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== Films - Animation ==
* The failures of ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' and ''[[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas]]'', combined with the success of ''[[Toy Story]]'' and ''[[Shrek]]'', began the rapid decline of 2D animation, culminating in ''[[Ice Age]]''. Shortly after that movie debuted with the biggest March opening for a film in history, Disney announced that it would be shutting down the Florida branch of its animation studio, setting off a chain of events that led to Disney abandoning hand-drawn animation altogether just two years later. Luckily, the genre seems to still have signs of life - in 2009 Disney made a commitment to producing a traditionally-animated film every two years, and with ''[[Princess and The Frog]]'' and ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' performing just about as well as expected at the box office (albeit not much better than that, [[Harry Potter
* The epic failure of ''[[Mars Needs Moms]]'' resulted in the shut-down of [[Robert Zemeckis]]'s studio and with it, the death of motion-capture animation for at least a while.
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== Films - Live-Action ==
* The critical and box office bomb that was ''[[One Missed Call]]'' ended the trend of J-horror remakes in the late 00's.
* ''[[Batman and Robin (
* In a lesser-known, slightly older example, ''[[Conan the Destroyer]]'' and ''[[
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] have been blamed for currently killing parody movies; even slightly better ones like ''[[Superhero Movie]]'' (probably not helped by being named in the same "<name of genre> Movie" style used by S&F) have been lumped in with their disasters.
* It's said that ''[[Airplane!]]'' killed the [[Disaster Movie]] craze of [[The Seventies]] by making audiences unable to take them seriously anymore. While the genre was [[Popularity Polynomial|revived]] by [[The Nineties]] with movies like ''[[Armageddon]]'', ''[[Deep Impact]]'', ''[[
* Thanks to ''[[Catwoman (
* ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'' was an attempt to revive the swashbuckling adventure movie. Instead it just sunk it farther down into its grave, along with [[Creator Killer|Carolco Studios and the careers of almost everyone involved]]. The genre was not exactly a thriving one at release, but this made sure no one would even attempt another shot at it. Until the creation of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''; but even then, no one seems interested in pirate movies that don't belong to that franchise.
* [[The Western]] was a major film genre for decades before audience's appetites began to fade around the late seventies. ''[[
** Director Michael Cimino's notorious flop ''[[
* ''Heaven's Gate'' is also usually blamed for the end of the [[New Hollywood|auteur films]] produced by Hollywood in the 1970s. Other flops, such as Steven Spielberg's ''[[
* The film ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'' had, for quite some time, the reputation of having killed the big-scale movie musical, as it was a flop for many years -- until re-couping its losses in the home video market.
** It was more the music than the form: either they had to feature catchy pop (''[[Grease]]''), become [[Darker and Edgier]] (''[[Cabaret]]''), or both (''[[Saturday Night Fever]]''). Probably the killing blow was struck by the old-fashioned ''[[At Long Last Love]]'', [[Sarcasm Mode|which also held to the long tradition of hideously miscasting actors in musicals]].
* The failure of ''[[The Wiz]]'' caused studios to give up on movies with mostly black casts for some time, outside of [[Uncle Tomfoolery|comedies]], [[Salt and Pepper|black cop/white cop pairings]], and "urban" dramas. The smash success of [[Tyler Perry]]'s films have helped Hollywood take more note of the African-American movie dollar.
* The disastrous failures of ''[[
* The twin failures of 2007's ''[[Hostel|Hostel: Part II]]'' and ''[[Captivity]]'' brought an end to the "[[Gorn|torture porn]]" subgenre of violent horror films. The ''[[Saw]]'' series endured for a few more years as a [[Franchise Zombie]], but the only other subsequent standalone theatrical release in the genre, 2009's ''The Collector'', played to empty theaters, and ''Hostel: Part III'' is going straight to DVD. ''[[The Human Centipede]]'', which was marketed as an inevitable [[Cult Classic]], was only played at midnight in most places, and ''[[A Serbian Film]]'' had only a single theatrical showing.
