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** Ironically, ''Akira'' was released by Macek's Streamline Pictures studio.
* Originally, the [[Magical Girl]] genre was about cute girls using magical powers to help friends' social lives, meet boys, or make it big as [[Idol Singer]]s. However, after Naoko Takeuchi mixed [[Magical Girl]] and [[Sentai]] in equal proportions to create ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', "Magical Girl" became all but synonymous with [[Magical Girl Warrior]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* [[Alan Moore]] starts writing [[Swamp Thing]]. From one writer no one in America had heard of on a dying thrid-string title at DC we eventually got the whole of [[Vertigo Comics]], Marvel's Max Imprint and not a few smaller publishing houses (Avatar, for example).
* [[Chris Claremont]] starts writing the [[X-Men]]. [[Marvel Comics]] had been soap operas before that point, but Claremont's writing made the soap truly operatic in scope. Mainstream modern superhero comics, including the deconstructions of [[Alan Moore]] and others, were changed forever by the popularity of Claremont's writing style. (Yes, Byrne's art had something to do with it too, but Claremont stayed on the title a lot longer and had a lot more influence.)
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* "A Fragment out of Time" published in ''Spockanalia'' (a ''[[Star Trek]]'' fanzine running through the seventies) was the first known [[Slash Fic]] to hit wide distribution. Virtually ''every'' [[Yaoi Fangirl]] can thank the unknown fanfic writer.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heavens Gate]]'', although not for the same reasons as most of the other examples: it was so bad, it [[Genre Killer|killed]] the [[The Western|Hollywood Western]], [[Creator Killer|United Artists as an independent studio, and director Michael Cimino's career]]. It and other high-profile flops (''One From the Heart'', ''Sorcerer'') also killed the [[New Hollywood|auteur period]] in Hollywood.
* [[Wes Craven]] made ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' in an effort to kill the [[Slasher
** Before that, ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' did the same thing, basically starting the modern slasher genre. Two years later, ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' turned the slasher flick into a [[Horror]] staple by focusing on the exploitation part of it.
* ''[[Die Hard]]'' did this for the action movie. Sure, there were smart thrillers beforehand -- ''[[Die Hard]]'' itself could be seen as something of a remake of ''[[North Sea Hijack]]''—but after it came out, there were far fewer action films that featured invincible, unstoppable heroes (Schwarzenegger, Stallone) whose plots depended entirely on [[Ass Pull]]ing solutions out of thin air than there were before. Plus, not many films rewrite the rules for the genre so heavily that an [[Die Hard on an X|entire subgenre]] forms around them.
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* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' was a disappointment in a crowded summer box office when it came out. Repeated showings on cable and its release on video not only made it one of the first films to develop a strong cult following that way, but introduced the first entirely new way of visualizing the future in sci-fi films since ''[[Metropolis]]'' a half-century earlier. Not only did its wet streets reflecting neon signs at night get copied widely in other films, commercials and music videos during the 1980s, it arguably influenced the look of urban space in the ''actual real-world future'' ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/59303791@N00/2518314792/ See Times Square, ca. 2008]).
* The ''[[Alien]]'' series firmly established in futuristic stories, any major female character is expected to pull their weight in the face of danger or combat like Ellen Ripley.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is largely responsible for moving contemporary fantasy to the gritty end of the [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]].
== [[Live
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', despite it not doing spectacularly well in the ratings, spawned numerous short-lived imitators (a few coming from [[Gene Roddenberry]], ''Trek'''s creator) in comic books and television. During the '70's it served as ''the'' template for [[Science Fiction]] television in America (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the world) until the advent of ''[[Star Wars]]'', though the clones tended to only last for a season or two. Even [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] and other works influenced by ''[[Star Wars]]'' showed its influence. Its impact lasted as late as the '90s, though more in the form of television reacting ''against'' the series.
** ''[[Star Trek]]'''s influence, however, would go on to shape far more than science fiction as a genre; not only is it the [[Trope Codifier]] (and [[Trope Namer]]) for the [[Power Trio]], but things like automatic doors, Kindle, iPods, bluetooth, cell phones and laptops were all first conceived for ''[[Star Trek]]''. Its impact even goes beyond pop culture and technology; Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to work in space, was inspired to become an astronaut after seeing Lieutenant Uhura on television as a little girl.
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* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' changed the the way [[Sitcom]] characters and stories are portrayed so completely that the original series seems [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|derivative]] in the new context it created.
