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Trope Breaker
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A Trope Breaker is a change in cultural context, such as a change in customs or mores, or an advance in science or technology, which renders some well-loved trope moot in contemporary storylines, at least in certain parts of the world. Hollywood usually responds to Trope Breakers sluggishly and clings to broken tropes via lame, sometimes outright bizarre justifications. Sometimes a Trope Breaker is just flat-out ignored, leading to lots of Fridge Logic. The trope may become a Discredited Trope, only used for parody, or a totally Forgotten Trope. If it goes on for long enough you'll get an Undead Horse Trope. One reason for the Period Piece and Historical Fiction is that you can go back to a time of plausibility. Sometimes the audience doesn't realize that the Trope Breaker is Newer Than They Think. Contrast Deconstruction, where a trope stops being used because a particular work takes the trope to its logical conclusion. Deconstructions are works specifically aiming at tropes, while Trope Breakers are real-life societal developments that have Tropes as collateral damage. Also contrast Evolving Trope, where a trope changes with the times instead of being broken. Tropes like Science Marches On, Technology Marches On, Future Society, Present Values, Outdated Outfit, Two Decades Behind, and Magic Floppy Disk are largely subtropes. |
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The various methods media used to acknowledge birthdays without treading on the copyright of Happy Birthday to You! were rendered unnecessary in late 2015 and early 2016 (depending on where you live) when the copyright either was determined to be invalid or expired (again, depending on where you live). | |
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Ironically, the destigmatization and slow legalization of cannabis use in the 2010s killed the Stoner Flick. From the '70s through the '00s in the age of the War on Drugs, these films banked on the idea of getting high as something illegal and dangerous, and the people who did so as cool, edgy, and countercultural. With more people openly discussing cannabis and admitting to using it without shame, stoner humor lost its edge, with audiences instead increasingly viewing it as hackneyed and juvenile. Consequently, drug-related humor instead shifted focus to drugs that are still illegal or otherwise staunchly restricted in most of the Western world, such as crack and ketamine. | |
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In Chopping Block, Butch's attempt to replicate When a Stranger Calls fails thanks to caller ID. | |
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The poor reception of Caillou note whose American version used all-new framing device segments in the United States killed off the Importation Expansion trope for foreign, non-Power Rangers children's shows in the United States. The standard practice now is to adapt these shows into either a multiple shorts per episode format or to air them in their own timeslot as a Quarter Hour Short, now that the latter format is popular there. | |
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The success of the Harry Potter films killed a very specific part of the Same Language Dub. Before that, it was common practice for any British shows exported in America, specifically those aimed at children, to dub the characters with American accents. The success of the films showed that the American audiences would watch something with British voices in there. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was literally picked up for adaptation as soon as the films were a success; many American filmmakers had previously attempted to adapt The Chronicles of Narnia to film, but had to deal with studio executives pressuring them to relocate the story to America.note At one point, for example, the Pevensie children were going to be reimagined as kids in modern-day Los Angeles sent to the countryside after an earthquake. | |
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In Scream 2, of the first scenes features a dumbass trying to prank call Sidney and claiming to be Ghostface; she looks at the caller ID and tells him off. It's actually been said that the first film triggered a threefold spike in the adoption of caller ID systems. | |
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While Gone with the Wind 's "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" did not kill off Gosh Dang It to Heck!, it ensured that adult characters using euphemistic profanities in the movies could never quite be taken seriously anymore. | |
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