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* The [[Alien Invasion]] has greatly fallen out of favor, in large part due to overuse, and also due to some really bad films. As a result, this type of film is never used seriously or very rarely, to the point that unless its a parody, or is a throwback to prior eras, the use of the alien invasion film seems set to become a part

of the past.

* While smoking had already been depicted as a bad thing for a while, [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]] was still used for any morally ambiguous [[Anti-Hero]] or [[Token Evil Teammate]], and was not solely a villainous trait. However, the early 2010s saw smoking graudually phased even among those characters, to the point that the only character who would smoke would be a villain unless it was a [[Period Piece]].

* The use of [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]] has gradually become less clear cut from the mid 2000s and esepcially the 2010s, with the greater awareness of non monogamous relationships and the rise of villains in clear cut suits or dressing sensibly has increasingly led this trope to be either inverted or played with rather than played straight.

=== Other/Multiple Periods ===

* Chinese scholars have described China as this since the time of [[Confucius]] himself, if not before. This hasn't been affected by the fact that China's had at least three Golden Ages since unification.