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You have before you three series. The first, Series A, was the first known use of a trope, but it may or may not have been intentional. The second, Series B, was the first intentional use of the trope. The third, Series C, does not claim originality, and may in fact have ripped off series B, but was much more popular than Series A or B and is the template that all later uses of this trope follow. Series A is the Ur-Example. Series B is the Trope Maker. Series C is the Trope Codifier. In other words, if in tracing the history of a trope, one example stands out as the template that many, many other examples follow, that's the Trope Codifier. The Trope Maker is frequently also the Trope Codifier, but not always. In particular, when the Trope Maker is a work of outstanding quality, the Trope Codifier may often be a story that shows how lesser authors can do a good imitation. Conversely, a great writer may gather up many old tropes and polish them to a shine, codifying them for later generations. Occasionally somebody rediscovers a Forgotten Trope. The Trope Codifier may be the first theme park version or Pragmatic Adaptation. If the trope is Older Than They Think, the Codifier is usually mistaken for the Trope Maker. Really old tropes may have been codified every couple of centuries for millennia, as successive codifiers show how to adapt the age-old trope to their times. With the advent of television, a trope related to television may be codified by a new show every decade or two after the associations with previous codifiers have died out. Important: "Trope Codifier" does not mean Most Triumphant Example. It means "Example that has fingerprints of influence on all later examples of the trope". The true marker of a Codifier is that it invents some unique spin on the trope that all later examples have some reaction to. Take, for example, Werewolves. There were earlier examples of werewolf stories, but it is with 1941's The Wolf Man that we first see werewolves as an infection (previously, it was a curse or part of a Deal with the Devil), silver vulnerability (previously, it was vampires or ghosts who were usually associated with weakness to silver), made the werewolf a human cursed to turn into a wolf-man (previously, all kinds of variations were available, from wolf that turns into a man, to man who was permanently turned into a wolf), and tied the wolf to the night of the full moon (previously, they either focused on the three nights around the full moon, or had little to do with the phase of the moon). Almost all later examples of Werewolves bear some of these subtropes, which originated with The Wolf Man, or at least discuss them in order to explain why Our Werewolves Are Different. Thus, we can state with confidence that it is the Trope Codifier. Examples should be of Trope Codifiers that aren't Trope Makers themselves. Related to Older Than They Think. If a Trope Codifier is particularly influential, and the Trope Maker a little twisted you may have an Unbuilt Trope. Even the Trope Codifier itself may qualify as Unbuilt Trope because it tends to frequently contradict modern interpretations of said trope (and indeed most Trope Codifiers often have several major Unbuilt Tropes). There may also be a Series D which is the Trope Namer, which is a series that uses the trope so commonly, so appropriately (or inappropriately, as the case may be), or so memorably,note Or so punnily; tropers can't resist a good pun that it provides a name for the trope. Also see Most Triumphant Example. Compare Franchise Codifier and Genre Popularizer. |
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Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns are co-codifiers of Darker and Edgier. | |
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Dream Theater may not have been the first Progressive Metal band, but Images and Words is the album that defined the style and what the entire genre is built upon. | |
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Tina Turner is the trope codifier for female diva singers with over the top wardrobes. She specifically has influenced female African-American singer such as Beyoncé. | |
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CMLL's mini estrellas were the trope makers for having the same gimmick on multiple luchadors of different sizes, most notably Mascara and Mascarita Sagrada, but AAA codified the idea with its mascot division, where every tag team\pareja had to be made up of a larger luchador and smaller mascot\smaller luchador and larger mascot. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica wasn't the first series to deconstruct the Magical Girl genre (as older series like Revolutionary Girl Utena and Phantom Thief Jeanne also examined its associated tropes from darker and more serious angles), but it was still the anime that made the Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction suddenly fill the market compared to the more traditional takes on the genre. It plays with just about every cliche magical girl trope and shows just how making young girls fight violent monsters can really mess up their lives. | |
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All Japan co founder Akio Saito popularized the sit down power bomb in the United States, which would later be taken up by the likes of D'Lo Brown(a running variant) and Batista. | |
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The Far Side was far from being the first single-panel comic strip, but it made the format popular again in the 1980s. | |
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Metallica, Slayer, and Exodus (Band) are the codifiers for American Thrash Metal, with the vast majority of thrash bands modelling themselves on one of the three. In Germany, the codifiers are Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction (collectively known as the Three Teutonic Kings of Thrash Metal), and in Brazil, the codifiers are Sepultura, Sarcófago, and Vulcano. | |
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The Zerg of StarCraft may have been the namers for Zerg Rush, but the Tyranids, of Warhammer 40,000, were infamous for the tactic long before the Swarm came around. Of course, both being based on the Bugs from Starship Troopers the similarities are unavoidable, the result being an odd case where the Trope Namer came after the Codifier. Also the book also broke all the Bugs into castes of Worker and Warrior bugs, all directed by a special hierarchy of subterranean Brain Bugs. |
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The Real World is the Trope Codifier for Reality Shows. Likewise, the hit series The Bachelor codified the romance for Reality Shows. |
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Although there were definitely 3D beat'em ups/hack-and-slashers in the PS1/Sega Saturn/Nintendo 64 era, the first Devil May Cry gave the genre new popularity and credence and is widely seen as the key inspiration for similar "Stylish Action" games like God of War, Ninja Gaiden (the Xbox revival), and Spiritual Successor Bayonetta (created by Hideki Kamiya, who also created Devil May Cry and directed the first game). Many subsequent titles in the genre either directly take inspiration for it or, via aping direct so-to-speak offspring like aforementioned God of War, indirectly draw from it. | |
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And to further set the point, it cannot be denied that Super Mario Kart is the Trope Maker and Codifier for the Mascot Racer genre. | |
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There were car chases on film before, but the one in Bullitt became the most famous one which all films after tried to emulate. | |
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The Mighty Thor is one of the earliest and most iconic examples of the Superhero Gods trope. | |
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Ranma ½'s Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo aren't even Rumiko Takahashi's first couple with Belligerent Sexual Tension. But they're the standard by which all others are measured. Ranma is also the most likely codifier for Martial Arts and Crafts unless someone who knows their kung-fu flicks can dethrone it — it's probably harder to think of a pursuit they didn't use in the series than one they did. Ryoga Hibiki is the codifier for No Sense of Direction. His sense of direction is so bad that he literally traverses across continents and oceans without even realizing it. Ranma Saotome himself is very likely the main Trope Codifier for the Gender Bender trope (or at least its Sex Shifter variation) in modern fiction. His transformation is due to an accident (earlier instances often had no explanation at all), he changes sexes due to specific stimuli (previously, transformation was most often only one way, and if there was ever a way of changing back and forth, it was something that could never be controlled from the outside), and he keeps his original personality at any time (before him, previous instances of the trope sometimes changed personality when transforming). While later instances don't necessarily share all of these elements, they are the standards by which those instances are considered, to the point the Gender Bender has been seen as a Characteristic Trope for the work, at least in the anime fandom. |
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The Addams Family for Creepy Good. May be the maker as well. They're creepy and spooky and altogether ooky but generally loving and benevolent. | |
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Silencer and Xasthur codified Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal. | |
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School Days is known for the Psychotic Love Triangle of Matoko Itou, Kotonoha Katsura and Sekai Saionji. | |
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Darkstalkers is the trope codifier and possibly trope maker for Succubi and Incubi in Japanese video games. Morrigan Aensland as initially conceived by the Japanese was a more masculine character and she was also a vampire, Alex Jimenez then told the other artists about changing her into a succubus to differentiate her from Dmitri. The Japanese artists had no idea what a succubus was, so Alex explained. The artists were happy with the idea and changed the vampire into a succubus, but still retaining some vampiric visual traits for Morrigan. | |
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Story of Seasons is both the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for the Farm Life Sim. | |
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Lex Luthor is the Trope Codifier of supervillains in general. | |
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Dragon Quest III is the video game where the Eastern RPG truly became a separate genre from the Western RPG, and set the template for all other JRPGs to follow, including rival series Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star. | |
