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They all have one, but we often don't know what work they're from. The Ur-Example is the oldest known example of any given trope. "Ur-" is a German prefix meaning "proto-, primitive, or original" — that it is also the name of an ancient Sumerian city founded around the time that the earliest known writing systems were invented is serendipity. Often, an Ur-Example doubles as the Trope Maker — but not always, and far less often with ancient tropes, which often evolved over a long period of time rather than suddenly bursting forth from someone's head, fully formed. When they're distinct, a Trope Maker differs from an Ur-Example in that the latter is realized to have met the definition of the trope only after later storytellers started doing it on purpose. For instance, one of the pivotal Trope Makers of the Detective Story is Edgar Allan Poe's collection of C. Auguste Dupin stories; before Dupin, there is no story genre of fictional detectives going about the business of solving crimes. Nevertheless, while you may or may not know Poe's Dupin stories, you've probably encountered a certain Danish Prince named Hamlet,Date:between 1599 and 1602 who not only sets about to ensnare his uncle King Claudius, but even incorporates into his plans a play-within-a-play he dubs "The Mousetrap". But half-a-millennium earlier still, "The Tale of the Three Apples" is a proto-Detective Story from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights Date:The earliest known extant copy of the Arabian Nights is a fragment that dates to the early 9th century CE, so, sometime in the early 800s — which would make "The Tale of the Three Apples" the Ur-Example of the Detective Story, or at least a possible candidate. But Wait, There's More! Oedipus Rex, first performed in 429 BCE, depicts Oedipus investigating the cause of the plague that has struck his realm. Which will give you an idea of the depth of the rabbit-hole a quest for the Ur-example can lead you down.note Even more brain-twistingly, Oedipus Rex's mystery is also an example of The Killer in Me, which is generally seen as a twist on the expectations of the detective genre, despite appearing in one of the oldest recorded "detective stories"! Wherever a trope has evolved gradually, determining the Ur-Example can be a complicated and contentious business. In many cases a trope has more than one Ur-Example, because determining the "earliest use of the trope" depends on subjective choices as to which aspects of the trope are its defining qualities. This doesn't just apply to tropes, many times an idea is created by different people simultaneously or discovered and forgotten only to be rediscovered later. For example, who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell, you might say. Wrong. Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both independently invented the telephone, but Bell got to the patent office first. Thomas Edison had the idea of wireless transmission of voice and signals but considered it unimportant, and it was forgotten until Marconi independently invented radio years later. And if this is the situation with something as concrete as an invention, imagine how easy it is with something as intangible as an idea for a concept in fiction. Ur-Examples are unfortunately highly susceptible to the Once Original, Now Common trope — not only because they dreamed up conventions that have been around practically forever but both because, since at the time they were so new, the creators didn't really appreciate what they were making and thus didn't conform to the standards of an aesthetic or gimmick that hadn't even existed yet, and because (sometimes) they were trading on novelty value and suffer by comparison when we have alternatives to compare them to. See Unbuilt Trope and Beam Me Up, Scotty! for more on this. |
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Kid Paddle might be this for the Two Gamers on a Couch trope as it is the first time that a gamer ever was the main character in a comic book. The main difference is that only one guy is playing video games (mostly Kid Paddle, but the comic book implements a subversion from time to time for humor) and the fact that the humor based on phenomena is done outside of the couch. | |
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Arena Coliseo was the first arena built exclusively for lucha libre, its construction funded by EMLL, although it has long since been used for boxing events as well. Arena Mexico, which EMLL built later when Lutteroth won the lottery. | |
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"Heroin" by The Velvet Underground is considered to be an Ur-Example of Post-Rock. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica is credited as the Trope Codifier for Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction. While this is true in modern times, the anime was preceded by decades when Revolutionary Girl Utena first deconstructed the genre. Granted, both were deconstructing very different things - while the former deconstructs the world where young girls would be tasked to fight evil and the mental issues they might have, the latter deconstructs the roles of women in society, as well as issues of gender and sexuality being framed as a Magical Girl story. | |
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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962): The very first animated musical Christmas Special to be produced specifically for television— in fact, the very first television Christmas Special of any kind. | |
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Preceeding Alien Invasion and Video Whizball was the arcade game Starship 1 (1977) by Atari which has a secret button combination which will output the phrase "HI RON!" (Ron being designer Ron Milner of Atari's Cyan Engineering). | |
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Game of Death shows the first nunchaku vs. nunchaku fight in cinematic history. | |
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Batman (1966) was likely the first television comedy to lack either a Laugh Track or a Studio Audience. Being a Stealth Parody helps. | |
