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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.
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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 ''[[Arabian Nights|1001 Nights (The Arabian Nights)]]''.
Related: [[Trope Namer]].
''If you make an entry here, expect some [[Older Than They Think|heavy challenges]].''
{{examples}}
== Anime
* ''[[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]]s, [[Mono-Gender Monsters|female]] [[Monster of the Week|monsters of the week]], and several other [[Magical Girl Warrior]] tropes owe their existence to her.
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* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' - The first epic [[Space Opera]].
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''—It popularized the [[Transforming Mecha]] genre; also sometimes considered to be the first "true" [[Real Robot]] show, as every mecha was mass-produced, and not a hint of "prototypes" being the focus. Also, [[Macross Missile Massacre]].
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Seven Samurai]]''—Contained a lot of film firsts, such as recruiting a group of quirky heroes to achieve a goal and introducing the main protagonist in a way unrelated to the plot. Sometimes is considered to be the first modern action movie or first modern epic movie.
* ''[[Since You Went Away]]''—First use of the [[Train Station Goodbye]].
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' (and by extension, [[Pixar]] themselves) -- Bringing the [[All CGI Cartoon]] to the big screen.
* ''[[Scanners]]''—Created the [[Psychic Nosebleed]] and [[Your Head Asplode]] as part of its [[Body Horror]] take on [[Psychic Powers]].
* ''[[Cat People (film)|Cat People]]'' -- [[Cat Scare]]. But despite the name, they used a bus.
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* ''[[Blade Runner]]''—Invented cyberpunk in film, along with [[Neuromancer|Gibson]].
* ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]''—The first Western.
* 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]]''—One of first movies to utilize the [[Used Future]] in film and popularized the [[Space Western]]. Along with ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'', it also effectively created the concept of the [[Summer Blockbuster]].
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** Additionally, [[The Who]][[X Meets Y|+]][[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]=[[Power Pop]].
* [[The Yardbirds]] are practically a who's-who of blues-rock guitarists (at different times, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page numbered amongst their members). They popularized riff-driven songs and pioneered the use of fuzz, distortion, feedback and innovative recording techniques. And evolved into...
* ...
** [[Blue Cheer]] really need to get the credit for creating heavy metal the way the early bands played it. Their influence was heavily evident in the most popular of the early metal bands, [[Black Sabbath]], [[Grand Funk Railroad]], and [[Iron Butterfly]]. That influence extended through [[Motorhead]] and [[Venom (band)|Venom]].
* Credit Prog Rock to [[King Crimson]], [[Yes]], [[Procol Harum]] and [[The Moody Blues]].
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* [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] was the first [[Synth Pop]] band. While [[Kraftwerk]] was the first to do live performances of electronic music, YMO was the first to do it without playing up the instruments' novelty.
* Lïkë [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Ümläüts]]? Thänk [[Blue Öyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]].
* [[Dream Theater]] and [[
* [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]]. [[Shoegazing]]. Nuff said.
* 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]] ==
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== 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 ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Madness Meters of ''[[Unknown Armies]]'', etc, etc). As with ''[[Dungeons
* It's a rare [[Card Games|collectible card game]] that owes nothing at all to ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. It could be argued that there's no such thing, since Richard Garfield essentially invented the ''idea'' of a game with collectible pieces.
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* ''[[Myst]]''—Launched the [[Beautiful Void]] subgenre, and popularized [[Scenery Porn]] in PC games.
* ''[[Pac-Man]]''—The first [[Maze Game]].
* ''[[Pitfall]]''—Did the [[Platformer]] thing years before [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]''—Defined and is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Gotta Catch Them All]], while it's also responsible for the "mon" craze in general. See [[Trope Codifier]].
* ''[[Pong]]''—The first successful [[Arcade Game]], and the first home [[Videogame Systems|Video Game System]], laying out many of the basics.
* ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]''—Y'see, there's this type of game called a [[Roguelike]]... Also called "dungeon-crawlers".
* ''[[Kunio
* ''[[R-Type]]''—Introduced the idea of a formal system of powerups each of which did a specific thing (as opposed to the ''Gradius'' system of using powerups as currency). Introduced the idea of a controllable [[Attack Drone]], and the [[Reflecting Laser]], [[Charged Attack]] and [[Battleship Raid]] tropes.
* ''[[Scorched Earth]]''—Turn-based Artillery.
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]''—Created the [[Mons]] RPG sub-genre. Its source material, ''[[Digital Devil Story]]'', is a brutal [[Deconstruction]] of the genre, making it [[Unbuilt Trope|unbuilt]].
** ''[[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 as We Know It]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''—Pioneered the [[Mascot with Attitude]].
* ''[[Space Invaders]]''—Created the [[Shoot'Em Up]] genre.
* ''[[Space War]]''—The first real [[Video Game]]!
* ''[[Street Fighter II]]''—Created the idea of a gallery of fighters from which you could pick and fight against. Also, stages.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]].''—More or less ''[[Trope Codifier|defined]]'' the [[Platformer]] genre.
* ''[[Super Mario 64]]''—Did what ''Super Mario Bros.'' did... [[In Space|In 3D]], thereby creating the 3D platformer.
* ''[[Tetris]]''—Truly popularised the [[Puzzle Game]]. A good majority of puzzle games are Tetris-like.
* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]''—Created the modern [[Dating Sim]] genre, especially of the non-H type, and pionnered many Romance and [[Unwanted Harem]] tropes in Japanese sub-culture such as [[Anime]].
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]''—Created many of the tropes of 3D [[Action Adventure]] games.
* ''[[Ultima]]''—Created the [[RPG]], [[First-Person Shooter]] and [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] genres.
** 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]]''—The first successful 3D [[Fighting Game]], and one of the first to use more realistic fighting styles as opposed to [[Ki Attacks]] and projectiles.
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''—One of the first and longest-running webcomics; the first and best example of [[Planet Eris]] and [[Cerebus Syndrome]].
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|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 Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''—the [[Ur Example|Ur-]][[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]]''
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