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Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is regarded as the codifier of the Stealth Parody. | |
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V (1983) is the Trope Codifier for Ominous Floating Spaceship and Reptilian Conspiracy. | |
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V (1983) | hasFeature |
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Cheers and Belligerent Sexual Tension. Sam and Diane provided the template for sitcoms to follow. Ditto for the Will They or Won't They? romantic storyline. | |
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Cheers | hasFeature |
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Iron Chef is the Trope Codifier for the Cooking Duel trope. | |
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Iron Chef | hasFeature |
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Metroid was the first Metroidvania-game, and Super Metroid is the Trope Codifier. | |
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If Namor the Sub-Mariner was the Trope Maker of the Captain Fishman trope, then Arthur Curry, AKA Aquaman is the Codifier. Being the half-human son of Queen Atlanna of Atlantis, he would eventually become king and use his extraordinary powers to protect both species from anything that would threaten them, becoming a member of the Justice League of America. He's so popular, most (though not all) examples of this trope were deliberately made to be Stock Parodies of Aquaman, for better or for worse. | |
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Sable set the standard for what a WWE Diva was supposed to look like. Previous women who wrestled had been less glamorous and had dressed more modestly. | |
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James Bond defines the most popular image of Spy Fiction. Virtually every fictional spy in later stories has their roots in the Bond character, or will sooner or later be defined by how unlike Bond they are. | |
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The Simpsons re-codified modern animated Sitcoms. | |
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The Hire popularized the use of short films as a form of advertising, as the success of that series proved that short films were just as valid and effective an advertising method as broadcast television commercials, not to mention that they can bring major artistic merit to a brand. Since then, a number of high-profile and luxury brands have funded and produced short films every year for this purpose. | |
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The Hire (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Dark Souls inspired a trend toward action-RPGs with punishing difficulty and bleak, grimdark aesthetics. | |
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Sleeping Beauty codified what many consider the "Disney Princess formula" of the Disney Animated Canon and its many imitators, especially compared to the films of the The Renaissance Age of Animation, particularly regarding its characters like Aurora for Princess Classic and Rebellious Princess (albeit a downplayed one), Phillip for Prince Charming and Knight in Shining Armor, the Three Fairies for Fairy Companion and Spotlight-Stealing Squad, Maleficent for Card-Carrying Villain and One-Winged Angel, and Samson for Cool Horse and Non-Human Sidekick. | |
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Sleeping Beauty | hasFeature |
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The mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant originates with Frankenstein (1931) and its stage predecessors. But the boilerplate Igor — bugeyed, dressed in hooded Medieval clothing, and named "Igor" — was codified by Mel Brooks' parody Young Frankenstein. (His name was borrowed from Son of Frankenstein, but Ygor there is a villain in his own right and not merely Frankenstein's sidekick.) It's probably telling that just about every Igor who fits the pattern of how an Igor is supposedly supposed to look, talk and behave in this vein of horror is a parody. | |
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Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny codified Karmic Tricksters. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner is the codifier for the Iron Butt Monkey. |
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Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
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Attack No. 1 codified Shoujo sports series as well as volleyball manga with hotblooded grace, with Aim for the Ace! doing the same for tennis during The '70s. | |
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The Carry On franchise codified Affectionate Parody because of their movies based on other films and genres; it also broke barriers between claims of copyright from Hollywood, who threatened to sue them, eventually losing their case in court.note This is probably the reason why parody is filed under Fair Use. However, the movies were the Trope Maker of Awful British Sex Comedy (the codifiers were Confessions of a... series) due to the use of explicit nudity in a time when British media was against it. Ironically, when the Carry On franchise did a parody full of blatant fanservice, it was called one of the worst in the series. | |
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Carry On | hasFeature |
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beatmania isn't the first Rhythm Game; that honor goes to Parappa The Rapper. However, beatmania established a lot of the conventions that would go on to be the foundation of other rhythm games: Multiple lanes of notes with one lane per button, a timing judgement system that awards points based on how accurately the player pressed the note, and a wide variety of songs about 1-2 minutes each in order to be more accomodating to the three-stage arcade game format. | |
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beatmania (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Likewise, the hit series The Bachelor codified the romance for Reality Shows. | |
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The Bachelor | hasFeature |
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Speaking of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, while the Getter Robo series introduced the This Is a Drill trope to mecha fans, a lot of them will remember the former for taking said trope as a massive plot point. | |
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Supergirl is the Trope Codifier of Distaff Counterpart characters, having all of Superman's powers. | |
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Supergirl (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Hollywood Nuns trope owes itself largely to three films. The Song of Bernadette (1943) was the initial Trope Codifier, and The Nun's Story (1959) and The Sound of Music (1965) solidly reinforced the trope. Because they were so popular, they were used as templates for nuns in film forever after. | |
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Hollywood Nuns | hasFeature |
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The Flash is the Trope Codifier for the Super-Speed hero. | |
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The Flash (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Joker is the Trope Codifier for Monster Clowns. (It was Pennywise from Stephen King's It who truly took the trope mainstream, though.) He is also the Codifier of the Arch-Enemy, as his relationship with Batman has practically become shorthand for describing any particular character's greatest and most personal foe. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist popularized the concept of Equivalent Exchange and Magic A Is Magic A, at least for anime and manga. | |
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Earthsea codified the idea of people and things having "True Names" that give power over them to any speaker in the context of magic systems. | |
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Earthsea | hasFeature |
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Mr. Vampire was not the first of jiangshi genre films; jiangshi movies were made as early as 1936! However, Mr. Vampire definitely set the standard for them and helped propel the genre into popular from 1985 to the mid-1990s in East Asia. | |
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Speaking of Fist of the North Star, it can be considered the codifier for the You Are Already Dead and Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs tropes, at least for anime and manga, given that a good many examples of both tropes are either homages to, or parodies of, the series. | |
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Wonder Woman is the Codifier for female superheroes, as well as the first major superhero whose origin and universe are based on ancient myths. | |
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Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Another Trope Codifier was Terry Books's novel The Sword of Shannara, which showed that Doorstopper fantasy novels that weren't written by Tolkien could also go on to sell zillions of copies. | |
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Shannara | hasFeature |
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The climax of The Monkey's Paw is the Trope Codifier for Ominous Knocking. | |
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While it certainly existed earlier, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha codified the Dark Magical Girl trope for anime with the character of Fate Testarossa. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha | hasFeature |
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Capcom vs. games for the concept of "tag battle" fighters (discounting wrestling games, which have wildly different gameplay.) | |
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While Modern Warfare wasn't the first game to use an RPG-esque leveling-up system for its multiplayer, you'd be hard pressed to find another online FPS today that doesn't use a system almost exactly like it. It's fairly easy to implement and can keep the player invested for another fifteen to twenty hours that they normally wouldn't have bothered with. It wasn't the absolute first modern military shooter game either, with Battlefield 2 among others preceding it, but most people blame it for making the setting popular, and it also popularised certain setpieces like breaching scenes and player-controlled Death from Above/fire support. | |
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While Stoner Metal existed before Electric Wizard, the band in general and their third album Dopethrone in particular are what cemented the genre as a force in the metal community. | |
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Electric Wizard (Music) | hasFeature |
