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Tropes first documented after the invention of radio (1890s) and before the emergence of television (1940s).
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[[Radio Drama|Radio]] and Cinema provided two new media, for the first time in millennia, and originated many TV tropes. This is also the time of the first [[Superhero|Super Heroes]].
For future reference: TV,
{{tropelist|Tropes that originated in this time period:}}
* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: ''[[The Gold Rush]]''
* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Edogawa Rampo's [1894-1965] detective novels.
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* [[Dramedy]]: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Kid]]''. 1921.
* [[Drunken Montage]]: Hollywood, 1930s or even earlier.
* [[The Eeyore]]: ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie the Pooh]]'' by [[
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston LeRoux, 1909
* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans]]'', 1927
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* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', 1941
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]: [[Cole Porter]]'s song "Anything Goes" (1934) for the musical of same name provides the [[Ur Example]]:
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* [[Just Between You and Me]]: 1940s movie serials, and possibly earlier.
* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: ''Lensman'' novels, 1937
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* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Justified [as it's set in a church and involves a villain who's a religious hypocrite] in the Act I finale of Puccini's ''[[Tosca]]'', 1900; The modern, more random usages of the trope probably date from ''Alexander Nevsky'', 1938.
* [[One-Letter Name]]: ''[[The Castle]]'', [[Franz Kafka]], 1926
* [[Phony Newscast]]: ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (radio version), 1938
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Innumerable ''films noir'', 1940s.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]'', 1938 - [[The Teutonic Knights]] with swastikas.
* [[Real After All]]: ''[[
* [[Ret Canon]]: ''Batman'' from its radio serials in 1944.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' 1903
* [[Rule 34]]: [[wikipedia:Tijuana bible|Yeah.]]
* [[Secret Identity]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1903
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* [[Stop Trick]]: ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'', 1902
* [[Superhero]]: [[The Shadow]] comic (1931), [[Mandrake the Magician]] (1934), [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]] (1936), and [[Superman]] (1938)
* [[Super Multi-Purpose Room]]: ''It's A Wonderful Life'', 1946
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* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'', 1931
* [[Trainstopping]]: [[Superman]] did it.
* [[True Love's Kiss]]: ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', 1937
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'', 1921
* [[Uterine Replicator]]: Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''Brave New World''
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