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A character is created as a direct response to an idea or fad that is currently popular. Naturally, this character might prove schlocky or out of place once that fad passes out of pop culture, unless some writer is willing to take the character out of obscurity and build him or her up into something more. The Sliding Timescale can have a particularly odd effect on these characters, since it often restricts their debut to only a few years before "now", suggesting that such characters decided to base themselves on, say, a 1960s theme in the late 2000s. Villains who are Fad Supers have a higher chance of being kept, since they are usually intended to be eccentric, out of place, and theme-based. This isn't the same as an existing hero's ability or story being tweaked in response to the times, such as Silver Age technobabble revisionism. Compare Captain Ethnic, Cyclic National Fascination, Totally Radical. Contrast with Old Superhero, who is outdated on purpose. Particularly prone to being the subject of Reimagining the Artifact if brought back. |
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In late 1973, Enter the Dragon was a hit in Japan, so Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting was in full force. This can be seen, for example, in Ultraman Leo, Denjin Zaborger and the human cast of Red Baron. Averted with Kamen Rider Amazon, who was a traveling Bruce Lee Clone in the early concepts — this idea would be partially reused in Kamen Rider Stronger. | |
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Kamen Rider Fourze's space motif followed on the Hayabusa probe film series and the fiftieth anniversary of the first human flight into space. | |
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Worm has an early pair of supervillains, Uber and Leet, who seem patterned off of streaming sites like Twitch: they livestream their crimes and dress up in different video game-inspired costumes each outing. In a Lampshading of the trope, they are considered very silly and ineffective capes in-universe, and Taylor suggests most of the people who watch their streams do it just to laugh at them. | |
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Both Ace the Bat-Hound and Krypto the Superdog were created in 1955, a year after the premiere of Lassie. | |
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Late 1970's Japan had a notorious supercar / Formula 1 fad, as seen on Machine Hayabusa, Supercar Gattiger, Tobidase! Machine Hiryu or Gekisou! Rubenkaiser. | |
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Vibe, a member of the much-maligned Detroit-based Justice League of America, was a breakdancer with vibrational powers. To get an idea of what he used to be like have a look at this DC short. He got rebooted in the New 52 and The Flash (2014), dropping the breakdancing but keeping the vibrational powers. | |
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The mutant Negasonic Teenage Warhead, or Why It's A Bad Idea To Let A Goth Teen Name Herself. (She's less goth, but still a moody teen, in Deadpool (2016).) | |
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Hello Kitty's birthplace is listed in her bio as "London". This was inspired by a fad for British culture and music in 1970s Japan when she was created, and Sanrio has been mildly embarrassed about it ever since. | |
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DC's Super Young Team subverts this while trying to play it straight. They aren't tied to any specific trend, but they're obsessed with staying fresh and current. That said, Most Excellent Superbat, the most materialistic of the lot, is adamant that they're also somehow more than all that. | |
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Justice League International: Fire and Ice had very 1980s-looking costumes, complete with big hair and T-shirts over spandex. Ice even Lampshaded this by claiming she and Fire looked like they belonged in a Hair Metal video. Needless to say, the more recent comics and cartoon adaptations have chosen to give them different outfits. | |
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Storm was another X-Woman who got in on the punk trend - she sported a mohawk for a while in the 1980s. Word of God is that the mohawk initially began as a joke, with someone suggesting that they should make Storm look like Mr. T from The A-Team, which was a wildly popular show at the time. | |
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Minor Green Arrow villain the Pinball Wizard was likely inspired by the resurgence of interest in pinball following The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 (the character debuted in 1984). | |
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Nyan Cat was most popular between 2011 and 2012. Neon Katt from RWBY was introduced in 2015. She's a cat faunus Genki Girl inspired by the meme. | |
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah is a response to Japan's various pollution-related health disasters. | |
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Wonder Woman: For a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wonder Woman lost her powers and familiar uniform, gained a wise old Asian mentor who taught her martial arts, and had espionage adventures wearing a white jumpsuit... right around the time British Modernist fashions were making their way to the US and British spy shows like The Avengers (1960s) were popular. Most people hated this, Gloria Steinem even commenting how it was a needless depowering of the strongest female hero in comics, and it's pretty well in an Audience-Alienating Era. Ironically, the spy concept as well as the white-jumpsuit were both used in the volume of Wonder Woman following Infinite Crisis. Judging by reviews, people liked it. | |
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Whateley Universe: A few of them show up in the series backstory. Most prominent of these is the Whateley Academy Mystic Arts teacher now known as Earth Mother, whose original code name was Flower Child. Unreliable Narrator Mephisto the Mentalist notes the large number of atomic-power themed superheroes and super-villains during the 1950s - most of whom had died of cancer or acute radiation sickness by 1960. |
