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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]]''.