Outgrow the Trope: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[Overused Running Gag]], which may push an author to "outgrow" it as well.

 

* ''[[Naruto]]'''s [[Verbal Tic]] '-dattebayo' never petered out in the Japanese version of the show; however, his equivalent catch phrase, 'believe it,' in the English dub lasted for about the first two seasons.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' left [[Monster of the Week]] for [[Mind Screw|Angstier]] [[Mind Rape|pastures]].

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' pulled an Evangelion intentionally, abandoning handsome dude from the academy who wants to engage Anthy the rose bride . . . of the week.

 

* Many [[DC Comics]] had quite a bit of Americanitis and [[America Saves the Day]]-esque plots this ended after the comics becamse much more sophisticated and the cold war was no longer a factor.

* ''[[The Sandman]]'' from straightish DCU-based [[Horror Tropes]], to everything in the kitchen-sink-genre [[Mythopoeia]] starting with ''The Sound of Her Wings'' and rapidly moving along into [[Genre Busting]] after that. [[Neil Gaiman]]: what more do you need to say?

* Less of an example of outgrowing a trope and more of perfecting upon it: [[Superman]]'s [[Clark Kenting]] elements have drastically improved, starting in the 1970s within the comics and movies. The actual [[Clark Kenting]] page delves more into this, but in recent times the [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] Supes dons as Clark is actually [[Justified Trope|justified]].

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]'':

** [[Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series]] used [[Multinational Team]] in order to present a unified international unit working together for the benefit of all humanity, something that was a pipe dream in the [[Cold War]] 1960s. As the [[Cold War]] wound down and the idea had more acceptance, later series barely touched on the ethnicities or homelands of the human members of the crew.