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Dazzler, who later became a member of the X-Men, was introduced with disco-based powers and costume (white jumpsuit and roller skates) just as disco was dying. It didn't help that she was given a big marketing push, meeting up with the likes of Galactus in a vain attempt to make the character cool, or that the entire project had begun as a proposal for a live action film in which the character was at one stage to be black, and there are John Romita Jr. sketches◊ that exist of this early Dazzler. At one point they actually had a singer who was to play the Dazzler persona but the deal between Marvel and Casablanca fell apart. Later on, Jim Shooter put together a treatment for the aforementioned movie (also to feature Donna Summer, Cher, Rodney Dangerfield, Lenny and Squiggy, Robin Williams, The Village People and KISS), and the now revived Dazzler concept's appearance ended up based mainly on Bo Derek, who was slated to star. (When she was still attached to the role, People Magazine even had her on the cover, the same month the character debuted, with her husband holding a whole bunch of Marvel mags for research!)◊ But at least she wasn't called the Disco Dazzler, as originally planned. Her Ultimate version in 2000–09 was a punk rocker. This time, the anachronism was deliberate. Once the "disco diva" gimmick was dropped, Dazzler became a fairly popular second-tier X-Woman. Dazzler revisits the disco diva gimmick during some of her performances as part of a tribute. She's a main character in Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, and Ash hits on her repeatedly. In Dazzler's introductory issue, Scott and Jean look for Dazzler in a makeshift disco inside a dilapidated building, with Scott wondering "if this was where old discos went to die". Though, in what may have been a deliberate Take That!, the "disco" Scott and Jean visit looks much more like the Masque in Los Angeles than Studio 54... Dazzler's sister/nemesis, Mortis, sports a costume similar to the Misfits from Jem and the Holograms. So one sister visually evokes 1970s disco, while the other evokes 1980s hair metal and glam rock. Earth X lampshades Dazzler’s use of this and savagely deconstructs it; after retiring from superheroics, Dazzler falls back on her music career... and becomes a washed-up relic because the fad she built herself around is long-dead. She’s desperately trying to stay relevant by staging “comebackâ€� tours, with her audiences shrinking more and more everyday. |
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla had a robotic villain to cash on the still-current Super Robot Genre anime fame. | |
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Brute Force was Marvel's attempt at cashing in with the Transformers fad as well as a more broad "toy animal craze" of the 80's/90's. It didn't quite work, considering the series was cancelled very quickly and was only acknowledged mockingly in an issue of Deadpool. Even the writers seem to have foreseen that this was a crashing ship, seeing as the early issues semi-sarcastically mock the whole premise. | |
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: The most prominent example within the fictional canon of the Sentinel Comics universe is Black Fist, a Blaxploitation kung fu hero who was subject to Reimagining the Artifact in-universe; after the Blaxploitation fad burned out and people stopped caring about his stories, the character was reworked into a grizzled Old Master coming out of retirement to face down the organised crime poisoning his city, and it's this version of the character, known as Mr Fixer, who is actually in the card game. | |
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Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop and Kidou Keiji Jiban were obvious riffs on the smash hit RoboCop (1987) , the latter with a dose of then-popular TV drama Abunai Deka — which makes it somewhat of a Recursive Adaptation since RoboCop took partial inspiration from the first Metal Heroes series, Space Sheriff Gavan. | |
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While Kamen Rider BLACK is patterned after the Metal Heroes franchise, the interactive belt gimmicks are borrowed from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. | |
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Kamen Rider Geats is openly based on popular Battle Royale Games like Fortnite and Apex Legends, as well as other Deadly Game media like Squid Game (which had released the year prior). A midseason story arc also incorporates "hidden traitor" elements from Social Deduction Games like Among Us. Though it helps that this isn't the first Rider series to take on a "Battle Royale" story (mainly Kamen Rider Ryuki twenty years prior). | |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga's down-to-earth police antics were patterned after the success of Bayside Shakedown. This theme would be popular enough to get followed by Kamen Rider Agito and brought back in Kamen Rider Blade. | |
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Kamen Rider Ryuki's card motif was a response to the popularity of Yu-Gi-Oh!, with its writing staff having previously met on the Yu-Gi-Oh! (first anime series). | |
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The Heroes for Hire, Power Man and Iron Fist, capitalized on the popularity of blaxploitation and kung fu movies, respectively, by combining the two trends. As did their female counterparts, the Daughters of the Dragon Misty Knight and Colleen Wing. And the vaguely affiliated Sons of the Tiger. | |
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1972-73's Mazinger Z anime was a smash hit that took the place of Tokusatsu's big ratings. While Jumborg Ace's close debut was probably coincidental, Robot Detective, Denjin Zaboga and Red Baron / Mach Baron were directly influenced by it, with the latter faring quite well against Mazinger for a short while. Kamen Rider V3, whose record ratings fell after Mazinger's debut, would try to follow the anime's success with a more mechanical hero, Kamen Rider X. Space Ironmen Kyodain, Daitetsujin-17 or Chiisana Superman Ganbaron were later attempts at capturing the then-ongoing mecha anime success. | |
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Books like The Movement and We Are Robin were created in response to youth-heavy social movements of the 2010's, like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street. The Movement also had a counterpart book, a relaunch of a failed 1970s concept of rich-kid adventurers called The Green Team. The idea was that the Movement was "the 99 percent" while the Green Team was "the 1 percent". | |
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The New Gods were very much written around the debates of the early 1970s - Mr. Miracle is a conscientious objector while his wife Big Barda oozes women's lib, the Black Racer's host is a paralyzed Vietnam veteran, the Forever People are pretty much space hippies, and New Genesis and Apokolips have a very obvious environmentalist theme. This is a rare case where people generally take umbrage to attempts to Reimagining the Artifact, as they see the overall themes Kirby was working with as highly applicable, and taking them away results in a bunch of generic space deities. | |
