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Most of the time, once a trope is [[Forgotten Trope|forgotten]], it's dead and buried, fading from the memory of both
▲Most of the time, once a trope is [[Forgotten Trope|forgotten]], it's dead and buried, fading from the memory of both audience and creator; it is never to be seen again except in fossil form, or occasionally trotted out for an [[Intentional Period Piece]].
However, as [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and [[Vampire]] fans will remind us, death is not ''always'' the end.
It is possible to resurrect a [[Forgotten Trope]]. A sufficiently successful work, [[Society Marches On|Society Marching in a circle]], or some other radical change in the arts or society at large may bring a long-dead trope back to relevancy. It usually happens without fanfare or warning --
Just how successful a resurrection is may vary -- if the trope is of narrow enough scope there may not be enough works created over the long term to sustain it and it may well fade away again. But if the revived trope taps deeply enough into the new pop culture into which it's been reborn, it may find itself granted a new and long life. Only time will tell.
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* [[Boarding School]]: This trope originally died in the 1960s as private schools became seen as elite and snobbish, and their students cast as [[
* [[High Times Future]]:
* [[Rags to Riches]]: After fading away entirely by the end of the 19th Century, this trope has been pretty much rescued thanks to the advent of the lottery (the good kind, not the [[Lottery of Doom]]). There are countless [[Real Life]] examples such as [[Oprah Winfrey]] and "Dot Com" success stories that offer a [[Real Life]] [[Deconstruction]] and object lesson of sorts. Often though, there is a sour grapes [[An Aesop|Aesop]] at the end of modern versions of these tales. The newly wealthy person realizes that money has corrupted them and they give it all up to return to a simple life.
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