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And, of course, don't confuse with [[Ur Example]] -- the—the earliest example that has the essence of the trope, but may not have the actual connotations and may be missing details. However, it's the Trope Maker which starts the consistent enough pattern to be called a trope.

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 ''[[One Thousand and OneArabian Nights (Literature)|1001 Nights (The Arabian Nights)]]''.

Related: [[Trope Namer]].

* ''[[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).

* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]'' - The origin of the formal [[Five-Man Band]] concept, which predates even [[Super Sentai]].

* ''Mazinger Z'', ''Gatchaman'', and ''[[Getter Robo (Manga)|Getter Robo]]'' are the three candidates for first [[Combining Mecha]]. Mazinger is the weakest of these because while it is two entities coming together to form a whole, there's only one pilot and robot.

* ''[[Raideen (Anime)|Raideen]]'' -- First—First [[Transforming Mecha]].

* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' -- It—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]].

* ''[[Watchmen]]'' -- Despite—Despite being one of the most beloved comics around, you can blame this for heralding the [[Darker and Edgier|Dark Age of Comics]].

* '' Sallie Gardner at a Gallop'' -- Depending—Depending on how exactly we choose to define "film", this might be the very first, produced in 1878. ''Roundhay Garden Scene'' from 1888 would then be the oldest '''surviving''' film.

* ''The Sneeze'' -- The—The first thing ever to be caught on actual film (as opposed to paper, like earlier experiments were).

* ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Film)|The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' -- [[Circus of Fear]], [[Looks Like Cesare]], [[Cuckoos Nest]], [[Twist Ending]].

* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' -- Generally—Generally considered the first [[Film Noir]].

* ''[[ItsIt's a Wonderful Life]]'' -- First—First example of [[It's a Wonderful Plot]], for which it also is the [[Trope Namer]].

* ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' was the first wide-release film, opening in hundreds of theaters at once instead of a gradual release with the movie travelling from town to town. As a result, it was the first [[Summer Blockbuster]].

* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' -- Contained—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 (Film)|Since You Went Away]]'' -- First—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—Created the [[Psychic Nosebleed]] and [[Your Head Asplode]] as part of its [[Body Horror]] take on [[Psychic Powers]].

* ''[[Cat People (Filmfilm)|Cat People]]'' -- [[Cat Scare]]. But despite the name, they used a bus.

* ''[[Intolerance]]'' -- Generally—Generally considered to be the first epic movie.

* ''[[Superman]]'' -- Not—Not the first [[Superhero Movie]] by any means, but it was the first true [[Summer Blockbuster]] to feature a comic-book hero as its lead.

* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' -- Invented—Invented cyberpunk in film, along with [[Neuromancer|Gibson]].

* ''[[The Great Train Robbery]]'' -- The—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.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' -- One—One of first movies to utilize the [[Used Future]] in film and popularized the [[Space Western]]. Along with ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'', it also effectively created the concept of the [[Summer Blockbuster]].

* ''[[Snow White and Thethe Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' was the first full-length animated film.

* ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh (Literature)|The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'' -- [[Older Than Dirt|One of the earliest known written stories.]] If there's a written story that was written before it, we don't know about it.

* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] --

** ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (Literaturenovel)|The Hobbit]]'' -- Created—Created the [[High Fantasy]] genre. He's the reason [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]], and kicked off (well, codified) the whole [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] thing.

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Heroic Fantasy]] genre, especially its [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Low Fantasy|variants]]. Arguably has a basis in [[Super Strength|Samson]] from [[The Bible]].

* [[Edgar Allan Poe (Creator)|Edgar Allan Poe]] -- Normally—Normally known as a horror writer, he also invented the modern detective story and modern science fiction.

* Pulp Magazines -- CreatedMagazines—Created [[Weird Science]]

* [[HG Wells|H. G. Wells]] -- One—One of the earliest science fiction writers, many science fiction tropes originated in his novels and short stories. First [[War of the Worlds|large-scale alien invasion]] in literature.

