adolf Hitler flying around on a jetpack.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders is not about how northern Belgium is a thick but attractive area.
  • Nor is it the profile of an Axis Powers Hetalia character.
  • Nor is it necessarily about having Perverse Sexual Lust for Flandre Scarlet.
• Stylish Protection Gear is not about cool-looking condoms.
• Stylistic Suck is not about porn, trendy ways to operate vacuum cleaners, or fashionable ways for vampires, leeches, or spiders to feed.
• Styrofoam Rocks is not an opinion about how nifty the substance is, not about how well it plays the guitar.
• Sword Chucks is not about instances where someone chucks a sword.
• Sword Plant is not a plant in the shape of a sword.
  • Nor a factory that produces swords.
• Sublime Rhyme is not about vaporizing a poem.
• Sub-Trope is not a trope related to submarines or long sandwiches.
  • Nor is it a list of tropes related to the Uke in a BDSM relationship.
• Such a Lovely Noun is not about complimenting pieces of grammar.
• Sudden Anatomy is not about flashing people.
• Sue Donym is not about give your Mary Sue another name you go by.
  • Nor is it about characters whose real names are identical to their authors' obviously pseudonymic pen-names (à la Anne Onymous).
• Suetiful All Along is not about a character whose true name is Sue.
• Sugar Bowl is not a mysterious MacGuffin the purpose of which is left to reader speculation, nor is it an American college football game.
  • Nor is it an unusual storage container for sweets, or the bowl the sugar cubes are put in at a cafe.
• Super Breeding Program is not about eugenics programs where supers are encouraged to have lots of children.
• A Super Couple is not a pair of romantically-involved superheroes.
• A Super Gender Bender is not when a male changes to something beyond female or when a female changes to something beyond male or about someone turning into a hyperbole of the opposite gender. It is also not about someone going from a regular gender to a Super Gender.
• Superhero Packing Heat has nothing to do with Either version of the Human Torch, Firestorm, Fire or any other character who's main power is Playing with Fire.
• The Super Move Portrait Attack is not what Relm is especially known for using.
• Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven is not about an octopus with a mohawk whose pudding-induced flatulence propels him faster than a fighter jet. Nor is it the seventh version of an eight-legged Humongous Mecha powered by highly filling puddings. Nor is it about... well, it would be quicker to just say that any possible meaning you could wring out of those seven words would have nothing whatsoever to do with that article. That's the entire point.
• Supermarionation is one word and not the title of the next Mario game.
• Super-Trope is not what Trope-tan's superhero alterego is called. But it SHOULD be.
  • Nor is there a coresponding Bat Trope or Spider Trope.
  • Nor does it imply being more awesome than the average trope.
• A Superweapon Surprise is not a resolution in which everyone in the story knew about the existence of a superweapon, but the audience didn't.
• Super Weight is not a sign that Superman needs to go on a diet.
• Super Window Jump is not the sequel to the SNES sequel of an NES game called "Window Jump".
• Sure, Let's Go with That is not synonymous with Throw It In or Sure Why Not.
• Surprise Tropes is not an alternative name for the random button.
• You do not get Survivor Guilt after the contestant you bitched about for 6 weeks is voted off the island. Neither is it feeling your participation in a Survivor season to be an Old Shame.
  • Also doesn't refer to someone who is the only survivor because he killed everyone else.
• Sweater Girl does not mean that sweaters have genders. Nor is it a name for a joke hero or villain in a Comic Book.
• Sweeps are not a group of identical Transformers created by Unicron.
• Sweet Polly Oliver is not Sweet Polly Purebred's real name.

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• Take That is not about Phoenix Wright's Catch Phrase for when he presents crucial evidence. Nor the band.
• "Take That!" Kiss is not about when someone forcibly kisses someone else. Nor a Take That directed at Kiss.
• Take That, Scrappy! is not a demand of those meddling executives.