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Reefer Madness (1936) is the Ur-Example of the So Bad, It's Good trend in film. | |
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The first mall to be portrayed in motion pictures? Many would say the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), but there are plenty of prior examples (such as the aforementioned Dixie Square above, although that one is contingent on whether or not a real, abandoned mall with fake storefronts counts). Dawn of the Dead had a mall as its primary setting as early as 1978. | |
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Angelique was the first Otome Game. | |
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"Welcome to the Machine" by was this for industrial songs. | |
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My Father's Dragon (1948) is the Ur-Example of Dragon Rider (as in, human rides on a dragon). | |
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Insektors was the first televised All-CGI Cartoon. It predated ReBoot by a few months. Then there's VeggieTales, which was publicly released a couple of months before Insektors (though technically, Insektors was created before VeggieTales). |
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Bye Bye Birdie was one of the first, if not the first, work to unabashedly portray The '50s nostalgically. The '50s were barely over (and in cultural terms, you could argue they weren't over yet) when the play was written (1960), so this might not be an example. |
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Pinball Construction Set is the Ur-Example and Trope Maker for Game Makers. | |
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Josie Wahlford is the first pro wrestler recognized as a "World Champion" on record. The exploits of George Hackenschmidt are far better documented, due to Wahlford being better known as a weight lifter, and were the model for Lou Thesz and the National Wrestling Alliance, making Hackenshmidt the Trope Maker and Thesz the Trope Codifier. The first woman to get anything resembling official recognition as a "World Champion" was Cora Livingston, whose reign began five years after Hackenshmidt, establing her as the trope maker for women. | |
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In 1971, Sly and the Family Stone released There's a Riot Goin' On, an album which used cutting-edge electronics like drum machines and clavinets. The production of the album would be considered DIY by modern standards, and the lyrics deal with socially conscious and introspective topics like depression, interracial relationships, and the challenges of living in the inner city. Its influence on artists like Frank Ocean and Kanye West makes it a direct precursor to Alternative R&B. | |
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Azathoth of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft is one of the oldest known examples of the Almighty Idiot, a god so immensely powerful, yet brainless and ultimately without goal or direction, simply destroying as a consequence of breathing. While many of Lovecraft's tales speak of gods without interest in humanity, Azathoth is set apart because the destruction of the universe isn't a conscious decision on the part of the deity, it's just an accident of its existence. | |
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Poetry ensemble The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron were the earliest examples of Political Rap in 1970, when they released their first recordings. The Last Poets were also the forerunners of hip-hop collectives like the Wu-Tang Clan and OFWGKTA. | |
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Sweet Home (1989), released in December of 1989, was a JRPG that introduced many features that would become standard for survival horror, including a story told through the game's setting, the need for careful inventory management, and limited healing items. | |
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And playing Zeroth Law straight, Shakespeare's Hamlet is possibly based on a previous play by another author, since lost, which is referred to by theater historians as Ur-Hamlet. | |
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Escape from New York: Snake Plissken was a Darker and Edgier '90s Anti-Hero in 1981! That the film is itself is set in 1997 is somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight. | |
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"Pow R Toc H" begins with Syd Barrett performing a form of beatboxing. | |
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The character Dante in The Divine Comedy might be the Ur-Example of Author Avatar. As might Lucius, the protagonist of Lucius Apuleius Platonicus's novel ''The Golden Ass, written more than a millennium earlier. You could consider Socrates/Plato of The Republic to be the Ur-Example. Just don't get hung up on who the author was. |
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New York Undercover (1994-1998) was the first American Police Procedural to feature two people of color in the starring roles. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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If the Arabian Nights contained the first Detective Story, then Oedipus Rex by Sophocles could be considered the first Reverse Whodunnit. The myth of Oedipus would have been very well known among the audiences, which explains the almost ridiculous amount of Dramatic Irony. (In universe, it can be considered a "straight" detective story, with Oedipus investigating the cause of the plague and trying to discover the murderer of Laius.) | |
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Anarchy Online was the first mmorpg to use instanced areas (in the form of the missions), although later they made most dungeons and quest areas instanced as well. | |
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Grange Hill is one for the Teen Drama genre, starting in 1978, although it's mostly seen as a Soap Opera with schoolkids. Then of course came Degrassi Junior High in 1987 as the Trope Maker and Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1990 as the Trope Codifier. | |
