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Generally, there's a [[Trope Life Cycle|standard progression]] as a trope ages. First, it is born. Once it's become established enough, [[Parody|parodies]] and [[Subverted Trope|subversions]] start to crop up. Through overuse, it ends up eventually becoming a [[Discredited Trope]], and subversions might be common enough to be straight examples of new tropes, making it a [[Dead Horse Trope]]. Or it could just be [[Forgotten Trope|forgotten completely.]]
Sometimes, however, tropes just don't want to die, and the progression skips a step. Subversions are common enough to be their own tropes, yet the original trope, even if it's the [[The Oldest Ones in the Book|Oldest One In The Book]], is still in active use and isn't even (universally -- opinions vary) seen as cliched or corny. It would be a [[Dead Horse Trope]], except it isn't actually dead. It's Undead.
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