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Grandfather Clause

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Grandfather Clause	comment	A character uses a trope which may be clichÃ©d, discredited or even dead at this point, but is allowed because it's tied into the character's legacy. Using the trope during the creation of any more recent character however, is noticeably avoided. If the character's use of the trope slowly starts to disappear, that character may have outgrown it. It has a high chance of occurring with "classic" characters, but not necessarily their sidekicks. This usually happens with tropes that the characters are tightly tied into, making it difficult to separate them from it, and where the basic idea of the trope isn't so stupid that the fans will be turned off by it. Attempting to take away one of these tropes may force the character into an Audience-Alienating Era, or at least necessitate an Author's Saving Throw. Compare to The Artifact, where it seems like the creators have misgivings about them. Reimagining the Artifact and Evolving Tropes can be seen as compromises, where later creators keep the grandfathered tropes, but revise them to make them fit modern sensibilities. If an outdated trope or concept is met with disdain later in its life rather than allowance, then it's Once Original, Now Common. The name "Grandfather Clause" comes from the so-called "Jim Crow" laws passed in the American South at the end of the Reconstruction Era (the period following the American Civil War), which legally mandated racial segregation and sought to break the political power of Black Americans by depriving them of many basic civil liberties and legal protections. The Jim Crow laws included a number of legal measures that greatly restricted Black Americans' right to vote, forcing them to pay poll taxes (which were deliberately set at a rate that they couldn't afford) and/or pass "literacy tests" (which were deliberately designed to be impossible to pass) before they could cast a ballot. But since these measures would have violated the Fifteenth Amendment if they explicitly applied only to Black people, they were ostensibly written to apply to everyone. So to ensure that they didn't affect poor and/or illiterate white Southerners (like sharecroppers), most of them included a clause stating that a person was exempt from the new voting restrictions if their grandfather had been able to vote. And since most Black Southerners in the post-Reconstruction era were the grandchildren of slaves, well... Nowadays, "Grandfather Clause" is more of a general term for clauses written into new laws or regulations that permit certain preexisting exemptions to remain under the updated rules. If someone is ruled eligible for certain privileges as a result of being exempt from updated restrictions, they're often said to have been "grandfathered in". No relation to the Grandfather Paradox. Contrast Breaking Old Trends, where the Clause gets revoked for good. See The Other Wiki article here.
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Grandfather Clause / int_12dde29	comment	Even when E\CMLL runs 300 shows a year and cross promotes with dozens of other enterprises, it can't drown out the fact lucha libre, and especially the wider pro wrestling business, has largely not adhered to its straight sport presentation. Closed fist strikes, illegally entering the ring and tampering with the opponent's ring gear are not particularly horrible offenses in most places. Still, Super Libres, which have long been among the tamest of no holds barred contests, and their annual cage of death, which doesn't seem that deadly without electricity, barbed wire, fire or provided weapons, are still enjoyed by the fans because of what they mean to CMLL specifically (plus failing to escape the cage can still kill careers).
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Grandfather Clause / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Up through its fourth generation of titles, the Monster Hunter games still had maps that were made up of 8-12 discrete areas, with fixed-duration loading screens whenever the player passes between them. This was well into The Eighth Generation, where a lack of Dynamic Loading had long been considered a damning flaw. The developers went on record stating this was an intentional design choice: fleeing from one area to another was a tactic both players and monsters used to escape each other to recover (among other mechanics) and making the whole map one large field dramatically changes the flow of the game. It helped that the developers took advantage of the small environments to pack in exquisite amounts of detail, even when the system was living on Nintendo's handheld line (which weren't exactly graphical powerhouses). With the release of Monster Hunter: World, Capcom finally bit the bullet and modernized the series, prompting the development of a thoroughly predictable Broken Base over which game people liked more (and with Monster Hunter: Rise retaining the unified map design, it's confirmed to be a series mainstay).
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Grandfather Clause / int_1dbbf4d0	comment	Sometimes, a wrestler's theme music becomes so identified with the wrestler himself that changing it just wouldn't work. For example, Shawn Michaels may have remained attractive, but "Sexy Boy" didn't really fit his persona after he became a born-again Christian. Yet he kept using the song because it was too iconic to change.
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Grandfather Clause / int_2536f651	comment	The Pogues song "Fairytale of New York" plays on the radio, uncensored, every Christmas in the UK and Ireland despite containing the words "slut", "arse", and "faggot". It's iconic enough that when BBC Radio 1 did censor it, they were hit with backlash and reversed it within the day.
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Grandfather Clause / int_25818ae2	comment	Certain finishing moves become mundane after a while. For instance, the basic DDT was once considered a devastating finisher, but over the years, many wrestlers began using the DDT as a regular move that rarely, if ever, ended a match and those who wanted to use a DDT as a finisher began to modify the move in order to maintain credibility (e.g. Sting's Scorpion Death Drop reverse DDT, Mick Foley's double-underhook DDT, jumping DDTs, diving DDTs, etc.). By the early-2000s, it had gotten to the point where no new wrestler could use a simple DDT as a match ender. However, stars that used it as their finisher before it everyone started using (and kicking out of) it, such as Tommy Dreamer, Raven, and especially the move's inventor Jake "The Snake" Roberts, could still use it as a finisher.
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Grandfather Clause / int_2819aebd	comment	The Classic series exists on this trope. 9 and 10 feature all of the cliches that are featured in the rest of the series, including the eight Robot Masters, getting weapons from defeated enemies, moving on to Wily's fortress, Wily hijacking the plot, and even the 8-bit graphics and sound. Somehow, it works. There's also the topic of Wily's status as the Big Bad for each game. Of the mainline games, 1, 2, 7, 8, and 11 feature him gleefully declaring to Take Over the World from the very start. In the remaining mainline games (along with Mega Man & Bass), he'll take a Not Me This Time stance. Whether he acts as though he changed his ways, frames someone else as the Big Bad, disguises himself as someone else, or what have you, he'll always hijack the spot as the Big Bad later on in the story somehow.
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Grandfather Clause / int_28c6afce	comment	The Nene Valley Railway is the only heritage railway in the UK to have an official replica of Thomas the Tank Engine that is not affiliated with current Thomas & Friends owner Mattel, largely thanks to this clause, as the NVR's Thomas replica had received permission and Approval of God from The Railway Series creator Wilbert Awdry in 1971, years before the TV show and the Day Out with Thomas events were established (in fact, Awdry is the one who named the engine Thomas). Because of this, the NVR's Thomas is exempt from the mandates Mattel imposes on other heritage railways officially using Thomas replicas (for example, his face is based on his original Railway Series appearance instead of the depiction in the TV series) and remains the only heritage railway to use Thomas regularly instead of special Day Out with Thomas events. Hit Entertainment (Thomas' owner before Mattel) did try to sue the Nene Valley Railway in 2005 due to alleged copyright infringement, but the lawsuit was dropped after they found out about Awdry's involvement.
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Grandfather Clause / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, despite being universally recognized as a realistic FPS, kept many old glitches from the old Half-Life: Counter Strike mod unchanged, as professional players have learned to exploit them and are now unable to forget them after so many years of practice. Unrealistic elements such as bunnyhopping, spray pattern control, jump direction control, boosting, move speed penalty or stutter stepping, are considered game mechanics that all high-ranking players are supposed to learn and master.
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Grandfather Clause / int_2f203125	comment	Every game in the entire Shin Megami Tensei series has the lead protagonist unvoiced or with barely any spoken dialogue. This is actually due to how the series was originally developed, where the games were driven from the player character's perspective and the original NES games were considered Dungeon Crawlers. Even with Shin Megami Tensei IV, which has every other character fully voiced some thirty years after the release of its ancestor of a game, the lead protagonist is silent. Additionally, Shiva is always fused the same exact way: Barong and Rangda. Even with Special Fusions existing, it's the only way to get him.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3018c949	comment	Bambi II, released 64 years after the original, could still use the song "Let's Sing A Little Gay Spring Song" in its original lyrics, because the original was released at the time when the word gay was used as a synonym of jolly, fun, etc, as mentioned in the Music folder below.
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Grandfather Clause / int_304d4028	comment	In Spirou & Fantasio, Spirou wore a ridiculous old-fashioned bellhop uniform for decades, even though it had been a long time since he actually worked as a bellhop. Modern version of the comic tend to avert, justify or lampshade this, though: for example, in Le Petit Spirou strip comic we find out that Spirou already wore a bellhop uniform when he was a small child, and his mom, dad, and grandpa wear it too, and even his teddy bear and fish, though the reason for this family tradition is never really explained.
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Grandfather Clause / int_309df9ea	comment	Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall is one of the few individuals who can still wear his signature fedora unironically because it's part of his Iconic Outfit and taking it away wouldn't be right. That, and he started in 2008, at a time when the fedora was still considered retro and not commonly associated with jerkasses, particularly misogynists — both of which he's staunchly against. It would be difficult in this day and age for an Internet reviewer to wear a fedora with complete seriousness.
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Grandfather Clause / int_30d7e3a3	comment	Dr. Mario gets to remain his own distinct character from regular Mario, despite Ultimate having introduced the concept of the Echo Fighter for clone characters. The reason being that due to Divergent Character Evolution since his introduction in Melee, his moveset is considered "too distinct" to be an Echo of Mario. Had Dr. Mario been introduced in 2018's Ultimate and not 2001's Melee, he most certainly would not have been anything other than an Echo, or even an alternate costume along the lines of Builder Mario or Wedding Mario for that matter.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3106477d	comment	The Phantom is one of the few works of fiction which is still published that gets away with playing Mighty Whitey completely straight. The Phantom family have lived in sub-Saharan Africa for 21 generations, but all members of the family are still lily-white and there is no indication that any Phantom married a native woman (several Phantoms married South European, Middle-Eastern and Asian women, but there are no records of Phantoms marrying anyone from sub-Saharan Africa). Also, the Phantom is always smarter and tougher than anyone else, several traditional contests among the jungle tribes are to see which challenger comes in second behind the Phantom. That said, the portrayals of Africans has become a lot better since the early days of the comic.
