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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
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