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    This is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to certain tropes that will never be agreed upon by the community, either due to being absolutely universal, pointless, far too subjective, Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, or The Same but More.

    Compare Lousy Alternate Titles for titles that will never happen.

    Too Universal / People Sit on Chairs

    • Tropes That Will Happen
    • Walking Through A Doorway - Seen It a Million Times and Truth in Television
    • Breathing Oxygen - So much so that aversions and subversions have become tropes in their own right.
    • Two Objects Cannot Be In One Place (and its inversion...And no, Teleporter Accidents do not count,)
    • One Object Cannot Be In Two Places
      • Also subverted by Quantum Mechanics.
        • Only in the Copenhagen interpretation, there are other interpretations where a something only is at one place a time[1]
      • Sure it can. It just will be in two pieces.
    • Time Always Moves Forward
    • Guy Looks Like A Dude
      • Gal Looks Like A Chick
    • Small And Completely Inconsequential Bugs (like sprite flickering)
    • Three-Dimensional Euclidean Geometry
    • The Word "The" (except in Spell My Name with a "The")
    • Didnt Get The Call, Didn't Find the Call, Couldn't Care Less About The Call
      • and its subtrope, Didn't Get The Call And Really Are Just As Happy About It; Happier, Maybe.
    • The Call Doesn't Want To Contact You And You Don't Really Want To Be Contacted Either And Later The Call Calls Someone Who Wants To Be Called
    • The Bad Guy Fails
      • The Bad Guy Dies, with subtrope Disney Villain Death
      • The Bad Guy Fails High School
      • The Bad Guy Fails Physics Forever
    • Really As Old As They Look
    • Porn With Porn
      • Plot With Plot
    • Moderately Hard Difficulty
    • Steam, of a non-gaming platform AND non-punk kind.
      • I'll be surprised if there isn't a trope about steam vents as obstacles in games.
    • Windmills Actually Do Work That Way
    • Everyday Clothing
    • Pressing the Start Button
      • Averted by the Wii, which lacks a Start button. Generally "+" is pause, and main screens use "press A+B" or "press any button".
      • Inverted with Windows, which requires you press the "Start" button in order to shut down.[2]
      • The Commodore 64 has no Start key or button.
    • Two People Who Do Not Meet And Who Are Not In Love
    • The Slapwankles Tetra-Inversion Principle:

    Tom Siddell: It's when a character says something to another character in a story, and then later a different character says a thing that has nothing to do with that other thing.

    "Alright, I see your quarter and raise you a stick of gum."
    "Ooh, high roller!"


