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[[File:th_UndeadHorse.png|link=Visual Pun|frame|''[[World of Warcraft]]'' uses some tropes so much, they continue into the next world.]]
{{quote|''"I'm aware it's a cliche
''I am aware I'm being stupid, I'm aware of that but hey
''This is just something that I gotta do..."''
|"Action Movie Hero Boy," [[Lemon Demon]]}}
Generally, there's a [[Trope Life Cycle|standard progression]] as a trope ages. First, it is born. Once it's become established enough, [[Parody|parodies]] and [[Subverted Trope|subversions]] start to crop up. Through overuse, it ends up eventually becoming a [[Discredited Trope]], and subversions might be common enough to be straight examples of new tropes, making it a [[Dead Horse Trope]]. Or it could just be [[Forgotten Trope|forgotten completely.]]
Sometimes, however, tropes just don't want to die, and the progression skips a step. Subversions are common enough to be their own tropes, yet the original trope, even if it's the [[The Oldest Ones in the Book|Oldest One In The Book]], is still in active use and isn't even (universally -- opinions vary) seen as cliched or corny. It would be a [[Dead Horse Trope]], except it isn't actually dead. It's Undead.
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Some tropes that reach this state eventually ascend into [[Omnipresent Tropes]], ones that are more like the building blocks of a story which would severely limit writers' options if they were taken off the market. The majority remain necessities for genre and narrative reasons for which non-cliched explanations have yet to be able to provide a suitable alternative.
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