* For better or worse, ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' and ''[[That's So Raven]]'' invented the modern-day [[Idol Singer]]-centric tween sitcom.
== [[Music]] ==
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* [[Black Sabbath]]'s first album for heavy metal. If a heavy metal band says they're not influenced by them, they're lying.
* Venom may have been the trope namers, but it was [[Mayhem]]'s album ''De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas'' that really defined what [[Black Metal]] would come to be known as.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] also had one at some point between 1996 and 1998, but mileage varies on what exactly it was. Some people cite Steve Austin's victory at King of the Ring 1996 and resulting Austin 3:16 promo, which made him the only thing to rival the New World Order in popularity. Others cite Austin's match against Bret Hart, face of the WWF along with Shawn Michaels, at Wrestlemania XIII, when Austin turned face and Hart heel. Others will cite the formation of D-Generation X, an edgy, raunchy stable that was somewhat NWO influenced (it had members of [[The Kliq]] in it as well, after) and feuded with the Hart Foundation, Bret Hart's group. Resulting from that feud was Michaels and Hart's match at Survivor Series 1997, Hart's last match in the WWF under his current contract. The match was to end ambiguously and Hart was to surrender his championship the next day on Raw, but Michaels, Vince McMahon and Triple H conspired to end the match without Hart's knowledge. This event created the Mr. McMahon character and a decade's worth of unmitigated hostility between Hart and those involved. The final event is Austin's match against Michaels at Wrestlemania XIV, when Austin defeated Michaels and in the words of JR "The Austin Era (had) begun." This event kickstarted the Austin-McMahon feud, which would be the focal point of the entire company for three years, in the company's most successful or second most successful era, The [[Attitude Era]].
* Similarly, at and before Wrestlemania X-Seven, the [[Attitude Era]] ended. Vince purchased WCW, the company's chief rival, and at Wrestlemania, one of the greatest PPV's in history, Austin faced The Rock for the WWF Championship, unbelievably, Stone Cold turned heel in his hometown and sided with McMahon to beat Rock. The central feuds of the Attitude Era, both in real-life and kayfabe, had ended within a week of each other.
== Sports ==▼
* This has happened multiple times in [[Baseball]].▼
** In the 1920s, Babe Ruth popularized the idea of the home run, shifting much of the game's offensive focus from baserunning speed to long-ball power.▼
** Jackie Robinson's breaking down the color line was this for more than just the sports world. Not only did it create interest in successful Negro League players, it was also an early turning point in white America's acceptance of the idea that [[Civil Rights Movement|black people weren't so different from them]].▼
** The airing of Major League Baseball games on television in [[The Fifties]] destroyed most of the minor leagues, who couldn't compete with the bigger games being shown on TV.▼
** The move of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers to, respectively, [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]] in 1957 will probably never be forgiven by [[Big Applesauce|New York]] sports fans, but it helped popularize baseball outside the East Coast and the Midwest and led to a surge of teams moving to sunny Southern and Western cities, securing the sport's national viability for the rest of the century. It also effectively destroyed the Pacific Coast League (which was, until then, seen as a growing rival to Major League Baseball), pushing it down into the minors and securing MLB's position as the dominant baseball league in the US.▼
** Maury Wills helped repopularize the stolen base in the early 1960s.▼
** Rollie Fingers was central to the idea of the dedicated relief pitcher/closer in the 1970s, paving the way for the modern game's reliance on the bullpen.▼
** The 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, one of the most exciting matchups in sports history, was the moment at which television finally understood how to broadcast baseball. Carlton Fisk's iconic home run in Game 6 provided a catalyst in getting camera operators to focus most of their attention on the players themselves. It's no coincidence that, after the '75 World Series, a new lucrative TV deal involving not just [[NBC]], but [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] was made.▼
** The early success of Hideo Nomo paved the way for Major League Baseball's interest in Japanese players.▼
* In [[Australian Rules Football]], the 1970 VFL Grand Final is often seen as the point at which a major shift in the game occurred. Carlton, 44 points down at half time, came back to defeat Collingwood after a rousing half-time speech by coach Ron Barassi in which he exhorted the players to handball - and ever since then, the handball has been a much more prominent feature of the game, sometimes more common in a match than kicking the ball.▼
* Several players have shifted the way Ice Hockey gets played. Highlights include:▼