    Too Obscure/Bizarre

    Too Specific

    • You Fail Disco Forever
    • The Cheating Bastard is a Computer
    • Boy Eats Girl
      • Vore fetish in a nutshell
        • The inverse is more common.
      • There actually is a movie called this.
    • Boy Meets Robot Girl. Boy Loses Robot Girl. Boy Builds New Robot Girl From Spare Parts.
    • Antidisestablishmentarianism Does Not Work That Way
    • The Password Is Always "W./#K|&c~`3"
    • Ferris Bueller's Two Week Sick Leave
    • Watching Paint Dry
      • Classic, tropable catch phrase.
        • Watching Grass Grow
          • Watching Paint Grow
        • Watching Grass Dry: When people are underwhelmed by or cynical towards the beauty of a sunrise.
        • People Who Are Dead Inside
          • People Who Are Dead Outside
            • Should be 'Too Universal' since almost everyone is covered by dead skin cells.
              • Wouldn't be as funny there. :P
    • Jumped On The Caller
    • The Character That Is Never Mentioned, Hinted At, Or Relevant To The Plot In Any Way, Shape, Or Form
      • Sir Not Appearing on the Trope Page?
        • You Know, That Non-Entity Where...
    • You Can Argue With Elves And Prove Your Point.
      • Screw You, Elves!
      • Fuck Your Elves!
      • You Can Sit Down And Have A Nice Calm Discussion With Elves
      • Trying To Argue With Elves While Watching Them Bathe
        • that's the trope Elminster in Myth Drannor is built upon...
    • Sliding Scale Of Sepia - an index of tropes dedicated to the tint of the film the director chooses to shoot on.
      • This might not be a bad idea, especially as a way of quantifying Real Is Brown.
    • Cassandra Was Wrong And The Truth Isn't Out There
    • The Political Leader That Everyone Likes, Always Does Right, And Isn't Secretly Satan, God And/Or The Antichrist
      • Real Life doesn't even have any of these.
      • For a given value of "everyone": Optimus Prime.
        • And for a given value of "political".
      • The Jellyman from Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime, maybe.
      • Um, Dumbledore. Duh.
        • Somewhat deconstructed in DH, though it was made pretty clear that after his childhood he was a very good person.
      • See also: Mary Sue.
    • The Buffalos From Buffalo That Buffalos From Buffalo Intimidate Intimidate Buffalos From Buffalo.
    • Every Thirtieth Point In Base Thirteen
      • Thirty points is thirty points, no matter what base you're counting in.
    • Shoot The Dog Out Of A Cannon
    • Shoot The Dog Out Of Canon
    • Shaving The Shaggy Dog
    • Sliding Scale Of A Snake's Underside
      • Sliding Scale Of A Moving Piano Playing Scales
    • The OTHER Other Wiki
    • The Uther Wiki
    • The Udder Wiki
    • The Under Wiki
    • The Über Wiki
    • List of video games for the Xbox named Halo
      • That Don't Have Numbers or Other Words Attached to the Title
      • List of video games for the Play Station 3 named Halo.
      • List of video games for the Halo named Xbox
    • Freud Was Mostly Just Projecting His Own Insecurities Onto Other People
      • Freud Just Had A Really Hot Mom
      • This Is Your Freud On Drugs
        • Real Life.
        • Freud Knew Oedipus, And He LIKED Him
      • This Is Your Freud On Phlebotinum
    • The Dog Shot First, but then it was sent to prison, before being transferred to the hospital due to eating a cake with a jackhammer in it, where it lived until it died several years later.
      • The Dog Shot First, But Missed, Then The Cat Shot Back And Splattered Its Doggy Guts All Over The Wall, No Seriously I'm Not Bitter, One Coin To Clean Up The Whole Mess, Solo?
      • The Dog Shot Second
    • The Comrade Syndrome, in which all socialists and communists say "Comrade" and, shortly afterwards, are brutally censored, and I don't mean like normal censorship, where the things being censored are only relatively gruesome, or not safe for work, I mean the stuff being censored is so gruesome that even the censor covering it is not safe for work before being beaten to near death with their dead pet, child, friend, and/or genitalia, before their body is relax, I am only doing this for your sanity, you'll thank This Troper someday, think of kittens, or flowers, or even less brutal violence. The Aristocrats.
    • You Can Argue With Elves And Reach A Reasonable Agreement That Benefits Both Parties
    • All Writers Are Undead Talking Animals Masquerading As Humans
    • Next-Door Neighbor Is Planning To Go To The Beach On A Sunday With His Family Of Four
    • You Fail Third Period Gym Class
    • You Fail Third Period Lunch
    • You Fail Having a Period
    • A Slight Itch In Your Left Ear
      • Someone is gossiping about you?
    • Kick The Dog Then Feel Bad About It Later And Give The Dog Some Bacon To Make Up For It, Provided The Dog Isn't Still Pissed Off, In Which Case You'll Probably Have To Wait Until He Comes Out From Under The Bed