  • Also, it doesn't describe a character who is The Scrappy because he issues a Take That to the audience.
• Taken for Granite is not when a character is pretending to be a statue. (Unless they start out by pretending and then turn into statues for real.)
• Tangled Family Tree is not about Rapunzel discovering her royal ancestry.
• Tank Goodness is not how nice it is that there's someone in your party taking damage for you. Nor is it a measure of how well geared that person is.
• Tap on the Head is not a sex act, unless your idea of great sex involves being unconscious. Nor is it a way to make someone's head dispense beer.
• Taste the Rainbow is not about... doing "things" with Rainbow Brite. Or Rainbow Randolph. Or Rainbow Dash. Or fruit-flavored candies.
• Tastes Like Diabetes is usually not what a Humanitarian comments after eating a fat person.
  • Or something Wilford Brimley would say. He would actually say it "tastes like diabeetus".
  • Or dialogue from the inevitable Retsuslash.
• Tear Jerker is not the short name for a game with inconsistent framerate and screen tearing.
  • Nor is it a man who pleasures himself when watching people cry. Or uses Tales of the Abyss as Fetish Fuel.
  • Nor is it that incredibly sour ice pop.
  • It is also not a 18+ rated sad work.
• Technicolor Death is not the death of Technicolor.
• A Technological Pacifist is not a robot who refuses to fight.
• Technopath is about neither technology-obsessed psychopaths, paths of technological development, nor anyone who just loves that electronic-sounding dance-party music. Nor is it about someone who hates machines to the point of becoming violent and irrational around them. It is also not about a trail that will lead you to the Lost Technology.
• Television Is Trying to Kill Us is not about killer TVs. Or about Persona 4, for that matter.
• Televisually-Transmitted Disease is not about diseases that are actually spread by television transmissions.
• Telly Tropes involves Kojak and Blofeld to some extent, but he's not the main focus.
  • It's also not a list of tropes that specify a certain purple monster.
• Tempting Fate does not involve Nanoha in a bikini.
• Ten Minutes in the Closet is not about someone who very quickly comes out as gay.
• Terra Deforming does not involve pink Esper forms.
  • Nor is it about Slade brainwashing Terra into becoming evil.
• That Didn't Happen has nothing to do with Canon Discontinuity or Fanon Discontinuity.
• That Man Is Dead is not a needless declaration by Captain Obvious, made for the benefit of his team mates, after having just shot an adversary in the face.
• That One Boss: Strategy is not a list of particularly clever methods that have been used to defeat bosses.
• That One Case is not an especially difficult part of Ace Attorney.
• That's What She Said and What He Said are not Distaff Counterpart tropes.
• The Band Minus the Face is not a Five-Bad Band (or other such group of villains) without its Token Good teammate.
• The Big Race has nothing to do with Race Tropes.
• The Chick is not about Egbert or the Baby Chickenhawk, though it may apply to Tweety Bird or Sweety Pie.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard does not mean that your computer is having an affair with someone else.
• The Computer Is Your Friend is not a player-favoring variant of The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard.
• The Hitler Card can't be literally played.
• The Power of Rock is not a trope about the type advantages of using only Rock-type Pokemon in battle. It's not about how strong the Gym Leader in the anime that trains Rock-type Pokemon is, either; that would be "The Power Of Brock".
• The Many Deaths of You has nothing to do with Agrajag, nor other such constant reincarnation-death cycles.
• There Are No Therapists is not talking about items in Disgaea that fail to grant resistance to status ailments.
• There Is No God is something characters say when an event makes them lose their faith (or claim to). It's not about universes that are known to not have a God, or about characters that are atheists to begin with.
• There Is No Try is not about rugby.
• There Was a Door does not automatically lead to the assumption that it's gone now.
• There Will Be Cake is a lie, even though the trope namer wasn't.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know does not refer to Women's Mysteries.
• The Beard is not about Growing the Beard, nor is it about growing an actual beard.