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Grunge from Gen¹³. Adam Warren had one of his sparring partners mock his name by calling him "Easy Listening" and other musical genres. Gail Simone's run explains this as a reference to the fact that he has "grunge under his fingernails", although Roxy provides a Lampshade Hanging with the comment "Grunge? You mean the stuff dinosaurs have on their iPods?" | |
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The third costume (which he kept up until the New 52 reboot) was an extensive overhaul. It ditched the jacket, skintight costume, earring, shades and Totally Radical attitude (the Civvie Spandex look took a heavy turn toward "civvie", with a t-shirt and jeans). Instead, he became more dark, brooding, and angsty, which became popular in the mid-2000s. | |
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Night Thrasher, leader of the New Warriors in the Marvel Universe, was created in 1990 with a skateboard grafted onto his urbanized Batman schtick to cash in on the rising popularity of the sport in the late '80s. As the '90s progressed, he used the board less and less and settled on a Cool Bike early in the series, plus as any connection between skateboards and the term "thrashing" largely passed out of public awareness, his name just sounds awfully nasty (although Spider-Man made a joke along this line in 1991.) He fought with twin escrima sticks so the thrashing part of his name could easily be applied to his weapons of choice. An odd detail that downplayed it with time was that he's a black skateboarder. For the uninitiated - his heyday was long before there were any big-name black skaters. (The aforementioned Rocket Racer, Marvel's other black skateboarding superhero, has much the same problem at first.) The concept has become less baffling now, since there is a subculture of African-American skateboarders. Lupe Fiasco's hit "Kick, Push" is credited with helping popularize the sport among black teenagers. While a superhero on a skateboard is fodder for jokes, in-universe The Punisher noted how versatile Night Thrasher's skateboard actually was: "I called it stupid? It's a shield, a weapon and transport. Maybe I should get one..." | |
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Dazzler's sister/nemesis, Mortis, sports a costume similar to the Misfits from Jem and the Holograms. So one sister visually evokes 1970s disco, while the other evokes 1980s hair metal and glam rock. | |
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The Koopalings, introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3, were generally given a punk aesthetic to reflect Eighties-era trends (the most notable exception being Ludwig von Koopa). They went on hiatus after Super Mario World, which would seem to reflect on Nintendo abandoning past fads. Luckily for them, they got a comeback in the last dungeon of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, followed by top billing in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, becoming franchise mainstays since. | |
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Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV's end-of-the-world prophecies — inspired on Nostradamus' 1999 quatrain and the Y2K Bug — harken back to the 70s' fascination with Paranormal Tropes, with a dose of Japan's increasing awareness on paramedics since the creation of a 1991 law and the 1995 Kobe earthquake. | |
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Ghost Rider is actually a combination of two different fads at the time the character was created in the early 1970s: stunt cycling and characters with horror-themed origins, which were then popular at Marvel Comics. Fortuitously for Marvel, his occult adventures and highly distinctive design fit in during the 1980s and '90s, especially with the influx of anti-heroes in the 1990s. His popularity has faded considerably in recent years, however. | |
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2015 saw the founding of the Gatewatch, with several established planeswalker's forming their take on the Avengers; this roughly coincided with the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. War of the Spark: Ravnica is unapologetically Magic's take on Avengers: Endgame, with the Gatewatch and various other planeswalkers facing against Nicol Bolas in an allegedly epic confrontation. The Gatewatch as a concept suffered severe backlash because of all of this (not helped by even being disliked by fans for various reasons), and so Magic's storyline has toned them down from 2019 onwards, though they still exist and are slated to have a similar event against the Phyrexians. | |
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger's generational family antics were a response to the smash hit drama Ama-chan, while the Yokai enemy motif is from Yo-kai Watch. Power Rangers Ninja Steel subsequently focused on the ninja-in-training aspect just as Boruto began making waves overseas. | |
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The Flash character Turbine seems like he was created to cash in on the renewed interest in the Tuskegee Airmen after the release of the movie Red Tails. | |
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Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger / Power Rangers Ninja Storm seemed fit to muscle in on a piece of the ninja pie inspired by Naruto, as did Juken Sentai Gekiranger / Power Rangers Jungle Fury. | |
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Batman: Villain Magpie used to sport a mohawk and an outfit that made her look like a reject from an 80's hair metal video. They brought her back in Beware the Batman. To modernize her look, she was redesigned to resemble Lady Gaga. | |
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In The Flash (1990), the Ghost was a 1950s techno-geek villain who'd originally used the then-groundbreaking technology of television broadcasts for blackmail. Not only had Ghost, himself, been a fad villain from his own era, but when he awoke from cryogenic hibernation in 1990, he was defeated by one of The '90s' own techno-fads: the heroes trapped him in virtual reality. | |
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In the early 1980s, around the time of Ultraman 80 there was a high delinquency problem in Japan. The show's main antagonistic force, Negative Energy was a stand-in for the pain these kids were going through and showing the best way to fix it was with love and compassion, with the titular Ultra's day job being an Elementary school teacher. However, the teacher-student interaction subplot was dropped roughly 20 episodes into the show. | |