      • Subtrope: And When He Does Give Him Facon For Being Such A Drama Queen
    • Dropped A Bridget Fonda On Him
      • ...well, Stephen Colbert had a Jane Fonda dropped on him...
        • How about Dropped a Bridget Moynahan on him, then? However in that case we could make the Colbert argument for Tom Brady.
    • Our Senior IV Nurses Are Different
    • Real Men Don't Care If People Shoot Them While They Aren't Wearing Pants Because Damnit They're Hungry And Want Some Cheerios
    • Chekhov's Custom .50 Cal Desert Eagle
    • Chekhov's Lightsaber - where you come up with random explanations for things that drew attention to themselves earlier, like the Star Wars Expanded Universe
    • Chekhov's Slingshot
    • Chekhov's rubber band
    • Useful Notes: I-88 in Illinois Between Mile Markers 42 and 43
    • Big Maybe
    • Gushing About Mr Krabs's Character Alignment
    • Crowning Moment of Drycleaning
    • Crowning Microwavable Giraffe Just Add Potato Salad of Shiny Leather Floating Pokemon-Filled Taco, anyone?
    • Our Vampires Are The Same
    • Everything's Better With Pope Innocent VIII
    • Dropped A Bridget Jones Diary On Him
      • "You said this wasn't a Chick Flick! I want explosions!"
    • Synonyms For The World Plimsoil - Consisting of pages AA-ABA, ABA to ABB, ABB to ABBA...
    • Goddammit Jim I Told You I Don't Like Boiled Peas
    • Linkin Park Makes An Honest Man Of Ray
    • Pantry Shot
    • Kung Fu Guy With A Reasonable And Objective Assessment of His Own Capabilities
    • Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Soundtrack With Founder's Copyright
    • Not So Hopeless - Seemingly Hopeless Auditionees that turn out to be really talented once they start performing.
      • Hopeless Auditionee Spot: "You know, I think one might be bearable... No, he's rubbish." Alternatively, "[Contestant], I think you have real talent. In scaring away animals and terrifying small children. That was hideous."
    • What Do You Mean Its Political For The Other Side (There actually is a statue in Kansas that fits this trope: Initially protesting the occupation of the Panama Canal, its current owner says the sculptor saw into the future and protested giving away the Panama Canal.)
    • Go Straight To "Revelation"
    • Just Here For The Cute Female Protagonist
      • Touhou?
      • Every Moe anime
      • By extension, Just Here For The Cute Male Protagonist
    • Just Here For The Hot Female Protagonist
    • Apple Stem Pulling Teeth
    • Tiddlywinks At Noon
    • Screw The Rules I Have Pot
    • Spin To Deflect Criticism
    • Batman Is Unrealistic
    • Nobody Wants To Remember The Stripper
    • Norbert's Scale Of Gameplay And Story Segregation
    • Radiantophilia
    • Massively Multiplayer Online H-Game
    • What Do You Mean, It's Not Locupletative?
    • Big Yo
    • Aesop Unfriendly Family
      • The X Files episode "Home".
    • Medium-Heavy Sleet Equels Death
    • The Author Reads TV Tropes Because He Wants To Eliminate Any Tropes From His Work But It Turns Out Everything Is A Trope So He Sinks Into Despair And Kills Himself And The Thing He Was Writing Is Never Written So Wait How Do We Even Have A Page On This Thing Anyway?
    • Ominous Latvian Chanting
    • But You Screw One Goat! Dead Kid Goat While On Fire aka necropedopyrobestiality
    • Dude, She's Like, In Oklahoma!
    • Everything's Better With The Golomyunka Fish That Lives In Lake Baikal And Is Preyed Upon By The Baikal Seal
    • Most Writers Are Vampires
    • METAL BAWKSES in which our enemies hide, the cowards, the FOOLS!
    • Artistic License - Lithuanian Forest Site Types
    • Black-With-A-Couple-Of-Grey-Splotches-And-This-Weird-Purple-Bit-In-The-Corner And Bluish-Greeny-White-With-One-Thouroughly-Irritating-Black-Spot-Nothing-Else-Goes-With Morality
    • Knight In Slightly Rusted And Blood-Spattered Armour That Needs A Good Polish
    • Everything's Better With Mutant Elves With Glasses Who Ride Piggyback On Anthropomorphic Goats Who Shoot Lasers From Their Eyes
    • Hey It's That Girl Who May Or May Not Be Hotchner's Wife.
    • Dropped a TARDIS on him
    • Something Something Leonard Hofstadter
    • Fridge Fridge
      • When you're watching a show, and the entire episode focuses on this bizarre alien machine. The protagonists have no idea what it is, yet they manage to harness its powers to win before finally deciding that the world is not ready for it, leaving it behind. Then, after the episode is over, it hits you—it was a fridge!
    • Rape As Satire
    • True Art Involves Cutting Up Sharks
    • The Good Guys Always Get Captured, Raped, Stabbed, Thrown in a River, Trampled by Wildebeests, and Eaten Alive by 26 3/4 Rabid Chipmunks.
    • Dropped Raquel Welch On Him ("She's got a big bottom!")
    • Damsel in Eustress
    • Your Life Will Ruin TV Tropes
    • Zecora Was Right
    • Grateful Bastard
    • Jerk Butt
    • Failed A Girdle Check (which does happen in the Pan Am pilot)

