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And, of course, don't confuse with [[Ur Example]] -- 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 ''[[
Related: [[Trope Namer]]
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== 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.
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== 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
* ''[[
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' -- Made and codified several shonen tropes as well as [[Manly Tears]].
* ''[[
* ''[[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]]'' -- 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]].
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* '' Sallie Gardner at a Gallop'' -- 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 first thing ever to be caught on actual film (as opposed to paper, like earlier experiments were).
* ''[[
* ''[[Equilibrium]]'' -- [[Gun Kata]].
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' -- Generally considered the first [[Film Noir]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Jaws (
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
* ''[[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 (
* ''[[Intolerance]]'' -- Generally considered to be the first epic movie.
* ''[[Birth of a Nation]]'' created the modern Hollywood movie as it stands today.
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* 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 [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 (
* 12AngryMen - [[Rogue Juror]]
* ''[[The Kid]]'' - First film [[Dramedy]].
* ''[[Snow White
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' - [[Dinosaur Doggie Bone]].
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== Literature ==
* ''[[
* [[
** ''[[
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' -- Created the [[Heroic Fantasy]] genre, especially its [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Low Fantasy|variants]]. Arguably has a basis in [[Super Strength|Samson]] from [[The Bible]].
* [[
* Pulp Magazines -- Created [[Weird Science]]
* [[
* [[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 (
* [[Childhoods End]] made the [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]] trope.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' -- Arguably created the first Supervillain [[Big Bad]], Professor Moriarty, and the [[Sherlock Scan]].
* Nick Carter created the a boy sidekick, and the [[Rogues Gallery]].
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Lensman]]'' -- Created the [[Space Opera]] genre.
* ''Vernor Vinge'' -- Invented computer-networking-as-virtual-reality (later [[Trope Codifier|codified]] by [[Neuromancer|Gibson]].)
* ''[[
* [[Isaac Asimov]] -- Most science fiction in the past 50 years, particularly the robot subgenre, owes a lot to Asimov. Even [[Star Wars]] is based on ''[[Foundation]]''.
* [[
** ''[[
* [[
* ''[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]'' -- Created the [[Jury of the Damned]].
* [[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]]'' -- 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
** ''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]]'' -- The first contemporary [[Reality TV]] program.
* ''[[
* ''[[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]]'' -- Wilona Woods was ''the'' [[Sassy Black Woman]] and the [[Drop in Character]].
* ''[[Guiding Light]]'' -- 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 first syndicated [[
* ''[[Lizzie
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' -- 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 of the first modern dramas on TV.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Tales Of Tomorrow]]'' -- This nearly forgotten series was TV's first [[Genre Anthology]].
* ''[[wikipedia:Talk Soup|Talk Soup]]'' -- 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''
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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 first--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 the former was a track long and the latter two tracks so neither counts.)
** Additionally, [[
* [[
* ...Music/LedZeppelin, who created heavy metal, along with [[Heavy Mithril]], and Viking Metal.
** [[
* 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.
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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]].
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* ''[[Kriegspiel]]'' was the first war game, created by a German nobleman to train his generals in military strategy. The name means "wargame."
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' -- 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]]'' 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:
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Adventure (
* ''[[Body Harvest]]'' -- 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 shooting game that spawned a lot of clones such as ''Blood Bros'' and ''[[
* ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'' -- First [[Stealth Based Game]]
* ''[[Colossal Cave]]'' -- Created the [[Interactive Fiction]]/[[Adventure Game]] genre (it's even the [[Trope Namer]] on the latter).
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* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' -- Defined the Strategy RPG genre.
* ''[[Half Life]]'' -- Established many of the tropes of later FPS games.
* ''[[
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' -- Popularized and defined the standard of the [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.
* ''[[Halo]]'' -- Popularized FPS on Consoles, Vehicles in games outside racers, Online Gaming on consoles, [[Machinima|Machinimas]] and possibly even [[Beating a Dead Player|Teabagging]], and proved the relevancy of the [[X Box]] in the [[Console Wars]].
** 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'' -- First game to use polygon-based graphics, camera control and a sandbox option. All of this in [[Older Than They Think|1983]]!
* ''[[Kana
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' -- One of the first [[Action Adventure]] games, and the first to allow you to [[Save Point|save your progress]] without having to memorize passwords.
** Also one of the first and most well known open-world games.
** Trope maker for games having secrets and sidequests.
* ''[[Marathon
* ''[[Metroid]]'' -- Invented the [[Metroidvania]] genre.
* ''[[Modem Wars]]'' was the first networked multiplayer game.
* ''[[Myst]]'' -- Launched the [[Beautiful Void]] subgenre, and popularized [[Scenery Porn]] in PC games.
* ''[[
* ''[[Pitfall]]'' -- Did the [[Platformer]] thing years before [[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 (
* ''[[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 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
* ''[[Sim City]]'' -- Created the [[Simulation Game]] genre (or at least popularized it).
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' -- Pioneered the [[Mascot
* ''[[Space Invaders]]'' -- Created the [[Shoot'Em Up]] genre.
* ''[[Space War]]'' -- The first real [[Video Game]]!
* ''[[
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' -- More or less ''[[Trope Codifier|defined]]'' the [[Platformer]] genre.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
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** 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.
* ''[[
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[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
== 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, [[Everything
* THE WORK, WHICH BECOMES A NEW GENRE ITSELF, WILL BE CALLED......... ''[[AMV Hell (Fanfic)|AMV HELL]]''
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Beatles (
* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' -- The first animated [[
* ''[[Winky Dink]] and You'' -- The first [[Merchandise-Driven]] cartoon.
* ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' -- First true sound cartoon, first real use of [[Mickey Mousing]].
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