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The first ever Gangster Picture was the 1927 silent film Underworld. 1912 saw the original gangster film The Musketeers of Pig Alley directed by D.W. Griffith. |
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Within the confines of its own franchise, Nagisa Misumi/Cure Black from Futari wa Pretty Cure can be seen as a Super Prototype of what Toei wants from their Pink Heroines. Like her predecessors, she is a young Book Dumb Genki Girl with a loving heart of gold. Unlike those who came after her, however, Nagisa is a Passionate Sports Girl, is not a Chaste Hero, has two Muggle Best Friends that are largely irrelevant to the main plot, has a family that actually receives focus and notable characterization, and only has pink accents as opposed to having pink hair or a pink outfit. | |
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Popeye the Sailor is the Ur-Example of the comic book superhero. He's heroic only to Olive Oyl however, many others (sometimes including innocent bystanders) are often brutally killed. And before Popeye, there was Hugo Hercules–an inexplicably superhumanly strong gentleman with a catchphrase who rescues people from danger and helps people with their problems out of the kindness of his heart. He's probably the very first comic book Superhero in the world, and the first-ever take on The Cape. |
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The Burning of Red Lotus Temple (1928) was the first Wuxia film. | |
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It would not be a stretch to say that modern mainstream American media can trace the lineage of their styles to George Wagner, a.k.a. Gorgeous George who had the very first wrestling gimmick as a flamboyant, effeminate, yet very dangerous wrestler. He not only began the trend of outlandish wrestling gimmicks and personas that became the norm to pro wrestling, he even inspired legends like Muhammad Ali and James Brown to use flamboyance in their acts, and they in turn created massive legacies of their own in pop culture. That said, Gorgeous George was not the first ambiguously gay professional wrestler. Older examples, George himself mentioned Patrick Lansdowne, simply were too early for television. | |
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Vib-Ribbon, released in 1999 for the PlayStation, was the first game to generate levels in real-time based on the music on a CD supplied by the player. This genre became popular years later when technology had advanced enough to make the games more visually appealing. However, Monster Rancher, a game in which monsters are generated through the music (or other data) on a CD supplied by the player, predates Vib-Ribbon by two years. | |
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Childhood's End for Ominous Floating Spaceship. | |
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Populous is the first example of the God Sim. | |
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The Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo is considered to be Ur-Example of an autobiography. Earlier works, like Ovid's Tristia and Josephus's Josephi Vita can also qualify in that they are autobiographical. | |
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Some fans of Retsupurae think that George Wood is the earliest example of a let's player, as he was the first to fully narrate and comment over video game footage. His first videos are in fact from the 1990's. It is very hard to define however how much of a "let's player" he is. He did this type of narration after all mainly to review video games, even though quite a few are better defined as "walkthroughs" and in some others it is next to impossible to define what the man attempts to do. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons was the first Tabletop RPG, and a precursor to every video Role-Playing Game. | |
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In the extended Book of Daniel, we also have a story of Susanna, a woman falsely accused of adultery. Daniel proves that Susanna is innocent using detective methods. The story can be considered as an example of Reverse Whodunnit. | |
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The Beatles, released in 1965, is the first ever Band Toon, and lead the way for a number of other animated series involving both real and fictional musicians. | |
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Adventure is, however, the Ur-Example of the Action-Adventure game and the Wide-Open Sandbox gameplay style. | |
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The Lost World (1925) can be considered the ur-example of a kaiju movie, featuring the very first known instance of a giant beast rampaging through a city, something which would be developed further with later movies like King Kong (1933) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, before finally being established as we all know it with Godzilla (1954). | |
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Berserk is the trope codifier of the revenge fantasy (works such as The Rising of the Shield Hero and Redo of Healer), where a rogue Anti-Hero gets betrayed horribly amidst a Crapsack World and unleashes bloody revenge against his enemies. It's just while later works often feature a Hate Sink Villainous Princess as the main enemy, Berserk has the protagonist's closest confidant, a more morally complex character, doing it. | |
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Bastet is the Ur-Example of the Cat Girl. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Sita from the Hindu epic Ramayana was the earliest example of the Damsel in Distress. Rama’s father Dasaratha was also the first ever Death by Despair. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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The Orion Conspiracy, realeased in 1995, is the Ur-Example of the Coming-Out Story in Video Games, though LGBT material has been present in video games since at least the 1980s. | |