* [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]] -- Created—Created [[Cosmic Horror Story|Lovecraftian horror]], although there are a few [[Ur Example|Ur Examples]]s.

* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literaturenovel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' -- The—The familiar strapped-into-a-chair-with-your-eyelids-taped-open method of [[Brainwashed|Brainwashing]].

* [[ChildhoodsChildhood's End]] made the [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]] trope.

* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' -- Arguably—Arguably created the first Supervillain [[Big Bad]], Professor Moriarty, and the [[Sherlock Scan]].

* ''[[The Leatherstocking Tales (Literature)|The Leatherstocking Tales]]'' -- James—James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye was the trope maker for [[The Gunslinger]] and the romantic concept of the [[Wild West|American Frontier]]. Trope codifier, not the trope maker, for the concept of the [[Noble Savage]] / [[Magical Native American]].

* ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'' -- Made—Made many Spanish tropes. The first [[Deconstruction]], many critics consider it the first modern novel too, because it wasn't about ponies and princesses and was written by a commoner, not a nobleman.

* ''[[Lensman]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Space Opera]] genre.

* ''Vernor Vinge'' -- Invented—Invented computer-networking-as-virtual-reality (later [[Trope Codifier|codified]] by [[Neuromancer|Gibson]].)

* ''[[Varney the Vampire (Literature)|Varney the Vampire]]''. It introduced most of the modern vampire concepts like hypnotic ability, super strength, puncture wounds from fang bites, and going crazy if a long time pass without feeding. Also a reluctant one. Stoker was inspired quite a bit by it.

* [[Isaac Asimov]] -- Most—Most science fiction in the past 50 years, particularly the robot subgenre, owes a lot to Asimov. Even [[Star Wars]] is based on ''[[Foundation]]''.

* [[Mark Twain (Creator)|Mark Twain]] -- Can—Can be argued that he was the first ''true'' American novelist in style, though not the first American-born writer (i.e. Henry James, Washington Irving, [[Edgar Allan Poe]]), but his style was much less dependent on the European style of writing. He can be counted as both a [[Trope Maker]] and [[Trope Codifier]] of American literature

** ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Literature)|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' -- Made—Made multi-ethnic protagonist teams okay, particularly the source of [[Black Best Friend]]. Remember, this was written not too long after the Civil War, with racism still heavy in the United States.

* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs (Creator)|Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'', along with his Venus books, defined [[Planetary Romance]].

* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Jury of the Damned]].

* [[L. Frank Baum (Creator)|L Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' - Kicked off the whole Worldbuilding thing.

* [[Friedrich Nietzsche (Creator)|Friedrich Nietzsche]]'s ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' arguably created the [[Monster Clown]] with the evil-and-murderous-yet-holier-than-thou jester-man, No-Name-the-Clown.

* ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]'' by Chaucer is recognized as one of the first uses of satire and sarcasm.

* ''[[Beowulf (Literature)|Beowulf]]'' -- Defined—Defined the hero's journey for every protagonist from Middle-English on.

* 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 ''[[Carmilla (Literature)|Carmilla]]'', one of the segments of ''In a Glass Darkly''.

* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'' -- among—among the first of many American sitcoms to feature all of the following things: on location production, lack of a laugh track and the single camera setup. The fact that it was a children's show on a [[Nickelodeon|cable network]] meant that most were unaware of this new style of sitcom until ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'' (the [[Trope Codifier]]) helped popularize it in the late 1990's.

** You're probably asking yourself "but what about ''[[M*A*S*H (TVtelevision)|Mash]]''?", well, [[Ur Example|that's a different trope]] altogether (and it also drastically predates all other shows with this style by ''decades'', it being very ahead of its time in that respect).

* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family:An American Family|An American Family]]'' -- The—The first contemporary [[Reality TV]] program.

* ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'' was said to have inspired the first [[Magical Girl]] anime.

* ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'' laid the groundwork for similar fantasy, [[Monster of the Week]] shows such as ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' and ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''.