* The ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' films are an example of one series' smash success making it impossible for subsequent films to live up to it. No one has bothered to make a serious dinosaur movie since, and all films and video games that have happened to feature dinosaurs that have followed, without exception, contain conscious nods to the franchise. Even the American ''[[Godzilla]]'' film riffed on it in trailers, and featured suspiciously velociraptor-like chase scenes with baby Godzillas.
* The first ''[[Scream (
* Many film historians consider ''[[Psycho]]'' to the be movie that killed [[Film Noir]], as the purpose of the first hour or so is to continuously set up and subvert the tropes of that genre.
* ''[[Psycho]]'' and ''[[
** ''Psycho'' killed an entire type of filmgoing: it's unthinkable now to just pay for a ticket halfway through a movie and catch the first half in the next showing, but people did it all the time. Until Hitchcock made it a requirement to show up on time to see ''Psycho''.
* ''[[School of Rock]]'', being a send-up of inspirational teacher movies, basically killed that sub-genre and created a new type of sub-genre where the teachers are rather useless (such as ''[[Half Nelson]]'' and ''[[Bad Teacher]]''). Recent attempts at reigniting the sub-genre (such as ''[[Freedom Writers]]'' and ''[[Larry Crowne]]'') have been critical and box office disappointments.
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* ''[[Chicago]]'' was supposed to revive the Hollywood musical, but actually confirmed its death. The film succeeded by framing its musical numbers as fantasies inside Roxie’s addled mind. This suspended the audience’s disbelief, but also proved ''that it needed suspension''--that basic movie-musical conventions no longer work on their own terms.
** Oddly, it ''did'' revive the "backstage" musical, which we hadn't seen for quite a while.
* The [[3D Movie]] genre has been killed three times in the past six decades. The first culprit was ''The Moonlighters'', a forgettable Warner Western starring [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and [[Fred Mac Murray]], in 1953. It didn't help that it had to compete against ''[[
** Studios have more of a vested interest in keeping 3D around this time - 3D movies are much harder to [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|pirate]], a feature that the industry appreciates very much.
* If it didn't kill it, ''[[
== Literature ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[World War I]] largely killed [[wikipedia:Invasion literature|the "invasion story" genre]], which typically detailed [[Day of the Jackboot|foreign invasions of the British Isles]] by some flavor of Germans or French (depending on [[Ripped from the Headlines|who Britain had higher tensions with at the moment]]). ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', while a more fantastical spin than the norm, is the most well-known example. The genre still persisted post-WWI, with [[Dirty Communists|communists]] or [[Alien Invasion|aliens]] replacing the Germans as the go-to foe of choice, but it never regained anywhere near its former popularity.
** It really only killed the overt flavour of invasions - covert invasions were a staple of pulp literature right up to [[World War II]], and basically mutated into spy fiction during the [[Cold War]].
* ''[[Twilight (
== Live-Action TV ==
* The [[Quiz Show]] was discredited for nearly twenty years in the US after [[wikipedia:Quiz show scandals|a series of scandals]] in [[The Fifties]], in which it was learned that a number of popular quiz shows (most notably ''[[Twenty One]]'') were being [[Executive Meddling|rigged]] in order to increase tension for viewers, and to give the victory to the contestant the producers wanted to win. Only in [[The Seventies]], with shows like ''[[Family Feud]]'', ''The $10,000 Pyramid'', and the Art Flemming version of ''[[Jeopardy
* The [[Variety Show]]'s demise has been linked to the abject failure of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Pink Lady and Jeff]]'' in 1980.<ref>The [[Sketch Comedy]] genre, as seen with ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', ''[[SCTV]]'' and other shows, is still alive and well.</ref> There were a few more shows in the genre afterwards, but none was the kind of blockbuster that could make programmers forget how bad this one was.