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And Super Mario 64 was definitely not the Trope Maker for 3D Platformers (see The Other Wiki's article on platform games), but was definitely the Codifier of it, since is what all later games imitated. | |
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A year before Malcolm premiered, Spaced did the same thing for British sitcoms. | |
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Spaced | hasFeature |
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Yuno Gasai from Future Diary is essentially the codifier for the Yandere trope. While she had predecessors for this trope before her introduction, her character practically defined the trope in its current form, becoming both types throughout the story. | |
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The Troll Face is the Codifier of the Memetic Troll, being the literal face of the trope. | |
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Rage Comics (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Breakout is the Trope Maker (and Trope Namer) for Breaking Out, but most future examples of the genre are more based on Trope Codifier Arkanoid, which added in power-ups. | |
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Breakout (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Medea is the Trope Codifier for the Woman Scorned, although Ishtar from The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest known example. | |
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Medea (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! is the reason we have Anime Hair. Its second anime adaptation Yu-Gi-Oh! codified the card game battle genre. |
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Garfield is easily the codifier for Hating on Monday. | |
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Garfield (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion is the Trope Codifier for Darker and Edgier, Deconstructed mecha anime with a metaphysical edge. GaoGaiGar and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann attempted to Reconstruct the genre after it became overtaken by Eva-inspired works. Evangelion completely redefined the whole medium of TV anime and what it could do. Before Evangelion the vast majority of TV anime was either adaptations of popular manga or family-friendly programs, but the show paved the way for several Anime First franchises which explored darker and more mature themes, material that before had been largely relegated to direct-to-video productions (the so-called OVAs) and therefore only reached a niche market. |
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The Powerpuff Girls codified Action Girl shows. | |
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Halloween (1978) was the Trope Maker for the Slasher genre, but Friday the 13th (1980) was the Trope Codifier. In particular, Friday the 13th (1980) was the actual Trope Maker for Sex Signals Death rather than Death By Not Paying Attention (Including Having Sex) for all the imitators that followed. Arguably, the Italian proto-slasher giallo film A Bay of Blood was the trope codifier for Friday the 13th (1980) itself (and, by extension, slasher movies with its derivative formula), featuring the aforementioned Sex Signals Death trope; a seemingly desolate forest setting (on an idyllic waterfront, no less); an exceedingly high body count; and an all-around liberal employment of Gorn. Indeed, both Friday the 13th and its first sequel directly recreated certain scenes from A Bay of Blood (including spearing a copulating couple to death twice and embedding a sharp instrument in a respective victim's face). Earlier gialli (and American slasher antecedents such as Psycho) also employed certain variations of these tropes, but not in formulaic tandem with one another. |
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Snow Crash is widely recognized as the codifier for The Metaverse and the Digital Avatar but William Gibson did them first. | |
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Final Fantasy VII codified the Ominous Latin Chanting trope for video games with the Final Boss theme "One-Winged Angel". While it was absolutely not the first game to have a song with Latin lyrics, it is by far the most popular, and a large portion of video games which have Latin lyrics in the final boss theme are inspired by this song. | |
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World of Warcraft later became a second Trope Codifier for the MMO genre. | |
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The Binding of Isaac later set the Rogue-lite sub-genre in stone, with many games following its heavy emphasis on Macrogame progression, large array of items with quirky passive effects, and streamlined gameplay mechanics inspired by more mainstream genres. | |
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner is the codifier for the Iron Butt Monkey. | |
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Chibi-Neko from The Star of Cottonland is one of the earliest known Cat Girls in manga and anime (as the manga was first published in 1978), and the manga is widely considered to be responsible for spreading the popularity of cat girls to other series. | |
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Popeye's spinach is the codifier for Power-Up Food. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera is a major Trope Codifier for supervillains. | |
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Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom by id Software weren't the first First Person Shooters (or even id's first First Person Shooter), but the two games popularized the genre and each inspired dozens of imitators. For a while, first person shooters were often called "Doom clones." While these games are very primitive by today's standards — you can't jump or even look up — Doom remains to this day a partial trope codifier, popularizing Death matches, FPS games with built in support for Game Mods, telefragging your friends, etc. In fact, John Romero coined the term deathmatch and frag. |
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Kamen Rider Ryuki is the trope codifier for Battle Royale-esque fiction in Japanese media. | |
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Grand Theft Auto, particularly Grand Theft Auto III, codified the Wide-Open Sandbox genre. Minecraft is easily another contender for the codifer, as well as being the absolute codifier for the Survival Sandbox genre. |
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While Dracula was the first modern codifier for vampiric tropes, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice was a subversion that served to codify the current template used by everyone from White Wolf to Twilight and Underworld (2003). Both kinds of vampire are still in active use, of course. With one exception: for easily understood reasons, most successors have thrown out Anne Rice's vision of vampires as lacking sufficient bloodflow to get it up. | |
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The Slender Man Mythos is the codifier for The Blank, and with good reason. | |
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Antimatter Dimensions popularised several mechanics found in the Idle Game genre, including polynomial growth (the idea that producer one makes the resource and each one above makes the one below), milestones that would make repeated New Game Plus resets faster and more comfortable, and a mode that makes progress slower when active while producing an exclusive resource. | |
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Also worth noting is Mario Party, codifier for the party game genre. Chances are, the trope maker would be its obscure, Japan-only Spiritual Predecessor Getter Love!! (assuming nothing came before that one). | |
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While songs complaining about how much jobs suck have existed since the invention of jobs, "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis (later made popular by Tennessee Ernie Ford) is the leading example that all modern Working Class Anthems owe one to; a song about the day-to-day of a working class man who's laborious job is a constant cycle of paying of debts and feeding back into the very business they give their lives to. | |
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Tennessee Ernie Ford (Music) | hasFeature |
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The Order of the Stick, not only started, but codified using stick figures to tell stories set in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse. Much Follow the Leader has ensued. (See Stick-Figure Comic for the full list.) | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry, at least in Japanese media, probably codified secretly unstable characters. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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This is Spın̈al Tap: The Codifier for the feature film Mockumentary genre. The Trope Maker is probably Woody Allen's Zelig, released just one year before (1983). The older example, The Rutles' All You Need Is Cash (1978), was a television film. | |
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Metal Gear for Stealth-Based Games. | |
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Warcraft II, while not the first Real-Time Strategy game, was the first one to formalize the RPG aspects, including clearly visible hit point counters and Hero Units. | |
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Resident Evil 4 for the Always Over the Shoulder Third-Person Shooter. | |
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Robin is the codifier for Kid Sidekick. | |
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon wasn't the first Fish Person, but he's certainly the best-known and most influential example. | |
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Inspector Gadget codified both The Fool and the Inspector Oblivious. | |
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Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
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90210 is also the Trope Codifier for a Teen Drama; it borrowed heavily from Degrassi Junior High and, besides adding the too-old "kids" moved the setting from a nondescript part of Toronto to one of the shiniest places the writers could think of. Two things most teen dramas since have kept in the mix. | |
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And while the Nerd was the first character reviewer, The Nostalgia Critic was the first to go deeper, having multiple arcs on how being a Caustic Critic has ruined his life, unfolding an abusive backstory out during his run. | |
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Analog: In his role as Chief Editor for the magazine, John W. Campbell became the major codifier for Golden Age Science Fiction as a genre. His editorship standardized the use of tropes such as Humanity Is Superior (and specifically the White Male Lead), Humans Are Psychic in the Future and a certain mandatory hardness, and the authors he nurtured retained his influence long after his death. | |