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As pointed out by Cr1TiKaL, the 1998 Japanese reality show ''Susunu! Shounen Denpa'' may be the first video game livestream in existence as the star was playing a video game while being broadcasted on live feed. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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"Sampling" is most commonly associated with 1990s rap and hip-hop, but it traces its lineage back to 1956, when Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman recorded "The Flying Saucer," which was less an original work than a clever splicing of numerous pop songs from the era - "Long Tall Sally", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Tutti Frutti" and "Blue Suede Shoes" among them - with a humorous "radio announcement" of an invasion by aliens delivered by Buchanan and Goodman. (Goodman had another radio hit 19 years later with "Mr. Jaws", a similar comedic sampling parodying the first Jaws movie.) | |
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WarGames was probably the first movie to use Everything Is Online, right down to the first cinematic reference to the term "firewall". In fact, practically every hacking-related trope from the past 30 years owes its existence to this movie. | |
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Girl's Garden could be seen as not only the first Romance Game, but also a prototypical example of an otome game. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first ever feature-length film to be released with synchronized recorded dialogue. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Neglected Mario Characters is the first Sprite Comic. It launched with "The EVIL-Luigi Story", Part 1, from September 6, 1998. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins was Shock Rock back when rock 'n' roll was in its infancy. He used skulls and coffins in his stage act in the 1950s, a decade before acts like Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper used similar macabre imagery onstage. | |
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Alexander Nevsky (1938) was the first work of fiction to use the All Germans Are Nazis trope and was made while the Nazis were in power in Germany. | |
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There is also the cover of The Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction by The Residents, which fits the mold of a Grindcore song and was released in 1978. | |
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I Am Legend is the Ur-Example of a Zombie Apocalypse. The novel contains most if not all of the hallmarks of a modern Zombie Apocalypse. George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) was based on this novel. | |
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"Echoes" could be considered an Ur Example of Post-Rock. Released 17 years before the first true post-rock album, Spirit of Eden, "Echoes" features a few traits characteristic of the genre: it's mainly instrumental, huge in length (over 23 minutes), large sections of the song are entirely devoted to texture, devoid of melody or rhythm, and it features a long, instrumental Boléro Effect crescendo. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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The Stars My Destination and to a lesser extent The Demolished Man and The Caves of Steel prefigures cyberpunk - you have mega corps, dark anti-heroes, and every thing you'd expect from the genrenote The Caves of Steel utterly lacks the mega corps, but instead is one of the first examples of and comes up with many of the conventions of the Androids and Detectives trope. | |
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The widely-panned NES adaptation of Friday the 13th, released in February of 1989, was the very first party-based survival horror. Designed to emulate the feel of a Slasher Film, the game's main objective was to keep your six counselors and the kids under their care alive in the face of Jason Voorhees and find a way to take him down once and for all, which was done by collecting items to make your job easier, fighting zombies, and fending off Jason whenever he appeared, and each counselor had their strengths and weaknesses. | |
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Tetsujin #28 (Known in the US as Gigantor) was the founder of the Super Robot Genre, and the go-to example of The Kid with the Remote Control. | |
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Meridian 59 was the first mmorpg, although many people incorrect believe Ultima Online was the first. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Princess Maker was the first modern presentation of a galge with romantic elements aimed directly towards the player (released in 1991). It combined what were then experimental PC-9800 game concepts into a single title: anime inspired artwork, intricate character menus, heroine to player dialog, and multiple endings. | |
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Where was the first use of By Wall That Is Holey? Not in Buster Keaton films, not in animated shorts, but in an ancient Pima story of creation perhaps millennia before the creation of film, in which the creator god Juhwertamahkai twice destroys the world by letting the sky fall to crush everybody while avoiding such a fate himself by breaking a hole in the sky with his staff. | |
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In Lonesome Ghosts, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy had a ghost exterminating business long before the Ghostbusters set up shop. | |
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Johann Sebastian Bach created the Ur-Example of Must Have Caffeine with Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht. | |
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Ur-Example | |
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Codename: Sailor V and Sailor Moon are often credited as the first Magical Girl Warrior series. However both follow Princess Knight and Cutey Honey, the former generally considered the Ur-Example for the Magical Girl Warrior Sub-Genre, and the latter the Trope Maker. As it is Sailor Moon stands as a good example of how easy it is to confuse the Trope Codifier with the Ur-Example. Sailor Moon is the first Magical Girl Warrior to have been written entirely by a woman, however, and also the first to have a team of color coded sentai inspired magical girls. | |
