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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]].
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For future reference: TV, as we generally know it, was invented in 1928, but regular broadcasts didn't start until 1936 in the U.K. and [[Nazi Germany]] and 1939 in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: ''[[The Gold Rush]]''
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* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Edogawa Rampo's [1894-1965] detective novels.
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* [[Alertness Blink]]: Pick an early-20th Century cartoon. ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928) is a good starting point.
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* [[Animal Talk]]: ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' and ''The Further Adventures of Nils'', Selma Lagerlöf, 1906 and 1907.
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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Lovecraft
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* [[Aside Glance]]: silent comedy films
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* [[Banana Peel]]: Early 20th-century pop culture.
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* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]]: 1930s Hollywood
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* [[Bridge Logic]]: ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', 1900
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* [[Broke Episode]]: A ''lot'' of films and literature made during the Great Depression featured impoverished protagonists.
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* [[China Takes Over the World]]: ''[[The War In The Air]]'', [[H. G. Wells]], 1907-1908
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* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: ''[[Undersea Kingdom]]'', 1936
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* [[Climbing Climax]]: King Kong, 1933
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* [[Colonel Badass]]: Sebastian Moran from ''The Adventure of the Empty House'', 1903
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* [[Contractual Purity]]: [[Shirley Temple]] drinking. *gasp* She was ''in her twenties''.
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* [[Cyberpunk]]: ''[[Metropolis]]'' 1927, by [[Fritz Lang]].
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* [[Dawson Casting]]: 16-year-old [[Judy Garland]] as 11-year-old Dorothy in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', 1939.
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* [[Death in the Clouds]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is the [[Agatha Christie]] novel first published in 1935.
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* [[Designer Babies]]: Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]''
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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: An old Mickey Mouse comic had a giant fall to his death.
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* [[Dramedy]]: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Kid]]''. 1921.
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* [[Drunken Montage]]: Hollywood, 1930s or even earlier.
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* [[The Eeyore]]: ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie the Pooh]]'' by [[A. A. Milne|AA Milne]], 1926
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* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston LeRoux, 1909
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* [[Epic Tracking Shot]]: ''[[Sunrise (film)|Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans]]'', 1927
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* [[Stairway to Heaven|Escalator to Heaven]]: 1941 film ''Here Comes Mister Jordan'', but the parent trope is [[Older Than Dirt|much older]].
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* [[Fakeout Escape]]: "The Escape of [[Arsène Lupin]]", 1906
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* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]: ''The Lottery'', published June 28, 1948
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* [[Fog of Doom]]: ''The Purple Cloud'' by M.P. Shiel, 1901
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* [[Foot Popping]]: Already called for in the [[Hays Code]].
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* [[Gorgeous George]]: 1940s [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestler]] Gorgeous George
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* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: Deja Thoris of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ''A Princess of Mars'', published 1912
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* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: 1900s, possibly older
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* [[Has Two Mommies]]: [[The Avengers (TV series)|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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* [[Henshin Hero]]: The first [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]], 1940s.
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* [[Hook Hand]]: ''[[Peter Pan]]'', 1904
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* [[Human-to-Werewolf Footprints]]: 1941's ''The Wolf Man''
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* [[Ignore the Disability]]: 1930s, if not earlier.
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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.
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* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', 1941
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* [[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.
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* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: ''Lensman'' novels, 1937
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* [[Like You Were Dying]]: Lucy Maud Montgomery's ''The Blue Castle'', 1926
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* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Puccini's ''[[Tosca]]'', 1900, possibly older.
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* [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]: ''Metropolis'', 1927
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* [[Magic Feather]]: ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', 1900
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* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: ''The Gold Rush'', 1925
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* [[Meet Cute]]: 1930s [[Screwball Comedy|screwball comedies]]
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* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: The ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'' radio show from [[The Thirties]].
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* [[Monumental Battle]]: ''King Kong'', 1933
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* [[Monumental Damage Resistance]]: ''Deluge'', 1933
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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.
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* [[One-Letter Name]]: ''[[The Castle]]'', [[Franz Kafka]], 1926
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* [[Phony Newscast]]: ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (radio version), 1938
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* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Innumerable ''films noir'', 1940s.
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* [[Putting on the Reich]]: ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]'', 1938 - [[The Teutonic Knights]] with swastikas.
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* [[Real After All]]: ''[[Film/Miracle On 34 th Street|Miracle On 34 th Street]]'', 1947
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* [[Ret Canon]]: ''Batman'' from its radio serials in 1944.
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* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' 1903
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* [[Rule 34]]: [[wikipedia:Tijuana bible|Yeah.]]
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* [[Secret Identity]]: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1903
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* [[Shangri La]]: 1933 novel ''[[Lost Horizon (novel)|Lost Horizon]]'' by James Hilton
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* [[Stop Trick]]: ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'', 1902
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* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Sometime in the early 20th century.
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* [[Superhero]]: [[The Shadow]] comic (1931), [[Mandrake the Magician]] (1934), [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]] (1936), and [[Superman]] (1938)
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* [[Super Multi-Purpose Room]]: ''It's A Wonderful Life'', 1946
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* [[Take a Moment to Catch Your Death]]: Any hard-boiled radio drama.
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* [[Take the Wheel]]: ''[[Sherlock, Jr.]]'', 1924
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* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]: E.M. Forster's ''The Machine Stops'', 1909
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* [[Terrorists Without a Cause]]: ''[[The Secret Agent]]'', 1907
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* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]: ''[[The Greeks Had a Word for Them]]'', 1932
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* [[That Was Objectionable]]: ''Duck Soup'', 1933
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* [[The Day the Music Lied]]: ''Popeye'' cartoon films, 1933-onward.
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* [[Theme Initials]]: ''[[Superman]]'', starting from the 1940 introduction of Lex Luthor.
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* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: ''Popeye'' cartoon films, 1933-onward.
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* [[Time Stands Still]]: "The New Accelerator" by [[H. G. Wells]], 1901
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* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'', 1931
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* [[Trainstopping]]: [[Superman]] did it.
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* [[True Love's Kiss]]: ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', 1937
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: ''[[R.U.R.|RUR]]'', 1921
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* [[Uterine Replicator]]: Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel ''Brave New World''
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* [[Video Phone]]: ''[[Metropolis]]'', 1927
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* [[Video Wills]]: ''[[The Greeks Had a Word for Them]]'', 1932
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* [[The Voiceless]]: Harpo Marx
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* [[Wacky Cravings]]: Nora in ''[[The Thin Man (film)|After The Thin Man]]'', 1934
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* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]: The ''[[Land of Oz|Oz]]'' stories, from 1900
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* [[The Watson]]: Nigel Bruce's portrayal of Dr. Watson in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' films and radio dramas featuring Basil Rathbone and Bruce as Holmes and Watson.
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* [[Weird Trade Union]]: Fritz Leiber's ''[[Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser|Lankhmar]]'' stories, which he began writing in 1939, contain an Assassins' Guild and Thieves' Guild, and so on. The Lankhmar Thieves' Guild was introduced in the second story, "Thieves' House", published in 1943.
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* [[Working the Same Case]]: ''The Hardy Boys'', 1927, if not earlier
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