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Grandfather Clause / int_35be58b4	comment	Bratz continues to play various facets of its 2000s-era image straight (e.g. the pre-Recession themes of flaunting wealth, nightclubs, partying and shopping, along with its reliance on 2000s fashion trends), likely because the line helped popularize the trend of "hip" fashion dolls that also relied on those ideals. In fact, there was considerable backlash from fans when MGA Entertainment tried to drop those themes in favor of emphasizing friendship and empowerment.
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Grandfather Clause / int_35e88987	comment	The National Wrestling Alliance is run by a board of directors, excepting times when they give emergency powers to a single "president". The board of directors are so iconic and such a convenient Plot Device that most promotions who leave the NWA keep using them to resolve inconvenient angles, even if the newer boards don't actually have the final authority in these splinter companies (Vince McMahon of the WWE is a law unto himself with 90% of the vote, answering only to stockholders, but has still been overruled and in one angle fired by his board of directors), or no such board truly even exists (Impact Wrestling had no clear or consistent hierarchy during it's TNA days beyond Dixie Carter as the boss, but a board would step in on occasion during some of the power struggles within).
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Grandfather Clause / int_3aeb1c75	comment	In an age where keeping the Japanese names is generally done for the sake of accuracy, a number of Dragon Ball dubs keep the inaccurate names and terms that originated in the original syndicated Funimation/Ocean Group dub (Saiyan mispronounced as "say-an" instead of "Sai-an" or left as Saiya-Jin, Special Beam Cannon instead of Mankankosappo, Destructo Disk instead of Kienzan, etc.), which have become the default English localizations of those names, while new characters retain their Japanese names. With Dragon Ball Super, the series was being simulcast with subtitles, so any dub name changes would be known to much more of the audience. Funimation's dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai is a good example of this, as it reversed the majority of changes the old dub had included (such as Mankankosappo and Kienzan), but still kept many of the well known dub name changes (so Saiyan remains mispronounced, and Kaio still becomes 'King Kai'). Totally averted with Funimation's DVD subtitles, which (after fans complained about the first couple of discs) always use the original names. Viz's manga translation also uses the original names (so long as they're not Mr Satan).
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Grandfather Clause / int_3b8b374	comment	Just Dance is the only game entirely dependent on motion controls that remains popular today. While once considered a revolution in gaming, they've fallen heavily out of favor due to the immense amount of Shovelware it produced. Today, motion controls are seen as a cheap gimmick and most games avoid it or at least downplay its presence (there's huge complaints whenever it's there). Just Dance is the exception, however. It became a big franchise while motion controls were still popular, and has become a staple of house parties all over the world. If a game like Just Dance were released today, it'd probably be dismissed as shovelware.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3c5675b	comment	Related to this, Black Panther is another billionaire superhero who gets a pass from the backlash against such heroes. The reason is because he is not a white American businessman like Batman or Iron Man, but instead the King of the vibranium-rich Wakanda, making him too valuable narrative-wise to dispose of. Not to mention, Black Panther is Marvel's first black superhero to headline his own book, making him too culturally significant to retire in spite of growing negative sentiments against the wealthy.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3cf0c5c5	comment	Alternative radio is meant to play alternative/indie music that isn't, well, mainstream. It's its own format with its own hits that largely remains there. However, if an alternative hit ends up becoming a mainstream pop crossover, such as Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" and Lorde's "Royals", chances are it will still remain in rotation on alternative radio, despite the fact that it's not really "alternative" anymore. Most popular "alternative music" in general. Most major rock bands to achieve radio success since the '90s have been labeled "alternative" in some fashion (e.g. Creed, Foo Fighters, Nickelback, Disturbed, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Three Days Grace, etc., basically any rock band that wasn't deliberately retro rock (and even sometimes them as well, a la Buckcherry and Wolfmother)), which completely flies in the face of what "alternative" rock originally meant. Following the indie boom in the 2000s and 2010s, "indie rock" (which originally meant rock music produced and released entirely independently and which often had a punk-esque DIY garage ethos) has played the role of "radio pop rock", further diluting the term. At this point, the genres and styles that alternative rock replaced are technically more "alternative" than alt-rock itself!
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Grandfather Clause / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed by YouTuber Gomotion in her Sonic PC Port review. Regarding how .exe games and small indie horrors invoke Addressing the Player for the sake of horror being very overdone, gomotion remarks that even PC Port is guilty of its use of the trope amid its authentic and deliberate Game-Breaking Bug in-universe and presentation of its grotesque horrors, but in the context of what it's trying to be towards Sonic.exe, it'd be too important to leave out.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3e5f3f53	comment	SMG4 videos began as Machinimas of Super Mario 64, that eventually evolved into actual animations using SM64 and editing techniques. Garry's Mod would also started to being used along with the SM64 engine, but as the years went by, Garry's Mod would become the main source for the animation, with SM64 only being used for the "classic" characters. This is due Super Mario 64 character models are seen as too essential for SMG4's animation style, that if they were removed, it would cause a negative reaction from fans, especially among veterans. This of course, only applies to the "classic" characters, as new characters (More specifically, every character after Meggy's introduction) can use original character models and get better animations without any inconvenience. In other words, if it wasn't by the "classic" characters, Super Mario 64 would be dropped of the series at this point.
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Grandfather Clause / int_3fdafaad	comment	Despite WWE doing its best to avoid referring to itself as "[professional] wrestling" or its performers as "wrestlers" (instead preferring "sports entertainment" and "Superstars", respectively), WrestleMania retains its title likely due to it being considered too iconic to change. The "Mania" part is also considered a relic of the 1980s (i.e. Hulkamania) . If someone were to suggest the name "WrestleMania" for a wrestling event in the modern day, they'd likely be laughed out of the building. The event's longevity has ensured that the name isn't viewed as corny.
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Grandfather Clause / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-076 (Able) and SCP-105 (Iris) — submitted early in the site's history, the quickly-growing community treated them as iconic, to the point of writing fanfic about them. As the site was restructured and formalized, the community shifted strongly against Original Character traits, and formed a generally-accepted canon on how the Foundation treated its wards, both of which were at odds with the pair. Though their general OP-ness has been toned down over the years (Able is now a force of nature rather than an anti-hero, Iris's power is less Cursed with Awesome), their popularity (especially Iris's) has waned considerably over the years, and they would probably risk deletion if they were submitted today. However, they're considered too important to the site's history to let go. The creators of the site even created "the Able Line": Able is exactly as Sue-ish as any character is allowed to be, and can stay, but anything more has to go. Probably the biggest sign of Grandfathering, though, is the tendency for reports involving them to call them by their real names rather than their numbers: a supreme faux pas for anyone else, but Able and Iris are too established in those names to stop using them. In Able's case, at least, this has been justified in-universe by saying that the reason why SCPs are referred to by number is that it is important to dehumanize sentient SCPs to prevent people from interfering with their containment out of sympathy; since there's nothing remotely sympathetic about Able, it's OK to refer to him by name. SCP-682's main gimmick is the Foundation trying to destroy it at all costs, constantly introducing increasingly convoluted and powerful means of killing it. This originated from a time when the general feel and standard practices of the Foundation were still being worked out. Today, many later stories and guidelines feature the idea that the Foundation will not try to destroy an SCP unless there's no other option to permanently contain it: even if the SCP in question is hostile to humanity, many such attempts just make things worse. However, the Foundation's singleminded desire to see the reptile burn is so iconic to the site that it sticks around. Some stories feature the idea that one of the reasons 682 is anomalous is the fact that people are so determined to see it destroyed.
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Grandfather Clause / int_44127c7c	comment	Speaking of Power Rangers, it's about the only series these days that can employ a Dub-Induced Plotline Change without being drowned in fan rage. These days, any show made in Japan will hit the Internet within five seconds of airing even if it's not simulcast, and localizers know that audiences demand a Truer to the Text localization, but Power Rangers continues to cut and paste Super Sentai footage into largely original stories because they've been doing it since The '90s.
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Grandfather Clause / int_44e0b783	comment	Jon Arbuckle of Garfield is still wearing his "powder-blue Oxford shirt" and modest 1978 sideburns most of the time (though this could be due to Limited Wardrobe or Disco Dan).
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Grandfather Clause / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: Although the term "muppet" is now owned and trademarked by Disney as of their purchase of The Muppets in 2004, and The Muppets and Sesame Street are no longer connected, Sesame Workshop — the owners of Sesame Street — has a license that allows them to continue referring to their non-human puppet characters as "muppets". This is because they've used the term since the show's beginning (since they were created and owned by Jim Henson and his company until 2000) and The Jim Henson Company allowed Sesame Workshop to use the term before Disney bought The Muppets. The series is also pretty much the only children's show nowadays that uses puppets seriously after animation and CGI have become the norm.
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Grandfather Clause / int_476bc61d	comment	The original reason Dark Pit was given his own position in the roster instead of being an alternate skin for Pit (as is the case of Alph and Olimar) was due to Pit using the Three Sacred Treasures as his Final Smash, and it didn't feel right for Dark Pit to use them as well. The very next game would, in an effort to keep Final Smashes quick and to-the-point, trade the TST for the Lightning Chariot, something that Dark Pit has used in canon. That said, it probably would seem awkward to renege on Dark Pit's character-hood now that they've coined the term "Echo Fighter" to describe last-minute Moveset Clones like him.