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Everybody Loves Raymond was hugely influential to later sitcoms and is a codifier for All Women Are Prudes in sitcoms (the notoriously anti-sex Debra) It was also a reinforcer of the feminist wife who was always right, even if she argued that the sky was kelly green, initially codified by Home Improvement, where wife Jill was a self-admitted feminist and Tim was the one who screwed up 99.5% of the time. |
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Bioware's games, especially Dragon Age: Origins, codified the modern variation of Romance Sidequest in Western RPGs, with subsequent works popularizing having the capacity to date party members by giving them gifts and spending time with them, as well as popularizing having at least one Gay Option in games. | |
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Azumanga Daioh is the eternal Trope Codifier of the Schoolgirl Series and associated tropes, including Wacky Homeroom and Sensei-chan. | |
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Bowser and the Spinies enemy type from Super Mario Bros. are the original example that codified the Studded Shell. | |
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Digital Devil Story codified the Shin Megami Tensei metaseries, providing the original source material that eventually set the rules for all Mons. | |
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Digital Devil Story | hasFeature |
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Iron Man is commonly recognized as the definitive Powered Armor superhero. | |
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It's unclear whether or not Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was the first to present an alignment system beyond good/neutral/evilnote Dungeons & Dragons used Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic for alignments. AD&D picked up from there and added good and evil as modifiers to all three., but it was definitely the most prominent, and its nine-point alignment system comprises all of the Character Alignment tropes today. Ironically, the most recent version of the game has done away with the alignment system, for the most part. The Order Versus Chaos aspect was borrowed from Michael Moorcock and Poul Anderson, for what that's worth. Original D&D only used Law/Neutral/Chaos. Later in the Strategic Review (the forerunning of Dragon) Gygax penned an article with five alignments: Neutral plus the four pairs using Good/Evil crossed with Law/Chaos. This version was used in Holmes's Blue Book Basic D&D. Soon after the AD&D PHB had the nine-fold system. |
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The Red Badge of Courage codified War Is Hell. | |
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While Black Lagoon introduced the Cluster F-Bomb and Sir Swears-a-Lot tropes in anime, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has the most swearing out of any anime. | |
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Lionel Luthor from Smallville is the Trope Codifier for Magnificent Bastard. The phrase itself comes from the 1970 movie Patton, and was used extensively by Television Without Pity's recaps of Smallville, to describe Lionel and the prodigious wheeling and dealing he engaged in throughout the course of the series. | |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
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Fighting massive creatures in games isn't anything new, however, after Shadow of the Colossus came along; taking on behemoths would never be the same again. Hence, the Colossus Climb. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show codified the Gross-Up Close-Up and the Grossout Show. | |
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Borderlands is the more notable Codifier for uniting the genres of First-Person Shooter and Role Playing Games into one lovely little franchise, although the RPG and loot system was originally codified by Diablo, Borderlands still deserves this spot for the previously mentioned reason and then some. | |
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Resident Evil for the Survival Horror despite not being the first of its kind. Resident Evil 4 for the Always Over the Shoulder Third-Person Shooter. |
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Visual programming languages, which rely on graphics more on text for programming, have existed in the '90s, examples being Etoys, Alice, and Max, but Scratch codified the genre, with its block-based programming as an influence on later, especially educational, ones. | |
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Not to mention Super Mario World is the Codifier (and former Trope Namer) of Power-Up Mount, and the Codifier of Enemy Roll Call. And then we have the romhacks... Kaizo Mario World codified Platform Hell (and, of course, Kaizo Trap). |
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Disney/Pixar's Cars codified Sentient Vehicles. | |
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Batman is the Trope Codifier of the Badass Normal superheroes and The Cowl. | |
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Billie Eilish is the trope codifier for Bedroom Pop, setting the standard for several artists after her. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing jump-started the trend of Humongous Mecha series having Bishōnen protagonists to give it a Periphery Demographic of young females. | |
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Lethal Weapon 2 laid out the blueprint for criminals invoking Diplomatic Immunity to commit crimes without the slightest fear of reciprocity. | |
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Ryan ToysReview is not the first children's toy review channel (in fact, it's inspired by earlier ones, such as EvanTubeHD), but it ended up being the most famous and influencing later toy review channels. | |
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Star Trek did not invent modern science-fiction television; but it made many science-fiction tropes commonplace on television, so much so that it is its own franchise and has influenced almost every subsequent speculative fiction series since, up to and including Heroes. Star Trek: The Original Series did codify the Red Shirt, but in the earliest episodes they weren't actually wearing red shirts. Likewise, it was not the first TV show to have fanfic, organized conventions, letterzines, etc. However, there are ridiculous amounts of Fanfic tropes that can be traced back to Classic Star Trek, and Roddenberry was one of the few pre-Internet series creators and rights holders who didn't actively go on a seek and destroy mission with the lawyers (he laughed it off as free advertising, and being a Dirty Old Man meant the sexually-explicit stuff didn't bother him), meaning it was a relatively safe haven for pre-Internet fandom. |
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The Kamen Rider franchise, while not the first Henshin Hero example (that would likely go to the Ultra Series), is the go-to standard for Henshin Hero. Kamen Rider Ryuki pretty much becoming the Trope Codifier for all of the following Kamen Rider shows, with current series staples such as collectible devices, Transformation Trinket that has to be carried everytime, and Anti-Hero or pure evil Riders all making their debuts in Ryuki. |
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For Viking Metal, the codifiers are Enslaved and Graveland. | |
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Champions/Hero codified point-build systems, closely followed by GURPS, which seems to be the codifier for "system designed as generic from the start". | |
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Bugs Bunny codified Karmic Tricksters. | |
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While mostly unknown in English speaking countries until The Prince of Tennis, the sports anime genre has been a staple for over half a century now. Having so many subgenres and approaches, the scene has multiple codifiers. In The '60s, Kyojin No Hoshi started the supokon (sports and guts) genre, putting the focus on the grueling training and sacrifice in the dogged pursuit of the top. It is the closest thing to a codifier for all sports anime and manga, and especially baseball. Tiger Mask and Tomorrow's Joe similarly codified wrestling and boxing series, respectively. All of them were written by Ikki Kajiwara, which makes him singlehandedly responsible for starting the genre. Attack No. 1 codified Shoujo sports series as well as volleyball manga with hotblooded grace, with Aim for the Ace! doing the same for tennis during The '70s. The '80s saw the arrival of one of the most popular sports manga and anime, Captain Tsubasa. While occasionally violent for drama, it was a much more bright-eyed, rip-roaring take on the genre. Physics-defying trick shots had appeared in other series long before, mostly in baseball series. But Tsubasa might be the most remembered for its bombastic use of them by an entire team. It codified soccer series as well as keeping more of the focus on the sheer fun of the game. Pro Golfer Saru began as a manga in the '70s but it was its '80s anime adaptation that came to real prominence. Featuring a young protagonist and very unorthodox, over the top golfing techniques to distinguish every swing while skipping the boring parts, it codified golfing series, at least on the shounen side of things. In The '90s, Slam Dunk became extremely popular despite keeping everything down to earth. So popular that it became the single best selling sports manga of all time, played a large part in upholding the golden age of Shonen Jump, and made the real life sport of basketball bigger in Asia. Rather than being about larger than life, superhuman geniuses, it balanced daily life, comedy, and relationships. The series codified basketball manga and how to realistically approach a sports series while keeping audiences hooked. |
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Miss Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice is the trope codifier of Spirited Young Lady. There are some earlier examples (going back to snarky noble ladies from Shakespeare's plays), but none is that influential and widely referenced as Lizzy Bennet. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse codified Painted CGI. | |
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Oobi for Bare-Handed Puppetry. Parodies and homages to the bare-hand puppets on Oobi are just as common as unrelated uses of this trope, if not more so. | |
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Superman is the Trope Codifier of superheroes in general, and also for the Flying Brick kind of superhero, as well as the idea of superhero as The Cape. | |
