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* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
** The comic magazine itself was the first of its kind for DC Thomson, so most of the comics it created after it and ''[[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]]'' were shallow imitators.
** ''Jimmy and His Magic Patch'' became a nickname for mismatched cloth patches on repaired outfits.
** Lord Snooty became a slanderous nickname for a middle-to-upper-class person trying to relate to poorer people, and failing. Ironically, Snooty himself didn't befriend the children as Ash Can alley for a PR stunt, but because he could be himself outside of his royal duties and envied their lack of responsibility. It makes one wonder if the inventor(s) of the nickname understood the source material...
** Although he may not have been the [[Trope Maker]] of [[The Kid with the Remote Control]], General Jumbo may have become an [[expy]] of this trope for British comics.
* [[Menace Decay]]: Some fans consider the Dennis the Menace reboot in 2009 when the new TV series began to air on [[CBBC]] turned the character from a menace into just a generic kid.
** Dennis' change in character might be justified in-universe by him being a different kid: a 2015 strip revealed that Dennis's Dad was the Dennis the Menace of the 1980s, but it didn't say when the stories "switched" from the older to younger Dennis.
* [[Misblamed]]: Whenever a major narrative revamp happens to the comic, older/former readers complain [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]], but revamps sometimes occur because of the readers' diverse opinions or waning interests.
** A common complaint from adults who used to read the stories in the mid-20th century is the misbehaving characters abandoning pea-shooters and slingshots, even though toys of those kinds might've been banned for health and safety reasons sometime later.<ref>Interestingly, 2019's issue 4000 showed the characters using said pea-shooters and slingshots against evil robots.</ref>
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