* ''[[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 [[Sit Com|sitcomssitcom]]s, but it was the first [[Teen Drama]].

* ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Chef:The French Chef|The French Chef]]'' with [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child: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]]'' -- Wilona—Wilona Woods was ''the'' [[Sassy Black Woman]] and the [[Drop in-In Character]].

* ''[[Guiding Light]]'' -- The—The world's first [[Soap Opera]], originating in 1937 on CBS Radio and making the move to TV in 1952. It finally ceased production in 2009.

* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' -- The—The first syndicated [[Sit ComSitcom]]. Almost every single "wacky" sitcom situation that you can think of was either born on this show or at least popularized by it.

* ''[[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]]'' -- paved—paved the roads of every [[Disney Channel]] sitcom post-2000s with its format.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' -- Changed—Changed the word "Kafkaesque" to "Pythonesque"; made "surrealism", "sex jokes" and "British comedy" go hand in hand from then on. ''The'' quintessential British comedy around the world.

* ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' -- One—One of the first modern dramas on TV.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' -- Believe—Believe it or not, technically it was the first [[Space Western]], as that's how Gene Roddenberry pitched it. Popularized [[Space Opera]] and created [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|quite]] [[Spock Speak|a few]] [[Red Shirt|tropes]] [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|of its own.]]

* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]'' -- This—This nearly forgotten series was TV's first [[Genre Anthology]].

* ''[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_SoupTalk Soup|Talk Soup]]'' -- Started—Started the snarky pop culture daily (at the time)/weekly clip show. First aired in 1991, ended in 2002. Revived in 2004 as ''[[The Soup]]'', spun off ''The Dish'', ''Sports Soup'' and ''Web Soup''. It has imitators in ''Infomania'' and ''Tosh.0''

* ''[[Wide World of Sports]]'' -- Invented—Invented the Sports Anthology genre. The sports nets like ESPN wouldn't exist without it.

* [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]], with almost every subgenre of rock music after them. Musicologically speaking, in this day and age, to say a certain rock band is "Beatles-like" is redundant.

** With Richard Lester, they made the first music videos with the films ''[[A Hard DaysDay's Night]]'' and ''[[Help!]]'' and with their promos for ''Rain'' and ''Paperback Writer''. [[MTV]] credited Dick Lester as the father of music videos. His response was [[Deadpan Snarker|asking for a blood test]].

* [[The Who (Music)|The Who]] directly created [[Punk Rock]], and also innovated in hard rock. Along with [[Led Zeppelin]], made heavier rock and metal as we know it.

** Despite there being one before it (by the same group, no less), ''[[Tommy]]'' by [[The Who]] is the first--isfirst—is ''the'' rock opera. (Well, okay, [[The Who]] had done two other things before which you might call rock operas--"A Quick One, While He's Away", "Rael"--but—but the former was a track long and the latter two tracks so neither counts.)

** Additionally, [[The Who (Music)|The Who]][[X Meets Y|+]][[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]]=[[Power Pop]].

* [[The Yardbirds (Music)|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...

* ...Music/LedZeppelin[[Led Zeppelin]], who created heavy metal, along with [[Heavy Mithril]], and Viking Metal.

** [[Blue Cheer (Music)|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 (Music)|Black Sabbath]], [[Grand Funk Railroad]], and [[Iron Butterfly]]. That influence extended through [[Motorhead (Music)|Motorhead]] and [[Venom (Musicband)|Venom]].

* Credit Prog Rock to [[King Crimson (Music)|King Crimson]], [[Yes (Music)|Yes]], [[Procol Harum]] and [[The Moody Blues (Music)|The Moody Blues]].

** [[The Moody Blues (Music)|The Moody Blues]] also invented symphonic rock.

** Procol Harum may also have created [[Epic Rocking]]. Some might also name [[Frank Zappa (Music)|Frank Zappa]] or [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] for creating prog.

* [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]], the first band to really experiment with electronic music.

* 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".