    Complaining About Shows You Don't Like

    • Samuel L. Jackson Just Plain Sucks
    • Complaining About Shows That Like You
    • The Trolls Were Right - This is when the trolls are absolutely correct in saying that a popular television show is actually absolute trash.
      • Twilight?
        • And here I was thinking the ones who liked Twilight were the trolls.
      • My Immortal
    • The Bomb Is Rigged To Explode If Anyone Cuts A Wire Rather Than Actually Properly Defusing It
    • The Laws Of Thermodynamics Do Work That Way!
    • Complaining About Shows You've Never Heard Of
    • Complaining About Shows You Haven’t Heard Of
      • I hate ...that thing. I bugs me that it exists, whatever it is.
    • Complaining About Remakes You Don't Watch (Of Shows That You Do)
    • Complaining about facebook pages you don't like
    • Showing Complaints You Don't, Like, Like, Y'know?
    • Complaining About Legend of Zelda Monsters You Don't Like-Like
    • Shows in Which Everyone is a Mary Sue
    • Complaining About Shows That Don't Exist
      • Man, I hate My Stepdad Is a Flenser.
        • Wow! You too!
        • Thank god it wasn't renewed for a first season.
      • Red Dwarf US
      • Fanwork Ban
    • It Sucks So It Sucks
    • They Sucked It Now It Changes
    • Complaining About Ships You Don't Like aka Why Zutara Kataang Juph Blueko Is Evil
    • Complaining About Ships You Don't Like aka Why The Enterprise is terrible.
    • Got The Character's Shirt Color Wrong In One Episode
    • Caustic Critic of Caustic Critic.
    • Complaining About Trope Names You Don't Like (Though we seem to have a forum section for just that...)
    • Neon Genesis Evangelion Really Isn't That Great
    • Complaining About Laws Of Physics You Don't Like
    • Complaining About People Who Complain About People Who Complain About Shows They Don't Like
      • So this would be Complaining About Joss Whedon Fans, then?
      • Complaining About Complaining About Complaining?
    • Complaining About Broken Aesops That Suck
    • Complaining About Shows You Like ("You can tell I'm the biggest fan because I hate it more than anybody else!")
    • Complaining About Liking Shows
    • Complaining About Showing Your Likes
    • Liking Complaints About Shows
      • Darth Wiki.
    • Complaining About Shows You Don't Lick
    • Complaining About Shows You Like A Little Bit Less Than You Did Before
    • Showing Your Complaints
    • Complaining About Shows That You Made Up Just To Complain About
      • A particularly creative Troll might do this...
    • Complaining About Watching Shows
      • Complaining About Shows Watching You
    • Watching Yourself Show Complaints
    • Shows You Don't Like Complaining About YOU
      • In Soviet Russia...
      • Not Liking Shows That Complain About You
      • Complaining About Shows That Don't Like You
      • If they pull a This Loser Is You or a You Bastard (for interactive media), it counts.
    • Complaining About Complaints About Shows You Like But Other People Complain About.
    • Wild Mass Complaining - complaining about things that they'll never actually do.
    • Complaining That TV Tropes Ruined Your Life, The Bastards
    • What Do You Mean It's Not 4Kids?
    • Nobody Remembers The Stripper But You, You Sick Fuck
      • None Of The Strippers Remember You
    • Shows You Don't Like Complaining About
    • Fapping To Shows You Like
    • Fapping To Shows You Don't Like
    • Fapping To Shows You Made Just So You Could Fap To Them
    • So Average It's Good
    • It Actually Does Suck
    • And The Fandom Wept (AKA Cue Werehog)
      • Sounds like a less extreme Ruined FOREVER.
    • And The Fan Dumb Rejoiced
    • Complaining About Shows You Hate Only A Little Bit But Not Too Much
    • He Panned It Now It Sucks
    • Complaining About Shows That Don't Bring You Bagels Anymore
      • Complaining About Shows That Don't Bring You Flowers...Anymore
    • So Bad It's Locked
    • Complaining About Shows A Total Stranger Doesn't Like
    • Executive Dumb
    • Complaining About Shows You’re Completely Indifferent To
    • Gushing About Shows You Don't Like
      • Isn't that a reverse troll?
    • Complaining About Complaints You Don't Like
      • Complaining About Complaining
    • Complaining About Shows You Maintain
    • Fanbase Ruined The Work
    • Copyright Cruelty
    • Idiot Illustrator
    • Subbing Versus Dialogue Voiceover
    • Author's Stupidity Writes The Plot
    • They Banned It Now They Suck
    • Complaining About Shows Nobody Watches[4]
      • So Bad It's Horrible, if people ever stop sticking things on there just because they don't like them.
    • Complaining About Showers You Don't Like
    • Complaing About Likes You Don't Show
    • Moral Guardian Event Horizon
    • Tropes That Were Obviously Written By Bitter People Who Failed English Class
    • Gushing About Complaining You Don't Watch Shows You Like
    • Liking Shows You Don't Complain About
    • Imbecile Executive Decisions
    • Complaining About People Complaining About Shows Where They Do a Lot Of Complaining
    • Domesticated Mass Guessing
    • Animu and Mango
    • Pandering To The Hatebase
    • Unpleasable Hatebase
    • Liking Shows Everybody Hates
    • It's A Live Action Adaptation, So It Sucks
    • Needs More Hate
      • And, Needs Less Love