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Grandfather Clause / int_4b40ff6e	comment	Many modern stealth video games give the player some sort of infinite use throwing item that can be thrown to distract enemies. The Metal Gear franchise has long allowed players to distract guards by throwing empty ammunition magazines, but the player was limited by how many magazines had actually been emptied by firing guns. However, the unlimited distraction item paradigm was embraced in Metal Gear Solid V. While other games have players throwing some sort of item the player character could presumably scrounge from the environment, usually rocks, the player character in Metal Gear Solid V has an unlimited, free supply of empty magazines, regardless of how little sense that actually makes, because empty magazines is what the franchise has always used for that function.
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Grandfather Clause / int_4c56381b	comment	Only The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (a late 2014 release) could get away with using then-stale memes from 2008, such as Trollface or Shoop Da Whoop.
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Grandfather Clause / int_4f513c9d	comment	Roger Rabbit Effect: Who Framed Roger Rabbit is not the first movie to blend animation and live-action, but it's one of the most well-known, so its name remains.
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Grandfather Clause / int_503d3d54	comment	The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Nowadays, the term "transvestite" is seen as a slur against transgender and gender-fluid people. Nevertheless, the song "Sweet Transvestite" is simply too iconic to drop from the film.
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Grandfather Clause / int_52cd1288	comment	Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon is a Yellow Peril character who could never be created nowadays, but while various adaptations have made him white or green, they can never completely hide his origins, if only because they can't get rid of his obviously Chinese name. Witness how the attempt by the Sci-Fi Channel series to "modernize" him backfired ridiculously.
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Grandfather Clause / int_5307b01d	comment	Likewise, Penny Arcade and other webcomics that started before 2000 can be excused for using the tropes that they popularized in the first place.
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Grandfather Clause / int_546769dd	comment	Trying to create something that involves Slender Man anytime after 2014 is guaranteed to be met with disapproval from the Internet. Not only because people were tired of the character by this point, but because of the infamous stabbing incident that happened that year, which heavily soured interest. However, the biggest and longest running projects associated with Slendy such as Tribe Twelve and Everyman HYBRID get some leeway in this area because they started way back in 2010, when Slender Man's popularity was just rising.
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Grandfather Clause / int_56fa0ea4	comment	In the original Civilization, the leader of India was Mahatma Gandhi, who while very well-known in western circles as a key figure in the struggle for modern Indian independence, never actually held any sort of official office. If Gandhi were to have made his debut in a modern installment of the series, he would have more likely been implemented as a Great Person rather than as the leader of India, especially since India has had many potential leaders throughout its history. Additionally, while older games frequently used leaders from within living memory, the series has mostly avoided this since V, unless the civilization is too young to have any better options (i.e. Canada or Australia), likely due to perceiving its prior use of figures like Stalin and Mao as crass. However, Gandhi has gone on to appear in every Civilization game since as the leader of India. This is perhaps due to his popularity among the player base, in particular due to the infamous "Nuclear Gandhi" meme, and due to his recurring appearances Gandhi has gone on to become the Civilization Series Mascot.
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Grandfather Clause / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: The series started as a ridiculous Action Hero game in the mid '80s. Even as soon as Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake in 1990, the series started to take itself seriously, and both became a lot more grim and disillusioned as well as getting known for its highly complex plot and deep and well-written characters. Many of the bosses, however, are so ridiculous (from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty alone we have a fat guy in roller skates who plants bombs and drinks wine through a bendy straw, a literal vampire, a woman who dodges bullets just by being really lucky, and a former U.S. President in powered armor with tentacles and a pair of katana literally named "Democrat" and "Republican") they could be straight out of Batman & Robin and many of the sequences could be from cheap '80s action movies, but since those elements have been part of the series from the beginning, they were kept, similar to James Bond movies. Using a cardboard box to hide in — and having it work so well — is a part of the game's mythos from the very first game. It would be hard to imagine a newer stealth action game playing the "moving cardboard box" bit straight. Many modern stealth video games give the player some sort of infinite use throwing item that can be thrown to distract enemies. The Metal Gear franchise has long allowed players to distract guards by throwing empty ammunition magazines, but the player was limited by how many magazines had actually been emptied by firing guns. However, the unlimited distraction item paradigm was embraced in Metal Gear Solid V. While other games have players throwing some sort of item the player character could presumably scrounge from the environment, usually rocks, the player character in Metal Gear Solid V has an unlimited, free supply of empty magazines, regardless of how little sense that actually makes, because empty magazines is what the franchise has always used for that function.
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Grandfather Clause / int_5ae07dd1	comment	Every last Brass Knuckle title and corresponding division in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling. The point of a Brass Knuckles title was to allow wrestlers to legally punch each other, sometimes to the point of actually discouraging grappling. But not only had disqualifications for punches become increasingly rare over the years (though Japan had more "Pure Wrestling" holdouts than most regions), FMW was the trope namer for Garbage Wrestler, as disqualifications for anything up to and including live explosives almost never happened. The brass knuckle belts were there mainly because fans loved them for the prestige they had become associated with over the years.
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Grandfather Clause / int_5fb36d0e	comment	The first Robin, and later Nightwing, is named Dick Grayson. Back in 1940 — the year in which the character was created — "Dick" was primarily just shorthand for "Richard". Today "Dick" is most often used as a pejorative term for male genitals or an unpleasant man. Because of that, very few men named "Richard" go by "Dick" anymore (the ones who do are usually older men who've used it since before negative connotations became prominent, and even they aren't always exempt from ridicule). But since the name has been so deeply ingrained into the heads of comic book fans for over eighty years, it's highly unlikely that DC will change it — even to a different diminutive of "Richard", such as "Rick" or "Rich" — just to stop a few immature people from snickering upon hearing it. Young Justice (2010) tries to justify this in its tie-in comic. In this continuity, the Flying Graysons also included Dick's uncle, a Richard who goes by "Rick." Dick was named after him, but went by a different nickname to avoid confusion. At one point, the comics gave Dick amnesia, during which period he gave up being a superhero and went by "Ric." It was such an Audience-Alienating Era that most fans can't even say "Ric(k) Grayson" without sneering.
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Grandfather Clause / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad! continues to feature the color-coded "Terror Alert" indicator on the family fridge, despite the fact that the Obama Administration retired it. Perhaps as a satire of the changing attitudes of a new decade, the Terror Alert level was only on red, orange or yellow in episodes from the 2000s. But in episodes from 2010 and onwards it's either blue, green (two colors it never was lowered to in Real Life), or missing an arrow; they even had an episode where the color code changed to blue and everyone in the CIA acted like it was a major cause for celebration.
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Grandfather Clause / int_69d15cc0	comment	The Netflix TV series set in Hell's Kitchen had to even come up with an explanation as to why the MCU Hell's Kitchen is a crime-ridden place (in essence the damage from alien invasions and superhero fights scared a lot of people and money off, letting crooks take over).
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Grandfather Clause / int_6b3cfe38	comment	The long-running Bob and George got away with such Sprite Comic cliches as an all-powerful Author Avatar and other characters that were mere recolors of existing sprites, absolutely No Fourth Wall, and comically one-dimensional characters (to be precise, one-dimensional versions of Mega Man characters) because it either started or popularized almost all of these tropes for webcomics. This also unfortunately leads to a tendency of Once Original, Now Common.
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Grandfather Clause / int_6d8311c4	comment	In the competitive meta for PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, there's a single PokÃ©mon that completely overshadows the rest: Snorlax. It is so widely accepted as a Game-Breaker that it's regarded as the best pick even in the Ubers tier, where legendaries are legal, and it sees literally universal usage (as in, well over 95%) on serious teams in the standard Overused tier. In nearly every other meta since then, such a completely dominant PokÃ©mon would be banned from Overused — however, at the time when the second-generation meta was solidifying, that idea simply didn't occur to anyone, as Ubers was regarded as a tier that existed just for the stronger legendaries, and banning standard-but-strong PokÃ©mon didn't become accepted until Garchomp showed up two generations later. Hence, Snorlax remains unbanned in large part because people have long accepted that it being the best PokÃ©mon is just a fact of the meta, and learned to play with that in mind. That said, there's an additional reason for this: Snorlax being so powerful means that it's highly effective at breaking stall teams, and when it's not available, then Padded Sumo Gameplay becomes far more likely to ensue.
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Grandfather Clause / int_6dbe6646	comment	Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot and several other characters date back to Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and have never appeared in any other media since, yet they still appear here because they are core to the plot.
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Grandfather Clause / int_70473c57	comment	The Rugrats Theory is a by-the-book Darker and Edgier All Just a Dream fan theory about an innocent kid's cartoon. Most of these theories get scoffed at, but The Rugrats Theory is popular because it's one of the earliest, and inspired a lot of similar theories.
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Grandfather Clause / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Stargate Command eventually advanced its technology to the point when it would be possible to retire Engaging Chevrons, but by that point it became a tradition (and in "Heroes", it was mentioned that the personnel liked Walter doing his job). Stargate Atlantis, by virtue of being a new show, had a chance for a fresh start and didn't use it — which was, of course, given a Lampshade Hanging in the very first episode.
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Grandfather Clause / int_73d7930f	comment	And then Deep Space Nine came along and deconstructed the hell out of Star Trek, which is the main reason behind its Broken Base. That and its suspicious similarity to another space-station-based series.
