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{{meta-trope}}
A [[Trope Maker]] is the first unambiguous example of a particular trope. Though there may have been [[Ur Example|similar things in the past]], these are the works that defined their respective tropes.
See also [[Trope Codifier]], which is the example of a trope that defines all other uses. If a [[Trope Codifier]] is very different in outlook than the [[Trope Maker]], then the [[Trope Maker]] worked on an [[Unbuilt Trope]].
And, of course, don't confuse with [[Ur Example]]
To provide a concrete example of all three, the [[Detective Story]]'s [[Trope Maker]] is [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s Dupin stories, and [[Sherlock Holmes]] is the [[Trope Codifier]]; but the [[Ur Example]] may well be [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Three_Apples "The Tale Of the Three Apples"] in ''[[
Related: [[Trope Namer]].
''If you make an entry here, expect some [[Older Than They Think|heavy challenges]].''
{{examples}}
* ''[[Astro Boy]]''
== Theatre ==▼
* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' -- [[In the Name of
* [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|William Shakespeare]] -- See [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples]], [[Shout Out to Shakespeare]].▼
* ''[[
* ''[[Orfeo]]'' sought to revive Greek theater, in which music played an equally important role to the drama. Although it failed in this regard, it created the notion of a "drama set within music"; inventing opera and all other musical theater. Curiously, ''Orfeo'' is the name of both the [[Ur Example]] and the [[Trope Codifier]]: two separate works written by separate composers.▼
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Astro Boy]]'' -- The first modern anime to make its way to the United States, it also included the first [[Anime Theme Song]]. It was a creation of [[Osamu Tezuka]], who also defined the style of manga and anime for decades with it and other works.
▲* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' -- [[In the Name of The Moon|Pre-battle speeches]], naked [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]], [[Mono-Gender Monsters|female]] [[Monster of the Week|monsters of the week]], and several other [[Magical Girl Warrior]] tropes owe their existence to her.
▲* ''[[Dragonball]]'': -- Made [[Shonen]] anime big in the Western world and probably made most of the tropes it named.
▲* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' -- Made and codified several shonen tropes as well as [[Manly Tears]].
▲* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' -- The first [[Humongous Mecha]] to be piloted by a human, which is why they made a point to show Koji coming out of the robot in the intro. the first [[Super Robot]] to [[Rocket Punch|launch its fists]] at enemies.
▲* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' -- Often considered the first [[Real Robot]] show, as it was the first to portray the robots as common military equipment. Later series took this idea further, however (see below). It was also an early anime adopter of [[Anyone Can Die]].
* ''[[Princess Knight]]'' - One of the first [[Shoujo]] series.
* ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' - Was the first to combine the classic [[Magical Girl]] genre with sentai and superhero themes (both by the same author and in-continuity with each other, ''Sailor V'' came first, but was developed in parallel with ''Sailor Moon'', the later becoming better known).
* ''[[
* ''Mazinger Z'', ''Gatchaman'', and ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' - The first epic [[Space Opera]].
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Superman]]'' - There's a reason they're called [[Trope Namer|Super Heroes.]]
* ''[[Watchmen]]''
* ''[[Peanuts|Franklin]]'' - [[Black Best Friend]].
== Film ==
* '' Sallie Gardner at a Gallop''
* ''The Sneeze''
* ''[[
* ''[[Equilibrium]]'' -- [[Gun Kata]].
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Jaws (
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' (and by extension, [[Pixar]] themselves) -- Bringing the [[All CGI Cartoon]] to the big screen.
* ''[[Scanners]]''
* ''[[Cat People (
* ''[[Intolerance]]''
* ''[[Birth of a Nation]]'' created the modern Hollywood movie as it stands today.
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' -- [[The Tokyo Fireball]] was created by, and is a staple of, everybody's favorite giant radioactive lizard. He also invented kaiju and tokusatsu!
* ''[[Bullitt]]'' -- [[Cowboy Cop]]. [[Unbuilt Trope|Unbuilt]] as his behavior royally screws up the case.
* ''[[Superman]]''
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''
* ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]''
* Although it is difficult to determine for sure, the first entertainment on moving film appears to have been the 1895 short ''L'Arroseur arrose'', viewable [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724021600/http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm here]. This is the first time in film a 'script' was used rather than simply filming everyday life like boxing matches, cock fights, or people leaving a factory after a long day of work. It's an old gag of standing on a hose to stop the water, waiting for the guy to look into the hose to find the problem, and releasing the pressure on the line to squirt the man in the face. It's film being used for the first time to tell a story.
