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The opposite is [[Genre Killer]].

* The [[Cyberpunk]] and by extension all other [[Punk Punk]] Genres were all started by [[William Gibson]]'s ''[[Neuromancer]]''. The first turning point could be argued to be [[The Matrix]], which both popularized the genre, and put an original enough twist on it to turn it into more than just a clone. The Second turning point was when author K.W. Jeter decided to call the genre in which he was writing [[Steampunk]] leading to, if not every other work of [[Punk Punk]], at least the idea of [[Punk Punk]] as a category.

* As in the quote, the [[First-Person Shooter]] started out with the template [[Trope Codifier|codified]] by ''[[Doom]]'', to the point that those that came after were commonly called "''Doom'' clones." The turning points are largely accepted to be the first ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|GoldenEye]]'' game and ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]''.

* The [[Fighting Game]] was popularized by ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', and while some games set themselves apart, like ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', those were through gimmicks like blood. The fighting was still heavily based on SF. Even later Capcom fighters were just ''SF II'' clones. The turning point was ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'', not just with the [[Polygonal Graphics]], but adding a different style than the acrobatics and special moves of ''SF II''. Later games like ''[[Tekken]]'' and ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' added their own dimensions.

** One could argue that the emergence of ''Tekken'' and the Soul series merely split the genre into subsets: 2-D fighters and 3-D fighters.

* Originally, [[Real Robot]] shows were ''[[Gundam]]'' clones. Then came ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', which took the genre [[Trope Codifier|into more or less what we know today]], and finally things like ''[[Patlabor]]'' and ''[[Armored Trooper VOTOMS]]'' that went [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|for the very top of the hardness scale]].

* The [[Abridged Series]] genre was started by Little Kuriboh's ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]]'', but the launch was series afterwards, like ''[[Naruto the Abridged Series]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.

* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' franchise spawned craze in Japan for anything with collectable monsters, that would later be immitated by series such as ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' (via the ''Dragon Quest Monsters'' series) and ''[[Telefang]]'' (which overseas was ironically sold as a bootleg ''Pokemon'' game, after being poorly translated). The collectable monster concept proved successful as a card game as well, when the Pokemon card game was released. This success would lead to ''Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters'' becoming extremely successful. The success of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' lead to imitators trying to get on the bandwagon of making a show about a game, so that kids will want to buy the real version. With so many shows like this out there nowadays, such as ''[[Duel Masters]]'', ''[[Beyblade]]'', ''Battle B-Daman'', ''[[Medabots]]'', ''[[Bakugan]]'', and ''[[Chaotic]]'' just to name a few, one could say that "Card Game Animes" have become a genre. They all feature a tournament arc, talking about what the game is "truly about", and posing dramatically while playing the game.

 

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