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The Mad Max franchise is the most well-known example of the Post-Apocalyptic genre. Although it wasn't the first to use the idea, it did pioneer the standards on how the genre should be done, from a futuristic and bleak desert landscape, to scrappy resources, to crazy punk fashions, to the mad and totalitarian society; every apocalyptic film after that had a pint of influence that came from the series. | |
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Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal, and Emperor are the collective Trope Codifiers for Black Metal, particularly the Second Wave. For the First Wave, the codifiers are generally agreed to be Bathory, Hellhammer, and Celtic Frost. For Viking Metal, the codifiers are Enslaved and Graveland. Silencer and Xasthur codified Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal. Burzum and Darkthrone also codified the one- or two-man studio-only metal band. While not the first metal bands to do this, and not even the first Black Metal bands to do it (see latter-day Bathory for an example), they were the first bands where such and arrangement was a central part of their identities, and given their status as major inspirations for many bands, many of those band unsurprisingly also set themselves up like them. |
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The Wizard of Oz is to credit for the popular convention of depicting a Wicked Witch as green-skinned. | |
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Groundhog Day was not the first film to introduce the concept of a Stable Time Loop where a person relives the same day over and over; at least two other films did so before, including the 1993 TV film 12:01 PM, as did the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause And Effect", but it became the trope namer and trope codifier for the "Groundhog Day" Loop trope. | |
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Lassie is the codifier for the Heroic Pet Story. While not the first Action Pet, she is the most iconic and helped kickstart the genre. | |
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Similarly, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, which codified and formalized the supporting abilities, heavy emphasis on counter-play and Crippling Overspecialization. | |
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The 1941 film The Wolf Man codified the tropes for werewolves, as well as being the Ur-Example of several tropes such as silver bullets, the famous poem about the curse, and the contagious nature of werewolf bites — before the film, weakness to silver and contagion were vampiric traits. | |
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Before even Super Mario Bros. is Donkey Kong, which popularized the platformer genre and also codified Throw a Barrel at It. | |
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Steve Urkel of Family Matters is easily the Trope Codifier for Black and Nerdy. He's a brilliant scientist on par with Reed Richards, dresses in Impossibly Tacky Clothes, has a high-pitched nasally voice and an Annoying Laugh, is The Klutz on a truly epic scale, and his weird hobbies include everything from collecting insects to playing polka. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series did codify the Red Shirt, but in the earliest episodes they weren't actually wearing red shirts. | |
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Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti made the teen movie a popular and profitable genre with its use of teenage wangst and parties, that teenagers around the world loved and related to. However, films such as Mean Girls and American Pie innovated the genre further by adding pre-marital sex and fascist school hierarchy to the mix, to the point that years later, other teen films are still duplicating these elements. | |
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Watership Down and Warrior Cats are this to the Stray Animal Story and xenofiction genres. The former helped solidify aspects of the genre and popularize the genre. The latter helped popularize more "mainstream" and less fantasy-heavy variations on the genre. | |
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The Mainline Archie Comics in the Archie Franchise is both the Trope Codifier for the titular Betty and Veronica and Love Triangle in American Popular Culture, for the over 70 years old romantic entanglement between Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge for the titular Archie Andrews. | |
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In the public eye, Cannibal Corpse is generally held responsible for popularizing Death Metal outside the metal underground, but Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Obituary were the trope codifiers in the metal scene, being among the first true bands in the genre. For the Swedish scene, the codifier is generally considered to be Entombed or Dismember. For Technical Death Metal, the codifiers are Atheist, Death, and Necrophagist for "straight" tech, Cynic, Edge of Sanity and Opeth for prog-tech, Suffocation and Origin for brutal tech, and Gorguts for experimental tech. Melodic Death Metal's major codifiers are At the Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquillity for the genre as a whole, Children of Bodom for Power Metal/Neoclassical Metal-inspired melodeath, Soilwork for Alternative Metal-tinged forms, Ensiferum for Folk Metal-melodeath fusions, and Wintersun for symphonic melodeath. |
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Malcolm in the Middle is the trope codifier for the single camera, on-location, Laugh Track-free sitcom that became popular on United States broadcast television during the 2000's. There were a handful of pre-Malcolm shows that featured such setups, but these (namely The Adventures of Pete & Pete and The Larry Sanders Show, both of which qualify as the Trope Maker of such setups) aired on either pay or niche cable channels as opposed to the then-more popular broadcast television networks. A year before Malcolm premiered, Spaced did the same thing for British sitcoms. |
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And in the 2000s, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire became another key High Fantasy series, bringing a much Darker and Edgier feel to the genre. | |
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Law & Order is the Trope Codifer for the Police Procedural. | |
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EverQuest is the Trope Codifier for just about every single MMO trope of today. While it wasn't the first of its kind (MUDs and Ultima Online get that title), it was the first to establish the model that other MMOs would follow, up to and including World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft later became a second Trope Codifier for the MMO genre. |
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Pokémon is the Codifier for the monster-capturing game genre, predated by the Darker and Edgier Shin Megami Tensei series. | |
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Arguably, the Italian proto-slasher giallo film A Bay of Blood was the trope codifier for Friday the 13th (1980) itself (and, by extension, slasher movies with its derivative formula), featuring the aforementioned Sex Signals Death trope; a seemingly desolate forest setting (on an idyllic waterfront, no less); an exceedingly high body count; and an all-around liberal employment of Gorn. Indeed, both Friday the 13th and its first sequel directly recreated certain scenes from A Bay of Blood (including spearing a copulating couple to death twice and embedding a sharp instrument in a respective victim's face). Earlier gialli (and American slasher antecedents such as Psycho) also employed certain variations of these tropes, but not in formulaic tandem with one another. | |
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Godzilla is the most well-known Kaiju, and of monster movies in general together with King Kong. | |
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Oklahoma! can also be considered the Trope Codifier for integrated musicals in general. Prior "musicals" were generally either plays interrupted by occasional songs or flimsy plots that were just an excuse to move between song and dance numbers. Show Boat is usually considered the first musical to integrate song, dance, and story, but it was hard for others to imitate. Oklahoma! provided a template that other musicals used pretty much until Andrew Lloyd Webber showed up. | |
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Darths & Droids is the codifier for the Campaign Comic. While preceded by DM of the Rings, a lot of traits that showed up later (such as players having backgrounds and personalities outside of the game) were established by it. | |
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Twisted Metal wasn't the first competitive Vehicular Combat game (Both Battlesport and Cybersled predate it), but it certainly did popularize the genre and some features, such as tournament-based storylines, quirky characters and more differentiated vehicles. | |
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Monster Garage is the first Gearhead Show to focus on not only building vehicles but revamping and customizing them, which would set the trend for future such shows. | |
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, building off of Sword Art Online as the Trope Maker of modern isekai stories, established the basic conventions of Reincarnate in Another World stories. Unlike SAO, its parallel world was a real place instead of a video game (the Six-Faced World) with its own worldbuilding, and it also introduced mainstays of the isekai genre such as a group of heroines for the main character to romance (Eris, Roxy, Sylphiette), use of Deliberate Values Dissonance for a grittier tone (e.g. slavery and aristocratic politics), and a divine character as a Mentor Archetype for the hero (Hitogami, although they turn out to be the story's Big Bad). | |
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Uta No Prince-sama helped form the general idea of fictional male Idol Singers in Japanese media, and especially the setup of putting them all in a music school to hone their skills. | |
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Peter Rabbit along with his sisters Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail from The Tale of Peter Rabbit serve as the codifier for the earliest use of bunnies seen eating a carrot which has become a major stereotype for bunnies in general. The rabbit characters could also be one of the earliest uses of rabbits seen in media that are portrayed as cute and adorable looking which wasn't a common trope for bunnies back when the original story was made in 1901. But would later become one of the more well-known tropes associated for rabbits besides the Rascally Rabbit Trope which had also been made popular by Bugs Bunny. | |
