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A [[Trope]] which has gone way beyond being a [[Discredited Trope]] to where the very act of parodying and/or subverting that trope has itself become a trope.
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* [[All That Glitters]] (don't expect anyone to take this [[An Aesop|Aesop]] seriously, though the revelation the treasure is worthless can still be part of a [[Pound of Flesh Twist]] or [[Shaggy Dog Story]] for one in [[Perpetual Poverty]] instead of a genuine lesson)
* [[America Saves the Day]] has been one since the seventies at the latest; the [[Vietnam War]] and an overdose of this trope in the Hollywood of the forties, fifties, and sixties conspired to kill it. This trope is at the point now that when it's ''not'' subverted it feels like a subversion.
* [[Asian Speekee Engrish]] has been one for decades due to [[Values Dissonance]] over racism.
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* [[G-Rated Sex]] in Japanese Anime and Manga (Which was already not popular for some reason), ended completely thanks to Ishihara's laws making sex in manga/anime/games a taboo topic.
* Hippies are seldom played straight outside of sixties period pieces, having been mostly replaced by [[New Age Retro Hippie]]s and [[Granola Girl]]s.
* [[Hypno Ray]] (As well as non-magical, non-super science hypnotizing as a plot device altogether, save for loads of justifications or [[Excuse Plot]] for porn.)
* [[Instant Cultured]]
* [[I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday]] as a segue into a [[Flash Back]]. Or, for that matter, [[I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday]] being followed by "It ''was'' yesterday" or even "It happened today!".
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* [[Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue]]: Parodied more often than played straight.
* [[Save the Princess]]—had its days as an acceptable [[Excuse Plot]] in [[Video Games]], but those days are pretty much over. [[Grandfather Clause|Unless you're]] [[Mario]], and even he needs something beyond this.
* [[Scoring Points]]—No one cares anymore. Even in competition speed of completion matters more than points.
* [[Slow No]]—This trope is mocked now.
* [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]]—not commonly used in [[Real Life]], either.
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* Early settings for ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and derivatives used to feature gods of death as undead loving always evil assholes. Newer settings and updates to older settings went to subvert it by making gods of death neutral agents of a natural part of the cycle of life that hate undead. Now the second is far more common and undead making gods are more minor gods of ''un''death specifically rather than having a portfolio over death in general.
** Which is ''[[Greyhawk]]''. Because ''[[Mystara]]'' aside of [[Norse Mythology|Hel]] has Nyx (who is more philosophical about it all, can be nice when got no good reason to be ruthless, and has worshipper alignment All/All, despite being in the Sphere of Entropy and among many other things patron of the undead) and Terra (who has worshipper alignment Lawful Good or Neutral, is in the Sphere of Matter and as such more about the whole death-and-rebirth cycle), even if they don't get along. And ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' (aside of not being originally a D&D setting) has Jergal before Myrkul and Cyric, and Kelemvor after.
* Doctors who make house calls. Even in the 60s, it seemed this was only mentioned as a joke about how doctors no longer do this, and eventually, even ''that'' started to go stale In more modern works, the joke has become one where only ''very'' rich people have doctors who do this. In reality, this practice started to decline in the 1930s for a variety of reasons; concerns about providing low-overhead care in the home, time inefficiency, and inconvenience made it impractical.
* [[Video Game Lives]]. This was the go-to mechanic back when coin-ops were popular, but is almost never used in modern home consoles. Most now have a one-and-done lifebar with infinite continues, plus [[Save Point]]s, and/or spawning points, depending on the genre. Many games even have auto-save mechanics that do it for you. This of course means that Tropes associated with it like [[1-Up]] are not used either.
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