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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I'm hesitant to use the term ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' clone anymore, because [[Wide Open Sandbox|open world games]] are becoming so ubiquitous that the term feels hopelessly quaint, like how we used to call [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ''[[Doom]]'' clones."''|''[[
While genres can be known for a variety of works, they don't always start out that way. Usually they start out as loads of obvious [[Follow the Leader]] copies of a [[Genre Busting]] or making work, or a [[Genre Popularizer]] for a genre so small that [[Gateway Series|this is the first time the mainstream has heard of it]]. Eventually all the followers stop being that, and start having loads of works that stand on their own. '''This is the point that you don't just have a bunch of clones, you have a full genre.'''
This doesn't always happen, though. Kart-racing [[Video Games]] have yet to go past just being ''[[
The opposite is [[Genre Killer]].
{{examples|Examples (
* The [[Cyberpunk]] and by extension all other [[Punk Punk]] Genres were all started by [[
* As in the quote, the [[First-Person Shooter]] started out with the template [[Trope Codifier|codified]] by ''[[Doom]]'', to the point that those that came after were commonly called "''Doom'' clones." The turning points are largely accepted to be the first ''[[
* The [[Fighting Game]] was popularized by ''[[
** One could argue that the emergence of ''Tekken'' and the Soul series merely split the genre into subsets: 2-D fighters and 3-D fighters.
* Now aside from [[Western RPG
* Originally, [[Real Robot]] shows were ''[[Gundam]]'' clones. Then came ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', which took the genre [[Trope Codifier|into more or less what we know today]], and finally things like ''[[Patlabor]]'' and ''[[Armored Trooper VOTOMS]]'' that went [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|for the very top of the hardness scale]].
* The [[Abridged Series]] genre was started by Little Kuriboh's ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* The ''[[Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]]'' genre began as a custom map for ''[[
* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' franchise spawned craze in Japan for anything with collectable monsters, that would later be immitated by series such as ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' (via the ''Dragon Quest Monsters'' series) and ''[[Telefang]]'' (which overseas was ironically sold as a bootleg ''Pokemon'' game, after being poorly translated). The collectable monster concept proved successful as a card game as well, when the Pokemon card game was released. This success would lead to ''Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters'' becoming extremely successful. The success of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' lead to imitators trying to get on the bandwagon of making a show about a game, so that kids will want to buy the real version. With so many shows like this out there nowadays, such as ''[[Duel Masters]]'', ''[[Beyblade]]'', ''Battle B-Daman'', ''[[Medabots]]'', ''[[Bakugan]]'', and ''[[Chaotic]]'' just to name a few, one could say that "Card Game Animes" have become a genre. They all feature a tournament arc, talking about what the game is "truly about", and posing dramatically while playing the game.
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