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Grandfather Clause / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link has always been a Heroic Mime, even when such mute characters are becoming a rare breed. When The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild made the jump to full voice acting (and even ditched the tradition of Hello, [Insert Name Here] out of necessity), Link was made The Quiet One justified by the plot. In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, which is dubbed and lacks the plot justification, Link still communicates in Voice Grunting, just because having him speak would break series tradition.note Ignoring the CD-i games, of course, which Nintendo seems content to do. Hyrule Warriors tackled this by giving Link and Young Link a fairy companion, named Proxi, to speak for them; Toon Link has his sister Aryll speak for him, and Linkle breaks tradition by being very talkative.note Though Linkle likely gets around this by not being an incarnation of Link in the first place, but a Heroic Wannabe who thinks she is an incarnation of him.
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Grandfather Clause / int_78771aaa	comment	Mexican comic character Memin Pinguin and his mother resemble Blackface stereotypes from the Jim Crow era, but due to its popularity and impact in Mexican popular culture since being created in 1943 (when these stereotypes were still mainstream), it is accepted there. Also do notice that even nowadays, political correctness on racial issues isn't such a big deal in Mexico, so it is safe to assume that Memin would never become a Long Runner exceeding three-quarters of a century in a country like the US.
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Grandfather Clause / int_7a36aae5	comment	More objectionable bits in The Mikado are often bowdlerised out (several references to "niggers" in lyrics are usually removed), but the basic premise of Caucasian actors in yellowface, kimonos, and black wigs in a gross mockery of Meiji's Japan remains intact despite how outrageously offensive the concept would be today. It should be noted that The Mikado is satire at its finest, using a patently absurd version of Japan to mock both general British culture and a faddish obsession with Japan that was sweeping through the country at the time. Prince Komatsu Akihito, who saw an 1886 production, took no offence, nor did he find the depiction of the Mikado demeaning. Likewise, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru of Japan (a relative of the Emperor and a confidant of Crown Prince Yoshihito, who became Emperor Taisho) made a state visit to Britain in 1907, and all productions of The Mikado were shut down for fear of offending him. This backfired spectacularly since the Crown Prince complained that he had looked forward to seeing it, so a proscribed performance was staged for him (he was "deeply and pleasingly disappointed" that he found "bright music and much fun" instead of "real insults" to Japan). The Mikado is still very popular in Japan; evidently, the fact that the society is obviously more British than Japanese makes it easier to get Gilbert and Sullivan's point. In fact, there have been a few productions (including a filmed one starring Eric Idle as Ko-ko) that just gets to the point and puts everyone in British dress, and one college production that opted to go with having everyone dress as anime characters to get the satire across without being offensive.
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Grandfather Clause / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The name of the volcano where the Ring must be destroyed is called Mount Doom. No work nowadays would use a name like that seriously, but since the work codified the High Fantasy genre (and given the fact the mountain is located in the Trope Namer for Mordor), it's accepted. Tolkien's writings on the evidently non-European cultures of Middle-Earth were the product of a rather old-fashioned man in the 40s and 50s trying to emulate how medieval Europeans wrote about foreign cultures: that is to say, a bit of a mess, with "the Easterlings and Southrons" being firmly aligned with Sauron, getting far less fleshed-out than their rivals, having few to no sympathetic representatives (or even named representatives), and receiving descriptions of how swarthy, squint-eyed, cruel, and even troll-like they were. Though Tolkien spoke against racism in his life (including famously disavowing anti-Semitism), and the narrative does make it clear that they were ultimately still human and caught in a war that many had no desire to be in, it's hard to imagine a modern mainstream fantasy work playing it as straight as he does. Nonetheless, adaptations and licensed or unlicensed works set in Middle-Earth tend to still run with Tolkien's descriptions (albeit perhaps expanding the other cultures to be somewhat less flat), simply because they come from a time when those tropes weren't as discredited and they're mostly all we have for a large swathe of the world.
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Grandfather Clause / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek gets far more leeway than almost any other non-parody sci-fi show with many of the tropes it popularized because they are seen as intrinsic to the show's history: Planet of Hats, Proud Warrior Race Guy, Techno Babble, Space Is an Ocean, Humans Are Special, and all manners of Phlebotinum Abuse to name just a few. It is almost easier to name the Speculative Fiction Tropes Trek can't get away with by claiming "that's the way it worked for Kirk." And then Deep Space Nine came along and deconstructed the hell out of Star Trek, which is the main reason behind its Broken Base. That and its suspicious similarity to another space-station-based series. Outside of Speculative Fiction Tropes, there's Chekov's hideously bad Russian accent. In the 2009 film, he's played by Russian-born actor Anton Yelchin, who could have done a much better accent. But he didn't because it just wouldn't be Chekov if he didn't have a bad Russian accent. Walter Koenig doesn't talk like that either, and he can do a very accurate Russian accent. Roddenberry told him to "ham up" the accent as much as he could, and it was more or less played for comedy. Koenig and Yelchin both thought the v/w mispronunciation was more typical of Polish accents than Russian ones. But Koenig says his father had a difficulty with v/w, and he based the accent on this (of course hammed up to 11).
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Grandfather Clause / int_8258e260	comment	The Original Twelve note Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Luigi, Captain Falcon, Ness and Jigglypuff fighters that appeared in the first Super Smash Bros. have gone on to appear in every sequel, even if their franchises get less relevant, their popularity declines or how much time goes by without a new game released in their series. With that said, Ness was almost replaced by Lucas in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Jigglypuff was almost cut from the roster of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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Grandfather Clause / int_84986bf9	comment	The MMORPG RuneScape has an in-universe example of this. There's a quest called "The Knight's Sword" where the player is entasked with replacing a very valuable heirloom sword before its owner (a valiant knight) finds out it's lost. To do so, the player has to mine a specific ore to make the material in order to create a new sword. However, the ore in question, blurite, is considered very weak and useless for making weapons besides three things: the specific sword you need to replace, limbs for blurite crossbows, and blurite crossbow bolts. In fact, blurite items are considered so useless that you can't even sell them (not even the Grand Exchange accepts them for trade). The only reason why the sword is considered so valuable is for three reasons: one, the sword was passed down for generations; two, the tribe with the knowledge to make them, the Imcando dwarves, was almost entirely wiped out; and three, the ore that is required to make them can only be found in one dungeon in the entire game, and it's defended by powerful ice warriors and ice giants, making it difficult to mine without getting attacked. If it wasn't for these aspects, it would be downright embarrassing for the knight to own a prized sword made from such a weak and worthless material.
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Grandfather Clause / int_8529459f	comment	Likewise, almost all the acceptable targets from the original series are still here due to Grandfather Clause. Jokes about SeÃ±or Barriga and Ã‘oÃ±o's weight, Prof. Jirafales and Don RamÃ³n's thinness (and the former's tall height) and DoÃ±a Clotilde's old age would be seen as body shaming if they weren't also trademark jokes of El Chavo del ocho, and unlike the previous point, these ones stuck around for the whole show.
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Grandfather Clause / int_853d51b9	comment	2020's Microsoft Flight Simulator was released after Microsoft had switched to using the Xbox name for all of its gaming brands regardless of platform. The game still has "Microsoft" as an In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It title regardless because Microsoft Flight Simulator remains one of the biggest Long-Runners in all of gaming.
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Grandfather Clause / int_8818f28f	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine gets away with the Undead Horse Tropes of Real Is Brown, A Space Marine Is You, and a virtual Cliché Storm in part because the Warhammer 40,000 setting helped codify some of those tropes and was using others back when the NES was high tech. These tropes aren't quite dead yet, but they're being mocked and derided openly (not to mention it's kind of hard to avoid A Space Marine Is You when one of the factions in the story is popularly known as "Space Marines"). Cory Rydell and Grey Carter of Critical Miss explain fan reactions here.
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Grandfather Clause / int_89f4bc45	comment	The Undertaker had a couple aspects that wouldn't work for a younger wrestler new to WWE: Outlandish gimmicks have been out of style in pro wrestling since at least the late '90s, especially old-timey and/or supernatural ones. But because of the Undertaker's popularity and longevity with the WWE, he had been allowed to keep his 1800s mortician/wrestling zombie schtick all the way until his retirement in 2020, as all attempts at updating the character, like making him a biker from 2000-2003, never really caught on (though the biker look did come back from time to time, since it's a real-life hobby of his). Undertaker's Tombstone Piledriver managed to remain even after WWE banned piledrivers starting in 2000. If not done perfectly, a piledriver can give the opponent a concussion and/or break their neck: an example of this is Owen Hart nearly breaking "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's neck with a sit-out version of the Tombstone during their match at SummerSlam 1997, from which Austin never fully recovered and ultimately had to retire in 2003.note A regular piledriver (like this one) is a completely safe move when done by people with any sort of training. It's when people start getting cute with it that the problems happen. Not to mention the Austin injury was the result of a miscommunication on Owen's part rather than the move itself being inherently dangerous. Nonetheless, it was still deemed dangerous enough for WWE to ban piledrivers entirely except for the Tombstone. 'Taker was allowed to keep using the Tombstone because A) it had been his finishing move since 1990note Though during his Biker phase, he added the Last Ride (high angle powerbomb) as an alternate finisher and used the Tombstone less frequently. It wasn't until he returned to the Deadman gimmick in 2004 that the Tombstone became his primary finisher once again, B) he had proven that he was skilled and experienced enough to do it safelynote 'Taker never injured a single wrestler with the Tombstone in his entire 30 year run with WWE. The closest call was Goldberg during their infamous match at Crown Jewel 2019, and Goldberg had already concussed himself before the match began by headbutting his locker room door too hard., and C) The Tombstone involves the attacker dropping to their knees instead of their backside, lessening the chances of any trauma to the opponent's head or neck. Despite the Tombstone being safer than other piledrivers, it was still just 'Taker and his almost-as-experienced brother Kane who got to use it. Now that 'Taker is retired and Kane is semi-retired, it's unknown if another prominent WWE wrestler will be allowed to use the Tombstone on a regular basis, especially since the move is so closely associated with the Brothers of Destruction that most up-and-comers wouldn't dare use it.