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Poison Ivy could be considered the Trope Codifier for the Kiss of Death and the Plant Person tropes, with her being the most recognizable character to have these as her powers and appearance respectively. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Kaepora Gaebora is the Trope Codifier for Shall I Repeat That? His advice tends to be very long, spanning multiple dialogue boxes. The slow Scrolling Text is anything but helpful. When it's over, he will ask "Did you get all that?" or "Do you want to hear what I said again?"... by which point veteran players may well be mashing the "A" button to skip, only to select the default option which will always be the one that asks him to repeat himself, regardless of the question's wording. The Nintendo 3DS port makes the game's text scroll faster, and in the original you can press the "B" button to skip the repeatable sections of his dialogue — which the game never tells you you can do. | |
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The Legend of Zelda codified the Action-Adventure genre, boasting innovations such as a battery save feature and open-ended gameplay, while eliminating irrelevant tropes such as Scoring Points. However, it was predated by Adventure for the Atari 2600. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Kaepora Gaebora is the Trope Codifier for Shall I Repeat That? His advice tends to be very long, spanning multiple dialogue boxes. The slow Scrolling Text is anything but helpful. When it's over, he will ask "Did you get all that?" or "Do you want to hear what I said again?"... by which point veteran players may well be mashing the "A" button to skip, only to select the default option which will always be the one that asks him to repeat himself, regardless of the question's wording. The Nintendo 3DS port makes the game's text scroll faster, and in the original you can press the "B" button to skip the repeatable sections of his dialogue — which the game never tells you you can do. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is the main reason Japanese manga et al. has Guardian Entities. It also codified katakana Written Sound Effects for the English-speaking portion of the fanbase, to the point where they're often done in western media to specifically call back to Jojo's as opposed to any other series. |
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Yuuki Rito of To Love Ru was certainly not the first harem series protagonist to have a Suggestive Collision or Thanks for the Mammary moment, but he does it so often and to such a ridiculous degree that any other character with similar issues will be inevitably be compared to him. | |
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To Love Ru (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Muppet Babies (1984) codified the Spinoff Babies. | |
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Muppet Babies (1984) | hasFeature |
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Game of Thrones is the Trope Codifier for Anyone Can Die, although many regard The Walking Dead as a close second. | |
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Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
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Saw and its sequels are definitely this for Torture Porn. Whilst the Trope Maker is often debated, many point to either Cannibal Holocaust, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom or The Last House on the Left. | |
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Saw | hasFeature |
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It was also a reinforcer of the feminist wife who was always right, even if she argued that the sky was kelly green, initially codified by Home Improvement, where wife Jill was a self-admitted feminist and Tim was the one who screwed up 99.5% of the time. | |
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Home Improvement | hasFeature |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Little Black Dress is thought to have originated during the 1920s, but Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the 1960 adaptation is generally thought to be the Trope Codifier. | |
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Spider-Man is often credited as being the Trope Codifier for both the non sidekick Kid Hero and Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World. Also to Building Swing, since almost every time you see it anywhere else, it is a reference, or Lampshaded by a character. | |
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The Incredible Hulk is the Trope Codifier for the Jekyll & Hyde Superhero. He is also the Trope Codifier for the Unstoppable Rage Superhero and the Hulking Out Superhero. | |
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You Only Live Twice and other Bond films featuring Ernst Stavro Blofeld are the codifier for many supervillain tropes, including the Volcano Lair and/or Elaborate Underground Base, Right-Hand Cat, Blofeld Ploy, Shark Pool, and color-coded Mook jumpsuits. | |
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You Only Live Twice | hasFeature |
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Korn are also considered the Ur-Example for Nu Metal, Coal Chamber (whose work initially coined the term) the Trope Maker, and the Big 4 of Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Linkin Park and (debatably) Disturbed codified the genre leading into the early 2000's. | |
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Korn (Music) | hasFeature |
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The 1931 movie version of Dracula codified most modern Vampire Tropes. And the Trope Codifier for Our Vampires Are Different would be Nosferatu, which was where vampires being weak to sunlight originated from. |
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Dracula (1931) | hasFeature |
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While his original comic book counterpart is the codifier to Captain Fishman, the version of Aquaman from Superfriends is the reason why most examples of the trope are Joke Characters. | |
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Wallace & Gromit codified Silent Snarker. Seriously. | |
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Love Hina essentially defined the turn-of-the-millennium style of Unwanted Harems. | |
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Love Hina (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Thanks to Fate/stay night's heroine Arturia Pendragon, a plethora of anime and video games now have blonde emotionally repressed Stoic Woobie ladies of war with dorky tendencies and a Dark and Troubled Past as either main characters or love interests. | |
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Rocky is the most well-known sports film that introduced the underdog archetype to the modern viewers. | |
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Rocky | hasFeature |
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The Mask is the most famous example of Heart Beats out of Chest, while Tex Avery was the Trope Maker. | |
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The Mask | hasFeature |
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Critical Role is the codifier for Actual Play web streams. Its popularity has led to the "Matthew Mercer Effect", wherein some new players of Dungeons and Dragons expect (1) that their Dungeon Master will run their game in a way similar to Mercer, (2) that their game will be as entertaining and fun, and (3) that if they stream their game it will also be as successful as Critical Role. | |
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Warhammer is a strong contender for the Dark Fantasy genre. While the concept of a less-than-happy fantasy obviously existed before (the fathers of fantasy fiction — J.R.R. Tolkien and R.E. Howard — both contributed to it), many of the typical traits such as the vaguely Central European late-medieval settings or focus on lower classes and social outcasts seem to have been first put together here. | |
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Batman (1989) was not the first Superhero movie, but it was the one that showed that superheroes were very profitable. It also altered the archetype of the Summer Blockbuster from "huge mass-marketing machines that were as much made to sell merchandise as they were to sell tickets" to "huge mass-marketing machines that were as much made to sell merchandise as they were to sell tickets, and are based on an existing property that the audience already has an attachment to". | |
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Batman (1989) | hasFeature |
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Team Fortress 2 did not invent the Hero Shooter (and almost isn't one itself), but every single game that was inspired by it, including Overwatch, Paladins, Battleborn and Apex Legends, all feel its influence in innumerable ways in terms of creating unique, vibrant characters with specific roles to play in combat. | |
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The Punisher is the Trope Codifier of the Sociopathic Hero. He was, by far, the most popular costumed "superhero" to kill his enemies rather than putting them to jail. And he's been doing it way before the Dark Age of Comics. | |
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Blade Runner is the codifier of Cyberpunk. It was one of the first films that portrayed the future as more dark and grimy and served as the inspiration for a lot of films. | |
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Minecraft is easily another contender for the codifer, as well as being the absolute codifier for the Survival Sandbox genre. | |
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The Birth of a Nation pulled together all of the little camera tricks and editing techniques that were tried in the early years of film into a coherent set of storytelling tools, making it one of the most important movies in the history of film. It was also horrendously racist. The gymnastics film history classes have to go through because of this are quite amusing. The film caused such a headache for critic Roger Ebert when he repeatedly considered featuring it in his Great Movies series of essays that he always held off writing about it. When he finally decided to address it, he did it in two parts, explaining to readers that Part 1 would discuss the racism and history, just to get it out of the way. Part 2 would then be free to discuss the art of filmmaking without offending anyone. Even with the boundaries clearly defined, he had a heck of time writing that essay. Triumph of the Will was this for certain cinematographic techniques. It is not this for the documentary genre (it is almost completely bereft of commentary — the subject material get to stand on its own, it's just that it is cleverly filmed and ordered to encourage the 'right' emotion), but this doesn't really help film historians in dealing with it. It also helped that it had the resources of an entire totalitarian state and a genuinely talented (if ideologically misguided) director to throw at any issues that might have arisen. Think about it; the Nazis wanted you to think of this movie when you thought of them — and scenes from this movie are among the most commonly used shorthands for the Nazis. |