    Too Subjective


    The Same but More


    X Meets Y Tropes


    ABC Meets XYZ


    Silly Puns, Often on Other Trope Names

    • Chuck Norris Goes To Candy Mountain
    • Discredited Tropes Whose Time Has Come Again
    • Couldnt Think Of A Trope
    • Made Of Vin (Diesel)
    • The Trope Never Happen
    • Xanatos Supper
    • Xanatos Trip To The Bathroom
      • Xanatos Random Happenstance
    • Working That Way Does Not Work That Way
      • Performing A Task In Such A Manner Does Not Work That Way
      • Don't Work That Way
    • So Below Average That Its Not Even Bad Enough To Complain About
    • Xanatos Can't Be Bothered
    • Did Not Need To Bother To Do The Research
    • Did In Fact Do The Research
      • Did The Research But Ignored It
      • Did The Research But Did Not Cite Sources And Now Has To Repeat The Course
      • Did The Research On The Wrong Thing
      • Did The Research But The Research Is Obsolete
      • Did The Research But He Got It From Encyclopaedia Dramatica
      • Did The Research, But The Source Was Wrong
    • Done Over By The Research (Once you investigated the details, the story fell apart.)
    • Honestly Intended To Do The Research, But Just Started Browsing Cracked.com And All The Tropes Instead
    • Xanatos Chuck Norris (Hey, if Gilligan gets one...)
      • Whatever happens, the result is that Xanatos comes out ahead and Chuck Norris looks like a badass. Whoever wins, we lose.
    • Describe Describe Topic Here Here
    • Generally Inconsequential Or Unimportant
    • Dirt Is More Expensive
    • High Octave Nightmare Fuel
    • Xanatos Fails Grade School Forever
    • Crowning Moment Of Nothing
      • Crowning Moment Of Everything
        • Which is where Crowning Moment Of Awesome was going, anyhow.
    • Crowning Moment Of 'Huh?'
    • Crowning Moment Of Whatever
    • Crowning Moment of What
    • Crowning Moment Of Doom
      • Doom needs no crown, minion.
    • Title Been Rejected Mmmmhmmm
    • In A Minute You Won't Be Alive
    • Clowning Moment Of Funny
    • Lord Cthulhu's Punch-Out!!!
    • Epic Yale
    • Deus Ex Machinima
    • Deus Ex Micro Machina
    • Hand Canon
    • Heroic Open Tray Error
      • Heroic Paper Jam
    • Villainous Breakdown Rescue
      • Villainous Breakbeat
      • Villainous Breakfast
    • Die Cute
    • Absurdly Specious Sewer
    • Macaronic and Cheese
    • Spotlight-Stealing Squid (probably also Too Rare to trope)

    Too Dangerous


    Attracts the "Context" tag

    Because somebody is going to disagree.

    • And How
    • Explanation is in my head
    • No Explanation Needed
    • No Points For Guessing
    • Nuff Said
    • That's What Nuff Said
    • That Is All
    • I Would Rather Not Discuss It
    • And That's All You Need to Know
    • Do I Need To Say It?

    Attracts Pot Holes

    • I Wish I Was Making This Up
      • I Am Totally Making This Up
    • Oh, and ...
    • Quipping - Because You Fight Like a Cow really shouldn't be the trope's name.
    • So There You Go
    • The - with specific instructions to link to The page every time you use The word "The" on The wiki.
    • Full Stop
    • Well Then
    • I Love You
    • This Is Awesome
    • Overstatement
    • I Know Already!
    • What a Shame
    • The Best
    • The Worst
    • But Why?
    • Think again!
    • Brutal Subversion

    Unknowable

    • Seen It Exactly Zero Times
    • Did The Research At The Last Minute
      • Forced Someone To Do The Research For Him
    • Will Never Be Remade
    • Secretly Nonfictional
    • Index Of All Indices That Do Not Contain Themselves (think about it)
      • That's not Unknowable so much as Impossible.
        • Well, it's possible to make, just not to be complete. But how many pages on a wiki can be said to be complete?
    • Tropes That Pass In The Night
    • Tropes in Ultraviolet

    Articles That Will Never Self-Demonstrate


    Tropes That Will Never Be On Echo Chamber

    1. ↑ particles that is, as most other stuff is made of multiple particles.
    2. ↑ Actually, there are steps in between. You click "start", and then "shut down" - you click "start" to do a lot of things. You can also use ALT+F4, the shutdown command, etc.
    3. ↑ No it doesn't.
    4. ↑ Also known as: Needs More Hate
    5. ↑ I meant History
    6. ↑ Let's assume that any article about self-demonstrating articles does self-demonstrate. Therefore Self-Demonstrating Article is a self-demonstrating article, proving the assumption true. Now, let's assume that any such article doesn't self demonstrate. Therefore Self-Demonstrating Article is not self-demonstrating, and the assumption is again true.
    7. ↑ Boxer shorts notwithstanding
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