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Grandfather Clause / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Given the increased controversy about how most ancient artifacts were forcibly uplifted from their native countries to be stored in Western museums, the Adventurer Archaeologist archetype is considered to be rather tone-deaf nowadays. However, Indy himself is still looked on fondly (it helps that Indy is portrayed as a staunch antifascist in his showdowns against the Nazis). This might be one of the reasons why Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the Grand Finale for the Indiana Jones films. Dial of Destiny has John Rhys-Davies reprising the role of Sallah. Even though Rhys-Davies is a Welshman playing an Egyptian, as the tendency to cast non-Western characters with Western actors has come under greater scrutiny, Sallah is such a beloved and popular character among fans of the series that casting another actor wouldn't work at all. On a meta-example, franchise's distribution rights are an example of this. Namely, when Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, Disney agreed with Paramount to have the latter retain the distribution rights to the previous four films in the Indiana Jones franchise. Meanwhile, Disney will distribute future installments of the franchise, including the aforementioned Dial of Destiny.
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Grandfather Clause / int_8da0ea80	comment	In FireRed and LeafGreen, the lack of a special song for Rival Battles and Team Rocket battles is allowed because the games they are a remake of didn't have such songs to begin with. It was after the first generation that the main games started using customized Trainer Battle tunes for rivals and criminal gangs. HeartGold and SoulSilver, though, give Lugia and Ho-Oh special battle themes, whereas the original PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver had generic wild PokÃ©mon battle music for these legendaries note having special music for legendary battles also became a trend from the third generation onward.
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Grandfather Clause / int_8dea9503	comment	2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, may be the only movie to use Also sprach Zarathustra seriously since 2001 used it.
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Grandfather Clause / int_93ef7a8c	comment	In Melee, Marth and Roy speak in Japanese to reflect the fact that the Fire Emblem series had not been released outside of Japan. Brawl (for Marth only) and 3DS/Wii U continued to have them do so despite Fire Emblem games now having international distribution, Marth having English VAs for a while, and later Fire Emblem protagonists to be playable in the series speak English. This was finally averted in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where Marth and Roy both have English lines (Marth's voice provided by his English VA Yuri Lowenthal note by the announcement of Ultimate, Lowenthal had already voiced Marth in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M, Fire Emblem Fates, Fire Emblem Heroes, and Fire Emblem Warriors and Roy's voice being provided by his English VA Ray Chase note who first voiced him in Fire Emblem Heroes) in the game at last.
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Grandfather Clause / int_93fdfb2f	comment	A specific example of this happening comes from Street Fighter V, where almost every returning character received a new costume except Ryu, Chun-Li, and Zangief (also arguably Rainbow Mika, who received only minor modifications from her original Street Fighter Alpha 3 costume; and later on Gill, Dan, Rose and Oro as well). Capcom deemed that their appearances were simply too iconic to alter, and as such they remain the same (for their default costume, anyway; Chun-Li has pretty much an Unlimited Wardrobe for DLC), while everyone else looks different (in varying degrees of Costume Evolution) but usually has a Nostalgia Costume available as DLC if players prefer their original/previous design. However, this clause seemingly expired in Street Fighter 6, which finally gave Ryu, Chun-Li, and all other returning fighters a drastic case of Costume Evolution — and even then their classic outfits are available as alternate costumes.
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Grandfather Clause / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Started off with virtually no budget, so they had to use cheap props. Though once it became a massive hit, they still kept the sets low budget looking for the sake of tradition.
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Grandfather Clause / int_980c3316	comment	Shazam! The Shazam family's Transformation Sequence probably falls under this. Back when the series was created, comics were brightly colored and silly and everyone had fun. Now that comics are a serious medium and not really appropriate for kids, seeing modern characters yell 'Shazam' in huge dramatic letters might be Narm if it weren't for this... and the fact that lightning bolts never stop being cool. On the other hand, you have Shazam's Arch-Enemy Dr. Sivana and his Defeat Catchphrase "Curses! Foiled Again!". In today's Darker and Edgier comics culture, it would be difficult for a modern villain to say this phrase with zero irony. However, Sivana can get away with this catchphrase because how the Shazam comics have been typically more light-hearted than most comics nowadays.
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Grandfather Clause / int_99180219	comment	El Chavo Animado: The show kept many jokes from the original series due to Grandfather Clause. Running Gags such as Don RamÃ³n hitting El Chavo in the head and pinching Quico in the arm would be seen as child abuse if they weren't trademark jokes of El Chavo del ocho. That said, as the series went on, all the slapstick humor has diminished until it was completely removed from the series (including slapstick that did not involve the children), with very few leftovers of this remaining such as Don RamÃ³n getting hurt for laughs. Likewise, almost all the acceptable targets from the original series are still here due to Grandfather Clause. Jokes about SeÃ±or Barriga and Ã‘oÃ±o's weight, Prof. Jirafales and Don RamÃ³n's thinness (and the former's tall height) and DoÃ±a Clotilde's old age would be seen as body shaming if they weren't also trademark jokes of El Chavo del ocho, and unlike the previous point, these ones stuck around for the whole show.
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Grandfather Clause / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer is so well-known for its live-action cutscenes that when Command & Conquer: Generals didn't include them, there was a backlash (granted, the lack of them wasn't the only difference). Live-action cutscenes in big-budget games are largely discredited these days, but C&C got away with it into the start of The New '10s because it's tied to the series' history. The later installments of the Tiberium and Red Alert franchises see all number of familiar actors engaging in as much Ham-to-Ham Combat as possible (J. K. Simmons, Tim Curry, and George Takei as the leaders of the factions in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3). Indeed, Red Alert 3 has taught us that when your game has amphibious man-cannons that shoot trained attack bears with parachutes, you can get away with literally anything.
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Grandfather Clause / int_9a9b24fa	comment	In the years since Jurassic Park (1993) came out, new scientific discoveries have changed the accepted look of many dinosaurs, most notably with the fact that theropods such as T. rex and Velociraptor had feathers. However, Jurassic World didn't change the dinosaurs to fit these new discoveries in order to keep them in line with their looks in the previous films. This is even invoked and justified in-universe, with Dr. Wu pointing out that the park's animals are genetic hybrids built from various creatures rather than 'real' dinosaurs, and that they were designed to be marketable crowd-pleasers that matched the public perception of dinosaurs rather than scientifically-accurate representations of the actual animals. Jurassic World Dominion, though, does have feathered dinosaurs (albeit only in newly introduced species, with the Velociraptor and T. rex both still being under the clause), showing that this trope has limits. At the very least, more research has shown that T. rex most likely had feathers only as juveniles before shedding them when they reached sexual maturity.
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Grandfather Clause / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls using the Standard Fantasy Setting — elves, dwarves, wizards, and orcs chilling in an eternally medieval universe — which has been parodied and deconstructed to Hell and back over the last few decades, to the point that no original works can get away with playing it straight anymore. The Elder Scrolls, being such a Long Runner, tends to be safe from such ridicule. It also helps that, while the series started on a Standard Fantasy Setting foundation, Nirn has undergone so much Worldbuilding that very few of the Standard Fantasy tropes are played truly straight after the first few installments.
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Grandfather Clause / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Regarding the PokÃ©mon Palette Swaps, in the very first game, Pikachu and Jigglypuff had party hats and ribbons respectively as the basis for their alternate colors, as their colors were deemed too iconic to change and Shiny PokÃ©mon had not yet been introduced. Melee continued the trend with Pichu — but Mewtwo received full-fledged color swaps. Brawl scaled back on this by both cutting Mewtwo and giving both the PokÃ©mon Trainer and Lucario more subtle tints, only for the next game to have more distinct colors for Charizard and incoming newcomer Greninja, alongside bringing back Mewtwo via DLC. Ultimate followed suit with having Incineroar receive proper color swaps. Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Pichu? Still sporting accessories with only mild tints in their general colorization, simply because they started off with them.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a0e1af96	comment	The Martian Manhunter in DC Comics (and especially Justice League) is a man from Mars. Advancing science discredited early 19th and 20th century ideas of Mars having canals and civilization (though microbial life at least in the distant past looks probable), but the character's backstory remains largely unchanged. Some continuities attempt to address this issue by establishing that J'onn is from the distant past of Mars (before the planet became uninhabitable), but still give dates far too recent to make the idea scientifically plausible. Other stories just say "screw it" and have the DCU version of Mars remain habitable on the basis that it's the Mars of a fictional universe and its planetary history (possibly even its size and composition) need not be the same as on Earth.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a1e03f15	comment	Blue's Clues & You! is one of the only modern preschool cartoons that can get away with Fake Interactivity (which has become less popular and common over time) today, since its predecessor was the one that made it popular to begin with.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo: The gang's outfits, especially Fred's, became horribly outdated just a few years after their introduction. While Fred did lose the ascot for a while, it's back as of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, even though pretty much no one wears ascots anymore. It's become such an Iconic Outfit for Fred that Warner Bros. seems loathe to get rid of it completely. Shaggy's shapeless jeans and t-shirt are a G-Rated Stoner classic even today, but Daphne's and Velma's outfits were supposed to convey Daphne's fashionable persona and Velma's geekiness. Nowadays, both outfits would make their wearer look more like a hipster. Likewise, the Mystery Machine. A green and teal colored van covered with orange flower decals sticks out like a sore thumb in today's society, but because it's so iconic to the Scooby Doo franchise, the design has remained unchanged. The "Scooby-Doo" Hoax formula has long been considered trite and ridiculous, and no mystery-solving show today would dare use it seriously. But with how integral the trope is to the franchise, it still remains in use. It helps that even the franchise itself doesn't play it completely straight anymore, often parodying, lampshading and deconstructing it, and there are occasions when the monsters will turn out to be Real After All.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a7bb29b2	comment	The complete inability to crouch, compared to other games and franchises. While sometimes criticized, many players don't mind this, as it helps to maintain the quick pace of the platforming, with the slide ability usually compensating. A notable aversion came when Mega Man X5 and X6 actually allowed players to duck in addition to the usual Video Game Dashing, and while kept when the series made the jump to 3D with X7 for the 2D sections, the next game ditched it entirely.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a7bb2a13	comment	On a smaller note, Mega Man ZX and its sequel having Bottomless Pits and Spikes of Doom, both of which lie in contention with their Metroidvania-style "explore everywhere" design philosophy but have been with the Mega Man games since the beginning.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! in just about every incarnation since the Battle City era has featured the theme deck as an important part of its design—both the card game and the anime almost invariably have characters or new sets sticking to some manner of archetype or theme. The big exception to this? Yugi himself, who played a complex blend of all kinds of cards with a mild focus on Dark Magician throughout the run of the anime. Even in modern appearances such as videogames or Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, while other Duel Monsters-era characters have shifted towards more defined themes, Yugi still tends to be depicted as playing a little of everything, even as the idea of "the best player in the world" using such a deck has become increasingly improbable.
