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* Girls Do Not Like Pornography: While still true to some extent, women watching/reading pornography has become more common in recent times. This started with the rise in popularity of romance novels during the 80's and 90's and has continued with women today, for example, watching pornography with their boyfriends.

 

* In a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, the villain is struck from behind. He'll then turn around and ask "'''''WHO DARES?!'''''" before a head to head battle breaks out. Now it's only brought up for others to make fun of it.

* The Thing's "It's clobberin' time!" line is ''never'' played straight anymore. Most characters say the line for him, while others (Hawkeye) insult him for not coming up with any other lines in his decades of superhero work.

* While hero designs have moved away from no/small masks (or away from secret identity entirely) jokes about the [[Clark Kenting|apparent implausibility of Superman's identity]] have fallen out of favor because [[It's Been Done]], Christopher Reeve's performance in [[Superman (film)|the films]] and the art in ''[[All-Star Superman]]'' showed it could plausibly be done and the post-[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] stories giving and sticking to a plausible explanation: There is no actual reason to suspect the godlike alien that lives in Antarctica spends his time pretending to be a normal human.

 

* [[Award Bait Song]]: Has been slowly vanishing since its peak in [[The Nineties]]. Revised rules in the [[Academy Award]]s have also ensured that [[Trope Breaker|they're no longer award bait]].

* [[Disaster Movie]]s involving airplanes - since ''[[Airplane!]]'' came out, no-one could possibly take one seriously. [[United 93|Unless it was based on a true story]].

* Several ''[[Cracked.com]]'' articles discuss tropes deemed discredited. These include [http://www.cracked.com/article_17392_6-sci-fi-movie-conventions-that-need-to-die.html 6 Sci-Fi Movie Conventions (That Need to Die)] and [http://www.cracked.com/article_20467_5-overused-twist-endings-its-time-movies-to-retire.html 5 Overused Twist Endings It's Time For Movies to Retire].

 

* The line "Hi, honey, I'm home!" was a stock standard phrase in many American family sitcoms from the 1950s and 1960s. Back then it was used straight forward, but since then it has been discredited due to its corniness and unrealistic routine.

** The album art for Dance Hall Crashers' "Honey, I'm Homely" parodies this, with a woman cringing in terror from a sinister looking man entering her home, bearing a bouquet of flowers.

** ''[[30 Rock]]'' also parodies this, when Tracy explains that he never does the same thing twice. Flashback to him doing the line "Honey, I'm home!" on the first take but then changing it with ever iteration: "Pacman, I'm Jewish! Jeffrey, we lost the tournament!""

 

* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Despite [[Undead Horse Trope|still lingering today]], companies have ultimately realized that the war against piracy is a [[Hopeless War|lost cause]], and have taken incentive to work around it instead. This doesn't stop media groups from pushing absurd anti-internet laws on the basis of stopping piracy (and terrorism).

* [[Screamer Prank|Screamers]] have received two major blows over the Internet's history. Initially, when flash movies and games were still the norm, there were no clear distinctions between screamers and legitimate pages, creating a minefield for fearful site goers; this meant less traffic for sites like FunnyJunk and WinterWorld. Later, with [[YouTube|the advent of video over flash files]], viewers were able to scroll to the end of the video to see if any suspicions were confirmed, removing all suspense and [[Trope Breaker|defeating the purpose of screamers]]. [[Evolving Trope|They have since been replaced by the trap video]], which puts the scare at the ''beginning'' of the video, and aims not to make individuals jump, but [[Troll|to cause outrage within specific audiences]]. Furthermore, they've also been overshadowed by [[Rickroll]]s as the Internet's prank of choice.

* [[There Are No Girls on the Internet]]: The online population has reflected real-world gender distributions since 2001 or so.

 

* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: Modern musicals, at least in theatre, are specifically ''not'' supposed to play this one straight anymore, though there's still a chance a song of this nature may end up as a [[Breakaway Pop Hit]]

 

* [[Mascot with Attitude]]: Started with poorly made [[Follow the Leader|copycats]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', the [[Trope Codifier]], and solidified by Sonic's gradual decline. Would see a resurgence in the 2010s as independent games attempted to milk 90s stylings, but never seriously.

* [[Monster Closet]]: In first-person shooters. Present in shooters in mid 1990s to early 2000s but mainly replaced by offscreen or onscreen spawning.