* Akira Kurosawa made everything we know about [[Chanbara]].
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
* 12AngryMen - [[Rogue Juror]]
* ''[[The Kid]]'' - First film [[Dramedy]].
* ''[[Snow White and
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' - [[Dinosaur Doggie Bone]].
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== Literature ==
* ''[[
* [[
** ''[[
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''
* [[
* Pulp
* [[
* [[Jules Verne]]'s ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' is considered the first sci-fi story.
* ''[[Dune]]'' took [[Used Future]] to the logical extreme and has been copied countless times.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* [[
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''
* Nick Carter created the a boy sidekick, and the [[Rogues Gallery]].
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Lensman]]''
* ''Vernor Vinge''
* ''[[
* [[Isaac Asimov]]
* [[
** ''[[
* [[
* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]''
* [[L.
* The works of [[William Gibson]]: Acknowledged as the father of [[Cyberpunk]] and many related tropes.
* [[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]] is this for the [[Dystopia]].
* Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's ''In a Glass Darkly'' (1872) had the first [[Occult Detective]] with Dr. Martin Hesselius, and also created the [[Lesbian Vampire]] with ''[[
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]''
** ''Pete & Pete'' is more or less tied as the Trope Maker with ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'', which started around the same time. However, since ''Larry'' was not only broadcast on a cable channel but [[HBO|one you had to pay extra for]], that meant that ''fewer'' people outside of its small cult audience were likely aware of the shared innovations of ''Sanders''.
** You're probably asking yourself "but what about ''[[M*A*S*H (
* ''[[wikipedia:An American Family|An American Family]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'' laid the groundwork for similar fantasy, [[Monster of the Week]] shows such as ''[[
* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]''. Before it there were afterschool specials populated with one-shot characters, there were ensemble dramas with teenage characters and there were teen [[
* ''[[wikipedia:The French Chef|The French Chef]]'' with [[wikipedia:Julia Child|Julia Child]] was the first nationwide [[Cooking Show]] and Child was the world's first actual "celebrity chef", predating Britain's Graham Kerr by a decade.
* ''[[Good Times]]''
* ''[[Guiding Light]]''
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]''
* ''[[Lizzie
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
* ''[[My So-Called Life]]''
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]''
* ''[[wikipedia:Talk Soup|Talk Soup]]''
* ''[[Wide World of Sports]]''
* ''[[Password]]'' — First game show to have a definitive [[Bonus Round]]
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* Bill Monroe created bluegrass.
* Ougenweide created Medieval Rock/Metal music by combining medieval texts and melodies with modern Rock and Hard Rock.
* [[The Beatles (
** With Richard Lester, they made the first music videos with the films ''[[A Hard
* [[
** Despite there being one before it (by the same group, no less), ''[[Tommy]]'' by [[The Who]] is the
** Additionally, [[
* [[
* ...
** [[
* Credit Prog Rock to [[
** [[
** Procol Harum may also have created [[Epic Rocking]]. Some might also name [[
* [[
* Black Sabbath, the first band to use detuned guitar in a metal context, although they are more of the trope codifiers, because they took disparate elements (dark lyrical themes, riff and guitar-driven music, heavy distortion, drug abuse, and tough attitude) and put them together to create what's known today as "heavy metal".
* Iron Maiden and Judas Priest first blended hard rock with heavy metal.
* Pink Floyd established progressive rock as psychedelic.
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* On a more limited level The [[Velvet Underground]] more or less invented the [[Obligatory Bondage Song]] with "Venus in Furs" (on their debut album ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'').
** Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist, [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "[[The Masochism Tango]]" is an [[Unbuilt Trope]] version.
* [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] was the first [[Synth Pop]] band. While [[
* Lïkë [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Ümläüts]]? Thänk [[Blue
* [[
* [[My Bloody Valentine (
* Skream popularized dubstep with what is believed to be the first proper dubstep song called midnight request [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pTSGvp7T8 line ]
* Metallica's "Kill 'em All" (specifically "Hit the Lights" the first recorded song from the album, released for the compilation album "Metal Massacre" in 1982) is usually cited as Thrash Metal's Trope Maker, but some give that honor to Venom's "Welcome to Hell," and dub Metallica the [[Trope Codifier]].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]''
* ''[[Yellow Kid]]''
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Kriegspiel]]'' was the first war game, created by a German nobleman to train his generals in military strategy. The name means "wargame."
* ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' was the first major horror RPG, and is the acknowledged Trope Maker of the [[Sanity Meter]], a variation of which can be found in almost all horror RPGs that followed it (e.g. Humanity in ''[[
* It's a rare [[Card Games|collectible card game]] that owes nothing at all to ''[[Magic:
▲== Theatre ==
▲* [[
▲* ''[[Orfeo]]'' sought to revive Greek theater, in which music played an equally important role to the drama. Although it failed in this regard, it created the notion of a "drama set within music"; inventing opera and all other musical theater. Curiously, ''Orfeo'' is the name of both the [[Ur Example]] and the [[Trope Codifier]]: two separate works written by separate composers.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Adventure (
* ''[[Body Harvest]]''
* ''[[Boiling Point: Road to Hell]]'' -- [[Wide Open Sandbox|Open-world]] [[First-Person Shooter|first-person shooters.]]
* ''[[Cabal]]''
* ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]''
* ''[[Colossal Cave]]''
* ''[[Columns]]'' -- [[Match Three Game]]
* ''[[Doom]]'' created many tropes of the [[Space Marine]] genre.
* ''[[Dragon Quest]]''
* ''[[Elite]]''
* ''Stonkers'',<ref>Added point-n-click interface, as well as the real-time action</ref>
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]''
* ''[[Half Life]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]''
* ''[[Halo]]''
** Ironically, saying that Halo is a [[Trope Maker]] and/or a [[Trope Codifier]] in anything can cause massive [[Internet Backdraft]] in any [[Console Wars]] threads. Although these days saying that any [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|popular title created or popularized a good trope]] can cause massive rage, this itself is an unfortunate [[Trope Maker]] for Halo.
* ''I, Robot''
* ''[[Kana
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''
** Also one of the first and most well known open-world games.
** Trope maker for games having secrets and sidequests.
* ''[[Marathon
* ''[[Metroid]]''
* ''[[Modem Wars]]'' was the first networked multiplayer game.
* ''[[Myst]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Pitfall]]''
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
* ''[[Pong]]''
* ''[[Rogue (
* ''[[Kunio
* ''[[R-Type]]''
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]''
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''
** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'' was also revolutionary in its handling of apocalyptic disasters, angels, gods, demons, balance of power and morality in the face of [[The End of the World
* ''[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''
* ''[[Space Invaders]]''
* ''[[Space War]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]].''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]''
* ''[[Ultima]]''
** The series did, although the specific games mentioned here would be [[Ultima I]]: The First Age of Darkness, [[Ultima Underworld]]: The Stygian Abyss, and [[Ultima Online]].
* ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' -- One of the first and longest-running webcomics; the first and best example of [[Planet Eris]] and [[Cerebus Syndrome]].▼
* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' -- If not the first [[Two Gamers On a Couch]] gaming [[Web Comic]], then one of the mainstays. Almost all other gaming webcomics can claim to have been inspired by ''Penny Arcade'' and its format in some way.▼
== Web Comics ==
▲* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
▲* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]''
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* [[Red vs. Blue]], the first modern Machinima.
* [[Wikipedia]] is an encyclopedia, and so influential that [[The Wiki Rule|few wikis exist that aren't, functionally, specialized encyclopedias]] rather than, say, community projects or collections of cross-referenced essays. The most obvious counterexample, [[
* THE WORK, WHICH BECOMES A NEW GENRE ITSELF, WILL BE CALLED......... ''[[AMV Hell
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Beatles (
* ''[[The Flintstones]]''
* ''[[Winky Dink]] and You''
* ''[[Steamboat Willie]]''
* Short theatrical animation such as [[Classic Disney Shorts]], ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and [[Fleischer Studios]] shorts created countless animation tropes, so many that this entire page could be filled with nothing but examples of this.
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''
* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]''
* ''[[Popeye]]'' -- [[Power-Up Food]]. He also may be an [[Ur Example]] of the modern [[Superhero]], in a way.
* ''[[Daffy Duck]]''
* ''[[Donald Duck]]'' - First clear example of a [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|morally ambiguous duck]].
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