Category:Early Installment Weirdness
Long running series often have to experiment a little before they find their niche, sometimes there are concepts abandoned early on that were fascinating, because they were potentially good ideas back then, or just clash so much with the later tone of the series. In short, the first installment is a 'prototype', like a pilot of a first episode.
If the series is improved for abandoning these elements, it often leads to a Growing the Beard moment. For something similar applied to individual characters, see Characterization Marches On. A specific sub-trope of this dealing with early installments resembling the real world is Earth Drift. When early characters disappear entirely with no explanations, that's Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. Might be the result of Plot Tumors
There will always be some fans who view the current incarnation of a series as They Changed It, Now It Sucks.
When this happens to themes that become popular after the fact because of a work, and are only actually codified elsewhere, it is a subtrope of Unbuilt Trope.
Compare New First Comics and Adaptation Displacement. When a character displays this, it's Characterization Marches On. May be the Oddball in the Series. See also Meet Your Early Installment Weirdness.
Pages in category "Early Installment Weirdness"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- Early Installment Weirdness
- Early Installment Weirdness/Anime and Manga
- Early Installment Weirdness/Comic Books
- Early Installment Weirdness/Film
- Early Installment Weirdness/Film/Animated Films
- Early Installment Weirdness/Literature
- Early Installment Weirdness/Literature/Magazines
- Early Installment Weirdness/Live-Action TV
- Early Installment Weirdness/Music
- Early Installment Weirdness/Newspaper Comics
- Early Installment Weirdness/Radio
- Early Installment Weirdness/Tabletop Games
- Early Installment Weirdness/Toys
- Early Installment Weirdness/Video Games
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Comics
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Original
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Original/Forum Roleplays
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Original/Let's Play
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Video
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Video/Machinima
- Early Installment Weirdness/Web Video/Web Animation
- Early Installment Weirdness/Western Animation