* According to Rowdy C of TV Trash, ''[[Unhappily Ever After]]'' killed off the dysfunctional family sitcom<ref>The live-action part of it, anyway. The animated dysfunctional family sitcom is still alive, as seen in such shows as ''[[The Simpsons (
== Music ==
* ''Be Here Now'', the notorious 1997 flop by [[Oasis (
** A major factor in Britpop's demise? Probably. However, on top of the above, [[Blur (
* The rise of [[Grunge]] did this to the excesses of [[Hair Metal]] in the early '90s. Since hair metal was the dominant genre of metal music within the mainstream rock scene, metal as a whole faded from the limelight for much of [[The Nineties]] as a result. Some genres, however, managed to avoid this:
** Classic [[
** [[Alternative Metal]], which emerged as a backlash against hair metal. Think [[
** [[Doom Metal|Sludge metal]] -- again, thanks to some bands taking heavy influence from grunge (especially the Melvins, an instrumental band in the development of both genres).
** [[Death Metal]] and [[Black Metal]] both took off and hit their peaks in [[The Nineties]].
** Basically, as long as you paid due reverence to '80s [[Punk Rock]] and [[Alternative Rock]] bands like [[
** Any metal music that is considered [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|too mainstream]] (such as [[Metalcore]] and, before that, [[Nu-metal]]) tends to get called a genre killer by some metal fans. How much of this has to do with lingering memories of what hair metal did to the genre, and how much of it has to do with elitism and snobbery towards anything "mainstream", is hotly debated. And of course, there are those who view "mainstream" metal as [[Gateway Series|Gateway Music]] to the more "authentic" genres.
*** [[Nu
* [[Progressive Rock]] has had several points that are regarded as killing the genre.
** The second album of [[Supergroup]] [[Asia]], featuring members of [[Yes]], [[King Crimson]], [[Emerson Lake and Palmer]], and several other prog legends, was regarded as a failure musically, and severely damaged prog's reputation. Said reputation was already in sustained free-fall by the time of [[Asia]]'s 1982 debut ([[King Crimson|Robert Fripp]] himself intimated as much back in 1975). Most (surviving) 70's prog bands were already greatly simplifying their sounds by 1980, in response to [[Punk Rock]] and [[
** One of the last albums from [[Emerson Lake and Palmer]], ''Love Beach'', is one of the most despised albums in music history, which the band was forced to make to meet out their record deal. The album largely abandoned the prog sound in favor of disco and dance music.
* In parallel with Britpop, the British music press went hot for "intelligent drum'n'bass", the authentic new sound of black inner city Britain. Goldie's ''Timeless'' (1995), although a fine album, opened the door for floods of by-the-numbers d'n'b clones, and the genre quickly became a cliché of television background music and film soundtracks. His 1998 follow-up ''Saturnz Return'' was slammed by a jaded press as a self-indulgent, pretentious folly. The opening track, "Mother", was over ''[[Epic Rocking|sixty minutes long]]''. Both Goldie and intelligent drum'n'bass subsequently left the charts, never to return.
* Some people feel that [[Glam Rap]] and pop-rap are currently doing this to [[Genre Motif/Hip Hop|Hip Hop]], just as [[Hair Metal]] did to metal music in the late '80s. But like the metal example, straight forward rap/hip-hop was never particularly popular outside of urban communities. Even [[Gangsta Rap]] at its mid-'90s peak only created a handful of rappers with crossover appeal, most of them [[No Such Thing
* [[Boy Band|Boy Bands]] were a huge thing back in [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties]], but the genre was eventually killed off in the early 2000s due to the rising success of white rappers and saturation of the boy band and girl group market, particularly by TV shows like ''Making The Band'' that didn't even try to hide their manufactured qualities. It didn't help that plenty of popular bands were already fading out of popularity--by the time the genre was done, most groups had gone on long hiatus ([[New Kids
* ''Live Earth,'' a massive benefit concert co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, was a dismal flop garnering low ratings (especially for the UK and US) and created a massive "carbon footprint," precisely the type of thing the organizers wanted to prevent. The failure of ''Live Earth'' is widely believed to have killed off the concept of the benefit super-concert (in the same vein as Farm Aid and Live 8).