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The Earth 2 version of Jimmy Olsen from the New 52 is an Edward Snowden-style "Hacktivist" rather than a print journalist. | |
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Earth X lampshades Dazzler’s use of this and savagely deconstructs it; after retiring from superheroics, Dazzler falls back on her music career... and becomes a washed-up relic because the fad she built herself around is long-dead. She’s desperately trying to stay relevant by staging “comeback� tours, with her audiences shrinking more and more everyday. | |
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Since Supreme was ripe with Postmodernism, it gave us the Televillain, who was "created" during the The '50s, as television became popular. He's still around in The '90s, but he's more or less a Harmless Villain. | |
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Aggretsuko: Retsuko is a disillusioned millennial who's worn down by her Soul-Crushing Desk Job and vents her frustrations about her job by singing death metal; she was specifically made to appeal to Japanese working women. | |
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Though the Weatherlight might draw comparisons to Star Trek and probably capitalized on contemporary Star Trek revivals (as well as Firefly), being a crew aboard a ship traveling to different worlds, most of the characters and their dynamics are actually based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ones. These Buffy inspirations continued for a while after the Weatherlight storyline concluded, being present in several cards in the Otaria block (albet as card homages rather than actual characters). | |
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The King of Fighters' Hinako Shijo was based almost entirely around a very short-lived fad that revolved around petite women and high school girls that wanted to learn how to sumo wrestle. Seriously. | |
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger had dinosaurs on it because Steven Spielberg's then-upcoming new film would be about dinosaurs. Ironically, Jurassic Park's fame would be the motive that would lead Haim Saban to adapt Zyuranger as Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. | |
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the Late 70s's science-fiction films and shows note Star Wars, Space Battleship Yamato, The Six Million Dollar Man and so on were the latest trend: This can be seen on Kyodain, Kyoryu Sentai Koseidon, Uchu kara no Message: Ginga taisen, Silver Jaguar, Denshi Sentai Denziman, X-Bomber or Kamen Rider Super-1. Even the Ultra Series would follow the trend with The Ultraman. This would be an influence later on the Space Sheriff trilogy. | |
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New Warriors: Night Thrasher, leader of the New Warriors in the Marvel Universe, was created in 1990 with a skateboard grafted onto his urbanized Batman schtick to cash in on the rising popularity of the sport in the late '80s. As the '90s progressed, he used the board less and less and settled on a Cool Bike early in the series, plus as any connection between skateboards and the term "thrashing" largely passed out of public awareness, his name just sounds awfully nasty (although Spider-Man made a joke along this line in 1991.) He fought with twin escrima sticks so the thrashing part of his name could easily be applied to his weapons of choice. An odd detail that downplayed it with time was that he's a black skateboarder. For the uninitiated - his heyday was long before there were any big-name black skaters. (The aforementioned Rocket Racer, Marvel's other black skateboarding superhero, has much the same problem at first.) The concept has become less baffling now, since there is a subculture of African-American skateboarders. Lupe Fiasco's hit "Kick, Push" is credited with helping popularize the sport among black teenagers. While a superhero on a skateboard is fodder for jokes, in-universe The Punisher noted how versatile Night Thrasher's skateboard actually was: "I called it stupid? It's a shield, a weapon and transport. Maybe I should get one..." The 2020 line-up of the cancelled New Warriors comic got swamped with backlash because of this trope. Screentime is rather transparently an attempt to create an internet age superhero with...mixed results. His mind was permanently connected to the internet by way of exposure to "experimental internet gas" and his bio helpfully informs readers that he can "instantly Google any fact". But he got off easy compared to his teammates Snowflake and Safespace, who were Marvel's impossibly ill-conceived attempt at incorporating just about every "woke" hot button issue of the day into two heroes that ultimately just communicated the company's ignorance in neon lights. |
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Denkō Chōjin Gridman and Denji Sentai Megaranger both had 1990s-high-tech cyberspace/virtual reality themes. This reached the West as well, as Gridman was adapted as Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad and the idea was applied to the Metal Heroes Frankenslation VR Troopers (but Power Rangers averted it and modified Megaranger into an outer space theme instead). | |
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This trope is possibly a reason why Dick Grayson got new Nightwing costumes. His first one was very 80s◊ while his second was very 90s◊ with hair to match and that followed him into his more familiar costume for a time. | |
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Disney Adventures published The Adventures of D & A, a comic about two kids who join a secret organization and fight aliens and monsters, at a time when similar stories of the paranormal (such as on The X-Files), or of kids and/or secret organizations involved in secret conflicts with aliens (such as in Animorphs or Men in Black) were popular. | |
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While the Tokusatsu boom was mostly over, 1975's Himitsu Sentai Gorenger proved to be that year's biggest hit. While Ishinomori did the earliest follow-ups (Akumaizer 3 and its sequel Chojin Bibyun, Uchu Tetsujin Kyodain, and the Spiritual Successor to Goranger, J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai), other works include Ninja Captor,note Briefly considered the second Super Sentai show Enban Sensou Bankid and Megaloman. Toei would later do Battle Fever J in the style of Ishinomori's Goranger / JAKQ and create a still-ongoing franchise, the Super Sentai series. | |