* [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] was the first [[Synth Pop]] band. While [[Kraftwerk (Music)|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 OysterÖyster Cult (Music)|Blue Oyster Cult]].

* [[Dream Theater (Music)|Dream Theater]] and [[QueensrycheQueensrÿche]] are generally considered the first two [[Progressive Metal]] bands.

* [[My Bloody Valentine (Musicband)|My Bloody Valentine]]. [[Shoegazing]]. Nuff said.

* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' -- Has—Has been called the first [[Police Procedural]], originator of the [[Death Trap]] and the [[Rogues Gallery]].

* ''[[Yellow Kid]]'' -- The—The first modern newspaper comic, introducing modern speech balloons.

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' -- In—In fact, many video game ideas ultimately came from here, as ''Ultima'' and ''Rogue'' drew heavily from D&D and went on to influence every computer/video RPG that came later.

* ''[[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 (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Madness Meters of ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'', etc, etc). As with ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', this aspect is often copied in video games as well as tabletops.

* It's a rare [[Card Games|collectible card game]] that owes nothing at all to ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]''. It could be argued that there's no such thing, since Richard Garfield essentially invented the ''idea'' of a game with collectible pieces.

* ''[[Adventure (Video1979 Gamevideo game)|Adventure]]'' -- Created—Created the console [[Action Adventure]] genre, and the first [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.

* ''[[Body Harvest]]'' -- The—The first 3D GTA-like. The game was made by the company who became Rockstar and introduced many of the ideas which would be fine-tuned in their next game, ''Grand Theft Auto III''.

* ''[[Boiling Point: Road to Hell]]'' -- [[Wide Open Sandbox|Open-world]] [[First-Person Shooter|first-person shooters.]]

* ''[[Cabal]]''-- A—A shooting game that spawned a lot of clones such as ''Blood Bros'' and ''[[Wild Guns (Video Game)|Wild Guns]]''.

* ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'' -- First—First [[Stealth Based Game]]

* ''[[Colossal Cave]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Interactive Fiction]]/[[Adventure Game]] genre (it's even the [[Trope Namer]] on the latter).

* ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Eastern RPG]] genre.

* ''[[Elite]]'' -- Credited—Credited as being the first truly open-ended videogame, as well as being the first truly 3D game for home computers.

* ''Stonkers'',<ref>Added point-n-click interface, as well as the real-time action</ref>, ''Nether Earth''<ref>Added unit production, ability to capture or destroy buildings and resources management</ref> and ''Ancient Art Of War''<ref>From sci-fi to the historical setting, as well as deeper abilitites to manipulate the resources</ref> -- Co—Co-makers of the [[Real Time Strategy]] genre, despite how little-known they were compared to the latter ''[[Dune II]]'' (which was mistakenly considered as a [[Trope Maker]] of the genre, rather than being [[Trope Codifier]]/[[Genre Popularizer]]).

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' -- Pioneered—Pioneered many [[RPG]] tropes.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' -- Introduced—Introduced the modern trend of heavy [[C GiCGI]] in most [[JRPG|JRPGs]]s.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' -- Defined—Defined the Strategy RPG genre.

* ''[[Half Life]]'' -- Established—Established many of the tropes of later FPS games.

* ''[[GoldenGoldenEye Eye007 (1997 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' -- More—More or less defined the standard of the FPS genre on game consoles, establishes or popularizes many tropes seen in later FPS games.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' -- Popularized—Popularized and defined the standard of the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.

* ''[[Halo]]'' -- Popularized—Popularized FPS on Consoles, Vehicles in games outside racers, Online Gaming on consoles, [[Machinima|Machinimas]]s and possibly even [[Beating a Dead Player|Teabagging]], and proved the relevancy of the [[X BoxXbox]] in the [[Console Wars]].

* ''I, Robot'' -- First—First game to use polygon-based graphics, camera control and a sandbox option. All of this in [[Older Than They Think|1983]]!