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Pitfall! II: Lost Caverns was the Ur-Example of Metroidvania. | |
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The Siege was the first Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie... three years before 9/11 actually happened. | |
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Pokémon may be responsible for popularizing the monster catching craze worldwide. However both it and the Trope Maker Megami Tensei grew out of an Edo period Older Than Television Collectible Card Game called Obake Karuta ("Monster Cards"). In the game, a set of cards with depictions of various monsters from Japanese Mythology would be placed on a table. Each round, players would be given a clue, and attempt to grab the card of a monster who met that clue before their opponents could. At the end of the game, the player with the most cards won. | |
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Toy Story, and to that extent, all of Pixar, is the crowning pioneer for All-CGI Cartoon. Before Toy Story, computer animation was mainly used in special effects or commercials and short films and in 1995 the idea of a fully computer animated film was preposterous. And nowadays they're considered the norm. | |
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1912 saw the original gangster film The Musketeers of Pig Alley directed by D.W. Griffith. | |
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Killing Joke may be the first example of Industrial Metal and are cited as an influence by Ministry, God Flesh, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. The obscure German band Warning is another possible example, as their first album came out in 1982. |
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Probably the first role-playing video game was pedit5 on the PLATO system from 1975. Rumors exist of an earlier program called m199h but pedit5 is the earliest confirmed one and served as the basis for a later program called dnd (or The Game of Dungeons). | |
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OXO seems to be the first video game to use a digital graphics display. OXO implemented Tic-Tac-Toe (Noughts and Crosses) in a computer program for the EDSAC. It never had many players, because the only EDSAC was at the University of Cambridge. | |
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The Histories by Herodotus; which recounts the Persian Wars in a way most people today would still recognize as a "history textbook" (and is one of the original sources.) The Peloponnesian Wars, by Thucydides, is generally considered the first "proper" history, since it's the first history of any scale that aims to be as unbiased as possible. He even states that these words aren't what people said, but what they ought to have said (for the following events to occur). Followed by Xenophon's Anabasis, in which Xenophon wrote about history that he himself actually experienced, making him the Ur war correspondent. Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in 1776, is the first modern historical work, and largely codified the principles of historical research - most notably, the reliance on and preference for primary sources, combined with the rigor of Thucydides' logical methodology. |
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The Bible: The Book of Job, if, as some Biblical historians claim, it was written before the Pentateuch, is probably the Ur-Example of Rage Against the Heavens. |
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The Iliad, sub-titled The Wrath of Achilles. Achilles and Patroclus have an insane amount of Ho Yay. Of course, it's Ancient Greece, so Everyone Is Bi. May represent the Ur-Example of Shipping and a Fan-Preferred Couple, as debates go as far back as the Classical period (i.e. almost 2,500 years) as to whether or not the two were actually lovers and people still argue over it in the present day! The main sticking point, at least for the Classical Greeks, having been more that Achilles and Patroclus were about the same age, rather than fitting the age structured homosexual relationships favored in that later era. | |
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Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie (1944), was the first historical whodunnit; the first full-length novel to combine historical fiction and a detective story plot. | |
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Then there's VeggieTales, which was publicly released a couple of months before Insektors (though technically, Insektors was created before VeggieTales). | |
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Curtis Mayfield was the first black musician to evoke N-Word Privileges in a song back in 1970 on the song "If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go", which was later sampled by Kanye West. | |
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The 1945 movie Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors is the first feature length anime film. | |
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Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman is the first example of a Stylish Action game, featuring a score-driven take on the Beat 'em Up genre with over-the-top action, an intricate combo system, grading players through their performance, and various Press X to Not Die moments. | |
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Unreal: It contains the Ur-Example of the miniature enclosed out-of-bounds area and sometimes employs it to multiple levels i.e. skybox in a skybox. | |
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While examples have existed in multimedia forms for a long time, Yukako Yamagishi from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable is considered to be the Japanese Ur-Example of the Yandere trope, originally conceived to be a deconstruction of the Yamato Nadeshiko trope that was widespread in Japanese media at that point in time. | |