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Godzilla's long-lasting franchise had many opportunities to follow on current fads: Godzilla vs. Hedorah is a response to Japan's various pollution-related health disasters. Godzilla vs. Megalon was originally a film starring Mazinger / Ultraman hybrid Jet Jaguar, but Godzilla was tacked on in hopes of better profits. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla had a robotic villain to cash on the still-current Super Robot Genre anime fame. |
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Magic: The Gathering, having existed for over three decades now, is natural to this: Many early characters fully bought into '90s Anti-Hero aesthetics, though this died relatively quickly as the early comics were replaced by novel lines. Though the Weatherlight might draw comparisons to Star Trek and probably capitalized on contemporary Star Trek revivals (as well as Firefly), being a crew aboard a ship traveling to different worlds, most of the characters and their dynamics are actually based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ones. These Buffy inspirations continued for a while after the Weatherlight storyline concluded, being present in several cards in the Otaria block (albet as card homages rather than actual characters). 2015 saw the founding of the Gatewatch, with several established planeswalker's forming their take on the Avengers; this roughly coincided with the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. War of the Spark: Ravnica is unapologetically Magic's take on Avengers: Endgame, with the Gatewatch and various other planeswalkers facing against Nicol Bolas in an allegedly epic confrontation. The Gatewatch as a concept suffered severe backlash because of all of this (not helped by even being disliked by fans for various reasons), and so Magic's storyline has toned them down from 2019 onwards, though they still exist and are slated to have a similar event against the Phyrexians. |
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Lady Shiva was created to cash in on the 1970s Bruce Lee Kung-Fu craze. She debuted within the pages of Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter, but her popularity outlasted that series. She's still a martial arts master, but no longer looks like a 1970s Dragon Lady. | |
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Gekisou Sentai Carranger would have a new car motif, but this time the Japanese trend was about Recreational Vehicles. | |
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Late 2010s Rainbow Magic fairies were inspired by trends going on around the time, such as making slime (Sasha), K-pop boy bands (Jae), and squishy toys (Zainab). | |
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It's hard to tell whether Marvel: The Lost Generation's Hipster, a skinny, goateed beatnik and total Jive Turkey operating in late 1950s San Francisco, is intended as a spoof or a completely straight portrayal of this trope. However, he's definitely an example. When he meets Sunshine, a woman with psychedelic powers, he changes his costume and name to become Captain Hip. | |
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The producers of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger justified its Pirate theme by literally arguing, "Well, One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean are popular, innit?" (Averted when it came time to adapt it for Power Rangers, though; you'd think they might attempt to piggyback on Pirates of the Caribbean but instead they tried to downplay the pirate theme as much as possible; Super Megaforce focuses on the anniversary aspect instead.) | |
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Green Lantern: Guy Gardner didn't become an actual Green Lantern until the 1980s, where he was essentially made into a walking parody of Reagan-era policies. He started a war with the USSR and frequently expressed admiration for the amoral corporate raiders of the era. His characterization has progressed since then, but his 1980s look remains intact. His fellow GL, John Stewart, was introduced amidst the racial turmoil of the 1970s as an "Angry Black Man" Stereotype who railed against "The Man" and frequently provided a liberal counterpoint to conservative white Hal Jordan. Like Gardner, Stewart has grown into a complex and well-rounded character. |
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Spider-Man: Screwball is a traceuse who likes recording her exploits and then uploading them to YouTube and talking about them on Twitter. Peter himself has apparently begun studying Parkour as well, as showcased by an issue where he's forced to operate in an area without high-rise buildings from which to web-swing. A little earlier in Spider-Man's history, we have supervillains Rocket Racer (skateboard) and Hypno Hustler (disco). Sadly, Hypno Hustler never appeared again as a villain (aside from some cameos here and there) after his first appearance but has acquired a certain notoriety-based cachet among fans; Rocket Racer cameos every few years - his latest appearance portrays him as a genius Basement-Dweller with confidence issues, based on the engineering skills he often displayed in earlier stories. He's recently popped up in Avengers Academy, seemingly back to using his old board. |
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Kamen Rider J, while originally planned as a Kamen Rider ZO sequel, had a unusual giant transformation via Executive Meddling at the expense of the success of the nostalgia-laden Ultraman vs Kamen Rider TV special. | |
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Super Sentai would last long enough to cash on some fads: The dance-based Battle Fever J (1979) owes its name to Saturday Night Fever. And yes, one of the Rangers there danced disco (Miss America). Kousoku Sentai Turboranger's car motif is patterned after the success of Tamiya's Mini 4WD models. Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger had dinosaurs on it because Steven Spielberg's then-upcoming new film would be about dinosaurs. Ironically, Jurassic Park's fame would be the motive that would lead Haim Saban to adapt Zyuranger as Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Gosei Sentai Dairanger's martial arts theme followed on the Fighting Game boom led by Street Fighter II. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger's villains wear then-trendy Street Fashion. Gekisou Sentai Carranger would have a new car motif, but this time the Japanese trend was about Recreational Vehicles. Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV's end-of-the-world prophecies — inspired on Nostradamus' 1999 quatrain and the Y2K Bug — harken back to the 70s' fascination with Paranormal Tropes, with a dose of Japan's increasing awareness on paramedics since the creation of a 1991 law and the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger / Power Rangers Ninja Storm seemed fit to muscle in on a piece of the ninja pie inspired by Naruto, as did Juken Sentai Gekiranger / Power Rangers Jungle Fury. GoGo Sentai Boukenger's theme was based on the Treasure Hunter novels, a Young Adult Literature series written by Hideyuki Kikuchi. The producers of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger justified its Pirate theme by literally arguing, "Well, One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean are popular, innit?" (Averted when it came time to adapt it for Power Rangers, though; you'd think they might attempt to piggyback on Pirates of the Caribbean but instead they tried to downplay the pirate theme as much as possible; Super Megaforce focuses on the anniversary aspect instead.) Shuriken Sentai Ninninger's generational family antics were a response to the smash hit drama Ama-chan, while the Yokai enemy motif is from Yo-kai Watch. Power Rangers Ninja Steel subsequently focused on the ninja-in-training aspect just as Boruto began making waves overseas. Uchu Sentai Kyuranger's space opera theme was inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). |
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Hawk and Dove were created in response to the Vietnam War movements. | |
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Videoman, of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, was based on arcade-style video games. Other characters of similar vintage are Marvel's Megatak and DC's Colonel Computron, and Bug and Byte. The latter three could potentially be made into credible threats again considering the incredible advances in computer technology since their creation, but Megatak's entire thing is being a character from an eight-bit arcade game. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes' Karate Kid, though not in the way you might think. He was created when there was a karate fad in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was reworked to fit the kung-fu fad of the 1970s, so he actually predates the movie The Karate Kid by decades,note In fact, the film states that it's not related to the DC Comics character, and had to get DC's permission to use the title. and as such he's not quite as derivative as he sounds. He has since moved beyond his fad into a fairly Rounded Character. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: One Grey Knights codex was bashed by the fans for being far too powerful (some armies were rendered unable to shoot at them) and iffy lore. Chapter Master Kaldor Draigo was also looked down on for the aforementioned reasons (being a One-Man Army going around carving his name on daemon princes' hearts) and also for being transparently named after Game of Thrones fan-favorite Khal Drogo. | |
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Kousoku Sentai Turboranger's car motif is patterned after the success of Tamiya's Mini 4WD models. | |
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Madan Senki Ryukendo and Mahou Sentai Magiranger were made to cash in on western fantasy like Harry Potter's popularity, whereas Magiranger's American counterpart, Power Rangers Mystic Force was remade in the style of The Lord of the Rings. | |
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Godzilla vs. Megalon was originally a film starring Mazinger / Ultraman hybrid Jet Jaguar, but Godzilla was tacked on in hopes of better profits. | |
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Doctor Who incorporates a certain amount of this with both heroes and villains, to the extent that watching the extensive archives becomes a crash course in British obsessions over the course of the late 20th Century. Just a handful of more obvious examples: WOTAN from "The War Machines" (1966). It's a 1960s computer that lives in the Post Office Tower, which was then an emblem of the bright and glorious future. It is capable of ringing up other computers to talk to them, a simplification of what we'd now recognise as the Internet, only this was portrayed as having it actually call up the computers to talk to them over the phone in a creepy whispering voice. The Second Doctor (1966-1969) wears a Beatles-esque moptop, plays folk music and has elements of psychedelia incorporated into his powers, monsters and world view. For just one example, Word of God says that his regeneration was modelled after an LSD trip gone wrong. The Third Doctor (1970-1974) wears what was referred to at the time as "a stylish modern suit" (what is referred to today as 'a frilly velvet monstrosity'), was suddenly proficient in kung fu, and was interested in Buddhist mysticism and the environment. Many have also pointed out an influence of Glam Rock on his era, particularly the use of trippy visuals also seen in Top of the Pops glam performances. (And check out how Ziggy Stardust Kronos' female form is in "The Time Monster"!) The companion Sarah Jane Smith was based initially around the fad of 'women's lib'. Since this involved portraying her as having opinions and doing things, it is largely for the better. Future 70s Fourth Doctor companions are also influenced by 70s feminism and are loved for it. There was a wave of nostalgia for Universal Horror tropes in the early-to-mid 70s, which gave rise to the Fourth Doctor's portrayal as a bohemian Victorian Swashbuckler fighting aliens that resembled classic horror monsters. Lord Skagra from "Shada" (1979) wears a shiny white disco outfit, complete with a silver fedora, a sparkly cape, an open chest and a medallion. His power is that he sucks people's brains out with a shiny silver (disco) ball. Adric was based on the optimism surrounding personal computing in 1980 and the rise of nerd culture, giving us an insufferable maths geek. Any of the numerous Margaret Thatcher-themed villains in the mid-to-late 80s would qualify, but especially Helen A from "The Happiness Patrol", a crazed, bigoted, hedonistic fascist with a ghastly hairdo and a Henpecked Husband, fitting the contemporary satirical shorthand. "Bad Wolf" (2005) has Nine, Rose, and Jack thrust into Dalek-controlled reality television programmes (Big Brother, The Weakest Link, etc). The Eleventh Doctor (2009-2012) is modelled after the particular Hipster subculture in the late 00s - lots of vintage tweed and talking at length about how various obviously uncool things are cool. "The Bells of Saint John" (2012) gives us Twitter 'Egg' Wi-Fi monsters from The Shard (which had been recently completed). "Smile" (2017) gives us killer robots with Emoji faces and a white, Apple Store-esque design. |