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Hulk Hogan is arguably the codifier for the All-American Face, given that his name has practically become synonymous with the archetype. | |
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Hulk Hogan (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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Triumph of the Will was this for certain cinematographic techniques. It is not this for the documentary genre (it is almost completely bereft of commentary — the subject material get to stand on its own, it's just that it is cleverly filmed and ordered to encourage the 'right' emotion), but this doesn't really help film historians in dealing with it. It also helped that it had the resources of an entire totalitarian state and a genuinely talented (if ideologically misguided) director to throw at any issues that might have arisen. Think about it; the Nazis wanted you to think of this movie when you thought of them — and scenes from this movie are among the most commonly used shorthands for the Nazis. | |
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Doctor Who: It is the Trope Codifier for Reverse Polarity, with many other shows using it as a Shout-Out to the franchise. | |
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Kizuna Ai may not be the first "Virtual Vlogger" but she is responsible for coining and popularizing the concept of "Virtual Youtuber" that sprung up in the late 2010's, including the use of motion-capture and framing videos as a real person filming themselves (while obscuring the performer behind them), and the activities involved such as a combination of vlogging, Let's Plays, and singing. Her "AI living in Cyberspace" persona also led to many of her imitators making at least token gestures to being Ambiguously Human and/or Trapped in Another World. | |
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Typically, gangster films borrow from one of two cookie sheets: Goodfellas (for black comedies) or The Godfather (operatic tragedies). | |
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YouTube may not be the first video sharing-website but it most certainly did solidify the idea. | |
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While Dune II is the most likely candidate for the very first Real-Time Strategy, Command & Conquer pioneers many of the features that are present in the genre. | |
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An American Tail codified the Award-Bait Song, which even spread into live-action works. | |
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Its second anime adaptation Yu-Gi-Oh! codified the card game battle genre. | |
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Daredevil is widely considered the most prolific example of the Disability Superpower. Charles Xavier would otherwise be this, but he's more of an Ur-Example. | |
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Baccano! popularized the Cast Full of Crazy trope, with everyone (across three storylines, no less) being horribly broken, downright unhinged, or just plain nuts. | |
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"Superstar" Billy Graham created the "flamboyant bodybuilder" wrestler archetype as we understand it today, directly inspiring Hulk Hogan — and, also, probably serving as wrestling's Trope Maker for Real Men Wear Pink. (Buddy Rogers and Ric Flair also had blond hair and tanned skin, but they didn't really have the muscles.) | |
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Richard Wagner coined the term "leitmotif" in an 1851 essay and codified the concept in his famous cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he had been working on at the time. But the trope was invented two decades earlier by Hector Bérlioz, who called it "idée fixe" in his own writings. | |
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The Blair Witch Project is the trope codifier for the found footage mockumentary horror films of the 2000s. The trope maker is Cannibal Holocaust. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club! is far from the first Disguised Horror Story, but it caused the trope to become a sub-genre of indie games, and also popularized the idea of fourth-wall shattering meta horror in indie games. | |
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The Twilight Saga is the codifier of the mainstream Paranormal Romance genre. | |
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Using Auto-Tune for a robotic effect didn't become prominent until the arrival of T-Pain in 2005. Unlike other artists that relegated it to subtle uses or genres aiming for a digitalized sound (such as electronica or techno), T-Pain used it obviously and flagrantly on nearly all of his releases. His huge success led to a slew of imitators within pop, R&B, and hip hop. | |
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Quake is the codifier for the "mouselook" control scheme, where instead of only using a keyboard to control an FPS character, you control the view with a mouse as well while using the keys to control the direction of movement for your character: forward-backwards-strafe. Bungie's Marathon is the Ur-Example, The Terminator: Future Shock is the Trope Maker, but due to Marathon being on the unpopular Apple platform, and The Terminator: Future Shock just not being popular, it took until Quake and its innovative online multiplayer before the mouselook feature became codified. Also, although this one was by mistake, Quake codified Jump Physics for the First-Person Shooter genre such as the Rocket Jump and the Strafe Jump. For the former, it was initially discovered as a glitch, but was left in the game for one reason or another. Later sequels consider this glitch an integral technique, to the point that it's referenced in many gamesnote The "Launch Command" level of Quake II, the BFG in the map "Hero's Keep" in Quake III: Arena, the introductory tutorial in Quake Live, Ranger having self-damage immunity as its passive ability in Quake Champions, you name it.... |
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While Recca probably was the Ur-Example and Batsugun was definitely the Trope Maker, DoDonPachi codified very much of Bullet Hell. And it continues to redefine and codify the meaning of it as the True Final Boss Hibachi has progressively gotten harder and harder beyond belief. | |
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Worms codified the turn-based artillery gameplay of games like Gorillas and Artillery. | |
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There have been intelligent and malicious weapons before, but Stormbringer from Moorcock's The Elric Saga is the codifier for Evil Weapon (even for weapons that aren't swords like the Speaking Gun). Stormbringer set the bar for the degree and type of power and treachery in an evil weapon. | |
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AKIRA was the TC for anime as a whole in the US and UK — a 'cartoon' that was dark, grim, violent, bloody, beautiful and not a little mind screwy. As a consequence, it burrowed into the collective subconscious and created a new image that took years more to shake off. | |
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Crows and its sequel series Worst have their hands in just about every delinquency manga made after it. Its mixture of down to earth troubles, more nuanced observation of delinquent culture, and the more realistic art reflect in many series down the line. | |
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The Lucha Libre Internacional match in 1977 featuring Huracan Ramirez and Black Shadow teaming up with El Santo to face Negro Navarro, El Signo and El Texano, the latter team becoming known as "Los Missioneros de La Muerte" in the aftermath of a truly frightening rematch with Rayo de Jalisco Shadow's place, is what made the six man "tercias" match the most popular match type in Mexico and synonymous with Lucha Libre. Blackman, Kato Kung Lee and Kung Fu are in turn the trope codifier for the tecnico trio as Los Tres Fantasticos, since Los Missioneros de La Muerte prior fued had really been more about Santo, with his partners their to make things even than being a unit in their own right. | |
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Also on mods/user-made maps, Defense of the Ancients is not the Maker for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. The concept was Made by Aeon of Strife from the StarCraft days and DotA itself took or adapted ideas from predecessors in the genre. However, DotA is the best-known example of the type, the first to become big enough to be a competitive title, and it's no great stretch to claim that dedicated games like League of Legends or Demigod would not exist without it. | |
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John Constantine, Hellblazer is the Trope Codifier of characters being Exiled from Continuity and Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?. | |
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Mork from Mork & Mindy is the most prominent example of an Amusing Alien. | |
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The Atelier Series, specifically the first two games, Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg and its sequel Atelier Elie: The Alchemist Of Salburg 2, are the reason why most JRPGs released after the year 1998 have an Item Crafting system, as the popularity of these titles (at least in their native Japan) caused most Japanese developers to want a slice of the alchemy pie. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: Lumpy codified Moose Are Idiots. | |
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The Count of Monte Cristo is codifier for the "return for elaborate revenge" story. | |
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1972's The Poseidon Adventure pretty much established the template for future disaster movies, despite sharing many elements with earlier entries of the genre like A Night to Remember. | |
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While Pantera's status as Groove Metal's Trope Maker is debatable (whether they or Exhorder hold the status as the "first" groove band depends on who you ask), they undoubtedly were the band that set the tone for the rest of the genre from them onward. | |
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Unreal is the codifier for Secondary Fire, as every weapon in the game has an alternative firing option. This persisted through the entire Unreal series, including the Tournament games, and is now considered virtually mandatory in any FPS game. | |
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Shakugan no Shana and The Familiar of Zero popularized the Tsundere stereotype. | |