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The Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device is an electronic game from 1947. Might count as a "video game" even though it is not a computer program and has no digital logic. It also produced no video signal. | |
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2001: A Space Odyssey, with its clean, monochromatic technological design, is the Ur-Example of Everything Is an iPod in the Future. In fact, the Apple iPod is named after the film's space shuttles of the same name. | |
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Also, it is often believed that Spider-Man is the creator of a non-sidekick teen superhero. While Spider-Man is certainly the Trope Codifier and his creation led to many of the popular tropes that concept usually entails, the first non-sidekick teenage superhero was the Star Spangled Kid who first appeared in 1941. Ironically enough, he had an adult sidekick named Stripesy who was probably the originator of that particular trope. | |
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The first dead mall? Fans of The Blues Brothers and mall geeks may go for Dixie Square Mall in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, which closed in 1978, had fake storefronts set up for the "cop car through the mall" scene in that film, and remained abandoned until it was finally demolished in 2013. But Bayside Mall in Boston beats it by two years — it closed in 1976 and was gutted in 1983 for an exposition center. | |
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The fin-de-siècle Viennese writer Arthur Schnitzler is usually credited with pioneering the stream-of-consciousness, internal monologue, 1st-person style with his short story "Leutnant Gustl". But it’s just the first example of this style mentioned by James Joyce. The same kind of monologue was used before by Leo Tolstoy (some scenes of Anna Karenina, 1877), Dostevsky (A Gentle Creature, 1876) and Victor Hugo (The Last Day of a Condemned Man, 1829). | |
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Caged (1950) is the earliest Girls Behind Bars film. The trope is in the embryonic form here, with only one brief bit of Fanservice and a couple of hints at lesbianism; it would take the downfall of The Hays Code for the exploitative T&A "girls behind bars" films to come out. | |
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Haunted House was released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It had you navigating a haunted mansion in order to collect the three pieces of an urn, and had you avoiding bats, tarantulas, and the ghost of Mr. Graves himself. Your only light was a match that only lasted for a short time and could be snuffed out easily, and you could only use one of three items - a key to open doors, a sceptre to ward off ghosts and monsters, and the urn. If you were hit by the monsters nine times, it was Game Over. | |
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The Move was the earliest example of a British Invasion band mixing rock and classical. Their first hit, "Night of Fear," released in 1966, modeled its riff on 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It's only fitting that the Move later morphed into Electric Light Orchestra, a band that picked up where the Move left off. | |
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Astro Boy is also generally considered the first true anime. | |
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Robots in the way we understand them, as the products of modern robotics technology built to resemble their human creators, weren't really a thing until Science Fiction writers like Isaac Asimov started writing about them in the 1950s. Some earlier examples include Metropolis (1927), which was the first film to feature a genuine android (gynoid), and one can probably also include Frankenstein (1818), where the Creature was made through scientific means by combining different human cadavers with experimental surgery. However, the concept of an "artificial person" can be found all the way back in Greek Mythology with Talos, a man made out of bronze and forged by the blacksmith god Hephaestus. The idea of a Sexbot can also be found in Roman myth, for "artificial partner" goes as far back as Galatea from The Metamorphoses. Here, the means of animation are supernatural in nature, not technological. | |
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The Book of Job, if, as some Biblical historians claim, it was written before the Pentateuch, is probably the Ur-Example of Rage Against the Heavens. | |
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The Dr. Kildare series (16 films between 1937 and 1947) was the Ur-Example of the Medical Drama, establishing tropes like the idealistic young doctor and the one who served as his crotchety mentor, and the Patient of the Week with a mysterious illness that the doctor would have to diagnose and cure. | |
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Black Sabbath or Judas Priest usually get credit for having the first thrash metal songs with "Symptom of the Universe" and "Dissident Aggressor," respectively. Before either of those songs was the 1974 surprise hit "Parasite" by KISS (yes, that Kiss). It was later covered by Anthrax. Judas Priest is also often cited as the Ur-Example for both Speed Metal and The New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Rainbow sometimes also gets some credit. |
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I, Robot was the first video game to use filled polygon graphics (as opposed to vectors). | |
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The Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Practical Joker" features Star Trek's first Holodeck and correspondingly its first Holodeck Malfunction. | |
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The Tomb of Dracula contained the first Vampire Detective Series, following Hannibal King. | |
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Recca, an NES game made in 1992, is the Ur-Example of Bullet Hell. | |
