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MacGuffin: [1]*
Madness Shared by Two: Folie à deux
Madonna-Whore Complex: [2]*
Mad Scientist: [3]*
The Mafia: American Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, and Organized crime in Italy
The Mafiya: Russian mafia in popular culture
Magic 8-Ball: [4]*
Magical Girl: [5]*
Magical Girlfriend: [6]*
Magical Negro: [7]*
Magical Seventh Son: Seventh son of a seventh son
Magic Carpet: [8]*
Magic Square Puzzle: Magic square
Magnetic Weapons: [9]*
Magnum Opus: [10]*
Mail-Order Bride: [11]*
Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Public sex
Malaproper: Eggcorn
Male Gaze: [12]*
Malicious Slander: Defamation
Malt Shop: Soda shop
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Non-paternity event
Mammy: Mammy archetype in the United States
Mana: Magic (gaming)
Manchurian Agent: Sleeper agent
Mandela Effect: False memory
Man-Eating Plant: [13]*
Maneki Neko: [14]*
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: [15]*
The Man in the Moon: [16]*
Many Questions Fallacy: Loaded question
Marriage of Convenience: [17] *
Martial Beret: Military beret
Martians: [18]
Mary Sue: [19]* invoked
Mascot: [20]*
Match Cut: [21]*
Matriarchy: [22]*
Matricide [23]*
Matrix Raining Code: Matrix digital rain
Mayan Doomsday: 2012 phenomenon
The Maze: [24]*
Meaningful Name: Aptronym, Nominative determinism
The Meaning of Life: [25]*
Mecha: [26]*
Medical Monarch: Royal touch
Meditating Under a Waterfall: Misogi
Medley: Medley (music)
Medusa: [27]*
Meet Cute: [28]*
MegaCorp: Megacorporation
Meganekko: [29]
Melismatic Vocals: Melisma
Memetic Mutation: Internet memeinvoked
Men Are the Expendable Gender: Male expendability
Men Are Tough: Masculinity
The Men in Black: [30]*
The Mentor: Wise Old Man
Mephistopheles: Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture
Merchandise-Driven: Toyetic
Mercy Kill: Euthanasia
Mesodiplosis: Repetition (rhetorical device)
Messianic Archetype: Christ figure
Meta Fiction: [31]*
Metagame: Metagaming
Metalhead: Heavy metal subculture
Metal Scream: Screaming (music)
Metaplot: [32]*
Metapuzzle: [33]*
Metaphorically True: Half-truth*
Metatron: [34]*
The Metaverse: [35]*
Meteorite of Doom: Near-Earth object, Asteroid impact prediction, etc.
Method Acting: [36]*invoked
The Metric System Is Here to Stay: Metrication
Metroidvania: [37]*
Mexican Standoff: [38]*
Mickey Mousing: [39]*
Microtransactions: [40]*
Middle Child Syndrome: [41]*
Middle Name Basis: [42]*
Might Makes Right: [43]*
Mighty Whitey: White saviour narrative in film (not exactly the same, but very closely related)
Miko: [44]*
Mile-High Club: [45]*
Miles Gloriosus: Alazon
Military Academy: [46]*
Military Alphabet: NATO phonetic alphabet
Military Brat: [47]*
Military Coup: Coup d'état
Military Salute: Salute
Millennium Bug: Year 2000 problem
A Million Is a Statistic: Identifiable victim effect
Mind Over Matter: Psychokinesis
Mind Rape: Psychological torture
Min-Maxing: [48]*
Miniature Effects: [49]*
Mini-Game: [50]*
Minimalism: [51]*
Minnesota Nice: [52]*
Mi'raj: Al-Mi'raj
Miranda Rights: Miranda warning
Mirror Chemistry: Chirality (chemistry)
Misanthrope Supreme: Misanthropy
Miscarriage of Justice: [53]*
Misplaced Retribution: Displaced aggression
Missing White Woman Syndrome: [54]*
Mission Creep: [55]*
The Mistress: [56]*
Mix-and-Match Critters: Hybrid beasts in folklore and List of hybrid creatures in folklore
Mob War: Gang#Gang violence
The Mockbuster: [57]*
Model Sheet: [58]*
Moe: [59]*invoked
Moe Anthropomorphism: [60]*
The Mole: [61]*
Molotov Cocktail: [62]*
Money-Making Shot: Money shot
Money to Burn: Money burning
Monkey Morality Pose: Three wise monkeys
Monkeys on a Typewriter: Infinite monkey theorem, Infinite monkey theorem in popular culture
Mono no Aware: [63]*
Monster Clown: Evil clown
Monster Fangirl: Hybristophilia
Monster of the Week: Villain of the week
Montages: [64]*
Monty Hall Problem: [65]*
Mooning: [66]*
Moon-Landing Hoax: Moon landing conspiracy theories and Moon landing conspiracy theories in popular culture
Moon Rabbit: [67]*
Moonwalk Dance: [68]*
Mooks: Mob (gaming)
Moral Event Horizon: Eternal sininvoked
The Morlocks: [69]*
Morton's Fork: [70]*
MOS: [71]*
Most Tropers Are Young Nerds: Wikipedia:Systemic bias, much more of a problem there than here
Mother Nature: [72]*
The Mothman: [73]*
Motion Blur: [74]*
Motion Capture: [75]*
Motion Comic: [76]*
Mountain Man: [77]*
Mountain Warfare: [78]*
Mouse Trap: [79]*
Movie Multipack: Back-to-back film production
Moving the Goalposts: [80]*
Mrs. Claus: [81]*
Mrs. Robinson: Cougar (slang)
Mr. Imagination: Fantasy prone personality
Mister Seahorse: Male pregnancy
MUCK: TinyMUCK
The Multiverse: [82]*
Mummy: Mummy (undead)
Münchausen Syndrome: [83]*
Munchkin: [84]*
Murder, Inc.: Contract killing (also see this article on the Trope Namer: Murder, Inc.)
Murder-Suicide: [85]*
Murphy's Law: [86]*
Must Have Caffeine: Caffeine dependance
Mutants: [87]* (fictional)
The Mutiny: [88]*
Mutually Assured Destruction: [89]*
My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Life review
My Local: Pub
Mystery Meat: [90]*

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