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Grandfather Clause / int_a9f06cb6	comment	The simplistic designs of the veggies in VeggieTales were due to the limitations of CGI technology in the early 1990s, and to this day they remain looking largely the same as they did back in 1993 in spite of how much CGI has advanced since then, even within the show itself. This is likely due to the characters' designs being seen as too iconic to change at this point, as attempts by the show's creators to update them for The New '10s (for the Netflix spin-off Veggietales In The House) received a negative response and led to them later scrapping the redesigns in 2019 in favor of slightly-touched up versions of the characters' original 1993 designs.
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Grandfather Clause / int_abe2e836	comment	There is one prominent exception to this particular Grandfather Clause: the title of the book And Then There Were None. Originally, it was published under the title of Ten Little Niggers. This was later changed to Ten Little Indians, before landing on a title which doesn't reference racial slurs in any way. This also goes for the nursery rhyme the title references, which plays a prominent role in the story. In current editions, the title "Ten Little Soldiers" is used for the rhyme.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied on Saturday Night Live. When Steve Martin and Martin Short co-hosted in 2012, they did a sketch showing a trailer for the fictitious Father of the Bride Part 8, with the pair reprising their roles as George Banks and Franck, and the trailer voiceover describing Short as "Doing an accent that I think is still okay. Let's all agree that it's still okay.".
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Grandfather Clause / int_b1cd847c	comment	Muppet Babies (2018) is the only modern cartoon allowed to play the Spinoff Babies straight since it was its predecessor who codified it in first place. Straight attempts at this by other franchises after the 2000s are often frowned upon by many due to how clichÃ© and ridiculous the premise is.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b36b99c6	comment	Likewise, the movie version of the Hulk averts this somewhat by combining radiation with several other factors — the gamma rays only break down his cells, the Nanomachines try to repair them, and his genes weren't really normal to begin with. In the comics, Immortal Hulk explicitly attaches a mystical element to the Marvel universe's gamma radiation to explain its unscientific effects.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b373a206	comment	Green Lanterns do not always have a weakness to yellow things, but Sinestro just wouldn't be Sinestro without a yellow ring that is strangely effective against them. This has since been justified with the retconned existence of a spectrum of emotion (Red: Rage, Orange: Greed, Yellow: Fear, Green: Willpower, Blue: Hope, Indigo: Compassion, Violet: Love). He and the rest of the Sinestro Corps are literally using fear as a weapon. This leads to a lesser-known retcon. Green Lanterns used to be selected because they were men without fear. However, if current GL's didn't experience fear at some level, then Sinestro's ring would be useless against them unless there were others around whom Sinestro could manipulate.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b3f687d1	comment	Jason in FoxTrot continues to exhibit Girls Have Cooties due to the strip being around when the trope was still common. Newer works featuring kids (including comic strips such as Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Wallace the Brave) would feature boys and girls being friends without anyone finding it unusual. That being said, later FoxTrot strips downplay this trope heavily, likely because the author is becoming aware it's now considered outdated.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b4709254	comment	The name TV Tropes itself provides a simple example, as the main page explains: "The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media." This is probably the least likely name on the site to ever change.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog is the only Mascot with Attitude allowed to play all of the facets of the trope straight, due to the fact that he solidified most of them. In fact, there was considerable backlash against the plots of games where Sega tried to change him up. (A lot of modern Sonic versions and adaptations play him as cool when in his element, but also as a somewhat dorkish Dumb Jock type when out of it — in particular, it gives a reason for him to have Tails as a Sidekick.) Bubsy became another exception when the franchise was revived in 2017. He plays the Mascot with Attitude trope just as straight as he did back then. However, in stark contrast to Sonic playing the trope straight as part of the series appeal, Bubsy does this as Self-Deprecation due to being one of many the imitators that killed the trope back in the day.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b4996199	comment	Likewise, the high rent and student loans made Spider-Man, Normal and Ultimate, a little more unbelievable and the dilemma of constant city crime needing Spider-Man's constant attention no longer quite corresponded to reality. In the latter case, the recent comics have amended the situation by making Spider-Man into a licensed and paid inventor and scientist, and now that he's a businessman, his ability to afford rent in New York becomes far more believable in the climate of the current economy.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b56da2f8	comment	Recent Disney TV shows based on Winnie the Pooh give it a Setting Update. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is vaguely set in The '80s, and My Friends Tigger & Pooh is definitely set in the 21st century. Honey, however, still comes in stoneware pots, rather than glass jars or squeezy bottles.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010) tries to justify this in its tie-in comic. In this continuity, the Flying Graysons also included Dick's uncle, a Richard who goes by "Rick." Dick was named after him, but went by a different nickname to avoid confusion.
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Grandfather Clause / int_b91a846d	comment	Christopher Robin has Pooh and Tigger be reprised by the American Jim Cummings despite the movie being explicitly set in Britain like the original books (previous Disney works until Winnie the Pooh (2011) made it more ambiguous) and the rest of the cast being played by British and Irish actors. This is likely because he's been voicing and associated with the characters for so long now (he's been playing them since The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in the late '80s) that hearing them with different voices would just feel wrong. Tigger was originally planned to be voiced by Irish actor and comedian Chris O'Dowd, but backlash from audiences over the decision led to Cummings reprising his role instead.
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Grandfather Clause / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants premiered in 1999, at a time when Zany Cartoons with Negative Continuity ruled the day. Fast forward 20+ years later, when more continuity-driven cartoons are now the norm, and SpongeBob is still actively on the air with essentially the same brand of undersea silliness it debuted with. And even SpongeBob has Sequel Episodes now.
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Grandfather Clause / int_bd447006	comment	The modernization of the Sherlock Holmes stories in Sherlock led to a series of copycat series such as Elementary and Instinct, in which private individuals solve murders and other crimes, occasionally with the cooperation of the police. This continues even though even the most inexperienced of defence lawyers would have the work of a private consulting detective dismissed as evidence tampering, thus letting demonstrably guilty parties go free.
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Grandfather Clause / int_be68ee29	comment	Due to technical limitations, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U completely did away with transformations, making Zelda/Sheik and Samus/Zero Suit Samus separate characters while removing the PokÃ©mon Trainer alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur, putting in Charizard as a lone and fully developed character. Then, in Ultimate, where the theme is that everyone makes their return, Charizard was made part of the Trainer's set alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur once again. This despite Ultimate carrying on the tradition of not having transformations otherwise note until the addition of Pyra and Mythra via DLC, and in fact goes even further by taking out some of the Final Smash transformations (like Fox with the Landmaster). Because PokÃ©mon Trainer had to be represented alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur, they got to return even though their stance system gimmick has been largely discredited, as it would be impossible to do the character properly without it. As a side effect, it ends up making Charizard feel less distinct because of this. Although Ultimate did away with the mechanic of PokÃ©mon Trainer's PokÃ©mon getting tired and having to switch every so often, so aside from cycling back to it after getting KOed, players can still play as their favorite 'mon.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c00034c2	comment	The Beetle Bailey characters have worn the same solid olive green (sometimes Sarge's is tan) uniforms since the strip began in 1950, no matter what the situation. Just during war games they put on helmets instead of caps.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft: Minecraft's developer Mojang was bought by Microsoft in 2015. This means that a version of Minecraft on rival platforms is impossible — or rather it would be, if it weren't already released there. As a result, the non-Xbox/PC versions of the game are still supported despite being owned by Microsoft, because they were already on them when Mojang was bought out. Later on this was averted, as versions on Nintendo platforms (Wii U, New 3DS, and Switch) were released entirely after the buyout. As of 1.11.1, no new bows can be enchanted with both Mending and Infinity (a rule made to prevent easy, endless flight). However, old bows enchanted before the update will still work.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c26ebc0b	comment	Many American radio stations play "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" uncensored on Thanksgiving. The use of the slur "faggots" would normally incur an FCC fine, but no station has ever been fined for playing it. Arlo Guthrie has changed the line in live performances, however.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c3bbb7f7	comment	A number of old Sci-Fi stories retain some energy in their now old and tired plot devices by presenting them with an innocent earnestness from the time when they were new inventions. This one, for instance.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c4282b71	comment	On the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanblog Equestria Daily, fan fiction set in the fanon universe Fallout: Equestria frequently contains X-rated topics and thus violates their content submission guidelines, but are still allowed because of how iconic in the fandom some of them have become (and because they skip the pre-readers entirely).
