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** Thus, the idea of personifying nations as seen in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' and ''[[Scandinavia and the World]]'' is [[Older Than They Think]]. Also, 'Columbia' has popped up again in ''[[BioShock (series)]] Infinite'', interestingly. |
** Thus, the idea of personifying nations as seen in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' and ''[[Scandinavia and the World]]'' is [[Older Than They Think]]. Also, 'Columbia' has popped up again in ''[[BioShock (series)]] Infinite'', interestingly. |
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** Columbia, Marianne, John Bull, Brittania, and Uncle Sam are all gods in the World War II setting in ''[[Scion]]''. |
** Columbia, Marianne, John Bull, Brittania, and Uncle Sam are all gods in the World War II setting in ''[[Scion]]''. |
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* Everything's Greener With Chlorophyll: a minor trope in [[The Fifties]], afterwards forgotten. The brief fad for chlorophyll as an additive centered on its supposed deodorizing and "healing" properties, not to mention giving products like toothpaste a natural green color. [[Time (magazine)|''TIME Magazine'']] reported a [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857175,00.html chlorophyll boom] in April 1952 which had become a [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860075,00.html bust] by October of the next year. Chlorophyll derivatives are still used as "natural coloring" in certain instances, with exact regulations varying by country, but their inclusion is never overt. |
* Everything's Greener With Chlorophyll: a minor trope in [[The Fifties]], afterwards forgotten. The brief fad for chlorophyll as an additive centered on its supposed deodorizing and "healing" properties, not to mention giving products like toothpaste a natural green color. [[Time (magazine)|''TIME Magazine'']] reported a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721160859/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857175,00.html chlorophyll boom] in April 1952 which had become a [https://web.archive.org/web/20081222130620/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,860075,00.html bust] by October of the next year. Chlorophyll derivatives are still used as "natural coloring" in certain instances, with exact regulations varying by country, but their inclusion is never overt. |
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* In the United States, the era of Prohibition (1920-1933) had a fair number of [[Comedy Tropes]] associated with it which have since been forgotten. (Mercifully forgotten, some might say.) |
* In the United States, the era of Prohibition (1920-1933) had a fair number of [[Comedy Tropes]] associated with it which have since been forgotten. (Mercifully forgotten, some might say.) |
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* [[Once-Acceptable Targets|Polack jokes]]. Everyone knows the jokes about them being stupid, but nobody remembers the stereotype at all. |
* [[Once-Acceptable Targets|Polack jokes]]. Everyone knows the jokes about them being stupid, but nobody remembers the stereotype at all. |
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