  • On the other hand, Beard of Evil and Badass Beard, for instance, are about actual beards, not people who are The Beard and also evil/badass.
• The Tetris Effect is not about when you just can't stop playing. That's Just One More Level.
• The "The" Title Confusion is unrelated to such works as Attack Of the The Eye Creatures.
• They Fight Crime is only tangentially related to crime fighting.
• They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste is not an ecological complaint against the development of desert areas.
• The Thing That Goes Doink is not a Tonberry. It isn't the Duplicator, either. (That actually goes boink.) If you're thinking of wrestling clowns, then you're still off.
  • It's not about erections either.
• A Thinly Disguised Pilot does not fly an airplane.
• This Index Is Better is not full of subjective tropes.
• This Index Means Trouble is not about Giving Someone the Pointer Finger.
• This Index Will Kill You is not about a Finger-Poke of Doom.
• This Is a Drill is not Crocodile Dundee's supposed response to This Is Not a Drill.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch is not what one says when avenging Emphasis Bitch.
• This Is My Boomstick has absolutely nothing to do with shotguns. Most of the time. And even less to do with the Boom Stick trope.
• This Is Wrong on So Many Levels isn't about a Plot Hole, Scrappy Mechanic, or Game Breaking Bug that spans a large chunk of a video game.
• This Loser Is You is not the inverse of A Winner Is You.
• Those Two Guys aren't necessarily the only ones that exist in canon. Neither are they related to That One Boss.
• Thread Hopping has nothing to do with a discussion from one thread hijacking an entirely separate one.
• Thriving Ghost Towns are not ghost towns that are mysteriously clean and well-kept in spite of years of abandon.
  • Nor is it a town full of well-to-do undead.
• Through His Stomach is not about a character getting shot or stabbed there.
  • It's also not about where you go after getting swallowed by a whale.
• A Throwaway Country isn't one whose residents prefer disposable goods to reusable, repairable ones.
• Characters are not Thrown From the Zeppelin because they have no ticket. Or because they keep calling it a balloon.
  • They're not Thrown Down a Well because THIS IS SPARTAAAA!, either.
• Thunder Shock does not refer to finding thunder shocking. Despite what you may think, this never happens to Pikachu.
• Thundraphobia, the old name for Fear of Thunder, is not a fear of the Marvel character, although that fear would not be unreasonable. Nor is it a fear of the Thundercats' homeworld; that's Thundera. Sadly, these two fears caused the page to be renamed, as these were far scarier than starships and sauropods.
  • It also wasn't fear of the phoenix character from the Aladdin series. Though there were some episodes where fear of her would make sense.
• A Time Compression Montage is not a Montage depicting Ultimecia doing her stuff.
• Timeline-Altering MacGuffin is not about items containing infallible predictions about the future that people use to get rich quick by placing their bets accordingly.
• Toasted Buns is not about cinamonny breakfast food.
• The Token Mini-Moe is only sometimes a Tagalong Kid who's also a Token Minority.
• A Token Romance does not necessarily involve two Token Minorities.
• Tomato in the Mirror rarely involves tomatos or mirrors.
  • Nor is it a Veggie Tales version of Michael Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror"
• A Tomato Surprise is not a specialty soup.
• Too Dumb to Live is not about people whose physical inability to speak costs them their lives.
• Too Soon has nothing to do with time travel.
  • Nor does it have anything to do with Ragnaros.
• Topical Tropes are not applied directly to the forehead.
  • Topical Tropes are not applied directly to the forehead.
    • Topical Tropes are not applied directly to the forehead.
  • Topical Tropes are, however, available without a prescription.
• Totally Radical has little to do with extremists and fundamentalists.
  • Or, for that matter, Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV.
  • Or with mathematics.
• A Total Party Kill isn't something that dampens the mood of your social gathering.
  • It might.
• To the Batpole does not refer to a baseball bat.
• To the Pain is not the last words of anyone on Naruto.