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Spoofed in an Asterix one-shot from the 1960s in which Uderzo was (in Kayfabe) bowing to reader pressure to Retool the characters to fit the then-trendy psychedelic craze. In the story, drawn in the style of Yellow Submarine, he removed Astérix and Obelix's usual Super Serum-induced Super-Strength in favour of giving them hippie-themed Emotion Bomb flower magic that causes attacked Romans to experience a Design Student's Orgasm of enlightenment, peace and love. Obelix is not amused by this and opines that he prefers punching people. | |
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Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, first appeared in 1972 as part of the '70s kung fu revival. Not only was Shang-Chi meant to invoke Bruce Lee, but his creation came about as part of an aborted attempt at doing a comic book adaptation of the Kung Fu (1972) TV series. | |
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It's easy to forget the Silver Surfer is a fad super. He was created in the 1960s when surfing first gained popularity, but since he's an alien who never knew anything about surfing (the Human Torch gave him that name) and the board is actually just an extension of himself he uses to fly through space and not technically a surfboard, the fad aspect of his character never distracted readers. | |
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In Teen Titans, Raven was reworked to fit the Emo and Goth fads as well, with... varying levels of success. | |
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From Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, created in 1982, Felina Furr/Alley-Kat-Abra is a martial arts teaching, vaguely feminist, New Age wizard (and light parody of Doctor Strange), tying her to several trends of the late 70s and early 80s. Most of the rest of the Crew has fairly timeless powers, but it's still very dated in that two members are this universe's versions of Burt Reynolds and Rona Barrett. | |
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Long-running Toei Tokusatsu franchises Kamen Rider and Super Sentai would last long enough without competition to follow their own fads. In the case of Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Amazon's setting, according to Ishinomori, is partially influenced by Zardoz. When the Kamen Series was Un-Canceled with the remake Kamen Rider: Skyrider, the hero got never-before seen flying powers that owe a lot to 1978's Superman: The Movie. While Kamen Rider BLACK is patterned after the Metal Heroes franchise, the interactive belt gimmicks are borrowed from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. Kamen Rider J, while originally planned as a Kamen Rider ZO sequel, had a unusual giant transformation via Executive Meddling at the expense of the success of the nostalgia-laden Ultraman vs Kamen Rider TV special. Kamen Rider Kuuga's down-to-earth police antics were patterned after the success of Bayside Shakedown. This theme would be popular enough to get followed by Kamen Rider Agito and brought back in Kamen Rider Blade. Kamen Rider Ryuki's card motif was a response to the popularity of Yu-Gi-Oh!, with its writing staff having previously met on the Yu-Gi-Oh! (first anime series). Kamen Rider Fourze's space motif followed on the Hayabusa probe film series and the fiftieth anniversary of the first human flight into space. Kamen Rider Geats is openly based on popular Battle Royale Games like Fortnite and Apex Legends, as well as other Deadly Game media like Squid Game (which had released the year prior). A midseason story arc also incorporates "hidden traitor" elements from Social Deduction Games like Among Us. Though it helps that this isn't the first Rider series to take on a "Battle Royale" story (mainly Kamen Rider Ryuki twenty years prior). Super Sentai would last long enough to cash on some fads: The dance-based Battle Fever J (1979) owes its name to Saturday Night Fever. And yes, one of the Rangers there danced disco (Miss America). Kousoku Sentai Turboranger's car motif is patterned after the success of Tamiya's Mini 4WD models. Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger had dinosaurs on it because Steven Spielberg's then-upcoming new film would be about dinosaurs. Ironically, Jurassic Park's fame would be the motive that would lead Haim Saban to adapt Zyuranger as Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Gosei Sentai Dairanger's martial arts theme followed on the Fighting Game boom led by Street Fighter II. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger's villains wear then-trendy Street Fashion. Gekisou Sentai Carranger would have a new car motif, but this time the Japanese trend was about Recreational Vehicles. Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV's end-of-the-world prophecies — inspired on Nostradamus' 1999 quatrain and the Y2K Bug — harken back to the 70s' fascination with Paranormal Tropes, with a dose of Japan's increasing awareness on paramedics since the creation of a 1991 law and the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger / Power Rangers Ninja Storm seemed fit to muscle in on a piece of the ninja pie inspired by Naruto, as did Juken Sentai Gekiranger / Power Rangers Jungle Fury. GoGo Sentai Boukenger's theme was based on the Treasure Hunter novels, a Young Adult Literature series written by Hideyuki Kikuchi. The producers of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger justified its Pirate theme by literally arguing, "Well, One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean are popular, innit?" (Averted when it came time to adapt it for Power Rangers, though; you'd think they might attempt to piggyback on Pirates of the Caribbean but instead they tried to downplay the pirate theme as much as possible; Super Megaforce focuses on the anniversary aspect instead.) Shuriken Sentai Ninninger's generational family antics were a response to the smash hit drama Ama-chan, while the Yokai enemy motif is from Yo-kai Watch. Power Rangers Ninja Steel subsequently focused on the ninja-in-training aspect just as Boruto began making waves overseas. Uchu Sentai Kyuranger's space opera theme was inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). |
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Wild Cards, being full of nods to the history of comics, created these characters on purpose. Mark Meadows, a hopeless nerd who wants to be a hippie, gets various abilities from different strains of LSD he created, and has various secret identities named after songs from the 60s and 70s. It's inherent in his backstory; by the time he managed to fit into the hippie crowd, the fad was already pretty much dead. Fortunato's motif incorporates the mysticism and occultism fad of the 60s. He actually doesn't give a crap about any of that stuff; a prostitute who worked for him (he was a very high-class pimp) introduced him to the subject and convinced him to study it when he got his powers. | |