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Grandfather Clause / int_c43df4d8	comment	Many aspects of Doctor Who — both new and old — do this. From Timey-Wimey Ball to Space Is Magic to Planet of Hats to Limited Wardrobe... and the list just keeps going on. Nostalgia is one thing Doctor Who has in abundance, and they have no intention of giving it up. Most iconic must be the TARDIS exterior "disguise" as an old police telephone box of the sort which has long since become obsolete now the police use two-way radios or mobile phones to communicate, though it was at times justified by the "chameleon circuit" used to generate a disguise getting stuck. The box has now become more synonymous with the show than its original usage. It's worth mentioning that the police box was already old-fashioned when the show first aired. The TARDIS disguised itself as a police box because it was hidden in a scrap yard. Thematically, this works quite well as the TARDIS is viewed as an antique by other Time Lords. It's even described as "scrap" at one point. Jack Harkness' WWII-era Iconic Outfit is an in-canon example of this — though we do first meet up with Jack in the '40s, he's actually from the 51st century. Though he wears more modern clothing for the rest of series 1, after his return two years later and into his spinoff, Torchwood he keeps his braces and greatcoat. ("Period military is not the dress code of a straight man.") In a flashback to British India in 1909, he wears the uniform of a British Army captain of that era. Doctor Who's extreme and distracting You Look Familiar right from the very early days - such as having Peter Purves play both a Wacky Wayside Tribe Eaglelander and the new companion Steven Taylor in the same story for no reason, or having the Chancellery Guard Commander who shoots the Fifth Doctor go on to play the Sixth Doctor - allowed it to carry on doing this in the new show, even though the No Budget that made this forgivable in the Classic days has been expanded to a level that this casting would be considered laughable. For instance, since 2005, two companions so far (Martha and Amy) and the Twelfth Doctor himself have been played by actors who first showed up in one-shot rolesnote although none of these are as blatant — Karen Gillan's first appearance had her heavily made-up and hooded, contrasting Amy Pond basically being her regular appearance; Freema Agyeman's first character was stated to be the cousin of her recurring character Martha Jones; and the 12th doctor resembling Capaldi's first role is a plot point in The Girl Who Died. The trope of the male, middle-aged Insufferable Genius and his sexy Closer to Earth female sidekick (and their UST) was very fashionable in the 00s, but fell out of fashion in The New '10s due to widespread criticism of the Unfortunate Implications. But Doctor Who ploughed on straight ahead with it, in part because the show has been doing this since the companion team was slimmed down into a single Parent Service female sidekick in 1970. The 2018-2022 period buckled the trend by teaming up the first ever female Doctor with three different companions, two men and one woman (which as previously mentioned was something of a throwback to the very first season in 1963), but the status quo returned after she left the show. The classic series Blu-ray box sets are the last pieces of Doctor Who merchandise allowed to use the show's Chris Chibnall era logo past the broadcasting of his (and the aforementionned female Doctor's) final episode "The Power of the Doctor" in October 2022 and ensuing immediate rebranding for the reason of spine consistency on the shelves of home video collectors, the range's primary consumer base. The trailer of the Season 9 set, the first post-Chibnall release and the 13th season of 26 to be released, makes a point of opening with the first post-Chibnall show logo before showing the set's packaging with the same but now-outdated branding as prior releases in the range to drive home the grandfathering.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty and Battlefield are the only pulp-cinematic modern military shooters left in the market since they both codified the sub-genre to begin with. Said sub-genre has been heavily mocked and criticized for oversaturating the market for most of the seventh generation to the point that no new original gaming IP can play it straight anymore, but since both franchises are massive juggernauts that defined the gaming landscape of the late 2000s to early 2010s, they get to stay without any mockery because gaming culture just wouldn't be the same without them. Even when some installments try to steer away from the formula, they just get met with indifference or backlash.
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Grandfather Clause / int_c5f50eb4	comment	Contra and its clones, even the ones made today, kept their "you touch ANYTHING and you die" rule despite many other run-and-gun platform shooters discrediting this entirely (such as Metal Slug, or even some of Konami's own works where an enemy actually has to shoot or stab you to kill you) in an effort to add a little more realism and to lessen the difficulty.
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Grandfather Clause / int_cc32f7c3	comment	Most "active rock" stations don't play music from before the mid- to late-'80s, but a handful of pioneering hard rock and metal bands from the '70s still get rotation. Black Sabbath is the band that most frequently gets grandfathered in, but Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, and Aerosmith might get a pass as well.
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Grandfather Clause / int_cf3e7a82	comment	For that matter, the "boy scout" hero in general is virtually extinct — except when used as a joke — aside from Captain America, Superman, and Shazam!, to the point where every hero is so messed up and their motivations so personal and complicated that the idea of heroes who are heroes just because they're decent people who don't want to waste their great power has become unique and thought-provoking in-universe. Steel also gets a pass, but part of that is because he was made as a Superman substitute and specifically tailored to reject the Anti-Hero Substitute trope. Recently-created heroes can still conform to the pure "boy scout" tropes if they're young, e.g. Kamala Khan, the new Ms. Marvel.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d2a46ce2	comment	Another such example comes from Dead or Alive 5. The new graphics engine was hyped up before release, and to go with it were brand new costumes for almost every character. Except Kasumi, the lead heroine and icon of the franchise. Her costume remained almost exactly the same from previous games, primarily because it was too iconic to the character to change or remove.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d4cad0e2	comment	Bubsy became another exception when the franchise was revived in 2017. He plays the Mascot with Attitude trope just as straight as he did back then. However, in stark contrast to Sonic playing the trope straight as part of the series appeal, Bubsy does this as Self-Deprecation due to being one of many the imitators that killed the trope back in the day.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d4e486c7	comment	The main difference between Dota 2 and League of Legends as successors of Defense of the Ancients is which one kept the old quirks, glitches and mechanics of the original War Craft III engine: DOTA 2 ported them faithfully and unchanged, whereas LOL fixed them.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	While many characters have their English voice portrayals adjusted as the series goes on, changing lines and actors as the current events and localizations see fit, Captain Falcon, Ness, and Terry are special exceptions that can be traced to grandfathering, as their broken English is so iconic to their characters, they'd be borderline unrecognizable without it, especially the former two; while Terry carries this trait from his home series, Captain Falcon and Ness talk like this because it was from the first Smash Bros where these characters got their voices.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Brock's main Running Gag in the anime is to fall in love and embarrass himself by flirting with any pretty girl he sees. Such a character trait can't be tacked on to later characters in a children's series without it coming off as creepy or demeaning to the woman in question, but Brock can get away with it since that's his most well known character trait (and because he keeps getting thwarted in embarrassing and/or painful ways). Dub Name Changes were commonplace when the English dub began but over the years fewer and fewer series use them. Several of the anime's competitors, such as Beyblade (sans the original anime) and Bakugan, forgo westernizing names. Yet, PokÃ©mon keeps doing it because it's always done it. The games do it, so the anime also does it.
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Grandfather Clause / int_d6e2146d	comment	In Diablo III, if you have any +% Magic Find gear from the 1.X days, better hold onto it!
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Grandfather Clause / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park made its name with Black Comedy humor that crosses lines all the time, it's why the series is so popular to begin with. Naturally, when South Park: The Stick of Truth was released, that kind of humor carried over in-full. The most noticeable is the four classes you can play as: Fighter, Mage, Thief, and Jew. Yes, there's a Jew class. It's been said that this is the only game that could get away with something like that.
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Grandfather Clause / int_dda4ea6c	comment	Players of Daytona USA discovered that downshifting to first gear will throw the car into a slide, making drifting around corners easier. However, attempting to do this while driving the new cars in Daytona USA 2 will cause the car to spin out. But if you're driving the Hornet Classic in Power Edition, you can downshift without penalty, because that car emulates the physics of the first game.
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Grandfather Clause / int_e3ed54c7	comment	The Pretty Cure franchise is one of the few Magical Girl series nowadays that still plays the whole premise more or less straight by the virtue of being quite the Long Runner (Futari wa Pretty Cure premiered back in 2004) only putting more emphasis on physical fightingnote Most of the time anyway. The level of action during fights greatly varies from series to series: contrast the battles in Futari wa Pretty Cure and HeartCatch Pretty Cure! to the ones in Smile PreCure! and Doki Doki! PreCure to see how much of a stark difference there is. compared to most examples in the genre. The franchise has remained untouched by the trend set by the smashing success of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Quite the contrary, a entry in particular can be interpreted as a Spiritual Antithesis of Madoka: in HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!, the characters can achieve their dreams without being punished for it, and they can act selflessly for others without expecting to benefit by it or suffering nasty consequences over it. Practically the polar opposite of how Madoka treated following one's dreams and being altruistic. Some go as far as saying that Happiness Charge stands as an indictment against Madoka.
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Grandfather Clause / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis, by virtue of being a new show, had a chance for a fresh start and didn't use it — which was, of course, given a Lampshade Hanging in the very first episode.
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Grandfather Clause / int_ea1a786f	comment	One of the main jokes in Brazilian comic Monica's Gang is the protagonist being pestered by her male friends... even though in recent years it would be considered bullying (though the reply is what you would expect when bullying a Pintsized Powerhouse with a Hair-Trigger Temper). It possibly only remains without complaint from the Moral Guardians because the comic has been running since the 1960s. While even cartoon violence has been eliminated from the comics as of the late 2010s, the teasing remains.
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Grandfather Clause / int_eec7c300	comment	Another Gaming Comic In one of the real-life Extras, the campaign GM has instituted a flat ban on dwarf PCs (finding them too powerful for his taste), but the one existing dwarf PC is allowed to stay in play until the GM finally manages to kill him.