  • It's also not a toast made by a sadist.
  • It's also not a math term.
• Too Head-Tiltingly Kinky To Torture is not a trope.
• Touched by Vorlons has nothing to do with Naughty Tentacles. Thankfully. Or sadly.
• Touhou Project is not a program by Toho Studios to create Kaiju. Though that would be awesome.
• Toy Ship is not when the writers of a work "toy" with readers by hinting at a relationship that may never happen.
  • Or about a plastic buoyant vessel.
  • Or about shipping Toy Story characters.
  • Or about sending toys from one place to another.
• A Transformation Comic is about involuntary transformation, not freely changing in and out of an alt-mode like The Transformers.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions does not involve Snagglepuss.
• Trailers Always Spoil is not about non-Ragnarok Proofing enabled trailers.
• Traitor Shot does not mean Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.
• Trance isn't about an altered state of consciousness.
• A Trans-Redemptive Symbol isn't necessarily about gender identity.
• Transformation Conventions does not mention AnthroCon and similar gatherings.
• Trauma Inn is not when the stay at the inn gives you trauma.
  • It is also not related to Hell Hotel.
• A Treacherous Advisor is not to be confused with an Evil Chancellor, although it's possible characters that are both exist.
• A Trend Aesop is not An Aesop that appears in a large number of works at once before becoming less popular.
  • Or An Aesop to use your virus scanner.
• Trick Dialogue doesn't necessarily happen during an encounter with a hooker.
• Tricked-Out Time does not involve putting spinning rims on your grandfather clock.
• Trilogy Creep is not a creepy protagonist of a trilogy, or a creepy fanboy who only reads trilogies.
• Triple Shifter does not have to do with the Triple Changers from Transformers.
• Tron Lines is not about the particular style of dialog in Tron.
  • Nor is it an alternative to Lay Lines.
• A Troll Fic is not a Homestuck fanfic about the aliens from Alternia, although such a fic can be a Troll Fic.
  • The MSPA fan community decided to call fan adventures about the aliens from Alternia "trollventures" and fan adventures made to be deliberately offensive "trollingventures" because of that.
• The Trope Formerly Known as X is not a list of Renamed Tropes.
• Trope Overdosed is not about absorbing lethal levels of trope knowledge. But be careful.
• Trope-tan does not describe a change in skin tone from spending too much time editing the wiki. But be careful. Neither is it an Unfortunately Named Chinese person.
• Subject 101 is not a beginner's class on this site.
• Troping The Light Fantastic does not discuss tropes in The Light Fantastic.
• A Truck Driver's Gear Change is not about operators of massive transportation machines shifting their transmissions.
• True Love's Kiss does not mean that True Jackson is a Kiss Fan Girl.
• Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty is not about nobility trying to hide their participation in grimy underground cage matches.
• Tsundere is not a tsunami's derriere.
• Turns Red is not a Face Heel Turn where the villain is a commie.
• Turn Undead is an ability to get rid of things that are already undead, not to turn things that are alive undead.
• Turtle Island is not an island inhabited by turtles. It also hasn't anything to do with the Caribbean island Tortuga.
  • Nor does it have anythnng to do with the Galapagos islands.
• TV Strikes is not a 1950s horror movie. But it so should be.
  • It does not mean that TV is good at throwing the ball in baseball or bowling.
• Twenty Bear Asses does not mean a bunch of people mooning passersby on a highway. It also does not refer to a group running a caravan of donkeys.
• Twenty-Four-Hour Party People are not those annoying neighbors who are always partying.
• Twerp Sweating has nothing to do with Team Rocket making things warm for the twerps.
• Twilight of the Old West isn't about wangsty vampire cowboys. Or Twilight Sparkle moving to Appleloosa.
• 2-D Space is not related to breast size, or really, breasts at all.
• A Tyke Bomb is rarely a child suicide bomber.
• Typewriter Eating does not promote the consumption of word processors.