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* An even more outdated concept, still occasionally in use, but becoming increasingly rare, is the level countdown timer, which had become pretty much obsolete by the mid-90s. Even games that are heavily grandfathered, such as the Mario series, have largely dropped the countdown timer, often for justifiable teams.
* The score counter, while not being used as much as it once was, occasionally continues to pop up in newer games (although not necessarily always in the traditional way).
* [[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine]] gets away with the [[Undead Horse Trope]]s of [[Real Is Brown]], [[A Space Marine Is You]], and a virtual cliche storm in part because the setting helped codify some of those tropes and was using others back when the NES was high tech. These tropes aren't quite [[Dead Horse Trope|dead]] yet, but they're being mocked and derided openly. Cory Rydell and Grey Carter explain fan reactions [https://web.archive.org/web/20111105071920/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9123-Critical-Miss-Space-Marine here.]
== Web Comics ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Recent{{when}} Disney TV shows based on ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' give it a [[Setting Update]]. ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' is vaguely set in the 80s, and ''My Friends Tigger
** On the other hand, Pooh Bear typically gets his honey from the bees. [[Fridge Logic|Maybe he just reuses the pots he already has?]]
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' features a
** Even lampshaded in the episode "Behind The Laughter":
{{quote|'''Homer:''' And that horrible act of child abuse became one of our most beloved running gags.}}
** It helps that ''
* Most modern cartoons have largely stopped using wacky sound effects ''en masse'', starting in the mid to late 2000s; it had almost entirely disappeared by the 2010s, save for a few shows that might use them once or twice as an allusion to their roots. Even the franchises that got their start using them have largely abandoned them. The sole exception to this has been the ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' franchise, as even its most recent installments repeatedly use the old wacky sound effects. This would under normal circumstances place the franchise horribly out of date, but ever since the franchise debuted half a century ago, all of its iterations, barring the live-action films, have used the old sound effects to play for comedy, meaning any addition not using them would be immediately noticeable.
== TV Tropes and All The Tropes ==
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* A good chunk of taxonomy is like this. Early on it often ran on herbariums and/or superficial generalizations. And modern criteria require that a taxon has to include all species deriving from a common ancestor (i.e. no arbitrary stitching or splitting). So now whenever biologists who actually study the species in question (or occasionally paleontologists) find evidence of divergent or convergent adaptations, something have to be shuffled. But when taxons are too old and big to shuffle, and/or there's no clear solution, they just remain as is.
** Reptiles class lacks the dinosaur-descended birds (together forming the sauropsides) and the therapside-descended mammals (all together forming the hyperclass of the amniotes). From a scientific point of view, reptiles as a class have been discredited, but reptiles are still taught as a biological class vis-à-vis to the other three among the tetrapodes.
* Despite the United State's rejection of titles of nobility after the revolution and his citizenship requiring it, Baron von Steuben continued to be a baron simply because [[Overly Long Name|Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben is too damn long]].
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