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Marvel Zombies. It's probably not a coincidence that an alternate universe where all the superheroes have become zombies became a recurring theme at the same time as books and movies about zombies were trendy, though it was also to an extent intentionally retro. The Marvel Zombies universe (the first one, at least, before they go dimension-hopping) is a bit further back in the timeline than the "real", 616 Marvel Universe, but doesn't perfectly match any particular era. Captain America was a colonel, Earth has never seen Galactus before, and most of the zombified heroes wore costumes that those characters hadn't worn since the 1970s. However, Magneto had acolytes, which didn't come along until the 1990s in the 616 Marvel Universe. | |
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Occasionally employed in a self-aware manner by Astro City. Flashbacks to The '50s might feature an appearance by the Bouncing Beatnik, who actually changes identities to social trends of the time. There've been six known incarnations in-universe: Mister Cakewalk, Jazzbaby, Zootsuit, the Bouncing Beatnik, the Halcyon Hippie, and Glamorax. The Beatnik's story began in the mid-19th century, before the founding of Astro City, with the murder of the mystic troubadour Silverstring and the immolation of his silver-stringed guitar. "The Dark Age" references the Real Life kung fu fad of The '70s with the Jade Dragons, and the space race with the Apollo Eleven. Older stories have featured brief glimpses of the Frontiersman, complete with coonskin cap. In a flashback, Maddie Sullivan reveals that as a teenager, she briefly considered becoming a super-heroine, "Mind Over Maddie". Her costume consisted of a tie-dyed shirt with a domino mask and a brown vest. A story set in the early 20th century featured Steampunk heroine Dame Progress. |
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Not superheroes, but many of the New Gods in American Gods embody technologies that were hailed as revolutionary and miraculous when they first appeared (railroads, telephones, television) but are looking more and more hackneyed as humanity comes to take them for granted and even regard them as antiquated. | |
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GoGo Sentai Boukenger's theme was based on the Treasure Hunter novels, a Young Adult Literature series written by Hideyuki Kikuchi. | |
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Doctor Strange owes a lot of his influences to the upswing in Asian spirituality among America's hippies and artists in the 60's. His design and overall persona is also very similar to Vincent Price's character in The Raven (1963). | |
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Superboy (Kon-El/Connor Kent) was very 90s, created to be a Totally Radical reimagining of the "kid Superman" concept. In his debut, he had a buzzcut fade, a hoop earring, a leather jacket (which nearly every hero had at the time), sunglasses, and a costume that invoked Too Many Belts. He of course, used hip slang and made constant references to pop culture. His next costume kept the jacket, earring and shades (although with a new design and color scheme), but his hairstyle was radically changed since a fade had been way past dated by that point. His slang got slightly toned down as well, but was still in use. The third costume (which he kept up until the New 52 reboot) was an extensive overhaul. It ditched the jacket, skintight costume, earring, shades and Totally Radical attitude (the Civvie Spandex look took a heavy turn toward "civvie", with a t-shirt and jeans). Instead, he became more dark, brooding, and angsty, which became popular in the mid-2000s. |
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The dance-based Battle Fever J (1979) owes its name to Saturday Night Fever. And yes, one of the Rangers there danced disco (Miss America). | |
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Uchu Sentai Kyuranger's space opera theme was inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). | |
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger's villains wear then-trendy Street Fashion. | |
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Coincidentally, Monica's Gang also featured a monster called Televillain, though he existed more as an Aesoptinium-fueled monster. The internet-themed Doctor Spam, on the other hand, fits the trope perfectly. | |
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There was a wave of nostalgia for Universal Horror tropes in the early-to-mid 70s, which gave rise to the Fourth Doctor's portrayal as a bohemian Victorian Swashbuckler fighting aliens that resembled classic horror monsters. | |
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Kinnikuman and Saint Seiya sold a lot of toys with huge quantities of villains — Metal Heroes series Chōjinki Metalder and Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya tried to do the same with their own. | |
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Kamen Rider Amazon's setting, according to Ishinomori, is partially influenced by Zardoz. | |
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Several Transformers are clearly dated to their time, most famously Soundwave (a cassette recorder whose primary ability is carrying smaller characters who turn into tapes). This has resulted in some awkward retooling as writers try to figure out how to handle such a concept in the modern era, but it's so iconic to the character that to do otherwise would likely result in serious fan backlash. | |
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Gosei Sentai Dairanger's martial arts theme followed on the Fighting Game boom led by Street Fighter II. | |
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Image Comic's Youngblood (Image Comics) was, of course a team of Nineties Anti Heroes. But, a gimmick in the original run is that they were also celebrities, living in Herowood and having to deal with paparazzi and tabloid journalism, which was then transitioning from pseudoscience and conspiracy theories to lurid celebritymania. The 2017 series continues the trend with superheroes using an Ãœber-like cellphone app called "Help", with which they get paid for their "services" and even subjected to the star-grading model. | |
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Marvel tried to introduce a new hacktivist version of U.S. Agent. He came into conflict with Captain America and the Secret Avengers after he leaked the names of a bunch of former criminals who had been made into S.H.I.E.L.D. informants, using the justification that the government had no right to hide secrets from the public. | |
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