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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.

** 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.

 

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