* ''[[Kana Little Sister (Visual Novel)|Kana: Little Sister]]'' -- Defined—Defined the [[Utsuge]]-tropes in Japanese [[Visual Novel|visual novels]] for the English audience.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' -- One—One of the first [[Action Adventure]] games, and the first to allow you to [[Save Point|save your progress]] without having to memorize passwords.

* ''[[Marathon (Video Game)Trilogy|Marathon]]'' -- The—The first true example of Mouselook.

* ''[[Metroid]]'' -- Invented—Invented the [[Metroidvania]] genre.

* ''[[Myst]]'' -- Launched—Launched the [[Beautiful Void]] subgenre, and popularized [[Scenery Porn]] in PC games.

* ''[[PacmanPac-Man]]'' -- The—The first [[Maze Game]].

* ''[[Pitfall]]'' -- Did—Did the [[Platformer]] thing years before [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]].

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' -- Defined—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—The first successful [[Arcade Game]], and the first home [[Videogame Systems|Video Game System]], laying out many of the basics.

* ''[[Rogue (Videovideo Gamegame)|Rogue]]'' -- Y—Y'see, there's this type of game called a [[Roguelike]]... Also called "dungeon-crawlers".

* ''[[Kunio -Kun|Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun/Renegade]]'' - established the foundations of the [[Beat'Em Up]] genre as we know it, or the "belt-scrolling" beat-em-ups at the very least, which was built upon by [[Double Dragon]] and [[River City Ransom|its own sequel]].

* ''[[R-Type]]'' -- Introduced—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—Turn-based Artillery.

* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' -- Created—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 Asas We Know It]].

* ''[[Sim CitySimCity]]'' -- Created—Created the [[SandSimulation BoxGame]]/SimulationGame genre (or at least popularized it).

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' -- Pioneered—Pioneered the [[Mascot Withwith Attitude]].

* ''[[Space Invaders]]'' -- Created—Created the [[Shoot'Em Up]] genre.

* ''[[Space War]]'' -- The—The first real [[Video Game]]!

* ''[[Street Fighter II (Video Game)|Street Fighter II]]'' -- Created—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—More or less ''[[Trope Codifier|defined]]'' the [[Platformer]] genre.

* ''[[Super Mario 64 (Video Game)|Super Mario 64]]'' -- Did—Did what ''Super Mario Bros.'' did... [[In Space|In 3D]], thereby creating the 3D platformer.

* ''[[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]]'' -- Truly—Truly popularised the [[Puzzle Game]]. A good majority of puzzle games are Tetris-like.

* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' -- Created—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—Created many of the tropes of 3D [[Action Adventure]] games.

* ''[[Ultima]]'' -- Created—Created the [[RPG]], [[First-Person Shooter]] and [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] genres.

* ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' -- The—The first successful 3D [[Fighting Game]], and one of the first to use more realistic fighting styles as opposed to [[Ki Attacks]] and projectiles.

* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'' -- The—The first popular FPS.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' -- the—the [[Ur Example|Ur-]][[Abridged Series]].

* [[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, [[Everything TwoEverything2]], predates Wikipedia.

* THE WORK, WHICH BECOMES A NEW GENRE ITSELF, WILL BE CALLED......... ''[[AMV Hell (Fanfic)|AMV HELL]]''

* ''[[The Beatles (Animationanimation)|The Beatles]]'' -- The—The first [[Band Toon]].

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' -- The—The first animated [[Sit ComSitcom]].

* ''[[Winky Dink]] and You'' -- The—The first [[Merchandise-Driven]] cartoon.

* ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' -- First—First true sound cartoon, first real use of [[Mickey Mousing]].

* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' -- The—The first [[Gross -Out Show]]. Also the first to make extensive use of [[Gross Up Close -Up]].

* ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'' -- First—First use of the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]

* ''[[Daffy Duck]]'' -- The—The first real [[Screwy Squirrel]] cartoon character.

* ''[[Donald Duck]]'' - First clear example of a [[Morally -Ambiguous Ducktorate|morally ambiguous duck]].

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