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Grandfather Clause / int_ef661e97	comment	Speaking of Street Fighter, the limitations of the CPS-1 meant that all of the male characters in Street Fighter II had the same voice set and shared the exact same Death Cry Echo. Once Super Street Fighter II rolled around, the CPS-2 allowed for all of them to have new and improved attack calls and K.O. screams — except for Ryu, the franchise's mascot and protagonist, who merely had his voice clips remastered.
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Grandfather Clause / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: The Classic series exists on this trope. 9 and 10 feature all of the cliches that are featured in the rest of the series, including the eight Robot Masters, getting weapons from defeated enemies, moving on to Wily's fortress, Wily hijacking the plot, and even the 8-bit graphics and sound. Somehow, it works. There's also the topic of Wily's status as the Big Bad for each game. Of the mainline games, 1, 2, 7, 8, and 11 feature him gleefully declaring to Take Over the World from the very start. In the remaining mainline games (along with Mega Man & Bass), he'll take a Not Me This Time stance. Whether he acts as though he changed his ways, frames someone else as the Big Bad, disguises himself as someone else, or what have you, he'll always hijack the spot as the Big Bad later on in the story somehow. On a smaller note, Mega Man ZX and its sequel having Bottomless Pits and Spikes of Doom, both of which lie in contention with their Metroidvania-style "explore everywhere" design philosophy but have been with the Mega Man games since the beginning. Current knowledge is that putting a Boss Rush in the main story is a poor design choice. The Mega Man games of all series can still get away with it, though on occasion in the Zero and Battle Network games, the devs have liked to screw with the "classic" formula — for instance, Zero 2 pops in a boss from Z1 with his brother in this game for a Dual Boss, while Zero 3 brings back three bosses from Z1 (and Copy X) to serve as the bosses for the mid-game point. The complete inability to crouch, compared to other games and franchises. While sometimes criticized, many players don't mind this, as it helps to maintain the quick pace of the platforming, with the slide ability usually compensating. A notable aversion came when Mega Man X5 and X6 actually allowed players to duck in addition to the usual Video Game Dashing, and while kept when the series made the jump to 3D with X7 for the 2D sections, the next game ditched it entirely.
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Grandfather Clause / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Even in the most modern games, Samus' missiles always cap out at 255, despite that number only arising due to hardware limitations in the original game. (Later Zelda games quickly did away with the 255 money Cap, for example.) It's just always been a part of the series, and let's face it, any more would make 100% Completion even more insane than it already is... Samus' Morph Ball form also came about because of the hardware limitations making the developers unable to get Samus to crouch or crawl. Needless to say that these days, we have the technology, and yet the Morph Ball remains regardless.
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Grandfather Clause / int_f0688fff	comment	PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire and PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl introduced brand new baby PokÃ©mon to evolve into pre-existing species, such as Munchlax, Bonsly, Mime. Jr, Happiny, and Wynaut. Their evolved forms will still hatch from Eggs unless the correct Incense is held by the parent — the only alternative use for the items is as a duplicate effect of a different item (for example, the Rock Incense needed to breed a Bonsly is otherwise a duplicate of the Hard Stone item). For those unfamiliar with PokÃ©mon before the new babies occurred, seeing an evolved PokÃ©mon — especially Snorlax — hatch from an Egg can be a bit of a shock. Though as of PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, all PokÃ©mon will now hatch from their lowest formnote For example, Marill will produce eggs that will hatch Azurill instead of Marill even without the Sea Incense, which alongside the other incenses, were removed from the games.
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Grandfather Clause / int_f1d185d1	comment	Gilgamesh of The Epic of Gilgamesh gets a free pass to use many of the most stereotypical and overused tropes and cliches all in one main character. Why? Because in many cases he is the Ur-Example (almost literally; technically the "Uruk" example) of the tropes. No author today would get away with combining them all together in one character, but with him it just comes off as awesome.
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Grandfather Clause / int_f2256af5	comment	The Otakon LARP has a rule that only Anime characters are allowed. Plus Final Fantasy characters. They were allowed when the LARP first opened, and while the rules have tightened up against any other video games, Final Fantasy is allowed on the strength of tradition.
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Grandfather Clause / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed is the only video game franchise that could get away with using the Mayan Doomsday as a major plot point since the first main Story Arc, spanning the first game in 2007 to 2012's Assassin's Creed III, revolves around a solar flare on December 21, 2012 that almost destroyed humanity only for Desmond Miles to do a Heroic Sacrifice. Fans playing III when it first came out joked about rushing to finish it before the apocalypse that was due to happen several months later.
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Grandfather Clause / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers has a lot of designs that have remained the same in modern imaginings despite being clearly dated to the 1980s. While reboots tend to change things up, most revisitings of G1 feature things like Soundwave turning into a tape deck or Grimlock's very old-fashioned T-rex design.
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Grandfather Clause / int_fdd41e57	comment	The Hobbit (1977) movie would never had the gall to write a song so utterly morbid, violent, and orc-like as "15 Birds", if the words hadn't been written by Tolkien half a century earlier. Perhaps having used that gave Rankin/Bass Productions the courage to double down in The Return of the King with "Where There's a Whip There's a Way," an original song that makes perfectly clear why the orcs... even those who don't particularly want to... are fighting for Sauron.
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Grandfather Clause / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: It's the only Platform-based Mascot Fighter that gets taken seriously without any mockery whatsoever, since it codified the sub-genre to begin with (but wasn't the first one ever made, contrary to popular belief). The Original Twelve note Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Luigi, Captain Falcon, Ness and Jigglypuff fighters that appeared in the first Super Smash Bros. have gone on to appear in every sequel, even if their franchises get less relevant, their popularity declines or how much time goes by without a new game released in their series. With that said, Ness was almost replaced by Lucas in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Jigglypuff was almost cut from the roster of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. In Melee, Marth and Roy speak in Japanese to reflect the fact that the Fire Emblem series had not been released outside of Japan. Brawl (for Marth only) and 3DS/Wii U continued to have them do so despite Fire Emblem games now having international distribution, Marth having English VAs for a while, and later Fire Emblem protagonists to be playable in the series speak English. This was finally averted in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where Marth and Roy both have English lines (Marth's voice provided by his English VA Yuri Lowenthal note by the announcement of Ultimate, Lowenthal had already voiced Marth in Code Name: S.T.E.A.M, Fire Emblem Fates, Fire Emblem Heroes, and Fire Emblem Warriors and Roy's voice being provided by his English VA Ray Chase note who first voiced him in Fire Emblem Heroes) in the game at last. Dr. Mario gets to remain his own distinct character from regular Mario, despite Ultimate having introduced the concept of the Echo Fighter for clone characters. The reason being that due to Divergent Character Evolution since his introduction in Melee, his moveset is considered "too distinct" to be an Echo of Mario. Had Dr. Mario been introduced in 2018's Ultimate and not 2001's Melee, he most certainly would not have been anything other than an Echo, or even an alternate costume along the lines of Builder Mario or Wedding Mario for that matter. Due to technical limitations, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U completely did away with transformations, making Zelda/Sheik and Samus/Zero Suit Samus separate characters while removing the PokÃ©mon Trainer alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur, putting in Charizard as a lone and fully developed character. Then, in Ultimate, where the theme is that everyone makes their return, Charizard was made part of the Trainer's set alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur once again. This despite Ultimate carrying on the tradition of not having transformations otherwise note until the addition of Pyra and Mythra via DLC, and in fact goes even further by taking out some of the Final Smash transformations (like Fox with the Landmaster). Because PokÃ©mon Trainer had to be represented alongside Squirtle and Ivysaur, they got to return even though their stance system gimmick has been largely discredited, as it would be impossible to do the character properly without it. As a side effect, it ends up making Charizard feel less distinct because of this. Although Ultimate did away with the mechanic of PokÃ©mon Trainer's PokÃ©mon getting tired and having to switch every so often, so aside from cycling back to it after getting KOed, players can still play as their favorite 'mon. The original reason Dark Pit was given his own position in the roster instead of being an alternate skin for Pit (as is the case of Alph and Olimar) was due to Pit using the Three Sacred Treasures as his Final Smash, and it didn't feel right for Dark Pit to use them as well. The very next game would, in an effort to keep Final Smashes quick and to-the-point, trade the TST for the Lightning Chariot, something that Dark Pit has used in canon. That said, it probably would seem awkward to renege on Dark Pit's character-hood now that they've coined the term "Echo Fighter" to describe last-minute Moveset Clones like him. While many characters have their English voice portrayals adjusted as the series goes on, changing lines and actors as the current events and localizations see fit, Captain Falcon, Ness, and Terry are special exceptions that can be traced to grandfathering, as their broken English is so iconic to their characters, they'd be borderline unrecognizable without it, especially the former two; while Terry carries this trait from his home series, Captain Falcon and Ness talk like this because it was from the first Smash Bros where these characters got their voices. Regarding the PokÃ©mon Palette Swaps, in the very first game, Pikachu and Jigglypuff had party hats and ribbons respectively as the basis for their alternate colors, as their colors were deemed too iconic to change and Shiny PokÃ©mon had not yet been introduced. Melee continued the trend with Pichu — but Mewtwo received full-fledged color swaps. Brawl scaled back on this by both cutting Mewtwo and giving both the PokÃ©mon Trainer and Lucario more subtle tints, only for the next game to have more distinct colors for Charizard and incoming newcomer Greninja, alongside bringing back Mewtwo via DLC. Ultimate followed suit with having Incineroar receive proper color swaps. Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Pichu? Still sporting accessories with only mild tints in their general colorization, simply because they started off with them.
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