** Bobby Orr popularizing the concept of defensemen supporting offensive plays▼
** Patrick Roy is credited for popularizing the butterfly goaltending style▼
** Wayne Gretzky for his use of the behind-the-net goal setup.▼
* In [[American Football]], initially field goal kickers kicked the ball towards the goal posts straight on, the results being that most field goals didn't have much distance and their accuracy was iffy at best (60% or so). Then Pete Gogolak and others introduced the angled, soccer-style kick for field goals, increasing distance and accuracy and immediately improving the viability of field goals tremendously. As of today the soccer-style kick is used professionally almost exclusively.▼
** And the place kick (straight on) replaced the drop kick, where the kicker dropped it like a punter and let it hit the ground before kicking it. The last time it was used was by Doug Flutie as an homage.▼
* Certain single games and/or series have breathed life into otherwise stagnant or dying leagues. The 1979 NCAA basketball championship between Larry Bird's Indiana State team and Magic Johnson's Michigan State team breathed new life into college basketball. Five years later, the 1984 NBA Finals between Bird's Boston Celtics and Magic's Los Angeles Lakers helped spark a revival in the NBA, which had languished in popularity before the pair entered the league.▼
** The New York Jets' upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III arguably lent the American Football League credibility against the more established National Football League. It helped that Jets' quarterback Joe Namath's "guarantee" that the Jets would win added to the pregame hype (unheard of in the previous two games). The Kansas City Chiefs' win over the Minnesota Vikings the following season proved that it wasn't a one shot, fluke deal for the AFL leading up to the eventual merger in 1970.▼
* The High Jump was revolutionized by Dick Fosbury in 1968. It's weird as heck to watch someone do a Fosbury Flop (It involves turning around at the point of the jump and going BACKWARDS over the bar), but it manages to allow jumpers to jump as much as 25% higher than they would be able to jumping straight forwards over the bar.▼
* The 2005 fight between Forrest Griffin and Stephen Bonnar on the undercard of the The Ultimate Fighter finale, the first ever live-televised MMA event. Their legendary, back-and-forth brawl over a UFC contract made instant fans almost overnight, and it's been documented that ratings spiked during the fight as fans were frantically calling other people to point them to this fight. UFC president Dana White credits this fight as perhaps the most landmark moment in MMA history, and the turning point that launched it to such great, mainstream heights.▼
* In [[The Beautiful Game|Soccer]], the 1953 match between England and Hungary is widely regarded as being the point when the modern game came into being. The Hungarians playing a then unknown tactical style totally outclassed the English, who until that point had never been defeated at home by a team from outside the British Isles. In the aftermath the old English formations and tactics vanished entirely, and the continental tactics, training and equipment became the standard around the world.▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* You have ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' to thank for [[Dating Sim]] girls who actually have personalities beyond "living love doll".
* ...and ''[[Kanon]]'' to thank for giving the ''male protagonist'' a personality, as well as (and the two are connected) making [[Porn with Plot]] [[Eroge]] just as marketable as [[Porn Without Plot]] games (though the developers had previously done ''ONE -kagayaku kisetsu e-, Moon.,'' and ''Dousei'' before forming [[Key Visual Arts|their own studio]], none of these games had the impact that ''Kanon'' had).
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Doug]]'' started a trend for many [[Slice of Life]] shows in the 1990s.
▲== Real Life ==
* The Great San Francisco Earthquake for [[California]]. Before the quake, [[San Francisco]] was the largest city on the West Coast, and [[Los Angeles]]' population was less than a million, nowhere near the second largest city in the United States. The quake and the Hollywood boom were instrumental in shifting the population southward.
* The Hurricane of 1900 that struck Galveston, Texas sent it into a long decline while turning [[Greater Houston|Houston]] into a booming port town. NASA and oil would finish the job.
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* The American Revolution decisively changed international politics forever. It was the first modern democracy, and thus the Trope Maker for much of what we now think of as Western democracy. It directly or indirectly inspired revolutions for nearly a century and a half (from 1776 to 1918) - in particular the anti-monarchist nature of most of these revolts. It arguably represents the point at which guerilla warfare and firearms first met. And finally, it was the first time that an imperial European power was defeated by a non-European one.
* The US Constitution's Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, both of which were first drafted in 1789, are the [[Trope Codifier]]s for the modern concepts of liberal democracy and human rights.
▲=== Sports ===
▲** In the 1920s, Babe Ruth popularized the idea of the home run, shifting much of the game's offensive focus from baserunning speed to long-ball power.
▲** Jackie Robinson's breaking down the color line was this for more than just the sports world. Not only did it create interest in successful Negro League players, it was also an early turning point in white America's acceptance of the idea that [[Civil Rights Movement|black people weren't so different from them]].
