The Newest Ones in the Book



As mentioned in The Oldest Ones in the Book, those tropes cannot be any more recent than 1960, and even then, those only apply to tropes originating with Television. Anything else has to be Older Than Television, or around for at least 70 years.

But there are some tropes that are really young, that still have that "New Trope Smell" -- sometimes as recent as the Turn of the Millennium. Anything around no earlier than 1980 is one of The Newest Ones in the Book.

Of course it's hard to tell just how old a trope is, and it may turn out some we thought were new were actually older. Or some may turn out not to be that old, so they belong here. Some may have a clear beginning past this point, likely due to the Trope Maker being recent. Either way, it's a trope that simply didn't exist, at least in the way we know it, before Disco died.

Use the discussion page to determine if one is older than this.

Compare Newer Than They Think.

Contrast The Oldest Ones in the Book, Older Than They Think.


 * Eighties Hair: Because The Seventies had its own hair looks.
 * The Abridged Series: Since the Trope Maker is just a few years old.
 * Alien Autopsy: The FOX Network's TV special Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction is the Trope Maker and first aired in 1995.
 * Anal Probing: The earliest reference in any media to this activity between extra-terrestrials and humans comes from Whitley Strieber's book Communion: A True Story, first published in 1987.
 * Bullet Time: Originated with the obscure 1981 action film Kill and Kill Again, but now overwhelmingly associated with The Matrix films.
 * Can You Hear Me Now?: Cell phones were not in general use until the early- to mid-1990s.
 * Character Blog
 * Date My Avatar
 * Digital Piracy Is Evil: Although there were plenty of efforts to strictly enforce copyright laws, it only became a media trope some time around 1980 with the "Home Taping is Killing Music" campaign.
 * Fur and Loathing: It was just around since the early 1980s. There were people against fur before, but the effect on general media was just since that trope.
 * Gun Fu: It was invented for the 1986 film A Better Tomorrow.
 * Gun Kata: It was created for Equilibrium in 2002.
 * Microtransactions: Started to kick in in the 6th generation of video games.
 * Moe: is a phenomenon of the 21st century, although prototypical forms existed in the 1980s and 1990s.
 * New Media Tropes: Likewise, any trope with "internet" in the title emerged no earlier than the mid-1990s.
 * Troll: Writing deliberately inflammatory material for the sake of attracting attention surely predates the Internet, but the Internet and GIFT brought Trolling to the masses.
 * Two Gamers on a Couch: Started about 1998 or so.
 * Video Game Tropes: Save for a handful that are Older Than the NES.
 * Wiki Tropes