may also refer to the legalese term for "I'm washing my hands of this and whatever happens, or doesn't, may manifest as a result of this is NOT OUR FAULT it's all your fault.
"dude they stole my car! right from the parking lot and they have all this security!"
"I know, but look at your parking voucher, it has the disclaimer so it's not their problem."
When used in fanfiction, a sort-of legality placed at the beginning of each chapter. It states that the fandom doesn't belong to the author of the fanfic, and is often written in a sarcastic way, especially after several chapters.
1. Death Note belongs to Ohba-san and Obata-san. All OCs and this plot are mine. Canon plot and characters aren't.
2. Disclaimer: Death Note? Lemme check... no, still not mine.
When smoking pot, if the bowl is almost cashed and you don't want to get blamed for passing the next person a cashed bowl, you can use the simple one-word phrase "disclaimer" as a warning to the next person that the bowl might be cashed. This is particularily useful when smoking with glass because there is no screen and thus the potential for the next person to suck through ash into their mouth Help from my friend Robb and Todd on making up and spreading the use of this word.
The forced facade of racial, sexual, or physical representations without substance for the sake of virtue signaling with inconsequential or detrimental results.
Did you go see the remake of The Dark Knight? I heard they made Batman a blacklesbian journalist and the Joker a transsexual socialist.
Fuck no! Those changes didn't make the comics any better. It's just some Disclaimer Diversity ruining a perfectly good story.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.