* Depending on where you sit regarding Drum & Bass, Pendulum came close to this, by way of becoming the public face of the genre despite ''never intending to be in it''. Rob Swire himself isn't sure if this has happened, but appears to revel in it, as can be discerned from this extract from his rant on the Dogsonacid forums:
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** Drum & Bass really suffered more from the development of Techno more than [[Pendulum]]; [[Pendulum]] even shifted almost completely to a rock style.
* The twin failures of Chingy's "Powerballin'" and Nelly's "Brass Knuckles" killed the St. Louis rap movement as the once-popular alternative to the East vs. West battle has been relatively quiet since then. The Southern rap movement (which also features Chicago native [[Kanye West]]) has gone on to replace it to appeal and popularity.
* [[
* The murder of [[
{{quote| '''Rap Critic:''' "[The murder of Biggie and Tupac] was a big wake-up call for hip-hop fans, because two artists that everyone knew were dead, victims of the lifestyle that was promoted in their music. Hip-hop had gone as dark as people wanted it to go, and they wanted something else.<br />
'''Nostalgia Chick:''' Suddenly, the dangerous lives and poverty that some of these guys grew up in and rapped about... it was just a little too ''real''. }}
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== Theater ==
* Bizet's ''[[
* Back in 1991, the Broadway production of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''[[Aspects of Love]]'' closed after a year's worth of performances and lost its entire investment; ''The New York Times'' wondered if the disappointment signaled the death knell for the big-budget, pop-operatic, [[Spectacle]]-laden "megamusical" trend he spearheaded in [[The Eighties]]. In retrospect, the ''Times'' was right, at least as far as Broadway was concerned; while ''[[Miss Saigon]]'' proved a huge international success later that year, it was the last megamusical to do so. Since then, new megamusicals are mostly limited to European (and sometimes Asian) runs -- though the production values and budgets of such shows as ''[[
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* ''[[Free Space]] 2'' destroyed the space shooter genre born of ''[[Elite]]'' and popularized by ''[[Wing Commander (
** A common joke among fans of the game is that the reason it killed the genre was because it was so good that there was no point in making any further games: perfection had been achieved.
* The unfortunate retail failure of ''[[Unreal Tournament
* The insane amount of [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation]] for the ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' franchise seems to have done this to the [[Rhythm Game]] genre in North America and Europe. ''Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'' and ''Rock Band 3'', released in late 2010, have sold less than 1.5 million units combined, and the competition (''[[Power Gig Rise of the Six String]]'', et al.) outright bombed. While these are respectable figures given that both games come with expensive peripherals, compare this to ''Guitar Hero 3'' (15 million units sold) and the original ''Rock Band'' (6 million), both released in 2007, and you can start to see how oversaturation of the market has destroyed the genre's profitability. Following the commercial disappointments of the latest installments, [[MTV]] has sold ''Rock Band'' developer Harmonix for '''''[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/01/viacom-sold-harmonix-for-50-saved-50-million-on-taxes.html fifty dollars]''''' and [[Activision]] has pulled the plug on future ''Guitar Hero'' games, and other developers, having bled money from their endeavors, have gotten out of the market.
* The [[
* The Tycoon genre died when ''[[
* The execrable [[World War II]] FPS ''Hour of Victory'' seems to have killed off WWII shooters, with the only recently successful one being [[Call of Duty|World At War]]. However, it should be noted that the market had been saturated with them for some time by then and the major franchises shifted to a modern setting.
* The [[Point and Click]] genre in its inventory management form was practically killed off by the success of [[Myst]], and was only recently revived via digital distribution as well as the serial format.
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== Western Animation ==
* According to Stan Sakai, the reason the animated series of ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Space Usagi]]'' was never greenlit was because of the flop of ''[[Bucky O'Hare and
* The [[The Golden Age of Animation|1946]] [[Looney Tunes]] short ''[[Book Revue]]'' with [[Daffy Duck]] so thoroughly spoofed the "Things come to life in a store and have fun until they have to stop some book monster" plot that it effectively prevented anyone from picking up the plot again, unless as a direct homage.
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