▲** The airing of Major League Baseball games on television in [[The Fifties]] destroyed most of the minor leagues, who couldn't compete with the bigger games being shown on TV.
▲** The move of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers to, respectively, [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]] in 1957 will probably never be forgiven by [[Big Applesauce|New York]] sports fans, but it helped popularize baseball outside the East Coast and the Midwest and led to a surge of teams moving to sunny Southern and Western cities, securing the sport's national viability for the rest of the century. It also effectively destroyed the Pacific Coast League (which was, until then, seen as a growing rival to Major League Baseball), pushing it down into the minors and securing MLB's position as the dominant baseball league in the US.
▲** Maury Wills helped repopularize the stolen base in the early 1960s.
▲** Rollie Fingers was central to the idea of the dedicated relief pitcher/closer in the 1970s, paving the way for the modern game's reliance on the bullpen.
▲** The 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, one of the most exciting matchups in sports history, was the moment at which television finally understood how to broadcast baseball. Carlton Fisk's iconic home run in Game 6 provided a catalyst in getting camera operators to focus most of their attention on the players themselves. It's no coincidence that, after the '75 World Series, a new lucrative TV deal involving not just [[NBC]], but [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] was made.
▲** The early success of Hideo Nomo paved the way for Major League Baseball's interest in Japanese players.
▲* In [[Australian Rules Football]], the 1970 VFL Grand Final is often seen as the point at which a major shift in the game occurred. Carlton, 44 points down at half time, came back to defeat Collingwood after a rousing half-time speech by coach Ron Barassi in which he exhorted the players to handball - and ever since then, the handball has been a much more prominent feature of the game, sometimes more common in a match than kicking the ball.
▲* Several players have shifted the way Ice Hockey gets played. Highlights include:
▲** Bobby Orr popularizing the concept of defensemen supporting offensive plays
▲** Patrick Roy is credited for popularizing the butterfly goaltending style
▲** Wayne Gretzky for his use of the behind-the-net goal setup.
▲* In [[American Football]], initially field goal kickers kicked the ball towards the goal posts straight on, the results being that most field goals didn't have much distance and their accuracy was iffy at best (60% or so). Then Pete Gogolak and others introduced the angled, soccer-style kick for field goals, increasing distance and accuracy and immediately improving the viability of field goals tremendously. As of today the soccer-style kick is used professionally almost exclusively.
▲** And the place kick (straight on) replaced the drop kick, where the kicker dropped it like a punter and let it hit the ground before kicking it. The last time it was used was by Doug Flutie as an homage.
▲* Certain single games and/or series have breathed life into otherwise stagnant or dying leagues. The 1979 NCAA basketball championship between Larry Bird's Indiana State team and Magic Johnson's Michigan State team breathed new life into college basketball. Five years later, the 1984 NBA Finals between Bird's Boston Celtics and Magic's Los Angeles Lakers helped spark a revival in the NBA, which had languished in popularity before the pair entered the league.
▲** The New York Jets' upset victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III arguably lent the American Football League credibility against the more established National Football League. It helped that Jets' quarterback Joe Namath's "guarantee" that the Jets would win added to the pregame hype (unheard of in the previous two games). The Kansas City Chiefs' win over the Minnesota Vikings the following season proved that it wasn't a one shot, fluke deal for the AFL leading up to the eventual merger in 1970.
▲* The High Jump was revolutionized by Dick Fosbury in 1968. It's weird as heck to watch someone do a Fosbury Flop (It involves turning around at the point of the jump and going BACKWARDS over the bar), but it manages to allow jumpers to jump as much as 25% higher than they would be able to jumping straight forwards over the bar.
▲* The 2005 fight between Forrest Griffin and Stephen Bonnar on the undercard of the The Ultimate Fighter finale, the first ever live-televised MMA event. Their legendary, back-and-forth brawl over a UFC contract made instant fans almost overnight, and it's been documented that ratings spiked during the fight as fans were frantically calling other people to point them to this fight. UFC president Dana White credits this fight as perhaps the most landmark moment in MMA history, and the turning point that launched it to such great, mainstream heights.
▲* In [[The Beautiful Game|Soccer]], the 1953 match between England and Hungary is widely regarded as being the point when the modern game came into being. The Hungarians playing a then unknown tactical style totally outclassed the English, who until that point had never been defeated at home by a team from outside the British Isles. In the aftermath the old English formations and tactics vanished entirely, and the continental tactics, training and equipment became the standard around the world.
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