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* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: ''[[Sunrise (Film)|Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans]]'', 1927
* [[Stairway to Heaven|Escalator to Heaven]]: 1941 film ''Here Comes Mister Jordan'', but the parent trope is [[Older Than Dirt|much older]].
* [[Fakeout Escape]]: "The Escape of [[
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]: ''The Lottery'', published June 28, 1948
* [[Fog of Doom]]: ''The Purple Cloud'' by M.P. Shiel, 1901
* [[Foot Popping]]: Already called for in the [[Hays Code]].
* [[Gorgeous George]]: 1940s [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestler]] Gorgeous George
* [[Green
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: 1900s, possibly older
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: [[The Avengers (TV)|Patrick Macnee]] was raised by his mother and her lesbian lover, who he called his "Uncle" Evelyn. This would have been in the late 1920s.
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* [[I Hit You You Hit the Ground]]: ''"There'll be only two blows struck: I'll hit him, and he'll hit the earth."'': ''[[Little Nemo in Slumberland]]'', 1909.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|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]]:
{{quote| ''(if the pilgrims could see what became of American society)'' "Instead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them!"}}
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: 1940s movie serials, and possibly earlier.
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* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: ''The Gold Rush'', 1925
* [[Meet Cute]]: 1930s [[Screwball Comedy|screwball comedies]]
* [[Merchandise
* [[Monumental Battle]]: ''King Kong'', 1933
* [[Monumental Damage Resistance]]: ''Deluge'', 1933
* [[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
* [[Phony Newscast]]: ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' (radio version), 1938
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Innumerable ''films noir'', 1940s.
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* [[Ret Canon]]: ''Batman'' from its radio serials in 1944.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Literature)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' 1903
* [[Rule
* [[Secret Identity]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Literature)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1903
* [[Shamgri La]]: 1933 novel ''[[Lost Horizon (Literature)|Lost Horizon]]'' by James Hilton
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* [[The Day the Music Lied]]: ''Popeye'' cartoon films, 1933-onward.
* [[Theme Initials]]: ''[[Superman]]'', starting from the 1940 introduction of Lex Luthor.
* [[Theme Music Power
* [[Time Stands Still]]: "The New Accelerator" by [[HG Wells]], 1901
* [[Tomato in The Mirror]]: ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Literature)|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'', 1931
* [[Trainstopping]]: [[Superman]] did it.
* [[True
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: ''[[RUR (Theatre)|RUR]]'', 1921
* [[Uterine Replicator]]: Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''Brave New World''
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