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While Rogue is the Trope Maker and Trope Namer for the Roguelike genre, the genre has its Ur-Example a bit earlier: dnd features all the elements that would later be associated with Roguelikes. It is also (arguably) the first video game with boss battles. | |
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Vette! was the first true 3D open-world driving game. | |
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Gumshoe features many of the gameplay elements of an Endless Running Game and was released in 1985, long before the age of Flash and mobile games, where the genre flourishes. The Zapper is used for control as if tapping the phone screen, even! | |
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In a strange example of an Ur-Example switching media, The Scarlet Pimpernel is probably the Ur-Example of a Super Hero, or at least a costumed crimefighter using a Secret Identity. But of course there was such a superhero in The Mysteries Of Paris by Eugene Sue. | |
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The first animated shorts with stories exhibited to an audience were the works of Charles-Emile Reynaud, which date back to the 1890s. Only two have survived. | |
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John Constantine the Hellblazer started the urban blue collar, supernatural Trenchcoat Brigadier. | |
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Stories in which people are thrust forward long periods of time trace back to Mahabharata, in the eighth century B.C, the Ur-Example of Year Outside, Hour Inside. Similar ancient tales about traveling forward in time include the story of Honi HaM'agel in the Talmud (by way of Rip Van Winkle) and the Japanese tale of Urashima Taro (another Year Outside, Hour Inside). | |
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Battle Zone 1980 is the Ur-Example of both simulation games and of military training software, with The Bradley Trainer (modified from the Battlezone arcade cabinet) being commissioned by the U.S. Army. | |
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Dragon Quest is the Ur-Example of the Japanese RPG. The first game laid the basic foundation for the genre on consoles, taking inspiration from Western computer RPGs. The second game introduced the concept of party progression by having the player recruit additional characters following key events. The third game, one of the most popular JRPGs to this day, introduced the concept of the Job System and would serve as the inspiration for nearly every JRPG released since. | |
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The Big House (1930) is the Ur-Example of prison films, with the new convict arriving, the hardened killer convict, the convict that's trying to reform, the Great Escape, the discontent over terrible food, and many more tropes associated with prison settings. Caged (1950) is the earliest Girls Behind Bars film. The trope is in the embryonic form here, with only one brief bit of Fanservice and a couple of hints at lesbianism; it would take the downfall of The Hays Code for the exploitative T&A "girls behind bars" films to come out. |
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Akalabeth: World of Doom, released in 1980, marked the beginning of the Computer Western Role-Playing Game. | |
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The Return of the Living Dead is considered to be the Ur-Example of Brain Food in zombie films. | |
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The Lensman Series gave us power armor and space marines. Basically the first Military Science Fiction. | |
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Emergency! is the one for the Rescue genre. | |
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The True History by Lucian of Samosota, written at some point in second-century Greece, is sometimes considered the Ur-Example of Science Fiction, as well as the Tall Tale. Discussing whether or not it counts is Serious Business for academia. Also, it ends with a To Be Continued. For those who don't count Lucian's True History as the first work of science fiction (given its satirical nature), Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures (involving a story in which a person makes a flight to the moon) by Manuel Antonio de Rivas written in 1775 would indisputably count. |
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As might Lucius, the protagonist of Lucius Apuleius Platonicus's novel ''The Golden Ass, written more than a millennium earlier. | |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, being among the first recorded stories known to man, is the Ur-Example, or at least one of the very earliest Trope Codifiers, of the heroic epic poem and a lot of the related tropes. That Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk, not far from Ur, just makes it sweeter. One could even say that this is the Ur-Example of the Ur-Example. | |
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It's a Wonderful Life was the first film to feature Angels in Overcoats (beating Wings of Desire by about four decades), but it's unclear if it had any meaning at that point since it's winter in Bedford Falls and everyone outside is wearing overcoats. Clarence's winter coat is also much more mundane than the stylized trenchcoats utilized by later works. | |
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And before Popeye, there was Hugo Hercules–an inexplicably superhumanly strong gentleman with a catchphrase who rescues people from danger and helps people with their problems out of the kindness of his heart. He's probably the very first comic book Superhero in the world, and the first-ever take on The Cape. | |
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The Frogs by the Greek playwright Aristophanes may be the Ur-example of the recognition of the existence of Dead Horse Tropes. The opening scene involves two characters, one telling the other essentially "Go ahead and do whatever bits you want, but please, not [list of things that he considers overdone]". | |
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For Blaxploitation, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song from 1971 is the one to beat. | |
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