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GURPS quite literally defined the Weirdness Magnet trope. (Blue Devil is the Trope Maker here) With its iconic clean attribute/skill/advantage/disadvantage four-way split, GURPS is probably also the codifier for Skill Scores and Perks. (Champions already did something similar, but blurred the lines by having several distinct types of perks — including an entire build-your-own construction system for superpowers, which it in turn is probably both codifier and Ur-Example for.) |
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Even though DOOM was the Ur-Example of the Space Marine trope in videogames, Halo became the poster boy for the trope for the post-2000 generation. It also didn't actually pioneer any of the revolutions in gameplay it featured (all of them, from limited inventory, to Regenerating Health, to Quick Melee attacks, to separate buttons for firearms and grenades, had been done before in previous games), but it is unquestionably the game which popularized them all to the point that most modern First Person Shooters now use them by default. | |
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Pong is usually considered the first Video Game by the general public. The actual first Video Game is debatable depending on how you define Video Game, ranging from an unnamed game of Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device in 1947 to the 1972-released Magnavox Odyssey game console (the strongest contender turning out to lie smack in the middle, 1962's Space War!), but the consensus is that Pong is the Trope Codifier rather than the true Trope Maker. | |
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For Want of a Nail is an Alternate History textbook that explores two hundred years of counterfactual events following a failed American Revolution. It serves as codifier for the genre, more specifically, the type common to AlternateHistory.com, which often features narratives presented like a non-fiction description of actual events. | |
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Arknights isn't the first tower defense game, but it popularized the tower defense genre with more complex gameplay mechanics and more focus on the storyline than other tower defense games. | |
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We is the trope maker for dystopic fiction, but Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four are the codifiers. | |
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We | hasFeature |
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Queen Oyuki from Urusei Yatsura is frequently cited as the main reason why Yuki-onna are often presented as royalty, or at least wearing crowns. | |
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Gears of War took the idea of Take Cover! as an integral part of the gameplay system — as opposed to an organic "hide behind stuff so you stop getting shot" — from earlier games, but the concept's subsequent popularity would most likely not exist without it. | |
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Daggerfall (and The Elder Scrolls series in general) codified the exploration-driven single-character RPGs whose main appeal is the absolute freedom of movement and a metric ton of diverse side quests. | |
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Street Fighter II for Fighting Games. Also, Ryu is this to Shotoclones. |
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The Baldur's Gate series (and most of BioWare's other games), meanwhile, codified the Player Party-based RPGs whose main appeal are the quirky teammates and the story that presents a ton of moral choices. | |
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Sword Art Online: The protagonist, Kirito, popularized the concept of the Stock Light-Novel Hero, with the archetype of a dark-clad, sword bearing protagonist with a calculating mind and know for his wits becoming a mainstay of the medium. While the Portal Fantasy has been a well-known genre in both sides of the pond for decades (with Japan itself having major titles in the genre for anime and manga like Inuyasha and Digimon Adventure from the 90s), Sword Art Online popularized its later Japanese incarnation of what is most popularly known as the Isekai ("Another World") genre today, with numerous other Light Novel series following suit. The main character being a Escapist Character trapped in a world that is almost always a medieval fantasy land that runs on typical JPRG mechanics is an especially common setup. Interestingly enough, Sword Art Online itself isn't quite that, since it's set in an actual video game that the protagonist is trapped in; however, subsequent works that follow in its footsteps tend to use a fantasy world that has RPG mechanics in it, but is real otherwise. |
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American Idol would very well be the Codifier for Talent Show (Star Search is likely the Maker). It is also both the Maker and Codifier of not only entertaining viewers with the talent of its contestants but also with an "eccentric" judging panel as well as the audition sections, which often contains plenty of Funny Moments. | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, the titular character is the codifier for "X" Marks the Hero. | |
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Sherlock Holmes is the Trope Codifier for many detective tropes; Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin stories were the Trope Maker, featuring such tropes as the less astute Watson figure as narrator and the far-reaching deductions based on attention to seemingly trivial details. A second contender, wildly popular at the time but now more obscure, is The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It placed such concepts as the private detective helping out the near useless police and the Locked Room Mystery into the popular consciousness a few decades before Doyle's novels. | |
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And then we have the romhacks... Kaizo Mario World codified Platform Hell (and, of course, Kaizo Trap). | |
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Dead Rising is most likely the codifier for the whole popular "zombie apocalypse from the inside of a mall" trope, even though it was released as recently as 2006. It has been done many time since, notably by Left 4 Dead 2 (released 2009), with the second half of its "Dead Center" campaign, which takes place entirely in a mall. This was most likely an intentional parody of Dead Rising, as Valve has made references to Dead Rising before, like how Dead Rising had an achievement called "Zombie Genocider" which required you to kill 53,594 zombies (the population of the town), and Left 4 Dead (2008) featured an achievement called "Zombie Genocidist" which required you to kill 53,595 zombies, upping it by exactly one. | |
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The infamous Rockstar Games masterpiece, Manhunt, is the mascot for supposed video games that turns people into sadistic killers. Even going so far as that, after its release, almost every major murder incident in the world had something to do with the game, and since then, it has been the bane of lawyers and parents alike. It only got worse when they release a sequel Manhunt 2, which was playable on the Wii. Yes, you can play the game in near virtual simulation with the Wii Remote as your "weapon". |
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Black Hawk Down is the first major movie that semi-accurately and dramatically depicted modern, 21st century (although the movie actually takes place in 90s, the principle is intact) warfare. Portrayal of urban warfare in almost virtually every single form of visual media that came after either directly or indirectly gets aesthetic inspiration from this movie, particularly video games such as Modern Warfare, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Resident Evil 5. | |
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Crisis on Infinite Earths is the Codifier for the Crisis Crossover, inventing many of the tropes associated with these types of events. | |
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Duke Nukem 3D pretty much started the trend of realistic/organic level design in FPSes. While Quake was far superior from a technological standpoint (being the first all-3D FPS) the environments weren't nearly as interactional as Duke's, which had levels with never before seen interactivity. Light switches, mirrors, CCTVs, wall sockets that electrocute you, televisions, urinals to relieve yourself in, even rooms that make sense (like a bar, hotel rooms, restrooms, nightclubs, and reactors for the moonbase). | |
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Catwoman was the first really popular female antihero. | |
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The Goon Show (and the work of Spike Milligan in general) is the codifier for Surreal Humor. | |
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The Bourne Series became this for modern, realistically-presented action thrillers, particularly through its heavy use of documentary-style Jitter Cam, liberal use of Le Parkour, and brutally-efficient fight scenes, as well as giving a new shot of adrenaline to the One-Man Army trope. While the likes of Michael Mann and Luc Besson had made films in this style before, the success of the Bourne franchise saw it explode in the mid-2000s. | |
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"Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and its television series both codified Disguised Horror Story and Surprisingly Creepy Moment respectively. | |
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Sailor Moon is frequently cited as the first user of the Magical Girl Warrior subset of Magical Girl shows. Cutey Honey used some of the tropes, but was usually seen as a straight-up Super Hero, especially since at the time "Magical Girl" meant Cute Witch. In Japan, if it's not the Sailor Senshi, you can bet it's going to be the Pretty Cure franchise instead. The other codifer for the Magical Girl genre in general is widely considered to be Cardcaptor Sakura. |
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Although he wasn't the first, Deadpool by far is the most well-known character who breaks the fourth wall. Virtually every media about him from comics to memes lack the aforementioned wall (and he knows it). | |
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and so influential that few wikis exist that aren't, functionally, specialized encyclopedias rather than, say, community projects or collections of cross-referenced essays. The most obvious counterexample, Everything Two, predates Wikipedia. | |
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Super Smash Bros. is the Codifier of the Platform Fighter subgenre of fighting games. | |
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Captain America is easily the Trope Codifier for Captain Patriotic, being one of the earliest and most prolific examples of the trope. He is also the Trope Codifier for Captain Geographic. | |
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